Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 2002/11
From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk> Subj: RE: [kl] Dark Sound - Inappropriate language Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:43 -0500
But -- the Labour party in *government* has a history of being
slavishly PRO-American - presumably so as not to scare off our most
important and powerful ally by appearing to be - oh, horror! - *Socialist*.
Roger S.
In message <5.1.1.6.0.20021112164247.025b6030@-----.org writes:
> At 09:08 12/11/02 -0700, Anne Lenoir wrote:
> >Gene, I don't believe that Tony hates Americans. He just has a bad
> >temper that erupts every once in a while. I don't even want to
> >"anaylize" it or think about it. Tony is cool. Maybe he is cooling off
> >now. ANNIE
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> Talk to anyone of a leftish tendency in the UK and you will soon discover
> anti-American attitudes of a greater or lesser extent. This goes for
> virtually the whole of the Labour party, except, perhaps, for Tony Blair,
> and they resent him for that.
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> I've never really understood the attitude myself, but it goes back a very
> long time. There's an excellent essay on the topic at
> <http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/nov02/aa-kimball.htm>
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about
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--------------- Virginia Woolf.
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