It's one of the more fascinating aspects of America-watching is the sheer ambition of the venality on display. Your lot get bought for millions in pretty amazing kickback schemes, the British lot seem happy with a small brown paper bag of tenners pushed at them in a pub.
Or
Have you seen this Jack Abramoff scandal in the states? Fockin' 'ell, when you do corruption, you put us to shame. It's brilliant! He's even got the trench coat and the hat!
as a friend of mine over there put it.
It's true. Don't come trying to buy an American politician unless you're carrying at least a few mill for that politician and a few mill for various causes/candidates on top of that.
That's why we run the world and not you lazy Brits. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That's why we run the world and not you lazy Brits.
...adding...we may run it into the ground, but still. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
<snark> ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
i was worrying about your rotator cuff there... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
