In case you've forgotten whose first came up with the idea of subsidizing alternative energy companies as well as bailing out the banskters and the auto industry:
What goes around, comes around
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Airplanes, cats, guns, war, the more than occasional rant about the party of the Confederacy, the spinelessness of the Democrats and crap about anything else that flits through the somewhat offbeat mind of an armed lesbian pinko as she slides down the Razor Blade of Life.
Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
(CNN) -- A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said.It is almost humorous how all these clowns seem to come up with ideas that require logistical and financial support from other people, all of whom seem to be FBI informants.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives, authorities said.
He also defended the idea of the watch list, saying the government would be blamed if, after a terrorist attack, it turned out the perpetrator had attracted the suspicions of one agency but it had not warned other agencies to scrutinize the person.The FBI was roundly lambasted for being obstinately blind to clues that a terrorist attack ten years ago. At the end of the day, the FBI, like any other government bureaucracy, cares most about not being blamed for whatever goes wrong.
"Geez, I wish I had marketable skills and the interpersonal skills to market them."Got the t-shirt, too.
Vladimir Putin said Saturday he'll run for Russia's presidency in 2012, almost certainly ensuring he'll retake the office he previously held and likely foreshadowing years more of a strongman rule that many in the West have called a retreat from democracy.The chances are greater that Putin will be hit with falling space debris than he'd lose the 2012 election.
“I would say, any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.”Right. And when the soldiers and sailors are off duty and pounding down some beers, they are, no doubt, debating the theories of Clausewitz and Sun Tzi and how they apply to irregular warfare.
Dick Cheney, it has been said, fears that "somebody will Pinochet him." ... If Cheney really loved his country, he would demand that a grand jury be convened, he would want a world where the schoolchildren of tomorrow, his own grandchildren and great-grandchildren, can truly pledge that there will be justice for all.You should read the entire piece, it won't take long.
He would want to clear his name and never more see it even remotely associated with Pinochet, that thief, that traitor, that man who tortured his own people and lives on only in the annals of villainy.
The Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that O'Loughlin's death, caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen, was a homicide.Westerly had better warm up the town checkbook, for this is going to cost them.
“Lethal autonomy is inevitable,” said Ronald C. Arkin, the author of “Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots,” a study that was funded by the Army Research Office.And if the software has a bug in it and the machine kills when it was not supposed to, would they then charge the software engineers with negligent homicide?
Arkin believes it is possible to build ethical military drones and robots, capable of using deadly force while programmed to adhere to international humanitarian law and the rules of engagement. He said software can be created that would lead machines to return fire with proportionality, minimize collateral damage, recognize surrender, and, in the case of uncertainty, maneuver to reassess or wait for a human assessment.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday proposes a package of tax increases and cuts from projected spending totaling nearly $3.1 trillion over 10 years to slow down soaring federal budget deficits.I'm not paying any attention, for I know this means nothing. The Obama Administration has more reverse gears in its transmission than does an Italian Army tank. The GOP only has to mildly utter: "I say, sport, we don't like that at all." and this Administration will tear up whatever it wrote down.
His plan, which he'll detail in a Rose Garden address, will call for $1.5 trillion in tax increases over the decade starting in 2013, most of them on incomes above $200,000.
He'll also propose $580 billion in cuts in projected federal spending. And he'll say his plan should count $1 trillion in savings from the planned withdrawal of troops from Irag and Afghanistan.
Records show that some C-123 planes were held in quarantine storage in recent years, and then disposed of by shredding and smelting in 2010. In June 2009, an Agent Orange consultant to the Secretary of Defense had lobbied for the “immediate destruction” of the planes, in part to avoid attracting media attention to the health claims of stateside veterans.Lies and coverups. That's what the military does and that's what the VA does when it comes to the needs of veterans. What the VA has done with regard to the Agent Orange veterans for many decades (and with the Persian Gulf War veterans) is to deny that there is a problem and hope to kick the can far enough down the road that most of those men and women die before the VA is forced to pay any benefits.
“A whole new class of veterans may claim that their exposure was due to the fact they were members of aircrews or mechanics associated with the contaminated aircraft that returned from Vietnam,” the consultant, Dr. Alvin L. Young, wrote in the June 26, 2009, memo.