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http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2010/03/woman-kills-man-with-22-rifle.html

Why so snarky?

Faced with either, which one would you choose?

You're wrong. A .22 can kill.

The scooby de nos jours.

And I'll assume you support the release of al-Megrahi, on the grounds that, in sending a convicted mass murderer back to a country that applied pressure on the UK government, it secured a few jobs for British oil workers (the ones now stuck at Tripoli airport).

Are the words too big for you? Okay, I'll put it a way you might understand. I take it you support Islamist terrorism so long as there are a few jobs in it.

I don't think you can read anything into this, other than that dune is a plagiarist.

I'm sure the victims of 7/7 and their families do not share your suffocatingly smug insularity. The Saudis actively finance Islamist extremism throughout the Muslim world with huge funds for madrassas. In Pakistan, Saudi-funded extremist schools have displaced state-funded mass education altogether in large parts of the country. Out of these schools, and others like them in other countries like Bangladesh and Somalia, will come a steady stream of 7/7 and 9/11 imitators - all fired up by a Saudi-approved violent hatred of anyone not fully signed up to Wahhabism. These madrassas are the very places that create the mindset that people like us - you - are worthy of nothing more than a slow, painful apostate death. And these are the mindsets that the Saudi have set out explcitly to create, in order to expand what was once only a medieval backwater of mainstream Islam. The Saudis aren't just some other tinpot dictatorship; they are wreaking havoc around the world. but that's okay with you because a few British jobs can be saved. How very magnanimous of you.

I know we lost it, and I'm extremely happy to hear that. The Saudi regime is THE largest exporter and financier of Islamist terrorism by far. Why the **** would you want to support such a colossally corrupt and violently medieval regime?

No one assumed you were able to argue anything. Your self-induced hysteria about al Qaeda is not worthy of discussion. Which I thought was about the BBC not being an extension of the Tory Party propaganda unit.

Can we start a campaign (or a mildly worded request) for the teabags to be removed from the styro cups more quickly? The tea is served way too strong for me, and beer is not an option.

That would be some kind of argument (a dishonest one) if any of it were true. It isn't. British companies bribe with the worst of them. So you're presumably happy, nonetheless, to see this cosy, corrupt dealmaking continue so long as it's 'good for Britain' when these UK-built weapons are turned on unarmed street demonmstrators and citizens?

Politican unhappy with BBC. What a surprise.

Horrible news. And sad to hear about the misdiagnosis. Time is precious with this disease.

Agreed. The British defence industry is deeply rooted in Whitehall and Whitehall is deeply rooted in the defence industry. The appalling terms of trade in the carriers contracts have everything to do with these cosy relationships and practically nothing to do with political parties. In a way, Labour is even more spooked by defence-industry lobbying (often done by ex-civil servants) to the effect that ' if you block deal X, it is against British national interests.' It is this unbelievably hypocritical and cynical - and quite false - equivalence between the interests of the defence industry and the national good that has led to a situation where we suddenly 'discover' that British weaponry and defence technology is turned on the citizenry of Middle Eastern dictatorships, despite cast-iron 'guarantees' (!) that they wouldn't be. And we lap this garbage up. Such is the effectiveness of the defence industry lobbyists in perpetuating this myth that we even have had threads on lowly football message boards decrying the threat of prosecution against BAe for corruption in dealing with these same (now thankfully tumbling) potentates.

It's a quick easy way to get rid of Cameron/Clegg. I presume Miliband will be installed shortly afterwards?

I'm not sure this is logically possible. But with U2, some exceptions can be made to the normal rules of turd physics.

There hasn't. But being in an active war zone isn't a lifestyle choice. And expats must be saved. They are the world's most precious commodity.

You're just wrong on this. Network is as strangely relevant today as when it was made 35 years ago, and the ending is no more crazy, in a way, than what precedes it.

Basket cases like HMV rely on the principle that there's one born every minute.

And you think that is evidence that a 'minority group' member is guaranteed an interview regardless of whether he or she is qualified?

And your evidence for this is...?

Misery

I have. Here are the results. 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% Cubed.