This is something interesting that I never thought of. It’s from the Guardian, so it is in the U.K., but I bet the same thing would apply here: The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian […]
The U.K. is pissed. They are tired of U.S. lawmakers and pundits insulting them to gain political points in the health care battle, and now the U.K. is fighting back: The fractious British political classes have united in defence of the UK’s healthcare system after it has become a byword for the failings of universal, […]
Check out the latest story Drudge is pushing: OH NOES – Obama has failed!!!! You even realize that when you start reading the article: Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities. But though […]
Well only one dude, Gordon Brown That’s the Republican leader for ya, sitting there talking about other guys butts. I ask again; why does the FCC allow Limbaugh to pollute our airways?
That’s the news for the U.K.: Britain’s six-year occupation of south Iraq will begin drawing to a close in March, and the last troops will leave Basra by June, a senior defence source disclosed yesterday. But instead of handing over to Iraqi authorities, the British will be replaced at their Basra airport base by a […]
The U.S. decides not to join in the international ban of cluster bombs: More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, […]
And Gordon Brown isn’t too happy about it: The fact that US “extraordinary rendition” flights refuelled on a British overseas territory is “a very serious issue,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday [SNIP] “We have just been informed by the United States of America about what actually happened. The United States has expressed regeet […]
When our Congress lets someone act like a king long enough, then they start thinking they are one: The Bush administration is losing patience with Gordon Brown over Iran, with senior American diplomats frustrated by his reluctance to declare bluntly that the Islamic state must never be allowed nuclear weapons. Hey Bush – perhaps they […]
One leader of a nation that devised a sinister plan to lie to their people and invade a nation that is: Tony Blair said Thursday he would step down as prime minister on June 27, closing a decade of power in which he fostered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to a […]
Oh to be in the U.K.: Tony Blair has indicated that Gordon Brown is likely to replace him as Prime Minister within a matter of weeks. “Within the next few weeks I won’t be Prime Minister of this country. In all probability, a Scot will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,” Mr Blair told […]