DUCK DUCK DUCK

[Gota]

This, is striking fear into millions across the world.

Smooth shave...

[KaiserJ]

Also does the democratic world need a reason to take out north Korea?

theres no oil there

Netherlands Belgium Switzerland and France should do it cause they are the biggest fags in europe

coffee out of my nose onto the keyboard

[KDR_11k]

They should just nuke all that area and be done with it.

Dude, the "area" includes Seoul which is pretty much the only reason we haven't done that yet. NK is holding Seoul hostage and we don't want them to destroy it. On the other hand, if they do destroy Seoul that would leave them with zero defense. You don't even need to nuke that country, just cause a bit of damage, lock down the borders and let them starve to death. Shit, at the rate things are going they're starving even without our help.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

THE END OF DAYS IS UPON US!

[Pxtl]

Am I the only one enjoying the irony of "just nuke the area and be done with it" coming from an Israeli?

I mean, I've heard the same comment bandied about for half the middle-East.

[Satirik]

I say the Netherlands Belgium Switzerland and France should do it cause they are the biggest fags in europe.

DON'T EVER ... EVEEEEEEERRRRRR put France and Switzerland in the same basket !

[hoijui]

I say the Netherlands Belgium Switzerland and France should do it cause they are the biggest fags in europe.

DON'T EVER ... EVEEEEEEERRRRRR put France and Switzerland in the same basket !

:D :D :D :D :D :D
YEAHH!! :D
that was nice!

though he is right.

[oksnoop2]

Yeah what did the Swiss ever do to get lumped in with the french?

[Otherside]

Poor Swiss

[Pxtl]

New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word France. Like just calling something French is the ultimate argument winner. "Aw, you want a healthcare system that covers everybody and costs half as much? You mean like they have in France? What's there to say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully conceived and brilliantly executed war in Iraq?"

Earlier this year, the Boston Globe got hold of an internal campaign document from GOP contender Mitt Romney, and a recurring strategy was to tie Democrats to the hated French. It said, in the Machiavellian code of the election huckster, "Hillary equals France," and it envisioned bumper stickers that read, "First, not France."

Except for one thing: We're not first. America isn't ranked anywhere near first in anything except military might and snotty billionaires. The country that is ranked No. 1 in healthcare, for example, is France. The World Health Organization ranks America at 37 in the world -- not two, or five -- 37, in between Costa Rica and Slovenia, which are both years away from discovering dentistry.

Yet an American politician could not survive if he or she uttered the simple, true statement, "France has a better healthcare system than us, and we should steal it." Because here, simply dismissing an idea as French passes for an argument. John Kerry? Can't vote for him -- he looks French. Yeah, as opposed to the other guy, who just looked stupid.

I know, if God had wanted us to learn from the Enlightenment, he wouldn't have given us Sean Hannity.

And I'm not saying France is better than America. Because I assume you've already figured that out by now. I don't want to be French, I just want to take what's best from the French. Stealing, for your own self-interest -- Republicans should love this idea. Taking what's best from the French: You know who else did that? The Founding Fathers. Hate to sink your toy boat, Fox News, but the Founding Fathers, the ones you say you revere, were children of the French Enlightenment, and fans of it, and they turned it into a musical called the Constitution of the United States. And they did a helluva job, so good it has been said that it was written by geniuses so it could be run by idiots. But the current administration is putting that to the test. The Founding Fathers were erudite, well-read, European-thinking aristocrats -- they would have had nothing in common with, and no use for, an ill-read xenophobic bumpkin like George W. Bush.

The American ideas of individuality, religious tolerance and freedom of speech came directly out of the French Enlightenment -- but, shhh, don't tell Alabama. Voltaire wrote "men are born equal" before Jefferson was wise enough to steal it.

Countries are like people -- they tend to get smarter as they get older. Noted military genius Donald Rumsfeld famously dismissed France as part of Old Europe, but the French are ... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, "mature." We think they're rude and snobby, but maybe that's because they're talking to us.

For example, France just had an election, and people over there approach an election differently. They vote. Eighty-five percent turned out. The only thing 85 percent of Americans ever voted on was Sanjaya.

Maybe the high turnout has something to do with the fact that the French candidates are never asked where they stand on evolution, prayer in school, abortion, stem cell research or gay marriage. And if the candidate knows about a character in a book other than Jesus, it's not a drawback. There is no Pierre Six-pack who can be fooled by childish wedge issues. And the electorate doesn't vote for the guy they want to have a croissant with. Nor do they care about the candidate's private lives: In the current race, S├®gol├¿ne Royal has four kids but never bothered to get married. And she's a socialist. In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him a liberal he immediately grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.

The conservative candidate is married, but he and his wife live apart and lead separate lives. They aren't asked about it in the media, and the people are OK with it, for the same reason the people are OK with nude beaches: because they're not a nation of 6-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts. They have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, everyone has a mistress. Even mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, "I'm no good at multitasking."

France has its faults -- the country has high unemployment, a nasty immigrant problem and all that ridiculous accordion music. But its healthcare is the best, it's not dependent on Mideast oil, it has the lowest poverty rate and the lowest income-inequality rate among industrialized nations, and it's the greenest, with the lowest carbon dumping and the lowest electricity bill.

France has 20,000 miles of railroads that work. We have the trolley at the mall that takes you from Pottery Barn to the Gap. It has bullet trains. We have bullets. France has public intellectuals. We have Dr. Phil. And France invented sex during the day, the m├®nage ├á trois, lingerie and the tongue.

And the French are not fat. Can't we just admit we could learn something from them?


-- Bill Maher

[Peet]

Am I the only one enjoying the irony of "just nuke the area and be done with it" coming from an Israeli?

I was going to point this out also but I failed to word it in a non-inflammatory way so I'll just quote this post instead.

[Teutooni]

New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word France. Like just calling something French is the ultimate argument winner. "Aw, you want a healthcare system that covers everybody and costs half as much? You mean like they have in France? What's there to say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully conceived and brilliantly executed war in Iraq?"

Earlier this year, the Boston Globe got hold of an internal campaign document from GOP contender Mitt Romney, and a recurring strategy was to tie Democrats to the hated French. It said, in the Machiavellian code of the election huckster, "Hillary equals France," and it envisioned bumper stickers that read, "First, not France."

Except for one thing: We're not first. America isn't ranked anywhere near first in anything except military might and snotty billionaires. The country that is ranked No. 1 in healthcare, for example, is France. The World Health Organization ranks America at 37 in the world -- not two, or five -- 37, in between Costa Rica and Slovenia, which are both years away from discovering dentistry.

Yet an American politician could not survive if he or she uttered the simple, true statement, "France has a better healthcare system than us, and we should steal it." Because here, simply dismissing an idea as French passes for an argument. John Kerry? Can't vote for him -- he looks French. Yeah, as opposed to the other guy, who just looked stupid.

I know, if God had wanted us to learn from the Enlightenment, he wouldn't have given us Sean Hannity.

And I'm not saying France is better than America. Because I assume you've already figured that out by now. I don't want to be French, I just want to take what's best from the French. Stealing, for your own self-interest -- Republicans should love this idea. Taking what's best from the French: You know who else did that? The Founding Fathers. Hate to sink your toy boat, Fox News, but the Founding Fathers, the ones you say you revere, were children of the French Enlightenment, and fans of it, and they turned it into a musical called the Constitution of the United States. And they did a helluva job, so good it has been said that it was written by geniuses so it could be run by idiots. But the current administration is putting that to the test. The Founding Fathers were erudite, well-read, European-thinking aristocrats -- they would have had nothing in common with, and no use for, an ill-read xenophobic bumpkin like George W. Bush.

The American ideas of individuality, religious tolerance and freedom of speech came directly out of the French Enlightenment -- but, shhh, don't tell Alabama. Voltaire wrote "men are born equal" before Jefferson was wise enough to steal it.

Countries are like people -- they tend to get smarter as they get older. Noted military genius Donald Rumsfeld famously dismissed France as part of Old Europe, but the French are ... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, "mature." We think they're rude and snobby, but maybe that's because they're talking to us.

For example, France just had an election, and people over there approach an election differently. They vote. Eighty-five percent turned out. The only thing 85 percent of Americans ever voted on was Sanjaya.

Maybe the high turnout has something to do with the fact that the French candidates are never asked where they stand on evolution, prayer in school, abortion, stem cell research or gay marriage. And if the candidate knows about a character in a book other than Jesus, it's not a drawback. There is no Pierre Six-pack who can be fooled by childish wedge issues. And the electorate doesn't vote for the guy they want to have a croissant with. Nor do they care about the candidate's private lives: In the current race, S├®gol├¿ne Royal has four kids but never bothered to get married. And she's a socialist. In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him a liberal he immediately grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.

The conservative candidate is married, but he and his wife live apart and lead separate lives. They aren't asked about it in the media, and the people are OK with it, for the same reason the people are OK with nude beaches: because they're not a nation of 6-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts. They have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, everyone has a mistress. Even mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, "I'm no good at multitasking."

France has its faults -- the country has high unemployment, a nasty immigrant problem and all that ridiculous accordion music. But its healthcare is the best, it's not dependent on Mideast oil, it has the lowest poverty rate and the lowest income-inequality rate among industrialized nations, and it's the greenest, with the lowest carbon dumping and the lowest electricity bill.

France has 20,000 miles of railroads that work. We have the trolley at the mall that takes you from Pottery Barn to the Gap. It has bullet trains. We have bullets. France has public intellectuals. We have Dr. Phil. And France invented sex during the day, the m├®nage ├á trois, lingerie and the tongue.

And the French are not fat. Can't we just admit we could learn something from them?


-- Bill Maher

Touch├®.

[Wombat]

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no no no, i never really expected WW3 to look like this. just see new NATO priorities. also, notice how countries 'fight' with korea or iran, no economic cooperation (arf dunno how is it called, embargo ? economic blockade?) since 1950 ppl in korea died for 3 reasons - regular fights between N and S korea
- bullet in the head while trying to cross border
- mentioned embargo/blockade/ w/e. ppl die coz of drought, lack of food.

numbers show around 3-3,5 mln of deaths. i personally dont see much difference between regular was and this (except getting shot in the head and dying slowly for couple of months)

and why russia or any other country would like to get involved ? well, russia is ally of north korea, they will, as always, show who got biggest e-peen.

china is main business partner since many many years (mainly military, weapons, etc)

one of the biggest usa aircraft base is in south korea.

nato will get involved for sure.

i dont expect nuking south korea lol, this would kinda mean nuking north korea as well so nuclear war is last thing to worry about. i think there are different ways to exterminate ppl nowadays ( ww2, stalin and hitler's Bloodlands)

for me, its just another serious test for usa and russia since 1962.

sorry for all mistakes, just woke up :D

only i think that calling artillery attack 'incident' while being at war for 60 years is kinda silly ?

[hoijui]

nice quote from Bill Maher, but france having the lowest poverty rate in industrialized nations... aehh.. no!
Maybe if you compare nation dependent statistics, for which each country has its own set of rules, like: custom poverty income limit, people above age X and without legal residence and which are job-less since Y+ years and ... do not count.
by what i know, the people of france are probably the mentally most sane in western europe.

side note: in my nose, the austrians are not far from the swiss... they have a comparable same smell.
... could it have to do with how little these countries were affected by the war? have there been any fights in austria during the war, in which "natives" had to fight/die?
theres some lyrics that say something like: beauty only comes after war. and i know that a lot of the detesting nature of swiss could not possibly exist if they'd had their fair share of the war. the last war they were involved in directly was 700 years ago.
so.. why always help the poor only!? i say, for once, also help the rich. and by the way.. test some new weapons or something. and afterwards, bring the palestinians here, just for trolling. imagine... a small islamic state in the center of europe...
they would bring relatives from other countries, and have lots of children, and start settlements into all the neighbor countries.
this would make a fine topic for a book!

[Gota]

Am I the only one enjoying the irony of "just nuke the area and be done with it" coming from an Israeli?

I mean, I've heard the same comment bandied about for half the middle-East.

@Peet as well

so if your already in on the joke why do you refuse to laugh at it?
I know it's always said about the middle east...

about france...
Look at whats going on there?It's nice that the unions are so powerfull but the test of times shows they are an unproductive and uncompetetive society which is why thye are at risk of going broke...
they are not standing the test of time.
Their system as it is ATM is not viable economicly and their core society also does not stand the test of time(sure the country in name will prevail but it is evident its society is going through radical chnages.
The core french society is slowly dying of.
Who needs to create a society that is only viable for a few generations after which it breaks apart either economicly or culturally??

In global terms it matters not and we are all individuals but when comparing countries as entities liake the US and France France is at a higher risk of becoming something completely different and marginal in the world arena(well,it actually is pretty much marginal in terms of power and influance but culturally it is still powerfull).

I also want to add about the US change towards universla healhtcare.
I think its a bad move,and i think for a country that hassuch high rates of immigrtion universla healhtcare is not appropriate.
IMO,what should have been done is a restructuring of healthcare but im not sure that a universal healthcare is appropriate for the US.

[Teutooni]

And change is a bad thing... why?

[zwzsg]

What? We're all dead, and no one told me?

[Machete234]

This, is striking fear into millions across the world.

Smooth shave...

He used his towel for that.

Anyways I think the koreans are fuckin idiots, if they cant find a way to reunite then they should kill each other.
Total fail as a country.
The cold war is over since 1989 somebody should maybe tell them.

for me, its just another serious test for usa and russia since 1962.

Russia doesnt care nowadays.
Maybe china is pro north korea but then again I dont think anybody likes kim yong il because hes an idiot.

[KDR_11k]

about france...
Look at whats going on there?It's nice that the unions are so powerfull but the test of times shows they are an unproductive and uncompetetive society which is why thye are at risk of going broke...

That's spelled g-r-e-e-c-e, not f-r-a-n-c-e.

[Gota]

about france...
Look at whats going on there?It's nice that the unions are so powerfull but the test of times shows they are an unproductive and uncompetetive society which is why thye are at risk of going broke...

That's spelled g-r-e-e-c-e, not f-r-a-n-c-e.

they were(or are still?) rioting about the change in retirement age from 60 to 62...