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Is this the first time in its inglorious history that Alabama has had a 'moderate' Democrat as its senator? The former 'Southern Democrats' who held it and neighbouring States for decades prior to a relatively recent shift in the area to the Republicans were generally a thoroughly bigoted and...

Nope, not a sighting anywhere, more's the pity Out of this world mentally, but as he hinted at more than once, too of this world physically The Lounge in that Red House Over Yonder is dusty, and the silent chit-chat deafening

Well, in light of his incendiary decision regarding Jerusalem, I was going to humbly retract the above as naiive wishful thinking, but then learnt that he's only been brave/stupid enough to light the blue touchpaper of a megaton firework ordered by Congress some twenty years What happens now?

As an aside GH, you were mentioned on TRF recently: posters like thedarkknight, rory, davidjohnson, zorro, Irish Stamp, Grasshopper etc was that they were all secure in themselves and fairly civil in a debate. It would be great if TRF could drag some of the former posters back from their...

Trump's a deranged arsehole who talks a dangerous and odious talk but IMO he'll never be allowed to walk the walk, as the President actually has very limited powers as an individual: the two chambers of Congress hold the power, and I reckon they and Trump's 'team' put up with his bellicose and...

Brown and Darling "saved the (unfettered capitalist) world", apparently; Cameron and his counterparts around the world just continued to nurse it through convalescence and rehab, though the patient is little improved and appears to be terminally ill This attempted resuscitation of a very sick...

Most Guardian readers are comfortably-off champagne socialists suffering from a particularly chronic form of middle-class angst: do as I say, not as I do My old folks home will be a quiet corner in the Victoria Family & Commercial, Leeds. When I keel over chuck me out with the empties

Further to my ramblings above, here's an article from one of the Guardian's better hacks (damning with faint praise), George Monbiot. Don't agree with all of it, but worth a read https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/black-friday-consumption-killing-planet-growth

If you fancy a quiet weekend in front of the 'puter have a plough through this lot: https://literarydevices.net/ Hope there's a name lurking on that long list for what seems to be 'a literary device used to produce an eye-catching title by employing a memorable phrase from the book' Harper...

Allusion Narrative Hook Motif Sort of but not quite

The Great God Growth Can economies continue growing for ever - and therefore continue to exact an ever-growing demand on the world's resources - or does there come a point where a mature and advanced economy fulfills the full expectations of its consumers and renders any further growth...

Agree that Corbyn and Mogg are too short; and don't see any value in Davis or Johnson either So with the front four being underlaid there must surely be some tasty bets down the field, though I can't get excited about any of them, punting-wise or PM-wise Gove's greening is a clever stunt from...

This blog is worth a gander as it's written by a brexiteer, but one who's quite aware that Brexit could be calamitous, in the short term at least http://peterjnorth.blogspot.co.uk/

Great stuff guys! - Bogbrush

A hymn from another generation: the times they aren't a-changing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in...

The 19th century American writer Ambrose Bierce defined Referendums thus: A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion

I bet ETA, the uneasily comatose Basque separatists, are loving this Spanish Civil War Number Two ? Could do with that, as the world is far too nice a place at present :mad:

Cleared cache, rebooted, ran Norton Utlities and Malwarebytes: still getting the Deceptive Site, Get me outta here, This isn't a deceptive site stuff Considering my ventures into the nether regions of the dark web, all of whom seem to have welcomed me with open arms, it does seem strange that...

I can vouch for this; not personally, but from the accounts of family and friends. It's a 'bright, new world' as one remarked It seems that you can choose the focal point of the new lens, set to long or short sight i.e a choice between reading or driving glasses

Think I'm of a simialr vintage to you Moe, so is it about Nick Drake? https://youtu.be/2pUryKNsqDo