(hint: Call of Duty and Activision both need to die)

Most of the Call of Duty games I played have either russians (the modern warfare series) or germans (the WWII series) as main enemies with "browns" actually being a minor part of them.

I am afraid to go to the other countries listed.

Not sure if serious.

In January I've been to Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Cambodia so I have to exclude those from consideration.

Out of those left I suppose Indonesia and Malaysia would be the logical choices.

Apparently Franz Jalics (one of the 2 priests that Bergoglio supposedly denounced) issued a statement in the German Jesuits website where he categorically denies Bergoglio having any involvment in his kidnapping.
He says that at first the7y were inclined to think someone denounced them but later, in the 90's, he realised it wasn't the case (at least as far as Bergoglio is concerned).

Here is the statement in Germany, if someone could translate at least part of it, he'll be doing us a huge favor (don't really trust Google Translate )

http://www.jesuiten.org/aktuelles/details/article/erganzende-erklarung-von-pater-franz-jalics-sj.html



By the way, I don't really know what Al thinks of this, but the last couple of pages aren't really about the election, so I suppose we should move to the International discussion subforum. I defer the decision to more experienced posters and the moderator of course.

What do you have against Viggo Mortensen?

Oh, nothing at all. But he's not our most famous fan anymore I guess

It's backed by a pretty authoritative Argentine journalist though.

I hope you are not talking about Horacio Verbitsky, because calling him an authoritative journalist is pretty hilarious.
He's a Kirchnerist hack who regularly ignores corruption of the people he agrees with and completely destroys the people he disagrees with. And while a lot of his investigations during the Menem government were good, during the next decade he started to resort to baseless accusations as a regular modus operandi.

Plus he was a terrorist, so excuse me if I take the things he writes about with skepticism. And Antonio knows that I'm not exactly a right winger, so my opposition to him has nothing to do with his ideology, but more to the fact that he is a scumbag.


Also, several people involved in human rights causes (people who investigated and tried the last military junta, for example) have defended him. His only criticism might be that "he didn't do enough" which is something easy to say decades after the fact.


By the way, the election of Francis had quite some hilarious consequences around here. Since Bergoglio has been a longtime opponent of the Kirchners a lot of their allies went to the media the minute he was elected to destroy him and propagate the Verbitsky story (Kirchnerist "piquetero" Luis D'Elia for instance, wrote a tweet that basically says that Pope Francis was appointed by the imperialist United States to fight against the great South American revolutionaries, similar to what they did when they chose John Paul II to fight against the Soviet Union. I don't know if it's more hilarious the fact that he thinks Obama appoints the pope or something like that or the apparent feeling in the tweet that influencing people against the Soviet Union in a peaceful manner was bad )

But a large number of die-hard kirchnerist went the opposite way and pondered him like he was Jesus Christ himself calling the story bullcrap.
So, not only they are bipolar on this issue but considering that Cristina met with the Pope today and they were acting like buddies, it appears a lot of Kirchnerists were left hanging in the wind, and frankly, anything that puts the Kirchnerists into disarray (no matter how small or dumb the issue might be) is a good thing in my book.

Also beware of some of the pictures circulating around the web that apparently show Bergoglio with Videla. At least a few of them were "Fakes" (in the sense that it wasn't Bergoglio in the picture but some other guy).


I'm an atheist and I was very much opposed to the role Bergoglio had in the whole Gay marriage affair, but everyone I talked to in the past few days that has even a remote connection with the church or with him have told me he is a great person. So, I'm optimistic he will do good things for the people on issues like poverty, though unfortunately I don't expect much to really change with the church itself, but I hope I'm wrong.


Of course I'm not saying all these accusations are necessarily untrue. it's just that I question  the source and until we are presented with actual evidence of this, he should be considered an innocent man in this regard. Also, considering that the kirchnerists are all too happy to prosecute anyone, even though they might have had only an indirect relationship with the junta, I'm guessing that if there were factual evidence of crimes committed by bergoglio, the government would have tried to prosecute Bergoglio years ago.

Don't know why I bother since most of what I posted apparently is in Wikipedia too but in any case, I should say as a fellow fan of the San Lorenzo de Almagro Football club that even though we don't have any international cups, we have a Pope (and Viggo Mortensen )

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For a moment I thought the thread title was "I'm Bla-a-ack!" and I was about to commend you for finally admitting your true heritage.

I don't get why the other thread was locked, most posts were not really that inflammatory and some interesting things were talked about.

And yeah, Chavez speeches filled with hilarious hyperbole were great. I don't really liked the guy, but sometimes I listed to his speeches because they cracked me up. He was definitely good at holding on to your attention (hope no one makes a comment like "Hitler also captivated his audience" or some s**t like that )

You are all hypocrites. Just own up to the fact that you ignore thugs when they are your side, and not when they are on your opponent’s side. Pinochet, Chavez, Castro, Franco, King Abdullah-it does not matter. A thug is a thug.

I don't really want to get into an extensive argument here but people would probably start taking your comments seriously if you just didn't compare Chavez with Pinochet, Castro, Franco and King Abdullah which is frankly ridiculous.

1st Tier Tyrants: Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Ill Sung, etc.

2nd Tier Tyrants: Al-Assad, Qadaffi, Pinochet, Castro, Franco, King Abdullah, King Leopold.

That is my general rankings of tyrants. Chavez is the least bad among the 2nd tier, so it is not that far of a stretch to compare him to them.

It is far stretched when you consider that Chavez didn't rule a one party state with no elections (making him a dictator) and didn't kill thousands of people, something which most if not all of the names you mentioned have done.
That seems like a pretty big dealbreaker for me when comparing him to the people you wrote in your example.

Not that it matters but I basically agree with what AG has posted in here. Venezuela is an illiberal democracy, something which Argentina could also be classified as. There are no rigged elections (like in Russia I guess) as some like to argue and there is pressure against a big segment of the population which is usually poor and uneducated to vote as the government wants, but in the end when you are inside the voting booth or whatever it's still your decision.
At least I know here that I can speak against the government as much as I like without fear of losing my life, unlike with those guys you just compared to Chavez.

You are all hypocrites. Just own up to the fact that you ignore thugs when they are your side, and not when they are on your opponent’s side. Pinochet, Chavez, Castro, Franco, King Abdullah-it does not matter. A thug is a thug.

I don't really want to get into an extensive argument here but people would probably start taking your comments seriously if you just didn't compare Chavez with Pinochet, Castro, Franco and King Abdullah which is frankly ridiculous.

Of course they went easy on him, the man was a slease ball to say the least, how many women have claimed he groped them (only to be hushed up by the White House), how many women did he cheat on his wife with yet the media loves him, feminists love him.

The mind of a liberal - "If (D) comes after his name, he's good no matter what he does".

The media went easy on him? what?
The thing with Lewinsky and the impeachment was on the news 24/7 for about 2 years. Hell, even here in my country that stuff was on the news all the time.

Paris
London
Rio
Berlin

I can't believe there was a tie for an Oscar.

It's rare, but not the first time it happened.

Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn both won best actress in 69'

Definitely never seen horse on a restaurant menu.

I remember when I visited Malta a couple of years ago, there were many restaurants advertising horse meat in huge posters on the street right outside the restaurant itself.

I should have tried it just so I could say that I ate another strange (at least for me) meat apart from ostrich and crocodile that I had in South Africa many years ago

Although since I ate in Mcdonalds yesterday, there's a good chance I have already inadvertently tasted it

Baldwin for survivor

Well, the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral also had several building phases.

Apparently the site for the Cathedral was chosen in 1580, the first modification was made in 1605 and then after several different modifications, the last one ended in 1791, but the decoration of the actual facade wasn't finished until 1863.

What option should I choose in the poll?




Does this put me with the boring US/Canadian/Australian posters group

One of the biggest political parties of the Western/Democratic World is collapsing and nothing about it here??

Ca part en sucette total

And apparently I've seen nothing on the UMP elections either, where everything began.

It was an interesting read but most of it is already covered in the UMP election thread in the International Elections subforum

But as you like to remind us, Obama's campaign was expecting a narrow victory and not the blow-out they had hoped; well that's exactly what they got!

I take comfort in the fact, that he basically prevented Obama even coming close to those 2008 levels that Obama wished he had repeated, but didn't...way below Obama's expectations...

I don't get it, Obama was expecting a narrow election or not?

And he came pretty close to those 2008 levels. He got 52,87% in 2008 and according to the Atlas he's at 50.73% now and likely to rise, doesn't seem like such a huge difference. In the EV he only lost 2 states that he had won (and that Nebraska electoral vote) and got 61,7% this year against 67,8% in 2008.

If you want to believe that's a HUGE difference then be my guest, but I'm thinking you are trolling by now.

And at least I have an excuse in that English is not my first language , but, god, those huge single paragraphs you write look like badly written stream of consciousness.

So... why isn't this guy Jason Chaffez a Democrat? Sounds like all the policies he considers 'cool' are Democratic, and all the uncool is Republican.

Chaffetz was a Democrat (Utah co-chair for Dukakis '88), but changed after meeting Reagan in 1990.

Bizarre - I wasn't even aware Reagan was still alive in 1990 - in any case he can't have been cognizant.  So it is true - Reagan was like the pod people, and took over this guy Chaffez by osmosis.

[London]

1. What is the capital city of both England and the UK? London

2. What is the name of the current Monarch? Queen Elizabeth II

3. What is the name of the current Prime Minister? David Cameron

4. What's the most popular sport in the UK? Football, I guess

5. The four countries that make up the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, Wales and....? Northern Ireland

Fairly Easy

6. What are the names of the two Houses of Parliament? House of commons and House of Lords

7. Who is Boris Johnson? Mayor of London (or Lord Mayor or whatever)

8. This Englishman is a successful movie director. His filmography includes Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire. He was also the artistic director of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. What's his name? Danny Boyle

9. Who succeeded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister? Churchill

10. The Beatles came from what English city? Liverpool

Medium

11. Who is the current First Minister of Scotland? Extra point for naming the party. Eh, he's for sure SNP but I'm not sure if It's Salmond or someone else

12. What tragic event took place on July 7th 2005? Terrorist attacks

13. What sport is most commonly played at Lords and The Oval?

14. The day after Christmas is usually known as what? Day after Christmas?

15. What's the title of the member of the government who oversees financial and economic policy? Chancellor

Difficult

16. Who was the only Prime Minister to have been assassinated? Spencer something, or Herbert Spencer. I Know there is a Spencer in there

17. Who is the current manager of Liverpool FC? Sorry, I don't usually follow European Football

18. What is 'toad in the hole'? Eeeeehhhh....

19. Who challenged John Major for the Conservative Party leadership in 1995? No idea

20. Before the digital switchover, terrestrial television consisted of how many channels? What? How many BBC where there? 4?

Very difficult

21. Who led the Labour Party from 1910-1911? This is a question I should know, but I don't

22. What was the name of 'The Nine Days' Queen'? I'm taking a risk here, but I think it was a Woman named Grey, Don't know first name and it's obviously not Earl

23. Jim Bowen is best known for presenting what TV game show? Who?

24. What county is the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in? Somewhere in Wales I suppose

25. The female star of the movies Women in Love and A Touch of Class is currently an MP for what constituency? Glenda Jackson? If she is, then I don't know the constituency

[Argentina]

The map may not be totally accurate since it's a very confusing map, but I think I could manage




SOUTH AMERICA

- Argentina: Apart from the city of Buenos Aires where i lived I’ve been to the Buenos Aires, Jujuy, Salta, Cordoba and Tierra del Fuego provinces
- Bolivia: La Paz and Lake Titicaca
- Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, Salvador de Bahia, Porto Alegre, Itaparica
- Chile: Santiago and the fiords in the south
- Colombia: Bogota and Cartagena de Indias
- Paraguay: Asuncion
- Peru: Lima, Puno, Cuzco and the peruvian side of Lake Titicaca
- Uruguay: Montevideo and Punta del Este
- Venezuela: Caracas

CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

- Bahamas: Nassau
- Costa Rica: San Jose and basically the entire friggin country
- Dominican Republic: Punta Cana
- Guatemala: Guatemala City, the Tikal Ruins and some other places I don’t really remember the names
- Honduras: Ruins near the border to Guatemala
- Nicaragua: Managua
- Panama: Panama City, the Panama Canal and some islands with no electricity where i stayed a week.

NORTH AMERICA

- Mexico: Mexico DF and Playa del Carmen
- USA: Miami (back when I didn’t need a visa)

EUROPE

- Austria: Vienna
- Belgium: Brussells and Bruges
- Czech Republic: Prague
- Denmark: Copenhagen
- England: London
- Estonia: Tallin
- Finland: Helsinki
- France: Paris
- Germany: Berlin, Rostock and the Frankfurt airport
- Greece: Athens, Mykonos, Crete and Rhodes
- Hungary: Budapest
- Ireland: Dublin, Cork, Galway and a bunch of other places
- Italy: Rome, Naples, Florence, Milan and Sicily (Palermo, Catania, Messina, Agrigento, Siracusa and Taormina)
- Liechtenstein: Just by standing in the main street I think I found everything there is to find
- Malta: Valletta, Gozo
- Poland: Warsaw, Wroclaw, Crackow, Danzig, Sopot, Katowice, Poznan and Auschwitz
- Russia: Moscow and St Petersburg
- Scotland: Edimburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and the Orkney Islands
- Slovakia: Bratislava
- Spain: Madrid, Toledo Valencia, Lerida, Granada, Malaga, Marbella, Sevilla and Ceuta
- Sweden: Stockholm
- Switzerland: Geneva, Lugano, St Moritz, Zurich and Zermatt
- Vatican City: St Peter’s Basilica

AFRICA

- Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor and Aswan
- Morocco: Rabat, Tangier, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakesh and Meknes
- South Africa: Cape Town, Johannesburg and the Kruger park
- Tunisia: Tunis, Monastir, Sfax, Matmata and some places I can’t remember.
- Zimbabwe: Harare and Victoria Falls

ASIA

- Israel: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Acre, Golan Heights and the Sea of Galilei
- Jordan: Amman, Aqaba, Desert of Wadi Rum and Magnificent Petra
- United Arab Emirates: Dubai and Abu Dhabi


I've also been to Aruba and Gibraltar

If I ignore the Caribbean the Only countries left to visit in the Americas are Canada, El Salvador, Belize, Ecuador, Suriname and Guyana.

Actually, didn't the democrats win the House vote? It seems to me people wanted complete democratic control but that awful gerrymander deprived them of that.

Yes, Cruz did 8-9 points better than Romney in some of the border counties.

Yeah, I see it now, thanks.

Looking at the big counties (Dallas, Harris, Travis, Bexar, El Paso, Hidalgo, Collin, Denton, Tarrant) it look like Cruz only did marginally better than Romney there. I Mean, in all of the above counties except El Paso and Hidalgo it's basically the same percentage of the vote.

Since I don't know the demographics that well, I was just wondering if the improvement Cruz got in the border counties really matters considering that in the biggest counties he won almost exactly as Romney.

Not as much when you consider he's part of the changing demographic.

Cruz got about the same percentage of the vote in the state that Romney got, are there exit polls somewhere to see if there was any difference in the hispanic vote? I c can't find any in the CNN website.

And he's Cuban, so I don't know how much identification can the hispanics in Texas have with him, considering they are overwhelmingly Mexican

Why is Connecticut the clear outlier?