LImey cause they used to suck on limes during the 1800s on thier wooden ships to ward off scurvey.

This guy is wack. 45 million people who don't have access to healthcare? Preposterous. Just becaue you don't have health insurance doesn't mean you can't get healthcare.

I myself am temporarily without health insurace because of some Pennsylvania budger rampgings (it will be fixed in July), but I stilll got my cavity fillled, got my eyes examined and got my allergy medication perscription refillled.

Also, most of the poor in this country have cell phone, cable TV, and more than one car. The "poor" in our country live in homes bigger than most flats in limey land.
sheesh..

Stupid socialist limeys.

Windex moment, Frank

Ristf

Damn, not Ristf, but Necods

Hey Frank, what's this guys e-mail? I live in England and could do with some hippy-bashing practice!

"Oh, and one more thing - you can say goodbye to Bush cos he's history." What a poor confused troll: Bush is the one who says goodbye- goodbye Taliban, goodbye Saddam, goodbye al-Queda, goodbye UN, goodbye Chirac, goodbye Dean, goodbye Gore, and soon goodbye Kerry and GOODBYE USAMA.

"You are clearly an extreme right-wing religious, fascist, lying, stupid, Hitler sympathising, Ku-Klux Klan loving, sexist, racist, ageist, anti-gypsy/travellers bigoted, completely ignorant, arrogant lunatic nutcase who represents everything that is wrong with your country."

That needs to go up with the quotes by Lou Tulio and E. Harrington. Brilliant response Frank. Of course, he's not gonna "get it".

Contrary to popular belief. Limes were not invented in Canada.

Hmmm. He seems upset about those who live in poverty in the US. You know, we as being in poverty in the US sucks, well, it better then being in poverty in say, I dunno, Cambodia. At least in the US most of our poor have running water, sanitation, color TVs, cable, free (sometimes sucky) education, Medicaid/Medicare, and as far as I can tell, America is the only nation where the poor are fat. *Shrug* Yeah, being poor sucks, but at least here they are not dieing off in droves.

Just consider the source. This was from a native of a country where...

Not only was a homeowner convicted and sentenced to "gaol" for whacking a perp that broke into the home and attacked him BUT was also denied parole because he wasn't sorry that he off'ed the perp.

Thanks to socialized dental care, the only thing worse than their cuisine is their teeth (Hmmm. Maybe there's a corallary there!)

The number of terrorists and terrorist sympathisers (non-caucasian) is greater than those born in the country.

Most of their politicians are afraid of angering or embarrasing the French.

Their most recent export to the US was a crappy musical about Boy George.

I hate to break it to you, but that limey's right. I grew up in a poor household and it really sucked. My parents couldn't afford real ice cream so we had to eat Melorine*. And sometimes we had to eat Hydrox cookies instead of Oreos. But the worst part was that we had a Black and White TV that only got the VHF stations so I didn't get to watch re-runs of Star Trek on channel 39. Why oh why didn't the UN intervene??!!

*Note for the under-40 crowd: Melorine was an imitation ice-cream that cost half as much as the real thing. These days they package it as "low-fat" ice-cream and charge twice as much.

I totally agree with Chris D.. you gotta put this under the quotes by Lou and E.

Priceless..

I don't like the idea of quote proclaiming I'm a Hitler sympathizer and in with the KKK.

Tom,
Everyone knows where "limey" comes from. I was just acting ign'ant.

How come so many leftists equate Conservatives with Hitler? Nazi = National SOCIALIST. Then equating anyone who isn't in line with your far leftist stances as Hitler is a stalinistic tactic.

I get called a hitler Ayran nation type all the time over at Blogctritics.org. Especially by this virulant little troll nameed Mac Diva.

At first it hurts, but I guess it means they are getting pissed when they call you hitler.

Frank,
It hurts that the only way I could be mentioned with a link on your site is under losers. O well, it's a start. By the way I am changing sites, I will be a good sport and give you the new link when it is up.

Does anyone know the Zip Code for, "inner city California"?

You truely do get some hate mail that borders on the delusional, Frank. Tulio's was still better entertainment-wise, but this guy really gave me a great mental picture of himself ... sitting in some grimey west-end dive knocking back pints and planning on how to build an even bigger pink cardboard "peace tank". That'll show those awful Yanks, yes siree.

Bill Whittle said it best when he noted that the greatest risk for America's poor is obesity. That's right, my misled limey friend, the biggest problem for all of the "poor" you mention is that they eat too much. That chunky statistic of "45 million poor" must be taken in context; of those 45 million, about 44 million still live better, safer, and longer lives than the middle and upper class citizens of most other countries. "Poor" is a relative term, and in relation to the vast majority of the human race America's poor are actually quite wealthy.

As for Rage Against the Machine: Never trust a band whose lead singer's biggest dream is to be Che Guevera when he grows up.

S

Inner-city, Cali zip code: 9021d'oh!

"And I don't blame the poverty on the poor; I just simply laugh at them."

As usual, Frank, nice

Why does he think it would be bad to marry Ann Coulter? It could be much worse, I mean she pretty hot (and I include mind with body). I mean, just becuause the limeys have to import hot chicks doesn't mean that he has to take cheap shots at ours.

I hate to say it, Frank, but YHBT. YHL. It's fairly obvious. He just pulled together a laundry list of standard accusations from the far left. The list-like nature of the accusations was an indication, but the Backstreet Boys and Coulter comments were dead giveaways. He went fishing and you took the bait.

"I don't like the idea of quote proclaiming I'm a Hitler sympathizer and in with the KKK."

But the quote is so obviosuly over the top, no one could possibly take it seriously. Unless they're an idiot, in which case their opinion doesn't really matter.

Any moron who would believe that you are a Hitler sympathetizer in the KKK already believes that about all right-wingers.

Frank, I know it had to hurt on a whole bunch of levels when you got this email that should have had a "put on gear for extreme heat" prior to opening. This a-hole isn't worth getting upset about as he's clearly a prime candidate for a designer jacket. The kind with the extra long sleeves that end up secured in back of the wearer.

Besides Frnak, maybe this poor deluded individual is a victim of Mad Cow Disease, the human variety. This sure doesn't sound like writings from an entirely sane person.

Maybe you should think about sending in Chomps, Buck, and some Ninja monkeys to have a little "chat" with him.

mwahahahahaha

Revandryn

I don't blame the poor. I blame their lack of money.

I need someone to explain to me why people like us are so easily compared to Nazis, and Hitler specifically. Clearly, the most similar group on the planet today are Muslim fundamentalists, whom we clearly oppose STRONGLY. Also, we support Israel and its right to defend itself--somehow I think Hitler might have opposed that and MAYBE even Israel itself.
Yet, clearly, we're Hitler. Makes a ton of sense.

I need someone to explain to me why people like us are so easily compared to Nazis, and Hitler specifically. Clearly, the most similar group on the planet today are Muslim fundamentalists, whom we clearly oppose STRONGLY. Also, we support Israel and its right to defend itself--somehow I think Hitler might have opposed that and MAYBE even Israel itself.
Yet, clearly, we're Hitler. Makes a ton of sense.

Frank:
That wacky limey guy needs to be shot! He called you everything but what you are: a natural born killer!!!!!! ohhhh, man, how the hell could he have missed that?
I didn't bother reading the rest of his nonsense.

You didn't read the wax part?

Your writing is a hoot. I like the word substitutions. :)

Is it just me or does this guy not know when to not say anything?

He says "there is 35 million people..." and "there is 45 million...", while us ignorant folks in America say "there are 35 million".

I did not realize that they stopped speaking English in England. Oh well, Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish genius said that "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

The bit about desecrating Guinness is true, Frank. I'm a member of the Staten Island NY, North Shore Division, Beat the Bastard with a Barstool Squad. Put anything into a pint of Black in my sector and my beeper goes bonkers.

Sounds like someone had delusions of saving the downtrodden in Alabama and inner-city California, but was denied a visa for poor personal hygiene.

Sounds like someone had delusions of saving the downtrodden in Alabama and inner-city California, but was denied a visa for poor personal hygiene.

Marry Ann Coulter. Hmmmm. Blonde, passionate, gorgeous long legs wrapped around . . . Sorry, gotta go, I have some, erh, business to take care of.

35 million in poverty! I've heard that a lot. Does anyone else know the poverty level is arbitrarily set so that the same percentage of people are always below it? It changes, based on this, each year. The only way to "eradicate poverty" is to institute a pure form of socialism....HE-EEY, I just figured something out....

Damn, Frank...

Your vitriolic genius knows no boundaries

Ann Coulter a cow? Somebody needs glasses!! Tall, thin, blonde, straight teeth, brilliant intelligence..... I guess that makes all of us American women cows!!! Moooo! Mooooo!

hahaha

Remember when all those hippy limeys were protesting Dubya's visit to LimeyIsland?? They dispersed the crowd with a COLGATE cannon and a toothbrush launcher.

stupid no gun limeys

Agreed, jonag. But recall the source!

I cite, in evidence, the story about an Irishman who was hauled into court on the charge of necrophilia.

His (successful) defense: "Ah, but yer Honor, I thought she was English!"

Heh.

Ann Coulter..American Woman...to the CORE

http://www.townhall.com/acimgs/webimages/gun.jpg

I'm a limey, and I like Frank. I'm working on the teeth.

Um, Freedom = Poor.

Yep, that's right. Everyone is free to be poor in this country (the good ole' US of A).

BTW, everyone is also free to be rich, their choice, that's what freedom is, choice.

Fantastic. I'm new to IMAO, and I already love it.

The Meatriarchy, that was pretty funny. Some may have to read the Canadian thread to get it though. Regardless, I'm shouldn't be communicating with you since you dropped a WMD in that thread (Weapon of Moore's Dimensions). Entrails are being cleaned up in a nine state radius of the epicenter.

Blimey this Limey was whiney. It's not often Frank gets a whack at Union Jacks on crack.

I am disappointed he didn't include my State with Alabama and "Inner city California." I feel left out somehow.

When will those from the third world ever learn.

Well, I have to get off of the computer now. We have to timeshare here in the poorhouse.

Can no one feel Arnold's pain??? Hydrox instead of Oreos??? Oh, the humanity!!!!!

Ok since Joe is being so nice to me I am going to withdraw my Moore comment. I will change Mike Moore to..... hmmm..... Al Franken! Naw that is too close .... how about..... Susan Sarandon and her idiot husband? Naww still no good....

Lemme sleep on it ok?

BTW Joe is right that Canadian Comment thread was probably one of the longest in IMAO history. Soon your gonna be like LGF Frank!!

Haha...
I love it...
Another euroshit that doesn't understand real freedom, and couldn't handle it even if he had it.

Inner city California. Say no more... say no more. That my friends, is the most satisfyingly ignorant comment I have heard a far'in'er blurt out in all my life.
If I didn't have the urge to smother him in his sleep then I might just laugh out loud.
Holy crap.

Oh, and I'd stand up for Ann, but I think she can do that adequately herself (as demonstrated by the link above).

You should have called him a bloody little tosser - that really ticks them off.

Love the word substitutions!!

Not to be the wannabe brains of this little operation, but since there is controvesy surrounding the last contest, why not open up a new contest in which the contestants respond to some hate that you get. Sure, you might lose (allegedlly) again, but it will still be fun to see what people come up with.

And what is up with Limey? Is that a person who drinks to much Diet Coke...with the lime in it of course?"

Thirty-five million in poverty....

Really?.

They must all be from that fictitional inner-city California that I've never heard of.

er..that's 'serenity'

i can honestly say that my parents are poor...i have a laptop but being poor...i ended up with an HP :'(.hah.

lime lime lime lime lime wax on wax off
Peace everyone

Nazi-Loving, KKK-sympathizer, etc... Man, now THAT'S original! It's so insulting because those two groups stick out in everyone's mind as horrible, but whenever I mention Stalin or Mao Zedong it just doesn't seem to have as much of an impact than the Facists or KKK. (Mao happens to be a quite popular figure among some dorks at my school, who apparently didn't realized how he accidentally starved to death 30-million of his own people with the Great Leap Forward, or the crackdown on liberty that was the Cultural Revolution. If I wore a shirt to school with Mussolini on it, however, I'd get yelled at by every other person in the hall. Not that I'd willingly wear a shirt with that prick on it. He's merely a convenient Facist equivalent to Mao.)

Oh... my gosh... now that was hilarious.

Oh, and from what I know, people use the calling of "Hitler" because you may be Caucasian... or they just don't like you... =/

Frank,
Was this the Karate Kid? Cuz I seem to remember him being American of Italian descent. Not Limish.

Anyway,

When they start calling you names like that you know they got nothin', pure fat nothin'.

Ah, quoting "Rage Against the Machine". I've always found that extremely funny. Rage became the freaking machine once money was involved didn't they. While not nearly as dogmatic about it os others they love thier money they got by singing about dividing up wealth and sure took advantage of the same corperations that they are a part of.

Much like the current generation of leftist who were hippies in the 60's against "the man" but now that they are "the man" seek to increase govt control ov everything MUCH further than anyone they ever protested against. They believe that they are different so it's A-OK to do it and we should all roll over or be subjugated forcfully.

Heh, good ol karate kid.

"Can you teach me how to sweep?"
*Sensei fetches broom*
Hahaha.
Sorry what?

Embarrassed though I am at the uninspiring sight of a fellow Brit waving his tiny fists, I have to get involved. I think, in his defense, he's just confused and maybe I can straighten him out. I'd like to address him in person rather than you, Frank, because you're obviously a bit rattled by his assault.

Hi, fellow-countryman, a couple of things...there may be some swearing early on, but I'll try to moderate it as we go along.

1) I gather from your initial tirade that you probably consider yourself "left-wing". Well my considered response is "Fuck off! I'm left-wing and you're embarrasing me!" If I am then I don't want you to be, so you're not. "Bat-wing" or "wingding" is what you are. Probably. And I bet you like John Lennon and think he was really sincere and didn't want possessions. Twat.*

2) No citizen of any country in the world gives a hug about any other country's DOMESTIC policies. You've obviously just come out of a coma and heard people muttering about the U.S. It's FOREIGN policy, you buffoon. Repeat after me "If they bomb us, we care. If there are poor people in Alabama, we don't." Got that? Good. (We have our own poor people. Worry about them.)

3) The phrase "Land of the Free" is intended to be ironic, and is usually said with a sly wink while lightly tapping the side of the nose with the forefinger. (Best to use your own nose and forefinger unless you're really good friends with the guy.) So there really isn't an oxymoron there. And even without irony "Land of the Free" isn't an oxymoron. "British and U.S. InteIligence", now that's an oxymoron.

4) What's with the gypsy thing? In a minute you'll try to tell me that there's "prejudice" against "travellers" because we envy their freedom and don't understand their culture. Wrong. Everybody in Britain hates (note the word "hate", not "prejudice" but "hate", the distinction's important) gypsies because they steal anything that isn't bolted down, smash stuff up for fun and/or firewood and leave piles of excrement everywhere they've been. (Oops, I think we might have wandered back into U.S. foreign policy again.)

5) I'm pissed off because I don't know who Ann Coulter is, so I don't like you because you've made me feel small.

6) Bush isn't history. If anything he's anthropology, going by the eyebrow-ridges. Or if you want to go back to U.S. foreign policy, he's probably geography.

7) Bored now.

* British slang - "Twat" is a term meaning "female genitalia", more offensive than "p***y" but less offensive than "c**t". (On second thoughts other British guy, you're probably a c**t.) Actually if Frank's up to speed with "wanker" this is unnecessary.

Oh yeah, "Poosh"? You're such an Uncle Tom.

Frank,

If you need me to bash this smelly, limey-hippie around the head and neck with the Reality Stick™ let me know. I'm heading over there in a couple of weeks. Or would you rather have me turn loose the monkeys from '28 Days Later' on him? Your choice...

I'll test the lime-Guiness theory while I'm in Ireland as well. I believe when you do that a hippie leprechaun tries to convert you to socialism at the bar. Either way, they'll get the shit stomped out of 'em.

Just to be clear, I didn't want to offend any of my limey readers. I love each and every one of you.

"Heh, good ol karate kid.

'Can you teach me how to sweep?'
*Sensei fetches broom*
Hahaha.
Sorry what?"

Maybe we could convince Pat Morita to play Zatoichi in the I-am-sure-upcoming In My World Movie.

Frank:

That is the lamest piece of e-mail I've ever seen. You need to tell the limey that he can pick on the United States when the unemployment rate in England (generally over 10%) is less than the United States.

You have to be spectacularly unmotivated or have special problems not to be middle class in the United States. 1 in 100 citizens in the United States are millionaires. Care to guess what the ratio is in England...1 in 2000. Where do you want to live?

The moral midget that e-mailed you needs to stuff his head back in his ass and stay there. There is not a single honest person in the United States that wants to leave here and go live somewhere else...English 'citizens' wait in line to get a visa to move to the United States.

Hopefully this ass dart isn't one of them.

Mahatma, dear boy...on the U.S. versus England thing:

1) There are more millionaires in the U.S. because there are more stupid people to steal from, and because at the moment $1,000,000.00 is about the same as £7:62.

2)A rough "class" calculation is:
U.S. Upper class = English middle class
U.S. Middle class = English trailer trash
U.S. Working class = "Errm, here's a banana"

3)Americans don't want to leave the United States because they know it's difficult to get a job outside without opposable thumbs. I could also mention that it's because they're frightened of their own shadows, but I won't.

4) Whoever said we had terrible teeth was right.

5) Mahatma - I checked out your blog. Use a spellchecker.

I blame the poor. I have known them and been one of them (thanks to my 1st wife). The permanent poor are poor because of poor behavior. Anyone who stays poor in America isn't trying very hard. Vietnamese boat people come here with nothing & no knowledge of English and end up living down the street from me in a nice suburban neighborhood. Thomas Sowell has all sorts of statistics in his columns bearing on this and showing that the poor and the rich in America are mostly the same people at different ages.

To the looney limey loser:

The 35 million in poverty statistic leaves out the value of government social programs, which is typically $20,000 or more per household. It is a fiction repeated to generate support for more welfare.

To Bugbear:

Have you been to America? I was in England in the mid '80's visiting my "middle class" English relatives and couldn't believe how low the standard of living was and how shoddy the personal goods, food, and services were. Go there for 2 weeks and you understand why there are McDonald's restaurants everywhere. Your equation of classes needs to be reversed.

Frank- you are the best funny blogman! Although I could hardly stop laughing while reading (and let's face it: why stop laughing?)your PS was its usual kindly sweetness. You are too much! Love it :-0

FYI:

The gypsy/travelers I believe refers to a small community of people living near North Augusta, South Carolina. They are generally called locally the "Irish Travelers" (I am from across the river in Augusta, GA). They are a very closed (in-bred), and rather weird group of families. They have very large houses...but live in trailers in the the back-yards. They are also known to travel across the country in old pick-up trucks soliciting old people for small, useless paving or roofing jobs, and then bilking their elderly victims. Also, all feamles in their "society," from age 6 to 60, dress like cheap hookers, including spandex pants, excessive make-up, and hair that is so teased as to be on the verge of a Columbine-style rampage.

They are treated like a curiosity locally, and several state goverments are trying to prosecute the scammers, but they are hard to find inside the community.

If you are curious about them, and in the Augusta area, show up at the local Carrabbas Restaruant on any Sunday evening.

Skullcrusher dude,
I've only ever been to Buffalo. Go easy on me.

Awright, listen up you lime bastuhd, (phonetically correct where I'm from)

This ain't gonna be funny, cause I'm not in a funny mood, but it is gonna be important in terms of eradicating a tiny portion of your dumbassness.

I'm gonna share some little known American History with you: I was born and raised in western Texas on the edge of the Great American Southwest Desert. Farming in this area is a bit touch and go, due to lack of rainfall, and fluctuating natural gas prices which directly affect the cost of irrigation. You staying up with me so far? But my ancestors were late comers to the great American land grab, so my gramps took what he could get. My dad, for reasons I can't possibly fathom, decided he wanted to make a living farming. Why do I share this fraction of American History with you? Cause we were poor as shit when I was growing up. Mama making my clothes on her sewing machine, poor. Growing your own vegatables and meat and eggs, poor. Hoeing your own cotton cause you couldn't afford the meskins, poor. Chevy station wagon with no fake woooden sides, poor. Wasn't no PF Fliers or Keds on this white boy. Generic teenies, black and white witha bar code.

Now here's the important part, you limey bastuhd: We didn't live in poverty cause poverty is a spiritual state first, and then an economic state. My parents couldn't spend any money on us, but they didn't allow us to waller around in our own vomit. I can't ever remember not having plans to go to college, cause that's what my parent's expectations were, and their was no questioning it.

Luckily we lived in America, and even more luckily we lived in Texas where there are affordable state universities. Including myself there are 4 of us kids and all four of us have bachelors degrees and two of them have masters degrees. Everyone of us put ourselves through college, with negligible financial help from our parents.

I'm currently bringing up the ass end of the earnings race amongst my siblings at a hair over $50,000 a year, working as a school teacher. My little bro is on the top end of the race, making somewhere in the neighborhood of a quartermillion a year running a grocery distribution business. The other two are doing quite well in their chosen fields.

How the hell did that happen, that kids who never spent a day of their childhood over the governments poverty line, could end up solidly in the middle class? Cause they were lucky enough to live in America, where with intelligence, ambition, and a work ethic, anyone can succeed. But had I been raised with a poverty of spirit; had I been raised to percieve myself as a victim of uncontrollable forces; had I been taught the European way that I was born to poverty and their I should spend my life, I and my siblings would still be in financial poverty.

Here's an additional anecdote for you. Somewhere in excess of 80% of the children in America who currently live below the poverty level, have one thing in common: They were born into a one parent family, and continue to live without a father present. Dad's who's sole role to their childs upbring is "sperm doner" are a hell of alot more responsible for poverty than the actions of any government or coporate entity. Mom's who got that way because they were content to be a "semen receptacle" rather than demand a commitment from their doner, create a tough life for themselves and their children.

I don't know if you're talking to me, friend, but if you are, and you eventually have a point, let me know.

And if you're a schoolteacher, then I'm the Archangel Gabriel. (And let's face it, dude, I'm not.

Not you bitch, the other limey. And hey, don't forget to play your trumpet for me when I get their.

Did I hear mention of Alabama? Poor? Uh, yeah, that's right, POOR! Everybody in Alabama is POOR...Poor and UGLY, too! It's UGLY here! Abject poverty!! Nothing but shotgun shacks and toothless, inbred, poverty-stricken, diseased, illiterate, mean, nasty, (did I mention toothless?) UGLY people, living in UGLINESS! UGLINESS, I SAY! Oh, and the weather here TOTALLY SUCKS! And we have gators, gators everywhere... GATORS WILL EAT YOU!

So STAY HOME! Don't come here in your damned Winnebego Behemoth® 9000s with your matching windbreakers and skinny-assed, varicose-veined-white-legs-in-shorts walking through town every damn winter with your little hairy yappy dogs and your obnoxious lack of manners and snotty attitudes!

Better yet, GO TO FLORIDA!

Favorite bumper stickers:

If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot 'em?

and...

So many SNOWBIRDS, so little FREEZER SPACE

Roll Tide!

Good American story, Sticky. What people from other countries don't understand it that there are a lot more of those type stories in America than any other country.

My dad always said nobody ever has a reason to argue. Either you can look up the answer or it is unknowable. For a study of U.S. and European wealth / standards of living see:
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/week_2002_09_01.php

By the way, I grew up in "poverty" although I didn't know it at the time. Oddly enough when I went to England in college, I couldn't help thinking to myself, "What a shit hole." I felt awful for the people there. They had bland, overpriced food; crappy overpriced merchandize; hotels with communal bathrooms (WTF?); these itty-bitty little cars without air conditioning or FM radios; damp little poorly built houses. Thinking back, my family lived in a 2000 sq ft+ split level, drove a Chevy Impala station wagon; went to Disneyland for vacations and always stayed in hotels with seperate bathrooms for each room. Okay, we did grow most of our own food and I did wear some funky clothes, but I honestly felt sorry when I saw the widespread poverty of one of Europe's greatest nations.

Point is, before a European points at American poverty, they really need to work on their own.

One more thing, on my first trip to Europe, I flew into Germany, spent some time there, then went through Luxembourg, Belgium and then England. I truly was appalled by what I experienced the entire trip. To my uneducated 19 year old eye, the whole place reeked of gross, unmitigated poverty and backwardness. The hotels and toilets generally revolted me, especially the Germany "ledge toilets" with the concept of "let's keep a small amount of feces above the water so this whole bathroom will reek." I honestly wondered what the rest of the world was like if Europe was so awful. Unfortunately, I have had more than enough opportunity to asses the rest of the world and although Europe is a step down from the U.S., most everywhere else is over the edge of a deep, deep abyss.

My neighbor, who frequently travels to England on business, tells me that according to recent societal findings, fully 10 percent of England's residents have criminal records. Gees! How sad is that?

I hate to be serious here, but I bet close to 10% of Americans have a criminal record.

Vitamin Tom:
The first time my parents brought me to Ireland to see where I came from a trio of horse-drawn carriages meandered down the road fronting where She Who Must Be Obeyed (Grannie Penguin) lived.

"Who are they?" says I.
"Tinkers," says all the locals seated on the porch.
"Never trust one of the bastards, Thaig," says my Da.

You're damn right I discriminate against them, you limey git.

There is no "poverty" in America.

Not by world standards. Only ignorant socialist idiots--whose experience of "poverty" is to leave their gated community and drive downtown--believe in real poverty in America.

Take a stroll through the side streets of Nogales, Sonora or Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico like I have, and visit the homes of some of the residents of the hillside colonias. Or fly in to Iquitos, Peru, in the jungle and put on a health clinic in one of the poor neighborhoods of that remote city. You'll see.

You'll see that the leftist gargling about poverty in this country is just so much hot air and BS, designed to guilt the ignorant into accepting their idea of "social justice". Equality under socialism is nothing more than equal misery. With all our "inequities" in this country, even the poorest of our citizens is far better off than the average citizen in Latin America.

And I'd venture to guess that the average "poor" person in this country (measured by gov't yardsticks and receiving of gov't largesse) is doing a fair measure better than the average limey socialist/communist living in his miserable little government-funded flat in some godforsaken corner of London.

This guy is wack. 45 million people who don't have access to healthcare? Preposterous. Just becaue you don't have health insurance doesn't mean you can't get healthcare.

I think he means that there's 45 million people in England who don't have access to healthcare. That's because they're waiting in line to see the clerk about seeing the nurse practitioner about seeing the doctor. I have no clue why he blames Frank for this, but I know a limey that says stuff like that. He's very much out of touch with reality.

Socialized medicine: No thanks.

GTC

Desert Cat, to be fair, there is real poverty in the US, just at maybe 2% of the level he claims. The average homeless guy is living a life that can respectably be considered "poor", even if most of the "poor" aren't.

Granted, a homeless person in America is about as poor as someone living in the average tarpaper shantytown or colonia in Latin America. But whereas the typical American homeless person could do something to change his fate if he really wanted to (most will say they are where they are because of the choices they have made), a shantytown-dweller in Latin America has few or no options. That's a big difference.

Congrats Frank for sparking a widly entertaining, mostly mindless debate. Although I come from the other side of the fence (yes, I am one of the liberals you love to laugh at, just as you are one of the right-wingers I love to laugh at ;)!), I found this section of comments very, very funny to say the least. It's just sad when people give up on reason and start criticizing one another's countries instead of addressing specific issues they'd like to see changed -- but I suppose that's how stereotypes are born, and without stereotypes, how would we ever get a laugh now?

Oh well, at least know (and reading from your posts I'm sure you already do) that the "other side" can appreciate good humour too ;)

From your not-so-stereotypical liberal blogger,

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So, the English have bad teeth, all the French smell of Onions and the Americans are terribly obese. Do you people even read the things you put on this site? Everyone is culpable of having a national stereotype, even us, so get over it. Shouldn't we be looking at the serious political problems at hand, and not debating a series of bitter rants from a British college kid...? How's about this, why don't we step away from the computer, go outside, and actually DO SOMETHING. You're American's for Christ's sake. Start acting like it.

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It sounds to me that this person from England has a few problems.
Especially the lack of knowlege.
I have worked with the homeless of AMERICA for many years.Each and every one of them have an excuse.Lost confidence,Lost hope,illnesses(mental,and physical),alchol,drugs.I could go on for quite a while.
My friend across the sea you have a misconception
of the poor and homless of the U..S.A.
I dare say that there are more hungry people in your little country than the whole of the U.S. including our territories.
If You don't like it don't come here,and don't ask us for help if Germany or one of the other countries near you get tired of your mouth.and start bombing you again.
I think you will find that there are so many organizatins here,to take care of these unfortunant people that they are a lot better off than some of the middle classes in Your country.
There is even a private school for them in Texas.Funded by Ross Pereau.Each and every City in the U.S. has several places where they can go to get help or free rehab.There are so many organizations that I can't begin to name them.
Not one church would turn them away.
Until you know what your talking about.Why don't you just keep your mouth shut.Better Yet why not discuss something you know.If anything.

It sounds to me that this person from England has a few problems.
Especially the lack of knowlege.
I have worked with the homeless of AMERICA for many years.Each and every one of them have an excuse.Lost confidence,Lost hope,illnesses(mental,and physical),alchol,drugs.I could go on for quite a while.
My friend across the sea you have a misconception
of the poor and homless of the U..S.A.
I dare say that there are more hungry people in your little country than the whole of the U.S. including our territories.
If You don't like it don't come here,and don't ask us for help if Germany or one of the other countries near you get tired of your mouth.and start bombing you again.
I think you will find that there are so many organizatins here,to take care of these unfortunant people that they are a lot better off than some of the middle classes in Your country.
There is even a private school for them in Texas.Funded by Ross Pereau.Each and every City in the U.S. has several places where they can go to get help or free rehab.There are so many organizations that I can't begin to name them.
Not one church would turn them away.
Until you know what your talking about.Why don't you just keep your mouth shut.Better Yet why not discuss something you know.If anything.

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