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Poor Martin

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Scene   Cabinet secretaries room   Sir Hum . Do the press ever get anything I get him to say right ?  Arnold      You do OK mate !     Even without my help    Think of Poor Martin  Luther He started a worldwide word led whirlwind, and his only helpmate was a woman!!   Plus ,she , like him, had taken vows of poverty and had heaps to do looking after all the people who wanted to talk to her mate.  Bern What about their house?-it was a mansion.  Sir H   Those were the days before this dumb blinkered era when we measure everything by the value our houses.God help us !  It was public property, as it often should be  and like all those who lived in it , only theirs while they made it work ! He had lectures to give as well as lead two churches one of which was the resident Lord's . Both churches are still there  as is this picture and words of Luther in the foyer .     Sir H   ...

Lock em up -- will we be next ?

  Bern Is it ever possible for the public to realize how pathetically incompetent the leaders of the house are?  Sir H not if they keep offering jail terms to those who ignore or disobey them. Locking things up works and always look like a solution  to some simpletons.   Bern   But then the jails are full, people are cancelled and thinking people have the sense that we are not seriously avoiding quick fix .  Sir H    Very good question, If the leaders have a scapegoat for all their meddling in managing people and things (real ecomanagement is too hard much like hard work for them ), they can distract the easily distracted screen watchers .     The thing that keeps them live is to always, when past solutions fail, is to offer the public a new way out of jail. One that doesn't involve yet another sacrifice by the audience personally.  A distraction. A cancelling.  Bern    Local government agencies are ca...

The best original idea that Ministers ever copied

  Please read this first    Muddied Waters: Warm water taxes It makes you look like you are ahead of the game . It looks like a natural advantage. Its appeal with the party and the people is almost astronomical in nature.  How does it work ?                      It capitalizes on the public's vulnerability to advertising                                                               I t provides a self-righteous idea that you are an early adopter                                                                It provides a reaso...