Brussels

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

We have the Number 1 offense in the league......its just that the coach is choosing to sit on the ball and run out the clock.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

like that basketball team did over the weekend? how'd that work out?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

like that basketball team did over the weekend? how'd that work out?

Lots of times that strategy bites you in the ass
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Nebe]

Sounds like you have a good recipe for a hell of a lot more violence.

Why not figure out why they are willing to die and figure out a solution ?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Slipknot]

Aren't there people working on that?
I'm here minding my own business paying my taxes and voting, when I have time, sometimes fish

violence? when you get hit, you hit back
arrest the terrorists
no different with any other criminals

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Sounds like you have a good recipe for a hell of a lot more violence.

Why not figure out why they are willing to die and figure out a solution ?
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

"Why not figure out why they are willing to die "

BECAUSE THEIR RELIGION comands them to martyr themselves, if necessary, to kill everyone who doesn't want to wear a beard and beat their women.

"figure out a solution"

The solution is exactly the same as Obama's solution to dealing with the 3 pirates who held guns to the head of Captaiun Phillips. A bullet to the brain. That's the end ganme here. The only unknown, is exactly how many innocents have to first be sacrificed on the altar of bullsh*t political correctness, before the liberal delusionals come around and accept the facts.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

Nobody, including Obama, is stating we don't defend ourselves. The difference is simply that Obama's policy has an appreciation for the real root-cause drivers of the terror problem. A big piece of this is how disillusionment feeds the radicalization engine.

If disillusion is the freeing of self from illusion doesn't that free the self to see what is real? If one were disillusioned with his religion wouldn't he abandon it rather than embrace it more deeply?

If the disillusion is in other people's way of life, should he not be happy that he did not have to live their way? Why would he sacrifice his life to destroy someone else's illusion? And if he were disenchanted with the illusion that someone other than of his religion or people occupied his territory, why would he not be satisfied when those others left?

Could it be that disillusion is not a "real root cause driver"?

ISIS was begging the US to invade a few years ago. Had we done so the situation today would likely be 100x worse than it is. There's a reason we're not carpet bombing as Ted Cruz promises to do, because it would turn the entire population against us leave millions without any infrastructure in which to live.

Need we conjecture about what if? What if we hadn't pulled our troops out of Iraq in the first place? We don't know, do we? And 100x worse is a tad exaggerated, don't you think? Isn't that the type of hyperbole that Jim in CT is criticized for? And aren't millions leaving the ISIS areas as it is? If the entire population was against us, maybe they wouldn't want to come here. Many of us would think that is a good thing.

At any rate, what you conjecture verges on gibberish.

The big pieces of this puzzle have been slowly moving in place for a century, there's no simple or quick solution. I'd note that over the past year ISIS leadership and their territory are both shrinking...

It's good that over the past year ISIS leadership and territory have shrunk. If ISIS is eradicated, with a protracted soft war rather than a precipitous harsh one (occaisionally infused with Russian harshness) will that solve the "puzzle?"

So it's a puzzle. And we are appreciating the "real root cause drivers" of the puzzle. And we are a century into the appreciating, but haven't quite got it yet.

Some, on the other hand, see the "puzzle" as having moved for well over a millennium. And not gotten any nearer a solution. Rather, the pieces periodically fall apart and re-pattern in various ways, but always a puzzle.

Except for those pieces of the puzzle who are not illusioned. Who are, and have always been, sure. They have always held to the confidence of their convictions. Gee, I wonder who they could be. Perhaps, if the rest of us were disillusioned about the nature of Islam the puzzle would fit together perfectly. But we must never point to Islam being a part of the puzzle. There are, after all, fixable parts . . . such as "real root cause drivers."

[Nebe]

An interesting side note. I read last night that trump's head strategist quit yesterday after he tweeted that only he could solve what happened in Pakistan on Easter. She said she was hired to insure that he only came in 2nd place in the primaries. So there you have it. This has only been a huge publicity stunt.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Nebe]

http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephan...paign-defector
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Slipknot]

well doesn't that tell you the country is REALLY screwed up?
Trump does not care what anyone thinks about him

we missed our chance at eliminating the deficit and lobbyists a long time ago with Ross Perot when he chose his running mate and he dropped out and got back in.

NAFTA needs to be repealed along with the thousand other things to be fixed

[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by Nebe

http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephan...paign-defector
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

This super pac was dissolved in October and she never even met Trump he doesn't want or need super pac support so to me she is just a disgruntled ex employee who wants 15 minutes of fame and wants to hurt Trump since he rejected her support.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Nebe

http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephan...paign-defector
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

so what happened with this story? it should be in the news all over the place calling him out on it, has Trump even responded to this?

I am not a fan but this primary is not going well at all

[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

so what happened with this story? it should be in the news all over the place calling him out on it, has Trump even responded to this?

I am not a fan but this primary is not going well at all

She didn't work for Trump she worked for a super pac.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[scottw]

this MUNK debate was excellent last night if you get the chance to watch it

http://www.c-span.org/video/?407440-...refugee-crisis

[Jim in CT]

"Hey everyone, I borrowed a trillion dollars, then spent it, and it didn't do anywhere near as much good as I promised it would! Hardy har har! Now who do I talk to about getting my bust on Mt Rushmore?"

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

"Hey everyone, I borrowed a trillion dollars, then spent it, and it didn't do anywhere near as much good as I promised it would! Hardy har har! Now who do I talk to about getting my bust on Mt Rushmore?"

Your material is getting old.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Your material is getting old.

You can't claim I'm wrong. So you tell me to shut up.

Let's see, first you said it's an "improvement" that the democrats in charge of the party, don't let registered democrats pick who they want; then you said my expectations for Obama were unrealistic (when I said it would have been nice if he didn't hand Iraq over to ISIS on a silver platter); and now you're tired of hearing me point out (correctly) that Obama spent a trillion dollars on something that completely failed to deliver on his promised benefits.

If that's too old, let's talk about current events. While the people in Brussels were scraping severed limbs off the street, Obama was s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g up to a dictator who provides asylum for someone on the FBI's most wanted list, then he does the tango worse than it has ever been done, showing us that he even sucks at the one thing you might still have reason to believe he could possibly be good at.

[Nebe]

I voted for Ross
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[detbuch]

A view of Muslim assimilation in France and Belgium:

http://theresurgent.com/this-is-how-...s-into-europe/

[spence]

Jim, you should visit a local mosque and talk to the imam about Mohammed.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Jim, you should visit a local mosque and talk to the imam about Mohammed.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

Sure, I will get right on that. Just like you form your opinions of conservatives, based exclusively on what Karl Rove has to say. Right??

I studied religious history at UCONN, Spence, and I promise that my professors, and the guys that wrote the books, had no reason, at that time, to be biased. These were liberal professors.

This is about right...I could cite articles all day long. But since it goes against The Narrative, it must be dismissed at all costs, correct?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic...ent_of_enemies

He was also a slave owner and slave trader. Just like Jesus...

My God you are chugging the Kool Aid so far in 2016.

Ever going to get around to answering my question about the bowl of gummy bears? One last try...I give your kids a bowl of 100 gummy bears. I tell you that 1 is poisoned and will kill anyone who eats it. Ho wmany do you let your kids eat, before you take the bowl away? If the answer is "none", and of course it is...how is that different from the attitude expresed by those who are concerned that 1% - 2% of Muslims support jihadists?

Do you ever get embarassed that I give you direct answers to everything you ask, and you routinely dodge the tough questions I ask you?

Anyway, go ahead, and tell us why Mohammed had more in common with Jesus Christ than with Atilla The Hun...