Jane's Coming Out!My Way News
Against the war in Iraq. What is Jane's fascination with dictatorial systems?
Monday, July 25, 2005
Why Hillary Will Never Win
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
Who is it who uses the beer test? That America votes for the candidate with whom they would most easily share a beer and a chat? Consider Reagan v Carter; Bush I v Clinton; Clinton v Dole; Bysh II v Gore or Kerry.
I think the theory works. How many would vote to have a beer with that face sitting across the table. The GOP will have to work hard to find a less attractive alternative. Is that picture a fluke? I think it captures her pretty well. Add the shrill voice which comes out when she tries to whip up a crowd and she hasn't got a chance.
DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
Who is it who uses the beer test? That America votes for the candidate with whom they would most easily share a beer and a chat? Consider Reagan v Carter; Bush I v Clinton; Clinton v Dole; Bysh II v Gore or Kerry.
I think the theory works. How many would vote to have a beer with that face sitting across the table. The GOP will have to work hard to find a less attractive alternative. Is that picture a fluke? I think it captures her pretty well. Add the shrill voice which comes out when she tries to whip up a crowd and she hasn't got a chance.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Cuban Dissidents ArrestedBBC NEWS | Americas | Dissidents held in Cuba crackdown
"Some Cuban dissidents are unhappy at what they see as France's particularly soft line on Cuba."
Happy to see this reported in the BBC.
"Some Cuban dissidents are unhappy at what they see as France's particularly soft line on Cuba."
Happy to see this reported in the BBC.
Friday, July 15, 2005
They'll Always be a Beeb
As long as there are people who don't get it
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
Beeb listeners chose Marx as the greatest philosopher
Since philosophers would probably not care about this one whit, I don't know why they bother (or why I bother to comment)
Since Marx was an economist who got it all wrong I don't know what they were thinking.
Who voted? Where are there still Marxists? Universities? Embarasing for them.
As long as there are people who don't get it
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
Beeb listeners chose Marx as the greatest philosopher
Since philosophers would probably not care about this one whit, I don't know why they bother (or why I bother to comment)
Since Marx was an economist who got it all wrong I don't know what they were thinking.
Who voted? Where are there still Marxists? Universities? Embarasing for them.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
"It is A War"
Telegraph | Opinion | How are we going to fight this war?: "'It is a war,' one Cabinet minister said to me. 'People didn't believe that till last Thursday. But they do now.'
I hope he is right. This war, of course, is like nothing that has preceded it, which is why it is so tempting to call it something else: a criminal conspiracy, or a series of isolated atrocities carried out by psychopathic mavericks. And yet the analysis that the President and Prime Minister offered after 9/11 now seems more pertinent than ever.
We face three, inextricably linked threats: from Islamist fanatics, from the rogue states that harbour them, and from the deadly weapons which they seek to acquire. "
"The Iraq war was grotesquely caricatured in this country as a symptom of the Prime Minister's political infatuation with George W Bush, even as a demented outburst of Christian adventurism.
It came to be viewed almost as an abstraction, a symbol of Mr Blair's mad itch to intervene, a quarrel in a far away country of which we know nothing. But everyone knows the London Underground map, and everyone can point now to the stations that bear fresh blood stains. The war on terror has come home.
In truth, it was always here."
Of course, many still doubt that there is a war, or refuse to place responsibility for the attacks of 7/7 where they belong. Far easier to blame Bush and Blair. It was easier to denounce Churchill than to confront Hitler.
The easy way out is an exit to a very bad place.
Telegraph | Opinion | How are we going to fight this war?: "'It is a war,' one Cabinet minister said to me. 'People didn't believe that till last Thursday. But they do now.'
I hope he is right. This war, of course, is like nothing that has preceded it, which is why it is so tempting to call it something else: a criminal conspiracy, or a series of isolated atrocities carried out by psychopathic mavericks. And yet the analysis that the President and Prime Minister offered after 9/11 now seems more pertinent than ever.
We face three, inextricably linked threats: from Islamist fanatics, from the rogue states that harbour them, and from the deadly weapons which they seek to acquire. "
"The Iraq war was grotesquely caricatured in this country as a symptom of the Prime Minister's political infatuation with George W Bush, even as a demented outburst of Christian adventurism.
It came to be viewed almost as an abstraction, a symbol of Mr Blair's mad itch to intervene, a quarrel in a far away country of which we know nothing. But everyone knows the London Underground map, and everyone can point now to the stations that bear fresh blood stains. The war on terror has come home.
In truth, it was always here."
Of course, many still doubt that there is a war, or refuse to place responsibility for the attacks of 7/7 where they belong. Far easier to blame Bush and Blair. It was easier to denounce Churchill than to confront Hitler.
The easy way out is an exit to a very bad place.
Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Rule, Britannia Indeed!Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Boris Johnson, MP for Henley makes a point:
"We seem to have pulled off the rare feat of breeding suicide bombers determined to attack the very society that incubated them; and the question is why. Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own? Last summer we had a magnificent holiday driving around America, and for a cynical Brit it was astonishing to see the way the Americans fly that flag of theirs.
On every porch, on every flagpole, on every bumper: there were the stars and stripes, unabashed, exuberant, proud. Contrast our treatment of the Union Flag, which is endlessly being cited in racial harassment cases, on the ground that it is provocative merely - for instance - to stick it on your locker. Remember Bob Ayling, the Labour-supporting businessman who succeeded the late, great Lord King at British Airways, and decided that the Union Flag was so too embarrassing that he stripped it from the tailfins of his planes.
The Americans would be mystified by our approach to a national symbol. For them the flag is a vital agent of integration, a way of asserting that, in that vast immigrant country, each person is not only American but equally American, and has an equal stake in society. That is why American children still begin their day at school by pledging allegiance to the flag, and that is why the Americans show a patriotism and a simple enthusiasm for their own country that our jaded British sensibilities find childish."
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Rule, Britannia Indeed!Telegraph | Opinion | This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again
Boris Johnson, MP for Henley makes a point:
"We seem to have pulled off the rare feat of breeding suicide bombers determined to attack the very society that incubated them; and the question is why. Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own? Last summer we had a magnificent holiday driving around America, and for a cynical Brit it was astonishing to see the way the Americans fly that flag of theirs.
On every porch, on every flagpole, on every bumper: there were the stars and stripes, unabashed, exuberant, proud. Contrast our treatment of the Union Flag, which is endlessly being cited in racial harassment cases, on the ground that it is provocative merely - for instance - to stick it on your locker. Remember Bob Ayling, the Labour-supporting businessman who succeeded the late, great Lord King at British Airways, and decided that the Union Flag was so too embarrassing that he stripped it from the tailfins of his planes.
The Americans would be mystified by our approach to a national symbol. For them the flag is a vital agent of integration, a way of asserting that, in that vast immigrant country, each person is not only American but equally American, and has an equal stake in society. That is why American children still begin their day at school by pledging allegiance to the flag, and that is why the Americans show a patriotism and a simple enthusiasm for their own country that our jaded British sensibilities find childish."
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