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The World's Most Expensive Food?
The Telegraph reported this week that a group of Japanese students were charged around £970 for a simple meal of steak and fish washed down with mineral water. We can only imagine their bemusement on receiving the bill, and congratulate them on having the sense to involve the police.
Jo WolforthPublished 6 years ago in The SwampIn the Land of Naughty Wheat Fields and Broken Promises
Dear Theresa, We've got to talk. Let's begin with a statement you recently made. You were being interviewed, pretty casually I suppose, and the reporter asked you about the naughtiest thing you've ever done. Remember what you said? No? Let's recap: "I mean I have to confess, when me and my friends used to run through fields of wheat, the farmers weren't too pleased about that." You chuckled a bit. It was slightly nauseating.
Chelsea KendrickPublished 6 years ago in The SwampOur Weak and Wobbly Leader
Theresa May stated that there would be no general election repeatedly but then on Tuesday 18th, April 2017, she stood outside 10 Downing Street and announced that she was calling a general election, to take place on the 8th, June 2017. That was one of a few u-turns made by the prime minister of Great Britain, one other was the dementia tax that was proposed in the conservative manifesto but after the outrage it caused she backtracked and it never came to fruition.
Martyn ColemanPublished 6 years ago in The SwampGummy Bears and Donald Trump
I had to allow myself to have gummy bears for breakfast in order to forgive myself for the angry thoughts that I have held for so long about Mr. Trump. After all, he’s only human. I’m guessing he was raised up by folks who only valued one thing. How to make money. Maybe he grew up in poverty like my parents did and vowed to never ever have to live like that once he got older. I don’t know his history, nor do I need to in order to deliver my message through this article.
Missy ConleyPublished 6 years ago in The SwampBest Political Documentaries on Netflix You Can Stream Right Now
Being informed has never been more important than it is right now, especially when you consider how our leaders have begun passing unpopular bills under the cover of darkness. An uninformed electorate is perhaps the greatest threat to our democracy, and the best political documentaries on Netflix can play a role in changing that.
Bill ShaffirPublished 6 years ago in The SwampSnide and Prejudiced: A UKIP Love Story
Who would be the leader of UKIP? If it was a choice between that, and dunking your love spuds into a bucket of chum and then dangling them into a shark-infested tank whilst loudly critiquing the Jaws films, then I’d happily choose the latter.
The Year in Review: Assessing President Trump's First Year in Office
Today is January 20th, and that means that Donald Trump has been in office for a year. Yes, we're still alive. No, none of us thought that he would still be in office at this point. And yes, he shouldn't have stepped foot into the White House in the first place.
Jonathan SimPublished 6 years ago in The SwampPersonal Responsibility and the Law
I read in the press of so many situations where a person claims they were drunk and so could not have given consent to a subsequent act. If the media is to be believed, and this is increasingly unlikely, lawyers appear to be trying to persuade the courts that these claims are valid in law.
Peter RosePublished 6 years ago in The SwampGovernment Shutdown Actually Costs Money
This is an on going series of why you can't drain the swamp. What we immediately began to realize when we studied how Government works is it never is what it seems. The idyllic dream of getting everyone out of office so that a new group of responsible people could represent the taxpaying public has just taken another detour. Why work to get paid when you can just shut down and get paid more? Most people when they hear the Government has to shut down immediately think that both sides can't agree and so this inconvenience to the taxpaying public is a result of their incompetence. Quite the contrary. Sure it's an inconvenience to the taxpaying public but that is not all it is. It actually costs "more money" to run the government when its shut down then when its open (article). Did they hear "more money?" Why don't they just run it in a shutdown state all the time?So rather than being incompetent, the elected officials are actually exercising their competency. The problem all has to do with perception. The taxpaying public has the perception that these supposedly honorable people are exhibiting such moral high ground that they will become servants of the people for the greater good of society.Think about that for a second. Why would a well educated, highly intelligent, wealthy, and powerful person submit themselves to becoming a servant? Everything about what they have achieved to this point in their life and the people they chose to surround themselves with says just the opposite. They hire servants and pay them as little as possible. Do you think they are going to become a servant? Have they convinced you it's worth being a servant if you pay them enough? Have they convinced you the greater good is actually being served? Isn't the whole point of wanting to drain the swamp to get people like them out of there? If they were really serving you and had the greater good in mind wouldn't they stay as far away from that place as possible?Apparently, they have a swamp in Washington D.C. that needs draining they would like to sell you.So when the opportunity arises to join an elite group of people who are using group psychology to convince the taxpaying public they are their servants so they can amass the ultimate in wealth and power, why in the world would they suddenly jump ship and become a good Samaritan? Hint: They wouldn't!Rather isn't this the moment, they are in the zone and everything about who they are and what they are about is like a fine-tuned machine out to screw anyone and everyone and make themselves the ultimate beneficiary. The best part of all is all they have to do is take a few acting classes to make it appear they care. Certainly, at this point, they don't know how to do that by themselves anymore. So when everyone is counting on them to keep the government functioning, since it obviously won't function efficiently or effectively anymore, they step it up another notch. Working together to secretly achieve a government shutdown while running around blaming it on each other. This allows the seeming financial chaos to actually orchestrate even more funding for them to distribute to additional points they deem necessary. It's like legal euphoria!It makes you wonder why Hollywood doesn't give them the Oscar. The acting job being performed so well, by so many, for so long, puts to shame any basic movie that is produced out west. These guys and gals are in a league all their own. The best part of all is its always someone else's fault. We're already 20 trillion in debt and there is no end in sight to that. Even if they had a balanced budget and stopped deficit spending immediately, it will still take them more than a century to pay it off. That's three generations! Doesn't it just make you wonder what other nonsense they will think up next?
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in The SwampReligious Allegiance
The relationship between American patriotism and dissent has a significant history of both overlapping coexistence and frank opposition, revealing a semi-consistent series of debates on the grounds of religion and politics that began during the American independence movement and continue to be debated to this day. The presidency of George W. Bush reestablished a sense of patriotism in American politics through religious foundational ideas after the 9/11 bombings, causing a reasonable amount of dissent among the non-Christian American population. Court cases calling to question the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, such as Everson v. New Jersey Board of Education, have a history of creating conflict between state governments and religious organizations.
Josh WhiteheadPublished 6 years ago in The SwampScottish Tory MPs Vote For Their Careers Against Scotland
What Happened January 17, 2018 showed that Scottish Tory MPs, having huffed and puffed about preserving devolution, decided to vote for preserving their careers. Like good little lap dogs they voted with their mistress, against a Labour amendment that would have preserved devolution as it was defined in 1998. Had they voted the other way, the amendment would have passed. By doing so, they threatened the careers of their counterparts in the Scottish Parliament and made the murder of the Scottish Parliament much more likely.
Axel P KulitPublished 6 years ago in The SwampFISA Memo Reveals Corrupt Officials
After a long year of accusations and fraudulence and what is already old news to some, truth has surfaced and reached the Entirety of the House Of Representatives in Washington D.C on Thursday. A truth In the form of a four-page long FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Memo, in which provides hard evidence into the abuse of power, intelligence weaponization and sinister political corruption of the FBI and DoJ (Department of Justice). In deceit with the Clinton Campaign, Fusion-GPS and Obama Administration, they funded and fabricated a fake Russian Dossier-a 17 page memo in which former M16 agent and head desk of Russian House Christopher Steele contributed to writing. This was then used to conspire against and blackmail president Trump and open the Robert Mueller investigation while illegally spying on him.
Beautiful SurrenderPublished 6 years ago in The Swamp