The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Don’t you at least have to build up to that argument?

Talk about eliminating the middle man!

The anorexia has made him delirious.

[Chula Vista]

Weight loss is a bitch.

[OccultHawk]

Meredith to Buy Time Inc. With Koch Backing

The Koch brothers have spent decades building a network of wealthy political donors who pledge money to conservative causes and their advocacy groups.

**** them.

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Egypt attack: Hundreds killed in Sinai mosque attack - CNN

I guess you'd say muslims killing muslims, let them get on with it, eh Hawk?

To paraphrase Martin Niemöller "Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Sufis, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Sufi."

I don't look at it like it's over there, nothing to worry about here. Sufis, Jews, Yazidis, Syrian & Coptic Christians are like canaries in the coal mine. What happens to them, will one day happen to the West ... and does happen with bridges, buildings and bike races.

[Plankton]

TV travel guide Rick Steves to speak out today for legalizing marijuana in Illinois - Chicago Tribune

Rick is awesome. I hope he makes a little headway at least. I've been an advocate of turning that morally unbalanced law around for a long time, and I believe it could bring some much needed relief to the Illinois budget crisis. Of course people **** things up anyway no matter how lit the path to the doing the right thing is, but it's at least a move in the right direction and Steve has a loud voice in the matter. I've been watching Ricks shows for years, and I even made a song in tribute to the man and his show some years ago. I'll post it if anyone wants to hear it, but it's not that great.

Go Steve, go.

[OccultHawk]

It’s good that users get to stay out of jail but legalizing weed puts the only honest businessmen left out of business.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It’s good that users get to stay out of jail but legalizing weed puts the only honest businessmen left out of business.

Yeah, they'll like, totally lose their street cred.

[rostasi]

Originally Posted by Plankton

Rick is awesome.

A few weeks ago, I was listening to his travel show on radio (Sunday nights here) and
he was talking with a woman about popular music in Germany over the past decades.
I was pleasantly surprised about their combined knowledge concerning everything from
schlager, krautrock, Neue Deutsche Welle, the Frankfurt hip-hop movement, Berlin trance, a.o.
with mentions of the importance of Kraftwerk, Wolf Biermann, Can, Rammstein's
connection with Slovenians Laibach, and ending with Trio's "Da Da Da." - all of this
in the last 20 minutes of the show. It turns out that the woman he was interviewing
was originally from Britain, but moved to Germany for the "scene."
The woman was Robyn Hitchcock's daughter, Maisie.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It’s good that users get to stay out of jail but legalizing weed puts the only honest businessmen left out of business.

Yep, it gets clamped down hard as **** immediately in a way that only allows corporations or the wealthy to survive. While I'll take legalization, I'd prefer decriminalization and the nether-legalization that is California's and other looser states' medicinal marijuana system.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by rostasi

A few weeks ago, I was listening to his travel show on radio (Sunday nights here) and
he was talking with a woman about popular music in Germany over the past decades.
I was pleasantly surprised about their combined knowledge concerning everything from
schlager, krautrock, Neue Deutsche Welle, the Frankfurt hip-hop movement, Berlin trance, a.o.
with mentions of the importance of Kraftwerk, Wolf Biermann, Can, Rammstein's
connection with Slovenians Laibach, and ending with Trio's "Da Da Da." - all of this
in the last 20 minutes of the show. It turns out that the woman he was interviewing
was originally from Britain, but moved to Germany for the "scene."
The woman was Robyn Hitchcock's daughter, Maisie.

I have no idea who that is, but I'll look into him... possibly if I have the time and remember. Steve is like a big ol onion, I guess. Many stinky layers, and good sliced up and sauteed with mushrooms and garlic. Had no idea he was syndicated on European radio. His story just gets better.