A.M. Links: White House Has Three Year Plan for Islamic State, Enterovirus Spreading in Midwest, South, Officials Hunt Cougar in California

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Beyond the Trail/flickr The White House reportedly has a plan to combat the Islamic State that would extend beyond President Obama's term in office. The three-year operation would include airstrikes in Iraq, equipping Iraqi forces, and airstrikes in Syria.
- Children in up to ten states in the Midwest and South are being hospitalized for symptoms of an uncommon but nasty respiratory virus, Enterovirus D68.
- Fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine less than two days after a ceasefire was announced.
- Supporters of independence for Scotland appear to be gaining momentum ahead of a referendum on the issue.
- Japan is looking for international approval to conduct whaling for research purposes in the Antarctic Ocean.
- State wildlife officials in California continue to hunt a cougar who attacked a 6-year-old boy.
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Children in up to ten states in the Midwest and South are being hospitalized for symptoms of an uncommon but nasty respiratory virus, Enterovirus D68.
It's really ebola.
Hello.
"Supporters of independence for Scotland appear to be gaining momentum ahead of a referendum on the issue."
I thought the SFL was already independent?
Ranger or Celtic?
I trust Braveheart will be repudiating his debt to the UK.
Supporters of independence for Scotland appear to be gaining momentum ahead of a referendum on the issue.
Gibson can finally make that sequel.
I like that after Mel went crazy he has to do small quirky rolls like machete kills. He really classes up a b movie.
Instead of yelling "Freedom" he can yell "Dole!"
The White House reportedly has a plan to combat the Islamic State that would extend beyond President Obama's term in office.
Giving the next administration, it's supporters, and it's detractors their talking points ahead of time.
I read the headline as Obama has 3 year plan to turn US into an Islamic State. Thought maybe he preemptively surrendered
This is Obama's version of paying it forward...everything is Bush's fault until 2017.
State wildlife officials in California continue to hunt a cougar who attacked a 6-year-old boy.
I though cougars usually went after college dudes.
Damn you for getting in first.
No italics FTW!
Please, The cougars want to be know by their correct name. Mellencamp.
Officials hunt cougar in California
She's on MILF Island
I think both are myths.
...
...Sorry, I was picturing MILF island.
SPOILER: It isn't Warty:
Jack the Ripper identified through DNA traces: sleuth
Take the SugarFree challenge:
Olive Garden: $100 for 7 weeks of pasta
Ummm....both links work?
*polite applause*
Olive Garden is about to try a pretty outlandish gimmick to lure folks in the door:
I, literally, can't comprehend more people in the door at Olive Garden. The one near where I live has a wait starting at 4:30 in the afternoon.
I can't believe there are that many people willing to pay the premium for a tasty laxative when they can nip out to the local CVS more quickly.
Yeah, I don't understand it. Chik-Fil-A is perpetually crowded too.
Chik-Fil-A has a tasty chikin' sammich. That can a bit harder to do than boil water, throw in pasta, drain, eat.
Yeah, I like their food too, but I don't see why the restaurant is always packed. It's not that good.
True, that part is a bit hard to understand. If it is like around here, they do not have a heavy density of locations, keeping the crowds higher?
Might have something to do with their employees always being polite and friendly and the restaurants clean.
All the old people go to eat at the same time, don't you know.
+1 Early Bird Special
My wife and I started eating earlier when we had our youngest and still tend to go to dinner at the nicer places before the rush (but after the senior dinner time, which is entirely too early). Kind of nice not waiting in line for 45 minutes.
I imagine places like Olive Garden have a pretty heavy senior business. Red Lobster appears to, though I haven't been there in quite some time.
Sounds like you and your wife are officially "old people" and are fighting the realization.
"Accept the senior discount, come over to the dark side!"
Not quite yet. We're more married with young children people.
Why do people eat there? It's the weakest of the Italian (or, perhaps better referred to as the Franco-American) chains, which, of course, all fail in comparison to local Italian restaurants in most of the country. I mean, I get the idea of just going somewhere convenient that serves something the kids will eat, but waiting in long lines for it?
Predictability. You know what you are going to get every time. A guaranteed mediocre meal is preferable to the chance of having a bad one.
My wife and I ate at the Olive Garden for years on our anniversary because it was a) the nicest place we could afford on our first anniversary and b) the traditional spot after the first one.
After our 15th or so I finally convinced her that we a) were making enough to afford better and b) didn't really like OG that much.
She was the traditionalist though and took some convincing.
There is a new shopping center opening back in my home town and people are actually lobbying for one. This and them complaining that it might be another BBQ joint are good reasons to have moved away.
I took a shit at the Olive Garden once.
Some parts of the country don't have local italian restaurants. They can't make a decent pizza, don't have a clue what italian bread is, think Al dente is a lounge singer, think it is possible to get good sauce from a can. Can't make a good sausage, or a good meatball, think osso bucco is just a type of pot roast.
I can go on and on and on.
At Olive Garden, you can get a mediocre simulacrum of the real thing--which is far better than the travesty available at the local 'italian' restaurants.
I waited tables at an Olive Garden in the mid 90s. I can tell you that you should never ever eat there based on what I've seen. But working there was a great place to score some good shit.
Give us $100 and we guarantee you'll get diabetes.
Or gain 7 lbs, at least.
Japan is looking for international approval to conduct whaling for research purposes in the Antarctic Ocean.
Research into how delicious and aphrodisiacal whale meat is.
Japan needs stimulus in more than one way, if you take my meaning on this.
Choking yourself with soiled panties from a vending machine while watching tentacle porn isn't cutting it anymore?
The bar just keeps getting set lower for them...
Japan's economy contracted at a 7.1% rate in Q2 after they raised taxes. I don't think they can whale their way out of their depression. I don't suppose spending cuts occurred to anyone over there?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....7-20-43-16
Japan is looking for international approval to conduct whaling for research purposes in the Antarctic Ocean.
Japan has been claiming 'research' as an excuse for whaling for decades. Oddly enough, the 'research' whale remains end up as sushi.
The fruits of their research will be in respectable outlets like the Food Network.
State wildlife officials in California continue to hunt a cougar who attacked a 6-year-old boy.
Hmm. Usually CA cougars go after 26-year-olds.
/Captain Obvious
ARGH! Beat by Florida Man!
I cursed him for all of us.
Rape and Rotherham
...So instead of looking for ideological vindication in these stories, it's better to draw a general lesson. Show me what a culture values, prizes, puts on a pedestal, and I'll tell you who is likely to get away with rape.
In Catholic Boston or Catholic Ireland, that meant men robed in the vestments of the church.
In Joe Paterno's pigskin-mad Happy Valley, it meant a beloved football coach.
In status-conscious, education-obsessed Manhattan, it meant charismatic teachers at an elite private school.
In Hollywood and the wider culture industry ? still the great undiscovered country of sexual exploitation, I suspect ? it has often meant the famous and talented, from Roman Polanski to the BBC's Jimmy Savile, robed in the authority of their celebrity and art.
And in Rotherham, it meant men whose ethnic and religious background made them seem politically untouchable, and whose victims belonged to a class that both liberal and conservative elements in British society regard with condescension or contempt....
An excellent assessment.
STEVE SMITH NO NEED KULTURE PEDESTAL!
Wouldn't STEVE SMITH rape the pedestal?
STEVE SMITH IS PEDESTAL!
I don't remember Joe Paterno getting away with rape.
He wasn't the only 'beloved' coach on the team.
As a Penn State grad, I followed and continue to follow the story very closely. It may very well have risen to the level of an intentional cover up of rape, but we still can't say that for certain. What the one direct witness actually told to administrators is still a matter of contention. There is no conceivable situation in which things were handled well, but there has also been a huge rush to judgement.
Penn State - no passing game.
TOP MEN
Now toss in a culture that has spread a religion through intimidation for a millennium - and it goes from a few rapists and a few dozen victims to thousands of victims.
If you dream of being covered in a soft blanket of bunnies, this is the place for you.
A video posted to YouTube, shows a herd of hungry rabbits surrounding a man feeding them pellets. It doesn't take long before the cutest hungry mob ever climbs all over him.
"Where's *my* fucking pellet?!"
/Cute little bunny
awww
Leporidae, or Playboy bunnies?
Playboy bunnies blanket, plz!
I'll take the Playboy bunny blanket while munching on rabbit sausage.
In addition to bunny island, Japan also has a Cat Island.
Monster Island isn't an island; it's a peninsula.
That place must smell great.
The Dethklok Home For Wayward Kitties
I think I've seen this before...
The Rifftrax version of that is hilarious.
He's lucky he got out of there alive. Those are the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents you ever set eyes on! They've got a vicious streak a mile wide!
+1 look at the bones!
Apparently another NBA owner is selling over controversial remarks. Here is the email that is causing the fuss. I'm having a hard time finding anything too horribly offensive.
Also in sports news, apparently the Ray Rice video is up on TMZ, and people are up in arms because The Feelz.
Should hitting a wife/girlfriend be punished more harshly than getting in a bar fight? What if you get in a bar fight with a woman who isn't your wife/girlfriend?
The worst part of the Ray Rice incident is listening to morally superior assholes lecture everyone on what is right and wrong.
And for that, I hate you Ray Rice.
And your 3.1 ypc in 2013.
And I know if I post my above comment anywhere but H&R, everybody is immediately going to jump down my throat for it.
I'm reminded of the Sandusky case, where I mentioned the Baylor basketball scandal and how it had a murder involved, suggesting that it was easier to recover from being sexually assaulted than it is to recover from being a cadaver. People got pissed about that, too. Because I wasn't showing Teh Right Feelz.
Is there a difference legally? Isn't assault always assault?
In the court of public opinion, though, which is what the NFL is concerned with, yes, hitting your wife/gf is worse than getting into with some drunk bruiser at a bar. And I'll side with the majority on this one.
Exhibit A. Charles Barkley
If you throw a drunk through a window, you can make jokes about how your only regret is that you were on the first floor and not only do you beat the rap, but people like you even more.
http://news.google.com/newspap.....555,190692
Yeah I have to say being lectured on how everyone needs to be treated equally in all aspects of life 24/7 only to see the same people outraged over him hitting a women as if that's worse than hitting a man is like having 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
Seeing the video of that psychopath and then realizing that she actually married him AFTER that happened makes me think that Johnny Longtorso is onto something with his theories about women.
Christ, just raise ticket prices. That's what the Yankees did.
meh, I guess everyone who works/worked in marketing and demographics is a stark raving racist. What happened to good old fashion racism like the term "Jiggboo", lynching or disapproving of mixed relationships?
The proper term is "JiggAboo"; and their is plenty of complaining about "mixed relationships".
Evil men are mixing with womyn and suppressing them on a daily basis. Haven't you been paying attention?
I was reading about that yesterday. Surprisingly a lot of the comments to article I read were of the "WTF, he's trying figure out how to make money" variety.
Maybe he wanted an out, and he figured he could try this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....prank.html
Just might work, because people who do that shit like to brag.
I hope they catch those idiot cowards.
Obama campaign's open door to China
...Obama's campaign refuses to use industry-standard safeguards against online credit-card fraud. For example, some 90 percent of e-commerce companies (and Romney's site) use Card Verification Value data, which checks those three or four numbers on the back of the credit card to make sure the card user matches the card holder. The Obama site uses it if you want to buy a T-shirt or hat ? but not if you make a donation....
...Why suspect so much Chinese giving? Consider the site Obama.com. It's owned by Shanghai-based Obama campaign bundler Robert Roche. More than two-thirds of its traffic comes from non-US visitors, nearly 90 percent of them Chinese. And visitors there immediately get directed to barackobama.com, where they become part of the fund-raising mill.
Roche, one of Obama's top advisers on trade with China, runs a Shanghai-based media company called Acorn, Inc. Chinese banks use Acorn for ? what else? ? credit-card transactions. One has to be very naive to believe those banks chose Acorn on their own, instead of at the behest of the Chinese government ? or that none of those transactions involve contributions to the Obama campaign. ...
...It certainly wouldn't be the first time China has seen fit to intrude itself in our electoral process. Who can forget Charlie Trie, the Little Rock restaurateur who channeled money from China's intelligence service to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, or then-Vice President Al Gore gathering all that Chinese cash at a California Buddhist temple?...
I thought you had to be an eligible voter or at least a citizen to make a contribution to a political campaign. Is that all hogwash or is this illegal and no one cares?
It's illegal and no one cares. Because TEAM!
It's illegal and no one cares. Because TEAM!
Skwerlz!
You posted it once from the TEAM RED perspective, and once from the TEAM BLUE perspective.
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go with that.
It is illegal, and the media does not care.
It depends on which half of TEAM BE RULED is doing it.
True.
State wildlife officials in California continue to hunt a cougar who attacked a 6-year-old boy.
I thought when a female teacher gets involved sexually with a male student the internet is supposed to cheer.
It's nice to see the Scottish referendum is the only news from the UK in the Morning Links.
Sweeney is long gone.
Wait, was it Feeney? Is he still around?
Who's going to cut my hair now?
Is that a Unicorns reference? Or is their album title a reference to something else?
Sweeney Todd
The White House reportedly has a plan to combat the Islamic State that would extend beyond President Obama's term in office.
You know who else started a war that outlasted him?
Edward III?
Gavrilo Princip?
Philip VI of France?
John F. Kennedy?
Ooooh, sting!
BOOOOOOSH!!11!!!
FDR?
Japan is looking for international approval to conduct whaling for research purposes in the Antarctic Ocean.
"Which of these whales tastes better?"
*I couldn't care less if people eat whales.
I couldn't care less if people eat whales.
John thanks you.
I would think John would be unhappy if the whale population declined...
When the world runs out of petroleum (any day now) and Japan has all the whale oil you won't be raughing then, buddy.
What you did there, I saw it.
Any day now?
Japan needs to check their mammal privilege.
Seriously, I don't get why people who have zero issue eating a tuna, loose their freaking minds about whaling. As long as they ain't hunted to extinction, I fail to get riled.
Sounds like you haven't actually been engaging the arguments of the anti-whaling people, Steve G. Here it is: Whales (including dolphins) are really, really smart so there are some ethical issues with that for some of us.
Even if you don't agree with the conclusion, don't pretend there isn't an argument out there.
As long as they ain't hunted to extinction
Many whale species have come dangerously close, that's why so many people are riled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....oting.html
Cops still won't release the store video. Probably because it contradicts the officers' sworn testimony. Can't let the facts ruin some poor officer's career.
It's coming.
Crawford shot himself in the back, don't you know.
Why not? It's teaching necessary for salvation that the innocent have nothing to hide.
Cops still won't release the store video.
Shouldn't Wal Mart be able to release the video? I mean, it's their surveillance system...Ray Rice's elevator video didn;t require any police approval to release did it?
Guessing the cops confiscated it as evidence?
Shouldn't Wal Mart be able to release the video?
Not if the cops confiscate it before they have a chance.
The video is most likely stored digitally. Cops couldn't "confiscate" it, Wal-Mart would just make a copy of it and provide it to them.
They seized it as evidence. I'm just it just happened to fall into an electromagnet or a shredder.
You sugarfreed your words.
I know. 🙁
He is branching out. I am too timid to go beyond typos - the bold will move on to links, and more!
I still have to wonder - if a cop is justified in shooting the guy because it looked like a real gun, wouldn't I as a customer have been justified in grabbing a baseball bat and bashing the guy's head in for the same reason? And if some other customer saw me bashing a guy's head in with a baseball bat wouldn't he be justified in whipping out his pocket knife and stabbing me? And if another customer saw a guy stabbing me with a pocket knife wouldn't he be justified..... and so on ad infinitum?
Or is it just cops that are justified in using deadly force against any and every little perceived threat whereas everybody else is held to the higher "reasonable person" standard?
It's always failure to obey. The cops commanded him to drop the gun, and then killed him for failure to obey. Though in this case it looks like they shot first and commanded later, but it will be justified. It's always justified.
Or is it just cops that are justified in using deadly force against any and every little perceived threat whereas everybody else is held to the higher "reasonable person" standard?
It is only this. The cops have been elevated to a class of citizen by their advocates (union) and sycophants (politicians) that is beyond all reproach and accountability.
They've been trained that the Constitutional rights of the people are secondary to their going home safe at night.
They have a bureaucracy in place that guarantees no meaningful punishment for breaking laws that all other citizens are bound by.
They have been trained to see the areas they patrol not as neighborhoods where people live and work but as warzones of varying degrees of danger to their ability to get home safe at night.
They have been armed with military weapons and gear that reinforces all of this thinking.
Don't expect them to give it all up without a really nasty fight.
Japan is looking for international approval to conduct whaling for research purposes in the Antarctic Ocean.
Surely "research purposes" is Japan seeking a solution to the Cetacean question.
You know who else sough a solution to a "problem"?
Was it a final solution?
"What is the best-tasting whale?"
Children in up to ten states in the Midwest and South are being hospitalized for symptoms of an uncommon but nasty respiratory virus, Enterovirus D68.
Midwest and South? Needs a scary nickname, like REPUBLICAN FLU!
Enterovirus? As in U.S.S. Enterovirus? Its five-year mission: to explore strange new noses, to seek new life and new respirations, to boldly go where no rhinovirus has gone before!
"They lived in fear of the time they called, 'the coming of the Great White Handkerchief'."
So Apollo was the victim.
He was just minding His own business.
Until the Enterovirus infected him. Implementing their Prime Directive.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) VOTES THAT JESUS CHRIST "MAY HAVE BEEN GAY AND TRANSGENDERED"
He did have long hair, or so the pictures have lead me to believe and those flowing robes are pretty gay.
Unfunny satire is unfunny.
It's nice to see the Scottish referendum is the only news from the UK in the Morning Links.
The COSMOTARIUNZ! news blackout persists.
Oh, I wsan't thinking of Rotherham.
Royal clump of cells?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....d-too.html
Not looking too good.
Perhaps he could be given one of his finer firearms, a single bullet and a bottle of whisky...
What good would shooting the whiskey bottle do?
Then a bunch of outraged, independence minded Scots could kill him with claymores?
The Scottish only drink whisky. Whiskey is Irish or American. 😉
I spelled it correctly.
Per his attorney
"Her complaints arose only after her income from the show and [gun] shop stopped."
What a piece of shit
It's his attorney's word against her attorney's word?
This may be old to some of you but it's news to me.
(Not really old news that you get beat up for questioning a cop as to why you are being beat up by a cop, but this particular instance is news.)
"STOP RESISTING!!!"
Actually, he's lucky they didn't kill him. Failure to obey is often good for a death sentence.
And therefore he deserved what he got. Nothing to see here, move along.
/the public
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....mores.html
FUCK YOU MICHELLE OBAMA! FUCK YOU WITH A STICK WITH A BURNING MARSHMALLOW AT THE END!
Whatever you do, don't use Hershey bars. They just suck.
I've never liked Hershey's chocolate, and I finally found out why. They use sour milk. That's why it tastes like vomit.
They are terrible, but for some reason a lot of people are attached to them.
The peculiar flavor in Hershey bars happens because the milk is basically spoiled.
WAR ON SPOILED MILK!
#thanksmichelle
Schoolkids posting pictures of empty vending machines and gross school lunches.
The First Harpy is not amused.
How much more tone deaf can this administration be?
We've got lots of time to find out.
How much more tone deaf can this administration be?
it's all just optics and political theater...and you know they aren't very good at all that.
/sarc
Hey, THEY WON! What more do you need to know?
What? The chocolate is probably the healthiest part of a s'more.
How about "try eating just one" as more practical advice that people might actually listen to?
"Putting down the fork" implies personal responsibility and initiative and absolves the state from responsibility and authority. Not exactly in keeping with Proggie proclivities.
How about "try eating just one" as more practical advice that people might actually listen to?
In fairness to Michelle I don't know how you can eat just one, s'mores got that name for a reason.
I usually eat just one. But I'm probably weird.
I think most people only eat 1 or 2. It's really about the campfire marhmallow roasting experiance than the food. Bags of prepared chips or crackers are much more likely to be overindulged by kids
You think the Wookie has ever actually camped out and had a s'more? Maybe over a burning trash can on the S Side of Shitcago.
Ditto. Plus they are overly something.
Eat one smore. And about 2 more marshmallows, and as much chocolate as I can stuff in my mouth.
They're so fucking rich I can barely finish one.
I had one last year while on vacation and didn't like it as much as I did as a kid. Not a huge marshmallow guy, I guess.
Exactly my reaction. The chocolate is the only "healthy" part of a s'more. The rest is just sugar.
The Japs just can't not kill whales after what those awful creatures did to them.
Whale rape, the least reported of crimes.
STEVE SMITH is proof of the aquatic ape theory
STEVE SMITH KNOW MAMMALS ALL PINK INSIDE!
Save a whale: harpoon a Jap
The whales deserve it:
http://www.ecorazzi.com/wp-con.....hores3.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUxK_0WLbg
Gotta nuke something.
Don't they nearly destroy the Earth in a couple hundred years?
That too.
Fucking whales.
And they openly employ trained assassins--"killer" whales.
I know what you're thinking
Brain-to-brain 'telepathic' communication achieved for first time
Teledildonics!
Not good. I think the last thing people need to know is what is on other peoples minds at any given time.
Yeah, I don't think I would liked being slapped 300 times a day.
A mob would show up with pitchforks and torches for me.
They do that already. I think it would turn around and you would be elevated to some sort of evil god emperor once the true depths of your mind were known.
My success with women has always been about my ability to say the things that quiet girls are only thinking. I could be the naked id for my all followers.
mandatory naked id laws are RACIST
"I was just going to say, 'eight o'clock?' *You* are a legitimate phenomenon!"
If Scotland divorces England, who gets the North Sea oil revenues?
BP?
AWESOME!
I approve.
Ha! Hi, Baked... (assuming that's you).
Which one is the wife?
the one wearing the kilt?
Norway.
Viking oil raid!
Scotland is a weird case of a country that was totally kick-ass becoming less so. I mean, Smith, Hume, Watt, Fleming, Maxwell, AC/DC, and so on. I blame English socialism, myself.
Wut?
Bon Scott and the Youngs were all born in Scotland.
OK... but any ass-kicking was learnt in Australia, not Scotland. As is right and proper.
The best Australians are Scottish.
Not gonna happen. Voters won't support a currency union, so they will have no choice but to cut their precious welfare. How far the land of Adam Smith has fallen.
I was in Boston for the weekend and every time I go I think the same thing of the Cradle of the Revolution.
Perhaps the U.S. and Scotland both could stand for a little Renaissance. A Re-Enlightenment, if you will.
Huffington Post hires ex-NFL player, 9/11 'truther' Donte Stallworth to cover national security
Just in case you were in danger of taking the Puffington Host seriously.
We're all safer if Stallworth is writing nonsense and not drinking and driving.
He's renounced the truther stuff (good for sanity, bad for the public shaming aspect). But I actually like reading Stallworth's tweets; he really trends mostly libertarian (and heaven knows we're all only "mostly" libertarian) and is clearly far more intelligent than your average ex-NFL'er.
Huh. Well, today I learned.
Basil Fawlty: Shhh-shh-shh, Manuel. You - know - nothing.
Manuel: You ALWAYS say, Mr. Fawlty, but I learn.
Basil Fawlty: What?
Manuel: I learn. I learn.
Basil Fawlty: No-no-no-no-no.
Manuel: I get better.
Basil Fawlty: No-no. No-no, you don't understand.
Manuel: I do.
Basil Fawlty: No, you don't.
Manuel: Hey, I do understand that!
British IS fighters 'want to return to UK' after regretting joining jihad in Syria
The proper response is: fuck off. Of course, the typical British response is another government program.
They didn't belong in British society to begin with. Indeed they ought to fuck off.
Having made your own jihad, now lie in it.
Actually, this is not a bad idea.
Sun Tzu wisely counsels leaving your enemy an escape route so that they *don't* fight to the death. And the guys coming out of the program would make for great counterpropagandaists.
I agree with that somewhat, but what happens when one "deradicalized" former Jihadi blows something up? It's not like the enemy is retreating to some far away homeland. Retreat put them right back in your own house.
That's what Tyburn Cross is for.
+1 Treble Tree
I don't think the Brit ruling class really cares all that much about their citizens.
I noticed they didn't include de-rape-ification classes for those jihadis.
Bad idea to let terrorists back in. Next thing you know, they're teaching at the university, affecting impressionable minds, and before you know it, your next PM is a stealth jihadi.
...Oh I get it!
He said the Government should set up a "deradicalisation programme" for those willing former jihadis, echoing calls by Labour leader Ed Miliband who last month suggested a mandatory programme of deradicalisation for those involved on the fringes of Islamic State.
Is deradicalization anything like decapitation?
Maybe deracination?
Defenestration, a lovely word for a brutally simple method of getting rid of people (although there is an annoying mess to clean up at the end).
Well hell, the British would have this angle covered.
Sod off, perhaps?
It's a bit more Limey ...
"Sorry, mate. Try France."
Stephen Hawking: God particle could wipe out the universe
I'm going way out there now ... has anyone considered the idea that everything in this universe is composed with atoms? Now what is unique with the atom ... I think it is the energy and it is different external and internal. Now lets consider the universe ... nothing seems to be random ... it all fits together. I find it interesting he calls it the God Particle ... intriguing name but if it is in fact the creator then why? We might consider that perhaps this everything is the atom say maybe like an ocean and everything in this ocean is part of the creator. It could then be aware of everything at once. Now let us consider ourselves for a moment ... is there a unique feature we all share? Yes ... our brain and the percentage we actually use ... so what is the rest of it doing? Perhaps it is communicating via energy with the atoms creative thoughts that affect our lives, our environments ... any other many possibilities and perhaps also this creative force is communicating with us via dreams, nightmares or inspirations. Deep thoughts but might be worth pondering.
I was wondering if Hawking has always been "way out there" then I saw
However, given that he believes we only have perhaps 1,000 years left on Earth anyway, it's as well to explore every possible scenario, before the robots and algorithms secure minds of their own and, as their first step, eliminate us all.
I, for one, believe a Jon Connor resides within our species.
Steve went New Age. Everybody break out your sandals and resonant crystals.
At this point I'm convinced he's just trolling the world.
That may well be. He's always had quite a sense of humor.
Right now, they're (the Bloombergers) talking about Chuck Schumer's plan to penalize companies which engage in "inversions" to move their tax home out of the US. He wants to make it retroactive to 1994, they say. That should help.
Apparently, Jack Lew will make some sort of announcement about Treasury's plans to punish the wreckers and hoarders.
Ex Post Facto, FTL!
Ex post facto? What's that?
/sex offender registry
It's something that appears in a doucment written over a century ago by a bunch of now-dead white men.
SLAVE-OWNING dead white men. Anything they supported is tainted by their evil doings. We shouldn't pay any attention their drivel.
That's why that musty old parchment must be reinterpreted by Wise Latinas.
These guys sound vaguely stupid, but I like the Margaret Thatcher one (pretty sure it's been done before)
http://www.creativereview.co.u.....ul-belford
Lindy West is leaving Jezebel to work on her book.
What's it called?
My Boyfriend Is Totes Not Gay: The Lindy West Story
Funny or Diet
This is All Your Fault!
The Incredible Heavyness of Being (Lindy)
A retired cop's shocking life of drugs and crime
Shocking to who?
I was going to ask, "Shocking to whom?" myself.
Anybody watch that new show "Utopia" last night? Hilariously stupid. Trying to find the bio of the guy they call "Rob the libertarian" - I am thinking this guy is 1. not much of a libertarian, and 2. Going to help define libertarianism as something we won't like.
No; I was watching the original Planet of the Apes on TCM.
Tell us more.
The put together a group of 15 hand-picked people. hand picked for maximum carnage it appears. Within the fist 24 hours you have naked people, sexual assault, death threats, physical violence, lot of crying, cursing, etc.
I know they chop the heck out of the footage, but really watched hoping the "libertarian" would at least talk about NAP, free markets, free association, something, some kind of bone to actual libertarian thought. But he was just as much a knucklehead as the rest of them.
A bunch of psycho guys and slutty women all thrown together. A real train wreck.
I flipped over to it for 30 seconds. Saw one dude proclaim how "hot" he is. Flipped away, thinking "cool, I don't have to waste any more time on this."
And I like (some) reality TV. But man am I sick of the narcissism.
That stuff is totally staged, anyway. "Okay, we need you guys to have a fight."
I think I'll stick with it for a while longer. Part of the problem is that even if they were psychologically healthy and competent people. Could you create a good society that scales up? With 15 people you could have a communal/ life boat economics / moneyless system that could work.
I plan to watch it. I think it is quite interesting. It has a whole lot of folks that would seem to be on the far left of the political spectrum. I am always interested to see how they end up squaring fluffy ideals with reality.
I have been involved in some real life projects with people just like a lot of them, and have usually been pleasantly surprised to see how pliable belief systems not grounded in reality can be.
That is why I really hoped for a strong libertarian or two on the show. It would be a great opportunity to showcase liberty and deal with some common misconceptions and caricatures. I find that a lot of the hippie/yoga/alt set really is OK if you can get them out of that mindset of forcing others to their will.
Yes, but as you noted the one libertarian may not be the best standard bearer for the ideals. Not that the producers would cast someone that was. Like I said. I
ll stick with awhile and see.
io9 ran some article that I didn't read all the way through about everyone's "favorite ape villain." Typical of io9, they got it totally and utterly wrong, because, of course, it wasn't about Dr. Zaius.
i09 probably sympathizes with Dr. Zaius. He does, after all, have credentials. I'm sure Zaius would be all "humans are causing global warming!!1!"
At this point, most California university students hate humans more than Dr. Zaius.
Well, be fair- we did blow it all up.
Damned dirty apes drove us to it.
It was our statute to destroy.
Perhaps Taylor was personally upset about the statue. After all, he did say "You blew it up." Everyone assumes he means the Earth, but maybe it was just the statue. Is there such a thing as a statue-based sexual perversion? Maybe he left the planet in the first place to escape the lure of Lady Liberty.
Nova could have cured me of statute lust.
Are you suggesting that Nova was a lawyer of some sort?
Yes. And she joined a cult after not getting a role in Jaws.
I see. So, in the eyes of io9, Dr. Zaius isn't a villain at all.
Dr. Zaius was part of a consensus of ape scientists and scholars on the subject of humans.
Yes, you could see that in the movie. He embodied consensus and made hard decisions, like lying to everybody about the history of humanity.
You know, why did he do that? I mean, from his point of view, wouldn't it have been better to show Taylor and crew off? "See? These fuckers are dangerous. They blew up the planet. Let me show you this giant human statue as proof."
Because he was also a religious zealot. Because The Lawgiver said man was a beast, a beast he must remain.
You go against The Lawgiver and those tasty ape government grants dry up.
Isn't blowing up the planet pretty beast-like?
Did we beat the planet to death with a club? No, we used advanced weapons. We committed species suicide is a very respectable and civilized manner.
He could've skipped those details. It's not like the apes had nukes. Those were in the hands of the mutants.
Mutants? You mean Lord Varys?
Holy shit. Holy shit.
He embodied consensus and made hard decisions, like lying to everybody about the history of humanity.
The Corps of Engineers followed Dr. Zaius's example by destroying the Kennewick Man site. A 10,000 y/o Caucasoid in America standing in for a human doll that talks.
My kids and I watched the original Planet of the Apes too. They loved it. We spent the entire night in full Chuck Heston School of Acting mode.
"Get your damned dirty hands off my chips!"
I first saw that movie at some friend's birthday party in the early 70s. They had it on a reel (this is before people really had VCRs), which I still can't figure out how they got it, but, in any case, we all loved it. I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time. It was easily the most popular movie with boys around my age for a good chunk of the 70s.
Exactly. I was telling my kids that when this came out I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade and we played planet of the apes at lunch every day for almost the entire year.
My kids now admit that they understand why people like the franchise so much. Throw out that horrible remake and it rocks.
Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness.
"Fan mob", just lovely. I guess that's the "Knockout Game" but with more people involved.
From this story:
Billy Corgan approves
It's all fun and games until they 'point out' the concealed weapon holder. I for one would love to be said 'victim'.
I keep hoping that one of these mobs runs into someone who is armed and it doesn't just result in one person being shot but four or five or more. Until this becomes a contract sport, it won't stop.
+1 Bernard Goetz
And then it'll be George Zimmermann all over again and the scumbags in the media will say another evil white man with a gun murdered some sweet innocent minority youths in cold blood.
For sure. That is why there needs to be a film of it.
Even if it's on film, if the armed person is white it won't matter. Seriously. Wouldn't matter if he dropped ten people charging him until he was overwhelmed and beaten half to death, the mob would still demand he be charged with murder.
*I keep hoping that one of these mobs runs into someone who is armed and it doesn't just result in one person being shot but four or five or more. Until this becomes a contract sport, it won't stop.*
Unless a cop does the shooting, then, I bet like most Reasonoids, you will flip out.
Shit, that is the Kroger next to Memphis State. I worked in that strip mall for a couple years.
It was always sort of sketchy, but not so bad I would have expected this sort of shit.
The appeals process took more than a year in 40 percent of those cases and often required owners of the cash to sign agreements not to sue police over the seizures.
Totally not like a banana republic.
my co-worker's ex-wife makes $72 an hour on the computer . She has been out of work for eight months but last month her pay was $15242 just working on the computer for a few hours. read this ........
==================== http://www.netjob70.com
That's like 212 hours per month. 50 hrs per week? No thank you.
Luddite Alert!
Icky GMOs are planted someplace!
"GMO experiments receive questionable oversight"
Innuendo, manufactured damages ensue!
http://www.sfgate.com/default/.....740478.php
Gaza? Baghdad? Khandahar? Belfast?
Oregon.
"Stay where you are with your hands up and await commands from officers."
This is not the same country I grew up in.
i09 probably sympathizes with Dr. Zaius.
I suspect the io9 crowd would get their two minutes hate on for the heretics. Question Authority? That's crazy.
In other words. . ."Mister we could use an ape like Dr. Zaius again."
A SoCon orangutang New Deal?
Yes. Moving humans to welfare camps for processing.
Truett Cathey went on to his reward.
Has anyone ever contested a forfeiture case all the way to the Supreme Court?
No, because they charge the inanimate objects.
Thoroughly evil and obliterates the idea of mens rea, but there you are.
It would be great if a stack of money filed the appeal and payed the lawyer out of itself.