MickeyFinn posted:

He is also the most famous Mexican of the last ~10 years.

ReindeerF posted:

http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatives-purposely-making-cars-spew-black-smoke-2014-7

I'm sure if I were still living back home I would've been way ahead of the curve in picking this up, but I'm OOTL these days. This is exactly the kind of poo poo the people I grew up with were already doing for what they think is legitimate reasons (farm trucks in mud/flood country with stacks), so if you give them a political rationale to take it to 11 it's only going to get funnier.

These people should be dragged from their stupid loving vehicles and shot, but I feel that way about people who ride Harleys too, so I may not be the most fair arbiter. Hey I'm enjoying this lovely say, it sure is nice outs- oh God what is this wall of smog and noise? Oh, it's conservative America in sound and gas format.

a salesperson posted:

If he’s into the environment, if he’s into this or that, we’re not. I hear a lot of that. To get a single stack on my truck—that’s my way of giving them the finger. You want clean air and a tiny carbon footprint? Well, screw you.

Ogmius815 posted:

This particular sort of culture war bullshit generally happens because hicks resent other people for not being as unsophisticated as they are. See also: irrational hate for granola, bagels, arugula etc.

skaboomizzy posted:

Most states have annual vehicle inspection and registration requirements (including emissions), so it'll be super fun to see what happens when these vehicles are declared to be not road legal.

quote:

Counties requiring emission tests:
Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, El Paso, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis and Williamson

Kilty Monroe posted:

Rednecks like arugula just fine when you call it rocket instead.

moller posted:

I thought only british people called it rocket.

moller posted:

I thought only british people called it rocket. Also, I'm pretty sure no one had an opinion on arugula until Obama mentioned it.

I like it. It's nice and assertive and peppery. Although the best part about it is that instead of having a shelf-life of 2-4 days like a lettuce it stays good in the fridge for a week or two like spinach.

Tony Jowns posted:

It's one of those everywhere-but-America things, Australia calls it rocket too. It's loving tasty and is great on burgers or sandwiches.

Ogmius815 posted:

This particular sort of culture war bullshit generally happens because hicks resent other people for not being as unsophisticated as they are. See also: irrational hate for granola, bagels, arugula etc.

ReindeerF posted:

Arugula, on the other hand, is for limp-wristed, pot-smoking, Bill Ayers-loving, Black Christian Islamicists with deep Kenyan anti-colonial roots.

willus posted:

I hope you know how hosed up this is

Ogmius815 posted:

Almost as hosed up as modifying your truck to emit more exhaust to stick it to dem' liebruls?

Nintendo Kid posted:

My money's on if a Republican president gets elected any time soon, they'll get assassinated before their term is out by some rabid tea party wacko.

willus posted:

bagels are closer to my heart

bagel is love

illrepute posted:

So who do you think is actually going to end up being the GOP candidate? I always liked the shrieking white-hot sphere of pure rage.

quote:

The ten tightest states? Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The ten loosest, meanwhile, are California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (Notice a pattern here?)

Harrington and Gelfand measure a state's tightness or looseness based on indicators such as the legality of corporal punishment in schools, the general severity of legal sentences, access to alcohol and availability of civil unions, level of religiosity, and the percent of the population that is foreign. But really, that's just the beginning of their analysis.

Randler posted:

Germany just arrested an American spy that had infiltrated one of our intelligence agencies.

telegraph posted:

A suspected double agent under arrest in Germany has been spying for the CIA for two years, German intelligence officials investigating the case now believe. “All the evidence suggests that he was working for the Americans,” an unnamed senior security official has told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

The country's top security official has demanded a full American response to German investigations. "I expect everyone now to assist quickly in clearing up the accusations - and quick and clear statements, from the USA too," Thomas de Maiziere, the Interior minister said.

Germany's Foreign Ministry summoned the America ambassador on Friday but German authorities have confirmed only that a 31-year-old man is under arrest. The first indications that investigators believe a confession by the arrested man is true. If the suspicions against him are confirmed, the case could cause grave damage to US-German relations.

The arrested man, who is severely disabled, worked in the Foreign Relations department of Germany’s BND intelligence service, where he had access to classified documents and information about agents abroad. For the last two years, he has been sending documents to the Americans electronically once a week, according to Bild newspaper. In a damning piece of evidence, investigators said they had found an encrypted communication programme hidden on his computer. The hidden programme was disguised as a weather app, and activated by searching for a weather forecast for New York.

The arrested man was able to carry on most communications electronically, but met with an American contact in Austria on two or three occasions, when he received payments of €25,000 in cash. Other reports said German intelligence asked their American counterparts for help unmasking their own mole – and the Americans remained silent.

The man was caught after an anonymous email he sent offering to sell classified information to the Russians was intercepted.

tentative8e8op posted:

mdemone posted:

Given the CIA's track record, I half expect that they were emailing this guy's dossier around internally and accidentally CCed Angela Merkel.

Why the gently caress are we spying on Germany anyway?

mdemone posted:

Given the CIA's track record, I half expect that they were emailing this guy's dossier around internally and accidentally CCed Angela Merkel.

Why the gently caress are we spying on Germany anyway?

forbidden lesbian posted:

Not that it makes it right but i'm pretty sure everyone is spying on everyone in some capacity.

Randler posted:

Germany just arrested an American spy that had infiltrated one of our intelligence agencies.

One politician compared this turn of event to ~Jonathan Pollard~.

quote:

The man was caught after an anonymous email he sent offering to sell classified information to the Russians was intercepted.

zoux posted:

I love sketch comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJ7NmU6lJI

Phoon posted:

Remember when mitt romney didn't know what a donut was what a great campaign that was