Midterms, Middle East & Middle America - Politics Thread

by **pacino** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 18:53:13

Boehner doesnt want a vote on the new war until Jan 2015. We will have been at war for 4 months by then.Wednesday morning quarterbacking at its finest

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 21:04:53

Supposedly influenced by the recent ISIS beheadings, some nut beheaded a lady in Oklahoma.

Here's what they know:

The attack happened very soon after Nolen learned he'd lost his job.

Nolen had been incarcerated until March 2013, for possession of a controlled substance, escaping confinement and resisting an officer.

He had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam.

by **smitty** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 22:05:00

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Supposedly influenced by the recent ISIS beheadings, some nut beheaded a lady in Oklahoma.

Here's what they know:

The attack happened very soon after Nolen learned he'd lost his job.

Nolen had been incarcerated until March 2013, for possession of a controlled substance, escaping confinement and resisting an officer.

He had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam.

Lucky part was a guy had a handgun and was able to shoot Nolen before he could kill more folks. Good gun control. He had a good sight picture and a steady trigger pull.

One of the few times a civilian packing heat worked out.

by **drsmooth** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 15:28:55

Sure want to believe that Congressman Doug Lamebrain (R-CO) was cleverly goading unnamed US generals to put their money where their alleged mouths are when in "talking with generals behind the scenes", he urged the alleged behind-the-scenes generals "...let's have a resignation. You know, let's have a public resignation, and state your protest, and go out in a blaze of glory".

But a nagging part of me insists that he's just another reactionary dipshit

by **pacino** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 16:05:20

He wants mutiny in the military and is from CO Springs???

by **drsmooth** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 08:05:08

Noam Scheiber's interesting perspective on the Starr International v US case: he suggests that while Mo Greenberg/Boies can't possibly win, because there's no way any judge or jury's gonna decide that taxpayers should remedy $40 billion worth of "harm" done to AIG shareholders- basically icky sociopath Greenberg - by the financial system bailout, the trial will finally expose the "reasoning" behind the venal bootlicking yes-man Geithner's protection of the likes of Goldman.

by **drsmooth** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:27:44

Peter Thiel on On Point (public radio show out of Boston) today, opining on technology, society, & the future.

Hope Mike Judge is listening & taking notes

by **Roger Dorn** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 17:44:04

The Chinese government is following the lead of America on how to disburse protests by firing tear gas and firing rubber bullets. In defense of the autocratic Chinese, they haven't started arresting reporters and journalists yet like the Ferguson police did.

by **SK790** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 18:41:04

10 more arrested in Ferguson last night, too.

by **Bucky** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 00:43:39

*disperse

by **pacino** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 08:25:10

Khorosan seems like a lot of bluster

by **Roger Dorn** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 08:40:17

A good piece by John Oliver and another sobering look at how much fear and anxiety our drone strikes cause to civilian populations. The U.S. Government really needs to be held accountable with stricter controls put in place.

by **drsmooth** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 08:51:49

Roger Dorn wrote:A good piece by John Oliver and another sobering look at how much fear and anxiety our drone strikes cause to civilian populations. The U.S. Government really needs to be held accountable with stricter controls put in place.

With my cynic hat on, Oliver's piece (he has a knack for hilariseriousity) points the way to broadly accepted drone policies: by strong, broad majorities, Americans like doing war by drone.

The thing to do is draw up various "transparency" processes that put Americans' figurative finger on the button - conceptually kinda like firing squads in days of yore. So you won't know if your trigger, your action incinerated the putative bad guy (along with his dear old ma, his wife & kids, & his goat).

Set it up like a grand (theft auto) jury; give tax breaks, college loans, to participants for 'tours of duty'; etc

There are almost certainly more conventional processes a less-than-catatonic congress could activate to tug on the reins, but I really doubt anyone's ready for that to happen. We need to sex this cause up

by **pacino** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:02:09

Roger Dorn wrote:The Chinese government is following the lead of America on how to disburse protests by firing tear gas and firing rubber bullets. In defense of the autocratic Chinese, they haven't started arresting reporters and journalists yet like the Ferguson police did.

they're a bit dissimilar. it's a massive protest in HK due to China not allowing them to nominate their own candidates for their own government. There's been mass censorship, not unchecked police forces on the local level.

This is authorized by the feds in China, not so in the US.

by **drsmooth** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:05:57

I feel safer and better and more wonderful with Congressman Dogass Darryl Issa alllll over the secret service fuckup, I truly do

(keeps him away from stuff better handled by adults)

wish he'd put a cork in that simpering wannabe-a-dogass bitch Chafetz though

by **Roger Dorn** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:36:10

pacino wrote:
Roger Dorn wrote:The Chinese government is following the lead of America on how to disburse protests by firing tear gas and firing rubber bullets. In defense of the autocratic Chinese, they haven't started arresting reporters and journalists yet like the Ferguson police did.

they're a bit dissimilar. it's a massive protest in HK due to China not allowing them to nominate their own candidates for their own government. There's been mass censorship, not unchecked police forces on the local level.

This is authorized by the feds in China, not so in the US.

Good points, I just like to continually vent my frustration on how poorly the local police handled the entire situation. Simply, it's something that should never happen in this country.

by **drsmooth** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 15:52:40

Congrats, okies - one of dubya's judicial appointees that hears federal cases affecting you wants to fuck you over.

No wait, it's more like your dipshit AG, Scott Pruitt,wants to fuck you over - but of course he knows this bit of yahoo grandstanding isn't going anywhere, but that YOU don't know it, and that you'll get all mouth-frothy & rush down to the polls in November to re-elect him.

Okie hicks

by **drsmooth** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 16:43:22

NYTimes, Revisiting Lehman wrote:How a Schumpeterian economy creatively destructs (or destructively creates, or something)

by **drsmooth** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 17:00:47

this should go in a health care thread, but gentlepersons, start your Ebolagate engines - 1st US Ebola case diagnosed in Dallas

by **jerseyhoya** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 01:54:55

We've got a long way to go until we're as well behaved as the Chinese. As opposed to briefly arresting a handful of journalists stupidly, just make sure everyone in your country can't read anything about what's going on by controlling the media and Internet.

In defense of autocratic China, that's a lot less messy.

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