LOST is happening in real life

[marf]

maybe its because they don't want to talk about how the russians are laughing at obama and his worthless sanctions, deadlines, and vague threats of some kind of action, right in his face?

 

even though just, what a little over a year ago, obama was laughing in mitt romneys face for daring to suggest that not only were russia a threat but possibly the biggest geopolitical threat out there? to obama the idea that russia was even on the radar of threats was funny.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” remember that? anyone?

i sometimes feel Obama is underestimated. could it be possible he used that line to make Romney look out of touch and lost in the nostalgic reagan era past that the repubs so long for. you know, to win the election at that time. he knows how to win elections.

Whether he believed that line is irrelevant, but it served its purpose to help bolster his image as a weak president militarily. next level chess and a very patient man. i just feel Obama doesnt show his cards. He cant, not the way hes been attacked.

[usagi]

smh @ this black hole shit, how stupid must the average CNN viewer be for them to trot this one out?

[Candiru]

Right now that plane is being stuffed full of pure Colombian yay yay. Either that or David Blaine

[delet...]

/flies missile into country's airspace by sitting behind a commercial jetliner. convinces self that it'll actually work.

[may be rude]

 

maybe its because they don't want to talk about how the russians are laughing at obama and his worthless sanctions, deadlines, and vague threats of some kind of action, right in his face?

 

even though just, what a little over a year ago, obama was laughing in mitt romneys face for daring to suggest that not only were russia a threat but possibly the biggest geopolitical threat out there? to obama the idea that russia was even on the radar of threats was funny.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” remember that? anyone?

i sometimes feel Obama is underestimated. could it be possible he used that line to make Romney look out of touch and lost in the nostalgic reagan era past that the repubs so long for. you know, to win the election at that time. he knows how to win elections.

Whether he believed that line is irrelevant, but it served its purpose to help bolster his image as a weak president militarily. next level chess and a very patient man. i just feel Obama doesnt show his cards. He cant, not the way hes been attacked.

 

it's outrageous that obama isn't getting involved militarily in the ukraine yet repugnant that he participated in the nato no-fly zone in libya. it's pitiful that he is negotiating with iran, but abhorrent that he is using drones against terrorists elsewhere.

 

i wonder what it is about him that let's such feeble criticism gain so much traction.

[marf]

yeah, lets start ww3 over ukraine

[BCM]

let's skip WW3 and start WW4 over Ukraine instead.

[baph]

smh @ this black hole shit, how stupid must the average CNN viewer be for them to trot this one out?

 

tonight, on CNN

 

[jules]

i think they found the wreckage

[chenGOD]

And thus ends this thread.

[DerWaschbar]

not if its a comspiracy.

[doublename]

not if its a comspiracy.

 

If?

[jules]

now CNN is lost

[MisterE]

 

maybe its because they don't want to talk about how the russians are laughing at obama and his worthless sanctions, deadlines, and vague threats of some kind of action, right in his face?

 

even though just, what a little over a year ago, obama was laughing in mitt romneys face for daring to suggest that not only were russia a threat but possibly the biggest geopolitical threat out there? to obama the idea that russia was even on the radar of threats was funny.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” remember that? anyone?

i sometimes feel Obama is underestimated. could it be possible he used that line to make Romney look out of touch and lost in the nostalgic reagan era past that the repubs so long for. you know, to win the election at that time. he knows how to win elections.

Whether he believed that line is irrelevant, but it served its purpose to help bolster his image as a weak president militarily. next level chess and a very patient man. i just feel Obama doesnt show his cards. He cant, not the way hes been attacked.

 

yeah i agree with you. his capability to lie to the american public to get elected is definitely underestimated. i like how you defend him by basically saying 'he wasn't too dumb to see this coming, he just lied. you know. to win the election. which is totally ok (if ur a dem)'

 

so if ur a lib/dem, lying to the american people to get elected into powerful positions, is 'next level chess'. i think this is part of the prob. i guess his telling the public that if they like their doctor they can keep them, was next level chess just to sell obamacare too. basically with dems, any means are justified by the ends.

 

and im not saying repubs don't lie, but if caught in one, you wouldn't see their voters defend it by calling it a valid tactic (next level chess)

[MisterE]

i dont look at reddit or any of the other hip social sites. is the mini black hole thing a meme? totally should be

 

pics of mini black holes causin all sorts of historical mayhem etc

or just suckin up the whole multiverse

[DerWaschbar]

Perhaps Obama is somehow this black hole. He's def black, but I dunno if he is a hole... Anyone have any insight on this?

[baph]

He's def black

 

nah

[jules]

i think he is half black

 

 

and half hole

[Blir]

He's mocha

[baph]

sorry, I meant he's not def

[delet...]

i thought he was 100% reptilian. They put him under an heatlamp to warm him up for speeches.

[jules]

sorry, I meant he's not def

 

mosely

[BCM]

leppard

[DerWaschbar]

Hrm.. Maybe a half black/half hole would have just enough power to suck up a plane but not quite enough power to destroy the hole universe as the lady on CNN suggested. idk.

[joshuatxuk]

Goofy conspiracies (Pitbull and Shakira, lolwut?) aside, there's a lot of political craziness surrounding the Malaysian officials involved. I bet it's going to get uglier and messier as they try to figure out how much of the investigation was compromised on their end.

 

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/291172064/politics-and-power-complicate-the-airliner-search

 

 

And I'm Robert Siegel. We begin this hour with the politics of a vanishing airliner. The search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 now covers well over 2 million square miles. Twenty-six countries are still involved, 10 days after the plane's disappearance. In a few moments, we'll hear from the U.S. Navy about their efforts.

CORNISH: Meantime, China's ambassador to Malaysia says background checks of Chinese passengers on the plane turn up no links to terrorism. And in Malaysia, there are accusations that the government is mismanaging and politicizing the mystery. Here's NPR's Anthony Kuhn.

ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: At a press briefing today, acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said the government's priority is to find the plane. He accused foreign media of bringing up the issue of domestic politics, which he said is irrelevant.

HISHAMUDDIN HUSSEIN: The search for MH370 is bigger than politics. I urge all Malaysians to put our differences aside, and unite during this difficult time as we focus on finding the aircraft and the 239 people onboard.

KUHN: The pilot of the plane, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, happens to be a supporter of the opposition coalition and its leader, Anwar Ibrahim. This month, the court sentenced Anwar to jail for sodomizing a former aide. The charges are more than a decade old, and Anwar says they're politically motivated. Some government-linked media have speculated that the pilot may have diverted the plane in protest against the court's ruling.

S. Ramakrishnan, a senator with the opposition Democratic Action Party, calls these allegations ridiculous.

MALAYSIAN SEN. S. RAMAKRISHNAN: I think this is very absurd, blaming the opposition leader for this kind of a crisis. This shows that they are more keen in absolving the responsibility than solving the issue.

KUHN: Meanwhile, he says, the plane crisis has uncovered a string of government blunders.

RAMAKRISHNAN: They should be more serious in their work - in the management of the immigration, flight security, national security and everything related. The laxity, the carelessness in the whole management is being exposed now.

KUHN: Clive Kessler is a longtime observer of Malaysian politics at the University of New South Wales, in Australia. He says that while any government would have hard time managing such a crisis, Malaysia's government is falling back on its old, outdated ways.

CLIVE KESSLER: The way the Malaysian government is handling it is that they're playing from their playbook for domestic politics in which basically, you tell everybody: Look, we will tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it and not a minute before and meanwhile, just shut up, hmm?

KUHN: Malaysia's ruling National Front Coalition has held power for more than half a century. It won a narrow majority in Parliament in general elections last year, but it lost the popular vote. Kessler says the ruling coalition has allowed itself to be held hostage by a conservative Islamist Malay faction. This has alienated much of the Malaysian middle class and ethnic minority Chinese and Indian, many of whom have gone over to the opposition.

The country, Kessler says, is stuck in a protracted crisis of governance that shows in the handling of the missing plane incident.

KESSLER: What this has shown is the deterioration and the increasing lack of coherence and performative competence of the Malaysian state.

KUHN: Many opposition members sympathize with the relatives of the missing flight's passengers, most of whom are Chinese. Some of them have become so frustrated at the lack of information from the Malaysian government that today, they threatened to go on a hunger strike.

Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing.

The acting Minister of Transport is fairly controversial as well.