No-Visa Fee

So, when you need a visa to visit a country, you pay a fee, right? And if you don't, you don't, right? Wrong actually, if a US senator gets his way. He wants to charge people who don't need a visa to enter the USA.

This got me thinking about other charges government could think about levying on people who don't actually need things. Perhaps if you visit the doctor but don't actually need any medication, you could pay a non-prescription charge. Or if you don't go anywhere, you could pay a non-bus ticket. The homeless could pay non-rent, maybe.

Still, the USA obviously needs the money, as the proposers of the bill intend the government to pay $100,000,000 to a company to adminster the scheme!

Woolas gets a custard pie in the face

Something to cheer us all up at the end of the week. Simple but effective and apparently vegan .


Perhaps "Question Time" would have been a better option!

Any Manchester comrades have other pics or accounts ?

Jim Jay and men on the moon

I'm not sure what sparked this off, perhaps too much time on his hands this week as he is on leave, but Jim Jay has put up a poll as to whether men have walked on the moon.

Jim seems a little irritated by the conspiracy theorists :

Look, I'm sick of this - men have been to the Moon and come back to tell the tale. No - it does not make you radical to deny this.

I know I have no personal evidence that this is the case - but it is. Accept it! This is conspiracy theories gone mad for Goodness Sake. You don't have to question everything that's ever happened you know, you really don't.

I'm posting up a poll (see right hand column), to close the last day of the month, asking readers "Have men walked on the Moon"? Do not disappoint me readers.

I'm not putting a don't know option either because you blooming well do!

Now for some reason, even though I am sure men have walked on the moon, its very tempting to vote no. Just to be annoying and silly and because he is beating me at facebook scrabble. I urge you all to do the same!

Pic pinched from Jim as I'm being lazy today re blogging.