Disturbed and Disturbing British People
I doubt any of us are 100% sane in our insane world but some of us are clearly nuttier than most. Two examples, not coincidentally from crazy ol’ England: a teen girl who pretended to be a teen boy and a child who can’t possibly know what “it” is.
They say teenage girls are often erratic, flighty, and ditzy. Of course, “they” say a lot of things and, when the “they” refers to adolescent boys, their motivations are often suspect.
What is less disputable is that many teens in the rapidly-crumbling Western World are acting sexier and acting out their new-found sexuality nowadays like they never have before.
Role models such as Miley Cyrus and the Spears sisters, television shows like “Glee,” increasingly lax dress codes and encouragement in schools partly explain the growing phenomenon as does Tyra Banks featuring teens proudly admitting they have kissed other girls.
There are also tons of anecdotal evidence that shows teens have been experimenting with lesbianism in showers and sleep-overs, frequently at the instigation of their male peers.
Across the pond, a teen–barely a teen at 19–has taken advantage of loosened moral codes and taken lesbian seduction to a whole new level by posing as multiple boys in order to date and grope younger girls.
Apparently, the enterprising Gemma Barker was very successful in her stratagem.
According to London’s Daily Mail, ”In an extraordinary deception, she created false alter egos so she could have sexual encounters with her 15 and 16-year-old victims,” wore baggy boy clothes, talked and acted like a boy, set up three different male Facebook profiles, and even convinced a victim’s family that she was a he.
The Mail didn’t report how, when, and where Barker was able to kiss, cuddle, and grope the girls who attended the same school she had attended without being discovered. Police made the gender discovery after a parent woke up and turned her in.
She was arrested, searched, and admitted her guilt on two charges of sexual assault and one of fraud.
Aside from obvious parental negligence in the case of Gemma Barker–that how, when, and where issue–there is the question of what Brit parents are thinking these days if they condone young boys’ intimacies with their daughters. The Barker affair is hardly the first.
Among others, three years ago, England was rocked by the smarmy tale of 12 year old Alfie Patten impregnating 15 year old Chantelle Steadman. Chantelle’s mum was fully aware they were sleeping together–in her home. As things turned out, a slew of other boys were sharing Chantelle and Alfie wasn’t the father. See “Alfie Updated,” http://bit.ly/AnDvMo.
As of now, it seems Barker’s solicitors will go for a semi-insanity defense, claiming the defendant is autistic and “a very lonely character.” The judge thinks she’s “manipulative and mean.” Whatever she is, she is facing two years in prison.
Even more bizarre is the matter of “Sasha,” who Moonbattery.com aptly surmises “will eventually put a psychiatrist’s kids through college.” (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12190.)
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Dem-Libs Behaving Badly: Sweeney, Susman, Et al
Dem-Libs Behaving Badly: Sweeney, Susman, Et al
In Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, Ann Coulter draws direct parallels between the French revolutionists of the eighteenth century and twenty-first century American liberals. Our libs engage in comparable destruction, mindlessness, and disrespect for order and civility as did French mobs over 200 years ago.
We witnessed a prime example of such liberal behavior in Madison, Wisconsin when unionistas like the SEIU caused massive damage to the Capitol building to pressure Republican Governor Scott Walker into backtracking on his commitment to restore sanity to the Badger State’s finances. We saw it in the strong-arm tactics used to suppress legal town hall protests against Obamacare. It regularly occurs in vicious commentaries by the likes of MSNBC’s Ed Schultz.
(See previous posts on those behavioral gems.)
Those instances, however, pale in comparison to “official” Democrat liberal exhibitions of grossly disrespectful incivility and vile partisan insults. Dem-libs in positions of authority don’t usually tear up buildings or beat up lawful protestors or openly wish conservatives would kill themselves. They let their flunkies handle that end of the abuse spectrum but are very adept at a variety of other abuses.
American “progressives” from state houses to the State Department recently showed their true colors. Cases in point on the state level are New Jersey’s Democrat Senate President Stephen Sweeney and on an international level Ambassador to Great Britain Louis B. Susman.
Sen. Sweeney is disenchanted and upset with Jersey’s conservative Republican Governor Chris Christie over Christie’s perceived slights and state budget cuts, additions, and line item vetoes. Sweeney expressed his disenchantment and upsetment in no uncertain terms, including calling the governor a “bully and a punk,” adding, ”I wanted to punch him in his head.”
Not content with that nastiness and threat of violence, Sweeney drew upon his enviable grasp of popular culture and filmdom by comparing Christie to a well-known villain: “You know who he reminds me of? Mr. Potter from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ the mean old bastard who screws everybody.” He later reiterated his vulgarity by calling the governor “a rotten bastard” and “a prick.”
Classy, Stephen, classy!
See videos and the slanted report on NJ.com which fails to mention the New Jersey fiscal abyss caused by Sweeney and his Democrats and with something less than objectivity observes, “The Republican Bobbleheads will side with the governor again, and the vetoes will stand,” here: http://bit.ly/md8qVu
The good news is that neither Sweeney nor NJ.com have yet proposed murdering Gov. Christie in his bathtub ala Jean-Paul Marat or trotting out the guillotine.
They never employed the guillotine in Great Britain although Brits did favor the oubliette but some people there might like to see one or both used, figuratively, of course, in the case of Ambassador Louis B. Susman. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4964)
In Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, Ann Coulter draws direct parallels between the French revolutionists of the eighteenth century and twenty-first century American liberals. Our libs engage in comparable destruction, mindlessness, and disrespect for order and civility as did French mobs over 200 years ago.
We witnessed a prime example of such liberal behavior in Madison, Wisconsin when unionistas like the SEIU caused massive damage to the Capitol building to pressure Republican Governor Scott Walker into backtracking on his commitment to restore sanity to the Badger State’s finances. We saw it in the strong-arm tactics used to suppress legal town hall protests against Obamacare. It regularly occurs in vicious commentaries by the likes of MSNBC’s Ed Schultz.
(See previous posts on those behavioral gems.)
Those instances, however, pale in comparison to “official” Democrat liberal exhibitions of grossly disrespectful incivility and vile partisan insults. Dem-libs in positions of authority don’t usually tear up buildings or beat up lawful protestors or openly wish conservatives would kill themselves. They let their flunkies handle that end of the abuse spectrum but are very adept at a variety of other abuses.
American “progressives” from state houses to the State Department recently showed their true colors. Cases in point on the state level are New Jersey’s Democrat Senate President Stephen Sweeney and on an international level Ambassador to Great Britain Louis B. Susman.
Sen. Sweeney is disenchanted and upset with Jersey’s conservative Republican Governor Chris Christie over Christie’s perceived slights and state budget cuts, additions, and line item vetoes. Sweeney expressed his disenchantment and upsetment in no uncertain terms, including calling the governor a “bully and a punk,” adding, ”I wanted to punch him in his head.”
Not content with that nastiness and threat of violence, Sweeney drew upon his enviable grasp of popular culture and filmdom by comparing Christie to a well-known villain: “You know who he reminds me of? Mr. Potter from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ the mean old bastard who screws everybody.” He later reiterated his vulgarity by calling the governor “a rotten bastard” and “a prick.”
Classy, Stephen, classy!
See videos and the slanted report on NJ.com which fails to mention the New Jersey fiscal abyss caused by Sweeney and his Democrats and with something less than objectivity observes, “The Republican Bobbleheads will side with the governor again, and the vetoes will stand,” here: http://bit.ly/md8qVu
The good news is that neither Sweeney nor NJ.com have yet proposed murdering Gov. Christie in his bathtub ala Jean-Paul Marat or trotting out the guillotine.
They never employed the guillotine in Great Britain although Brits did favor the oubliette but some people there might like to see one or both used, figuratively, of course, in the case of Ambassador Louis B. Susman. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4964)
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Halal Food Fight and Worse in the U.K. due to Sharia, الشريعة الإسلامي
Halal Food Fight and Worse in the U.K. due to Sharia, الشريعة الإسلامي
For the uninitiated, all of us infidels, ”Halal (Arabic:حلال, ḥalāl; means lawful or legal) a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. It is the opposite of haraam. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law (Sharia, الشريعة الإسلامية).” (Wikipedia)
Got that? Apparently they don’t in the formerly Great Britain where a classic food fight is in progress pitting Christians against Muslims. Like so many other Christian-Muslim battles, tugs of war, especially in the U.K., the Muslims are winning.
The terms ”Great” Britain and ”United” Kingdom are fast becoming anachronistic for many reasons, not the least of which is England’s huge influx of Muslims from all over the globe, Muslims who have since been flexing their Islamic muscles. The latest field of battle is the arena of halal-approved foods and if it’s true that we are what we eat, Brit infidels will soon be converting to the religion of Allah, not without some resistance, however.
“A Christian organization in Britain has launched a petition campaign aimed at defending the right of those who for religious, moral or other reasons do not want to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic law (shari’a).”
The people at Operation Nehemiah, named after the son of Hakaliah and meaning “Yahweh comforts,” have been getting precious little comfort lately. They’re acting as if the U.K. is still a Christian country, a fantasy dispelled even by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a free country, which is becoming more and more disputable. Still, the Nehemiahs maintain the quaint notion that infidel Brits should be entitled to eat what they want rather than eat what Muslims want them to eat.
What’s this world coming to? Operation Nehemiah thinks it knows: “It argues that the mainstreaming of halal across the world constitutes part of a global Islamization drive:” http://tiny.cc/ti3ro
To be crude, “No sheat, Nehemiah sherlocks!”
The halal issue came to light in the most unlikely of British places, the House of Commons, when lawmakers discovered that, unbeknownst to them, they had been scarfing down halal poultry for an unknown period of time.
As Seinfeld might say, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” since halal dietary laws are little different from kashrut or what we call Jewish kosher food. The sticking point, the sticky wicket, as Brits say, is that the chefs in the Commons’ eatery failed to inform their customers that they were the subjects of a P.C. movement as well as being the subjects of Her Majesty.
As Conservative MP from East Yorkshire, Greg Knight, indignantly objected, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2924)
For the uninitiated, all of us infidels, ”Halal (Arabic:حلال, ḥalāl; means lawful or legal) a term designating any object or an action which is permissible to use or engage in, according to Islamic law. It is the opposite of haraam. The term is used to designate food seen as permissible according to Islamic law (Sharia, الشريعة الإسلامية).” (Wikipedia)
Got that? Apparently they don’t in the formerly Great Britain where a classic food fight is in progress pitting Christians against Muslims. Like so many other Christian-Muslim battles, tugs of war, especially in the U.K., the Muslims are winning.
The terms ”Great” Britain and ”United” Kingdom are fast becoming anachronistic for many reasons, not the least of which is England’s huge influx of Muslims from all over the globe, Muslims who have since been flexing their Islamic muscles. The latest field of battle is the arena of halal-approved foods and if it’s true that we are what we eat, Brit infidels will soon be converting to the religion of Allah, not without some resistance, however.
“A Christian organization in Britain has launched a petition campaign aimed at defending the right of those who for religious, moral or other reasons do not want to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic law (shari’a).”
The people at Operation Nehemiah, named after the son of Hakaliah and meaning “Yahweh comforts,” have been getting precious little comfort lately. They’re acting as if the U.K. is still a Christian country, a fantasy dispelled even by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a free country, which is becoming more and more disputable. Still, the Nehemiahs maintain the quaint notion that infidel Brits should be entitled to eat what they want rather than eat what Muslims want them to eat.
What’s this world coming to? Operation Nehemiah thinks it knows: “It argues that the mainstreaming of halal across the world constitutes part of a global Islamization drive:” http://tiny.cc/ti3ro
To be crude, “No sheat, Nehemiah sherlocks!”
The halal issue came to light in the most unlikely of British places, the House of Commons, when lawmakers discovered that, unbeknownst to them, they had been scarfing down halal poultry for an unknown period of time.
As Seinfeld might say, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that” since halal dietary laws are little different from kashrut or what we call Jewish kosher food. The sticking point, the sticky wicket, as Brits say, is that the chefs in the Commons’ eatery failed to inform their customers that they were the subjects of a P.C. movement as well as being the subjects of Her Majesty.
As Conservative MP from East Yorkshire, Greg Knight, indignantly objected, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2924)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Signs of Islamic Times
Signs of Islamic Times
It should be no secret, except perhaps in Europe, that the worldwide Islamic movement currently in progress isn’t a one-trick pony.
That is, Muslims didn’t start this global fire, this global war that’s been going on for decades on a lark, a whim and that they will inevitably go back to being good, little Muslims, tending their camels, pumping their oil, etc.
These people are serious, deadly serious, and the recent terror alerts in Europe and travel alerts concerning travel to that continent were real and substantive.
They are as real and substantive as the plot and arrest this week of naturalized Pakistani-American citizen, Farooque Ahmed, on charges that he plotted with what he believed to be al-qaeda operatives to simultaneously bomb various Washington, D.C. Metro stations. Those Islamic operatives proved to be FBI operatives instead. Ahmed now faces up to 50 years in a federal prison which should instead be a death sentence, but that’s just a personal opinion.
It’s not an opinion but fact that by hook, crook, suicide bomb, nuclear bomb, or combination thereof, radical Muslims are dedicated to beating the West, winning this war, and establishing a worldwide Koranic caliphate and Sharia law throughout its conquered territories. This “religion of peace” plans to accomplish that goal in the same way their Prophet Mahammed accomplished it, through jihad, a religious duty of Muslims to struggle (wage war) against the infidels (any non-Muslim).
There was a long-forgotten time when Islam dominated much of the planet and many Muslims are eager to replicate that dominance. We forget that time at our peril. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2404)
It should be no secret, except perhaps in Europe, that the worldwide Islamic movement currently in progress isn’t a one-trick pony.
That is, Muslims didn’t start this global fire, this global war that’s been going on for decades on a lark, a whim and that they will inevitably go back to being good, little Muslims, tending their camels, pumping their oil, etc.
These people are serious, deadly serious, and the recent terror alerts in Europe and travel alerts concerning travel to that continent were real and substantive.
They are as real and substantive as the plot and arrest this week of naturalized Pakistani-American citizen, Farooque Ahmed, on charges that he plotted with what he believed to be al-qaeda operatives to simultaneously bomb various Washington, D.C. Metro stations. Those Islamic operatives proved to be FBI operatives instead. Ahmed now faces up to 50 years in a federal prison which should instead be a death sentence, but that’s just a personal opinion.
It’s not an opinion but fact that by hook, crook, suicide bomb, nuclear bomb, or combination thereof, radical Muslims are dedicated to beating the West, winning this war, and establishing a worldwide Koranic caliphate and Sharia law throughout its conquered territories. This “religion of peace” plans to accomplish that goal in the same way their Prophet Mahammed accomplished it, through jihad, a religious duty of Muslims to struggle (wage war) against the infidels (any non-Muslim).
There was a long-forgotten time when Islam dominated much of the planet and many Muslims are eager to replicate that dominance. We forget that time at our peril. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2404)
Friday, June 11, 2010
Nervy News #8: Prince Tampon
Nervy News #8: Prince Tampon
Prince Charles of Great Britain, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, heir apparent to the incongruous throne of England, best known for his note to Camilla Parker-Bowles in which he professed his desire to be her tampon, is now urging the world to follow the “spiritual principles” of Islam in order to save the planet’s environment.
Also known for having a servant hold the cup while he gave a urine sample, Bonnie Prince Charlie echoed Al Gore when he said that “The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason–and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.”
He added in his lecture to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies that, based on his study of the Koran, “Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation:” http://bit.ly/dBm4EB . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1728)
Prince Charles of Great Britain, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, heir apparent to the incongruous throne of England, best known for his note to Camilla Parker-Bowles in which he professed his desire to be her tampon, is now urging the world to follow the “spiritual principles” of Islam in order to save the planet’s environment.
Also known for having a servant hold the cup while he gave a urine sample, Bonnie Prince Charlie echoed Al Gore when he said that “The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason–and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.”
He added in his lecture to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies that, based on his study of the Koran, “Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation:” http://bit.ly/dBm4EB . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1728)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Sex and the Single Girls of England
Sex and the Single Girls of England
. . . Tressa, of Armadale, West Lothian, England, has gone public with her past history which rivals and supasses the Chantelle principals. She was all of eleven years of age when she was impregnated by her 16 year old beau one drunken night and became the youngest mum in merry ol’ England. Now 16, she says she is much more mature after losing her baby to the state four years ago.
She says, “I’m not a big drinker now and I don’t smoke hash any more. In the past I’ve cut myself, but I don’t any more. I’m going to give myself a couple of years to get my life sorted then fight for access to my little girl:” http://tiny.cc/z09d4
I’m sure her little girl will be appreciative if and when Tressa regains custody and begins to inculcate her sense of values and responsibility in the child. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1709)
. . . Tressa, of Armadale, West Lothian, England, has gone public with her past history which rivals and supasses the Chantelle principals. She was all of eleven years of age when she was impregnated by her 16 year old beau one drunken night and became the youngest mum in merry ol’ England. Now 16, she says she is much more mature after losing her baby to the state four years ago.
She says, “I’m not a big drinker now and I don’t smoke hash any more. In the past I’ve cut myself, but I don’t any more. I’m going to give myself a couple of years to get my life sorted then fight for access to my little girl:” http://tiny.cc/z09d4
I’m sure her little girl will be appreciative if and when Tressa regains custody and begins to inculcate her sense of values and responsibility in the child. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1709)
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Bad and Good News from across the Pond
Bad and Good News from across the Pond
Britain’s day in the sun has largely passed. The glory days of the vaunted British Empire are long gone and the sun regularly sets on it.
Still, in its waning years as Islam continues to gain stronger footholds throughout England in its quest to Islamicize the nation, Great Britain if no longer great still serves as a bellwether for both bad and good trends in America.
For example, Britain has long been a safe haven for abortion and abortionists and the procedure is relatively common though numbers show a very slight decrease in the last year; almost all are funded by the socialized health care program known as the National Health Service or NHS.
Nevertheless, even mad dogs and Englishmen sustained a shock to their sensibilities with the revelation that some British women practice abortion with the same casualness as they approach an afternoon of tea and crumpets.
Of a total of 189,100 abortions (with 2,094 involving girls under 15) in England and Wales in 2009, a shocking 48 were performed on women who have had seven or more abortions and another 3,630 on women who were chalking up their fourth, fifth, or sixth “terminations:” http://tiny.cc/xg7ec
Other methods of birth control are readily available but apparently thousands of women prefer to abort rather than use them, especially since the NHS is picking up the tab.
On the good news front, Britain’s new Work and Pensions Secretary Iian Douglas Smith has declared . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1703)
Britain’s day in the sun has largely passed. The glory days of the vaunted British Empire are long gone and the sun regularly sets on it.
Still, in its waning years as Islam continues to gain stronger footholds throughout England in its quest to Islamicize the nation, Great Britain if no longer great still serves as a bellwether for both bad and good trends in America.
For example, Britain has long been a safe haven for abortion and abortionists and the procedure is relatively common though numbers show a very slight decrease in the last year; almost all are funded by the socialized health care program known as the National Health Service or NHS.
Nevertheless, even mad dogs and Englishmen sustained a shock to their sensibilities with the revelation that some British women practice abortion with the same casualness as they approach an afternoon of tea and crumpets.
Of a total of 189,100 abortions (with 2,094 involving girls under 15) in England and Wales in 2009, a shocking 48 were performed on women who have had seven or more abortions and another 3,630 on women who were chalking up their fourth, fifth, or sixth “terminations:” http://tiny.cc/xg7ec
Other methods of birth control are readily available but apparently thousands of women prefer to abort rather than use them, especially since the NHS is picking up the tab.
On the good news front, Britain’s new Work and Pensions Secretary Iian Douglas Smith has declared . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1703)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Next Time . . .
The Next Time . . .
The next time you’re tempted to throw in the towel and support the president’s socialistic power grab consider once again a primary model for Obamacare, the U.K.’s National Health Service or NHS.
Horror stories about the NHS regularly ooze out of Britain, tales such as the one about a woman giving birth on the street because the socialized NHS decreed she were too close to a hospital to dispatch an ambulance. And the one about a guy who has an appendicitis attack and a ruptured appendix weeks after it was supposedly removed.
(For a first hand account of one man’s personal experience with the NHS, see “Considering Obamacare? Consider the NHS Horror Stories,” http://bit.ly/3MFJb0.)
thereby deprive some poor old bloke of his care?
Chances are that the old bloke will have his tubes pulled and be unplugged under the NHS anyway.
One young bloke met his Maker . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1548)
The next time you’re tempted to throw in the towel and support the president’s socialistic power grab consider once again a primary model for Obamacare, the U.K.’s National Health Service or NHS.
Horror stories about the NHS regularly ooze out of Britain, tales such as the one about a woman giving birth on the street because the socialized NHS decreed she were too close to a hospital to dispatch an ambulance. And the one about a guy who has an appendicitis attack and a ruptured appendix weeks after it was supposedly removed.
(For a first hand account of one man’s personal experience with the NHS, see “Considering Obamacare? Consider the NHS Horror Stories,” http://bit.ly/3MFJb0.)
thereby deprive some poor old bloke of his care?
Chances are that the old bloke will have his tubes pulled and be unplugged under the NHS anyway.
One young bloke met his Maker . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1548)
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Queen Mum Is Not Pleased
Ok, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, despite the multitude of titles and crowns which perch on her 83 year old head, is technically not the Queen Mum although she is the queen and she is a mum.
She won’t be granted that overly-familiar, unofficial Queen Mum title until she steps down and Prince Charles gets the nod and the crown. That’s not likely to occur soon mainly because she doesn’t seem like to like Bonnie Prince Charlie very much, with good reason, but she does like all those trappings of queenship.
If she ever does decide to abdicate, retire, be put out to pasture, and Prince William or Harry ascends to the throne, will that make Liz the Queen Grand Mum? Then again, Harry is the offspring of Lady Diana and the queen really didn’t like her!
More to the point, does anyone care about all this crap?
Well, not much on this side of the Pond but in merry old England many, not all, care about the queen mumship and all the other folderol surrounding the anachronistic House of Windsor.
Now Liz has gone on record to demonstrate that she cares about the shenanigans going on involving everything from M.P. toilet seats to country homes being charged to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, i.e. the British purse.
Don’t you just love those titles?
An earlier British monarch was said to have expressed her upsetment with the line, “We are not amused,” using that royal “we” as American politicians do to deflect from the egoistical “I” when they actually mean “I.”
Anyway, good Queen Liz is not pleased with the ongoing scandal in Parliament or as she put it to her inept Prime Minister Gordon Brown, she is “deeply troubled:” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183468/The-Queen-tells-Gordon-Brown-deeply-troubled-MPs-expenses.html.
Crude Americans would just say they were pissed.
Brown responded that he is “appalled and angered” over the profligacy of some fellow parliamentarians, expressing an indignation comparable to Nancy Pelosi’s over waterboarding when she knew about it for years.
Gordo undoubtedly knew what was going on as well since billing the government had for years been the ruse Brit pols employed to convince the rabble they were not greedily seeking pay hikes and instead merely asked that they be compensated for necessary expenditures. Like toilet seats and country homes.
As Reuters reported, “Britain’s 646 legislators receive an annual salary of almost 65,000 pounds and claimed 93 million pounds in expenses last year, an average of 144,000 pounds each:” http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090516/wl_nm/us_britain_politics_expenses. For the math-challenged, that’s 210,000 pounds or around $300,000 a year–for blustering.
British commoners are suffering though the same recesssion/depression/fiscal chaos/bank failures/financial upheavals as we are but nothing seems to bother the elites since they are above it all. That sort of rings a bell with regard to America’s overpaid blusterers in Congress, no?
Blimey! Charlie Rangel couldn’t cheat any better. We must admit, though, British pols have centuries more experience with this stuff so they should be better at it even if our guys are rapidly catching up. The Windsor clan doesn’t cheat like that. They don’t have to. They get allowances, and hefty allowances they are!
Even with their allowances, Liz and the other royals don’t seem to be in the same stratosphere as Americans Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or George Soros, who is an American in name only. Nor do they seem to approach in compensation the likes of British billionaires J.K. Rowling or Richard Branson or Arab oil potentates.
However, allowances are deceiving and a significant difference is that Gates, et al. worked to achieve their wealth; the Arabian kings may have worked at one time even if they are now wallowing in the oily fruits of the Western world’s dependency.
The Windsors, well, they’re just there, at times going through public motions, bloody charades for the most part, of being productive and useful but most often functioning or not functioning, comparable to rarified pieces of old and very valuable unusable furniture but devoid of any practical utility.
They’re just there and for being there Liz sits on a fortune of $650million. On the surface that would appear to be a meager share of the national wealth as contrasted with other world potentates. However, when we scratch beneath the royal patina, the underlying Windsor opulent hoard is mind boggling. . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)
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