Is St. Patrick's Day RACIST?

This story brings out my charitable side. I would like to assume the burden of storing these pieces free of charge to all parties involved. I would be willing to provide safe storage of these pieces indefinitely. If need be I would even cover the financial cost, of having the proper documentation drawn up, to tranfer ownership to me. In his advanced years the owner shouldn’t have to deal with the strain of fighting the government. My charitable act would also save the German tax payers money.

Japan, China and South Korea should all slice up North Korea and solve that problem.

LMAO one just happened a few mins ago that got me laughin :lol:

Geze: Ya, 1000 registered users but how many have actualy posted?

432 never posted

and 266 have only posted one or twice

thats 698 users of 1008 that have posted 0, 1 or 2 times!

Dezrtfish:Well, it’s a good thing you have posted once for each of them.

AahahahAHahhAhahHAHahaH!!! now that’s comedy. Well it’s funny if Dezrt is saying what I think he is. I hope he is, cuz then it’s funny.

But how do you grow the pie?
Is that the effort of a single player or of all of them?

I think most of the backing came due to two facts:
(1) the USSR needed reforms, that was obvious.
Still, they probably wanted a long term leader that could be influenced => a younger one, after the two short reigns of Andropov and what-was-his-name… Probably, the influentials wanted some change, but surely not that much that it would threaten their power-base, one of the reasons for the coup that failed due to Jelzins help for Gorbachev.
(2) The general secretary and all the other positions he fills made him the most powerful man in the USSR. Probably, whoever put Gorbachev into place, underestimated him. Pretty much the same underestimation that Hitler faced when he was appointed Chancellor, but luckily Gorbachev used that to reform positively, and i consider the new freedom of information, the right to ask wether the party is right and that the crucial reform.

So, I don’t think that there was “real” backing, i believe Gorbachev was kind of a compromise candidate, kind of a makeshift. Of course, once he was into power, you ccouldn’t remove instantly, that would have meant that the party made a mistake (which was not “allowed” before Gorbachev). And he was clever enough to stay into power, and use his popularity at the beginning (which soon, after the economy started to collapse openly, was reduced to more or less nothing) to enforece the reforms.

ne time mate :wink: