I don't speak Glaswegian: Labour chief in racism row after 'Can you translate that' remark to Scottish activist. Oh dear.
Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show. WTF!!
Pictured: The £75m lightning conductor that is testing the Eurofighter's mettle. Cool.
What do we expect if we treat our own nation with such contempt? by Peter Hitchens.
PATRICK MERCER MP: I've met one of the men said to be behind the Ulster killings. He was a psychopath then - and he still is today.
Government's top doctor recommends price hike for alcohol. This is bull. Brown needs excuses to raise taxes to cover his disastrous spending and this gives him the ammo he needs.
Osama bin Laden attacks 'crooked' Arab leaders. He is still alive!!!
Barack Obama fuels gun buying boom with pledge to tighten laws. We need our handgun ban abolished.
Tories urge deportation review of ex-Guantánamo detainee. He should never been allowed back into the country.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev poised to replace officials loyal to Vladimir Putin. I wonder if Putin will have him 'replaced'.
Taliban threatens Pakistani singers and actors with death. Pakistan is heading towards becoming a Taleban state.
Barack Obama told: help Pakistan or risk a repeat of 9/11 in America or Britain. Not sure he will do anything about it.
Luton's Muslim extremists defy public anger. Boot them out.
Nobody listens to the real climate change experts. The eco-nazis have the media enthralled by their lies and bulls**t.
We must stop appeasing Islamist extremism. Throwing them out would be a good start. We must also stop letting them in.
G20 leaders are good for nothing. No s**t.
Hate cleric leads jihad cash appeal. Charge him with treason and hang him.
David Cameron pips Gordon Brown to new popularity high. Brown is finished. Pity he doesn't know it.
Quiet crawl to peace on the Afghan shuttle. By peace they mean surrendering to the Taleban.
Legal sandstorm over Sahara film flop. I thought the film was good. Not as good as it should have been. Pitt beats Bond anyday.
U.S. in deal to refurbish aircraft for Taiwan. That should piss off the Chinese.
the Clarkypoos bit......
I’m starting divorce proceedings in this special relationship.
Range Rover TDV8 Vogue SE.
and little Jimmy May
Time to ban the bollards.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
The Sunday Best....
The Idiot’s Guide to Destroying the Economy: a 12-Step Program
Think destroying the mighty economy of the United States is too big a job for you? Relax. Anyone can do it. A friend sent me a handy-dandy no-fuss 12-step program for wreaking financial havoc among even the world’s most advanced economies. I adapt it below for your edification. Your congressmen probably already have a copy. The White House certainly does. But you might want to print it out in case some opportunity for spreading unhappiness comes your way:
1. Since investors and the market in general hate uncertainty, have a vast array of conflicting ad hoc policy decisions so as to create uncertainty everywhere.
2. Transfer money from those who create sustainable jobs to those who create unsustainable jobs, e.g., the government
3. Promise to invest money in things that will enhance the country’s infrastructure, such as roads and internet access, but then practice bait and switch on a breathtaking scale, so the effort is swamped with pork for pet projects dear to Democrats
4. A sufficiently generous larding of pork can help ensure the destruction of bi-partisanship, so squandering the initial good will is definitely a very good move. After all, it’s hard to get things done when you’ve alienated people whose help you need.
5. Undermine the ability of those who create jobs by increasing their taxes so there’s less money available for investment.
6. While you’re at it, offer to spread the income around by raising taxes, in the process, making it clear to those who work hard, invest in their educations, take risks, save, and delay gratification that they will see their money go to those who do not do these things.
7. Encourage class warfare. Divide the populace and destroy cooperation, thus encouraging backlash and creating paralyzing polarization.
8. Talk up protectionism, since the beggar-thy-neighbor approach has such a long and vigorous history of encouraging depression.
9. Scare people with talk of economic catastrophe. You can backpedal later, but the initial good work of helping people lose confidence should have a lasting impact.
10. Print money on a scale that will insure inflation in the future. Print it on a scale that will make people not want to hold U.S. debt without staggering interest on that debt, if they’re willing to hold U.S. government debt at all.
11. Instead of allowing hopeless institutions to go bankrupt, pour vast amounts of money into them, prolonging the pain and running up the cost while only delaying the inevitable.
12. Burden future generations with unprecedented amounts of debt so that the eocnomy you ruined today stays ruined tomorrow.
My friend stresses that this list is not exhaustive. Ask your elected representatives for further tips. Or write to the White House: they have loads of ideas for making things worse. But be patient. Ruining the greatest economy the world has ever seen is not something you can do overnight. But it’s amazing, isn’t it, how much progress the President has made in less than two months? Five days before the election, he told his followers that they were that many days away “from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Poor things. They thought he intended to make America stronger. Fat chance.
H/T M Kohl
How not to sell weapons to India!!!
This is a sales video from the Israeli Arms Manufacturer Rafael aimed at the Indian market.
H/Ts JMH & Double Tapper
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IRISH MEDICAL DICTIONARY.....
ARTERY: THE STUDY OF PAINTING
BACTERIA: BACKDOOR OF CAFETERIA
BARIUM: WHAT DOCTORS DO WHEN PATIONS DIE
BENIGN: WHAT YOU BE, AFTER YOU BE EIGHT
CAESARIAN SECTION: A NEIGHBORHOOD IN ROME
CAT SCAN: SEARCHING FOR KITTY
CAUTERIZE: MADE EYE CONTACT WITH HER
COLIC: A SHEEP DOG
COMA: A PUNCTUATION MARK
DILATE: TO LIVE LONG
ENEMA: NOT A FRIEND
FESTER: QUICKER THAN SOMEONE ELSE
FIBULA: A SMALL LIE
IMPOTENT: DISTINGUISHED,WELL KNOWN
LABOUR PAIN: GETTING HURT AT WORK
MEDICAL STAFF: A DOCTORS CANE
MORBID: A HIGHER OFFER
NITRADES: CHEAPER THAN DAY RATES
NODE: I KNEW IT
OUTPATIENT: A PERSON WHO HAS FAINTED
PELVIS: SECOND COUSIN TO ELVIS
POST OPERATIVE: A LETTER CARRIER
RECOVERY ROOM: PLACE TO DO UPHOLSTERY
RECTUM: NEARLY KILLING HIM
SECRETION: HIDING SOMETHING
SEIZURE: ROMAN EMPEROR
TABLET: A SMALL TABLE
TERMINAL ILLNESS: GETTING SICK AT THE AIRPORT
TUMOUR: ONE PLUS ONE MORE
URINE: OPPOSITE OF YOU”RE OUT
2XCONDOMS: TO BE SURE,TO BE SURE
H/T DML
Saturday, 14 March 2009
This is how it works folks .........from Rico.
Congress said yesterday that they will be looking into the Bernard Madoff scandal this week.
So, the guy that made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who just made $2 Trillion disappear.
That should work !
There now, don't you feel better...?
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News....
Two seconds from disaster: Red Arrows come within 900 feet of BMI passenger jet after air traffic blunder. Bit too close.
Security firm lands MoD job three months after John Reid joins as a consultant. Nothing like a spot of corruption in high places.
'I'd shoot the vermin again': Ten years after he murdered a teenage burglar, Tony Martin remains defiant. Bloody good chap Tony. Nothing like how the press portrayed him.
All travel plans to be tracked by Government. I am surprised that they aren't already doing it.
Obama drops 'enemy combatant' term to describe terror suspects. Next he will be offering them counselling.
Pentagon to build $400 million spy blimp. They want to hurry up before Omama starts cutting the defence budget. I hope it will be lazer proof.
Cameron: I was too cosy with PM over economy. No s**t.
WWI soldiers buried in unmarked graves could be identified, says historian. Good. They deserve to remembered by name.
US facing home-grown Islamic terror threat. Why were Somalis allowed into the US?
Andrei Lugovoi to run for 'Olympic mayor' in Russia. They mean Lugovoi to be Olympic mayor.
French still like their daily bread fresh. Doesn't everyone.
RAF wings for Iraqi Air Force officer. The beginnings of an Iraqi airforce.
£2,000 deal to trade in used cars. More wasted money.
and finally.....
We need a Minister of Common Sense. Clarkypoos on form.
and...
Insemination fight ends in wife's arrest. WTF!!
Race to keep Nimrods airworthy. We need some new replacements.
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Rico Writes.....'Anyone "miss" the Fwench?'
Many folks were no doubt surprised to hear tha Fwance had decided to rejoin NATO, never noticing that they had withdrawn in the first place (think Charles DeGaul 1966; Cold War).
I wasn't surprised. It's been almost two decades since the Iron Curtain collapsed under the weight of Communism, and the efforts of Maggie Thatcher and Ronnie Reagan, so they might have figured it was safe to come out from under the bedcovers now.
I'm certain the Germans didn't miss them one bit, nor the British Army of the Rhine.
I KNOW I did not miss them.
Trivia question: What popular TV show describes them as "cheese eating surrender monkeys?"
Friday, 13 March 2009
Live vote on Obama.....
Give President Obama a grade. I think you may need to allow cookies for this to work. The results as standing make for good reading.
H/T Chad
A Parable for modern times...........from Rico.
Little Zachary was doing very badly in math his parents had tried everything...tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers. In short, everything they could think of to help his math.
Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face.
He didn't even kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work. His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner.
To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day, while the mother tried to understand what made all the difference.
Finally, little Zachary brought home his report Card. He quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books. With great trepidation, His Mom looked at it and to her great surprise, Little Zachary got an 'A' in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and said, 'Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?' Little Zachary looked at her and shook his head, no.
'Well, then,' she replied, 'Was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms? WHAT WAS IT?'
Little Zachary looked at her and said, 'Well, on the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around.'
Rico writes: 'It's amazing what results you can get when people KNOW you're not fooling around. I imagine our feckless politicians would perform muchMUCH better if they ever got the message WE were no longer fooling around!'
Quote....
'In a stunning announcement, Citigroup showed a profit and had its best quarter since 2007. They made $8 billion dollars in profit.
That just shows you: If you give a company $45 billion in government bailout money, they’ll show you how to turn it into $8 billion in profit.' - Jay Leno
H/T DML
