Socialist Superman vs the Hospital Hater

“Bah, hospitals! Who needs ‘em?”, said old man Stanton. Luckily, there was someone there to set him straight before he started quoting Ayn Rand again.

Fact-checking is so 1950's.

Arizona Shooter of Congresswoman Giffords was Self-Defined Terrorist

I’m pretty sure these videos are from today’s shooter. For some reason, the spelling of the name, “Laughner” that has been released is incorrect. His real name was Jared Lee Loughner of Tucson, Arizona. Today, he murdered a number of people, including Federal Judge John Roll, and critically wounded many more, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It’s a dreadful tragedy, and I was searching for anything that might give us some idea why he did what he did.

[...]

Farmville has its own Congressman.

And he’s not bad.

Sadly, he was ganked by the right honourable Senator for Darkfall shortly after making this speech.

Connecticut for Lieberman party campaigns agains Joe Lieberman.

I found this remarkable. The chap in this video is Dr. John Mertens, and he really is the Chairman of the Connecticut for Lieberman party, the party Joe set up when he got beaten by Ned Lamont in the 2006 Democratic primary race, in order for him to contest (and sadly win) the election as an independent with heavy Republican support.

At some point they really need to change the name of their party. Also, they should probably apologise [...]

MEP Daniel Hannan lies about the UK on US Television for money.

While socialised medicine is considered with great mistrust in the US, here in the UK, no political party would dare to suggest that the dear old NHS should be replaced. Unless, of course, they didn’t think anyone from Britain would notice.

In this clip, UK Conservative, MEP Daniel Hannan, holds court with the crown prince of right-wing crazy, Glenn Beck.

You would not think it to listen to Hannan and his FOX friends, but we do actually also have [...]

Captain America on Torture.

If Captain America was interviewed by Fox News’ Sean Hannity:

Captain America hates torture.

He’s also not big on detaining people indefinitely without trial.

Luckily for him, Captain America is just about the only guy in the US who can get away with saying stuff like that without being called unamerican.

Microsoft threatens to leave US if tax-loopholes are closed.

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft is threatening to pull out of the US, if the Obama administration moves to close tax loop-holes that are allowing multinationals to avoid paying tax.:

“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive. We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

He might love his company (a little too much), but he doesn’t seem to like the country that allowed it to [...]