They were outgrown the moment they formed. Good to see them pass quietly into the night.

LOVING

One step closer to war. I understand Iran being upset though, after Saudi get all head choppy on a Shiite cleric.

UPDATE: Saudi's "Coalition of the Willing" also severs diplomatic ties. I guess they feel like hot shit after pushing around outclassed Yemenis.

Guess who is also arming the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. Some good backstory on the 'terrorist' attack there by Hezbollah (hint - it wasn't carried out by Hezbollah).

FBI to send in the Waco Killers. Stuart Rhodes tells the oath keepers to stay clear of this debacle:
Also, apparently Stuart Rhodes is now Solid Snake, lol.

UPDATE: Ammon's Summary of things.

UPDATE II: Eric Holder engaged in similar follies in his youth. But it's OK to be a violent leftist.

Wouldn't surprise me if it were.

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.

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