The 1st Conservative/ Liberal Coalition 1916 - 1922

The Daily Mail: Excellent article by the former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Roy Hattersley on the last Conservative/ Liberal Coalition between 1916 - 1922. History does repeat itself but its not a given, the fate of the Liberals in 1922 might not be the same for modern LibDems, but this is excellent warning form history by Mr Hattersley. Read of the Day.

Death in the UK - Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that a British Soldier died yesterday in the UK of wounds sustained in Afghanistan, the Soldier was from the “ 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, serving as part of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (South) ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 335 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 295 in combat operations and 40 due to illness, accidents or other incidents. There will be more deaths folks.

Remembrance

Let us remember all those that died today on the 11th of September 2001, lets never forget, lets us always remember those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years after 9/11. The terrorists shall never win, let that be the final line of the events of 9/11.

Burning the KORAN ? = The Media

The Washington Post: Reports on media frenzy around the threat to burn the Koran. This is one of the times the 24/7 news cycle has gotten right out of hand, the Koran is a holy book for Muslims, as with the Bible and other religious books they should be respected, the idea of burning books is an outrage in itself, but religious books should be protected from such action, its about time the State Government of Florida took action, there must be County laws that prevent such action, it should not take the President of the United States and the Defence Secretary to call for the event to be stopped. There is freedom but that freedom comes with obligations, no event should cost the lives of NATO soldiers or innocent people.

9th Anniversary of 9/11 - 11 September 2001

Fox News: Reports that the DIA, the Defence Intelligence Agency is attempting to block a book on Operation Dark Heart, it is claimed that the US had fingered Mohammed Atta as a threat; one of the 9/11 terrorists; before 9/11. The conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this kind of story, it will allow the nuts to say that the Bush Administration could have prevented 9/11 etc. This is the last thing the US needs due to the present crisis of the planned the aborted idea to burn the Koran. Also all media should stop giving the nutty Pastor in Florida TV time, that’s why this blog has not covered the story, people have started to die in Afghanistan.

Coalition Split over Welfare Reform ?

Guardian: Reports of a backlash by Coalition MPs to the further welfare cuts by the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. When you read the article it’s the usual left wing Liberal Democrat MPs, always the usual suspects. The Guardian should be careful it does not become another Daily Mirror, the hacking story is Labour spin, the above story is an attempt to cause problems for the Coalition Government and to the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. At its essence the Guardian, Mirror, Independent believe in BIG government, even when the money has run out, even Tony Blair has not time for these left wing elites.

Who is Don Draper?

Telegraph: A short profile of Jon Hamm the actor who plays Don Draper in Mad Men, the article has the nicest line on Mr Hamn, the article states the following, “ the only indecent thing about Hamm was his happy marriage ”. It can be fair to say that the article writer is a bit of a fan of Don Draper, what guy does not want to be Don Draper when he grows up, what girl does not want to date Don Draper!! Lets get back to the series, the fourth season has started on the BBC, the first episode was “ Who is Don Draper ? ”, it was fantastic, quick but also showed the arc of the characters developing, Don didn’t get the girl at the end, it was a nice scene for Mr Hamm, he could show Don getting the fact that while he has not lost it with women it is no longer a direct from coffee to bed!! I was thinking of Mr Hamm to play Ronald Reagan in the biopic next year, he could take the role from when Reagan become Governor of California through the rest of his life.