Maybe they'll be allowing the McDonald's concessions to operate.
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BIG SURPRISE at upcoming International Conventions
by Smiles inhas anyone else been told about this...... word out of hq bethel has it that the upcoming special international conventions will contain some kind of major information or releases.. we know the gb has been rather quiet the last couple years after their 'reorganizing'.
perhaps because they are facing the sex abuse scandal..... but also likely they have been working on some fancy surprises for the upcoming special international conventions, to excite their masses......... and also try to detract them from the scandals.
it would be good timing of their part.. this should be interesting......... .
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Attention Scully & Mulan
by mouthy ini owe you an apoligy...i do not have pay attention to the flock i am so sorry- i was thinking of the book " preparing for child custody cases" & also the book" refutation of preparing for child custody cases" sorry guys ..only excuse to many books !!
and the age issue >>>>excuse me
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Holy smokes Grace, you have a house full of good stuff!
Perhaps we can talk about the stuff above after sorting out the other stuff...lol
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is everone a hater?
by wpbsurf inbeen a witness all my life all i see is negitivity,why.do you have nothing better to do than to type your life story on how you left the truth,who cares..im happy where i stand
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Get Out of the EU While There's Time Friends!
by Francois injust read that german chancellor gerhard schroeder is ordering english news outlets to stop reporting on his alleged affairs.... .
response from the english?
"you don't rule enland....yet.
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The Germans can NAFTA off.
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One question that would make you think....
by Dawn inno jw's have been to my door for years because they all know where i live - my mom drives by with her "car group" and points out our house, even stops to use the potty or get a pop.
silly - i know, but mom doesn't seem to care about the shunning thing (thank goodness).. anyways - hubby and i have bought a new house and will be moving out of this congregation's area soon.
it's a brand new house in a new area so i'm sure it'll get worked fairly quickly (new blood on the block).
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"Do you think you can get to the front gate before my Rottweiler catches you?"
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?JW? Molester in BC Canada
by Scully inthe phrase at the end says the offender was excommunicated from his church....
http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=c84188df-2d00-4f2d-a466-aecbee309c39
babysitter admits molesting little boy
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William Elder
My goodness what a wonderfully appropriate name.
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Moral dilemma.
by expatbrit inimagine you are the head of the security services in your city.
somewhere in your city is a bomb.
it is timed to explode sometime in the next 24 hours, very probably in a crowded area.
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Imagine you are the head of the security services in your city. Somewhere in your city is a bomb. It is timed to explode sometime in the next 24 hours, very probably in a crowded area. Dozens, maybe hundreds, could be killed or injured. The bomb has been planted by a terrorist organisation that supports a repressive regime in the developing world, that your own government condemns for its human rights violations.
Now here's the good news. One of the terrorists is in custody. She knows where the bomb is. Unfortunately, she isn't talking, and can't be persuaded to talk by ordinary means. She wont be hypnotised, and you don't have available drugs to help loosen her tongue.
However, the interogators tell you that they are convinced that with a sufficient amount of brutal persuasion of a physical nature, her resistance will be broken and she will talk. In other words, they want to use torture.
Time is running out. The bomb is out there.
Do you authorise the use of torture?
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Should We Send Our Firefighters To Iraq?
by Englishman injust wondering.
tomorrow is the day that the firemen strike again, having still not resolved a pay and productivity agreement.
once again, the army boys are manning the fire appliances, so's the firemen can strike without there being too much risk to the public.. in view of the fact that the uk is sending one-quarter of it's armed forces in the direction of iraq, can we assume therefore that the firemen will be returning the favour by manning the hundreds of tanks and guns that are also to be deployed out there?.
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Yeah I figured that would get the predictable emotional reaction.
by this logic then we shouldnt pay our polititians at all since they are massively outnumbered by potential applicants. Or why pay doctors ? since med schools around britian have massive compatition to get in leaving many out .
Then your logic is faulty, since that is not the point at all. The point is that the new breed of union militants represented by leaders such as Andy Gilchrist are demanding exorbitant no-strings-attached pay increases of 40% while wanting to maintain the notorious restrictive practices the fire service cherishes. This is blatant extortion and a racket. If others are willing to work for less, then the current personnel are overpriced. Let the market decide the rate. If the demand for firemen/politicians/doctors exceeds the supply, their wages will go up. If the supply exceeds the demand (and it does) then their wages will fall.
Even better, privatise the service. Allow private companies to provide a better service, such as training for medical procedures. Training that the existing fireservice have largely refused. France's service also provides ambulance and first aid service. The private company Falck in Denmark runs a large percentage of the fire service, plus the vehicle breakdown service and the ambulance service. Their workers are better trained, and because the service is more efficient, they earn more than British fireworkers.
The British service is appallingly managed. Funding according to the number of call-outs is ridiculous, leading to scams like the West Midlands off-duty firemen who would call in hoaxes at the end of their shift to trigger extra pay for their colleagues. They get a hugely indulgent shift-system of working two days and two nights, then getting four days off, meaning a lot of them can run lucrative sideline businesses.
Of course, they play the predictable emotional blackmail cards about risking their lives and so on. This is designed to distract from the fact that the fire service is one of the last bastions of union power with all its worst qualities of protectionism, over-staffing, bad service and inefficiency. No-one forces fire service workers to do the job, and the nature of the work does not provide an excuse for the blatantly extortionate tactics employed by the union.
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Should We Send Our Firefighters To Iraq?
by Englishman injust wondering.
tomorrow is the day that the firemen strike again, having still not resolved a pay and productivity agreement.
once again, the army boys are manning the fire appliances, so's the firemen can strike without there being too much risk to the public.. in view of the fact that the uk is sending one-quarter of it's armed forces in the direction of iraq, can we assume therefore that the firemen will be returning the favour by manning the hundreds of tanks and guns that are also to be deployed out there?.
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Someone should tell the fire fighters that for every vacancy in the fire service, there are forty applicants.
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The Marmite Wars.
by Englishman inare you a lover or a hater?
http://www.ihatemarmite.co.uk/ or http://www.ilovemarmite.com/marmite/default.asp.
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I went to great lengths to find marmite out here in the colonies, and finally, there it was, in the British Shop in Port Hope, shining like the heavenly throne in a Revelation Climax book illustration.
Thank you British Empire!
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