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The worst appointment since Incitatus – politicalbetting.com
Come back Lee Anderson all is forgiven. https://t.co/ZGS6peJ8ul
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(Edit - close run, though. Bit of a scarper with LG at the other end.)
According to legend, Caligula planned to make the horse a consul, although ancient sources are clear that this did not occur.
Supposedly, Incitatus had 18 servants for himself, he lived in a marble stable, walked in a harness decorated with rare and special stones/jewels, and dressed in purple (the colour of royalty) and ate from an ivory manger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68665302
These eminent equines deserve our sympathy NOT our scorn. Fellow victims, every bit as exploited and oppressed as the plebes and slaves of ancient Rome AND antebellum Virginia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074ssf/i-claudius-9-hail-who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J6-t2mtNtU
I understand that other posters have said this is apocryphal and they may be right, but y'know, print the legend...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YWfGKqsco
And find that Jacob Young is the new Deputy.
(*Probably said by a senator in the 1800s, but I can't recall any more at the moment.)
Judge a man by the company he chooses to keep.
The guy's nuts. Has he been in the room with his own party at any time in last two years of utter clownshow?
Maybe I'll join @Leon in the warm Columbian jungle.
State transportation agency said it would take months to repair.
HOWEVER, the newly-elected governor thought otherwise. And so did Biden. Thus got fixed in weeks.
Trump TALKED and TALKED and TALKED about rebuilding national infrastructure. And did squat.
In contrast to President Biden and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg.
The alternative is too often neglected - that Sunak is himself a loony, who is better than the others at pretending to be relatively normal.
And I can see why he may think that way for many reasons. To a certain extent the Deputy Chair (and Party Chair for that matter) are really a ceremonial cheerleader. Why would you want a thinker when you can have a performing seal?
So I am not sure what this appointment shows - the dearth of talent within the current Conservative Party ranks or the dearth of political nous of the current incumbent of Number 10.
Biden certainly has made a deal out of orange face's pathetic whining about winning some kind of plastic trophy at his own golf club.
The most important one is that pretty much anyone more centrist than him has either been expelled or expelled themselves. So he's stuck being the relative (and it is only relative) moderate.
The other problem is that the Conservatives have had at least fourteen, and in some ways forty five, years basically getting what they want. Diminishing returns set in a while back, and so the Conservtives are having to go harder and harder at stuff that's probably not a good idea.
Conservative ministers queued up to quit Boris Johnson’s government | Exit Interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=062ts1yDvME
https://godblesstheusabible.com/
The only one endorsed by DJT.
KJV.
https://postcardcafe.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/moore-street-substation.jpg
By fatally alienating THE critical keystone of the Republican Party = reactionary golfers who willingly swallow any old guff EXCEPT when it comes to the Sacred Mysteries of Golf.
Incitatus would have made a relatively excellent consul - no rash legislation, wars on woke, or flying around in helicopters. I'm quite sure he wouldn't have been putting up toe curling political ads on Twatter, either.
The heady days of coalition.
https://komonews.com/news/local/governor-signs-strippers-bill-of-rights-into-law-paying-way-for-alcohol-sales-crime-liquor-nude-dancer-exotic-legislature-sb6105-lewd-conduct-bars-night-clubs-lgbtq-adult-entertainment-raids-capitol-hill-washington-olympia-state-strip-booze-capitol
"“It's pretty simple why we are passing this bill. These are working folks and working people deserve safety in the environment in which they work,” the governor said."
(I did learn something from the news coverage: Libertarians will be pleased to learn that the strippers are independent contractors, who actually pay the joints for the right to "perform" in them.)
Oh.
Anyone who has spent much time in an American elementary school will recognize the type.
(For those not familiar with the strip: Calvin is a bratty six year old, who is desperate for attention. Here's today's: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/03/26
From time to time, Watterson uses Calvin to make his own points, which are the conventional ones an ad man might have made back then.)
You don’t need to be Einstein to work out the clear correlation.
Last July was the dullest for 31 years. 3 of the 4 dullest Augusts on record have occurred since 2008.
grrrrrr
The ongoing eternal autumn-without-the-leaves began on June 26th, so today we enter its tenth month.
If anyone had told me 9 months ago that the bad weather would continue until beyond Easter next year, I wouldn't have believed them.
I suspect we are likely to record the wettest and dullest GMT period on record, and I suspect that only drought in May and June will prevent this being the wettest July-to-June period (mid year to mid year) on record.
It really is an extraordinary event, and not in a good way. For longevity rather than intensity, probably the most extreme weather period of any sort I can remember.
Must admit this relentless bad weather and the absolute dismal state of our country means im seriously considering leaving the uk now.
As in mid-Beds, it's a real problem in partly rural seats that LibDems feel they own the right to oppose the Tories, but the effect is that where there's a major swing to Labour it gets put at risk by LibDem leaflets that falsely purport to show it's not happening. There certainly are seats where the LibDems are the only serious challengers to the Tories - I can think of two in Surrey that I know very well. But they don't do their cause any good by trying the same tactic in seats that are effectively three-way marginals.
I'm chair of D&W Labour, and it's now a Labour target, so I'll be spending all my time here until the election. Perhaps Andy and I can have a PB bet on the outcome.
Nobody told them about the UK connotations, I guess.
Sunak isn't that to a fault in that quite often he'll trumpet some piece of minutiae that proves the government's doing great when quite obviously the public mood feels the opposite. But tries to ape appease the right with policy direction in a way that never pleases them because doesn't show enough "belief".
Which arguably leaves you in the worst position (other than everyone thinking you're mad like Truss), because liberals hate you for proposing very right-wing things, while the right hate you for not going to the barricades and preaching 'belief' in their impossibilist creeds.
It's no accident one of Reform's policies is to staff institutions with "believers" (whatever that actually means). You have to have the religious fervour and believe in the miracles or you're not a "true" Brexiteer for some.
For the veterans? Somehow doubt that, despite his re-Markle-ble transformation from Royalist Icon to Woke Menace. Either way he's a draw - and one of them.
For The Firm? Now, of course. But need NOT have been so!
Things have been touch and go (to put it most mildly) ever since Harry Met Meghan. However, even hardened royalists (are their any other kind?) will likely concur that the English-Welsh-Scots-British Monarchy has dealt with other, even more demanding divas - and survived.
Looks like I’m flying back to continued winter. In late March
Britain is becoming uninhabitable
Yet another example of British exceptionalism.
“This really is an unprecedented weather event within my lifetime. Summer 2023, autumn 2023, winter 23/24 and now spring 2024 all likely to be amongst the 10 worst examples of the given season that I've experienced. Constant endless cyclonic SW-lies with only short breaks, it's hard to believe that the many changes of season since the end of June last year have not triggered a lasting disruption of the pattern.“
Britain has become a kind of southerly Iceland only without the prosperity and free energy and much more unwanted immigration
All we have to do to stop the boats is send the met office to Calais with a few weather charts
Lara Logan Sounds the Alarm on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
“We are in an undeclared war & Intelligence Agencies are Telling me it was an Act Cyber Terrorism”
• Why is the Biden Administration telling the country when his own Intelligence Agencies are telling him it is?
• Those who are on the inside, critical infrastructure, DHS, and Intel agencies know are telling Lara this was a cyber attack on the critical infrastructure of the US
• The I-94 corridor on the eastern seaboard is literally what connects the North and South
• This was a brilliant strategic attack on one of the most important supply chain in America
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1772754425938895177?s=20
The most serious impacts will be to maritime shipping, both in the water and on the road infrastructure serving truck traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore.
In subsequent decades there was massive cleanup, as with the Great Lakes and other degraded waterways across the US. Thanks to the proto-Woke travesty of the Endangered Species Act and other Eco-terrorist outrages from the 1970s forward.