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likeitis
How many people in "an entire SWAT team"? Can they body block a car? Or do you want them to shoot tires and car occupants?
Posted in: Man arrested after using stun gun on police officer in Gunma
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likeitis
I thought the same thing for about half a second. But they do not have a suspect until someone approaches the car. So, they cannot lay the strips until then, else they will flatten a lot of innocent people's tires. But just because someone approaches the car does not mean its the theives. So you don't want to lay strips just then either. As soon as people start fleeing, THEN you can start laying the strips. Good luck moving that fast.
I think the things are reserved for when you have a chase going on and roadblocks are set up. And usually that situation happens on highways, not mid-town.
I do not think there is anyway to use the things in this situation, without, ahem, ridiculous collateral damage, or, a crystal ball.
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likeitis
Analogies don't work for crap if you are going to throw in a non-analogy, and those Quassam rockets are real and don't fit the analogy unless you have been popping mescaline. Have you???
Those high powered fireworks you mention CANNOT shoot down jets or blow up tanks. For all the thousands fired into Israel over eight years, a mere 15 Israelis have died.
Compare that with 1,400 Palestinians killed in one month.
To fit the analogy, its like the students have rocks. Could students get rocks? Yeah, they could.
I suppose the Israelis could relinquish control of Gaza's airspace and shores and inner borders and take away the justification for the rocket attacks, but they didn't.
You think they were elected to protect the Palestinians? I don't think the Palestinians elected them for that purpose.
I don't doubt it.
And their ill gotten lands.
Posted in: U.N. blames Israeli army for Gaza attacks
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likeitis
Senses? The damage is done. The profits made. Even the extra-curricular goal of the Iraqis governing themselves is basically done. This is not a matter of coming to one's senses. This is a matter of stepping into the get-away car now that the bank vault is empty.
Posted in: Iraq insists U.S. forces leave cities by June 30
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likeitis
Even if you take that tack, the fact that Israel does not allow the Gazans to purchase the military hardware necessary to 1)shoot down Israeli warplanes that bomb these buildings, or 2) to destroy the Israeli tanks that bombard them.
In other words, ISRAEL controls Gaza and the Palestinians can't do much about it. Hamas is like the president of the student council. They most certainly DO NOT run the school.
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likeitis
Missing details, I would judge that so quickly. Some Pachinko parking lots are vast with multiple exits, including the "emegency" exits of between trees, through the garden and onto the road. And team could mean just three people.
Any preparation they took to prevent this could have tipped off the perps, then they would have none. I am plenty happy that they got one of them. The rest will likely follow.
But I expect some here will not be satisfied, but would have much preferred a potentially fatal car chase complete with collateral damage, or expected to have dozens of cops on the stakeout that might have lasted for days and could have been totally fruitless and most likely usually is (but they would not want to pay for it with their tax money.)
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likeitis
Does not quite jibe with the headline, as others have noticed. Eating longer does not necessarily equate to eating more. In fact, it seems the French might be staying slimmer by actually taking the time to CHEW their food. Naturally, not eating all the JUNK the other three nationalities tend to eat helps, even if they do actually eat MORE of healthy food.
Napoleon said six hours sleep is enough for any man. Seven hours enough for any woman. And eight hours is enough for any fool! Oh, well, Napoleon was not actually French, he was Corsican.
Posted in: OECD report shows French sleep, eat more than most
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likeitis
Waiting....
Posted in: On 100th day in office, Obama denounces waterboarding
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likeitis
Ok, simple question. If torture accomplishes anything of positive value, please give us three real world examples of when it did so. You have all of history to comb at your leisure. Good luck.
Posted in: Even if it works, U.S. shouldn't use torture
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likeitis
Not sex. Not now. Because the court said no sex until puberty.
So just answer me this: Is it better for 1) a girl to get married at 8, have sex with her own husband at 12 or so, or 2) be sexually abused from 8 by her own father and brothers and more distant male relatives, impregnated by them after puberty, and then tried and imprisoned for what they did?
Because 2 seems to be more common in Saudi. Take your pic, because number 1 will often protect her from number 2, but 2 will likely ensure she never gets married.
You pick yet? Hard choice for you? And if say neither, then you may as well hold out for the moon. One thing at a time. Rome was not built in a day.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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likeitis
skipthesong: You mean like a great many of the Jews were once driven out of the place and sent wandering?
If this were the 600s, and the Byzantine Empire was murdering and expelling Jews, I would side with the Jews. But that was a long time ago.
I am really not accepting history over 1000 years old to excuse today's behavior. Nor does it justify oppressing the Palestinians for what Israel's Arab neighbor countries did.
Independence was declared over the heads of the Palestinian poplulation. They never should have done that. They knew they were bringing an invasion down on their heads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeclarationoftheEstablishmentoftheStateofIsrael,May14,_1948
Posted in: U.S. professor's Holocaust-Gaza comparison stirs debate
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likeitis
To a degree its true. A small degree. Israel still has the overwhelming majority of control and influence though. Basically, what you are doing is of the same calibur as blaming the Jews that dropped the Zyklon B into the gas chambers for the mass murders of Jews. They bore a degree of guilt its true. A small degree. But you are not letting the Nazis off, are you?
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likeitis
You have concentration camps confused with death camps. Not the only basic idea you are confused on by the way.
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likeitis
The claim is historical. Yet you are talking about recent times and small numbers of people moving.
It seems like every time I read about the Arab-Israeli conflict, I get new information which puts things in different light. The issue is very complicated and is FRAUGHT with politics politics politics which means it is near impossible to get the straight truth. This is from Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab-Israeli_conflict
This of course puts Israeli Jews in a slightly more favorable light. But look at that last sentence. U.N. created? I thought they declared independence on their own? Further, Arab-held areas were NOT Palestinian held areas. So you cannot blame the Palestinians for booting the Israeli Jews. But you can blame the Israelis for booting the people who became Palestinians. Another reason you can blame the Israelis is because the Palestinian areas have been so controlled by Israel and are part of Israel. They could have let Palestinians have their homes back. They declined. They kept the Palestinians penned up, and penned up on land that is not very fertile.
Now if you want to lay accusations at the Arab counties that attacked Israel of evicting Jews from Palestine, go right ahead. They are guilty. Just don't blame Palestinians for what they did. The Palestinians were caught between them, but its been the Israelis in control of their land, and their fate. Israel literally has them walled up, with razor wire on top of the walls, just like any concentration camp.
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likeitis
So its not that it was done, its how many that counts?
Anyway, maybe I should have said "driven into concentration camps". My bad. But I always did maintain that Israel improved on Nazi ways, including the point of doing things in a more "news-friendly" way.
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likeitis
Yes. You will never guess what country a lot of Israelites came from.
Anyway, it is quite possible for two Nazi groups to oppose eachother. I guess you never heard of the Night of the Long Knives?
Dude, you really need to back off this Us vs. Them, left or right, childishly simplistic and unproductive world view. SERIOUSLY.
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likeitis
Lets just say that I consider Saudi Arabia to be pretty far behind the rest of the world, and, in that state of affairs, I can imagine FAR WORSE things happening to a 12 year old female than having sex with her own husband so long as she herself is ok with it. If she isn't, or wants a divorce, she should have that choice.
But if you want to think this is the worst thing that can happen to a 12 year old in Saudi, or several other parts of the world, where the life of a single female of any age is rumored to be pure bliss, even when your Papa is willing to sell you for 13 grand, knock yourself out.
I think we have better and far more far-reaching things to be down on Saudi about.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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likeitis
I know its a lot of reading for conservative eyes not used to it, but if you go further up the thread you might notice that I do not support this.
Posted in: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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likeitis
No, I was thinking he might be a centrist and a free thinker.
Posted in: U.S. professor's Holocaust-Gaza comparison stirs debate
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likeitis
teleprompter: Trouble with this tired, silly "Israel is just like Nazi Germany!" meme is that Left, when parroting this, forgets that the Hitler was a Lefty, and that NAZISM stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Israel is democratic, pluralistic, capitalistic, and invites immigrants.
Bad news dude: The world cannot be broken down into right and left, with all ideas either on one side or the other. This is not about either of the four things you mention at the end. This is about rounding up your perceived enemies into concentrion camps. Hitler did it. Israel did it, and maintains the situation.
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