The Big Lie? More Like The Three Stooges!

 "Wall Street has its own version: Its Big Lie is that banks and investment houses are merely victims of the crash. You see, the entire boom and bust was caused by misguided government policies. It was not irresponsible lending or derivative or excess leverage or misguided compensation packages, but rather long-standing housing policies that were at fault."

Oh, yeah? More accurately I'd say this equation Washington Post:

Dogma Driven Tossers (Gov) + Greedy Fuckers (Bks) + (Stupid Bastards) (Bys)
 = (TFF-up)
or to put it in the vernacular: Total Financial Fuck-Up.

The culture for this culpable three-some was set firstly by the Government/FM&FM: The financial institutions just got on with their own version of lets-juggle-the-nitro and please lord that the musical-chair music don't stop while I'm holdin' the toxic treats. Finally; you got to have the mugs...the punters who earned $2's a week and wet their pants when given a $500,000 loan for their little house and a prairie.
When the Moon's in Aquarius and the Three Stooges are all in the candy shop together, what do you friggin' expect, Washington Post?

Moe Gov.  Larry Lender and Curly Confused aka The Buyer.

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Penn State...

'All that is necessary for evil to triumph 

is that good men do nothing'

- (Burke)

Obama Bottles It!

Keystone pipeline delay draws cheers, dismay - latimes.com: "President Obama's decision Thursday to put off the decision of whether to permit the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico drew cheers from his environmentalist supporters but heightened criticism from opponents eager for jobs and fuel for the ailing U.S. economy. The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing plains states and the enormous Ogallala aquifer. It has been the target of increased protest and opposition from environmentalists who complain that the corrosive oil poses a spill threat."
Obama has "bottled it" as the Brits would say. Showing zero leadership and putting him the left side of the rag-tag army of Occupy, one has to wonder if he's getting a back-hander from the princes of price fixin' otherwise known as OPEC.

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We expect the usual troop of ban-it baboons to be marching, as they have their own anti-industrial-America agendas. Pre-Stone Age would be too advanced for the great unwashed. If it's not a pond of tadpoles that's in the way of America's needs, then it's the no tar sands twits and a non President.
I couldn't imagine Putin putting up with any of this, as mother Russia's needs come before Greens and geese.

Now...just who did you say was holding up the pipeline?

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Russian Failure? Hopefully Not...

BBC News - Mood grim over Mars probe fault: "Russian space scientists are growing increasingly gloomy about the prospects of saving the country's $170m (£107m) mission to a moon of Mars."

The payload for Phobos.

The Phobos-Grunt probe launched successfully on Wednesday but then failed to fire an engine to put it on the correct course to the Red Planet. A failure for Russia is also disquieting for anyone who is a supporter of space exploration. It's success is even more important now that NASA has much less dollars to spend...so let's hope that their scientists can somehow find an 11th hour solution.

Eurozone: Always An Accident In Waiting!

If the rate at which the Italian Government borrows remains unsustainably high, Italy may have to follow Ireland, Portugal and Greece; and then the rest of the biggest and ongoing economic smoke and mirrors act ever conceived, could crash out of existence. This is a Solution? Everyone eventually seeking a bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.? Where will they be finding the Euros? (Junk bonds anyone, yeah right). For unlike the US, the Europeans just can't print tons of dough when they need to. And Italy, the world's eighth largest economy, requires a bailout on a far larger scale. A small country like Greece, for example, would require about €130bn to meet borrowing needs over a three-year period. But the same amount would only cover Italy's needs for six months.

Monetary Union without a Euro zone fiscal policy = Europe down the crapper. 

They were told by wiser economic dot joiners, that what they were up to - stitching countries together - one with a donkey economy the other a Merc, just wouldn't work. Speeding without lights on a crowded four lane foggy autobahn for hours and expecting not to have a pile-up. Overdosed on their own economic fiction and their self professed brilliance, the tossers have been found out...but everyone now will pay some as yet undisclosed price for their arrogance and folly
Bring on the robots and artificial intelligence to run things; for surely it couldn't be worse, could it?
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UK Masterplan: Adapt For USA! Sorted!

An open Letter from Gifford Farm to UK Prime Minister, David Cameron.

Dear Mr. Cameron,

Please find below our suggestion for fixing the UK 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

Hmm...this Gifford plan could have some merit...but

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

(1) They MUST retire. Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed. (2) They MUST buy a new British car.

Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed. (3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -

Housing Crisis fixed. (4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university - Crime rate fixed. (5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....And there's your money back in duty/tax etc

 It can't get any easier than that! 

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances. If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

But...I've just too many of my chumy chaps in the filthy moo la banking biz. 

 Also…

Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out. 

Shelton Abbey Open Prison.

They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance. Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them. A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell. They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose. 

Oh David, it's just so bloody
brilliant here...

They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education. Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request. Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens.

 Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls. There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.

The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised. Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £600.00 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Think about this (more points of contention):

A want back to me
friggin' comfy gaff! 

COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Appleby almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the county of Cumbria?

I'm legal, Annabell from Appleby...not Albania..

And, they even tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 125,000 illegal immigrants wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

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Also;

Think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is time for us grumpy old folk of Britain to speak up!

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Golf: Still In Denial!

"It's always much more to do with the player and the caddie and things going on. Unless you're involved you don't know what's happening." said Padraig Harrington on the subject of Mr Williams so called racial slur.

Just a slip, Tiger...you black....

Ah, golf. Founded on segregation principles, with each enthic group having to build their own courses if they wanted to waste a good Sunday with their ain folk. The Padraig prattle above is akin to the three monkey story. And if a burning cross or two was just off the 3rd tee, the only concern from the worst attired beings in the sporting uninvers would be smoke floating across the fairway spoiling their drive. An as for the comments of the self styled Greg the Shark? Trees baring 'Strange Fruit' with hooded white robed Grand Wizards and Co dancing beneath would still have him declare golf as a racist free zone.

Yeah...sure as hell a miss burnin' a few firey ones outside that ol'
Butler Cabin at Augusta.

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