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How about a crazy thought, Israel agrees to hand over their nukes to the US for safe keeping if Iran suspends their nuclear program?
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Israel still doesn't even admit they have nukes right? Doubt they would let their ~theoretical~ nukes be controlled by anyone else.
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Three Olives posted:How about a crazy thought, Israel agrees to hand over their nukes to the US for safe keeping if Iran suspends their nuclear program? That's so implausible that you may as well propose us mining the moon for cheese supplies.
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Three Olives posted:How about a crazy thought, Israel agrees to hand over their nukes to the US for safe keeping if Iran suspends their nuclear program? Here's the thing, Israel has no nukes. They're on loan from South Africa, you see. Technically, you'd need the South Africans to find the paperwork first, and we all know how stringent south africa is with paperwork as of late.
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Disinterested posted:That's so implausible that you may as well propose us mining the moon for cheese supplies. We could mine the moon for nukes.
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In other news: Boehner is allowing a clean DHS vote today. 
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Mar 3, 2015 15:45
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Boehner will allow a vote on a clean DHS funding bill later today, surprising no one.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:46
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Yeah, that was the likely course of events all along. Grandstand and show off to your base and constituents, wank each other off a bit, then fold and do what you know actually needs to be done to keep the country barely ticking along because edging with disaster is the only way you retain any power at all.
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Joementum posted:Quote of the morning, “There is no such deal and there’s no such bill. On Friday, there was a bill on the House floor to pass a clean funding bill. And we rejected that because we said we’re fighting the president on what he’s doing illegally on immigration.” ~ House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, on the clean DHS funding bill that will pass the House this week, perhaps today. Fried Chicken posted:Boehner will allow a vote on a clean DHS funding bill later today, surprising no one.  So is Scalise just tossing red meat to the base here, or what? He seems to be doing pretty miserably so far in his promise to deliver hard-right votes for the leadership.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:48
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*reporter voice* Does Clinton's alleged "exclusive use of her personal email to conduct business as US secretary of state" harm her chances for 2016?
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Mar 3, 2015 15:50
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Franco Potente posted:
GOP Congressmen have a thing like a fitbit but instead of recording steps it counts how many times they say "lawless Obama" every day, and there's a chart in the cloakroom that keeps track.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:51
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Boot and Rally posted:It looks like it is a post on ft alphaville: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/tag/bitcoinmania/. I got the link through Brad DeLong. Huh, I heard about it from a friend who posted it was a journal article. Jeff lied, posts died. Thanks for the correction. RevKrule posted:Hillary used private email to conduct state business Yeah, it is bullshit that she did this and maybe illegal, but every post watergate politician does it. They have to record and preserve official correspondence so they do their work through unofficial channels so there is less of a record. Palin had her yahoo account hacked because it was one of many she was doing business out of, Jeb Bush's email dump the other week was from his Jeb.org account because he ran some governor business out of there, and there have been so many other that have come out like that the past few years I've lost count. This story has been ready to roll for years though in preparation for when the Clinton campaign for going. Begs the question who benefits from it coming out now. For my part it doesn't do much more than reinforce what I didn't like about the Clintons already, but I still hate the GOP more.
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Grouchio posted:*reporter voice* Does Clinton's alleged "exclusive use of her personal email to conduct business as US secretary of state" harm her chances for 2016? *Obama voice* No.
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Fried Chicken posted:For my part it doesn't do much more than reinforce what I didn't like about the Clintons already, but I still hate the GOP more. Colin Powell did the same thing, the practice was routine and even more egregious in the W administration, it's a non-story, at most she will probably have to turn over all email from her private account for a third party to sift through at her expense. I think the only interesting point is, apparently no one ever told her to stop it, they never even bothered to use a state department email account at all. Which is to say, I honestly believe no one told her to stop which is an interesting peek into the Clintons and how Hillary would act in office, I don't think they hear no very often and would her administration be willing to use the word with her.
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DemeaninDemon posted:I got a better idea. There only gets to be one nuke and we all take turns owning it. 
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Mar 3, 2015 16:00
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This Hillary thing is just a controlled mine detonation on her part, was the best way I saw it described. Just getting it out of the way.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:04
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My Imaginary GF posted:Here's the thing, Israel has no nukes. Oh! You just admitted the nukes exist, you're out of the club.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:05
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Martin O'Malley will not be running for Mikulski's seat next year.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:05
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So will the frothing pits of Hillary haters run out of material before the primary starts? Imagine only the base even cares right now.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:06
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In some circles in the state, it's considered a certainty that he's running for pres in 2016 source: livin in the state
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Matthew Yglesias on why death (to America) is certain. Despite dripping with "both parties are equally bad" and coming across as a chicken little, this article was a better read than I thought. In the last couple of years, I feel we've really just been lucky that we haven't been hit in the face with a truly destabilizing political event that we couldn't side-step around. For instance, I have to wonder how a theoretical repeat of the 2000 election would go down if the republican candidate won the popular vote and lost the electoral college to Hillary in 2016. I cannot imagine the level of incoherent rage that we would see.
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DemeaninDemon posted:So will the frothing pits of Hillary haters run out of material before the primary starts? Imagine only the base even cares right now. What is Hillary hiding? Did she murder Benghazi like she murdered Vince Foster?
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Mar 3, 2015 16:16
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"clintonemail.com" really? Remember we're talking about like 2009. Can America afford such technologically and stylistically inelegant bumbling? it can and will
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ReidRansom posted:Yeah, that was the likely course of events all along. Grandstand and show off to your base and constituents, wank each other off a bit, then fold and do what you know actually needs to be done to keep the country barely ticking along because edging with disaster is the only way you retain any power at all. We won a landslide election after the last shutdown *shrugs*
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Mar 3, 2015 16:26
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What time do the fireworks start?
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haveblue posted:What time do the fireworks start? 20 minutes. Edit, you will apparently be able to watch it live here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-address-congress/
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haveblue posted:What time do the fireworks start? Any day now.
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Fried Chicken posted:Huh, I heard about it from a friend who posted it was a journal article. Jeff lied, posts died. Thanks for the correction. iirc Sarah Palin had her email account 'hacked" because her security question was something like "where are you from" and a 4chan poster guessed "Wasilla"
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So is this gonna be the Bibi TVIV GDT thread?
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There's not a separate thread for the speech, is there? Are we just doing the live post stuff in here? I'm pretty stoked to see how this thing blows up.
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There is also the I/P thread, but not sure if it fits any better there since this is a US speech.
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This is way more of a USPol thing than an I/P thing.
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PBS feed is live.
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Mar 3, 2015 16:57
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This is going to be terrible, isn't it?
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Mar 3, 2015 16:59
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is going to be terrible, isn't it? Everything is terrible.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is going to be terrible, isn't it? I am agreeing with Republican rhetoric on foreign policy. Shame the Democrats are so weak on terror with semi-decent domestic policy.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is going to be terrible, isn't it? Imagine more than half of congress collectively blowing one of the biggest douches in the world.
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