SORRY, STEPHEN

                                                                              

  
    IN LIFE...

  "None of us has as much control as we would
    like to believe..."
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  Not sure about the grammar, but this
  philosopher may have a point.  [In the
  interest of full disclosure, a philosopher
  did not say this; I did.] - years ago, when
  I was in conversation with a former, 
  high school math teacher of mine.  We had
  met by chance, when I used to do a lot of
  walking around town.

  I was trying to explain why I was out of
  work.  :)
                             *****
  Maybe our Prime Minister is thinking along
  the lines of the above quote.  The past couple
  of weeks must be the most disturbing of 
  his years as our leader.  I think that his 
  greatest political fear was that a fellow
  Conservative might DO or SAY something
  that could mortally wound his administration.

  So, it must be bitterly ironic that decisions
  that HE made [at the time, seemingly wise
 ones - the selections of Senators], would
 come back to haunt him...

 In a democracy, all governments have a
 BEST BEFORE DATE.  Exactly what that is, is
 never immediately obvious.  But now, this
 one's is:

 October 19, 2015