General Smut

are you ignore the truth? by after our greatest victorious after broken undefeatable army like israel said . You attacked a country not expecting a attack and after intial gains you then lost it all and then some! Are you really that stupid to believe thats a victory? You may have won a small battle but you lost the war (again)

You also dont believe the holocaust which is alot worse in terms of racism.

Well its not my fault there are people commiting acts of terror in the name of Islam. We have to call them something, we cant go around all terrorists terrorists. there are different terrorists groups with different aims. IRA -Want the British out of Ireland ETA-Want indepence from spain and to create a Basque country Islamic terrorist groups such as Al Qaida are all grouped together becasue they want the same- No Jews, no foreigners in the mid east at all. They want to impose a strict code of Islam on the rest of the world.

8 Whos the shadow?

For the Arab nations (and Egypt in particular), the psychological trauma of their defeat in the Six-Day War had been healed. In many ways, it allowed them to negotiate with the Israelis as equals. However, given that the war had started about as well as the Arab leaders could have wanted, at the end they had made only limited territorial gains in the Sinai front, while Israel gained more territory on the Golan Heights than it held before the war; also given the fact that Israel managed to gain a foothold on African soil west of the canal, the war helped convince many in the Arab world that Israel could not be defeated militarily, thereby strengthening peace movements.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1864180,00.html The pregnancy police are watching you In the US, women of child-bearing age are being advised to consider themselves 'pre-pregnant' at all times, by giving up smoking, drinking and drugs. What are the implications of treating people as glorified incubators, asks Diane Taylor Monday September 4, 2006 The Guardian When Regina McKnight, of South Carolina, went to her local hospital to give birth in May 1999, she prayed that the baby would be healthy. She had good reason to worry. Since her mother had been killed by a hit-and-run driver the previous year McKnight had begun smoking crack. She was naturally devastated when the baby was stillborn - and shocked, five months later, to be charged with homicide. Prosecutors argued that smoking crack had caused the stillbirth and that McKnight should therefore be classed as a murderer. Article continues Despite medically disputed evidence about the role cocaine had played in the tragedy, McKnight went on to become the first woman in US history to be convicted of foetal homicide by child abuse. An appeal to the US Supreme Court failed and she is serving a 12-year jail term. In the US, more than 20 states now define drug use by an expectant mother as child abuse, neglect or even torture, while The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, passed by Congress in 2004, argues that foetuses are separate persons under the law, with rights independent of the pregnant woman. Any aspect of a pregnant woman's behaviour that might risk foetal health - except of course abortion - is therefore open to punishment in the courts. And last May, legislators in Arkansas proposed making it, not just a matter of social and moral oppobrium, but an offence worthy of prosecution for a pregnant woman to smoke a single cigarette. New federal guidelines issued this year ask any woman capable of conceiving to treat themselves - and to be treated by their health-care provider - as "pre-pregnant" at all times. Women between their first menstrual period and the menopause are told to take folic acid supplements, stop smoking, stop drinking regularly, maintain a healthy weight and keep chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes under control; not primarily for their own health but to protect any baby that they may or may not be planning to have. They're also advised to steer clear of lead-based paint and cat faeces - a problem for any "pre-pregnant" folk whose household chores include cleaning the litter tray. There is no mention of "pre- fertilisers", ie, fathers, taking similar steps to ensure their sperm are healthy, despite studies that suggest male alcoholism can cause birth defects in children. The rationale for the guidelines is that half of all pregnancies are unplanned and that the US has a higher infant mortality rate than most other industrialised nations. At the moment there is no talk of criminal sanctions against women who fail to comply with the pre-pregnancy guidance but it's another worrying sign that US women are expected to treat themselves as incubators first, individuals second. And the onward march of foetal harm legislation suggests that it's not entirely Orwellian to suspect that women might, in future, be criminalised for any indulgent behaviour before a pregnancy - as well as during - that ends up harming their child. Lynn Paltrow, executive director of the New York-based group, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, believes that hatred of women is at the root of the trend. "It's linked to 30 years of vicious anti-abortion rhetoric that describes women who terminate pregnancies as murderers," she says. "You can't have that level of hateful rhetoric and just limit it to abortion. Once pregnant women are seen as capable of heinous crimes like murder, they are dehumanised." Of course, it's obviously far better for a developing foetus if an expectant mother gives up drinking, smoking and taking drugs. But while it seems no expense is spared to prosecute and jail women addicts, far too little is spent on getting them appropriate treatment. And the women involved in these cases are almost always those most in need of support - there have been no stories of children dragged from rich Manhattan mothers who choose to snort a few lines of coke before breakfast. Those targeted are disproportionately black and poor. And all the sound and fury about the highly prized foetus evaporates once it is no longer in utero: children of drug-addicted mothers are often dumped in foster placements, where study after study has shown they have little chance of thriving. This attitude to pregnant women shows signs of crossing the Atlantic. The behaviour of expectant mothers has never been more closely scrutinised or criticised, with both Kate Garraway and Kerry Katona having been attacked by the tabloids in recent months after being pictured with a cigarette plus baby bump. And some sources have proposed measures that aim to ensure that transgressive women can't conceive. In a recent paper, Professor Neil McKeganey of Glasgow University, a specialist in the social effects of drug misuse, suggested that "paying female drug users to use long-term contraception is one ... incentive that we may need to consider if we fail to reduce the level of unwanted pregnancies by drug users by other means". In a separate development, Labour MSP Duncan McNeil has proposed adding oral contraceptive to prescription methadone. Dr Mary Hepburn, who runs the Glasgow Women's Reproductive Health Service supports women with social problems during pregnancy and after birth. What she finds most disturbing is the blanket condemnation applied to drug-using mothers. "The gap between the rich and the poor is growing," she says, "and so is the gap between the poor and the very poor. A lot of the problems the women I work with experience are caused by poverty rather than by drugs in isolation. A punitive approach towards them will drive them underground, which won't be good for them or their babies." When it comes to drug- or alcohol-addicted expectant mothers, obviously the ideal way forward is for them to seek treatment. Even for the richest people, addiction is supremely difficult to tackle, but for those from the lowest socio-economic groups the depredations that have led to them becoming drug-users generally make it extremely hard for them to give up. In the current US climate, though, the punitive approach towards pregnant women - in which women have been dragged to prison cells, hours after giving birth to a healthy baby, still haemorrhaging but having tested positive for drugs - means that few are likely to seek treatment. Who would take that risk if it meant the possibility of prosecution, a jail term and your child being removed from your care? As Paltrow says: "The US has a phenomenal disregard for the wellbeing of families. Almost every problem is seen as one of personal responsibility rather than social or community responsibility." And the punitive approach to pregnant mothers emphasises this, legislating against women who might otherwise seek help for their personal problems. In the last couple of decades laws targeting some of the US's most vulnerable women have crept inexorably, state by state, across the country, and now the institution of pre-pregnancy guidelines brings the spectre of women facing even wider punishment. In the UK we need to be vigilant to ensure that, in similar situations, pregnant women receive support - rather than a prison sentence This is a side of America i want gone. reading this has made me feel a bit sick.

Dont just make it a party at night, make it spread thru the week. Go and visit some other towns/cities and get drunk there, then go somewhere. sod the expense, its an important time for you.

Purple Milton Keynes - what sort of idiot builds a train station miles away from the city centre and hides the buses. I thought Budapest was great? Whats wrong with it?

Yes she has my number, she said she'll call me and arrange something. I've even put on clean underwear...and socks. Least favourite town/city youve been to?

I have deformed knees. Diagnosed at age 3. Never been told, only found out when i read my medical notes 4 years ago.

I'm Neil Theres so many - but today its Evan Dando - baby i'm bored What time (or if) do you think Gal will call me?

what if you blinked at the same time??

Could be worse - you could be 14! I'm not a very happy bunny. Ask me later thou. Favourite book

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Yom+Kippur+War Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq 4 against 1. A surrounded one Israel 415,000 troops; 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored carriers; 945 artillery units 100 mm and up; 561 airplanes, 84 helicopters; 38 warships.[1] Egypt: 800,000 troops (300,000 deployed); 2,400 tanks, 2,400 armored carriers; 1,120 artillery units 100 mm and up; 690 airplanes, 161 helicopters; 104 warships Syria: 150,000 troops (60,000 deployed); 1,400 tanks, 800-900 armored carriers; 600 artillery units 100 mm and up; 350 airplanes, 36 helicopters; 21 warships Iraq: 60,000 troops, 700 tanks, 500 armored carriers, 200 artillery units, 73 airplanes)[1] Out numbered and out gunned. (thank god for better training and US equipment) Casualties Israel 2,656 killed 7,250 wounded 400 tanks destroyed 600 damaged/returned to service 102 planes shot down (Rabinovich, 496–497 Arabs 8,528 killed 19,540 wounded (Western analysis) 15,000 dead 35,000 wounded (Israeli analysis) 2,250 tanks destroyed or captured 432 planes destroyed (Rabinovich, 496–497) You call that a victory?

*is baffled how anyone can call that a victory* As i said you had a fantastic spin doctor.

Its true thou! And besides we havent really talked the topic in hand for several pages. A terrorist is a terrorist no matter where your from, true, but what about people?A person is a person right? No. We divide people into British, American, french.etc. at the moment the Islamic terrorist are different to the IRA, ETA etc. Most terrorist groups are local threats whereas Islamic terrorism is global. thats why its a problem.

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I'm thinking is she ever gonna call??

No-one hates Egyptians - Its a nice country full of history. Shame theres some narrow minded people there who are too bitter about the past to see the truth.

You only got some land back You gained some intial success granted but then you got pushed back across the sinai and lost control of the suez canal. An army of yours was totally surrounded and woulve been annilated if you hadnt betrayed yourallies and accepted a ceasefire. That is not a victory. Thats a lucky escape.

Til Kingdom bore Same question

I am on my own. :-( but that means more time to me to do stuff i like. When did you hear your first Coldplay song and when did you become a proper fan?

"Funny how those that cry and whine about our freedoms being eroded under Bush are supporting the party that is attempting to negate our most basic freedoms. The freedom of free speech an freedom of the press." *Waits for certain people to start screeching how the government are behind this and not really the Democrats.*

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