1 Obama's next military budget.

2 1 Obama's next military budget.

That's not funny..heh.

We'd be better off with spitballs than matchsticks. 

3 Nice homemade models but they are not "matchsticks".

4 Hmmm, reminds me of this movie I just saw.

The con in question built an Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks.  It is the film from which Dinner for Schmucks was adapted.

5 OT but holy hell the Redskins beat Green Bay in OT.

6 Even if it's not real matchsticks, that's still pretty damn cool.

7 Nice little armada you've got there, Mr. Warren. Be a shame to see kids happen to it.

8 Things like this make me feel like I need to add "Do Something" to my bucket list.

9 >>Redskins<< Hail to them.

10

The article says that he uses matchsticks and the wooden boxes that they came in.  He is running low on the boxes, since they have since switched to cardboard boxes, so there won't be many more like these made.

The detailing is amazing....

11 Yes, that's cute but can he do this?

12 Yeah, but do the catapults on his model aircraft carriers actually work?  (Never mind whether the guns fire.)

13 Preznit Toonces and Sheriff Joe are in Philly at a Dem rally.  Fox News is covering this waste of DNA.

14 Obama just gave a shout out to Sen. Arlen Specter and Congressman Shaka Fatah....

15 Be sure to see these....awesome

16

Can we stop the circle jerk for a second? I'm at WaPo killing them on this whole GOP foreign donations crap. I could use some help, however.

http://tinyurl.com/28fpgzl

17 Fortunately, Mr. Warren lives in England. If he were a U.S. resident, there'd likely be a panel of doctors interested in discussing "his future plans and the state of his affairs" with him.

18 I wonder if he needs some d20s?

19 15 Preznit Toonces and Sheriff Joe are in Philly at a Dem rally.  Fox News is covering this waste of DNA.

Posted by: stuiec at October 10, 2010 05:03 PM (fgCQL)

--Mark Levin was right: 0bama is only out campaigning in deep blue areas.

20 Meanwhile we continue to bow to the muzzies.

21 What could possibly go wrong?

Pakistan defiantly accelerates nuclear weapons programme

The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nuclear watchdog, has obtained satellite images showing that a row of cooling towers at Pakistan's secret Khushab-III reactor has been completed. This suggests the plant could begin operation within months, allowing Pakistan substantially to increase its stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium.

Last year, Barack Obama, US president, called for "a new treaty that verifiably ends the production of fissile materials". In response, the Conference on Disarmament, a 64-nation coalition that negotiated the 1992 Chemical Weapons convention and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, agreed to negotiate a Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty, intended to cap production of weapons-grade enriched uranium and most forms of plutonium.

But Pakistan, which is deepening its nuclear ties to China, has blocked the Conference on Disarmament from starting discussions, saying a cut-off would hurt its national security interests. Ashley Tellis, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "Pakistan thinks its going to be forced to cap its fissile material stocks and wants to make sure it has as much as it can get before then." The country's position has frustrated many states. Rose Gottmeiler, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, recently warned that her country's "patience is running out".

Khushab-III is the latest in a series of reactors built to feed Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme. Khushab-II, located next to its new sister plant, became operational in February. The plutonium produced at the complex allows for the construction of small but lethal weapons: a single kilogram can produce an explosion equal to 20,000 tons of conventional explosives.

Work at Khushab III has forged ahead even as Pakistan struggles to cope with floods that have inflicted damage estimated at £27 billion–and amid mounting concerns over the long-term security of the strife-devastated country's nuclear arsenal.

Pakistan argues that its nuclear weapons programme is necessary to counter the superior conventional forces of India, its historic adversary. In a recent report published by the prestigious Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris estimated it had assembled 70-90 nuclear warheads to India's 60-80, and had produced enough fissile material to manufacture another 90 more.

The Obama administration is also disturbed by Chinese plans to build two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan, bypassing Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) rules that bar sales of nuclear equipment to states that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). India, which along with Israel and Pakistan has refused to sign the NPT, recently obtained a waiver from the NSG allowing sales under international safeguards.

China, however, says it does not need NSG permission to sell reactors to Pakistan, arguing it had committed to the deal before it joined the NSG in 2004–a claim the United States disputes.

22

I want to stomp on that matchstick Armada so bad I can taste it. 

23 from JFDW's url:

Substitute host Bret Baier had little control over the conversation between House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) -- much of which was inaudible as the two members of Congress talked over each other.

--Without seeing the clip, I already know who was doing most of the "talking over."

24 18 I'm there under a different name. They refuse my comments a lot though...don't know why, heh.

25

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at October 10, 2010 05:13 PM (ruu60)

Cambridge? I guess that's not surprising. Does it happen in Dearborn too?

This part stuck out for me:

Song, who is not Muslim, said she tried to promote awareness about Islam at the high school in part because she had Muslim friends who had been made fun of for their religious clothing and headwear. She said she thinks some students were uneducated about Muslim culture.

My dear, the religious clothing and headwear is a symbol of oppression against women's rights in "Muslim culture," you silly bitch.

26 Preznit Toonces and Sheriff Joe are in Philly at a Dem rally.  Fox News is covering this waste of DNA.

Posted by: stuiec at October 10, 2010 05:03 PM (fgCQL)

--

With the obligatory fawning coverage on the Phila Inquirer website.

From the article:

Hope may float, but apparently Mack has a pragmatic strain. She's not sure how much President Obama will help Sestak in his race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Pat Toomey, or Dan Onorato as he tries to beat GOP rival Tom Corbett to become the next governor of Pennsylvania.

Mack worries that the two Republicans "have that strong Republican look." Can Obama help them overcome that? "No," she says, let's be honest."

WTF is a "strong Republican look"?

27

WTF is a "strong Republican look"?

Posted by: Ombudsman at October 10, 2010 05:24 PM (c1oyg)

They don't look like a bunch of limp-wristed pussies?

28 Bitch has lost it finally .

29

WTF is a "strong Republican look"?

Posted by: Ombudsman at October 10, 2010 05:24 PM (c1oyg)

Sestak, Toomey, Onorato, Corbett..  They all have the same generic middle aged white guy look.   Unless she was referring to the swastika tattos the R's have

30 Off subject but important. Ace. suggest a post on the brewing foreclosure brouhaha.  Obam admin. is playing good cop bad cop and right now we are in some real stagecraft here as BofA has suspended ALL of its foreclosure operations.  The narrative is being written behind the scenes and the heavy is being written into the script. This is going to get ugly and will serve to hasten the debasement of the dollar and denudement of the economic system as a whole.

31 Unless she was referring to the swastika tattoos the R's have
On their foreheads!!1!!!

32 Posted by: journolist A video for the post .

33 Off subject but important. Ace. suggest a post on the brewing foreclosure brouhaha. 

Posted by: journolist at October 10, 2010 05:35 PM (O/NP5)

Had to read that twice.  I thought Obama wanted to close Anheiser Busch.

34 But can he build double posts?

35 Man, I had some of those models.  I used to build them, pile a few matchsticks around, and then tell everybody I made them out of matchsticks.  It's an awesome scam. 

36 Mmm. Brewing.

37 This forces me to look at my depot of shoddily constructed, either poorly or non-painted 1/35 scale tanks and hang my head in shame.

38

In the last picture, that looks to be either the British battleship Nelson or its sister ship the Rodney, in the photo center with the three large turrets midships.

I hope it's the Rodney.  Old girl never got enough credit for delivering the smackdown to the Bismarck, because the brand-new King George V was the flagship.  The "Rod", however, delivered the whup-ass.

39 We used to build huge matchstick forts and then light them. We would spend weeks building them. They were similar in design to the big domino set-ups; light the match at the end and watch it trail. My parents were cool with this until my brothers decided to light one in their bedroom. After all, a match is only a tiny, little, controllable flame. 2 - 3 thousand matches however makes a huge fire. Sometimes I wonder what my parents were thinking. There were 6 of us, maybe they were trying to cull the herd.

40 Sad thing is that this guys model armada is almost as powerful as the Royal Navy is becoming.

41 The blur on the name card looks more like Nelson and she was the lead ship so it is probably her. He has a Richelieu, too. He must have a thing for the funkier treaty battleships.

As far as bringing the whup-ass, I'm pretty sure "Nelsol" and "Rodnol" had the heaviest broadside weight of any British battleship. They may have been eclipsed by later designs but they were very innovative for their day. The Rodney also has the honor of being the only battleship to ever torpedo another battleship (during the action with Bismarck).

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