US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

http://people-press.org/files/2011/06/deficit-6.png

not really sure where to put this but

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp

The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.

You'd file it under: more good news! The only thing better than overt elective war with no clear goal in a Muslim country is covert war! Only good things can come from this! Let's keep this going, USA!!!

To be fair, at least the targets in Yemen are purportedly well within the purview of the War on Terror (TM).

awlaki & co in yemen were responsible for 9/11?

God, that shite about "reduce foreign aid" always gets my angry up. Foreign aid is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the Federal budget, you assholes, and over the years it's accomplished things like, oh, I don't know, helping eliminate horrifying diseases.

x-post Didn't you get the memo that they are responsible for future 9/11? Start stockpiling water and duct tape now.

"Foreign aid" = covert activity

phrases like "exploiting a growing power vacuum" seriously put the fear on me

I do appreciate the ironies of living in a country that affords the freedom to publish a front page story touting nefarious covert activity. Though it always makes me wonder: if this covert shit is being reported, then what kind of double secret covert shit is not being reported?

if Wikileaks has proved anything it's that nobody cares about secret shit. Oh wait, we knew that.

We secretly care.

eh, not really

it's not like people haven't known about this forever but as long as most people have enough to eat the government can do whatever it wants, period, forever, anywhere, in any country, imo

hey remember back in 2004 when internet douches the nation over were threatening to leave the US when W got re-elected? i'm think i'm becoming one o those douches.

but W isn't running in '12.

there are lots of good reasons to leave the US in 2011 that relate to W being re-elected in 2004

oh alfred you know what i mean

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

We're all fucked.

i'm thinking more along the lines of a country where my grasp of the language is so tenuous that i cant really follow the news

^^^ me watching cable news

lol

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 9, 2011 10:29 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tunisia! egypt!

thats about it though

how's Argentina these days?

A President Palin is the only thing that could truly get me to jump ship, but that won't happen, thank goodness (though her constant implicit campaigning makes me neurotic). Also, it's really hard to move to another country.

Australia's doing OK, isn't it?

i just want to be warm and relatively safe

well, the warm part will be pretty easy

What country is the same or better off than it was in 2004?

Cleveland Indians Nation

^^^ Buy this man a beer, someone

Cleveland Indians Nation

hmmm, not in the last 10 days

we pretty much have President Palin in slo-mo, not that I can destroy your goddamn liberal meme if I was fueled by designer speed for the next 2 years.

can we please put "President Palin" into one of those instant-image doohickeys?

Wheeeeeeee! http://jezebel.com/5810266/anti+abortion-extremist-is-running-for-president

Randall Terry, an anti-choice extremist even Operation Rescue, the group he founded, finds too crazy, is running for president as a Democrat. The goal: To get as much anti-abortion propaganda on television as possible, maybe even the Super Bowl.

The Daily Caller casually notes that Terry's "running mate is effectively a dead fetus," and that's a pretty accurate characterization. (Incidentally, John Boehner's chief of staff didn't find Terry too extreme, granting him an in-person meeting earlier this year).

uh

well there's a candidate who could handle veep duties on a par w/ Biden

The Daily Caller casually notes that Terry's "running mate is effectively a dead fetus," and that's a pretty accurate characterization.

that's a pretty mean thing to call Bob Bird

we pretty much have President Palin in slo-mo

Recognizing the bad form in even recognizing a politics Morbs post but, really, this is too fucking ridiculous to ignore. Though, I suppose it puts some of the other bullshit he spouts in perspective.

it's not like people haven't known about this forever but as long as most people have enough to eat the government can do whatever it wants, period, forever, anywhere, in any country, imo

^^^most OTM thing said in any US politics thread ever

romney/palin 2012 subtext

Rush is mad at Romney for implying that climate change might be real.

hey jon, IT DOESNT MUCH MATTER WHO'S PRESIDENT. Eat my bullshit with a spork.

so, anybody hear the one about senator paul ryan (r-fiscal conservative) okaying debt default?

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/09/240638/paul-ryan-calls-for-default/

"If a bondholder misses a payment for a day or two or three or four — what is more important is you are putting the government in a materially better position to better pay its bills going forward."

on wisconsin!

i mean, representative paul ryan. sorry paul

house budget committee chairman?

the honorable house budget committee chairman paul ryan, ltd.

hey jon, IT DOESNT MUCH MATTER WHO'S PRESIDENT.

Well saying this is a completely different than saying we already have a "president palin".

Morbz is already President FYI

we are all president iirc

Morbz is a concept by which we measure our pain.

You're my defense secretary, Shakes. We went through this.

bombing yemen brb