Comment Re:100 Year old (Score 1) 81
beats Bennett Halselton posts any day
You're kidding, right? He's a fucking regular contributor, show some respect.
beats Bennett Halselton posts any day
You're kidding, right? He's a fucking regular contributor, show some respect.
It neatly avoids discussing the actual content of what was said.
It's not as though people are suddenly going to start commuting from Greater Manchester to Central London every day.
England is really quite a small country, you don't need particularly fast trains, you just want them to be reliable.
I think it's interesting, judging from the responses here, how many people are still carrying around deep wounds from grade school and junior high. I may be wrong, but I would interpret this as meaning that the majority of responses are from people still at grade school and junior high.
Seriously, since I left university, I've hardly ever thought about anything or anyone at school.
The problem with SF is that some very successful authors are actually quite bad writers in terms of style, characterisation and plotting. For example, I wouldn't want to read a "straight" novel by Philip K Dick or Robert Heinlein.
From that day on, I started questioning everything every teacher told me.
Good teachers actively encourage this of course.
Oh I would not be too sure of that. Just wait until some bright spark thinks to start a campaign to click the button to report an MP's speech as "extremist" and "radicalising". Someone more cynical than I might even suggest that this is part of the government's plan to deal with UKIP....
However unpleasant and stupid UKIP are, they're not a terrorist organisation.
Anyway, I thought the government's plan for dealing with UKIP was to copy their Xenophobic policies as far as possible, thereby making UKIP irrelevant, when you could get the same thing just as easily by voting for the tories, i.e. with Cameron sliminess instead of Farragean twattery.
In my opinion, the most obvious and interesting theory [maxkeiser.com] is that Putin's plane was near the same air space close to the same time as MH17
Your sense of what is "obvious" might be a bit off.
Web evidence points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17 (+video)
Igor Girkin, a Ukrainian separatist leader also known as Strelkov, claimed responsibility on a popular Russian social-networking site for the downing of what he thought was a Ukrainian military transport plane shortly before reports that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 had crashed near the rebel held Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
MH17 disaster: Social media posts, phone recording used to blame Russian separatists
Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents - most of them hastily removed - suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner.
Ukraine and MH17: Who are the separatists?
On Thursday evening a Russian social media page linked to the rebels announced they had knocked down a Ukrainian An-26, adding, “We warned them – don’t fly ‘in our sky’”. The post – which was accompanied by distant video-shots of smoke rising after an apparent crash – was later removed, but it has stoked suspicions that pro-Russian militiamen shot the Malaysian Airlines jet by mistake.
The evidence that may prove pro-Russian separatists shot down MH17
Deadly Ukraine Crash: German Intelligence Claims Pro-Russian Separatists Downed MH17
Putin's plane was an hour away.
This could have been a simple, yet tragic, case of mistaken identity.
It was, but not as you apparently intend. It wasn't the Ukrainians trying to shoot down Putin and being mistaken but rather the "separatists" shooting at what they mistakenly assumed was a Ukrainian aircraft.
Because this is not a black and white issue?
The issue of which side of an international border the combat units of a nation's army are located is pretty black and white.
5 Billion dollars was dumped into the Euromaiden coffers prior to the "revolt" (Search "Soros spending on Euromaidan" and you can read reports).
Even if that
Personally I dislike the West's method of imperialism. It's a round about method of invade and conquer without spending troops and bypasses the Constitution.
What do you think the Constitution has to say about any of that? You dislike assisting other countries in building democratic institutions?
What we have today is more reminiscent of the East India company. Executive orders for "war" and private funding has given mercenary powers to big business bypassing Constitutional requirements for declaration of war by Congress and the People.
Nonsense. What country has IBM or General Motors conquered and ruled? None.
Much of Europe gets energy supplies from Russia. Russia has threatened European energy supplies. Most of Europe is a member of NATO. Russia has been aggressively probing NATO airspace recently. Russian military aircraft have recently caused a number of near mid-air collisions in Europe due to ignoring civil aviation rules. Russia has threatened various NATO states with nuclear weapons.
It looks like pretty much all of Europe has a stake involving Russia in some way. Does that mean that the views of all Europeans are not worth listening to regarding Russia? Does that mean there can be no objective analysis of Russian conduct from other Europeans? Hardly.
I think your management school may have skipped some material.
I suppose it is too much for you to look at shades of meaning, especially in light of his previous stands in favor of Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea. But both sides are "dishonest"? Who has troops in the other's country engaging in combat? It seems to me this muddying of the waters speaks to bias as well, his and yours.
Putin has troops in Ukraine trying to take territory from Ukraine, NATO doesn't. But if you think that "cablegate" is the equivalent, please do point out how? It seems to me that your "abhorrence" of Putin doesn't seem to go so far as to opposition to open aggression.
Crimea and Ukraine, where Russia has been sending troops, are not Russian soil whereas Texas is American soil for a very long time.
What you have frequently done over the last few years is attack me, engaging in name calling (shill, troll, as above) while making specious claims about logical fallacies in my arguments and simultaneously ignoring inconvenient facts. (example - read up the thread) I suppose that should be expected given that you lean towards "Truther"ism, 9/11 and otherwise.
If you simply follow the facts they may take you either away from or towards the position of "the establishment." You often seem to prefer anti-American establishment assertions rather than the actual facts. Strangely that doesn't carry over to the Russian government. Perhaps that is why you favor them so, they are antagonistic to the American government.
I can say with certainty that I have seen at least a dozen formulate the same opinion as myself.
His UID is 3,886,123. I guess that means if we take out you and your 11 like minded "peers" there are potentially 3,886,111 people potentially open to reason. I'm dubious that the number is actually that high, but there is always hope.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
