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To: Snowshoe who wrote (107575)	9/18/2014 12:14:49 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217496

aye

To: Snowshoe who wrote (107575)	9/18/2014 12:46:17 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217496

Sadly the flower of Scotland is the thistle, a wild inedible artichoke. The No vote may still win, though Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers are supporting a Yes vote - to poke the English government in the eye for prosecuting his phone hacking. That's actually how entitled he feels. He doesn't feel obliged to obey the law or decency. PM David Cameron has been very arrogantly flat-footed about how he's handled this. For that matter, the movement toward Scottish independence would never have been possible without Margaret Thatcher imposing a Poll Tax aka "Community Charge" in 1990 - something vehemently opposed in Northern England and Scotland by 88%. Very analogous to the Crown taxation of America. Nothing comes back to haunt you quite like taking someone for granted, or gratuitously poking them in the face. This seemingly ageless U.K. tit-for-tat is similar to the non-stop Shia/Sunni infighting since 632 A.D. when Muhammad died. Two groups developed over who should succeed him, and they've been war-fully disagreeing ever since. Democratic Iraq didn't turn out very well. I think we're headed back to pre-British borders in the Middle East. The English drew the borders to divide and make each protectorate easier to manipulate.