The Musings Of Mike

I know, I know, there is no excuse I can give not blogging or vlogging for quite awhile. The only excuse I can give is that my social life has been running in overdrive and therefore when I have not been having fun, I’ve been recovering.

So, Why am I blogging now? Well, it is because my constant boozing, partying and raving was starting to physically affect me to the extent I couldn’t function properly. The fact that I failed a week of staying t-total within just two days will put the situation into retrospect for you. This coupled with a hectic weekend has made me change (for at least awhile) into:

a. a health freak which involves me cooking my own healthy meals
b. an angry, opinionated old man, needing to rant and vent somewhere (like here)
and c. a better socialite (the good kind)

So, On with the ranting. First and foremost, I must begin with the United Kingdom. Boy, is it in a sorry state of affairs. With recession, swine flu and Labour’s falling in the polls there was some great news for the people like me. The kind of people that only vote Labour to keep the Tory Toffs out of government. Anyway, it seems that the Tories have also been well and truely stuffed by the expenses’ row glooming over Britain and polls show that both Labour and Conservatives have lost points to the Lib Dems. While Nick Clegg is not the strongest leader we have ever had, he is a man I would trust. Vince Cable would make a perfect Chancellor of the Exchequer with his great insight and intellect on the current economical climate. Go Lib Dems!

I realise that last paragraph was not actually a rant, but this next one will be. Swine Flu. It seems to be able to strike the fear of God into people and I for one cannot understand why. Most ignorant and childish people fob it, believing it won’t affect them. The truth is, it probably will and the sooner the better. The sooner you get swine flu, the sooner you can take Tamiflu and the sooner you build up immunity to the virus. This is why I have spent my evenings kissing pigs and rubbing up against people on the tube. So far all I’ve got is mud-stained clothes, a black eye and someone’s phone number. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a serious virus and a serious pandemic. The fact that it has reached the stage of human to human transmission in quite a short peirod of time is quite shocking. Something the Bird Flu could never quite manage.

Barack Obama. Maybe It’s because I live in Britain, but I have never understood the hype about Barack Obama. I’ve always viewed him as inexperienced and while that gives him the everyday man quality, it seems to me to be a hinderance on decision making. Don’t get me wrong, his foreign policy has been on par with my own views, yet his first 100 days just seem to be a huge public relations campaign. If he’s not running around with his dog, he’s ordering cheeseburgers like every normal guy. The thing that has made me rant about him though was his godawful, unfunny speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Not only were the jokes poorer than an American sitcom, some were even offensive. I bet the whole of America was glad that their President took the time to insult and take the piss out of his rivals while commiting such a short amount of time to a serious, heartfelt message. I got the impression that the President sees his job as a joke and that his speech writer needs to been sacked (or recieve lessons in humour).

I do believe I have come the end of my rant and I must admit I feel more relieved. Now I shall depart in hopes of seeing you reading this blog again…
Bye!