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It comes to my notice that the Virginian colonies have installed a new leader: a Kenyan chap by the name of Obama. Black, by all accounts. Well, jolly good luck to him. I fear he may need all the luck he can get.
All is not doom and gloom, however. In his first days in the job, this new chap has done much to restore a man's faith in the colonists' government as the last idiot - Shrub? Plant? ... Bush, that's the chappy - did to make me despair. He's ordered that the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba must be closed and he's declared that torturing people is not really cricket.
He's also announced that the colonial government will be funding research into the medicinal uses of stem-cells and repealed the ban on aid organisations offering balanced family planning advice to women in poor countries. Let us hope that by the time he retires, the men and women with the red necks will have found the maturity to realise that these must not be overturned.
I believe he has also requested the legislative assembly to pass a law giving equal pay and equal service to men, women, queers and the-gods-know-who else regardless of colour or creed. One is tempted to ask why the colonials took so long to recognise this need, however I shall not, as the saying goes, rain on Mr Obama's parade. I shall instead confine myself to welcoming these developments, however overdue. One can only hope that Mr Obama will make the most of his time in office to restore some real social justice to the colonies.
Welcome, President Obama.
All is not doom and gloom, however. In his first days in the job, this new chap has done much to restore a man's faith in the colonists' government as the last idiot - Shrub? Plant? ... Bush, that's the chappy - did to make me despair. He's ordered that the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba must be closed and he's declared that torturing people is not really cricket.
He's also announced that the colonial government will be funding research into the medicinal uses of stem-cells and repealed the ban on aid organisations offering balanced family planning advice to women in poor countries. Let us hope that by the time he retires, the men and women with the red necks will have found the maturity to realise that these must not be overturned.
I believe he has also requested the legislative assembly to pass a law giving equal pay and equal service to men, women, queers and the-gods-know-who else regardless of colour or creed. One is tempted to ask why the colonials took so long to recognise this need, however I shall not, as the saying goes, rain on Mr Obama's parade. I shall instead confine myself to welcoming these developments, however overdue. One can only hope that Mr Obama will make the most of his time in office to restore some real social justice to the colonies.
Welcome, President Obama.
