I would say she was the hairiest, but she is so small I probably have more hair on my head than that dog has on its entire body. The Inn prides itself on being pet friendly as well so it was nice to see our wedding party taking advantage. Jolie was fussed over only just a tiny bit less than the bride but not much. The woman holding said object is Tracy Johnson who is the Dodge’s bespoke jewerly designer of choice.

More pics from the wedding, and far more to come, can be found at the wedding blog.

Today is the anniversary of that event, sixty-three years ago, subesequently lauded as the “Longest day” and the “greatest seaborne invasion ever carried out” and immortalised in numerous Hollywood movies. It is also the day that enormous numbers of men on both sides gave their lives in the fight to preserve democracy on the one hand, and the ideology of a dictator on the other. Both where fighting for something they believed would give their children a better future than the one they had had.

The decades leading to this war had seen the hope of peace and prosperity carried home by the returning soldiers of the victorious allies wrecked by the greed of the moneyed and political classes on all sides. Investment in decidedly shaky financial projects and using “borrowed” money saw the financial markets crash in 1929 leading to the great depression with millions of soldiers who had fought in the first war now deprived of livelihood and oif whatever small savings they may have managed to invest somewhere. It also saw the rise of the “great social experiment” with Socialism in many different guises promising these same impoverished men and women a “new dawn” and security. A promise that it could not then, and cannot now, deliver. Not without penalising enterprise and strangling personal choice by means of centralised control of the economy of every nation and the suppression of all ambition among all but the ruling political elite.

And the first thing all Socialists, whether on the Left or the Right do, is to infiltrate the media and the organs of the State so that they can manipulate the sources of information. That is precisely why so many of the German people supported Hitler. The schools taught nothing but his poisoned vision of history and social order, they invented a new “elite” religion, based on Humanism for their faithful and promoted its mantras and created legends as the “new” truth.
They took control of broadcasting and of the media through their agents and supporters and used these to tell only the message they wanted spread. In the absence of any alternative source for the vast majority, they could believe only what their press, radio, films and schools told them. A ready made army of defenders for the “new” order.

Any of this sound familiar? It should, the Labour Party and its various Socialist organs have been doing this to our organs of government, the press and the other media ever since they gerrymandered their way to power in 1944. They were not even prepared to wait until the war had been won, so they could cosy up to their great hero Joseph Stalin and share in the great vision of “International Socialism”. A doctrine responsible for every war in the twentieth century and which will, ultimately, see the demise of Western civilisation in the twenty-first. One which even the collapse of the great “Soviet” experiment has not taught them does not work.

I doubt very much that the men who gave their lives in that first step towards the liberation of both Europe and the German people from the clutches of Hitler and his propagandists ever envisaged their children and grandchildren having to deal with a determined and equally ideologically dangerous movement seeking to take control of the “free” nations of Europe. As you remember these men today, think deeply on how much of your life is now dictated by the Politically Correct mantras that bombard us daily. Think about how these have impacted on religion, on our concept of nationhood, on our freedom of speech – and remember the tyranny our fathers and grandfathers fought to overthrow. Our next great war will be to reclaim our freedom from Whitehall – or to suppinely surrender it to the Dictat of the Politically Correct tyrants who have usurped power and taken control of every aspect of our political and administrative process.

Consider the sacrifice of D-Day carefully – then look at what we have left of their dream. Once you strip away the veneer of prosperity, you soon discover that we are teetering on the brink of a precipice. A precipice which will see our much vaunted “democratic system” tumble into oblivion if we allow these ideologically driven power grabbers to continue to dictate their prejudices as the “new” morality.

Socialism is a bankrupt political concept. It always was and it always will be. It has many guises, but the proof is always in the eating, the only way it can be made to work is by the creation of a “ruling class” of ideologues who keep themselves and their heirs in place by means of tight control of access to jobs, education, earnings and positions of influence – and the creation of a network of spies and police powers to ensure they cannot be challenged. Couldn’t happen in Britain? It already has, courtesy Blair and his cronies. It is disguised as “fairness”, “Equality”, “Minority Rights” and a plethora of new names – but it means in short, that a small group now have the power to exclude those they don’t like and promote those who are their supporters and funders.

That is not what D-Day’s fallen fought to preserve. Take a long look at the society that has crept into being – it would make those old soldiers weep for their loss.

Now its probably rare to read the word cool and medical news in the same sentence but I think this development is rather cool to be honest. Anything that makes things more efficient, safer and more secure is good advancement by me. One does not have to look far on either side of the Atlantic to see large scale problems with technology in the medical field whether you are in a small state like Maine or a country like the UK. The amount of data and people using system leads to a myriad of headaches, complications and set-backs.

The new technology that I find so interesting is a MedicScan which does as much as possible to eliminate human error and fallibility. Now we all know that nothing will completely eliminate human foul-ups but when it comes to the medical field it always good to strive for perfection. Their description of the product makes for interesting reading

MedicScan is a medical card scanner and software package. Medicscan dramatically improves the efficiency and productivity of your current operations and reduces human errors by automating the archiving process and transferring images of medical cards into patients electronic forms.

Quite sensibly the software allows for a variety of formats to maximise the intergration of the product to existing set-ups.

One has to remember that things that are developed for the medical profession and their high standards will eventually become the standard for all such systems. It will be interesting to see how this develops.