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From: John Larkin on 10 Aug 2006 13:31 On 10 Aug 2006 09:30:01 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >John Larkin wrote: >> On 10 Aug 2006 02:52:08 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: >> >> >> >Your current situation is one where people with the money to finance >> >extended advertising campaigns - not to mention judicial campaigns >> >extending to the Supreme Court - exercise a disproportionate amount of >> >power over the election process and the people who get elected. This is >> >inequitable and undemocratic. >> >> That aspect of money isn't a serious problem. A candidate for public >> office will be financed if he's truly viable. In that sense, the >> advertising budget knocks out the un-electable loonies and spoilers. > >And if the candidate has been financed and knows taht they are going to >have to be financed again at the next election, they are beholden to >the financier(s)? Right. And the more diverse the financiers, the more democracy you get. It works out. >It has given you two terms of Dubbya, which suggests the system needs >to work better, To you maybe. But you don't matter. John
From: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian on 10 Aug 2006 14:07 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:32:51 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > Jim Yanik wrote: > >> the UN is a JOKE. Mostly US and Israel haters. > > Have you ever considered that Israel and the US might be on the end of some > criticism because of their *behaviour* ? > It's pretty obvious that that's the case, except to what seems to be a majority of the American sheeple. Thanks, Rich
From: Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie on 10 Aug 2006 14:09 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:28:52 +0000, joseph2k wrote: > Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie wrote: >> No, they have very powerful brains - the problem is Heartlessness. >> > > No; the current US leadership has none of the three, just a radical > religious viciousness. Yeah - the product of heartlessness. And the imprints and denials, of course. Thanks, Rich
From: John Woodgate on 10 Aug 2006 14:01 In message <00rmd2d6t8rjcd2ntk45aiepn5nncbd7hp(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> writes >Hardly "continuous existance". It's been dissolved many times. For sufficiently arcane meanings of 'dissolved'. It's never been taken out of existence. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: John Woodgate on 10 Aug 2006 14:06
In message <44DB65A2.85B2E456(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >What is they say ? I some constituencies you could elect a donkey ! >Eeeyore ! Well, Dirk said they've already elected some Great Northern Divers (Gavia immer). -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |