Public service announcement

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A while back I mentioned that Olly Cromwells site was having problems, it’s still down and his provider are being oddly silent, however he’s back on a new address and still on form. So if you’ve been missing young Mr Cromwells florid prose you can currently find him on:
http://thebexleyone.wordpress.com/
An account of the trials and tribulations with his previous hosting provider can be found in the first post.

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Credit where credit’s due

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In the past I haven’t been shy of giving the whole occupy movement a hard time, and i still think that much of what they do is ill thought out, inconsistent and rather ludicrous. However just as even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the Occupy mob over on Wall Street have actually come up with a rather sterling idea. Their jolly wheeze is to follow the example of the usual residents of that street and buy up bundles of cheap debt, but instead of then going after the debtor and hounding them for the money, they plan to just write it off. I seem to recall some beardy hippy in the middle east observing a few thousand years ago how much forgiveness really screws with the system.


Occupy Wall Street Is Buying And Paying The 99%’s Debt

“We buy debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, we abolish it. We cannot buy specific individuals’ debt – instead, we help liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal.”

The organizing web site can be found at: rollingjubilee.org and more power to their elbow I say for as long as it lasts. I do wonder if once their buyer has been identified if the debt bundles they get won’t be quite as cheap and random as they might normally be but then I’m a suspicious sort like that. Now if Occupy over here could come up with something equally useful…

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A Bunni I’ve never read

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Being a heartless Libertarian ™ and a follower of blogs written by other such types, the plight of a certain Amusing Bunni has been drawn to my attention. The full story is obviously on their blog, but in short they’ve been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and not long to live. Cancer is never good news and in the states it’s also quite expensive, so please go over to their blog and donate a few cents to help them out. The inestimable Leg Iron is auctioning his fine hand crafted smoking man’s ride so you could always go on bid on that instead/as well.

Being the heartless Libertarian ™ type who also was uncouth enough to go to University when you still got grant’s I’m just donating as we lost our Chaplin to liver cancer and it’s not a particularly nasty way to go – so this is for you Dazza.

Update just thought I’d share this comment from Bunni left on Leg Iron’s Journal:

“Leggy! Thank you so much for your post! I appreciate your caring about me and helping me in such an artistic and unique way. I am truly honored. To give of yourself so generously is very heartwarming, and I am blessed to have such a great friend.
 
Please post a piccy of your masterpiece when it is done. Also, let me know the email addy and name of the person who ultimately wins it, so I know who to look out for on my paypal notification list of donations! I wish people would leave notes on the donation, because it publishes the email addy they use, and their real names. 75% of the people who help me, I don’t know their screen name or the email, and I don’t know “who’s who”, so to speak. There is their name, and then I can’t figure out who they are! Well, they all are generous saints in my book. People I’ve never met, and who I don’t even know if they read my blog, or how they found me, and being so generous! One of life’s great mysteries.
 
I can honestly say my death will be more peaceful, knowing I’m loved and cared for so much by our world of bloggers! I could never feel alone or ignored with all of you on my side.
Thank you and have a fun weekend, raise several drinkies on my behalf! Cheers.”

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