mota bhai

She should if she wants to. As long as she doesn't try to get my vote by continually reminding me she's a Clinton.

Syrians are fighting their oppressive govt and asking anyone in the international community to help and proving the UN to be worthless.

The UN is only worthless if you forget why it exists. It exists to preserve the pecking order post ww 2. Yes, it does a few low-risk things outside of that for PR purposes but pay close attention to where the UN gets involved when the risks are high.

The US embargo on Cuba is stupid.

Yes, it is.

Everyone's lying about everything! Ahhhhh!

I wouldn't put this past the NYSP. Easily one of the most corrupt government organizations in the country.

They've been playing this track nonstop on the radio since yesterday. It's a response to all the whining from Republicans about Jay Z's Cuba trip.

I like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyUxCQt9T0E

No it shouldn't. The title reflects the subject of the article.

That's not the new rule. The new rule requires the title be identical. Go read penguin's post.

Original article's title is "Gun filibuster appears to misfire for conservative backers".

They generally DO change the title if it doesn't reflect the article posted.

Changing the title if it doesn't reflect the article posted is less restrictive than the new rule:

Please use the title of the article as the subject line of the thread when copying a news article

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/10/deal-reached-on-background-checks-in-senate/

The title of the original article is "Deal reached on background checks in Senate". Per new TOS rules, thread title should be changed.

*** title changed to reflect title of likely article. Please use the title of the article as the subject line of the thread when copying a news article. If you are quoting more than a line or two of text from an article, also provide a link to the original article. This one likely was: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/sf-fleet-week-could-be-cancelled-wake-blue-angels-/nXHTh/ *****

TOS continues to evolve, I see.

As long as you guys are consistent about this rule. I suspect you won't be but we'll see.

WASHINGTON — A new assessment of North Korea’s nuclear capability conducted by the Pentagon’s intelligence arm has concluded for the first time, with “moderate confidence,” that the country has learned how to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile.

The assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been distributed to senior administration officials and members of Congress, cautions that the weapon’s “reliability will be low.”

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It is unclear whether other American intelligence agencies agree with the assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has primary responsibility for monitoring the missile capabilities of adversary nations. In the case of Iraq, a decade ago, the agency was among those that argued most vociferously that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-may-have-nuclear-missile-capability-us-agency-says.html

I was just* trying to show you you are in amazing company!

*Ruh-roh, there's that minimizing language! I'm such a manipulator.

Yes, you are.

I am going to go watch a footjob video on redtube now, to cleanse my mind of your manipulative filth.

The Hill:

Rachel Maddow:

I see.

Did you know Goethe, Elvis and Warhol were also foot fetishists? What great company to be in! Although Ted Bundy was also a foot lover.

I did not know that. Why does it matter? I like what I like.

Feet can be hot, shoes/heels not so much.

India is complaining about 154 casualties since UN peacekeeping started? Sounds like a small number to me.

Posted By Colum Lynch

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 11:21 AM

U.N. peacekeeping has its own caste system.

Rich countries pay most of the financial cost of keeping the peace. Poorer countries provide the peacekeepers. These days, they also die in far higher numbers than their wealthier counterparts.

No country has paid the price as often as India.

On Tuesday, India lost five of its U.N. blue helmets, who were ambushed by a force of 200 unidentified armed fighters in South Sudan. Five other Indian peacekeepers were badly injured. "We are in a process of assimilating the information about what happened," said Manjeev Singh Puri, the charge d'affaires at India's mission to the United Nations. "These soldiers have acquitted themselves with bravery,"

This is not the first time that India -- which has deployed more than 160,000 of its soldiers over the past 60 years in peacekeeping missions, more than any other nation -- has taken peacekeeping losses.

Since the dawn of U.N. peacekeeping, 154 Indian peacekeepers have died in the line of duty, more than any other country. Other developing nations, including Nigeria (135), Pakistan (132), Ghana (130), and Bangladesh (112), have posted large casualty figures.

Compare that with the U.N.'s top financial donors' death tally: the United States (70, although only a fraction have occurred in the past 15 years), France (108), Britain (103), Germany (15), South Korea (9), and Japan (5).

It was not always like this. In the first decade of U.N. peacekeeping, the majority of international casualties, some 41 out of 45 fatalities, were from Western armies. In the 1990s, the United States, France, Britain, and other Western powers formed the core of U.N. peacekeeping missions, sending tens of thousands of their troops to Cambodia, Somalia, and the Balkans. U.N. peacekeeping stalwarts that endured heavy fatalities in these causes and others include Canada (121), Ireland (90), and Sweden (67).

But many of those countries have since retreated from U.N. peacekeeping, preferring to serve in NATO-backed operations in Afghanistan, and leaving it to the developed world to stand sentry at the far reaches of the world.

Edward Luck, a historian and dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego, said that Western governments have found it more difficult to maintain political support for U.N. peacekeeping after suffering serious losses.

In contrast, he noted, India, Pakistan, and other developed countries have been able to sustain far larger casualties in U.N. missions. Pakistan, for instance, lost 40 peacekeepers in the U.N. mission in Somalia in the early 1990s, but it had little impact on its willingness to sign up for more. For many developed countries, according to Luck, participation in peacekeeping has a financial motive. "The U.N. pay scale is higher than what they can pay their own forces," he said. "I don't think that's true for countries like India and Pakistan," he added, noting that their peacekeeping role elevates their standing on the international stage. India frequently cites its peacekeeping service in making a case for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.

The United States, Luck recalled, largely ended its U.N. peacekeeping role in Somalia -- where it lost a total of 44 soldiers -- after the "Black Hawk Down" incident, an ill-fated military raid which resulted in the death of 18 U.S. Rangers and Delta Force operatives. Although the U.S. team was not serving under U.N. command at the time, the public perception back home blamed the peacekeeping mission. In May 1994, President Bill Clinton signed a presidential directive that imposed strict conditions for U.S. involvement.

The Belgians and the Dutch suffered setbacks in Rwanda, where 10 Belgian peacekeepers were killed by Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide, and Bosnia, where a small contingent of Dutch blue helmets were powerless to halt the mass killing in Srebrenica. Both countries subsequently scaled back their participation in U.N. peacekeeping missions.

Bruce Jones, the director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, says that the number of troops allocated to a given peacekeeping mission provides an incomplete measure of Western powers' commitment to run risk in foreign stabilization operations, noting that U.S. and European troops in Afghanistan have endured far higher casualty figures than their counterparts in U.N. peacekeeping.

France, too, has shown an increasing willingness to participate in peace operations in Africa, even if it continues to deploy its forces under French command. "My bet is as the battle-hardened West pivots out of Afghanistan we will see a greater willingness by Western governments to participate in a major way in blue-helmeted operations and to take risks," Jones said.

http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/11/the_blue_helmet_caste_system

Pakistani Taliban threatens attacks on 'secular parties'

PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to stage further attacks targeting political gatherings of the country’s secular Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), their spokesman said on Monday, the same day a blast near an ANP gathering in Charsadda injured seven people.

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Speaking to a Dawn.com correspondent from an undisclosed location, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility of the blast, threatening further attacks against “the country’s secular parties”.

The attack on the ANP gathering “is just a beginning. The attacks will intensify on both the secular ANP and MQM’s political gatherings,” threatened the TTP spokesman, cautioning the general public to stay away from the rallies.

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About TTP stance on other political parties, he said, though they are all one, as far as their secular ideology is concerned, Taliban would announce their strategy regarding other parties later.

Karachi: Taliban assailants on a motorcycle gunned down a candidate running in Pakistan's upcoming elections on Thursday, an official and a Taliban spokesman said, underscoring threats to the country's former ruling party and other secular and political groups.

Fakhurl Islam, whose party has spoken out strongly against the militant group, was killed near his home in Hyderabad city in southern Sindh province.

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Hours later, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility and vowed to continue such attacks in future. The Taliban have threatened to attack members of the MQM because of its statements.

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Thursday's attack indicated the Taliban threat was not confined to northwest or Karachi as the latest attack took place some 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Karachi, the country's financial capital where MQM enjoys major support.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/taliban-gunmen-kill-pakistani-election-candidate-353044

If you will go read what is written you will find that I used the exact word "Pentecostal" in a reference to Fundamental Islamic. I made the same exact argument you are making. Whats up with that.

The Brazilian state of Acre has declared a state of emergency after a surge of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bolivia and Peru.

Officials said most of the immigrants originally came from Haiti but others had come from as far afield as Bangladesh, Senegal and Nigeria.

They said about 1,700 illegal migrants had arrived during the past two weeks.

Acre, in the Amazon region, has asked for additional funding from the federal government to cope with the influx.

More than 5,000 Haitians have arrived in Acre since 2010, but in recent months there has been an increase in immigration from Senegal, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic and Bangladesh.

Officials say the routes through Peru and Bolivia which have become popular with people smugglers because dense vegetation makes it difficult for border police to patrol them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22106284

Holy Moly ! More back room dealings with the 'we can add amendments' crowd. Sheesh !

Pansies ! Pass it as is, or strike the whole thing. Screw the amendents.

Thanks for posting this, O Evylin. Tis the pattern of 'adding amendments' that's turned the Senate into a huge cesspool - this bill is just another example.

What a strange thing to object to, O Darnell. I could agree with your objection to amendments when said amendment has nothing to do with the core issues of the bill being considered. But in this case? Your opposition is bewildering.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/55007553/north-korean-soldiers-high-heels-uniforms?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

So if I were to post an article about something Hillary Clinton says/does that I disagree with, I can name the post "Hillary Clinton is a dumb b*tch"? Or does that cross the inappropriate line? Which insults are okay? The ones without language? I just want to know for next time.

These are ok -

Hillary Clinton is garbage.

Hillary Clinton is stupid.

Hillary Clinton is unamerican.

Hillary Clinton pals around with terrorists.

Hillary Clinton has American blood on her hands.

Hillary Clinton can not be trusted.

Hillary Clinton and Hamas, together forever?

These are not ok -

Hillary Clinton is a c***.

Hillary Clinton is a b****.

F*** Hillary Clinton with a big black d****.

Do you understand now?

Right, but how can it be in insult to a member to verbally lash out at the government as long as the words don't directly violate the TOS. I think if he would have called a member of VJ garbage then he would have directly violated the TOS. I havent read anything about topics being accuately decribed about the post in the TOS. But like i said i havent been an expert at it.

Calling the President garbage is not a TOS violation, despite what some of the more overzealous supporters of the President say. I like our President, voted for him twice, do not regret it at all... but calling him garbage is ok. And if it's not, then I can no longer compare the next Republican president to a Taliban or a rock and that would be most unfortunate.

Publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or offer to disseminate any inappropriate, offensive, defamatory, infringing, obscene or unlawful/illegal material, information or content.

which one of those applies?

calling obama garbage is not inappropriate.

it is not offensive.

it is not defamatory.

it is not obscene or unlawful or illegal.

infringing? ####### does that even mean in this context?