Ca$ino mogul Sheldon Adelson is asking Mitt Romney to support the release of an Israeli spy, reports the Daily Beast. Adelson is a major Romney backer. A Republican donor and several associates of both men told the Daily Beast that Adelson wants Romney to promise to release Jonathan Pollard, who is serving life in prison. Romney has rebuffed the request, according to the report.
Here’s the skinny on Pollard if, like me, you know very little about his case. It seems he was mostly in it for the money and was willing to sell info to Pakistan and South Africa (back when they were an apartheid state). Clinton was willing to at least entertain releasing him for a peace deal. He has served almost 30 years.
I’d be willing to release him if Israel was willing to do something in return, like signing a peace treaty. Otherwise, fuck him.
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hhex65
Just saw on twitter via @HitRight2012 that R-Money’s VP pick is going to be Kif from Futurama– or possibly Jim Webb (Game Change Pt. 2)
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joel hanes
They’re still being careful not to take bacteria from Earth, to prevent contamination. I expect that one day we’ll find out that the quarantine has failed, and that some place on Mars will eventually harbor reproducing DNA from Earth.
But what a perfect tour de force of engineering and manufacture to pull off that landing to deliver such a sophisticated platform to the surface of Mars intact.
And as Steven Weinberg once remarked
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
In one day, two different people wanted to talk about Kim Stanley Robinson Mars. Long life and good luck to this incredible robot probe.
A peace deal and nuclear disarmament, then they can have the traitor Pollard. Otherwise, to hell with them/him.
How many countries are there in the world? What other country could Pollard have spied for and still gained wingnut immunity?
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picturesofsmith
Sorry as a liberal and someone who worked on that project thats not funny at all. Curiosity is a shining example of good government. You should be trumpeting it. Or, maybe I haven’t lurked long enough and don’t get it.
Yeah nothing says “law-abiding citizen participating in democracy like you and me” like a billionaire making advance demands of special favors for a convicted traitor.
Keep it up Sheldon and your shenanigans will be as famous as Romney’s tax returns.
Just saw on twitter via @HitRight2012 that R-Money’s VP pick is going to be Kif from Futurama—or possibly Jim Webb (Game Change Pt. 2)
Not a chance Webb would accept. His obsession is blue-collar Scots-Irish folk who have been endlessly screwed by people like Romney. And more important, he’s not a glory hound like Palin; he hates campaigning and dealing with the public generally. That’s almost certainly the main reason he’s not running for re-election.
The SEC and a grand jury are looking at Sands (Adelson’s company) on a wide variety of stuff, including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Could be a schadenfreudelicious October Surprise.
@picturesofsmith: Might I gently suggest you loosen up? People are very excited about the Curiosity landing and are making it a part of their world in lots of ways, many of them humorous. Curiosity is officially a meme.
A Norwgian may be responsible for a rupture in US-Canada relations. The whole fucking country is whining about bad calls. I halfway expect Harper to recall the Ambassador unless Obama forces our team to give up whatever medals it wins on Thursday.
Just saw a Nightline segment on the Wisconsin killings, and they didn’t dance around calling the killer a White Supremacist. They had Mark Potok from the SPLC on as well. Pretty good segment.
The coolest part was Megan Rapinoe bending in a goal directly on a corner kick.
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Citizen_X
@THE: Watching that video, I’m impressed with the contrast with the white/male/buttoned down NASA of the 60s. (Not to disparage those guys’ accomplishments at all.) The fact that the mission control people include longhairs and a mohawk? Meh. It’s kind of bemusing, but not that significant. But the fact that the crowd is that diverse now is, as they say, a Big Fucking Deal.
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David Koch
@Mark S.: pardoning Pollard in return for cash would be a 1,000,000 times worst than the mark rich deal. of course, IOKIYAR.
Rapinoe’s first and Sinclair’s third were the direct result of egregious defensive mistakes.
I saw at least three bookable offenses by Tancredi.
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burnspbesq
Can I just say that I’m tired of Brandi Chastain. She adds nothing to my understanding of the match.
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THE
@Citizen_X: Yes. It’s a big deal. Racial, gender diversity. All good.
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Hill Dweller
@burnspbesq: I can understand their frustrations with the six second call, which is a rule I didn’t even know existed. That gave the US the free kick that led to the hand ball.
But the hand ball was a good call, IMO. If you watch the slow-mo, there were actually two handballs on the play.
Furthermore, Canada played very physically. Tancredi received one yellow and deserved a few more, but the ref was obviously afraid to send her off. Alex Morgan was taken down a couple of times with no call.
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hhex65
@Villago Delenda Est: I’m sure at first Kif would try to turn the VP slot down but he’d ultimately take it, something to do with dropping Nixon’s head and needing access to a time machine to replace it.
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hhex65
@Redshift: I can imagine his name crossing their minds though.
I’m so lame, I actually thought the cute 404 was the point. It made me smile.
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Uncle Cosmo
The only way for Curiosity to top the red-shoes-sticking-out-from-under-the-Spirit-landing-leg would be to photoshop a set of pootie paws sticking out from under one of its wheels.
Romney has rebuffed the request, according to the report.
See, THIS is what pisses me off about this guy. He’s capable of proving he’s not a TOTAL retard, but he goes along with most of the other crap anyway.
Still, at least he has sense enough (as of the time the piece was written anyhow) not to say he’d do this.
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Randy P
@Ben Cisco: “We’ve already established what you are, Mr. Romney. Now we are haggling over price.”
(h/t apocryphal Churchill)
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bago
Could we accomplish this event if we had a government small enough to fit between your doctor and your cervix?
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Mark B.
@picturesofsmith: Well, it’s pretty funny, but it would have been better if they had actually used Curiosity and not Spirit, which is a completely different spacecraft. I’m suspecting this is an old image lifted from the 2004 mission … and enhanced by photoshop, of course.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
somebody won the whole Internet.
even the one on Mars.
=)
THE
Nice compilation video from JPL:
Curiosity Has Landed.
Anoniminous
This has always made me chuckle.
Mark S.
This was interesting:
Here’s the skinny on Pollard if, like me, you know very little about his case. It seems he was mostly in it for the money and was willing to sell info to Pakistan and South Africa (back when they were an apartheid state). Clinton was willing to at least entertain releasing him for a peace deal. He has served almost 30 years.
I’d be willing to release him if Israel was willing to do something in return, like signing a peace treaty. Otherwise, fuck him.
hhex65
Just saw on twitter via @HitRight2012 that R-Money’s VP pick is going to be Kif from Futurama– or possibly Jim Webb (Game Change Pt. 2)
joel hanes
They’re still being careful not to take bacteria from Earth, to prevent contamination. I expect that one day we’ll find out that the quarantine has failed, and that some place on Mars will eventually harbor reproducing DNA from Earth.
But what a perfect tour de force of engineering and manufacture to pull off that landing to deliver such a sophisticated platform to the surface of Mars intact.
And as Steven Weinberg once remarked
In one day, two different people wanted to talk about Kim Stanley Robinson Mars. Long life and good luck to this incredible robot probe.
JS
Picture missing the “Get a Brain Morans” guy.
trollhattan
@Mark S.:
A peace deal and nuclear disarmament, then they can have the traitor Pollard. Otherwise, to hell with them/him.
How many countries are there in the world? What other country could Pollard have spied for and still gained wingnut immunity?
picturesofsmith
Sorry as a liberal and someone who worked on that project thats not funny at all. Curiosity is a shining example of good government. You should be trumpeting it. Or, maybe I haven’t lurked long enough and don’t get it.
Mark S.
@trollhattan:
I would say none.
freelancer
Great. Just fucking Great. Neo-Confederate Hillbilly Aliens.
Bill Hicks was a Time Traveler, just like he accused Jimi Hendrix of being.
The Other Chuck
Yeah nothing says “law-abiding citizen participating in democracy like you and me” like a billionaire making advance demands of special favors for a convicted traitor.
Keep it up Sheldon and your shenanigans will be as famous as Romney’s tax returns.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I saw that earlier on the Facebook.
For some reason, all of my info was wiped out in the fields above the comment box. How odd.
Redshift
@hhex65:
Not a chance Webb would accept. His obsession is blue-collar Scots-Irish folk who have been endlessly screwed by people like Romney. And more important, he’s not a glory hound like Palin; he hates campaigning and dealing with the public generally. That’s almost certainly the main reason he’s not running for re-election.
Villago Delenda Est
@hhex65:
Zap Brannigan: Kif, I’ve made it with a woman. Inform the crew.
Kif: /sigh
MikeJ
@Redshift: And Zapp Brannigan seems much more typically Republican. Brannigan’s Law is like Brannigan’s love, hard and fast.
AnotherBruce
@picturesofsmith: Dude, it’s a joke, although you’re right, only good government can pull of something this amazing.
PeakVT
@Mark S.: Adelson wants Romney to promise to release Jonathan Pollard, who is serving life in prison.
This tells you all you need to know about Adelson, Romney, and the state of our election system.
Geoduck
@Anoniminous: You put an extra backslash in that link.
HobbesAI
I’ve enjoyed the pictures sent back by the previous rovers.
burnspbesq
@The Other Chuck:
The SEC and a grand jury are looking at Sands (Adelson’s company) on a wide variety of stuff, including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Could be a schadenfreudelicious October Surprise.
Ash Can
@PeakVT: Boy howdy. Who’s whoring for whom?
Alison
Heh, Jon and Stephen need some intern to coordinate their material. They both made “Best Buy employee” jokes about the NASA people.
Also too, I love Tim Gunn. Can he be my new best friend?
burnspbesq
@burnspbesq:
FYWP. Whaddayoumean I can’t paste a link in the edit box?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/08/04/sheldon-adelsons-sands-targeted-in-money-laundering-investigation/
karen marie
@picturesofsmith: Might I gently suggest you loosen up? People are very excited about the Curiosity landing and are making it a part of their world in lots of ways, many of them humorous. Curiosity is officially a meme.
patrick II
VIA Angry Bear. Can I just caste my 2016 early vote for Elizabeth Warren now?
PZ
Has Bobo done After Hours at Applebee’s-
http://gawker.com/5932224/americas-hottest-club-is-applebees
David Koch
Even the Martians hate the New York Yankees.
burnspbesq
A Norwgian may be responsible for a rupture in US-Canada relations. The whole fucking country is whining about bad calls. I halfway expect Harper to recall the Ambassador unless Obama forces our team to give up whatever medals it wins on Thursday.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Just saw a Nightline segment on the Wisconsin killings, and they didn’t dance around calling the killer a White Supremacist. They had Mark Potok from the SPLC on as well. Pretty good segment.
David Koch
@burnspbesq: A tale of two twitters.
In Canada, people were tweeting their anger.
In America, people were tweeting their lust by linking to photos of Alex Morgan in body paint.
http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/the91stminute/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/morgan2.jpg
http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/game-on/2012/02/10/alexx-large.jpg
The coolest part was Megan Rapinoe bending in a goal directly on a corner kick.
Citizen_X
@THE: Watching that video, I’m impressed with the contrast with the white/male/buttoned down NASA of the 60s. (Not to disparage those guys’ accomplishments at all.) The fact that the mission control people include longhairs and a mohawk? Meh. It’s kind of bemusing, but not that significant. But the fact that the crowd is that diverse now is, as they say, a Big Fucking Deal.
David Koch
@Mark S.: pardoning Pollard in return for cash would be a 1,000,000 times worst than the mark rich deal. of course, IOKIYAR.
amk
@Citizen_X: Plenty of women geeks. Also. Too.
burnspbesq
@David Koch:
Rapinoe’s first and Sinclair’s third were the direct result of egregious defensive mistakes.
I saw at least three bookable offenses by Tancredi.
burnspbesq
Can I just say that I’m tired of Brandi Chastain. She adds nothing to my understanding of the match.
THE
@Citizen_X: Yes. It’s a big deal. Racial, gender diversity. All good.
Hill Dweller
@burnspbesq: I can understand their frustrations with the six second call, which is a rule I didn’t even know existed. That gave the US the free kick that led to the hand ball.
But the hand ball was a good call, IMO. If you watch the slow-mo, there were actually two handballs on the play.
Furthermore, Canada played very physically. Tancredi received one yellow and deserved a few more, but the ref was obviously afraid to send her off. Alex Morgan was taken down a couple of times with no call.
hhex65
@Villago Delenda Est: I’m sure at first Kif would try to turn the VP slot down but he’d ultimately take it, something to do with dropping Nixon’s head and needing access to a time machine to replace it.
hhex65
@Redshift: I can imagine his name crossing their minds though.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Hill Dweller:
So did the USA. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The prophet Nostradumbass
The funny thing about a statement like that is that you can be telling the truth and be utterly full of shit at the same time.
SiubhanDuinne
@Anoniminous:
@Geoduck:
I’m so lame, I actually thought the cute 404 was the point. It made me smile.
Uncle Cosmo
The only way for Curiosity to top the red-shoes-sticking-out-from-under-the-Spirit-landing-leg would be to photoshop a set of pootie paws sticking out from under one of its wheels.
(“Curiosity killed the cat.” Get it? Get it???)
Ben Cisco
@Mark S.:
See, THIS is what pisses me off about this guy. He’s capable of proving he’s not a TOTAL retard, but he goes along with most of the other crap anyway.
Still, at least he has sense enough (as of the time the piece was written anyhow) not to say he’d do this.
Randy P
@Ben Cisco: “We’ve already established what you are, Mr. Romney. Now we are haggling over price.”
(h/t apocryphal Churchill)
bago
Could we accomplish this event if we had a government small enough to fit between your doctor and your cervix?
Mark B.
@picturesofsmith: Well, it’s pretty funny, but it would have been better if they had actually used Curiosity and not Spirit, which is a completely different spacecraft. I’m suspecting this is an old image lifted from the 2004 mission … and enhanced by photoshop, of course.
LanceThruster
Reminds me of this —
Original Homeland Security
Anoniminous
@Geoduck:
My link works for me and yours sends me to a 404.
Strange