OT: Chaostan

Indeed. We should learn to leave tyrants alone to kill innocent women and children. It's better for the economy.

The real news is that the Saudi's are aligning with Putin to market their oil. That also should mean the end of Israel. Will that make stocks rise? ...Jim Thompson

Trouble is Jim, it now seems to be a fight between the tyrants and the islamist fanatics. A victory for either is a bad outcome, as is the status quo. Probably why the US has done nothing much so far.

Yep. Hard to decide the lesser of the two evils. But I dispute that is why we've done nothing... Obama is a wuss... but the whole US now leans that way.

So maybe we _should_ just stand by and let everyone kill each other off... reduces the "carbon footprint" >:-}

...Jim Thompson

Forget about that, the real news is the nation wide strike of indispensable fast food workers demanding $15 hourly wage for spitting in and blowing snot on and poisoning food of customers nationwide...

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This is an oversimplification. The tyrant Assad and his Alawite faction is fighting a number of different rebel factions. Al Qeda is perhaps the least attractive of them.

Syria, like Yugoslavia and Irak, is one of those countries where the nation al boundaries weren't drawn with much of an eye for long term stability. Su pporting any one of the factions doesn't offer a plausible route to a stabl e national administration. Supporting an alliance of several of them might work, but not enough of the various supporters of the various factions seem to be willing to work out a compromise.

Quite a few US citizens have learned the lesson of Irak. Jim-out-of-touch-w ith-reality-Thompson was never going to be one of them.

A grossly sub-optimal solution, but simple enough that even a Tea Party Rep ublican could understand it.

Look on the bright side. If the strike lasts for longer than a couple of weeks, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the US might decline.

No problem. Business news mags say that many of these people will be replaced with non-spitting kiosks where you will place your order.

I suppose that, soon, a robot will cook your burger... probably better. ...Jim Thompson

Yep. I'm really both a Libertarian _and_ a Darwinist... survival of the fittest... AKA those of us with an AR-15 >:-} ...Jim Thompson

I say let them fight and reduce their numbers. They need no help.

Ahh..you are leaning in the right direction..

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Jim's fitness is questionable. He's fat enough that when firing his AR-15 f rom the prone position he'll present an obvious target, and since he's warn ed the world that he's got an AR-15 and plans to use it on his neighbours w hen things fall apart, any prudent neighbour would have a mortar ready to t arget on his residence if things do fall apart - getting their retribution in first ...

I think that's the first time JT has been accused of *leaning* right.

I'm "upright" and walk quite briskly without aid of a cane >:-] ...Jim Thompson

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from the prone position he'll present an obvious target, and since he's wa rned the world that he's got an AR-15 and plans to use it on his neighbours when things fall apart, any prudent neighbour would have a mortar ready to target on his residence if things do fall apart - getting their retributio n in first ...

Save the gunpowder, just turn off the water valve. How long can someone live in the Arizona desert without water?

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I'm with Jim on this one. A "limited strike" just for the sake or protecting future presidential thre ats (rhetoric), seems silly to me. Would have been better for Obama to kee p his options open and not box us in with his red line comments.

What we ought to do it start aggressively building out a domestic nuclear p ower industry and wean ourselves off the teat of foreign oil. Just how did "our" oil get under "their" sand in the first place?

But of course, as long as there is a buck to be made in manipulating global oil prices, nothing will happen.

So Option-B starts to look better. Let those rag heads kill each other - S yria included. I'm against it course, on moral grounds, but then I also be lieve there are far too many people on the planet anyway. If the Syrians r eally wanted Assad out, it would happen. None of our business really.

Agreed. Obama stuck his foot in it and now can't get ours out without looking like the idiot he is. Sorry, but everyone already knows.

A good idea but it's not needed. We have plenty of oil and gas to go on our own, now. We could be self-sufficient in 5 years. Obama has no interest in that, though.

Not just oil. The entire economy. What do you think AGW is all about?

OK. Since we really don't have much choice...

Can we really save everyone?

I'll give you my standard answer to all lefties who use that argument; you first.

Pretty much. He wasn't much of a thorn in our side. ...or our friends' for that matter.

CA needs far more "outside" water than AZ.

Slowman is so uneducated he doesn't know that much of Californica's water comes from Arizona. Also electricity. Wait until we cut them off because they can't pay their bill ;-)

And my neighbors aren't a problem. They all have AR-15's or AK-47's themselves, as well as a variety of handguns >:-] ...Jim Thompson

R-15 from the prone position he'll present an obvious target, and since he' s warned the world that he's got an AR-15 and plans to use it on his neighb ours when things fall apart, any prudent neighbour would have a mortar read y to target on his residence if things do fall apart - getting their retrib ution in first ...

Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson thinks that because his neighbours a re armed right-wingers, they aren't going to be worried about his plans to start shooting his more left-wing neighbours after thing fall apart.

In fact they are all going to be sitting there worrying that they are not r ight-wing enough to save themselves from looking left-wing in Jim's eyes, a nd coming to the conclusion that it's safer to shoot him first, rather than to hang around waiting to find out if they aren't right-wing enough to be safe from his attentions.