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US gives Abbas private assurances over Israeli settlements
dreamdancer replied to dreamdancer's topic in Speakers Corner
looks like israel is out of the loop... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/29/israel-settlement-building-peace-talks stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding -
Gordon Brown recorded calling a woman a 'Bigot'
dreamdancer replied to shropshire's topic in Speakers Corner
Was she, in fact, a bigot? yes. why? because her and many more in her country are tired of people from the outside changing the values and government of their country to something they don't want, like, or agree with? no, because she thinks that they're all scroungers. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding -
Gordon Brown recorded calling a woman a 'Bigot'
dreamdancer replied to shropshire's topic in Speakers Corner
Was she, in fact, a bigot? yes. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding -
there's no chance of a new system if you vote labour or conservative. with a hung parliament we'll almost certainly get a decent proportional representation system as a result
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interesting... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18795-quantum-broadband-becomes-reality.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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stalker... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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sexism at work... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/26-9 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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whites use drugs just as much as anyone else - why aren't they imprisoned at the same rate? Because white offenders are more likely to acquire their drugs differently than black offenders... Police focus "on inner city areas where drug use and sales are more likely to take place in open-air drug markets" (source: drugpolicy.org)... so, minorities are more likely to use methods to acquire their drugs that draw the attention of police. A person-to-person marijuana or meth transaction in a suburban area is far less likely to attract attention. Also, white offenders are more likely to use powder cocaine rather than "crack" cocaine, and "five grams of crack cocaine (about a thimble full) yields a five year mandatory minimum sentence, while it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to trigger the same five year sentence." (drugpolicy.org). So, the types of drugs that white offenders typically abuse carry shorter sentences The justification for this is typically that some types of drugs contribute to urban blight, such as crack cocaine or meth, while others less so (prescription drugs, marijuana, powder cocaine). I can't say how accurate that assessment is. The police tend to focus their attention on high crime areas, whether those crimes are drugs, graffiti, burglaries, rapes, or murders. A high crime area tends to be high in most/all of these crimes, and it also tends to be a place with a high population of immigrants or minorities, largely due to the lower cost of living. So, while suburban Orange County may have as much of a drug problem on paper as inner city LA, law enforcement is focusing on inner city LA because drugs are not the only crime happening there. (in parts of OC, graffiti makes the news!) Personally, I think we should just legalize the stuff and stop arresting people for being stupid. Plus, we could use the tax dollars. one could argue that by selective use of social laws - which prioritise where the police focus their attention a 'racial' outcome is attained. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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i've 'admitted' that men are more criminal than women. that is why more are in prison. you will find this a recurrent theme in human history. blacks, however are not more criminal than whites - so what is distorting the prison figures? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding