Sorry....force of habit I guess....but you don´t have to click on them.

I find it annoying when I get adds that are obviously designed for "me"....it lets me know they are building a profile...which I really do not like. BTW...your link hits it on the head exactly...so what will they do with all that information, what we look at where we go....and all....???? Interesting link you posted too....actually....it is like that all over now.

you are only as free, as you are free from desires.....

Fair enough Daydreamer.......it´s all your point of view.....I sort of think of it like "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose...."    It all depends on your perspective......if you were Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant Mumia Abu-Jamal you may have a different perspective on things. .....

 Maybe it´s getting to be time to come home? I think you actually have an illusions as to how free we actually are in the US... It is a trade off.

I love the freedoms in the US, but I am not under many delusions about my "freedoms". You have heard of Free Speech Zones, have you not? I am not free to choose to or not to eat GMO salmon, drink fluoride or in general have my body polluted with a multitude of chemicals.

I think the freedom you speak of is a thing of the past....if it ever was. Most of the world, Europeans and Turks in particular, have a much longer view of history....they have seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, Alexander, Napoleon....Hitler, Stalin...and many many others.

Americans, on the other hand, are incredibly naive. Have you ever heard the song The Gambler?  Discretion is always a good policy.

 I think this about covers it.....I"m Free!

Ha ha ha ha.....well those were some interesting sites. BTW I knew a person with 3 nipples and I saw the extra one.  It is not that unusual, so it seems. The extra nipple was more like what one would see on a cat´s belly. Unless you were told it existed, there would be no indication it existed. In fact, the person with it had to point it out. If you didn´t know, you may just think it was a zit.

What does amaze me is the fact that Ann was able to get so prized a catch as a king with the extra digit. I thought royalty was concerned with breeding issues, and in general looked for physically "perfect" specimens......

My pleasure, My hat is off to British women. They have been some of the real movers and shakers in the world. Here´s a short list, excluding the Queens...

Jane Digby

Isabel Burton

Gertrude Bell.....I am amazed she is so little known and appreciated, a truly amazing woman. Did you know her guide was an Anatolian Armenian?

Freya Stark.............the trips she took???

..........all these women have their less admirable traits, but one can not ignore, or not respect their amazing lives, and the influence they had on world events. Freya had some interesting comments about Turkish men....

I think you would find her facinating subject. I might suggest the Lesley Blanch version in The Wilder Shores of Love. I happened on it by seeing the of obituary of Lesley Blanch, who was another British woman who had an interesting life . She was 103 at the time of her death in 2007. On reading about her I had to read her books. So far I´ve read The Wilder Shores of Love and Sabers of Paradise.

In the WSL she also writes about Isabell Burton, giving a new insite into the life and work of Sir Richard Burton. (they both spent time with Ms. Digby)...

Oh my....that is a little detail not well known. In those days 32 was just about a spinster, and it was only one hand with six fingers?

Yes, I heard it was in France where she learned to hone her wiles. She learned well, so it would appear. Although, in the bitter end, it was not a lot of help to her.

I must say British women are an interesting lot. I recently read about Jane Digby...

Awww....again....and so soon? You will be missed. You are like a butterfly flitting about here and there.....maybe you are going in to one of your other states?

Wow....24 years! I didn´t realize it was that long. You are so right...history is much better.