There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Just looking at yet another layer of global warming falling outside the window. As usual, the road has not been gritted by the council and cars are having trouble negotiating the hill at the end of it. This is even though it is a bus route, a way to three schools, and there are quite a large number of sheltered housing units just round the corner.
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Obama’s Beginning of the End
by Eric Margolis
In 1956, Britain, France and Israel colluded to invade Egypt to overthrow its hugely popular nationalist leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. US President Dwight Eisenhower deemed the tripartite Suez aggression immoral and damaging to American interests in the Muslim world. “Ike” ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Egypt at once – or else. They got out. Continue reading “Obama’s Beginning of the End, by Eric Margolis”
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noel Coward
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
Strange how it seems acceptable to the media to so describe British citizens of European descent, and yet when it is Mr Ghulam Khan, a dual national with a British passport, who is blown up as an Al Qaeda operative, he is described simply as a British Citizen. God forbid Radio Four and the Media should refer to him as a Brown British Citizen, or as yet another Pakistani holding dual British citizenship – the P.C. Brigade must be tying themselves in knots over such fine distinctions…
It is long overdue that the Press grasped the nettle on this. Of course what they were about was conveying the message of, “Shock! Horror! WHITE men of “our” own descent are getting up to this Al Qaeda nonsense now, not just the imported Brits…”
No one in their right mind would describe my wife as British, least of all herself, although she holds a British passport – she is an American, and would tell you she is an American whose husband forced her to take a British passport to save himself and his company hassles with visas for her when working abroad for the last thirty years. So why all the sensitivity, for our TCN British citizens?
Rant over…
Dylan – Blowing in the wind
“Life is a performance, I thought. Perhaps the word “illusion” would have meant more or less the same thing, but to me “performance” seemed closed to the truth. Standing there in the midst of the crowd that evening, I felt this realisation swirl dizzily through my body in a dazzling splendour of light, if only for an instant. Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we’ve ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves”.
— 吉本ばなな
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
~ Milton Friedman
Boadicea's Chariot 
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