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  separation church&state

  by waton in

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  ottawa -- the supreme court of canada says a jehovah's witness who was expelled from his calgary congregation cannot take his case to a judge.

  canada ctv news.

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  Hate speech laws are fascist.
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

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  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  It took you 10 months to come up with that!

  I literally have not got a clue what you mean and I suspect you don't either.

  None of the extant Cytochrome sequences are sequentially ancestral to any others - Hooby

  Nobody said otherwise

  Do you even understand the significance of the information in the OP regarding protein functional redundancy? I answered your 'objection' here and yet you don't even acknowledge a single word of my reply.
  
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  The difference Freddo is that the authorities didn't believe or didn't know about the activities of Saville, Smith and Harris.

  In the case of the multiple Muslim pedophile gangs they did know and were too afraid/politically correct to protect the victims.

  Once again NOBODY is saying that all muslims are pedophiles - although their beloved prophet did set the example by repeatedly raping a nine year old - or that child abuse is a uniquely Muslim crime.

  The problem is that many immigrants have come from deeply misogynistic cultures where unprotected girls - especially non-muslim girls - are viewed as fair game. A woman is the possession of her father and then her husband. An unattached girl such as those in Council care is viewed with no respect. Living in a free and liberal society like England provides them with an abundance of opportunities for predatory sex. If you doubt this explanation of Muslim culture check out the recent comments of Maajid Nawaz on LBC radio.

  For decades the ridiculous, self-loathing doctrine of multiculturalism made it impossible to criticise other cultures without suffering professional ostracism, even when there were victims. It was easier to blame the teenage girls for being precocious or immoral.

  In 2011 Cameron. Merkel and Sarkozy admitted that multiculturalism has failed. Too late, the damage is probably irreparable..
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

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  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  That's brilliant Dunedain! I love being able to connect local history to national events.

  It has also been really interesting to discover the everyday life of ordinary people who lived here centuries ago. While metal detecting I find artefacts that were last seen and held by men and women who lived right here yards from my house hundreds of years ago. Always gives me a buzz.

  A classic example of what I mean is lead 'spindle whorls'. These turn up all the time around here. They were attached to the end of stick and used by young women 'spinsters' to make woolen yarn medieval times before the invention of the spinning wheel. Every time I find one I think about who lost it maybe 6 or 7 hundred years ago. What was their home like? Their clothes and food and possessions?

  Here is one example of 20 or more I have found within a few fields around my house (the white colour is lead oxide)

  Edited to add - The diameter is about 40mm

  
  
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

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  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  A lot of old records are available online.

  The estate was once part of an enclave belonging to the 'Prince Bishops' of Durham. Going back to medieval and post-medieval period there are a lot of archives held at Durham Cathedral and transcribed for viewing online.

  Post-Conquest it belonged to a nobleman who had land on both sides of the Scottish border and who fell out with Edward I because of his allegiance to Robert Bruce. It then passed to the family of Robert de Manners whose ancestors came over with William the Conqueror. It stayed in that family for many generations. He was a classic English Knight who fought in many of the Scottish - English wars including Bannockburn and Stirling Bridge.

  It was a village in the Middle Ages with a decent population but was repeatedly sacked by raiding Scots and fell into decline for a while. There was a tower here which was later replaced by a Tudor Mansion which is now no more than a couple of walls that are part of a walled garden and replaced by a Georgian House which still exists a short distance from the cottage I live in (I was creeping around it with a torch and big metal bar in the early hours last week when the alarm went off during the night - false alarm thankfully)

  After the Reformation the family who owned the estate remained Roman Catholic and maintained a secret Chaplaincy. They fought for King Charles in the English Civil War and for Edward Stuart and Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite rebellions. One son of the family was hanged at York for his rebellion. The woman for whom the current house was built was called Jacobina - her father was a Jacobite who took part in the Battle of Culloden. Always on the losing side of history!

  I have permission to metal detect around the estate and have artefacts that link to all parts of the recorded history. I have been researching on and off for a few years - my account is about 50 pages so far full of colourful characters and incidents, I'm going to print it off and give copies to the current landowners as thanks for the permission to detect on the estate.
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  if you think they represent any religion

  They do. There is a significant problem in England of Muslim gangs from Pakistan and Bangladesh preying on white teenage girls - mostly those in care.

  NOBODY is saying that ONLY Muslims abuse children

  and that all Muslims are similarly evil, then ...

  Absolutely NOBODY is saying that all Muslims are complicit in child abuse.

  I'm glad to have been able to clear that up for you.
  
  
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  Phizzy - Interesting background thanks for posting.

  The fact remains that Muslim pedophile gangs operated for decades in multiple English cities with the knowledge of police and social workers. That they are finally being brought to justice is down to the persistence of people outside the establishment who refused to shut up.

  Tommy Robinson may have crossed a line but when the people who ought to protect the vulnerable decline to do so this is what happens.

  Civilised society is fragile. We agree to not take the law into our own hands and resort to mob rule on the understanding that the state will do their job on our behalf. When they wilfully and knowingly fail to do so the rule of law is put in jeopardy.
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

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  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  George died at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire. I have no idea how he ended up there. His father's last military posting was as Captain of the regiment as the barracks in Berwick-upon-Tweed before retiring to Edinburgh.

  I am working on a history of the estate where I live. So far I have made it from the Norman Conquest to 1800. Fascinating stuff. The Earl of Bothwell who murdered Lord Darnley and married his widow Mary Queen of Scots took refuge here for a few nights in 1562. One wall of the room where he stayed is still standing as part of a walled garden.
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  North American History - Red George MacDonnell

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  greetings to the colonies .

  i have come across this individual in the course of some local history research - back in the late 18th c his aunt and her husband owned the estate where i now live and his parents settled nearby.

  he gets credit for a victory at ogdensberg in the war of 1812.. is 'red george macdonnell known to the average american/canadian or is he an obscure figure?

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  Turns out he has a pub named after him in Ontario...