August, 2024

If today’s exchange between Pat and me seems sort of sudden starty,  that’s because I was briefly called away and instead of hitting Pause I hit End. That said, there are still all sorts of goodies for your weekend.  No one will say it, but could it be that Kamala Harris is a light-weight centre […]

  Donald Trump disgusts me and presents as a 96 CARAT TURD.   The Democrat Convention in Chicago, if anything, smells worse.   The Democrats support the destruction of infants in the womb. Scores of millions of innocents of these have perished in the US in the last half century.   And more children in […]

 I have just returned from Karbala in Iraq. I was attending the 3rd International Conference of the Call of Al Aqsa subtitled From the Battle of Karbala to the Flood of Al Aqsa ,The triumph of Will over Tyranny. The international delegation included representatives from South Africa, West Asia and people from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon. […]

As you’ve probably noticed, there’s a Democratic Party Convention going on in Chicago at the moment. Last night’s star speakers were Barack and Michelle Obama, before that we had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. They all gave speeches with varying degrees of energy. They all also spoke in the main using empty meaningly phrases. […]

    Recently, I was challenged by a friend to concentrate more on the future than on the past. So here is a first response to that challenge.  The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 offered all the citizens of this country a way out of the violent system established by Partition in 1920. It offers […]

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  And so yet another UUP leader bids us farewell: Doug Beattie, a fighting man, gives up fighting people in his party. Has Gaza traumatised us all? Have we accommodated its horror in our lives, the way a Nazi concentration camp guard might have gone home at the end of the day and played with […]