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That reminds me of an NPR

CVille Dem — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:33:13 +0000

That reminds me of an NPR radio show, "Car Talk." Where a couple of very funny and very knowledgeable guys would give advice about a broad range of car questions. One woman called in and said she was 55 years-old and wanted to buy her 'last car.' She wanted to know what would be the car that would last through her remaining life.

The guys went through some options and finally decided she had two choices: A Volvo, which would probably last 20+ years with good maintenance. The other was to buy a Yugo and drive it off a cliff!

Reminds me of that early

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:55:22 +0000

In reply to Today's news brings me the

Reminds me of that early compact car, the Yugo - maybe they were just trying to spell "Yuge" in Serbo-Croatian. Could have made a perfect pre-packaged car-bomb, IED in a running box. Maybe Uber or Google can field a self-navigating version, something for Terry Gilliam's Brazil II.

Today's news brings me the

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:47:01 +0000

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Today's news brings me the thought that good old car bombs do the same trick if you don't give a shit about civilians and children and can even be labeled "huge"

Syria war: Huge bomb kills dozens of evacuees in Syria

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39609288

But they don't get the shock-and-awe effect of both monster high tech bombs (i.e. WMD's) or terrorism or chemical weapons. Neither do cluster bombs. We are inured to the damage cars cause to human life in general, we don't even see it, they do not give hardly anyone fear, even though without even a bomb they are two tons barreling down the street powered by harnessed "explosions". I think that the irrational kind of fear is what international regulation tries to focus on. Not offering an opinion whether that's good or bad, just pointing it out. There is a lot to be said, though, for pointing out the hypocrisy of caring about just the numbers of people killed by something, body counts. Because if body counts upset, there's a lot of things that do that kind of damage outside of war. Either you're going to be rational about it or not. And this gets to Trump's "little babies" argument = that was 100% emotion, no rationality.

Calling Successor a ‘Traitor’

artappraiser — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:22:57 +0000

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Calling Successor a ‘Traitor’, Afghan Ex-Leader (Karzai) Denounces U.S. Bombing

By Mujib Mashal @ The New York Times, April 15

[...] In an interview with The New York Times, hours after he said he intended to work toward “ousting the U.S.,” a fuming Mr. Karzai said there was no justification for the United States to drop the powerful bomb in Afghanistan [....]

He accused the American military of using the presence of Islamic State militants to turn his country into a laboratory for testing its weapons.

Mr. Karzai called President Ashraf Ghani’s government an “accomplice” that allowed and welcomed the use of the bomb [....]

Neither Russia or the US

A Guy Called LULU — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:13:57 +0000

In reply to April 13, 2017 2:52pm EDT

Neither Russia or the US would sign on to banning cluster bombs which are pretty nasty weapons, they even kill kids. Well, they're back with a bang, so to speak.

Shocking moment: Putin risks wrath of Trump as 'Russian-backed Assad jets' drop deadly cluster bombs in Syria FOUR DAYS after gas attack killed 89

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4405948/Putin-risks-Trump-wrath-cluster-bombs-attack-Syria.html#ixzz4eA5qPEcm

April 13, 2017 2:52pm EDT

artappraiser — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:43:10 +0000

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Trump on bomb: "Another successful job. We're very, very proud of our military ... it was another successful event." http://snpy.tv/2nJNfOT

Trump on bomb: "Another successful job. We're very, very proud of our military ... it was another successful event." https://t.co/bc5oLhutUT
— Daniella Diaz (@DaniellaMicaela) April 13, 2017