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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bloody Hell America! From here in Australia, it’s looking pretty bad. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)38. Accurate, isn't it?
As in the story usually attributed to Churchill...(that was actually much older)
They are telling this of Lord Beaverbrook and a visiting Yankee actress. In a game of hypothetical questions, Beaverbrook asked the lady: Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds? She said she would. And if be paid you five pounds? The irate lady fumed: Five pounds. What do you think I am? Beaverbrook replied: Weve already established that. Now we are trying to determine the degree.
Hillary has taken a lot more than 5 pounds sterling for her support of the private prison industry.
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I voted to let it stand to show the writer and the poster for the intellectual dullards they are.
randome
Mar 2016
#35
Yes and Bill is currently apologizing for his Republican-lite, third way activities as the
DhhD
Mar 2016
#42
Help? At the very least the United Nations should send election observers. Then the world,
Enthusiast
Mar 2016
#30
Perhaps easier to see from outside, but c'mon, how hard is it really to see?
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#17
'Parrot' him, yes, I think 'parrot' is more correct. 'Emulate' would mean they might >
YOHABLO
Mar 2016
#93
We are trying but Dixieland doesn't seem to want anything better than what we have had for 35 years
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#64