Pattern Ghost Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 So, how many years ago did this happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 68, give or take a couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 (I was riffing off of Old Man's posts above. The effect is ruined when the joke starts its own new page in the thread, though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 (I was riffing off of Old Man's posts above. The effect is ruined when the joke starts its own new page in the thread, though.) (me too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 7 0 ...let's see.. 7 plus 0 is 7.... so seven years ago Yay Common Core! Burrito Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Wow, no more Boehner jokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Wow, no more Boehner jokes Part of me goes "Eh". As speaker he was neither effective nor effectual - he basically got nothing done during his tenure. The other part of me suspects that his sucessor will make him look pretty good. cheers, Mark Enforcer84 and BoneDaddy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Who will it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 And will they have a name that's easily mockable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Who will it be? And will they have a name that's easily mockable? Robert Limpwilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Not Hanging Chad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 That's so 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Green Beret axed for rescuing a child sex slave I have been hearing about this kind of stuff for years, just rumor mill mostly. There is speculation that a significant number of the killings of US and coalition troops by Afghan troops may be related to this crap, and attempts to pull it on our TROOPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Oregon Leading the Way, Expunging Pot convictions. Did you hand a bong to a cop in 1989? Well that conviction that's been following you your whole life since, costing you jobs and making sure you can't volunteer at your kids' schools is now gone. Growing and stronger offenses will be removed in 2016. Cygnia, Hermit, Pattern Ghost and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Video Game Voice Actor Union, SAG-AFTRA, Asks For Authorization To Strike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Video Game Voice Actor Union, SAG-AFTRA, Asks For Authorization To Strike We are ready for the return of this yell: https://youtu.be/m0U6h5mvr9E tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 Vanishing Canada: How Ottawa's War on Data Threatens all We Know About Canada It seems our nominally polite neighbors to the north have had it decided for them that they need to "Live in the now" and "Stop fussing with things like censuses and scientific papers. The piece may be alarmist but that's actually kind of a scary thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 It looks like Russia isn't really interested in fighting Daesh In before the 'shocked at gambling' posts gewing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 I'm waiting to see if Putin manages to get himself firmly stuck in a Middle Eastern quagmire. Bombing the moderate rebels is a good way to piss off Muslims in other countries, like Russia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 I don't think he cares as long as we're stuck in the same quagmire. And we are. And our allies. As far as I can tell, he doesn't care if assad is in a quagmire either, so long as Assad is still in power and Russia still gets its naval base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 I don't think he cares as long as we're stuck in the same quagmire. And we are. And our allies. As far as I can tell, he doesn't care if assad is in a quagmire either, so long as Assad is still in power and Russia still gets its naval base. I've SEEN the Russian naval base in question, not so many years ago. I know it features prominently in discussions between armchair strategists online, but I don't think that it has the slightest interest to Putin or the Russian military at all, except as a propaganda piece. It's a tiny harbour with a few rusting corrugated iron sheds, with two cranes, one of which has rusted out, and fallen over into the harbour. When I saw it, the floating piers were derelict and there was a rusted sunken ship at one wharf. It was, in a word, desolate. The Russians are entirely smart enough to know that a small, useless harbour in an area where they cannot reliably project airpower is not a military asset on the global stage, but a liability, which is exactly why they've left it to decay. Promises to rebuild it so that it could host aircraft carriers or cruisers have so far produced bupkiss, and the current Russian buildup isn't even in the area of the port. Edit: and the Russians are actually using their access to the much better port at Limmasol in Cyprus rather more than their Syrian option anyway. I don't know what the status is now, but prior to the war, their "naval base" had a staff of 4. No, Putin's interest and his whole foreign policy - which has been pretty consistent for the last decade and a half - is built around one thing: maintaining Russia's ability to intervene in global energy markets. That's it, period, finito. Every action he has taken in the past has been consistent with that goal in mind, including his intervention in Ukraine and now his intervention in Syria. Putin is irrevocably marked by the collapse of the USSR and the USSR collapsed because - like today's Russia - it was critically dependant on energy revenues for foreign exchange. When OPEC pulled the plug on oil prices in the '80s, that was all she wrote for the USSR. Putin - in his own ham-handed way - is trying to ensure there is no rerun, and for that, he wants a seat at the table in the Middle East. Syria - and the Assad regime - is the last proxy the Russians have left in the area, although they are attempting to cuddle up to Egypt again. The last thing he wants is a new government that is supported by the US or Saudi Arabia becoming dominant in Syria. And that's why the Russians are not hitting ISIS right now, instead hitting the more moderate rebels pressing the regime forces. It suits Putin just fine to have unrest in the Middle East, and ISIS is, quite frankly, useful to him at the moment. As long as they are not strong enough to tople Assad, the worst he is likely to send their way is harsh words. It's also why the Russians moved into Syria at right this moment, as soon as Turkey and other NATO members started taking a more active role. cheers, Mark Lucius, pinecone, Michael Hopcroft and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/01/obama_statement_on_oregon_umpqua_community_college_shooting.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Are you sh*ting me? Another one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Oregon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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