I’m wondering when there’ll be a switch to democrats being much keener on second amendment rights, Madison did write on how militia would be a defence against an oppressive federal army.
1 Like
You guys have no idea how much I savored this article
Worth a million I told you so’s
2 Likes
Mark Carney, the most likely candidate to succeed Trudeau as Liberal Party Leader and PM, warned UK voters about the economic perils of voting for Brexit in the lead up to the vote. As the then governor of the Bank of England he was heavily chastised by the Conservative government for “bringing politics” into his Bank of England role despite the fact that his comments were economic-focused.
In his earlier role as Governor of the Bank of Canada, he stick-handled Canada through the 2008 financial crisis without the consequences the US faced.
Mark Carney has my vote when the new Liberal Party Leader is chosen on March 9. Best person to deal with Trump and our economy.
1 Like
I’m assuming he was pro-Brexit?
No. He was always in the Remain camp.
What makes it important is that he is criticising Brexit backers openly in a right-of-centre paper (this is the important bit. The editors of that paper were pro-Brexit and have now changed their tack).
There has been a type of omerta going on about the damage Brexit has been causing by UK politicians over the last few years, and this is causing a lot of problems (economic and social). They have been doing this as to not upset some of the voters that voted Brexit (this is totally absurd at this point in time given the scale of the economic damage).
Clarkson can be annoying on some issues, but lots of people look up to him (because of Top Gear and his farming series), and he has a way of mocking people that really cuts through in the UK (humour over here can be quite biting and sarcastic).
I fully expect this piece to go viral in the UK as it now points to criticising Brexit and its damage is now mainstream.
Yeah, the guns in your home won’t keep the feds out. That’s a fantasy.
Do you have parents who might need long-term care for multiple years? Because a lot of states have filial responsibility laws on the books that they don’t generally enforce because of Medicaid. But that could change on a dime.
Point taken…although it’s not currently a concern for us. (I no longer have close blood relatives, and my wife’s close family is in a state with no filial responsibility laws on the books.)
Also, unless you’ve REALLY got " FU" levels of wealth, you’re vulnerable to whatever the hell happens to the US dollar as a result of all the crypto shenanigans. Most people’s assets these days are based in faith in electrons on a screen.
1 Like
Yeah, I don’t think the founders anticipated professional armies. If it came to that, it would require mass defections for states to have a chance.
It’s a little more than that.
Similar language exists in several of the state constitutions of that time. It’s almost as if the Founders had developed a negative attitude towards Redcoats being stationed in the colonies in peacetime to bolster Parliament’s decrees.
The Second Amendment debate would be a bit different if that model had been adopted in the federal constitution, rather than Jefferson reusing his more poetic language from Virginia’s constitution.
Guns in one home won’t keep the feds out.
Lots of guns in lots of homes wouldn’t keep the feds out…but it would cause them to pause, at first.
Sadly, because so many people are idiots…it would cause other problems.
1 Like
To quote a famous historical book, “♪So, what did I miss?♪”
Record year in UK - £585M
Quite low compared to US, even with the population difference, which is in the 10’s of billions
Those famous hurricanes that made landfall in England. 
More stories about Reeves are now coming out in the media.
This was an expense scandal from her time as a complaints manager at HBOS.
She is definitely being teed up for resignation now.
1 Like
Could be some good material in there for a 6 part Amazon prime series.
I was in the US at the time but the UK around the time of the GFC had a lot of people who abused corporate expenses.
Its one of the main reasons they have clamped down so hard on them over the last 15 years.
Fiddling your expenses is a sure fire way of getting fired on the spot now in the UK. Straight out the door really.
Back in her time, they usually pushed you to resign before the investigation concluded. This avoided some bad publicity for the company (HBOS had very bad public perception due to some small business loan scandals) and also let the expense fiddler (s) continue on with their career (s).
This also explains why she went from the private sector (HBOS) to the public sector, as she would have had a very hard time re-entering the private sector at a senior role with that reference floating around.
This is why you should never lie about professional stuff on your CV and/or industry publications.
Its like a figerprint. Very easy to go back and check.
RR is in trouble here. Economy is tanking and her credibility is damaged. She has been caught in way too many lies.
Was posted in this thread before, but the privatised water sector in the UK is basically failing.
This is largely due to taking on way too much debt (to pay excessive dividends), and doing the bare minimum investment wise (so the infrastructure is falling apart in many places or is simply over-whelmed).
The proposed increase in bills this year is absolutely eye-watering for some areas (Thames water and Southern specially).
The cost of living issues in the UK are definitely not going away anytime soon.
1 Like
They should go after the C-suite and board people who made the debt/dividend decisions as well as the major stockholders at the time. Rip back as much money as they can. Let those execs and board members retire as middle class at best.
I think the lesson would be salutary effect going forward.