posted by radx4 days 16 hours 27 minutes ago • 125 views
It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared.
A crop of 7,700 tonnes will produce around 1,100 tonnes of heroin - it basically works on a 7:1 ratio.The mystery is that the global demand for heroin is less than half that. In other words, Afghanistan only needs to produce 3,500 tonnes to satisfy every known heroin user on the planet.
Friend of mine implied that it might have been the Cocaine Import Agency - that caused an abnormal amount of coffee to exit my body through the nostrils
Just go to any video on YouTube to check it out! Exactly the kind of mindless fun I needed to relax a bit, making a robotic voice say funny stuff. Seems like someone over there read http://xkcd.com/481/
I hate to be too reactionary after only reading one source on the subject but this really infuriates me. This is exactly why I did'nt support that damned 700 billion dollar bailout.
I don't know if anyone else has heard or read about that fact that there was a second bailout plan option called the "Stock Injection Plan" that apparently was the prefered option amongst most economists and people in the know. My basic knowledge of it is that instead of just giving the 700 billion away and hopeing it works like in the Paulson plan the government AND taxpayers would give the 700 billion but would also be given a small portion of ownership in the bank. Somehow with this plan if it would fail the taxpayer would be that last to loose money. No big surpise the banks lobbied heavily against the plan.
To my knowledge the stock injection plan is in the bill that was passed as an "option" but I'm not holding my breath. I'm still trying to find a decent link that could describe the plan.
What kind of sadistic politician thought of the reaction graph?
If Obama wins on points on the important stuff, it gets neutralized by the patriotic bullshit that McCain generates. This is total bullshit that snowjobs the voter.
THIS IS INHUMAN AMOUNTS OF SPIN AND MIRROR ILLUSION. CAN WE FLATTEN ALL HUMANITY UNDER A STEAMROLLER GRAPH OF THE POLITICAL IMAGE?
Another VS veteran got his silver diamond today, and it shouldn't be news to anyone that it's Netrunner. (Get it? News!? HA!) Anyone who's been here for the past several months has seen this guy go from sleeper to irresistible force. I ain't kidding about that either. Have you checked out the "Top 15 Sifters of the Past Week" in the sidebar over the past few weeks? He OWNS it, brothers and sisters. I remember last week when I was number two on that list, and I had less than HALF the votes that he had at the time. Good golly Miss Molly!
Now naysayers will attempt to dismiss his success by saying that he's riding the pro-Obama wave that prevails here in Sift country. There may be a little truth to that, but then I remember when Ron Paul was the king of VS, and I don't remember any single pro-Paul Sifter dominating the Sift like Netrunner has done today.
So look at it however you want, but even if you hate Obama you have to respect Netrunner for his knowledge of politics and the candidates, and that's because he pays attention to the news, which unsurprisingly is the channel he chose when he got his bronze diamond. And no one could have done a better job of running it than him. He lives and breathes this stuff. While the rest of us are sleeping off are hangovers on Sunday morning he's watching the political talk shows. While we're watching David Letterman he's watching Nightline. And while we're watching RedTube he's watching YouPorn. (BIG difference, or so I'm told.)
Maybe I like this guy so much because I'm a lefty too, but I also genuinely appreciate his concern for the state of my country and the world as a whole. People of his nature make a difference, so men like him are worth they're weight in gold. Or silver diamonds. So give it up for Netrunner: A man who cares.
Has anyone heard about the rumour that supposedly spawned from the DNC about Hillary Clinton possibly replacing Biden around 10/2 because of health problems that biden has been supposedly having?
I don't know if it's true but I saw a post on this and wondered if anyone around here heard anything.
posted by my15minutes4 weeks 1 day ago • 183 views
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
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