Cheating humans.

8 October

Daft Dave has made the same silly mistake that Terrible Tony made, by saying he won’t be fighting another election as Prime Muppet. Why can’t these idiots learn from others? Gloopy Gordon played havoc against Blair, now we will have to is and watch one of the front runners will start receiving the same treatment for who is likely to take over Cameron. Blondie Boris would be my last choice for the job of those so far in the field. The one man we should all be worried about is IDS. He totally lacks and sense of how his polices effect people; but there again, maybe that is the prime talent needed to be Prime Muppet.

Last night we sat and watched Assault on Wall Street. It’s the story of man who lost all his money when the banks went belly up in the States. At the same time his wife is seriously ill and when all the money goes and they can’t afford her treatment, she kills herself. That finally pushes the man to take revenge because no-one is being held responsible for the crash and the bankers just go as usually. He begins shooting dead the bankers, and when he finally gets to one main man who lost his money, he arranges that when the cops arrive, the banker is the one with the gun in his hand, and the cops kill him.

OK, it’s work of fiction, but I wonder just how many folk in banking are relieved that it turn into fact? So many people were ruined by the crash, and some of them killed themselves because of it. Here in Britain we faced exactly the same problem didn’t we and the government were forced to act and pump in millions in tax payers money to prop up the failing banks.

Even here the top bankers wouldn’t accept any blame for it, even going on to blackmail the government about driving bankers away. I really do hate blackmail. If anyone says, ‘If I can’t do as I see fit when it happens, then I shall do … … …’ No matter how it’s worded, it is blackmail. No-one should give in to that, not even governments. My dad used to say, ‘If things don’t alter, they’ll stay as they are.’ And is exactly how things have worked out with banking. There seems to be a constant stream of problems coming out about the bankers and what they have got up to. It is way past time to bring them to heal!

I have loved the VW Golf for a long time, and if I was going to have another car, it would be another Golf. As it is, my license is on its way back to Swansea. Of course, we now know that VW have been fiddling their emission tests. Other users of other makes of cars should not be so sure that their car is OK when it comes to emissions. At the moment we don’t know just how many other makes have been doing the same as VW do we. I wouldn’t be in the least surprised that they have all done the same or similar things. It’s an issue of trust really and yet again, big name companies have let us down. While there is money to be made, fiddles will continue, its human nature to cheat.

Today’s photo … 

The answer to harmful emissions?

Today’s funny …

Three Southerners and three Yankees are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Yankees each buy a train ticket and watch as the three Southerners buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a Yankee.

"Watch and you'll see," answers one of the Southerners.

They all board the train. The Yankees take their respective seats but all three Southerners cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets.

He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand.

The conductor takes it and moves on.

The Yankees see this and agree it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Yankees decide to copy the Southerners on the return trip and save some money (being tight with money, and all that).

When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Southerners don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one perplexed Yankee.

"Watch and you'll see," answers a Southerner.

When they board the train, the three Yankees cram into a restroom and the three Southerners cram into another one nearby. The train departs.

Shortly afterward, one of the Southerners leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Yankees are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..."