I never thought i would be writing about some “good news” coming from Iraq, but their national football team yesterday won the Asia Cup 1-0 over Saudi Arabia.

It is a great piece of news and a moral booster for a country that has been ripped apart by terrorism and a break from the norm for the ordinary civilians that have to live within the macabre mix of daily terrorist violence.

I hope that the national football team will be treated as heroes and an inspirational hope for future peace in Iraq.

Well done Iraq - you deserve it!

News story on the BBC highlighting mindless fools in central Africa ‘executing’ Gorilla’s as a warning to conservationists to leave the area - the world becomes worse by the day!

Conservationists have expressed concern over the “senseless and tragic” killing of four mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The bodies of three females and one male were discovered by rangers earlier this week in the Virunga National Park.

Officials said the “executions” were not the work of poachers because they would have taken the bodies.

Since January, seven of the large apes in the region have been shot dead.

Source: BBC News - Concern over gorilla ‘executions’

This is another example of Britain gone politically correct mad!

Health chiefs have banned leisure centres across the country from handing out armbands to children - because they are too dangerous for them due to the risk of spreading bacteria or the danger of them having a puncture; now please tell me is this the most stupid thing to come out of PC Britain yet?

When i was a kid (what a pun) we had none of this politically correct bureaucratic rubbish going on and life was more simple and we were allowed to just get on with things without none of this red-tape rubbish!

The full, laughable story can be read via the Sky News website:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1276795,00.html

The late ”Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, killed in a stingray attack last year, will be honored with a new wildlife reserve in Outback Australia, the government announced Sunday.

A 333,585 acre chunk of land near Weipa in the far north of Irwin’s home state of Queensland will be named after the popular television host and managed by his family, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

The area includes habitats for the endangered northern quoll, a carnivorous marsupial, and the speartooth shark, as well as an important gallery of dry vine forests, Turnbull said.

Irwin, who spent part of the money he earned from his television show on animal conservation projects, was killed when a poisonous stingray barb pierced his chest as he swam on the Great Barrier Reef last September.

His family vowed to continue his conservation work.

”Steve was in awe of the prolific wildlife of the Wenlock and Ducie rivers bordering the reserve and he would have been proud to see the property protected as a wildlife reserve,” Irwin’s U.S.-born wife, Terri, said.

Prime Minister John Howard said the new park was an important addition to Australia’s national reserve system, ”and is a fitting tribute to a passionate environmentalist and a great Australian.”

Found the following article written by Stephanie Davies and she provides a good insight into who and what Pagan’s are; the misconception that Pagan’s are evil and only worship Satan is a complete load of rubbish, and seeing that i class myself under the Pagan umbrella i can reasure everyone that i definitley am not evil but only have nature and the good of human nature at heart ~ Dave

What are Pagans? 

There are almost as many denominations to Paganism as there are to Christianity. Within Paganism, there are a large variety of beliefs, dieties, and concepts. However, we (much like Christianity) have certain core values and beliefs that are central to paganism. Some of our core beliefs include:

Respect For Nature A Belief in Harming None (including both yourself and others!) Belief in Deity or Deities (differs depending on denomination) Mutual Respect for All Life A Belief in “Magick” Read the rest of this entry »