Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. In Russia, you do not sit at table, table sits at YOU.
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  2. "Come back! I was gonna make espresso!" Improvisational line
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  3. We definitely know the shooter isn't tall, blonde, and blue-eyed, because if he were, his photo would be included in the story. The news programs tell us some facts by not telling us.
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  4. I don't think the Queen did this. This was the work of Charles and William. Elizabeth has retired in all but name and Charles is running things now.
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  5. We recently had a tornado tear through the town of Mayfield, Kentucky. Workers at a candle factory wanted to leave before the tornado hit, but were told they'd be fired if they did so. Some of those people were killed, others badly injured. The factory was destroyed and now all of the workers who survived the tornado are unemployed. Their reward for risking their lives to make profits for the owner.
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  6. I retired in 2021 after 30 years as a teacher. The inhumanity of bosses started after the 2008-09 financial crisis, when employers clearly gained the upper hand and management became drunk on their own power. In 2012, my younger sister died at the beginning of the school year, so I called the Director of Human Resources that I was going to take a week off for my sister's funeral. She told me that she wouldn't approve the leave and that if I didn't report to work as scheduled, I'd be fired. I went anyway, and got a termination notice the day of my sister's funeral. My union took over at that point and said I wasn't fired, because only the Board had the power to hire and fire. To their credit, the Board members were shocked that the HR director had acted that way. No one at any point--not my principal, not my union reps, not the Board members, nor the HR Director--ever said the simple words "I'm sorry for your loss." I resigned from that district at the end of the year and went elsewhere, but each district I worked in had similarly inhumane practices. I suffered a stroke and was told I had to discharge myself from the hospital for an important meeting the next day. I showed up deathly ill and had a second, smaller stroke at the meeting. I suffered permanent damage as a result of being forced back to work prematurely. And that's in public education, with a union to bargain for my rights. I can't imagine how bad things are for non-unionized workers who have NO rights.
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  7. "I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" --Bob Dylan So much violence and hatred. We had guns in the racks of our pickup trucks when we were in high school. No mass shootings. Our society has fallen apart. Faith in God is gone, fathers are gone from families, all that's left is a void that's being filled by chaos and rage. I don't see how we as a people get better. Four people have been murdered--again--and all of this will happen--again--and again and again. I don't see an end to this.
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  8. It's a huge mistake to join an alliance that should've been disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it's your country. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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  9. Love all the British commenters on this thread who remained silent as a stone while their government locked up internationally renowned journalist Julian Assange for years in Belmarsh with no crime laid against him. Meanwhile, your cops turn a blind eye to rape gangs but eagerly arrest people who said hurty words on social media--once again, with your silence making you complicit. You and the BBC have lost all credibility to comment on anyone's guilt or innocence.
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  10. Why doesn't the BBC presenter have a proper shirt with a collar and tie? Is he wearing his nightshirt?
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  11. Yes, but only if they can convince Jeremy Corbyn to join the Conservative Party.
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  12. Zelensky is showing confidence because the US pledged ground troops in October. It's an "October Surprise" that Kamala Harris will use to win the 2024 election. Of course, that means that the US and Russia--all of NATO and Russia--will be at full-throated war. Not that war between nuclear superpowers over a country that has no strategic interest is dangerous or anything.
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  13.  @marketads1  They have it. I've seen this a thousand times before. White male suspect = immediately identified Not white male suspect = delayed identification You're right, you do have nothing to add.
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  14. Most Brits would and the next Prime Minister will be worse than Johnson. People get the leaders they deserve.
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  15. The translator for Putin reminds me of the guy who translated for Woody Allen in "Bananas". Find it on Youtube. You'll thank me.
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  16. Fusion power is 25 years away. And always will be.
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  17. Let's recap: NATO expands after the fall of the Soviet Union, moving closer and closer to encircling Russia, which has a legitimate historical fear of being encircled. NATO does this despite vowing to the Russians it wouldn't, and despite warnings from foreign policy experts (including Henry Kissinger), who say the expansion is a colossal mistake. NATO declares its intention to take Ukraine and Georgia into its ranks when all it has to do is declare those two countries neutral to placate the Russians. Russia is provoked into invading Ukraine as a last-ditch effort to secure its borders and to prevent further encirclement. NATO responds by further expanding NATO. The Finns and Swedes have helped push us further towards World War Three. Except this time Sweden won't be able to sit this one out, as they did World War Two. This time, the Swedes will have to bleed with the rest of us.
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  18. You won't be able to sit out World War Three like you did World War Two if you're in NATO. Ready to have Stockholm bombed? But I won't waste time trying to talk fools out of something they've already decided on.
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  19. He's drunk most of the time.
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  20.  @valmiro4164  You were all of you, deceived, for there is another ring, one ring to bind them all, and into this ring I have poured my cruelty, my malice, and my will to dominate all life!
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  21.  @johnnyenglish6751  No money for that. 100 billion a year for Israel and Ukraine, 450 billion a year for illegal aliens, 0 to protect our children.
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  22. Strange how the two leaders mired in scandal and domestic political troubles--Boris Johnson and Joe Biden--are the ones beating the war drums the loudest. It's almost like they want a distraction from their other problems. Good thing both Boris and Joe are highly principled men with no decades-long history of lying and bullying.
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  23. Johnson lied about attending a party. But he's telling the truth now about a much bigger thing, right?
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  24. Truss is only Prime Minister in name. Karteng is the real power behind the throne. Ask yourself why he's been promoted and whose interests he serves. Hint: Unless you're already stinking rich, not you.
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