Israel and U.S. Publicly Argue Over Iran Strike, Komen Caves to Planned Parenthood, GOP Teeming in Nevada: P.M. Links

Mike Riggs | 2.3.2012 4:49 PM

"There's a growing concern…that the Israelis…might launch a strike without approval, warning or even foreknowledge."
Susan G. Komen tries to make nice with Planned Parenthood.
Nevada is full of GOP candidates.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will have to pay $1.5 billion in taxes if Facebook goes public.
FBI and Scotland Yard got hacked by Anonymous today.
Nasdaq at 11-year high.

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Vive les P.M. Links!
1. bi-curious 13 years ago
  
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Episiarch 13 years ago

Oh man, if only Anonymous had hacked a more revealing conference call in which they describe what those agencies really think of our rights.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Epi I have been on those calls. Trust me. The word rights never comes up. It is not that the disregard rights. It is that the term never occurs to them.
  1. All The Cops 13 years ago
    
    Cool story, perp.
John 13 years ago

They are saying on CNN that Haley Barbour pardoned some connected good old boy in jail for DUI manslaughter after his 4th DUI. What a tub of shit.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  And the victim was some beautiful teenager. Can her family just shoot Barbour and be done with it?
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    One of the Jo(h)nsons says yes. Ben, the other one?
2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  You want him to pardon someone who isn't well-connected? That doesn't make any sense.
Gojira 13 years ago

Interesting tidbit: man raises daughter for 15 years, finds out it wasn't his, and is suing the dude his wife had an affair with for $190k in expenses for having raised her.

http://news.yahoo.com/court-al.....-news.html
shrike 13 years ago

WSJ: Real US corporate tax rate falls to 12.1% in 2011.

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....Collection

Don't expect Fox News or other conservative to acknowledge this.
1. leveled 13 years ago
  
  still much too high.
  
  Don't expect shriek the lying liberal who pretends he isn't to admit it.
2. JEP 13 years ago
  
  At the end of the day, individuals pay ALL taxes.
  
  I'm not a fan of corporations or anything, but when they are taxed, they just pass it onto the people who buy their products/services.
  
  If you're mad at corporations, you need to find another way to express your anger.
  1. shrike 13 years ago
    
    I am not the least bit mad at corporations. I am mad at liars who falsely talk up our tax rate to 35%. Almost no one pays that.
    1. The truth 13 years ago
      
      "I am mad at liars"
      
      So you're angry at yourself for lying about being a liberal?
    2. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      Fuck that shit.
      
      If I go out and form a C-corp right now and make some income and don't have a staff of accountants and lawyers to hide my earnings in green energy bullshit, what rate will I pay?
      
      That's the "real" corporate tax rate.
      1. shrike 13 years ago
        
        So you need a "staff" of accountants and lawyers to depreciate capex in a single year as last year's law allowed? Or to take advantage of NOL extensions?
        
        If you start a C-corp and don't know that you deserve to lose your ass.
        
        Blappo 13 years ago
        
        "So you need a "staff" of accountants and lawyers to depreciate capex in a single year as last year's law allowed? Or to take advantage of NOL extensions?"
        
        You were asked what tax rate would be paid, not to pontificate about shit you are obviously ignorant of.
        
        shrike 13 years ago
        
        You would lose 100% because you are too goddamn stupid to run a business.
        
        Blappo 13 years ago
        
        "You were asked what tax rate would be paid,"
        
        "You would lose 100% because you are too goddamn stupid to run a business"
        
        Strike two, just admit you can't do it already.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        You would lose 100%
        
        Do you not understand what "what rate will I pay?" means?
        
        shrike 13 years ago
        
        I don't answer stupid fucking questions. We all know what the statutory phantom rate is. No one pays it thus the point of the Wall St Journal piece.
        
        Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        really? Your whole life appears to be a stupid lie. At least your brown nosing of capitalist 'heroes'.
        
        nicole 13 years ago
        
        We all know what the statutory phantom rate is. No one pays it thus the point of the Wall St Journal piece.
        
        And how do they avoid paying it? By spending a shit ton of money on accountants and lawyers who are only "productive" because the tax code is so fucked.
    3. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      Please, enlighten us as to who all doesn't pay that rate. I've got $5 that they donated to Obama's campaign. And probably Bush's before that.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n.....86110.html

Victims Group to Boycott Starbucks Over Firearms
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"For most, Valentine's Day is a hallmark holiday, dedicated to expressions of love and companionship between partners. One advocacy group has chosen the day as a backdrop for boycotting a renowned coffee chain and its decision to allow customers to carry sidearms."

"The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC), a network of 14 million members endorsed by 89 peace and religious fellowships, called on its supporters to stop buying Starbucks products starting on Feb. 14, until the open gun policy is changed." ...

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Hoplophobic shitheads? Bitchy and illogical? Who the fuck knew?
1. Applederry 13 years ago
  
  Wait, 14 million members? Is that accurate or are they fluffing the numbers? Cause that seems extraordinarily high and I've never heard of them before.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Then there is the RKBA campaign to spend $2 bills at Starbucks on Valentine's Day.
5th fleet 13 years ago

israel better goddamned-well tell us or the airspace is closed
el Commentariosa 13 years ago

Can Queen cope with a gay lead singer?
1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  I'm not a Queen fan, but that is a pretty cool story. Good for Lambert and good for the band. Rock on!
  1. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
    
    Good God, there has to be someone out there in a Queen cover band that would be a better choice.
    1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
      
      Or just some Filipino dude who can really wail on a Queen song at karaoke. Hell, it worked for Journey!
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

"Quick thinking and a sharpshooter's aim enabled an 87-year-old retired postal worker to thwart an attempted burglary and critically wound one of two burglars trying to break into his Baldwin Hills home, police said."

"Jack Goodwin, a World War II U.S. Army veteran, told police he was listening to a Lakers game when he heard the rear window breaking in his house ..."

"Fearing for his life, Goodwin said he armed himself with a handgun, walked down his hall and opened fire when he saw the intruders, critically wounding one and sending the other fleeing, police said." ...

http://www.dailynews.com/news/.....source=rss

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The burglar was probably from an underprivileged background, and if it weren't for the capitalists and the Tea-Baggers, he would have been rich and happy! BAN GUNS!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Three days after pulling its funding for cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation on Friday apologized for the decision and reversed course.

Sucks for those who donated to Komen after the separation.
1. SIV 13 years ago
  
  Not too late if they can still cancel the checks!
  
  Now only if we could get Uncle Sugar to cutoff funding to those baby-killing eugenicists at Planned Parenthood.
SIV 13 years ago

Why does the Susan G Komen zombie hate babies? Does she think their stem cells will reanimate her?
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Las Vegas (CNN) -- Most of the remaining Republican presidential candidates spent Friday barnstorming across Nevada -- one day before that state's critical first-in-the-West presidential caucuses.

Front-runner Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul crisscrossed the state, focusing in large part on its battered economy.

Well, look who got included in the list of candidates, and right there in paragraph two. CNN's editors are slipping.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.desmoinesregister.c.....s-advances

"Iowa laws pertaining to gun controls could be eliminated under a legislative resolution that would amend the state's constitution ..."

"House Joint Resolution 2005 would amend the constitution to say that the rights to acquire, keep, possess, transport, carry and transfer firearms for legitimate purposes is fundamental and cannot be denied." ...

"The resolution would also limit local governments' ability to restrict guns from such places as city halls, the attorney general's office said."

"Rep. Deborah Berry, D-Waterloo, said she supports Second Amendment rights but expressed deep concerns with the possible consequences of such a resolution."

"'Are we going to see another Gabrielle Giffords if you don't like something I do?' Berry asked. ..." ...

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Full retard, Miss Waterloo!
1. Colonel_Angus 13 years ago
  
  "if you don't like something I do"
  
  Like being against this amendment?
2. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  God damn that is retarded.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.ammoland.com/2012/0.....ent-crime/

PA: Triumverate of Philadelphia Officials Responsible for Violent Crime

"Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter expressed indignant outrage this past Monday regarding the case of Jorge Aldea, a man with a lengthy criminal record ..."

"Aldea was released on reduced bail mere hours before a warrant was issued for his arrest as the main suspect in yet another murder."

"Depending on who you ask, this murderous thugs release was the fault of the DA's Office if you ask the Police, and the fault of the Police if you ask the Office of the District Attorney ..."

"Today we learned of a man John Gassew, who was arrested no less the 44 times for crimes including armed robbery was finally sentenced to a 30 plus year term in prison for his crimes, only because Federal Prosecutors took interest in him ..." ...
Brandybuck 13 years ago

A days worth of outrage and shrieking over Komen, and it's become clear to me that abortion is more sacred to liberals than I previously realized. I have talked to many liberal friends today, and I still can't pin down the source of the Susan G. Komen outrage, other than abortion. It doesn't matter that Planned Parenthood doesn't actually perform abortions, they are still the symbol of abortion for both sides of the issue, and a slight to Planned Parenthood is a slight to the sacred feminist sacrament.
1. SIV 13 years ago
  
  Eugenics
  
  Progressives love eugenics.
  Saint Margaret slaying the inferiors for the greater good and all that. Progressivism always comes down to concentration camps and eugenics.
  1. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    What continually amazes me is how they've managed to sell their policies to a whole new generation, simply by changing the stated motivations behind them. No policy changes at all. Fucking brilliant marketing.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  If it wasn't for abortion Komen wouldn't have cut ties with PP in the first place, so the perception goes both ways.
  1. Brandybuck 13 years ago
    
    I'm listening for the howls of outrage that SGK has restored its funding to PP... Okay, I hear some low murmers over the cricket chirping. But nothing compared to the soul-rending wails that came from the left.
    
    Yes, I know it was all about abortion. But I have still never seen this amount of collective outrage before. It's like the Koben's zombie was raping their kittens or something.
3. Paul 13 years ago
  
  I have talked to many liberal friends today, and I still can't pin down the source of the Susan G. Komen outrage, other than abortion
  
  It's worse than that. The money the Komen foundation donated to Planned Parenthood was for breast exams, not abortion screenings or anything like that. Breast exams. Komen withdrew the funding because many planned parenthood sights didn't have the breast exam equipment, and therefore were not carrying out the Komen mission.
  
  But liberals unzipped their fly on this one. They're tacitly admitting that the Komen foundation funds may find their way into the abortion pipeline, so Komen's removal of funding was a defacto removal of abortion funding, QED.
4. nicole 13 years ago
  
  Also, PP does perform abortions, at least at some outlets.
  1. Unborn Baby 13 years ago
    
    *screams silently*
    1. woman 13 years ago
      
      *screams loudly, out here in the real world*
5. cynical 13 years ago
  
  Abortion is the only thing that progressives truly believe in. I mean, they'll sell out pretty much any other principle they have, but abortion is sacred.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Shoot for the Cure

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....ore-103615
1. Xenocles 13 years ago
  
  "Shoot cancer in the face" sounds better than "Stand up to cancer."
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.opposingviews.com/i.....rtisements

"The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) ... has learned that FOX Sports Media Group has banned advertisements featuring firearms and ammunition from its coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events."

"While the UFC has yet to make an official announcement, NSSF has confirmed that 'absolutely no firearms, ammo, hunting or knife companies will be permitted as sponsors in any Zuffa-promoted events.'" ...
1. LauraB 13 years ago
  
  They're afraid they might be seen as promoting violence?
  1. Dana White 13 years ago
    
    What kind of faggot pussy endorses weapons?
    
    You want to kill someone, do it the Dana White way, bludgeon them to death slowly.
Binky 13 years ago

"There's a growing concern...that the Israelis...might launch a strike without approval, warning or even foreknowledge."

There's a growing concern...that the Americans...might launch a bailout without approval, warning or even foreknowledge.
1. JEP 13 years ago
  
  Oh no! Israel's going to beat us to the punch.
  
  Nuke Iran before it's cool.
  
  First!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The U.S. and Israel have a "significant analytic difference" over estimates of how close Iran is to shielding its nuclear program from attack, Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast peace negotiator in the Clinton administration, said today.

"There's a growing concern -- more than a concern -- that the Israelis, in order to protect themselves, might launch a strike without approval, warning or even foreknowledge," he said in an interview.

Doing so successfully will suggest Ron Paul's policy toward the region can work. Perhaps they don't need us at all.
1. Colonel_Angus 13 years ago
  
  Successfully? I predict that it would be the beginning of donezo for Israel and extreme Muslim countries.
2. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  But I thought TEH JOOOS ruled America, with their JOOO money and JOOO sneakiness for the glory of Israel and Pat Robertson.
  
  Why would they need to inform or seek approval from America before taking action?
  1. Fluffy 13 years ago
    
    Because they have to fly across areas covered by our radars to get to Iran, and therefore if they want to launch a "secret surprise" attack they have to get us to play ball beforehand?
    1. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
      
      Iran can't afford this same radar technology?
      1. Xenocles 13 years ago
        
        They probably can't put them in Saudi Arabia. Iraq, maybe.
        
        Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
        
        Syria allegedly has Iran's back on the radar front
        
        Syria will protect Iran from Israel's sneaky JOOO tricks.
        
        Xenocles 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, I should have mentioned Syria. Good call.
  2. J Ryan 13 years ago
    
    You are so right: Jews exert very little influence in American politics. Additionally, American policy is seldom bent to further the aims of Israel.
    
    Keep spreading the word.
3. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
  
  "There's a growing concern -- more than a concern -- that the Israelis, in order to protect themselves, might launch a strike without approval, warning or even foreknowledge," he said in an interview.
  
  I wasn't aware that Israel needed "approval" if they are attacking in order to defend itself.
  1. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
    
    EASY as pie target for Ron Paul to pump up his FP message.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.opposingviews.com/i.....-month-law

"A law that limits Virginians to one gun purchase per month is one step closer to being repealed. On Wednesday the Virginia House voted 66-32 to toss out the 18-year-old law."

"A similar Senate bill passed a voice vote -- a formal vote was delayed until Thursday." ...
1. for a little security 13 years ago
  
  One gun per month is more than enough.
  1. For exercising my rights 13 years ago
    
    One gun a month is far less than enough.
    
    Because there is no enough.
    1. Ben Franklin 13 years ago
      
      Sorry, I'm still getting used to this internet thing, and forgot the </sarc> tag.
2. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
  
  Why are we winning so hard on gun rights and failing so hard on other rights?
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  So if you wanted to shoot in Three Gun competitions, or Cowboy Action Shooting, you would have to wait three or four months?
Sidd Finch 13 years ago

Harvard Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe

This doesn't make any sense to me. Everyone knows Harvard discriminates against Asians. The SC says that's okay. Can any of you lawyers make sense of what's going on here?
RoboCain 13 years ago

Cops Shot And Killed 15-Year-Old Autistic Boy After He Threatened Them With A Butter Knife

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20.....umet-city/
1. Not really 13 years ago
  
  FTFA
  
  Stephon Watts' family said he suffered from Asperger's Syndrome ? a high-functioning form of autism ? and attention deficit disorder
  
  Sounds more like they shot a 15 year old boy with shitty behavior and a couple of bad diagnoses.
  1. Colonel_Angus 13 years ago
    
    You are totally correct. No matter how you look at it, the cunts didn't address the situation with common sense.
    1. Coeus 13 years ago
      
      I gotta say that this one looks iffy. One of the cops was cut, and you don't really have a lot of time to tell that he's not holding a stabbing weapon if the person is close enough to cut you.
  2. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    And this sounds like cops shot another 15-year-old-boy for having scissors:
    
    http://www.kvia.com/news/30363724/detail.html
2. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  "We tried to do everything we could to keep him from being a victim, as he was an offender. He chose to be an offender," [Calumet City Police Chief Edward] Gilmore said.
  
  "When he slashed the officer's arm, the officer felt his life was in jeopardy and he had nothing else to do, but to defend himself," Gilmore said.
  
  The officers have been placed on paid administrative leave.
  
  Don't you know that officer safety is the most important issue in America today? It's more important that your rights and certainly more important than your life.
  
  As a matter of fact, the police should just summarily execute you for being a suspect. It will ensure their safety in every situation.
  1. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
    
    I think you're being a little hasty. If someone cut me maliciously I wouldn't think twice.
    1. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
      
      The mother says "butter knife", the cops say "kitchen knife". Interestingly enough, butter knives are usually kept in the kitchen.
      
      What does it say about our officers of the LUH that five armed men are too chickenshit to takedown a 15-year-old with a butter knife?
      1. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
        
        Assuming the cops are wrong, nothing good.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"'The parent described rape tag as similar to freeze tag except that a person had to be humped to be unfrozen. After discussions with their classes, 5th grade teachers had reported that mainly students in two classrooms had played the game."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....e-tag.html
1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  They were not not unresponsive.
  1. Sum Gai 13 years ago
    
    this is why you don't facebook friend your parents.
Karl Hungus 13 years ago

In truly awesome prank, prisoner adds image of pig to Vermont police cruisers:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com.....e-cruisers
1. Colonel_Angus 13 years ago
  
  In another truly awesome prank, Simpsons already did it:
  
  http://reason.com/blog/2012/02.....of-vermont
RoboCain 13 years ago

British Education:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....-olds.html
1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Professor Frank Furedi, the author of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating, said: "This shows the loss of adult authority. Teachers feel confused about how to gain the respect of four-year-olds and instead of exercising discipline opt for the easy option of expulsion."
  
  Given the choice between letting teachers use a little corporal punishment on their spawn or having to deal with having the little brats at home all day, I would think parents would go for the former.
  
  And that picture. What's with the Brits and gingers?
shrike 13 years ago

Zuckerberg joins the big list of young super-capitalists on the liberal side. The old Bushnecks are being depleted fast - Romney is already antiquated.

Of course there aren't any conservatives posting here - you're all "libertarians" - (sarcasm intended).
1. A "libertarian" 13 years ago
  
  "Of course there aren't any conservatives posting here - you're all "libertarians" - (sarcasm intended)"
  
  See class, this is a perfect example of projection, shrek lies about being a liberal, so he assumes others lie as well.
  1. shrike 13 years ago
    
    I have never lied about being a liberal. I readily admit I don't pass the LP purity test. I support a few regs as Hayek also did.
    1. The truth 13 years ago
      
      "I have never lied about being a liberal.
      
      Except for every time you claim you're not liar.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, and Thiel just made another 2 billion bucks.
  
  He's closer to his own Mars colony every day.
3. Jordan 13 years ago
  
  Why wouldn't he? Team Blue does everything it can to increase their wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.
4. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  It must be hard to be sarcastic with Obama's cock in your mouth.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Amy Smart is still hot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....Smart.html
1. Coeus 13 years ago
  
  I'd prefer Kelly Brook:
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....razil.html
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Really??
    1. Coeus 13 years ago
      
      By any metric you'd care to choose.
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Wow.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "I Would Not Look to the US Constitution"

http://moonbattery.com/?p=7615
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Sweet Jesus. Resign.
  1. Lotta Guise 13 years ago
    
    Resign DIAF.
    
    FTFY.
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      She should have said: "You can have our constitution because, thanks to people like me, we aren't using it anymore."
2. robc 13 years ago
  
  I was in St Maarten shortly after its independence in 2010 (its still in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but independent from the Antilles now). There new constitution was printed one day in the newspaper. I brought it home. It was long...really wishy washy on certain rights (much more so than the US Constitution) and way to detailed. Like some of the crappy state constitutions.
  
  There were lots of things like: The right to X is absolute, except as determined by the congress.
  
  What the Fuck kind of right is that?
  1. . 13 years ago
    
    Maybe it also established the right of assigning arbitrary meanings to words.
3. tarran 13 years ago
  
  Once the flame goes out, we may never get it started again.
  
  What hyperbolic tripe! The U.S. government is going to crater like its predecessor even if Obama packs the court full of flaming Marxists.
  
  The trend is towards freedom. Yes, short-term the government seems to be diminishing freedom - but they are broke and sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
rather 13 years ago

My take on tits
http://rctlfy.wordpress.com/20.....own-hands/
Gus 13 years ago

Gary Johnson: 'Capitalism requires capital,' government 'robs' with taxes -

http://dailycaller.com/#ixzz1lMQu2taa
RoboCain 13 years ago

Emily Got Her Gun!!!!

http://www.washingtontimes.com.....-approved/
1. Paul 13 years ago
  
  "When transporting a firearm in a manner other than in a vehicle, it must be unloaded, inside a locked container, and separate from any ammunition."
  
  Meaning the best place to hold someone up and steal their firearm would be outside a shooting range. All law abiding people exiting the firing range and heading to their car will have their guns unloaded, inside a locked container and separate from ammunition.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Right, all of this entire series is what she had go through just to buy a handgun. Although, I don't even know if DC has a public range. In order to actually shoot it, she'll probably have to go somewhere outside DC, such as VA (where people can get a CCW).
RoboCain 13 years ago

"West Virginia legislators have given the Parkersburg South High School mascot hope of a reprieve from a ban on guns on school property.

The Senate Education committee advanced a bill Thursday to exempt the school's Patriot mascot from the gun restrictions."

http://woub.org/2012/02/02/bil.....-exception
1. Blappo 13 years ago
  
  My high school mascot was a grenadier.
  
  I don't think it's been changed yet, but I also don't pay the slightest bit of attention to anything related to the school ever.
John 13 years ago

This is a good kabuki dance. Israel says it wants to attack Iran. Obama says no. Israel does any way with a wink and a nod from Obama. Iran takes the bait and attacks US forces in the middle east. Obama gets to claim the war is self defense. Suck it peaceniks.
1. DJF 13 years ago
  
  Don't you mean "suck it USA" since it means that the US will get into another war directly costing billions of dollars and probably US lives and indirectly much more with unstable oil prices.
  1. Cytotoxic 13 years ago
    
    Some people here seem to really want this to be so but nope America would kick Iran's ass all up and down.
2. Rusky Cruise Missiles 13 years ago
  
  Nice fleet you have there, wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
John 13 years ago

This is a good kabuki dance. Israel says it wants to attack Iran. Obama says no. Israel does any way with a wink and a nod from Obama. Iran takes the bait and attacks US forces in the middle east. Obama gets to claim the war is self defense. Suck it peaceniks.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

European human-rights bodies want Armenia to give conscientious objectors (mainly Jehovah's Witnesses) an exemption from the military conscription law.

Minister of Justice says he's working on legislation to meet European objections.

Ha ha, foreign countries sure deny religious freedom, don't they?

http://bit.ly/wYyetE
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

Here's a good one:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg talks to Egyptian TV, calls US Constitution "rather old constitution." To Egyptians considering making their own constitution, she says: "I would not look to the US Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012."

http://volokh.com/2012/02/03/u.....witterfeed
1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  Oops, already posted. Should have read the whole thread. Bummer.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    It's OK, it was worth repeating.
Coeus 13 years ago

More fake outrage:

http://jezebel.com/5881430/dont-call-me-babe

The money line?

I am suggesting, however, that language changes over time

Unstated:

"Dammit, just because noone ever says anything offensive to me, doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to act offended."
1. nicole 13 years ago
  
  (As we were discussing last night,) language does change over time...and the only thing that would disturb me about someone calling me "babe" was that they were calling me babe?do people still use that word with a straight face?
  1. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    I do occasionally. But it doesn't really sound so cheesy and '80s when done through my strong hick accent. Usually, though, it's just used in text form. Guys get called dude.
    
    And language changing over time is a piss poor excuse to keep finding new things to get offended over.
  2. 0x90 13 years ago
    
    It's been my experience that women are always tacking on a superfluous 'hun' or 'babe' in casual conversation with me. It's never been in my parlance to do that with them, and actually, I don't think I've ever observed any other guy do it either. I've never given it much thought, but I suppose it is probably just more a regional/cultural thing.
  3. kinnath 13 years ago
    
    Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side.
2. Roger 13 years ago
  
  Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say babe at will to old ladies.
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Endearment is microagression!
Brian from Texas 13 years ago

America's Middle East policy needs to be one where we just stay away from all those religious fanatics. People have been fighting over this region since before recorded history and no amount of butting in on America's part is going to change that. If Israel and the Muslim States want to kill each other, LET THEM!!!!
Coeus 13 years ago

New York cop kills unarmed teen for suspected pot posession:

http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-.....5388.story
1. Coeus 13 years ago
  
  Shit, I missed the article on this. Nevermind.
Coeus 13 years ago

Can we please retire the meme that "women are held to impossible standards"?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....a-man.html
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Was there ever a slut standard?
  
  "I was sleeping with up to seven men a day and even now I can't go more than 24 hours without sex.
  
  About three months after my surgery I went to a swingers' party and had sex with ten different men."
Hosting 13 years ago

Why the U.S. is always implicated in intrigues?

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