Andy9o8

He and his parents paid taxes which provide the US's lopsided participation in NATO's considerable role in the security umbrella which protects the UK (and the rest of Western Europe) , at the expense of any meaningful universal health care system in the US, so that citizens of the UK (and the rest of Western Europe) could retain enough assets to fund their own national health care systems. Oh, and I think he filled out some kind of application.

Indeed. As comparably bad a first major engagement with the Germans as the Battle of Dunkirk.

Well, Lindsey Graham does have lovely puppy eyes, so there's some accuracy there.

And if your white and get shot and killed, no one cares. Remember Reginald Denny? Remember Emmett Till? We can do this all day.

You're doing a 'kids these days" kinda thing. They all evolve past that stage, at the same rate as all previous generations. Now tell them to get off your lawn.

As demonstrated time and again, people confuse the thing, with the thing it stands for. A symbol is simply that, nothing more, nothing less. It is NOT the country. I understand the youthful indoctrination and brainwashing some people go through which confuses them on the matter, but they are confused none the less. For the same reason people get all pissed off about seeing a confederate flag. It is what it represents. Imagine you were Jewish and there was a Nazi flag flying over a state capitol building. So, yeah, I understand why some people get upset about a confederate flag flying over a government building, since the government probably shouldn't be flying symbols of oppression. That said, individuals who choose to, while I personally find repugnant, it's their flag. If they want people to know they're assholes; who am I to say they can't? The American flag was displayed in post-Reconstruction government offices and courtrooms which perpetuated and/or enabled the perpetuation of some of the worst horrors of post-Civil War racial discrimination and oppression. It was also the standard borne by, for example, US Army cavalry units that massacred Native American non-combatants. I was raised in the post-WWII 20th Century by a veteran who taught me to revere the flag. But to many, the Stars and Stripes, and not just the Confederate flag, has been a symbol of oppression. Just a little perspective.

http://www.timescall.com/news/ci_27937014/noise-expert-says-milehi-doesnt-have-the-loudest-planes

Same reason why Americans put ketchup on fries, while Brits put vinegar on chips: independently-developed cultural difference, and it simply is what it is. One man's yummy bacon is another man's abomination. And so it goes.

Having been there myself, and then raised my own kids, I think it's a developmental stage. The 18-22 age range is the age at which, intellectually, it all starts to click and one becomes astute enough to read behind the veneer, recgonize bullshit for what it is, and call bullshit on said bullshit. (It's not exclusive to being in college, but college, both in the classroom and in the dorms, helps train people to think more critically than one did while in high school living with the 'rents.) It's basically the skill of diagnosis, or as lawyers say, "issue identification". But the process is incomplete, for the next stage, after identification, is remediation, i.e., solving the problem. That's a more complex task, requiring more training and experience than most college students have. The result: they bitch about the problem (usually more or less correctly), but they don't yet know how to come up with the answer, so those older than them tend to dismiss them. Then they get revenge by poisoning our food.

Back when I started jumping, I was only 18 with no fake... Uhmmm? Back when I started jumping the legal drinking age was 18. What he said.

I'm just shocked, shocked that the leaders of our noble calling would enable such delinquency.

Flip another jumper some cash. They'll gladly buy the beer for you - as long as you buy enough for them too. Aha! Suborning a criminal act! I didn't say the underage guy gets to drink any of it. Hell, it's not for him anyway! The underage dude flipping another jumper some cash to buy beer is legally delinquent, too, for both parties, regardless of who consumes the evil confection. Gosh, you're digging yourself in deep. I suppose you'd encourage them to play pool and dance, too. Or even jump off things in national parks.

Flip another jumper some cash. They'll gladly buy the beer for you - as long as you buy enough for them too. Aha! Suborning a criminal act!

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We do our best t spread the gospel. It's a calling. Then others try to emulate us. They're so jealous. That said, yeah, he totally Godwined it. It's just thinly veiled. Be we all understand it. Winkie winkie!

Those affected by Stockholm Syndrome rarely recognize or acknowledge it for what it is, at least while it's occurring.

No. The only "captured" ufo I'd be interested in is the one that gets publicly off-loaded from the cargo hold.

Eh, read between the lines: the real outrage is fucking with someone's god-given Internet. Might as well beat up on Grandma.

You don't say. I'll see your Ruby Ridge and Waco with a Wounded Knee and Selma, and raise you a Kent State and a Jackson State. Oh, and a My Lai. So whose outrage is "morally justified" to act upon? What's good for the goose, and all that.

I just started typing "Islamic training camps" and google's auto-suggest did the rest. It's an existing blogosphere meme. Easy peasy.

Google the phrase "Islamic training camps in" and Google's auto-complete offers the options "South Carolina", "Georgia" and "Alabama". Keep going and the resulting hits are the usual suspects of the paranoid viral right-wing nut job blogosphere. I mean, as if Islamists would situate their "camps" in the one region of the country whose population is virtually guaranteed to be the most hostile to Muslims. Really, Ron, please: this is silly and, yes, paranoid.

Never!!

She was disciplined because, by her own choice, she was hired to be part of the public face of ESPN (for which she's presumably very well-compensated), which means that she must comport herself properly, especially when out in public, and not do anything that would damage the public image of her employer, whose stock in trade is its public image. By invoking "who she was", she was impliedly invoking ESPN, and thus her conduct of (arguably) moral turpitude reflects poorly on ESPN. Yes, it's a code of (especially public) conduct more burdensome than the average schmoe must adhere to, but it was part of the deal in exchange for her compensation. I can almost guarantee you that her (presumed) employment contract's language supports this; although even if she has no contract and is an employee-at-will (which I doubt) the implied terms of her employment would still support this.

There is no intel. There is a complete lack of intel. Nothing is happening, so the intel on the thing that isn't happening doesn't exist. If it happens, intel will be created. My neighbour doesn't have a dog. If you asked me what intel I have on her dog, I would have to admit I have none. Does that mean she might have a dog? So you have no intel proving she has no dog.

Great job foaming at the mouth, big guy. Ron was the one referring to paranoia. I replied with the link as a one-liner. I do lots of one-liners, in case you haven't noticed. I'm willing to bet most everyone else here got the joke. Now take a breath.