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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gulo who wrote (3234)	11/16/2003 10:11:35 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 37540

It, Ayn, is spelled Aino (ask your nearest St petersburg or fnnish neighbor, to quote somebody on this thread) Ayn was a little sexuallly deprived (St Petersburg) teenager, when she got in touch with some Finnish-Estonian women, and the finnish mythology of the Aino (one and only) goddess was something which stuck to her brain. Aino was also a tradegy, as depicted in (sorry, cannot find that large enough gif to see her tradegy) fng.fi Sorry, found it, that is her in the middle niksula.cs.hut.fi Anyway, after those deprived moments, fear of somebody catching her, she decided on a last name of the last part of Remington-Rand, the typewriter she used. (probably also the other stuff [produced by Remington) Ilmarinen however, she also took some inspiration from "the bride of the wolf" and "revenge of the holy john" of this good girly-buddy, Aino Kallas (as well as "Barbra von Tisenhusen", and " The Priest of Reigin") kirjasto.sci.fi Those were tough times, when the regular finnish women got the right to vote, after having had the right to open their door for any guy they thought would be worth the effort. (although maybe not the Ayn-Rand dream of the pure hero, knocking on her door) Seems Ayn never recovered from that.

To: Gulo who wrote (3234)	11/16/2003 10:27:37 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 37540

- potato-liberal ref the potato famine and pest in Ireland (one can also mention the liberal potato-walls, to keep the irish out of those english fields) - classic-liberal, what they were before that - neo-liberals, those who never understood nor knew but are making new attempts - vulgar-liberals, those who should know, but still do not and does not really either think nor understand Ilmarinen Btw, our neo-liberals decided to merge with our regular half-conservatives after having got into unpopular views on education and healthcare. (just like in the 1700s) However, the use of the regular european meaning of "neo-liberals" (ref neo-nazis) in the anglo-american world is fairly far removed from, or worse than that (the anglo-american history of the 1700-1800s, especially the potato-pests and kind of totally lost, even in a regular modern poato-field) Btw,btw, our classic-liberals did pretty much the same already some 30 years ago, bless their memory too. The vulgar-liberals are almost an extinct european species, although it is much like (some of the) US libertarians.

To: Gulo who wrote (3234)	11/16/2003 10:41:48 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 37540

One explanation might be that when liberalism was a pop-culture, US got into preparing for a civil war?? That is, that stuff on "liberty" and "liberal" became some kind of US-domestic hot potato?? (french fries after that statue and the torch arrived) However, in the 1960-70s US came up with the idea of manipulating single-seat-winner-takes-districts the opposite way as before (17-1800s, Jerry-the-Mander and Mr Salamander vs good old Jim Crow) That is, what I am asking is how Canada is jerry-gerry-mandering those voting districts?? Ilmarinen To freely quote the Washington bureau boss of The Economist (I can dig up the link if needed), if US would not do those re-districtings they way they do them, US might be like UK?? However, nobody but UK would but laugh at that. (even Malta would) That is, where is Canada in this single-seat-district,winner-takes-all non-proportional-representation old mess?? Or as some has defined it in US, "the tyranny of both the majority and the (swing-vote) minorities" (me think some arab just pointed to that old stuff) However, there is still the fact that in the 1960-70s this was supposed to "serve USA well"?? (that manipulation, re-districting of the voting districts)