Pease Porridge Zot, Pease Porridge Cold, Trolls Sitting in a Pot, Nine Days Old

So far, it is faithful to the book and enjoyable.

7,481 posted on 09/30/2005 6:43:08 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

I haven't seen that movie. Is it good?

I refuse to watch the film (or TV series), until I read the book - I made that mistake with Orwell's 1984 (I watched the film, made in the very year, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton - Burton's last ever performance)!

7,482 posted on 09/30/2005 6:45:59 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

It sounds inviting because it has been way too long since I had a frosty cold one, and I think I've earned one a time or two.

Maybe I'll just break down and buy some beer.

7,483 posted on 09/30/2005 6:49:20 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

To: higgmeister; Conspiracy Guy

Were you a tech controller?

No, he was the Big Giant Head!

7,484 posted on 09/30/2005 6:50:26 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

Hi, Fanfan...hope you've had a great day.

7,485 posted on 09/30/2005 6:51:39 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)

To: Irish_Thatcherite; Army Air Corps; Darksheare; NicknamedBob

If I don't watch something before I read the book, then I'd never be able to watch movies. LOL!

7,486 posted on 09/30/2005 6:51:42 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm not sure what I want. But I'll know it when I see it!)

To: NicknamedBob

7,487 posted on 09/30/2005 6:52:51 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

Well, ok, Hurt was a good Winston Smith, Burton was a good O'Brien - oh and Charrington was played by an Irishman - Cyril Cusack!

7,488 posted on 09/30/2005 6:57:46 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

It took me 9 months to get through the last novel I read.

7,489 posted on 09/30/2005 7:01:23 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm not sure what I want. But I'll know it when I see it!)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

I have to make a trek early in the morning.

Maybe I'll reward myself afterward.

7,490 posted on 09/30/2005 7:02:05 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

I'm reading a biography about Michael Collins - it's taking me a while to get through it!!

7,491 posted on 09/30/2005 7:03:37 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: tuliptree76; Irish_Thatcherite

"It took me 9 months to get through the last novel I read."

Sheesh! I can write them faster than that!

7,492 posted on 09/30/2005 7:05:15 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

To: NicknamedBob

You better do that!!

7,493 posted on 09/30/2005 7:06:15 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

Your explaining to God about hazardous materials?!?!?!?!

7,494 posted on 09/30/2005 7:08:21 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: NicknamedBob; tuliptree76

Bioghraphies take longer than novels to read!

7,495 posted on 09/30/2005 7:10:12 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: Irish_Thatcherite; fanfan

I'm pretty sure God can take a ribbing.

7,496 posted on 09/30/2005 7:11:03 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

"Bioghraphies take longer than novels to read! "

They take longer to create, also. For the writer, and for the subject.

7,497 posted on 09/30/2005 7:13:06 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

To: NicknamedBob

For the subject, a whole lifetime!!

7,498 posted on 09/30/2005 7:19:30 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Following passage of the Smith-Connally Act, seizures to assure continued production on the basis of terms recommended by the War Labor Board were based upon that Act as well as upon the President's power under the Constitution and the laws generally. A question did arise as to whether the statutory language relating to "any plant, mine, or facility equipped for the manufacture, production, or mining of any articles or materials" [n72] authorized the seizure of properties of Montgomery Ward & Co., a retail department store and mail-order concern. The Attorney General (Biddle) issued an opinion that the President possessed the power to seize Montgomery Ward properties to prevent a work stoppage whether or not the terms of the Smith-Connally Act authorized such a seizure. [n73]

This opinion was in line with [p699] the views on Presidential powers maintained by the Attorney General's predecessors (Murphy [n74] and Jackson [n75]) and his successor (Clark [n76]). Accordingly, the President ordered seizure of the Chicago properties of Montgomery Ward in April, 1944, when that company refused to obey a War Labor Board order concerning the bargaining representative of its employees in Chicago. [n77] In Congress, a Select Committee to Investigate Seizure of the Property of Montgomery Ward & Co., assuming that the terms of the Smith-Connally Act did not cover this seizure, concluded that the seizure "was not only within the constitutional power, but was the plain duty of the President." [n78]

Thereafter, an election determined the bargaining representative for the Chicago employees and the properties were returned to Montgomery Ward & Co. In December, 1944, after continued defiance of a series of War Labor Board orders, President Roosevelt ordered the seizure of Montgomery Ward properties throughout the country. [n79]

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld this seizure on statutory grounds, and also indicated its disapproval of a lower court's denial of seizure power apart from express statute. [n80] [p700]

7,499 posted on 09/30/2005 7:22:14 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("I'm okay with being unimpressive. It helps me sleep better.")

To: Irish_Thatcherite

I'm writing a sequel to mine.

7,500 posted on 09/30/2005 7:22:17 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)

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