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Over half a million pensioners dead and the Tories have gone from long johns to jumpers

Heartless? No; this is beyond heartless – murder he says!

Pride's Purge

(no, not satire – it’s the Tories!)

In about 1987, Tory health minister Edwina Currie ‘advised’ elderly people who couldn’t afford to heat their homes properly that they should avoid hypothermia by wearing woolly hats and long johns.

And now, over 25 years later, the Tories are making exactly the same mistake – this time ‘advising’ elderly people who can’t afford to heat their homes properly that they should avoid hypothermia by wearing jumpers.

This ‘advice’ unsurprisingly isn’t working because Age UK estimate that as many as 200 old people die every day in the UK from cold during the winter. That’s around 24,000 old people dying of cold every year because they don’t have enough money to keep themselves warm.

Which means during the 25 years it’s taken the Tories to go from woolly hats and long johns under the Thatcher government to jumpers under David Cameron’s…

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Frozen pensioners contain higher levels of vitamins and antioxidants say scientists

Can’t add anything to this.

Pride's Purge

(satire?)

  • Study finds two out of three grannies’ bodies contain more nutrients if frozen to death
  • Experts say freezing old people prevents cancer and aids the body, brain, skin and eyes
  • Results demonstrate frozen pensioners less likely to experience painful illnesses such as arthritis
  • Government planning to encourage more pensioners to freeze themselves to death this winter

Frozen pensioners and old people can be healthier, with higher levels of vitamins and cancer fighting antioxidants in their bodies than senior citizens who are still alive according to government experts.

Two studies for the Department of Health found more beneficial nutrients in the bodies of everything from frozen grandfathers and grannies to great aunts and uncles.

In two out of three cases, frozen pensioners scored better on measurements of antioxidant-type compounds – including Vitamin C, polyphenols, anthocyanins, lutein and beta-carotene – than those OAPs who were still warm and alive.

Many of the…

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‘Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul’

Same OS – but we are in a loop of bad mouth President Obama no matter what and our Democrats are as guilty – we all need to get out of this false flag loop!

The Last Of The Millenniums

bush drug plan

Remember President Bush’s 2006 Prescription Drug Plan roll out?

My bad.

Instead of defunding President Bush’s 2006 Prescription Drug Plan, instead of shutting down the Government over President Bush’s 2006 Prescription Drug Planaln, instead of bringing the Nation to the brink of defaulting on our National Debt over President Bush’s 2006 Perscription Drug Plan…

Democrats actually jumped in and helped fix it.

Gee.

Why don’t republicans do that with Obamacare?
‘Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has not had a very good week. Just days after the glitch-filled roll-out of the Affordable Care Act’s online health insurance exchanges, Sebelius got grilled by Jon Stewart of the Daily Show’.

‘So it should come as no surprise that CNBC resident right-wing water carrier Lawrence Kudlow called for Sebelius to be fired’.

‘As Americans should recall, the Bush administration rollout of the Medicare drug benefit for 43 million elderly Americans was a…

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We’re not just paying for British Gas directors’ bonuses. It’s £3.5bn to shareholders too.

Interest never goes down in Toryland!

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today!)

Not surprisingly a lot of people are feeling pretty annoyed at yet another massive price hike for domestic consumers by an energy company just before winter.

British Gas have announced price rises of an average 9.2% on domestic bills – presumably to help cover the tens of millions they have to pay out in bonuses to their senior directors.

But tens of millions is peanuts compared to the £3.5bn British Gas parent company Centrica has paid out to its shareholders in dividends over the last 5 years.

That’s £3.5bn the company would now have in its coffers if it hadn’t been privatised.

Enough to not only avoid price rises – but to substantially cut domestic energy bills just before winter too I would have thought.

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Guest post: Of Maria Kang, motherhood, and fitspiration

Fit and Feminist

This guest post is written by my dear friend Suzanne Best, whose passionate reaction to this story provoked a lot of heated conversation in the blog’s Facebook page earlier this week  I asked her to write something for the blog, and she produced this beautiful essay about her experiences as a new mother and a runner.  I am so honored to be publishing this on the blog, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. Let her know what you think in the comments below. 

Let’s talk about excuses. If you’ve just started on a fitness journey, like I have, memes are everywhere. They rule fitness blogs, Twitter accounts, memes… you name it.

And most of them bring the same message to their readers.

No. Excuses.

“Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.”

“You can have results or excuses; never both.”

And, of course, this:

"What's your excuse?"

This picture…

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Community #photography #poetry

Confessions of a Control Freak

I expect he will return now and then to his uber-control ways but it is nice to see a confession such as this – grin

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

It’s my way or the highway. And it has always been that way. Sometimes, the highway part happened literally. I don’t know when it started. I didn’t even know about it until recently.

Hi. You probably know my name since most of you have been reading this blog for two years. But I’m Elie Fares. And I’m a control freak.

You know those friends who always choose a restaurant and wouldn’t go except to that restaurant? Well, I’m one of those people. Annoying, definitely. But you can’t escape them nonetheless and frankly, I have no clue why. My plans have to go through all the time. It’s not because I’m bossy and I like to lead groups, which I like to do. It’s because, in my head, my plans are always the ones that should be going because, well, I planned them.

The above, ladies and gentlemen, is part of…

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Mosques and Politics in Egypt

Nervana

Nothing reflects the essence of Islam better than the pilgrimage to Mecca. It sums up the faith in a nutshell; humility, reflection, and most importantly, equality. In the haj, women stand side by side with men; the rich stand alongside the poor; brown people alongside white. All are equal in the journey toward redemption. All pilgrims have to perform the same rituals and endure the same suffering. Arguments, bickering, hatred, resentment, and revenge are qualities Muslims must abandon to avoid spoiling their pilgrimage.

 Sadly, outside the pilgrimage season, divisions, conflicts, and even wars between Muslims have been a recurring theme since the early days of Islam. The death of Caliph Osman , and then later the conflict between Caliph Ali and Muawyia were crucial events that planted the seeds of division among Muslims.

 It is pointless to reopen the narratives of past tragedies; however, it is paramount to acknowledge the…

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