Expect the worst and you may be pleasantly surprised.
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Via my Newshoggers colleague Anderson comes this:
By a vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States) and no abstentions, the Committee also approved a resolution on the right to food, by which the Assembly would “consider it intolerable” that more than 6 million children still died every year from hunger-related illness before their fifth birthday, and that the number of undernourished people had grown to about 923 million worldwide, at the same time that the planet could produce enough food to feed 12 billion people, or twice the world’s present population. (See Annex III.)
The Bush administration, speaking for the U.S.A., therefore must consider it tolerable that 6 million children die every day – children who could be fed if we weren’t wasting billions on stealth fighters, littoral combat boondoggles and non-effective defense against non-existant ballistic missiles from Iran.
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Merry Christmas to the World from Dubya and his chums – who are currently geeing up the notion that an increase in defense spending (say, to 4% of GDP) would be a great economic stimulus package! Actually, it wouldn’t – defense spending “drains resources from the productive economy” and costs more jobs in other sectors than it creates.How much better an economic stimulus – both for America and the world – it would be to mobilize American might for good instead of destruction, Dubya and his fellow travellers remain silent upon.
Yeah. Merry whatever.
]]>The traditional meal would certainly lay heavy during the mid summer, Kryten, but we all have to make sacrifices for traditions, and there are advantages to being able to use a surfboard instead of a toboggan, on Christmas day. It also reduces the number of bobble hats and the “suicide mittens” [the ones with the string to keep you from losing them that can get wrapped around you next if you don’t pay attention putting on your coat] that you receive as a child.
It looks like we have survived the Hedgemony, but this period will certainly be fertile soil for historians, right up there with the Civil War and the Great Depression – an amazing amalgam of worsts in the history of the country.
]]>We’ve had out Xmas breakfast, and are about to have lunch (we’ve spent all morning preparing and cooking! We need a bigger kitchen!) 😉 I had a few minutes, so I thought I’d wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, in whatever form you choose to celebrate. 😀 Just enjoy it with someone you love! That’s the true Christmas Spirit. 😀
Thanks for a really fun and educational year Bryan and all the regulars! I’ve enjoyed it and am so happy to see so many sane and intelligent people in one place. Even if we all have our own unique and peculiar quirks and experiences, I think we share a sincere wish to make the World a better place for all who inhabit this amazing World of ours. We may not know exactly how to accomplish this yet, but at least we care enough and are sane and intelligent enough to understand how important it is not to have the typical self-centered, and narrow myopic view that seems to dominate today. Thou we may not agree on everything (thank God!) given our different backgrounds and life experiences, we could hardly share the same personal views on everything. But I think we do agree on the important things, and we understand compromise. Just because one has a certain belief about something, does not make one right, it may perhaps simply mean that one is correct within one’s own context. And that’s the important point, we each have a unique context, but we also share some commonality, such as this World we must coexist on. 🙂
Let’s see where 2009 takes us. I’m ready to keep on fighting the just causes. I just wish there weren’t so many that needed to be fought! *sigh* “I’m getting too old for this crap!”(tm) Heh… 😉
Thanks again, and I truly wish you all the very best!
]]>In the meantime, I did find a couple of recipes for *puddings*……!
]]>I spent a couple of Christmases in Britain when I was flying out of Europe. The London stores are an amazing sight at Christmas, and Christmas dinner is not to be believed.
]]>BTW, I have a couple of Christmas CDs from King’s College that are really good. Not sure if I put any on my radio.blog or not….if not, that is just another of those things I just didn’t get around to this year… (sigh)
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