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n an interview with the Financial Times, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker stated that the United States government “is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration, and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon…” The article added, “Mr. Walker warned that there were ‘striking similarities’ between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including ‘declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by central government.’” He added, “I’m trying to sound an alarm and issue a wake-up call.” History reveals that all governments, empires and kingdoms of men, no matter how grand, no matter how powerful, ultimately fall. It happened to ancient Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. Even Rome was not exempt; though it dominated much of Europe, Northern Africa

LONDON (AFP) - A pub landlord on Monday became the first in England to be convicted of breaching new laws banning smoking in enclosed public places. (Advertisement) But Hamish Howett, 55, a Scot and a non-smoker, vowed to let punters carry on lighting up in the Happy Scots Bar in Blackpool. District judge Peter Ward said he did not want to make him a martyr, but branded Howett's actions "silly" as he sentenced him at Blackpool Magistrates' Court. Howett was fined 500 pounds and ordered to pay 2,000 pounds prosecution costs after he admitted breaching the legislation, which came into force on July 1. The publican has set up a political party called Fight Against Government Suppression, and the court was told the campaign has left him on the verge of bankruptcy. Owners and managers of pubs, clubs and cafes are legally bound to enforce the smoking ban and face fines of up to 2,500 pounds if they fail to do so. Referring to the new legislation, Ward said: "That is th

Photos of an Autumnal walk along the rheidol valley

Are you no longer a moderate? I have always been an unassuming, moderate , conservative.. But each day's news brings more tidings of the Orwellian nature of modern Britain Is it time for we quiet people to rise up and overthrow this shabby, immoral soviet-style Government?

Think-tank says 'downgrade Christmas' ITN ITN - 1 hour 16 minutes ago Christmas should be downgraded unless other religious festivals are marked on an even footing, a Government think-tank has said. The Institute of Public Policy Research has suggested various ideas to make the UK more multicultural. It also wants "national culture" barriers to be torn down to help immigrants settle into the UK. In a report due to be published in coming weeks, the organisation said: "If we are going to continue to mark Christmas - and it would be very hard to expunge it from our national life even if we wanted to - then public organisations should mark other major religious festivals too. "Even-handedness dictates that we provide public recognition to minority cultures and traditions." It emerged in 2006 that three out of four employers were not putting up Christmas decorations in the workplace for fear of offending staff of other cultures.

So the medicos have admitted that they made up all that naughty stuff about alcohol perhaps they will admit that they are lying about tobacco next naughty doctors

So i thought i'd see the effect of eating nothing but burgers and fries for a month...well it had a dramatic effect on my weight...I lost 3 stones!

Alan Coren died to-day; bummer

Why OH Why? Do people share HTML code saying feel free to adapt this code etc...and then they don't put in any comments.....consequently by the time you've figured out which bit does what you could have written the code yourself! DOH!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it! During the time period from October 1959 through February 1960, the American Cancer Society enrolled men in a smoker survey, described in the Report as the "Men in 25 States" study. Female volunteers were each asked to pick ten families among their acquaintances, each with at least one person over the age of 45, and study them to find out whether they would die during the survey period and, specifically, whether they would die from lung cancer. There were 448,000 useable replies, representing 448,000 men between the ages of 35 and 89. We don't know how many replies were rejected as unusable because each volunteer was free to use her own criteria. We also don't know how many smokers were studied as opposed to non-smokers because the results, published in the 1964 Surgeon General's Report, don't furnish that information. We do know that during the approximately 22 months that the survey lasted, there were 11,612 deaths

There is no correlation between smoking and life expectancy WHO and the CIA: Top 15 Male Life Expectancies LE (years) Smokers prevalence (%) 1. Iceland 76.6 (1994) 31.0 (1994) 2. Japan 76.5 (1994) 59.0 (1994) 3. Costa Rica 75.9 (1994) 35.0 (1988) 4. Israel 75.9 (1994) 45.0 (1990) 5. Sweden 75.5 (1994) 22.0 (1994) 6. Greece 75.2 (1994) 46.0 (1994) 7. Switzerland 74.8 (1994) 36.0 (1992) 8. Netherlands 74.7 (1994) 36.0 (1994) 9. Canada 74.7 (1994) 31.0 (1991) 10. Cuba 74.7 (1994) 49.3 (1990) 11. Australia 74.5 (1994) 29.0 (1993) 12. Spain 74.5 (1994) 48.0 (1993) 13. Malta 74.5 (1994) 40.0 (1992) 14. Italy 74.4 (1994) 38.0 (1994) 15. France 74.3 (1994) 40.0 (1993) USA 72.6 (1994) 28.1 (1991) If, as the anti smokers postulate, smoking is a deadly "addiction", trimming years off the life of the smoker, how do they explain such examples as Japan, Israel, G

and people still say smoking isn't sexy!

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"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." -- Charles Bradlaugh

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. St. Augustine

The BBC just used criteria as a singular noun! This is unacceptable

I can't believe that Ch4 is twenty-five year's old! Surely it only started a few years ago! Perhaps it's old age creeping up on me. I got up this morning convinced that it was Monday. I planned my to-do-list for the day, made a cuppa, and turned on the wireless. "Funny", I thought, "that programme's usually on Sundays, must be a new season of repeats". It wasn't til I consulted the on-line TV schedule that I realised that it was Sunday. DOH! managed to make a start on my church website...still need a name for it!

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