Tag Archives: United Kingdom

Government by Rich and Poor

Sadly, Myrna Bushell, Bideford (UK) town councillor and stripper/phone sex business owner, is resigning her office due to a lack of respect from colleagues. But in parting she also cited the time constraints necessary for local councilpeople, concluding that you … Continue reading

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The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband’s knowledge of history. There’s something incredibly deranged about that government. They’ve taken the traditional … Continue reading

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Pat Condell on Rowan Williams

Patrick Condell goes on an epic rant about that “cloistered, bubble-headed fool of an Archbishop” for embracing Sharia law in the United Kingdom.

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The Vanity of the State

Andy Burnham, the UK’s Labour Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, was caught in thick mascara at Prime Minister’s Questions on Thursday (glamor shot here). It might seem a light affair, but the peril for the British public … Continue reading

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Home & Land Defense

There’s a moment in Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we’ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the … Continue reading

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The Scale of the American Economy

Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I … Continue reading

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