OT: The News Thread

[blacksheep]

The town is creeping up the mountain. People never learn. I read somewhere that when it did go off and buried Pompeii and Herculano that it had been dormant for 900 years.

Nature >

Nature always wins. People amaze me how they dare her. Let's rebuild that house the last hurricane destroyed right on the same beach, and see which hurricane will take it out again. Stupid.

 

[BeLeafer]

Quite possibly the biggest douche in Canadian history.

 

[blacksheep]

Quite possibly the biggest douche in Canadian history.

Definitely top five, in that category.

 

[zeke]

at the same time, he's kind of awesome.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Conrad Black kind of got screwed and like zeke said, his *******ry is kind of awesome.

 

[BeLeafer]

Awesome in a punchable face way.

 

[zeke]

Total dick, but he just knows he's smarter and better than everyone else.

 

[BeLeafer]

Yep, people who think they're smarter and better than everyone else are very punchable.

I'm quite punchable, for instance.

 

[zeke]

I'd be totally puncheable if it wasn't for my disarming smile.

 

[BeLeafer]

It's not too hard to see how that charm might get you out of some tight spots.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Well, another dazzling display in the series of right wing FAIL re: economic policy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/feb/23/george-osborne-britain-aaa

Nicely done.

There'll be more to come, I'm sure of that.

 

[BeLeafer]

That government is an abomination. The only thing worse is those yellow, turncoat Lib Dems.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Yup.

 

[BeLeafer]

Interesting approach ... alienate virtually all of your voters and then cow to the right wing nuts 'cause if you don't you're going to be obliterated at the polls.

I'd say that I'll be pleased when they get taken out, but it's going to create an even worse two party system.

 

[lecoqsportif]

The centre unravels in hard times. Especially if they are unprincipled gits with no convincing narratives.

The one who needs to get put to pasture is Merkel. The Germans have driven the bus off the cliff.

 

[BeLeafer]

Unfortunately, when the centre unravels in recent times everything lurches to the right. Ed Milliband ain't exactly a left winger, despite his bloodlines. And, of course, that party one-upped Thatcher's at every turn last time they were in power.

 

[BeLeafer]

I should qualify that ... at least in terms of establishment politics.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Unfortunately, when the centre unravels in recent times everything lurches to the right. Ed Milliband ain't exactly a left winger, despite his bloodlines. And, of course, that party one-upped Thatcher's at every turn last time they were in power.

Panic sets in, and squeaky bums seem to drift right regardless of what the evidence says:

http://www.voxeu.org/article/panic-driven-austerity-eurozone-and-its-implications

Few, if any, have the cojones. FDR was not perfect, but he still needed a lot of guts to (eventually) go against the the grain. Even then, he took some convincing, could have gone further, and made mistakes.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

That government is an abomination. The only thing worse is those yellow, turncoat Lib Dems.

I agree.

They haven't governed like a Conservative Party at all and Cameron has allowed Labour to walk all over him. Pussy.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Labour did SFA. This is totally self-inflicted.