London mayor calls American ambassador a "crook"!!!

davidmc

Ken Livingston calls American ambassador a "chisling little crook" because of americans refusal to pay "congestion-charge" for use of diplomatic vehicles. American Embassy claims that diplomats do not pay taxes.
http://www.theworld.org/latestediti.../20060328.shtml

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MountainPro

and if you think thats bad just think how the entire Chinese govt feels...

what did Ken call them?...

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davidmc

listen to the audio, its a riot.
Its about 6 items down on the hyperlink
London mayor interview (3:45)

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

MountainPro

this is a British/Chinese diplomatic issue and has nothing to do with the US.

and China had a thriving economy before Europe even colonised the land that was to become the US.

read up.

and by the way, its "You're so stupid."

and "You're an ASS!".

if you are going to insult someone do it properly.

these are fundamental and basic grammatical errors that you should have ironed out before you reached 11 years old...are you sure you are 30 something?

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davidmc

I think it is funny to listen to the interview. Has anyone done it-desert_RAT or MountainPro I included the hyperlink for you guys.

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

davidmc

Methinks he is all of 17 yrs. old

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

Carrera

Ken Livingstone is one particular guy I would like to nail with a solid left hook. I don't know what it is about that guy but he gets right up my nose and always have done.
People over here who feel the same way as me call him the "weasel".
This is a guy who wrung his hands publically over those cartoons in Denmark and blamed the Danish people as a whole (as if they can dictate what newspapers print).

MountainPro

i listened to it man...its the usual KL stuff...

its funny...but as the interview points out: no one in the UK will be shocked at KL calling the ambassador a crook...he says worse things than that..

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davidmc

Here'a an update. It is reported that the congestion tax amounts to only $14/vehicle. The Mayor says he may seek legal action to enforce the charge. I think the American's should pay the charge, regardless of precedent set, due to our complicity, nay, our "lions-share" emission of fossil-fuels greenhouse-gases Anyone w/ me

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

davidmc

He sounds like a colorful/boisterous individual.
Here is the web page outlining the charge. I think it is a good idea to cut down on non-essential use of vehicles/laziness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/congestion/intro.shtml

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

davidmc

Very well then. It "paints" bush/cheney/rice/rumsfeld/wolfowitz, ect...in a good light. No, you know me better than that. You probably wouldn't want to view this then, either:
http://www.itmfa.com/

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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
US comedian and actor (1937 - )

MountainPro

its okay rattie, you dont have to read anything....you just click on the link and listen...

panic over.

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limerickman

In fairness to Red Ken - his congestion charge has cleaned up a lot of traffic problems in Central London and it's good that it has forced people to use public transport from an environmental aspect.

He should take action against those who don't pay the charge.

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morelike hypocrisy.

rule62

Classy guy.

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