BS: Political Threads

Subject: BS: Political Threads
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:30 PM

There are LOTS of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:34 PM

And that's what I have to say about THAT!

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:46 PM

HAH!!

More intelligent content in this one that most of the ones started recently!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:50 PM

My wife has lots of them. Some red, some blue.

Subject: ADDPOP: Political World (Bob Dylan)
From: bobad
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 10:57 PM

Political World
(Bob Dylan)

We live in a political world,
Love don't have any place.
We're living in times where men commit crimes
And crime don't have a face

We live in a political world,
Icicles hanging down,
Wedding bells ring and angels sing,
clouds cover up the ground.

We live in a political world,
Wisdom is thrown into jail,
It rots in a cell, is misguided as hell
Leaving no one to pick up a trail.

We live in a political world
Where mercy walks the plank,
Life is in mirrors, death disappears
Up the steps into the nearest bank.

We live in a political world
Where courage is a thing of the past
Houses are haunted, children are unwanted
The next day could be your last.

We live in a political world.
The one we can see and can feel
But there's no one to check, it's all a stacked deck,
We all know for sure that it's real.

We live in a political world
In the cities of lonesome fear,
Little by little you turn in the middle
But you're never why you're here.

We live in a political world
Under the microscope,
You can travel anywhere and hang yourself there
You always got more than enough rope.

We live in a political world
Turning and a'thrashing about,
As soon as you're awake, you're trained to take
What looks like the easy way out.

We live in a political world
Where peace is not welcome at all,
It's turned away from the door to wander some more
Or put up against the wall.

We live in apolitical world
Everything is hers or his,
Climb into the frame and shout God's name
But you're never sure what it is.


Copyright © 1989 Special Rider Music

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: topical tom
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:13 AM

Peace, I think I see what you're doing.You're trying to needle us, not leave us in stitches.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Janie
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM

you want political threads? John Galliano will give you political threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:58 AM

Tom, you should be ashamed of yourself [grin].
But as for political discussion threads, I've received complaints lately that we've had too many of them that are very slight variations on the same subject. Seems to me that when one person keeps starting threads instead of participating in ongoing discussions, those new threads are often much more propaganda than discussion. The person doesn't really care to exchange ideas - the intent is to flood and overwhelm all others with the poster's own point of view.
And that's not quite fair to the rest of us.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: autolycus
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 08:36 AM

Joe, can you do some combining to simplify, and maybe implicitly discourage the practice you describe? Innit.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 08:58 AM

After years of US-bashing for the sh***y Presidential choice NOT made 8 years ago by Mudcatters, but foisted upon us ALL by those who voted him in, US Catters are naturally acutely interested in the present opportunity to dump the party that spawned him, and the proliferatio of threads IMO is an effort to keep the discussions pointed to narrow sub-sub-sub-topics within the broader discussion, and I don't see a problem with that.

If people like a particular sub-sub-sub-topic, they will post. If not, they won't.

If that's too much politics, may I respectfully suggest that if a thread is not of interest, don't open it and, if you do, don't get so preoccupied with it that you perpetuate it simply by posting in it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM

PS, I just opened the first 10 politically-related threads in the list this AM, and only 3 were started by the same person. Were there more, that got closed or combined?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 09:57 AM

Maybe when people start up a new thread that's on the same subject as an existing one the etiquette ought to be that they explain why. That happens sometimes, but it get's left out too often.

There often is a perfectly good reason - there is some aspect of the topic which would otherwise get in the way of a discussion, but which deserves exploring. And if there's a good reason it deserves to be explained. (It gets confusing when several discussions are being carried on in the same thread - for example one about electoral procedures,one about policies, one about media coverage, one about the previous election...)
........................

Here's a collection of treads.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 02:30 PM

I lost my treads there...

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Peace
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 03:20 PM

"and the proliferatio of threads IMO is an effort"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Proliferatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: MartinRyan
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 03:25 PM

Ah Jeez, Peace - you might have rhymed!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 04:47 PM

You can call it "proliferatio" if you like. Personally, I don't play semantic games. I'll continue calling it "antiabortionratio", thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Rowan
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM

Being from Oz, I normally don't contribute to US or UK political threads out of politeness and I confess their titles usually flag their partisanship so thoroughly that I suspect I couldn't contribute meaningfully anyway. It's hard enough staying positive about the Oz politics I can contribute to.

But a friend's email signature file may interest you.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles (430 BC)

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Peace
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:04 PM

"Ah Jeez, Peace - you might have rhymed!"

LOL

Martin, it crossed my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM

Then there's the profiterole ratio. Never enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:14 PM

OK:

^n

Happy? :~) I dunno how to make the proofreaders' mark to show it should connect to the word where it was left off-- not the insertion caret, another mark. Like an equals sign but rounded. Like a pair of parens but horizontal.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: GUEST,Peace
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:52 AM

Interesting article from CBCNews (on-line):

Fifteen per cent of Canadians would give up their ballot in Canada's next federal election to vote in the U.S. election, a new poll co-sponsored by the CBC has found.

The poll, done by the Canadian polling company Environics, asked 2,001 Canadians over the age of 15 questions about how they perceive their role, and Canada's role, in the world.

Forty-six per cent of those surveyed in January by telephone said it matters a great deal to Canada who wins the November 2008 U.S. presidential election. Another 35 per cent said it mattered somewhat, while only eight per cent said it doesn't matter at all.

Keith Neuman of Environics told CBCNews.ca that the fact that nearly one in six Canadians said they would vote in the American election over the Canadian election shows just how important they think the United States is.

"What they're saying is that in the whole scheme of things, the race will have impact on the world and Canada," said Neuman, Environic's group vice-president, public affairs.

"The U.S. is a big global superpower and it carries a lot of weight."

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:23 AM

Well, we would be happy to consider an application for statehood from any of the Provinces.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Peace
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:05 PM

Yeah. Right.

Subject: RE: BS: Political Threads
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:30 PM

Can we apply to be Canadians too? Or can a state apply for province-hood?