This is the downside of thr internet Ben. Even the greatest moron, when uploading the silliest statements at a right time can get quite some attention...

Not at all BW, if it's not torture, then why are the people who were identified on the photographs convicted?

From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse#cite_ref-52) :

"The U.S. Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and seven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and September 2005, seven soldiers were convicted in courts martial, sentenced to federal prison time, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner, and his former fianc

"Luck or not, we have the best goalkeeper in the world. We don't need any defence, he's reading their minds."

Except Thierry Henry's yesterday

The Netherlands have my sympathy too, but it's thoughts like the yours that have costed your team's head before...

"The treaty is rather important in that way it makes the EU more democratic and more easy to understand. It gives more power to the parliament, the most democratic organ of the EU."

Indeed.

"Its one of the main problems with the EU in general. They don't communicate enough. We know every minor national law that gets passed even if it doesn't change a thing but we never heared of what the EU decided (wich even might be the reason that national law got passed)"

And correct again. But this is exactly why the whole referendum was a silly idea. This treaty was exactly to make things better, a  step in the right direction that should have been encouraged rather than punished.

And I agree with Lateralis, the EU should be more democratic, and we should have done it "the english way", wich means, through different reforms. Although, I can't help but feeling Lat's pov is the typical British pov on the European Union.

"Nu is onze kans, annexeren die hap!"

De vorige keer hebben we jullie buitengebonjourd met overwegend spades, knuppels en ander tuig..
En wat is er gebeurd met "we zijn blij dat we er vanaf zijn"?

They remain the voice of the workers in many large firms though, their existence makes it easier for the directors to discuss things with the workers.

"men also loose their virginity.... "

Yes, but they can easily pretend. Besides, the virginity thing is mostly pointed towards women.

"women dont need to undergo an operation at all. and those that do to hide that they lost their virginity are committing fraud and should be arrested."

If the alternative is being an outcast, it's quite pressuring isn't it?

"i dont see how its bending the law. if the women found out that the man wasnt a virgin, as long as your laws would allow her to do the same thing, i dont see how its discriminating."

As I explained before, virginity is a discriminating factor. Allowing them to be sued, would only encourage discrimination.

"they would only be considered social widows in the small muslin community. most men wouldnt care, or alot of men, you can tell that it broke while riding a horse..."

That doesn't make it less horrible. Being excommunicated from whatever community is always a bad thing. Yes, she could tell that, but that doesn't change the problem. Similar things happened with women who were still virgins but didn't bleed after their first time. They too get the same treatment.

"its about being threatened by their culture so you're looking for areas where your rights are threatened so that you can attack it. muslims didnt create women with hymen. evolution did. its a weaker case to argue discrimination against women in this area then it is to argue discrimination against men because when we conceive a human embryo with a woman, the woman gets to make all the decisions regarding the embryo."

I disagree with that. I have various muslim friends and family members, don't try to make me look like a racist in disguise. The things is that we should always be critical, the thing that I critisize the urban muslim culture doesn't automaticly make me disrespective. It's a fact that women are discriminated in some of these metropolitan muslim communities. This can be proven with the increasing number of honor-murders (commited by a familymember of the always female victim for having a questionable virginity status), no single murder victim was male. How can you possibly claim that it's not about discrimination?

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@The_Yell: that reminds me of that 16th century (or was it 17th century?) painter who got to see his wife naked for the first time on their wedding night, and was so shocked that she had pubic hair, that he concluded she was a freak and got the wedding annuled..

Wich is why they're useful and important...

I can't see half of the movies cause "it's not for my area", could you please add the name of the song and band too?

Madrugada - Hands up, I love you

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbnAEQFNuY

Terribly sexy

Oh, and Sigur R

Happy birthday!

Schweinsteiger pushed a man out of pure frustration, the red card was defenatly justified.

That referee is the only Belgian involved in the Eurocup, and (in contrary to our national team) he's doing a pretty good job

What a silly statement to make BW :\

yes, the belgian army is dressed in pink, does nothing but setting up tents and wear weapons made out of glitter.

Our army always works in international operations, in wich it usually sets up camps, guard them, dismantle bombs/mines etc. Usually our men aren't in great danger, but they can fight if needed..

As I said before, those people in Rwanda got recalled cause some of them were raping women, the killings were just the final drop....