Trump's lawyer has had his office raided by the FBI: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...of-trumps-lawyer-new-york-times-idUSKBN1HG2ZN
Is the net finally closing??? That might prove to have been one feckin' expensive shag! Certainly may cost more than the initial $160k deposit
As was ever the case. He's like an obnoxious little kid. He's got a big ego and no self-control. With most people you can find some sort of redeeming feature or character trait. I really can't see his.
These tweets were genuinely posted back-to-back: In other ****y Republican news, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has announced that he won't seek re-election in November. This has nothing to do with the fact that the Trump/Russia investigation is warming up and the rats are fleeing a sinking ship. He definitely didn't know anything about Trump being compromised. Nope.
Remember when your local copper was on the beat actually walking around "his area". He knew everyone and everyone knew him. Oh yes! An occasional bit of bother from a local or stranger,but,overall, it was pretty safe...as was most of London. I think,today,pc plod get's into his car and hardly notices anything. How do you hear a cry for help when your driving around? My answer......put the p.c back on the beat ala Dixon of Dock Green (Spurs supporter he was,too!)
On the subject of police, here's something that happened last night... Catching a train out of Victoria at around 10:45, once I finally found a seat I couldn't help but notice that there was a police officer stationed in the carriage - although you'd have to be blind to miss the guy, considering he had a HiVis vest with "MEDIC" emblazoned on it along with an equally impossible to miss nightstick and taser around his waist (which begs the question whether or not this medic realised a taser doesn't work like a defibrillator does...) Surely this has to tie in what murderer of Brazilian electricians Cressida Dick said about more visible police on the streets in the wake of a remarkable surge in crime at the exact same time that there's an equally remarkable drop in police numbers, although the logic is beyond ****ed: I can't recall a single one of the recent stabbings taking place on a train, while having a copper going back and forth between central London and Croydon on a train means there's one less on the street where they might actually be able to do their job - and if they are a medic, that adds yet another reason to it making no sense whatsoever. Has anyone else experienced this in the past few days?
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Got to love that PS. Let's use our collective finances for the greater good and defeat socialism. No, wait, not that!
The two parts that stick out for me is the admission they have to pay people to canvass for them while most parties are able to call on people happy and/or willing to volunteer to spread the word, and the part where they blather on about £350bn of taxpayers money - which begs the question just what is it with Tories and the number 350 that they can't help but bring that up as a figure every time?
I believe Conservatives and Republicans are out to screw the working man. Labour and Democrats are out to help the working man ( even though they both tend to screw up sometimes!)
To be fair, if he's on a train in uniform he's probably BTP, not Met, which apart from station concourses is just about the only place they're allowed to police in London.....
Chemical weapons use - why is killing a (relatively) few civilians with chemical weapons apparently so much worse than killing thousands of civilians with conventional weapons? Yes killing people this way is abhorrent, but blowing people to bits with artillery isn't? The point is that suddenly all the politicians are up in arms (pardon the expression) apparently because chemical weapons are used. But we have not heard anything like this condemnation and rhetoric well, since the last time they were going to vote on military intervention. In other words, is the important thing that people are dead, or how they died? Yes chemical weapons are vile, but it seems to me that when you're killed illegitimately the method of death is probably not as important as the fact you are dead - and the military offers plenty of grusome ways to kill people. Certainly the quantity does not seem to be important as this attack has effected relatively few people compared to the vast numbers of civilians killed before now. So either you are going to take action against such war crimes or you aren't. As an ex-military man I could get into the relative effectiveness of killing people, but let's keep this simple. Is this current fervour legitimate or just political rhetoric? Incidentally, for a piece of light reading, consider this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon. This sums up one of the problems here. Chemical weapons are considered to be "weapons of mass destruction". The weapon linked here is not chemical, biological or nuclear so not (normally) considered to be a WMD. Thermobaric weapons have been used in Afghanistan. They can be more destructive than any chemical weapon used in Syria (the effects of which you might prevent by simply being indoors), but do not produce anything like the media or political reaction.
The notion is not of weapon of mass X (where X = destruction, death etc) over a given area, but weapon of lingering deaths. Killing N people with a weapon that has near-instant effect is deemed more acceptable than stuff such as chemical weapons. Of course all of this is subjective, when you consider the effects of any weapon on soldiers/civilians during/after the time the weapon has been deployed/used.
