Snippets from the news

I was going to wade into the ‘should pharmacies sell homeopathic products’ debate but decided instead that I would post some of the news stories from the week I thought it fit to link to. Comments and thoughts welcome.

can the power of thought stop you ageing? – from the BBC news site. Interesting thought, also an excuse to watch cartoons and get the lego out.

plan to slash council tax by 3% is ‘nonsensical’ – from the Doncaster Free Press website. Yes it may well be slightly unwise to cut council tax while there’s not much money flowing about in the system. Putting less money in to the system and seemingly not planning to raise it by proper funding elsewhere will surely just make problems worse and end up with people losing their jobs at a time when there are not many jobs about to be had. I do like the quote from Councillor Brown though:

“It’s time to take a very realistic view this year and take an eye for what’s going to happen in the future. Let’s put some money in the bank rather than getting everyone an ice-cream. Because that’s all 47 pence a week less will get them.

I’m not sure where he’s getting his £24.44 ice-cream from but he’s either being ripped off or maybe he likes his ice-cream with gold bits in.

UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article – from the daily telegraph. I’m not entirely sure i’m convinced about man made climate change. Even so, whether it’s down to us or not we should be doing our best, without various panels and politicians and scare stories playing the guilt card, to look after our planet. There are too few places on earth where we’ve not gone in and caused chaos as a species. It’s just a shame that the people who have taken it upon themselves to fix the world can’t seem to present honest data and leave it alone rather than trying to embellish it with suspect or just wrong work. This taken from the BBC news website makes you wonder whether it’s down to the cold winter we’ve had (which admittedly has been nice to have for a change) or whether its because over the past few months stories have been breaking that seem to show that the stuff we’re being told about climate change is flawed science, wrong or lies. They seem to be doing themselves no favours.

Again from the Daily Telegraph

spectacular. There are more pictures if you click on the link.

and to round the cull of random stuff from the week, and because it’s a year ago since I headed off down to the bottom of the world:

Shackleton’s whisky recovered from South Pole ice – from BBC news

I can still wade in to the homeopathic debate if needs be, I have enough views and opinions on it to form a decent rant.