As you can see from the mosaic, the people have spoken. This time loud and clear about the "can or cannot" of wearing poppies.
The players in the recent international soccer game between England and Scotland wore black arm bands with red poppies attached. Then, on a mega scale in a game between Northern Ireland and Azerbaijan, the fans got in on the act.
Several thousand had placards painted in white, red and black and showed their defiance and disdain towards FIFA by making a monster poppy that filled one of the stands.
How dare they!
Now the righteous mongers from soccer's ruling body are set to fine the English and Scottish teams and, wait for it, also fine the Northern Irish fans for their impudence.
I can just imagine a delegation from the FIFA police arriving in Belfast to ask for the money!
Meantime we must bear in mind that it is less than a year since the chairman of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, resigned in disgrace after embezzeling money from the organization and several other of his cronies are facing jail terms for similar malfeance.
All of this coinciding with the centenary of the battle of the Somme where a million men from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Wales and Germany lost their lives in bloody conflict so that member nations could play soccer instead of making war.
LEST WE FORGET.
Jubilate.
Ian (Immemorial for Oliver Wilson. Durham Light Infantry. The Battle of the Somme. 1916- 17)
If there is one particular incident that highlights the great divide in America, it is the one that happened yesterday in Bloomington Indiana.
John Hamilton, the mayor of this far left community, has just renamed two of America's historical holidays.
"Good Friday" has now become "Spring Holiday" and "Columbus Day" has been renamed "Fall Holiday."
According to Hamilton this will make the calendar "inclusive to all"
To all my international readers, this small piece of municipal legislation will help you understand the anger and outrage felt by the followers of Donald Trump, towards the liberal left.
This politically correct crowd have been busy for years airbrushing out traditional American words from the lexicon (considered to be offensive to them) and also making war on the Christian faith by the banning of prayer from schools, creches from the public square, the ten commandments from court-house walls and by foisting a host of other holier-than-thou indignities upon the population.
The outcome of the recent election has flabbergasted this highbrow crowd.
How could the American people vote for a "Neanderthal" like Donald Trump?
I will give you one simple reason ( to go with hundreds of others).
The president-elect has stated that his first act of congress will be to mandate the use of "MERRY CHRISTMAS" in federal buildings instead of "HAPPY HOLIDAYS".
If that needs explaining to you then you wouldn't even begin to
grasp the present mood in the United States.
Jubilate.
Ian
