676

(8 replies, posted in General)

thanks Torquez

and rchie X(   i asked for it months ago

no

but they'll send us relief

678

(32 replies, posted in Politics)

The Emperor has dismissed the Imperial Security Council

Inertia will keep the provinces in line

Apparently about a third of America thinks we will run this planet because, we do, and you're all  not going to rock the boat, and, we said so.  Now, buy our bonds.

679

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

Joe Biden wants to be President

Hillary wants to be President

they are not touching this with a 10-foot pole

John Kerry wants to be known as that dwarf on Game of Thrones

so he's all over it

680

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

Yeah keep asserting your right to rule Czechs and Croats and Slovene and Slavs and who knows who else, under the false banner of "real borders".

You keep having it both ways.  "O why pick on poor Hungary which by God's will should own all nations of MittelEuropa"

You tried to conquer others and you got smashed.  Twice.

681

(2 replies, posted in Politics)

So? when the Founders saw the system was rigged by the Man, they didn't whine about it, they came back at midnight and took an axe to it and threw it in the ocean

682

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

1.  It is NOT a "cop-out", it is the fact of history.  Your idea that political frontiers must conform to demographic boundaries is impractical and impossible in areas where demographic boundaries were deliberately blurred.

2.  Yes.
     Other powers did it.
      I mean look at what you're saying - that a few million people who moved themselves to a muster point, were given arms, and proceeded to risk their lives for years in service to the Emperor, is somehow not any indicator of their popular support of Imperial policy?
    why don't you go ahead and explain how they would show support for the policy, that you say is missing.

3.  You're full of crazy.  You babble about demographic boundaries and then lay claim to a "Greater Hungary" that stretches from the Black Sea to the Adriatic? Croatia is traditional Hungary? Serbiia is traditional Hungary? 

4.  If you're laying claim to Italian cities then you're cascading some crimes

683

(32 replies, posted in Politics)

Duck wrote:

If the United States pulled funding from Egypt, what leverage do they have left besides flexing military muscle. The obnoxious amount of money sent there is more than enough to grease a few palms and make sure the US has at least a foot in the door.  Unfortunately, during this coup that isn't a coup that leverage hasn't been touched, rather given up through political pandering and a fear of being accused of trying to force democracy on another country.
Shame.

No serious person supports such radical attacks on the cornerstone of our Middle East policy

because suggesting reform means you can't be serious

684

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

this can't lead to WW3 because Obama would surrender

though I did see a good pic of Pearl Harbor 12/7/41 and the caption

PEARL HARBOR
NOT A WAR
LIMITED AIRSTRIKE WITH NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND

685

(4 replies, posted in General)

"The image of Surak read the horror-nausea in your face, Spock"

686

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

huh works for me

It's Obama looking at a mirror, and George W Bush is the reflection laughing at him

https://sphotos-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho … 5835_n.jpg

687

(4 replies, posted in General)

I'm sure we can twerk it out

688

(4 replies, posted in General)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Lb3kFwJRQ

its amusing to realize that's what would have happened to Paramount Studios if they'd filmed that in 1966

689

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/mirror-image.jpg

With gun control this 54 year old man might be dead and the thief might be hurt instead of a fugitive

this gun saved 2 lives

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uplo … rab-21.jpg

691

(6 replies, posted in Community)

sounds like Baratheon needs Neighborhood Watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR6AF1ctDs8

692

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

1.  I did address that point.  I said the Ottomans created hostile enclaves to prevent solidarity in rebellion.  You can't go back to the same territories and demand borders respect linguistic and ethnic boundaries--- there aren't any.

2.  The Austro-Hungarian Empire had universal male conscription, so, yes, the common man in the street had a say in the march to war.  And was for it.  Cause he served when mustered.

3.  You made a false statement, that Hungary suffered worse partition than any other combatant.  I made a true one: that Hitler bitched Germany suffered worse.

4.  You can't have it both ways -- that YOU are far removed and have no part in the events of WW1 but -I- owe you empathy and understanding for what -HUNGARY- has suffered as an ongoing thing.

693

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

British military chiefs are being ejected from US meetings about Syria in the first direct consequence of David Cameron’s refusal to join military action. The role of senior British officers based at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, has been downgraded because they cannot be trusted with high-level intelligence about a conflict with which they are no longer involved, military sources say.

lol

694

(6 replies, posted in Community)

You trolled this forum

you realized people may know you're doing it

and you blame them?

Maybe if you didn't troll, you'd have nothing to reconcile?

695

(495 replies, posted in General)

You ran this last year its some Major General on JAG

696

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

4) and especially US-Americans: Would you judge it not only fair if the US is hit by some 'surgical' punishment, too, for all the obvious acts of terrorism (acts of war without UN, dronestrikes etc.)?

Treason against the Fuhrer! Dr0n him!

Yeah I'm not a fan of the Imperator's War Club.  We're not 30 minutes from nuclear war anymore, so the reasons to throw missles without consultation and explanation are basically: laziness and incompetence.

697

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

well we bombed on Kosovo trying to make them play nice, and then the Russians butted in, and Clinton declared that was victory for us that they butted in and the Serbs made a deal with them.

So

I predict Putin will "suggest" that Assad store his chemical warheads at the Russian facilities in Tartus, under Russian troops, so the West will know he will kill kids from now on with explosives and napalm.  And Assad will be suprised and pleased by this suggestion, and act on it. 

And Obama will praise himself for his resolve and humanity, and declare a victory.

Meanwhile Assad will still shell apartment buildings, and his chemical warheads will sit safe from Israeli attack under the Russian flag.  He can truck them out in a day anyhow.

698

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

Don't you recognize that Hungary, since the 1400's, had essentially been under the yoke of various other powers.  Do you contest my claim that Hungary did not have autonomy in 1914 and therefore could not have been an instigator of the first world war, unlike France, Britain, Russia, Germany, Austria, etc.?

Yes. 

There was no justification for casting upon the nation of Hungary the culpability for instigating the first world war

Well

Your ass! You coulda had the Food and Beverage job without going on television! -- "Casino"

Hungary revolted in 1848 against the Hapsburg monarchy, and this was put down with Russian help.  Franz-Joseph chose to make concessions in 1867 to restore his empire, and so a set percentage, a quota, of Imperial government jobs went to Hungarians, and the Imperial Army was remade to give Hungarian units a separate identity.

Therefore there existed a model to deal with the challenges of integrating South Slavs into the Empire.  They were resisted first by uberracists in Austria who thought Germans were better than smelly white trash, and Hungarians, who figured out that dividing the pie three ways would cut their own share.

By the time of the assassination of Archduke Ferdnand, Hungary was not serving "under the yoke" of Austrian rule, so much as willingly collaborating at the highest levels.  The Foriegn Minister of the Empire was Hungarian.

While it is beyond doubt that Count von Hoyos and others in the Austro-Hungarian leadership not only foresaw but wanted war during the July Crisis, it has, however, been much debated amongst historians as to whether they fully understood the scale of such a war. Some have argued that they considered a Russian intervention as unlikely and that the intention was a limited war, while others have pointed to numerous remarks made during the course of July that undertaking action against Serbia would lead to a European war.[13] It is reasoned that Russian intervention was not taken into much consideration. One can, for example, find little if any records of the issue being discussed in the minutes that Count von Hoyos wrote from the two meetings of the Common Ministerial Council in July.[14] However, on the 16 July 1914 the Austrian Ambassador in St. Petersburg falsely told the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Sazonov, that Austria was not planning on any measure that might cause a war in the Balkans, so no Russian complaints were made.[15] This in itself undermines the reasoning that Austro-Hungary did not consider that a world war was impossible. In fact, by deliberately misrepresenting the existence and planning of a presentation to Serbia an ultimatum containing “unacceptable demands”, the Austro-Hungary state implicitly knew that a world war would be inevitable, hence the deception during the July Crisis (See 'Contents':- 6 Preparations for the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum).

Hungarians instigated the war by shoving for a military humiliation of Serbia despite Russian military guarantees; by marching to the colors when ordered; by refusing a separate peace for four years.  What if you had refused to fight in France?  Contrast your national behavior with that of Ireland.

and therefore no justification for taking 2/3 Hungarian territory as reparations

Sure there was, you guys had that in mind for Serbia and you couldn't pull it off.  And you kept fighting all comers. 

especially while the territories of the primary instigators were essentially left fully intact by comparison.

That's not what Hitler said.

The tendency for governments to redraw maps without regard for the natural culture, ethnic, linguistic, and kinship dynamics of the peoples of the regions involved must stop. For wars, social unrest, strife, etc., will only continue, sometimes 50 or 100 or even 1000 years after the fact.

As you well know, the Ottomans created adjacent hostile enclaves throughout their empire, as an insurance policy against revolt.  Because if group A planned a revolt, they could not involve groups B, C, and D, and so every province in revolt would have some residents loyal to the empire and willing to fight the rebels out of self-preservation.  Your principle cannot be applied to their former provinces.

699

(76 replies, posted in Politics)

By "traditional" you mean of course, full of people misled and manipulated by mass media and economic circumstances controlled by corrupt Royal and Imperial government colluding with Imperial Germany for their own selfish ends.

You don't get to have your cake and eat it.  You had ancient privileges but no responsibilities?

700

(3 replies, posted in Politics)

YOU LIE

LA radio interviewed the marchers, and 17 of 18 were bused in by other unions