Posts by andin
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to
I expect for terrorists it will be business as usual. But the US might take the symbolic opportunity to plot a better course.
Hmmmm, with warnings that stress beware of reprisals. It seems the symbolic opportunity is turning into ramping up of tension. Maybe its business as usual and terrorism is the excuse...still.
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Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to
Then they did the most obvious thing that should have been done long before, they worked out how to surrender.
Yes...well that was then. Will there be a lessening of tension from this?
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So is catching a plane going to get easier now?
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Time for a young vibrant party of the right...
hmm?
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I would just like to compliment Jon Stephenson. On the two times I have seen him on TV explaining his story he has been composed and knowledgeable. I thought he had explained himself very well.
But the Guantánamo system piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence,
I can think of other examples where systems do this via their dedicated mouthpieces, too many.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to
.... as he wiped it off the inner leg of her pant suit.His nervous perspiration was dripping and diluting, turning the stain into a chick pea soup. He reached for a slice of pita bread.....
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When I was in my 20s, we were protesting about shit every bloody week – partly because it was fun and a good way to pick up girls...
The mists of time seems to have done a number on your memory. But exaggerating for effect can be fun. How did you go with picking up girls then?
dispiritingly devoid of any underlying analysis of power.
Analysis of power necessarily means analysis of human behaviour. No?
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to
After each there was the little bit by the cop about how they’d just prevented some terrible thing from happening. The saddest thing was that they seemed to believe it.
Cant get sad about that. Type 1 errors seems to be something we all should know about. Sheez, our species has been doing it for long enough.
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And because I can. I hope Rock isnt a dirty word in your vocab Steve.
And may I venture, it could be the the abundance of major chords that seems strange to the modern ear. Accustomed, as it has become, to the minors and sevenths, and that other thing..Damn second ETA and it still doesnt sound right. oh well...
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Why does no one post opera, or at least opera singers, on Fridays?
Saturday OK?