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04/19/13, 15:28
That's ... a Colonial Viper piloted by Hello Kitty? |  | WTF Boston
04/19/13, 15:24
You're defining "invasion" so loosely as to be meaningless. | | WTF Boston
04/19/13, 15:22
Mainstream news is just doing its tabloidy thing right now, pumping up whatever angle gets people to tune in. Once this has ceased to be interesting they'll go back to debating whether Kim Kardashian is still hotter than Khloe. (The hottest one, of course, is Elim Garak.) | | WTF Boston
04/19/13, 14:45
That's how we nearly lost Hal Jordan, we're not about to make that mistake again.
But beyond that, you're going to have to construct a case where either a) Russia wants us involved in their internal affairs or b) they are not powerful enough to cause any problems for an over-interventionalist United States. You're also going to have to make a case for an Obama administration that is anywhere near as invasion-happy as the Bush administration.
I wouldn't rule out drone strikes, but even then it seems highly unlikely: Obama's sending drones to nations that aren't trying to do much of anything about terrorists, and say what you will about Russia, they don't take a laissez-faire attitude towards Chechnyan rebels.
All of this assumes that these guys have any links to terrorist organizations in Chechnya; without that much, there's exactly zero chance of a military assault on Chechnya. | | WTF Boston
04/19/13, 13:53
I'm glad to say, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I can't envision a scenario coming out of this where we'd send a military response to Russia (which Chechnya is part of). Yeah there are dumbfucks who will always call for invasion / destruction of any country where the people are sufficiently brown -- despite these guys being Caucasian in the most literal sense -- but unlike in 2001 and 2003, PNAC is a spent force (it folded in 2006) and doesn't control the Executive Branch. | | WTF Boston
04/19/13, 13:45
??? This is an exceptional response to an exceptional situation. I understand people's impatience for the encroachment of a police state, but thus far, I don't see it in this event.
We'll see what happens when Boston "gets back to normal". Seeing as Boston is the sort of town that panics over a Mooninite invasion*, it could go either way.
*: It's a shame Scott Brown won his Senate seat over a woman who once said of a light-up Igniknokt, and I quote, "It had a very sinister appearance. It had a battery behind it, and wires." A shame, but not much of a surprise. | | Kodachrome
04/19/13, 05:07
In 20 or 30 years, people won't know what the hell this song was about.
Funny how quickly we can lose common knowledge. There's a mysterious line in "If I Were a Carpenter": "Would you miss your color box and your soft shoe shining"? That song was from less than 50 years ago and I'm still trying to find someone who can tell me definitively what a "color box" was. Best answer I've heard is that it's a treasure box that you put pretty things in, back in an era when brightly-colored anything was worth holding on to and admiring. | | Red Dwarf - American Pilot - Second Attempt
04/19/13, 04:35
I saw an interview with Grant and/or Naylor, and the story, naturally, was that you had a bunch of Hollywood types who didn't get the appeal of the original show, and just assumed you could throw in stock American actors and make a shit-ton of money. But the actors knew it was garbage; the only part of the original American pilot that worked was Kryten, because Robert Llewelyn. And even when Grant and Naylor desperately tried to fix the script, their changes were all but ignored.
Part of the problem, Craig Charles observed, was that America doesn't have the stock types that England does: Rimmer is an aspiring officer and gentleman, Lister is a blue collar rugby fan, and that helps to frame them. In the American versions, Lister was "a handsome guy" and Rimmer was "a less handsome guy". Beyond the stock types is the fact that the writers made no effort to write material that the new actors could pull off. If you know your original "Red Dwarf" you recognize a lot of lines here that appeared in the British version, but just don't work here (like the "beehive hairdos" bit at 8:56 or so, originally from "Waiting for God").
The one thing that hypothetically made sense was redoing Cat as a warrior woman, in that they couldn't replicate British Cat, so they went in another direction. It was a stupid direction, but at least they acknowledged the problem and tried to do something about it. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/19/13, 04:08
Bear in mind Obama's background as a community organizer: he's used to dealing with obstinate shitheads (half of whom are racist), and continually attempt to engage shitheads rather than shut them out. I'm not saying it's the right strategy, only that his approach to the Republicans is less mysterious if you see it in those terms. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/18/13, 21:00
chumbucket: I'm more optimistic than most, because I still trace our current electoral woes to the Civil Rights Act and a Republican Party that wasn't afraid to claim bigots as their new core demographic. The Democrats lost a huge chunk of their support base, but demographics are finally replenishing their numbers.
It's not just about the sheer number of Democrats, but also the fact that we'll be able to be more selective about who gets sent to Washington. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/18/13, 20:55
Yeah, that smacks of him trying too hard to being bipartisan. But bear in mind that, in doing so, he also bumped the NLRB up to five members, in a controversial (and, last I heard, rejected by the courts) recess appointment that allowed the NLRB to continue to function at all. And that set the balance 3-2 in favor of Democrats. By the way, both Republicans are gone now; the NLRB currently consists of three Democrats.
As to what I would say to Obama, I would say "I appreciate that you kept the NLRB functioning and took some heat for it. Any chance you can just appoint Democrats next time?" | | Russian Cat and Vacuum
04/18/13, 20:40
Descended from cats that weathered 70 years of communism, famine, and warfare. He ain't scared of nothing. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/18/13, 15:49
That's not what I'd say to such Democrats, I mean I'm not sure what specifically you're referring to. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/18/13, 15:49
Be more specific please. | | The Debt Limit Explained
04/18/13, 15:09
That, and make noises about "I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils". Okay, but that's how the greater of two evils manages to prosper, most recently in 2010 (which we'll still be paying for until 2020).
The formula is pretty simple, really:
1) The Republicans are broken and malicious, so job number one has to be stopping the Republicans (the greater of two evils).
2) After you've stopped the Republicans, you can turn your focus to the lesser of two evils.
In practical terms, this means work to primary better Democrats, and then vote like hell in the general election to make sure the Democrats get into office. You can also spend the time between election cycles holding the Democrats' feet to the fire, but if they can't hold office, you can guarantee your pet causes won't get acted on. Unless you're a Teabagger, that is. | | Not-so-soft eject cassette deck
04/18/13, 13:41
Idiot! That's clearly an old cell phone popping out its battery. | | Parks and Recreaction - Patton Oswalt's 'Star Wars filibuster'.
04/17/13, 16:40
I can prove it to you: he forgot the Soul Gem. If he'd prepared ahead of time he would have made sure he had all the Infinity Gems. | | Red Dwarf - The US Pilot
04/16/13, 23:15
Chemistry? Who needs chemistry? | | Homeschoold
04/16/13, 20:26
Sarcastic video that later got taken seriously by people who don't process sarcasm, and probably take Steven Colbert at face value too? | | Feels.wmv: Letting go
04/16/13, 09:01
Heartrending!
Can I bitch for a minute? If you submit your URLs like this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx
... they will work. That means "http:" and not "https:", that means no parameters other than the "v=" parameter. | |
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