jerseyhoya wrote:We gonna lob some cruise missiles at Syria? If so can one blow up Assad? Such a punchable face.

jerseyhoya wrote:http://instagram.com/p/dc5PajzTNg/ - My beloved fat guv looking sharp

Really, Christie? Really?

pacino wrote:going for the suburban fat guy vote there

jerseyhoya wrote:I resemble that remark

Though luckily not anywhere close to Christie's level

"If there's any team that I hate almost as much as the Yankees, it's the Philadelphia Phillies." He also said Ruben Amaro is an "awful" general manager, and Charlie Manuel's firing was handled "disgracefully."

1) "What do you want him to do, hang himself?" The topic of the morning was Jets Coach Rex Ryan's decision to put quarterback Mark Sanchez into the end of a meaningless pre-season game against the Giants Saturday night. Sanchez got injured, and Ryan refused to acknowledge the mistake at a subsequent news conference. A jazillion times morning, Christie defended his friend Ryan for not admitting guilt: "What do you want him to do, hang himself?"

2) "When reporters act like jerks you need to treat them that way back. They don't have some vaulted status in our society that they get to act like jerks and not be treated like a jerk back." This was the governor going off on New York Daily News Jets beat reporter Manish Mehta, who had the temerity to question Coach Ryan's decision. Christie said he would have told the reporter: "You're an idiot. Don't ask stupid questions." He called Mehta a "complete idiot, self-consumed, underpaid reporter."


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/chri ... y2QvMQJ.99

"What can I say, it's gutsy. I can't be like Hillary Clinton, changing my teams." On his support for the Dallas Cowboys, Christie gets in a 2016 dig

Roger Dorn wrote:

"If there's any team that I hate almost as much as the Yankees, it's the Philadelphia Phillies." He also said Ruben Amaro is an "awful" general manager, and Charlie Manuel's firing was handled "disgracefully."

Governor Chris Christie everyone, boo that man!

jerseyhoya wrote:http://instagram.com/p/dc5PajzTNg/ - My beloved fat guv looking sharp

Really, Christie? Really?

jackganleybrah

I respect him, especially after the whole hurricane relief thingamajig. But also: haha! He's fat lol

jerseyhoya wrote:Hating on the Yankees and others is nothing new for him

In more consequential news, this Kerry press conference is sounding a lot like we're going to be blowing things up in Syria. Kind of weird that this isn't Obama talking though.

jerseyhoya wrote:I found this interesting from Monkey Cage - Why are Chemical Weapons a Red Line?

It doesn't seem like there's a great reason for it compared to nuclear and biological weapons, but there are a handful of decent reasons - indiscriminate killing, ease of use for weak states and non-state actors, long term effects on a region/population.

Here is what we know: three hospitals in Syria's Damascus governorate that are supplied by Doctors Without Borders reported to us that they received approximately 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms such as convulsions, excess saliva, pinpoint pupils, blurred vision and respiratory distress, in less than three hours on the morning of Wednesday, August 21.

These patients were treated using Doctors Without Borders-supplied atropine, a drug used to treat neurotoxic symptoms. So far 355 of those patients reportedly displaying neurotoxic symptoms have died.

Due to security concerns, no Doctors Without Borders staff have been able to visit the hospitals who reported these symptoms to us, but the accounts come from medical facilities with which Doctors Without Borders has had strong, effective and reliable collaborative relationships. We are neither able to confirm the cause of the illnesses and deaths nor establish who may be responsible, but the reported symptoms, the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, and several other factors, strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent.

Unfortunately, when medical personnel treat patients exposed to a neurotoxic agent, they too are at risk of becoming ill. Sadly, the doctors in one of the hospitals reported that 70 out of 100 volunteers suffered symptoms after direct contact with patients and that one person has died.