Posts by Paul Campbell
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I think that Washington's revolutionary irregulars were considered terrorists by the British, they didn't stand up in ranks and march into fire in battle like men, they hid behind trees and took potshots
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Nelson Mandela did far more good in the world that Thatcher ever did, and despite all that was heaped on him has outlived her - I know who my hero is.
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She did get one thing right though: "Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears." (Thatcher talking about Ronald Reagan)
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Ian: well that's why I said "Hurry up, get her in the ground, the clock is ticking on that"
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I worked summers as a student in a hot type press shop as they were changing - it used to be that every word was read by 4 people before it hit the press - reporter->lino operator->copy holder->reader - every town had jobs for grammar nazis after they had gotten their english degrees - now it's a reporter and a spell checker and no one to really check the grammar .
Luckily they had a good union here in NZ - and while they could see the writing on the wall they negotiated the jobs away slowly
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I actually searched for a Bragg I didn't find a BB that really called to me but here you are:
and to me the Beat's:
I said I see no joy
I see only sorry
I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow
So stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaretis what I think of when I think of Thatcher
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Oh yes and there's CNN's goof today:
http://i1.cdnds.net/13/15/618x464/odd_thatcher_twitter.jpg
(collecting for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
they both screwed miners
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and of course there's: http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
Iain Banks is quoted:
"It's not over; we live with her legacy still (in the glorification of greed, the denigration of the idea of public service and the privatisation of financial return along with the nationalisation of debt we have just seen in our financial systems, apart from anything else). Margaret Thatcher did everything in her very considerable power to make greed fashionable and turn naked selfishness from a vice into a virtue, and I find that beyond unforgivable. It is partly due to her that we live in a world divided into the super-rich and everybody else, with the poor, the starving and the exploited of the world scrabbling for the crumbs of a civilization that values money beyond everything else. I fully intend to piss on her grave (no matter how long the queue) and believe me she's still getting off lightly."Hurry up, get her in the ground, the clock is ticking on that
and of course people are celebrating
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-party-brixton-glasgow -
here's my play list for the day:
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An interesting question ..... if the a left turning car and a right turning car coming the other way are turning into the same street the right turner gives way .... however as I understand it if there's a traffic island there separating the left turners off a little early then the left turner and right turner meet at a second Y-merge intersection and the give way to the right rule attaches - the person who just turned left must give way to the one who just turned right - remember a bit of paint on the road is just as much a traffic island as a raised bit of pavement .... this even applies if the car on the right has just gone through a give way or stop sign
(For those in Dunedin: for example this applies to those going up Rattray St outside the Catholic Cathedral - they have to yield to those going through the give way sign and crossing the stream of traffic despite the new road rules)