Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

At 05:28 AM 12/28/2007, Michael Roberts wrote:

>The thing I like about Janice's posts is that she can tell me what
>is happening here in Britain. Despite the fact that barn conversions
>are very common where I live in the Lancashire countryside (several
>applications get put in our parish mag every month) I didnt know
>about this, and none of the barn owners told me about it as the
>topic often comes up. ~ Michael

@ Thank you. But your problem is easy to solve - you just need to
get out in the real world (where there are consequences for screw-ups) more.

"Bats are highly protected in Britain and it is illegal to disturb
bats or bat roosts. However, it is recognised that they can sometimes
be a nuisance and a local licenced Bat Warden can help. Before any
building or other work is done where bats are roosting, you must ask
a bat warden for advice by law. http://www.dbg.me.uk/dbgfaq.htm

On an ominous side note to some: New Scientist: Bat testicles
decrease in size as brain size increases, and vice versa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1536742/posts

>During the past few years you have told me all sorts of things about
>europe I didnt know about. Is there any chance that you could get a
>job to publicise all these silly things of which both the British
>and continental populations are ignorant of? ~ Michael

@ I already do it for free as a public service to those who are "in
the dark" (ignorant) on may important matters because they restrict
their exposure to what ever news their gate-keepers decide is
important for them to "know" (it must fit the a priori template or
it's not worth knowing). It's kind of sad, really, but they are just
like the narrow-minded scientists K. Emmanuel at MIT talked about:
[they in academia] "suffer from the kind of group-think that develops
in cloistered cultures. Until this profound and well documented
intellectual homogeneity changes, scientists will be suspected of
constituting a leftistthink-tank."

If your gate keepers have notified you of these developments below,
they will also have told you how you must think about them so as not
to be an outcast among your group-think friends:

Jack Straw to change self-defence laws . Comment #6:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942151/posts?page=6#6
[refresh browser]

UK: Vicars told not to wear dog collars in public as it makes them a
target for muggers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907838/posts

Jack Straw: Anti-[light-in-the-loafers] comments could cost you seven
years in jail.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908255/posts

U.K.: Riot police storm pub after a smoker lights up in protest to the ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911313/posts

U.K.: Patients turn to DIY dentistry as the crisis in NHS care
deepens (National Health Service)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911309/posts

U.K.: NHS Rationing 'Leads To Patient Deaths' (National Health Service)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901969/posts

One-Eyed Deaf Driver, 82, Tows Trailer At 88mph
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1914230/posts

Here's more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=england
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=uk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=greatbritian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=unitedkingdom

~ Janice

>This is the sort of "bad situation" that always arises when the
>__central ("GEEZE! It worked on paper!") planners__ get the chance
>to put their utopian ideas to work in the "real" world inhabited by
>"real" people:
>
>"..To convert a barn into a house in Britain today you must survey
>it for bats before you apply for permission to convert. The bat
>survey must be done by an "accredited" bat group and only in the
>summer months. Guess what? Bat groups are very busy in the summer
>and charge very high fees. If the survey says there are rare bats in
>the building you may be refused permission to convert; as it turns
>out, the bats, not you, own the building. So what happens? People
>respond to incentives. Most barn owners resent and detest bats. I'm
>told playing Wagner at full volume clears a building of bats in
>short order. A simple scheme of small tax rebates for owners of
>barns who add bat-roosting boxes to their houses would achieve good
>will as well as bat babies. But it would not make paid work for bat groups.
>
>

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Received on Fri Dec 28 12:33:33 2007