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A recent report from the New Economics Foundation, a European think-tank, has highlighted the British as “more bored, tired and less likely to know their neighbours than other Europeans”.^[1]

Is it any wonder, given the boring, tired, old fart they have to lead them?

According to a spokesman for the New Economics Foundation:

“Governments have lost sight of the fact that their fundamental purpose is to improve the lives of their citizens.”

I wonder how much it cost to figure that one out?

In response, a British government spokeperson said, “the government was trying to engage with young people.”

“The 2007-08 Citizenship Survey – a robust, nationally representative household survey – found that 94% of young people say they feel part of British society.”

Of course they do.

For young people today, being a ‘part of British society’ means going out every night binge drinking, then fighting, mugging an old lady, knifing the odd innocent bystander, or beating up a policeman.

Judging from the reports to be found in most British newspapers of late, that is British society today.

^{[1] “Britons ‘bored but happy’ – study” BBC, January 24th 2009}

Filed under: Social issues

This morning gunmen raided a home in the small Shiite area of Baldrouz, north of Baghdad. A poor Sunni family who’d moved to the area to work in the local brick factory were slaughtered. Two men, six women and a little girl were killed. The last two men were taken and the family is gone.

In the south in a town called Suaira in Wasit Province another family met the same fate on Thursday. A man, two women and a little boy were killed.

It’s unclear who did this. Maybe it was revenge, militias, insurgents or a sinister crime. But what is clear that even though things are better they aren’t ok. People are still dying here and they’re killed almost every day.”

From the blog of Leila Fadel, McClatchy’s bureau chief in Baghdad.

Rush Limbough, Bill O’Reilly, and probably NBC’s Brian Williams, don’t give a shit about any of this. All they care is that their cozy, well-fed, little lives aren’t compromised.

Do you?

Filed under: Who gives a f**k?

Ninety-eight percent of all animal species are invertebrates, and the majority are to be found on the North American continent.

Three days in and it’s started already. The vampires of Fox News, the rabid dogs of Republican talk radio, are already joining forces in a desperate attempt to bring the Obama presidency into disrepute.

According to a balding vampire bat hanging in its cave somewhere amidst the Fox News studios, and known when it assumes human form as Bill O’Reilly, American families are in danger because President Obama has signed an order to close the torture chambers of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.

NBC Nightly News echoed those sentiments tonight with a long-winded segment suggesting that Abdulsalam Ghaithan Mureef al-Shehri, until 2006 a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, had been released only to once again take up with al Qaeda, thus threatening the very fabric of American society.

NBC Nightly News, while doing its utmost to instill doubt into the minds of Americans concerning President Obama’s decision to close the Cuba-based detention center, totally failed to mention that al-Shehri had been released into the custody of one of America’s foremost allies, Saudi Arabia, which had failed to constrain al-Shehri and prevent him from rejoining the terrorist organization. Saudi Arabia was a close confidant of the Bush administration, and the nation that spawned at least eleven of the 9/11 hijackers.

Meanwhile, Republican talk radio, in the guise of the super-moronic and admitted drug-addict, Rush Limbaugh, stated yesterday that he hoped President Obama would fail.

Pause a moment to think deeply about that statement.

Is this the admission of a true US patriot? Limbaugh hopes the President of the United States fails, and by association he hopes his country fails, simply because his party lost the election.

America, you are a nation of failures. You are a nation of failures because you allow such poison to flow unhindered. You are a failure as a community, as a country, as a nation.

Is this really your idea of freedom, America, when those you choose as your political mentors seek the failure of your newly-elected leader, and by consequence the failure of your nation, just because he wears the wrong colored shirt?

You make a mockery of Freedom, America. You hold it up, not as a beacon of Liberty to the world, but as a quarterback’s shirt in a tuppenny-halfpenny football game.

Frankly, if I were Barack Obama, I’d tell you all to go to Hell for allowing such scum to dominate your media. I’d take my family and move somewhere where decency and morality were honestly admired as genuine human traits.

The Dis-United States of America – truly a land of invertebrates.

Filed under: Limp and flaccid