If you're correct, you are locked in intellectual contest with a single celled organism. One whole impaired brain cell is more than enough to overwhelm your tiny bag of wit.
Afghanistan - Time to leave
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If you're correct, you are locked in intellectual contest with a single celled organism. One whole impaired brain cell is more than enough to overwhelm your tiny bag of wit.
Yeah that's us, contaminated with love.
You the readers have no doubt seen the absurd suggestions in this and other threads that I am endowed with a trust fund of millions and am encamped in a palatial mansion. Let me inform you that nothing is more unlikely and that there is a greater chance by far that I am a simple minded village idiot of no great means whatever. So could you'll please stop plugging my mailbox with offers of romance and marriage. I have no money I have no ships about to land and I have no potential whatever to generate capital sufficient to keep you in comfort. Thank you for the lovely pictures though, you're all very nicely apportioned.
Wow! I have never seen that clip. Comfortably Numb should be western culture's theme song or anthem.
And Gilmore is still one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
There's a back story to that reunion. After Richard Wright died Waters and Gilmore began really communicating. Waters agreed to sing at a charity benefit founded by Gilmore and to sweeten the invite Gilmore agreed to do comfortably numb for one wall show.
Sadly it wasn't the one I attended. Although it was still a great show.
Such a shame when egos get in the way of creativity, they made some really awesome music together.
No doubt about it. Floyd did a couple of awesome albums without Waters, but Roger, as you can see in that clip, is the showman. The Wall is one of the greatest albums ever made about the fragility of the psyche. Waters also made a couple of really great solo albums (that I know of). Amused to Death is vintage Waters.
Roger Waters - Watching TV - YouTube
There are still junkies in the US.
I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, they have one of the greatest complete bodies of work in history. Gilmour is the best guitarist in the last 50 years for sheer style.
I don't know about comfortably numb being an anthem, I am thinking this is much more of a premonitory look at what is coming....
Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset - YouTube
I don't know about comfortably numb being an anthem, I am thinking this is much more of a premonitory look at what is coming....
Pink Floyd - Two Suns In The Sunset - YouTube
Afghanistan is having a vote today while the Taliban continues to grow in power and money:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/w...m-trade-and-illicit-businesses-boom.html?_r=0
Not sure this is entirely reliable as it alleges drug money is the principle source of financing and that appears to be against everything the Taliban has taught in the past. Still there can be no doubt that it was merely slowed down, not stopped, by Bush/Obama and the war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/w...m-trade-and-illicit-businesses-boom.html?_r=0
Not sure this is entirely reliable as it alleges drug money is the principle source of financing and that appears to be against everything the Taliban has taught in the past. Still there can be no doubt that it was merely slowed down, not stopped, by Bush/Obama and the war.
Jesus, Goober, you used to argue Gawd was on our side.
Joan Baez - With God on Our Side (Live 1966) - YouTube
Joan Baez - With God on Our Side (Live 1966) - YouTube
The election is over:
Afghans vote in historic election amid attacks, allegations of fraud - The Washington Post
charges of fraud & other maladies are reported and no conclusive decision has been reached at this juncture - still if the vote is accepted, all the more reason for the USA to leave
Afghans vote in historic election amid attacks, allegations of fraud - The Washington Post
charges of fraud & other maladies are reported and no conclusive decision has been reached at this juncture - still if the vote is accepted, all the more reason for the USA to leave
Election vote count is being contested and a final outcome will not be determined until late July:
Afghan presidential election in crisis as candidate alleges 'blatant fraud' | World news | The Guardian
All the more reason to get the hell out, now.
Afghan presidential election in crisis as candidate alleges 'blatant fraud' | World news | The Guardian
All the more reason to get the hell out, now.
And leave the lithium and gold! Are you mad? You should be impeached, or at least applefrittered.
Oops, fie! Shame on me for forgetting that the profit motive is war's greatest motive!!
And yes, as always, let us socialize the cost of the war but privatize its profits so that our Tea Bagging Republican friends can partake of the joy of spending their long days counting all the money we give them.
And yes, as always, let us socialize the cost of the war but privatize its profits so that our Tea Bagging Republican friends can partake of the joy of spending their long days counting all the money we give them.
WW2, Korea, Vietnam.
If a Dem was in power on 911, they would have done the same thing, gone into Afghanistan
And they would have been sucked into this idiocy of nation building or if ya broke it shxt ya gotta fix it.
No to both.
In and out, let them fix it.
Everyone should have left when Bin Laden was killed. The reason for being there was gone after that.