Dear Bazz,

Are you really going to pollute this forum with that crap again?

Stop being utterly pathetic.

SR,

After all the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth by the left whingers, the Iranian regime opted for an elaborate fireworks display that deliberately did little more than scare the horses, and issued a statement essentially saying they'd finished and please don't hit us back.

The message has been received, and all the murderous zealots while praising their fallen hero and swearing revenge know that they could be next.

At least you have backed away from your puerile claims that this was an electoral stunt by Trump.

Hasbeen,

"it is a bit too late to wonder why we didn't take them out earlier when a dirty bomb goes off in Sydney or New York."

Hasbeen more of your gibberish, calling for mass murder, like you did on OLO when you called for the mass annihilation of 200 million innocent men, women and children in Pakistan with nuclear weapons.

When called out on that one you never apologised, and never responded.

Well Captain Biggles you should jump into your Sopwith Camel and fly off into the sunset, and do us all a favour.

Bazz,

Slightly off-topic, but Charles Darwin married his cousin. Cross-cousin marriages have been common in property-inheriting societies ever since the development of agriculture, i.e. in pretty much every society except hunter-gatherers. The Queen and Prince Phillip are related, after all, which might explain Prince Charles. Yes, even Darwin had problems with all that, losing some of his children very young.

Joe

Dear Shadow Minister,

That Trump is using this as a distraction is a given. Everyone accepts it so why do you struggle with it?

Soleimani was a loyal Iranian who served with distinction during the Iran/Iraq war. It was an incredibly debilitating conflict for Iran and Soleimani's efforts to extend Iranian influence to better buttress his country from such an event happening again is well known. His work with the Americans in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban was highly regarded by them.

Why do you call him a snake?

Loudmouth2;
It was an accepted custom for centuries but it was mainly practised
by the wealthy classes. The farmers and labourers knew better and to
avoid the dangers they introduced yearly festivals in each town or
village and laid on entertainment for the young people so the boys
would meet girls from the other villages.
The IQ is of course an average, and there is always those with a
higher IQ that shine. The whole bell curve moves to the left with
cousin marriage being common place.
In Islamic communities there are a few groups, mainly young women, who
are actively opposed to cousin marriage and are refusing marriage
with cousins. They are being charged as being unIslamic by the Immans
but they are having some success in the Midlands in the UK.
These women do not want to have the burden of raising handicapped
children for the rest of their lives. For that is what it means.

To some the subject is unmentionable but it has to be faced.
It has real affects as they found in the area around Bankstown and
Lakemba in Sydney. I am not aware of the affect on special schools
in Sydney but in the UK it is a major problem for Midland schools.
Unfortunately, according to one article I read it will take hundreds
of years of no cousin marriage to repair their genome.