Peedeel is BACK

Peedeel is BACK…well, more or less.

I was rushed into hospital for an operation on my left eye. Simultaneously, laser procedures were carried out on the right. I’ve had a number of operations on my eyes in the past, but this was the longest at 2.5 hours in the operating theatre. Post the procedure, I had to remain face down for seven days (I was allowed a ten minute break every hour to eat, pee, or scratch my balls). Nightmare, believe me. Could I sleep face down? No, I couldn’t. That seven days felt more like seven months.

Anyhow, I’m up and about now. I can see after a fashion – and I’m certain my vision will improve over the coming weeks. As it does, I’ll try and update my blogs more frequently.

See you soon.

Suicide is Dangerous….

Figures taken from the World Health Organization Website: suicides per 100,000 of population, ordered by average of male/female rate :

First figure is male suicide rate, second female, third the average -

United Kingdom (2007) 10.1 – 2.8 – 6.4

Australia (2004) 16.7 – 4.4 – 10.55

Ireland (2007) 17.4 – 3.8 – 10.6

United States (2005) 17.7 – 4.5 – 11.1

Canada (2004) 17.3 – 5.4 – 11.35

New Zealand (2005) 18.9 – 6.3 – 12.6

Sweden (2006) 18.1 – 8.3 – 13.2

Austria (2007) 23.8 – 7.4 – 15.6

France (2006) 25.5 – 9.0 – 17.25

Switzerland (2006) 23.5 -11.7 – 17.6

Ukraine (2005) 40.9 – 7.0 – 20.8

Russian Federation 53.9 – 9.5 – 31.7

Belarus (2003) 63.3 – 10.3 – 36.8

The UK is lowest; the people there have a “Nanny State” to look after them…

Rabbis and Kabbalah mystics flying over Israel fight Swine Flu

Nothing is more efficacious than a good old dose of “faith & spirituality” in our fight against disease. So, a group of rabbis and Jewish mystics has taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu. About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing horns, called shofars.

Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was quoted as saying: “We are certain that, thanks to the prayer, the danger is already behind us.”

Oh that everything could be this simple!

See Here.

Baby P doctor sues hospital over dismissal

The doctor who failed to spot that Baby Peter had a broken back and ribs before he died is suing her former employers over her dismissal.

Dr Sabah al-Zayyat, consultant paediatrician, decided she couldn’t carry out a full check-up because the little boy was “miserable and cranky”…not surprising really, with a broken back and ribs!

Story HERE.

£40 million cost for NHS religious services

It’s a funny old world, ain’t it? Did you know that chaplaincy services are costing the National Health Service more than £32million per year?

Put another way that money could pay for an additional 1,300 nurses or over 2,500 cleaning staff. Always in demand by the NHS.

“The headline figure only takes into account the salaries of the chaplains, it doesn’t take account of National Insurance contributions, pension payments, administration costs, office accommodation, training, the upkeep of chapels and prayer rooms,” according to Terry Sanderson, president of the NSS. “We can conservatively add another 20% to the headline figure taking it up to £40 million.”

Wonderful!

We even pay for some organists, too, for the chapels.

And, get this, Catholic priests when called to deliver “last rites” charge the hospital a call-out fee. It’s true. But surely provision of such a service is the fundamental responsibility of the church…along with the cost of same!

I had this belief that people went into hospital for medical treatment, not for a religious service. Obviously I was wrong. People go in for a church service, and the taxpayer pays for it…come on guys! Why can’t their own vicar, priest, rabbi or imam call in and see ‘em if they feel in need of religious support?

See the costs HERE.

Did Alan Johnson lie about pig flu vaccine?

So when does a little prevarication become an out and out bloody lie?

With all that’s happened recently in this country, you’d think our politicians would have learned an important lesson, wouldn’t you? Honesty is always the best policy. Transparency in all things is the key. You’d think by now they’d have gotten that message burned into their “little grey cells”, and you’d be WRONG!!

Dear ol’ Alan Johnson, Health Secretary and people’s friend, the wannabe replacement for the Clown as head of Nulabour, made the claim “there will be enough vaccine by Christmas to protect half the population from the killer virus (Swine Flu).”

But guess what? NO vaccine has been discovered yet! Scientists at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control have yet to develop a vaccine for Swine Flu. So where the hell’s Mr. J got his bloody “vaccine” from? Well, he hasn’t! It hasn’t yet been developed, so it can’t be manufactured and supplied.

He was telling porkies!

Matthew Elliot, boss of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said : “Alan Johnson should have made clear there still isn’t a vaccine available. The reputation of ministers is now at an all-time low and they should avoid statements which mislead. The public is looking for less spin from Government.”

On Friday Mr. J boasted he’d stockpiled 90 million doses from vaccine manufacturers. He went on to claim: “These additional arrangements provide the opportunity by December to have enough prepandemic vaccine to protect half the population.”

Yet Mr Johnson has admitted to MPs: “It is a long journey from identifying the virus to making a vaccine available.” He said a vaccine could be up to six months away and take more than a year before it could be produced in sufficient quantities.

So does that make him a lying git, d’you think? Or is he just confused? I can’t help thinking the gentleman’s got MORE SPIN than my record deck…

£40 vouchers for pregnant women to stop smoking

Oh, what a good way to spend NHS funds…after all, they have so much bloody cash it’s a job for them to know what to do with it. Now the NHS (the LARGEST EMPLOYER in the WORLD) within the South Yorkshire area is talking about doling out forty quid in vouchers to any mum-to-be who quits smoking – not only that but their partner will get twenty quid’s worth of vouchers, too (if they are a smoker and quit as well).

Unfortunate as a nation we’re in recession. Shame we lost quarter-of-a-million jobs last month. Even bigger shame everyone’s having to cut back, make savings to survive…even our MP’s are finding it difficult to manage on their meager salaries! But luckily, the good ol’ NHS has money to burn on effin’ stupid schemes…and long may it continue.

Only, isn’t it our money they’re wasting?

Yorkshire Post: “£40 vouchers for mothers-to-be who quit smoking.

PREGNANT women in South Yorkshire could be rewarded with shopping vouchers if they quit smoking in a move already under attack by campaigners who say public money should be better spent.

Under the scheme, which is set to be agreed by health bosses today, mothers-to-be in Rotherham would receive High Street vouchers worth up to £40 if they attend appointments with the health trust’s stop smoking service. Vouchers worth a further £20 would be given to their husbands or partners if they also quit.”