Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th January 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

If you have and hour & half to spare, this is a great video about fossils, forgeries and young-earth creationism.

[Frog222]

Refit , I just had a quick look, it made me think of GOP Speaker Mike Johnson --

" Evolution

Johnson rejects the scientific consensus on evolution.[172] He helped the Creation Museum secure millions of dollars in tax subsidies to build a life-sized Ark Encounter, which teaches the discredited claim that dinosaurs accompanied Noah on his Ark[173] and that the earth is 6,000 years old.[174] In 2016, Johnson delivered a sermon that called the teaching of evolution one of the causes of mass shootings: "People say, 'How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?' Because we've taught a whole generation—a couple generations now—of Americans: that there's no right or wrong, that it's about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there's nobody sacred to whom it's owed."[149][175]

[Frog222]

I must admit that the Reeves Growth Embassy to the Middle Kingdom is providing some amusement .

Yields on Chinese bonds have plummeted because their economy is looking increasingly SICK

[Frog222]

Examples of the way workers are treated, unpaid for months even, before the Boss disappears --

[AnatolyKasparov]

If you have and hour & half to spare, this is a great video about fossils, forgeries and young-earth creationism.

To some on the US right, agreeing with evolution is actually "woke".

[Frog222]

Savoury --

" It is not known how much rent Farage gets from his two buy-to-let properties, part of the wealth he recently told us he had “built up” since the EU referendum. He is currently renovating a third, part of his £3m property portfolio. Back in 2013, the Mirror revealed that Farage had set up an offshore trust in the Isle of Man and had put in it his 50% stake in Farage Limited, the investment firm he ran with his brother Andrew. But the politician insisted it had been a mistake and he had never used it. He told us: “I'm not rich enough to need one and I am never going to be.”

Farage Limited later went into liquidation, with Nigel Farage no longer a director, owing £103,000 to HMRC. The taxman got just 13% of this money back from the liquidation and Andrew Farage was found to have helped himself to “potentially unlawful dividends” of £124,000. Andrew "disputed the figures" but "never provided documentation to support his comments" and went bankrupt. The liquidators of the company only got £39,000 of the £124,000 back "

[Frog222]

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

[RogerOThornhill]

Good evening.

This is a curious account. Created last month. Starts posting a few days ago. reposts stuff like Radio Genoa and Enoch Powell quotes.

Follows...well, take a look.

How do we know that he is what he says he is?

We don't.

[Frog222]

Behold the invention of Sir Humphrey Dinsmore, Earl of Tweez. The story is that he had an unfortunate tumble in some bramble bushes whilst on walkabout, and suffered great splinterage.... #INeedAHobby

[Frog222]

Warmed up just a bit, to --4. Lovely !

[refitman]

[refitman]

Damn, another victim of the Labour VAT changes... hang on, it's actually because of historical abuse.




I thought the likes of the Mail were meant to be all about "think of the children"?

[Frog222]

RE Lee Harpin & Ivor Caplin

LOL, twitter never sleeps, never forgets !

Tho the pile-one are very largely, BORING .

[refitman]

There's some lovely framing of the issues, on BBC Sunday Morning Live:

It was announced that Facebook and Instagram are abandoning the use of independent fact checkers because third-party moderators were seen as 'too politically biased'. Should political comment be moderated on social media?

it's not political comment that people are concerned about. It's outright abuse and suppression of support for people in danger, like Gazans.

[Frog222]

[refitman]

Sometimes an alt-account is a good idea



You'll need to click through, to see what the second picture is

[RogerOThornhill]

An awful lot of people getting very interested in Caplin...despite having never heard of him until yesterday.

Anyway, this is amusing...

[refitman]

Did Laura not wonder about some of the things appearing in her Follow Feed?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Caplin left the Commons nearly two decades ago, its not surprising most people had forgotten about him.

[Frog222]

Moe along there, nothing to see !

[Frog222]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Moe along there, nothing to see !

You might have a point if I had actually said that

[Frog222]

Moe along there, nothing to see !

You might have a point if I had actually said that

That is the whole point ! !

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It had defrosted enough to go for a walk round the park before the match this afternoon and I was confronted by a macabre sight. Dozens of week old snowmen in various stages of decomposition and dismemberment. Some still had their heads, others had been decapitated with the heads lying nearby, while the rest were entirely headless, mere icy balls, no hint of their former frosty majesty. It was a genuinely creepy experience wandering amongst them, a if I were witnessing the petrified aftermath of some frigid holocaust.