h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

and as rune pointed out, if they get raped and end up pregnant, do they get punished twice???

I assume the court martial will look at if there are mitigating circumstances.

and there is the get out that makes the rule a farce

'i'm pregnant, i was raped, i dont know who it was, can i go home now???'

Well if they didn´t report it at the time, they may not believe it and so sentence them anyway.

"It is the first time the US army has made pregnancy a punishable offence"...

...and "The new policy applies to both female and male soldiers"



How many pregnant male soldiers have they had to send home recently?

What a Br eh!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8422942.stm

"The uniform of the British Army is to be changed for the first time in almost 40 years.

The new Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP) will replace the traditional four colour woodland uniform known as No.8: Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM)."

I am only putting this up as I watched a bit of the clip on the page on the officer started talking about 'the corporate' image of the Army..for Peter's sake does business *ank words have to get into anything?

I think the military have a better entitlement to the word. To make into a body (from latin corpus) of men, thus corps, corporal etc.

Show off!!! I don't think he was thinking in those terms, unfortunately, cool if he was though.

he looks so ped off because up to last week he would have been waering a suit working at the mod, now he has to wear kermit kit

It looks pretty funny when they have the three of them lined up. The one in the middle is standing very straight and smiling, with the other two slouching and looking bored. I wonder if it was an attempt to make a Before and After photo like in dieting ads.

gerry adams dad was an abuser

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8423357.stm

and he urges his brother to turn himself in for the same thing

how long did they keep that quiet???

all the time through the troubles the para-millitaries carried out punishment sootings and beatings on sex offenders and forced pdf. files to flee the province.

adams was a PIRA commander and then leader of sinn fien, political wing of the PIRA

do i smell hypocracy??????

not someone who has a polarised view on the whole middle east issue and history but

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/20/israel-admits-harvesting-palestinian-organs

"Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend."

good it has come out but flippin' heck...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8423827.stm

"The "Arbeit macht frei" sign stolen from Auschwitz in southern Poland has been found in the north and five men are being questioned by police."

They said they were only following orders...

North Corea's dictator Kim Jong-il bans 'foreign' hairstyles:
http://www.newser.com/story/76345/n-korea-bans-fancy-hairdos.html

My goodness, my Guinness.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1221/guinness.html

11 units of Dublin Fire Brigade and three aerial fire fighting vehicles are attending a fire at the Guinness site at St James's Gate in Dublin.

Because it's such a big fire.

DRM & the odor of sanctity...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/21/vatican_copyright/

So, is this going to be a problem?




Pope.

Or how about:

The notorious Emperor Caligula held the priestly office of Pontifex Maximus, the same priestly office now held by Pope Benedict.


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