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Concur. We need yet another thread on this about as much as a hole in the Yarmulk! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I would have thought he'd 'a' had a chat with God about it... Perhaps he's been told it's an "Acclimatisation Program"? Meanwhile, Dubbie's been told not to worry about it being hot where he's going! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Mr. Micawber also had an enduring refrain about "Annual Income & Annual Expenditure"! Of course, sliding the goalposts around doesn't matter so much if: "Tomorrow? By then it'll be someone else's problem!" Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And suddenly... Just when you think Israel couldn't be any more stupid... Comes a flash of the old Israeli tactical genius! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5236834.stm Brilliant. Striking the fighting part of Hezb'Allah right where it lives! Hitting it where it'll hurt most. Now. Why the feck didn't Israel do this at first, instead of bombing the shit out of Southern Lebanon's civilian infrastructure? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

So... Invading them... Bombing them back into the stone age... shooting them... Occupying their country... Etc... Doesn't work. No Shit, Sherlock! Tony B'Liar, News International's newest political columnist, certainly has his finger on the pulse... And, no doubt, Rupert Murdoch's cock in his mouth! Can't you just see him & Dubbie doing a "Point-Counterpoint" thing at the bottom of the hour!!? Dubbie: "We should just bomb the bastards back to the stone Age!" B'Liar: "Yes... But in an understanding way that's in line with their culture!" Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And, evidently, no-one else does. What if Israel deliberately attacked American military units? Just wondering. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Playing the person rather than the argument again? Had the IRA deliberately killed 19 civilians, would the RAF have bombed Belfast, Londonderry, Dublin etc...? The IRA did... & The RAF didn't. The Birmingham & Guildford Pub Bombings spring most immediately to mind. That would be because Britain chose to focus on fighting the "freedom-fighters", rather than lashing out blindly & incompetently at the general population who may (or may not) be sympathetic. PIRA has also kidnapped, tortured & murdered British soldiers. We didn't bomb Belfast, Londonderry & Dublin over that either. What is surprising about the current poll is that so far no-one has voted that Israel is right, yet so far 4 folk have voted that "Israel is a terrorist state"! I honestly expected only ONE such vote on this board. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

With regard to Israel's recent actions in Lebanon, and of course the attendant news coverage... How, if at all, has your opinion of Israel changed? And why? Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Cheating has occurred throughout sporting history. For example, in the Tour-de-France, one winner was disqualified for doing part of the course by train! Other competitors were found to be "biting cork" (attached to a car by fishing line & being pulled along). And that's before we get to nobbling the competition with laxatives in their water & itching powder in their clothing! The winner of The Marathon in the 1904 Olympics in America was also disqualified for... Doing part of the race in a car! The three runners up were also disqualified for taking Strychnine (in small doses, the performance-enhancing-poison of the day. The eventual winner of this Marathon by default, a Cuban Postman, Felix Carvajal (How's THAT for Cuban history, Steel), actually had to run an extra 3 miles because he was chased by a vicious dog... Then had to stop to sleep of the effects of some rotten apples he'd stopped and picked up from an orchard earlier in the race! Records may not have been broken, but it was still entertaining! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The "Not-A-Clue" brit actually said: "Incidentally, Raul Castro is a given to follow Fidel as leader. He won't last long - he's only 5 years younger than Fidel. My money's then on Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Roque." And from the link: "Fidel Castro, suffering from a serious illness, ceded power Monday night to his brother, 75-year-old Raúl Castro, the leader of Cuba's armed forces." Now, Y'aAll will have to excuse me while I log into the Cuba Government website and send my hopes for Comrade Fidel's rapid recovery and a speedy return to his enlightened leadership & inspirational speeches.

I'm surprised that they haven't already! I mean... Now that this is no longer a tarrorist incident, no longer a "hate-crime", now the actions of a lunatic... It's NOT indicative of the majority of law-abiding gun owners. / Gun-Control would stop lunatics shooting people. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Should the question be: "Are you sure the Kill-Castro lobby is that powerful? No offence but counter-revolutionary Cuban immigrants must make up a tiny percentage of the voting population"? I'm assuming that at least some, probably the majority, of Cuban-Americans have assimilated into American life and no longer see themselves as exiles waiting to return, by force if necessary? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I call him a frustrated Red State kind of guy who did not fit into the progressive atmosphere of Seattles Rave scene.... and could not get laid... And the Pakistani with mental problems who wasn't taking his meds? Like I said before: A sad indictment of America's gun availability and it's health-care system. Perhaps not so relevant to Judaism & Islam, more relevant to state mental health policies? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The BBC. Quoting an Israeli Human Rights Group; B'tselem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5212870.stm Then again, the source may be dismissed as Self-Hating-Jews rather than a bona-fide human-rights group. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Bet that's his last interview for a while! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Speaking of Israel's "Other Fronts": http://www.doublestandards.org/jaz1.html listing JEWISH anti-Israeli sites. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

It most certainly is. Maybe for a Cuban senator or somebody somehow involved in Castro's regime. The one thing the area WASN'T devoid of was young women (who I suspect weren't there in their capacity as civil servants or Cuban-Tourist-Board agents)! I understood the local term was "Jockeys"! One look at the fat balding businessmen (including some Americans via Mexico & Canada) with the mini-skirted "22-year-olds" was the saddest reflection of the Cuban economy. Perhaps I should have taken more perfume, jeans & trainers... And one less wife! Then again, perhaps not. Kind of like the fact that the average East-German family owned a supercar; a Maserati; or Lamboghini; or Mercedes Sports; or Aston Martin, etc... Unfortunately Erich Hoeneker happened to have all of them in his garages! Then again, I wonder what Cuba would have been like if Batista had never been overthrown? Had "The Mafia" continued to effectively control the island & Cuban economy? Rather worse, I'll bet. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

A quick browse through this might also be informative: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1203299.stm Mike. PS: Is the area around the Hotel Presidente REALLY devoid of Cubans? Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Just to indulge the "Kill-Castro-Faction"... This seems appropriate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/4899414.stm There's an interesting bit by Osvaldo Paya. He is the head of a small opposition group in Cuba known as the Christian Liberation Movement. "In order to prevent the risk of an explosion of violence on the president's death, Mr Paya supports engaging in dialogue now, in the hope of promoting a peaceful transition to a more democratic system." Then again, I'm sure that a Cuban Dissident actually living in Cuba is simply another "Stupid-Know-Nothing". Mike. (Hoping for another "Velvet-Revolution and hithertofore unaware that Central Havana was a tourist camp prohibited to Cubans!) Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

So... Will the Cuban oil find cause the US to drop their embargo? Or should we all just go & kill Castro? (that's just my little joke) Mike. Incidentally, Raul Castro is a given to follow Fidel as leader. He won't last long - he's only 5 years younger than Fidel. My money's then on Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Roque. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The US ARMED Castro's revolutionaries! America welcomed Castro as far better than rule by Organised-Crime Batista. It was only when he introduced land reforms which impacted on American companies that America protested. Incidentally, by todays standards, Castro's land reforms were actually pretty conservative and effectively form modern company policy today. You can accuse Kennedy of quite a few things, but surely "Pussy" isn't one of them. So... You don't send Comrade Fidel birthday & solidarity cards then? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Once again, because Someone diesn't wholly agree with an extreme viewpoint, they must be "Clueless". Obviously more than you have assumed. How many time have YOU been to Cuba? You seem to assume a lack of knowledge on my part. If Cubans are sucessful in killing that man... Cubans could not possibly be happier any other prospect, other than a regime change in Cuba. I know that for a fact. Which pretty clearly gives YOUR opinion of Cuba - committed anti-Castro. If all CUbans are SO against Castro, then why hasn't there been a popular uprising, rather than a bunch of increasingly marginalised expatriates dreaming of Der-Tag? The good old days of a stable Mafia Capitalist government. If I remember rightly, the last popular uprising in Cuba was... Castro has remained in power for40+ years, do you really see some amazing massive change simply as a result of his death? Particularly in response to America saying: "Now you've got oil, we'd like to be your friend again." My own read is that the Chinese, Venezuelan & European influence is too well established. Exploration, drilling & profit sharing agreements are already being put in place, so short of America invading and effectively doing a "smash & grab" on Cuban oil, robbing the existing partners, you've "missed-the-boat"(sic). With hindsight, the embargo is something that should have been quietly dropped years ago, if only on the basis that the best way to influence a country is to get close to it (and, if necessary, hug it to death). Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

That'd be the best case. Either would make an excellent President to the other's Vice-President. There's something that just seems so right about deciding policy by having a vodka-drinking contest.

The Global War on Terror is NOT going to be won by bombs & guns & tanks. That stuff kills the enemy, but doesn't affect the mindset behind it. IT's a fight against an ideaology, not a group or organisation. Just like the cold war was won in the shops, so the war on terror will be won in legislature and fair trade. TO win, the cause, rather than the symptoms need to be addressed. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Condie comes through!!