A Spanish Banking Shock: The Supreme Court has ruled that Bankia must refund two retail investors for intentionally misleading them over the state of its finances in the IPO brochure. The floodgates are now wide open for thousands of fresh new claims. As you'll recall, this is one of the 4 huge challenges to Spanish banks identified by Don Quijoñes.
Gender
Identity: Things have now reached this
pass:-
Cisgendered: Per the OED, this is: The opposite of transgendered, someone
who is cisgendered has a gender identity that agrees with their
societally recognised sex. In other
words, 'normal'.
Mx:
A gender-neutral prefix intended for
people who don’t identify as Mr., Ms., Mrs., or Miss.
Or, as the OED now puts it:- Mx (noun): a title used before
a person’s surname or full name by those who wish to avoid
specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify
themselves as male or female.
Oh,
happy days! Can we now look forward to our (predicted) talking pets
demanding this treatment?
Constructive
Detention: This seems to be a new
doctrine. Viz. If, of your own accord,
you flee from someone/something (including the rule of law) and lock
yourself in a foreign embassy, you are illegally constructively
detained and must be compensated for this by who or what you have
fled from.The
mind does tend to boggle at the questions this raises. Perhaps it
only applies in cases where the UN panel sees political machinations
behind due process. In which case, they should say so.
The
EU: Some nice stuff for those interested in this fine, but
troubled, institution:-
The
Guardian: The EU no longer serves the people of Europe.
The
Telegraph: EU bigwigs use private jets to journey even short distances.
Ambrose
Evans Pritchard: The crippled EU is no longer the arnarcho-imperial monster we once feared.
Do
I detect a growing view that, whether the UK leaves it or not, the EU
will be dead within 10-15 years, under what I've always called the
weight of its internal incongruities? Possibly earlier if the Brexit
does happen.
Finally
. . . After reading all that, you'll need a dose of the late George Carlin's
humour. Here
he is on the the people who should be slaughtered. I couldn't fault him.
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