Via This is True: Two second-graders from Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va., were suspended. The 7-year- old boys’ crime: using pencils as “guns.” They pointed the writing instruments at each other and made “shooting noises,” which violated the school’s zero tolerance policy prohibiting “look-alike guns.” That’s “intimidating and threatening,” said school spokeswoman Bethanne Bradshaw. “It doesn’t have a place in the classroom.” She added that doing the same thing…
Matty Sinclair asks a good question: Why are there three taxes on your wages? There is Income Tax, Employee’s National Insurance and Employer’s National Insurance. All those taxes take part of the money that your employer pays for your services and gives it to the Government. Why don’t we just call it what it is? Income Tax. It is really important that we don’t let the politicians get away with…
There was Bullfinch. You’ve also no doubt been following the Oxford Abuse coverup and these things are nowadays so common across the country that one can almost become blaise about it – there are too many things to worry about. Nevertheless, this 45 minutes out of your life does show the deeper picture of what is going on at the official level in our society, especially at council level. And…
You probably saw it at ZeroHedge: We, and the TBAC, previously made clear there is a massive shortage of high-quality collateral – the stuff that forms the backbone of modern monetary practice- some $11 trillion to be exact , as the insolvent world encumbers every possible asset that is not nailed down with more and more and more debt. However, we didn’t realize that the asset shortage has also spread…
How many times does it take? OK, let’s go back to the Tory Conference of 2009 and Roger Helmer MEP: The EU works on the principle of occupied ground, promising to return powers under the principle of subsidiarity but in effect, never returning them once subsumed. So it’s not as if it is not known. Either people telling the inexactitude that repatriation of powers is possible under the treaty are…
Dedicated to Julia: Contemplating my penchant for attracting nut cases, immediately after the incident I heard on the radio that a bicyclist in his 50s was killed zooming down a hill on a busy thoroughfare training for an upcoming race. I walked into a room where a television report displayed a mug shot of the poor guy who hit the cyclist, as if he was a murder suspect. He is…
BBC 5Live was on and the magnitude of the David and Goliath story was being played out. Hell, I’m not a Wigan supporter but to hear all those people virtually in tears, this was massive. Even City supporters were conceding that Wigan deserved it. And sorry but I’m going to draw the parallel of Geelong FC downunder because they’re up there for character and commitment – even the opposition conceded…
What’s the definition of insanity? http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html [Via IPJ]
Ian’s dropped a couple more on us so let’s list them below: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-09/eu%E2%80%99s-out-control-intelligence-services-don%E2%80%99t-exist-officially “Brussels is one of the largest spy capitals in the world,” said Alain Winants, head of the Belgian State Security Service VSSE. He guesstimated that there’d be “several hundred” [spies] plying their trade at any one time, chasing after a broad array of topics, from trade issues to security policies. Yet officially, the EU itself doesn’t have…
In 2010, before the General Election, there was an altercation between a major blogger and a group called Albion Alliance over the referendum. He maintained that pre-election 2010 was the wrong time and it should have been just before the next, i.e. 2015. The theory was that things would have disintegrated so far in the EU by then that people might be amenable. If it were given in 2010, then…
If things we did growing up were in error, how far can one go down that path before nothing is good we knew and did? The heroes and villains become less able to be distinguished one from the other as one grows older. There is a point of view that the Boomers did it wrong, had the wrong icons, shut Gen X out of the jobs for so long and…
Completely agree with this about UKIP. You ignore the voters at your peril, you show disdain for the population at your peril, other parties. What is still worrying though is that there are still tribalists voting Labour, an utterly discredited party, whilst they’ve done for the Lib Dems. Or have they? The Lib Dems still have a hell of a lot of councillors, far more than UKIP although they’ve had…
This appears at 11 a.m. but was written early morning, after South Shields and before other results. It’s not intended to make friends and influence anyone. What do you call someone who believes: # People should be left alone to run their own lives and the State and PCists should butt out of telling us what to do, eff off with their bansturbation; # The state should be small-to-non-existent, maintaining…
Let’s start with Macheath on the State: Over the intervening years, the arrival of tax credits has dramatically skewed the picture, as have the abolition of MIRAS for the family home and the inability to transfer tax allowance to non-working partners. That’s just an example of the State or people under the State feeding on its teat, interfering because they deem that they need to interfere. Busybodies, dogooding incompetents who…
Following a post at NO on Hollande and the blunderbussing of gay laws, followed by demonstrations up and down the country, commenter Richard wrote: I am an atheist and gays (or wooly-woofters as I refer to them) are involved in voluntary relationships so intellectually I don’t see a philosophical problem with gay marriage. But, oh but… every country debating this “problem” at the same time as if it was a…
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