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Apologies all Round | 80 comments (80 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Though still quite unaware what the fuzz is about, I can still recognise a good comment. But this part puzzles me:

X is the new age person, X is the anarchist, X is the intolerant atheist, X is the nationalist, X is the Atlanticist, X is the troublemaker, X is the clown, X is the curmudgeon, X is the diva...

Why do you bad-mouth X? Sure it is true that X has not made much noice since becoming one of the early members, but that does not (in my book (not Dostoevsky)) make it ok to scapegoat. Just because someone is not around all the time (or ever writes a comment) does not constitute a licens for using that person as an all-encompassing representation.

X for president!

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:06:29 PM EST
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Oh my god, Swedish - what did you do with the real member no.60?!!!!

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:11:35 PM EST
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More worryingly - where's Number 6?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:13:46 PM EST
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Re: Number Six calling (none / 1)

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:17:46 PM EST
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Wow - somebody else remembers that series. I had completely forgotten about it, only to have the opening sequence spontaneously come to mind when hearing about the U.S. killing the latest Al-Qaeda Number 3.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 12:58:28 AM EST
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Perhaps we should get In Wales to go to Portmeirion to check if nowadays it's full of Imams?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 05:41:40 AM EST
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I went to Pormeirion in 2005... Lots of tourists but no Imams :-)

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 05:42:22 AM EST
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The commie anarchist in me had to strike.

And you thought no one had to be killed... Bah!

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:16:16 PM EST
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A swedish kind of death:

X for president!

He should win as well, everyone votes X in the UK.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Wed Feb 25th, 2009 at 05:13:37 PM EST
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