Congratulations to Aer Lingus (or Air Fungus as I used to call it) for choosing to locate its British hub at Belfast International Airport.  It opted for Aldergrove instead of Birmingham and the re-instatement of the direct link to London’s Heathrow will soon be a reality once again.  What has caused me a great deal of mirth is the reaction of people around Shannon Airport who will lose out on the back of this decision.

First of all I need to state how only the Irish could have conceived an international airport in the middle of nowhere.  Who wants to land at a place surrounded by pig pens and cattle grids?  I’m surprised even the terminal floors weren’t carpeted with cow shit.  Airports around the world need to be concentrated close to major centres of population, not close to farms whose principal occupants have names like Ermintrude and Babe.  Aer Lingus has done the right thing by choosing the island’s second largest population conurbation for its relocation. 

But what of reaction in the Republic?  Where supposedly nationalist camaraderie and bon homie towards ‘the North’ are foundations of that country’s culture?  The people are revolting (not the same meaning as if I was saying the people of South Armagh ‘are revolting’, you understand!).  TDs, bishops, local workers, even the Provo apologists who clamour for the establishment of an all-island economic unit doth protest too much.  Fine by me.  The bigger the partitionist mentality, the better.  It only goes to prove that the two parts of the island are competitors, not colleagues.  It has taken the Aer Lingus move to finally bring reality to the surface.  For that, as well as for the economic well-being of South Antrim, we Unionists should be thankful.

Alex Salmond’s SNP is rapidly rising up my personal detestation league.  A few more stunts like this and they’ll be on a par with Irish republicans and radical Muslims.  As their power base has grown, they have become increasingly arrogant in their behaviour by suggesting, among other things, the removal of this country’s national flag from Edinburgh Castle and its replacement with a parochial Saltire; the abolition of British national news and the concomitant creation of a Scottish ‘national’ bulletin (inspite of the regional news formats of the BBC); and now a debate on the notion of independence.

They have to be joking.  Independence is not an option favoured by the clear majority of the Scottish people (in England it is fast becoming another matter!) and there is no way Unionists from the rest of the UK will be any less vociferous in their opposition to separatism than they were with Northern Ireland.  Although there is not much I agree with Jack McConnell about, his claim that neither poll results nor elections to Holyrood demonstrate any appetite for separation is entirely correct.  Either the SNP want to govern in the interests of the whole Scottish populace, or else they wish to further the aims of the minority who put them directly at the helm.  By doing so they become a tartan version of the Provisional IRA’s apologists in Belfast.  Judging by their actions thus far, I think they have chosen the unfortunate direction they wish to travel.

‘Do not ask the way from a blind man.’

(Han Wengong)

Here’s a great story from the excellent Moonbattery site.

 "Attempting to capitalize on our deranged tort system, Jeromy Jackson of West Virginia is suing McDonalds for $10m because they put cheese on his Quarter Pounder With Cheese, even though he didn’t want any. Mr Jackson claims to be allergic to cheese. According to the lawsuit, he "was only moments from death" after eating some cheeseburger. Whether this parasite is laughed out of court remains to be seen. In 1992, a klutz named Stella Liebeck was awarded $3 million for spilling McDonalds coffee on herself.

Oddly enough, my wife hates cheese and has a continual battle to get prepared meals that do not contain it. Most sandwiches seem to have cheese in them, and I do feel sorry for her. Maybe we’ll see how Mr Jackson gets on and should he win, I think we’ll be heading for McDonalds!

Here’s a great example of the profound moral hypocrisy that disfigures the corrupt anti-semitic United Nations.

Gaza is in dire financial straits and will soon be wholly dependent on foreign aid if the Hamas-controlled strip remains sealed off, the United Nations has warned. However the billions in aid it has received has gone straight to paying operatives of Hamas, the terror group responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Israel and that is sworn to destroying the Jewish state.

So Hamas gain control of an area, then turn it into a launching pad for murderous attacks on Israel, and the UN suggest that Israel is to blame for trying to isolate the Hamas thugocracy? What are they to do – just open the border and make things easier for the Hamas killers to slaughter Jews?

I note that America is preparing to pour thousands of extra troops into southern Iraq amid fears that Gordon Brown is committed to withdrawing British troops from the region early next year.

As Gordon the coward prepares to abandon the people of Iraq and run away from Al Queda so he may gain good media coverage and plaudits from the MSM, the White House and the Pentagon are understood to have drawn up detailed plans to secure the vital "umbilical cord" link road between Baghdad and Kuwait when the British leg it. Washington is also concerned that a British pull-out will leave the border with Iran undefended, as well as undermining US operations at a time when political pressure is mounting for an American withdrawal.

Mark my words, under Brown, Britain will cool things with the USA, and we will see many more instances of the Brown administration swinging publicly leftwards. That’s why Britain will slip increasingly into an EU orbit and away from the US. That’s going to have tragic cnsequences for us all.

You know the Labour rabble in power must REALLY love Al Queda and hate British people. Why? Well, the five terror suspects whom Britain desperately wants back from Guantanamo Bay have close ties to some of Al-Qaeda’s most high-ranking leaders!!

Only days after Gordon Brown took the surprise decision to call for their release, a senior American official this weekend disclosed previously classified evidence to show that the men are “extremely dangerous individuals”. Sandra Hodgkinson, who is in charge of US detention policy, warned that the suspects may seek to rejoin the war on terror and could pose a risk to the UK if not kept under close scrutiny.

The Pentagon alleges that;

• One of them had been an interpreter for Osama Bin Laden and was funded by the Al-Qaeda chief while living in Afghanistan.

• Another detainee had “a long-term association” with Abu Musab al-Zar-qawi, the ex-leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

• A third suspect is a “jihadi veteran” with links to a Moroccan terrorist jailed for 18 years over the 2003 Casablanca bombings.

But we NEED THEM back in Blighty because we know that  the US is lying and the captured Jihadi tell the truth, right?

Oh my! UK PM Gordon Brown will be forced to stand to attention for the European ‘national’ anthem, under proposals from the European Parliament. (Except there’ll be be no force involved, he’ll jump to attention like the snivelling Europhile he really is) The Labour Government claimed victory after references to Beethoven’s Ode To Joy – adopted as the EU’s anthem in 1985 – were removed from the revised European ‘constitution’. But it is now discovered that the Brussels parliament is to give the music greater ‘official character’. This would mean when visiting dignitaries address the assembly, their arrival will be heralded by the anthem. During this time, both visitors and MEPs would be expected to stand in silence. In true EU-style, the provocative plan was slipped through shortly before MEPs began their summer break.

Let’s see. An official anthem, a single Foreign Office Minister, legal supremacy and of course the desire to have a single European Army. Why it’s almost as if the European Union sees itself as a single dominant State. But all the main UK political parties say this is nonsense, so that’s OK then. Unless they are lying. Do you think that all three major UK parties are selling out our country to the EU? Of course they are – they are political kippers; two faced and gutless.

ATW’s latest online poll asks the reader if he/she supports the death penalty for certain heinous crimes such as mass murder. I have cast my vote by checking the "yes" option. The penalty for crimes involving terrorist acts, multiple murder (indeed, the murder of one single person in many cases), violent sexual assault including rape, or any kind of prolonged brutality against the person, ought to be the gallows. Let them swing!

When it comes to violent crime against children, however (such as this or this, from today’s online news), I support the rope, but not for the purpose of hanging the evil scum – that would be far too quick a punishment. Such perpetrators must indeed die by the rope, but I want that rope to be used in order to make them scream for hours on end, before their eventual prolonged deaths. It’s the only way.

Why so bloodthirsty? Well, perhaps it’s because I know something which the dirty, vile socialists who run this country refuse to understand.  With his pre-election mantra "Tough on crime; tough on the CAUSES of crime", Tony Blair (as the mouthpiece of the Labour Party) revealed his (and his party’s, and indeed socialism’s) utter ignorance of the very heart of human nature. They think that basically all people are "good" at heart, and that crime is only a "desperate" reaction to "social inequality" or "deprivation" or "marginalisation", and that with the right "social justice" policies, crime can be eliminated and prevented at source.

What utterly naive nonsense! The cause of crime is criminals.  There is real evil in this world, and there are people who commit evil acts without any "social" reasons to excuse them. And the only way to prevent and deter SOME of them (I’m not saying we can ever deter ALL of them, only some) is to make the consequences so utterly horrifying, so bad, so torturous and painful, that at least some of these evil people who have a few still-rational brain cells within them, will think twice before they act – not out of any sense of altruism or morality, but purely from a sense of raw fear of what will happen to them if they are apprehended. Peter Seaton, this sick piece of chav-scum, battered an innocent child to death in a rage because he had "run out of skunk". Any appeal to his so-called "human rights" (I cringe at the sheer abhorrence of the term) should be measured against the same level of regard he showed towards the "rights" of his victim – ie, none whatsoever. Violence against fully grown adults, who are able to attempt to defend themselves, is one thing – violence against defenceless children is entirely something else. The likes of Seaton should taste the rope – and not as a noose, but as a whip.

I’ll be gone for a few days on vacation. In case you’re interested, here is a photo of my family and I.   (I’m the one on your left. )

…ooops!  Wrong photo. 

 That’s better!  Here we are! 

I hope everybody at ATW has a good August.

Cheers, Patty