If they had only put this sort of effort into not screwing the poor, this wouldn't be happening.

Maybe if they put this level of effort in planning, maybe someone would have not been out of the country vacationing and could have reacted a day or two earlier.  

Maybe the JackA PM shouldn't show up with a driver while the city burns only re-enforcing the mem that they are out-of-touch.  And both the PM and Mayor were welcomed with disdain, something that doesn't fit the media narrative, so it's not being show.

Even Bush has enough sense not to show up in NO in a suit and limo.

Nope, not their fault, it's the dirt poor hooligans with unimaginable influence; they are spreading the violence throughout the country.  Definitely no people fed up, that crazy.

Before anyone panics, it was originally being built as a Soviet carrier.

It's an old design, doesn't have arrestor gear like US carriers, and probably will have to employ Sukhoi attack aircraft and some VERY short legged fighters.

Where this makes a difference?

a) national prestige

b)Matsu, Quemoy, and of course Taiwan.

In the grand scheme, not much of an escalation, and certainly not a tipping point. India has operated carriers for years, for example. I think b) may be more visible as the People's Liberation Army Navy (yes, the Navy is a subordinate force to the Army) shows the flag around theTaiwan Strait.

So... let's await the belligerency, and hope it doesn't happen.

The story goes like this.  He was a teacher who was tough, had high expectations for his students, and he refused to label kids as good or bad, smart or dumb, he really thought everyone capable if they did their best.  And he is basically a teddy-bear with a rough exterior sometimes.  So one day, when I had to accompany him to school for the day (my mother and stepfather had to go out of town, and my school was off for teacher conferences), I was wandering around the classroom in between classes.  I was maybe 8 or 9, this is the early 70s, mid, whatever, and I stopped at one desk, reading the message left on it by a student.  The message had actually been carved into the desk, and deep, the pocket knife obviously wielded with intense hostility.  I read it curiously.

"Dad, what's this mean?" I asked him, pointing down at the engraved message, which read:

              "Suck My B*lls, Adler!"

He perused the sentence and chuckled.

"It means I'm doing something right."

I said I didn't understand what he meant.

"At least I got him to put a comma in the right place," Dad said with odd satisfaction.

Happy 84th, old man!

"Looks like we caught a hanger Sarge!"

"You should have played those kings Mike."

pluses?

1.  won back a seat that shouldn't have been lost
   
2.  won the seat of a morally bankrupt politician that will take solace with his very young mistress.  At least his wife is somewhat happier.

"The way we police in Britain is not through use of water cannon," Home Secretary Theresa May told Sky News. "The way we police in Britain is through consent of communities."

How's that workin' out for you?

16 different cores from an organ the size of a walnut.

Great idea in theory.  In practice, there appear to be some serious growing pains (although I do still think it's a good thing overall).  Boston is not exactly a biker-friendly city.  There is certainly a local population of bike-commuters who have dealt with the fact that there are no bike lanes for years, and are used to dealing with the messed up streets/traffic patterns in this grid-challeneged city.  But it's a love/hate thing, since in order to do that, they often act like real @ssholes.  Full disclosure, I am not a biker, but good friends of mine are, and I have no problems with bikers as a driver, my problems are as a pedestrian.  I've almost been run over by bikers more times than I can count.  And usually it's when they're yelling at me to get out of the way as they run through a red light or hop up onto the sidewalk.

A white woman is missing in Aruba.