Monday, 2 March 2009
This is serious....
..we have to find the money to keep this old bird flying.
Vulcan to the Sky Sadly we in Britain have a long history of letting aviation history die. Having just spoken to the orgaisers of this project we need to do everything to keep this old lady flying. It would make a great addition to airshows across the US, because it is a classic of British design. Let's not forget it did bomb the Falklands and it was at the time longest bombing raid in history. I know things are hard but some things are worth saving. The fact that the MoD and RAF Historic Flight have failed to fund this project is a national disgrace. This plane was designed for a reason and we need to remember why.
A Letter to Gordon Brown......
The Right Honourable
Gordon Brown MP
10 Downing Street,
London
SW1A 2AA
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Prime Minister
An open letter demanding your resignation.
Your position is untenable and, I as a citizen of Great Briton demand your
instant resignation.
You are unelected, have no popular mandate and lack the moral authority
to be Prime Minister. Your terms as Chancellor and Prime Minister have
been a total disaster for this nation and your attempt to cling on to power
at all costs show a complete contempt for this nation and displays your
absolute vanity and thirst for political power.
I list below some of the mistakes made by you during your time in public
office. If as a director of a limited company you had made similar mistakes
you would be subject to criminal prosecution and banned from being a
company director. As a Government minister the standards exercised
should be significantly higher than those exercised by a company director,
you have failed to maintain those standards and are unfit for public office.
Banking Supervision: You transferred responsibility for banking
supervision to the Financial Services Authority from the Bank of
England so directly laying the seeds of the current banking crisis.
Banking Crisis: The initial response to the Northern Rock crisis was so
slow as to be glacial and ultimately led to the damage done to the
whole banking sector. A strong Prime Minister would have provided
depositors with a guarantee that their deposits were safe and the bank run would have stopped. Ultimately the same guarantee would
have ensured that the HBOS and RBS debacle would not have been
so severe.
Criminal Negligence: The entire UK banking crisis has been caused by
a lack of supervision under the regulatory regime set up by you, any
man of honour would have resigned upon seeing the damage caused.
Vanity: You have used the banking crisis to attempt to advance your
personal standing and political career at the expense of the nation.
Lack of Judgment: You have made three serious errors of judgmentin your appointment of advisers on the current financial crisis.
1. Your choice of banker to compile a report on ideas for improving public health was Sir Derek Wanless. a Northern Rock director when it imploded in 2007.
2. You appointed Sir James Crosby, the former HBOS CEO, to the boardof the FSA who then had to resign after becoming embroiled in therow over failings of risk management at HBOS.
3. It now also appears that Glen Moreno will be forced out of his job, as chairman of UK Financial Investments Ltd, the company set up to oversee the government’s stake in the bailed-out banks, because of his links with a Liechtenstein trust accused of tax evasion. You Fantasize: By clinging to the idea that, thanks to your genius British citizens are far better placed than competitors to handle this crisis. The following two facts demonstrate that this is a fantasy:-
1. The Office for National Statistics' revelation that while the number of foreign workers getting jobs in the UK continues to grow (up by 175,000 to 2.4 million last year), domestic unemployment is rising sharply.
2. According to Business Monitor International, a research company specialising in country risk, "Britain is facing an unprecedented fall in its economic world ranking… from 12th place in 2007 to 21st in 2010". "Despite enjoying 11 years of growth between 1997 and 2007, the UK ran a budget deficit of 1.7 per cent of GDP over this period, fuelling a fiscal time bomb. Faced with the financial burden of bailing out the banking sector and kick-starting the economy, the budget deficit will swell to an unsustainable 9.3 per cent of GDP in 2009."
Public spending: Your 2000 Spending Review presaged a major expansion of government spending, without any significant benefit to public services, directly leading to the UK being in the worst shape of any industrialised nation to weather the current financial crisis. You have colluded in hiding the full extent of public borrowing by using PFI initiatives to hide the borrowings off balance sheet. PFI is the most expensive and inefficient form of finance possible, and you have saddled the country with a debt that you cannot even quantify. Jeremy Pocklington, leader of the Treasury’s corporate and private finance team, could only give a rough estimate to Richard Bacon that the total liabilities, but not debt, from the vast majority of PFIs, but not all, from 2006-07 to 2032-33, but not beyond, is £157.9bn. That is not only astounding but unbelievable.
Public sector Employment: The office for national Statistics shows Public sector employment was 5,846,000 (20.4 per cent of all in employment) in June 2005, 680,000 (13.2 per cent) higher than in June 1998, whereas from 1998 to 2005 private sector employment only rose by 1,241,000 (5.7 per cent). This growth is unsustainable and wrong.
Growth: An OECD report shows UK economic growth averaged 2.7% between 1997 and 2006, lower than in any other English speaking country.
Gold sales: Between 1999 and 2002 you sold 60% of the UK's gold reserves at $275 an ounce, close to a 20-year low, a disastrous foray into international asset management.
Your spectrum auctions gathered £22.5 billion for the government which caused a severe recession in the telecoms development industry leading to the direct loss of 30,000 UK jobs. Two auctions were run in the USA, the first being cancelled and re-run (for less revenue) due to damage caused to the industry. The Americans realised their mistake and tried to rectify it. The British and German chancellors copied the
North American first auction; which had failed. To copy a failed
economic model is normally considered a serious error of judgement.
Your East Coast Mainline franchise auction led directly to the demise of
GNER, an excellent company, which was replaced by National Express
who offer East Coast mainline users a significantly poorer service. Your
duty was not only to maximise revenues, you also had a duty to the
shareholders, employees and customers which you completely failed.
Anti-poverty: The Centre for Policy Studies found that the poorest fifth
of households, which accounted for 6.8% of all taxes in 1996–7,
accounted for 6.9% of all taxes paid in 2004-5. Meanwhile, their share
of state benefit payouts dropped from 28.1% to 27.1% over the same
period.
Tax: According to the OECD UK taxation has increased from a 39.3%
share of gross domestic product in 1997 to 42.4% in 2006, going to a
higher level than Germany. This increase has mainly been attributed to
active government policy, and not simply to the growing economy.
You pledged to not increase the basic or higher rates of income tax
however in all but your final budget, you only increased the tax
thresholds in line with inflation, rather than earnings, resulting in fiscal
drag.
You abolished the 10% tax band so that you could reduce the basic rate
from 22% to 20%, to make it look like you were decreasing taxes.
However in fact it led to increased tax for 5 million people, and, left
those earning under £18,000 as the biggest losers.
Pensions: Your changes in 1997 in the way corporation tax is collected,
directly led to the taxation of dividends on stock investments held
within pensions, thus lowering pension returns and contributing to the
demise of most of the final salary pension funds in the UK.
This act alone has single handedly damaged the pension of every
person with a pension in the UK but also saddled UK corporations with
a an ever growing pension liability, so much so that many companies
futures are imperilled by these debts.
Falsehoods: You used the Laura Spence Affair to beat up Oxford and
Cambridge about their admissions procedures, Lord Jenkins, then
Oxford Chancellor and himself a former Labour Chancellor of the
Exchequer, said "nearly every fact you used was false.
Inappropriate links: Given the finding that the government did not
carry a proper public consultation on the use of nuclear power in its
2006 Energy Review, your brother Andrew’s is links to one of the main
nuclear lobbyists, EDF Energy could be construed as inappropriate.
The father-in-law of your closest adviser Ed Balls, Tony Cooper (father
of the Labour minister Yvette Cooper) has close links with the nuclear
industry. Cooper was described as an "articulate, persuasive and wellinformed
advocate of nuclear power over the last ten years" by the
Nuclear Industry Association on his appointment as Chairman of the
British Nuclear Industry Forum in June 2002.
IraqWar: You supported British involvement in the Iraq War against the
wishes of the UK population and helped to justify that involvement by
publishing false intelligence. This war has directly increased the odds of
terrorist attacks on British subjects and the financial cost has had a
significantly detrimental effect on the British economy.
Military Covenant: You have not adhered to the 'military covenant',
leading to a significant decline in the moral of the armed forces due to
poor housing, lack of equipment and adequate healthcare provisions.
The lack of equipment has directly led to an increase in the loss of lives,
and serious injuries, compounded by a lack care following serious
injury.
The 15% VAT Rate: introduced to counter the effects of recession
demonstrated a total naivety and breathtaking stupidity. Far from
digging the nation out of a hole, it has saddled the country with a huge
unsustainable debt.
No one should benefit from failure: You have on numerous occasions
stated that no one should benefit from failure, however your tenure as
chancellor was universally recognised as a failure, but you were
rewarded with the Premiership and had the gall to accept.
There will be no more Boom & Bust: In your hubris you made a
statement that was patently untrue, and counter to any economic
theory. You either knew that statement to be untrue and lied or if you
believed it then you clearly demonstrated your foolishness and proved
that you were unfit for office.
The UK is in a better position than any other developed country: this
again is completely untrue, we have more than double the debt per
head of population than any other country in Europe.
Public Services: You have destroyed Public Services by a raft of
inappropriate targets, which have led to resources being wasted by the
attempts to meet those targets.
Surveillance society: You have presided over and led to the creation of
a surveillance society in which any perceived wrongdoing is used as a
pretext to pass oppressive laws. You and your predecessor have both
single headedly succeeded in making the UK an unpleasant place to live
in.
These are but a small sample of your failings any of which make you unfit
for public office and for which you should immediately resign. You sir are a
fraud and I am forwarding this letter to as many people as I can, via the
internet in an effort to shame you into accepting your failures.
Yours faithfully
Steven Katirai
The advantages of being a woman......
1. We got off the Titanic first.
2. We can scare male bosses with mysterious gynaecological disorder excuses.
3. We can be groupies. Male groupies are stalkers.
4. We can cry and get off speeding fines.
5. We’ve never lusted after a cartoon character or the central figure in a computer game.
6. Taxis stop for us.
7. We don’t look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
8. Free drinks, Free dinners, Free movies (you get the point).
9. New lipstick gives us a whole new lease on life.
10. No fashion faux pas we make could ever rival The Speedo.
11. We don’t have to fart to amuse ourselves.
12. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.
13. We can congratulate our team-mate without ever touching her butt.
14. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.
15. If we’re dumb, some people will find it cute.
16. We have the ability to dress ourselves.
17. We can talk to people of the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.
18. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we’re aware that we look like an idiot.
19. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.
20. We’ll never regret piercing our ears.
21. We can fully assess a person just by looking at their shoes.
22. We’ll never discover we’ve been duped by a Wonderbra.
H/T DML
THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A MAN......
1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2. You know stuff about tanks.
3. A five day holiday requires only one suitcase.
4. Saturday Night Football.
5. Your bathroom queues are 80% shorter.
6. You can open all your own jars.
7. Old friends don't annoy you if you've lost or gained weight.
8. Dry cleaners and hairdressers don't rob you blind.
9. When clicking through the channels you don't have to stall on every shot of someone crying.
10. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
11. Guys in hoods don't attack you.
12. You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
13. You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
14. Your last name stays put.
15. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
16. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
17. You can kill your own food.
18. The garage is all yours.
19. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
20. You see the humour in Terms of Endearment.
21. You never have to clean the toilet.
22. You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.
23. Wedding plans take care of themselves.
24. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.
25. Your underwear is £4 for a three pack.
26. None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.
27. You don't have to shave below your neck.
28. If you're 34 and single nobody notices.
29. Everything on your face stays its original colour.
30. Chocolate is just another snack.
31. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.
32. Flowers fix everything.
33. You never have to worry about other people's feelings.
34. You can wear a white shirt to a water park.
35. Three pair of shoes are more than enough.
36. You can eat a banana in a hardware store.
37. You can say anything and not worry about what people think.
38. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.
39. Car mechanics tell you the truth.
40. You don't care if someone notices your new haircut.
41. You can watch a game in silence with your buddy for hours without even thinking: He must be mad at me.
42. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is about to leave you.
43. You get to jump up and slap stuff.
44. One mood, all the time.
45. You can admire Clint Eastwood without starving yourself to look like him.
46. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.
47. Same work....more pay.
48. Gray hair and wrinkles add character.
49. Wedding Dress £2,000+; Tux rental £100.
50. You don't care if someone is talking about you behind your back.
51. The remote is yours and yours alone.
52. People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them.
53. You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
54. You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother.
55. You needn't pretend you're "freshening up" to go to the bathroom.
56. If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell your friends you've changed.
57. Someday you'll be a dirty old man.
58. If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might become lifelong buddies.
59. Princess Di's death was almost just another obituary.
60. If something mechanical didn't work, you can bash it with a hammer and throw it across the room.
61. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
62. You don't have to remember everyone's birthdays and anniversaries.
63. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So... notice anything different?"
H/T DML
Eco-Bull of the Day.....
American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'. Oh for f**ks sake!! Is there anything the eco-loonies approve of?
Picture DML
A whole stack of 10th Amendment stuff......
Glenn Beck - 20 States Move to Declare Sovereignty. If you only watch one of these make it this one.
Washington and other US states claim sovereignty
20 + States Declaring Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment!!! Pennsylvania State Rep Sam Rohrer
Increasing Number of States Declaring Sovereignty. Representative Matt Shea
H/T Peter Gunn
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News.....
Strewth! Cricket is a foreign import - according to new Australian research. The pre-Ashes mindgames are starting early this year.
A Multilateral Mess by John Bolton
Canadian Banks: An Oasis of Financial Calm. How the hell did they manage that?
Malaysia to restore 'Allah' ban for Christians. WTF!! I am confused.
Another blow to fatherhood: IVF mothers can name ANYONE as 'father' on birth certificate. WTF!
Price of meat rises by more than 30% in a year due to falling pound. Buy from your local butcher, it's still cheap. The supermarkets import too much meat.
Thousands of desperate job seekers scramble for just 150 vacancies... at a zoo. Didn't know that many people wanted to be MPS.
Defence lawyers run up £7.1m legal aid bill for terror trial (paid by you). Terrorists shouldn't get legal aid. The lawyers should be on 'no win no fee'!
Yes, Big Brother Britain is a menace. The irony is, it's the civil liberties lobby who are to blame. by Melanie Phillips.
Catholic Church slams new code of conduct forcing teachers to promote Islam and gay rights. WTF!!!!!!!
Iran 'now has enough uranium to make an atomic bomb': US military chief. Why is this not a surprise.
Iraq will be left 'a better place' when army leaves. No sh*t. Nice of the media to notice.
British military facing becoming 'second division without major spending increase'. We must double the budget and make sure the money is not wasted. Getting rid of the MoD would be a good start. The military are more than capable of looking after themselves.
Banned cleric Omar Bakri addresses conference at London primary school. How the f**k was this allowed!
North Korea and UN Command hold first talks in six years. Who wants to surrendering to who?
Pakistan in the frame over Bangladesh uprising. Pakistan is becoming a major pain.
Hugo Chavez seizes control of rice mills in price dispute. So he is going to use food as a political weapon.
Japanese emperor to visit Pearl Harbor for first time since war. Why now?
Gordon Brown insists the European Union is united in response to global economic crisis. Like hell they are. I wouldn't give the euro 6 months.
Eight killed in US missile strikes in Pakistan. Need bigger missiles.
Zanu-PF hardliners 'attempting to sabotage' Zimbabwe's power-sharing government. Doh! Without miliary force Mugabe and his thugs will never give up their stranglehold on Zim.
Union calls on Obama's online team to fight Royal Mail privatisation. They can piss off for a start.
UN body provokes outrage with call for more fish farming. If people want to eat fish it is going to have to be farmed just like all other food stuffs. If the eco-weenies want to go graze let them. I will stick to the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
The laptop that shouts 'Stop, thief' when stolen. How about a built in taser type thingy? You can get briefcases with them in the handle.
A few cans short of a six pack..........
1. When his 38-calibre revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef’s claim was approved.
3. A man who shovelled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.
5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer… $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her. That’s the lady I stole the purse from.”
9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan , at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.
H/T DML
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Computer buying with Abbott & Costello.......
COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO : Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking
about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO : No, the name's Lou .
ABBOTT : Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT : Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou .
ABBOTT : What about Windows?
COSTELLO : Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT : Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO : I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows?
ABBOTT : Wallpaper.
COSTELLO : Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT : Software for Windows?
COSTELLO : No. On the computer! I need something I can use to
write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What do you have?
ABBOTT : Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT : I just did.
COSTELLO : You just did what?
ABBOTT : Recommend something.
COSTELLO : You recommended something ?
ABBOTT : Yes.
COSTELLO : For my office?
ABBOTT : Yes.
COSTELLO : OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT : Office.
COSTELLO : Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT : I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO : I already have an office with windows! OK, let's just say I'm
sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT : Word.
COSTELLO : What word?
ABBOTT : Word in Office.
COSTELLO : The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT : The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO : Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT : The Word you get when you click the blue 'W'.
COSTELLO : I'm going to click your blue 'w' if you don't start with some
straight answers. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything
I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO : That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT : Money.
COSTELLO : I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT : It comes bundled with your computer.
COSTELLO : What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT : Money.
COSTELLO : Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT : Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO : I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT : One copy.
COSTELLO : Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT : Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
COSTELLO : They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT : Why not? THEY OWN IT!
(A few days later)
ABBOTT : Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO : How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT : Click on 'START'..............
H/T Max B
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Top Ten Country Western Songs.....
10. I Hate Every Bone In Her Body But Mine
9. I Ain't Never Gone To Bed With an Ugly Woman But I've Woke Up With a Few
8. If The Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me
7. I've Missed You, But My Aim's Improvin'
6. Wouldn't Take Her To A Dogfight 'Cause I'm Scared She'd Win
5. I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like You're Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She Gets Better Lookin' with Every Beer
And the Number One Country & Western song is...
1. It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chewed My Ass All Day
H/T Shelly
Sunday, 1 March 2009
British Humour....
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale hits Pakistan. Two million Pakistanis are killed and over a million are injured.
The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't know where to start with providing help to rebuild. The rest of the world promise aid.
The USA send troops to help.
Saudi Arabia send oil.
Latin American countries send supplies.
New Zealand send sheep, cattle and food crops.
The Asian continents send labor to assist in rebuilding infrastructure.
Australia send medical teams and supplies.
Britain, not to be outdone, are sending two million replacement Pakistanis.
God Bless British generosity.
H/T Sekhmet
Book of the Day....'Danger's Hour'
Jules has a review.
and he has also gone all musical. IDF Hit Parade
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Site of the Day.......'F**k My Life'.
'Today, after working for my company for 10 years, my co-workers threw me a farewell party. The boss gave quite an eloquent speech, ending in "we're really gonna miss you Mark." My name is Evan.'
More Here
H/T Bill O Rights
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The Sunday Best....
Nationwide Ammunition Shortage Hits U.S. If Obama has his way there won't be any ammo at all.
Canada takes back deported gangster. Blame the liberals.
Was George W. Bush the Worst President? Not by a long chalk.
Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license? Both the UK and US governments will try and do this.
Trade union chief used £399-a-night Waldorf suite to save himself 35-minute journey home. Typical socialist with his nose in the trough.
Thousands of RBS workers could get full pension at 50 like Fred the Shred. No they bloody won't.
Death-drive peer may serve just 18 days of jail term. Keep him in jail.
Motorway cameras let police and MI5 track all car trips across the country. Time for James Bond's revolving licence plates.
RAF jettisons its Top Guns: Drones to fly sensitive missions over Afghanistan. It is a defence cut by any other name.
Labour and Tory voters demand cut in immigration, poll reveals. No s**t.
Gordon Brown aims for 'global new deal' with Barack Obama. These Marxist Muppets will bankrupt the planet.
Killers of British troops in Iraq will never face justice. A disgrace. Just shows how little this government cares about our troops.
New threats against white Zimbabwe farmers as Robert Mugabe celebrates 85th birthday. We must send troops to rescue Zimbabwe from this mad man.
Can 'Fellow African' Barack Obama tempt Libya's Colonel Gaddafi in from the cold? It should read: 'Will Obama cuddle up to a arab terrorist with socialist tendencies?'
Sir Fred Goodwin is stealing the show from the real culprits. The thirst for vengeance is distracting us from a terrible reality - that the economy is in a worse state than anyone will admit, writes Jeff Randall.
How UK defence firms suffer for MoD Euro-mania. Not entirely sure whose side the MoD is on.
Feel too popular, Mr Brown? Then let ITV die. Just give Channel 4 to ITV.
Pay freeze looms for millions. Except the public sector. There is trouble brewing.
Obama buries Reaganomics under $3.6 trillion mountain. He is building a socialist state.
Step aside, limey, this is how to fight the Taliban. Our troops have been betrayed by politicians 'playing' at war.
ANC unleashes terror against election rivals. They have been studying the Democrat's playbook. Once commies are in power, they are bloody hard to shift.
Missile threat to British troops. As predicted. Iran is asking for a major slap.
...Clarkypoos is back.
I dare you to visit Johannesburg, the city for softies.
and little Jimmy May.
Sometimes, an old-fashioned 'Yank tank' is the perfect tool for the job.
Economic Report.......from Rico
As ObaMarx boldly steers us into tomorrow's Socialist Disneyland by demonstrating the audacity of deficit borrowing to fund the best unpaid for government 'our' money can buy, the markets respond by 'tanking' while government taxation and spending skyrocket!
Could it possibly be that COMMIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS?
Things couldn't have worked out 'better' for these socialist rats if they had been 'planned' this way....'ya think?
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Retirement Planning from Rico.......
For those of you contemplating retirement, I would like to share my retirement experiences with you, which I hope will be helpful.
Fourteen years ago my wife and I moved into a retirement development on Florida's Northwest coast. We are living in the Bluewater Bay Golf, Spa, Bath, Shuffleboard, and Tennis Club on Lake Fake-a-hatchee. There are 3000 lakes in Florida ; only three are real. Most lake names end in hatchee something. Like Choctawhatchee Bay.
Our biggest retirement concern was time management. What were we going to do all day? Let me assure you, passing the time is not a problem. Your days will be eaten up by simple, daily activities. Just getting out of your car takes 15 minutes. Trying to find where you parked takes 20 minutes. It takes 1/2 hour on the check-out line in Wal-Mart and 1 hour to return the item the next day.
Let me take you through a typical day. We get up at 5:00 AM, have a quick breakfast and join the early morning Walk and Talk Club. There are about 30 of us and rain or shine we walk around the streets, all talking at once. Every development has some late risers who stay in bed until 6 AM. After a nimble walk avoiding irate drivers out to make us roadkill, we go back home, shower and change for the next activity.
My wife goes directly to the pool for her under-water Pilates class, followed by gasping for breath and CPR. I put on my 'Ask me about my Grandchildren' T-shirt, my plaid mid-calf shorts, my black socks and sandals and go to the club house lobby for a nice nap.
Before you know it, it's time for lunch. We go to Costco to partake of the many tasty samples dispensed by ladies in white hair nets. All free! After a filling lunch, if we don't have any doctor appointments, we might go to the flea market to see if any new white belts have come in or to buy a Rolex watch for $2.00.
We're usually back home by 2 PM to get ready for dinner. People start lining up for the early bird about 3 PM, but we get there by 3:45 because we're late eaters. The dinners are very popular because of the large portions they serve You can take home enough food for the next day's lunch and dinner, including extra bread, crackers, packets of mustard, relish, ketchup and Sweet-and-Low along with mints.
At 5:30 we're home ready to watch the 6 o'clock news. By 6:30 we're fast asleep. Then we get up and make 5 or 6 trips to the bathroom during the night and it's time to get up and start a new day all over again.
Doctor-related activities eat up most of your retirement time. I enjoy reading old magazines in sub zero temperatures in the waiting room, so I don't mind. Calling for test results also help the days fly by. It takes at least half an hour just getting through the doctor's phone menu. Then there's the hold time until you're connected to the right party. Sometimes they forget you're holding, and the whole office goes off to lunch.
Should you find you still have time on your hands, volunteering provides a rewarding opportunity to help the less fortunate. Florida has the largest concentration of seniors under five feet and they need our help. I myself am a volunteer for 'The Vertically Challenged Over 80.' I coach their basketball team, The Arthritic Avengers. The hoop is only 4 1/2 feet from the floor. You should see the look of confidence on their faces when they make a slam dunk.
Food shopping is a problem for short seniors or 'bottom feeders' as we call them because they can't reach the items on the upper shelves. There are many foods they've never tasted. After shopping, most seniors can't remember where they parked their cars and wander the parking lot for hours while their food defrosts.
Lastly, it's important to choose a development with an impressive name. Italian names are very popular in Florida . They convey world traveler, uppity sophistication and wealth. Where would you rather live... Murray 's Condos or the Lakes Of Venice ? There's no difference. They're both owned by Murray who happens to be a cheap bastard.
I hope this material has been of help to you.
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