Rioting spreading through London & to other English cities.

@BillRM,

Instead of having stupid wars we cannot win, lets take out a few that have had it coming for a long time. Switzerland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, The Cayman Islands, and while we're at it you can throw in the Channel Islands as well. That should sort the recession out in a week, then we can all get back to work.

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@spendius,

I can well imagine Bratton would be a fee chewer, but people like James Hahn, a guy with respect in LA, spoke up for him. (His sister just beat a friend/acquaintance of mine in the race to replace Jane Harman, a key woman in the u.s. congress - which will probably be obscure, but those folks matter to me. I think of them as best hopes, including the sister who beat the friend.) Also the ACLU spoke up for him, for goodness sakes.

That Bratton could suddenly change Cameron's brain even as he seems to be good at that kind of thing, I highly doubt. He might be able to affect behaviour (spelled, just now, Britishly).

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@ossobuco,

Thank you, I don't know a great deal about Bratton, so it's nice to get an insider's ear. I never thought that he may turn out to have a tempering effect upon Cameron. Whatever he does, he's not going to have an easy time of it. I've seen loads of police interviewed, from top brass to rank and file, and none of them are happy about it.

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@izzythepush,

I believe you on that. Besides, being touted as a miracle worker is a near sure sign of implosion ahead.

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@ossobuco,

The main problem is Cameron's desire to do everything on the cheap, blood sweat and tears can only get you so far.

Cameron is very good at using people as human shields when his policies go wrong. Caroline Spelman took the bullet for Cameron over his disatrous forest privatisation scheme. Andrew Lansley was made to eat dirt over proposed NHS 'reforms. If this all goes 'tits up,' Cameron will try to blame everything on Bratton.

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@izzythepush,

Tangent - when people use the reply button, as opposed to the reply to all button, if people reading then click on the little green blue (whatever..) letters with the poster-responded-to's name at the top, they can see the post that is being replied to. I figure that the Reply button is used most of the time.

If I were David, I would put this in bold and red.

So, with a burst of ebulliance -

!!!

I think a lot of people don't know this.

No need to futz with quotes, etc.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

I think a lot of people don't know this.

No need to futz with quotes, etc.

Because a lot of people don't know it, isn't it better to quote judiciously? You don't have to keep going backward and forwards. That way, if you're one of those people who likes to print off pages of threads, and shout them out at the bus stop, you won't get strange looks.

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@izzythepush,

Er, that's not me, snort. I have other misbehaviors.
I have - for fairly long now - assumed others knew that a response to a specific post was clickable to see the post responded to.

No, it's not better, I rail. Better that people learn that simple thing.

Obviously, if one takes umbrage or joy with a single line someone else typed, then a quote would be appropriate. But the quoting thing at a2k has sometimes been tremendously cumbersome for readers, and I assume the overuse is cumbersome for the site itself, not that I know anything about running a website.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Quote:

Let me try to explain what I wrote since it has so confused you.

Ha. I'm confused? Smile

Quote:

As I've explained to izzy2 by Liberal, I don't mean the UK's Liberal Party.

Maybe you did say that later. However, initially you said:

Quote:

I will say that it is somewhat encouraging that, in the main, all positions on the UK political spectrum seem to be identifying these riots for what they are, and not trying to excuse them.

These riots are the price that must be paid for decades of Liberal policies, and they will come to America if we continue on our current path. ....

Certainly sounded like you were talking about UK Liberal policies to me!
And that was the only part of your post I responded to.

Now you are saying:

Quote:

These rioting youths are the product of a Progressive, Liberal, or Softheaded (take your pick) society that has been rolling along in Europe and the UK for decades.

I capitalize Liberal and Progressive to distinguish them from people who may actually be liberal or progressive in nature.

Well that's rather unusual, I must say.
A Softheaded society. Or should that be a Softheaded Society?
Nice try! Wink

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@izzythepush,

Quote judiciously?

I've started to believe it's not possible at this site.

I imagine people speaking with imbedded quotes in real life, and well, the impression that's left is not brilliant.

I can understand going back to pull a quote when someone denies saying something specific, but otherwise it just seems lazy for the writer and annoying to the reader.

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@msolga,

Do you really teach children?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Do you really teach children?

Because this is already way over Finn's head.

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@izzythepush,

Oh c'mon izzy!

Surely you can do better than this.

Maybe not

Izzy likes to think himself cool of verbosity and yet he is a deadend whenever the discussion requires sense.

Wow izzy, I may be totally wrong.

I've been assuming that an imtelligent respose to your nonsense is f*ck you, you f"king idiot.

And yet you disappoint. (You Asshole!)

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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Do you really teach children?

Well what else would I teach, Finn? Chipmunks?
I don't know exactly what this has to do with your problem in arguing your "point", Finn, but yes I have taught children for many years now.
Actually I do a rather good job of it, if I do say so myself! Wink

As for you, do you ever acknowledge that you might have gotten your facts wrong, from time to time?
It happens to all of us, you know.
And it's no big deal to admit it.
Far better to do that than to deny you never said what you actually did say, suggest that you actually said or meant something else, then resort to nastiness & insults to "win the argument".
That's rather sad & tragic.

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Instructive, getting advice from America on how to deal with riots, and how best to treat the underclass.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

Instructive, getting advice from America on how to deal with riots,
and how best to treat the underclass.

I like submachineguns,
tho some folks prefer shotguns.
I have just never been a shotgun person.
Its a question of taste.

David

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Tangent - when people use the reply button, as opposed to the reply to all button, if people reading then click on the little green blue (whatever..) letters with the poster-responded-to's name at the top, they can see the post that is being replied to. I figure that the Reply button is used most of the time.

If I were David, I would put this in bold and red.

So, with a burst of ebulliance -

!!!

Thank u, Osso.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Somebody said somewhere recently, and so it must be right, that the number of black males in US gaols is the same number as were in slavery at its height.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Calm down, there's no need to get abusive just because you don't understand what the grown-ups are talking about.

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Have y'all ever thought about what is going on in this thread is probably much like how a riot gets started? Sad to see all the fighting. Sad

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