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I am off to bed Mr. Y, goodness, we have enough troubles with the Welsh Assembly let alone some American politician!!  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #46 on: 02:20:48, 05-11-2008 » |
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Hmmm, I think I'm going to call it a night too. Florida and/or Ohio: don't fail me this time.
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« Reply #47 on: 02:54:13, 05-11-2008 » |
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Obama now standing at 199 electoral votes. It's projected that California, Oregon and Washington are safe for Obama, so now he virtually has 272 electoral votes. The results analist on Dutch television is confident and declared Obama 44th President of the US of A. Anyone still awake?  |
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« Reply #48 on: 03:12:43, 05-11-2008 » |
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Just about, Mr Y. But I'm off to bed now.
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« Reply #49 on: 03:16:39, 05-11-2008 » |
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I'm still here. I've been tidying up and doing bits of other stuff and haven't watched much TV so far, but I'm happy to take over for a bit now everyone else is sloping off.
When you all wake up the world will be a different place.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #50 on: 04:11:09, 05-11-2008 » |
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Do they play cricket in Africa?
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« Reply #51 on: 07:33:37, 05-11-2008 » |
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Er, yes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_cricket_team (The national team of President Elect Obama's paternal homeland.) Ie his father's homeland. Have I got that right? |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #52 on: 08:27:12, 05-11-2008 » |
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I have heard that Obama wants Gordie Brown to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan next year by 3000! Can you believe that? O well.
We will have to wait and see what Obama brings us.
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« Reply #53 on: 09:24:50, 05-11-2008 » |
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Well, I slept a bit, but saw most of the action.
And now, Brave New World...
...quite something to behold. Highlight: Jesse Jackson's (very real) tears.
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« Reply #54 on: 10:09:02, 05-11-2008 » |
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Yes, Martle. I thought it was really good to see JJ like that! I forgot that he was a front runner sometime back.
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« Reply #55 on: 10:27:44, 05-11-2008 » |
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I shut down my laptop about 1-30am and went to sleep, just turned it back on to find out the result.
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« Reply #56 on: 10:35:01, 05-11-2008 » |
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Logged off at 0230, up again at 0630 - now in the Big Wen trying to do a tolerable imitation of a decent day's work. ...quite something to behold. Highlight: Jesse Jackson's (very real) tears.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #57 on: 10:39:58, 05-11-2008 » |
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YES WE YOU CAN DID  I just caught Ohio before switching the TV off, so was able to sleep easy. Virginia and Indiana are the big news - and Missouri and Montana going to the wire! Wow. My prediction: we'll see the second black President very soon. Obama's mobilised a generation that will be able to say to its children, I went out and campaigned, I made this happen. Here's the inimitable Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #59 on: 11:01:55, 05-11-2008 » |
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Oh well, here you go: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break." |
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