The main thing I wish people would get by reading or hearing about this kind of confusing mess, is that the ME is one damn complicated place. Alliances are rarely between great friends who love each other dearly. They are usually temporary and limited arrangements.

All the nations messing around in Syria are playing the same game. trying to get this or that group to fight another one, in order to gain some sort of political advantage for their own interests.

I'm not going to take sides one way or the other about Kerry himself, or any exact attempted manipulation going on, mainly because I know enough about foreign messes like this, to know that what's in the news, is at most, only half the story.

One thing I've seen happen again and again, is that a story LIKE this is published, by either the political opposition to the "star," (in this case Kerry), or even by the "star's" own people, as a way to play the other side into doing something.

We thought we were fighting the good fight, helping rebel groups in Afghanistan during the Reagan administration. But a lot of them turned into the Taliban and Al Qaeda later.


* Canadian-run hospital in Syria 'completely destroyed'

UOSSM-Canada, the Canadian chapter of the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations said on its website Friday, that the Al Marjeh Primary Health Care Centre in Aleppo was "completely destroyed" in the attack.

** UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the bombing, calling attacks such as this "inexcusable violations of humanitarian law."

In a statement, Al Kassem called the targeting of hospitals a "war crime."

* The fighting signals the collapse of a two-month ceasefire between the U.S. and Russia.


** I was just wondering,
** Were ARE the United States Hospitals ?

Told about this before ...
- When I was seriously attracted to this Scot ... I got steeped with PMs from Scottish men
- When I had the hots for an Italian man ... I suddenly got loads of PMs from Italian men
- When I was focused on NOT wanting a loser ... I got losers only

Law of Attraction, you can tell what YOU yourself exude by what you attract.

The other day, a good-looking guy with a nice feel. Approached him, he was very interested too. We got talking. It went really well, felt good, was flirty and playful. These days I ask pretty soon how tall a man is, as it's a dealbreaker.
He was 1.80m (just an inch taller than me).
Dammit! Not the one. I really need a taller man to feel good. But I figured I could still date him (He'd mentioned that).
However ... immediately after my THOUGHT "Dammit, he's not the one for me" he withdrew. Convo went down the drain and within minutes he said he had to spent time with his kids. Shortly after he'd removed me from his contact list.

Isn't that amazing? I hadn't even said anything, yet somehow he did pick up on the vibe that something had changed. And right that very minute, second even, things changed between us. In real life, fair enough, but this even works online.

This Law of Attraction business is really incredible and can teach you a lot if you pay heed.
If you just pay heed to the types you attract, you know what you yourself put out there, what your own vibe is. They are just a reflection of that.

I heard the best coffeebeans come out of elephants arses

I'll pass lol

Where do the most famous and delicious worldwide coffees come from?

What are the best ones for you?

I have rarely if ever seen anyone arguing about all this, post accurate and relatively complete facts about the Civil War.

First off, there is absolutely no question, that the reason given, by the sates themselves who tried to secede and form a new Confederacy, was that they wanted to keep slavery. It is specified in their proclamations of secession, therefore there is no arguing otherwise.

Second, the reason why it is somewhat accurate to say that economics played a part, is because slavery was a part of the economy of the states which allowed it. Some states became entirely dependent on slavery economically, by remaining almost entirely agricultural (tobacco and cotton). This ironically "enslaved" them to slavery.

They could have chosen to end slavery and convert to a pure capitalist economy with free workers, but this would have been a costly and painful transition, and they chose not to try. Instead, they worked for decades to spread slavery, much as some drug addicts work to spread their addiction, in order to have more support for their activities.

Modern claims that "States Rights," or the general right to self-determination were the primary heroic force driving the Confederacy, is essentially nonsense. It is a disguise, specifically. The reason why the Confederates talked about States Rights, was specifically and directly connected (yet again) to the fact that they wanted to continue slavery. Nothing else.

This is why modern racists use States Rights as their official way to hide their actual socio-political motives: it SOUNDS good to talk about individual rights. But what the States Rights advocates finally show the specifics that they want, it isn't to help each of us live our lives as we like. It is so that they can once again, be able to allow local majorities to dictate who is on top, and who has to knuckle under.

The opening post WAS a very biased, and inaccurate representation of reality. I particularly dislike the opening statement. First, as a dedicated historian myself, any time someone insists on putting words into other peoples' mouths, I get annoyed. That's not good history, that's just propaganda fantasizing.

Further, there are real reasons to respect the people who fought on the other side of even the most awful conflicts, including this one. Being wrong about who you are fighting for, doesn't mean you can't be an honorable person yourself. If this were not true, then it would be wrong for us to honor the Americans who were sent to fight for lies that our politicians told about the foreign countries they fought for us in, and I will not stand for that.

It is a real shame that a lot of modern Southern apologists have decided to continue the mistake that the leaders of the Confederacy did a hundred and fifty years ago, and pretend that they were right to have made that mistake. That is what they are doing, when they pretend that the war wasn't about slavery.

By the way, at first, it was Lincoln and the Republicans who tried NOT to make the conflict about Slavery. Lincoln himself was by no means a believer in the equality of all men, or of the idea that the "fix" would be to keep all the slaves here. The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until the beginning of the THIRD YEAR of the war. If it had been all about the North wanting to end slavery from the start, it would have come out the day after Fort Sumter was fired on.

And if you actually read the thing, even when it was issued, it didn't free all American slaves throughout the land. It specifically freed just the ones still under Confederate control.

Bottom line, although the claims of Northern sainthood about all this are BS, it's even more true that the modern apologist claims about Southern innocence are complete lies. Pitiful at that.

wow you guys..
Now I am curious Why a white woman...
and how white do they have to be???

Just curious is all

Any way Welcome to Mingle

Yea, they really hate the "gringo's" until they need food or money. I say to them, too bad honey.
If they run low on toilet paper they should use the Bolivar's for toilet paper. Viva la Revolution! Viva Fidel, Viva Chavez! Viva Che! Viva BS.