Margaret Thatcher Passes Away

tallanvor · Apr 12, 2013

LosPollosHermanos said: ↑

I don't understand why that term is thrown around so loosely. It really shows the low IQ of a lot of people.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/h...is-dead-is-set-to-top-the-charts-8569960.html

Protest song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, hijacked to mock Margaret Thatcher’s death, is set to hit No 1 this weekend as the BBC dithers over whether to play it on Radio 1.
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That would be the very definition of grave dancing

tallanvor · Apr 15, 2013

NewRoxFan said: ↑

Wow... an uncited post of the PR person for a right wing blog sourcing so called "well-placed sources." Yup, sounds like something I'd believe.
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/15/s...honoring-margaret-thatcher/?utm_source=co2hog

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is holding up a vote in the U.S. Senate on a resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom who died last week after suffering a stroke, multiple sources tell The Daily Caller. While the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring Thatcher last week, Menendez, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, objects to some of the language proposed by Republicans in the Senate’s version, sources said.
A copy of the proposed resolution, which would be offered by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, honors “the life, legacy, and example of British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher.”
Another source said Democrats want to “black out everything but a few lines acknowledging her service as prime minister.”
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good enough for you?

B-Bob · Apr 15, 2013

Wow. "life, legacy and example" huh? Yeah, the GOP is definitely not playing politics with her death.

Give me a break. Her legacy is a right-wing fantasy and a progressive's nightmare. Our government should not be recognizing her legacy and example.

Note her service to the crown and move on, (if you feel compelled to waste our tax dollars in yet a new way).

AroundTheWorld · Apr 15, 2013

B-Bob said: ↑

Wow. "life, legacy and example" huh? Yeah, the GOP is definitely not playing politics with her death.

Give me a break. Her legacy is a right-wing fantasy and a progressive's nightmare. Our government should not be recognizing her legacy and example.

Note her service to the crown and move on, (if you feel compelled to waste our tax dollars in yet a new way).
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She was a great politician.

Deji McGever · Apr 15, 2013

I agree with Glenn Greenwald and Christopher Hitchens on how to treat the passing of a public figure.

You can't whitewash a legacy when someone dies. If anything, it's dangerous and irresponsible. What they represented in life continues after their death and if you deify them with this sort of ban on criticism, you aren't much better than the Soviets parading Lenin's entombed carcass and punishing all snark with the gulag. Ok, maybe not quite as bad, but the (lack of) logic is the same.

I completely agree that the idea of not speaking ill of the dead is in good taste, but not if they are a political figure and their name stands for something other than their private lives.

Should we apply the same protocol to Hugo Chavez? Saddam Hussein? Muammar Gaddafi? Augusto Pinochet? How 'bout good ole Francisco Franco? They WERE heads of state and had families...

Thatcher was probably one of the most controversial politicians of the 20th century, and incredibly divisive. To pretend otherwise would be irresponsible and no obituary is going to be very well written without mentioning things that may be less than flattering. She wasn't the former treasurer of the local Lion's Club or a pet groom shop owner.

Mathloom · Apr 16, 2013

Yes obviously those who did not like her are behaving inappropriately, as opposed to those who like her.

Only one in four people believe *taxpayers’ money should pay for *Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.

An exclusive Sunday Mirror poll today reveals that six out of 10 fiercely object to the £10million cost to the nation of Wednesday’s ceremonial send-off. Among them, one in three are even Tory voters. A further 15 per cent expressed no preference.

Almost six in 10 of those interviewed in the ComRes/Sunday Mirror survey also said they believed Baroness Thatcher was the “most divisive” prime minister ever. And our poll reveals that voters disagree with David Cameron’s description of The Iron Lady as “the greatest British peacetime prime minister” by 41 per cent to 33 per cent.

But the poll showed that Lady Thatcher’s death has failed to deliver a significant boost to Labour’s ratings. Ed Miliband’s party is up one point to 38 per cent, eight points ahead of the Tories who are up two points on 30 per cent.

The views of more than 2,000 people in our survey give the most detailed insight yet into the nation’s true feelings about Lady Thatcher and her legacy.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-funeral-just-one-1830638#ixzz2QcIIdios
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rimbaud · Apr 16, 2013

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da_juice · Apr 16, 2013

Mathloom said: ↑

Yes obviously those who did not like her are behaving inappropriately, as opposed to those who like her.

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The most interesting thing, I think, is that Thatcher herself would probably oppose this (unless it wasn't her).

Commodore · Apr 17, 2013

Nigel is great, hope his party one day comes to power in the UK

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KingCheetah · Apr 17, 2013

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Granddaughter lives in Texas... giggity.

Northside Storm · Apr 17, 2013

Commodore said: ↑

Nigel is great, hope his party one day comes to power in the UK
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I'm going to chalk this up to lack of research.

fyi--- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ugly-face-ukip-sunday-mirror-1531879

On the forum, senior UKIP member Dr Julia Gasper branded gay rights a “lunatic’s charter” and claimed some homosexuals prefer sex with animals. She added: “As for the links between homosexuality and paedophilia, there is so much evidence that even a full-length book could hardly do justice to the *subject.”

UKIP member Jan Zolyniak posted: “The evidence is quite clear that the percentage of homosexuals who molest children is very high and cannot be dismissed.”

Another member, Douglas Denny from the Bognor Regis branch in West Sussex, used the forum to attack gay sex as “disgusting”. He wrote: “What irritates me is they (sic) way they and their leftie, neo-Commie followers seem to want to force the rest of us to consider them as normal.

“I just wish they would keep their *homosexual nature and practices to *themselves and stop trying to ram it down my throat telling me they are ‘normal’ when they are not.”

Another member complained about the impact of immigration on the NHS, writing: “I am informed by past media that Black Caribbean and not Black African have a higher instance of schizophrenia.

“I wonder if this is due to inbreeding on these small islands in slave times or is it due to *smoking grass.”
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