ITT Socialism wins

[Galleleo]

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/i...countries.html

That's all

[Jason]

luxembourg should have a handicap. i mean c'mon, it's so damn small, of course it's easier to take care of people.

[Jerome Scuggs]

finland - where the fuck is finland
switzerland - they have good banks i guess
sweden - hot twins but thats about it
australia - kangaroos, that awesome accent... but they censor the internet and telcat lives there
luxembourg - who?
norway - i got some wood from there once and it was ok
canada - i would visit and maybe even live in canada, but only BC
netherlands - this place sucks so bad they gave it like 3 different names to fool people into coming back
japan - i can't believe we're below the dudes who brought us bukkake
denmark - 86% of their public services are privatized, i want to study this country

see, when you get rid of the places people don't care about america becomes #1

edit: but for serious though, when you measure this chart against a list of countries by population size, it's obvious that governing a small population is far, far easier - and yet the US is stil #11

[Vatican Assassin]

netherlands - this place sucks so bad they gave it like 3 different names to fool people into coming back

haha

[kthx]

Newsweek Sells for One Dollar

It’s true! For less than you’d spend on a bottle of soda, 91-year-old tycoon Sidney Harman has purchased Newsweek from the Washington Post Company in an official decision announced today. In conjunction with the deal, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham is stepping down.

Harman, who made his fortune through audio-system manufacturing company Harman International industries, is married to Congresswoman Jane Harman. Newsweek has been looking for a buyer to salvage the magazine from economic slump, and Harman offered to keep a large number of the magazine’s current employees, according to The New York Times. He bought the publication for merely a dollar, in exchange for the liability that accompanies the purchase and Newsweek’s sizable debt.

Newsweek itself reports that at a staff meeting Monday, Harman spoke of the honor he felt in his new association with the magazine. “I hope this will be the last day anyone hears me referred to as owner. It makes me cringe. We are all owners, and that starts with ownership of this legacy, and that is a big damn thing to own,” he said. “I would be delighted over a period of a few years to see Newsweek get by on its own fuel. Break even is a serious accomplishment in this environment,” he said. “I’m not here to make money, I’m here to make joy.”

The Washington Post Company bought Newsweek in 1961, and Meacham has served as the editor for the past four years. He now leaves, citing Harman’s purchase as a “natural occasion” to move on, career-wise. No replacement has yet been named.

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I think it had like 20000 readers a month or some shit, its just a publicity stunt based on pseudo intellectual's rambling statistics that don't matter. Sorta like the global warming hoax that nobody believes anymore, science is all based on fudged data and other crap for the most part to fit a political viewpoints ideals.

[saetep]

The fuck is 'economic dynamism' and how is Singapore ranked 1st in it? The United States could buy that shit country.

[kthx]

Don't worry, some really really terrible magazine that nobody reads got a new owner who paid a whopping dollar for a failing magazine in a failing way of getting the news and made some moronic claim to try to get some popularity out of it.

[Galleleo]

Haha I knew I could troll Kthx, not that hard

[kthx]

Generally when you troll someone you upset them, I don't think I was really that angry about this, just wanted to point out how terrible the magazine is.

[kthx]

Besides how could I be mad when its Hatch Pepper season?

Purple and yellow onions, ancho peppers, chipotle peppers, mexican black lava salt, jalapenos, serranos, mild and hot hatch peppers, olive oil, and garlic, and two limes, and its all just sitting there slowly cooking together until the onions are nice and translucent.



Damn thats going to be some great salsa.

[Jerome Scuggs]

my mouth is watering... god damnit kthx GOD DAMNIT

haha you might appreciate this since you are from texas: my dad went to see a cincinnati reds game up in ohio, and he said he went to a place that claimed to have "the state's best chili", which as turns out was like... meatloaf and ketchup. wasn't even spicy. i don't remember if he was in ohio or kentucky (apparently cincinnati is like right on the border) but either way, one of those states is fucking lame

[Zeebu]

my mouth is watering... god damnit kthx GOD DAMNIT

haha you might appreciate this since you are from texas: my dad went to see a cincinnati reds game up in ohio, and he said he went to a place that claimed to have "the state's best chili", which as turns out was like... meatloaf and ketchup. wasn't even spicy. i don't remember if he was in ohio or kentucky (apparently cincinnati is like right on the border) but either way, one of those states is fucking lame

not all midwestern chili is crap. i promise. come to springfield to joe rodgers and get the firebrand chili. if you have ever seen man v food, it was on there as that episode's challenge. its a kick in the dick but its also actually edible.

[kthx]

rofl, meatloaf and ketchup, now that sounds god awful when you are expecting chili.

I haven't made a chili in awhile but I think I might this winter, been working on my beans last year, and so far I have two recipes that are good enough to go into my rotation.

One is a Wheat Beer base and the other is a more classic Spiral Cut Ham Bone base, but both have plenty of jalapenos, serranos, and onions.

Anyways I had an idea for some chili awhile back, there is this meat market near my house that sells ground buffalo meat, and I might try that in a chili once it gets colder.

But for now its mother fucking salsa and guac season so im doing tons of that and pickling my own pickles.

[Da1andonly]

i live in finland, the "best" country in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

still we top every chart of most suicides


it's actually true. however 80% of the sucides committed in finland happens over the arcitc circle (!) which crosses finland, it's very far up the north. that place must suck fucking ass - they barely get any light.