- President Obama hosts yet another one of his famous summits today, this one about health care. [USA Today]
- Obama “cherishes” a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. [The Hindu]
- People held candlelight vigils and listened to Regina Spektor music in anticipation of the California State Supreme Court’s hearing arguments for and against Proposition 8. [Los Angeles Times]
- Around the world foreign workers are heading home and ceasing their much-needed remittances to their home countries because there’s no work anywhere. [Washington Post]
- In Jerusalem, a man driving a bulldozer attacked a police car and then a bus before being shot. [Reuters]
- The president of Sudan has been ordered arrested for atrocities by the International Criminal Court, but so far he’s been pretty firm about not turning himself in and telling the ICC where they can put their arrest warrant. [New York Times]
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Suddenly, everyone in Darfur dies of “cholera.”
Now you can’t go cop car crushing in your bulldozer without getting shot. What is the world coming to?
“Thousands of foreign workers, including London School of Economics graduates with six-digit salaries and desperately poor Bangladeshi factory workers, are streaming home as the economy here suffers the worst of the recessions in Southeast Asia.”
Kinda sums up globalization to me. Surprisingly I don’t have much sympathy for the douchesacks who brag about their alma mater and how much money they make.
[re=258282]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I know, very sad. When they shot that guy that had that tank a few years back you had to know this was coming…
[re=258282]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Dude forgot to uparmor his killdozer, so he was kinda asking to get shot.
[re=258282]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: [re=258284]MARCdMan[/re]: The cops are busy. They can’t just sit and wait until the dozer driver has to pee. They have to take him out now. W hat’s more important — traffic congestion or human life?
[re=258283]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Remember when terminated Lehmann Bros brokers were complaining that gawkers watching them carry out their pathetic boxes of personal belongings were failing to show sufficient respect?
Haha. At first glance, I thought the Times headline read: “Rumsfeld Defies Arrest Order on War Crime Charges”. Silly ‘camaro.
[re=258285]4tehlulz[/re]:
I know. Apparently he never watched A-Team.
Yeah, the Jerusalem cops always carry a Koran that they can throw on the perp; sort of like the .32 Special our cops keep handy for the same reason.
[re=258282]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Fortunately bulldozers are also the antidote to young idealistic peace protestors with good looks, commitment to a cause, writing skill, and everything to live for. So there’s that.
“… Mr. Bashir called the court’s decision a conspiracy designed to recolonize his country.”
Such is the legacy of Colonialism, that forever until eternity the emerging independent state can give everybody the middle finger. About anything.
“”The President noted that the pen set is being displayed on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and the books are in the President’s personal study adjoining the Oval Office,” said the statement issued by the White House.”
I call bullshit: the “pen set” was one of Churchill’s used cigars, wrapped in a yellowing monogrammed hankie. As for the “personal study,” we now know where the prØn is stashed.
That Churchill book was just the right thickness to keep the table with the Lincoln bust from rocking back and forth.
[re=258283]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
I certainly don’t make six figures and I’m not a businessman, but at least I have the common sense to apply what I’ve learned in basic micro/macro economics to realize an unsustainable cycle. I saw this decades ago. I can’t believe that anyone buys the bullshit, Reagan-esque excuse of “We didn’t see this coming”.
When I hear about attacks committed with construction equipment this always pops to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms
[re=258320]Servo[/re]: Karl Marx said capitalism was an unsustainable cycle. Unless he was talking about Harley Davidsons, I’m sort of inclined to agree with him, especially considering the developments of the past couple of decades.
Around the world foreign workers are heading home and ceasing their much-needed remittances to their home countries because there’s no work anywhere.
Finally. It took a devastating economic collapse to get rid of those filthy Texans, by it was worth it, by golly.
[re=258343]hobospacejungle[/re]:
I heard on NPR this morning a report on how China was dealing with their economic problems. In particular, they were talking about how they dealt with banks that stopped lending to people asking for loans. The government simply ordered them to loan money.
Fixed.
I still wouldn’t want to live with a China style regime but sometimes you have to admire the efficiency that can come from a communist style government.
You sure that guy telling the International Criminal Court to get stuffed is the President of the Sudan?
Rather than the 43rd President of the United States and his “Vice” President?
The Hindu is following Obama? I thought he was a Muslin.
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