Walsingham

You want us together but distinct, eh?

I'd be afraid of him. The man's mental and he has/had guns.

With Italy tanking I'm asking myself for the first time if it's worth going abroad, lungfish style. Just hole up somewhere dirt cheap and full of mosquitos with a shotgun and plenty of rum. Live on ...I've no idea. Come back in five years when the dust has settled.

23 navy Seals killed Bin Laden. 23! I can see the fnords, dammit!

I think it's ironic that I seem to be the only person who is sad that the USA has been bungholed. I quite like the USA. I very much like not having the world economy collapse like an Iranian general's breath.

Got into intellectual discussion last night about the merits of living for the moment. Thereby argued myself into consuming vast quantities of booze. Struggling a little with work today, but am focussing on all the ass kickings I need to do this week. I find being hungover actually helps.

He had more than 1 gun (3, iirc, with the other two being 9mm handguns) so reloading was far less an issue. In any case he does not have to deal with hundreds of people looking to kill him. This is not a United 93 type situation where a largish group of people have a long time to deliberate and come to terms with it being us vs them/ him, to the death; and that vs guys with boxcutters. This is a situation where a 'policeman' gathers a bunch of teenagers, and a few adults, together then pulls an assault rifle and opens fire. He doesn't have to deal with hundreds of people, he has to deal with the very small proportion who react to this- slightly unusual- situation by deciding to spontaneously, and uncoordinatedly, charge him. Once they are gone everyone else is- basically- irrelevant since they're in too small groups and far, far too panicked. I'm sure most people think/ hope that they would be the hero who charges the guy with an M14 and takes him out, Arnie style; it's an easy dream to have while sitting in the warm and comfortable glow of a monitor, drinking a coffee and eating a scone. Indeed. Further it's worth pointing out that several studies during WW2* indicated that only 1 in 10 front line soldiers actually actively shot at the enemy. And that was with freaking guns. Not rocks. Hiding or running is a damned sensible idea. Not that I'm mocking anyone who tried to take him on. I'm just not mocking anyone who didn't. *[Marshal, 'Men Against Fire' from memory]

Try the Turks. They're hilarious!

As any apartheid policeman wuold tell you: there's **** all point rushing a man with an automatic weapon. This isn't the movies. As for the notion that whatsisface was some sort of 'highly disciplined' killer, that's arse. He is by comparison with many of the comitragic jifascist efforts we've seen recently. But there was nothing in what he did which would be beyond the owner of any small business that makes pots or does gardening. I find suggestions that he was very disciplined ill conceived at best, and secretly admiring at worst.

Slept for 13 hours! Feel about five years younger! Huge breakfast and coffee. Slouching about the house, tidying dribs and drabs.

Drunk last night. You have no idea how long it took me to write this.

Why don't they just sell Alaska back to the Russians (or sell it to the Chinese for that matter). I seem to remember reading somewhere, that it is the greatest money pit and most subsidized by federal tax money place in the US I'm investing in Australia too... bought some beer and a few bottles of wine Don't you ****ing dare! Alaska is awesome. They should sell off New York It's not really American in the first place.

Turns out my notion of getting unexpectedly bongoed was not too far from true! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14344626

Sand was a true gentleman, even if he was a colonial. I regret not knowing him better.

I don't want to stamp all over your point old man, but I know what life was like under Apartheid. It wasn't like that in Europe last time I checked. Nope. I just checked again. I have full franchise rights and employment possibilities. Plus a cracking stack of booze and porn. No Islamofascist nightmare just yet.

I think the whole point of lucid dreaming is that you are empowered, not trapped. You're talking about 'nachtshrecken'.

35% top tax rate seems pretty fair. As you say, once you're buying ferraris then you've got enough cash to be enjoying yourself. And a good start would be sunshine and floozies, IMO. Not Italian engi-wank.

Couldn't sleep last night because I was afraid - and I'm not kidding - of dying in my sleep. I think something busted when I was looking after my mother. Don't really want to spend money on psychiatrists. Or time, to be honest. I wouldn't mind if they actually did any work. "No, no. I want to know how YOU think this can be fixed."

LOL contemptible ****slaves. i'm not reading the Times any time soon. {I read the Torygraph, so I this is one occasion where I don't look like so much of a fascist}

I've had plenty of lucid dreams, from the one where I spent five minutes in a warzone before being shot in the thigh and medevac'd, to the one where I discussed order vs chaos with the Lord Buddha, to getting trapped at an incredibly boring tea party. The more you do it, the more you do it, is what I heard.

I don't want to sound like LoF here, so I'm asking so someone can set me straight. Basically throughout the early noughties people enjoyed a lot of services and bought a lot of stuff on credit. Other people enjoyed the benefits of providing those services and bits of tat. Now, essentially, we hit a wall in that all the imaginary money used to pay for all the healthy economic behaviour and people in jobs ...was imaginary. Which is in essence fine, because modern economics is entirely based on imaginary money. Now, my point is that it occurs to me that the only people who have been shafted here are rich people. As in mega rich people. they're the ones who lended the imaginary money. But they lent too much imaginary money and no w imaginary money is worth less than they think it should be. I say mega rich people because all the normal people have either enjoyed or are still enjoying the things they bought with the imaginary money. Am I right so far?

ROFL

I can't think of many law enforcement organisations which would send officers directly into an island which contains at least one armed man equipped with automatic weapons and grenades without mustering and trying to get a brief on layout and survivors first. If anything one hour is quite fast! And can I throw in my ten pennorth and observe that you all sound hysterical about the anti-muslim thing? This attack was planned using jihadi principles, and executed in a manner consistent with jihadi MO. There's no juicy conspiracy involved in blaming muslims any more than if a 2 tonne carbomb goes off at Castlereagh everyone blames the IRA rather than the 'Knights Templar'. As I say, the fact that all sorts of groups and ideologies are turning to terrorism is because for the last ten years we've seen terrorism actually achieving its aims of affecting democratic states. Combined with the baseline narrative that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" how could terrorism get anything other than worse, and used by more people?

Spent almost whole day being enraged. That is all. Oh yes, played Empire Total War. Took out my rage on the Spanish. Defeated 20 galleons with three 4th rates, a galleon, and a brig which instantly exploded on first contact with the enemy. It was epic.

I think on reflection that the point of the political motivation is a chimera. the key point here is that we have seen across Europe that Jihadist attacks have affected national policies, and are on the point of convincing western governments to abandon Afghanistan. Terrorism is a technique which we have abdicated to, and therefore it will inevitably be used by more and more groups to get what they want. Jihadist, neo-nazi, communist, anarchist, fringe nationalist. None of it is significant so long as they all use the same technique.