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I am revolted at wahat has gone on so far. The English have turned out in large numbers to return the same villains who got them where they are. What will it take for them to see through the scum of both parties who have robbed and misgoverned them for so long? Really, people hsve the government they deserve.

Sudan, Britain and democracy

Sudan, a country that has spent the last generation under a bloody tyranny and fighting a civil war, recently had a general election. More electors turned up than the facilities were able to handle; so, by common consent, the electoral commission allowed the polls to stay open for an extra day. In spite of widespread fears, there seems to have been no violence, and everyone who wanted to vote was able to.

Britons were called to vote yesterday. For God knows what reason, unexpected numbers of electors - no less than 20% more than last time - showed up to vote, mostly for the same discredited cretins that have so mismanaged the country for the last several decades. This submissiveness of the electorate was properly rewarded by the authorities, who closed the polls at 10 in the evening, depriving thousands, maybe tens of thousands of would-be electors of their democratic rights.

Sudan gives Britain lessons in democracy. And the British, being idiots enough to reward the villainous three leading parties for their villainy, deserve the insult. They will pay for it, too, when the monsters who have destroyed British manufacturing, devastated British society, run up a debt that makes Greece's seem small, and lined their own pockets like it was going out of style, now make the citizenship pay for their errors.

This is a day for bitter irony

Remember my old fic "Gay Bar"? The one that was lied about by some swine and brought upon me the associated wrath of every self-proclaimed champion of gay rights in fandom? The one I got sick of defending and pulled from FictionAlley, because I did not want to have to cope with hate-filled would-be reviews from people who, as often as not, had never read it?

WEll, I'd left it up on ffnet. And now someone has made it a favourite. Someone, mind you, who closes her ffnet entry with: GAY PRIDE!! Laugh? I nearly choked.

Good news

For a change. The worst man in British politics, Evan "murder the old and the sick" Harris, has lost his seat. Euthanasia will have one less backer.

And more good news!

George Galloway is gone!

feeling like an idiot

I received at the same time two work proposals. One of them contained a complicated legal paragraph to translate.

I translated it at breakneck speed...

...and sent it to the wrong outsourcer.

(Of course I sent the right answers to the right people as soon as I realized. But that is NOT the message I wish prospective clients to get regarding my control of my translating briefs.)

Two bad news

Ed Balls, the worst man in Parliament after Evan Harris, has been re-elected. Even worse, John Bercow, the very image of moral and financial corruption, has survived, because the vote against him has been split between two rival candidates. This is as much as to say that graft and corruption are from henceforth no reason to throw a bum, even the bummest of the bums, out.

Last month I posted a music meme...

...here are the four items that nobody could get:

This is awesome new talent Imelda May from Dublin in her wonderful "Big Bad Handsome Man" and a life and vigour and fun I haven't heard since Ricky Martin in his prime:

This one, on the other hand, is a positive embarrassment; and oddly enough, Marty Robbins actually wrote one of the greatest love songs of all time - "My woman, my woman, my wife".

And this one, to finish with, is a masterpiece and one of the greatest songs ever composed - but it is, alas, in Italian.