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Quotes What people said, and what it means... Dean the socialist - 12/01/04 Adultery - 11/01/03 Little Pig! - 11/12/02 Gimme the cash! - 25/11/02 The penalty for not following IMF dictates - 27/09/02 When the insurers get political? - 16/10/02 |
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Dean the Socialist (12/01/04)A Conservative writer recently expressed the following view on Presidential hopeful Howard Dean: "[His] frame of mind is, in fact, a little island of democratic socialist Europe within America. Howard Dean may justly be called the Jacques Chirac of America". Chirac, head of the Conservative French government, might be a little surprised to hear he is a socialist... Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/29799960 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery". Who could have uttered these despicable words? The charia council that recently condemned a Nigerian woman to death by stoning for having a child by a man after her divorce? No, these words are attributed to Jesus by the New Testament (Matthew 5:41 Divorce). Those who consider Islam to be an intolerent, sexist religion had better read the bible first. Little Pig, little Pig, let me in or I'll blow your house in!George W Bush recently announced that the USA stood "side by side" with Turkey in its struggle to join the EU. The USA, it seems, has offered Turkey EU membership in exchange for its collaboration in Gulf War II. In the words of Chris Patten, EU commissionner for enlargement, "maybe we should offer Mexico entry into the USA" Gimme the cash! (25/11/02)In an interview for BBC Radio 4, the US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill (who has now resigned) explained the reason why his country's economy is so sluggish: it was because the US and the UK were not getting any help from continental Europe, adding "Part of the reason that we are not growing at 3.5% or 4% is that we are not getting the extra demand" and "in fact, we are getting a drag from the other countries of the world". Oh right. Shame on us! The penalty for not following IMF dictates...(27/09/02)In a recent article about the upcoming elections in Brazil, the BBC states: "But the penalty for not following the IMF's dictates are evident next door in Argentina, which had its credit line cut after defaulting on its debts" Methinks the "not" can be safely removed. When insurers get political (16/10/02)Many insurance companies exclude "acts of terrorism" from their policies, especially from travel insurance. This is interesting because it forces them to define "act of terrorism". One such company (Atlantic) defines "act of terrorism" as follows: "an act of terrorism means an act, including but not limited to the use of force, violence, atomic/biological/chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction, destruction, disruption or subversion of communication and information system infrastructures and/or its content thereof, sabotage or the use of any other means to cause or to be intended to cause harm of whatever nature including, but not limited to, nuclear radiation and/or contamination by chemical and/or biological substances and/or the threat of any of the aforementioned acts, of any person or group(s) of persons, whether acting alone or on behalf of or in connection with any organization(s) or government(s), committed for political, religious, ideological, or ethnic purposes or reasons including the intention to influence any government and/or to put the public, or any section of the public, in fear." If only the Bush administration could employ such clarity in its "war against terror"…
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