So, let me get this straight, OK? Just be quiet, don't ask inconvenient questions, and pass our New Zealand VAT and everything will be just peachy keen?

Is that it? That the Yellow Brick Road? Just want to make sure I understand this.

Thanks.

Silly me, here I'd spent most my sixty years believing that the power to tax is the power to destroy and that no society in history ever taxed itself into prosperity and that VAT taxes in particular harm everyone, business and customer alike. Silly me, what do I know? Guess we should all become like socialist Europe and New Zealand.

The minute anyone allows a thug to tie them up, they're dead. Never ever let them do that. Resist by every possible means. There's only one reason they tie their victims - it makes them easier to kill.

Criminals are cowards. Resist them with everything you've got.

Are you certain my great grandmother is dead? How can you be sure? lol

Dr. Minnis' comment is entirely understandable, appropriate, and apt. The plane is lost, and there's quite a bit of skepticism over the vague, shifting tales told by the media.

Turning off transponders, as the press falsely claims, does not render aircraft invisible to radar. It just makes the visible blips on the radar screen unidentified. But the press continues to tell this fanciful tale.

We're told the Malay military noted the aircraft was 'hundreds of miles off course' according to their radar screens. Highly doubtful, aircraft are loaded with fuel sufficient to get them to their destination with a slight reserve, flying hundreds of miles off course suggests someone deliberately overfilled the aircraft with for ulterior motives.

When the Malay military noted the plane was 'hundreds of miles off course', what action did it take? They don't say. Or did they just switch off the radar and go watch something better on TV?

Dr. Minnis' comparison was spot-on, no apology needed. And the plane is still lost, perhaps as some learned observers speculate, it's sitting in Pakistan, being refitted for some curious future purpose.

Well, the guys go messing about with the girlies, this often is the result.

As physicians of old long noted,

"A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury."
- timeless medical adage

No society, no nation, every taxed itself into prosperity, quite the contrary.

The reek of the rockefelons and their globaloney pals is in the air; a few crumbs for we the people of all nations, so that the Elites can enjoy a lifetime of perpetual pie-eating contests.

TalRussell -

Quite right you are, sir. The chicoms' eyes and ears are everywhere, and they miss nothing. They have a long history of gathering intelligence and outright gossip and turning it to their advantage.

They miss nothing. Enjoyed reading your post.

Agree. Gun-control increases crime by shifting the balance of power to the criminal, who becomes empowered to prey on defenseless citizens.

Two hundred years ago, the founders of Criminology, Cesare Becaria and Cesare Lombroso, noted that nations which permited citizens to own firearms enjoyed low rates of crime while those nations which denied their citizens their right to own firearms suffered high rates of crime.

Hitler attacked every nation in Europe but for one, Switzerland. He knew that every Swiss citizen was armed and would defend his life, family and country.

Admiral Yamamoto, during World War II, counseled his superiors to not even consider attacking the American mainland 'for behind every blade of grass lies a man with a rifle'.

If as the leftist anti-gun ghouls love to quack, guns are so dangerous, then with more than three hundred million guns known to exist legally in America - not counting a likely equal number of illicit firearms - we should surely have dropped like flies long ago.

But instead we're healthy, because guns are not evil nor do they endanger anyone or cause crime. Criminals do all that, and History tells us that criminals will always have all the guns they desire regardless of any and all laws.

In America, beginning with southern and western states as well as Alaska, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont and then in other states which saw their low crime rates, gun laws have been steadily relaxed for thirty or more years. Concealed Carry Permits are now issued regularly to citizens who pass thorough background checks.

In southern, western and other states such as those above, crime rates are low and decreasing. In states which still deny their citizens' rights to own firearms such as New York, Illinois, and California, crime remains high and often on the increase.

If you want less crime, allow citizens their right to own firearms if they so desire. If you want more crime, by all means pass 'good, strict, gun control laws' so that only criminals will have them, and will hence be free to prey on disarmed, defenseless citizens.

A guy with that kinda dough, seems it'd be a whole lot easier just to build a new lighthouse to look like the old original, rather than go thru all the expense & trouble of moving it.

Technology is nice stuff, but lighthouses remain vital and are a long way from obsolete. East End has long been my favorite, and it was a thrill recently to see Great Isaac lit up & flashing.