1944 Setback for Allies as airborne troops retreat from Operation Market Garden offensive to capture a bridge over the Rhine at Dutch town of Arnhem after suffering heavy losses
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| A butcher's market garden, 1944 |
The literal translation for karate is 'open hand'. That for kung fu is 'hard work' or 'long practice'.
12:18
Meet your descendants. Life is full of improvised propaganda. People putting their best foot forward. Putting their game face on. The other side to that is that people are not nice to each other in that their best move is tearing other people a new one every goddamn day they live and breathe, except some Saturdays and Sunday morning.
16.25
All of these meetings are putting my head in a mess. Or rather, it's like a bucket of paint that I am trying to reduce into its constituent parts, so that I can analyse and adjust it, then slop it up.
17.52
meretricious: pertaining to prostitutes; tawdry.
Nice word, going off to me meretricious view back a da gaff. No point being too swotty. Everyone else has left anyway.
18:23
Meaningless, desperate parliamentary motions of no confidence in the unassailable Taoiseach. Con saws buzzing in the background. Builders hoping the foreign Joes goes home before too long. Joe-bophobia. Under the arcane rules of the parliament, the opposition leader cannot move his motion, so he may have to wait. Try castor oil?
Fianna Family weighs in:
- It's a vendetta. Personal.
- It's political opportunism (which surely is the definition of politics, exploitation of opportunity?)
- When you read th-the-the-t full transcript it makes sense. How do you remember 12 years ago?
- Let's get real here.
- I'm a lawyer, you can't be closing down the tribunals.
- "I think it is valid, I think it is valid"
- He's given his whole life to public service. Confronted with outrageous allegations. Ridiculous. [Assassinate character of witness here]. He's a gentleman. Can you see the quotes around that? "Gintlemin."
- Not a scintilla. Nor an iota of ividince aginsht him.
18:33
These FF button men score points on their report card for not whistling through their nostril hair while being on the broadcast media while standing foursquare behind de Bertie, glowing with stubborn pride.
- I believe him implicitly. Bertie would have found a more clever way to hide this money.
- Thanks to the minster for Tanks, Armoured Cars and Guns.
18:57
Brave young activists are documenting the anti-government demonstrations in Burma on digital cameras.
19:43
Candle star.
20:36
T. Burmese sell haldwood.
21:21
Ireland were in the top ten until the top leaders got lamped:
09:27 Burmese riot police arrest 200 protesting monks
09:17 Ireland falls to 17th on global anti-corruption index
