Category Archives: USA-WTF

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.

Palin. Idiot. Bimbo. Fool.

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Sarah Palin just said she has the right to privacy so does not have to tell anyone how she voted. She said this was another reason why America was cool. That’s a pretty neat idea. Maybe the rest of the world should do that.

People voted for her. The same people are allowed to breed. The same people are allowed to own guns. Hell, SHE is. Scary.

Question Time USA

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The BBC’s Question Time in the USA. Gobsmacking. There are people there who firmly believe that the world does love the USA, that GWB has done good things, that they are right, that only the USA in the whole world can make things happen and only in America could other things happen. Deluded. Genuinely clueless. Ego’s R Us.

Hypocrite Condoleezza

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Iran:

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s activities in peaceful use of nuclear energy has always been confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the international community and the Agency’s reports testify that there is no room for concern over Iran’s nuclear activities,” said Hosseini. Link

Condoleezza:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told senators Wednesday the United States will actively confront what she said are the aggressive policies of the Iranian government … “No one wants to see a Middle East that is dominated by an Iranian hegemon, particularly one that has acquired nuclear weapons technology,” Link

So Iran wants to stay lit up and warm yet Condolezza the Hawk wants to be aggressive.

Contrast:
Condoleezza:

The US will not allow Russia to stop it from deploying anti-missile defences in Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said.
“I don’t think anyone expects the United States to permit a veto on American security interests Link

The biggest threat to just about everything remains the present ‘rulers’ of the USA. Why call it democracy when Bush vetoes the will of the people for nothing more than personal reasons?

Of course here in the UK we have had it just as bad with Tony “You’ll need to shout because my head is up George’s ass” Blair. Could any party lose any votes by declaring they would say ‘No’ to the USA? Be a vote winner surely. Pity Gordon Brown won’t do that. Sod the Euro – the debate is really over the Atlantic.

Here, have a gun.

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The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects. Link

Given that a suspect is not a suspect only after the offence, these means the NRA want absolutely anyone to be able to buy guns? So I could tool up with some RPG’s, several kilos of explosive, some more serious lethal hardware, a mean expression and the ink barely dry on my will then stroll toward the HQ of the NRA to buy a gun. They’d let me? If was wearing a t-shirt that said “Here come your cold dead hands” then until I’d done something – like kill the smooth brained ones – I could only be suspected of being in a murderous mood. So they couldn’t do anything could they? They’d have to sell me that gun. And hey – I’d not even be a terrorist. Just a guy who thinks Charlton Heston is wheel short of a chariot.

Two quotes

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We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves
Susan Schwab, US Trade Representative [1]

A spring reborn in the world’s oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America.
Bill Clinton [2]

Now the second is not true so the first is hypocrisy. Are we surprised? I think not.

It is 8 fingers, 2 thumbs.

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I’ve been to the USA, Mexico, Norway, France, Spain (and various islands of), Italy , Greece, Turkey, Tunisia and even Wales. Only the USA wants my fingerprints, advance notice of all my details, photo at the point of entry, paperwork, questioning at the airport about anything they want (including why I was not at home caring for my wife) and it’s also painfully slow getting through immigration. Several planes come in and they open no more desks. Model of efficiency I don’t think.
But now the increasingly paranoid US govt want all 10 fingerprints. They say “US authorities claim the current scan of two fingers takes around 15 seconds and that the new process will not take significantly longer than that.“. 2 fingers = 15 seconds and 10 fingers = 15 seconds. Someone is lying. If it currently takes 7.5 seconds for a scan then 10* is a minute and 15 seconds.
From that article: “The policies implemented over the past five years appear to have strengthened our security.” Proof?

The Department of Homeland Security is said to have arrested 1,800 suspects since biometric identification was introduced, but in order to do that they collected the fingerprints of 80 million passengers.

So the amazing amount of work that lies behind that 80 million figure is worth the 1,800 obviously. BUT that figure does not say how many american citizens were arrested, and what the grounds for the actual arrest were, how many were charged and how many convicted. Numbers. Anyone can prove anything with numbers.

10 fingers is better than 2? Proof?

10 fingers – they’ll want DNA next.

Alberto Gonzales is a dangerous lunatic

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Alberto Gonzalez is the Attorney general of the US. His lunacy is bettered only by that of GWfrigginB himself. Get this:

Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years

The Bush administration’s proposal would require commercial Web sites to place “marks and notices” to be devised by the Federal Trade Commission on each sexually explicit page. The definition of sexually explicit broadly covers depictions of ……close-ups of fully clothed genital regions.

Now what the F*CK is that all about? Define ‘close-up’? Just how bloody stupid is the Gonzalez guy? What’s he want to do – stop Google images? And yet the USA cannot see that the Rest of The World thinks the net is in safer hands if it is wrested from their puritanically extremist hands? What next? Jeez….. I am gobsmacked that the govt of the USA has the balls to call ANY country it has so far picked on as being extremist when it decides to peddle this garbage.

Dear Mrs Gonzales,
I would send my sympathies but hey, you married him for his money, yes? And given his attitude, I suppose you could divorce him pretty easily on the grounds of non-consummation?