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There's nothing... NOTHING like a short & successful war to ensure political popularity at home. A nice, clean, Hollywood-Style war with a strong-jawed right-thinking hero, and an exil, slinking villain who is ultimately hoist by his own Petard. Dubbie has been desperately seeking just such a war - thus far without success. Afghanistan is still ongoing, as is Iraq. The "Wart-on-Error" and the hunt for OBL has left the Western Intelligenge Agencies & Special Forces loking more like Maxwell Smart than James Bond. Hence, in his increasingly desperate attempts to try & appear like Harrison Ford ? President Ryan to the electorate, and thus ensure the continuation of his regime, he now turns to ANY available war to claim some form of victory, even if it's a voyeuristic victory by proxy. At least it gives the blindly patriotic something to cheer. Thus he will argue for a continuation of the recent regime. The one that took America in 2000 and made it what it is today. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I had originally posted the image to demonstrate the viciousness that humanity must move away from. A graphic demonstration of the willingness of a better armed mob to mercilessly attack a helpless individual. And the consequences of a society which would covet gun ownership & use, even above such basic human necessities as clothing & water. I had hoped to stimulate your minds. It appears that I missed by about 3 feet. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Getting back to Fidel Castro for the moment... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4787805.stm Apparently he's recovering nicely and we can expect him to continue for a while yet. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Aren't Tolerance, Acceptance of Diversity, and taking people on merit ALL Western Democratic Values!!? How about taking the best of what other cultures offer and absorbing them into your own? As for covering up in your climate... Isn't clothing cheaper, longer-lasting and more effective than the suncream that'd otherwise get used? Mike. Edited to add: Speaking personally, Australia in high summer would likely see me reaching for my gandoura & djellaba!!! I may look like a well lost Imazighen (Targui), but I'd be comfortable. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hear hear. I'm sure that's a belief shared by many of the (Ab)original Australians... Only they'd probably replace "Hajib-wearing-Muslims" with "Shorts-wearing-lager-swilling-whining-sunburned-roundheads". It's amazing how quickly yesterday's immigrant becomes today's xenophobe! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

THIS IS NOT WORK SAFE!!!!! Actual footage of a person being shot at close range. Read the below to prepare you for the actual combat image. Seeing folks actually pulling the trigger on another human may not be your cup of tea. War can be a brutal event. We tend to sit back in our living rooms, and view the barrage of information that comes across our television. We can easily become desensitized to the real gravity and danger of the battle front. Lives may be ended or altered forever during the heat of battle. When I first saw this photo, my heart was instantly brought face to face with "cold" reality. Yet at the same time, it made me realize that like any soldier, I'm just a guy, too. This moment of conflict, on some distant shore, truly captures the shock of what can happen when an enemy is totally exposed. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Always have to go back 500 years in Christendom to find anything like what islam is doing today. ROTFLMAO! Adolf Hitler?.. Good Catholic. Benito Mussolini?.. Another good Catholic. Joseph Stalin?.. Trained for the priesthood. Pol Pot?.. Always at Church when he was in France. The Reverend "Dr." Ian Paisley?.. 'nuff said. Great men of peace and good Christians all. The idea of trying to equate violence to a particular religion is ludicrous. I would have expected better from someone who sees ordinary Muslims in Kosovo on a daily basis... Or are they viewed like Germans viewed the Jews who lived next door?... The "good" exceptions to the rule!!? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Perhaps it's time to dust off The Herman Goering Principle again? OK... He was a Transvestite Junkie... But in terms of modern politics, that isn't all that outrageous, is it. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hi Randall, I think you're actually answering your own question. You want to do this thing for him out of loyalty, but your common sense is telling you not to. Without knowing the specifics, I'd counsel you to follow your Head, rather than your Heart. Regards, Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Here in the (y)UK, we're starting to get reports & comments from the "Terror-Suspects" friends & family, who are basically going "What The Fuck!!??" The "terrorist's" families seem as shocked as we are. Amazed that their relatives / mates were involved in terrorism. In the meantime, The British Government has 28 days to keep hyping this before they have to put-up (a prosecution) or shut-up (release the suspects). In the meantime, as one former labour Government aide put it... "This is a great time to release bad news". Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Ireland's economy is flying, what is this money for? Congressional Fact-Finding Tours!!? Especially if they stay overnight at The Chicago Fairmont. Apparently, if you book their $300K overnight B&B package, you get flown into Chicago in a private jet, taken to the hotel in a Rolls-Royce or Bentley Limosine, and next morning you drive away in the limo... Which you get to keep (along with the towels)! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Please... PLEASE don't credit George Galloway with any sort of belief or sympathy toward anything but George Galloway. That just legitimatises the shit! There are a lot of people (myself included) who sympathise with the plight of the Lebanise & Palestinian people. Galloway isn't one of them. Hey... They elected incompetent, idiotic leaders who resort to violence far too readily... But that isn't a Bombing-Offence, is it? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

My favourite bit is where POLITICIANS would be exempt from prosecution!

Since you ask... Video of Steel singing The Red Flag or (specifically this version of) the Soviet Anthem would do it for me!!! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Hmmm... America getting into the "Empire-Building" business!!? PNAC is either absolutely terrifying, or a vision of a Brave New World... I'm thinking Huxley rather than Shakespeare. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

George Galloway makes some excellent points of fact in the video... Including the fact that he is precisely the sort of Dickhead who should shut-the-fuck-up about Israel & Lebanon! His actions in the past show that George Galloway is completely committed to his passionate belief in... George Galloway! He'll embrace ANYTHING, no matter how contentious, that gets him exposure. His comments, coming from someone so morally bankrupt, serve the Israeli cause far more than the Lebanese one. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

That's freefall + canopy ride, right? Shhh... It still impresses the hell out of Whuffos when I claim 2Km in the same time! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

The problem is that it would take a massive coverup for this to stay a secret... Not necessarily. The number of people who have to KNOW that this plot isn't genuine - the ones supplying the intel & intercepts - is not large. The police & prosecution agencies will act on the intel supplied. I dop think it's PROBABLY genuine. Almost certainly so. But there remains this nagging doubt based on past incidents where "Terrorist-Plots" have turned out to be nothing of the sort, or grossly over-inflated. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Rather more than that. This would have dwarfed 9/11. Putting myself in the Terrorist's mind, the time to detonate wouldn't have been in mid flight. it would have been at the beginning or end of the flight... When you can see buildings out of your window. They talk of 10 flights being targetted; I'll bet that a look at airline schedules would give near simultaneous arrivals at several US Cities (with the planes still having some 20% of fuel remaining) along with departures from UK airports (BA's Gatwick-Phoenix flight actually climbs out over London with a good view of The Millenium Dome & it won't be the only one)! Initial reports would simply have been of plane crashes on approach to landing or shortly after take-off. Only when all the reports started to come together would planes be grounded, but anything still in the air HAS to land somewhere, doesn't it. The only airport I can think of which could take potential bomb-carrying planes with minimal loss of life if it blows up on approach is Gander. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

IF this is in fact a genuine plot. As I said elsewhere, what springs to my mind is the "Suicide-Bomber" heroically shot by cops as he was about detonate a bomb on a Tube-Train. Then there was that Chemical / Bio Bomb factory in North London that was raided (when another "Terrorist" was shot)... Let's be sure that the "Liquid-Explosive" they were making doesn't turn out to be a recipe for extra-hot Vindaloo! Let's be sure that the folk behind this dastardly scheme are in fact the ones that've been arrested, and not the ones ordering the arrests. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Quite possible. There is a degree of correspondence, and let's face it. IF you're going to steadfastly fight a war, then there has to be news of a battle or two fought (& won) to keep the home-fires burning. Another good side-effect of this is that it's almost certainly stopped the Papparazzi following Bliar out to Barbados. The "Acid-Test" of this latest crisis will be if it also stops the lying bastard getting back. If you want dangerous liquids, then consider the piss he's been taking out of us!!? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... If they get us to change how we live, incite some religious or racial hatred & intolerance, then they win. That's why the 7/7 bombings were such a dismal failure - Londoners dusted off their "Blitz" mentality and got down to "business as usual". It's important to remember that this attepted atrocity (if true) was done by a bunch of Evil-Shitheads (who happen to be Muslim / Pakistani). BUT primarily they're Evil-Shitheads! If this "plot" isn't genuine, then we have to look "elsewhere" for the Evil-Shitheads! Like I said before, this "war" isn't between Christian & Islam, or between Westarn & Eastern or White & Brown. It's between Extremists & Moderates. Autocracy & Democracy... And every society has elements of both. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

See above, we shall see. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4780815.stm Doing the round-robin of internet & TV News here, it does seem that this all started with an arrest in Pakistan which led to monitoring in Britain. Given that any comms intercepts would go through GCHQ in Cheltenham (which has a significant American presence), then The NSA would have certainly been well in the loop from the off. I'll bet there's a similar Pakistani-American joint facility in Pakistan. Indeed, I'd expect that the original intelligence went from Pakistan to Britain via the NSA. Well done, Postman Pat. This was developed co-operatively. People working together! Although sometimes that seems a strange concept here. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I've been told that it doesn't actually count as a handspring if it ends with a scream and a visit to a doctor! In my mid 40's I can still do 4Km in under 6 minutes! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Perhaps, but I don't think the same can be said for the Iraq situation. "RockPaperScissors Saddam style" That's the MAIN reason he just had to go!... Obviously trying to cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors and not complying with the previous result! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.