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by ex-khobar Andy
Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:28 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?
Replies: 49
Views: 957

Re: Happy Presidents' Day Who is your favorite?

It's interesting seeing this 'best President' discussion in a British context. In the general election of 1945, just two months after VE Day and while the Pacific War was still raging, voters rejected Churchill as PM and voted Atlee (Labour) in with 46% of the vote against Churchill's (Conservative)...
by ex-khobar Andy
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:58 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Soulless Shoes
Replies: 13
Views: 383

Re: Soulless Shoes

I don't understand why, on my YouTube feed and presumably generated by their algorithm, I get ads for TFG 'Trumpinator Bobblehead' dolls. Tagline "I'll be back in 2024." It's an AI-generated Trump voice telling us to buy one or five or twenty or even fifty of these things. I can't see a price withou...
by ex-khobar Andy
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: A Carrion Bag?
Replies: 1
Views: 113

Re: A Carrion Bag?

I was trying to think of a joke when I read this story but couldn't. Nice one.
by ex-khobar Andy
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:15 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: RIP Navalny
Replies: 4
Views: 173

Re: RIP Navalny

There seems to be no check on Putin - the Russian people will have to deal with him. Stalin was never this bad or as brazen. (On second thoughts he probably was.). Prigozhin died in a plane crash along with nine others - some of them were Wagner Group members but others were presumably relatively in...
by ex-khobar Andy
Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: A woman's work is never done
Replies: 4
Views: 353

Re: A woman's work is never done

All that with the anti-Christ and making sure Biden gets in. From the Guardian: Just under a fifth of Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of a conspiracy to help Joe Biden win re-election in November, a new poll found. US rightwing conspiracy theory touts Taylor Swift as ‘Pentagon asset’ “The sup...
by ex-khobar Andy
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
Replies: 67
Views: 1589

Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin

I didn't know that. Nepali soldiers have long had an outsize role in the UK Army as Gurkhas with a reputation for ferocity and bravery. But Nepal is very poor and probably easy pickings if you want mercenaries.
by ex-khobar Andy
Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
Replies: 12
Views: 315

Re: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?

I didn't mean to hijack this thread into reminiscences but yes: Tess was quite a lady. I knew of course that Denniz was killed in a car crash in Illinois but I didn't know (or had forgotten which is not unusual these days) about the drunken driver. I remember when Tess's husband Douglas died. We hea...
by ex-khobar Andy
Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?
Replies: 12
Views: 315

Re: Anybody Happen to See This Missing Tower Anywhere?

My recollection is that Jasper AL is where Smitty,* as in Le Chat House, lived. I know that RayThom and Lord Jim and Denniz were there but of course are no longer here - not sure who else here may recall those days.

* Teresa Smith, married to Douglas.
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
Replies: 67
Views: 1589

Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin

MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:56 pm
Thank you, Vidkun, for taking over that function.
Seems harsh, Meade. But not wrong.
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Replies: 34
Views: 1021

Re: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

I don't disagree that it is politics; and Robert Hur - the Special Counsel - knew exactly what he was doing. Truth left the building a long time ago and perception is what matters. This is a disaster for Biden. We have a world in which huge portions of the population believe that the Covid vaccinati...
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Replies: 34
Views: 1021

Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

I think Biden has done a good job and probably a bit more than I expected of him. But this report by the Special Counsel (on Biden's retention of classified documents) could well be devastating. If Biden were in a box and running against Trump or, frankly, any one of the current GOP crop of candidat...
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:12 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin
Replies: 67
Views: 1589

Re: Tucker Carson is to air an interview with Vladimir Putin

There is no equation with Jane Fonda in 1972. Whatever you think of Fonda and her trip to N Vietnam, she wasn't running anything.
by ex-khobar Andy
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Stupidity in Colorado
Replies: 10
Views: 375

Re: Stupidity in Colorado

I don't think it stands a cat in hell's chance of passing.
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1342
Views: 91087

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

Thanks for explaining that - I had never heard the expression: or if I had, it had rolled right over me. But typical Trump. I remember when he dismissed the pussy grabbing tape as 'locker room talk' - I suppose so if you are about 13, which is probably the last time I heard that sort of talk in a lo...
by ex-khobar Andy
Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:38 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up
Replies: 1342
Views: 91087

Re: You really, really, REALLY couldn't make this shit up

It's also of course theological horseshit. I am no sort of Biblical expert but to my recollection there is nothing in the Bible against having an idol - it's when you worship that idol as if it were God that it becomes idolatry, which is contrary to the First Commandment.
by ex-khobar Andy
Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump's Rose Mary Woods' moment
Replies: 15
Views: 860

Re: Trump's Rose Mary Woods' moment

Biden was never my first choice for D candidate - I'm no longer sure who was out of a lacklustre field - but he was of course infinitely times better than the alternative. But he needs to prove to all of us that he is better than just not-Trump. Energy prices are cheaper than the rest of the world ...
by ex-khobar Andy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:35 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Biden is a coward
Replies: 21
Views: 690

Re: Biden is a coward

I like the way Moskowitz speaks - he's not reading his speech, he's talking from the heart.
by ex-khobar Andy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:25 am
Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
Topic: Don't Buy a Tesla if You Live in Yakutsk
Replies: 6
Views: 363

Re: Don't Buy a Tesla if You Live in Yakutsk

First and only time I went to Alaska on business it was the shortest day of the year - Dec 20th 1992. I rented a car at Anchorage airport and there was a tow truck in the ditch (not a good omen) as I drove from the airport to the hotel. I don't recall the details but on the car was some sort of bloc...