Only last Monday NICE our NHS rationing watchdog ruled that bowel cancer patients could not have access to the drug Avastin on the National Health Service because the cost of around £21,000 per patient was deemed too high.
It says it is not worth the cost to prescribe them to critically ill patients.
What I cannot understand is why do these top consultant oncologists insist on calling it a miracle drug that that they say can prolong the life of some patients for years? If they are not letting anyone have them.
Are these heartless dictators at NICE so stupid not to realise that to tell people with this cancer that if they took this drug they could live a lot longer but then to tell them they can’t have it, it’s to expensive..
And then they rub salt into the wound by splashing out on plasma screen televisions in its offices, also they are hiring 160 new staff and spending £500,000 refurbishing its offices, and that’s right after blocking this cancer drug.
What planet do they live on, I’m sure it’s not the same as us.
Today I came to the conclusion that the world has really gone mad. Well it seems that the people we employ, the ones that work for the councils have anyway.
Today it comes out that the council employees who work for Notts County Council are refusing to give Lance Corporal Johno Lee a disabled badge.
Now Johno is not a lead swinger, he is not trying to get something he does not deserve. He lost a leg in Helmand and now has a prosthetic one.
But, believe it or not, their excuse is he is too young and may get better.
Do these people know something we don’t, is growing a new leg part of a secret medical plan. If it is I’m sure it will not be for a while.
Another example of town hall stupidity is in Hastings. One person paying their council tax monthly, paid every one of the payments and then was sent a demand saying that they still owed two months.
Now three times they spoke to a different council adviser, went through their payments with them one by one. They came to exactly the right amount. When they asked how the devil they could still owe two months, the answer! Because the computer says so. Wow! Must be right then.
Now after, as I say three times, the problem was sorted, the reason being that this person had one month paid too much, and the last month had adjusted it by just paying the balance. The council employee’s answer to this was, if you over pay or under pay, it is not counted and goes into a separate account which is then deducted next year.
Poppycock! What about all those people who pay in one or two payments, are they told the same story.
Come on David Cameron, give us that people power you promised so we can get rid of these idiot people and give the job to somebody with more common sense.
What is the point of the police and organisations taking all the effort to catch paedophiles.
They put in endless time and effort with other groups from around the world to catch these evil people and get them put away where they belong.
Then Judge Jeremy Gold, when two of these people are brought up before him, says they are entitled to mobile phones. What cloud does he live on. Mobile phones, Internet, doesn’t he make the connection.
Would he look at it like this if it had been a grandchild of his who was the victim, I doubt it.
It makes you wonder whose side these people are on. Even former anti-porn cops say this judge is naïve.
It’s about time some of our judges and magistrates were taken a look at, because if they can’t do the job, I’m sure there are other efficient ones who can.
After a massive operation involving Britain, Australia, the United States and Canada, finally breaking up a network that was exchanging more than a hundred thousand videos and photos of children being abused, the ring leader is given just four years. It’s a joke, how long of this will he serve before he is back out on the streets, and doing this all over again.
So that makes it OK then does it. Well obviously in this foolish woman’s eyes it does.
She picks up a poor helpless cat by the scruff of its neck, dumps it in a wheelie bin and calmly walks away.
Mary Bale, of Coventry claims the outcry had been blown out of all proportion, she says ‘I don’t know what all the fuss is about. It's just a cat.'.
I’ll tell you Miss Bale what the fuss is all about. It’s about you, and what you did. You make a fuss of a little cat, not because you liked it, but to put it at its ease so that you could for you own amusement pick it up and drop it into a wheelie bin, and drop the lid.
She says ‘I thought it could wriggle out on its own’ well! Let’s put her in a wheelie bin of proportionate size, and see if she can just wriggle out.
She is supposed to be an intelligent woman who works in a bank for goodness sake.
Her mother said she could not understand it, she is an animal lover. Christ! I’d hate to be one she hates.
The poor little mite spent 15 hours trapped inside that bin before it was found, can you imagine the trauma it went through in that time.
Miss Bale said she doesn’t know what came over her, does she often have these lapses. I’d hate to have her handling my account.
Causing an animal distress knowingly is a crime, and this is what she did.
Let’s hope the RSPCA throws the book at her.
Britain's most disgusting person prosecuted for urinating on a war memorial fled court following being publicy shamed by elderly veterans.
An arrest warrant is out for Wendy Lewis, 32, who was given a "guard of dishonour" by angry veterans when she appeared at Blackpool Magistrates Court.
Caught on security cameras relieving herself on a seaside town's Cenotaph, before then performing a sex act on a man nearby.
She was found guilty of outraging public decency and was due to be sentenced Friday.
She turned up at court 40 minutes late, and did a runner before her case began.
So her and other dregs of society like her think it’s clever to do this sort of thing , but have not got the bottle to take the punishment.
Don’t they realise the debt that they can never repay to those who these memorials pay tribute to.
Without what these men and women went through, they would not be living in the free world they are today.
Punative sentences of a few day’s community service is not the answer.
We need boot camps set up where people like this and the scum who take pleasure in beating up elderly people for a few quid, can be sent and put through a strict, hard regime for a sensible length of time.
It’s about time people stopped making excuses for them. As for the idiots that think sending them on a holiday will do the trick, they should be sent along with them.
Why is it that nearly every day you open a newspaper you read about some mindless cruelty to an animal.
What kind of pleasure does some sick-head get out of it, is it that the animal is usually of the defenceless kind, a cat, a rabbit etc. and they haven’t got the guts to try doing it to another human.
These people are really the threat to society, If they can do this what sort of parents can they be.
Any children they have then grow up with the dregs of society for parents, what chance do they have,.
Half the problem lies with the law, they get caught, come up in front of some magistrate or other that is so out of touch they could have got away with murder.
It’s about time that the law on animal cruelty was overhauled and really harsher sentences handed out, if they had owed their rates in most cases they would have got a harsher sentence.
You hear of them being banned from keeping a animal for a ridiculously short time, they should be banned for life.
When they catch the mindless scum they should let the pets owner have a while with them.
Give me just ten minutes with them, I promise you they would not ever think of doing it again.
A teenager who was meant to be preparing for a job interview instead spent the morning in court.
Having been caught in a supermarket stealing 30 cans of drink. He was apprehended outside by the security gaurds.
Bear in mind, he had previous convictions for shoplifting and handling stolen goods.
In court he said to “be honest there was no excuse for what I did. I was bored“.
The Magistrates gave him a 12-month conditional discharge.
Does this make sense.
How many times do you hear this story, these people go out and commit these crimes, the police put in god knows how much time catching them, only for the local magistrates to slap them on the wrist and let them go.
Can anyone wonder why on earth this country of ours is like it is.
It seems to be that the only person they care about at the time is the criminal, it’s about time somebody tore up the rule book and let someone with common sense re-write it.
It does make you wonder about todays society, and where it’s going. You only have to look at the Gunman Raoul Moat case.
After what he did, people still think he is a bloody idol, how the hell do they come to that conclusion.
Can somebody tell me?
I was born in this seaside town of Hastings and brought up in the Older part of the town, Old Hastings or the Old Town as we refer to it!
The Old Town is a fishing quarter and has been since the year dot.
Now we all know that associated to a fishing industry are seagulls, these are a part and parcel of life, more so in a seaside town with a fishing fleet.
Well I can understand people moving from the smoke to live by the sea, But! I can’t understand why the hell they do it and then do nothing but complain and moan about the seagulls.
They even go so far as to call for them to be culled. Alright we know at times they can drive you mad, especially when you have just washed the car (we all know what happens then) but why the hell do they move to seaside towns like this in the first place, surely a little country village away from it all or at least to a seaside town that does not have a fishing industry.
Years ago we had the same problem, we had motor cycle speedway meetings once a week, the track was around our local football clubs pitch, and well attended it was. It was that is until opposite the football stadium they decided to build bungalows.
What happens, people from London decide Oh! Hastings it’s a nice place, lets move there.
When two roads of these bungalows are all occupied, you’ve guessed what happens, haven’t you!, they get together, lobby the council, complaining about the noise from the speedway opposite, and hey presto! Get the speedway closed down.
For gods sake why don’t they when they come and look at a property, take the time to look around and find out what might annoy them, then they can make up there minds to look elsewhere.
One of the things that drive me mad is when you join a social web site you are bombarded with invitations to join this group or that group.
Surely we can browse through the groups and decide for our selves which ones we would like to join.
It’s not so much the being invited, it’s when you reject one it keeps coming back at you.
I find it tedious and a waste of time having to go through one by one rejecting them.
If only they all followed peoplestrings initiative and had a reject all button it would make life a lot easier.
With some of them I have lost count of the amount of times the invitation has come back.
It’s got so much so that I now do not bother to reject them at all. I just leave them to accumulate and now and again browse through the group section to see if there is any particular one that I would like to join, ones that interest me and I know that I will participate in.
I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but then we are all entitled to our own opinion.
Forty people were injured when a bull leapt over barriers at a Spanish bullring and ran amok among spectators.
Three people were in the emergency ward after being trampled when the bull escaped the ring in Tafalla, northern Spain yesterday.
Video footage showed the bull landing in the stands among hundreds of spectators after jumping high enough to clear both the 1.5 barriers around the ring and a narrow alley where the bullfighters and officials stand.
Some spectators tried to keep the bull still by holding it by its tail, while others hurled capes and missiles, causing it to charge. The bull that was eventually captured and no doubt slaughtered.
This happened during an event in which people try to provoke the bull to charge them.
The bull had already jumped twice into the alley surrounding the ring.
A 47-year-old man who it is said was gored in the back and was among half a dozen spectators taken by ambulance to the hospital at Pamplona, home to the San Fermín bull runs.
The accident comes amid an intense debate in Spain about bullfighting, which was banned by the north-eastern region of Catalonia last month.
These people quite happily go to watch the poor creature being tormented, and then start screaming when this bull turns on them.
These people call themselves civilised, yet quite happily participate in this barbaric (what they call) sport.
I’m ashamed that even people from here in the UK go to watch this.
These people deserve everything they got.
Don’t you just love them, I’ve never been able to work them out.The busiest road in the town, a couple of cars parked, both on the yellow lines, and the warden looks at them and walks on past.
Another time, a ferocious looking female traffic warden slaps a ticket on one poor woman’s car and because when after buying the ticket and closing the door, the draught blew her ticket off of the dash board and onto the floor, even after explaining what had happened, and my wife confirming it, this yellow peril still issued the ticket, you couldn’t make it up!.
Another time in a large car park on our beach, one poor man and his wife parked the car, the nearest machine is the other end of the car park, which I must say is quite large.
He and his wife go off to get the ticket, guess what, when they get back to the car, hey presto, you’ve guessed it! they have been booked.
Would the traffic warden listen to there explanation, nope! He had issued the ticket, and if you did not like it. appeal!
You read about some of these idiots slapping a ticket on a hearse, even the mayors car parked outside the town hall.
I’m waiting to hear of one booking a road sweepers cart because it’s on the yellow lines, I’m sure it’s going to happen sooner or later.
It honestly makes you wonder where their brains are.
To be fair, there are some decent ones, like when the wife and I went into town and I parked in a bay by the meter, I was just getting the ticket when this warden called out, he had seen me getting out of the car, I suffer with bad hips, he came across and said, “you should not be having to buy a ticket, with your disability you should have a blue badge” that warden was the most considerate I have come across.
If they were all like that, wouldn’t it make them more bearable.
Well! It looks like a new chapter in the life of me2.
A new games area has been added and the announcement that shares are now not shares but Metoos.
I gather we are going to be able to purchase shares with this Metoo (hopefully on the 1 to 1 basis)
The countdown was a bit of a letdown, I think most of us were expcting some major announcement.
All these things take time, but things are falling into place, it’s better to get things right than having to keep changing them.
Lets hope, and I’m sure we are all waiting for this share/Metoos business to get sorted so that we all know where things stand.
In the meantime our Metoos are already earning us something, that’s a bonus
And Just In Case You Missed It!
Sunday 1st August 2010 Latest announcement! When your shares are converted into Metoo's, those that want to exchange them for registered shares will have 90 days to do so at the rate of 1 to 1
When the Metoo launches the name will be given to your allocated shares and your benefits will begin. Under an agreement with Complete Earth you will be able to exchange your Metoos for Registered Shares and the recommended rate will be set by Complete Earth. However Complete Earth is ready to make one small concession. They will guarantee that everyone between ID numbers 1 and 600,000 will be given a 90-day window to convert their Metoos into Registered Shares at a rate of 1 Metoo: 1 Share. In that period Complete Earth will increase the daily conversion maximum to 25,000,000 Metoos or more than two billion across the 90-day window. That’s more than enough to cover all members and assures you that any allocated shares amassed to date can be converted into registered shares within 90 days of the Metoo going live.
Anyway incase you missed it here is the rundown on The World of the Metoo
M2E 3D will be based on the village that becomes a metropolis and like every village it needs its own internal economy. Ours will be called the Metoo and they’re pretty cool because they give you:
1. A real world income source
2. The chance to use them in the 3D world
3. The chance to convert them into registered shares
Metoos = Real Word Income
Every member already has Metoos!
When you became a member or recruited someone you received some Metoos. When you upgraded or did some work you received even more Metoos. In fact if you click on the SHARES tab right now, you will see thousands of Metoos sat there, and every single Metoo has been making you a small amount of money!
“But I can only see shares...”
OK. We need to do a very quick recap here...
When you became a member or recruited friends we agreed to give you some shares. They were held by a partner company (now held by Complete Earth). The automated transfer system would allow you to convert all your shares into real, registered, fully paid-up shares and you would receive a share certificate for them. Then every year you would receive a dividend (a slice of our profits) and eventually you would be able to sell them on the stock market. Trouble is that automated system became delayed and so we started thinking... how can we make M2E more fun and give everyone a real world income that grows from every sale?
Currently your shares are “allocated”. This means that our partner company (Complete Earth) has set aside a number of paid-up shares for you. However to transfer 570,000+ sets of shares to our members would take a ridiculously long time without using an automated system. So unfortunately your shares have remained in an “allocated” state. In the very near future your allocated shares will be called Metoos and they will become the living economy of M2E 3D.
It works like this:
You continue with your membership and as we evolve into M2E 3D you will be able to earn more Metoos in different ways: from recommending new members to upgrading your virtual apartment. You could win one of our games or start an in-world business. There will be dozens of ways to earn more Metoos and so the more involved you become with m2E, the greater the number of Metoos you will own. Now like we said, those Metoos are worth money to you!
M2E will soon be making sales and depending upon the type of sale we’ll be putting up to 24% into a special METOO account. Every day that money will be shared (pro-rata) between all the Metoos in existence and your share will be added to your online statement (coming in M2E 3D). To be completely fair we’re going to backdate this to 9th January 2009: the day me2everyone.com went live. So, your Metoos have already started to earn you a little money. The more sales M2E achieves in the future (upgrades, business memberships, advertising, tree sales, game sales and a whole lot more) the more money goes into the Metoo fund. The more Metoos you hold the greater your share of the pool.
Metoos = In-world Virtual Currency
You will be able to use your Metoos within the 3D world – perhaps buying game credits or improving your experience. You will be able to gift them to your friends or to the Complete Earth Dream Maker Foundation where they can achieve some benefit for various charities and good causes. Earn Metoos for doing “village” type jobs and transform these into better ways of making a real income.
Metoos = Ownership of Me2everyone PLC
Remember, me2everyone is the village that becomes a metropolis all owned by you.
Every day Complete Earth will offer up to 12,000,000 fully paid, registered shares in Me2everyone PLC which you can acquire with your Metoos. That gives you a chance to share in our long-term future. Complete Earth will set an exchange rate every day (say 100 Metoos = 100 Shares) and you choose how many you want to convert. You get the registered shares and the share certificate and Complete Earth receives the Metoos.
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You can also get free shares just for referring your friends etc imagine , advertising your link and waking up one day to find in your mail inbox that people have joined under you, each one of them providing you with thousands of free shares.
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How many can you get to join? 1? 2? 5? 20? 50? 100's?? imagine ..... getting hundreds of thousand of shares for referring people worth 50p or more in the near future?
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Join me now with the tens of thousands who have joined in this new exciting venture.
PLEASE:- If you do join under my registration, would you do me
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Please let me know your name and when you joined.
You will be helping me keep track of things.
Many thanks
