Worth celebrating. Universal health care, free at the point of delivery. An essential part of a civilised country I think. Worth noting, despite the impression given by certain people, that the Conservative Party have been in charge of the service for a lot of that time.
Tag Archives | Politics
Good riddance
Jesse Helms is dead. Finally acceding to the plea made in the marvellous MC Hawking ditty.
Good fucking riddance. Tip of the hat to Pharyngula.
Planet Earth calling
Apparently Mugabe has invited Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration ceremony for Zimbabwe president. What planet is Mugabe on? The man must live in a bubble of reality distortion. When is the world going to intervene in Zimbabwe like they did in Iraq? Answer: never, as it was really only the USA and the UK who did that and they don’t have the troops or the will to do it in Zimbabwe.
Essential viewing
The USA politics show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is essential viewing. It’s very, very good indeed. It takes 5 stories in the news each day and covers them. It is no friend of the Right in the USA. Which is good. You can view online or subscribe to a podcast version for free via iTMS.
Two more Mark Morford home runs
The truly excellent Mark Morford’s latest 2 columns for SFGate are well worth a read. One discusses Apple without Steve Jobs’ and why we seem to notice the loss of visionaries more than others. The other is a smorgasbord of various good news signs about the way things are moving in the world.