[TexasCowboy]

"Every weekend I could hear the bagpipes at the funerals of the fireman, weekend after weekend, it seemed endless."

I'm glad I wasn't there, ari.
My eyes would have been swollen shut every weekend.

[ariamne]

My eyes would have been swollen shut every weekend.
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TC, sometimes I'd run in the house and put a pillow over my head, but I could never quite drown it out.

I can't imagine the horrors that you have witnessed in your travels. What kind of religion is enforced by fear, like the kind you described by the poor women in the UAE?
What kind of people enjoy a beheading? This is suspiciously close to what happened to normal people under fascism--they lost their sense of good and evil, right and wrong.