Obama's first official act
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Incidentally, did you know that Ethiopia is the only African country never to have been colonised?
Might exlain why it is only 2001[^] there. That must be head wrecking to programme for.
if (country == 'Ehtiopia') {year = rest_of_world.year - 7;}BTW you sound like my dad. He was born in Rhodesia. Seems to think colonialism did Africa a favour...cheers, Paul M. Watson.
BTW did you know that the sun shines 13 months of the year in Ethiopia?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Not to put too fine a point on it, look at what Zimbabwe became after Independance! Perhaps a bit of Colonial Rule now would feed the people and stop them all killing each other.
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
Not to put too fine a point on it, look at what Zimbabwe became after Independance!
And look at South Africa before 1994. Also, plenty of people died in Rhodesia. BTW, today is remembrance day. Well done Europe.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Not to put too fine a point on it, look at what Zimbabwe became after Independance!
And look at South Africa before 1994. Also, plenty of people died in Rhodesia. BTW, today is remembrance day. Well done Europe.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
plenty of people died in Rhodesia
true, but not through poverty or starvation, and certainly not in the numbers we see today.
Paul Watson wrote:
BTW, today is remembrance day. Well done Europe
And USA, and Australia, and NZ and India and ... (Insert Allied Country of your choice)
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Can UK have Hawaii back too?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Obama would become a Brit then (he was born in Hawaii.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
he was born in Hawaii
Or more likely in Kenya.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
-
Paul Watson wrote:
plenty of people died in Rhodesia
true, but not through poverty or starvation, and certainly not in the numbers we see today.
Paul Watson wrote:
BTW, today is remembrance day. Well done Europe
And USA, and Australia, and NZ and India and ... (Insert Allied Country of your choice)
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
and certainly not in the numbers we see today.
Probably not :( Do you have any figures? The bush war had roughly 30,000 casualties (my uncle fought in it, not on the side of Mugabe naturally.) No idea what to do in Africa anymore. I don't think colonial rule would help, it wouldn't develop the area or people, just surpress the problems until the West gets sick of it again and leaves (hello Iraq, welcome to your future.) Even having been born there and lived there most of my life hasn't helped me understand how to get the tribes to live together peacefully and prosperously. The man on the street is a decent, law abiding, peaceful man but they get whipped up by tin-pots and tribal lines are so easily raised. It doesn't help that the West continues to pump money into it, forming powerful oil/mineral conglomerates who favour whoever is in power. Lots of short-term thinking in Africa from all sides.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Can UK have Hawaii back too?
Nope, but you can have Pakistan back.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
We never had Pakistan, it was never part of the Empire! We had the area when it was part of India, but after it went independant, it was merely Commonwealth, not Empire. India can have it back if they like!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Can UK have Hawaii back too?
Nope, but you can have Pakistan back.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
53rd state? ;)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Paul Watson wrote:
he was born in Hawaii
Or more likely in Kenya.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Oh Wow, Honolulu is now in Kenya? When did that happen?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
53rd state? ;)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
53rd? OK 51st is Groom Lake, 52nd is IONA, 53rd The Moon, 54th Disneyland Paris, 55th Disneyland Tokyo, 56th Disneyland Hong Kong, 57th is Puerto Rico, 58th WILL BE Cuba in a couple of years. 59th State Surely?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
We never had Pakistan, it was never part of the Empire! We had the area when it was part of India, but after it went independant, it was merely Commonwealth, not Empire. India can have it back if they like!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
India can have it back if they like!
Their first act would be to bomb their new province back to the stone age.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
and certainly not in the numbers we see today.
Probably not :( Do you have any figures? The bush war had roughly 30,000 casualties (my uncle fought in it, not on the side of Mugabe naturally.) No idea what to do in Africa anymore. I don't think colonial rule would help, it wouldn't develop the area or people, just surpress the problems until the West gets sick of it again and leaves (hello Iraq, welcome to your future.) Even having been born there and lived there most of my life hasn't helped me understand how to get the tribes to live together peacefully and prosperously. The man on the street is a decent, law abiding, peaceful man but they get whipped up by tin-pots and tribal lines are so easily raised. It doesn't help that the West continues to pump money into it, forming powerful oil/mineral conglomerates who favour whoever is in power. Lots of short-term thinking in Africa from all sides.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
I can offer nothing to the argument about how to help. As you say you understand the problems only a little and you live there! It is a sad state of affairs, but maybe a benevolent dictatorship would improve the lot of the average man?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
India can have it back if they like!
Their first act would be to bomb their new province back to the stone age.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
How would anyone be able to tell?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
We never had Pakistan, it was never part of the Empire! We had the area when it was part of India, but after it went independant, it was merely Commonwealth, not Empire. India can have it back if they like!
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Oh Wow, Honolulu is now in Kenya? When did that happen?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
I think it is the Republicans last hope. That he was really born in Kenya and had his birth cert forged in Hawaii. I'm pretty sure they'll soon find a link between Obama and Saddam too, 7th son of the 7th son of the twelfth concubine of Saddam Hussein.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
India can have it back if they like!
Good and then you can have India - maybe you can stop the 'UrGNT! pLs hELp!!!' messages.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
My First Act as Viceroy of India would be to teach them to type "Please Help Urgently" Failure to spell correctly would result in debroadbandization (a horrible Dubyaism).
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
Oh Wow, Honolulu is now in Kenya? When did that happen?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Round about the same time someone faked his birth cetificate. From what I've seen the only people who'll swear to remembering Barrack being born where in Kenya where he has a valid birth certificate. ;)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
-
53rd? OK 51st is Groom Lake, 52nd is IONA, 53rd The Moon, 54th Disneyland Paris, 55th Disneyland Tokyo, 56th Disneyland Hong Kong, 57th is Puerto Rico, 58th WILL BE Cuba in a couple of years. 59th State Surely?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
-
How would anyone be able to tell?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
By the lack of US weapons... Hey, how do you sink a Pakistani battleship? Put it in water. And over in India a monk drives over a dog and turns to the owner saying "I'm terribly sorry, but my karma ran over your dogma."
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
I can offer nothing to the argument about how to help. As you say you understand the problems only a little and you live there! It is a sad state of affairs, but maybe a benevolent dictatorship would improve the lot of the average man?
------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop
Dalek Dave wrote:
It is a sad state of affairs, but maybe a benevolent dictatorship would improve the lot of the average man?
Who amongst us is truly benevolent? I wouldn't even want Nelson Mandela the benevolent dictator.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.