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Topic: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood? (Read 78750 times)

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #225
How in goodness name can a man be in solitary for 43 years? Uh?
By being a Scot named Howie, who hasn't the sense God gave a goose…? It seems you have so much rattling around in your skull that you can learn nothing else. :) No doubt, this tidbit came from RT, eh?
Ah, no! I see it's the Guardian… Hm.

So, should I blame the writer, the editor or the paper itself for this:
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The “no contest” plea is not an admission of guilt […]
This is just plain wrong: A "no contest" plea is most assuredly an admission of guilt; it's only import is to preclude civil damages — should they be sought.
But of course one would have to be literate to know such a thing, eh?

"The American Caliphate"? Your rhetoric is even worse than Donald Trump's, RJ.
But at least our President Obama agrees with you! Maybe he can be your next Queen…
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Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #226
Do you realise how silly yo make Americans look??

You are like others who when reminded of the odd idiosyncrasies over there fall back on digs or silly distractions. All those various ways of executing (you were still doing public hangings on the 1930's for goodness sake).Totally swerving the matter of 43 years solitary confinement for heaven's sake never mind 2.3 million in jails. Farcical is an easy word to get to.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #227
Do you realise how silly yo make Americans look??
Oh, I do! The politically naive (and those ignorant of much history…) will possibly believe as you do, Howie. Certainly, anyone that leans as far left (and as committed to overwhelming bureaucratic control…) as you, must!
Perhaps your Putin-love is but the maturing of an earlier infatuation…? (You're old enough, I think.)

But have you nothing to say about al Baghdadi, his ideology, and his tactics? And how successful they've been?
(Maybe your tele doesn't tell you enough to know what to think. :) )
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Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #228
How well you represent American political thinking by listing me as far left. Just about anything outside of Trump thinking would get that daft assessment. In fact I stood as a candidate in my city for a traditional conservative party but then you lot are not very bright when it comes to politics. Every party here for example supports the Welfare State and the National Health Service yet your US narrowness is well brained into you poor mugs. Your system is a built-in rightist caliphate of the worst kind. Maybe you can explain dear mental plodder why there are such vast numbers of poor and homeless over there or are they all automatically listed as leftist as a daft excuse?
"Quit you like men:be strong"

 

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #229
Every party here for example supports the Welfare State and the National Health Service […]
No matter what it costs. One wonders who will take control when you go into receivership…
Oh, you yourself won't care. You'll be dead, or close enough. But your country will essentially be gone.
Again, you won't -just as you don't now- care.

One of your Prime Ministers once said: "The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other peoples' money!"
Howie, you're as conservative as any Red can be! You'd miss Stalin, if you didn't still have Putin. :)
What passes for conservatism in Scotland you well know is akin to Obama progressive-ism here. (There's little hope for you, as a free people: You've never cottoned to it… :) But that may be because you've so often lost it — that is, so seldom had it. And the only real freedom you have had -your dangling parts swinging free beneath you kilts- you reject, being a Lowlander!) What will you do when your North Sea oil fields run dry? Sell the world IrnBru?

I've no problem, letting you and yorn live as you choose. But you keep -somehow (you've never really explained why…) blaming America for your problems; indeed, for all of the world's problems.
Maybe if the British had been better at administering their Empire, most of the world's problems wouldn't be problems.

But — sei le vie
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Reply #231
:eyes:


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Reply #233
Come on let's twitch again!

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Reply #234
:insane:

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Reply #235
Come on let's twitch again!

Eh eh, that's not from your time... :)
Not even mine.
I had it playing at my old Bang&Olufsen reel-to-reel ¼" tape recorder. Fantastic machines.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #236
Holy crap I agree with a Howie rant. What the hell happened?!



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Reply #239
(Giggle) Well even a guy like Paul got socked on the road so you just never know, eh?!
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Reply #240
Someone once said:
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We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilisation except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part, and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals have apparently produced results utterly different from those which we expected.


I don't care, that no one recognizes the quote. I do care, greatly, that few understand its import.
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Reply #241
Is the import of the quote that the speaker sees the erratic effects of the pursuit of his most cherished ideas, but is determined to continue the same way regardless?

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Reply #242
It seems that replacing "we" with "they", and "our" with "their", would be more accurate. :right:


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Reply #244
I don't care, that no one recognizes the quote. I do care, greatly, that few understand its import.

Insignificant quote. "We" are not responsible, "we" are not the same, there's no "our" civilization.
A matter of attitude.

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #245
@Jaybro: The comma in the first sentence is a cheap form of emphasis… :) Punctuation is more a function of style than of substance, I think. As long as one's choices don't mangle the meaning, where's the harm?
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Reply #247
@Jaybro: The comma in the first sentence is a cheap form of emphasis…  :)  Punctuation is more a function of style than of substance, I think. As long as one's choices don't mangle the meaning, where's the harm?

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Reply #248
Does any of the above anglo saxons posting are part of the affected neighbourhood?
They are the cause not the consequence.

A matter of attitude.

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Reply #249
Certainly, the European powers had nothing to do with it! :)
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