My Top Ten Slimming Secrets
Now that I have your attention, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has declared that "national governments can't be trusted" and has suggested that it might be wise to give all the power, well, to him:
He called for more power for the EU's institutions, arguing that it was an "illusion" to think that the euro zone's economic policy could be coordinated just by the European Council, the institution that comprises the leaders of the EU's 27 members, which meets twice a year.
He said that setting rules for a stable euro zone could not only be left to the member states. "That will never work," he said, explaining that national governments "always try to negotiate." Barroso said there was a good reason why there were independent institutions such as the European Commission -- the EU's executive body -- and the EU's Court of Justice.
Top tip: Stop eating so much. If you spend a few minutes reading the real news you'll lose your appetite, I promise. I can't remember what the other tips were.
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Jul '10
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Well, as another supercrat once put it, you don't want a crisis to go to waste.
Dec '10
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This is pretty-much why we ditched the Articles of Confederation for the Constitution.
Sep '10
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I needed a good laugh, Claire. Thanks! (Personally, I'm pretty much immune to the appetite-depressing qualities of the news—which tends to have the opposite impact on my desire for a full glass of Malbec—though after Katrina I felt sick for a month and ate very little else but yogurt and unintentionally lost a lot of weight. All in all, though, I think I'd rather be fat.)
Edited on Sep 30, 2011 at 7:56amApr '11
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Just for fun, here's Nigel Farage discussing democracy and Greece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pry5iL4TIa8&feature=related
May '10
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This brings up a very applicable ethical dilemma. What is the relative morality of targeted assassination as a matter of warfare. Can one not make a good case that Jose Manuel Barroso is as big a danger to our way of life as is Anwar al-Awlaki?
Discuss. Proposed method is inducing esophageal cancer through accelerated induction of gastric reflux by force-feeding certain types of food and copious amounts of rotgut booze, rather than the HELLFIRE missile (yes, it is an acronym, not just a nickname- it means "high-explosive, laser-guided-Lsomething-fire-and-forget-infrared-Esomething).
Aug '10
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HELicopter Launched FIRE-and-forget.
Oct '10
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Lady Bertrum: Just for fun, here's Nigel Farage discussing democracy and Greece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pry5iL4TIa8&feature=related · Sep 30 at 8:03am
Farage is brilliant. Maybe me favorite politician in the world. If I lived in England I would definitely vote UKIP.
Sep '11
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Jose Manuel Barroso may be an overreaching bureaucrat--and overreaching bureaucrats may pose a risk to a sovereign nation. But his position is afforded by some more-or-less legitimate expression of law, so he is protected by the law. He is not the leader of a hostile military power--so there is no recourse to the rules of war.
Anwar al-Awlaki, as I have commented elsewhere, is a brigand--an outlaw. He is no more than a pirate, and we have centuries of settled law on how to deal with them. Even if they were born in the U.S.
As a practical matter, we might be better off without either; still, it would not be legally permissible to bump off Barroso, while it is entirely legal to feed Anwar to the fishes.
Feb '11
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I had no idea HELLFIRE was an acronym. Boy, I love this site!
More slimming tips:
10) Power walking away from violent demonstrators chanting about death to groups you happen to belong to.
9) Eating whatever you can afford after Greece brings down the global banking system.
8) Having dessert every time the Arab Spring has a positive consequence.
7) Eating whatever would be available if the world gave up modern farming and went "organic".
I'll leave the rest to another contributor...
May '10
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Instugator
HELicopter Launched FIRE-and-forget.
· Sep 30 at 8:16am
Thanks, Instugator- that makes sense, and certainly works. I have a vague recollection of the IR and HE references, though, from wandering through the Pentagon back in about 1988 in the middle of the AAWS-M competition (all three of the AAWS-M candidates were IR F&F, of course, whith an added visual option for HAC's FOG-M). My FISO guy in DCSOPS might have had a misunderstanding of it himself. Or just been doodling alternatives. Or my memory is lousy, which is certainly a strong possibility.