1965 I watched it on TV. Watts in Los Angeles CA,

Trouble everyday

Speaking of current events...I haven't been around much lately because I have been working feverishly on the Virtual Graduation for my school. Here is the finished product. It took me around 300 hours to produce.

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Seems like the bbc is now the prime ministers poodle. I blame the bbc al least in apsrt for brexit, if they hadn't constantl;y given airtime to nogel farage or even challenged him when he basically lied things might have been differfent.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top...ules-1-6673185

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Docking due at 08:15 EDT, 13:15 BST :-

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

I was watching trump declaring he was going to tell the governors to open the churches and it niggled. I'm not religious but I have actually read the bible (unlike many religious people I have met) and I was sure there was something about public praying and hypocrisy.

"In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the... [Read More]

Kudos. A lot of material. my web blog ... <link removed by moderator>

My attention was claimed a few hours ago by someone wanting an acrostic poem. All the first letters of the lines making coherent English.

The breakdown was 8,4,8 lines. I wondered about the 8-line verses. Perhaps they could be triolets.

I went and looked.

There are only three words in English that are the length and pattern of a triolet, ABaAabAB. That limits triolet acrostics to ESSENCES, TENTMATE and ETHERNET.

I bet not a lot of... [Read More]

My little community actually made the New York Times... and not in a good way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/u...reopening.html

This keeps appearing in my facebook feed, I never realised how many strange friends I had. Time for a cull.


For those of you who know me, you will know that I am not given to hysteria, outside of my work as a medium and spirit artist I live a very quiet life, I fill my life in the help of others, reuniting them with their loved ones..I bring only joy happiness and comfort to the world..you will also know that I have travelled tirelessly to take this to all and any who are... [Read More]

There's nothing better than................

cornflakes with hot milk, as a late night snack.

Buried today in the inner pages of the Washington Post are the outlines of an assassination attempt in Venezuela. The country has a socialist administration headed by President Maduro.

President Nicolás Maduro said his government had captured two American “mercenaries” Monday in a murky operation allegedly intended to

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It's been a bit.

Just some random thoughts from here. I see I've missed hundreds of threads regarding this and wish I'd checked in earlier. So nice to read about everyone's part of the world first hand.

For those that don't know, I'm a paramedic supervisor who works overnights and have 2 kids, aged 13 and 15.

When all this hit the fan, we started getting emails from work not knowing what to expect and what we were going to do yet, but it was coming, so be ready, but we aren't... [Read More]

By the giant intellects that run the country

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top...fore-1-6624258

Priti Patel ridiculed after announcing ‘shoplifting is down’ compared to year before

At least they haven't suggested we all drink bleach.

What Digital Rights Watch has to say about it all .

Seems fairly balanced

https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/20...1EBBBho6IReqSc

last updated on April 26th after the Government launched the app

To expedite Covid-19 contact tracing in Australia, the Commonwealth Government... [Read More]

Self-quarantining and social distancing? If you’re staying put in your house, hotel or villa, What ctivities to keep you busy during your Covid19 quarantine?

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It is now a grammatical error to make reference to any natural death without prefixing the clause with the word "sadly".

It is also incorrect to speak of an accidental or criminal death without an announcement that the friends and relations are in our minds at this distressing time.

Both usages were originally optional and depended on circumstance. That is no longer the case, they are now obligatory and consequently meaningless. Not conforming is on a par... [Read More]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...n-in-the-world

I cannot at this point remember how many times I've implemented Conway's Game of Life, it's what I've generally done after writing "Hello World" in a language I've not used before. The first time was in FORTRAN IV.

The link above was five written years ago but... [Read More]

Every time there's a problem nationally or a disaster or whatever this debate comes up time and time again. I'm asking for your opinions.

This is the present anthem. In my opinion it's dull. And basically doesn't apply to me because I'm female. Nor does it apply to the indigenous of this country. Just old white rich men.
Advance Australia fair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8eKxI-zeU
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A thread in which to recall the most repellently racist Westminster parliamentarian in living memory, who made Enoch Powell look like a boy scout helping grannies across the road. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a thread consisting primarily of his own words from Hansard.

Mr John Stokes
July 23, 1917 - June 27, 2003
Constituencies

Oldbury and Halesowen June... [Read More]