True but eating the neighbours dog while they were forced to watch would be pretty sweet.
True but eating the neighbours dog while they were forced to watch would be pretty sweet.
Ok I think we should call you "the Anthony Bourdain of Jazzfanz".. LOL.. (the exotic food guy).
Oh man I love it. Everywhere I go I try the local delicacy, lama, goat, guinea pig, horse, had rain deer and elk for the first time last year, ****ty I didn't get to try that rotting fish Scandinavians eat. Whale is something i'm curious about, dog and cat is supposed to taste pretty good too.
LOL .. that's what Bourdain does on his 'No Reservations' tour.. LOL .. it's entertaining cos he eats all these weird stuff so we don't have to.. Hahaha..
DutchJazzer
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depends, i had to slaughter my own chicken in summer vacations when we where on a farm!
but i still ate that chicken, it was the best tasting chicken EVER
DutchJazzer
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bigoted chickenist!
jimmy eat jazz
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I'm sorry, but I think you're unecessarily dismissing his post and its questions. His larger point is absolutely valid; Asad has been acting very bad for a while now, while, previously, the Republican controlled Congress effectiely handcuffed Obama in dealing with it, saying he could not act uniltaterally without Congression approval. Now that a Republican is in the White House, suddenly it's ok for the President to act unilterally.
Syria and the Middle East, generally, are a big mess. Judgement, prudence, wisdom, and a long-term view are necessary to figure it out without making things worse. While Obama's ME policy was far from perfect, we now have a man in the White House who lacks judgment, prudence, wisdom or long-term perspective, and a Congress who now appears ready to let him act on his worst impulses without adequated checks and balances (frankly, all of Trump's impluses can be categorized as 'worst.')
Does anyone feel comfortable with Trump calling the shots on this (or other international crises) and with a Congress who has abdicated its oversight responsiblity to him?
jimmy eat jazz
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Well he did invade Iraq, oversaw the destabilization of the Middle East and Islamic world (in fair part due to his invasion of Iraq), and the worst post WW recession did occur on his watch. He wasn't necessarily to be blamed for all bad things that happened during his tenure, but boy oh boy, he sure seems to carry some of the blame for some pretty bad outcomes that occured while he was in charge.
jimmy eat jazz
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Not sure I can answer this in total, BUT (and putting on my cynical hat here), it sure as hell helped Haliburton's business interests (Cheney was former CEO of Haliburton). A large number of business interests made a killing from all the killing.
I don't mean to suggest that the invasion was done at the bidding of business interests, but I'm cynical enough not to dismiss this entirely as a contributing motivating factor.
jimmy eat jazz
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I think you're way overly optimistic about how harmoniously this process would have worked. (I'm not aruging for a centrally imposed solution by either local or foreign controlled government). I would imagine that there would have arisen significant fighting among groups for control of territory or resources (or just to play out long-standing or new grudges), plus plenty of infighting within groups for control. It may or may not have been better than what happened, perhaps so, but it also may have turned itself plenty chaotic and bloody.
Iraq itself is a 'modern state' cobbled together post WW I, if I remember correctly, yet another future crap storm created by Western imperialists by cobbling together people into a single 'state' who had no history of cultural affinty, and then imposing on top, and supporting, a dictatorial, repressive regime.
RandyForRubio
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1) I literally live 20 feet from a cow pasture. I've never heard a cow wail before.
2) It doesn't take 30 seconds to kill a cow. Technically takes less than a second, usually.
3) Yes, I would still eat that steak. It will be delicious, as long as it's from a nice black angus. Only the best, get them Herefords out of here.
4) I kill antelope, deer, elk, and pheasants every year, butcher them, and eat them. I think I enjoy them more because of the work that went into it, and I know where exactly the meat came from and what it looks like. Not that big of deal. Try it sometime.
Precisely why they had the ad-gag laws that lobbyist of the meat industries put in place.