tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post3834965833643789950..comments2024-01-05T10:11:27.498+00:00Comments on Soot and Ashes: The World AFTER the Crash: And then the British Government (hopefully) collapsed.bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06585266242070350399noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-47509287185625021372009-06-04T19:44:41.870+01:002009-06-04T19:44:41.870+01:00Hey, the folks over at skf are getting their asses...Hey, the folks over at skf are getting their asses handed to them again. Poor bastards! I was almost one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-5620832912568973782009-06-04T19:36:06.299+01:002009-06-04T19:36:06.299+01:00Bukko - my point is that THE PEOPLE can't elec...Bukko - my point is that THE PEOPLE can't elect their leader. Or toss him on his ass.<br /><br />It's up to a corrupt group of MP's to do that. The people are seething for an election, and for a new PM, and they're not getting it. And the anger is everywhere, and it's building<br /><br />This whole expenses scandal resulted in disillusionment toward government even greater than what I see in the US. People see how the US elects its leader and they want it. They want it bad. Nearly everyone I talk with.<br /><br />This is radical, but I think the UK may see a change in their political system in the next 20 years. And it also may see a constitutional convention, and a written constitution, instead of the mess of statutes, laws, judgments and treaties it has to deal with today.<br /><br />They just changed the House of Lords, so that they're appointed, and not there by birth right. So they're making progress. And they have a directly elected Mayor of London now, so again, progress, just in the past few years.<br /><br />Oh, one more thing. You may see the UK break up too, maybe in the next 10 years. Scotland seems on the verge of going. Wales may want their nation back. Northern Ireland, not sure. But the UK may go the way of the USSR soon enough.<br /><br />As it should.bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06585266242070350399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-53667388632231671532009-06-04T18:26:47.753+01:002009-06-04T18:26:47.753+01:00Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the U...Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the UK allow elections to be called (before terms expire)if confidence is lost in the PM or ruling party. If the US had such a system we may have been able to get rid of Bush after Katrina and saved 2-3 years of him screwing up the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-2358743907899913412009-06-04T17:58:02.487+01:002009-06-04T17:58:02.487+01:00shoulda played fast an loose with other peoples mo...shoulda played fast an loose with other peoples money, coulda been a contenderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-47366245572436737852009-06-04T17:43:33.815+01:002009-06-04T17:43:33.815+01:00Sorry if I should know this, but who was the WORST...Sorry if I should know this, but who was the WORST Prime Minister in your estimation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-19238326950953057312009-06-04T17:36:25.886+01:002009-06-04T17:36:25.886+01:00British people are ugly. Esp. the women. They hav...British people are ugly. Esp. the women. They have fat, thick legs and thighs like tree trunks. Oddly shaped faces. Sickly looking, freakishly pale skin. E.G. Sara Boyle. <br /><br />Case closed.gutless and lazynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-69853433122198724682009-06-04T16:56:07.126+01:002009-06-04T16:56:07.126+01:00Nice picture. This guy looks like another Drunken ...Nice picture. This guy looks like another Drunken bum like a certain US past president also known as Worst Ever.<br /><br />Get It?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-42411968531649213572009-06-04T15:53:47.833+01:002009-06-04T15:53:47.833+01:00Keefer, Sashers.
Once again Brtiain is not unique...Keefer, Sashers.<br /><br />Once again Brtiain is not unique.<br /><br />All of Europe will continue to decline.<br /><br />They gutted their brains in the begining of the last century, a body with no brain can not last for too long.Europe is toastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-36459024436734950512009-06-04T14:57:06.899+01:002009-06-04T14:57:06.899+01:00Never should have sold off 60% of the UK's gol...Never should have sold off 60% of the UK's gold reserves between 1999 and 2002 for an average price of $280 (£186) per ounce. <br /><br />"Gold Shines On Decade After Gordon's Sell-Off" <br />http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Gordon-Brown-Sells-Gold-Reserve-Ten-Years-On-Gold-Underlines-Its-Worth-Daniel-Wills-ETF-Securities/Article/200905215277708Boom2Bust.comhttp://www.boom2bust.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-50969711650795511242009-06-04T10:20:20.379+01:002009-06-04T10:20:20.379+01:00Keith, I think you've got it backwards with yo...Keith, I think you've got it backwards with your take on parliamentary vs. presidential politics. At least in the UK, and down here, if you've got a fuckwit like Bush in charge, the pollies in his own party can throw him out and change leadership. MPs can rebel against a doofus leader because they fear he will tarnish their brand, and their chances to hang onto the gilded trappings of their office. Early elections can be called. In the U.S., there's this locked-in period of four years when a realPresident like Cheney can run wild.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-89072153419320292712009-06-04T07:25:18.200+01:002009-06-04T07:25:18.200+01:00Here's some more info on Geithner. Seems like ...Here's some more info on Geithner. Seems like he wanted to be a flipper. Does Casey Serin have any political connections? Sounds like he'd be perfect for a job in this Treasury Dept.<br /><br />http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/greg_gordon/story/60357.html<br /><br />All of the Geithners' mortgages — from big banks including Nationsbanc, which is now Bank of America; Chase Manhattan, which is now J.P. Morgan Chase; and Wells Fargo — carried adjustable-rate mortgages with the risk that annual rate increases could raise their interest payments to as much as 11.25 percent, though the couple tended to refinance or sell their homes before ever they faced a rate adjustment.<br /><br />They also took out second mortgages, now known as home equity lines of credit, borrowing a total of nearly $1 million in 2002 on their second Bethesda home, which they bought a year earlier for $1,085,000.<br /><br />In 2004, they sold that house for $1.45 million and bought their current house in the New York suburb of Larchmont with a $1 million Wells Fargo mortgage, later adding a $400,000 home equity line of credit, also from Wells Fargo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568749253826790814.post-63244734230768048902009-06-04T07:16:51.040+01:002009-06-04T07:16:51.040+01:00Hey, Keith.. if you have some connections, do us a...Hey, Keith.. if you have some connections, do us a favor: dig up the dirt on Geithner's $1.6M mortgage for the house he can't sell in NY. If I were a gambler, I'd bet he lied on his mortgage app., just like he lied on his tax forms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com