User:JamieHughes

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Jamie's Opinions 3 Things I do, Stuffs about me and Organisations 4 5 Did you know? 6 Featured Article of the Day 7 On This Day 8 In the News 9 Feedback!

[edit] Welcome

Welcome to my User Page. I hope you enjoy your stay.

Jamie - King of the Wiki Game

[edit] Jamie's Opinions

Well I am first and foremost a traditional Conservative of the Thatcherite Breed, I am an active member of the Conservative Future and very vocal on issues I feel strongly about. I am in favour of the pound and broadly euroskeptic. I am completely against the current format of the welfare state, and fed up with reading about single parents, scraping nigh on 30k a year off the money we the taxpayers pay in and wanting more! I am in favour of Immigration to the UK as I see it is realistically needed, but I believe in limits, a points based system similar to australia would be a good idea. I believe in putting money back into our military which has suffered poorer and poorer funding under consecutive Labour governments. Criminals should serve full terms and not be let out when deemed "safe" by wishy washy liberal parole boards. People in society need to learn to respect eachother and behave as resonsible individuals if they wish to be treated such. Antisocial teenagers should be subject to corporal punishment. Severe criminals such as Child Molesters and Rapists should not be allowed out of prison, ever. I believe noone should be judged or persecuted on base of Colour, creed and sexuality but I believe people should not flaunt sexuality as it should be a deeply personal thing. I am broadly secularist in my attitude to government, religion should not involve itself in politics.

[edit] Things I do, Stuffs about me and Organisations

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Picture of the day
	A camouflaged flounder. Camouflage is the method which allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment. Besides blending in with their surroundings, animals may disguise themselves as something else to avoid predation. Photo credit: Moondigger Archive - More featured pictures...

[edit] Did you know?

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ...that, according to Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, the land of the Rus was Christianized (Sergei Ivanov's painting pictured) by 867?
• ...that Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the first member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II?
• ...that Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike?
• ...that the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award-winning film Norma Rae?
• ...that as they don't require fans, ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
• ...that Pulau Senang was a penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963?

[edit] Featured Article of the Day

The history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 1900s. Elizabeth Magie invented in 1903 a version of The Landlord's Game which was a real estate trading game in which players got rich by monopolizing sets of properties. This game, usually called "monopoly", was played extensively from 1904 through 1931 when it showed up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There a group of Quaker teachers changed it to a version which was copied by Charles Darrow. The copy was then commercialized by Parker Brothers which claimed that Darrow had invented the game and turned Darrow into a rags to riches embodiment of the American dream. In the 1970s, Professor Ralph Anspach, while defending himself against a trademark infringement suit filed by Parker Brothers and its then parent company, General Mills, against his Anti-Monopoly game, uncovered the true history of the game. Because of the lengthy court process, and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers' trademarks on the game was not settled until 1985. The game's name remains a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, as does its specific design elements. International tournaments, first held in the early 1970s, continue to the present day, with the next world championship scheduled for 2008. (more...)

Recently featured: Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India – Green and Golden Bell Frog – Iranian peoples

[edit] On This Day

December 13: Republic Day in Malta (1974), St. Lucia Day.

• 1545 - Counter-Reformation: The Council of Trent, an ecumenical council convoked by Pope Paul III (pictured) in response to the growth of Protestantism, opened in Trento, Italy.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside were decisively defeated in the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• 1981 - Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland, suspended Solidarity and imprisoned many union leaders.
• 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a spider hole during Operation Red Dawn and captured.

Recent days: December 12 – December 11 – December 10

[edit] In the News

• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) opens a conference aiming to "review the Holocaust".
• In his final speech in office, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encourages the United States to provide global leadership whilst respecting multilateralism.
• Incumbent Igor Smirnov wins presidential elections in the internationally unrecognized state of Transnistria.
• Christer Fuglesang, the first Scandinavian in space, and six other astronauts on mission STS-116 arrive at the International Space Station.
• Former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet (age 91) dies one week after suffering a heart attack.
• Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as President of Madagascar.

[edit] Feedback!

If you have any opinions on my page, complaints or anything else please make a post in the discussion page or feel free to drop me an email at Galacticfreedom@gmail.com