Forgot to mention yesterday that I had a brief encounter with a thing of great beauty. Driven, shall we say, with fuel economy not being a priority, this Aston Martin Vantage looked and sounded stunning.
Meanwhile descending into the realm of politics Associated Press put out this little gem yesterday:
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A group of British schools, fearing negative publicity, cut off a partnership with teachers and students in this town where Osama bin Laden was killed, upsetting Pakistani participants who note that a key purpose of the program was eradicating stereotypes.
The partnership's demise is an unusual example of fallout from the May 2 U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida chief, an operation that has deeply shaken the U.S.-Pakistan relationship because it was carried out without Pakistani government knowledge...
"Abbottabad residents and students had nothing to do with Osama or any of his activity," said Zafar Abbasi, an Abbottabad school official. "Linking them with Osama is regrettable, and depriving students of the program is even worse."
Since 2008, four government schools and one private school in Abbottabad were partnered with four government schools in Blackburn, a British town that has experienced tensions between white and South Asian residents in the past...
Emails obtained by The Associated Press indicate school leaders in Blackburn were aghast at the possibility of publicity in the British press if Abbottabad teachers suddenly showed up in their sometimes racially tense town, where the anti-immigrant British National Party has been active.
Pakistani teachers involved in the program said not only was the May trip canceled, but Blackburn officials also wouldn't conduct a planned video conference with them and told them they were severing ties. The Pakistanis had expected up to six months more of contacts.
They need not worry as once they have ethnically-cleansed the white population completely from Blackburn, the Taliban can take over the town. That at a stroke should deal with awkward situations like this with the eradication of one race and their replacement by another being the only practical and humane solution in the fight against racism!
Along similar perverse lines of thinking I wonder why nobody organising today's strikes mentioned the billions of pounds leeched from this country in the form of foreign aid. You might have thought that those Marxist union leaders would be addressing the crowds and calling for more of their pension funds to be diverted to the world's poor, denouncing anyone who dared complain as a racist in the process. Strange that.
