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I said puppies! Not puppies with an adorable dinnerbunny!!

Actually, I think if Palestine rallied themselves to cast dipshits like Hamas out, Israel would be the first to help.

If Israel really wanted peace they would have stopped to add more and more colony.

Or you know...see to it that there's not a suicide bombing or rocket attack happening like every other month day

Remember when this thread was about beer...that was great.

now it's about puppies and kittens.

I do contest the quote in the one article that says "Israel is making the suicide bombers, not us."

Look, the sentiment you're trying to express is clear, but the fact is that it takes a pretty intense amount of devotion to a cause to be a suicide bomber along with a lifetime of indoctrination into a set of beliefs. While the missle strikes may harder then resolve of these people, they were already primed to begin with by Hamas leadership.

Remember when this thread was about beer...that was great.

Okay we got kittens, can derail the thread now. *full circle*

Well there is definitely a correlation between blowing peoples families up : being more susceptible to radicalization.

When we blew up Iraq and stripped the country of what little structure it had left Al Qaeda swelled in ranks with the amount of people that wanted revenge and were easily drawn into radical Islam and its message of retribution. Same as after 9/11 the enlistments in the US military skyrocketed.

If you want to create less radicals, dont bomb their neighborhoods. I think that'd be a pretty simple connection to make,no?


Remember when i was saying this shouldve stopped at the holy number 44? and then i did "Who's that president?"...i missed page 44 and now im sads :(

Like I said. I understand the sentiment. But...personal responsibility. And being a suicide bomber is pretty extreme.

Enlisting in the organization, yes, fine.

Blowing yourself up...

...that takes a lifetime of indoctrination.

To be fair, it's a short fuse.

Like I said. I understand the sentiment. But...personal responsibility. And being a suicide bomber is pretty extreme.

Enlisting in the organization, yes, fine.

Blowing yourself up...

...that takes a lifetime of indoctrination.

Huh, I would guess that the reduction in population density would decrease the cost of public services, as you would not need as many people for public support as before. Since labor plays a huge factor in the cost of administration services, lower labor costs means lower total cost by a greater percentage than any other industry.

But yeah, Denmark is crazy. Will never live there at all (wasn't planning it anyway).

The misconception is that the reduction in population density corresponds to a reduction in the number of people that are supported (e.g. healthcare, social services, etc) due to universal coverage, and that there are public services which scale poorly at lower utilization rates (e.g. public transit, roads, etc).
When you have to cover a wider area to support the same number of people, your labor costs don't decrease, they increase, simply due to the reduction in efficiency. In many instances material costs also increase, but these tend not to be the largest cost drivers in most cases.

Like I said. I understand the sentiment. But...personal responsibility. And being a suicide bomber is pretty extreme.

Enlisting in the organization, yes, fine.

Blowing yourself up...

...that takes a lifetime of indoctrination.

Does Denmark not have regions? Or regional offices?

Yes, but having regions set up doesn't really solve any of the problem of reductions in population density.

If the shift is due to people moving from a lower population density to a higher population density, then one way to cut costs is to lower the number of employees in the regional offices with a lower population density, and hire a smaller number in the higher density (since the workload will not increase at the same rate as the decrease). It would be a minute change, but a still effective goal.

The only issue I can see is population growth remains constant.

Well yes, except that would be urbanization, rather than suburbanization/ruralization. You have people moving from higher to (significantly) lower density areas, increases in driving (as opposed to biking or public transit, which are, or at least were, the two most common). And that doesn't even get into the healthcare costs of greater traffic, greater commuting times, and less exercise.

The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough, yet carefully worded language that reflects growing White House irritation with Israel and the mounting civilian casualties stemming from its ground and air war against Hamas.

The U.S. frustrations were compounded by a flurry of Israeli media reports this week that appeared aimed at discrediting President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who spent days trying to negotiate an unsuccessful cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. In unusually blunt language, a State Department spokeswoman on Wednesday repeatedly described one of the reports as "complete crap."

The developments injected fresh tension into the often fraught relationship between Obama and the Israeli government, while also highlighting the president's willingness to take a tougher line against the longtime U.S. ally than some of his predecessors or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

While Obama and other top officials consistently state their support for Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas rocket fire, the White House has been making increasingly strong statements about the Palestinian civilians dying in Israeli attacks. Officials have also directly called on Israel to do more to prevent the casualties.

More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in three weeks of fighting, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. More than 50 Israelis have also died in the clashes.

The United States has allowed Israel, waging an offensive in the Gaza Strip, to tap a local U.S. arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday.

The munitions were located inside Israel as part of a program managed by the U.S. military and called War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I), which stores munitions locally for U.S. use that Israel can also access in emergency situations.

Israel, however, did not cite an emergency when it made its latest request about 10 days ago, the defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The United States allowed Israel to access the strategic stockpile anyway to resupply itself with 40mm grenades and 120mm mortar rounds to deplete older stocks that would eventually need to be refreshed.

"They didn't ask for it from there but we gave it to them so we could rotate our stocks," the official said.

Additional Israeli requests for U.S.-manufactured ammunition were also being processed in the United States, the official said. The official did not offer further details on quantities or costs of ammunition already supplied or requested.

U.S. Foreign Policy in a nutshell.

Don't do that, but here take some weapons to do it again, even though you didn't ask for more.

I'm trying to figure out this statement:

when the quoted article expressly says the opposite.

"They didn't ask for it from there but we gave it to them so we could rotate our stocks," the official said.