WHAT ARE YOU EVEN LOOKING AT, WONKET? Oh HI, Wonkers, it is Sunday! You are probably hungover and stuff, but it's time for us to count down the top ten posts of the week and surprise, a couple of them are about the horrific terrorists attacks that happened to our friends in France. But today, we're going to focus on joy, OK? Can we all do that together? Good.
Charles de Gaulle died in 1970. The Iraqi Ba'athist Party had just seized power in Iraq a couple of years earlier in a bloodless coup. For the first several years of their rule they were regarded as progressives who were having a positive influence in Iraq. Hussein wasn't the leader then; he was the deputy premier. The first wave of modern anti-Western terrorism was still a few years off and was originally directed at the State of Israel. In 1970 concerns about terrorism still revolved around bombings by Western leftist extremists and the Irish Republican Army. Far and away the biggest foreign policy concerns in the West were still the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and the emergence of Communist insurgencies in the recently decolonized Third World. Arab unrest wasn't even on the radar.
Dickhead Ryan wants to roll over Railroad Retirement (which is paid into at a higher rate than Social Security) into Social Security, and reduce the maximum benefit to that of Social Security. Never mind that Railroad Retirement is and will be fully solvent much longer than SS. He is an expert in being the world's biggest asshole.
To be just a little devilishly advocative, the reason Solyndra failed was that their executives failed to consider the possibility that one or more of their competitors might start dumping, with home government support (it could have been Germany, too).
They tried to do massive expansion before they had anything to expand from.
Yes, there was dumping, but that was also terrible, terrible management.
And it's the easy-to-extract, easy-to-refine kind, too, as if that is even fair. One description I read was "a country floating on a vast ocean of oil."
All the Shibusas love puns.
It's also where I get my velvet smoking jackets, and my silver candlesticks.
You miss the point. Their women/children are chattel. And they cannot simply leave.
Zippy thinks the non-combatants have all high tailed it. I doubt it.
the pseudoephedrine is the hard part. Those fuckers make me feel like a criminal during allergy season
wipe it off on the hooker's leg and leave the money on the dresser
Jack White libul!!1!
Charles de Gaulle died in 1970. The Iraqi Ba'athist Party had just seized power in Iraq a couple of years earlier in a bloodless coup. For the first several years of their rule they were regarded as progressives who were having a positive influence in Iraq. Hussein wasn't the leader then; he was the deputy premier. The first wave of modern anti-Western terrorism was still a few years off and was originally directed at the State of Israel. In 1970 concerns about terrorism still revolved around bombings by Western leftist extremists and the Irish Republican Army. Far and away the biggest foreign policy concerns in the West were still the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and the emergence of Communist insurgencies in the recently decolonized Third World. Arab unrest wasn't even on the radar.
Dickhead Ryan wants to roll over Railroad Retirement (which is paid into at a higher rate than Social Security) into Social Security, and reduce the maximum benefit to that of Social Security. Never mind that Railroad Retirement is and will be fully solvent much longer than SS. He is an expert in being the world's biggest asshole.
I think I've seen that sign somewhere between Point Reyes and the Mendocino county line on PCH in Sonoma county.
When I was in college there was a Vietnamese guy named Phuc Yu. No joke.
Are you sure it isn't 568, as in being one short?
I'm pretty sure "de Gaulle" was intended as a pune, or play on words.
Hmmmm... Good puns shouldn't need to be explained. Assuming that there even is such a thing as a "good pun."
Maybe I'm not drunk enough. Yeah, that's probably it. *Drink*
Sorry, Shib!
To be just a little devilishly advocative, the reason Solyndra failed was that their executives failed to consider the possibility that one or more of their competitors might start dumping, with home government support (it could have been Germany, too).
They tried to do massive expansion before they had anything to expand from.
Yes, there was dumping, but that was also terrible, terrible management.
Or just invent something.
And it's the easy-to-extract, easy-to-refine kind, too, as if that is even fair. One description I read was "a country floating on a vast ocean of oil."