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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70986)1/8/2009 2:38:46 AM
From: marcos1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Controls - oh, my experiment won't like the sound of that at all, pretty much took from day one the attitude that she was in control, and convincingly enough that no one has ever really questioned the arrangement ... the usual things do work after a fashion - bribery, intimidation, wheedling, abject begging when necessary, and yes sometimes delivered with tears, still at the end of each altercation there is no doubt as to who is in charge here ... it's good to see, a chip off the old block ... with emphasis on 'old', i have enough years to be a great-grandfather, if there had been a hurry about it, much better this way in a leisurely manner

'Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for "illegal survey and map-making activities"'

en.wikinews.org

Imagine the depravity, the crime against humanity - making maps! ... why it's a wonder they weren't sold straight-away for body parts

'Gordon Brown's decision to sell off part of the country's gold reserves 10 years ago cost the public purse nearly £5billion, official figures show.' -

telegraph.co.uk

' ... A Whitehall source insisted that the Government could not have been expected to behave like a precious metal trader when it sold the gold.'

Um, well yeah. Precisely.