not any more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Day

lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_..._King,_Jr._Day

LoL from whom? Lew Rockwell?

Judging from the results I'd guess he'd of been paid by Rockwell's enemies.

Nielsio's zeal for anarchocapitalism seemed pretty genuine. Whether he was getting paid is probably beside the point, can't fake that kind of enthusiasm imho

The issue with many of the shill accusations is that they ignore Occam's Razor all over the place. Crazy is a lot more likely than somebody paying to influence a small number of people on the non-poker sections of poker message boards.

The Knox thread in OOT got it because basically became self-perpetuating (it was long and big so it got attention and got longer and bigger) and got linked on outside Knox sites.

I mean everybody who disagrees with me is wrong, but that's because they're deeply flawed humans, not because you'd have to be paid to find yourself in disagreement with me.

Seriously:



How much would you have to pay someone to fake that video?

Amanda Knox thread

gettin' high with some brothers from Miami and Cleveland
kickin' back talkin' bout WE AIN'T LEAVIN'

Wat.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30978014

I know it's PH but I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention.

I've been following, not least because I was the country last summer and plan to go back in March.

It's pretty crazy to see as BIFF bombed a bus terminal last Friday and the raids seem to be a direct response, the peace deal with the MILF only did so much to lower the viciousness of the fight as other Islamic groups rose up to fill the vacuum. But it's a regional conflict far away in an area few westerners go to get caught up in it that few in the west care at all.

It's hard enough to make them care about Boko Haram.

Well Boko Harem at least makes the news now. You'd be hard pressed to find a Western who knew what MILF was (aside from the obvious). I have some personal connections to PH, so that's my interest. Where were you/are you going there?

BH is in the news when they kidnap a bunch of girls, but they really should get coverage like IS does, they are a big threat due to spill over internationally, they are definitely moving beyond the regional threat that the Islamic groups in SEA are (though all should get more coverage too).

I wasn't near any dangerous areas in the islands, it was a great holiday and would recommend the country to anyone regardless of some danger in the south, and I guess a plausible threat to tourists in the north but not really. The flight was more dangerous.

Last time I was mainly in and around manila, a bit of time around santa maria and a few places on and around cebu like mactan, taking a cruise between manila and cebu city and visiting some provinces like boracan and a couple others I don't recall the names of.

Next trip probably spending most of the time in manila, maybe baguio or boracay depending on money, and apparently some place called vegan that it's literally impossible to research for obvious reasons.

I'm tenatively visiting in August. Mostly Cebu city but also Manila and probably the CHocolate Hills in Bohol. To make this more political, I don't know why the US doesn't give PH more military aid to support their claim to the Spratley Islands. That would help counterbalance China's expansion there. As it stands PH seems destined to lose them.

so we're not going to talk about the fact the acronym is MILF?

I mentioned it when I said
I think that MILF has been around longer than we've been using MILF.

If they ruin MILF like ISIS ruined ISIS I'm going to be super pissed.

I wouldn't worry. Aside from Archer fans few people had strong associations with ISIS pre Islamic State of dickbags. MILF is already firmly entrenched in the public consciousness.

We were considering seeing the hills last August/September, I seem to recall it wasn't the best time of year as you get into the rainy season so they become green and you lose the effect, but I could be remembering wrong. Definitely on the list for a future trip, there is so much to see in the islands and my fiance is pinay so I'll be holidaying there a lot over the years.

There was a new agreement signed last year between the Philippines and America and the Spratley Islands definitely got name checked on or around the Obama trip to the islands last year. The problem is the Philippines doesn't have the resources to contest the islands and China is shoveling hundreds of millions, including literally building up the islands to then build upon them, at seizing the contested islands.

Short of America giving considerably more aid there isn't much that can be done and frankly the country has bigger problems. They are still not even close to rebuilt after Haiyan in 2013, let alone being ready for the next huge storm. They need to become an economic powerhouse, not a military proxy, imo. The country has so much going for it to compete, improving the lives of everyone.

I never got a chance to tell him before he stopped posting but I do think it is the Arab southern Mexican German gypsie under his bed that is preventing him from being free.

Who are the shills and who are the marks and who are the shills that are really marks that have been shilled?

Watching Chiefsplanet go through the stages of grief that the economy is not totally ****ed under Obama is fascinating: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=290237

Not wasting my time clicking the link but I am sure it is chock full of the Hero Republican American Congress made Obummer expire unemployment benefits and get all the lazy shiftless scamming unemployment bums go back to work since I think that's the canned Hannity-approved justification for the positive macro economic news of the last 6 months or so.