Re: 2000 years of struggling with sex

I’m not Catholic, but they are stuck on stupid about the whole “priests can’t marry” nonsense. If you look at the history of Catholic church you will find out that initially catholic priests could marry. The decision to forbid them to marry was made later, by the church hierarchy, simply because un...

Re: The Impeachment Hearings

Pelosi's long game is brilliant. Show Americans who these MAGA people really are. That they do not care about the Constitution. That they only want a king or emperor or grand poobah or whatever. Those who haven't seen who the MAGA crowd is by now, never will. I think that Pelosi game is, that by no...

Re: The Impeachment Hearings

EA CO AS wrote:

tommy1808 wrote:

They where willing

Hogwash. They did not permit fact witnesses to be called and did not allow questioning by Republicans of those who who were called. I’m actually embarrassed for the Democrats.

Re: The WestJet Thread

Can anybody enlighten me why the other two London airports: Luton and Stansted are not considered to be desirable? Is it because of the limited connection options? I flew to/from Gatwick with WestJet this fall, and the airport looked very busy. But from my cursory research the connection options fro...

Re: Crime and Corruption (add incompetence) At Boeing

The real problem is that for the shareholders maximum profit does not necessarily related to the company's long term health or even survival. The shareholders can press the BOD to adopt the policies that will push the share price higher, by taking more out of the company and investing less in the co...

Re: "NATO is experiencing brain death"

Russia never really effectively invaded other countries with overwhelming military force. They were invaded themselves, they were attacked and assaulted for years, and only when the invading force was distracted and forced to shift and withdraw due to being attacked from a different flank, did the ...

Re: Trudeau squeaks into a minority govt. with lowest popular vote in Canadian history

I am not lying. I may had misunderstood you. But then, may be you can explain what did you mean by " their single-issue platform".

Re: Trudeau squeaks into a minority govt. with lowest popular vote in Canadian history

They're not...? I'm talking about the selective math. Analogy does not imply a precise identity between the things being compared. That's a complicated answer to a simple question. You claimed that Liberals have a single-issue platform. I've asked you what issue is that. I am afraid that I cannot u...

Re: Trudeau squeaks into a minority govt. with lowest popular vote in Canadian history

Yeah, it reminds of the "Brexit party won!" narrative post-UK EU Parliament elections this summer. Sure, they won more seats than any other single party, but...if you combine all the parties that oppose their single-issue platform, they outnumbered Brexit+Tories who share their position o...

Re: Trudeau squeaks into a minority govt. with lowest popular vote in Canadian history

But there are more votes in total cast for the left and center-left parties than conservative parties. That's the true picture for popular vote, not comparing liberal to conservatives. Also, it is highly unlikely that the liberals will form any sort of coalition. Most likely they will work with the ...

Re: Digital camera for a camera-inept birdwatcher

2Airstud You need to pay attention to the size of the sensor in the camera. Small sensor with x 50 zoom and a high megapixel count will not get you a good picture, especially if the light conditions are not very bright. You may just see a dot instead of a bird. And to have a good size sensor with a ...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

I'll make you a deal then, thee UK accepts the backstop, the EU accepts that the UK can break with the backstop, but the consequence is that the UK leaves without a deal. Not a good idea. Once you put a system in place it would be very hard to abandon it. The Brexit itself is a good example of that...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

I believe that Europe in the end will come to some form of federal state, and I think it will be good for every country involved. So you see the USA, Canada and Mexico getting together to have a size to match the EU to get fair trade, you do know that the EU already claim that their economic power ...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

Those from medium and small size EU member states supporting Macron are only supporting their own marginalization. I am not going to argue with you about Macron. You seem to have some sort of personal animosity towards him, and I am not willing to take your words for granted. But I can tell you thi...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

L410Turbolet wrote:

No need for Hitler. Letting Napoleon wannabe Macron blabber about his dellusions of "federal" EU is sufficient enough.

Re: Who will be running for the next UK prime minister?

Well, as much as I share the skepticism of the most people here, it was predicted that Trump will never finish his first term. Now they are talking about who can defeat him in 2020. It could be the same story with BoJo.

Re: Ukraine crisis - 5 years on

> The Putin regimen should stop supporting the separatist, that is key to solve it. Sate aggression should never be awarded. I see you put the blame 100% outside of the Putin regime. No surprise there. There are two keys to resolving the problem. One is Russia forces the seperatists to sit down wit...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

A101 wrote:

it had everything to do with who was sitting at the table from the beginning

Re: OR Statehouse shutdown by right wing militia threat after GOP walks out

You have strange laws. In France and a lot of countries, vote is done with the people in the parliament. If you don't show at a regular session, too bad for you. Is a Quorum not required? Tugg No. When the Assemblée Nationale is in session, it means that all MP are officially convoked for that peri...

Re: OR Statehouse shutdown by right wing militia threat after GOP walks out

Tax payer funded police tracking down senators enjoying their tax funded entitlement, it's not pay if you don't work, refusing to their job.... What the legislators are doing is effectively similar to striking. Do you support strike breaking? Tugg Not striking, more like obstructing and sabotaging.

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

So the next Tory PM will be the one comparing the EU to Nazi Germany or the one comparing the EU to the Soviet Union. Good luck with those "renegotiations"! :rotfl: I think that the USSR comparison was very close to reality. As someone who actually did live in the USSR, let me tell you, t...

Re: China threats Boeing to punish for Trump policy

3.4 million jobs in the USA have been lost since China joined the wto. It is sophistry to argue that cracking down on China will hurt the US economy. It’s already been hurt. So, who's to blame for this? Did China steal these jobs? Or they were moved to China by the US businesses? A good portion was...

Re: China threats Boeing to punish for Trump policy

Bobloblaw wrote:

3.4 million jobs in the USA have been lost since China joined the wto. It is sophistry to argue that cracking down on China will hurt the US economy. It’s already been hurt.

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

How can you prove them wrong, when the only answer of the Brussels parallel universe always is "more EUrope" and Macron's imperial delusions? The way I'm reading it is... people appreciate the benefits of the EU but do not want to end up in a straight jacket of one-size-fits-all "fed...

Re: Ukraine crisis - 5 years on

Interesting... are there any bloggers/investigative journalists like this in Russia? We have a huge number of them in the USA and obviously Ukraine has at least one (who is on the run perhaps but still posting!). But I am not seeing Russian journalists like this, posting stories looking into issues...

Re: Brexit part 6: Encore un moment Monsieur le Bourreau

TV fans delighted as Brexit renewed for another season: https://newsthump.com/2019/04/11/tv-fans-delighted-as-brexit-renewed-for-another-season/

Re: Brexit part 5:Bye England! See you soon Scotland ?

From @Left_of_London:
The year is 3038. Parliament enacts the weekly ritual of voting down "Theresa May's Deal". No one can remember how this ancient tradition started or what it means.

Re: Trump threatens EU on trade

How about illegally placing a government server in a private residence and then deletng all the emails and then destroying all the (government owned) cellphones while all of that evidence was inder subpoena? Just for starters. How about the uranium deal and the Clinton Global Initiative cash grabs ...

Re: Trump threatens EU on trade

SteelChair wrote:

Well thats true that there were some investigations, but they shouldve gone to jail,

Re: Brexit part 5:Bye England! See you soon Scotland ?

As I said, only the hard Brexit is worth doing, so that is not a problem. It's remarkably easy for such things to be said when they affect others but not you. It would be different if from the outset the people from NI wanted a hard border or to have the vote on possible Irish unification, but to b...

Re: Brexit part 5:Bye England! See you soon Scotland ?