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From: Eeyore on 10 Aug 2006 15:01 Richard The Dreaded Libertarian wrote: > 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. I just saw an intelligent American counter-terrorism expert interviewed on our Channel 4 News who said that the reasons for terrorist action against the West is on account primarily because of our troops being on 'Islamic soil'. Shame that the White House prefers its own bigoted advice. Graham
From: Eeyore on 10 Aug 2006 15:03 John Woodgate wrote: > 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. John may not realise that *every* Parliament is dissolved before an election. Graham
From: Keith on 10 Aug 2006 15:38 In article <44DB0079.FB65F841(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com says... > > > krw wrote: > > > In article <4jvfi3F9tmn1U1(a)individual.net>, dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com > > says... > > > John Larkin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> and the U.K. is almost as old-fashioned, though > > > >> at least they have some fairly effective rules for stopping excessive > > > >> election advertising. > > > > > > > > Some very bright and thoughtful people have argued that there is no > > > > such thing as excessive election advertising. Our Supreme Court has > > > > found that restricting election advertising is in violation of our > > > > constitutional right to free speech. > > > > > > Hardly 'free' is it? > > > > Not as in "beer", no. There _are_ more important things than "free > > beer". > > Where's this free beer you mention ? Linux. -- Keith
From: John Woodgate on 10 Aug 2006 15:33 In message <44DB82A4.D14AA9B3(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >I just saw an intelligent American counter-terrorism expert interviewed >on our Channel 4 News who said that the reasons for terrorist action >against the West is on account primarily because of our troops being on >'Islamic soil'. That's not the least bit intelligent. It immediately raises the question of "what all these Muslim immigrants are doing here on our 'Christian soil'". BNP-fodder! -- 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 15:30
In message <44DB82F2.C80CBEF4(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >John Woodgate wrote: > >> 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. > >John may not realise that *every* Parliament is dissolved before an >election. Different Parliaments use different technical terms for their procedures. The Westminster Parliament can be 'recessed' and'prorogued' as well as 'dissolved'. It has not ceased to exist, in any case, since Cromwell dismissed the Rump Parliament in 1653, but even that was resurrected in 1659. -- 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 |