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OK - it does help if you recognise UK Politicians, understand what they do and know the scandals they've been involved in - but if you don't, well, it's catchy anyway.....

Exactly

Here you go - someone else wrote my rant for me :)

Now I do hear what you all said to me about Kerry being a grade-a idiot as well - but everyone's to blame.

the first term of the Bush administration was one of the biggest jokes of all time. the economy tanked in that he took the biggest surplus ever and dumbfucked it into the biggest deficit ever. he took the biggest outpouring of international support after 9/11 and turned it into worldwide hatred after we invaded iraq. and he refused to persue the real terrorist center, saudi arabia, home of 15 of the 19 terrorists involved in 9/11 and osama bin ladin, who was still on the loose. and to cap off that spectacular run, he took part in a video where he jokingly looked for wmds under a couch in the white house.

he ran against a 20yr senator who was a decorated war hero who swore to be fiscially responsible, enviornmentally concious, and true to the ideal of the seperation of church and state.

but you, america, voted to give your dumbass a second shot at cowboy quartback.

mostly because he promised to keep gay people from being married.

as a matter of fact, you came out in droves to make sure that gay people wouldnt be allowed to be married.

And hey,  probably us as well - I mean had we stood up to Blair better he may have told Bush what an arsehole he was....

This is driving me MAD

Look at what's happening. Look. Look. Look. Look.

How in hell can this be real? It's not like the US government didn't KNOW a natural disaster like this could happen. It's been one of the top three most likely emergencies for years (apparantly).

America, you cannot just sit there and accept that your country  is run by a bunch of idiots. They can approve funds for the 'war on terror' quicker than they can approve funds to mount a rescue operaton? They can TURN PEOPLE BACK AND SHOOT AT THEM WHEN THEY'RE DYING?

Oh it makes me so angry. This is not inept this is criminal.

New Orleans

New Orleans, and the whole situation, is making me so angry at the moment I've been avoiding writing about it at all.  The whole thing is just such a mess, the whole operation such a monumental fuck up and my political viewpoint so horribly vindicated by it (IMO anyway) that if I write anything about it it's going to go on for pages.

But you have to watch this. All the way to the end.

People who shouldn't have children

Last night when I got home I drove into my car park place and almost killed a small child. Now that may sound nasty but the small child in question was sitting on the ground right inside the wall bit so until I'd turned in I couldn't see him at all.

His mother started off by screaming and having hysterics. Then she called me a few names (generally on the theme of bad driver and murderous bitch) and then started shouting at him to get up.

Now - lets just take a reality check moment. The woman is picnicing with her son on our private land where cars clearly park and doing it just out of the sightline and just inside the street entrance. Call me picky but I think she was lucky I didn't start shouting at  her.

Nice to see people are open minded.

Jaysus - how scary is this?

 

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Also I am not having a go at conservatives specifically - this would be equally scary if it were liberal. Well perhaps not equally scary. Perhaps about half as scary. 

Do we really want to encourage people so biased they can't stand to meet people who don't think like them to breed? I think not.  I left their name in so that if any of you do think it's a good idea you can go join up and  I don't have to meet you at the bar :)

Horrific vision of the future

I love Gaping Void, funny stuff, clever stuff, generally applause all around - but this post surely has to count as one of the most blogpuppyfuckwit (TM to Nick at Threadwatch) posts I've ever seen in my life.

I'm happy for someone who got their job offer and boyfriend via blogging - hell I'm happy for anyone who got something that made them happy whether online or off - but

Here's where I think a lot of bloggers would like to be:

1. Let's say you needed a job. So you post a "looking for work" post on your blog, and within days another blogger e-mails you and offers you an interview.

2. Or let's say you wanted to hire somebody for your business. So you'd post something on your blog, and some other bloggers would e-mail you, and the next thing you know you'd have a few interviews set up.

3. You're moving to a new town. So you blog about it, and the next thing you know a couple of bloggers from that town with apartments to rent send you some details.

4. Your girlfriend and you broke up a few months ago and you're looking to date again. So you blog about it and the next thing you know a woman blogger e-mails you, and you two go meet up for coffee the following week.

5. You're looking to buy a car. So you blog about it and the next thing you know a blogger looking to sell his 1999 Honda sends you an e-mail.

6. You've got a nice little freelance business which you regularly talk about on your blog. Once a month or so a blogger e-mails you, offering you good, solid work...

We'd like to be able to be more reliant on the blogger's market, and less reliant on other markets.

Puh-lease...  - do I care where my business comes from? No I don't - feel free to contact me whether you're a blogger or not - I don't think your business is somehow worth less because you're not a blogger. As long as your money's good and we can work together I don't mind if you never heard of blogs (although in fairness you won't be reading this if you haven't) I do not want to become "more reliant on the bloggers market". Where's the benefit in that?

And frankly if I blog about being ready to go and start dating, I will be scared if a blogger contacts me. I have a life, when I want to date I plan to go out and meet people. If I happen to meet someone who blogs then that's fine but if I can't meet anyone outside of the blogosphere I know I have a bloody sad life ahead of me.

I have no problem with meeting people and doing business as a result of blogs. I've already said I made some good friends online. But blogs aren't the *only* social network worth having now and they certainly aren't the best way to do everything. What is this blogger obsession with blogs being the only thing worth doing? Blogs are a simple database and a webpage.I blog therefore I am is becoming a very tired meme to be honest.

I guess I should be thankful, while all my blogging peers are geeking out online and meeting each other in coffeeshops I can get out there and meet all those nice men who really couldn't give a toss about blogging. Sounds good to me :)

Arseholes.

Waking up this morning to the news about Sharm el Sheik.

What in hell is going on? You can't believe there are people so evil and stupid in the world.  I can't even comprehend what goes through peoples minds.

Arseholes. Every one of them.

WTF?

Really, I must be getting old.... I find things like this almost as annoying as I do funny now.

The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed.

Yeah, that's right, I deferred successed my Physics A level (long story - I'll explain it sometime).

Give me strength....

The London Bombings

I know I should write something about the London Bombings, it isn't that I don't feel strongly about what happened, it's that I can't really articulate what I feel.

I'm a fair way from London and I never at any point worried that I or my family, or most of my friends, were going to be directly affected. My best friend is in London and normally I would have panicked for him, but as it happens I had already spoken to both he and his girlfriend, both of them already at work, that morning, so I knew they were safe, and I had tracked down all my other London based friends within a couple of hours. 

What I didn't know at the time (thankfully) was that my boyfriends cousin (aka my other best friends brother - how incestious are we?) was in Russell Square at the time of the bomb.

So how do I feel? Well actually bloody pissed off. Not in the way that wants me to cheer on the 'war on terror', which I still feel utterly opposed to, but in the way that makes me want to go and slap the people who think they've going to achieve anything by doing things like this.

I can't say it better than this, so go read that I guess...

Fundamentally just don't give us this shit.  We don't want it. It's never going to achieve anything. Well, no, that's a lie, what it's going to do is make the people saying that the only way to end things is to kill the terrorists sound more right, and to give more ammunition to the racist idiots we haven't managed to get rid of yet,  and to make innocent people, of all religions and political pursuasions, suffer while they run around trying to blow people up.

But it's not going to achieve anything for the terrorists. No one, not the relatives of the dead, or the injured, or the rest of us, are one iota closer to wanting to give up and say "lets be friends" to people who do this type of thing.

So that's it really - there's not much else to say. Weve been through sustained acts of terrorism before, and not that long ago. We don't want it again but even if you try it we won't roll over and give in. 

And stop pretending you're doing it for your god.  You dont have a god.