New Testingstan

The only situation sovereign nation 1 has the right to interfere militarily in the business of sovereign nation 2 is when SN2 is directly attacking SN1, or another SN3 The bolded is where I take issue. I am realist enough to acknowledge that it happens, but from an absolute theoretical standpoint, ...

Why? Why is it the business of a country that Syria couldn't possibly directly threaten? If Canada starts gassing the First Nations, or the Mexicans use them on cartels, I might be willing to consider US intervention, but why should we waste money and lives in Syria where we are clearly unwanted, an...

Pour the bud light back in and wait for the CSIs, because you're clearly far more drunk thatn it should be making you.

ADR, while I think the precedent going back much farther than the war powers act disagrees with you, you also know quite well what my stance is on "should we intervene" and I am not really in the mood to do a devil's advocate debate. I really don't understand Tebow's refusal to be one of t...

Of what?

I disagree with your characterization of the number of friends we have in the middle east. You are wildly optimistic.

What're everyone's thought on Obama's decision to ask congress for support? A small victory for the American as well as the Syrian people, but still bullshit, as he insists he doesn't need their permission and might proceed anyway, at any time. If congress doesn't like that, they're welcome to chan...

What're everyone's thought on Obama's decision to ask congress for support? Brilliant political strategy to pass the buck to an organization that probably couldn't pass a bill saying "the sky is blue" at this point if Obama proposed it, or cowardly way to spread blame? EDIT: Also, Pats cut...

You know, it's funny, I rarely discuss my personal views on foreign policy, because I tend to irritate everyone. Here, in a couple sentences: I concluded that any possible foreign intervention (at least outside of western Europe or Canada is far more likely to go badly than it is to go well. Because...

Ugh...

September came early.

UGH. TOO HOT AT NIGHT.

I'll probably elaborate more later, but you're reading more into that statement than is intended. Unlike most, I don't care what route you take to get to the places I agree with, as long as you get there. I could not disagree more with the lines of reasoning used by the city to make its decisions, b...

Yup, Yoof can not be out alone after 11 on unless returning from a school event, though in my experience the cops were pretty lenient on interpretation of this one, I can remember many times we bandos were at Del Taco well after midnight after a football game, but we weren't exactly causing havoc ei...

I haven't been over there, but I'm going to guess that the current debate is about Syria, and that one group has taken it as written that the US will intervene with a ground invasion and probably a Nazi style genocide, and the other is going on about how that's what's needed. Throw in Thanas being p...

Yeah, I tend to be very specific when talking about the city, partly because Irvine politics fascinate me, and partly because the continued existence and success of the city has contributed so much to my own personal philosophy. Irvine is in many ways proof that if you take Libertarian ideals, optim...

I hope you're being sarcastic about the sounding awesome, especially the whole "treat the homeless...ness problem by exiling or disappearing them" thing. I was seeing if anyone would confuse me with Ryan Thunder. :fukyu: I suppose it'd be nice if the homeless people were ending up in shel...

On wallets, I have two setups: Every day in my local area (low crime, pickpockets would probably be publicly beheaded to entertain the masses, and if you think I'm joking, as Joviwan): Front right main pocket: keys Little sub-pocket of front right pocket or right jacket pocket: phone left pocket or ...

A question or two:

Do I recall that you're in a custody fight?

If so, would this type of behavior (leaving the phone with the link, not necessarily the sexual behavior) be valuable in Australian norms?

On a different note:

Why? Dear God, why? I'd been so good. I hadn't even visited for weeks. I have a sickness! A SICKNESS!

I've got to say, IB, that's coming perilously close to the idea of thoughtcrime. EDIT: OK, again I see what you're saying, but condemning anyone for their thoughts rather than their actions, particularly with the labels that you were throwing around (bigot, racist) is not appropriate either. I've le...

I wasn't trying to be delicate but I did bungle that pretty badly. ¯\(º_o)/¯ "I'm only attracted to ciswomen" would've been enough How on earth do you know that? As we've discussed before, there's not a lot of external cues, and if your picking out chicks with an MRI you're even weirder t...

IB, I agree with you on both, just pointing out that those are two barriers to long-term relationships. As I generally think in those terms, those are the potential issues that came up. As for attraction, yeah, that's irrelevant to both issues, but I really don't think in terms of hook-ups/short-ter...

Baptists can have most of the same hangups, Flagg, and particularly evangelicals.

IB, the only possible issues that I see are a communication issue and a life goal issue. To take the latter first and the former second: The life goal issue could be that there are people who while wanting monogamous relationships want to have children that are both theirs and their partners, geneti...

Jury duty next week! Yay!

And I almost missed the check-in date. Thank goodness for electronic minions.

Flagg wrote:Anyone who gives money to the Catholic Church.

Oh, on that we can agree. (I didn't say I was a good catholic.)