Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

This reminds me of the conversation we had about laughing in the face of the London bombings. The thing is to understand that laughing does not necessarily mean laughing at. I too am Labour, half my family is from Wales, even my first serious boyfriend was a coal miner's son from the Black Mountains. I still have a sense of humour, and a sense of proportion.

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

Are you Labour?

Originally Posted by Franklin

I don't laugh at the horrible circumstances that befell many Welsh miners. I object most strenuously to such "humor". It wasn't just the injuries and deaths, but the callous way many mine owners treated the miners and their families. It was criminal.

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

I'm sorry, I'm no longer allowed to reply to this post as per your instructions.

Pity, too, because I agree with you.

Originally Posted by fatbrit

Silenced in the background, eh? Is this the way activist Labour wanabees work?

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

Not very socialist behaviour.

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

Perhaps he's checking with the State Department.


I'm so sorry, it's just that the holier than thou stuff pisses me off. As does being told who I can and can't talk to. Not very socialist behaviour.

Originally Posted by Big Vern

Oh, lighten up, Franklin.

Everyone has got some tragedy somewhere in their lives, accidents, people dying of cancer, suicides...but that doesn't mean we lose the ability to laugh.

You lose the ability to laugh -- about anything at all -- you lose some of the very thing that makes us human and keeps us going in the face of such terrible terrible dark things.

Originally Posted by snowbunny

He's a party-liner who has never dissented from the agenda of the socially conservative far-right. He shows absolutely no creative thinking and has an extremely short track record as a federal justice -- certainly NOT the length of service a SCOTUS judge should have.

His nomination is a tribute to the many years of serving the Bush family agenda well, not because he's a fair or intelligent judge.

Bush has either lost it or is extremely stupidly stubborn -- or both! because this kind of nomination does NOT promote any sort of unity between the parties. And he wonders why his nominees come under political pressure? Get real.

Originally Posted by Franklin

You do know that he did very well at undergrad and grad school? Top schools and apparently top or near the top of his class.

Originally Posted by fatbrit

Well if I were President, I'd give it to a man of the people......like a miner perhaps.

Originally Posted by fatbrit

Well if I were President, I'd give it to a man of the people......like a miner perhaps.

Originally Posted by Franklin

Judge Roberts was a steel worker for a while, worked his way through law school. From a pretty humble background. So maybe the President has picked a man of the people.