1

Well, it had to happen. The lawyers have discovered globull warming

Just when we thought sanity was going to prevail the shysters have discovered a source for revenue growth. They have joined the 2^nd largest group in the swindle, crooks looking to profit.

PARIS — From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.

Yeah, just what we need.

Compensation for losses inflicted by man-made global warming would be jaw-dropping, a payout that would make tobacco and asbestos damages look like pocket money.

Is this a Jimmy Buffet song? Sharks to the left, sharks to the right,Â….

In the past three years, the number of climate-related lawsuits has ballooned, filling the void of political efforts in tackling greenhouse-gas emissions.

Finally beat off most of the crooked politicians and now the lawyers are getting into it (redundant I know).

2

Before we get started...

Are you going to eat that?

3 Morning, M&Ms. I just wanna say Al Gore can kiss my negative five degree ass.

4 Byron York linked a NYT article on Twitter which says that the taxpayers have spent $132 million defending former Fannie Mae executives (Franklin Raines amongst others) from lawsuits by government regulators.

5

Vic,

That's awful news to be sure, but I wasn't convinced us skeptics had beaten back anyone.  Sure we had scored some points, but the enviro fascists are just too well entrenched.

6 Sometimes I think maybe the Mayans are right.  How long can this insanity go on?

7

Off to freeze my butt off on the life march.

 

 

 

BRRRRR!

8 I think we have won the PR war now.Only the true eco-idiot-gaia-worshipers now believe the scam. Crap and tax is dead in the Senate. Obama the commie is trying an end run around congress with the EPA but I am confident that congress will stifle that.

But lawyers have a way of getting their cut regardless. First they shop for a court with a complaint judge, then they stack the jury with idiots who are predisposed to "punish" evil big buisness.

9 I just posted this on the ONT but it is good

This was the best take down of the AGW fraud in a long time

He actually called the data fraudulent, not mistaken or erroneous, but fraudulent.

10 Repost, but it is worth it.  Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

Warning: Not Safe For Work

When you get a chance, read these f*cked up text messages.  I don't have auto correct on my phone, but after reading these, I am glad I don't

Seriously, I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!

11 Gabe, thanks for the hard work with the headline quote.  Helen Keller is one of my favorite orators. 

12 Guess how much an ObamaCare waiver cost?

Well, in SEIU's case, they spent $27 Million getting Obama elected . . .

Three SEIU Locals--Including Chicago Chapter--Waived From Obamacare Requirement  - One chapter being ......da-da-ta-da! CHICAGO!

13 So the blog is sorta broken or is it just cold?

14

-13 this am, climbing to 0

15 Republican-Controlled Congressional Committee Targets United Nations

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Federal Government Teaching Farmers to Participate in ‘Carbon Markets’ that Don’t Exist Yet


The U.N. health agency says world leaders will discuss efforts to clamp down on junk food marketing to children when they meet in New York on Sept 19-20.

The World Health Organization says heads of state will use the U.N. General Assembly meeting to talk about limiting the number and type of ads that children are exposed to.

16
Yesterday we weren't supposed to make the terrorists angry.

Who are we supposed to not get angry at us today?

Pirates may use hostages as human shields

Recent successful raids by military may cause pirates to resort to new strategy.

Somali pirates took a record number of hostages last year, but 2011 has started off with navies freeing hostages from two seized ships and killing eight pirates. Some naval forces are taking a tougher line, analysts say, but the pirates may up the ante by using hostages as human shields more often.
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So predictable.

17 So, about this so-called "laser"....

18 16 Who told them this? A pirate spokesboy?

19 Nice to know that the cocksucker in chief, in laying out his cost/benefit criteria for his minions in de gubbiment agencies, lets those useless fucks include "values that are difficult or impossible to quantify, including equity, human dignity, fairness, and distributive impacts".  That's just fucking wonderful; to be able to make shit up and have it count against, you know, real fucking dollars.

Fuck that shit; I'm filling out my tax forms by that criteria and my distributive impact expense is gonna be out the gazoo.  What could go wrong with that?

20 And on this Glenn Beck-Piven thing - man, do the Lefties ever hate being found out! Oh, you repost where Piven calls for riots, and you are trying to rouse violence against her? Seriously, that's your argument? The MFM is so deluded about the world, they think they can make that stinker work. Oh, sure, there are people who will nod and pull their chin. But there are other narratives, the ones out there where people see what is really going on. And as for Beck, most days I am *hoping* he is as crazy as his critics say he is. I was just thinking, I heard on his show 9 months ago about food prices going up. A lot. Seeing it in "respectable papers" this weekend?

21 Back up I see. Ace forgot to feed the mouse in the cage.

22

#1 Vic - Are these lawyers suing China yet?  Because the Yanzee River called, it would like to sue the communist Chinese for polluting it to death.

  

 

23 Sorry, some troublemakers found a way to overload the comments system.  Fixed now.  (Read: We fed the mouse.)

24 #1 Vic - Are these lawyers suing China yet?

I doubt if there are any lawyers in China.

ALL

Fox is reporting an explosion at Moscow airport

25 Sorry, some troublemakers found a way to overload the comments system.

Spammers bombing the site?

26 I hope you all saw how my Bears did last night.  I haven't lost my touch/

27 I sure hope the pollonium sandwich kiosk wasn't damaged.

28 This morning on the local news that had a clip of the next Senatorial creep to be given his walking papers, Sherrod Cocksucker Brown, lying out his fat ass about the rise in gas prices not being due to supply and demand but, wait for it, eeeeeevil speculators monkeying with the prices.  Keep fucking that chicken all the way to 2012.

29 22 Back up I see. Ace forgot to feed the mouse in the cage.
Posted by: Vic


Mornin Vic, ya the comments were down when I awoke this am. Think the little mousies done froze up.. was -13 climbed to -9

30 ooooo you're back.....

31 i'm sick over this commie pianist playing his insulting commie song at the white house...didn't he have to submit his song selection to be approved?

32 Morning beanervt, little warmer here. Bottomed out at 24.7°, My house is a dry island in a sea of snow right now. It is all around us but not on us.

33 i'm sick over this commie pianist playing his insulting commie song at the white house...didn't he have to submit his song selection to be approved?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 24, 2011 09:15 AM (eOXTH)

Which commie quisling in the State Dept or White House would turn thumbs down?

34

I love Glenn Beck.  Mostly because he sends Cheez Jonsin and other proggie leftwingers into an uncontrolled obsessive tizzy.

Oh yeah.  The truth - suck it.

35 Sherrod Cocksucker Brown, lying out his fat ass about the rise in gas prices not being due to supply and demand but, wait for it, eeeeeevil speculators monkeying with the prices.

That is what they ALWAYS say, but this time it is not due to supply and demand or speculation. Demand is still way down due to the economy. It is up now due to the collapsing dollar.

IOW the Obama inflation strategy to monetize the debt.

36 25 Fox is reporting an explosion at Moscow airport

Update: Suicide bomber behind attack at Russia's Domodedovo airport - Interfax News http://bit.ly/ew89IV

37 It is all around us but not on us.

Cool, you got some snow voodoo going or something?

38 How in the hell could you sue for Global Warming Damages?  How many times does it have to be shown the planet cools and warms regardless...what a fekkin joke

39

Yangtze river..

40 Good idea Nuffy! What about us UK

41 Marco Rubio points out the inane concept of a Tea Party caucus. Hope he sticks to his guns on this. We need brains and leaders, not panderers like Bachmann and DeMint.

42 #26 Vic - Oddly, kind of the reverse.

43 For those of you who don't read the ONT, sickinmass has some very interesting comments.  Eric's comments seem to have precipitated the comments.

44 Sherrod Cocksucker Brown, lying out his fat ass about the rise in gas prices not being due to supply and demand but, wait for it, eeeeeevil speculators monkeying with the prices.

Then stop artificially limiting the supply and drive the speculators out of the market, maybe?

Knowing how liberals work, they are the 'speculators.'

45 Marco Rubio points out the inane concept of a Tea Party caucus. Hope he sticks to his guns on this. We need brains and leaders, not panderers like Bachmann and DeMint.

We need a government that is obedient to us.  How they think their way there isn't all that important.

46 How in the hell could you sue for Global Warming Damages?

If I am not mistaken didn't some South Pacific island nation already sue the U.S.?

Anyway, at that last U.N. conference we saw what the entire scam is really all about. All the third world scum bags screamed for money and once again China and India said no dice on CO2 limits.

Obama agreed to to pay the third world of course and I assume he has some way he intends to bypass congress for that as well because he has zero chance of getting it through the House.

47 I love that 80s Movie Mystery Click made my day! I'm ticked it is SO COLD on the March for Life day. Lots of people from my parish are going anyway. Hardy souls!

48 will al gore have to pay everyone back that bought phony carbon offsets? when do those lawsuits begin?

49 #26 Vic - Oddly, kind of the reverse.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 24, 2011 09:21 AM (2yngH)

LOL, commenters bombing the spammers.

50 So? Can I sue Mann and the CRU crew for me freezing my ass off today on my way to work (and once I reach work too) because cuts to CO₂ emissions are working thus causing the freezing?

51 We need brains and leaders, not panderers like Bachmann and DeMint.

Posted by: Swamp Yankee at January 24, 2011 09:20 AM (3DIBw)

Yeah, we need a RINO caucus of Mavericks to cross the aisle and vote with the Dems on all the big spending bills.

52 "GM's China sales pass US for first time in history"

53

Morning, M&M's!  It's supposed to reach a balmy 7 degrees in southern NH today.  It was -29 up in Littleton this morning, WITHOUT wind chill, and it was -11 in my little central NH town.  I was forced to actually wear my winter coat this morning.  Oh, woe.

Today is one of those days when I'm actually glad I didn't pursue my dream of working at the Mount Washington Observatory.  Current temp at the summit is -20 degrees (warmer than I expected!), with wind chills making it feel like -62.  Cozy!

54 Cool, you got some snow voodoo going or something?

Yeah, I made an Al Gore doll and have been sticking pins in it.

55 Why don't the Chicoms buy the best and  most cost efficient cars in the world? Toyota.

56 I wish you guys would stop shitting on the Chinese pianist. It's not his fault--he was just taking "audience requests" at the time! ;^)

57 funny how the TEA PARTY IS THE GROUP THAT GOT THESE ASSHOLES ELECTED AND NOW THEY ARE EXPECTED TO STFU AND GO AWAY!!!!!!!! are you kidding me....

58 Yeah, I made an Al Gore doll and have been sticking pins in it.

Posted by: Vic at January 24, 2011 09:28 AM (M9Ie6)

Burning a plastic version would be more appropriate...lots of carbon there

59 You pay now, lound eye.

60 Why don't the Chicoms buy the best and  most cost efficient cars in the world? Toyota.
They don't sell well in Nanking for some strange reason.

61 CNBC, says reuters now reporting at least twenty people are dead in the Moscow airport bombing.  They made the assumption that it is Chechen rebels?

I laugh cause they are now citing their sources after the bad reporting on the AZ incident.

62

you got some snow voodoo going or something? 
 

It's always warm where the devil lives...

Heh.

Sorry Vic, couldn't resist.

63

The "real" conservatives have already dismissed Ron Johnson for turning down an offer to join the Tea Party caucus.

The "real" conservatives are already souring on Toomey as well, who has not joined. Now, they can throw Rubio under the bus for not being pure enough.

Coburn, Sessions, Barasso, Toomey, Rubio... have not joined.

Yeah, we need more Bachamnn and less Paul Ryan. More DeMint and less Marco Rubio.

Good plan.

64 Finally beat off most of the crooked politicians and now the lawyers are getting into it (redundant I know).
Posted by: Vic
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Who beat off the politicians????

65 It's always warm where the devil lives...

Its not warm here now, but hell does freeze over once in a while.

66 Now the gubmint wants to get into the drug development business, to the tune of around $1 billion or more. A snippet:
 

Collins' ability to conceive and create such a center in a few short months would have been impossible for most of his predecessors, who had nice offices but little power. But Congress in recent years has invested real budgetary and administrative authority in the director's office, and Collins is the first director to fully use these new powers.

Under the plan, more than $700 million in research projects underway at various institutes and centers would be brought together at the new center. Officials hope the prospect of finding new drugs will lure Congress into increasing the center's financing well beyond $1 billion.

And so it goes.

67 62 Much as I hate muslim terrorists(redundant?), I can't help but enjoy the Russians get slapped.It's like Hitler vs Stalin.

68 Yes, the government wants to nationalize even more of the health industry. Of course there is no thought at all to firing everyone in the FDA and starting over.

69 I just spent the last 45 minutes listening to 3 floors of smoke alarms going off for no particular reason.  Yeah, I checked for smoke first...nada. Dragged a ladder around unplugging them from the ceiling until I found the culprit....in the basement.  If the battery is dead in one, do they friggin' ALL have to go off?!  FML

70 Who beat off the politicians????

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 24, 2011 09:32 AM (f9c2L)

Barney Frank?

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.  And yes, I denounce myself)

And isn't "beating off" politicians considered incendiary rhetoric?  There we go again, inciting left wing violence!

71 I laugh cause they are now citing their sources after the bad reporting on the AZ incident.

I blame Sarah Palin for this bombing in Russia.

72 Did someone draw a political map with cross hairs on the Moscow airport?

73

Yeah, we need more Bachamnn and less Paul Ryan. More DeMint and less Marco Rubio.

Good plan.

Posted by: Swamp Yankee at January 24, 2011 09:32 AM (3DIBw)

We need less Obama, Reid and Pelosi.  Period.  Anything otherwise is just stupid parochial sniping and plays into the donk's hands.

74 I guess we should be making snarky comments, there are reports of at least 10 people killed.

75 Putin is islamocurious.

76 75 I hope they were Russian TSA equivalent.

77 And isn't "beating off" politicians considered incendiary rhetoric?



Would fall more into the sexual innuendo category....

78 62 CNBC, says reuters now reporting at least twenty people are dead in the Moscow airport bombing.  They made the assumption that it is Chechen rebels?

They are the usual suspects whenever there are terrorist attacks in Russia.

If the Russians pound Grozny into the ground again, would Obama approve, or call it an overuse of force?

79 Lowest number of births in Michigan since WW2.

80 72 I laugh cause they are now citing their sources after the bad reporting on the AZ incident.

I blame Sarah Palin for this bombing in Russia.
Posted by: Paul Krugman at January 24, 2011 09:36 AM

Although there is no evidence directly linking Teabaggers to the Moscow bombing, there is no doubt that the climate of hate and lack of civility provoked these bombers into lashing out at government.

We therefore call for executions of all who don't worship Democrats

81 73 Did someone draw a political map with cross hairs on the Moscow airport?

Posted by: Vic at January 24, 2011 09:37 AM (M9Ie6)

Either that or a cross

82 80 Lowest number of births in Michigan since WW2.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 24, 2011 09:40 AM (SJ6/3)

We did our part!

83 I guess we should be making snarky comments, there are reports of at least 10 people killed.

23 now.  Gallows humor, Vic.  We could discuss what the Russians are going to do when they're finally sick of Muslim bullshit (and the consequences to stability around the world and oil prices) if you'd prefer.

84 Posted by: GnuBreed
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I don't mind so much the federal government investing in research..  What ticks me off though is all that public money going into research grants but when they discover a new drug/procedure/etc. all of a sudden they get a private patent!  Where's our payback??

85 Would fall more into the sexual innuendo category....

Posted by: beanervt at January 24, 2011 09:39 AM (LaJKp)

*shudder*  The combination of sexual innuendo and the image of Nancy Pelosi is enough to turn a person celibate.

86 62 CNBC, says reuters now reporting at least twenty people are dead in the Moscow airport bombing.  They made the assumption that it is Chechen rebels?

I laugh cause they are now citing their sources after the bad reporting on the AZ incident.
Posted by: curious at January 24, 2011 09:31 AM


Remember also when they know that muslims are behind it, they lecture us not to rush to judgement or make hasty assumptions. They also remind us that 99.99999999999999999999 percent of muslims love peace and fluffy bunnies

87 Putin should institute a campaign of islamofascist genocide.

88
Toomey is going to sit with Casey at the SOU address. He's already gone RINO.

89 36 Sherrod Cocksucker Brown, lying out his fat ass about the rise in gas prices not being due to supply and demand but, wait for it, eeeeeevil speculators monkeying with the prices.

That is what they ALWAYS say, but this time it is not due to supply and demand or speculation. Demand is still way down due to the economy. It is up now due to the collapsing dollar.

IOW the Obama inflation strategy to monetize the debt.


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Since none of them believe in supply and demand, and also have a price in their heads that is the fair and proper price that anything ought to be, it would be impossible for them to think it is anything but evil capitalists robbing people blind.

90 Lowest number of births in Michigan since WW2.
Posted by: FlaviusJulius
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With something like 12 full-time jobs available in the entire state, this is not surprising.

91 Michigan is now Republican.

92 89
Toomey is going to sit with Casey at the SOU address. He's already gone RINO.

Posted by: Ed Anger at January 24, 2011 09:44 AM (7+pP9)

Can they play the Barney song when these idiots are walking in too?  How pathetic, typical feel good potlicktick

93 zerohedge is seeing reports of up to 70 dead.

94 70? That is a big F-in bomb.

95 "Russia warns NATO of nuclear deployment"

Can someone explain to me what this means?  It's from breitbart.

96 Is not terrorist act. Is accident with man made chemically volatile device

97 42 Marco Rubio points out the inane concept of a Tea Party caucus. Hope he sticks to his guns on this. We need brains and leaders, not panderers like Bachmann and DeMint.

Posted by: Swamp Yankee at January 24, 2011 09:20 AM (3DIBw)

Interesting comment.

Marco Rubio is an extraordinary, young man, and although he will make whatever adjustments are necessary to solidify his positions on issues, he will remain foused and he will continue to stay on course without deviating from his primary objectives.

He didn't give up his carefully cultivated, esteemed reputation in the Florida State Legislature to pander to any fringe groups. He intendes to be an honorable member of the U.S. Senate, of that you can be certain. I reiterate; he is a fine, young man ...., and you're right on another count; i.e., he is a leader, not a follower ....., unlike Michelle Bachman, who apparently doesn't have enough self confidence to realize that she doesn't need the support of the Tea Party; i.e., they need her more than she needs them, imho. 

98 Reuters has 23 dead, and 130 injured. Alahu ackbar, we come in piece.

99

68 Uh, no -- a bunch of civilians (including kids) getting made into bits is not a country "getting slapped".  It's a bunch of civilians (including kids) getting made into bits...by terrorists, who would likely do the same to civvies here.

You go enjoying that sort of thing, then you need to not complain about 9-11

100 31 dead, 100 injured.

101

Fox is reporting an explosion at Moscow airport

I didn't know there were Tea Partiers in Russia.

102 Is not terrorist act. Is accident with man made chemically volatile device

That would be funny if not for poppinfresh urging caution:

It also could still be an accidental explosion in the terminal.

Because baggage claims spontaneously explode sometimes.

103 84 I guess we should be making snarky comments, there are reports of at least 10 people killed.

Yes, we should be classy like the lefties and use the deaths to call for the curtailment of rights, imprisonment, or even the executions of other Americans who don't quite see things their way

104 Peace be upon you, and you and you.

105

Russia is near Alaska,

Sarah Palin can see Russia from her front porch

Therefore Sarah Palin is responsible for the bombing at thte airport.

 

MFM logic is fun.

106 101 I enjoy the discomfiture of the Russian leadership.I rather it was troops or Govt security killed than civilians.The Chechens also have some legitimate reasons to kill Russians.

107 The macaca returns.

108 31 dead, 130 injured according to some guy on airliners.net reporting Ministry of Health numbers.

109 Better send the TSA over there pronto.

110 110 Russian statistics are reliable.

111 84 I guess we should be making snarky comments, there are reports of at least 10 people killed.

Have you all at long last, no sense of decency, SIRS!

112 Unfortunately, they don't have Scots posted in Moscow, ready to break their toes kicking in the nuts of Muzzie bombers. 

113
The Bloomberg market minute was just on the radio. The "expert" they interviewed predicted another 2010 -- a slowdown in the "recovery" and eventually QE3.

That sounds about right to me. We are so boned.

114 103

Fox is reporting an explosion at Moscow airport

I didn't know there were Tea Partiers in Russia.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at January 24, 2011 09:50 AM (Pr242)

Concensus is the Tea Party has enboldened 'right-wing' fringe groups worldwide to lash out against governments....Damn the power of Palin

115 115 Yup.

116 97 "Russia warns NATO of nuclear deployment"

Can someone explain to me what this means?  It's from breitbart.

Translation from Russian:  If Obama grows some balls and tries to install a missile shield anywhere in Europe, we're going to deploy our SS-18 "Satan" mobile nuclear-capable ICBMs near the European borders.

117 Live news (English language). RT, previously known as Russia Today, is a global multilingual television news network based in Russia. RT was the first all-digital Russian TV network.

http://tinyurl.com/4baq27k

118 Story has gone red on Drudge.

 -50 coming to Maine. Spit will freeze before it hits the ground if I remember my Jack London properly.

119

Also, for those of your ragging on Rubio, I agree with him.

I made this point when Bachmann started the tea party caucus. It is pointless.

Our goal as conservatives, libertarions, Tea Partiers, etc should be to TAKE OVER the republican party. Not create a new seperate faction that competes with the current party.

We don't need a Tea Party caucus, we need a conservative Republican party.

Do what Reagan did, move the Republicans towards his/our way of thinking.

120 "Follow Russian Airport Explosion News Live On Sky News""Elsewhere, an Etihad airlines jet was escorted with fighter jets to Stansted airport."

121 118 Yup.Fuck the Russians.

122

Wonder if this is the first in a string of coordinated attacks, a la the 7/7 bombings. 

123

Chinese web users are acclaiming pianist Lang Lang’s choice of tune for a White House state dinner given in honour of President Hu Jintao – a patriotic theme song from an anti-US war film.

The 28-year-old Chinese virtuoso, who divides his time between China and the United States, has given no indication that he was aware of the nationalistic tinge to his choice at last WednesdayÂ’s dinner entertainment.

But web users in China hailed Lang Lang as a true patriot for playing “My Motherland”, the theme of a famous 1956 Chinese film called “Battle on Shangganling Mountain” set during the Korean War.

The movie of the Battle of Triangle Hill, as it became known, features Chinese troops enduring huge hardship before reinforcements arrive and rout their American enemies.

“It’s deeply meaningful to play this in the United States, but I don’t know if the Americans can understand? Ha ha,” one web user said on leading portal sina.com.

“You really voiced our thoughts,” another wrote. “We do not want to see war, but we are really not afraid of war, and to defend our homeland, we are really not afraid of any great powers.”

Stupidest Office of the Chief of Protocol EVAH

124 The Chechens also have some legitimate reasons to kill Russians.
Posted by: steevy
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Wha?  Kill Russians on the battlefield, maybe.. kill Russians occupying your homeland, ok.  But kill Russians in a fucking airport??

125 Zerohedge has it at 70 dead.

126 "126

Wonder if this is the first in a string of coordinated attacks, a la the 7/7 bombings. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 24, 2011 09:56 AM (3iMgs)"

zero hedge said this "the Police is checking subways and other places of congestion of people."

127 I'd venture to say that many of the folks in the airport aren't even Russian. 

128

I missed reading this dose of wtf on Saturday.

Doom.  It's not just for breakfast anymore.

On the plus side:  Abe Vigoda - Still Alive

You're welcome.

129 How long will it take them to blame the Joos?

130 Curious, the Russians are telling Obama to back off on any plans for a missile shield anywhere in Europe. 

The logic here is that the Russians would be "threatened" by a dozen or so missile interceptors near their borders, so to compensate, they'll deploy an overwhelming number of ICBMs (probably at least half their mobile ICBMs) near the European borders.  Hell, they'll do it anyway, but threatening the US like this (and if Obama caves), they get the best of both worlds- no missile shield and an excuse to park some nukes near Europe.

/In the end, there will be only chaos. 

131 Russia shot down a plane containing the leaders of Poland a ways back.

132

108 Russians have some very legitimate reasons to kill Chechen terrorists -- Beslan?

Careful, like I said, keep up with that and you might as well let the arguments for the other side stand -- America, England, Spain, India, Israel...they all asked for it too no doubt.

If you want to play moral equivalency when it suits you, then you have to grant that the other side gets to play it too.

133 Why don't the Chicoms buy the best and  most cost efficient cars in the world? Toyota.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 24, 2011 09:29 AM (SJ6/3)

I'm no expert in the details of Chinese culture, but I propose the following:

1.  They still hate the Japanese over that whole WW2 business.  Understandably, really.

2.  Toyotas are boring, soul-less vehicles. 

134 The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

The new effort comes as many large drugmakers, unable to find enough new drugs, are paring back research. Promising discoveries in such illnesses as depression and Parkinson's that once would have led to clinical trials are instead going unexplored because companies have neither the will nor the resources to undertake the effort. Drug companies have typically spent twice as much on marketing as on research, a business model that is increasingly suspecy.

This is perfect. The government is now trying to replace the drug companies.
Keeping cost down by making it impossible to sue the drug maker government. Tort reform by another form.

135

 -50 coming to Maine. Spit will freeze before it hits the ground if I remember my Jack London properly.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 24, 2011 09:55 AM (SJ6/3)

You have to spit pretty high or it just coagulates on the ground like candle wax.

But at -60 your spit will crack in mid air.

136 Zerohedge has it at 70 dead.

Zero Hedge? How are they coming along on their Gulf of Mexico methane superbubble story?

137

MOSCOW | Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:47am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) – At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, Russian news agencies reported.

Link: ttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70N2TQ20110124

138 Three SEIU Locals--Including Chicago Chapter--Waived From Obamacare Requirement

The best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it vigorously.

139 But at -60 your spit will crack in mid air.

At -60, I think your face will, too.  In any case you better not inhale before you spit.

140 If you like your old Obamacare waiver you can keep your old Obamacare waiver.

141 Taking a leak at -60 could prove challenging.

142 58 funny how the TEA PARTY IS THE GROUP THAT GOT THESE ASSHOLES ELECTED AND NOW THEY ARE EXPECTED TO STFU AND GO AWAY!!!!!!!! are you kidding me....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 24, 2011 09:29 AM (eOXTH)

The Tea Party did not get Marco Rubio elected. Get real.

He was already way, way out ahead in the polls long before he was endorsed by Tea Partiers, who endorsed him for strictly self-serving reasons - to give themselves credibility, not to help Rubio.

Rubio is a dynamic, young man. He got 52% of the vote in a 3-way race, unprecedented in Florida, drawing, in fact, votes from Republicans, Democrats and Independents, alike.

A footnote to which is that Rand Paul was already way, way out ahead in the polls in Kentucky long bedore he was endorsed by Tea Partiers to give themselves credibility, also.

143 136 Research what the Russians did in Checnya and see if they don't have a reason.Not a trumped up reas a REAL reason to hate Russia.I don't condone attacks on civilians.The Russians have,however,also killed many civilians.

144 I thought this kind of violence only happened in America.  Nobody else can kill people with this kind of senseless violence because nobody else allows their citizens to have firearms.  And only guns kill people.  See?

145

A little off topic, but.....

We got Sudden Ice From The Gods here at rush hour.

A haiku in honor of the event............

Slide, Oh, WTF?

Spin, WTF? WTF?

Crash, Ouch, WTF?

 

146 135 Russia shot down a plane containing the leaders of Poland a ways back.
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I haven't seen *anyone* claim they shot it down. The conspiracy nuts all seem to think they installed a temporary approach system that was off by a ways to fool them into flying into the ground.

147 Russia needs to tighten up on its bomb control laws.

148 "Obama's Address Previews 2012 Race"

149 Palin is very close to Russia.. .just sayin'

150

AP reports:

Putin showed up at the blast site shirtless, riding an elephant, with a hunting knife clenched in his teeth, to personally assess the damage. He organized a response, sewed a couple of limbs back on to people and used his elephant's trunk to help douse the fire. He then promised prompt and swift justice. He was last seen on his elephant chucking home made spears at random Chechens. Sources say he is headed for the Chechen border. 

151 147 136 Research what the Russians did in Checnya and see if they don't have a reason.Not a trumped up reas a REAL reason to hate Russia.I don't condone attacks on civilians.The Russians have,however,also killed many civilians.

A civilian airport isn't a legitimate military target. 

And neither is a schoolhouse (Beslan) or a Moscow opera Theater.

152 154 Liar.

153 Just testing...

154 Stupidest Office of the Chief of Protocol EVAH

Maybe Hu didn't like his DVDs.

155 I don't condone attacks on civilians.The Russians have,however,also killed many civilians.

Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2011 10:05 AM (kwo94)

They leveled areas of Chechnya with no remorse.  Then the Chechens were absolutely barbaric in dealing with grade school kids in "retaliation".  It's hard to find good actors in this other than innocent civilians.

156

149

LOL

157 154

AP reports:

Putin showed up at the blast site shirtless, riding an elephant, with a hunting knife clenched in his teeth, to personally assess the damage. He organized a response, sewed a couple of limbs back on to people and used his elephant's trunk to help douse the fire. He then promised prompt and swift justice. He was last seen on his elephant chucking home made spears at random Chechens. Sources say he is headed for the Chechen border. 

Posted by: Swamp Yankee at January 24, 2011 10:08 AM (3DIBw)

all while singing blueberry hill.

158 154

Until he uses the live elephant as a condom, he's just a pussy.

159 They've been treated like dirt for nearly 200 years now, their status in Russia, is really almost 3rd class citizen, however nothing excuses Beslan, or Tchaikosky station, or the 'black widow ' flights

160

145 Taking a leak at -60 could prove challenging.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 24, 2011 10:05 AM (SJ6/3)

My Dad was up near Point Barrow on maneuvers when it was around -70. He slowly poured out a canteen and it formed about a 10" icicle. He held the mouth of the canteen to the icicle and it froze to it. Looked like something from a cartoon. We have a slide of it somewhere.

161 155 Beslan drew in a reaction force that the Chechens mauled.I don't condone it but it is "war to the knife".The Russians give no quarter so they damn well can't ask for it.

162

>> Do what Reagan did, move the Republicans towards his/our way of thinking.

 

Yes.

163 I don't like the look of this whole Russian event. Not a good thing, and can easily get very worse.

164 And BTW -- the latest meme surrounding the successful South Korean rescue of pirate hostages is that it's a "thinly veiled" threat to the NORKS.

165

They leveled areas of Chechnya with no remorse.  Then the Chechens were absolutely barbaric in dealing with grade school kids in "retaliation".  It's hard to find good actors in this other than innocent civilians.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 24, 2011 10:10 AM (olKiY)

I see it like the Eastern Front in WW2.  The world would be better off if they'd both lose.  Still, on the whole, the Russians, despite their massacres in in Chechnya, are still several times more desirable than any collection of the Muz anywhere on earth.  If there is to be war of extermination, which sometimes is the best long term solution, then it should be clear which side we ought to come down on.  Compare the details - the depraved inhuman savagery - of the evils done by the two sides, and the Muz will come out as the greater evil.  Russian troops, at least non-Muz ones, would not be capable of doing what was done in Beslan.

166

The Russians give no quarter so they damn well can't ask for it.

Sorry, suicide bombers among innocent people at airports is terrorism--quarter given or asked is immaterial.

167 Ace is up early.

168 Russian troops, at least non-Muz ones, would not be capable of doing what was done in Beslan.

They just use artillery instead.

169 I thought the State of the Union address doesn't happen until Feb. 2nd. Why are the news folks *already* obsessing about it?
 

170 174 It's tomorrow.

171

174 I thought the State of the Union address doesn't happen until Feb. 2nd. Why are the news folks *already* obsessing about it?
 

Posted by: Anachronda at January 24, 2011 10:18 AM (6fER6)

Because it's tomorrow night.

172 173 Plus bombers,tac air and helicopters.People tend to think of Russiands as civilized Europeans.

173

WA state electric car dealer not discouraged by lack of sales, even though he hasn't sold one in his first three months of business.  heheheh

One reason?  They don't have doors.  In Seattle.  Where it tends to rain.

174 They just use artillery instead.

Posted by: toby928™ at January 24, 2011 10:17 AM (S5YRY)

Death by artillery shell seems to me a damn sight better than death by gang rape.  A Russian soldier shelling some Muz rat hole is no different from US bomber crews dropping incendiaries on Dresden.  The Nazis running the concentration camps had more self restraint and human compassion than the demoniacs who carried out the Beslan horror.

175

Beslan was a monstrous atrocity visited on innocent children who were raped, starved, tortured and murdered for no reason other than their captors didn't know what to do when their initial plans fell apart.  Absolutely nothing condones or lessens the impact of such soulless violence, no matter HOW vile Russia's treatment of the Chechens has been (and it has been vile).

Whether this airport bombing was the act of Chechen rebels (as far as I know no one has claimed responsibility yet) or some other crazed group or individual, I want the perpetrators caught and treated to the BEST of Russian prison hospitality.  If it's one part of an organized attack, then I hope the Russians are able to thwart it and bring the planners to justice.  I'm not fan of Russia's policies, politicians, and a fair few of its people, but I prefer to focus on those Russian citizens who AREN'T commie-loving, dictator-worshipping sycophants.  They DO exist, just not so's to make the news.

176 Yes,Russian soldiers are known for their sobriety and respect for non combatant females.Outrage begets outrage.I doubt the Chechens were very religious before the Russian boot came down on their throats.

177 gah

178 Yes,Russian soldiers are known for their sobriety and respect for non combatant females.

Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2011 10:28 AM (kwo94)

Fair point.  As for the religious enthusiasm of the Chechyns prior to being oppressed, I can't comment due to ignorance.  But I'll say this - they suffered no worse than the Ukrainians under Stalin - death by starvation is nothing to be envied.  Yet no one has claimed that the Ukrainians turned to child molestation & murder for revenge. 

Regardless, the Muz are a plague world wide, and bring nothing but ruin wherever they are.  To take their side in any conflict is to choose the greater evil.

179 "BREAKING: EXPLOSION AT MOSCOW AIRPORT (Video)- At Least 31 Deaths Reported Â…Update: Suicide Bombing"

180 To take their side in any conflict is to choose the greater evil.

Not a lot of people taking their side here that I see.  To point out what is, is not to proscribe what ought.

181 brian i believe marco rubio courted the tea party on 070409 there is a youtube video of him giving his speech in orlando.... i don't care if he joins the tea party caucus or not..... it does bother me that conservatives that USED the tea party to get elected are so quick to turn their backs on them....and really....the tea party helped create the wave....

182 or perscribe

either or

183 or prescribe

aww, fuck it.

184 Heh.  Canadians have had enough of nanny-staters regulating old rock songs and defy Money for Nothing bans.  Woohoo! 

185

When you get a chance, read these f*cked up text messages.  I don't have auto correct on my phone, but after reading these, I am glad I don't

Kratos - I sincerely hope you didn't click on this linky.

*pictures resident HQ scientist curled up in fetal position, whimpering*

186

147 So it is good and just to support a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists because they targeted the "right" civilians this time?

Even though their connections with the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who targeted our civilians are well known along with Chechen support of those actions?

I'm afraid I am incapable of feeling good that 1) innocent civilians just got blown up; 2) they got blown up by an enemy that would do the same to me and mine.  The only time I am happy to see Russia "slapped" is by us, or our allies...but never by people who I consider to be a mutual enemy.

187 "The WSJ reports that The Central Bank of Russia, which seems to have missed Doug Kass' Friday Fast Money appearance, plans to buy 100 metric tons of gold from domestic banks a year in order to replenish the country's gold reserves,"

188 191 See the next thread up.I fear I was unable to clarify my position.

189 Post offices closing?  I thought those jobs were protected with the religious fervor of zealots.  The world really must be coming to an end.

190 One of my friends said that beck was rambling about something from "the redstate guy" about some state governor being attacked?  Was anyone listening to this?

191

Phoenixgirl:

The Tea Partiers did not create that wave. The Obamas, Pelosi, Holder, Clinton and other sleazy Democrats created that wave. The Tea Partiers just rode the crest of that wave, feeling important, because they received a lot of publicity from the irresponsible tabloid MSM.

Strong candidates won. Weak candidates lost. The Tea Partiers didn't have any discernible effect, except that, in some respects, they did more harm than good (and they continue to be a pain in the ass, believing that they are more influential than they are). They and their leaders are ditzy amateurs. The selection of candidates should be left up to knowledgeable, wise, qualified and experienced professionals - not a bunch of bored, restless, ditzy and lonely housewives, who gave us Christine McDonnell, Sharon Angle and their ilk.

192 194 Hmm,just because they are closing PO's does that mean they are laying off the employees?

193
@196

Strong candidates won. Weak candidates lost.

Winners won and losers lost?  That's some profound stuff right there. 



The Tea Partiers didn't have any discernible effect, except that, in some respects, they did more harm than good (and they continue to be a pain in the ass, believing that they are more influential than they are).

How can you possibly think that a movement that galvanized people to become involved politically, both as volunteers/voters and as candidates, did not have an effect on the last elections? 

Mike Lee only won in Utah because of the Tea Party movement here.  There was another candidate, more establishment-oriented, who also challenged Bennett, but Mike Lee won.  Statehouses across the country flipped red. 

I think you are rather naively focusing on a couple of high-profile races that did not go the way conservatives wanted and forgetting about the moms and dads, grandfathers and grandmothers, and college students who were motivated to become motivated - rather than apathetic - because of the Tea Party.  Sitting congress-critters were afraid to meet with them - or did meet with them and made fools of themselves - thereby affecting their re-election hopes.  And some pols have begun to talk the talk about fiscal responsibility -- time will tell if they walk the walk, but at least there's some acknowledgment that the people want to stop the ridiculous cycle of taxing and spending. 

194 I see Brian is here gracing us with his impressions of a Republican.   In the process,  he insults housewives and the Tea Party in general.

If anyone wants my opinion on Rubio,  I think it has to do with not wanting to be told what to do by Jim DeMint,  who if I remember correctly has said some intemperate things.

Just watch Rubio's record.  If he does something squirrely,  then we can make a fuss.

195 So is Brian a concerned troll?  I can't keep track of them sometimes.  He seems concerned and very patronizing, usually two signs of a troll. 

196 @200
Ah, it's coming back to me now.  Brian is Brain.  I remember him trolling last week. 

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. 

197 So is Brian a concerned troll?  I can't keep track of them sometimes.  He seems concerned and very patronizing, usually two signs of a troll. 

Posted by: Y-not at January 24, 2011 12:50 PM (pW2o

Actually he a flame-war Moby. If you notice he will work both sides. All he cares about is stirring up trouble. He is best left ignored. Skip his posts without reading them and don't make any replies.

198

2.  Toyotas are boring, soul-less vehicles. 

Posted by: Reactionary at January 24, 2011 10:00 AM (xUM1Q)

Not any more. I've expanded my moral imagination.

199 Logic, knowledge and reason are lost on you, Y-Not. Like Vic, you are an irrational fool.

200

The Chinese punked Obama by playing an anti-American song at the White House. It's a big F-U to the shlub who throw them a state dinner.

http://tinyurl.com/49pehqh

201
All he cares about is stirring up trouble.

Like Vic, you are an irrational fool.

Heh.  Asked and answered, your honor.

Beware the LOL.

202 And here I thought it was impossible that I'd ever have any respect for Gene Simmons.

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