Just a little tip, while we're talking about travel advice... if you DO ever go to Turkey, don't tell them they're mostly in Asia. They're liable to take it the wrong way.
I'm also an ethical businessman, want to talk about shrinking that demographic even smaller I once heard a Rabbi say "I've got my mind on my money and my money on mind" in Yiddish (yeah Snoop ripped him off) and those words have always stuck with me. Of course it doesn't hurt that Mrs. Moishe makes a salary that makes the dapip's of the world shit themselves.
Sporting wise, or for competitions, it makes sense to have differing continents such as they are. But when one goes into geopolitical associations, than I agree. Of course, we in the US are so accustomed to being "American" and from North America, that when me or my wife talk about her being "American" most people look like she is from a different planet. Even very educated people have a hard time with that idea that and "American" is from the Americas. I was only repeating what I understood about Russia/Soviet Union. Turkey is different, and WTF is up with Israel being in UEFA?
Arab countries refused to play Israel in the 1970 WCQ, giving them a practically free pass to Mexico. I forget what year they actually got put into UEFA,but they've played in Euro WCQ's ever since.
Saw this bit this morning. http://america.aljazeera.com/opinio...urismwhitevoluntouristsafricaaidsorphans.html In recent years, the ethics of voluntourism, especially its underbelly of exploitation, have been questioned by academics and activists alike. Most of the debate, however, is limited to questioning whether volunteer vacations do more harm than good or how it promotes stereotypes that fuel the engines of a burgeoning white-savior industrial complex. That kind of sums up the article. And while voluntourism sounds good, and in some cases is good (such as building schools and other similar community based projects). But I think this goes back to the lack of conciousness that people with money can lack, particularly in the United States (in general). We are so accustomed to the rhetoric of helping the poor (re: non-white) and viewing them though the lens of pity that we don't think we are doing any harm when we participate in voluntourism.
All that we're saying.. Is give the clan a chance... http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/04/20/3428825/cnn-kkk-rebrand/
No, no. I'm completely comfy with anyone from either continent calling themselves "American". I'm saying that I've heard from some of the UEFA contingent here that they're taught that North and South America are one continent. The 300 or so miles that separated the Atlantic from the pacific pre-canal is apparently enough distance to consider The Americas a single contnent, but the 1500-mile distance between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea (or somewhere near that line) isn't enough to unify Eurasia I don't know what else they're doing in those schools of theirs but they're getting that part horribly wrong, ovbiously.
I think the article was probably intended to express legitimate concerns, but yeah, it does kinda read like an ESPN article about a sports team. If this was, say, a pure neo-Nazi group with no ties to America's recent history, it'd read differently.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/u...eaks-the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html Rand Paul came out in support of this guy. In fairness, this was before he made the above comments.
Of course it's possible to be libertarian without being racist, but the link is powerful - Government bad Blacks love government Blacks bad
This group seems to be gagging for an armed conflict with the government, perhaps they should just give them what they want?
Eh, we did that at Waco and Ruby Ridge and we never heard the end of it. On the other hand, they don't seem to mention this police action much. Funny how that goes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE