US Politics and UK stupidity.

[johnny9fingers]

Ooh boy!

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/20/13375605-accidental-candor-in-ohio

Got to admire the scale of the thing here. Voter fraud done ostensibly to stop voter fraud. The recursion is too much for my ordinary intellect: it's like being in a perfectly mirrored room.

Well done America. Very-well done indeed.

And for my own country's idiocy we have this piece of evidence:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19328335

I can just imagine the strained relations between the Foreign Office and the Home Office right now. Stupid bumbling officious morons screwing up international treaties and trashing whatever was left of the UK's international image, recently burnished by a good Olympics, just to extradite Assange. Actually, morons isn't a strong enough insult. I mean, it's not that most of the world still hates our guts for historical reasons anyway, is it? And we have to trade with these nations too. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid...the stupid is too much, as my younger interweb chums would opine.

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well, then there's this too

[zuma.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/aug/19/secret-court-hearing-compared-superinjunctions

'The government's plan to establish a new generation of secret courts has sparked fresh controversy after it emerged that the fact that a hearing is to be held behind closed doors may itself be kept secret.'

scary precedent... yikes.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

I apologize for my entire country, in particular for eight years of Bush/Cheney.

We're not totally bad. We gave the world jazz, baseball, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone, Anchor Steam Beer, William James, Orson Welles, and Stanley Kubrick.