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WALLSTROM/KINGSTON
Margo Kingston hasn’t appeared much at Webdiary lately. Possibly she’s been busy in her secret alternative role as EU commissioner Margot Wallstrom:
A very important event happened yesterday: The Commission put a white band around the Berlaymont to show its support for the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign.
On the subject of white bands, Bono doesn’t pay any tax. Way to make poverty history, Bono.
(Via readers Gary Powell and Ernest Gudath)
Incidentally, there are plenty of tilted heads in those inane Make Poverty History TV commercials, of course.
Haven’t seen those. Just have the horrid “STAND” commercials in which unwashed, horrid teens act out “progressive” protest fantasies agaist smoking and anyone who’s ever been involved in raising tobacco.
One of the earliest had a van filled with Earnest
Pot Smokersactivists driving around a neighborhood of REALLY BIG HOUSES on tiny little lots, late in the night, screaming into a loudspeaker about how it’s shameful that “tobacco farmers” can sleep at night, knowing what they grow.Never mind that no one’s ever grown tobacco commercially on a 1/2 acre lot, but if they pulled that stunt in real tobacco-growing country, their van would be peppered with buckshot.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 06 21 at 03:51 PM • permalinkThe post at The Corner has a link to Margot Wallstrom’s website. The comments are worth the trip. My favorite was:
“A very important event happened yesterday: The Commission put a white band around the Berlaymont to show its support for the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign.”
If that is what Margot Wallstrom, Vice-President of the European Commission, Inter-institutional Relations and Communications Strategy thinks is a very important event, God help us all.
Posted by disillusioned on June 17, 2005 at 10:20 PM CEST
But a list of more than 1,000 artists and writers who have claimed tax-free status since 1998, released under freedom of information legislation, has caused sharp intakes of breath.
I find that attitude of shocked surprise a little hard to swallow. Even in my teenage wasteland of a childhood I knew that writers didn’t have to pay taxes in Ireland, and had a pipe dream of living there when I grew up to be a Big, Important writer. The only thing that surprises me is how few are apparently among the lucky. Then again, there isn’t that much space in Ireland is there. (Also I’ll bet there are a number of hoops you have to jump through; I doubt that just anyone can waltz into Ireland and say “I write stuff. Support me.”)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 21 at 07:10 PM • permalinkUpdate: U2 apparently get a tax break on their publishing, which is about a third of their income. They still get taxed for tour revenue and CD sales.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/music/story.jsp?story=648411It seems that the only activities that go tax-free are the ones you can do just sitting around the house. They want to make sure there’s never a repeat of the great couch potato famine.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2005 06 22 at 11:54 AM • permalink
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This oh-so important event reminds me of a piece from the old Rush Limbaugh TV show. “See this ribbon?” asked the big man, placing a bright red ribbon on his lapel, “This ribbon means I care more than you.” I was about seven years old, and he had me rolling in the floor laughing. My parents let me stay up past midnight to watch, and that was the night I became a Republican.