UK Riots
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I've never come across Ms Coulter before. What an incredibly ignorant, opinionated moron. Tea Party I suppose.
The police put the total number of yobs involved in these disturbances at around 2000 NATIONALLY...maybe half that in London. That is 2,000 out of 60 million people, limited in a few fairly small urban areas. What is at least as significant is all the rest of the places it didn't happen...like Glasgow, or indeed anywhere in Scotland , which has some of the worst deprivation in W. Europe. Nothing in Wales either...or the vast majority of England, including other large urban areas like Newcastle.
And from this she extrapolates national meltdown; what a plonker. At least we still have a AAA rating.
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So, Alan, you used to teach, huh? Ann Coulter: "[Obama] was suspiciously verbose about saving the jobs of public schoolteachers. Because nothing says "economic stimulus" better than saving the jobs of lethargic incompetents who kick off at 2 p.m. every day and get summers off. Actually, that's not fair: Some teachers spend long hours after school having sex with their students."
She's ... special.
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Yep, used to teach...before I wised-up and joined the private sector by setting up my own business. Nothing remotely like the same workload and a helluva lot less stress.
My wife still gets all that bull about short working day and long holidays. It's a bit like claiming that newsreaders get paid their princely sums for working 30 mins per day minus commercial breaks.
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@unknownuser said:
Juan Love, Juan Heart
thankyou Rich O´Brian, watch this way to solve social problems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLq3yqTMaM
i am very sorry it is in Spanish and not in English but i would like a lot that it can be guessed how to achieve the good things just watching it. Salud ¡@earthmover said:
Even if you feel this generation to be lost, you must find compassion in your heart for the children born into this desperate tinder box of shared insignificance.
that was very good to say now i think everybody agrees with that how does one gets love ?
A tighter lid and hotter fire will only cause the lid to blow even harder the next time. In the U.S. we tried to do the same thing for many decades and for many decades, people suffered. Generations will be born and bred to hate your country for it's subjugation of the under privileged. Until you learn to see this as a social justice issue first, things will not change. EarthMover -
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If you're not familiar with Ann Coulter, she likes to use hyperbole. Clearly, there is underlying animosity within the underclass in the UK. She believes that the welfare state is a contributor. I'm curious as to why there is an underclass in the UK at all? What with the welfare state and all.
I do know that I grew up poor, but I didn't know it at the time. It didn't occur to me to expect to depend on the welfare state for my subsistence. I certainly would have never considering destroying other people's property. Now, I own my own home, no mortgage. No debts at all other than the one the US government's profligate spending has inflicted on me and the 50% of the rest of the workers that pay income taxes. The remaining 50% pay no income taxes at all. Every experience I have tells me that it is not a good idea to pay people not to work except for a short time in the event of an unexpected job loss.
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I was trying to understand the underlying issues, now I'm just appalled. This is just outrageous. Call in the Calvary and institute Martial Law immediately!
[flash=800,600:kdtgum8a]http://www.youtube.com/v/GmU_wexOQt4&feature=feedf[/flash:kdtgum8a]
Sorry to make light.
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@earthmover said:
I was trying to understand the underlying issues, now I'm just appalled. This is just outrageous. Call in the Calvary and institute Martial Law immediately!
[flash=800,600:1ir53tdw]http://www.youtube.com/v/GmU_wexOQt4&feature=feedf[/flash:1ir53tdw]
Sorry to make light.
The Brits are typically understated. What you see there is the UK equivalent of the LA Watts riots. -
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@roger said:
This is by and large an intelligent group. Don't ask us to accept anything written by Ann Coulter other than a suicide note.
From that statement, your definition of intelligent is quite different than mine. Assuming you fall into the category, it is a good example of the hypocrisy of the left wing. Sounds like you're not far from joining the thugs on the streets of London.
I am certain that my definition is different. As to joining the street thugs, I think along the lines of Pogo's creator, Walt Kelly, who said he did not trust the "extreme left, the extreme right or the extreme center."
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@roger said:
The Brits are typically understated. What you see there is the UK equivalent of the LA Watts riots.
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Rioting in a democracy is an interesting phenomenon. What are people rioting against? If the system is a democracy then the voters have taken part in the election of the leaders they are protesting. However, a democracy also grants voting rights to the stupid, the mentally defect, the easily influenced, the lazy -- many who end up protesting their own choice of laws and leaders.
Ironically, even when the disenfranchised become a majority, they lack the cohesiveness, and social self awareness to band together and use their numerical superiority to vote the bums out of office. They end up resorting to emotion, and rage rather than intelligent problem solving.
Democracy is so flawed and at the same time so superior to any other real world (as opposed to theoretical) political system. Education is important to improve the process. What really hurts is when freely available education becomes and easy target of cost cutters. Economists are important tools, but they are tools and not leaders. The only way to improve a democracy is to make education available to all. In fact, it needs to be actively promoted and not just economically protected.
That is my rant for the day. I am just running it up the flag pole to see who salutes. I reserve the right to change directions at a moments notice.
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Interesting stats from 2009: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.
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A stiff upper lip is good, but after a while it begins to hurt and you get out of sorts and begin to act out. And finally you want to share your stiff upper lip so you hit the guy next to you. He, in turn, begins to feel the same way and it is not long before you have proper riot.
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Well it seems to me that a better promotion for social networking rather than riot coordination is the possibility to naturally adopt and support group leaders who are interested in finding consensus about solutions for problems. Such leaders might evolve from local right up to national interests. A massive digital house of commons - "Would the honourable gentleman agree ... " gone Twitter.
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@david. said:
Interesting stats from 2009: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.
This could also mean that the UK just has the best crime detection rates
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I would be inclined to take those stats with a grain of salt as they are generalised and do not reflect the true situation.
I visit the UK on a regular basis, mostly Brighton and occasionally London. I do find London like a lot of large Cities, particularly New York, not very pleasant places to visit.
I find the general lack of community spirit in such places reflects in people's attitudes. It seems they 'have their guard up' most of the time whereas smaller town's folk are much more welcoming and tolerant.
Maybe there is an ideal optimum size for cities! Kirkpatrick Sale's 'Human Scale' put up a good argument for this in great detail. I must pull it off the book shelf again.
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