Worrying times again Rollo :(
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Worrying times again Rollo :(
I don't get it. I just don't get it, why supposedly democratic governments love it so much going to war. Okay, human lives, they have never cared about those, anyways. What about money then? One thing I know about wars is they are a bloody expensive form of entertainment. Even in the Middle Ages, when wars were the everyday occupation for the ruling class, every king and duke always faced the problem of bankrolling a large bunch of greedy and totally unproductive people called soldiers. Louis the XII, a French king was proclaimed the Father of the Nation by his subjects for, mind you, just not increasing the war tax. He somehow managed to support his armies at the expense of the foreign occupied territories. He was king, though, and did as he pleased. How on Earth do the modern governments get away with turning the taxpayers' dollars and pounds into ammo and offloading those onto the heads of enemies and sometimes civilians, is beyond my understanding.
Pig in Australia Steals 18 Beers from Campers, Gets Drunk, Fights Cow
Weird aussie pigs :dozey:
:laugh:
Yesssssssssssss!..........
http://image.stirileprotv.ro/media/i...4/61586666.jpg
Well done Mache!
http://youtu.be/ZrzWo1j6G3Q
Thinking right now about our two servicemen who have died here in Canada .
Thinking about how good an idea it was to send CF18 fighter planes out a couple of days ago .
Thinking about how Prime minister Harper tabled new legislation to enable our spy agency more power just last week .
Not sure what to think .
Simona kicked Williams? :eek:
Even NZ has reacted by upgrading security around the Beehive and other parliament buildings. I hate the world sometimes. There is no need or excuse for any of this.
Suppose there was a public endemic like like ebola or something that escaped into the United States, why is a market solution with regards health insurance preferable? If people don't have adequate health insurance, they might become a risk.
Can someone please put forward a robust argument why the economic argument against a universal health care system is preferable to an non-formally calculable catastrophically large loss of insurable interest (life)?
And while they're at it also ensure that predictive typing softwear doesn't produce 'endemic' for 'epidemic' - does change the meaning somewhat ;)
Unbelievable..... It's snowing in Book a Rest with big flakes. Can't remember another snow on October.....
A few days ago we had + 23C :crazy:
The WTA final is tomorrow and it's Simona vs Serena again.
Go Mache!
I'm overwhelmed. I need to submit the translation of a history book to the publisher by Oct 31, and I'm far from finished, my kids are all over me and I have a hangover after a party with old friends.
Still snowing.....:bigcry:
Winter arrives early for Gadjo.... wow
Lost. :s
DST is off
I hate winter time :evil:
Kids were told to take care of themselves and had a fabulous fight as a result. I'm taking the book by storm. I'm not translating it, just editing. The book is on history and I'm a historian, while the translator is a generalist. The hangover is gone. Hopefully everything is going to be alright.
BTW, is it true that English people have a folk belief that the queen has a phone number, which she can dial and any problem will be fixed?
How many pages has the book? If it looks like a brick I worry for you.
PS Isn't St Demetrius your son's patron? If yes, Happy anniversary! Forget the book and have a nice decent glass of wine.
( just kidding, I know you follow the other calendar and the saint is on November)
It's not really thick but it's full of petty details I need to pay attention to. E.g. there is a lot of names of Lithuanian towns and villages there. The modern spelling is very different from the one used back in 16th century and is even more different from the current Belarusian spelling. On top of that, Lithuania had four or five administrative reforms over the last century and it's difficult to figure out where a certain place is now. It's like Cluj and Kolozsvar with all the nuances.
Thanks for the congrats. :) We'll be celebrating in on Nov 8, indeed.
And then you complain when I say I'm a loser....:s
Schmenke clinched the prize!
Already lost. The snow has melted. But on Saturday I saw a little girl doing one. I wanted to stop to take a picture but my hands were holding a pizza box. :s
Gone is the notoriety....I'll die as an annonymus.......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mummified.html
Pictured: Inside the house of horrors where Russian historian held birthday parties for 150 little girls he had dug up from their graves and mummified*
:crazy:
Hey , who knows whether Schmenke still has any snow either , as that picture was taken on Sept 8th .
However , given that you have seemed to give up the title a little too easily here , it leads me to believe you would rather take losing than have to take the cold weather that comes with the notoriety .
You don't sound like your heart is really in this competition .
What are all the other competitors supposed to think ?
I'm one of them , and I thought that perhaps I might have a pretty good chance this year .
I learned from one of our elder snowperson makers in the village that the best flakes come from the middle of the forest , where they fall so slowly that you can be choosy about which ones you pick .
Personally , I like a longer , less intensely branched flake , as I find they bind well together .
It's not whether or not you like the weather or not , but rather whether you can weather the stormy weather with a smile .
I love snow, but us here don't get much very often.
I am in the snow person competition even though I have little chance of winning. Unless I visit my family in Canada just to build a snowman
Can't do a snow,am (urgh that doesn't sound quite right).. anyway... it is moving into summer so this is the best I've got
http://www.allaboutmoney.com/images/...dcastle-uk.jpg
Shame to lose because of that pizza :erm: