The P.C. brigade has invaded the British forces; Notices have gone up at a military academy advising the use of gender-neutral words to comply with “modern sentiments”. “They include saying “human resources” instead of “manpower” and “humanity” as opposed to “mankind”.” Shouldn’t it be; “hu resources” and “huity” respectively? I’d imagine that women who’ve been abused or feel undervalued or disrespected would be more offended by the way they are TREATED rather than the traditional language which is used. As for the word “chaps”, any civilised organisation would address a mix-gender group with “ladies and gentlemen” as they always have.
In ancient Greek legend, son of Theiodamas (king of the Dryopians in Thessaly), favourite and companion of Heracles on the Argonautic expedition. Having gone ashore at Cios in Mysia to fetch water, he was dragged down by the nymphs of the spring in which he dipped his pitcher. Heracles sought him in vain; afterward, in memory of Heracles’ threat to ravage the land if Hylas was not found, the inhabitants of Cios each year on a stated day roamed the mountains, shouting aloud for Hylas. The story was a favourite of Hellenistic Greek poets, such as Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, and Nicander, and was also told by the Latin elegist Propertius.
“Space constraints are one reason, but curatorial choices also play a role. “Would we call these choices “censorship”?”
They could be; It may be better to store all the artworks in a computer where the works for a display could be randomly selected by the computer. This would also give “not worthy” pieces a chance to see the light of day. Oh, and the reason why the photo was taken down and the painting not was probably because the photo was of a real child and the painting just a fantasy. [Pyethon]
I would also suggest that state sex education before puberty especially alternative sexual concepts could also be harmful to boys. The natural psychological and emotional development of a child should not be interfered with.
“There were also numerous references during the debate to the needs of ‘LGBT kids,’ ‘LGBT pupils’ and the like – with no recognition that projecting adult labels and sexual identities like gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender onto immature children is a category error and wholly inappropriate.”
“Dwarf wrestlers were also targeted by snowflakes, who complained their performance was akin to Victorian “freak shows” despite the fact that members of the troupe all wanted to take part.”
Whatever ones’ opinion of Donald Trump is, as democratically elected president of the United States he should be afforded the same reception as previous presidents. To deny him this on the grounds of possible social unrest is submitting to bullying. Just because we invite him to meet the Queen with all the pomp and ceremony doesn’t mean that we endorse his views.
A tranquil and beautiful part of the English Lake District could become a “gravy train” for a commercial company. “Treetop Trek Ltd” wants to string zip wires over the lake Thirlmere as part of an “activity hub”. The planning application is currently being processed.
Newspapers have been blamed for the vitriolic reaction from social media towards those M.P.s who defeated the government over Brexit.
Newspapers have been around long before the Internet was even conceived and their existence has played a major role in British democracy. It’s not up to journalism to change its tune but for social media to put its house in order.
How demeaning to see Britain grovelling to the E.U. mandarins to come to a trade deal. Apparently our homework is now good enough and we can now go out to play. I know that the “divorce” is complicated and people’s wealth and livelihoods are at stake but is it worth losing our dignity. No one really knows if we would be better or worse off without a deal. In the short term I suspect that there would be job losses and standards of living would fall but we would have recovered from that and retained our self respect.
The E.U. proposes to sanction the U.K. if it breaks the rules of the transition agreement. This period is intended to smooth the transition from our current trading arrangements with the E.U. and those which we want to sign with other countries. However if these new conditions prevent the U.K. from preparing for this there doesn’t seem to be much point in it; we might as well reconsider the trade deal and leave next year. A lot of countries in the E.U. have now become disenchanted with the whole project and do not want to lose any more sovereignty and some are courting a similar exit. It may be better for the E.U. to re-think the whole idea and consider something similar to the original “common market” model (Treaty of Rome 1957).
“I mean this is Magna Carta, it’s the Burgesses coming at Parliament, it’s the great Reform Bill, it’s the bill of rights, it’s so many… It’s Waterloo, it’s Agincourt, it’s Crecy, We win all these things.”
Why don’t we stop grovelling to the E.U. and just walk away? If we don’t like what happens a few years down the line we can always rejoin under article 49. They would most likely welcome us back with open arms. And maybe by that time they would have mended their ways and made it more democratic.
The result of a national referendum should be legally binding and irrevocable otherwise the process becomes a mockery. The exceptions to this would be if the situation were significantly changed or if the public were misinformed which could be determined in a court of law.
ARTICLE 50:
“If negotiations do not result in a ratified agreement, the seceding country leaves without an agreement, …”
“If we want order, we have to create it – through engagement, multilateralism, by accommodating what we can of the demands of rising powers and through the promotion of resilient democratic institutions.”
” … she’s liable to be remembered for little more than poor dancing, ill-timed coughing fits, a tearful farewell and being awkward with light banter.” – and a total disregard for democracy.
The Prime Minister said “The MPs’ bill would “hand control” of Brexit negotiations to the EU and bring “more dither, more delay, more confusion … The people of this country will have to choose.”
Opposition MP’s and Tory rebels blocked Johnson’s plans for an early election by voting against or abstaining. Although there was overwhelming support among those who voted it wasn’t enough to reach the two thirds of all MP’s necessary to trigger an election.
DARK DAY – Parliament in contempt of the people?
“These are the people who over the past 40 years have green-lighted the outsourcing of huge swathes of parliament’s authority to Brussels, and whose very efforts to destroy Brexit run counter to parliament’s own handing of that decision to us, the people, and its insistence that it would respect the decision that we made.”
For heaven’s sake he’s not long into his term of office. Give the guy a chance; Did you take your ‘A’ levels in your first week at college?
At a time like this we should be supporting our Prime Minister who has had the courage to stand up to the bully boys (and girls!) of the E.U.
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE:
“They are all furious and disgusted, though the reason for their anger is pretty much split down party lines, with Conservatives MPs appalled at the opposition MPs who tried to stop John Bercow from leaving his seat in parliament, whereas Labour and other opposition MPs are angry at the proroguing of parliament. Both sides claim their opponents actions show them acting against the will of the people.”
“Tonight we’ve seen the sort of chaos & disgraceful behaviour that Corbyn, SNP & LibDems want for our great nation. They don’t respect parliament, democracy or the people’s vote of 2016. Only Conservatives will leave the EU & restore our sense of national pride” @Conservatives.
Adam Afriyie (@Adam Afriyie) – And the Brexit Party.
THE INCREDIBLE P.M.
‘Both are wrong. I am straining to get a deal, but I will also end the uncertainty and take us out on October 31.’
THE U.K. ‘LEAVES’ THE E.U. (At 23:00 hours G.M.T.)
” … they had spoke of their ‘fondness for the United Kingdom’ and praised Britons for their ‘creativity, ingenuity, culture, and traditions’.”
This is a bit rich considering that they’ve spent the past decades trying to destroy member states’ creativity, ingenuity, culture, and traditions in their pursuit of a homogenized European empire.
This is a fiendish puzzle which I first encountered at University. After a week of trying to solve it I gave up. I then challenged my brother to try it and was incensed to find out when I called him that he’d cracked it! I didn’t ask him for the solution and put it on the “back burner” for later but I never got round to solving it.
Bag the F.S.A. and sling it in the bin – after sterilising it!
An article in the Daily Mail (Oct 2nd 2017) by G.Odling headed “COULD BAGS FOR LIFE END UP SPREADING DEADLY BUGS?” places the onus of food safety on the consumer. The F.S.A. informs us that the packaging of raw foods can harbour dangerous bacteria and we should take steps to protect ourselves. This is ludicrous. Consumers shouldn’t be expected to take home food in contaminated packaging.
They will also no longer check supermarket chickens for campylobacter on the grounds that “supermarkets and their suppliers had made significant progress in taking action to reduce levels in their products.” Volkswagen have made “significant progress” after fiddling the emission levels of their cars but their cars are still being checked; roadside monitors continually check the air for pollution; restaurants and cafes are repeatedly checked. It is the duty of all in the food chain from farm to kitchen to supply us with safe and wholesome food and the duty of the F.S.A. to make sure that this is the case with REPEATED checks.
“It’s important to note that -18°C is actually the minimum temperature required by regulations and anything found to be warmer than this should not be served.” [Should read ‘MAXIMUM’]
THE latest app to become a momentary viral sensation is FaceApp, which applies an impressive range of effects to a photo of one’s countenance.
It recently captured the world’s imagination as a result of its new “ageing” filters, which saw people around the world sharing photos of themselves digitally transformed into Methuselah – at least until someone bothered to read the terms and conditions.
These include: “You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided… without compensation to you.”
This, combined with the revelation that the app is from Russia, caused a flutter, with social media users and media outlets writing panicked warnings not to use the software. Except, well, these are exactly the same terms and conditions – or at least close enough as to make no difference – that users of every social media platform, and thousands of other apps, will have blithely signed up to hundreds of times already.
Witness the privacy policy of another popular app: “When you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).” Its name? Why, a little thing called Facebook!
Is it a Lancaster bomber flying over Dresden? – No. Is it a Heinkel 111 flying over Coventry? – No. Is it Superman? – No. It’s a toy helicopter flying over Gatwick airport!
“… there is a direct correlation between the removal of religion from schools and public spaces and the striking increases in urban violence, drug abuse and broken families.”
Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won
Trump Is What Happens When You Nominate A Cheater and Live In An Echo Chamber—Please Learn From This
Trent Lapinski
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Nov 9, 2016 · 5 min read
Did you read Wikileaks?
Well, you should have.
The “conspiracies” were true, and the mainstream media lied to you to about everything.
Wikileaks was not Russian propaganda, it was the news.
Wikileaks has a 10-year record of never releasing a single falsified document, and is not connected to Russia. Everything they released were the actual e-mails of Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff. You had the opportunity to look through a window into the Hillary Clinton campaign, but you didn’t.
By ignoring the leaks, you ignored reality.
By not listening to your fellow Americans, and accusing them of being “conspiracy theorists” and trusting the corporate media, you ignored reality. By only following other liberals on social media, and only reading liberal or corporate news, once again ignoring reality. When Hillary Clinton was caught rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders, and Democrats nominated her anyway they ignored reality.
Everyone was simply insulating themselves within their own echo chamber ignoring anything outside their bubble.
The Media Lied To Us About EVERYTHING [This statement is illogical – Pyethon]
If you’ve been following my Twitter or Facebook account during this 2016 election you probably would have thought I was a Trump supporter. However, I am a former registered Democrat, a Bernie supporter, and consider myself a progressive libertarian. This was the first election I ended up voting 3rd party, but my second choice was Trump. I simply could not vote for Hillary Clinton because of her mishandling of classified information, and stealing the nomination from the people’s choice Bernie Sanders.
Hillary never should have been nominated in the first place. The first clue was when she was under FBI investigation, and the second clue was when she rigged the primary elections.
In an attempt to inform my friends, family, and followers I posted dozens if not hundreds of Wikileaks e-mails, and tweeted alt-right news just as much as I did liberal news. I did this because most of my followers are liberals, and I realized they were all living in an echo chamber on social media where they were not being exposed to differing opinions or news. I was mostly rejected by liberals for doing this, they didn’t understand why I was sharing things that made them uncomfortable, but now they know why. Ironically, I got far more support from Trump supporters for trying to tell Democrats the truth. I wasn’t expecting that.
I took it upon myself to understand Trump, and his supporters. What I found was millions of great Americans who had been disenfranchised, normal people like you and I, who did not recover from the Great Recession. They’re pissed off about Obama Care, endless wars, trade deals that have killed jobs, higher taxes, a rigged economy–and, they are not wrong.
Had Democrats taken the concerns of average American seriously, especially the concerns of Millennials, they would have quickly realized Hillary Clinton was not the right nominee for the Democratic party in 2016.
Bernie Sanders Would Have Beat Trump
I 100% believe Bernie Sanders could have created a political revolution to beat Trump, but instead we’re getting Trump’s revolution.
The reason Hillary Clinton did not win this election is because she never should have been nominated in the first place. There was a better choice.
Democrats let Hillary hijack the DNC, and use her corporate money to push everyone around. Meanwhile, she used Correct The Record to poison the minds of people online into isolating themselves with paid Hillary trolls. Had Democrats paid attention to the leaks they would have seen the mountain of evidence that told the world that Hillary rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and was illegally coordinating with Super PACs like CTR. She should have been disqualified. The evidence is on Wikileaks.org.
Meanwhile, the media, and social media kept everyone ignorant and isolated from differing opinions. They lied to us, manipulated us, and made us think the rest of the country agreed with us, when they didn’t. They used their position of authority to mislead us into believing in a false reality—in propaganda.
This is the problem with America today, the technology that was supposed to bring us together actually isolated us into echo chambers and drove us further apart.
Getting the news from just your friends is a logical fallacy, you need to know your enemies, and realize they’re not much different from yourself.
There Is Good News
While you weren’t paying attention, Trump is actually a former Democrat. If you study his actual values he has far more in common with traditional moderate or liberal values than he does a traditional conservative. In fact, Trump may even be more liberal than Hillary Clinton on several issues.
The media prevented any kind of discussion on values, and instead focused on rhetoric and propaganda. So most Americans who immediately defaulted to what the media and Clinton campaign told them never took the time to actually get to know Donald Trump. They just watched the jokes on SNL, and corporate media blindly without considering other sources. While I’m still unsure about Trump myself, we at least know politically he’s actually a New York Democrat in Republican clothing (this is why the Republican establishment rejected him).
You also need to consider Donald Trump just overthrew a group of political elites who have been ruling this country for decades. He just beat the political establishment singlehandedly. No matter what you think about him personally, he just accomplished something historic to become our President.
At the end of the day, this is an opportunity to learn and grow and consider another world view. This is a wakeup call to get out of safe spaces, politically correct thinking, shatter echo chambers, and challenge yourself to consider the other side of the fence. This is an opportunity to reach out and truly learn to understand each other.
We all have to come together to solve any real problems with our country in the next 4-years. This election was a lesson to consider all ideas equally, regardless of established authority.
We need to come together and move forward together.
Update: I’ve written a revisited letter 2-months after the election containing the story behind this letter, and the aftermath that occurred after I published it.
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS; OR A FARCE AS THE CASE MAY BE:
“That provision was not intended to allow 285 members of Congress – a simple House majority and two-thirds of senators – to remove a duly elected president for partisan reasons or over matters of style,”
What a change to see an interview by C.N.N. regarding President Trump that was fair, respectful and eloquent; Unlike the usual irrational and acrimonious fare that is dished up.
John Bolton, the former national security advisor talks to Wolf Blitzer about his relationship with the President.
The media outrage over Donald Trump’s social media bans is misplaced.
It’s easy to believe that after using a service for a long time that you have an inherent right to use it – you don’t! Governments or courts give rights, and they have the duty to respect and uphold these rights. Social media platforms are private companies and they own their platforms. You use these services with their permission and they can withdraw their service to anyone without a reason.
When two groups of people from similar walks of life vote on the merits of a case one would expect a similar number of people from each group to vote one way or the other. This wasn’t the case in the vote for the impeachment of President Trump. Americans need to know why because these people are in charge.
INFLUENCING THE VOTE:
Voting intentions should not be announced to the media prior to a vote as this could influence the intentions of other gullible politicians. Those who do this are self-serving individuals who have no place in a free democracy.
DEMOCRACY AT STAKE:
If Mr Trump’s claims are true that the election was won by fraud, deceit or other dishonest or illegal means then the only way to recover democracy is:
a) Suspend the new administration.
b) Create a new electronic voting system, which is impossible to rig.
c) Re-run the election when the new system has proved itself.
Without a watertight voting system democracy will always be at risk.
VOTER FRAUD:
This database is intended to demonstrate the vulnerabilities in the election system and the many ways in which fraud is committed.
IMPEACH: a : to bring an accusation against b : to charge with a crime or misdemeanor ; specif: to charge (a public official) before a competent tribunal with misconduct in office c : to remove from office esp. for misconduct
TRIAL: the formal examination before a competent tribunal of the matter in issue in a civil or criminal cause in order to determine such issue
Surely this man should be tried in a civilian court like everyone else.
“Congress loses it’s constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against” Trump after he leaves office because “the Senate’s only power under the constitution is to convict – or not an incumbent President.”
The veracity of the statements in this speech have not been verified by Pyethon.
AMNESIA!
‘if Scotland decides to leave the UK and to be an independent state, and they decide to be part of the European Union, I think there’s no big obstacle to doing that.’
This is a typical reaction to a deep rooted social problem. More surveillance, more police and more barriers. This isn’t the answer. Stop putting plasters on, this is just political posturing. This didn’t happen in the past so the root causes need to be addressed.
“Do we want to be vassals who obey decisions taken by the United States while clinging to the hem of their trousers?” Bruno le Maire asked in an emotional interview with Europe 1.
“A member of Iran’s clerical elite said on Friday Europeans could not be trusted after President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would remain in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers even after the United States pulled out.”
Don’t worry about lighting up, you’re helping the government!
“.. on a purely economic point of view, the early deaths of smokers reduce government expenses for pensions and old-age housing by more than one billion crowns a year.”
Along with other retailers ‘Boots’ is moving away from plastic to more Eco-friendly materials and have announce that they will replace carrier bags with ones made of paper. But where does paper come from? – trees! Has this been thought through properly? Presumably the bags will be made from recycled paper. But where will the paper come from when this is depleted? The last thing this planet needs is to lose more CO2 absorbing leaves and wildlife habitat.
“But retailers need to be careful that by swapping plastic for paper they don’t end up shifting the problem from our oceans to our forests.”
“At a time when journalists try to blame President Trump for every act of violence in the world, wannabe Tinseltown terrorists are making sick murder fantasies about right-wingers,”
“It’s vital that we keep retelling these stories and doing them in inventive and interesting ways,” Waititi told AP on Sunday in Toronto, alluding to more straightforwardly serious films about WWII Germany. “If that involves adding humor and absurdity, then so be it. It’s still communicating the same ideas.”
Producers of comedy would be better off staying away from these sensitive issues instead of pretending that they are some sort of moral message.
“The executive branch cannot circumvent Congress or the courts by creating guidance that goes beyond the law and — in some instances — stays on the books for decades,”
THE SUPREME JUDGE:
“… A judge must apply the law as written, not as the judge wishes it were. Sometimes that approach meant reaching results that he did not like. … that is what it means to say we have a government of laws not of men.”
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