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Title: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: TG on December 27, 2007, 01:37:30 PM
They got her. I suppose it was bound to happen.

A remarkable woman I think.

Look forward to a new year bloodbath.
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Nick on December 27, 2007, 01:38:08 PM
Yup. I just saw that too. Killed for being a woman? Or killed for her politics?
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: TG on December 27, 2007, 01:42:00 PM
Yup. I just saw that too. Killed for being a woman? Or killed for her politics?

Power/politics/religion/gender. She checked all the target selection boxes.

Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 27, 2007, 02:20:03 PM
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"I told them we had to maintain martial law" noooo:
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Barman on December 27, 2007, 02:26:02 PM
It really was just a matter of time wasn't it?

I agree with tailgunner... bloodbath to follow... Who knows where this will all end...  noooo:
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Snoopy on December 27, 2007, 02:27:47 PM
Sadly predictable ~ As for where will it end? Who can guess but they have nuclear weapons so we should perhaps be concerned ...........  not that North Wales is a likely target
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Barman on December 27, 2007, 02:31:22 PM
WW1 was started by an assassination...  scared2:
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Snoopy on December 27, 2007, 02:33:58 PM
I 'spect they'll start by killing one another ~ a lot. Then they'll move onto blaming the USoA.

We come down the list a way because they need us to play cricket against.
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: The Moan Ranger on December 27, 2007, 03:23:04 PM
Now that I'm in the right place, I can only say that "mankind" really, really, doesn't deserve to continue for too long. The dinosaurs ruled for millions and millions of years and even they, with their barbaric ways and evolutionary progress towards becoming better at being themselves, were still less hateful than us lot.

But there again, I doubt whether your average Stegasaur believed in a Stegasaur God that was better than a Triceratops god...
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 27, 2007, 08:01:48 PM
Now that I'm in the right place, I can only say that "mankind" really, really, doesn't deserve to continue for too long. The dinosaurs ruled for millions and millions of years and even they, with their barbaric ways and evolutionary progress towards becoming better at being themselves, were still less hateful than us lot.

But there again, I doubt whether your average Stegasaur believed in a Stegasaur God that was better than a Triceratops god...

Mind you, a female T-Rex in a hijab could have got close to a lot of herbivores without being noticed.
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Nick on December 27, 2007, 09:23:07 PM
Tsk!

Or praps Tusk!
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 02, 2008, 04:09:17 PM
The thing that got me over the whole thing is that the authorities were claiming she wasnt assassinated. If thats the case I'd love to know what they call shooting a popular public figure and politician in the throat and then setting off a bomb vest.
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Snoopy on January 02, 2008, 04:10:13 PM
The thing that got me over the whole thing is that the authorities were claiming she wasnt assassinated. If thats the case I'd love to know what they call shooting a popular public figure and politician in the throat and then setting off a bomb vest.

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Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 02, 2008, 04:52:41 PM
Can anyone explain to me the significance of the "Set fire to a refrigerator then beat it with a long stick" ceremony?
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Snoopy on January 02, 2008, 05:04:12 PM
Can anyone explain to me the significance of the "Set fire to a refrigerator then beat it with a long stick" ceremony?

It belongs to the same category of personal demonstration of independance as "Beat a statue with your sandal" and "Loot a TV set when your mud hut doesn't have electricity"
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Nick on January 02, 2008, 07:11:26 PM
Or set fire to a church because you lost the election noooo:
Title: Re: Benazir Bhutto
Post by: Snoopy on January 02, 2008, 07:53:34 PM
Or set fire to a church because you lost the election noooo:

The description of that on the News is just too horrible to contemplate.

Like everything else in Africa from Cape Town to the Mediterranean it always comes back to tribal conflicts that have their roots in history and no civilisation to temper it with. We seem to be going the same way with Scots V English, Welsh V English etc. For several hundred years we have kept it pretty much to the sports field but there are signs that it will be spreading here again soon enough.