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Today in the House of Lords, His Majesty the King has given the first King's Most Gracious Speech in over 70 years since the passing of his mother The Queen last year. It is not the first time he's given the speech as he stood in for HM The Queen in the previous State Opening in May 2022. This speech is given during the State Opening of Parliament which is the only regular event that…

Three weeks after Matt Gaetz of Florida pushed a one-person motion to vacate the chair and dump Kevin McCarthy out of the big chair at the top of the rostrum in the House of Representatives...the Republicans have managed to find a new fanny to sit in the seat second in line from the Presidency. I'm sure the most relieved person in the room has to be Patrick McHenry of North Carolina who no longer has…

Just when you think you've truly seen it all...along comes something that just defies all imagination that you'd have witnessed it. As I was waiting in Julia's office car park to transfer Alex and the two puppies, I heard a huge crashing sound to my left toward the GoRaleigh bus stop. There's this guy in a high-visibility yellow jacket walking away from the US Postal Service collection box he'd just did a Hong Kong Phooey…

Listen all! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned, by the dust of them all… Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves. Dr Dealgood --- "Mad Max: Beyond…

The motion to table (procedurally kill) Matt Gaetz’s motion to vacate the chair (vote Speaker McCarthy off his island at the top of the well of the House) just went down in flames. Now we’re on to the main event and if the vote totals on the tabling motion hold, McCarthy will be the first Speaker in history to be put to the parliamentary sword. Minority Leader Jeffries effectively gave the Democratic Caucus response with…