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OK....before the complaints about 'misspelling'....
....a vocabulary lesson: 'wan'
Adjective
(of a person's complexion or appearance) Pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.
(of light) Pale; weak: "the wan dawn light".
Synonyms
pale - pallid - sallow - bloodless - dim - faint
1. "British democracy would receive "a shot in the arm" if the UK left the European Union, Boris Johnson [Mayor of London] has said.
2. Voters would feel they had regained control over their own destiny if Britain became fully independent from Brussels,...
3. The Prime Minister has promised to hold talks to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership and then put a new deal to the British people in a referendum after the next election.
4. The public would welcome a British exit because people would feel they had won back control over their own lives from Brussels, the Mayor claimed.
5. "If we are honest, I think, democratically, it would be a shot in the arm because people would suddenly feel, yes, we are running our own destiny again, our politics is entirely independent, British electors can choose the people who are taking decisions that affect their lives.
6. "There are some pro European pessimists who say, you have to, in Europe, simply sign up to every single thing that anyone in the EU suggests.
You sign every treaty, you sign everything - there is no alternative.
"I think they are completely wrong," Mr Cameron said."
Boris Johnson: leaving Europe a shot in the arm for democracy - Telegraph
WHAT????
Ya' mean that there is actually some sort of resistance to a huge, unelected body that feeds and clothes everyone....as long as they obey orders?
7. And, in a related note:
In his book Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, Judge Bork tells this tale of the American Bar Associations 2000 meeting in London, which included attendance of four of our Supreme Court Justices.
A London barrister accused the U.S. Supreme Court of turning its back on the Continent, complaining that the justices rarely cite the decisions of European courts. Of course, many American lawyers began effusively apologizing. But Justice Kennedy did not succumb to this combination of insolent foreign browbeating and pusillanimous American response.
Kennedy proclaimed that if US courts cede authority to remote foreign courts there is a risk of losing the allegiance of the people.
Perhaps there is hope for a world not content to groveling......
Sovereignty may survive....
....a vocabulary lesson: 'wan'
Adjective
(of a person's complexion or appearance) Pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.
(of light) Pale; weak: "the wan dawn light".
Synonyms
pale - pallid - sallow - bloodless - dim - faint
1. "British democracy would receive "a shot in the arm" if the UK left the European Union, Boris Johnson [Mayor of London] has said.
2. Voters would feel they had regained control over their own destiny if Britain became fully independent from Brussels,...
3. The Prime Minister has promised to hold talks to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership and then put a new deal to the British people in a referendum after the next election.
4. The public would welcome a British exit because people would feel they had won back control over their own lives from Brussels, the Mayor claimed.
5. "If we are honest, I think, democratically, it would be a shot in the arm because people would suddenly feel, yes, we are running our own destiny again, our politics is entirely independent, British electors can choose the people who are taking decisions that affect their lives.
6. "There are some pro European pessimists who say, you have to, in Europe, simply sign up to every single thing that anyone in the EU suggests.
You sign every treaty, you sign everything - there is no alternative.
"I think they are completely wrong," Mr Cameron said."
Boris Johnson: leaving Europe a shot in the arm for democracy - Telegraph
WHAT????
Ya' mean that there is actually some sort of resistance to a huge, unelected body that feeds and clothes everyone....as long as they obey orders?
7. And, in a related note:
In his book Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, Judge Bork tells this tale of the American Bar Associations 2000 meeting in London, which included attendance of four of our Supreme Court Justices.
A London barrister accused the U.S. Supreme Court of turning its back on the Continent, complaining that the justices rarely cite the decisions of European courts. Of course, many American lawyers began effusively apologizing. But Justice Kennedy did not succumb to this combination of insolent foreign browbeating and pusillanimous American response.
Kennedy proclaimed that if US courts cede authority to remote foreign courts there is a risk of losing the allegiance of the people.
Perhaps there is hope for a world not content to groveling......
Sovereignty may survive....