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Sir Bom Gillies, last surviving member of the Māori Battalion, dead at 99: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/sir-robert-bom-gillies-the-last-28th-maori-battalion-soldier-from-rotorua-dies-age-99/EFZJ5XYR3BATLESLH2NTGXBQTM/

Mitch gave a press conference on how he thought the elections went. Boy he looked so frail and almost sickly to me. Also slow in speech and not much power behind his voice. I thought he was retiring in January but it seems he is just stepping down as leader, and has a few more years. I cannot see him having the energy for it, but he could prove me wrong https://www.c-span.org/video/?539853-1/minority-leader-mcconnell-holds-news-conference-2024-election

It will. The worry is the damage that will be done in between. Ukraine, the Middle East, the environment, and that's before we consider the fact that the band of nutjobs he's assembled know what they're doing this time and how to game the system. They also have a compliant House and Senate and a conservative Supreme Court so they can run the table. And doubtless they'll somehow explain in 4 years time how the radical left have somehow stopped them doing everything they wanted and they must be re-elected for the sake of the nation, which will surely crumble otherwise. What an ungodly mess, and somehow this is still in some ways a better outcome than the armed gangs marauding the streets and Trump screaming foul on Fox News because Kamala won.

Was that the tv interview Nott walked out on? I don't blame him, Robin Day's smugness was insufferable.

What I find depressing is that realpolitik demands that for the next four years, every other US-allied world leader has no other option but to slavishly appease this unstable childish lunatic and his every wish or he can use America's whole economic clout to tank their economies with a single finger. Like an outsourced Liz Truss but even worse, because at least we COULD get rid of her before she did even more damage to our economy. And the checks and balances which restrained him to a degree in his first term no longer apply now, since his party controls every branch of the most powerful government on Earth. I just wish Americans voted while paying more attention to the global consequences of their choice, because it's not only them who have to put up with him.

If John Giles is the Olympic athlete born in 1927 then I’m pretty sure he’s died. There’s an account on Flickr for a Terence Giles (possibly a son) who has uploaded an album full of photos of him and all his medals and awards as well as his birthdate of 9th February 1927 and a death date of 7th April 2024 https://www.flickr.com/photos/200869241@N08/albums/72177720317533066/

7/11/24 52 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) 44 Texas - Say What You Want 38 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 38 No Doubt - Just a Girl 38 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 29 Suede - Trash -6 28 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 27 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 24 Faithless - Insomnia 22 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got It Goin’ On 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 20 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me 20 Wet Wet Wet - If I Never See You Again 20 911 - The Journey 20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love 18 Coolio ft. 40 Thevz - C U When U Get There 17 Mark Owen - Clementine 16 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 15 George Michael - Older/I Can’t Make You Love Me 15 3T - I Need You  15 Orbital - Satan Live 14 Orbital - The Saint  14 Dina Carroll - Escaping  14 Fugees - Rumble in the Jungle  13 Madonna - Don’t Cry For Me Argentina +4 12 Mark Owen - Child

Before Carter’s vice president Mondale died in 2021 in his last email he stated his satisfaction that he could let go with Biden in the White House to carry on. I could see Carter waiting Trump out for 4 years until another Democratic President is elected or sworn in.

John Nott QO: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/sir-john-nott-obituary-sharp-tongued-defence-secretary-k5b978nkm

When Robin Day described him as "here today and gone tomorrow" over 40 years ago he hadn't a fucking clue

They don’t have to. Trump didn’t speak at Bush’s funeral

Does anyone know if he paid for the shoes, or had them gifted?

Unique hit for me.

Perhaps we need a flowchart.

Death notice for Sir Christopher Drewry, former commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, aged 77: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/drewry-notices_59591

7/11/24 85 Emeli Sande — Next To Me 66 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason 64 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven 59 Adele — Skyfall 55 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 54 Bastille — Pompeii +4 38 Nicki Minaj — Starships 19 Avicii — Hey Brother 12 One Direction —  Best Song Ever 08 Gary Barlow — Let Me Go 06 The Vamps — Can We Dance -6

Congrats Bobytomi 1924  Jane Morgan / Lee Adams  1925 Micheline Lannoy / Leo Esaki 1926 Marilyn Erskine/ David Attenborough  1927 Genevieve Page / Frank Sedgman 1928 Yvonne Van Bets / Paul Dooley 1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Sara Jane Moore / Clint Eastwood 1931 Virginia McKenna / Rupert Murdoch 1932 Phyllida Law / William Roache  1933 Sheila Hancock / Michael Aspel

Congrats @MariNisia 1924 William H. Webster/Marianne Bernadotte 1925 - Eugen Gomringer / Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 1926 Michael Blumenthal / Betsy Jolas 1927 Vernom L Smith/Nayantara Sahgal 1928 Desmond Morris / Peggy Dow 1929 Peter Dale Scott/Queen Ida 1930 - Adônis (poeta sírio libanês)/Jennifer Johnston 1931 Alfred Brendel/Judith Viorst 1932 - Clint Hill / Elaine May 1933 Richard Riley / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Rip John Nott John Nott was British Secretary of State and Commerce, he was the oldest still alive (not in age) as he was in 79-81, in 1983 the name of the portfolio changed to Secretary of State for Commerce and Industry and the oldest still living (not in age) is Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit born in 1931 and held the position between 83-85, he was Secretary of State for Defense between 81-83 also being the oldest still alive who held the position, since it now belongs to his successor Michael Heseltine who was between 83-86, he was born in 1933. I say in terms of how long he held the position and not in age

You will, just from a different guy.

It be a big test of if they can keep that up without Trump or someone as unique as him. I am not sure JD Vance has the same level of appeal.

Teri Arrg ! Teri Garr is a hit for @ajlposh : Joe Exotic in and another sub needed please ! Captain Hemlock : Bob Pettit in and Violeta Chamorro as new sub -------------------------- Janey meets her god ! Janey Godley is a much awaited hit for Book : James Whale in and Jody Gormley as new sub CaptainChoziro : Maurice Hank Greenberg and Jody Gormley x2 Captain Hemlock : Bob Cousy in and Matthew Sweet as third sub Commtech Sio Bibble : Jack Hanna in and Harvey Weinstein on the sub bench DeathBecomesThem : José Mujica in and Gormley x3 gcreptile : Steve McCoy in and Gormley x4 Great Uncle Bulgaria : Stanley Baxter in and Sophie Kinsella as third sub GuyFromFuture : Ida Vitale in and Pete Murray waiting for his turn ladyfiona : Khaled Zia in and Steve McMichael as new sub lilham : Tom Lehrer in and Marv Levy on the sub bench livingbygrace : Frankie Valli in and Gormley x5 msc : Charles Coste in and Gormley x6 @Perhaps : Arnold Yarrow in and another sub needed please ! Polar Duck : V.S. Achuthanandan in and Gormley x7 Steve : Sandy Gall in and Chuwit Kamolvisit as new sub Summer in Transylvania : Trisha Goddard in and Gormley x8 ThereWillBeDeaths7 : John Cruikshank in and Gormley x9 Toast : James Whale in and Cleo Laine as third sub @Torva Messor : Gloria Whelan in and another sub needed please ! tracy : Eva Marie Saint in and Gormley x10 wannamaker : David Irving in and Gormley x11 WEP : Jasmine Yildiz in and Marek Marzec as new sub and a solo miss for @YorkshireBanker who thus need to provide another sub Jody Gormley is the new favorite for this round but will he make it to all the teams who picked him ? Let's wait and see… Captain Hemlock takes the lead with 2 points already

Gee, this thread is awful quiet right now. Can’t think why...

This is nothing but opinion, but here's mine. I don't know that Biden is suffering from dementia or anything like that. But I think he's probably senile. So when you have a man who is senile, can they do the job behind the scenes, with a lot of advisors in place and the like? Yeah, I think that's not unreasonable. But you put a man in his early 80's who is senile through the rigors of a presidential campaign, which in the U.S. goes on forever, and in front of cameras and doing campaign events and traveling and talking to the press and debates and interviews...and it is going to show. He's not up for that, which the debate so sadly showed. Take that pressure off him, and now on the occasions where he does go in front of the press, he doesn't look as bad.