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H/T Pete Hurrell
Monday, 22 September 2008
Light News....
'Gipsy' families given £3million home next to site of 2012 Olympics. Send the f**kers back to where they came from.
Jihad Prevention Act Proposed to Protect US Courts. Good idea. Pity the US had to learn from our mistake.
Russia defies West with new arms spending. More second rate junk for a third rate army.
Three million homes not enough to house increased population in 2020. Rubbish. There is plenty of housing around and there is about to be an increase in the number of 'available' homes.
Number of fake £1 coins 'doubles'. Thanks to Brown the pound is virtually worthless anyway.
Tribute to British Soldiers....
Also check out 2Yorks(The Green Howards) Op.Herrick 7 by Phillip French
H/T Guy W
Damien Hirst sets new auction record with ‘Investment Banker in Formaldehyde’:
A piece of art by Damien Hirst has set the new record for a single item at auction. The piece entitled ‘Oh Shit’ fetched £2.3bn after frantic bidding by an anonymous investor. The work, which features a Merrill Lynch employee suspended in a tank of formaldehyde secured the highest price yet paid for a single piece of banking history.
It was believed that it was purchased for a private exhibit, and is unlikely to be put on display to the public or auditors, in the immediate future. ‘Pay Day’, a piece comprised of empty envelopes and which was expected to make between 4,000 to 5,000 people happy, eventually went to administrators Price Waterhouse Coopers for well over the asking price.
Art critic Mathias Van-Leer praised Hirst for his courageous decision to sell all these works from his Financial Meltdown period. ‘It is a remarkable that Damien has been able to command these sort of prices,’ he said, ‘especially as we are seeing a lot of similar pieces suddenly coming onto the market.’
The success of the Hirst auction is in contrast to the fortunes of artists and brothers Jake and Dinos Lehman who were unable to find a buyer for their latest work, ‘White Elephant’. This has led some art experts to claim that the market will be unlikely to secure the same sort of money for other historic banking institutions, and some predict that the bubble will burst sooner rather than later. Daily Telegraph art critic Mark Walker-Brice is one of the sceptical voices; ‘I mean we’ve seen this all before, haven’t we? I mean, this is just Northern Rock Bank Clerk, given a transatlantic sheen and passed off as the next big thing.’
Meanwhile, Hirst’s agent said he was delighted at the amount raised by the sale of his latest work. ‘Although we’re a bit worried about where he should deposit the cheque.’
H/T Newsbiscuit via DML
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Sunday, 21 September 2008
Labour has wrecked Britain..........
Financial crisis: Alistair Darling may have to borrow £90 billion and raise taxes, say experts. I think Labour has landed us in the doo doo. They have wasted too much money on keeping the public sector 'employed'. They are going to have to make serious cuts in the number of bureaucrats and managers that are clogging up our public sector. God help the defence budget because it will be targeted to protect 'union jobs'.
The Sunday Best....
Bill Clinton campaigning for … whom? Which ever gets Hillary into the White House in 2012. H/T DJ Elliott
Will Help for Heroes have to pay the VAT on yesterdays tickets sales? Oh I should think so. The Government hates the military and needs every penny it can get having totally f**ked our economy.
US strikes in Pakistan aimed at stopping the next Sept. 11 attack. After the Marriott yesterday the Pakistanis may become more interested in defeating terrorism.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to state whether he recognises that England is a nation. I don't think we will be getting a reply.
Health chiefs axe 200 beds... then fork out £350,000 on 'stop smoking' advisers. Welcome to the farce that is the NHS.
Gordon Brown pledges free nursery places for two-year-olds. Is this for education or indoctrination? He really wants all the mothers back at work so they can earn money to pay all his taxes.
South Africa's president Thabo Mbeki agrees to step down. To late for the Zimbabweans who he has help repress for the last decade.
Commander John Lorimer remembers the night he helped blow up the Tirpitz. Bloody brave chap.
Radio 4's conker joke raises hackles in Norfolk. Actually the conker thing is from Norwich which is a socialist enclave and not 'part of Norfolk'.
MoD accused of covering up injuries to troops. If the MOD spent as much time looking after the troops as it does covering it own ass the British Army would be in a much better state.
Taxes will soar in credit crisis. A good excuse but not the real reason. Taxes are going up because Brown has thrown billions of pounds into the public sector with no regard for where it goes. He has bankrupted Britain and must be held to account.
Russia defies West over nuclear Iran. Russia is asking for a slap.
Somalia: Only guns can get aid past the pirates into the gates of Hell. Somalia is a lost cause.
the Clarkypoos bit
Hey, let’s live fast and die when ministers tell us to.
The New Volkswagen Scirocco
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A Must Read....
THE SAD STORY OF THE NUMPTIES:
As a Martian, it is very difficult to explain the tragedy of the sad little folk known as the Numpties but let me try.
First a bit of background. Sometime ago, the Numpties who live in Numptie land worked very very hard making things. A long time before that, they lived very simply growing stuff and eating it but it is always wet and drear in Numptie land and this created an itch they could never scratch - in other words the Numpties always wanted more so they started to make things. The cleverer Numpties invented artful things such as Bykees, machines that Numpties could sit on and, by whirling their legs round, they could travel faster. Numpties love to go faster - to where I never really understood - but by golly they got there quicker and quicker. Some Numpties were artful at making money; some were artful at making bykee bits. The ones that had the money made the ones that built the bykees work very hard for just a little bit of the money. This, some Numpties said, was unfair and they got very cross and sometimes refused to get out of bed to make bykees, which made the rich ones cross and worried. Then someone invented the haulers - big metal boxes that burned the underground stuff that the desert people had but didn’t want because they had bumpy animals to ride around on. These haulers meant that rich Numpties could whiz about even faster without whirling their legs around and they soon got the clever Numpties to work in big sheds making Haulers. The clever ones got even crosser because they wanted Haulers so that they could whiz about without whirling their legs..........
continues here
Saturday, 20 September 2008
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Friday, 19 September 2008
Bank of Zimbabwe interested in purchasing Morgan Stanley
In a surprise move late last night, the governor of the Bank of Zimbabwe confirmed their interest in purchasing beleaguered bank, Morgan Stanley.
In confirming their bid, Mr Milton Ncoffee said that there were many synergies between the two institutions, not least the common investment strategies and business practices adopted by both over recent years. When questioned if the Bank of Zimbabwe had sufficient funds, Mr Ncoffee said that he was sure they had enough money and if not, they could always print some more.
A spokesman for Morgan Stanley said that they were cautiously optimistic that they could agree a deal.
H/T DML
Geldof launches 'Bank Aid' as markets plummet:
Sir Bob Geldof today launched a moving appeal to Third World nations to ‘give whatever you can’ in the face of the ever worsening crisis in the western financial markets. The credit crunch, which has now come to dwarf the AIDS pandemic sweeping Africa, has, said Sir Bob, seen ‘suffering on an unprecedented scale’.
Addressing an audience of peasant subsistence farmers in Ethiopia, he urged Africans to ‘Give us your money. Pick up the phone and give us your fucking money now. These people are losing their bonuses, their stock, their options… People are literally losing their liquidity right now and you have the power to stop it..’
The appeal follows a harrowing television report by Michael Buerk from a Wall Street wine bar, where thousands of economic refugees have ended up. They can’t drink the water, and so are forced to drink the Pinot Grigio, despite the long term risks to their health. Many of their wives are painfully thin – this morning this woman walked forty miles on a Treadmaster, but has only eaten one lettuce leaf in three days.’
Meanwhile the people of Eritrea sent a television message to Washington, expressing their sympathy at the horrendous financial losses, and promising to return in its entirety all aid money received over the last twenty years. “It’s impossible for us to imagine what it must be like to lose that much money” said one man, ‘Literally, impossible.’
H/T DML
News...
Darling accused of trying to save Scottish banking jobs at the expense of English workers. Why am I not surprised.
Thousands of five-year-olds can't write their own name after a year at school... despite £12bn spent on nursery education. Until we start producing good teachers we are screwed. The NUT has a lot to answer for.
Half of maths teachers inadequate. Only half!!
Britain to boost Afghanistan force, US Defence Secretary says. I wonder if the Europeans will also increase their troop levels.
Glamorous Russian swimsuit model wins Women's World Chess Championship.
Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela. More meddling from the Russians.
Anger at Europe's far right 'anti-Islam' conference. You mean some liberals have got their knickers in a twist.
Book of the Day...
'Puts you right in the cockpit with your finger on the trigger. A truly awesome read; and a climax that Hollywood couldn't invent...' Andy McNab 
More details here
At least someone is getting new carriers.....
...whether we get ours is open to question.
Northrop Grumman to build first new aircraft carrier class in 40 years
H/T Nebraska Bob
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Behind the Scenes: Sarah Palin Shows Charlie Gibson How to Shoot a Gun
If your computer is like my stupid computer, then put face close to screen and turn it up loud.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For.......
....OK it's an old clip but it gives good cause as to why the English need the handgun ban lifted. Gun and knife crime is out of control and we need the right to protect ourselves.
H/T Jeffrey Nihart
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Quick News....
Winter to bring 'avalanche of job losses' as unemployment hits highest level for a decade. Labour isn't fit to Govern and never has been.
HBOS - Lloyds TSB: Biggest rescue deal in British banking history. The bigger they are the harder they will fall. Eggs in basket spring to mind.
Russia threatens to seize swathe of Arctic. It looks like Russia is intent on seeing how far they can push the West.
Australian bar offers free drinks to knicker-less women. This idea has potential.
A must read Obituary.......
......'In these dark days I find the above obituary strangely refreshing.' H/T Tom
'Harold 'Tanky' Challenor won a Military Medal for his part in an SAS operation to disrupt rail movements behind German lines in northern Italy during the Second World War;.......having been told he was about to be executed, did not linger: he simply walked out of Alquila PoW camp disguised as a washerwoman,'
Harold 'Tanky' Challenor.
You can find his book HERE. Not sure the price is correct.
Rumour of the Day....
From excellent sources within the DNC:
On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse himself from the ticket, citing health problems, and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is timed to occur after the VP debate on 10/2.
It looks like this obama strategy will be a go. therefore, it seems that the best strategy is to get out in front of this Obama maneuver, spell it out in detail, and thereby expose it for the grand manipulation that it is.
Excerpt from R.Giuliani's speech at the 2008 RNC:
"Obama — Obama promised to take public financing for his campaign, until he broke his promise.
Obama — Obama was against wiretapping before he voted for it.
When speaking to a pro-Israeli group, Obama favored an undivided Jerusalem , like I favor and like John McCain favored. Well, he favored an undivided Jerusalem — don’t get too excited — for one day, until he changed his mind.
Well, I’ll tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I’d want to get that V.P. thing in writing."
H/T Shelly
Poll of the Day....
PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?
I logged on a few minutes ago and 37% percent had voted YES, 62% NO.
Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple.
VOTE HERE
It says alot about who watches PBS.
H/T Shelly
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