Man in a Shed: #SillyWeek The professionals are out of their blocks

Here we go its blogger's #SillyWeek ( why ? Well in truth just because it can be ).

But us amateurs have some stiff competition out there from the political professionals. See:

Vince Cable MP: The banks must lend more - whilst increasing their reserves or we'll use no existent powers to outlaw freedom of commerce in deciding bonuses.
Rory Stewart new MP: Some of my constituents keep their trousers up with bits of twine.
Lynne Featherstone MP: Women should be like Christina Hendricks ( Joan Harris from Mad Men ). Not that many men could argue with the sentiment - but from the "Equalities Minister" ?
Gordon Brown MP: I love being a back bencher and Africa will be the power house of the future. ( A two start oink flap rating for this one ).

So its time to start spotting stuff or just making it up ( within the boundaries of any liable laws in jurisdictions you think might have a go at you ).

I could give you rules - but you'd only ignore them. Just can I suggest nothing gratuitously offensive or with a 18 /X label on please !

PS I'll be doing a search of blogs / tweets for the keyword #SillyWeek to see if there's anything to report later today ! ( So remember to use #SillyWeek as a tag on your post a tweets ! Hint: I think case sensitivity may be an issue with searches ! )

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman

7 comments:

John M Ward said...: I see my fourth one is now listed here, though not the other three. I think the easiest way to keep up is via my blog's search facility.; 11:58 am
Man in a Shed said...: I blame google - I've set up a google alert to search for #SillyWeek every day.

Will add your other items soon...thanks for the note.; 1:25 pm
John M Ward said...: I have noticed that Blogger doesn't handle the #SillyWeek tag/label in its own search etc facilities, so that is why I created a second tag and search on that, as per the link in my earlier comment.

By the way, the search cannot separate out this year's contributions from last year's, so you might wish to delete from your list those entries with "2009" in their links.; 2:15 pm
James Higham said...: Stiff competition there.; 6:35 pm
James Higham said...: Are we to head them a certain way or just as Silly week?

http://nourishingobscurity.com/2010/07/26/silly-week-1/; 6:55 pm
Man in a Shed said...: Right now I'm searching for #SillyWeek - but will run a few more searches to see what I can dredge up.

Of course the best way to bring things to my attention is by a comment - like the one above.; 7:00 pm
TheFatBigot said...: I've posted my contribution, hope you like it.

http://thefatbigot.blogspot.com/2010/07/true-climate-threat-from.html; 1:39 am