Yes, there are a lot of Americans wondering what exactly it is that we are getting for our money, but no one wants to gives us a straight answer.

My Pirate Name is… Red Mary Vane

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!

Arrrr… abour those American taxes. Makes you wonder just what kind of giant black hole all that money goes into doesn’t it.

Arrrr… LadyMin is not weird, it just seems that way at times. Ok, a lot of times. Arrrrr.

I am actually not sure why American’s pay tax. You don’t seem to get much for it. We are a small country with about 30 million people spread over an area almost as big as the USA. We pay about the same tax yet we have more programs available, the infrastructure here is mostly OK (though thanks to Howard, some of that changed), and we have a decent surplus! The comparative numbers do not add up. *shrug*

When you submit something for testing you have to have the case numbers attached to ensure things don’t get mixed up, and the purchase order number if the lab isn’t within your jurisdiction or is private. It’s definitely not cheap, nor is storing the evidence properly, but there’s no mechanism I’m aware of that even makes billing a victim possible without a court being involved.

Even with single payer, that part would still be a police expense.

yes, single payer would solve a lot of problems, but gee, we can’t have that.

Another reason we need single-payer health insurance in this country.

also, it seems that quite a few places in the u.s. charge the victim [or the victim’s insurance company] for forensic medical exams [aka rape kits]. not that this speaks well of the u.s. [it doesn’t] but palin’s opponents are going to look silly [yet again] if it turns out that their towns, cities, local govts are also charging victims for their rape kits.

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And the hits just keep on coming. Each day there’s another titbit that draws me in. “She what? Not only believes that abstinence should be the only form of contraception taught in schools and she slashed funding to a program for teenage mothers but she charged victims of sexual assault for their own rape kits. I don’t even know what rape kits are but I sure as hell know you don’t charge people for them.” And how does that whole guns and God thing work? “Say a prayer and the merciful Lord will protect us. And if he doesn’t, pass me the Uzi.”

The only problem with Sarah Palin is that she’s real. And, like it or not, she’ll be used as an example of a female politician. Regardless of the fact she should be filed under dangerous white trash fuelled by fear, propelled by power and supported by halfwits.

I have two long-held beliefs. First, people should have to pass an intelligence test before they’re allowed to vote and second, that the rest of the world should be able to vote in the US elections because the outcome affects us as much as them. If not more.
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A humongous AMEN to that!! *sigh*

I would also add that any US candidate should pass an international board examination for sanity, humanity and leadership fitness before being allowed to run! Hmmm… add Israel to that. And also… God… There are so many to choose from!

Aye… whatever.

Speaking of Lady Min, and wierd… not that she’s weird… well, maybe a bit… Ermmm… where was I? Oh yeah! LOL She pointed me to this opinion piece by Catherine Deveny (who’s cred just increased seriously in my book) in my own local paper, The Age! See… weird or what? 😉 LOL I was PMSL!

Welcome to this year’s blockbuster

The US VP candidate is gun-toting, God-fearing proof that we are at the mercy of morons.

I’M OBSESSED with Sarah Palin. She’s the first thing I think about when I wake and the last thing I think of before I go to sleep. I google her a dozen times a day and manage to bring her up in every conversation I have.

“You have hair. Sarah Palin has hair. What a coincidence! She has big hair and it’s brown. Her kids have hair too. Their names are Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig. Would you like to see a photo of Sarah’s hair? Or her kids’ hair? Or her husband the First Dude’s hair? She’s a great mother, she went back to work three days after giving birth to a disabled child. Of course, she didn’t have to. She chose to. She and the First Dude had little Trig’s best interests at heart. Never too early to instil independence. It toughens ’em up. Next stop? A bloody good war.”

I found myself checking out Palin Facebook groups last night. The ones that amused me included: Excuse Me, But Has Anyone Else Noticed That Sarah Palin Is Insane? My Dog Is More Qualified To Be Vice-President Than Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin Is A Bona Fide Whack Job. Librarians Against Sarah Palin. I Would Have Sex With, But Not Vote For, Sarah Palin. And: I Would Rather Have A Mentally Challenged Goat As VP Than Sarah Palin.

I’d been thinking the US election campaign was dragging on endlessly until I read the headline “McCain chooses woman for running mate.” I loved that, “woman”. Sums the whole thing up. She’s the closest thing Republican strategists could find to a man with a vagina. No political party in the world would have had the genius to dream up Sarah Palin. She’s a social experiment with lipstick.
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Ahhhhhhahahahahahaha… God! I gotta breathe! LMAO

Oh… and… Argggh me hearties!! AYE!