Retired, trying to give an independent perspective from 'down-under' in Aotearoa 🇳🇿.
Avid backpacker, sectionally attempting to complete the Te Araroa trail.
Happily married to a wonderful Irish woman, and father of two beautiful grown-up girls.
#hiking #backpacking #history #walking #NewZealand #Schweiz #wildcamping #Ireland
Beatles fan?
Excerpt from Paul McCartney's look back at the very early Beatles days (1960s), with lots of pictures.
Great read, big nostalgia.. ❤️
The pictures the singer took of his friends and bandmates give a Beatle’s-eye view of the mania around the band in 1964. Seen here for the first time, these extraordinary behind-the-scenes moments capture four young men on the brink of immortality
The GOP is in a bind. If Trump doesn’t win the nomination, he will likely run as a third party candidate.
You can’t ride the tiger, Republicans. It will always turn back and eat you.
One of these countries is celebrating 3 years of sovereignty…
IMF Growth Forecast 2023
🇮🇳: 6.1%
🇨🇳: 5.2%
🇳🇬: 3.2%
🇸🇦: 2.6%
🇯🇵: 1.8%
🇲🇽: 1.7%
🇨🇦: 1.5%
🇺🇸: 1.4%
🇧🇷: 1.2%
🇿🇦: 1.2%
🇪🇸: 1.1%
🇫🇷: 0.7%
🇮🇹: 0.6%
🇷🇺: 0.3%
🇩🇪: 0.1%
🇬🇧: -0.6%
I’m glad to see at least *some* GOP House members (four now and counting from his home state) call for George Santos to resign. His local party bosses concur. Santos must go!
Let’s keep up the pressure. Americans agree on so little, but most would say that he should step down. The GOP leadership needs to understand this.
Jason Kander:
Classified #documents - a shopping analogy:
As #Biden walked out, the buzzer went off and he realized he mistakenly failed to pay for an item in his cart. He went back in and returned it.
#Trump stuffed items in his pockets. When the buzzer sounded, he ran to his car and peeled out.
The Missouri GOP is trying to pass state House rules that ban women from the right to bare arms.
No, literally, they're trying to ensure women don't show their bare arms. This is your part of "small government."
And FYI the Missouri GOP banning women from showing their bare arms isn’t a sign of Shariah or Taliban—it’s a sign of right wing “Christian” extremism in the U.S. Govt.
Stop deflecting extremism in America as something foreign. It’s 100% American. Admit it. Own it. Work to stop it.
Dave Mark
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Scott Shapiro
DontBeFooled
Laffy
Qasim Rashid, Esq.