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2005-11-13 Europe

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Posted by Captain America 2005-11-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "verbal hyper-productivity"

I know some people of a certain gender like that.

Posted by phil_b 2005-11-13 03:05|| 2005-11-13 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "Also worthy of much mockery at the 'Burg."

Lol, lotp - so true. I've come to believe the EU will likely crumble and fracture under its own bureaucratic weight - much like the Kyoto BS. I figure there have to be scores of Ministers of Finance or similar breathing a heavy sigh of relief that Kyoto has finally nosedived into oblivion. Likewise, the current EU monster will, I hope anyway, reach the status of parody. Then they might be able to crank up something that could actually work and benefit them. A capitalist and economically solid Europe would able to pay its own way and be a partner, unlike the anemic socialist paperweight we see today.

Posted by .com 2005-11-13 03:15|| 2005-11-13 03:15|| Front Page Top

#3 An interesting point from the story that is sorta lost as we read this man's situation is this bit:

"they became wrongly convinced that he was planning to blow the whistle on an internal fraud scandal"

I wonder if he would like to illuminate that point just a bit, lol. It implies, and no one here would be surprised, that there many financial scandals that never surface - and the poor EUniks pay for the scam and for the cover-up, normally.

Posted by .com 2005-11-13 03:25|| 2005-11-13 03:25|| Front Page Top

#4 In fact ten times in a row the European Accounting Comission or whetever its name has refused to certify the EU balance because some 90% of EU spendings cannot be traced.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-11-13 04:51|| 2005-11-13 04:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Come on Italy! - pull out of the Euro, then we can watch this whole house of cards start tumbling down...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-11-13 05:04|| 2005-11-13 05:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh. My. Gawd.

These people have no shame, do they? Remember the journalist whose records were seized illegally - by Belgian legal authorities? Someone help me remember the name ... he was investigating financial fraud at the Commission IIRC.

Posted by too true 2005-11-13 06:17|| 2005-11-13 06:17|| Front Page Top

#7 "sowed doubt regarding the state of his mental health".:crazy as a 3 peckered billy goat.
"verbal hyper-productivity" and a "lack of conceptual content":diarria of the mouth.
"megalomania and paranoia".:afraid of his own shadow.

Posted by raptor 2005-11-13 06:56|| 2005-11-13 06:56|| Front Page Top

#8 One minor note, on the use of the word "tabled". In the EU, this means "introduced"; however, in the US, "tabled" means to essentially kill a measure.

By the typical committee rules of order, "a motion to table is always in order." This provides a quick way of killing a divisive measure that was introduced to be divisive, usually with intent to disrupt and seize the agenda. It is also used when there is a stalemate, or if debate of an issue becomes unexpectedly heated.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-13 08:31|| 2005-11-13 08:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Wonder if this all goes hand in hand with the large number of traces of cocaine found in tbe bathrooms of the EU headquarters?

Posted by imoyaro 2005-11-13 12:48|| 2005-11-13 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 What? Me crazy? No, I'm just a pencil sharpener.

Posted by Captain America 2005-11-13 18:11|| 2005-11-13 18:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Just because he was sentimental about his red stapler…

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2005-11-13 19:58|| 2005-11-13 19:58|| Front Page Top

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