Except in this instance it's de-evolution ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Printable View
Except in this instance it's de-evolution ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
http://www.darwinawards.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
THIS is the Iraqi resistance? These are Moore's Minutemen?Quote:
Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet, didn't put enough postage on a letter bomb, and it came back marked "return to sender." He opened the package and was blown away.
Well that issue is something the iraqi people need to sort out. The iraqi bloggers I read are none too happy about the 'minutemen'. But there is the political side to it. I would love to see the iraqi police arrest al sadr. He is pretty amusing, start a fight, get your butt kicked, beg for a peace agreement, re-arm/recruit for a couple of weeks, rinse and repeat...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
On the other hand I wish John Kerry would stop talking about our secret mission in cambodia...he's giving me flash backs. Sides it's suppose to be a secret...now where is my lucky hat...
Wow, just wow!Quote:
(28 February 2000, Texas) A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.
Every year...there are some real keepers... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
That's standard practice amongst tools like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Well see the only thing I can say is that he must not have popular support for his agenda. If he did then why not wait for UN monitored elections, and win a prominent seat in the goverment. Unless you don't have popular support and you know you would lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
As far as using the mosques and religious sites to fire on US troops. That may be offensive to muslims, not sure ;) I know they would be offended if the US army attacked those religious sites. But when you are facing superior forces, use every advantage you can...and right now he is. Like I said, some internal politics are going on here, otherwise allawi would have had the iraqi police/army units arrest him long ago. Though the latest report was that negotiations have broken down, so we may see that yet...
So it's just a wait and see kinda thing. Like I said, up to the iraqis to sort this out, the US troops should just be in a support role.
That is like afghanistan the same people that say blah blah blah, the opium fields are being sown and the taliban had that under control. Acutal no they didn't, they just controlled the market. As far as irradicating the poppy fields, well ask thailand and pakistan how long it took them to do that or maybe just look it up. You can't say on one hand the afghans need to rule themselve, then say on the other, the US is responsible for not dictating to the afghans that they need to get this under control.
Once Afghanistan gets it's economy cranking (they have a lot of untapped natural resources) then you would probably see the fields being replaced by other crops that bring in more money. Things just don't happen over night.
But you know never let the facts get in the way of your position....
They can do whatever they want with that country. I could care less, as long as we have Montana and Texas ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
// Yeeehaaaw!!!
True, very true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
I love it how some people want things to happen NOW. But oh well...
The Afghanis have oodles of natural gas and with todays market prices, they stand to make a fortune. Now the only thing that they need to do is get together and figure out how to share those oodles. However, something tells me that that little argument will be solved with AK-47s.
The icing of the cake is the boldened part.Quote:
(25 May 2000, Philippines) We all enjoy learning from the past. Reflect back to November 24, 1971, aboard a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in Portland. A man who had purchased his ticket under the name of "Dan Cooper" demanded two hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes. The plane made a landing in Seattle to accommodate his requests and disgorge the passengers. Once the plane was back in the air, Cooper asked how to lower the tail stairs, and then ordered the flight attendant out of the cabin. When the plane landed in Reno, the tail stairs were open and Cooper and the money were gone.
For all his cool demeanor, Cooper had the crosshairs of evolution on him when he decided to jump. There was a freezing rainstorm outside, and the wind chill from the plane's velocity dropped the effective temperature to -60 degrees Fahrenheit. To seal his fate, he jumped with no food or survival gear into a heavily wooded forest in winter at night.
The peanuts provided on the plane were just not enough to sustain his life. It is assumed that the man the FBI called D. B. Cooper died in the mountains or hit the Columbia River and drowned. History, then, teaches us that one cannot jump out of an airplane and survive. You would think that a hijacker would know better, but…
We turn to Davao City in the Philippines this year. Augusto was a man with a mission. He boarded a Philippine Air flight to Manila, and donned a ski mask and swim goggles. Then he pulled out a gun and a grenade and announced that he was hijacking the plane. Apparently security is a bit lax at the Davao City airport.
He demanded that the plane return to Davao City, but the pilots convinced him that the aircraft was low on fuel, and they continued on toward Manila. Augusto, undaunted, robbed the passengers of about $25,000 and ordered the pilots to lower the plane to 6,500 feet.
When a lunatic with a gun orders you to descend, you descend. Meanwhile, Augusto strapped a homemade parachute onto his back, and forced the flight attendants to open the door and depressurize the plane.
He probably intended to jump, but the wind was so strong that he had trouble getting out of the plane. Finally one of the flight attendants helpfully pushed him out the door, just as he pulled the pin from the grenade. He threw the pin (oops!) into the cabin, and fell toward the earth carrying the business end of the grenade in his hand.
The impact of Augusto hitting the earth at terminal velocity had little effect on the earth's orbit. All that remained aboveground were Augusto's two hands.
So history repeats itself with a new twist.
1. Don't throw yourself out of a perfectly good airplane.
2. If you feel compelled to violate Lesson 1, at least don't roll your own... parachute, that is.
// Someone should have gone to grenade school...
Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
Actually, no, that is part of the problem. When you have despots oppressing the people, then you are evenutally going to have problems you cannot bury your head and hope it goes away. They need to blame someone or something for the suffering they inflict on the people.
Ohh well it's all part off the Zionist conspiracy...
/Adjusts tin-foil hat...
Wow Mick, that site is really addicting. Now I have meaning in my life :) .
As for the Afghanis, they never have had a culture of self-rule (err... democracy.) Their thinking was always along the lines of an ultra-powerful honcho, who pretty much would make some people disappear in case someone protested (to say the least.) So I honestly doubt that a true form of democracy can be set up there.
But then I'd love to be proven wrong here.
Yea well make sure those are verified...some of them haven't been verified yet...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
I don't know...I tend to have faith in people wanting to be free and doing the right thing, when given the chance...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
I'm pessimistic that elections/democracy can be achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first thing that they would need to do is stop killing themselves and come together and try to get along. I realize that some of the groups hate each other to the core, but the idea is not make them love one another, just stop lobbing grenades and RPGs at one another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Imo, once Al Sadr is 6ft underground, then we can start talking about elections and the like. The Kurds and the Sunnis would have to work out a treaty on who owns how much land, because they have forced the Sunnis to pack everything that they had and leave in T minus 30 seconds. Without something permanent regarding the land issue in Iraq, they'll keep on killing each other.
The oil revenues could be gathered by a small federal government agency and redistribute those funds to the regions according to how many people live there.
Imo, in 2 years time, everything will be much calmer, the insurgents will either leave or be lynched by the native Iraqis. The Iraqis themselves are actually highly educated. Many have very high degrees regarding math and science (Iraq used to have the best hospitals in the Middle-East prior to its war against Iran.) So it is possible for them to strike out a genuine contract/treaty on who's land is where and other little nitpicky issues. However, they have to do this themselves. If US intervenes, in 2-3 years, they'll be back to buying up Kalashnikovs and blowing each other to smithereens.
Yep... just takes time...
Well, I admit, I'm a little biased on this. I've been to a political forum and was growing sort of irritated with some people there so my general ideas about politics and the world (at the moment) are along the lines of "**** it!" ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
But for the Afghanis, they could pull off some sort of democracy thinga-ma-bob. It is possible. They could have their own representatives sent from each tribe (how those representatives are elected, is up to the individual tribes). You could set up a bicameral system just like in the US. Imo, that would be the best solution for the forseable 10 years.
Then they could modify their system and fine tune as they see fit. But hopefully in a peaceful manner.
After they do this for 50 or so years, they'll get a hang of it and start loving this thing called democracy.
Again, the revenue raised from the sale of natural resources would be subdivided by the number of people in each province/state.
The advantage that US has is the fact that it was founded on democracy, rather than going from a totalitarian regime to a representative government. We've had a 200 year head start and anyone trying to mess with this system is pretty much asking for a foot between the legs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
In other countries, this little experiment is slowly catching on. One would need to wait atleast an extra 50 years to see something more liberal and tangible to start to emerge in the middle east.
There are many people who have vested interest in the existing totalitarian model, but as the populace becomes fed up and finds out that there is an alternative, they'll start to rock the boat. Something will give and most rulers do not last long if 80% of the people in his/her country are against him, even in the most oppressive places.
Oh well, those were my rants, feel free to point out stuff that you disagree with Mick :wave: .
:sigh: Life's not fair :cry: .
that depends, kinda hard to start a revolution if your not sure the people your conspiring with won't turn you in....Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
like I said...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
be the ball, be the ball
Politics amuses me...especially when people get all bent out of shape over the most 'tarded things ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
But then I like to push peoples buttons...bad bad me...
If people stay the course and keep investing time and effort into this, they can make it happen.
I doubt that you can bring a constitutional democracy into Iraq and Afghanistan in a couple of years. Just make sure that Allawi's and the schmuck's in Afghanistan (his name escapes me at the moment) interests are not threatened, which will be easier to unloaded their bloated hides later on ;) . Once they have something to lose, they'll start thinking on how NOT lose it and that's when they'll want order, law, the whole nine yards.
THEN we can start talkin'.
Now I know why Simon666 is no longer around here :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
// But then again that wasn't really a secret...
// Nor was it unknown...
I think I need to invent like a nitrous gas mask that plugs into your USB port...then when people are getting all worked up, you could just ping their machine and give em a toot...
Hehehe... You do that, I'll be your first customer :lol: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
// I'm in "Happy Land". Oh crap!!! MJ is here, NOOOO!!!!!!
laughter is always the best med's....I'll be trying to laugh when the tropical storm dumps a boat load of rain my way....as if we didn't have enough already...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
Joy, bet the city dock in annapoli gets a bad flood again. 2 years ago we were in a bad drought...been raining every since.Quote:
Hydrologists said that heavy rains in recent weeks have saturated the ground, increasing the chance for flooding in many areas. About 9 inches of rain fell last month in Maryland, about three times the normal amount for the month, said Gary Fisher, a hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.
/Must be global warming ;) (still need a tin-foil hat icon)
On the bright side you can get one of 'em canoes and go fishin' ;) .
But then you might not anything interesting except pets doggy paddling in the water :rolleyes: . On the bright side if you save some of 'em, you'll be the town hero and maybe a blond will give you the city key ;) .
// Need life! NEED LIFE!!!
meh I think this will work...they be canoeing on pict #5 ;) That's mostly balitmore though...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/wea...dlines&index=1
Looks like fun, I think that I'll float quite easily with my American industrial strength blubber ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
I especially like the second picture where the boats are parked on the driveways instead of cars :D .
Looks like florida was hit pretty bad...that is the suXor..Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
Yeh, heard about it, said something like $15 billion in damages. Jeb will be pretty busy for some time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Gee, you think.
another white wing nut
The poor SOB, did they HAVE to dip him in bleach?!?!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
This girl's eyes are incredible. If she looked at me like that, I would feel blessed.
You need to get out more often...or take a cold shower...Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
Don't be some of these entries...
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...IDLink=1074212
Yeh I know... I need a girlfriend...
Any ideas where I can buy one :D ?
I can't post those links :eek: and they are expensive ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by YourSurrogateGod
http://www.buzzstuff.net/archives/Tw...%20Sisters.jpg
Heaven I say!
http://d3sp.c58.ru/thumbs/schoolfortheblind.jpg
A fine institution!
http://www.takeyourcountryback.com/H...eadHisLips.jpg
Heh... Looks like the old man hates the little farker.
You need help... :D
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/images/...geQuality=Full
Looks like the kitty agrees.
Tell me something I don't know ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
I really need to get hooked up with Marta. As soon as she answers my farking e-mail. European chicks are a pain...
// Packing stuff to go to Japan...
Speaking of that girl...
She's the one on the left...
Thoughts?
[PICTURE REMOVED BECAUSE I HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO]