A Real News Hole
They are trying to fill it with the belligerent propaganda flowing out of North Korea, but it is sort of difficult when people keep noting that North Korea can’t do most of what it says it is going to do. South Korea is certainly in danger, but that’s about it.
North Korea definitely can detonate nuclear material, but it isn’t certain that they actually have a self-contained, readily delivered nuclear bomb, or are simply doing large scale lab experiments. They certainly do not have anything they can put on one of their missiles, and the missiles cannot reach Hawaii.
Most of this is theater for internal consumption and part of the process of establishing a new leader in North Korea. They have a large army, but it is unknown what kind of condition its soldiers are in given the limited food available in North Korea. They ate their seed a long time ago.
Obama is still pushing to screw up Social Security and Medicare. The FICA tax was doubled under Reagan’s Greenspan Commission, so the policy holders have a hell of a lot more ‘skin in the game’ than the hedge fund managers, as the FICA tax is actually higher for self-employed people than the capital gains tax that the fund managers have been paying.
Any Congresscritter who votes for chained CPI or higher copays for Medicare had better have another job waiting no matter what letter appears after their name. It should be noted that not only are seniors the most likely group to vote, they also dominate the staffing of polling places, and are over-represented on juries.
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Tell me about that #!%$ self-employment tax. Have to make a quarterly payment to the Infernal Revenue Service shortly :(. It’s like I’m being penalized for working, while the hedge fund manager is being rewarded for… what? It defies all logic.
North Korea is a threat to South Korea. They don’t need to do much, Seoul is just ten miles from the border after all. All they have to do is wait for the winds to be blowing the right (wrong?) way and blow up one of their nasty little nukes upwind from Seoul but on their side of their border, and you’d have mass chaos. The hilarious part is that I don’t even know if that’d officially count as an act of war under international laws, since nobody has ever done anything like that before.
Thing is, if they take out Seoul, say goodbye to your iPhones and Androids, because every single one of the screens for those gadgets are made in Seoul, as are the processor chips for the iDevices of all ilk. For that matter pretty much every smartphone other than the iPhone are made in Seoul.
Gambling is given preference over working in the US tax system. Luck is more highly valued than effort by the Village. This is why so much money is spent on lotteries.
I figure that they would use a ‘dirty bomb’ rather than an actual nuclear device. The radioactivity is enough on it’s own to clear out Seoul, and, as you point out, they don’t even have to invade to be effective. They will still get turned into a glass parking lot, but I’m not sure that they care at this point.
20% of the population of South Korea is in Seoul, as is probably 1/3rd of their economy. There is no way of evacuating that city in any reasonable amount of time. The commander of the 2nd Infantry Division (our designated targets in South Korea) just lifted drinking restrictions on his troops (they’d been barred from drinking after some well-publicized brawls), probably so he can go get himself well and plastered without breaking his own regs ’cause that’s pretty much the only solution he has to that problem.
Based on the descriptions of North Korea’s nuclear tests, I’m not sure there’s much difference between North Korea’s nukes and a dirty bomb :twisted:. They fizzle more than they kaboom, though there’s still plenty enough kaboom to blow radioactive material everywhere.
The majority of the village is comprised of winners of the Lucky Sperm Club (for example, 80% of millionaires were born to millionaires), so of course they value luck more than they value hard work. They have experience with the former, and no experience with the latter :twisted:. The question is, why are so many of the American people willing to go along with this? It boggles the mind, so many people voting against their own interests…
Korea is one of the major places that people get sent to from here, an we have a large Korean population locally as a result. My Father and I both have ribbons for activities in Korea [his war hot, and mine cold], truly a war with no conclusion.
Yeah, it amazes me that people who work for a living can’t figure out that they are being screwed over by the top 1%. They just accept slogans about ‘job creators’ without actually looking at the facts. Bush gave them massive cuts, but no jobs appeared. The upper level is sucking up all of the extra money generated by increased productivity, while the people actually producing are running in place. The politicians blame everyone but those at fault.
If the ‘some of the people’ who you can ‘fool all the time’ is large enough, you can continue in office.