Louisiana hit again

Poor Louisiana. The oil spill looks like a big and long-lasting mess.

Just wish I could believe it was all accidental, coming so closely on the heels of the Comrade's oh-so-generous announcement that he would "allow" people to think about drilling in the USA. So big of you, Comrade, to bless the obvious necessity. But who really needs you, anyway?

Anyone but me wondering if the Comrade counts himself among the number of those who have "made enough money"? Exactly how much is "enough," Comrade? I'm sure you have all the answers. And I'm sure you need much more money than most other people, being a step above all of us unwashed proletariat, right?

Look, it's late. I'm tired. I'm oh so tired of the crap coming out of Washington. Specifically the White House.

Worried about America and genuinely afraid of the underhanded and power-grabbing tactics of this regime.

And I can picture very clearly the scene from last Monday: Carol Brownose, David Axelgrease, and Ram Emanuel, all in black, faces smeared with camo paint, paddling a small rubber boat into the pitch black of the Gulf at midnight, and all of them wielding Bic lighters. The waves lap against the sides of the boat. The half moon disguises their tedious but determined progress toward the targeted oil platform....

Is this the Reichstag Fire yet? Are the buttheads still trying to sell crap-n-tax? Or trying to resurrect it?

It would be so nice to be able to trust someone in government again. Or at least trust that they're merely stupid, rather than stupid and evil.

And why did the Republicans decide to allow debate on the terrible dem financial regulation bill? Do the Republicans honestly believe that they can make some difference in it? Or, for that matter, that they can regulate better?

Funny... Happened across two of the three debates the Brits have been having for their upcoming election. This involves three parties: Conservative, Liberal, and Labor. Gordon Brown, current P.M., is Labor. David Cameron is Conservative, and there's this other guy trying to act like Obama who's the Liberal. He's a good speaker, young and enthusiastic, and a total socialist loony. In England, socialism is pretty acceptable and accepted. After all, they had George Bernard Shaw and John Maynard Keynes.

It's rather horrible listening to the debate. They discuss how they will carve up the U.K., what kinds of benefits their subjects will get, how much they'll have to pay in taxes, etc. And the people -- the subjects -- just sit there and take it in stride. They're in total compliance, but through most of their history, they always have been. Sort of starved into submission.

They don't have a Constitution like ours -- that is, written -- and I'm not overly impressed with the Magna Carta, though I guess it was a start. It was possibly the first thing written in Europe that tried to limit the powers of a monarch.

Anyway, thought it was interesting that the Conservative is in the lead in the polls. He would not be "conservative" in the USA, but for England I guess it's a start.

Also read somewhere that England is having tea parties -- I mean like ours, but rather more civilized. And they might actually involve the drinking of tea. Anyone else see any irony in that?

Got in a discussion with some Brits once about politics. You know, it was the USA that ruined the Empire via lend-lease in the early days of WWII, he said. OK. Like they could keep all their colonies and defeat Hitler at the same time. England might have done it, though. All of England is about the size of Illinois, and look what kind of an impact the Brits have had over history.

Then this other Brit asked if I knew whether or not it's true that Americans mostly prefers coffee to tea because of events in Boston Harbor. It's a possibility. Also, coffee is grown in South America while tea came from China. That might have had something to do with it, too.

Anyway, I need some sleep.

And I stand with Steven Hawking:  I don't believe the aliens are friendly and want to help us. I think it's probably more like that Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man." It's a cook book!