Wahey! I got one!

Now, do I try and scam the scammers, like this guy did:

Dr. Ben Eze
Treasury Controller
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Fax : 234-92721413

Dear Sir,


BUSINESS PROPOSAL.

I am the Treasury Controller, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation[NNPC] and
a close associate of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources.The
Minister has mandated me to transfer the sum of US$88 millions recovered from an
over-invoiced contracts involving the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation[NNPC] into several private account in Europe and United States. A
total sum of US$73,700,000.00 has been transferred before the emergence of this
present Civilian Administration, leaving the balance of US$14,300,000.00.

I have made proper arrangement/documentation to transfer the balance which is
retained in a coded account of the NNPC with the Central Bank of Nigeria.We are
soliciting that you help us to receive the fund in trust. We cannot complete
this transaction smoothly without the participation of a foreign partner who
would provide an account
where the funds could be lodged. Since it is a contract payment, the funds must
be remitted to a foreign account.The remittance of the funds requires little
documentation that would be completed as soon as you provide us with a secured
bank account where you may wish to receive the money.

There is no risk involved on your part in this transaction since the former
Minister and I have covered this transaction with adequate contract and external
credit documents from the beginning.

What we require from you by e-mail or fax are viz:

{i} Acceptance letter of this offer

{ii} Your company name and confidential telephone and fax numbers

{iii} Convincing Honesty, Trustworthiness and Willingness to abide by the
requirements of this proposal paramount of which is CONFIDENTIALITY.

We have agreed that you will retain 20% of the entire US$14,300,000.00 for your
effort in this transaction, 70% for us partners here in Nigeria and the
remaining 10% will be used for defrayal of incidental cost in the course of this
transfer.

Please reply urgently by fax or e-mail as we expect that the transaction will
not take more than ten working days. And please note that this transaction must
be top secret.

Best regards

Dr.Ben Eze
Treasury Controller
NNPC

Thumbs up for Socialism, and other outdated ideas.

I've been involved ni any number of arguments on socialism, communism, and the redistribution of wealth over the past few weeks, mainly with people still their first blush of idealism (bless 'em) who haven't thought through the implications of their happy ideas. And so, as I've promised to several times, I've started to write down my 'Why I don't like Socialist/Communist economic forms and governments' thoughts.
I've started by getting together some of the more outrageously absurd statements that I've had to argue against and writing my views on them. I'll go from there another time, but I expect this to firmly put the cat amongst the pigeons to start with.

So here we go...

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