DISQUS

Thank you for your answers about Mandy as PM/zanulabour leader, I appreciate you making the effort to educate me

Gentlemen (and Ladies)


Please would one of you answer my query on a new Labour Leader:



Is there anything to stop Mandelson taking over, and if he does whilst Labour are still in power, does he become prime minister? Do they have to apoint a junior minister in the department of the prime minister to answer questions in the House? How would such a thing work?



Thanks for your help

"I agree that the students should have been expelled, but there was simply no case for prosecution here."

I have given this a lot of thought, and so far haven't come up with a crime that could have been charged. Defacing a public tree maybe? Malicious mischief?

I found this case appalling. There does indeed seem to be some prejudice at work here. Whether it's evidence of a larger problem nationally is arguable.

This is a difficult issue for me. Although I generally favor the right wing of the Christian political spectrum, I nonetheless see the point of some of the Palestinian criticisms of Israel. I suppose it helps to not be a dispensationalist. The Israeli position historically has been that the Palestinians chose to leave, prodded by Arab anti-Semites. But there is substantial evidence to suggest that many were driven out by the Israelis.

On the other hand I think Israel has a right to exist, and that leaves me with an uncomfortable conundrum: what to do about the Palestinians, who also have a claim to the land. I don't believe for a moment, things being as they are, that an attempt to integrate the Palestinian population and Israel into a single nation would result in anything other than the slaughter of someone, and it seems unlikely that the existing Israeli population would voluntarily leave. So the question for me is how in the world could we ever solve this problem?

A good friend of mine, a Catholic who comes from the far left of the Christian political spectrum, once told me that the most difficult moral choices are always those in which one has to choose between two evils. That is pretty much where I end up with this.

Wallis' defensiveness is palpable here.

The idea of Dear and Co. as Sen Domenici's "employers" strikes me as a bit inapt. I would cast this more as like the relationship between stockholders and the CEO of some corporation they hold stock in. They are the CEO's employers in some ultimate sense, but their only leverage is to vote at the next stockholder's meeting.

I agree with Ray - it's very difficult to decide just what he's getting at here. If he means to say that scripture doesn't necessarily require that we like Israel, he should say that.

Well, justin, I would agree that Domenici is a coward, and I wish he (or perhaps his staff) had handled this better. But John Dear's piece strikes me as just so much whining about consequences he and his collaborators could have easily anticipated. It seems a bit silly, when Domenici's office had agreed to meet with some of his folks, to insist that all nine had to be present. The original idea was to deliver a message, wasn't it? Couldn't three people have done that about as well as nine?

If you're going to engage in an act of civil disobedience, then you should be an adult about it, cheerfully accept the penalty, and not whine about how unfair it all was.

Russell said:

The more i read this blog the more I am beginning to think that the original purpose of Sojourners seems to be wasting away. These articles are simply bashing conservatives and attempting to push forward a liberal agenda.

That was the original purpose of Sojourners.

Hey CJ, heard you guys made it out to my neck of the woods in Manly. Too bad it was raining. I live in a beachside flat next to the corso (central area).


Keep the stories about australia coming. It's funny to hear other Americans' opinions on the culture. I'm an expat who's been living over here for a few years.



Love your work.

My first thought was, "This seems to be one thing the Muslims get right - it took a month or so, not 20 years."


Subsequent revelations leave me a bit quesy. Apparently the execution wasn't carried out by the dul constituted authorities. That makes it murder, in my view.>

Corina,
The only reason Melina agreed with Wyser at the Neighborhood meeting was because he didn't say anything that had to do with policy or politics. Good for him on this because he was really put in a tough spot to sit on this "debate" or "forum" whatever you want to call it and he stayed mostly away from politics.

Wyser stuck to things like: we work hard everyday. We do the best we can, etc. How can she disagree with that?

Hopefully, this should help get the word out about this cool contest:


http://blogthispal.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-comics-and-videos.html

She just looks like Cameron Diaz to me... (Mischa Barton, not the dog.)

I just got my Generation NEX today. First off, the included controller is terrible. The buttons are slanted, the thing is tiny, and it's an awkward button layout to begin with. The sound on all the games (incl. SMB3) is off and not accurate (compared to being played on an original NES). Huge bummer. Also, games like River City Ransom do weird stuff when you play them, including garbleing up the menus, changing colors, and generally not working properly. Did they even test this thing? How hard could it be to make a 100% compatible NES clone in 2005? I would warn everyone to stay away from this. For $60 You could get an original NES with a new 72-pin connector in it, some REAL NES controllers, and some decent games. Avoid and get the real thing.

wonder how's kahlen doing now...she totally rocks man... like she looked hot...and cute at the same time... her body's....my god...like...greatest ive ever seen...and most importantly...she had this thing abt her personality which made her seem real...yeppers..hope she's doing fine now..

That started out so well, but anyway, chapter not quite closed. He is a guy, so he will likely email you again sometime in the near or not too distant future. That's my bet anyway.

What's really needed is a Dating Slide Rule. You know, you set it at the start to work out when it's going to happen, euphemistically speaking, that is.

You can recalculate and reset it as you go along, for instance, if you start out on the 'one date a week' programme, but suddenly mid-way through you speed it up to, god forbid, the two dates a week programme.

What's with all of the counting? In my opinion, it's this: women are afraid that, if they sleep with a guy "too early", he'll think she's easy and he'll stop seeing her.

If the guy really likes the girl, it doesn't matter if after a really good first date she decides to sleep with him. He isn't going to think any lesser of her or see her any differently. Men don't think women are easy or not easy, I don't know any friends who think this way (not on this side of the pond, at least).

Let's be honest, the only reason he's not going to see her again after sleeping with her on the first date is if he wasn't really into her in the first place…

BTW - layout is cool.