Random Politics & Religion #00

I originally read this as "they need more Honda civics", then read it aloud, and went "WTF... that can't be right" and read it again.

In theory, yes. However, tact is lost on many people today.

I originally read this as "they need more Honda civics", then read it aloud, and went "WTF... that can't be right" and read it again.

True, but what damage are they actually doing by kissing in a public park? My eyes are in my head, which I can easily point in 300+ degrees of direction that don't contain those people.

Yes... hence why I said "Obama and Iraq". It's the third through fifth words of my sentence.

Retrospectively thinking, the entire "boy crazy" phase was egged on by being around other girls, in a way. "Oh, wait! I'm suppose to be investing myself with boys now? She says so-and-so likes me, and we were playing baseball in the field behind the neighborhood last year? This is what I'm suppose to do now, I guess?" I think that was the most awkward age.

Better slap on that glitter eyeshadow (as if you know what the Hell you're doing)! In ten to fifteen years when you stumble on those pictures you're going to have a hearty laugh!

Same. Sleep is a valuable thing once you officially hit your teens. To Hell with morning preening! It became more about practicality to me also in HS. You may get there at 7:00 AM, but when all is said and done after extracurriculars, you might not get out until 5:00 PM.

If you're not hanging out with them or they haven't invited you to hang out with them (for clarification), then it really doesn't matter.

No, just random people in public places.

It's a bit of a jump to say that requesting (or responding to a request for training) is deciding that the problem is lack of training.
It could just as simply be:
Request> "We want whatever help you can give us"
Response> "We can only send trainers and advisers"
Request> "Would you please send us trainers and advisers" Response> "Make it so"

There comes a point where it looks like you're disagreeing with me just for the sake of disagreeing. It's not that big of a jump to go from "We're sending trainers to Iraq" to "Iraq admits it needs more training."

/letitgo.gif yada yada

I read as both parties (Western installed Iraqi government and the U.S., whose current leader is Obama) are just doing more of the same thing and expecting different results. But that's just me.

Calm down, Defend-o-bots. By sending trainers, it is clear that Obama recognized that their previous training was insufficient.

Actually, no. That's an assumption that you make, determined by your bias.

It is clear that the US (e.g. Obama) recognized that additional training by US advisers would assist Iraqi troops either directly or indirectly.

That is not the same thing as saying the previous (or even current) training is insufficient.

And it isn't even a matter of being an Obama apologist; the withdrawal from Iraq was negotiated by a previous president.

US officials believe a major factor in the fall of Ramadi was a lack of training of Iraqi forces.

The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.

The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop.

My bad. I'll just make sure to draw conclusions based on evidence when it's a Republican so that you can be all for it. Apparently if it's not spelled out 100% it's not applicable to Obama.

On that note, also from the BBC:

Are you done now?

My bad. I'll just make sure to draw conclusions based on evidence when it's a Republican so that you can be all for it.

Apparently if it's not spelled out 100% it's not applicable to Obama.

On that note, also from the BBC:

Are you done now?

Uhhhhhhh, I'm gonna have to read more about that one. Hypocrisy that obvious seems too stupid to be true.

Looks like IS conquered its first libyan city, Sirte.

Anyone here heard if the information gotten by the US elite troops a month ago had any impact already on the financial flow of IS?

Islamic State militants have seized a power plant west of the Libyan city of Sirte which supplies central and western parts of the country with electricity, the group and a military source said on Tuesday.

"The plant ... was taken," Islamic State said in a message on social media, adding that the capture of the plant meant that the militants had driven their enemies out of the entire city.

Forces loyal to the self-declared government that controls the capital Tripoli pulled out of the plant after Islamic State attacked it on Tuesday morning. Three soldiers were killed in the attack, the military source said.

Islamic State has exploited the general turmoil and security vacuum in Libya, where two governments are vying for power four years after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, to build up a presence in several cities.

The militants earlier this year captured most of Sirte, Gaddafi's home town, seizing the airport and driving a force loyal to the Tripoli government out to the city suburbs.

Since the start of the year militants in Libya loyal to Islamic State have claimed responsibility for killing dozens of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians, as well attacks on Tripoli's luxury Corinthia hotel, embassies and oilfields.

Libya's internationally recognized government has been working out of the east of the country since losing control of Tripoli and western Libya in August.