The Night Thread Mk. IX

FWIW. She was right about Sands, Mandela and Falklands. I hate the way she ruined the area I grew up in but over the last few years memos have gone public showing that Hillsborough and the area bias was not wholly due to her so that for me has softened my stance against her.

He was a part of a terrorist group.

It's alright, though, she thought Robert Mugabe was cool.

Someone fighting for their basic human rights against a violent, openly racist government is not a terrorist, and the ANC were not a terrorist organisation.

I really don't get it though. Let's establish one thing first, I don't like conservatives. Social conservatives anyway, they have this annoying habit of using politics to disguise their intolerance. I would never even consider voting for them while they have their current attitude because voting for them is basically voting against myself. Not that I have any intention of voting for Labour either but that's a different issue.

The thing is though people voted for Thatcher. Lots of people, it wasn't even really that close. Then she won 2 more elections with the margin widening. Then when she left, people voted for John Major. She did some harsh things, but hard decisions had to be made. The country was fucked when she came into power and she improved the situation. That's why people kept voting for her. I'm not much of a humanities guy, but I am numbers guy and you can't argue with those stats, most people thought she was doing a good job.

I understand that the people who don't think she did a good job are REALLY going to think she didn't do a good job and that's fine. I don't have any issue of that, she did some tough things. But when facebook and whatever else is filled with teenagers who don't even know what she did or why celebrating her death that's just fucking stupid.

Out of all the criticism towards Thatcher, the both subtle and not so subtle criticism of her liberating the Falklands completely baffles me.

How anyone could possibly argue that defending your own citizens and freeing them from a junta-led occupation is a bad thing is completely beyond my comprehension.

FWIW. She was right about Sands, Mandela and Falklands. I hate the way she ruined the area I grew up in but over the last few years memos have gone public showing that Hillsborough and the area bias was not wholly due to her so that for me has softened my stance against her.

It's alright, though, she thought Robert Mugabe was cool.

People celebrating her death rightfully come across as morons. Especially those who are under the age of 30.

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People celebrating her death rightfully come across as morons. Especially those who are under the age of 30.

People celebrating her death rightfully come across as morons. Especially those who are under the age of 30.

You consider Nelson Mandela to be a terrorist?

During one of their spring games at Memorial Stadium, Nebraska's football team put 7-year-old Jack Hoffman on the field to score a 69-yard touchdown. Hoffman has been battling brain cancer since 2011 and was befriended by the Huskers running back Rex Burkhead a year ago.

Jaygull attempts to look clever while failing to spell "Falklands" correctly.

This is awesome:

So I'm in SC.. Get a text from a dude that (I presume) is in FL.. 727 area code.. He's steady pushing for pics, thinking I'm a chick named Kelly..

This could get good, but I have to work early tomorrow so I'll be going to bed soon.. But seeing how aggressive this dude is, I see another mangina coming his way.