[Gone]

Hi

 

From your posts of November 29, I got the impression that you have effectively returned.

 

Being that the case, welcome back.

 

If that is not the case, I expect to see you soon here.

[Feeling The Pinch]

Not if I get there first .

[Decline of the Nobiles]

Congratulations, MPC. That's a wonderful contribution.

May I ask you which is your source and how were "familial relations" defined by the author(s)?

(ie, which family-members and which rungs of the US cursus honorum were included for elaborating this graph)

[The Pledge of Allegiance]

"The key is that an oath or a pledge is given once. Repeating it as a mantra reduces its value, its meaning and its bond, and transforms it into an indoctrination".

The pristine logic of both Mr. healy's article and PP's statement is unimpeachable.

 

In fact, I'd go so far to say that those that can't swear a secular oath because they belive in theocracy (whether its Christian, Muslim, Scientologist, or whatever kind of theocracy), should be barred from voting altogether.

I wouldn't go that far, because that would essentially be denying basic citizens' rights to individuals based on their religious beliefs, which violates Separation of Church and State.

So is LW's commentary.

[The Puppy]

BB is handsome indeed; sorry for your losses, Chris.

[Ripening Grapes]

You know, idealization of the past is one of the first signs of intellectual aging.

[European Union Elections]

Sounds fine to me.

 

It's probably the way the things should always have been.

[The Empire is growing]

Most of those 14 territories are tiny islands (Greenland is "tiny" by population standards) and most are current residual (mostly European) dependencies (Timor has only recently been released by Indonesia); additionally, two francophone countries of west Africa and a central Asia former Soviet republic.

 

One can only guess if some visitors may actually have marked their metropolitan country: ie, Finland for the Aland Islanders, Denmark for the Greenlanders and so on.

 

I suppose the "202" figure before Samoa implies UNRV visitors from another 201 countries.

[Back In The Saddle Again]

I'm just curious; is the name of the represented country priviliged information?

[The Oxford Man]

It's sad that William passed away so young; on the other hand, I'm pretty sure he was well known in and out of the Swindon area even before his name was posted here.

Besides, he was presumably well aware that he had infected some people with the love for history.