ROK Drop Open Thread – December 28, 2014

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“AirAsia flight QZ 8501 crashed of the coast of Indonesia, with the cause thought to have been severe turbulence, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday.”

The bullshyt has started once again with a missing airliner.

There is absolutely not enough information to even contemplate that it crashed due to severe turbulence.

In fact, there is not enough information to say for sure that it crashed.

Let’s see if this turns into another mystery… or if they find debris when the search resumes in the morning.

…and then see if they can determine why it crashed without a lot of misdirection and misinformation.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

The last airplanes that crashed due to severe turbulence appear to have done so in the 1960s.

Since then? No.

“Today’s commercial airliners are designed to withstand forces one-and-a-half times stronger than anything experienced in the last 40 years of flying”

… no… not really buying the Severe Turbulence Trial Balloon.

“Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia’s acting director general of transportation, has confirmed no distress signal was sent from the cockpit before the aircraft went missing.”

Ahhh… the old No Distress Signal Before Missing. That’s not a good sign.

Let’s see what the search and rescue experts think…

“The head of the rescue operation said there were three possibilities when a plane lost contact at that height: engine failure, that it had ditched over the sea, or was diverted to another airport.”

Uh-huh. Three Possibilities… plus another three that he didn’t think of… hijacking, suicidal pilot, bomb.

…and, of course the possibility it ditched INTO the sea… as an aircraft that ditched OVER the sea would still be there… hovering in pieces.

I googled ditching into and over just to make sure.

Incompetence? Misdirection? Shadiness?

We will see.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

A SECOND PLANE HAS JUST HIT THE INDIAN OCEAN!

/…and we are supposed to believe Obammy was out golfing when this plane went missing?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Leon, this has nothing to do with Benghazi.

This false flag operation was either to distract Americans from the growing IRS scandal…

…or draw attention away from the possibility that Obama is, in fact, a monkey.

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

Experts doubt North Korea was behind the big Sony hack

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/tech/north-korea-expert-doubts-about-hack/

Huge embarrassment to the Obama administration if N. Korea did not hack Sony.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Does it matter either way? It’s not like we’re going to go to war with the DPRK for letting the cat out of the bag that some executives at Sony think Angelina Jolie is a bit of a diva.
Private, hobbiest hackers have taken down major Internet services, the same group or groups could easily retaliate against the North’s limited infrastructure.
While I’m no fan of Obama, I don’t see him coming out looking especially bad for pointing the finger at North Korea.

“Truther” groups like to say someone faked something to get a war started. If the U.S. had wanted to go to war with the DPRK, the sinking of the Cheonan was all that was needed. President Mom Jeans didn’t want to throw down then, don’t see him doing much besides a good scolding now.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Scalper gets hosed when no one wants his overpriced tickets to The Interview:

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/man-wants-refund-buying-650-tickets-interview-221714087.html

Jason Best learned that a local theater in Clifton was among the 300 theaters to play the controversial film on Christmas day and hoped to re-sell the tickets online at a higher price.

Love it when a hustler gets hustled. Better read the fine print.

Tom
Tom
9 years ago

So anther dozen people gunned down by a crazy white guy in America.

Just another day of mass killings in US of A. What else is new.

Smokes
9 years ago

What’s that you say Tom?

Another plane full of people gone because of an incompetent Asian airline?
Just another day of cutting corners and ignorance in the far east. What else is new?

See I can play your game too. Fun eh?

jeeper44
9 years ago

If anyone is interested I just put up an album of color slides taken in 1952 by a US Army Captain who was in the KMAG, advising the ROK Army:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/58451159@N00/sets/72157649411411859/

Smokes
9 years ago

Nice collection, I’m surprised that with the exception of the honor guard photo no one is under arms considering it was during the war.

Smokes
9 years ago

Korean Grinch Hides all the Cigarettes, Promises He’ll Return them on New Years Day
http://oi61.tinypic.com/16hw0us.jpg

So in the last week or so as the 1st of January approaches I’ve noticed something. More and more stores are magically running out of cigarettes. About a month ago I was no longer able to buy by the carton because well f going to the store every other day. Now I’m at the point where entire brands are gone! Have the companies stopped making them? No. Are the delivery trucks on strike? Nope. Maybe the stores are no longer stocking them? Nah. Did one 20 foot tall mutant Korean with 40 lungs buy them all up overnight? Stop being retarded.

Here’s why, you know why…

Because the ftard government decided it was a good idea to do one giant tax hike effectively doubling the price instead of gradually raising the price a little at a time. Good job Korea! GFYS.

Let’s see how inventories are on the 1st, I suspect the shortage will magically disappear.

Don’t think I or other smokers have forgotten how this crap happened several times in the US either, one day they’ll come for your 60oz sugar drinks or make another attempt on beer and I won’t lift a finger to help your fat drunken a55es.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

As a financial contributor to the Korean public healthcare fund and a non-smoker, I, for one, applaud the tax hike to discourage cigarette use.

As long as those Nazis don’t touch my beer, that is.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

American Sniper*Chris Kyle) is just like the DC Sniper Lee Malvo
http://twitchy.com/2014/12/26/max-blumenthal-calls-chris-kyle-a-mass-murdering-sniper-like-lee-malvo/
“An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul, “[T]he whole film’s appeal seems to derive from the latent racism that led America into Iraq. “John Lee Malvo, another mass murdering sniper, would not be glorified on prime time,”

Denny
Denny
9 years ago
tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

chicken/snake/EGGHEAD announced that this favorite(or next best) dictator was Putin. I suggest the schmuck go there with his littleness in support of his man. Anything less shows us he’s nothing but a schmuck. A friend in need is nothing to schmuck-face chicken/snake/EGGHEAD…His MAN sounds like he’s in a bit of trouble so go on chicken/snake/EGGHEAD go help your boy!!!
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/thousands-rally-near-red-square-support-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-n276976
“MOSCOW — Several thousand people rallied near Red Square on Tuesday to protest the conviction of the top Kremlin critic and his brother, in one of the boldest opposition demonstrations in Russia in years.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Tbone, you cannot have it both ways.

Am I a schmuck or a schmuck-face?

And if you want to throw around Yiddish, look up “hok a chanik”. Then look at the mirror.

I must also say I am quite horrified at being labled “chicken/snake/EGGHEAD” as this is dangerously close to the much-feared manbearpig.

Please consider my feelings.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

chicken/snake/EGGHEAD ignoring the facts before him as usual. And this isn’t the first time you’ve done so recently since you sounded off on your love for Putin. Ironically(not really), we haven’t heard from you and your boy Putin lately, how come?

chicken/snake/EGGHEAD’s man(Putin) sounds like he’s in a bit of trouble so go on chicken/snake/EGGHEAD go to Russia help your boy and/or country-Ooops I forgot you’re a half commy!!!
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/thousands-rally-near-red-square-support-putin-critic-alexei-navalny-n276976

“MOSCOW — Several thousand people rallied near Red Square on Tuesday to protest the conviction of the top Kremlin critic and his brother, in one of the boldest opposition demonstrations in Russia in years.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

How cute.

Tbone thinks Putin is a communist.

I bet he thinks Obama is black and Rachel Maddow is a woman.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

GOP White Supremacy Group Lovers…
‘Republicans Try to Fix Damage Scalise’s 2002 Speech Could Do in 2016’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/us/politics/scalises-speech-to-white-supremacist-group-clouds-republicans-plans.html?_r=0
“Speaker John A. Boehner and the majority leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy, on Tuesday afternoon issued coordinated statements of support for Mr. Scalise, who acknowledged “regret” and said he had made a mistake.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

I will remember this next time some liberal Democrat speaks in front of some all-black afro-centric group.

…but groups which base their membership on race are OK as long as they are not white, right, tbone?

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Another post Tbone will avoid like the plague:
What’s up with servers in New York not serving Koreans, but instead attacking them with brooms?

http://www.eater.com/2014/12/31/7475267/korean-americans-urge-boycott-of-mcdonalds-after-attempted-assault

Do you even need to watch the video? You know what will be in it…

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“I will remember this next time some liberal Democrat speaks in front of some all-black afro-centric group.”

EGGHEAD pretending the KKK is equal to which all-black afro-centric group? ●﹏☉

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

What do Asiana Airline pilots(may as well include Korean Airline pilots too) and Kim, Jong-un have in common? They all think they know how to fly!!! Ba-Dum-Tsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLpUatutZDw

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

‘Watch Kim Jong Un Pilot a Plane’ He can fly one-handed but EGGHEAD can play with himself with his little pinky finger.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/watch-kim-jong-pilot-plane/story?id=27926088
” Is there anything that the totalitarian leader of North Korea can’t do?

The latest video released by North Korean state media shows Kim Jong Un as he appears to pilot a plane, cut with scenic video of some of the hermit nation’s most picturesque mountainscapes.

Very little information was released in conjunction with the video, giving no explanation as to how the 33-year-old leader apparently learned to fly what appears to be an airplane.

A few notable portions of this video hint that it could be staged, including the fact that the exterior of the plane is never shown.

The entire video is shot with a camera that alternates between above Kim Jong Un’s shoulder, as if someone is standing behind him looking at the controls, or sitting next to him, where a co-pilot is seen in other portions of the video.

According to the North Korean media, the plane is a Antonov AN-148, a regional aircraft built by a Ukrainian company. The clip is paired with patriotic, marching band-style music.

In addition to the person holding the camera, there are at least two other uniformed pilots seen behind and next to the Supreme Leader, who appears in his trademark all-black ensemble.

This video is one of the latest to be released showing Kim Jong Un active and moving since he went out of public view for 40 days. There was no official reason given for his absence but it was reported to be due to an undisclosed illness.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

MTBrider,
“Another post Tbone will avoid like the plague:
What’s up with servers in New York not serving Koreans, but instead attacking them with brooms?”

Huh, why would I avoid this? I responded to it when GI Korea posted it(but lost it) during the first few months of 2014. You’re a bit late on this story dumbazz since it’s been going on for almost 1 year.

As I recall, local and state American politicians when above and beyond their duty to try to help these cheap old Korean-American men, they(Mcdonald’s and the old Korean-American men) came to an agreement but then the Korean-American old men renegged/changed their mind, kind of like Koreans(N. Koreans) normally do.

Here is what a Korean thought about their embarrassing ethnic brethren…
“I can picture the scene easily. Let’s stop making a bad impression for the Korean community.
않보아도그림이네.한인먹칠그만합시다.”

It’s not like the McDonalds banned ALL ethnic Koreans…like ethnic Korean bars discriminate/ban non-ethnic Koreans in NYC Times Square of all places…
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130627/times-square-theater-district/times-square-club-fined-20k-for-barring-non-korean-patrons

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“EGGHEAD pretending the KKK is equal to which all-black afro-centric group?”

http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/11/remarks-president-national-action-networks-16th-annual-convention

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Clearly you didn’t check the article. A black female employee refuses service to a Korean customer, then attacks him with a broom.

You really are an idiot, you do know that right? This is a totally different case. Not the old folks sitting around taking up tables, but a regular, paying customer, being treated like a second class citizen. By one of “yours.”

So, justify it, if you can.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“…but groups which base their membership on race are OK as long as they are not white, right, tbone?”

tbone, you studiously ignored the question in the posting and commented on the first part. I’d really like to know your thoughts on this.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

MTBrider,
I hope you understand that Korean-American old men complaining about McDonalds and filing ridiculous lawsuits are becoming common place as they think loitering there for hours through lunch on 1 cup of coffee is the cool thing to do. There was another Korean-American old man who complained that a McDonald’s employee hit his foot with a broom while she was sweeping the floor. The old man ain’t going to get 10 million for an “attempted assault, a charge that will be dismissed “if she stays out of trouble,” it’s nothing but a frivolous lawsuit.

Leon
“…but groups which base their membership on race are OK as long as they are not white, right, tbone?”
“I’d really like to know your thoughts on this.”

Where did you get that first sentence quote, are you quoting yourself as you write? Don’t be so lazy, you might try providing an example group like EGGHEAD did if you want more of my “thoughts.”

I don’t think a white supremacy group would allow a black person in its group, yes, sure, it’s sad. But it’s pretty commonplace for groups to base membership on gender…
Augusta National Golf/Masters golf tournament refused membership to women until August 2012. And the NFL doesn’t allow for male cheerleaders.

But here is a recent group(involving war hawk GOP John McCain) that doesn’t allow black people to join unless perhaps a black person spewed hate for his/her own race?
‘Ski club sides with ‘f*cking racist pussy’ white supremacist over neocon in personal dispute’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/ski-club-sides-with-fcking-racist-pussy-white-supremacist-over-neocon-in-personal-dispute/
“The white supremacist “think tank,” the National Policy Institute, is based in the town where its director, Richard Spencer, lives.

A private ski club in the town recently sided with Spencer in a personal dispute with another member, Randy Scheunemann, a neoconservative foreign policy expert, former lobbyist for the Georgian government, and former advisor to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

The pair got into an argument during a chance encounter on a ski lift and then resumed the dispute during a Christmas party at the Big Mountain Club.

Spencer berated Scheunemann after learning he worked in Washington “for being a neocon and for believing in this whole democracy BS.”

But the group that has EGGHEADs panties-in-a-wad is the National Action Network(led by innocent Al Sharpton), I’m sure they’d accept you and him though…
http://nationalactionnetwork.net/membership/

One thing’s for sure, the National Action Network doesn’t compare to the KKK. Only in chicken/snake/EGGHEAD’s dreams.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Five ways to know you’re speaking to white supremacists
And other useful tips for Steve Scalise and budding politicians everywhere.
http://news.yahoo.com/five-ways-to-know-you-re-speaking-to-white-supremacists-004845526.html
There are no hard and fast rules, of course, but let’s consider a few useful guidelines for knowing when you’ve got a problem, just in case you’re thinking about a career in national politics.
1. The group was founded by David Duke.
2. Banners that say things like “White Power” hang from the ceiling.
3. The name of the group is the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
4. The hotel hosting the event is ashamed.
5. No one actually cares about your tax stand.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“One thing’s for sure, the National Action Network doesn’t compare to the KKK. Only in chicken/snake/EGGHEAD’s dreams.”

It has been a few years since the KKK got much attention for stirring up support for thugs and criminals… and I don’t recall them ever getting invited to the White House to spread their hate.

So, you are right. the KKK is small-time… and does not compare.

…and, of course, almost all white people think little of the KKK while a large percentage of black people think the National Action Network plays a leadership roll in the black community.

Out of curiosity, is European-America racist?

Yet African-American is not?

I see.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“almost all white people think little of the KKK”

You’re twisted!

Now, please entertain us by explaining how the National Action Network is “racist,” have they conducted any beat downs/pistol whippings/lynchings like the KKK?

“Out of curiosity, is European-America racist?”

It’s not necessarily in the name, it’s in the words some of which you conveniently left out but more importantly the actions of said groups.

“Out of curiosity, is The European-American Unity and Rights Organization/EURO(a white nationalist organization in the United States) racist?”

There, I fixed it for you and the answer to your question is YES!

Why?

Because it is led by former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke(founded in 2000), and was designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Has the National Action Network ever been designated a hate group by any legit long standing organization that offers things like free legal services and educational programs that promote tolerance?

Please list and while you’re at it list any beat downs conducted by the National Action Network?

Knowing that you like beat downs of black people, read below…

Imperial Klans of America(per Wikipedia)

In November 2008, the SPLC’s case against the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), the nation’s second largest Klan organization, began in Meade County, Kentucky.[81] The SPLC filed suit in July 2007 on behalf of Jordan Gruver and his mother against the IKA in Kentucky where in July 2006, five Klansmen savagely beat Gruver at a Kentucky county fair.[82] According to the lawsuit, five Klan members went to the Meade County Fairgrounds in Brandenburg, Kentucky, “to hand out business cards and flyers advertising a ‘white-only’ IKA function.”[82] Two members of the Klan started calling the 16-year-old boy of Panamanian descent a “spic”.[82] Subsequently the boy, (5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) and weighing 150 pounds (68 kg)) was beaten and kicked by the Klansmen (one of whom was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and 300 pounds (140 kg)). As a result, the victim received “two cracked ribs, a broken left forearm, multiple cuts and bruises and jaw injuries requiring extensive dental repair.”[82]

In a related criminal case in February 2007, Jarred Hensley and Andrew Watkins had been sentenced to three years in prison for beating Gruver.[81] On November 14, 2008, an all-white jury of seven men and seven women awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff against Ron Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the group, and Jarred Hensley, who participated in the attack.[83] The two other defendants, Andrew Watkins and Joshua Cowles, previously agreed to confidential settlements and were dropped from the suit.[84]

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

Scalise doesn’t remember giving that speech because now it appears that it may not have happened after all.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/david_duke_adviser_kenny_knigh.html

Reports that Rep. Steve Scalise, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave a speech to a white nationalist conference connected with David Duke in 2002 are not accurate, the man who organized the events said Wednesday (Dec. 31).

Kenny Knight, a longtime political adviser to Duke, said Scalise spoke at a meeting of the Jefferson Heights Civic Association — not affiliated with the European-American Unity and Rights conference that was held in the same Metairie hotel — two-and-a-half hours before the white nationalist event started.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Denny,

Since he wasn’t sure he attended, he now admits it…and why wouldn’t he since he knew all about David Duke as far back as 1999 saying he has the same “conservative views” as David Duke. Ohhh and there’s this…Scalise said couldn’t have known about David Duke’s group in 2002 because there wasn’t any GOOGLE but as we all know GOOGLE was founded in 1998. What a stupid man this Scalise guy.

He admitted his “mistake,” and “regrets” it. But ya’ll are ignoring the GOP thug and recently convicted felon Michael Grimm(NY) since he resigned. How come? chickenhead only cares about the never convicted Al Sharpton.

“Scalise said that he was unaware that the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, had been labeled a white nationalist group.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/scalise-addressing-white-nationalist-group-was-mistake-i-regret-n276961
“House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he supports Scalise, calling his speech at the EURO event “an error in judgment.”

“More than a decade ago, Representative Scalise made an error in judgment, and he was right to acknowledge it was wrong and inappropriate,” said Boehner. “Like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, I know Steve to be a man of high integrity and good character. He has my full confidence as our Whip, and he will continue to do great and important work for all Americans.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/two-big-questions-steve-scalise-needs-answer
“The initial accounts of Scalise’s appearance came from comments on neo-Nazi message board Stormfront in 2002 and 2004. Blogger Lamar White Jr. this week unearthed posts in which a user described Scalise speaking to the EURO.

Msnbc reached out to reps for Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie on Tuesday for comment. None offered a response nor have they publicly addressed the topic elsewhere — and Democrats are starting to poke them on the issue.

Once again, msnbc has reached out to Scalise’s office repeatedly to ask for clarification about the congressman’s relationship with Knight and Duke and received no response.”

Further ~
“Scalise has not apologized for speaking to the racist organization, though he did tell the Times-Picayune, “If I knew today what they were about, I wouldn’t go.”

And why didn’t he “know what they were about”? Scalise added, “I was without the advantages of a tool like Google.”

For the record, Google was founded in 1998 and widely used by millions of people in 2002. The Louisiana Republican could have searched for “European-American Unity and Rights Organization,” but for whatever reason, he chose not to at the time. Scalise also could have gone directly to the group’s website in 2002 – it was listed at WhiteCivilRights.com.”

And Scalise certainly knew who Duke was, telling Roll Call in 1999:

Another potential candidate, state Rep. Steve Scalise (R), said he embraces many of the same “conservative” views as Duke, but is far more viable.

“The novelty of David Duke has worn off,” said Scalise. “The voters in this district are smart enough to realize that they need to get behind someone who not only believes in the issues they care about, but also can get elected. Duke has proven that he can’t get elected, and that’s the first and most important thing.”

In hindsight, these comments do not appear to help Scalise’s case.

But will his colleagues care? Plenty of congressional Republicans publicly defended the Louisiana lawmaker last night, and as best as I can tell, not even one GOP lawmaker has said on the record that Scalise should step down from his leadership post.

In theory, this may seem like an automatic career-killer, but if House Republicans intend to stand by Scalise, and his constituents support him, too, then the House Majority Whip will fare far better than Trent Lott did under similar circumstances.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

He ran his mouth to a bunch of white supremacists. That doesn’t make him a card-carrying Nazi.

If it did, running his mouth to a bunch of smart people would make Tbone a Mensa-certifed genius.

Of course Scalise doesn’t have a good excuse as he probably doesn’t drink much hairspray.

Smokes
9 years ago

So much a55ery going on in here might as well get a visual in:
http://res.heraldm.com/content/image/2014/08/24/20140824000010_0.jpg

It’s the new year people can we have less of the non-stop arguing over garbage?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Smokes…

I believe that is inappropriately sexist.

…but it may take further evaluation to be sure.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

Weren’t most people still using Alta Vista in 2002? Well, at least those smart enough not to require an AOL disk.

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

Webcrawler. Lycos. Dogpile. If I recall they were a dime a dozen back then. Now it seems there is practically no competition to the big G.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Giuliani Time(on par with Al Sharpton): Rudy Built His Career on Racial Resentment and the NYPD
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/22/1353570/-Giuliani-Time-Rudy-Built-His-Career-on-Racial-Resentment-and-the-NYPD#
“And the man who would become the city’s next mayor, one Rudolph Giuliani, was right in the middle of it, fanning the flames of racial resentment for his own political gain, something Giuliani would do repeatedly and is still doing today.

But that riot was a doozy…

…Thousands of off-duty police officers thronged around City Hall yesterday, swarming through police barricades to rally on the steps of the hall and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly an hour in the most unruly and angry police demonstration in recent memory.

The 300 uniformed officers who were supposed to control the crowd did little or nothing to stop the protesters from jumping barricades, tramping on automobiles, mobbing the steps of City Hall or taking over the bridge. In some cases, the on-duty officers encouraged the protesters.”

And Rudy Giuliani was right there cheerleading the entire thing.

The Mayor also assailed Rudolph W. Giuliani, the probable Republican mayoral candidate, who spoke out against the Mayor at the union rally. Mr. Dinkins said Mr. Giuliani had egged on the protest irresponsibly for political reasons. “He’s clearly, clearly an opportunist,” Mr. Dinkins said. “He’s seizing upon a fragile circumstance in our city for his own political gain.”

Giuliani denied that he was egging on the cop protestors, some of which were carrying signs proclaiming that Mayor David Dinkins, the city’s first (and only) African American mayor, was “on crack.” But everyone knew Rudy’s denials were bullshit. He was all too happy to stir up racial resentments among the NYPD, a force that was much, much whiter 22 years ago than it is today, to score political points against the city’s black mayor.”

Smokes
9 years ago

2nd Miracle on the Han
Magically within the last 24 hours all the cigarettes reappeared in all the stores. Everyone can go f themselves.

>:[

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

I suspect black market cigarettes from other Asian countries, where they are cheap, will now become a thing. I think, for the Korean mindset, we have crossed the threshold and the costs are high enough to make it worthwhile.

Smokes
9 years ago

Gov’t to clamp down on cigarette hoarding
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141230000706

Now this way they can go create a new office, taskforce, etc. to investigate, regulate, blah blah. Invented a problem by stealing people’s money and now they’ll end up stealing more money to “fix” the problem they created. And that’s what it is when governments grossly misuse taxes, stealing. I blame Fukmerica because they’re the ones that popularized this behavior, stupid lazy people who don’t get why this is bad and sit quietly idle while it’s being done.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

Isn’t it too late? They needed to do this 1 December-31 December. It’s all over now.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

In March 2012, on the floor of the United States Senate, Mike Lee (R-UT) predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would cost $5.45 per gallon by the start 2015. Lee said that gas prices would rise 5 cents for every month Obama was in office, ultimately reaching $6.60 per gallon.

In September 2012, Mitt Romney predicted that if Obama is reelected “you’re going to see chronic high unemployment continue four years or longer.” At the time, the unemployment rate was 8.1% and had been between 8.1% and 8.3% for the entire year…
Romney pledged that, if elected, he could bring the unemployment rate down to 6% by January 2017.
The unemployment rate currently stands at 5.8% and has been under 6% since September 2014.

The stock market and US dollar are both plunging today. Welcome to @BarackObama’s second term.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012
The Dow Jones Industrial Average currently stands at 17,823 and is up over 35% since Obama was reelected.

Rush Limbaugh predicted that “the country’s economy is going to collapse if Obama is re-elected.” Limbaugh was confident in his prediction: “There’s no if about this. And it’s gonna be ugly. It’s gonna be gut wrenching, but it will happen.”…
The U.S. economy grew at a robust 5% in the 3rd quarter of 2014, following 4.6% growth in the second quarter.

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johnnyboy
9 years ago

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