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[Payne]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2105235,00.html

You have to love this kind of diplomacy!

[Cain]

Rice is actually an expert on Soviet nuclear weapons.

Allegedly.

I tried searching for any of her academic papers (I did have access to the RAND Corporation archives, too), but turned up nothing.

Besides, with that sort of rhetoric, she and Putin will get on like a house on fire.  From a nuclear missile exploding near it.

[Payne]

I tried the same thing, but could find nothing.

Isn't Bush having a face to face with Putin as well?

[Cain]

Sarkozy is.  Him and Putin will get along, I'm sure.

Besides, we already have a way to talk to Russia.  Its called the Joint Russian-NATO Council.  Only, we treated the Russians like children, refused to give them a veto and broke several promises, so they withdrew.

[P3nT4gR4m]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL0531348920070605?pageNumber=1

LONDON (Reuters) - Parents are stopping their children going out to play on their own because of safety fears, potentially restricting their future development, according to a report on Tuesday.

The Children's Society survey found that 43 percent of adults thought children should not go out unsupervised until they were 14.

That is despite the fact that in their own youth most had been allowed out on their own at the age of 10 or younger.

"Children have told us loud and clear that friendship matters and yet this is an area in which we appear to be failing them," said Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of the society.

"On the one hand we want freedom for our children but on the other we are becoming increasingly frightened to let them out."

Fears over children's safety have been exacerbated by stories in the media of youngsters being attacked by predatory paedophiles, such as the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 and the abduction and killing of Sarah Payne in 2000.

However experts say high profile incidents are still rare and there is no evidence to suggest there has been an increase in the number of youngsters murdered by strangers.

The study, carried out as part of the society's Good Childhood Inquiry, suggested that early friendships were very important and often lasted a lifetime, with 69 percent of respondents saying they were still in contact with a childhood friend.

It added that its inquiry had found that children rate having friends as the most important factor in their lives.

But the report said there was research to suggest that since 1986 the number of teenagers with no friends has increased from one in eight to nearly one in five.

"All the research shows that spending time with friends is fundamental to children's wellbeing and development which means it is crucial that we resolve this contradiction," said Reitemeier.

[AFK]

Are they getting their kids de-clawed too?  Sheesh! 

[Cain]

 

We're raising a class of social rejects!  We cannot lose!

[Triple Zero]

if you keep your kids inside, the terrrrrrists have won

[AFK]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=73995

a headline for the metal-heads, as I know there are a few.  Anneke has quit The Gathering. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1269281,00.html

HIMEOBS - We are defending yuor sacred old people 

[AFK]

Sounds like they need some beefier security detail if it took 8 of them to contain the guy. 

[Suu]

Lol, they called it the "popemobile" in the article.  SkyNews wins.

[Payne]

Don't they always call it the popemobile?

I can never remember it being called anything else, any where...

[AFK]

Yeah, I think it is officially the Popemobile.  I think after they put that silly looking bubble thing on it for JP they didn't have much choice but to give it a silly name. 

[Cain]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6739681.stm

The Tories are using a Commons debate to urge an inquiry into the Iraq war.

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague told MPs ministers had "no adequate reason" to refuse to establish an inquiry, to begin in the near future.

He called for a Privy Council inquiry to examine the build-up to war and its immediate aftermath.

Hey, wasn't this the party arguing that we should ignore the UN and just go in and attack Iraq anyway?  I do believe it is.  And isn't this the party that voted unaminously to go to war, thus defeating a potential rebellion in Parliament by Lib Dems and allied Labour backbench dissidents?  I do believe it is.

What complete fucktards.