Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hot flushes for Fred :-)



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https://order-order.com/2017/11/09/penny-mordaunt-new-dfid-secretary/

Who's speech did she pinch this time?

Penny Mordaunt replaces Priti Patel in cabinet reshuffle

An interesting choice.

Good luck to her!

Get ahead with a job in the Tory cabinet..then get it chopped off 😄

She's rather large up top !
Do i get jailed for saying that these days ?

Of course..bang him up 😆

She plays upfront for Burnley jimmy .

I think Donald Trump Is closer and closer to getting a free Panda...he's really trying hard to please the Chinese !......(euhhh... I don't mean of course a new vehicle or being driven away in a police car...though you never know nowadays)....also...they are bound to ask him (the trick question) of ...what does he think ...about ...."The Great Wall" ?....his answer of course as you've all guessed will be : "that they've put in the wrong place and that it should be along the Mexico border !....bloody builders....I'm tellin' you"....

h/t to leeds across the road.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/does-theresa-mays-zombie-government-even-want-to-survive/


The maybot needs to go, and the hammond creature as well!

Within screen calibration range:

Mordaunt - Never trust a woman who wears mauve...

Mind, if she is also short, could make speaker - drum, cymbal, coat.

While wandering around looking for reasons for some of my losses last week came to :

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-arrests-milestones/shifting-sands-what-is-changing-in-saudi-arabia-idUKKBN1D819B

Maybe worth a read and a thought.

The last article "EU wants Brexit money this month, Davis seeks 'political' fix"

Reminded me of the statement :

"By Hew Strachan7:00AM BST 02 Aug 2014

"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life”. "

Oh dear Freda, I'm truly gutted as I'm sure we all are that you are "wandering around looking for reasons for some of my losses"

For somebody who posts daily the folly of conservatism and the wonders of socialism why are you even here? Maybe give Jezza a bell and ask him what stocks to buy.

Anyway hope this cheers you up :0)

Happy 100th Anniversary, Communists!
DAVID KOFSKY11/06/2017
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Communists of the world, it is time to rejoice! Nov. 7 is the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. On that day in 1917 the Lenin-led Reds staged a coup in St. Petersburg, seizing power from the first democratically elected government in 1,000 years. This was the first time in history that a communist regime had toppled a government but certainly not the last.

But where are the celebrations of this magnificent moment? We have not heard a word of congratulations even from the nominally communist nations of China, Venezuela, Cuba, Sweden, Vietnam, or even the Upper West Side of Manhattan. No parties on the college campuses, nothing from Hollywood or even Bernie Sanders?

What about that reliable bastion of leftism — the mainstream media? No reverential videos of Lenin and Stalin from CNN? What about glowing tributes from the New York Times? Why the silence?

Before 1917, the communist utopia concocted by the twisted mind of a disgruntled rabbi's son from Germany named Karl Marx had the credibility of the unproven hypothesis. That changed abruptly on that historic November day. The Soviet insurrection that overthrew the legitimate Kerensky government ushered in a wave of terror that was unprecedented.

The Red gangsters that ruled Russia made Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun look like amateurs in the art of carnage. In order to consolidate power over a majority of Russians who did not believe in socialism, the Leninist thugs had to murder tens of millions and incarcerate countless others in gulags.

And how did their economic utopia fare? Not very well. For virtually the entire 20 years following the communist coup, the country was in perpetual famine. It did not help that on the way to collectivizing agriculture, the Soviets murdered millions of productive independent kulak farmers who were responsible for most of Russia's agricultural output.

The massacre of their own people by the communists served as a template for future revolutions. Since 1917, communism has been tried in 37 countries worldwide and has a perfectly unblemished record of failure. By contrast, more than 2 billion people, primarily in Asia, have been lifted out of poverty by free enterprise since 1980. But will you ever see this in the Washington Post or on MSNBC? Of course not. It's far easier to whine about inequality.

How have citizens been treated under communist rule? The landmark work, "The Black Book of Communism," eloquently and comprehensively addresses this. According to editor Stephane Courtois, "Communist regimes are responsible for more deaths than any other political ideal or movement." How many? One hundred million humans massacred, starved and executed, including 65 million in China.

Surely the "leading" Marxist murderer was Pol Pot, whose minions slaughtered the most-educated and accomplished 20% of Cambodians in 1975. The Killing Fields represented the zenith of Red genocide and should have served as an epitaph for the monstrosities of Marxism for all time.

But paradoxically, leftism is stronger than ever today. Throughout Western societies the welfare state keeps expanding, socialism dominates the colleges and permeates the media, while laissez-faire capitalism is held in low repute. No matter that after 15 years of socialism once-prosperous Venezuela is a ruined economy. A century after the Bolshevik Revolution, far-leftists Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are rock stars.

So let's all salute the communists and wish them a well-deserved Happy 100th Anniversary.

Lest we forget

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Was it in vain?

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Martini,


An interesting perspective on "Britain's position in the present world".

Especially in its past role of fighting for Europe.




https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/12/how-will-britain-find-a-place-in-the-world-brexit

Not forgetting this gentleman, complete with facial scars and missing eyebrow, from wounds sustained at the 'Battle of the Nile'.

The injuries to the Royal Navy's most famous hero, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, were caused by flying metal during the battle.



There are some who think, that if he was alive now and in charge of Brexit, we'd be out of the EU already and with them owing us tons and tons of money.

Think or believe!

It seems to me to be living in the past on false glories.

Did Damian have a image of Theresa on his laptop?

Naughty, naughty.

8-)

fred - i fear you all too frequently fall back on the false golden age of the past