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NEW: A lawyer for Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, per people familiar.https://t.co/KZhdex7UKE
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I would like to be first to use the Trump urinal but I face certain biological constraints ...
Never mind his term will be over one day and hopefully the US will then get a decent POTUS
Features a scene with women using urinals.
My dinner, BTW, was pasta al pesto. Not, I am sure you realise, the disgustingly sour green sauce in a jar that passes for pesto in most supermarkets. No - homemade pesto with the leaves of one of my two flourishing basil plants. Oil, pine nuts and parmesan. And nothing else - no coriander or garlic or anything else. And no chocolate of any description.
It is perfectly possible to keep basil plants growing well if you water them frequently and keep them in a south-facing room. Mine have been going since the summer. And my rosemary cuttings are doing very well too.
I realise that this is nothing to do with Trump or Brexit or Young or May. But after that picture a reminder of one of the small joys of life is in order, I feel.
This stuff doesn't matter, but I do think that whoever took the top picture should have used the anti red eye setting.
That is all.
As I have consistently shown, people from Sheffield have unlimited class.
Obama didn't come to William's wedding.
Harry will be 6th in line to the throne by then - it's inconceivable that the US President - ie any US President - would come.
It will surely have far, far fewer "major public figures" than William's wedding - both because it's much less important and it's also in a much smaller venue meaning the total number of guests will be far smaller.
Rosemary is probably my favourite herb. Mine in the garden perseveres to grow under all conditions, smells nice, and represents for me, almost magically, health and goodness.
Do I demean Mother Nature by wondering what plant Trump would be?
My orange tree is also beginning to blossom. It is in the same room as the basil. The scent of orange blossom and mandarin blossom represents, for me, childhood in Naples, especially at Christmas, health and sensuousness and just sheer joy.
There is something absolutely miraculous about nature.
In my front garden I have Christmas box - sarcococca confusa. It is a small evergreen bush which between December and March has tiny white flowers which give off the most intense smell of vanilla. A few flowers, which you can barely see, will scent the entire street. It is so welcome at a time when so little else is flowering yet. And I regularly get people commenting on the scent. Every time you go in and out of your house you get this wonderful perfume. It lifts the spirits.
And as well my Yuletide camellia is flowering: bright red with yellow stamens. And the iris reticulata is about to flower too. Little miracles of beauty they are.
The tits are beginning to build their nests as well. Oh I could go on. But won't.
There is so much to be joyful about if we only take the time to sit and stare.......
EDIT I see @John_M thinks along similar lines.
Most people have used the phrase, in private, to refer to some place at some point.
Back in 2003 I went to watch a match there with two friends, drove there, and this was in the era before sat navs, leaving the match I got lost.
I pulled over, put the windows down, and was about to ask a lady
'Can you tell how I get to the A19'
Before I could ask her, she replied with
'I don't do gang bangs'
She then walked off
Its different.
The Mexican judge incident is proof enough of that, but he has a long history of racism.
The way he used shithole to refer to countries in Africa/Central America does make it racist.
https://twitter.com/ruthdavidsonmsp/status/951934192555843585
Just drove until we found the A1.
I was thinking of an Acer Pseudoplatinus Brilliantisium, but perhaps a Prunus Kazan. Any thoughts?
What on Earth will they give the man or woman wh follows Trump!?
Edit: beaten by Ms Cyclefree
On that basis, I'm surprised people are affecting surprise. What's the scoop? 'Trump continues to vie for the title of twattiest president?'. It's dog bites man stuff.
Amelanchiers are gorgeous too - with interest in all seasons.
Acers are wonderful. I have one. Just make sure it is not in a windy situation because that can shred the leaves.
I’m not a great fan of prunus. Beautiful in spring but a bit dull the rest of the year. Magnolias are superb but have a limited season so you want a tree that earns its keep all year round.
Look also at sorbus or the tulip tree or the Kashmir sorbus.
Good luck!
Betula seem always to be a bit sickly round here, maybe they don't like the soil.
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/951924484109406208
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/951953158699446277
Also want to see 'All the Money in the World' but will have to go next week as it is already now only on mainly in central London cinemas. 'The Post' is also out next week but looks like a liberal snoozefest so will wait until it gets to Netflix I think
Crab apples are another possibility. As well as some proper apple trees.
Also, have a look at the website for Architectural Plants. They have some interesting choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtqcOcNAe4
For those who don't know, in the film Churchill, racked by doubt and en route to an important decision, is forced to ride the Tube where his doubts are quenched by a succession of London stereotypes urging the fight to continue.
It (the scene, not the film) is redolent of another film, from the 80's...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8q3Q2JIJQQ
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42671152
There's another, more subtle point. By reducing Churchill's resolution of his internal conflict to a chance event, it reduces his importance. To see what I mean here, imagine if he had not taken that Tube: would he have reached a different conclusion? Given what we know about Churchill, that seems implausible.
Referring to countries where black and brown people come from as shitholes is racist because the implication is that those people are shit.
Referring to an individual place - let’s say a bar in London or a city in the USA as a shithole isn’t unless there is some clear ethnic marker about that place.
Some nations that have black and brown people in them may be shitholes, but not all the people from there are shit.
Lab + LD currently lead Con by 50 - so that would fall to 43.
OK, Con almost always get significantly higher turnout than Lab but even so it means Crossbenchers generally have to break in favour of the Govt for Govt to win - and that generally doesn't happen, at least not on politically contentious stuff.
If the plan is for the transition period to essentially keep us under EU rules then I imagine that will pass easily with Lab peer support and maybe even the Lib Dems.
I don't think it's perfectly clear that what was said was racist or means what you said it did. It's only by proxy of the additional information that it was Trump who was saying it (and the rest of the conversation) that makes it racist.
He wouldn't have said it but had Obama said "we need to allow these people to remain, we can't send them back to those shithole nations" would that have been racist? Same phrase, completely different meaning.
Some people often talk about appointing huge numbers of new Peers but in practice that never happens.
Even so, a total of 13 does look on the very low side given there has been no proper list of party appointees since Cameron's resignation honours list which was 18 months ago.
(There have been odd appointments since then for new Ministers etc but not a proper list).