Economy Rant

Rant Blog [24/06/2010]

Economy:

With the news of the “emergency budget” [what I call the “We’ve fucked up so we’re going to sort it out by taking the money from you innocent people” budget] coming out this week, it seems like hard times are ahead for England, with many more budgets that will be made in the future probably taking away yet more money from us due to the Conservatives being in charge. VAT going up from 17.5% to 20% on 4^th January 2011, public sector job wages being frozen for 2 years plus many more things that will take money away from us [including lone parents having to have a job once their youngest child is in school] it doesn’t look good for the future ahead.

Saving money? I know, sack the idiots in parliament, half of them need shooting anyway, you can save a hell of a lot of money that way. Liverpool Council has been told they have to cut spending by 25%. I don’t know about you but cutting spending, losing jobs and rising prices won’t get us out of debt, it’ll make it worse. People won’t work for less to pay more. You can’t spend your way out of this problem. What if you kept everything as it is and lower the prices? That way people will be happy and buy more and more sales equal more money coming in.

I can see people soon not being able to live. Yet we still allow these illegal immigrants in who we pay for to live through taxes, we pay for their cars, houses, food, drink and everything else and they pay jack shit! Kick them out for fuck sake... Don’t go offering Afghanistan £200m to improve their police and security either, improve our fucking police and security first! It’s our money, we should get priority! Our police are fucking terrible.

In other news, Americans are still working themselves up about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, as far as to see a woman crying over her baby’s future saying shit like “Oh no, it will affect her in so many ways, her future is ruined, she won’t have a life” blah blah.. Woman, with an IQ of no higher than 20, get a fucking life! It’s not the end of the world. A politician [or what seemed to be one] was moaning saying “oh we’re dyin’ down here, we need all the help we can get, please save us”, once again American, get a life and shut the fuck up... Yet another reason to hate those brainless American bastards...

I’ll throw in a word about North Korea [just because I can], what the hell is wrong with their leader [I call him that because that’s what he basically is]? He is a maniac and crazy as fuck. He let’s off one bomb and half of the world is wiped out in an instant, we’re in a war over “Weapons of Mass Destruction” [Ok, that’s the Americans cover up, it’s actually oil] but the only place they are in is North Korea. The people living there only have 1 TV channel which is heavily dictated by their “leader”. If you leave North Korea, you’re shot [along with your whole bloodline]. If you travel their on holiday, you go to a camp with actors and not the real place.

In the North Korea football team, only the striker has a mobile phone. The North Korea team are made up with the TV too... They’ve never had so much choice, even though they can’t understand a word, they’re in love with it.

If you look on Google maps, they don’t have town names either, just where the “leader’s” home is... Just thought you’d like to know lmao!

On to more stuff, we get told to not pollute the planet by these green peace people and eco happy dudes and girls... How about we do pollute a bit and we can make this planet warmer... -20 in places in England over the winter, snow basically put the country to a halt and if we heat the planet, this will no longer be a problem. If the ice caps melt then at least we have more water and we won’t be in drought and so we won’t have to worry about lack of water for quite a while, although port cities could be drowned and covered in water [another reason to kick the illegal immigrants away].

They say use hydro cars but come on, they are slow and the only noise you hear from a Toyota Prius when it comes past is ‘mmmmmmmmmGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYmmm’. At least in petrol cars we can get to where we want to go quicker...

Just a quick mention to the guys and girls in Afghanistan... 4 more died last night and surely it’s time for us to come home and leave America to it... =/

Also, a big COME ON ENGLAND! Who have a date with the Krauts on Sunday... Bring them on! If we beat them, we could possibly play Argentina then Portugal/Spain [depending on who finishes where] and then Spain/Brazil [again depending on group table finishes for them]. COME ON!

Next week: The week in general [News and shit].

David Cameron Rant

Rant Blog: [16/06/2010]

David Cameron:

David Cameron... First word that comes to my head is ‘prick’. Leader of the Conservative party and now the Prime Minister of England. 1980’s England is just around the corner with the budget out next week. We all know what that means, job losses and price rises. Does this prick now how to get out of this recession? If so, he is not showing it. You don’t spend to get us out of this; you work to get out of this. Spending less and having fewer jobs is just asking for trouble, keep the jobs and keep prices as they are. It costs too much as it is and if I hear the excuse “to get us out of the mess LABOUR put us in” again, I’ll shoot a Cow. It wasn’t Labour who got us into this, it was the banks! Lending and spending money they never had. This is what I don’t get, we have this debt where we spent money we haven’t got, but how do we pay this debt back? Here you go thin air, here is £300 trillion, have fun. It’s probably going into Cameron and his bitches back pockets knowing in our luck.

Thatcher was back at number 10 last week, showing the nation that yes she is still alive [unfortunately]. Cameron [her bitch] was at her side. If there was ever an opportunity for a sniper to take out 2 idiots, it was then. I don’t wish death upon anyone, but if Cameron stays in, we’ll basically be working towards death.

Why can I see riots kicking off next week when this budget is out? Petrol and Diesel are bound to go up in price (as usual), food & drink will go up, alcohol will fly up, house prices will go up and many other things will presumably go up and jobs will be set to lower. The jobs we do have will probably be given to foreigners as they always have priority (but I’ve mentioned a lot of this in my Political Correctness rant a few weeks back [link on the right]). This government wouldn’t do anything to disturb them or hinder them because they don’t want to be considered racists, forgetting this is England!

I can only think of one good thing with Cameron, when he said the England flag (not Union Jack!) will fly above Downing Street on England match days, reiterating that we should be flying the flag as this is our country and we should be proud.

The Conservative party (from what I’ve heard on the news) is full of snobby bastards, 90% or so of the party having been to Cambridge or Oxford.

Cameron also said that £200m would be taken from existing budgets and given to Afghanistan to improve its police and civil service capacity in able for them to handle their own security. I know, get that £200m and improve OUR police. The police at the moment are shit and never do anything on gangs and, instead, target people in small groups of 2 or 3... Never big gangs of 10 or so people because they are shit scared I reckon.

Jobs are being cut in the NHS, police and fire brigade to save money, I know, how about all these money robbing politicians? Who claimed all that money in the tax scandal? If we done that, we’d be arrested, fined and put in prison, they’ve done it and they’ve got a slap on the wrist.

David Cameron’s tagline: Steal from the poor and give to the rich; and if the poor don’t give enough, then send the repo men around... Pathetic times and I hope Cameron gets kidnapped. When he was in Afghanistan, the helicopter had a missile attack on them (it failed, but still) and all I can say is “damn, it missed”. Maybe that’s being harsh, I feel sorry for the real workers on that helicopter who fight every day unlike Cameron who has never worked a hard day in his life and doesn’t know what real work is.

Why are we still in Afghanistan? 298 deaths up to now since 2001 and we’re still being mugs over there. If Barack Obama wants to boast that his Military is “the greatest Military in the world” then let him fight America’s own war. Oh wait, you can’t, that’s why you asked us to help you, because you’re army is piss poor. The USA is an embarrassment to the world and to themselves.

He wants to put VAT up to 20% too, which means, on average, families will lose £500 per year. He is also putting University prices up because the current scheme is “unsupportable” and can’t carry on... What a load of crap.

All this excitement of seeing Switzerland beating Spain [at time of making this xD] has knocked all my enthusiasm out of this... All I can say now is Cameron is a prick and is Thatcher’s bitch and this country will probably end up going into riots... Time to see if this World Cup will pick up and be better than it has been...

Next week: Economy.

Rafa Benitez!

Rant Blog: [09/06/2010]

Rafael Benitez:

Well today it’s confirmed he will be the new Inter Milan boss. Just a week after he got his £6m pay off, he has jumped into the hot seat at the San Siro for Inter Milan.

For the past 6 years, as you know, Rafa has been in charge at Anfield and has had his highs [yes he really did] and his lows. We all remember May 25^th 2005, that night in Istanbul. The fight back against AC Milan, 3-0 down after a disastrous first half, and then coming back to the most famous of victories, but although you can give credit to Rafa for this, no doubt, spare a thought for Gerard Houllier who had bought most of that team in his 6 years in charge.

The 2008/09 season, domestically, was to be a success too, beating Man Utd twice (2-1 and 1-4), Chelsea twice (0-1 and 2-0) and eventually finishing 2^nd.

Why were we 3-0 down though in Istanbul? Why did we finish 2^nd? Did Rafa mess up his tactics?... Take away the night in Istanbul and Liverpool, under Rafa, has been a mediocre Liverpool side. We only won one [perhaps 2] cup(s) worth noting apart from the UEFA Champions League, The FA Cup and UEFA Super Cup. 2 or 3 cups in 6 whole seasons isn’t good for Liverpool’s standards and we only really put in a good challenge for the league once. The other seasons we never looked like winning it once October was over. Rafa’s rant in January 2009 about Man Utd was very true, but very unprofessional, why didn’t he leave it until the end of the season? Why mid season when everything was looking so good and happy? Last season we were very, very embarrassing! I’ve never seen such an embarrassing season like that in my life. He had 5 previous years to build and improve his squad and yet he could only manage 7^th after finishing 5^th, 4^th, 3^rd and 2^nd in previous seasons, that’s laughable! Knocked out the FA Cup by Reading at home! Even getting knocked out of the Champions League group stage.

Don’t moan to me about money. He has had plenty of the stuff. £229m later and he hasn’t managed to win us the league. Pitiful, if you remember the players he bought and just sold like that, despite them being our best players.

- Peter Crouch

- Xabi Alonso

- Steve Finnan (better than Alvaro Arbeloa)

- Milan Baros (how much we’d loved to have had him last season)

- Sami Hyypia (either him or Kygriakos. I know who I’d pick)

- John Arne Riise

- Jerzy Dudek (rather him than Charles Itandje and Diego Cavalieri put together!)

- Danny Murphy

- Dietmar Hamann

- Mohamed Sissoko

- Mikel San Jose (Promising Youngster)

- David Martin (much better than Cavalieri and Charles Itandje)

We’ve replaced them with the likes of:

- Diego Cavalieri

- Charles Itandje

- Alvaro Arbeloa

- Sotiris Kygriakos

- Andrea Dosenna

- Philip Degen

- Robbie Fowler (Was never as good as in his first spell)

- Mark Gonzalez

- Albert Riera

- Jermaine Pennant

- Fernando Morientes

- Robbie Keane

- David N’Gog

- Lucas Leiva!

- Daniele Padelli (remember him?)

- Sebastien Leto

- Jan Kromkamp

- Josemi

- Mauricio Pellegrino

Now, I don’t know about you but I’d have kept the first bunch of players rather than bought the second bunch.

We should’ve walked the league with the players we’ve had and the money we’ve had to spend. 70% of the blame for not winning the league has to go with Rafa, 20% with the owners and 10% with some of the players. Blame H&G all you want, but Rafa has had money to spend throughout the years.

The good news about H&G (if you can call it that) is that RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) have given them an ultimatum as they too are pissed off with them. Either sell up, or get rid of the debts. With an £800m price tag put on Liverpool, though, I don’t think that’s happening soon.

Rafa’s tactics have been spot on... If you’re blind. Why play 2 holding midfielders at home? Why not get players further forward and break down teams, if we lose like that then at least we tried, but not play defensively and seem like you want to play for a draw. Why Lucas Leiva is playing played instead of Aquilani, I will never fucking know. I feel sorry for Aquilani, he is being touted as a flop which is very fucking harsh assuming he only ever seems to get 5-10 minute cameos and has played a whole match only once or twice.

Why did Rafa want to sell Xabi Alonso for Gareth Barry as well? Ultimately selling Alonso and failing to get Barry.

How did we not beat teams like Portsmouth, Wolves, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Reading, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Sunderland, Stoke City and Wigan Athletic? We only beat 1 of them teams (Aston Villa) away from home that is pathetic. We should be rolling them teams over. Some of them teams even rolled us in our back yard. If N’Gog could hit a barn door then we might’ve been in business for 4^th but no.

Moan all you want about them 2 clowns at the top but Rafa manages the team and should’ve done a much better job than that after 5 previous years to build the team.

They say when you’re at rock bottom, the only way is up, let’s hope to prove that point in the future. If you were to ask me now if we can win the league next season, I’d honestly say no.

Who will the next manager be? I don’t know, Kenny Dalglish pulling out of the selection board could be a big hint. We’ll have to wait and see in the next few weeks.

This blog isn’t as long as I’d want it to be as I have work to do for College. Next week’s will be much bigger and better. The subject? Well, after the “Iron Lady” revealed to the nation [and the world] that she is actually still alive, then the subject will have to be David Cameron. The things he wants to put in place are a joke, but more on that next week.

SHEDULE:

Next Week [16/06]: David Cameron

Week After [23/06]: Economy

Political Correctness Part 2!

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Political Correctness

Rant Blog: [02/06/2010]

Political Correctness:

Well where do I start with this crap? We hear about it all the time and it’s one of the most annoying things ever created. It’s changed a lot of things that I was taught when I was younger “Ba Ba Black Sheep” now has to be called “Ba Ba Rainbow Sheep” or you now have to call a Blackboard a Chalkboard!

I don’t know about you, but anyone who even thinks that these were racist in any single way, needs a long hard look at themselves. If they were looking at every detail to do with racism, why don’t they actually look at the word racism. You say the ‘rac’ part as ‘race’, so are these people implying that black people, or Muslims, or any other culture is a race? Last time I checked, they are the same humans as us, but with different coloured skin and different beliefs. I wouldn’t call that a race. I know you could say we’re a “race of humans” but that would include everyone, and quite clearly if a black person, or a Muslim, or anyone else who isn’t white, said something to a white person, most likely nothing will happen. Just like if a boy goes to the Police and reports being raped, the Police wouldn’t give a crap.

Which brings me nicely on to the Police. Now then, what twats these people are! Every time you walk past them, they give you them eyes that try and make you feel guilty, as if you’ve just mugged an old person. They will stop you if you’re driving whilst on the phone, but they won’t give a shit if you’ve been battered by a gang or you’ve just been mugged. No, it means they have to do a lot of paperwork! If you have a bag on you too and you’re in a Train station, they act so fucking suspicious if they’re there. A few years back I was stopped in Bankhall Train Station [for those of you living in Liverpool] for a bag check. They thought the bag looked and sounded suspicious. They opened it only to find a PS2 and a few games. I walked off to the sound of “We were just making sure”, yeah ok!

There was an incident in court a few years ago, where a factory was being sued. The background to the story is that it was late at night and a factory had its lights off and a man broke into the factory but fell through the roof and into the factory, falling on a desk and a few boxes. He broke multiple bones and took the case to court. He was suing them because they had no lights off and couldn’t see. The obvious defence to that was he shouldn’t have been there. He actually won the case and won a few thousand pounds as compensation. Now I don’t know about you, but that is bollocks!

We all remember the bullshit story about Pubs “banning England tops” for the World Cup because it could offend other cultures, a law I wouldn’t stick to anyway even if it was brought in. That was obviously bullshit, and was work that stemmed from “that shitty paper” and it was all overhyped just because 1 pub in the midlands was ‘advised’ to not have England tops viewable in the pub because of the high numbers of non-British people there. There is a new story now, and this one is true and was published in the Daily Mirror and Liverpool ECHO, where bin men have been banned from having anything to do with England on their vans, and they even had to sign contracts saying they won’t do it. If they do, they’ll be suspended. The reason? It might “block the driver’s view”. Now I don’t know about you but:

1) Everyone has tax discs on their cars, and that doesn’t distract anyone (apart from Police who go “Ooh let’s check his tax for fun!”) so even a small sticker wouldn’t hurt.

2) It’s not going to get in the way, especially with the size of the windows on a bin van.

3) Does this include the windows on the doors? If so, that is pathetic.

4) And finally, is this another cover up so we don’t “offend other cultures”?

Personally, I think it’s the last option. Another way to stop us from having fun. If I went to, say, Algeria, or South Africa, or Germany or any of the other 31 teams involved in the World Cup this summer, I would not be bothered in any way of seeing them fly their flag in their country. It’s like we’re being punished for being patriotic. We’re English and we should be proud of it! Link for this story at the bottom of this article. Also, one council has banned toys from being put on the front of bin vans in case “a child runs in front of the vehicle to grab one”.. Ridiculous!

Taxi drivers in Kent have been told they could be suspended if they fly the flag! The reason for this one is “it could confuse people as to whether it’s a public service vehicle, or if it’s just another car”. I think they are trying to call us stupid if I’m honest.

A few other cases of ‘Political Correctness Gone Mad’ is:

- ‘Ward Sisters’ now have to be called ‘Ward Managers’ to equally reflect men and women in the role.

- Police have been told to use the word ‘Gay’ and ‘Straight’ rather than ‘Homosexual’ and ‘Heterosexual’ and to not use the words “Youngster” or “Child” as it might cause offence.

- Dennis the Menace has had a major overhaul as well. Gone is the name ‘Menace’ along with his catapult, water pistol and pea shooter, all replaced by a boyish grin. (Reminds me of the Simpsons, where Marge forces the producers of ‘Itchy & Scratchy’ to make it more suitable for kids) it’s not the same.

- ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ is now politically incorrect, thanks to the ‘Dwarf’ reference. ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, too, has been hit by the PC Brigade, because she walks through the woods alone. Surely part of the message behind the story is to not walk in the woods alone?

- Anything with the prefix or suffix ‘man’ [e.g fireman, cameraman, manhole, manmade] are now all Politically Incorrect.

- We all know of the “Christmas ban” where schools and offices ban the use of Christmas decorations in their offices and schools in case it offends non-Christians. (Yet they can enjoy all of their celebrations whilst ours are being limited... That’s not right in any way!)

- And finally, the term ‘nitty gritty’ is banned because it’s a reference to the days of black slavery.

I could go on and on about this all day, but the main point is that it is all bullshit! It’s a load of crap. Let’s get back to the good old days we’re everything is back to normal and we can celebrate what we want. If it offends other cultures then so what?! If you don’t like it, you know where the airports and Dover is, so fuck off... This is our country and we should be able to do whatever we like. We wouldn’t moan if we were in your country, so you shouldn’t be able to do it here... You love our benefits, but hate our flag? I know, get the fuck out of the country. I’ll gladly walk around in an England kit this summer, fly the flag and even sing ‘Ba Ba Black sheep’ down the road. I’m English and I’m as proud as anyone to say that. Why are we [they!] scared to show any kind of patriotism? Ok, we’re England, and almost every country in the world hates us but so what, but we should be saying “Here we are!” not hiding under a rock. Why don’t we ban all these other culture events then? Why does it have to be ours? I don’t accept that we’re a multicultural country, because we’re not! We’re a predominantly Christian/Protestant country and we should keep it that way. I would be one of the first to stop these Muslims making England a ‘Muslim country’ (there have been threats of that in the past) because (well mainly I don’t agree with the Muslim beliefs) we were brought up as Christians and/or Protestants.

A word about the Burqa’s (Here we go!). Why aren’t they banned in shops and banks like a bike helmet. Do not even say because it’s Muslim law, because it isn’t. That is bullshit! It is not mandatory to wear a Burqa, it is only put there by fussy husbands. So it should be banned from public viewing. All those that condemn my point of view think of this:

A man disguised himself as a woman in a Burqa and managed to steal a jewelry shop. Now! If we banned the Burqa in public places, this wouldn’t happen.

I hate the French (so fucking much!) but I agree with them on banning the Burqa. It’s a piece of clothing that can cause annoyance. I, for one, find it offensive seeing 2 storm troopers pushing a pram up the road. It’s as bad as Michael Jackson covering his kids faces.

That’s all I’m gonna say for this week. Feedback would be nice but more importantly, your points of view. Any suggestions on what next week’s subject could be would be nice.

By Michael Miles.

Links to stories:

England flags banned on wagons:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/05/28/liverpool-binmen-banned-from-flying-the-england-flag-in-their-wagons-during-the-world-cup-100252-26539055/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282172/Banned-flying-flag-Binmen-threatened-sack-support-England-World-Cup.html

Teddies banned on wagons:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024960/Binmens-teddy-bear-mascots-banned-fears-children-run-road-grab-them.html

Robbers that used a Burqa to rob a Jewellers’:

http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/8163217.Jewellers_robbed_by_thief_in_burka/?ref=rss