Walsingham
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I 100% agree with Bruce on the debate for this page. If you don't engage seriously in this particular forum then you're sitting wanking in a perfectly good whorehouse. Taking the stand that because some nation HAS been bad means it will always BE bad, that is the manifesto of abject darkness. It condemns all nations equally, and perpetually.
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Nearing the end of the diary of Anne Frank. It's all a bit creepy just now. If you've read it, you'll know why.
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My condolences, if you are watching the Korean version. Korean version? It's about an orphan prostitute. No this one was about a baity Austrian fellow with one testicle who had his dreams of being an artist thwarted by War. Actually, put like this it sounds like the kind of thing they'd invent to win a Palm D'Or.
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I'll cheerfully defer if our legally trained members disagree, but I was always taught that the law HAS to be interpretive in order to deliver justice. Because laws cannot possibly be drafted to account for every circumstance in which they might apply. If WoD does in fact attempt to apply the law without conscience or referring to circumstance then I can only pray nightly that I never have to work with him or for him. Eh, there are too many fundamentalists in this thread for me to bother writing a long reply, especially on the topic of "theory vs. practice". Oh, go on. You will.
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I'll cheerfully defer if our legally trained members disagree, but I was always taught that the law HAS to be interpretive in order to deliver justice. Because laws cannot possibly be drafted to account for every circumstance in which they might apply. If WoD does in fact attempt to apply the law without conscience or referring to circumstance then I can only pray nightly that I never have to work with him or for him.
At the point where something is called The Patriot Act I get ****ing suspicious. If it is clearly and coherently something that patriots will support then it doesn't need to have that in the title.
I think the thing I despise about Obama is that he's not a million miles away from me. he's better educated, and more driven, and he's overcome racial prejudice. But he's basically intellectual and motivated to achieve public good. But the really important thing he's not accepted is one simple truth: the man who won't make enemies has no friends. Being President is not a popularity contest, and it's not a debating forum. But he treats it as both. Consequently he has failed to cancel domestic programs like the NSA tapping, or Gitmo, which go against his ethics just because he doesn't want new domestic enemies. He's also refused to back countries like Britain on the Falklands for fear of making new enemies. All this does is lose people who are already friends. Yet who has he actually converted? I'd challenge anyone to name a single new US _ally_.
What you have to remember is that drinktails were (basically) invented to mask the flavour of crap hooch during prohibition. Don't asssume that there's no good reason to use good booze in a drinktail. Just don't do it yourself unless you know _precisely_ what flavour you are trying to achieve.
