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There's an old sea story about a ship's Captain who inspected
his sailors, and afterward told the first mate that his men smelled bad.The Captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors
would change underwear occasionally.The first mate responded, "Aye, aye sir, I'll see to it immediately!"
The first mate went straight to the sailors berth deck and announced, "The Captain thinks you guys smell bad and wants you to change your underwear."
He continued, "Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with
Schultz."THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
Someone may come along and promise "Change", but don't count on things smelling any better.
- 74LEO0
Oh Hay!
Remember me?
Anyone wanna know how I'm doing?
Anyone???
Hello???
- hey, how you doing?zenmasterfoo
- I don't know. Get it?74LEO
- Ramanisky20
^ its weird .. i was thinking the same a few days ago
- Yeah. No update. No info . Its like no one knows anything more about her.74LEO
- 74LEO0
If you think monks aren't self immolating anymore. Your wrong! Wake up America! Buy American or China will own us soon!
US frowns on Chinese force in Tibet(AFP) – 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday criticized China after violent incidents at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and called on Beijing to respect religious freedom.
The intervention of Chinese security forces at the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province is "inconsistent with internationally recognized principles of religious freedom and human rights," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Clashes erupted between security forces and locals at the monastery in southwestern China after a monk set himself on fire and died last month, according to the International Campaign for Tibet, a New York-based rights group said.
Police unleashed trained dogs on residents outside the monastery and beat people when they tried to prevent forces from entering the compound Tuesday, the rights group said.
According to Toner, security forces "have cordoned off the Kirti monastery."
The US administration raised the issue with Chinese officials, he added.
"We continue to monitor the situation closely and obviously are concerned by it," Toner said.
The rights group, citing local residents, said security forces were attempting to remove some of the 2,000 monks who live at the monastery.
The situation at the influential monastery has deteriorated since the March 16 death of a monk who committed suicide on the third anniversary of anti-government unrest in the area.
Resentment against Chinese rule runs deep in Tibetan regions of China.
- 74LEO0
Imagine this is all you have and you are shot for your religion! Do we go to war with China? Have we ever? Why? We do nothing.
- utopian0
- Mr. Contrarian has taken over Craigslist R&R
Soooooo True74LEO - this was kind of stupid. And annoyinglocustsloth
- Mr. Contrarian has taken over Craigslist R&R
- TheBlueOne0
Regardless of political persuasion if you highlighted that Dick Cheney's first name was "Dick" consistently during the Bush years or you call Obama funny names like "O-Bummer" you should expect that any political opinion you express will be on the same level as bathroom stall scrawls. But go on thinking you're contributing to the debate.
- You're wasting your breath, TBO. Both cnaps have failed to express any sort of opinion that wasn't cut and pasted. They are irrelevant by naturelocustsloth
- irrelevantlocustsloth
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So... "irrelevant", you feel the need to comment on it, Blue One, you big fat pussy!
- You are like a child, saying that same thing that got a reaction once over and over, hoping to get the same reactionlocustsloth
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Obama Job Approval at 41%, Tying His Low
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- You would have to nuts to elect a guy with no political experience, what so ever..********
- ohhhhh wait, you liberals did that already!********
- oppppssssss! at least trump has actually run a company, fired someone, hired someone..you know, little things.********
- Hey, you don't need to convince me. Trump 2012!********
- Yeah, cnaps, the little things. Like bankrupting a casino. You know, those establishments where the house always winslocustsloth
- HAHAHHAHA cnaps********
- You would have to nuts to elect a guy with no political experience, what so ever..
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- that looks like something from the Onionmonkeyshine
- haha, direct screengrab from his site********
- trump is such a joke cant help both think both parties are power playing for the same outcome.********
- in as much as the individuals pulling the best strigns on both sides comes out with the most coin.********
- still dont see why people chosoe left or right, especially since they say the same thing depending on popularity********
- Shut the fuck up.DrBombay
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http://reason.com/archives/2011/…
random last 3 paragraphs
The Republicans’ inability to deal with the Ron Paul phenomenon—a show that, like the recession and The Fantasticks, keeps playing long after the original audience was hoping it would close—indicates a party in menopause. Even against the seemingly lightweight competition of the Obama brain trust, the Republicans have no stomach for budget cutting. As Reason's Peter Suderman has been reporting, last week’s apparently $38.5 billion in savings quickly dwindled to $14 billion and then down to a sub-billion figure. The president can give a rambling, orotund speech extolling a two-month-old budget proposal, and he still catches the Republicans flatfooted. They have no more interest in deficit reduction than he does.The strange thing is that this is not a slow news period, and it’s almost tempting to make the priggish complaint that we need to get serious about the issues. Sarah Palin left public life under very odd circumstances and is now best known for a daughter who dressed up like a monkey on Dancing With the Stars. Ron Paul is a sitting U.S. congressman whose son was recently elected to the Senate. Yet to go by the news mentions, Palin is the more serious Republican candidate. That’s what the media will do when you give them no reason to take you seriously.
Again, this is not to say Paul has a chance of getting elected president in 2012. But the Republicans can’t find any place for Paul’s supposedly radical message for the same reason they can’t manage to make even ten-figure spending cuts. They’ll have nobody but themselves to blame when their 2012 rosters turn out to be laughingstocks, and not even the good kind of laughingstocks.
- CNAPS FOR PREZ!locustsloth
- ? thought u were a bit brighter locust. unless alll for fun********
- come on, db. How can what i wrote be ANYTHING but jestlocustsloth
- ukit0
^ Yeah but you have to realize Reason is a far-right publication. If you did a survey of the people who write for Reason and the general public on the issues the numbers would not match up. The policies Reason favors are never going to actually be implemented because they are too far out of the mainstream.
Take Ron Paul's candidacy as a data point. To libertarians and Tea Partiers he is a rock star but the public at large could care less about Ron Paul. He didn't win a single primary in the Republican race in 2008 despite all the hype.
In terms of budget cutting, it's short-sighted to focus only on slashing spending for the current year. You need to think long term and change the trajectory by making major changes to taxes, entitlements, defense spending, and health care. The worst thing you could do though is what the Republicans are asking and continue to push through more tax cuts for millionaires. That is a great way to drive the budget car straight off the cliff.
- because theyr eto far out of mainstream doesnt make them bad ideas.********
- as far as tax cuts for the rich thats a fools game. much larger things then that.********
- such as all the ties between unions and corps with gov. sure soem can be good but most are bad... remember obama campaigning on no lobbyiing
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- campaign ojn littel to no lobbying and yethis worls were all just talk. if u want to fuck the rich take away their********
- unfair competitive bought ways through lobbying. u can call for tax but if they continue buying the weak gov whats the point********
- and ron paul says a lot fo stuff but i hate to see him buy into publicity with the fed. u cant audit it. its a giant illusion and many countries depend on it********
- many countries depend on it u can scale it so no one notices u did a thing at all. a good president u wont even know is there********
- there********
- and yes i know where reason lies and i disagree with crap. this just seemed poignant to the trump shit********
- if theyre far right they say it straight up what horse shit this reality show political race is.********
- and i ftheyre far right do u take that opinion and apply it to who u see as far right. or is it not far right and just crazy libertarien non majoirty view
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- libertarian,non majoirty view********
- Learn how to type.DrBombay
- because theyr eto far out of mainstream doesnt make them bad ideas.
- TheBlueOne0
Ron Paul's message isn't radical, it's unworkable. He lives in the Libertarian fantasy land that doesn't understand how economics in the real world scale, utterly misrepresents how a gold economy work(ed), has zero grasp on how fiat currency works, and seems clueless about how a nation that a) is that largest economy b) is the largest military and c) owns the world's default currency for at least the next twenty odd years needs to wind itself down, if it needs to do that.
Utopianism of the Right.
- I agree********
- I think the fed talk of his is just his attempt to attract attention. He doesnt have the sposnorships of the other candidates.********
- possible candidates********
- But he is pretty smart and im sure understands far more then the current elected and looks out for the little guy********
- or liek blue is suggestign perjhaps we screw the little guy let the national leaders continue this card game of negative money. we can always sell debt. and buy others********
- debt. we can sell it and trade it and keep printing moeny and hopefully other countries will have an understanding we need to all print the same********
- and print the same. the illusion sounds better for the future and hope i die before it crashes********
- TBO, cnaps and deathboy agree on something... **head explodes :)IRNlun6
- I agree
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Understand where your federal tax dollars are being spent with the White House tax receipt tool:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/tax-re…- lol, you think your Tax dollars went to a better cause with Bush huh?moldero
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Lost in spaceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/42645647
Obama Plays Down S&P Outlook ChangeSomebody wake this fucking idiot up!
- Well it's those same rating agencies that gave certain companies AAA rating despite concerns of fraud.kgvs72
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Angry little bitch, or president?!?!?!
you make the call.
I vote for angry little bitch!
http://content.usatoday.com/comm…- Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch...!********
- I see. Conservative has a fit and they're "fighting mad". A liberal has a fit and he's a "bitch". Got it. Pussy.TheBlueOne
- Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch...!
