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  1. "Why is your shirt so tight?" Yep, that one got me good.
  2. Also, keep in mind that Russia didn't lift a finger to assist Iran this summer. Could be some hurt feelings and a sense of betrayal there.
  3. Enchubben appears to have left the building as well.
  4. Nothing brought that asshole more pleasure than shitting on people he thought were his inferiors. It'd gotten so bad that he went on ignore several months ago, but he was quoted enough by other posters that I still ended up seeing most of his posts. I don't recall many (if any) where he had a positive thing to say about anyone or anything. Also, as a guy who touted himself as "statsman," he was terrible with numbers.
  5. Illegally conducting foreign policy while not in office and undermining sitting presidents is becoming a Grand Old Party tradition.
  6. Thanks for posting the link. It's not a country or situation I know much about, and that newspage had some background info that was helpful in partially understanding what's going on. csb: One of my best friends when I was going to high school in France was originally from there -- super-duper smart guy and very kind. He grew up to become a software developer, living in Dublin for a while, and I think still working in Bermuda. Doing what? No idea. The last time I saw him was in '09. His mom was Vietnamese and had fled that war to Madagascar, married a local, had him, and then the family fled Madagascar due to a coup in the '70s to France, where he grew up. I should reach out to Dihn. Hopefully, I've got his email because I think he killed his FB account. /csb
  7. Reminds me of Nixon (another criminal, cheat, and liar) sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks before the 1968 election.
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  9. Call it what it is: a Nazi rally.
  10. Fuck Hamas forever and ever. If I believed in hell, I'd hope all of them burn there for eternity. They, and all other religious extremists, are a horrible blight on humanity, as they use warped interpretations of their religions to manipulate and control the masses, often to horrible, violent ends. Despite you not saying you're sorry for accusing me of lying like Russia, I'll go ahead and accept your statement as a tacit admission that you've been duped by whatever media you consume or that you're hopelessly biased and prejudiced on this topic.
  11. Modern-day American Brownshirts.
  12. What's really funny about the name Amerigo is that it's a cognate of the name Emmerich, from Proto-Germanic *Haimariks, which co-evolved with the name Heinrich, which became Henri in French, and then eventually Henry in English. Since America is the feminine version, it'd literally be Henrietta, and therefore, we live in the United States of Henrietta. Love, love, love that factoid.
  13. If rights aren't universal, they aren't rights.
  14. A quote I first heard back in the '90s that's stuck with me since: "Remember your humanity, and forget all the rest. "
  15. Big enough to clog a toilet.
  16. Friend, welcome to warmed-over arguments from two years ago. Do yourself a favor and read the thread if you want to rehash those arguments.
  17. Gettin' the bodies to sink tho.
  18. Well, there is a "Dead Sea" over there.
  19. sWe've had some nice light sprinkles out here in West Texas most of the morning, but it's unfortunately starting to clear and I'll have to close all the windows before too long. Really hoping we're done with the 90s, but I doubt it.
  20. @ABSR Here's some more light reading for you. BBC: Blindfolded, bound and beaten: Palestinians tell of Israeli jail abuse B'Tselem: Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps World Organisation Against Torture: Systemic torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prison facilities since October 7, 2023 The Guardian: Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel’s jails Haaretz: Israeli Doctors Must Condemn the Inhumane Treatment of Hospitalized Palestinian Detainees Reuters: Israeli rights group says Palestinian prisoners subject to systematic abuse BBC: Chemical burns, assaults, electric shocks - Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention AP: Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment AP: Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons EU: Violating international legal obligations: Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners
  21. Take it up with those investigating all the various war crimes and atrocities committed by Israel. You do remember that there's an active warrant for the arrest of Netanyahu. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/special-committee-israeli-practices-report-05sep25/ https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286 The Special Committee has received disturbing briefings on the systematic and widespread perpetration of sexual and gender-based violence, torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Palestinian detainees by Israeli military and security forces, as also reported by the Commission of Inquiry. Thousands of individuals were reportedly held in Israeli prisons and military camps, some under the “Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law”. Most were detained without due process, without access to family and in severely unhygienic conditions. Detainees faced daily physical and psychological abuse and torture, and many suffered from scabies and other skin infections due to the appalling environment. The torture and ill-treatment were such that special procedure mandate holders denounced them as a crime against humanity, warning that the high-profile case of the gang-rape of a detainee in the Israel Defense Forces detention facility of Sde Teiman represented the tip of the iceberg. The Special Committee also received information about the use of rape and gang-rape, including anal rape with objects, targeting both male and female detainees, amid a near-total absence of prison or military investigations and complete lack of accountability. Numerous Palestinian detainees released during the ceasefire in early 2025 required urgent medical treatment, and some bore signs of acute malnutrition and other forms of torture. Israel has arrested, arbitrarily detained or held incommunicado tens of thousands of Palestinians since 7 October 2023, raising concerns of enforced disappearance. Verifying figures is difficult given the lack of information shared by the authorities, the denial of access to lawyers and relatives, and the fact that Israel continues to deny visits to places of detention by the International Committee of the Red Cross. On 18 July 2025, special procedure mandate holders warned that about 4,000 Palestinians, including children and older persons, and 51 Israelis were still missing since 7 October 2023. They called upon the authorities in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory to clarify the fate and whereabouts of all victims of enforced disappearance, no matter the circumstances, whether in detention or deceased. The Special Committee echoes that call. On 14 July 2025, the non-governmental organization Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that, since 7 October 2023, over 18,000 Palestinians, including 1,450 children and 560 women, had been arrested by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in addition to an unidentified number of detained Palestinians from Gaza. Over the same period, 73 identified Palestinian detainees had died in custody.[37] That number amounted to almost a quarter of the 310 identified Palestinians who had died in Israeli custody since 1967 and had been recorded by the Palestinian Prisoners Society.[38] For the first time since 1967, a juvenile Palestinian detainee, aged 17 years old, died in custody in April 2025, as a result of malnutrition and denial of medical care. In a report, the Commission of Inquiry concluded that the systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees was directly and causally linked to statements made by Israeli officials, including the Minister of National Security, who was responsible for the Israel Prison Service, and other members of the coalition Government, legitimizing revenge and violence against Palestinians.[39] According to the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center, as at 30 July 2025, Israel retained the bodies of 460 Palestinians (of whom 6 were women and 46 were children),[40] including for use as leverage in negotiations – an Israeli practice long predating October 2023.[41] In August 2024, Israeli forces sent the remains of over 80 unidentified Palestinians to a crossing point into Gaza; it was not clear whether the remains were those of bodies dug up from cemeteries in Gaza or of detainees who had died in detention.[42] For the second year in a row, Israel was included in the annual report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict. The highest number of grave violations against children in the world in 2024 was verified in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (8,554), in addition to the verification of another 2,788 grave violations that occurred in 2023 in the Gaza Strip.[43] The overwhelming majority (7,188) of the verified violations were attributed to Israeli armed and security forces, and another 42 to Israeli settlers. Among those violations, including killings, maiming, the destruction of schools, the use of children as human shields and the denial of humanitarian access, the United Nations also verified the detention in 2024, for alleged security offences, of 951 Palestinian children (940 boys, 11 girls) in the West Bank (602), in East Jerusalem (259) and the Gaza Strip (90), including the detention of a Palestinian girl whose whereabouts remained unknown. Over 110 Palestinian children were being held in administrative detention, without charge or trial as at 31 December 2024, and, in addition, 25 children had been transferred to Israel from the Gaza Strip and detained under the “unlawful combatant” designation.[44] The Special Committee is particularly concerned by the targeting of children and their treatment in detention, and urges the Government of Israel to immediately release all children held in administrative and other arbitrary detention and cease the ill-treatment and torture of detainees. Moreover, the Special Committee echoes the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the combined fifth and sixth reports of Israel and the recommendations contained therein.[45]
  22. Sadly, no; I really don't. Most of what I know (or think I know) is only from documentaries and such over the last few years, which made me actually contemplate what they did and feel an awakening to amazement at their achievements. Hopefully, some other, more erudite Surlier can guide you.
  23. What the Polynesians did to populate islands across the Pacific with far less developed technology, including Hawaii and several US overseas territories, is a far more impressive feat, imo. European "discovery" of the Americas was pretty much inevitable with the ships they had and navigation tools like compasses, astrolabes, and quadrants. Let's celebrate these crazy fuckers:
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