It's 5:15 and sunlight is but a memory here. It feel like about 10 pm.
I think there will be a paucity of longer posts for awhile... as much because I lack the time to create funny stories as because I don't have time to write them. If I can get my essays done this semester, along with the LSAT, and a start on my thesis, the new year will be a lot better... I can't believe I'll be going home for Christmas in just over a month!
They are having a pretty crazy "scandal" here. Labour vastly reformed the House of Lords a few years ago. Most of the hereditary peers were sent packing, and now the parties each have the ability to nominate members to the upper house. (Granted this is all rather academic as the Lords were castrated by the WWI era reforms.) In any event, a peerage is essentially now for sale. The list people nominated to the Lords is nearly identical to the list of people who donate more than 250,000 pounds to each party. The Times is making a big deal about it, but no one seems to really care.
It's similar to "Mittalgate," when one of the richest men in the world, Lakshmi Mittal, the spice trader (ok, I read that in an editorial in the Times and didn't realize that papers here are allowed to make false statements in the name of sarcasm... I was duped by my lack of cultural astuteness... he is actually a steel magnate) who rented the palace of Versailles for his daughter's wedding and bought the most expensive house ever ($128,000,000), gave 2,000,000 quid to Labour and then Tony Blair conveniently wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Romania to let Mittal open a factory on significantly favorable terms.
As for American political issues, it looks as if Bush really fucked over both sides of the Republican party. Both the libertarians and the social conservatives faced a backlash in the election. Honestly, Libby writing porn... launching a war on false pretenses...hiring a literal malaka (gay prostitute) to pose as a reporter... trying to fund a NUCLEAR BOMB (the "bunker buster"... congress at least had the sense to nix that) that can kill ONE person. If someone is THAT far under the earth, I'd say they're pretty well neutralized. I don't care if it's Beezelbub hiding down there... you don't need to nuke him. Is that supposed to somehow scare guys like Quadaffi and Il???? WE'RE SO FUCKING CRAZY WE'LL NUKE YOUR ASS.... PERSONALLY. They could just turn the Hindu-Kush into a gravel pit looking for Bin Laden....
It's not as if ANY leader can escape moral compromises, but are they all this incompetent at it? And aren't there ANY people he can hire who are not as sleazy as Libby, Cheyney, Rumsfeld, et al. Rumsfeld doesn't even seem to realize the cold war is over.
I think there will be a paucity of longer posts for awhile... as much because I lack the time to create funny stories as because I don't have time to write them. If I can get my essays done this semester, along with the LSAT, and a start on my thesis, the new year will be a lot better... I can't believe I'll be going home for Christmas in just over a month!
They are having a pretty crazy "scandal" here. Labour vastly reformed the House of Lords a few years ago. Most of the hereditary peers were sent packing, and now the parties each have the ability to nominate members to the upper house. (Granted this is all rather academic as the Lords were castrated by the WWI era reforms.) In any event, a peerage is essentially now for sale. The list people nominated to the Lords is nearly identical to the list of people who donate more than 250,000 pounds to each party. The Times is making a big deal about it, but no one seems to really care.
It's similar to "Mittalgate," when one of the richest men in the world, Lakshmi Mittal, the spice trader (ok, I read that in an editorial in the Times and didn't realize that papers here are allowed to make false statements in the name of sarcasm... I was duped by my lack of cultural astuteness... he is actually a steel magnate) who rented the palace of Versailles for his daughter's wedding and bought the most expensive house ever ($128,000,000), gave 2,000,000 quid to Labour and then Tony Blair conveniently wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Romania to let Mittal open a factory on significantly favorable terms.
As for American political issues, it looks as if Bush really fucked over both sides of the Republican party. Both the libertarians and the social conservatives faced a backlash in the election. Honestly, Libby writing porn... launching a war on false pretenses...hiring a literal malaka (gay prostitute) to pose as a reporter... trying to fund a NUCLEAR BOMB (the "bunker buster"... congress at least had the sense to nix that) that can kill ONE person. If someone is THAT far under the earth, I'd say they're pretty well neutralized. I don't care if it's Beezelbub hiding down there... you don't need to nuke him. Is that supposed to somehow scare guys like Quadaffi and Il???? WE'RE SO FUCKING CRAZY WE'LL NUKE YOUR ASS.... PERSONALLY. They could just turn the Hindu-Kush into a gravel pit looking for Bin Laden....
It's not as if ANY leader can escape moral compromises, but are they all this incompetent at it? And aren't there ANY people he can hire who are not as sleazy as Libby, Cheyney, Rumsfeld, et al. Rumsfeld doesn't even seem to realize the cold war is over.
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