<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Dec 10 2009, 02:31 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>That'd be because they're Irish perhaps - so I wonder why they might take offence. Try the same trick in Northern Wales and see what occurs!!
Despite the fact that there are actually some Northern Irish of English descent, the issue of contention here is 'Britishness' which is a rather anachronistic umbrella term - as opposed to Englishness.
Just for the record Povol, my Father is Irish - (from County Wicklow), and my Mother is Welsh, (from Ceredigion), and I was raised in England - I don't need to consult Wikipedia on the subject -
just as you wouldn't need to look up the entry for neo-con redneck, the KKK or the NRA. Besides a Wikipedia
education is a contradiction in terms!!
Actually, what's far worse than confusing the Irish with the English is people who pretend to be Irish. Fourth generation supposed descendants who have discovered that their Great Great Great Grandmothers Second Cousin half removed stepped off the boat at Ellis Island. You of all people should know this Keshav - The bars in Hells Kitchen were full of them - filling up donation buckets to the IRA while over here shopping precincts and high streets were being firebombed on a thrice weekly basis.
Regarding Maladin - isn't he too preoccupied with his light aircraft and his import business concerns? Love to see him on the World stage - I remember his brief inauspicious foray into GP during the '90's. I also remember the Yoshi team testing some years ago at PI at the same time as the WSBk guys and he smoked the entire field. Then again, come to think of it, he wasn't on Pirelli's.
There's no team out there that'd match what he earned in the U.S.
I wouldnt,but obviously,you do
Neoconservatism... originated in the 1970s as a movement of
anti-Soviet ........ and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' [After the end of the Cold War]... many 'paleoliberals' drifted back to the Democratic center... Today's neocons are a shrunken remnant of the original broad neocon coalition. Nevertheless,
the origins of their ideology on the left are still apparent. The fact that most of the younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal)
heirs of older ex-leftists.
One thing im not is a left wing socialist liberal Democrat.
Redneck,Yep.
