back to alcohol-free until NYE:
but don't dunk Oreos, they are indestructible: https://x.com/ur_rumi9/status/1872253913610555516
and don't forget the music...
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Boxing Day smiles
pretty duckling https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=178712254490630
back to alcohol-free until NYE:
but don't dunk Oreos, they are indestructible: https://x.com/ur_rumi9/status/1872253913610555516
and don't forget the music...
back to alcohol-free until NYE:
but don't dunk Oreos, they are indestructible: https://x.com/ur_rumi9/status/1872253913610555516
and don't forget the music...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Merry Christmas smiles
free at last... er... https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1870257542292455467
brushbaby https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1489758598336720
howl https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3462591047377493
"iguana go home !" https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1051815623651612&set=a.502626141903899
Duckling Lake... https://www.facebook.com/voicesofsa/videos/1188468802669052
bathtime https://www.facebook.com/reel/569755315950498
...and on a different scale...
playing basketpumpkin https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1615425809183104
after Christmas lunch... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=1263936344820781&external_log_id=5b82767e-0dd4-430a-b130-fd8ccfeee0f2&q=OMG!%20Keep%20going%2C%20it%27s%20so%20good
brushbaby https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1489758598336720
howl https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3462591047377493
"iguana go home !" https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1051815623651612&set=a.502626141903899
Duckling Lake... https://www.facebook.com/voicesofsa/videos/1188468802669052
bathtime https://www.facebook.com/reel/569755315950498
...and on a different scale...
playing basketpumpkin https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1615425809183104
after Christmas lunch... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=1263936344820781&external_log_id=5b82767e-0dd4-430a-b130-fd8ccfeee0f2&q=OMG!%20Keep%20going%2C%20it%27s%20so%20good
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Music for Christmas Eve, by JD
O Come O Come Emmanuel! - in Hebrew Arabic and English singing over Jerusalem!
Mary, Did You Know? (Live At Studio C, Gaither Studios, Alexandria, IN/2020) Written by Mark Lowry who is part of the Gaither Gospel band although he is not one of the singers here.
Maria, tu sabias? In Portuguese sung by Prisma Brasil. This is the same song as above but sung in a completely different style.
Christmas Must Be Tonight | The Band | OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
Monday, December 23, 2024
Smiles 2
panda v pumpkin https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1716517669106753
lion massage https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=563848293099237&set=gm.508530018877505&idorvanity=342779168785925
bob and tom https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3479814515657247
peek-a-boo ! https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1870424248906625242
yes very good - WHAT !!! https://www.facebook.com/reel/954237983266667
and after the big dinner... https://www.facebook.com/reel/605013425517780
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Smiles
what scares a bear? https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1313585209856459
colour matching https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1256916652242855
lovely smiles! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122173497098250162&set=a.122129484122250162
dog nanny https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1100235631503345
dog takes man for walk https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=609207961619567
colour matching https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1256916652242855
lovely smiles! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122173497098250162&set=a.122129484122250162
dog nanny https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1100235631503345
dog takes man for walk https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=609207961619567
Friday, December 20, 2024
FRIDAY MUSIC: JD's Christmas Selection 4
Steeleye Span - Gaudete (Official Lyric Video)
John Lennon ~ So this is Christmas.
Dickens Dublin Loreena McKennitt
Fairytale of New York (edit) (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run (Official Video)
Thursday, December 19, 2024
A furious swarm of WASPIs - PMQs 18th December 2024
The loudest buzz this week was about WASPIs - Women Against State Pension Inequality.
In 1995 the then Conservative Government raised women’s State Pension Age (SPA) by five years to equalise it with men’s - and in 2011 the Con/LibDem coalition accelerated the phasing-in. In July this year the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) guilty of maladministration in not promptly and adequately informing those affected, and recommended compensation - which Labour yesterday refused.
Four people raised this issue in today’s PMQs.
The first was the leader of the Opposition. Kemi Badenoch is not trained in law, and it shows: she has not the knack of merciless forensic drilling that allows no escape for the victim. Once again she asked a portmanteau question, in this case combining WASPIs with those who have applied for pension credit since the scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Starmer gladly grabbed the latter alternative, boasting of his retention of the State Pension ‘triple lock’ and scoring off Kemi by noting that her Shadow Chancellor recently called it ‘unsustainable.’ It was a hit aimed at the weak coordination of her Cabinet. also instanced when her Shadow Science Minister contradicted her on NIC policy.
How much longer can Badenoch retain her grip on the perfidious Conservative rump in Parliament? She identifies as Yoruba, but that could easily mean ‘taxi’s here, Kemi!’
The next to tackle the PM on WASPIs was Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake and Sir Keir finally gave a detailed response. He admitted that the DWP’s failures under Labour in the mid-Noughties was ‘unacceptable’ but paired that with George Osborne’s ‘equally unacceptable’ speeding up the SPA-matching process - which the ‘Austerity Chancellor’ infamously told global investors ‘probably saved more money than anything else we’ve [the Conservative administration] done.’
Starmer added that the country cannot afford the compo because of ‘the state of our economy’ and gave us one of his Killer Factoids: ‘the evidence shows that 90% of those impacted knew about the changes.’
A legally-trained Killer-Driller might ask more about the evidence, and whether the other ten per cent should not be made whole. Similarly the PM’s claim - repeated today - about the IHT threshold for farmers being £3 million, and the other one about £5 billion to be invested in farming (er, over two years, and spent on what, exactly?) both need meticulous unpacking.
This approach is vital in puncturing Labour’s dreamworld, the one in which they force us to live. For in other, non-PMQ Parliamentary hearings the Foreign Office has been squirming over the Chagos Islands giveaway, which reportedly the new Mauritian PM has rejected, and sketchwriter Quentin Letts has had sport with Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s body language during interrogation by Claire Coutinho.
A third questioner on WASPI was Ian Byrne, one of the seven Labour rebels who had the whip withdrawn for supporting an end to the two child benefit cap. A stuttering Starmer repeated points he had made earlier to Ben Lake.
Nor was the PM off the hook even then. ‘Mother of the House’ Diane Abbott reminded him ‘we did promise [the WASPI women] that we would give them justice.’ Indeed not merely ‘we’ but ‘he’: in 2021 Starmer helped two WASPI campaigners hold a sign supporting ‘fair and fast compensation’ and in 2022 he told BBC Radio Merseyside that it was ‘a real injustice’ and ‘we need to do something about it.’ So when Abbott asked ‘does the Prime Minister really understand how let down they feel today?’ all he could do was to reply ‘I do understand the concern.’
As Letts notes, thanks to the electoral landslide there are numerous Labour backbenchers with no hope of ministerial office and facing defeat in their constituencies next time round and who may begin gossiping about their ‘inept, absent Prime Minister.’
Perhaps Starmer and Badenoch make a pair of wobbly bookends.
In 1995 the then Conservative Government raised women’s State Pension Age (SPA) by five years to equalise it with men’s - and in 2011 the Con/LibDem coalition accelerated the phasing-in. In July this year the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) guilty of maladministration in not promptly and adequately informing those affected, and recommended compensation - which Labour yesterday refused.
Four people raised this issue in today’s PMQs.
The first was the leader of the Opposition. Kemi Badenoch is not trained in law, and it shows: she has not the knack of merciless forensic drilling that allows no escape for the victim. Once again she asked a portmanteau question, in this case combining WASPIs with those who have applied for pension credit since the scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Starmer gladly grabbed the latter alternative, boasting of his retention of the State Pension ‘triple lock’ and scoring off Kemi by noting that her Shadow Chancellor recently called it ‘unsustainable.’ It was a hit aimed at the weak coordination of her Cabinet. also instanced when her Shadow Science Minister contradicted her on NIC policy.
How much longer can Badenoch retain her grip on the perfidious Conservative rump in Parliament? She identifies as Yoruba, but that could easily mean ‘taxi’s here, Kemi!’
The next to tackle the PM on WASPIs was Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake and Sir Keir finally gave a detailed response. He admitted that the DWP’s failures under Labour in the mid-Noughties was ‘unacceptable’ but paired that with George Osborne’s ‘equally unacceptable’ speeding up the SPA-matching process - which the ‘Austerity Chancellor’ infamously told global investors ‘probably saved more money than anything else we’ve [the Conservative administration] done.’
Starmer added that the country cannot afford the compo because of ‘the state of our economy’ and gave us one of his Killer Factoids: ‘the evidence shows that 90% of those impacted knew about the changes.’
A legally-trained Killer-Driller might ask more about the evidence, and whether the other ten per cent should not be made whole. Similarly the PM’s claim - repeated today - about the IHT threshold for farmers being £3 million, and the other one about £5 billion to be invested in farming (er, over two years, and spent on what, exactly?) both need meticulous unpacking.
This approach is vital in puncturing Labour’s dreamworld, the one in which they force us to live. For in other, non-PMQ Parliamentary hearings the Foreign Office has been squirming over the Chagos Islands giveaway, which reportedly the new Mauritian PM has rejected, and sketchwriter Quentin Letts has had sport with Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s body language during interrogation by Claire Coutinho.
A third questioner on WASPI was Ian Byrne, one of the seven Labour rebels who had the whip withdrawn for supporting an end to the two child benefit cap. A stuttering Starmer repeated points he had made earlier to Ben Lake.
Nor was the PM off the hook even then. ‘Mother of the House’ Diane Abbott reminded him ‘we did promise [the WASPI women] that we would give them justice.’ Indeed not merely ‘we’ but ‘he’: in 2021 Starmer helped two WASPI campaigners hold a sign supporting ‘fair and fast compensation’ and in 2022 he told BBC Radio Merseyside that it was ‘a real injustice’ and ‘we need to do something about it.’ So when Abbott asked ‘does the Prime Minister really understand how let down they feel today?’ all he could do was to reply ‘I do understand the concern.’
As Letts notes, thanks to the electoral landslide there are numerous Labour backbenchers with no hope of ministerial office and facing defeat in their constituencies next time round and who may begin gossiping about their ‘inept, absent Prime Minister.’
Perhaps Starmer and Badenoch make a pair of wobbly bookends.
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