It seems when everything is going right, things go wrong. My previous blog, containing vitriol, sarcasm and cynicism, skewed off into a publishing nightmare (due to this fool's lack of editing skills.)Hope most of it came out OK. I'll be back.
Posts archive for: 22 October, 2006
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Clickonnews: Comment on the news
@ 2006-10-22 – 20:18:20
I've always wanted a fancy website where I could comment on the news from a layman's perspective. Guess I'm not important enough and I certainly cannot afford a fancy site! But the spirit moves me and I have to say, as a layman again, that I shake my head at some news stories that, whether blown out of proportion or not, are closer to the truth than the idiots out there who make the news. I shall attempt to give an overview, once weekly, on the stories making the news and I shall comment in my usually cynical, ascerbic way. I'm certainly no Adam Boulton but then again I don't have to be as cautious as him.
Some of the stories that jogged my irritable bowel:
*** It seems Kim Howells and Des Browne appear to have different agendas when it comes to Iraq. Howells says the troops will be out in 12 months; Browne says they are committed to seeing it out. The camel dung is likely to hit the Whitehall air-conditioning soon, but I fear they are both wrong: The way things are going in Basra, Amarra and Kirkuk, the troops could be home by Christmas. I am deadly serious that we are going to have to leave quite soon chums! It isa ghastly, deadly unwinnable war.
s about to launch its new English channel soon. It is a coup for AJ that the likes of David Frost and Darren Jordon, amongst others, are already on board. AJ has been too controversial in the past due to its grisly exclusives on beheaded kidnapees and Al Quaeda news releases. The new channel should show AJ in a better light although I have to admit that the station has, apart from the aforementioned exposes, been pretty upmarket in its reporting.
***Speaking of AlJazeera, it was reported today on that channel, that a senior State Department official, Alberto Fernandez, had said, quote, that " the United States has shown 'arrogance' and 'stupidity' in Iraq. Reuters did not say much more but this cynical blogger feels these comments are long overdue.
The "Brains Trust" of Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, seems incapable of seeing the big picture in a cheap Texan oil painting so why would they see the big picture in Iraq? Let's face it, these guys know how to point a gun and extract oil from granite but fighting wars is more than that: You have to win people over--and that means with simple things like TVs and lights that work (electricity, of course), and that showers and taps work (water, of course), and, most importantly, that you can visit your local market to buy potatoes and squashes and mutton to make your evening meal, without being blown to Kingdom come by a suicide bomber. Can this "Brains Trust" guarantee these things? These people are arrogant and stupid (oh, Fernandez said that), and completely out of touch.
my blood pressure by saying that too many people (including myself, though I'm small fry), have commented on the veil issue. Let us take David Cameron's and Trevor Phillips' advice and can it. For God's sake, if Britain is going to be the most multi-cultural country in the World then it must accept that and accept cultural differences. We should thank God we have peaceful Muslims in Britain because there are Somali and Nigerian thugs (to name some of the riff-raff), who are being let loose on us with crime methods we can only dream about. If you dispute this, ask for statistics!
I've said enough for now, but next week I'm going to comment on Yobs, football thugs and the "Onslow Factor".
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