Apparently this isn't a story anymore S2.

They might let us know if the pair is caught or killed. Other than that ... ?

I had two TV's and the radio on over the six o'clock hour.
None of them mentioned it.

So the most recent report,
they're searching closer to the prison now.

Or hide "in"?

The peril of prepositions!

Oh yes SS,

pork is high on the Road Kill Cafe's menu, along with chunk of skunk, smear of deer, and anything dead on bread.

a) ct?
Have you posted in the wrong thread?

b)
I don't think it's inappropriate to let consumers know what they're buying.
It might be inappropriate to require producers to provide a 300 page label that includes every jot & tittle from planting to store shelf.

But basic information:
- sodium content
- major nutrients
- fat content,
- etc.
That's very useful information.

GMO doesn't worry me, unless they do something stupid like mixing the venom gene of a rattlesnake with a tomato.

But so far, it seems like a great idea.

If they're "makin' bacon"!

What should such incident be called?
A "porcine pile-up"?

Did you know?

"Spam", a trade name for small canned hams,
is a name made a contraction of two words: [SP]iced h[AM].

I LOVE animals. They're delicious!!

Can you please provide a link to text that corroborates this?

Thanks.

Disgusting.

Well S2,
If it was a movie, I'd request a refund.
; )

Let's hope that's it RA.
She seems like a real dirt-ball:

- She buddies up with two convicted murderers
- helps them escape from a high security prison
- and tells them, while you're out, would you bump off my husband?

What a waste of food!

Still gone.

Question.

Ms Mitchell faces 8 years in prison.

Shouldn't the punishment fit the crime?

She's cost the NY tax payer over $8,000,000.oo so far.

AND

placed us at needless additional mortal risk by freeing two murderers.

Why only 8 years?

?
I don't mean to be obtuse here m2,
but I don't see why this reflects bad on "JEB!"

That's almost certainly true L2.
It would be quite odd if it were all because of only one thing.

Do you think the Arab Spring has had anything to do with it?

Not just Tunisia, but Libya, Egypt, and central Africa?

Just this AM I heard a radio report that called the current Mediterranean refugee crisis the worst in Western Europe since WWII.

Looking for the big picture here, not sure what the problem is:

Too many bad people running nations badly (or driving them into anarchy)?

Too many people?

Sensible question on an important topic N2.

I hope Western Europe is in a scramble to find alternate fuel sources; North Sea, or where ever.

As you know, Russia has ALREADY shut down the Gazprom spigot before.

And yes indeed, the threat is there that it'll do so again.

Putin has some (Cold War) skills, Crimea and Ukraine for examples.
But he's a twit about economics; a genuine $twit.

When Mitt Romney ran the Olympics in Utah, he actually turned a $profit (as opposed to a $prophet, what some might expect in Salt Lake City).

Putin lost about $45 $Billion on the Olympics he hosted.
And he's more than lost any good will he might have purchased with it; with his armed thugs.

What do you think N2?

I'm hoping Western Europe will get enough non-Russian fuel / energy sources to be able to box Putin / Russia in:

You sell Western Europe what you've got at bargain price for Western Europe will take our business elsewhere.

That would clobber the Russian economy, which depends on its third-world economy (plundering natural resources, rather than value add: turning sand into computer chips).

Lots of hot potato tossing here.

It wasn't my intention to suggest it's a U.S. responsibility.
Only that human misery is multiplying there again.

I'm not formally a religious man.
But I have learned that counting my blessings (metaphorically) helps to make my life seem more worthwhile.

This is what it looks like out my kitchen window, after a fresh snow:



I'm not gloating at the woes of the residents of this troubled island.
But in that context, I (& I hope, we) have it pretty good.

And anyone that would like to help, if the Red Cross gets involved, you may be able to donate $10.oo by dialing a phone number.

a) I vehemently opposed the U.S. military invasion & occupation of Iraq since before it began.
It was a conspicuously bad idea, from before the start.

I blame Bush because Obama was opposed to it, and simply wound down our War in Iraq:
- substantially on the Bush administration's timetable,
- substantially as Bush would have,
- with substantially the same U.S. military leadership, and even
- with the Bush administration's Secretary of Defense.

b) Whatever Democrats do doesn't restrict my ability to express my conservative views on the matter.
I'm not a Republican. I'm conservative.
I do NOT put partisanship ahead of citizenship, as many Republicans do.

c) Though the Bush administration's intentions for Iraq varied quite a bit, his criterion of success shifted.
The U.S. War in Iraq was originally about ridding the world of Saddam's WMD.

When we learned Iraq had no significant stockpile of battle-ready WMD, that meant the U.S. had no reason at all.

So Bush / Cheney / Rumsfeld started tap-dancing, and eventually settled on:

And that is in fact what it did.

So the Bush administration's commitment has been fulfilled.

Obama isn't doing that.

We should NEVER get more skin in the game than those we're ostensibly protecting.

Because of the U.S. military invasion & occupation of Iraq, we destabilized the region.

Spilling more U.S. blood there will not stiffen the spines of Iraqis.

Sadly, probably so.

Hello AS. Welcome to mingle2.

Sadly, probably so.

Hmmmm
The so called "Pottery Barn rule".

I has merit AS. The invasion was a monumental foreign policy blunder.

Thanks for joining us @mingle2.
Visit often.
Post a lot.

I think AS's intended point is, it was both.
Our action, terminating Iraq's Hussein regime.
Our inaction in helping the less radical rebels defeat Assad years ago.
Assad killed all them off.
And now these homicidal maniacs have taken over.

I hope I haven't distorted your intended point here AS.

The Dominican Republic is set to deport residents that can't prove their citizenship.
Some of them may be Haitians.
But what of others? Some Dominicans were born at home, and have no birth certificate.

And Haiti is among the poorest nations in the hemisphere. It still hasn't recovered from the Earthquake.

How can Haiti handle the likely influx?

Recent reports indicate the manhunt is costing ~$1,000,000.oo / day.
Recent rains have allegedly rendered the use of bloodhounds & thermal imaging ineffective.

Dem guys is gone.

"... the government should have bigger/better" mm

It's a delicate balance mm.

Lord Acton warned:
[ paraphrase ] Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If we give government power, that power shall eventually be abused.

Except prison.