Cygnia Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 Pet Peacock Runs Away From Home And Takes Up With Wild Turkeys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 Insert "birds of a feather" here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 Taking up with Wild Turkey never turns out well. (Or so I am led to understand.) assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 Quote When you're driving down the highway at night And you're feelin' that wild turkey's bite Don't give Johnny Walker a ride 'Cause Jack Black is right by your side You might get taken to the jailhouse and find You've been arrested for driving while blind <insert Rev. Billy Gibbons guitar solo here> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 The conflict between Ukraine and Russia appears to be on the verge of going big. Very scary developments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 9 hours ago, megaplayboy said: The conflict between Ukraine and Russia appears to be on the verge of going big. Very scary developments. Yup. Russia can taste that empire. Ukraine is being occupied more and more, and I don't have much faith the UN will do much about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Hermit said: Yup. Russia can taste that empire. Ukraine is being occupied more and more, and I don't have much faith the UN will do much about it. But at least you can count on the leader of the free world to stand up to Putin and... (pfft... gak...) Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Hey, I think Merkel could give Putin a run for his rubles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Merkel’s quitting, isn’t she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Yes, if Putin's going to make a grab for more "living space" (to borrow an unfortunate rationale from our last world war), he picked an opportune time. NATO is cracked due to an isolationist American president; the European Union is engrossed in Brexit, which has hobbled the UK government; Merkel is a lame-duck leader of a fragile coalition in Germany. Russia has already gotten away with flexing in Ukraine and Syria -- Putin undoubtedly wants to see how far he can push before the world pushes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Disney's Moana has been translated into the Hawaiian language and Disney's giving away copies to schools across Hawaii: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/hawaiian-language-version-moana-be-distributed-schools-across-hawaii-n940411 pinecone, Pariah, Christopher and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 14 hours ago, Hermit said: Yup. Russia can taste that empire. Ukraine is being occupied more and more, and I don't have much faith the UN will do much about it. I don't trust the UN to be able to walk and chew gum simultaneously. Hermit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 12 hours ago, Cygnia said: Hey, I think Merkel could give Putin a run for his rubles... 5 years ago. She seems to have lost her grasp on competence a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 She looks like a flippin' genius compared to what's going on in Britain and the US right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 The German Chancellor is dependent on having enough votes in Parliament to support her/his government. Merkel's party is currently a minority in a coalition, so her ability to take decisive action is pretty limited. And she's been in power since 2005. In democracies the electorate usually starts itching for change if a government persists a long time, regardless of competence. But Angela Merkel expended a lot of political capital in welcoming so many Syrian refugees into Germany. There was substantial support for that in Germany initially on humanitarian grounds; but nationalists have been using it to work people up against her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Fitloo - toilet examines your feces and sends the info to an app on your phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 I guess I'm in the minority here; I don't want the US to stand up for Ukraine. I feel bad for them, but that's just what happens when a little country is next to a big country. Very bad things could happen if the US (or the EU) tried aligning itself with Ukraine. Go team military isolationism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 The problem is, World War II showed us that if you don't stand up to an international bully, he gets bolder, and eventually starts beating up your friends. Tom Cowan, Duke Bushido, Christopher and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Except I'm the guy that thinks if the US had done a few things differently, it could have stayed out of WWII, and that would be a good thing. The Soviet Union would have won without US aid, and Britain was doing just fine holding the Germans at bay while the Soviets advanced. Without the US, Normandy might not have happened (maybe), but that only means that France and all Germany become soviet client states, instead of just East Germany. Eventually the Soviet Union falls anyway because Communism fails every time, and France and Germany go free, no US intervention needed. And the MS St Louis showed it was never a war about stopping the Holocaust. Just another European tribal conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 I think it would be better for all of us here to just leave that unanswered. Starlord, Netzilla and Cygnia 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 The director Bernardo Bertolucci has died https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46342644 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Giant Santa causes a ho-ho-holdup https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-46362708 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 15 hours ago, Badger said: I don't trust the UN to be able to walk and chew gum simultaneously. Eh, while the UN has its corruptions, ineptitudes and things it just can't do, it has its successes too. Only, they don't make the news. Nobody pays attention to the peacekeeping mission that successfully keeps peace or the vaccination campaign that doesn't rile up local crazies. Just like nobody reports on elections that happen without a hitch, or the neighboring ethnic groups that get along fine. The UN can't stop Russia's bad behavior, because Russia has a veto in the Security Council. But that doesn't make the UN worthless. (Though of course it could still be improved.) Dean Shomshak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 The United Nations has very little power to enforce peace between nations and good conduct within them. But it is a safe neutral space in which representatives of the nations of the world can meet, raise and discuss issues of mutual concern, and devise common strategies for dealing with a wide range of problems, usually away from potentially embarrassing media scrutiny. All member nations don't have an equal voice, but at least they have a voice. IMHO having the UN is better than having nothing like it at all, which is probably the only practical alternative. BTW if you'll allow me a momentary tangent: One of the complaints I hear most often about the official Champions Universe is that its version of the UN is "unrealistically" effective, particularly its super-security agency, UNTIL. But it occurred to me that unlike real Earth, Champions Earth has faced multiple alien invasions, not to mention home-grown supervillains and super-terrorists, capable of literally conquering or destroying the planet, on a recurring basis over the past eighty years. That has to have impressed most national governments with the need for greater cooperation, just for collective survival. The incident from CU history that I think most clearly illustrates that is Dr. Destroyer's leveling of Detroit in 1992. Prior to that the United States had not signed the Tribunal Treaty allowing UNTIL to operate with full authority on American soil, over concerns about foreign nationals compromising the country's security. However, when the American public learned UNTIL had mobilized its forces to help fight Destroyer, but that they were held up at the border due to bureaucratic red tape until too late, their outrage forced the US government to ratify the treaty. pinecone, wcw43921 and Old Man 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 5 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: The United Nations has very little power to enforce peace between nations and good conduct within them. But it is a safe neutral space in which representatives of the nations of the world can meet, raise and discuss issues of mutual concern, and devise common strategies for dealing with a wide range of problems, usually away from potentially embarrassing media scrutiny. All member nations don't have an equal voice, but at least they have a voice. IMHO having the UN is better than having nothing like it at all, which is probably the only practical alternative. BTW if you'll allow me a momentary tangent: One of the complaints I hear most often about the official Champions Universe is that its version of the UN is "unrealistically" effective, particularly its super-security agency, UNTIL. But it occurred to me that unlike real Earth, Champions Earth has faced multiple alien invasions, not to mention home-grown supervillains and super-terrorists, capable of literally conquering or destroying the planet, on a recurring basis over the past eighty years. That has to have impressed most national governments with the need for greater cooperation, just for collective survival. The incident from CU history that I think most clearly illustrates that is Dr. Destroyer's leveling of Detroit in 1992. Prior to that the United States had not signed the Tribunal Treaty allowing UNTIL to operate with full authority on American soil, over concerns about foreign nationals compromising the country's security. However, when the American public learned UNTIL had mobilized its forces to help fight Destroyer, but that they were held up at the border due to bureaucratic red tape until too late, their outrage forced the US government to ratify the treaty. Well sure. Supervillains are the equivalent of terrorists with elite training and access to advanced military tech and even weapons of mass destruction(honestly, the ability to level a few city blocks in a matter of minutes is enough to qualify a super as a potential WMD). They are truly independent operators and exactly the kind of threat that would require virtually every nation to cooperate and coordinate with each other. And that's before we get into alien and extradimensional incursions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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