drsmooth wrote: they're murdering murderers who eat babies

Would it not be a good thing to murder those murderers who eat our babies?

So there is a hostage situation in Northern France near Belgium border

so we just made reservations to go to Strasbourg and Colmar, France to see the Christmas markets about a week before Christmas. Saying "fuck you" to the terrorists right here.

Hope I don't die

jamiethekiller wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Is there really a declining standard of living for the average American? I feel like most people are doing pretty well, it's still all over the board in terms of upper middle lower class, but is say that the lower and middle classes are more comfortable today than say 20 years ago.

Agree that we could allocate our resources a lot better but I don't think it's a dire as you are making it out.

other than it being a real struggle for the 30 and under crowd to afford a house without being generously benefitted by their parents i'd say things are pretty well off. but that whole permanent house thing is kind of a big deal.

i make a pretty good wage but i still can't fathom being able to afford a house. i'm basically paycheck to paycheck after my savings are accounted for. add in that most people are coming in with a lot more debt than i(student loans) then it's even crazier to think about it.

Paycheck to paycheck after my savings are accounted for haha

TomatoPie wrote:

drsmooth wrote: they're murdering murderers who eat babies

Would it not be a good thing to murder those murderers who eat our babies?

I'm fine with summarily executing baby-eating murderers, but I draw the line at murdering them. It's a thin line, sure, but it's there

Wheels Tupay wrote:So there is a hostage situation in Northern France near Belgium border

Over now

The armed men had been planning a robbery targeting a banker, reports say.

Sounds like they watched the movie Bandits with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton

Monkeyboy wrote:so we just made reservations to go to Strasbourg and Colmar, France to see the Christmas markets about a week before Christmas. Saying "fuck you" to the terrorists right here.

Hope I don't die

Way to man up!!

Two bombings at the Brussels airport, another bombing in a city center subway station.

31 killed.

We sure don't want a Drumpf or Cruz carpet bomb approach, but the civilized world does need a cogent plan for handling Islamist turrism.

Europe is showing us what NOT to do - bring 'em in by the boatload and have them hole up in Muslim ghettoes.

That's like inviting mosquitoes to a swamp and wondering why there is a zika virus going around.

Their politicians are probably as ready to be profligate with their foreign aid budgets as ours are

but at least theirs aren't as perversely eager as ours to turn whatever resources they want to train on the problem into piles of bombs & bullets

This isn't a refugee issue. This were European born radicals.

Also, fucking gross making a comparison between human beings, regardless of their terror affiliation, and mosquitoes. You are a really shitty person tp.

Also you don't invite mosquitoes to a swamp that's where they live

Woody wrote:Also you don't invite mosquitoes to a swamp that's where they live

Oh, so you're too good to invite mosquitoes to join your snooty swamp

what you are is an anti-sectite, is what you are

the correct term is Parasite American

drsmooth wrote:Their politicians are probably as ready to be profligate with their foreign aid budgets as ours are

but at least theirs aren't as perversely eager as ours to turn whatever resources they want to train on the problem into piles of bombs & bullets

True.

The current issue is refugees - and some Euro countries are being wonderfully compassionate even though they are ill-prepared to handle the volume or the assimilation issues.

I'm guessing that previous Muslim immigration into Europe was encouraged for a supply of cheap labor. There, Europe is much like the US. Cheap labor is good - but can end up being costly in other ways.

But in how immigrants assimilate - or not- the US model is better so far. And yeah, it's easier integrating Catholics into our Judeo-Christian society than Muslims.

TomatoPie wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Their politicians are probably as ready to be profligate with their foreign aid budgets as ours are

but at least theirs aren't as perversely eager as ours to turn whatever resources they want to train on the problem into piles of bombs & bullets

True.

The current issue is refugees - and some Euro countries are being wonderfully compassionate even though they are ill-prepared to handle the volume or the assimilation issues.

I'm guessing that previous Muslim immigration into Europe was encouraged for a supply of cheap labor. There, Europe is much like the US. Cheap labor is good - but can end up being costly in other ways.

But in how immigrants assimilate - or not- the US model is better so far. And yeah, it's easier integrating Catholics into our Judeo-Christian society than Muslims.

And so...what?

TomatoPie wrote:That's like inviting mosquitoes to a swamp and wondering why there is a zika virus going around.

someone did VERY poorly on the SAT verbal section.

pacino wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Their politicians are probably as ready to be profligate with their foreign aid budgets as ours are

but at least theirs aren't as perversely eager as ours to turn whatever resources they want to train on the problem into piles of bombs & bullets

True.

The current issue is refugees - and some Euro countries are being wonderfully compassionate even though they are ill-prepared to handle the volume or the assimilation issues.

I'm guessing that previous Muslim immigration into Europe was encouraged for a supply of cheap labor. There, Europe is much like the US. Cheap labor is good - but can end up being costly in other ways.

But in how immigrants assimilate - or not- the US model is better so far. And yeah, it's easier integrating Catholics into our Judeo-Christian society than Muslims.

And so...what?

The civilized world does need a cogent plan for handling Islamist turrism.

Europe is showing us what NOT to do - bring 'em in by the boatload and have them hole up in Muslim ghettoes.

Soren wrote:This isn't a refugee issue. This were European born radicals.

Also, #$!&@ gross making a comparison between human beings, regardless of their terror affiliation, and mosquitoes. You are a really #$!&@ person tp.

I think it's called an analogy, dude. however if you want some real comparisons for the religion that is anti-west, intolerant and involved in roughly 90% of the armed conflicts going on in the world today... Feel free to ask.

Maybe the issue then is the Muslim ghettos and the stigmatization?