Friday, June 2, 2017

Trump. Au Revoir Paris.

In keeping with his campaign promise, Donald Trump has exited the Paris Climate Treaty.
The move may have come as no surprise but it sure has engendered a lot of flame and fury, probably enough to raise the global temperature by several degrees!
The united ranks of the left are shouting foul, Green Peace accuses Trump of selling out the health of future generations, while the president of the Marshall Islands has signalled for a life boat saying that the rise in sea levels through global warming will swamp his tiny homeland.
Too bad.
Not only are "America First" policies being felt around the world but so are common sense initiatives.
There are those in the administration, and plenty of them, who actually believe that God is in charge of this planet called Earth and first among them are President Trump and his good wife Melania. There are also numerous of his advisors who are acquainted  with enough of their history to know that these cycles of temperature change have happened many times throughout the ages.
In one brief speech this afternoon Trump saved his country billions of dollars, put the people of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania before the citizens of Paris and might well have made a significant step to ensuring himself a second term in the White House.
The campaign for 2020 began today.

Jubilate.

Ian

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Grand Old Lady of Tennis.

It might surprise you to know that the all time winner of women's Grand Slam tennis events is not Serena Williams, Martina Navatrilova or Steffi Graff. No, the athlete who holds the highest honour of Grand Slam events is none other than Margaret Court from Australia. 
Now why should I be providing you with this factoid nine months before the next Australian Open? Well this week a campaign was launched to change the name of the centre court arena in Melbourne  to something else. It does not matter what the new name will be but it better not be someone who is in any way critical of homosexuals.
Margaret Court, you see, as well as been a famous tennis player is also a PASTOR of a Christian church in West Australia and has stated publicly her opposition to LGBT's and their alphabetical ilk.
In fact recently she announced that she would no longer fly on Quantas Air because of their support of Homosexual marriage.
Today she added more fuel to the uproar by saying that top lesbian tennis players have actively set out to recruit younger players to their errant life style with invitations to parties and private events while on tour. Now, she goes on to add, the whole tennis scene has become flooded with bi-sexuals and others on the strange sexual spectrum to the detriment of the sport.
"Good on yer Maggie!" The national tennis federation is holding their ground and the name of the arena will remain unchanged.
They are wise to do so, because by far the majority of Australians agree with Pastor Court.
"LEAVE 'ER ALONE."

Jubilate.
Ian

Sunday, May 28, 2017

The Ribs of Saint Nicholas Arrive in St Petersburg.

This is a really big deal for the faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church. This week the Ribs of Saint Nicholas, one of the most revered among Russian saints, arrived in St Petersburg. They came by special flight from Italy where they have lain undisturbed for nearly a thousand years in a crypt in the city of Bari.
All of this was made possible after an historic meeting between the Patriarch of the orthodox church and the Pope, earlier this year.
After much prayerful deliberation it was decided that Saint Nick could go on a trip in the Summer (instead of his usual Winter sortie in his sleigh) and that he would be on loan for three months to the Russian Faithful.
We are talking about Father Christmas here who was, among other virtues, given to great acts of generosity. On one occasion he gave three golden coins to a poor parishioner as a dowry for his three daughters. Saint Nicholas reportedly threw the money out of his window and the coins ended up in the girls stockings which were hanging out to dry.
WOW!
This story gave birth to the ritual of kids hanging up their stockings on Christmas eve for Santa to fill.
I know its a long way to December 25th, but with gold at $1,500:00  an ounce there might be a new car in my sock this year.
Jubilate 

Ian