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On 2/19/2025 at 2:08 AM, PETERTHEEATER said:

DG has almost as much annual rainfall as UK. I don't see too many US Navy ships tying up alongside 'though.😋

might be a reason for that.

On 2/18/2025 at 2:58 PM, Jingthing said:

He's another clown repeating Kremlin talking points.

"Russia once again rolled out their guest clown, Roger Waters, at the UN Security Council as they probably couldn’t find someone else to play their act. "

You're slipping Jingthing - do try and go back to original thoughts.

This is a pretty good try at taking the top spot in animal weirdos UK but I think the Aussies still hold the top spot with that guy and the bunnies.

I hope they round all these so-called doctors and give them a one-way ride to Palestine then add them to the terrorist watch list and the no-fly list. They could show they truly support their people by improving their medical services at home.

The writer gives a great perspective of what the world has known forever. Nice captain obvious piece. Especially like the WWII and Viet Nam suggestion of Radio Free Gaza. Maybe give them all META VR headsets instead?

Never heard an explanation of why the Palestinians (formally) occupying Gaza can't be put back in Palestine while they wait. Do their own people not want them?

As far as the new governing body is concerned, it should be Israeli/Arab with Saudi army for security. Even Iran back Hamas wouldn't be stupid enough to attack the Saudis.

ETA: Maybe time for the Middle-East to create an alliance. OPEC-Middle-East-Gaza Defense Initiative.

" It took 46 years after NATO's inception in 1949 for the organization first ever military intervention took place in 1995"

"The EU and NATO have respectively 27 and 32 member states, of which 23 states are members of both. The four EU member states which are not members of NATO (Austria, Cyprus, Ireland and Malta) held positions of neutrality during the Cold War, which they have since maintained."

I really don't see the formation of a "European Army" anytime soon and DEFINITELY not in time to give anyone but the US, Ukraine and Russia a seat at the table but we wouldn't them to move from "Annoyed" the "Miffed".

Mostly I think they just want a piece carved out for themselves.

I suppose after a few more meeting the EU will be prepared to issue a strongly worded letter?

On 2/17/2025 at 4:24 AM, roquefort said:

Tip of the iceberg. During Covid governments fell over themselves to dole out money to all and sundry with no oversight or accountability. PPI scandal in the UK was a typical example.

 

Hopefully Musk's DOGE team will root out much of this corruption and the example will be copied by European countries, 

In the news today he's found $4.7T in unencoded (therefore, untraceable) payments disbursed from the Treasury and SS Benefits being paid to more people than there are living American citizens.

Even the judges have stopped interfering in DOGE business. 🤠

On 2/14/2025 at 8:35 PM, cjinchiangrai said:

No, redneck meth heads sucking up govt assistance on the blue states dime.

Small correction to your selective understanding:

In fact, 40 states have a balance of payment ratio higher than 1.00. Far from a dependency caused by state political leaning, it is typical for states to receive more in federal funds than they collect in federal taxes — an anomaly made possible only by rampant federal deficit spending.

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/502321-no-blue-states-do-not-bailout-red-states/  

Just to be clear:

https://abcnews.go.com/Elections/2024-us-presidential-election-results-live-map/

On 2/14/2025 at 9:10 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

In Los Angeles, it was estimated that perhaps 70 percent of domestic workers were immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally[6].

You've answered your own question.

Bigger question now is will any of those rich people (many currently homeless [sort of]) be held accountable for breaking the law also and how will they feel paying union rates to replace them with legal servants?

On 2/14/2025 at 2:04 AM, Eric Loh said:

Too late for any other silly ideas, farmers blame Trump. Trump let them down his own MAGA supporters. 
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-farmers-trump-let-them-160546286.html

Yea, the UK should be the world model for fair treatment of farmers.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2025/feb/13/protesting-farmers-sandstorm-tractors-keir-starmer-video

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cwypj14q122o

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rachel-reeves-halifax-expenses-chancellor-labour-b2698477.html

Zuckerberg is trying to push Apple out - cheaper than trying to buy them out. Google has nothing to worry about as every devise created uses them.

The supremacy will be decided by the AI capability to provide the most accurate data retrieval whether it be translation accuracy, location, or whatever consumers desire.

Personally I'm waiting for Star Trek technology.

There seems to be no depth the leftist losers won't sink to - even siding with Hamas.

"From hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."

Seek help you guys.

On 2/14/2025 at 1:16 AM, Purdey said:

There is a lot of debate about what can or cannot be taught in school. I personally liked to challenge teachers while at school. Evil me. However, some schools are actively trying to break the constitution when it comes to religion in school.

 

Oklahoma's State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued a directive requiring schools to incorporate the Bible, specifically the King James Bible, into classroom lessons. Usually, the Satanists would sue for the same rights (to teach the Christians a lesson in equanimity) but they are slow to act this time. North Dakota is about to make it compulsory for schools to teach intelligent design in science classes. There is no evidence to prove intelligent design scientific, so science teachers would be forced to lie.

 

In politics or religion, there will be several sides to every argument and shouting or threatening weakens any argument. Perhaps setting up formal debates to take up differing opinions and argue them with facts would help develop critical thinking. However, this would be unusual in a strictly Christian school I suppose, where disagreement would be anathema to the Christians.

There's nothing in the constitution that prohibits teaching the Bible in school. 1st schools ever built in the US taught a bible lesson along with the basics.

We proudly sang the national anthem and the pledge of allegiance was stood for and repeated before roll was taken every morning. (at school)

As for your hokey comments on Intelligent Design: All people who believe in intelligent design may or may not be creationists. But all people who believe in intelligent design are not creationists. (Freud) believed in an intelligent design, Einstein believed in an intelligent design, and Charles Darwin believed in intelligent design.

Kind of hard to teach science without exploring the beliefs of Freud, Einstein and Darwin.

Maybe you went to a 'special' school?

Top 10 Bible Verses about Homosexuality

Leviticus 18:22 ~ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 ~ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Jude 1:7 ~ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Romans 1:26-28 ~ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Genesis 2:24 - Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Mark 10:6-9 ~ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV - Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

1 Corinthians 7:2 - But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Maybe their bible study class taught them it was a sin against God.

Before 2013 is still being looked into but...anyone paying attention should have seen this coming.

1 hour ago, Tug said:

Well in the case of my country our contribution (less than 5% of our defense budget) helped stop this war of conquest btw of that 5% most of it re employees Americans replenishing stores used before their expiration date.all done without spilling American blood…..+ it is the morally correct thing to do.but that said it’s looking like trumps (art of the deal) will manage to create defeat from the jaws of victory and allow putin the space to re arm and recruit more meat for his next big push.wouldn’t surprise me one bit if  trump pulls us out of nato allowing putin the space to steal Poland and the rest of the Baltic.trump is Putin’s most valuable asset.

I hope you remember these words of woe you choose to believe so you won't chock on them much when you have to eat them.

On 2/13/2025 at 12:24 AM, fvw53 said:

My question : if you have an aggressive neighbour who tried to take your house completely but failed...would you accept a third party referee to decide if you have to cede your kitchen or your bathroom?

You do when that "3rd Party" has been funding 80% of your defense of said home.

20 hours ago, billd766 said:

How many innocent men, women and children being killed, would be enough to make you happy?

There are no innocent people at a "Death to America" rally. Traitor.

Of course it came from China. DUH!

You forgot the option: The kind that just lays there and takes it. I hate flapping wings and claw feet. 😆

Hope he waits until Iran has another of their "Death to America" rallies and drops a 1/2 dozen bunker buster bombs on their heads.

On 2/11/2025 at 5:13 AM, BusyB said:

 

 

There has been a takeover. It's the white collar version of January 6. And yes, 70 odd million Americans actually voted for it despite the Shaman and the Proud Boys.

 

A national outbreak of Dunning-Krugerism as far as I'm concerned.

 

But this thread is about Trump's 'relationship' to what he considers art. Art being usually one of the first targets of people like him and his supporters because it expresses free thought and genuine freedom, which is anathema and a threat to them and their project. It's uncontrolled which inculcates fear in those who need to control everything. It puts people beyond their control.

 

That's why the Soviet Union and the Nazis (the two most well known examples) suppressed all forms of art and dictated what was acceptable and what not. The Great Dictator (watch the film, the whole film, from beginning to end: perhaps Charlie Chaplin's best) decides what is 'in' and what is 'out', who is 'in' and who is 'out', according to his own fear based and philistine, tiny minded taste. 'In' is usually retrospective, 'folksy' and utterly phony representations of a supposedly better, 'cleaner' past. Like now in the Kennedy Center. Cheered on by the sycophants, acolytes and the lying excuse makers in TV.

 

Kennedy himself would probably puke. There is indeed another America somewhere - we just can't see it right now and it seems to have caved. Possibly permanently, it's too soon to say. But we can hope.

 

In the meantime: enjoy the show folks.

That's quite the diatribe in full support of fat, nasty men putting on drag shows and calling it art. Do you keep Rue Paul's poster over your bed?