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If Greece owes money to Germany, doesn't Germanuy owe money to Greece?

By jollyroger on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 9:10am |

 

 

On a morning when we learn that you may lend to Greece at ten percent more per annum than a loan to Germany, may we not enquire as to the relative equities between these parties if history is weighed in the balance?

 

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Donald Trump:"Sure, I paid $50 for each cheering extra. It was cheap. I rent people all the ime."

By jollyroger on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 6:09pm |

-- There'll be another 50 for 'em when they upload a video that shows them voting for me in the primary, It's called disintermediation, and it's the sharing economy, pal.

Why should I spend a fortune on PR when I can just go straight to the target demographic and cut a deal with each individual? It's the American way.

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The Federal Police Inspector General is conducting random audits

By jollyroger on Sat, 05/09/2015 - 8:39am |
 
 
 
Well, at least that's what we might wish for, starting with the creation of such an office...
 

 In point of more specific fact, the epidemic of citizen journalism that has broken out to the effect that atrocities as old as the emergence of municipal police forces from the gang substrates that prece

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McCutcheon: Chief Justice Roberts chooses institutional over party loyalty.

By jollyroger on Thu, 04/30/2015 - 5:00pm |
 
 
This is not entirely unexpected, as his title is, after all, Chief Justice.  Still (Taney, C.J., and Rhenquist C.J., egregor), not every U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice in history as been similarly virtuous.
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I am morally humiliated. How 'bout you?

By jollyroger on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 4:05pm |

Chris Matthews says that the American People are morally humiliated when, in Syria, ISIS burns an allied pilot alive, or in Libya a gang not actually part of the Islamic State (but soi-disant nonetheless), beheads 45 Egyptians for being Christian.

And that's before today's episode in Iraq, where some captured members of the Iraqi government forces were burned alive.

There is not a moment's introspection into the monstrous hubris this entails.  

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Gitmo detainees claiming innocence--where are the polygraphs?

By jollyroger on Sun, 01/04/2015 - 8:44pm |

 

 

When the CIA wants to know if a person is telling the truth, it brings out "the box". No, not some kinda torture device, . The polygraph machine (in the hands of a competent operator).

 

Parenthetically, similar resort to technology is common when district attorneys are deciding whether a report of a crime is veridical, or when Walmart is experiencing excessive "inventory shrinkage" and wants to sort out the honest from dishonest warehouse workers.

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Did young Barack Obama play with toy soldiers?

By jollyroger on Thu, 01/01/2015 - 8:52pm |

 

 

I ask because his tortured relationship with his Defense Secretaries is destined to become the topic of more than one PhD dissertation in coming years.

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Christmas in Calcutta, 10021

By jollyroger on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 9:10pm |

 

 

"Any help you could give us, or any food, we would really appreciate".

 

Accompanied by two beautiful girls of grade school age, a father was addressing the passengers on the Lexington Avenue Express as it made its way from 59th Street (Bloomingdale's) to 86th St. (Gracie M ansion). By my relatively crude reckoning, we were just then under the streets of the zip code 10021, which for your information is the wealthiest in the country.

 

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Her behavior is riling a lot of people up!

By jollyroger on Thu, 10/30/2014 - 11:56pm |

After your jaw has returned to function following your review of this beyond merely entertaining segment on what I will without irony call "quarantinegate". you will want to turn your attention to some of the other ripples caused by that the latest wedge issue: "Should Kaci be quarantined?"

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Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity...

By jollyroger on Sat, 10/18/2014 - 10:11pm |

With apologies to the scumbag who delights in applying this formula to the Palestinian Authority in the context of peace negotiations, let us turn our attention to the sad sack who occupies the White House.

 

Consider the field of play as Ebola fever (the panic kind, not the body temp) began gripping the public imagination.

 

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