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Actually, I've noticed (at least on their streaming stations) that most European news sources seem to always shade their reports from the middle east with an anti-Israeli bias. This, then, is hardly a blip on the radar of these things - just trying to make them seem a bit more sinister than real life. Things like high Swedish officials calling the shooting of armed assailants in the act of trying to kill random bystanders as "Extra Judicial Killings" was nauseating. The Israeli PM rightly pointed out how come they didn't lay such charges at the feet of the French for their killing some of the Paris terrorists?
Going beyond this is Soapbox material - but I will note this (ironically biblical origin): if you sew the wind you reap the whirlwind. Sadly, Europe is now discovering, as they look over their shoulders, that it is, indeed, harvest time.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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My post was not meant to be anti-Israeli. Even the story isn't from my point of view.
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Your post was NOT taken as anti-Israeli. Sorry if I gave you that impression in the slightest.
I was commenting on the spin of the article. It just brought to mind how foolish the world has become: the only civilized nation in the region is the one they demonize. The allow free exercise of all religions, give woman full and equal rights, and have/(have had) Arab cabinet ministers and Supreme Court justices - yet they're called an apartheid state. And in this world loaded with morons within which we dwell, the cry is picked up and echoed as though it had some merit. Why are there no calls to boycott products from nations that allow the mutilation of women's gentiles? That forbid a woman from stepping out of their home without a male escort? All the talk about human rights - but really - what's with that continent?
My views are tainted by the following observation: whenever an Arab country offered peace to Israel accepted it immediately. No strings attached for either side. Later on, when peace settled in, Egypt got back Sinai (they wouldn't take Gaza!) Now, it turns out, the majority of the Arab world is discovering that Israel may be the only neighbor they have that isn't out to get them.
The Universe Laughs!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: if you sew the wind
... what thread do you use?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Ethereal silk spun from the wings of mumified ancient ascalapha odorata remains. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Daily Mirror
Jochen Arndt wrote: Daily Mail Online
And you're moaning about the accuracy of their article! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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More laughing than moaning. It has been picked up meanwhile by many sites in Germany and Luxembourg.
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Relaxed (very) and Gaelic, but it's no Limerick (4,5)
Well, as the tumbleweed gently rolls away in the wind and the vast desert has shown no sign of life in the past 4 hours I guess we'll all (by which I mean I'll, obviously) be back in the dead zone again tomorrow?
relaxed - FREE
very - V
Gaelic - ERSE
it's no Limerick (it's not a poem with specific form) - FREE VERSE
Last time I bother to tailor the clue to the day, then! If you want me I'll be in the bathroom quaffing vodka and bleach! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
modified 17-Mar-16 10:10am.
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Dead Drunk? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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 but 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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We've got one here at the moment (I've rejected 140+ so far this morning), who is pasting about 1 every couple of seconds (150 or so now).
(oh, hang on - another one)
So who writes this cr@p?
(That's another two)
(Two...no, three - another came in while I was rejecting those two).
And how do they sleep at night?
(Another one...)
(And another...)
And why not put something in to check if they are getting through, because (three more there) otherwise they are just wasting their time - and mine - when they could be (Ooo! Four!) plaguing a different site?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did your rep finally go over the top? (At least, when I go to the page, you're nowhere to be seen...) 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm in Stealth Mode...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting spambots?
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 Mel Blanc I salute you!
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When I look at all of the REP POINTS of yours I just marvel and think "truly he is the Donald Trump of Rep Points!"
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We should build a huge wall around QA, and get questions setters to pay for it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think sir that you may be drunk. Again.
OG is where he should be, sitting atop the table and/or on top of he who shall not be named.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I think sir that you may be drunk. Again.
I wish it were so... 
Nagy Vilmos wrote: on top of he who shall not be named.
I didn't know he swung both ways - Thought he only liked female sheep. Oh well, live and let live... 
Seriously, do you mean to say that if you go to Who's Who, you see Griff at the top of the list? Because I don't, I see the infamous Russian... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Which filter do you have on? Well slap my thigh with a wet haddock, I've just looked back and he who shall not be named but is being mentioned relentlessly is top with new Sheep Boy to be seen!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: he who shall not be named
But has been surprisingly quiet of late ... oh sh** ...
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Totally fuped, I did a refresh and OG was back. It's the hamsters that are obviously on the hooch again!
veni bibi saltavi
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For me too now... 
[Fake Italian accent] "What's a-matter? Somebody's a-makin' da April Fool..." [/Fake Italian accent]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: OG is where he should be, sitting ... on top of he who shall not be named.
Please.
I do have standards you know... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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