Works for me.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Hey @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://ramjac.videosift.com" title="member since September 29th, 2007" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#32CD32">kronosposeidon, Wonder Woman is for real, yo.

Net neutrality.>> ^blankfist:

Shock Doctrine!

I don't know if his accusation that she's carrying water for Obama is fair. I honestly believe that she just isn't bright enough to make the connections. I'm not big on quoting people, but Napoleon said, "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." Instead of malice he was ascribing partisanship to her, but you get the point.

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It might; it just might. >> ^notarobot:

Will dumping oil on them make the CIA get involved?

Economy of Ivory Coast:

The Ivorian economy is largely market based and depends heavily on the agricultural sector. Almost 70% of the Ivorian people are engaged in some form of agricultural activity. Côte d'Ivoire is among the world's largest producers and exporters of coffee, cocoa beans, and palm oil.

This is serious. A chocolate shock could shake our slowly recovering economy, and it makes me shudder to think of how this could impact Starbuck's. *shudder*

Now before someone mentions it: Yes, Ivory Coast produces oil. But they are #59 in oil production volume, producing about 60,000 barrels a day. (Libya produces over 25 times that volume.) Hell, even Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, and East Timor produce more oil than Ivory Coast. So oil is a negligible factor in the equation, thus making Ivory Coast itself a negligible factor.

Ivory Coast has over 20 million people. (Libya, by comparison, has roughly 6.5 million people.) Its civil war has been going off and on for almost 9 years. Thousands and thousands of people have died; millions have become refugees. It was hoped that the 2010 presidential election would bring peace to their country, but obviously it has not. This isn't a new problem; it's been going on for years. Yet silence. Yet no intervention.

But on the first day of NATO operations in Libya, the US fired 118 Tomahawk missiles. (Britain, for its part, fired 6.) You want intervention? You got it, motherfucker.

Fuck this.

Thank you, my liege!

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*quality

Right...I mean, wrong. By the time you get your crown you're basically this. You're probably going to get beat up. More often.

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Thanks, KP! But at least I get more street cred, right? Right?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I demand a church wedding! It's off; it's all off.

Congrats on the big D. Notice how you get no additional privileges. Kind of a gyp, really. It also puts you in the same class as rottenseed. Maybe killing a few videos right now would be a good idea.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Your vote for my Planxty video gave me a diamond. I accept your proposal but only if the wedding can be in a garden.

I demand a church wedding! It's off; it's all off.

Congrats on the big D. Notice how you get no additional privileges. Kind of a gyp, really. It also puts you in the same class as rottenseed. Maybe killing a few videos right now would be a good idea.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Your vote for my Planxty video gave me a diamond. I accept your proposal but only if the wedding can be in a garden.

I think he meant "...you are another tumor on the organism that makes politics worse..."
Maybe.>> ^petpeeved:

I love Weiner but his closing remark almost caused me to have an aneurysm: "...you are an important part of the organism that makes politics work..."
Speechless.

Fuck yeah! 200 years of kicking Libyan ass! We're on a roll! We can't roll over for those Barbary pirates now!>> ^Ariane:

The first US bombardment of Libya actually happened in 1804 under President Jefferson, during the Battle of Derne. Of course we didn't bomb from planes, we bombed from ships.

*cooks *steer>> ^blankfist:

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Plumpist idiots.>> ^blankfist:
>> ^kronosposeidon:
The solution: Become morbidly obese. Then you can have up to 3 drinks! >> ^blankfist:
A glass of wine with dinner will land you a DUI in most states.


Fat Neutrality.


beef meals

Plumpist idiots.>> ^blankfist:

>> ^kronosposeidon:
The solution: Become morbidly obese. Then you can have up to 3 drinks! >> ^blankfist:
A glass of wine with dinner will land you a DUI in most states.


Fat Neutrality.

The solution: Become morbidly obese. Then you can have up to 3 drinks! >> ^blankfist:

A glass of wine with dinner will land you a DUI in most states.

Look, I don't like this morass that Obama has led us into, but just because he's sending Marines to the theater of operations doesn't mean they're going into combat in Libya. Marines are often deployed in regions for humanitarian missions. If Gadhafi gets ousted, there will be a humanitarian crisis as infrastructure is in ruins and refugees flee this man-made disaster. If he stays in power, there will still be a humanitarian crisis on Libya's borders as refugees flee the country. That might be where the Marines are headed, but we don't know. There's certainly nothing in that Pentagon video that says those Marines are going into combat in Libya.

So he may not be deploying ground troops in combat roles, which means only the members of our ground armed forces won't be shooting at anyone. CIA paramilitary advisers on the ground technically don't count because they aren't considered part of our armed forces, though I'll be the first to admit that it's a weasel defense.

I still don't see a consistent policy about this, nor a clear exit strategy. I'd like to see the rebels win, but who knows how long that will take? How long are we willing to help them? How many wars are we supposed to be involved in at the same time?

To those who say we should help to prevent a massacre, I can only say this: How much can the United States do for the entire world? There is no doubt that we still have the most powerful military the planet has ever seen, but that doesn't mean we have the ability to step in to resolve every conflict. There are massacres of varying sizes going on throughout the Middle East right now. Can we intervene in them all?

On a separate but related note, I'm tired of our presidents getting us into wars without a vote from Congress. If some assholes show up on our shores and start shooting at us, then sure, shoot first then vote later. But this unitary executive shit has gone on for too long.