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Personally, I wanna be cremated and stored in a coffee can or something til the first day of spring. Then dig a hole, dump my ashes in it, and plant a tree on top of them in the yard of the house I spent my last days in.
It's already in my will that way, changed from 'cremate me, mix my ashes with 6 oz of the best weed my estate can score, and smoke me in my fave bar' that I had in it in my 20's. Guess I'm getting old...
For the US, Russia, and a lot of other countries, that's probably true. But Iran is run by different people who state publicly that they would like to destroy other countries. Perhaps, in Iran, the purpose of nuclear weapons is to destroy, and not to defend? Have you considered that?
Other than the events of 4 Nov 1979, what agressive actions has Iran taken to conquer the area? The Iran-Iraq war was started by Iraq, remember?
While again we can't know for sure most likely Russia has plenty of really nasty non conventional weapons of their own, and we know thanks to that release of weaponized anthrax in the 70s that they have their own nasties sitting in a bunker somewhere.
After the Soviet Union fell, their troops sold damned near anything that wasn't nuclear and/or welded down. It was bargain basement days for everything but AK's and ammo by the kilo to Hind helicopters.
There was never an idea that USSR had a bigger conventional force. The idea was that USSR had big enough conventional force that it would steamroll over Europe before U.S. could bring in sufficient forces to repel the advance. Essentially, all European NATO allies, with exception of UK, knew they'd be overrun in the matter of days once the war began. That assessment was 100% correct.
The reason for that was, most of the Red Army was posted outside of Russia, in Eastern Europe, to keep the satellite nations of the Soviet Union in line.
In a trade war, China can ruin the US economy - but they'd severely hurt themselves in the process. In a trade war, Russia influence is limited to cutting off gas supplies to Eastern Europe.
They have plenty of people right at home to buy up everything they make and send to the US. Not that the locals have the money for it, or that to do so would move the People's Republic more toward capitalism than even taking back Hong Kong did...
More reasonable to bribe Israel - it's not like they're not getting billions right now... so we know they take cash. Pay them to move somewhere else,
Won't happen. Current-day Israel is their ancestral home, ignoring the fact that for about 200 years, it was 'occupied' by the Arabs when the Romans kicked them out.
then a few tactical nukes to flatten the "holy land" so that nobody - not the jest, not the muslims, not the christians - has anything to fight over. That will give you peace in the middle east.
Nice try, but flatten a few Islamic holy sites with nukes, and you guarantee almost constant jihads against whoever launched them and the US by proxy for 'allowing' it to happen.
That's a fallacy. The US supported Iraq at the request of Kuwait who was paying Iraq protection money to ward off Iran. The US paid Iraq very little money and only gave them trucks- not weapons.
The US gave Iraq chemical weapons to use against Iran, back in the days when we still halfways liked Iraq and were still pissed at Iran for kicking out the Shah (who the US put into place through Operation Ajax) and installing Khomeni and following that by some 'students' taking over the US embassy in Tehran. This indirectly helped Reagan get into office, when Carter found out that practically none of our military equipment was desert-ready.
I want an autonomous robot which hunts down lying politicians and ass-rapes them. For reference, that includes their conspirators at Fox News and NBC and the like.
Would you settle for a semiautomomous killer robot that has angry sex with a midsized car? Might not be exactly what you want, but it'll be a good start...
Face it, people. As a species, we are at this point, totally and completely fucked. It is over. Roll over, do another raid in World of Warcraft, and open another bag of chips; because at this point, that is as good as it's going to get.
I'm not sure how much national coverage it got, but I live in Pittsburgh and these protesters vandalized a lot of local businesses. The vandalism didn't even take place in the downtown area, but a few miles outside in Lawrenceville and Oakland, which aren't very high income areas to begin with. The protesters smashed storefront windows of some chains like KFC and Panera which were apparently the targets, but they also smashed windows from other small family businesses.
So protesters downtown were also in Lawrenceville & Oakland at the very same time? Seems to me to be two different groups at work here. What good does it do to protest something miles away from the action? It's like the 'Free Speech Zones' the Old Regime put up, miles and miles away from the cameras, to make sure the protesters never got a second of airplay.
So they should tell you to shut your eyes before the nuclear bomb goes off, I presume.
Too young to remember Duck And Cover, eh? Part of the 'air raid drills' I lived through in the early 60's (pre-JFK assassination) included the teachers telling us to NOT look out the windows.
Were I a rioter, I'd rather contend with weapons designed to be less-lethal than ball ammo, or nightsticks (skull fracture, anyone?), or pepper spray.
Considering they used this on a peaceful protest, I totally agree, use nonlethal force. The lawyers will make a killing, possibly pushing the city into insolvency.
This is the real problem - certain groups within society who will shut of whatever brain they have when cash is waved in their general direction. They need to provide a natural counterbalance to the ability of their employers to act in an unchecked manner - their employers require it as much as anyone - if they are to stay sane, by which I mean being part of a fully-connected graph of common understanding.
They talk about the 'training' you get in the military, but at the end of the day, you're still expected to pack a rifle and engage in live fire 'if needed'. My daughter was supposed to be a mechanic in Iraq, but spent her 18 month tour guarding the motor pool while civilian contractors did the actual wrenching. My nephew was a medic in Iraq, assigned to hang out with the Special Forces troops in Feluga(sp) 4 years ago and only bandaged up captured 'guerillas' rounded up for questioning, after needing to put bullets in them to begin with.
Back during my time (late Vietnam War era), a lot of combat troops came home and went to school on the GI Bill. Big Unc paid for up to 4 years of college, no payroll deductions during your active duty time, and if you were a draftee & out in 2 years, no biggie, you still got the full 4 year ride. The troops coming out today don't have that option, they have the Montgomery GI Bill which requires veterans to put aside money for college during their active duty and Big Unc coughs up 8x what the vet puts away for up to 36 months. It's only in the last year or so that they finally voted in something close to the GI Bill I knew when I got out.
Now, considering that Big Unc wants trained killers around and really doesn't do a lot to help them readjust to civilian life if they don't get stop-lossed back into uniform, and considering the almost double digit unemployment in the US today, is there any wonder combat troops sign up as cops as the only viable job they're halfways trained for?
The next big issue will be tax increases in 2010 - it's gonna happen even if there's a 100% Republican control in the Congress. But, that's another issue.
Of course. Gotta fund the military somehow and just cutting NASA's budget won't help much, there's not a lot there at the moment.
So people should be put in jail or fined for following a law that has not yet been found to be unconstitutional? Do you understand the anarchy that would result from that stand?
That's why they have appeals courts, and the Supreme Court, to rule on the constitutionality of laws. Problem is, the SCOTUS can refuse to hear a case, and once they get seated, you can't get rid of a SC judge til they die or step down and retire.
I thought it was "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw".
Somebody told me once that for any kinda perversion you can think up, somebody on the Internet already has a newsgroup about it. So, that being said, how can I subscribe to your newsletter?
hey did before the internet. Now we allhave soapboxes. The trouble is, most of us don't communicate very well.
Coulda swore I saw something somewhere that blogs weren't protected speech under the First Ammendment.
Besides, with all those blogs out there, the signal to noise ratio is dropping like a rock. Sure, everybody has a soapbox, but nobody's listening, they're too busy screaming.
Problem is, the Federal Reserve isn't a government entity, it just has its board of directors appointed by the President. And that's a good portion of the problem. It was put in place by banking interests for banking interests.
The 1978 FISA laws amended that to include warantless wire taps not to mention the other warantless provisions outside of FISA.
However, the FISA laws do require a warrant to be procured within 72 hours, IIRC. The initial 'warrantless' tap is authorised as an 'emergency procedure' prior to getting the warrant, and information gathered from that tap is not allowed to be the basis if getting the wiretap.
What did you lose specifically since 9/11? Please tell us what you could or was doing that you cannot do any more. what rights do you no longer have?
Been to an airport lately? I remember a time, WAY the hell back in the late 60's^F^FStone Age, when you could walk out onto the tarmac at an airport, without a boarding pass, without a ticket, get on a plane, and pay for your ticket with a personal check right on the airplane. Mind you, at the time, there were quite a few idiots standing up in mid flight screaming "Take thees plane to HA-VAN-HA! too.
Driven from Phoenix AZ to Vegas lately? They have these nifty 'TSA checkpoints' on both sides of the dam where they pretty much just wave you through, but sometimes actually pull you over and search your car and person without a fucking warrant.
I told my grandkids about that once, they thought I was lying.
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It's already in my will that way, changed from 'cremate me, mix my ashes with 6 oz of the best weed my estate can score, and smoke me in my fave bar' that I had in it in my 20's. Guess I'm getting old...
Other than the events of 4 Nov 1979, what agressive actions has Iran taken to conquer the area? The Iran-Iraq war was started by Iraq, remember?
After the Soviet Union fell, their troops sold damned near anything that wasn't nuclear and/or welded down. It was bargain basement days for everything but AK's and ammo by the kilo to Hind helicopters.
The reason for that was, most of the Red Army was posted outside of Russia, in Eastern Europe, to keep the satellite nations of the Soviet Union in line.
They have plenty of people right at home to buy up everything they make and send to the US. Not that the locals have the money for it, or that to do so would move the People's Republic more toward capitalism than even taking back Hong Kong did...
Won't happen. Current-day Israel is their ancestral home, ignoring the fact that for about 200 years, it was 'occupied' by the Arabs when the Romans kicked them out.
Nice try, but flatten a few Islamic holy sites with nukes, and you guarantee almost constant jihads against whoever launched them and the US by proxy for 'allowing' it to happen.
The US gave Iraq chemical weapons to use against Iran, back in the days when we still halfways liked Iraq and were still pissed at Iran for kicking out the Shah (who the US put into place through Operation Ajax) and installing Khomeni and following that by some 'students' taking over the US embassy in Tehran. This indirectly helped Reagan get into office, when Carter found out that practically none of our military equipment was desert-ready.
Would you settle for a semiautomomous killer robot that has angry sex with a midsized car? Might not be exactly what you want, but it'll be a good start...
Fuck that, I wanna colonise the Kieper Belt.
Oh, wait...
But, IIRC, using Celine Dion recordings for anything constitutes a violation of the Geneva Convention.
So protesters downtown were also in Lawrenceville & Oakland at the very same time? Seems to me to be two different groups at work here. What good does it do to protest something miles away from the action? It's like the 'Free Speech Zones' the Old Regime put up, miles and miles away from the cameras, to make sure the protesters never got a second of airplay.
Best way to keep a secret is to compartmentalise it. If 30 people each have a small part of a secret, they might not even be aware it is a secret.
Too young to remember Duck And Cover, eh? Part of the 'air raid drills' I lived through in the early 60's (pre-JFK assassination) included the teachers telling us to NOT look out the windows.
Considering they used this on a peaceful protest, I totally agree, use nonlethal force. The lawyers will make a killing, possibly pushing the city into insolvency.
They talk about the 'training' you get in the military, but at the end of the day, you're still expected to pack a rifle and engage in live fire 'if needed'. My daughter was supposed to be a mechanic in Iraq, but spent her 18 month tour guarding the motor pool while civilian contractors did the actual wrenching. My nephew was a medic in Iraq, assigned to hang out with the Special Forces troops in Feluga(sp) 4 years ago and only bandaged up captured 'guerillas' rounded up for questioning, after needing to put bullets in them to begin with.
Back during my time (late Vietnam War era), a lot of combat troops came home and went to school on the GI Bill. Big Unc paid for up to 4 years of college, no payroll deductions during your active duty time, and if you were a draftee & out in 2 years, no biggie, you still got the full 4 year ride. The troops coming out today don't have that option, they have the Montgomery GI Bill which requires veterans to put aside money for college during their active duty and Big Unc coughs up 8x what the vet puts away for up to 36 months. It's only in the last year or so that they finally voted in something close to the GI Bill I knew when I got out.
Now, considering that Big Unc wants trained killers around and really doesn't do a lot to help them readjust to civilian life if they don't get stop-lossed back into uniform, and considering the almost double digit unemployment in the US today, is there any wonder combat troops sign up as cops as the only viable job they're halfways trained for?
When the government stops fearing the citizenry, you're in deep shit.
Of course. Gotta fund the military somehow and just cutting NASA's budget won't help much, there's not a lot there at the moment.
That's why they have appeals courts, and the Supreme Court, to rule on the constitutionality of laws. Problem is, the SCOTUS can refuse to hear a case, and once they get seated, you can't get rid of a SC judge til they die or step down and retire.
I thought it was "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw".
Somebody told me once that for any kinda perversion you can think up, somebody on the Internet already has a newsgroup about it. So, that being said, how can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Coulda swore I saw something somewhere that blogs weren't protected speech under the First Ammendment.
Besides, with all those blogs out there, the signal to noise ratio is dropping like a rock. Sure, everybody has a soapbox, but nobody's listening, they're too busy screaming.
Here's a somewhat biased rundown.
However, the FISA laws do require a warrant to be procured within 72 hours, IIRC. The initial 'warrantless' tap is authorised as an 'emergency procedure' prior to getting the warrant, and information gathered from that tap is not allowed to be the basis if getting the wiretap.
Been to an airport lately? I remember a time, WAY the hell back in the late 60's^F^FStone Age, when you could walk out onto the tarmac at an airport, without a boarding pass, without a ticket, get on a plane, and pay for your ticket with a personal check right on the airplane. Mind you, at the time, there were quite a few idiots standing up in mid flight screaming "Take thees plane to HA-VAN-HA! too.
Driven from Phoenix AZ to Vegas lately? They have these nifty 'TSA checkpoints' on both sides of the dam where they pretty much just wave you through, but sometimes actually pull you over and search your car and person without a fucking warrant.
I told my grandkids about that once, they thought I was lying.
But of course. Why bother buying 1 side of an election and take a chance when you can buy both sides and get a lock in?