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Today, anyone associated with France should have reason to be proud of that association. According to the Guardian, french people, like their brave parents and grandparents have taken to protecting the oppressed from Mr Sarkozy's picture of France. While the picture painted is far from perfect, with idealistic people like these around, i think France has a good future ahead of her. Incidentally fraternité in french actually means sisterhood rather than brotherhood. P.S. the first é would not fit in the title, going to be working on a fix soon for accented characters.

...can't screw up so easily. Apparently the Metropolitan Police have said that if a prosecution is successful, they will be unable to do their jobs. So they are saying if they got caught wrongdoing, they wont be able to continue wrongdoing. Charles de Menezes was an innocent victim of the ever increasing incompetence and corruption of the British Police Forces, ever since they were politicised by the Labour Government. The detail watching the apartment block, went on a break, without arranging cover. This resulted in a knock on effect ending up with the armed response unit conducting a "Mafia Style" execution of an innocent man. Now the armed police may have been under extreme pressure, but their actions lack both wisdom and intelligence (wouldn't a suicide bomber take the care to have a deadman's switch). It would be bad enough if that was where the wrong ended, but in response to the truth coming out, there was a deliberate attempt by the Metropolitan Police to cover up their gross incompetence and brand Mr de Menezes as a likely terror subject, so they could be justified in executing him. The police needs to be brought to heel, since they don't seem to be capable of acting as civilised humans at the moment. For generations we have had a police force to be proud of, now it looks like we are trying to emulate the excuse for police that the US government employs.

I came across this brilliant short film on the internet

Nope, I haven't gone New Labour, I'm voicing my support for one of my heroes, Tony Benn, who is considering coming out of retirement to return to Parliament. Sourced from the BBC

Maybe its me, but i always see the "Mac vs PC" adds as a little bit self reflective humor, slightly poking fun at the holier than thou Mac User "a true macologist does not need to expound the values of the mac, for just by being, it is great" -Book of Self Righteousness, Chapter 27, Verse 3 as contained with the Book of Jobs I can't really complain too much, i'm a fair mac evangelist myself, as much as i wish i wasnt, but they do a good job. Its rather funny however when people try to parody the ads, and don't realise the humor directed at the Mac Guy. For example To me, the "christ follower" comes across as a bit of an ass, just by his nature, because he's doing the Mac attitude. Also as is kinda expected, i feel really sorry for the christian because he's just the butt of a bad joke. Anyway, just my random thought for the moment.

To my understanding former presidents retain their title, and since Gore won the 2000 Election, he retains that title. Today he has been given the Nobel Peace Prize (Shared with the UN climate change panel), for his actions in attempting to fight climate change and bring awareness of Man Made climate change. While many (including myself) would like to see a Gore '08 ticket, i'm somewhat opposed to him trying to run, because this race is going to be messy on a scale not seen in a generation, and i'd rather not see him get damaged by the fray. I still like Barack Obama both as a Candidate and as a Person who would help restore American legitimacy at home and abroad. I hope he's half as decent as he claims to be.. If Ron Paul gets in i may have to leave because i wont feel safe in this country, to much of who and what i am, he despises. Back to the original, Go Gore :) and unless we get Barack (or even a long game playing Hilary), looking forward to a Gore '12 ticket.

Apparently, according the the Reg we are about to get a new section of nobility. Those people participating in the terribly corrupt disaster of 2012 (also known as the Olympic Tragedy, the waste of space, ken's downfall, and our greatest gift to france) will be the only people able to use their cars in the area. Special lanes for the non athletes who are considered important will exist. I despise the olympics, and all who take part in it, because contrary to the image it presents, its a quagmire of corporate sponsorship deals and corruption. Suffice it to say, i find it illegal to the nature of my country that these lanes will exist, so should they be on my route, i will be using them. How dare this government suggest we are yet more inconvenienced by their further stupidity. I don't want the games messing up london and the rest of the UK, so why should i have to put up with it? If fact the only good thing about the games coming to London, is the fact that it doesn't ruin Paris...

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