Sunday 12/7/09

To my great shame I've neglected this blog page for far too long. Its takes discipline to maintain a blog, but one of the main reasons why i have'nt entered anything on this site is that i have'nt got any positive e-mail in a few weeks, so it all feels a bit pointless. I'm maintaining my book reading routine, its a terrible pity that I never read for pleasure at all up until a few years ago. I am reading a very good book at the moment called The Caged Virgin by Ayaan Hirsi Ali who is an ex muslim liberal party member in the Netherlands. She has been abandoned by her family, and is living her life surrounded by bodygaurds for the great crime of daring to think independently, and essentially de-programming herself from the islamic mindset. I know when I am in Dublin, and especially when I was in Manchester last year,I seem to see more and more veiled women. Instead of just feeling pity for them, I now do feel anger towards them, because it is essentially a form of abuse that they are justifying. It is essentially a visual display of just how downtrodden the female sex is in Islam. But there is never any attention give to the increasing amount of children born with rickets, as a result of their mothers having extreme vitamin D deficiency arising from their lack of exposure to daylight. How insulting it is anyway to think that the merest display of a womans skin is going to the get men all hot and bothered, even if all the men around her are gay and the woman herself is a wrinkled old prune !

The Koran really is just a rehashed tribalised version of the bible, only this time, instead of being written by desert nomads, its written by a vain paedophile. I really would be very much an advocate of strict separation of cults and state. Any ideology that attempts to limit or restrict what you can or cannot do with your own body, or restricts what you can even read, has to go. I really hope that this dangerous cult does not establish a stronghold here, and as christianity starts to fade, that we do not go from the frying pan into the fire, by adopting these fear based ridiculous beliefs.

Now that my 3G Vodafone contract has come to an end, and my last few weeks with them were not great in terms of speed, and waiting ten minutes for an e-mail to download, I started to look around for alternatives. I tried the Meteor shop in Newbridge, but we seem to be just beyond their range. Then I tried 3, but they have no coverage in our area. The annoying thing about this is , that everyone around us has Eircom broadband, but we are just beyond the catchment area. Iam now with O2 and I have to say I am very happy with them. There are some terrible reviews about them on the internet, but in my case for €20 per month it is great value, and sometimes i can even get up to full broadband speeds, and can watch YouTube uninterrupted. I would die without my internet. I know for a fact that there are so many people with disabilities completely isolated from the world, and having the net with a world full of different thoughts and views is brilliant.

Went up to see Bruno, the new film by Sasha Baron Cohen and it was fantastic. It was much better than I thought it would be, and there were a few parts in it that I thought I would fall out of the chair, I was laughing so much.

My flowers are doing extremely well. Really i would be a firm believer in Plant Grow, because between that and the soil, the flowers are really vibrant and colourful. I can fully understand why some people are so obsessed with their plants and flowers. Outside my bedroom theres a wall, so with all the new plants, it has made me feel much less like an inmate in a cell.