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My entry for round 9: Paul van Zandvliet Malcolm Young Shane MacGowan Christy Dignam Fernando Ricksen Please like this and I will re enter your previous entry.

I was watching "Captain Blood" with her and Errol Flynn yesterday and suddenly thought to myself: "It feels really weird to watch a black and white movie from 1935 whose lead actress is still with us."

Going soft on him I see...

Is there really that much homosexual Hollywood gossip?!

Let's apply The Sun's bullet tests to Tezza, shall we? 1. Terrorists' Friend. Yep, they seem to be getting away with murder under her watch. 2. Useless on Brexit. Indeed, no-one sees to know what her plan is, she forgot Gibraltar,yada, yada, yada. 3. Destroyer of productivity. Yes, secure jobs are gone, more and more "self-employed" who are employees in law. More people in work but output lower. 4. Enemy of business. Proposed hard Brexit or possible no deal will crash the market. NI contributions to increase (be assured of that!) 5. Massive tax hikes. The so-called dementia tax will hit the sick and disabled harder, NI contributions again, no commitment not to raise income tax. Stealth taxes are the Conservatives bread and butter, they will get you one way or another. 6. Puppet of the wealthy. The inequality divide is growing apace, more people are predicted to be in poverty, public sector pay capped and private sector wages stagnant. Those independently wealthy are protected from the vast majority of cuts already in place. 7. Nuclear dogma. 130 billion to be spent on WMD, and a seemingly over-eagerness to consider using them, despite possibly being outdated by the time we get them. 8. Ruinous spending. We've had austerity for years and Tezza and chums have already borrowed mahoosively more than any previous Government. They've got lucky with low interest rates, but that has hit savers hard, inflation on the rise and black holes in an uncosted manifesto probably mean borrowing will increase and paying down the deficit will become harder, especially with the lack of growth anticipated. 9. Open immigration. It will continue, the cost of trade deals with more countries will be that people from those countries will be able to come here. So more Chinese, more Indians, more Americans (maybe), yada, yada yada. Continued failure to tackle UK education at source and further real terms cuts anticipated means the skills sets of UK people will remain subservient to other countries, and so in they will come. 10. Extremism. Ripping up human rights won't work, though the sound bite will be used by those who would harm us to further their agenda. A lurch to the right will encourage the legitimisation of the EDL, a resurgence of groups like the BNP and will further lead to hate crime. Right wing extremism is as bad as left wing extremism. Just for balance, he he.

I had much the same feeling a few years back with The Great Ziegfeld. Then Luise Rainer died, and spoiled the whole thing.

Voted. Which for anyone not voting Tory today might be like the old King Canute and the sea, but never mind.

If Scotland became independent then the SNP will fade away or split and there will be a resurgence of the traditional left/right split although with new names. The Scottish Conservative party will be pushing for reunification. In England there will be a realignment with everyone moving to the right.

And some people already thought it was complicated.

One of my grandfather's (he of the liver cancer, whisky) bits of advice: "When you're ill, you live or die. If you live, don't worry. If you die, you go to Heaven or Hell (he was religious). Heaven? Don't worry. Hell? That's where all your old friends will be so don't worry either!"

May's gone by 2020, I don't think that's in question. The Tories aren't like Labour, when they're unhappy with a leader they slit their neck and they don't realise until they nod their head. Interesting to see if she's successfully killed the Cameronite wing off by putting them in cabinet positions they're all vastly unsuited for, or if Georgie Oz will return to parliament on a white steed to avenge his master.

When I heard that tour was the "David Gest is not Dead" tour, and it was going AHEAD despite his demise, I nearly bloody joined him laughing too hard.

Given the likely landslide, the Queen will be hoping not. From Wiki, via Andrew Neil's book: Likes Dr Who, didn't like Thatcher. I can live with that.

Born 1922 accirding to Wiki.

How Communism and Billy Graham ruined American Protestantism: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/10/religion_and_politics This article proves the Yanks were actually sane once (until 1942).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-08/google-prematurely-renames-margaret-court-arena/8600168

I have been watching some conspiracy theory videos and I found one that's interesting about the old reverend. Apparently, many people remember Billy Graham dying in the 2000's and even remember Bush attending the funeral. It's called the Mandela effect after many people recall Mandela dying in prison. I vaguely believe this, but I could be mistakening it for his wife's death.

Free pen-related injury.

Nah - he went outside

I have her on my 2017 list. Should definitely be on the 2018 list if she survives 2017. She will obit in Britain since she was in a popular show: Touched by an angel.

Clegg is my instinct for the biggest name.

Michele Morgan died back in December.

Welcome back deadsox, hope you enjoyed your time in Italy. You've got a strong squad on your hands and there's less wriggle room for both of us on top of my misfortune with over-eager topplers, so the match could easily turn in either direction - after all, what could be a more daunting task than facing DDT or Spade head on? Facing the man who took them both down...

If heaven is full of insufferable bible bashers give me hell any day!