You’re a fucking idiot & most of the ignorant bitches on here are just as stupid.

Your grandfather would have slapped the shit out of you if read the garbage you scribbled.

This stuff is terrifying.

I’ve also read that Chinese fentanyl is showing up in other, non-opiod drugs like cocaine.

Strict zoning/land use regulation really is a problem in England though. The inner 23 wards of Tokyo average more housing starts in a year than the entire UK, and Japan has a shrinking population.

Chinese money + restrictive zoning.

Tokyo continues to remain affordable because they build a massive amount of new housing so that increases in investment flows to construction workers, architects interior designers, etc instead of to landlords through higher rent and prices.

It’s easy to blame foreign money, but it takes two to tango.

The average Japanese home is larger than many in Western Europe, and they have plenty of green space and wilderness. They simply have a stronger preference for urban living since they don’t have to worry about crime or bad schools.

More homogeneous societies are often more generous to their fellow citizens however. There is no voter effort to restrict housing supply growth in Japan or Korea.

Yep. I’m a big Chargers fan and I’m pretty much fed up with the NFL. It’s not longer fun to watch and a waste of my Sundays.

Because we let them in, simple as that.

Yes. But Morris might be some cheap shot effeminate leftist who doesn’t know when to shut up.

Morris, If it weren’t for white males, you wouldn’t be living in a free country. And if it weren’t for American soldiers (guessing by your last name), your ass might have ended up in a gas chamber put in place by a world government dominated by the nazis. So shut the hell up!

Nope, if you come to Portugal you’ll see that the rise of tourism has also led to a rise in Indian immigrants looking to make money off it. Check out the Rossio neighbourhood in Lisbon (packed with turbaned men and salwar kameez women), and also Odivelas (Sikh owned businesses with the Khalsa flag displayed at the entrance).

Nobody likes being pushed out of their home.

To add insult to injury there’s now a growing population of Indian immigrants (mostly Hindus and Sikhs) in Portugal who are promoting multiculturalism and demanding accommodation for their different way of life (but back in India their relatives love to nag Catholic Goans to be like them in order to be ‘real Indians’).

http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Archdiocese_of_Goa
“The total Catholic population in Portuguese territory is reckoned at 293,628 out of a total population of 365,291.”

The Wikipedia article on Goan Catholics talks mainly about the descendants of Hindu converts, not the Portuguese settlers and Luso-Goans (Portuguese men in Goa were encouraged by the government to marry native women and have families in Goa from the 16th century onwards). The conversos under BJP influence seem to be regressing back to the old religion
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-is-a-hindu-nation-and-i-am-a-christian-hindu-goa-deputy-cm/article1-1244441.aspx

Fictional accounts?!

Hindus were not always the majority. Anti-Hindu discrimination was during the Portuguese monarchy till the Marquis of Pombal became PM of Portugal in the 1700s, following which Hindus gained emancipation and the government expelled the Jesuits (in hindsight, Portugal’s biggest mistake). India’s loyalist following was in the Hindu-dominated ‘Novas Conquistas’ only – that too mostly among less-educated outcaste Hindus (e.g. the 1st CM of Goa, Dayanand Bandodkar, was an illegitimate Std III dropout involved in timber smuggling to Maharashtra) and Communists (e.g. Tristao de Braganza-Cunha, who despised the anti-Marxism of the Salazar dictatorship but adored Nehru’s Champagne Socialism). The majority of the more educated and hence more prosperous Catholic-dominated ‘Velhas Conquistas’ didn’t want to be part of a 3rd world country already infamous for red tape, crime, corruption and a cumbersome legal system (Unlike other states, which follow the British Indian model of civil laws framed for individual religions, the Portuguese Uniform Civil Code, based on the Napoleonic code, was followed in Goa).

“India’s takeover of Goa was as legitimate or illegitimate as the American Revolutionaries’ declaring independence even in areas where loyalists had a large following.”
Freedom from Portugal =/= Merger with India
The USA was not a forced merger of the American Colonies with a neighbouring country that sent in an invading army. Also, unlike British India, Goa had its own MP in the Portuguese Parliament for the past couple of centuries so you can’t argue “Taxation Without Representation” either.

You’ve forgotten to list the 1961 annexation of Goa (overseas territory of Portugal) among India’s military adventures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_annexation_of_Goa

Goa had a 85% Catholic majority (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911). To destroy the non-Hindu nature of Goa, the first thing the Indian government did after the annexation of 1961 was order the arrest and expulsion of all ‘white’ Portuguese (in reality, as many Catholics as possible, especially those of the ‘mestiços e descendentes’ educated class). Around 17% of the total population had to leave as a result. Today Goa’s Catholic population is 26% (India pushed for unrestricted Hindu immigration from other states into Goa after 1961) and falling continuously. Most of the Catholic community uses Portugal’s ‘jus sanguinis’ laws to get Portuguese nationality and leave India permanently due to anti-Catholic discrimination in jobs, and continued harassment from the Hindu immigrants to be more ‘Indian’ – i.e. Hindu.

Sequencing his genome is all well and good, but when are you going to have his astrological chart analyzed? 🙂

Also, congratulations.

"I wonder what you were up to in Turkey, Steve?"

– Catching a Derb talk

"Reading one's eyes can be put to good use for this game as well."

– So if straight chicks get as aroused by female masturbation as straight men, then if you get busted watching porn by your girlfriend, you can just tell her you put it on to get her in the mood…

Since everyone’s offering up countries for comparison, here’s another one. How does Myanmar compare with North Korea?

At last, someone found a way to make orgasms ponderous!

I’m not debating, I’m arguing? Had no idea there was such a vast distinction!
Well, let’s see what your definition of fine debating is. As you present your case, you categorize the other side as “downright illogical”. You say – right at the outset! – your side of the “debate” is “plain and simple” and that if anyone has a counter-argument, “all logic” is set aside and “rationalism goes out the door.” And why not, since they’re probably “whiney Democratic drones” anyway? And now that you’ve met someone who doesn’t back down so easily, you’re going to avoid addressing anything else and turn and run with your tail between your legs. But not before one last parting shot, making the accusation that I know full well nothing will change my position on this… as if you’ve given any evidence in this discussion that you’re so amenable yourself, ha! And all under the phony pretence that you’re broad-minded and fair-minded while the people that take a different position from you aren’t, and their “debating”, “arguing” methods are proof of that. It is to laugh.
I guess I’ll never know how someone who was a mayor of a tiny town and a governor for a year-and-a-half automatically qualifies them for leader of the free world, so I grant I did waste my time asking you that, since you won’t answer. But at least I learned something. That is, people who love to posture on discussion boards as the “logical” and “rational” voice of certain matters can be counted on using tired defelction tactics and fleeing when they see they’ve met their match. Have a super weekend!

Again, Obama is at the top of the ticket and will be running the show. Palin is not. Plain and simple. I would say that an attempt at comparison between the two is downright illogical.
Of course, “logically” the comparison doesn’t wash, but only if we go by your “plain-and-simple” logic. Hopefully, most people reject the ludicrous premise that’s the basis of this logic. I’m sure the Republicans are wishing we all do.
Among other things, a vice-president’s role is to take over the office of Commander-in-Chief if the sitting president croaks. Let’s say, just as an example, that he’s 72 years old and has had four bouts of cancer. A distinct possibility, right? So, with that in mind, I – and hopefully most people – view a potential Vice President this way. Is this person qualified and competent enough to be president? That’s the qualifications to look for in a vice-president, just as one would do for a president. Since, y’know, this person could be the leader of the free world in a heartbeat, that’s all.
She actually has more experience than Obama. She has served in some form of elected office since 1992, whereas he has only been doing so since 1997.
Oh, I had no idea that doing political work meant only serving in some form of elected office. I’m sure that’s news to George Herbert Walker Bush. Fifteen years of national political service before becoming vice-president, only four of them in elected office.
But you’re right. She has had more experience in elected office than Obama. (I’m surprised you didn’t throw in “executive” experience, but that spin’s worn out by now.) But the bulk of her “experience” was mayor of a small town, population app. 5,000. Nothing wrong with that. It’s a perfectly honorable position. But could someone tell me what bearing that has on leading the free world?
Thank god we may finally have a VP fully qualified on making executive decisions on how big “No Parking” signs should be!

“How much credibility should we give the Clintons when they attack her about experience?”
Good question. How much credibility should we give McCain and his spokespeople after all their attacks over Obama’s experience?

Meh. Cruise’s performance was all in the makeup. Otherwise, it was just another Tom Cruise performance, one that was in his “crazy, explosive” mode he’s already done in Born on the Fourth of July and Magnolia. It’s Robert Downey’s show, first and foremost.
And the makeup should win an Oscar.

“Yuck! A dinosaur hawk,”
May I ask exactly who you were expecting?

Joke about “brainwashing children” all you want, but I actually didn’t like the whole Buy & Large anti-capitalism theme that was going on. Too Karl Marx for me.
Othewise, it’s a breathtaking film.

I’m sure the producers of Expelled were thrilled that they could find a Jew willing to lie about what caused the Holocaust.

There’s a difference between J. William Fulbright, Fritz Hollings and Buckley. The former two are Southerners; Buckley was a New Englander.
If a Southerner was a segregationalist, that’s one thing because institutionalized racism was so ingrained. Not that I excuse it. There were bold independent Southerners who were staunch anti-racists.
I do excuse Southerners who are uneducated and poverty-stricken. The powers that be often used racism as a means to put the economically deprived at odds against each other so that they wouldn’t join forces in order to fight the entrenched Establishment.
But Buckley was born into wealth, was educated at the finest prep schools and graduated from Yale. There is no excuse for him to
But Buckley was a prep-school eduacted Yale graduate born into wealth. There was no excuse for such a person to write such racist viewpoints. No, not even in 1957.

“Perhaps those of who love books should remember that it’s the content which matters in the end.”
I would argue that presentation is also content, aesthetically speaking. And that the ideal presentation enhances the reading experience, which in turn enhances the text.
And for me, it is more inviting to curl up with a book than with an electronic device. The texture of the pages are more pleasant, and I’d rather not read backlit pages for hours at a time.
IMO, of course.

Hah! You’re all bluster.
🙂

Delete me!
Go ahead. I dare you!

Now, THERE’S a dish you can use your hot sauce experiments on.
In the meantime, I’ll abstain from this site for a week or so until the dead lizard photo is archived. Yuck.