February 21, 2011
— DrewM Hmmmmm.
Following an emergency EU meeting of foreign ministers on the situation in Libya, Mr Hague was asked if Britain, or other Western countries, knew if Col. Gaddafi had left Tripoli.“About whether Col. Gaddafi, is in Venezuela, I have no information that says he is although I have seen some information that suggests he is on his way there,” he said.
British officials stressed that Mr Hague was referring “not to media reports but information from other channels”. “This is credible information,” said a diplomat.
Meanwhile, the world wonders whether Leon Panetta is watching CNN, MSNBC or Al Jazerra for his information.
Via Allah, Victor Davis Hanson has some thoughts based on having spent some time there.
4) The country has great natural beauty, a stunning coastline, a central location, untapped gas and oil reserves (Gaddafi’s incompetence often meant that oil was not so easy to extract and squander), incredible antiquities — and unlimited tourist and commercial potential should it ever embrace constitutional government.5) Libyans seemed to me terrified of Egyptians, including the tens of thousands of illegal-alien Egyptians in their country. The oil fields in their lightly populated country are a little too near for their comfort to the border of the oil-needy, overpopulated Egyptian powerhouse. The oil-rich border regions between the two countries will be of interest in the days ahead.
Much more at the link.
Once again the US has been totally caught wrong footed. As civil war rages to topple a sadistic tyrant, the Obama administration is wondering if the guy's kid might be signaling he's really a reformer, while actually saying he's willing to see the bodies pile up to save the regime.
The White House is weighing an "appropriate" response to the violence directed at pro-democracy demonstrations in Libya, according to a senior administration official quoted by wire services."We are analyzing the speech of Saif al-Islam Kadhafi to see what possibilities it contains for meaningful reform," the official said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Here's the "appropriate" response...."the monster, who has the blood of Americans on his hands, has to go, either on a plane or up against a wall. The latter is preferable but the former is acceptable."
I know in Egypt we had to walk a fine line because Mubarak was our guy for so long, what comes next is likely to be worse for us and we risked scaring the hell out of our other less than democratic friends in the region. But Gaddafi? Despite our recently reestablished relationship, he is an enemy and the next guys can't be worse (or that much worse) for us. There's no need to equivocate.
The Mideast order crumbling would tax the skills of the most adroit administration. It's simply drowning this one.
Added: Commodity and stock markets react negatively to Libyan unrest. Oil is now $100/barrel in London and Euro oil companies might start pulling their workers out. So, there's that.
More: There are a lot of unconfirmed rumors flying around but it this one is true,, oh boy.
Eye witness report from ship that will remain nameless: "oil rigs near Benghazi are on burning and on fire"
So, what's the price of gas going to be by the end of the week?
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Posted by: Grover at February 21, 2011 11:58 AM (BNKmy)
Posted by: EC at February 21, 2011 12:00 PM (mAhn3)
Posted by: George Orwell at February 21, 2011 12:00 PM (AZGON)
Tunis, Tunisia - Sold out
Tripoli, Libya - Sold out
Cairo, Egypt - Sold out
Beiruit, Lebanon - Sold out
More concert dates to be announced soon
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:01 PM (bxvFd)
Posted by: Oduff at February 21, 2011 12:01 PM (NuPNl)
If it is not going to be worse, what point is there in doing anything? {chin lift}
Posted by: BO at February 21, 2011 12:02 PM (4B5QB)
would that were literally true...
Ear Leader to Epic Fail in one term, eclipsing the previous record set by the Peanut Farming Jew Hater.
Posted by: redc1c4 at February 21, 2011 12:03 PM (d1FhN)
It's amazing to me how many important things are happening with the wrong, indeed the worst possible, man in the White House. This worthless buffoon isn't handling anything - he's watching ineffectually, not even knowing what to say. Every instinct/thought he has is wrong. He should do like George Costanza in the episode where he did the opposite of everything he thought he should do, and things started to go right.
His incompetence alone is adequate grounds for impeachment. Alas, we'll have to do it twice, since Biden is surely just as stupid, and probably even worse. Let us hope that the two of them suffer some simultaneous misfortune sufficient in severity to remove them from office.
Posted by: Reactionary at February 21, 2011 12:03 PM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: james at February 21, 2011 12:04 PM (5c/7K)
Naw. Too many groups and people who hate each other. They were killing each other for "x" amount of years. And, as Peter O'Toole said:
So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
Posted by: Honey Badger at February 21, 2011 12:04 PM (h3RXz)
Posted by: Airport Security, Tripoli Int'l Airport at February 21, 2011 12:04 PM (QKKT0)
There are only two ways that I think Libya could be worse than it was under Daffy.
1. It goes into failed state mode, a la Somalia, and those oil wells stop bringing crude to the market on a regular basis.
2. The MB take over and turn it into a Caliphate allied with Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, etc.
The MB is on the ground in Libya right now, but I'd think it would be hard for them to forge an alliance between all the various tribes who don't like each other. About the only thing they can agree on right now is that they hate Daffy.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:05 PM (bxvFd)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at February 21, 2011 12:05 PM (AZGON)
when will you knuckleheads understand?
Oh never mind: this is democracy!
Posted by: erg Mcturd at February 21, 2011 12:07 PM (gWfpg)
The only reason I doubt that one is that all the protesters are too busy in the afternoon getting whacked out on qat to do a lot of damage there. It's a nation full of drug addicts and losing the government means that they may lose their qat.
Morocco or Algeria could be next since North Africa as a whole is going into revolution right now. Another possibility could be one of the oil states such as Bahrain, Saudi, Qatar, etc., but I think that they're better organized to take on protesters than Daffy was. For example, whoever is taking potshots at them in Bahrain right now apparently isn't getting overrun like Daffy's troops did.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:07 PM (bxvFd)
They were disinclined to state an opinion.
Posted by: Doc Rochester at February 21, 2011 12:08 PM (rmzX/)
Posted by: Honey Badger at February 21, 2011 04:04 PM (h3RXz)
How I used to love that movie! Alas, since 9-11 I can't watch it without becoming filled with disgust. If only those vermin would do a better job of killing each other off. Anything to thin the herd of those silly, greedy, barbarous and cruel brutes.
They should have been left under the boot of the European empires - the world would be a far better place.
Posted by: Reactionary at February 21, 2011 12:08 PM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:08 PM (RD7QR)
Tunis, Tunisia - Sold out
Tripoli, Libya - Sold out
Cairo, Egypt - Sold out
Beiruit, Lebanon - Sold out
More concert dates to be announced soon
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 04:01 PM (bxvFd)
Killed 'em in Iran!
Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2011 12:09 PM (gWfpg)
Posted by: yambles at February 21, 2011 12:10 PM (rxaXW)
One sure thing about the Middle East. There's always worse.
Posted by: Cicero at February 21, 2011 12:10 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at February 21, 2011 12:10 PM (JxMoP)
They were disinclined to state an opinion.
Posted by: Doc Rochester at February 21, 2011 04:08 PM (rmzX/)
That's cuz Honey Badgers don't give a shit.
Gallup doesn't have 'don't give a shit' as a possible response.
Posted by: Tami at February 21, 2011 12:11 PM (VuLos)
Al-Jazeera. I like the way those guys think.
Posted by: Leon Panetta at February 21, 2011 12:12 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: pitythefool at February 21, 2011 12:12 PM (BjQSh)
Posted by: yambles at February 21, 2011 04:10 PM (rxaXW)
--What is it? No cable here.
Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2011 12:12 PM (gWfpg)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 21, 2011 12:12 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2011 12:12 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: yambles at February 21, 2011 12:14 PM (rxaXW)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2011 12:14 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Steph at February 21, 2011 12:14 PM (AkdC5)
Posted by: yambles at February 21, 2011 12:14 PM (rxaXW)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 21, 2011 12:15 PM (UlUS4)
Gas has crept back up to $3.15+ around Boston.
But the local and national media are finally acknowledging the 'pain at the pump.'
No Cap & Trade for you, Obama.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:15 PM (gues6)
Posted by: CPTSteve at February 21, 2011 12:16 PM (EMPV1)
Another of his novels, written in the mid/late 90s, told the story of a jumbo jet used in an attack on a major building. Just sayin'.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 12:16 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: George Orwell at February 21, 2011 12:17 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:18 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2011 12:18 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Farmer62 at February 21, 2011 12:18 PM (neL+R)
I personally don't believe in coincidences.
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 12:18 PM (Sj8nU)
Egyptian and Libyan and Tunisian ones, are not the only revolts going on right now. Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Sudan are all having large uprisings and protests. Some of them are having street fights as well.
Don't Stop!
Posted by: Frances Fox Piven's Throbbing Clitoris at February 21, 2011 12:19 PM (UzLns)
Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Sudan are all having large uprisings and protests.
And China. http://tinyurl.com/64shzm5
It's so regrettable. It's people just don't appreciate what a fine system of government they have.
Posted by: Tom Friedman, Platinum-Level Member of the Elite at February 21, 2011 12:19 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:19 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2011 12:20 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at February 21, 2011 12:20 PM (LdYLm)
Another of his novels, written in the mid/late 90s, told the story of a jumbo jet used in an attack on a major building. Just sayin'.
Those were all in the same time period... The jumbo jet was at the end of Debt Of Honor and the assassination of not-Saddam by a member of his personal guard / assimilation of Iraq into Iran happened at the start of the next book, Executive Orders.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:21 PM (bxvFd)
Be well, friends.
Posted by: King Barky The First at February 21, 2011 12:21 PM (h0RtZ)
The Middle East people are seeking freedom. Is it a coincidence that this happened under President Obama's watch?
Maybe I put this Cigarette out in your eye?
Posted by: Rava at February 21, 2011 12:21 PM (UzLns)
Posted by: t-bird at February 21, 2011 04:18 PM (FcR7P)
Sounds like we have a few NoCal morons here. Any moron meet ups scheduled?
Posted by: sock puppeh at February 21, 2011 12:21 PM (VcPAo)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:22 PM (RD7QR)
Dude.
Posted by: G. Washington at February 21, 2011 04:21 PM (GTbGH)
Hey! I stopped that killer rabbit - didn't I?
Posted by: Jimmuh Carter at February 21, 2011 12:22 PM (LdYLm)
Technically, I don't think the uprisings in Ivory Coast or Sudan ever *stopped*.
Sudan's been undergoing a civil war for the better part of a decade and the Ivory Coast has been rebelling against French interference for about that long, AFAIK.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:22 PM (bxvFd)
Tanned, rested and ready to go.
Posted by: The Ottoman empire at February 21, 2011 12:22 PM (P18+/)
@49: "The Middle East people are seeking freedom. Is it a coincidence that this happened under President Obama's watch?
I personally don't believe in coincidences."
I'm guessing you also believe that the radio and tv work because there are little tiny people inside them.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at February 21, 2011 12:22 PM (xy9wk)
I personally don't believe in coincidences.
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 04:18 PM (Sj8nU)
--That shit took over 30 minutes.\
Give me my fucking refund|!
Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2011 12:23 PM (6dq0h)
"On February 21, Moammar Ghadaffi was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his people. Deep down, he knew they were right, but he also knew that someday, he would return to them. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Hosni Mubarak. Sometime earlier, Mubarak's people had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two deposed men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?"
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (MMC8r)
Me: There was one? I missed it.
Kadaffy: A large falafel to go and a box for my sprockets (see Rantburg).
any Saudi: That camel there, with the pretty mouth.
Top Tehran Turban: I'd like an Air Force to bomb protestors with.
Posted by: Dave at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (6OwZc)
Home heating oil is $3.71/gal.
And it's been awfully cold up here for the last month. Heating bills are killing people.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (gues6)
Posted by: Just A Grunt at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (pOC9r)
Posted by: Hugo Chavez at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (AZGON)
I knew that something was going to happen in Sudan, after the referendum, but pessimist that I am, assumed it was going to be a resumption of the slaughter of the South. This set of protests is very interesting. And not at all what I expected.
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Tim at February 21, 2011 12:24 PM (xq7pr)
So it's just like the internet then, tiny person who lives in my flatscreen?
Posted by: toby928™ at February 21, 2011 12:25 PM (GTbGH)
@70: "I'm starting to think the Catholic Church ain't so bad, if it can keep out the Muslims."
Don't get your hopes up, both have a history involving pedophilia.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at February 21, 2011 12:26 PM (xy9wk)
Still paying under $3. Barely. Some places are a tiny bit over.
Moving to about $3.25 around here. Bitches.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 12:26 PM (/izg2)
I appreciate you being fair. It's quite refreshing. I do think President Obama deserves some credit for what's happening in the Middle East...as he gave a transformative speech in Cairo shortly after his inauguration. You're right that as of now, we don't know if it will end positively.
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 12:27 PM (Sj8nU)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:27 PM (RD7QR)
Top. Men.
Posted by: the chicken ... gettin' a breather ... at February 21, 2011 12:27 PM (HmCnI)
Posted by: toby928™ at February 21, 2011 04:25 PM (GTbGH)
im n ur computr
eatin ur internetz
Posted by: lolcain at February 21, 2011 12:27 PM (6dq0h)
It ain't gonna be democracy like we in the west envision it but hey baby steps.
Posted by: Just A Grunt at February 21, 2011 12:27 PM (pOC9r)
Sounds like we have a few NoCal morons here. Any moron meet ups scheduled?
Just not in Berkeley, this time!
Actually, that was a great good time, even if I had to stop drinking before the whiskey started going 'round.
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (mKMj1)
Moving to about $3.25 around here. Bitches.
Too bad the US doesn't have any oil of its own that we could use to affect world oil supplies.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (MMC8r)
2012 will be a lot more like 1992 rather than 1980.
"It's the economy, stupid."
The Republicans need to politicize the economy -- including fuel prices.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (gues6)
----
What a great idea.. as the James Mason character put it in the movie North By Northwest:
"This matter is best disposed of from a great height - over water."
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (f9c2L)
...as he gave a transformative speech in Cairo shortly after his inauguration.
Honey Badger didn't give a shit.
Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (UzLns)
The Ivory Coast is pretty much in a state of constant uprising.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 21, 2011 12:28 PM (UmzSs)
Posted by: CPTSteve at February 21, 2011 12:29 PM (EMPV1)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 21, 2011 12:29 PM (U4m5q)
Posted by: libya at February 21, 2011 12:29 PM (GTbGH)
a transformative speech
hahahahaha!
Have you ever heard the phrase "actions speak louder than words?"
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:30 PM (gues6)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:30 PM (RD7QR)
You think Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech brought freedom to East Germans?
No, it was Reagan's policies and actions.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (gues6)
Recovering: The Washington D.C. home of Miss Logan, which she shares with husband Joseph Burckett and their two children
As if the woman isn't horrified enough...the fucking rag of a website published a picture of her home in D.C.
wtf
Posted by: dananjcon at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (pr+up)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge
Sudan's been having a civil war - if you call the slaughter of Southern Sudanese of various descriptions a civil war - for more than twenty years. I started caring about it in 1984 or so; there was a cease-fire put in place about 22 months ago, and a referendum was held on the South seceding last month. I admit to not knowing a whole lot about the Ivory Coast - but the French fired on crowds there not ten years ago, and nobody said a word.
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: El Presidenté at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: dananjcon at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (pr+up)
Actual democracies established by G.W. Bush, millions freed, American imperialism doomed to fail.
Got it, libs.
(Oh, so now Obama's responsible for all the chaos and carnage, right? Or will that somehow link back to Bush? Don't answer, I know what you'll say.)
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:31 PM (MMC8r)
actually, it might surprise you, but a lot of conservatives do believe that the 'tear down your wall' played a part in freedom in berlin
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 12:32 PM (Sj8nU)
God bless you President George W. Bush, the greatest president in american history.
Dude.
Posted by: G. Washington at February 21, 2011 04:21 PM (GTbGH)
Washington killed a sensei in a duel and he never said why. That rates pretty high on the "great" scale if you ask me.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2011 12:32 PM (yf5H9)
I was thinking more like 'Talk is cheap.'
And that's the only cheap thing about Obama.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:33 PM (MMC8r)
Yeah, last week they cut the protest off at noon because it was khat(qat) time..
Maybe instead of the Bernanke's helicopter dollars, we should drop pot.qat.khat. over Madison.
Posted by: Derak at February 21, 2011 12:33 PM (CjpKH)
Still paying under $3. Barely. Some places are a tiny bit over.
Moving to about $3.25 around here. Bitches.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 04:26 PM (/izg2)
$3.15 here. I've finally decided to bite the bullet and get another vehicle that's more fuel efficient. That shouldn't be too hard to find considering my rig gets 8 mpg on a good day.
Posted by: ErikW at February 21, 2011 12:33 PM (F5dZR)
I do think President Obama deserves some credit for what's happening in the Middle East...as he gave a transformative speech in Cairo shortly after his inauguration.
Who invited Chris Matthews?
Posted by: Cicero at February 21, 2011 12:34 PM (QKKT0)
Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock which is keeping tigers away.
Posted by: Homer Simpson at February 21, 2011 12:35 PM (UmzSs)
The cock thinks he called the sun, but the honey badger doesn't give a shit.
Posted by: toby928™ at February 21, 2011 12:35 PM (GTbGH)
The "only" upside in them creating one big Muslims -R- Us, is that it will be under a flag, and that means the country will "own" the terrorists within its borders. It gives us a much clearer target I would think.
Posted by: barack at February 21, 2011 12:35 PM (gWHrG)
That's absurd and I can prove it with mathematical science.
Let's say you have two parts of an equation that equal the fall of the USSR: Reagan's speech + Reagan's policies.
Now, take away Reagan's policies and tell me what you have. You have words.
Now take away Reagan's anti-Soviet policies and tell me what you have.You have the fall of the USSR.
QED.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at February 21, 2011 12:35 PM (gues6)
Actually, that was a great good time, even if I had to stop drinking before the whiskey started going 'round.
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 04:28 PM (mKMj1)
That's why I didn't attend the last one. I wasn't willing to break my years-long boycott of The Peoples Republic.
Posted by: sock puppeh at February 21, 2011 12:35 PM (VcPAo)
It was the culmination of 2 administrations worth of Reagan's policies...while the Democrats opposed it all screaming "nuclear war" at every turn...that led to that speech. The speech isn't what brought the wall down, winning the Cold War did.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 12:36 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: CPTSteve at February 21, 2011 12:36 PM (EMPV1)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 04:33 PM (Sj8nU)
Funny? No. I find it frightening that it's happening when we have a president that doesn't know how the hell to respond to it. And, that may actually be why it's happening everywhere.
Posted by: Steph at February 21, 2011 12:37 PM (AkdC5)
Somehow, I don't think you do. It's more President EmptySuit's readings from a teleprompter.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:37 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (f9c2L)
Iran is reportedly having massive "silent protests" throughout the country as well. I'd be very interested to know what our intelligence agencies know about all of this.
But CNN's had nothing about this.
Posted by: Leon Panetta at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (QKKT0)
Probably not much, if they're getting their news from CNN rather than human intel or electronic intercepts.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (bxvFd)
I appreciate you being fair. It's quite refreshing. I do think President Obama deserves some credit for what's happening in the Middle East...as he gave a transformative speech in Cairo shortly after his inauguration. You're right that as of now, we don't know if it will end positively.
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 04:27 PM (Sj8nU)
He deserves exactly nothing. WTF has he done besides run his mouth?
Has he put his life on the line? No.
Has he stepped forward to offer tangible measures of support before a result was attained? No.
Did he seize the opportunity to support the protesters in Iran in 2009? No.
Did he side with the constitutionally-backed ousters of the Chavez wannabe in Honduras? No.
He's a loud-mouthed poseur up in the cheap seats, doin' the pimp stroll and giving himself high fives ... while people with skin in the game take all the risks.
A typical community organizer, calling out, "Forward!" from the rear.
Posted by: the chicken ... gettin' a breather ... at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (HmCnI)
Posted by: Snafu at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (8d28r)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (RD7QR)
you don't find it funny that all this revolution happened after Obama's cairo speech?
Personally I think it's funny that all this revolution happened after Traci Lords retired from the pron industry. Either way Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (yf5H9)
But the natural gas station in town is only $1.75 per gge!
Posted by: Mama AJ at February 21, 2011 12:38 PM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 04:33 PM (Sj8nU)
***TWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!***
Flag on the post!
Post hoc ergo propter hoc!
5 yards from the spot of the fallacy, and loss of down!
Posted by: Intro to Logic at February 21, 2011 12:39 PM (6dq0h)
Just three words for Khaddafi:
Reform. Now.
Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden
Three more:
Highspeed rail.
Posted by: VP Biteme Biden, The Smartest Man in the World at February 21, 2011 12:39 PM (R2fpr)
Ouch. Must be fun to drive, I hope, like mine that gets about 15mpg.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 12:39 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 21, 2011 12:40 PM (UmzSs)
That's why I didn't attend the last one. I wasn't willing to break my years-long boycott of The Peoples Republic.
I truly empathize with that - but honestly, it was fantastic fun. And very well lubricated.
Perhaps we can put something together in the South Bay? It's a little less moonbatty.
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 12:40 PM (mKMj1)
A little grease on the bogie wheels might help.
Posted by: toby928™ at February 21, 2011 12:41 PM (GTbGH)
just sayin'
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 21, 2011 12:41 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria
All this happened after I divested myself of the remains from the last family get together. And it was the step daughter's turn to clean the bathrooms.
I found that funny.
Hey guys! I moved more than my bowels! I re-shaped the world!
Posted by: Blue Hen at February 21, 2011 12:41 PM (R2fpr)
Posted by: the chicken ... gettin' a breather ... at February 21, 2011 04:38 PM (HmCnI)
Friggin' sock ...
Posted by: yadaup at February 21, 2011 12:42 PM (HmCnI)
Posted by: joncelli at February 21, 2011 12:42 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 04:40 PM (mKMj1)
June works for me!
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 12:43 PM (/izg2)
Personally I think it's funny that all this revolution happened after Traci Lords retired from the pron industry.
I wept.
And fapped.
Mostly fapped.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:43 PM (MMC8r)
Just saying.
Posted by: Just A Grunt at February 21, 2011 12:43 PM (pOC9r)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria at February 21, 2011 04:33 PM (Sj8nU)
Yeah...it's a real scream.
Posted by: unknown jane at February 21, 2011 12:43 PM (5/yRG)
No kidding. How sad. The really sad part is there are good people out there in the field risking their lives trying to get their important reports from the field read and acknowledged somewhere. Then, when they try and defend themselves they get put up in Pakistani jails and no one is breaking them out. All that field intel stuff never seems to make it through these massive government disasters to get where it needs to be. Ie, Iraq, 9-11.
Posted by: CPTSteve at February 21, 2011 12:44 PM (EMPV1)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria
Do you like comic books?
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:44 PM (MMC8r)
June works for me!
Me, too.
The only problem is that my work eats my social life, including blog time, so all the planning will take place, and I'll only see it the day before or something. Gah!
Posted by: Dianna at February 21, 2011 12:45 PM (mKMj1)
No need to equivocate when we don't really know what we're talking about.
I remember when Qadhafi hired the Agriculture Dept. faculty from Arizona State University over a series of four summers to teach university students in Libya's desert in the early 1970s. Libya has a vast underground ocean of fresh water, easily pumped for irrigation. And the summer climate was much more pleasant in the Saharan Desert where the Mediterranean trade winds blow than in the Sonoran Desert's Phoenix Valley. The American professors greatest frustration 'teaching' Libyans was each adult individual's absolute refusal to take responsibility for anything, out of fear should something go wrong, making the effort useless so far as training went. It seemed counter intuitive for the Libyan students to refuse to learn and produce, as if failing wasn't anything "wrong" -- to be a failure and incompetent was "safe". But the research projects that the professors themselves conducted proved productive.
Posted by: El Presidenté at February 21, 2011 12:45 PM (H+LJc)
Posted by: NC Ref at February 21, 2011 04:39 PM (/izg2)
I'm keeping it as a project truck. It's a '90 Dodge Ramcharger with only 80k and in excellent shape. It's only rear wheel drive but a mechanic buddy of mine is looking for a used Dana 44 transfer case to convert it to 4WD and then I'll probably put a riduculously high lift kit on it.
It'll take some time and money but it'll be fun!
Posted by: ErikW at February 21, 2011 12:46 PM (F5dZR)
What did the Children of Lockerbie get for Christmas in 1988?
Luggage.
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 21, 2011 12:48 PM (7+pP9)
Moving to about $3.25 around here.
Same here when I filled up about ten days ago. Need to go fill up again today and am afraid to see what it is now.
(OT: Without thinking I left the radio on after Rush only to notice now that Medved is seriously talking UFOs and aliens. The weirdness of this day is complete.)
Posted by: Annabelle at February 21, 2011 12:49 PM (4kxCX)
Doesn't matter - we have all that nifty solar and wind energy going for us. Courtesy of President GasBag.
Posted by: Roger at February 21, 2011 12:50 PM (tAwhy)
Posted by: Cain's Pizzeria
Do you like going outside the lines in comic coloring books?
see what I did there? see?
Posted by: Roy Orbison at February 21, 2011 12:50 PM (UzLns)
what are you insinuating?
You sound like a certain Captain America fan we remember around here.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 12:51 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Cato the Elder at February 21, 2011 12:52 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 04:51 PM (MMC8r)
--and Harvard Law student.
Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2011 12:52 PM (gWfpg)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 21, 2011 04:48 PM (7+pP9)
Oldie but a goody.
I went to the principals office for a few NASA / Challenger jokes in the 5th grade...still haven't learned my lesson.
Posted by: garrett at February 21, 2011 12:54 PM (UzLns)
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 04:51 PM (MMC8r)
Hey! What are you insinuating? Because really, I can't figure it out.
Posted by: Barack the Preznit at February 21, 2011 12:55 PM (/izg2)
I'm so going to Hell, oh yes.
Posted by: yeah, I laughed at February 21, 2011 04:51 PM (GTbGH)
I'll be in line ahead of you. I suggested to one of my very Catholic in-laws that we establish a chain of fourteen gas stations in a majority Catholic neck of the woods and name them, "Filling Stations of the Cross".
Posted by: yadaup at February 21, 2011 12:56 PM (HmCnI)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 21, 2011 04:48 PM (7+pP9)
Oldie but a goody.
I went to the principals office for a few NASA / Challenger jokes in the 5th grade...still haven't learned my lesson.
That seems to go with the eternal stories you always hear about how X chapter of some fraternity is no longer at a particular school because they did something like send 50 cases of barbecue sauce to Waco, TX, in the early 90s after the botched ATF raid at the Branch Davidian compound.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 21, 2011 12:56 PM (bxvFd)
This was on a thread early one morning and i don't remember who posted it but my sons are endlessly amused.
What kind of bees give milk?
Posted by: dagny at February 21, 2011 01:04 PM (XW2az)
You sound like a certain Captain America fan we remember around here.
Posted by: nickless at February 21, 2011 04:51 PM (MMC8r)
--and Harvard Law student.
Posted by: logprof at February 21, 2011 04:52 PM (gWfpg)
Don't forget the endless prepping for that job fair. Or the rather....esoteric sexual practices.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 21, 2011 01:05 PM (yf5H9)
Posted by: CPTSteve at February 21, 2011 01:05 PM (EMPV1)
Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz at February 21, 2011 01:07 PM (ykuH0)
My position is let the middle east burn and return to the 12th century if they prefer.
We will adapt to the oil prices and supplies. If they take one step out of their sandbox to do us harm turn it into a glass factory.
When they wish to return to the civilized world they can. If they, their women and their children are starving don't give them grain or a frickin hamburger untill they realize it comes with the obligation of maintaining a civilized society. When they start hanging Mullah's in addition to their crooked politicians I may have some hope for the place.
But then again that's just me.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at February 21, 2011 01:08 PM (EH4cc)
Posted by: BarbaraS at February 21, 2011 01:08 PM (baw5A)
@79: "I do think President Obama deserves some credit for what's happening in the Middle East...as he gave a transformative speech in Cairo shortly after his inauguration."
That's not His only transformational speech. Have you seen what happened to our economy since He got elected?
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at February 21, 2011 01:25 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: Biological Zom-bee at February 21, 2011 02:02 PM (crDIp)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 21, 2011 04:48 PM (7+pP9)
<i>Oldie but a goody.
I went to the principals office for a few NASA / Challenger jokes in the 5th grade...still haven't learned my lesson.</i>
One of the shuttles, the Challenger I presume, exploded the same year as the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. They had that rap song. I redid it with the title The Superblow Shuttle. Needless to say it was too soon and I suffered many slings and arrows for my affront.
Posted by: Biological Zom-bee at February 21, 2011 02:04 PM (crDIp)
Posted by: Jack Burton at February 21, 2011 02:30 PM (6B32N)
Posted by: Cicero at February 21, 2011 02:31 PM (QKKT0)
The Middle East is going up in smoke, one country after another. Why do I think the midget-madman-mullah in Iran is doing a happy dance right now?
Because as these countries descend into chaos, they will be "rescued" by islam and the caliphate will be well on its way to being established.
And remember, it was Barky who said something to the effect that if it came down to siding with others or siding with the muslims, he would side with the muslims.
Good times ahead.
Posted by: Boots at February 21, 2011 02:39 PM (neKzn)
Posted by: Joe This Is A BFD Biden at February 21, 2011 03:24 PM (w2++y)
Posted by: Leonie Alemann at February 21, 2011 03:25 PM (Amnw4)
Posted by: Artruen at February 21, 2011 04:39 PM (L+dBi)
There is no Democracy in the Koran.
If we are going to invade anyone elce, it should be Mexico. They are invading us as we write.
Posted by: Leatherneck at February 21, 2011 04:44 PM (hVt9h)
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