QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

The Russian ambassador this morning on Today.....
"Russia has often been accused of trying to split the EU. The UK is doing a pretty good job of that at the moment."
He's got a point!

[Stanley]

"Be depressed, discouraged and disappointed at failure and the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption and bad politics — but never give up. Marjory Stoneman Douglas."
Quoted by Uncle Bob today in Bob's Bits.

[Tizer]

David Milliband on the Today programme this morning...
"We've plumbed the depths of despair and it's going to be difficult to unplumb." As Homer Simpson would say, "Doh!!"

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. Joseph Pulitzer, 1904."
Bob's Bits today.

[Tripps]

From today's Spectator magazine -

Ted Turner the founder of CNN once declared -

'If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect'.

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Jacob Rees Mogg on LBC this morning . . .

I think we are now at peak uncertainty.

[Stanley]

That man is in a world of his own.......

[Tizer]

Not quite...there are about 60 other Moggles, all members of a club called the ERG. In an article on the weekend Matthew Parris pointed out that the Brexiters have him as a leader whereas the Remainers don't have anyone to rally around. They need someone to take on the task but he says the trouble is that MPs largely don't chat about `business' when they gather together in the restaurant or bar. That majority of MPs that are Remainers are all quietly focusing on their constituency business or other matters, anything but talking about Brexit. Yet they know what's happening is wrong and is going to lead to the biggest calamity we've seen for a long time. It needs one of them to shout the equivalent of `The Emperor hasn't got new clothes, he's in the altogether!'

[Stanley]

You're right of course Tiz, I was speaking figuratively.... I couldn't remember the other by-name for 'Colonel Blimp' yesterday but thinking about Jacob brought it back; 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells'. (LINK)

[Tizer]

I'm reading an Anthony Price `David Audley' novel published in the 1970s. As always, Price presents much background historical detail and in this case it concerns the English Civil War. At one point Audley remembers something which immediately leapt out for me as pertinent to our present day situation, with regard to both party politics and the Brexit fiasco. In the Civil War, the 2nd Viscount Falkland was a Royalist moderate and he noted that `whoever wins the war the moderates on both sides will be losers'. This seems to me to sum up the situation in the UK at present.

[Stanley]

That's about right. The Bible says "The meek shall inherit the earth". I haven't seen a lot of evidence there's any truth in that.

[chinatyke]

by PanBiker » 03 Jun 2018, 20:02
"...as the sneck dropped off during Winter..."

Sounds painful!

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Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off the coast of Orkney to take advantage of the cooling effect of the seawater and boost energy efficiency. Some experts enthused over the idea but Professor Ian Bitterlin, a data centre consultant for nearly 30 years, is sceptical about the environmental impact of going underwater. He said: `You just end up with a warmer sea and bigger fish.'

[Tizer]

It's a good day for collector's of quotes. Here are two more, this time from the BBC's Europe Editor, Katya Adler.

"Wow," gushed a European journalist to me the other day, "normally we look to Italy for political drama and uncertainty but the UK is making a pretty good show of it."
..and...
"It just can't work," an EU diplomat told me in exasperation this week. "Theresa May has so many nooses dangling around her neck that one of those nooses is sure to hang her."

[Stanley]

[Tripps]

Michael Portillo last night -

"text books will be written on the inefficiency..er..er..the incompetency - of these negotiations."

[Stanley]

He could be a contributor.....

[Tripps]

From Andrew Neil - who seems to be absent from PMQ's today?

"Nobody outside Westminster bubble understands what happened today and even 90% of those in the bubble aren’t sure. Thus does the degradation of British Politics continue."


PS.
Seems he had a note from his mum, to go to his Alma Mater (Glasgow University) to receive an honorary degree. I'll let him off.

Late headline from the Spectator on the same theme -

"Brexit hits the fan"

[Stanley]

here’s a great message on p304 of the book where the Yosephs suggest a notice that should be put up in washrooms:

Employees must wash hands before returning to work.

And do not touch the mevalonate pathway!

If this puzzles you, read Wendy's post today in Medical Matters on the evils of Statins.....

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Matthew 13:12
Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

?????????????

[Stanley]

I always think of it in the St James Version P. It's always baffled me as well. If you are ever with a theologian and you want a laugh, ask them to explain it, they tie themselves in knots!

[plaques]

The best answer appears to be one of genetics. Taking all walks of life if a pair have a inborn desire to have offspring then their lineage will probably survive evolution. On the other hand if they have little interest then their line will gradually disappear. This is all down to the word 'probability' since nothing is certain in terms of evolution.
Unfortunately, a small group of people have adopted this mantra with money and power in mind.

[Stanley]

I have to admit that that has always been the interpretation I have put on it..... Simply in terms of wealth. Remember the parable of the talents? I have to admit you have a point.