Bill N Ted

America is still technically at war with the DPRK (granted it is a long cold, not a hot war), an American citizen going to the DPRK especially with their prior history of detaining US citizens should ring alarm bells. A US citizen then going to the DPRK and committing crime(s) It is not hidden knowledge what the DPRK does to its own citizens, being a US citizen committing crimes within the borders of the DPRK is screaming out to be made an example of for propaganda purposes and political leverage. As for retaliation what could really be done? DPRK is already sanctioned to the hilt, people would have to be insane to start any military adventure off the back of this - start a war for a Darwin Award Nominee who did something that was comparable in the intelligence stakes as playing with traffic. Sad and unfortunate it happened; god knows what the poor sod endured. Watch his YouTube "confessions" in court, it is totally scripted by a non English speaker and he just memorized it verbatim - you can only imagine what they did to get that confession out of him and after all of that "Here you go buddy - 15 years hard labour" and ultimately repatriated a vegetable on the verge of death. A very shitty situation, the outcome I would think is not surprising to most; hopefully he has found peace as will his loved ones. I do wonder what would have happened if he had waved some dollars at them I bet they would have let him have his pick of the posters; though I can't help but think even if he did buy them they would still have arrested him for something.

Tragic, but the prank was funny.

I wonder if it was perpetrated in the name of the religion of peace again.

JD Weatherspoons...... Just saying. Good beer, cheap price, reasonable food and most of their pubs are big enough to take a crowd without having to book, just turn up grab a table or prop up the bar. There's one on Baker Street i frequent when i am in London.

I have never tried haggis; nor ever been drunk enough to try it as it really doesn't appeal. Haggis to me is "so you get all your shitty offcuts and offal, stick some oats and other cereals into the mix, throw in a few onions and herbs, stuff it all into a animal stomach and then just boil it until it's done? Sounds yummy!" Spotted dick is fine, though I haven't had that since I left school and is nothing really to write home about, I prefer sticky toffee pudding. If you get the chance try bread and butter pudding though it is easy enough to make at home if you fancy it, make your own custard to go with it too, don't buy the premade just add water crap. Its simply but really good. And if you have never tried curry, oh my lawd try some curry whilst in london.

I love Scotland; much nicer than the hell hole of London (my own personal perception, many find my rural life boring). London is nice to visit but I cannot ever imagine living there; Scotland however, yeah I could see myself very happy in Scotland. Never been to Edinburgh or Glasgow, when I visit Scotland I enjoy the coastal places away from cities (I am not a fan of cities in general). Portree on Skye I have stayed a few times, Stornoway on Lewis and Harris also; comes with the added bonus that you can roll out of bed, get breakfast then go for an all day walk. Don't be alarmed when you get "different" money north of the wall; it's all pounds sterling but you don't often come across it south of the wall, certainly not in Wales anyway. You have "British" money good throughout the Kingdom, you also have Scottish money in circulation which is also good throughout the Kingdom however it is more difficult to "off load" due to the general unfamiliarity of those south of the wall who will often in my experience question it or look at you stupid. If you're going to get cash in Scotland be aware that you more than likely will not get the same style of notes that you will be familiar with from the rest of the UK. As for Scotland just be yourself. If you have never tried black pudding I will certainly vouch for it ( eat far too much of it myself) ; it conjures up thoughts of a congealed mass of blood but it is far from it. It is soft with a somewhat firm structure, texture is akin to a light sausage meat. Taste is not of congealed blood but is rather unique, doesn't have a metallic taste that one would expect from blood but a very soft and herbal flavour; basically don't be the douchebag tourist that goes "OMG blood ach! I ain't eating that!", give it a try, it's actually really good; much better than its ingredients list would imply and I am not someone that enjoys offal.

Hard cider is where it is at. Don't drink too much of it as it usually (80% of cases based on first hand anecdotal evidence) gives the unaccustomed the shits; a pint or two wont hurt you however, just if you were to go to 6-8+ pints level it could become a problem. Scrumpy cider (what I drink) tends to have more of an effect than the mass produced stuff. Never played Age of Empires; know Glyndwr from IRON days of old, think he recruited me actually. Ever been North of the Wall (Hadrian's) before?

London. I'm staying in Soho. SOME people have expressed a desire to get me drunk, so the meet up will need to be near where I'm staying, or I'll never find my hotel again. ATM we're looking at 1:00 pm in a public place. Do you think you can make it? I've wanted to meet you for nearly 11 years! Could in theory be done. I will check out the leave situation in work tomorrow; I would assume it will be fine though. If I do come down I will likely make a weekend of it due to train fares, hotel fees etc; there are a few things I want to do in London currently so I guess I could fit a Sister Midnight meet up in. Is Glyndwr going to be there? Would like to revisit the Imperial War Museum and HMS Belfast, maybe fit in the Victoria & Albert Museum whilst I am there. Last few times I have been to London the inner nerd has been restricted due to female company; as I am single these days I guess it could be a nerd weekend with some hard drinking in between museums. You like cider right? Not the american cider; the alcoholic version

Wales UK. I am within 30 miles of Cardiff; being vague due to cyber stalkers that want to sexually harass me. On April 2nd where will you be?

The reason the USA is able to carry such tremendous debt is because the US Dollar is the world reserve currency. If the world decided it didn't want the US dollar as the world reserve currency any longer, and switch off to maybe China... the USA would be screwed. So I have been in favor of eliminating the US debt to safeguard ourselves from that. I mean seriously, the best way to protect yourself from disaster would be to eliminate the threat. Now Trump on the other hand... will have to increase the debt to pursue his Reagan plan to stimulate the US economy... which is firmly against all Conservative platforms that call for reducing the debt. We are venturing into strange territory... I say, AUDIT THE FED! Then we can see where we all stand before taking another step. The USD is currently the worlds reserve currency due to the petrodollar standard backed up by the US military. There have been numerous (over the past decade) agreements by nations to bypass the dollar with bilateral trade agreements mainly for energy settled in their local currencies as opposed to the USD. A number of OPEC nations have attempted to stop selling their oil in USD and have had the US military deliver a shit ton of freedom to their nations, Saddam wanted gold for Iraqi oil, Iran will sell oil for anything but USD, Libya for decades of terrorist escapades regime change was only on the cards when Ghadaffi proposed a Pan African gold backed currency and sell oil for gold. The deficits cannot be eliminated due to the way fiat currency is created under the current monetary system, where every dollar (insert your local currency here) is loaned into existence there is never enough currency to repay the original debt plus interest owed, thus deficit elimination is an impossibility as things stand and deficits will only get bigger as Peter is robbed to pay Paul.

End the FED, officially tie the USD to a commodity or basket of commodities, end fractional reserve banking, reintroduce Glass-Steagall. Outside of the dream world I think the best they could get would be someone that leans towards Austrian economics. Tying the USD and ending fractional reserve banking would require a new monetary system as the current one would die rapidly without it; the powers that be and the population at large are not going to willingly give up the FIAT financial heroin. So the junkie just carries on until the day it ends up in the grave or rehab. I am expecting the US deficit to balloon under Trump, as it would have done under Hillary.

I do not understand why taxpayer money is wasted on illegal immigrants, their mere presence on your soil is itself an illegal act, if they were there legally they would be called immigrants but without the "illegal" prefix. There are means to apply for asylum and to get visas; but of course that opens the claimant up to scrutiny where as if they can get into the country via illegal means they will avoid most if not all said scrutiny often lining the pockets of organised crime in the process. I would be more pissed about people being in your/my country illegally, said illegals then coming to the attention of the police force (I wonder why they would come to the attention of the police? Committing a crime maybe?) and then the police turn a blind eye to the illegal immigration status or willfully choosing to ignore the law. If people want to help the "poor illegal immigrants" they are entitled to do what they will with their own money (charity); what really pisses me off is when the doogooders of the country demand that the taxpayer look after them with the public purse; people who are not legally entitled to be in the country should get nothing other than charity bestowed upon them by the people that wish to help them.

That's when the USA stopped being great? Yes. The creation of the Third Central Bank of the USA and its continued existence. In my opinion Woodrow Wilson, 2 days before Christmas in 1913, of course opinions will vary, why don't you have a read into it if it is not something that you are familiar with?

The UK was Great at one point in history, it no longer is; its broken financially and arguably culturally. I generally disapprove of "diversity", diversity from what I have seen is legalise/PC speak for the discrimination of heterosexual white people. When you absorb so much of foreign culture at what point does it cease to be the host culture and become a bastardised version of what it once was?

Creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.