Sometimes, I'm partially sympathetic to the acts of leftists and greenies - like these two blokes:

Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.

It's incredible how much money a country with a budget deficit in the region of a whopping 13% of it's GDP can spend.

And no, we aren't talking about Greece.

But about the US. Excactly, they're building a new embassy in the UK, for a billion US-$:

There's a persistent rumor the UK councils and metropolitan areas do have a police. However, by now, this rumor has been proven wrong:

But Gloucestershire Police insisted they could not take any action as it would be ill-advised to visit the site because of the strong criminal element who lived there.

The UK is well-known for it's borderless nanny-state, trying to take care of every aspect of your life. Since people are so stupid not to notice that every photo in a fashion magazine or advert is heavily photoshopped, a bloke now proposes to have warnings on such mags:

No computer runs without electrical power, including the machinery powering this blog.

In Sweden, policies enacted by the government sometimes have surprising™ side effects:

The wait for a rental apartment in Stockholm averages 104 weeks, rising to as much as 20 years for attractive areas, according to a new report published this week. Of the eight comparable EU cities studied in the Swedish Property Federation (Fastighetsägarna) report, Stockholm stood alone as the city with a long waiting list.

Anybody still believing that the US (or any other debt-ridden country) can ever repay it's debts and liabilities without going bankrupt? Especially if one adds in another 40'000 US-$ per citizen of public debts?

The lesson of the story is very simple, actually - don't buy votes with the citizens money, or with debts. Yet, this happens in most democracies since the worst thing that can happen to a politician is to get voted out of office, into a very cushy job at a corporation or a 'non-profit' organization that is paying quite well.

Usually, criminals don't commit crimes for the sake of action, or crime itself - there's usually a reason behind it. And in this case, one should also research the reason behind their unwillingness to disclose climate and meteorlogic research data, resulting in the climategate scandal:

This image conveys my personal feelings about the iPad. It's too large for anything except a handbag or the pockets of cargo pants, it's too expensive, and can't be used as a car navigation system since you can't attach it to your windscreen since it probably would obfuscate too much of your view to be street-legal.

Simply funny. And yet, the statments are so true...

Obvisouly, in 'Great' Britain, the evil 'middle class' which hasn't been taxed to death still sends it's kids to the university far too often for the liberal and lefty multi-culturalist freaks. However, the UK government now wants to change this 'unjust' selection:

Maybe they should also use a subtitle "Stuff your pants with explosives", but I think the current guide cover is good enough.

This is the video that should have made it to failblog.org - and that's just for the ungodly amounts of money spent for nothing and nothing again. When will people ever learn from the great depression and the Japanese lost decade?

It's again proven that the European Union is much-loved by numerous people who wouldn't get a job in a market economy. Another example how the European taxpayer finances people who technically would be on welfare if they didn't retrain is the EU "Youth Action Programme":