Football punishment
The English Football Association has fined West Ham and Chelsea, £40,000 and £50,000 for 'failing to control their players' during their recent encounter.
Seriously? These amounts are utterly meaningless to clubs of their size. Also, there is no punishment for the causers of the loss of control - the players!
Surely all of the players, should each be fined - something substantial, say £100,00 each - and they should all have a yellow card assigned- something that adds up and leads, if repeated, to a 3 match ban. I do mean all. The whole team, not just those that get involved in the melee.
As for the clubs, make the punishment meaningful. An instant deduction of 3 points and, of 9 points if they are a repeat offender. I can't help but think that this would concentrate the minds. Points and league positions equate to serious money and money-making opportunities.
While we are on the subject. If the manager/coach is punished, then again, the club should have points deducted.
In English football, today, monetary punishments are useless. It's points that matter!
Refugees again
European and African leaders are meeting in Malta, to discuss the problem of economic migrants that are currently flooding into Europe.
We can expect the usual claptrap about developing Africa so that people will stay in their home country, etc., followed by European throwing money, Africa's way.
However, as in the past, this will be totally irrelevant and won't solve the problem.
African economic migrants want to come to Europe because their economic prospects, in Europe, are better. Some will claim that this is because of European welfare programmes. This then becomes a useful foil for pro-immigration liberals to attack and use against immigration controls, by screaming 'racist'! Whatever the truth, the migrants come because they will have a better economic life in Europe than they would have in Africa.
The only real solution is to close the door. And seal it! In practise this would mean returning all of these immigrants to their home country. All of them. Returned. No half measures - all of them, returned. We have to turn back the flood at the source. To let these people know that they simply cannot come in. That, if they do make it to our shores, then each and every one of them, each and every time, will be returned from whence they came. And, to keep on sending them back.
Any half-measures or anything less than complete repatriation means that Europe may as well do a 'Merkel' and just tell all of Africa to come on over.
US GOP Debate
The latest debate has taken place. I didn't see the TV show but there is dispute over who performed well and who didn't.
From what I can gather:
Ben Carson was fairly quite but escaped unscathed, with no mud, about his memoir mis-rememberings.
Donald Trump was noisy as always and found to be severely wanting on his foreign policy platform and ridiculed for his plans to repatriate 11 million illegal immigrants.
Ted Cruz, when he got the chance to speak on any subject, seems to have 'knocked it out of the park' and showed not just his very strong debating skills but also the depth of his policy proposals.
Rand Paul and Marco Rubio also seem to have performed well, though Paul's isolationist stance is, rightly, unpopular.
The others? Well Kasich behaved boorishly and interrupted a lot, Bush got a couple of good hits in but no killer quotes. Fiorina showed competence but at times seems fixated on Trump's anti-female slip-ups.
Overall, Cruz and Rubio looked and sounded like winners and of course Trump and Carson are still there but we should soon start ti see the others, falling away.m As they do, we can expect Trump's shortcomings to become ever more apparent.
America's bureaucrats
I can't believe I am alone in being outraged that senior bureaucrats that are supposed to serve the American people, can 'take the fifth' and, then continue in their well-paid roles.
John Koskinen, the current Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, has 'taken the fifth' while testifying to Congress concerning the wholesale shenanigans that went on, under the earlier Commissioner, Lois Lerner.
Think about that. He is employed by the US government. Congress, on behalf of the US taxpayer, exercises oversight of, among other agencies, the IRS. Congress is there to make sure that the IRS carries out its work in accordance with the wishes of, and on behalf of, the US taxpayer. Yet, when Congress want to question the head of the IRS, he is able to 'take the fifth' and he still gets to keep his job!! Can anyone imagine being able to do that in the private sector?
" Tom, I want to speak to you about the performance of your department" "Sir" responds Tom, "I refuse to answer your questions on the grounds of potential self-incrimination" "Oh!", says Tom's boss, "okay then, let's move on".
If these bureaucrats were doing a great job, you could maybe feel some sympathy at them having to face, what might possibly be politically inspired questioning. However, many, at the top simply aren't. Look at the Environmental Protection Agency, that polluted the Colorado River. Look at the Veterans Administration, that continues to mistreat and intentionally delay treatment to America's veterans. Look at the IRS, that targeted organisations that were anti-Obama. Look at the Justice Department that went after General Petraeus for having classified documents on a personal computer but has done nothing, about Hillary Clinton's use of, and then wiping cleaning of, a personal e-mail server. The list goes on and on and the 'tone from the top' is so inappropriate that it is no wonder that these agencies are so out of control.
The English Football Association has fined West Ham and Chelsea, £40,000 and £50,000 for 'failing to control their players' during their recent encounter.
Seriously? These amounts are utterly meaningless to clubs of their size. Also, there is no punishment for the causers of the loss of control - the players!
Surely all of the players, should each be fined - something substantial, say £100,00 each - and they should all have a yellow card assigned- something that adds up and leads, if repeated, to a 3 match ban. I do mean all. The whole team, not just those that get involved in the melee.
As for the clubs, make the punishment meaningful. An instant deduction of 3 points and, of 9 points if they are a repeat offender. I can't help but think that this would concentrate the minds. Points and league positions equate to serious money and money-making opportunities.
While we are on the subject. If the manager/coach is punished, then again, the club should have points deducted.
In English football, today, monetary punishments are useless. It's points that matter!
Refugees again
European and African leaders are meeting in Malta, to discuss the problem of economic migrants that are currently flooding into Europe.
We can expect the usual claptrap about developing Africa so that people will stay in their home country, etc., followed by European throwing money, Africa's way.
However, as in the past, this will be totally irrelevant and won't solve the problem.
African economic migrants want to come to Europe because their economic prospects, in Europe, are better. Some will claim that this is because of European welfare programmes. This then becomes a useful foil for pro-immigration liberals to attack and use against immigration controls, by screaming 'racist'! Whatever the truth, the migrants come because they will have a better economic life in Europe than they would have in Africa.
The only real solution is to close the door. And seal it! In practise this would mean returning all of these immigrants to their home country. All of them. Returned. No half measures - all of them, returned. We have to turn back the flood at the source. To let these people know that they simply cannot come in. That, if they do make it to our shores, then each and every one of them, each and every time, will be returned from whence they came. And, to keep on sending them back.
Any half-measures or anything less than complete repatriation means that Europe may as well do a 'Merkel' and just tell all of Africa to come on over.
US GOP Debate
The latest debate has taken place. I didn't see the TV show but there is dispute over who performed well and who didn't.
From what I can gather:
Ben Carson was fairly quite but escaped unscathed, with no mud, about his memoir mis-rememberings.
Donald Trump was noisy as always and found to be severely wanting on his foreign policy platform and ridiculed for his plans to repatriate 11 million illegal immigrants.
Ted Cruz, when he got the chance to speak on any subject, seems to have 'knocked it out of the park' and showed not just his very strong debating skills but also the depth of his policy proposals.
Rand Paul and Marco Rubio also seem to have performed well, though Paul's isolationist stance is, rightly, unpopular.
The others? Well Kasich behaved boorishly and interrupted a lot, Bush got a couple of good hits in but no killer quotes. Fiorina showed competence but at times seems fixated on Trump's anti-female slip-ups.
Overall, Cruz and Rubio looked and sounded like winners and of course Trump and Carson are still there but we should soon start ti see the others, falling away.m As they do, we can expect Trump's shortcomings to become ever more apparent.
America's bureaucrats
I can't believe I am alone in being outraged that senior bureaucrats that are supposed to serve the American people, can 'take the fifth' and, then continue in their well-paid roles.
John Koskinen, the current Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, has 'taken the fifth' while testifying to Congress concerning the wholesale shenanigans that went on, under the earlier Commissioner, Lois Lerner.
Think about that. He is employed by the US government. Congress, on behalf of the US taxpayer, exercises oversight of, among other agencies, the IRS. Congress is there to make sure that the IRS carries out its work in accordance with the wishes of, and on behalf of, the US taxpayer. Yet, when Congress want to question the head of the IRS, he is able to 'take the fifth' and he still gets to keep his job!! Can anyone imagine being able to do that in the private sector?
" Tom, I want to speak to you about the performance of your department" "Sir" responds Tom, "I refuse to answer your questions on the grounds of potential self-incrimination" "Oh!", says Tom's boss, "okay then, let's move on".
If these bureaucrats were doing a great job, you could maybe feel some sympathy at them having to face, what might possibly be politically inspired questioning. However, many, at the top simply aren't. Look at the Environmental Protection Agency, that polluted the Colorado River. Look at the Veterans Administration, that continues to mistreat and intentionally delay treatment to America's veterans. Look at the IRS, that targeted organisations that were anti-Obama. Look at the Justice Department that went after General Petraeus for having classified documents on a personal computer but has done nothing, about Hillary Clinton's use of, and then wiping cleaning of, a personal e-mail server. The list goes on and on and the 'tone from the top' is so inappropriate that it is no wonder that these agencies are so out of control.
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