Obama's ominous obscurantism...

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Obama blunders again. My thoughts on the matter?...Mr. Obama, fuck off you lying hypocrite!



Quite right Tim: "Obama’s Brexit overreach is typical of his arrogance".

Obama's ominous obscurantism...

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Obama blunders again. My thoughts on the matter?...Mr. Obama, fuck off you lying hypocrite!

Quite right Tim: "Obama’s Brexit overreach is typical of his arrogance".

Out, out, out II...

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Not to everyone's taste and I'm at least a week late on this but Dan the Man is on fine form. An optimistic message about the the blossoming of a free people after Brexit: "Daniel Hannan emphasises the importance of promoting the positives on why we should leave the EU. This is a must see for the undecided and those who still believe we should remain." Be patient if you are bored by the first few minutes, it builds well.

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It harks back to Dan's great piece in the DT last year: "A vision of Britain outside the EU - confident, successful and free".
"Released from our Eurochains, pessimism withers and the economy grows as we become great again."

Out, out, out II...

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Not to everyone's taste and I'm at least a week late on this but Dan the Man is on fine form. An optimistic message about the the blossoming of a free people after Brexit: "Daniel Hannan emphasises the importance of promoting the positives on why we should leave the EU. This is a must see for the undecided and those who still believe we should remain." Be patient if you are bored by the first few minutes, it builds well.

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It harks back to Dan's great piece in the DT last year: "A vision of Britain outside the EU - confident, successful and free". "Released from our Eurochains, pessimism withers and the economy grows as we become great again."

Out, out, out II...

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Not to everyone's taste and I'm at least a week late on this but Dan the Man is on fine form. An optimistic message about the the blossoming of a free people after Brexit: "Daniel Hannan emphasises the importance of promoting the positives on why we should leave the EU. This is a must see for the undecided and those who still believe we should remain." Be patient if you are bored by the first few minutes, it builds well.

It harks back to Dan's great piece in the DT last year: "A vision of Britain outside the EU - confident, successful and free". "Released from our Eurochains, pessimism withers and the economy grows as we become great again."

Olympic opening...

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If someone were to ask what James Brendan Bennet Connolly and the small town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire, UK had in common most would be stumped. Me too, until today: US athlete Connolly [Wiki] was the very first Olympic champion of the modern Olympic games (those games are 120 years old today) held in Athens in 1896) when he won gold in the Triple jump (he also got the silver medal High jump and bronze in the Long jump); Much Wenlock actually had hosted its own annual local 'Olympics' [The Olympian Class in 1850:

..."for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation, and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments"

"It was devised by local doctor William Penny Brookes and is still held to this day." [Indie] One of the Independent's "Five things you didn’t know about the first modern Olympic Games that took place 120 years ago" goe son to tell us that "Baron Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin visited the town in 1890 and was inspired by the townspeople participating in the Games so he founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC)". Excellent, we can claim that too :-) ... as well as "Britain is one of 4 countries (including Australia) to have participated at every games since 1896, but is the only country to have won a gold medal at every games"...if Romacitizen's comments are more fact based than the Independent's 5 points (they got one wrong!).

Olympic opening...

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If someone were to ask what James Brendan Bennet Connolly and the small town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire, UK had in common most would be stumped. Me too, until today: US athlete Connolly [Wiki] was the very first Olympic champion of the modern Olympic games (those games are 120 years old today) held in Athens in 1896) when he won gold in the Triple jump (he also got the silver medal High jump and bronze in the Long jump); Much Wenlock actually had hosted its own annual local 'Olympics' [The Olympian Class in 1850:

..."for the promotion of the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation, and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments"

"It was devised by local doctor William Penny Brookes and is still held to this day." [Indie] One of the Independent's "Five things you didn’t know about the first modern Olympic Games that took place 120 years ago" goe son to tell us that "Baron Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin visited the town in 1890 and was inspired by the townspeople participating in the Games so he founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC)". Excellent, we can claim that too :-) ... as well as "Britain is one of 4 countries (including Australia) to have participated at every games since 1896, but is the only country to have won a gold medal at every games"...if Romacitizen's comments are more fact based than the Independent's 5 points (they got one wrong!).

Obama's obnubilation, obfuscation...

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Obama caught out being a rampant hypocrite...again. In a clear anti-Trump rant* Obama 'blamed' the media for not making presidential candidates more accountable. He seems to have forgotten their outrageously blind, partisan, entirely biased coverage of his own 2008** campaign (and to a large but not as great extent in 2012). I include the UK media in this too. Later, Obama promised "transparency would be a touchstone of his administration", and he has claimed to have the 'most transparent administration in history', bullshit on both counts.



However, back to this week: [LINK]. "Many believe that Obama’s call for us to probe and dig deeper and find out more has been made far more difficult by his administration than any in recent decades." (CNN reporter)...

"the Obama administration had used the Espionage Act to go after more leakers and whistleblowers than all previous White Houses combined."

"Obama hasn’t delivered... "In fact, FOIA has been a disaster under his watch." (Pro Publica reporter Justin Elliott". 'A recent analysis found the Obama administration set a record of failing nearly 130,000 times to respond to public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act.'

Elliot 'went on to write':

Newly uncovered documents (made public only through a FOIA lawsuit) show the Obama administration aggressively lobbying against reforms proposed in Congress. The Associated Press found last year that the administration had set a record for censoring or denying access to information requested under FOIA, and that the backlog of unanswered requests across the government had risen by 55 percent, to more than 200,000.

* If his awful dirge-like way of speaking could ever be a 'rant'; I have never understood how he is considered a master orator: I'm switched off after two sentences.


** And his nomination to run was completely rigged anyway (plus ca change)