the american media gluts itself on 'pedophile thriller porn'.

The coverage of the ramsey case kinda ammounts to 'pedophile thriller porn' and the american media clearly loves where as in britain i haven't heard anything about it seamingly for weeks, is this just because the american media were complicit in the hounding of the ramsey family or is it the nature of the american media and indeed america its self that has caused them to latch on to this story and equally is it the nature of the british media and of britain itself that causes them to treat it as a small story or is it something implicit in the case itself the makes it unimportant?

war war the expanded edition.

The war on terrorism, the complete inefficiency in government, all the bumbling of everything from enquirerys to the hurricane katrina relief effort, everything, and I mean everything, that bush does is done in order to bankrupt the government, to drain the beast of its life blood, and when this process is complete, when there is no blood left to drain, when the government has no money left with which to run anything, then shall the vultures sweep in, the corporations from oil moguls to arms dealers. The government will slowly but surely be auctioned off. It will start out with the public amenities, then the army, and finally the white house itself and all who remain within it including the presidency. Yes in the end the president and indeed the few people who still vote, will be nothing more than fronts, patsies, and token gestures the only people who will actually have any real voting power will be the stock holders and the more stock you have the more votes you get.
Why will this be allowed to happen? Answer: The average American. The average American does not care, he does not think about politics be they global or local “that’s what the politicians are there for numb nuts”, the average American does not vote, in fact considering these other facts I would not trust the average American to vote. Bush was allowed to steal an election not through lack of information but because the average American could not be bothered to get of its humungas collective beeeehiiind and do something about it.
Why is this? [I now move from ranting into a more world-weary style feeling now to be completely destroyed] why this power? They are not politicians they are not intellectuals they are not moguls but they are the majority they have power in numbers and security and it is that security that it is the reason for their incredible apathy they feel I think collectively invincible whatever troubles they have in their everyday lives the greater world of politics never touches them so they don’t care about it they don’t care about anything that doesn’t touch them they won’t care all that much about a earthquake or civil war in some far off and unknown region until they feel it at the gas station you see it all the time on the news “how long before we feel it at the pumps”. The public gets the president it deserves, in the case of George W Bush and in the case of all those that will come after him, the president is manufactured. He is manufactured to be as close to the average American as is possible. He may be an ex-oil mogul but not a very good one and he certainly ain’t no intellectual and he’s a terrible politician, that’s what people like about him they expect nothing of him and that’s exactly what he gives them nothing and a whole load of crap, and with a president like that in charge one can’t help but wonder if the united states of America would be better of as the united corporate states of America but considering that Bush’s buddies in Halliburton are likely to be running much of the show I suspect that, that is not going to be the case.

Günter Grass

perhaps one of Germanys greatest living authors, has recently admitted that in the closing stages of the second world war [at the age of seventeen] he had been recruited into the Waffen SS. One would imagine that in a country so traumatised by its recent history such an admission, especially coming from such a high profile figure and one who is so vehemently anti nazi, would be seen as an act of bravery but no, he has been roundly and venomously attacked by politicians, by his contemporaries, by just about everyone. I find it to be further more disgusting proof of Germanys [almost] complete inability to move on from the past, a past they cling to in such a manner that it causes them to persecute anyone who questions them in this regard and to villainies individuals such as Günter Grass who like most of the country of the time were caught up in it. The fact of the matter is that the man cannot change his past only his future and his present, should he have previously been so reticent about his war time activities, no of course not but had he come out earlier he would simply have been crucified earlier.

war war

this [the war in Iraq and just about everything else he does] is all part of bush's grand plan to bankrupt the goverment so that it won't have any money to run anything and will thus have to farm things out to the private sector eventially a consortium of bankers, arms dealers and oil moguls will be running the show and when that happens the president and indeed the few people who still vote will be mere patsys, fronts, puppets and tokens only the shareholders will get to really vote. Not that that will bother the average american as the average american doesn't vote in fact i wouldn't trust the average american to vote, W is in power because the average american doesn't care enough to get off their great collective beeehiiinds, so maybe americas new corporate overlords will acttually run the country better, but then seeing as its likely to be haliburton running the things, probably theres no hope of that.

Go to

http://www.healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/
I found this while it was on 'blogs of note', now it isn't so i thought that i'd post it here, suffice it to say it kicks arse.

ceasefire?

Israel has once again wrong footed itself as it has been doing since the very begining of this war, the ceasefire may not be over, after all Hizbolah hasn't completely restocked its arms yet, but Israel has certainly broken it. When the ceasefire began Hizbolah said that it would be made invalid if Israeli troops were to remain in the country and thus they would be fired on, Israeli troops have indeed remained in the country and yet Hizbolah has failed to make good on its promise and as it turns israel has been the first to brake the ceasefire by attacking Hizbolah killing three Hizbolah fighters and losing one of its own, they claimed that they were dissrupting arms coming in from Syria and Iran noble aims perhaps but this entire opperation makes Hizbolah look like the 'big man' and Israel........... well it doesn't make them look very good atall. They have as i said once again completely wrong footed themselves this entire war which Israel launched not simply against Hizbolah but against the entire Lebonease nation has made Hizbolah who were previously dispised by much of the Lebonease people and there goverment look like heroes.
And so what is the international comunity going to do well......... probably nothing at least not for some time what they need to do is broaker a similar ceasefire in Gaza and then go onto more permanant stabalising action in Lebonon preventing any other war from breaking out, and then back to Israel where they need to enforce 'the road map' but this won't happen the fact of the matter is that conflict in this region seems so much to simply be the status quo that no one cares all that much about it except to the extent that they speak many token words to make themselves look good and the fact of the matter is that if there was no oil there then they probably wouldn't even do that.

Legislature freedom and protection.

I find this American aversion to anything even slightly socialist/communist interesting I understand that it is because of the cold war but still it is very stupid especially considering that most western governments have some sort socialist value in their current systems of government.

I see it like this communism means freedom for the government capitalism means freedom for the corporation but democracy means freedom for neither but freedom for everyone and this in a way is the problem as it means that large organizations such as drug companys get more power than they should have as there is a feeling that one cannot bring forth any legislation that would impinge on the freedom of those corporations completely disregarding our freedom [this has been tested in the courts] which ends up with situation like the one we are in now whereby we can't get proper drug legislation to protect the people and anyone who tries to do so is practically decried as a communist in much the same way as someone in a communist country suggesting that the solution to their economic problems might be to have some private enterprise might well be decried as a capitalist.

THIS MUST END.

Just as china has proved that some private enterprise can help to solve the economic problems caused by communism so too must we swallow our pride and use a bit of communism to solve the legislative problems caused by having a capitalist based democracy, ultimately perhaps democracy should be neither capitalist nor communist but a bit of both.

They confuse me.

I used to get confused between Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken and Christopher Loyd.
I don't any more but............
I still get confused betwenn Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman.
Why do they have to have such similar names?
Actors change there names all the time why couldn't they?
It would certainly improve there carreers, not that they nessasarily need improving but its allways good in that game to have a name not easily confused with another actor's.
Help me.
How do you tell the apart?

A number of things i have recently said on the subject of danny wallace.

I've not been up to much recently I have however started reading danny wallace's book 'join me' I'm becoming rather obssesed with him, funny thing happened to me recently I wanted to get that book from the library but it wasn't there so I ordered it, about a week later I received a phone call saying that they had my book in so the next day I went to collect it only to find that they did indeed have the book but it was reserved for someone else so they re-ordered it for me, a week later at exactly the same time recieved the same phone call telling me that my book was in and so the next day I went to collect it only to have the same thing happen, obviously I complained saying that this is the second time this has happened, and just by chance they happened to open the book and have a look at the rest of the reservation slip, it did indeed have someoneelses name on it however it allso had someone elses book on it the slip had some how managed to slip into the wrong book once lifted up it revealed another slip of paper wih my name on it and indeed my book on it, the other slip of paper was for a reservation of 'my first potty'.

I have allready said these things in two e-mails and I am likely to be saying it in a much edited form on the forum of his website, one of the things that has often or indeed just now struck me about danny wallace is that it may well be dangerous to be a freind of his as he may try and rope you into one of his strange skeems and even if this doesn't happen you're likely to end up in one of his books of course that probably appeals to a lot of people which puts Mr wallace in a dillema whereby he is haunted night and day by sycophantic idiots wanting to get in one of his books and thus in there strange little brains become rich, famous, and celebrated and at the other end of the spectrum avoided like the plague by perfectly nice people who he might well love to be freinds with but who have an aversion to any sort of limelight and are put of by the fact that they may end up with an entry in one of his books of course they could refuse him permission to put them in but seeing as they are the nice sort of people that danny wallace would love to have as freinds they probably wouldn't have the heart to do so and thus will probably just avoid him.

such is life.

Evolution versus religion in the minds of the masses.

The problem with evolutionary theory versus religion is that most people don't have the time to read up on this stuff it is after all bloody complex stuff, so because of this they just go with what their leaders are saying on the subject, the problem is, is that they have two sets of leaders scientific and religious, with religion you get an easy to understand explenation for everything, you get morality and you get an afterlife as well wheras with science you get a great if at time harder to understand explenation of everything or allmost everything around you and you get the tools with which you can dicuss this and explore it further but you don't get all the stuff the religion can give you. the fact of the matter is that most people know that the scientific answers are the correct ones but its just that with religion you get more bang for you're buck as people say so most people go with the religious answers if religion offered less than science then people would go with science.
The way to counter this is to show exactly how little religion offers you by which i mean show the things that it doesn't offer you and show how you would be able to come at all of those things via science. You could write a whole book on it, the only problem being that most people won't have the time to read it.