Posted on 05/06/2005 5:36:10 AM PDT by MadIvan
Now I know that you are incapable of saying anything of substance whatsoever.
MI...I will surely miss you. I have enjoyed your posts and often you have brightened my days. Godspeed my friend.
Makes us even then
I just read your post that you were leaving...I hope that this is true and you have decided to stay. Regards Ivan, Big'ol
Hey, you had this planned all along, didn't you?! Kinda like when Coca Cola planned the whole New Coke fiasco to increase sales... pretty sneaky...
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Glad you didn't leave, you're one of the more interesting personalities on the Freep.
He's not dead yet. LOL, it's like the scene in Godfather Part III where Michael Corleone says, "I keep trying to get out, and they drag me in!"
Damn it, MadIvan! You do that again and I'm going to have to fly back to England. Don't make me come over there!
Oh comeon, you are going to let a little name calling scare you off?
Keep up the fight.
I don't think I've ever posted to you, but I really enjoy your analysis and commentary about the UK.
Your leaving is FR's loss.
One never knows the accuracy of any particular post now do we? I read "the rest of the story" later on.
I think we have to be careful by what we mean by anti-English though. There is no violent anger or blame being fostered on England by the vast majority of the population for any of Scotland's problems. Any gripe is more concerned with political policy.
You hear more anti-Scottish points from people like Boris Johnson and Jeremy Paxman than anything remotely anti-English in Scotland. It would be political suicide to blame England for anything.
The point I am trying to make is that for some Scots they do not like the Conservative Party because they are anti-English, but because they see the Tory party as Anti-Scottish. Thatcher experimenting on Scotland with the Poll tax was an example of that.
Well you must agree then that as the majority of Britons want Gun Control and their representatives carry those wishes out it is a symbol not of the unfree but of freedom!
You still haven't told me what I cannot say that you can.
Don't leave, Mad Ivan. You have many friends and fans here.
Just ignore the nattering nabobs of negativism.
(BTW, who wrote that speech for Spiro Agnew?)
Well, this is fair up to a point. However, the distinction here between our system and yours is that the right to bear arms is explicitly placed in our Constitution and can only be changed by a laborious, time-consuming effort by a large super-majority of States. Sure, it's sort of true that you all could, over time, implement something similar if you managed to get past all of the political roadblocks. But we have it now. In fact, we've had it since 1789.
2. What can you say that I cannot? I can say anything I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes. Your speech on many subjects (homosexuality, Naziism, Jews, Islam, etc.) is proscribed by your government without you having any legal recourse.
I can say ANYTHING I want so long as I am not inciting others to commit crimes, so what is your problem? Do you even know what you are talking about?
Yes I do. I'll just leave you to think whatever you want on this one, though.
3. Why is it ok to boycott one totalitarian nation but wrong to boycott another? This is where being sober helps. I never said it was wrong to boycott anyone. Boycott whomever you please! Even us! Jeeze!
You said it was wrong of me to criticise American policy on Cuba as why should Americans help a Government that helps keep people unfree. Well wise up buddy. You buy and use commodities from unfree people all the time so stop being all self-righteous.
I did not say it was wrong for you to criticise our Cuba policy. I said it was illogical for you to cite our Cuba policy as an example of how Americans are less free than you. The fact that you cannot distinguish between these two widely disparate concepts is further proof of what I charitably characterized as your "drunkenness."
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Glad to hear it!!!
(BTW, who wrote that speech for Spiro Agnew?)
William Safire, back in the days when he, Pat Buchanan, and Ray Price were Nixon's speechwriters. Nixon loaned them out to Agnew and Safire in particular had a great time.
Hi Mad, you ought to try to be a Mormon posting anywhere on religion topics. Talk about irrational responses!
A Dios!
Well that just sucks. I always learned something from your posts and appreciated your point of view.
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