Hello everyone,this is another version of my top 5!
This week's top 5 is the following...
5)JBL wins!-- Kane may did all the work on Cryme Tyme but in the end it was JBL who won for his team with a clothesline from hell on JTG!
4)He is NOT balliiiin! -- MVP lost again,this time from an unknown wrestler here on WWE,thanks to his new feud, the Great Khali!!
3)Hardy on a role! -- Two week's in a row, Jeff Hardy has scored 2 big victories!first was when he defeated the Undertaker thanks,to the Big Show,and this week he defeated Triple H,now thanks to Vladimir Coslov!wow,Jeff knows how to win fare!
2)Punk's REVENGE!-- or maybe not?you see CM punk said last monday that he was gonna beat Randy Orton and take revenge from Randy for costing him the world title.But, thinks didn't go well for punk,since he lost to Orton,thanks to William Regal,in a lumberjack match.Now Punk have to get focused to his match at Survivor Series if he realy want to take revenge!
1)Sweet Chin Morrison!-- Well i thought that HBK's lost last week on that last man standing match was the worst thing that could happen to michael's.I guess i was wrong,because what could be worst then losing a match,from your own finishing move?
That's all for now see you next monday with my comments,on Survivor Series!
Any reduction in VAT is welcome, especially when it's tacked onto a big bill, say estate agent fees. If you've been charged a commission of, let's say, 1.5%, on a £200k house, then you not only pay the agent £3000, but pay an extra £525 on top in VAT. That hurts, because unlike goods in the shops, where VAT is generally included, you knew what the base price was before the tax was added.
If the reports are correct, the Chancellor will reduce VAT from 17.5% to 15% tomorrow in his emergency Budget. One wonders how that will work out in practice, and whether it will really encourage us to spend more as he wants us to.
It's going to be a headache for any small shopkeeper who has his goods individually priced up on the shelves. Why? Because the conversion factor is 115/117.5 or 0.9787234. That means he will have to keep a calculator by the till, so when you go up with your box of A4 paper priced, let's say, at £3.85, he'll have to reduce the price to (115/117.5 x3.85) ie £3.77 (rounding up from £3.76808511). It'll be a nuisance for him, all for a saving of just 8p. Are you likely to buy more in the shop, simply because you have saved 8p on that paper? Maybe buy a Bic biro? Or a Parker pen? I doubt it!
I'm sorry, Mr. Darling, but if a modest reduction in VAT is the jewel in the crown of your pre-Budget report, aka emergency mini-budget, then you'll have done little or nothing to earn that salary of yours, except lumber future taxpayers with more borrowing. Reminder: since 2002 your Government raised National Debt from £400 billion to £650 billion. The interest alone on that second figure is probably £30 billion or more, which we, the taxpayer, have to find each year. It represents about 15p of the 20p standard rate of tax. That's without paying back a penny of the debt.
That's the main reason why this country's in the doodoo, due mainly to irresponsible borrowing over many years, servicing an ever growing mountain of debt. Hopefully tomorrow, we'll get some accurate up-to-date figures. They will not make pleasant reading. Some would say this country is well and truly b*ggered, and that we have your boss, Gordon Brown, to thank for that. When he postured as Mr. Prudence he said the days of boom and bust were over, while quietly going on a 5 year binge with the nation's credit card, piling on one stealth tax after another in a desperate attempt to balance the books. If you ask me, the best place for Gordon Brown right now is the Tower, if only for his own protection!
My EMOTIONS- I can feel things again. Good and bad. Mostly good though. There was a day where I was only sad when I had nothing to drink or drugs or elated when I did. But I was always lonely. Not anymore. I can feel all my EMOTIONS now. Sometimes I still don't know what to do with them but I'm working on that. The Big Book is teaching me how to deal with just about evrything. EDUCATION. I am very excited to be going back to school. Something I've wanted to do for a long time and now I am able. EMPOWERMENT. Today I have a voice and am able to speak, in a gentle way, what is in my heart and soul. ENTHUSIASM. Today because I am clean and sober I get excited about all kinds of silly stuff. Just like my speakers working the other day. YIPEE! ENERGY Not just my own. Which is nice cuz there used to be a day when I had none. I was either coming down from something or had a hangover. But it's just the energy I feel from the universe and my friends. It just feels good. ELECTRIC GUITARS. Something sexy about the sound of an electric guitar. :)
Well that's my middle of the night E list. Hope everyone has a great Sunday. I will be sleeping all day getting ready for one more night of work. What's everyone doing for Thanksgiving? I know Mikki and Rachel will be together. I will be with all my kids and grandkids in Sacramento. I'm leaving Tuesday morning. Can't wait. You all know how much I love being with my kids and grandkids. Nothings better. Well whatever you do have a grateful heart. We're all very blessed here.
Love, Julie
Yesterday around 10 am Tomax escaped out of the house and bolted for the rd. He was killed instantly by a moving truck. I'm so sad. Peanut and Xamot kind of realize he's missing I think. I love Tomax with all my heart. Please say a prayer for him to go to heaven. Thanks guys I love yall.
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:21 AM GMT [Politics]
When clearing some files last week I came across the piece below, which I wrote in April1994. It might be of interest to fellow bloggers who believe that our present crisis is rooted in the election of Blair and Brown. They are undoubtedly culpable for allowing the process to continue, but they did not set it in train. It might also interest those who share Milton Friedman's belief that economics is a science, on a par with physics.
ECONOTWADDLE.
As the ears of a weary British public ring anew with calls to vote, they should know that their true choice is constrained by an unhealthy consensus between the parties. One inheritance from Lady Thatcher's days as leader is the shared belief in a set of 'economic laws'. So established have these 'laws' become that to question them risks one's credibility, something which few politicians are prepared to do. Elevated to the status of 'common sense' they may be chanted as a discussion stopping mantra by cynical and ignorant alike. How can anyone but a madman deny that "You can't get away from supply and demand", or "We must have free trade"? Boloney!
Economics, as sold to the public, is a creed masquerading as science. There is no economics, only political economy. Divorce of the two parts of Adam Smith's original phrase serves merely to mask the political nature of nearly all 'economic' decisions. Such concepts as the guiding hand, enlightened self-interest, comparative advantage, and the free market are screens behind which the few hide their cynicism from the many. The nonsensical notion of government non-interference in the economy has been so successfully promoted that politicians who might argue otherwise are paralysed. Let us examine some of these 'laws'.
Take, for instance, the patently absurd idea that if everyone pursues a course of 'enlightened self-interest' all will benefit. The permeation of this canard through our society has been used to excuse all manner of government action and inaction. Deregulation set the pike among the minnows with a vengeance. Millions of 'small' people now rue their naïvity in accepting advice from spivs posing as professionals. Hopefully, these people will see the government's stance as the abrogation of responsibility that it certainly is. However, 'you aint seen nothing yet'.
Following their enlightened self-interest, British companies have been sacking consumers by the thousand, and moving production abroad. They then import the products for sale to those Britons still on work who find that their British purchase is actually made in Asia. One does not have to be a genius to see where the process will leave domestic producers as more and more consumers lose their jobs. All this nonsense is justified by reference to another icon of economics, free trade. Behind the argument for free trade, and the free movement of capital, lies the concept of comparative advantage. If every country concentrates on producing that which it is best suited to make at the lowest cost, we all gain by trade. The notion is admirable for its theoretical elegance. Where does it leave us though when the only comparative advantage enjoyed by a country is the exploitation of its impoverished and un-free people by an authoritarian government?
We have already seen the beginnings of a governmental response to these 'economic' realities in the reluctance to accept European policy on workers' rights and conditions. British labour must be left free to compete with overseas workers who are unhampered by civilised conditions on hours, sickness, security, pensions, and so on. Let us be clear. The decision not to insist on certain standards in countries from which we import is a political judgement. No 'law' of economics is involved.
If 'enlightened self-interest' is a subjective political dictum rather than a disinterested economic law, what then of supply and demand, the price mechanism and market forces? Again, this item of faith does not bear close examination. To be meaningful, demand must mean 'effective demand'. A moment's reflection tells us that effective demand is unevenly spread throughout society, so the idea that an unfettered price mechanism can be relied upon to match resources to the community's needs is pure bunkum. What we actually have is a system in which the gratuitous wants of some take precedence over the life saving needs of others.
I still remember sharply one evening when this contrast was unintentionally illuminated on television some years ago. In one programme, an ex-soldier told of the deep love between himself and his wife, the lifelong companion who was having to watch him die. The machine that could have saved his life cost £14,000. A later programme revealed that some obscure baron living in England had spent £2m on a painting for his collection. Economic laws? Are we to believe that the marginal utility of kidney machines is lower than that for art works? Not for the community as a whole, it isn't. What is illustrated here is the partiality of effective demand, a partiality influenced by political choice. Given different political values, that soldier would have lived, and the baron would have had to stare at his wall.
Demand, the 'law' which so many think of as omnipotent, is a product of political choice. We make it, and we can change it. No law is involved. The notion that we are captives of logical, blind mechanisms which must be allowed free play is foolish, as is the idea that the state has no place interfering in the economy. Overtly political judgements have to be made, and the price mechanism returned to its position as a useful tool in certain areas of our life that can be left safely to commercial imperatives.
A week in politics may be a long time, and memories may be short, but politicians in all parties, Tory included, should try to remember why our forefathers abandoned the guiding hand. It simply did not work. It is no accident that not a single advanced economy today follows genuinely free-market principles. Governments which do not intervene are making a political decision to leave the direction of the country and its people to the unelected occupiers of our boardrooms. Are we so confident that their self-interest will be so enlightened? Company directors owe responsibility to their shareholders, not to the rest of us. Voters should perhaps remember that in the coming weeks.
We had been discussing the possible candidates to succeed Card. Murphy-O'Connor at Westminster the other day. And I have to say that, from a traditionalist and orthodox point of view, the list of potential Archbishops is not exactly inspiring and scarcely fills one with hope for a change in direction. It seems that the liberal/secular/modernists could well have the appointment sewn up. The prospect of further dumbing-down in the church cast a pall of gloom that I thought would never lift. That is until I came across this...
I had thought that such public displays of Catholic piety were a thing of the past. I remember with great fondness the processions I took part in as a child. Enormous painted banners, brass bands belting out "Faith Of Our Fathers" and the Blessed Sacrament carried beneath a vast embroidered silk canopy. Every catholic child of the parish dressed in white processing through the town in serried ranks, giving answer to Stalin's question about how many legions the Pope had.
The only fly in the ointment of my delight in discovering this survival of "temps perdu" was the realisation that it had been happening anually for the last twenty four years. Six of which while I was attending Mass at Westminster Cathedral and not once did I hear about it.
The hierarchy may wish to solely concern itself with conferences on Social Justice and Liturgical Renewal, but such "right-on" PC occupations do not satisfy or nourish the soul, and, more importantly do not fill churches or put "bums on seats". The laity, on the other hand, know what is needed and simply get on with filling the gaps that our pre-occupied hierarchy ignore. "I'll sing a hymn to Mary..."
this years survivor series will be just like last year.... ****!!! yea they Triple H with those guy in the main event?? Sorry triple H. Yet again another PPV wih a **** matches. And oooooo!!! john cena is back. yippee. whatever! hopefully 09 will be a better year for the wwe... SIKE!
Remember that the coldplay show on November 25th is sold out and the ONLY way to win is with 98.7fm. Listed below I have the songlist that you need to look to in order to know when to call in and have your chance to win!
11am "Fix You" // 1pm "The Scientist" // 3pm "Yellow" // 5pm "Lost"
She used departmental funds for a “handful” of Spanish lessons, her spokesman confirmed
Her job does not require it, and there are almost no Spanish speakers in her constituency, however, if she were thinking of a job with the EU commission, the job all failed Labour politicians prefer, or she was thinking of bunking in with horny Phil, this would all make sense.
Labour polititions are like Robert Maxwell, they think public money is theirs to spend how they please
Morning All
Maggie while I am not fond of the French, as you know, I would not wish any more disasters on them. Surly RoO is enough for one nation to endure.
French is spoken in the EU Parliament of course , but having now thought more about this, it's Urdu she should be learning !
Nobby I noticed the pearls first, they are cheap ones too !
Colour, size & even the length . :-))
That is my only prediction at this point. I don't know what the outcome will be with Cena and Y2J. It is in Cena's hometown, but I expect Cena to lose again in Boston. And I could care less about the rest of the card. But what my main focus is on is Edge.
That's right. Did any of yall watch Survivor Series last year? 10 years ago last year Bret got screwed, and 10 years later last year at Survivor Series, the fans got screwed. It was supposed to be THE culmination of one of the greatest rivalries in SD history, when Undertaker and Batista fought inside Hell in a Cell. It WAS a great match, but it also marked one of the most controversial returns in WWE history. You know what I'm talking about. When Edge, dressed up as an unkept cameraman, interfered and stole the show at the same time. He bashed Taker with a camera, and set up a rivalry that would carry out until Summerslam 2008. Like it or not, Edge is a HUGE draw, and maybe the biggest heel in the business today. That's why I expect nothing less from him this year.
Think about it. He's poised to return anytime he wants. Edge has been gone since Summerslam, but where will he come back if he does return? Will he go to SD and "insert" himself back in some old business, or will he interfere with the Raw main event? Any guess is a good one at this point. But I fully predict Edge to make a return to WWE today at Survivor Series. Because something has to happen. Something different. I, and many of you are disgruntled with the product of WWE today. As stated before, Edge is a huge draw. Where he goes, ratings follow. So why not make it two years in a row, Edge?
Serves you right, Mark. Some people have a mind like a sewer! Ha ha!!
Nobby10:28 AM GMT