BREAKING NEWS - Malaysian airliner crashes on Russian-Ukrainian border

[Admiral Yi]

I wasn't defending him; just explaining what I think motivated his comments.

Either way, a dumbass thing to say.  As dumbass as what those Europeaceniks were saying earlier.

If Operation Storm is that big Croat offensive that come a bit before Dayton, my understanding is it was made possible by supplies of arms from Germany, in particular artillery.

[Jaron]

Mitt warned us of Russia.

[DGuller]

Mitt warned us of Russia.

Credit to him.  I never criticized him for saying that Russia is our primary geopolitical enemy, and I kind of felt disappointed that Obama's team thought Mitt's assessment was worthy of mockery.  Clearly Obama is going to regret making that clever comment he made during the debate, if he isn't already.

[Syt]

If we can get a few looting, drunk militias and decomposing bodies in here, the thread will be a bigger mess than the crash site.

[Tamas]

There is heavy fighting going on at a bunch of places and the rotting bodies of the airplane passengers have been railroaded to Ukraine proper, but this cannot really compare in news value to Chapter 23935353 of the USA Tribal Wars

[CountDeMoney]

Mitt warned us of Russia.

Credit to him.  I never criticized him for saying that Russia is our primary geopolitical enemy, and I kind of felt disappointed that Obama's team thought Mitt's assessment was worthy of mockery.  Clearly Obama is going to regret making that clever comment he made during the debate, if he isn't already.

Bully?  Yes.  Nuisance?  Yup.  Pain in the ass?  Definitely.  Obstructionist?  You betcha! *wink*

But they're still a far cry from being #1 on the threat board.  We have more pressing--and real concerns--in the Pacific, and with the occassional appearance of some turbaned idiots on monkey bars in the desert that keep Hansy up at night.

[The Minsky Moment]

To be fair to Mitt, Russia is the biggest strategic threat to stock portfolios containing oil and gas majors, which is probably what he was thinking about.

[frunk]

To whoever separated the crap out of this thread, thank you.

[Malthus]

To whoever separated the crap out of this thread, thank you.

Seperatist!

[frunk]

Seperatist!

There's a joke here involving the linquistic root of shit, I'm just not thinking of it.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

To whoever separated the crap out of this thread, thank you.

Seperatist!

I do live in Texas...

[Valmy]

Have you ever actually met a Texanationalist vM?  You used to see the SECEDE bumper stickers around from time to time but I never have actually met one.

[derspiess]

Have you ever actually met a Texanationalist vM?  You used to see the SECEDE bumper stickers around from time to time but I never have actually met one.

I get the impression that many/most of them are not quite 100% serious about actually seceding.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, of course they aren't.  They like things like paved highways, and disaster recovery when their ignorant asses get buttfucked by tornados and Hurricane Buttfucker.

[derspiess]

Probably just one of those fun things for them to talk about, because they know it will never happen.