Florida State Seminoles

[Bklyn]

Beyond the aircraft carrier shit, it would be interesting to see how Wyoming survives without federal funds. Actually, a lot of states would be up shit's creek if not for the fed dollars being pumped into their local coffers.

[eCat]

Wyoming is like the least populated state per square mile and because of farming their unemployment rate is usually pretty low.

Probably why they can get by drafting Doomsday legislation.

[Jungle Rat]

Wyoming is Gods Country (at least the Teton part) and dont you ever forget it.

[It's me Karen]

Wyoming is the last state alphabetically. That's about the only fact I know about it.

[DooKSucks]

IIRC, the Federal government owns over half of the land in Wyoming.

[Bklyn]

Possession is 9/10ths of the law.

[eCat]

Wikileaks busts out CIA front company with former Goldman Sachs exec using insider trading to fund it and supporting Israel

http://gizmodo.com/5888440/

[aTm]

Umm, you'll have a hard time convincing me that Shea fucking Morenz is now some sort of pan-global capatain of commercial finance and espionage.

[Bklyn]

Wow.

I am on Stratfor's information distribution list...

[sardis]

Ah yes, the billionaire of the people...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-2 ... nners.html

[Bklyn]

Admit It, American Colleges Do Indoctrinate Students

Thank you very much, Rick Santorum

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ts/253607/

[Bklyn]

I'm convinced Rick Santorum had an "oh shit" moment in this race and decided that he would do my old move: "talk crazy shit with the hope that she breaks up with me."

It's either that or he's a delusional ideologue.

The shit is totally binary.

[eCat]

He can't decide if the discussion needs to be about the economy or abortion. He loses on both

[eCat]

I just saw where he was dogging Obama for wanting kids to go to college and then saying he puked when he read JFK's speech about separating church and state (paving the way for a Catholic to be in office you ungrateful fuckface).

I also read where there is a move to push democrats to vote in the Michigan primary against Romney (voting for Santorum) to bump Romney with the belief that Obama will landslide against Santorum. Of course Santorum is all too happy to support that approach.

There are many, many horrible presidential candidates I would gladly vote for over Rick Santorum.

[Bklyn]

Yeah. The Dems are trying to employ the "Operation Chaos" strategy that Rush advocated the Repubs to do in 2008 when Obama was looking to take out Hillary in the Primaries.

I never understood why a state would allow voting to occur with non-affiliated party members in a primary.

And yes, Santorum is a clown. Like JEB Bush said the other day..."I thought I was a Conservative until" I saw this group of asswipes talk in debates.

Editor bklyn note: that last bit was me paraphrasing JEB's quote

[Bklyn]

Who knew that Puerto RIco's murder rate was higher than Mexico's?

http://bloom.bg/x9NmBl

[aTm]

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... ly/253681/

Maybe what these emails actually reveal is how a Texas-based corporate research firm can get a little carried away in marketing itself as a for-hire CIA and end up fooling some over-eager hackers into believing it's true.

The group's reputation among foreign policy writers, analysts, and practitioners is poor; they are considered a punchline more often than a source of valuable information or insight. As a former recipient of their "INTEL REPORTS" (I assume someone at Stratfor signed me up for a trial subscription, which appeared in my inbox unsolicited), what I found was typically some combination of publicly available information and bland "analysis" that had already appeared in the previous day's New York Times. A friend who works in intelligence once joked that Stratfor is just The Economist a week later and several hundred times more expensive. As of 2001, a Stratfor subscription could cost up to $40,000 per year.

It's true that Stratfor employs on-the-ground researchers. They are not spies. On today's Wikileaks release, one Middle East-based NGO worker noted on Twitter that when she met Stratfor's man in Cairo, he spoke no Arabic, had never been to Egypt before, and had to ask her for directions to Tahrir Square. Stratfor also sometimes pays "sources" for information. Wikileaks calls this "secret cash bribes," hints that this might violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and demands "political oversight."

For comparison's sake, The Atlantic often sends our agents into such dangerous locales as Iran or Syria. We call these men and women "reporters." Much like Statfor's agents, they collect intelligence, some of it secret, and then relay it back to us so that we may pass it on to our clients, whom we call "subscribers." Also like Stratfor, The Atlantic sometimes issues "secret cash bribes" to on-the-ground sources, whom we call "freelance writers." We also prefer to keep their cash bribes ("writer's fees") secret, and sometimes these sources are even anonymous.

This sounds a lot more like something Shea Morenz would be involved with...

[Owlman]

also read where there is a move to push democrats to vote in the Michigan primary against Romney (voting for Santorum) to bump Romney with the belief that Obama will landslide against Santorum. Of course Santorum is all too happy to support that approach.

More than supported by Santorum, he's the primary force behind it paying for all the robo calls

[Bklyn]

US Govt gearing up to go hard after Anonymous:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... us/253399/

BRM, I know you doubted it, but maybe it's true...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/2 ... 06630.html

[hedge]

Santorum is the republican version of John Edwards. Total pussy boy who supposedly exemplifies the more fucked up "values" of their respective parties. I'm a pretty steady Dem voter and I've always thought Edwards was a fucking nightmare in terms of how he made Dems in general look. I'm just glad the Repubs have their own version. Santorum is a fucking unapologetic nazi. He's actually proud of it. Sadly, there are plenty of folks out there who go in for that sort of thing. But thankfully not nearly enough to elect a president...