Thursday, April 27, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
The Leader of SBC is being attacked
The Leader of Swale
Borough Council Andrew Bowles has come under attack from The Gossip Board and
the ME Post code Group. I have known Andrew for over 30 years I classify him as
a friend and Excellent Councillor and Leader in over 30 years he has dedicated
his life to SBC. Now that is no reason why his Policies should not be attacked
it is the duty of us all to question our Politicians BUT what I find wrong is
when is when they attack politicians personally rather then their policy and
make false accusations without any evidence.
For example I notice
this was happening a lot and when I said “Criticize what they do Not who they
are” I was questioned by Mark Foster (No fan of Andrew) asking “Who's doing that then Martin?” I gave an
example of one of is contributors who suggested that Andrew was lining his own
pocket. I had already asked the contributor to come up with proof but no reply,
Instead of Mark Foster condemning this contributor his reply was “so stop
pointing the finger and posting here please” Needless to say the offending
thread has been removed as was my full reply naming the person and of course I
have now been blocked. As I say in my thread Truth Hurts
Martin
William Clarke No
Councillor of any party does the Job for money. They do it because they believe
in their cause. I completely appose Roger Trueloves Politics but I respect him
for doing the Job he at least stands up to be counted as do other Councillors
I have looked at
Andrew Allowance which is approx. £25,000 according to SBC site Now the leader
of the Council is a full time Job he does on Average 40 - 45 hours a week for
SBC so lets compare: SBC Chief Executive £145,000 SBC Head of department
£75,000 Senior Manager £50,000. I have looked on Google and the average pay for
a Tradesman is £30,000 ( I know many who are on more) Head Teacher £55,700
(according to a National Newspaper some are on £100,000) MP £74,000. Would any of these do SBC Leaders
Job for the money I doubt it
Those who moan the
most never offer to put themselves up for election and maybe become Leader?
Darren Hilburn hes an elected representative Martin William Clarke , a public servant,
by very definition we have every right to criticise how good they are at that
job.
Martin William Clarke Criticize what they do Not who they
are
Mark Foster Who's doing that then Martin.?
Andy Cooper I've looked on both Sittingbourne.me
and this comment thread and I can find no such comment. Am I missing something
or is this just more 'fake news'?
Mark Foster Neither can I Andy Cooper it seems Martin needs to get
his facts right before accusing on this group
Martin William Clarke Have a look before it is removed (My
reply naming names was removed)
Andy Cooper Ah but in a different thread! Sneaky!
Mark Foster Not on my site.....so stop pointing
the finger and posting here please
Martin William Clarke Truth hurts by all means block me
Mark Foster Happy to oblige... Blocked
Monday, April 24, 2017
Monday, April 17, 2017
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Friday, April 14, 2017
Good Friday
Things have certainty charged in the last 50 years. I wonder how many people even know what Good Friday is? I know a lot of kids who are School do not know the meaning of the Christians most Holy of days. Luckily enough my youngest 2 grandchildren went to a Catholic School. For those who not know Good Friday is when Jesus Christ died on the Cross and Easter is when he rose from the dead.
50 years ago all shops would be closed on Good Friday and Pubs would have Sunday Opening. Now we have secularist society who’s religion is self-gratification and purchasing power and ridicule is poured upon people who believe in Christianity. Many see this period as just another Holiday I have to remind people that holiday is an abbreviation of Holy Day
Our History, Morality etc. is based on Christianity both are being forgotten in a headlong dash for Political Correctness
50 years ago all shops would be closed on Good Friday and Pubs would have Sunday Opening. Now we have secularist society who’s religion is self-gratification and purchasing power and ridicule is poured upon people who believe in Christianity. Many see this period as just another Holiday I have to remind people that holiday is an abbreviation of Holy Day
Our History, Morality etc. is based on Christianity both are being forgotten in a headlong dash for Political Correctness
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Archbishop warns about no aid for Christains
The Church of England Hierarchy are known for their Left Wing views and will do anything to be seen as Modern and Progressive even if it is against the teachings of the Bible. So it came as a shock when I saw the article from a former Archbishop Condemning our Government and UN for Anti Christian Bias it seems that these refugee camps are run by Muslims for Muslims and Christians are frighten to enter. Christian Countries are better of taking Christian refugees rather the Muslims as Christians will interrogate better
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Benedict option Spectator Article
The Benedict option
Believers
must find new, more radical ways to practise their faith
Hannah
Roberts, an English Catholic friend, was once telling me about her family’s
long history in Yorkshire. She spoke with yearning of what she had back home
and how painful it is to live so far away. I wondered aloud why she and her
American husband had emigrated to the United States from that idyllic
landscape, the homeland she loved. ‘Because we wanted our children to have a
chance to grow up Catholic,’ she said.
It’s
not that she feared losing them to the Church of England — it’s that she feared
them losing Christianity itself. She and her husband Chris, an academic
theologian, are now raising their four young children in Philadelphia, a city
with a historically large Catholic presence. Even so, Philadelphia is no safe
haven, as the Robertses freely acknowledge. Christianity is declining sharply
in the north-east of the United States, one of the nation’s least religious
regions. The most recent studies confirm that the country is, at last, firmly
on the same trail of decline blazed by the churches of Europe.
Rod
Dreher and Matthew Parris go head-to-head on the future of Christianity:
The
collapse of religion in Britain has been perhaps the most striking feature of
the last generation. The sheer pace of the decline has been recorded by Damian
Thompson in this magazine: church pews are emptying at the rate of 10,000
people per week. In 1983, some 40 per cent of the population declared itself
Anglican. Now, it’s 17 per cent. To be a practising Christian in the West now
is to belong to a minority.
How,
then, should believers adapt to a society that is not just unsupportive but often
hostile to their beliefs? In his influential 1981 book After Virtue, the
Scottish moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre warned that the Enlightenment’s
inability to provide a binding and authoritative source of morality to replace
the Christian–Aristotelian one it discarded had left the contemporary West
adrift. He likened our age to the era of the Roman Empire’s fall — a
comparison that Pope Benedict XVI has also made.
The
old believers, MacIntyre wrote, need to respond. Which means to stop trying to
‘shore up the imperium,’ and instead build ‘local forms of community within
which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the
new dark ages which are already upon us’. MacIntyre famously concluded by
saying that we in the West await ‘another — doubtless very different
— St Benedict’.
MacIntyre
chose Benedict as his model because the 6th-century saint’s inventive response
to a religious collapse had enormous historical ramifications. The monastic
communities he founded spread quickly throughout western Europe, and over the
next few centuries laid the groundwork for the rebirth of civilisation in the
West. What would a St Benedict for our day say now? What would best ensure
Christianity’s resilience and long-term survival? Christians do have to go back
quite a long way to find a similar situation: by some estimates, Europe is more
secularised now than at any time since Constantine’s conversion in the 3rd
century.
What
I call The Benedict Option is a choice made by an increasing number of
Christians living in the secular West: to build the resilient local communities
MacIntyre calls for. You don’t have to be cloistered as monastics to learn from
the structure and practices of Benedictine life. The early Benedictines were an
example of what the historian Arnold Toynbee called a ‘creative minority’
— a small group within a larger society that responds creatively to a
crisis in a way that serves the common good.
Pope
Benedict XVI was clear-eyed about the grim predicament facing European
Christianity. Drawing on Toynbee’s analysis, he called on the Catholic flock to
‘understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that
are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality’.
It’s
a novel claim: that monks are modern, not outdated relics of a medieval past.
But Father Martin Bernhard, a young American Benedictine in Norcia,
stakes it with confidence. ‘People say, “Oh, you’re just trying to turn back
the clock,”’ he told me. ‘That makes no sense. If you’re doing something right
now, it means you’re doing it right now. It’s new, and it’s alive! And that’s a
very powerful thing.’
Yes,
but in the contemporary world, it also means being different. In order to be
faithfully Christian now and for the foreseeable future, believers will have to
become more like Orthodox Jews and Muslims in the way they live out their
religion. They will have to recognise themselves as outsiders, and cease to
care about conforming to the norms of secular society. They will have to live
with far more spiritual discipline regarding prayer, worship, study, work, and
asceticism, radically re-ordering their lives around the faith. This will look
somewhat different depending on their particular tradition — Protestant,
Catholic, or Orthodox — but it will have to be taken on with rigour.
Some
Christians will have to cut ties. Earlier this year, the Revd Dr Gavin Ashenden
left the Church of England having previously been a chaplain to the Queen. ‘I’m
not sure I see much point in a church that just wants to be accepted as a sort
of not-too-irritating chaplain to a secular and hedonistic culture, which is
what it seems to be becoming,’ he said.
The
last straw for Ashenden was the Church’s milksop reaction to a Quran reading at
St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow — a recitation that explicitly said that
Jesus was not the son of God. Europe and the UK face a tremendous threat from
radical Islam. Whatever else might be said of radical Islam, one cannot deny
that its followers know what they believe, and are not ashamed of it.
But
wait, comes the protest. Secular democracy has served the West pretty well. We
are doing better in many measures of social health and wellbeing than we have
in decades. What’s the problem?
It’s
a fair point. What many don’t understand is the extent to which secular
liberalism has fed off Christian teachings and virtues. The Enlightenment
secularised Christian teachings about the sanctity of life and the dignity of
the individual human person. But it could not come up with a stable grounding
for those teachings in reason alone. For a long time, the West has been
coasting on the residue of its Christian faith. But without basing our morality
in transcendent values, how will we recognise threats to our humanity in the
future (from, say, genetic manipulation), much less resist them?
Jonathan
Sacks, formerly the chief rabbi, has called on Christians to learn from Jewish
people how to be a creative minority in the contemporary world.
‘You
can be a minority, living in a country whose religion, culture, and legal
system are not your own, and yet sustain your identity, live your faith and
contribute to the common good,’ he said. ‘It isn’t easy. It demands a complex
finessing of identities. It involves a willingness to live in a state of
cognitive dissonance. It isn’t for the faint-hearted.’
He
also argues that Jews and Christians in Britain face two common enemies. On one
side, a militant secularism that wishes to eliminate religion entirely. And on
the other, a fanatical form of Islam that seeks a barbaric theocracy. It is a
strange paradox and characteristic of our time: Christians will have to turn to
modern Orthodox Jews, such as Lord Sacks, to learn how to live more faithfully
as Christians.
The
kind of faith that survives catastrophe is one that can perceive victory even
in apparent defeat. This is the message of the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish
people. It is the message of Christianity: the Saviour’s death is not the final
word. It is the message that the believing Christian remnant in the West can
make incarnate in their daily lives, in concrete and sacrificial ways.
This
is no grim, white-knuckle counsel. Not to anyone who has met the Tipi Loschi, a
merry confederacy of Italian Catholic families living in San Benedetto del
Tronto, a small city on the Adriatic coast. They are counter-culturally orthodox
in their Catholicism, but not angry. They draw inspiration from two English
Catholics they regard as heroes: G.K. Chesterton and J.R.R. -Tolkien. The
community school is called Scuola Libera G.K. Chesterton, and the Tipi Loschi
fancy themselves as ‘hobbits in the shire’.
These
are Christians who are not deceived about the long odds facing Christianity in
the West. They are filled with light, hope and joy. I asked Marco Sermarini,
the middle-aged lawyer who heads the group, to divulge their secret. ‘We
invented nothing,’ he said. ‘We are only rediscovering a tradition that was
locked away inside an old box. We had forgotten.’
If
a small flock of Italians perched on a cliff overlooking the Adriatic can
rummage through the old curiosity shop of western Christianity and found a
local Christian community on the writings of St Benedict, Chesterton, and
Tolkien, who’s to say that the dusty crates in Christian Britain’s treasury
don’t contain the seeds of that faith’s resurrection? As Chesterton wrote in The
Everlasting Man: ‘Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it
had a god who knew the way out of the grave.’
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What is Easter
Can I just remind people why we are celebrating Easter see below?
It seems people like me who believe in Christianity are ridiculed for our
belief in favour of Secularism and Islam. Yet Christians are the most
persecuted group in the World many dying for their faith. The secularists and
Muslims continue to say less people are attending Church on a regular basis
that may be true I am not a regular Churchgoer but I still believe which is the
important thing. In the past secularists would laugh at me and say “Martin and his
Invisible friend” but what they did not realise was that is actually how I felt
I believe that the Lord is my invisible friend. So time to be proud to be a Christian
and to be Proud to live in a Christian Country
Christians believe, according to Scripture, that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross. As part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, always the Friday just before Easter.
Through his death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin,
thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Christ Jesus.
Minnis Bay with Grandchildren
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| Lovely Old Building near Teynham |
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| Fish Soup |
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| Yes John there is a Pub there |
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| Val Loves Her Duck Eggs near Teynham Church |
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
My take on Syria
Listening
to all reports about the Missile Attack by Trump you have to ask the Following
questions
1) Did
he use Chemical weapons? If you listened to the West Establishment and Media he
did But I am not so sure. Why? He had nothing to gain by using chemical weapons
and everything to lose, yet the terrorists who are opposing him do gain a
propaganda victory by its use and remember ISIS and the rebels have used Chemical weapons.
The important thing is that no one trusts what Government says or what there
Intelligence services say.
2) Why
bomb aircraft field, which is helping to defeat Isis, surely this gives the
Terrorists another propaganda victory?
3) Many
say he made an attack without UN sanction True but who are the UN? The UN says
that Islam is the most peaceful of all religion? So a Buddhist is violent? A UN
who’s human rights members include Saudi Arabia, Qatari, Egypt, Indonesia all
of whom have Human Rights problems in their country. The UN refused to listen
to alternative version to the Chemical incident suggested by the Russians? So
why should you need to get a sanction from an organisation that’s not fit for
purpose?
4) To
justify a large military the USA especially have to justify their existence and
the way to do this is to have a War and if Trumps make another attack that is
what we will have.
5) The
Media and government continually bleat on how the Majority of Syrians wants to
get rid of Assad, if that is the case how is he winning the war? To me that
means he has the backing of the people unlike the so-called rebels, which
consist of mainly foreign nationals financed and supported by the West. Saudi
Arabia and Qatar
6) So who started the
Syrian Conflict? Before this war Syria was most probably the safest place in
the Middle East it was completely secular and allowed all religions. OK if you
apposed the regime they were very evil and because they sided with Russian and
Iran they were considered the enemy of the West. With the start of the Arab
Spring the West, led by the USA and UK, saw a chance of defeating Assad and
installing a puppet regime so they aided the Rebels with weapons and funding
7)
Have we not learned from Iraq and Libya that destroying dictatorships only
makes things worse. The reason we have Isis is because of the wars in these two
countries
8)
I have to laugh at Boris Johnson and Philip Hammond who now dictating there
must be peace talks with out Assad, what right have they to tell a Sovereign
Country who should attend peace talks? Especially as Assad has a large support
from Syrians and is winning he Civil War, Yet it is the hypocrisy of the US, UK
etc. that annoys me the most. They accuse Assad of being an Evil Monster which
he most probably is, yet they supply Arms and are friends of Saudi Arabia who’s
human rights are some of the worst in the World, who treatment of women is a
disgrace and there promotion of their form of Islam is what is behind most of
the terrorist attacks in the West.
I
thought that the establishment had learned from their defeat in Brexit that
they have to listen to Joe Public but no they do not even consider us I will
bet that if the Public had a vote on the problems in Syria, nearly all would say do
not get involved in any physical activity in the region. Remember JAW JAW
rather then WAR WAR
Monday, April 10, 2017
Saturday, April 08, 2017
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Enoch Powell's Rivers Of Blood Speech in 1080p
Take time to watch and listen and get the facts and not the soundbites from the left
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Prophets words were misrepresented.
If what I read is true the Prophet Mohammad married a 6 year old
and had sex with her at the age of 8 in the west this would be paedophiliae, according to things I have read non Muslim women and
children can be used as sex slaves, women are treated as second class citizens
and can be beaten, Homosexuals should be killed, captured enemy soldiers
beheaded, those Muslim leaving the religion should be killed, couples having
sex before marriage should be stoned to death plus much more barbaric things.
Now I have seen all these things on social media being
associated with Islam BUT I can not believe a prophet of God being responsible
for these atrocities But after watching a video the link is below I can
understand what has happened. According to the video nothing was written about Mohammad for 200 to 300 years after his death so those that wrote the Quran
never even met the Prophet. You note I use the word Prophet because I have no
doubt their was a man called Mohammad who preached the word of God BUT
according to the Video he did not write the Quran.
So his ideas and indicts were handed down verbally so his
message could easily have been mistaken i.e. Chinese whisper. Like other
religions evil men could use the religion they support to gain power and
influence for themselves and with Islam if it is true that it was over 200
years since anything was written it would make sense that the Prophets words
were misrepresented. I hope that is true because there are many millions of
Muslims who want to live in peace with everyone.
Yet according to Wikipedia the following has been said "According to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations.[13] Shortly after Muhammad's death, the Quran was compiled by his companions who wrote down and memorized parts of it.[14] These codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthman's codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran known today. There are, however, variant readings, with mostly minor differences in meaning.[13]
Yet according to Wikipedia the following has been said "According to the traditional narrative, several companions of Muhammad served as scribes and were responsible for writing down the revelations.[13] Shortly after Muhammad's death, the Quran was compiled by his companions who wrote down and memorized parts of it.[14] These codices had differences that motivated the Caliph Uthman to establish a standard version now known as Uthman's codex, which is generally considered the archetype of the Quran known today. There are, however, variant readings, with mostly minor differences in meaning.[13]
If this video is wrong which it could be please let us know and before all you Lefties start saying this anti Islam NO it is not I am just asking answers or clarification hopefully a Muslim Scholar will read this and give me answers, because the establishment is burying its head in the sand over the issue of Islam
Monday, April 03, 2017
Seasalter Again
Great Weather here at my Static in Seasalter Kent. The
unique thing about Seasalter there is next to nothing here.
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| Val at Seasalter |
I used to come here
with my parents in the 1950/60’s and they would not see any difference if they
returned today, not many places that you could say that. Once again there was
something else from the past that has not changed that is a farm between
Teynham and Conyer. They have a field of Chicken, Ducks and Quail and you
purchased the eggs using an honesty box. Free Range eggs at a reasonable price
and the Duck Eggs are delicious.
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In Whitstable we stopped at Café/Pub to have a coffee when a
middle aged women walks in with bike leans it against a table talks to some
other women then asks the Staff to look after her bike while she goes shopping.
I hope other establishments don’t start using this craze. Mind you it reminded
me of an incident some 30 years ago when I had a bar at the rear of our Martial
Arts Club in Sittingbourne. A drinker of the Club Bar shall we call him Lenny
was known to use exotic tobacco, one day he rode his bike around the bar and
left saying to my Father (Nobby) where’s Terry a reference to the TV series
Minder, customers just looked open mouthed. Needless to say we had to put a
sign up NO VEHICLES ALLOWED IN THE BAR just in case he turned up on a motorbike
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