Post any political news, developments, etc, here; feel free to grouse and grumble about your local politicians, expound at great length what really grinds your gears about politicians or their actions, or alternatively, praise a politician, here.
You know what really grinds my gears? The politics of the state of Mississippi.
We have a Senator for D.C. that has been in office since 1978, and is contemplating retirement, but has not indicated he will retire yet.
The guy running against him? A Teabagger that is masterful in the art of speech, giving great speeches at length, with no substance in them whatsoever. It would rustle his jimmies to read this, but he's like Obama in that regard.
The guy running against him? A Teabagger […]
Why not name names (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McDaniel)? :)
masterful in the art of speech, giving great speeches at length, with no substance in them whatsoever. It would rustle his jimmies to read this, but he's like Obama in that regard.
That seems to be how Washington is trending.
Unfortunately, we still need effective government. Some argue we don't. Do we want to end up like Somali?
You know what really grinds my gears? The politics of the state of Mississippi.
We have a Senator for D.C. that has been in office since 1978, and is contemplating retirement, but has not indicated he will retire yet.
The guy running against him? A Teabagger that is masterful in the art of speech, giving great speeches at length, with no substance in them whatsoever. It would rustle his jimmies to read this, but he's like Obama in that regard.
You don't have politics in Mississippi, you have religion in another form. ;D
You know what really grinds my gears? The politics of the state of Mississippi.
We have a Senator for D.C. that has been in office since 1978, and is contemplating retirement, but has not indicated he will retire yet.
The guy running against him? A Teabagger that is masterful in the art of speech, giving great speeches at length, with no substance in them whatsoever. It would rustle his jimmies to read this, but he's like Obama in that regard.
You don't have politics in Mississippi, you have religion in another form. ;D
*shudders at the thought*
You know what really grinds my gears? The politics of the state of Mississippi.
We have a Senator for D.C. that has been in office since 1978, and is contemplating retirement, but has not indicated he will retire yet.
The guy running against him? A Teabagger that is masterful in the art of speech, giving great speeches at length, with no substance in them whatsoever. It would rustle his jimmies to read this, but he's like Obama in that regard.
You don't have politics in Mississippi, you have religion in another form. ;D
One thing I dislike intensely is politicians claiming that their country is better than any other. British police are the best in the world, French cheeses are the best, America is the land of the free, Russia is the gayest place on Earth and so on.
Why everyone knows that Wessex is the best ...error... (overload on word limitation) .....
...Russia is the gayest place on Earth and so on.
No.
Our toilets are the most prominent! :P
Colonel Rebel needs to explain Mississippi and Teabagger to our foreign members. This should help a bit as a starter.
Er...what are morans?
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Er...what are morans?
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Morans are people who don't like pubic options.
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She is a blonde after all. Apparent everybody there thought it was ok...given the issues on her sign, she and her friends are Republicans. Nuff said?
Colonel Rebel needs to explain Mississippi and Teabagger to our foreign members. This should help a bit as a starter.
Er...what are morans?
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For a brief, TL;DR it is basically fundamentalist Christians trying to impose a theocracy on this state.
Teabagger in a more national sense is the group of disgruntled Repubs who felt Bush did not and was not Conservative enough in all of his policies.
@String: What you did there, I see it. lol :)
Speaking of Russia, this is Putin personally making sure that the showers in Sochi are working properly. The Winter Olympics are that important!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CeehXmWR83I/UvRVz1p7KmI/AAAAAAAAR1M/WzaS4oDQYE8/w469-h328/PutinShower.jpg)
Today's "You know what really grinds my gears?" segment focuses on the UK's PM, David Cameron.
Per my interest in the UK politics (having studied them at Liverpool Hope), I note that the afore-mentioned jackarse is royally mucking-up the Scottish Independence query. He's a walking advert for Independence for Scotland. Best think he could do for continued unity is to shut his damned mouth.
It is really of no concern of mine, not being a citizen of the UK, but I'd hate to see the split-up of a union that has worked well for decades.
So you're saying that for the first 250 years or so since 1707 the union didn't work well? :P
Speaking of Russia, this is Putin personally making sure that the showers in Sochi are working properly. The Winter Olympics are that important!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CeehXmWR83I/UvRVz1p7KmI/AAAAAAAAR1M/WzaS4oDQYE8/w469-h328/PutinShower.jpg)
If Jimbro were Putin
(https://vivaldi.net/media/com_easysocial/photos/5164/22658/3e4c615ca5283601a3d29c1d02affeb0_original.jpg)
Once again jimbro's media influenced paranoia about Russia/Putin. wouldn't be so bad if the Michiganian lived in a nation with big principles but get the microscope out folks! Once Putin sends in fleets of drones killing the innocents, catches up on the military bill of the ex-colonies, has trillions of debt, his marines storming along with the Air Force in murdering families time after time then I will give him credence.
Russia/Putin
Russia divided by Putin? Interesting...
Frans, where's the ADVANCED quote tool? I like
d it! I used it! It allow
ed mes us to easily make multiple quoting! :irked:
Frans, where's the ADVANCED quote tool? I liked it! I used it! It allowed mes us to easily make multiple quoting! :irked:
This might be too advanced. To do multiple quotes, I have gotten used to by now to > quote > select all text > save to a file > back to browser > quote another > select all text > add to the file > repeat the above steps as necessary > edit-compose-conduct the file > select all text in the file > back to browser > publish
Looks and sounds advanced? It's because it is. My fav browser has no js.
Frans, where's the ADVANCED quote tool? I liked it! I used it! It allowed mes us to easily make multiple quoting! :irked:
Wow!
This /quote/ PARTIALLY exists (and partially doesn't) in this one and the same thread! What's the glitch!? ???
Wow!
This /quote/ PARTIALLY exists (and partially doesn't) in this one and the same thread! What's the glitch!? ???
BernG deleted his account, so his username was slightly different than that of the rest of us. I fixed the problem.
Wow!
This /quote/ PARTIALLY exists (and partially doesn't) in this one and the same thread! What's the glitch!? ???
BernG deleted his account, so his username was slightly different than that of the rest of us. I fixed the problem.
Interesting; figured he would stick around with us, but such is life.
I highly doubt that Vivaldi crap works out anyhow. Their lot aren't nearly as dedicated/loyal as ours.
(Hell, all of D&D's regulars are here, save Pesala, another Opera purist.)
Back to WW Politics. I know next to nothing about this kerfuffle and the tug of war between Russia and the EU. Any opinions on whether such matters presage a return to the old cold war problems? I know it's a new era in international politics, but this stuff bothers me.
Russian leaders Wednesday repeated previous assurances that they will not intervene in Ukraine. But experts say the Kremlin is using all its leverage behind the scenes to convince Ukrainian authorities to forcibly restore order, and may be rethinking its options if beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych loses power to his outspokenly anti-Russian opponents amid an increasingly violent standoff in downtown Kiev.
Experts say a late-night telephone conversation Tuesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr. Yanukovych presumably focused on the deteriorating situation and that Mr. Putin's advice isn't hard to guess at.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0219/Is-Putin-pushing-for-a-crackdown-in-Ukraine (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0219/Is-Putin-pushing-for-a-crackdown-in-Ukraine)
Back to WW Politics. I know next to nothing about this kerfuffle and the tug of war between Russia and the EU.
Russia and the EU? I'm afraid you missed to name the third player, for whatever reasons.
Any opinions on whether such matters presage a return to the old cold war problems?
Return to the cold war?
The cold war never ended in in some people's mind. Neither did the prospect of world domination.
I know it's a new era in international politics, but this stuff bothers me.
It should bother all of us.
Déjà vuThis article was written in 2010: Ukraine Geopolitics and the US-NATO Military Agenda (http://www.voltairenet.org/article164617.html)
Furthermore
What West Wants from Ukraine? (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/12/17/what-west-wants-from-ukraine-enthralled-by-paradigm-offered-by-brzezinski-i.html)
Yeah! What do you want from Ukraine, damn bastards?
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Speaking with an Ukrainian yesterday she told me that things there costs the same that in the rest of Europe but the minimum salary is about eighty euros per month.
No wonder people wants to join the EU.
Speaking with an Ukrainian yesterday she told me that things there costs the same that in the rest of Europe but the minimum salary is about eighty euros per month.
No wonder people wants to join the EU.
Pootin says, "Nyet!"
Judging by the way the American media often when daft on Sochi for no good reason you should look nearer home jiimbro. You are so prone to drift into an anti-Russia stance like so much of the Western media as if the Cold War is still here. It is NOT Russia that spends half the world's military bill. It didn't bomb Serbia nor create the debacles in Libya or elsewhere. it is NOT Russia that creates excuses to invade and destabilise countries as America does time after time. Perhaps it is that much of your life you grew up in a nationalistic country in the long period of the terrible Cold war that it has left vestiges behind but as an intelligent man you should look wider more.
The more behind-the-scenes scenario is that it niggles DC that it cannot control a big country that has now been in the capitalist market for a while as it does elsewhere. So time after time we get snidey comments from the leaders of the "Free West" after countless military sojourns by us. In falling into the haze I refer to your anti-Russia theme therefor debases your grey cells. Being more like the US political outlook is not very helpful at all.
it is NOT Russia that creates excuses to invade
We've already had our share on that by now!..
:zzz:
Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-02-24, 04:26:25
it is NOT Russia that creates excuses to invade
We've already had our share on that by now!..
:zzz:
Please note, Mr. Edinburgh, that a Russian made that :zzz:.
it is NOT Russia that creates excuses to invade and destabilise countries as America does time after time.
I have a Hungarian friend who would disagree.
Speaking with an Ukrainian yesterday she told me that things there costs the same that in the rest of Europe but the minimum salary is about eighty euros per month.
No wonder people wants to join the EU.
Good luck with that :)
Higher gas prices and austerity, only two of many demands of the IMF. For many people the takeover won't be painless...
'Europe' in Ukraine: many things to lots of people (https://libcom.org/blog/europe-ukraine-many-things-lots-people-08122013)
Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-02-23, 23:26:25
it is NOT Russia that creates excuses to invade and destabilise countries as America does time after time.
I have a Hungarian friend who would disagree.
Georgia...not the one in the US. But when one considers Russian suzerainty, the list grows.
And don't forget that those damned Americans helped destabilize Germany in WWII when German bombs were raining down on England. Lemme see...London, Barrow-in-Furness, Bootle, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Exeter, Sheffield, Liverpool, Kingston upon Hull, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Sunderland, and Southampton. Cardiff and Swansea in Wales, Belfast in Ireland as well as Aberdeen, Clydebank, Greenock, and Glasgow.
Admittedly, though, Russia bore the brunt of German forces.
We're all living in Amerika :)
[video]http://youtu.be/4NAM3rIBG5k[/video]
Germans return to Moscow.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dkh6SL2js[/video]
Or they could return to Alabama with the Leningrad Cowboys.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKD7g56DNN0[/video]
Those damned Finns aren't fooling anybody. You want classic entertainment?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmYkXVteaU[/video]
Earthshaking news from the Middle East.
WASHINGTON—As President Obama continues to push for a plan of limited military intervention in Syria, a new poll of Americans has found that though the nation remains wary over the prospect of becoming involved in another Middle Eastern war, the vast majority of U.S. citizens strongly approve of sending Congress to Syria.
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........Continued from the Canada Thread (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=188.msg10577#msg10577), where the discussion became too OFF TOPIC.
Opposing republic with democracy is the same thing as comparing Smileyfaze with an orchid...
There's no patience for such ignorance from the Anglo Saxon country.
Something must have gotten extremely lost in the translation.
Here's another explanation.....my last attempt to shed light on the difference between Constitutional Republic & Democracy.
Republic vs. Democracy (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/PointRt.gif) Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/PointLft.gif)
A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the United States Constitution). A Democracy is government ruled by the majority (mob rule).
A Republic recognizes the unalienable rights of individuals while Democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs for the good of the public, or in other words social justice.
Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the three branches of government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches for checks and balance.
Lawmaking in Democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the majority by polls and/or voter referendums, which in turn is mob rule 50% plus 1 vote takes away anything from the minority.
Here is one example; if 51% of the people don’t pay taxes they can vote a tax increase
on the 49% that do, which is mob rule............... continued...
Now that rather un-subtle message about who to send to Syria gets 100% backing from me jimbro. What a land of wonderful people. ;D
A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the United States Constitution). A Democracy is government ruled by the majority (mob rule).
I don't know who said that but I guarantee that such statement would grant him a zero at any political science test.
A Republic recognizes the unalienable rights of individuals while Democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs for the good of the public, or in other words social justice.
This part deserves to be part of some humorist talk show.
I's strange because it's not the first time that I see Americans using that pseudo distinction between democracy and republic completely convinced that they are speaking seriously.
Republics opposes to Monarchies and democracies to dictatorships. You can have several different types of each one. A democracy can (and usually is) a Constitutional Democracy but a system of one party (a dictatorship) an be also perfectly Constitutional.
Then we have also the question about Presidentialist/Parlamentary kinds of regime, where the USA are clearly Presidential which classifies the American system amongst the less advanced constitutional republican democratic regimes.
Republic vs. Democracy (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/PointRt.gif) Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority
Bel's right - and we told you that.
Democracy is not ochlocracy, but "cracy" by THE PEOPLE (who you've said you revere, huh?), which means not by PART of the people (by which you used "majority").
We're all living in Amerika :)
[video]http://youtu.be/4NAM3rIBG5k[/video]
No, we all live in...
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31uuplzegEo[/video]
I don't know who said that but I guarantee that such statement would grant him a zero at any political science test.
(in response to Smiley)
This part deserves to be part of some humorist talk show.
I's strange because it's not the first time that I see Americans using that pseudo distinction between democracy and republic completely convinced that they are speaking seriously.
Republics opposes to Monarchies and democracies to dictatorships. You can have several different types of each one. A democracy can (and usually is) a Constitutional Democracy but a system of one party (a dictatorship) an be also perfectly Constitutional.
Then we have also the question about Presidentialist/Parlamentary kinds of regime, where the USA are clearly Presidential which classifies the American system amongst the less advanced constitutional republican democratic regimes.
As opposed to democracy in Portugal.
Anti-austerity protests are continuing to sweep across Europe. In Madrid, Spain, last week, a group of scientists, some wearing black, gathered to hold a moment of silence for the research they say has been killed by budget cuts. In Portugal, tens of thousands protested Saturday in the cities of Lisbon and Porto against the government’s plans to extend austerity cuts in next year’s budget.
How did that expression of democracy work out for you folks?
They are hysterity measures and a consequence.
The EEC isn't much of a choice. Run by Germany and in a state of economic stagnation and the rise of nationalism across it. It is in fact quite a disturbing thing the gap betwixt the EEC and Russia and better if it were not so. As part of the "West" and it's leadership it has fallen into the pattern of digging at Russia. Russia has changed considerably since the days of the Cold War but it is the West that is harping on about that former matter instead of facing facts. However Europe is in such a damnable state that it is trying to detract from it's own deep failings. I look forward to the hopefull day my country gets out of europe. it is okay for a holiday but the 4th reich does no appeal to me at all.
What "damnable state" is Europe in? I don't find this Wapo snippet comforting.
Earlier in the day, the new Ukrainian government said that hundreds of soldiers in green camouflage, without insignia but carrying military-style automatic rifles, had taken over two airports in Crimea. Regularly scheduled flights continued, at least until nightfall, when the airspace above Crimea, a region of Ukraine with deep ties to Russia, was suddenly declared closed.
Internet videos of Russian military helicopters flying over Crimea’s muddy winter fields went viral Friday. Russian IL-76 planes suspected of carrying 2,000 troops landed at a military base in Gvardiysky, near the regional capital of Simferopol, according to Crimea’s ATR television.
I know that you like to travel. How about taking your next trip to Putinville? Sochi, perhaps?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-calls-russian-troops-invasion/2014/02/28/e066bfc8-a0be-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-calls-russian-troops-invasion/2014/02/28/e066bfc8-a0be-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.html)
I don't find this Wapo snippet comforting.
Earlier in the day, the new Ukrainian government said ...
I wish I could help. :(
How about GlobalResearch (http://www.globalresearch.ca/) or VoltaireNet (http://www.voltairenet.org/en), or perhaps the Russian equivalent of the WashingtonPost? RussiaToday (http://rt.com/)
Who knows, maybe you'll find some more comforting snippets there.
I do find this comforting.
North Korea has deported Australian missionary John Short, who was detained last month after it was reported that he distributed religious material.
Mr Short, 75, who has arrived in Beijing from Pyongyang, was detained after apparently leaving Christian pamphlets at a tourist site.
That said, I wonder about the sanity of anybody who chooses to visit N. Korea. His Eminence Kim Jong-un has proved himself a handful. Ask his uncle. Oops! He be dead.
The last vowel of his name must be better represented by a hybrid of /u/ and Russian /ы/:)
Don't you mean [ɨ] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel)? :whistles:
No, as far as I've heard of it, the vowel is rounded. Rear, & rounded.
As I tend to spell that, it can use some "y" - which in early Latin (from Greek) represented a rounded [i] (which itself is not rear, though).
Republic vs. Democracy (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/PointRt.gif) Rule by Law vs. Rule by Majority
Bel's right - and we told you that.
SF can't be reasoned out of it. There's something you are missing. It's not just a point about the politological terms he is making. He is covertly making a political statement close to his heart: the Republican Party versus the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is rotten, therefore everything with "democr" in it is rotten. The Republican Party is the beloved golden calf of the conservatives, therefore everything with "repub" in it is sacred. (Similarly, whoever mentions "social issues" deserves instant eternal curses of hell, because Socialism is of the Devil. This is the logic you have to learn.)
Incidentally, there's no "democracy" in the United States constitution. There's "republican form of government". This fact makes SF go yeehaw crazy happy because it's proving his point. The fact that this is only a superficial and incidental word choice in the constitution will never sway him.
Hmm.. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_taxonomy#Definitional_issues).
SF can't be reasoned out of it. There's something you are missing. It's not just a point about the politological terms he is making. He is covertly making a political statement close to his heart: the Republican Party versus the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is rotten, therefore everything with "democr" in it is rotten. The Republican Party is the beloved golden calf of the conservatives, therefore everything with "repub" in it is sacred. (Similarly, whoever mentions "social issues" deserves instant eternal curses of hell, because Socialism is of the Devil. This is the logic you have to learn.)
Incidentally, there's no "democracy" in the United States constitution. There's "republican form of government". This fact makes SF go yeehaw crazy happy because it's proving his point. The fact that this is only a superficial and incidental word choice in the constitution will never sway him.
Yes. I agree with all that.
But, there's a but... :)
My discussion is not about Smileyfaze political preferences, but about American cultural colonialism. A colonialism that tries to impose an absurd and wrong meaning of political terms. As you know very well Ersi, that's the first step to totalitarianism, misrepresentation of words and meanings.
That's not a but. It's another related issue that you can't reason out of him. Actually it's the same with all issues about him: When you talk rationally, you are doing it wrong. Haven't you noticed he is already completely totalitarian, instead of taking some first baby steps towards it?
When you talk rationally, you are doing it wrong. Haven't you noticed he is already completely totalitarian, instead of taking some first baby steps towards it?
He's no more totalitarian than the others. All the political correctness vomit is by far much worst.
There's something good at the genesis of the American spirit. It's rude and illiterate but they are genuine. That's important.
When you talk rationally, you are doing it wrong. Haven't you noticed he is already completely totalitarian, instead of taking some first baby steps towards it?
He's no more totalitarian than the others. All the political correctness vomit is by far much worst.
There's something good at the genesis of the American spirit. It's rude and illiterate but they are genuine. That's important.
Not so important when it's rude, illiterate, and genuinely shallow.
When you talk rationally, you are doing it wrong. Haven't you noticed he is already completely totalitarian, instead of taking some first baby steps towards it?
He's no more totalitarian than the others. All the political correctness vomit is by far much worst.
There's something good at the genesis of the American spirit. It's rude and illiterate but they are genuine. That's important.
Not so important when it's rude, illiterate, and genuinely shallow.
Pray tell is that your opinion of all Americans or just the Tea people?
The last vowel of his name must be better represented by a hybrid of /u/ and Russian /ы/:)
Josh, yer dead right....spot on....you should go & talk to his daddy .... maybe he'd see your point & change his name to suit you. (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/BigToothSmile.gif)
Ohhh, before I forget,
@ersi This is just for you (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/kissingmonkey002.gif)
The Democratic Party is rotten...
Politics is rotten all the way back to Shakespeare.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet (1.4), Marcellus to Horatio
Crisis management via Twitter (http://storify.com/SPIEGELONLINE/david-camerons-verruckte-twitter-telko?utm_source=embed_header) :)
I do seriously hate that son of a bi**h Governor that we have, not because of this bill, but simply because he exists, along with a plethora of missteps, screw-ups, etc.
This only adds to the tally @Sanguinemoon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/)
Sons of Bi**ches
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Sons of Bi**ches
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I do seriously hate that son of a bi**h Governor that we have, not because of this bill, but simply because he exists, along with a plethora of missteps, screw-ups, etc.
This only adds to the tally @Sanguinemoon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/)
This think this poster there has it right:
"Go ahead, Mississippi. Make our day. The minute one of these immoral, misanthropic and blatantly unconstitutional bills becomes (a court-challenged) law, the 2014 election stops being about your whining and bleating about Obamacare and becomes all about Republicans and your undeniable bigotry. Conservatism won't survive it, any more than the law will survive the court challenge."
Yup. the conservative movement in America insists on digging it's own grave with all this unnecessary and possibly unconstitutional legislation. Polls show a majority of people think it's illegal to discriminate against LGBT people. In most states it isn't. Long as hell post cut short, this might well bring attention to that fact and ultimately codify the non-discrimination into law. Look at what happened with gay marriage. The Right overreacted to what happened in Hawaii and pushed for amendments against it. That ignited the movement which results in gay marriage being legal in growing number of states and a majority of Americans now thinking gays should have the right to marry. The Right never learns.
My friend Axonn decided to share his perspective:
http://www.axonnsays.com/2014/03/ukraine-and-what-it-means-deep-under/
He seems quite socialistically leaned... Like most of the populace tend to, I guess
:faint:
In any actual terms, no MAJORITY ever exists (apart from voting or other stats lists) -- hardly an idea can be imagined to UNITE ACTIVELY ANY REAL MAJORITY - ACTIVELY being a NECESSARY term with the meaning that no Uncle Sam/Yanuk/Whoever came to "unite" them - AS IF. Being gathered by a shepherd does never count. Ever.
I'd better clarify myself.
Technically (theoretically) it is not prohibited for a majority to occur
united&active, but that being highly improbable, things usually go the other way round...
I do seriously hate that son of a bi**h Governor that we have, not because of this bill, but simply because he exists, along with a plethora of missteps, screw-ups, etc.
I think it's OK to say "bitch". What a state Mississippi is!
The Mississippi House of Representatives could vote as early as Friday on a measure that would allow businesses to refuse service to customers based on religious beliefs, which opponents say could be used to discriminate against gays and lesbians.
I can see it now. "Sir, I have to see your religious belief/gay&lesbian documents before I'll serve you."
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuKuA9nHsw[/video]
Why in the media, gays usually smile - while the "straight" are deadly serious? A covert gay propaganda?:)
Why in the media, gays usually smile - while the "straight" are deadly serious? A covert gay propaganda?:)
Smile when you say that.
But you've walked off the edge of the Earth, haven't you?
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powerful authoritarian politicians like Otto von Bismarck who of course hated classical liberalism and capitalism with every fiber of his being.
Of course? Calling Bismarck a socialist is as silly as calling Obama a socialist.
He started more or less universal healthcare in Germany, therefore according to the teabaggers he's a dirty communist and a nazi.
Speaking of "political sides", most people may probably tend to think linearly, but AFAIK, the ancient "spectrum" concept is incorrect - it fails to account for all variety of weird politico-social oddities getting to happen among humans...
I do seriously hate that son of a bi**h Governor that we have, not because of this bill, but simply because he exists, along with a plethora of missteps, screw-ups, etc.
This only adds to the tally @Sanguinemoon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/)
To add to this, as of today, the state HoR voted along party lines (Repubs have a majority, so it passed) to pass this afore-mentioned piece of legislation.
I expect the state to receive the usual bad press, for the politicians to complain about "outside influences", and for even worse international bad press.
You'd think these jackarses in the state legislatures would learn, but they never do.
I do seriously hate that son of a bi**h Governor that we have, not because of this bill, but simply because he exists, along with a plethora of missteps, screw-ups, etc.
This only adds to the tally @Sanguinemoon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/07/religious-freedom-bill-days-away-from-vote-in-mississippi/)
To add to this, as of today, the state HoR voted along party lines (Repubs have a majority, so it passed) to pass this afore-mentioned piece of legislation.
I expect the state to receive the usual bad press, for the politicians to complain about "outside influences", and for even worse international bad press.
You'd think these jackarses in the state legislatures would learn, but they never do.
I think it's mostly posturing for the teabaggers that voted them into office in the first place. I doubt that many of them really believe their right-to-discriminate bills would survive in court. Then again, I might be giving them too much credit.
To add to this, as of today, the state HoR voted along party lines (Repubs have a majority, so it passed) to pass this afore-mentioned piece of legislation.
I expect the state to receive the usual bad press, for the politicians to complain about "outside influences", and for even worse international bad press.
You'd think these jackarses in the state legislatures would learn, but they never do.
1. They're doing what politicians do.
2. How would bad press hurt Mississippi overseas?
3. Actually using such a law is problematic except in limited situations.
4. What will the majority of business owners do, ask an incoming customer for his sexual preference identification card?
One solution for gays is to establish a church and elect a pope.
Yet one more dumb ass dance step from the right.
ISIS has declared their captured territory a caliphate.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28082962 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28082962)
ISIS has declared their captured territory a caliphate.
A caliphate? that's nice.
The last one we saw around here was Cordoba's, six hundred years ago. I miss them.
Don't cry like a woman what you didn't defend as a man. Those were the caliph's mother words to her son when forced to leave Cordoba forever.
Another mess-up thanks to the land of the free and home of the brave ( :whistle:). Each time the place finds an excuse to stick their nose in the end result is a shambles and worse mess. The only way the US of A is ever going to learn snese is when it collapses one day and unfortunately the genuine good will suffer due to those who really run the place. The Hill is just a showground to keep the children happy.
Iraq should never have been invaded in the first place but this inherent thing the great Satan of the West has carried is that it is needed to be the world's saviour but actually all it does is create more misery. The way the political lot over the pond act one day Americans will wake up and find they are in a police State themselves. All the hype about freedoms in the world are baloney whislet they increasingly spy, restrict rights and so on at home. When the end comes I promise not to invade and at present in the middle of the Loyalist marching season so please do delay things. :hat:
Unless you subscribe to the idea that the US is funding ISIL, to split up Iraq or some other nefarious purpose, a popular theory in some quarters, I don't think that follows. Iraq may not be a shining case of US nation building though.
Unless you subscribe to the idea that the US is funding ISIL, to split up Iraq or some other nefarious purpose, a popular theory in some quarters, I don't think that follows.
He doesn't need to.
The USA doesn't have to finance ISIL. Our Saudi friends might take care of this.
Yeah, that is nearer the truth and gets the US off the hook as I never believed the US did direct funding. Mind you the same nation funded some violent and dastardly terrorist in Afghanistan(and elsewhere) didn't it? I dare say the excuse behind the scenes was to do in the old USSR regime. Cruel regimes have always been accepted by the US led West if they lean on their corner. Time is overdue for the US to invade Saudi Arabia and a couple of other places in the Middle east but of course it will not happen when you get to have military bases and the corporates can increase their wallets.
ISIS has declared their captured territory a caliphate.
A caliphate? that's nice.
The last one we saw around here was Cordoba's, six hundred years ago. I miss them.
The ISIS whackjobs would burn it to the ground if they had the chance. I don't think any of the historical caliphs was anywhere near their version of islam.
A caliphate? that's nice.
The last one we saw around here was Cordoba's, six hundred years ago. I miss them.
I have good news for you, Bel. There is hope for a caliphate in your neighborhood :)
"We’ll take back Spain": Fighters claim ISIS to seize 'occupied lands'
[video]http://www.youtube.com/embed/ib1WlP-ae7I[/video]
I have good news for you, Bel. There is hope for a caliphate in your neighborhood :)
Let them come...
That would be exactly what my People needs desperately, awakening, a cause to fight again.
I have good news for you, Bel. There is hope for a caliphate in your neighborhood :)
Let them come...
That would be exactly what my People needs desperately, awakening, a cause to fight again.
How I imagine @Belfrager's response would be (a combo, if you will)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9DHgnKeAxo[/video]
and
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzf3FRSbEUk[/video]
Oh dear krake. One cannot see that RC Portugal would copy Islam extremists! And I have to say colonel that I would moot that Belfrager has no great love for Stalin any more than i have (I have an Imperial flag to put up in my back garden each summer in memory of the assassination date re Nicholas 2nd me being an unrepentant Tsarist. I almost sniggered at the thought of hBelfrager being a peasant!
Reconquest cavalry noblemen mixed with Lenine speeching to the masses.... what a hell of a confusion goes in the American mind about European history ...
What were you doing during your years with the Britons, Colonel? certainly not studying... :)
Indeed, rjhowie, it's so probable that I'm a Leninist follower as much to be a peasant.
As for the Caliphate, these are the Caliph's words:
"I am the wali (leader) who presides over you, though I am not the best of you. So if you see that I am right, assist me, If you see that I am wrong, advise me and put me on the right track, and obey me as long as I obey God."
I don't see too many western democracy leaders to ask us to "put them on the right track".... :)
Reconquest cavalry noblemen mixed with Lenine speeching to the masses.... what a hell of a confusion goes in the American mind about European history ...
What were you doing during your years with the Britons, Colonel? certainly not studying... :)
Indeed, rjhowie, it's so probable that I'm a Leninist follower as much to be a peasant.
As for the Caliphate, these are the Caliph's words:
"I am the wali (leader) who presides over you, though I am not the best of you. So if you see that I am right, assist me, If you see that I am wrong, advise me and put me on the right track, and obey me as long as I obey God."
I don't see too many western democracy leaders to ask us to "put them on the right track".... :)
I figured you'd like the combo I offered. :D
Mr. Howie: I did indeed snigger when I posted that. Couldn't wait for Belfrager's response.
Oh, i smiled and knew you would have a giggle and I whistled Dixie sitting back with a glass of Irn Bru.
Mr. Howie: I did indeed snigger when I posted that. Couldn't wait for Belfrager's response.
Oh, i smiled and knew you would have a giggle and I whistled Dixie sitting back with a glass of Irn Bru.
How sweety....
Are you both going to hug and kiss each one? lovely...
Were not for a stupid French revolution and you would be the ones with the heads in the guillotine.
Mr. Howie: I did indeed snigger when I posted that. Couldn't wait for Belfrager's response.
Oh, i smiled and knew you would have a giggle and I whistled Dixie sitting back with a glass of Irn Bru.
How sweety....
Are you both going to hug and kiss each one? lovely...
Were not for a stupid French revolution and you would be the ones with the heads in the guillotine.
*Patiently waits for a rousing speech from @Belfrager * (hopefully not one involving peasants)
Oh I do hope not peasants and all the hoi-polloi stuff. As for kissing and cuddling that is the routine in Europe so Belfrager doesn't have to go far for that daft male thing.
As for kissing and cuddling that is the routine in Europe
Men don't kiss each other anywhere in Europe except for the Russians. If Russians are European or not, that remains to be seen.
*Patiently waits for a rousing speech from @Belfrager * (hopefully not one involving peasants)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=25.91;msg=23208)
Oh I do hope not peasants and all the hoi-polloi stuff.
That anglo-saxon alliance between you two it's not something to even give me itch.
How much rousing was that, Colonel? :)
Well amongst all the debating I would say that in his favour the Colonel represents a flavour of America that was dastardly done in in the 19th century by a bullying Union. Much of the culture and original American culture was badly treated in the 1860's down his way. I know Portugal is in a bit of a state just now economically, socially, etc Belfrager so see what you can do. Perhaps it needs a strong man to sort it out.......?
I know Portugal [...]
As an homage to a great King, someone that benefited from my Country hospitality and never forgot it, I'll make mine his famous words:
Porqué no te callas? :)
in memory of the assassination date re Nicholas 2nd
As Wm. F. Buckley (in his novel
Who's On First) has a Soviet official rebuke his subordinate who was proud of his familial relation to the man in charge of the executions: "And all eleven were killed… It only took 77 bullets!"
Kind of stretching a bit that a Soviet leader would rebuke for killing the family. After all the Bolshie mad dogs had intended at one point to put the emperor on trial and no doubt a farce before shooting him, etc. The evil git who was in charge of the killings suffered for most his life mentally and with drink and served him right.
As for kissing and cuddling that is the routine in Europe
Men don't kiss each other anywhere in Europe except for the Russians. If Russians are European or not, that remains to be seen.
*Patiently waits for a rousing speech from @Belfrager * (hopefully not one involving peasants)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?action=reporttm;topic=25.91;msg=23208)
Oh I do hope not peasants and all the hoi-polloi stuff.
That anglo-saxon alliance between you two it's not something to even give me itch.
How much rousing was that, Colonel? :)
@Belfrager:
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An Anglo-Saxon thing? Uh-oh, is it raining in Mississippi? What's next an orange and green palsy-walsy? :D
I have good news for you, Bel. There is hope for a caliphate in your neighborhood
The caliph announced his plans for the next five years.
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From Portugal to Pakistan...
:lol:
The ignorant seems to remember Poitiers... he needs someone to remember him a couple dates more...
I suppose he included... what's that, Switzerland? Austria??
He's funny.
Of course, I prefer Al-Mu'tamid, the King poet from Andalusia... and to whom such an idiot doesn't honors.
Me, I will post one of Al-Mu'tamid's poems...
My share of life is finished; I am laid
On my death-bed.
Did he not die, our father Adam, also,
And Muhammad?
Dead are the princes and the potentates
And none shall wake them.
Tell them that triumph at my death, that Death
Shall overtake them.That was written one thousand years ago...
"I am the wali (leader) who presides over you, though I am not the best of you. So if you see that I am right, assist me, If you see that I am wrong, advise me and put me on the right track, and obey me as long as I obey God."
Afaik..
Wali is not (Leader) .
it is something like - assistant .
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in my humble opinion ..
do not let your guard down with their sweet words .
that is word of a bee .
Bees are producing honey , but they have sting in their ass .
and sting in their ass , is to stab from behind when your guard is down .
When someone eat their Bee strategies.
next it will arround , Rats Strategies , and Ghost in the beautiful box strategies.
Rats , they breed fast , and their trait is destructive .
they will using marriage politics , to increase their numbers .
they will ruin , damage , corrupt your system , manipulate everything , inch by inch .
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Ghost in the beautiful box .
it is a trap that packaged neatly .
a box that so beautiful , no one will suspected if that's a trap .
it will prepapared as a secret weapon .
and the one who prepare that , is disguise n/or pretending as your allies .
When their main power are advancing .
and in some case you are trapped in a difficult situation .
your
fake allies will offers many helps ( Weapons , foods , or something )
they will sending many beautiful boxes, but when you open that boxes .
boo... surprise bietch ..
it's a trap .
when that 3 combo is done .
then it mean you and your people are doomed . :sherlock:
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http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/06/24/david-cameron-apology-generator/ (http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/06/24/david-cameron-apology-generator/)
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Gee, isn't it fascinating that the State of Mississippi has a slightly different language than the rest of the would-be democracy. 'Internet is actually 'Interent' there'. Fascinating. Unfortunately your Head of State is a waste of time but there again his opponent was little better and then there was a certain Senator McCain who always helped to make your leaders look like open day at an Asylum. The system is flawed and does not fit today you poor sap.