Dickiebo will seize almost any opportunity to let people know about thieving, criminal politicians. So I thought that I just may tell you that ALL politicos are not rotten, of course. [Just nearly all of them!] So, here is one whom I reckon to be a good ‘un.

Kirsty Williams. Assembly Member for Brecon and Radnorshire

Kirsty was born in Taunton Somerset in March 1971 to Welsh parents, her father a librarian from Llanelli and her mother a housewife from Swansea. After a brief spell in Somerset and Liverpool the family returned to the village of Bynea in Carmarthenshire when Kirsty was 3 years old.

Kirsty was educated at the village primary school and St. Michael’s School Llanelli. She studied for her degree, a B.A. Hons in American Studies [I guess nobody's perfect!!] at Manchester University and The University of Missouri.

Prior to her career in politics Kirsty worked at Carmarthenshire College and for a small business in Cardiff as a Marketing Executive.

Kirsty married Richard Rees in September 2000. They have three daughters, Angharad born in September 2001, Carys born May 2004 and Rachel in April 2006. They live on the family farm just outside Brecon.

In 2003 and 2007 Kirsty successfully defended Brecon & Radnorshire and on each occasion increasing her share of the vote.

Kirsty was elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in December 2008 with 60% of the votes cast. She is also Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery and Children and Young People.

Dickiebo; I despise NuLabour, I intensely dislike the LibDems, and I don’t particularly like the Tories, but isn’t it nice and refreshing when we have a genuine nice person as a politician? Can’t we do away with party politics and just vote for decent people? Strewth – not many M.Ps would keep their jobs, methinks!

Nice one, Kirsty!

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

David Cameron is pledging to cut the number of unelected quangos to save money and increase accountability…..

…..” in too many cases these organisations have got bigger and bigger. They spend about £64 billion a year, they start having their own communications departments, their own press officers; they start making policy rather than just delivering policy – and their bosses are paid vast amounts of money.”

He said too many quangos had become “lobbying organisations” and there was a duplication where they were making policy, while government departments were doing the same thing.

Many had been “empire building” he said and 68 quango heads were now paid more than the prime minister.

Dickiebo; Look out you lot at the bloody Equalities Commission. Your days are numbered. What a shame – you’ll just have to try and work for a living like the rest of us peasants!

VIOLENCE IN CHINA – MANY DEAD

Violence in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 140 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say.

Several hundred people were also arrested after a protest turned violent in the city of Urumqi on Sunday.

Beijing says Uighurs went on the rampage but one exiled Uighur leader says police fired on students.

The protest was reportedly prompted by a deadly fight between Uighurs and Han Chinese in southern China last month.

The BBC’s Chris Hogg in Shanghai says that if the numbers of dead are to be believed – and state media say they may rise – this looks like the bloodiest violence in China since Tiananmen Square 20 years ago.

It is still unclear who died in the violence and why so many were killed.

Dickiebo; I love the chinese people – dating back to 1956 and my service in Hong Kong – but I knew nothing about this latest violence, so I read this BBC article, and saw this:-

“….The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in China says Xinjiang, a mainly Muslim area, has been a source of tension for many years.

Some of its Uighur population of about eight million, want to break away from China.”

Nuff said.

SWANSEA CRICKET UMPIRE KILLED DURING GAME

A cricket umpire has died after being hit on the head by a ball.

Alcwyn Jenkins, 72, was umpiring a league match between Swansea and Llangennech at the St Helen’s ground in Swansea on Saturday.

The widower, from Skewen near Neath, was struck on the head by a ball thrown by a fielder and was airlifted to hospital but failed to recover.

Tragic indeed. Nick used to play for Swansea and their ground, St.Helens, is just down the road from us. God bless you, Alcwyn.

DON’T ‘DISS’ MICHAEL JACKSON!!!

MERCED — A 50-year-old man at a correctional facility south of Merced took issue with an insult against Michael Jackson, breaking the jaw of another inmate Wednesday night who spoke badly about the late King of Pop.

Jeffrey Salery, 50, is expected to be charged with aggravated assault and battery with great bodily injury against a 21-year-old fellow inmate at John Latorraca Correctional Facility.

Salery told correctional officers that the 21-year-old “disrespected Michael Jackson,” although what specifically was said is not known.

BRITISH SURVEY


A recent survey in the United Kingdom  
asked the following question:
   
 
Are there too many foreigners in this country now?
 
 
Answer:
 
 
18% said: YES
 
 
82% said:  معهد الأمن العالمي بوا! شنط  

In a veterinarian’s waiting room, “Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!”

I knelt to pray – but not for long,
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.

So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease……

All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They’d laugh at me I’d fear.

No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.

I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God! Held a book;
It was the book of life.

God looked into his book and said
“Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down…
But never found the time“.

Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a local pub.  Late in the evening the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.

The man stumbled around the car park for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing.

After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five vehicles, the man managed to find his car which he fell into.  He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off.  Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine dry night) flicked the indicators on, then off, tooted the horn and then switched on the lights.  He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained stationery for a few more minutes as some more vehicles left.

At last he pulled out of the car park and started to drive slowly down the road.  The police officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and carried out a breathalyzer test.  To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence of the man having consumed alcohol at all! 

Dumbfounded, the officer said “I’ll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station.  This breathalyzer equipment must be broken.”

“I doubt it”, said the man, “tonight I’m the designated decoy.”

Here is a little something someone sent me that is indisputable mathematical logic. It also made me Laugh Out Loud. This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint…it goes like this:

What Makes 100%?

What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:
H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But ,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.
A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, its the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.