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|2013/9/9-11/21 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:54738 Activity:nil
9/9 "Syria positive about giving up chemical weapons" http://www.csua.org/u/1165 (news.yahoo.com) Damn! We did all the dirty work, and now Russia is going to get the credits. \_ Vladimir Putin for Nobel Prize!
|2012/4/25-6/4 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:54370 Activity:nil
4/25 Colombian special forces conducting a military exercise, really. http://preview.tinyurl.com/7a6huq6 (http://www.sfgate.com :-)
|2012/1/10-2/6 [Politics/Foreign/Europe, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:54286 Activity:nil
1/10 Want financial assistance from the government? Go to Greece and molest a kid! http://www.csua.org/u/v6j (news.yahoo.com) (And I don't mean the free goodies in jail.) \_ That Penn State guy has a future!
|2011/2/18-4/20 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:54043 Activity:nil
2/18 Synchronized swimming of six Goldfish http://www.csua.org/u/slg Obviously the fish are driven by magnets. Their fins aren't even moving when they "swim".
|2010/2/11-18 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:53704 Activity:kinda low
2/11 Iran declares itself a nuclear nation today: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100211/ts_afp/iranrevolutionanniversary \_ Hurry up Kim Jun *THE THIRD*, you're way behind! \_ Iran also packed tens of thousands of rural poor onto buses, drove them into Tehran, and had them pose for pro-gov't. rallies by promising food, drink, and prizes, then declared themselves a popular, democratic country. And I declare myself king of the moon. Doesn't make it so. \_ Nuke it.
|2009/8/11-19 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:53262 Activity:nil
8/10 http://csua.org/u/osg "If the Iranians were to successfully mine these waters, the disruption to 40 percent of the world's oil flow would be immediate and dramatic. The nastiest part of the equation would be that in mine warfare, it is very hard to know when all the mines have been cleared. It is the risk, not the explosions, which causes insurance companies to withdraw insurance on vastly expensive tankers and their loads. It is insurance that allows the oil to flow. "
|2009/7/24-29 [Transportation/Airplane, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:53194 Activity:low
7/24 Another plane crash in Iran in two weeks. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_plane In both times the planes were Russian-made, and in both times they blamed U.S. sanctions. Why don't they blame the Russian govt for cutting funding for manufacturers that make spare parts (as mentioned at the end of the article) that would have actually made a difference to the planes in the crashes? \_ Is this a serious question? \_ Has anyone noticed there's been an US carrier plane crash about one month since Jan. Wtf? Why no OUTRAGE. \_ What does this mean?
|2009/3/2-5 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:52665 Activity:nil
3/2 Iran arrested a US journalist on Feb 10. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5831812.ece
|2008/12/8-12 [Reference/Military, Politics/Domestic/President, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:52203 Activity:nil
12/8 "Military jet crashes in San Diego neighborhood" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_re_us/military_jet_crash Gee. Reminds me of the movie "Blast from the Past". \_ Turns out it's in University City, just off the 805. Lots of nice houses around there. \_ great, this didn't help the housing price any, isn't it?
|2008/11/12 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:51945 Activity:nil
11/2 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AB1WG20081112 megalolz.
|2008/9/26-10/1 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:51317 Activity:low
9/26 Russia's a democracy. Iran's a democracy. Wouldn't they be members of McCain's League of Democracies? \_ Russia is definitely not a democracy. Any decision may be arbitrarily changed by Putin. Iran is not a democracy, at least no the US version. any decision by the democratically elected not the US version. any decision by the democratically elected leadership can be overruled by the chief cleric. \_ And yet they both hold reasonably free and fair elections, which makes them democracies, at least by definition. What McCain is proposing (and you are agreeing with) is an arbitrary club of countries we like. We currently call this NATO. \_ I still don't think you can really say Iran and Russia are democracies. It stretches the bounds of credibility to say that Russia has free and fair elections. The country is controlled by Putin. Few would disagree with this. Absolutely any decision in Iran can be modified by the Supreme Ruler I mean head cleric.
|2008/7/9-11 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:50522 Activity:nil
7/9 Iran photoshops missle launch photos http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30597_Irans_Photoshopped_Missile_Launch \_ Bush and Ahmadi-Nejad should really be friends, not foes. They both like to exaggerate Iran's military capabilities.
|2008/6/12-13 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:50239 Activity:kinda low
6/12 Brilliant! Police can bar recruits for having high IQ scores http://csua.org/u/lqs (NYTimes) \_ But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training. \_ This is VERY old news. I've been talking about cops who clearly "passed the IQ test" for like 9 years. \_ "Judge Dorsey ruled that Mr. Jordan was not denied equal protection because the city of New London applied the same standard to everyone: anyone who scored too high was rejected." I don't understand. How is this different from other kinds of discrimination? Can my company reject certain candidates and claim that we are not discriminating because "anyone who is race X is rejected" or "anyone who is mute is rejected"? \_ It has to do with qualification for the job. People are often rejected from jobs for being "over-qualified", no?
|2008/6/7-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran] UID:50180 Activity:nil
6/6 Ehud Olmert threatens Israeli attacks on Iran http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSL0625195820080606 Of course, given the Olmert's circumstances, this seems a bit 'wag the dog'. \_ Olmert has a single digit approval rating. He has no political future. This is unlikely wagging. The real concern is his gvt will micromanage any strikes on Iran like they did with Hamas and make things even worse (if that's possible).
|2008/6/4-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:50155 Activity:moderate
6/4 Obama promises to eliminate Iran http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWAT00959220080604 Nevermind, Obama is ok with me now. -motd ex-Obama hater \_ Where in the article does it mention eliminating Iran? \_ "The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat" \_ Eliminating the threat, not eliminating the country. \_ So, he's just going to eliminate all their military capabilities? \_ Eliminating a threat does not always mean bombing back to the stone age. In fact, bombing back to the stone age often doesn't eliminate a threat, see Iraq. \_ So, he's going to give them WTO membership and they'll learn to love the Jews and stop promising to "wipe them off the map"? \_ I didn't realize that was the only other choice. Silly me. \_ It is this kind of binary thinking that got us into the mess we are in in the first place. \_ Exactly! We should just talk with them. Use the power of diplomacy and negotiate. The pen is mightier than the sword. After Obama has a chance to talk with Iran's leadership, they'll come around and see this was all just a big misunderstanding and it'll be just like Nixon going to China. We don't need binary thinking. We need Obama's fuzzy thinking. \_ The world is more complex than you are capable of imagining. \_ I'm capable of quite a lot, thanks. Are you saying we should not talk to anyone? It is hard to tell what you're trying to say since you said so little. \_ Your snarkiness does not really indicate a desire for a serious reply. If you are actually interested in a serious conversation about how International Diplomacy works (when not run by arrogant boobs, like the current Admin) I will be happy to have one with you. But you might be better off picking up a copy of Foreign Affairs first. \_ My snarkiness? I made a statement. Your only replies were to insult me. You have still added nothing to this thread. Why did you even bother to post if you had nothing to add? \_ "We need Obama's fuzzy thinking" is a statement? Do you really believe that? is a non-snarky statement? Do you really believe that? The whole paragraph was snarky. \_ "Obama also vowed to vigorously support Israel's right to defend itself ......". See, I told you, Obama is not black. Only a day after he secured the Democratic nomination using support from black people, he's already letting out his 50% whiteness. \_ Black people hate Israel? I didn't know that sterotype. \_ Yeah, and Latinos hating blacks is just another stereotype, too. Yeah, really. \_ And a politician *never* goes back on his promises, right? \_ If we're going to go with this assumption, then I'm voting for Obama because I like him better, no other reason. \_ You are insane aren't you? \_ Didn't Hillary dominate the Hispainc vote because of racial tension between Lations and blacks? \_ In this country, you cannot win the presidency if you don't support the Jews. It's as simple as that. \_ Or any other group with more that accounts for 5% or more of the people. I'm sure you didn't intend to sound racist when you said that. \_ The GOP routinely wins office with less than 10% support from Blacks, a voting block much larger than 5% of the population. Not to detract from your main point though. \_ This has been based, traditionally, on voter apathy among blacks. See if this changes this year. \_ Hello mr. clueless!
|2008/5/15-16 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:49956 Activity:nil
5/15 new War Nerd out http://exile.ru/print.php?ARTICLE_ID=19027&IBLOCK_ID=35
|2008/4/24-5/2 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:49818 Activity:nil
4/24 Oops, Mumbai caught supplying Iran with A-bomb material http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEP20080423103959&Page=P&Title=Nation&Topic=0 \_ Really? A Bangalorian newspaper was the only place you could find \_ Really? A Chennaian newspaper was the only place you could find this story? \_ http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=iran+graphite+&btnG=Search+News
|2008/4/22-5/2 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:49801 Activity:nil
4/22 UNIFIL finds Hezbollah arms; gunmen scatter peacekeepers http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976980.html \_ And?
|2007/11/15-17 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Health/Women] UID:48645 Activity:low
11/15 Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women - Yahoo News! http://www.csua.org/u/k0a Oh, c'mon! Gee. \_ MERRY NON-DEMONATIONAL COMPLETELY-SECULAR INOFFENSIVE WINTER EVENT! \_ "MERRY"? Did I just hear "Marry"? How dare you discriminate against people who prefer single lives! \_ Management sincely apologises for any offense and/or distress and/or suffering our inexcusable and rude use of the "M"-word may have caused. \_ That's what the politically-correct "Happy Holidays!" is for. Sucks. I prefer "Merry Christmas!" even though I'm atheist. \_ BABY KILLER! Don't you know that "Holiday" is derived from "Holy Day"?!?@!111
|2007/10/30-11/2 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:48482 Activity:nil
10/29 This is an old article from NY Times a couple days ago. I find it extremely interesting and a bit surprised no one mentioned about it. This is an article about how Kurdish extremist were fighting against IRAN (not Turkey) and it seems that this Kurdish extremist group, P.J.A.K has US' blessing to do so. http://csua.org/u/jv0 I think US just find its way to pick a fight against Iran: continue to encourage PJAK to conduct raid against Iran, when Iran respond, we can say Iran attack Iraq and thus we need to go all out again Iran in self defense... this is getting better and better every day. \_ Of course Iran is messing around in Iraq. I don't know why we are so surprised. If China invaded Mexico, you can bet we would have all kinds of covert ops going on down there stirring shit up. \_ Who said anyone is surprised? Pissed off that Iranians and their proxies are killing Americans? Yes. Surprised? No. \_ Are you less pissed off that Syrian and Saudi proxies are killing Americans? Also, your assertion that Iranians are attacking Americans is utterly baseless. \_ Er, no, we'd have very overt ops going on down there. We really don't like having other world powers mucking about in our continent, at least not militarily. \_ I agree with you. I just don't think it should be a shock at all that Iran might be messing around in Iraq. They are next door to Iraq. Iran is 90 percent Shiite. Iraq is 60 percent Shiite. All of the holy shiite shrines are in Iraq. \_ Agreed. Also: no surprise that Turkey intends to pursue PKK across the border, that Saudi Arabia is funding Sunni groups, and that Syria is smuggling weapons in. \_ All entirely predicatable before the first shot was fired. Someone is going to fill the vacuum left by SH. \_ All the more reason to believe that there will be a kind of detente if the US steps out of Iraq. The powers that be in the region will _not_ allow each other to step in. \_ Detente? You base this on what? \_ On the unenlightened self-interest of the powers in the region. None of them want the pie so much as they want the rest to stay out. \_ So you think the entire region can be reduced to population percentage by religion? That's the only factor? \_ I am not pp, but as Iran is the only Shi'ite power in the region and is dominated by a Shi'ite theocracy, I'd say this works in this context. \_ No, that's too simple. Iraq is much more heavily tribal than religious. Iran is dominated by a theocracy but the people are not all walking lock step with hand on Koran every day. Far far far far too simple. Thinking like that is no better than the 'theyll greet us with flowers' plan. \_ I agree with you that Iran is not in lock-step: it's arguable that the main theocracy and the President have diametrically opposed goals, and the populace, particularly the students, isn't really happy with either of them at the moment. However, I agree with pp that it's not surprising that Iran is interested/involved in Iraq. The theocratic elements are, it turns out, primarily motivated by sympathy with (and the opportunity to manipulate) the Shiite population in Iraq; the intel folks don't want yet another Sunni nation on their border; and the Pres. wants anything to distract the people from the promises he hasn't followed through on. I think I get what you're saying, though: Shia population as a percentage of Iraqi population is not the end-all reason behind Iranian interest, no?
|2007/10/24-26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:48434 Activity:low
10/24 so how is ISLAMO FACISM AWARENESS WEEK going? \_ David Horowitz would make the ultimate Motd troll. \_ http://www.newsweek.com/id/57346 "Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century" \_ Does financing and supporting internation terrorism count as invasion? \_ Since the primary victims of Iranian funded terrorism are Israeli jews, no it doesn't count, because as we all know Hamas, Fatah (once headed by the democratically elected Nobel Peace Prize winner, Arafat), and the rest are all just Freedom Fighters working hard to liberate their homeland from oppressive racist invaders. <sarcasm off>
|2007/10/11-15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran] UID:48293 Activity:nil
10/11 Man, why didn't I hear about this sooner? We're sending bionic squirrels to Iran! http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007906268 \_ You missed a zillion rocky n bullwinkle jokes. Most of them were lame.
|2007/9/24-27 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:48174 Activity:high
9/24 Wow, they don't have gays in Iran http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RS115O0&show_article=1 \_ There are no gays in the US military, either. \_ Why pick on Iran? How about Saudi Arabia? How come we have no issue with Saudi chopping people's hands off, gauging eyes off, and stone women to death? In fact, we love Saudi so much that we outsource our torture to there. \_ The difference between the USM and Iran being that the worst that happens in one is they kick you out, in the other they execute you. So yeah, you make a highly valid comparison. \_ samething can said about WW2. We only put Japs into concentration camps, not gas chambers. Thus, it makes us the good guys. Now, get back to your own drinking fountain. \_ To point out that the USM also ignores the existence of gays in its ranks is not the same as to suggest that the USM executes gays. It is possible to draw parallels in parts and yet recognize differences in the whole: the USM is not Iran. \_ Maybe I should have added 'sarcasm' tags to my post, above. \_ Tellingly, this is why Columbia U. says they won't allow ROTC on campus, yet the Iranian nutjob is there today. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2007/09/24/ahmadinejad_is_in,_rotc_is_out http://urltea.com/1kup (townhall.com) \_ Is ahmadenijad recruiting students? \_ Dinesh D'Souza is almost as short as you. \_ I'm 6'0". You? \_ A link to D'Souza is enough to dismiss you as a troll. Take your failure like a man. \_ Sometimes things are true even if someone you don't like says them. \_ Yes. But not this time. D'Souza is an imbecile, his "point" puerile, and you ignorable for posting it. \_ What about his point do you find purile, and why? \_ What part of "ignorable" don't you understand? Eh, it's a slow day. I'll throw you a bone. Do you see any difference between an organization looking to recruit students and a foreign head of state attending a forum? I mean, other than their clothes. \_ Well, the claim isn't that they're precisely the same. In 2003 a majority of the students voted to have ROTC on campus. The president says there should be a forum for all ideas, yet ROTC isn't allowed. What is recruiting other than presenting your ideas and asking people to sign up? \- ROTC isnt an idea. An ongoing recruitment program is different from a one shot speech. [BTW, I'm not sure what I think about ROTC on private campuses which get public monies, so I'm just saying the comparison is bogus, not anti-ROTC]. \_ I think it is quite clear that if you take the public's money you need to take the public's responsibilities which includes having the military around trying to recruit if that's one of the strings. The Feds use highway funds all the time as a stick for totally unrelated State bashing. If that is ok then it should certainly be ok to pull Federal dollars from a school that directly opposes something harmless like ROTC. \_ "Why is it that the Palestinian people are paying the price for an event they had nothing to do with?" Please to be asking Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. \_ Wasn't this a speech to the UN? \_ He was talking about the Holocaust. RTA. \_ I think he just points out the unconvenient fact. Without Nazi, there will be no political will to establish a Jewish state. By the way, there was a draft to settle Jews in Alaska. It never made out of committee. No one in USA want Jews establish their homeland in US soil. \_ There is/was at least a tenuous historical basis for est. of Israel in the Levant/Palestine.
|2007/9/6 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:47909 Activity:nil
9/5 http://www.csua.org/u/jge GOP Presidential strategy becomes clear.
|2007/7/23-26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:47386 Activity:nil 88%like:47382
7/23 Why aren't we just bombing this country already? http://urltea.com/11o5 (news.yahoo.com) \_ Yeah I bet those young women are just begging to be bombed.
|2007/7/23 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:47382 Activity:nil 88%like:47386
7/23 Why aren't we just bombing this country already? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070723/wl_mideast_afp/iranwomenfashion_070723175421
|2007/7/3-5 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:47153 Activity:kinda low
7/2 So the bombers in England were doctors. Popular leftist wisdom is that Muslims are desperate because of the poor conditions they live in and their lack of education. If only we worked hard to improve their conditions, then they would not grow up to be suicide bombers, goes the thinking, because they would have something to live for. Now that MDs are blowing themselves up can we at least begin to consider that perhaps religious wars are not rational? \_ Popular leftist wisdom is that religious people are nutters, not that Muslim's are desperate because they are poor. Did you invent that straw man all by yourself? \_ Actually, I've heard many people (including my law profs) say that if there was more prosperity for the ordinary people in the middle east there would be less suicide bombings, &c. and thus the sol'n to the problem is to improve conditions over there for (i.e. create a middle class, to promote stability). I do not know what the factual, historic or economic theory basis is for this assertion, but I have heard it before from self-described "lefties." -!op \_ Isn't that the neocon argument? If we just give them the trappings of US-style capitalism, they will luv us forever and want to be just like us? \_ You forgot the part where we knock the shit out of them first to show them who's best. \_ No, it isn't. The left isn't saying they need our economic system, just our prosperity. \_ I guess you're right, although that makes no sense at all. -!pp \_ It makes sense if you believe that there are other ways to achieve economic prosperity. \_ Sure, but name one that's proven to work as well. \_ It depends a lot on what you mean by "well" and what you mean by "our economic system." Does a Scandanavian-style mixed economy count? How about a State authoritarian Singapore style model? And not that I am prepared to defend it, but there are plenty of people on the left who think that State socialism is the way to go. Many, many (probably most people worldwide) are more interested in creating a base level of prosperity for everyone, not just a mass of phenomenal wealth for the top 1%. The US model is not widely emulated for a reason. \_ *Every* country has a top 1% with phenomal wealth. Good luck changing that. It would be a first in world history if it happened. \_ Uh, Cuba? \_ Looked at relatively, especially Cuba. \_ Any evidence for this statement? Everyone I know who has been to Cuba says otherwise, but maybe you have some hard facts to back up your opinion. \_ Oddly enough, I don't have Fidel's tax returns in front of me. Why don't you go ahead and tell us what "everyone [you] know who has been to Cuba says"? \_ They say that the standard of living is very flat and that no one lives ostentatiously. They also say that the hospitals are missing every other light bulb to save electricity. \_ Did they travel in the same circles as Castro and that tier? I'll grant you that it's flat for most, but if Fidel needs the latest/greatest tech for his health, the slope is steep. \_ Do you think the distribution of wealth is the same world-wide? Look at this graphical representation: http://www.lcurve.org In the US, the top 0.1% makes 8% of the overall income, in Sweden it is 1%. So I guess it depends on what you mean by "phenomenal". 10X average is a lot, but much less phenomenal than 80X, right? \_ 10X is phenomenal. 80X is too and doesn't make 10X any less so. Would you think 10X your salary was phenomenal or just 'a lot' because it wasn't 80X? \_ I think 10X average salary is merely "a lot." At this point it is merely semantics. \_ So if you got 10X your current you wouldn't think that was phenomenal? Okey dokey. Not much to be said to that when 10X is the difference between doing well enough and being able to retire early doing whatever you want with your life while you're still young enough to do it after only a few years of 10X. \_ I am already making 5X median income, so no, doubling my salary wouldn't really change my life that much. You aren't paying much attention to the words you are using. And no, even if my salary doubled, I wouldn't be able to retire soon. \_ Is your law professor a "leftist"? \- i think you also have to consider the thesis "there are things that matter to people other than job prospects" ... having your "homeland" under somebody elsese rule seems to be a good way to get people upset, for example. i am not too familar with what's under the hood of japanese suicider bombers [how willing they were etc], but at least it cant be glibly chalked up to religion, let alone islam. i dunno the socioeconomic status of the IRA, but they clearly werent desperately poor [not suicide bombers, but terrorists and willing to die (see eg BOBBY SANDS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_Hunger_Strike I dont think all the TAMIL TIGER suicide bombers are in desperate straits financially. So consider looking at the "dual" ... rather than focusing on what one person being a suicide bomber says about him, what does a steady availability of them say about how fucked up things must be. I think usually there are better structural explanations for many things than the vague cultural ones [like the talk in the 8-s about "asian capitalism" ... hey guess what, the japanese economy looks different from the US one probably more because of corporate structure laws and finance laws, not these vague "harmony and patience" arguments ... the german economy also looks different, in part because they have firm level unions. finally, the islamic suicide bombers phenomena may just be testimony to a sosophisticated and expert system of brainwashing, like JIM JONES, DKORESH etc. Anyway, the most on point suggestion I have is YMWTGF(alan krueger terrorism). i am not saying islam nor general life conditions play no role, but it is more complicated than that. bomber says about him, what does a steady availability (and climbing income of the candidates) of them say about how fucked up things must be. I think usually there are better structural explanations for many things than the vague cultural ones [like the talk in the 80s about "asian capitalism" ... hey guess what, the japanese economy looks different from the US one probably more because of corporate structure laws and finance laws, not these vague "harmony and patience" arguments ... the german economy also looks different, in part because they have firm level unions. finally, the islamic suicide bombers phenomena may just be testimony to a sophisticated and expert system of brainwashing, like JIM JONES, DKORESH etc. Anyway, the most on point suggestion I have is YMWTGF(ALAN KRUEGER terrorism). i am not saying islam nor general life conditions play no role, but it is more complicated than that. \- http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39b01001.htm --psb \_ So George Bush is a leftist now. This explains much. \_ This has been in doubt for some time: http://csua.org/u/j2r (Boston Globe article on book by Robert A. Pape). However, it's common sense that Muslim Fundamentalist groups are attractive to the disenfranchised, particularly in our ally countries (like Egypt and Saudi Arabia) where odds of bettering your situation through the status quo are vanishingly slim. Cf. Islamic Rev. in Iran. \_ And because SA and E are dictatorships it is a good idea to bomb Americans and Europeans? I'm not following this line of thought. \_ Sorry, no, not my point. My point is that we still need to promote good economics and democratic politics in these countries if we don't want them to get taken over by religious fanatics. \_ Anyone who seriously makes this claim (about Islamic radicals) hasn't spent much time studying or thinking about it. The leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Wahhabiists in Saudi Arabia are all educated, mostly middle class men. Now it might be true that they find themselves marginalized and with little opportunity to change their lot, but they are certainly not starving and not even poor, by their countries standards. Palestine is kind of a different story, but don't you think that not having jobs, having your freedom of movement and your right of statehood taken away might tend to breed resentment? \_ No one has a 'right of statehood'. Nations have always come and gone based on the (mis)fortunes of war, disease, natural disasters, etc. \_ Your opinion is in disagreement with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN, but I guess you are entitled to it. Who else in the world does not have citizenship rights? People don't neccesarily have the right to the state that they want, but everyone has the right to citizenship. \_ That's a 'right' on paper. It is not a natural right. And it is not my opinion that countries come and go, it is historical fact. Maybe you meant something else. \_ The right to citizenship comes and goes? I don't think so, but I guess if you want to bring back slavery, you are welcome to it. \_ No. The existence of nations/states. And no, most conquered people were not historically made citizens of the conquering state. When the Maya fell apart due to disease or whatever it was, there was no replacement state. If you lived behind the Iron Curtain I guess you were a citizen of something but that didn't come with any rights. If you were born in this country not that long ago as an Eskimo or continental Native America, then no you weren't a citizen. And no, slavery is not the only alternative to citizenship as I just demonstrated. \_ Stating it like that reminds me of the old historical cycle, middle class wants to be upper class so convinces lower class to fight for them. Sometimes the middle class succeeds and trades places with the upper class, but the lower class stays at the bottom. \_ More like lowest classes rebel after being starved out, make some idiot king and things are better for a short time until they have to do it all over again. Elected systems of government implicitly acknowledge this cycle by giving the people a non-bloody way to turn over the government every so often. That's why you'll *never* see a revolution in this country or any other elective government system. \_ Well, yes, elections _and_ a degree of complacency brought about by a pretty good standard of living even for the poor. The Upper Class would do well to remember that the distance between Harlem and the Upper East Side is really negligible-- and the distance between Compton and Beverly Hills even more so. \- See "great wall of grosse pointe" aka alter rd.
|2007/6/7-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran] UID:46879 Activity:low
6/7 Iran caught red-handed arming the Taliban http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/document_iran_c.html \_ By "red-handed" you mean "senior white house officials" leaked some "intelligence." \_ I hear Saddam had WMDs \_ No, NATO officials, not white house officials. And Richard Clarke is no friend of the Bush administration. -emarkp \_ Iran has every incentive to keep America busy because once US is done with Iraq and Afganistan, Iran will be next. Having said that, you obviously have absolutely no sense of history. Taliban was one of the biggest national security threat to Iran, and Iran is actually glad that US toppled Taliban.
|2007/5/22-24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Health/Women] UID:46728 Activity:nil 88%like:46724
5/22 Iran beating their women: http://urltea.com/lyp (gatewaypundit.blogspot.com) \_ Obviously we must invade them and convert them to Christianity.
|2007/5/22 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others, Health/Women] UID:46724 Activity:nil 88%like:46728
5/22 Iran beating their women: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-god-theyre-beating-their-women-to.html \_ Obviously we must invade them and convert them to Christianity.
|2007/4/6-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:46221 Activity:high
4/6 Lebanese minster thanks Pelosi for her visit to Syria: "Her visit was a godsend to an isolated and beleaguered regime," says a Lebanese minister. "The Syrian regime, which had been thinking of bowing to international pressure, is now reassured: All it has to do is to wait until Pelosi's party takes over the White House in 2009." http://csua.org/u/ien \_ YA!!! now they can openly support terrorism in 2009!! \_ Yeah, that unsourced quote in a NY Post op-ed piece doesn't sound the least bit made up to me. \_ Now wait a second. Are you accusing the Post of fabricating a quote from a Lebanese minster? \_ If pp's not, I am. -!pp \_ "...the region's current trend toward reform and liberalization would largely come to a halt." Typical delusional neocon fantasizing. Does he mean the election of Hamas, the civil war in Iraq, the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan or Iran's recent advances toward nuclear weapons and more belligerent attitude toward The West? Perhaps he means Mubarak's cancelling of elections and outlawing of opposition parties in Egypt. The author should just put on a flight suit and declare "Mission Accomplished!" \_ You forgot Lebanon's missile attacks on Isreal, and Isreal's subsequent invasion. -tom \_ Just an FYI, Iran has not stopped working on their nuke program since it started ~20 years ago, nor has their attitude changed in the least since 1979. The Taliban also dates back for about 20 years also. Mubarak has always been a thug but "he's *our* thug!" so it's ok. And in additon to what tom added, you also forgot Intifada I and II which was the first time anyone strapped a bomb onto a child. At no time *ever* in recorded history has the middle east ever been civilised or any less basket-casey than it is today. \_ Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the Kamikaze in WWII. The Middle East was quite stable under Ottoman Empire rule. \_ Are you suggesting that the Japanese strapped bombs onto children and used them as kamikaze pilots? 'Cos I just want to be clear on this before I call you an idiot. \- re: "first time anyone ever strapped a bomb on to a child" ... that's not correct. in the vietnam war, is is supposed to have happened. also comparable things happened like standing children in the middle of roads so convoys/trucks would stop and could be attacked [first they tried it with cattle, but later "escalated" to people]. i dont recall if this has happened in the sri lankan conflict ... certainly teenagers were involved, not sure about young children. has it not occurred to you instead of taking this only as a lesson about "what kinds of degenerates are these" that the take away might be "things are pretty fucked up for people who'd resort to this kind of thing." \_ There are documented cases of 16 year old Kamikaze pilots. Sorry reality is such a bummer to you. \_ Congratulations: you're half right, so you're only half an idiot. \_ Uh oh, you found other times where kids were strapped to bombs and pointed. Yeah, that makes it ok in the middle east, too. Ok, thanks for the correction. I'll mentally remove that from my list of middle east insanity. Glad you found the trees. Seen the forest yet?
|2007/3/29-4/2 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:46146 Activity:nil
3/29 My analysis of the Iran UK hostage situation: Iran was conducting war games. UK rubber boats were close to border but did not cross. Iranian navy commander orders capture of UK guys because he had orders to detain observers. Iran calculates UK/U.S. won't do shit -- good. Iran calculates even if UK/U.S. do something, it will drive up oil prices -- good. Any way you look at it, win/win for Iran. Predicted end game: Prisoner swap. UK rules of engagement revised. \_ The UK isn't holding any Iranians that we know of. They also import 40% of their gasoline, which is somewhat ironic being one of the world's largest oil exporters, so a simple blockade would devastate their economy. Not so win/win for Iran if things turn ugly. \_ http://www.csua.org/u/id7 Iran grabbed the hostages in retaliation for American attempt to snatch Iranian senior intelligence officials.
|2007/3/25-29 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:46088 Activity:kinda low
3/25 http://www.csua.org/u/ib9 Iran says they have signed confessions from the Brit soldiers to "to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran's waters" and that they'll trade them for Iranian spies captured in Iraq. Will this be an Archduke Ferdinand moment? \_ This situation is beyond crazy. Has anyone seen analysis that clearly shows whose territorial waters these sailors were caught in? \_ No, Bush would clearly love to "double down" in Iran, but his hands are tied now. Two years ago, this would have meant war. \_ These are british soldiers, not americans. \_ And? \_ And? \_ British->NATO->US, says Bush. \_ Who exactly is "Iran" and what did they say? \_ Wonder how the Brits'll react? Freeze Iranian funds? The Iranians are pretty clearly in the wrong. \_ how about grabbing an iranian vessell from iranian waters, taking the crew prisoner, and claiming they are all spies with signed confessions. \_ Are you sure that the Brits were not in Iranian waters? All I have seen are "he said - she saids" claims. I assume the Brits \_ Are you sure that the Brits were not in Iranian waters? All I have seen are "he said - she said" claims. I assume the Brits will escalate until the Iranians back down. We shall see. \_ There is concensus. They were in Iraqi waters. \_ 3/27 Update: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/wl_nm/iran_dc "Blair's spokesman said the next step London could take would be to publish proof, in the form of global satellite positioning (GPS) records, that the sailors had not entered Iranian waters." But of course Iran could claim that the GPS records are fake. BTW, if Margaret Thatcher were still the PM, the Brits would be planning to nuke Iran by now. \_ At least sending the fleet in that direction, but Briton doesn't have much of a fleet anymore.
|2007/1/7-16 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:45531 Activity:nil
1/14 Guys, I am a bit nervous. I think we are going to attack Iran next... Well, in a way, we've already did. Last time I checked, embassy is considered as sovereign territory of a nation. As we have raided the Iranian embassy in Iraq, we are in effect attack Iran territory. http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1131.html Under normal circumstances, this would considered as an act of war. On top of this, we are moving a carrier strike group to Persian Golf. http://csua.org/u/hvx I am no military expert, but my knowledge tells me that carrier strike group is not the best tool to fight insurgency in Iraq. \_ That wasn't an embassy. Although if it was an embassy that would just be karmic anyway. \_ I just think Bush's secret plan B is to escalate the war with Iran. \_ Bring it on! \_ Hey, you mean like we were supposed to have a military draft in 2006? \_ if we were doing things right, we supposed to have a draft in 2003, blanked Iraq with one million draftees, commit entire nation into this Iraqii mess. Then again, may be you still think the war is going well. I am still waiting to see that beacon of democracy in the middle east. 2003, blanked Iraq with one million draftees, commit entire nation into this Iraqii mess. Then again, may be you still think the war is going well. I am still waiting to see that beacon of democracy in the middle east. \_ There have been numerous connections between the Iraq insurgency and Syria & Iran (weapons, personnel, etc.). Stopping Iran from supplying weapons could very well help fighting the insurgents. \_ This is true. However, invading/waging war on Iran with the forces currently available to us is not likely to produce the result of "stopping Iran from supplying weapons" in the long run, unless we swallowed our pride and asked for help from Syria in pacifying Iraq. And hell, if we're going to go that route, why not just negotiate with Iran in the first place?
|2006/12/29-30 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iran, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:45509 Activity:moderate
12/29 Man, Germans are STUPID. They don't know the difference between Sydney Australia and Sidney Montana in US of A. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/29/germany.tourist.reut \_ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16389973 \- E_RATCHET \_ I wonder how many American people think the Sydney Opera House is in Austria, the capital of classical music; Thai is the language spoken in Taiwan; there are grand casinos in the Principality of Morocco; etc. \_ I've met tons of people who think Taiwanese restaurants serve Thai food, and that Taiwanese is the language spoken in Thailand. I've also met tons of people who think Persians and Iranians are from different continents and that Iran and Iraq are the same. I do have to admit that over the past decade or so, people are slowly realizing that Iran and Iraq are not the same. This is from my experience in California of course. I wonder how much smarter/dumber people from other states are. \_ Since you mentioned Iran, here's another one: "Iran is an Arab country." -- PP


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My dear, sweet, life of the party, pint sized dictator O N E year old is finally napping AND I am finally able to take a deep breath, enjoy a cup of coffee (which has now been reheated for the third time today), and write my very F I R S T blog post.
I guess I should preface this first post with the fact that I created this blog TWO YEARS AGO! I found out I was pregnant with baby numero uno and after the initial nausea, the constant 'I don't know why I'm crying' spells, and the hours upon hours of sleep (what a sweet memory that has become), I did what most excited expecting mamas do – I started reading any and all mommy blogs I could find. The adorable babies, the joyful (and perfectly styled) mamas, the beauty of pregnancy… eeeeekkk! My love for fashion, photography, and babies inspired me to start a blog of my own.
… As you can see (two years later), it sounded a lot better in my head.
I hated pregnancy. I hated the nausea, heartburn, constant trips to the bathroom, the judgemental looks at my bump with no ring on my finger because HOLY SWELLING, batman. Judge away, mamas. I desperately wanted to be one of those women who loves pregnancy and don't get me wrong – growing a human is beyond magical and beautiful. Women are BADASS magical unicorn superheroes. Throughout the whole process, I found myself calling my mom a couple times a day (sometimes crying, sometimes laughing) expressing how sorry I was that I put her through that hell and how thankful I was that she still even liked me. Okay – now I'm getting sidetracked…
Long story short, I got pregnant and decided I was too sleepy and too hangry to start a blog. Anyway, the kid is nearly 14 months old now, aaaand here I am! She is our world. My everything, my greatest accomplishment and worth every second of it. These are my absolute favorite days. But, mommin' ain't easy and not always pretty. Since my days are often filled with random thoughts, daydreams, and sarcastic banter with the cashier at Target or Starbucks (YAY for adult conversation!), I thought why not share it with you guys? So, w e l c o m e to our little world! Follow along if you like cute babies, fashion, sarcastic comments or if you're just pregnant, sleepy, hangry and just want a little insight on life with baby without actually having to do a damn thing.
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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) – When you think of Philadelphia and what started here on the food scene, you might think of cheesesteaks or soft pretzels.
But there is something else that Philadelphia introduced to the country: the banana.
It was 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia that the fruit was introduced, and Philadelphia's banana connection continues today.
"My grandfather, who was a Lithuanian immigrant, came over to this country at the turn of the century around 1900," said Mark Levin, CEO of M. Levin & Company Inc. "He saw bananas coming off a ship and basically he started to huckster bananas from a pushcart."
His grandfather, Michael, turned that banana pushcart into an empire.
"In those days, nobody knew what bananas were," Levin told KYW Newsradio. "I like to say my grandfather built his business on a handshake. He would get bananas and then give them to other people to sell who had no money and say, 'listen, you go out to sell them. You make any money, you come back and pay me, you take more bananas, you come back and pay me,' and he built a business that way — just on a handshake."
It's become one of the biggest banana suppliers in the country, and is still run by third and fourth-generations of the Levin family. And they still sell bananas from the food distribution warehouse in South Philadelphia.
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James Torbett, 71, from Glasgow, denies a total of nine offences of sexually abuse allegedly committed between August 1985 and August 1994.
Defence QC Tony Graham lodged a special defence of alibi in relation to a charge alleged to have taken place between June 1985 and June 1986.
The High Court in Glasgow heard, Torbett is alleged to have first sexually abused the boys when they were aged four, 12, 12, and 13.
The offences are alleged to have taken place in a number of locations including Barrowfield Football Ground in Glasgow's London Road, at Torbett's home, a dormitory in France as well as training facilities in Glasgow's west end and factory premises at The Trophy Centre in Pollokshaws, Glasgow.
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Mrs. Mayer was big, flushed and sweaty in a red mumu stained with vomit. She was having the big one.
She asked God to watch over her family and closed her eyes. The monitors screamed as she lost her pulse. Her heart rate idled down. Her heart was failing. She had made her peace.
I limped over to her stretcher and ground my knuckle into her breastbone. Hard. Her eyes popped open in pain and I gave her the eye.
"You're not going into the light yet!" I shouted at her.
Yes, I actually said it.
I threw the kitchen sink of medications at her and called in the specialist. An hour later, the cardiologist sucked a clot out of her coronary artery and she survived.
A few days later, it was a little tyke breathing like a hummingbird until his lips were blue. He had the million mile stare like he was giving up. I hit him with intravenous steroids, adrenaline and antibiotics until he pinked up and screamed his fury at me. Before that, the diabetic coma in septic shock. And so on.
That was last week. Now I'm typing away in a little cafe in Budapest, drinking an espresso with Bacardi and ice cream...
...wondering if I'll ever be able to give up the life I've left behind. I've been a teaching doc so long, giving residents the glory of the save, that I'd forgotten what it was like to thumb-wrestle with death.
Can I give it up? Am I a living stereotype, addicted to the rush?
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Look around your home. Look at everything you've done to improve it since you've lived there. New kitchen maybe? New central heating or a new bathroom? Maybe you've not done anything quite as extensive but you've painted it, bought some cracking furniture. Now think about who gets the benefit of your hard work. If you own the property, then you get to enjoy the improvements and you get the benefits of seeing your house value rise. If you rent, sure, you get to live in a nicer pad but your landlord is the person who is ultimately making money out of your home.
Whether it's the family home, or a business, I'm biased towards buying property assets over renting, and that goes for warehouse space too. Buying nearly always makes financial sense. The outlays to put capital in and to borrow are less than the rents landlords charge as they also have to make a profit on the running of the property. If you buy, you get that profit and the capital appreciation.
Here's a great business tip. If a company goes into administration, buy the premises from the receiver. Lenders generally don't have a clue about the proper values of properties, so there's a chance to snap something up below market value.
You don't get to be an entrepreneur for as long as I have one without developing a few skills along the way and I'm pretty good at working out the financial results of doing a deal in my head. OK, it might not be exact to five decimal places but my mental arithmetic rarely lets me down. The only exception to that rule is buying property. You need to get into the nitty-gritty of return on investment calculations if you have a complicated decision to make.
Ready? OK, here goes. Suppose you need a shop for the next stage of your business development. If you do want to make a decision based entirely on finance here's how to do it. Assume all things are equal, you will sell the same amount of goods from the shop however you occupy it, owner or tenant. Now make a five-year cashflow of the outgoings involved for each method. Think about the insurance, rates and other expenses. Now discount the cashflow for time and arrive at the net present value of the two methods and decide on the better of the two. If you don't know how to do this, get your accountant to show you and don't leave their office until you can do it – it's the only sensible way to measure financial return on investments and an essential skill for somebody building a business.
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Bought this back in November for a friends birthday, had everyone doing a shot upon entry & yeah this rum really bun up ya chest and does the trick. Just be ready for the wave you about to be on 🏄🏿♂😂
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Best rum in the world, my little Island St.vincent and the Grenadines
7th October 2019
This stuff is marvelous. One if, if not the best rum of all time.
10th July 2019
Great product very good in cakes, and my favourite that I use it for is to make my punch de crime.
4th January 2019
Describe in one word. Potent
1st January 2018
This is the very best rum in the world. Taste good, smooth and you do not need much.
12th June 2017
I drank this stuff in St. Vincent and brought home a couple bottles (has to "smuggle" it in as the airlines classify it as a "hazardous material" because it is so flammable). As strong as it is, this stuff is surprisingly smooth. It is absolutely great in cocktails and has a very pleasant, light flavor. I can even drink it straight--something I can't say for other overproof rums. Love this rum!!
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After being in St. Vincent for 2 days on business, I can truly say that this rum starts it off nicely. It's unique strength hits you within minutes, and -even though I'm a single malt whiskey drinker- I am very happy with this products results and would recommend for anyone who loves the taste of rum & coke...By itself, it can be painfully addictive; but, one thing is for sure: This rum is (by far) the best I've ever had. Also note: if you end up in a resort in St. Vincent, it'll only cost $20 US dollars to purchase. I can't wait to get my second bottle -- as I have been "milking" this one for month's (cause of its' awesome characteristics).
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I've been buying this from Germany for some time and I'm really pleased to see it available in the UK after much searching. It's not exactly a daily drinker but it is very well made and is great in cocktails, rum and cokes etc.This stuff makes a great Mojito! If I'm a bit desperate it will go down neat, but, being a white rum, it has little flavour and complexity so its not really a sipper. What flavour it has is definitely not unpleasant and many people I know prefer this to the ester-y Wray and Nephew...which requires careful mixing. Great versatile rum, and a pretty unique product. (Most other overproof rums only go to 75.5% and Stroh goes to 85 I think...) Big thumbs up from me!
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First, a couple of pictures from Monday and Tuesday......
This was taken at the Toronto airport. The theme of this airport must be penguins, because there were penguins everywhere.
Eating Turkish ice cream at the Istanbul airport--We got a cone with all three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and pistachio. The young man who served us was very funny! He played all kinds of tricks on the kids as he was scooping and serving their ice cream.
Little Sam and Big Sam on the train to Craiova
The girls on the train
Wednesday, May 9
After the travelers finally all woke up (it was 1:45 PM local time before everyone was awake), we enjoyed a hot cooked breakfast prepared by Julie. Or was that lunch? Anyway, after we ate, we all walked to the mall where the grocery store was located. It was about a 30 minute walk, and it really was enjoyable. The name of the grocery store is Auchan. It looked very much like an American grocery store, except I could not read the names of any of the products! In the produce section, anything sold by the pound is measured yourself. You take the label that the scales print out and stick it on your bag. Then the check out lady just scans the produce like all the other products. I used Google translate on my phone to try to figure out what was drinkable yogurt and what was milk! We bought groceries for our supper plus some other staples and snacks. We had carried our grocery bags to the store along with two empty backpacks. We had no trouble carrying all the groceries on the walk back to Julie and Big Sam's apartment. Clay even carried a watermelon in his backpack!
After returning from the grocery store it was almost time for our Wednesday night Bible study. Big Sam's parents, Dan and Tami (who live about a 10 minute walk from Julie and Big Sam) joined us at 5:00 for our study. We sang a couple of hymns, and then Dan led us in a study about the authority of Jesus. We had a profitable discussion and study, and I enjoyed it very much. Then we sang a hymn in Romanian (to the tune of an American hymn), and one more American hymn. We concluded with prayer.
Next, Tami and I helped Julie finish preparing our supper.
Here are Big Sam, Little Sam, Dan, Clay, and Leah visiting after our supper.
A little while after we ate, Big Sam suggested we go for an evening walk. The night air was pleasant, and so was the walk. We had not gone very far when we passed a coffee vending machine. Julie and Big Sam had already told us how common these vending machines were and how good the coffee was. So Sam bought us some!
Sam, waiting for the coffee to be ready
The kids and I were not sleepy at all, but I finally turned out the lights at 11:00 PM. I did have a hard time falling asleep. I think it was midnight before I turned off my iPad. (I played solitaire trying to get sleepy).
the view from Julie and Big Sam's balcony


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