Personally, I think it should be compulsory for every young person to live in at least two different foreign countries for a period of two years each.
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How many English/Brits on board? America OwnZ!!!!
by d0rkyd00d injust wondering, how could anybody not want to come to the u.s. yes, i'm well aware i'm opening a post for flaming, and flaming is what i need to here!
j/k, but seriously, u.s.a. is the best country in the world.
one word: colgate baby!.
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Doubt Not!
by silentlambs ini thought you might like to see a fax i just sent to j. r. brown.
you can also pick it up on the front page of the website, you may also read and download the complaint that states the basis of this lawsuit.
run wt run...... silentlambs.
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The press release and legal documents, together with a referral to the silentlambs website have been e-mailed to the newsroom departments of the two major Canadian national newspapers (The Globe & Mail and The National Post), and the two major Toronto newspapers (The Toronto Star and The Toronto Sun).
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Absolutely Fabulous.
by Englishman into all you people who so vehemently disagreed with "that" post, a great big thank you!.
not one person bombed my wide open email with hundreds of anonymous fcuk messages, unlike the threats i often receive from so-called xtians.
i think that's great, not a coward amongst you.. englishman now holdin' his breath........ ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
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What the f...er, heck's the matter with fcuk? They have cool stuff!
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30 and Out?
by Black Man in30 that seems to put jw's at a cross-roads?
i've known so many who have decided to abandon ship at either the age of 30 or either after 30 years of being baptized.
i fall into the former category.
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Add me to the 30ish wake-up list. I stopped going last year at 31. Not sure if reaching thirty had anything to do with it; maybe it is true that you stop to consider your life and how it suddenly appears to be racing by, time a-wasting in pointless door-knocking and following the nonsense of a bunch of delusional fanatics. Whatever, my thirties are gonna be MY decade.
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What a pretty summer so far!
by Bendrr ini don't know how the weather is everywhere else, but here in dixie, it's been the first bearable summer in as long as i can remember.. it seems as though mother nature took a rest this year, worn out from her years of relentlessly bombarding us with intense heat.
for so long, it seemed as though the spring and summer months, even october, would bring an onslaught of 100+ degree temperatures with record high humidity and only enough rain to turn our evenings into saunas.. then this year came.
so far, the temperature has topped out in the very low 90's and the humidity just hasn't had the enthusiasm of years past.
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Don't talk to me about winter! Today it was 35C (95F), with a humidity factor of 40C (104F).
I'm watching my lawn perish in front of my eyes. I trust all you foreigners appreciate what his lawn means to an Englishman. My bloody lawn is turning BROWN!
Of course in six months it'll be -20C and my lawn will be buried underneath two feet of snow. And it'll be brown again DAMNIT!!!
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A Tasty Lil Bit O' Gossip.
by Englishman inhere's a picture of the late sir john fieldhouse during his time as an admiral in the royal navy.
he later became first sea lord and was in charge of operations during the falklands war when england and argentina slugged it out in the south atlantic back in '82.
his wife shown here is lady fieldhouse - known to her friends as midge - who is a very active jehovahs witness residing in lee on solent, near portsmouth.
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A short chronology of the Falklands:
1522, 1592
Argentine versions state that various Spanish and Portuguese seamen, and particularly Esteban Gómez of the Magellan expedition (in 1522) were the first to see the islands without giving concrete verifiable sources except their own, which are most likely revisionistic.According the Encyclopedia Britannica (an American source probably leaning toward the English), the English navigator John Davis on the Desire (1592) may (note emphasis) have been the first person to sight the Falklands.
Given that both sides' claims are much debated and undocumented by the original sources, they should be taken with a grain of salt.
Circa 1600
The Dutchman Sebald de Weerdt makes the first undisputed sighting of the islands.1690
The English captain John Strong heading a British expedition made the first recorded landing in the Falklands, in 1690. The British claim the islands for the crown and named the sound between the two main islands after Viscount Falkland, a British naval official. The name was later applied to the whole island group.1764
French navigator Louis-Antoine de Bougainville founds the islands' first permanent settlement, on East Falkland.
During subsequent years, a French fishery is manned by people from St. Malo (hence "Iles Malouines" from which the Argentine name "Islas Malvinas" is derived).1765
The British are the first to settle in the West Falkland island.1767
The Spanish buy out the French settlement (Port Louis) in the East Falkland island. For Spain, this implies a French recognition of the Spanish rights to the land.1770
A Spanish flotilla arrives at the islands asking the British to leave. When first asked to leave, the British officer in charge of the garrison, a Captain Hunt, replied:
``I have received your letters by the officer, acquainting me that these islands and coasts thereof belong to the King of Spain, your Master. In return I am to acquaint you that the said islands belong to his Brittanic Majesty, My Master, by right of discovery as well as settlement and that the subjects of no other power whatever can have any right to be settled in the said islands without leave from His Brittanic Majesty or taking oaths of allegiance and submitting themselves to His Majesty's Government as subjects of the Crown of Great Britain.''
This is the first documented sign we could find of the conflict between Britain and Spain regarding the Islands.Shortly thereafter, the Spanish revisited with a much superior force ``convincing'' the British garrison to leave on 14th July 1770.
[Source: 'An account of of the last expedition to Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands' , by Bernard Penrose published in the Universal Magazine, April 1775.]
1771
The British outpost on West Falkland is restored after threat of war.1774
The British withdraw from the island (for economic reasons according to British sources). Spain maintains the settlement on East Falkland (which it called Soledad Island) until 1811, when Spain is about to lose control of its colonies in America.1816
Independent Argentina first appears on the historical scene.1820
The Buenos Aires government, which had declared its independence from Spain in 1816, first proclaims its sovereignty over the Falklands.1828
Argentine warlord (Caudillo), and later governor of Buenos Aires Juan Manuel de Rosas sent a governor, Mr. Vernet, together with a garrison and settlers for menial work to the islands. The first recorded Argentine settlement in the islands.1831
The American warship USS Lexington destroys the Argentine settlement on East Falkland in reprisal for the arrest of three U.S. ships that had been hunting seals in the area.1833
Afraid that the Americans seized the islands, the British remember the expedition of the 17th century, re-invade the islands, forcefully depose Vernet and send the Argentines back to the mainland albeit without having to fire a shot.1885
A British community of some 1,800 people on the islands is self-supporting.1892
Colonial status is granted to the Falklands.1933 and on
According to David Rock: ``After the Roca-Runciman treaty [A bilateral trade agreement signed in 1933 between Britain and Argentina, benefiting Britain and exploiting Argentina's natural resources -- Ed.], a profusion of new nationalist writers and factions began to appear. For a time the nationalist movement was largely dominated by historians who sought to fuel the campaign against the British. These historical ``revisionists'' began to reexamine the 19th century and to catalogue Britain's imperialist encroachments: the british invasions of 1806-1807, Britain's role in the foundation of Uruguay in the late 1820s, its seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833, the blockades under Rosas ... A cult now enveloped the figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was depicted as a symbol of national resistance to foreign dominations [In fact, he was a strong handed dictator who killed countless opponents, benefited greatly from trade with Britain, sized 800,000 acres of estate land for himself only etc. -- Ed]... Propaganda of this kind made a deepening imprint on public opinion and helped sustain nationalist sentiments in the Army...''1964
The islands' position was debated by the UN committee on de-colonization. Argentina based its claim to the Falklands on papal bulls of 1493 modified by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), by which Spain and Portugal had divided the New World between themselves; on succession from Spain; on the islands' proximity to South America; and on the need to end a colonial situation. Britain based its claim on its "open, continuous, effective possession, occupation, and administration" of the islands since 1833 and its determination to grant the Falklanders self-determination as recognized in the United Nations Charter. Britain asserted that, far from ending a colonial situation, Argentine rule and control of the lives of the Falklanders against their will would, in fact, create one.1965
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution inviting Britain and Argentina to hold discussions to find a peaceful solution to the dispute. These protracted discussions were still proceeding in February 1982 shortly before the Falkland war started. -
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Franz 3rd best hebrew scholar in world?
by sleepy inrecently at my local district convention it was stated by a speaker that he had met someone on the the ministry who had told him that fred ranz was one of the three best hebrew scholars in the world.. this didn't sound true to me for several reasons, but could anyone with knowledge of this suject shed some light on the matter?
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"A person in Ohio writes that 'the Watchower magazine is the most valuable journal in the world.'"
Must be a relative of the person in Nebraska who confirms that Freddie Franz was indeed a Rhodes Scholar.
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p.s. who are the first and second best Hebrew scholars?
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A Tasty Lil Bit O' Gossip.
by Englishman inhere's a picture of the late sir john fieldhouse during his time as an admiral in the royal navy.
he later became first sea lord and was in charge of operations during the falklands war when england and argentina slugged it out in the south atlantic back in '82.
his wife shown here is lady fieldhouse - known to her friends as midge - who is a very active jehovahs witness residing in lee on solent, near portsmouth.
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Commie Chris:
I see we need to have a little chat at the next Toronto aposto-fest!
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Franz 3rd best hebrew scholar in world?
by sleepy inrecently at my local district convention it was stated by a speaker that he had met someone on the the ministry who had told him that fred ranz was one of the three best hebrew scholars in the world.. this didn't sound true to me for several reasons, but could anyone with knowledge of this suject shed some light on the matter?
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Sleepy:
It's difficult to argue with something so enormously referenced by verifiable facts and authorities as this statement by the DC speaker. Obviously, we must just accept the inevitability of it's complete correctness.
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What a pretty summer so far!
by Bendrr ini don't know how the weather is everywhere else, but here in dixie, it's been the first bearable summer in as long as i can remember.. it seems as though mother nature took a rest this year, worn out from her years of relentlessly bombarding us with intense heat.
for so long, it seemed as though the spring and summer months, even october, would bring an onslaught of 100+ degree temperatures with record high humidity and only enough rain to turn our evenings into saunas.. then this year came.
so far, the temperature has topped out in the very low 90's and the humidity just hasn't had the enthusiasm of years past.
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Pubsinger:
According to my family, it was 32C in good old Blighty last week! What's going on over there?
As Gopher pointed out, here in the great white north it's been pretty gonad melting. Who'd of thought it. Sweating me goolies off in Canada!
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