Category Archives: England

Morning Open Thread – Tickle the dragon’s tail or leave it alone?

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day, hobby and fun things, what you did on your vacation, and your local weather phenomena. Sometimes the unanswered question of the day has no answer. … Continue reading →

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‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh*t’ is not the Obama Doctrine because there is one

Posted on March 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   An important date in my lifetime was not an August 30 when I decided to blog regularly, but the red line moment for the Obama decision not to bomb the shit out of Syria over the use … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: BEGINNINGS

Posted on January 15, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD For there’s more enterprise In walking naked     – William Butler Yeats, “A Coat” from A Cloak by Denise Levertov And I walked naked from the beginning breathing in my life, breathing out poems,   … Continue reading →

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Bring me the head of Diego Garcia: blaming the Brits for being Dodos about Disposession

Posted on December 1, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers In 1966, the head of Britain’s Colonial Office, Lord Denis Greenhill, wrote about Chagos, “The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours; there will be no indigenous population except seagulls who … Continue reading →

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Pilot saves lives by riding his plane into the ground instead of ejecting.

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Chuck Stanley

by Chuck Stanley There was a crash with fatalities at the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex, England Saturday afternoon. A Hawker Hunter jet fighter was performing a loop, when it did not recover at the bottom of the loop. The … Continue reading →

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