Looks like 
Mr. Brown wants to make it clear to Britain that he isn’t a lapdog like Tony Blair.
US President George Bush has been told to prepare for a British U-turn on Iraq once Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, a Sunday newspaper reports.
Bush has been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement on British troop withdrawals during Brown’s first 100 days in office, The Sunday Telegraph said.
The president was advised on how to handle the aftermath of a British pullout and the end of steadfast support from London, said the broadsheet, citing senior officials.
Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair is due to step down on June 27 after a decade in power, with finance minister Brown set to take over.
It would be nice if the press asked either Bush or even Tony Snow about this, but then we know how those guys don’t like to rock the boat.
No, I didn’t forget Poland.
Gordon is a bloody-minded Scotsman, there will be very little you can do to make him do something he doesn’t want to.
In other news, it’s “Chancellor”, not Finance Minister. Everyone outside Britain stop calling him “Finance Minister”.
You mean we might be one step closer to the Sellout of Iraq?
O, Glorious day!
Frank, Iraq was sold out from the moment George Bush decided to invade it. You guys made this mess.
Frank’s Lysander Spooner II now? Thanks for the heads-up.
Thank you for the anonymity, Oliver. You have ruined my experiment. I was being treated civilly for a few days.
Now I am sure that is over.
Oh, and Oliver, don’t forget to blame me when every one starts acting like animals — again.
I always wondered why you never interceded. After all, it was your blog getting trashed. I think I know now.
Nimrod Gently: I guess I’ll keep posting as Lysander Spooner II, now that you know who I really am, so you can continue to gratuitously abuse me.
Then again, maybe I’ll choose another name.
Which do you think I should do?
FOAD
HTH
FOAD
HTH
Thank you Oliver
Then again, maybe I’ll choose another name.
As long as you remain ignorant, pompous, thin-skinned and impervious to reason, what difference does it make what you call yourself?
Changing labels on empty bottles, etc.
Yes, Wilbur, Frank did NOTHING to deserve all that abuse . It was just because we had some kind of revulsion to…his screen name.
El :: That explains your comment of May 20, 2007 7:38:10 PM
As long as you remain ignorant, pompous, thin-skinned and impervious to reason, what difference does it make what you call yourself?
And yet, the moment I changed my name, not my opinions, the abuse ended.
And yet, the moment I changed my name, not my opinions, the abuse ended.
Dear Odysseus,
Every newby gets the benefit of the doubt until they prove that they are incapable of arguing intelligently and in good faith. Even if you hand’t been blown, “Lysander” would soon have started to get the same reaction that “Frank” always got.
Change your ways, not your name, and the warm fuzzies will stay.
Sure, Wilbur, your record, and that of your colleagues, speaks for itself.
Also recall you weren’t acting like an ass under that screen name. When you reverted to your old self, you would have been treated the same way.
Frank, people aren’t ganging up on you, you’re just a dick. You act like a dick. You actually go out of your way to be as obnoxious as possible. What do you expect?
Enlightened Liberal: I’m not up on all that Internet Chat room lingo. Were you wishing me well when when you typed this?
FOAD
HTH
Please tell me what that means…
FOAD: Frank’s other alias died.
Another thing, E L: Also recall you weren’t acting like an ass under that screen name
So please explain (which you have yet to do) what this means
FOAD
HTH
If you have a conscience, this is embarrassing, so I’ll spare you the pain. I know what it means.
What you are trying to say is, that, even though you reverted to type the moment you found out who I was, you were being a good guy when you didn’t know who I was.
I understand. What I don’t understand is why if you admit I had “changed my ways”, as Wilbur so quaintly put it, you reverted to type?
While we’re answering questions, perhaps wilbur could answer this one: How do you square this statement: “Even if you hadn’t been blown, “Lysander” would soon have started to get the same reaction that “Frank” always got”, with this one: “Change your ways, not your name, and the warm fuzzies will stay..”
They seem to be conflicting, don’t you think?
Ok, telemachus, now you’re reverting to your old ways. No one here is buying into your “poor me, everyone hates Frank boo hoo hoo” game. You never changed your ways, you just played a disingenuous experiment to try to prove you’re smarter than everyone else. Oliver stopped it in its tracks.
No one here is buying into your “poor me, everyone hates Frank boo hoo hoo” game
It’s no game, E L. It’s boorish, it’s stupid, it’s intolerant, it makes a mockery of the word “discussion”, you put all liberals to shame. You call that a game?
Do you really think Oliver did that purposely? Why would he do that?
You mean, I changed my name — and my response, by the way. So did some other people (not you), and he ended it? Why?
This is no game. What you guys don’t realize is that I have a point of view, and what I know about your point of view, I get from here.
What do you think I think of you?
Who is giving who a chance?
Whatever, Frank. All I know is there is one poster in this conversation that posts in virtually every thread and manages to make most of them about him. It isn’t me, so I guess it must be you! You give as good as you get Frank so don’t pull the incivility of the liberals bit.
EL: What is this with the “bits” and “games”? Just because you’re a fraud with zero integrity, doesn’t mean everyone else is.
There are several posters here who have to take time out to post about me, rather than answering what I say, or (simpler) ignoring me. You are one of several.
I don’t make threads about me — YOU make threads about me.
As to how many threads I post on, what’s the limit?
Your problem is you want to say whatever the hell you want, while preventing me from doing the same.
Don’t talk about me, and SEE if I talk about you.
I guess I should really not be surprised.
Frank can be a true asshat in multiple personae!
It’s kinda like “Sybil”, I guess, but SOOOOO stoopid.
Thank you for the anonymity, Oliver. You have ruined my experiment. I was being treated civilly for a few days.
Now I am sure that is over.
I thought that “anonymity” was for cowards, Frankie.
Thank you for the anonymity, Oliver. You have ruined my experiment. I was being treated civilly for a few days.
Now I am sure that is over.
I thought that “anonymity” was for cowards, Frankie.
whoops, double post
I thought double posting was for idiots, Zython.
There are several posters here who have to take time out to post about me
Frank can be a true asshat in multiple personae!
Exhibit #1,619
I thought double posting was for idiots, Zython.
When did I ever say that?