View across the Outer Harbour of Stornoway

Saturday 13 December 2008

Saturday 13 December

A better day, even if it's overcast and grey. No wind to speak of, which makes a difference to yesterday's force 8 gale. It kept the ferry in Ullapool through the day, and many other ferry services along the west and north of Scotland were disrupted or cancelled.

I just nearly fell off my chair at the latest verbal diarrhoea from Robert Mugabe. He referred to the current cholera outbreak in his country as "a calculated, racist, terrorist attack on Zimbabwe", using biological weapons. The perceived reason was the overthrow of aforementioned Mugabe. It just gets worse and worse by the day. If ever there was a case for forcible regime-change, it's that country.

A regime that was overthrown 63 years ago, that of Adolf Hitler, still leaves it legacy in Germany. Not in the way I usually speak about these matters. The town of Rügen, on the Baltic coast, sports a holiday resort 1930s/1940s style, constructed for the Nazi elite of the day. Since 1990, it has lain empty as a concrete shell near the sandy beaches. Now the German authorities are contemplating turning the buildings into a holiday resort noughties style. Don't see it taking off somehow.

3 comments:

  1. Mugabe is a raving madman. As a Christian, I do not condone violence but it anyone needed a bullet in the head, it is him. Nothing will improve whilst he remains. As for the German thing, it seems lessons will never remained learnt.

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  2. all they have to do is send mugabe an invite to the german resort,lock him up there,and leave him. 2 birds lol tc mort

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  3. Mugabe is blaming the UK specifically and saying the cholera is our fault...That would be the cholera outbreak he claims doesn't exist...The guy is a raving lunatic and needs locking up for his own saftey as well as the safety of everyone else.

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