Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Palatable is correct.

/s/ UG the Copyediting Eagle-Eye Guy

[yesman065]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Palatable is correct.

I sincerely hope you are not correcting me

[tw]

Sign of the times. Everybody wants to be an English Nazi.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by tw

Sign of the times.

Correction: Sign O the Times. O the Times.

[Ibby]

FLINT!

for the millionth time...
I love you.

Except it's not Sign O the Times... its Sign "☮" The Times.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Confirming, yesman, confirming.

After a moment's rereading of Ibram's remark, I'll toss in two cents more: in typesetting, a small, ornamental mark that is not a letter is called -- a dingbat. That the dingbat was legally a trademark owned by Prince Rogers Nelson and was connected with a copyright tussle goes far to explain this eccentricity, but does not reduce its peculiarity.

I am now going to pun mercilessly on tw:

Sign of the times. Everybody wants to be an English Nazi.

Oswald Mosley.

Gosh all hemlock, kid, should you feed me straight lines like that?

[yesman065]

Hey DanaC - Do the have Nazi's in England?

[tw]

Originally Posted by yesman065

Hey DanaC - Do the have Nazi's in England?

Can an Irishman be an English Nazi? Would he admit it?

[DanaC]

Yes. British National Party (BNP) is a nationalist party who also mainly subscribe to white race politics. They were born of the National Front, the more outwardly fascist party (skinheads and swastika tattoos), and are the result of the 'moderate' wing of the NF splitting off to form a new party. The leader of this new 'moderate' party has served time for serious violent assault and is also known on the European fascist tour circuit. He has also, I believe, endorsed a particularly unsavoury revisionist history of the holocaust.

Both the BNP and the NF field candidates in elections (very few NF thee days) and their cannier members wear smart suits and are careful not to be too over the top with racist comments unless they're sure of their audience. Their hardcore activists are a combination of the old guard, serious white power racists, with a fetishised love of all things Third Reich related and the newer tranch of activists who in another era would have been members of a mainstream party.

Even though the BNP is a political party, it is widely known and understood (in the same way it was known and understood about Sinn Fein) that they have a paramilitary wing, known as Combat 18. Big bastards with serious tattoos:P

[yesman065]

I was kidding Dana, but thats really interesting to know nonetheless.

[tw]

From the Washington Post of 24 Aug 2007:

Warner Calls for Pullouts By Winter
GOP Senator Suggests Move Would Prod Iraq
Sen. John W. Warner, one of the most influential Republican voices in Congress on national security, called on President Bush yesterday to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq in time for Christmas as a new intelligence report concluded that political leaders in Baghdad are "unable to govern effectively."

There is no reason to make the same Vietnam mistake all over again.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by tw

From the Washington Post of 24 Aug 2007: There is no reason to make the same Vietnam mistake all over again.

According to Bush, the Vietnam mistake is that we aren't still there.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

According to Bush, the Vietnam mistake is that we aren't still there.

Those who rewrite history are doomed to rewrite it over and over again.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

According to Bush, the Vietnam mistake is that we aren't still there.

Which means he did not even read the Pentagon Papers. Oh. He also forgot to read a memo on his desk entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike America". Funny how Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill would spend hours going through a four page memo point by point with George Jr - because George Jr did not read that 4 pages either. Amazing how he need not read because god tells him.

After all, who did he consult before authorizing 'Shock and Awe"? Cheney and god. That was it. George Jr need not read the Pentagon Papers. His grasp comes from higher authorities. Just wondering which is the higher authority - Cheney or god.

[Spark]

Seemingly after numerous prognoses of carnage during “March of Peace” for “reunion of Georgia and South Ossetia” rate of Georgian president had fallen near zero. Georgian authorities couldn’t gather enough those who’d wished to take part in this great provocation. And Ossetians prepared well to meet uninvited guests. So now they’re doing away feverishly from lists of assumed participants and making contradictious statements. Thus South Ossetian minister of internal affairs says about postponing of march till September, 20th. But state minister of Georgia for conflict settlement Bakradze and head of “caretaker administration” of South Ossetia Sanakoev announced that Georgia never planned such march. But it happened so that I was writing an article about march’ preparations. And I’ve seen those lists of participants with my eyes! And I’ve seen Sanakoev himself in Georgian village of Ditsi instructing pupils of 5th form of local school how they should behave themselves during that march!
So whom should I believe? Venal politicians or my own eyes?