Tonight, some archival footage of an 18-year-old apple-cheeked Mary Hopkin, as the Welsh folk singer performs a version of a Russian song known in its English translation as Those Were The Days.
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More government investment:
And here is that same tune as used in a brilliant Nando’s commercial: https://youtu.be/PYnL5oUePM8
Here’s a brilliant street performer/guitarist. Apologies if this has been posted before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsmeuC38nkw
Dark dust on white privilege
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-white-privilege-on-the-march
Rather think this same tune was on an episode of “Bonanza” when one of the sons took a possible – but doomed – fiancee for a ride. Another good version is on “Older But No Wiser” with the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O’Connell.
Ramadi has fallen to ISIS. As Barack Obama is overly prone to say, that JV ISIS is punching above its weight.
Expect the news media to ignore the ISIS terror propaganda photos and videos of the slaughter of Shia and the Iraqi Army soldiers they captured in Ramadi.
Interesting article about British Labour MP, Liz Kendall: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/15/liz-kendall-labour-leadership-interview
She appears to be a rare Leftist that actually gets why they so badly lost. Read the comments though and you will see how she will be destroyed by her own.
At the other end of the North American continent in sunny FLA,
The headline “George Zimmerman involved in shooting” needs to be revised to “George Zimmerman Survives Attempted Assassination.” The man who shot at Zimmerman with a .357 Magnum and missed hitting his head has been arrested. It appears Mr. Apperson was stalking Zimmerman, who was in the state visiting his Mother on Mother’s Day.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/05/zimmerman-shooter-arrested-faces-potential-life-sentence/
Some interesting pictures on the joy of Socialism and the effect its had on Greece.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/15/modern-ruins-the-ghost-factories-of-greece-in-pictures
Most of the world still has a long way to go before equality has any meaning.
http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/crazy-world/child-bride-faces-25-000-fine-for-rejecting-marriage-2015-05-14-1.590639
@ 10:10
Ties in with this:
http://www.albawaba.com/news/swedish-flotilla-departs-gaza-break-israel%E2%80%99s-naval-blockade-693148
Wanting to survive as a nation without being as blood thirsty as the enemy must very trying when former allies decide the Muslim cause has a better chance at dominance and appeasement will buy favor at home. The Muslim influence in Europe seems to be getting stronger. The Chamberlain syndrome in action.
I agree with Gavin.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/15/fireworks_gavin_mcinnes_vs_tamara_holder_feminism_has_made_women_miserable_youd_be_much_happier_at_home.html
Sultan Knish argues for the obvious.
Well someone has to. The cowardice of the MSM is stinking up the place.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2015/05/it-takes-good-guy-with-gun-to-defend.html#comment-form
It is unclear how much of Ramadi is in whose hands Clearly the North and West sectors are in ISIS hands, but have they crossed the rivers to take the SE sector? However, we do know ISIS is in possession of the White House :^)
Baghdad O.
“Despite major new setbacks in Iraq, the U.S. military command leading the fight against Islamic State militants insisted Friday that its strategy is working”.
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“ISIS in Ramadi: Like the Tet 1968?”
“If Syria is — in the words of Al Arabiya’s Washington correspondent Nadia Bilbassy — likely to be remembered as Obama’s Rwanda, will the ISIS offensive now underway in Iraq go down as the president’s Tet?”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/05/16/isis-in-ramadi-like-the-tet-1968/#more-43248
Flying in the face of half a billion years of breeding and success
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/15/call-it-gender-fluidity-schools-to-teach-kids-there-s-no-such-thing-as-boys-or-girls.html?intcmp=latestnews
Are they thugs, teens or the n word
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/world/3-men-have-78-kids-from-46-women-2012-06-19-1.463553
Before you put your dollars in your church collection plate…
http://canadianlandowneralliance.blogspot.ca/2015/05/north-american-christians-payin-for.html
Female airman annihilates sexual harassment training in open letter:’You made me into a helpless w*ore’.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/05/15/female-airman-annihilates-sexual-harassment-training-in-open-letter-you-made-me-into-a-helpless-whore-204739
Socialist poser/poseurs and other photos.
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“Posing in heavy metal band’s ‘offensive’ album cover draws criticism for Alberta NDP MLA”
“‘The photo I appeared in was in poor taste, and I apologize for its offensive content. It is not a photo I would appear in today,’ Deborah Drever said in a statement” (NP)
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“‘What a beast!’ Aquarium shares photos of rare giant squid that washed ashore in New Zealand”
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/what-a-beast-aquarium-shares-photo-of-rare-giant-squid-that-washed-ashore-in-new-zealand
For sake of science, I for one would give it a go
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/05/14/when-more-sex-can-make-less-happy/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork