The DRD wibble factor is on the increase/decreases(?) as the contents of the DRD website’s intestines are exposed to closer examination.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

‘Things are’nt black and white here that’s just back in Kansas ‘ said a spokesman

LOL-

glad to see you’re still at it

‘unless a country can be self-sufficient (i.e. generate the revenue to meet its liabilities), then it can’t be sovereign.’

So at 9 trillion dollars in debt and rising, the USA economy is thus ‘sovereign’ and ‘self sufficient ‘ and not dependent on Chinese , Japanese and other buyers of US Treasury Bills etc etc as much say NI is dependent on the UK Exchequer ? I’d hazard a guess that NI might just be more solvent if the plug were pulled .

Determining whether a political entity is sovereign and or self sufficient is often predicated on to what extent a country has been able to ‘disguise’ it’s dependence on foreign borrowings . If the Chinese , Koreans , Saudis and a dozen other nations cashed in their excess dollars for ‘real ‘ money next week would the USA be sovereign , self sufficient or just broke ?

Of course being a neo con you would make the point that as long as the USA can keep forking out 500 billion dollars a year in interest payments to the ‘holders’ of it’s debt it’s still sovereign and self sufficient and the fact that it squeezes the ‘interest ‘ payments from it’s already emisserated middle and working class is fine .

BTW – when you lose the next EU referendum you can always go into comedy . Could I suggest a certain basement in the Leeson St area .

Tom Cruise. Don’t laugh. With the right pair of specs he’d be a dead ringer, and I suppose mentally he’s ‘no longer with us’.

Dosser,

Burt Lancaster played the role of Don Fabrizio in Visconti’s 1963 movie adaption of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel. I wonder, who would be best to play Trimble? Any suggestions folks?*

*Any suggestions that include the names of actors “no longer with us”, such as the late Lon Chaney Jr., however appropriate had they still been “with us”, will not be entertained (although possibly entertaining).

It’s the same reason your parents keep you in the basement, GF

LOL! Terribly unkind but terribly funny.

Good to see your old wibble again. You’ve been missed on that other place, which has gone to hell. How have you been getting on?

‘That is their (Unionists ) fault: you can’t have sovereignty without self-sufficiency. ‘

Complete and utter bollocks . Name a single country world wide that has a developed economy and that is ‘self sufficient’? Even the USA is dependent on foreign oil /energy supplies . There are approx 200 countries world wide -are we to believe that none have sovereignty because none are self sufficient ?

You may want to revise your definition of and use of word ‘sovereignty ‘ You seem to be confusing others as well as yourself .

‘ I wonder how the Americans will deal with their slide from the top spot this century? ‘

Not good to judge from the past 8 years of neo con nuttiness and extreme right wing corruption at all levels of this administration .

‘Presumably the folk hit hardest in terms of self-esteem will be the rednecks. They have the best record in volunteering for the military.’

Indeed – Lump them in with the large African American and Hispanic contingents and that should go a long way to reducing the numbers of the ‘poor and undereducated ‘ clamouring for social justice and ‘equality ‘ in the USA .

Nev, old chap, I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds that coming from you very amusing.

All AAsholes, duck waddling Sinners and readers of the Daily W**ker and the Maranatha Memorandum might know what I mean.

Here’s another one to get your hackles up:

“England and India launch sustainable biofuels joint venture”

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/fco-in-action/casestudies/india-uk-sust-biofuels

More of that famous flexibility? Or just the mask slipping?

Forget about ‘Britain in the USA’, what about ‘Britain in Europe’?

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/fco-in-action/institutions/britain-in-the-european-union/

You’re a real rearguard warrior, Nevin, god help you!

Bertie Ahern was able to skip from one Ireland to the other in the course of a speech, seemingly oblivious to the difference.

I was going to link you to the ‘Britain in the USA‘ website but it seems my suggestion for a change of name has finally got through …