Joomla vs Wordpress??

As the title states I have the question of which CMS to use.

Now I obviously have this website as a Wordpress site but I have also used Joomla before and I know the power that CMS software has, it just takes a helluva lot to configure it and get it useable.

So I was wondering what everybody else out there thought and I’d like to give you the opportunity to persuade me one way or the other.

Post a comment below and I’ll take it into account before finalising my decision.

Cheers for now

Tax payers pay for spiritual well being in hospitals!

The UK tax payer pays $40 million a year for the spiritual well being of patients regardless of religion. There’s Muslim and Christian to name 2 but a few more are available and there is anywhere up to 6 chapels per hospital.

Now don’t get me wrong as I believe everybody has a right to religion no matter what that religion may be but do you honestly believe that I should have to pay for it. I’m not a church going person nor am I anti any specific religion but can you tell me that there is any self respecting Christian or Muslim that feels good about paying money towards any other religion whether they like it or not?

In England we have a major row going on about the British National Party (a political party that believes England for the English first and foremost) are now racist because they want to crack down on illegal immigration and unwanted nationals who are already in England. In this day and age when certain nations enforce their way of life upon their visitors and get away with it in the name of religion or historical right and England can’t stand up for itself without being called racist or anti everybody else.

An excerpt from the UK Border Agency posted 24 February 2009:

“In the three months to December last year, there were 29,000 applications from workers from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia and the Czech Republic – down from 53,000 in the same period in 2007. The decrease is mainly explained by a drop in approved Polish applicants, which fell to 16,000 in the last quarter of 2008 from 36,000 in the same period in 2007.”

Here we have a perfect example. The NHS (National Health Trust) is the main reason for half the immigrants that come here from Eastern Europe and Asia as it is a free health care. This has caused a massive strain on the limited resources that the NHS has and has resulted in long waiting time for some treatments and operations. On top of this they foot the bill to the tune of £40 Million (+$65 Million) which I believe could be better spent on resources to help ease the strain caused by the mass in flood of immigrants. This could pay the salaries for a much needed additional 1,500 nurses and then some.

An excerpt from the Guardian article posted April 2008:

“Net immigration has added 1.5 million people to the population over the last 10 years. Two-thirds of them have come from the continents of Asia and Africa. People born overseas account for about 10% of the UK population of 60.6m.”

Please don’t get me wrong on this subject either as I was an immigrant in South Africa myself but I have chosen to return to England as this is my place of birth and if migration wasn’t allowed we wouldn’t have the mixture of communities we do have to day all over the world.

Where my gripe is is with people who migrate to another country and then make demands on that country to include all aspects of their way of life into the host country whilst back in their home country they oppress and murder the migrants of their host country. This has even gone so far as to ensure that they can openly practise religion whilst oppressing other religions, expecting special treatment with regards their beliefs and eating habits, and get this, they’re now pushing to try and have some of their “Religious beliefs” incorporated into the UK’s government operations.

As all country men and women feel about their country, so I feel about mine. My family history runs back to the medieval times and I have a strong sense of patriotism welling up inside of me but believe we can live together if we respect the country to which we are not nationals.

Gordon Ramsay gets roasted down under!

Yes you’ve read it right, once again the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay opened his mouth and out came the usual slander and profanity that is the main reason for me not watching this chef nor the likes of Marco Pierre White from Hells kitchen fame.

These two chefs seem to get of lashing out at innocent celebs and average Joe’s and Jane’s. It can’t be excused when used in the reality TV show scenario even though the celebs signed up for the program I bet they aren’t too keen to have abuse hurled at them by some over egotistical celeb chef who would still be in the darkest corner of a kitchen had it not been for reality TV.

This brings us to the incident that prompted me to write this article.

Gordon Ramsay compared Tracy Grimshaw (an Australian journalist and Channel 9 TV presenter) to a pig and called her a lesbian. Gordon showed a photo of Tracy to an audience at the Good Food and Wine Show in Melbourne of a naked woman on all fours with a hogs faced and claimed “That’s Tracy Grimshaw”. He further added that the picture was “Off and offensive”.

Gordon unleashed this tirade to the food shows’ 3,000 strong audience the day after she interviewed him and afterwards called him “an arrogant narcissistic bully”. I think she was a little lenient and could have been a bit more brutal and honest. In my opinion he suffers from numerous phobias, one being Athazagoraphobia – Fear of being ignored or forgotten. There are many more phrases and phobias I could throw at Gordon Ramsay but as he’s never going to retaliate it’s not worth the effort.

The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, also got involved and exclaimed that Gordon was ‘new form of lowlife’

Just who do these celebrity chefs think they are?

I’m glad to have gotten this off my chest and I feel better for it but if you want to know more about the whole story you can search the web with your favourite search engine and find half a dozen other articles and videos on the subject.