Things Noticeable this week

[Devius]

Rapper Nelly has been arrested after a woman accused him of raping her on his tour bus following a concert near Seattle.

Police in Auburn said they arrested the artist after a woman called emergency services at 03:48 (10:48 GMT) to report a sex assault.

Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr, was taken into custody on a second degree rape charge, TMZ said.

In a statement his lawyer described the allegation as "completely fabricated".

"Our initial investigation clearly establishes this allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness," Scott Rosenblum said in a statement.

Nelly is best known for his US number one hits "Hot in herre" and "Dilemma", but has not released new music for a number of years.

In 2015 he was arrested on felony charges after police found drugs and guns on board his tour bus.

The 42-year-old is currently on tour with the Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line, and performed in Auburn on Friday night.

Details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41539463

[Wendigo]

Natural History Museum crash: Man released by police
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41541165
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762

Not terrorist related but bad driving and the idiot was tackled by civilians until the authorities arrived. The UK is on high alert due to several mad Islamist fuckers using vehicles as weapons recently.
It will be interesting to find out what actually caused the incident.

[Wendigo]

'Only one thing will work' with N Korea, says President Trump
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41540736

"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years," he tweeted, adding that this "hasn't worked".
Mr Trump did not elaborate further.

What could he mean

1. An all out attack on the other deranged idiot?
2. Wait for China to do something novel
3. A large delivery of cakes & pies, the Mr Creosote effect

[Puhbear69]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

If a question can be settled peacefully in negotiations that is obviously better: but not all such questions can be settled peacefully. If I were Spanish, and given my admittedly limited knowledge of Catalonia, I think I would consider it just and fair to fight to preserve the union of Spain and to punish traitors. I agree that this is not a very desireable state of affairs but I also note that Spain is no new creation (such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia) but has existed in its current being for many centuries, with Catalonia as an integral part of it all that time. I think the separatist movement is spurious and their case is spurious and that if the majority of Catalans want to break with Spain then the majority of Catalans are supporting treason, a crime which merits extremely severe punishment. Naturally I hope it doesn't come to that, and I don't think the central govenment or King Filipe have handled this crisis well; but I do think, subject to any contrary case I have not yet heard, that they are in the right and that the Catalan regional government and the Catalan separatists are in the wrong.

If the Scottish Assembly tried to stage an independence referendum and then declare independence without going through lawful procedures which exist in British law and which permitted a legal referendum in 2014, I would consider that to be treason and I would support the use of force to suppress any such illegal referendum. If that meant civil war then I would fight for the Union side; we had two such civil wars before, in 1715 and in 1745-6, and nasty though they were, the Hanoverians were the winners and the right side won. Civil War is the worst face of war, and this is actually why I tend to support the death penalty for separatist traitors, as being proportionate to the harm they threaten to the peace of innocent populations.

Who has nothing learned from the history, is condemned to repeat it !!!!

Tell me only one of the States of the UN who accepts the separation of only one part of it's territory ! I'm sure, you'll find none.

The only way will be in a free democratically vote of the region !!!!
Else, I fear, there will be a flowing of blood, what's unacceptable IMHO.

The situation in Spain is nothing new. Since more than 30 years there is a subliminal wish of separation; initially in Basque country and nowadays in Catalonia. Yes, the former situation in Basque country was definitely comparable with Northern Ireland vs. England.
Of course the Catalan decision is very selfish, I think we both are seeing it equal. And there was no majority of separation before. Thanks to the Spanish National Police now it is a majority!
But the Spanish King - he is btw the duke of Barcelona (!) (*)- handled the case catastrophal.

The EU is making the same mistake here as it is making inside of it (the EU), not to reinforce the regions to the fortune of it's national States - of pressing it all at equal (phrase in English ? ).
Please remind me, if I fell myself into this trap again.

But I know your fear - Scotland !
A special case!
After the vote in Scotland in 2014 it should stay in the British conglomerate of British countries for longer. That decision was - so far, so good.
But after the decision of a Brexit, majoritarian from England this decision happened a frustration of purpose.
So the demand of the Scottish parliament of repeating of the vote from 2014 under the circumstances of the Brexit can't be denied.

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Your Queen is a "Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha", later renamed into "Windsor" in 1917.
She is - as we used to say - an "Ossi" (Easterner) with a migration background !

(Oh, I've been waiting for this joke for a long time - don't take it serious).

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

Who has nothing learned from the history, is condemned to repeat it !!!!

Tell me only one of the States of the UN who accepts the separation of only one part of it's territory ! I'm sure, you'll find none.

I agree and I think rightly so. They are quite correct to not accept any such separation.

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

The only way will be in a free democratically vote of the region !!!!
Else, I fear, there will be a flowing of blood, what's unacceptable IMHO.

What I would find unacceptable is any "democratic" referendum to rebel against the lawful authority of the state. This was done quite often in the past as an alibi for undermining the integrity of a nation, as for example the plebescite which followed the Anschluss in Austria in 1938. I seem to remember that Russia ratified its theft of Crimea in a similar manner more recently. The people who voted in that referendum are not Russians, but rather are disloyal Ukrainians, as indeed the Austrians who voted in 1938 were disloyal to Austria. The Catalonians who affirmed support for separation in this referendum just gone are traitors to Spain IMHO. In such a case as this, the flow of blood is extremely likely and the blame will lie with the parties who turned against their own countrymen and betrayed their salt. Naturally I hope for better things but I categorically reject the notion of holding a free and democratic vote on whether or not to turn traitor.

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

The situation in Spain is nothing new. Since more than 30 years there is a subliminal wish of separation; initially in Basque country and nowadays in Catalonia. Yes, the former situation in Basque country was definitely comparable with Northern Ireland vs. England.
Of course the Catalan decision is very selfish, I think we both are seeing it equal. And there was no majority of separation before. Thanks to the Spanish National Police now it is a majority!
But the Spanish King - he is btw the duke of Barcelona (!) (*)- handled the case catastrophal.

I certainly agree that the central government and police of Spain, not to mention the King, have mishandled the situation. It will be much harder now to defuse tension or to have a compromise. It is sad, but it is what it is.

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

The EU is making the same mistake here as it is making inside of it (the EU), not to reinforce the regions to the fortune of it's national States - of pressing it all at equal (phrase in English ? ).
Please remind me, if I fell myself into this trap again.

I would argue that the EU has no business to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain.

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

But I know your fear - Scotland !
A special case!
After the vote in Scotland in 2014 it should stay in the British conglomerate of British countries for longer. That decision was - so far, so good.
But after the decision of a Brexit, majoritarian from England this decision happened a frustration of purpose.
So the demand of the Scottish parliament of repeating of the vote from 2014 under the circumstances of the Brexit can't be denied.

I would argue that the EU has no business to interfere in the internal affairs of Great Britain. That is a matter for the British people and government to decide. My own opinion is that if the Scottish people ever again insist on demanding a referendum and force the rest of us to grant one, then I as an Englishman must also be allowed a referendum on the same day to decide whether or not to tell Scotland to fuck off out of it, even if she votes to stay in the Union.

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Your Queen is a "Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha", later renamed into "Windsor" in 1917.
She is - as we used to say - an "Ossi" (Easterner) with a migration background !

(Oh, I've been waiting for this joke for a long time - don't take it serious).[/QUOTE]

[Wendigo]

Man in Dubai court over 'hip touch'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-41544117


I'd love to see their faces if a group of Python fans did this routine in a Dubai bar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5Dfs7jqFI

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

So the demand of the Scottish parliament of repeating of the vote from 2014 under the circumstances of the Brexit can't be denied.

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Your Queen is a "Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha", later renamed into "Windsor" in 1917.
She is - as we used to say - an "Ossi" (Easterner) with a migration background !

The Nationalists lost a large number of seats in the Scottish and the UK parliaments at the recent elections - you should really play closer attention to these details if you're going to pontificate on Scottish and UK affairs.

As for the Queen [ may she live and reign for a thousand years] she was born in Bruton St in London if I recall correctly .

[Mal Hombre]

And She's half Scots..

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

And She's half Scots..

That'll explain why she never carries money

[scoundrel]

The truth is that when she thought the odds were looking good, with the fierce resentment of many in Scotland to find that the lumpen proletariat of England had voted for independence (oh the irony) Mrs Sturgeon was really full of herself. She made very bombastic and poisonous speeches about how Scotland was being really badly done to by the heirs of Edward I (she uses "Westminster" as a shorthand for England and the English because it sounds less racist). Then she went on an attention seeking tour of the EU leaders to avow her disloyalty to the rest of the UK and attempt to rat on the rest of the country.

Now that the election in 2016 has demonstrated that she might not win a landslide victory in a future referendum, especially if those fucktards Cameron and Osborne aren't allowed to control the Union campaign in such a future referendum, Mrs Sturgeon isn't quite so full of it as she was. She has been much quieter since then; but of course she is only biding her time like a mugger waiting down a dark alley.