By Glendronach
China and Russia swoop in to protect their new BFF and kindred spirit, Comrade Robert Mugabe at the UN Security Council.
As I have noted often, a total lack of shame opens up vast new frontiers for some.
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By Arran Gold
One of the byproducts of a euphoria is that everything is perceived as good news. A good example is the recent news coverage of Obama, in particular these two news items.
Jackson’s `Crude’ Remarks May Give Boost to Obama
Ironically, success of the surge in Iraq is helping Obama
Is there anything that won’t help Obama?
By Dalwhinnie
Watch this fellow:
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Listen to this fellow in the US House of Representatives. You may disdain his accent, (I speak to accent snobs) but is he not making eminent good sense? Listen to the EPA two-page single spaced rules for disposing of one of the neon-mercury light bulbs that the US and Canada have decided, by fiat, to impose on us.
The difference between the United States and Canada, where the use of these fluorescent bulbs has been mandated, is that there are, in the United States, sources of resistance to the collectivism inherent in the British ministerial form of government. When the Cabinet decides, the King rules. And the Cabinet is able to decide when it has the command of the House of Commons.
But both systems labour in vain against the know-it-all tendencies of bureaucracy, which is eternally the same. This decade it is energy conservation. Next decade it will be some other cause. And every decade sees the accretion of one more set of rules that is never deleted and forgotten. Think about it as you screw in your new government-madated light bulbs.