They got a fast start to the new year entrapping patsies.

The twittering pustules who pass for our foreign policy elite are horrified, just horrified that the rooskies would spook us with such a device. As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half megaton nuclear missile warheads at your least favorite country. Apparently this is how civilized countries who do not possess enemies with a plurality of coastal cities exterminate their foes. I don’t understand such people. Nuclear war is bad in general, m’kay? Mass slaughter with a nuclear torpedo is not morally inferior to mass slaughter with an ICBM. More to the point, getting along with Russians is easy and vodka is cheaper and more effective than ABM (and doomsday torpedo) defenses. If we hired actual diplomats and people who study history, instead of narcissistic toadies and sinister neocon apparatchiks to labor in our foreign services … maybe the Russians wouldn’t troll us with giant nuke torpedoes.

Militia seizes federal building. Will be interesting to see how this pans out, I doubt it will end well. It didn't when AIM did it back in the early 90's, that's for sure.

It's war and other state intervention that caused the century of socialism, and thankfully we're starting to move away from that scam. The inequality created by the building of wealth is not to be feared. A breath of fresh air to see someone in business "get" comparative advantage.

As expected, the brainwashed San-Francisco types have totally chimped out over this. These retrograde troglodytes want to go back to the bad 'ol days and enshrine poverty forever.

Put an underline and exclamation point on that.

It's more-or-less organized crime, complete with bladder trucks for stolen fuel to sell to less scrupulous fuel vendors. I assume cut with low quality additives soon as competition becomes more cut-throat.

Let's turn the world's best drainage system into a river so that LA can flood. Morons.

Way to surrender your will and individuality, losers. Have fun being the internet version of US magazine.

Sudden outbreak of sanity by a british intellectual.

Tell us how you really feel.

No surprise there.

Tel Aviv and Kabul both get terror attacks as a hangover chaser.

Who could'a seen that one coming???

Some bullish looking leading indicators out there recently.

Around 50k killed in conflict. The ongoing price of US intervention keeps being worse than anything Saddam ever could have wished to inflict on Iraq.

Typical government efficiency.

Good stuff. You may have noticed I've recently changed the banners on the left to be pure JS (and easily picked up by adblock). This is by design. Otherwise, my fatwa against overweight JS still stands (embedding a youtube clip causes my page load size to at least quadruple, though it usually stays under 3s on DSL because my crap is so small, even with images).

Needless to say, there was some good commentary over at HN. Best quote:

In the past couple years, however, I have noticed a new phenomenon. Remarkably - madly, in my view - there are webpages, webpages that should be simple, webpages by all appearances that consist of nothing more than a photo (maybe more than one), a byline, and a few hundred words of text, that require Javascript to load. As in, you will get a a blank page or an error message if you don't have their scripts enabled.

I don't understand it. I don't want to understand it. I just want it to stop.

BONUS:

At least it's less stupid than aircraft carriers. Submarine launched drones would be ideal.

I doubt this will be a victory for the Militia as things are, but you can't win every battle. That said, it does sound pretty egregious what's going on here -- double jeopardy because their first sentencing was 'illegal'?

UPDATE: Ammon's Take on it.

Obama administration 360 head spinning on Iran sanctions. Burundi prepares to go to war with the African Union. Turks begin to toss out the bodies in Iraq while Ramadi's "liberation" sounds more like the peace of death.

Because it spied on AIPAC and Bibi during the Iran deal stuff to find out how the NeoClowns would try to sabotage it. HAHA!

One wonders whether these "warnings" are veiled threats, just like with most state speech.

Probably because the feds want more $$$, not for any altruistic reasons like curbing the kop tendency for larceny. One wonders if it will not decrease regardless of the change, as I doubt departments will want to go back to "the way things were" without some of that bonanza.