(edit title) Where is everyone? All the old posters at the local Options

[mångk]

Your back what? What is good about his back? *hides under the table*I always knew it was him anyway!JJ and this latest Trow incarnation share the same sort of writing styl ... (show full quote)

Your back what? What is good about his back?

*hides under the table*

I always knew it was him anyway!

JJ and this latest Trow incarnation share the same sort of writing style and then JJ is away at the same time, a coincidence which is just what would have happened if mångk aka Sean Banan had infiltrated the CIA in what would not have been the return to covete operations inside Al Qaeda what would have prompted Obama to arrest Jihad Jane and install a clone taken from the lab that in 1986 created the Christer Pettersson clone who was the fall guy for Oliver North when he secretly invaded Värmdö mistaking it for Lidingö trying to capture me and copy my CD roms. ... (hide full quote)

But that wasn't me! I think it was someone 'out and cycling' and I don't think it was your cd's he was after!

[Jamtjim]

JJ and this latest Trow incarnation share the same sort of writing style....

Hang on a minute!!!

[Gamla Hälsingebock]

You can never "quit the mob" you were given an offer you could not refuse.

[gplusa]

Steady on, JJ. Start complaining and you'll be told that you have no sense of humour. You know the rules here.

[Jamtjim]

You can never "quit the mob" you were given an offer you could not refuse.

It appears that your prediction proved to be accurate GH. I did wonder how such a raison d'être, so to speak, may present itself however I never would have foreseen the re-emergence of the Ford so soon after my attempt at departure.

Seems like me and TL are as inseparable as the Pope and a child sex scandal...

[Jamtjim]

Steady on, JJ. Start complaining and you'll be told that you have no sense of humour. You know the rules here.

You know me g+; fuck the rules.

[mångk]

Seems like me and TL are as inseparable as the Pope and a child sex scandal...

Ahh, its some mysterious omnipotent force... it must be gods willy...

[Jamtjim]

Ahh, its some mysterious omnipotent force... it must be gods willy..

Or Allah's appendage...

[entry]

I'm more interested in Trow's take on Israel/Iran.. Looks like he is going to be busy if he takes up every case going

The Iran nuke issue has me concerned.

There was a UK standup comedian(It might have been "stand up for the week") that had a brilliant performance regarding the Iranian nuke situation. I cannot do it justice and have not bothered to find a parsed segment on youtube to present.

Basically he said you have people that cannot be trusted with rocks(they stone women in the streets) and we are going to stand by and let them have nukes?

I sort of want the USA to sit this one out. Our Nobel peace prize President Obama has troops in four African countries and is planning on an Air Blockade of Syria.

I live in Sweden and even if Iran has or gets nukes I seriously doubt they can reach Sweden. Suitcase bombs and other things I would hope there are enough passive detectors at our boarders and ports. I really think the USA & NATO need to sit back a bit and let the Neighboring countries work this out. Unless of course Iran tries to interrupt international trade with a blockade.

[Rick Methven]

I sort of want the USA to sit this one out.

But Netanyahu has the bucks behind him and controls the Jewish vote that could deny Obama a second term. His game plan is to strike first and when Tehran retaliates, call on big brother the USA to bring in the heavy guns. The US sitting it out would be seen by the Jewish lobby as Obama abandoning Israel in its hour of need and he would be defeated in November. The only hope for Obama is to try to delay an Israeli pre-emptive strike until after he gets re-elected. There is a new effort for a diplomatic solution with talks to take place between Iran and 5 security council members plus Germany.

The problem as I see it is that Netanyahu is hell bent on bombing Iran whatever. To that add the arms industry looking for new sales as they see US arms requirements dwindling when they pull out of Afghanistan. The pressure on the US administration, Democrat or Republican, from the Jewish Lobby and the Arms Lobby will be immense and the US will end up with boots on the ground in Iran.

I live in Sweden and even if Iran has or gets nukes I seriously doubt they can reach Sweden. Suitcase bombs and other things I would hope there are enough passive detectors at our boarders and ports. I really think the USA & NATO need to sit back a bit and let the Neighboring countries work this out. Unless of course Iran tries to interrupt international trade with a blockade.

The problem with that scenario is that a war in the middle east will have a devastating effect on the whole world, blockade or not. and the only winners will be the multinational arms dealers.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Think the proposed meeting among the USA, Russia, the UK, France, China and Germany completely closes out any preemptive strike by Israel.

The meeting is unprecedented in its composition and purpose, putting aside the cat-and-mouse game between Iran and the IAEA when it comes to sites where Iran may be building up a nuclear bomb capability.

Recently, the IAEA wanted to go to Parchin, 20 kilometers southeast of Tehran, where it does tests on weapons, and had been okayed previously about Iran carrying on nuclear weapons development there. This time the Iranians stopped its inspectors from going there, and the IAEA pushed the prevention as a possibly disturbing sign of what Tehran might be up to.

Now the Six are going to have a meeting with the Iranians about ultimately going there, and determining what is really going on. I think it is an incredibly smart move by Tehran, as an inspection now will find nothing disturbing even it the Iranians have something suspect there now. They will certainly have moved it elsewhere by the time any inspectors arrrive.

Suspect Iran will then allow the inspectors to go anywhere they choose, and I doubt they will find anything conclusive.

And the presence of Russian and Chinese inspectors will prevent the other four from going back on the commitments about what the inspection is designed to prove.

Looks like a big win for Tehran and peace in the Gulf.

[Fishtank]

Now we talking..
Well done Trow.

Welcome back JJ. Seems Paul is back again too.

Rest all, play nice ok?

[Gamla Hälsingebock]

I'm in my "cups" and feel the need to resurrect this post.

The Local, when I came here was a "hot bed" of pro immigration and Swede bashing, those that were more conservative of nationalist values were denounced and vilified to the extreme.

It made for extremely heated discussions, I watched for a long time before I chose to join and discuss...needless to say you know where I stand.

There was a group that fed on each other and no doubt thought themselves "pretty cool" they had all the right "chat room" experience to pretty much rule here and make fools of those that did not have experience in expressing themselves in a public place like this.

The Local has become a much better place and the people here now, are more fair in their expression of their experiences related to living amongst Swedes.

I'm contemplating a post to those gone...that were displaced by immigrants to this forum that did not agree with them.

Immigration is a two way sword, The Local has experienced it too!

You have been replaced and the arguments that you so vehemently espoused will be used against you...You want immigration you got it!

So, why did you leave?

I will now pleasure myself with listening to Irish Rebel songs...Damn, I love 'em.

GH

[Rick Methven]

I will now pleasure myself with listening to Irish Rebel songs...Damn, I love 'em

Are you aware that it is still treason to sing Kevin Barry in England

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Here's my take on why the best of the old posters left:

1) Holey - because he got tired of wasting his wonderful humor on essentially humorless posters.
2) HPK - she finally had Max, and like most women who strive endlessly to have children, she basically lost interest in everything else, once he came along.(Has Doc Ellis gone missing too?)
3) VHW - she didn't want children, so she finally lost interest when the romance with the site turned sour.
4) Gus - because he ran out of funny ideas to exploit at my expense - reduced to posting my serious stuff when I would have given him new, crazy themes about me if he had asked.
5) Plowbridge - whose departure was somewhat geared to my leaving, and Nemesis making no substitute.
6) Princess P - who lost interest in Trivia when her real interests were tirvialized and made fun of.
7) Didie - when she finally got out of Skövde.
8) Gwrhyr - when Uncle Sam locked her up in the slammer without even the internet.
9) Evakaram - when she apparently got back to NZ and a real life.
10) Mzungu - when SA finally captured almost all his care and attention.

Please, come back - as former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer was once asked while on the run for his crimes - only in this case all is forgiven.