Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
Haven't been to Vegas since Christmas 2015 but I can recommend the show Love at The Mirage which is a cirque de soleil performance to Beatles music.
Maggiano's in the Fashion Show Mall is a superb restaurant but there's a lovely southern restaurant in the Venetian whose name escapes me.
Try the High Roller - the view is better than the London Eye - and go downtown to Fremont Street. It's picked up a lot in recent years with some quirky new restaurants.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
S-i-L lives in LV, and we've found the regular attractions pale very quickly. However, a trip out into the desert to somewhere like Red Rock Canyon is worth doing, as are some of the "ghost towns" nearby. It's near enough to the Grand Canyon to take a road trip there (there are bus tours from LV) or helicopter tour if you're willing to drop the $$$. The Hoover Dam is much closer and a good compromise if you don't fancy going all the way to the canyon.
Visited when I was twelve. Flew down the Grand Canyon, and the Hoover Dam was ace. No interest whatsoever in revisiting Las Vegas, which remains one of the most depressing places I've ever seen.
Mr. Fantastic, you're amazed by May (apparently) making a mistake?
You're not related to Rip Van Winkle, are you?
It buys her another two weeks of futile displacement activity and the EU27 saying "no!" in 17 languages and keeps her in office until she has to come back and present the unamended WA for another shellacking in two weeks.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
I still think Theresa is going to pull off a deal. Though the behaviour of Parliament is making it ever more difficult...
So do I. Passed in Feb/March, leave in Q2. Then she continues as PM until 2021 when she steps down and is replaced by Brexit Czar Michael Gove.
This is the future that I see. I've tried others, I really have, and I know that plenty of them seem more likely right now, but none are quite as vivid and realistic looking on my device as the one above.
The Cooper amendment would instruct the government to request an extension more than a month before the deadline. It's perhaps easier to imagine the EU refusing an early request like that than a last-minute one. They might say, "No, because nothing has been agreed yet. If you can agree a course of action in the next four weeks we'll view a request favourably."
Haven't been to Vegas since Christmas 2015 but I can recommend the show Love at The Mirage which is a cirque de soleil performance to Beatles music.
Maggiano's in the Fashion Show Mall is a superb restaurant but there's a lovely southern restaurant in the Venetian whose name escapes me.
Try the High Roller - the view is better than the London Eye - and go downtown to Fremont Street. It's picked up a lot in recent years with some quirky new restaurants.
Yes there are some cool things in downtown, like the container park (a “mall” of hip boutiques and eateries in old shipping containers). Downtown LV is still a bit dodgy in places and you can step from fine to sketchy in just a block so be aware of your surroundings.
Haven't been to Vegas since Christmas 2015 but I can recommend the show Love at The Mirage which is a cirque de soleil performance to Beatles music.
Maggiano's in the Fashion Show Mall is a superb restaurant but there's a lovely southern restaurant in the Venetian whose name escapes me.
Try the High Roller - the view is better than the London Eye - and go downtown to Fremont Street. It's picked up a lot in recent years with some quirky new restaurants.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Avoid the pretty women who turn out to be prostitutes and/or men.
On checking in I was asked about 10 times whether I really only wanted just one key to my room so it is quite obvious that the default is not to avoid such people.
It's so you can leave one in the slot by the door to keep the lights and a/c on while you're out.
And recharge camera/computer/iPad/phone batteries while out drinking at night.
I remember reading, I forget where, that blackjack offers a 49.5% chance of winning, and all other casino games are far worse for the gambler.
It depends. More recently, the casinos on the strip have altered their payout ratios and so it is much worse deal. Most have gone from classic 3:2 Blackjack to 6:5 over the years.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
Go see the Hoover Dam on the way (there, not back).
If you can, go to the Canyon South Rim rather than the West. It's a much longer journey (only just doable in a single day) but the views are much better and you get ripped off significantly less in terms of entry fees.
People on here are utterly obsessed with this lady.
On most days, the first sitting MP to be jailed in 30 years or so would be a lead news story.
Hang on, when I popped in here earlier there were people suggesting that the judge was a simpering liberal. I think they were the same type who accuse other judges of being "enemies of the people"
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
No need - seems you are the only poster here who hasn't been!
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I remember reading, I forget where, that blackjack offers a 49.5% chance of winning, and all other casino games are far worse for the gambler.
49.5% chance of winning _if you play optimally_. There's a reason why casinos ply gamblers with free booze.
Video poker, with the right comps, playing at the right times of day, at the right casinos, is the best deal (if you play optimally). It can be a +EV game, given all the correct conditions.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
The desert is eerily beautiful. I found the numerous ghost towns, utterly miles from everywhere, totally fascinating. But maybe that's just me.
Upon hearing her sentence, the first thought in my head was "Did race have anything to do with the harshness of the sentence and how does this compare to Huhne?" Glad to see from the sentencing remarks that the judge directly addresses the second point, and provides a very reasoned explanation as to his decision, which implies that race was not a factor, even implicitly.
How is her virtue in being a role model to black girls nothing to do with race?
That sentence is about being a role model, not the group for whom she is a role model.
Switch out 'black girls' for 'the deaf', 'the disabled', or 'Syrian refugee orphans' ad infinitum, and the sentence still works, particularly given the judge's subsequent reference to social justice. So it is not about race, but about being a role model for a group which needs role models. If you don't think black girls need role models, I'd suggest you try being one for a while.
In the US, there is an entire industry intent on building racism (and a whole list of other -isms) into every issue, regardless of fit. I had not realized it was as bad in the UK, where the historical factors conducive to giving rise to such attitudes are nowhere near as strong.
So.. she's good because she's a role model, especially as it's to black girls since they really need role models, except it's not that because she could have been a role model to people who think they're Jesus?
Don't you think the fact that she's a role model, especially to people who particularly need good role models, should reduce the leniency in sentencing? What sort of a role model is she?
It's a horrible old bus which the tourists jump on - it stops everywhere and takes forever. I always use the SDE (Strip Downtown Express) or the "Gold" Line as it's also called. Much newer buses and much quicker - they only run from selected stops on the Strip - one at Mandalay Bay, one at Wynn/Encore and a couple of others.
The Monorail is quaint and fine if you want to visit some of the hotels on one side of the Strip such as the MGM and the new SLS (built on the site of the old Sahara).
It is a shame that IDS became an MP, because otherwise it would be very easy to say that Corbyn is quite simply the thickest LoTO that history has ever seen. He is pathetic.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
The desert is eerily beautiful. I found the numerous ghost towns, utterly miles from everywhere, totally fascinating. But maybe that's just me.
Visit Colorado, if you haven’t. Southern Arizona as well.
The Cooper amendment would instruct the government to request an extension more than a month before the deadline. It's perhaps easier to imagine the EU refusing an early request like that than a last-minute one. They might say, "No, because nothing has been agreed yet. If you can agree a course of action in the next four weeks we'll view a request favourably."
It does muddy the waters. I think TM wishes to create a definitive and final deal vs no deal choice for parliament. If that goes deal, she rules. If no deal, ok well not her fault, she tried, and she possibly carries on as PM and her party does not implode as it would with BINO or remain.
Cooper seems to make this more difficult but is she bound to pass?
I remember reading, I forget where, that blackjack offers a 49.5% chance of winning, and all other casino games are far worse for the gambler.
It depends. More recently, the casinos on the strip have altered their payout ratios and so it is much worse deal. Most have gone from classic 3:2 Blackjack to 6:5 over the years.
Classic Blackjack has an RTP (return to player) of 99% (equivalent to the 49.5% figure quoted) but only if you play perfectly, ie have basic strategy memorised and adhere to it. Any deviation reduces that, some significantly. The 6:5 blackjack payout reduces it by several percentage points; other rule changes have less impact (eg dealer hitting on soft 17).
European Roulette has an RTP of 97% (36/37), while American Roulette reduces this to 95% because of the double zero. But at least nothing you can do makes this worse. Other games are typically in the 90-95% range (I believe Keno is under 95%, for example).
People on here are utterly obsessed with this lady.
On most days, the first sitting MP to be jailed in 30 years or so would be a lead news story.
Hang on, when I popped in here earlier there were people suggesting that the judge was a simpering liberal. I think they were the same type who accuse other judges of being "enemies of the people"
Looking at this logically there is an interesting question as to what good would be served by giving her a longer sentence.
Being a convicted criminal means her political career is effectively over even if she hangs on a little longer.
Being a convicted criminal means her normal career in the legal profession is certainly over.
All that people are effectively saying is she should be kept in jail longer - at the tax payers' expense - to satisfy some political or personal bloodlust.
Personally I think she is a scumbag but why should we have to pay extra for her to stay in jail a few months longer when it makes absolutely no difference at all to her future - whatever is left of it?
If people think the sentence is too short then campaign for the minimum to be increased.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
The desert is eerily beautiful. I found the numerous ghost towns, utterly miles from everywhere, totally fascinating. But maybe that's just me.
Visit Colorado, if you haven’t. Southern Arizona as well.
Yes. S Arizona. Colorado is on my bucket list. Cheers.
Looking at this logically there is an interesting question as to what good would be served by giving her a longer sentence.
Being a convicted criminal means her political career is effectively over even if she hangs on a little longer.
Being a convicted criminal means her normal career in the legal profession is certainly over.
All that people are effectively saying is she should be kept in jail longer - at the tax payers' expense - to satisfy some political or personal bloodlust.
Personally I think she is a scumbag but why should we have to pay extra for her to stay in jail a few months longer when it makes absolutely no difference at all to her future - whatever is left of it?
If people think the sentence is too short then campaign for the minimum to be increased.
All good points, but that doesn't seem to have been the judge's reasoning. He seems to be saying that she got a shorter sentence because she's a black female Labour MP.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
CHECK!! You may find snow makes the South Rim difficult to access. North Rim impossible.
If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
haha thanks and noted.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
The desert is eerily beautiful. I found the numerous ghost towns, utterly miles from everywhere, totally fascinating. But maybe that's just me.
Visit Colorado, if you haven’t. Southern Arizona as well.
Yes. S Arizona. Colorado is on my bucket list. Cheers.
Flagstaff, AZ is surprisingly nice, and the Lowell Observatory there is well worth a visit. I also found the Arizona Meteor Crater much more interesting than I expected, and it's been somewhere I've long wanted to visit.
I think the Banter Timeline rules suggest that both the Cooper/Boles and Brady amendments will pass.
Then the motion, as amended, fails.
What are the various amendments amending?
Surely if they are amending the MV then Cooper amendment is pointless.
It is an amendment to the Deal. The only way it can come into effect is if Parliament passes the Deal, otherwise, along with the Deal itself, it falls.
But if Parliament passes the Deal then the Cooper amendment is not needed as we will have the Deal.
People on here are utterly obsessed with this lady.
On most days, the first sitting MP to be jailed in 30 years or so would be a lead news story.
Hang on, when I popped in here earlier there were people suggesting that the judge was a simpering liberal. I think they were the same type who accuse other judges of being "enemies of the people"
Looking at this logically there is an interesting question as to what good would be served by giving her a longer sentence.
Being a convicted criminal means her political career is effectively over even if she hangs on a little longer.
Being a convicted criminal means her normal career in the legal profession is certainly over.
All that people are effectively saying is she should be kept in jail longer - at the tax payers' expense - to satisfy some political or personal bloodlust.
Personally I think she is a scumbag but why should we have to pay extra for her to stay in jail a few months longer when it makes absolutely no difference at all to her future - whatever is left of it?
If people think the sentence is too short then campaign for the minimum to be increased.
I think the aggravating factors are her position in the legal profession and her position as MP - both make this a far worse offence.
She had ample opportunity to retract her lies - and didn't. She continues to claim innocence.
Her perverting of the course of justice is more serious than Huhne/Price. She should have received at least that same level of sentence.
That isn't bloodlust - it is basic justice. We have not seen it done today - for whatever reason.
I think the Banter Timeline rules suggest that both the Cooper/Boles and Brady amendments will pass.
Then the motion, as amended, fails.
What are the various amendments amending?
Surely if they are amending the MV then Cooper amendment is pointless.
It is an amendment to the Deal. The only way it can come into effect is if Parliament passes the Deal, otherwise, along with the Deal itself, it falls.
But if Parliament passes the Deal then the Cooper amendment is not needed as we will have the Deal.
What am I missing here? Serious question.
Isn't today's just an "amendable motion", not the MV?
(EDIT: Maybe not, as the Order Paper has it as being under S13 of the EU Withdrawal Act)
People on here are utterly obsessed with this lady.
On most days, the first sitting MP to be jailed in 30 years or so would be a lead news story.
Hang on, when I popped in here earlier there were people suggesting that the judge was a simpering liberal. I think they were the same type who accuse other judges of being "enemies of the people"
Looking at this logically there is an interesting question as to what good would be served by giving her a longer sentence.
Being a convicted criminal means her political career is effectively over even if she hangs on a little longer.
Being a convicted criminal means her normal career in the legal profession is certainly over.
All that people are effectively saying is she should be kept in jail longer - at the tax payers' expense - to satisfy some political or personal bloodlust.
Personally I think she is a scumbag but why should we have to pay extra for her to stay in jail a few months longer when it makes absolutely no difference at all to her future - whatever is left of it?
If people think the sentence is too short then campaign for the minimum to be increased.
I agree. She is a stupid and arrogant person who will be struck off from her profession and will most likely lose her political career, although with Corbyn the latter is not certain. As he clearly sees himself as the Messiah (of the intellectually challenged), perhaps he will chooses her as his latter day Mary of Bethany.
Visit Colorado, if you haven’t. Southern Arizona as well.
I love Palm Springs and especially Rancho Mirage. Spent New Year there with Mrs Stodge in 2015-16. Saw in 2016 drinking a very possible local wine on the terrace of the hotel with the temperature in the low 60s Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, for a bit of light relief from from discussions about jailed MPs and Br*x*t, I have found myself in Las Vegas for a few days.
Anything I absolutely have to do while here?
Hire a car, go to the grand canyon.
Thanks will look at doing that. Good call.
Go see the Hoover Dam on the way (there, not back).
If you can, go to the Canyon South Rim rather than the West. It's a much longer journey (only just doable in a single day) but the views are much better and you get ripped off significantly less in terms of entry fees.
It's a horrible old bus which the tourists jump on - it stops everywhere and takes forever. I always use the SDE (Strip Downtown Express) or the "Gold" Line as it's also called. Much newer buses and much quicker - they only run from selected stops on the Strip - one at Mandalay Bay, one at Wynn/Encore and a couple of others.
The Monorail is quaint and fine if you want to visit some of the hotels on one side of the Strip such as the MGM and the new SLS (built on the site of the old Sahara).
S-i-L lives in LV, and we've found the regular attractions pale very quickly. However, a trip out into the desert to somewhere like Red Rock Canyon is worth doing, as are some of the "ghost towns" nearby. It's near enough to the Grand Canyon to take a road trip there (there are bus tours from LV) or helicopter tour if you're willing to drop the $$$. The Hoover Dam is much closer and a good compromise if you don't fancy going all the way to the canyon.
I'd avoid Red Rock Canyon, unless you're on good terms with the Khans.
Hoover Dam should be okay, not sure the NCR will be happy with visitors just poking around however.
I think the Banter Timeline rules suggest that both the Cooper/Boles and Brady amendments will pass.
Then the motion, as amended, fails.
OK right.
So a motion of - "We will ratify the WA if the B/Stop comes out, or otherwise on 26 Feb we will look to pass something that instructs the govt to ask the EU for an art 50 extension" - that motion - will then NOT be carried.
Their intransigence will lead to no deal, so does it really matter?
Just when the Irish throughout we were beginning to get along with them we go and mess it up again. I could easily use stronger language about what England's doing to the Irish, but since I don't I won 't.
The Cooper amendment would instruct the government to request an extension more than a month before the deadline. It's perhaps easier to imagine the EU refusing an early request like that than a last-minute one. They might say, "No, because nothing has been agreed yet. If you can agree a course of action in the next four weeks we'll view a request favourably."
It does muddy the waters. I think TM wishes to create a definitive and final deal vs no deal choice for parliament. If that goes deal, she rules. If no deal, ok well not her fault, she tried, and she possibly carries on as PM and her party does not implode as it would with BINO or remain.
Cooper seems to make this more difficult but is she bound to pass?
I think what I'm saying is that the Cooper amendment might not make it much more difficult, because the request for an extension would be made so early. If the EU refused it, that would leave another month for minds to be concentrated. And perhaps they would then be more concentrated than if a request hadn't been made.
It might tend to reduce the pressure on MPs over the coming month, but increase it over the following month.
And yet they keep saying that the UK must be clear what it wants...
If the EU are clear the WDA can't be re-negotiated, why are our MPs wasting time on amendments whose main purpose is to seek to renegotiate the WDA?
I can only assume the Conservative Party will play the "anti-European" card when May is finally humiliated by the EU. The likes of Barnier, Juncker and Weygand will be subject to the usual personal and unpleasant slurs from the usual suspects.
The Brady amendment was always and is now a fantasy amendment. The EU has said time and again that they will not change the deal. I mean wasn't the last WA defeat supposed to have brought them snivelling to the table offering anything and everything that JRM wanted? How did that work out?
That May has supported it, if she has, is a funnily enough surprising example of her being duplicitous, unless she knows/knew it had no future but it is still unlike her.
And yet they keep saying that the UK must be clear what it wants...
If the EU are clear the WDA can't be re-negotiated, why are our MPs wasting time on amendments whose main purpose is to seek to renegotiate the WDA?...
Looks like the Cons are still split with 300 odd on ready to compromise and 9 remain ultras holding out.
These wets are a drag on progress.
Is that statement meant to be ironic? The poster boy of the headbangers who got us into all this mess would drag us back into the 1950s and still believe that everything was still too "new-fangled"( you know who I mean; the one that looks like the bastard child of a union between Himmler and Walter the Softy).
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If you can get there, stay overnight at a hotel. Get up well before light. Look at the astonishing stars. Listen to the coyote howling. Find a spot on the canyon rim to watch the sunrise.
Then, make sure a coachload from Rotherham don't tip up next to you two minutes before sunrise. "Eh, look at t'canyon. Grand, intit?" (True story, sadly....)
#HowToKillTheMoment
Maggiano's in the Fashion Show Mall is a superb restaurant but there's a lovely southern restaurant in the Venetian whose name escapes me.
Try the High Roller - the view is better than the London Eye - and go downtown to Fremont Street. It's picked up a lot in recent years with some quirky new restaurants.
Flew down the Grand Canyon, and the Hoover Dam was ace. No interest whatsoever in revisiting Las Vegas, which remains one of the most depressing places I've ever seen.
I see she is appealing. Does anyone know if she’s been released on bail for that or was she actually sent down today.
Bryce Canyon is great.
You're not related to Rip Van Winkle, are you?
Nothing has changed. Here we go again.
And presumably also, as the sun pokes its head over the mighty mountain range, shrouded in mist, its presence a fierce reminder us of our insignificance...don't pull out my iphone and start typing a PB post...
And JRM is getting more pompous by the day (from an already world-beating starting point).
(EDIT TO ADD: Also.. Bercow may have his faults, but his deftness in dealing with nonsense is impressive)
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1090262878051913728
If you can, go to the Canyon South Rim rather than the West. It's a much longer journey (only just doable in a single day) but the views are much better and you get ripped off significantly less in terms of entry fees.
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I'm afraid a lot of people here tend to get blinded by their political prejudices.
It does, however, cause May further discomfiture. So it's safe for Corbyn to support.
Don't you think the fact that she's a role model, especially to people who particularly need good role models, should reduce the leniency in sentencing? What sort of a role model is she?
It's a horrible old bus which the tourists jump on - it stops everywhere and takes forever. I always use the SDE (Strip Downtown Express) or the "Gold" Line as it's also called. Much newer buses and much quicker - they only run from selected stops on the Strip - one at Mandalay Bay, one at Wynn/Encore and a couple of others.
The Monorail is quaint and fine if you want to visit some of the hotels on one side of the Strip such as the MGM and the new SLS (built on the site of the old Sahara).
Mr. Urquhart, could you elaborate? Must admit I only know the basics of blackjack.
What joy for the rest of us...
Cooper seems to make this more difficult but is she bound to pass?
European Roulette has an RTP of 97% (36/37), while American Roulette reduces this to 95% because of the double zero. But at least nothing you can do makes this worse. Other games are typically in the 90-95% range (I believe Keno is under 95%, for example).
Being a convicted criminal means her political career is effectively over even if she hangs on a little longer.
Being a convicted criminal means her normal career in the legal profession is certainly over.
All that people are effectively saying is she should be kept in jail longer - at the tax payers' expense - to satisfy some political or personal bloodlust.
Personally I think she is a scumbag but why should we have to pay extra for her to stay in jail a few months longer when it makes absolutely no difference at all to her future - whatever is left of it?
If people think the sentence is too short then campaign for the minimum to be increased.
Then the motion, as amended, fails.
Surely if they are amending the MV then Cooper amendment is pointless.
It is an amendment to the Deal. The only way it can come into effect is if Parliament passes the Deal, otherwise, along with the Deal itself, it falls.
But if Parliament passes the Deal then the Cooper amendment is not needed as we will have the Deal.
What am I missing here? Serious question.
She had ample opportunity to retract her lies - and didn't. She continues to claim innocence.
Her perverting of the course of justice is more serious than Huhne/Price. She should have received at least that same level of sentence.
That isn't bloodlust - it is basic justice. We have not seen it done today - for whatever reason.
(EDIT: Maybe not, as the Order Paper has it as being under S13 of the EU Withdrawal Act)
Hoover Dam should be okay, not sure the NCR will be happy with visitors just poking around however.
These wets are a drag on progress.
So a motion of - "We will ratify the WA if the B/Stop comes out, or otherwise on 26 Feb we will look to pass something that instructs the govt to ask the EU for an art 50 extension" - that motion - will then NOT be carried.
But will not lose by much, right?
I could easily use stronger language about what England's doing to the Irish, but since I don't I won 't.
It might tend to reduce the pressure on MPs over the coming month, but increase it over the following month.
But who knows what's going to happen?
"ooh those Brussels technocrats - they are so inflexible..."
It's an upgraded scenario for May from 2 weeks ago..
I can only assume the Conservative Party will play the "anti-European" card when May is finally humiliated by the EU. The likes of Barnier, Juncker and Weygand will be subject to the usual personal and unpleasant slurs from the usual suspects.
The Brady amendment was always and is now a fantasy amendment. The EU has said time and again that they will not change the deal. I mean wasn't the last WA defeat supposed to have brought them snivelling to the table offering anything and everything that JRM wanted? How did that work out?
That May has supported it, if she has, is a funnily enough surprising example of her being duplicitous, unless she knows/knew it had no future but it is still unlike her.
Nonsense on stilts from the EU.