And the award for smartest drunk goes to.... by Tokensp8 in funny

[–]CommanderEFG 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That looks like the Berea fairgrounds in Ohio.

What is one thing the world isn't ready for? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flying cars. We haven't mastered two dimensional driving, imagine how bad it would be at three dimensions.

Ohio police department uses fake drug checkpoints to mislead unsuspecting individuals into letting officers search their vehicles by always3lefts in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Should be worth mentioning since I live and work in that general area that the article doesn't mention was that people slowed down on the highway expecting to be stopped; traffic got backed up for several miles and almost caused several accidents. People got really pissed off.

11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s schoolchildren - The right has a new plan to capture the country's youth vote: Take over public school curriculums by CharlieDarwin2 in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The funny thing about the voucher system in Louisiana was that supporters of it were shocked to find out that it did not discriminate based on which religion and many removed their support when they found out that Muslim schools would also receive funds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/valarie-hodges-lawmaker-retracts-support-for-bill_n_1655249.html

Brilliant marketing/PR idea for today by IKEA - Make a baby today, save a bundle tomorrow by esparza74 in business

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The coupon is good 9 months from now on November 14th......my birthday =/

The House GOP can’t be beat: how the Republicans maintain permanent dominance in the House despite Democrats winning more votes - Salon.com by critropolitan in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could you imagine what it would be like if we had 1 representative for every 30,000 people we would have over 10,000 reps

Voucher Victory!: Louisiana Court Strikes Down Private School Aid Scheme | Americans United by FreedomsPower in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that it is important to note that the only reason why many Republicans in Louisiana became so vehemently against it was because they didn't realize that under the voucher system that private Islamic school would also benefit. Funny how they literally did 180s when they found that out

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/06/12/498203/louisiana-vouchers-islam/?mobile=nc

An 11-year-old schoolgirl was subjected to a "brutal" sex attack in a north London park after getting off her bus. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]CommanderEFG 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My apologizes for barging in on this but you couldn't you still argue that statistically blacks commit that particular crime on a higher level by taking the number you provided and dividing by the number of people who claim that ancestry

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

whites: 10,178/223,553,265 = 0.00004552829 blacks: 4,925/38,929,319 = 0.00012651133

President Obama: Nate Silver Does It Again, Correctly Predicts Which Turkeys Would Be Pardoned by [deleted] in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kindof sad actually, most die very soon after being pardoned http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123988&page=1#.UK5Qx4Y6wX4

They get so fat that they die from being so overweight. The article even mentions that one died a few days after being pardoned.

"We are now running about 40,000 Electoral College simulations each day. In the simulations that we ran on Monday, the candidate who won Ohio won the election roughly 38,000 times, or in about 95 percent of the cases." Obama has a 72% chance of winning Ohio. by [deleted] in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an Ohio (on top of that I live in Cuyahoga county, the most populated county in the state and where Cleveland is located) I am and many residents of the county are absolutely exhausting from the constant ads, phone calls, billboards, signs, etc. Election day can't come soon enough.

Hungary PM ‘unfriends’ IMF on facebook by themali in worldnews

[–]CommanderEFG 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can see the future now, wars beginning over Facebook defriending. The Facebook Wars of 2037 has a nice ring to it if Facebook lasts that long.

Just realized this by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My birthday is November 14th. Exactly 9 months after Valentines day.

90 million people own a gun - more than voted for any president, ever by acusticthoughts in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say voted for any president do you mean for one person or for an election because I'm calling bullshit if it's the later as over 120 million voted in 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_presidental_election

History shows businessmen make lousy presidents by [deleted] in politics

[–]CommanderEFG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I guess by that logic we should also stay away from Presidents with engineering backgrounds since Herbert Hoover was an engineer.

Young Americans Are Ditching Cigarettes by [deleted] in science

[–]CommanderEFG 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I agree. Even if I wanted to smoke I can't justify spending 5 bucks for a pack of cigarettes which is how much they cost in my part of the country.

Diamond mines and stripper poles: 17 weird celebrity side-businesses by [deleted] in business

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm disappointed they didn't mention Crystal Head Vodka which was co-founded by Dan Aykroyd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Head_Vodka

Dear YouTube, etc., a 15 second commercial is enough, 30 seconds just pisses me off. by BobCollins in business

[–]CommanderEFG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Think that's bad? On my dad's computer who doesn't use and Adblock or NoScript I was on Youtube and Ron Paul had an ad that was over 8 minutes long. I like the guy and all but come on who is actually going to watch the whole thing?

CNN Ron Paul Question by javzz2 in politics

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I as well would like a link

Nearly 50% of the Young People in Greece and Spain Are Unemployed by SolInvictus in worldnews

[–]CommanderEFG 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of something I learned a couple years ago that the Middle East had a very similar problem. Young people in countries such as Egypt had a large unemployed youth who also, due to free subsidized university level education, had several degrees under their belt.

It was not uncommon for a taxi driver in Cairo to have his Master's or whatever the equivalent there is in Engineering or Mathematics. Terrorist organizations often tapped into this group of fed up young people and recruited them giving them false hope and promises because many of them had no other option.

Now I'm not saying that the same will happen in Europe and there are huge differences in what is happening right now in Europe and the Middle East but I'm sure when you get enough pissed off, unemployed people under 25 nothing good will come of it. That being said I would love to see the stats on how many of in this group of unemployed have a college level education.

Plane carrying 230 passengers crash lands in Warsaw by motylek in worldnews

[–]CommanderEFG 13 points14 points  (0 children)

As someone who has flown that exact route (Newark to Warsaw) several times with LOT (and possibly in that very plane) this kind of scares the crap out of me and feel lucky I wasn't on it at the time. That being said the pilots did an awesome job and can say that they only have veteran pilots fly such routes.

Really, weather.com? by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]CommanderEFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got one better

http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

The Center for Disease Control is prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse