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Thursday, May 5th, 2011Kind of a mishmash of links covering today’s most urgent super important news items.
- Pakistan is debating whether the secret U.S. attack on bin Laden violated their sovereignty, but I suspect their public position will continue to be “We’re letting the U.S. attack us because we’re an important ally of theirs.”
- The U.N. is questioning the legality of what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared was the lawful killing of Osama bin Laden even though, according to Reuters, bin Laden was unarmed and not threatening his captors assassins.
- When I posted about single-issue political parties this is really what I had in mind (NSFW).
- The land of famine has now become the land of the middle class. Maybe, once they get a taste of middle class taxes, they’ll long for the days of famine.
- It’s probably time to brace yourself for TSA security screening on trains (and probably eventually buses). I know it probably seems like they just make this shit up as they need it, but I’m sure this is for real.
- Look for government regulation of these eight activities in the future (especially if you have a brain aneurysm).
- It’s starting to look like the Syrians are next in the queue for our policy of liberating people from governments we don’t like.
[Posted by Dave Krueger]
“I suspect their public position will continue to be “We’re letting the U.S. attack us because we’re an important ally of theirs.”
That and trhe bribe money we pay them, i.e. foreign aid.
If the US government is stupid enough to intervene in Syria then we;ll just be that much closer to insolvency. Kind of proves Radley’s point that Bin Laden won.
I’m really interested in seeing some more on these single issue politics…
fucking Lieberman is the loser standing behind a couple football players trying to act like a badass. Send his kids and grandkids first. By the time this shit gets sorted out, Obama’s kids will be old enough to fight, too.
Dave?
i posted this in a different thread but it’s more appropriate here since it’s a link dump.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibSICt9w3Gen08k6YXnkAtX3Qs-w?docId=d20bf25661a64df88a621f101127b97d
Three Pittsburgh cops reinstated after investigation ‘fails to prove’ excessive force in beating of Jordan Miles. Agitatrixes may remember the incident where a bottle of Mountain Dew was mistaken for a gun and they beat the living shit out of the kid.
Also, the Feds dropped their civil rights investigation into the case yesterday. Justice is served
that last line is sarcasm, just in case it’s misinterpreted
I can understand reluctance to get into the mess-with-borders that is Syria, and God forbid we pledge to stay there until an equable AND stable government is formed, BUT…..
Shooting most of the current Syrian government would be like shooting sewer rats in London. It may not change much in the long run, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing for its own sake.
Story on how the Seattle PD has been trying to catch “terrorists” and drug dealers.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-long-con/Content?oid=7989613
>The land of famine has now become the land of the middle class. Maybe, once they get a taste of middle class taxes, they’ll long for the days of famine.
Not really. There’s a huge difference between bad and horrendously worse.
I’m waiting for the TSA to decide that they need to screen people going into buildings to work or whatever. Because hey, what’s a massive government jobs program / union buyoff without mission creep? Totally unsuccessful, that’s what.
Here’s a clue for any TSA higher-up that might, just by accident, manage to make it to this site and be bewildered by all of the talk going on: The reason 9/11 was so bad was because planes can fly anywhere there is sky. The reason airplane hijackings are scary is because they can intersect the ground anywhere. Trains… cannot. Want to see what happens when a train is hijacked? Watch Silver Streak.
The thing to note about the train story is that the goal was to derail a train by sabotaging the tracks. Nothing about that requires a terrorist to actually be aboard. If the TSA is worried about al Qaeda going through with this attack, they should be screening maintenance personnel, not passengers.
Highway @ #11
Regarding TSA screenings, with all due respect I have to point out that you lack the necessary vision to make it at the TSA. Ideally, we should be stopping terrorists before they leave their homes.
I’m waiting for the initiative to install scanners on people’s front doors.
– Pakistan sovereignty? Nothing a briefcase full of money can’t solve.
– UN: See above.
– Eight Activities: The concern I have is that a rational (logical) debate can be made for regulating/taxing those activities in a socialist health care system. Luckily, we tend not to have rational debates.
That said, every so often a report comes out about how to poop. Posture is described like a yoga pose. I’ve even read explanations for what to imagine while pooping. My dog seems to do a pretty good job. How’d we get so messed up?
– Syria: War is THE racket. Defense spending is wealth transfer of unprecedented scope. They are transferring wealth that hasn’t even been created–via deficit spending. A tremendous amount of foreign aid stipulates it must be spent on weapons purchased from American countries. Even if the weapons aren’t used they replace them as “obsolete”. Oh, and millions of lives get ruined. If this isn’t the #1 moral outrage (as it is done under the disguise of morality), I don’t know what is.
Mario @ #13
Homes!!? I submit sir, that YOU lack the necessary vision to make it at the TSA. Ideally, there would be no terrorists living in the USA because we would have already rooted them out here in the USA. Unless of course you meant their homes in their country – and if so, I applaud your vision! I submit to you – the GTSA! Stop them there before we have to stop them here!
(for the impaired)
This little affectation of yours is very, very annoying.
The land of famine has now become the land of the middle class. Maybe, once they get a taste of middle class taxes, they’ll long for the days of famine.
Seriously, Dave, what the fuck?
It was sarcasm, for Pete’s sake. It’s so extreme I didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. I was especially proud of my clever juxtaposition of “famine” with “the taste of taxes”.
So you’re suggesting I don’t have a future in stand-up, huh?
…even though, according to Reuters, bin Laden was unarmed and not threatening his captors/assassins
Cheer up Dave. Even if this was an “assassination,” it is still probably the least offensive operation in the war on terror in recent memory. Also, I think it is important to distinguish between political assassination (ie. the CIA’s frequent attempts on Castro) and the killing of an enemy commander who has boasted about immolating Americans (The fact that he has also murdered countless Muslims around the world is apparently lost on his mourners in Pakistan, the Phillipines and other locales).
On The Agitator, we regularly hear about excessive SWAT raids, so perhaps that is skewing your perception. But this was a raid on an Al Queda safe house. Assuming the part about the SEAL team taking fire is accurate, I really don’t have a problem with what occurred after that. They probably expected it to get worse. Knowing that Al Queda kind of has a fetish for suicide terror could have made them a little edgy if the occupants in the compound offered any resistance whatsoever.
The more important question at this point is what comes next. Since capturing/killing bin Laden was a primary objective way back in 2001, I think people should be agitating for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and Iraq instead of worrying about how UBL was terminated. But then again I’m just a mean old infidel, so what do I know.
Seriously Dave, there’s shock humor and there’s just bad. Especially coming from someone who has never experienced famine. Hell, I’d take down that headline.
You know, when the ladies of Femen first popped out of their blouses three years ago I honestly wanted to like them. But they quickly showed themselves to be such total, witless, hypocritical airheads that I would probably dislike them as much as the MacKinnon-Dworkin crowd were it not for the fact that nobody outside Ukraine takes them seriously.
Oh, well, it didn’t stop me from writing a column on that linked story (to be published on the 12th).
@ #18,
Actually…there’s a point to be made about your joke. Well-intentioned missionaries and state agents who “settled” the sub-Saharan nomads basically decimated their tribes via famine. Nomads have hard lives, but survived centuries following their historic routes and were seldom the victims of famine. Give them a well and boom goes the “middle-class” dynamite. Current policies now fight to ensure ancient tribes have passage across borders when possible and teach some basic health safety and less agriculture as a stepping stone to a better life. It is a desert after all.
Connection? It is yet to be determined how middle-class development changes Africa. That’s my best attempt at defending the post.
Yeah, I came pretty close to passing that story up because the group seems to be a little too similar to the prostitution hysteria movement sweeping the globe. But, after giving weight to the fact that the article included a picture of naked women, I decided to go with it.
Dave the guest bloggers here are all so serious. I think it is up to you to provide the dogs at parks and musical posts. I offer this “shoot the player” video of Holly Throsby, whose dog makes a cameo at the beginning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nuKCMRyBA
Heck, if American trains generally are like trains here in Maine, all the terrorists have to do is wait until one falls off the tracks in the normal course of events, and claim credit.
Right 25. Or they could just paint “Metrolink” on the side and wait for nature to take its course.
Of course UBL was assassinated. ST6 did an excellent job of it. He signed his own death warrant on 9-11.
Congratulations to the president on the death of UBL, even though he put the operation at risk by taking sixteen hours to decide to approve it.