Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

fred - i forgot that you think you think you're always right

sticky - it seems to me that all parties have had the education system messed up for years and years .... it's prob a non seq, but i think an awful lot goes back to this nonsense whereby teachers are forbidden to discipline pupils - shame it's not done at home either - and that "you lost/failed" became a totally banned phrase

Cynic,

I am not always right, just usually.

Still working on the few remaining faults I was born with.

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Part of the problem with Education and NHS and other institutions is the constant change, rather than allowing changes (many quite reasonable) to bed down and given time for changes to bed down and the minor faults to be dealt with, each new administration wants to rush in changes often ideological in attempt to get glory points.

The constant changes demoralise the staff working in those fields as they have moving goals to contend with and the reasonable plans they had are torn up.

Evolution is useful, revolution may often be useful in the long term but often messy and painful for many in the short term.

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I was told when I bought a new (old) house and was looking at the garden in winter and considering what to do with it, to leave it for 12-18 months in order to see what grew, and what each of the seasons looked like in turn, as the garden had been there for many years and a lot of work had already been put into it.

The advice was correct when the bulbs flower and the clematis blossomed.

Fools rush in where ------------ !

I took my car in for a service and decided to walk back. I walked past a church that had a sign outside. It read

I know I am someone because
God, my father
He don't make no rubbish.
Psalm ...

I might take a photo of it when I go back.

He don't make no rubbish.

He recycles it

Ah, Yes.

What is missing from Ch..ch?
'UR'

Honk if you love Jesus.
Text him whilst driving if you want to meet him.

Don't let worries kill you.
Let the church help.

Whoever is praying for snow...
Please stop!

Where will you be in Eternity?
'Smoking' or 'Non Smoking'?

Execline

Did you read my post 38900 above?

I think everyone can love anyone, any prophet, etc. That's its choice, but imposing its choice to others is wrong. No matter how powerful or weak the guy is....
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I wonder why the media do not talk about 529 death penalty verdict in Egypt. Aren't they considered as human?
If it was in China, or any other country, the media would talk about it every second.

Even the mud slide death in Washington appears not so interesting these days!

We are getting used to crises. The headlines are getting like

"Massive earthquake; not too many dead"

I was working somewhere about 40 years ago. The site manager sent everyone a memo that said,

"Please be vigilant as acts of god are on the increase".

But ignoring life of 529 people with death penalty for killing one policeman in Egypt, 90 people missing in mud slide in the US, and 239 people missing due to airplane disappearance is disgusting.

858 human life.... How can they ignore these and sleep at night?

By the Way, Kiev couldn't imagine receiving this much money. Thanks to Crimea and Russia, they are celebrating receiving the cash!! Crimean are probably happier with Russia support and investment, and no increase in gas prices.

Perhaps!!! With Egypt there may be consideration that the majority of death penalties are commuted and provoking the "Judiciary" and "henchmen" may lead to them choosing the death penalty, rather than the more preferred route of prison.

Also, Egypt seems a confusion and while the Military Cabal of Egypt is "unattractive", Morsi and the Moslem Brotherhood are equally so.

Also, the present government is more interested in their back pockets and selling arms or weapons to the the highest bidders than "morality". (Sorry, market forces.)

The media seems as ineffective The Ukraine and Egypt, because of the confusion.

arms dealing
same all over the world in any country you want to mention
in your utopian world, you may be able to ban it, but in the real world that is never ever going to happen


egyptian purge
very unsavoury, but not hugely surprising i'm afraid
not entirely sure the logic is right either, as making martyrs of people has a habit of enhancing their cause

Anyone know if halifax is okay? He used to post quite a lot on the shares threads and I haven't seen him around for some time.

I don't bother about muslin brotherhood, but ignoring the verdict and not punishing the country is fundamentally wrong. In Crimea only two people died, one Crimean (pro-Russian) and one Ukrainian, even though it is not clear who killed the two.

90 missing is US and airplane loss are more important than initiating war because of Russian supported referendum in Crimea.

Destruction and Initiating war is always easy, it just needs an excuse.

Haystack

Sorry. Yes, I did read it.

The story sounds extremely credible and it only really leaves TWO important unknowns (I'm sure there must many more, though).

"...238 people may have died because of one person’s suicide plot. But while this theory may answer why the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, it raises another question: Why did the pilot want to take his own life, and the lives of so many others?"

So why did he commit suicide?

Possible answer: The pilot of doomed flight MH370 was distraught over his wife’s decision to move out of their family home

And why did he take the passengers with him?

I guess he was so utterly pissed off with his wife and life in general, he 'road raged' about things, 'totally flipped' and thought, "Well, if that's what you get for being a good guy all your life, then why not!" ie. A sort of 'revenge act ' against the whole of the human race and society in general with all of its injustices, difficulties and all of the horrible situations it puts people in and then just expects them simply to be able to deal with all of such stuff and then simply move on.

Perhaps this guy just couldn't do that?

This shows that he loved his wife too much and probably was unhappy about other issues otherwise he wouldn't do this to 238 other people.

These days, only a the rich who manage our money and, in most cases, our governments are happy. The rest are just trying to keep up or follow these guys.

Manuel,

“Never” is a long way away!
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I suppose capitalism and its flawed capitalist theory, for you and many others, is the substitute for a "god", or a "religion" and for the moment justifies personal actions.

To me, sometimes, it is interesting to examine the raison d'être of some who wish to promulgate their limited capitalist concepts with such religious fervour and yet deny the any justification of various groups for having their more simplistic satisfaction from the beliefs and practices.

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Another U-Turn for Cameron and cronies and adherents.

Enquiry into Energy Markets.

Adopting labour policies more and more!

Cameron continues to open his mouth but it is not attached to his brain.

Perhaps, it went up in smoke and blown away in the past.


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do the above two paras actually have a link?

btw, "flawed capitalist theory" is no more flawed than the flawed communist ideals which have pretty much bitten the dust worldwide ...... my guess is that the underlying cause of that is that communism fatally denies and does so by its nature both free will and human nature

the closest one came to a true and successful communism was the short-lived and small-scale early israeli kibbutzim, but those were driven by a different force from a communal ideal .... i think that makes good sense (english!)