More than one step forward today

Decided to venture forth a bit further !!!    So I went to the Post Office, but cheated by getting the bus both ways. Made it, no problems, so now I can widen my horizons.

Had planned on writing earlier, but not in the mood,   So I watched the movie "33".  The true story about the thirty three gold miners who were trapped underground in Chile for seventy days on 2010. What a remarkable story, super movie, but appealing to think that the mining company were not found negligent and none of the men received any compensation.

Here we go again, here we have another mega sports personality, Maria Sharapova, suspended for taking prohibited drugs !!!   The drug,  Meldonium, developed by a Eastern Bloc scientist was developed to increase the supply of ogygen to the periphery of the body and later used in the treatment of heart attacks and angina attacks (which would make it useful for me).  However, with rewards in sport so great the medical advisors controlling athletes found it was a performance enhancing drug.  Sharapova says she has been using it for ten years, WHY should a fit young sixteen year old need this and then keep using it.    BUT. She is the headliner in this case, looking through the Internet there have been track stars, cyclists, weight lifters, and speed skaters suspended in the past two months.  $100 million is a lot of sponsorship money to lose, however they cannot take away the money she has in the bank- can they .

Anyway , next -  for years I have said "it is not if, but when, so be prepared"  referring to the various threats by extremist groups which might affect the daily lives of UK public,. We thought we had got over the Irish problem, even although it meant that the alleged hierarchy of the groups involved managed to wheedle their way into positions in UK . The threat from overseas has never gone away and from current warnings may well be about to escalate.
Now I am sure these murderous scheming types are not going to play by the Queenberry Rules, so when it does eventually happen our politicians will start shouting and looking for excuses as to why the Police and security services knew nothing!!
I raise this as I wonder why some of our Politicians are going to great lengths to  investigate the worke done by undercover and anti terrorist teams. It is no wonder we are the laughing stock of the world when we are so politically correct and our media are happy to give some of these wingers breathing space.  When you read true life spy stories it makes you wonder just how much of our national infrastructure has been infiltrated to the extent that economic polices are in tatters, we are £Billions in dept and just ripe for a foreign power to pull the plug on us.  It was always the Russians or the Chinese who had spies under the bed, but the EU Eurocrats are doing fine job as well.

So check under your bed tonight!!!!