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Re: Obamazilla

2009-11-30T11:01:12Z

Just DemocRATS up to their old verbal gymnastics for consumption by
the gullible like you, Holeman.
The "Reconciliation Act of 1993" was merely a euphemism for a massive
tax increase, the largest in the country's history, and many DemocRAT
congress member lost their seats in 1994 as a result of supporting it

Re: Brown's grin!

2009-11-30T11:00:01Z

jake wrote:
His grin makes him look like even more of a nasty, slimy cocksucker than
he ordinarily does.
They are the robber barons of the modern age.

Re: Immigrants...who can blame them? From Somalia to a £1.8m London property.

2009-11-30T10:58:46Z

There are now around 30,000 Somalis residing in the Bristol (pop 416,000)
area alone.

Re: Scientists Are Kooks Who Say That Climate Change Is Real

2009-11-30T09:55:33Z

If you're arguing the method of obtaining the email (right or wrong)
rather than the contents of the email then you have already lost and
sound more like a lawyer trying to get your client off on a technicality
because there is no chance of proving innocence.

Re: Risky Greece

2009-11-30T10:57:18Z

'DVH' wrote thus:
Perhaps the outcome will be directly related to the 'level of
shock' experienced by investors. In the case of Greece and Italy
the markets are long used to dodgy economic management and will
apply the usual punishments, as happened in Asia late 1980s.

Re: Swiss cuckoo clocks go ding-dong

2009-11-30T10:56:03Z

Maybe that will turn out to be cuckoo as well, if we don't end up in a Black
Hole first!! LOL.

Re: Google are anti-English

2009-11-30T10:55:58Z

Blue wrote:
I don't subscribe to that newsgroup.

Re: Risky Greece

2009-11-30T10:46:53Z

Just so. Except that the Greeks don't stop at rioting.
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Re: Google are anti-English

2009-11-30T10:46:41Z

You've been reading old news.
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Re: Swiss cuckoo clocks go ding-dong

2009-11-30T10:46:39Z

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of
democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Then there's the Large Hadron Collider:
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Re: Minaret Ban for Switzerland?

2009-11-30T10:45:57Z

'annitofuscope' wrote thus:
Rotfl. Brilliant :-)

Re: Risky Greece

2009-11-30T10:44:26Z

I'm not sure something nasty will happen of any consequence.
The ECB already showed it will socialise the debts of one country when it
bailed out Spanish banks. What Steinbrück said in February came true.
Greek debt is an irritation but not enough to destroy the eurozone. I say
that without even looking at the figures - a vague idea of the size of the

Re: Risky Greece

2009-11-30T10:38:31Z

'DVH' wrote thus:
______________________________ ________________________
"Deutsche Bank calculated in a recent research note that the
country’s [Greece] public debt-to-GDP ratio is headed for 135 per
cent. Gross external debt – private and public sector debt owed to
foreign creditors – was 149.2 per cent at the end of last year.

Re: Minaret Ban for Switzerland?

2009-11-30T10:33:08Z

Yep. It's going to happen either way.

Re: Public sector jobs out of London and the SE = out of England

2009-11-30T10:30:42Z

ISTR a claim that over half the state subsidised work was within 60
miles of London. This included military contractors and developers.
The closer you are to London the more likely you are to be sucking on
the tax tit