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The gentleman in the image is Voltaire, who for a time graced the court of Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great. King Fred loved to talk about the universe and everything at the end of a day’s work. He also used the salons of Berlin to get feedback in the development of public policy.
Fred would only talk in French; he regarded German as barbaric. Here we’ll use English.
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Alice Springs – Simpson’s Desert odyssey progress
Where we are depends on whether we needed to extra day in the schedule for the desert crossing. If we made it across (praise the Lord!) we could be travelling from Birdsville to Windorah or Windorah to Emerald.
So now we are all supposed to be part of Abbott’s “Team Australia”. A narrowly defined Team Australia that reflects an English emigrants view of what “People like Him” think Australia should be like.
Where to we go to make sure we aren’t included on his team by default?
Binge watching Justified. Its not quite genius The Sopranos or Breaking Bad quality but it is very good.
Had my eye lasered Wednesday. Procedure a complete success. Still getting used to seeing everything out of two eyes.
This picture is for people who don’t want to be a part of Abbott’s (Murdoch’s?) team Australia.
The church message board said:
Precisely