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Listed below are comments made by lochraven between Tuesday, 8th September 2009 and Saturday, 28th November 2009.

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A very different Black Friday 12:28pm on 28 Nov 2009 Yes, this is the time of the year when those retailer who have been hanging on by a thread will know if they will be around in 2010. I expect to see many empty store fronts next year. It really is the survival of the fittest.
Is Obama serious about climate change? 8:38pm on 25 Nov 2009 #1 David_Cunard

Amen.

Mark
"The president may regard climate change as a pressing problem, but many Americans don't."

I read many posters from the UK who feel the same way. This is not a US problem, it's a world problem.
Britain: Putting the bite on the States 12:13pm on 19 Nov 2009
#44 Squirrellist-
35. At 02:54am on 19 Nov 2009, tpapp157 wrote:

"Darth Vader, for example, if he had a nationality, would be British."

"Well, um, he was, wasn't he?"

Well, yes and no. Darth Vader was a composite of 3 different actors-namely: David Prowse, Sebastian Shaw (was seen unmasked), and the voice of James Earl Jones.
A bit of trivia.
Obama and Europe 8:14pm on 02 Nov 2009 #26 jr4412

" no, when I read your #5 and then #12 I was thinking about recent G8 and G20 meetings (re. curbing off-shore tax heavens), how the US is all in favour of dealing with off-shore but went very quiet when it comes to the local ones (Delaware, Florida, there's another one in the West, forget which). I guess, is all about people in glasshouses.."

You seem to be completely clueless to the business practice of incorporation. Incorporation allows creditors or anyone else to bring a law suit against a company but not the owners. Anyone can incorporate in any state, but there are some state that are more favorable to businesses than others-Delaware being one. It isn't a tax shelter.
Why 'adolescent America' has to grow up 10:53am on 26 Oct 2009 I think that Europeans watch too much American movies and t.v. After the war, my aunt related this story about a European who was visiting the US. My aunt suggested she should go out west because there was much to see. The European gasped and said aren't you afraid of the Indians? Sadly, this is a true story. Unfortunately, much of what the world knows about America is what they get from the movies and tv. Even you Mr. Mardell, seem to be taken aback at what you found here.
Monkey business 4:41pm on 24 Oct 2009 This blog is a real turkey. Time to move on.
The right to offend? 8:16pm on 17 Oct 2009 "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Nuf said.
Press #3 for linguistic diversity 1:41pm on 13 Sep 2009 Mark, I'm glad you had fun in Ocean City. Tell me, are you living in Washington or the Maryland or Virginia burbs? If you're living in Maryland, I wouldn't tell anyone. That crack about Ocean City being tacky will not endear you to the locals. We would call it very laid-back. No fuss, no pretense; just fun.
Damaged Special Relationship? 11:50pm on 08 Sep 2009
Since we're talking about special relationships, I would like to share this small excerpt from the Baltimore Sun.

In his Sun editorial page column, "Why Not Be Honest?" published at the end of that momentous week on Sept. 10, 1939, H.L. Mencken challenged Roosevelt's proclamation of neutrality.
Mencken dismissed the position as so much "preposterous rumble-bumble."
"Why the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt should indulge himself in this transparent hocus-pocus I do not know, and it would probably be in vain to inquire," he wrote. "It may be that false pretenses run inevitably with the practice of statecraft; it maybe only that quacks, in the long run, always swallow their own buncombe.
"But whatever the cause," he added, "the fact is surely plain enough. The hon. gentleman is actually no more neutral in this war than the British Ambassador."
In conclusion, Mencken wrote, "Thus the fate and fortunes of the American people are once more pledge to England, whose gratitude the last time took the form of calling us names and bilking us out of many billions. If things go badly on the Western Front, who'll take over for a second time the burden of saving democracy and once more we'll pay the check."

So, some things just don't seem to change, do they? (mine)
Damaged Special Relationship? 12:33pm on 08 Sep 2009 #146 David_Cunard

" There is a significant body of opinion that IN FACT he was not guilty. "

Do you not think that if he were not guilty he should have appealed for a new trial? His guilt or innocence is a question that we will never know the answer to, and since we don't know, it shouldn't be used as a reason for his release. Other than that, I don't have an opinion.

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