Here is all I have to say about that:
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Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
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14 June 2011
31 May 2011
Our ObamaCare Future...
...Is here today in Britain's NHS. And yes, it's rationed.
The NHS is the UK's version of ObamaCare in it's ultimate, misty-eyed goal - a single-payer, government controlled health care system. But just like every other attempt at that 19th century socialist dream, ObamaCare isn't about improving your health care, it's about controlling your health care. As in, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Chuckie Schumer controlling it, not you. You will have the "right to choose" only what they will allow you to choose, and only then if you make the lifestyle choices of which they approve.
Welcome to freedom being just another word for nothing left to lose.
Hattip: Maggie's Farm.
The NHS is the UK's version of ObamaCare in it's ultimate, misty-eyed goal - a single-payer, government controlled health care system. But just like every other attempt at that 19th century socialist dream, ObamaCare isn't about improving your health care, it's about controlling your health care. As in, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Chuckie Schumer controlling it, not you. You will have the "right to choose" only what they will allow you to choose, and only then if you make the lifestyle choices of which they approve.
Welcome to freedom being just another word for nothing left to lose.
Hattip: Maggie's Farm.
25 May 2011
Irony Alert! Or, Bottoming Out Again.
Obama's peeps gas up his limo at a BP station in the UK.
How nice. You get a free fill-up with every disaster.
As Insty points out, some people get a fat chunk of campaign cash, too!
And in a related note...
How nice. You get a free fill-up with every disaster.
As Insty points out, some people get a fat chunk of campaign cash, too!
And in a related note...
29 April 2011
23 April 2011
17 April 2011
The Grapes Of Spong.
This being Palm Sunday, I think it's a good time to note the progress the Liberal wing of Anglicanism has achieved in the UK:
One Rev. Dr Giles Fraser thinks all that "whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" is a bunch of hooey. So, Giles... what's the point?
The parish of Holy Trinity / St. Mary's, Guildford, apparently gets in touch with their inner Himmler, posting this bit of inclusive indaba dhimmitude on their website:
Some are saying the site was hacked, and have alerted the parish. Yet, the cartoon remains...
An electrician in the UK is facing the sack for displaying a palm-frond Cross on his dashboard. That's where mine is today. I thank my lucky stars (and stripes) that I don't live in the UK today.
Hattip to The MCJ.
UPDATE: In a related note, the grapes of "diversity": The 12th-Century Boys practice some interfaith dialogue and religion-of-peace cultural understanding in London. I don't know if Rowan Williams would approve, but I know he sure as hell won't protest.
UPDATE 18APR11: Well that didn't take long - the cartoon is gone. But have no fear, dear readers, there is something called "screenshot", and I have one. In case they want to get all Orwellian on us.
One Rev. Dr Giles Fraser thinks all that "whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" is a bunch of hooey. So, Giles... what's the point?
The parish of Holy Trinity / St. Mary's, Guildford, apparently gets in touch with their inner Himmler, posting this bit of inclusive indaba dhimmitude on their website:
Some are saying the site was hacked, and have alerted the parish. Yet, the cartoon remains...
An electrician in the UK is facing the sack for displaying a palm-frond Cross on his dashboard. That's where mine is today. I thank my lucky stars (and stripes) that I don't live in the UK today.
Hattip to The MCJ.
UPDATE: In a related note, the grapes of "diversity": The 12th-Century Boys practice some interfaith dialogue and religion-of-peace cultural understanding in London. I don't know if Rowan Williams would approve, but I know he sure as hell won't protest.
UPDATE 18APR11: Well that didn't take long - the cartoon is gone. But have no fear, dear readers, there is something called "screenshot", and I have one. In case they want to get all Orwellian on us.
27 March 2011
Life Imitates Punk Rock.
After the events in London yesterday, this seems de rigueur. So, take it away, Sid and Johnny:
Mark Steyn gets to the heart of the human right the protesters are upset about.
Mark Steyn gets to the heart of the human right the protesters are upset about.
22 March 2011
Fun With Tornados.
RAF Tornados messing about in the Falklands. And, at about 2:30, one of the best examples of extreme ironing I've seen.
14 March 2011
A Happy Story.
Something to make you smile on a Monday. Precision, discipline, and a "Quigley" are involved.
27 February 2011
Mother Nature and Reality: 1...
...Idealistic Urbanites and Wishful Thinking: 0. Apparently, a carbon-free, "green" future means "bitterly cold and uninhabitable" buildings. I can't wait.
Hattip: Midwest Conservative Journal.
Hattip: Midwest Conservative Journal.
04 February 2011
Special Relationship? What Special Relationship?
Obama gives up British nuclear secrets to get an arms deal with the Russians. The Brits seem to be a tad upset, but I don't know why - I mean, Barry gave them some nice DVDs.
30 December 2010
10 December 2010
Journalists Lie. Americans Will Die.
The next time The Left/ Mainstream Media tries to hide behind their standard "defending the public's right to know" excuse, know this: Journalists have been hiding anti-American Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the UK for the last three weeks.
Assange wasn't "on the run", as had been reported - he was being well protected by the very people who spun that lie; people who support him and his actions. And, Assange wasn't living underground and eating from a cache, either.
Assange wasn't "on the run", as had been reported - he was being well protected by the very people who spun that lie; people who support him and his actions. And, Assange wasn't living underground and eating from a cache, either.
09 December 2010
Religious Vandals.
2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down. Let's hope it's vandals; and not... y'know.
UPDATE: The more I think about it, this is sorry a metaphor for the state of Christianity today in the UK, and in particular the Church of England.
UPDATE: The more I think about it, this is sorry a metaphor for the state of Christianity today in the UK, and in particular the Church of England.
09 November 2010
13 October 2010
04 October 2010
No Pressure. (UPDATED AND BUMPED)
Oh. My. God. If you think the "green" movement is just a bunch of harmless, misguided do-gooders, think again. The video below is from a British environmentalist group called 10:10, who thought it was "extremely funny". You decide. (Warning: Very bloody and graphic)
Not too hard to see why the 10:10 group took down this video. The environmentalist movement has become little more than a new strain of fascism, and this unwittingly proves it beyond a doubt. Like the older forms in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, etc., they now view failure to conform to their vlaues and beliefs as worthy of death. In other words, you and me are the new Lebensunwertes Leben - "life unworthy of life".
UPDATE 04OCT2010: My brother, The Grey Man, responds:
UPDATE 05OCT2010: It seems that the 10:10 'No Pressure' web page has gone from calling the 'No Pressure' video "extremely funny" to apologizing profusely to 10:10's corporate sponsors, and many of it's members, who were also very offended by 'No Pressure'. (Even a bunch of busy-body socialists understands the basic economic fact that socialist money grows on capitalist trees. -ed.) Just like us ignorant, right-wing rubes, these corporate check writers and contributing members must not be smart and nuanced enough to understand rib-tickling sophisticated sarcasm when they see it.
Not too hard to see why the 10:10 group took down this video. The environmentalist movement has become little more than a new strain of fascism, and this unwittingly proves it beyond a doubt. Like the older forms in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, etc., they now view failure to conform to their vlaues and beliefs as worthy of death. In other words, you and me are the new Lebensunwertes Leben - "life unworthy of life".
UPDATE 04OCT2010: My brother, The Grey Man, responds:
UPDATE 05OCT2010: It seems that the 10:10 'No Pressure' web page has gone from calling the 'No Pressure' video "extremely funny" to apologizing profusely to 10:10's corporate sponsors, and many of it's members, who were also very offended by 'No Pressure'. (Even a bunch of busy-body socialists understands the basic economic fact that socialist money grows on capitalist trees. -ed.) Just like us ignorant, right-wing rubes, these corporate check writers and contributing members must not be smart and nuanced enough to understand rib-tickling sophisticated sarcasm when they see it.
08 September 2010
Plane Porn - Battle of Britain Style.
We will likely never again see together in the skies over England so many of "so few". Just bloody amazing.
25 August 2010
And In The Interview, Bind Them.
A fascinating 1968 BBC interview with J. R. R. Tolkien, and some of his English fans and students. Be sure to see the the obligatory Lefty git at 14:45 prattling on, Eric Idle-like, about Tolkien's work being escapism, and its failure to address "real issues" of the day. Hey, it was 1968.
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