This is far all you Monty Python fans and I know you're out there! as well as the Keith Olbermann fan,singular as in me.

Let's just say Satire with a classy accent meets his American 'straight man'

sometimes the twains do meet....





See this on the teevee last night and thought of my fellow Utopians

Hah, nice.

Didn't recognize all the names, but got the most of it. Lovely ending!

God bless America... my fellow prisoner.

ooooh, so that's where Berk comes from!

I mean, rhyming slang is fun and all, but i still prefer to go straight for the throat.

Was just watching (i've only very recently gotten up) 'Loose Women' on tv - a kinda chatty thing where a bunch of women sat around a table talk about stuff and have the odd guest - and one of them was saying that they envy the american political voting process because it creates that clearly divided line for people to take sides on, whereas in britain there is no passion for politics and that they're all the same, even if they say they aren't.

Clinton was a democrat but he seemed just as war-mongering as a republican would be. From what i read he just wasn't so vocal about it.

Obviously, this US election is uber-dividing because a vote for mcain would be a vote for more of the same and i don't think many people could argue that more of the same would be a very good thing.

But ordinarily....

My thoughts are a little hazy about this. The question is, i guess, would there be any difference between a republican and a democrat run country, or would it just be the way it was span for the media? Afterall, surely it's the powermongers behind the scenes that apply the pressure.

Hempster, you old rogue, help me out here. Give me a clear view of the US political system. In the uk the choice is between two twats, and you (i mean, I) choose the lesser of two twats, which i guess right now would be Gordon Brown.

Actually, fuck it. I'm not even sure of what I'm trying to say. It all just seems so artificial, this idea of a divide, in this current era. At least in the states there are reasons to get passionate about it but with Blair out of the picture (and having escaped being made to stand trial for war crimes) i really can't see the fucking point.

Anyone care to join me in these muddy cognitive waters?

I suppose it's a bit like steering an oil tanker with a paddle. Regardless of who's holding the paddle... well yeah, heh. Last election here the right wing won, after 12 years of leftist rulership... so did that make a grand difference? Not really, little subtle changes are made, like lowering a few taxes here, raising a few in the other end, removing some, adding new ones and supposedly the end result is that each working person will have an extra 10 quid at the end of the month, weeefantastic! The fundament always remains though, and no one seems willing to change it... except for maybe a few very small extremist parties that basically no one votes for anyway.

Looking at things from this side of the pond, the gap between the republican and the democratic party seems slightly bigger compared to the difference between the 6 or 7 big parties here. Media sometimes depicts it as a red pill - blue pill choice, maybe it's a necessary illusion.

Obama. Let's rejoice, based solely on the (shallow ultimately inconsequential) fact that he's black for now. That's something i thought I'd never see in the states, a black president. Or a woman, for that matter. If the democrats won it was going be one or the other. I mean, i'm sure he's a twat deep down but let's ignore that for now.

Your right Death, the difference in minicule. I mean, on paper maybe they don't seem so, but in practice? Why do things seem so much more exciting in the states?

Maybe it's because they treat their president as a Demi-God, a kind of super creature that can heal the sick and turn oil into CA$H. Maybe.

And now, I work... *tappity* *tap* *tap*

Leave it to the Euros to turn five minutes of levity at the end of an American journalists' program............into some sort of syop Grinch blather about Americans and our TeeVee shows of ugly people, mostly, with the performances of amazing magic acts, animal acts, sometimes with bestiality thrown in for good measure, and the selling of that old stand-by,snake oil,to the unconscious populace ,mostly, of the 50 neo Roman states.
We have made food production a science in this country, so it’s a natural assumption the Producers of these political acts know which side of the bread has the butter on it.


We realize, well at least 52% of us do, that the US has lost respect in the eyes of the world and had become a laughing stock to the eyes of the world. There is quite possibly no way to properly describe just what the political process is in this country is like. Perhaps ,the best way to explain American politics to my dear Euros is to catch the movie Blazing Saddles




My Koresh! can January 20th get here any quicker...........