Sorry Elvis, You May As Well Come Back Home!

March 6, 2015January 25, 2015 fasab Current Events, Factoids, Politics, Rants, Unusual 365 days, 4 million words, America, Apollo missions, arrogance, bureaucratic, bureaucratic lap dogs, bureaucrats, citizens, colonists on Mars, complicated, congress, Current Events, drafting even more crap, earn, Earth year, Elvis, en route to, energy, fact, government is broke, idiots in Congress, income, income earned by US residents while in space, interference, job’s worth, laws, living on, Martian ambitions, Martian year, Martians, money, monstrously oversized, morons, Musings, Neil Armstrong, nonsensical spectacle, novel, pan-galactic tax system, paper and ink, politicians, politics, processed through US Customs and Immigration, Rants, Red Planet, renouncing US citizenship, residents, returned from the Moon, salivating, staggeringly unnecessary, steal more of our money, stupid, stupid people, stupid. fanny around, stupidity, subject to US taxes, taxed, taxes all income earned by US citizens, Thoughts, total control, uber rich, United States, Universe, US Tax Code, war and peace, waste, wasted time, worldwide system of taxation

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

We all know politicians and their bureaucratic lap dogs are stupid. We also know that they fanny around trying to find ways to steal more of our money and then waste it on laws and other interference we neither want nor need.

But sometimes their efforts are just staggeringly unnecessary and stupid.

Did you know, for example, that the morons in the US Congress wasted time, money, energy, not to mention paper and ink, discussing and clarifying that any income earned by U.S. residents while in space would be subject to U.S. taxes!

During the Apollo missions we already witnessed the nonsensical spectacle of national heroes like Neil Armstrong having to be processed through US Customs and Immigration when they returned from the Moon. Talk about bureaucratic jobsworth claptrap!

Now the idiots in Congress have declared that colonists on Mars, of whom there are currently, and for the foreseeable future, none, zero and nil, will be taxed on the income they earn while en route to, and living on, the Red Planet. I suppose to continue the madness, the US authorities will try to make the Martians themselves – if we find any – subject to US taxes too!

It’s enough to make you get your antennae in a tangle!

It’s all because the US government is broke and because it wants to have total control over its citizens (not the uber rich ones, of course, they can do whatever they want). Unlike most countries, the United States uses a ‘worldwide’ system of taxation, under which it taxes all income earned by U.S. citizens and residents, regardless of where it is earned.

The arrogance of a ‘worldwide’ catchment is apparently not enough, now America thinks it must have a ‘pan-galactic’ tax system.

At seven times the size of the humongous novel ‘War and Peace’, and at around four million words and counting, the US Tax Code is already monstrously over-sized, but with the whole Universe to cater for it’s only going to get bigger and more complicated. For example, I foresee vast sections trying to explain how to cater for an Earth year of 365 days being factored into a Martian year of 687 days.

Make that getting your antennae in a knot rather than just a tangle.

But no doubt the bureaucrats back on Earth are already salivating at the prospect of drafting even more crap.

As for those with Martian ambitions?

Sorry Elvis, you might as well come back home. We miss you!

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Democracy Or Idiocracy?

January 7, 2015January 1, 2015 fasab Business, Current Events, Politics, Rants $18 trillion, $81 million, accountability, accumulate debt, al-Qaeda, all sections of government, all three counts, American intelligence agencies, background in counterterrorism, bureaucracy, citizens, country, criminal investigation, Current Events, democracy, domestic firms, education, experience in interrogation techniques, future generations, go broke, government, idiocracy, idiocy, imposes the world’s highest corporate tax rates, indemnity costs, insult to injury, interrogations, interrogations of terrorists, investigation, legal expenses, minions, money is gone, not being able to count, Opinion, pass on the problem, people who can't count, politics, postpone the inevitable, print money, printing billions and billions of dollars, prior knowledge, prosecution, psychologists, Rants, short-stop measure, stupidity, system, tax paying public, taxpayer money, United States, United States of America, waste, waste is colossal, Wasted, whole story, worldwide tax, you cannot indefinitely live beyond your means, zero experience

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Have you ever wondered how the United States of America has managed to accumulate debt of $18 trillion and rising?

Part of the answer is pretty easy really.

The country is being run by people who can’t count. By people who do not realize that you cannot indefinitely live beyond your means.

Try doing what the government does at home and see how far you get? You can’t print money (legally) as a short-stop measure so the effect on you will be immediate. You’ll go broke!

The government and has been printing billions and billions of dollars, but all this has done is to postpone the inevitable and pass on the problem to future generations.

But not being able to count is just one part of what’s wrong. It’s a big part, but it does not tell the whole story.

What is also wrong is the amount of money that the government and their stupid minions waste.

A small, but good, example of this was accidentally uncovered during the 2014 investigation into the handling of interrogations of terrorists by American intelligence agencies.

Here we discovered that $81 million of taxpayer money had been paid to a pair of so-called ‘psychologists’ who were at the head of these interrogations.

Not only that, but it turned out that neither of these two people had any prior knowledge of al-Qaeda, no experience in interrogation techniques and no background in counter terrorism.

That’s zero experience on all three counts!

To add insult to injury, they were also promised an additional $5 million in indemnity costs to cover all legal expenses for any potential criminal investigation and prosecution through 2021 as well as paid more than $1 million individually.

This sort of idiocy permeates all sections of government. The waste is colossal. So colossal that the tax paying public very seldom, if ever, gets to hear about it. And if and when they do it is invariably too late to do anything about it. The money is gone. Wasted!

That’s part of the reason the United States imposes the world’s highest corporate tax rates and why it is one of the few countries in the world to impose a “worldwide tax” on domestic firms and on its citizens.

America likes to try to impose ‘democracy’ on other nations in the world, especially the ones that don’t understand it and don’t want it.

But with ‘democracy’ should come ‘accountability’.

Clearly is does not.

Therefore the system we really have is an ‘idiocracy’, not a ‘democracy’.

Let’s start and call it what it is. It’s a much more appropriate name for what is going on!

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Did You Know? More Interesting Facts To Ponder

July 30, 2013July 28, 2013 fasab Factoids active volcanoes, Arkansas, average American, bananas, beavers, blimps, canada, Canadians, capital city of Korea, celebrate, citizens, Did You Know, Dodge engines, dog and cat owners, drinks, Dutch people, education, England, Entertainment, European Space Agency's Olympus, Expo 67, fact, factoid, facts, first Wal-Mart, Ford cars, Fred, fur trade, goddess Athene, goddess of victory, gowns, Graeme Ferguson, Greek Mythology, Gul Mohammed, IMAX film system, India, Interesting Facts, invented, Italy, Ivrea, Japan, lead pencil, Lent, meteor, Misc, Miscellaneous, Nike, oldest known goldfish, paper, Pets, pictures, pollsters, Queen Elizabeth I, Random, Robert Kerr, Rogers, Roman Kroitor, Saguaro Cactus, same height as the US flag, satellite, Seoul, smallest man ever, sodas, South-western United States, state, state flag, tallest people in Europe, Texas, throwing oranges, United States, volcanoes, wallets, William C Shaw

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Another delve into the fasab fact file today.

If you are interested in facts, information or trivia there will hopefully be something in here for you.

Enjoy.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 43 years of age.

Its name was Tish.

There are only thirteen blimps in the world.

Nine of them are in the United States.

In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadians

Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw

and premiered at Expo 67.

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag

at the same height as the U.S. flag.

The typical lead pencil can draw a line

that is thirty five miles long

Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners

carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite,

which was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.

The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.

When Queen Elizabeth I of England died

she owned over 3,000 gowns

The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India,

who measured 1 feet, 10 inches

Before the fur trade had started in Canada,

it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers

In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States

does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.

Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes

and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world

The Dutch people are known to be

the tallest people in Europe

The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology.

Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted

as a small winged figure carried by the goddess Athene.

The long fibers that are found in the banana plant

can make paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper.

The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea

for more than 600 years

In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent

by throwing oranges at one another.

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If It’s Monday It Must Be Quiz Day!

July 22, 2013July 4, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests 1918, Albert Einstein, America, atlantic, band, beard, birthday, Chicago, citizens, city, college days, comic strips, continent, country, cover of Cosmopolitan, difficult, difficult question, donuts, earth, easy, education, Entertainment, European country, false teeth, first ever registered domain name, former president, founder, genius, hibernation, hood ornament, hot and dry periods, http, Illinois, Indian, indicate swearing, Japanese, july 4th, killing, learned how to drive, located, male model, Misc, Miscellaneous, Name, never to sign a bill into law, O'Hare International Airport, outbreak, Pacific Ocean, People, per capita, Poopo, puzzle, puzzles, questions, quiz, quizzes, Random, Rolls Royce, skyscraper capital, sleeping, Snellen chart, Spanish Flu, start, summer, surname, symbols, tallest mountains, tens of millions, test, tests, three oceans, Titicaca, United States, US president, web URLs, winter, world, world famous company, world's largest hot desert, world’s leading exporter, ZZ Top

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Another chance to pit your wits against the fasab quiz archives with another random set of twenty questions.

Although there are one or two very easy ones, I think quite a lot of them are difficult this time, but here’s your chance to prove me wrong.

As always the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating.

Enjoy and good luck!

Q. 1: What does the http:// in web URLs stand for?

Q. 2: What is the hood ornament on a Rolls Royce called?

Q. 3: Which former president of the United States, in his college days, worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan?

Q. 4: In what country would you find the strangely named lakes “Titicaca” and “Poopo”?

Q. 5: Sleeping through the winter is called “hibernation,” but what is the word that describes sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer?

Q. 6: Members of the band “ZZ Top” are famous for their beards, but what was the surname of the only member who hadn’t got one?

Q. 7: In 1918 the so-called “Spanish Flu” spread around the world killing tens of millions of people, but where did the outbreak start?

Q. 8: Who was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law?

Q. 9: On which continent are the 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located? (This is easy if you think about it)

Q. 10: Which world famous company’s name means “three oceans” in Japanese because the company’s founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans?

Q. 11: How old was Albert Einstein, a genius if ever there was one, when he learned how to drive?

Q. 12: What was the first ever registered domain name?

Q. 13: What city is America’s skyscraper capital?

Q. 14: Earlier this month the United States celebrated its birthday, but what is the only other country in the world to celebrate its birthday on July 4^th?

Q. 15: Who is O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois named after?

Q. 16: The citizens of which country eat more donuts per capita than any other?

Q. 17: What European country is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth?

Q. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, what is the name of the world’s largest hot desert?

Q. 19: We have all seen a Snellen Chart, but what is it?

Q. 20: Possibly some of you have said “!#@%” when faced with a difficult question in this test, but what is the name for symbols such as “!#@%” that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What does the http:// in web URLs stand for?

A. 1: The http:// in web URLs stands for “Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.”

Q. 2: What is the hood ornament on a Rolls Royce called?

A. 2: The Spirit of Ecstasy.

Q. 3: Which former president of the United States in his college days, worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan?

A. 3: Former president Gerald Ford wasn’t always gray-haired and paunchy — in his college days, he worked as a male model, and even appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.

Q. 4: In what country would you find the strangely named lakes “Titicaca” and “Poopo”?

A. 4: In Bolivia, South America.

Q. 5: Sleeping through the winter is called “hibernation,” but what is the word that describes sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer?

A. 5: Sleeping through hot and dry periods like summer is called “estivation.”

Q. 6: Members of the band “ZZ Top” are famous for their beards, but what was the surname of the only member who hadn’t got one?

A. 6: Ironically, the only member of ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

Q. 7: In 1918 the so-called “Spanish Flu” spread around the world killing tens of millions of people, but where did the outbreak start?

A. 7: The so-called “Spanish Flu” of 1918 started at a military camp in Kansas before spreading around the world and killing millions.

Q. 8: Who was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law?

A. 8: William Henry Harrison was the only U.S. president never to sign a bill into law — he died before having the opportunity.

Q. 9: On which continent are the 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located? (This is easy if you think about it)

A. 9: Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth is located in the Himalayas in Asia so since it has to be one of the 50 tallest mountains on Earth, they all have to be located in Asia.

Q. 10: Which world famous company’s name means “three oceans” in Japanese because the company’s founder wanted to sell his wares across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans?

A. 10: Sanyo means “three oceans” in Japanese.

Q. 11: How old was Albert Einstein, a genius if ever there was one, when he learned how to drive?

A. 11: Albert Einstein never learned how to drive.

Q. 12: What was the first ever registered domain name?

A. 12: The first registered domain name was symbolics.com. It was registered on March 15th, 1985.

Q. 13: What city is America’s skyscraper capital?

A. 13: Chicago is America’s skyscraper capital. The city has more 1,000-foot tall buildings than any other U.S. city.

Q. 14: Earlier this month the United States celebrated its birthday, but what is the only other country in the world to celebrate its birthday on July 4^th?

A. 14: The only other country in the world to celebrate the United States’ birthday, July 4th, is Denmark.

Q. 15: Who is O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois named after?

A. 15: O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois is named after Al Capone’s lawyer’s son, Lt. Cmdr. Butch O’Hare.

Q. 16: The citizens of which country eat more donuts per capita than any other?

A. 16: Canadians eat more donuts per capita than any other country.

Q. 17: What European country is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth?

A. 17: Liechtenstein is the world’s leading exporter of false teeth.

Q. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, what is the name of the world’s largest hot desert?

A. 18: At more than 3.3 million square miles, the Sahara Desert is as large as the world’s next 20 largest hot deserts combined.

Q. 19: We have all seen a Snellen Chart, but what is it?

A. 19: The eye test chart with the big ‘E’ on top is known as the Snellen Chart.

A. 20: Symbols such as “!#@%” that are used to indicate swearing in comic strips are called grawlix.

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How Smart Do You Feel Today?

July 15, 2013July 4, 2013 fasab Questions, Tests 1313 Mockingbird Lane, 18th century Siberia, actor, Alamo, autogiro, Beau Maverick, best actress, Bret Maverick, brief case, buried, cake, Challenger Space Shuttle, citizens, coined the term, collect, concrete, country, currency, dead head, dirty weekend in Paris, education, English cousin, Entertainment, France, Franklin D Roosevelt, French city, French town, funeral, funerals, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, George V, helicopter, hotels, incendiary weapon, investigation, Krishna, large vehicle, leaves, Lord of the Universe, maverick, men, Misc, Miscellaneous, Molotov Bread Basket, Molotov Cocktail, mourner, national dance, nickname, nominated, nuclear codes, omphalo, Oscar, Paris, phrase, pie shaped, Pink Floyd album, pompous, President of Mexico, president’s limo, puzzle, puzzles, quarter, quarter coin, questions, quiz, quizzes, radio stations, Random, record, Scottish woman, ship, sophisticated, Soviets, spider’s bite, star, suave, sun, test, tests, The Wind in the Willows, TV family, two bits, two minutes of silence, US president, US television series, USA, vehicle, Victor Hugo, visitors, wedge, World War I, wreckage

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So how smart do you feel today?

Smart enough to try your hand at today’s quiz?

I hope so. And remember if you get stuck the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below – but NO cheating!

Begin any time you are ready – and enjoy.

Q. 1: What superseded the autogiro (or autogyro) in the late 1940s?

Q. 2: What kind of leaves were often used as currency in 18th century Siberia?

Q. 3: In the USA, what is (you can have a point for each correct answer)

a. the nickname for the president’s limo

b. the nickname for the brief case with the nuclear codes

c. the name of the helicopter that transports the US President

Q. 4: What kind of star is our sun? (2 words)

Q. 5: Which Pink Floyd album is also a chapter in ‘The Wind in the Willows’?

Q. 6: Which national dance can apparently cure a spider’s bite?

Q. 7: In Paris, where would you find Franklin D Roosevelt, Victor Hugo and George V?

Q. 8: What do many men collect in an ‘omphalo’?

Q. 9: The original ‘two bits’ (quarter coin) looked like a cake or pie shaped wedge and was one quarter of what?

Q. 10: General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (of Alamo fame) had two funerals. The first one took place while he was President of Mexico and he himself was a mourner. What was put to rest in this pompous ‘funeral’?

Q. 11: After the investigation, why was all the Challenger Space Shuttle wreckage buried under 50 tons of concrete?

Q. 12: On a ship, what is a ‘dead head’?

Q. 13: A Scottish woman was nominated six times for the Oscar for best actress and came away empty handed each time. A record. Who was she?

Q. 14: The name for which vehicle probably stems from a World War I phrase for a dirty weekend in Paris?

Q. 15: Which TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?

Q. 16: Which suave and sophisticated actor played the role of Beau Maverick, Bret Maverick’s English cousin in the US television series Maverick?

Q. 17: Paris attracts the most visitors in France each year. Which French town attracts 5 million visitors a year and has more hotels than any other French city except Paris?

Q. 18: Which large vehicle is also a name for Krishna meaning ‘Lord of the Universe’?

Q. 19: Why did many radio stations around the world observe two minutes of silence in late July, 1937?

Q. 20: Citizens of which country coined the term ‘Molotov Cocktail’ or ‘Molotov Bread Basket’ to describe their incendiary weapon used against the Soviets in 1939?

ANSWERS

Q. 1: What superseded the autogiro (or autogyro) in the late 1940s?

A. 1: The Helicopter

Q. 2: What kind of leaves were often used as currency in 18th century Siberia?

A. 2: Tea leaves

Q. 3: In the USA, what is

a. the nickname for the president’s limo

b. the nickname for the brief case with the nuclear codes

c. the name of the helicopter that transports the US President

A. 3: Three Answers

a. “The Beast”

b. “The Football”

c. “Marine One”

Q. 4: What kind of star is our sun? (2 words)

A. 4: Yellow dwarf

Q. 5: Which Pink Floyd album is also a chapter in ‘The Wind in the Willows’?

A. 5: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Q. 6: Which national dance can apparently cure a spider’s bite?

A. 6: The Tarantella

Q. 7: In Paris, where would you find Franklin D Roosevelt, Victor Hugo and George V?

A. 7: In the Paris Metro. They are all Metro stations.

Q. 8: What do many men collect in an omphalo?

A. 8: Fluff (The omphalo is the belly button)

Q. 9: The original ‘two bits’ (quarter coin) looked like a cake or pie shaped wedge and was one quarter of what?

A. 9: The Spanish silver dollar, the dollars were called pesos de ocho (pieces of eight).

A. 10: His amputated leg.

Q. 11: After the investigation, why was all the Challenger Space Shuttle wreckage buried under 50 tons of concrete?

A. 11: To prevent the parts being sold as souvenirs.

Q. 12: On a ship, what is a ‘dead head’?

A. 12: Some people think it’s a broken toilet but actually it is a non paying passenger.

Q. 13: A Scottish woman was nominated six times for the Oscar for best actress and came away empty handed each time. A record. Who was she?

A. 13: Deborah Kerr

Q. 14: The name for which vehicle probably stems from a World War I phrase for a dirty weekend in Paris?

A. 14: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Q. 15: Which TV family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?

A. 15: The Munsters

Q. 16: Which suave and sophisticated actor played the role of Beau Maverick, Bret Maverick’s English cousin in the US television series Maverick?

A. 16: Roger Moore

Q. 17: Paris attracts the most visitors in France each year. Which French town attracts 5 million visitors a year and has more hotels than any other French city except Paris?

A. 17: Lourdes

Q. 18: Which large vehicle is also a name for Krishna meaning ‘Lord of the Universe’?

A. 18: Juggernaut

Q. 19: Why did many radio stations around the world observe two minutes of silence in late July, 1937?

A. 19: A tribute to Marconi after his death.

Q. 20: Citizens of which country coined the term ‘Molotov Cocktail’ or ‘Molotov Bread Basket’ to describe their incendiary weapon used against the Soviets in 1939?

A. 20: Finland

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Did You Know? More Fab Facts From The Files

June 4, 2013November 30, 2013 fasab Factoids, Humour, Unusual 118 ridges, 119 ridges, 158 verses, 800 meters, after you eat, Al Capone, Anthony Hopkins, average person, black widow, business card, citizens, coplanar, copper, cow, Did You Know, dime, dimples, downstairs, education, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, Entertainment, episode, equator, eyes, Fab, fact, factoid, factoids, facts, falls asleep, fasab blog, file, Files, fish, girlfriend, Greece, Greek city, hair, Hannibal Lector, hockey sticks, Humor, Humour, information, intelligent people, interests, John Lennon, LA, los angeles, mercury, Misc, Miscellaneous, national anthem, never blinks, New York Times, newsprint, no brains, no danger, ocean surface, orbit, phone number, planet, poisonous spider, posts, potent, puck, pucks, quarter, Random, rattlesnake, regulation US golf ball, Seinfeld, Silence of the Lambs, slaves, Sparta, speeds, starfish, Sunday edition, Superman, swimming, Thelma Pickles, trees, trivia, uncomfortable, upstairs, used furniture dealer, venom, White House, zinc

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Yes, more fab facts from the files here at the fasab blog.

These posts are as random as they get so hopefully you should be able to get something out of them no matter what your interests are.

Check them out below.

And enjoy.

The phone number to the white house is:

(202) 456-1414.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint

for the average Sunday edition of New York Times.

Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds

of up to 150 miles per hour.

Intelligent people have more

zinc and copper in their hair.

In every episode of Seinfeld

there is a Superman somewhere.

The most poisonous spider is the black widow.

Its venom is more potent than a rattlesnake’s.

Fish that live more than 800 meters below

the ocean surface don’t have eyes.

Mercury is the only planet

whose orbit is coplanar with its equator.

There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat,

though it may feel uncomfortable.

Starfish have no brains.

(I know several people like that!)

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

Los Angeles’ full name is

“El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”.

Al Capone’s business card

said he was a used furniture dealer.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A quarter has 119.

John Lennon’s first girlfriend

was named Thelma Pickles.

You can lead a cow upstairs

but not downstairs.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball.

In the UK its 330.

At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta

had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.

In “Silence of the Lambs”,

Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

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There Comes A Time When Zero Tolerance Is The Only Option

May 26, 2013May 25, 2013 fasab Current Events, Politics, Rants a place in heaven, absurd, afraid, airports, America, better life, blood-thirsty killers, bogey men, bragging, britain, British soldier, citizens, cling on to power, cloud the issue, complain, corrupted, countries, criminals, Current Events, cut head off, decapitated, degrees, demented and evil clerics, distorted, distracting us, drinking alcohol is forbidden, Drummer Lee Rigby, easier, ethnic profiling, events, evil clerics, exams, excuse the inexcusable, families, fight terrorism, followers, fomenting fear, foreign lands, home, ignorant, immigrants, innocent people, intolerable, kill themselves, knocked down by a car, law-abiding, lay helpless on the street, line drawn in the sand, live by our rules not yours, London, lowest level, majority, manipulation, manufactured, meaning of the Koran, Misc, Miscellaneous, morons, Muslim, Muslim country, Muslim population, Muslims, nonsense, offended, offensive, only solution, Opinion, pander, Personal Writing, politicians, politics, potential terrorist, promise, qualified, racial, Random, rant, Rants, reciprocal respect, respect, rights being denied, scale, schools, securing commodities, selective targeting, self promotion, serious economic problems, seventy virgins, society, solution, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, Sunday Sermon, supposed to tolerate, suspects, Thoughts, tippy toe, treated with respect, treatment, trend, unacceptable, uneducated, universities, welcoming, western countries, Western society, words of Allah, work, worked hard, zero tolerance

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Time for another rant, now known as the Sunday Sermon.

For many years there has been an influx of Muslims into Western countries like, for example, America and Britain. And for years these people arrived and set to work to provide a better life for their families, which was reason they chose our countries in the first place.

Sometimes we treated them with respect. At other times their treatment was not so welcoming. But the vast majority accepted things as they were and worked hard, with the result that they did make a better life for themselves.

However, now all of a sudden, because of the rants of a few demented and evil clerics who have corrupted the words of Allah and the meaning of the Koran, some Muslims are now offended by everything, including the very presence of the citizens of the countries they have chosen to come and live among.

How absurd is that?

Worse, however, is that we are supposed to pander to this nonsense and tippy toe around them afraid to do or say anything in case it will be distorted and manufactured into something offensive.

And if we don’t?

Well then they will cut our head’s off in the middle of a street and stand bragging about it afterwards.

That is exactly what happened in London this week when Drummer Lee Rigby, a British soldier, was first knocked down by a car driven by two blood-thirsty killers and then decapitated as he lay helpless on the street.

On any scale of things that are offensive, it just doesn’t get any more offensive than that.

Yet we are supposed to tolerate the intolerable and excuse the inexcusable!

Let’s get real folks.

Some things are unacceptable in western society. And if you choose to live in western society then you live by our rules, not yours.

When I visit a Muslim country where, for example, drinking alcohol is forbidden, I don’t put on the pretense of being offended, I don’t whine about my rights being denied, in fact I don’t complain at all. I am in their country, those are their rules, and while I am there I am happy to respect them and abide by them.

Why is there no reciprocal respect any more?

And even more to the point, why is that reciprocal respect not demanded?

We have allowed our politicians to cloud the issue by blundering about in foreign lands. They say they are doing it to fight terrorism and protect us, but in reality it has much more to do with securing commodities and distracting us from much more serious economic problems they have created at home.

Politicians manipulate their people by creating ‘bogey men’ and fomenting fear where none should really exist. They do it, not for the benefit of their constituents, but for their own self promotion and their attempt to cling on to power. It happens in every country, east or west, north or south, and it has been happening for centuries.

And what is happening to elements of the Muslim population today is no different. In their case the manipulation is made slightly easier because the evil clerics are able to deceive their largely uneducated and ignorant followers with the promise of seventy virgins and a place in heaven if they either kill themselves or other innocent people – preferably both at the same time. Strange, if the reward is so great, that you never see the clerics themselves pushing to the front of the queue to participate!

There is a horrible trend nowadays that standards must be allowed to come down to the lowest level. Exams in schools and degrees at universities have to be made easier and easier to pass, lest some be deemed not to have qualified. Everyone has to be treated as a potential terrorist at airports in case selective targeting of possible suspects be labeled as racial or ethnic profiling. And every effort has to be made try to understand and excuse the criminals in our society who prey on the law-abiding.

We have completely lost our way. And the only solution is to take a stand on these important issues. Try to be nice, and understanding, and liked by everyone and you doom yourself and your society. There comes a time when the proverbial line has to be drawn in the sand. And there comes a time when zero tolerance is the only option.

That time is now!

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Cyprus Theft Update

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

Anyone who has been following this story that I posted about a few days ago, (here if you missed it), will know that the European Union bureaucrats made an attempt to steal the savings of the Cypriot people right out of their bank accounts.

With at least one eye on their chances of being re-elected, the Cypriot parliament rejected the proposal out of hand. The proper thing to do no doubt, but there is also no doubt that this will not be the end of it. Indeed the fallout continues.

Western governments are desperate because of the financial mess that they and their bankster accomplices have created. And desperate governments are known to take desperate measures to try to patch things up.

Look out for more attempts by these governments to steal your money, whether it be in the form of savings in the bank, government bonds, stocks or in pension plans. Nothing is safe from the clutches of these thieves.

The goings on in Cyprus has already proven their intent and alarm bells have begun to sound among those who are awake and paying attention. The bureaucrats’ attempted money grab has already sparked off suspicion and panic throughout Europe and elsewhere as to the amount of trust people can have in their governments.

Even among the financially stronger nations the trend is clear. In Germany, for example, a recent opinion poll showed that the majority of Germans do not trust their leader, Merkel’s, pronouncements that their money is safe in a bank.

Throughout Europe those who can are moving their money to offshore locations away from the thieving hands of their own governments. Big corporations, including US corporations, are doing the same. It has already happened in Ireland and Spain and France and, to a lesser extent, in the UK too.

What a sad commentary on how these stupid politicians and bureaucrats have mismanaged our affairs.

Will it hit America as well?

That depends just how stupid the political administration in Washington really is – which is perhaps a kind way of saying, please err on the side of caution if you are an American citizen.

The $ as a currency will probably be okay for a while, despite the humongous debt that Obama is piling up, but eventually it will become impossible to print their way out of trouble.

All those highly paid morons and herd followers called ‘money managers’ who work for the various funds that you entrust your savings and pensions to, and who do little more than buy up T-Bills with it, may find that their strategy is going to backfire. Like the banksters, however, they will still charge you a fee for looking after your money whether they invest it wisely or lose it all.

But whilst the bureaucrats will never be able to figure out how to run an economy – their, “take more and more taxes out of less and less income” strategy will never add up – eventually the penny will drop with the good citizens and they will waken up and realize they have been completely shafted by incompetent politicians and greedy banksters.

Then the brown stuff will hit the fan – big time – and people will get real mad. And then the powers that be will have no choice but to turn on their own citizens if they are to cling to power. Preparations for this started under Bush and now Obama has added even more legislation to make this possible.

It is a rather bleak scenario, particularly for those who choose to ignore what is happening around them. But whether it happens in one year or another five, if the politicians and bureaucrats do not wise up – and their is little sign of them doing that especially when they have yet to realize how incompetent they are – it will happen.

So start to think seriously about your own circumstances and what you can do to protect what you have from thieving governments. Or just settle down and get another 40 winks assured in the knowledge that those in Washington, Brussels, London and Berlin know what they’re doing.

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