tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post3856447475745040896..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: In Memory of Jean McConvilleAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-20392304090525276412010-12-09T15:02:13.221-08:002010-12-09T15:02:13.221-08:00Retarius, James Bond would be so disappointed. Th...Retarius, James Bond would be so disappointed. The challenge has gone!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27592248972744714602010-12-09T02:33:41.661-08:002010-12-09T02:33:41.661-08:00Verry good, Anushka..I look hims up.
Is it just ...Verry good, Anushka..I look hims up. <br /><br />Is it just my imagination or are the Russian spies a bit more obvious than they used to be? These days they don't even bother to wipe the snow off their boots.Retariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09165689727557860449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-51140881290719541122010-12-09T00:37:42.841-08:002010-12-09T00:37:42.841-08:00'Ah, Brendan, you are so tender of Ireland'...'Ah, Brendan, you are so tender of Ireland's reputation that you are blind to her faults.'<br /><br />Not at all, not could anything I have said be reasonably construed as such. In fact I have said nothing about Ireland except that its history is complex. You are making assumptions.<br /><br />'a sentimental attachment to victimhood has become a mainstay of politics' ... oh God; standard know-nothing waffle. Can you support it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27985313546514440282010-12-08T19:24:10.044-08:002010-12-08T19:24:10.044-08:00@ Adam: What I have to say is this, do make an eff...@ Adam: What I have to say is this, do make an effort to stay on the subject, all events are not just about Russia,Stalin,Putin,Hitler,The Third Reich and Yugoslavia.anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-84522508842756769672010-12-08T17:25:36.459-08:002010-12-08T17:25:36.459-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-16326109626049348242010-12-08T17:23:55.699-08:002010-12-08T17:23:55.699-08:00The Crimean War is an event in history. It was a ...The Crimean War is an event in history. It was a rather pointless event. It's also completely beside the point of this blog. I intend to write a review of Orlando Figes' book on the war at some point. I will discuss it then.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-18735067513486285902010-12-08T17:11:38.449-08:002010-12-08T17:11:38.449-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-20438842918646390982010-12-08T16:03:53.470-08:002010-12-08T16:03:53.470-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-68414666304517571232010-12-08T15:51:03.780-08:002010-12-08T15:51:03.780-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30469757718866717812010-12-08T15:45:05.796-08:002010-12-08T15:45:05.796-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-17489324901236437822010-12-08T15:39:22.870-08:002010-12-08T15:39:22.870-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-23632264266377960092010-12-08T15:34:06.605-08:002010-12-08T15:34:06.605-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-56751393094238122332010-12-08T15:33:02.876-08:002010-12-08T15:33:02.876-08:00Adam, a joke, I assume; at least I hope so.Adam, a joke, I assume; at least I hope so.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-28663749242164191742010-12-08T09:27:52.082-08:002010-12-08T09:27:52.082-08:00Ah, Brendan, you are so tender of Ireland's re...Ah, Brendan, you are so tender of Ireland's reputation that you are blind to her faults. "Oirish" is the Irish equivalent of the Orthodox Jew (geddit?) who views all life through the conceit he alone is God's chosen, and that the world turns upon his triumphs and tragedies. <br /><br />Sadly, for both Jews and Irishmen, a sentimental attachment to victimhood has become a mainstay of politics - an easy vote catcher - and it harms their ability to create a better future. During the boom years, I was hoping we'd see Oirishness shrivel away to nothing, but the recent financial problems may prompt a return. Such a waste.Calvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640148105202971907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-15055999888093178272010-12-08T07:05:07.277-08:002010-12-08T07:05:07.277-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-20154203445566933112010-12-08T05:25:21.638-08:002010-12-08T05:25:21.638-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-76506942003920944302010-12-08T03:38:41.003-08:002010-12-08T03:38:41.003-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-67699934012334249572010-12-08T02:17:54.812-08:002010-12-08T02:17:54.812-08:00Thank you, Adam.
Yes, I remember that now that yo...Thank you, Adam.<br /><br />Yes, I remember that now that you mention it, Ana. A poignant postscript to a tough life and death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-43617319571511191192010-12-08T02:09:09.535-08:002010-12-08T02:09:09.535-08:00Thanks, Brendano. It was doubly shocking, I suppos...Thanks, Brendano. It was doubly shocking, I suppose, because it was so new to me, that a woman could be taken like this in front of her children. There is one tiny detail that I forgot to mention. Perhaps you already know it? Three weeks after she disappeared her rings were returned together with her purse to the family. The purse contained exactly 52 pence.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-43115858058285338262010-12-08T01:58:38.655-08:002010-12-08T01:58:38.655-08:00Brendano, it's nice to see you back, it's ...Brendano, it's nice to see you back, it's been a while.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-32845695498827143882010-12-08T01:42:37.115-08:002010-12-08T01:42:37.115-08:00Incidentally, Ana, the blog is a good one and you ...Incidentally, Ana, the blog is a good one and you are absolutely right about Jean McConville and those who granted themselves the right to kill her.<br /><br />Her case has been well known here for a long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-7429332890184217132010-12-08T01:36:57.025-08:002010-12-08T01:36:57.025-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-16652539828100205272010-12-08T01:36:11.803-08:002010-12-08T01:36:11.803-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-25145568136595391982010-12-08T01:35:28.060-08:002010-12-08T01:35:28.060-08:00Your opening is such overblown rubbish, dangerous ...Your opening is such overblown rubbish, dangerous rubbish, the sort of grotesque relativising that I mentioned in my blog on the <i>Rote Armee Fraktion</i>. This discussion is at an end.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-26871482311016000442010-12-08T01:30:52.633-08:002010-12-08T01:30:52.633-08:00Calvin, I didn't say 'it ain't so'...Calvin, I didn't say 'it ain't so'. You make no actual point, just a sort of generalized tendentious mush that you may (I am guessing) think contradicts Sinn Fein's case, which nobody was making in the first place.<br /><br />Irish history is complex (especially the seventeenth century, as Ana knows). To scoot through millennia in a few sentences, apparently with the aim of apportioning blame (and absolving from blame) is foolish no matter where the blame might be directed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com