Those General Election Blues

I...wish I had something positive to say about this election, but...I don't.  Uh, Osborne's relatively photogenic ?  That help ?...Didn't think so.

That Cameron & Miliband Debate

Was going to go looking for a picture of Ed Miliband, from the bacon sandwich incident perhaps, but no look, here's the Guardian's headline for this story.  Yes, that Guardian.

The man on the right, you may recognise as David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party, and the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  The man on the left is the leader of the (for-now) main opposition party, Labour.  In defence of the Guardian editors who chose this picture, it's actually pretty typical of how he looks, and if anything he arguably sounds worse.  Why one might ask if you were the man on the right, would you be afraid to debate the man on the left...on television no less.  Not a rhetorical question; I genuinely don't get it.  Is Ed really that scary, that daunting a debater ?  These are both very intelligent man, but one was born to be a media personality, and one was not.  And if we're honest, sadly, personality and presence probably count a lot more in television debates for the average voter than the actual issues being debated.

For fun, let's go ahead (below the fold) and see what Google returns for images of these two men.

How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Iranian Bomb

So it turns out the 'western Left' is totally cool with the idea of Iran having a nuclear arsenal, the possession of which actual weapons (as opposed to current theoretical capability) would likely as Lumish rightly points out lead to a new arms-race in the region.  And that the Obama administration is actively working to enable an Iranian 'Jihadi Bomb'.  Who knew ?  And why ?  Because of 'white liberal guilt'.  Sorry about that whole Colonialism thing y'all.  Lollipop make it better ?  No ?  Well how about some thermonuclear weapons ?  Here, have some of ours why don't you -- how about these Trident missiles -- Britain doesn't need them anymore according to the SNP.  There, all better now ?  But don't go doing anything naughty with those warheads now, promise !  Fascinating read from the artist formerly known as Karmafish.