Arise Sir Ted!
Great stuff. He's in good company an' all. Fred Goodwin, Lords Ahmed, Archer and the rest of the money for laws brigade. Let's not forget Greenspan for services to economics..
Why do we prostitute our honours system so? Mind you it fits in nicely with Our Great Leaders moral compass, as in he hasn't got one.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
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"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Sometimes I get the feeling IA has doubts about Gordon Brown being the best thing that ever happened to England. Careful there.
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For the Conspiracy Theoristas:
Sir Ted would have to become... Canadian, eh?The so-called missing thirteenth amendment, or "Titles of Nobility Amendment" (TONA), proposed by the 11th Congress on May 1, 1810, would have ended the citizenship of any American accepting "any Title of Nobility or Honour" from any foreign power. Some maintain that the amendment was actually ratified by the legislatures of enough states, and that a conspiracy has suppressed it, but this has been thoroughly debunked.[17] Known to have been ratified by lawmakers in twelve states, the last in 1812, this amendment contains no expiration date for ratification. It may yet be ratified.
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This is a shame. I wonder how the family of the woman he murdered feel?
RIP Tosa
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It really doesn't matter.
It means nothing in the U.S.
My kingdom for a
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Be fair...manslaughter or negligent homicide. He didn't seek her death, just her......Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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Autographed copy of The Divine Comedy.
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The Kennedys are the most overrated family in American history. Even if you look past there drug addled sex romps using taxpayer money Which I do. They simply weren't good politicians.Kruschev played John like a fiddle and Johnson got all the rights legislation passed.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Wasn't his dad a Hitler fanboy as well?
There, got Godwin out of the way for you all.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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Yes he was. Teddy's brother John was a war hero in the mold of John Kerry.
RIP Tosa
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By all accounts he behaved bravely and took good care of his people....after getting his boat rammed and sunk. Older brother Joe was an out-and-out brave one, but the project that got him killed was a little silly.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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I don't know how many of u bothered to see "W", but in a scene where GWB was talking to old bush and old bush was ragging on him for partying and driving drunk, he said "You're ruining this family, what, you think you're a Kennedy?"
Baby Quit Your Cryin' Put Your Clown Britches On!!!
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Hehehehe. I thought IA was knighting.... me! when I first saw this thread.
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this man should never have received an honour.
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I dunno, Dons rather spiffing, what!
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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You make it sound like there are politician out there who do have standards that stand above their ambitions. They all have the morals of alley cats.Great stuff. He's in good company an' all. Fred Goodwin, Lords Ahmed, Archer and the rest of the money for laws brigade. Let's not forget Greenspan for services to economics..
Why do we prostitute our honours system so? Mind you it fits in nicely with Our Great Leaders moral compass, as in he hasn't got one.
"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
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Yes, this outrage always surprises me. We have to go back decades to meet politicians who aren't mainly feathering their own nest and heaping praises on their colleagues with the hope / expectation of quid pro quo.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
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I watched an old b&w movie last night "Reserved for Ladies". London head-waiter masquerades as royalty to snag an aristocrat girlie. Basically: 1920's between-wars euro romantic comedy.
In the flic, there's a scene where an incognito king and our headwaiter pass judgment on the masses, royalty, aristocrats, workingmen and politicians - the classes they both have to 'deal with', all of whom seem blissfully unaware the other classes exist.
... could have been lifted from that very king-headwaiter scene. My point? Even 90 years ago, politicians have been held in very low regard. It was funny to see the "alley cats" remark repeated so soon after I viewed the movie.
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there are some who have principles and are genuinely interested in helping people, they just never get off the back-benches.
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