The pound is falling, but God doesn’t care, Apparently.

I thought I’d take a look at the Have your say section of the BBC news website. One of the topics up for discussion was the drop in Sterling. Having glanced through the usual right-wing nutter claptrap you get in these sort of discussion forums (Please see my earlier post regarding the A to Z of right wing on-line commentating), I came across a totally new class of nutter.

And this is what he had to say:

“It is my view that this so-called global economic crisis has been contrived by the Iluminati and those involved in the New World Order in order to create the conditions for the introduction of a universal cashless society and one world government. Shortly will be the emergence of the new world leader that the Bible describes as the anti-Christ. As a Christian I am not worried about the pound because my trust is not in the failing humanistic and material values of this world.”

Erm, right.

So how does someone like this come to the conclusion that a world leader is the Anti-Christ? I am aware of certain evangelical Christians who genuinely believe that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ, I can only presume this is what this fellow is alluding to.

What kind of brainwashing have these gullible people been through to believe this? And more importantly should they ever bee allowed to access the Internet?

Is Melanie Phillips as mad as a badger?

Someone drew attention towards this posting on the Spectator website, a place I don’t visit and a person I haven’t heard of. But What she wrote…

The perception of which is all very interesting. There was me, sat there watching an election campaign conducted between two intelligent and reasonably sympathetic social and economic conservatives, one old and white, one young and black. Meanwhile Melanie seemed to have been watching a black power communist jew-hater storming the barricades of decency…

I don’t know what was more scary, the article or the comments from the readers.

Apologies to any Badgers out there who may be offended by the association with Melanie Philips.

It’s over.

After all the campaigning and finally the election, Obama wins. But you knew that. The question is, where do we go from here?

For me, an observer from across the pond, I’m glad he won. The position of president does have a profound influence on the world as a whole, as seen by what the current president did. The voter turn out was large…but was that because people were voting for Obama and his message or simply to rid themselves of Bush and the republican party?

One thing that struck me in the 2004 election was American citizens loyalty to President Bush, They knew he had done wrong, but felt that it was unpatriotic to vote out the “commander-in-chief” in a time of war. The mistake (in my opinion) of the Republican campaign this time around was…Sarah Palin.

I don’t envy the position that President-elect Obama has. His presidency will be all about clearing up the mess of the previous incumbent and my fear is he may not be able to make the impact that people expect him to. Expectations are so extraordinarily high, I think even God would have trouble living up to them.

But his election win will have an effect In Europe. The leaders of particular countries who have largely avoided engaging with the Bush administration over Iraq and particularly Afghanistan because they knew his influence was having a negative impact on the World will now have no excuse when next year there will be a more Liberal president in charge. Hopefully Obama will use his influence to prevent them from trying to avoid taking more responsibility as Nato partners rather than relying on a few countries to commit their forces, while they sit on the sidelines trying to avoid casualties.

I know the issue of race has reared it’s ugly head, the picture in the post below of a man with a placard calling Obama all those things…you kind of got the feeling that some of these people just said all those slurs as a round about way of calling him the “N” word. Me, I would not care if he was a purple Lesbian.

As I’ve stated before, I don’t envy Obama’s task, I don’t think I’ve seen politics played in such a way anywhere else in the World than in America, the hate, the entrenched views, Vitriol, the complete devisiveness…

But at least the we can all start talking again. While the current President divided opinion, I hope Obama will re-unite opinion. And it’s like I said before; The president of the USA no matter who it is will have a profound effect on the rest of the World, Positive or Negative.

Micheal Palin not the funniest Palin after all shocker…

I’d have to say that US politics is quite the “flying circus” at this moment in time when compared to the incredible dullness of politics on this side of the pond. I do believe Mrs Palin would be of the “Norwegian Blue” variety…

Micheal Yon.

He’s fearless … provides a candid, soldier’s-eye view … from the very unique perspective of being there with them for weeks and months at a time … delv[ing] deep into the human component.”

-General DAVID H. PETRAEUS, commanding general, Multi-National Force, Iraq

Micheal Yon is an American author, independent reporter, and blogger. He has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq and recently in Afghanistan.

His website, Micheal Yon online is a must read, particularly a series of reports called “Death in the Corn” Which details his time with British Paras.

Adult Entertainment…

You know you hear about those silly laws that ban someone from doing something? Like in the Uk it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliment.

But one particular law surpasses anything I’ve seen before. The banning of sex toys.

“Alabama’s (it had to be) Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act prohibits, among other things, the commercial distribution of ‘any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value.’” Under this law one could stroll down Alabama’s southern streets selling semi-automatic rifles and dildos, and be arrested for the dildos.

Haven’t they heard of the phrase “make love, not war?”