The parents of a missing child don't matter.

[Alice Purjorick]

Before most people could read and write the history of the people was recorded in stories, songs, poems.  Genealogies were remembered and recited back to the dawning of time.
Sadie seems to have a lot more of that race memory at her fingertips than the Scottish part of you.  So please don't scoff when you have no idea what you are scoffing at.

In another place having run out calumnies with which to castigate Madeleine McCann's parents I note the 'experts' are delving into the mysteries surrounding their respective genealogies ... whatever next!

What drives these people to the extremes of delving not only into every aspect of the Drs McCann's lives but to obsessively checking out their family trees? 

Hope you're not thinking of going down that route.

"I was only looking for a piece of wood to make drum"

[Alice Purjorick]

Now and again I'm rendered speechless and it's just happened again. The lost tribes of Israel is a whole other subject and, in my opinion, has no place or relevance on here. Talk about tenuous connections!

I assume that the 'they' who took Madeleine were members of some secret sinister organisation who had researched her bloodline, decided they needed her for some reason, watched the family but didn't manage to grab her, followed them on holiday and finally had their chance in Praia da Luz?

Top marks for effort then. 

The film Dogma?

[Brietta]

To counter the inherent racism. From another place.

Oh dear ... is it my reference to race memory to which you refer?   Just in case, here is the dictionary definition ...

Definition of race memory in English:
noun

A supposedly inherited subconscious memory of events in human history or prehistory.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/race-memory

On such trivia as confusing 'race memory' with 'inherent racism' is built the misunderstanding and prejudice which is used to berate the parents of a missing child.
Sometimes the meaning of a phrase is corrupted when taken out of context or misunderstood.

[G-Unit]

The film Dogma?

I've never seen it, but it certainly seems to rest on similar ideas lol.

[Alice Purjorick]

Well worth a view. Matt Damon is brilliant as The Angel of Death.
"Religious films have always been slightly controversial. The line is so fine that if you attempt to make a movie in the genre, you will eventually offend somebody. But that didn’t deter Kevin Smith in his perhaps most ambitious cinematic outing, which was a satire of the Catholic Church, and would result in Smith receiving over 30,000 pieces of hate mail and two death threats".
Just for making an irreverent bloody film.
Mercy!

[Alfred R Jones]

Well worth a view. Matt Damon is brilliant as The Angel of Death.
"Religious films have always been slightly controversial. The line is so fine that if you attempt to make a movie in the genre, you will eventually offend somebody. But that didn’t deter Kevin Smith in his perhaps most ambitious cinematic outing, which was a satire of the Catholic Church, and would result in Smith receiving over 30,000 pieces of hate mail and two death threats".
Just for making an irreverent bloody film.
Mercy!

Just an average day in the life of the McCanns. 

[Alice Purjorick]

Just an average day in the life of the McCanns. 

Did they make a controversial movie then?

[Alfred R Jones]

Did they make a controversial movie then?

No.

[faithlilly]

Just an average day in the life of the McCanns. 

I sometimes wonder what makes them such a dashed unpopular couple.

[Alice Purjorick]

No.

Do they receive 30,000 pieces of hate mail and two threats a day as you suggest? How do you know this to be true?

[Alfred R Jones]

I sometimes wonder what makes them such a dashed unpopular couple.

People like you.

[Alfred R Jones]

Do they receive 30,000 pieces of hate mail and two threats a day as you suggest? How do you know this to be true?

I think it's closer to 50,000 pieces of hate mail, and I got the information from my secret sauces.

[slartibartfast]

Oh dear ... is it my reference to race memory to which you refer?   Just in case, here is the dictionary definition ...

Definition of race memory in English:
noun

A supposedly inherited subconscious memory of events in human history or prehistory.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/race-memory

On such trivia as confusing 'race memory' with 'inherent racism' is built the misunderstanding and prejudice which is used to berate the parents of a missing child.
Sometimes the meaning of a phrase is corrupted when taken out of context or misunderstood.

???

Not sure what racial memory has to do with anything?

[Alice Purjorick]

I think it's closer to 50,000 pieces of hate mail, and I got the information from my secret sauces.

A day?

[Alfred R Jones]

A day?

An hour.