EU awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Peace - How?

It's hard to unlatch from the tit when you have been suckling for so long, and when the milk is so good.

Maybe they are all in "milk coma"?

 

^ It is the same way here.

We pay over $1 Trillion per year in welfare payouts, and that number has gone up over 37% over the last for years and is still climbing. Govt spent $1.028 trillion on welfare in FY 2011 | The Daily Caller

Couple that with the fact that the government runs ads encouraging people to "drink the milk". Government runs ads to get more people on food stamps - Jun. 25, 2012

And then while your at it, take into account our Robin Hood tax code, which basically gives the bottom 40% of earners a tax free raise every year. The Robin Hood Tax System: Taking From The Rich To Give To The Poor - Forbes

And we wonder why illegal immigration is a problem, and why all of our manufacturing jobs went to china. Why would you want to work in a factory and make $25k per year when you can stay at home, play Xbox and talk on your free cell phone and make $25k?

 

I've been thinking about this and it occurs to me there should be joint award:

1. Clinton/Blair

In particular, I'm thinking about Kosovo, the Yugoslavia dissolution and subsequent mass killings. Even now, one of the architects is on trial for war crimes. But the most important aspect is that area no longer has organized killing and rape squads.

Bob Wilson

 

Can I nominate my youngest brother?

He was the Special Operations Forces air planner for Operation Silver Wake: 900 non-combatants evacuated, 0 US Marine casualties, 0 Albanian casualties.
Operation Silver Wake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by comparison, the German evacuation did not go nearly so peacefully
Operation Libelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Lockheed AC-130 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He was in every action AC-130s flew since Grenada in 1983, until his retirement in 2009, but he chooses to remember Silver Wake.

 

lol @ tape dispenser

 

Ahh the ac-130. My favorite variant was the ac-130u with the 25mm gau-12 "equalizer". Something about firing near 1in diameter shells with a muzzle energy of 73,000+ lb ft at 1800 rounds per minute brought a smile to ones day.

If one of these flew overhead and started to bank left you pretty much new you were screwed.

 

Here's another one that shows the gau-12 better. More of a sea based role here, but awesome nonetheless.

 

With his new Mac, my brother designed a new console that he WISHed he had to work on in the AC-130H and MC-130E, his buddies liked his work and had him design how their workstations SHOULD look. One fundamental issue was that one workstation faced aft, so his right and left were opposite every other crew member. When it came time to design the AC-130U, he was sent to Edwards (and on to Area 51?) to talk ergonomics with the aircraft engineers. The Air Force then sent him to Washington to explain to Congress how 'his' version of the AC-130 would be better than the AC-130H, he did so well he was assigned at the Pentagon 2000 to 2003 to lobby for the Air Force. He was out of his office on September 11. 2001.

Lockheed MC-130 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

You wrote this and then later in the thread you complained about subsidizing infrastructural expenditure in the poorer EU nations. Make up your bloody mind!

Greece's problem is worse than other countries because they essentially went through a period of austerity into order to scrape into the eurozone, had massive olympic debt and went into recession in 2005 and just kept borrowing. I can understand the Greek people being pissed off with their politicians, but it's pretty ridiculous to complain that Germany is being harsh when they've forgiven a large chunk of debt and are the major contributor to any bailout package. Greece could always opt for bankruptcy.

For others, the EU had its origins in an economic treaty of the Benelux nations. Britain joined in the 70s under the Edward "danz la roo" Heath government. Heath was a Europhile . As grumpy noted, the idea was presented as economic (It was the European Economic Community), although some time in the 80s when Heath, on the political Question Time show* suggested that people were aware of goal of greater political union at the time the entire audience laughed incredulously.

The fundamental problem with the EU is that member countries are so scared of giving up sovereignty that the parliament has limited powers so the EU isn't democratic. As FL points out the real power's in the commission, which is appointed by the council of ministers from the EU nations. The real indicator of the screwed up nature of the EU is the fact the parliament moves between Strasbourg and Brussels at great expense and all document get translated into all the EU languages.

Britain has ended up contributing a lot in part because of the calculation of contribution using VAT but mainly because of the
Common Agricultural Policy, with the UK not receiving much due to having a small ,efficient agricultural sector that didn't receive much support. A result of the imbalance was that the UK negotiated a deduction in contributions in the early 80s, but as the EU kept expanding, especially infrastructural funding, the wealthier nations ended up contributing more.

* A touring TV show where a politician from each major party, plus another politician, plus a celeb or other special interest figure will answer (or try to avoid answering) audience questions. Because it tours the country the political make-up of the audience varies. It's quite an effective format and something really missing from US politics.

 

Tens of thousands rally in London against austerity - FRANCE 24

It looks like Britain isn't a fan of austerity measures as well.

 

Looks like you will be getting some new neighbors soon.


Britain facing new eastern Europe immigration surge - Telegraph

 

Obviously there is no downside to ignoring accountability, only benefits (and continually increasing corruption) when the makers of the rules can ignore the rules. It also makes it extremely clear why a bigger budget is requested.

 

Nobel Peace Prize.
nobel peace prize medal | eBay