Category Archives: Politics

Politics, UK

The People’s Prince…

Shouldn’t treat the playboy prince like any other cheap TV star, he deserves special treatment as a decedent of a medieval royal!!!

“The prince, who is third in line to the throne, is shown without clothing in two pictures taken on his trip to Las Vegas.

 

Royal aides are understood to be urging the British media to respect the prince’s privacy and not republish the photographs, which are likely to have been taken without his consent.”

 

Naked pictures of Prince Harry published by gossip website | UK news | guardian.co.uk.

Time to end the torture of these people. End the royal family and he can answer his calling as the male Paris Hilton.

Politics, UK

Niall Ferguson…

I tried watching the documentary series called the Ascent of Money but gave up about half way through. I found Ferguson unconvincing in his analysis and bombastic in his presentation.

Since “everyone” was reading the book I assumed that I was an idiot. Then I see this and feel better.

“At The Atlantic, and with the searing headline “As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize,” James Fallows writes, “A tenured professor of history at my undergraduate alma mater has written a cover story for Daily Beast/Newsweek that is so careless and unconvincing that I wonder how he will presume to sit in judgment of the next set of student papers he has to grade.”

Niall Ferguson Smacked Down Over Newsweek Cover — Daily Intel.

Politics

Turn up for the books…

“Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.

Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.”

Hungary Far-Right Leader Discovers Jewish Roots – NYTimes.com.

Politics

Learning From Norway’s Tragedy…

Did you ever get the feeling that there are only a couple of adult countries left?

“Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s reaction was unequivocal. He declared that Norway’s strongest weapon in responding to this was to employ more openness and more democracy.

Norwegians took up his call. Neither politicians nor the media turned it into a partisan political issue. The public reacted with grief but did not call for extraordinary measures. And the state chose to prosecute Brevik in an ordinary public court with full media coverage.”

Learning From Norway’s Tragedy – NYTimes.com.

Politics, UK

Red George…

“This man will represent the views of the ordinary people here. He will address corruption and impotence in Bradford – cynics, thieves, robbers like you get in cowboy films,” 

George Galloway shows his star power in Bradford West | Politics | The Guardian.

Politics, US

The death penalty…

I’ve never understood why you’d kill a killer. Surely you’d want to study, understand and prevent.

Really? Why would you want serial killers around, paid for by your taxes. Well you might want to talk to them about what happened…

“There is significant evidence out there that suggests that not only did John Wayne Gacy not operate alone, he may not have been involved in some of the murders, and the fact that he was largely a copycat killer,” Stephenson told WGN.

U.S. News – Serial killer John Wayne Gacy had accomplices, lawyers say.