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Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

https://twitter.com/taykuy/status/882998814549921793

:lol:

# ¿ Jul 6, 2017 22:26

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 17:20

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

lol your executive branch is a subsidiary of Kremlin

# ¿ Jul 7, 2017 21:38

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/884842004672376832

lmao

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 19:53

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

I get my tax form sent to me by the government, with pretty much everything neatly pre-calculated . If I notice any mistakes, I just head over to their website, make the changes and I'm done.

Thanks, big government :smug:

But seriously, why is the American system so comparatively complicated?

# ¿ Jul 17, 2017 23:00

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Hot on the heels of that cop who shot yoga mom, three Baltimore officers enter the dumbass of the week-competition:

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/887504546074939393

# ¿ Jul 19, 2017 12:32

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

The Finnish Border Guard is set to receive expanded powers to combat hybrid threats both independently and in collaboration with other security authorities.

quote:

The Ministry of the Interior has drafted a bill that would grant border officers the same powers as police officers under normal circumstances to uphold order and security at border-crossing points, their immediate vicinity, and other areas and facilities controlled by the Finnish Border Guard.

Border officers would, for example, be allowed to use both technical and forcible measures to disable unmanned aerial vehicles flown in the vicinity of border-crossing points as well as locate the operators of such vehicles. They would also be able request assistance from military personnel in conducting traffic control and security checks under special circumstances.

The powers have been designed to effectively allow border officers to respond to serious disturbances in border regions and bring the situation under control until the arrival of law enforcement authorities.

�This means [that the officers would have] the right to carry out clandestine information gathering operations in, for example, hostage situations. The police currently have to lead the response in such situations,� Pekka Koivisto, the head of the legal division at the Finnish Border Guard, commented to Helsingin Sanomat in June.

The newspaper also wrote that the number of border officers is to be stepped up considerably on the eastern border of Finland.

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The Ministry of the Interior in its press release defines hybrid threats as any operations designed to exert pressure, inflict damage or cause insecurity or instability. Such operations � which include information campaigns, covert military operations and operations to disturb data networks and other critical infrastructure � may be carried out by unmarked agents who cannot be reliably identified as foreign military personnel.

�The unmarked, so-called green men first took control of border crossing points in Crimea. They had no country patches, but they were very well equipped,� Koivisto said to YLE on Tuesday.

Koivisto was a member of the task force assigned to draft the bill, which is currently being circulated for comments. The Finnish Parliament is expected to discuss the bill this autumn, while the new legislation is to be enacted next spring.

The Finnish government also fast tracked (introduced in May, signed into law earlier this month) a piece of legislation beefing up the military authorities' ability to counter those pesky little green men aka unmarked Russian regulars :toot:

Missionary Positron fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jul 19, 2017

# ¿ Jul 19, 2017 16:21

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Wasn't the CIA Syria program a huge success compared to Pentagon's?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2017 22:58

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

This dude sounds just the right fit for Trump:

quote:

What Robinson nails is the way that this is what Scaramucci does � it�s his job. Scaramucci is a fund-of-funds manager, posting returns even he admits are lackluster: he more or less tracks the S&P 500, while making big, risky bets (a third of his assets are in MBS), investing in leveraged hedge funds, and reserving the right not to redeem his clients� money upon request. Which means that he only has two ways to make money: either find stupid people to give him their money, or else shower himself with so many conspicuous indicia of success that people just want to buy into his perceived success.

It�s far from clear that Scaramucci actually is successful, in financial terms, by Wall Street standards. He certainly spends a lot � millions of dollars � on various forms of conspicuous consumption and self-promotion. But he�s not making a lot: since he�s a fund-of-funds manager, he�s making 1.5-and-zero, rather than 2-and-20. And under the terms of his deal with Citigroup, a substantial chunk of that 1.5 goes straight to them. He has to run Skybridge, of course, with all the employee compensation, compliance costs, and the like that entails. He�s regularly writing seven-figure checks to pay for things like the Davos Tasting of ludicrously expensive wine. And of course he has to pony up charitable donations, too, so as to be able to get up in front of a well-heeled crowd to receive the Hedge Funds Care Award for Caring. (I�m not making this up.)

Scaramucci�s fake-it-till-you-make-it approach might end up working: his fund is still growing, and Robinson says that he �has become the Wall Street player he aspired to be when he first landed at Goldman some 22 years ago.� He�s living proof of what Windward Capital�s Robert Nichols is quoted saying at the end of the article: �Performance isn�t what beats a path to your door. It�s sales and marketing.�

But he�s not a stock-picker, or even, really, a hedge-fund manager: he just plays one on TV.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/09/09/anthony-scaramuccis-sleazy-sales-pitch/

# ¿ Jul 21, 2017 17:24

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

quote:

Scaramucci's expected appointment has caused great upheaval in the West Wing, with chief of staff Reince Preibus and chief strategist Steve Bannon � along with Spicer � expressing opposition to him getting the high-profile job.

"This was a murdering of Reince and Bannon. They said Anthony would get this job over their dead bodies," said one top White House official.

The official added that Scaramucci had the backing of Trump son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary-240802

HGNNNH DONT STOP NOW, SO CLOSE

EDIT: Bonus un-related tweet:

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/888418586473136128

# ¿ Jul 21, 2017 17:35

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Reverand maynard posted:

a mini ice age would be loving dope IMO

but I don't want to live in an irl version of the North from GoT minus all the zombies and magic :mad:

# ¿ Jul 23, 2017 22:18

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Reverand maynard posted:

we could clone mammoths and release them into the wild tell me that wouldn't be loving cool

only if we can also bring back saber toothed tigers

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 00:52

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Looks like someone went full on horror movie villain in Switzerland:

https://twitter.com/bgittleson/status/889454032883986432

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 13:02

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

facialimpediment posted:

Beauregard has always been stuck in reefer madness and thinks pot is the source of societal decay, plus thinking that we only lost the war on drugs because we didn't fight hard enough.

Also, black people.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 18:10

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Nostalgia4Murder posted:

Come on, can we draw the line at people linking to loving D&D?

The Middle East-thread is pretty solid, tho.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2017 18:23

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

Something good happened for a change:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/889957220535947265

# ¿ Jul 25, 2017 22:48

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

People, people. Trump's transgender policy reversals are a distraction from the real issue at hand, Mike Huckabee's atrocity of a tweet:

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890164722552586240

# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 17:00

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

It never stops being funny that the downfall of America ended up being the GOP.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2017 14:49

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/890694238081617920

"Suckin' dick bought this job"

# ¿ Jul 28, 2017 00:35

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

hobbesmaster posted:

You want to use subs for boarding freighters and stuff?

umm just launch the boarding parties from the VLS tubes duhdoy

# ¿ Jul 30, 2017 09:20

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

For extra fun times, check out the Venezuela-thread in D&D where tankies are arguing that all of this is actually cool & good, while actual Venezuelans look on in horror.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2017 09:58

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

milk milk lemonade posted:

Tankies are big ole pussies who are too afraid to admit the truth: being on top loving rules. So they use window dressing like communism cause they're too afraid to admit to themselves they just harbor fantasies of being in charge.

Who honestly gives a poo poo what political or economic systems we use during our time on earth. You're still going to have people wind up disenfranchised. The thought that mass killings and the utter disregard of human rights is an okay means to a slightly different end is hilariously stupid and short-sighted.

no but you see this time it will be totally different because **ffffffartz*

# ¿ Jul 31, 2017 16:12

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 17:20

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

looking forward to seeing supermutants vs humans in the olympics

# ¿ Aug 1, 2017 12:29

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