The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

I laughed too. but only because I don't want to like like the only one here who didn't get it.

BAR = Browning Automatic Rifle

http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=58

[11B4V]

I laughed.

Though I think it's a picture from Vietnam, not WW2 ?

Looks like the pacific theater

[Iormlund]

Where will they go?  Who cares.  Disappearing means lower unemployment rates.  God Bless the United Basements of America.

This is what's happening in Spain now. On paper, unemployment has been going down for two quarters. But there are actually far less people employed. In November, for example, unemployment went down by 2475, yet employment figures decreased by 66k. The difference made up of those who gave up, left for green pastures or retired.

[11B4V]

Judge OKs Detroit Bankruptcy, Pension Cuts

(Newser) – A federal judge today gave Detroit the bankruptcy protection it sought, dismissing challenges from banks and labor unions, the Detroit News reports. Vested pensions aren't subject to any special protections either, Judge Steven Rhodes said; they're just contracts like any other, and "it has long been understood that bankruptcy law entails the impairment of contracts." He did warn, however, that he would "not lightly or casually exercise power to impair pensions."

The judge swept aside a host of other objections as well. He said there was ample evidence that Detroit was insolvent, and that while the city did not make the requisite good faith effort to negotiate with its creditors, it also would have been "impractical" given that there are 100,000 of them. Selling the city's trove of valuable artwork, he argued, would only "delay inevitable financial failure." Indeed, the city probably should have declared bankruptcy sooner, he said. "Was it a foregone conclusion? Of course it was."

http://www.newser.com/story/178566/judge-oks-detroit-bankruptcy-pension-cuts.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top

[Admiral Yi]

According to CNN it's costs $900 to change the oil on the Porsche Carrera GT that Paul Walker died in.

[sbr]

According to CNN it's costs $900 to change the oil on the Porsche Carrera GT that Paul Walker died in.

Why would you change the oil on a car that was totaled?

[Admiral Yi]

hyuck hyuck hyuck

[Ideologue]

According to CNN it's costs $900 to change the oil on the Porsche Carrera GT that Paul Walker died in.

Insert class warrior response here, I guess.

[Tonitrus]

According to CNN it's costs $900 to change the oil on the Porsche Carrera GT that Paul Walker died in.

Between having it done at a Porsche dealer, and using an authentic Porsche oil filter, I believe it.

Still going to be under $80 at Jiffy Lube. 

[Ed Anger]

I thought about getting an Astin Martin DB-9. Around 300k. Eat that Ide.

[DGuller]

According to CNN it's costs $900 to change the oil on the Porsche Carrera GT that Paul Walker died in.

Why would you change the oil on a car that was totaled?

[CountDeMoney]

Judge OKs Detroit Bankruptcy, Pension Cuts

(Newser) – A federal judge today gave Detroit the bankruptcy protection it sought, dismissing challenges from banks and labor unions, the Detroit News reports. Vested pensions aren't subject to any special protections either, Judge Steven Rhodes said; they're just contracts like any other, and "it has long been understood that bankruptcy law entails the impairment of contracts." He did warn, however, that he would "not lightly or casually exercise power to impair pensions."

The judge swept aside a host of other objections as well. He said there was ample evidence that Detroit was insolvent, and that while the city did not make the requisite good faith effort to negotiate with its creditors, it also would have been "impractical" given that there are 100,000 of them. Selling the city's trove of valuable artwork, he argued, would only "delay inevitable financial failure." Indeed, the city probably should have declared bankruptcy sooner, he said. "Was it a foregone conclusion? Of course it was."

http://www.newser.com/story/178566/judge-oks-detroit-bankruptcy-pension-cuts.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top

*11Bravo giggles with glee over urban union employees losing their pensions, rolls around naked in the monthly statements of his own taxpayer-funded one*

[DGuller]

One? 

[CountDeMoney]

Maybe he's got two.

[Tonitrus]

Maybe he's got two.

I think he is retired military, so yeah, two.