The Fucked up News of the Day

[Martin]

Yup. All because you don't like taxes.

HAVE A RECESSION!

[Timothy225]

That's right, keep expanding the gap between the haves and the have nots, folks! The coming revolution will be glorious!

[Jan]

I fear the consequences of such policies will be London. Not Tahir square.

[V]

That's right, keep expanding the gap between the haves and the have nots, folks! The coming revolution will be glorious!

I will lead you... even though I do not want to.

[Timothy225]

I will lead you... even though I do not want to.

The first words of many a Roman Emperor.

[Captain Russ]

Hello, I am here to ruin your weekend.

Mother bear kills cub and then itself

[Timothy225]

[Lisa]

Nope, won't be reading that or clicking on it, nope nope nope....

[Shit Dickface]

That. Fuck that story.

[Shit Dickface]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/15/...child.killing/

I fucking hate everything.

[Martin]

Fucking hell...

I raise you: In calgary, a father stabs his 6 months old baby.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/13...bed-in-calgary

[Jan]

Newsbreak:

Verbinsky rejoyces! Financing for the Bioshock movie secure! Sets are being built!

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."
"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."

The Seasteading Institute's Patri Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.
Thiel made news earlier this year for putting a portion of his $1.5 billion fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.
Another Silicon Valley titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in June that he would be funding the "Clock of the Long Now." The clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years, and will be built in a mountain in west Texas.

Jan shrugged.

[Captain Russ]

Your underwater tax shelter is ready, sir.

[Captain Russ]

Can't say I'm completely surprised, even though the rage has grown white hot.

[Timothy225]

I thought that was old news, but the likelihood anything gets done about is as remote as Pluto and its moon.

I swear, we are so going to have a revolution or civil war one of these days. All it'll take is one person who'll wake up the lower and middle classes and watch out.