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europe is uniting with ever increasing vigour. A united Europe is only possible after all European nations have gained the right to be sovereign. So Scotland's or Catalonia's independence are necessary steps before unity can be achieved. European union can never be a colonial-type union. It has to ...

Folks, My Dad was a zenophobe, like many of his generation. The only time he had been abroad was as a soldier in ww11. For some reason I failed to travel abroad until my mid forties. What an eye opener! To hear my Dad you would think that the 'fuzzy wuzzies' were lurking at Calais with spears and a...

Rest assured ethinker, nobody is afraid of Europeans. Nobody. Why should people fear us? We have no Patriot Act and the NSA isn't European... Besides we don't usually kill children, women and other innocent bystanders... Mr. Perfect seems to think that the goal should be making people fear us, as i...

Europe has no future. No money, no children, no dreams or ambitions beyond redistribution. A failed civilization. At this point can't say I'll miss it. You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. You would have said just about the same thing about China, if you had lived in the 19th ...

Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car An anonymous reader sends this report from Business Insider: "[Ford VP Jim Farley] was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in o...

Justine Tunney's "nonviolent militia" idea is wacky. I agree that this is the right thread. War Nerd's comments are spot on.

We look for alternatives, But the enormous power of the media makes it so difficult To establish foundations. Their lies and distortions are so extreme That everything becomes poisoned and corrupted. We can become media personalities, but it is always on their terms. We're tired of living up to othe...

Unreliable Bio-medical Research An American drug company, Amgen, that tried to replicate 53 landmark studies in cancer was able to reproduce the original results in only 6 cases—even though they worked with the original researchers! That’s not all. Scientists at the pharmaceutical company Bayer wer...

How is drinking Budweiser like having sex in a canoe?

It's foking close to water.

Japan-China war of words goes ballistic in Davos Anybody who thinks China's dispute with Japan is subject to rational calculation should have heard the astonishing outburst a few minutes ago by China's foreign minister, Wang Yi. "We will never allow past aggressors to overturn the verdict of h...

I guess shooting down a couple of Japanese planes would still be safe enough. I don't think so. Ten years ago, the outcome of an air or sea shootout between Beijing and Tokyo would have been certain humiliation of the former. Given Chinese military power buildup of the last decade, a shootout now w...

I don't think that building aircraft carriers makes sense. In this age of supersonic guided missiles, they're sitting ducks. Modern air defense cruisers are able to intercept supersonic guided missiles. In the case e.g. of Franco-Italian Aster 30 air defense missile, the capability was demonstrated...

Typhoon wrote:IS THE GOVERNMENT SPRAYING THE ENTIRE CITY OF PORTLAND WITH CRYSTALINE DHMO?

AND WHICH SHADOWY GOVERNMENT AGENCY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SINISTER MASS HUMAN EXPERIMENT?

"Was deliberately fed, in liquid form, to dogs bred for fighting by Michael Vick." LMFAO

After seeing a few photos of Alejandra Guilmant on the Beautiful women thread, I searched for "Guilmant" on Wikipedia and got this: Guilmant was an accomplished and extremely prolific composer. Unlike Widor, who produced a great deal of music in all the main genres, Guilmant devoted himse...

Typhoon wrote:

[Okamoto Tao]

This is an incredibly cool shot, IMHO. She's like a female James Dean. Very sexy!

After seeing a few photos of Alejandra Guilmant on the Beautiful women thread, I searched for "Guilmant" on Wikipedia and got this: Guilmant was an accomplished and extremely prolific composer. Unlike Widor, who produced a great deal of music in all the main genres, Guilmant devoted himsel...

It seems that every post I've made after January 1 (until this one) has been removed. At least two posts have been removed (both from yesterday); but I think more.

Does anyone know what's happened?

Doc wrote:Bill Gates gives away 100k prizes for new condom designs to help prevent unwanted pregnancies. Rumor has it that the winner is a Bill Gates mask with the words written on it "Micro" and "Soft

If a guy showed up with condoms like that, he wouldn't have sex. Problem solved.

Geraldo Rivera selfie



Baby Boomer Narcissist Jumps Shark. Again. Again.

Typhoon wrote:

[France]

Wow! Very beautiful.

Some info

Flora Coquerel of Orleans was named Miss France

Her mother is from the West African state of Benin.

"Looking for Evidence that Therapy Works" -- NY Times

Brief introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy

New York Times article on Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Lesbian eugenics marches on with "Designer Baby" firm Genepeeks

It looks like this thread is taking off again. It is good to see. Very interesting stuff. Very bleak, too. I love it. Here's something for laughs kitchen : meaning "see you later" origin Davis townie rhyming slang see you later --> Slater --> Christian Slater --> Christian --> kitchen

Maduro is starting to remind me of El Presidente from Gilligan's Island.



Incidentally, "maduro" is Spanish for over-ripe banana.