Slacker wrote:Well, Clinton occasionally pops his head up, but he's pretty much the exception.
I know that Clinton and Bush 1 endorsed people in the primaries for 2008.
So I wonder if Chewie's concern is if they say negative things, or something like that.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
This is pre-WWII. You can sort of tell from the sketch style, from thee way it refers to Japan (Japan in the 1950s was still rebuilding from WWII), the spelling of Tokyo, lots of details. Nothing obvious... except that the upper right hand corner of the page reads "November 1931." --- Simon_Jester
Jordan's King did sack his PM and Ministers and bring in new ones, already. I haven't paid attention to Jordan lately, so I don't know how effective it's been, but the protests died down when he made that move.
Slacker wrote:On-topic, Kuwait's pretty much bought it's people off-I'd read a report where the government cut a check for seven grand and a year's worth of rice for everyone in the country, and the protests just stopped for rather predictable reasons.
A whole year's worth? Even for childless single men? Shit, I wonder what it'd take to get that deal over here, too...
"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? Y'know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! Y'know, I just do things..." --The Joker
Mr Bean wrote:
It's not a great comparison but some quick searches yielded no obvious historical comparison between two one country trying to celebrate the fall of another ally.
the USSR trying to take credit for democracy in Eastern Europe in 1989 ?
In a sense, that is true because the USSR under Gorbachev did not believe in using tanks to crush the protesters. Neither did they block the reunification process, which is why Gorbachev is rightly revered in Germany.
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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