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• 1. At 5:00pm on 16 Sep 2009, Looternite wrote:

  Oh it's started must pay attention.

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• 2. At 5:08pm on 16 Sep 2009, gossipmistress wrote:

  Ooo it's a brainbox!

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• 3. At 5:22pm on 16 Sep 2009, Martin Wisse wrote:

  Nicely awkward interview with that woman responsible for getting the victims of US torture at Guantanamo rehoused. The sheer arrogance of the Americans to expect the rest of the world, including poor countries like Palau, to clean up their mess. Bush or Obama, they're all the same, are they?

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• 4. At 5:31pm on 16 Sep 2009, gossipmistress wrote:

  Very sad about Brian Barron - a memorable voice and a wonderful reporter

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• 5. At 5:39pm on 16 Sep 2009, old_cookie wrote:

  Is this a sign of bias? - you reported that Downing Street was hushing up 'secret' documents. That sounds sinister. What's wrong with 'confidential'?
  
  Old_cookie

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• 6. At 5:47pm on 16 Sep 2009, mari_jean wrote:

  More public bad behaviour in the USA:
  How depressing, USA's ever-present racism surfaces. And let's face it, that's probably what it is, as Obama's hardly radical really.
  
  Mind you, at least USA have black leader: can you really, genuinely imagine UK having a black PM?

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• 7. At 6:05pm on 16 Sep 2009, newiwonder wrote:

  guantanamo bay--how about a really radical solution. drop these folks back where they were picked up? or is that too simple??

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• 8. At 6:09pm on 16 Sep 2009, Looternite wrote:

  #6 mari_jean
  We had a woman PM and we currently have a Scottish PM. So I don't think there is a structual problem. If you want to be PM it is usually a good idea to connect with as many people as possible. Not just your ethnic group.

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• 9. At 6:10pm on 16 Sep 2009, judymajor wrote:

  A good death
  When we ran a small catering buisness our first job was catering for a 100th birthday party. We arrived with food to find that the old lady had died the night before. She had seen all her many friends and relatives who had travelled from all over the world to see her and most importantly received her telegram from the Queen She had already told her daughter that she wasn't sure she was up to the hurly burly of the party. The planned party went ahead with all the family and friends celebrating her life.

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• 10. At 6:12pm on 16 Sep 2009, normanmugabe wrote:

  A few months ago a Dutch minister accused Mr. Brown of being a "coward". Now the implication is that he is a liar also. And the president of the United States of America is also being branded a "liar".
  These are very disturbing allegations.

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• 11. At 7:19pm on 16 Sep 2009, Segilla wrote:

  Where was your Editor when the Guantanamo item went past her ears? The important points were quickly made, but it went on and on and on and on and on and ... need I go on?
  
  

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• 12. At 7:39pm on 16 Sep 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

  3 Martin: "that woman responsible for getting the victims of US torture at Guantanamo rehoused"... were they all tortured? What's the evidence for this?
  
  Could someone please fill me in on precisely why the Americans want to close this prison down? Why can't they absorb all the prisoners in their own prisons?
  
  The piece on the two lads who were found not guilty of a Columbine-like murder plot was interesting but nowhere has it been mentioned how they came to the attention of the authorities in the first place. If they were sending each other harmless messages or recording similar in their respective journals, how did this all come to light? Someone somewhere must have been concerned.

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• 13. At 7:42pm on 16 Sep 2009, redheylin wrote:

  Very sorry to hear about Nina's employment prospects, truly. You'd get much more optimism oop north, in places where there were not any prospects for the young lasst year or the year before either.
  
  The unemployment figures - that million people or two that we hear of and accept every so often - are not a random spread of the feckless and the temporarily inconvenienced. They are whole towns, whole generations, whole classes, that do not fit into the great concept of an entire country living on trickle-down from the dodgy deals of the square mile.
  
  Tony Blair had a great plan! 20 billion to spend so that everybody from the north could move to the south more easily. I could have turned around an entire northern county for that - like Durham for instance, his constituency.
  
  Thousands of teachers hamstrung by their consciences, unable to find any truthful way to motivate those feral teenagers who so horrify the people on the nice side of town. It is not that benefits encourage welfare dependency among the (un)working classes - rather they justify a longterm policy of soul-destroying, built-in mass unemployment among our policy-makers.
  

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• 14. At 8:08pm on 16 Sep 2009, redheylin wrote:

  12 Why can't they absorb all the prisoners in their own prisons?
  
  - Apparently this is due to some obscure constitutional legislation that demands, rather nitpickingly, that prisons be reserved for people who have been charged with or found guilty of crimes.

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• 15. At 8:48pm on 16 Sep 2009, TheFirstRalph wrote:

  6: Perhaps the US will become truly post racial when you can criticise a black politician and not be called racist.
  
  12: In world of twisted logic we live in shouting at people is probably classed as torture

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• 16. At 10:50pm on 16 Sep 2009, redheylin wrote:

  (14) But why does not the US give the detainees against whom nothing has been proven US passports and jobs?
  Erm
  Erm
  Dunno.
  Could you ask, please, Eddie?

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• 17. At 11:14pm on 16 Sep 2009, LionHeartedLion wrote:

  Small war crime against humanity in Gaza.
  
  Not many (773) civilians dead.
  
  
  
  Huge war crime against humanity in Israel.
  
  12 soldiers and a civilian, dead.
  
  
  
  Or have I misunderstood?

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• 18. At 08:46am on 17 Sep 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  TFR 15, We used to criticise the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Carl Stokes. He was the first black mayor of a large US city.

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• 19. At 09:17am on 17 Sep 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  Eddie, C'mon, where's the Glass Box I sent while you were away? CQ liked it and said you might use it this week.

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• 20. At 09:19am on 17 Sep 2009, Big Sister wrote:

  David: You have a rival, you know - ValP has been sending in GBs, and who knows how many others may be doing just that? You set a high standard, though ...
  
  How about some more Beach pictures, like your montages? Just a thought ...

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• 21. At 09:31am on 17 Sep 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

  14 redhaylin: most amusing.

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• 22. At 11:58am on 17 Sep 2009, U14138029 wrote:

  Big Sister - ValP has been sending in GB's what?

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• 23. At 4:06pm on 17 Sep 2009, ValeryP wrote:

  DMcN - how do you know she liked it?

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• 24. At 4:41pm on 17 Sep 2009, David_McNickle wrote:

  BS 20, I've sent three GB's and and a Beach that weren't used. I have a GB set up but my wife has the camera on the Isle of Man. As it probably won't be used, I doubt if I will send it.
  
  VP 23, Because she emailed me to say so and that she would send it to Eddie. I sent it via the usual means.

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• 25. At 5:52pm on 17 Sep 2009, Looternite wrote:

  So where was the Southern English accent widely spoken across the South East and London.

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• 26. At 7:07pm on 17 Sep 2009, battybern wrote:

  Up-share-down-share....music?
  Has this stupidity runs it's course or do with have a recital on spoons, paper and comb or maybe teeth to endure
  yes it's so good to know that the editorial standards aren't dropping.

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• 27. At 7:13pm on 17 Sep 2009, gerundive wrote:

  Re. the U.S. revision of its missile defence system on Russia's borders, don't know why the BBC continues to give airtime to John (oops, sorry nearly said Roger) Bolton and his imperialistic rants whenever the new administration acts as a mature member of the international community rather than as the playground bully. He was one of the agents of chaos of the Bush Jr. interregnum and should be consigned along with it to the rubbish bin of history (non-recyclable).

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• 28. At 2:03pm on 18 Sep 2009, mari_jean wrote:

  I think I take back - tentatively - my view of Obama not being radical: not having 'defence' missiles at Russia's front door is one of the most constructive things USA could do to improve relations with Russia.
  
  I don't think criticizing Obama is racist - or if it is then I've certainly been racist - but people breaking long-held conventions and calling the President a liar in public isn't something any previoous president has had to tolerate. We've had Scottish PMs, a woman and even Jewish - but never black.

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• 29. At 11:13pm on 05 Jan 2010, Sindy wrote:

  
  Now that's what I call art ...
  
  

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