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E.P.A Draws Harsh Words From Most G.O.P. Candidates - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/us/politics/18epa.html

Là, on touche vraiment à du lourd. Le délire est réellement en train de s’installer aux États-Unis. Il ne s’agit plus de nier comme dans le premier moment du Tea Party (nier que Obama serait américain).. mais carrément de faire le contraire de ce que tout le monde peut imaginer de sensé, juste pour la gloire d’être vraiment plus fort que la nature, la science et la raison. Et les deux grands cinglés qui vont concourir pour le ticket républicain sont dans la course....

Mrs. Bachmann drew loud applause 10 days ago at a rally in Iowa when she declared: “I guarantee you the E.P.A. will have doors locked and lights turned off, and they will only be about conservation. It will be a new day and a new sheriff in Washington, D.C.”

In an earlier debate she said the agency should be renamed the “job-killing organization of America.” She has called global-warming science a hoax.

Mr. Perry has been at war with the E.P.A. almost since the day he took office as governor. He is leading a group of states in a lawsuit seeking to block the agency from putting in place rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, refineries and other large sources.

On Monday, Mr. Perry called on Mr. Obama to halt all regulations because, Mr. Perry said, “his E.P.A. regulations are killing jobs all across America.”

In his book, “Fed Up, Our Fight to Save America from Washington,” Mr. Perry described global-warming science as “one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight” and a “secular carbon cult” led by false prophets like Al Gore.

Wrong Answers in Britain - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/opinion/wrong-answers-in-britain.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Mr. Cameron, a product of Britain’s upper classes and schools, has blamed the looting and burning on a compound of national moral decline, bad parenting and perverse inner-city subcultures.

Would he find similar blame — this time in the culture of the well housed and well off — for Britain’s recent tabloid phone hacking scandals or the egregious abuse of expense accounts by members of Parliament?

Crimes are crimes whoever commits them. And the duty of government is to protect the law-abiding, not to engage in simplistic and divisive moralizing that fails to distinguish between criminals, victims and helpless relatives and bystanders.

Fair play is one traditional British value we have always admired. And one we fear is increasingly at risk.

#ukriots

As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/old-bailey-trials-are-tabulated-for-scholars-online.html?_r=1&ref=global-ho

The Old Bailey offers a unique window into the criminal justice system and, by extension, British culture. The free searchable online archive, oldbaileyonline.org, contains accounts of nearly 198,000 trials between 1674 and 1913. “It’s the largest body of accurately transcribed historical texts online,” said Tim Hitchcock, a historian at the University of Hertfordshire in England and part of the team. “All of human life is here.”

Par exemple :

The Confession, last Speeches, and Execution of the Prisoners at Tyburn, on the 30th of Aug. 1676.

At the Sessions held for London and Middlesex, August the 23, 1676.there were in all Sixteen persons Condemned to be hang’d for several great and notorious Crimes: And though, for the most part, they were persons that all-along, both at their Apprehension, Imprisonment, and Tryals, carried and behaved themselves with too much Confidence, yet when Sentence of death came to be pronounced upon them (which was done in a most pathetick Oration and a Gravity suiting the solemness of the occasion, by that worthy person whose Charge it was) it could not but much affect the hearts of all present to hear the sad Cries and doleful Lamentations which these miserable Wretches made, begging and importuning the Court for mercy, when their own repeated offences had excluded it, and left room for nothing but Judgment.