Ongoing #10

Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US

US Homeland Security really should get on board with the latest street lingo because they are being let down embarrassingly by their current grasp of it. Don't they know that "destroy" isn't a bad thing any more? "Bad" isn't even a bad thing any more. Next they'll be putting Obama supporters in Syrian prisons for saying that the President is "whack" due to their 70s concepts about words, or bloggers on to watch lists for saying that the US Department of Homeland Security are petty, humourless, reactionary chimp-masturbators who don't have a gram of common sense in their Jobsworthian bodies.

By way of this latest hissy fit they have essentially advised against all public expression, with not only the place they control but also all countries in the universe now being urged to refrain from "posting statements in a public forum which could be construed as threatening". Construed by whom, exactly? Lawyers? Idiots? Idiot-lawyers? If we extrapolate that out to "anyone we hire" then absolutely any message they feel like could magically be a threatening one. You can construe anything into the shape of any boogeyman you fancy if you try hard enough and these guys seem to love trying just hard enough to get in the news for really stupid shit like this. This is one trending topic I hope we don't see more of (I'm so sorry).

Tensions increase as Duke arrives in Falklands

Oh well go on then, we haven't had a good old bit of war for aaaages. In fact, let's definitely ignore the fact that our ancestors set up camp and started procreation in a pretty silly place miles from home, at a time when a dagger stuck to the end of your rifle was still advanced weaponry and the British Empire still had lots of money to waste. Let's not send a big ship over, collect up all the people who want to come, graciously bow and then sensibly give the land back to the country it's (and I do believe this is the proper geographical vernacular) right fucking next to. That said, what are Argentinians going to do with a chunk of the Scotland Highlands?

While we're busy flying our prince into their airspace, the Falkland Islanders may want to consider how much of a waste of time, money and effort that is, and think about maybe joining the country whose economic policy is to heavily suggest that they should be given free islands, instead of posturing with expensive warships and and wafting royals overhead while its main population kicks about in the dirt.