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- Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:13 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Jerusalem for the JEWS!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2236
Re: Jerusalem for the JEWS!
Just so you know, a fairly large chunk of us think this is an incredibly dumb announcement. As for the fellating Israel comment, go do some bloody homework.
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:39 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: those lazy, ungrateful Puerto Ricans
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1545
Re: those lazy, ungrateful Puerto Ricans
When you all can spare a moment to stop focusing on the clowns, i have a feeling you'll realise that you are the issue, not them.callmeslick wrote:....is it just me, or is anyone else both as embarrassed and disgusted by the US leadership as they ever have been?
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Would you sacrifice your son if God told you to?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3585
Re: Would you sacrifice your son if God told you to?
I miss Drakona, she made me think...never agreed with her, but that was ok back in the day.
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:39 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: What they let you swear around here now? Every topic started
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3504
Re: What they let you swear around here now? Every topic started
Good to see you're still knocking around, Adam, hope you and yours are well.
- Sun Sep 18, 2016 10:47 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: She started it
- Replies: 12
- Views: 772
Re: She started it
For phucks sake, wake up people, stop talking about who's fart was stinkier and talk about frigging issues. You're all a joke. How dare you profess to be the bastions of democracy, yet carry on in this childish, amateur manner. Do you realise how the rest of the world is looking at you now? Do you ...
- Sun Aug 07, 2016 9:42 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Why are some Dems so Unhinged?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 709
Re: Why are some Dems so Unhinged?
This made me giggle. I used to nick Margaret Thatcher signs as a kid.
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:24 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BREXIT!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6276
Re: BREXIT!
Believe me, i know a hell of a lot more UK citizens than you...in all areas, from the Isle of Wight to Dumfries. It is my country, Slick (one of them). You're wrong.
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:30 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BREXIT!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6276
Re: BREXIT!
Wasn't about xenophobia, Slick, however much your media over there would like to think it is.callmeslick wrote: Taking the debate to a public referendum and making it about xenophobia and not about economic reality was stupid, in this case.
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:50 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BREXIT!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6276
Re: BREXIT!
Slick, this debate has been going on since 1973, it's not new at all.callmeslick wrote: As noted by another, this shows the downside of direct referendum on public policy, affected by sheer emotion, and shows why we have our relatively slow system of doing things in the US.
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BREXIT!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6276
Re: BREXIT!
Snatching a few sec's of FOX this morning, i see they're worried Germany will become a nationalistic super power akin to the early 1930's. Come on guys, stick to your own politics, most of you are clueless about anything more than a car drive away!
- Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:02 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Islam speaks...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2880
Re: Islam speaks...
ack....never was good with irony. Though i'm sure Slick will let me know if i made a boo boo.
- Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:21 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Islam speaks...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2880
Re: Islam speaks...
Israel speaks? https://www.facebook.com/notes/roger-waters/a-note-from-roger-march-24-2016/1283640211650426 .....and from the same thread...... I'm not about to tar and feather any entire group for the actions of a few. That's what, the way I roll. Ooops! The soldier in question is under arrest ...
- Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:06 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Helping Trump
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1648
Re: Helping Trump
I have to wonder if the terrorist who orchestrated the Brussels bombing have any idea how much this helps Trump win the presidency. I'm of the opinion that the people who pull the strings across Europe, and soon The Americas and Russia, know exactly what they are doing, Woody. Trump is a recruiting ...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:45 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: the Clinton-haters War on the Truth
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1359
Re: the Clinton-haters War on the Truth
Forgive me if this is off topic, and i do feel a bit guilty for skimming the thread because usually i do try to learn a bit from you guys dueling it out over American politics, but i saw Bill Clinton a few days ago. I attended a peace rally in remembrance of Rabin's assassination (don't start ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Don't believe your lying EYES!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1284
Re: Don't believe your lying EYES!
Yea, sorry about that woody, i've just been seeing a lot of people actually meaning it. I overreacted a bit.
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:16 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Don't believe your lying EYES!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1284
Re: Don't believe your lying EYES!
Knives are not dangerous? The subtle (and in this case, not so subtle) bias spewing from foreign media over the past two weeks has been shocking, though not very surprising. I'm reaching the point where i'm past caring, to be honest. Below is a clip of an Israeli using, to quote the state ...
- Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:30 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Obama fails, Putin wins
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2088
Re: Obama fails, Putin wins
...... you'd think we'd know better by now than to try and put in Democratic rulers in places that hate our guts. Obviously, this pretty much sums up the whole problem. And it encompasses all the problems Europe is going through, and is going to go through with it's influx of non-western based ...
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:03 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Obama fails, Putin wins
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2088
Re: Obama fails, Putin wins
Which is worse? A superpower that panders to it's electorate by instigating changes of regime, leaving a big frigging vacuum, then panders once again to it's electorate by buggering off and leaving them to get on with it. Or a superpower that is going all old-school by beating it's chest in one ...
- Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:19 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Religious nut?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 742
Re: Religious nut?
Yup, i'm right with you on that, Spidey.
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Religious nut?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 742
Re: Religious nut?
It is scarier to see publications like The Daily Mail being used to form opinions and debate on anything apart from Kim Kardashian's latest adventures.
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3924
Re: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
Though i find the views expressed from certain parts of the world abhorrent, it's a pretty tall order expecting them to play immediate catch-up with what took other parts of the world hundreds of years of discourse, when they're only just beginning to understand the concept of 'free-speech ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:12 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3924
Re: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
If a thread was started on the subject of lemon meringue, would it also wind it's way back to republican/democratic stuff also?
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:05 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3924
Re: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
So Flabby- do you think Israel should take some of the refugees from Syria (and elsewhere) or do you think the government's stated policy of keeping every single one of them out is a good idea? There are two field hospitals a forty minuet drive to the north that take in the wounded from the ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:35 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3924
Re: As if Greece didn't have enough problems...
I've been interested to see how this subject is being portrayed in the American Media, and how citizens over there feel about it, or if they know even what's going on. I wondered when one of you would pick it up.
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:24 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Hungary Gets It
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1012
Re: Hungary Gets It
Europe is being swamped at the moment with refugees from Afghanistan, Syria, Northern Africa ect, escaping war and radicalism. It's an immensely sad situation (which criminal elements are taking advantage of) which won't be solved by putting up fences. But we're human beings, brilliant at the quick ...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:21 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Hungary Gets It
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1012
Re: Hungary Gets It
Europe is being swamped at the moment with refugees from Afghanistan, Syria, Northern Africa ect, escaping war and radicalism. It's an immensely sad situation (which criminal elements are taking advantage of) which won't be solved by putting up fences. But we're human beings, brilliant at the quick ...
- Sun May 24, 2015 2:56 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Climate change is #1
- Replies: 5
- Views: 534
Re: Climate change is #1
He may have made those comments and came off a little naive, but with humans reproducing at such a high rate, especially in Asia, the risks of mass migration due to climate change (whether the change be unnatural or natural) are greatly increased. This, coupled with hair-trigger governments in the ...
- Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:36 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BiBi Wins
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2321
Re: BiBi Wins
lol
- Wed Mar 18, 2015 7:27 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: BiBi Wins
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2321
Re: BiBi Wins
I am gutted by the results of this election, and am (as it seems the whole nation is) in complete surprise. Though i guess we shouldn't be really. Netanyahu is the master manipulator of the Israeli people, ruthlessly intelligent and a superb strategic politician. It's such a shame he uses those ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: the truth behind Bibi's words
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2240
Re: the truth behind Bibi's words
Hezbollah and Hamas have defiantly morphed into something bigger. Bigger, more, sophisticated terrorist organisations, that endanger not only Israel, but the surrounding locals that they profess to protect. Bibi was just scrambling for last minuet votes from undecided right wing voters. Why do you ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:49 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: the truth behind Bibi's words
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2240
Re: the truth behind Bibi's words
Note, they haven't even gotten into the fight with ISIS, nor have they had any recent adventures on the Israeli border. Clinging to outdated notions doesn't sway me, or anyone else who actually looks at the reality today, on the ground. Why do you throw around statements as facts? It's simply not ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:16 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: the truth behind Bibi's words
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2240
Re: the truth behind Bibi's words
Well, i voted this morning, lets see how this one turns out.
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
didn't mean to imply any link, but merely to cite two examples wherein you are currently a citizen of a state ACTIVELY promoting discrimination to the point of resembling apartheid. Your suggestion that Israels treatment of Ethiopian Jews that were airlifted in 1984 (and i think in 1991) resembles ...
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:52 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
FC, do you agree with my premise that a WORKING two state solution is the only way to keep Israel as a Jewish state(in terms of identity, not suggesting purity myself)? Yes, i agree, a WORKING two state solution. (my own opinion is that the State is called Israel, not a Jewish State...if you get ...
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:00 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
but, there is towards the West Bank Arabs, and also to African Jews, who have a stronger genetic link to being Jewish than most European descent Jews. In both cases, Israel cannot go on preventing an Arab state, or declaring Israel to be a Jewish state and continue those policies. The two subjects ...
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:21 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
then, why do the Israelis occupy the HOMES of Palestinians not affiliated with Hamas? Why do they take the water supply from other neighbors? Flabby is quite clear that SOME Israelis and Arabs get along, but is also quite clear that his circle is not representative of the nation as a whole, which ...
- Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:29 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
FC I can only imagine what you are feeling. I'm thankful we don't have compulsory service here in the states as I would be more than distressed if my daughter had to serve. Lets us know from time to time how your son is doing. Thankyou WC, and i will do. My daughter finished her service last year ...
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:40 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
I know he was talking about Gaza, Slick, so was i. As for the speech, what can i tell you? I have very little respect for Bibi as a politician on domestic issues...local economics, social issues ect, and his foreign policy is rather slapstick. I sat with a mixed bunch of people this morning over ...
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:33 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Speech here
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4238
Re: Speech here
Starving Palestinians? Good grief, i hope you back that that up with oodles of weired, biased, lets get a few more ratings for our sponsors, news links. I'll meanwhile, tell you i, and many many others in my area have sold bananas,mangoes, dates, Lychee, grapefruit, apples, livestock...ect all year ...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:55 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Netanyahu opposes this, why?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2119
Re: Netanyahu opposes this, why?
Oh good grief no, i don't.Spidey wrote: Do you think he speaks for all Israelis? (Flabby)