Love the guy, but show me succeeding the same trick time after time in quick succession all in one single take, then I'll be impress.

Point is, these videos are pointless. Anyone can do it - by chance - if they have all day, let alone Donnie fricking Yen!

The way some people have written about "destroying" North Korea, it would make you think that we haven't been talking about a weapon of mass destruction which would indiscriminately incinerate women, children, pets, and leave swathes of radioactive land uninhabitable which would then leak mutation/radioactivity into the rest of the world's ecosystem.

Western civilisation has surely succumbed to some kind of mental sickness, turning us all into mindless clones repeating "the greater good" when we get promised large, colourful explosions. When war after war ends in disaster and further misery, we continue to talk about "bringing an end to suffering" everywhere in the world as though it's both a duty, and something we haven't catastrophically screwed up time after time. Worse is the underlying pride in that perceived duty; "We're gonna make their lives better whether they want it or not! OORAHH!"

The moralising about whether or not they deserve it is an exercise in narcissistic god complexes, covered with a veneer of regret, "oh no, we should have gone to war years ago, now it's too late, should we? shouldn't we?" Like it's great fun to discuss whether or not people should burn and rot to death over the course of weeks, from the comfort of your breakfast table back in good ole metropolis.

And if you decide to bomb? Ah well, it had to be done. Yes, it's a terrible burden, the kind of pain that people burning to death will never understand or thank us for. But we'll continue, because we're the hero they need not the one they want.

Trump's handling of the NK situation is a perfect marriage of the worst elements of the usual neoliberal approach (pro- profit & power orientated) and the thuggish exaggerated threat approach favoured by teenagers in playgrounds.

Our own countries are in an absolute SHIT state. With our indifference towards global warming, the developed nations are the most dangerous threat to life on Earth for *every* country. Why do we still have the arrogance to go around discussing how to improve countries that we've never even fucking been to?

That would certainly be in my top 3 as well, and maybe even #1 (or maybe time after time or girls just wanna have fun or ... uhm... maybe I can't decide after all)

I actually think she's managed to get more awesome as time's gone by:

Can't you point to pretty much any program that successive administrations have force-fed to the American people and demonstrate how it's all about the money.

Defence? Certainly doesn't go to the troops, no it goes to incredibly expensive experimental projects that never seem to pan out. Yet somehow the companies that fail to deliver time after time keep getting more money to spend on new projects.

Law and Order? Yeah, that's all about locking people away for the maximum time possible in corporate-run penitentiaries, not about reducing crime at all.

School reform? Charter schools baby! They may not be any better for kids (in fact they're worse) but it's finally an opportunity for Corporate America to make some bucks off of public schooling, yee ha!

Bad Idea, for some reason our most gullible Americans are the ones with the most guns.

>> ^Fletch:

>> ^deathcow:
I really dont get why so many working class friends of mine support this guy.

I don't understand why any working stiff in this country is Republican. You have to be an incredibly gullible sap to vote against your own interests time after time. It like evolution in reverse.
Again, I profer by my earlier idea of introducing lions and other large predators to red states. So much easy prey there.

>> ^deathcow:

I really dont get why so many working class friends of mine support this guy.


I don't understand why any working stiff in this country is Republican. You have to be an incredibly gullible sap to vote against your own interests time after time. It like evolution in reverse.

Again, I profer by my earlier idea of introducing lions and other large predators to red states. So much easy prey there.

Must be nice to screw up time after time and still have a job.

>> ^Quboid:

My brother, a hobby pilot, used to do landings like this time after time in MS Flight Simulator X. They've good for testing your navigation skills and using the instruments. I tried a few too, I found VFR flying in real to be much easier than IFR in FSX.


That is not unlike real life. Looking out of window at 20k at 400 miles per hour isn't exactly telling at times, even without cloud cover. Only on an approach you have done dozens of times in the same conditions will the "look" of a particular landing be helpful. This isn't unlike most areas of life, things you don't do often, how they look isn't very useful, now a checklist...that is useful no matter how many times! This is why all aspects of planes and checklist based. For any given day you might be on several different planes on a large variety of different airports. That isn't always the case, many times they get similar kinds of routes over and over with the same equipment, but that does change from time to time.

My brother, a hobby pilot, used to do landings like this time after time in MS Flight Simulator X. They've good for testing your navigation skills and using the instruments. I tried a few too, I found VFR flying in real to be much easier than IFR in FSX.

I'm voting this up pretty much purely because I want to see the discussion on this, not so much because I agree with him.

There are truths in what he says, that those who partook in the riots are self involved, self pitying shits who have no justification for doing what they did.

But... this whole 'how/where you were brought up is no excuse for the way you are' line of thinking is rubbish.

It's much easier to have a sense of worth and see that work = reward equation when you've been brought up in a supportive environment where all your basic needs are taken care of without thought and time is then spent on your self esteem and treating other with respect etc.

If you were brought up in a low income environment with parents who don't have any self esteem themselves and pass on that feeling to their children. If time after time you try to do the right thing or work hard and yet are shot down by negative others in your environment or just otherwise shown that cleaning up or doing work doesn't change your situation much... then yeah, you can start getting a world view that doesn't include making an effort because you've never seen it work, you've never been told that if you try you could actually accomplish something.

Sure you can wheel out examples of hugely successful people who dragged themselves out of such situations, but they are BY FAR in the minority, and come from either pretty exceptional character traits in themselves, or you may find that they had one or two mentors who made a huge difference in how they lead their lives.

So Pat's rant about it all being their fault is not entirely true. It's a case of society as a whole not having in place ways of breaking the shitty cycle of poor, self abusing, self loathing parents = the same type of kids.

If programs of one sort or another can be introduced that can show those kids that hard work can make a difference, that they are worthy, and give them opportunities to use any skills they may have productively, then you CAN stop this sort of mentality. You CAN instil a feeling of pride in your neighbourhood, you CAN reduce this ME ME ME thinking.

Pat's thinking doesn't help anything. To help things he could be starting up some centres to start these things moving in the right direction, he could be volunteering for groups that I'm sure already exist who are trying to do these things, but I'm sure are woefully understaffed.

But no, he'd rather just call them all scum and pretend it's entirely their fault and that his upbringing and education have nothing to do with him living comfortably.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^BoneyD:
MaxWilder Can you really blame him for lying though? For starters, it's not the first time a politician has done it (/cough Obama) and there is an incredible incentive for doing so in these sexual cases. I.e. Given that ANY instance of promiscuity, no matter how well you do your job, will result in your permanent expulsion from the field.
I can't say I'd be above lying to cover my own back, if there was even a slim chance that the whole thing will just blow over if I did.

History has shown time after time that liars get treated far worse than those who immediately own up to their mistakes. Especially for cases like this, where there were no laws broken, and he wasn't using his family values as a centerpiece of his political career.
BTW, did I miss Obama being caught in a scandal for lying? I don't remember one.


I found the lie about saying he never promised to deliver single-payer health care, a program that would literally save the lives of many many millions of Americans, far more heinous. That *should* have been a scandal, but wasn't.

Edit: BTW, I agree that he's handled this badly, he'd have come out a helluva lot better if he'd just said balls-out (sorry) "Yes, it was me and I apologise". But it's not like it's the first time a politician has lied and it sure as hell won't be the last. He didn't rape anyone, he didn't even have actual sex with anyone. I seriously don't see why we're giving so much of a shit about the sort of thing that I bet 999,000,000 other guys have done behind their wives back and then not owning up to it when challenged.

>> ^BoneyD:

MaxWilder Can you really blame him for lying though? For starters, it's not the first time a politician has done it (/cough Obama) and there is an incredible incentive for doing so in these sexual cases. I.e. Given that ANY instance of promiscuity, no matter how well you do your job, will result in your permanent expulsion from the field.
I can't say I'd be above lying to cover my own back, if there was even a slim chance that the whole thing will just blow over if I did.


History has shown time after time that liars get treated far worse than those who immediately own up to their mistakes. Especially for cases like this, where there were no laws broken, and he wasn't using his family values as a centerpiece of his political career.

BTW, did I miss Obama being caught in a scandal for lying? I don't remember one.

Except for Bush because the lamestream, liberal media was out to get him, right?

Just stop. Sarah Palin has said some ridonculous stuff that is brain numbingly moronic for presidential candidate, and it has nothing to do with gaffes or the media being "out to get her".

This isn't a gaffe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txfqWzGMgm

She doesn't have a freaking clue what she's talking about. Or this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4

Can't name a single Supreme Court case she disagrees with?! Seriously?! She says any that takes away the states' right to determine their own laws. So Brown vs. Board of Education? Plessy V. Ferguson? Baily V. Patterson? Loving v. Virginia? Can't name a single one, huh? I totally get why she wouldn't name any of the above because of the political fallout, but then don't say idiotic stuff like any court case that infringes on states' rights is bad. She's not a moron. She's just not smart enough to be President, pure and simple.

>> ^bobknight33:

All Quaumtum was doing
is pointing out the blatant Bias the media has. He correctly points out that time after time after time after time after time the current fool called the president gets a pass every times he fucks up.
But the media will dog Palin on every opportunity they can.
When will you get your self absorbed heads out your asses and see the truth? You heads have been up you asses so long you all think you shit doesn't stink.

>> ^ponceleon:
Really quantum?
Defending her just makes you a troll. Please. I like you more than Shiny right now, just take it back and we can still be friends.

Holy crap man! Have you seen Fox News? (I'll bet you have.)

Again, I don't understand the need to deflect this to Obama as you guys are doing. I could give a SH!T about Obama. The issue is that this woman, no matter who she is or where she comes from, is an idiot! It wouldn't matter if she was running for the presidency or for a local city council.

The sad thing is that if she would either do a little research or broaden her talking points a little she could potentially ride her charisma and popularity to great heights (god help us all) but instead she talks and talks saying things that she thinks people want to hear with her mouth in drive and her brain in neutral. This makes me think her to be egotistical and lazy; "I don't need to prepare, the people love me and everything I say." No wonder the McCain campaign staff turned on her.

>> ^bobknight33:

All Quaumtum was doing
is pointing out the blatant Bias the media has. He correctly points out that time after time after time after time after time the current fool called the president gets a pass every times he fucks up.
But the media will dog Palin on every opportunity they can.
When will you get your self absorbed heads out your asses and see the truth? You heads have been up you asses so long you all think you shit doesn't stink.

>> ^ponceleon:
Really quantum?
Defending her just makes you a troll. Please. I like you more than Shiny right now, just take it back and we can still be friends.

All Quaumtum was doing

is pointing out the blatant Bias the media has. He correctly points out that time after time after time after time after time the current fool called the president gets a pass every times he fucks up.

But the media will dog Palin on every opportunity they can.

When will you get your self absorbed heads out your asses and see the truth? You heads have been up you asses so long you all think you shit doesn't stink.



>> ^ponceleon:

Really quantum?
Defending her just makes you a troll. Please. I like you more than Shiny right now, just take it back and we can still be friends.