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Trump finally agrees that the Biden transition can begin but the Betfair market remains open – polit
Trump finally agrees that the Biden transition can begin but the Betfair market remains open – politicalbetting.com
The big overnight news from Washington is that Trump has finally allowed the Joe Biden transition to begin which means that a whole series of formal steps and budgets can be authorised so that the new President is already to start when he is inaugurated on January 20th.
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Although it might be a mistake if Betfair paid out just before Black Friday and Cyber Monday, for me at least.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/snps-ian-blackford-slammed-trying-23056650
For the first time though from him the recognition that he might not have won...
https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1331026956255629312
Biden 1.03
Democrats 1.03
Biden PV 1.02
Biden PV 49-51.9% 1.03
Trump PV 46-48.9% 1.03
Trump ECV 210-239 1.05
Biden ECV 300-329 1.05
Biden ECV Hcap -48.5 1.03
Biden ECV Hcap -63.5 1.05
Trump ECV Hcap +81.5 1.02
AZ Dem 1.03
GA Dem 1.03
MI Dem 1.02
NV Dem 1.03
PA Dem 1.03
WI Dem 1.03
Trump to leave before end of term NO 1.08
Trump exit date 2021 1.06
Ladbrokes are offering me £2000 to £80 on Biden. It's there every time I log into my account. Though ridiculous its tempting to press the button.
However, the best I can tell, Blackford might actually have been right about the photographer coming from Dorset.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/feb/20/michael-gove-clash-free-schools
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/21/michael-gove-emails-freedom-information
Anyone defending Blackford by saying he was right is just like a Priti Patel apologist, shame on you.
Take your time, words can be hard.
Google has the chap still in Portland, which is clearly where the factual mistake came from. The other mistake, in even bothering to "call this out", was never in dispute.
'However, the best I can tell, Blackford might actually have been right about the photographer coming from Dorset.'
Which sounds an awful lot like defending Blackford, much like the Priti Patel defenders did. If you can google him, you could also check out his twitter feed.
You were wrong, factually wrong, take your time. words can be hard.
Charles Darwin: Notepads worth millions lost for 20 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55044129
https://twitter.com/BantshireUni/status/1331153381285650432
'However, the best I can tell, Blackford might actually have been right about the photographer coming from Dorset.'
We can tell you are like a jockstrap and full of bollocks, endex.
Preferably want something that works for gaming. Strategy games like Paradox games primarily, almost all on my Steam account. Budget around £600, at least 15". I don't know if Chromebooks are compatible with Windows games.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
And I'm very reassured that they tested everyone every week to pick up asymptomatic infections in the Astrazeneca trial.
We should thank the Americans for taking one for the team.
When I helped my daughter choose her laptop I made sure that we checked processor speeds on chip comparison websites. (Maybe cpubenchmark ?) Often a laptop that looks like a good deal is using a substandard CPU.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/2672530/campbell-gunn-scottish-government-hurting-itself-over-salmond-inquiry/
Still haven't finalised our arrangements; could be just us.
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-flex-5-14-2-in-1-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-512-gb-ssd-grey-10207991-pdt.html or https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/asus-vivobook-m431ia-14-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-512-gb-ssd-silver-10208144-pdt.html seem OK but you really need another £200 or so.
Will leave you with this.
https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1330571987115253768
The head of the judiciary has admonished six Tory parliamentarians for seeking to influence a judge overseeing a hearing this week on whether references written in support of the former MP Charlie Elphicke can be made public.
The six wrote last week to senior judges, copying in the judge who will oversee the hearing on Wednesday, expressing concern that “matters of principle” should first be considered by senior members of the judiciary and by parliament.
But in a response from the office of the lord chief justice for England and Wales, they were told it was “improper” to seek to influence the decision of a judge who would ultimately rule on the basis of evidence and argument in court.
“It is all the more regrettable when representatives of the legislature, writing as such on House of Commons notepaper, seek to influence a judge in a private letter and do so without regard for the separation of powers or the independence of the judiciary,” said the reply from Ben Yallop, the private secretary to the lord chief justice.
“It is equally improper to suggest that senior judges should in some way intervene to influence the decision of another judge. The independence of the judges extends to being free from interference by judicial colleagues or superiors in their decision-making. Judges must be free to make their decision independently of pressure or influence from all, including legislators.”
The original letter was sent to the president of the Queen’s bench division and the senior presiding judge for England and Wales by the Tory peer David Freud and the MPs Sir Roger Gale, Adam Holloway, Bob Stewart, Theresa Villiers and Natalie Elphicke.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/23/tory-mps-rebuked-over-letter-to-judge-in-charlie-elphicke-references-case
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1331172914956296193
Still, I guess they're all Scottish, so they have that in common.
is in your price range.
Beyond that that page should make clear that you aren't going to get much for your money - my last laptop (a gaming one) was nearly £2k which is why I've moved to a desktop (but that was £1500 so doesn't actually help).
pcspecialist.co.uk (who assemble the system for you) are another good option to focus on the aspects of your system that matter to you - e.g. if you mainly play strategy games, as I do, rather than shooters, then you don't need very high performance, though you do need lots of memory.
The message would be do you want to go back to the chaos and division of those 4 years.
The guy up the road has just bought a cockapoo puppy for £2k, which is absurd, but puppies are another market booming currently.
The time to look for bargains (and, sadly, probably a lot of abandoned dogs) will be when we are all vaccinated.
Or treble your budget and buy a new Dell XPS.
Second, a couched statement about maybe him being factually right.
That fact that I thought it was a stupid thing to tweet even if it was factually right cannot be taken in any way as defending him.
I'm happy to take your word that it was factually wrong, but your accusation that this was a defence of Blackford are frankly risible. The very first thing I typed was absolutely clear and put there to avoid exactly the kind stupidity you just demonstrated.
You could have just said "no, it's factually wrong: [evidence]" and you'd have seen me quite clearly accept it. But no, you had to come steaming in pretend I was saying the exact opposite of what I actually said.
What annoys me most (well, apart from your expansive feeblemindedness), is that I really think Blackford is a moron of the highest order. The idea of being cast as some kind of spirited defender of him is galling, and precisely why I took care to make sure that would not be an interpretation left available.
You saw what you wanted to see. And you saw it wrong.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snps-ian-blackford-accused-disfiguring-last-months-charles-kennedys-life-1427336
Way colder than BBC weather implies, and a few days ago it was the other way around. Humbug.
Mr. Dawning, kleptomania's origin is rooted in unnecessary theft. When the first department stores opened in Paris (I think) a century or two ago they noticed a weird phenomenon. Middle class housewives were stealing things they could afford to buy. Obviously this wasn't theft, as that's a poor person thing, so the notion of kleptomania was invented to explain away with the magic of psychology people stealing stuff whilst also being middle class.
I haven't tried the double-sided ones but it seems like they have them:
https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers
*I seem to have dodged it so far despite sharing a house with covid positive Mrs Foxy for 8 days. 🤞
That will create an emotional response to Press headlines.
I see he's also trending on Twitter, and not in a good way.....
But I'm interested in the placebo control group. The fact that nobody in the vaccinated group got seriously sick does not in itself prove the point. The case is only made if the control group who were not vaccinated saw a significant amount of bad Covid necessitating hospitalization. So did they? I assume so but I have not seen this data reported.
From today’s Times
“Emma McClarkin, of the British Beer and Pub Association, said that the new measures “unfairly” targeted pubs and would eradicate the viability of at least 90 per cent in Tiers 2 and 3. “If these tighter tier restrictions are forced upon us, far more government financial support will be needed to avoid the resulting carnage.”
The Institute of Economic Affairs, the think tank, said that there was “no scientific basis” for insisting that drinks should be served with food. Christopher Snowdon, its head of lifestyle economics, said that Tier 2 restrictions were “a death sentence for countless pubs and restaurants”.
Yep - sheer malice from the government.
The deliberate destruction of 90% of a sector.
No polite words to describe what I think of this government.