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Happy New Year, y’all… pic.twitter.com/PFlBPqVjvC
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) January 1, 2016
Me right now….
Still three hours from The Time on the left coast, but here’s an early Happy New Year to everyone!
Well. I’ll finally know what happens with this image in a few minutes…lol
Welcome to the Year of the Monkey! See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Ramping up to warzone intensity outside must be about to hit midnight…yep.
Happy new year from Florida to all my fellow lizards!
re: #4 FormerDirtDart
Well. I’ll finally know what happens with this image in a few minutes…lol
Well. there ya go
re: #5 Barefoot Grin
Welcome to the Year of the Monkey! See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The Year of the Monkey doesn’t technically begin until the lunar New Year, which is on February 8.
re: #7 ausador
Happy new year from Florida to all my fellow lizards!
I am quite surprised, not hearing any gunfire here in Jacksonville this year…yet
Greetings from a City That Never Sleeps.
I’m king of the hill, top of the heap, A-Number-1.
re: #5 Barefoot Grin
Welcome to the Year of the Monkey! See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
That may be in other countries. But here in the US, it’s looking like another Year of the Jackass.
re: #9 Brian J.
The Year of the Monkey doesn’t technically begin until the lunar New Year, which is on February 8.
True. But my connections are with Japan.
ETA: my DW’s uncle sent us New Year place settings with the three monkeys. He sent it express so that it would be here tonight so that we could have our “toshi-koshi soba” etc. on the celebratory place mats. I know that the rest of east Asia honors the lunar calendar, but Japan joined the West since the 1870s in making the new year according to the solar calendar.
re: #5 Barefoot Grin
Welcome to the Year of the Monkey! See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Yeah, good luck with that in an election year. ;)
Now I’m curious about what laid those eggs…
. ＜⌒／ヽ-、_＿ ／＜_/＿＿＿＿／ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ ∧_∧ （・o・）”2016?” ＿| ⊃／(＿＿_ ／ └-(＿＿＿_／ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ ＜⌒／ヽ-、_＿ ／＜_/＿＿＿＿／ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
— darthTM (@darth) January 1, 2016
Fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge. pic.twitter.com/vyWTdILfoK
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) January 1, 2016
Today’s Daily Cartoon by @BentSchwartz. See more cartoons here: https://t.co/j3MpsDStsV pic.twitter.com/XenngmWkIO
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 1, 2016
re: #21 FormerDirtDart
Now I’m curious about what laid those eggs…
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Now it can be told… changelings lay eggs.
Happy 2016 Get registered to vote, everybody. Unless you’re a Duck Dynasty fan, obvs
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 1, 2016
well good bye 2015 i will not miss you tbh good bye pic.twitter.com/jrz5I9S3aI
— darth™ (@darth) January 1, 2016
Well, so much for a new year with less snark
Credit where due: AP was all over this story pic.twitter.com/W0ZLtga2q2
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 1, 2016
Happy new year in 28 minutes to all my friends in Kansas City, MO!
re: #29 FormerDirtDart
A new year with less snark? Makes about as much sense as a motorcycle with air conditioning.
Freaky looking but the colors are amazing…
Behold, a spider named sparklemuffin (yes, that’s its actual name) https://t.co/r3vhYidlX1 pic.twitter.com/QaceuuDP9W
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 1, 2016
Only 364 days until we have to see Kathy Griffin again.
This is such an east coast centric country but I’d rather watch those beautiful north easterners than be part of them.
New Sherlock tonight! Whoopie!
2014? Oh bloody hell.
Happy New Year, Lizards!
I just went out on to Broad Street. Drunk people…drunk people everywhere…
re: #32 ausador
Freaky looking but the colors are amazing…
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Sack boy’s wearing a sweater.
re: #35 makeitstop
Happy New Year, Lizards!
I just went out on to Broad Street. Drunk people…drunk people everywhere…
Any pretty girls everywhere? ;-) Happy New Year!
Big Sandy is my main man. This rockin’ dude’s recordings are highly recommended.
There is a Luau going on somewhere in the hotel. I can hear it.
I’m enjoying the evening on the balcony of our room listening to the ocean between drum beats.
MSNBC with a kick-ass New Year’s version of Lock-up.
Holiday Decorations in ParadiseThey decorate with fruit.
re: #29 FormerDirtDart
I failed, too.
@pourmecoffee CNN reported it was a a hexagon rising over Sheboygan, WI
— mattand (@mattand) January 1, 2016
Happy New Year!
The residential streets in Lubbock are still almost impassable in many areas, thanks to inaction by the city, but the state-maintained highways are clear. My daughter left for Kansas this afternoon and I will escape back to Mineral Wells and my conspiracy compound in the morning. Our hosts and their neighbors have been wonderful.
Others here are not so wonderful, as usual.
I would like to leave with an insider tip for the ultraconservative elements of the local business community: If you resent federal and state bureaucrats “interfering” in your business and oppressing your sacred entrepreneurial prerogatives, try OBEYING THE LAW and DOING THE RIGHT THING. You would be amazed at how these simple business habits will keep the Department of Labor, OSHA, and the Texas Workforce Commission out of your face and your books.
My New Year’s resolution? To work towards seeing another Democrat in the White House. I’d say something like “lose weight” or “eat healthy,” but I think I’ve gotten old enough that I can actually set achievable goals now.
Watching CNN right now. I kinda understand why terrorist might not choose this holiday. CNN is already bombing it.
re: #34 De Kolta Chair
New Sherlock tonight! Whoopie!
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OH CRAP…I forgot about that
My plan was to finally watch season 5 of Game of Thrones today
Can you say fake as hell? Good I knew you could…
A view of Earth from The Moon taken by NASA. pic.twitter.com/IXDLNSjwMp
— Learn Something (@EarnKnowledge) January 1, 2016
re: #47 FormerDirtDart
OH CRAP…I forgot about that
My plan was to finally watch season 5 of Game of Thrones today
re: #38 De Kolta Chair
Any pretty girls everywhere? ;-) Happy New Year!
Many of them. And they all must be freezing to death, or too hammered to feel it.
Happy New Year to all of the Lizardfolk! Still relatively quiet here in the southern end of the Denver metroplex — only a few bangs and fizzes so far, at 10:45 p.m. Current temp is 12F, supposed to drop to 5 or 6, which is much better than the northwest corner of the state where they’re predicting -27 for the low. (Stay warm, Teleskiguy!)
Teenager has fallen asleep, not surprising since he was at a sleepover last night and got the expected amount of sleep for a reunion of three 17-year-old (male) video gamers. He says to wake him up at midnight, will see if it works. The 91-year-old mother has gone to bed and does NOT want to be woken up for the ball drop — says she was at Times Square for New Years’ 1953 and that was plenty. So it’s probably just going to be me and the spouse and some peppermint schnapps to celebrate another trip around the sun.
There’s got to be something better to watch than imitation Dick Clark’s New Years with idiot Jenny McCarthy…
re: #46 Barefoot Grin
Watching CNN right now. I kinda understand why terrorist might not choose this holiday. CNN is already bombing it.
heh!
[isis commander] Can we screw up New Year’s Eve for America? [/isis commander]
[isis lackey] not to worry sir, Don Lemmon is on top of it [/isis lackey]
re: #48 ausador
Can you say fake as hell? Good I knew you could…
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Fly me to the moon…
re: #48 ausador
Can you say fake as hell? Good I knew you could…
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you can see the chemtrails very clearly from that shot.
re: #52 b.d.
heh!
[isis commander] Can we screw up New Year’s Eve for America? [/isis commander]
[isis lackey] not to worry sir, Don Lemmon is on top of it [/isis lackey]
Don Lemon: “Speaking of screw ups, tonight’s special guest is former NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Mr. Kelly, what can we expect in the coming year?”
“Hopefully not an indictment, if you catch my drift.”
A little New York humor there. Happy new year!
re: #51 CleverToad
(Stay warm, Teleskiguy!)
Current temperature outside, -2°F.
Currently watching tonight’s Umphrey’s McGee concert at The Fillmore Denver via webcast and imbibing responsibly.
I was at The Fillmore last night. What a show! Tonight I’m watching the concert on a screen. It’s…different.
I’ll be back at The Fillmore tomorrow night for the Umphrey’s McGee Reel to Real fan dork show.
A classic example of Irish realism. In other words, the same old shite.
Newton Emerson: Fresh Start for North in 2016 looks predictable https://t.co/Kx6vU1TGSk pic.twitter.com/CDyyLPuS2M
— Irish Times Opinion (@IrishTimesOpEd) January 1, 2016
Well this sucks…
Home health aide charged with assaulting 98-year-old architect I.M. Pei at his New York home: https://t.co/IXlHkYutoX
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 1, 2016
re: #21 FormerDirtDart
Yes, the Google doodle didn’t wait until Pacific time to hatch.
A strange egg it is.
Laura Nyro - Time & Love
That was a link from TV’s Frank that for some reason didn’t work. Cough Obama’s fault Cough.
Feckin’ liberals…
I think 2017 is going to be a great year!
— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) January 1, 2016
Watching A Lego Brickumentary and thought this was freakin’ cool…
My kids got this for Christmas. They love Legos.
re: #68 Jenner7
Watching Lego: Brickumentary and thought this was freakin’ cool…
My kids got this for Christmas. They love Legos.
Recently, a young pal o’ ours spent the weekend with us while his parents were out of town and he brought with him that documentary, which I fully expected to be bored by.
Lesson learned (for the four millionth time): never ever assume anything. I dug it. ;-) Happy new year!
Meet Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Tehran), Your Legislative Sh*tmuffin For 2015 https://t.co/5NvhnhbXck pic.twitter.com/yR59LJ6RUx
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) January 1, 2016
This is why you don’t land on the wrong carrier…
#USNavy F2H-2 Banshee from USS Coral Sea (CVB 43) after it had landed aboard USS Wasp (CV 18) in 1952 #TBT pic.twitter.com/0VjTxY2Sdz
— U.S. Naval History (@NavyHistoryNews) January 1, 2016
They can’t say that we didn’t try to tell them…
Carson staff exodus reveals disturbing internal doubts about his “readiness for the White House.” https://t.co/Se6wSGm8lI
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) January 1, 2016
Turned to Fox News with some strange story from Ted Cruz on Fox News about Obama not being President anymore and my daughter gives me this “WTF?!?” look. lol
Best 2016 moment so far.
G’night Lizards. Have a great New Years.
re: #75 ausador
They can’t say that we didn’t try to tell them…
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It took them this long to realize that he was so far out of his depth, he’s in danger of drowning?
Turns out nobody quite knows why, the graphs with the article are clear enough though. Combination of a lot of stuff apparently…
Why is January 1 the deadliest day of the year? https://t.co/umSyHzVnOY
— Paul Kirby (@paul1kirby) January 1, 2016
As if…
Okay America, THIS year, we’re not gonna make a fool of ourselves. Yeah? All on the same page? Florida, you paying attention?
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 1, 2016
Asking for a miracle considering that the clown car still has a lot of mileage left to travel.
Still burning…
video: #AddressHotel #Dubai, smoke still there after last night’s massive blaze pic.twitter.com/lbzYwf84uW
— M H T (@HanzalaOfficial) January 1, 2016
re: #82 Timothy Watson
I wonder how much that building is insured for…
Wondering myself, certainly tens of millions in damage. Plus the whole exterior should be stripped and retrofitted to remove the flammable insulation.
Just saw this graphic over at the Washington Post. I hope that next year sees more of the same degradation of Daesh control. It would be neat if they can be considered contained before Obama leaves office.
Here is an article written after the Dubai Torch tower fire that discusses the fire risk from the composite (aluminum sandwiched polyurethane) panels used on many buildings there.
Dubai has changed its building code to ban them now and is making some existing buildings install upgrades to stop fire spread on the exterior.
Also talks to insurance people who are saying they will no longer insure buildings with more than 50% of their skin made from composite panels.
re: #85 Alyosha
Just saw this graphic over at the Washington Post. I hope that next year sees more of the same degradation of Daesh control. It would be neat if they can be considered contained before Obama leaves office.
I was just going through some old posts on another forum, and I ran across hand-wringing from wingnuts about when Ramadi fell, and how it was “proof” that the administration’s effort to degrade ISIS were a “failure” and how it was yet more evidence that the President didn’t take ISIS “seriously.”
What’s more hilarious is that I haven’t seen any of those same wingnuts commenting on the story the other day that Iraqi forces have retaken Ramadi and credited the US air campaign for weakening ISIS to the point that they could throw them (with the exception of small pockets of resistance) out of the city.
re: #87 Targetpractice
Airstrikes over the last month have also killed 10 high rank ISIS leaders. How long can they stay a cohesive fighting force with their commanders being taken out at that rate?
re: #88 ausador
Airstrikes over the last month have also killed 10 high rank ISIS leaders. How long can they stay a cohesive fighting force with their commanders being taken out at that rate?
I don’t know, but I remember when killing off leaders of Al-Q was an event worth crowing about amongst wingnuts. You know, before that black guy took up residence in the White House, and suddenly bombing terrorists wasn’t sufficiently macho enough, we need carpet bombing and soldiers on the ground (again).
re: #87 Targetpractice
It would mean having to give some credit to this particular Commander-in-Chief’s regional strategy of few boots on the ground, air support and local consultation.
Pessimists can also say it might have been accomplished sooner with a ground invasion which might have occurred if not for that pesky lapse of the SOFA with the Iraqi government. Another thing which the right wing have used retroactively to bash the president.
It’s always something.
re: #90 Alyosha
WN: We puiied out too soon!
Me: We pulled out on the date Bush agreed to.
WN: Obama could have gotten it extended!
Me: How could he do that when the Iraqi government wanted us out? Bush had to negotiate for months to allow us to stay as long as we did and almost didn’t succeed.
WN: *crickets*
re: #91 ausador
The reinstatement of Iraqi sovereignty really reveals that the war itself was seen by many as a war of conquest, the spoils of which Obama let go.
<shrugs>
re: #91 ausador
WN: We puiied out too soon!
Me: We pulled out on the date Bush agreed to.
WN: Obama could have gotten it extended!
Me: How could he do that when the Iraqi government wanted us out? Bush had to negotiate for months to allow us to stay as long as we did and almost didn’t succeed.
WN: *crickets*
I’ve had the discussion over and over again with wingnuts and found two different schools of thought:
The first goes that the Iraq government didn’t really mean to throw us out, they were just playing the diplomatic equivalent of “hard to get.” They were willing to let us stay and give our soldiers immunity, they were just looking for the right price. But the President wouldn’t negotiate with them and give them what they wanted, so it’s his fault for not being sufficiently dedicated to the negotiations. And if you point out to those making that argument that Bush spent a year negotiating the last SOFA and he failed to do better than 2 year extension, they go quiet.
The other school says basically what Alyosha just stated: Iraq was “ours,” that the Bush admin built clauses into the SOFA that would have allowed us to ignore the withdrawal date, and thus the President “abandoned” Iraq rather than fighting for what we’d “won.” The problem is that the clauses they talk about say (upon further inspection) that any decision to stay past the withdrawal date has to be mutual and based upon an active threat to Iraq’s security and sovereignty. And any wingnut who will stand up and insist that ISIS was such a threat in 2011 that we could have convinced the Iraqi people to accept an indefinite stay should be tested for mind-altering drugs and/or dementia.
So the “odd/even plan” seems to be off to a decent start so far. Some Indian officials from the opposition stopped for purposeful violations, but overall people seem to be complying.
The real test will be Monday when schools are back in session and all businesses are open.
Finished watching Childhood’s End.
It was ok. Parts I liked. The lead actor (the farmer) I found about as unlikable as he was in the atrocious Under the Dome. Other than that I think the casting was ok.
It gets really mixed reviews. Clarke fans are aghast, or so it appears.
I’m glad that SyFy is finally producing more shows that are not intended for a juvenile audience.
I find the way the Overmind was portrayed to be reminiscent of a similar character in the Doctor Who series The Key to Time.
So much Christmas music that I didn’t get around to playing…
There are already Dubai tower fire truther videos up on YouTube. :(
Same old shit “crisis actors!” “Google time stamps on stories before the fire started!” etc, etc…
My question to them is why? Nobody got killed, it wasn’t claimed to be terrorism, politics aren’t involved, so why burn the building on purpose?
Sigh…idjits
re: #97 ausador
There are already Dubai tower fire truther videos up on YouTube. :(
Same old shit “crisis actors!” “Google time stamps on stories before the fire started!” etc, etc…
My question to them is why? Nobody got killed, it wasn’t claimed to be terrorism, politics aren’t involved, so why burn the building on purpose?
Sigh…idjits
The Juice, never forget the Juice.
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Pretty…
Tulip Fields, Amsterdam pic.twitter.com/5xHtT7POFZ
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) January 1, 2016
For some strange reason this one made me think of Trump…
“lf what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back.”
— Chinese Proverbs (@ChineseSayiing) January 1, 2016
re: #100 ausador
The Trump campaign has this idea of itself which appeals directly to the sensation that the guys pulling the strings (the Establishment) do not want him to win.
No revelation there.
The ‘back’, then, is everywhere. No one believes anything which doesn’t conform to pre-existing suppositions.
We are at Alex Jones levels of presuppositionalism.
There will ever be a state of conspiracy.
No one is exempt. But some are more suspect than others.
Holy mother-fuckin’ shit.
Has anyone else noted how maternal the Trump message has become?
Can’t remember which particular rally it was but the tone and thrust was almost identical.
1. Suggest vague problem. Eg. Unemployment, general societal malaise.
2. Attack current administration. No specifics. Appeal to general feelings of torpor that come with being the minority party.
3. Suggest solution that even Luntz focus-groups suppress because it comes out all ‘Nazi-y’.
4. Receive applause.
5. Suggest that things will become even worse due to the current PC climate, which ignores your inherently backward-ass worldview.
6. Repeat a well-worn phrase which uses fear as a multiplier and will solve the issue, and all issues, once and for all while using reassuring language which resembles in force the words that encourage using potty.
i.e. ‘They are overrunning us right now, but Mummy will build a Wall, okay baby, and don’t you doubt it for a second, honey. It’ll be so tall, you shouldn’t even worry about it. Just keep loving me and it’ll be alright.’
Interesting that the Wall is something he returns to when he goes off on a tangent and loses the crowd. Wakes them up. Brings them right back.
The tone is always bombastic, but at base it is weirdly maternal : ‘I won’t ever let them hurt you’ while ramping up the threat.
re: #102 Alyosha
Has anyone else noted how maternal the Trump message has become?
Can’t remember which particular rally it was but the tone and thrust was almost identical.
1. Suggest vague problem. Eg. Unemployment, general societal malaise.
2. Attack current administration. No specifics. Appeal to general feelings of torpor that come with being the minority party.
3. Suggest solution that even Luntz focus-groups suppress because it comes out all ‘Nazi-y’.
4. Receive applause.
5. Suggest that things will become even worse due to the current PC climate, which ignores your inherently backward-ass worldview.
6. Repeat a well-worn phrase which uses fear as a multiplier and will solve the issue, and all issues, once and for all while using reassuring language which resembles in force the words that encourage using potty.
i.e. ‘They are overrunning us right now, but Mummy will build a Wall, okay baby, and don’t you doubt it for a second, honey. It’ll be so tall, you shouldn’t even worry about it. Just keep loving me and it’ll be alright.’
Interesting that the Wall is something he returns to when he goes off on a tangent and loses the crowd. Wakes them up. Brings them right back.
The tone is always bombastic, but at base it is weirdly maternal : ‘I won’t ever let them hurt you’ while ramping up the threat.
Trump’s supporters are essentially frightened children. It’s not at all surprising he adopts such a parental tone when he speaks to them.
re: #102 Alyosha
Has anyone else noted how maternal the Trump message has become?
Can’t remember which particular rally it was but the tone and thrust was almost identical.
1. Suggest vague problem. Eg. Unemployment, general societal malaise.
2. Attack current administration. No specifics. Appeal to general feelings of torpor that come with being the minority party.
3. Suggest solution that even Luntz focus-groups suppress because it comes out all ‘Nazi-y’.
4. Receive applause.
5. Suggest that things will become even worse due to the current PC climate, which ignores your inherently backward-ass worldview.
6. Repeat a well-worn phrase which uses fear as a multiplier and will solve the issue, and all issues, once and for all while using reassuring language which resembles in force the words that encourage using potty.
i.e. ‘They are overrunning us right now, but Mummy will build a Wall, okay baby, and don’t you doubt it for a second, honey. It’ll be so tall, you shouldn’t even worry about it. Just keep loving me and it’ll be alright.’
Interesting that the Wall is something he returns to when he goes off on a tangent and loses the crowd. Wakes them up. Brings them right back.
The tone is always bombastic, but at base it is weirdly maternal : ‘I won’t ever let them hurt you’ while ramping up the threat.
Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?
Mother, do you think they’ll like this song?
Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my balls?
Ooooh aah, mother, should I build the wall?
Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in the firing line?
Ooooh aah, is it just a waste of time?
Hush now, baby, baby, don’t you cry
Mama’s gonna make all of your nightmares come true
Mama’s gonna put all of her fears into you…
Pink Floyd
re: #103 Dr Lizardo
Made my first LGF page of it. Please me gentle hahaha
(tiptoes in, looks around…)
(bangs metal pan with spoon)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
(runs out)
re: #79 ausador
Turns out nobody quite knows why, the graphs with the article are clear enough though. Combination of a lot of stuff apparently…
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I suspect the reason the spike occurs between Christmas and New Years is because of wanting to be with family and ignoring signs that you should go to the emergency room. As for the overall increase in the winter, I do think, contrary to what the article says, it is because of the cold. The South may be warmer than the North, but 1) southerners are not nearly as prepared to deal with the cold, and 2) the South has more poor and a lower rate of medical coverage than the North.
R.I.P. Wayne Rogers
Wayne Rogers, Trapper John on ‘M.A.S.H.,’ dies at 82
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Wayne Rogers, whose Trapper John McIntyre alongside Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce brought mischief, martinis and meatball surgery to the masses in the 1970s every week on “M.A.S.H.,” has died.
The actor was surrounded by family when he died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia at age 82, his publicist and longtime friend Rona Menashe told The Associated Press.
Rogers’ army surgeon Trapper John was one of the most beloved characters - and half of one of the most beloved duos - in TV history, despite the actor’s appearing in only the first three of the show’s 11 seasons on CBS.
re: #108 Shiplord Kirel
R.I.P. Wayne Rogers
Aw. That’s sad.
82, though. Wow. I’m getting really old.
A very happy New Year one and all! May the new year bring you everything you want and desire!
re: #107 Belafon
I suspect the reason the spike occurs between Christmas and New Years is because of wanting to be with family and ignoring signs that you should go to the emergency room. As for the overall increase in the winter, I do think, contrary to what the article says, it is because of the cold. The South may be warmer than the North, but 1) southerners are not nearly as prepared to deal with the cold, and 2) the South has more poor and a lower rate of medical coverage than the North.
Some people might hold on to live out the year, the last goal they’ve got left when they’re that close. My father and three of my grandparents died the day after their birthday…
re: #91 ausador
WN: We puiied out too soon!
Me: We pulled out on the date Bush agreed to.
WN: Obama could have gotten it extended!
Me: How could he do that when the Iraqi government wanted us out? Bush had to negotiate for months to allow us to stay as long as we did and almost didn’t succeed.
WN: *crickets*
The best answer to that is: “It’s complicated.” Al-Malaki was at one point willing to bring an SOF forwards but right before he planned to do so Wikileaks released documents that made it look like the US had covered up heavy civilian casualties from an airstrike. We hadn’t done so, and we proved we didn’t in fairly short order, but not short enough to prevent a hue and cry being raised in Iraq that prevented the SOF from being acted on.
It’s important to remember that the root of (honest) Iraqi objections to the SOF was over its requiring American military personnel to be tried only in US courts. The lie Wikileaks told with its dishonest document release (and dishonest it clearly was) stoked Iraqi fears of Americans killing Iraqis are then facing no consequences for having done so.
It was not until the fall of Mosul in the summer of 2014 that those fears were finally put aside, not allayed so much as outweighed by the overwhelming threat of Daesh.
re: #97 ausador
There are already Dubai tower fire truther videos up on YouTube. :(
Same old shit “crisis actors!” “Google time stamps on stories before the fire started!” etc, etc…
My question to them is why? Nobody got killed, it wasn’t claimed to be terrorism, politics aren’t involved, so why burn the building on purpose?
Sigh…idjits
The fire was set so Donald Trump could lambast Dubai for poor construction standards and tout his own expertise in hotel construction. More fires and incidents will occur, especially in those tower hotels owned by people who purchased a speaking engagement by Bill Clinton. Thus Trump will convince America that the Clintons are ea jinx who will bring the nation bad luck, thus ensuring his election as president.
The final stage of Trump’s plan will happen after his inauguration, when he will claim all of the tower hotels in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are “firetrap symbols of uppity Islam”. All be destroyed by cruise missiles with the tower in Mecca deliberately dropped onto the Grand Mosque there. Then will sweep aside all federal obstacles to enable his old children to build the world’s tallest hotel tower in the US, thus restoring America to its rightful position of dominance.
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How was that? Do think Alex Jones would buy it?
Donald Trump Thanks Conspiracy Site For ‘Amazing Honor’ Of Being Its Man Of The Year https://t.co/G7mIAchsh3 via @thinkprogress
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) January 1, 2016
re: #35 makeitstop
Happy New Year, Lizards!
I just went out on to Broad Street. Drunk people…drunk people everywhere…
I told you it’s the 2nd Drunkest Event of the Year
“…Back in 2011, Farah credited Trump with raising the profile of Corsi’s book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” (published by WND), which debuted on the best seller list shortly after President Obama publicly released a copy of his birth certificate.”
rightwingwatch.org
re: #35 makeitstop
Yes. And that is why I am at home today. I did get a peek of the Fancies yesterday. Eye popping colors.
Happy New Year Little Green Footballs!
You know, it’s been kinda nice forgetting about crazy politics for a couple days.
Have a good day…back after the local B1G college game.
re: #84 ausador
Wondering myself, certainly tens of millions in damage. Plus the whole exterior should be stripped and retrofitted to remove the flammable insulation.
It probably took enough structural damage to be condemned.
So it probably hangs around as an unoccupy-able eyesore for a decade or so before someone bites the cost of tearing it down in order to reuse the space.
en.wikipedia.org
This one in Philly sat for eight years after burning out. And I think the lot itself only got built on again recently. (Or I am mistaking it with a shorter building in the same small area.)
Happy New Year!
My LGF resolution for 2016 is to find a display name that doesn’t reference Trump in any way
The Solar Industry’s Christmas Miracle https://t.co/oX5afPVgKN pic.twitter.com/stFySJJQSu
— Svein T veitdal (@tveitdal) January 1, 2016
“…Last Friday, Congress voted to extend the 30 percent solar investment tax credit through 2019, and then to reduce it to 10 percent through 2022.
That move instantly made the U.S. solar industry viable for another six years.”
Happy New Year’s Day to all Lizards.
Looks like 2016 is getting off to stupid start. 0 to Godwin in less than 12 hours.
Our NATO ally.
Turkey’s President Erdogan cites ‘Hitler’s Germany’ as example of effective government https://t.co/6Mr5tlp86H
— The Independent (@Independent) January 1, 2016
re: #124 b.d.
Happy New Year’s Day to all Lizards.
Looks like 2016 is getting off to stupid start. 0 to Godwin in less than 12 hours.
Our NATO ally.
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*groans as he rythmically knocks head against desk*
re: #102 Alyosha
Has anyone else noted how maternal the Trump message has become?
Can’t remember which particular rally it was but the tone and thrust was almost identical.
1. Suggest vague problem. Eg. Unemployment, general societal malaise.
2. Attack current administration. No specifics. Appeal to general feelings of torpor that come with being the minority party.
3. Suggest solution that even Luntz focus-groups suppress because it comes out all ‘Nazi-y’.
4. Receive applause.
5. Suggest that things will become even worse due to the current PC climate, which ignores your inherently backward-ass worldview.
6. Repeat a well-worn phrase which uses fear as a multiplier and will solve the issue, and all issues, once and for all while using reassuring language which resembles in force the words that encourage using potty.
i.e. ‘They are overrunning us right now, but Mummy will build a Wall, okay baby, and don’t you doubt it for a second, honey. It’ll be so tall, you shouldn’t even worry about it. Just keep loving me and it’ll be alright.’
Interesting that the Wall is something he returns to when he goes off on a tangent and loses the crowd. Wakes them up. Brings them right back.
The tone is always bombastic, but at base it is weirdly maternal : ‘I won’t ever let them hurt you’ while ramping up the threat.
I’m waiting for Trump to start issuing the armbands with the crossed hammers on them.
re: #124 b.d.
Happy New Year’s Day to all Lizards.
Looks like 2016 is getting off to stupid start. 0 to Godwin in less than 12 hours.
Our NATO ally.
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Ah, well, the Third Reich probably did cause the most deaths and the largest amount of physical, financial and political damage of any government in history. This certainly counts as effective, IF YOU’RE SATAN.
re: #124 b.d.
Happy New Year’s Day to all Lizards.
Looks like 2016 is getting off to stupid start. 0 to Godwin in less than 12 hours.
Our NATO ally.
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So, what’s the Turkish for “Führer”?
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
More very sad news. She had a beautiful voice. RIP
re: #128 Dr Lizardo
So, what’s the Turkish for “Führer”?
We haven’t had a Pasha rule Turkey in a while
re: #132 b.d.
We haven’t had a Pasha rule Turkey in a while
Yep. Erdogan would love nothing more than to be a Pasha.
re: #124 b.d.
Happy New Year’s Day to all Lizards.
Looks like 2016 is getting off to stupid start. 0 to Godwin in less than 12 hours.
Our NATO ally.
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Heaven’s gift to the Kremlin propaganda machine.
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
It is not yet in the New York Times (I might have missed it.) but it is in The Wall Street Journal.
Celebrating New Year’s by watching a documentary about giant ants rampaging through New Mexico in the 1950s.
re: #102 Alyosha
Has anyone else noted how maternal the Trump message has become?
Can’t remember which particular rally it was but the tone and thrust was almost identical.
1. Suggest vague problem. Eg. Unemployment, general societal malaise.
2. Attack current administration. No specifics. Appeal to general feelings of torpor that come with being the minority party.
3. Suggest solution that even Luntz focus-groups suppress because it comes out all ‘Nazi-y’.
4. Receive applause.
5. Suggest that things will become even worse due to the current PC climate, which ignores your inherently backward-ass worldview.
6. Repeat a well-worn phrase which uses fear as a multiplier and will solve the issue, and all issues, once and for all while using reassuring language which resembles in force the words that encourage using potty.
i.e. ‘They are overrunning us right now, but Mummy will build a Wall, okay baby, and don’t you doubt it for a second, honey. It’ll be so tall, you shouldn’t even worry about it. Just keep loving me and it’ll be alright.’
Interesting that the Wall is something he returns to when he goes off on a tangent and loses the crowd. Wakes them up. Brings them right back.
The tone is always bombastic, but at base it is weirdly maternal : ‘I won’t ever let them hurt you’ while ramping up the threat.
You’re right.
Fascist supporters need a parent. They long for Big Daddy to do the things they can’t. Or, more accurately, to make legal the retribution against their Pet Hates.
So, about that question I had yesterday (cows or LARGE wild hogs?) on the animal prints running all around the property: took a walk around to look again in better light and it’s definitely a bunch of very large pigs.
re: #136 Feline Fearless Leader
Victorian holidays were like those 1950s monster movies with giant bugs everywhere and OH MY GOD IT’S GOT MY ARM!! pic.twitter.com/iGgKHP3UOJ
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) January 1, 2016
re: #119 ObserverArt
Happy New Year Little Green Footballs!
You know, it’s been kinda nice forgetting about crazy politics for a couple days.
Have a good day…back after the local B1G college game.
I’ve been up in Tahoe skiing since the 26th. Have Internet but have barely used it…I’ve been blissfully ignorant of all the year in review crap, politics, and sportsball. Just skiing on cold snow - and it’s snowing right now. Taking a day off from patrol, but here’s a pic my lovely wife snapped of me the other day.
Mere: #138 jaunte
So, about that question I had yesterday (cows or LARGE wild hogs?) on the animal prints running all around the property: took a walk around to look again in better light and it’s definitely a bunch of very large pigs.
They’re keeping the giant ants out of Texas.
Happy New Year to Lizards everywhere!
Here’s hoping for a more sane 2016, in spite of of the presidential campaigns of the various GOP campaign trying to “out tuff” their opponents, with ever heightened rhetoric.
Here’s hoping we can find a way to value the lives of all our citizens equally, and the law will back us up.
And here’s hoping the retaking of Ramadi is just the beginning, and that the Iraq central government can and will find a way to entice the Sunni buy in, needed to allow real and lasting stability. It would be so encouraging, to see a real viable model to stopping the carnage. That would make for such a great New Year, to see progress.
And here’s hoping………..well, if we could just get some of that, it would be a great year.
I’m resolving to be as positive as possible this year and fuck the haters. #NewYearResolution
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 1, 2016
Think Progress had a great bit on the predictions of the Right for 2016 if Obama were to be reelected in 2012. They’re so far off the mark, it’s amazing. Gas headed for $10 a gallon, unemployment >8%, stock market crashed, and the entire US economy collapsing.
None of which, obviously, has come to pass. But he has a year yet, and maybe all our guns will be taken and we’ll all be in FEMA camps after he crowns himself President For Life.
Or maybe we’ll have another pretty good year, while the Right screams that a Hillary Clinton Administration will be like another Obama Administration, and while their adherents faint from the horror, the rest of us will say, “Hey, that sounds pretty good!”
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Lives
While doing routine maintenance on an oil well off the coast of Angola, a team from BP spotted a—oh god, what is that? They nicknamed the 4,000-foot-deep creature the “flying spaghetti monster,” after the deity.
Remote operated underwater vehicles working for offshore oil and gas companies routinely come across interesting specimens like this, and pass their footage along to deep sea research groups.The National Oceanography Centre in Great Britain and the SERPENT Project reviewed the footage, and suggested the workers likely encountered a siphonophore, which belong to a group of aquatic animals including jellyfish. May it float peacefully away from the rest of us, RAmen.
re: #144 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t always steal someone’s work, but when I do, it’s meaningful. pic.twitter.com/Af6Vq4xvxT
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 1, 2016
Well we made it through 2015.
Happy New Year
Hope that 2016 will be better than 2015 was.
Everyone resolve to keep all Republicans out of office in 2016.
re: #129 Dr Lizardo
Add Gilbert Kaplan to the list.
People who know the work of Mahler know that Kaplan specialized exclusively in conducting Smphony No. 2.
re: #146 jaunte
4 Things That Were Supposed To Happen By 2015 Because Obama Was Reelected
thinkprogress.org
Although these dire economic predictions have proven false, it doesn’t mean there aren’t real, persistent problems with the U.S. economy. Most critically, wage growth for American workers remains stagnant. That’s why, although many economic indicators are strong, a lot of Americans aren’t yet feeling the impact.
Guess who has a vested interest in keeping wages low…
re: #146 jaunte
4 Things That Were Supposed To Happen By 2015 Because Obama Was Reelected
thinkprogress.org
I really need to see if these prognosticators of doom bet on football…
I’m feeling too lazy today to go through the entire thread, so…
Happy New Year, lizards!
re: #153 CuriousLurker
And you too CL. Happy New Year. :)
re: #152 Kid A
There’s a lot ideology-based betting going on:
Dimwit “Austrian economist” loses bet inflation would rise. https://t.co/ot9ogkL347 Yet such dimwits still peddle gold to unsophisticated.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 1, 2016
re: #145 Shiplord Kirel
It was foretold that he would pasta this way again.
re: #117 PhillyPretzel
Yes. And that is why I am at home today. I did get a peek of the Fancies yesterday. Eye popping colors.
Looking forward to them! I’m in the hotel grabbing new camera batteries and putting the other ones on charge. Wenches are still strutting. One of them carried a Lemmy sign.
Back out on to the street I go… BBL
Does anyone know if LGF subscriptions paid via PayPal will renew automatically? I just assumed they do, however mine hasn’t (it’s due to renew today).
re: #159 CuriousLurker
Does anyone know if LGF subscriptions paid via PayPal will renew automatically? I just assumed they do, however mine hasn’t (it’s due to renew today).
Mine renewed automatically a couple of weeks ago. I think it took a day or two for PayPal to notify me.
re: #159 CuriousLurker
it is supposed to. Mine did not because I did not give something to PayPal. I think it was a telephone number or linking a bank account number. Ask Charles to check to see if he got the payment.
re: #159 CuriousLurker
Does anyone know if LGF subscriptions paid via PayPal will renew automatically? I just assumed they do, however mine hasn’t (it’s due to renew today).
Mine did. Although the card I had set up for here expired and I got a fail message a few times before I figured that little point out.
re: #159 CuriousLurker
Does anyone know if LGF subscriptions paid via PayPal will renew automatically? I just assumed they do, however mine hasn’t (it’s due to renew today).
Mine did; you can turn it on and off in your paypal account.
re: #160 A Cranky One
Mine renewed automatically a couple of weeks ago. I think it took a day or two for PayPal to notify me.
Thanks. Yeah, they don’t usually process the transactions right away, so I went to look at my account online thinking maybe it would show up there, but nada.
I guess I need to have a little more patience.
:(
Singer Natalie Cole, 65, died last night, according to her publicist. https://t.co/CrJN7MQkcH pic.twitter.com/1wLzfJEWQK
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 1, 2016
What It’s Like To Ring In The New Year With Fox News
This was very sad, but I’m sure loyal viewers loved it.
In “Them” they just declared martial law in Los Angeles via a radio and TV broadcast. I was just thinking how an announcement declaring martial law in LA on the basis of the invasion by a nest of giant ants would be taken if it was done today.
re: #159 CuriousLurker
Does anyone know if LGF subscriptions paid via PayPal will renew automatically? I just assumed they do, however mine hasn’t (it’s due to renew today).
Yes they do, mine auto-renewed 2 weeks ago.
Skywriting at the Rose Bowl: “America is Great, Trump is Disgusting” pic.twitter.com/g9rghuwEBi
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 1, 2016
@jamisonfoser Or maybe even fifth place given his ROI thus far.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 1, 2016
Judd Legum watched the Fox New Year’s Eve TRUMP EXTRAVAGANZA so you didn’t have to—it is hilarious. A few examples:
9:17: We now move to the substantive portion of the evening and are joined by astrologer Susan Miller.
9:55: Unfortunately, it’s clear now that Waters, Kennedy and Timpf have run out of people to interview and things to say. But they have five minutes left. So they riff. This is the worst part.
10:26: I’m running out of steam. I take a break to eat an ice cream sandwich. I feel better.
11:41: Fake interview with a National Guard member. It’s actually just a ruse so he can propose. She says yes. It’s kind of sweet. I’m in an emotionally vulnerable state.
11:52: TRUMP IS HERE! “All of America is watching you and your beautiful family,” Guilfoyle says. This is not true. I personally know many people who are not watching.
(10 Seconds)
Bolling realizes there is no time and recalibrates. “Stay with us we’ll get back to you right after the ball drops,” he pleads.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It’s now 2016 and Trump didn’t get to count. No matter, he starts counting anyway.
“Five, four, three, two, one.”
re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader
In “Them” they just declared martial law in Los Angeles via a radio and TV broadcast. I was just thinking how an announcement declaring martial law in LA on the basis of the invasion by a nest of giant ants would be taken if it was done today.
Oh, I don’t know. People believed the Iraq WMD.
re: #172 darthstar
@iowahawkblog This the most beautiful thing all year and it’s only January 1.
— Billy Batts (@BillyBatts1970) January 1, 2016
#1 bipolar son just committed to going back on his meds and staying on them. Opened up more than he has in a while. Happy New Year!
re: #153 CuriousLurker
I’m feeling too lazy today to go through the entire thread, so…
Happy New Year, lizards!
The least you could have done is to alternate colors with every letter. Geez!!!
re: #175 Kid A
Okay, is Amazon Prime worth the $99?
I would say so. I’m going back on once the Christmas fiscal shock is over.
re: #175 Kid A
Okay, is Amazon Prime worth the $99?
I think so, but I frequently order stuff from Amazon and I rarely watch TV or go to the movies, so I like the videos. There’s free streaming music too, if that’s important to you.
re: #175 Kid A
Okay, is Amazon Prime worth the $99?
Depends on how much you buy from them throughout the year. The free 2 day shipping on most items is very convenient. I’ve had stuff show up the next day, and even on Sundays. You’ll quickly get tired of the video selections though, which aren’t rotated out very often.
I bought my Dad an Echo for Christmas and it seems like that might make Prime a little more useful through the Prime music library. I haven’t used the Kindle lending library either, so that would extend the value for someone who reads a lot of ebooks.
@darthstar99 I guess it’s just political activism on their parts…good for them. Win twitter and know you did your part for 2016.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 1, 2016
I resolve in 2016 to see to it that no Republican candidate ever sees the inside of the White House in January 2017. #HappyNewYear
— Billy Batts (@BillyBatts1970) January 1, 2016
re: #175 Kid A
Okay, is Amazon Prime worth the $99?
Yes.
Great original shows and access to many network series. Tons of available free music, which you can access on your phone too via an app. Free two day shipping (or same day depending on where you live). I looked high an low for a simple grapefruit knife, gave up, ordered a $2.36(?) one off of Amazon and it was sent via 2nd Day for free.
re: #175 Kid A
It is for me. I’m still getting used to them actually delivering items on Sundays!
But when it comes to Amazon Fresh, I give that a big thumbs down. I tried ordering groceries through them 3 times and each time they bungled the orders, delivering things I didn’t order, yet charging me for what I actually ordered.
re: #189 Joe Bacon
An item that I ordered recently is scheduled to arrive this Sunday. As long as amazon themselves deliver it I know I will get it.
re: #175 Kid A
Okay, is Amazon Prime worth the $99?
Yes. I just checked and I placed 53 orders last year. That works out to less than $2/order for shipping, and some of that stuff was heavy. Plus the TV and stuff. And sending things to my mother. You know. Stuff.
re: #189 Joe Bacon
It is for me. I’m still getting used to them actually delivering items on Sundays!
Heh, yeah, I freaked out the first time they did that—wasn’t expecting it.
This should surprise nobody. But it could hurt some Presidential campaigns. https://t.co/GOZRxfSyTM
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 1, 2016
re: #191 dholmes32
Yes. I just checked and I placed 53 orders last year. That works out to less than $2/order for shipping, and some of that stuff was heavy. Plus the TV and stuff. And sending things to my mother. You know. Stuff.
Wow, I just checked my orders for 2015: 142
re: #194 CuriousLurker
I had 85 orders. That saved a lot of time and for me that is a very good thing.
Certainly a headline that will prick the ears of the “race realists” on the net:
Sour Cream Pound Cake With Pecan Filling @KosherSoul @JihadiJew #HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/oDZryua6dw
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 1, 2016
re: #191 dholmes32
Yes. I just checked and I placed 53 orders last year. That works out to less than $2/order for shipping, and some of that stuff was heavy. Plus the TV and stuff. And sending things to my mother. You know. Stuff.
31 orders for me, I am shocked it is that low but I guess they aren’t counting Kindle books.
Just seen in TPM comments posted by morriganinoregon:
Make America Grate againre: #194 CuriousLurker
Wow, I just checked my orders for 2015: 142
That didn’t include the Kindle orders. I have no idea how many cheesy romance novels I read. I don’t think I wanna know.
re: #204 Dr Lizardo
Start with Ted Cruz.
Rafael Cross will have an airtight alibi: he’s of Cuban descent and from Canada, you see, and thus has no allegiance to the USA that he could have betrayed.
re: #203 dholmes32
That didn’t include the Kindle orders. I have no idea how many cheesy romance novels I read. I don’t think I wanna know.
Amazon knows and so does anyone who purchases customer information from them
re: #204 Dr Lizardo
Start with Ted Cruz.
He always wanted to be first and Obama can visit him in his cell so he can say stuff to his face.
re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Amazon knows and so does anyone who purchases customer information from them
I hope they also take into account the serious books I read this year, particularly on American slavery. It’s not all dopey romance.
re: #197 PhillyPretzel
I had 85 orders. That saved a lot of time and for me that is a very good thing.
Exactly. And they carry such a wide variety of stuff now, much of it at better prices than you can get in brick & mortar stores. That, and even when their prices are slightly higher than other online stores (like certain art supplies from DickBlick, whose prices have gone up this year), it still works out cheaper for me because of the free shipping. I order things like bulk dry cat food & other dry foods on a regular basis.
The monthly choice of one of the free Kindle First books is a nice touch too.
Only 33 orders, but several were for college textbooks, so the total amount paid was probably a bit higher than average.
re: #204 Dr Lizardo
Start with Ted Cruz.
Exactly. A criminal investigation does wonders for a campaign.
re: #193 darthstar
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How’s this for a novel?
Guy who fought for Castro has son in Canada and weasels his way into the USA where he poses as a right wing religious nutjob. Son goes to get elected US Senator then accepts bribes from a foreign nation to undermine the sitting POTUS.
Believable?
re: #203 dholmes32
Yeah, i didn’t include my Kindle stuff either. Even if I didn’t buy a single additional book this year I doubt I could read all the stuff I already purchased in the next 12 months. They know me too well—dangle something from my wish lists or “saved for later” items in front of me at a significant discount, and I’ll bite 90% of the time.
re: #212 b.d.
How’s this for a novel?
Guy who fought for Castro has son in Canada and weasels his way into the USA where he poses as a right wing religious nutjob. Son goes to get elected US Senator then accepts bribes from a foreign nation to undermine the sitting POTUS.
Believable?
Nah. Fiction has to make sense.
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re: #212 b.d.
How’s this for a novel?
Guy who fought for Castro has son in Canada and weasels his way into the USA where he poses as a right wing religious nutjob. Son goes to get elected US Senator then accepts bribes from a foreign nation to undermine the sitting POTUS.
Believable?
What’s the Spanish word for “manchurian”?
re: #210 Timothy Watson
Only 33 orders, but several were for college textbooks, so the total amount paid was probably a bit higher than average.
My son just sold last semester’s textbooks to Amazon. He’s real happy because he got a lot more than he was offered elsewhere, and he’s fine with payment being in the form of an Amazon gift card as he buys lots of stuff from them.
It was win-win for both—he got a much better deal and Amazon knows he’s going to spend every penny of it with them. They’re smart, they know how to keep customers happy while keeping the money flowing in.
Today’s paranoid (or is it?) question: now that Iran’s delivered all most of their enriched uranium to Russia… do we need to worry that maybe Russia has plans for it? Possibly their own enrichment facilities have degraded due to decades of poor maintenance, or some of their stockpiles were stolen, and this is something they need for reasons we should find alarming.
First and foremost, let me add my best wishes to all Lizards for a healthy and happy 2016: at the irreducible least, may it be no worse than 2015….
re: #193 darthstar
I’m guessing these NSA “revelations” are probably not, in the end, going to be much of any public issue: Israel’s Netanyahu’s efforts to scupper the Iran nuclear deal were much too overt and too obvious (and, more importantly, blatantly unsuccessful) for “evidence” of the influence [certain domestic factions and] Israel brought to bear to be much in the way of “news”. Pushing the issue probably won’t produce any positives outcomes: First, the RWNM will (as I believe they have already started to do) likely focus on promoting screaming outraged butthurt over the fact that the NSA was “spying” on Congresscritters; which deflection is, only too sadly, likely to succeed. Secondly, there is a nontrivial segment of the electorate (in both parties) who don’t really view Israel as a “foreign country” - stirring that pot isn’t likely to accomplish much (save a tempest of Godwin’s-Law nonsense).
re: #148 Bear
Well we made it through 2015.
Happy New Year
Hope that 2016 will be better than 2015 was.
2015 really wasn’t that bad a year, despite the howling of the rightwing. The economy continued to generate lots of new jobs while the price of gasoline sank to $2.00 a gallon (its a $1.89 where I live), The President achieved diplomatic coups with the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate accord and improving relations with Cuba, marriage equality came to the entire nation, the ACA survived another Supreme Court challenge and we got new controls on carbon emissions, and Daesh has been in steady retreat capped by the recovery of Ramadi by the Iraqi army, which finally seems to be a capable fighting force. The single most important thing we can do this year to keep the momentum moving forward is elect a Democrat President and recover control of the Senate.
<The economy continued to generate lots of new jobs while the price of gasoline sank to $2.00 a gallon (its a $1.89 where I live.
Gas here now down to $3.65
re: #218 sagehen
Today’s paranoid (or is it?) question: now that Iran’s delivered
allmost of their enriched uranium to Russia… do we need to worry that maybe Russia has plans for it? Possibly their own enrichment facilities have degraded due to decades of poor maintenance, or some of their stockpiles were stolen, and this is something they need for reasons we should find alarming.
Since the Russians already have roughly 10,000 nuclear warheads, I’m not too worried about the uranium for a few more. And if they couldn’t lose any of their stockpile to theft over the 25 years since the USSR went out of business, it’s probably not that likely to be a concern.
re: #218 sagehen
Today’s paranoid (or is it?) question: now that Iran’s delivered
allmost of their enriched uranium to Russia… do we need to worry that maybe Russia has plans for it? Possibly their own enrichment facilities have degraded due to decades of poor maintenance, or some of their stockpiles were stolen, and this is something they need for reasons we should find alarming.
Due to the strategic arms limitation treaties both the USA and Russia decommissioned a large number of existing warheads. We both ended up with large stockpiles of weapons grade uranium and plutonium that are already on the “shelf”. Irans 20% enriched uranium really is no use to them, they already had what they need to build more nukes if they wanted to anyway.
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