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classic33
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Reynard
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Just now on the BBC news channel's review of the papers...
One of the guests has just said something to the tune of: the justices who've overturned Roe vs Wade are incredibly brave to make that decision in a country where every woman can carry a gun.
Hmmm... What's the bet that might just happen...
One of the guests has just said something to the tune of: the justices who've overturned Roe vs Wade are incredibly brave to make that decision in a country where every woman can carry a gun.
Hmmm... What's the bet that might just happen...
Gravity Aided
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Gravity Aided
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I see that in the US, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs Wade... As usual, a decision made by Cloud Cuckoo Land blokes who refuse to keep their equipment firmly in their pants...
I also see that they've relaxed the gun laws as well.
Am I glad that I *don't* live in the US of A...
Actually, I think they tightened them a bit.18-21 year olds face more hurdles when going to buy a gun, and the "boyfriend Loophole" has been closed. The "Boyfriend Loophole" is where an abusive unmarried partner without children in a relationship can still get weapons, unlike a spouse or parent charged with domestic abuse. As for the other, the Republicans may have handed the Democrats a victory in Novembers House and Senate elections. Each and every one of those Supreme Court Justices at their confirmation hearings said Roe was settled law. I do not have any question in my mind that these people are all perjurers. Much of the Constitution was borne out of the issues arriving from England's Colonial policy vis a vis personal privacy and the right to do as one thought fitting and proper.
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Reynard
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I was thinking more about what was going on in New York, about changing the law about carrying concealed weapons...
Oh yeah, definitely. Like you, I also think that the Supreme Court, and, by extension the Republican Party, has just hoisted themselves on their own petards. You can't just shaft half the population without as much as a by-your-leave...
Abortion should IMHO be a matter of personal conscience, not a matter of law. Just because a particular group of people disagree with something - be it abortion, be it same-sex marriage, contraception etc, that doesn't then mean that they should then impose their worldview on everyone else.
Gravity Aided
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This is far more about so-called Christian Fundamentalism exercising its power over government, as the court's ruling previously this week that tax dollars can go to religious schools in direct contravention to the legal concept of separation of church and state. And the idea that then the court will want to rule against other civil liberties and protection from discrimination cannot be far behind. Still better off than the present situation in France. For now.
Reynard
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Mmmmm, well I'm *very* lapsed when it comes to religion, but that too, I believe, should be something private, and not tied up with politics. What you're describing sounds like the ecclesiastical robber-barons of the fifteenth century, casually lining their pockets at everyone else's expense... In the name of God, of course...
The BBC are echoing what you say about the erosion of civil liberties - and your previous point of perjury. Surely there can be some mechanism to address that, at least? Some of these so-called justices don't exactly sound like paragons of virtue...
Although I've noticed that the more urban, liberal and, ah, perhaps better informed parts of the US are already digging their heels in. This has got the potential to turn real nasty, though.
As for France, well it's a classic case of both sides against the middle. But at least BoJo got a bloody nose in the by-elections yesterday.
Reynard
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Aaaaanyways, I think a 
is called for. I have spent the evening trying to find the right name for a style of shoe that one of my characters likes to wear, and it's been thirsty work.
A quarter brogue in a kind of honeyed whisky colour is the conclusion.
Along with loose-fit jeans and a blue polo shirt with a pair of dark sunglasses tucked into the open collar.
is called for. I have spent the evening trying to find the right name for a style of shoe that one of my characters likes to wear, and it's been thirsty work.A quarter brogue in a kind of honeyed whisky colour is the conclusion.
Along with loose-fit jeans and a blue polo shirt with a pair of dark sunglasses tucked into the open collar.
classic33
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Just don't oversleep, come the morn.
classic33
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Hopefully no-one hurt too badly.We're currently down in south-west Cork, prepping for tomorrow's national race. It's VERY
But our Air b'n'b host is a lovely effervescent lady, the Irish granny everyone should have.
Hopefully son no. 2 does better than Thursday's TT but at least he kept his TT bike upright. Not everyone did so.
Question is, did the keys turn up?
Reynard
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My mate Simon says this:
"It's a Roy Nockolds painting of 1959. Moss's Rob Walker Cooper (in 1960 it was a Lotus 18) followed by a Ferrari and Jack Brabham's Cooper. This is the original Gasworks hairpin and now forms the pit lane, running the opposite direction with the current layout off to the right, round the pool."
I knew he'd come up trumps - this is very much his area of expertise.
I was right about the circuit, though - the Rascasse restaurant is just to the right of the artist's POV. 
Reynard
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He also says that the actual scalextric cars themselves are 62 / 63-ish, which links in nicely with the Jim Clark reference.
