Do they even make my size over there? (The slippers were seven sizes too small, btw.)FBM wrote:Sweet. I know what I'll be shopping for tomorrow...
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I find the timing interesting. This story just appeared this morning in the most conservative newspaper in SK:
[url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 00510.html]Seoul Eyes Fresh Deployment of U.S. Nukes
Seoul will consider the deployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea in response to North Korea's unveiling of a uranium enrichment facility, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Monday. He said a joint committee between Seoul and Washington on nuclear deterrence "will review issues related to the deployment."
The U.S. withdrew its nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991.
Kim was replying to a question by Grand National Party Rep. Lee Jong-heuk in a session of the National Assembly's ad hoc committee on budget and fiscal matters, who asked if the government has plans to consider re-deployment of the weapons.
But a Defense Ministry spokesman later sought to limit the damage, saying Kim meant that Seoul "in principle could take all possible responses to nuclear threats from the North into consideration. We've not yet considered deploying U.S. tactical nuclear weapons, nor has there been any detailed discussion between Korea and the U.S."
The U.S. removed all tactical nuclear weapons deployed overseas to the mainland under a new military strategy, and many were scrapped. Even if they are deployed again in here, it would be in waters near the Korean Peninsula in the form of nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles carried by nuclear-powered submarines or Aegis ships, a military source said.
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One size fits all...Gawdzilla wrote:Do they even make my size over there? (The slippers were seven sizes too small, btw.)FBM wrote:Sweet. I know what I'll be shopping for tomorrow...
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Finally, an appropriate product in that line.
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Re: DPRK Artillery Barrage Against ROK (Deaths Reported)
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/20 ... 00315.HTML(LEAD) N. Korea threatens additional attacks, accuses S. Korea of provocation
By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened to continue "merciless" strikes on South Korea on Tuesday after the communist state launched a deadly artillery attack across their western sea border.
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, the North's top military command accused the South Korean military of initiating the exchange by shooting toward its side.
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Didn't see that...oh, well...please merge!
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This is a problematic situation. There must be a retaliation - but, what?
This can't go unanswered, because it is a military attack on S. Korean soil and people are dead. To sit back and take it is unthinkable.
One - I would say that the North's action has to be taken before the UN Security Council immediately, and there needs to be vote on condemnation of the action, and a pledge that the UN will defend South Korea against any attack.
Two - I think the South needs to blockade the north completely, and what little trade the north does should be completely stopped.
The North can then rectify the situation by apologizing and paying compensation to the victims' families and to the South Korean government.
This can't go unanswered, because it is a military attack on S. Korean soil and people are dead. To sit back and take it is unthinkable.
One - I would say that the North's action has to be taken before the UN Security Council immediately, and there needs to be vote on condemnation of the action, and a pledge that the UN will defend South Korea against any attack.
Two - I think the South needs to blockade the north completely, and what little trade the north does should be completely stopped.
The North can then rectify the situation by apologizing and paying compensation to the victims' families and to the South Korean government.
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One: Likely.
Two: Very unlikely.
Last: When donkeys fly.
Two: Very unlikely.
Last: When donkeys fly.
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FBM can you please come back to the states for a little while?
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
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I agree.FBM wrote:One: Likely.
Two: Very unlikely.
Last: When donkeys fly.
What will be done will be impotent and will not in the least suggest to the north that they are outside their bounds in doing what they did.
There will be a political solution that will settle things down, but will make long term solving of the problem more difficult.
Without putting Jong Il in his place here, the goal posts will just be moved that much closer to Seoul.
What would be enough to warrant a response stronger than a "strongly worded letter" from the UN? I mean - do we wait until they blow the damns and send 1,000,000 men across the border?
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I'd love to. Just find me a job where I can work 18 hours a week and get 5 months of paid vacation and I'm there.Twoflower wrote:FBM can you please come back to the states for a little while?
Oh, and a cutie to stroke my beard.
Exactly. Wtf is it going to take? Economic sanctions only starve the NK people, the poor, deluded wretches, while the leadership sips cognac and drives around in convoys of Mercedes. An all-out war would be even worse for all involved. Fucking impasse.Coito ergo sum wrote:I agree.FBM wrote:One: Likely.
Two: Very unlikely.
Last: When donkeys fly.
What will be done will be impotent and will not in the least suggest to the north that they are outside their bounds in doing what they did.
There will be a political solution that will settle things down, but will make long term solving of the problem more difficult.
Without putting Jong Il in his place here, the goal posts will just be moved that much closer to Seoul.
What would be enough to warrant a response stronger than a "strongly worded letter" from the UN? I mean - do we wait until they blow the damns and send 1,000,000 men across the border?
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan called President Barak Obama urgently in the wake of the North Korean artillery attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the Yellow Sea border early Tuesday, Nov. 23 and demanded a US-South Korean-Japanese military reprisal. Two South Korean marines were killed and 17 injured in the attack. North Korea cannot be permitted to carry out two armed attacks on the South in eight months without military counteraction, he said. http://www.debka.com/#
Come on Barak! Time to start wearing those ovaries on the outside!
Come on Barak! Time to start wearing those ovaries on the outside!
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Can someone please hire FBM????FBM wrote:I'd love to. Just find me a job where I can work 18 hours a week and get 5 months of paid vacation and I'm there.Twoflower wrote:FBM can you please come back to the states for a little while?
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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