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yes - as usual my response to ludicrous and unsubstantiated claims is to use common sense.

raytan,

(xtian fundamentalist nutjobs)

You have described most of GW Bushs White House staff in one term. Congratulations !!!!

It's a strange paradox. The better the Russian economy gets since the end of the USSR, the worse the demographic statistics become. Not only is the population shrinking now at more than 1 million people per year, but the life expectancies continue to shrink for both sexes. Men are now expected to live only 56-59 years, by far the lowest life expectancy in Europe.

Why is this, when the economy is getting better, health care is improving, and salaries have risen over 300% (factor inflation, they still rose 78%) since Putin became president? Nearly every man, and many women, in Russia smoke and drink profusely, and the majority (I'm not kidding!) of Russian youth under 13 have involved themselves in drugs in some fashion.

In 1991, the average age when Russians began smoking was 13 or 14. Now, it is 8 or 9.

Eric
Sorry that we'll be losing you so soon! [:-))
Recently the pundits in the Uk have come up with something like, people aged 65 now have a life expectancy into the 80s: people born in the 1930s can expect to live until they are about 90 - as I say I'm not sure about the facts but they are certainly talking about expectancy to the late 80s, early 90s with women having an expectancy of 3 or 4 years longer than men (well they do have easier lives!!).
Live long
Leslie

heheh, Leslie, that woke me up from my deep slumber!

I am sure you meant to say that women have to stick around a few years extra to clean up the mess that the men leave, that is why we live longer.

or maybe just to celebrate with some wodka and kielbasa!

No Nancy, that is not what I meant at all!! [:-))) Remember that I have had to suffer two divorces in almost 50 years!!
Leslie {:-)))

While we in the United States and Europe have vast resources for protecting ourselves, we have thought ourselves into a position of near impotence.

Beyond the growing number of Muslims committed to terrorism is the threat from the Islamic diaspora's growing cultural and religious assertiveness -- particularly in largely secular Europe, where Muslim cultural assimilation has not occurred.
It is beginning to dawn on Europeans that the combination of a shrinking ethnic-European population and an expanding, culturally assertive Muslim population might lead to the fall of Western civilization in Europe within a century.
This phenomenon, called Eurabia, is viewed with growing fatalism both in Europe and in America. Such fatalism, however, is premature.


Read more here:

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050912-122024-9420r.htm

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Leslie



Leslie Rae et al in the forum. As long as there are Rooks that populate the grounds of The Tower Of London, there will always be an England.

I've heard their number is decreasing so fast that in the near future there might not be an Englad. On the other hand I've heard this saying is about the British monarchy, isn't it? That would be a whole different thing.

Captain, I mean
Listen to audio at the site:

http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=28421&j=2

Karol Olgierd Borchardt wrote a book that, until recently, every Polish schoolboy knew by heart. 'Captain, I mean' is a vivid account of a young sailor's adventures on board a ship. At the time when Poland was still behind the Iron Curtain, the ability to travel, let alone sail to foreign lands, was the stuff dreams were made of. Listen to an excerpt of the book.