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After the best, the worst one ? According to this BBC article, "Doughface" James Buchanan seems to be the winner in that category.Do you agree?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22946672Interesting as well, the perception of what makes a good and bad president can be very different outside the US:
"Here's the problem with presidential rating - are you rating leadership or what they did?"
I don't find the last few posts of WillyD … can anyone tell me if he found it ? I was looking for it because he wrote about his reasons to leave the forum. In the same way, does anybody here still have a contact with Wally ? Concerning the lack of "popularity" of the forum, some here are teaching, promoting the forum could attract new members.
Reasons why must WCF survive : - members are open minded regardless their obvious political background- spammers, lunatics and other misfits do not stay long- all arguments are debated, checked and acknowledged (sometimes after vivid discussions or heated debates ...)This forum is:- reliable- relevant- accurateMembers must work hard and this is probably why few only are eager enough to overcome such standardsIf you can find better than this forum, chapeau messieurs!
According to Collins English Dictionary, a troll is : (computing, slang) a person who submits deliberately inflammatory articles to an internet discussionhttp://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trollQuestions : - What to do when a global moderator is allowed to act as a troll ? - What to do when after requesting deletion of a user account, nothing happened ?
A table ranking countries according to their inequality-adjusted human development index (IHDI) and compares it to their HDI (Human Development Index).The index captures the HDI of the average person in society, which is less than the aggregate HDI when there is inequality in the distribution of health, education and income.Colombia Loss: 32.5 Ranking: -24USA Loss: 15.3 Ranking: -19S Korea Loss: 16.5 Ranking: -17http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/ihdi/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI The HDI combined three dimensions:- Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity- Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate- Standard of livingStatistics...
I will not say anymore before you start beating me up for being insensitive too. I just wonder how we as a species have not only survived, but managed to become the dominant species on earth given the manifest weakness of our psyches to trying times and events.
The reason might be in your statement if you read carefully
Aetheling, why is this topic so important for you? Do you have relatives who went through the holocaust?
Indeed. Do you think that I invented the story above ?I can't accept the term "bleeding heart" and calling other genocides as "extreme violent civil war" or else is already denial.If genocide is just an artificial term coined in the wake of WWII to justify prosecuting Nazis. why was it not use against Japan ? Even if that term was coined by Lemkin in 1944, why should it diminish its significance ? As if it could be used without serious investigations ? as calling something/someone racist ?Furthermore even if it's just a personal opinion, one can't say anything without evidence to demonstrate or prove it. Even under your first amendment of freedom of speech. Showing the USHM document as a reference isn't proving Scout's assertions. Scout does not demonstrate nor prove anything. Perhaps his assertions only are politically loaded ?
I have already cited evidence to back up my assertion. Your evidence to refute me is?
The Rwandan Civil War of '94 should be on the list at a minimum. The media and bleeding hearts like to call it a genocide but it was in reality a short, extremely violent Civil War. Genocide is an artificial term coined in the wake of WWII to justify prosecuting Nazis. I don't think what the Nazis did was right but I also don't think we needed to make up crimes out of whole cloth to put those same Nazis up against a wall. It has traditionally been the victors right to do with his enemy as he sees fit. That should be plenty good enough. The Nazis were in our power and we detested what they did, therefor we executed them. Genocie is an artificial term invented to make what the Nazis did a punishable crime. It has subsequently been used for all kinds of reasons. It is just as politically loaded as calling something/someone racist. If you object to its use than you must be heartless, therefor I am a heartless, pitiless rogue because I object to tis use. I call it war deaths. Notice I did not say combat deaths, but war deaths. As to statistics, I remember a line about "numbers don't lie but liars use numbers." Any use of statistics or numbers in history are suspect and historians must be careful about using figures and most hedge when they do use numbers, especially about such things as war dead and population. That does not mean we must eschew demographic and casualty data because they are inherently unreliable. It means that historians must be careful about their assertions regarding such things. We have to use them, or what should we use in their stead? Vague statements like a lot, and a few don't seem to cut it.
You didn't cite any evidence but your own assertions. There is nowhere sources you can provide to support what you write.And you ask for mine ? However if you really know what you are talking about then you are borderline with genocide denial and if not with historical revisionism. - The Rwandan Civil War of '94 should be on the list at a minimum. The media and bleeding hearts like to call it a genocide but it was in reality a short, extremely violent Civil War. - Genocide is an artificial term coined in the wake of WWII to justify prosecuting Nazis.- It is just as politically loaded as calling something/someone racist. If you object to its use than you must be heartless, therefor I am a heartless, pitiless rogue because I object to tis use. You can check further about this here under :http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/defense/evans/6Especially in 6.20 and 6.21
The Rwandan Civil War of '94 should be on the list at a minimum. The media and bleeding hearts like to call it a genocide but it was in reality a short, extremely violent Civil War.
If you keep stating that "genocide is a politically and emotionally laden term invented to give emotional cover to the WWII victors for executing their former enemies" and the one here above, you'd better come with strong evidence to prove it.
WHAT IS GENOCIDE?I stand by my assertion that genocide is a politically and emotionally laden term invented to give emotional cover to the WWII victors for executing their former enemies
You don't know what you're talking about.
