k-strider Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 it looks like the Leftys (democrats) have got both houses over the pond!!! I'm watching Sky News Now.. lol..... Now naturally being a blue team supporter... the result is disappointing.. but long term will that mean in 2yrs we(the righties... GOP) should gain back control... and how does that effect us here this side of the pond!!!
Grommit Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 it looks like the Leftys (democrats) have got both houses over the pond!!! I'm watching Sky News Now.. lol..... Now naturally being a blue team supporter... the result is disappointing.. but long term will that mean in 2yrs we(the righties... GOP) should gain back control... and how does that effect us here this side of the pond!!! Thank God those right wing neoconservatives Christian Zealots have had their wings clipped and the hillbillies are going back to their farms.. The world is going to be a safer place/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative
russdev Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Cant say I am disapponited only time voted old blue was local elections were i vote for best person for the job and knowing and worked with bith red and blue candidates i knew which one i wanted in local goverment to do the job... Russell
Dos_Box Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 I must say, that it does bode badly for New Labour. If the UK electorate can see how easy it is to vote for 'the other party' then they are going to be in serious trouble in the local elections next spring.
limbo Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 What is going to be most interesting about the change in power to the Democrats is that they will now have the power to subpoena anyone they see fit. I would not be at all suprised if they open an investigation into Iraq and drag George W. up to the hill to answer a few choice questions. In fact I would not be suprised if there was a new investigation of some sort every week on one topic or another.
ajbritton Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 And before anybody starts, NO I'm not a teacher! But my dad was...
limbo Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 That is what I put - your must be using the wrong font Subpeona in any font other than wrotebyidiot.ttf again would display it as sapina. Have manually compensated for you.
GrumbleDook Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Pedant I always prefer to say 'Pendant' ... ie something that should be hung by the neck!
Netman Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 but long term will that mean in 2yrs we(the righties... GOP) should gain back control... You think there is still left and right??? I thought the reds had moved so far right and the blues so far left that they'd met in the middle No the only choice is which idiot in charge and which colour.... ...and after watching the program on so called supervision of high risk offenders on licence last night I'm off to live in a proper country 8)
mrforgetful Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 How can anyone be even remotely dissapointer that the Bush camp now has less rule is beyond me. I agree with the recent BBC poll that showed most peopl in (I think it was) Europe say that Bush is more of a threat to World Peace than both the Iranian and N.Korean rulers.
limbo Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Did anyone see George W's speeches yesterday? Not sure they were not adapted from scripts Ricky Gervais had decided were too cringeworthy for David Brent.
_Bob_ Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Did anyone see George W's speeches yesterday? Not sure they were not adapted from scripts Ricky Gervais had decided were too cringeworthy for David Brent. Now, now. Don't misunderestimatify the glorious leader.
witch Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 I quite agree with Netman - I don't think that there is a lot of difference between left and right anymore, in the US and indeed here. After all, you only have to look at Blair (supposedly left wing) and his relationship with Bush (supposedly right wing) to know that. However, a change is a good thing and it may mean that some people will not be able to go on being gung-ho with people's lives and the future of the world.
john Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 After attending a lecture by George Osborne (shadow chancelor for those who don't know of him) this evening its brought politics to my mind again, (good bloke by the way, interesting speech). But he said its quite funny the way its gone over the pond, they had a bush and now another bush, we also had a clinton and going to most likely have another clinton. Anyone spot a pattern here yet? Waits for Bush Jnr Jnr and Clinton Jnr in ~30 years time
mrforgetful Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Bring on another Clinton I say. The last was a president I remember as having a fairly good foreign policy and working for peace in Ireland and other places.
witch Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Except of course that Clinton did nothing about stopping the IRA fundraising in the US for terrorist activities over here.
mrforgetful Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Okay he may not have done all he could, but we wouldn't be like we are now without him, and if he'd stayed I doubt we'd be in the situation we are now with 'Islamic Terrorism'.
GrumbleDook Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 ie Did you mean 'i.e.' ? 8O Actually ... ie, eg, nb and a number of other abbreviated latin terms are in common usage without the full stops that denote that they are abbreviated. The one thing I commonly do in my posts that no-one has ever been a pedant with is my use of the ellipsis. I will often use it to denote an elongated pause within my speech ... and then continue the sentence. To use it correctly it should be at the end of a complete sentence, but one that has a feeling of something missing. It should also start directly after the last word, ie in the same position a full stop would naturally occur. This is an increasingly common usage of the ellipsis now, and it is bound to be updated within the OED to reflect this in the near future... I'm off to pull up Lynn Truss about her use of, or lack of use of, the Oxford Comma.
mrforgetful Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 I bet you watch that quiz show about grammar don't you? I saw it and they had to put in, or take out, aposrophes that were wrong. I'm no grammatical expert but I do like to correct students if they email me
witch Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Crusty old git I might be, but I must admit that some of the grammatical and spelling errors on Edugeek drive me up the wall. I think that it really looks more professional if things are correctly written, and to be honest, if things are written really badly it is very hard to get the sense of the writing. As for the apostrophe question, I just wish that people would remember that a plural has none!! (yes, I do know that there is a split infinitive in there)
Geoff Posted November 10, 2006 Posted November 10, 2006 Firefox 2.0 spell checker? Is there a grammer checker addon I wonder?
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