The world is coming apart at the seams as banks fail or nearly fail and the ripple has yet to finish moving. All we can be sure of when all is done and dusted the rich will be even richer and the rest of us will be deep in doodoo......

I am so sick of this stupid election..... please let it be over soon....

McCain and Obama in a dead heat and Obama seems to have lost his tongue or maybe the DNC have decided it's their way or the highway. To me, it looks like politics as usual from both parties throwing insults and accusations at each other - what happened to Obama's freshness and do 'it doesn't have to be like this' attitude?

I can't believe that the US will elect McCain and Co. I mean he is older than God and has a far worse memory. But he represents the status quo, the reason why the US is deep in doo doo right now and all you can surely expect is more of the same?

Hilary Clinton now claims the popular vote and has told us that votes don't count until cast - which means she is going all of the way to the Democratic convention in the hope that Sen. Obama makes some blunder between now and then. But hang on. Who would elect a woman who seemingly can't count? And who makes up and changes the rules as she goes? This woman has an ego the size of Everest and believes it is SHE who is important (and her alone) in this election.

Come on Hilary - we know that you love Nazi created PR tactics (If you say something loud enough and often enough people believe it) but we too can count.... and Obama leads in the popular vote....

Does Hilary Clinton remind anyone else of that damn Energizer Bunny? according to the Energizer Bunny's personal website, it's mantra is ''keep going'. It seems that Hilary's is also 'keep going' - whatever the cost - and so far its several million Dollars of her personal fortune. It's one thing to 'keep going' but it is another to recognize when it's time to quit.

CNN's reporter asks if Mrs. Clinton is deluded? That's a good question and one worthy of consideration. If it can be shown that she is indeed 'deluded' then she disqualifies herself to be President - after all, who wants a deluded President (Oh wait - we have one already). None the less, Mrs. Clinton's ability to delude herself would be a troublesome personal characteristic for a President.

The fact that she is still in the race shows that the only thing she really cares about is herself. This isn't about who is best qualified anymore but about her ego. Now, she states that she has the bigger share of the popular vote! This is delusion - pure and simple - she stands condemned by her own words and actions. She counts Florida and Michigan in this assertion - states in which Clinton was the only name on the ballot. States who's primaries don't count, never counted and the candidates all agreed would not count. Changing the rules after the event is a Clinton trait. Say something loud enough and often enough and it becomes the truth is the Clinton ideology. Strange - that policy was actually invented by Hitler and the Nazi's in Germany. I guess it worked there so why not in the USA?

Is it me or is CNN biased for Hilary "I mis-spoke" Clinton? Last night they covered her going on and on and on (and on and on and on) about Iraq. The other night they gave Obama a few seconds talking about MLK and then we got to watch Clinton go on and on and on (and on and on...) about how upset she was the day MLK was shot....

It just seems to me that CNN give this lady way too much air time as compared to Obama. But, maybe I have it wrong. Maybe CNN is biased to Obama and is simply letting us all see what a wind bag Clinton is as she drones and drones and drones....and mis-speaks.

I heard her talking about withdrawing troops from Iraq and for a minute I thought she was saying she'd withdraw from the race... Wishful thinking that her giant ego would ever consider such a thing. And is her voice more boring to listen to than Bill (I did not have sex with that woman) Clinton or what?

And while I'm on the topic, no wonder they didn't want to release their tax return. My goodness did they make some money. How can anyone making minimum wage or even $100,000 a year believe that two rich kids who appear to be unable to speak the truth at any point in time could truly have any interest in their welfare? The Clintons are about one thing and one thing only - The Clintons (on and in Bill's case - Women).

Rant-here.com is very proud to be able to bring you some secretly taken recent photos of President George W Bush and his senior Republican party officials as they plot the future war in Iran and how to extracate themselves from the mess in Iraq and Afganistan.

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Dear Mrs. Clinton,

Thanks for your application for the job of President of the United States. Your application was considered most carefully but in the end rejected in favor of a younger, more qualified candidate whose ideas are solid and original and who has demonstrated a consistent quality to rise above the petty details and focus on solutions to the bigger problems.

Your application demonstrates that your ambition for power and your insatiable ego make you, in the final, a poor candidate for the job. The successful candidate has called for fundamental changes in approach to the job. You, I fear, have continued to demonstrate a blind ignorance of this fact and continue to operate in the old way that we now seek to get away from. Your resume is over inflated and your claims of job experience appear weak - besides they are experiences of the old way of doing things.

I just got back from spending a week in the UK and I can tell you I will never return there to live. That Labour Government has been in power for far too long. It is brain dead, out of ideas and just crazy. How you Brits put up with it is beyond me?

The first thing I notice is the large 'Welcome to a smoke free Britain' signs as you leave Heathrow and walk straight into clouds of cigarette smoke as you leave the building. No body obeys the no smoking signs and the designated smoking areas sit unused as everyone puffs on their cigs just outside the main door. Stupid law anyway.

Martina Navratilova has said in the past that President George W. Bush is a liar but her most recent comments are a real eye opener and worthy of some consideration. In regaining her Czech nationality recently she said "The thing is that we elected Bush. That is worse. Against that, nobody chose a Communist government in Czechoslovakia." and that she had swapped "One system that suppresses free opinion for another—it's depressing."

Now she didn't give up her US citizenship but now has dual nationality. My guess is that giving up US citizenship would be too onerous as the IRS would be very interested all of a sudden in why she would give up US citizenship.

The Clinton's act as if they were the United States Royal Family. Now Hilary is offering Obama the position of Vice President - how kind and regal of her. I suppose her ego is so large that she hasn't yet noticed that she is trailing behind Obama in delegates, popular vote and every other measure of the democratic process?

I heard a voter who voted Clinton say that he couldn't lose because she was a twofer - you got "Hilary and Bill in the White house and Bill was pretty good." Someone ought to remind him that term limits means that Bill can't run again...oh, my mistake... term limits don't apply to the Clinton royal family and if his wife is elected, he just circumvented those rules.

Funnily enough, when Bill was elected he was young and inexperienced - just the critique the Clinton's now throw at Obama. But Obama isn't a royal. And, if he is so experienced why on earth do you want him running on your platform then? Please do make your mind up lady!

Hilary Clinton should already have stepped down in favor of Obama. She represents the status quo - the old ways of doing things under here husband and the Bush regimes. Obama on the other hand represents a new generation and a fresh approach.

The old way of doing things is to steal elections and run campaigns based on lies and rumors. In marketing, if you say it enough, it must be true. So the Clintons are working their cronies behind the scenes making sure that the Florida poll counts even though it was illegal according to DNC rules and the only candidate that run was - yes - Clinton. This was always their back up plan you see - that's why she broke the rules and campaigned in Florida.

I found a quite cool and unique website today with a great topic - how US politicians died and where their graves are....!! The site is called The Political Graveyard and a good example of its content can be found at Lindemann to Lindquist. The site contains data on 138,150 Politicians, Judges and Diplomats and you can find out pretty much anything about them including where born, offices held, where died, how died and where buried.

It lists all kinds of people involved in US politics and goes back into the early 1800's. It also features many different ways to look at the information or to search for information. Want information on a long lost ancestor who may have been in politics? Just start at this site.
Want to know about the Clinton's or the Bush's family history - well this is the place to find it. Want to find out which politicians were born into slavery? It's all there at this amazing website.

Regular readers will know I have no time for global warming but now comes news that ought to put global warming on the back seat for everyone though you'd never know it.

Are you worried about global warming? The media is full of it so I am not surprised. Worried what your grand children will think of you for destroying their planet with your CO2 emissions?

Forget it.

Start worrying about whether you will have food in 3-years time instead. Start worrying about the wars that a global food shortage will start. Start worrying about many of the world's species dying out before the end of the decade.

Think I am joking?

Well, for once I am deadly serious. Bees, yes - Bees, are dying off in amazing numbers in the US and Europe and it has scientists perplexed. The bees seem to forget their way back to the hive and die looking. No one is sure quite why but the numbers are staggering - up to 70% of Bees have already died off in some regions.

While all of the headlines are focused on the U.S. primaries few of you will know that the elections for the Czech President are also taking place at the moment.

The election is conducted according to some rules that can be viewed here for those interested. However, the parliament elects the President and the voting system seems something akin to how the Pope is elected by cardinals - albeit without the white smoke!

You might have read about the dispute between Russia and the Ukraine over natural gas? Once again, the Russians are threatening to cut off gas supplies unless the Ukraine pays its gas bill. The problem here is that if gas is cut off, it affects more than just the Ukraine since Russian gas on its way to the UK and other parts of Europe have to pass through that country first.

You can read about the dispute on the BBC or any other news site but here is what you won't discover unless you dig a little deeper. Essentially, this is a dispute about an intra-company transfer of money. The company that owes the money is a Gazprom subsidiary. So, here we are about to face a gas shortage simply because one part of Gazprom owes another part of Gazprom money? That's like BP Exploration cutting off oil supplies to BP Refining so that it can't supply more gasoline because another part of BP didn't pay the other.

The Clinton campaign has replaced it's campaign manager and dipped into the Clinton's personal savings to the tune of $10 million. All this after a clean sweep for Obama this last weekend and it now appears that Obama has the momentum in the Democratic race. The problem with Clinton is two-fold: First, a lot of people (me included) can't stand the woman and second, why would the USA want more of the same? In a previous post I likened the Bush-Clinton era as US royalty. But the USA isn't a royalty and it fought a war of independence to rid itself of an absolute monarchy. A Clinton victory would establish a lineage of rule by two powerful, elite families and who knows if that wouldn't be continued 4 or 8 years later by Jeb or some other Bush family member. It is time for a change in US politics. It is time for the US to change it's global image and it couldn't do better with President Obama.....

Everyone knows that Boris Yeltsin always fancied a tipple and that Bush senior occasionally threw up at State occasions but a quick search at YouTube on this terms throws up any number of other drunk Presidents (some obviously doctored for effect). But recently, the new French President has come under more scrutiny.

According to the BBC, the proposed .xxx for porn domain name has been delayed while the US Government takes a closer look at the implications. I got to admit, I'm a bit lost by all of this. I mean the Internet is dominated by porn and porn searchers so why not give it its own 'box' and make it go there? That way, the rest of what's left of the Internet can be put to better use not to mention that parents would be able to finally filter out porn sites when their kids use the Internet (always assuming the porn industry complied and moved to the .xxx domain name).

Women wield extraordinary power when it comes to elections and this is a fact that is well know by candidates. By virtue of being a woman (although see Is Hillary Really Bill in Drag which might cast some doubts on that fact), she ought to have an advantage in capturing the woman's vote in the Presidential race. But as Mrs. Thatcher learned in the UK, being a woman doesn't get you that woman's vote if you act, well, manly...

I guess it's no surprise that a politician would dream up new taxes and that their attention would be directed at use of the Internet. After all, they once taxed windows in England and I am suspicious that the intention behind both was to keep us all in the dark.

France's president is possibly simply tired with bloggers speculating about his love life with a younger model and this his way of getting even. But seriously, taxing the Internet? I think this goes too far and it smacks to me of censorship.

Sarkozy sounds a lot like the old Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK who tried to tax cell phones labeling them in his budget speech 'the bane of modern life'. How long did that last?

A strange thought occurred to me today - what if Hillary is simply Bill in drag? I mean, what a way to get around the two-term limit and far better than Putin's strategy of becoming Prime Minister (since the US has no such thing).

I mean it wasn't so long ago that Hillary looked radically different. She had long straight hair, big teeth, incredibly thick spectacles and was frankly a bit of a mess. Here is a picture to prove it...

Hillary THEN



Suddenly, Hillary is transformed, as if by a miracle, into this....

Hillary NOW

Seriousness for a moment.

It's hard not to want to comment today on the assassination in Pakistan so I will in a way. Violence, it seems, truly begets violence. We live in a world in which violence occurs frequently. Often this is done in the name of God but it's Man that resorts to violence; not God.

I read this morning that our friend in Cuba - Fidel Castro - has said through Cuban TV that he won't cling to power.... excuse me while I break for a laugh.......................................................... OK, back. Is he kidding? Isn't he a tin pot dictator and hasn't he clung to power for way longer than he should already? I mean Cuba is a country people die to escape from. I wonder why? Could it be that his regime is one that has sucked the life blood out of the country and is now living on frozen plasma imported from China?