Walsingham

It seems extraordinary to me - and on this occasion I am not suggesting I am right - that anyone could view a government that does nothing at such a crucial moment in the nation's history as a good thing! I was raised on statesmen like William Pitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Nye Bevan, Winston Churchill. Statesmen who used their authority to steer the ship of state, not sit drinking mai tais on the sundeck.

Would you expect the national chiropractor's association to comment on how bad he is, instead? Seems a bit outside their sphere. My point precisely. I am commenting on the wider issue of how asinine PETA's mission is in the context of the far greater evils afoot in the world.

It's like staring at Godzilla rampaging across downtown Tokyo and saying "You know, I don't think posture's very good." As he chews up a power station. I'm talking priorities here. EDIT: or criticising the unrestricted trade in arms because it is untidy.

Long long day staring at simultaneous equations, like a man trying to unknot spaghetti by blinking.

NO time to assist, I'm afraid. Good luck with your masters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6948738.stm PETA speaks out against Hamas' treatment of animals. The terrifying thing is that in many people's minds this is a clearer moral issue than terrorism.

More precisely, I'm going to go with 7.62x45 Czech. http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/Assault.htm

Cant wins.

Discussion today: W. What are we playing next week? J. We could play Royal Navy. W. I know this one! Is that where we have a ****tail party and mock the French?

They need to be controlled. Anything that destoys moral on the home front should be omitted. Truth of whatever negative situation that happened can come to light after the war. Just look at Vietnam. News people sticking their nose where it doesn't belong cause moral issues at home, leading to war protesters and riots. That's a good example, if a tricky one in my mind. On the one hand the war was lost by a loss of civilian morale. But at the same time it was lost by diastrous and wrong-headed strategy and tactics. Facts that were accurately reported. My feeling is that the public reacted wrongly. Rather than fixing the damn problem they upped and quit.

I'm purely guessing here, but isn't that a mint condition 5.56 on the left and mint soviet 7.62 on the right? In any case Aram is right they must have been dropped. Besides which what's the news here? It's like reporting snow in the Arctic. Unless the point is to highlight that occasionally civilians make up stories. Have I ever told you about the time Jacques Chirac broke into my bathroom and ate half the soap? EDIT: In fact they're clearly both the same claibre. But I'm still saying 7.62 soviet.

Geee. And here's me thinking it was the primary source of power into the Earth's eco-system.

Care to support that statement. I don't think I've ever been anywhere I couldn't have gone to live if I wanted to.

I'd like to see a Red Meat hollywood franchise.

I believe it would be an excellent idea to have a 'if you bust in you can never count on staying' rule. But it would need to be implimented from now on. the problem would be that this would make illegal immgrant communitie even more secretive and prone to problems and abuse. Would I be being too much the copper if I suggested that the police should have powers to grant/boost an citizenship application in exchange for cooperation in tackling crime?

Good idea. You've got plenty of spare capacity in your penal system for a couple million new persons. MOreover did you stop to consider that these poor chaps are just looking for work? Does that make them evil?

It isn't a bloody theme park! I'm suggesting you just have the PCs work as the people who suffer an attempted robbery and have the chance to report it to the authority and probe the horrors of the clan's stinking cave.

I recently started using an organic fruit and veg delivery service. It is quite superb. I'm betting you live in Georgia!

Sando does tend to live in a 1890s world in most respects. However, I have to agree with him. With few exceptions (and none I can bring to mind) it is better to establish an official position than to turn a blind eye. Illegal immigrant populations suffer more or less needlessly from poor health and safety treatment, and are prey and fodder for organised crime, existing as they do beyond the law. Why not institute guest worker status for these people? I haven't thought of this before, but isn't that what Germany does? Switzerland - and I find it repugnant myself - permits people to live and work there as basically slaves who hope to 'earn' tehir freedom as a Swiss citizen. A complex process.

taks revives what I feel is an important point from my original post. T owhat extent should the press be under control during national crises such as wartime? Leaving aside the general impact of the media on warfare in a democratic country, there have been specific incidents where even public service broadcasters like the BBC have aired reports indicating operational intent. These reports have lead to enemy speculative artilllery fire. On most major occasions the only thing preventing disaster has been that the enemy can't believe we would be so stupid as to release such information. They assume it is disinformation. Examples of this would be the asssault on Goose Green in the Falklands, or the Iranian embassy seige where reporters broadcast live the fact that hostage rescue units were going in. In the case of the latter, and given that the terrorists were known to have TVs it was quite staggering that no deaths resulted. As i say we have been trememndously lucky in the past, with these keys instances. But the fact is that as awareness spreads of our tendency more people will take advantage of it. The counter-argument is naturally that the people have a right to know. But I ask on what timescale have they a right to know? The people cannot do anything about operations 8,000 miles away, or even in London that day or even that week.

I had completely forgotten how sexy Gillian Anderson was.

Sorry, Pop. I have got so used to the inundation of Youtube by people who say stuff like 'wyt racsrs arebestLOL OMFG . All *racial epithet* are stink cabbage. I R better than mandela. Ha ha ha." I actually misread Ron Paul as Ru Paul. I suggest you try it.

I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. I 'm just curious You mean top five most recent? I watched Jarhead recently, as I may have mentioned. That was a surprisingly good war movie.

LMFAO! I hadn't thought of that. Someone should tell the BBC.

I didn't think Saints and soldiers was that great. Not bad, but not great.