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"It's a familiar sad, story. Once a large multinational enters a market, they start aggressively pushing their product with the result that local, homegrown industries can't compete and wind up going out of business."

From The Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays For WAR (one of the greatest blog names ever)

Heartbroken

Date: 2005-08-02 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com
The story I heard tell was that the IRA was so embarrassed and ashamed that Shrub snubbed Sein Fein's Gerry Adams by dis-inviting him to the most recent St Patrick's Day party at the White House that they stomped off, slammed the bedroom door and refused to come out EVER AGAIN!

Date: 2005-08-02 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenesue.livejournal.com
Agreed about the blog name!

I suppose it would depend if the Taliban were Protestant Muslims or Catholic Muslims, wouldn't it? [rolling eyes]

Date: 2005-08-02 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joyeuse13.livejournal.com
Hee! I love your icon!

Date: 2005-08-02 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kd5mdk.livejournal.com
I like it

Date: 2005-08-02 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perich.livejournal.com
Didn't MP George Galway call Christopher Hitchens that, once upon a time? Is that the source of the blog's name?

Date: 2005-08-02 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenite.livejournal.com
Yep. As they put it:
Why we are called what we are. (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15528737&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=mr-galloway-goes-to-washington--galloway-comes-out-fighting-but-the-yanks-fail-to-lay-a-glove-on-him-name_page.html)

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