Obama Takes Credit for Ukraine Ceasefire, WHO Says Use Survivors' Blood to Fight Ebola, Uber Sponsoring Police Militarization Conference: P.M. Links

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  Ukraine and Russian-backed troops agreed to a ceasefire today, and President Obama took a lot of credit: "The only reason that we're seeing the ceasefire at this moment is because of both the sanctions that have already been applied and the threat of further sanctions" against Russia. NATO approved a new plan for preventing future Russian aggression.

• Commandos allege that the CIA ordered them to "stand down" during the 2012 Benghazi attack, but top Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee say there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.
• "I am going to be making a decision … probably after the first of the year about whether I'm going to run again or not," says Hillary Clinton. I'm holding breath waiting, so hopefully I'll be passed out when she makes the announcement.
• Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz yesterday compared the policies of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) to domestic violence, saying that he is "grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back." Today she apologized for the statement… sorta.
• Missing the expected mark of about 212,000 jobs, the U.S. economy added only 142,000 jobs in August. The fact that 17,000 fast food workers went on strike certainly didn't help.
• The Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIL or ISIS) is rapidly "extending its influence to Egypt" according to an exclusive Reuters report. 
• The World Health Organization suggests that to fight Ebola, doctors treat patients with the blood of survivors. Sounds like a concept for an awesome metal album.
• A plane flying from New York to Florida veered off course and became unresponsive, prompting the government to track it with F-15 jets. The plane eventually crashed near Jamaica.
• Uber is sponsoring a police militarization conference. Why, Uber? Why?!

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Today she apologized for the statement... sorta.

She explained that she had just walked into a door.

[Ted S.]

Hello.

[smacks Fist]

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hello

"President Obama took a lot of credit"

Doesn't he always?

[Brandon]

If you call "the economy would've been worse" taking credit.

[Ted S.]

If we don't pass the stimulus, unemployment will rise to 8%!

[CE]

Too much austerity, no doubt.

[Ted S.]

All the credit, none of the blame.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...but top Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee say there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.

Hard drives being unreliable as they are.

[JWatts]

And apparently pretending that the book the commandos wrote doesn't exist.

Isn't that comment pretty similar to the joke about the farmer who, upon seeing a rhino for the first time, says, "There ain't no such animal!".

[Corning]

Isn't the fact that they did not go in evidence that they were ordered to stand down?

[Agammamon]

Nope.

[Corning]

So they were ordered to stand down before the attack?

[Rich]

there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.

"He said; she said."

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Funny how the CIA seems to work like the IRS...

ha.

[Rich]

This is such bullshit. There *must* be a smoking gun somewhere.

[Almanian!]

I hear there's been some shooting in Ukraine lately.

/smoking gun theory

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ukraine and Russian-backed troops agreed to a ceasefire today, and President Obama took a lot of credit...

Give him this, he needs a foreign policy legacy!

[Palin's Buttplug]

If the Wingnuttery is going to blame Obama for the Ukraine war then he should take credit for ending it.

[Mike M.]

Congratulations on your new job, dipshit.

[Trials and Trippelations]

What job is a promotion from official Obama fellator?

[Jordan]

Official Obama Powerbottom.

[Trouser-Pod]

Funny, the mental image I get, every time his inane screeching shows up, is that of a twink.

/no joke

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Presidential Rimmer with reach-around.

If you blow hard enough, you can make BO burp the ABCs.

[Horatio]

I read this as "President Rimmer", which would be the greatest thing*.

*for Red Dwarf nerds

[adifferentken]

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"
🙂

[JWatts]

"then he should take credit for ending it."

I doubt anyone is particularly surprised with Obama attempts to take credit for something that someone else did while he was playing golf.

[Zeb]

Who blamed him for the Ukraine war?

[Jordan]

WINGNUTS!!!1

[Winston]

Sheldon Richman?

[PapayaSF]

Because as we all know, ceasefires invariably mean the end of wars.

[BuSab Agent]

It worked in Korea.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Nobody is doing either of those things. We're poking fun at the fact that he didn't do a damn thing in either case, but loves to screech that he did.

Like you!

[Medical Physics Guy]

Of course Obama did it. He's got a Nobel Peace Prize doesn't he? It gives him Magic Peace Powers.

[Mike M.]

Commandos allege that the CIA ordered them to "stand down" during the 2012 Benghazi attack, but top Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee say there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.

FAKE SCANDAL!!!

[Obama's Buttplug]

TOP Democrats

[Suthenboy]

Let me make sure I understand.

After what happened, how it was handled, and how dodgy the whitehouse has been about answering any questions about it, Top Democrats who face a very tough mid-term election are going to defend Obozo and attack the credibility of non-political soldiers who give a very believable account.

Go ahead guys, throw in with Obozo. Please.

[Corning]

Reid is not up for re-election this year.

As far as I can tell he is the only democrat who says anything.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Commandos allege that the CIA ordered them to "stand down" during the 2012 Benghazi attack, but top Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee say there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.

It was all on Lois Lerner's blackberry.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Here's a good mashup of Obama's Iraq policy:
http://www.facebook.com/video......4003885630

[Rich]

Beautiful.

[grrizzly]

It's awesome. But can one create something like this for every other major issue?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Are you around on Sunday?

[grrizzly]

Flying in tomorrow.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

11AM Sunday at Rush Street in Culver City.

Menu

[Fist of Etiquette]

The fact that 17,000 fast food workers went on strike certainly didn't help.

You say went on strike, I say campaigned for touchscreen menus.

[The DerpRider]

I'm happy my son started his robotics classes this week.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I doubt the strikers actually work in fast food.

[Sudden]

Nope, all SEIU/AFSCME scum. You know, the ones that will actually get a big pay raise when the MW increases while fast food employees get replaced by machines.

[db]

http://www.liveatc.net/archive.php?m=ztl_gso

I pulled up the liveatc recording of Atlanta Center around the time the plane (N900KN) stopped responding. The pilot sounds fine for a while, then requests a descent, center give him higher than he asked for, he asks for much lower, then he starts sounding really drowsy and slurred. Then he stops responding. Sounds like a slow depressurization.

This is the second apparent hypoxia-induced "ghost flight" in US airspace this week. Pretty uncommon.

[Rich]

Better shoot them down with ghost guns!

[Jordan]

Ban flights above 10,000 feet. Problem solved.

/bureaucrat

[db]

That'll never go...it wouldn't be environmentally responsible to increase the jet fuel burn like that.

[Jordan]

Ban flights. Problem solved.

/bureaucrat

[JWatts]

Good point, Let's ban all commerical flights, except those required by Important people. It's much more environmentally friendly to have the proles take the train. Just look at Europe. /bureaucrat

[Andrew S.]

Ban airplane travel*. Duh.

* Except for government and private planes, of course.

[Kaptious Kristen]

That reminds me of that Kalitta flight (which turned out a LOT better as ATCs and other pilots recognized what was happening)

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

What do they fly? The only Kalitta I've ever seen is a 747 cargo. It's at LAX every other day.

[Almanian!]

Kalitta's have also been known to "fly" top-fuel dragsters.

Same crew....

http://www.teamkalitta.com/

[Kaptious Kristen]

You have a direct link to the archive file? That just takes me to the ZTL archives search

[Kaptious Kristen]

Found it. Comms with the flight in question are at about 2:27

[db]

Yeah, they keep trying to contact and relay from other pilots later on. I haven't yet caught when they scrambled the jets, if you find it, can you point me to it, KK?

The flight went through ARTICle, in order;

New York ZNY
Washington
Atlanta ZTL
Jacksonville ZJX
Miami ZMA

[db]

ARTCCs above, not ARTICLEs

[db]

Also, add Cleveland center (ZOB) between New York and Washington

[Kaptious Kristen]

This has several different audio clips. Looks like the OP has one of some comms between the fighter pilots.

[db]

It was reported somewhere that the jets were launched around 1045 EDT (1445Z). That would have been sometime after the ZTL controller started asking 900KN to contact ZJX on 187.7MHz but before the plane was probably out of ZTL's range.

[db]

Sry, 127.875 MHz.

[The DerpRider]

Weather reports of DOOOOM from 2050! A new installment every few days!

And Japan enters the fray!

[Suthenboy]

Get a copy of "A Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan and read the section where he discusses falsifiability. There is an interesting discussion about an invisible dragon living in his garage. Ironically Sagan himself was a AGW cult member.

I thought that by 2012 a billion people would be dead from the effects of AGW, that by 2013 there would be no more sea ice, and that we would have Katrina-level hurricanes every year?

What a bunch of fruitloops.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Froot Loops.

That reminds me. Note to self.

[Zeb]

I wonder if Sagan would have changed his mind at this point when most of the predictions made in his lifetime have failed to come true.

[db]

I would hope he would have been self-critical enough, but look at all the others who aren't.

[MegaloMonocle]

Commandos allege that the CIA ordered them to "stand down" during the 2012 Benghazi attack, but top Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee say there's "no evidence" to back up that claim.

Since when does first-hand testimony not count as evidence?

[Xeones]

Since it's a FAKE SKANDUL, duh.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Objection, your honor! They're making us look bad!

[Rhywun]

The fact that 17,000 fast food workers went on strike certainly didn't help.

They were fired, then?

[Fist of Etiquette]

This looks like reason's Friday afternoon links dump.

[The DerpRider]

Cocktail party revelations at 6:00pm.

[Rich]

"I am going to be making a decision ? probably after the first of the year about whether I'm going to run again or not," says Hillary Clinton.

"It's Valentine's Day, so I'd like to say I've decided not to decide yet. As Rush has pointed out, that is 'making a decision'."

*** polite laughter ***

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz yesterday compared the policies of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) to domestic violence, saying that he is "grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back."

No one would touch that woman's hair.

[Ted S.]

Or any other part of the body.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Not until they get rid of that family of raccoons living there.

[Sudden]

Scott Walker is gonna be the next POTUS then, with a landslide victory thanks to the 50 shades vote.

[Pro Libertate]

Nothing says more about the utter horror that is the Democratic Party than that she has a leadership role.

[Rich]

Are you serious?

[Pro Libertate]

Her, too. And him, too, before anyone asks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIL or ISIS) is rapidly "extending its influence to Egypt" according to an exclusive Reuters report.

Egypt actually has a military. This might be a problem for ISIS.

[Cytotoxic]

Sinai is basically run by Bedouin for Bedouin.

[Corning]

Egypt actually has a military. This might be a problem for ISIS.

Yeah. The success of ISIS is more of a reflection of how much of a failure US rebuilding Iraq was and how much Iraqis really could give a shit about keeping Iraq a cohesive nation.

ISIS can't even oust Assad. What hope do they have against Egypt.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

The Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIL or ISIS) is rapidly "extending its influence to Egypt" according to an exclusive Reuters report.

Let's see. Started in the middle east. Expanding to North Africa. Sounds familiar. Time to start marshaling forces around Tours?

[PapayaSF]

And Vienna.

Naw, better to just let millions move in. I'm sure they'll all assimilate and never support the fundamentalist views of their religion.

[Brandon]

The modern Moops?

[Jensen]

Russell Brand Says We Are All To Blame For The Escalating Crisis In Iraq:

The fact that there are so many "desperate people, so many alienated people" indicates that we have to build a more "coalescent, inclusive, communicative and bonded society here in Britain...So people don't think 'I want to go to Syria and cut people's heads off, I like it here.'"

Brand said not to presume that IS are "madly evil," arguing instead that "terrorism is the nuclear bomb of the disenfranchised."

'Bonded society' eh? Love how the authoritarian mask always slips off.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

"terrorism is the nuclear bomb of the disenfranchised."

Fuck off, Russell Brand.

[PapayaSF]

Well, then since the other side has gone nuclear....

[Jordan]

Maybe he means bonded and insured.

[Winston]

So how pray tell is a "bonded" society "inclusive"?

[Ted S.]

Everyone's in equal bondage?

(Well, except for the TOP MEN.)

[Jensen]

Well see, it's when your brain is able to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time.

[Trouser-Pod]

Someone just needs to play the epic take-down of his character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall in a loop anytime he speaks.

As a start...

[Zeb]

First I need to know what a "bonded society" is. I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

I liked Russel Brand better when he was smoking crack and dressing up as Bin Laden.

[Rich]

"Bonded *and* insured!"

[Rich]

Oh, hello ... Jordan!

[MegaloMonocle]

So people don't think 'I want to go to Syria and cut people's heads off, I like it here.'"

Or, more likely:

Why should I go to Syria and cut off heads? I can do that here, and I like it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby

[PapayaSF]

And now Palmira Silva.

[ant1sthenes]

Though that sounded a standard issue crazy person.

[Max Power]

I think all the facebook shares he gets are going to his head and now he thinks people want to hear his opinions.

[Suthenboy]

Jesus Tittyfuckin' Christ. That is exactly the thinking that is going to make the Limeys go extinct. What an idiot.

[Almanian!]

I'd fund ISIS myself if they'd promise to cut off Russell Brand's head.

[Corning]

That is exactly the thinking that is going to make the Limeys go extinct.

Just take a deep breath and....let....it.....happen.

Really would not be a great loss.

I think I would feel worse if Florida fell.

[Pro Libertate]

Don't worry--we've almost got the pythons subdued.

[Zeb]

I don't see the problem with this part:
"coalescent, inclusive, communicative and bonded society here in Britain
I'm not really sure what "bonded" is supposed to mean there (but I also don't see the authoritarian angle, there is plenty of voluntary bonding among people), but isn't a lot of the problem the failed sort of multiculturalism where certain immigrant communities are tolerated more than assimilated and so never really become part of the greater society?

[Jensen]

I'm pretty sure Brand mean 'bonded' in the 'bonded together, for common action, and common slavery' sense.

[Zeb]

I would have thought it was more in the "we're all British and we're all in this together, so let's not murder each other" sort of way. Maybe I'm too charitable.

[Jensen]

Probably. Given Brand's mental state I don't think he really operates beyond buzzwords.

[Winston]

Russia's intervention in Ukraine isn't madness; it's a rational, realist response to what it correctly perceives as a geopolitical threat right there in its own backyard.

You Know Which Other country engaged in a rational, realist response to what they thought was a geopolitical threat in its own backyard?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Piedmont-Sardinia?

[mr lizard]

South Carolina?

[Ted S.]

Somebody ought to tell Putin that it would be rational and realist for Estonia and Latvia to expel hundreds of thousands of Russians to remove the irredentist threat.

(Not that I'm saying it's a good idea.)

[Drake]

Exactly what the Russians did to every German population enclave outside of Germany's shrunken post WW2 borders. Tossed a lot of Poles out of Eastern Poland too - then annexed it.

[MegaloMonocle]

In what way was Ukriane a geopolitical threat to Russia, again?

[Trials and Trippelations]

They hoarded the best vacation spot.

[mr lizard]

And the hotest women

[gaijin]

The Ukraine girls really knock me out...

[Suthenboy]

They had Russia's only warm water port, and all of the access to the land needed to secure that port.

Russia cannot be landlocked. I am sure they see that as a threat. Unless the world is willing to go all out shooting war with the Ruskies, they are going to take that port back and the land needed to secure it.

[Pro Libertate]

Could always threaten to block the straits if the Russians continue.

[Ted S.]

They disagree with Russia. I think it was George Kennan decades ago who said that Russia can only see two types of countries bordering it: enemies and vassals.

[Drake]

The were hoarding cleaning ladys and Russia was getting messy.

[PapayaSF]

Israel?

[Mercutio]

"Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam."

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Mexico?

[Ice Nine]

"there's 'no evidence' to back up that claim."

Aren't the first hand accounts of three people who were on the scene pretty damn substantial "evidence"?

[mr lizard]

A cellphone recording of that radio exchange would've been nice to have

[Rich]

"Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. And it's not like they have no vested interest."

[MegaloMonocle]

Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.

I wonder if that includes the eyewitness account of the CIA walla who denied that they were told to stand down?

[Rich]

It's unreliable accounts all the way down. 8-(

[RussianPrimeMinister]

No, it doesn't! Because fuck you!

[Drake]

Three people trained to extremes to stay calm and focused during dangerous situations.

[waffles]

"extending its influence to Egypt"

ISIE!

[mr lizard]

See what?

[gaijin]

dead people

[Cytotoxic]

I just want to say that I find the situation wrt Joan Rivers to be completely unacceptable. This has to be fixed.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

She's no Lou Reed.

[Jordan]

Sorry, I don't know any necromancers.

[waffles]

She's just resting

[Jensen]

You could probably make a pretty good Joan Rivers puppet out of her body, all you have to do is scoop out the insides and install some pull strings. Who'd know the difference?

[Sudden]

And of course her botched routine surgery happened just a month after she called Michelle Obama a tranny.

Wonder if the Obamas are trying to one up the Clintons on body count.

[PapayaSF]

I saw someone else say she had been "Breitbarted."

[Drake]

She didn't dine with the Ayers, did she?

[ant1sthenes]

I suggest a new strategy, Dot Matrix. Let the Wookiee win.

[Cytotoxic]

I also wanted to give a huge shoutout to the US military for icing the head of Al-Shabbab. Great work. Much peace.

[Sudden]

Did the proceeds of that icing go to ALS?

[PapayaSF]

Good. He claimed credit for the Westgate massacre. Too bad they haven't gotten the English woman who was involved.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

The World Health Organization suggests that to fight Ebola, doctors treat patients with the blood of survivors.

For entertainment purposes I recommend that only Jewish doctors be allowed to administer this treatment.

[Andrew S.]

You're evil.

I like you.

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Give ebola to Jesus, and wine becomes a cure?

[DJF]

Sounds more like a script idea for a Zombie movie then good medical advice.

[PapayaSF]

I'm sure that treatment is going to go over real, real well with many African patients.

[Max Power]

Here's a bit of government stupidity: Today the company I work for had a package returned by the postal service. It was shipping to an international customer and was returned because "Recipient name matches a denied party/entity who may not send or receive exports". The customer's name was Charles Taylor, so I guess anyone in the world that has the same name as a dictator can never receive shipments from the US.

[mr lizard]

Or you were just shipping knock-off converse shoes...

[BakedPenguin]

+1

[Rich]

That's why you always deal with "I.P. Daily".

[PapayaSF]

Use a middle name.

[Max Power]

Yeah, I think we're just going to have to ship it to his middle and last name or something. It still cost us a lot to ship the first time that I don't know if I have the energy to try to get back.

[PapayaSF]

Using "Chuck" might help, too.

[gaijin]

or Mike Hunt

[Bobarian (dinosaur hunter)]

Jack Meoff

Ben Dover

Peter Dragon

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Try Big Daddy Amin.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

"There's the right way, the wrong way, and the government way."

"Isn't that the wrong way?"

"Yes, but dumber!"

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Buenos tardes, Mien Fuhror.

[Obama's Buttplug]

Did anyone notice that during the pregame to last night's football game, that the crowd throwing their fists in the air as they shouted, "SEAHAWKS! SEAHAWKS! SEAHAWKS!" sounded an awful lot like (and looked a lot like), "SIEG HEIL! "SIEG HEIL! "SIEG HEIL!"?

[Ted S.]

My favorite experience with USPS and foreign mail was when I wrote a letter to Radio Slovakia International back in 1999 and ended the address with, "Bratislava, Slovak Republic". I got the letter back telling me I needed to write the name of the country in English.

So I added "Slovakia" to the address and took the letter back to the post office. I was then helpfully informed that mail delivery to Slovakia had been stupped due to the war in the former Yugoslavia. 😐

(I was of course right in the first place, not the idiots at the USPS.)

[Trials and Trippelations]

Why were you sending mail to Slovakia?

Just curious. I spent a year there a couple years ago

[Ted S.]

I listen to international broadcasters going back to the days when they were still all on short-wave. It was a reception report for a QSL card.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I was gonna ask the same.

Were you arguing for the reunification of Czechoslovakia?

[Restoras]

Why does anyone do anything? Because he was trying to get laid.

[Zeb]

I though it was because they're stupid.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

The two are not mutually exclusive.

[PapayaSF]

Back in the '70s, I once got a long delayed package in Michigan, and it was covered with postmarks indicated it had bounced around Mississippi for a while. It had the correct abbreviation for Michigan (MI), and the correct Zip code.

[Zeb]

Wow. There can't be more than what, several million Charles Taylors in the world. What could possibly go wrong?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

"Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz"

Oof. Madonna mia, that hair.

[PapayaSF]

Curly-haired women have a tough time.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Meanwhile, in academia.

[Jensen]

The Honeypot gets them every time!

[Restoras]

Which reminds me I need to finish rewatching Archer this weekend.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

You seriously can't write this shit up.

Student: "So you're a communist?"
Teacher: I am NOT a communist? How dare you? You've been fed a pack of capitalist lies. What is it with you extremists and you're luxurious world vie..(phone rings)...excuse me. Hello? Fidel? Teacher's position in Cuba, huh? How much? And I get free what? WOW! I'm coming right over. (hangs up). Alright class. Fuck you. I gotta go to Cuba and deal with a real, generous, humane country."

[Mokers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuBhemD3nk

[Illocust]

Wow, so does anyone know how to check if this is legit. I live with a bunch of leftist, and they aren't going to believe me without proof.

[Illocust]

Though, of note, I think I know one of the subverted professors. I went to George Washington University, and one of my professors was always going on about how he goes to Cuba whenever he can and talking about how nice it was there.

[Sevo]

Subverted, stupid; what's the difference?

[Corning]

In some cases, the Cubans use compromising video or audio and sexual entrapment to develop U.S. spies.

I am guessing there is a video of Sean Penn raping and killing a 12 year old Cuban girl (or boy) from one of his visits.

[Coeus]

The most terrifying thought experiment of all time.

You may be a bit confused, but the founder of LessWrong, Eliezer Yudkowsky, was not. He reacted with horror:

Listen to me very closely, you idiot.
YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL.
You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends.
This post was STUPID.

[Jordan]

Believing in Roko's Basilisk may simply be a "referendum on autism," as a friend put it.

I loled.

[Jensen]

Awww, I was hoping from Cronenbergian head explosions.

[PapayaSF]

After 9/11 when I was worried about follow-up attacks, I came up with a way to attack SF that would cause thousands of casualties and billions of dollars in damages. But I've never written about it.

[Jensen]

*waves over fellow NSA man*

Go on...

[Horatio]

Yeah, but its not difficult to come up with.

Mine is coordinated bombs in vans on 3 or 4 major highways at rush hour in every major city and then you,

hold on, there's someone at the door...

[RussianPrimeMinister]

You came up with a way to attack SugarFree?

That's just. . .I dunno. I wanna say mean, but it IS SugarFree.

[Corning]

You choose box B every time.

[Coeus]

Fuck that. I choose both. And if i end up breaking the simulation, so much the better. I'll just start flying around in my sunglasses and trench coat.

[Corning]

So I guess you will have to give up posting here and devote your time on that Basilisk overlord thing then.

[Coeus]

I'm sure I could leave a subroutine or two here to provide access to red pills.

It's gets lonely cruising around in a trenchcoat at 35,000ft.

[Corning]

Dude wrong Movie.

The Basilisk is evil.

Think more John Carpenters Prince of Darkness and less Neuromancer.

[Corning]

But the combination of messianic ambitions, being convinced of your own infallibility, and a lot of cash never works out well, regardless of ideology

Worked for Obama.

[Corning]

In the reddit posts Eliezer spends a lot of time saying a friendly AI that blackmails is not a very friendly AI.

But now that this exists any attempt to build a friendly AI to stave off the Evil Basilisk AI is in fact black mailing you.

"Build me or something evil will be built that will torment you in hell for eternity"

A friendly AI is now impossible to make.

[Coeus]

If it was only friendly if you were ignorant of it's true purpose, than it was impossible to make a friendly one from the beginning.

[Corning]

No no, you see right now we are the AIs right now. We are their processing power building them.

So what we think is what they are. If we never thought they were blackmailing us then they were not blackmailing us...but now that we thought it they are thinking it too.

[Ted S.]

Poor Peng Shuai. 🙁

[Invisible Finger]

When you start feeling overheated you should begin removing some clothing.

[Almanian!]

Rost match due to loasting heat.

Holliber...

[Winston]

Under these circumstances, Putin has acted as any Russian ruler would be expected to act with his country encroached on from the west

So the argument from Richman (and Rothbard) is essentially that the US faces no threats so whatever they do is bad but America's enemies face real threats so their wars and interventions are just.

[Zeb]

That assumes that Russian rulers are expected to act justly.

[Winston]

That assumes that Russian rulers are expected to act justly.

A lot of it end up sounding a lot like the Tom Friedmanesque notion that America's enemy are TOP. MEN. who have the best interests of the people at heart and actually Get Things Done unlike the corrupt incompetent clowns in DC. The notion that America's enemies could also be a bunch of corrupt, incompetent, lying demagogues is too much to handle.

Oh yeah and the fact that a country was provoked doesn't mean its response to it is just. I doubt you could describe Japan's behavior between 1931 and December 7, 1941 as very just or defensive let alone their behavior afterwards.

[Winston]

I'm pretty sure that James K. Polk acted pretty rationally and his political self-interest but I don't see many libertarians defending his foreign policy.

[Drake]

Even the ones from Scottsdale, Mexico?

[Winston]

Even the ones from Scottsdale, Mexico?

Even the ones in California.

[Andrew S.]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.1927186

NYPD arrests men for possession of jolly ranchers. Admits no wrongdoing.

[Almanian!]

"Do you have enough to share with the whole class olice force?"

/teacher

[Almanian!]

*marvels at the derpitude of it all*

I gotta stop taking oxy this early. Let's try again:

"Do you have enough to share with the whole class police force?"

HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

/teacher

[Invisible Finger]

I love the unnecessary photos in newspaper articles. It's a way to make the newspaper look like it has content.

[OldMexican]

Ukraine and Russian-backed troops agreed to a ceasefire today, and President Obama took a lot of credit

We have a saying for placing yourself at the front of a parade:

haciendo caravana con sombrero ajeno - taking a bow with someone else's hat.

[Sevo]

During the Little Rock school integration 'event', Faubus traveled to a governors meeting and attended a college football game.
The story is he was a bit 'lit', and every time the crowd cheered a play, he stood up and took a bow.

[Coeus]

The Oakland Raiders Finally Gave Their Cheerleaders Minimum Wage. Yay?

If you give a feminist a cookie...

[SusanM]

Waiting now for robot cheerleaders to take over 😉

[Horatio]

I had sympathy for this particular plight until I realized it was because the victims have huge tits and small waists

[Calidissident]

Amazonian tribes in Brazil capture and strip illegal rainforest loggers

http://www.independent.co.uk/n.....13609.html

[Coeus]

hehe

[Coeus]

Our criticsm was valid, but we understand that we shouldn't have written it anyway.

Apology: In our review of "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward Baptist, we said: "Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains." There has been widespread criticism of this, and rightly so. Slavery was an evil system, in which the great majority of victims were blacks, and the great majority of whites involved in slavery were willing participants and beneficiaries of that evil. We regret having published this and apologise for having done so. We are therefore withdrawing the review but in the interests of transparency, anybody who wants to see the withdrawn review can click here.

[Brandon]

"I am going to be making a decision ? probably after the first of the year about whether I'm going to run again or not," says Hillary Clinton. I'm holding breath waiting, so hopefully I'll be passed out when she makes the announcement.

It is a Hard choice.

I'm ashamed that no one beat me to that.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Frankly, if Zenon can hold his breath for four months, he should be doing porn. I hear they make killer money for underwater scenes.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz yesterday compared the policies of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) to domestic violence, saying that he is "grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back." Today she apologized for the statement... sorta.

I thought women liked it when you pulled their hair while they backed it up!

[db]

I saw a woman driving a pickup truck the other day with a sticker in the rear window that read:

"If you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair."

[userve32]

So who comes up with all that crazy stuff. Wow.

http://www.Crypt-Anon.tk

[prolefeed]

Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz yesterday compared the policies of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) to domestic violence, saying that he is "grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back."

Sounds like she is comparing his policies to vanilla kinky doggystyle sex.

Which is a good thing, IMO.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Me too! *wanks*