Bookworm on Mar 02 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England
England is not one of my favorite places anymore, because of the raging antisemitism that characterizes her politics and her street. Nevertheless, she is our ally and has been our staunch ally for more than a century. For Obama to abandon her over the Falklands is disgusting. At Power Line, in a few words, John [...]
Bookworm on Feb 26 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England
The British, who represent what America will be in 20 years if Obama-stuff continues unchecked, are being offered a way out. Daniel Hannan, the brilliant British conservative speaker, is hosting a Tea Party. Here are details. So far, fewer than 100 people are scheduled to show but that doesn’t mean more won’t show, nor does [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England
A few days ago, I posted about the fact that, in England, it is illegal to defend yourself against an attack within your own home. I shouldn’t have gotten so upset about the whole thing. You see, it seems that I was operating from a ridiculous premise, which is that one actually has legal rights [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Gun control
One of the most basic principles of Anglo-Saxon common law is a homeowner’s right to defend himself against intruders. Oh, wait! That’s not quite true anymore. In England, which practically gave its name to the notion that “a man’s home is his castle,” homeowner self-defense is against the law (emphasis mine):
Myleene Klass, the broadcaster and [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, Elections, England, Political correctness
When parents think about what a school should do for their children, they think in terms of the three “Rs,” plus a lovely layering of science, history, and other subjects that maketh a full (and employable) man. The politically correct Nanny State, however, cares little for education and a great deal for ideology. It should [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Religion
Two views of moral behavior, one from the source, and one from an English divine:
God: Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15)
A priest in England: It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to ‘prostitution, mugging or burglary’.
It is true that, under Jewish law, Jews in extremis are allowed to [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
If I were devising a citizenship test for Great Britain, I can think of some things I would ask. Broadly, I would ask about her history (what makes Britain British?), her form of government (details about Parliamentary Democracy), and the duties of a citizen.
But you see, I’m not writing the test one needs to take [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Britain’s NHS, which is government-run (i.e., Communist) medicine, has, unsurprisingly, Communist outcomes. Lots of people die unnecessarily in England under the government’s beneficent care:
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, World War II
Disillusioned members of the World War II generation state honestly that, had the England that now exists been the England in 1939, they would not have believed it was a country worth saving. Most feel that their fellow veterans, those who died in the fight, are rolling in their graves as they look at the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health
Just so you know, Britain, the ne plus ultra of single payer care, is having a little bit of death panel trouble:
Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn.
They criticised draft guidance that will effectively ban the drug sorafenib – which [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England
Not a big story, not an American story, but still a story perfectly illustrative of the cultural insanity that elevates perpetrator rights over the rights of ordinary citizens:
A teenage sex attacker kidnapped and raped a five-year-old boy eight days after a judge spared him custody for another rape, it has emerged.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Taxes, Welfare
The Daily Mail has the data to prove what we all knew: a political party that shifts the tax burden to less than 50% of the population, while leaving more than half the population dependent on government largesse, wins in perpetuity (or until the country implodes, whichever comes first).
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Bookworm on Nov 03 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England
The other day, the Daily Mail ran an article about the exponential increase in stranger attacks in England, a byproduct of the public drunkenness that is increasing at an even faster rate than the violence. I still remember when England was a remarkably safe, clean little country, except in the worst neighborhoods of the biggest [...]
Bookworm on Oct 30 2009 | Filed under: Britain
We’re not talking about the way distant past here, we’re talking about Britain in the 1950s, a place some found stable, safe and charming, and others repressive and stultifying. I’m a stable, safe and charming gal myself, so I developed a real sense of nostalgia reading about a place and time I never knew.
UPDATE: Fixed [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Judges
If there was ever an example of misguided compassion, this story out of Britain must rank at the top of the list:
A psychopathic Satanist, given a ‘life means life’ sentence for strangling his cellmate whilst already serving life for murder, has had that cut to 20 years on appeal in order ‘to give him light [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Immigration
It happened there and it can happen here. As for me, I’m stodgy, and like our national character just fine. I want a slow, controlled flow of immigrants to ensure that they adapt to our norms, and not we to theirs.
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Bookworm on Oct 14 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Government
I don’t think I need to offer much comment on this story, which is one more indictment of the danger of over-regulation that always follows in the wake of Big Government:
Ambulance paramedics battling to save a nine-year-old car crash victim were told the nearest back-up crew could not help as they were on their lunchbreak.
Schoolgirl [...]
Bookworm on Oct 13 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Capitalism, Climate change, England
In his latest opining about world events, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has certainly managed to assure that every one of his illustrious predecessors is rolling in his grave. Please recall that Williams is the same Church prelate who advanced Sharia law.
He’s now calling for the end of economic growth the save the planet. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 07 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Government
The only thing I’ll add to the my post title by way of commentary is that this is the America that Obama and the Democrats envision for you, since increased government control inevitably presages the rise of regulations that destroy initiative, innovation and courage:
A jobsworth ambulance boss refused to allow his staff to enter six [...]
Bookworm on Sep 25 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
After you’ve read this appalling article about Britain’s well-recognized drinking problem, two thoughts: First, it’s like a Bosch painting come to life. And second, if you were in England and appalled by what you saw, wouldn’t Islam, a religion that bans alcohol, start to look attractive?
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Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, Children, Media matters, Sarah Palin, United Nations
I have a bunch of open tabs on my monitor, so I’m just going to jumble all of the stuff here, in one post:
On Obama, the UN, and the World:
I noted yesterday that Obama seems to have a huge problem with the more democratic nations in the world, and a corresponding affinity for the totalitarian [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, GBLT
The Queen and Prince Phillip were born in the 1920s. They are, I gather, inherently conservative people. While moving in the British upper classes has no doubt exposed them to a great many gays and lesbians (and I’m sure their manners allow them to take those interactions in stride), I’m not sure that the elderly [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, Education, England, Judges
I gave the post the above title because, in England, even a woman who is a convicted sexual predator gets to keep up her relationship with the victim:
A public school music teacher was today jailed for lesbian sex with a 15-year-old pupil – but was given an astonishing green light to continue the ‘affair’ when [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech, Islam
All of us have been worried that the Obama Administration, working in tandem with a wildly Democratic Congress, wants to clamp down on freedom of speech. Heck, in true Orwellian fashion, the House of Representatives has already taken myriad terms off the table for fear that they might be used against their Fearless (albeit whiny) [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Yesterday, while in San Francisco, I nearly got run over by a cyclist who ran a red light. There was nothing new about this, except that I was a more vulnerable than usual position, being on foot. Normally, I’m a driver, desperately trying to avoid bicyclists who run red lights, ignore stop signs, shoot across [...]
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