Here's an interesting quiz, more challenging than the usual. Are your beliefs about God rationally consistent? Apparently mine are, although I do believe something that most people would find unjustifiable (that She can do things that are logically impossible).

But then, I believe that I can do things that are logically impossible too!

Oh boo hoo, my heart bleeds:

From the BBC

Forces housing 'must be improved'

The government has acknowledged more needs to be done to improve housing for the armed forces following criticism of conditions by a senior army officer.

Adjutant-general Lt Gen Freddie Viggers condemned cramped and decaying living quarters in barracks, saying soldiers and their families deserved better.

Defence Minister Derek Twigg said he accepted accommodation was "not perfect" and improvements were needed.

But shadow defence secretary Liam Fox said more commitment needs to be shown.

Dr Fox claimed "people were beginning to leave the Armed Forces because they feel they will get a better standard of living outside".

"We don't seem to be making the commitment to them as they are making to us. There seems to be something fundamentally wrong there," Dr Fox said.

His comments on BBC News 24 came after Conservative leader David Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government should be doing more and that the Tories planned to announce a "manifesto for forces families" addressing issues such as housing and education.

Gen Viggers, in charge of the welfare of British soldiers, became the second senior officer to speak out publicly on the issue after BBC News received photographs showing cracked walls, mildew and broken pipes in barracks.

"The issue we have is that there is still too much accommodation which is of a poor standard, which is old, and which is not modern in the way it's fitted for families," Gen Viggers said.

"It's a key issue in what we call the military covenant - giving our soldiers and their families what they deserve in return for that they do for us."

And there's more and more and more (yawn).

What gets me about this is that, like the 'death penalty for cop-killers' debate, there are certain categories of people who are seen as being better/more worthy than the rest of us because they choose to risk their lives in return for excellent wages, various perks and fantastic pensions. Of course, there are people who risk their lives for none of these things, but I don't hear any calls for excellent housing conditions for Peace Brigades International.

Why are soldiers more deserving of decent housing than nurses, doctors etc? I can tell you from experience that nurses' homes are often the pits. The other option for healthworkers is rented accomodation, and that is often far worse than the pictures the BBC shows. But you know what we tend to do? We clean it and mend it.

So why don't health workers, with their crappy wages and rapidly eroding pensions, deserve a 'healthcare covenant'?

But let's hope that young men take a look at the 'squalor' they will be expected to live in (sorry, but I've been around a bit) and decide it's not worth signing up. No army means no wars: unless the MPs get off their arses and fight for what they 'believe' in. Though one has to wonder what kind of people we have invading other countries defending our country when they aren't even hard enough to cope with a bit of fungus.

Hmmm, I seem to be back....