Yom Kippur

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Holiest day of the calender

shana tova!

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That time of year again, when we celebrate the new year ,Rosh Hashanah!

A wise doctor once said

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True story

The rule of six or covid latest in the uk

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Lol. Sums it all up really 

Goat or bird?

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One of those cool illusions:

Which is it?

Shabbat Shalom

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Shabbat Shalom and happy bank holiday!

The ugly rule of mob

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An example of the far left BLM mob in Washington D.C. (note the mob itself seems to be , erm, white) -

Steam punk and science fiction

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One thing that I think we've lost in the science fiction realm is the old science fiction of the late 19th to mid 20th century and the scientific assumptions that people had at the time  .

 For example, there was a view that the further out from the sun you were the older any civilisation would be :  Venus blanketed in cloud would be  a young world of ocean and swamp, inhabited by monster like dinosaurs, the seas like soda pop , sizzling because of carbon dioxide. 

Mars by contrast was thought to be home to an ageing advanced civilisation , being much further from the sun, that has suffered from an environmental catastrophe (hence Lowell and his canals and indeed the Martians of HG Wells war of the worlds) .  

Then there is Edgar Rice Burroughs "barsoom" series featuring John Carter "gentleman of Virginia" who ends up on Mars and through swashbuckling adventure falls in love with a native Martian Princess, albeit a fifteen foot tall one as Burroughs incorporated lower Martian gravity into the stories.

While we have steam punk today, it makes you wonder what the world circa 1900 would have been like if we had actually got to Venus or Mars and they were inhabited or habitable? 

Patriotism isn't wrong!

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After the BBC decided, because they are xenophobic, racist, colonialist and  imperialist,   to abolish patriotic songs at the last night of the proms , we thought we'd give one a bit of a blast :

The left absolutely hate Britain and like to portray it as a ghastly  fascist- racist hell hole, which is absolute rubbish!  Even though refugees from Europe are fleeing France to get here, *despite *  brexit and covid.

A proverb

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This was a proverb of my maternal grandmother:

"A glass half empty and a glass half full is worse than a glass empty or a glass  full "

Hmmm..... 

Thoughts?

The tribal hypocrisy goes on

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Last week I noted that the left like tribalism as much as the right , regardless of what a politician does even if they are counter to left wing ideology

As if to confirm this  the guardian , the UK's esteemed left centre liberal broadsheet  has produced commentary that praised the Prime Minister of New Zealand for delaying that country's elections as "magnanimous and conciliatory". Yet when there was talk of Trump suggesting this for America it was condemned as "what autocrats do".

So this hypocrisy has nothing to do with the Prime Minister of New Zealand belonging to a left wing Labour party and Trump being from a right wing party? It's also worth pointing out that the new Zealand government is a coalition and their Labour party is sharing power with a party called "New Zealand first" which is, erm, a populist nationalist party... aka brexit party ,Boris Johnson and Trump have previously been dismissed as " vulgar populists"   by the left ... but it's okay as NZ first are propping up a left wing government... 

actually I wonder what would happen if , in another reality the Brexit party was propping up a minority Labour government led by a black female feminist leader.... now would that not burst a few bubbles?

In any case elections were suspended in Wales Scotland and London this year.

Where is the guardian outrage in the SNP , Labour in Wales or Labour and mayor Khan  in London getting an extra year?