Marianne

Aside from the inspect0r Lynley series, another  nearly perfect series is Wire In The Blood (don’t ask me to explain the title). Here is the first episode of the first season, The Mermaids Singing. If the first two minutes or so don’t draw you in, then this series probably isn’t for you. One drawback for many people is that it’s from the early…[Read more]

While I don’t think any British detective series comes even close to Midsomer Murders for longevity, the Vera series is a long one with 11 seasons. I’ve watched the first four and can’t figure out what the appeal is. I didn’t expect it to be as dark/gruesome as it is. And I don’t hold that against it. After all, I absolutely loved Wire in the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Gonna be interesting if Trump is elected whether he becomes the vicious dictator and destroyer of American democracy (such as it is) that the democrats have been portraying.

You seem blithely unaware of Project 2025:

The shooter’s search history reveals that he researched Trump, Biden, and other prominent people as well. His political leanings are confusing, other than that he was a 2nd Amendment fanatic. His high school years were troubled as he was a bullied outsider.

This, more and more, to my mind, he’s appearing to be a troubled suicide-by-cop type who…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Spraying the stage with real bullets?  That doesn’t add up at all.

Ir would still count as an attempt on Trump’s life, a failed one, and give him PR almost as good as the PR he’s getting.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I don’t know.  Mistakes happen.  I’ve heard the head of the secret service say it was a health and safety issue, why they didn’t put anyone on that roof.  Instead, they secured the inside of the building.

Didn’t want an agent to get sunburn?

Simon Paynton wrote:

Belle Rose wrote:
I think Trump manufactured the whole th…

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Master sniper thinks something stinks about this attempted assassination. The shooter, he says, had to have inside help.

Either something was intended on assassination day and went (semi-?)right or something is seriously wrong with the Secret Service to allow some bozo to get access to a roof in proximity to the podium.

unapologetic wrote:
What happens if one of the canidates steps down or dies just before the election? Does the VP canidate run instead? Do they postpone the election? Does the other party win by default? – asking for a friend.

Here’s what ChatGPT AI says happens:

If a candidate for President or Vice President steps down or dies just before the e…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I pay for BBC services as part of a bundle with my ISP but I know people in the USA that use nordvpn to get BBC. It is possible to get services using other methods but I won’t describe them as they can bring you towards the dark web…..where you don’t want to go.

If you use a VPN to go into the Dark Web, the suspi…[Read more]

@ Reg

So, now you’re shilling for a VPN Service. I’ve tried watching programs in other parts of the world using faraway VPN servers with NO success. In the case of the BBC

BBC iPlayer may block access to users outside of the UK due to international rights issues. The BBC sells its original programs to other streaming services and TV stations…[Read more]

Interesting fact about the author of the Lynley mystery novels series, which are classic British whodunits. Elizabeth George herself is not British. Born in the American state of Ohio, she currently resides in the state of Washington.,

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
……………A plurality of voters believe that Biden’s age is a bigger problem than Trump’s authoritarianism because they just don’t see the latter as that big a problem…………

Biden yesterday referred to Ukraine’s Zelenskyyy(yyy?) as Putin and his own Veep as Vice President Putin.

I used to worry about Trump having the…[Read more]

@ Simon

Well, in the States there are only a few distinct city accents. New York and Boston among them. Elsewhere, the phenomenon of city accents is virtually nonexistent, though regional accents happen though regional accents do exist. But Midwestern is what the vast majority of Americans speak.

One thing I’ve discovered in watching British mysteries is the existence of numerous distinct local accents. A witness will say detect a Yorkshire or Manchester or London or whatever accent. Here in the states, we do have local accents but much fewer. Vast swaths of the country speak the standard Midwest accent you hear ubiquitously on the…[Read more]

Trump, who claims on the one hand that he has “no idea” what Project 2025 is all about or who is behind it is actually lying (and not just because his lips are moving). It was actually largely written by members of his administration. Listen to this dark threat/prediction by the head of the Heritage Foundation, predicting that either it will be…[Read more]