Haha! Thanks for pointing that out! Often if I don't see the spell checker red underline, I don't proof as hard before submitting. Who doesn't?
Thermonuclear War and if you look for the term with Google, you don't seem to come up with much more than a War Games quote. Its quite the horror show actually, one we would all just like to ignore; both the movie and the situation.
Consider how our military is not at home, National Guard isn't here either. Its classical if you look at it. The carpetbaggers are going to pick the countryside clean while the men are away at war. Consider how the housing market practically destroyed the economy of this country. The mass proliferation of mortgages, "home improvement loans" and the whatnot that have paved the way to urban decimation. We've been hit by an atomic economic bomb. We just haven't wised up to how it has happened.
We are also in some kind of mental paralysis when it comes to resistance. I think we are frankly bludgeoned with a systematic reinforcement system to keep us in order. If we ever snapped out of it, they are toast, all of them.
Here is the first truth that will set your mind free:
The world that you think you know is one big fat lie.
Once you have that epiphany, all the other lies start to fall into place, and you start seeing through the petty fogging and the red herrings, the obfuscation fades as you see it all for the bullshit that it is, and you have to face the horror of what real evil is. Not here, not me, thoughts that echo through all minds when facing these things. Recognize your own denial of truths, and turn to face the challenge or pass into the night. Embrace the madness, live on the edge, surf the tsunami that the destroys the world.
Then, you have to ask yourself these important questions. Why? Motive is an amazing thing. Why would those in power do some insane "lets make as much money as we can for fuck sakes!" stunt like this. Knowing that after it gets sorted out, they are going to swing from a tree. Unless....that isn't going to be a problem.
Why wouldn't that be a problem? Do they know something that we don't? Could there be something to this convoluted conspiracy theory crap? What if out of all of these wacko conspiracy theories that we have cooking that ONE of them is balls on right? Don't we have a department for that? If not, why the hell not? I would like to apply for the job if I may, if we still have a government in the foreseeable future.
Job Title: Grand Inquisitor of Conspiracies. GIC? That will not do. Besides it sounds too Catholic, they can have that one for free. Anyway, I digress...
What do they know that I don't? Hmm? Surely/. people know. Let's ask?
Haha, I was wondering what "America has defaulted on its Chinese loans!" means? Does that mean we are going to be evicted? That is what CountryWide Loans did to me and my wife when we defaulted on our mortgage. "Whoopsie, catch you next month?" didn't cut is for us too many times. Doesn't Proverbs or something read "A borrower is slave to the lender?" and "Never a borrower or lender be?" I guess nobody played Monopoly either. Here's one thing about playing Monopoly, what happens when the big kid flips the board over and pounds you with your own Radio Flyer Wagon?
China: "USA...you land on Park Place, it has hotel, you owe me, I win! USA: "grrrr...." China: "you empty pockets NOW!" USA: "You want wants in my pockets? Ok...here you go. BOOOOOOOOM, it's a thermal nuke from space! I guess you shouldn't try hacking us..lol." China: "Jokes on you, we have nanobot and organic weapons we have been seeding you from Wal-Mart! You will all turn to zombies, we will rule the world!" Australia: "Eastern Australia is attacking Western Australia...I need card, and I am strat moving all my armies to Siam....What?" Britain: "I say old chap, you are playing the wrong game! It's Monopoly, not RISK." Alfred E. Newman: What? Me worry?
Isn't it great when real life starts playing like a cheesy B movie? We just need a real super villain to rise up out of this and it will be/popcorn time.
Speaking of the IMF scandals, what happened to the deposed chief of it that got sacked with a sex scandal in NY? What has became of that? My money from the start was it was a set up and that after he was burned out of the position, his case will vanish in legal smoke, everyone will blame lawyers and liberals or something and he will be off and running back to France. Everyone wins, except him and socialism. Did I miss something?
So who are these new players in the game? Old players just firing a shot off the IMF's bow with this new fangled warfare of cyberwarfare? Here's a question, who's to gain from all of this? Bloomberg? American politics are everything these days to watch. Bloomberg is a Republican, and the hawkish right might be making some preludes to some war. Or is it the usual suspects the Chinese and their shenanigans?
Where is Bond? Shouldn't he be in some lurid scene getting a phone call to get on the job?
This has to be the geek/mercenary wet dream for job opportunities. Perhaps espionage should become part of a good geeks resume'? Put down the bag of Cheetos, pick up some weights, walk for the beer instead of drive. We might be in for a long run at this, so might as well get with the program now.
I feel sorry for them, because these must be some whopper emails that will embarrass the entire State, and probably the entire country for making such a fuss about her. I imagine its going to be an epic wikileaks dump of some very funny stuff. It will be a hoot at first, then it will become sad, and at long last just fade into some mythic joke.
I am kind of sad this came out, I was hoping to see Sara and Hilary have a debate. Caribou Barbie vs Darth Hilary./popcorn
If you burp, you make a noise. I wonder what kind of noise that made? I am wondering if we will see any electromagnetic radiation come from that? Some RF? Did you notice how it quickly splashed back into the sun? Some serious gravity going on that close to it. When are we ever going to put a reliable probe over by that to study whats going on with it? Just imagine if the world turned its entire military budgets towards space development. Isn't it about time we evolved up from some reptilian baser instincts to some higher cause? lol
Israel is more than capable of defending themselves? GREAT! We don't need to send them any more money or sell them weapons then. I am so relieved we don't have to pay that bill anymore. Good luck, bye!
Thanks for the well thought out input. I am fascinated by the contrasts. Each of these are an excellent topic of discussion, but one in particular keeps blaring to the front of my brain.
Please elaborate on the breast sizes. I never thought that there would be a contrast of those. Now I need to know what that is all about. For science, you know.
I would like to thank you for the great conversation, first before I forget.
Bitcoins, I was excited when I seen them too. So I asked my IT friend who I was sure already knew about them. He did and he told me some buzzkill news. If I recall right, he said the algorithms would be unsustainable if it garnished any real success. I left it at that, being accustom to my ideas being shot down with some reality.
My apocalypse worries? Not nuclear war, I grew up with vodka swilling soviets beating their shoes on the UN tables wanting to nuke us all until we glowed in the dark. Everybody else with a nuke doesn't worry me. They could get what, a few of our cities? Contrast that to Soviets carpet bombing us with them. Its not so scary, definitely not worth losing any sleep over. I worry more about Yellowstone going Pompeii on us. My most crazy fear? It would be China putting nanobots in all the crap they make and sell us through Wal-Mart. One day they key in a command and all these things dig into our bodies and turn us into idiots who buy all of their crap, go in wild debt so they can pick up our markers and just end up owning us.
On that note, I am tired and need a nap. Thanks again for the delightful conversation.
I am wondering if there is any vacancy in the ivory tower you are living in. I really want to have that kind of perspective on life. It must be nice.
First, social services in this country are horrible. So many people fall through the cracks here its not funny. It's all scattered, the agencies have little to no cooperation with each other, mostly out of privacy rights from what I gather. You need a college course in navigating through it all if you ever need it. There has classically been mountains of abuse of the system, hence making the system defensive and in turn making those who really need it suffer through a screening process that removes any scrap of human dignity they have left. All in all its a horrible waste of human resources and our tax dollars, the whole thing needs scrapped and redone not just for the sake of the tax payers, but for those it intends to help. You can't just throw people a carrot, you have to put it on a stick so you can get them to greener pastures.
Of course we don't "officially" want to genocide anyone, but if you feel the pulse of the nation, read political comments and talk with people, you will know there is some serious scape goat hate mongering going on. If this kind of crap sets and festers, it has the potential for some evil pricks to tap into it for political gain. If you don't think politicians will pander to fucked up emotions to gain power, get back to me when you grow up. I think we have become so acclimatized to it and bullshitted ourselves so long with political correctness that we ignore it when we are wading waist deep in it.
Funny you should mention the disappearing middle class. Sorry, I don't know any "middle class" people. I come from a rural ghetto that has been ravaged by industry leaving for other countries. Here, college educated people are pumping gas and delivering pizza. I had a friend from a major city come visit me here, he was amazed that everyone working the McDonalds we have are all white. I told him to pipe down, we only have a few black people, and we sure aren't going to make them work such crappy jobs and possibly run them off. We tried to import some Mexicans, but they took one look at our slave driving, low wage paying factories and high tailed it out of town. This is all no bullshit true too, all joking aside. If you have two jobs here, you are affluent, fuck middle class.
How do I know he isn't guilty? Obviously I don't being I am halfway across the country, in the countryside, don't know a thing about the guy. BUT...lol... Even out here in a fucking cornfield, one has to wonder why they snatched him up and stuffed him away at Riker's Island like he was Hannibal Lector. This is an IMF chief, a french diplomat of sorts and no NBA star. People of that caliber tend to be a bit more careful with their sexual deviancy if in fact they are deviants. I can't fathom the French tolerating that kind of behavior out of someone in that position. I am talking "raping the help" kind of behavior. Screwball behavior is something that develops over time, it doesn't just happen in a vacuum. This kind of behavior is far too much of a liability in a power hungry environment that surrounds something like the IMF. His enemies would have burned him at the stake long ago with this you would think. Enemies or someone with a half an ounce of ambition for his job, which the world seems to have plenty of considering the squabble for his vacant seat.
Couple that with the Wikileaks guy being burned with a screwball sex scandal. Oh what precious timing that was, no? Sex scandals seem to be the Plot De Jour with somebody's intelligence crews. It's probably because its so brain-dead simple to pull off an ad hock sex scandal on someone. Frankly what disturbs me most is that I can see it. Shouldn't we get more out of our black ops dollar than stuff that rubes in cornfields can spot instantly? How do I know it's ours? The NYPD put on a puppet show the likes I haven't seen since The Muppets. Seriously, who could pull their chain that hard but us? It had better be us, if they got sic'ed onto this guy by someone other than our own people, that is even more disturbing.
Also, looking at your sig, you like scifi, have you read any of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steal Rat series? Before I stopped reading books and started eating them, I thought that was one funny scifi series.
Damn it! I was so hoping the 9/11 madness hadn't got you folks as well. It was fun to dream for a while, I guess.
I am curious what you make of this Libya and the whole "Arab Spring" thing? Part of me is very excited at the prospects of peace breaking out in the Middle East. But experience tells me to dig deeper; that there is some rat bastard scheme behind all of this. One thing gave me pause to jumping on the bandwagon with all of this.
Word around the campfire here is Muammar Gaddafi was wanting to bankroll a new Arab currency with a big load of gold he has. Word is he wanted to get all the oil producing nations on board, and then demand the West only buy oil with their currency. Now if I can stop fantasizing about putting a modern Kelly's Heroes team together and stealing all that gold, the implications of such a scenario are staggering. Is this all about keeping the status quo of our money?
I don't know about your money, but ours isn't backed by anything. Some geniuses for some insane reason took us off the gold standard long ago. I am shocked anyone accepts our money, considering we can just print more of it when we want some. I can see where a new gold standard currency would threaten our dollar. If you want to share in some cognitive dissidence with us, consider this: Our Federal Reserve isn't part of our Government. It's privately owned, and someone told me owned mostly by Jews. Holy Shit! Could the plot thicken any more? I am not anti-Semitic by any stretch of the imagination, being I am steeped in Christian fundy doctrine. I have one of those minds that doesn't let shit go, so I have to pry, in spite of roasting in hell for daring to question Israel and Jews.
Did I mention we have blended capitalism/nationalism/Christianity together for some hellish abomination? I am waiting for goose stepping to make a big return here. Back to the Arab Spring thingy. Obama really has set his big black balls out there on this one. His telling Israel to STFU and go back to the 1967 lines has fundies here howling for his blood. I have been looking at the whole history behind this fucked up Arab/Israel thing, this thing is ugly from both sides. One thing is sure, Israel has to be handled sternly to say the least. I was pretty young when Israel attacked one of our ships and killed people on it. I had forgotten about that shit, then came back upon it recently. Its frankly amazing as hell how we gloss over that one now.
What is you take on Iran? The gist of the situation to us is their President is crazier than an outhouse rat and he can't wait to get his mitts on some nukes so he can blow Israel to hell and start WW3 for religious purposes. Surely Iranians aren't going to put up with that kind of insanity that will get their entire country blown to hell? Besides who the fuck doesn't have a nuke already? With the starving Soviets having a Going Out of Business Sale on them, what self respecting asshole Arab billionaire wouldn't pick a few of them up? Why doesn't that alarm me? Lets get on the same page, we are talking about sexually repressed Arabs. They probably have them in their bedrooms to impress hot chicks. Unless disco music or bling can set one off, I don't think we have much to worry about.
Wouldn't it be great if the only people we really had to worry about in this whole Arab Spring thing is Israel? Seems like we should, they gunned down some idiot protestors just the other day. You guys should sell them a pig catapult, so they can just threaten them with a bombardment of swine if they get out of hand.
You should say "liberating a nation from a tyrannical dictator that used to be our puppet". You and so many others either ignore or are completely ignorant of our previous Middle East policies. While us and the Soviets got into some deadly dick measuring contest, we armed the living shit out of that region. We put some serious weapons in the hands of lunatics just as long as they sang and danced the "oil" tune for us. These maniacs then ran roughshod over their own people, their neighbors and anyone that got in their way, and we wonder why the average person that had to deal with all that shit hates us. "Why do they hate us? Why? Why?"
The rest of your shit doesn't even dignify a response.
The thing with Clinton was the Right desperate for something to burn him on. Frankly I can't blame them on that one. Clinton was yet another train wreck of a President for us. Everyone wants to credit him for the economics of that time. I myself credit Bill Gates and the tech boom more than anything Clinton did for those few good years. Clinton has shit like Waco Texas where the military, against our Constitution, rolled in and killed women and children in a stand off. The Feds also extorted and murdered a family at a place called Ruby Ridge. We also had a building blow up with no ATF Agents strangely in it the day it blew up, and we blamed it on domestic terrorism and rolled out new domestic terrorism laws before the dust even settled from the explosion. Clinton did more damage to the Democratic Party and to America than we will ever know.
Just when you think things couldn't get worse...
We have a Presidential election and the guy with the most votes didn't get the job. We were simmering for one fucked up civil war when we get attacked on 9/11. Now all of that shit is forgotten. Handy as hell, no? I find it ironic that we have a war versus terrorism yet we have two borders that you can march an army across and we wouldn't notice and nobody in power cares. Its really strange that we have all these terrorists hell bent on killing us all, for over a decade now and there hasn't been so much as a loud fart in anger here from them. We are suppose to believe the TSA thugs are keeping us safe from them. That and fighting them "over there keeps them from fighting us over here".
We eat so many bullshit sandwiches here its frankly amazing, yet we have the audacity to sneer at you French for some of your TV broadcast policies. Here is one for you, the next time some Yank gets smart assed with you about anything, just whisper "Patriot Act" to them. If they have half a brain they will STFU.
As far as US unemployment, the figures are a complete lie. Double it and perhaps sprinkle a point or two more on for realism. Why? Let met explain; unemployment is finite here. Meaning, you only get it for a short while, then you are kicked off. It doesn't matter if you have a way to survive or not, you are off it. This doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that because you are off unemployment that you are employed. I am sure that sounds barbaric as hell to you.
This is what we get for letting capitalism run everything here. You are right, we have a vast over opinionated, yet ironically undereducated public that thinks things like Commies and Socialists are one and the very same. You are pretty close to the mark when you mentioned Nazis and conservatives here, the only thing they are missing is the yearning to throw Jews in an oven. Instead, they want to throw Mexicans and Arabs in one.
To understand the US you have to understand who's in charge here. It should be named the Corporate States of America because that is who owns the government and controls everything. We have a really fucked up idea of what freedom is and we will kill you if you don't agree with us on it. This is also a product of careful brainwashing of the public by the entire corporate system. I can't imagine how baffled all of Europe is at how fucking stupid we seem to be.
Here's the problem, every adult that is worth their salt here has two jobs at least to make ends meet. Who the hell has the time or energy to do anything but work? They tax the living shit out of working class people while they dish out free money to banks and corporations. We are angry of course, but we are brainwashed into blaming everyone else. Somehow these evil fuckers have twisted capitalism into nationalism and they have religion on board as well. Here is where you and the rest of the world should worry. These corporations are multinational now. They have us in the bag, now they want the rest of the world as well. Imperialistic? The average American has no clue how these corporations operate, remember they are little more than slaves, so how could they know? They are brainwashed to hate everyone because "they hate us for our freedom".
Here is a question for you guys. What was the story with the IMF chief from France, the one that ended up in some frame up job in NY? I read that he was a socialist and I knew he was fucked. I have a feeling someone wanted to reset the IMF chair and get rid of a socialist at the same time. The whole story smacked of a set up to me right from the start, but people here are idiots and believe anything in the news that gets spoon fed to them. I am still willing to wager money that now that he's out of the IMF position and smeared all to hell for the election that this case will fall apart and disappear. I don't buy all these women coming forward AFTER the fact. Its way too easy for bad people to try to capitalize on something like this or for the bad guys to prop up a few more puppets after its started.
As a joke you guys should ask for the Statue of Liberty back. Tell us you are tired of her being felt up by the TSA goons and she doesn't feel comfortable here after the Patriot Act.
Are you serious? Do you blame women for being weak when their men beat them too? If we lived next to the Germans when they came Blitzing through, we would have surrendered too. There wasn't a lot of choice in the matter either. You obviously are no student of history and just how advanced the German war machine was.
German engineering + War; think about it.
French life style + War; bad combination. Unless they are invading to plant vineyards, and make better coffee, or milk our cows to make some cheese, I don't think we have anything to get excited about.
1. We have censorship of "speech you don't like" as well, so seriously we need to STFU about "free speech".
2. The French have something called "culture", I know its a concept wasted on 99.9999998% of Americans, but if you strain real hard, you might come close to the galaxy of thoughts they have about preserving said culture. This probably entails them wanting their news without anymore bullshit than necessary.
Besides, it's the French, it's their country, let them run it the way they choose. Frankly, if I was to find a gene in a bottle and get turned into King of the World, I would make a law if you even say "Twitter" or "Facebook", you and your entire family tree gets a bullet in the head. If you have to ask why, you would get one in the head too. Contrast that with the French and get back to me if you still think they are being too harsh.
There is an epic amount of "French Bashing" going on in the USA. I find it repulsive because I have always liked the French. I ran into lots of them in MMORPGs such as Asheron's Call, particularly the Dark Tide server. They were fun to fight and fight with. They are a bit quirky and tend to stick together, but can be very friendly if you aren't a tool.
Its highly important that everyone isn't of the same mindset on planet Earth. I could explain this, but I would rather do it and get an A for it in some damn sociology class, than waste it here.
Just think if we would have followed the French's lead on Iraq, we wouldn't have invaded and wasted trillions of dollars in a war that we get absolutely NOTHING from. Leave it to the Right wingers to smear them after they didn't play ball with them. AND leave it to capitalists to make every socialist country a villain. BTW, I am not a socialist or capitalist. I believe the intelligent way to govern is to cherry pick what works well and use that for the benefit of EVERYONE, not just the aristocracy.
Also, contrast the life of the average Frenchman to ours. They live longer, have more free time, have medical and JOBS. I think they are infinitely freer than the corporate wage slaves that we are here. Every time a Rightwinger brays about how socialism doesn't work, pointing to the fall of Russia, I think of the French. In fact, I think of a lot of European countries that are socialists and they haven't "failed".
With that all said, I cheer them on if they want to keep the news newsworthy and not yet another plug for company X. After all, the airwaves belong to the public, not to any one person, and if you want to use it, you have to follow the rules the public agrees on. If you think our TV has "free speech" to say whatever they want, you are insane. We have something called the FCC and there are censors in this country and have been for decades. After the "Patriot Act", I don't think we have room to talk smack to ANYONE about freedoms. Once we stop our own government from goose stepping all over our Constitution, we might have a leg to stand on.Until then, we need to seriously STFU.
What are your suggestions then? If there is a convoy of people heading there, with serious intent on violence, please fucking swing by and pick me up. There will not be, and these pigs are safe. They will get away with this and be patted on the head and given a cookie by their masters. We had better stfu and study our Chinese so that our new masters are pleased with us.
Your Chinese Overlords do NOT approve of your grousing about this. You WILL bow to the wishes of your bought and paid for by the Chinese government, government NOW! You fat round eyes are good for farming money from, you foolish and buy many pieces of JUNK from our Wal-Mart stores. You go in debt to US to buy OUR junk! Bwaaaahahahahahahahaaa
Just keep making white women for us for when we come over to stick our rice dicks in their asses while we laugh at your corpses.
Haha! I doubt it though, the more you try to squash things, the more people struggle. Its the smell of stinky desperation and its a boneheaded idea at that. Three cheers for the paranoid idiots, they will push the throttle down all the way out of town. Good riddance. Iran has some great skiing country, no? Can't wait until the lunatics are out of power and the cool people of Iran are in control.
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Haha! Thanks for pointing that out! Often if I don't see the spell checker red underline, I don't proof as hard before submitting. Who doesn't?
Thermonuclear War and if you look for the term with Google, you don't seem to come up with much more than a War Games quote. Its quite the horror show actually, one we would all just like to ignore; both the movie and the situation.
Kill my country's economy, destroy my way of life and see what happens.
Consider how our military is not at home, National Guard isn't here either. Its classical if you look at it. The carpetbaggers are going to pick the countryside clean while the men are away at war. Consider how the housing market practically destroyed the economy of this country. The mass proliferation of mortgages, "home improvement loans" and the whatnot that have paved the way to urban decimation. We've been hit by an atomic economic bomb. We just haven't wised up to how it has happened.
We are also in some kind of mental paralysis when it comes to resistance. I think we are frankly bludgeoned with a systematic reinforcement system to keep us in order. If we ever snapped out of it, they are toast, all of them.
Here is the first truth that will set your mind free:
The world that you think you know is one big fat lie.
Once you have that epiphany, all the other lies start to fall into place, and you start seeing through the petty fogging and the red herrings, the obfuscation fades as you see it all for the bullshit that it is, and you have to face the horror of what real evil is. Not here, not me, thoughts that echo through all minds when facing these things. Recognize your own denial of truths, and turn to face the challenge or pass into the night. Embrace the madness, live on the edge, surf the tsunami that the destroys the world.
Then, you have to ask yourself these important questions. Why? Motive is an amazing thing. Why would those in power do some insane "lets make as much money as we can for fuck sakes!" stunt like this. Knowing that after it gets sorted out, they are going to swing from a tree. Unless....that isn't going to be a problem.
Why wouldn't that be a problem? Do they know something that we don't? Could there be something to this convoluted conspiracy theory crap? What if out of all of these wacko conspiracy theories that we have cooking that ONE of them is balls on right? Don't we have a department for that? If not, why the hell not? I would like to apply for the job if I may, if we still have a government in the foreseeable future.
Job Title: Grand Inquisitor of Conspiracies. GIC? That will not do. Besides it sounds too Catholic, they can have that one for free. Anyway, I digress...
What do they know that I don't? Hmm? Surely /. people know. Let's ask?
Haha, I was wondering what "America has defaulted on its Chinese loans!" means? Does that mean we are going to be evicted? That is what CountryWide Loans did to me and my wife when we defaulted on our mortgage. "Whoopsie, catch you next month?" didn't cut is for us too many times. Doesn't Proverbs or something read "A borrower is slave to the lender?" and "Never a borrower or lender be?" I guess nobody played Monopoly either. Here's one thing about playing Monopoly, what happens when the big kid flips the board over and pounds you with your own Radio Flyer Wagon?
China: "USA...you land on Park Place, it has hotel, you owe me, I win!
USA: "grrrr...."
China: "you empty pockets NOW!"
USA: "You want wants in my pockets? Ok...here you go. BOOOOOOOOM, it's a thermal nuke from space! I guess you shouldn't try hacking us..lol."
China: "Jokes on you, we have nanobot and organic weapons we have been seeding you from Wal-Mart! You will all turn to zombies, we will rule the world!"
Australia: "Eastern Australia is attacking Western Australia...I need card, and I am strat moving all my armies to Siam....What?"
Britain: "I say old chap, you are playing the wrong game! It's Monopoly, not RISK."
Alfred E. Newman: What? Me worry?
Isn't it great when real life starts playing like a cheesy B movie? We just need a real super villain to rise up out of this and it will be /popcorn time.
Speaking of the IMF scandals, what happened to the deposed chief of it that got sacked with a sex scandal in NY? What has became of that? My money from the start was it was a set up and that after he was burned out of the position, his case will vanish in legal smoke, everyone will blame lawyers and liberals or something and he will be off and running back to France. Everyone wins, except him and socialism. Did I miss something?
So who are these new players in the game? Old players just firing a shot off the IMF's bow with this new fangled warfare of cyberwarfare? Here's a question, who's to gain from all of this? Bloomberg? American politics are everything these days to watch. Bloomberg is a Republican, and the hawkish right might be making some preludes to some war. Or is it the usual suspects the Chinese and their shenanigans?
Where is Bond? Shouldn't he be in some lurid scene getting a phone call to get on the job?
This has to be the geek/mercenary wet dream for job opportunities. Perhaps espionage should become part of a good geeks resume'? Put down the bag of Cheetos, pick up some weights, walk for the beer instead of drive. We might be in for a long run at this, so might as well get with the program now.
I feel sorry for them, because these must be some whopper emails that will embarrass the entire State, and probably the entire country for making such a fuss about her. I imagine its going to be an epic wikileaks dump of some very funny stuff. It will be a hoot at first, then it will become sad, and at long last just fade into some mythic joke.
I am kind of sad this came out, I was hoping to see Sara and Hilary have a debate. Caribou Barbie vs Darth Hilary. /popcorn
If you burp, you make a noise.
I wonder what kind of noise that made? I am wondering if we will see any electromagnetic radiation come from that? Some RF? Did you notice how it quickly splashed back into the sun? Some serious gravity going on that close to it. When are we ever going to put a reliable probe over by that to study whats going on with it? Just imagine if the world turned its entire military budgets towards space development. Isn't it about time we evolved up from some reptilian baser instincts to some higher cause? lol
Israel is more than capable of defending themselves? GREAT! We don't need to send them any more money or sell them weapons then. I am so relieved we don't have to pay that bill anymore. Good luck, bye!
Thanks for the well thought out input. I am fascinated by the contrasts. Each of these are an excellent topic of discussion, but one in particular keeps blaring to the front of my brain.
Please elaborate on the breast sizes. I never thought that there would be a contrast of those. Now I need to know what that is all about. For science, you know.
I would like to thank you for the great conversation, first before I forget.
Bitcoins, I was excited when I seen them too. So I asked my IT friend who I was sure already knew about them. He did and he told me some buzzkill news. If I recall right, he said the algorithms would be unsustainable if it garnished any real success. I left it at that, being accustom to my ideas being shot down with some reality.
My apocalypse worries? Not nuclear war, I grew up with vodka swilling soviets beating their shoes on the UN tables wanting to nuke us all until we glowed in the dark. Everybody else with a nuke doesn't worry me. They could get what, a few of our cities? Contrast that to Soviets carpet bombing us with them. Its not so scary, definitely not worth losing any sleep over. I worry more about Yellowstone going Pompeii on us. My most crazy fear? It would be China putting nanobots in all the crap they make and sell us through Wal-Mart. One day they key in a command and all these things dig into our bodies and turn us into idiots who buy all of their crap, go in wild debt so they can pick up our markers and just end up owning us.
On that note, I am tired and need a nap. Thanks again for the delightful conversation.
I am wondering if there is any vacancy in the ivory tower you are living in. I really want to have that kind of perspective on life. It must be nice.
First, social services in this country are horrible. So many people fall through the cracks here its not funny. It's all scattered, the agencies have little to no cooperation with each other, mostly out of privacy rights from what I gather. You need a college course in navigating through it all if you ever need it. There has classically been mountains of abuse of the system, hence making the system defensive and in turn making those who really need it suffer through a screening process that removes any scrap of human dignity they have left. All in all its a horrible waste of human resources and our tax dollars, the whole thing needs scrapped and redone not just for the sake of the tax payers, but for those it intends to help. You can't just throw people a carrot, you have to put it on a stick so you can get them to greener pastures.
Of course we don't "officially" want to genocide anyone, but if you feel the pulse of the nation, read political comments and talk with people, you will know there is some serious scape goat hate mongering going on. If this kind of crap sets and festers, it has the potential for some evil pricks to tap into it for political gain. If you don't think politicians will pander to fucked up emotions to gain power, get back to me when you grow up. I think we have become so acclimatized to it and bullshitted ourselves so long with political correctness that we ignore it when we are wading waist deep in it.
Funny you should mention the disappearing middle class. Sorry, I don't know any "middle class" people. I come from a rural ghetto that has been ravaged by industry leaving for other countries. Here, college educated people are pumping gas and delivering pizza. I had a friend from a major city come visit me here, he was amazed that everyone working the McDonalds we have are all white. I told him to pipe down, we only have a few black people, and we sure aren't going to make them work such crappy jobs and possibly run them off. We tried to import some Mexicans, but they took one look at our slave driving, low wage paying factories and high tailed it out of town. This is all no bullshit true too, all joking aside. If you have two jobs here, you are affluent, fuck middle class.
How do I know he isn't guilty? Obviously I don't being I am halfway across the country, in the countryside, don't know a thing about the guy. BUT...lol... Even out here in a fucking cornfield, one has to wonder why they snatched him up and stuffed him away at Riker's Island like he was Hannibal Lector. This is an IMF chief, a french diplomat of sorts and no NBA star. People of that caliber tend to be a bit more careful with their sexual deviancy if in fact they are deviants. I can't fathom the French tolerating that kind of behavior out of someone in that position. I am talking "raping the help" kind of behavior. Screwball behavior is something that develops over time, it doesn't just happen in a vacuum. This kind of behavior is far too much of a liability in a power hungry environment that surrounds something like the IMF. His enemies would have burned him at the stake long ago with this you would think. Enemies or someone with a half an ounce of ambition for his job, which the world seems to have plenty of considering the squabble for his vacant seat.
Couple that with the Wikileaks guy being burned with a screwball sex scandal. Oh what precious timing that was, no? Sex scandals seem to be the Plot De Jour with somebody's intelligence crews. It's probably because its so brain-dead simple to pull off an ad hock sex scandal on someone. Frankly what disturbs me most is that I can see it. Shouldn't we get more out of our black ops dollar than stuff that rubes in cornfields can spot instantly? How do I know it's ours? The NYPD put on a puppet show the likes I haven't seen since The Muppets. Seriously, who could pull their chain that hard but us? It had better be us, if they got sic'ed onto this guy by someone other than our own people, that is even more disturbing.
I was trying to figure out who GP is.
Also, looking at your sig, you like scifi, have you read any of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steal Rat series? Before I stopped reading books and started eating them, I thought that was one funny scifi series.
Damn it! I was so hoping the 9/11 madness hadn't got you folks as well. It was fun to dream for a while, I guess.
I am curious what you make of this Libya and the whole "Arab Spring" thing? Part of me is very excited at the prospects of peace breaking out in the Middle East. But experience tells me to dig deeper; that there is some rat bastard scheme behind all of this. One thing gave me pause to jumping on the bandwagon with all of this.
Word around the campfire here is Muammar Gaddafi was wanting to bankroll a new Arab currency with a big load of gold he has. Word is he wanted to get all the oil producing nations on board, and then demand the West only buy oil with their currency. Now if I can stop fantasizing about putting a modern Kelly's Heroes team together and stealing all that gold, the implications of such a scenario are staggering. Is this all about keeping the status quo of our money?
I don't know about your money, but ours isn't backed by anything. Some geniuses for some insane reason took us off the gold standard long ago. I am shocked anyone accepts our money, considering we can just print more of it when we want some. I can see where a new gold standard currency would threaten our dollar. If you want to share in some cognitive dissidence with us, consider this: Our Federal Reserve isn't part of our Government. It's privately owned, and someone told me owned mostly by Jews. Holy Shit! Could the plot thicken any more? I am not anti-Semitic by any stretch of the imagination, being I am steeped in Christian fundy doctrine. I have one of those minds that doesn't let shit go, so I have to pry, in spite of roasting in hell for daring to question Israel and Jews.
Did I mention we have blended capitalism/nationalism/Christianity together for some hellish abomination? I am waiting for goose stepping to make a big return here. Back to the Arab Spring thingy. Obama really has set his big black balls out there on this one. His telling Israel to STFU and go back to the 1967 lines has fundies here howling for his blood. I have been looking at the whole history behind this fucked up Arab/Israel thing, this thing is ugly from both sides. One thing is sure, Israel has to be handled sternly to say the least. I was pretty young when Israel attacked one of our ships and killed people on it. I had forgotten about that shit, then came back upon it recently. Its frankly amazing as hell how we gloss over that one now.
What is you take on Iran? The gist of the situation to us is their President is crazier than an outhouse rat and he can't wait to get his mitts on some nukes so he can blow Israel to hell and start WW3 for religious purposes. Surely Iranians aren't going to put up with that kind of insanity that will get their entire country blown to hell? Besides who the fuck doesn't have a nuke already? With the starving Soviets having a Going Out of Business Sale on them, what self respecting asshole Arab billionaire wouldn't pick a few of them up? Why doesn't that alarm me? Lets get on the same page, we are talking about sexually repressed Arabs. They probably have them in their bedrooms to impress hot chicks. Unless disco music or bling can set one off, I don't think we have much to worry about.
Wouldn't it be great if the only people we really had to worry about in this whole Arab Spring thing is Israel? Seems like we should, they gunned down some idiot protestors just the other day. You guys should sell them a pig catapult, so they can just threaten them with a bombardment of swine if they get out of hand.
Here's to hope for peace in the Middle East.
You should say "liberating a nation from a tyrannical dictator that used to be our puppet". You and so many others either ignore or are completely ignorant of our previous Middle East policies. While us and the Soviets got into some deadly dick measuring contest, we armed the living shit out of that region. We put some serious weapons in the hands of lunatics just as long as they sang and danced the "oil" tune for us. These maniacs then ran roughshod over their own people, their neighbors and anyone that got in their way, and we wonder why the average person that had to deal with all that shit hates us. "Why do they hate us? Why? Why?"
The rest of your shit doesn't even dignify a response.
The thing with Clinton was the Right desperate for something to burn him on. Frankly I can't blame them on that one. Clinton was yet another train wreck of a President for us. Everyone wants to credit him for the economics of that time. I myself credit Bill Gates and the tech boom more than anything Clinton did for those few good years. Clinton has shit like Waco Texas where the military, against our Constitution, rolled in and killed women and children in a stand off. The Feds also extorted and murdered a family at a place called Ruby Ridge. We also had a building blow up with no ATF Agents strangely in it the day it blew up, and we blamed it on domestic terrorism and rolled out new domestic terrorism laws before the dust even settled from the explosion. Clinton did more damage to the Democratic Party and to America than we will ever know.
Just when you think things couldn't get worse...
We have a Presidential election and the guy with the most votes didn't get the job. We were simmering for one fucked up civil war when we get attacked on 9/11. Now all of that shit is forgotten. Handy as hell, no? I find it ironic that we have a war versus terrorism yet we have two borders that you can march an army across and we wouldn't notice and nobody in power cares. Its really strange that we have all these terrorists hell bent on killing us all, for over a decade now and there hasn't been so much as a loud fart in anger here from them. We are suppose to believe the TSA thugs are keeping us safe from them. That and fighting them "over there keeps them from fighting us over here".
We eat so many bullshit sandwiches here its frankly amazing, yet we have the audacity to sneer at you French for some of your TV broadcast policies. Here is one for you, the next time some Yank gets smart assed with you about anything, just whisper "Patriot Act" to them. If they have half a brain they will STFU.
Odd that out of the 4 things I listed, only one is debatable.
Ha! to cow catapults.
As far as US unemployment, the figures are a complete lie. Double it and perhaps sprinkle a point or two more on for realism. Why? Let met explain; unemployment is finite here. Meaning, you only get it for a short while, then you are kicked off. It doesn't matter if you have a way to survive or not, you are off it. This doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that because you are off unemployment that you are employed. I am sure that sounds barbaric as hell to you.
This is what we get for letting capitalism run everything here. You are right, we have a vast over opinionated, yet ironically undereducated public that thinks things like Commies and Socialists are one and the very same. You are pretty close to the mark when you mentioned Nazis and conservatives here, the only thing they are missing is the yearning to throw Jews in an oven. Instead, they want to throw Mexicans and Arabs in one.
To understand the US you have to understand who's in charge here. It should be named the Corporate States of America because that is who owns the government and controls everything. We have a really fucked up idea of what freedom is and we will kill you if you don't agree with us on it. This is also a product of careful brainwashing of the public by the entire corporate system. I can't imagine how baffled all of Europe is at how fucking stupid we seem to be.
Here's the problem, every adult that is worth their salt here has two jobs at least to make ends meet. Who the hell has the time or energy to do anything but work? They tax the living shit out of working class people while they dish out free money to banks and corporations. We are angry of course, but we are brainwashed into blaming everyone else. Somehow these evil fuckers have twisted capitalism into nationalism and they have religion on board as well. Here is where you and the rest of the world should worry. These corporations are multinational now. They have us in the bag, now they want the rest of the world as well. Imperialistic? The average American has no clue how these corporations operate, remember they are little more than slaves, so how could they know? They are brainwashed to hate everyone because "they hate us for our freedom".
Here is a question for you guys. What was the story with the IMF chief from France, the one that ended up in some frame up job in NY? I read that he was a socialist and I knew he was fucked. I have a feeling someone wanted to reset the IMF chair and get rid of a socialist at the same time. The whole story smacked of a set up to me right from the start, but people here are idiots and believe anything in the news that gets spoon fed to them. I am still willing to wager money that now that he's out of the IMF position and smeared all to hell for the election that this case will fall apart and disappear. I don't buy all these women coming forward AFTER the fact. Its way too easy for bad people to try to capitalize on something like this or for the bad guys to prop up a few more puppets after its started.
As a joke you guys should ask for the Statue of Liberty back. Tell us you are tired of her being felt up by the TSA goons and she doesn't feel comfortable here after the Patriot Act.
Are you serious? Do you blame women for being weak when their men beat them too? If we lived next to the Germans when they came Blitzing through, we would have surrendered too. There wasn't a lot of choice in the matter either. You obviously are no student of history and just how advanced the German war machine was.
German engineering + War; think about it.
French life style + War; bad combination. Unless they are invading to plant vineyards, and make better coffee, or milk our cows to make some cheese, I don't think we have anything to get excited about.
Two points for you to chew on.
1. We have censorship of "speech you don't like" as well, so seriously we need to STFU about "free speech".
2. The French have something called "culture", I know its a concept wasted on 99.9999998% of Americans, but if you strain real hard, you might come close to the galaxy of thoughts they have about preserving said culture. This probably entails them wanting their news without anymore bullshit than necessary.
Besides, it's the French, it's their country, let them run it the way they choose. Frankly, if I was to find a gene in a bottle and get turned into King of the World, I would make a law if you even say "Twitter" or "Facebook", you and your entire family tree gets a bullet in the head. If you have to ask why, you would get one in the head too. Contrast that with the French and get back to me if you still think they are being too harsh.
There is an epic amount of "French Bashing" going on in the USA. I find it repulsive because I have always liked the French. I ran into lots of them in MMORPGs such as Asheron's Call, particularly the Dark Tide server. They were fun to fight and fight with. They are a bit quirky and tend to stick together, but can be very friendly if you aren't a tool.
Its highly important that everyone isn't of the same mindset on planet Earth. I could explain this, but I would rather do it and get an A for it in some damn sociology class, than waste it here.
Just think if we would have followed the French's lead on Iraq, we wouldn't have invaded and wasted trillions of dollars in a war that we get absolutely NOTHING from. Leave it to the Right wingers to smear them after they didn't play ball with them. AND leave it to capitalists to make every socialist country a villain. BTW, I am not a socialist or capitalist. I believe the intelligent way to govern is to cherry pick what works well and use that for the benefit of EVERYONE, not just the aristocracy.
Also, contrast the life of the average Frenchman to ours. They live longer, have more free time, have medical and JOBS. I think they are infinitely freer than the corporate wage slaves that we are here. Every time a Rightwinger brays about how socialism doesn't work, pointing to the fall of Russia, I think of the French. In fact, I think of a lot of European countries that are socialists and they haven't "failed".
With that all said, I cheer them on if they want to keep the news newsworthy and not yet another plug for company X. After all, the airwaves belong to the public, not to any one person, and if you want to use it, you have to follow the rules the public agrees on. If you think our TV has "free speech" to say whatever they want, you are insane. We have something called the FCC and there are censors in this country and have been for decades. After the "Patriot Act", I don't think we have room to talk smack to ANYONE about freedoms. Once we stop our own government from goose stepping all over our Constitution, we might have a leg to stand on.Until then, we need to seriously STFU.
You sir, are a lemming traitor piece of shit. Its fuckheads like you that empower fuckheads like that.
What are your suggestions then? If there is a convoy of people heading there, with serious intent on violence, please fucking swing by and pick me up. There will not be, and these pigs are safe. They will get away with this and be patted on the head and given a cookie by their masters. We had better stfu and study our Chinese so that our new masters are pleased with us.
I didn't want the FBI knocking at my door with a warrant for trying incite violence against the government.
My only defense would be; "This pussy population incited to violence? Are you fucking kidding me?"
Your Chinese Overlords do NOT approve of your grousing about this. You WILL bow to the wishes of your bought and paid for by the Chinese government, government NOW! You fat round eyes are good for farming money from, you foolish and buy many pieces of JUNK from our Wal-Mart stores. You go in debt to US to buy OUR junk! Bwaaaahahahahahahahaaa
Just keep making white women for us for when we come over to stick our rice dicks in their asses while we laugh at your corpses.
Haha! I doubt it though, the more you try to squash things, the more people struggle. Its the smell of stinky desperation and its a boneheaded idea at that. Three cheers for the paranoid idiots, they will push the throttle down all the way out of town. Good riddance. Iran has some great skiing country, no? Can't wait until the lunatics are out of power and the cool people of Iran are in control.