Wrath of Dagon

IS is going to come knocking at your door.

Retreat and surrender are daily occurrence under our Dear Leader Obola.

If the article is too shallow for you, though I thought it had interesting and important things to say about common culture, here's another one : http://deshcalling.blogspot.com/2013/01/spenglers-ominous-prophecy.html

This reminds me, if you want to see that for yourself : http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=335&Itemid=579 Btw, they started developing this game long before the current events in Ukraine, just like their previous game about a war in Syria was done long before the actual war in Syria.

Well, the article isn't really about that, but I think gives some insight into the dangers of "Do what thou wilt" culture. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/science/a-meditation-on-the-art-of-not-trying.html?src=me&_r=2

They don't know what the reason was for the police shooting, people who are suicidal sometimes kill others also.

Except Bruce can't commit anybody for anything. And judging the sanity of people on the internet isn't a bad idea at all.

That's exactly what I expected you to say, and of course you never answered my question. As far as free higher education, there is already all kinds of financial aid and loans available for people who can't afford it, especially for minorities. Also nothing is free, someone's paying for it, the top 20% percentile is paying virtually all the income tax in the US already. In fact, the huge influx of government aid into higher education is what makes it so expensive.

It wasn't a murder, it was an accident. What would you do in that situation? If you're willing to work, all doors are open. People come here with nothing, and in a generation they're in the elite. What other country can you say that about?

If a guy is resisting arrest, the cops have no choice but to subdue him. What else are they supposed to do? They could've beaten him with billy clubs, but that would've been worse. They could've tasered him if they had tasers, but he might've died from that. They actually chose the least violent form of arrest. As far as several piling on, how else are you supposed to restrain a 300 pound man? How were they supposed to know how sick he was?

Yes, because Nouri al-Maliki was so desperate to have US troops stay! He was chasing after Obama on hands and knees begging rather than offering to pack their bags and see them off from the airport while bouncing up and down with anticipation! No, he wasn't. You weren't going to get troops staying because it wasn't what Maliki wanted. Both parties had to want the troops to stay and the Iraqis didn't want them, if they had they would have simply extended the old SoF. And if Obama had pushed strongly for an extension and failed it would be used as evidence of his failure (had to go on bended knee to Iraq then got rejected) and if he had accepted more restrictive conditions then he'd be criticised for that (went on bended knee and sold our guys out for Maliki/ didn't do enough/ broke his promise to withdraw). Of course having US stay would be a political problem for Maliki, and he was getting pressured by the like of Al Sadr and Iran. Nor would we ever allow having our troops put under Iraqi jurisdiction. But most knowledgeable people believe an agreement could have been reached, and certainly no one's ever accused Obola of doing his utmost, or utilizing all the tools at his disposal, as he did when he got Maliki to resign for example. Edit: Btw, most people forget, or never found out, that in 2008 Obola ran on getting out of Iraq immediately, then re-invading if Al Qaeda ever came back. Well, it looks like he's getting his wish.

By most accounts, including Leon Panetta's, Obola went through the motions but didn't try very hard to reach an agreement: http://www.newsweek.com/panettas-memoir-blasts-obama-his-leadership-blames-him-state-iraq-and-syria-276582 He was so ambivalent and disengaged often our negotiators didn't even know what our position was. Later he sometimes took credit for getting our troops out of Iraq and sometimes blamed Iraqis for the very same thing, whichever suited him at the moment. He also famously lied about what our position on the status of forces agreement was in the debate with Mitt Romney, though very few of our ignoramus media and voters noticed at the time.

The butthurt is strong with this one. A few left-leaning states voted as expected, this is supposed to prove something? True raising the minimum wage is fairly popular, but mostly only people earning the minimum wage feel strongly about it. And as we have seen, states that want it are perfectly capable of doing it for themselves, it doesn't have to be done at the federal level. WOD when do you think Texas will legalize Marijuana for recreational use? I imagine this will take some time as I consider Texas conservative when it comes to these types of issues? Hopefully never. I'd say at least not for 10 years. And there is no dichotomy, Federal law supersedes state, so marijuana is still illegal in all 50 states, the current administration just chooses to ignore the law, as they do in so many other cases.

The butthurt is strong with this one. A few left-leaning states voted as expected, this is supposed to prove something? True raising the minimum wage is fairly popular, but mostly only people earning the minimum wage feel strongly about it. And as we have seen, states that want it are perfectly capable of doing it for themselves, it doesn't have to be done at the federal level.

Well, we seem to be off into foreign policy weeds, but for those interested in domestic American politics, here's a couple of articles: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-scariest-part-of-the-republican-blowout-for-democrats/382375/ He's right, social issues are best dealt with at the state level, but he's wrong about lumping amnesty in with social issues. In fact all the Republican Senate candidates that won made opposition to amnesty for illegals an issue in their campaigns. Here's another one about Texas : http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/06/Anti-Amnesty-Pro-Border-Security-GOP-Candidates-in-TX-GA-Got-Over-40-of-Latino-Vote Given the margin of Republican victory for all state wide offices of 20% or more, I now feel much better about Texas staying Republican for at least 20 years, demographics or not. Also what the article doesn't say is the Lieutenant Governor candidate was even to the right of Abbott, unlike Abbott made opposition to illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign, and ran against a Hispanic woman, yet got the same margin of victory as Abbott, which means about the same Hispanic support as well. So may be Hispanics aren't the Republican Kryptonite the Democrats think they are.

As I have said before. Our policy in Syria is dumb; we never should have backed the rebels. Our backing rebels in Libya & Syria has really backfired. I hope Washington actually gets it this time. I would love to see if a Republican come to power in America and do anything different to Obama in respect to Syria or ISIS So in other words ignoring the UN security council vote and attacking Syria directly and then somehow putting troops on the ground against ISIS Its so easy to criticize the incumbent president of any country A Republican president would've kept some troops in Iraq until they were no longer needed, instead of recklessly throwing away all the sacrifice. As far as McCain, he's always been a bit eccentric, but he does usually mean what he says, unless he's running for reelection, in which case he lies like any other politician.

I bet they try and fail within the first month of the new session. Gridlock occurs, Republicans take the majority of the blame, and Democratic presidential candidate gets a boost. This is just my guesstimate though, don't take it as fact. Nah, the President gets blamed for everything anyway, when Democrats took over Congress in 2006 it made it even worse for the Republican presidential candidate, if that was possible. Midterm elections is when the low info voter stays home, so it gives a certain advantage to the Republicans. In this case the Democrats were dragged down by an obviously completely incompetent and out of his depth President, who is nevertheless supremely arrogant and lawless, and seems to care about foreigners, terrorists and traitors far more than American citizens. The economy may be doing decent compared to the rest of the pinko world, but it's not perceived as such as income has stagnated and labor participation rate keeps dropping. Add to that a foreign policy that's going from one catastrophe to another, and it all added up to a bloodbath for the Dems.

Obola's new ISIS strategy has collapsed already: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/us-proxies-surrender-syria

The science is settled : http://news.yahoo.com/u-scientists-uncertainties-loom-ebolas-transmission-other-key-003751718--finance.html

That would only happen if our government were sane, or didn't hate its own citizens. As it is, three (Democrat) governors did require returning health workers to be quarantined, but Obola is pressuring them to give that up. Edit: Sorry, one's a Republican. If I were her, I'd kick him in the nuts for allowing me to get infected. I have to say though I'm quite impressed with our medical capabilities, so far everyone who's been brought back for treatment or got infected here survived.

I don't think the prosecutor has to prove what his state of mind was at the time, unless they somehow can call psychic tele-mindreaders as witnesses. All it takes is for a reasonable person not to believe his idiotic excuse. "Oh sorry Your Honor, I wasn't trying to rob the man, I thought he was going to attack me and so I shot him, and no one can prove I thought otherwise!"

Yeah, but who'd want to go to Russia? Edit: There may be no formal ban, but I strongly suspect they wouldn't give a visa to anyone in those countries, assuming their embassies there are even still open. Edit2 : This infection map I posted in the Ebola thread doesn't show significant air travel or risk for Russia, and I believe the two government studies I've seen don't show it either, although I'm too lazy to look for them right now : http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/13/6959103/ebola-spread-international-epidemic-china-india-europe

You shouldn't be able to go there unless it's something essential, like helping to fight the epidemic, you don't have the right to bring infection back with you. People who do go there on an essential mission should be quarantined for at least 3 weeks when they come back.

Xenonauts and Wasteland 2. Both are so good it's hard to leave one to play the other. A good and rare problem to have, especially when sometimes you start to suspect you're burned out on games. But no, turns out those games were just crap.

Vladimir Putin. Does not care. About Russian people. At least he's not trying to intentionally infect them with Ebola, unlike Western governments.