>> ^qruel:
<IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/videosift/i/emoticon/smilecute.gif">yo mharvey42 get with the program, this isn't youtube. Feel free to disagree but how about putting some meat on your arguement instead of shit ass generalities. VS allows tons of text and hyperlinks so go knock yourself out with googlefu to prove your point.


OK, here's some NHS "success stories"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1110054/Starved-death-NHS-hospital-Damning-inquiry-highlights-case-patient-left-food-26-days.html
Britain shamed by NHS death ratesWaiting lists and shortage of doctors blamed for grim mortality figures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/sep/07/health.nhs
UK's system killed 17,000 Britons
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080227/NEWS/802270305/-1/searchxml
Dad Dies After Hospital A&E Wait
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Dad-Stewart-Fleming-Dies-After-Six-Hour-Wait-In-Kent-Hospital-Accident-And-Emergency/Article/200812415195509

I'm always curious when people use word etymology to politically persuade people. Here they said "janke" is Dutch meaning pirate. According to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=y the etymology of Yankee is:

"1683, a name applied disparagingly by Du. settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. It may be from Du. Janke, lit. "Little John," dim. of common personal name Jan; or it may be from Jan Kes familiar form of "John Cornelius," or perhaps an alt. of Jan Kees, dial. variant of Jan Kaas, lit. "John Cheese," the generic nickname the Flemings used for Dutchmen. It originally seems to have been applied insultingly to Dutch, especially freebooters, before they turned around and slapped it on the English. A less-likely theory is that it represents some southern New England Algonquian language mangling of English. In Eng. a term of contempt (1750s) before its use as a general term for "native of New England" (1765); during the American Revolution it became a disparaging British word for all American native or inhabitants. Shortened form Yank in reference to "an American" first recorded 1778."

Well, I had to investigate this further, as it is indeed awesome. It's a poster called "Star Wars Rocks" by an artist named Hugh Fleming, and there's actually a bit more stuff in the full version (Leia is rocking out as well).

if you even have a passing interest in the older bond flicks, be sure to pick up the actual novels. ian fleming spins some truly intense plots and the bond on paper is a less attractive, less likable guy.