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Rain Gryphon ([personal profile] rain_gryphon) wrote2013-07-26 09:36 pm
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It was pointed out to me that between them, Elizabeth II and Victoria have reigned for 125 of the last 176 years. That's really a remarkable perspective to me, to think of those two in tandem like that, defining an age.

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I've now seen the video of that Spanish train disaster. That is one deeply impressive crash. He was going a good hundred miles an hour into that turn. It looked as though the train were just plain going too fast to make the curve.

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So, life without parole plus a thousand years. With good behaviour, he'll be released for burial 667 years after he dies.

They're tearing down his house because "We do not want it to be a symbol of Cleveland." Prolly a bit late there.

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Two years ago I was able to remark with assurance that Weiner was 'toast'. I'm actually kind of glad that I was wrong. Being a lecher really shouldn't disqualify a man from holding public office. Being stupid enough to get caught repeatedly is perhaps more of a problem, though.

[identity profile] arcturax.livejournal.com 2013-07-28 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
My take on the Weiner thing and other politicans who get caught out in this kind of thing is if his own wife can't trust him, how can the voters?