Understanding politics and business,or in reality how it doesn't work.

I thought I would share this with you after reading it on Rose of Ardens excellent blog.

Understanding politics and business.
Understanding politics and business is getting harder. The demarcation between politics and big business is becoming more and more blurred. If you have got a spare £100,000 you can have the ear of the politicians in high office. What do you get for your £100,000 the politicians would have you believe - breakfast or dinner. They would also have you believe its all totally above board.

 Here is a guide to understanding how it works, or in reality how it doesn't work!

Socialism: You have two cows and you chose to give one to your neighbour.

Communism: You have two cows and the state takes both and gives you some of your own milk.

Fascism: You have two cows then the state takes both and sells you some of your own milk.

Nazism: You have two cows. The state takes both of your cows and then shoots you.

Bureaucrat-ism: You have two cows. The state takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.

Capitalism: You have two cows.You sell one and buy a bull.Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.You sell them buy a boat and retire on the income.

Venture Capitalism: You have two cows.You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

American Corporation: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

 French Corporation: You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

Japanese Corporation: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and market it worldwide.

Italian Corporation: You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

Chinese Corporation: You have two cows.You have 300 people milking them.You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

 Indian corporation: You have two cows. You worship them.

 Spanish Corporation: You have two cows but owe Santander for 6. Nobody drinks milk.You have a siesta and read about the collapse of the Euro.

Greek Corporation: You lease two cows and pay somebody three times the going rate to milk them using borrowed money. You refinance the four cows to secure the services of Goldman Sachs. They sell the future milk production of the sixty cows and fund your lifestyle.You retire to anywhere that doesn't use the Euro.
 
British Corporation: You have two cows. Both are mad.

Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.You still have no cows, but at least you are now a democracy.

Australian Corporation: You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

New Zealand Corporation: You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

Argentinian Corporation: You don't have any cows. But you claim sovereignty over the ones belonging to your neighbour.

UK Boating - Videos.See Narrowboats,Marinas and the Canals on Video.

I thought I would share these programs with my overseas visitors to give them some idea of our Canals and Narrowboats together with their way of life which they might not realise exists in the UK.

This is the UK's only inland waterways television series which I hope is of interest.

Just click on the link below which will take you to the series home page.

http://www.uk-boating.tv/home

The link below is the first program.

http://www.uk-boating.tv/videos?vid=1

Pond Removal Due to Water Shortage

Last September I decided to have a lawn where the pond is as we are on a water meter and the forecast was not good for a lot of rain, now true to form we have a drought in the southern half of the UK.
I felt sorry for all the frogs that were going to be lost but more of that later. There were no fish to worry about as the heron had eaten them all the year before.

This is the pond before removal.

As you can see it was a right mess and something needed to be done.

Now you can see the same view with the pond removed ready to be seeded before the small stones were picked up.

We have had very little rain over winter which has affected the germination of the grass seed. Spot the join.

I thought I had removed all of the small flower bulbs before seeding but missed a few.

                                     I rather like them so there they will stay, here's a close up



And the frogs, they are happy as well in their new home.....

"OK wise guy where's it gone ? "

...my old photographic developing trays.

We Like this..

Ahhhh!!! that's better!



Dog Clears up the Litter on his Walks

I thought I would share this with all the dog lovers who read my blog.It comes from the Daily Mirror.

Sheepdog Meg sniffs out litter in her local park and drops it in the bin every day.

The six-year-old collie is so efficient the park is often clear by the time council cleaners arrive.

Owner Ken Pople, 69, said: “There are times when she will drop her ball and run off to put a can in the bin. It’s a sight to see.” Meg even shamed a gang of youths into picking up their litter.

Ken explained: “There was a group of young lads and girls and one of them had lobbed a can into the grass.
Meg picked it up and dropped it in the nearest bin."
“The boy’s reaction was to say, ‘That was f*****g awesome.’ So I was able to say, "Perhaps that has taught you a lesson."
“Later they put their rubbish into a bag and the lad gave me a thumbs up sign as he put it in the bin.”
Meg tidies up at a park in Great Cornard, Suffolk, and community warden Andy Nunny hopes to use her for an anti-littering campaign.He said :-

 “If a dog can be trained to put rubbish in the bin, surely people can learn to as well.”

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We live in hope.

Common Sugar Substitute Xylitol Can Be Deadly for Pets

I thought I would share this information with you after reading another blog regarding the sugar substitute  Xylitol.They were uncertain if it was poisonous to dogs; the answer is yes it is so please read the link I have added and pass it on to your friends who may be unaware that the sweets they are giving to their furry friends could kill them.

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/qt/xylitol_tox.htm

Walking the Dogs and Visiting the Canal

Weather wise it was a nothing day....no sun, no wind, no rain, not hot, not cold so a perfect day to walk the dogs at http://www.appledown.co.uk/  . First on the list is....

Toby

Toby is good with children and house trained, a typical Spaniel full of go, he was left at a kennels while his owners went on holiday and was never collected.Why owners are not honest and say they can't cope I don't know, a lovely dog looking for a good home.

Next was

Tiffany

Tiffany loves her walks,with a few tit bits in my pocket she stops pulling on the lead and I get her full attention. She has a bit of a cough but is nothing to worry about as this can soon be corrected.

For the second time I find I am walking

Sparkle

I walked Sparkle over a month ago so she is still waiting for a good owner. On the way round on her walk something must have worried her as she refused to move halfway round, I think the dogs being trained in the centre ring must have spooked her but a tit bit and encouragement got her going again.

I find using my small camera to try and take pictures of the dogs is a nightmare, hanging on with one hand to the lead and with the other getting the dog in focus and composing the shot.When I get time I will use my big camera with somebody else leading the dog which would be much better.

After my exercise I drove to http://www.canalholidays.co.uk/ on the Grand Union Canal but being a dull day it was not much good for pictures so this is all I managed before I had to get back home.

Next week I'll be in caring mode due to the sitters holiday so no outing for me that week.

Dog Afraid of the Vets