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[Edvaard]

Martha Stewart denied visa for UK.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/20/usa1


"The UK Border Agency said it would not comment on individual cases.

A spokesman said: "We continue to oppose the entry to the UK of individuals where we believe their presence in the United Kingdom is not conducive to the public good or where they have been found guilty of serious criminal offences abroad."



Maybe they were afraid of her bringing in weapons of mass indigestion.


While elsewhere ...


http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/34161


" ...  that same week a British court granted bail to Islamic cleric Abu Qatada, after failing to deport him to Jordan where he is a convicted terrorist. Qatada, 47, has been described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, a fund-raiser for al Qaeda and other extremist networks, an associate of convicted 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and thwarted shoe bomber Richard Reid, and a spiritual adviser to would-be terrorists."


For the sake of perspective ...


What do R. Nixon, B. Clinton, and Martha Stewart all have in common?


They were censured for or convicted of lying, the lies themselves  or the consequences therefrom causing no deaths.


OTOH, aside from instigating actions that have caused many thousands of deaths and ongoing chaos, what do GW Bush, Tony Blair, and Abu Qatada all have in common?


They have never been convicted of lying.




Maybe her name was misspelled or misread by the authorities (wait guys, that's 'Stewart', not 'Stuart'; no relation to James II at all, honest!).

[danickstr]

Britain and Japan are two cultures where the society seems to suffer from being prosperous in some sort of dysfunctional way.  Britain is successful in a less monetary way than Japan, and has far fewer suicides, but still a lot of cultural achievement that does not seem to manifest itself in a governmental efficiency.  I guess their government is a devil in the eyes of the Irish, but I don't see that side of them, the elitist side.  I see super friendly brits here.  And friendly Japanese. But what the hell am I talking about anyway...I am drunk.

I think the brits are agreeable enough to have no conviction in Parliament, but I am only guessing. The Japanese fascinate me as well, since they seem to have achieved a monstrous economy, and now their suicide rate is shooting up 3% a year.  Some kind of parallel here.

But the example cited above is typical governmental cluster fluck, and the US could have done something this stupid, and I agree with the part about  Bush (and LBJ ) being liars that get folks killed.  Tony Blair was I am sure held at gunpoint by Bush's henchmen, spineless, perhaps, but how could he have done anything else?

All the Al-Queda folks are of course psychos, but they do have one good point: US does use a lot more resources than they are "allocated" by world fairness standards, if such standards existed.