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The idea that Brown the Clown ‘thinks’ is eccentric!
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The calculations in the linked document suggest that the Spanish socialist government is falsifying national statistics. It suggests that instead of a fall in GDP of 3.7% in 2009, the real drop was nearer a drop of 25%!
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what chance the alternative vote?
Some of the Conservative Party are also opposing the Alternative Vote. The Alternative Vote will give more power to voters. Whether you think that is a good, or a bad, idea will depend on how much you trust the average voter. The Alternative Vote is likely to increase the frequency of coalition governments. First-past-the-post [FPTP] has given advanced countries stable government, so this decision is a complex judgment. related material
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beck says sniffer dogs are more effective than scanners and pat-downs - muslim has pony guide-‘dog’ Why don’t airports use the best technology? Why are ‘white’ grandmas and children being touched up? Who is going to be excused checking? Who is trying to bomb aircraft? Socialist Napolitano won’t answer the question? Who owns shares in scanners?
Please don’t listen to Glenn Beck. He’s an ‘extremist’, and probably a ‘racist’. To avoid profiling, that is checking out by far the most likely bombers, that is Middle Eastern muslims, the idiots have decided to check people at random, for example one in ten people. As Dennis Miller says, “But we are not at war with one
in ten people”
As a pilot says,
Will this game die of its own absurdity in the land of political correctness and rampant prudery?
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monomaniac paul vs intellectual bernanke - will it run? Ben Bernanke is the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul, who would like to abolish the Fed and the nation's current monetary system, is about to become one of Bernanke’s overseers as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy. This is potentially an important appointment. Paul is a one-trick dogmatist who appeals to the shallow end of the Right. He is an economic fundy with the intellectual shallowness fit to compete with his socialist opposite numbers. However, unlike most politicians, Paul does understand the nuts and bolts of money, even though he comes to an extremist position. Paul is now in a position to cause waves and confusion, but if he can open the Fed up a bit, that will be no seriously bad thing.
That should be about right, but a polical populist terrier snapping at Bernanke’s ankles will be no help at all. Bernanke’s big issue at the moment is China, not the gold standard! related material
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how the socialists spent your tax: academia
I saw a very short interview with Michele Obama. She used “you know” well over twenty times. Do any of your academics have anything to contribute to an understanding of this phrase? Peer-reviewed scientific journal article and a writer with a string of irrelevant qualifications would be impressive.
I’m not equipped to follow the specialised semantics above. Susan sounds immensely impressive as I can’t follow her work. Is she a professor or something else important? Is she part of the free ‘New’ Labour extension of education? Is there a relevant dictionary or synonym dictionary? Starting at the start, what is a ‘discourse marker’? Is there a relevant dictionary or synonym dictionary? Starting at the start, what is a ‘discourse marker’?
Thanx to DVH for the erudite assistance.
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cameron - accountability and transparency: the reversal of top down socialism
See also, for instance, Teachers' pay and sickness records to be published.
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the end justifies the means - another marxist is mugged by socialist reality
What shocks is that the idiot so easily accepts the natural dishonesty at the heart of socialism.
Yeah, he only lied and tried to spread
false witness. related material
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marxist obama castrated - stock market rises 2% in a day [There is more to this news item than meets the eye.☺] The ‘Democrats’ have been booted out of the House and large numbers of governor’s mansions. Hope returns to America, the markets and the world.>
Perhaps the previous huge injections of free money should be correlated with the fact that the stock markets are still lower than they were prior to the crash two years ago. Perhaps the correlation should be made with this bringing the level of the stock market back to the level just prior to the removal of G. W. Bush for the marxist Obama. Perhaps nay-sayers would like to argue why the banks are now, apparently, suddenly ‘gambling’ on the stock market rather than on government bonds. Good luck to those attempting these correlations and arguments. Among advanced countries, only Spain and Australia still have socialist governments, and their socialists are now hanging on by their finger nails. Socialism always destroys wealth. Socialism always fails. related material
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My concern is more that I do not think pensions are a very reliable or profitable way of ‘saving’. The government erodes and attacks the pile of gold on which pensions are based, as do the pension companies. On the other hand, training as a cobbler or as a cabbager is far harder to devalue, as is buying bits/shares of insurance companies ☺ One hopes the West, or even the world, will continue to be at least as stable as those paying regularly into pension funds presume. The governments cannot pay what they do not have, and there is always Gordon the Clown or some other politician looking for (your) free money. Meanwhile, the pressure on food supplies and fossil fuels continues to rise. The middle-aged may well see it out, but will their children? I have no doubt whatsoever that the careful have supplied their children with a far more reliable and robust pension than that supplied by the government or a pension company. This could be done by leaving them a house, helping them through a good science degree, or training them as a roofer/cobbler/cabbage grower. And now more to a/the nub. I am not convinced that persuading the young that the alleged pensions are well guaranteed is doing them great favours. Learning to grow cabbages, or any other production of real-world objects that can be desired by others, is a form of pension. Part of what I am retailing is that an ability to grow cabbages is a more secure pension than ‘money’. A relatively peasant life-style may be vulnerable to floods, fires, disease [both human and cabbage], invasions, but it is not so vulnerable to pension company and government greed. And there is always the sock full of cash and a passport. Cabbages will grow elsewhere, and they amount to barter items, even with invading armies. Meanwhile, as the civilisation advances trees can be converted into warmth and shelter and even traded for PV arrays. My concern is with the trust in governments and pension companies. My concern is with the discounted cash flow with all that present money eroding steadily away. I think there are more profitable plays than assurance schemes. As a monk, I also have the view that it takes less output to live quietly and not feed the monster, than it does to go on irritating cruises. A monk’s habit and sandals cost so much less than Bond Street labels, and the forest is so much prettier and calmer than the Great Wen. You don’t have to work for what you don’t need, nor for that which doesn’t appeal or attract. And if you can repair cabinets or plumbing, there is always plentiful pocket money to be corralled. What I am, at centre questioning, is the neurotic concern with pensions, along with the over-trust in pensions, along with the pressure on the young to spend their lives over-worrying about problems that may never come. Even those who fuss so about their ‘poverty’ do get by and live reasonable lives. It is not as if they are starving in Haiti or Pakistan, or worrying greatly about cholera. They don’t even have to wear a burkha.
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