... and now that Meth-heads have removed all copper lines and sold them for Meth.

When I first read the headline, I thought that the "criminals" were the NSA. I was wondering what all the fuss was about. It just sounded like business as usual to me . . .

Source: http://www.economist.com/news/...

No, its very easy to get mad. The government is clamping down on people who use 20% of the water . . . while leaving the Big Farming industry, who use 80% of the water untouched.

California needs to scale back on its farming industry. That's where the biggest savings in water usage could be made. The Feds could help out as well, by refusing to pay subsidies to farmers who try to raise crops in a desert.

Nope. The US would never have put Osama bin Laden on trial: It would have been a spectacular media circus, with every Muslim in the world cheering for the underdog Martyr.

I was much more expedient to shoot him, and toss him in the drink.

Hey, look at what Rolling Stone did with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: They turned him into an idol for teenage girls. Imagine what they would have done with Osama bin Laden . . . ?

Maybe the catering for the jurors was good . . . ?

The American scientist and polymath Jared Diamond wrote a book, whose title is the solution to dealing with the Natives: "Guns, Germans, and Steel"

You can buy Guns and Steel, but Germans are the difficult one to get in the Beanie Baby set.

Also, German military policy is to only participate in wars which they start themselves.

(Joking aside, the German parliament gets their drawers in a not, with nasty debates, before they export a single H&K MP7 anywhere in the world.)

Strange . . . I could swear that you are describing the Greeks. Are you sure that you are really lived in Hawaii, and not Greece . . . ?

We've known for a long time where most of California's water goes: Big Farming.

However, California's politicians wouldn't dare to address that issue. California's farmers are millionaires, and very generous political campaign donors.

Will we even be able to recognize it as life, when we do find it . . . ?

I'm thinking that they are breaking this pattern now, and have a new one.

Everything after Win7 bad . . .

I usually do not respond to obvious trolls, but in this case I will make an exception.

Have you ever worked with Greeks on an IT project? I have. About three years, on an EU FP7 sponsored project. The "best" of Greece, people from Athens Technology Center (ATC) and the National Technology University of Athens (NTUA) were involved.

They were simply crap, to sum it up succinctly.

Now as to your points . . .

No one forced Greece into the Eurozone. The government of Greece cooked their books to get in. If Greece wants out, don't let the door hit their ass on the way out. But if you owe the EU money, you had better be prepared to pay it back. No free lunch, you lazy mother-fuckers!

The Eurozone is for advanced economies . . . Greece is a Third World Country, although, they don't want to admit it.

Greece has such high unemployment . . . because the Greeks are unemployable. What can they do in one hour? Roll a few Dolmades? Germans would push off a Mercedes off the production line in that time.

Sorry, but the Greek government did that to themselves . . . and their citizens . . . and the citizens got the government that they deserved.

Germans would like nothing better than giving Greece the boot out of the Eurozone and the EU. And who is paying for everything in Greece right now? You should think twice about flipping Germany the bird.

Oh, and I am American, by the way . . . in case you were wondering.

A mere $10 billion?

The IMF, European Central Bank and the EU wasted 330€ billion on keeping Greece in the Eurozone, which is both impractical and impossible.

Although the 330€ billion is officially loans, that money ain't no never be coming back. And Greece will have to leave the Eurozone. Although the majority of Greeks would like to stay in the Eurozone, the fiscal policies of Greece's Prime Minister Tsipras and Finance Minister Varoufakis can only work if Greece has it's own currency to devalue. So the game is for Greece to exit the Eurozone, and that each side can blame the other for what happened.

Anyway, the politicians in the EU sold this 330€ billion bailout package to the public as necessary for the "security" of the Eurozone. In the US, the politicians sell the $10 million on failed projects as necessary for US military superiority . . . in other words, also as necessary for "security" of the US public.

Leatherface, chainsaw . . . ?

MADD is the modern day Women's Christian Temperance Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

Those are the folks who brought Prohibition to the US, with disastrous consequences. They are just flexing their muscles a bit. After they successful ban powdered alcohol everywhere, they will start going after other fringe alcohol products, like Jello-shots, alco-pops or whatever those damn kids on my lawn are drinking these days.

Snort? The most effective way to get your kick is to do your black pepper in enema or rectal suppository form.

Yes, kids, DO try this at home!