The Devil's Own Blog From God's Own County

Having said that it does lead you to some strange places - like for example a page on a creationist website that appears surprisingly sane at first sight. I doubt the claim that emotional tears are exclusive to the human ape.

Anyway what prompted this surf? A past episode of one of Radio 4's comic gems - Heresy [by way of an aside note that this Beeb page claims there are three series of the programme - complete balls there have been six, I think the revisionist nature of that link is connected to the fact most BBC website employees have an effective age of about 3. Sadly even that pile of shite excreted by the herd of autistic geeks known as wikipedians is more accurate at six]. In the course of the proggie one of the guests suggested that women's tears contain endorphins (the brain's own personal heroin supply) whereas men's don't and that this explains why women cry more - to get more of those endorphins.

So where is the evidence? Well we have a really crap piece of research based on nothing more scientific than asking people questions .... this demonstrates why people like me hold the soft sciences in utter contempt. There is some better stuff here but all that tells us (in so far as such small samples can tell us anything at all) about gender differences in composition is that the salt and protein content of female tears may be more variable than that of males. There is a discussion here that is useful.

So what of the suggestion from the proggie ... well somewhere among the links above there is a possible mechanism for getting the excreted endorphins back into the brain ... namely that tears drain into the nasal cavity and thus to the brain, of course in your typical weeping woman most of the tears spill down the cheeks rather than via the normal drainage mechanism for lubricating tears. On the whole I can't see it myself and will stick to the idea that the differences are simply the result of western society's tendency to encourage blubbing in women and discourage it in men (metro-sexuals like Beckham excepted of course - they cry at the drop of a hat, or after taking a penalty like a girl and missing).

Now that the sinister control freaky plans to ensure that each and every one of the UKs 60 million population is given a vaccine that has not been tested for safety or efficacy has emerged I do wonder.

We all know the glee with which the autistic nut-job in charge of the country used terrorism to push Plan A to catalog everyone so that they can be more closely controlled. The regular fake terrorism scares since 9/11 that have been used to keep the herd scared (the liquid explosives, the shoe-bomber, the blowing up of the damp squib of 7/7 into a sinister threat against us all - indeed only recently some ghastly memorial was splashed all over TV and the press in case the herd has begun to forget* etc). Alas this seems to be wearing thin and some of the less dim sheep show signs of questioning why the vanishingly small threat of terrorism means the public have to account for their every movement from the day they were born to the day the NHS euthanizes them on cost grounds.

Plan B - the e-borders system which essentially requires travellers to permit Gordon's Gestapo Goons access to everything about you that you'd rather he didn't know (who you shagged last week, all your bank and credit card details and the same for at least a couple of generations of your ancestors) has been shot down in flames by the Brussels Bureaucracy pointing out that it is illegal for anything other than the details on a passport to be required for travel within the European Fourth Reich.

Plan C - the spurious threat of the pedo on every street corner is being used to convince the ever fearful morons we call the public that every child should be branded and recorded on a national database (supposedly the biometric data will be destroyed on the child attaining the age of 18 but if you believe that then you are even more stupid than the One-eyed control freak believes you are) - will take at least 100 years before everyone is recorded on the computers at Neue-Prinz-Albrecht-Straße (assuming Boris, that last bastion of freewill, permits the proposed name change for Downing Street)

So we come to Plan D, scare everyone shitless over a mild and innocuous disease so they will all rush for an untested vaccine (that is probably useless, but requires two doses). How will Gordon "call me obsessive compulsive" Brown, Control Freak General by appointment of HM the Queen ensure that accurate records are kept of everyone so that he can be sure everyone is branded? (oops sorry, that should say turns up for dose two) - well by taking a biometric sample when the first dose is given, recording this on a national database and injecting a RFID tag along with the second dose.

Of course you might say this is all a far-fetched conspiracy theory and so`would I, except for one thing - we actually do have a Prime Minister who shows all`the signs of being an autistic nut-job with at best a tenuous grip on reality ("the army has enough helicopters in Afghanistan") and a proven inability to socialise.

Call me paranoid if you want but I won't be subjecting myself to vaccination for a strain of flu so mild that even the Orwellian NHS admits has only killed one person who didn't already have one or more feet in the grave.

*If the memorial had to be done then it should have been for all 56 people who died, not merely the 52 poster-persons of the government's campaign for ID-cards. "Terrorists" have families too and I don't see why they shouldn't have the same right to grieve their loved ones as do the families of the victims.

I am told that a close family member asked to identify the corpse left ranting "that's not my brother, do I look like the brother of an ugly white honky with a bad nosejob? They say he had some sort of fading disease but my kids regularly sleepover with Michael and they'd tell me if he did bad things like turning white wouldn't they? Still it does confirm the old 'ho's tale - dem white boys sure do have small ones!"

I won't believe he's dead until I see the coffin Moonwalk.

Want the dirt on BCHT and property development in Bradford then welcome Clifford Cook our snout in the BCHT trough.

His first snippet is some of the questions from the job assessment process undertaken when BCHT was set up to ensure that no competent staff were transferred:

1. have you or any of your relatives worked in social services? (correct answer is yes)
2. are you incompetent, corrupt or plain stupid? (3 yeses= senior management role)
3. do you want twice the salary for half the work?

Needless to say all the housing department staff passed this onerous test with flying colours and thus have to struggle to dispose of far more money than they are worth.

At last the council has realised that Mad Maud's schemes are nothing but money laundering fronts for the city's biggest industry (especially the canal scheme) and is closing them down.

Or perhaps not until Maud has filtched yet more of your money.

Interestingly this insightful letter was published in the Yorkshire Post not the T&A -

Published Date: 11 May 2009
From: Mike Long, Greenside Lane, Bradford.

Welcome to the future of Bradford.

A female bunny boiler (not that I dislike aggression in a woman - if nothing else it gives you a reason to beat them before, during and after sex) of my acquaintance proved the theory that childless women are even dimmer than women normally are (they tend to the average much more than we men which means we at the four sigma end have to dumb down to get a shag) by suggesting that women naturally choose genetically similar mates which is of course complete bollocks unless they are from Norfolk.

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Allowing women to wear shorts at Wimbledon. Next thing you know they'll be making the Scot wear underwear with the result that the army will no longer be feared by the Afghani tribesmen in the Khyber Pass*.

* Come to think of it maybe that explains why so many are being killed in another of Tony's wars - maybe we are sending troops into battle over dressed .... obviously underpants are far more important than body armour.

Across at Beaman's World one of the unthinking sheep following the bankrupt neocon way is trying to present the usual view that 2 out of 3 abrahamic nutjob lifestyle guides and ways of life are more rational and peaceful than the third. As usual this view can only be presented by downright lying as in this response to my objection to his article:

Baht At: The Judeo-Christian scriptures have shaped the very cultures and values we must hold dear.

The Golden Rules - the ethic of reciprocity - (which is not found in Islam) has been vital to our social evolution..

Now I'm not a beardie in a dress but even I know that Islam says much the same as the other style guides when it comes to not pissing out of the tent in the direction of your neighbours and sure enough we have from the Last Sermon:

"Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you"

I suspect that the only version of the golden rule that Numpty Neocon follows are those listed for the Church of Satan or the Creativity Movement. I've nothing against neocons except for the fact they resort to lying to support their pisspoor philisophy.

I also like "we must hold dear" that would be the genocial nuclear weapons using US culture would it? I do so love it when people following a morally degenerate philosophy tell me what I must hold dear

I have received the following response:

FOI Reference No: FOI-2008127/26

Police forces providing information do not use generic systems, nor are the procedures used for capturing the data the same. It should be noted that for these reasons this forces response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

So they don't keep records of what the time-wasters at head office are up to - hardly surprising that, if they did the taxpayer might ask for them to be sacked. Fortunately wikipedia has an edit record that shows how many times they were altering the facts they seem to have used the handle webteam3 and later changed things unregistered using the IP 194.152.91.186, particularly amusing is the denial evident in the reason for the edit on 31/3/08.

Needless to say I'm not happy with the response and have sent back

The response is wholly unacceptable.

1. the server logs kept by your IT services department will clearly identify who accessed the site and when,
2. it contains a statement of opinion (in relation to the comment regarding press reports),
3. that statement of opinion contains a false statement (no paper alleged a single person was allocated to the the task, the reports were an entire team was given this responsibility.

that we are all paying for - it seems to have generated only one mention of Bradford in the press in the last week - from somebody promoting Newcastle who happened to study at Bradford Uni.

This link will show all you got for the half mill or so BCR spent on Cannes. (I'm assuming Maud wouldn't get out of bed for less).

They did announce a spectacularly ugly reincarnation of the old Broadway shopping centre as an "education eco-village" (that's eco because after paying the rent the students can't afford heating)

Oh dear the fat cats will be cowering in their Ilkley homes wondering what is going to hit them from this less-than-entirely-pro BCHT website - http://www.bcht.btik.com/

Don't all rush at once with your stories of how this rapacious organisation has left you living in rat and cockroach infested homes without any repairs yet tripled your rent to pay for the vast increase in salaries from when they were all jobworths and nobodiess at the council. Note that Jake "I hate Bradford City" is employed by this lot after "resigning" from the regeneration posts that were fouled up in a manner entirely unassociated with his excellent managerial abilities. Also one Russell "I can park my shitty Range Rover dick extension on double yellows because they don't have a terminating crossbar" Baker is a non-executive director giving advice on how to build a modern slum (see Stonegate House, Gatehaus and other developments of city centre living cells)

Or at least one of their more malignant manifestations you will note how the Toothless and Gutless has sneaked in the information that Bradfordvision was a simple device to syphon off £2m a year from rengeneration funding of £15m for the social services mafia.

I cannot confirm rumours that Konsumptive Kris (or Nero as we like to call him) reached this decision in a fit of pique after a romantic setback. However I can confirm that he will be buying a new fiddle to play while Bradford burns around him.

I presume that if we get the 31st October without ground being broken on Broadway Maud Marshall will be publically executed in Centenary Square.

Meanwhile council officials have confirmed that the much publicised Water feature on Darley street will in fact be an incontinent wino sat on a bench at the top of the street. In line with previous T&A reports this water feature will be removed each night to a local shelter and returned the following day with an ample supply of White Lightning to ensure a constant flow of "water".

Also in the "news" various idiot Bradfordians are getting all excited about the fact that the nerdy facebook doesn't recognise Bradford. The Toothless and Gutless having been contacted by one of these useless whingers reports this as news.

Facebook does have a Stuart McCall appreciation society - mostly for grateful supporters of other League Two teams that his inept management is giving them at least six points this season. The quality of the sort of losers who sign up for facebook can be easily seen from the fact it has no networks for Oxford University (or cambridge for that matter - it seems to be exclusively the lower sort of technical college, polytechnics and those awful modern universities built after the 1700s), Pembroke College or Heckmondwike Grammar School (similarly it seems to have an entry for the downmarket Harrow but not Eton). All in all facebook looks pretty much like a facepack so re-assuringly ugly that when you take it off you look better.

At last sense has prevailed and Bradfordvision is to be killed off. If only they'd listened to me at the beginning they'd have saved a couple of million quid a year. Now all the need to do is cull Maud Marshall et al and the place might start moving forward.

Details can be found in this report. According to the piece in the T&A all the staff of BradfordVision are on fixed contracts that end April 2008 and those will be honoured so in less than a year it will be gone. Sadly this doesn't mean an end to the makework stuff it does these are to be hidden within the council so that they won't be so exposed to scrutiny and criticism.

'scuse me I have to go dance on a grave!