Sorry Saab Partitioners

The EU under Swedish leadership has demanded the partition of Jerusalem into Jewish and Arab zones. On the same basis, perhaps the French and Dutch would like to return Paris and Amsterdam to German control. After all, Germany conquered those entire cities, amongst many others, in the. 1940's. Although Germany did not make either its capital city, they were important to them as symbols of conquest and power. Perhaps half of Washington, DC should be returned to the UK, they even speak similar languages and it would be a nice conciliatory gesture on July 4. Russia may also be interested in some of the more alluring suburbs of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

In the same way, Jerusalem has never been designated as a capital of an Arab or Islamic country throughout history. There has been a Jewish connection to Jerusalem extending over 3,000 years, and whenever there was a Jewish state, Jerusalem was its capital city. There are no moral or legal grounds to rip asunder the capital of a democracy in order to achieve a political expediency to help establish what would undoubtably be a totalitarian theocracy. We have been bombarded with the phrase, "Arab East Jerusalem" as justification for this heinous act. However, the reduced Jewish presence in certain neighbourhoods is due only to the ethnic cleansing of Jews in 1948 and the destruction of 68 sysnagogues and their communities by the invading Arab Legion of Jordan.

It was the capital of a Jewish state before Sweden, Great Britain or France were ever conceived of, never mind the recent artificial creations of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Jordan.

As for Sweden, a country that makes as terrible a car as a Saab, it should not be trusted to be doing anyone any good.

Prayers with Jamie Carragher

Jamie Carrager has been praying for Liverpoo's 2010 season to turn around.

I am afraid that his prayers will be in vain. The Lord is a little busy at the moment dealing with global warming, Iran’s nuclear weapons, X Factor #1 for Xmas, etc. to worry about the lack of footballing prowess on Miseryside. In any event, we all know who the Lord supports and even though He wears a red and white scarf, it is not Liverpoo.

Introducing The Great Appeaser - Mr. Obama

December 1, 2009 will be remembered as a day of celebration for terrorists everywhere. They have won in Afghanistan. As foretold by the conduct and content of Obama’s presidential campaign and tenure, he has surrendered to terrorism and given the Taliban and their ilk a great victory by issuing NATO's surrender. The Great Appeaser has shown that he will even betray defence of his own democracy. He has already back-stabbed the democratic defenders in Honduras, the Czech Republic, Poland, Israel, China, Iran so it was only a matter of time before he crumbled for the US.

It is militarily indefensible to state a retreat date to an enemy, whether a war is over or not. The Taliban will just hold on now until 2011 and promise violence at that time upon any who deal with NATO forces in the intervening period. What a waste of effort in a war that has not been fought as a war, merely a competition for hearts and minds of tribal warlords. The Taliban have given up nothing and they have forced the US and NATO to depart from Afghanistan without waging the real war that needed to be fought. The short term surge is merely to cover the retreat.

The Great Appeaser is competing with Jimmy Carter for the position of being the best friend that terrorists have ever had in the White House.

Zaki - the one type of racist tolerated in football

Amr Zaki stated that he will not sign for Portsmouth FC of the English Premier League because they employ two Israelis - Tal Ben Haim and Avram Grant - as well as an Algerian in the form of Nadir Belhadj. Funnily enough Portsmouth is owned by an Abu Dhabi financier. However, to the point, let’s stop seeking weasel words to absolve Zaki of his hate crime. If it had been any other nationality than Israeli then he would have found no defenders for his slur. The Algerian insult is a side issue based on real actions, which was actually Egyptians attacking the Algerian team. Even before this nastiness, Zaki appeared to be reprehensible egocentric ignorant individual. He is not to be congratulated because he had the courage to spout hate in the same way that one would not admire a Nazi for speaking his “mind”.

If one really wants to look at brutal oppressors why not first go to the Organization of Islamic Countries which has 56 members, and the only one which could be considered remotely democratic is previously secular Turkey. It is not surprising that Zaki is racist coming from a country whose national broadcaster broadcasts the fabricated Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Of the UN, only 46% (88 of 192 countries) are democracies, and in the Middle East, only 1 out of 23 countries…..Israel. No misogynistic, homophobic theocracy prevents Israeli Arabs playing for the national team, or for Arabs to play in the domestic league. Contrast that to Israel having being forced to move from the Asian Football Conference to UEFA (via Oceania) because of hate.

This is not about football. Anyone with an open mind knows what this is truly about, notwithstanding the superficial self-serving distinctions made between Israel, Israelis and Jews. It is about only one hatred being allowed to fester and justified.

Nonetheless, will we see any action against Zaki? Of course not, and even if there surprisingly was, he will simply accuse a minority group of some nefarious plot and be allowed to propagate more hatred whilst being made a martyr in his homeland. Perhaps he would be more comfortable playing in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, although they used the football stadia for another purpose.

Worse to come than 9/11

On today's anniversary, the hypocrite Obama is cozying up to the terrorists' blood brothers, understanding their "root" causes and abandoning democracies in the chase for oil. What a disgraceful hypocrite, and the world is in for a very tough 3.5 years remaining whilst he lets Iran get nukes, then to be doled out to their terrorist puppets. With Obama at the helm of the free world, there are worse 9/11 attacks to come.

How not to run a city Exhibit A - David Miller of Toronto

Local unions that encompassed members who performed garbage collection duties in the City of Toronto engaged in a strike throughout the summer. Parks were used to store garbage in 30C heat and day care centres werepicketed and closed. Direction from the city's managers, acting on the alleged instructions of councillors, permitted the strikers to harass members of the public who travelled to public dumps with their garbage. Police did nothing to enforce the freedom of movement of Canadian citizens, supposedly enshrined in the Charter of Rights. Perhaps, brighter minds than mine can explain the legal basis for a civic employee instructing citizens not to exercise their right to freedom of movement. Maybe, the better minds could also explain why non-union citizens should not pass through a picket line to conduct their own affairs. Undoubtedly, the unions are free to strike, but their freedom should not impinge upon the rights of others to act freely.

The core complaint of the unions was that their members wanted to be able to bank up to 18 days of sick leave per annum until they retire. In other words, they wanted an extra 18 "vacation" days paid for every year that they worked if they had not used these days because they were sick. My initial error was that I thought sick days were to be used for when one is sick and unable to work, however, the fearless and feckless Mayor David Miller worked it all out for everyone before moving on with his anti-car agenda.

Miller was upset that no one congratulated him for "settling" the strike. Miller managed to talk the unions down from demands for a 7.2% raise over 4 years to a mere 6% over 3 years and this less than magnificent achievement is a subject that should henceforth be included in business school studies. He managed to leave the unfunded sick day liability to fester for another administration, and he almost was able to set up an additional new funded sick day entitlement! The timing of Miller’s capitulation on the City’s behalf was just in time to ensure the strikers get overtime pay for working over the weekend of statutory holiday. Pure genius!

There was absolutely no point to the Mayor allowing a strike to go ahead if he was just going to give the unions all that they demanded. Why make the populace suffer for weeks if he was going to give in?

David Miller has been supported in his candidacies for mayor by certain unions ( let's call them CUPE Local 416 and 79 for example), whose members comprise most of the workforce of the city. CUPE employees were even seconded to his campaigns. David Miller and his cohorts “negotiated” with the unions and managed to settle on rises far above inflation, in recessionary times. There would appear to be a conflict of interest here.

The fabulous Mayor David Magnificent Miller refused to contemplate refunding 1/365th of increased property taxes for every day that his unionized support was on strike.

Somewhere, there must be a handbook of how to ruin a city, its finances and traffic flow by overtaxing the populace for niche feel-good schemes whilst producing less services. It has been implemented in cities across Europe, and David Miller should have a chapter devoted to him now.

Miller has now announced that he will not seek re-election. It will be interesting to see if CUPE give him a job.

Miller claimed that nobody won in the strike. Nobody won in the strike…er… except for Local 416 and 79.

Football Economics

I think that it is fabulous news for the UK economy that the Abu Dhabi crew at the City bluesers are spending enormous sums of petrodollars on players transfer fees, and on their wages. For once, instead of seeing our petrol money flooding out of the country to support dictators’ lifestyles, the dictatorships are finally ploughing the money back into the UK via transfer fees, and via the increase in income taxes arising out of the bulging pay packets of moderately skilled footballers. The money flooding back in now is not simply to buy property around Kensington and Chelsea, but actually improves the entertainment value of the country’s game for those oppressed souls living within the UK. I think this is great, and we should encourage this reverse flow with bail-out stimulus for SUV purchases. More petrol purchases = better economy = Premier League retaining some averagely skilled players.