My, oh my….There’s still no cure for our political burgoo…the hokey, pokey, jokey,tokey, cokey continues to bubble as the bitter spices blend. All that unsaid stuff bubbling just below the surface …like how each side always used a form of political violence in the past and just might use it again ,given the right circumstances and the right connections; how the connections within the political parties with men of violence runs on through generations and both their communities..Our First minister employing the daughter , Emma Pengally {nee} Little ,of an old gun-running friend of his from his old glory days of Ulster Resistance ,as a “Special Advisor”…. like the nearly unsaid facts and figures as to why young Protestant men are low- achievers in education compared to their Catholic counterparts. Everyone talks circles around that one. You might call it all a balance of power…like buying nuclear weapons that you hope will never be used ….. Never used? Our ministers have made “never using” and “never doing” into a sublime artform.They call it a Government Of Doing Nothing At All. Some say that there is a glimmer of a resolution glowing in darkened corner. After the temper -tantrums and the huffing some compromise might be hollowed out if a parcel of words can release the DUP from the pot of sticky jam they dived into . I suppose the Chief Constable could issue some vague and wooly statement that he misread the smoke- signals and shouldn’t have said anything about the IRA in the first place.There are doubtless plans afoot in the cellars of Westminster to replace him with someone with a firmer button on his lip.
Some are wondering in which dusty box Our Great Leader found the unused “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” or “Yes Minister” unused script that he has his DUP party currently parlaying as an ongoing pantomime serial- comedy . We’ve already had our Health Minister setting a record of something like six resignations and resignings-ons in a mere few weeks. We are now expecting a large Terry Gilliam cartoon -foot to come stomping down from the heavens to crush our Stormont government underfoot and literally stamp an exclamation mark on the joke as the silver- band music parps up in jollity and the titles begin to roll at the end of the show.. Who knew that that dour-faced Peter Robinson was a Monty Python fan? Not me.
Thankfully someone out there beyond this benighted land is actually doing something rational and positive for the world and Norneverland .They have finally cured cancer and they have also discovered that the human lineage split from the chimpanzees about 10 million years ago.The Flat -Earthers of Creationism had put the date at a lowly 6000 years or less. Then again , time moves at a different speed in this Land of the Lost so their figures might jive with that interpretation.
That’s good to hear isn’t it? Curing cancer and that? If you get cancer , you might survive just as long as you are not on one of those Norneverland ,three- year-long, hospital waiting lists for treatment. If you are …don’t read any further.
Apparently there is a Brazilian wasp whose venom is able to efficiently destroy cancer cells. Now wasps are not my favourite creatures , being my honeybees feared nemesis, but I’ll give these guys a pass if they can cure cancer.You’ll understand already , no doubt , that bee venom and wasp venom are actually two very different compounds . These Brazilians wasps are quite dangerous, but the venom they secrete has the capacity to kill cancerous cells while leaving the healthy ones alone.A scientific team from a Brazilian university have explained that an experimental drug made from the venom binds with the tumour cells and causes the loss of some key molecules. More study is needed on humans to examine whether or not it is one hundred per cent safe but I’d imagine if the choice was as stark as death by cancer or meeting the Great Reaper after being stung by a particularly virulent wasp, there might be a few volunteers for experimentation …all queuing up in neat lines in Norneverland .
The wasp in question might not be wholly welcome in any other circumstance . It’s called Polybia paulista and is a particularly aggressive type of stinging insect. In Sao Paulo State University , Doctor Joao Ruggiero Neto made the discovery how wasp venom destroys cancer cells. Something in the venom binds with molecular fats burning a lattice of holes which causes the cell to lose function. That’s the problem with chemo-treatment .It destroys good and bad at the same time . This kind of sting might make more sense.
Now if only someone could come up with a cure for bigotry and bullshit we might feel like we’re making some kind of progress. Curing cancer might be the easier option than curing the hatred being taught and cultivated from birth here in the homes of Norneverland.
Wasps have been meeting in a secluded village outside Belfast, well it is 1000 kms outside Belfast, in eastern Europe. The wasps have convened a meeting in the village of Ephing in order to deal with bees back in Ireland. Apparently Ephing bees do not sting rendering the need for smoke screens and other protective clothing surplus to requirements. The Ephing police service consists of an Ephing Sergeant and three Ephing constables. The Ephing Police Service have no problem policing Ephing bees.
Plans are at an advanced stage to construct an apiary on the former Long Kesh site in order to provide six colonies for eurosocial bees. Smokers will be welcome in any of the colonies and secondment procedures are in place in order to employ sufficient Ephing apiary officers given plans to move half of the Ephing bee population into the north of Ireland.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs has lodged official complaints on foot of information from an Ephing mole about the possibility of an outbreak of foulbrood in the the south of Ireland. Concerns have also been raised about the proliferation of common wasps during the summer months as venom from wasp stings may result in hyperpersensitive reactions throughout the country.
The Secretary of State’s comment on the Ephing initiative was a clear and unambiguous, “Maybe.”
That Effing ..er Epfhing foulbrood is one bugger ,Iolar . I used to treat the bees in autumn but i’m tending to go the whole organic way these days , leave them alone as much as possible and hope for the best !
Your only problem, Harry, is that you are preaching to the converted. The fundamentalists that you are trying to reach and hopefully influence, do not read educated blogs like this. In fact they do not read at all.
Naw fiosrach ..i’m not trying to influence anybody . As you say there are fewer and fewer readers out there anyway and in another generation there’ll be very few who will actually know how to hold a pen and write .They mightn’t even know what a pen used to be in a few years . This bit of scripting is purely for the amusement of my own good self, Jude and the few of us out there who like to laugh very loudly when the news comes on the television.
interesting news about this wasp – haven’t seen it in the papers over here but if its venom can kill cancerous cells then let the research begin! having been stung by a few (not that particular type) in my time, I’m not a big fan but everything has its use doesn’t it?
is there an animal or plant that might be useful to come up with a cure for bullheadedness? that I would like to see!
It is actually true Sarah…but you know me…I just might have made it all up! Keep watching the skies….
I don’t think we need to worry much more about Stormont ministers not being in post – they have been told if they are marked absent they will lose money.
People may have negative estimations of the grey matter of DUP politicians, but when it comes to making or losing money, they are among the sharpest tools in the box.
Apparently we will hear later this week the report from the ‘independent’ Three Stooges telling us what the Chief Con (I think that’s more appropriate than Constable) considers the status of the IRA is.
But this report was in all likelihood written by the NIO before our esteemed panel was even appointed, and it will have nice soothing words to cover the red faces of the DUP who jumped at the wrong time in the wrong direction, but are now anxious to jump back in the Stormont door so they lose no more of their lovely lolly!
Sorry there is no money in the cure of cancer but lots of loot in the treatment of it. If some of these charities would focus on what causes cancer and not simply lopping off someone’s breast then I would think they are genuine.