Wrath of Dagon

Yeah, I always thought preppers were crazy. I guess I'm the crazy one.

To start off, may be we've been lied to about it not being airborne : http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola

I'm definitely interested in hearing your continued (as spoiler-free as possible) impressions of Crimes ans Punishment once you play it some more. I'd love to play a good Sherlock Holmes game. I'm stuck in the first case. I seemed to have done everything right according to the guide, but at one point a character doesn't spawn, so I can't proceed. Pretty sure it's a bug, but may be only on 360, I haven't been able find anyone else having that problem. As far as gameplay, definitely a matter of preference. You hunt for clues, have conversations which only have options according to the evidence you find, make deductions, and based on that find more evidence and have more conversations. Not the most exciting thing in the world but fun for some, I'm liking it. There's also an occasional mini-game or puzzle. Game definitely seems more logical than most puzzle adventures, so that's a big plus. The most annoying thing is to constantly have to shuttle back and forth between Baker Street, Scotland Yard, and the crime scene (basically a fairly long load each time).

Sorry to keep derailing the thread, but this is interesting : http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/disaster-in-the-south-pacific/

Got Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, pretty good so far. It's kind of like an adventure-puzzle game, but instead of arbitrary puzzles you have to make logical deductions based on the evidence you uncover. Also finished Highpool in Wasteland 2, so far a great game, right up there with the best RPG's I've played; and I tend to get bored with the old RPG's, so I was surprised how it immediately drew me in. Also have Xenonauts,and about 3-4 other games in my rotation, kind of unmanageable. Problem is I play so slow, and PC games are so long.

A hundred people have been exposed to that guy, how would you like to be one of them? But I guess it's OK so long as it's someone else. I'm pretty sure I've gotten exposed to SARS and the Bird Flu, given all my students spend holidays in Asia. But yeah, it's a bit early to condemn the government when right now we have one guy who is quarantined and all the people he was in close contact are being watched and isolated. What else are you looking for in a response to this? Should we send everyone into the fallout bunkers immediately? You students had SARS and Bird Flu? What we should do is stop having random people from affected countries be able to come here for any reason, most African countries have those restrictions already, which is the only way the epidemic hasn't spread to them.

A hundred people have been exposed to that guy, how would you like to be one of them? But I guess it's OK so long as it's someone else.

When a state refuses to even protect its citizens from Ebola, it is well and truly useless.

This is the distinction I've always worked with. Ideologically Fascism often also refers to a Golden Past, whereas Communism often talks about the Golden Future. So there are conservative vs reformative differences as well. Edit: Propaganda wise we see big differences too, that allude to the underlying psychology of the regimes. Fascism and Nazism took their clues from the Roman Empire, both in symbolism but also in elevating the "First among Men" and the strong leader cult. Whereas communist regimes took a new approach and appealed much more the the "low" and the rise of "the collective" through the elevation of "the common man". Much in the same way Christianity and Judaism did, which I suspect is also why they were so keen to get rid of that competition. Ah, that's not the case at all. No one's done the cult of personality like Communist regimes, whether Lenin, Stalin, Mao or the Kims.

What crimes have they been charged with by the FBI, the courts, or the US Government? They are on an unindicted contact list for a charity that is linked to Hamas, that's hardly a smoking gun. But hey, maybe they are just a front for the big bad wolf. So what on their website is meant to corrupt the youth (or whatever their seedy agenda is)? It's funny that you accuse me of being politically correct when you seem very quick to jump on the anti-muslim bandwagon without hesitation. Attacking Islam and the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide is a much more popular choice in the US than engaging different cultures and having an open dialogue about differences. They were founded to shill for Hamas and MB, do you have no reading comprehension, it's right there in the quote from their founder I posted, he uses the word front, he talks about not displaying their true colors. And I'm not attacking Muslims in general, many of them are good US allies, like the Egyptian government, I'm exposing what's been proven to be a terrorist linked organization, read the quote from the judge again; whose main purpose is to lower our anti-terrorism defenses to pre-9/11 levels and infringe on the right of free speech to criticize their Sharia agenda. And thanks to the people who think like you and our Clown in Chief president, they're succeeding brilliantly.

So the FBI, the courts, the US government are all garbage sources? You really can't contradict any of the evidence, only launch ad hominem attacks. I think you actually have your own religion, which is based on believe and can not be contradicted by any facts. It's called PC.

I "cherry picked" the quotes which were actually relevant to the thesis. Most of the stuff you posted proves nothing, except the one where your own beloved California chapter encouraged its members not to cooperate with FBI's counterterrorism investigations, "build a wall of resistance", a poster they only took down once a firestorm of controversy erupted. Forget it, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Edit: So all the people I quoted, the people who've been warning about the danger of Islamism for years and years, and have been proven right time and again, are all conspiracy theorists to you?

You say they have different chapters, but you yourself posted a link to their national website as evidence of what good guys they are. And this is from your links Also, nothing that I posted is contradicted in those articles, which of course try to be PC considering their source, but my information is far more in depth, you just choose to ignore it.

It's a serious accusation backed up by evidence. Read and watch the links. Edit: Al Qaeda criticized ISIS too, so what?

You simply continue to be in denial. CAIR's main activity right now is to try to suppress free speech: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/14/The-Intolerance-of-Brandeis http://www.investigativeproject.org/1854/doj-cairs-unindicted-co-conspirator-status-legit# Stephen Emerson btw who runs The Investigative Project on Terrorism is the only person who kept warning something like 9/11 would happen before it happened. Edit: Here btw is the Oklahoma's murderer's Imam making an extremist speech at a CAIR fundraiser : http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/moderate-boston-imam-suhaib-webb-hirsi-ali-idiot-secularism-lunatic-ideology

Just how I feel about California.

And in any case totalitarian regimes are similar, whatever they profess. nazis were worse because they were also extreme racists. I don't think the fascist Mussolini was worse than Stalin, not by a long stretch.

nazis were definitely socialist : http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372197/nazis-still-socialists-jonah-goldberg

If you claim that's a widespread believe among conservative Christians, you better back that up. It's an interesting read, but again it's very vague when it comes to actual evidence. First off, every branch of CAIR is independent, so the odds that some branches can be tied to an iman who supports Hamas is fairly likely. For example, I've only had experience with CAIR-California, and it has been nothing but positive. Secondly, this is all about a charity organization that was indicted for providing money to extremists. CAIR, along with 245 other organizations, were listed as unindicted co-conspirators with the charity organization. They were cleared in 2011 of the list by a Federal Appeals Court, which your article conveniently left out. And lastly, read the CAIR website. Is there anything on there that strikes you as extreme? Are their press releases cause for concern? Look at the work they are doing to judge them, rather than vague accusations. What's vague? The US government found them to be co-conspirators and a Hamas linked organization. And I can't find anything about them being cleared, what's your source on that? To believe that all the branches are truly independent is beyond naïve, when you consider by whom and for what purpose they were founded. As far as their press releases, there's plenty of cause for concern, as many articles on Clarion illustrate. No evidence, or evidence you intentionally ignore? http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/canadian-pm-blasts-cair-ties-hamas There's much more about CAIR on that website. If you claim that's a widespread believe among conservative Christians, you better back that up. Come now WOD, there are Christian groups in the USA that believe that the earth is 6000 years old. I'm not trying to attack Christianity but people often say " look how radical Muslims are" . But to suggest that there aren't radical Christians with very conservative views is just not true. Radical elements exist on all sides of aisle, do you really need me to post links around blatant homophobia that exists in the USA due to religious belief? Yes, if there's any information on mainstream Christian groups wanting to kill homosexuals, I do want you to post links, since that is what you implied. Obviously, you can find any kind of lunatic on the internet, like Westboro Baptist Church.

ROFL. You do realize that CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood front, don't you? Read up on taqiyya. I know all about the accusations, and they are baseless. There is literally no evidence to back up that relationship. I have attended CAIR events and spoken with speakers in the past, and they've all been friendly, tolerant, and more interested in education than any agenda. Plus, McCarthyism, look it up. No evidence, or evidence you intentionally ignore? http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/canadian-pm-blasts-cair-ties-hamas There's much more about CAIR on that website. If you claim that's a widespread believe among conservative Christians, you better back that up.

ROFL. You do realize that CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood front, don't you? Read up on taqiyya.

You guys should insist on devolution. May be you'll wind up with the kind of Federalism that's supposedly guaranteed by our Constitution. In related news, a significant percentage of Americans would like to secede: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0HE19U20140919?irpc=932

New type of battery claimed, to power an electric supercar : http://mediacenter.nanoflowcell.com/mediacenter/press-release/news-detail/2014-03-04-introducing-the-nanoflowcellR/

If pain is fun, then yes. I wonder what the rate of injury is.

Halo "Library" wasn't so bad, you just have to try to explode the gas bags so they take out everyone else.