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  Guide to the UK for Americans

  by besty in

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  inspired by a recent post and a long standing amusement at the various ways some americans display their geography skillz with regard to my home nation and their country of origin in some cases.. defintions:.

  geography.

  1 - the british isles geographically describes the archipelago lying off western europe and includes 'everything'.

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  aligot ripounsous

  First of all, Britain is an island, then an Island and, in the end, an Island
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-25-09 WT Study (HEALTH)

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  comments you will not hear at the 01-25-09 wt study (november 15, 2008, pages 23-27)(health).

  review comments will be in red.

  reasonable concern.

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  aligot ripounsous

  Thank you, Blondie, for your research work,

  As for aluminium and cancer, though, connection between aluminium and urinary system, especially bladder, cancer, seems to be a well proven fact, not by the WTS but by scientists.
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  Roquefort : can war be averted ?

  by aligot ripounsous in

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  2. current

  last thursday, the bush administration brought an already punitive duty up to 300 %, to take effect in march, on roquefort to punish europe which is maintaining ban on us hormone-fed beef, for health reasons.

  president obama will be asked to call off that perfidious new american attack on cheese or face retaliation against symbol of us power coca-cola.. begin: comment teaser module

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  Last Thursday, the Bush Administration brought an already punitive duty up to 300 %, to take effect in March, on Roquefort to punish Europe which is maintaining ban on US hormone-fed beef, for health reasons. President Obama will be asked to call off that perfidious new American attack on cheese or face retaliation against symbol of US power — Coca-Cola.
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  If I had been on that US Airways plane...

  by Newborn in

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  2. friends

  ...that crashed into the hudson river...i'd never go on a plane again.

  amazing noone was killed - i salute the captain as well!!.

  /newborn.

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  statistically flying is still the safest way to travel.

  It all depends on the terms of the ratio you choose : In proportion of the mileage covered it's true but if you were taking a plane as often as you take your car, you would be dead thousand times by now.
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  Anyone familiar with, or from, Benin?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  i have been trying to learn just a little about the place, and have found it to be an interesting country.

  the reason for my interest is that a fellow at work is a native of benin.

  i have found the research interesting and just wondered if anyone here might know much about benin.. jeff .

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  Under french rule, it was called Dahomey. What I know is that it is currently famous for its harbour Cotonou, where european junk cars are shipped to be sold in western Africa
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  Obama's soles

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no wonder obama won hands down, in an armchair, after voters saw this picture and made the comparison with the price of sarah palin's wardrobe.

  imo, though, he is smart enough for having directed this mediatic coup.

  and who could possibly believe that michelle, who most likely supervised his campain, or the girls, didn't notice what the condition of these soles was ?

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  I heard it's freezing cold in Washington, let's hope he will have changed shoes for Inauguration
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  Just read the God Delusion- JWs get a mention!!

  by Kudra in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  driving back from dallas to tucson i listened to in on my ipod.

  unabridged version.. what surprised me is how sentimental dawkins is.

  once or twice he made me tear up.

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  life forms that can see stereoscopically (in "3D" or with two eyes, I guess) had an advantage over those that didn't.

  That's quite clear. So, I understand that they first had to see in stereoscopy, and it was found afterward that this feature was giving them an advantage. But how could they see in stereoscopy in the first place?

  evidence here that people should have learned in high school about biology.

  You're right, my 2 kids are in HS upper year and I tell them that whatever they are taught re. evolution thay must learn so as to get good marks and their degree, it will be high time after that to make an opinion for temselves, because it is a domain which is open to opinion and beliefs, unlike gravity and rotundity of the earth.
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  Just read the God Delusion- JWs get a mention!!

  by Kudra in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  driving back from dallas to tucson i listened to in on my ipod.

  unabridged version.. what surprised me is how sentimental dawkins is.

  once or twice he made me tear up.

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  natural selection is the very *opposite* of chance.

  I'm sorry, Kudra, I may be thick but someone will have to explain to me how natural selection has lead me to hear in stereophony and see in stereoscopy. Natural selection is credited here with a piece of engineering which, to me, seems to be well beyond its capacity. Unless of course our ancestors found, one day, with their primitive brains, that, decidedly, life would be so much more enjoyable in stereo, and devised, within themselves, the wiring in their brains and the organs that go with it...
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  UK Kingdom halls situated in terrible areas

  by excito-are in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as some one who who has travelled britian well, i must make known an observation.

  almost all kingdom halls are in really bad areas.

  fron travelling around scotland i see in edinburgh, glasgow, kilbrinie, bellshill , hamilton, kirkcaldy, glenrothes, methil, dundee, aberdeen, inverness, the halls are in a terrible place where unemployment is rife, drug taking common place and just downright poverty and crime is seen.

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  I was quite surprised to see in a US town an area which the planners had dedicated to religious buildings and the KH was neighbouring with temples, churches, etc. It was a pretty residential area, about 30 years ago. I perceived it as a sign that the JW religion was fairly well integrated in the american society and not marginalized as it was, and still is to a large extent, in France.
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  Oh, so, that's what it's for !

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. social
  2. current

  "praise is also going to the three cabin crew who organised the evacuation of the 150 passengers.

  and there is credit for the french-based european airbus firm for building a tough airliner.

  among other things, unlike boeings, the airbus has an emergency "ditch button", which closes vents and makes the fuselage more watertight.

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  aligot ripounsous

  everytime you want to ditch safely in the Hudson river