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Listed below are comments made by ScepticMax between Friday, 25th July 2008 and Wednesday, 30th July 2008.

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Context is everything 11:28pm on 30 Jul 2008 Charles_E_Hardwidge @215

Tut, tut, Chuck. Such aggressive language... You are starting to lose your cool.

I'm not sure which is more fun: to wind you up further by pointing out how slimy and pathetic Gordon Brown and New Labour are and how even more pathetic their supporters and apologists are, or to advise you to calm down and take one of those Tao pills you keep talking about every now and zen.
Context is everything 11:19pm on 30 Jul 2008 raindancer68 @205 wrote:

True, Israel is a democracy, but I don't see much multiculturalism on show there, like good old Blighty. Can you imagine if an Englishman or Scotsman stood for PM there? There would be an outcry. As for Israel's treatment of Arabs, well, the Jewish state's record isn't good on that, now is it?

20 percent of Israel's population are Israeli Arabs who have a damn sight more personal freedom than in almost any Arab country one could name. There are also numerous Arab member of parliament in Israel's 120-member Knesset.

Israel ain't perfect, but I guess it's a bit difficult to be a 'beacon to the nations' when your neighbours have been trying to exterminate you for over 60 years.

Finally, I'm intrigued by your comment "...including my race, the English."

Since when have the English been a race?I always thought it was a nationality.

So who's included in the English 'race'? Winston Churchill? (his mother was American), Our Queen? (Her stock is German) Prince Charles? (His father is Greek), Boris Johnson (His great grandfather is Turkish), Disraeli (Don't ask!).

I really want to know.
Context is everything 7:27pm on 30 Jul 2008 TheresOnly1Soupey @135,

If you re-read what I wrote in 93, you'll see that I didn't mention the word 'socialism'.

What 'socialism' do you mean?
The one tried in the United Soviet of Socialist Republics?
The one tried in the National Socialist Party of German Workers?
The one tried by the British Labour Party in the 1960s and 70s?
Or perhaps some utopian version that will work one day when we've killed all the nasty capitalists?

Do tell.

As for what I am - landlord, robber baron, petite bourgeoisie, horny-handed worker, or slavish-chavish underclass - it's none of your business.
Context is everything 7:17pm on 30 Jul 2008 raindancer68 @131,

If Milipede is indeed a Zionist, then that's his best (possibly only) atttribute.

Being a Zionist means supporting the right of the Jews to a free and independent state in their ancestral homeland. Not a bad thing one would have thought: most other peoples right to such a thing are really ever open to question. But when it comes to the Jews....

I guess it come down to whether or not one believes in the contents of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and other great works of malicious fiction.
Context is everything 3:25pm on 30 Jul 2008 Chuck @65,

Hmmm.... Your plain wrong assertions (or distortions), nonchalantly reduced to a 'typo' with anyone who questions you reduced to a 'nitpicker'. How very New Labour.

As for Japan wining the peace: I certainly wouldn't want to live there - or copy the nature of their society. If that's 'winning' I'm a happy loser.

You say "Britain has a shattered industry and society". I disagree with the first part (we are, after all, the fifth strongest economy in the world - and not having antiquated coal mining or tractor factories, btw.)

I agree with the second part regarding our shattered society, but would contend that this is attributable directly to the rise of the welfare state and the social policies (moral-relativism, educational malpractice [by not enforcing basic standards], multiculturalism, etc., etc.) championed by the very people who run - or support - this government.

After all, thing have not gotten any better during the past 11 years of New-Labour stewardship - in fact they have deteriorated in almost every area of public conduct.
Yawning gap 2:54pm on 29 Jul 2008 Nick,

We are all aware that the pundits and political 'insiders' usually know very little - and usually too late. If one wants a good indication of the political fortunes of Brown (or any other politician for that matter), ask a bookmaker. They're in it for the cash: sentiment and wishful thinking don't come into their calculations.
What's said and what's not 09:54am on 28 Jul 2008 Chuck E. Hogwash @301,303, 311, Zzzzz...

Writing nonsense in a pompous and prolix style doesn't afford it veracity.
What's said and what's not 8:46pm on 27 Jul 2008 I'll try again:

Phoenixarisen @138 - You are too kind.

Chuck E Hogwash: A while back you stamped your little enlightened feet and promised to go away in a zen-like manner (I originally wrote it more graphically) and not bother making any more comments to this blog. Why have you broken your promise? Why should anyone pay attention to your pretentious ramblings if you can't even keep your own word? Finally, if you like attracting abuse to this degree maybe you should join Max Mosley's club.

Plebpower @242: Please do join the Labour Party. I'm sure that they'll benefit from your highly exciting tendencies to list and catalogue. Please make sure to show them your fine collection of belly button lint.
What's said and what's not 10:27pm on 26 Jul 2008 Back on topic [sic]?:

A sly, cunning fox named Jack Straw
Craved the Prime Minister's job even more
Than that dour Gordon Brown
So he whispered 'round town
That Brown was psychologically flawed.

Straw sought help from his mate David Blunkett
Who said "Jack, are you sure you won't funk it?
Since you're nobody's hero
In fact you're a zero
Who thinks he can lead this failed junket.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee Milliband
Thought that one or the other should stand
But Ed Balls said "no way"
'Cos Yvette is away
And Harriet Harperson's too bland.

The PLP turned in panic to Hoon
Who immediately fled from the room
The MPs looked at each other
And sobbed, cried and blubbered
"We kicked out smarmy Tony too soon!"
Obama woos Europe 10:29pm on 25 Jul 2008 NoRashDecisions @ 26 asks:

"Why do you trust the bookies over the pundits? What makes you think McCain will win? No offence, but didn't the pundits predict, with pretty astonishingly acuricy, Blair's election in 97?".

The pundits and the bookies both 'predicted' Blair's victory in '97. But that - like Gordon Brown's current position (but in reverse) - was not a very hard prediction to make.

All pundits - consciously or otherwise - have political positions, theories or persons that they favour. This skews their calculations.

Bookies, on the other hand, deal in hard cash - hence they're more motivated to use cold rationale rather than wishful thinking.

That is why they correctly foretold Tory victories in London and Crewe and Nantwich, and SNP victory in Glasgow East long before the political classes (if they ever did).

As for Barak Obama: he is an empty suit - a rookie Senator with no executive experience. He has charisma, but he ain't no JFK (which is actually just as well, 'cos JFK was highly over-rated).

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