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September 13, 2013

Bonus Embarrassment Open Thread
— Ace

Hey, you know Time puts out four covers for four different areas of the word?

I didn't know that.

But they do. They have a US cover, a Europe/Middle East/Africa cover, an Asia cover, and a South Pacific cover.

Yeah I don't get how they divided the world up myself.

But anyway.

So they have four covers.

Based on the covers, one person is dominating the world's interest... but not in the whole world.

Europe/Middle East/Africa

Asia

South Pacific

United States of Obama

Someone's a little protective, eh?

Bonus Snark:

They found a picture of Putin wearing a shirt.
-- Boss Moss

via @comradearthur and @sunnyright

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1 lulz

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 13, 2013 04:34 PM (qtuwr)

2 That old guy can't possibly be a college football player.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:36 PM (0axsw)

3
Open thread? I got your open thread right here:

Disney Princesses Twerking

https://tinyurl.com/mkahw4f

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 13, 2013 04:36 PM (kdS6q)

4 Must shield LiV in USA!

Posted by: Senate designated journalist at September 13, 2013 04:37 PM (XdnQT)

5 It's time to start paying Putin.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 13, 2013 04:37 PM (YD2FC)

6 That's giant lip sore type stuff.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 04:38 PM (rI66W)

7 Putin -- living rent free in Time's head.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 04:38 PM (9MLX+)

8 Who are those Boise State Elvis guys?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:39 PM (0axsw)

9 (Delicacy?) Reposted from previous thread: 1. Maybe Air Force should consider doing something besides running. 2. What the hell is the evolutionary purpose of the window head on that fish? Is it using its brain as a fishing lure?

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 04:39 PM (XKm1G)

10 I like cookies.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 04:39 PM (rI66W)

11 Here's a closeup of the cover. The text is tasty. https://twitter.com/ComradeArthur/status/378676868045471745

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 13, 2013 04:39 PM (83xuc)

12 So, in America, not Putin but STILL NOT Obama?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 04:40 PM (DmNpO)

Seventh!!!!!!1 Or twentieth?

Posted by: Living1nBF3 at September 13, 2013 04:40 PM (Kj78X)

14 @9
Are you, by any chance...new to Academy football?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 04:40 PM (JNUY4)

15 Putin is going to end up like Robin Thicke Everywhere. Ugh.

Posted by: EC at September 13, 2013 04:40 PM (doBIb)

16 2. What the hell is the evolutionary purpose of the window head on that fish? Is it using its brain as a fishing lure? Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 08:39 PM (XKm1G) Apparently it protects its eyes from the Tentacool it steals food from.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 04:41 PM (YNK3y)

17 Who's that on the first cover that's not Vladamir?

Posted by: L, elle at September 13, 2013 04:41 PM (0PiQ4)

18 Nothing like early KGB/FSB training to make you sharp! Although dealing with Obama/Kerry/Clinton could probably be done well by the daycare students at Lubyanka.

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 13, 2013 04:41 PM (XdnQT)

19 If you won't jump in front of the President and take a bullet, you don't deserve to work for the Secret Service. I mean, for Time Magazine. Same diff.

Posted by: Time Magazine at September 13, 2013 04:41 PM (bKA83)

20 They found a picture of Putin wearing a shirt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:42 PM (0axsw)

21 Let's just set aside all the nonsense and get right to the point, if you are going to pay college athletes to play college sports, then you have to pay college students to be students.

That would solve the student loan problem, and you could eliminate college tuition completely. Put academics on the government payroll, pay people to attend college, and a whole long list of problems go away.

Don't stop with bringing the Cuban Health Care System to the United States, bring the Cuban Education System with it when you do. It's the only way to be fair, and it's for the children.

Posted by: The Unknown Bit Player at September 13, 2013 04:42 PM (m7lPI)

22 9 2. What the hell is the evolutionary purpose of the window head on that fish? Is it using its brain as a fishing lure? Posted by: joncelli a. Evolution has no purpose. b. The video suggests that the fish steals food from jelly-animals above it. The eyes are INSIDE the head - the two green things. It looks up and sees food against the (dim) light above. it steals food from the the jellies and, because the eyes are inside the head, the eyes don't take damage from the poisonous jelly tendrils.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 13, 2013 04:42 PM (83xuc)

Clinton: 20 years ago this guy would have been serving us coffee!

Putin: It's lunch time. Bring me a sammich now, beotch!

Obumbler: Yes Sir!

Posted by: Living1nBF3 at September 13, 2013 04:43 PM (Kj78X)

24 4 @9 Are you, by any chance...new to Academy football? Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 08:40 PM (JNUY4) Indeed. It just seems to me that tossing the ball every 20 or 30 plays might liven things up.

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 04:43 PM (XKm1G)

25 Posted by: The Unknown Bit Player at September 13, 2013 08:42 PM (m7lPI) And it solves the unemployment problem!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 13, 2013 04:43 PM (XdnQT)

26 11
Here's a closeup of the cover. The text is tasty.

https://twitter.com/ComradeArthur/status/378676868045471745

Yes it is. But it would have been more tasty if it were displayed in the 300 remaining supermarkets and drugstores and airports that still carry Time magazine.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 04:43 PM (bKA83)

27 scroll back a few months and see other differences - three of the Pope, one of Trayvon; three of "Germany must Save the Euro" and one of childless Americans. It's interesting to see who's driving hte debate at least

Posted by: WestSideJoe at September 13, 2013 04:43 PM (IdLE/)

28 Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 13, 2013 08:39 PM (83xuc) !!! That text is a lot more aggressive than I would have thought...

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 04:44 PM (YNK3y)

>>> because the eyes are inside the head, the eyes don't take damage from the poisonous jelly tendrils.

This would be a good evolutionary trait for porn starlets.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 04:44 PM (rI66W)

30 @21 Well, I can see that you aren't new to Academy football!

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 04:44 PM (JNUY4)

31 Nvrmnd . It's Johnny Football wearing maroon and white.

Posted by: L, elle at September 13, 2013 04:44 PM (0PiQ4)

32 You'd never know it from my stoic face, but Obama was giving me a hummer when they took that photo. Chalk that up to years in the KGB.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at September 13, 2013 04:46 PM (zZSmI)

33 This game is gonna get ugly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:47 PM (0axsw)

34 Time Magazine covers:
News
News
News
SQUIRREL!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 13, 2013 04:47 PM (JawqV)

35 32 You'd never know it from my stoic face, but Obama was giving me a hummer when they took that photo. Chalk that up to years in the KGB.

Eh, he's probably incompetent at that, too.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 04:47 PM (bKA83)

36 Maybe we can help Time with some cover ideas:

FRIDAY NIGHT PROTEST SIGNS IN STUDIO CITY #SyriaYouGuys @instapundit #TGDN #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/yJ6rmhD7GL

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at September 13, 2013 04:47 PM (qvify)

37 OOOOOOWWEEEEEEZZZZLLSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGLLLLLOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEE!!!!! Thank you, thank you.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at September 13, 2013 04:48 PM (JQuNB)

38 I'm reading Vlad's Wiki bio. He was born in a cave inside an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, and was nursed by a Siberian tiger til the age of three. That's as far as I've gotten so far.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 13, 2013 04:48 PM (8sCoq)

39 Putin is the team owner.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 13, 2013 04:49 PM (NELfC)

40 If you like your fucked-up margins, you can keep your fucked-up margins.

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 13, 2013 04:49 PM (PP0O3)

41 Barrel, Yoko.

Yoko, Barrel.

Have fun you two.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 13, 2013 04:50 PM (JawqV)

42 Thanks Yoko Ono for blowing out the margins on the comments.

Posted by: L, elle at September 13, 2013 04:50 PM (0PiQ4)

43 I like the new wider stance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:50 PM (0axsw)

44 I KNEW THAT! It's come up a couple of times before, in similar cases, usually in the 3 covers us US covers context. Time isn't a news magazine anyway, they declared ideology over fact officially in the 90s and never went back.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (qyfb5)

45 Well......0 did say he would be more "flexible" after the election. I guess Vlad is testing that,

Posted by: fu52 at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (NYXC6)

46 Shit, breaking up the Beatles wasn't enough? Yoko, Barrell.

Posted by: L, elle at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (0PiQ4)

47 It's pretty much an admission that President Gutsy Call is a fragile little twerp and they know it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (le71m)

48 Vlad's grandfather was Lenin's chef

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (8sCoq)

49 Bent over and spread. Now we know what Barry meant when he wanted to tell Vladimir he'd have more "flexibility" after the election.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (4/o9U)

50 The Senate might decide TIME is not a journalistic enterprise!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 13, 2013 04:51 PM (XdnQT)

51 Weenie is drilled?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (0axsw)

52 Putin's great-uncle delivered ice to Trotsky.

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (PP0O3)

53 I wish the Red Sox players would shave their damn beards. They look damn Taliban

Posted by: Obee bomb kenobee at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (xGDj+)

54 TB3K vs. Ancient Japanese Spider-Woman.

TB3K wins!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (JawqV)

55 Pass?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (0axsw)

56 So. They found a picture of Putin in a shirt, AND an unappealing picture of fit football-player buns.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at September 13, 2013 04:52 PM (GmTxn)

57 Holy crap, a pass! The AIR FORCE puts the ball in the AIR!

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 04:53 PM (XKm1G)

58 >>> Yoko, Barrel. Where were you about 45 years ago?

Posted by: Paul McCartney at September 13, 2013 04:53 PM (dZySo)

59 Killian is lying to you!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 13, 2013 04:53 PM (V1ZIU)

60 Where were you about 45 years ago?

Gestation.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 13, 2013 04:54 PM (JawqV)

61 Yoko did a greatest hits album.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:54 PM (0axsw)

62 Bad, Dobby! Get off Aunt Petunia's magazines NOW!

Posted by: Harry Potter at September 13, 2013 04:54 PM (FcR7P)

63 Kind of hard to see the Boise State players.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 04:55 PM (0axsw)

64 College Sports = Brackets Now that's news.

Posted by: President Not My Fault at September 13, 2013 04:55 PM (mETGQ)

65 Hahahahahahahahahaha! So Time considers the Bamster a laughing stock?

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 13, 2013 04:56 PM (Sf7oH)

66 Yoko did a greatest hits album.

Please tell me it was nothing but the sounds of various people smacking her upside the head.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 13, 2013 04:56 PM (JawqV)

67 >>> Yoko did a greatest hits album. It keeps the vermin out of the basement.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2013 04:56 PM (dZySo)

68 Three of these kids belong together Three of these kids are kind of the same But one of these kids is doing his (her) own thing Now it's time to play our game It's time to play our game.

Posted by: Big Byrd at September 13, 2013 04:56 PM (jITmu)

69 It's that Bronco stealth.

Often works, too.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 04:56 PM (JNUY4)

70 Hey, Time (and all the other MSM outlets) put a lot of effort and money into getting Obama elected. (All those fawning articles didn't write themselves; all those halo photos didn't PhotoShop themselves). The MSM can't risk having the LIV's find out now that their "brilliant" president is a blithering idiot who has humiliated himself and his nation on the world stage. If the LIV's find out just how badly they've been screwed by the MSM, they might start looking elsewhere for their information, and the MSM can't allow that to happen.

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at September 13, 2013 04:57 PM (/sohm)

71 they might start looking elsewhere for their information I think you meant entertainment.

Posted by: t-bird at September 13, 2013 04:59 PM (FcR7P)

72 So is the US cover because Time figures the populace is too stupid to understand or care about things that matter to the rest of the world? Or are the people too stupid to understand or care about things that matter to the rest of the world because Time (et al) tells them only fluff matters?

Posted by: Ragamuffin at September 13, 2013 04:59 PM (fzFF6)

73 President precious snowflake's self-esteem must not be damaged.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 05:00 PM (9MLX+)

74 71 Yes ...

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:00 PM (8Prb7)

75 In a few hours Japan is planning to launch the SPRINT-A satellite, which is apparently a telescope for observing planetary atmospheres. It will be launched by the new Epsilon booster, a three-stage solid rocket similar to the Minotaur-V which launched the LADEE moon orbiter last week. Here is the JAXA home page: http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html Here is an animation of the Epsilon rocket. Note the neat way the launcher swings out from the service structure: http://tinyurl.com/k4b5wyf Here is the YouTube page which will feature live coverage beginning at about midnight EDT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPzeSnSplM&feature=player_embedded#t=0 Liftoff is currently scheduled for 12:45 am EDT. I'll try to stay up for it, but I've been kind of dragging today so I don't know if I'll make it until then. It has been suggested that a small compact solid fueled rocket like Epsilon might also be useful as an ICBM, but you didn't hear that from me.

Posted by: rickl at September 13, 2013 05:00 PM (sdi6R)

76 Time is basically a coaster/dentist office waiting room material.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:01 PM (0axsw)

77 I think you meant entertainment. Posted by: t-bird at September 13, 2013 08:59 PM (FcR7P) ******************* Same difference to people who get their "news" from Jon Stewart's lame comedy routines.

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at September 13, 2013 05:01 PM (/sohm)

78 Dentist and doctor waiting rooms breathe a sigh of relief.

Posted by: Corona at September 13, 2013 05:01 PM (fh2Y7)

79 What, they didn't put Putin's bitch on the cover of the U.S. edition? Whatever will Obama think of the snub?

Posted by: ken at September 13, 2013 05:02 PM (ng9uL)

80 Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 09:01 PM (0axsw) I'd still prefer it to the NYT, not that they're the same type of rag.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 05:03 PM (YNK3y)

81 @77 Heh. I was headed there, but you're welcome to it.
I would really miss Readers Digest, though.
Wife won't let those centerfolds in the house.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 05:03 PM (JNUY4)

82 Seriously, listen to the podcast. Not because I get a shoutout, but, you know, because it's awesome. And because I get a shout out.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 13, 2013 05:04 PM (T0NGe)

83 I don't get the football picture. We should pay players because... Taint? Why the taint angle? Taint taint taint.

Posted by: wooga at September 13, 2013 05:05 PM (24RC8)

84 >>>I think you meant entertainment What do we have for entertainment?

Posted by: Joe Strummer at September 13, 2013 05:08 PM (24RC8)

85 OT, but does it seem like the Boulder flood is getting a helluva lot more attention than did the Nashville flood? Not that I would deny them the coverage, but, seriously...

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:08 PM (DmNpO)

86 Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at September 13, 2013 08:57 PM (/sohm) And their buddies in the Senate are busily trying to ensure that the current incestuous relationship remains incestuous and exclusive! After all, why confuse the sheep with facts?

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 13, 2013 05:08 PM (XdnQT)

87 #PutinFacts Putin is not the original Vlad the Impaler.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 13, 2013 05:08 PM (T0NGe)

88 Is this Epsilon rocket a Japanese design?

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 05:10 PM (XKm1G)

89 Putin is not the original Vlad the Impaler. Posted by: AmishDude at September 13, 2013 09:08 PM (T0NGe) But you impale with the Impaler you have, not the one you wish you had!

Posted by: D Rumsfeld at September 13, 2013 05:10 PM (XdnQT)

90 "Now you fellas have said some pretty mean things. Some of which *were* true under that fiend, Cookie Monster. He *was* a cookie thief, and a glutton. On the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice."

Posted by: "The Joker" at September 13, 2013 05:11 PM (jITmu)

91 Is it covered in Hello Kitty stickers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:11 PM (0axsw)

92 Boise just ran a classic AF play against AF. Damn, they are tricky.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 05:11 PM (JNUY4)

93 87 Is this Epsilon rocket a Japanese design? Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 09:10 PM (XKm1G) Yes, apparently the first stage is based on one of the solid rocket boosters used on their larger liquid fueled rockets.

Posted by: rickl at September 13, 2013 05:12 PM (sdi6R)

Cops kicking gypsies on the pavement

Lunar landing of the dentist convention

something something

Italian mobster shoots a lobster

seafood restaurant gets out of hand

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:12 PM (8Prb7)

95 91 Boise just ran a classic AF play against AF. Damn, they are tricky. Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 09:11 PM (JNUY4) ************* It's that damn camo turf. Man is that shit annoying.

Posted by: tasker at September 13, 2013 05:13 PM (r2PLg)

96 I can't see Haji buying an issue of Time Magazine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:13 PM (0axsw)

97 FL police chief a prog & a ThingProg fan, says: George Zimmerman capable of 'Sandy Hook, Aurora' style shooting: police chief Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell made the statement in an email exchange with a man who contacted him about the man who shot and killed 17-year-old teenager Trayvon Martin. http://goo.gl/lg7lpm

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:13 PM (WdWRd)

98 How many frogs will Epsilon send flying?

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 13, 2013 05:13 PM (PP0O3)

99 Time puts out four covers for four different areas of the word? ... ... So they have four covers. No, they have only two: They have a US cover, and a ~~Europe/Middle East/Africa cover, an Asia cover, and a South Pacific~~ cover for everyone else. They have an ideology, remember?

Posted by: Arbalest at September 13, 2013 05:15 PM (FlRtG)

100 Quit all hating on Time. They carry a column by Michael Grunwald. Check it out. Imagine a column written by a low information voter but without the insight.

Posted by: Furious George at September 13, 2013 05:15 PM (P85Pz)

101 You find your dog being squeezed to death by a python, don't you get a big knife from the kitchen and start stabbing the damn snake? I'd cut that fucker in a 100 pieces - not grab my camera.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:15 PM (WdWRd)

102 White Smoke. Kittens have been named. Duke and Omaha.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 13, 2013 05:15 PM (ZshNr)

103 Yeah, but I don't think you'll hear Air Force complain that they were unfairly deceived by...blue on blue.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 05:17 PM (JNUY4)

104 84 OT, but does it seem like the Boulder flood is getting a helluva lot more attention than did the Nashville flood?

Not that I would deny them the coverage, but, seriously...

I think so. My guess is that Boulder is to Northeast leftist journalists as Oregon is to Old California Hippies -- a place they could imagine escaping to, if they were ever to leave the cocoon. So it's more real to them.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:18 PM (bKA83)

105 The shelling starts in 10 minutes

Posted by: Gun-Boat diplomacy at September 13, 2013 05:18 PM (CwqiX)

106 Hrm. The Chinese can't be happy about a Japanese ICBM, and they're more than capable of throwing together a nuclear warhead.

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 05:19 PM (XKm1G)

107 @74 Now, was that the launch that carried our astronauts to Venus? I want the U.S. House to fund revealing the Venus.

Posted by: Rep. Sheila Lee (TX-18, D) at September 13, 2013 05:19 PM (xdqW8)

108 You just know Obama will still be Time's "Man of the Year", right?

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 13, 2013 05:19 PM (Yhu4q)

109 er, 9 minutes

Posted by: Gun-Boat diplomacy at September 13, 2013 05:20 PM (CwqiX)

110 George Zimmerman capable of 'Sandy Hook, Aurora' style shooting

Zimmerman needed a new house and car. The chief's will do just fine.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 05:20 PM (9MLX+)

111 You just know Obama will still be Time's "Man of the Year", right? *** Kerry

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:20 PM (DmNpO)

112 107 You just know Obama will still be Time's "Man of the Year", right?

We're not far from the point where you can identify low-information voters by asking them whether they care who Time's "Man of the Year" is.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:20 PM (bKA83)

113 Jesse Pinkman - No kidding, we woulda been bbqing marinated snake that evening .... I think its just one more part of modern LiV conditioning, don't actually engage reality, just whip out the O'phone and tweet about it.

Posted by: sneaky little chelsea five-eyes at September 13, 2013 05:21 PM (SwHqo)

114 Miley Cyrus is a shoo-in for Man of the Year.

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 13, 2013 05:21 PM (dsIPA)

115 Time must be saving President Michael Jackson for Man of the Year. He's in good company:
1938, Adolf Hitler
1979, Ayatollah Khomeini

Posted by: Cretin, THE anisotropic moron at September 13, 2013 05:21 PM (xdqW8)

116 In 2001, Putin, who has advocated liberal economic policies, introduced a flat tax rate of 13%;[139][140] the corporate rate of tax was also reduced from 35 percent to 24 percent;[139] Small businesses also get better treatment. The old system with high tax rates has been replaced by a new system where companies can choose either a 6-percent tax on gross revenue or a 15-percent tax on profits.[139] The overall tax burden is lower in Russia than in most European countries.[141]

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 13, 2013 05:22 PM (8sCoq)

117 and they're more than capable of throwing together a nuclear warhead.

They probably already got 20-30 assembled on the shelf just needing to be mated with fissile cores. I'd be disappointed in them if they didn't

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 05:22 PM (9MLX+)

118 Yeah - they've been doing this for a long time. Surprised that it's new to you, Ace. I'm pretty sure I read about it here. This is about the only website I hit anymore. The Pope / Trayvon covers were especially telling (embarassing).

Posted by: shredded chi at September 13, 2013 05:22 PM (naCIf)

119 Not if some occupy hippie takes a dookie on a police cruiser.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:22 PM (0axsw)

120 Showing the soles of his feet? An INSULT to Islam!!!11 RAAAACISSST!!11!!

Posted by: ButwhaddaIknow? at September 13, 2013 05:23 PM (5aT64)

121 There are four covers ...

Posted by: Captain Picard at September 13, 2013 05:23 PM (FlRtG)

122 They probably already got 20-30 assembled on the shelf just needing to be mated with fissile cores. I'd be disappointed in them if they didn't Posted by: Purp at September 13, 2013 09:22 PM (9MLX+) Ditto

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 13, 2013 05:24 PM (jE38p)

123 NDH, do you have a cite for that? Or is it just an impression ...

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:24 PM (8Prb7)

124 They probably already got 20-30 assembled on the shelf just needing to be mated with fissile cores. I'd be disappointed in them if they didn't Posted by: Purp at September 13, 2013 09:22 PM (9MLX+) Pikers

Posted by: Israel at September 13, 2013 05:24 PM (jE38p)

125 101. White smoke? Means the grill is ready Kitteh fried rice!!!

Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 13, 2013 05:24 PM (fmjNz)

126 The overall tax burden is lower in Russia than in most European countries

The only thing holding them back right now is Soviet era immigration policies still in effect for anyone with skilz or wanting to start a business there.

I looked into what it would take to do business in Russia a while ago and its kinda daunting.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 05:25 PM (9MLX+)

127 White Smoke. Kittens have been named. Duke and Omaha. Pics?

Posted by: Waterhouse at September 13, 2013 05:26 PM (dsIPA)

128 119 Showing the soles of his feet? An INSULT to Islam!!!11 RAAAACISSST!!11!!

I wonder if President Perry would have already had a giant bomb made, in the shape of a shoe the size of the Astrodome, and dropped it on Tehran.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:26 PM (bKA83)

129 SO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 13, 2013 05:26 PM (jE38p)

130 To prove my simian dominance, in the podcast you refer to NoKo reopening their enriched uranium track. Really it is their 1950s plutonium-producing reactor. The one experts figure will be a man-caused disaster due to its age.

Posted by: Beagle at September 13, 2013 05:27 PM (sOtz/)

131 125 The only thing holding them back right now is Soviet era immigration policies still in effect for anyone with skilz or wanting to start a business there.

Seriously? Is all the extortion and organized crime just a rumor?

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:27 PM (bKA83)

132 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 05:28 PM (vLh0X)

133 No kidding, we woulda been bbqing marinated snake that evening .... I think its just one more part of modern LiV conditioning, don't actually engage reality, just whip out the O'phone and tweet about it. Posted by: sneaky little chelsea five-eyes at September 13, 2013 09:21 PM (SwHqo) I cdn't even look at the photos. Years ago, they showed on tv and old lady who said she found a python swallowing her little chihuahua alive. She ran in and got her camera and took a series of photos of her dog being killed. That is so fucked up.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:28 PM (WdWRd)

134 NDH, do you have a cite for that? Or is it just an impression ... *** Just my guess. Obama is no longer the peace-loving hippie they bargained for. Kerry is the GENIUS who off-handedly brought about a peaceful solution to the crisis.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:29 PM (DmNpO)

135 115 In 2001, Putin, who has advocated liberal economic policies, introduced a flat tax rate of 13%;[139][140] the corporate rate of tax was also reduced from 35 percent to 24 percent;[139] Small businesses also get better treatment. The old system with high tax rates has been replaced by a new system where companies can choose either a 6-percent tax on gross revenue or a 15-percent tax on profits.[139] The overall tax burden is lower in Russia than in most European countries.[141] Posted by: Jones in CO at September 13, 2013 09:22 PM (8sCoq) *************** But he still loves him--his Stalin. And he will melt your face off....

Posted by: tasker at September 13, 2013 05:30 PM (r2PLg)

136 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSgZYUnQn0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Posted by: Look's like I picked the wrong week to stop posting comments at September 13, 2013 05:30 PM (jITmu)

137 Personally, I dig blood in your poop not over the job you're f****** any day. The above, was posted by voice recognition, & I'm leaving it because it's fucking hilarious

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 13, 2013 05:31 PM (t0zG0)

138 Have been listening to "Wa Nueid" by Mashrou' Leila, but felt the need for something truly refreshing and, well, Christian.
Eureka!
http://www.casiistephan.com/
[scroll down and click *play* for "Let Love In"]
This beautiful and talented singer-songwriter is a local.

Posted by: Cretin, THE anisotropic moron at September 13, 2013 05:32 PM (xdqW8)

139 >Seriously? Is all the extortion and organized crime just a rumor?

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 09:27 PM (bKA83)

from what I'm reading, Putin prosecuted a number of evil industrial supervillains- they call them 'oligarchs' over there' - and the rest seem to have suddenly decided to become good Russians

this is not to say that there is no organized crime, but as far as organized crime on a national scale, Putin seems to have sorted it out to Russia's benefit

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 13, 2013 05:32 PM (8sCoq)

140 I cdn't even look at the photos. Years ago, they showed on tv and old lady who said she found a python swallowing her little chihuahua alive. She ran in and got her camera and took a series of photos of her dog being killed. That is so fucked up.

Meat's meat and a snake's gotta eat, man.

Posted by: A Python at September 13, 2013 05:33 PM (JawqV)

141 136 Personally, I dig blood in your poop not over the job you're f****** any day. The above, was posted by voice recognition, & I'm leaving it because it's fucking hilarious Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 13, 2013 09:31 PM (t0zG0) Urgh. Sounds like your voice-recognition software needs a colonoscopy.

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 05:33 PM (XKm1G)

142 136 Personally, I dig blood in your poop not over the job you're f****** any day. The above, was posted by voice recognition, & I'm leaving it because it's fucking hilarious Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 13, 2013 09:31 PM (t0zG0) *********** Translation-- Personally I dig Vladimir Put...in?

Posted by: tasker at September 13, 2013 05:33 PM (r2PLg)

143 136 Personally, I dig blood in your poop not over the job you're f****** any day.

The above, was posted by voice recognition, & I'm leaving it because it's fucking hilarious

If Obama had said it, Nancy Pelosi would have endorsed it before the end of the day, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz would have vigorously defended it, and Jay Carney would have said that the American people appreciate a President who doesn't do "coherence for the sake of coherence."

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:34 PM (bKA83)

144 Johnny Football for President?

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:35 PM (CMlD4)

145 We didn't get a Debbie Watermelon Schlitz thread today.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:35 PM (0axsw)

146 Putin treats Jugears like a Mob Boss treats the frontman proprietor of a restaurant where Vlad now eats for free.

Posted by: ontherocks at September 13, 2013 05:36 PM (WIAdF)

147 Appreciate the podcast, guys.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 05:36 PM (YNK3y)

148 White Smoke. Kittens have been named. Duke and Omaha.
-------------------

Duke?!

WTF...

Posted by: UNC at September 13, 2013 05:36 PM (aDwsi)

149

I will say this - on twitter, and I wasn't there for Nashville flood, on Wed night/Thu morning there seemed to be a race on for the #caring crowd to see who could prompt the most concern about the homeless quickest, and now, a race to see who can relate this to global warming the fastest

I seem to remember a lot of coverage of the Nashville floods, which was an event that went on for some time, while we are only in the 2nd day of the Colorado event. I was shocked by the administration's decision to refuse emergency funds, clearly punishment, where that status has already been conferred for Boulder. There is significant flooding throughout the front range, but the Boulder folk are very techie (and wealthy) in general, so they get their message out ...

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:36 PM (8Prb7)

150 The Demonrats are running bullshit war on womens commercials in Virginia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 05:37 PM (0axsw)

151 125 The overall tax burden is lower in Russia than in most European countries The only thing holding them back right now is Soviet era immigration policies still in effect for anyone with skilz or wanting to start a business there. I looked into what it would take to do business in Russia a while ago and its kinda daunting. Posted by: Purp at September 13, 2013 09:25 PM (9MLX+) That and having to cut the local mafia (government) in on everything.

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:38 PM (CMlD4)

152 Putin worked for the KGB and then was in politics. He's manage to amass anywhere from 80 billion to 290 billion bucks. Yeah, he's clean

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:39 PM (WdWRd)

153 Duke after Ellington, my wife's choice. Omaha after the beach for the sandy looking one, my choice.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 13, 2013 05:39 PM (ZshNr)

154 >>>'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls.

I can't wait to not see it.

my friends and I are taking the day off from work so that we can not see it in a matinee.

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2013 05:39 PM (/IWYB)

155 Boss Moss, terryM is really swatting the Dims for cash as well.

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:39 PM (CMlD4)

156 Putin worked for the KGB and then was in politics. He's manage to amass anywhere from 80 billion to 290 billion bucks. Yeah, he's clean Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 09:39 PM (WdWRd) that is just pre raised campaign funds

Posted by: Gun-Boat diplomacy at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (CwqiX)

157 The most dangerous job in today's Russia is Kremlin plumber, because Putin's turds are so testosterone-soaked that they are constantly swimming upstream to spawn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (8Fl6F)

158 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. Yeah. Saw the full trailer - saw the entire movie.

Posted by: grognard at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (8jNLy)

159 If I could post pics I would.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (ZshNr)

160 153 >>>'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. I can't wait to not see it. my friends and I are taking the day off from work so that we can not see it in a matinee. Posted by: ace at September 13, 2013 09:39 PM (/IWYB) Looks like one long SFX reel.

Posted by: EC at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (doBIb)

161 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. *** Really? I think it looks interesting.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (DmNpO)

162 142 Well done splurge

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:41 PM (8Prb7)

163 oh and nice crotch shot of the football player. some sort of homo's at Time Magazine??

Posted by: Gun-Boat diplomacy at September 13, 2013 05:42 PM (CwqiX)

164 Really? I think it looks interesting. Ever see SpaceCamp? Same movie, except for accidental launch, and much more Serious You Guys.

Posted by: grognard at September 13, 2013 05:42 PM (8jNLy)

165 President Blood 'N Guts But Only When Necessary...Maybe

Posted by: le soothsayier (the french version) at September 13, 2013 05:42 PM (qtuwr)

166

my friends and I are taking the day off from work so that we can not see it in a matinee.

I went out and got a pirated copy so I could not see it before everyone else.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 05:42 PM (vLh0X)

167 There are still a number of shady oligarchs that are worth around 700-900 billion dollars.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:43 PM (WdWRd)

168 166 There are still a number of shady oligarchs that are worth around 700-900 billion dollars. How much is Roman Abromavitch worth?

Posted by: EC at September 13, 2013 05:43 PM (doBIb)

169 Anyone watch the Luntz focus group on Hannity? We've some dumb assed fellow citizens.

Posted by: fastfreefall at September 13, 2013 05:43 PM (Tz35j)

170 131 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls.
Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 09:28 PM (vLh0X)
That's what I thought.

Posted by: Isaac Newton at September 13, 2013 05:43 PM (NELfC)

171 I've seen better videogame trailers then the one for Gravity

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:44 PM (CMlD4)

172 131 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls.

At this moment, it has 6 reviews on imdb. All are complete raves, and all are such incredibly obvious shills that the PR people who posted them should hang their heads and go back to Lie School.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2013 05:44 PM (bKA83)

173 I can't wait to not see it. my friends and I are taking the day off from work so that we can not see it in a matinee. Posted by: ace at September 13, 2013 09:39 PM (/IWYB) ------------ So we can look forward to not reading a 7,000 word review of it here? Little sister will not shut up about seeing that movie. Bleh.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at September 13, 2013 05:44 PM (GmTxn)

174

There are still a number of shady oligarchs that are worth around 700-900 billion dollars.

That guy on the Directv commercial with the tiny giraffe, for one.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 05:44 PM (vLh0X)

175 This was on one of the gaming blogs I follow. Just saw it now, and now have a face to put to Boss Moss. A cereal commercial. Whenever the Freakies had a problem, they ran to Boss Moss. He never solved the problem. But he was always understanding. http://youtu.be/A5fNTzoKRvs

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2013 05:44 PM (CeNUw)

176 Okay, who wants to make me a sammich?

Posted by: Peaches at September 13, 2013 05:45 PM (8lmkt)

177 I saw the Shady Oligarchs open for Rush at Massey Hall.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2013 05:45 PM (8Fl6F)

178 The funny thing is Russia is generally a weak, pathetic joke. We just have a joke running our military,theirs is a joke through and through.

Posted by: UWP at September 13, 2013 05:45 PM (vj51i)

179 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. /// (Explosion) Clooney: Oh my God I'm drifting! Bullock: Hold on! Clooney: [grabs hold of rail] (Explosion) Bullock: [drifting] OH MY GOD! Clooney: Get a hold of something! Bullock: [grabs hold of rail] (Explosion) Clooney: [drifting] OH MY GOOOOOOD

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 05:46 PM (YNK3y)

180

"I saw _________ open for _________ at _________."

Never gets old.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 05:47 PM (vLh0X)

181 If you want to piss off a Russian, ask them how many grandchildren they have.

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:47 PM (CMlD4)

182

We are watching TCM's "future shock" tonight (thanks to whichever moron told us that it was on) and the in between segment said that Edward G Robinson was dying of cancer when he filmed Soylent Green and the list scene he ever filmed as an actor before he died was his death scene in Soylent Green. That made me cry.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 13, 2013 05:48 PM (RZ8pf)

183 177 The funny thing is Russia is generally a weak, pathetic joke. We just have a joke running our military,theirs is a joke through and through. Posted by: UWP at September 13, 2013 09:45 PM (vj51i) Which is tragic, because the Russian people are capable of amazing things, but they just have this irresistible urge to saddle themselves with a despot.

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 05:48 PM (XKm1G)

184 Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 09:46 PM (YNK3y) --------- So...it's Twister, in Space?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at September 13, 2013 05:48 PM (GmTxn)

185 Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 09:46 PM (YNK3y)

Sounds like the porno parody of this one will be worth waiting for....

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2013 05:48 PM (8Fl6F)

186 131 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2013 09:28 PM (vLh0X) I've seen a couple trailers for it. Is there a plot? Anything resembling a story line? Because I don't want to sit through 2 hours of whats their faces in space suits bouncing off wreckage. At this moment I'm very much looking forward to not seeing it.

Posted by: Ragamuffin at September 13, 2013 05:49 PM (fzFF6)

187 Miley is still running around sticking out her big fat diseased tongue at everybody.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:49 PM (WdWRd)

188 I'm in India and saw the issue at an airport newsstand in Mumbai. I figured time came out with their man of the year issue early.

Posted by: TexBob at September 13, 2013 05:49 PM (CEC4E)

189 'Gravity' looks like it's gonna suck donkey balls. /// I heard the lens glare off the apple was neat, but the three hours of Newton throwing pieces of paper on the floor and starting the derivation over again sorta dragged.

Posted by: Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop posting comments at September 13, 2013 05:49 PM (jITmu)

190 I was shocked by the administration's decision to refuse emergency funds, clearly punishment, where that status has already been conferred for Boulder. TFG also screwed cook county, Illinois, his biggest dem support group, a few years ago after a crap load of flooding that did not get declared a disaster area.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (uLkqI)

191 180 If you want to piss off a Russian, ask them how many grandchildren they have. Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 09:47 PM (CMlD4) wait, what?

Posted by: Gun-Boat diplomacy at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (CwqiX)

192 Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at September 13, 2013 09:48 PM (GmTxn) I don't really remember Twister, but I'm gonna go with yes.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (YNK3y)

193 Miley is still running around sticking out her big fat diseased tongue at everybody. Everybody except Putin

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (CMlD4)

194 168 what are Luntz's dunces up to now?

Posted by: Joe at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (8Prb7)

195 @182 I've always felt, even during the Cold War, that we had a lot in common with the Russian people. But 21 years ago I'd have never said "this irresistible urfe to saddle themselves with a despot" was one of them. You live and you learn.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 13, 2013 05:50 PM (JNUY4)

196 186 Miley is still running around sticking out her big fat diseased tongue at everybody. Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 09:49 PM (WdWRd) Maybe it's some kind of tic. Or, maybe she thinks it's sexy. I'd rather believe the tic thing, actually.

Posted by: joncelli at September 13, 2013 05:51 PM (XKm1G)

197 Ever see SpaceCamp? Same movie, except for accidental launch, and much more Serious You Guys.
Posted by: grognard at September 13, 2013 09:42 PM (8jNLy)

If that robot is in it, I'm totally seeing it!

Posted by: mugiwara at September 13, 2013 05:51 PM (hpYnL)

198 So Time has two different covers? One shows a guy who is a monster and an existential threat to America and the other shows Vladimir Putin. Big deal.

Posted by: hailstate at September 13, 2013 05:51 PM (3RQQq)

199

Actually, Gravity is what makes sucking a donkey's balls even possible.

That and a good warm barn.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 13, 2013 05:52 PM (vLh0X)

200 186 It's called bringing sexy back and I'll thank you not to stare at my girl

Posted by: DAve at September 13, 2013 05:53 PM (b7yum)

201 Never realized that the Food Network was pron for fat people.

Posted by: Mr. Natural at September 13, 2013 05:53 PM (KArqF)

202 No, it's true! My sister's boyfriend told me you do float around in space.

Posted by: Billy, Savana's little brother at September 13, 2013 05:54 PM (xdqW8)

203 You guys know Putin probably has a whole library of Chuck Norris's finest work.

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:55 PM (CMlD4)

204 If that robot is in it, I'm totally seeing it! Posted by: mugiwara at September 13, 2013 09:51 PM (hpYnL) I'd see it if George Clooney has to bite the cyanide pill. I'll see it then. Otherwise, no.

Posted by: grognard at September 13, 2013 05:55 PM (8jNLy)

205 Vlad's personal trainer and life coach is Chuck Norris. Drinks Chuck's sweat as an energy drink. Chuck advised him: "dude, no shirt".

Posted by: Bad Lt. Cmdr. at September 13, 2013 05:56 PM (gYTFo)

206 I'm hoping that Drudge puts that up, employing his usual ghey visual snarknado sense.

If you step back for a moment, I think Time is having a joke on Obumbles here. The image of the athlete is the perspective from underneath the Heismann Trophy - then Pooty-poots face juxtaposed 3x. The message is that Obama's a nancy-boy girl's blouse, looking up from the ground as he just got run over by the Ruskie shirtless he-man Putin. The press, acting as stand-in same-sex couple parents, can't go onto the field of play and bubble wrap their precious race victim 1st black president/uber prog white elitist. Without the leftist media, he's just a confused little girl trying to play in a man's full contact game. It's just now dawning on SCOAMF that "dressing in full pads" mean something other than feminine hygiene products...

Posted by: LiveFromRussianHill at September 13, 2013 05:57 PM (nbrug)

207 Given our President has a library of Teddy Ruxpin tapes, I think we should not expect much

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 05:58 PM (CMlD4)

208 That really is the most ridiculous photo of the football player.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:58 PM (DmNpO)

209 Jesse dead or alive? Hank dead or alive? Gommie dead or alive? Uncle Jack dead or alive? Frankie dead or alive? Todd dead or alive? other nazis dead of alive? I say Hank & Gommie go to that big DEA in the sky. Frankie and maybe 2 or 3 of their nazi butt boys go to that big Nuremberg rally in hell.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 05:59 PM (WdWRd)

210 If you step back for a moment, I think Time is having a joke on Obumbles here. /// Yeah...no.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 13, 2013 05:59 PM (YNK3y)

211 John McCain coming up on Greta. I hope she asks him about his statement that this might be his last term.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 13, 2013 05:59 PM (DmNpO)

212 202 You guys know Putin probably has a whole library of Chuck Norris's finest work. Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 09:55 PM (CMlD4) You know he's a big Sinatra fan and played the piano and sang One For My Baby at some public function? Hat, cigarette, drink, too.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 13, 2013 06:01 PM (WdWRd)

213 I say Hank & Gommie go to that big DEA in the sky. Frankie and maybe 2 or 3 of their nazi butt boys go to that big Nuremberg rally in hell. One dude had an AA-12. If this show is going to keep it real, then Hank and Gomie are dog food.

Posted by: EC at September 13, 2013 06:02 PM (doBIb)

214 ont's up

Posted by: Peaches at September 13, 2013 06:03 PM (8lmkt)

215 Soon Obama masks will be illegal...

Posted by: Pete at September 13, 2013 06:03 PM (Q4N3w)

216 It would cost $4 extra per smartphone to make them in the U.S.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2013 06:05 PM (0axsw)

217 209 If
you step back for a moment, I think Time is having a joke on Obumbles
here. ///

Yeah...no.

Yosh,

Cover Left:
"Syria: Inside the D.C. War"

Cover Right:
"What Putin Wants"

Dividing Image - "The Heismann" which we all use idiomatically in reference to the situation of receiving a humiliating public rejection. Who got "The Heismann"? I think that's the obvious subtext here...

Posted by: LiveFromRussianHill at September 13, 2013 06:09 PM (nbrug)

218 Actually, the dialog from that Nicholas Cage movie about the winner and the home coming queen comes to mind when I look at that cover.

Posted by: Jean at September 13, 2013 06:11 PM (CMlD4)

219 Hi ont, hubby and I had lunch at the Heart Attack grill, good food, owner definitely a conservative. Burgers were huge. I got the smallest one and could only eat half! Drinking a beer, watching football

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 13, 2013 06:25 PM (vgd4f)

220 218 Hi ont, hubby and I had lunch at the Heart Attack grill, good food, owner definitely a conservative. Burgers were huge. I got the smallest one and could only eat half! Drinking a beer, watching football Posted by: lou's a girl at September 13, 2013 10:25 PM (vgd4f) Haha, this isn't the ONT!

Posted by: EC at September 13, 2013 06:26 PM (doBIb)

221 Oops commented on wrong thread. Going upstairs

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 13, 2013 06:26 PM (vgd4f)

222 Yep EC, I'm a dope

Posted by: lou's a girl at September 13, 2013 06:27 PM (vgd4f)

223 >>a. Evolution has no purpose. b. The video suggests that the fish steals food from jelly-animals above it. The eyes are INSIDE the head - the two green things. It looks up and sees food against the (dim) light above. it steals food from the the jellies and, because the eyes are inside the head, the eyes don't take damage from the poisonous jelly tendrils. Read what you said again again. Evolution IS the purpose.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2013 06:27 PM (g1DWB)

224 would love to see a photoshop of Putin giving O a wedgie.

Posted by: no one, really at September 13, 2013 06:28 PM (EZl54)

225 Putin, then some football player, then who knows, then Obama.

Posted by: dirks strewn at September 13, 2013 06:37 PM (n+DCP)

226 Even a president can admire the buns on that football player.

Posted by: Banjo at September 13, 2013 06:42 PM (lMtGt)

227 A caller to the Michael Savage program, being guest hosted by JD Hayward just said he was at the Capitol Grill on Wednesday and he was out with co workers and he got up to go somewhere and he looked over to a dark booth and who was sitting there, having dinner, and talking very low but John McCain and Ted Cruz.

Hayward had just been asking if Cruz is poised to go into the Rubio light. He was discussing this before I tuned in so he must have had good reasons to bring up cruz and talk about this subject. Hayward was shocked. The caller was upset.

Posted by: ......... at September 13, 2013 06:42 PM (/b8+5)

228 That and having to cut the local mafia (government) in on everything.

Putin is cracking down on that stuff. What used to be safe regional political sinecures have become not so safe, and they've instituted a policy of "3-years and out" for regional honchos.

You can only spend 3 years in a region, then you have to move on to a different one. Presumably, this will help to reduce people building their own lifetime regional centers of corruption.

We would do well to look at some of the reforms Putin's been instituting. Bouncing GS-15/16 types around from agency to agency would make it harder for Lois Learner types to burrow in like ticks if they had to reestablish their corruption and power bases in new locations every few years.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 13, 2013 07:34 PM (9MLX+)

229 How's my dick taste?

Hey... wait... you're not supposed to like it!

Posted by: Vladmir Putin at September 13, 2013 08:37 PM (x3YFz)

230 I fucking give up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 13, 2013 09:41 PM (6rcHp)

231 I don't care what you guys say. I don't even care that I don't like George Clooney and hate to enrich him. I love 3D and I love escapism, so we're going.

Posted by: Alana at September 13, 2013 10:36 PM (RsUDH)

232 So........ While the covers for most of the world have a picture of a macho leader, the cover for the United States of Obama has a picture of a macho ASS!

Posted by: Hangtown Bob at September 14, 2013 04:55 AM (5VZr7)

233 So Time doesn't want to admit what it and everyone else in the MSM knows: Obama had his taint handed to him.

Just. Perfect.

Posted by: Mikey NTH Spittle-Flecked Diatribes Now 25% Off! at September 14, 2013 05:21 AM (gmoEG)

234 The 21st Century Praetorian Guard. Sigh...just another local crime story I guess.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 14, 2013 10:13 AM (4p5/2)

235

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it, but the Time cover has nothing whatever to do with Time's top editor Rick Stengel going to work for the State Dept.

Really. It doesn't.

Posted by: misanthrope at September 14, 2013 10:31 AM (YNWNJ)

236

They didn't show Putin on the US cover?

You're kidding, right Ace?

Posted by: PJ at September 14, 2013 10:43 AM (ZWaLo)

237 I've ignored Time for the last few years; due to their consistant status as irrelevant. However, this cover story comparison managed to provoke a dropped jaw. I don't know whether to laugh or to feel frightened. If censorship at that level dominated everywhere.. well, ok it does, but not all news sources. Perhaps it is the comparison of photos that strikes the heart... just damn. Ok, I'm rambling, but its been a long day

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at September 14, 2013 08:04 PM (b8KeA)

238 Mark Steyn linked this article in a short piece at NRO The Corner.

Mark reads AOSHQ? Probably just the comments.

Posted by: aquaviva at September 15, 2013 08:48 AM (nFihg)

239 I don't often make a fool of the POTUS on the international stage

But when I do I'm on all FOUR of the TIME covers.

Posted by: Worlds Most Interesting Man at September 16, 2013 08:49 AM (WGm5T)

240 Some would say the covers are all the same. There is an a$$ho#e at the center of each one http://bluecravat.blogspot.com/2013/09/which-regional-version-of-time-magazine.html

Posted by: william occam at September 16, 2013 11:49 AM (QTBdT)

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