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It looks like Net's power was his inevitability, and when that is lost, suddenly everyone withdraws incase he drags them down with them? Acepace. Could you expand on the Arab parties comment? In 2014, a law was passed raising the minimum voting percentage required to get into the Knesset. On paper,...

But yes, it does explain why the Gods are ready to just hit the "restart button" again. At this point, they're too used to "it failed, time to try again". And as said in strip 1140, destroying the world themselves at least allows them to retrieve the souls of the mortal therein,...

I don't have to provide evidence for pointing out that arson is not the only way wildfires happen, dumbass. That part was the assertion, keep up. You accusation was that Israel was falsely blaming the fires on Arabs to justify killing them (in job lots, given your earlier "mowing the grass&quo...

I don't have to provide evidence for pointing out that arson is not the only way wildfires happen, dumbass. That part was the assertion, keep up. You accusation was that Israel was falsely blaming the fires on Arabs to justify killing them (in job lots, given your earlier "mowing the grass&quo...

Israel? Plan ahead? Don't make me laugh. There is no policy here, only politics. More seriously, the blazes are pretty much fucking up a large fraction of the country. On the positive end, pretty much everyone opened their doors to evacuees regardless of ethnic background. That's a bit of an exagge...

I wonder if that has something with Clinton trying to improve her image while Trump seems to spend most the election campaign munching on his foot. May also be due to potential Trump voters becoming disenchanted with him - Clinton's negative favorability is primarily due to low favorability primari...

A guy who would offer to sell atomic bombs to P.W. Botha (while committing numerous atrocities for his own apartheid state) is about as vile as it gets. He gets a :luv: for nuclear proliferation, and a :wtf: for the 'peace process' he helped start and supported, even after it became blindingly obvi...

And this: http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187 Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 ...

You know, if I were the target of politically motivated throw-shit-and-see-what-sticks attacks, I'd make sure everything I did was above board and clearly document it (aka what government transparency is supposed to be about). That's great in theory. In practise, when you have enemies who are willi...

Sure, it's easy to summarize this scandal or that, and I think you're right that it's partly a difference of culture, but there's something less tangible at work. Sometimes, the public decides things that are fairly minor are worthy of ending a career, but major scandals are fine to overlook. Joe B...

The significance of Reid lobbying for Warren is that he is a very high profile, influential Democratic politician and Clinton supporter. It indicates that powerful people in the Democratic establishment and among Clinton's allies are considering Warren seriously, rather than Warren as VP being a fa...

It's unknown whether the Israelis would deliberately shoot down a Russian fighter that happened to cross the border, though IMO it's rather unlikely. I'm not surprised that they'd shoot down a Syrian jet the moment it enters Israeli airspace given that Syria is an open enemy of Israel, and the pote...

IIRC being a diplomat does not automatically confer diplomatic immunity; more junior diplomats and "support" staff have a more limited form of immunity.

I surely see how my post could be seen as controversial by others, but I don't post here just so that people feel good about themselves or agree with me. They are free to disagree. Instead, I'd like them to think for a second. Regimes like Saudi Arabia or Zimbabwe, although one is rich and the othe...

Didn't 4th Imperium stuff fight at FTL, or am I thinking of something else? Staying mobile should prevent them from being successfully targeted. Not that I can recall; they can use the Enchanach (? I can't remember the spelling) Drive for tactical manoeuvres, but I can't recall any specific example...

Another thing, the bias could simply be Israel's rivals are more persistent. They keep on raising the issue even though Israel's ally the US will just veto it. If someone kept on raising the issue with say Russia or China, they would also veto it, but the potential difference is, that their opponen...

Simon, if we skip the long part of your post and sum it up in one sentence: if is a very high chance to be defeated by the occupier, it is pointless to fight. Ireland's previous rebellions made as much sense as all the other failed rebellions. Not all of them were useless, as you say. Spartacus was...

Is this supposed to counter what he said? Because it kind of reinforces it when posters praising the asshole for murdering an innocent 16 year old girl at a parade with Bronze Age bullshit excuses to be followed by posters trying to condemn the murderer in classic no true Scotsman "he can't be...

Is this supposed to counter what he said? Because it kind of reinforces it when posters praising the asshole for murdering an innocent 16 year old girl at a parade with Bronze Age bullshit excuses to be followed by posters trying to condemn the murderer in classic no true Scotsman "he can't be...

You can't really be shocked when their barbaric moral code encourages things like stoning women who aren't virgins when they get married and forcing rape victims to marry their rapist. A week after Yishai Shlissel stabbed six people at the Jerusalem pride parade, murdering 16-year-old Shira Banki, ...

I see nothing wrong with Finch holding racist views. That was the reining attitude at the time. Pretty much everyone, even allies of blacks, would have held some racist ideas even if they were trying to work past them. It would be out of place for Finch to be a perfect saint that saw whites and bla...

I think you're giving the mother too much benefit of the doubt. The guardian ad litem has apparently sided with the judge and the Father in this case in that the mother needs to have her access to the children restricted. http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20150710/gorcyca-sends-three-chil...

Um... Consider who the lady is.. (No Spoilers Please!!!) I deeply deeply doubt that... Mostly as I know, there are no cases in any discworld books of such (ahem) "mixed marriages" Blind Io gets around, seducing maiden's in the form of showers and vases and such like. There are a few refer...

Well if magic is a factor than perhaps the availability of magic, and magical affinity of the distant progenitor might explain a lot of things. The passive magical properties of a region would play as much part in shaping a species as anything we would call natural. Maybe the elves evolved within r...

A third book is coming; Weber had to get a new co-author [Joelle Presby] because Linda Evans has an illness. There will be at least two more books, the title of the third one 'The Road to Hell' , which will probably be a 2017 release. The new world will definitely not be 2010 Earth as that would be...