As my wife will attest, I am not always the most socially gracious man to ever walk The Earth. Still, sometimes another guy does something so incredibly "dickish" that I just have say, "Really?! That actually seemed like a good idea at some point? Holy crap."
As you will know after you've had a chance to read more of my blog entries here, I often find myself thinking that way about our President. My feelings about G.W.'s incompetence have never been hidden. Still, this past week he surprised even me.
As anyone reading this no doubt knows, Queen Elizabath II of England (funny how she's "just" the Queen of England, but Tony Blair is the Prime Minister of The United Kingdom) visited The United States of America earlier this year (roughly the first week of May, I believe). She visited Jamestown, Virginia, to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English colony in North America (any bets on how many Indians were celebrating?), attended the Kentucky Derby, met with Va. Tech. students, and then finally couldn't avoid it any longer and met with President Bush and had dinner with him, Colin Powell, Peyton Manning, and some other white people I didn't recognize.
So, you may be asking yourself, how did our President welcome Queen Elizabeth? I'll tell you how. By fucking having a fife and drum corps dress in Revolutionary War Era costumes and march past her. He then commented on how old she is by saying she was here in 1776 (which would make her about 300 years old) before correcting himself with some reference to 1976 and the Bi-Centennial of the issuance by our founding fathers of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Is it me, or does it just seem like he was seeing just how big of a douche bag he could be and still get away with it. I mean, who cares if he offends Britain? Gee, it's not like they're basically our only remaining ally in the world. (I bet Tony Blair throws up a little, you know "urps", every time he hears George W. Bush's name. Or the words, "Iraq", "weapons of mass destruction", or "war on terror".)
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I hate Bush too, so I can identify with you. However, I would like to point out to you that Tony Blair resigned as prime minister in June, to be replaced by Gordon Brown. And when you comment that Elizabeth is "just" the queen, well, yes that's all she really is. The Queen of England no longer holds much power, as it is delegated to the Prime Minister. She serves as a mere figurehead for the Bristish Commonwealth. Other than these errors in British government, I think you have a good idea of how, well, um...dumb our government's leader is.
...Britian's Consititutional Monarchy. I know that Tony Blair stepped down earlier this year, but I'm sure he still "urps" a little every time he hears G.W.'s voice, or anything that relates to Iraq. The Queen, while technically wielding very little real power, is still considered the "Head of State" of Great Britain. The British Commonwealth is really just a general term for former British possessions. Other than the Falkland Islands I can't think of another territory of the Commonwealth that isn't an independant nation now. Of course I could be wrong on that.
There's nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home.--Nikki Sixx
>I can't think of another territory of the Commonwealth that isn't an independant nation now.
Er, Gibraltar, Pitcairn, the British Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, just off the top of my head.
I don't know why, but I always forget that Gibraltar is more than just a big ass rock. I guess I don't think of Sotland and Wales as being "part" of the Commonwealth since they're included in "United Kingdom" and they've not been independant for so long (but if I remember correctly there is a growing independence movement in Scotland).
As for the others all I can say is that I did say I could be wrong (which I obviously was) and that somewhere all of my former geography teachers probably just felt a disturbance in The Force. :-)
There's nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home.--Nikki Sixx