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My Wild Conspiracy Theory
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the-rukh.livejournal.comwhich is not that wild and only really a conspiracy in the strictest definition.
( wild stream of consciousness ranting )
( wild stream of consciousness ranting )
28/3/11
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Biden's Staff Done Goofed
28/3/11 09:51kinvore.livejournal.comhttp://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/03/waiting-for-joe-and-bill.html
I'd like to get more info on this one but it doesn't look good for Biden's staffers. Apparently a reporter (NOT Fox News, surprisingly) was kept in a closet during a fundraiser. Guards were placed to keep him from mingling.
It sounds like false imprisonment to me but I am no legal expert. Are these "hold rooms" common practice? Can someone help me shed some light on this subject?
While I doubt this will have direct consequences on Biden himself this strikes me as a potentially serious problem for his staff.
I'd like to get more info on this one but it doesn't look good for Biden's staffers. Apparently a reporter (NOT Fox News, surprisingly) was kept in a closet during a fundraiser. Guards were placed to keep him from mingling.
It sounds like false imprisonment to me but I am no legal expert. Are these "hold rooms" common practice? Can someone help me shed some light on this subject?
While I doubt this will have direct consequences on Biden himself this strikes me as a potentially serious problem for his staff.
jerseycajun.livejournal.comI wanted to take a moment of my day out to share a bit of an epiphany I had recently brought about because of a particular thread. *ahem* Maybe its not so much of an epiphany, but I do feel the need to acknowledge it and thank my fellow Talk_Politics associates for 'getting it' implicitly.
For the most part, we've been able to hold all our views with all due seriousness and conviction without succumbing to antisocial behavior, and I want to highlight how much of a rarity that is. It's so rare, that, if I may say so, it has all but drained most of the actvity away from the other LJ boards devoted to particular ideologies. By some miracle, we have accumulated a diverse (in just about every sense of the word) population in which the majority of us are actually able to use this social network (that isn't Trademarked by Facebook, is it?) to actually be social.
As Hawkeye Pierce once noted in M.A.S.H., (and I'm paraphrasing), if we don't laugh, we'll go mad, and it seems like thankfully most of us know how to laugh, sometimes (even better) at our own expense. We aren't debating 'gods' and most of us know it.
So, thank you - to the Mods for being open (and dare I say, encouraging of?) and receptive to our quirky, off-topic shennanigans (and for contributing their own brand of the same). Thanks for Friday Lulz. Thanks to everyone here I've talked to and disagreed with while still being able to share an honest laugh.
Don't it for granted. We've got a good thing going here.
For the most part, we've been able to hold all our views with all due seriousness and conviction without succumbing to antisocial behavior, and I want to highlight how much of a rarity that is. It's so rare, that, if I may say so, it has all but drained most of the actvity away from the other LJ boards devoted to particular ideologies. By some miracle, we have accumulated a diverse (in just about every sense of the word) population in which the majority of us are actually able to use this social network (that isn't Trademarked by Facebook, is it?) to actually be social.
As Hawkeye Pierce once noted in M.A.S.H., (and I'm paraphrasing), if we don't laugh, we'll go mad, and it seems like thankfully most of us know how to laugh, sometimes (even better) at our own expense. We aren't debating 'gods' and most of us know it.
So, thank you - to the Mods for being open (and dare I say, encouraging of?) and receptive to our quirky, off-topic shennanigans (and for contributing their own brand of the same). Thanks for Friday Lulz. Thanks to everyone here I've talked to and disagreed with while still being able to share an honest laugh.
Don't it for granted. We've got a good thing going here.
I like where this is going:
28/3/11 17:12underlankers.livejournal.comSo.....Evo's suing the Chileans to get Bolivia's coast back.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-am
My first thought is that this is now an instance where "Country X called, they want Y back" is not a punchline for a satirical movie. My second thought is that if this somehow succeeds, things get interesting. It might even lead to a means to resolve border disputes other than not-a-wars the UN would get involved in the first time someone drops one bomb that cuts one civilian's pinky finger off. My third thought is that this might be good for the morales of the people of Bolivia, and that perhaps now Bolivia might have a real blue-water navy instead of pining for the days when once they had a coast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-am
My first thought is that this is now an instance where "Country X called, they want Y back" is not a punchline for a satirical movie. My second thought is that if this somehow succeeds, things get interesting. It might even lead to a means to resolve border disputes other than not-a-wars the UN would get involved in the first time someone drops one bomb that cuts one civilian's pinky finger off. My third thought is that this might be good for the morales of the people of Bolivia, and that perhaps now Bolivia might have a real blue-water navy instead of pining for the days when once they had a coast.
gunslnger.livejournal.comAmerica Becoming a Nation of Freeloaders?
That's the intro to the whole 1 hour special that was on last Friday. I can't find the whole thing online yet, maybe someone else can. Here's a link to the original piece that John Stossel did years ago. And some of the topics covered in the new special are described in Stossel's blog.
To me, this is the ultimate in patriotism, identifying the problems with our government rather than blindly accepting them. Recognizing that trying to help a few has unintended consequences that need to be dealt with. Cutting corporate welfare is smart. That maybe if we stopped giving away money to those who don't need it we might not have to raise taxes on anyone.
Unfortunately, as Stossel's earlier piece shows, I think our society is too far gone down the entitlement track to fix this problem, so I have no hope things will get better.
That's the intro to the whole 1 hour special that was on last Friday. I can't find the whole thing online yet, maybe someone else can. Here's a link to the original piece that John Stossel did years ago. And some of the topics covered in the new special are described in Stossel's blog.
In big government America today, it’s rich people who freeload the most. Corporations do it. And rich individuals do it. People like me...Eventually, a storm swept away my first floor. But I didn’t lose a penny. Thanks! I never invited you there, but you paid for my new first floor. A few years later, the whole house went. Again, government flood insurance covered my loss.
To me, this is the ultimate in patriotism, identifying the problems with our government rather than blindly accepting them. Recognizing that trying to help a few has unintended consequences that need to be dealt with. Cutting corporate welfare is smart. That maybe if we stopped giving away money to those who don't need it we might not have to raise taxes on anyone.
Unfortunately, as Stossel's earlier piece shows, I think our society is too far gone down the entitlement track to fix this problem, so I have no hope things will get better.