by Muizing1 | Oct 31, 2010 | Environment, Forests, Green and Blue
Halloween is a time when ghost and horror stories abound, and people walk the streets dressed as ghouls and ghosts and skeletons…
Listening to the news yesterday I was reminded that the “Halloween Party” is back… with a ghoulish spine tingling hellish plan..
Privatisation of rail, gas, electricity, water etc has made billions for fat cats and left the rest of us paying subsidies to companies who overcharge us to use resources that used to belong to us as a nation. Being overcharged for things that don’t work properly anymore is not actually a great deal of fun.
Privatised prisons have a dismal record, privatised healthcare has a litany of bad practice and cover-ups, selling off council housing has had the strange effect of leaving us with nowhere for the less wealthy to be housed…
And now they want our forests.
The government announced this week that it plans to sell off our forests.
Why call it a HELLISH plan? Because they take what is yours and sell it… you don’t get the money – you just get charged a HELL of a lot to use it in the future.
The nightmare continues…
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One of my favourite song lyrics is Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” which unfortunately proves relevant over and over again…
BIG YELLOW TAXI
by Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away the D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard my screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
I said don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
by Muizing1 | Oct 21, 2010 | Bits of Humour, Funny Colours
A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after work cocktail with her girlfriends when Steven, a tall, exceptionally handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him.
This seasoned yet playful heartthrob noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly toward her. (As any man would.) Before she could offer her apologies for staring so rudely, he leaned over and whispered to her, “I’ll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, no matter how kinky, for $20.00…
on one condition…”
Flabbergasted but intrigued, the woman asked what the condition was. The man replied, “You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words.”
The woman considered his proposition for a moment, and then slowly removed $20 bill from her purse, which she pressed into the man’s hand along with her address. She looked deeply and passionately into his eyes, barely concealing her anticipation and excitement, and slowly and meaningfully said….
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“Clean my house.”
by Muizing1 | Oct 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today was the 70th Anniversary of John Lennon – it would have been his 70th birthday and a monument to John Lennon was unveiled in Liverpool by his first wife Cynthia (married to him from 1962 – 68) and his son Julian.
Designed as a monument to peace and a shrine for fans visiting Lennon’s home city of Liverpool where he was born in 1940. It consists of a globe to symbolise oneness and the earth, surrounded with various musical imagery in addition to a peace sign – guitar, keyboard, sax, musical notes flowing around the globe and a pair of hands releasing doves of peace into the air above it. It was commissioned by the California based Global Peace Initiative and created by 19 year-old American artist Lauren Voiers.
Julian said: “We come here with our hearts to honour dad and pray for peace and say thank you to each and every one of you and everybody involved in the celebrations today,”and Cynthia added: “I think the mourning is over for John. I think it’s time to celebrate, which is what we’re doing. Think about [anything in] his life that was positive and just enjoy that. Enjoy the joy that he had and that we all have from his music.”
New York fans gathered in Central Park in the area known as “Strawberry Fields” close to the spot where Lennon was shot dead in December 1980.
Above: Google’s logo included an animated tribute to John Lennon on their search pages today
