Strega

He forgot to exist

It seems to me that ‘rights’ are a part of ‘club membership’. If you sit around a Kava bowl with a Fijian tribal family, you will discover that your local ‘rights’ are far different from what you have come to expect in your western domicile.  If you spend any length of time in any place other than your own, this becomes apparent very quickly.

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@Diane beautiful post, thank you 🙂

Now mention Venezuela and that’s a different situation – one in which Triggger-happy-Trump has no business messing in.

Trump threatens Venezuela with ‘military option’
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-venezuela-military-idUSKBN1AR2GR

I’d be more comfortable if I could atheise at people.  ‘ism’ and ‘ist’ are very unsatisfactory verb fodder.

Belle – Russia is poised to attack who?  Are you saying Russia is an ally of North Korea?  Or are you envisioning Russia just attacking the USA without preamble?  I’m mystified as to why you mention Russia and how you feel they are integrated with the North Korea situation.

In any event, I don’t believe this will lead to a world war – I do think it’s possible that we have a contained war, but China has already stated that that if North Korea initiate aggression against the USA, and the USA retaliates, they will remain neutral.

When did it become ‘too late’ Belle?  When do you think we went wrong and what should we have done differently?

Belle, I do think he would press the button.  The whole world believes he would press the button.  That’s the point, isn’t it?  My question to you, is what do you think would be a valid alternative strategy?

Kim Jong Un has nuclear weapons. This is not because of Trump.  Kim Jong Un has been building his nuclear capacity since the 90s. No diplomatic solution has curtailed this.  At this point, Kim Jong Un has the ability to discharge a nuclear weapon, AND to sell nuclear weapons to ISI and any other terrorist organization.  Now what?

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Happy Anniversary!!!🍾

Thank you for sharing what appears to have been a very personal story. It is true that men are subconsciously attributed to being the predator or aggressor, before even a word is spoken.  I really appreciated being shown the inverse of the standard DV case.  It seemed harder to understand in the abstract, probably because of that male=aggressor p…[Read more]

Please take this up in PMs.  Or don’t.  But not here.

Stop it

@Belle. How do you know the voice isn’t the Devil?

Santas gifts are tangible.

On a side note, I was over in Cologne (Germany) one December and discovered that their version of St Nicholas is a very different kind of Santa – he has a sidekick called Black Peter too.  If you’ve been a good little boy/girl, St Nicholas gives you the normal gift type of reward, but if you’ve been a bad little…[Read more]

@Reg. Oh dear