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The reasons to remain are overwhelming: Even the Leave camp admit that economically "there will be a bump in the road" . The IMF is clearer - a recession. Britain does well for inward investment because it has a business friendly flexible labour market inside the EU. Leave and that stops. ...

We constantly hear of the advance of fundamentalist Islam, fastest growing religion, a threat to the West etc.etc. Here's another story from the Wahabist heartland: https://newrepublic.com/article/1215...-arab-atheists Of course, there is a lot of conjecture here. I am surprised that anybody in the ...

Been out campaigning for the Remain camp. Some old guy shouted at me that "I was selling my country to foreigners" (would that I had the power to) another woman that " I was old enough to know better" (so was she). Opinion polls worrying, for the first time Leave ahead of Remain....

This debate is as old as Pelagius v Augustine. Augustine and Gobineau got it half right, we do have original sin, from our violent mammalian ancestry, but the miserable buggers forgot that from the same source we also have original virtue. Imagine if the dominant intelligent species which evolved ha...

P.J. O'Rourke on the primaries.

Interesting comments about Kasich, who did quite well in NH, but not enough to beat Trump.

You are very right, people tend to die as they have lived Having had a close and near continuous look at the protracted death of the person closest to me, I am not so sure. While a wonderful person in many ways, my wife was a bit of a neurotic worrier. What I had not expected was calm courageous st...

One repeatedly hears about the great tolerance of Muslims in al Andalus, for example, but this is a myth, perpetuated above all by journalists who read an article somewhere. Ah, the Convivencia , the modern politically correct trope, in reaction against those good Catholic monarchs bringing the tru...

Appollonius, I'm wondering if replacing one theism with a sibling theism is really a 'conversion'? Alex. Yes it is, relatively. While the doctrines are equally absurd and there are some nasty Christian cults, mainstream Islam (both Sunni and Shia) is much nastier and more intolerant than mainstream...

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everyone knows we are morally bankrupt, we are also broke, rude, uncultured,drunkards ,aggresive and stupid and our women like showing the flesh. the question is why everyone still wants to move here. one for the mad mad Mad mad mad mad Mullahs to ponder. and (the dominant current strains) of Islam...

That is the theory In practice, YMix is right Thanks for the laugh! :lol: Remember me: next time I don't have any counter to an argument, I only have to say " That is the theory, in practice you're wrong " The French would say: "that is all very well in practice, but how does it work...

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Haunting and beautiful.

Climatically off this year, though, warm, wet and stormy.

From the profane to the pagan: 0UmvUy1LziE Well East coast girls are hip I really dig those styles they wear And the Southern girls with the way they talk They knock me out when I'm down there The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright And the Northern girls with the way they kiss...

Most leading darts players seem to be massively overweight and have a glass of beer to hand.

Surely that disqualifies it as a sport.

Who is making the best cars under $30k these days? Mrs. Hilaire wrecked her Prius. We're thinking maybe a Prius V, but have not been following except to note that electric cars don't seem scheduled for prime time until 2017. What family car would you buy for under $30k? If you want to help save the...

Tilting trains are cool, they can go up to 30% faster through curves. Early models had the tilt compensate for all the curve, which led to motion sickness (what you saw and what you felt did not match) but compensating for most but not all, solved the problem.

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Like the famous quip about Brazil, fusion is "the energy of the future, and always will be", although I hope to be proved wrong.

I remember ZETA, and I was only a kid.

Cherry picking data. The "no global warming for 18 years" starts from the last big El Nino, in 1997-98, when the world was abnormally warm. There is another big one starting now

Well, folks .. notion you arm the terrorists and be unaffected, pipe-dream sold to Joe by Rumsfeld & company What a disaster . It always concerns me when Azari says something sensible and we agree. Re barbarians swamping the Roman empire, Marx's only known joke comes to mind, last time was trag...

Amazon is evil, but customer service is excellent, and I like my Kindle (whose ebooks are on a different format to the global standard, to keep you locked in.) Still, customer service from slave plantations was probably very good. Jeff Bezos is a megalomaniac who wants to take over the world, and so...

That list is a subjective joke. The top six countries are boring places, and the seventh too far from anywhere (and the commodity driven economy is tanking). US number one for health? The Irish economy better than the UK ? (when was this done, 2007?) France way down on social capital? (it may be a f...

Race and national origin don't matter, and in the long run neither does the poor education of the immigrants (their kids will be different). Culture does matter, however, and nearly all these immigrants are Muslim at a time when even "moderate" Islam is a pernicious, intolerant and reactio...

I once had an interesting conversation with a private banker, who said that his job mainly consisted of abnormal psychology and conflict resolution, the finance bit was easy. He specialised in the "third generation problem" in family owned firms. The first generation built the business, th...

Well, the West created Jihadism, when it trained the Mujaheddin to defeat the USSR and set off the collapse of Communism. Oh the irony. The conservative version of Islam is of course at war with the West, because it holds values and mores which are at complete variance to the West's, which dominate ...

So, this is one of the few threads that Azari has not posted on...

Afghanistan then and now