Earlier this year, I made reference to Cynthia McKinney a US Congresswoman, who allegedly struck a police officer, after he tried to stop her from going through a security checkpoint. Apparently all he wanted to do was to check her identity, to ensure that the nation’s elected officials were properly protected.
Miss McKinney has now lost her Democratic Party’s nomination, in a recent primary defeat. Good riddance.
First they want a tax cut, now they don’t. Seven Democrats have now come out against a cut in salaries tax and more profits tax. The Democrats should remember that taxation is theft and it penalizes the productive.
A very late and quick review of yesterday’s SCMP. According to the post:
Former Iranian president Khatami claims that free speech is to blame for the current riots. No, Mr. Khatami the ones to blame are radical Islam, the Iranian leadership and the rioters that came out onto the streets and participated in the violent protests.
Canning Fok, Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa’s 3G service in Italy is blaming a lack of education for investors not wanting to pay about $9 billion dollars for an interest in the 3G service. I am not a fan of 3G yet, and I am wondering whether wireless might lead to the premature death of 3G.
Henry Tang has appointed Emily Lau as vice-chairman of the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee(BFAC), which is supposed to help businesses by reducing outdated rules and regulations. There first meeting is on Tuesday and my suggestion that if they really want to help business, that the first order of business should be to remove Ms Lau from the BFAC.
It seems that a local communist study group has been giving me some free publicity on their website. Of course given communism’s bloody history including the deaths of over 50 million people, I won’t be returning the favour, just a strong moral condemnation to a website that should know that communism has resulted in so many deaths. This is because both communists (and national socialist or Nazi’s) rely on the idea that the interests and lives of the individual must be sacrificed; the first says to the collective, the second to the country or fuhrer.
