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InkaUtexas

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  1. Holy shit. What was the payout on that one.
  2. Lives a few miles down river from Edwina. But careful, her brother is quite the jealous type.
  3. I was damn good at Summer Games on my Commodore 128. Should I list that? Oh, and in college I could roll a joint one handed when driving on a road trip or walking to campus. See, those are skills I want to see listed. I might hire that dude. Glee Club? GTFO A-Aron
  4. User name kind of checks out, and so does your last known location. So heading to Knock ville for the weekend?
  5. As long as they are occupied they do not have to answer to the world. Make them behave if they want aid. We do that to kim jong dick fuck. we were doing that to Iran. We do it to Venezuela. Why do we give in to Gaza? Cuz they can rightfully play the occupied status. Look, no one on this board bitched if Israel blew up a building full of Hamas/Hezbollah/IRG in Lebanon, Gaza, West Bank or Syria. I think the discussion is don't fucking hit the hospital. Hold your troops to international standards. Don't bend to their level. Hold individuals who do bend down to the Hamas level, desecrate bodies, rape, etc accountable like the US and UK did to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and currently the Canadians and Aussies are doing to theirs for crimes committed by individuals. And what Taliban and Iraqi insurgents of the various sects did was atrocious. In Israel's case it has the appearance that this is State sponsored and led.
  6. The Arabs would prefer a safer Palestine than all of them as refugees. They would rather send money in than have them come out. They do not need to while Israel and to a lesser degree the international community (not just the UNRWA, the US has unilateral projects in both the West Bank and Gaza, primary development led by USAID) prop up the governments. They get to scream about injustice in public while cutting deals with Israelis in Europe. It feeds the street so the focus is on that vs. they corrupt nature of their own governments. It is also important to note we toss around the word Arab like we do Latino. There is a major difference among them. A Syrian is not a Yemeni who is not a Algerian who is not an Egyptian but they all talk shit about Israel and hate the Saudis. The Arab nations, led probably by the GCC, could create the utility infrastructure for Gaza and probably turn a profit. But there lies 1 big issue to this that is overlooked. The brain drain. Are there electrical engineers who can maintain something built? With the Israeli control of imports, what port do you use? Ideally it would be based out of Egypt and an overland corridor, but the fear is under the current conditions the Palestinians would go south into the Sinai to escape both Israel and Hamas. There are quite a few aggressive authoritarian states the world, including the US deals with. You could argue under the Likud Israel is led by an authoritarian party. Authoritarian does not mean a dictator. So lets start with Russia. Yep, up until Ukraine we all dealt with them, and some western companies and non-western countries we like continue to do so. India and China. Currently we can add El Salvador under Bukele, Hungary under Orban, South Africa under the ANC in South Africa, Egypt with the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas' buddy), etc.... Shit, add the PRI in Mexico. Creating a Palestinian state, as noted, would be a nation against a nation if they attacked. If Hamas is the leadership, well it is still a nation-state. The world would expect them to behave like one. Now they can play the Occupied Territory card all they want with no action against them. take it away from them. Using the Kurds as an example. Post Saddam, though they do no allow Kurdistan to be an independent nation, does give them a lot more say in their day to day lives. Relations really changed. So much that the Kurds saved Iraq's ass from ISIS. Then look at Turkey. They are dicks to the Kurds, so the PKK blows up shit in Turkey. I would prefer to see an independent Kurdistan. But by giving them more of a voice and recognition (there is a US Consulate in Erbil) the animosity in less than one generation has decreased.
  7. Zelensky and Trump meet. Trump tries to go for the power play and stands up straight, looks down at him. Zelensky stares back and says wow, you are tall, but my hands are bigger. Trump fumes and takes it out on a 20 pack of McNuggets his Secret Service agent carries instead of extra ammo.
  8. PMP. And on your resume. I don't care that you were an Eagle Scout, what college clubs you were in, or your damn hobbies. I want to know you are experienced in the job, not planning on playing pickleball or going hiking with you.
  9. Except their mines are sheep turds and jars of jizz. Still gotta be careful, but not as bad as a homemade bouncing betty or a ruskie fire and forget mine.
  10. If he wants a comparison, please do Mexico, Sudan, Burma and a few other places the world deals with while you are at it.
  11. Croatia is the longest Bosnian Border. That is like saying Texas Border with Mexico. Some of those areas saw almost zero war. Some were completely depopulated. There are airfields everywhere. Serbs and Croats, the chosen European defenders of either Central Europe or Slavic Europe (Depends on what Church you like) both mined the fuck out of that place. And it is still not the worse place on earth.
  12. Well 6-5 is a "winning season." ask aggy.
  13. Same here. Told a team to make sure they had a small zodiac with a motor on their trailer.
  14. Hard to say you know exactly when it will fail. Unless you are this guy. And you see this. And cancelled. So now you are this guy s surrounded by SEC tards.
  15. Jerusalem could be an international city, since it is important to three major religions. This takes away the visible role the IDF plays blocking Palestinians from praying there and blocking Jewish groups from going to certain areas. Shitty role for the IDF troops. I bet they would love to give it over to another entity. Thus when Mahmoud goes boom or Jacob decides to go full Zionist, it is not the IDF's fault. I have said two things. Stop the settlement expansion and stop the current level of force in Gaza. Small team tactics? Special ops? Mossad tricks? Yep, keep them up. Never let up the pressure. The US committed one horrid atrocity we overlook in Afghanistan yes there are others, but this one is applicable. They hit a MSF Hospital in Kunduz with a AC-130. Were the Talibs on the wall? Yep. were those elements going to cause the collapse of the whole country? Nope. So if you really want to get that target, wait until he is not next to a hospital. I suggest you read this book. Rise and Kill First. it gives a solid history of how Israel would react vs. shitheads (Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, etc.) and the legal recourse they had to go through internally. Now, it appears they do not have the same constraints. And for the record. The 1986 invasion of Lebanon did not succeed. Nor will another one. Just like the indiscriminate use of force in Gaza will not end it. Go kill the leaders wherever they are. Israel has to think about the international perception of their actions if they want to keep the dollars flowing and be seen as a modern nation. Fuck OU.
  16. Lot of bridges in this area. Gorgeous drive. Canyons will flood like a mofo. Lot of flood warnings already in place down stream. Some cleetus is going to try to surf down the Pigeon River.
  17. Palestine does have a Foreign Office. It sits in the UN as a non-voting member. Back in the PLO Days they had this. Arafat spoke before the General Assembly. Utilities- The UN does not ever like shit handed over. Why? Causes the UN Jobs which equal funds which tend to go to internationals who work for or sell shit to the UN. One reason Bosnia worked was it was NOT the UN overseeing reconstruction and the peacekeeping. It was NATO and a US/EU led group. Gaza and other long term crisis locations are careers for people. And they get paid damn well.
  18. 100%. When I said this one person told me to go fuck my mother, so be careful. Surly hate is real. Sadly the retired Diplomat is deceased. Otherwise she would have kicked this said persons ass both over policy and on implementation. A state, that is dependent on the Arabs is easily Israel's best way out. A-, they don't pay for it. B- if it gets out of hand let the UAE's SF deal with it. C- if that is what the arab street (not the leaders) want, cool. Remove the rationale for protests.
  19. I might say the Cultural Revolution was also pretty dumb. And Mao's wonderful Agriculture Reform concepts.
  20. No shit. It is China. That river could flood, take out a damn down river and we all know what that means.
  21. If you are buying the bbq I will meet you in Paris, Texas.
  22. Just got back on a 4 leg trip. 1 was an Airbus, the other 3, yep, Max 8's. I did not tell my wife about my thoughts on those flights.
  23. Yeah, and I would never go there to see it.
  24. Nah she just discovered the rest area she was planning on using as hours. Its ok Nicole, there are drunks all times of the day in Florida.
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