tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58714339798116961152024-03-14T06:02:00.488+00:00Keeping an EYE ON THE MANOne of the disenfranchised trying to be heard...
Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-32468556948461109672020-04-19T16:45:00.001+01:002020-04-19T16:45:26.186+01:00The suspicious origins of the coronavirus...<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So the coronavirus 'escaped' from a government-funded lab in Communist China, to spread quickly throughout the rest of China and then the world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wonder is it the next, new step in the Chinese government's attempts to limit its population - after the failure of their earlier, 'one child per family' policy? - as the coronavirus ideally (for them) kills mostly the old and the ill.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And the consequences of its spread in the rest of the planet will be dire. In the 'West' with the </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">direct consequence of wrecked economies and millions unemployed, I can see Populism spreading rapidly (Populisms the new name for Fascism). We have it already in the States, with Donald Trump - in Russia with Vladimir Putin, and in Hungary & Turkey amongst other countries - while waiting in the wings are other would-be Mussolinis - the Le Pen's in France for eg...and now with animals & fish farmed in their trillions, for our tables - why not farm the old and ill bipeds as well?<br />The NAZI's tried it with the sick and mentally ill (as well as the Jews, of course)...it's called eugenics and with an ever increasing elderly & ill population, it's an economic issue that's got to be faced...!<br />Thank god, I'm not a politician...!<br />(Oh, and, by the way, I'll be 84 soon...</span>Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-85864939728426973372019-09-28T11:33:00.001+01:002019-09-28T11:38:51.227+01:00It's coming to an end - the three year impasse enjoyed by the UK!<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="f5q0i" data-offset-key="3f8ec-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.8px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The present impasse in Westminster comes from, I think, the uncertainty on both sides about the outcome of a second referendum! The Remainders know they have the money but not the votes while the Leavers are confident they have the vote, but are afraid that in the acerbic run-up to a Second Referendum, the Remainders will use the vast money available to them to scare the voter into voting Remain!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is why Boris wants a general election - because a general election, he sees, will oblige the Remainders to separate into the several political camps which will then start to do battle with each other as well as with the Leavers …whereas a Second Referendum would only ask one question, uniting all the Remainers & their unlimited funds...
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And for exactly these reasons, the Remainders do not want a general election - but there will be one because the mass of the people now want one to clear up the political mess that has existed in Westminster for the last three years and the Remainers will lose it as these last three years have also highlighted, for the first time in memory, how little the voter actually matters to them – or is represented in Westminister.
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And for those of you convinced that leaving the EU will lead to poverty & starvation…just consider that the two richest countries in the world are both European – and both have also declined to join the EU…now, there’s a thought for all you Remainers!</span></div>
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-73341544461788396772019-09-17T08:45:00.001+01:002019-09-17T08:56:12.271+01:00How not to improve justice...<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">I think they should bring the death penalty back for murder! </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Not because it would improve justice - the general consensus is that it doesn’t! </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Nor that it would reduce crime. </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">No, I think it should be brought back, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">death penalty, purely for the general public interest it creates!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif;">I remember the Ruth Ellis case, the last woman to be hung for murder in the UK - she killed her boyfriend, for cheating on her, so 50% of the population thought it was unfair from the getgo ...and the publicity she garnered was immense, right from the murder itself, to her actual </span><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">hanging and afterwards and Come on, there’s nothing worth watching on telly anymore... </span></span></div>
<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-70531354070030560352019-09-05T03:53:00.001+01:002019-09-05T04:19:09.176+01:00...our immediate future...!<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">It's about 4am on Thursday morning and it all seems to be going maybe too well for Boris - as most of the MPs, both tory and labour panic as the roof to their comfortable existence is ripped opened to show the voter once again how utterly irrelevant their politically incestuous lives have become under the Westminster bubble…</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">And Jeremy Corbyn is, for Boris, the perfect opponent (and beyond satire) as the paper maiche, 1970’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘commie’ hurrying home to sort through his manhole covers… while all the old, established Tory MPs conveniently throw themselves under Boris’ famously over satirised bus – and so out of the political future… because it’s really all about the inevitable general election now lurching, in a matter of weeks, down the autobahn…and Boris will sleepwalk this election as it will be fought on all the awful deals Brussels will now force onto the UK, via the moderate Quislings MP’s who now imagine they are saving the country from itself…! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-13155560132619813982019-06-06T11:52:00.001+01:002019-06-06T12:04:29.340+01:00The modern soldier is becoming enervated by legal questions...<div class="MsoNormal">
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say this for two reasons. One, that an internal
military court system should deal with all these charges, because, two, any
soldier who has this hanging over his head will be unable to properly do his
duty as a soldier. And so he or she is likely
to end up dead him or herself, if they first have to first assess that every
other individual in a war zone, is a legally defined enemy and not some inappropriate*
third-party He will also be unable to
do his/her job, as a soldier, properly - i.e. kill as many of the “enemy” </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">as
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…without the word ‘inappropriate’, many youngish would-be intellectuals would
be unable to effectively rail against us ‘oldie thickos’ whose mantra is,
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<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-83869754023399080372019-05-28T21:03:00.001+01:002019-05-28T21:11:30.364+01:00<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="c28qb" data-offset-key="a1hot-0-0" style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: xx-small;">There is a broad, right wing movement, crawling across (sweeping is too final) many countries in the West now, as traditional, old-time politics appears to have lost relevance with many voters. These right-wing movements, from Trump to Marie Le Pen to that guy in Hungary, are often seen and classified as 'populist' movement, where populism is a handy expression when closer definitions are intellectually impossible! Because populism has, since its invention in the nineteenth century, worn many hats - from the extreme right to the extreme left - and the only thing they all have had in common, is that populism, while always claiming to be the voices of the people, are always all
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">What worries me now is the background to all this, where not only are we </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">systematically destroying other species, but also, to ensure our survival in an </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">overpopulated world, the introduction of eugenics may soon become unarguable - </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">not in my time (I was going to say, "...not in my time, thank God" - </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">but he's already been effectively swallowed up and spat out by surging science, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">like all the other unconvincing therapies that limped us through the last two </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">millennium).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">So, to young people everywhere, I can only say; be bright enough, tall enough, fit </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">enough and white enough, not to end up on THE LIST.</span><br />
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-55760934038610840642019-04-12T15:18:00.002+01:002019-04-12T15:31:13.218+01:00It's not only Free Speech that is under attack...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">Two contemporary court cases worry </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">me. Jack Shepherd sente</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;">nced for manslaughter after his date died in a speed boat accident on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">the Thames and Julian Assange who is going to be extradited to the United </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">States on charges of revealing state secrets after Swedish charges of sexual </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">assault against him were conveniently dropped. Now Assange faces the prospect </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-indent: 0in;">of a prison sentence long enough that he likely dies in jail there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: baseline;">First, Jack Shepherd was also on the boat when it sunk - and so was at equal risk of dying…so six years in jail does not seem appropriate – and he did voluntarily ‘turn himself in’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the Georgian police after doing a runner while on bail…while Assange’s charges now related only to revealing US state secrets to the general public via WikiLeaks <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– which should probably have been in the public domain anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: baseline;">The significant thing these two men have in common is that they are very unpopular with the British tabloid press – and so a Tory government desperate for any good publicity is backing them while its present Home Secretary, Jeremy Hunt – now directly in charge of ‘common law’ should have been charged for a whole raft of misdemeanours’ including receiving secret payment from Rupert Murdoch while in charge of television policy…instead, just like what used to happen to priests in southern Ireland when they were caught sexually assaulting little boys, he was moved to another, better ‘parish’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These two cases are not about the contestants in some popular daytime tv panel show – they are about the independence of our judicial system...</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-36817491081216023572019-04-11T21:20:00.001+01:002019-04-11T21:39:08.770+01:00The dog's breakfast of brexit...!<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-indent: 0in;">This whole Brexit thing has become a dog’s breakfast because</span><br />
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it is now generally believed that we will not go despite the people's vote to leave the EU in 2016 - because those within the Westminster bubble, including most Tory MPs and their civil servants (about 80%) are committed to remaining in the EU no matter what the people say!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">But this does not appear to include Mrs May, the Prime Minister, who was and is a Remainer but also seem genuinely determined to enforce the referendum decision of 2016, to leave the EU – so why do I, as a<br />
complete outsider, from a distance of a thousand miles away in southern Spain, suppose that Mrs May is genuine in her efforts to leave the EU.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Simple! Just step back and look at all the desperate, often apparently pointless actions she’s taken to try to achieve this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These could only have been the actions of a sincere but incompetent politician, trying to achieve exit from the EU while being obliged to cover up the fact that most of the other MPs in the Tory party, and most of their civil servants, have been assiduously sabotaging the UK exit from the EU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mrs May cannot even acknowledge that this is going on as it would lead to the instant collapse of the government and her being replaced by Jeremy Corbyn, as Prime Minister – while in Brussels they do not want us to leave simply because they don’t want any EU’s nation states to leave…because such an event would probably lead to an implosion of the EU – and if we do manage to leave, they want to make it as economically and politically disastrous as possible for us – so as not to encourage other member states to follow</span></span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-indent: 0in;">…and maybe you wonder why she hasn’t been replaced? Simple, </span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; text-indent: 0in;">because to be Prime Minister at the moment is in effect political suicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister would be unsuitable in so many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, he lacks the support of a majority of his own labour MPs – and he’s actually a communist throwback to the 1970s, who hates his own country, is endemically anti-Semitic and is a vocal admirer of each and every terrorist group that have the worst interests of Great Britain, Israel or the United States at heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I am not a Tory, have never been a Tory and can’t imagine any circumstances in which I would support a Tory government - but neither<br />
am I a supporter of Corbyn or communism, being one of those pathetic, democratic socialist whose inspiration comes from the Peterloo massacre by way of Ramsay MacDonald, our first and fairly useless, socialist Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">…and the reason I’m not a communist or a believer in Marxism is simple. Marxism has a deep faultline running through it in that it doesn’t allow for the impact of individual, human psychology! Karl Marx a genius in many ways, assiduously wrote the Great Men of History out of History - treating individuals such as Alexander, Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Napoleon as if they hadn’t mattered…but I've got to go now as Dad’s Army is coming on…</span><b style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-24043035927743347562019-03-31T11:35:00.001+01:002019-04-10T08:40:35.307+01:00Why was Hitler antisemitic...?<br />
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thinking about Hitler’s antisemitism and where it came from? I dismiss it was simply
a convenient political choice because, after the First World War, Russian communist
association with the Jews (re Trotsky) became a popular and hated, belief in
right wing circles – because antisemitism was obviously a grounded belief with
Hitler as otherwise, he wouldn’t have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continued
to use critical military and other resources to further the holocaust when,
after the battle of Stalingrad, they were so badly needed to win the war!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his mother’s doctor – who Hitler admired through his efforts to save he beloved
mother, was Jewish – while it was rumoured that Hitler himself was Jewish (it
comes from maternal side) may be the reason that after Anschluss with Austria
in 1938, he had all the family records meticulously destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did Hitler’s antisemitism come from?</span></div>
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– that it originated in secondary school when Hitler had to share a class Ludwig
Wittgenstein. Yes, the famous philosopher who was as well known for his
impossible social manners as his impenetrable philosophy – which I reduce to,</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129;">”… ïf it cannot be said – then it doesn’t
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<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-86466127638017326782018-11-19T21:44:00.001+00:002018-11-19T21:44:04.243+00:00Why Brexit has become a dog's brexit...!Why is this Brexit deal taking so long that it has now decsended into a shouty, rhetorical debate where all rational, above board sense, seems to have drained away.<br /><br />
Could this impasse be because none of the parties involved, actually want or intend that we should leave the EU?<br /><br />
Our present cabinet, from Mrs May down, almost all voted to Remain - while the politicians from Brussels seem absolutely determined to negotiate such a desperately impossible deal for us, that in the end we just won't want to face it, by leaving the EU - and if we do actually depart, it will be with such a truly terrible arrangement that it will repel any other EU countries from ever trying the same - and why is this?<br /><br />
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It's fairly obvious! In most Remainers opinion, here and in Brussels, if the United Kingdom leaves the EU with a half decent deal, this would lead to an almost immediate implosion of the EU as other member states such as the Latin countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal), Greece and some of the Eastern European countries with struggling economies, wanting to follow suit - leading to the EU inevitably ending up as some semi-industrial arrangement probably known as; The North German Federation, something like that - and composed of Germany of course, France, Holland and Belgium, Denmark and maybe Poland - and that would be about it!<br /><br />
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And what about Corbyn (our next prime minister!) and the Labour Party? From what I can gather, a majority of Labour MPs also want to Remain, making them not an issue here! So it comes down to Mrs May and the Tory cabinet, mostly all Remainders at heart, pretending to negotiate our departure from the EU, while decidedly not believing in it - and indirectly assisted by the politicians in Brussels, equally desperate to keep us in the EU, prompted by the very real fear that our departure, with or without a deal, will lead to the end of the EU as they know and exploit!<br /><br />
So there we have it; Mrs May and the close coterie around her, pretending to act in the best interests of the majority, while all the time, under the table, trying to bring about the exact opposite…with the help of the Brussels politicians and bureaucrats, panicking at the prospect of losing power!<br /><br />
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So what will the inevitable outcome be? It will be a second referendum - and a third and so on until 'they' get the result they want...and then the people will finally have spoken - in harmony with their secret desires, of course!Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-61221276521415675952018-10-13T19:27:00.002+01:002018-10-13T19:27:49.883+01:00Populism by any other name...is still fascism..!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The world is being engulfed by fascism as complete
as in the Thirties. Here I’d better give my definition of fascism, because
under its swaying umbrella, I include communism - any total, top-down political
control such as happened in the communism of Mao and Stalin, who went on to
slaughter more of their own citizens than Hitler ever managed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fascism to me, is any regime where all the
significant decisions are made by one individual at the top and the people are
expected to accept his/her opinion on everything of significance - and if they demur,
the best they can hope for is to end up in some prison camp – while control of the
media; TV, the press, books and films will lie with a Goebbels like acolyte.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But these dictators do not appear from nowhere to
take over a country, they need the support of a majority of the people, in
fact, they are only articulating the desires and the longings of the masses.
And already China, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela, to name but a few - have Great
Leaders in place while in the West, in the United States and the United
Kingdom, unintentionally maybe, they are already preparing for him in the
universities - the only real source of intellectual empowerment for the nation,
with strongly organised movements against freedom of speech…and these populist movement
are now going from strength to strength in the West, getting the support of
many politicians and even some political parties: in the United Kingdom, the
Labour Party is already half way down this familiar old road to nowhere…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If you cancel debate and free speech, you turn any
so-called democracy towards a single state with a single leader, the stifling
and curtailing of meritocracy leads, quite inevitably, to dictatorship! It will
also lead, equally inevitably, to a new dark age where ignorant, mullah like,
cretins will control and regulate everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am unlikely to live to see this happening, but
the future, which comes out of the past, seems to be going in this direction – making
it, maybe, an inevitable outcome – and with the concealed support of Big Business,
now as powerful as many medium sized states, meritocracy will bite the dust –
and with it any hope not only for ourselves – but also the planet’s survival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-19271460344751994062018-07-27T12:50:00.000+01:002018-07-27T12:50:46.419+01:00Why I don't speak Spanish after forty years living there...!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">This is a personal post explaining why after forty years living on and off in Spain I still hardly speak a word of Spanish. It becomes even more bizarre when I tell you that I was brought up in a multilingual (Gaelic and English) household in the West Highlands of Scotland, where English – the second language, is still the only language I can speak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">So what happened to Gaelic - my First Language? Nada - we simply never had a chance to learn it as our father would hit us across the face if we try to speak it. Why did he do this? Why did he stop us speaking our own, official and main language? Because he did all his business in Gaelic and being a sheep farmer, he didn’t want us going down the school and giving away to the other kids his plans to sell say, a sheep - or even a cow! Yes, that’s why he prevented us from speaking our own language!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Now I can only attribute these early, traumatic experiences to my lifelong and complete inability to learn another language (I tried to learn French in high school and later Hindustani in India, with no success).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">And I have seriously tried to learn Spanish, signing up and attending at least half a dozen Spanish language courses and doing numerous online tutorials, over the last four decades - even had a Spanish girlfriend who didn’t have a word of English, so I hoped that not having a common language would force me to learn Spanish – except instead it led to a near perfect relationship, while every so often, she’d rear up and start slapping me vigorously about the face, as Latin ladies do! Of course, I’d no idea why except I knew it was nothing I’d said!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">So it’s not laziness, arrogance or insularity that prevents me learning Spanish – but seem sourced in these nonsensically absurd traumas from my early youth… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">By the way, this will all be in an autobiography I’m bringing out later this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">GOOGLE TRANSLATION…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Esta es una publicación personal que explica por qué, después de cuarenta años de vida, la mayoría en España, apenas hablo una palabra de español. Se vuelve aún más extraño cuando te cuento que crecí en un hogar multilingüe (gaélico e inglés) en las Tierras Altas del Oeste de Escocia, donde el inglés, el segundo idioma, sigue siendo el único idioma que puedo hablar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Entonces, ¿qué pasó con el gaélico, mi primer idioma? Nada, simplemente nunca tuvimos la oportunidad de aprenderlo porque nuestro padre nos golpeó en la cara si intentamos hablarlo. ¿Por qué hizo esto? ¿Por qué nos impidió hablar nuestro propio idioma oficial? Debido a que hizo todos sus negocios en gaélico y siendo un granjero de ovejas, no quería que bajáramos a la escuela y les diera a los otros niños sus planes de vender, por ejemplo, una oveja o incluso una vaca. Sí, es por eso que se nos impidió hablar nuestro propio idioma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Ahora solo puedo atribuir estas experiencias tempranas y traumáticas a mi total incapacidad para aprender otro idioma (intenté aprender francés en la escuela secundaria y más tarde en hindi en India, sin éxito).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Y traté seriamente de aprender español, me inscribí y asistí al menos a media docena de cursos de español e hice numerosos tutoriales en línea durante las últimas cuatro décadas, incluso tuve una novia española que no hablaba nada de inglés, así que lo esperaba como nosotros progresó, y como yo no tenía un lenguaje común, me obligaría a aprender español, excepto que, en cambio, me llevó a una relación casi perfecta, mientras que de vez en cuando, ella se levantaba y comenzaba a abofetearme vigorosamente en el cara, como lo hacen las damas latinas! Por supuesto, no tenía idea de por qué, excepto que sabía que no era nada de lo que había dicho.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Por lo tanto, no es la pereza, la arrogancia o la insularidad lo que me impide aprender español, sino que parecen surgir de estos antiguos y absurdos traumas de mi temprana juventud ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Adobe Heiti Std R";">Por cierto, todo esto estará en una autobiografía que se lanzará más adelante este año ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-1961892625679462432018-05-20T09:48:00.001+01:002018-05-20T09:56:02.216+01:00Where's that meteorite when you need it...???<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Jeremy Clarkson in today's Sunday Times talks about the most critical and profound problem facing us bipeds (humans) - that we're rapidly running out of food and water...!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">At the beginning of the 19th century (about the time of the battle of Waterloo) there were approx. one billion humans on earth. Now there are seven and a half and in another thirty years, about ten<br />billion - and we hardly have the food or fresh water for them now!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Why isn't this mentioned at all - because it's simply unmentionable as there is no practical solution - if we start euthanizing people (and it will always be – THEM…!) …they will immediately start euthanizing us and NIMBY* will really come into its own…!</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">So where's that meteorite – the one that did for the dinosaurs - when you need it...?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial narrow" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">*</span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not In My Back Yard</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-48999884509740583392017-12-05T10:43:00.001+00:002018-05-23T09:32:03.910+01:00ASPECTS OF MODERN LIFE...<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="ci1e4" data-offset-key="5qbdn-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-18782268260909554632017-10-07T05:07:00.003+01:002017-10-07T05:12:25.573+01:00A NOT VERY GOOD POEM ABOUT MODERN MARRAIGE...<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2se52" data-offset-key="4r7gq-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Modern marriage is a maybe,
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except when it’s also a gayday
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because, new to the altar
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’re rarely a balker
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">While we now do wives
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-44860498288448175652017-10-06T15:42:00.001+01:002017-10-06T15:44:30.845+01:00The Tory party is going to be saved by a Lesbian Cage Fighter...!A few years ago - or even weeks ago, it would have been impossible to believe that the Tory Party in England was about to be saved by a Scottish Lesbian, Ex-Cage fighter - but this now looks like the only way for them to get back to being a serious, electable force in the UK.<br />
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Teresa May is an obvious liability - as is Boris, the only other candidate with any appeal to the the voters (and he evidently has more enemies than friends in the higher reaches of his party)... so looks like Ruth Davidson will have to take over - although she's already said that she doesn't want the job.<br />
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Why her - a Lesbian Cage Fighter..? Well she's already turned the Scottish Tories from a party that was recently outnumbered, two to one, by Pandas - to 15 SMP's and she evidently has voter appeal and doesn't come across as a robot prepared to say anything to get elected!Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-88408442332087237332017-09-15T13:26:00.001+01:002017-09-15T13:31:41.254+01:00New, Avant garde poetry - called ' YOU KNOW POETRY'<span style="font-size: x-small;">A conversation with two abandoned kitten, I've just taken in...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I live here too, you know!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...and I'm also sentient, you know!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>And no matter how much you grow</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I'll still be two hundred times your size...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>you know...!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>OTHER PEOPLE (INCLUDING ME)...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Most people don't listen</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I'm one of them, you know!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Instead of trying to make sense of what you've just said</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>In an open monologue, </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>they discuss with them selves, what they think you've said</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>- as if you weren't there, you know</i></span>Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-66747655805397856072017-09-15T12:54:00.001+01:002017-12-05T10:47:14.129+00:00Still getting away with it...!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><b>So the BBC, an organisation that insists on total balance and impartiality – except in its employment, staffing requirements where, it has now been revealed (to no one’s surprise) that they recruit almost exclusively from the middle class, privately educated, social niche – except, off course for token gays and blacks!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><b>Time to make it a subscription service only, obliging the thousands of managers with impenetrable titles to maybe, heaven forfend, look for real work in the real world, and then, who knows, we might actually have watchable programs that the billions of compulsory public money, is so assiduously failing to provide now…!</b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-51737347603375555372017-09-04T10:03:00.003+01:002017-09-04T10:03:45.529+01:00COMMAS....<div class="_1dwg _1w_m" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-35431389533294775722017-07-23T10:03:00.001+01:002017-07-23T10:03:50.243+01:00THE UTTER HYPOCRISY OF THE BBC...<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8a5ul" data-offset-key="fet5a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fet5a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fet5a-0-0"><span data-text="true">What distinguishes the BBC from other media sources are two things; first the extremes of hypocrisy where, while assiduously proclaiming utilitarian, socialist values that conveniently cover the current fashionable, lefty, ice breakers of race and gender – mindsets that wouldn’t have been out of place on the Mount of Olives– behind the scenes, are just as assiduously living the opposite, where a cabal – no, it’s far too large to be a cabal, let’s call it a conspiracy, of white males, reign supreme…while hiding behind utterly lubricious, meaningless titles that defy definition…</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8a5ul" data-offset-key="53kg3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="53kg3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="53kg3-0-0"><span data-text="true">The other thing that distinguishes the BBC, are the truly awful programmes they produce with the billions of public money they get…</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8a5ul" data-offset-key="7nddf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7nddf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7nddf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Time to turn the BBC into a subscription service…</span></span></div></div>Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-12972467329712418142017-04-01T13:25:00.001+01:002017-04-01T14:26:50.190+01:00Size doesn't matter...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-indent: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">We have, in the United Kingdom, the most expensive
rail service in the world - by a factor of six, no less. They are probably also
amongst the worst. Last Tuesday, will trying to get to Gatwick airport, I
experienced Southern Rail (famous for all the wrong reasons!) when my taxi took
me to the back entrance to Clapham Junction station.<br />
Inside I was at the end of a long tunnel giving access to about 20 platforms
and of course, there was no staff on duty. But I had allowed for that and had arrived
early because, along with two cabin bags I had a hold bag weighing in excess of
22 kg (about 50 pounds). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">Looking round for information on where to buy a
ticket, etc. I saw that t</span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">he only other person there was a small dark girl
who must’ve been all of 5 feet tall. Walking over to her, I asked where I could
get a ticket and she said we have to go all the way to the front of the
station, a distance of about quarter of a mile through the grey gloomy tunnel.
She added that she would help me with my bags. With that she grabbed the big heavy
hold suitcase and began pulling it through the tunnel, while I hurried to keep
up. <br />We arrived at the main booking area, remember this is one of the busiest
stations in the planet, and there was nobody on duty there either. I had to get
a ticket from a machine, which meant I had to pay about £10 more than I
normally would as it didn’t recognise my bus pass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">Our train, she was going to Gatwick as well, was
leaving from platform 15, so we trailed back half way along the tunnel again
and then, faced with about 40 steep steps to up to the platform, she picked up
my 22 kg suitcase and virtually trotted up the steps. I was amazed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">Then, with a minute to go before the train was
due, they announced a change of platform. We had about 50 seconds to change platforms - to go back
down the steps, along the tunnel and backup again to the new platform. This
little girl, she was Italian by the way, then picked up my suitcase again and
ran down the steps, along the tunnel and up the steps again to the new platform.
I with about 10 kg to carry, again could barely keep up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">We got the train to Gatwick with seconds to spare,
which if we’d missed, as the next train was in an hour’s time, would have meant
missing my flight. Once safely in the carriage I asked the other passengers about this change of platform, announced less than a minute before
the train was due. They all shrugged, it was evidently standard practice with
Southern Rail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;">When I went over to thank the little Italian girl
for her incredible intervention which enabled me to catch my flight, she just
laughed and turned away.</span></div>
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Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-21421726184997554762016-12-11T05:25:00.001+00:002016-12-11T05:25:31.614+00:00Why we should move to the Highlands of Scotland (cold n' wet) - or southeast Spain...Why we should now move to south east Spain – or the Highlands of Scotland!<br />
<br />
The only certainty we’ve ever had, are of the laws of physics - and they’re not too certain anymore - as they evidently now change with time! But, never mind that, as everything else is a consequence, intended or otherwise - of these workings of the laws of physics.<br />
<br />
About 60 million years ago, the dinosaur was the top species, huge and angry they roamed around stamping on or eating everything that moved (according to the Hollywood version of history). Then a large comet appeared from nowhere and plunged into the sea just off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico - and that was that for the dinosaurs! We humans soon replaced them as the top species because we had the three necessary attributes… a pair of thumbs and an insatiable greed.<br />
<br />
Now, 60 million years on, it’s time for us to go - because we are, literally, destroying the very planet we govern! And who is going to manage this?<br />
Well, nothing new here, folks - just the usual combination of the past and the future (which is just a clumsy description of time itself). And how are they going to do it? Through the good offices of an angry, psycho, 12-year-old boy who has now come into his wildest fantasy, controlling (as near absolutely) the most powerful nation on this benighted planet - with the nuclear elimination of the species just a button push away!<br />
<br />
Of course, I’m talking here about ‘The Donald’. And who must we thank for his elevation to the highest office??? - THE Liberal Elite, of course – who’ve effectively governed us for the last six decades or so …and to an angry public’s reaction to them - to all these self-righteous, totally unselfish and altruistic gnomes who whilst spouting the most socialist (and sadly unworkable) principles of equality and fair play – make sure their access to caviar, Cadillacs...etc…etc... remains uninterrupted.<br />
<br />
So, better move to south east Spain – as Donald’s (present) wife, quite likes it here…or the Highlands of Scotland – where his mother* comes from and he owns golf courses there!<br />
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*…why do you think he’s called, ‘Donald’ …and he could also be the first ELECTED Fascist since you-know-who, in 1933!Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-3670904020646007202016-11-12T10:13:00.001+00:002016-11-12T10:13:36.471+00:00Why we should now move to south east Spain – or to the Highlands of Scotland!The only certainty we’ve ever had, are of the laws of physics - and they’re not too certain anymore - as they evidently now change with time! But, never mind that, as everything else is a consequence, intended or otherwise - of these workings of the laws of physics.<br />
<br />
About 60 million years ago, the dinosaur was the top species, huge and angry they roamed around stamping on or eating everything that moved (according to the Hollywood version of history). Then a large comet appeared from nowhere and plunged into the sea just off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico - and that was that for the dinosaurs! We humans soon replaced them as the top species because we had the three necessary attributes… thumbs and an insatiable greed.<br />
<br />
Now, 60 million years on, it’s time for us to go - because we are, literally, destroying the very planet we govern! And who is going to manage this? <br />
Well, nothing new here, folks - just the usual combination of the past and the future (which is just a clumsy description of Time itself). And how are they going to do it? Through the good offices of an angry, psycho, 12-year-old boy who has now come into his wildest fantasy, controlling (as near absolutely) the most powerful nation on this benighted planet - with the nuclear elimination of the species just a button push away! <br />
<br />
Of course, I’m talking here about ‘The Donald’. And who must we thank for his elevation to the highest office??? - THE Liberal Elite, of course – who’ve effectively governed us for the last six decades or so …and to an angry public’s reaction to them - to all these self-righteous, totally unselfish and altruistic gnomes who whilst spouting the most socialist (and sadly unworkable) principles of equality and fair play – make sure their access to caviar, Cadillacs...etc…etc... remains uninterrupted.<br />
<br />
So, better move to south east Spain – as Donald’s (present) wife, quite likes it here…or the Highlands of Scotland – where his mother* comes from and he’s got golf courses there!<br />
<br />
*…why do you think he’s called, ‘Donald’ …and he could also be the first ELECTED Fascist since you-know-who, in 1933!<br />
Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-13524726965987753442016-11-11T06:44:00.001+00:002016-11-11T06:44:44.664+00:00Who is to blame for Trump being elected...?You are....watch this:<br />
https://www.facebook.com/struanrob/posts/1115920931854328Keep an eye on the manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12858836559295665021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871433979811696115.post-69127353492857936372016-06-09T17:12:00.001+01:002016-06-09T17:21:03.726+01:00What's in a name..????<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If Hitler was alive today he’d be a future leader of the Green Party. A vegetarian, non-smoker and non-drinker who loved animals and sought to protect wild life (with a fashionably modern, leftish antisemitism – his party wasn’t called the National <u>Socialist </u>Party for nothing) he’d fit the Green Party profile perfectly and would probably be MP for Eastbourne now, somewhere like that…and right on top of dog owners who allowed their pets to foul the pavement - just a thought…!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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