A Scotsman has been jailed for riding a jet-ski across the Irish Sea to spend some time with his girlfriend. Dale McLaughlan, 28, was sentenced to four weeks in prison for the 25-mile journey from Scotland’s Isle of Whithorn to the Isle of Man, after his trip was found to break coronavirus rules. “The craziest thing is he can’t even swim,” said a relative, adding that he’s a “nice lad but thick as a brick”. (The Week 3/23/2021)`
My comment: What could she say after that?
A psychic who uses asparagus to see into the future has predicted that Prince Harry will return the UK next year, unaccompanied by wife Meghan. After throwing asparagus into the air, Jemima Packington, 64, the world’s only asparamancer, said: “What we have here, very interesting, is the letter H. We have two spears plus a crossbar here. I don’t see any M at all whatsoever. I see no letter M, but I do see letter H coming into the fold.”
My comment: It takes all sorts. I rather think that Epicurus was a cheerful, tolerant man, who would laugh and maybe pretend that an “asparamancer” had something useful to say, a sort of amateur philosopher. For myself I don’t much care where Harry and Meghan go, together or apart. And I am a pro-monarchist, for what it’s worth.
The distribution of white supremacist propaganda nearly doubled across the US in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which recorded 5,125 incidents of racist, antisemitic and other hateful messages, averaging around 14 cases a day. This compared with 2,724 in 2019.
My reaction : Firstly, we are all human beings. Secondly, there is nothing inherently superior about a white skin. I know because I have one. What distinguishes a white man from a black man is access to education and better job prospects.
Many years ago, in Southern Mexico, I met a Mexican man who introduced himself as the leader of a Mexican nationalist organization dedicated to recovering lands of the South Western American States, lost in the 19th Century to US superior arms. “No further war, he told me. But we have a huge birth rate, and the strategy is to encourage our people to peacefully cross the border and recreate the Hispanic lands.”
”That is going to cause ructions in the US, however peaceful”, I said. His reply was, “We will divide them. Spanish language and culture will eventually be restored in the lands that belong to us”. (A dubious proposition – the lands were not Spanish or Mexican, but native American Indian. Never mind). What he forecast in 1963, nearly sixty years ago, is coming slowly to pass. Along with a poor white backlash.
And no one in the US seems to have heard of this rather well-kept secret!
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in The Sunday Telegraph
For years many of the richest people in the United States have avoided paying their fair share of taxes thanks to a deliberately underfunded IRS that is incapable of aggressively policing wealthy tax cheats. So much money that is rightly owed to the IRS is being unpaid that, by simply giving the IRS more resources, the federal government can bring in trillions of dollars without raising tax rates whatsoever. (Ching Huang, Patriotic Millionaires)
My comment: Kill several birds with one stone – hire a whole lot of people for the IRS, hammer the cheats, increase employment and steady (or even start reducing) the massive national debt. Seems a no-brainer.
