Obama Says Iran Diplomacy Window is "Shrinking," New Greek Bailout Approved, Polish Soldiers to be Re-Tried for War Crimes Related to 2007 Killing of Afghan Civilians: P.M. Links
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The U.K. and the U.S. are buds. When their heads of state get together they sometimes say things like "the window for solving this issue diplomatically is shrinking" about Iran.
- Santorum dice a Puerto Rico: Hacer del inglés su (única) lengua oficial o seguir siendo un bien común.
- New Greek bailout is official: 130 billion euros to keep things going until 2014; prevent riot-porn photojournalism and general economic ruin.
- Today the Internet was dazzled by an ex-Goldman Sachs executive's angry New York Times editorial.
- Uh, think of the children? CBS has depressing tale of Mexican drug mule kids turned addicts.
- The American soldier alleged to have killed 16 Afgani civllians on Sunday was removed from the country. Meanwhile four out of seven Polish soldiers inititally tried will likely be re-tried for war crimes related to the deaths of six Afghan civilians in 2007.
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You know what's not shrinking? War boners.
Some sick part of me wants to see Santorum elected just so he can go on a quixotic crusade against the Al Qaeda cells in Nicaragua that he fervently believes to exist.
They just need to stop rubbing them.
Cause hanging towel-heads on them sure doesn't work.
"My trigger finger is getting itchy. I need another war going into the election."
What I love about that self-righteous Goldman exec is his timing.
He goes on and on about how Goldman is toxic, blah, blah, blah, but I notice that he managed to hang on until his annual bonus was paid.
Bad logic. There's some chance he will do better things with that money than one of the scumholes at GS.
By that approach, nobody should ever leave an organization they find toxic, immoral, whatever. Better to stay and separate them from their money.
No you should decide to leave and then maximize your takings from them relative to the moment of decision.
I'm just saying, sticking around to cash a check really takes the shine off your high moral dudgeon, is all.
I learnt a new word today.
I maintain that RC meant to type "dungeon" or "dudeogon"
*dudeogon, n.: a polygon with dude number of sides.
By that approach, nobody should ever leave an organization they find toxic, immoral, whatever. Better to stay and separate them from their money.
Ride it till the wheels fall off.
I found it odd that he only thinks things turned bad in the last year.
Was he not paying attention the previous decade?
When he was a newbie there I had long thought the place toxic given its long association with government manipulations of the market. Though this editorial gives me the hope that the rats are leaving the sinking ship because there is something huge on the horizon. Seemed he was a bit too concerned about establishing his bona fides as an upright wholesome values loving guy.
I think his definition of toxic meant bilking clients, not cheating society in general.
That's when Corzine was in charge, wasn't it?
Eh, when I've left companies I've hated, I've waited until after bonus time if it was only a couple of months away.
Principled != stupid
I always wait for a big delivery of toilet paper and paper towels before I quit a job.
"but I notice that he managed to hang on until his annual bonus was paid."
I didn't know he was a lawyer too 😉
Federal Reserve joins Twitter!
First step, increase the supply of Twitter characters from 140 to 1400. #QE3bitches
Best comment, would read again, A+++++++++++++
But all the characters have to be ones and zeroes.
shouldn't I get an 8x multiplier on my limit then?
(disclaimer: I'd use the extra chars to paint ascii pictures in zeros and ones.)
(disclaimer: i'd use all the chars for ascii pictures.)
What has Ron Paul done as House Monetary Policy Chair?
I keep looking and nothing is happening.
I caught his first House hearing and the chuckles that ensued though...
You're still just mad he didn't molest you after the prom!
Doing nothing is a step in the right direction.
Londoners whine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tra.....ondon.html
The Sky is Blue
not in London
No wonder they're whining
Only a few of those things are specific to London...
How many different ways can Santorum say "I am a douchbag"?
57
LUCY!! Happy Afternoon
"the window for solving this issue diplomatically is shrinking"
It's not shrinking, assholes, you're shutting it.
Ah the good old passive voice - a very good indicator that the speaker or writer is doing or did something very bad.
Ah the good old passive voice - a very good indicator that something bad is being done by the speaker
FTFY
Come on - mistakes were made
"Is shrinking" is not the passive voice. "Is being shrunken" would be the passive voice.
Syntactic analysis would support your contention, but the semantics here indicate a passive intent. The active agents are deleted and replaced with the passive patient...just because this is done in an active voice does negate the point being made.
just because this is done in an active voice does negate the point being made.
I know this is a typo, but I think you actually got it right.
Being in the active voice absolutely makes it not in the passive voice.
A is A.
Yes, but it still attempts to obfuscate the actors in the same way that use of the passive would, was his point.
"Ain't my fault I had to go and attack another Persian country -- that diplomacy window shrunk."
Being in the active voice absolutely makes it not in the passive voice.
Language ain't math.
It is not that simple.
But, you will note, I didn't claim it was in the passive voice. Simply that the syntactic analysis was not a refutation of tarran's point.
"Done been shrank."
The market provides desired goods at affordable prices. Why can't anyone learn this?
Why do you hate teh childrunzs, Joe?
WHY!!!??
CRACKBABIESHELPLESSVICTIMSPUSHERSDRUGLORDSADDICTIONNOTMYFAULTGUILTYZOMG!!!1!
Gold down $52 today. That is a bubble ripe for a pop. But it fell $90 in one day a couple of weeks ago and moved up in subsequent trading sessions.
When it pops it will be salty tears on Wingnut.com...
Is it ever! It's amazing to me - we've had two scorchin' hot poker up your asshole examples in the last dozen years of why not to buy something when it is at record high prices and people just keep on doing it.
buy high, sell higher,
There's a greater fool somewhere around here.
You cannot time a bubble.
I remember the great Soros bailing on tech stock shorts in 1999. The NAZ crashed in March 2000.
you absolutely can time a bubble. I shorted Netflix a week before it dropped 25%.
Of course you can't. You can sure as hell not lead with your jaw, though.
There are a lot of financial advisers that timed one major event and got a 'genius' reputation yet were wrong afterwords time after time.
Soros timed his war-profiteering very well by buddying up with Obama and the Clintons.
And yet gold is still ~3.5x what it was 7 years ago.
It's not a great investment, but it has a looong way to go (about 70%).
Also, bad trading days have almost no correlation to a long-term downward move (or even the next trading day).
A long way to go before return to pre-runup levels, that is.
Yeah, but peanut butter is up 29% from a year ago. Got chocolate?
Slime mold grows in same pattern as highways on a map. Interesting stuff.
Am I the only one that doesn't find this interesting? Roads generally try to connect cities on the shortest path possible. Of course something looking for food is going to ooze to the food on the shortest path possible. It seems painfully obvious to me.
jinx:)
I would think that would be common sense. It moves in a straight line toward the nearest food source. How else would it survive?
Ever see them in nature? I find them fascinating.
Slime mold grows in the same pattern as highways on a map, and for the same reasons.
Eisenhower and the Cold War?
What would happen if DC got nuked? I'd miss Reason...
The only thing to survive would be a smoldering leather jacket ...
God that's poignant.
if only he still had the handlestache, I'm sure that you would have found it, disembodied, in an intact pile on top of said jacket.
It will exist as a silhouette on the side of a building and some clever kid will come by and write beneath it 'Ceci n'est pas une mustache'
+1.
I'm confused; I thought Reason was in LA
They moved to be closer to the cocktail circuit.
Then what explains this: I am pleased to announce that Reason has been nominated for a record (for us! I think!) eight different journalism awards from the Western Publishing Association, which covers magazines and weekly newspapers and websites headquartered west of the Rocky Mountains.
Where the fuck else would you expect to find a bunch of Beltway Cosmotarians but in DC?
silverlake.
Nearly the last chance to get in on the Reason Hit & Run Superpimp March Madness Men's College Basketball Bracket Pick-em Festival
password is: reason
We're up to 40 brackets, so I guess there's still some hope that not all libertarians are asocial shut-ins.
And just like the bowl pick-em, the winner gets to marry one of the other players.
Good luck to all you crazy kids participating in The Brackets?!
Yeah, but the one I want to marry (sloopy) is already out of the running.
What do the losers people who participated but were not recipients of the title get?
The biggest loser has to marry the winner, apparently.
They get to "marry" STEVE SMITH.
I registered using my Yahoo account name of palin_the_skank.
Why didn't you use that as your team name, shriek? I mean, yours is super-original and all, but geez.
I don't know what a team name is.
And I don't play for a team. Really, I never did this before.
I did the brackets though. Go Murray State!
Didn't they perform One Night in Bangkok?
You're thinking of Murray Hill. Or was it Jan Murray? I always get them mixed up.
Hey!
there are 40 brackets worth of libertarians? I don't normally do these things, but what the hell.
It's actually 5 libertarians and 35 sock puppets.
I can't believe there are still 40 people who care about college basketball.
Really it's an excuse to say the word "Gonzaga" a lot.
Gonzaga!
Interesting that it is the same ratio as commentators.
given that anyone can make two brackets, I think you mean 2.5 libertarians and 17.5 sockpuppets.
I want to see you all lose to the computer-generated bracket.
As long as I can start Graham Gano in the final and improbably win despite shitty management, I'm in!
Seriously, though, you and Banjos need to watch the Notebook.
never know when you need that long field goal in the waning seconds. Only problem is Gano specializes in the football brand of FGs.
I have no interest whatever in college basketball, but got intrigued with the problem of selecting the optimum bracket. What you will witness is the effects of combining the insights of someone who knows nothing about basketball but a strong knowledge of Excel and the ability to read English and someone who knows almost everything about statistics.
I filled out mine but I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on the people filling out more than one bracket in the same group.
Bear Grylls sacked in contract dispute. Guess they didn't offer him enough piss.
did he ever do a show with Les "Survivorman" Stroud?
If not, he should.
Maybe they can team up against 'Mantracker"
Les and Bear are like polar opposites.
That would make it interesting then
To survival experts with different personalities. We'll call it Dual Survival.
Does that show already exist? The backwoods guy from Ohio (I think) and the Desert Hippie?
That was supposed to be the joke.
"Green survival" has to be the dumbest thing ever. In a survival situation the only thing you need to know about the spotted owl is that it tastes like chicken.
"Green Survival" = Eating PEOPLE!!!
That was supposed to be the joke.
At least you are clear on your failure.
Yeah I saw it. It wasn't all that great. The hippie was clueless.
A clueless hippie? The hell you say!
AlmightyJB - you're watching it wrong. I watch Dual Survival as if it is the story of a married gay couple trapped in the wilderness and it all makes perfect sense and give me lots of lulz.
Too much piss, not enough vinegar.
Bear Grylls sacked in contract dispute.
AWW YEAH!!!
Honestly, fuck that guy. I watched a few episodes and was aghast at how stupid the shit he did was. He basically was instructing people how to get hypothermic, poisoned, injured and exhausted as fast as possible in the outdoors. Plus!+ Annoying as fuck twat brit smarmyness. Insult added to injury/death.
the people who are responsible for the sacking have been sacked
Oh, sweet. Now we'll have more time for further iterations of fat, stupid, unappealing assholes building/selling/harvesting/trading/hunting stuff. Or maybe they'll just dumb it down even more, and they'll present fat Southerners sitting around and arguing about shit over their Chik-fil-a dinners. They're almost fucking there, anyway.
Am I the only one that doesn't find this interesting? Roads generally try to connect cities on the shortest path possible. Of course something looking for food is going to ooze to the food on the shortest path possible. It seems painfully obvious to me.
grr misreply
The new menace-----toy guns in Easter Baskets. These shitheads just won't stop...
That makes me want to beat that guy to death with a toy guns. Or better yet an easter basket.
Because there is nothing violent about Easter?
FTA: "As a Christian, I'm insulted that Kmart or any store would use this celebration of life to have images of guns in Easter baskets, encouraging parents to buy them for their children,"
Technically, isn't Easter a celebration of death?
You're thinking of Black Friday
Pretty sure that's Good Friday unless you were referring to stampedes over flat screen TV's.
No, I meant the stampede one. Apparently I mixed up Walmart and Kmart on this, in terms of craziness. Joke = Ruined
Kmart doesn't have enough customers for a stampede?
For some reason, I think they would around Chicago.
WWJ buy?
If I had a hammer ....
Fullerton PD back in the news:
http://www.policeone.com/patro.....-evidence/
Destruction of evidence, cop charged was not involved in the beating we've heard so much about.
Walmart Sells MACHINE GUNS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhSFeP9siA
Good thing he's at Walmart. He can get some depends for all the pants shitting he does on a regular basis. It's no wonder he disabled comments.
"I'm not gonna get bait, I'm gonna get fudge-covered pretzels"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure for him that is bait. At least the fudge-covered part.
Comments on youtube are disabled, but they seem to be wide open on FB 'fans' page: https://www.facebook.com/SethHendrixFans
He's a "comedian" from LA. Have at it.
Holy shit this guy is a dork. Half of his videos are Minecraft videos. Does anyone besides teenage nerds and Aspergers-ridden shut-ins watch that crap?
Alright, I'm going to expose myself here (whoa, not like that) - but there are some awesome Minecraft vids. Namely the ones that do music compositions (I really like the theme to Portal one).
Why are you pointing at me?
I rest my case.
You just don't understand me, man!
*grabs cheetohs, runs downstairs*
The only not-awesome thing about this is that the guy who made the video seems to be upset.
He talks like he was raised in North Korea. Who the fuck has never heard of a gun rack?
um..machine guns? I don't think so. Variations on semi-automatic rifles does not a machine gun make.
Unless they are full-auto, then my estimation of Walmart just went up a notch.
The walmart where I live pussed out and quit carrying even shotguns.
He keeps saying that his "mind is just blown". Heh. For your mind to be blown, you have to have one.
For some reason, the word "faggot" immediately came to mind.
Further proof for my theory that you can tell if someone's a lefty just by the way their voice sounds (ie, sort of smug and douchey, but with a hint of something that almost sounds like they're slightly salivating as they speak).
An earnest whisper.
Like they have a family heirloom lodged in their anus?
Typical hoplophobic asshole. Not surprised.
The only info to be gained from that video is that Seth knows absolutely nothing about guns.
ZOMFG!!1!!1!!!11 GUNZ!!ELEVENTY!
You can always tell the ones who have never stepped one foot outside the big city limits. Their surprise! never! stops!
BTW, nice camera work, asshole.
BTW, nice camera work, asshole.
Survivorman: WalMart
Yes, what others said. Machine guns are different from the rifles he was looking. I'm hardly an expert, but I do know that at least.
and a machine gun is different than a submachine gun!
I think 30cal or 50cal Browning when I hear the word "Machine Gun"
Not a spoiler:
Why are fans holding a confederate flag at the Chelsea match?
It has a different meaning/history over there unrelated to CSA. I think. Who was spoiling the Bayern Munich match yesterday? GRRR!
Drogba complaining about a player rolling around injured. "Look ref, I know it when I see it. I practically invented it".
Remember, this is the team that ran Anders Frisk out of football we're talking about.
"Republicans turned off by size of Obama's package"
http://thegloss.com/culture/21.....-youre-30/
What the fucking fuck?!?!
100 miles inside the US/Mexican border and we're stopped at a goddamn CBP check.
Ihre Papieren, bitte.
Sloopy: "Oh, hello. Why are you stopping us? Something wrong?"
CBP Agent: "STOP RESISTING."
I wish. NO, he just asked Banjos if we were both citizens and sent us on our way. Still pisses me off, though.* And this was the first time I've encountered one of those.
*We'll be passing the California Agricultural Checkpoint on Sunday. That's usually where I go ballistic.
I live in Imperial County, California and can't leave this shit hole county without going through a BP checkpoint. Heading to Arizona? Checkpoint. Heading to San Diego? Checkpoint. Heading to Palm Springs? Checkpoint. I almost lose it everytime I have to stop and answer these assholes questions.
Why stop?
There is no fucking way its constitutional.
Somehow it seems they have found a way around that... the Checkpoints have existed for over ten years now.
Please, they've had bp checkpoints in New Mexico since the '80s.
I have many fond memories of my family being stopped and questioned by federal authorities for no particular reason.
I agree with you robc; alas, the Supreme Court does not.
Not that this state of affairs is unusual.
The one at Sierra Blanca is especially infuriating. Over/under on the number of years before we'll need internal passports?
50/50 They'll be pushing it in the next 10 and mandating it in the next 20.
Actually, the Supreme Court is fully aware that it's unconstitutional. They just don't care, so they tell plausible sounding lies to obfuscate.
Imperial County? At least it's aptly named.
Well they couldn't name it Butter County, could they?
/rimshot
We're moving toward checkpoints at all state line crossings. Internal Passports will be required.
Kind of cool tour of ancient Rome via Agitator
http://exp.lore.com/post/19212.....he-ancient
via Agitator
What's next on his agenda, "Balko does the Balkans"?
Dude, he's been posting pictures of Croatia for the last year.
It's one of the many reasons that Balko and I have a bro-dom destiny.
"American flag with President Obama's image sparks outrage at Florida Democrats"
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012.....emocratic/
"Certain elements cannot accept Barack Obama as president."
And for damn good reasons!
She meant it's because he's black, silly.
The President is near!
=D
Because we are a nation of men, not laws... Strong, black men.
Private property, so Im okay with it, in a legal sense, regardless of what the law really is.
But, damn, that is stupid. And then when vets complain, to not immediately take it down nor promise not to do it again is even more stupid.
I'm going with stupid all around on that one.
That sounds like a safe bet.
I am amused with China. Big posters of Mao all over the place of a killer of many millions. Obombster is a minor-league killer compared to Mao. Still it's a little sick. Personality cult-worship.
"the window for solving this issue diplomatically is shrinking"
Then it needs more Santorum.
"A Gaithersburg priest has been placed on leave after denying communion to a lesbian at her mother's funeral in February.
A letter from an archdiocese official says that Rev. Marcel Guarnizo was placed on leave for engaging in intimidating behavior. The archdiocese had previously apologized for Guarnizo's behavior.
Barbara Johnson, the woman who was denied the communion, has asked the archdiocese to remove the priest."
http://www.nbcwashington.com/n.....07825.html
That damn dyke was intimidating me!
Is this the lady who told the fucking priest she wasn't in a state of grace and then got pissed when she was denied the Eucharist? I'm sort of glad that the church is cutting her some slack (given that her mom had just died), but they should have stuck to their guns and said that she wasn't ready to receive the sacrament.
C'mon, Catholic Church: If you're going to make rules, fucking enforce them; then, if they're shitty, get rid of them instead of keeping them nominally in place but letting people slide. Who do you think you are, the government?
fucking enforce them; then, if they're shitty, get rid of them instead of keeping them nominally in place but letting people slide.
HEY!!
Ingl?s solamente, putas.
Tengo herpes para tu. MUCHO HERPES.
I can't decide if this story would be more annoying to Tulpa or Sugarfree?
http://www.lehighvalleylive.co.....h_com.html
That is a great story.
A GPS monitoring device he was required to wear reveals he was in the area of the burglaries when they were committed, police said.
That's some fine police work there Lou...
It would have been funny if he shot Giffords replacement:
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dp.....o-03142012
The guy who threatened Arpaio is described as a "President Barack Obama fanatic." Now he's convicted of threatening violence.
Commence media thumbsucking about how our political culture encourages violence.
Gonna start any time now...
I'm sure Obama will embrace Arpaio.
How Santorum won Alabama:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/b.....essage-san
"JFK has an 85% approval rating in this country"
No wonder. The man is dead!
Hagiographies usually do have better approval than living people.
Stay classy, OWS
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/.....27056.html
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_20158879
Man, about 30 of these anuses decided it was a good idea a couple of days ago to march down Pennsylvania and up 20th to K St. blocking traffic the whole way and then lying down in the middle of K St. to block traffic chanting "show me what democracy looks like" and "we are the 99%" with their signs saying "stop raping the people." If the cops hadn't been right on their asses, I'm sure someone's tires would be raping the people in short order. Dammit, people, you're steam ran out 3 months ago at least. You're not bringing on any new followers anymore, and you certainly won't do it by pissing people off who are trying to get home after work.
The first link has this picture in a sidebar, with the tagline "Michelle Obama style guide." Gross.
Never mind. Pretty sure that's Dennis Rodman.
You know her stylists are in it for the laughs.
Stay classy rapey, OWS.
You mean you are not impressed how they express their inclusion and multiculturalism by bringing in other species of parasites?
Just for the record, it looks like the rape suspect was a homeless guy rather than an OWS protestor.
I think that's been a typical problem for the the OWS crowd, across the country actually. You build a tent city with a bunch of food around at a downtown area anywhere, and it attracts homeless people like a magnet.
There are a lot of transients out there for whom 15 minutes alone with an occupy chick and ten years in prison are an even trade.
The only reason this doesn't happen more often is because the only time there are chicks like that around, usually, is in broad day light. Once OWS starts bringing the kind of victims these predators want downtown and putting them in tents at night right next to the homeless?
It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
The American soldier alleged to have killed 16 Afgani civllians...
Afghan. Not Afghani.
This is an Afghani.
What you want is called a dictionary.
This article is so incredibly stupid I don't know where to start. He begins by mocking a poll which shows that the majority of americans are smarter than him, and it goes downhill from there:
http://politics.salon.com/2012.....singleton/
I read about three sentences and five comments, couldn't hit alt+f4 fast enough.
Yes, I stopped reading before I lost the ability to eat with utensils.
I clicked one of the sidebar links and then got weirded about by the similarity of Obama's bracket to my own.
"Santorum traveled to the U.S. territory to campaign ahead of the island's Republican primary election scheduled for Sunday, where he, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are vying for 20 delegates."
Those are the only three candidates you need to concern yourself with, citizen.
NY Times runs anti-Catholic ad, anti-jihadist actist tries to buy an identical ad with references to Islam rather than Catholicism.
Times official says he wants to hold off on the Islam ad for a few months until things in Afghanistan settle down.
Yes, it's official - you can make fun of people as long as they're not murderous, in which case they should be shielded from criticism.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....mark-steyn
OK wow man I like the sound of that dude.
http://www.World-Anon.tk