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July 31st, 2012, 07:12 PM
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I wanted to comment on an article. But thphththt logging in yada yada.
If Obama was a touch more like, say, Samuel Jackson, "bipartisanship" wouldn't be a bitter punchline the way it is today. Picturing a Samuel Jackson enormous fierce grin, "I'm so glad you decided to change your mind! Good to have you aboard!" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...ml#postComment 
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#242
August 2nd, 2012, 07:43 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tukhachevsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_operations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Budenny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damdin_S%C3%BCkhbaatar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Rokossovsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Rokossovsky also see Mad Jack Churchhill Khornist?
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August 2nd, 2012, 07:44 PM
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August 3rd, 2012, 11:23 PM
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 The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana “We are willing to pretend to be reasonable.” Category: Democratic Socialists Civil Rights: Good Economy: Reasonable Political Freedoms: Very Good Regional Influence: Hermit Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 425 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt. The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 32%, but much higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. The Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, smoking is banned in public areas, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, and priests are being drafted by the church load. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Upper and Lower Benswana's national animal is the Flamingo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Buck. Upper and Lower Benswana is ranked 1st in Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza and 56,464th in the world for Most Avoided, scoring -33 on the Kardashian Reflex Score.  National Happenings You have 5 unaddressed issues.
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#245
August 7th, 2012, 08:02 AM
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The reasoning behind having the regular elephant patrols in parks and such is that having the elephants do any regular in-the-city patrols could be somewhat disastrous. An elephant could travel at speeds above fifteen miles per hour, but, especially by the time cars All paramilitary-type funerals, such as police and firemen. (I hope elephants are okay with bagpipes.)
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#246
August 7th, 2012, 08:53 AM
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The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana
“We are willing to pretend to be reasonable.” Category: Democratic Socialists Civil Rights: Good Economy: Reasonable Political Freedoms: Very Good Regional Influence: Hermit Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana is a huge, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 450 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt. The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upper and Lower Benswana City. The average income tax rate is 30%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Tourism, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing industries. The fire protection service is wholly government-funded, priests are being drafted by the church load, the Upper and Lower Benswana Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Upper and Lower Benswana's new capital. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Upper and Lower Benswana's national animal is the Flamingo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Buck. Upper and Lower Benswana is ranked 1st in Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza and 44,325th in the world for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 36.75 Net Tourists per hour. National Happenings
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#248
August 7th, 2012, 08:08 PM
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http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/08/0...WT.mc_c=192115
Theater Review Climbing in the Ring With Himself ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater  Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesMike Tyson at a news conference. Photography of his one-man Broadway show was not allowed. By NEIL GENZLINGER Published: August 2, 2012
Perhaps you are among the millions of Americans who have muttered, “If I hear one more aging celebrity trying to make a buck by spinning his youthful debaucheries and misdeeds into a redemption story, I’m going to bust him in the nose.” Related
 Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTimestheater for theater news and reviews from Broadway and beyond.  Michael Appleton for The New York Times Spike Lee, the director of “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” taking a photograph outside the Longacre Theater on opening night. If so, you might want to stay away from the Longacre Theater. The guy doing just such a spin job on the stage there could punch you back in a way that your face would not soon forget. He’s Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, and his one-man show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” which opened Thursday for a run through Aug. 12, is among the odder spectacles Broadway has seen in a while. Mr. Tyson, 46, is doing little more than relating his well-publicized life story, and, under Spike Lee’s direction, he’s doing so with a clumsiness startling to see on a Broadway stage (and at a ticket price that tops out at $199). Yet that incongruous, almost childlike Tyson charm pokes through occasionally and makes you momentarily forget how ham-handed and manipulative the show is. Sure, we should save our accolades for the many people who have transcended difficult beginnings without abusing drugs, racking up a rape conviction and biting off a piece of another guy’s ear. But by the end of “Undisputed Truth” you may at least be willing to grant that it would be swell if Mr. Tyson has finally found a nondestructive way to exist in the world. The show, written by Mr. Tyson’s wife, Kiki Tyson, is mostly aimed at Mr. Tyson’s fans, alluding to rather than detailing the signature events in his life in a way calculated to draw whoops of support from the audience (which on Tuesday night obliged enthusiastically). But it’s a lazily structured biographical tour even for that audience. Mr. Lee, who attached himself to the show after a version of it appeared in Las Vegas in April, has not brought to it the dramatic ebb and flow of his best movies. No one point is particularly higher or lower than any other, and some personal milestones, like Mr. Tyson’s initial winning of a championship in 1986, are skipped entirely. There are overly long stretches in which Mr. Tyson trashes Robin Givens, his former wife; Mitch Green, a boxer with whom Mr. Tyson had an out-of-the-ring altercation in 1988; and the boxing promoter Don King. There is a strident denial that he raped a Miss Black America contestant in 1991, a crime for which he served three years in prison. And there are awkward efforts to wring sympathy out of the deaths of three people who Mr. Tyson tells us very little about: his mother, his sister and one of his children. Mr. Lee does nothing to help Mr. Tyson set up these should-be-poignant moments; they materialize without warning in the midst of the otherwise jaunty, lighthearted, profane narrative, and the audience is supposed to adopt instant somberness. Then, just as abruptly, it’s back to the jaunty narrative. Mr. Tyson isn’t nearly a skilled enough performer to pull off those kinds of transitions. He is, though, surprisingly amusing when the script lets him be. Early in the show Mr. Tyson is talking about his childhood in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and a picture is projected of the building where he lived, which apparently has had a makeover since Mr. Tyson lived there. “It didn’t look like this,” Mr. Tyson says, looking at the image with a wry contempt. “Spike just took this picture last week.” And his description of the dumps he fought in early in his career is comically vivid. “If the crowd didn’t like your performance,” he says, “they didn’t boo you, they started fighting among themselves, to show you how it was done.” Mr. Tyson has been known to make fun of his own poor diction, most memorably in a skit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and untangling his verbiage is a constant challenge during this two-hour, intermissionless show. Doing so rewards you with a few laughs but no real insights, especially on the most central question: What turned Mike Tyson, who was until relatively recently a volatile man with a knack for making bad decisions, into the guy we’re seeing now, a fellow who appears to be at peace with and able to laugh at himself? Passing mentions of his wife and veganism provide hints of an answer, but, as with many other points in this show, the opportunity to inject something substantive into the proceedings is allowed to pass, and Mr. Tyson’s story just sort of runs out of gas. That leaves the audience unable to make an educated guess as to whether the new, improved Iron Mike will stick around, or whether Mr. Tyson will fall off one wagon or another as he has so often in the past. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth By Kiki Tyson; performed by Mike Tyson; directed by Spike Lee; sets by Timothy R. Mackabee; lighting by Natasha Katz; projections by Erik Pearson; sound by Raymond Schilke; technical supervisors, Fred Gallo and Guy Kwan; production stage manager, Gwendolyn M. Gilliam; dramaturge and voice coach, De’Adre Aziza; general manager, Niko Companies, Ltd.; executive producers, Ms. Tyson and Adam Steck. Presented by James L. Nederlander, Mr. Lee and Terry Allen Kramer. At the Longacre Theater, 220 West 48th Street, Manhattan, (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com. Through Aug. 12. Running time: 2 hours. This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: August 7, 2012 Schedule information on Friday with a theater review of “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” at the Longacre Theater, misstated the show’s running time. As the review correctly noted, it is 2 hours, not 1 hour 30 minutes. A theater review on Friday about “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” at the Longacre Theater, misstated Mr. Tyson’s age. He is 46, not 45.
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August 7th, 2012, 11:25 PM
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The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana “We are willing to pretend to be reasonable.” Category: Democratic Socialists Civil Rights: Good Economy: Reasonable Political Freedoms: Very Good Regional Influence: Hermit Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 450 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt. The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upper and Lower Benswana City. The average income tax rate is 31%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Tourism, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing industries. Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Upper and Lower Benswana's new capital, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, teenage fathers are forced to join the army, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper and Lower Benswana's national animal is the Flamingo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Buck. Upper and Lower Benswana is ranked 1st in Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza and 44,325th in the world for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 36.75 Net Tourists per hour. National Happenings
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August 8th, 2012, 12:34 AM
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August 8th, 2012, 09:26 PM
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August 9th, 2012, 12:18 AM
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The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana “We are willing to pretend to be reasonable.” Category: Democratic Socialists Civil Rights: Good Economy: Reasonable Political Freedoms: Very Good Regional Influence: Hermit Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Most Serene Republic of Upper and Lower Benswana is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 455 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt. The large, socially-minded government is mainly concerned with Education, although Healthcare and Commerce are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upper and Lower Benswana City. The average income tax rate is 32%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Tourism, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing industries. Crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, teenage fathers are forced to join the army, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and loans are available for students from poor families. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper and Lower Benswana's national animal is the Flamingo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Buck. Upper and Lower Benswana is ranked 1st in Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza and 29,290th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11 on the Gilded Widget Scale. National Happenings You have 2 unaddressed issues.
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#253
August 9th, 2012, 01:58 PM
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The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan
“Paranoid Conduct Does Not Guarantee You Are Paranoid” Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy Civil Rights: Some Economy: Strong Political Freedoms: Some Regional Influence: Minnow Location: the Pacific The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan is a fledgling, pleasant nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 22%. A robust private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving industries. Crime is moderate. Watchyourbackistan's national animal is the Bloodhound, and its currency is the Head. National Happenings You have a new telegram! You have 4 unaddressed issues.
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#254
August 9th, 2012, 02:06 PM
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August 9th, 2012, 02:24 PM
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 The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan “Paranoid Conduct Does Not Guarantee You Are Paranoid” Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy Civil Rights: Some Economy: Strong Political Freedoms: Some Regional Influence: Minnow Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan is a fledgling, pleasant nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 22%. A robust private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving industries. Crime is moderate. Watchyourbackistan's national animal is the Bloodhound, and its currency is the Head. National Happenings
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#256
August 11th, 2012, 01:35 AM
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August 11th, 2012, 01:47 AM
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The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan “Paranoid Conduct Does Not Guarantee You Are Paranoid” Category: Father Knows Best State Civil Rights: Average Economy: Strong Political Freedoms: Rare Regional Influence: Duckspeaker Location: Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza The Armed Republic of Watchyourbackistan is a fledgling, pleasant nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up. The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 20%. A robust private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving industries. The government is avowedly atheist, euthanasia is legal, elections have been outlawed, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is moderate. Watchyourbackistan's national animal is the Bloodhound, and its currency is the Head. Watchyourbackistan is ranked 1st in Mountainous Coastal Freedom Plaza and 43,519th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2 on the Charon Conveyancy Index. National Happenings
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#258
August 11th, 2012, 09:04 PM
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The Meuses went straight back to their room, Thibault dragging Manon with him at his insistence. He had very little idea of what he could do. His first instinct would have been to notify local authorities, except he knew, with growing dread he knew that to do so would be useless for such matters in this country.
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