tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post4162139480160634820..comments2023-12-06T03:38:42.140-05:00Comments on Blogiverse - Talking About Everything: Stay In SchoolAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12565621013251370015noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-74218234688065733002009-09-14T00:22:04.393-04:002009-09-14T00:22:04.393-04:00It's like a trade-off Ivan (IMHO). With the t...It's like a trade-off Ivan (IMHO). With the two-party system, things got done. No "vote of no confidence " crap. Regularly scheduled elections. You knew when they were coming. Never mind this trying to form a coalition with another party stuff. <br /><br />I've heard that the legislators in GB have less power than our members of congress here. Quote: <br /><br /><i>One of the beauties of your system is that you have a proper separation of powers, so a legislator can make an honourable career for himself without wanting to join the executive. As things stand, that can't happen in the British system. I'm very keen to import the most successful elements of your system - open primaries, elected sheriffs, a local sales tax, local referendums, the direct election of public officials - and I've written a book about how to do it called The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain. <br /><br />In Britain, we are run by a massive bureaucracy, and the position of the elected person is incredibly weak and is getting weaker every day. One of the reasons we are in this financial mess is that the budgets are set by members of the executive who are personal beneficiaries of state spending, rather than by the members of the legislature who are champions of the taxpayer."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://voxday.blogspot.com/2009/03/interview-with-daniel-hannan.html" rel="nofollow">Link to Daniel Hannan interview</a>J Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746127431922685446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-55747664914213377422009-09-13T00:13:02.672-04:002009-09-13T00:13:02.672-04:00Well, JD, that article just reaffirms my opinion o...Well, JD, that article just reaffirms my opinion of the perplexing and peculiar U.S. brand of "yah boo sucks" politics -- like immature adolescents squabbling in the school yard. <br /><br />Maybe it's something to do with U.S. bipartisan politics, which you don't get in Europe because of multiple parties and the proportional representation voting system instead of the first-past-the-post system that you have in the U.S. as well as here in Britain, but it's not as bad here as over there, because here there are at least three main parties -- Conservative, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats -- and you don't have to be a rich bastard nor to declare a belief in 'god' (I choose not to capitalize that noun, thank-you-very-much!) in order to run for office.The_Self-preservation_Societyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880280894831883225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-28594054614338264322009-09-11T22:54:38.190-04:002009-09-11T22:54:38.190-04:00what would have been the response from you 'co...<i>what would have been the response from you 'conservatives' had that same school speech been given by a W.A.S.P. Republican president?</i><br /><br />We know what the democrat's response would be Ivan because Bush 41 once gave a speech in front of high school kids. From Tuesday's Byron York article...<br /><br />" when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue."<br /><br />Read the whole thing.. <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a>J Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746127431922685446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-17464207366701899142009-09-10T21:32:02.230-04:002009-09-10T21:32:02.230-04:00Is that really something to get upset about? If t...Is that really something to get upset about? If the President gave a speech about getting an education and being personally responsible, and the students wrote something about how they would help the president by being educated and personally responsible... Sorry, I don't see the problem. your analogy fails on so many levels it's not even funny. I guess it would be funny if you hadn't shown yourself to be a profiling racist by your demeanor and comments.<br /><br />Name one item from the speech that was objectionable that the students shouldn't discuss. This should be funny.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12565621013251370015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-3329979364898629682009-09-10T21:10:42.932-04:002009-09-10T21:10:42.932-04:00Oh, so you're back, JD; I would like to ask yo...Oh, so you're back, JD; I would like to ask you: what would have been the response from you 'conservatives' had that same school speech been given by a W.A.S.P. Republican president?The_Self-preservation_Societyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880280894831883225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-9200998891927157672009-09-10T19:38:49.271-04:002009-09-10T19:38:49.271-04:00The problem with the speech, Ivan, was that initia...The problem with the speech, Ivan, was that initially, following the speech, students were to write a paper on (I'm paraphrasing) "how they can best help the president". This gave conservatives in this country a bit of angst. Just replace the word "president" with "Dear Leader" in order to understand what I mean.J Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746127431922685446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-62353851439410801312009-09-09T06:15:44.347-04:002009-09-09T06:15:44.347-04:00As someone said, "If Obama made a speech in s...As someone said, "If Obama made a speech in support of oxygen, at least 10% of the nation would suffocate themselves in protest."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12565621013251370015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8040205359373904435.post-38772896992431711842009-09-08T23:37:02.871-04:002009-09-08T23:37:02.871-04:00As a British citizen, I find what is going on in U...As a British citizen, I find what is going on in U.S. domestic politics very peculiar and perplexing; it's as though the whole bloody country is engaged in an undeclared civil war -- a war of cultures.The_Self-preservation_Societyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880280894831883225noreply@blogger.com