Tag: politics
member name: Ian Thorpe
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December 29, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
It may be in rather bad taste to mention this ? but when has that ever stopped me?
We could not help noticing a sub-headline to on of the reports of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto read "Pakistan's . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
After the latest terrorist scares in Britain caused more disruption than the floods, veteran war correspondent Max Hastings said:
The flurry of precautions after terrorist alerts are almost . . .
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April 08, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Who do we think is to blame for the financial crisis. The trade in financial derivities was crazy but was it the fault of governments because they failed to regulate, believing the promises of the . . .
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June 04, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Some stories in the UK last week ought to remind us that freedom and democracy (or freeman moxy if you are American) is being eroded by creeping fascism.
First story concerns the fatigued firefighters . . .
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January 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
Don't we love all the predictions that are trotted out at this time of year and all those talking heads who queue up to tell us what will happen in the coming months. They are never right of course, . . .
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
As the topic of education (or lack of it) seems to come up ever more frequently in my comment threads and we seem to be losing sight of the fact that one of the great socially improving reforms of . . .
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May 22, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
It is simply unfair to ask politicians to debate a bill titled The human Fertility and embryo bill publicly, under the gaze of merciless comedy bloggers like myself, especially when that bill contains . . .
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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . .
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May 10, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
While looking at Crooks and Liars yesterday reading comments on one of the articles which had suggested John McCain's belligerent stance on Iraq and commitment to "staying in" indefinitely . . .
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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . .
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July 08, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
The Republican lady promised me marshmallows, complains Blue Gal in this video blog .
I had to tell her "Beware of republicans bearing marshmallows". Remember the Stapuft Marshmallow . . .
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December 12, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
With somebody named Blagojevich in the news it seems a good time to introduce a you to a new new word, Blag.
Blag, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is a verb that originated in . . .
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March 09, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
Overheard in Washington, Bill Clinton talking to a journalist ia a bar was heard to say:
"I'll be straight with you buddy, if the phone rang at 3 a.m. Hillary is the last person I would want . . .
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March 20, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
The Republican nominee, Senator John McCain was in London today, meeting people he may have to work with in a few months, his visit featured prominently in lunchtime news bulletins. This gave me my first . . .
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September 04, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
An exclusive story from the Irish office of International news giant Boggart Network News
Indonesian Keyan Multi-national American Presidential candidate Barry O'Bama, . . .
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February 24, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
An article to interest those who have ever wondered what African people really think about the west. Nigerian polymath Dambisa Moyo in her book Dead Aid reveals the truth. Links to . . .
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August 21, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
My earlier article here, So Who Is Anti Semitic drew the predicted responses from religious right and neo-con commenters, most of whom entirely missed the point (no surprise there) which was that those . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
Was the DOPE (Dear Old Pater Ecclisiasticus) right to say what he did about Islam?
Resoundingly yes, bearing in mind it is only his opinion.
Quite recently we British liberals were involved in fighting . . .
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