Walsingham

Au contraire, Doctor. this topic is more particularly about illegal immigration, and lately your attitude to law enforcement. You allege that irrespective of any other considerations breaking the law should be punished. If you are unwilling to apply the rule to yourself then surely the circumstances can change the way the law is applied.

Oh them. They would be pretty well off if countries like the US legalized opiates. All that opium that Afghanistan grows, they could make a decent amount of money in sales. Actualy, no they couldn't. Opium is so easy to grow market forces would slash the cost. Would hardly be worth growing! However, in one of his smarter moves Tony B has suggested Afghanistan should be allowed to grow opium for legal production of medicines. A smart plan (up to a point) in my opinion as there's a chronic shortage of cheap palliatives in a lot of developing and wartorn states.

*Ponders* then you think this molasses and nutmeg in a bottle, with the word 'marinade' crossed out and replaced with 'shampoo' might also be suspicious?

You are not wrong, my *tries to think of sluglike thingy* chum. When I'm working at top speed my common sense is often left far behind. I tried to make soup out of rotten avocadoes last week. Very odd, but could be worse I suppose.

I join you. Let us adjourn to the forum coffee shop, old bean.

Your position thus far has been an iron insistence that society must have total obedience to the law. If that really is your position then I suggest it is disonest to avoid punishment for breaking the law. Have you any intentio of going in and cofessing? And have you any intention to insist on punihsment or you will try to have the officers who will interview you in goggle-eyed astonishment sacked?

In that case, be sure and leave the poor old lady alone. She'll kick the bejayzus out of ye.

I'm curious to know if Sando has always received just punishment for every law he's ever broken.

Genetlemen, please! This isn't the House of Lords.

The green dragon believes in YOU, my dear. EDIT: Does anyone else wonder whether Fionavar is nurturing us, or fattening us to eat?

I was hungover today, on top of having to organise two separate projects and attend an interview. I wound up eating (if memory serves) Two bowls of homemade vegetable soup. Two oatcakes ten glasses of water two mugs of coffee 6 chicken legs half a loaf of sunflower bread five chocolate brownies a tray of sushi 4 mixed berry biscuits a mug of jam mixed with custard powder and hot water (which was disturbingly delicious) A mug of horlicks God that sounds awful...

Aaaah, Daaaave. Sando is already more powerful, and more terrible than any of us realise.

Maybe they should. It is, after all, impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho.

It's at times like this that I feel the way a London bobby would if he rounded a corner and found God bespoiling the service entrance of a shop.

I have one simple reason why i could never buy a mac, and that is the games. I want games!

No problems at the moment. But no long sessions of gameplay so far either.

Walsingham examines the dice and discovers a piece of gum is stuck to the opposite face of the dice, accounting for all the crit fumbles. He unobtrusively attaches it to the face opposite crit success...

I have to point these things out. At least I think I do. I really fidn it creepy listening to you, actually. It's almost exactly like every group I've ever played in. Are gamers really so samey?

Liberate te ex inferis. Good thing for used bookstores, old game rule nooks can be found there. Damn you francophobes. I was misquoting. What I wrote sounds like 'guerre' as in war. But I wrote 'gare' as in train station. Oh never mind.

The book was pretty good. Moseley - if memory serves - is a dry but effective writer. Not exactly Raymond Chandler, but good enough to see you through a weekend in a foreign city.

Okay, and I am arguing that given a finite law enforcement capability the offence of illegally being resident should be lower on the list than you are suggesting. An amnesty allows thejustice system to draw a line under existing offences for those willing to now play ball. Which in turn gives moral and practical impetus to a much harsher crackdown subsequently. Gun amnesties are a clasic example of this, which work worldwide. EDIT: In this case, for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6956322.stm Where an immigrant died due to panicking while selling bootleg DVDs I have no sympathy. The compound nature of the crime while not deserving the death sentence should certainly result in immediate expulsion. I also believe that such expulsion should carry registry on a DNA database and permanent future exclusion.

I not sure how an achievable win is either disconnected from a long term campaign, or why you think Afghanistan is not part of the agenda. Afghanistan has been on the agenda since 9/11. A failure in Afghanistan at this stage woud not only wreck US attempts to inroad central Asia, but would directly weaken Pakistan. A country teetering on the brink of Jifascism and who even an Independent on Sunday journalist would agree has nukes.

But the impact of your policy will be the sabotage of your strategic allies, and markets for your goods, never mind the domestic economic and human fallout. Your ignoring advances made this century stems from your unwilllingness to acknowledge that no nation is an island. We are all inextricably interconnected, and recognising that fact is not just essential but provokes a strategic emphasis on cooperation and mutual assistance (as Hurlshot said).

What's Devil in a Blue Dress like? I read the book many years ago.

Hello, Dave. Good evening sire. How are things on this pleasant day? Anything exciting and life changing happen this past month or so whilst I've been too drunk to operate the forums ? Yes. I have worked out how to post while too drunk to operate the forum. Sand has lost the ability to understand second order dynamics. Hurlshot, Tigranes, and Azarkon keep implanting thoughts in my head. Fionavar left for a while, but our cardboard dragon fooled everyone.