XBOX 360 2681

The new edition, that I am waiting for now, has several authors, besides Hava. There are hardly ever strictly equivelent meanings across language barriers. Even German `Fiend` (stranger, I think, German speakers please correct!), has a completely different meaning in English.. I used to have some German for business use, but now it takes some time for the meaning to trickle across, probably the CPU is slowing down..

Hindu nationalists, etc

The above is from reading some guy who is retracing Ibn Batthuta's (sp?) travels, the first volume is very good, the second drags on a bit.

There was an interview with the elder of a village that was destroyed in the Kashmir earthquake, he was over 100, and he wasn't sure about rebuilding the school, it would lead the females of the village away from their main duty of having male children. Sometimes you can only laugh!!

I heard some of the Iraqui women speaking on TV. Very brave. Very anti-Israel too

Someone who I hold very dear has just broken up with her partner because he got in a huff because she is being promoted faster. I doubt they read A.F.C

^^ And learned

I'm beginning to wonder about Russians. Some moved in near here, nice enough, but gloomy.. Irish people get liquored up, get in great humour, sometimes have a row, start afresh next day. Russians get liquored up, get depressed, drink more, get more depressed.

Like our own countries, power hungry airheads rise to the top.

The present UK position in Iraq is very, very unpopular in the UK. For a while the UK media presented the British Army as being more popular with the Iraquis because they had more experience in this sort of situation. I think its because the British were dealing with the Shia, while the US is dealing with Sunni.. UK news was recently that 99 British ( There are Irish men in british Army, some teenagers think its more exciting than Irish army, one was end in Iraq) had been end to that point, all I could think is that wouldn't it be wonderfull to be the 100th one to be end.

The best way of stopping it repeating itself is to be very carefull getting involved. Also, family size in Germany has gone down, as in most of the West, and people do not like only sons being end.

Someone is going to research all that, t'will be fascinating. Does the name of Mark Rich come to mind.. Oh, yes, he's Hilary and Bill's pal. Not to mention the Australians. There are two sorts of corruption, one is paying for something that you shouldn't get, another is having to pay for what you should.

Hmm sounding familiar! Where's Goodwin?

What I would be afraid of is that Israel will try something, make a complete hash of it, and where will we be then?. Israel makes a fuss of much of their operations, but they mess up as much as anyone else. Having a sympathetic press in the West keeps their mistakes under cover.

Well, where did the data that targeted Saddams movements come from?. The Israelis boasted some time ago that they were intercepting Bashir buttad's wife's mobile conversations. One wonders why they publicised that?.. The Syrians would surely take steps to halt that leak.

Just Googled. There are 68+ million Iranians. 23.5 million men 15-64 years, very determined. In Other Words, nobody is going to try a military intervention.

I was watching, on TV, their President adressing a meeting. Talking of feedback!.. He ranted, the crowd agreed. Not understanding Persian, he may have been telling them to shop around for cheaper groceries.

-- greymaus