Here's another Leunig for good measure, a-propos the voting rights. Since the banning of guns about 25 years ago, there has been a small pro-guns party called the Shooters-Party, hence the 'I shoot' on the t-shirt
Where do you hear such a thing? There is a housing crisis. It is always possible some idiot landlord might say something like that to an Irish applicant who was laying on the blarney with a trowel. There is of course no government policy of any such kind, and absence of policy is largely to blame. Homelessness may be on the rise too, it being high summer. Failing Ireland, maybe the Irish could save America instead.
so the Senate is determined to reject the Biden Immigration bill to ensure he gets no kudos in an election year, hmmm? Or am I wrong, the integrity of GOP and Trump will shine through in the interests of the nation and the common man? If I were a betting man, I know where my $million would be, at 50:1 for sure. It is pretty cynical hypocrisy don't you think?
... therefore, for variety you introduced a new topic 'Survival of the Kakapo' for discussion, and regaled us with stories of the Kea stealing the laces from your climbing boots outside Tasman hut in 1952 and other such things of interest. But no, just Andie MacDowell - not that she's so bad!
No he didn't. Someone writing about him adapted his words and deliberately misquoted. I see you read what you want to see and not what is written. It seems you think people belong to the country of their ancestors and not to where they live. Are you also anti-semitic by chance? You sure have that aura about you.
Voting entitlement for non citizens seems very peculiar, indeed.
Why on earth one would want to vote NO however I simply cannot comprehend!
I trust the NOs will be soundly defeated. Yet Referenda are incredibly hard to pass, particularly here in Australia. Bring in the Republic Referendum again!
Do you actually believe a word of that? You are demented. Biden has done nothing much great and nothing at all bad, as far as I can tell. Sure inflation is a world-wide problem, not of Biden's making, but employment is just about record high, NAZDAQ is 70% up on Nov 2019, the economy is doing great guns. What has Biden wrecked? Your imagination runs riot, you WISH Biden were ruining America, and to you a wish becomes a fact.
Norway's Permanent Immigration figures for recent years show just less than 40,000 and that's proportional to Australia's at 190,000 with 5 times the population. The refugee intake at 38,000 strikes one as generous. Syria and India amounted to about 8% of immigration. To me there is no indication of racism Or xenophobia.
The preference for white or sameness, mentioned in the original words, is not necessarily racism (nor was it called such), but may well be xenophobia. The @GS reference to Japanese racism is almost certainly xenophobia rather than racism, and perhaps the Norwegian sentiment is the same. There is little doubt the 'TOO WHITE' blogger was outright racist however.
... and I see this morning's 'Global Roaming - Iran's War with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish' is already there too. Perhaps my China contacts can access this site without a vpn
oh chartable.com - had never heard of it, but there is this podcast from ABC Radio National just released Thurs this week ... I assume this is submitted to them by ABC, rather than network-scraped, but cannot quite see the angle yet - a Publishers analytics site?
Much wider ranging, but there will be some overlap - Richard Adams focus is narrower, and on reserve currencies - the history and consequences, as well as the location of Australia in SEA.
France was not a party to the US sanctions on Iran, but since the deal was in USD America forced the fine. France and Germany might very well want to decouple from the USD Iran nuclear deal Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal), signed in July 2015, the United States agreed to cancel most of the U.S. sanctions against Iran, with some safeguard provisions, in return for limitations on Iran's nuclear program. US under Trump has withdrawn from this agreement and reimposed sanctions to which EU is not a party, but is at risk of being punished again by the US. Surely this situation must have a work-around, and perhaps the Chinese Yuan represents exactly that. Shall we ever see Swift providing such an option?
Caring for and representing ordinary Americans includes 6 bankruptcies The six bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York: Trump Taj Mahal (1991), Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992), Plaza Hotel (1992), Trump Castle Hotel and Casino (1992), Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (2004), and Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009). In the course of those bankruptcies how many ordinary Americans - Tradesmen Contractors Decorators did he leave with negligible cents in the dollar. Late payment and unilateral discounting is his business model as you can see. That is care for and concern for the ordinary Joe Blow, right? These bankruptcies cost his workers contractors and investors hundreds of millions.
You are mistaken - there are at least four accepted spellings of capiche/capeesh/capisce but I prefer capiche. It is not necessarily a warning at all, but not exactly friendly and jovial. Someone here didn't like my 'Got it?' and was offended, I assume they would have taken offence at 'capiche?' too
And you in your myopic tunnel-visioned view of things think that whatever H Biden may have done somehow justifies what Trump is known to have done? Focus focus, Trump done Foke-us all!
I recall the thrupence, the smallest silver coin we had up till the 60s. I distinctly remember the smell of the pennies and ha'pennies but after Federation (1901) Australia never had the farthings. Sorry @OP just an excursion down 1950s memory lane.
The two Leunigs
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