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(will whoever took ENGLISHRANTER.COM please give it back)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-6230716448751598502013-04-17T20:47:00.003+01:002013-04-17T20:47:32.933+01:00A good day to bury bad news<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Maggie, I wish I'd never seen your face.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-80242066714805947562010-09-08T01:23:00.001+01:002010-09-08T01:25:45.160+01:00FLORIDA QUR'AN BURNING LATEST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbX_e0du3I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/9LLRQmIOO6Y/s1600/_wsb_440x345_Church-Burning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbX_e0du3I/AAAAAAAAAaQ/9LLRQmIOO6Y/s320/_wsb_440x345_Church-Burning.jpg" /></a></div>Allah gets last laugh as gasoline rather than the intended holy water is used to put out burning book<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-12064824753500189722010-09-08T01:06:00.001+01:002010-09-08T01:10:24.258+01:00POLITICAL GENDER BOMBSHELL: LEAD SINGER OF BRONSKI BEAT SAYS HE'S MARRIED, STRAIGHT, RIGHT WING AND GRIEVING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbTfeyf6mI/AAAAAAAAAaI/CxkWeyRI56U/s1600/hague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbTfeyf6mI/AAAAAAAAAaI/CxkWeyRI56U/s320/hague.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not sure if I've got that exactly right.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-40570316051200858192010-09-08T00:56:00.000+01:002010-09-08T00:56:44.298+01:00I SMELL BULLSHIT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbQmJU01uI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8uEwmAXbR4g/s1600/burn-quran.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TIbQmJU01uI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8uEwmAXbR4g/s320/burn-quran.jpg" /></a></div>A very few people you don't want to know burn a book. A lot of people you don't know at all get offended. To be honest, those most offended you don't want to know either. Just watch how this pointless play within a play is spewed out over newscasts, newspapers, TV and radio in the next few days. All about people you don't want to know. But you might have to fight for.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-1640290282610972702010-08-18T00:01:00.000+01:002010-08-18T00:01:37.674+01:002011: JOEY BARTON REGRETS MAKING PROMISE HE'D KEEP HIS MOUSTACHE UNTIL NEWCASTLE'S NEXT WIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGsUa5IpHII/AAAAAAAAAZw/z9qg4U4v8i0/s1600/joey_barton_english_ranter_468x589.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGsUa5IpHII/AAAAAAAAAZw/z9qg4U4v8i0/s400/joey_barton_english_ranter_468x589.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-35872933713520545652010-08-14T12:22:00.000+01:002010-08-14T12:22:00.215+01:00EXCLUSIVE: "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE" ARCHITECTS REVEAL FIRST SKETCHES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGZ75bU_wyI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ybwZy8jNil8/s1600/0_21_042909_coloringbook2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="383" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGZ75bU_wyI/AAAAAAAAAZo/ybwZy8jNil8/s400/0_21_042909_coloringbook2.jpg" width="400" /></a>Hmm, I can see why that might upset a few people.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-65980865704398288542010-08-13T03:04:00.002+01:002010-08-13T03:10:31.468+01:00CHERNOBYL - THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGShHv-ERPI/AAAAAAAAAZg/2ismkZPMUvM/s1600/site10i5x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGShHv-ERPI/AAAAAAAAAZg/2ismkZPMUvM/s400/site10i5x.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I suspect that this girl hasn't forgotten the word Chernobyl, so it was interesting to hear today that the nuclear leak from the Russian power station meltdown 24 years ago was back in the news. She was one of numerous deformed children born after the disaster, cared for at the Rechitsa orphanage in Belarus, the area worst hit by the radiation leak all those years ago.<br />
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But when it comes to nuclear leaks, the phrase "all those years ago" in a human context is so badly out of place, as the fires in Russia today reached areas still riddled with radiation - and throwing plumes of radioactive ash back into the air, spreading the poison hundreds of miles across Europe once again.<br />
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Just as I reported <a href="http://englishranter.blogspot.com/search?q=chernobyl">on this blog four years ago</a>, cancers from the leak have killed 20,000 people in the UK alone. But alas, the war on terror is still in place, but the war on nuclear power disappears in the usual bluster of political careers and a race to get rich before we die.<br />
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Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, one of those power-hungry Liberals who would rather put his head between his legs and sniff his own arse crack than look at himself in the mirror, has in recent weeks told the press there are communities in this country hungry for a new nuclear power stations, and is about to embark on the biggest nuclear programme the UK has ever seen.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-18192831756551967162010-08-13T01:54:00.003+01:002010-08-13T01:59:53.135+01:00UP YOURS! CONFUSED 64-YEAR-OLD SAYS BECKHAM IS TOO OLD FOR ENGLAND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGSSJtViFMI/AAAAAAAAAZE/2brUC0mGiQo/s1600/capello.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGSSJtViFMI/AAAAAAAAAZE/2brUC0mGiQo/s400/capello.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>If I'm not mistaken, retirement is a decision for the individual at 34, rather than the manager - especially for a job you don't get paid for.<br />
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Obviously being 30 years older than Beckham gives Capello the excuse of being so confused that he was allowed to pick a fucking useless squad for the World Cup. In two years time his retirement will be compulsory in the UK, but only an organisation as inept as the FA could know this and extend his contract by five years.<br />
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Not only did Capello decide it was his right to say that Beckham had retired from English football without consulting England's most-capped player, he also thought it was a good idea to tell 6 million TV viewers first.<br />
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Afterwards, his alzheimers obviously prevented him from picking up the phone and dialling Beckham's number to even explain his words, so he got Baldini to do it instead.<br />
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What the fuck are we messing about with this cunt for? I don't care if he's any good, he's a wanker.<br />
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I don't care about DB, he's had enough luck to see him through, but this man is clearly a shitball with all the people skills of Stalin with a headache. Mussolini with the shits. Hitler with herpes.<br />
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Worse than that, he's making fat Sam Allardyce seem like a cuddly uncle.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-22588869319695180882010-08-11T00:30:00.002+01:002010-08-11T00:42:14.845+01:00OFFICIAL: BLOOD DIAMOND PARTIES ARE RUBBISH<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGHfMFL29xI/AAAAAAAAAY8/aUbvhPkdjM0/s1600/white_1693831c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" mx="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGHfMFL29xI/AAAAAAAAAY8/aUbvhPkdjM0/s400/white_1693831c.jpg" width="400" /></a>Five ugly birds who never quite made it as models but are obviously packed with inner beauty, one bottle of booze, no one's got a fucking lighter even though they all smoke, the hostess is using Google to find out what happened 13 years ago because she was too pissed to remember, and I bet they are listening to Simply Red. That bloke in the shorts is telling the girls why a teepee is the must-have for their next Glamping trip. I've obviously got to be careful what I say because a court case is in process. Cunts.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-12734704942161164672010-08-11T00:17:00.000+01:002010-08-11T00:17:38.961+01:00PAY £40 TO BOO ENGLAND'S FOOTBALL TEAM AT WEMBLEY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGHbWbP2tNI/AAAAAAAAAY0/Ilwg6aGu058/s1600/paddy-englandtillidie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" mx="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TGHbWbP2tNI/AAAAAAAAAY0/Ilwg6aGu058/s320/paddy-englandtillidie.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How ridiculous. Only a true England supporter would do that.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-48705309185193628462010-08-08T22:31:00.004+01:002010-08-08T23:18:31.416+01:00EXPECT TO SEE A LOT MORE OF THIS TOSSER BEFORE THE CUTS BITE<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TF8h6b7YHnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/38likANdVaI/s1600/english-ranter-david-camero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/TF8h6b7YHnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/38likANdVaI/s320/english-ranter-david-camero.jpg" /></a>The Junior Minister responsible for forwarding the idea of taking free nursery school milk away from UK under-5s has found himself at the centre of a classic government public relations sting, something that long-term political watchers will be familiar with.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">While the Labour government infamously made a name for themselves by “burying” bad news behind major headlines, their “more, more, more” approach to public spending brought very little need for this kind of stunt, apart from when dealing with the Post Office unions (“Mandleson is going to privatise you! Agree to this shit pay rise and we’ll stop him!”).</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">There is of course the slim possibility that a Conservative minister, no matter how junior, in charge of education, had thought that the phrase “Thatcher, Thatcher, the milk snatcher” had lasted so long because this merited one of <em>The Not Quite Walking Dead’s</em> greatest achievements.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">After all, their boss already claimed Jamie Oliver’s healthy school meals idea was a waste of time, something that anyone who has sent a child to state school in the last 15 years knows is an absolute and utter lie.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Meanwhile, <em>He’s Just Like You Dave’s </em>whole premise of the Big Society (aka B.S.), is that while he shares Thatcher’s crusade to destroy Big Government, the only reason that the country descended into a crime-ridden, ruthless dirty little shithole with pavements crowded with the homeless under her was that it didn’t have a thoroughly good bloke in charge telling everyone to calm down and be nice.<br />
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Thatcher at least knew that pretending to care about the people she destroyed would look like hypocrisy, and instead sent in the old bill to kick the shit out of them. <em>HJLY</em> Dave is banking on “the debt” to be a plausible argument for unravelling state provision while his seat-sniffing Liberal bed…, er, …wetters suck their thumbs and wait for the Alternative Vote.<br />
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Like a sleeping infant who’s drunk too much milk from the tit of mother Liberty, the Liberals believe that a better democracy will one day wipe these off-white sticky sick stains from the front of their parliamentary babygrows – just like that cuddly nanny they still remember fondly.<br />
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Which brings us neatly back to the question of scrapping milk for the under-5s. This was no more a plausible policy (if only in the name of political suicide) than this coalition agreeing to ban Page 3 girls.<br />
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Since the BBC journalist responsible for breaking this story received his copy from the Shadow Education Secretary, it is unlikely that it was ever intended that this proposal become part of Government policy.<br />
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Instead, like a mythical Superman saving us from a mythical asteroid that was never going to hit, up steps David Cameron to tell us that apparently this kind of thing just isn’t the sort of nasty shit that this Government has planned.<br />
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The message this stunt was quite obviously spelling out in capital letters was this:<br />
WE ARE GOING TO DO LOADS OF CUNTY THINGS BUT WE ARE NOT THATCHER.<br />
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Of course, many of the cunty things they have planned are beyond Thatcher’s most nightmarish fantasy. But by this clever little press play, they have given the illusion that what is to come is bad, but not that bad.<br />
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Expect more unexpected scare stories near you – hospitals narrowly saved after U-turns, or the 66 broken schools who are now getting their buildings replaced after they were first told they wouldn’t.<br />
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Who knows, even the UK Film Council might get a reprisal. But let’s hope not.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-8564781091043341282010-06-20T00:14:00.001+01:002010-06-20T00:19:01.971+01:00UPDATE: TOP TEN BRITISH FUNERAL SONG CHART - NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED IN THREE YEARSOK, so even though I once worked for ITV, I should admit that this poll is taken from Scottish funerals in 2009 - but I think that it counts as an update to <a href="http://englishranter.blogspot.com/2006/04/top-ten-british-funeral-songs-somebody.html">this post in 2006</a>. I've put the chart position changes on this one:<br />
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<strong>1 My Way - Frank Sinatra/Shirley Bassey</strong> <1> Stays at number one. (though Shirley Bassey wasn't mentioned last time, but it's still the tops)<br />
<strong>2 Wind Beneath My Wings</strong> - <2> Stays at number two. Bette Midler/Celine Dion (again, Celine Dion is starting to eat Bette Midler's wake snacks. But we'll take it)<br />
<strong>3 Time To Say Goodbye - Sarah Brightman/Andrea Bocelli</strong> ^6^ Up 6. A big climber for the world's most talented pug)<br />
<strong>4 Angels - Robbie Williams</strong> v1v - Down one. I appreciate now I should have done this countdown from 10. Robbie's perfect death mask slips, just a little.<br />
<strong>5 Over The Rainbow - Eva Cassidy</strong> ^3^ Up three. Eva Cassidy finally gets way up high in the charts.<br />
<strong>6 You Raise Me Up - Westlife/Boyzone/Josh Grobin</strong> NEW ENTRY - Jesus Christ.<br />
<strong>7 My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion</strong> v3v Down three. Looks like people have finally understood the irony of this funeral gaff.<br />
<strong>8 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston</strong> v2v Down two. Too many drug deaths for a junkie choral send off means Whitney's heading for a top ten exit.<br />
<strong>9 You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers</strong> v7v Liverpool isn't getting any bigger.<br />
<strong>10 Unforgettable - Nat King Cole</strong> NEW ENTRY - A surprise new entry, but again proving that you're never to old to see yourself back in the top ten. Although you may be dead, and your fans certainly are.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-48497525143107328092009-01-12T13:24:00.002+01:002009-01-12T13:27:27.215+01:00shopaholic crushed under her own purchasesCredit crunch takes latest victim?<br /><br /><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Shopaholic-Found-Dead-By-Police-Under-Mountain-Of-Purchases-At-Her-UK-Home/Article/200901215199886?f=rss">http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Shopaholic-Found-Dead-By-Police-Under-Mountain-Of-Purchases-At-Her-UK-Home/Article/200901215199886?f=rss</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-56580225784171699462008-07-03T01:28:00.000+01:002008-07-03T01:28:16.599+01:009/11 internet conspiracy theorists find new picture that proves "it never really happened".<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/SGwdIGD2xVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/wi6o_zSSaRg/s1600-h/wtc12_new.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/SGwdIGD2xVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/wi6o_zSSaRg/s400/wtc12_new.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br />Maybe they should get out more. Looks real enough to me though, I'll give them that.<div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-12705852203554931312007-04-22T12:52:00.000+01:002007-04-22T13:10:53.432+01:00The latest victims of the war against terror<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/RitMhj7eVTI/AAAAAAAAAEo/bsC7lj0PBdM/s1600-h/untitled.bmp.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_G0ZhwcQI9DQ/RitMhj7eVTI/AAAAAAAAAEo/bsC7lj0PBdM/s400/untitled.bmp.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">In a week in which a military report told of US marines not giving a toss about the lives of Iraqi civillians in a raid on the town of Haditha, more news of the Bush government's disdain for the poor comes from somewhere a little closer to home.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">As reported in this blog last year, America has a higher infant death mortality rate than Cuba. But while this number has been steadily dropping since figures began, for the first time, in some states, the number is on the rise.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">The New York Times today reports that America's babies in the Southern states are now 50% more likely to die in their first year of life than they were three years ago. While predominantly white American states continue to see the figures get better, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana have all seen the numbers stagnate - and now get worse.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Nowhere is this shown more starkly than in Mississippi, where a baby is almost twice as likely to die in its first year than the national average for the rest of the country.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Perhaps more relevant than the geographical factor is the racial one. As the people of New Orleans are all too aware, Bush doesn't particularly give a shit. What happens in the black south, stays in the black south. </div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Across America, black voters are harder to find than a Medicaid-accepting hospital.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">The cost of the war on Iraq is in part being funded by making it harder for America's poor to get access to healthcare. While America's child mortality rate is only 10th of the world's industrialised nations, if you are a black American baby then your rates of survival are comparable with newborns in Russia, Sri Lanka, Venezuala, and Libya.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">In February this year, George W. Bush made this statement in celebration of African American History Month: "All Americans can be proud of the progress we have made, yet the work for a more perfect union is not done. As we celebrate National African American History Month, we reaffirm our commitment to build a society where every individual has the opportunity to achieve the promise of this great land."</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Obviously he was only talking about the individuals that live past their first birthday.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-1175047574522592342007-03-28T03:59:00.000+01:002007-03-28T04:06:14.523+01:00NEW DAYTIME TV SHOW ANNOUNCED: THROUGH THE C-HOLE<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7655/2339/1600/698646/bellamy_mansion_birdseye.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7655/2339/320/266804/bellamy_mansion_birdseye.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Q: <em>Who would live in a house like this</em>?<br /><br />A: Who cares. They're bound to be a cunt. etc.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932452.post-1175046977343225512007-03-28T03:46:00.000+01:002007-03-28T03:56:17.373+01:00TONY BLAIR IN HILARIOUS COMIC RELIEF SKETCHI cant be arsed to post the video and it's two weeks old anyway. Just type in Tony Blair Comic Relief into you tube if you didn't see it.<br />Bovvered Tony? Bovvered? Bovvered about the war? Bovvered about the 500,000+ dead Iraqi civilians? Bovvered about the 2 million people who took the streets (unlike the one million that signed an online petition about road charges)? Bovvered about your move from negative liberty to positive liberty (ie the one that determines whether you decide to murder - bit like Stalin)? Bovvered about the targets you set hospitals that meant managers were able to call corridors wards, or take the wheels off trolleys and call them beds? Bovvered about the highest prison population Britain has ever seen (tackling the causes of crime?)? Bovvered about abandoning beliefs in politics and deciding it's up to God? Bovvered about setting targets for schools with classes containing kids speaking 16 different native languages (it's not the mix that's the problem - it's the default term of failure if mixing doesn't reach a target)? Bovvered about renewing Trident and breaking the nuclear proliferation laws you once signed up to? Bovvered about bombing one nation for being Muslim fundamentalists while licking Saudi Arabia's archaic monarchistic arse?<br />Bovvered about selling us out Tony?<br />Bovvered?<br />Do you look Bovvered?<br />No mate, you do not.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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