How many of you make time to read everyday? Do you read a little bit before going to bed? Or is your prefered reading time during the day? Do you read multiple books simultaneously? Do you read in the bath, on the toilet?
You're the one that needs to learn some manners. The thug comment was for both boxers not the fans. There's nothing remotely offensive in saying that the fans were "shut-up". Now if you have nothing more pleasant to say then I wish you a good night.
I have just returned from a dinner on the banks of the Mississippi river in downtown St. Paul. The dinner was to raise funds for TakeAction MN, a progressive group that works on issues of poverty, health-care, workers rights and voter mobilization.
I dined with Amy Klobouchar MN US senator, Mark Dayton former MN US Senator, Kieth Ellison, my congressman (the only Muslim in Congress), Tim Walz US Congressman (MN 1st district), and a host of luminaries from the DFL party.
Two major victories of TakeAction Mn were celebrated:
1. They worked to pass the right to breathe act, i.e., all restaurants and bars are now smoke free so that the employees of restaurants and bars have the same right to clean air that the rest of us do.
2. Justice for Janitors. An agreement was reached between landlords and janitors that clean large office buildings so that they would be paid a living wage and better health insurance for their families.
While I was being served dinner it looks like Ricky Hatton was having his lunch handed to him by Floyd Mayweather. It shut-up the thousand of English fans at the fight. Very sad that the American boxer had so little support in his own country. It only goes to show that an English thug will never be a match for an American one!
Aren't most Muslim males named Mohammad? Wouldn't that skew the numbers somewhat? The rest of Britons are hardly likely to name most of their male offspring Jack or Thomas.
Gilly I'm not sure if I'm the most travelled person but there are only two major countries of the world that I haven't been to yet:
Australia & New Zealand. Of the two only New Zealand holds any attraction for me. I have always thought of Australia as being like the United States, only with less fresh water and fewer people. New Zealand, I'm told, is like the UK circa 1955, but I'm sure that's just malicious gossip.
“I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.” — President George W. Bush (Crawford, Texas, Nov 10, 2007).
Many moons ago, right out of college, I went to work for a large company headquartered in Fort Worth, TX. We were required to sign an undertaking that we would not engage in immoral conduct with other employees. Now what constitutes immoral conduct was left to our imaginations.
I don't know about Piccadilly but you won't find a single trash bin in any railway station. After having consumed a banana while waiting for a connecting train in Carlisle I looked far and wide trying to find a trash bin in vain. I was told by an old man, who was amused by my predicament, that they haven't had trash bins in ages at railway stations due to the IRA's bombing campaign. Apparently trash bins were a favorite bomb location!
There's been a study done on a group of graduate students where there temporal lobes were electrically stimulated. This produced out of body experience, religious emotions, and experiences not unlike those described by people claiming alien abduction.
This could explain the predilection of certain people to religion.
Seeing the general interest in God and religion on the forums this might interest some people.
PBS will broadcast God on the Brain, which is described as "An examination of neurotheology, the study of the relationship between religious experiences and the functioning of the brain".
It's being broadcast at 9:00 PM CST. Please check your local PBS stations.
Wind is caused by air movement from an area of high pressure to low pressure. It can be measured in many different ways. Why must we limit our measuring ability to just the human sight?
You can call something a miracle a secular person would cause the same events an odd quirk.
As I have said before "your concerns" don't amount to much. Continue to seethe in your small-minded frustrations, petty jealousies and other inadequacies of your life.
Yes your sort were the ones who put American Japanese in concentration camps during WW2. How big of you to spare the "American" Arabs! And no it will never be up to you because you're small little man with small little ideas.
I have just returned and read this. The implication of what you're saying is that this person got "extra" treatment because he posed greater risk? I think everyone should be searched at a level that they pose no risk. There's NO acceptable level of risk be it from an old buffoon from England or a young student from Iran. By giving this person a more thorough going over just says the TSA does a cursory examination normally but if someone is from Iran he get the works. That's ridiculous.
I am writing this using my Iphone at Minneapolis airport. First CS is now acessable via mobile devices-- that's great! I' m headed for a weekend trip to Paris. In line ahead of me was a youngg man from the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was treated with respect by the TSA but was given " special" treatment for which I' d like to apologize to him. What's wrong with treating everyone the same, I. E., with concern and care? Sorry for any typos!
I didn't mean your post. I meant the post you were responding to. This one:
"you vote for who you want and I'll vote for who I WANT ! just because a person goes to college doesn't mean they have common sense , wise or a good person,,,,,, "
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Reading Habits and Modern Life
How many of you make time to read everyday? Do you read a little bit before going to bed? Or is your prefered reading time during the day? Do you read multiple books simultaneously? Do you read in the bath, on the toilet?