Terrorism - the new catch-all

Oh, I see - I am sure she won't be worried by something said on an English forum!

I had the misfortune to catch Sky News the other morning - Eamon wotsit and two others were reviewing the newspapers and tittering at the photo of Bradley Manning dressed as a female in a blonde wig.

It seemed so heartless - the boy is young, immature and had just been sentenced to 35 years.

Spoilt? How? The post is perfectly clear to me.

Yes, but rather spoilt by the 'his' sentence!

Using his new name

Why is it pc, jingle? I am sure many of us think the US uses very harsh, inhumane punishments to keep the people in line.

Wow*iam*! That's very pc of you.

Gracemum what can I tell you ? The only I can suggest is, you google!
She did take a silver medal for Britain - so well done her !

Re Profumo et al , I must have had a mental block , how could that have happened I wonder ? It is all coming back now as if a veil has been lifted .

PS Aha! So you do remember the Profumo scandal/Christine Keeler affair then?

Nonu = my post of yesterday 23.21, asking you for an explanation, please?

Looking at the pictures of the "Cottage" at Cliveden , smiled to myself when I saw the chair in the bedroom , nice little touch of irony !!

I hope Snowdon avoids being tried in the USA. The treatment of Chelsea Bradley Manning and his sentence seem extraordinary to me.

What is the "slalom standing LW4" race?

McCartneys family were right about her. Although I did read in todays paper that she took a silver medal in the slalom standing LW4 race for people with disabilities in N.Z

I feel very sorry for Bradley Manning. Poor mixed up kid.

One of the Telegraph articles said, in effect, that Snowden was right to expose "the cancer at the heart of US government" but that his action that followed - seeking refuge in Russia - was unprincipled. Having seen the way that Bradley Manning was treated (being stripped and kept in solitary confinement before his trial and then getting a 35-year sentence), Snowden would have been pretty silly to hang around and wait for the US authorities to pick him up.

Yes. He could have afforded.

I read somewhere that Paul McCartney used to book the cottage at Cliveden as a hideaway for him and Heather Mills because his family hated her so much.

And don't forget to book your butler.

And you still have to pay the 10 quid entrance fee!

The adverts are not coincidental - It is done by Google ads, which tailors ads to individual interests.

If you google "Google ads settings" you get to a page where you can control what kind of ads you get.

When I posted on another thread about those adverts, the response I got varied from it being entirely coincidental to me being paranoid!

By the way, going well up the thread I do not doubt the submariner, although a year seems a long time. Wars generally need a lot of advance planning, whether they finally go ahead or not. Submarines needed to be supplied and on station before a war starts, which means submarines getting sailing plans and setting out months in advance of the planned date for the start of hostilities. If you are on a submarine and your target destination 3 months ahead is off Iraq, it doesn't take much effort to put 2 and 2 together.

Newspapers had worked out the date the war was likely to start months in advance - and they were right. It was common knowledge that there were little or no links between Iraq and any of the terrorist organisations but it was known that GW wanted to finish the job Daddy started and from the day he was elected was looking for a reason to go to war against Saddam Hussein.

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Cheapskate.

Ah, that's not one of the cottages I am thinking of. These two go for about a thousand a week., or just under.