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From: Ace on 7 Dec 2009 04:07 On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:05:04 -0000, "'Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: >Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: >> I do love it when Americans call California "Stalinist". >> >> It makes me laugh. Me too. Especially as it betrays such a woeful ignorance of the difference between Stalinism and Communism/Socialism, which they think are all the same thing. >I've not heard it before! >I'm not at all sure what it meant. California has one or two laws which are slightly less right-wing and veering towards what the yanks would call 'liberal' attitudes. It's one of the reasons that it's the only part of the US I can actually stand to be in. Sadly, our Palo Alto office has closed down and all functions moved to South San Francisco. Shame, as PA's a really nice little student town, and hardly American at all.
From: Doki on 7 Dec 2009 04:14 "'Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in message news:hfheam$nqr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Stephen Cowell <stephenleeNOSPAMcowell(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> "In the 1990s, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy >> Authority started to implement plans to >> decommission, disassemble and clean up both >> piles; the decommissioning is now partially >> complete. However, Pile 1 still contains about 15 >> tonnes (14.76 L/T) of highly unstable uranium >> fuel, and final completion of the decommissioning >> is not expected until at least 2037." >> >> Out of sight, out of mind, eh? > > It keeps people in jobs for life FFS and I'm all for that Broken window fallacy. Their jobs for life cost us all.
From: Doki on 7 Dec 2009 04:20 "Ace" <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote in message news:69hph5586pgnbeu1nnqs5knn4gcouaacm8(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:05:04 -0000, "'Hog" > <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote: > >>Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > >>> I do love it when Americans call California "Stalinist". >>> >>> It makes me laugh. > > Me too. Especially as it betrays such a woeful ignorance of the > difference between Stalinism and Communism/Socialism, which they think > are all the same thing. Indeed. The standard of American political debate makes us look marvellous. Anyone suggesting anything that doesn't involve bending over for a corporation is immediately branded a Communist. They nearly scuppered their bank bail out plans arguing about it.
From: M J Carley on 7 Dec 2009 04:36 In the referenced article, "Doki" <mrdoki(a)gmail.com> writes: >Indeed. The standard of American political debate makes us look >marvellous. Anyone suggesting anything that doesn't involve bending >over for a corporation is immediately branded a Communist. They >nearly scuppered their bank bail out plans arguing about it. In fairness, Obama is also being called a `socialist' because the government did bail out the banks. -- Si deve tornare alle basi: Marx ed i Clash. Michael Carley: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensmjc/
From: ogden on 7 Dec 2009 04:48
M J Carley wrote: > In the referenced article, "Doki" <mrdoki(a)gmail.com> writes: > > >Indeed. The standard of American political debate makes us look > >marvellous. Anyone suggesting anything that doesn't involve bending > >over for a corporation is immediately branded a Communist. They > >nearly scuppered their bank bail out plans arguing about it. > > In fairness, Obama is also being called a `socialist' because the > Bush administration did bail out the banks. Post corrected. -- ogden |