Then I think, bugger that - that’s exactly what the politicians play on.

So I, for all my flaws and failings, fight for the right to be right -and that’s enough.

I am so disturbed that the election of a government can be decided or at least affected by how somebody does on TV. I have taken off the piece referring to the broadcast. My instinct was right to have nothing to do with the election. We are handcuffed to a counry of the ignorant.

Comfort. You bring me none.

Ian

A short question with many answers. To list a few:

(a) Infiltration.

(b) Narcissistic intellectualisation. In the face of every outrage there is the ‘Life of Brian’ reaction: “This calls for immediate discussion.” Tommy Sheridan was refereshing (and dangerous?) because he proposed action.

(c) Monopoly of all media by the right, with leftism defined as beyond the bounds of civilised discourse - the ‘loony left’.

(d) Comfort. Things aren’t that bad - yet…

All my life I have waited to see two things and done my best to promote them.

The first is Scotland’s continued existence as a nation. We are on our way.

The second is to see a country whose wealth was more equally distributed.

Why have we failed in this? Labour, once the Party of the left, has betrayed us and no other party has taken its place.

What has happened to deceent left wing people like myself that our longings have come to nothing?

Ian

Ian

Rather like Tommy Sheridan, Tiger took a position when he should just perhaps have ignored the matter. He is not a poorer golfer, nor is Tommy a poorer socialist, because of allegations of irregularity in their private lives. I wonder if in both cases they were arranged victims. I know that Tiger’ professional success was viewed in some sections of American society as vexatious, and for a moment Tommy looked as if he was making something useful out of the inchoate mess of Scottish leftism.

What a world we live in. Making love to women can threaten your career, but genocide in distant places arouses nothing beyond sickly reverence for the less successful assassins, with much waving of flags as their remains are freighted into Wootton Bassett. It can’t be long before there are English words to Horst Wessel.

Burns. Yes, he loved the ladies and the ladies, evidently, often–although not always–loved him. But did he LIE to his wife about it? From what I have read, no.

Tiger Woods evidently did. I suspect she whacked him good with one of his nine-irons for it, and I have no sympathy (and no exalted opinion) of a liar who just happens to be an over-paid athlete.

Infidelity is not something new, nor is it something necessarily wrong, all it means is that since the time of Adam and Eve, sins are human nature, and it is those sins we must repent upon for our own salvation. However, those than benefit from usury, the human form of taking and adding a financial penance of more misery, strife, and woe to all our lives are the ones Jesus threw out of the temple, casting their lots with them.

What are lawyers? Self-interested advocates for their own financial benefits. In Auld Scots times, advocates were used to legally represent on of their own clan in clan disputes of civic nature. What are lawyers now, ambulance chasing, divorce forcing, strife bearing heathens that are nothing to society but a parasite and leech. The best lawyers are the rich ones, the best politicians are rich lawyers.

I say give divorce back to its communal father, God, the church. I mean, after-all, marriage is a covenant made between husband and wife to God, in God’s church; it is in-deed a legal document in Scotland!