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[The One and Only]

Cool send off to the oft controversial Andrew Breitbart from the Sage of Southern California, Dennis Miller, on the man's radio show.
http://mrctv.org/audio/dennis-miller-dedicates-thursday-show-fearless-breitbart

[Shazam14]

KONY 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

KONY 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

This is something we should support.

[Shazam14]

KONY 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

This is something we should support.

Yes! Been spreading it around for a while now.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

KONY 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

This is something we should support.

I agree. Kony is a madman in the strictest sense of the word.

I think that the U.S. could apprehend or kill the man if it were made a priority. Perhaps it isn't our responsibility, but I always believed that anyone who CAN potentially affect change and chooses not to, is then morally responsible in-part for the continuation of the evil in question.

In November Obama delivered a strategy document to Congress, asking for more funding to disarm Kony and the LRA.[20] In October 2011, Obama authorized the deployment of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. troops to central Africa.[21] Their goal is to help regional forces remove Kony and senior LRA leaders from the battlefield. "Although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense," Obama said in a letter to Congress.

I think this is a textbook example of making one's nation look good, while avoiding the risk of getting anybody's hands dirty. The U.S. has a better trained and equipped military than could ever previously have been imagined. It is patently impossible to quickly bring the local forces up to their professional level. Our superiority in tech/logistics is the only reason I believe that, with the proper deployment of troops who are cleared to seek out and engage Kony themselves, that this maniac could be stopped in his tracks. By instead saying that our troops will essentially toss a few tips to the locals, it shows how low a priority Kony really is.

That, of course, gets us into the "Why should America act like the policemen of the world?" debate. At the most basic level, Kony isn't our problem. That said, the mere thought of such a man being free to inflict his particular brand of mayhem on the innocent fills me with a level of disgust that is difficult to put into words. I want anyone who can grind that bastard out like an insect to do so, and do so as soon as humanly possible.

[Drewzilla]

The spiders are coming, and they're coming to conqure us all!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/th ... 58059.html

Seriously, this is a realization of a truly terrifying nightmare shared by most of the human race.

[yaburu]

I find it humorous that this topic's 666th post is about spiders.

But yeah, I read that earlier. I saw the first pic and was like "Australia has snow this time of ye-OH MY skreeonk GOD THOSE ARE SPIDERWEBS!!"

Just be glad they're Wolf Spiders and not Huntsman Spiders.

[NSZ]

The spiders are coming, and they're coming to conqure us all!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/th ... 58059.html

Seriously, this is a realization of a truly terrifying nightmare shared by most of the human race.

Any sign of William Shatner?

[The One and Only]

Better yet, John Goodman.

[Darth Calypso]

A solar storm might hit earth today or tomorrow: http://news.yahoo.com/sun-fires-off-2-h ... 01740.html

[anguirusnut94]

^Huh. Maybe those whackjobs who say the world is going to end are right...

[Living Corpse]

^Huh. Maybe those whackjobs who say the world is going to end are right...

???

A solar storm wouldn't destroy the world just cause your TV to be staticy for a while.

[o.supreme]

A solar storm might hit earth today or tomorrow: http://news.yahoo.com/sun-fires-off-2-h ... 01740.html

Heh...I just got to work and cant log onto any of my systems. People here know Citrix has crappy IT issues all the time, but ey are blaming it on this storm

[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

http://www.wtae.com/news/30637631/detail.html

We have a crazed gunman on my college campus. Police officer already got hit...

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

http://www.wtae.com/news/30637631/detail.html

We have a crazed gunman on my college campus. Police officer already got hit...

Holy shit, dude. Stay safe!

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

http://www.wtae.com/news/30637631/detail.html

We have a crazed gunman on my college campus. Police officer already got hit...

Yes, because I am the one who had to post this.

[The One and Only]

On the subject of the upcoming apocaslypse. As some of you may heard, Snooki from the JERSEY SHORE is pregnant. And from some peoples' calculations, the little squab will be entering this world December 22. The same day as the Mayan calender supposedly has it pointed out when the end of the world is set to happen,

[SuperSaiyan4Godzilla]

On the subject of the upcoming apocaslypse. As some of you may heard, Snooki from the JERSEY SHORE is pregnant. And from some peoples' calculations, the little squab will be entering this world December 22. The same day as the Mayan calender supposedly has it pointed out when the end of the world is set to happen,

December 21st is the day they predicted.

And the Mayans also didn't account for leap year. So, under the non-leap year calender (such as the Mayan one), we'd be in the summer of 2013 now.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

The Mayans never predicted an apocalypse. Paranoid westerners with little understanding (and perhaps less respect) for Mayan culture hijacked their calander and turned it into a doomsday clock.

[King Caesar]

If what SS4G said is true, then damn. I was hoping for at least a little revelation.