Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Meh

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Meh

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/s...87098136940556

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

With the important caveat that I haven't read up on the details, didn't the IG conclude that the warrant was properly issued despite the misconduct?

Which is not to say I disagree with you at all here.

It one of the things that bothers me about a common criticize of Obama from the left: he should have prosecuted Bush-era people for war crimes. While I don't doubt that the things Yoo blessed at Cheney's urging (among others, perhaps) are war crimes, but prosecuting your political opponents opens a gigantic can of worms that you can't close once someone with sufficiently few scruples decides to do it for political advantage alone. Does anyone doubt that Hillary would be in jail right now had Obama set that precedent?

Watch this starting at 12:00: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...isa_abuse.html

Horowitz says the feds’ actions re FISA were either “gross negligence” or attributable to “intentionality.” He could not conclude which.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/s...87098136940556

Maybe this belongs on the fashion board. I just got my new business credit card, and it's a thick hard metal like my personal card. I thought the metal card thing was just a black "we're special" card thing. But is this a bigger thing for all cards now? Because it's about as thick as two cards and I am probably going to start getting rid of some cards if they're all going to be fat and heavy.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Maybe this belongs on the fashion board. I just got my new business credit card, and it's a thick hard metal like my personal card. I thought the metal card thing was just a black "we're special" card thing. But is this a bigger thing for all cards now? Because it's about as thick as two cards and I am probably going to start getting rid of some cards if they're all going to be fat and heavy.

http://www.lawtalkers.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=48 Not appropriate for here or Fashion. Take the question to the Technology Forum.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I heard an interview with John Bolton this morning on NPR, parts of which are reported here and here. This may be what I heard but I can't listen to it now. I've got to say, I agree with just about everything I heard him say about North Korea and our North Korea policy. Since he's not in the government anymore, he wasn't pushed on what he thinks we should be doing, and that's probably where we disagree. If you think, as he does, that the North Koreans are not willingly to going give up their nuclear weapons program, I'm not sure what you can do other than regime change, a construction that delightfully eliminates the verb to help people ignore that it means killing North Koreans to force them to get new leaders, or figuring out how to live in a world where the North Koreans have nuclear weapons. I think he's for regime change. I think I'm for not killing people.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Maybe this belongs on the fashion board. I just got my new business credit card, and it's a thick hard metal like my personal card. I thought the metal card thing was just a black "we're special" card thing. But is this a bigger thing for all cards now? Because it's about as thick as two cards and I am probably going to start getting rid of some cards if they're all going to be fat and heavy.

I generally like them. Better to chop cocaine with. But they did set off an airport metal detector once.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

I generally like them. Better to chop cocaine with. But they did set off an airport metal detector once.

Correction: Better with which to chop cocaine.

I am a purist on this.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I heard an interview with John Bolton this morning on NPR, parts of which are reported here and here. This may be what I heard but I can't listen to it now. I've got to say, I agree with just about everything I heard him say about North Korea and our North Korea policy. Since he's not in the government anymore, he wasn't pushed on what he thinks we should be doing, and that's probably where we disagree. If you think, as he does, that the North Koreans are not willingly to going give up their nuclear weapons program, I'm not sure what you can do other than regime change, a construction that delightfully eliminates the verb to help people ignore that it means killing North Koreans to force them to get new leaders, or figuring out how to live in a world where the North Koreans have nuclear weapons. I think he's for regime change. I think I'm for not killing people.

That regime would use a small nuke in defense of any attempted change. And there's no way to foment a coup, as Kim regularly purges cabinet members and high ranking military officers. The only approaches available are to wait for an inevitable collapse of the current regime and perhaps try to assassinate Kim at any chance we get.

We're already killing a ton of North Koreans through sanctions, by the way.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

I generally like them. Better to chop cocaine with. But they did set off an airport metal detector once.

Mine are making it hard for the building pass to be read, I used to be able to swipe the whole wallet, now I have to make sure the pass is on the outside or even take it out. I can handle having two of them, but no more.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Correction: Better with which to chop cocaine.

I am a purist on this.

Long term, we're going to be speaking Chinese and these sorts of thing won't matter. Might as well give it up now.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Long term, we're going to be speaking Chinese and these sorts of thing won't matter. Might as well give it up now.

Of course, my kid has to learn Russian... (Actually, it might be of significant value. How much could could one have made with an Arabic major in the last 20 years?)

I doubt we'll be speaking in more than clicks and grunts in the near future. Texting's made a mess of both writing and speaking. My grandfather spoke Russian, Polish, German, and some mash-up Slavic tongue, "White Russian." I doubt anyone in my extended family speaks anything but English. And I'd be shocked to learn any of them write it well.

I hope the kids make a better effort than we did. Of the few regrets I have, failing to become fluent in another language ranks near the top.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Of the few regrets I have, failing to become fluent in another language ranks near the top.

It's not at the top of my list of regrets about things you failed to do.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

It's not at the top of my list of regrets about things you failed to do.

Come on, I'd put it in the top three. I mean, then more of his posts would be on the Russian board.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

How much could could one have made with an Arabic major in the last 20 years?)

My (now 31) daughter went off to college- the only good advice I ever gave her- study Mandarin or Arabic- and she took up Arabic. She loved it- but, at least in Michigan, it was challenging. You know the Monty Python skit about an intro to Italian class full of I-ties? ("Why would I say I'm from Rome, when i was born in Naples?") That was the class.

But she didn't stick to it. The only thing the ever came of it was a fun story. We were at an art fair. This otherwise mundane artist had painted one neat thing. An American flag with the Pledge painted over it in Arabic. I only know it was the pledge because of the kid.

The artist had apparently been beat up by the yokels all day. She denied it was the pledge. She denied she had put the word for God on it. Deny deny deny.