The Middle East

Iraq has now fallen into turmoil because of Islamic Extremists, first they call themselves ISIS now IS (Islamic State) just who do these people think they are, the guy from Cardiff tweeting that he has been watching the killing of captives, and admitting to atrocities himself!, beheading people, shooting them, raping women how can this be in the name of religion??, we sit here in this country merrily going along not giving the possibilities of what this just might mean for the UK a thought when these men slip back into the country, radicalised a massive hatred of the West especially the USA and of course the UK, they will always be a danger to us as they do not care a jig for us, after all we are a Christian country, look what is happening in Iraq today Christians having to run for their lives on pain of death, and a usual ultimatum of become a Muslim or die!, really a very nice group of people, now the West is looking at the possibility of suicide bombers making the possibility of death for people in Syria, Iraq and Israel the hated enemy of all these bigots, this country has fought many wars to allow freedom of speech and movement now we have a faction in this world who wants to take us back in development to the dark ages, is it time to wake up to this threat to our society? or are we going to bury our heads in the sand, if this is what is to happen I hope people will remember all the soldiers who died in two world wars to allow us the freedom of speech that everyone seems to be frightened to death to say what they feel, just in case they might be seen as a racist, so they keep quiet just in case.    

Gaza

I have to write again about this conflict, as I have said before what is the point of a truce when one of the sides just has to carry on the fight,  what help is this for the Palestine people?, you can't have a recognised terrorist organisation trying to force another country to accept its arguments, there is no room for negotiation just death and destruction, the people seemed to be really appreciative of the truce, went home to save what they could and to restock their food reserves, then all of a sudden someone fires a rocket into Israel and that is the end of that, just what did these maniacs think they would gain by doing this act, Israel will not give way, that is a known fact, they will carry on until they get to the position that they require, I have every sympathy with the Palestinian people, they have a right to live and to have peace, but they should never have used a terrorist organisation to obtain their ends, it is not realistic to expect these two groups to sit down round a table to make a workable truce, they can't sit in the same building let alone the same room so what is next, in reality further death and destruction  to the people of Gaza, the only way to stop it is to stop supplying weapons to both sides then they can't hurt each other but there is not a hope in hell of  this happening.

Gaza

Am I missing something here?, it seems to me that both sides are as bad as each other, one side agrees a ceasefire then the other side breaks it,often within seconds, you can't just keep lobbing rockets in to a country and not expect that that country to retaliate,my feelings are again with the innocent children what is the world coming to? it has to be accepted thatcchildren are the future of this world, it is no good feeding them with hatred against another race we all have to live together, one faction can't force it's will on another, death and destruction will carry on day after day just because pig headed people just can't sit down and work it all out once and for all, unfortunately it will not happen and the killing will carry on!!!!

Glasgow

I have been watching the Commonwealth Games on the TV,  I have been really pleasantly surprised the way the Scots have welcomed the rest of the UK to Glasgow, they can be justly proud of the support they have shown, I just wonder if this has any showing on the vote for independence, it seems that they are members of the UK the same as all of us in the joined up land that we all belong to, I just hope that the vote is to stay with the rest of us, and give that prune who has been behind this debacle a giant kick up the bum, him and his side kick, in all honesty to split would isolate Scotland, be out of Europe and worst of all be deprived of the pound, military bases would have to come back submarines would also have to come home to England, can Scotland afford to loose all of this income?, I think not the logical vote is No but logic often has no place in these things.

Ukraine

Just been looking at the pictures of the MH17, the local people hunting through the crash site, one girl put on Facebook that she was wearing eye makeup she had helped herself to from the crash site, how many more people have plundered the site?, just how sick is that?, Dutch unarmed policemen have arrived in the Ukraine but of course they can't get to the site till it is considered safe, yes OK but just what do the rebels think they are doing?, do they realise that they just might be charged with a crime against humanity in fact it is murder nothing else, they must not be allowed to hide behind "they made a mistake", that is just not good enough, I am certain that the governments of Holland and Australia will just not accept this excuse, unfortunately our standing in the World means that we seem to have no pull at all, sad that we have to rely on others in the world to deal with this problem, we will never really know just what happened in reality as the site has been totally abused and the forensics have gone with it, we shall have to see!!.

Syria

It is a great shame that the plight of the people and more specifically children in this war torn country, they are still dying, being injured, and made orphans, what is happening with the world today, so much death and destruction throughout the whole world, people dying in civilian aircraft, dying in suicide bombings , just what is the mentality of these people?, they really can't be classed as madness, it is just an evil mind no care at all about the people that they kill or maim, some have a religion! but no religion said to go and kill as many people as you can, the people who lead these believers to kill others sit in grand surroundings knowing that they are safe form destruction, others are nationalists who believe in their cause, but care little for the people who do not support them, their answer is death and destruction, we are living in a really sick world we have to hope that common sense prevails before it is to late, or is it already?.

The Comonwealth Games

I watched the opening ceremony yesterday on TV, I have to say I was rather disappointed with opening ceremony, it was not as good as I had been lead to believe, most were has been artists, and the whole thing just seemed to be a total mess, and the Scotland uniform was just a joke, blue shirts with insipid tartan kilts and shawles whoever dressed them should be thrown out on their ear, I have seen some designs in my time but this beat them all hands down.
So I wasted my time watching something that really did not entertain me at all, I just hope the closing ceremony is much better.