...and nonetheless the neocon architects of the war will still be welcome at Republican functions, treated as honest men, and listened to on matters of war, terrorism, and security.
And they will dutifully line up and declare whatever country the next Republican president decides to bomb to be the gravest threat since 1945.
2.last: declare whatever country the next Republican president decides to bomb to be the gravest threat since 1945.
Josh Hutcherson on the new Red Dawn:
We've changed quite a bit of the story, but the heart of the story is there. The American, patriotic feel of the original, rising up against the invaders, is still definitely there. The Chinese are invading now, so we're switching that up just to stay with the times a little bit.
Red Dawn, the remake: Now with added racism!
I was hoping that Hot Tub Time Machine was what the plan for a Red Dawn remake had turned into. Very fun movie, btw. For men.
Red Dawn, the remake: Now with added racism!
I can't believe they missed the obvious opportunity to rebrand it as Yellow Dawn. We used to be world champion racists, and just look at how we've fallen. What has Obama wrought? I weep for this country.
...and nonetheless the neocon architects of the war will still be welcome at Republican functions, treated as honest men, and listened to on matters of war, terrorism, and security.
Democratic functions too.
This morning on the radio when they were discussing about offshore drilling, some guy called in to talk about how you never hear amount the dangers of becoming dependent on electric cars. Namely, its because 90% of the world's Lithium, a "rare earth element" used in batteries, comes from China. And one day the Chinese won't want to sell it to us. So, offshore drilling it is.
In real life, China produces about 10% of the world's lithium. Still, we should totally go to war with them and take their lithium.
8: Still, we should totally go to war with them and take their lithium.
That would be really depressing.
8: If you want to get lithium, think of everyone you know who used to have huge mood swings and no longer does. Then rifle their medicine cabinets.
Huh, Duncan voted against. I thought all the Republicans voted for. (McClintock was still helping to fuck up California at the time - I think he ran as the "conservative alternative" to Schwarzenegger while in the legislature - and no surprise Rohrbacher would have voted for and then, when convenient, decided it was a mistake.)
It's fine to acknowledge that the Iraq war was a mistake, as long as everyone avoids the implication that the hippies who opposed the Iraq war were right. I'm sure everyone on that panel would still scoff at that rather silly idea.
"Because there was no possible way we could have known at the time that this might be how things would turn out."
This has been the standard line pretty much since 2006, hasn't it? I don't think anything has changed.
16 is 15 cont., in case that's unclear.
Also, I think the Republicans owe France an apology.
The "freedom fries" guy turned against the war at some point. I can't remember when.
I thought all the Republicans voted for.
Six nays in the House (Duncan, TN; Hostettler, IN; Houghton, NY; Leach, IA; Morella, MD; and Ron Paul, TX) and one in the Senate (Chafee, RI).
I think a House Resolution apologizing to France would be hysterical.
Lithium is not one of the rare earth elements on which China has a monopoly. Bolivia is the place with all the lithium.
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I want non-Americans to read this article. It will help you understand what must seem odd.
Not only does our legislature not work, it has never worked. Even during the golden ages that the old-timers celebrate in this article. Apparently at that time, our legislature worked as if we had a House of Lords but not a House of Commons. Now thanks to party discipline, the situation has changed so that the Lords can be voted out of office, but only if they fail to spent half or more of their time asking for bribes.
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I haven't read it, but I see from a search that that piece doesn't include Henry Adams on the Senate. Probably for the best, as that Adams quotation tends to be overused.
Lithium isn't a rare earth, it's an alkali metal.
It is, however, a rare metal on earth. (Or pretty much anywhere, for that matter.)
29: Don't believe those mass spectrometers. There is a shitload on Alpha Centari.
Depends on your definition of rare. It's more abundant than copper, nickel, zinc or chromium.
During the Cold War there was some kind of thing (minor Congressional bitching) about how all of our chromium had to come from the Soviets or South Africa. Which kind of bad did we want to support for shiny bumpers and making bad jokes about oral sex that involved trailer hitches?
30: I've lost track; are you proposing the plot of Red Dawn III or the rationale for Iraq War III?
33: I just think science should work more on how we can built more big rockets and less on telling me again and again to conserve lithium.
24,28,31: It's almost as if you are insinuating that the random wingnut on the radio had no idea what he was talking about.
He had some idea of what he was talking about. He probably said "lithium" instead of "lanthanum".
Sample pompous editorial on the subject
Lanthanum makes a lot more sense in the context.
However, the "China dominates the lanthanum supply" theory of why we need to drill offshore for oil doesn't really stand up in light of the large lanthanum deposits in California and Australia.
It seems we only buy the stuff from China because they aren't burdened by the extra cost of those pesky environmental standards. Which is actually a pretty shitty way of obtaining green technology...
China's all like "more like FUNthanum! Wheeeee!"
Jerks.
Need some dysprosium? Tianjiao International. "Our Philosophy: Quality First, Credibility First, Decisiveness First".
You know what China really dominates? Global cement production. We can't allow ourselves to become dependent on China for our construction needs. We must move to an adobe economy!
Taiwan seems to have an incredibly large, relative to its economy, cement industry. One of my uncles (at some remove) spent his career in the cement industry.
We could totally take Bolivia.
Wait, the US Army is stuck in a quagmire in Bolivia? How did that happen?
This graphic only covers beer, but it does seem to indicate that, while Texas is a bit on the lush side, it has nothing on North Dakota.
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