Saudis execute Indonesian maid after she killed boss while being raped [dailym.ai] via @MailOnline

ghettophilosopher comments on Jan 22, 2019:

Were I the President of Indonesia, I would, as the article suggests, immediately rescind the migrant worker agreement in question, recall said workers to greatest extent possible, and sever all diplomatic ties, and very vocally expell all Saudi embassadors.

Moravian replies on Jan 22, 2019:

@powder and the fact that they are sitting on a sea of oil and spend $billions of the revenue from it on armaments from the West.

2 YEAR AGO.

BeeHappy comments on Jan 17, 2019:

I remember. I watched all this closely. The level of injustice just tore up my heart. I wanted so badly to join them from early on in the protest. To offer some small support, I posted and shared so much on Facebook and closed my Chase account because of their ties to the oil companies. I sent ...

Moravian replies on Jan 21, 2019:

@TomMcGiverin He certainly was a warmonger. Under his administration more bombs were dropped around the world than under Bush. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt as he at least tried to do some good at home.

Medicare for all - are you for or against it?

Moravian comments on Jan 19, 2019:

Sounds similar to the UK, but the NHS (national health service) is struggling due to the fact that people are living longer and in old age have more health issues.

Moravian replies on Jan 20, 2019:

@Hebert54 Sure it is underfunded but it is constantly requiring a larger percentage of the taxation fund because of an aging population and peoples expectations.

Regarding the "snowpocalypse:" so far, here in middle rural Illinois, we are still just getting lots...

linxminx comments on Jan 19, 2019:

We got a dusting of snow instead of the 7 inches predicted. News media...sheesh!! They are all a lot of drama queens.

Moravian replies on Jan 19, 2019:

Aw. so you didn't get the 7 inches promised then, just like the news girl. https://www.truthorfiction.com/tvanchor/ I'm sure I remember seeing the actual newscast when the newsgirl said to the weatherman "what happened to that 6 inches you promised me last night,"

Climate change.

stanleybell comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Small correction, should br anthropogenic, not anthropomorphic (yes, I'm pedantic.

Moravian replies on Jan 18, 2019:

Thanks. Those big words can be confusing.

Is anyone else really disturbed by the popularity of the flat earth nonsense?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Jan 18, 2019:

They have members all over the globe.

Moravian replies on Jan 18, 2019:

When they have their meetings delegates come from the four corners of the earth.

trump has succeeded in bringing this country into a state that had not been seen since the Civil ...

AlexRam comments on Jan 17, 2019:

I totally agree! i have said it before but the failure of our education system to allow people to think for themselves and the false beliefs that people hold are returning us to the middle ages.

Moravian replies on Jan 17, 2019:

Literacy percentage in the USA is 86. In Mexico it is 96. You should be encouraging Mexican immigrants to raise the literacy rate not building a wall to keep them out.

I thought I was living in Southern California, but I don't recognize this scene. Help?

Moravian comments on Jan 16, 2019:

You guys are never happy. You complain when it doesn't rain and everything goes up in flames, then you complain when you get a little bit of rain.Try living in Scotland where constant drizzle is the norm.

Moravian replies on Jan 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMEEvmfyQU I am a bit envious. I have visited several states in the US and California is one where I would like to live. great climate, varied countryside,friendly people, but get those rakes out guys , lots of raking to be done before next summer.

Do you believe in destiny?

creative51 comments on Jan 15, 2019:

Destiny is a 22 year old call girl who works out of a near by town. Can not tell you how good she is, as call girls are not included in my monthly budget. I still use tried and true dates when I can get them.

Moravian replies on Jan 16, 2019:

Oh Yeah. How do you know about Destiny then.?

How can modern man believe in a God?

Dajokn comments on Jan 1, 2019:

A lot of people still believe in gods in a cultural sense, but there are far fewer people who really believe the mythology now, and those tend to be in pockets of (usually willful) ignorance. Modern man is still capable of believing some pretty ridiculous things (bigfoot, aliens, Trekkies, etc), ...

Moravian replies on Jan 15, 2019:

I think you can add astrology, psychics, and the lies of politicians to that list. In the animal world particularly with social animals such as apes it is a biological necessity for the survival of the that they obey the instructions of the parents. If those instructions include dogma it will be hard wired into the children's brain.Remember the Jesuit's claim "give me the child to the age of seven and I will give you the man" In the UK where belief has been reducing for it will continue to reduce as fewer parents indoctrinate their children, Drive around the UK and in every town you will find churches either empty converted for other uses. In the USA, particularly in the bible belt churches are not only still very common but huge new mega churches are being built. Children are still being indoctrinated so belief will most likely last much longer.

Wilson's Nails Wilson runs a nail factory and decides his business needs a bit of advertising.

Jolanta comments on Jan 11, 2019:

I love a ad like that but I cannot see it happen ever. Can you imagine the outcry from the so called Christians, but when it comes to killing and raping people in custody it seems to be a different matter.

Moravian replies on Jan 12, 2019:

Advertising is critical business these days. My nephew recently converted a classic VW microbus use as a hearse. apparently enthusiasts of the vehicle wish have their last journey in one. Unfortunately it wasn't a great success. Maybe he should have used the advertising slogan " PEOPLE ARE DYING GET INTO MYVW" :-)

It was the 70s - What did the 70s mean to you?

Larry-new comments on Jan 9, 2019:

The seventies were where I recuperated, from the Haight '60's, and moved away from the SF west coast scene...listened to anything but rock, and told myself not a new riff was being played. Later, I saw that there were indeed listenable tunes, but you had to have been to the before.

Moravian replies on Jan 10, 2019:

The 70's.. the decade that fashion forgot. Rock music morphed into pretentious prog rock and then the breathe of fresh air called punk. There is always good music around but you have to look for it.

On a recent visit to Florida we ate at a very nice restaurant where the sign at the front door ...

LeighShelton comments on Jan 8, 2019:

rules are rules. its strange you can walk in with shirt and shoes with your cock hanging out though. what about socks?

Moravian replies on Jan 9, 2019:

Wow, what sort of establishment do you frequent ?

Cricket- What's up with that sport?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Its very like baseball, except that there are only two bases and you run back and forth between them until you are out, instead of round the diamond in the same way as baseball. There being two batsman on the field all the time so the bases are always loaded. The main other difference is that the ...

Moravian replies on Jan 9, 2019:

Maybe, but it is also possible that cricket and rounders/baseball developed separately. One thing is sure, to annoy an American call baseball rounders, and basketball, netball

Cricket- What's up with that sport?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Its very like baseball, except that there are only two bases and you run back and forth between them until you are out, instead of round the diamond in the same way as baseball. There being two batsman on the field all the time so the bases are always loaded. The main other difference is that the ...

Moravian replies on Jan 9, 2019:

Not at all like baseball. Maybe you are thinking of rounders

As atheist and agnostics what in your opinion is the odds of there being a afterlife ?

Xuande comments on Jan 9, 2019:

100 percent. It's already established. Answers saying zero are the height of human arrogance. Life is just what separates us from inorganic matter. The existence we know, the dynamic world we live in, will cease to exist for the "person" we see ourselves as (the way our atoms are currently ...

Moravian replies on Jan 9, 2019:

I don't think that is what is meant by an afterlife. A persons whole personality. memories thinking ability etc is in the brain and once it dies and decays that is gone forever, As you say all that is left is some organic and a little inorganic material.

Isn't it Ironic?

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Dec 18, 2018:

I am here for conversation--the chance of actually meeting a man who meets my standards is fairly nil.

Moravian replies on Jan 7, 2019:

You missed out modesty from your list :-)

Homosexuality is to blame for sexual abuse, not Catholic church, claims German cardinal ...

PBuck0145 comments on Jan 6, 2019:

The mandated celibacy of the ministry is the main contributer to the problem.

Moravian replies on Jan 6, 2019:

And it all stems from the attempt to keep the church's wealth intact. We couldn't have priests marrying, and leaving property to their widows could we ?.

American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth

AnneWimsey comments on Jan 6, 2019:

I am firmly in the camp of Butt Out. I cannot think of one incident where out intervention, whatever the reason, made things better for the indigenous average person. And when we Should have stepped in, as for example against the Khmer Rouge, we did not...nor into WWII, for that matter, before ...

Moravian replies on Jan 6, 2019:

Intervention by the USA in any other country is for the benefit of the USA. Any benefit the other country is just coincidental. According George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR, the USA will rule the world for the next 100 years. I am am currently reading his book "The next hundred years, a forecast for the 21st century" and he seems pretty spot on. Climate change may interfere but if half of Florida is flooded and the centre of the country becomes a desert it doesn't matter. it's a huge country with a ready supply of cheap labour south of the border.

If Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has her way on going 100% green by 2030 it will wreck the US economy so ...

Moravian comments on Jan 4, 2019:

I don't think anyone believes the USA will be running totally on renewables by then but it will be part of the way there. In the UK electricity was 30% from renewables last year and several times throughout the year Scotland was using electricity that was 100% from renewables with a surplus to sell ...

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

So you think a Mexican immigrant living in a crowded house and driving a second hand pickup,if he is lucky, has an equivalent carbon footprint to a wealthy snowbird with two houses and a huge mobile home ?. Anyway you are very selective in your responses. What about the fact that the USA with 5% of the worlds population uses 30% of the worlds resources. A move towards sustainability is long overdue.

Please give a big Scottish welcome to Moravian who has just joined the group.

Moravian comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Hi Marionville, I live in the small village of Nethy Bridge near Aviemore in the highlands. Great for my hobbies of mountain biking and hill walking. I was brought up in the village of Dallas in Moray hence the Moravian label. I have lived and worked all over Scotland and England and am now retired...

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

Very true Marionville. The Ulster Scots have a lot to answer for ;-)

If Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has her way on going 100% green by 2030 it will wreck the US economy so ...

Moravian comments on Jan 4, 2019:

I don't think anyone believes the USA will be running totally on renewables by then but it will be part of the way there. In the UK electricity was 30% from renewables last year and several times throughout the year Scotland was using electricity that was 100% from renewables with a surplus to sell ...

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

Flawed reasoning Trajan. The "Latino" immigrants are poorer and have a smaller carbon footprint than richer Americans, and how do you think the Californian grape crop would be picked without Mexican immigrants. As countries get wealthier the birth rate drops. Italy, the home of Roman Catholicism has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe. To sustain current ppulations a birthrate of 2.1 is needed. The developed Western countries currently average 1.6 so in the future you will need the immigrants

The Most Effective Form of Birth Control Is Cheap and Easy, Yet Surprisingly Unpopular - Tonic

JimG comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Abstinence is cheaper, easier, and a hell of a lot less popular.

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

Free on the NHS and quick and easy.

I write as an English observer across the pond.

Amisja comments on Jan 4, 2019:

If you are British, why do you write using American English?

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

I take it that you mean the spelling of "colorful". Probably because this is an American site and it was altered by the spell checker !

The President continues to lie.

citronella comments on Jan 4, 2019:

You are correct. He doesn't know how tariffs work. He thinks the foreign government or country pays them, which of course they do not. But his base doesn't understand that, either, so he can bs them some more. China's response to his application of tariffs was to slap tariffs on U.S. goods, ...

Moravian replies on Jan 4, 2019:

I watched a farmer being interviewed after he had just ploughed his soy bean crop in to the ground as he would have lost money selling it. The bizarre thing is he still supported Trump.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she will seek the presidency in 2020 - The Washington Post

Trajan61 comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Just a notch or 2 above Ocasio Cortez and Bernie but still to left wing. I could never support any of the democrats as they are just to crazy. The democrats don’t have anyone who can beat Trump anyway.

Moravian replies on Jan 3, 2019:

Never heard of Ocasia Cortez but I have long been an admirer of Elizabeth Warren.It always takes a Democrat president to sort out the USA's economy after it has been destroyed by a profligate Republican giving money away to his wealthy friends.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she will seek the presidency in 2020 - The Washington Post

Trajan61 comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Just a notch or 2 above Ocasio Cortez and Bernie but still to left wing. I could never support any of the democrats as they are just to crazy. The democrats don’t have anyone who can beat Trump anyway.

Moravian replies on Jan 3, 2019:

Do you mean "too crazy" and "too left wing" ?. She is about as left wing as a moderate conservative in the UK and if having a social conscience is crazy than she sure is !.

Fun introspective.

benhmiller comments on Dec 31, 2018:

don't you just hate beer snobs! After all its beer! Just charge large price for it and you get beer snobs buying it, Price for the common man and you get the real beer drinker.

Moravian replies on Dec 31, 2018:

Nothing snobbish about it Ben. We just like the taste of good beer. Could the miller in your name maybe be a connection with the company that produces that watery rubbish called Miller lite.?

Chimeras: human stem cells grown in pigs for creation of transplantable organs for humans.

TheAstroChuck comments on Dec 21, 2018:

All of these questions/issues will become moot in the not too distant future as global economies collapse and industrialized societies collapse. Mass starvation including in the USA, Europe, and Japan will take its toll as will increasing deaths from natural disasters and wars. Human population ...

Moravian replies on Dec 23, 2018:

The replacement ratio sustain the current population is 2.1 1. Western industrialised countries and including Japan and South Korea are currently averaging 1.6 1. In fact South Korea is currently around 0,96 1. Third world countries certainly exceed this but as countries become wealthier population increase drops dramatically.. So it is in our interest give foreign aid those poor countries eventually cut the population increase. Of course as countries become wealthier they use more of the worlds finite resources including fossil fuels which will exacerbate climate change,so either way we are fucked !!!

Conflating possible with probable

David1955 comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Well of course all this is depressingly and reality-checkingly true. But I ask how can we statistically determine the likelihood that alien species elsewhere, that have been around far longer than we, may have invented faster than light drives, mastered worm-hole travel, or discovered pathways in ...

Moravian replies on Dec 23, 2018:

"faster than light drives" ?. not possible. There may be alien civilisations out there but they will be millions of light years away so a visit is highly improbable.

Happy Solstice to everyone!

creative51 comments on Dec 21, 2018:

Yep. Happy Solstice to you as well!

Moravian replies on Dec 22, 2018:

I think the "three days" is a misinterpretation. If you read it as "on the third day" and include the Friday it is correct, Just as the inclination of the earth reaches it's maximum (giving us the winter solstice) on or around 21Dec it stays at this inclination for two days and on the third day it starts incline in the opposite direction .

I joined a closed group called "we love president Trump" to see what those people were saying.

altschmerz comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Was the group on this site?

Moravian replies on Dec 21, 2018:

No . it was on facebook

I joined a closed group called "we love president Trump" to see what those people were saying.

TheGreatShadow comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Double checked. Was not able to find that group.

Moravian replies on Dec 20, 2018:

there are several groups with similar names. This was a closed group but there is an open group on facebook with the same name.

Day-drinking....yes or no?

Silver1wun comments on Apr 11, 2018:

Alcohol is like any other drug/brain altering substance; different by degrees and parts of the brain affected. I follow H.L. Mencken's advice. If you have anything important to do, like work, driving, getting married etc. Let it wait until after. Otherwise, it IS always 5:00 somewhere, right?...

Moravian replies on Nov 11, 2018:

Not quite. Drugs like hash,cocaine,heroin are taken purely for their effect. Drinks like craft ales, quality wine and quality spirits are drunk because they taste good.