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kalder comments on In memory of JB (and his hero)

"U really need to smoke some sage or good hash that will open your mind and help u to see what drivel u have been spewing out..." treedoc Now there's an idea: 'cancer as the road to enlightenment'! I can see why he calls himself 'doc'.

kalder comments on RE: Elmo's invite back to PBH. I spoke to Elmo and he says STICK IT UP YOUR --- PBH MODERATORS

Yes, moderation here can be rather schoolma'm-ish and precious. Too many posters of character have been booted out for just, well, having a bit of personality. But all that cod-psychoanalysis of Desideria is as nasty as it's puerile. If that's the kind of malevolent spleen that's going to be posted here, then it's hardly any wonder the moderators have itchy trigger fingers.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

As your example indicates, politics is not always irredeemably unprincipled and irrational. Whereas the BNP is manifestly so. The only reason a Sikh or Hindu is permitted to join its shadowy ranks, is because recent 'equality' legislation has compelled the BNP to open its previously whitewashed doors to all comers. (I guess I could join now -if I were mad or bereft of any moral scruple. Couldn't before- Latina wife, you see.) No. The BNP is very far from being the answer to militant Muslim lunacy. Just because I don't like vomit, doesn't mean I'm going to tuck into a shit sandwich.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

The BNP is not some principled, rational nationalist party. It's a coterie of football hooligans, conspiracy theorists, Nazi fetishists, white supremacists, barroom bores and other assorted weirdos. It comes from a very dark place indeed. That ordinary people (including, yes, at least one Sikh) are turning to it, is more a measure of despair than anything else.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

They're often Muslim. There's a big problem with a growing criminal Muslim underclass that's for sure. And plod can't touch 'em- that's 'Islamophobia' (when it's not being 'racism') apparently. Radicalised, unemployable layabouts are shunted by the government into crap colleges, doing crap courses. Can you imagine the hell they make of the lives of other students? But you can't do anything about it. That'd be 'Islamophobia' etc....

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

But back to the question in hand- to be fair, all this talk of colonialism and victimhood from Muslims is awful rot. Buggers destroyed the Byzantine world and should damn well hand its territories back to the Christians. I mean, it's all well and good inventing the digit zero, sherbert and snake charming etc. But that's no excuse to go about massacring people and outlawing beer and kissing and such.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

God those Sikhs are good people! Not a week seems to go past without some report in the London press of a Sikh chasing after muggers, facing down gang members or rushing to some distressed neighbour's aid (and often getting themselves killed in the process).

kalder comments on What happened to Fastpitch??

I hope he wasn't booted out. Hellfire, he may have been fierce and polemical; but he certainly livened the place up and put a bit of ginger into our arguments. Please, not another poster expelled for actually having a bit of personality... :(

kalder comments on Amigos, Dont Forget No Booze in Bogotá-Ley Seca Declared

Always the gentleman, that Robert Jorge... :)

kalder comments on Amigos, Dont Forget No Booze in Bogotá-Ley Seca Declared

"dreadful calvinist nonsense." Religion "bule" laws have nothing to do with this. Indeed. I'd be stunned if it were otherwise. My remark was an attempt at humour. And a dismal failure as such, obviously. Mea culpa :(

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"It was nothing more than an attempt by the American electorate to live out a childish fantasy....a fairy tale. And Gee Whiz, they could test out affirmative action at the same time!!." Jaja that sounds about right. Astute comment.

kalder comments on Israel is starving Palestinians to lower birth rate

Who?

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A bit more God, family and flag; a little less financial chicanery and political correctness. That'd help... As would another beer. So g'night all.

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Bit rhetorical of me, that. Leftist rubbish like that gets in when the Right's disgraced itself. If we don't act with scrupulous humanity and honour, we scare the public into the arms of frauds like Blair or Obama. I expect the Yanks had had enough of that smirking sociopath Bush. Scared the bejasus out of them I'd have imagined. If that was the Republicans, no wonder they voted Democrat. We conservatives really must do better. Over here, we haven't had a decent guv'nor since Macmillan.

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Barrack Obama- what a bloody shower! How on earth did your fine nation get lumbered with such an oily flimflam man as your current Chief?

kalder comments on Euroland is burning

Greece is only tangentially Europe. It's part of that quasi-asiatic, Orthodox nuttiness; several points east of decent beer and rationality.

kalder comments on Amigos, Dont Forget No Booze in Bogotá-Ley Seca Declared

Ley Seca- dreadful calvinist nonsense. Has no place in a Catholic country.

kalder comments on Stop the presses, ABBA is coming to Colombia

They were never my cup of absolut, even in their heyday. But they're a damn sight easier on the ear than any dreary metal band. Tedious, predictable wankers trying to convince us they're some species of rebel.

kalder comments on Obama praises Uribe for graceful acceptance of referendum defeat

"We won't be saying the same thing about a certain UK pm though!" That had me laughing manIN. Trouble is, that boorish humbug may well be getting another term. Thought keeps me awake at night.

kalder comments on Obama praises Uribe for graceful acceptance of referendum defeat

Great man Uribe. Damn bloody shame he won't get that third term.

kalder comments on How do I remain faithful in a long-distance relationship?

But seriously, Wasteland's comment was pretty astute. I cheated on my longterm girlfriend when I was 25 and, at the time, I was consumed with guilt. Many years later, it's quite obvious to me, that in the grand scheme of things, it mattered nothing at all (actually, I felt like that after about 10 days). You're in your twenties- make mistakes and learn, go easy on yourself (you're probably more decent and thoughtful than most of your peers anyway). Shagging around in your 20s just doesn't count.

kalder comments on How do I remain faithful in a long-distance relationship?

"Man, you guys are pretty damn rude." Jajaja- welcome to PBH. You'll get used to it.

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Boris? I doubt it. He's pretty non-PC for a mainstream politician. Mind you, he once said: "We should introduce Sharia law for bicycle thieves”. But that was less an endorsement of wild-eyed theological jurisprudence than an understandable desire to see some thieving little shits dealt with properly.

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There's a lot of merit to your tagline JB- "Choose Liberty, there is no such thing as equality". I more or less go along with it. But our (conservative) Mayor here in London once said: "People will never be equal. There'll always be the haves and have-nots. But it's the duty of the fortunate to help the unfortunate as much as they possibly can." And that's a philosophy I can fully agree with.

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"It was precisely outrages against human dignity which led the United Nations Organization to formulate, barely three years after its establishment, that Universal Declaration of Human Rights which remains one of the highest expressions of the human conscience of our time." From the Address of His Holiness John Paul II to the 50th General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation, 1995. ["Everyone has the right to education." Article 26, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights]

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You're right Lcacique. Most arguments have at least a little something to recommend them. Always room for the middle ground. This left and right/conservative and liberal thing is a bit of a laboured, artificial dichotomy anyway.

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Why thank you Doug.

kalder comments on Flying from Colombia to Ecuador

"...you'll feel pissed after a couple at that altitude..." Ace! :)

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JB- I think that all of us (apart from the odd ivory tower loony) recognise that capitalism is the sole mechanism by which wealth is created and opportunities generated. But that's what it is- a mechanism, not a moral blueprint; a tool that can be modified and adapted to our needs. One of which is answering the inviolate injuction from the Almighty himself to be nice to people. As Doug says: "to look down on charity is to murder humanity within ourselves" Ideological market fundamentalism can bring as much dystopia to people's lives as any maniac scheme cooked up by the commies.

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As I see it Lcacique, they've (historically), when left with no choice, arrived at practical modus vivendi with violent dictatorships, rather than offer much in the way of active support. For sure, you get grotesque regimes such as Ustasi Croatia, which had a surfeit of prelately connivance- but they tend to be rogue operations (indeed, Pavelic and his cronies were excommunicated). But I think the typical stance of the Church to secular tyranny is one of principled opposition; from the witness of Patriach Tikhon, through 'Mit Brennender Sorge', to the martyrdom of Archbishop Romero.

kalder comments on Flying from Colombia to Ecuador

Thanks for the info people. Yeah larumbera- I go to the Cali area every year. And this particular trip coincides with an Ecuadorian friend's going back to the old country for a holiday. We plan to meet up and celebrate his birthday over a long weekend in Quito.

kalder comments on Sign Petition to Save Palestinians' Mamilla Cemetery

I said 'overly reliant'. As in suggesting they explore additional avenues to securing themselves and their children lasting peace and security. Avenues supplementary to maintaining a strong and active military.

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I could go on to say that Communism is just murder and Socialism just theft- but I guess you lot know all that anyway ;)

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Good thing- the Church. Much of Lcacique's blather may have a point to it. But I'll tell you one thing- the Church is the only friend to the poor in an awful lot of the world.

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Bad thing- unrestricted capitalism. “ The Church's social doctrine adopts a critical attitude towards both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism...A special form of primacy in the exercise of Christian charity, to which the whole tradition of the church bears witness. It affects the life of each Christian inasmuch as he or she seeks to imitate the life of Christ, but it applies equally to our social responsibilities and hence to our manner of living, and to the logical decisions to be made concerning the ownership and use of goods...Today, given the worldwide dimension which the social question has assumed, this love of preference for the poor, and the decisions which it inspires in us, cannot but embrace the immense multitudes of the hungry, the needy, the homeless, those without medical care and, above all, those without hope of a better future. It is impossible not to take account of the existence of these realities. To ignore them would mean becoming like the "rich man" who pretended not to know the beggar Lazarus lying at his gate." Pope John Paul II 'Sollicitudo Rei Socialis'

kalder comments on Sign Petition to Save Palestinians' Mamilla Cemetery

Israel's been overly reliant on brute force for too long now. Issues of morality aside, it's a short-sighted way of doing things and will ultimately serve them ill. Eventually, the US will lose interest in them (probably when its population is overwhelmingly hispanic and asian and no longer has any emotional attachment to a legacy of a distant European war) and the Israelis'll be obliged (rightly or wrongly) to become more accommodating neighbours. It would be in their own interests to start trying to make friends- or at least not to make any more enemies than they already have. Thus, if they can't live without yet another museum that manipulates emotion (rather than soberly documents tragedy), they really should be grown up about it...and build it elsewhere.

kalder comments on fish - chips and heineken

Which type of fish do you fry?

kalder comments on Corrupt and avaricious chuchi-barbie rattles sabre

Interesting article that.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

You could eat 'em up with a spoon.

kalder comments on Which country has the fastest scientific growth?

Iran is a benighted shithole run by corrupt and murderous madmen. But, having said that, it has some corking looking birds.

kalder comments on Who plans on going to the Wisin y Yandel Concert on March 18th. in Medellin ???

I'd go...if I wasn't over the age of 12.

kalder comments on How do Colombians treat nits?

"Shampiojos" shampoo

kalder comments on Death of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo leads to clampdown in Cuba

Put in a zoo, bowl of rice and beans a day, no cigars?

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As day follows night, these lefties just can't resist singing the praises of a tyranny. China is prison camp, whose human rights abuses make anything the Yanks are capable of look like a stroll through the Tivoli.

kalder comments on Corrupt and avaricious chuchi-barbie rattles sabre

Well, seeing as his Gramps was busy hacking children to death in 50s Kenya, you can't expect the 'Great Helmsman' to be too keen on the Empire and its greatest son :(

kalder comments on any uruguay experts around?

That's interesting. And, I mean, with all that northern Italian blood swirling around in the gene pool, a lot of the women there should be cracking. But Pod never seemed too taken by them, so I don't know what to believe. And that starting fights malarkey- don't like the sound of that at all.

kalder comments on Corrupt and avaricious chuchi-barbie rattles sabre

I see another dessicated hag, of no use whatsoever to the planet and deserving of being tied up in a sack and tossed into the Euphrates, has thrown her hat into the ring: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254773/Falklands-defence-spending-plunges-50-cent-years.html

kalder comments on Value of life in Colombia.....

No wonder there's Columbines, with you bunch of weirdos running loose...

kalder comments on any uruguay experts around?

What are the women like?

kalder comments on Death of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo leads to clampdown in Cuba

The Castro brothers should be hung.