To Our Cousins Across the Pond

First off, while I cannot speak for everyone on this blog, I want to emphasize that I do not hold BP accountable for the blowout that allowed the oil to escape. Frankly, no one knows exactly what happened or why, and to assess blame on anyone this early in the process is either irresponsible or diabolical.

Second, please know that Bambi, aka Dr Utopia, no longer speaks for the majority of Americans. He does not like it when people make money and do not give it away to him. He was very happy taking campaign contributions from all sorts of companies and corporations, and now that he has what he wants, he no longer has a need for the capitalist system which generated those funds. He is a typical Marxist. Use whatever is needed to get the results and then do what you want.

He is also adamantly against any sort of free trade and free will. He is a snake oil salesman; a shyster; a con man. And whats up with those Dumbo ears? You ever see a set of ring hangers like that in your life? I bet he has to tape them back to keep his skinny little ass on the ground in a high wind.

I am not going to apologize for Dr Utopia's remarks concerning BP or Britain. I didn't vote for his leftist agenda and its not my fault; however we will do everything legally allowed to rid ourselves of this penis-head ASAP.

You can take that to the bank.

More on the Dissing of Our Cousins

In an opinion piece published in the New York Post, Arthur Herman, whose latest book is “Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.” points to several examples of Obama apparently seeking to downplay the traditionally close U.S.-Britain ties:

• Obama did not hold a joint Rose Garden press conference with Brown, the “usual protocol” when a president and British prime minister first meet.
• Instead of citing the decades-old “special relationship” between the two countries, a White House spokesperson referred to a “special partnership.”
• In the traditional gift exchange between the two leaders, Brown gave Obama a pen holder made from the timber of the first British ship to fight the slave trade, and a signed first edition of the classic 8-volume biography of Winston Churchill by Randolph Churchill and Sir Martin Gilbert.

Obama’s gift to Brown was a collection of DVDs of classic American films, including “Psycho,” which are all available in British stores.
But Obama had earlier demonstrated his disdain for Churchill, ordering that the bust of Churchill that Prime Minister Tony Blair had presented to the U.S. after 9/11 be returned to the British Embassy.

In fact, another Churchill expert, “Churchill: Speaker of the Century” author James Humes, cited a report that when Obama first entered the Oval Office and saw the Churchill bust, he said, “Get that goddam thing out of here.”

Herman wrote in the Post: “This was a stunning posthumous attack on the memory of a man who was not only the living embodiment of the Anglo-American special relationship (Churchill was half American), but of its ideological foundations.”

That special relationship has seen American and British forces fight together in two World Wars, Korea, the first Gulf War, Bosnia and most recently in Iraq. But the eight volumes of Churchill’s biography “will plainly sit unread on the White House bookshelf — because Barack Obama clearly considers that legacy, like the Anglo-American alliance itself, to be outdated,” Herman observed.

The London Daily Telegraph succinctly stated: “Obama has been rudeness personified toward Britain.”

The British Press respond to President Obama's gaffes

The Wonder Kid is overwhelmed. I thought that he was chosen over the Old One because of his youth and vigor, his ability to multi-task. His recent disastrous meeting with Gordon Brown has been critiqued by the Telegraph in the UK. They are SO polite over there. The knife slips in soooo quietly.......

Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.

President Bush is 15 years his senior and has been running a war. Heck, FDR was old, crippled, and had the Great Depression along with WWI. THIS is overwheming Obama?

Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.
"I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Nuff' said on that.

A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to "even fake an interest in foreign policy".

Where's the outcry about Bush's, I mean, Obama's lack of interest in foreign policy? Wasn't this the President that was going to engage the world?

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment." The apparent lack of attention to detail by the Obama administration is indicative of what many believe to be Mr Obama's determination to do too much too quickly.

Oh. My. God. And this is from the "smart diplomacy" crowd.....

We're doomed.

First they came for the smokers......

Smokers, how do you like being 2nd class citizens? How would you like to have to get a "license" to smoke?

While its not happening here yet, many bad ideas that first start in England seem to get imported. While Governor Kaine and our representatives explore the idea of taking more property rights from business owners, England is talking about needing government permission to even smoke at all....

"Smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way. No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health England."...cash raised by the proposed scheme would go to the NHS.(National Health Service)

"You've got to get a form, a complex form - the government's good at complex forms; you have got to get a photograph.

"It's a little bit of a problem to actually do it, so you have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to being a smoker."

"The senior government advisor putting this idea forward is not only adding to the red tape and bureaucracy we already have in this country.

"He is openly bragging that he wants to make the form as complex as possible to fill in."

I can see people pushing laws like this. I don't smoke. I don't like smoke. But it is a legal product used by adults. Leave it to them whether they wish to smoke. Politicians will use an idea like this to add more power to themselves. Its about them, not you, the smoker. Private citizens should be left alone.

The Continuing Rise of "Eurabia"

Hat Tip: Drudge

Europe continues to head down the road to being Saudi Arabia with snow.
Europe is having “a 26-year high in the number of children women are having in England and Wales” and cites “rising immigration and older mothers” as the main source of the rise. Quote:

“The last decade has seen a 77 per cent increase in births by mothers born outside of the UK, with the figure climbing to almost 150,000, or over a fifth of all babies, last year.

As Britain’s demographics change, Mohammed is expected soon to replace Jack as the most popular boy’s name. It has already pushed Jack to third place.”

The trend of cultural dilution is supported even more by the claims of infant mortality rates being “at the lowest level ever, at five deaths per 1,000, the same as for 2005.” So, of those babies born to the UK by immigrants by far the majority live on.

Take into account those who are UK citizens but who come from other countries, or, are the female children of immigrants from over two decades earlier that are now bearing children, and the rate at which native Europeans are being supplanted in their own country is probably alarmingly high.

Thought from England on preventing more shootings. Actually its not what you think.

The theories of gun control in Great Britain tend towards draconian and useless. Simply put, hand guns are bad, do not own one. And heaven forbid you use a weapon to defend yourself.

That said, this article was a nice suprise.

"There are lessons to be learned from the Virginia Tech massacre", says Alexander Cockburn.
Arm teachers and students.
There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment giving people the right to bear arms.
A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons.
Ban anti-depressants. What should be banned from campuses are not weapons but prescriptions for anti-depressants.
(The article describes how shooters at other schools were on anti-depressants)
Cho Seung-hui was on a prescription drug. The likelihood of it being an anti-depressant is high, since campus doctors dispense prescriptions for them like confetti.

He has more. Definitely a different take, and no gun control/confiscation mentioned.