Shoulder to shoulder.

What I don't understand is this, why is it that people keep on insisting that the UK is subordinate to America? Why is it that people have a problem grasping the idea that things in the world that our two countrys are involved in are going according to Tony Blair's plans every bit as much as they are going according to Bush's? It reminds me some what [in a roundabout sort of way] of the argument that there is no god because if there was then he wouldn't allow all of these bad things to happen and no one ever thinks that maybe there is a god and he's just an arsehole, the other argument is that god allows them to happen because of free will but that makes absolutely no sense when applyed to things such as earthquakes, and so the leaves my 'god is an arsehole argument' as being the only one that covers all situations while still allowing god to exist, interestingly the 'gods an arsehole' argument seems to offend religious folk considerably more than the 'god doesn't exist' one, but i've got rather of the beaten track here so alow me to position myself back on it.........yep there it is .... and now i'll continue. Every available peice of evidence seems to point towards Blair agreeing almost totaly with Bush and vise versa, for instance if one looks back to before the Iraq war to before I think even 9/11 one sees that Blair was actually talking to Bush about the nessesity of a second war against Iraq and the need to unseat Sadam it is entirely possible that Blair was infact one of the first to plant this idea in Bush's empty warhead of a skull. Bush if you recal back to when he was running for president ran on a platform of America looking after its own and not interfering in the world i beleive he even said 'if we leave them alone then they'll leave us alone'. Now considering that Blair was the one who talked Clinton into military intervention in Kosovo and considering that Bush's way of thinking seems to have [post 9/11] come around to Blair's perhaps it would be advisable to think of them at very least as equal allies and quite possibly as unequal allies with Blair on top. The fact that the UK as a whole has not seen the benifits of this relationship is irelevent, might it not be possible that Tony Blair is just a big arsehole who doesn't care about the people of this country only about his own agenda for the world.

Racist State?

There is no Black homeland, there is no Arab homeland, there is no White homeland, why then must there be a Jewish homeland?
France is the homeland of the French but being French is being part of a nationality, not a race why then do the Israelis insist on basing their nationality on there race?
The Jews say Israel is there homeland because of biblical history but biblical history is unproven where as we know that the Palistinians have lived there for two hundred years and we know that Arabs have lived there in large groups for something around a thousand years why can not Israel be their homeland as well.
Why does anyone need a homeland?
If the Jews originally came from the land now called Iraq why is that not their homeland?
If Israel isn't a racist state then why does it insist on above all else protecting the rights of one and only group of its citizens, this is what the BNP preach and National Front allso [keep Britain White] , if they are racists why is not Israel?
If you're family has lived somewhere for two hundred years straight surely they are more diserving of the land than someone who lived there some thousands of years ago?
Does recent history trump ancient history?
Why do only the Jews have a Law of Return?
Should the palistinians allso have a Law of Return?
Should there even be a Law of Return?
If giving certain protections to one groups and refusing them to all others is discrimination, and if the people you give it to are of one race and the people you refuse to give it to are of other races and if the discrimination is based on that racial difference then why isn't it racial discrimination?
and if this is a key law of a country then why is this country not to be seen as a racist state?
My family once lived in Germany should we have a Law of Return?
Should we be given the right to go back there and once more become citizens without any sort of immigration process?
Why should we be treated as if we had never left?
Why should any group of people be treated as if they have never left a country when they have in fact not been in that country for generations, for generations, upon generations in fact?
Would israel support the idea of giving all of America back to the Native Americans?
If that were to happen, and considering that the Jews originally came from Iraq, would the Native Americans support Israel in kind?
Would they give them the same level of support, and sell them the same number of arms, or would they support Israels other native population and do the same for them?

yahoo answers.

through my use of yahoo answers i have been able to work out that faith is a combination of trust and the fear of retribution for not trusting enough and that religion is passed down from generation to generation through a combination of ignorance, lazziness, and brainwashing.
I have allso learnt that there are three different sorts of people on the internet and in particulalar on yahoo answers
1: the supposed liberal, often takes an anti-american stance.
2: the anti-liberal, often is shown to think that anything he or she dissagrees with is being said by a liberal and is nothing but liberal propaganda
3: the joker, doesn't take anything seriously, if anyone takes anything seriously or shows any real passion on a subject he or she will tell them to lighten up and then make the false statement of saying that this is meant to just be fun.
I have allso found out that I am not a combination of all or any of those.

Sigh

Had it not have been for the fact that the next door naibours were having a large tree cut down i would have i susspect have gotten a good nights sleep which would have been my first in many nights unfortunately the next door naibours were having a tree cut down and ground up in a big machine and it made an awfull lot of noise and i couldn't sleep so i didn't i'm very tired

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fun for all the family

another game that i made up.

get one of those extreme sports games like tony hawks pro skater or something like that and go onto the free ride section make sure it doesn't display the time and shows the points for each trick but doesn't allow them to acumalate then make sure you have atleast one other person other than you're self at hand to play with you.

rules:

you have two minutes.
you are not allowed to ask for reminders of how much time you have left.
you must peform atleast 3 tricks.
you get one thousand points for each trick peformed
plus the points for you're final trick.
the final trick peformed is either just before the time runs out or just before you bail.
if you bail before peforming 3 tricks then any points that you would have recieved are added on to you're score as minus points.
if you are peforming a trick and you go over the two minutes then the same thing happens.
the winner is the one with the most points.

play example

you perform 3 tricks after the third you bail, the third trick earns you 5000 points plus 3000 for performing three trick giving you 8000 points in total, then the next player performs twenty tricks gets very close to the two minute mark but stops just before the time runs out, they have run very close to the risk of going over two minutes and incurring a large ammount of minus points but because the pushed it to the edge they were able to get 23000 points and thus beat the first player who loses basically because they played it safe.

Places on the bus

The child:
When you are a child you instantly gravitate toward a position knowledge and power or at the very least a mimicking of power and thus you gravitate towards the the front of the bus on the top deck.

The teenager:
One would imagine that the teenager would be just as interested in these thing, however they seek a place as far away from any authority as they can get in short they seek freedom, and in so doing they gravitate to the back of the bus on the top deck, this being the point of furthest distance from the bus driver seen in this case as the major point of local authority, this can
[I would imagine] be carried over into just about any other place, particularly the classroom.

The adult:
When you are older [late teens early twenties onwards] I observe that you go more for the middle ground and more often that not sit on the bottom deck of the bus. The only reason for this that I have been able to fathom is that as you become older, for the most part atleast you become less tribal [the exception to this being sporting events and the like] either by way of being more individualistic and less insecure therefore being less subceptable to the mob mentality of self labeling, or you become more homogenised more conforming to the mob mentality of the larger group/society and therefore less subceptable to the mob mentality of smaller more insecure groups/societys.

Where I fit in:
Interestingly I'm twentytwo and yet I only fit into the adult group when I'm on journeys that I know will be no more than fifteen or twenty minutes, on longer journeys however I fit into the first group, the child, in that I always try to sit on the top deck of the bus and right at the front, whatsmore I do it for exactly the same reasons that of having a feeling of power and a greater ability to aquire knowledge of the world around you i.e. liking the view. However I have one other reason, if I were to sit at the back of the bus I would have to not only hear everyone else but allso see them and I prefer to just hear them and combat that by wearing earphones and playing loud music.

Overview:

first you seek power and knowledge then independence a sense of freedom and finally conformity and convenience, however all of these can be seen as a greater search for safety and security, firstly the safety of self power, secondly the security of the group and of keeping a distance from other groups, and finally the safety of blending in and not sticking out, and for myself I suppose it is the security similar the teenager of distancing myself, from everything, the safety of not knowing and not dealing.

Giving better than you get.

You allways have to give as good as get otherwise you're just lying there and taking it but really you should allways give better, and this works both ways:
If someone does something nice for you you should return it three fold, ten fold even because friendship should allways be rewarded,
and likewise emnity:
If some one hits you then you have to hit back even harder or else it'll just be an 'eye for an eye' sort or thing, and soon you'll both be blind, but if you hit back really hard early on then you may be able to prevent the fight from continuing and simply escalating further and further.
I suppose what i'm talking about here is 'stopping power' for instance if you use the stopping power of a knife then you'll have to stab the person alot or stab them in the heart or the neck to prevent them from coming back at you, and the chances are that person will end dead from loss of blood. It strikes me that it would be much better to use the stopping power of a gun then all you'd have to do is shoot them in the arm and then keep the gun pointed at them until some sort of help arrives, the point being to straight away escalate the fight right to its end point that way you don't get as badly harmed and and you can keep the harm to you're opponent down to a minimun.

Bullying

It seems to me that every possible answer is put forward for the problem of bullying but the most obvious and most amidiatly affective answer that of empowering the bullied to fight back. It seems to me that we do everything possible to not empower the bullied we tell them that violence is never the answer, we tell them that if they were to fight back then they would just be bringing themselves down to their level, we even try and teach them to feel sorry for the bully because they are probably emotionaly damaged and anable to express their pain in any other way, and do you know what? their probably right bullys probably are for the most part emotionaly damaged and certainly do need counciling but being morally superior to them isn't going to help you much if you're getting you're arse kicked.