Category Archives: England

London NHS To The ER

June 25, 2012 – 8:23 pm

The BBC has reported that a London NHS hospital trust has been warned by the Tory Health Minister about bankruptcy over some $100 million in debts, which had been incurred by a private finance initiative. The interest on the debt has risen quickly with delinquency and the right wing of the government is pushing hard […]

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Abject Poverty

June 25, 2012 – 3:46 am

The Industrial revolution bestowed great wealth on capitalists in the United Kingdom, but the accumulation of wealth resulted in up to one third of the British labor force living in abject poverty. Enfranchised voters reacted to this gulf between rich and poor by voting in large numbers for the Labor Party in 1906 and the […]

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Pattaya Manisfesto

June 25, 2012 – 12:22 am

Pattaya has metamorphorsized from a neglected backwater to a premier destination for lager louts around the world. The green coconut farms have been replaced by sardine-can condos, traffic jams on 2nd Road, and the bars are filled with assholes. There were always assholes here, but not in these numbers Nowadays I hang out with Thais […]

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The Word Is Choke

June 24, 2012 – 10:41 pm

I’m a Red Sox fan. Back in the 20th Century we lost in the 7th Game of the World Series to The Cardinals in 1949, the Cardinals again in 1967, the Reds in 1975 and the Mets in 1986. The Yankees denied us glory on numerous occasions, although none worse than Bucky Dent’s homer off […]

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You Bet I Would 63

June 8, 2012 – 7:40 pm
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