Drowsy Emperor

Major american media refuse to print the caricatures of Muhammad as an act of solidarity, saying that there's "no excuse" to insult tens of millions of muslims. Yet they feel free to insult millions of Christians with Jesus caricatures. *sigh* ****ing (pseudo)liberals. Its freedom of expression when they're trampling their own cultural heritage for giggles but censorship when the other guy happens not to turn the other cheek. I don't know who I despise more, but the Islamists are at least consistent in their lunacy.

"Even if everyone in the office was armed it wouldn't have helped them one bit." Nonsense. When was the last time two armed gunmen walked into a place like a gun club, military barracks, police office, or anywhere else where everyone there was armed, shot everyone there (~10 people) dead using only fairly standard handheld weaponry, and then got away uninjured while shooting random people on the getaway? Never happened? Right. And it never will. But hey, in your world an entire religion is the problem, rather than a handful of evil nutjobs. You saying 'Islam in France' is the problem is as legitimate as saying 'Hamburger Eaters' are the problem the next time a non-vegan blows a bunch of people away somewhere on earth. In Sierra Leone a band armed with machetes massacred a UN camp with armed soldiers. Anything is possible if you're prepared and the other side isn't. What's the point you're trying to make? These aren't barracks, this is a satirical magazine. They aren't likely to keep a rifle in their brush jar even if it was allowed. There was even an armed police guard for the editor and he was killed along with the others. No one can live in fear and permanent preparedness for an attack that may never come.. And yes, islam is obviously the problem. I don't see terrorists of other major world religions making headlines at all, let alone regularly.

Gun laws in France aren't relevant to this discussion. These people planned the attack very well and knew what they were doing. Even if everyone in the office was armed it wouldn't have helped them one bit. The problem here is Islam in France. Unlike the domestic left wing terrorism of the 20th century, this is a problem that's: a) not going to go away any time soon b) can only get worse The reason these things happen is that Europeans have become too soft and too sensitive to violence. A few years back when the magazine reprinted the caricatures of Muhammad (those Danish ones) many cultural institutions were closed due to fear of revenge attacks. Also the offices of this magazine were firebombed at one point. Why is the French government afraid of Muslims in France, in its own house so to speak? Those cartoonists showed more political courage than their entire government and now they're dead. French response is labeling the killers as criminals and avoiding the entire (and solely important) islamic element, vague statements about freedom and shuffling the thing off to the police to handle. But this isn't a police matter, apart from the procedural aspect. This is political. And, as usual, nothing is being done.

Born in Paris. When will Europeans learn?

There was no way for the pro-russian side to win ever again since the whole "revolution" was also a political purge of all pro-russian politicians. Some members of parliament were thrown in dumpsters, houses and party offices torched, people threatened and beaten. This was the second of the western sponsored revolutions in Ukraine and the Russians let the first one slide because they still had ground in Ukraine in the aftermath. This time, they were likely to lose everything.

That comic is so true

How dare you! They support Europe and DEMMMMMUCRACY! Whenever I hear that a movement supports democracy I look skyward to see if the bombs have started falling yet.

****ing tragedy is what it is, they have no idea why they were fighting a war that made them cripples for life. They may think they do, but time will show that there was nothing to win and everything to lose, as far as the well being of the people living in Ukraine is concerned.

The problem with having a gun is that few people are aware what a serious commitment owning one is if you ever intend to use it. You have to be disciplined, you have to make time to go to the range etc, you have to take precautions so that kids or even grown people don't find it and handle it lest they do something stupid. And you can only get careless once before something terrible happens. I think many people get them for the wrong reasons.

The title of the second video is "knife the Moscowites". I can make out "Ukraine for Ukrainians" Sad to see slavic nationalism targeted against Russians, when the Kievan rus i.e. today's Ukrainians are the historical cradle of Russia. Same people really. This is the process of creating yet another nation state out of thin air by homogenizing the population against the "enemy". Moscow should have acted against this nazi minority way before they flipped Yanukovich.

It would appear that this time the change from the routine was what did it. Her husband gave her the purse with the gun compartment. She was probably used to carrying it around in a holster. Switched it to the bag, let it slip out of her mind and tragedy ensued.

Oh I was just poking you to see how annoyed you are by the whole thing.

I actually do think its hard work because its disgusting. Sleeping with dozens of strangers per day, with many of them so obnoxious that they have to pay to get laid, don't tell me thats not hard. Thats probably harder than any other job out there. I think most of the prostitutes are really unhappy about what they're doing. Two more reasons not to be part of this. I was talking about hard in the sense that it demands education or self improvement or at least qualifies as a physically demanding job that contributes to something, like building a house or whatever. Some people do it as the only way to get out of poverty or a rough patch (and I view that as a societal failing) but I know more than a few that do it just because school was "too much work" and it was simply the path of least resistance to money. Thus whats hard for you, or most people, may come surprisingly easy to others. Scary thought isn't it?

Easily entertained huh?

Sorry, but if you don't do it, then please refrain from giving an opinion on it. You sound like those people who never played PnP but have opinion it's stupid, pointtles, yadda yadda yadda. And I think on this forum I can safely write that we hate those ***holes. Why refrain from giving an opinion on it? Its not nuclear science, you're paying a woman to have sex with you. You hardly need to try it out to form an opinion of it, especially if you're already familiar with how normal human interaction works As a general rule people should refrain from giving opinions on subject they have neither knowledge nor experience. I personally think this rule would make a world a much better place. Normal human interaction? Are you suggesting that women who work hard in sex industry and their customers are not normal? That is strange, because I always thought that the norm was a general population not a margin. It may surprise you to learn that hiring hookers or being one is not the usual past-time or occupation for the general population. "working hard in the sex industry" made me chuckle. Makes it almost sound legitimate, if working hard while lying down weren't such an amusing contradiction.

So what does she do to those things, incinerate them and lick the remaining powder?

Sorry, but if you don't do it, then please refrain from giving an opinion on it. You sound like those people who never played PnP but have opinion it's stupid, pointtles, yadda yadda yadda. And I think on this forum I can safely write that we hate those ***holes. Why refrain from giving an opinion on it? Its not nuclear science, you're paying a woman to have sex with you. You hardly need to try it out to form an opinion of it, especially if you're already familiar with how normal human interaction works

Either you're hiring the wrong hookers or you're doing it sober. If you are on the drunk scale of 1-10 with 1 being sober and 10 being hospitalized hookers are best enjoyed at a 6-7. You can still, perform, and don't give a damn if they like you or not. I was expressing how I feel about the whole thing, I've never had an actual inclination to hire a hooker. Why would I do it when there are so many available women everywhere? Incidentally, I don't drink.

I don't need either kind, sex is pointless if there is no mutual attraction. Sex with a prostitute is like jerking off only you're paying for it - its a service, not human interaction. Hurlshot is just going by what you write and what you write sounds like some juvenile "wolf of wall street" power trip all of the time. It would be a lot more effective if you didn't have to forcefully point it out every time you write something since it ends up sounding like you're overcompensating. Which you probably are, but than, that's your cross to bear.

Living is costing you money at this very moment, but you aren't likely to dine on dog food to save it are you? Same thing here really.

This is amazingly shallow. A real partner (and friend) is someone who genuinely cares about you and you can rely onto even in dire times, sex is just one of many important aspects in a relationship. If you think a hooker can provide you with all the wonderful things you get from a true relationship then I can only ask you if you've ever been in a proper relationship. OMG, dude this is probably the most gay thing anyone ever wrote on this forum. Get back to your Twilight fantasies and leave the serious topics to adults. Damn, you have some deep seated issues. High class hookers indeed.

I always knew Baldur's Gate could cure everything shy of leukemia, I just didn't have the proof.

I'm always amused when people belittle Putin, a man who has spent 14 years ruling a country, taking it from an economic ruin back into world power status. The man turned the fanatically warlike Chechens from an enemy of Russia to a steadfast ally. All the while being consistently the most popular and beloved leader among his people in decades. And even if a part of his opinion polls can be attributed to state propaganda he is still routinely more popular than any other western leader and usually more than a few of them combined. On top of that he managed to actually rule a country with 150 million people that spans two continents and stay in power for so long among some very dangerous people which is no small feat in itself. And even now the combined political pressure of what now passes for the west is not putting a dent in his opinion polls, let alone his actual power. Indeed one would have to be a cretin to believe the man as anything less than extremely capable.

Goes without saying that fitness among men in the police should be enforced vigorously.

Yeah, I checked and wages for cops are higher than the national average, and high in relative terms considering that there is no higher education requirement... but that's kind of the point. An increase in job requirements must entail an increase in wages. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000 That doesn't solve the demand for more black cops in black neighborhoods though. Are there programs to help police officers get through college? Like in the military? I really don't want to hijack this thread, but he's right. Formally the monarchy is powerless, but in reality the royal family is still very influential and their word carries a lot of weight, especially with business circles. A member of the family has been accused of money laundering and fiscal fraud in one of the many high-profile cases of corruption we have going on, and the whole process is a disgrace. The prosecutor acting as a defense attorney, pressure being applied on the judge by higher judiciary organs, etc. Consider that the previous king was appointed by Franco before his death and as such a lot of the social and political elite have seen a sort of continuity of power, that is evidenced by the fact that the party currently in power is the heir of Franco's single party, after some facelifting. We really are a much more backward country than it would seem (if that's even possible). But surely you'd agree that the primary power holders are generally the major capitalists in the country and if the crown is among them its because of its economic power more than anything else. And the US ambassador of course. Anyway, I've never heard of a parliamentary "democracy" that hasn't been steeped in corruption to the utmost degree. And completely divorced from the "people". And one in which elections matter or change anything substantial. Frankly after years of studies and a course in comparative politics I see political labels such as "democracy" "autocracy" etc. as ideological products. In my eyes there is little difference between Kim Jong Un's North Korea, Obama's USA or Spain or Sweden therefore I can't relate to Valsuelm's nostalgic stories of liberty and freedom in any way. Looking at USA's history, built on exterminating the natives, slave labor, aggressive expansion and wars of conquest I wonder where the the libery and freedom are... and for whom. People tend to think their country is the worst merely because all the **** is in their faces for the better part of their lives and the "grass must be greener" somewhere else. But as I've lived abroad, it has been my experience that the grass isn't greener and that things are pretty much the same everywhere.