Posts by digderidoo

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Simon Cowell's Britains Got Talent....47 year old Scottish woman (a must see audition)

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

well it's back and just look at what britain can produce.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1nnk1ik.

bet you didn't expect that?.

paul.

digderidoo

Thanks for that link Snakes, gives a good background to her and your correct it was the first show last night.

Paul

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Simon Cowell's Britains Got Talent....47 year old Scottish woman (a must see audition)

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

well it's back and just look at what britain can produce.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1nnk1ik.

bet you didn't expect that?.

paul.

digderidoo

It was fantastic, one of my children was watching it upstairs and came running down to make sure i was watching it.

When she's on next in a few weeks, i'll post it that one up too. I wonder what the odds are that she'll win the series as it's only the first episode, may be worth a punt.

Paul

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Simon Cowell's Britains Got Talent....47 year old Scottish woman (a must see audition)

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

well it's back and just look at what britain can produce.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1nnk1ik.

bet you didn't expect that?.

paul.

digderidoo

Thanks Coco, was looking for a longer one.

Paul

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Could All Religions Be True?

by metatron in

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sounds crazy, if you're a witness, right?.

suppose there is some sort of afterlife and it's a dream state!

everybody gets what they want: jesus and pearly gates, 72 virgins, aztecs removing hearts with obsidian knives, you name it.

digderidoo

I think it's possibly the case that all religions could be wrong.

Paul

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Simon Cowell's Britains Got Talent....47 year old Scottish woman (a must see audition)

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

well it's back and just look at what britain can produce.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1nnk1ik.

bet you didn't expect that?.

paul.

digderidoo

Pleasure CoCo, saw it on TV tonight and gave me goosebumps. She has to make the final and has every chance of winning.

Paul

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by nevergonnab1 in

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Simon Cowell's Britains Got Talent....47 year old Scottish woman (a must see audition)

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

well it's back and just look at what britain can produce.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1nnk1ik.

bet you didn't expect that?.

paul.

digderidoo

Well it's back and just look at what Britain can produce.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik

Bet you didn't expect that?

Paul

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Should Towns Have The Right To Curfew Teens From 11p.m. to 5a.m.?

by minimus in

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in one massachusetts city, there's a teen curfew fromm11 to 5. actually, 9 other communities have this curfew in the state.. some are saying such a curfew is unconstitutional.. what's your view?

if a group of kids took a train into boston, for example, and went to a ballgame, should they be penalized if they are returning home between those hours?.

A few years ago in the UK we had something similar introduced under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. At the time their was alot of criticism of restricting mainly teens liberty, even though it could be applied to anyone.

Under the Act if anyone or a group of people acted antisocially, and it must be proven over a long period, they would be given an Anti Social Behavioural Order (ASBO) by the courts restricting movement. Many ASBO's were given to youths, in particular restricting groups of more than two or three youths from 'hanging around' certain areas where it has been known youths have caused trouble, or they may restrict certain troublesome youths with a curfew. In some cases they were applied to sections of known troublesome areas.

At the time it was introduced i was one of the ones agaist what i saw as restricting liberty.

But then one was introduced at a shopping precinct near to my fathers, where sometimes up to 50 youths would congregate at night. Over a six month period no more than 3 youths could be grouped together otherwise they could be taken to Court, for which there would be serious consequences. During that period many on my fathers estate felt safe to venture to the shops in the evening, the crime was reduced to almost zero and the neighbourhood became peaceful again. Since that time the youths have dispersed and there is no need for the ASBO to be applied, the neighbourhood is relatively peaceful again.

I think for such a thing as these ASBO's which in effect are curfews does affect an individual's liberty, but that has to be balanced against the liberty of the general public's need to feel safe and more importantly be safe in their communities.

Paul

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BIG - Irish Gov't Told to Set National Policy on JWs and Blood

by skeeter1 in

i can't get this important article to post, so here's the link.

please read it.. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0404/1224244010408.html.

this is the irish authorities that are looking into the jws and blood.

digderidoo

I have been doing some reading upon the Mental Capacity Bill 2007 to which the article refers. Refering to the mental capacity to make informed decisions, this is interesting.

Under the proposed legislation, lack of capacity will be defined by focusing on the particular time when a decision has to be made and on the particular matter to which a decision relates and not on a capacity to make decisions generally.

This is a significant change from the current system, where a finding of incapacity applies to every decision a person may make and every legal transaction they may wish to enter into.

In his address, Mr Ahern said: "This is a Bill for and about adults who are vulnerable in the sense that they may lack some or all capacity to make important decisions for themselves,” Mr Ahern said.

I guess if the court found some coercion in making the decision, i.e. pressure at the time of signing the blood card, then a court may find that card invalid, when applying this legislation.

If on the other hand a person signed the hospital forms requesting no blood then that would be sufficient, but the blood card may be a risky one for Irish JW's.

If a policy was adopted in Ireland where blood cards were invalid due to a lack of capacity at the time of signing, the org would just make sure JW's signed some type of registered form with local GP's. They will always find a way around it. Would be interesting to see how this goes in the future.

Paul

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BIG - Irish Gov't Told to Set National Policy on JWs and Blood

by skeeter1 in

i can't get this important article to post, so here's the link.

please read it.. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0404/1224244010408.html.

this is the irish authorities that are looking into the jws and blood.

digderidoo

Whatever policy the Irish government come up with, they will have to respect a patients right to refuse. There is no getting around it.

The problem with European countries now is that any policy affecting individuals rights has to be in conjunction with the European Convention on Human Rights, any national policy that is not compatible with this doesn't have a chance of being upheld in national courts.

The fact of the matter is any policy not respecting the right of an adult refusing treatment will never be backed up by the Irish courts. It's just a lot of hot air being stirred up by someone.

Paul