Baziron
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« Reply #60 on: 10:53:40, 05-11-2008 » |
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT (ELECT) OBAMA
Dear Mr Obama,
You will be aware that Presidents often have more to their names than is evident to the less-cryptically-minded citizens. A case in point is that of President Mugabe of Zimbabwe whose name rings true only when read in reverse...E--BA--GUM!
In your own case you should not need to be reminded that your own name conceals a supposed truth: when read in reverse it gives the simple Latin word AMABO (meaning "I shall love").
We therefore await eagerly the revelation of your plans a) to withdraw your forces from the Middle East, b) to invest the large sums of money thus saved into the health and welfare services that you will make fully available to your own citizens, c) to invest in eco-friendly sources of energy and stop selling petrol at rock-bottom prices that encourage your people to pollute our global atmosphere with gas-guzzlers, and d) to cooperate with (and lead other nations in) international treaties designed to curb and eventually eliminate completely all programmes that maintain and even escalate the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
These achievements will truly show just how much you love our planet, your own nation, and indeed all the peoples of the world.
You are being watched!
Baziron
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« Reply #61 on: 11:02:05, 05-11-2008 » |
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Why not send it to him, Baz?  (I don't think he posts here. Or maybe he was Swan Knight, or something.) |
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« Reply #62 on: 11:21:16, 05-11-2008 » |
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Despite taking control of both houses of Congress with clear majorities, the Democrats still don't have what they call a 'super majority' in the Senate. Probably the only slightly dark cloud on the horizon: it means that if Obama wants to push through radical legislation, he won't be able to avoid filibustering tactics from Republican senators...
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Baziron
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« Reply #63 on: 11:30:26, 05-11-2008 » |
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Despite taking control of both houses of Congress with clear majorities, the Democrats still don't have what they call a 'super majority' in the Senate. Probably the only slightly dark cloud on the horizon: it means that if Obama wants to push through radical legislation, he won't be able to avoid filibustering tactics from Republican senators...
But that is no bad thing (politically) as George Bush discovered on many occasions (thank God). Quite a lot of people voted against Mr Obama, and he will (I believe) wish faithfully to represent the feelings of his nation overall. Where his plans get 'slowed down' (no doubt irritatingly) he will recognise as a rational person that this temporary log-jam is only his country's systemic way of making him accountable to all his people instead of just to those who supported him. Baziron |
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« Reply #64 on: 11:38:02, 05-11-2008 » |
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Got to agree with Baz here. One-party domination of all three branches (plus the Supreme Court once or two judges retire) isn't necessarily a good thing.
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« Reply #65 on: 14:24:58, 05-11-2008 » |
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Although I could listen to the acceptance speech dry eyed, my eyes did prickle and heart thump a bit at reading this in someone else's copy of The Times Suzy Jagger in Atlanta, Georgia
Ora Williams has had the right to vote for 43 years, but it is only now, aged 92, that the great-grandmother from Walton County, Georgia, has chosen to exercise it. Full details here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5084693.eceThanks to Mrs Williams, older than my mother, the world is a bit further away from nuclear destruction in the forseeable future. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #66 on: 14:26:08, 05-11-2008 » |
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Despite taking control of both houses of Congress with clear majorities, the Democrats still don't have what they call a 'super majority' in the Senate. Probably the only slightly dark cloud on the horizon: it means that if Obama wants to push through radical legislation, he won't be able to avoid filibustering tactics from Republican senators...
But that is no bad thing (politically) as George Bush discovered on many occasions (thank God). Quite a lot of people voted against Mr Obama, and he will (I believe) wish faithfully to represent the feelings of his nation overall. Where his plans get 'slowed down' (no doubt irritatingly) he will recognise as a rational person that this temporary log-jam is only his country's systemic way of making him accountable to all his people instead of just to those who supported him. Heartily agreed. |
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« Reply #67 on: 15:28:31, 05-11-2008 » |
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Despite taking control of both houses of Congress with clear majorities, the Democrats still don't have what they call a 'super majority' in the Senate. Probably the only slightly dark cloud on the horizon: it means that if Obama wants to push through radical legislation, he won't be able to avoid filibustering tactics from Republican senators...
But that is no bad thing (politically) as George Bush discovered on many occasions (thank God). Quite a lot of people voted against Mr Obama, and he will (I believe) wish faithfully to represent the feelings of his nation overall. Where his plans get 'slowed down' (no doubt irritatingly) he will recognise as a rational person that this temporary log-jam is only his country's systemic way of making him accountable to all his people instead of just to those who supported him. Heartily agreed. Oh, from that perspective I very much agree too. It's simply that I think the Republican resistance in the Senate will harden to such an extent that Obama will find it hard to get really radical measures through -should he attempt to do so - unless his powers of persuasion are really very awesome indeed. |
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« Reply #68 on: 16:25:00, 05-11-2008 » |
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Oh, from that perspective I very much agree too. It's simply that I think the Republican resistance in the Senate will harden to such an extent that Obama will find it hard to get really radical measures through -should he attempt to do so - unless his powers of persuasion are really very awesome indeed.
He will not attempt to, though. Not only is he not a radical at all, rather a moderate-to-conservative Democrat, but our non-parliamentary system (as you of course know) is designed to basically thwart the passage of radical legislation at all. Which has its downsides, but its upsides as well (believe it or not, the last eight years could have changed our government far more than they did...) |
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« Reply #69 on: 17:21:43, 05-11-2008 » |
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« Reply #70 on: 17:24:00, 05-11-2008 » |
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 Is that Hilary in the front seat? She has already had eight years driving the White House from the back seat, as I understand.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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Baziron
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« Reply #71 on: 20:18:41, 05-11-2008 » |
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Now back to our regular programming What - Iraq, Guantanamo Bay? Judging by the face of the man nearest I don't think so! Baziron |
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« Reply #73 on: 13:34:54, 06-11-2008 » |
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Her spending sprees may have been worse than thought too: http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581(See halfway down the page) NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books. |
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« Reply #74 on: 16:21:03, 06-11-2008 » |
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Ora Williams has had the right to vote for 43 years, but it is only now, aged 92, that the great-grandmother from Walton County, Georgia, has chosen to exercise it.
1870 Fifteenth Amendment gives black people the right to vote.
I can't make those figures add up. What am I missing?  |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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