Global Peace Index 2014

[paladin1991]

Thank God (oops, I mean Thank The Big Bang wherein everything in the Universe just popped into existence one day, from absolutely nothing, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, just because it wanted to), that there are still a few people like you left in this country...

Thanks Karl, but I'm just some guy.  The best of us have been lost or are actively being fucked over by the VA/majority of the protected. 

[PB the Deplorable]

I had a friend who was ex Royal Marine, and he pretty much said exactly that.. He also said that violence never solved anything. Hard as fuck too.

I dunno, it solved the problem of Nazi Germany.  And imperial Japan.  Among other untenable situations.

[Yorkshire pud]

Once again, Yorkshire mental case, the point flew right over your head, intentionally.

Point? You? HA HA HA.. Good one...are you here all week?

[Yorkshire pud]

I dunno, it solved the problem of Nazi Germany.  And imperial Japan.  Among other untenable situations.

Which was to counter violence..I think he meant the root source. Violence begets violence etc etc. 

[NowhereInTime]

  Why are they trying to escape?  Why don't they rise up and make their country in the image that they want it to be?  Easier said than done, NIT?  I would say that it is.  But it's doable. Too many countries around the world have undergone such a change to say that it is impossible.

In truth, I agree with your position.  I lament that so many find it expedient to flee challenges in their home country and settle for the relative calm of ours. If that was the settled de rigeur methodolgy then we would all still be wishing the Queen "happy birthday".
One of the many problems, though, is that so many "countries" are really compilations of tribes with no real unifying creed. Therefore they lack of sense of national unity and purpose that drove our nation's founding.  This isn't meant to excuse an apparent lack of resolve but to signify that, in a few dozen years, we may have over 400 countries founded from tribalizations.  Or lots of refugees.

[Quick Karl]

Thanks Karl, but I'm just some guy.  The best of us have been lost or are actively being fucked over by the VA/majority of the protected.

And WHO is sitting in the CHAIRS at the VA???

CATHOLIC REPUBLICANS, OF COURSE!!!!!

[NowhereInTime]

BINGO.

Yeah, a whopping $2.50 a pound.  Seriously, the millions of tons of produce picked by migrant workers picked by the same number of domestic nationals would diffuse the impact of cost.
Better yet, eliminate the speculative bidding for food and commodities on the CBOT and other exchanges.  Direct interest parties (suppliers and wholesalers) only.  It will more than offset paying min. wage to Americans.  Who will pay taxes and buy goods rather than Western Union it back to their countries of origin.

[NowhereInTime]

And WHO is sitting in the CHAIRS at the VA???

CATHOLIC REPUBLICANS, OF COURSE!!!!!

Wow.  That never gets old. No, really. Great stuff.

[Quick Karl]

Wow.  That never gets old. No, really. Great stuff.

Is it possible, that even an ignoramus like you, might finally be getting the point?

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Get rid of your Birkenstocks, asshole - they are old, and obsolete, like you and your 60's narcotic-induced pipe-dreams.

[NowhereInTime]

Is it possible, that even an ignoramus like you, might finally be getting the point?

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I get it.  "Poor, oppressed, White Republican Catholics."  Powerless before the liberal horde. 

What you don't get is how preposterous it looks when someone of privilege complains about the "burdens" in their lives.

S.O.P. for you though, asshat.

[NowhereInTime]

Is it possible, that even an ignoramus like you, might finally be getting the point?

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Get rid of your Birkenstocks, asshole - they are old, and obsolete, like you and your 60's narcotic-induced pipe-dreams.

Oh, you added more of that top flight snark that makes you the clown you are!  Great yucks!
"Birkenstocks".  You are a malignancy.

[paladin1991]

Yeah, a whopping $2.50 a pound.  Seriously, the millions of tons of produce picked by migrant workers picked by the same number of domestic nationals would diffuse the impact of cost.
Better yet, eliminate the speculative bidding for food and commodities on the CBOT and other exchanges.  Direct interest parties (suppliers and wholesalers) only.  It will more than offset paying min. wage to Americans.  Who will pay taxes and buy goods rather than Western Union it back to their countries of origin.

My GOD!  That's revolutionary!  Shouldn't speak so openly, the King has his ears everywhere.

[paladin1991]

I get it.  "Poor, oppressed, White Republican Catholics."  Powerless before the liberal horde. 

What you don't get is how preposterous it looks when someone of privilege complains about the "burdens" in their lives.

S.O.P. for you though, asshat.

But, but, what about the 'white man's burden'?  It's a heavy burden, yes?

[Quick Karl]

I think nitwit is starting to crack - borderline hysterics even. Reminds me of Marsha Clark when Johnnie Cochran annihilated her legitimacy during the OJ Trial, to the point she almost cried and demanded he play according to her terms, so she could win...

[NowhereInTime]

I think nitwit is starting to crack - borderline hysterics even. Reminds me of Marsha Clark when Johnnie Cochran annihilated her legitimacy during the OJ Trial, to the point she almost cried and demanded he play according to her terms, so she could win...

I think Qunt Karl is smoking crack - borderline hallucinating even.  Reminds me of Rob Ford when asked by the media why he smoked crack he replied, "Because I was drunk."

Puts a lot of Qunty K's rants in perspective...

[Quick Karl]

I think Qunt Karl is smoking crack - borderline hallucinating even.  Reminds me of Rob Ford when asked by the media why he smoked crack he replied, "Because I was drunk."

Puts a lot of Qunty K's rants in perspective...

You're really a girl that can't get laid, aren't you?...

Rosie O'Donnell maybe?

[Yorkshire pud]

You're really a girl that can't get laid, aren't you?...

Rosie O'Donnell maybe?

She dreamed she'd woken up next to George Clooney and found she didn't fancy him...the only thing worse was waking up next to you and finding she fancied you instead.  .

[albrecht]

In conflict is there another kind of killing?

Scalping has occurred in almost every culture. Labeling native americans as vicious is correct, doing so as a contrast to others that also scalped victims is rather... well considering the source... what would one expect.

It has though to different extents. Indians are not "noble savages" as romanticized by authors of the past nor are they "in balance with Gaia" as purported by the new-agers of today. You can see that both in their own history, the ruins, and how they are today. They were people like any other. Some noble, some not. But, over all, like peoples the world over killed a bunch, raped a bunch, etc. They used "slash and burn"! My goodness. Try to burn leaves in a controlled manner autumn in many places today and you will be sanctioned. They cut out hearts. They took captives for brides (or just for rape.) They kidnapped children. They took scalps. They massacres buffalo (especially once they got guns and horses.) You try to send your child on a "coming of age" ceremony like the various Indians did and the CPS would come in a heartbeat today and take them and you would be in jail (some Marine got in trouble just a few weeks ago for making his teenager carrying rocks and run.) Treatment of women? Multiple wives, trading wives, raping wives, etc. There are more white tail deer now than there were back during first white settlements (though much of that is predator reduction.) There were huge buildings built just for human sacrifices! They had games in which losers die! They are people like any other.

[pate]

...also said that violence never solved anything...

Whenever I see/hear someone say that I am always reminded of Colonel DuBois replying to a student in his class in the book (movie, what movie?) Starship Troopers:

"So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly.  "I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that.  Why doesn't your mother tell them so?  Or why don't you?"

That can be found not too far into the second chapter of that incredibly awesome book (movie, what movie?)  And it sort of continues from there for a bit, he says something about Napolean & Wellington having a debate and that the Dodo or the Great Auk could be the referee...

Maybe I should've put this reply in the "random things" thread...

[Yorkshire pud]

Whenever I see/hear someone say that I am always reminded of Colonel DuBois replying to a student in his class in the book (movie, what movie?) Starship Troopers:

Hmmm, I guess he drew his conclusion from actually being confronted with and having to deal with it, and not from a movie or from a book. Although he's never confirmed it (as he wouldn't) I believe he was more than a regular Marine in his service life. Just little snippets of stuff he'd mentioned to me that I wouldn't expect him to know or be involved in, unless of course he was unique!

[pate]

He could be the biggest, most scary looking dangerous SOB on the planet and if he looked me in the eye and said, "Violence never solved anything" I would still think of that scene in the book.  I might even giggle a little bit, probably not, although I have been known to laugh at inappropriate times.

[onan]

Violence doesn't solve anything. It just makes the weaker shut up or die.

[PB the Deplorable]

Violence doesn't solve anything. It just makes the weaker shut up or die.

Like bin Laden

[wr250]

wonder why the Switzerland is not # 1?
policy of non aggression
policy of neutrality
gun crime rate of .05 per one hundred thousand persons
other crime rates among the lowest on earth
hasnt been invaded or even involved in a war since napoleon
etc.

oh wait, person(s) that wrote the articles gun bias. the swiss are heavily armed, with over 50% of the adult population owning a firearm.
part of what they take into consideration is access to light weapons.

[Quick Karl]

Violence doesn't solve anything. It just makes the weaker shut up or die.

And is sometimes a necessity.

[onan]

And is sometimes a necessity.

And again we agree.

[Jackstar]

Numfar! Do the dance of burying the fork of peace in your eyes!

[Quick Karl]

Numfar! Do the dance of burying the fork of peace in your eyes!

HURRRRAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!! Now I can actually be challenged to think again!

Welcome Back Sir!

[Quick Karl]

And again we agree.

You're going to destroy your reputation...

[Jackstar]

Welcome Back Sir!

Why thank you. It is nice to be welcomed back so warmly.

What big eyes you have. Are you the wolf? Are you big? Are you bad?