Road pricing

Tony Blair's Prime Minister website has a feature where the public can create online petitions. This feature hit the headlines today because of a large response to the petition, "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy."

You can read what the BBC had to say about it here.

I think that road pricing is a good idea, so I signed the counter petition "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Don't Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy."

Hopefully, I'm not alone and there will be many more names added...for as the site Cars-r-Coffins says....erm, um....oh yeah "Cars are coffins!"

US politics, Comedy, Star Trek and George Takei

Every time I watch this excerpt from the Daily Show with John Stewart, the comedy just gets more "Champagne".

Here's Congressman David Wu's original, quite strange address to the US House of Representatives a few days ago:

I love George Takei...he's a great Asian "brother".


These lines are gold!
"John, the remarks proffered by Congressman Wu, are troublesome in many regards"
"And you felt his telephone voice was more distinctive than mine?"
"Do you realize that by our sixth film, I'd become a Captain, while Spock had become marginalized?"
"Well, then. Takei out...motherf****r"

I love it!

Ed out...motherf****r