Snowdon is a dummy

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I'm happy you are venting your frustrations with life and with me with such vigor. I does you good.

I dare guess that you have spent the whole of your adult life using that infantile response to anything you can't deal with. It is very tempting I know seeing as how easy it is and how little thought is necesasary once you have got it off pat.

The all-purpose face-saver which flags up your underestimation of viewers here in that there's an assumption that they will be influenced by it in some strange way.

It's ridiculous when a saucy young lady does it, which is every time the need arises, but in a 77 year old bloke it's pathetic.

The psychologists say that golf is ideal for venting frustration and for getting free of her indoors for a while.

Hawk...were you appointed the arbiter of what is or isn't "in the public interests?"

Keep coming back as often as you need to.

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Hawk...were you appointed the arbiter of what is or isn't "in the public interests?"

There you go again. Same trick you tried on me. That's not an answer to hawk's post.

And a "do not feel", and a "may very well" and a "doesn't seem" just compound the vacancy.

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Keep coming back as often as you need to.

Are you really so narcissistic that you cannot see that it applies to you, and all of us, who keep coming back.

I would think that a materialist would have no other explanation for any behaviour that didn't express a need. Can you suggest any?

Olivier5 wrote:

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It's getting clearer to me, because I doubt spying on presidents and business people is for security reasons...

But that's just me. You are perfectly entitled to a different perception. You're even entitled to write it down on the fridge door so that you will remember what to write on A2K every morning... If it's not getting clearer to you, in your positive-yet-slightly-repetitive wishful thinking mode, then its' not getting clear to you!

Okay.

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Olivier5 wrote:

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It's getting clearer to me, because I doubt spying on presidents and business people is for security reasons...

But that's just me. You are perfectly entitled to a different perception. You're even entitled to write it down on the fridge door so that you will remember what to write on A2K every morning... If it's not getting clearer to you, in your positive-yet-slightly-repetitive wishful thinking mode, then its' not getting clear to you!

Okay.

Yes, indeed.

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It's getting clearer to me, because I doubt spying on presidents and business people is for security reasons...

But that's just me. You are perfectly entitled to a different perception. You're even entitled to write it down on the fridge door so that you will remember what to write on A2K every morning... If it's not getting clearer to you, in your positive-yet-slightly-repetitive wishful thinking mode, then its' not getting clear to you!

Okay.

Yes, indeed.

We are 5 x 5 here, Olivier!

Who's Blitzer ?

Amnesty International activists hold candles during a protest against the death penalty in front of the U.S. embassy in Rome November 30, 2005.

Amnesty International is perhaps the world’s most honored and respected human rights organization, having fought the good fight against injustice and poverty around the world for a half century.

But, like any business or organization, Amnesty is not perfect – in recent years, it has endured a number of episodes of inner turmoil, internal conflicts and some questionable financial dealings, despite the group’s noble stated intentions.

For example, Salil Shetty, the Secretary-General of Amnesty International, who has held the position since July 2010, earns nearly £200,000 ($305,000) a year, and senior directors earn up to £107,000 annually. While those salaries are roughly comparable to most other NGO senior executive pay-scales, the messy and somewhat mysterious departure of Shetty’s predecessor, Irene Khan, cast a harsh glare on Amnesty’s internal strife and financial issues.

Khan, who had led the organization since 2001, was given a severance pay package of more than £533,000 ($760,000 in 2012 currency), while her deputy Kate Gilmore received a hefty £325,244 ($493,000) payout. Khan, whose second and last term as secretary-general expired in December 2009, fought a bitter battle to stay on, creating a crisis within Amnesty.

I would think that a materialist would have no other explanation for any behaviour that didn't express a need. Can you suggest any?

Just heard Blitzer say US may be charged with war crimes. I find this quite funny! Who's going to enforce it?