'My mother died' this curious use of past tense is a bugbear in teaching English. I try to encourage use of the present perfect but it is a losing battle. Jesus Christ died too, it is said, but there is a funny story in which he comes back to life. Can I assume your mother did not also come back? You posted your last 2023 thread here, but you have not yet posted your real truly truly last post.
Judging from the posting time, you probably straddled the two years, making it simultaneously last and first. Brings to mind that there used to be a Sydney Uni pub crawl from the First and Last pub at Circular Quay to the Forest Lodge in Glebe opposite the University - back then that was 50 pubs! On schooners or even middies that was a lot, a lot, a lot of beer - 10oz midi = roughly 300mls, times 50 thats 15 litres. Crazy thing to do. I attended the crawl once in 1964 or 65 but fell way short of the full count (I was drinking pints at I think one shilling and sixpence or 15 cents each in those days). The First and Last used to open at 6am, and even at that hour had a healthy crowd (healthy???). Sydney in those days had a pub on almost every CBD corner, but I'd guess at least 90% of those are long gone. The days of the 6 o'clock swill!
Interesting that someone should find self-stimulation by abusing me! Well, all the best for 2024, may your vocabulary and imagination grow along with your tumescent (or is it detumescent?) thingummyjig.
@con no need whatsoever! On the other hand you might like to review the long list of cryptic irrelevant and mistaken remarks you drop. Why on earth mention the VP? No need to mention the ex POTUS either, since he is the thread subject, is he not? Check the topic subject matter, I suggest.
@OP said states have neither tried nor convicted nor are they required to do either to exclude him as a candidate under their state laws. You may puff yourself up with legal indignation, but it is all wind and fury signifying nothing. 14 states cases await processing, and I assume they will be 'duly processed' - keep your eyes open for California. Section 3 simply doesn't require a criminal conviction to take effect, so go and kiss the beloved constitution.
Why lend credence to absurd ideas with absurd questions? Consider the magnetic and gravitational fields and then define your understanding of upright or upside down or sideways. Or more simply just of 'up and down'. Try describing the orientation of the spokes of a wheel with reference to nothing but the wheel. I suggest up and down mean nothing unless an external reference point is introduced, such as the track or the axle. Strapped to a pendulum suspended above earth blood will indeed rush to the head, but the pendulum is a separate system and is motion in a plane. So too the bug on the flange of the rolling train wheel in its cycloidal motion will have a cool ride presuming they have pressure sense - the bug might be right in asserting it lives in a flat world
When I prove the Riemann hypothesis they'll laugh and say 'how could this maths amateur do what we've tried to do for over 160 years?' and just to stir them up a little, I'll toss off the Goldbach conjecture the following week - 'A piece of cake' I'll modestly say, 'once the inspiration came to me' whilst I was sitting on the loo reading Goedel Escher Bach, as I'd promised to do this year. If only I'd done that 20 years earlier, who knows what might have been!?
Throughout high school I was the school's no#1 swat - getting up 4am, swatting French Latin Maths until school time, then after biking home, resuming swatting German Shakespeare and of course more Maths but not so much physics or chemistry. Has this use of 'swat' ceased?
You wish me to use kind words to the one who addresses me as 'wanker' and lies saying I am a 'muslim hater'? Well try this for size: I do not doubt he is doing the best he can with what he has for brains, and that best is evident in his writing. So to him for sterling effort. I come here not to be kind obsequious or condescending, not to make friends, but to express random thoughts and events and respond as I see fit. (where's the 'shrug' emoji I wonder?). Elsewhere I have written that it is unwise to 'praise' anyone here because they will tend to get tarred with the same brush you yourself are tarred with - so you won't find words of praise or hearty agreement coming from me.
@luke and all these later Christian converts, did any of them in embracing Christianity also claim heaven as a fact? Is 'heaven' a sine qua non of being a Christian? Since the blog is about knowledge of heaven, a concocted list of intelligent converts is irrelevant, proof of nothing whatsoever. I suspect that/ask whether a large proportion of Christians have no thought of heaven or hell except as the theoretical abode of their god thing. Perhaps too, many Christians have no thought of a god 'the father', but only of 'the son'. It's not something I've given deep thought, but it just now occurs to me as likely, it being difficult to accept that others actually believe in a heaven and a hell.
@OP it strikes me that anyone outside the Putin immediate inner circle is most unlikely to have or to acquire any meaningful power. Here is a year old article by the Australian ABC
Apart from the recent article about the barring of Duntsova I suspect there has been no news here in distant Australia. On the other hand two of the recent American presidential candidates also seemed unlikely, for racial/gender reasons, yet one famously succeeded and one famously failed. Russia of course is a totally different kettle of fish and Russian succession is simply not in the hands of the people. Defenestration is a method known to have been used on occasion to discourage opposition.
So a list of creepy words has been banned - so they should be, but a simple email instructing civil servants not to use such idiotic words surely was enough. The grandstanding as though it is revolutionary pro-female action, and labelling it as caused by the left, as she did, that is just crazy.
This of course in Arkansas, which protects women by totally banning abortion.
And you think this is good and exemplary? Next perhaps ban China from buying treasury bonds? Hmmm? Good idea? Well China is already divesting (40% down), and it remains to be seen what effect that will have. Personally I have no idea of the impact of investment controls in either direction. Purchase of major land holdings in Australia is certainly strictly monitored, and shows clear sinophobia, but these purchases often involve 1m hectares, not a mere 160 acres. Pettiness is not unexpected from certain US states, though, is it?
Well the problem is not just the polarisation and unilateralism of the political parties and politicians, it is the polarisation of the American people. It is a world trend in fact, just that America has it in SPADES and it has been increasing for at least the last 30 years. The solution lies not in the politicians but in getting the people to pull together. If the American people could do that, would it not be a truly awesome place!?
(Pssst - does your keyboard have a dicky L?). SC Justices have life tenure, and can only be ousted by impeachment, requiring 2/3 of Congress to vote guilty. Trump cannot remove them. Judge(s) have been impeached and removed for drunkenness/insanity but that's about it. England and Australia at least have non-political appointment and removal of the judiciary, unlike America where removal is also in the hands of the politicians. Trump is just bragging, talking through his hat boasting of tearing down the Constitution.
I am wondering how extensible, if at all, a Colorado ruling is to other states. Can the opinion of a single state SC judge be taken as a given in any other state? I am inclined to guess not. It might have bearing and some weight, but I imagine any other state judge would have to repeat the Jan6 evaluation themselves. I have serious doubts that SCOA is going to support this judgement.
To be abused by you is something like a badge of honour, well a trinket at best, being so trivial. I would be perplexed should you utter unwonted, unwanted words of praise. There, now you know how to truly disturb me! Couldn't find a great image for unwanted praise, but this will do instead:
Enoch was a much reviled name from the 70s in his Ulster Unionist years - I see as Minister for Health he held incomprehensible views on Thalidomyde, Professor of Greek at Sydney University, didn't know that, nor that Gough Whitlam said of him 'dry as dust'. From a scant reading I am not so sure he completely deserved his media criticism, but we are at a far remove from the Northern Ireland troubles these days. Nor am I so certain he was not entitled to his own beliefs and his words, wrong though he was, on the immigration question.
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to him for sterling effort.
(where's the 'shrug' emoji I wonder?).
RE: Terminally boring...
whilst we're on this simple grammar 'this thread is vacuously inane'.