The pentagram types must be kicking themselves about now. If they'd used a U2, we'd be at war by now!

Quite the different perspective from the west, inured in falsehood as it is.

We have to distinguish truth from falsehood. We can be pleased that Hitlerism failed, but without necessarily believing that the Anglo-Saxons saved us. We can denounce the brutality of Den Xiaoping without necessarily denying that in this bloody fashion he saved his country from the return of colonialism. We can celebrate the fact that we were not dominated by the Soviet Union without necessarily boasting about being vassals of the Anglo-Saxons.

If it’s wrong for Christian bigots to use government violence against LGBT people, it’s also wrong for vengeful LGBT people to use government violence against Christian bigots. But people don’t see it this way; oh, everybody tells their kids “two wrongs don’t make a right”, but they don’t really believe it. What they believe in is us vs. them, and that it’s perfectly OK to use state violence against “them”…regardless of the consequences to everyone.

Clearly their bid to become the global government

As usual the gowned clowns make the wrong call. The reasonable layman will rightly see that, whatever the reason, practically allowing double jeopardy means there is no winning. The state can simply invent as many layers of sovereignty above you as is required to secure conviction. Yet another nail in the coffin of the state's perceived legitimacy.

In the court's defense, this is already the reality with or without multiple sovereignty -- the legion of criminal offenses alone means they can throw the book at you for anything already. It's just not quite so obvious to the uninitiated.

Stewardship over charity. Teach men to fish. Don't give away your inheritance for a mess of pottage.

Like Lacey Hunt emphasizes, the story is all about marginal productivity of debt. When that turns negative (like it has), the fed is worse than useless.

There are hopeful signs that Powell may actually know better. Here's hoping.

Waterproof! heh

The labor shortage has grown so acute that the government recently pushed through a contentious bill to address it. Widely referred to as the slave law, it allows employers to require up to 400 hours of overtime annually from its workers, while delaying compensation for up to three years. Mr. Orban’s Fidesz party promoted the measure as good for workers, saying it would let “those who want to work more earn more.”

Lunacy. Simply allow the labor shortage to persist long enough to bring up wages to a level which will attract workers instead. Ultimately, the law could only work were there not a labor shortage; such conditions would likely be tolerated in such a situation -- but no law would be necessary then.

Gunning down people from choppers. Cracking down won't fix the underlying problem (uncivilized people).

Surely higher prices shall lead to the salvation of the realm

Honk Honk. Don't betray your kid if you don't want them to reject your values.

As with all moral panics.

Encouraging US to do the same. It's the only way to stop the cartels.

Horrible idea. This is only a problem when dumb kids get credit thru fraud, or enter into an invalid contract.

Because revenues jumped like this – no matter that this caused Zillow’s losses to more than triple – shares soared 19% in evening trading on these “better than expected” revenues and the prospect that Zillow will expand its ruinous home flipping operation to many more markets and boost its losses further. Friday at about noon, some of the excitement of after-hours trading has tapered off and shares are up 8% and heading down.

An overcompensator with a Napoleon complex for a nation with a massive inferiority complex and that is in deep denial about so many things.

A bad thing happened! We Germans were defeated Trump was elected! The Jews Russians are clearly to blame!

That the left doesn't see this is what they are saying tells you everything you need to know about this country. The Right is ensorcled by their Q fantasy and are literally no better.

I guess the goal is to park in the Trucial states across the way from Gombroon to see whether they bite at the provocation, or whether a new gulf of tonkin needs be arranged.

Unlike Musk, they're probably less of con artists too.

Sounds like they have a sane approach. Let kids take what they need when it's a sure thing they're healthy, not pump 'em full before they even have a damned immune system like here in the USA.

Getting ready for 2020. Domestic election meddling A-OK.

Unsurprising. One should expect refugees to require assistance of one form or another for some time to get on their feet. Trouble is "some amount of time" is stretched into "permanently" in most cases, bankrupting the country.

Promising signs from recent hearings. Even the former director knows it's useless. Congress will probably replace it with something worse though.

The report of the NCMNPS, including a yes-or-no recommendation on whether draft registration should be continued (and if so, a separate yes-or-no recommendation on whether it should be extended to young women as well as young men) is due in March 2020. Congress will probably take up the issue in 2021, after the 2020 elections and after the government has exhausted its appeals of the court ruling that the current registration requirement for men is unconstitutional.

Intelligence service coup foiled (this was the real coup, alongside Guaido's fail/fake coup the other day). Anyways, the new CB/Lie is that the Cuban military is now propping up the government over there. The idea is now that we'll go over there to topple Cuban imperialism (hah!) to establish our own imperialism.

Ok, maybe I should get around to hosting a mastodon instance before too long.