Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Werthless » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:27:09

I do like how corporations are to blame for the law, if they are perceived to benefit from it. For all of the elected representatives, they're just actors. Actually, maybe that's exactly the metaphor you are going for.

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby TomatoPie » Mon Aug 25, 2014 13:59:59

Well as inept as Congress be, for sure it's big ag responsible for the fact that we still grow corn for fuel and mandate that it be in your tank. buying and selling votes. Corn growers get rich, you and I pay, and a basic staple food becomes a lot more expensive for poor people
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:03:08

corn is not a basic staple food. its health properties are very much in question.
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Werthless » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:14:30

The real question is how to eat corn on the cob... typewriter style, or wheel style?

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:15:56

i go wheel

dont get me wrong, corn's delicious...i just dont think it's meant to be consumed near as much as i do it
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby TomatoPie » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:25:04

Werthless wrote:The real question is how to eat corn on the cob... typewriter style, or wheel style?


My momma did hybrid - wheel style on both ends, then typewriter in between.

My father did random. He was the Jackson Pollock of eating corn.

I go straight typewriter.

Mrs TP - and apparently a lot of Chinese people - break it in half, hold it like a popsicle, and eat one kernel at a time. No butter, no salt. And they prefer tough yellow horse corn to sweet crisp tender corn grown for humans.

We also buy some funky shrink-wrapped blue/yellow corn that is pre-cooked and has a long shelf life. Just micro-zap for a minute. It is kinda tasty even while it is gummy and chewy.

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Youseff » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:40:57

there are reports that Israel is attacking the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount. scary stuff.
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby TomatoPie » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:55:07

Youseff wrote:there are reports that Israel is attacking the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount. scary stuff.


Kuwait News reported yesterday that a radical rabbi led a bunch of Israeli citizens to "trespass" at the mosque to harass muslim worshipers, who repelled them by chanting religiously.

No western news outlet is reporting anything about it. Not quite an "attack"
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Youseff » Mon Aug 25, 2014 14:57:19

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Philly the Kid » Mon Aug 25, 2014 15:39:51

Good details on Democracy Now this morning, on the very complicated foments and factions in Syria, Libya, Iraq and overall mid-east.

Interview starts at around 12:30

Good coverage on the protests in NYC about cop killings too

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby drsmooth » Mon Aug 25, 2014 16:12:50

TomatoPie wrote:I get your point - apparently your only one - that politicians are bought. But bad government policy is bad government policy, no matter who paid for it.


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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby drsmooth » Tue Aug 26, 2014 13:48:23

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Poroshenko looks like he could pick his teeth with Poot
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Tue Aug 26, 2014 15:39:57

Ian Lee ‏@ianjameslee 7m
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry 1 person has been killed and 45 injured by celebratory gunfire in #Gaza

Now that's a cease fire party

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby Phan In Phlorida » Tue Aug 26, 2014 19:28:33

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Tue Aug 26, 2014 21:35:01

thephan wrote:pacino's posting is one of the more important things revealed in weeks.

Calvinball wrote:Pacino was right.

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Tue Aug 26, 2014 21:49:04

Dang. That's brutal.

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby drsmooth » Tue Aug 26, 2014 22:04:13

it's like the officials in that part of a place I'm pretty sure is within the boundaries of the United States of America do not understand what writing something down on an official report might result in
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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Wed Aug 27, 2014 01:13:44

A couple of pieces from center/center left, pro-Israel Jews. The first on Europe and anti-Semitism, the second a much longer piece on media coverage of Israel. Neither of which are earth shattering, but I think the direction Europe is heading in is worrisome, and the second makes good points about the different ways the West overemphasizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict vis-à-vis pretty much everything else in the world even if you're not buying the author's different examples of anti-Israel coverage in mainstream US media.

Europe's Slow Surrender to Intolerance

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Wed Aug 27, 2014 01:50:39

Seems like a close election in the AZ-01 GOP primary going on. Sadly I have to wake up and be a real person tomorrow, so will not get to see the conclusion this evening. Tobin is the NRCC fav, Kiehne is potentially unelectable, while Kwasman, in a close-ish but out of it third, is the ratard who confused the kids on the YMCA bus for the migrant children reaching the border. Tobin is up by 84 votes, but Kiehne looks to have more friendly territory left.

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Re: Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

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