You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy.

Does this happen only in the U.S.?

Try this one on for size.

Senate Procures Influx Of Millionaires By Jennifer Yachnin Roll Call Staff Oct. 27, 2010, Midnight The Senate’s famed “millionaires club” is becoming a little crowded. According to a Roll Call analysis of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, more than half of the chamber’s membership, 54 lawmakers, reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. Another four Senators fell short of that mark by less than $100,000.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_42/-51039-1.html?type=aggregate_friendly

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy.

Does this only happen in the U.S.?

I despair that it has taken so long for an intelligent ex-Colonist to realise that the hill is a corporate club assoociation.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

I despair that it has taken so long for an intelligent ex-Colonist to realise that the hill is a corporate club assoociation.

And it only took him their entire history for that to happen

Some of us are slower than others of us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1280554/The-coalition-millionaires-23-29-member-new-cabinet-worth-1m--Lib-Dems-just-wealthy-Tories.html

1: Lord Strathclyde: £10m
2: Philip Hammond: £9m
3: George Osborne: £4.3m
4: Jeremy Hunt: £4.1m
5: David Cameron: £3.2m
6: Dominic Grieve: £3.1m
7: Francis Maude: £3m
8: William Hague: £2.2m
9: Alan Duncan: £2.1m
10: Andrew Mitchell: £2m
11: David Willetts: £1.9m
12: Theresa May: £1.7m
13: Oliver Letwin: £1.5m
14: Caroline Spelman: £1.5m
15: Owen Paterson: £1.5m
16: Cheryl Gillan: £1.4m
17: Liam Fox: £1m
18: Grant Schapps: £1m
19: Michael Gove: £1m
20: Eric Pickles: £700,000
21: Andrew Lansley: £700,000
22: Peter Ainsworth: £700,000
23: David Mundell: £500,000
24: Chris Grayling: £500,000
25: Baroness Anelay: £500,000
26: Patrick McLoughlin: £250,000
27: Baroness Warsi: £130,000
28: Nick Herbert: nil
29: Theresa Villiers: nil 

A million ain't what it used to be.

I'm shocked that there are senators worth less than a million to be honest.

Originally posted by string:

A million ain't what it used to be.

Damned if I haven't noticed that!



Last week's grocery money.

Ok, so our senators are more successful than the marxists from some leftist dumps. This must be the last bastion of wealth in modern history, and this must be protected!

We should write blogs in our footie pajamas against the marxist hippies and rabble camping out in the cold, and against these leftist republicans that want to raise taxes for GE and friends with a flat tax of 0%!

Boo on you, sirs! etcetcetc

Royal Mail postman failed to deliver 30,000 items of mail 'Overworked' postman, who hoarded sacks of letters at home, gets community work sentence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/09/postman-failed-deliver-mail

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Royal Mail postman failed to deliver 30,000 items of mail 'Overworked' postman, who hoarded sacks of letters at home, gets community work sentence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/09/postman-failed-deliver-mail

So, it happens over there, too. Several years back we had stories in the Chicago papers about postal workers hoarding mail at their homes, in cars, dumping mail at forest preserves--- you name it. It was a big scandal. Because of the age of the stories I doubt that I can dig up links, maybe Google can turn up something in the archives--- if they haven't hidden it under the porch.

Edit, add-on: Google has something. Oh, boy, it's been going on a lot, all over the place-- any place you can have a postal worker who doesn't do his job and needs to hide the fact. Look under the porch...

Why did you miss out your old pal Tony Blair in the list Jaybro? He also has made a fortune running into millions (and it doesn't go down too well either) but why anyone would want to listen to him is beyond me. You should have been scrupulously fair Jaybro even if he is a pal? Naughty man.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Why did you miss out your old pal Tony Blair in the list Jaybro? He also has made a fortune running into millions (and it doesn't go down too well either) but why anyone would want to listen to him is beyond me. You should have been scrupulously fair Jaybro even if he is a pal? Naughty man.

He's not even an active politician anymore, is he? I agree that these days (and probably back then as well) he's saying nothing of value.

So what? He is active still in the Middle East where he is as much use as me in the Vatican. And he is still be listened to and being paid for that and also for giving political advice. You have been sleeping Frenzie. He is therefor entitled not to be missed from Jaybro's list of the rich.

Don't let this "bug" you!

’S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands —
Johan Van Dongen sells insects. A bright, engaging man, Mr. Van Dongen is head of the meat department at Sligro, a kind of Costco on the edge of this trim Dutch town. Besides steaks, poultry and others kinds of meat, he offers mealworms, buffalo worms, locusts and other insects, as well as prepared products containing insects like Bugs Sticks and Bugs Nuggets — not for pets, but as a source of protein for people.

Go here for more goodies...

In all fairness, bugs are eaten as sources of protein more or less everywhere but Europe and North-America. Even vegetarians can feel okay about eating bugs because they don't feel pain.

That said, I ain't eatin' no bugs!

My computer has bugs.

There's many options for eating bugs




Ummm, chocolate..



Or some nice crunchy Larvets available in BBQ, Cheddar Cheese or Mexican Spice

You have to remember the country is full of foreigners who hail from the ex-Dutch Empire so there will be scope for such non-Eiropean food tastes. On two visits over there I noted the large influx and districts of their own. Even many of the Dutch are geting fed up with it now bugs on the menu?!

Who'da thunk it?

"If one twin is a suspect and the whereabouts of the other twin cannot be determined, then the jury is often left without the ability to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" in cases that rely on DNA evidence, says Frederick Bieber, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

How considerate of xyzoneon to be concerned about that crowd on the Hill having their wealth protected! I suppose the greedy are entitled to their place if you are talking about equality?! Between them the lobby mob and the corporate America has things well sewn up. However it has not always been so. But the place has been changed and all the guff about how equal it is has always been a myth. Might give that appearance on the surface but in relality not the case. Lack of control of the money barons misusing the system has seen America go from apositive country once with a credible enterprise culture and positive situation into one of total greed by the powerful.That the money launderers run the country and to Hell with anyone not of their ilk has emphasised that change I refer to. Give the crowd their voting system and let them think they are equal, democratic and have influence. Meanwhile the pwerful have over-ridden the democratical syste.

And now the very middle class that was always dutiful, loyal and industrious has seen more of their constituency fall onto the growing underclass of poor. What a tragedy and disgusting way for a people to be so treated?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

You have to remember the country is full of foreigners who hail from the ex-Dutch Empire so there will be scope for such non-Eiropean food tastes. On two visits over there I noted the large influx and districts of their own. Even many of the Dutch are geting fed up with it now bugs on the menu?!

Rj, our favorite observer.

Hear tell that some folks once ate haggis. Can you believe that?!

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

Only if you take out your twin first.

You can't convict a corpse in a Grand Rapids' court.

OP_ I doubt it exists only in the U.S. but "reality" is often interpreted in a subjective context.

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Perhaps we'll get invited by the UN for monitor duty during the U.S elections?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Keep a bag of haggis affixed to your belt and you'll never be routine.

Problem with that advice....I don't like haggos.

Ok.

(I knew he was French)

Well these sad days it is perhaps even better being French the way the ex-Colonies are going? Give me a bowl of stew and beef savoury rice. Hhhm, even better than Grand Rapids on a nice day?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well these sad days it is perhaps even better being French the way the ex-Colonies are going? Give me a bowl of stew and beef savoury rice. Hhhm, even better than Grand Rapids on a nice day?

There is no such thing as a nice day in Grand Rapids. More snow later today.

BTW, who invented golf? Sadly, there is more stew in a bowl than Scots in professional golf.

And there's more in a McDonalds's meal than what the average Joe American knows about the world. So?

Well, sir, the Enlightenment didn't start in Glasgow. GR, either.

A but you are not as safe on that point Jaybro. What is known as the "Enlightenment" was a very active and well known fact in late 18th/early 19th century Scotland as any historian will tell you. Literary genius was to the fore. Whatever occasional worthies came along over the pond were lost in the ramatazz that passes for a society.

We are not a society; we are the future.

And blah, blah, blah.

I'm just a modest man from Grand Rapids who loves tending his grandboys, Mitchell and Miles.

Oops! And his new little cat, Echo.

take Nigeria for instant the top richest men in Nigeria are either politicians or associated with government embezzelment one way or the other. Its even more strange to know that a senetor in Nigeria earns far more than the king of spain. And our dear president Mr. Goodluck (now known as badluck) earns more than obama

Always the same when you get caught out here. Too factual and corect for you? Indeed you fall back into some odd way of satire rather than admit anything. Your travels from one end of the country to the other may be dislodging grey cells?

Lieberman: It's time to take action in Syria CNN's Ashley Killough (CNN) -- Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut called Sunday for the United States to provide direct assistance to the Syrian people in their struggle to oust President Bashar al-Assad. "It's time to try to help the brave Syrian freedom fighters to carry out a fair fight," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Go away, Joe!

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

the Enlightenment didn't start in Glasgow. GR, either.

…that surely doesn't mean Greece? (Maybe Grand Rapids; but then he's being fuch-tard… (He does that, on occasion. He sometimes knows to whom he's talking.))

Originally posted by rjhowie:

A[h], but you are not as safe on that point, Jaybro.

Yes, he is, RJ: He's an American!

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Literary genius was to the fore.

And now rejected by those who think "literary" means "mindless pap"… (Excuse me: I mean those who require mindless pap reject anything that … ah. RJ, do you know whom you refer to?) Who among the Gaels would you refer to, RJ?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

I'm just a modest man from Grand Rapids who loves tending his grandboys […]

Jaubro , I tend too to two toddlers; they try my patience, test my limits, and make me reconsider every per-conceived notion I've ever held!
If there's any way I can help them lead better lives, I' d reject any political stricture…
I don't thikk Howie is unaware of this: But love does conquer all; well, almost all… And, except for the folk who have never assumed responsibility for others (specially, those wee ones), it's something that can hardly be explained.

[Drunk, but coherent; not unusual…eh? ]

Damn it. Sorry OakdaleFTL, I forgot that America was the self-appointed guardian of the world. As for the Gaels? I am a Lowlander and not of the heuchter- teuchter Highlanders mob so I let them babble away in a dying laguage. I also wear trousers.

Care to mention any of these Scots literary or scientific lights by name, RJ? (Or would you as I expect denegrate them…?)

You need to space out your tippling a bit more OakdaleFTL. What a daft thing to say that I would degenerate Scots who were notables?? I have in the past here actually pointed to them and their achievement but maybe you were doing a Rip Van Winkle? What does have a passing niggle is this daft Highland image for Scotland that even my fellow Scots have fell for. Kilts, tartan, bagpipes that kind of thing. These were all part of the Highlands NOT the Lowlands which fought against them often eeough and helped put down their 1745 Rebellion by joining the army. It was the uplifting of the ban on kilts in the 19th century and the commercials who jumped on a bandwagon. Indeed the Lowland Scot would often wear the hodden grey or dark clothes, knee breeches and a "bunnit". The hoodwinking is bemusing as many who have been brained into kilts would have been fighting against the wearers in the past.
However meanwhile, I will direct you to this link amongst others again......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scots

In yet one more WTF moment...

Mormon Baptism Of Wiesenthal Kin Sparks Jewish Outrage
Two decades of anger, apologies and agreements have failed to keep the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from ending posthumous Mormon baptisms of prominent Jews and holocaust victims. In the latest incident, the parents of the late Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of a Nazi death camp and an advocate for holocaust victims, were baptized in a Mormon ceremony.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

I heard a rumor theres a town in Scotland that DNA profiling doesn't work in murder cases... they're all the same.

Inbreeding's a bitch!

And to think that some people still question our decision to bring freedom to Afghanistan. God bless our Afghan allies!
JFC

For Punishment of Elder’s Misdeeds, Afghan Girl Pays the Price ASADABAD, Afghanistan —

Shakila, 8 at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about how their family had been dishonored and about how they had not been paid. It turns out that Shakila, who was abducted along with her cousin as part of a traditional Afghan form of justice known as “baad,” was the payment. Although baad (also known as baadi) is illegal under Afghan and, most religious scholars say, Islamic law, the taking of girls as payment for misdeeds committed by their elders still appears to be flourishing. Shakila, because one of her uncles had run away with the wife of a district strongman, was taken and held for about a year.
.....
“They put us in a dark room with stone walls; it was dirty and they kept beating us with sticks and saying, ‘Your uncle ran away with our wife and dishonored us, and we will beat you in retaliation.’ ”

Mormonism is of course created on shaky ground but there again Weisental is no paragon of purity either....

http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/wiesenthal.shtml

TIP #10A01-05
DATE ISSUED: June 15, 2010

Operators Must Change Vending Machine Notice
Effective July 1, 2010, the notice that MUST BE POSTED on ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES will change.

Operators must post the following statement on each machine:

NOTICE TO CUSTOMER:

FLORIDA LAW REQUIRES THIS NOTICE TO BE POSTED ON ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES. Report any machine without a notice to 1-800-352-9273. You may be eligible for a cash reward. DO NOT USE THIS NUMBER TO REPORT PROBLEMS WITH THE VENDING MACHINE SUCH AS LOST MONEY OR OUT-OF-DATE PRODUCTS.
......
In other words, write down the number and check other vending machines to see if the notice is posted on them.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/FileStores/Web/Statutes/FS08/CH0212/Section_0212.0515.HTM