I love living in lala land! hAve a good life everyone

First paragraph: no idea what you wrote. I'll assume it has something to do with mainframes and programming.

Oh he knows we have no idea, Addison. He just writes that stuff to inhibit me!!!! ;)

"And now we get to the heart of the matter. The blind hatred and glee that people died. HA! The world trade center collapsed! Glee glee glee!"

I find this damn insulting, sir. please apologise

as for work, have you ever taken 8 hour exams, writing at a snail's pace, every third or fourth keystroke missing? then, as time wears on, you get tense, and yourarms pull up into the morro posiition...pretty soon your arms start to ache: the dull ache you sometimees get in the evenings. But you carryy on typing, tryying to paass the exam, even though you know that whatever grade you'll get, you'll never get a job because no employer will employ you. Have you ever experienced that? i'll warrent you haven't, so dont lecture me on hard work.

Luck. it all comes down to luck.

It's no wonder you didn't get hired, matthew. You can't spell worth a shit. It doesn't take luck to know how to spell. It takes work.

Oh, I can spell, allright, and words with meanings you can't comprehend, thus arroint thee.

Matthew:

Since the request for apology was directed at me, presumably - at least be plain who you're speaking to - I'll reply.

Nuts.

Did you forget what you said? You didn't quote that.

"you guys desparately try to justify this war, producing source after source, just because your american, and you think your oh-so great, and that this allows you to do everything you want. well, it doesn't. 9/11 was a black eye: preparee for more."

I stand by my characterization of your state of mind. You've yet to refute any of them, you've repeated base canards that have been debunked multiple times.

In short: Your problem, not mine. Do you know anybody who was affected by the IRA terror campaign in the 80s? Should I say that the IRA was killing Britons because "They thought they were oh-so-great and had a empire, and could do anything they wanted?" *I* wouldn't. I cheered the SAS on in killing the pansy ass (and marxist) motherf*****s. They had legitimate grievances, some. Doesn't excuse blowing apart shoppers at Christmas.

I'll still be charitable, though, or attempt to be. Matthew - listen to yourself. Actually, stop. Imagine someone else wrote that. Now, I don't detract from your effort. (The first problem is you're going on equality of result, not opportunity). But if you don't think that anybody will hire you - why don't *you* start a business? Why not instead of expecting some form of employment as a right - go onto the other side? Start your own company.

Disclaimer: I don't currently have my own business. But I have in the past. And it opened my eyes to some truths - about "rights" of employment, about what people are worth.

I know it's more of a pain to start something in the UK - but why not look into that? Find something you can do, or would like to do. IF you want to discuss how to overcome your problems - I'll help as best that I can - but I think politically you're going to have to get killfiled.

Ralph - Matthew has CP and uses a special keyboard. I cut him slack on his spelling. I do not cut him any slack on his socialism.

Matthew - We have discussed this before. You believe in equality of results which is impossible to achieve. When you try to have that you get the Soviet Union and North Korea. Equality of results equals mediocrity. Yes, you were unlucky that you were born with CP. Life is not fair. But, you still have a brain. Use it! Everywhere socialism has been tried it has failed or is currently in the process of failing.

Thanks for giving me an idea about writing an essay on luck. Maybe tomorrow.

umm thats North Korea, small slip but big difference

the bombing of the christmas shoppers happened in warrington which is about 20 miles from where I live, and I have a friend who lives there. were he killed, then in all probability i'd want to take my great grandfathers sword, polish it, and run every motherf*cking one of the perpetrators through. Yet I would probaably fall under the swords weight. what chance has a swword, noblest of all weapons, againns the terrorists bomb: thw most fell? thus, britain chose to discuss peace with sinn fein, eventually forging the Good Friday settlement.

this is pure speculation, but had the british government taken a stance akin to bush's, we may have invaded the republic of oreland in orrder to nullify our terorist enrmies. This, of course, would have been both ridiculous and unnecesarry, for it would have solved nothing.

No doubt, you were equally grieved by the september 11th autrocity. There was no glee in my heart on that day, yet just as an invasion of ireland would have brought more terrorism, I think its probable that the war on terror will make matters worse. However, to deny the brits used force against the IRA is foolish, because we uses the SAS to great effect, but this was low-key force, not a Tchaikovsky-esqe affair.

apropos founding a business, who knows? maybe me and addison could colaborate on a book outlining how and how not to debate over the net.

Marc - Thanks. I fixed it. Tired when I wrote that comment I was.

Matthew - Apples and Oranges. When the IRA talks about a world under Irish Roman Catholicism then you can compare the IRA to al Qaeda. Until then, your argument is bullshit. The Islamofascists do not want peace. They want world wide Jihad. They have made no secret of that fact. We ignored them throughout the 90's and all they did was get bolder. We could withdraw all of our troops from the Middle East. We could allow them to destroy Israel. It wouldn't matter. They want a world under Islam. They want a return to the Baghdad Caliphate when Spain was part of the Islamic Empire, only this time they want all of Europe. This is WWIV. Had you been around during the Cold War (WWIII) you would have been a communist apologist.

Mr W:

As always, our thanks to you and your nephew for wearing the uniform (in re: your other posting of this date). And thanks for this wonderful Blog.

And re: the foregoing comment to Matt G - I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks he would've sided with Chamberlain.

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." Churchill's remark after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich pact with Hitler

Matt - also see

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchamberlain.htm

Boy, aint the'net grand? Thanks Algore for inventin it and all.

I did not know. CP sucks. I had a roommate in college that had CP and he shook worse than Janet Reno. But he could sure drink like a fish!

My apologies, matthew.

Ralph - no problems, you werrent to know. I also drink like a fish given half a chance.

I know the comparison between the IRA and all qsida isn't good. To be honest, I just know that war is not good, and is to be avooided. it was unavoidable in 1939, but to compare a loose-knit terrorist organisation with pre-war germany is useless. the two are totally different.

the more I think about it, the more I think we are trapped in a war nobody can win.

Matthew:

In 1939 war was still avoidable. Cede Europe to Germany.

Now, in 1936, everything could have been stopped. When German troops moved into the Rhineland - they had orders to retreat if ANY resistance was offered. One platoon of (even) French troops would have been enough.

But there was no resistance, and Hitler saw that France and England would do almost anything to avoid war... And so war was almost inevitiable. You fail to see the parallels here, today. Bin Ladin could have been stopped many times before 2001. Some of the terrorists we're fighting now in Iraq - if they're not taken out - what will they be in 10 years? The future is always a what-if game. What if Castro had been drafted by the Yankees? what if Hitler had been a better painter? What if he'd been stopped in '36?

One constant you can take from history, however, is that you can't bluff, when you have a history of never backing it up. You can't threaten Iraq, when you never mean to back it up with force. It doesn't work. Read Mark Steyn when he talks about crime in England. I saw something recently, where someone's house was broken into in England, intruder stabbed resident - who fought back and stabbed him back. He's now facing 7 years in jail. The intruder - 2.

People _understand_ these things. It makes sense to be a criminal in England. At least, compared to say, around here, where intruders are shot - and they expect to be. (We don't have a lot of home invasions). Which would you rather be a burglar in?

Matthew, if we don't fight now, then yes, "They" can win. There's no way to give into their demands - because they don't have an end point in mind. This isn't about compromise or minor disagreements. This is about either our way of living wins - the one taht you're so attached to, i might add - or theirs does.

And it's going tobe a long war, made longer by "multicultural" crap, people who want to "understand". Want to think how hard it would have been to defeat Germany if every time any action took place, thousands of protestors complanied in London about the horrible loss of life of the innocent germans? Would that have made Hitler feel bad about his war, or would that have empowered him?