Rice - Iran
Jan 19th 2005, 6:18 pm
#31
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by helenw
See and there was me thinking this was a cooking thread! I used to be married to an Irainian many moons ago, and they did cook & eat good rice. Best thing to come out of that marriage was how to cook rice well. .
Jan 19th 2005, 6:24 pm
#32
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Bob
There's always the rice cooker
So I mark it down to experience!
Yep a rice cooker would have been alot easier!
Jan 19th 2005, 6:25 pm
#33
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Bob
Aye, quite probably is....scary the way things are going....the draft will have to be used...and bugger that cos I'll have to sign up for SS...and sods law and all that *lol*
**** that SS lark.
Jan 19th 2005, 6:30 pm
#34
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by fatbrit
I'm having nightmares now. I can just see the coronation of Jeb Bush.
Kings in the White House
" The US president is now as powerful as a monarch, according to a new book by an American professor published to coincide with the start of George W Bush's second term.
"Does Bush really give a damn what the New York Times thinks of him? Roosevelt did."
Even powerful mid-century presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognised checks on their authority, says Stephen Graubard, who is old enough to have attended Roosevelt's last inauguration in 1945.
But since Ronald Reagan, the powers of a president and his "courtiers" have become increasingly untrammelled, Professor Graubard told BBC News.
"He is not totally unchecked but his power is immense," he says of recent presidents, several of whose closest advisers - including Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Zbigniew Brzezinski - he has known personally.
"FDR worried all the time about other authorities who might try to inhibit his plans. This man [George Bush] knows nobody is going to check him."
"Does Bush really give a damn what the New York Times thinks of him? Roosevelt did."
Even powerful mid-century presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognised checks on their authority, says Stephen Graubard, who is old enough to have attended Roosevelt's last inauguration in 1945.
But since Ronald Reagan, the powers of a president and his "courtiers" have become increasingly untrammelled, Professor Graubard told BBC News.
"He is not totally unchecked but his power is immense," he says of recent presidents, several of whose closest advisers - including Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Zbigniew Brzezinski - he has known personally.
"FDR worried all the time about other authorities who might try to inhibit his plans. This man [George Bush] knows nobody is going to check him."
As with the English monachary a few hundred years ago moves are being made behind the scenes to move Jeb into position to take the throne next.
Graubard goes onto say:
"That we have never lived in such dangerous times is - to use a four-letter word - crud," he says, referring to Mr Bush's claims about the scale of the threat posed by terrorism.
"When you stop and think of our situation in 1942 - those were dangerous times," he says. "
"When you stop and think of our situation in 1942 - those were dangerous times," he says. "
All of us have lived (until a few years ago) with a constant terrorist threat. It might be a British thing but we didn't make such a big fuss - or the politicians didn't try to win an election on the back of it.
We are at the beginning, or even in the midst of an new Empire.
The scariest one yet - an American one.
Jan 19th 2005, 6:32 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Manc
I didn't
**** that SS lark.
**** that SS lark.
Jan 19th 2005, 7:20 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Just a comment, The Mullahs in Iran have already stated that they have every intention of developing nuclear weapons and then using them to annihilate Israel. They also said they don't fear nuclear reprisals because if they die they will be martyrs and at least the Jews will be wiped off the face of the Earth.
Personally I believe these fanatics.
I know the left have moved toward anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe, but surely this needs to be prevented.
As for Zimbabwe, they should be treated like any other racist state as Sth Africa was.
Nth Korea? Good to bring up in an argument with a Mike Moore devotee who hates capitalism - not a lot of residents in capitalist countries eat grass to survive.
Personally I believe these fanatics.
I know the left have moved toward anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe, but surely this needs to be prevented.
As for Zimbabwe, they should be treated like any other racist state as Sth Africa was.
Nth Korea? Good to bring up in an argument with a Mike Moore devotee who hates capitalism - not a lot of residents in capitalist countries eat grass to survive.
Jan 19th 2005, 7:23 pm
#37
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by kaleb777
- not a lot of residents in capitalist countries eat grass to survive.
Jan 19th 2005, 7:42 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by fatbrit
I'm having nightmares now. I can just see the coronation of Jeb Bush.
-tom
Jan 19th 2005, 7:45 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by kaleb777
I know the left have moved toward anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe, but surely this needs to be prevented.
-tom
Jan 19th 2005, 7:47 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Nope -- in the good ole US of A they get to dive in the dumpsters instead. No grass eating here! Smokin' maybe. But then you can still get to be president if you don't inhale.
Oh, and I thought America was better than Nth Korea. I think I'll have to turn liberal.
Jan 19th 2005, 8:54 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by tony126
My interpretation is that it is not her but the panel of questionairres and guess what party they are in the main. I thought Madame Boxer done quite well and certainly made points on the American lives lost and those soldiers that have been wounded and maimed. No mention of the Iraqi lives lost or the fact that in her concern for American troops she voted against spending more money on the military. A bit hippocritical I think.
Jan 19th 2005, 8:57 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Patent Attorney
I don't think Rice "voted against spending more money on the military". Rice isn't a member of The House of Representatives or the Senate. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
Jan 19th 2005, 8:58 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Patent Attorney
Rice isn't a member of The House of Representatives or the Senate. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
She is however the founding and possibly only member of the Stupid Lying Brainless Ugly Bitch Club!
Last edited by NC Penguin; Jan 19th 2005 at 9:59 pm. Reason: I think members understand your sentiment without the "F" word
Jan 19th 2005, 9:02 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by tony126
Barbara Boxer was meant to be the reference not Rice.
Jan 19th 2005, 9:02 pm
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Re: Rice - Iran
Originally Posted by Dan725
I hope "Condy" does a better job than she looks, a right rough old boot she is!