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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Speaking of Unpartisan Decision-Making (in the Political, or at least Governmental, Arena): Hands-Off to the Much-Maligned U S Supreme Court for Recently (Just the Other Day or Two) Determining that DONALD J TRUMP Does, Indeed, Have a Very Real Case to Answer at the Bar of American Justice, That He Does Verily Warrant/Justify Being Investigated for His Own (Extremely Dubious & Problematic) Role in the Events of America's (Literal) Epiphany January 6th Last...

Go the Donald...not!

Or, rather: May he go directly to jail...not pass 'Go', and not collect $200 on the way.

Isn't It - More Than Just a Tad - Interesting, However, How So-Called 'Right-Wingers'/Parties of 'the Right' - In the West, Anyhow - Seem to Have a Culture of Outspoken Nonconformity...

However, 'in the cold light of [twilight]', when I stop for a moment (or several) to consider this matter in more detail, two - contrasting - examples, the first 'proving' (or at least verifying) my maxim, the second completely disproving it, come to mind/recollection...

Yes, British *'Tories' do have a long and honourable tradition of 'bucking the ...........' and occasionally, and in considerable numbers even at times, directly opposing their own (governing) party, 'crossing the floor' of the Commons and voting against, and from time to time, 'down', Governmental proposals...

But so do Labourites - and **'conservatives' - in Australia.

*The name/monicker long given to members of the U K Conservative Party. But 'upon third thoughts' so too - though seemingly much less often - do 'Labourites' there...

**Such going under the Liberal/National (parties) 'Coalition'monicker.

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Boris, I('ve) Ever Like(d) the 'Cut of Yer Jib', So to Speak - Even Your Tousled, Unkempt Hairdo (Eerily Reminiscent of Mine Own, & - I Hate to Admit - 'That' of a Certain Former American President, So Soon to Return - to Finish the Job and the World Alongside It); But I Hate to Inform You (Though Doubtless You're Only Too Well Aware: As Your Appropriately Chastened Demeanour & 'Verbals' in the British House of Commons Show Only Too Clearly): What Transpired At Christmastime A Year Ago (As I Originally Understood, &/Or At Two 'Parties' Maximum; But Indeed (As Of 2/2/2022) I Discover There Were 14! (And Four of These Include the Birthdays of Four of My Own Family: My Own, My Younger Sister's, My Mum's and My Great-Nephew's! - & Bear in Mind That Boris Was Born Upon My Mum's Birthdate and In My Own Year of Birth) (As Is Only Too Evident From the Super-Abundance of Visual Evidence Leaking Out Left, Right and Especially Centre (Stage) Over Recent Days, Weeks and Months)...Simply Won't Cut It, Let Alone the (English) Mustard, Whichever Way One Happens to Slice or Dice - or Even Scramble - It (I'm Sorry to Have to Inform You)

Yep, blatant hypocrisy and undeniable lying (and the ongoing hubris and arrogance in the matter) is something yer average voter simply won't abide...for very long...

But your party and the British public nevertheless owes you an undying debt of gratitude for (*greatly assisting in) getting the Brexit over the line, but more significantly as it so transpired, for securing the most thumping landslide electoral result and seismic, historic rout of the (then Jeremy Corbyn-led) Labourites in many generations...

...without which the Brexit would simply have been dead in the water, 'up the creek without a paddle' to mix my metaphors somewhat terribly!

*The individual deserving the most credit would surely have to be the much-used and -abused Nigel Farage, without whose long-running and courageous efforts below and above the radar when electorally 'a voice in the wilderness' ought to be more often and better acknowledged than they generally are...

Though One 'Shadowy' (as in quite literally behind-the-scenes and even under the radar) 'Figure' Who seems to ever evade and avoid receiving His due share of credit for delivering the Brexit is Someone Who shares His glory with no-one (as Strider/**Aragorn might have put it, as he bowed upon assuming kingship over Middle Earth to the hobbits and world-savers Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins)... 

**My email address is based upon the dunedain, signifying hope...which surely, as the classic Ed Ames song puts so articulately and powerfully vis-a-vis love, is equally what the world needs  right now...

Sunday, January 9, 2022

(A Rather - But Necessarily - Belated) 'Tribute' (Of Sorts) to America's 'EPIPHANY' - i.e. January 6th, 2020 - One Year On..."Good Night, America, How ARE You, Don't Ya Know Me, I'm [Update: I Once WAS] Your Native Son?"

Curious afterthought:

My (now long-deceased) American Grandmother would've turned 120 on that day...

TO BE CONTINUED (as, pretty much, word-for-word, my simultaneous (same day) latest posting upon *davidedwinisms; it's that important)...

Acknowledgment:

FULL CREDIT to the (introduction to the) final stanza of/in Arlo Guthrie's timeless classic 'City of New Orleans'...

*I.e http://davidedwinisms.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/) 

Sunday, January 2, 2022

RNZ National's & BBC's Long-Term American Correspondent John Sopel Is On the Money 100% Vis-a-Vis He of the Donald J Trump Variety...Which Should Make Us All Very, Very Afraid (For Our/The Future/s)...

To Be Continued (following sufficient shuteye)...

Friday the 8th/15th/22nd/29th January (A number of days - and nights - on): Sad to say I'm even more seriously sleep-deprived than previously, and the sacred hours of God's Sabbath are shortly to begin...

...but 'all things being equal' (which is itself increasingly questionable these days!), it won't be long till I redeem the above commitment/undertaking...

...although other more (immediately) pressing topics are still, as you can see, engaging my due attention...