Yesterday IDF forces murdered 3 hostages who were shirtless with hands up (so obviously unarmed) waiving white flags and begging for help in Hebrew. 2 shot to death immediately, the third shot to death after cease fire was called by the commander.
This is conclusive evidence that the IDF is targeting any living person including surrendering unarmed civilians, not Hamas. In fact, over half the 30000 bombs they have dropped are dumb bombs, and the smart bombs target hospitals, refugee camps, and caravans of refugees (anywhere civilians can be found in groups) 100% intentionally.

The world needs to wake up and eliminate expansionist Israel and the terrorist Zionists, every single one is a fascist murderer just like the Nazis and they deserve the same treatment.

Sadly, a huge percentage of the terroristic murderous “settlers” are American Jews, so don’t let anyone claim America isn’t to blame here, we not only cause the conflict, we fund it and arm the murderous side.

We deserve any blowback we get, no matter how big.

Right after Jackass came out, a couple of friends-of-a-friend decided to stage their own version of the movie -- with a hornet's nest. They found the thing hanging from a tree at the edge of a field and it was not remotely on the small size. Also, this was in late August and the queen had already flown away, leaving the drones to slowly starve to death. Thus, the enormous number of stripey-stripey sting-stings were already good 'n' pissed-off.

They were about to get moreso.

So chowderhead A and chowderhead B have a brilliant plan: they're going to shoot this enormous ball full of astoundingly-irate murderous insects with a shotgun while they're filming it. If you're hearing banjos playing and luke-warm cheap beers being cracked open, you're about in the right frame of mind.

Places, everybody!

The stage is set: on one end, at what's decided to be "minimum safe distance", are our erstwhile David Attenborough/Jonny Knoxville knock-offs. At a decidedly NOT minimum safe distance away is the arthropod version of the T'sar Bomba. All we're missing now is a Mossberg, enough idiocy to think this can end any way but badly, and a camera. With far too much alacrity for what's about to happen, all three are provided.

Aaaaaand, ACTION!

* BOOOM! *

At first, surprisingly, nothing happens. This period of stasis lasts roughly a picosecond. Then, unsurprisingly, things start to happen and they happen far more quickly than the Chuckle Brothers planned on. This plays out in three acts:

Act 1: "Hey, uh, why is the nest still there?"
Act 2: "Uh-oh..."
Act 3: "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!"

Hubris takes many forms, and schadenfreude takes twice as many, but both combined were statistically zero compared to the number of hornets involved in this fiasco. Had the two Mensa escapees who irked said hornets thought this thing through -- stop laughing -- perhaps they would have arrived at the conclusion that 1. a shotgun slug is not the preferred load-out when dealing with a ball made out of wasp puke and 2. being the only two things visible within a 20 mile radius of the ball made out of wasp puke pretty much negates the mystery of who the hornets are going to sting the ever-loving fuck out of.

With their plans in ruins and the nest not, our heroes decide to quit the field. This is the first smart thing they've done since looking at that big ball of wasps and deciding it was redolent with untapped hilarity. The hornets are having none of this white flag nonsense, however, and they decide to quit screwing around and really inflict some pain. It's a quarter mile back to the car and the hornets are going to make them pay for every inch of it.

The final score:
Hornet losses: meh, they were all going to die in a few weeks anyway.
The chucklenuts: 23 stings, a dropped shotgun, and three minutes of footage that they took in the pre-YouTube era and thus is lost to time.

Moral:
Hornets are not toys.

Last week Tsipras put out a rather dejected sounding press release that I thought meant they were ready to raise the white flag, but just after that thing returned to normal

I think there are two factors at play over the primary surplus, firstly the creditors are in no mood to lend more money to help Greece's recovery, and secondly the primary surplus promised by Greece is, at least to start with, so small that any possible contraction would be more of a rounding error.

I was a little bemused to read this http://gu.com/p/49h6n/stw article on the UK's voluntary austerity. If you look at where they're spending money (tax cuts for the rich, who don't spend money) and where they're saving it (taking from the poor, who do) you have almost guaranteed an economic slowdown.

That leads to the thought that, as not all government expenditure is equal, surely a Greek government with more than usual amount of economic nous could surely come up with something.

Or, alternatively, agree to kick the can down the road for another 9 months.

I'd really like to think that the former is possible, no matter how unlikely.

(waves white flag) OK, I surrender. Jules Verne trumps Andrew Stanton, you win this round @EvilDeathBee
>> ^EvilDeathBee:

>> ^oritteropo:
Because cephalopods are friends, not food?
>> ^Sagemind:
My local store had something like this a few weeks ago.
Vegan squid. and it has absolutely no real meat in it what-so-ever!~ They were so proud of their product. All I could think of was "Then, why would I want to eat it?"


Tell that to Captain Nemo

Helluva story. Here's the whole thing from Wiki:

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Canada. The riot can only be understood in the context of the anti-semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.[1]

The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits Park between two local clubs, Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor.[2]

The riot occurred soon after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and in the midst of the Great Depression. The Toronto papers, including the Telegram and the Toronto Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed as lawyers, professors, teachers, etc. in Germany, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.[3]

At that time, the Jewish community in Toronto was predominantly poor and working class. They were also the subject of discrimination and were excluded from summer resorts outside of the city. Jewish families and youths in particular would therefore cool off during the hot summer months by staying in town and going to the predominantly Anglo Beaches area in order to swim. This resulted in complaints and resentment from some local residents. Some of the locals formed "Swastika Clubs", which openly displayed the Nazi symbol to express their displeasure and make Jews feel unwanted.[4] The leaders of the Swastika Club initially insisted that the swastika had nothing to do with Hitler. They said they merely wanted to keep the Beach clean. After a meeting with Jewish leaders backed by City officials, the Swastika club agreed to drop its symbol and its name. At that point, several of the members joined the Swastika Association of Canada that was much more open about its links to Hitler.[5]

The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. Police were warned that there could be trouble at the second game, but those warnings were ignored. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started.[6]

The Toronto Daily Star described the event the next day:
“ While groups of Jewish and Gentile youths wielded fists and clubs in a series of violent scraps for possession of a white flag bearing a swastika symbol at Willowvale Park last night, a crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob and surged wildly about the park and surrounding streets, trying to gain a view of the actual combatants, which soon developed in violence and intensity of racial feeling into one of the worst free-for-alls ever seen in the city.

Scores were injured, many requiring medical and hospital attention... Heads were opened, eyes blackened and bodies thumped and battered as literally dozens of persons, young or old, many of them non-combatant spectators, were injured more or less seriously by a variety of ugly weapons in the hands of wild-eyed and irresponsible young hoodlums, both Jewish and Gentile".[7]
”

No one was killed in the riots. There was criticism of the police for not being ready to intervene, as they had been during previous potential problems in the Beach area.[8] After the riot, Mayor Stewart warned against displaying the swastika and there were no further riots.[9]

The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents.

In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.

You people baffle me. I've always said, and will say it again and again;

I could give a fuck who did it. Dudes in turbans or dudes in suits,

What matters is that the deaths of 3000 Americans was used to justify a war for OIL.




Furthermore, WikiLeaks. Classified Iraq war logs = 104,924 recorded Iraqi deaths, including 92,003 (or 66,081) civilian deaths. -from wiki

and

White flags = Iraqis, and Red flags = Americans

It would always be nice to know who started a fight, but the real question is who will stop it?

I am a veteran of the Gulf War and I traveled extensively inside Iraq and Kuwait while I was active. My experience is that it is not the "horrors of war" that are mind boggling, but the fact that the horrors are so quickly forgotten and then made normal. This constantly ups the possibility of abuse, and ethics are thrown out the window. In fact it is true "freedom" from ethics, in a very scary sense. People become what they truly are, and it is usually not pretty.

While in Iraq, we played cards with dead Iraqis laying just a few meters away, guys placed water bottles on bodies where their heads used to be (just to be funny), and some even shot dogs for fun. I heard first hand stories of guys using 50 cals on surrendering, white flag waving, Iraqis. We saw little children with their legs blown off from cluster-bombs (note: children where all over the battlefield). Extreme stuff by any standard, but normal during a war. Even after seeing the "Highway of Death" (google it) the most scaring thing for me was the fact that so much effort could go towards pure destruction. Travel to Mars, eliminate world hunger, cure cancer, NO. Destroy the people and infrastructure of a captive nation. YES!

WAR = TERROR!

Kudos to these people for pulling together and defending their neighborhood. Isn't it normal in disaster situations for "looters to be shot on sight"?

The blacks should have stayed out, or visibly demonstrated their non-threatening intent (hands raised, white flags, etc.) if they truly had to transit that area.

The description on YouTube is interesting indeed:

An epic movie filled with symbolism about the battle for freedom and equal rights! (With english and german subtitles)

This movie portrays two ideologies fighting each other. The ideology of GREEDY SELFISHNESS and the ideology of EQUAL RIGHTS.

The maggot king, desperate to acquire even more wealth looks for new opportunities. And these opportunities lie in the east, where the people have still not been enslaved by the greedy empires. Producers (Pigs) are happy about a possible war, because they will be able to gain a lot of profit on cheap labor and the war ministers (Spiders) are happy as well, because a war means that they will wield more soldiers and thus more power!

Everyone will be better of. So it seems, but no one asked the people. Although they are over 99% of the population, they will gain nothing from a war, only suffering and death. Unwilling to go to war, the government brainwashes them to brain-dead fleas and so they assault the Soviet Lands.

However the people of the USSR are determined to liberate their motherland from the white empires. Because only when the red flag is victorious, only then all people around the world will become free. With their red flags they enlighten the fleas who are able to think freely once again and turn back to humans. As such, they turn their rifles against their rulers and change the society into a democratic socialist one. All countries unite and form the Socialist World Republic. Eternal peace and friendship has come!

Music: Der heimliche Aufmarsch
East German song sung by Ernst Busch

PLOT: White flags symbolise the white movement against the red army, the four flags USA, UK, FRANCE and JAPAN symbolise the countries which have sent soldiers to fight Soviet Union. Later the is a Panzer III, a nazi tank fighting against allies. This time USSR, USA, UK and FRANCE fight together against fascism! In the end they win and some centuries later all people of all nations unite in eternal peace!

"white flag of surrender"? You gotta love some of these disassociated visuals they always seem to use to (not) explain their actions.

I respect your right to believe in a personal god. I think that's important to say, because having a faith is something that is very personal and any challenging argument could be taken as disrespectful. There. That is my white flag before I begin.

To understand Christianity, I don't think suspending my disbelief is a healthy process to seeking a comprehension of truth. The fact that you mention how we must suspend our disbelief as if reading a work of fiction could make one compare Christianity to fiction, Doc_M. I suspend my disbelief when I watch, say, Star Wars, but when the movie is over I do not believe Wookies exist.

Number nine is extra troubling to me, because it seems to imply that you must accept something outright without evidence or justification to do so. If I were to assume god was perfect and omnipresent, then I could do that provided there was some evidence to suggest that. But, you're asking me to accept without proof. And, if I do not then I'm being "illogical"? I'm afraid I need to question that logic.

I used to be Southern Baptist. I used to be a theist. I used to believe in a personal god. I no longer do, because, for me, I realized there wasn't any proof for that mythology to be justified and accepted outright. I did, however, see provable truth within science. But, that's me. I respect your right to believe whatever you wish.

Thanks again, buddy!

In reply to this comment by kulpims:
*promote

liked the song when it came out, never seen the video or her, one reference quality hottie there...

this song will always take me back to late 2003, when my house had no heat in September, and was raised on pilings and the entire building shook jello like.. I telecommute, so I would work in the cold room with a thermos of hot coffee while dressed quite warmly. A super unique mood is conjured. Also Trapt-Headstrong puts me there,,, so bizarrely Trapt-Headstrong and Dido-White Flag induce the same moode in me.

They featured this on Future Weapons once. Apparently, it's only been deployed in actual combat once--during the Iraqi invasion. It destroyed half a tank column in one go. Apparently, the other half decided that getting out of their tanks and waving the white flag was the wiser course.

That song of hers that was a big hit..."White Flag???"

If you read the lyrics, it is no love song-It's a cry for help from a deranged psychotic. Any sane person will feel sorry for the man innit, and were I the man, would arrange for her hasty dispatch from the planet......(they would not find the body)