FlyTheNest

Morning all.

Hope everybody takes their Christmas stuff down today if they haven't already

“They’re allowed to kill our people,” Trump said, according to a pool report. “They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”

No, they're not allowed to. They might have done it but they're not allowed to do it. The question is whether we, rather than they, are prepared to do what we're not allowed to do. It's like an old Smith and Jones Head to Head monologue...

"Going into people's housing, stealing their property. It shouldn't be allowed!"
"It's not allowed. It's against the law."

Good afternoon, everyone.

Another quiet one, everybody busy back at work today?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Another quiet one, everybody busy back at work today?

Grave political mistakes causing needless suffering continue. Lies told by powerful people continue. I'll go for walk and be back later.

Back from my walk.

Hope the weather was better than what we had here earlier.

And what we are still having here. It's been raining heavily all day.

General election weather, no less - the Tories knew what they were doing having one last month. So why were the SNP and LibDems so eager to help them?

And Labour.

Route to PR is a non-Tory collaborative coalition.
Deeply unimpressed by the 48 hours to register.
Feels more like control-freakery than people-representativeness.
Hence my current quietness. I don’t like to express disquiet as it disquiets others - but I am in fact (and have been for some time) disquieted.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Route to PR is a non-Tory collaborative coalition.
Deeply unimpressed by the 48 hours to register.
Feels more like control-freakery than people-representativeness.
Hence my current quietness. I don’t like to express disquiet as it disquiets others - but I am in fact (and have been for some time) disquieted.

Discoquieted?

Jonathan Coe wins Costa fiction prize for ‘perfect’ Brexit novel

Middle England’s EU referendum story secures the 2019 novel award and goes up against first fiction, poetry and biography for Costa book of the year (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... exit-novel

And an extremely belated good morfternoon to you all.

US allies distance themselves from Trump decision to assassinate Suleimani

Netanyahu tells security cabinet meeting they ‘should not be dragged into it’ as Saudi minister urges restraint in Washington (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... n-response

PorFavor wrote:

US allies distance themselves from Trump decision to assassinate Suleimani

Netanyahu tells security cabinet meeting they ‘should not be dragged into it’ as Saudi minister urges restraint in Washington (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... n-response

Plus, whoops apocalypse?

Netanyahu calls Israel a ‘nuclear power’ before correcting himself in apparent slip of tongue

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to accidentally admit his country has nuclear capabilities with an apparent slip of the tongue on Sunday. While reading prepared remarks in Hebrew on a deal with Greece and Cyprus for a subsea gas pipeline, Mr Netanyahu said: “The significance of this project is that we are turning Israel into a nuclear power.”

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA