Comments on: Condi got me thinking http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/ a blog by Jim Bliss Tue, 15 May 2012 02:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/#comment-140 Tom Sun, 07 May 2006 11:39:33 +0000 http://numero57.net/?p=31#comment-140 "Being told that we are “lucky” to live in a democracy and have the right to protest is easily the most patronising thing a politician can say." Presumably the "logic" underlying this argument is that since the privilege of free speech has been conferred upon us, the least we can do to show our gratitude is to refrain from using it. It's nice to see that expensive education wasn't wasted. “Being told that we are “lucky” to live in a democracy and have the right to protest is easily the most patronising thing a politician can say.”

Presumably the “logic” underlying this argument is that since the privilege of free speech has been conferred upon us, the least we can do to show our gratitude is to refrain from using it. It’s nice to see that expensive education wasn’t wasted.

]]> By: Merrick http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/#comment-139 Merrick Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:33:11 +0000 http://numero57.net/?p=31#comment-139 Didn't Lenny Bruce also say summat similar, about how the only people fit to be in the White House are the ones you'd have to drag screaming up the driveway and hurriedly throw them in and lock the door to stop them escaping? Didn’t Lenny Bruce also say summat similar, about how the only people fit to be in the White House are the ones you’d have to drag screaming up the driveway and hurriedly throw them in and lock the door to stop them escaping?

]]> By: Pisces Iscariot http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/#comment-138 Pisces Iscariot Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:31:58 +0000 http://numero57.net/?p=31#comment-138 Here's another quote that applies: "To suceed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered" - Voltaire Perhaps an addendum should be added that as long as you have power you don't have to care. Here’s another quote that applies:
“To suceed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered” – Voltaire
Perhaps an addendum should be added that as long as you have power you don’t have to care.

]]> By: Oscar Wildebeest http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/#comment-137 Oscar Wildebeest Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:46:34 +0000 http://numero57.net/?p=31#comment-137 Reading your remarks about morons in power, I was reminded by an aphorism spoken millennia ago by either Socrates or Seneca (some wise bloke starting with 'S', anyway) about how the kind of people who seek political power are precisely the kind of people who should least be entrusted with it. Which is similar to Groucho's comment about "any club who would have someone like me as a member..." Reading your remarks about morons in power, I was reminded by an aphorism spoken millennia ago by either Socrates or Seneca (some wise bloke starting with ‘S’, anyway) about how the kind of people who seek political power are precisely the kind of people who should least be entrusted with it. Which is similar to Groucho’s comment about “any club who would have someone like me as a member…”

]]> By: Merrick http://numero57.net/2006/04/03/condi-got-me-thinking/#comment-136 Merrick Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:53:12 +0000 http://numero57.net/?p=31#comment-136 Laughed out loud at the nail-on-the-headness of how lucky she is to have the right to leave power by a non-guillotinous route, but not half as much as I've laughed at the ideas I get thinking about Prince being in charge of foreign policy. Laughed out loud at the nail-on-the-headness of how lucky she is to have the right to leave power by a non-guillotinous route, but not half as much as I’ve laughed at the ideas I get thinking about Prince being in charge of foreign policy.

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