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villakram

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  1. villakram

    Running

    1:22:54 HM in less than ideal conditions this am
  2. All humans in a military specifically train to murder other humans also. State endorsed murder is ok though.
  3. Yup, what does it say when they are this transparent ;( USAID spread plenty of democracy around Ukraine and Afgan... the largest sources/controllers of tax evasion are all western countries. I found it so funny to see the Guardian running huge headlines about Putin over the weekend when this broke... propagandistic hit piece 101.
  4. the classic championship manager move!
  5. Jon Jones is a grade A moron. Lock him up.
  6. Welcome and good luck for the final 7 games. Please try (i) Play the kids, including Grealish! (ii) Exile: Gabby, Richards, Hutton, Richardson, Guzan.
  7. Bruce: No way in hell. The guy is a known failure at premier league level. Moyes: Ya, I guess as he'd get us back to mid-table stability but the guy plays muck football... could also be damaged goods post Man Utd., and his Spanish sojourn, Pearson: A scumbag and somewhat unknown at premier league level, in that although he did a good job keeping Leicester up, I'd be worried that he's a one season wonder. However, he would kick the hell out of the detestable culture that has infected the club. Open to other options, you bet! Forgot about Warburton as mentioned earlier, a little risky but given the disaster we are why not.
  8. Hope she secretly reads here, see this, organizes a meet up and cracks you one right in the face! Poor form posting her picture on here (a public forum) imho. 8/10 though!
  9. Exactly. I guess it might be more difficult to see my point as clearly, if you don't live over here. I mean there was a guy who flew a bloody plane into a government building a couple of yrs back (only the IRS mind), and there was hardly a peep. It was quickly listed a just a "regular" crime. In contrast, if you have walked near to some pigment recently and then commit a crime... See also the case of the guy who shot up an abortion clinic recently and the efforts to avoid the terrorism angle, depressing! IRA: Leprechaun freedom fighters or some other way to pretend they were not terrorists. Breivik: Nazi, ends discussion. McVeigh: errr.... uhhh, ISIS, ISIS!
  10. yup, white guys don't do the terrorism
  11. Same as the Crimeans... oh, wait!
  12. Well the Americans are having a good go at putting an empire together too... same ol' problems keep appearing. It either rhymes or repeats it seems. I do love how patriotic some Brits get about the Falklands.
  13. awwww... poor little U.K (tm) all cut up about losing your paper empire.
  14. Living in the US, it does factually resemble that behavior at times, where it is not necessarily who is right that wins, just who has the most money (for legal bills) to drag the case out. This is where a lot of the pro-Trump/Cruz rightwing thinking comes from though. As all they see, are their honest hardworking tax dollars being spent for borderline corrupt (at least ethically) things like this.
  15. The new X-ray observatory Hitomi may be kaput... no communication, orbital period change, some associated debris spotted and optical observations suggest it's rotating in an uncontrolled manner. https://twitter.com/jaxa_en "Communication anomaly of X-ray Astronomy Satellite “Hitomi” (ASTRO-H). "
  16. Oh, I agree. Clinton is very beatable and I think that even Trump will have a very good shot at beating her. But if Ryan were to be the nominee, he will have done so via starting an open civil war in the republican party and I would not expect Trump to go quietly into the night. In such a fractured race there is no plausible way for a republican candidate to win the electoral college... and I suspect Ryan knows this too, as do the smarter heads in the repub party irrespective of the current game being played.
  17. So I guess this means yer gonna win the championships and it should be Sir Roy
  18. Why would Ryan do this? If Clinton was going to be indicted, then he might have a free run, but otherwise he's a known quantity with plenty of neo-liberal free market bs baggage (e.g., various crap budgets, 2012/Romney) and would be very unlikely to beat Hillary. Right now, he's in a position of incredible power in the US governmental system and if instead of fighting Trump, they united with him in some way, the repubs are in with a good shot of keeping the Senate in repub hands (the house is a gerrymandered lock). If they lose this, he doesn't take a lot of personal damage (blame Trump), keeps his current position and will be positioned for a much stronger presidential challenge in the future. I think Ryan is a bit of a scumbag but I recognize him as a smart man also and can't imagine him taking such a risky chance.
  19. errr... 3yrs back was pretty big, sooner the better though. The limits on testing and development are such bs. For a team the size of Ferrari to not be sure how their car would work on the medium tire is ridiculous. I'm really worried what will happen now that it looks like the HAAS model might be a good way to do things because merc and ferrari would be only too happy to close up this shop.
  20. screw ufc200... ufc201: McGregor vs Diaz at the Garden!
  21. villakram

    Running

    @SteveMac: I think it just means I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to 5k/10k right now. I've done a couple of 12mi@~6:30 runs for my current cycle and I've a 14mi@~6:30 tomorrow that I'm not overly worried about.
  22. A worrying amount of people conflating refugees/immigration with salafi/jihadi terrorism/extremism. How many of you have written to your MP complaining about the official British government position vis-a-vis patient zero Saudi Wahabia? Do you know about Al-Yamamah? But then again, how can we really deal with the extremist religious positions of these people given the outright nonsense privilege afforded to a fundamentally similar set of religious folk in our own societies? Hard questions need to be asked... but we'll resort to bombing, and more invasion of my life by some more showy nonsense to placate my sense of insecurity or is it yours.... who knows, but someone somewhere is scared!
  23. sshhh... new powers needed because Terrorism and think of the children, you heartless so and so!
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