Category Archives: USA-WTF

Scary Santorum

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“The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health insurance. There’s?—?I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance,” Santorum said to a crowd of 100. Link

It’s bad enough that a Presidential candidate says that, it’s worse if he believes it and it’s truly amazing that many people in the USA actually believe that. Sorry – that’s “many people who have good health insurance and don’t really have a clue”. Santorum and Romney look very scary from here both for the USA and the rest of the world. George W Bush did enough damage with the “God told me it was the right thing to do” approach and both these guys fit that mould perfectly. Isn’t it strange that the USA condemns so many other countries and faiths for their fundamentalism yet they are way more extreme in their views. I firmly believe that the words ‘health’ and ‘making a profit’ should never be acquainted. I was there when the Tories brought in NHS Trusts and I saw the way budget cuts impacted our Learning Disability service. But to say what he did beggars belief.

Additionally: 10 things you didn’t know about Rick Santorum…

Land of the corrupt

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TL;DR The President’s opponents played the electorate like a fiddle and will get away with it because people don’t seem to realize they’ve been tricked into being angry at the wrong person.

US politics.

 

The Atlantic – pathetic rag

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Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic.

No mention of the fact it did not start in America. Oh no. But this typical USA!USA! rag decides that the USA! is leading from the front and the USA! will be responsible for saving the world. Yeah right. Idiots.

If this was the plague this junky nonsense would soon be pointing outside of the USA! Can’t have it both ways. Oh, sorry, it’s the USA! You do.

Film Sunday

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10 years after the event the US Govt just happen to release voice recordings from those planes. They do keep this drip-drip of “news” going rather well don’t they. Any time they want to enact more privations they drop events into the news. I think I missed the program about the “Why?” though. Anyway, Sunday will be spent watching films and playing games – the saturation coverage makes me think only one bad thing has ever happened ….

A WTF from the PM

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BBC Mr Cameron referred to the situation in 1940 during an interview with Sky News in which he was asked about the changing nature of the “special relationship” with the US and his meeting with President Obama on Tuesday.

“I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior partner,” he said.

“We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.”

David Cameron is in charge of the govt and he hasn’t the balls to stop sucking up to the US. Still, those that voted the Govt in must be proud of him. Someone has to be. But the rest of knew and now have the proof that he’s an idiot. A toffee-nosed, silver spoon in the mouth sycophant. I wonder when he’ll have the history books changed.

Spitting a word

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Happened to be in San Francisco at the time / just after the drilling platform exploded. And the anti-british bile which continues was amazing. Here in the UK BP is BP is BP. It’s full company name is used as often as we see pink rabbits yet American Senators were again and again saying BRITISH. Despite the fact it was another company that were running it all they said on Fox and CNN and CBS was BRITISH. I really hope that next time there is anything that the US does which damages something – which shouldn’t take long – that politicians and other leaders across the globe make damn sure they say YANKEE or AMERICAN over and over again. Fact is the USA needs BP and they really should just shut the fuck up and get on with the damn job.

The USA is demanding bans on drilling, on BRITISH companies and yet they absolutely refuse to ban landmines. So losing oil annoys them, killing innocent people does not. Something wrong there?

Another post about annoying America.

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So the USA can take people who might have the wrong colour skin, have the wrong friends, live in the wrong place, not have ‘American’ as their first and only language, who have the wrong religion, who might have an accent, who might be any other arbitary factor and it can lock them up. It can make them disappear off the face of the earth. The USA can torture them, allow no contact with anyone else, can waterboard them, can deny them their basic rights and yet this is all in the name of the “American way”. It is true justice, it is done for the protection of everyone in the USA (because they don’t give a flying crap for anyone outside of the USA) and no matter what anyone else says they will do this for as long as they want. This is right. This is correct. This is how things should be done.

Yet when a minister in Scotland frees a man who is about to die, a man who a huge number of people believe never committed the crime, a man who was scapegoated then the USA demand that Justice Be Served. Now WTF is that all about? Apart from more hypocrisy from a regime that is purely selfish, a regime that has ignored the rest of woorld but expects the world to Listen To It. Who gives a damn if Hilary wanted the detention to continue? There isn’t a politician over there – probably anyone – who would dare to say “Hey guys, remember Guantanamo? Maybe we made a mistake with this one too”. The fact Obama et al. are complaining means zip – so why report it?

But then they execute innocent people in the USA and there is no-one there caring about them either.

USA. One annoying hypocritical paranoid and abusive country.

Colorado State Government

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This is the dumbest, most inane and frankly stupid thing I have read all year .
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/trash-your-ex-on-craigslist-go-directly-to-jail

The pertinent point:

“The Colorado law bans statements “tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead” or that “impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation or expose the natural defects of one who is alive.”

This also seems at odds with the US Constitution and what is says about Freedom of Expression.
So if you blog about someone in less than loving terms who lives in Colorado, or they live there and say anything other than wonderful things about you then the law can intervene.
If someone really wants some fun, file charges against every politician there – they lie professionally.

Facebook and a fine

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Facebook spammer fined $870m

“Does Facebook expect to quickly collect 873 million dollars and share the proceeds in some way with our users?” Mr Kelley asked in a posting on the Facebook blog. “Alas, no. …. But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users”

What? Someone spams FB, gets fined a stupid amount of money and is told never to use FB again or contact any of it’s members (So he says “Hi” to me and what happens?). Where is the penalty here? I see none. In fact, for kicks why doesn’t someone try to get a higher penalty against them?

Why in the USA do ridiculous monetary awards get handed down? It’s nonsense in every single respect.