Let's be honest, Margaret Thatcher was a great Prime Minister

[EarlG]

[Arugula Latte]

1. EarlG, FTW

I love it when you chime in like this.

[Make7]

2. This thread may prevent her spirit from crossing over. ( n/t )

[Kennah]

22. From the 5th circle to the 7th circle? n/t

[jmowreader]

25. She's already in the eighth circle

According to Dante:

Bolgia 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators) are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals.[41] The barrators are the political analogue of the simoniacs, and Dante devotes several cantos to them. They are guarded by devils called the Malebranche ("Evil Claws&quot , who provide some savage and satirical black comedy – in the last line of Canto XXI, the sign for their march is provided by a fart: "and he had made a trumpet of his ass."[42] The leader of the Malebranche, Malacoda ("Evil Tail&quot , assigns a troop to escort Virgil and Dante safely to the next bridge. The troop hook and torment one of the sinners (identified by early commentators as Ciampolo), who names some Italian grafters and then tricks the Malebranche in order to escape back into the pitch. The promise of safe conduct the poets received from the demons turns out to have limited value (and there is no "next bridge&quot ,[43] so the poets are forced to scramble down into the sixth Bolgia (Cantos XXI through XXIII).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You're up awfully late.....and it's paying off!

[2ndAmForComputers]

4. Some RW whiner will tell you that you have no spirit. Just wait.

[PDJane]

5. The woman put other women back 50 years.

And 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" is at the top of the brit charts............

[rhett o rick]

6. k&r and thanks for posting

[defacto7]

7. May I make this post a little more serious....

She really was a great politician.



now, poops away................

[awoke_in_2003]

14. No...

it's grave pooping.

[L0oniX]

9. LMAO n/t

[rocktivity]

10. (Pre-click prediction) For me to poop on?

But wait, there's more -- this ISN'T the first time I was reminded of Triumph today!

rocktivity

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. Wuh?

OMG!!!

Anal mucus

[OnyxCollie]

19. An oft-referred to subject in William S. Burroughs books. nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. She was a true "iron maiden"

[Salviati]

12. Was waiting for that to load... and was not dissapointed :)

[Iggo]

36. Heheheh....Load. (n/t)

[RGinNJ]

13. Thought I was lost.

But found She was brown.

[PD Turk]

15. ROFLMAO!!

When I read the title I was 99% sure what the punch line was going to be... it didn't disappoint!

[ReRe]

16. EarlG...

... you made a funny..

[chknltl]

18. Yeah but Dennis Miller liked her.....

...... wait a minute...... Dennis WHO??? Isn't he that sorta funny guy who lost his cushy HBO gigs and now sucks up to that pompous overcaffinated O'Riely fellow In order to get a paycheck for smoking pot while spouting Ayn Randian selfishness and little known sports trivia on the radio to folks who struggle with high school level Gozinta? Can we poop on him too?

[OnyxCollie]

20. !

high school level Gozinta

[Kennah]

21. Never, have so many, pooped so much ...

[pacalo]

23. She had a smile to match her inner beauty...

[BlueMTexpat]

24. And while her Tory cronies are doing their best to dismantle

any social safety net in the UK (yet even in this, many of those Tories are still to the left of many US Dem politicians and that is a truly sorry state of affairs!), Lady Thatcher spent her final days in a suite at the Ritz.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256286/Lady-Thatcher-recuperates-The-Ritz-Former-PM-stays-luxury-suite-recovers-minor-surgery.html

[DFW]

26. The Nation re-ran an interesting piece by Christopher Hitchens about her from 1990

Well worth reading. Entitled "Lessons Maggie taught me"

http://www.thenation.com/article/173706/lessons-maggie-taught-me?rel=emailNation%22

One snip: "Detestable though she was, she was a radical and not a reactionary. She has not been removed for any of her offenses against democracy or decency. Rather, she has been deposed by those who worship only opinion polls and their own skins and who yearn for a quiet life and business as usual--living gallantly off the fat of the land."

Ends with "If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from (Thatcher), then we might not have to look upon her like again."

Should be required reading for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Obama White House.

[idwiyo]

27. K&R and spot on! Rust In Pieces!

[alterfurz]

28. Frankie Boyle on the estimated £3million cost of Thatcher's state funeral:

"For £3million, they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally."

[MichaelSoE]

29. coffee out the nose ... ooooh that stings

[Aristus]

30. The Russians have a great word to use in this context:

Grahzny.

It can mean 'great', awe-inspiring', or 'terrible', or 'filthy'.

I think the latter two describe Thatcher perfectly...

[RZM]

33. Actually that's incorrect. You're conflating two different words with different spellings

грозный (grozny) = awesome, great, etc., a la Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozny)

грязный (griazny) = dirty, filthy, etc.

Not the same word, though they are very close - only one letter is different.

[Aristus]

35. Thank you. I stand corrected.

I thought my Russian was better than that...

[steve2470]

31. k&r nt

[MotherPetrie]

32. K & FUCKING R!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ikonoklast]

34. How do you sleep at night, EarlG?

I mean, really.






Twin size, king, water-bed, futon?

All cotton sheets or a synthetic blend?

Just curious.





Anyway, Thatcher never met a dictator she didn't slobber over in paroxysms resembling sexual frenzy, a poor person whose life she couldn't make even worse then laugh about it, or a working-class wage earner she didn't despise even though she used their children to fill the ranks of the military in her little dreams of a faded Empire.


Glad she's dead, too bad it took so long for it to happen.