Performing Elephants.

There was an article in the news this morning about elephants making a return to performing in with The Great British Circus in Nottinghamshire, 10 years after the last circus performance in the UK.

I dont really know how to feel on this one, on one hand they could still be in the wild being slaughtered in places like Botswana, so in a way they are better off in captivity, but I dont think they should be made to behave or perform in unnatural ways.

All animals should be able to live out their lives in their natural environment. Without the threat of being killed by poachers or losing their natural habitat, because of encroaching civilisation.

26th February 1935 - Luftwaffe

Nazi Germany’s ultra-modern air force - the Luftwaffe - is secretly organized under the direction of Hermann Goering. The Versailles Treaty prohibited military aviation in Germany, but the civilian airline Lufthansa allowed flight training for the men who later became Luftwaffe pilots.

After seizing power in 1933, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler began to secretly develop his military air force. In February 1935, the Luftwaffe was formally organized, and in March, Hitler revealed it to the world. Two years later, a stinging sample of Germany's new air power was felt in the brutal bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. After September 1939, Poland, France, and especially Britain and Russia discovered the Luftwaffe to be the deadliest of Germany's armed forces.

Britain's Royal Air Force, although outnumbered 2 to 1, handed the Luftwaffe its first defeat in the Battle of Britain. Later in the war, American forces joined the RAF in the battle for Europe's skies, and the once-proud Luftwaffe was destroyed.

6th Anniversary......

.....of me landing in Kuwait.

6 months out of my life that I can never get back.
The highs and the lows that I will never forget.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!

That the thought would even enter peoples minds to release a serial killer from prison.

This man, Peter Sutcliffe, "The Yorkshire Ripper" was jailed in 1981 for murdering 13 women between 1975 and 1980.

Having begun his life sentence in prison, he was transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital three years into it, after being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Consultant forensic psychologist Dr Keith Ashcroft says that "extreme caution must be exercised when making any decisions on serial murderers being freed."
"The majority of serial sexual homicide offenders will be diagnosed as having psychopathic personality disorder, which the vast majority of clinicians would view as being problematic in terms of treatment," he says.
"Such psychopaths are extremely good at manipulating prison staff, as well as mental health professionals, and over time they can eventually be perceived as being 'cured' and ready for reintroduction into society."

This man has committed MULTIPLE MURDERS, what right does he have to be FREE? Why should innocent people be put at risk with psychopaths like Sutcliffe on the street.

He was sentenced to LIFE imprisonment.

LIFE should mean LIFE.

13th February 1945 - Dresden devastated.

On 13 February 1945, hundreds of bombers launch a massive Allied air raid against the city of Dresden, Germany. Over a three-day period, 3,900 tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped by 1,300 British and American aircraft, reducing much of the city to smoldering rubble and killing between 35,000 and 135,000 civilians.

Some Allied officials were against the decision to bomb Dresden as Germany was clearly on the verge of collapse, and Dresden was not a German war-production city. The planners of the attack claimed that by bombing Dresden they were disrupting important lines of communication that would have hindered the Soviet offensive in the east. However, many suspected that the raid was part of an ongoing effort to terrorize the German population and thereby force an early surrender.

Dresden had been famous for its historic buildings and artwork until it became the victim of the single most destructive air raid of the European war.

11th February 1990 - Mandela Freed.

Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years.

A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he advocated nonviolent resistance to apartheid, but became more militant after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 unarmed demonstrators were gunned down by South African police in the black township of Sharpeville.

In 1964, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life on the brutal Robben Island prison. His resolve remained unbroken, and he led his fellow prisoners in a movement of civil disobedience that led to improved prison conditions. In 1989, F.W. de Klerk became South African president and set about dismantling apartheid.

After his release, Mandela led the ANC in its negotiations with de Klerk's government to end apartheid and in 1994 was elected South Africa's first black president.

Ive......

.....met a few of these in my time......

Jellyfish facts:-

*they dont have a brain,

*they are composed of more than 90% water; most of their umbrella mass is a gelatinous material - the jelly. i.e. theyre spineless.

Have you ever......

....come across someone who swears down they're ill, and then shovels this down their neck.....

Well, this happened about 6 months ago.

This person in particular too, made themself look even more ignorant.

You know when someone offers to buy you a drink, you get ONE drink.

Well not this person, they wanted TWO drinks.

The person buying was totally gobsmacked, as was everyone else there, but we let it go. Then it got worse, because this person wasnt the centre of attention, stormed off in the huff, LEAVING the drinks.

Cryptic!!!

What do you get if you put these together?

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Woooohoooooo!!!!!!

Only 10 minutes left of work today!!!!!

Here comes the weekend!!!! EARLY!!!!