11,001

(81 replies, posted in Politics)

>> So the point is irrelevant, and the post pointless.<<

if you mean you got checked and are now bored, yeah.

>>Do you remember when half the forum would drop on you like Gary Glitter on Peter Pan for such antics? I miss those days.<<

i seem to recall a nagging cloud of mosquitoes...is that what it was?

>> > Why is it that ALL American right-wingers think that everyone else is too stupid to be able to tell the difference between a cool disaster movie and real life? Do they think we are their children or something? <

Because major American true-science magazines like Scientific American and Popular Mechanics ran articles by PhDs that the cataclysmic  events of the then-current flick were in fact highly realistic and quite probable.  Glad you also think they're toking too hard, now please come over here and school them? <

  And American stupidity is relevant to a non-American because...?<<<

You asked the question.

>>This article does not say what you think it says; I see nothing that could be used to back up a real life world-freezing-overnight scenario. I see it referring to what I would call cold snaps and heat waves (which are apparently as rare as rocking-horse shit [\sarcasm]), but whatever made you think that that article was being used as proof of anything I do not know.<<

"Are overwhelmingly abrupt climate changes likely to happen anytime soon, or did Fox Studios exaggerate wildly? The answer to both questions appears to be yes. Most climate experts agree that we need not fear a full-fledged ice age in the coming decades. But sudden, dramatic climate changes have struck many times in the past, and they could happen again. In fact, they are probably inevitable."

There were several other articles of this sort at the time and some of them did say, yes, it can freeze overnight.
You asked why Americans think econerds believe "Day After Tomorrow" is gospel.  I'm showing you case examples.

>>I guess only one of us remembered to suspend belief before pressing "play".<<

I prefer movies that make you suspend disbelief unconsciously, like this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM_-uMjw8Es
in which there are absolutely no bullets

blaming me for not falling for CGI is like blaming women for not realizing how sexy and attractive I really am.  I forgave them a long time ago.

11,002

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

Knows in this business is much risico

Also in the news today lithuania still imagines NATO means something and begs Hillary not to cave to the bear. Loyal friends, save yourselves and get the best terms from Moscow you can while its still a seller's market! "Nuanced" America refused to help Georgia and it will refuse to help you!

The Secretary of the Treasury TESTIFIED they are raising taxes on energy because it harms our environment; that the average American will pay more taxes under Obama if we don't change our consumption (Damn you Blackwing, your daddy shaved in ice water in the battle of the bulge and that oughta be good enough for you, silkyboy!); and that oil companies make enough profit to absorb taxes (and they have enough of a chokehold to pass every penny on to us through higher prices, ASS); and that details of TARP must remain top secret (but-but that was a Bushite crime!)

That grinding whir is alexander hamilton doing 2000 rpm

FDIC went out and said, hmm, er, uh, WE ARE BROKE. Now the Fed never promised to guarantee FMAC and FHMA, but it took over completely. It never promised to back AIG but it writes checks for whatever them bums lose every two months (mebbe they are playing the sports book in Atlantic City? Why not, too big to fail means never having to do an audit)
Federal Govt DID guarantee all deposits in FDIC banks up to $100k for three, four generations...but SOORRYY no way will they back the FDIC! Every penny the FDIC wants will be sucked out of solvent FDIC member banks--it will eliminate their profit for 2009!

I think Obama IS a Muslim-- this dirty business of earning interest on loans is of SHAITAN!!

Speaking of which Hillary invites Iran to meet with Afghanistan and pakistan to pull our satanic nuts out of the fire in Central Asia. I'm torn whether the ayatollah's mouthpiece openly demands the bitch be silenced at the table, or whether he saves it for the men's room. I'll take your bets either way--in Cuban pesados, please, not dollars

11,005

(143 replies, posted in Politics)

God Attack the Queen
Send big dogs after her
To bite her bum. -- Eddie Izzard

11,006

(81 replies, posted in Politics)

>> Which is absolute proof that the climate is not changing because...?<<

It is proof that "global consensus" can be completely wrong.


>>> and stop watching the day after tomorrow and thinking its a scientific documentary come back in a time machine <

  Why is it that ALL American right-wingers think that everyone else is too stupid to be able to tell the difference between a cool disaster movie and real life? Do they think we are their children or something?<<

Because major American true-science magazines like Scientific American and Popular Mechanics ran articles by PhDs that the cataclysmic  events of the then-current flick were in fact highly realistic and quite probable.  Glad you also think they're toking too hard, now please come over here and school them?

PS: Linky!  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=abrupt-climate-change

PPS I didn't think it was that cool, a killer wave of water a mile high moving in at 200 mph looks like fog moving at 0 mph.  Remember that bit of Hurricane Gustav where Geraldo got washed out to sea (almost)?

11,007

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

because war against people who blew up NYC will do more for our economy than $700 billion in pork.

Also $350 billion in the failed Troubled Asset Recovery Program, and $1 trillion in wasted bank funding, and $50-60 billion in wasted corporate bailouts, not to mention a $406 billion pork bill from last year that Bush somehow compels Obama to sign, and, a proposed $2.6 trillion budget with a $1.7 deficit SO FAR, IF, we agree with Obama and destroy the tax deductions for charity.

11,008

(1,133 replies, posted in General)

It's the Arnor is AFK Bear!

11,009

(17 replies, posted in General)

Sure it could
blow Richard Dawkins up and see what comes of it

but I guess you disagree with his whole movie, which is about what is really going on in the human race and how it SHOULDN'T OUGHTA happen

11,010

(24 replies, posted in Politics)

wouldn't matter, Democrats keep our lands tapped

11,011

(47 replies, posted in Community)

I warned you all sad

hope you stop by to yak Nolio!

11,012

(17 replies, posted in General)

Please demonstrate, without reference to any God, why you should not be blown up by a suicide bomber.  There's a pretty recurrent heathen argument that if you construct a society weak enough to permit a suicide bomber to get to you, out of your own decadent frivolities, then you have it coming.
What justifies the total failure of Richard Dawkins to exist without the mercy of stronger, better animals?

11,013

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

well I would play it except I'd get bluescreen of death because my computer was built in 2003

11,014

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

>>>"EU is already creaking.  I think it clear it will not advance further towards unity for a generation; it might break up in twenty years.  Eurozone is become as predicted, the 4th Reich; a penny-pinching 4th Reich that enjoys the Freedom From Subsidizing Foriegners.  "We want no Czechs!"--Adolf Hitler"<

Comparing the EU with the 3rd Reich is unethical and nonsensical  The EU is a slowly advancing machine. It'll not collapse, it'll slowly unite nations..<<<

Some German told you to say that about the EU!

>>>"Russia is about to blow up large. I expect Russian naval bases throughout NATO by 2015, because a) they like that sort of thing and b) you like to eat hot food in winter and c) Uncle Sucker will be preoccupied with his own navel."<

This is typicall russian. They announced to renew  their navy indeed, yet they don't have any construction site that's large enough and operational that could build new vessels. Also, they don't have the money to either build or support them..<<<

They have all your money to spend on the project, because if they shove you'll pay.  Any European govt that wanted to stand up to Russia would be a) frustrated by the EU and b) voted out.  There are Model UN clubs with more clout than NATO

>>>"China, I don't know.  From what I hear there is real popular, man-in-the-street pride in the first unified Chinese govt since 1911 and the strongest since 1800.  For sure, nobody else is going to contest the PRC's control of the population and the territory.  Whether the PRC can keep the Chinese together under the PRC is something else.  Mao couldn't rein in a pissed off China any better than the Dowager Empress.   Development and Solidarity are still more important than Freedom and personal prosperity, apparently, so they may continue to surf the ocean for some time."<

China will soon or late suffer a civilian uprising....<<<

probably

>>No, this thread should be used to promote;

http://www.totalwar.com/empire/?t=EnglishUSA<<

nice graphics, but redcoats form batallion in line in two ranks not three and in the presence of heavy cavalry they form a square.  And their regimental guns are deployed offset not before the regiment.  The only guns that are limbered between the regiment and the enemy are light horse guns, because they can get out of the engagement and permit the nitty-gritty of infantry charges.  And no warship ever comes through a fogbank with all sail unfurled, because fog occurs in a calm.

11,015

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

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Patton was wrong...

11,016

(7 replies, posted in General)

damn cameljockeys, GO BACK TO DETROIT!!!

11,017

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

>>this time around i think im going to just buy abunch of beer and firearms...<<

" 'Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' oughta be a department store not a bureaucracy!"

11,018

(143 replies, posted in Politics)

>.You CAN do whatever you want on private land however. <

HHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAAA

where do you live?  letting your trees block views or God save you, SOLAR PANELS is a major lawsuit.  They even sued Mr. T for letting sycamores he planted 20 years ago block the view of a neighbor who moved in 5 years before--blocked view = less appraised value = damage.  He pitied the fool but he still had to chainsaw his timber

11,019

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

EU is already creaking.  I think it clear it will not advance further towards unity for a generation; it might break up in twenty years.  Eurozone is become as predicted, the 4th Reich; a penny-pinching 4th Reich that enjoys the Freedom From Subsidizing Foriegners.  "We want no Czechs!"--Adolf Hitler

"The United States of America" as Teddy Roosevelt knew it is already DEAD.  Whether the US as Reagan knew it can last another 20 years is really doubtful; there will still be something on the map called the United States but it will probably be more like a revolving dictatorship than a free republic.  We openly rate our Presidents by how well they serve the corporate ogliarchs and the civil service (Bush failed miserably--he presumed to dictate policy to his advisors!!!, Clinton good but flawed, Obama can still prove himself)

Russia is about to blow up large. I expect Russian naval bases throughout NATO by 2015, because a) they like that sort of thing and b) you like to eat hot food in winter and c) Uncle Sucker will be preoccupied with his own navel.

China, I don't know.  From what I hear there is real popular, man-in-the-street pride in the first unified Chinese govt since 1911 and the strongest since 1800.  For sure, nobody else is going to contest the PRC's control of the population and the territory.  Whether the PRC can keep the Chinese together under the PRC is something else.  Mao couldn't rein in a pissed off China any better than the Dowager Empress.   Development and Solidarity are still more important than Freedom and personal prosperity, apparently, so they may continue to surf the ocean for some time.

the story is also on politico.

I am really shocked Obama is dumb enough to go after Limbaugh.  Limbaugh himself named the way to destroy him--impose federal controls on broadcast content and require "fair access" for every local market.  But wasting time and money on a guy who never faces an election didn't save Clinton and it won't work for Obama--it's the same goops doing it.

"The seeds were planted in October after Democracy Corps, the Democratic polling company run by Carville and Greenberg, included Limbaugh

11,021

(33 replies, posted in Politics)

Epulse can stop a car but you can restart it.

"Strategic nukes?  Hell no.  Way too damaging to international relations  and trade.

Tactical nukes?  Possibly, but only in very specific instances.  For example, taking out Iranian nuclear facilities... (would be justified as a preemptive nuclear strike against military-only targets).  In the particular case of Iran, I would guess that the US would be able to take advantage of support from European nations that fear Iran and that have supported the US in harsh action against them, such as France."

I agree with Clancy that the political force involved in nukes renders ALL nukes "strategic weapons"

11,022

(14 replies, posted in General)

But pride, being a defect of nature, by the very act of refusing subjection and revolting from Him who is supreme, falls to a low condition; and then comes to pass what is written: "Thou castedst them down when they lifted up themselves." For he does not say, "when they had been lifted up," as if first they were exalted, and then afterwards cast down; but "when they lifted up themselves" even then they were cast down -- that is to say, the very lifting up was already a fall. And therefore it is that humility is specially recommended to the city of God as it sojourns in this world, and is specially exhibited in the city of God, and in the person of Christ its King; while the contrary vice of pride, according to the testimony of the sacred writings, specially rules his adversary the devil. And certainly this is the great difference which distinguishes the two cities of which we speak, the one being the society of the godly men, the other of the ungodly, each associated with the angels that adhere to their party, and the one guided and fashioned by love of self, the other by love of God.

"The devil, then, would not have ensnared man in the open and manifest sin of doing what God had forbidden, had man not already begun to live for himself. It was this that made him listen with pleasure to the words, "Ye shall be as gods," which they would much more readily have accomplished by obediently adhering to their supreme and true end than by proudly living to themselves. For created gods are gods not by virtue of what is in themselves, but by a participation of the true God. By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from Him who truly suffices him.
The City of God, Chp 13 Book XIV

11,023

(9,083 replies, posted in General)

yikes  Is unfamiliar with Mister Roger's Neighborhood! yikes

11,024

(14 replies, posted in General)

if you don't think you did any you just did Pride.

11,025

(33 replies, posted in Politics)

maybe but then he misspoke because the F-22 is a post-Cold-War fighter.