filibuster for the Senate... house has Republican majority....just to set the record straight.... writing lapse...
On Friday, February 1, 2013 1:05:36 PM UTC-5, nominal9 wrote: > > Parliamentary govt. has its pros and cons.....What I like is your > multitude of political parties, as compared to the U.S...... here there are > two with maybe a handful of registered "independents" at the U.S. federal > level... one thing about a multitude of parties is that it tends to isolate > the radical fringes... and cooperation at the middle seems facilitated > (what do you think?).... here, the right-wing Republicans (by filibuster) > have been stymieing legislation in the U.S. House for the whole period of > the Obama administration..... > Palin is pretty much on the outs... she even lost her TV contract with Fox > News media... I do not wish her ill, but I think her political days are > over. > You know... speaking of Fox (Rupert Murdoch owned, I think you know), > there's one economics news personality named "Stuart Varney"... British > fellow... did he do much in England?... he's quite the "tool" over here.... > makes me chuckle with the propaganda and inanities he puts out.... but his > English accent and delivery re quite "convincing"... there are quite a few > British TV personalities, especially on cable TV channels.... the > accent.... it's worth (must be) 50% toward getting hired on, here , I'd say > HAR. > Economy is on everyone's mind... as it should be.... Unemployment rate > this month ticked up one decimal point to 7.9%. But today the Stock Market > index (Dow) is hovering around 14000, hasn't been there since 2007. So, > here at least.... the fat cats are getting fatter (they were fed plenty by > the Govt bailouts) but the rest of the peons are struggling.....Capitalist > economic growth model theories would seem to suggest that those without are > pretty much out of the recovery, for a generation at least.... What does > your expertise suggest, Archytas? > Britain, I hear, has not seen any appreciable recovery in the > "markets".... am I correct in this? > > http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/01/25/1494541/austerity-pushes-british-economy-toward-triple-dip-recession/?mobile=nc > > http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/31/us-funds-poll-britain-idUSBRE90U0SL20130131 > Austerity... is that the cause?..... or is it something systemic or > institutional with the banks and banksters (as you call them).... are they > still hemorrhaging money?.... or hoarding it?.... which could cause the > same effect? > I'm the novice.... how do you see it? > > > > > > On Friday, February 1, 2013 8:23:59 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >> >> We have an outfit called UKIP (UK Independence Party) under-cutting >> the Tory vote - they have a couple of EU MPs - odd with a policy of >> exit from EU but down to proportional representation for that body. >> They don't get enough votes to get anyone in Westminster - but >> probably take 15% natural Tory support. We have our own Nazis - the >> BNP - sometimes taking 9%. Hence the Tory referendum ploy. Mass >> politics here is a dumb as in the US - though we haven't thrown up >> anything as bad as that basketball player shagger from your frozen >> North yet. Our closest is Nick Griffin (BNP leader) - he'd be a real >> problem if as pretty as Palin - but looks like a squit-eyed pig after >> failed botox applications. >> >> We should be in the EU - tough much of it is farcical. The Parliament >> sits in Brussels and Strasbourg (for a month) and various Mafia steal >> funding - the whole shebang ain't democratic - and we need a modern, >> electronic Parliament and a federal structure. >> >> >> On Jan 29, 6:59 pm, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > I'm not up on European (and British) politics....at your level. It >> appears >> > to me that "big" ventures require "big" wallets, both at the private or >> the >> > public levels. Smaller or less developed countries and economies just >> > cannot do the "big-ticket" items... the big factories or the big >> research >> > ventures....I cannot see an "isolationist" Britain "going it alone" in >> this >> > day and age. In this sense, the Tories' vision is anachronistic, to say >> the >> > least, (it appears to me) it cannot "work"... >> > >> > The key issue is immigration in this fantasy and >> > stopping the Eastern and Southern Europeans 'taking our houses and >> > jobs'. / Archytas >> > >> > Ah yes.....Racism and bigotry is "always" the Right-wingers' preferred >> > "ally"..... >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Monday, January 28, 2013 8:09:56 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >> > >> > > Sadly some think the EU is important. The ruse has given the Tories >> a >> > > lead in the polls as most Brits think of the EU as a bureaucratic >> > > monster. I'd have thrown in with the US as the next five states long >> > > ago - but we are in decline and have little clue why. US/EU >> > > membership isn't really important - we should have moved more global >> > > in politics and less so in production and cheap energy grabbing long >> > > ago. The structural problems in our economies can't be addressed >> > > sensibly at the moment because of the money focus. With no focus on >> > > reality we look to the pool of ignorance to maintain government - the >> > > EU is irrelevant to anything other than maintaining the Tories on the >> > > basis of an isolationist UK - presumably as the offshore hub on money >> > > dodging EU taxation. The key issue is immigration in this fantasy >> and >> > > stopping the Eastern and Southern Europeans 'taking our houses and >> > > jobs'. >> > >> > > On Jan 25, 3:59 pm, nominal9 <nomin...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21158318 >> > >> > > > Sounds to me that it "might" be time for Britain to show some >> > > "Righteous >> > > > Indignation" and "break" Cameron and the Tories' government..... >> HAR... >> > > > Instead? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
