Those Korean beauty pageant organizers would have been indicted in the US for suggesting breast implants. At 16 she would still be considered a minor in the US and the pageant officials would have been charged under child protection laws.

Since she won their competition, they can’t reasonably claim that she didn’t meet the qualifications unless they admit the competition was was rigged. The apologies are the absolute minimum she deserves – a few suicides among the organizers wouldn’t be out of place… 👿

All of my Grandparents would have voted YES. They would have despised Cameron. I know they despised Thatcher! 🙂

I was just reading this article… Absolutely bloody despicable! Trying to force a 16 YO to get breast implants because she wasn’t up to the ‘beauty pageant standards’!! WTF! But good on her for telling them to basically FO! And keeping the expensive crown, which IMHO is rightfully her’s anyway!

Beauty Queen Loses Crown for Refusing to Get Breast Implants

More and more the moronic bastards that make up this World make me wish more and more they would all drop dead! And I wish I could help them archive that!

Rural voters tend to be more conservative and opposed to change.

More than half of the 32 declarations are in: Yes = 45.72%; No = 54.28%

I guess too many old fuddies are still scared of any change. Even if for the better. *shrug*

EDIT: Didn’t see your comment. 🙂

They are saying that it was mainly the elderly who voted NO. And given they will be dead soon, was pretty selfish of them IMHO! Oh well… what can one expect?

Actually Fox is even worse than the others, as they do this more often.

With 24 of 32 districts reporting, the BBC is projecting a 55/45 split for NO. Dundee and Glasgow both voted YES, but the rural areas didn’t go along.

The independence movement needs to resolve some of the issues that were used to scare people and provide some reasonable answers.

I think this is the most accurate take I’ve read so far. There are two other parts to the series (I said it was long!) I think Part 2 get’s to the heart of it. 😀

Scottish Ripples – States of Disunion, Part One

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The biggest problem is that the primary negotiating partner Scotland has for most of the issues it will face as a new European nation is not just the Tories, but an England that will be, not to put too fine a point on it, completely losing its shit.
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Once again, as with the whole referendum itself, Cameron’s fail comes to the rescue as well. After he insulted fellow EU member state Luxembourg and its former PM, Jean-Claude Juncker, the same was selected to be the next President of the European Commission. An anonymous source in the Scotsman characterized Juncker as open to Scotland being a new member of the EU, and was quoted as saying “He’d be sympathetic, as someone who is from a smaller country… he’ll understand the obstacles that can be put in the way of less powerful member states.” Or put another way, Fuck you, David Cameron.
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Yeah… going to be interesting, either way! It will be pretty close I think. *shrug* Wait and see I guess. 🙂

Results so far after 4 of 32 declarations: No 49,535 (57.8%), Yes 36,097 (42.2%)

Continual live updates on Mashable:
Live Updates: Scotland Is Counting the Votes

looks like only a yes in Glasgow/Dundee can win Scotland independence! 🙁

And that CNN Had their usual wrong and idiotic coverage of the Scottish Election. They calmed in one of their wonderfully flashy graphics that the vote would be:
NO: 52% and YES: 58%!

And people wonder why the average in the USA is: moron! Seriously! CNN make FOX actually seem smart by comparison!

Not in the spam folder. It nicked you a couple of days ago, but I got it back. I have no idea what it didn’t like about the post it did zap.

I would love to have a damn ‘white list’ so I wouldn’t have to worry about false positives.