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I bought that deal and haven't had a mail like that yet.

What's the word for suffering a fear of heights?

While implementing harsh austerity measures across the UK the government have agreed to host the pope (a nazi who keeps child molesterers from justice) at a cost of £12m to the taxpayer.

'Endorsement'!? What you've made there is what I like to call a "Leazes leap".

Me stay on topic? I posted a link to a renowned historian arguing that Islamophobia follows a long tradition of American bigotry....very much on the topic, and as usual Leazes tried to spin that into me supporting terrorists. Then you jumped on it too, going back to another argument from a different thread about the political landscape in Afghanistan in 2001. Where's the intellectual honesty in berating me for taking a tangent with a far more acute angle than the one either of you have taken? It's ridiculous to suggest someone can't quote anyone they don't support. What he said was less important than the fact he's still talking. I didn't use it as evidence that intervention was wrong almost a decade ago. It was used as evidence that the taliban are, at the very least, still fighting the propaganda war and therefore claims that intervention has achieved it's aims would be "wide of the mark"... If you had an ounce of intellectual honesty you'd have continued this debate in the thread it started in where I made several very reasonable concessions about my thoughts on the matter. Instead you've ignored that thread ever since while still seeming to want to drag up those arguments.

I love the west. I love our laws. I love our justice system. I love our freedoms. I'd love to see them expanded around the world. Unfortunately.... 30,000 Held in Iraq without Due Process; Evidence of Abuse. Charles Menezes Illegal Phone and Email tapping The right to protest at parliament withdrawn and back on topic....Freedom of religion potentially infringed I don't get how you can defend the weakening of democracy both here and abroad and claim it's me that's anti-west. I want to defend our core values and you want to throw them away, to do exactly what the terrorists intend.

It's all very well droning on about how much you 'abhor the extremists with every fibre of your body' Damned if i do and damned if i don't tbh. I try not to repeat it every post because it should be obvious, but then Leazes complains about me slagging off everyone but the terrorists....or even of supporting them. Howay man, that's a bit different to what I said. I clearly see to what degree the invasion of Afghanistan can be justified. Do you feel it's still going down the right path? Again, I think it's obvious what I meant, comparitively the opposing forces have a huge discrepancy. The entire US government has a policy in place that has killed hundreds of thousands. Panetta said The number of al Qaeda remaining in Afghanistan is "relatively small." "At most, we're looking at 50 to 100, maybe less. It's in that vicinity. There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in the tribal areas of Pakistan." The CIA accept and warn that continued US activity is the greatest recruitment tool for terrorist cells not just there, but worldwide. Are you saying the US brand of unlawful imprisonment, torture and murder is preferable to previous brutal regimes? Amnesty aren't that keen... Amnesty: 30,000 Held in Iraq without Due Process; Evidence of Abuse

Wrong again...it's on the South Asia front page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/south_asia/ Well done Beeb.

I'm being unfair on the BBC. they have the stories... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11308440 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11293806 Just not on the front page...despite a six-fold higher number of deaths.

why do you keep trying to justify Islam by quoting other religions ? Fact is, NOW, they are racist, backward, intolerant, fanatically dangerous to others who have different views, and responsible for most of the terrorist activity in the world. Where have i ever justified Islam? Your post is almost spot on. Nutjobs claiming to be acting in the name of Islam are responsible for outrageous acts of terrorism. Something that should be abhored and certainly is by me. I would never try and justify that. In the last 10 years the US (not a few nutjobs I'm using to tar the entire group, but the people that actually govern the country and decide policy) are responsible for killing a number of people that dwarfs the amount killed in all the terrorist attacks in the last century though. I can't justify that either but you seem to want to. Today on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east/ Today not on the BBC: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100915/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan I'm balanced. You're imbalanced.

The fact that more working people are finding themselves unemployed inevitibly leads to a more motivated class of job seeker boosting the numbers finding work. Someone said yesterday in another thread, turnover is vanity, profit is sanity....was it you?

Even the government are refusing to get as excited as you, given the number on JSA has increased.

I meant all the people that got jobs were part timers. There was more full-time jobs lost than there were gained.....

Part timers

Seems to me the series is suffering in comparison to the film. I don't think it's that good either. I struggle to think of another UK TV drama I've enjoyed as much as I did episode one though. So on that score it deserves high praise.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandra...ies-review.html Got it on the v+ box to watch

Hoyed some of the winnings on Ajax to get a draw at Madrid tomorrow 4/1

87th minute

Polyfilla it is. Ta. I thought there'd be something new and easier...like a crack pen. Maybe I'll invent one for the dragons den.

Time to roll my sleeves up and do some work. First I need to fill some cracks in my wall....hairline cracks to about a mm thick. Which product would you recommend?

Took Copenhagen tonight. Best odds for a home favourite I think at 13/8 ...them or Bursaspor.

Simon Schama: Islamophobia Recalls anti-Catholic, Anti-Jewish Nativism of America’s Past.... http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/20...rica.schama.cnn

Someone was watching Dragons Den] last night. What more insight does anyone need to comment on fiscal policy?

My only complaint would be the biker gang who were like something out of a sitcom.

I reluctantly agree too. I always thought wages had been driven way down in recent decades as it was, and accepting cuts was daft. But all the real value graphs I've just looked at suggest the total opposite. I'll complain to anyone who'll listen that if my dad had had my job when he was my age he could single handedly support his family wheras my lass has to work and we don't even have kids. But then i suppose collectively in this country we pay for ridiculous amounts of shit we don't need in comparison....sky/cable tv, internet, mobile phone, more than one car per household, international holidays, brand names sewn onto our clothes, contact lenses, restaurant meals, xbox live.....I suppose i could support a wife and family if I didn't bother with all of the disposable shite we're convinced we need.....or that actually makes life worth living.