I was going to make some long winded post about the whole financial crisis but there are just so many things that are just beyond me. So, please find following a few thoughts and pictures so I can get a few things off my chest.

• As much as I hate Gordon Brown could you imagine David Cameron in charge at the moment?
• Why have the government demanded Banks keep loans to homebuyers at 2007 levels? Wasn’t that the reason we are in this problem?
• This bail-out thing - when and how do we get our money back?
• Who the hell would put their life savings in an Icelandic bank for the sake of an extra .25% interest rate?
• How does Gordon Brown think he can stabilise house prices when they are still over-priced by 10-20%?
• Let me get this straight - the Government has given the banks MY money so they can lend it back to me with interest? (fact is stranger than fiction).
• If you are wondering where the money has gone, look no further than BP with profits of £1200 a second. So we privatised BP and nationalised the shitty banks. Thank God for politicians who obviously have brains the size of planets.
• If the Government want to pass on interest rate cuts to the public why are banks (some of which have had OUR money used to rescue them) still charging up to 30% interest on approved overdrafts and horrendous amounts on credit cards.

‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’
Thomas Jefferson 1802

Lehman Brothers employees staging a protest

Sympathy for Wall Street

The new dollar bill

For UK readers substitute President for Prime Minister.

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, ‘What is Politics?’

Dad says, ‘Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The President.

Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.

We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People.

The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class.

And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense.’

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him.

He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.

So the little boy goes to his parents’ room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with
the nanny.

He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, ‘Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.’

The father says, ‘Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.’

The little boy replies, ‘The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.’

Last week Zoom, the discount airline, went bust. They blamed high oil costs and the credit crunch. They didn’t, of course, blame the fact that they were so desperate to undercut the ‘big boys’ that the prices they charged their customers were simply not enough to cover their costs. I may be doing their management a great injustice, but isn’t it nice to have the ‘credit crunch’ to blame.
‘In debt, it’s the credit crunch’. It’s not because you have spent £1000’s more than have been paid, and chucked it all on your credit card at 2000% interest.
‘Alastair Darling is an arse’. Oh, hang on, he’s not - it’s just the credit crunch!
‘Chelsea failed to beat Tottenham’. It’s that bloody credit crunch.
‘My house has devalued by 10% in the last year meaning I have only made a 200% profit in 12 years’ Bloody credit crunch!!!
‘I am fat, my children are misbehaving and kids are being stabbed in the streets’. Guess what, it’s that dam crunch thing again.
Everywhere you look in Britain today the ‘blame game’ is going on.
The best one to come up recently is that, apparently scientists have found a gene that is passed on by your obese parents, which means that you too will be fat. It has nothing to do with your addiction to lard kebabs with extra lard sauce and your complete lack of exercise. It’s the fault of nature.
You’re out of work - it’s the crappy governments fault, not yours.
No one ever takes responsibility for themselves or their mistakes it always the fault of someone else, and if this continues we will never learn and if we never learn we will never better ourselves.
By the way if you disagree with any of this - don’t blame me!

‘Harriet Harman, the Equality Minister, defended plans to encourage firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job candidates.’
Just read that line again. Concentrate on the words ‘equality’ and ‘discriminate’. I don’t even know if it’s worth me having a rant over this one. Is this woman a moron?
Any form of discrimination should be abhorrent, but apparently if you are anything over than a white man you are going to get a leg up from Harriet (better than a leg over). After all, you couldn’t get a job on your own could you?
It’s a good job Labour are so far ahead in the polls that they can alienate white men. The BNP must have their printing presses working overtime informing people how ethnic minorities will get work over white people.
The fact is that dear deluded Harriet probably has her heart in the right place, but as usual (for a politician) has not really thought this through. Her argument is that, should you have two equal candidates for a job and you can’t decide between them, you should choose the black bloke or the woman. I am not sure who would win if you have both the black man and the woman. If she was to ask someone who has actually worked in the real world, she would find out there are never equal candidates. Two people can have the same qualifications, the same experience, the same age, the same everything, but you will eventually go down to who will fit in with your existing team the best or who is the more likeable. There will always be one person who has that little bit more to offer in terms of personality.
This is nothing short of degrading to ethnic minorities and woman because Harriet Harman is basically saying you are incapable of getting of a job in the world of bigoted, racist and sexist employers.
As a final insult I see nothing about positive discrimination for your lovable Moose.

A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.

Well, there’s a very simple answer.

Nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn’t know we were getting low.

The reason for that is purely geographical.

Our OIL is located in the North Sea

Our DIPSTICKS are located in Westminster !!!