A photo of Tim, from a costume party
I’m reading this new Kaplan book, so forgive me if the blog reads like a disjointed review. He speaks very highly of the Omani sultan (dictator in its non pejorative sense). However, he asks, “what happens if – or when – power shifts to a less vigorous or enlightened one? Then such extreme centralization can signal disaster… Nondemocratic countries like Oman often evince efficiency when things are going well, but when problems arise in such systems the population, especially if it is young, can become quite restive.” That is, democracy is not always better in the short run. To serve specific ends, despots are often in order. To quote:
“What would America’s position in the Middle East be without the likes of the monarchs of Oman, Jordan, and Morocco, not to mention other nondemocratic rulers who nonetheless fight anti-Western extremists?
Americans believe, because of their own generally happy history, in a “unity of goodness”, that all good things flow from the same source, such as democracy, economic development, or social reform. But Oman shows that something Americans believe is a bad thing – absolute monarchy – can produce good results.”
But democracy – or some non sex based system – is probably better in the long-run. Few dictators seem to plan on ever dying, but they do. Then what? History is full of one or two generation dynasties descending into madness, debauchery or incompetence, roiling whole nations in turmoil. At some point, just as people stopped hunter-gathering daily meals and farming in seasons, humans decided that some institutional order was in order.
Imagine if Fonny boy came to power!
How is that loser doing these days? Looks like no one gives a shit anymore.
I care, and we both know that at least one other person cares fanatically. Actually a lot of people care, and I mean ordinary people not politicians, they just don’t see the point of talking about it. The only thing to do is await the verdict of the courts on the appeal.
What’s this? Shammi Aunty trying to educate her favourite racist loser?
I definietly want him out of prison, eventhough i think he’s a megalomaniacal sore loser.
Yes and Mahinda is a true gentleman with a real sense of honour, honesty, fair play and justice, who places the interests of the country far higher than any of his personal interests, the interests of his extended family, and all his brown nosers.
Fuck off.
Lol
Strange how the YAKOS used to practically worship SF as the world’s best army commander (Gota’s own words), but suddenly have discovered him to be a loser! Typical YAKO behaviour. I guess it’s something in the genes that causes them to stab their own people in the back… LOL…!!!
Pacify yourself by sucking Ranil Wickramasinghe’s balls will you. That’s what you ESES do innit.
but it does reinforce the point that the Nicaragua Dispatch is one-sided. There is no coentxt just the opinion from Tim Rogers and the right-wing German government’s party line. Tim Rogers doesn’t even bother to look for other perspectives. He prefers to use information from one source to back up his opinion. Where on earth did this guy study journalism? I would hazard a guess that the answer is: Nowhere, he has no qualification in journalism’.
I told my grandmother how you helped. She said, “bake them a cake!”
Hi Ben,Thanks for the article. I am trying to import a SharePoint list into SQL Server using DoCmd.TransferSharePointList. The TableName parameter will not allow us to use the SQL Server schema attached to the table name. It keeps giving us the Transfer Type is not valid argument. If we don’t put a schema in fromt of the TableName parameter, it imports and creates a new table. How do we use the TableName parameter so that it imports to the table we want? Thanks for your help!Chris
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