richard_syko
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Jeremy Clarkson on America
"A cynic might say that the newspapers and television stations maintain permanent offices in America and need to keep the staff employed with something. A more rational person would explain that this is more than a national election. It’s a plebiscite to decide who becomes leader of the free world.
Okay, well if this is the case: if he really will be my leader, why can’t I have a vote? Why should I leave the choice to a bunch of tobacco-chewing backwoodsmen who aren’t even bright enough to mark the voting papers properly?
I mean it. If the president of the United States really does think he’s the leader of the free world, then the free world should have a say in who gets the job. That’s me, you, every Indian, every Russian, every German. And yes, every Iraqi too. All of us.
But no; our fate is in the hands of a people whose IQ is generally smaller than their waistbands. A people who’ve trawled their 263m citizens and come up with Bush and super-chin as the alternatives. A people whose soldiers wear sunglasses while trying to defuse trouble on the streets of Baghdad. You’re not Jean-Claude Van Damme, you idiots. Take them off. Let them see your eyes. Or are you like the president? Do you only have one?
As a sort of protest about everything, but the sunglasses thing most of all, my wife recently decided to purge everything American from the house.
At first, I suspected this would be a long and painful task that would send us back to the Dark Ages, but do you know what? Most of the electrical equipment is from Japan, or Germany. The furniture is largely Italian or British. And pretty well everything else was made in China.
All I could find that bore the legend “Made in America” was my toothbrush, which makes you wonder what they’re all doing over there, apart from cleaning their teeth.
Computer software seems to be the answer. Because so far as I can tell, my laptop’s brain is just about the only American-made household product that I simply couldn’t do without. "
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1235587,00.html
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