Thursday 13th October 2016

[tinyclanger2]

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Ah yes - my photo of the bridge over the River Mersey as it passes thro' Northenden, circa 1981.

When we still had film, and slide projectors and everything.

[Hobiejoe]

Sometimes I feel like the message board equivalent of a podium dancer

Indulge me - it's my birthday - do you do requests? I'm a sucker for a well-shaken tail feather. Mashed potato too.

[HindleA]

Happy Birthday Hobiejoe

[refitman]

Sometimes I feel like the message board equivalent of a podium dancer

Indulge me - it's my birthday - do you do requests? I'm a sucker for a well-shaken tail feather. Mashed potato too.

Happy Birthday Hobie!

[Hobiejoe]

Thanks, spent the evening at work, but had to visit The Big City during the day, so had Birthday Pizza with MrsHJ and Sprog2, who, happily for us, has allowed a Pizza Express Margarita (strictly no herbs or basil leaves) to join his food lexicon. Which means we can eat out, but only if we're in an area deemed middle-class enough to support a Pizza Express. Amazingly, Plymouth boasts not one, but two. But as one is just off Union Street and was deserted by 2pm, but I suspect does rather well in the evening whilst the other is in a big new multiplex on the outskirts of Plymouth that is more family orientated.

Heh. As a Janner, it still amazes me that I can mention purveyors of acceptably middle class fast food Pizza Express and Union Street in the same e-breath.

[HindleA]

FWIW Two Libdem parish councillors candidates previously mentioned "overwhelmingly"elected-don't know figures just going by utterations.


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[HindleA]

NYT response to Trump threat to sue



Dear Mr. Kasowitz:
I write in response to your letter of October 12, 2016 to Dean Baquet concerning your client Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President of the United States. You write concerning our article “Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately” and label the article as “libel per se.” You ask that we “remove it from [our] website, and issue a full and immediate retraction and apology.” We decline to do so.
The essence of a libel claim, of course, is the protection of one’s reputation. Mr. Trump has bragged about this non-consensual sexual touching of women. He has bragged about intruding on beauty pageant contestants in their dressing rooms. He acquiesced to a radio host’s request to discuss Mr. Trump’s own daughter as a “piece of ass.” Multiple women not mentioned in our article have publicly come forward to report on Mr. Trump’s unwanted advances. Nothing in our article has had the slights effect on the reputation that Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already created for himself.
But there is a larger and much more important point here. The women quoted in our story spoke out on an issue of national importance – indeed, as an issue that Mr. Trump himself discussed with the whole nation watching during Sunday night’s presidential debate. Our reporters diligently worked to confirm the women’s accounts. They provided readers with Mr. Trump’s response, including his forceful denial of the women’s reports. It would have been a disservice not just to our readers but to democracy itself to silence their voices. We did what the law allows: We published newsworthy information about a subject of deep public concern. If Mr. Trump disagrees, if he believes that American citizens had no right to hear what these women had to say and that the law of this country forces us and those who would dare to criticize him to stand silent or be punished, we welcome the opportunity to have a court set him straight.
Sincerely,
David E. McCraw

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Southern rail: MPs condemn ministers' failure to monitor firm


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Cruel government tests that literally leave people dying for help