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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.

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.

Lorde is 28.

John Nott is a hit for @MariNisia, making for one of the quickest rounds yet!

John Nott has died according to his daughter.

There's a parallel universe where this stumbling streak of senility has just been reelected.

John Cannan Q/O. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9jxpj2lypo

Pretty good argument for euthanasia.

Surely JC wouldn't allow it. If he dies in the next 2 months, Biden would still be the acting president so I'd imagine he'd give the eulogy

6/Nov/2024 80 Emeli Sande — Next To Me 68 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven 66 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason 55 Adele — Skyfall +4 55 Bastille — Pompeii 52 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 25 Nicki Minaj — Starships 24 One Direction — Best Song Ever 21 Gary Barlow — Let Me Go 19 Avicii — Hey Brother 12 The Vamps — Can We Dance -6 09 Example — Say Nothing

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In case anyone here was remotely curious about how this worked out, I am pleased to report it has gone very well. Date #2 to be arranged soon.

I keep trying to tell my family and close friends that I'm pretty much the fount of all knowledge and wisdom but they ain't having it.. infact they are quite insistent in the most strong terms that it isn't true . Can you believe that? ! Jealousy is a very ugly trait..