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Does it seem like our "special relationship" with the USA is over, now their politicians are threatening to boycott UK goods and holidays.? Personally it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if it did as acting like their proverbial pet puppy just seems to alienate us in the eyes of the rest of the world. Or am I being unfair with comments like that? But yet another clanger for our wonderful politicians in power.
From the very mild response (in Diplomatic language) of both Obama and Hillary it looks like they were kept "well in the picture" and that their comments were purely for "local consumption".
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We went to the local mall to purchase a birthday card for our eldest son , most of the cards were made in China ,just a few perhaps 5% of the cards were made in the USA .
The price was about $5.00 per card ,same price for the Chinese and the US versions.
So , we've evolved to the state that we cannot even make greetings cards in the west, the highly educated MBA.'s have excelled only in enhancing their own status and earnings , their greatest achievment has been exporting manufacturing jobs !
Then ,the academics argue amongst themselves about the reason there's so much unemployment , little wonder ,the cause of the demise has been apparent for years, but no on wants to admit to it !
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The Californian Fires.
Not often you feel grateful that you live half your life up to your knees in water and live in a house built from largely non inflammable materials!
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Well, Dan, we meet the first of your criteria (most of the time), as we have a similarly rainy climate to Lancashire, though it's a few degrees warmer on average.
Our biggest risk is the occasional earthquake - the last one was in 2000, I think - so we need a bit more structural resilience than bricks sort of glued together, and less heavy stuff to fall on you.
In the last quake, a lot of the damage in central Seattle was from older brick buildings failing. We've got quite a lot of things in the house that aren't square to each other when they should be, but nothing lost functionality in that quake.
I'd much rather have a mild earthquake every 10 years or so than have to put up with the hurricanes that Rocket Man sees almost every year.
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I see from today's news that Megrahi is now in hospital in critical condition. Maybe the Scots got it right, as there would have been a lot of fallout if he'd died in prison and hadn't got the "proper" Islamic care after death.
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I haven't seen any reports in our papers about him being in hospital Frank, but you're right. There would have been another reason for more innocent people to have been murdered by the muslim extremists, and heaven knows we have enough of those crack-pots over here.
My nephew and his wife live in California, San Francisco. Not heard anything negative on his Facebook site so I guess it's safe there?
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I heard from the radio that he was in hospital. If he had died in jail, he would have become a martyr to the cause. For all the fuss, there was some merit in a compassionate release.
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Let's hope the Californian fires are soon brought under control. The radio presenters this morning were talking about the shortage of funds in California to pay for the fire services. :-(
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It was interesting to see both a DC-10 and a 747 being used as "fire bombers".
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I think you are right Noel and Frank that no matter what the Scots did it would have been wrong and stirred up a proverbial hornets nest whatever.
I listened carefuly to the statements made when the decision was announced and discussed in the Scottish Parliament and thought that the case for release was presented in sincerity. One can never be sure that there was no pressure from any source and it must certainly be upsetting for the relatives of victims, but what would have been said about his treatment in Scotland when the time inevitably came.
Let his own be responsible for him I think.
A great pity about the reception he got in Libya though and as was said naive to think that would not happen.
