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Hay Fever

My bouts of hay fever started about 5-6 years ago. They make me feel like a wimp. If I don't take the cetirizine tablets then my nose runs like a tap, my eyes, ears and throat sting, and I feel miserable. If I take the tablets it feels as if I have influenza, probably because the anti-histamine allows my skin to feel every touch. The eyes still sting, my tinnitus rise by several orders of magnitude and I feel miserable. It's a lose - lose situation.

Why does this happen? I'm too old to suddenly acquire new afflictions. Little has really changed in my environment. Could I blame George Bush again? Please let it be so. He needs to take the blame for all the world's failings.

Michael Jackson possibly got the better verdict. I'm not sure. He is now on his own. If it's true that he owes $200 million then questions need to be asked. It is clear that he is not really of this world, but lives within his own juvenile paradise, so why did his advisors, accountants and bankers allow him to build up so much debt? Many years ago Mohammed Ali arrived in London. His entourage numbered 130 people. What were all those people doing? Today they are like the fleas who are now leaping from Mike Tyson's dressing gown. It's probably the same with Jackson, who sems to be surrounded by sycophants, all of whom are looking for a handout. His whole life has been spent surrounded by those who allegedly took care of his every need. If they have let him face such debts then someone should whack their backsides.

Another American icon who faced trouble was the housemother Martha. She had more sense than Jackson, but made the huge mistake of challenging the folk who really control America, and so paid a price. Perhaps she will now continue to try to break the eggshell of complacency that allows corruption and crime that seems to lie beneath the smooth exterior that America presents to the world. Or will she continue to tell working-class folk that their world can become a better place with a few bits and bobs, that she can supply.

posted by Suffolk Notes @ 8:11 am