User: steelbucket
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• A classic American perspective

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 18 Replies: 1
  Topic: Free Rider Problem     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 30, 2009

• Which countries is the USA protecting and why?

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 28, 2009     Views: 6 Replies: 0
  Topic: Free Rider Problem     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 30, 2009

• The British global system only lasted until 1914

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 30, 2009     Views: 3 Replies: 0
  Topic: Free Rider Problem     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 30, 2009

• And that Saddam personally flew one of the 9/11 planes

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 8 Replies: 0
  Topic: Next "Fighting­ Words": British report confirms that Saddam     
  Last response by Horus on November 30, 2009

• This of course being only a few years after the civilised

  Posted to Books by steelbucket on November 30, 2009     Views: 5 Replies: 0
  Topic: Yet Another Genocidal Anglo-Americ­an Imperialist     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 30, 2009

• Didn't there used to be a tee shirt with that slogan?

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 28, 2009     Views: 10 Replies: 0
  Topic: What if we gave a war and nobody came?     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 28, 2009

• Yes look at the benefits

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 28, 2009     Views: 16 Replies: 0
  Topic: Ex-UK envoy: US focused on Iraq hours after 9/11     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 28, 2009

• Oh tickle tickle tickle bob, at least it's not the Sun

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 16 Replies: 2
  Topic: Britian Puts Blame Squarely on Obama! -     
  Last response by Lobato1c on November 27, 2009

• Happy Birthday Americaislost

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 47 Replies: 3
  Topic: Happy Birthday Americaislos­t     
  Last response by Wahbooz on November 26, 2009

• Remind me again, who elected the USA to be the world's

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 16 Replies: 0
  Topic: The USA is the world's policeman - good thing too     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 26, 2009

• I like your dry humour

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 18 Replies: 0
  Topic: Good article!     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 26, 2009

• shouldn't the team kit hint at the national colours?

  Posted to Sports Nut by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 22 Replies: 0
  Topic: Uniform for uniformity's sake?     Rating: +3
  Last response by steelbucket on November 26, 2009

• Take up Obama's burden, the savage wars of peace....

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on November 26, 2009     Views: 57 Replies: 0
  Topic: Take up Obama's burden, the savage wars of peace....     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 26, 2009

• Give it a rest Hitch, you're just as guilty as everyone else

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on November 24, 2009     Views: 224 Replies: 1
  Topic: Give it a rest Hitch, you're just as guilty as everyone else     Rating: +1
  Last response by Fred_Garvin on November 24, 2009

• Who cares?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 23, 2009     Views: 14 Replies: 1
  Topic: Why I believe that Obama is a Muslim     Rating: +2/-2
  Last response by JackDallas on November 24, 2009

• Catholic terrorists, ever heard of Guy Fawkes or the IRA?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 24, 2009     Views: 8 Replies: 0
  Topic: Why I believe that Obama is a Muslim     Rating: +2/-2
  Last response by JackDallas on November 24, 2009

• A style only known to Americans

  Posted to Sports Nut by steelbucket on November 19, 2009     Views: 18 Replies: 1
  Topic: American Football and War     Rating: +1
  Last response by opus512 on November 22, 2009

• A prophet without honour in his own land

  Posted to Sports Nut by steelbucket on November 20, 2009     Views: 23 Replies: 0
  Topic: American Football and War     Rating: +1
  Last response by opus512 on November 22, 2009

• Ticklebob 0, steelbucket 1

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 20, 2009     Views: 58 Replies: 2
  Topic: Ticklebob 0, steelbucket 1     
  Last response by TickleBob on November 20, 2009

• Sorry to burst your bubble but

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 20, 2009     Views: 14 Replies: 1
  Topic: Ticklebob 0, steelbucket 1     
  Last response by TickleBob on November 20, 2009

• That probably accounts forwhy he can walk and talk

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 20, 2009     Views: 27 Replies: 1
  Topic: Obama "Admits To Being British Citizen"­     Rating: +1
  Last response by Seasoldier on November 20, 2009

• An American comfort blanket

  Posted to Sports Nut by steelbucket on November 19, 2009     Views: 65 Replies: 2
  Topic: An American comfort blanket     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 19, 2009

• We've had thousands of years of idiotic displays of

  Posted to Sports Nut by steelbucket on November 19, 2009     Views: 24 Replies: 0
  Topic: An American comfort blanket     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 19, 2009

• Damn!, found out at last. Yes blame the Brits for 9/11

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 17, 2009     Views: 28 Replies: 0
  Topic: Musharraf names 9/11 suspect as possible British asset     
  Last response by Wulk on November 18, 2009

• Nice irony, an old Brit hack writing for US publications

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on November 17, 2009     Views: 24 Replies: 3
  Topic: Finally, some common sense on this from Slate     Rating: +2/-1
  Last response by Doc Holliday on November 17, 2009

• Can I have mine on toast?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 16, 2009     Views: 26 Replies: 0
  Topic: Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration -     
  Last response by shep on November 16, 2009

• Fighting them over there, so you don't have to fight them

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 23, 2009     Views: 95 Replies: 1
  Topic: How do the euro people pay for health care? EZ....     
  Last response by Larkers on November 15, 2009

• You should try dealing with Fed Ex and US customs

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 14, 2009     Views: 33 Replies: 1
  Topic: Why the h... should I have to press #1 for English?     
  Last response by CrimeANitly on November 15, 2009

• Amazing grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 14, 2009     Views: 30 Replies: 0
  Topic: Bagpipes at funerals     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 14, 2009

• All celtic cultures have a tradition of bag pipes

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 14, 2009     Views: 31 Replies: 0
  Topic: Not a word about the Irish??     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 14, 2009

• Bagpipes aren't just Scottish

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 14, 2009     Views: 30 Replies: 0
  Topic: Bagpipes and Scottish identity     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 14, 2009

• Quite common for pipers to be at weddings

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 13, 2009     Views: 17 Replies: 2
  Topic: Piping for all occasions     
  Last response by b0nnylass on November 13, 2009

• Quite right, following the rebellion of 1745

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 13, 2009     Views: 28 Replies: 1
  Topic: Piping for all occasions     
  Last response by b0nnylass on November 13, 2009

• Is there a case for making them more or less realistic?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 13, 2009     Views: 27 Replies: 1
  Topic: With technology reaching such realistic effects     
  Last response by JUST_IN_CASE on November 13, 2009

• Flat earth society demands ban on globes

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 13, 2009     Views: 34 Replies: 0
  Topic: Berg Says, "Obama's­ BC...In '__' Vaults Is From Kenya"     Rating: +1
  Last response by steelbucket on November 13, 2009

• All quiet on the western front

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 11, 2009     Views: 20 Replies: 2
  Topic: Resurrection of ********* 1930s Ideologies: MASS FRUSTRATION     
  Last response by Sovereign9 on November 12, 2009

• To be serious, I don't get a sense of fustration

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 12, 2009     Views: 17 Replies: 1
  Topic: Resurrection of ********* 1930s Ideologies: MASS FRUSTRATION     
  Last response by Sovereign9 on November 12, 2009

• new COD modern warfare: if only....

  Posted to Gaming by steelbucket on November 12, 2009     Views: 60 Replies: 0
  Topic: new COD modern warfare: if only....     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 12, 2009

• New call of duty video game; If only....

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 12, 2009     Views: 45 Replies: 0
  Topic: New call of duty video game; If only....     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 12, 2009

• The Earth is cooling; the man from the BBC told me so.

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 9, 2009     Views: 28 Replies: 3
  Topic: The Earth is cooling; the man from Exxon told me so.     
  Last response by Lobato1c on November 10, 2009

• I'll get the suntan lotion and an electric fan

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 9, 2009     Views: 26 Replies: 2
  Topic: The Earth is cooling; the man from Exxon told me so.     
  Last response by Lobato1c on November 10, 2009

• I wonder what workers in the west think about a system

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on November 9, 2009     Views: 267 Replies: 1
  Topic: I wonder what workers in the west think about a system     
  Last response by nominalize on November 9, 2009

• Good point about the tunnel vision

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on November 9, 2009     Views: 25 Replies: 0
  Topic: I wonder what workers in the west think about a system     
  Last response by nominalize on November 9, 2009

• You don't need famous actors but you do need good ones

  Posted to Movies by steelbucket on November 9, 2009     Views: 32 Replies: 0
  Topic: a cratchety comment     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 9, 2009

• More troops make more targets?

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 7, 2009     Views: 40 Replies: 0
  Topic: More troops make more targets?     
  Last response by steelbucket on November 7, 2009

• Robbers in uniform

  Posted to Explainer by steelbucket on November 5, 2009     Views: 29 Replies: 2
  Topic: Vetting process?     
  Last response by Bottomfish on November 6, 2009

• The song that didn't make it onto Bat out of Hell?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on November 5, 2009     Views: 43 Replies: 0
  Topic: If two out of three ain't bad, what's one out of three?     Rating: +1
  Last response by steelbucket on November 5, 2009

• Define "buying American"?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 28, 2009     Views: 30 Replies: 2
  Topic: Tough to "Buy American"­     
  Last response by americaislost on October 29, 2009

• Yes, when it comes to killing America certainly beats

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 29, 2009     Views: 23 Replies: 1
  Topic: Tough to "Buy American"­     
  Last response by americaislost on October 29, 2009

• No, you don't get it

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 29, 2009     Views: 38 Replies: 1
  Topic: Tough to "Buy American"­     
  Last response by americaislost on October 29, 2009

• So when does the USA invade Canada?

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 27, 2009     Views: 31 Replies: 1
  Topic: Killing and Dying in "the New Great Game": Letter to US GI's     
  Last response by americaislost on October 27, 2009

• How exactly are they stealing it if they are also paying

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 27, 2009     Views: 39 Replies: 1
  Topic: Killing and Dying in "the New Great Game": Letter to US GI's     
  Last response by americaislost on October 27, 2009

• We are all terrorists now

  Posted to Science by steelbucket on October 24, 2009     Views: 354 Replies: 2
  Topic: We are all terrorists now     
  Last response by the beyatles on October 26, 2009

• Look on the Bright side

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 25, 2009     Views: 45 Replies: 1
  Topic: England Regains Control Of America     
  Last response by Seasoldier on October 25, 2009

• Come again?

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 23, 2009     Views: 37 Replies: 1
  Topic: The British View Anne?     
  Last response by Larkers on October 24, 2009

• Didn't Churchill say that the only thing worse than fighting

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 20, 2009     Views: 50 Replies: 0
  Topic: Who's That Sleeping in My Bed?!     Rating: +1
  Last response by Larkers on October 22, 2009

• War by committee

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 20, 2009     Views: 57 Replies: 2
  Topic: Something's been puzzling me     
  Last response by Loki's Curse on October 21, 2009

• American didn't have the dominant command in WW2 until

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 20, 2009     Views: 44 Replies: 0
  Topic: Something's been puzzling me     
  Last response by Loki's Curse on October 21, 2009

• Yes, and the Queen is really a 7ft tall lizard in a rubber

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 18, 2009     Views: 83 Replies: 0
  Topic: Bank of England, Sterling and Government Treason     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 18, 2009

• And there's us all thinking that MI5 was in Stalin's pocket

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 17, 2009     Views: 75 Replies: 0
  Topic: wulk Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolin     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 17, 2009

• Define a good Afghan

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on October 17, 2009     Views: 88 Replies: 0
  Topic: Afghanistan is not sustainable, 9/11 is not redeemable     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 17, 2009

• So whatthe article is saying is that there is a war on and

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 13, 2009     Views: 72 Replies: 1
  Topic: U.S. troops call Afghan region 'Vietnam without napalm'     
  Last response by Wahbooz on October 15, 2009

• With all due respect I think you are over doing this noble

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 12, 2009     Views: 58 Replies: 1
  Topic: This is a fantastic article, and I didn't want     
  Last response by Wahbooz on October 13, 2009

• Apparently we get 16% of our genes from the mongel hordes

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 13, 2009     Views: 78 Replies: 1
  Topic: This is a fantastic article, and I didn't want     
  Last response by Wahbooz on October 13, 2009

• Has anybody ever taken Italian politics seriously?

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 13, 2009     Views: 339 Replies: 1
  Topic: Has anybody ever taken Italian politics seriously?     
  Last response by mikestand on October 13, 2009

• Obama gets a nobel prize for not being Bush

  Posted to Politics by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 286 Replies: 3
  Topic: Obama gets a nobel prize for not being Bush     Rating: +2
  Last response by Zhahara on October 13, 2009

• What would we have done before the internet was invented

  Posted to Politics by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 55 Replies: 0
  Topic: Obama gets a nobel prize for not being Bush     Rating: +2
  Last response by Zhahara on October 13, 2009

• So nothing about the Jackson jive blackface sketch then?

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on October 13, 2009     Views: 294 Replies: 1
  Topic: So nothing about the Jackson jive blackface sketch then?     
  Last response by quidfecisti on October 13, 2009

• The swamp fox was a terrorist

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 70 Replies: 2
  Topic: Is America >>>Creating­ Terrorism?     
  Last response by Wahbooz on October 13, 2009

• Gosh we have been naughty boys

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 11, 2009     Views: 79 Replies: 2
  Topic: Is America >>>Creating­ Terrorism?     
  Last response by Wahbooz on October 13, 2009

• Hate to admit it but climate change /global warming is one

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 12, 2009     Views: 75 Replies: 0
  Topic: The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change!!! -     
  Last response by write_on on October 12, 2009

• Global warming: This is going to upset a lot of people

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 12, 2009     Views: 122 Replies: 4
  Topic: Global warming: This is going to upset a lot of people     Rating: +1
  Last response by Loree on October 12, 2009

• And will he have to give it back when global warming

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 62 Replies: 2
  Topic: Gore Earned His     Rating: +1
  Last response by steelbucket on October 12, 2009

• The joke's on us

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 12, 2009     Views: 58 Replies: 0
  Topic: Gore Earned His     Rating: +1
  Last response by steelbucket on October 12, 2009

• Why are American edition book covers changed for the worst?

  Posted to Books by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 125 Replies: 0
  Topic: Why are American edition book covers changed for the worst?     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 10, 2009

• You mean you've only just realised that AA shouldn't be

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 92 Replies: 0
  Topic: Oh, but when it comes to Roman Polanski....     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 10, 2009

• Anybody here heard of Gary Glitter?

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 168 Replies: 0
  Topic: Anybody here heard of Gary Glitter?     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 10, 2009

• Can you name the last few recipents?

  Posted to Politics by steelbucket on October 10, 2009     Views: 73 Replies: 0
  Topic: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 10, 2009

• Typically weird Hitchens again

  Posted to Fighting Words by steelbucket on October 5, 2009     Views: 828 Replies: 3
  Topic: Typically weird Hitchens again     Rating: -1
  Last response by telesonic on October 5, 2009

• Damned if he did, damned if he didn't

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 4, 2009     Views: 75 Replies: 0
  Topic: Blame It On Rio.....     
  Last response by steelbucket on October 4, 2009

• Lying in the Sun

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on October 2, 2009     Views: 86 Replies: 1
  Topic: President Blair ‘within weeks’ -     
  Last response by TickleBob on October 2, 2009

• You have this back to front

  Posted to War Stories by steelbucket on September 30, 2009     Views: 76 Replies: 0
  Topic: Why would *al Qaida* want to topple Pakistan's government?     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 30, 2009

• So are all nations

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on September 30, 2009     Views: 75 Replies: 0
  Topic: America Is Led And Informed By Liars     
  Last response by TickleBob on September 30, 2009

• perhaps it should have been called "Going Rouge" instead

  Posted to Politics by steelbucket on September 30, 2009     Views: 137 Replies: 1
  Topic: perhaps it should have been called "Going Rouge" instead     
  Last response by Reptilicus on September 30, 2009

• Anne, you haven't thought this through have you.

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 29, 2009     Views: 287 Replies: 1
  Topic: Anne, you haven't thought this through have you.     
  Last response by bsharporflat on September 29, 2009

• But you won't have any victory parades unless you win

  Posted to War Stories by steelbucket on September 24, 2009     Views: 90 Replies: 0
  Topic: Excuses, Excuses     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 24, 2009

• Yes, but how many are actually any good or expand

  Posted to Culturebox by steelbucket on September 23, 2009     Views: 304 Replies: 2
  Topic: Yes, but how many are actually any good or expand     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 24, 2009

• I'd forgotten that Being Human would be shown in the USA

  Posted to Culturebox by steelbucket on September 24, 2009     Views: 91 Replies: 0
  Topic: Yes, but how many are actually any good or expand     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 24, 2009

• Except what Poland really wants is American boots on the

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 23, 2009     Views: 90 Replies: 1
  Topic: the column is really about Poland     
  Last response by Einhard on September 23, 2009

• These days, Europe is just for dumb columnists to write

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 22, 2009     Views: 250 Replies: 0
  Topic: These days, Europe is just for dumb columnists to write     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 22, 2009

• The fiction of missile defence

  Posted to War Stories by steelbucket on September 20, 2009     Views: 78 Replies: 1
  Topic: And yet airplanes were flown into buildings...­..     
  Last response by reJoinder on September 22, 2009

• You weren't paying for Polsih defence, you were paying

  Posted to War Stories by steelbucket on September 21, 2009     Views: 77 Replies: 0
  Topic: And yet airplanes were flown into buildings...­..     
  Last response by reJoinder on September 22, 2009

• Thats because we don't have Wallmark

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 21, 2009     Views: 71 Replies: 0
  Topic: Why is the US worried about ships?     Rating: -1
  Last response by HAP on September 21, 2009

• where else will you send them? Try Italy

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 21, 2009     Views: 256 Replies: 0
  Topic: where else will you send them? Try Italy     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 21, 2009

• No, he's too black

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 17, 2009     Views: 84 Replies: 0
  Topic: is Obama america's Neville Chamberlain?     
  Last response by Uncle Squinky on September 18, 2009

• Churchill may have been unimpressed by Chamberlin

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 18, 2009     Views: 75 Replies: 1
  Topic: is Obama america's Neville Chamberlain?     
  Last response by Uncle Squinky on September 18, 2009

• Boyle to do porno

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on September 18, 2009     Views: 130 Replies: 1
  Topic: Boyle to do porno     
  Last response by Arkady on September 18, 2009

• yes, that's right

  Posted to Kausfiles Special by steelbucket on September 18, 2009     Views: 86 Replies: 1
  Topic: Boyle to do porno     
  Last response by Arkady on September 18, 2009

• Americans always get it wrong

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 17, 2009     Views: 229 Replies: 2
  Topic: Americans always get it wrong     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 18, 2009

• No, we Brits prefer to muddle through in the mistaken belief

  Posted to Foreigners by steelbucket on September 17, 2009     Views: 54 Replies: 1
  Topic: Americans always get it wrong     
  Last response by steelbucket on September 18, 2009