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Stupidity in the news

The news this week gave us our share of comical stories under the banner of prestigious or sombre announcments. Funniest was the one where the Queen of England will be celebrating her birthday floating down a barge waving to the denizens of her country. I mean this takes the cake in terms of birthday celebrations of people that add no tangible value but suck from the hard working taxpayers. As far as the cake goes I mean it literally given many of these yokels from the English hamlets we are told actually do send her pastries for every occasion. I mean the palace could literally open a soup kitchen and feed all of London's homeless but no we can't do that - security and all. Instead this time she and her hubby and some other losers are going to put on their Sunday best and go waving down the Thames on a barge with cake in hand. Of all the silliness before the Olympics come to town the Brit sure are working at it. Then comes news that the junior bushes (I mean with the capital B) were recently invited to the white house to unveil their own portraits. I mean who gets a portrait made? Its the ultimate form of vanity and is really silly. Oh by the way its not just getting one made - they are commissioned - the same verb used to indicate the launch of a new ship for the navy. How dumb is that? Pushing out a mean fighting machine is decorated with same language as unveiling of living people's portraits and that too by the living people themselves. The world has been going nuts ever since it was conceived and I just think that humans are finding newer ways to end it sooner. As far as the other less civilized countries are concerned they continue to lock down and do no work under the pretext of being bankrupt or being lazy or being frustrated for ever increasing prices of all things including cake. They cannot even have their cake much less eat it. They are aghast at their own governments policies...the same leaders that were apparently elected by these very people. Population growth meanwhile continues unabated from over populous nations to the so called first world where we still meet acquaintances that claim (after coulpe of kids in their child rearing years) sudden accidents where they are expecting again. Instead of ditching this mistake they continue to plod through another attempt at nurturing another consumer in an impoverished world. Meanwhile the R word has come back in the news with so called financial whizzes taking potshots at figuring out what is wrong with the world and their way of fixing it. No one talks about ensuring education to the masses which seems to be the core element lacking in all civilizations.. more like common sense which unfortunately cannot be taught in the best of schools.
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  1. RajendraJune 1, 2012 at 6:55 PM

    There is this vague hope that it all might end in 2012..?

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