It’s always crazy to me how a .45 cent per gallon gas increase can cost a political party control of Congress, but an additional $1500 dollars in public school property taxes isn’t enough to get people to question their school boards.
I think this is fairly convincing evidence that everything the government reported re. the events at RAF Fairford was either partially or mostly untrue.
Logically we can now deduce that the US considers Britain unstable and its government untrustworthy custodians of its military assets, and the images coming in from Gosport tonight would certainly seem to vindicate Washington's analysis.
Britons' government takes every opportunity to treat its own citizens with reckless abandon. There is no good, logical, commonsense reason as to why they persist in behaving like this - in fact they don't even seem to have anything to say on the matter at all.
They follow the 3 D's: Deny. Deflect. Distract.
One of the broader historical indicators that something is badly wrong in your country, is that its inhabitants are obliged to essentially follow foreign news outlets to find out what's going on on their own doorstep.
Every so often I wonder "who runs Britain?" and on each occasion I find myself cornered; unable to respond with anything beyond "I don't know".
I don't know who is running Britain, maybe no one does.
My extremely offline wife: "Geeze did you hear about this Cornell thing? Seven hours. Terrible."
Me, having already absorbed over 9,000 poasts from the internet's most illustrious misogynists: