Life, And Other Natural Disasters...

I think that pretty much sums the way certainly the UK has gone and, I would venture to suggest, the USA has gone.  Nobody sees the bigger picture.  Nobody looks to the longer term.  "We want a better NHS, but you want to put up taxes to do it?  Over my dead body!"  "We need more social housing, but my Council Tax bill will go up?  On yer bike!"

As a result, here we are in Brexit mode and the USA apparently heading happily towards a Christian theocracy.  And now people are starting to realise the cost.  Pound drops massively against the dollar and the euro.  Prices going up.  True, the "promised" downturn in the economy hasn't happened.  Yet.

What amazed me the most about the Brexit vote was the fact that areas that have benefited from significant amounts of money from the EU decided to vote to leave, such as the Welsh valleys.

Lemmings.

I don't know why, but every time I have a day that ends with me feeling severely p*ssed off, I invariably end up at the local McDonalds in Oldbury.  Usually, I avoid "Mucky D's" like the plague - my fast food of choice over here is KFC.  However, there's something about being in a foul mood that sends me somehow to those golden arches.  Mind you, I do like their chocolate shakes even if I can feel my arteries clogging with their artery hardening wallpaper paste-ishness as my cheeks collapse to suck the last globules from the cup...!

I suppose my greatest worry out of today's elections and votes is that Proposition 8 will pass in California.  If it does, what next?  If California, one of the most gay friendly states in the union is frightened into submission by the bigots, what hope for the rest of America?  Would it mean that all the bigots have to do is open their check books and scare the populace into their vision of utopia of them and us?

And the thing that really makes me mad about all these so-called caring churches pouring millions of money into passing this venomous, hate-filled legislation is just that.  The pouring of millions of dollars into a vendetta against a percentage of society - millions of dollars that could have been spent doing some good!  Millions of dollars that are not being spent on feeding the starving.  Or finding a cure for AIDS or cancer.

No.  Far better to spend dollars on denying rights.  Much more righteous.

I'm hoping to wake up tomorrow morning to something better.  Something that my friends in California have been working for.  A little thing I like to call fairness.

And hopefully the beginning of something more...

Once again, Homophobic legislators in Arizona, claiming God on their side, are trying to put anti-gay bills (SCR 1038 and HCR 2065) to the ballot.  I haven't read either of these bills; the fact that they exist is abhorrent to me.  And further evidence to me that, despite being ahead of the world in many things, America as a country seriously lags behind in the field of human rights.

Whether you consider this to be a part of the right-wing Christian/Mormon agenda or the Corporations not willing to shoulder the additional costs that partner benefits would add to them, it still mounts to a creation of a second class of citizen.  And, due to the US's lack of labor laws, there are people afraid to come out because to do so would lose them their job. 

I guess this is an over-simplification of the situation, but that's what I observe from the other side of the Atlantic.

Rant over.

...are there any genes shared between



Dr. Condescention Condoleeza Rice

And



Dwayne Dibbley.  As "Private Eye" would say "I think we should be told...!"

...but I get a kick out of webcamming with someone with sound activated electrodes attached to their more sensitive parts.  And making as much noise as I can across the internet.

After a little thought, I've gotten rid of that damn Sausage posting. I feel a little stupid for falling for it in the first place, and to those who also fell as a result of this posting, heartfelt apologies.

To those who created it : May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!