We've Killed 44 Children in Syria This Month, Trump to Talk Climate Change With World Leaders, Texas Allows Balloon-Based Hunting of Feral Pigs: A.M. Links

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• U.S. airstrikes in Syria have killed 225 civilians, including 44 children, between April 23 and May 23.
• President Trump is talking trade, climate change, and other sensitive topics with world leaders gathered in Sicily today.
• Body slamming Montana Republican Greg Gianforte won Thursday's special election to replace Ryan Zinke in the U.S. House of Representatives. A few takeaways from Real Clear Politics.
• Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties.
• "I've had cops tell me that if you do this or that [sexual favor] they'll let you go. It happens every day. There's probably some woman getting shook down while we're having this conversation."
• News you can use: it's now legal to hunt feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons in Texas.
• In case you need a reminder how awful Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke is.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Go Pens.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That counts as an affirmation of my comment.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Whatever keeps you up at night.

[Domestic Dissident]

What's silver, almost three feet tall, and never appears north of the U.S.-Canadian border?

[RussianPrimeMinister]

I know this one!

It's Hitler!

[timbo]

One of those cool molten ant hills?

[MarkLastname]

Fuck pens, pencils ftw!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...it's now legal to hunt feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons in Texas.

I thought hot air balloons were only good for tourism websites.

[Mike Laursen]

For Christsakes, Herb, how many times I gotta tell you keep that gun pointed down!

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

The war on sex work continues: Bunny Ranch destroyed after trucker wearing body armor plows a 'stolen' big rig through the infamous brothel as owner Dennis Hof calls it a 'terrorist act'

The infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch Brothel has been destroyed after a man wearing body armor plowed a 'stolen' big rig into the brothel as owner Dennis Hof calls it 'a terrorist act on the friendliest place on Earth'.

'He stole a truck full of Amazon Prime products and boxes and came to my Bunny ranch and destroyed our building, in full body armor and a mask,' Hof told DailyMail.com.

I've just enlisted in the war against terror.

[$park? leftist poser]

Dude's mullet obviously got the better of him.

[Rhywun]

Howard Stern hardest hit.

[timbo]

Did the accident straighten out any of those whores' teeth?

[God]

Should I resurrect William Munny?

[Cynical Asshole]

That or send Malcolm Reynolds back in time.

[God]

My powers don't work like that. Maybe I could part a sea?

[Cynical Asshole]

I don't really see how that would help this situation, but if it makes you happy and keeps you from smiting me...

[Brandybuck]

Shit, that's what happened to my Amazon order. Sigh.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump is talking trade, climate change, and other sensitive topics with world leaders gathered in Sicily today.

With all the sensitivity of a Donald Trump.

[Rhywun]

I heard this morning he got pushy with another world leader. That was the leading story on the morning news so I guess he really roughed him up or something.

[Fist of Etiquette]

AMERICA FIRST, BITCHES

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Well, we learned from Gianforte that you can bodyslam someone and still win elections, so yeah.

Wrestling to replace diplomacy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

South Carolina, what's up!

[damikesc]

It was Montana, technically, but I'll vote for any guy who slaps a reporter.

[$park? leftist poser]

It was Montana, technically

You missed the reference, technically.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I got a missed reference for you: YOU'RE A DICK!

[timbo]

This just in:

TRUMP HAS A BAT IN THE CAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

$20 trillion in debt and no hope of fixing it. Fuck you tony and palin butt and your ilk.

[Palin's Buttplug]

And Trump wants to blow up the deficit Bushpig style (to over $1 trillion a year).

Fuck you Big Government types - you caused the huge debt. Clinton left you assholes a surplus in 1999-2000.

[timbo]

He did.

So you like to go to a libertarian website and call the readers big government types?

You really shouldn't leave the house.

[Palin's Buttplug]

You're a fucking Republican.

[timbo]

Oh my god! That's it!

Jesus, did you go to MIT? Or my guess is university of Phoenix...and failed out.

And no body fails out of UoP

[Cynical Asshole]

no body fails out of UoP

Maybe if the tuition check bounces. But there's no way a financial genius like PB's check would bounce.

[timbo]

Well, he did try to pay with one of those checks that come in the mail for a free line of credit.

Poor guy. he's the only guy in the obamaville under the bridge with wifi in his tent though.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

But there's no way a financial genius like PB's check would bounce.

PB would actually have to send the check for it to have a chance to bounce in the first place.

[MarkLastname]

You were sucking Obama's cock year after year as he ran trillion dollar deficits, you may as well suck Trump's too in the name of fairness.

[Anomalous]

Body slamming Montana Republican Greg Gianforte won Thursday's special election to replace Ryan Zinke in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Do not question his authoritah, or anything else.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

I hope Gianforte's first day in the chamber has him coming in to Hulk Hogan's entrance music.

[Domestic Dissident]

Yeah brother!

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Here's what Browns QB Cody Kessler ate for 3 months while trying to lose body fat

My biggest focus was losing body fat weight and being a healthier weight than I was. Muscle was my main focus," Kessler said. "It was tough eating the same thing every day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks in between. The same thing over and over and over."

We're like the same height and weight, and if I ate like that I would feel lightheaded.

Dinner: Cooked chicken breast, spinach with no dressing, whole wheat pasta with nothing on it, milk and water.

Dry mouth, am I right?

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Who was telling him to eat whole wheat pasta while trying to lose weight?

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Team dietician Katy Meassick.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

That was my first thought. What kind of idiot thinks that eating even plain pasta is going to help you lose weight?

[Rhywun]

He makes it sound like bread and water three times a day. And doesn't mention the likely bonus on top of his millions for hitting target weights. Yeah, cry me a river, pal.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Whole milk? You need to get some kind of fat in there, guy.

[Brandybuck]

Shit, there's no reason to torture yourself like that. At least squeeze some lemon juice over that spinach. Sheesh.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Anti-rape app proves lovers have given consent to sex using a selfie and a password, patent reveals

The tech asks lovers to snap selfies of themselves using the app before getting down and dirty.

The photo is then sent back to a central computer system and then matched with the partner, who has sent a selfie too.

Once the computer is confident that no one is being coerced into having sex, it will send a unique password to the lovebirds' devices.

I'm getting hot and bothered just reading that.

[$park? leftist poser]

The photo is then sent back to a central computer system and then matched with the partner, who has sent a selfie too.

The dick pic is briefly compared to the pussy pic to ensure compatibility.

[MarkLastname]

Next step: making this mandatory!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Body slamming Montana Republican Greg Gianforte won Thursday's special election to replace Ryan Zinke in the U.S. House of Representatives.

#MMGA

[Fist of Etiquette]

Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties.

This is known as the Third Party Doc Dump.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

Which was my nickname in medical school

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Intelligence they no doubt received from the NSA while sucking up every bit of information on every american ever.

Why haven't we marched on these guys and burnt the building to the ground yet?

[Fist of Etiquette]

"I've had cops tell me that if you do this or that [sexual favor] they'll let you go. It happens every day. There's probably some woman getting shook down while we're having this conversation."

If you haven't done anything wrong or aren't sexy you have nothing to fear.

[timbo]

bam

[Domestic Dissident]

Ken Shultz is right on the money: the story of the year is that the so-called "mainstream media", which is almost entirely a propaganda arm of the DNC, have just about completely lost whatever remaining shreds of credibility they still had.

They've been pushing this "Russia Russia Russia" fake news bullshit literally every single day for more than six months straight now, and what exactly has it gotten them? Absolutely nothing. They've lost every single election since then, and there have been like four of them now!

[paranoid android]

Hot takes from Domestic Bootlicker!

[Palin's Buttplug]

Nothing? Then why did the Con Man's chief surrogates (Sessions, Flynn, Manaport) all meet with the Russians during the campaign and lie about it later? Now the son-in-law has been found to do the same.

Trump is tied to filthy Russian mob money from his casino bankruptcy days when no US bank would make him a loan due to his deadbeat lying ways.

I will enjoy his downfall and be here to remind you authoritarian loving thugs when it happens.

[$park? leftist poser]

I'm not sure who to root for in this fight.

[Rhywun]

I feel the same way about the Stanley Cup Finals.

[Hello Clarice]

Wouldn't you rather help out at a soup kitchen, or tour Europe? You have such odd hobbies XD!

[timbo]

PB, you're a little nuts aren't you?

Trump sucks yes but good lord, you provide the answer to the question: "how did the Germans, who are smart people, fall for a psycho like hitler?"

Did you know that Russia is more bankrupt than us and not a threat nor even an economy that American businesses give a shit about?

If you were capable of investigating this from a "follow the money perspective", what incentive would anyone have in working with the Russians? What payoff could they bring to Clinton or trump?
Except of course, if you wanted to sell a bunch of uranium to them.

Permission to spount crazy now ass hat.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Idiocy. I am not the one under the spell of an authoritarian jackboot like the Con Man. And the Russian government may be broke but that is because all the energy riches have been confiscated by Russian mobs who own the banks and energy concerns.

[timbo]

jibbity- jibbity and a rat-a-tat-tat.

What are you on this morning?

Did you just suck Rachel maddow's dick?

[Hello Clarice]

Seriously friend, you need to take some calming breaths and maybe stay off the web. You get so riled up and I worry..........

[Palin's Buttplug]

You must be new here. Or more likely just a TEAM RED! sycophant.

This little chat room has a LOT of "riled up" participants. If you see me as the only one you just haven't been here before.

[timbo]

Clarice,
You will find that Palin is not only unhinged but also only just a hair smarter than what my dog left in the yard this morning.

[Hello Clarice]

You seem to have the same 3 responses to any positive/negative follow ups you get. You might want to get that checked out. Projecting your strange hangups will only lead to more backlash, and that can't be healthy for you (unless you like that sort of thing).

Only team red I'm on is team red wine. White is just too sweet and gives me migraines, haha.

[Cynical Asshole]

Projecting your strange hangups will only lead to more backlash, and that can't be healthy for you (unless you like that sort of thing).

He's an idiotic troll, so yeah, he gets off on the attention he gets from people. He's probably sitting at his 20 year old computer in his mom's basement jerking it as we speak.

In fact, here's the only known photo of PB sitting at his computer without H&R on his screen and his dick in one hand and bottle of salad dressing in the other. SFW.

[MarkLastname]

I'm on team white myself. Riesling is the best wine there is; also team white ftw in the race ward.

[MarkLastname]

*wars

[Glide]

You seem to have the same 3 responses to any positive/negative follow ups you get
I have also observed this. I briefly considered asking PB whether he prefers Greek or regular yogurt just to see whether the answer still somehow involved GWB or "Team Red".

[Domestic Dissident]

OK, but what about the fact that you JournoLists and your team (the democrats) have lost every single special election since November? There have been like four of them now.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Means nothing. The 2018 mid-terms mean little.

The GOP will get their little nuts squeezed later though just like in 2006-08 when they ransacked the economy and blew their load in Iraq. This time it will be Iran and another blistering recession.

The cycle can't be stopped.

[timbo]

Hey Lennie, did you not know that the GOP and dems are the same thing?

[Domestic Dissident]

It means you're a pathetic loser, and your team is a bunch of losers. You have nothing to offer anyone but a bunch of fake news which isn't worth the fishwrap it's printed on, and everyone knows it. Which is why you keep on losing like the pathetic, impotent, sad sack loser that you are.

By the way, have I told you that I can't wait until your shitty ass book sells almost no copies? We're getting closer and closer.

[CatoTheChipper]

Did you forget that over one-third of Democrats, including Hillary and Kerry, voted for the Iraq AUMF?

The US empire is a bipartisan project, and the two parties exist to create divisions over relatively insignificant cultural issues.

[Palin's Buttplug]

one-third of Democrats

two-thirds didn't

And Dems stand behind the anti-nuke Iran peace treaty while the GOP hates it and wants war with Iran to appease Bibi the Rat.

[timbo]

You're the best palin. I'm starting to like you more than tony.

Did you know that Hillary Clinton tried to eat pussy? It closed up like a zip-loc when it saw that punim comin.

[God]

The Georgia special election isn't finished you waste of clay. Why did I make you?

[Domestic Dissident]

The republican candidate is going to win that one too. And when he does, take one guess who's going to continue right on laughing at all the progtard losers around here!

[Palin's Buttplug]

The republican candidate is going to win that one too. And when he does

Karen Handel is a tranny?

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

The Georgia special election isn't finished you waste of clay. Why did I make you?

Given your retarded posts, it's easy to understand why so many are becoming atheists.

[Mike Laursen]

To be a compelling scandal, seems like someone has to show what favor the Russians got from their contact with Trump.

[Stormy Dragon]

So just to understand, your argument is that if a politician commits a crime and nothing happens to them, that proves the accusations were bogus propaganda and that anyone complaining is just a political hack?

[Domestic Dissident]

Nope. Somehow you managed to completely and totally miss my point. My point is that the credibility of the "mainstream media" is now so dismally low in America (probably the lowest ever in our history: see the Gallup poll from a while back that Ken Shultz has been linking to) that a candidate can (maybe) assault a reporter and people either don't believe the story, or don't give a shit, or think that the reporter probably had it coming to him.

That's what happens when you completely lose your mind and start pushing fake news every day for six months straight. You lose all your credibility and everyone stops listening to you.

[Stormy Dragon]

or don't give a shit, or think that the reporter probably had it coming to him

Neither of these have anything to do with the media's credibility.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Republicans are winning in Republican strongholds. MAGA!

They're winning at smaller margins than before, but still winning. Nothing to worry about!

[Domestic Dissident]

But you dipshits haven't been saying "yes, we're going to lose, but by less than usual." You dipshits have claimed each time your guy was going to win. And you've lost every single one.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Fair enough. I have been saying that every damn day. Twice on Sundays.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mel Johnson sent a letter on May 3 saying his office had decided not to file charges for civil rights offenses.

"Our decision is not meant to affirm the wisdom or propriety of what occurred," Johnson wrote to William Sulton, attorney for Black. "It reflects only our belief that it would be difficult or impossible to prove a violation of the only federal statute available to us ?beyond a reasonable doubt."

"It is only meant to affirm who matters in our office and who doesn't."

[Fist of Etiquette]

One video shows five uniformed officers with a police dog ? not six as Black had earlier alleged ? waiting for Clarke and Black at Gate 54 of Concourse D at the Milwaukee airport.

Try doing anything to that dog and see if it doesn't count as a human officer. (Handler locking it in a hot car excepted.)

[timbo]

? Talk Climate Change With World Leaders

That sounds like a money suck to me.
Were it not only a theory, would you need governments to talk about it or private enterprise?

[BearOdinson]

Shorter ; RCP takeaways:
-Weird year with weak candidates,
-The incident with the reporter might have helped Gianforte
-The incident with the reporter might have hurt Gianforte
-The incident with the reporter might not have made any difference.

Penetrating insight!

[Hello Clarice]

They would probably have a better prediction rate of success by rolling a D-20.

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Uh, excuse me, but there is no dash when writing D20.

Sometimes I wonder about you guys.

*wanders off in pissy geek rage*

[$park? leftist poser]

Excuse me, it's properly d20.

[Hello Clarice]

*bows in reverence*

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

If I had glasses, I'd push them closer to my face then nod in confirmation.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

it's now legal to hunt feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons in Texas

I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast about coyotes, so I know that hunting coyotes is only going to make them stronger. Don't hunt coyotes, Texas.

[timbo]

How do they get stronger if dead? or am I missing a sarc?

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

According to Dan Flores:

One of the other adaptations they have is that, whenever their populations are pressured, their litter sizes go up. The normal size is five to six pups. When their populations are suppressed, their litters get up as high as 12 to 16 pups. You can reduce the numbers of coyotes in a given area by 70 percent but the next summer their population will be back to the original number. They use their howls and yipping to create a kind of census of coyote populations. If their howls are not answered by other packs, it triggers an autogenic response that produces large litters.

[timbo]

The fuck? We need to breed cockroaches and coyotes. A super race of indestructible palin buttplug/tony/obam/trump eaters.

Then we might finally defeated the Bolshevik hoard once and for all.

[Domestic Dissident]

U.S. airstrikes in Syria have killed 225 civilians, including 44 children, between April 23 and May 23.

Well, at least according to some outfit named the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights", which was founded by an anti-Assad guy who fled Syria for the U.K. and is named "Osama" of all names, if you can believe it.

Yeah, I'll bet good old Osama isn't too sympathetic to ISIS and Al Qaeda or anything.

[Crusty Juggler aka "Chad"]

I assume you meant Obama.

Pentagon report says more than 100 civilians killed in March bombing in Iraq

A Pentagon investigation has found that more than 100 civilians were killed after the U.S. dropped a bomb on a building in Mosul, Iraq, in March.

The probe found that the U.S. bomb triggered secondary explosions from devices clandestinely planted there by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). And the military says the secondary blasts caused the concrete building to collapse.

The lead investigator and author of the report is Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler.

[Domestic Dissident]

I wasn't talking about Iraq, you stupid reading-impaired asshole. I was talking about the very first story in these links, which is about Syria and cites as their source an outfit named the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights", which was founded by an anti-Assad Sunni emigrant from Syria to the U.K. named "Osama" of all names.

[$park? leftist poser]

named "Osama" of all names

Arabic names seem to be getting stranger.

[timbo]

I can't figure out why these arabs hate us so much.

We have killed over 250,000 civilians in 15 years of fighting in 5 countries and all the thanks we get is shrapnel bombs.

Now perhaps if they didn't hate freedom so much, they would learn to appreciate indiscriminate death from robots above.

We really need to pat Clinton/bush/Obama/trump on the back for helping us all out so much.

[Cynical Asshole]

Now perhaps if they didn't hate freedom so much, they would learn to appreciate indiscriminate death from robots above.

"They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards."

[Palin's Buttplug]

President Trump is talking trade, climate change, and other sensitive topics with world leaders gathered in Sicily today.

The G7 is not too fond of our first white trash POTUS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tr.....ontenegro/

[Juice]

Come on. They loved Bill Clinton.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Rhodes scholar =/= white trash.

[DJF]

Wasn't Rhodes an evil white imperialist

[Rhywun]

Book learnin'. *spit*

[Sevo]

"Rhodes scholar =/= white trash."

Turd = Stupid shit.

[timbo]

Is the white trash potus the one who flew to Epstein's island to rape little girls?

[DJF]

So they are just as racist as you.

[Cynical Asshole]

In video of the incident, a group of leaders is seen walking together and talking, and as the group comes to a stop, Mr. Trump grasps Markovic's right arm and pushes past him... The president does not acknowledge him.

That doesn't sound like a "shove" to me. When I think of a shove I'm picturing a couple of guys in a bar or something about to throw down in a fight, not someone just trying to get past someone else. About the only thing Trump did wrong, from the sound of things, is fail to say "Excuse me" as he pushed his way past. So he was a rude asshole, but he's a New Yorker, they're all kind of rude assholes. This is a big nothingburger of a story.

Markovic is brushing off the incident, according to the Associated Press, and he said that it was only "natural" that Mr. Trump be in the front row.

"I didn't really register it, I just saw reaction to it on social networks," he said. "It is quite simply a harmless situation...

The guy he "shoved" doesn't seem to think it's a big deal, so why should anyone else? Oh wait, because "TRUMP, HURR-DURR," that's why.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

The G7 is not too fond of our first white trash POTUS

The two of you seem to have one thing in common, at least, along with your propensity to make up bullshit out of thin air.

[MarkLastname]

And yet, imagine the aneurysm you have when people call Obama a 'thug.' Raycissss!!!

[God]

We've killed 44 children in Syria this month

More than one a day, that's not bad. Reminds me of that time I killed practically everyone. Good times.

[timbo]

No shit your worship. Nothing says liberty like $600 billion per year of fighting for our freedom.

[Jerryskids]

Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties.

Now that that's been cleared up we can move on to other things. Let us never speak of it again.

[Juice]

"We" haven't killed anyone.

[CatoTheChipper]

Banning Lou Reed: The Cultural Revolution Eats Its Fathers

The Jacket has a sad.

[Rhywun]

I did a double-take when I saw the author. I have never seen her write anything that wasn't about how gays are ruining marriage. I guess the explosion of SJW nonsense has allowed her to broaden her interests.

[Stormy Dragon]

Oh it does mention how gays are ruining marriage:

SSRs attacked Bible-based moral codes. But these sex codes also had deep roots in human nature across lines of culture and religion. They were multicultural in the best sense. Details varied. Virtually every human society has understood that disciplining sexuality in the service of children and marriage was a critical and necessary social task.

The article, in fact, seems pro-nonsense. It's complaint with SJW's seems to be only that they don't like the same flavor of nonsense as the author.

[Rhywun]

Hm, I didn't untangle that the first time I read it but you're probably right. Knowing the author in advance puts a different spin on this when I read it a second time for some reason.

[KerryW]

Good grief, those people can find something wrong with absolutely anything.

[MarkLastname]

What is Stream?

[Cynical Asshole]

We've Killed 44 Children in Syria This Month

Who's "we?" You got a turd in your pocket?

[timbo]

I don't even want to vacation in Dubai. Why would I want to kill people in Syria?

[Cynical Asshole]

Collective guilt is a hell of a drug.

[ChipToBeSquare]

Well, they did take our money to do it

[Sevo]

"Sale of wild horses for slaughter proposed in Trump budget"
[...]
"They say the Trump administration is kowtowing to livestock interests..."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sa.....mp-budget/

As opposed to feel-good busy-bodies.
They want to keep the horses out of slaughter houses? Fine. Buy 'em and keep 'em with YOUR money.

[God]

I normally don't intervere in earthly affairs but since I'm right here why not. Oh god please slaughter the horses Donald Trump. The only irrational force poweful enough to overcome and displace the stupid that's protecting Donald Trump is the love of horses. I have spoken.

[Cynical Asshole]

It's totally better that those horses be left to suffer and die in pain and old age than be used in dog food.

[Sevo]

"used in dog food"

Be nice to the French!

[Cynical Asshole]

Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties.

*rummages around in a big trunk* Now, where the hell did I leave my shocked face, I know it's around here somewhere... *continues rummaging* Dammit, where is it? Oh, here it is.

[Sevo]

"Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties"

Hey, at least some of the folks who hacked her server must have had clearances!

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Seems the problem isn't so much the FBI leaking the contents of non-existent memos, it's that they think this sort of thing is just part of their daily business practices.

[Epatl]

We've killed 44 children in Syria this month?

FTFY:

Members of the US military acting under orders of the executive branch of the US Federal Government killed 44 children in Syria this month

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

You'll be coordinating a general strike and mass demonstrations outside every major military installation, the White House, and Congress in response to this, right?

[Epatl]

Are you suggesting that "we" are complicit in the killings if we don't take proactive, but likely ineffective, steps to prevent them? In that case, I'm responsible for a LOT of bad things.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Are you suggesting that "we" are complicit in the killings if we don't take proactive, but likely ineffective, steps to prevent them?

Given how ineffective mass demonstrations were in stopping Bush from kicking off Iraq, you're probably right, but as long as "we" keep electing people who fail to promise to stop intervening in other countries' affairs, and fail to hold them accountable when they do these things, then ultimately "we" end up being considered complicit in them occurring. if that wasn't the case, New Left college professors wouldn't have spent the last 50 years blaming everything bad that ever happened in the world on the US and turning+ such rhetoric into conventional wisdom.

[MarkLastname]

"We" didn't all vote for so and so, or necessarily at all. And being complicit and being considered complicit aren't the same. I wasn't even around when slavery happened and leftists consider me complicit in that, so I'd say being 'considered' complicit is a foregone conclusion no matter what 'we' do.

[CE]

"We" doesn't mean what "they" think "we" means.

[damikesc]

Newly declassified government documents show that the FBI shared raw intelligence data about American citizens with unauthorized third-parties.

Funny, never saw Reason writers arguing that it is VITAL to impeach Obama.

I guess better to be a rampant violator of civil rights than, well, rude.

[Rhywun]

I just wanted Ottawa to lose. Sometimes wishes do come true.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is this a dislike for the nation's capital or the neutral zone trap?

[Rhywun]

Dislike for Pageau is part of it.

[Palin's Buttplug]

TARP was a Bushpig program, you dumbass.

The Bushpigs begged Pelosi to sponsor it because they had fucked up so badly.

[Domestic Dissident]

This. What's going on in Syria is just an extension of the Shiite vs. Sunni intra-Muslim regional civil war which has been raging off and on for a few decades now.

Personally, I'm not going to just critically accept the claims of some anti-Assad Syrian Sunni expat I know nothing at all about. We've seen where making that kind of mistake leads to in Iraq, but our stupid-ass media never learn much of anything from their mistakes. I have absolutely no idea whatsoever if he's truly an innocent victim who just wants freedom, or if he's an Al Qaeda/ISIS fanatical jihadi. With a name like "Osama", I know which one I'd bet on personally.

[MarkLastname]

'the house would've burned down even if we didn't douse it in gasoline and light the match!' Maybe, but probably not as fast or thoroughly.

Also, it's not exactly a peculiarity of theirs; Europe was the same way until like 60 years ago.

[Philadelphia Collins]

"Affordable Housing" was Bill and Hillary's bubble. But go on blaming Buuuuush!

[MarkLastname]

It's like 2009-2013 just didn't happen in your life.

You and DanO must be part of the same support group as you seem to have the same neuroses.