ambeggar.bsky.social
Bald punisher of miscreants and weak-limbed ancient loon. Occasionally wonders if the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand would be a system of government worth trying out for a few years.
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Published in 1933, the attitude was accurate to the period he was writing about, and Franco was shortly going to prove that the old fashioned attitude to some Spaniards was astonishingly charitable.
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If these fellows were living in the sewers hiding from CHUD and feral alligators infected with chlamydia they would be listing their ten most memorable burst condoms floating past on the tide.
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The Awakened Conscience only some scoundrel has TWOCCED the piano
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Ransom is expressly unreliable at the end of Perelandra, and he admits as much, because he hasn’t got the words to be reliable.
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I’m seeing two thumbs down above the statement?
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Substitute “Caligula”, “Senators” and “horse” and I think we have the right energy?
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He will have to get through John Carter first which will be an interesting sight.
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It is perfect. Now I’m off to the Moonrakers. I didn’t say I had learned anything from it…
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I’m happy to say that my doubts about and near disgust for the present Tory party leaves very little left over to spend on myself, however much I might profit from it.
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I think, though without much evidence, that British racism has been endemic and pernicious, though restrained to an extent by the equal and opposite British idea that actually acting like a racist is rather infra dig. Though we may have been too polite to say so.
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Risky reply, mean well, apologies:
Q: are trans people human and therefore have rights?
A: of course, and “are they deserved?” is the sort of question nobody should have to ask.
Q: what are those rights?
A: the same as everyone else only harder fought for and more precious
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This seems to be part of an increasing political theory that cruelty guarantees its own results.
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Alternative pronunciation
Dismiss the pilot
Run off course by a league
Just like the captain
of the Montagu.
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It worked so well in 1919. No, wait…
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They are just jealous of Peter Grant’s phenomenal sexual connections within the jazz vampire community
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I commend the John Buchan novel to you
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I hijacked that for 1578, the Spanish, Falmouth and Cattedown, which is rather more satisfying when sung in Plymouth.
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My bankers are Hoares….
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? Mr Bennet - who in the BBC mini series was much more complicated and borderline unsympathetic than the Oddball sans tank we had in 2005.
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And you have canvas bags that are glorious
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As for Josey Wales and Gone to Texas, Atun-Shei’s channel on YouTube has a very interesting piece on “Forrest Carter”. My takeaway from Josey Wales was just how many great lines Clint gave away to other actors, and that he ended up more connected than at the start.
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Is it really a theocracy when the only god involved is Mammon?
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Am I right in thinking that the money borrowed for the farmers had to be used to service their debts before all else and so the farmers were just the conduit by which government money enriched the banks?
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They just want to get back to Kansasreich; clicking their heels and chanting, "there's no place like Rohm".
And a little while later....there wasn't.
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In a country subject to the rule of law, should this headline not read, “President attempts to stymie by purporting to fire…”? L
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Interesting; the FT-17 might have been a proper choice for an internal security unit but when a corner of it appeared on screen it looked very like an SdKfz 222.
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And yet we can also imagine neighbours and friends of all sorts and roads where fascists dare not walk, and a society of goodwill and resistance.
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Angelina suggests there is hope for Lesley yet
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If you think politics is hard on a frog,
Look up what old Friederich did to a dog
And ask yourself, wise and excellent reader,
If that created a voter or a leader
(WritTen by Ambeggar ajEd 57 3/4)
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Friederich Golze was a scientific man:
He would heat frogs slowly in a pan.
The poor things died rather than jump out
Which is much like what politics is all about.
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A pastor is judged by the joy- joy, mark you, not mere excitement- of their flock, and the character of their enemies.
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No, it was swamp dragons.
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Was it in an oversized distressed wooden case with drumming sound effects?
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When the blacksmith looks down to check his footing before lifting the plowshare, he faces toes.
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Only with no superpowers and really shite secret identities
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Hellboy: Conqueror Worm tells us all we need to know about the Nazi space program.
It’s got The Lobster in it!
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We won the War of the Spanish Succession with Danish help and d—-d if their solid brick built theme parks haven’t rescued us again
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I understood that reference
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There’s a lot of people hoping they can stow away on a spaceship to a better life on Mars who are going to bump up against The Cold Equations much sooner than anyone expected.
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She hoped he would grow up to be Reacher Gilt and buy the Grand Trunk?
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Buzz and Woody?