Posted on 11/23/2004 1:04:10 PM PST by NZerFromHK
,,, "classical liberalism". For what I hate there's a word that's understood everywhere... "progressive".
There are rumours all over the net that he's toast now but I can't vouch whether this is true...
,,, yeah, for over a week I've been watching. I think his generals have said to him that Iran's backed down and they're next up for it.
Have you heard any news that KJI was overthrown in a coup? Read this on a Chinese-language dissident news site but I didn't trust the news (it sounded too good and too much like Debka). But then his portraits came down from everywhere in Pyongyang and confirmed by the Western MSMs. And it is true the PRC sent 30,000 to the border in October for no apparent reasons to the West (the Chinese reported that cost of rice in NK has risen to U$1.65 /kg with no famine, and large scale mutiny in NK wa reported - the PLA was ent there to prevent chaos in China's Northeastern side and in an attempt to put Kim back in power).
Thundebirds Are Go !
,,, I heard the posters/murals were coming down, that he wasn't being referred to as "beloved leader" and also heard before that the Chinese troops were sent to the border.
I'm glad that maybe things in practice are more common sense in Australia than a literal reading would make it seem. In America, it is generally assumed that common sense is now the exception rather than the rule, and that any regulation will be applied in a most extreme manner. Political correctness and a totalitarian mentality called "zero tolerance" have taken over our institutions. Little boys have been expelled from school for drawing pictures of guns or playing cops and robbers (drawing a picture of a gun and drawing a real gun on someone are the same thing, to our "zero tolerance" idiots). Girls have been expelled from school for having ear rings or key chains (ear rings or keys could have pointy things that could be used as weapons). Things have gotten insane. We may not have a nanny state, but we surely have a ninny state.
We are getting some of that problem, and it is of concern.
In particular while I think we have less of the zero tolerance problem in schools than the US seems to, it does happen on occasion - schools are among the most left wing of our institutions, and we do get some very odd decisions out of them. A six year old boy in one state has just recently been suspended for poking a six year old girl on the bottom - he was suspended for sexual harassment.
But generally speaking on the very important issues, things work pretty well the vast majority of the time.
,,, what a hoot! Thunderbird 2 was my favourite too. "FAB Virgil!!!"
"I'm not a mad greenie or anything..."
LOL
I really liked the spunky girl puppet, Penny I think her name was. Her space uniform was very chic for a puppet.
,,, but I'd never be seen dead in a pink Rolls with double wheels at the rear!
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