Lake Placid is brilliant because it’s one of the first really self aware horror/monster movies in which all of the characters both appear genuinely afraid of and hilarious sarcastic towards their situation of fighting a giant crocodile.

The Chinese are the ones we should be watching not Russia. I understand that the islands are disputed and claimed by various countries so what is the correct mechanism for settling it once and for all? Obviously Chinas claim are just utterly ridiculous to begin with

Hey Skipper! What does this button do?

It’s a fucking hot spring. I’ve been to about half a dozen of them around the world and many of them bubble...not because they are boiling in the pools but way under the surface where the water is close to magma. See Yosemite.

how the hell did a phd geophysics student not know what a hot spring is?

WHO TOUCHED SASHA? WHO TOUCHED MY GUN!?!

Yup, you’re exactly right. I mean, precision weapons are tremendously useful — the mistake was convincing the public that wars could be won with surgical strikes and no collateral damage. The simple reality is that they cannot. Precision weapons are just another tool in the toolbox, but wars will always — and only —…

I think it was 60 minutes said that we have dropped 50,000+ bombs on targets in Syria and Iraq in the last couple of years.

So you admit a double standard is fine? I want to educate the murica circle jerk that history has 2 sides, the US is just as bad as Russia. There are no “good” guys in this. Its called principle, if X can do it why can’t Y. The legal term is precedent.

You didn’t? Mkay. Yes, the city appears deserted. Syrian government and Kurds on the ground usually warn the locals in Aleppo to clear the area before the offensive. You did know that Kurds are operating in the North of Aleppo under Russian air cover, right? Hence the Erdogan’s recent mental breakdown.

That is actually a very fair point, and one that is worth discussing.

Real war has no rules. You fight dirty, with overwhelming force and indiscriminate horror until those you fight either surrender unconditionally or are all dead. These hamstrung pr campaigns we’ve been doing for 60 years haven’t turned out so well, have they? I personally hate war, but I hate half-assed politically…

Oh, man. Jihadi Tyler is at it again :D Yes, when it comes to “terrorists”, only ‘Murica knows best.

The Russians understand war, we understand managing conflicts to unsatisfactory outcomes. War is killing until the survivors give it up. The Russians will change the facts on the ground while we stammer at the UN.

You yourself may not be a decent person, did you serve your country and represent your principles? Did you suffer slights from morons? Did you spend hours debating and suffering the constrictions of legal perfection and upshots of decisions you made?

after taking in just about every one else's take on these matters, yours alone makes perfect sense

Like? Seriously, “the one area that he was a decent person,” what “area” was that? And what are the “so many more that he wasn’t?” Only leftists can think such faulty language and shallow, hateful thinking a genuine retort to the jurisprudence of a SC justice.

No doubt that many Gawker Media readers cannot see through their ideological glasses and recognize a great legal mind. I didn’t agree with many of Scalia’s opinions but he was as consistent as any SC justice. I hope those dancing on his grave will remember this when their beloved RBG dies and the conservatives start…

Do people chose to ignore the fact that Assad is the legitimate ruler of the sovereign state of Syria?Islamist terrorists are attacking the sovereign legitimate government and we are backing the terrorists? The FSA and the rest of their terrorist kin are no better than ISIS, there are plenty of videos online of them…

So another plan from this administration that wasn't well thought out or overstepping its bounds, rather than working within their limits and actually compromising with people.