Gfted1 Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 I had never heard of a Fakir Bed before that illustration. That's so beautiful. Now I want one around my yard to keep those damn kids off. 1 http://www.sloganizer.net/en/image,Gfted1,black,red.png
Guard Dog Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 I think the only reason I read this thread anymore is to follow this snappy repartee between Hurlshot and WoD. 4 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
BruceVC Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 I think the only reason I read this thread anymore is to follow this snappy repartee between Hurlshot and WoD. You always seem to state the undeniable truth "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Guard Dog Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Elerond Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 People that come wearing masks, daggers, pepper prays, and clubs aren't there to listen or make people listen. 2
Meshugger Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp I say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing You'll have to be quite violent to make them comply with that. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Guard Dog Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp I say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing I'd buy a ticket to watch. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
redneckdevil Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhpI say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing I'd buy a ticket to watch. My money be on nazis and fundamentalists teaming up against the leftist then between them 2.....I dunno. If it's southern fundamentalists, I'd dare say they come out for the win if anyone was left.
Pidesco Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 I don´t know, but wouldn't a significant percentage of that be a bunch of people punching themselves in the face? "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Malcador Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhpI say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing Or we could do the smart thing and line them up and cut their throats in sequence. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Malcador Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhpI say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing Or we could do the smart thing and line them up and cut their throats in sequence. Sounds like someone converted to Islam... Sounds like soemone needs to look up gang activity in some places. Funny enough back home, decapitation was the big thing. Not even sure why in most cases (you'll get hilariously racist answers there) but people have to act like animals I guess. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Meshugger Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Yet again words fail the intellectual left: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-breaks-out-at-pro-trump-rally-in-berkeley/ar-AAnNzBJ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhpI say we put all left extremists, all violent Nazis and all violent religious fundamentalists just together on one field in the middle of no where and let them do their thing Or we could do the smart thing and line them up and cut their throats in sequence. Sounds like someone converted to Islam... Sounds like soemone needs to look up gang activity in some places. Funny enough back home, decapitation was the big thing. Not even sure why in most cases (you'll get hilariously racist answers there) but people have to act like animals I guess. Are you Mayan or something? "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Malcador Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Nope Trinidad. Machete killings have been a thing even before I emigrated. Situation is worse now, saw a report that ISIS recruits a fair amount there these days. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/12/isis-trinidad/509930/ Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Leftist guerillas will firebomb a nazi building and liberals will become nazis to prove they are the "tolerant left". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeugIJFXas "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
Wrath of Dagon Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 I wouldn't say it if I didn't. I was just pointing out that the situation isn't as unreasonable as it was portrayed in the ad. If you mean about the schools, then yes, many schools are nasty and dangerous. I understand it's more complex than just "it's all the schools' fault". So the military is 'unready' and you want to throw another 54 billion dollars at it, but our schools are 'nasty and dangerous' and so you want to take money away from them. Okey dokey. Can I get a voucher for sending money to a private security company? These guys get the job done: There are private schools, but no private military yet. Many people though hire private security when the police aren't doing enough. Private military might not be a bad idea, there was a story in some African country about 100 mercenaries doing more good than 15000 UN "peace keepers". "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Guard Dog Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 I wouldn't say it if I didn't. I was just pointing out that the situation isn't as unreasonable as it was portrayed in the ad. If you mean about the schools, then yes, many schools are nasty and dangerous. I understand it's more complex than just "it's all the schools' fault". So the military is 'unready' and you want to throw another 54 billion dollars at it, but our schools are 'nasty and dangerous' and so you want to take money away from them. Okey dokey. Can I get a voucher for sending money to a private security company? These guys get the job done: There are private schools, but no private military yet. Many people though hire private security when the police aren't doing enough. Private military might not be a bad idea, there was a story in some African country about 100 mercenaries doing more good than 15000 UN "peace keepers". You lost me on this one WoD. You should do a little reading about Odoacer and his foederati infantry of the 6th Century before wishing for something like that. The security and defense of the nation and the integrity of the borders is the first duty of any government. Contractors and mercenaries have their uses but they should never be relied on as the first line of defense. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Wrath of Dagon Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Tell that to the Swiss. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Hurlshort Posted March 6, 2017 Author Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) Privatized military, much like private education, would seem to favor those who can pay for it. The courts are an interesting one; should there be tax exempt vouchers for people that want to hire better lawyers? Public defenders don't have a great reputation. Edited March 6, 2017 by Hurlshot
Gromnir Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Public defenders don't have a great reputation. too much tv. public defenders do have heavy caseloads, but the average public defender is likely more competent and more experienced than anybody an ordinary middle-class citizen is gonna be able to afford to represent 'em. is relative stiff competition to get hired by PD offices straight outta law school. why? work for a few years in the PD office and the big firms is falling all over themselves trying to hire you. also, more than a few folks working in the PD office is true believers. many/most folks we know who has spent any significant time in the PD office is true zealots o' the court system, and you want a zealot fighting for you if you is facing serious criminal charges. is the rich and indigent who get quality legal representation in the US. the middle-class is the folks who is screwed. HA! Good Fun! 3 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Gfted1 Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Thats why I count on our unspoken and unagreed upon pact that you will legally defend me should the need arise. 3 http://www.sloganizer.net/en/image,Gfted1,black,red.png
Hurlshort Posted March 6, 2017 Author Posted March 6, 2017 Public defenders don't have a great reputation. too much tv. public defenders do have heavy caseloads, but the average public defender is likely more competent and more experienced than anybody an ordinary middle-class citizen is gonna be able to afford to represent 'em. is relative stiff competition to get hired by PD offices straight outta law school. why? work for a few years in the PD office and the big firms is falling all over themselves trying to hire you. also, more than a few folks working in the PD office is true believers. many/most folks we know who has spent any significant time in the PD office is true zealots o' the court system, and you want a zealot fighting for you if you is facing serious criminal charges. is the rich and indigent who get quality legal representation in the US. the middle-class is the folks who is screwed. HA! Good Fun! I probably should have added that, much like public school teachers, I don't really buy into the reputation that either tends to be given.
Zoraptor Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Tell that to the Swiss. 'Tell that to the Vatican'. The Swiss themselves have conscription and are the very poster child of 'armed neutrality', they have no need for mercenaries nor a private army. Swiss mercenaries specifically (and legally) only exist now as the Swiss Guard at the Vatican, and they are both irrelevant and anachronistic since the Vatican is a statelet which relies entirely on Italy's good will and has for ~150 years. They're more a religious order of security guards (since they have to be catholic) than a practical military- The Swiss Guard could not resist Italy when The Papal State held a decent chunk of central Italy and had a proper standing army as well, let alone now.
Wrath of Dagon Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 Pas d’Argent, Pas de Suisse "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
HoonDing Posted March 6, 2017 Posted March 6, 2017 The Swiss succesfully defeated globalism at Nancy 1477 soon we will need them again The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
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