From: (Nick)
Date: 22/08/03 04:18 GMT Daylight Time
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From: Briarroot
Date: 22/07/03 21:43 GMT Daylight Time
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Houlsby (Nick's Lickspittle) can't tell you. Just as he can't
tell you where Nick hails from. He will continue *pretending*
that he can though, and he'll continue to use the term "smart
six-year old" to indicate anyone who can't divine his fantasies.
So don't ask him for proof, he hasn't got any! ;-)

See what I mean, Timothy? It's your call...
Are you a Disraeli or a Gladstone? Surely you're not Neville Chamberlain?

'The man who enters public life has to choose between political infidelity
and a destructive creed.'
--Benjamin Disraeli (Coningsby)

Dear Mr. Houlsby,

Tim Hanke (evidently, alias 'M.T. Scriboman', alias 'Doctor Alekhine')
seems more like an ersatz Oswald Mosley.


Er, yes, contrary to Hanke's misinterpretation of my motives in writing, in my
reply to Sam Sloan, he

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2D812BA5

"Hanke is the nearest to a Disraeli that the USCF can muster."

....I intended merely to point out that he was the USCF EB candidate who was
apparently the least *unlike* Disraeli, who was hardly admirable, and barely
notable, but for his having recognised that to popularise politics it should be
"dumbed down" to the lowest common denominator.

I happen to believe:

a) that Hanke is *nothing like* Disraeli.

b) that the fact that Hanke both assumed that I was comparing him *directly* to
Disraeli and, worse, that Hanke believed this to be a *compliment* merely
provides further compelling evidence that, *by his own admission*, Hanke is
possessed of "less intelligence than a smart six-year-old" (my phrase, to which
he adhered)....

As you might recall, Tim Hanke once described me as an 'effete Brit' or
perhaps
he was describing all British people as 'effete'. I don't know to what
extent
the members of the SAS and the SBS would be amused to be considered 'effete'.
Indeed, I really don't know what Hanke considers 'effete', perhaps that I am
am a Francophone or perhaps that I don't belong to a neo-Fascist militia.

"The chances are that a man cannot get into Congress now without resorting to
arts and means that should render him unfit to go there."
--Mark Twain (The Gilded Age)

Americans such as Tim Hanke, Stan Booz, and "Briarroot" seem to assume that
everyone else naturally must be flag-waving jingoists like themselves. But
many people, including some Americans, feel quite differently about what
their
'homeland' means to them.

"We are born, so to speak, provisionally, it does not matter where; it is
only
gradually that we compose, within ourselves, our true place of origin, so
that
we may be born there retrospectively."
--Rainer Maria Rilke


"Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!"

--Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I might be an admiral in the Swiss Navy,

My Dad is an admiral in the Iowa Navy.
'Tis true.

snip

Mark