Various Things In Brief

[poliphilo]

Ailz's mother has a cold, Ailz has a cold and I'm doing my best to avoid getting one. Echinacea is the answer. That's my belief. 

I felt fairly ropey yesterday (because I was fighting getting a cold). I suggested we had lunch in Morrisons (while we were out shopping) because I didn't feel like fixing a meal.

I keep scanning the headlines to see if Lord McAlpine is in them. 

I'm pleased about the US election. People (journalists and LJ friends) are saying the Republican Party is paying the price for signing a pact with the Christian Right. It worked for them for a while, but now demographics are against them. As someone said, America is "running out of angry white men".  That's part of the story. Also Romney was a lousy candidate. I don't think much of Obama either but at least he knows Iran has a sea coast. 

RIP Clive Dunn. A very funny man and a very decent man too by all accounts. Dad's Army wasn't particularly well written but it had the most wonderful cast. 

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

It was really difficult for a Mormon to ally himself with the Christian Right, because the CR regards Mormonism as a CULT - in the same vein as Hare Krishna, Scientology, Spiritism, and others. They have no "live and let live". So they put the emphasis on "let us pray and then let us vote for the candidate who is most in line with godly principles" (meaning anti-abortion, etc.).
It was not easy, but WE WON!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Over here we regard Mormonism as a joke religion. We have a Mormon church just round the corner- which means we see a lot of Mormon missionaries- usually young white American men in suits straight out of the "Mad Men" era. Europeans would have a tough time taking a Mormon President seriously.