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• guthrie commented on The Future Is Not American
  Not exactly; strangely enough a lot of money flowed north to bribe the scottish electorate (A few hundred landowners*) into voting yes. Meanwhile the rest of the country wasn't so interested in it, poverty not withstanding. *Numbers not guaranteed to be accurate, but I can't recall where I have the relevant figures....
• guthrie commented on The Future Is Not American
  I like to call it a score draw. Our king went south, they bribed our parliament. Net result- something that could have happened several centuries earlier if the right people had died off in time....
• Martin commented on The Future Is Not American
  As far as I know there have been no Scottish armed insurrections against English rule since the Jacobite rising Except it wasn't Scotland v. England - it was Rangers v. Celtic, aka the ancient Scottish fixation of Catholicism versus Protestantism. King Charles (a Protestant) died; his brother King James (Jacobus Rex in Latin, hence "Jacobite") was Catholic. The previous rounds of "burn the heretic" were comparatively recent - you might want to look up the Cameronians, and exactly why they were unique as a regiment in carrying their weapons in church (sword drawn, in the case of the Piquet Officer...
• Martin commented on The Future Is Not American
  Correct; that year was 1968....
• keithmasterson@yahoo.com commented on The Future Is Not American
  On the original theme of 'the future is not american', apparently americans in their heart of hearts are okay with that, witness the spate of British nationals appointed to serve as CEOs at some of the mega-est of megafirms lately, Walmart, McDonalds, and AIG come to mind although I'm sure I've heard a few others making statements recently on Nitely Bidness Report. I'd be tempted to give the UK credit for a historical tradition of maintaining farflung business empires as a causal factor, but it's probably a whole lot simpler. Employees making ten bucks an hour are less likely to...