Overnight Open Thread (9-30-2012)

Very busy and now very tired so few words and no pics for you tonight. It's sorta like braille for high-functioning morons.

Obama Losing the Coveted Free-range Hobo Vote

But mostly they just vote in their pants so it's not like you're killing and skinning an actual Romney supporter.

The Third Time as a Farcical Clusterfuck

Greek Neo-Nazis are being given 'police powers' over immigrants and starting to handle crime reports. This will not end well.

Quote of the Day

Based on his immense collection quotes I'm thinking Winston Churchill pretty much had the Middle East figured out a 100 years ago and we're just re-learning everything the hard way.

The Middle East is one of the hardest-hearted areas in the world.  It has always been fought over, and peace has only reigned when a major power has established firm influence and shown that it will maintain its will.  Your friends must be supported with every vigour and if necessary they must be avenged.  Force, or perhaps force and bribery, are the only things that will be respected.  It is very sad, but we had all better recognize it.  At present our friendship is not valued, and our enmity is not feared.

Uighurs In Paradise: the Sequel

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is to get sent to Gitmo for seven years.

A Moron with an RPG

Walking around town in a turban and with a fake RPG to 'test police response times' is also good way to expedite your Darwin award application.

Ghosting and Demon Lovers

One of the 50 classic ways to leave your lover is to simply leave without a trace or explanation i.e. 'ghosting'.

Why Are Babies Still Dying of Whooping Cough?

Sometimes making vaccines safer ends up making them less effective too. End result: more dead babies than with the 'unsafe' vaccine.

Weekly AoSHQ Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [467 comments] 'Vic' [65.55 posts/day]
2 [440 comments] 'Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney'
3 [390 comments] 'Adam'
4 [356 comments] 'Nevergiveup'
5 [342 comments] 'logprof'
6 [328 comments] 'Niedermeyer's Dead Horse'
7 [303 comments] 'AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart'
8 [288 comments] '@PurpAv'
9 [263 comments] 'steevy'
10 [262 comments] 'BCochran1981'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [147 names] 'Adam' [20.63 unique names/day]
2 [117 names] 'JParker'
3 [76 names] 'logprof'
4 [60 names] 'that f*cking guy'
5 [57 names] 'The Political Hat'
6 [55 names] 'kbdabear'
7 [52 names] 'Cicero'
8 [48 names] 'Andi Sullivan'
9 [46 names] 't-bird'
10 [45 names] 'Islamic Rage Boy'

The group. Yeah.

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