GRIMLY FIENDISH

I think I've been telling everyone this for the past two years almost.... Once you've lived through a Tory Government, you kind of see the CON-servatives for what they are (the clue is in the name..)... Now maybe you young uns will listen to us oldies who had to suffer these tossers back in the 1980s.... Leopards dont change their spots.... ;)

Indeed. Wasn't that idiot Francis Maude actually advising people to keep it in their garage? Presumably alongside the barbecue set and fireligbters.... Because of course no one would fill up a 20litre Jerry can, store it and just forget it was there if they didn't need it right away. -_-

Apparently thought, the Govt advice is, we shouldn't panic... Just fill up our tanks to be "on the safe side" according to David Cameron.... Or, according to Francis Maude - "fill up a Jerry can"... But, hey, DONT PANIC!! DONT PANIC!!! They do not like it up em Captain Mannering....... :rolleyes: Sometimes I wonder if we'd be better off if the cast of f***ing Dad's Army was running the country... And yes, I know they're all dead, pretty much.... That's the point..... :lol: :lol:

Getting back to "Pasty Gate" for a moment.. The PM today tried his hand at some kind of attempt to claim some sort of spiritual kin-ship with the "Great Unwashed" and said that he eats pasties too, and the last time he got one was at the West Cornwall Pasty shop in Leeds station.. One problem, as Newsnight pointed out, there is no West Cornwall Pasty shop in Leeds station..... :lol: :lol: Next time you're gonna tell porkies Dave, keep it simple, just say "I got one in Greggs", bit harder to disprove...... :rolleyes:

BIG surprise there.... :rolleyes:

This coming from someone who hasn't done a day's work in about two or three decades.... Seriously Chris, morons like you are the reason why it's so easy for the Mail to get everyone in the country hating the unemployed... Why dont you just STFU about things you clearly know nothing about....? -_-

Yeah, you'd think, wouldn't you...? I mean, yes, the studio has bought the rights to make a film out of the novels, but really that's only like being given a licence, the intellectual property is not Lionsgate's, as they're not the original creators... And, completely agree on the second part... Max Keiser has taught you well.... :lol:

Oh dear, and it looks as though producers Lions Gate are almost as big a bunch of cocks as some the the "fans" of the novels.... http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/03/23...ates/?mobile=nc In fact, almost as big a bunch of cocks as the producers of The Hobbit who want to go around the UK closing down every single business that's been trading under the name "Hobbit" for about the past f***ing decade or two, even though J R R Tolkien's estate has no problems with it..... -_- You know, I'm really glad now I made the decision to download this film, I'm glad I've not given these petty-minded w*n**rs any of my money.... -_- The Copyright Cartels are just going totally bat-shit crazy now... "oh, we MUST protect our 'intellectual property' even against something that's actually a good idea and positive and would actually give us good publicity....". A real 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' exercise if ever there was one....

Yeah, slight drawback there..... :lol:

You have been following the Trayvon Martin shooting haven't you...? Many parts of America just seem to me to be the same racist shitholes they were in the 1960s, Obama is just window dressing, he's just a puppet for the Corporations....

:lol: :lol: If there was a way at targeting it at Crazy Chris and other Internet Trolls only, I'd be all for it..... :lol:

COME, COME, witness the retardation inherent in the clueless Hunger Games fans...... http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-g...dium=socialflow Oh, so apparently, they were "upset" that Rue turned out to be a little black girl because she presumably didn't "fit" into their media-infected brains' notions of "innocence" only being white, blonde haired and blue eyed....Apparently... f***ing MORONS, yeah, black people should just be the villains in Hollywood movies, along with the British too.... I'm frankly amazed these utter arseholes are even allowed out to the cinema without a chaperone...... I am DISGUSTED by humanity sometimes.... Mind you though, I was somewhat disappointed by the fact that the main male character wasn't a six foot tall Austrian and the main female character wasn't a feisty Hispanic woman... What do you mean I'm confusing Hunger Games with The Running Man........??

This is surely the fundamental flaw in the Neo-Liberast argument though... The problem with those so-called "Free Marketeers" is, that they dont want Govt intervention in the form of Regulation and they bang on about the "integrity of the free markets" if Govts try to impose too much regulation (or, as I like to call it, Safeguards to prevent the sort of catastrophe we've just had) they start whingeing about how it'll affect the "Free Market" (even though there's no such thing, it's all heavily manipulated to suit the chosen elites like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JP Morgan), but my dont they squeal and holler for "intervention" when it all goes tits up... They're worse than children, at least children learn the hard way that putting their hands in a naked flame hurts and they dont tend to do it again. These idiots haven't learned from the mistakes of the Wall St Crash in 1929 and the resulting Depression. Or any of the other "boom and bust" cycles we've had since the 1970s when the Glass-Stiegal principles started to be eroded.... What is necessary is the immediate re-imposition of Glass Stiegal, and the banks being split up into Retail and Investment... Banking needs to be "boring" again, and actually return to the Old-school Mercantile principles of prudence and good business sense... "Exciting" banking has led to a bunch of Cocaine-addicted brain-dead gibbons running the show and flinging shit everywhere.....

On a slightly different track, but as we're on the issue of taxation here on this thread, I thought this appropriate.... Growing Antitax Movement Shows Irish Stoicism Wearing Thin http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/world/eu...-thin.html?_r=1 DUBLIN — Throughout the European financial crisis, Ireland has won plaudits for the way it has handled austerity. But growth has stalled here once again, and an incipient tax revolt is being taken as a sign that even this most stoic of nations is becoming fed up. Urged on by promoters of a tax boycott, fully 85 percent of Irish homeowners have yet to pay a $130 property tax that is due March 31. The latest official figures show that just 225,000 property owners out of 1.6 million have paid a total of $29 million — well short of the more than $200 million the government was planning to raise to help support public services. The government has so far dismissed talk that the boycott is gathering strength, saying the Irish are notorious procrastinators on money matters. “The Irish people are law-abiding citizens and will pay the charge before March 31,” a government spokesman said. “We are ready to cope with a late surge — Irish people always tend to leave it to the last minute to pay their bills.” The boycott’s organizers see it differently. “The reality is people are not paying for a reason — they are consciously using this to strike back,” Cian Prendiville, a prominent organizer in the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes, said in an interview. “This is mass civil disobedience in the finest boycott tradition.” This protest, initiated by nine left-wing opposition members of Parliament in December, has found resonance among “Middle Ireland” — an older, settled demographic made up of hard-pressed homeowners, many of whom would have voted for the mainstream government parties at the last general election just over a year ago. Among them are Gerry McKeever, 56, and his wife, Annie, who moved to the Dublin satellite town of Kildare during the decade-long boom that began in the mid-1990s known as the Celtic Tiger era, and who say their home is now worth less than half of the purchase price. They have two young children, high mortgage payments, child care costs and increasing fuel bills for the 70-mile round-trip commute to work in the capital. Home to many soldiers at the nearby Curragh army base, Kildare is considered a conservative town. Mr. McKeever says he has been surprised not just by the number of people attracted to protest meetings, but by their generally advanced ages — not the sort of people, he said, who are likely to take to the streets, Athens style. “Many people are sitting tight rather than actively going out protesting,” he said. “This is sullen, peasant discontent in the finest Irish tradition. This is the revolt of the graybeards.” The boycott organizers say resentment about austerity measures has been building for some time, and there is no shortage of reasons people are refusing to pay the new tax: a flat domestic economy, seemingly endless budget cuts, declining house prices and underwater mortgages, rising personal debt, higher charges for fewer services, the introduction of numerous other direct and indirect taxes, charges for rural septic tank inspections, an unemployment rate of 14 percent and emigration running at an average of 100 people a day. Perhaps most significant is the coincidence that on the same day the household tax is due, Irish taxpayers will have to pay $4 billion to make good on some of the monumental debts run up by the failed Anglo Irish Bank. The household tax is also the prelude to a much bigger property tax that is being demanded next year by the so-called troika of lenders — the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank — under the terms of Ireland’s bailout deal. The government has been increasing the pressure in recent weeks, promising that any “tax dodgers” will be tracked down through the use of utility bills. The government spokesman acknowledged that there “is no Plan B,” and it remains unclear what the government will do if the boycott succeeds. The antitax movement seems to be gaining strength by the day, if the number of protest meetings around the country is any indication. Boycott organizers say attendance at rallies now transcends class, the urban-rural divide and political party affiliation. Daniel Doorhy, 36, a warehouse worker, said he had never been a member of a political party but had helped to organize meetings against the tax. “Like a lot of people, I would have voted for whoever would do me a favor at the time. I don’t agree with this way of doing things, but I’m as guilty of it as the next man,” he said. “I am fearful of what is coming down the line in terms of a bigger property tax that I just won’t be able to pay and I will lose my house over it.” Like many other Irish, he is well versed in the economic jargon that has become a part of everyday conversation here. “I had never heard of bondholders or speculators or billions of euros in debts, but I know all about them now,” he said. “I also believe the government is lying to me when it says it will be used for local services, and that’s one thing everyone I’ve met agrees on, whether they’ve paid this or not.” Like Mr. McKeever, Mr. Doorhy has also been surprised by the older profile of the would-be protesters. “I would say the average age is 40-plus. These are people who have been through all this before when they faced down the property taxes and water charges during the 1970s and 1990s,” he said. “I think the government is hoping and praying there will be a huge surge at the last minute — I know people are afraid of being fined or worse, but what choice do we have?” Mr. Prendiville, the campaign organizer, says that despite their efforts to play down the boycott, government officials are deeply concerned. “It will be a real nightmare scenario for the government because it doesn’t have the resources to enforce payment,” he said. “They can intimidate and browbeat all they like, but they don’t have the wherewithal to collect what people are not prepared or cannot afford to give them.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, very interesting that part about this tax being due on the same day that Ireland is due to make a payment of the debts of yet another bank... I dont believe for a second that this tax would be used for public services, and by the sounds of it, the people Ireland dont believe it either.. Good on them for standing up to this. This is a totally unjust tax made to hit ordinary people instead of punishing those directly responsible for the troubles Ireland is facing.. The Irish Govt should be going after rich, tax-avoiding bast*rds like U2, not threatening ordinary Irish folks... Bono, surely the biggest hypocrite on the planet, being all concerned about the "poor people" in Africa, and not seeming to really appreciate the growing abject poverty in his own country and the victimisation of his own people by the Troika and the Crony Captalist Neo-lib system... He should run for political office he's such a c**t..... <_<

Precisely... We need a lot less of these banker-w*n**rs and a lot more people starting up small businesses and actually taking risk, instead of bankers who pass all the risk onto the tax-payer... The whole idea of "Private Profit/Public Debt" has to come to an end, it's unsustainable, and totally destructive.. Capitalism is destructive... Ordinary people doing business is positive and benefits the economy, the Corporations and banks do nothing but rent-seek and destroy wealth, "off-shore" billions in profits which means profits leave the economy, and in some cases like MF Global and JP Morgan, actually confiscate the wealth of their clients from their segregated accounts, basically that's STEALING, that's like me walking into a bank with a ski-mask, a shot-gun and a big bag with "Swag" written on it, what happned at MF Global was THEFT, but, hey, it's a bunch of rich guys in Italian suits doing it, so it's alright innit..? Ba Da Bing... People moan about the "Pikey" tax-dodgers.. Well, at least the pikeys would tend to spend the money in the economy and it gets circulated around, they dont "off-shore" it in the f**king Caymans where it benefits precisely no one except the particular individual.... There's a HUGE difference between Free Enterprise and Corporatism or Crony Capitalism, which is current system that we have and which is destroying the country, well, mind you, I say the country, more like destroying the entire Western Economy...

So, then you close down the tax loopholes and stop people from "Off-Shoring" by closing down tax-havens... Mind you, that would actually take a Government with a bit of guts... I dont agree with tacitly "rewarding" people who are serial tax avoiders (eg, Phillip Green) by cutting their tax rate... If you actually look at history and read your Adam Smith (a well-known Cause Celebre of the Neo-Liberast Thatcherites and Milton Friedman fanboys and girls, who choose to completely misrepresent what it was he was actually saying), he didn't believe the poor should pay taxes at all, his whole idea was to tax the rich, he also didn't believe in completely unfettered markets either.... Taxes were always supposed to be imposed on the rich, Smith believed in an equitable Tax system.. I dont see anything Equitable in allowing one group to be able to avoid tax where another group (those on PAYE) are being stung when mistakes are made by the HMRC or their employers' and have practically zero opportunity to lessen their tax burden, everything is set up to favour the 1%, you cant possibly deny that.... To me, that's immoral and completely un-equitable

I'll bring the baseball bats, you bring the bike chains..... :lol: :lol:

Another hidden little "gem" here.... Osborne's pasty tax hidden in the budget http://robscornishblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012...-in-budget.html Some hours now after people are looking into the fine details of George Osborne's budget it has been revealed that VAT will be added to hot takeaway goods. That means pasties! So if and when this legislation is introduced your £2.50 medium steak pasty will now be £3 and your £3 large steak pasty will be £3.60. So that's money out of ordinary decent Cornish folks pockets, a blow to our bakers and hardly great news for tourism. The government is undertaking a consultation and it will be the test of Cornwall's MPs if for once they put Cornwall and our national cuisine before the desires of their parties. As far as I am aware this is the nearest to Cornwall getting a specific mention in the budget, how hollow the words "MPs at the heart of the government" now sound. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yay! A "Pasty Tax"... Well, a "Hot Takeaway foods Tax" really.. So, buying your take-out lunch at the local Cafe or Canteen just got more expensive.... Well done George, just make things even more difficult for the Working Classes and the people trying to run small cafes and eateries... You utter COCK..... <_< So, Cornish Pasties and the like are now considered a "luxury food"..? And here was me thinking they were a working class staple. Mind you, I guess to someone brought up on Caviar, Frois Grois and Sauteed Wood Pigeon, I suppose a Cornish Pasty or a Cheese and ham toastie might seem a bit "exotic".... -_- "A budget for business", yeah...? PMSL..... :rolleyes:

As Bill Hicks once said "Isn't it funny how the people who believe in Creationism seem really un-evolved...." :lol:

Well, come on, given how much of this budget was "leaked", if he hadn't been able to prepare a good rebuttal, I'd've been surprised.... :lol: :lol: Still, it's good to finally see Millipede showing a bit of backbone.. But he seriously needs to do this more often, and be able to think on his feet a lot more... Like I say, he had ample opportunity to prepare most of that...

Good LORD, now here's a rather frightening revelation..... Poll: Many Southern Conservatives Feel Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/03/13/...uld-be-illegal/ WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Primary elections in the conservative swing states of Alabama and Mississippi are already underway. And recent surveys taken by Public Policy Polling reveal that close races are anticipated in both states. But that isn’t all the polls revealed. Data from both states shows that significant portions of right-leaning voters do not believe in the validity of either interracial marriage or evolution. Of some 600 likely Republican primary voters asked, 60 percent of those responding in Alabama said they do not believe in evolution, and 21 percent from the same state said they feel interracial marriage should be illegal. In Mississippi, a reported 29 percent said interracial couples should not be legally permitted to marry, and 66 percent do not believe in evolution. Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center released the results of a study that indicate a record number of interracial marriages, with a reported 4.8 million mixed race unions found throughout the country. Since 1967, interracial marriage has been recognized as legal, after a Supreme Court decision in the Loving v. Virginia case that ruled laws prohibiting it to be unconstitutional. Many states had chosen to formally recognize the unions before this decision. Like interracial marriage, evolution was not accepted socially – or as part of a secondary biology curriculum – for the first part of the 20th century in the United States. In 1968, the Supreme Court ruling on Epperson v. Arkansas gave evolution legal protection, while simultaneously disallowing creationism as an alternative theory. The public study of creationism and campaigns for legal definitions of marriage have been significant conservative rallying points during the past few elections. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you ask me, the country's up shit creek because of a lot of these rich w*n**rs who avoid taxes, and particularly these rich w*n**rs in the financial sector who crashed the system which the likes of you and me then had to bail out.... And they're still bleating and whining like a bunch of babies for more "intervention" when it suits them, but god forbid that we actually try and regulate their behaviour. I hate these rent-seeking parasites. Frankly, I'd let them all leave, they can f*** off to China and screw up their economy.... -_- Get some hungry young kids in those jobs who have a genuine entrepreneurial spirit and maybe some innovative ideas.... It used to be that all the democratic countries in the world taxed the rich at FAR higher levels than 50%... Now, gee, when did all that change... When Neo-Libera$t ideas started to dominate in the USA, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, all these tossers.... The pendulum has swung way too far in favour of the 1%

Charlie's Angels, not in the least bit surprised... Absolute crap... Pan Am - Tried to ride in on the coat-tails of "Mad Men".. Should've worked really, had all the elements in place, it just fails.... Prime Suspect - Not surprised really, that was just never going to work.. The Firm - Strewth, that's just started really.... :lol: HBO's Luck is also not going to be making a return. Apparently horses have been dying on the set, and PETA are getting a bit upset about it..... Ringer - I've just completely given up on that one.. Sorry, the torch I've held for Sarah Michelle Gellar for well over a decade has fizzled out because of this absolute rubbish... House - I'm genuinely sad about, but it's really just not the same without Dr Cuddy tbh, and the Chinese woman irritates the crap out of me.... And the girl who replaced Olivia Wilde is just not.....Olivia Wilde... Sorry... I liked 13... A lot....

TBH, I'm seriously getting bored with this show.. Watched it tonight, and really, it's just not doing it for me now....

No, it just creates exploitation.. The facts are when you look at what's been going on over the past 30 years, wages in real terms have been flatlining dramatically, while the cost of living has been increasing exponentially... It's not good enough to create a working poor under-class, while at the same time having an elite class who hoard all the wealth for no other reason that to just have it.... The Capitalist model has failed but refuses to die, the Communist model at least had the decency to die. We need a new model, that's the bottom line...