Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

I remember someone on the forums laughing at me not to long ago when I said England was a turning into police state, and posted some bullshit website that supposedly rated how free various countries were and England was high. Obviously they didn't check to see if having normal sex was allowed.
 
Or apparently all the political exiles (i.e. Michael Savage), or the Internet Watch Foundation's efforts to block controversial Wikipedia articles from Internet users in the UK.

And of course there's the widespread public surveillance referred to in the above article.
 
It's not much better in the US with the cameras tbh. Start looking up, you will be surprised how many cameras are around. I was in Tucson a couple of weeks ago, and in one of the VA hospital parking lots, standing in one spot I could count like 6-7 cameras. people don't fucking notice cameras because they are above head level.

Edit: Not that the UK is really missing out on anything being denied access to Savage, but it is the principle of the thing.
 
solution: state sanctioned bondage. ball gags for silence and special chambers that are sound proof and with no headboards
~gR~
 
they do that here in the US too.

for example, the CO state senate wants to require hands free devices for using cell phones while driving. however all state employees are exempt while on duty so the state doesnt have to buy headsets for everyone
~gR~
 
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Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’; Prints a trillion more dollars anyway

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”

The president pledged to work with Congress to shore up entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare and said he was confident that the House and Senate would pass health-care overhaul bills by August.

“Most of what is driving us into debt is health care, so we have to drive down costs,” he said.

Credit-Card Fees

Obama also prodded Congress to pass restrictions on credit- card issuers, saying consumers need “strong and reliable” protection from unfair practices and hidden fees.

“It’s time for reform that’s built on transparency, accountability, and mutual responsibility, values fundamental to the new foundation we seek to build for our economy,” the president said.

Obama called on Congress to pass a credit-card bill he can sign into law by May 25 that would clamp down on what he says are sudden rate increases, unfair penalties and hidden fees. He wants the measure to protect consumers, strengthen monitoring and impose penalties for credit-card company violations.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the credit-card bill last month after adding a provision requiring banks to apply consumers’ payments to balances with the highest interest rates first. The bill also imposes limits on card interest rates and fees.

The Senate is debating its version today. It also would require credit-card companies to give 45 days’ notice before increasing an interest rate. It would prohibit retroactive rate increases on existing balances unless a consumer was 60 days late with a payment.

‘Complicit’ in Debt

The president said Americans have been hooked on their credit cards and share some of the blame for the current system.

“We have been complicit in these problems,” he said. “We have to change how we operate. These practices have only grown worse in the midst of this recession.”

The House and Senate will have to iron out any differences and vote again on a final, compromise version before sending it to Obama for his signature.

The American Bankers Association, which represents card issuers, has warned lawmakers and the Obama administration against taking punitive action or setting requirements that are too stringent. Doing so, the lobby group says, would limit consumer credit and worsen a credit crunch.

Obama said that restrictions “shouldn’t diminish consumers’ access to credit.”

Uncollectible credit-card debt rose to 8.82 percent in February, the most in the 20 years that Moody’s Investors Service Inc. has kept records. Lawmakers have said they’re under increasing pressure from constituents to respond to rising interest rates and abrupt changes to consumers’ accounts.

Meetings With Industry

Obama held a White House meeting last month with executives from the credit-card industry, including representatives from Bank of America Corp. and American Express Co. Afterward, he told reporters that credit-card issuers should be prohibited from imposing “unfair” rate increases on consumers and should offer the public credit terms that are easier to understand.

“The days of any time, any increase, anything goes -- rate hike, late fees -- that must end,” Obama said today at Rio Rancho High School. We’re going to require clarity and transparency from now on.”

He also said the steps he has taken to stimulate the economy and start the debate on overhauling the health-care system are beginning to take effect.

“We’ve got a long way to go before we put this recession behind us,” Obama said. “But we do know that the gears of our economy, our economic engine, are slowly beginning to turn.”

Taking questions from the audience, Obama repeated his stance that he wants legislation to overhaul the health-care system finished before the end of the year, saying it is vital to the economy.

Health-care costs are driving up the nation’s debt and burdening entitlement programs such as Medicare, the government- run insurance program for those 65 and older and the disabled.

The programs’ trustees reported May 13 that the Social Security trust fund will run out of assets in 2037, four years sooner than forecast, and Medicare’s hospital fund will run dry by 2017, two years earlier than predicted a year ago.
 
Holders of US debt will "eventually" get tired of buying it??

China has already backed off buying our debt.

Obama has jacked the deficit through the roof and not even with war spending. I don't care how much he says "we need to stop deficit spending" when he isn't doing anything about it.
 
what bush did is irrelevant when it comes to opinion and punditry.

and i wouldnt put those words into every republicans mouth. many of them side with obama...
~gR~
 
What you will hear is I told you so from Ron Paul supporters (myself included), but not like I think McCain/Palin would have done any better, or the Republican party in general.
 
Honestly I would rather have Obama/Biden than McCain/PALIN. Then I don't have to listen to all the "Republican-christians" making endless excuses for how bad a job they are doing like they did for W.
 
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Which they have no business doing since Bush Sr/Jr had just as much a hand in this situation as Clinton/Obama have. Obama is just putting on the finishing touches.

Don't forget Ronald Reagan, who basically started the whole "hey, we can solve all our problems by just cutting taxes forever regardless of how much debt we're piling up" attitude. I'd call him the moral death-knell of the Republican Party if there ever was one.
 
Yeah, I mean I can understand much of the praise for what he did to address the economic problems of the early '80s, but his approach obviously wasn't sustainable in the long run, and he didn't really bother to turn it around once conditions had improved.