There was a study in the UK about ten years ago into child abuse, it found that often the women are as much part of it as the men. They claim to be bullied/frightened by the man and judges and juries believe them as they don't want to consider the possibility that women do such things. That and pros...
And in the end, as the man suffers from incurable cancer nearing end stage, it was simply an act of mercy. I see no injustice from this to the victims and the ones they left behind suffering. Exactly, he wasn't breaking rocks in the hot sun. He was in a hospital here, he'll be in a hospital there. ...
On a more rational note: the view of prison here is to protect the public and to reform the offender. al-Megrahi is no longer a threat to the public and may or may not be reformed so he is released. That is how our criminal justice system works, and terrorists go through the same court system as oth...
I find it more annoying that he is always "Future Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre"; how many more bad years does he have to have to balance out the handful of good ones?
The fall guy for the Lockerbie bombing has been released on compassionate grounds. It was never convincing that there was enough evidence to convict him, he should have been "Not Proven" at worst, but that is another story. His conviction stands. The whining and bitching from various US po...
About 10 years ago I used to work in central Edinburgh and walked in through the Meadows (sort of a park, an open grassy area) at one end there was a guy, probably mid 20s, who sold The Big Issue our newspaper sold to help the homeless. He dressed like a punk and had tattoos on his face but he was a...
MM_Dandy wrote:Not that it means much, but Wikipedia claims that Brett Favre has French and Choctaw ancestory. Still, even if Wiki's right, that doesn't mean that the Italian Favres are not related.
I stand corrected. Until I get to the wiki page and change it. :D
I think it is Italian, there were a couple of Italian cross country skiers Patrick Favre and his brother whose name escapes me. Were there not Italian immigrants into Mississipi post Great War who got a bit of a hard time from the locals?