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After a long bout of illness and general malaise, thanks to a particularly persistent bug.
Combined with a general case of the blues bought on by all the crap news and weather…
… I thought it was about time I lightened up a bit.
So armed with pen and paper, I decided to start this momentous undertaking by making a list of some of the things that make me smile (in no particular order).
+27Not much more to add to this, except that as the current economic crisis is global, this probably applies just about anywhere.
+32One of Mitch Benns’ better numbers…
No offense love, but why are you still here? Why are we still seeing you on the news?
Why are you still turning up on the TV, with gormless journos asking for your views?
When you don’t dance you don’t sing, you don’t do a bloody thing
there’s no telling where your talent might begin
but still your mug appears, god knows how many years
after that stupid bloody show you didn’t win
No offense love, but what’s it all about, tell me just how long do you expect…
to drag this spurious situation out, please bugger off and get some self respect!
+18
Unbelievable!
Despite the fact that their selfishness and greed has dropped us all into the worst financial crisis for decades, RBS, Northern Rock and HBOS bankers are still planning to pay themselves bonuses!.
+30
Today’s news story about President Obama admitting that he “screwed up” over his handling of a controversy that led two politicians to decline posts in his administration, is – I think – a welcome breath of fresh air.
One of the things that politics has increasingly suffered from in recent years (and this is particularly true of US politics) is an ever-growing tendency by Joe public to view the top dogs as infallible. If they make any kind of mistake (even comparatively small and relatively honest ones), they get crucified by the press.
This tends to create an environment where politicians do one or more of the following, whenever they “screw up”:-
+12
Last night’s heavy snowfall (at least by British standards) has predictably caused the usual commuter chaos today.
Large sections of the rail network have shutdown completely, London buses, trains and even the tube have largely ground to a halt and the roads are, by all accounts jam-packed.
And all for less than 6 inches of snow.
Why is that?
+15Lest we forget…
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
- Martin Niemoller
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