chasfh Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said: I was pointing to the political struggle. Not your "Gotcha moment" on the tweet source......... I grew up on a family farm, it is a real struggle. Throw new gov't restrictions and you lose your way of life, not ideal. I wasn't talking about farmers at all—only about the phrasing the woman used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Star chicken-hawk John Bolton throws US international relations under the bus trying to pass himself off as some kind of latter day Kissinger in a Jake Tapper interview. Bolton is an idiot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 18 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Star chicken-hawk John Bolton throws US international relations under the bus trying to pass himself off as some kind of latter day Kissinger in a Jake Tapper interview. Bolton is an idiot Solid hyper link work there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 The guy headlining a Right Wing QGOP conference this week. Tucker Carleson's hero. The "leader" the former president who lost wants to be.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 This is pretty wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Well, that didn't take long...... (For the Taliban to have a counter insurgency on their hands that is,......) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 19 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Well, that didn't take long...... (For the Taliban to have a counter insurgency on their hands that is,......) Couldn't happen to better guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Northeastern Afghanistan is Tajik territory. The same guys who overthrew the Taliban in 2002 (under Massoud it was all Tajik in the "Northern Alliance"; but grew quickly after his assassination and with American funding/ expertise/ special ops to include some other Anti-Taliban tribes...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 32 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: Northeastern Afghanistan is Tajik territory. The same guys who overthrew the Taliban in 2002 (under Massoud it was all Tajik in the "Northern Alliance"; but grew quickly after his assassination and with American funding/ expertise/ special ops to include some other Anti-Taliban tribes...). You'd think that after a few hundred years of this nonsense, they would by now have decided on a line between Tajikaganistan and Pashtunaganistan and called it a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 End of an era... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Well, she had a good run….. I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, smr-nj said: Well, she had a good run….. I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. I doubt anyone has had a better run in the entire history of the British peoples. God save her and good luck Charles. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 I’ll also miss her hats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 39 minutes ago, romad1 said: I doubt anyone has had a better run in the entire history of the British peoples. God save her and good luck Charles. Keith Richards just told you to buzz off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 The leader of Sinn Fein is offering his condolences. Who would have thought?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: You'd think that after a few hundred years of this nonsense, they would by now have decided on a line between Tajikaganistan and Pashtunaganistan and called it a day. It would not bother me to extend current day Tajikistan into any predominant Tajik territory in Afghanistan, and lop off the rest of it as Pashtunistan as you say. The Taliban are all Pashtun... the only issue is that there is a chunk of Pakistani territory that is mostly Pashtun also so there will always be troubles fomenting there... But if you combined the two Pashtun territories I believe that would extend all the way to the Indian Ocean and therefore give them a modicum of economic viability... Maybe enough to throw off the Taliban extremists... although, that could backfire... Separate issue... but I have long wanted to carve out a Kurdistan for the Kurds. The largest culture/ ethnicity without its own country. Northern Iraq, eastern Turkey (no wonder they're always attacking the Kurds...), northern Syria, and northwestern Iran. I would give them a land bridge to the Black Sea and to the Caspian Sea. But that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 7 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: The Taliban are all Pashtun... the only issue is that there is a chunk of Pakistani territory that is mostly Pashtun also so there will always be troubles fomenting there.. Of course the problem is that if you separated a nation out of Afghanistan based on Pashtun ethnicity, they would want their piece of Pakistan to go with it - and so it would go. There's hardly any end to the story once you start subdividing enclaves. The curious thing is that in Europe, centuries of warfare eventually did force ethnic separation, so by the 20th century things had calmed down in terms of ethnic wars (other than Yugoslavia) - which gave them the luxury of having ideological ones. (). In areas where the Ottomans or Mongols ruled, they had a different system where you had parallel ruling jurisdictions operating for different religious groups in the same geography. But once those old poly jurisdictional regimes collapsed, it left all kinds of people who didn't want to be ruled by each other in highly mixed geographies and the fallout still drives a lot of the conflict in places like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and to a degree Afghanistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 She was a real dame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 3 hours ago, smr-nj said: Well, she had a good run….. I loved to see pics/video of her driving. I think that’s when she wore a true smile. Also when she was walking with her corgis. And communing with her horses, which is the job she really wanted in life ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Yes. Those also were genuine smiles. Imagine living your life basically as a prisoner. I don’t envy her or any in that royal family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cowan Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 16 minutes ago, smr-nj said: Yes. Those also were genuine smiles. Imagine living your life basically as a prisoner. I don’t envy her or any in that royal family. Yes, they are house pets. Tourist attractions in England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 I'm not going to lie, there have been times I wish I were my cat. Lay around all day and yell when it's time for someone to feed me and crap in a box that someone else will clean up. Living like a house pet is my kind of living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) It's definitely not too soon for #irishtwitter. And this is one of the nicer ones. Edited September 9, 2022 by chasfh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 On Morning Joe, they played the memory I have. The playing of the US National Anthem at Buckingham Palace on the morning after September 11, 2001. She knew the importance of the special relationship. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 9 hours ago, chasfh said: It's definitely not too soon for #irishtwitter. And this is one of the nicer ones. Ireland was neutral in WWII. Not a war you want to be neutral in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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