The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations. I hope everyone has been keeping in shape, because I'd imagine with the economy as bad as it is, there's going to be an involuntary draft by summer of next year. From what I can decipher from Obama's foreign policy memos on Wikileaks, a ground war in the Middle East is the only way he thinks he can get re-elected next year.

spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations. I hope everyone has been keeping in shape, because I'd imagine with the economy as bad as it is, there's going to be an involuntary draft by summer of next year. From what I can decipher from Obama's foreign policy memos on Wikileaks, a ground war in the Middle East is the only way he thinks he can get re-elected next year.

What a zionist might sound like.

Sure, I believe you, subby. And Jimmy Carter is the Queen of England.

If those are the "hard-line students" in the picture, I think they are pissed because they have been in school for at least 45 years.

Looks like those riot cops mean business...

Nice headline subby, for those of us old enough to remember the risks the Canadians took to help out some of our diplomats there during the hostage crisis, I just want to say again thanks to my neighbors up north.

Much like a good neighbor, you may look at me with disdain after that wild party but when it is time to clean up you are willing to help and not remind me that the goat was a bad idea...

What's all this then?

Way to go, dicks. Just when we think the youth in Tehran are progressive, they go and become dickish.

Nuke 'em from Montana. It's the only way to be sure...

/upcoming apocalyse brought to by Jimmy Carter, the gift that keeps on giving

spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations.

What is this "wire" you speak of? And is that "tonight" by Israeli clocks? Because it's just about 5pm over there. Dang near quittin' time. It's 6:13 in Tehran - an hour and a half after sunset.

So what you're saying is, before I get off of work we should have a nice little regional conflict on our hands?

Please, enlighten us with a source.

shiate hits fan

spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations. I hope everyone has been keeping in shape, because I'd imagine with the economy as bad as it is, there's going to be an involuntary draft by summer of next year. From what I can decipher from Obama's foreign policy memos on Wikileaks, a ground war in the Middle East is the only way he thinks he can get re-elected next year.

Woof. This would be scary if true. I think it would be time to leave the country at that point.

RapMstr: Nice headline subby, for those of us old enough to remember the risks the Canadians took to help out some of our diplomats there during the hostage crisis, I just want to say again thanks to my neighbors up north.

Much like a good neighbor, you may look at me with disdain after that wild party but when it is time to clean up you are willing to help and not remind me that the goat was a bad idea...

Took me a bit to get the headline, but then I lol'd.

Question: if the Embassy is on sovereign British soil, can the Brits shoot back?

Yeah England is the cause of your problems and not your retarded socially conservative government.

spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations. I hope everyone has been keeping in shape, because I'd imagine with the economy as bad as it is, there's going to be an involuntary draft by summer of next year. From what I can decipher from Obama's foreign policy memos on Wikileaks, a ground war in the Middle East is the only way he thinks he can get re-elected next year.

All Obama has to do to get reelected is play clips of the republican debates on his campaign adds.
It's kinda like during the 90's when Clinton's opponents were "The Grinch, a Neo-nazi, and a Funny Faced Millionaire"

spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations. I hope everyone has been keeping in shape, because I'd imagine with the economy as bad as it is, there's going to be an involuntary draft by summer of next year. From what I can decipher from Obama's foreign policy memos on Wikileaks, a ground war in the Middle East is the only way he thinks he can get re-elected next year.


I sure wish I wasn't at work. This would go great with a picture of Quint and Brody watching the line from the rod. Someone help me out here.

Jeese. The Oakland/Portland/NYC police are equipped far better to fight off students..

coeyagi: Way to go, dicks. Just when we think the youth in Tehran are progressive, they go and become dickish.

Well the guy in the photo has a graying beard, not sure about the youth part.

Odds were this was a paid mob. The government brought them in during the Iranian uprisings a few years back as well. That also explains why the police are just standing there. Or hell it is a bunch of troops in plain cloths who got told "No PT, you're storming the embassy today".

It was only 20 students, they can't even get a good mob going, here in the U.S. we use bigger mobs than that to invade a convenience store

So should I stock up on canned food and ammo now? The article didn't tell me

zerohedge says they're hostages but zerohedge gets it wrong quite a bit

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-update-six-uk-embassy-staff-taken- h ostage-iran-contra-redux

however, i think you can count on a nice bump in oil prices

"hard line students" or as they are known to the rest of the world, plain clothes secret police....

wxgeek: spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations.

What is this "wire" you speak of? And is that "tonight" by Israeli clocks? Because it's just about 5pm over there. Dang near quittin' time. It's 6:13 in Tehran - an hour and a half after sunset.

So what you're saying is, before I get off of work we should have a nice little regional conflict on our hands?

Please, enlighten us with a source.

No can do civilian. Let's just say I sit around with some people who'll be pushing the buttons when the time comes to end all this madness. Don't tell anyone what I told you. Just prepare and be ready.

spentmiles: wxgeek: spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations.

What is this "wire" you speak of? And is that "tonight" by Israeli clocks? Because it's just about 5pm over there. Dang near quittin' time. It's 6:13 in Tehran - an hour and a half after sunset.

So what you're saying is, before I get off of work we should have a nice little regional conflict on our hands?

Please, enlighten us with a source.

No can do civilian. Let's just say I sit around with some people who'll be pushing the buttons when the time comes to end all this madness. Don't tell anyone what I told you. Just prepare and be ready.

You run the register at Walmart?

spentmiles: wxgeek: spentmiles: The news over the wire is that Israel is going to pound Iran with airstrikes, starting tonight. As the US throws hell and fire all over Iran's military installations.

What is this "wire" you speak of? And is that "tonight" by Israeli clocks? Because it's just about 5pm over there. Dang near quittin' time. It's 6:13 in Tehran - an hour and a half after sunset.

So what you're saying is, before I get off of work we should have a nice little regional conflict on our hands?

Please, enlighten us with a source.

No can do civilian. Let's just say I sit around with some people who'll be pushing the buttons when the time comes to end all this madness. Don't tell anyone what I told you. Just prepare and be ready.

The tinfoil act isn't as funny, but I'll be damned if you aren't getting bites.

/you may be over tag limit

so people react unfavorably to further sanctions? what did we expect? "thank you sir may I have another?"

I wonder how people here would react (especially those poo pooing on these actions) if the UN decided to place heavy sanctions on us for our aggressive military posture?

spentmiles: No can do civilian. Let's just say I sit around with some people who'll be pushing the buttons when the time comes to end all this madness. Don't tell anyone what I told you. Just prepare and be ready.

Sure thing, buddy. I'll get right on it.

Migrating Coconut: I sure wish I wasn't at work. This would go great with a picture of Quint and Brody watching the line from the rod. Someone help me out here.



There ya go.

mark12A: Nuke 'em from Montana. It's the only way to be sure...

/upcoming apocalyse brought to by Jimmy Carter, the gift that keeps on giving

Eisenhower is the gift that keeps on giving. Even Truman had a hand in the CIA helping with the coup that thrust the Shah into power. A move that Iranians resented for years until the clerics took over. The U.S. had a "relationship" with the Shah and felt compelled to come to his aid following the revolution in 1979.

Let's keep the Israeli air strikes on the down low, so they can catch Iran by surprise

In their defense, they thought that the British Embassy was actually a Walmart that was having their Black Friday sale.

daddio: Yea looks like those cops are keeping the protesters in line there, they certainly give the appearance of being real police.

They need some training from the Oakland PD.

Hobodeluxe: so people react unfavorably to further sanctions? what did we expect? "thank you sir may I have another?"

I wonder how people here would react (especially those poo pooing on these actions) if the UN decided to place heavy sanctions on us for our aggressive military posture?

How would the UN enforce said sanctions on us?

/the key to being a successful militaristic is being too big to fark with

Koreans
Vietnamese
Russians
Al Qaeda
Saddam Hussein
Qaddafi
Iran

Isn't it curious how whenever one boogeyman is vanquished another magically arises to replace him?

Strange days, these are.

rilettes:
Question: if the Embassy is on sovereign British soil, can the Brits shoot back?

Yes.

Longer answer: yes, but they'd end up running out of bullets when the next mob shows up with a lot more people, goaded on by Iranian government employees (as usual).

On the other hand (due to the complete inaction by Iranian security forces), this is a classic cause for war. For that matter, technically, the US and Iran have been at war since the 1977 hostage crisis, it's just that everyone tried to pretend otherwise.

(Using classic diplomatic definitions, most of the more aggressive countries in the world have given each other causes for declarations of war many times over the last few decades...)

ha-ha-guy: Hobodeluxe: so people react unfavorably to further sanctions? what did we expect? "thank you sir may I have another?"

I wonder how people here would react (especially those poo pooing on these actions) if the UN decided to place heavy sanctions on us for our aggressive military posture?

How would the UN enforce said sanctions on us?

/the key to being a successful militaristic is being too big to fark with

yeah right