XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <3pn9o5Fb9u47U1@individual.net>, Gaz  writes   
   >banana wrote:   
   >> In article <3plt4jFb04apU1@individual.net>, Gaz  writes   
   >>   
   >>> "banana"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:HCh54KAr$ZNDFwvr@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   >>>> How widely known is it, among people reading this, that President George   
   >>>> W Bush is a convicted criminal?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Call me out of touch, but I only learnt recently...   
   >>>   
   >>> For driving while intoxicated twenty years ago?   
   >>>   
   >>> FFS, get a life.   
   >>   
   >> In England it means for example that a witness in court is automatically   
   >> considered, other things being equal, to be less reliable than a person   
   >> who has 'good character'. I am surprised that it is even legal for a   
   >> convicted criminal to be US president.   
   >>   
   >> Personally BTW I think drunk driving is a vile anti-social crime, akin   
   >> to chucking axes around in the local park, not checking whether they   
   >> might hit anyone.   
   >   
   >But it wasnt generally considered so twenty years ago.   
      
   It was by victims, relatives and friends of victims, ambulance workers,   
   etc. etc. etc. - even 20 years ago, a lot of people when you add them   
   up.   
      
   >The man now has given up alcohol for good.   
      
   He's back on the booze according to the 'National Enquirer'. (The   
   appearance of this story in such an organ, owned - like most or all of   
   the US tabloids - by AMI, which is close to the Bush family, is   
   interesting).   
      
      
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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