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Let's elaborate a bit:
AVERTISSEMENT : selon mon expérience, ce qui suit ne s'applique pas à 99% de mes lecteurs. Malheureusement, l'expérience prouve aussi qu'il faut que cela soit écrit pour le pourcentage restant.
La version courte, concernant ma politique pour les commentaires, se résume à une ligne tirée du second (médiocre) volet de Matrix:
"J'ai construit cet endroit. Ici, je fais les lois."
Élaborons un brin :
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| Lady Cincinnatus | 4 months ago | |
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My great-great-great gand relatives might be shocked, but I’m thinking a return to Ireland if, God forbid, B. Hussein Obama is elected here. |
| Proof | 4 months ago | |
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"Champagne is merely the piss of a Parisian prostitute" -Heh. There’s a lot to be said for single malt scotch as well! |
| Iwo Gina | 4 months ago | |
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Oops! Meant to say God BLESS the Irish - must have mistyped in my excitement! |
| DrJen | 3 months, 4 weeks ago | |
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The photograph is a great toast to the Irish. I love the colors. That said, I’ll take a shot of that. Let the will of the Irish people be heard ‘round the world! |
| Pilgrim | 3 months, 4 weeks ago | |
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Jameson. Nectar of the gods. |
| Mitch Townsend | 3 months, 3 weeks ago | |
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Here’s the part that I don’t get about the European Union: creating a federal state out of a collection of independent states is not that easy. Germany and Italy didn’t manage it until the late 19th century. There are really only two viable models: the Swiss/American republican model, and the Austrian/Russian imperial model. The first looks more attractive but is much harder to achieve. The Swiss Confederation and the United States of America were both formed initially as a wartime alliance against much stronger external enemies, not simply because someone thought it was a great idea and drew up a constitution. Both have had to carefully circumscribe the powers granted to the central authority to prevent it from becoming an imperial state. Both countries were nearly destroyed by civil wars. The EU constitution has none of the safeguards against an overreaching central government that we have found necessary (and even sometimes insufficient), and no reliable way of resolving conflicts among its members. It thus remains vulnerable to both dangers. They speak of creating a United States of Europe. I think it is more likely that they will revive some sort of Holy Roman Empire. Having concentrated power in the center, and removed democratic checks on its exercise and aggrandizement, there is little to prevent some would-be tyrant from completing its concentration in his hands. The optimistic case is that the inability to resolve internal differences may cause the EU to peacefully fall apart, possibly due to some crisis in the Euro and wide differences in economic conditions among the EU member states. |
| Saurus | 2 months, 1 week ago | |
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Irish whiskey is undeniably good stuff, but not to discount my favorite beverage (okay - after a fine single malt), good ‘ole American BOURBON - prferably of the "small batch" variety. Smoooooth:) |
Post title: Hurray 4 Eire
Date: 13th June, 2008