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Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
There are stranger things to call a child than Eleven surely?Happy Halloween everyone.Pause
Had a great time Trick or Treating with our little Eleven and Enid.
Lovely community spirit, everyone out and about was well dressed and mannered.
Now observing our traditional annual way of saying goodbye to Halloween and welcoming Christmas by watching Nightmare Before Christmas.
You have a child called "Eleven"?
Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
"Seven of Nine" was quite catchy, so why not?Happy Halloween everyone.Pause
Had a great time Trick or Treating with our little Eleven and Enid.
Lovely community spirit, everyone out and about was well dressed and mannered.
Now observing our traditional annual way of saying goodbye to Halloween and welcoming Christmas by watching Nightmare Before Christmas.
You have a child called "Eleven"?
ohnotnow
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Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
Twelve for example. Most families call it a day before the twelveth.There are stranger things to call a child than Eleven surely?Happy Halloween everyone.Pause
Had a great time Trick or Treating with our little Eleven and Enid.
Lovely community spirit, everyone out and about was well dressed and mannered.
Now observing our traditional annual way of saying goodbye to Halloween and welcoming Christmas by watching Nightmare Before Christmas.
You have a child called "Eleven"?
Foxy
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Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
@natashabertrand.bsky.social
New: The Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles after assessing that it would not negatively impact US stockpiles, despite Trump suggesting earlier this month that the US might not have enough to give away. Final decision largely political now.
https://bsky.app/profile/natashabertrand.bsky.social/post/3m4iy7tsxd225
New: The Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles after assessing that it would not negatively impact US stockpiles, despite Trump suggesting earlier this month that the US might not have enough to give away. Final decision largely political now.
https://bsky.app/profile/natashabertrand.bsky.social/post/3m4iy7tsxd225
Scott_xP
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Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
It really is a work of art, substantially assisted by many of the people involve having lived through the war and including the recorded interviews of the participants. Arguably one of Oliviers greatest performances.
Prof. Frank McDonough
@FXMC1957
31 October 1973. 1st episode of the 26-part classic ITV documentary series World at War was broadcast. It was narrated by Laurence Olivier with music by Carl Davies. It cost £900,000 (worth £11 million today).
https://x.com/FXMC1957/status/1984189646788788330
Re: It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for Farage – politicalbetting.com
If it is OK with the moderators, a post about an election: Yesterday I voted. Which meant that I sat down at my dining room table with two official guides and marked an optical ballot. This year the guide from Washington state is just 24 pages long. The guide from King County is 114 pages. (Fortunately I could ignore most of it, since it covered local elections all over the county, as well as legislative elections in other districts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington )
In order: I voted on a constitutional amendment to the state constitution,
a special tax for emergency services in the county,
a state senator,
a state representative,
the county executive,
three commissioners for the Port of Seattle,
four positions on the Kirkland city council,
a municipal court judge,
two directors for the Lake Washington school district, and
three commissioners for a Public Hospital district
And then signed and dated the ballot, and took it over to the local post office, and deposited it.
The county will begin counting ballots next Tuesday, and we will have partial results by that evening.
Reminder: Ballots are legal in Washington, as long as they are postmarked by election day, or deposited in one of the drop boxes before 8 PM Tuesday. So the election offices will not have all the ballots by Tuesday.
More later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington )
In order: I voted on a constitutional amendment to the state constitution,
a special tax for emergency services in the county,
a state senator,
a state representative,
the county executive,
three commissioners for the Port of Seattle,
four positions on the Kirkland city council,
a municipal court judge,
two directors for the Lake Washington school district, and
three commissioners for a Public Hospital district
And then signed and dated the ballot, and took it over to the local post office, and deposited it.
The county will begin counting ballots next Tuesday, and we will have partial results by that evening.
Reminder: Ballots are legal in Washington, as long as they are postmarked by election day, or deposited in one of the drop boxes before 8 PM Tuesday. So the election offices will not have all the ballots by Tuesday.
More later.
Re: I wish I spoke Dutch – politicalbetting.com
Wait, what !!!10 a day? We should not be vilifying Andrew, we should be lauding his stamina. I doubt he even broke sweat.
Andrew had '40 prostitutes brought to five-star Thailand hotel room' during four-day taxpayer funded trip, author claims
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/andrew-prostitutes-thailand-trip-5HjdGCQ_2/
Re: I wish I spoke Dutch – politicalbetting.com
Fine KGB joke:In all police states, the police is tiny relative to the population.In case TSE is wondering, "I am an f*cking idiot" in Dutch is:Is that Single Dutch or Double Dutch? As an inveterate lawyer TSE must surely be conversant with the latter.
Ik ben een verdomde idioot.
I'm currently roaming around the USA. Everything seems perfectly normal here, apart from occasional performative ICE raids that ratchet up fear among a very small % of the population. Back in the day chancellor Dennis Healy recalled earnest student debates in the 1930s about 'who will do the dirty work under socialism?' 'Later in life,' he quipped, 'I discovered it was me.'
In the 2030s who would do the dirty work under Fascism? In reality there's no-one available on the scale they aspire do. ICE is two orders of magnitude too small to make any real difference to American lives. There's light at the end of the tunnel, comrades.
Fear does most of the work.
The KGB* peaked at about 200k actual spies (bigger numbers include border guards and volunteer spies) - for a population of 286 million
RSHA (Germany) was 50k for 280 million (peak population conquered)
The OVRA (Italy) was 50k for 70 million (peak population conquered in WWII)
*under a multiplicity of names
Two men are in a train carriage. One leans forward and says to the other, 'Do you want to hear some jokes about the KGB?'
'Before you go on,' said the other, 'I think you should know I'm a very senior officer in the KGB, holding the rank of colonel.'
'That's not a problem,' said the first man. 'I'll tell them very slowly and I'll even explain them to you.'
ydoethur
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Re: I wish I spoke Dutch – politicalbetting.com
According to the Telegraph, Labour insisting that Mandy shouldn't lose his title over links to EpsteinHe'll always be the Prince of Darkness.
Is this true? If so, a good move for Labour?
ydoethur
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Re: I wish I spoke Dutch – politicalbetting.com
Well, turns out this is a real address.
