Wealthy Politics

Bernie Sanders the contender for the US Democratic Presidential Race ...

Bernie Sanders Wealth Inequality Claims ... Not Popular With Some Americans

.... has claimed the country's three richest billionaires own more than the poorest half of the US Americans.

Modern Time Travel

John Titor is the name used on several Internet bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveller from 2036. He claimed to be an American soldier based in Tampa in Hillsborough County, Florida, who was assigned to a governmental time-travel project. He said he was on his way back to 1975 .... that he was using a device fitted to .... wait for it .... a 1987 Chevy Suburban.

John Titor's Time Machine in a 1987 Chevy Suburban

Barracking Obama

A US President comes to the UK, during a very sensitive political debate about our future membership of a deeply undemocratic organisation, aka the European Union.

UK: US Puppet Or Valued Friend And Ally?

A matter solely for the British people to decide. Now good manners would suggest that he keep his comments on the subject to a polite 'Its not for us to interfere in the internal politics of a friend and ally" ....

Cruisin For A Bruisin

Ted Cruz is the first Republican candidate to officially announce his intention to stand for US President in 2026 (that's a typo but he may well run in 2024 as well for all I know) .. 2016.

Ted Cruz .... Hmm, Has He Got A Secret?

Mr Cruz is a darling of the far right 'Tea Party' wing of the Republican Party, so probably can't actually win the country or the Presidency ... although who am I to second guess that?

Best or Worst Politicians

The worst and the best US Presidents as calculated by various criteria is not a subject I have dwelled long upon

Trump - Latest Contender For Title?

..... I guess that like most people, I would have generally thought along the lines of, Abraham Lincoln = Good, and George W Bush = Bad. Which just shows that I don't really know much about past US Presidents.

Lord's Resistance Army

At last someone in the West's conscience has got the better of them, and after Libya, where the US took more of a support role, the US President, Barack Obama, has finally decided that the scandal of the Uganda bandits known as the 'Lord's Resistance Army' must be ended. This genocidal group is led by Joseph Kony, a man who is probably technically insane (and who is is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court), but who leads his rag bag bunch on murderous across a swathe of central Africa.

"I have authorised a small number of combat-equipped US forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of (LRA leader) Joseph Kony from the battlefield" .... in other words "Wanted Dead or Alive" (preferably dead ... in this case few liberals would quibble with that).


Lords Resistance Army - Rag Tag Bandits

The LRA are guilty of mass murder, rape, looting, and kidnappings in several nations, and appear to be able to survive being attacked by soldiers of several nations (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Central Africa Republic), across whose borders they roam. About 30,000 have people died and mant thousands horribly maimed, as the LRA has spread terror in northern Uganda for more than 20 years, displacing some two million people in that country alone.

The US is sending about 100 soldiers to Uganda to help regional forces battle the notorious Lord's Resistance Army. All the troops will be combat-equipped, but primarily would be providing information and advice .... whats so sad about this is that as little as 1,000 combat troops, and a handful of helicopter,s would destroy this group inside a couple of months.

Still, hats off to Pres. Obama, some action is better than nothing.

New Bully Boy On The Block

"Such an act has grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, hurt the feelings of Chinese people and damaged the Sino-American relations" ... these are the words of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a written statement yesterday. And the cause of these aggressive sentiments? US spy planes flying over the one party, undemocratic, communist state? No. Err maybe the US have been caught spying? No. Oh well maybe the US has retaliated to  the spate of Chinese sponsored cyber attacks on Western businesses, Pro Tibetan sites, Pro democracy, or Government websites and computer systems, by attacking Chinese sites? Nope.

Obama And Dalai Lama ....

Well what was it that caused the Chinese dictatorship to use such intemperate language? President Obama had the nerve to hold a private meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama of a free Tibet.

Obama - Long Legged Mack Daddy

This was posted on the Burning Toast blog site as Well, Are We? ...... I am almost speechless, which is more than can be said about the broadcaster.

Sadly that blog is dead now and taken down .... and so has the original video on you tube that was here ... but I have found another version, not quits as good sorry.

 

The speaker gets more and more worked up as his larynx gets warmer, and then starts singing his insults. Be warned that US freedom of speech is much stronger than that in the UK, so be warned again that he doesn't worry about the language or content of his insults.

 

 Here's the object of his ire ....

A Long Legged Mack Daddy?

US Presidential Debate

As part of my coverage of the US Presidential race (where as usual I called the Clinton / Obama race wrong ..... but I did get McCain right!) ...

Senators Barack Obama and John McCain 1st Presidential Debate

  I watched the US Presidential debate yesterday.

Obama and the European PC Liberals

Barack Obama is on a 'Presidential' tour of the world from Europe to Iraq via Afghanistan, followed by a press corp, both foreign and US that could invade a small country.

He of course says he is just a private citizen, but the fawning and adulation of the left wing in Europe, makes it quite clear that they expect and want him as the next US President. They can barely contain their glee but forget a few salient points which of course I am happy to remind them of:

1. If he's half black, then he's half white as well .... so why does that make him a black man?
2. It's the US voters, not a bunch of left wing, liberal bleeding heart halfwits in Germany, France and the UK, who will decide who is the next US President. They may yet decide that John McCain should be the US President..... the secrecy of the ballot box allows for many a private opinion to be exercised.
3. He's an American Presidential Candidate, not a European PM .... he defends US business, US jobs, US interests and US power .... not some "Black" ideal foisted upon him by non US politico's.
4. Finally, he like all US politicians is to the right of European politicians, and certainly doesn't represent any views that the left wing in Europe would necessarily standby.

To prove my point, I am considered fairly right wing but when I took a "Test your polices" check on the web against US presidential politics I barely made Mrs Clinton! .... I mean that I was at best a very weak democrat, so if I had been a Euro leftie I wouldn't have even managed to register as a democrat, because their policies are too right wing!

Unfortunately the website is now removed (It was one of the lesser Democrats) but it was very good and illustrated very starkly the huge difference between US and European politics, even for a 'righty' like me.

A gulf that the left wing just never seem to notice until after the 'liberal' takes office.