This is one thing I liked about Clinton...during his first year I think it was, he established a major paper reduction act....
On Mar 10, 11:57 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant 'old girl' (as grim a patronising term from Bulldog Drummond > as can be mustard given this investigatory turn). There has not been > a better from since I tried to get Great Manchester Police to cut down > on unnecessary forms and they issued a form to cut down on forms > (though I subsequently discovered there was no form to requisition > that form). No doubt what we all desperately need is a European > Administrative Bureau in order to cut down on administration. Its > buildings should be small, beautiful (architect-designed), stacked > with looted art (oops - I mean 'specially commissioned') and generally > a cure for the massive unemployment that traditionally leads us to > war. Perhaps the main occupation of its anti-bureaucrat bureaucrats > could be 'cutting the mustard'? > > On 10 Mar, 16:25, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Have you ever tried to get an adequate response by using the following > > form? > > >http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/admin-burdens-reduction/form_en.htm > > > On 10 Mrz., 13:33, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The modern Nazis who were installed in our bureaucracies long ago to > > > rise again. It is far too hard to stand up against injustice in our > > > supposedly free societies. 'The Boys From Brazil' got it all wrong - > > > it's more like Robert Harris' 'Ghost' in which a poorly concealed > > > Cherie Blair is CIA. > > > > On 10 Mar, 11:10, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Who is they? > > > > > On 10 Mrz., 11:43, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > And who will they turn on when all the rose gardens are dead? > > > > > > On 9 Mar, 11:57, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Don't worry, we won't take away your gravy and custard again. And > > > > > > for > > > > > > his sausages I have taught my son to prefer mustard to ketchup. > > > > > > > On 9 Mrz., 00:48, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > And the Germans have invaded Humour, or so it seems! > > > > > > > > On 8 Mar, 19:00, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Rosenspray & Guildenstern are dead! > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mrz., 19:52, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > LOL - we shall have to start Rosenspraying our politicians > > > > > > > > > instead of > > > > > > > > > custarding them. > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mar, 15:38, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Too late, it's already been > > > > > > > > > > produced:http://www.pflanzotheke.de/shop/exec/product/804/12773/Combi-Rosenspr... > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mrz., 11:38, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Produce the vaccine Gabby - I tend to prefer truly > > > > > > > > > > > scientific > > > > > > > > > > > solutions. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7 Mar, 18:52, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I wouldn’t want to live in your perfect rose garden, > > > > > > > > > > > > although it > > > > > > > > > > > > smells nice in there. To me, vaccination seems the more > > > > > > > > > > > > liberating > > > > > > > > > > > > form of protection against the dark of the night. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7 Mrz., 16:40, archytas <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Small is beautiful was the title of a book by EF > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Fritz) Schumacher. > > > > > > > > > > > > > It impressed me when I was impressionable and I was > > > > > > > > > > > > > involved with the > > > > > > > > > > > > > cooperative-commonwealth movement for a while - > > > > > > > > > > > > > mostly trying to keep > > > > > > > > > > > > > a few jobs afloat. I then read his 'Guide for the > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perplexed' - you > > > > > > > > > > > > > could almost imagine an Errol Flynn style sword fight > > > > > > > > > > > > > amongst us to > > > > > > > > > > > > > get to it! It was rubbish. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is much in the notion of doing things small > > > > > > > > > > > > > though, especially > > > > > > > > > > > > > now we could globalize on a fair basis. Free markets > > > > > > > > > > > > > and such have > > > > > > > > > > > > > always been unreal in many senses - almost in the way > > > > > > > > > > > > > that > > > > > > > > > > > > > epistemology tends to boil down to conditions of > > > > > > > > > > > > > existence. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Something, frankly, has to protect them from > > > > > > > > > > > > > banditry. Ideology > > > > > > > > > > > > > always seems to lapse to idiocy at the point we could > > > > > > > > > > > > > be doing > > > > > > > > > > > > > something - a bit like that point in science when > > > > > > > > > > > > > there is a critical > > > > > > > > > > > > > experiment that will bring research programmes > > > > > > > > > > > > > together. We could be > > > > > > > > > > > > > trying all sorts of stuff in a spirit of protected > > > > > > > > > > > > > competition. The > > > > > > > > > > > > > thinking doesn't have to be small and can range from > > > > > > > > > > > > > anything from > > > > > > > > > > > > > using satellite photographs to chose plant types, > > > > > > > > > > > > > fertiliser amounts - > > > > > > > > > > > > > on to the creation of small, metaphorically gated > > > > > > > > > > > > > communities to help > > > > > > > > > > > > > give us roots and handle policing and so on. Much of > > > > > > > > > > > > > my eventual > > > > > > > > > > > > > reasoning on this involves insurance agreements > > > > > > > > > > > > > amongst communities > > > > > > > > > > > > > globally and cutting out the viler forms of > > > > > > > > > > > > > bureaucratic waste (like > > > > > > > > > > > > > overpaid bwankers and lawyers) - our aims would > > > > > > > > > > > > > probably centre on > > > > > > > > > > > > > resilience.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
