Thanks for clarifying. It's good to have a hobby and yank-hating is as good as any. The fact that they are so bemused by why they are disliked serves only to make others despise them the more. Americans just don't get it and there is little point in trying to enlighten them, not when they think they have God on their side.
Thanks for clarifying. It's good to have a hobby and yank-hating is as good as any. The fact that they are so bemused by why they are disliked serves only to make others despise them the more. Americans just don't get it and there is little point in trying to enlighten them, not when they think they have God on their side.
Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 2629 Location: Kleptabalonian Consulate, Lake Macquarie, NSW Australia
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:45 am Post subject: God's House...
minigirl wrote:
The Colonel wrote:
I can't remember which personality said it, but they said "God is British".
Of course he is! Having cream teas and scones up in Godington Palace.
i think you might find that it was cecil rhodes who said that.
God maintains a waterfront Manor down here on the Western side of paradise [a.k.a. Lake Macquarie..], 15 kms South of the Kleptabalonian Consulate - (s)he often drops by for afternoon tea on a Sunday arvo'...
I actually don’t hate George Bush. I only hate those americans who are full of ego, overly patriotic.
Actually, I hate George W. Bush. Hope that doesn’t offend anybody; it's not intended to. But placed into context, he is the first US dictator and an enemy of the modern state...be it the US, the UK, Western Europe or any other civilized nation. He is a retrograde into the problems and issues of the 1930’s. There have to be some repercussions.
Any culture can create a dictator, and the US (GWB) is no exception. The question is, are the institutions strong enough to overcome him or her. I understand in 2004, he contemplated usurping the elections and taking over all by himself. Dodged a bullet there. I have also heard that he has purchased 20,000 acres in Paraguay, just in case some person or nation wants to bring charges. Wise choice. I give the chances at better than 50-50.
Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 2806 Location: southern utah, usa
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:
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I actually don’t hate George Bush. I only hate those americans who are full of ego, overly patriotic.
Actually, I hate George W. Bush. Hope that doesn’t offend anybody; it's not intended to. But placed into context, he is the first US dictator and an enemy of the modern state...be it the US, the UK, Western Europe or any other civilized nation. He is a retrograde into the problems and issues of the 1930’s. There have to be some repercussions.
Any culture can create a dictator, and the US (GWB) is no exception. The question is, are the institutions strong enough to overcome him or her. I understand in 2004, he contemplated usurping the elections and taking over all by himself. Dodged a bullet there. I have also heard that he has purchased 20,000 acres in Paraguay, just in case some person or nation wants to bring charges. Wise choice. I give the chances at better than 50-50.
Actually, using your implied definition of "American dictator", he wasn't the first--that honor would have to go to Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and the same things were said about him and his regime. For about the same reasons. Or lack thereof.
I have also heard that he has purchased 20,000 acres in Paraguay, just in case some person or nation wants to bring charges. Wise choice. I give the chances at better than 50-50.
I bet TB has got the plot next door, do you think Mrs Bush, will ever twig the big George and Tony romance?
Thinking about it, probably not, she cant be too bright, she married George.
I understand Tony went to see the pope and beg forgiveness for the very very very SPECIAL relationship, as the big man is not too approving of certain types of sexual behavior.
Actually, the issue isn’t about you or me, so I don’t care.
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Actually, using your implied definition of "American dictator", he wasn't the first--that honor would have to go to Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and the same things were said about him and his regime. For about the same reasons. Or lack thereof.
No, FDR never openly opposed democracy. The only criticism of FDR is the common one that he ran for four terms. But the two-term limitation was not in the Constitution at the time. The Twenty-Second Amendment to the United States Constitution (the two-term limitation for the office of the presidency) had not even been proposed when FDR died in 1945. The only reason FDR kept running for president for four terms is because he kept finding himself running up against opposition that wanted to make peace with Germany, and any Brit with the brains god gave a little green apple knows what that would have meant to them. I am definitely not overstating things to say that the US saved Britain’s ass during WWII, and it was to do just that that FDR broke tradition and kept running for president. I suggest the book, Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time (New York, Simon & Shuster, 1994), which has won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Harold Washington Literary Award, the New England Bookseller Association Award, the Ambassador Book Award and The Washington Monthly Political Book Award.
Openly opposing democracy throughout US history is the sole preserve of GWB. (See my post “Demise of Democracy” on Politics and Social Issues of FF.) GWB is the only president in history who actually contemplated suspending democracy in the United States. And he’s still in there my kittens.
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But placed into context, he is the first US dictator and an enemy of the modern state...be it the US, the UK, Western Europe or any other civilized nation. He is a retrograde into the problems and issues of the 1930’s. There have to be some repercussions.
as the big man is not too approving of certain types of sexual behavior.