You know why I love the 4th of July? (Other than this, that is) Cause George V was a dick. Fuck him. We really stuck it to that guy. USA! USA! USA! USA!
Today’s headlines:
Montanan oil spill victims: outraged, according to the LA Times. I don’t know why they are. That’s an unreasonable reaction to a massive oil spill in a national park.
Yakima County illegal immigrants: the target of a program funded by the Feds that has drawn ire from immigrant civil rights activists. The program starts in the coming week.
Los Alamos, New Mexico: the town’s residents have been allowed to return home. The town was under an evacuation order due to large forest fires; more than 12,000 residents have had to evacuate the area.
Yingluck Shinawatra: now the presumed prime minister-elect of a new coalition Thai government. Yingluck is the younger sister of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s most important political figure since the turn of the century.
Hama, Syria: attacked by Syrian government forces, which are responding to the city’s high levels of dissent. Shots were heard throughout the city as the government forces arrested dissidents.
Libya and Turkey: Turkey is totally not having diplomatic relations with Libya anymore.
Pointless gun deaths: two went down yesterday. A South Carolina man killed four people before shooting himself; in Memphis, a civilian man and a police officer were shot. The civilian man died from his wounds.
Greek default: a very, very serious possibility, warns Standard % Poor’s, if French and German banks roll over their holdings of Greek debt.
Happy Independence Day. Because George Washington wants us to be wasted right now.
God, you’re an idiot. The Montana oil spill is nowhere near a national park. If you’d read the article you linked to, you’d know that.
And it was George the Third, not George the Fifth…Unless our ally in World War I was a dick. This dude is an idiot.
George III – not V
@2 – WWII was George VI (George V died in 1936)
so many Georges, so little time…
@4 George V = George the Fifth, King of England 1910-1936, and our ally in WWI, was in fact a bit of a dick, as was almost everyone back then.
George III, reigned 1760-1820, was not so much a dick as a guy who wound up on the wrong side of a gulf between 2.5 million loyal subjects and taxes they didn’t want to pay.
King George III not V as has already been stated.
There are a lot of people here who get jokes.
my bad, I read WWII not I –
I love these (willful?) errors because they drive Seattle Literalists insane. Keep it up!
“a guy who wound up on the wrong side of a gulf between 2.5 million loyal subjects and taxes they didn’t want to pay”
Are you describing Jay Inslee?
The gene for misinformation by journalists is to be treasured; it is the mutation within its opinion codon which devolves the species.
I was always kind of partial to George the Fourth, actually. That sure is a great dining room at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Not sure about his dickiness quotient, though.
Troll on, Peter.
@12 George IV, better known as The Prince Regent, regent 1811-1820, king 1820-1830, was enough of a dick that he used to go around telling people that he’d led a charge at Waterloo. What can you do? He’s the fucking king! And a dick.
All the Georges were dicks. & the Edwards, the Richards, the Henrys, the Charleses, the Jameses, the Williams, the Edwards, the Elizabeths, the Marys, John, Stephen, Anne, Victoria, Ethelred, Engelbert, Arthur & Graham.
“No More Kings” is a bit of opinionated propaganda. The colonists were at one point offered representation, but the various colonies couldn’t agree on how they were going to select their representatives.
@5: Well, George III was also surrounded by a bunch of yes-men who wouldn’t give him useful criticism.
@11: I WILL END YOU, YOU PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC TWIT.
That’s true about the yes-men, VL, but it’s not their fault – he didn’t want to hear criticism. Sorta like George W. Bush that way. In the long run, it’s a good thing, though, because if he’d listened to his advisers, we’d all be singing “God Save the Queen” today.
@17 – Well, God Save the Queen is in a much more comfortable key than The Star-Spangled Banner. Besides, if we were British subjects maybe William and Catherine would now be the Duke and Duchess of Topeka instead of Cambridge. Wouldn’t that be fun?
@18 – And we wouldn’t have for profit health care, or republicans and democrats.
This is the video you should have posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJRZehnm…. It’s the one patriotic song that doesn’t make me want to vomit.
‘And we wouldn’t have for profit health care, or republicans and democrats.’
No, just skin heads, bad teeth, bad food and ugly women.
I suspect all that needs said about the far left wing has been said in the postings from Stranger staff and those commenting on their drivel.
On the 4th of July instead of reflecting on the great place this country is, the fellow writing this post makes some banal post to a ‘we’re all citizens of the world’ clip from a crappy movie. Instead of looking at 2 and a half centuries of progress in human rights based on among the most enlightened contracts with a government and its’ citizens ever written you folks wish you were still British citizens so that you could have their mediocre healthcare. Instead of considering how we’ve managed 44 peaceful transfers of power without a drop of blood spilt, you lambast those with whom you disagree.
You can spend an interminable week for lionizing perverts and degenerates in Gay Pride week. But you can’t even manage for a day to see the glory that is the United States of America.
Thank God for conservatives and moderate liberals who actually love their country. The hatred of people like the writers of the Stranger for this nation only serves to remind how remarkable a place it really is. God bless the USA.
The only good monarch is a monarch who has been separated from their head.
Well, the British did manage two things well: they proved that Socialism is a failure (Wilson and the IMF) and gave us Thatcher without whom Britain would have been turned into a 3rd world failure.
@22 Watch the video I posted and kindly go fuck yourself.
@25 why should he go fuck himself, Phil Ochs did that nicely to himself using a rope.
@22 They weren’t all peaceful. The south seceded when Lincoln was elected. That led to a frightful bit of bother.
@20: well, I guess you should have posted a link to the Anita Bryant rendition of “Power and Glory”.
And I admit it’s horribly bigoted, but when I heard the news report that Thailand had elected their first female Prime Minister, I immediately thought, “Have they checked to make sure?”
(Note: I would have nothing against a ladyboy president of any country, unless they felt they had to act extra-butch.) (A lot of grief has come of mistaking butchness for actual toughness.)
@21, that “bad food” trope is so ridiculous it shows you for the out of touch fool you are. Ever heard of Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Heston Blumenthal, Pret A Manger, Marco Pierre White…oh whatever. You’re an irredeemable idiot.
*Ramsay
The nice thing about the US is that it allows pompous twits Ike Seattleblah the opportunity to engage in pompous sermonizing, and it allows the rest of us the luxury of ignoring him.
Happy fourth of July, darlings!
“. You’re an irredeemable idiot.”
Actually, I’m an ex-Brit (well, a ‘dual’ citizen but one that’s proud to be American now) and who, unlike you, knows the world beyond the cozy, narrow confines of London that you’ve learned about watching the Food Channel.
So as a proper Brit, I believe you’re the one who should go fuck himself, wot wot.
I notice Jube didn’t dispute the part about the ugly women.
@ 20 Wow that was a real nice thing to say, but hey that is the beauty of this country you can bash all you want and nothing happens to you.
Also the left is all about the rule of law when it comes to GWB, but when it comes to illegal immigrants they seem to forgot about it.
Well if u want GWB prosecuted for violating the constitution can we get Roosevelt’s name removed from very public building in the US too?
@35:
>2011
>still bitching about things that you haven’t read
@32, nice try but having spent good amounts of time having perfectly excellent, fresh, organic meals in Manchester, Leeds, Brighton, Bath — and even a fucking amazing chippy in Gravesend — I think your comment about the food is out of date and incorrect. Boo hoo.
But I’ll bet everything you say holds true in Liverpool. Scouse are scum.
@ 20, thanks for the video. I’m partial to Woody Guthrie’s classic, myself.
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@32: I must say, as an American, that you can’t really beat fish and chips when it comes to preparations of cod.
Great Britain doesn’t really have a tradition of fine cuisine the way Italy and France do; instead, they have a rich history of hearty working-man’s food. But hey, haters gonna hate.