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IMMIGRATION/MIGRATION - THE TRUTH ABOUT GOING AND COMING. PART 1.

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So, what is the truth about people moving from one place, one country to another?  are our feelings about this event? Well, based on my personal experience and feelings about migration, I believe that we are all for and against it.  In the first instance, I believe that we are for it when it pertains to our own need to move from place A to place B; from country A to country B.  Whether it is for our own economic well-being or livelihood, which is probably the main driving force behind people having to move from their know places and countries of birth, to the unknown anticipated El Dorados to which they are attracted.  Or, as is probably the other biggest driver of people moving from one region of their countries of birth to another region or country, a result of wars, famine, floods or some other environmental catastrophe. So, yes, it is more than likely that it is economic factors which are accounting for most of the movement of people.  A movement which has

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 43.

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So, more often than not, my logical and 'objective' approach will collide with her, it seems to me,  somewhat deluded and highly idiosyncratic and analogical way of perceiving, interrogating and negotiating her way through the world. This is how it is; probably partly because, as I have said previously, I still have a tendency to have pre-set responses for some of the the things my dear mother says repeatedly.  I can be impatient with her, as I sometimes am with others. And I can be annoyed with her at times, even as she and others might find me more annoying than I might believe I am.  I can or should be able to imagine my dear mother doing her best to articulate things in such a way that it might.   She hopes, make me believe that the seemingly incredible things she tells me, repeatedly, really have, are, and will continue to take place.  If I do not stop disbelieving her and do something to stop these occurrences taking place. If only I coul

GERMAN GRAND PRIX - RED BULL AND VERSTAPPEN AND VETTEL AND FERRARI TRIUMPH IN A BATTLE BETTER THE GODS! THE END!

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The result was that Team Mercedes and their drivers end up making too many irreparable errors and too little 'race-winning' master strokes.  Put another way, Team Ferrari and Team Red Bull, and others, out-classed Team Mercedes and their drivers in being better managers and masters of the extremely challenging racing conditions of the 2019 German Grand Prix. So, all or most credit and admiration to Team Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, and to Team Red Bull and the imperturbable Max Verstappen.  All of whom are worthy recipients of A Very Big Congratulation!  Indeed, all the teams and racers who have participated in this 2019 German Grand Prix, have displayed sterling courage, and are all winners, yes, to different degrees, for having done so, irrespective of how their race ended. It might even be said that, for most of the time, during the race, it was the gods who were controlling the process.  It was a race in which the outcome would more dependent

GERMAN GRAND PRIX - RED BULL AND VERSTAPPEN AND VETTEL AND FERRARI TRIUMPH IN A BATTLE BETTER THE GODS! PART 1

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I would not describe the 2019 German Grand Prix on Sunday as a thrilling, classic, or even great race; no. Thrilling and exciting; yes.  But in truth, it was more of a wreckers derby.  With the destruction of expensive racing cars and their drivers and teams hopes and expectations being smashed against the circuit walls, like rudderless ships being smashed against rock at sea.  The beginning of the race, with the inception of the Safety Car to guide the formation laps in heavy rain, before giving way to the race starting under normal starting - not weather-wise - procedures.  Probably should have been taken as more of an harbinger of what was to follow.  Even though it appeared that Hamilton and Team Mercedes were fated to win what would have been, for Team Mercedes, a coveted and historically significant race.  It was not to be, with the intervention of upto two Safety Car episodes in the race, before the wheels of Team Mercedes good fortune began to fall o

GERMAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING - IT IS STILL TEAM MERCEDES AND HAMILTON AND BOTTAS, WITH POLE + P3!

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Well might it be said that, it is only us humans and the gods can out do us.  And so it was, that, at the Hockenheim Grand Prix Circuit yesterday, the fallibilities of Team Ferrari's engineering, did brought them down and denied them the Podium finish which had appeared to be theres for certain.  Which is another example of the truism, the axiom that, in Formula 1 racing, it is never really done until the race is finished.  And another reinforcement of the principle that, prudent Grand Prix drivers never give up or should do so.   Until they have crossed the finishing line at the end of the Grid, because, you just never know what mistakes or misfortune other racers might make; with or without the mischievous assistance of the gods.  You just never know, which is why, at least during Qualifying, the wheels seems to have come of both Team Ferrari's cars, as they succumbed to one or other mechanical problems.  Thereby opening the door to Team Merce