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2014-05-12 Home Front: Politix

Hattip Shipman. It's Mark Steyn, and he's always worthwhile.

There's something slightly weird about taking a hashtag - which on the Internet at least has a functional purpose - and getting a big black felt marker and writing it on a piece of cardboard and holding it up, as if somehow the comforting props of social media can be extended beyond the computer and out into the real world. Maybe the talismanic hashtag never required a computer in the first place. Maybe way back during the Don Pacifico showdown all Lord Palmerston had to do was tell the Greeks #BringBackOurJew.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-12 02:27|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
File under: Boko Haram

#1 I don't know, the current US regime is perfectly willing to dronezap random Pakis* in (3 digit numbers?) per month

*Mind you, IMO, it's a good idea. Eventually you'll have to withdraw from Afghanistan through Pakistan**. So putting a bit of fear of G*d into the locals---to dampen their Islamic enthusiasm, can't hurt.
**You just burned your chance of withdrawing through Russian controlled 'stans.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-12 13:21|| 2014-05-12 13:21|| Front Page Top

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