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.

Shortie,

Read the poster.

My heart was lifted I thought it read Cameron has been sectioned.

My thoughts were throw away the key!

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cynic.

What is your opinion of Judaism and the belief of the "Chosen Race" which permeates the Israeli thinking of the problems in the M.E.?


Of course you can skate past the question!

do you actually mean judaism?
i think not

what do i think of the way the israeli gov't is treating the palestinians in gaza?
disgusting

Being Buddhist I'll sit this debate out and play with my bells...

Lol

Much of the muck being thrown around about immigration reminds me of sitting down to supper with my father as a boy.

He had a smile and chuckle on his face and of course I asked why.

He explain that he had been to a management/Union/representative meeting held regularly at the pit which manage.
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His idea of holding regular meetings was to diffuse problems and discuss changes on the pit before they occurred to prevent strikes. (These meetings were very successful.)

His smiling and chuckling was that earlier that day when informing such a meeting, that he was preparing to introduce a group of Italian miners to work on the pit, as there was a shortage man power.

He expected had some problems from the indigenous Welsh miners, but none occurred, until the representative of Polish miners who were already working on the pit stated, that they didn't want a "bloody foreigners" coming to worked at "their" pit.

He said that the meeting broke down in laughter and the meeting closed.

Many of the Italian and Polish miners eventually fell into the arms of Welsh girls and "married" them, were accepted and settled down to bring up families in nearby villages.


(I know there is a problem between being absorbed into and overwhelming the indigenous population.)

(Mind some of the Italians had lovely voices.)

This was after the time of the Bracchi shops.

muslims in the uk know who the murderer is when it is known they and all their kind and family must be kicked out .all religions are just evil .any one who has any brans knows god is a fairy tale

so fred, did i answer the question you intended to ask?

cynic you have never answered any question you avoid facts

off to cost del sol soon for a nice break

Has anyone read the book Of mice and men. :-))

Tanker - All religions have the potential for evil but also the potential to do great good... The problem occurs when conflict in the 'name' of religion occurs. To say all religions are evil suggests that you don't hold any faith. Surely you must if not for yourself but a loved one.

i didn't ask you or for your opinion (on anything) ...... and assuredly fred has a tongue of his own

Manuel,

Aren't you ducking one of the questions.

Part of the problems of the ME. could be thought as primitive tribal interpretation of various religions and the belief in the superiority of their "cultures" at the expense of those of "others".

The ends which are wished to be obtained have very little difference at the end of the day (supremacy of one over another, or sometimes a rejection of such positioning).

The ways of obtaining such goals are played out in different ways but really they are similar.
Instigation of fear by killing and maiming, whether from a plane 5000 feet in sky, bombing and maiming indiscriminately etc, or a suicide bomber blowing themselves up dismembering and destroying human life for his cause.

The wounded, maimed, injured or dead and their families have similar feelings.

Religion is not the problem, the problem is the abuse of religion!

not intentionally ducking anything, but nor has the palestinian question really anything to do with judaism

it is however a fact that certain jewish sects think that israel (for convenience) is "their" promised land
one could certainly reasonably argue that the creeping annexation of gaza is just greed hiding under a facade of religion
if that land had oil reserves, it would be easier to explain but patently it does not!

whatever the reason, my personal view is that the current israeli action is disgusting almost beyond words ...... though nor do i take the view that gaza "belongs" as of right to the palestinians/arabs either!

Cameron is a confident man!

Debating is not his problem. It is the manner of the debate which matters.

Cameron means that he wants Farage, Miliband and Clegg manacled and gagged before he will consider the debates.


I wonder if Wee Alec can represent the SNP.

Should be fun!


PS. as Boris is forming his ow party can he take part as well.

What party is Boris forming Fred?!

There's no point in Salmond representing the SNP when he has resigned as First Minister.

Parliament channel now showing the Palestinian debate to be followed by a vote.

DB4.

The "I LOVE MYSELF PARTY".

Egocentric and self-fulfilling!