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Category: RantsI really like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here’s a letter he recently sent to a political opponent.
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 1176 without my signature.
For some time now I have lamented the fact that major issues are overlooked while many
unnecessary bills come to me for consideration. Water reform, prison reform, and health
care are major issues my Administration has brought to the table, but the Legislature just
kicks the can down the alley.Yet another legislative year has come and gone without the major reforms Californians
overwhelmingly deserve. In light of this, and after careful consideration, I believe it is
unnecessary to sign this measure at this time.Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Check out the first letter of each line. I don’t know what it’s about and since I don’t live in California I don’t really care that much, but I wish politicians here in the UK were this human. I can just imagine him saying it in his accent. Awesome.
Due to word wrapping on smalling screens it may not look right on an iPhone. You can see a PDF here though.
On October 13th I got a message from PayPal to let me know that they’d frozen one of my businesses accounts as it had received over $3,300 in total turnover. Despite already proving I’m not a fraudster, robot, child and whatnot, and that my bank account is mine and that I do answer if they ring my telephone number, they’ve now decided that they need to verify my land address.
In order to do so they’ve decided to send me a code in the mail. No problem. I’ll just wait for the mail and put the code in to their website when I get it… Right?
So I’m waiting. It’s now October 29th and my funds are still frozen for that business. The clock is ticking as it won’t be able to pay it’s suppliers soon unless PayPal restore the access or it’s bailed out by Director’s funds while they dick around. As it turns out, the reason it’s taking so long is that despite me living in the UK, my business being based in the UK, and the PayPal account being managed by PayPal UK, they’ve decided to send the letter from Nebraska, USA. Presumably surface mail too from the looks of it. Seriously wtf?
I wonder how much interest they make on all their customers funds when they pull that little scam…
Time to look at other payment processors while that little bit of paper floats across the Atlantic methinks!
United Utilites have informed me that they’re increasing my monthly payments to £88.50 a month for my water. I live in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire which receives over 1200mm of rain every year. It’s raining here almost all the time. As I look out the window now, I see the usual relentless drizzle. Grey, boring, non-stop rain…
So Britain has freed the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi. He killed 270 people and permanently damaged the lives of countless people. Each one of those passengers was a father, mother, son, daughter, sibling or grandparent to others.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment but as usual our justice system has let everyone down and made a mockery of everyone that died, their families, and the people of the U.K. and also the people of the U.S. who deserved justice for all the citizens that they lost. This man deserved no compassion from anyone.
Once again, I’m ashamed to be British as the international spotlight focuses on us. We just don’t seem to have the balls to do what needs to be done with criminals and terrorists. Letting him die in prison wouldn’t make us as bad as him. If we were as bad as him then we would have murdered 270 of this terrorist’s innocent friends and family as well as Megrahi himself. Instead all we needed to do in order for justice to be done was keep him in prison until he died and we couldn’t even manage that without some do-gooder with a minority opinion interfering.
We need to stop trying to sympathize with criminals and terrorists and quickly come to the realization that there really is good and evil in the world. Someone that murders 270 innocents is indeed an evil person no matter what his race or religion. We should not try to understand and sympathize with monsters.
