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Yes, but I don't suppose there were many state troopers physically preventing coloured voters from exercising their mandate ?

Funny, I thought it was more to do with a GLOBAL financial crisis, originating mainly in the US of A, caused largely by extremely questionable lending practices, and leading to multi-national banking organisations losing faith in each other as each successive house of cards collapsed. In these circumstances, investment runs and hides in what are perceived to be the strongest currencies; historically this has been the $US, purely due to the size of their economy, but now the Euro has reached a position of trust and is tending to usurp the £ in the eyes of the 'players' as it is less dependant on the financial services sector as a proportion of overall GDP.

So will Rory Bremner

Look up Churchill and the Gold Standard, MacMillan and the 'never had it so good' speech, or 'Black Wednesday' - 16th September 1992. All bl00dy good indications of Conservative fiscal management.

Considering 3 factors, the EURO would be a good thing; First, we do more trade with the EU than outside it, so switching would save on working with, and converting between, two differing currencies. Second, as the pound has fallen fairly consistently against the euro, the sooner we join the better, as we are losing value all the time. Third, it would silence all the 'little Englanders' who think we still amount to anything significant on the world stage. We have far more in common with Europe than any other international grouping, ( other than our historic 'cultural' links with the Commonwealth ), but seem obsessed with the isolationists 3000 miles away on the other side of 'the pond'. As we have seen recently, our economy is tied into a morass of global influences that we can have very little independent influence upon. The euro is now the world's second currency, after the $US, and we can only gain financial stability from unifying with our continental partners.

On any acceptable definition of 'Democracy' Gore did win it; the shennanigins in Florida, ( governed by Bush's brother ), and the subsequent lack of Congressional backbone demonstrate clearly just the sort of freedom and parliamentary system the US is exporting all around the world :cool:

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to the dark side.

Learn to use a spell checker

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known as "Abrahamic religions" The first Abrahamic religion was Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Babylonian Exile, at the beginning of the 1st millennium CE. The firstborn son of Abraham, Ishmael, Muslims consider Father of the Arabs. Abraham's second son Isaac is called Father of the Hebrews. In the Jewish tradition Abraham is called Avraham Avinu or "Our Father Abraham". For Muslims, he is considered an important prophet of Islam, and the ancestor of Muhammad through Ishmael.

Abraham is a revered prophet of Islam who, according to the Qur'an, built the Kaaba in Mecca with his son Ishmael.

Seconded

And the problem with this little piece of 'history' is that muslims view themselves as 'children of Abraham', so try squaring that particular circle :smt021

I think on that basis the Roswell alien acted as the second shooter - behind the grassy knoll, to ensure that President Kennedy's assassination was successful, so that he couldn't divulge to the world that Ford and General Motors were conspiring to deny the existence of a car motor than runs solely on distilled water. FACT :cool:

I thought it was all a CIA plot :finga:

I think it was Gary Player who said 'the more I practice the 'luckier' I get".

What about those bl00dy Romans who came over and displaced my celtic forebears ? I want action from the international community to give me back my heritage.

Oops, also I have just remembered I referred to 'ragheads' on the Gaza thread, my bad

Never saw this sort of fuss when 'Paki' Bonner was playing for Celtic

No, to quote Gration's first introduction it's 'Robert' Lowe, wonder were he is now ?

Of course we deserved it, we scored more goals than they did - that is all that gets written into the record books.

You are welcome to come and brighten my office at any time; you will find MLT's autograph proudly displayed, along with my garden gnome painted in the Sanderson kit, and a little figurine of MLT stood on my PC.

Bridge, have you come across Terry Pratchett's method for confusing auditors ? Show them a piece of paper with "Please ignore this notice" written on it

I said 'public sector', nothing more......

But the Palestinians are descendants of the indigenous peoples that lived there 2000 years ago, they merely converted from one religious tradition to another, they did not displace anybody, and have been in continuous occupation of the region throughout - and, coincidentally, they are also "semitic", which is a description of a variation of the human race, rather than a specific adjective applicable to jews. And funily enough, the basis of their religion is exactly the same as the jewish one; Abraham, Moses, even Jesus, are revered in the islamic faith. The majority of the Israelis are no more than second or third generation incomers, who have displaced those peoples living there before 1947.

But I do work in the public sector, though nobody has yet offered me a bribe. And without getting into a 'mine is bigger than yours' type of discussion, my network is 3500+ PCs, 230+ servers, and over 100 different sites.