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We are going to take advice from the USA about Covid-19!!? Absolutely risible.:lol: In the first place we don't have a national epidemic of obesity which has seriously compromised the health of the population and, in the second place, see the first place!! Actually we do. Where on earth do you get ...

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Yes Steve, and yes Brian.

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I do enjoy the rather limited Soler I know already. I've got about 20 works, I think.

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I have not heard any of these yet , but may .You can sign up for their newsletter. https://tinyurl.com/k5ymjd59 Biweekly on Sundays—2:00 p.m. CT Cliburn Masterpiece is a series that examines the who, what, when, where, and how of the greatest piano works. Cliburn laureates and other esteemed specia...

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So Australia leads the world again! What's new?

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Does the Murdoch family also support the Liberal Party in Australia and the Tories inUK ? Other governments ? They certainly do. In a huge shock Murdoch's Australian papers supported Labor's Kevin Rudd in 2007, but Murdoch must have seen a big economic advantage to himself. It's wonderful how his e...

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Of course officially I could never approve of vandalism ... but ... I did enjoy this article.

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:46 am
The thing is, How many WV Manchin place names will it take to secure that vote?

Heck, he can have the name of my street in Melbourne, if it secures his vote.

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My order has gone in to Presto, and I trust it will soon be winging its way across the globe.
Thanks Lance.

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John: Thanks for the tip, but I called my bank several days ago and they assured me that the trouble was not with them, as they have approved all transactions without a problem. I know that this is true because each transaction amount was shown quite clearly in the pending column on my online state...

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Thanks for these, Steve. I hope to listen to them today.

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Good luck to the army officer. Police like that should be off the force.

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Just do it. Four more judges!
There's a couple of slogans we can run with!

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I very much hope you are right. There's a lefty website I go on where they are China apologists and propagandists to a man, not so much because they love China but because they loathe the US. they never acknowledge that it was US hegemony from 1945 that helped allow China to flourish. They gloat abo...

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Do ImportCDs have a feedback section where you can record your dissatisfaction? I imagine that people so incompetent take care not to have one.

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Marvellous article from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator. Really colourful and entertaining writing. In my teens, rubbishing the implacable edifice of the United States felt like kicking a tank in trainers. Richard Nixon’s ‘silent majority’ was patriotic. Railing about my country’s disgraceful histor...

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What a character, Len. Thanks for posting.

As for go Yankees go, yes go, go, go, all the way to the Venezuelan league!

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No, just checked and now Amazon Australia has it. Didn't when I searched a week ago. $236 Australian with free postage (that's $180 US). The 162 Euros I spent is $250. Not so thrilled now. :? Against that, at least I know it is definitely coming. I rang the shop in Brussels and they had Grumiaux box...

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Amazon US won't post to Australia, and Amazon Australia, of course, doesn't have it. Very annoying.

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Success, via the Belgian music store La Boite a Musique
132 euros plus 30 euros shipping. Very happy indeed with that price.

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Well, we don't seem to be going so well so far. Lucky we are an island and can keep out all those pesky people who want to come and bring Covid with them.

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The Little-Known Senate Rule That Could Change Everything William Rivers Pitt, Truthout PUBLISHED April 7, 2021 Wide-Ranging Support for Infrastructure Plan Suggests Biden Could Go Bigger If the reports hold true and the rug doesn’t get jerked out from under us, it appears Chuck Schumer and his slim...

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...and possibly looking to the future...... https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/university-of-queensland-covid19-vaccine-australias-secret-weapon-against-coronavirus/news-story/3fe8643c14738704ec2eb1bc24cfe4fa Let's hope that work and human trials occur once again. I like the idea of havi...

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Love the Gail Collins piece, Brian. Wow - you've had some real characters in politics over theyears.

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Nope. Amazon US doesn't list it at all, Amazon UK says it has two for sale at 210 pounds, which is about $A400 and beyond what I can justify.

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So here's an update for today. I just checked on the importcds website and discovered that they no longer carry the Grumiaux box. The item is simply no longer listed. I also found out that amazon is now offering the same item for more than $50 less, shipped from England for $160 with international ...

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This guy is a cretin. How often were the Republicans reasonable and prepared to negotiate during the Obama years? Is he incapable of learning? Manchin could be single-handedly responsible for the failure of Biden's agenda, especially HR1.

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That's not the secret to a happy marriage, Len. You admit fault immediately, whether right or wrong! :lol: If I practised that more my wife might be happier. Barney so you're not practicing what you preach then! I have a secret weapon-I'm the cook in the house and sue hates to cook! Regards, Len :l...

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I just found the article by Googling the topic. It's a bit long, but worth the read. Brian there isn't a day that goes by when I don't use google-I've taken to bringing it to the dinner table to point out how wrong Sue can be! Regards, Len[fleeing] :lol: :lol: :lol: That's not the secret to a happy...

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A slim majority would like to see him as the party’s nominee again if he runs in 2024, something he has told advisers he’s serious about considering.

That might be the case in April 2021. But it's hard to run from inside jail, and that's where he will be when the campaigning gather paces in 2023.

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Where did you find that cartoon, Joseph? It nearly made me laugh out loud, it is so accurate. Morrison seldom answers tough questions. He is the master deflector - "oh that's just part of the Canberra bubble, I'm not going to talk about that". Re open rebellion on Government failures on the vaccines...

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Thatfund-raising is unbelievable. It's clearly fraud. Are there going to be repercussions, or will Trump just ride it out like everything else, backed by his cult fantasists?

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Australia is now increasingly following the USA (we have bathrooms instead of toilets and routes that rhyme with spouts)... Well, I still say goto dah toilet and Route ( Root ) 66 , jist lyke my Down-Under cussin’ cuzes. Well, as we say in Oz in approbation, " 'kin oath, mate". The abbreviation on ...

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Yes. Annoying that the mills of justice grind so slowly, because we need some verdicts to give us closure.

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But surely the part you bolded WAS responsible journalism, saying exactly what you think should be said?

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Interesting that no one (that I hve seen) is speculating on the motives of the killer - ie, is he a MAGA cultist? And I strongly approve of that reticence.

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Yes, thanks Len, really interesting. I think 18th century London would have been hideous unless you had pots of money. Mind you, the same is true of many or most big cities today. I'd much rather live on 5th Avenue than the poorer parts of Harlem. And be able to afford to go to the Met every other n...

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Thank you Lance. And best wishes from me too.

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Right on, Brian. But a few of the chickens are now coming home to roost.

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Link doesn't work, Steve. Can you try again?
thanks

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Well, Belle, you have been defending Trump cultists all through his regime. I suspect you may not particularly like them, as you say; you just hate the Left a whole lot more. But it's a bit late to discover that Trump is not a conservative, something I have been saying to you for at least two years.

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The link with possums is very worrying. My property is union hq for possums, who devour nearly everything in the garden - they don't like rocket much. The younger dog does her best, but I can't leave her out overnight because her barking would disturb the neighbours. We're not short of mosquitos eit...

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One of the weirdest interviews he ever conducted? Gaetz is somewhat exposed when even Tucker falls away. Of course being exposed is something Republicans rather like - just ask Giuliani.

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Lance G. Hill of Classical Music Guide to perform an all-Alkan piano recital at Carnegie Hall Charles Valentin Alkan, 1813-1855 As requested by many people around the world, Alkan specialist, Lance G. Hill owner/editor of the Internet's beloved Classical Music Guide website, will perform an all-Alk...

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Solution simple: expand the Supreme Court by four new judges. Then it will 7-6.

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Thanks for your full reply, Belle. I'm afraid I haven't time to take it up now, but I will respond later.

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And there are plenty of female 'staffers' in that mix, for your inconvenient information. Good to know Liberal women staffers are as disgusting as the Liberal male staffers. My husband's best friend has a sister-in-law who was in our Senate, circa 25 years ago. She was something of a high profile a...

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I'm sad to say that this kind of attitude among some American voters might well have contributed to Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016. It certainly didn't help. Neither did the "Hillary is evil" meme promulgated by the bizarre conspiracy machine on the Right that I heard from several friends. Your poi...

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And there are plenty of female 'staffers' in that mix, for your inconvenient information. Good to know Liberal women staffers are as disgusting as the Liberal male staffers. My husband's best friend has a sister-in-law who was in our Senate, circa 25 years ago. She was something of a high profile a...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 29, 2021 3:06 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:42 pm
No better than China, Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, Syria ?
What a crock !
A bit of cockney & bull, to be sure; but worse than Australia? Oh, don’t mention that dreadful vulgar place. —Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

That was in the 19th century. We're much worse now!

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