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The worlds of politics and poker have been feeding off each other for many decades, and in the Middle East’s most discussed and highly charged conflict, the two were about to collide in an unexpected fashion.
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lucy manning @lucymanning 11s
Woolwich defence for Adebolajo called him "most law abiding terrorist in history" & said this wasnt most sadistic callous murder in history.
I love his response about losing thousands of $$$
You have been warned.
Though he is the man who called his wife a trollop and the big naughty c word.
Damn that push poll in The South that destroyed his primary chance in 2000
I'm rolling on with the twitter sarcasm/abuse btw:
JimmyB @Pulpstar 2m
@lucymanning I'm sure Hitler didn't break any of Germany's laws, or Stalin Russia's or Vlad III Walachia's laws seeing as they made em.
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JimmyB @Pulpstar now
@lucymanning One could probably argue that being gassed isn't quite as bad as being flayed or boiled alive either.
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@lucymanning Heard some ludicrous defences in the past but this one takes the biscuit !
"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."
Honestly declaring war on America whilst fighting the UK and The USSR was the most idiotic strategic move since the Carthiginians decided those Romans were a bit rubbish.
Made FDR's sell of Germany First to the US population a lot easier.
John McCain is a hoot and would have been a good President. He lost with a great deal more grace than Romney, he was a million times funnier and gave more than one hint that he was proud of a country that would elect a black American as President.
He also described the attempted murder charge against Adebolajo as "possibly most ridiculous charge ever put before a judge and jury in the history of this country."
The barrister then compared Adebolajo’s run towards police with the Charge of the Light Brigade and quoted from Tennyson’s poem.”
Oh dear, when desperate measures call for Tennyson, your client is going down…!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lee-rigby-murder-trial-live-2935951
"I don't want to interrupt, but..."
"I don't like to tell tales, but..."
"I wouldn't be recommending this if it wasn't the right product for you"
3:16 pm: "Mr Gottlieb asked the jury to watch the footage of Adebolajo’s ‘infamous rant’ without any sound.
He said: "It is actually positively Shakespearean. It is like a scene out of Macbeth, his hands are steeped in blood."
Good grief - Next he’ll be likening the autopsy report to a Stephen King novel.
Lull your opponents into a false sense of security by shouting out "SNAP!" on the first hand.
I'm keeping my nephews away from the gun room over Christmas !!
@paulwaugh: Boris also sd that Cameron should stop 'pussyfooting around' and 'fannying' around' on Heathrow. #onetrackmind?
"Geeore fannying around"
When I'm in proper Yorkshireman mode/accent.
It is really rhetoric, which with logic and grammar form the three ancient arts of discourse.
I wonder what Hopi Sen would make of this perfect example of 'logorrhea' by the 29th President of the US, Warren G. Harding:
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality..."
Harding must have had a terrible hand.
It is the speech which prompted McAdoo to claim that Harding's speeches were
"an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea."
Easy to see that McAdoo was holding a Royal Flush.
David Gottlieb, his defence counsel, explained that he was using a "Sherlock Holmes" approach, adding: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"Greece out of recession next year, says central bank
13.27 The debt-laden country has said it will exit recession next year after six consecutive years of contraction, according to its central bank.
In its latest forecasts the Bank of Greece said:
Quote 2014 will be the first year of positive growth, after six consecutive years of recession.
The Greek government has predicted the economy will grow by 0.5pc in 2014."
A little unfair, we have all done it but that was a good one.
It was one of Spock's ancestors who said
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Can Sweeney get the black cap out then ?
He sure knows how to press those buttons.
Now convincing a jury that all of that it true is another story.
The cost of sitting tommorow should be borne entirely by Thomas More Chambers if it comes to that.
EDIT: Remember that each defendant in a case gets their own legal team, and be happy only two of them are on trial today. If it was a gang of 6 who ran Lee Rigby down in a minivan...
Obama is a keen poker player, I believe. I'm a former World and UK champion at the board game Diplomacy (which is not necessarily a good recommendation of character); I play poker too, but only just about break even.
Currently enjoying a game a week of Caverna (dwarves developing farms and caves - the sequel to the smash hit game Agricola) and A Study in Emerald (Sherlock Holmes meets Cthulhu). (One of the pleasures of not being an MP is that I can admit to this, without anyone telling me off for spending an evening NOT solving their problems.)
Con 2/5
LD 5/2
Lab 8/1
UKIP 40/1
Yeah gotta laugh.
Bridge is my game. 30 or so years ago I used to be a big tournament player. I play for peanuts now but occasionally I play for walnuts.
That is the job of the Probation Service.
My favourite anecdote of insatiable demands on time was a call that I had from a constituent the evening before I got married.
Constituent: "I've got a problem with my builder, who I think is acting illegally in refusing to repair his shoddy work. Can you look into the exact wording of the law, please?"
Me: I'll be glad to, but I'm away on honeymoon for two weeks. I'll check the law for you the day after I get back.
Constituent (speaking slowly, as one who explains the obvious to a small child): "You don't understand. You cannot go on honeymoon tomorrow - maybe the day after. First, I need your help to clarify the law."
"Sand in the Machine: Problems in defending innocent people accused of terrorist offences in the U.K."
"Tears of laughter"
I am told that, though he is a late starter to Bridge, he is making impressive progress.
He added: "What I have been trying to say, clumsily and imperfectly as it may be, is that you do have a choice. You are free to acquit.”
Well, the court appears to made up of 12 good men, a judge - and at least one idiot imho.
I've rather been put off Caverna by the price tag but do you think it's worth the dough, Nick? I guess so, if you're happily playing it every week!
Supermarkets stocks were registering steep losses on Tuesday afternoon after a report from Kantar Worldpanel revealed that over half the UK shopped in either Aldi or Lidl during the 12 weeks to December 8th for the first time in history.
The consumer knowledge agency said that 50.1% of all British households shopped in discount retail chains during the period compared with 46.1% the year before.
“Both Aldi and Lidl have continued to record double-digit growth and are successfully broadening their shopper base with half of all British households visiting one of them during the latest period," said Chris Longbottom, Director at Kantar Worldpanel.
Aldi's market share rose to a record 4% during the 12-week period, while Lidl's share remained at an all-time high of 3.1%.
Come on. Own up, PBers. Who has bought their Christmas stollen from Aldi this year?
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Does he, or anyone else for that matter, know what the outcome of this case was:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191075/Racist-rant-London-bus-Police-investigate-outburst-passenger-posted-YouTube.html
Lidl has the best chocolate and gingerbread as well.
Aldi does cheap Manuka honey (although like most Manuka honey its likely to be not genuine).
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2013/12/exclusive-cameron-the-great-pm-is-related-to-catherine-ii/
Nothing wrong with a chap being directly related to Catherine the Great.
What's that got to do with the price of bread.
Utter and complete wanker.
No wonder it is under threat if he can't complete his speech up in such an open and shut case in less than a day.
I have had two versions of mini-stollen in the past few days. One made by a niece and one from Aldi. The niece's version won.
I also have a gingerbread man (unknown provenance) and a bar of Moser Roth chocolate (Aldi again) within arm's reach.
So the only thing missing is the Manuka honey. It's absence must be due to my Cameronian ability to detect and shun the fake.
Note to @antifrank
Claims of buying at Aldi in Hungary gains as many points as shopping in a poundshop in the UK.
Are you thinking of a horse?
"Claims of buying at Aldi in Hungary gains as many points as shopping in a poundshop in the UK."
Yes, I've heard of these poundshops. Isn't it where you place a pound coin in a slot in exchange for temporary use of a mobile mesh trolley ??
Sounds like awfully jolly fun.
Especially if you have a Mercedes available to sit on the passenger seat.
Seriously we had a poundshop in Harpenden High Street until it closed recently. It must be one of the few areas in the UK to have lost its pound shop, not had them multiplying like rabbits. Mind you, folk were apt to venture in there wearing sunglasses and wigs ..... Oh the shame !!
Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft 5m
Not saying UKIP are comfort polling, but most pollsters don't use Survation's methods for a reason. A reminder: http://bit.ly/1kSlPZY
Defending traitors should be a punishable offence
You also get the comedic value of seeing how closely their packaging can mimic branded products without getting them sued.
Possibly the worst thing I have ever seen posted here. And seeing as HD2 used to frequent this board you are up against some stiff opposition.
The humble vegetable is under threat from a new and virulent form of potato blight
By your logic the defending counsels in the likes of the Birmingham Six trials would have been punished.
You are a fool !!
Maybe these two don't deserve legal help, but we have to give it to them anyway so we don't withold it from innocent people who have been wrongfully charged.
EDIT: Of course, there is a slim chance that these two men are in fact the innocent men whom I'm describing. I'm not saying they are guilty, just that even if they are (and the evidence is pretty strong) they should still have a defense. Because this trial can't be isolated, we have to have the same rules for everyone. So if we want miscarriages of justice to be avoided, we need to give guilty men and women proper lawyers too.