Quote from: Meta Cognition on November 29, 2014, 10:13:57 AM

Quote from: Kinder on November 29, 2014, 10:10:23 AM

There's a big difference: One is a citizen of the United States

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

And the Declaration isn't a code of law document, it's a document that declares freedom from the British. You only have certain rights till you violate the law and infringe on the rights of others, as in attacking the nation. In that case you will be killed (if you're currently attacking) or arrested

When you think about it, plenty of mainstream religions have a single deity at their head, especially Judaism and Islam. I don't see it as relating to one specific religion

Are you kidding? Delaying people from getting to work should be a prosecutable offense? That's just unadulterated idiocy.

People are going to argue the same for officers, or for a plethora of jobs.

Passing laws to prosecute protestors, because it's an inconvenience to people, isn't going to make anything better. However, it should be easier for people to find out where protests are going on to adjust travel plans as necessary.

I see no problem with the protests.

Define excessive, because I can say the stimulus packages passed by Bush and Obama have not improved the economy and only created an artificial demand

Quote from: Meta Cognition on November 28, 2014, 01:47:07 PM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on November 28, 2014, 01:45:05 PM

I'm not sure if I'd quite call it a double standard, if someone was devoutly jewish and supported Israel wholeheartedly with a sticker saying 'Israel is right' (Or something more snappy) then I would expect to see them get pissy about a free palestine sticker >.>

I'm not saying they wouldn't, I'm merely saying it wouldn't be as acceptable as a Muslim getting upset over the issue.

Perhaps, but the conflict is pretty disproportionately sided. The palestinians are getting blown the fuck to pieces whilst the israelis take less casualties than I have fingers. That doesn't make the palestinians right just because they are being hammered, but still >.>

Seven mental health patients have killed themselves in England since 2012 after being told there were no hospital beds for them, the BBC has learned.

An investigation of coroners' reports and NHS trust papers with the journal Community Care found another patient denied a bed later killed his mother.

It comes as mental health beds are being cut in England - figures show more than 2100 have gone since 2011.

The NHS England said spending on mental health was increasing in real terms.

The investigation by BBC News and Community Care has also revealed an email that a chief executive of a mental health trust wrote to NHS England in frustration this summer after one of her senior officials came to tell her that: "Yet again there were no mental health beds in London in either the NHS or private sector."

Wendy Wallace, head of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, bemoaned NHS England's lack of interest in the problem. She wrote: "I could not envisage a situation where all the acute beds in London were full and there was not even an investigation into the situation nor a plan of action."

The investigation established that since 2012 seven people across England have taken their own lives having been told no beds were available. They were:

Pauline Binch, 64, from Nottingham
Stephanie Daniels, 32, from Manchester
Michael Knight, 20, from Norfolk
Mandy Peck, 39, from Essex
Anthony Quigley, 53, London
Terence Mullin, 53, from Liverpool
An unnamed man from Sheffield
In addition, Peter Holboll from London admitted the manslaughter of his mother, Tamara, having been told no beds were available.

A ninth person, Amanda Vickers, 47, from Cumbria, died after being denied a bed in a crisis house, a facility used to treat patients outside hospitals.

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Saboteurs blew up Yemen's main oil export pipeline on Wednesday, halting crude flows, the country's defence ministry and an industry source said, in the latest attack on a key source of foreign currency.

Yemen's oil and gas pipelines have been targeted repeatedly, often by tribesmen feuding with the central government, causing fuel shortages and slashing export earnings for the impoverished Arabian peninsula country.

The defence ministry's news website www.26sept.net said Wednesday's attack had occurred in the area of Habab in Marib province, halting flows to export facilities on the Red Sea. An industry source confirmed the stoppage in crude flows.

Yemen has said oil flows through the Marib pipeline, its main petroleum export route, at a rate of around 70,000 barrels per day (bpd). Before the spate of attacks began three years ago, the 270-mile (435-km) pipeline carried around 110,000 barrels per day to Ras Isa, the export terminal on the Red Sea.

Most of Yemen's output is from the Marib-Jawf area in the north, with the rest coming from Masila in the southeast.