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    Universal healthcare-a good thing?

    Our healthcare is free at the point of service. The question here is, how good is it?
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    The first sentence in the book you're reading

    On July8th 1992, a small girl woke up in her bed in her family house in the Australian state of Victoria and knew exactly who she was. Anyone want to guess the book?
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    Scottish independence

    I don't think you have thought this through. In this world, the only way rich people will stay rich is by having poor people to do the less skilled jobs. If every one gets a degree then the degree won't be worth much. A bit like the A levels. They have become so easy to get that they...
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    Asian Soccer Cup won by Iraq

    .....................if only it was as simple as that. :eek:
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    Asian Soccer Cup won by Iraq

    I have the feeling that we should be viewing this as more that just another team winning just another trophy, but I am not sure why.
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    Baby drop off havens-a good idea?

    I think this is just one (or maybe two) steps away from e-baying them.
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    The Most overrated fiction book ever?

    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. The title is misleading.
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    Why do I feel that I have just been on trial and you have been the Judge, Jury and my solicitor all rolled into one and that I'm been given a very light sentence. My views are much the same as most Conservatives in the UK. Ten years of Labour government and Tony Blair have turned us into a...
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    I thinkthat you have missed the point, or you are preferring not to acknowledge it, I'm not sure which. I have twice been called a bigot by Litany and once by Stewart, a senior moderator who should know better. If they do not understand something they can ask. People have different points of...
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    As I said, they both offeneded. The double standards are; The Satanic Verses were published in the uk the cartoons were not. I'm not sure you are right about the Danish knighthood. Look at Bob Geldof. Again the UK demonstrated a double standard by not publishing them; they even went further...
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    ...............maybe you follow just enough to be able to use the word bigot in a sentence and get a round of applause from Stewart.
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    The Satanic Verses (1988), provoked violent reactions from Muslims in several countries, so did the cartoons. It is a double standard to approve one and condemn the other. If we defend the right to print and publish a book in our country regardless of whether it will offend a certain...
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    Don't try and cover your tracks by misinterpreting what I said. I am referring to the word bigot as you well know.
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    He is Asian. Is this an agree with Stewart forum, or get called names. The idea of a discussion is to air different views. You and Litany seem to have a monopoly on the word bigot. You are showing first hand what is wrong with our country. For the last ten years people like you crawl out...
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    We are defending his right, to write and publish his work, we offer him protection (at great cost to the tax payer) and now we are reward him with a knighthood; yet we did not think it right to publish a few Danish cartoons. There has to be an ulterior motive for giving him the Knighthood.
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    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?

    Should Salman Rushdie have been knighted?........ No
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    Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion

    I have just got around to starting my copy of The God Delusion. At the start of the book Richard Dawkins is trying to convince us the Albert Einstein did not believe in God. He does this by giving quotes Einstein made relating to God and then giving his own interpretation as to what Einstein...
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    Concerts promote climate message

    Concerts promote climate message? or is it just more 'pop' stars hoping to sell more records on the back of it. I put my plastic bottles in a recycle bin, I turn off lights I don't use, I use a stick deodorant not a spray and I did not pollute the atmosphere by travelling to a 'promote...
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    London car bomb scare

    All I am saying is that in our politically correct society to many people pretend that things are not happening because to acknowledge that they are will then seem to then to be racist and that would be worst than being a terrorist. On the home front Tony Blair talked a lot but did little.
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    Suggestions: September 2007 Book of the Month

    William Boyd........Restless Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006.......a Richard & Judy Bookclub book. What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that...
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