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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde. -
E Pluribus Unum"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
2004 Presidential Candidate
2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)Comment
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Cogito, ergo para bellum.
I think, therefore I prepare for war.I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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Don't know it.Originally posted by Vince278
How about Vidi, Vici, Veni?
What does it mean ?
veni vidi PWNED!Comment
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I saw, I conquered, I came"I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
"You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:Comment
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Sounds nasty.I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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Ite ad inferno.
Imperative case - Go to hell.The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.Comment
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Let's see: Margaret Thatcher was first elected Prime Minister on the evening I went to see Roxy Music's reunion Manifesto Tour concert in Birmingham. I returned home to find that the British equivalent of Kali was now in charge.Originally posted by Saras
These lines bring back the memories of performing Mozart's requiem in Meteora, Greece, in a shooting of a film to commemorate W.A.Mozart's 200th death (don't ask) anniversary.
What's your personal beef with tories anyway?
Many years later, having suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, the most unpopular prime minister since WWII, urban decay, race riots, the sell off of most of the nation's assets and privatization of everything bar the atmosphere, record levels of homelessness, censorship on an unprecedented scale in the 20th Century outside of wartime, institutionalized government racism and homophobia, we eventually ended up with Tony Blair.
When Blair is a better option than what has gone before, the alternative must have been bad.
As you may be aware from having grown up behind the Iron Curtain, Thatcher was very fond of spouting off about government repression, censorship and freedom for unions. But only when these problems were far away, in Poland, Soviet Russia, East Germany or China.
At home, it was a very different matter.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Wow, Maggie wounded you guys deep, eh? I mean, 1990 was 15 years ago?Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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I was sixteen when she was elected. Imagine having your 'best' teenage years with that castratress in power.Originally posted by Saras
Wow, Maggie wounded you guys deep, eh? I mean, 1990 was 15 years ago?
Then I went to university during her Falklands' War era, when a woman who had been profoundly unpopular was reelected after her government had been instrumental in sending the wrong signals to Argentina over the British willingness to maintain a presence in the South Atlantic and had ignored intelligence warnings about the prospects of Argentinian belligerence. Brave men died to save her face....
She embodies for me the worst aspects of petty bourgeois provincial Little Englandism- philistine, racist, putting on a mask of religion when it suited her, snobbish, uncultured- as Oscar Wilde would have said of her, 'she knew the price of everything and the value of nothing'.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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But surely she's not the only tory; you had burke, disraeli and churchill. How does the current crop compare.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Take any renowned Lithuanian composer, painter, poet, novelist, songwriter, dancer from the past.Originally posted by Saras
But surely she's not the only tory; you had burke, disraeli and churchill. How does the current crop compare.
Imagine that they are replaced by the Pop Idol or Eurovision equivalent.
That's how today's bunch of non-entities compare with the glory days of cultured 19th Century High Toryism. I've read some of Disraeli's novels, listened to Churchill's oratory*, and read Burke's political works and speeches.
The current party are the dregs of the so-called 'Thatcherite Revolution' when she surrounded herself with lily-livered yes men and 'greige' nobodies. Michael Howard was one of them, and there are still a few of the garageiste 80s tendency too.
* Churchill is a 20th Century Tory aberration- his WWII stint overshadows his earlier disasters and later peacetime period as Prime Minister which was not terribly successful either.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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I have to admit I was sort-of agent-provocateuring a bit, to squeeze out one of your nicely phrased summaries. ThanksOriginally posted by molly bloom
Take any renowned Lithuanian composer, painter, poet, novelist, songwriter, dancer from the past.
Imagine that they are replaced by the Pop Idol or Eurovision equivalent.
That's how today's bunch of non-entities compare with the glory days of cultured 19th Century High Toryism. I've read some of Disraeli's novels, listened to Churchill's oratory*, and read Burke's political works and speeches.
The current party are the dregs of the so-called 'Thatcherite Revolution' when she surrounded herself with lily-livered yes men and 'greige' nobodies. Michael Howard was one of them, and there are still a few of the garageiste 80s tendency too.
* Churchill is a 20th Century Tory aberration- his WWII stint overshadows his earlier disasters and later peacetime period as Prime Minister which was not terribly successful either.
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Originally posted by Saras
I have to admit I was sort-of agent-provocateuring a bit, to squeeze out one of your nicely phrased summaries. Thanks
You Baltic charmer you.
'Agent Provocateur' is a lingerie shop in the United Kingdom, by the way.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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I know. My wife made me read B.Jones Diary
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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