Harry in Basra

[Charlie]

he's going to attract all the bombers and gunmen in Basra, who will be out to get him, and will put the men with him in additional danger. he shouldn't be going

[Hadrians hiring!]

Sorry but I am in the opposite camp

Send him and all his family and I would even consider joining up.



If Bin laden is still recuiting that is.

[Sweltered]

Hadrian, a comment like over here would result in a knock ont he door from the FBI. A local school here sent an essay written by a 17 yr old to FBI and didn't allow the boy to graduate High School because he said in an essay, he wouldn't be sorry if the "President died tomorrow" He got his diploma eventually, but couldn't walk with his class.

And this is the country with free speech.

BAck to thread

He is getting paid, he should do his job....

[Hadrians hiring!]

Aye Sweltered, jeest as well I am past the education stage.

If that is his chosen career path then he has to go. It would make a mockery of his family being head of the Army or whatever they are.

By the way the only FBI worth a hoot is the Ferry Boat Inn in Ullapool

[Sweltered]

Never cared for the Ferry Boat inn....landlord was a pain, and it wsa always full of smelly hillwalkers

[general jack o'niell]

how to make friends and effluent people, florida style!!!!!!!

[Jock Strap]

Should definitely go.

If not does that mean others sons are less important?

[ionnsaigh]

The war in Iraq Afghanistan , I wonder how many of the sons and daughters of our newly elected bunch of MSPs are fighting the war on terror. Or for that matter how many have siblings that have had the benefit of a university education. The reason I ask, is the system purport to be representative of all in the Scottish Nation.
That being the case how many are Council tenants.How many don't own a car, a computer.

Frankly speaking, how many come from a middle Class background , as opposed to the ranks of the poor and ordinary?.
How many come from the professional classes, of doctors lawyers and politicians. Where is my representative in this bunch. My oh my, so this their version of a much heralded and valued Democracy. More men than Women,
more White than Black, more Middle than Lower. Crude blunt aye, yet mathematically correct.

Proportional representation is a thin charade, used by the powers that be to medicate and subject it's people to electoral fraud, the vast numbers of people who have an MSP who has little or nothing in common with the voters that they claim to represent, other than a geographical link within that areas borders. The King in his castle orders his obliging servants to elect him as being representative of the population. Our particular Queen a women granted, has middle class stamped all over , yet we are a working community why can't we have a working representative after all is that what Labour is supposed to be about , at least in economic terms. This lies bare the testament of freedom of choice, the harsh reality is that choice has been denied to the Scottish people.
Perhaps, there comes a time to take stock, evaluate our current situation.
Some will say Aye as others no, but hey that's democracy for you. We should now begin to demand several votes to address a number of contentious issues thrown up by the latest fiasco, that has caused great embarrassment to the Scots at home and abroad. We have 142,000 reasons too call for another vote.
We have 5 Million reasons to politically determine our destiny. I for one would fight for this precious right . One that enshrines the concept of deciding what and who we are,ask the question are we big enough to govern ourselves without foreign rule. or do we continue with the British dwindling Empire, that casts a dark shadow on the very subject of our desires, chiefly our need to reassert ourselves as a nation.

[Beachcomber]

Welcome back, and good to see you're posting true to form: I didn't understand any of that.

[general jack o'niell]

lets just have a re-enactment of 1917 and he can play the part of his great great great uncle (number of greats not specific and only used for effect) nicky no.2, get the state funeral over and done with so we can enjoy the bloody summer

[gizmo]

Gen... I know I am not the brightest but I am struggling with that post.... What do you mean.

[oorly gourlay]

General Jack's weird reference is to Nikolay Alexsandrovich Romanov (no relation to Vladimir) better known as Tsar Nicolas 2 of Imperial Russia who came to a sticky end along with his family in March 1917.

Surely General Jack is not in favour of something similar for the Windsors

oorly

[Gus]

Dont think he died until 1918 although he abdicated in 1917

[dunoon]

General Jack's weird reference is to Nikolay Alexsandrovich Romanov (no relation to Vladimir) better known as Tsar Nicolas 2 of Imperial Russia who came to a sticky end along with his family in March 1917.

Surely General Jack is not in favour of something similar for the Windsors

oorly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia#Death
July 17th ( day before Gen's birthday) 1918

[general jack o'niell]

can i just for the record state that i was not born in 1918, dunoon meant my birthday is on july 18th, but you would all already have guessed that, being a well known day for the birth of great leaders, sportsmen and generals, oh and one of the weests, E B McKenna and an odd movie actor of repute. i will be 38.3 plus vat.

as for the details regarding the russkie royals, we all have O grade history or yes higher too, i thought i didn't need to elaborate, some thought otherwise, impress you? nah me neither!!!!

when i feel the need to google something and then pass it off as having come straight out of my head i'll let you know.

i know i've always said i was born twenty years too late or twenty years too early but 44yrs too early? these beatle guys are groovy, i really dig that liverpool sound, what do you mean its not 1963?