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Ken Livingstone: “A gay banker in Dubai could have his penis chopped off”
Ken Livingstone, who caused controversy last week by saying that the Conservative Party was “riddled” with homosexuals, has made headlines again after saying in an interview, that a gay banker living in Dubai would have his penis cut off.
The Labour London Mayoral candidate was talking to the Metro about fears of a possible banking exodus in the light of potential new business legislation.
Livingstone had deemed Geneva too boring and Shanghai too risky (revolution apparently), before he unleashed his comment about Dubai.
Source metro.co.uk
“I will gladly go to jail for a month in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.”
Joey Barton
US private sector job creation since Obama came to power
The stimulus vs austerity, Keynes vs Heyak, debate has been at the forefront of Western political discourse since the financial prolapse.
Parties’ stance in relation to it has settled elections. While the Tories advocated a slash slash slash policy to cure Britain economic woes, America went the route of stimulus.
And the first results of that debate appear to be looking pretty good for the Keynesians. While private sector job creation in Britain has faultered and regressed, the US has seen 13 consecutive months of private sector job creation.
Source barackobama.com
Joey Barton tweets to be investigated by attorney general
The attorney general’s office has said that it is investigating a series of tweets by QPR midfielder Joey Barton regarding the John Terry trial.
Grieve’s office will presumably be looking at whether Barton’s tweets to his 1.1 million followers were prejudicial to Terry’s case, and therefore render Barton in contempt of court.
Barton has responded in typically bullish fashion:
US President John Tyler’s grandson calls Gingrich big jerk
John Tyler, the US’s tenth president was born in 1790, and incredibly still has two grandchildren alive today. The younger of whom, Harrison Tyler, has called republican nomination contender Newt Gingrich, a “big jerk”.
Tyler fathered 15 kids, including Lyon Tyler born in 1853, who, in his early 70s, fathered Harrison and his brother Gardiner, in 1924 and 1928 respectively.
Aside from the amazing fact that they their grandfather was born the same year of George Washington’s first state of the union address, and while Pitt the Younger was the British Prime Minister, Harrison Tyler has made headlines this week after revealling that he thought Republican co-front runner, Gingrich was a bit of dick “for leaving his wives”.
Source politico.com
VOTE: Is Salmond’s proposed referendum question biased?
Well, before we see what the experts have to say, here’s the question Salmond is proposing:
“Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?”
Hardly takes an expert to spot that extraneous biasing subclause does it? It seems that the question itself thinks that Scotland should be an independant nation.
“NY TIMES: “Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made $27 million in 2010. They held millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account and millions more in partnerships in the Cayman Islands. His family’s trusts sold thousands of shares in Goldman Sachs that were offered to favored clients when the storied investment house first went public. The couple’s effective federal tax rate for the year worked out to 13.9 percent, a rate typical of households earning about $80,000 a year. Yet the hundreds of pages of tax documents released by Mr. Romney’s campaign on Tuesday morning did not readily reveal any elaborate financial legerdemain or exotic tax shelters. What Mr. Romney’s returns illustrated, instead, was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich, allowing Mr. Romney to amass wealth under rules very different from those faced by most Americans who take home a paycheck.”
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Newt Gingrich promises permanent moon base
…And half jokes that the moon will be another American colony.
In fairness, listen to the way Newt phrases this: “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.”
The operative words there being: “by the end of my second term,” by which most rational might rightfully assume he means: “after hell freezes over”.
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalised and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.”
Fidel Castro
