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1945 - U.S. ****** invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II. Wrong. The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in August 1945.

It's not that long ago since **** within marriage in the UK was deemed impossible.The thinking was that making marriage vows gave implicit permission to your spouse to have sex.

What happened millions of years ago is relevant if it indicates-as it does-that the temperature of the planet did rise and fall at a time before humans arrived. OF COURSE the temperature rose over the last 100 years and in the 200 years before that. There was a little ice age in the 1600s and...

My point was that there are in fact very few things you can do which don't affect others.Perhaps more in my case than yours as we have 60 million people packed into a small island.

Not most scientists but many climatologists.But would you ask clergymen whether or not God exists and expect an unbiased opinion? It's warmer than it was a few hundred years ago because a few hundred years ago was the Little Ice Age.

Wrong. Budweiser is cut by using 40% rice in its ingredients, not corn. Rice of course has no flavour to speak of but using it enables the use of barley which would normally be considered only fit for cattle feed. Other big US breweries use corn instead of rice , again for cheapness and to...

Beck's-yes, very foreign. Brewed from English malt by a Belgian company and passes itself off as German. Hmmm

The planet is still cooler than when the Romans came to Britain and when the Vikings were cultivating Greenland.

Some freedoms are more important than others and at times they are in conflict with one another.Absolute freedom is a total fiction, there are always choices to be made and some things have to give way to others. By the way, just because Benjamin Franklin said something doesn't make it true.

Perspective-the mass produced ones like Bud,Miller,Coors,Fosters,Red Stripe, Heineken,Stella ,Corona etc are the **** equivalent of wonderbread being tasteless, manufactured very cheaply (but not sold cheaply) , gassed up and chilled (whoever said **** should be cold?) to hide their...

It wasn't British rule at all. It was a voluntary union of two countries, Scotland kept its legal and educational system (still superior by the way) , OK the centre of power was London but Scotland was fully represented and I might say did exceptionally well from the arrangement.Remember that...

The truth is that for a long time there had been diffusion between the countries and to a point they were interdependent.Many Lairds in fact lived in London and became partly anglicised.The clan system was very strong (though the clan tartan was a Victorian invention) , for example when Bonnie...

Interesting. Apparently the average in the US is 5 3/4 inches and in Europe it's 6 inches.Diet? Whatever, if true then some pollsters are exaggerating a little.

Government policies about health care don't directly impinge on us. If we need medical treatment we get it free at the point of delivery , regardless of the causes.

It was the Scots who took over England in 1601 when James was offered the English throne. Full union was through a Scottish petition as they were bankrupt. Although England and Scotland had occasional flare ups on the whole relations remained quite good , there was a great deal of...

One thing you won't find ANYWHERE here, even among the most conservative right wing is argument against state sponsored health care.We've had it for over 60 years, imperfect as it is, and all theoretical and dogmatic objections are seen as plain nonsense because it WORKS and is better than any...

I live in the UK and we have a taxpayer funded health service.A victim needing extensive treatment as a result of not taking reasonable care is a burden on the taxpayer.The cost of running the emergency services is from taxes. People hurt indirectly are still hurt.If your spouse ends up having...

But it isn't YOU that lives with the consequence of your actions it's the people round you.What sort of life do you give to your ****** if you become a paraplegic or a corpse through exercising a pointless and selfish right to suit yourself over wearing a seatbelt?

Should have sat him near the engine air intake and saved fuel.

I remember seeing a wall plaque in a shrine given in thanks to God for the recovery of their ******** after she was run over by a bus.The same God who of course allowed the bus to run over their ******** is now praised as merciful. I see no point in an all powerful God because this contains its...

Just look at things in perspective. Governments can only think in general or collective terms rather than deal with individual cases.It has to base decisions on the general public interest. If someone dies in a road accident the ripples spread far and wide.There will be grief to close friends...

State funding for having babies actually makes sense.Some people ***** the system of course but that never was a reason for stopping anything. Our future prosperity depends on our ********.They are the ones who will be creating the wealth to fund our pensions, to generate the dividends to keep...

There can be no doubt that some detainees were innocent.Some detainees in ordinary prisons are innocent too , even though they have gone through due process of law.There are frequent miscarriages of justice in even the most rigorous systems, so imagine how many there would be if no proper...

The idea that I own my own body is risible .As long as others depend upon me or simply love me I have an obligation to do whatever I can to remain intact.There are cases-a very tiny minority of accidents-in which the use of a seat belt traps an individual and they then die.Whether they would...

It would have served him better if he had stepped in and stopped it had he known about it.He would have been regarded as the saviour of the nation and could have done no wrong.The very existence of such a plot would have given him the pretext to do what ever he wanted.It would have been a more...

Gordon Brown and his crew of inept corrupt intellectual pygmies who are supposed to be running the place. Two ministers have been found fiddling their expenses , the Home Secretary was claiming £106 000 to cover the costs of living in one room at her ******'s house on the basis that it was her...

You seem to miss the point about these restrictions.They aren't to protect you from yourself, they are to protect others from you.And you from them. Wearing a seatbelt makes things a lot less unpleasant for the emergency workers, make lower demands on public services and is generally in the...

Pounds and ounces are binary. Look at kitchen weights-quarter,half , one ounce, two,four, eight , a pound, two pounds,four pounds.Goes up in twos .

The powers of the President were modelled on those of the King whom he replaced. The Founding Fathers said a lot of things, some of which were timeless and right, some were wrong and others were right at the time but no longer apply to a modern world.There is no chance of rolling back the power...

Her role is Head of State (and also of many other countries) and Head of the Commonwealth. She has to sign all Acts of Parliament to make them legal but in fact never refuses.She advises Ministers and having been around for a long time has accumulated rather a lot of wisdom which is...

Baseball-English Hot dogs-Austrian Apple pie-English Chevrolet-American at last though it sounds French :-)

A third of a British pint is a nip.It's a legal measure for the sale of ****. By the way, the Metric system is NOT modern.It dates back to the 1760s.

None.They are the antithesis of good food.

What do you mean by the Monarchy existing to rake in money? We have a Head of State who is above politics and whose only loyalty is to the country.She has represented the nation faultlessly for 57 years and is widely respected around the world.She is patron of over 600 charities and although 83...

I don't think it's easier at all.I've used both,side by side for several decades now.I always revert to Imperial units for everyday tasks, they were designed for this purpose and do it better.It was a system designed to make life easier whereas the metric system was introduced purely to bring...

Times change, situations alter and only a fool maintains the same stance while it happens.

It's a distorted comparison. A great proportion of the US budget is to cover wages which are relatively generous.You can't compare Chinese spending on the same basis.China could provide a lot more hardware and personnel for the outlay than the US. Like the Uk much of the budget is...

Metric just isn't a system which people can switch to easily.Even in France it wasn't universal until new laws came in in the 1930s because people preferred to keep units they were used to.Napoleon tried to ban it too. It only came about because every town in France had its own standard and...

Look at what happened in the UK. People had got used to Imperial units (by the way that's the Roman Empire not the British!) and it began piecemeal.We still buy milk and **** by the pint (proper pints by the way, 20 ounces) and it's ******* to use metric on road signs.Everyday goods had to be...

In the UK you must be served with a ticket or note of intended prosecution within 2 weeks of the alleged offence.This is to enable the accused to organise a defence to the allegation , after two weeks any notice becomes invalid.

It is not for a person to prove innocence, it's for his guilt to be proved by others. As mentioned by others there have been a hell of a lot of innocent people executed and a lot others convicted on flimsy or circumstantial evidence.It's worse than it looks because once someone is executed for a...

You talk about the government as if it's some sort of creature that has a life of its own.In fact it's a collection of individuals, bsically with the same general beliefs but who may disagree with each other either in fine detail or about certain aspects of policy. There is simply no way such a...

Re: Tatoo thread #2...what non-tatooed star would be a tragedy if they got a ton of t Any of them.Tattoos are simply sad.

It wouldn't matter if it was a piece of **** or otherwise in the sense that there are such things as flukes and "lucky" (unlucky for JFK of course) shots. It happened 45 years ago.No conspiracy could remain watertight for so long.That's not how things work.

I knew a policeman who was on exchange with the Dallas ***** , he says unequivocably that the view of the ***** is the assassination was the work of one deranged man.He spent the best part of a year drawing out the guys who should know and found no doubt.There was no reason to believe otherwise...

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If you can't see the gaping error in your logic then it's no point my pointing it out to you. Owning a *** of course only benefits you if the other guy doesn't have one.As for mexican *** laws, laws which aren't properly enforced tend not to work very well.

What's far fetched is the idea that having guns will make any difference.The holocaust was perpetrated on a section of society who weren't aware about what was going to happen to them . So 30 000 people die each year from firearm injuries while you wait to overthrow a mythical tyrranical...

This sort of answer, with respect, makes me wonder whether Americans live on the same planet .Do people actually BELIEVE this sort of thing?A strong Constitution and a free Press are the best safeguards. Having said that, the UK has no Constitution yet we are as free as anyone else , more in...

Another reason why the 2nd Amendment is so wonderful and a beacon to the rest of the world.