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Listed below are comments made by nobleFloridian between Saturday, 2nd August 2008 and Wednesday, 1st April 2009.

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Obamania - again 11:04pm on 01 Apr 2009 I just had to get back in the game for a moment to wonder if Justin was able to genuflect and kiss the hand of his idol now that he has such immediate access to our new President."They want to see his car, they want to touch his garments"? Give me a break! I guess talk about the coming of the Messiah was not too far off the mark!

I wonder what Justin thinks about Obama's picks for his administration so far. Now his latest appointment "forgot" to pay her income tax. How curious that she and his several other appointees paid their tax arrears only when they were asked to join his team.

Hello Ed - hope all is well with you in the wilds of Bonnie Scotland.
Brown's free trade message 11:08pm on 06 Mar 2009 Ed 109 and Andy 119: Many thanks for the kind words. As for happylaze ("selfish generation"), and bere54 (ignoble) maybe you could set these "youngsters" straight Ed.

I am a proud member of the "Greatest Generation" - but for us who served in WWII you whippersnappers would not be able to spew your insults in English. As for my Noble "nickname" I was given several choices by the BBC when I signed up many moons ago, and at the time I did not have any idea that someone would take umbrage at my choice.

And so I bid you farewell Ed. Although you supported Obama throughout the campaign, I trust you to question this all-out drive to socialize the U.S. and I know that in the wilds of Scotland you will keep your eyes on what is happening to your native country.
Brown's free trade message 4:47pm on 06 Mar 2009 Saint 131: Strangely, despite the sarcasm, which was like water off a duck's back, I find myself in agreement with some of your comments. Firstly, I am opposed to the huge foreign aid program of the federal government, which sends money to Third World countries that in the main hate our guts. Ergo, I want our tax money to stay in the country. And I do not consider money spent on our crumbling infrastructure to be pork. Pork can be summed up in one little item that was slipped in, probably at the last minute in order to avoid scrutiny - a million or so to find a way to eliminate the smell of pigs emanating from piggeries.

As for universal health, I fear the creation of yet another huge bureaucracy, and problems such as those that plague the national health programs in the U.K. and other European countries.

As that cute singer of yesteryear, Doris Day, used to sing, "Whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see".
Brown's free trade message 11:20pm on 05 Mar 2009 Saint: Sorry for sending my blog twice, but at my age I think I can be forgiven for a "senior moment" now and again. Maybe you can let me know, after your idol signs the bill, just how many jobs are created. Time will tell! As a matter of fact, I hope the effort will succeed, and that my son, out of work as a forester since August and with a great resume, will go back to work.

Ed: I speed-read that voluminous article (I didn't have the patience to take it all in), but the bottom line is that my wife and I are agreed that we lived in the best of times, despite our early poverty-line existence in Brum, and that small farms were those lovely places which were the lifeblood of Great Britain, and which epitomised all that was beautiful about that "sceptr'd isle". I remember picking hops in Tenbury Wells as a boy. In these days of huge farming conglomerates, which have destroyed the family farm, it is a beautiful memory.

Your love of the land shines through. May you keep fighting the good fight and prosper.

By the way, don't you think the proliferation of spelling errors in these blogs speaks to the failure of modern-day education?
Brown's free trade message 7:37pm on 05 Mar 2009 Saint No. 59: I came back, after a long absence, just to say hello to my hirsute friend Ed, but cannot refrain from asking you what the heck do you think the gargantuan Stimulus Package is but borrow and spend. Loaded with pork, this obscenity will saddle future generations with a debt that boggles the mind. And please remember that the Democrats controlled Senate and House for more than 2 years of the Bush administration. Spending bills do not pass without the approval of Congress. And now we have another monstrous bill to consider, the Omnibus Bill that includes yet more pork, 60% of which was inserted by Democrats and, to their shame, 40% by Republicans.

Obama's "Change" was supposed to include the abolishment of pork - the smell emanating from these two bills must be overwhelming in the Oval Office and in the Halls of Congress.
Brown's free trade message 5:34pm on 05 Mar 2009 Saint No. 59: I came back just to say hello to my hirsute friend Ed, but cannot refrain from asking you what the heck do you think the gargantuan Stimulus Package is but borrow and spend. Loaded with pork, this obscenity will saddle future generations with a debt that boggles the mind. And please remember that the Democrats controlled Senate and House for more than 2 years of the Bush administration. Spending bills do not pass without the approval of Congress. And now we have another monstrous bill to consider, the Omnibus Bill that includes yet more pork, 60% of which was inserted by Democrats and, to their shame, 40% by Republicans.

Obama's "Change" was supposed to include the abolishment of pork - the smell emanating from these two bills must be overwhelming in the Oval Office and in the Halls of Congress.
Brown's free trade message 00:09am on 05 Mar 2009 Hello Ed: The noble has returned briefly from "blogtirement" to wonder why you have not yet entered this space to comment about your fellow-Scot's visit to see his and your idol President Obama. And of course, given my innate curiousity, I am wondering how you feel about the first disastrous six weeks of the new administration. I recall your slavish support of our new President during the campaign and whether, together with many of those who voted for him, you regret such lavish praise.

By the way, have you ever wondered if the noble, now 87, is still on this mortal coil? Tom Brokaw did not call us"The Greatest Generation" for nothing!

I await your erudite response.

PS: I thought Brown spoke well, and I kind of like him.
Sowing the seeds of doubt 9:04pm on 02 Aug 2008 Justin: And so I say farewell to all bloggers who have used the site to conduct themselves with dignity, and to the moderators who have allowed Jacksforge to spew his filth directed at me. I really thought that those who moderate the blogs were supposed to live up to the literal meaning of the word i.e. "within reasonable limits; avoiding excesses or extremes; temperate".

Thanks Ed, for the kind words in blog 111 - it seems you were dead wrong about Jack! I wish you well.
Sowing the seeds of doubt 5:28pm on 02 Aug 2008 Jack: And as for the sleazy comment about my WWII cruise, one of those voyages included a swim in the Arctic Ocean when we were on our way to Russia escorting a convoy. Hope THAT makes you cringe with shame!

Watching some of my shipmates, wrapped in the Union Jack, slide down a plank into their eternal rest in those frigid waters was an experience that will live with me forever.

And I need hardly remind a person of your intelligence that if not for the "Greatest Generation" you would not be making these snide remarks on BBC editors' blogs.
Sowing the seeds of doubt 3:28pm on 02 Aug 2008 Jack: I wonder if anyone else really understood your 104 offering. I got the Britney and Paris comment, which was quite clever, but as for the rest of your garbled and of course intentionally badly written blog I was unable to interpret it.

What, no mention of the new polling figures?

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