Where’s “short-fingered vulgarian”? Was that 2014?

Cue the news about Russia bombing Turkish ground armor in 3...2...1...

Yeah, this is kind of on-topic for me, too. My parents divorced when I was 9. (I’m now 48.) My father got custody and remarried; my bio-mother didn’t re-establish contact until a couple years ago, after my father died. Now she’s trying to get close to me and my sisters in various unnerving ways.

I am a professional Devil’s advocate, and I will give you positive ISIS values. Just realize that I do not believe or advocate *any* of what follows.

And that’s entirely reasonable. But psychologists do give a shit, because they are paid to.

That’s the point. If pedophilia is a person’s only sexual outlet, there’s nothing you can do but desexualize them completely with chemicals. But if a pedophile can also have sex with appropriate partners, you can teach them to prefer those partners and abstain from their pedophilic urges.

Counterpoint: I’m having a bug where taskwin.exe does not stop when I try to shut the machine down. It hangs for a while on the shutdown screen, and then taskwin somehow cancels the shutdown and beings me back to an active desktop.

People see fascism; I see a business opportunity. Gotta check and see how much it will cost to manufacture crescent moon buttons for people to wear on their lapels. Oh, not for the registered muslims. *Everyone* will be wearing one, to protest such a stupid policy. I predict moon buttons will be the next Guy Fawkes…

You’re missing the point. If the expert says he’s treatable, then he’s potentially treatable. That’s a psychological statement. It has nothing to do with whether he wants treatment or not. (But he’d be stupid to refuse it.)

I never liked it. Wasn’t funny or thought-provoking or entertaining at all. Can’t stand the spin-offs either, including Reilly. I just don’t get the appeal.

When dealing with paraphilias, ‘treatable’ means ‘not dysfunctional and/or not impaired’. In other words, Jared doesn’t get a limp dick when having sex with women. Children are just his preference, not his exclusive sexual outlet. That means that he can be taught to not engage in his paraphilic behavior and to focus…

Islam lays claim to the lineage of Abraham through Ishmael, and it was the religion of the Ishmaelites that eventually turned into Islam, with Mohammad’s help.

What he means is “Christian values, but because I have a lot of wealthy Jewish backers I should throw a bone to them also.”

Actually, no. Judeo-Christian pretty much means, ‘All the Abrahamic religions except Islam’.

That must be the second largest meerkat in the world.

Stretch.

Stray cats often eat lizards, so of course they’d show up at the summit of the secret lizard people overlords.

The combatants in Syria are the Assad regime, the rebels, and ISIS. US has been bombing Assad and ISIS. France is now bombing ISIS. Russia has been bombing the rebels but is probably going to start in on ISIS also.

Codependent personality would make a lot of sense for Jeb!.

For most of the others, I can’t assign a psychological syndrome. Cruz is delusional, and I think he may have comorbid antisocial disorder. Don’t have a good read on Rubio. Jeb is a normal guy psychologically. Fiorina is a narcissist just like Trump.