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I'm Back .......Well Nearly

I’m Back …….Well Nearly

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Hi folks. Hope you are all keeping well. I’ve missed you. Hope you can say the same. I’m back, sort of. I had a sudden enforced blogging break thrust upon me when I received an SOS from a good friend of mine. His company was in need of help. I thought at the time that it would be a two week job at most, but when he said he was in trouble he wasn’t…

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The Mysterious Death Of A UN Secretary General

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Not quite up there with the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, but still a mystery, is the death of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjold who was killed in an airplane crash – some say assassinated – on September 17, 1961. On that fateful day, a Douglas DC-6 transport aircraft with Hammarskjöld on board crashed in the British-administered territory of…

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Education About Education

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Today a little education about education. First I’ll crunch some numbers, as I like to do. 4,726 = the number of colleges and universities United States. $589 billion = the amount spent by students annually. Of that figure, $393 billion = tuition fees, and $196 billion = expenses like travel and housing. 538% = the percentage increase of the cost of a…

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People, Places And Probably More – Quiz Day!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . People and places feature a lot in today’s quiz so if you’re good at those then you are in with a good chance of scoring well. You will also find out what the CIA has been up to with your tax dollars. Makes you proud! As usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating! Enjoy and good…

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Twitter Treasure

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Twitter is a good invention. It’s easy and fun. Much less demanding and intrusive than Facebook. So much so that many millions of people, from the famous to ordinary people like you and I, use it every day. On the back of that success the Twitter company is doing very well. But recently it did even better when its shares jumped four per cent in a matter…

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I’ve Heard Of A Plane Going Missing – But An Entire Airport???

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Bureaucrats lose things because they are incompetent and stupid. We all know that. My posts on the debacle at the US government’s Office of Personnel Management, where they lost over 21 million records of government employees and those who had applied for government jobs, was a good example. I though at the time I read about this and did my blog posts…

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America Just Can't Make It Anymore.

America Just Can’t Make It Anymore.

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . The statement in the title is not true, except that it is. If you are a little confused stay with me and let me clarify. The United States used to be the industrial power house of the world. Its industries generated unprecedented wealth for the country, creating the world’s first self-made billionaires and productive wealth creating jobs galore for…

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A Simile Is Like A Metaphor - Literally!

A Simile Is Like A Metaphor – Literally!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . I was going to introduce today’s post by saying some like “I hope you are having a pun-tastic week”, but I thought I would sound like a demented DJ from the 1970s. So I’ll just say hello and welcome and let you get on with the puns. Enjoy or endure!! . . Lite: the new way to spell “Light,” now with 20% fewer letters! . . I was asked to man the phones at…

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Should We Let The Tail Continue To Wag The Dog?

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . They say that nothing is free and in America that is certainly true as regards freedom of religious beliefs. If you are a Christian, that is. If you are a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Sikh, or a Buddhist, or even an atheist, the constitutional protections of your civil rights will be upheld and fought for by all and sundry. Silly looking people will hold up…

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Gray And White Matters.

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Yes, apparently gray and white matters as you will find out in one of today’s selection of unusual facts. Hope you enjoy the others as well. . . During the production of the video game Deus Ex, one of the artists forgot to add the Twin Towers to New York City. His mistake was explained by way of a terrorist attack. The year was 2000. . . Switzerland has…

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I Think I’ll Call This One The Vestal Virgin Quiz.

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Hello and welcome to the latest fasab quiz. I’ve called it the “Vestal Virgin Quiz”, you’ll find out why later, but even if you’re not a vestal virgin please feel free to take part. As usual you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating! Enjoy and good luck. . . Q. 1. What number does the Roman numeral ‘D’…

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Do You Really Want A Liar In The White House?

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . I ended a post last week that ended with the line, “If you want a liar in the White House there’s always Hillary.” Some people may have thought it a little harsh, particularly those who were considering voting for her, but harsh or not it is a fact. Her wayward husband Bill was a liar and he made President and impeachment. Now she is trying to carry on…

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There's No Fact-Checker Like A Fact-Checker Checker.

There’s No Fact-Checker Like A Fact-Checker Checker.

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . I’m a great man for facts. Even a cursory glance around my blog will confirm that. Every week I try to post some. Facts are good things. Many other people seem to like them too. Except for one particular group. Liberals. Facts always seem to get in the way of whatever it is they are trying to force us to accept. Enter Donald Trump into the story. The…

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Forget The Cold War, The Summer Is Here

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . The world breathed a great sigh of relief when the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, but somehow we’re in the middle of another cold war that nobody wants or needs. How did that happen? As most things do, it all started with a huge mistake. That mistake was the West, particularly America, treating Russia like a defeated country after 1991, instead of…

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I. O. U. A. Vowel

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . If you add a couple of consonants to one of those vowels you get PUN, which is rather convenient because today is pun day. You know what’s next. Enjoy or endure!! . . I really love my fanbase… without it my fan would fall over. . . When people ask me what my best quality is, I always tell them my second best quality is being mysterious. . .…

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She Said She Wouldn't - But She Did!

She Said She Wouldn’t – But She Did!

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . I wrote a post on July 3rd posing the question “Are government bureaucrats capable of looking after data they collect about us?” (if you want to read it click here. The question was, of course, rhetorical, because we all know that the stupid bureaucrats the government employs aren’t capable of looking after anything. The figure I quoted in that post…

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Take These Facts With A Pinch Of Salt (Water)

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy” . Mind you if you do take these facts with a pinch of salt water you’ll be richer than you were. Not by much though, but every little helps these days. But enough of this. Enjoy the facts. . . 1 liter of saltwater contains 13 billionths of a gram of gold . . The US military has a secret, nearly silent type of Velcro, which reduces the ripping noise by…

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