Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: Current Events, Continued...

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When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.

man, that trouble seems to be happening even faster these days!

I'll relaunch.

Make yourself at home. (There are numerous versions of this thread, and they've all been pretty dormant for a while, so let's just revive this one and see how it goes.) If this takes on a life of its own I'll make it a new thread. Thanks!

Marye

Our two posts have not come up on "Recent Posts" which is what I was trying to do posting here at all to make it easier to find. Not that I don't have opinions, lol.
Cheers

Edit: Now it's working. Thank you

This is a strange place

Lots of unfamiliar names from the past. I wonder what happened to them all?

Some of them, sadly

have passed away in the intervening years. Some of them can be found on FB. Others, I don't know!

Passage of time

That's a sobering thought Marye - but a truthful one. I wonder what the board will look like in `15 years time ?

I can't seem to find the current "Trouble ahead.." page. Simon and Oro put some thoughts down on it. I can only access access it after someone else has made a comment, and it is noted on the homepage. It's the same as with Daves Picks 52. Neither of which is a big problem, I have to say

look for

"The New, New Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: Current Events"

Dave

Both those are showing up fine for me in Recent Posts; where would you like them to be showing up?

Marye

Thanks for looking into this for me. They show up in Recent Posts for me too, but I can't find a heading labelled "Current Events". I look at the page under the top heading of "Community". Under "Store Products" is where I go to find the Daves Picks pages - although the one for 52 isn't there at the moment.

So I can access both the Daves Picks 52 page and the Trouble Ahead page, if there are Recent posts. But if there aren't any recent posts, then I can't seem to access them. This doesn't matter with the Daves Picks page, as there is usually a Recent Post on that one. But the "Trouble Ahead..." one isn't as popular, so I have to wait a while for a Recent Post before I can put a comment on.

My general low level of online skills doesn't help !

DEAD 60th

Had a sighting of the GD 60 Year Anniversary logo I must say it is sweeeeeet. Now it just so happens that come this September I'll turn 60 myself. So all I want for my 60th is an official release of 12/1/79.

found under

(Community) then (News and talk)
I think.

Perfect

Thanks Colin. Why couldn't I work that out?
1st show - thanks also, but I couldn't seem to get what I was looking for doing that. I do find life difficult sometimes!

well done 1stShow

Yeah, we kinda are working within a structure that was set up many years ago so thanks for persevering. Dave, yup, the original thread in the Store is missing because, uh, I blew it up by mistake, but the second edition is rocking right along and when Dave's 53 comes along this will all right itself, I think.

Marye

It's all looking good to me. Here's to another great year in the world of The Dead.

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February 16, 2011 - 1:22pm

#181

marye

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in fact

on the local TV news last night, it was a story in itself, how the local Iranian-Americans politely but firmly refused to talk to local media at all because anything they said would be back in Tehran getting family in trouble in a heartbeat. The Internet as two-edged sword.
February 15, 2011 - 11:41pm

#182

johnman

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Oh, my....

.......wow...
February 15, 2011 - 5:38pm

#183

marye

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I was emailing with an old colleague of mine

who's a US citizen now, but was born in the Middle East and has family all over the region, including Israel, and she says, you think I'm going to talk politics on Facebook? Are you insane?
February 15, 2011 - 5:19pm

#184

johnman

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She hasn't mentioned anything in FB, ted

so I'm thinkin' she's alright.....
February 14, 2011 - 3:16pm

#185

marye

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yeah gonz

I was very struck by all the bright young Egyptians speaking perfect American English to the cameras.
February 14, 2011 - 12:27pm

#186

Gr8fulTed

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4.5 quake near Koblenz

I see on the news a "mild" earthquake has occurred in west Germany. Are you still shakin' TL?
February 14, 2011 - 12:26pm

#187

Anonymous (not verified)

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Protests start up again in Iran today

With usual the result, massive crackdown by well-armed troops. One starts to see the pattern emerging here. Where the army is faithful to the regime and wiling to fire on it's own people there is little chance of change. In the case of Egypt, America had so many of the Egyptian army going through the military academies and defense contractors (so they could learn to fire the ordnance we sold them) they built up a bit of a professional soldier's code. Not so in most of the rest of the Middle East. Perhaps it will take 100 years to bring a total change, Hope not.
February 12, 2011 - 1:48pm

#188

marye

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per the current news reports

King Abdullah's going peaceful transition woohoo, conveniently failing to mention how it came about. Considering the circumstances...
February 12, 2011 - 12:38pm

#189

marye

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wow

I didn't think King Abdullah was that stupid.
February 12, 2011 - 11:45am

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Massive protest in Algeria...

...stopped with iron force.