I’ve got a better idea!

Why don’t you emigrate to the great US of A?

Helen hasn’t give him his money back. (I guess he means Election publicity funding here.)
Jeanette has apparently made him empty promises.
Winston seems to be a dead loss…

bb, do you want us to shed a tear for you, or give you a medal?

Before you go putting the boot into the Yanks about who they re-elected lets not forget we hardly have a reason to smile, we re-elected the most corrupt prime minister in our nations history….and say what you like about Bush, at least his election billboards actually bear some resemblance to the man

P.S..speaking of corrupt, any idea where my money is?..I know I have no chance of getting back the money from Winston but I seem to remember Jennette saying that she was going to pay me back.

Is it too fanciful to think that in future, sooner rather than later I hope, the US military might use its power to protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction (a real planet-wide security threat), rather than fight a futile battle against drug dealers in Colombia? Come to think of it, this is a role that the NZ navy could also play, albeit on a smaller scale - helping Solomon Islands communities protect their rainforests from Malaysian and Chinese loggers.

http://www.kotare.typepad.com/thestrategist

As an American I can assure you that there is no need to apply the restriction “about climate change” to the comment that “in general Americans seem to be poorly informed”.

Recollecting that there’s 12% illiteracy… and that they re-elected the Shrub… and that about 30% still think that WMDs were found…

…that’s NOT a description of a country where democracy based on an informed electorate is thriving.

respectfully
BJ

I’ve got Lou Reed’s “New York” album which is just fantastic and has Last Great American Whale on it. That album has lots of politics, more than I’ve come across in his other stuff (tho I am no expert). And yes the quote from Lou does refer to “Americans” rather than the “US Govt”, which is of course what he meant. He was despairing that lots Americans didn’t seem to care about the environment. And I think it is a real problem that in general Americans seem to be poorly informed about climate change.

Whales are one of the ocean’s indicator species, healthy whales = healthy oceans.

I’m going to shift the mood here by asserting “no whales = too many bloody Japanese whaling ships”, and run a plug for the Sea Shepherd, which has been de-registered in it’s home country (UK), due to Japanese pressure, creating our first new Pirates in some centuries to be saiing from a European base. (I defer to the great quantity of SE Asian pirates for modernity and recent evolution…)

So, for the statisticians out there, anti-american isn’t the only cultural bias to be met on the blog here!

http://boards.fool.com/Messages.asp?mid=25131503&bid=114903

Not all there agree on anything, but it is a damned good source for news and understanding of the financial sector. The China-US-Debt business has been pretty well covered but it’s like going through the archives here. Lots of chaff to sift to get the wheat.

BJ