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Originally posted by sapper740
Richard, it's amazing if you aren't bald as the goings on in your part of the world would cause much hair pulling! Why do common sense and government have to have an inverse relationship?
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Probably because it too short to get a grip of Derek.
I think we all despair of Govt and common sense ever starting to limit the divergence nowadays, the UK seems to be epitome of Govt crass stupidity, every so often, as you may notice, it lights me up.
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I now know why the BP refinery in Texas City, Tx. has killed more workers and exploded more often than any other. The executives are too busy "taking it in the brown(e)"!
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It is stupid to lie in court as he has found and the whole scenario was an aside to the case in point too. I have to stand corrected though, Lord Brown made some subtle but significant changes to BP, its not British Petroleum any more but "Beyond Petroleum", however, they keep the BP so you know who it is but the logo has changed into that friendly flower thing.
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The Yorkshire Rose restaurant in Abbotsford, B.C. serves a delicious "Faggots and peas" and will (I hope) continue to do so, unlike Ol' Blighty.
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Oh yes, I am well aware of the consternation caused in the USA by the innocent but ill advised use of our term "faggot" by unwary Brits.
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An uncommon bit of common sense from a politician. Texas Governor Rick Perry, in light of the slaughter of the unarmed students of the "Gun free" Virginia Tech campus has proposed legislation removing all exclusions to concealed carry in Texas. Currently, concealed carry is prohibited in schools, churches, courts, bars etc. This prohibition has not stopped any criminal from carrying out murder and mayhem, in fact it has only made it easier as they know where they will be the only armed person present. Soon, they won't know how many armed people they will be facing when they go berserk and how soon they will be "Swiss Cheese" when they start shooting. God bless Texas!!
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I am aware of the policy of Seriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona too!
I don't want to set a hare off and I'm not really qualified to judge but there seems to be a horses for courses argument. The figures show that per capita the US has 40 times the gun deaths of the UK, but it does ignore the established very commonplace ownership in the US whereas, even when it was allowed with difficulty, it was very, very rare here.
Totally different scenario I think.
R.