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DnD Central / Slowness in Scotland openings
I note that in Northern Ireland shops can start opening on Friday and the Irish Republic already started. Some signs of progress in England and includes national Trust there and Ulster. However nothing in Scotland including OUR NT staying shut all due too our First Minister being like a controller is slower.  She acts like a Prime Minister and not just a First Minister of one of the UK nations.
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DnD Central / Why is there such a routine big police (and coloured) problem in the US
The latest incident is as say an annual routine over there. Time after time weird police activity. A few months ago there was a police raid on a house and the owner got shot dead but the raid was on the wrong house. In another further back a police car chased a driver who was acting wrong and the man (black) got out and indeed on two visits to over there spoke with 2 of them in NYC who were fine and another occasion a sergeant who hadn't used his gun for a number of years.but there is a long and regular terrible police style that is head shaking.  The shooting activity is standard practice and a routine tradition. To the side of that there seems to be more black people in jail as it happens so there is an equally built in tradition in that corner as well so I would say a racial weakness in that community.
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DnD Central / 3rd Reich constant groan on television
As much as I like history from school days until now I have noted that time after time we get programmes here on the many channels in Britain hour long ones on Hitler or the Nazi lot. Okay we know it was an evil system (although the Germans voted for him!) and the terrible things that happened but why are we always getting this? As much as I accept the negative we do not get the same heavy pile of such things about the old USSR. As bad as the Nazis were the Soviets murdered an awful lot more people in their land and did so for longer and although we do not have access to their old government records etc it is historical fact. it is getting me bored now.  :(
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DnD Central / Hats, ties vanishing, sloppiness becoming a standard
It used to be that hats were regular for all sorts of working folks including security guards, railway staff, bus drivers. Ties were a a standard thing and bad enough that odd MP's turn up without them but on tv politicians in discussion doing the same. Makes them look untidy and daft. Beards everywhere another thing and my mother used to get annoyed at that rushing into as she felt it showed them as not being very bright and hiding behind them as if showed maturity!  :o
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DnD Central / Menstruation adds incredible millions to public spending
It has now been passed that public money will go out to provide free tampons and towels to women and girls all over Scotland in schools, colleges unis and other places. The bill is expected to be at least £24,000,000. The story behind this is to help poorer people even though covering all female people. Although obviously an important female it is somewhat warped to act as if there are not plenty of people capable of routinely paying these.
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DnD Central / Strange action at a preacher
A man who is an American preacher and his late father for decades had been a famous one himself was banned from a small group of public halls in England and up here in Glasgow. He had said once that homosexuality was a "sin." Kind of head shaking when one considers that the Church of Rome with churches everywhere is in the same view as are the Muslims with their places all over the country. They don't get "shut."
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DnD Central / Women being portrayed too much now
On the media and particularly television we are going daft on the presence of women. Majority of the main news readers becoming women and then getting reports in from women. Even BBC Newsnight has a circle of four women and only one man. Locally here in Scotland regionally the BBCScotland news well into that and we get sub menus being reported majority-wise by women including the weather.
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DnD Central / My second attempt
I put up a forum intimation that I was intending to depart from here like a trickle from others. However also said would be here until Saturday but left that out anything further as I had been unwell. However why wasn't it put up? Will remain here for a couple of days at a second attempt. ???
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DnD Central / White Helmets nonsense
What a farce has went on regarding that lot who were dished out big sums. The rubbish about tem being there to help everyone no matter what is utter hogwash and routine guff. That lot also DID have links with terror groups as well. They were especially based in particular areas.  I would give them three out of three for great propaganda and yet for all the daft West praise when the leader of the White Helmets arrived a Dulles Airport in Washington DC the USA refused to allow him entry!

And Israel involved in supporting them? Head shaking stuff!
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DnD Central / Head shaking nonsense from Heinz company
There was a brief item on the BBC text news to say that Heinz are going to drop the name 'Salad Cream' which they have used since 1904 and then call it Sandwich Cream as they claim more people put it on sandwiches that salads.......
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DnD Central / Utter rubbish on English town in the New York Times
There has been a recent British newspaper comment about a load of rubbish from this would-be "smart" NY paper.

They visited the English town of Prescot and said although the people were nice it was in practice lacking. They stated the long term library was shut and now a posh home -the Leisure centre razed - eliminating the public swimming pool - local police station gone - town museum no longer existing. It was all part of a thing about decline here. However the truth is this....
- Town has a new police station.
- Town Museum relocated to a shopping centre.
- A very large sum of money is helping to build a Shakespearean Theatre.

In trying to show that in Britain things were being reduced proves either stupidity or bad false journalism from a paper foreigners like to waffle about. Unhappy Prescot people and falseness in quality" press?? They people were right about being deliberately done in.
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DnD Central / Remarkable Orthodox growth
In the last six years the Russian Orthodox Church has increased the number of churches by 5,000 plus 10,000 clergy. I did come across a news item a little while back that in the "European" end of Russia a big aim at vastly increasing churches in both Moscow and St Petersburg had been under way now this is widening and although not my corner a remarkable situation? The head, Patriach Krill  has made it clear that it is not an order by authority to build and increase it is because the people value and want it. Kind of remarkable in a way.
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DnD Central / Arrogant Israel gets away with anything
The protests going on at the border with Israel are head shaking. To date 55 shot dead and over 2,400 wounded in border protests. Children and innocent unarmed shot down The Israeli jackboot mob did not need to use live ammunition but the place is so damn arrogant and gets away with anything it likes. It tends to ignore the UN too but there again it's financial savers the USA is right behind it. Much of that is due to the evangelical tradition in nutjobland hence Israel arrogance.  Did feel sad they did not lose the Six day war decades ago. But we have to remember that Jewish financial position in America give it much.
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DnD Central / European Song Contest is a load of rubbihs nowadays
A long number of years ago this event was reasonable and singers sung but now it is full of crackers getting all daftly dressed up, doing all sort of daftness added to the singing stuff. It is rubbish and mental pits. I have never seen answers as to why damn Israel is invol when not in Europe. Geography has become a farce.
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DnD Central / If the Confederates had won.....!
A great man years ago now  I took a passing interest in the American Civil War and once mused on what things would have been like if the South had won. Recently I cam across a paperback book on that very subject and was interesting in what could have happened in such a situation. Just a pity the South lost their chance of independence. Was interesting to read.
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DnD Central / Scottish nonsense about the Battle of Culloden
For you unfortunate outsiders the Battle of Culloden was the final finishing  of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" man. Trying to claim the throne he did well at first catching the country off guard but they started arguing in his army getting near London and retreated north and pursued.  Both sides faced each other at Culloden but the Jacobite were still arguing and in the battle the king's army routed the Highlanders and many were killed. The army commander the Duke of Cumberland heavily done the Jacobites in and that was their game lost for ever thankfully.

On Sunday two newspapers here in Scotland did a short article by Jacobite leaning group on a "mass grave" which was about a dozen of Charles's officer who had been hiding downstairs in the basement of a castle. For goodness make a mass killing? It was all part of the battle and Cumberland had made a point of highly training the king's army to a far higher degree in rifle shooting, new  and better bayonets.  The Jacobites lost a lot of mad highlanders with their usually shouting and waving swords stuff but they did not realise the new army training was more than ready for them. What gets me about this stuff is that the Highlanders the night before had been sneaking cross the moor in the dark of night to savage the army in their sleeping tents. So they would have been just as heavy as the royal army was the next day. They had to give up the midnight planned massacre as they got stuck in bogs, etc.  What is also ludicrous is that the modern Jacobite want to have a war memorial for one group due to being killed by the "English Army." That is what they stated to the press. May I remind the idiots that the King's side was NOT an English army it was a British Army having lots of Scots soldiers in it.

The majority of Scotland's population were in the Lowlands and right against the Jacobites and their ways so willing to be in the British army. For a long time raided from the north and acting like maddies from the Highlands. Presbyterian and a Lowlander you had to watch out.
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DnD Central / Scottish Nationalist disgusting flag disrespect and towards the Queen
That wee smart alex Nichola Sturgeon has now barred the Union Flag from being flown over government buildings here in Scotland. It will now only be allowed ONE day in a year and that on Remembrance Day. The only places she cannot dictate that are places like Edinburgh or Stirling Castles which are military bases. On her official residence the Lion Rampant will be flown. For those that don't know what it is that is the yellow flag with red borders and a standing lion in the middle. a lot of Nats carry that not realising it is techy a Royal thing. They are doing that through ignorance.

This is a damn disgrace and disrespect that the Union Flag which would be flown on particular Royal times like the Queen's birthday will no longer happen. Oh and by the way in contrast the queers rainbow flag will be flown FOUR times a year. Nationalist like to think that Scots are different from the rest of the United Kingdom and they are but only in a small way not something drastic. in addition I would also state that the majority of Scots do not want to be out of the UK and those that did are a minority and still a decline. The SNP had drastic loses in the Local elections the Scottish Election and the National UK one. They even lost that big-headed Alex Salmond as an MP and former First Minister to the Tories.  They trend also to sook in with the Green Party oddity at the Scots parliament. Another bunch of oddballs!

It is an utter disgrace with this latest flag nonsense and disrespect for the Queen.  Disgusting, big headed and stupid nonsense from  Nationalist thing that is declining as the recent elections i have mentioned show. Sturgeon happens to be wee hence always wearing high heels but she is not as brilliant as she thinks she is. The majority of Scots have more respect for her Majesty than many of her lot she has to plough along with.

Disgusting.
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DnD Central / Irish Prime Minister should keep his damn mind out of our internal business
The Prime Minister of Ireland has came out with a damn nerve saying that he will not tolerate Ulster being back under direct rule from London and will be fighting it.

Northern Ireland IS part of Gt Britain and NOT his country and he is being too interfering now. The situation in Belfast was brought about by that bunch of neo-Marxist Republicans  although I am not saying that Prime Minster is fan of their corner.  He has to try and use his brain and he is responsible for the 26 Counties in the South and he has a bleeding nerve with his style and attitude. There is a Border because two countries are neighbours. He wants to meet with the Democrat Party from N. Ireland on the issue and they should tell him to damn well shove off from his attempted interference in somewhere that is not his business.
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DnD Central / And another regular US police officer getting away with murder
I heard a reference on a passing news item about a gun less man shot by a US police officer but not done for it. Then last night seen the security video and was shocked.

You could hear the officer telling the suspect who was kneeling on the floor to raise both hands up and the man did that.  Then still screaming at him told him to lie on the floor and crawl and the man did that and the policeman shot him to death. At court he got completely off with it as he argues he felt under threat. Now how the hell could that cop be so sick to tell the man to raise his hands while sitting then to crawl on the floor towards the police then gun him down? to lie on the floor in a hectic voice repeatedly.









When I heard a news item about an American policeman gunning down an unarmed man I just sighed then last night seen the security video of the incident (forgot the State - was it Kansas? Not sure). Arriving to arrest the man he was sitting on the floor so the officer kept going ballistic screaming at him to get both hands to be raised so the man did that stretching both right above his head. Then the officer screamed to lie down and crawl towards the police so the man did that followed by being shot to death. The cop ended up in court but got off scot free! The argument was that the officer had pursued the idea he felt threatened. Where do you lot get so many of these mind-benders? How in hell's name could he get away with that?? it is so regular over there makes you wonder about the mentality of so many who get away with such things. The incident was utterly shocking.







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DnD Central / Last King of Rumania dies at a great age - a loss to the country
King Michael has died at 96 and was brutally forced by the Communists two years after WW2 to abdicate and was in a sense the last monarch in the Soviet corner. He had been ill for some time.

In the 1990's he visited Romania on two occasions and each time the government moaned that he needed their okay. The odd thing is that each time he visited crowds came out in support and called his name..

See......https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/king-michael-romania-dead.html