OT a frightening thought

[Geoff Parkstone]

Hand on heart, I really, really wouldn’t, and I don’t know what he called it.

I’m sure you and Andy could come up with something snappy like, ‘The Danish strain of the virus (mink farm variation) originally from China’.

Me? In the interests of brevity...I’d just call it the ‘Danish strain’. I really don’t care where they’re first discovered...no sense of shame or pride. No competition...I just wish we’d concentrate on getting sufficient vaccine out quickly enough and stop having to have our inadequacy in providing for the needs of poor children pointed out by a footballer. Let’s concentrate on what’s important.

jesus christ, you can even manage to malign one thing we are doing well by making a spurious and irrelevant cross referencing to something totally different from months ago

I just wish derby would manage to win a few games and stop having their owner rob pension funds before drowning.

[ramAnag]

jesus christ, you can even manage to malign one thing we are doing well by making a spurious and irrelevant cross referencing to something totally different from months ago

I just wish derby would manage to win a few games and stop having their owner rob pension funds before drowning.

I think you’re confused. It’s the Neil Young fan v the accountant in you. I haven’t ‘maligned’ anything.
I’m just saying we should concentrate on the important things rather than the names we give to the various variants.
One of the important and alarming things is that...yet again a footballer has to draw the Government’s attention to the inadequacy if the provision he had to shame them into making in the first place.
You’re right...I should probably have posted that bit on the ‘Government’s handling of Covid’ thread but you’d probably still have moaned anyway.

[Geoff Parkstone]

its just the constant deviation to reiterate old news about government inadequacy that I find galling. Yes it happened seemingly for ever ago, but how is it remotely relevant to the subject or indeed relevant to today. its yesterdays news dragged up for effect, presumably because you dont have anything new to complain about today

Bloody Germans, they've gone and invaded Austria now, them and their anschluss.... It will be Poland next or Czechoslovakia

[Trickytreesreds]

its just the constant deviation to reiterate old news about government inadequacy that I find galling. Yes it happened seemingly for ever ago, but how is it remotely relevant to the subject or indeed relevant to today. its yesterdays news dragged up for effect, presumably because you dont have anything new to complain about today

Bloody Germans, they've gone and invaded Austria now, them and their anschluss.... It will be Poland next or Czechoslovakia

Sssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't mention Corbyn either. That's in the past apparently.

[ramAnag]

its just the constant deviation to reiterate old news about government inadequacy that I find galling. Yes it happened seemingly for ever ago, but how is it remotely relevant to the subject or indeed relevant to today. its yesterdays news dragged up for effect, presumably because you dont have anything new to complain about today

It’s today’s news. The photos of what they’ve been sending out broke overnight. Starmer asked Johnson about it today.

[Geoff Parkstone]

My apologies, was not aware of what looks like a disgraceful rip off of public funds. But unsure whose fault this is - looked like a rapacious supplier with no conscience

[ramAnag]

My apologies, was not aware of what looks like a disgraceful rip off of public funds. But unsure whose fault this is - looked like a rapacious supplier with no conscience

No worries. Thought one of us had gone mad. My problem is...this Government, which is in charge of vaccines, is the same Government that is in charge of feeding the poorest children. ‘Rapacious suppliers’ may well be the cause, but where does it end, who is to blame and why does it take a footballer’s objections to bring it to light...again?

Probably best saved for the other thread (Government’s handling of Covid) though, as I said.

[swaledale]

its just the constant deviation to reiterate old news about government inadequacy that I find galling. Yes it happened seemingly for ever ago, but how is it remotely relevant to the subject or indeed relevant to today. its yesterdays news dragged up for effect, presumably because you dont have anything new to complain about today

Bloody Germans, they've gone and invaded Austria now, them and their anschluss.... It will be Poland next or Czechoslovakia

I mean what indeed does the actions words and promises of the current PM or indeed the Tory party thats been in power for over a decade have to do with how he is judged now and going forwards?

And this from people who still claim that labour was responsible for the global financial crash that happened in 2008! This from people whose obsession with how things used to be (several decades ago) shapes their perspective on what happens today!

I see your calm rational responses to the tripe being posted is having its usual effect rA, i.e. none!

[AdiSalisbury]

I mean what indeed does the actions words and promises of the current PM or indeed the Tory party thats been in power for over a decade have to do with how he is judged now and going forwards?

And this from people who still claim that labour was responsible for the global financial crash that happened in 2008! This from people whose obsession with how things used to be (several decades ago) shapes their perspective on what happens today!

I see your calm rational responses to the tripe being posted is having its usual effect rA, i.e. none!

Gets more respect than your responses do

[Trickytreesreds]

Read this last night. Don't know how genuine it is, but if so even a nutter can have his good side. The press loves sleeze, but doesn't bother with good points.

Michael Ochoa
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TRUMP DOES THE UNTHINKABLE. by Liz Crokin
As an entertainment journalist, I've had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I've never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president. Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could've potentially sold a lot of magazines and would've been a Huge feather in my cap.
Instead, I found that he doesn't drink alcohol or do drugs, he's a hardworking businessman. On top of that, he's one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.
Since the media has failed so miserably at reporting the truth about Trump, I decided to put together some of the acts of kindness he's committed over three decades which has gone virtually unnoticed or fallen on deaf ears.
In 1986, Trump prevented the foreclosure of Annabell Hill's family farm after her husband committed suicide. Trump personally phoned down to the auction to stop the sale of her home and offered the widow money. Trump decided to take action after he saw Hill's pleas for help in news reports.
In 1988, a commercial airline refused to fly Andrew Ten, a sick
Orthodox Jewish child with a rare illness, across the country to get medical care because he had to travel with an elaborate life-support system. His grief-stricken parents contacted Trump for help and he didn't hesitate to send his own plane to take the child from Los Angeles to New York so he could get his treatment.
In 1991, 200 Marines who served in Operation Desert Storm spent time at Camp Lejune in North Carolina before they were scheduled to return home to their families. However, the Marines were told that a mistake had been made and an aircraft would not be able to take them home on their scheduled departure date. When Trump got wind of this, he sent his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami to safely return the Gulf War Marines to their loved ones.
In 1995, a motorist stopped to help Trump after the limo he was traveling in got a flat tire. Trump asked the Good Samaritan how he could repay him for his help. All the man asked for was a bouquet of flowers for his wife. A few weeks later Trump sent the flowers with a note that read: We've paid off your mortgage.
In 1996, Trump filed a lawsuit against the city of Palm Beach ,
Florida, accusing the town of discriminating against his Mar-a-Lago resort club because it allowed Jews and blacks. Abraham Foxman, who as the Anti-Defamation League Director at the time, said Trump put the light on Palm Beach not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. Foxman also noted that Trump's charge had a trickle-down effect because other clubs followed his lead and
began admitting Jews and blacks.
In 2000, Maury Povich featured a little girl named Megan who struggled with Brittle Bone Disease on his show and Trump happened to be watching. Trump said the little girl's story and positive attitude touched his heart. So he contacted Maury and gifted the little girl and her family with a very generous check.
In 2008, after Jennifer Hudson's family members were tragically murdered in Chicago , Trump put the Oscar-winning actress and her family up at his Windy City hotel for free. In addition to that, Trump's security took extra measures to ensure Hudson and her family members were safe during such a difficult time.
In 2013, New York bus driver Darnell Barton spotted a woman close to the edge of a bridge staring at the traffic below as he drove by. He stopped the bus, got out and put his arm around the woman and saved her life by convincing her to not jump. When Trump heard about this story, he sent the hero bus driver a check simply because he believed his good deed deserved to be rewarded.
In 2014, Trump gave $25,000 to Sgt. Andrew Tamoressi after he spent seven months in a Mexican jail for accidentally crossing the US-Mexico border. President Barack Obama couldn't even be bothered to make one phone call to assist with the United States Marine's release; however, Trump opened his pocketbook to help this serviceman get back on his feet.
In 2016, Melissa Consin Young attended a Trump rally and tearfully thanked Trump for changing her life. She said she proudly stood on stage with Trump as Miss Wisconsin USA in 2005. However, years later she found herself struggling with an incurable illness and during her darkest days, she explained that she received a handwritten letter from Trump telling her she's the bravest woman, I know. She said the opportunities that she got from Trump and his organizations ultimately
provided her Mexican-American son with a full-ride to college.
Lynne Patton, a black female executive for the Trump Organization, released a statement in 2016 defending her boss against accusations that he's a racist and a bigot. She tearfully revealed how she's struggled with substance abuse and addiction for years. Instead of kicking her to the curb, she said the Trump Organization and his entire family loyally stood by her through immensely difficult times.
Donald Trump's kindness knows no bounds and his generosity has and continues to touch the lives of people from every ***, race, and religion. When Trump sees someone in need, he wants to help.
Two decades ago, Oprah asked Trump in a TV interview if he'd ever run for president. He said: "If it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country.'"
That day has come. Trump sees that America is in need and he wants to help. How unthinkable! On the other hand, have you ever heard of Hillary or Obama ever doing such things with their own resources?
Now that's really unthinkable! Might be worth passing on!!!
Just shows we hired the right guy. If Hollywood , the liberals and the
media ever STOP harassing him, Trump will have time to do many more positive things for our country....the good ole United States of America!!