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Blackwidow said:
This is what happened February 1st

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Reminds me of this story:

DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEWMAN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

August 31
Just got transferred with work from grey old London to our new home in
Newman, Western Australia. Now this is a town that knows how to live!
Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched the sunset
from a deckchair by the pool yesterday. It was beautiful. I've finally found
my new home I love it here.

September 13
Really heating up now. It got to 31 today. No problem though. Living in
air-conditioned home, driving air-conditioned car.
What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a
sun-worshipper.

September 30th
Had the back yard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms
and rocks. No more mowing lawns for me.
Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th
The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get used to
this kind of heat?
At least today it's windy though. Keeps the flies off a bit.
Acclimatising is taking longer than I expected.

October 15th
Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third degree burns over 60% of my
body. Missed three days of work. What a dumb thing to do!
Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th
Didn't notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car before I left for
work this morning.
By the time I got back to the car after work, Kitty had died and swollen
up to the size of a shopping bag and stuck to the upholstery.
The car now smells like Whiskettes and cat Crap. I've learned my lesson
though: no more pets in this heat.

October 25
. It feels like a giant f*ckin' blow dryer.
And it's hot as hell! The home air conditioner is on the blink and the
repair man charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needs to order
parts from f*ckin' Perth.

October 30th
The temperature's up around 40 and the parts still haven't arrived for
the f*ckin' aircon.
Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Bloody $600,000
house and we can't even go inside.
Why the hell did I ever come here?

November 4
Finally got the ol' aircon fixed. It cost $1,500 and gets the
temperature down to around 25 degrees, but the humidity makes it feel about 30.
Stupid repairman.

November 8
If one more smart arse says 'Hot enough for you today?', I'm going to
f*ckin' throttle him. F*ckin' heat!
By the time I get to work, the car's radiator is boiling over, my
clothes are soaking f*ckin' wet and I smell like baked cat!

November 9
Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat on the black
leather upholstery in the ol' car. I thought my f*ckin' arse was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs of my legs and my f*ckin' arse.
Now the car smells like burnt hair, fried arse and baked cat!

November 10
Weather report! It might as well be a f*ckin' recording. Hot and sunny.
Hot and sunny, Hot and f*ckin' sunny!
It's been too hot to do anything for two f*ckin' months and the
weatherman says it might really warm up next week.
Doesn't it ever rain in this damn f*ckin' place. Water restrictions will
be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry up and blow into the
f*ckin' pool.
The only things that thrive in this hell-hole are the f*ckin' flies. You
don't dare open your mouth for fear of swallowing half a dozen of the
f * ckers!

November 20th
Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 f*ckin' degrees today.
Now the air conditioner's gone in my car. The repair man came to fix it
and said, 'Hot enough for you today?'
My wife had to spend the $2,500 mortgage payment to bail me out of jail
for assaulting the stupid f**ker.
F*ckin' Newman! What kind of sick, demented f*ckin' idiot would want to
live here!

December 1
WHAT!!!! The first day of Summer!!!! You are f*ckin' kidding!
 
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It's mad (like, literally mad) the way he has a pathological desire to preface every conversation with anyone about anything with a few lines about the college electoral system and how convincing his victory really was. Could he be any more transparent in his insecurity and neediness?
 
Possibly this or another variant posted already, but this is so good :lol:

 
Kaos said:
Interesting perspective but a tad bit of false equivalence there too.

Countries like Iraq for example are technically still at war with Israel, so you'd argue there is some logic to the stance. Its diplomatic posturing since I'm sure these countries don't consider Israelis a security risk. I dont personally agree with it but it makes more sense than the US banning people from an allegedly key ally in the war against terror.
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He says pretty much exactly that. His beef is with the earlier ban on Jews in general which he discusses, not the current ban on Israelis. IMO given some of the shit the Mossad has got up to in Arab countries, a ban on Israelis is quite understandable, and I think the author recognizes that.
 
Ubik said:
I suppose the thought is that the source might be well placed (so AP thinks it's reliable enough to print), but acting in bad faith (aka, giving out false transcripts). Random, but I can't see why the Mexicans would deny it if it's legit.
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Because they actually have bad hombres in their country who could take those transcripts very badly. From a diplomatic stand point it's best to just deny it and pretend that it never happened.
 
Who exactly has the power to decide who's on that terror watch list? Surely it cannot be one single person?
 
Crossie said:
Who exactly has the power to decide who's on that terror watch list? Surely it cannot be one single person?
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I don't think that there is a single list, every police/national security administration will have a list of people and organization they watch, they are not micromanaged by the president.
 
It's not a terror watch list so much as they're going to put all their efforts on 'Islamic terrorism'.

Remember, Bannon and Co. just don't believe in white extremism - they are advocates of it...leading proponents.

Those of us who go to mosques in big cities already know the FBI and whoever else keeps a tab on them...surveillance, infiltration...none of which I have a problem with.

My problem is, the FBI has in the past pushed angry idiots who could be pulled back from abyss - in the other direction.

FBI 'egged' them on and then busted them in sting operations.

By all means catch, prosecute and punish heavily those who are imminent threats, but there are those who can be brought back from the precipice

Yet, it seems that kind of outreach both within the Muslim community and law enforcement is lacking.
 
Around 2008 I discovered a raving loony rightwing website when I followed a link on stormfront. This website had almost exclusively articles that either disparaged or demonised anything left of centre on the political spectrum or anything to do with black people or muslims.

Back then I honestly thought it was nothing but a 2 man job running out of a non descript office in the US, I never thought they'd have any bearing on mainstream discourse in world politics but in the span of 8 years we've suddenly got ex employees dictating the contents of presidential executive orders.

Never in my wildest nightmares did I think this would happen.
 
Here we go........ A night on Twitter for The Donald....



How long have Republicans been talking about invading Iran? Palin was always on about it, as was Ted Cruz and Rubio. Obama extended the olive branch and these nutters want all out war, and I bet, will get it soon, but yeah it was Hillary that was the hawk wasn't it? For fecks sake!



The tweet that caused the fall out with Australia...



Threatening a whole University and being a general bully yet again. What a surprise he's defending a despicable person too.



Yay go T-Rex!



It's just me, myself and I.
 
Neutral said:
It's not a terror watch list so much as they're going to put all their efforts on 'Islamic terrorism'.

Remember, Bannon and Co. just don't believe in white extremism - they are advocates of it...leading proponents.

Those of us who go to mosques in big cities already know the FBI and whoever else keeps a tab on them...surveillance, infiltration...none of which I have a problem with.

My problem is, the FBI has in the past pushed angry idiots who could be pulled back from abyss - in the other direction.

FBI 'egged' them on and then busted them in sting operations.

By all means catch, prosecute and punish heavily those who are imminent threats, but there are those who can be brought back from the precipice

Yet, it seems that kind of outreach both within the Muslim community and law enforcement is lacking.
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I would be interested to hear more about this.
 
langster said:
Here we go........ A night on Twitter for The Donald....



How long have Republicans been talking about invading Iran? Palin was always on about it, as was Ted Cruz and Rubio. Obama extended the olive branch and these nutters want all out war, and I bet, will get it soon, but yeah it was Hillary that was the hawk wasn't it? For fecks sake!
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That was just one of the many blatant lies that the Narcissist and Republicans used. I wonder what trade Bannon/Trump will do with Putin: You let us invade Iran and we lift sactions and recognize Crimea and Ukraine as Russian territory?
 
Lets just say he starts sending troops into Mexico etc, at what stage can something be done about this feckwit and what can actually be done?
 
@langster - the US is NOT going to invade Iran. Sanction it...oh for sure - kill more scientists like the Israelis did...you betcha...bomb Iranian facilities - real possibility. But, invade? Nope.
 
Crossie said:
That was just one of the many blatant lies that the Narcissist and Republicans used. I wonder what trade Bannon/Trump will do with Putin: You let us invade Iran and we lift sactions and recognize Crimea and Ukraine as Russian territory?
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Not an expert on the issue but I remember quite a lot of people sharing that view around here, not just Republicans.
 
Someone needs to take twitter away from him. He's a complete joke of a man.
 
They've been threatening Iran for what seems like my entire life. I never thought a war would happen but I'm starting to wonder now, because Trump/Bannon are going to need a show-stopper if they've any chance of a second term the way it's going.
 


Good job it was just a one-off long day and most nights he'll get a solid 8 hours.
 
InfiniteBoredom said:
You know the saying, when there's a will there's a way.
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Nah - I'd be willing to put a significant amount of money on Iran not being invaded. I know Bannon, Flynn and Co want WWIII - but, Iran is a completely different cattle of fish.

Militarily Iran is nothing - it could be bombed into the last century in a couple of weeks. But, invasion/occupation are completely different. You'd be looking at death tolls easily 4-5 times that of Iraq. Not to mention, significant portions of Iraq would be drawn into it and the entire region would go up in smoke.

Complete clusterfcuk.

Wait, now that I think about it...

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