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"Having a baby is a privilege not a right" - by vapid fascist morons everywhere someday in the future.

Shouldn't you be arresting someone for saying something you disagree with?

They've recently said this? Well that's very big of them! http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/07/27/serbia9136.htm Small consolation, too little too late. It's actually a sickening & disgraceful thing to claim after all this time. As for Genocide, the crackdown on KLA terrorists never amounted to that and in fact Slobodan himself thought he could solve the problem in a few weeks (pathetically mistaken but an indication the plan wasn't to kill 2 million Albanians), but the backlash under the non-protection of the UN has come much closer to it. But hey all those churches burned by the religion of peace with the help of NATO air cover don't matter. You gotta crack a few eggs to make a new Islamic nation carved from the ancestral heart of Serbia. Once again, WHY are the Russians the bad guys? Because they say they will veto this? Maybe if NATO hadn't been so reprehensibly culpable in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs et.al. there'd be some moral high ground to take here, alas there is none and Russia has a bloody good point. At least we can be grateful that WWIII never started over this (yes it almost did by one very credible report).

I'm surprised they let the current administration take credit. This was supposed to stop a Slobodan cleansing, he's long gone they want to permanently annex the territory, something they didn't dare mention even during the bombing of Belgrade. The only reason this is a viable strategy now is the cleansing happened in reverse under the watchful eye of the U.N. / NATO.

Here's a video from Kosovo for you to enjoy. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fa_1181326879 Your "cock of freedom" is busy sodomizing Christian Serbs in Kosovo, their ancient homeland. No wonder Albanian Muslims are happy, we annexed a country for them and handed it over like bloody morons, and the clueless buffoons who did this have the cheek to blame Russia for being the only power in the region to know their history & see through the bullshit of the vapid morons who did this. Ah screw it, what's the point, just watch the video. I hope you're proud.

Did I suggest god was a prerequisit of quantum mechanics? I at least hope you had your tongue in your cheek when you said: The two are unrelated. Einstein once famously said "God does not play dice with the universe.", and since quantum mechanics and the indeterminacy principle is now firmly established we must reinterpret his attempted refutation of quantum theory.

Exhibit some before you claim the high ground. Hmmm....so according to you, I should not only be "ashamed" of my opinion, but I should also be religious in order to be permitted that opinion? Nice. Wrong, I was talking about "reason and rationality". Quit wallowing in your persecution complex. You're the one saying Bush is like Hitler then claiming opposition to your shameful view is faith based.

Much as I hate the gov't meddling in personal business, I can't find a lot of fault with putting oral contraceptives in the drinking water, and providing the antidote only to people who can show they are sane and have financial resources to support a child. I've spent some fond moments contemplating that scenario, myself. "What is your plan to minimize the carbon footprint of your child?"

I'll go along with that, and it seems Pace is of the same opinion, that is not him being made a scapegoat.

Why don't YOU tell US? YOU brought up percentages in the first place. You have the data, right? The burden of proof lies with you. You're the one claiming she has an incurable Venereal Disease based on ambiguous data which even if it were not of such questionable origin has a very common & obvious benign explanation. As for the rest of your post, it only serves to make my point. I never said you had to like her, I pointed to your dislike as the motivating factor in your readiness to assume the worst.

It wiped the smile of this loud guy's face though...... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e48_1181349770

When I was doing my student freefall progression in the 1980's (under the static line system), there was a fellow student at about the same point in his training, also doing freefalls. He had a malfunction and seemed to freeze, and simply waited until his AAD fired, which fortunately it did. After the jump he seemed rather unaware of what had happened and seemed at a loss to explain what had transpired on the jump or the reasons for his inaction. Although I wasn't an instructor--then or now--I was a peer and therefore certainly watched closely what was happening with other students at a similar point. I remember thinking, after this jump, that he might kill himself and was rather mortified when he continued jumping. Imagine my surprise, then, when I logged on to these forums for the first time a few days ago and discovered (without naming names) that this person now has over 11,000 jumps and is considered one of the best skydivers in the world. Again, I'm a student myself--not an instructor--so my ability to evaluate these things is limited but it seems to me that it just goes to show you it is very hard to evaluate how someone will turn out based on a scary performance on an early jump. As I read your response I was thinking that it could happen to any student, you never know and most of us as students are never tested under those extremes, and might not be the final determination about what kind of skydiver you ultimately become. This woman had a serious age related learning impediment though, and even a student in a class can see rather clearly when another student is way out of their depth on the theoretical material presented to everyone. So ultimately I don't think your tale informs the scanario I saw. I'm not saying I could have assessed when someone is borderline or any of the complexities of an overall evaluation, but I could clearly see someone struggling to absorb very basic theory, and ultimately my instrutor saw the same thing which makes the discussion moot. None of this was really the point of my post though. The main point of my post was that there is an alternative to giving someone the bowling talk and my FJC instructor used it, telling this particular student that the way they should experince the sport should be limited to tandems for now. It seemed like a wiser/kinder approach.

In my case the opposite is closer to reality, but Bono is a grade A hypocrite who wants nations already dripping red ink to spend even more on pet overseas causes as many people struggle domestically and our grand kids are already in debt to the tune of trillions, all as he does his best to avoid paying his share. The latest affront is the Bono Geldoff duo at the G8 summit where they're bitching that half the pledged 30 billion is money already pledged and there's not much evidence of new money. Are we supposed to get the checkbook out to the tune of tens of billions of dollars every time these tax avoiding ass clowns roll into town on a cause? Fuck that. In fact how about a big fat sincere unqualified fucking thank you very much and bugger off for at least 5 years before we give another nickel or listen to these wealthy beggars again.

Exhibit some before you claim the high ground.

Bullshit for obvious reasons. Pick up any newspaper to discover why instead of just inventing it as you type.

Rubbish, I can't imaging anyone violating probation so frequently and flagrantly as she did and getting away with it. But hey why don't you try it and get back to us on how it works out for you.

Indeed. Lots of unlikely things are possible. 80% does not seem too unlikely. You are comparing with the wrong population. What % use prescription medication for occasional cold sores, vs. other types of herpes? What percentage of billionaire celebrities with the best medical treatment for whom facial perfection is a top priority? Gee when I put it like that it's obvious you believe what you want to believe because you dislike the woman.

Indeed. Lots of unlikely things are possible. 80% does not seem too unlikely.

I reread the title of this thread and wonder how the OP could have been so prescient.

Vere are yau paperz! Schnell, SCHNELL!!! Damn I get all weepy picturing you in your uniform & shiny shoes, you make a Brit ex-pat proud.

Well said, you might also throw in a question or two about the tax he pays after using offshore tax shelters to shield his copyright income. If people like me paid income taxes at his rate our nations would be in a real mess.

Given the choice between Bono and almost any politician (including Harper), I'd credit Bono with doing far more for humanity and being far less self-serving. I prefer democratically elected leaders. One of them sending him packing is cause for celebration. If Bono is ever on the Democrat ticket I'm sure he'll appreciate your vote.

Well it may just mean she gets occasional cold sores like an estimated 80% of Americans.

And you & your masters in black robes & wigs get to decide selectively what is racist and what is not? Then apply those laws through a politically correct prism. You just can't wait to take your truncheon to the internet. You might want to look up the etymology of fascist some day. Just what disorder did MDMA cause? I suppose there are some things about the political situation in the UK that we just cannot comment on if it does not meet your approval? No thanks mate, the country you'd form under your jackboot WOULD be a shit hole. The trouble with folks like you is you've spent so long pushing other people around under the auspices of the law that the concept that you might be on the receiving end is absolutely alien to you. You might wake up one day and not like the bed you're lying in. Thankfully you don't get to write the laws, and are merely a public servant, try to remember that.

You don't even know what free speech is.