Not sure if this is just plain idiotic, or downright scary, or both.
The court did not have much time to hear his case, or anyone else’s.
That day, 560 others would have been prosecuted for not paying their
dues to the BBC. Now it has risen to 700 a day, accounting for an
extraordinary one in ten of English court cases.
Ten percent of court cases. For not paying off the BBC...
At this point I don't think Reid's just rabidly partisan, I think he's also freaking nuts.
When the Senate held a non-binding test vote on repeal last March, the
vote was 79 to 20. The majority favoring repeal included all 45 of the
Senate's Republicans and 34 Democrats. The Democratic opposition to the
tax was particularly notable given that three years earlier Democrats voted unanimously to impose it.
So Reid would not reject a repeal provision if the House attaches it to
the continuing resolution, right? Wrong. At a news conference today,
Reid simultaneously denounced the tax — he quite pointedly called it
"stupid" — and pledged that he and his fellow Democrats would fight an
effort to repeal it in the continuing resolution.
There was something in the news about a year ago, a bunch of Democrats from states where businesses make medical devices went pleading to The Lightbringer to carve out some exemption, because they'd finally realized what this idiocy was going to do to those employers in their states. Now a LOT of them are realizing how it'll hit the makers and everybody who needs the stuff; but Reid... This count as Hope! or Change!! ?
Also from the slimy bastards in Congress, "We don't want to be treated like the commoners, we demand special treatment!"
Translation: "We tell Assad 'You must do this!', and if he doesn't we'll shake our fingers at him and use Stern Language."
At this point Assad and Putin have finished tearing up the lawn and are raiding the garage at the White House.
So Elijah Cummings is willing to literally have blood on his hands. Hey, but getting Issa and anyone around him killed wouldn't have been a big deal right? He's a Republican, and the people around would've fallen into the 'making omelet' category, right?
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Bugger the BBC
The royal mail (another state monopoly on communication) doesn't deliver to my door, they don't like my access road.
The person whos address they do drop my mail at, bins the regular harassing and threatening letters from the BBC.
They come in a series of about 4 letters, and begin with the BS that an investigation has been started, then threatening a house search - to see if I can receive live TV broadcasts, then telling me what I can expect in court.
After a while, the cycle repeats.
In Ireland, the dot guv has been trying to force everyone to buy a TV license on the basis that they might want to watch RTE (their profligate state propaganda broadcaster - just as unionized and full of job demarcations and other restrictive practices as the BBC) on a computer or a phone.
The Irish are good at civil disobedience, (well, better than the Brits anyway)
Myself, I don't want to watch or listen to propaganda, the radio in my vehicle is tuned to a comercial classical music station (which still has to get a dot guv license to operate and has to disseminate propaganda as part of the conditions of that license.
I'm just waiting for the house search, the bastards can rip the sumps and exhausts off their vehicles getting here, and there isn't a tv to be seen, plus they have my internet records...
Well thank the lucky stars it's not the USA enforcing it, they would send in a swat team and then shoot your dog, if you don't have a dog they would bring one with them to shoot. This of course having busted into your closest neighbours house by mistake and shooting their dog.
Swings and roundabouts. A friend's brother killed himself a few weeks back, the next day, my friend had the armed response unit (SWAT team) at his house to take his guns, he got them back a couple of days later - but still - not very nice
and, my next door neighbour - he's actually about quarter of a mile away - had the armed respnse unit out to visit him last summer, again to get his guns, which he l;ater got back.
most of them here aren't quite as gung ho as the american ones -yet.
but the lightening strikes are uncomfortably close.
Claire Wolfe has a couple of good posters up allong those lines
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2013/09/26/poster-and-meme/
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