Getting ready to run?

clipped from www.nytimes.com Obama Says a Way Out of Afghanistan Is Needed WASHINGTON — The United States must look for a way out of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said, in a signal that the military build-up in Afghanistan will not be open-ended and will lead to the eventual withdrawal of American and NATO troops from the country.

200 years of misadventure in the Himalayan Mountains and politicians suddenly knew better. Why do we trust them? Because we are still lions led by donkeys.

Monday morning

Chief Whip orders 'idle' MPs to pull their weight. Chief Whip Nick Brown set out plans for a quota system to prevent hard-working MPs from shouldering the workload of colleagues. Well done Nick Brown, but for the inept former Minister of Agriculture (remember his dismal performance during the Foot and Mouth epidemic?) this is too little too late.

Exclusive: Sex scandal MP Nigel Griffiths in battle to save marriage. SEX scandal MP Nigel Griffiths was last night desperately trying to save his 30-year marriage. In 2002, a Commons standards committee found he had been claiming £10,000 a year expenses, since 1997, for rent on an Edinburgh office that he owned outright. Griffiths also failed to disclose a £227,000 fortune left to him by his late father. A stout Labour man!!!!

Sicko No 2

clipped from www.thesun.co.uk A DRIVING instructor has been dubbed the sickest man in Britain after he disappeared with a blind soldier’s charity cash.

The truth in Ulster

After the murders in Ulster and the disgraceful display of irreverence to the Anglican Regiment I am pointing all readers into the path of an excellent article by the Telegraph journalist Simon Heffer. I have taken one passage to whet your appetite and sit back in inglorious satisfaction of knowing that I have been saying precisely this since I last visited the Province in 1989.

Because of the humiliation to moderate Unionists of the endless stream of concessions – which amounted to the de-Britannicising of the province, and the inclusion of supposedly retired gangsters in local government – the Official Unionists were all but wiped out. So too were the SDLP, the constitutional nationalists, because they could not match Sinn Fein's success in extracting these concessions from a Chamberlainite government. This left politics polarised between the bigots of the Democratic Unionists and the terrorists of IRA/Sinn Fein. That, too, was a massive achievement of this Government. Then, unlike in any other part of the Kingdom, there is local administration by power-sharing. If it is so good, why isn't it tried at Westminster? Why isn't Mr Cameron deputy prime minister? Why isn't Mr Clegg in the Cabinet?

The real face of British Muslims

The hate mongers are out to greet the Anglicans.
Only a day after Hazel Blears announced new incitement charges, the inept police in Luton allowed disgraceful demonstations against the brave and loyal Anglican Regiment. The only arrests made seem to be with those spectators who took offence at this shameful disregard of a brave body of soldiers.
The BBC seem not to want to cover the story.
Only recently they would not publish ablog on the Daily Politics programme because this author reminded the nation that it were Muslims who were committing mass murder in London and 3200 known incidents have been reported of plans to create more devastation and mayhem.

New IRA, new atrocity

Brown condemns N Ireland killings

Gordon Brown: "The whole country is shocked and outraged"

Gordon Brown has condemned an attack on an army base in Northern Ireland which killed two soldiers.

Four other people were also injured when gunmen struck at Massereene army base in County Antrim, 16 miles north of Belfast, on Saturday night.

The prime minister described the attack as "evil" and said "no murderer" would derail the peace process.

The IRA murders again. For all those who have lived and served in that wonderful part of this once great nation, this is not surprising.

Having listened to the utterances of McGuiness and Adams since September 1969 I have only one question for all those who think the troubles are over, what did you expect?

The validity of IRA republicanism lost all credibility when the Free State President, Éamon de Valera, executed IRA henchmen as they were perceived then as a threat to Irish sovereignty. They have practise and rehearsed their slant on the truths so that in Republican papers this murderous attack will soon be a British suicide gone hopelessly correct. As long as Adams and McGuiness draw unearned monies from Westminster and subsequently from the 300.000 plus men and women who served in the Province, then there is little chance of any good happening in Ulster.

On the morning after another atrocity I will make this pronouncement. Tomorrow, those murdering cowards of this new IRA will be standing in queues waiting for handouts from the British public in the guise of dole money. Your and my taxes are being used to subsidise terrorism whether it is from the 8^th century Muslim community or the anti-establishment Catholic bigots. In a Democracy the majority has the right to say no to these outrages. If McGuiness and Adams want my money then they should do something to earn it. Being elected on pure dogma is not enough. Not accepting democratic principles is sufficient to have themselves debarred from politic because their method of political indoctrination should be buried along with the murderous antics of Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Moa Tse Tung and the mad Mullahs of the Middle East.

While much is being said, there is much that is being avoided. The Kennedy Knighthood is a slap for all loyalists and again those who stood on the barricades in warring Ulster. Shahid Malek still holds the competence of this corrupt Government, even when his words are seen as seditious and insulting to those of us who were actually involved in the historical events; woe betide any Englishman who dare public castigate this rotten dilution of a once great tribe.

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Labour dithers over Pensions...Well, never!!!

The obscenity of this debate is that we have to listen to newly sainted, Prescottesque, Labour Politicians dictating on what ought to happen with one man’s pension. Just because I am one of thousands who had my pension stolen by a Labour Government does not mean I wish that fate to fall on someone who, in reality, does not deserver a pension at all. But while we reward the likes of Mandelson, Hain, Alexander, Plunkett et al with positions of power and unwarranted responsibility, we shall all suffer.

Instead of the Government screaming about something they brought about, they ought to be getting rid of those intellectually corrupt who cemented their own positions before doing their jobs. The prime architect of this fiasco whose fingerprints are all over this mess is Gordon Brown. British Bankers, much lauded by the British Political Intelligentsia, deemed to be not responsible for the Death of British Banking, should be marched onto Horse Guards and shot while their political allies should be barred for life from public office. The very same Quangoes who oversaw this disaster should have been put on a barge on the Thames and sent into the dawn in eternal Flames of Damnation.

Those who voted for this legion of inadequates ought to be made to do Public Service on top of their natural jobs; not that any of them work at all: and be made to repeat that forgotten Kennedy speech… “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

What is most disconcerting is that decades of political correctness have allowed the country to be flooded with Labour supporters who have no concept of British fairness, equality or rights.

Only this week, this Government spent another fortune in fetching to this country an alien who could and possibly was a volunteer in the fight against those very rights some of us have fought to protect. Yet again this week a Victoria Cross holder speaks out, and in tune with Notareargunner, on the disgraceful treatment of sick former soldiers. In one of the numerous TV police programmes I witnessed a policeman dealing with a mentally ill former serviceman with no respect, no compassion and definitely no understanding because his life had fallen into alcohol overuse. Has everyone forgotten the maxim, there but for the grace of…?

All I ask is for decent governance. I have no brook with a political philosophy or political aspirations. What I want is a word to mean what it says. If a Government can take from the very people who protect them their entitlements of pension and health treatment, then they can, at the stroke of a pen, reclaim all the monies that we are now being forced to pay to correct this inept Governments’ lack of probity and decency.