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Has Mick Disorderly's handwriting improved, and how did Andy Shocker deal with the closing down of Mountsteven's?
 
This:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dcv0q "America, Empire of Liberty"


It was a debate to launch a new series on American history. What I heard sounded interesting. I think it's available as a podcast, too.
I heard the first half of that. It was indeed interesting, but it takes a real intellectual stretch for me to see the US Civil Rights movement as an example of the US in the vanguard of world freedom. They were fighting to rid an apartheid state of racist laws, ffs.

Was Zing the one that sounded most lefty? He seemed to be the only one who hadn't bought into the US's rather inflated self-regard as typified by the above.
 
Has Mick Disorderly's handwriting improved, and how did Andy Shocker deal with the closing down of Mountsteven's?

Never seen or heard from Mick (is this Mick Lightweight or a different Mick?) for years.
I don't even know what Mountstevens is, and he's now in Glasgow so lucky if i see him once a year....

Can i have some EASY questions?
 
I heard the first half of that. It was indeed interesting, but it takes a real intellectual stretch for me to see the US Civil Rights movement as an example of the US in the vanguard of world freedom. They were fighting to rid an apartheid state of racist laws, ffs.

Was Zinn the one that sounded most lefty? He seemed to be the only one who hadn't bought into the US's rather inflated self-regard as typified by the above.

Yeh, that is him.

:D
 
So what you're ACTUALLY saying is that it's a shame the police state makes it more difficult for the gangs to operate (by exploiting the poor) because it means there will be less books about it for you to read?

Presumably, if you also found books about the holocaust interesting, you wish there'd be another one of those too, to keep the publications coming?


mate, that's fanny batter and you know it. you're being a bit daft here.
 
So you didn't say that you wished gangsters were still able to operate so that you could keep reading books about them? :confused:

I finished reading a book about Torquemada last night. I enjoyed that but i wouldn't really wish for a return to the Spanish Inquisition. :)
 
I heard the first half of that. It was indeed interesting, but it takes a real intellectual stretch for me to see the US Civil Rights movement as an example of the US in the vanguard of world freedom. They were fighting to rid an apartheid state of racist laws, ffs.

Was Zing the one that sounded most lefty? He seemed to be the only one who hadn't bought into the US's rather inflated self-regard as typified by the above.
I've only heard snatches so far. I'm going to download the podcast later. But, yes, Howard was the lefty.

Do try to get hold of some of his books and recordings. Start with the Zinn Reader, then go on to A People's History of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
 
Did you get my cheque?

Secondly, in your opinion Trev, should David Moyes have been sent to the stands yesterday when Everton were denied a penalty?

Thirdly, do you agree this website could do with a jokes page?

Next, is el Jefe PW in disguise? He was fond off going round in circles too

Finally, if i get some good topless pictures of Mrs Josef on holiday would they make NR12 or should i try StreetVoice??!?!!
 
trev, the post I was going to make just got deleted in a minor computer mishap. What was the question I had planned on asking you, and what was the answer?
 
No, i just think that gangsters are vicious criminal scum who prey on the weaker segments of society,...

Thousands of mourners have gathered in the East End for the funeral service of Reggie Kray, one of London's most notorious gangsters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/967018.stm

Not supporting gangsters like, but how does your "vicious criminal scum who prey on the weaker segments of society" comment fit in with some of those "weaker segments", who in large numbers, attended a funeral of this particular gangster?
 
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