When icebreakers have to travel in groups you know it's getting 'warmer'.
Saturday, 21 February 2009
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Video: What Slumdog Millionaire can teach us about economic stimulus.
...another great video from Reason TV.
Over regulation stifles growth.
News.....
Titanic pocket-watch which stopped when owner fell into sea is on display for first time.
Danton wreck found in deep water. I don't know which is more amazing. Finding the wreck or the fact that a French battleship put to sea!!
Top 10 Ratner moments when bosses put their foot in their mouths. Honesty is not always a good policy.
Brown could face a ticking off by MPs over failing to declare £1,600 in rent. Is there anyone in the cabinet who isn't on the take?
Whitehall spends £1bn cutting staff - then takes on 15,000 (the number it axed). We need reduce the civil service by at least 80%. A couple of whole ministries can go for starters.
Closed all hours: Why the village store that has traded for 152 years is shutting up shop for good. The village shop is becoming extinct as are the pubs, post offices and petrol stations. This is not good.
Predictions 400,000 families could lose their homes as unemployment skyrockets. This depression isn't going to be over by Christmas as some of the government are trying to spin.
Boy, 16, arrested in gangland killing as friends of second knife victim warn of 'race war' between Somalis and Afghans. So much for multi-culturalism.
Shock BNP council win brings fear of rise in extremism. Nationalism is on the rise throughout the west. It is more of a backlash against liberal bulls**t and the socialist dogma that has wrecked our societies.
Daylight robbery: Schoolboy gang in rush-hour raid on West End watch store. Welcome to modern Britain.
Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda turning in upon its-self.
British Muslims 'providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs'. Find them and 'punish' them.
Hillary Clinton: Chinese human rights secondary to economic survival. Human Rights and upholding the Constitution are not big on Obama's agenda.
North Korea could be ready to test fire missile in days. Is that airborne laser thingy up and running yet?
Rebuilding Zimbabwe will cost $5 billion, says Morgan Tsvangirai. Don't look at us. We are broke. Actually the Chinese will probably finance it as they seem to be 'buying' up most of Africa.
Iran 'offered to halt attacks on UK troops' in nuclear pact. Does this mean that we were at war with Iran? If so why the f**k aren't the revolutionary guards bases carparks.
Mumbai terrorists 'had 320 targets around world'. Somethng needs to be done about Pakistan's involvement in this or more attacks are on the way.
Crackdown on thugs who keep illegal dogs to terrorise and maim. They may need to send in the army to reclaim some of these estates.
Binyamin Netanyahu warns of Iranian nuclear threat. Glad someone is planning to stand up to Iran.
Emma Sky, British 'tree-hugger' in Iraq who learnt to love US military. To know them is to love them.
'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy. A reminder that we used to have a Navy.
Norwegian Math Test........
A Norwegian fella wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until he passes a little math test.
Here is your first question, the foreman said. 'Without using numbers, represent the number 9.'
'Without numbers?' The Norwegian says, 'Dat's easy.' and proceeds to draw three trees. 
'What's this?' the boss asks.
'Vot! you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,' says the Norwegian.
'Fair enough,' says the boss. 'Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.'
The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. 'Dar ya go.' 
The boss scratches his head and says, 'How on earth do you get that to represent 99?'
'Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99.'
The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire this Norwegian, so he says, 'All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.'
The Norwegian fella stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, 'Dar ya go. Von hundred.' 
The boss looks at the attempt. 'You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!'
The Norwegian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, 'A little dog come along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, vich makes von hundred.'
'So, ven do I start? '
H/T Rico
Clinton Trip....
Secretary of state Hillary Clinton is in Asia for an extended tour, and is currently in Japan.
Or as Bill was heard telling a woman in a bar last night, “We’re separated.”
H/T DML
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Wise Words.....
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
H/T Shelly
Friday, 20 February 2009
Tax Increases and the Deficit.......
California wants to start taxing marijuana sales, Oregon wants to increase the tax on beer, while New York wants to tax Internet porn.
You know what this means?
By the end of spring break, this whole thing could be paid for.
H/T DML
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