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Maybe only a conservative celebrity. The left still tends to hold people accountable, sometimes to unreasonable standards, Al Franken as an example.

Yeah, don't want to turn this into a meme thread but this one is so fucking perfect: I mean I can never forgive her for "Who could've ever imagined?!". (You--it was YOUR JOB to imagine as fucking NSA and you'd been to a briefing where an airplane flying into a high-rise was the fucking clipart on the cover you worthless POS.) But this just proves how idiotic she is. Does anybody at Fox remember things that happened more than 72 hours ago? Do they even have object permanence? And the way Putin is now replaying our greatest hits, like Ukraine working on weapons of mass destruction and all... "This is different because it's being done to white people..." does seem to be prominent as well.

Good point, sorry, meant North Korea.

I think the Russian oligarchs are very much feeling the pinch, assets seized all over the world including their yachts and airplanes, inability to travel freely, domestic holdings down 50% or more in value so far... International business ventures falling apart. There are no oligarchs in North Vietnam or Cuba, and as Putin threatens to take Russia in that direction they'd do well to remember it. How valuable is fighting (and eventually loosing) an endless war of occupation in whatever former eastern-block countries *not* part of Nato remain compared against all that's being lost? Their civil aviation about to drop to below third-world as they're *stealing* the aircraft and will not have any ability to ever properly maintain them again, nor ever purchase new aircraft again.

Anybody suddenly not being able to pay rent or for basic necessities is a concern, especially our fellow gays already in a bad situation under a very anti-gay regime. Hopefully the citizens of Russia decide they've had enough and the oligarchs back them to oust Putin. But making average Russian citizens suffer and cutting them off from funds and non-state controlled news may be counter-productive.

Absolutely. Those safes aren't worth the cost of the coat of paint on them. 1) They are often left with a default bypass code that can be easily googled. If not, all the safes in the same hotel or likely chain have the same code. 2) There is a bypass keyway, usable without any indication by the safe and pickable under the metal nameplate on the safe. 3) A locked safe lets a thief know exactly where your valuables are. (Those locks to put on dressers/etc. are even worse for this.) Look up lockpickinglawyer or diviantolam on Youtube for more info. I'd suggest you're safer hiding the money in the room, possibly deep in your luggage or under the bottom drawer in the nightstand.

+1 to everything macaroni21 said above, which I basically just re-wrote then glanced up: It's actually much worse than suspended flights/airspace restrictions for Russia. They have practically no civilian aerospace industry left. Almost all of Aeroflot's aircraft are Boeing or Airbus. Half of them were leased. The leases have stipulations for return of the equipment for sanctions specifically (as well as non-payment) and they suddenly have zero replacement parts availability. Also no access to repair bases on foreign soil (one of Aeroflot's largest was in Germany).

Well since my content can't be worse than pretending not to understand that somebody who's been under direct physical bombardment and personal threat to his life for over a week might be sleep deprived, I guess I'll continue with it: re: Hmm...

Putin doesn't have to worry about old age, he has to worry about the oligarchs turning on him and encouraging/supporting a new, younger model to take his place. But it's not like they'd use polonium or Novichok... oh wait, yes they fucking would. Hence his obvious paranoia which is hopefully well founded. Even without a pre-mature and suspicious death, the second he's out of power he knows he'd lose all his hidden wealth as soon as his powerful and rich friends saw no benefit in maintaining association. They might also be about to fuck around and find out with democratic revolution, though I guess the citizens saw far more prosperity under Putin than their 5 minutes of democracy (am I remembering wrong that Yeltzin was elected...? And maybe Putin the first time or two?). The rampant kleptocracy is obvious to the west, but I also hear that many people believe that Putin isn't rich at all, since he keeps his mega yachts and villas out of his own name and publicly denies their existence on state media. I guess the first step will be the citizens realizing that state media is nothing but lies, which the Ukraine situation is helping with. IF ONLY the fucking vestiges of Voice of America/Freedom hadn't just been shut down by Trump/Pomptato on Putin's request...

Hmm... this brings up an interesting question... are there places that are unusual destinations for the US and West that are now particularly affordable? Are they worthwhile, safe, and are any especially gay friendly? I don't see Maldives or the Seychelles mentioned in the Africa forum...?

Sorry, I thought most were an amusing perspective but will try not to hijack existing threads in the future.

Did I officially overload it with memes? Did Russian hackers get to it? Sorry if I did something wrong there.

Loretta Swit was Houlihan in the show. Kellerman was in the Altman movie.

Something else he has in common with Trump, he's a scared little bunker bitch too!

By that time he had lost all principal and it was horrible to see. He went from railing against the "religious right" to standing on a stage at the sham university with his arm around Jerry Falwell. That was the day he lost any of my respect, it was just a decent into desperation and pandering to the worst of his party after that. Fighting Turd Blossom (Karl Rove and his sock puppet W)--having cars papered with stuff about his "black illegitimate baby" and having that win out over reason and principal may be what broke him. At least Cheeto Mussolini was a step too far (down the path W and Palin blazed) and he stood up again at the end.

As for how I would tackle it, if I saw a situation getting out of control I would offer my help to the flight attendants and if accepted I would tackle the shit out of the idiot causing the disturbance.

Everybody says they'll appeal, until the legal fees come due. The worst thing about Sarah Palin was that she was a harbinger, not the bottom of the barrel we all assumed.