PLACES A BOWL GAME SHOULD BE HELD: MOGADISHU

The Steve Fosset package is exactly what I need to cleanse my soul and re-zero the leger.

Oh, so basically, the Orange Bowl in the 80’s.

Didn’t Oklahoma and Miami play this game already?

Sounds like a job for D’Angelo Barksdale and family!

Actually, I misdoubt the Libertarians would sponsor a bowl game, since they (we? well, I’m not a MEMBER) aren’t so much in favor of state-sponsored education, anyway.

But you might be able to talk Phillip Morris into it.

Mauaji and Steve approve of this plan! If Mog can have bowl game, can Bamako be far behind? Then Mauaji will have chance to show true appeal as bowl mascot…

From MAUAJI, DESTROYER OF FOES to Mauaji, new Accenture corporate spokespredator.

“Failed state” is indeed an ugly term. It sounds so permanent and irreversible. I once saw Somalia’s form of government referred to as a “non-functioning anarchy,” which is a much better way of putting it.

@5:

As an actual, honest to god registered Libertarian (Hey, gives me an excuse to not vote in Florida’s closed primaries!):

State run education is actually pretty Libertarian (Both party-line and ‘ideal’).

I’d say the biggest reason the Libertarian party wouldn’t sponsor it would be that Somolia isn’t even close to Libertarian ideals (No government-provided infrastructure or defense? High-handed oppressive Warlords actually being mini-governments running rampant? Not exactly an ‘ideal’ there). Even in an “Ideal Libertarian” world, the government would still have a police force to guarantee you your rights, and none such exists in Somolia.

Rawr, stop getting politics in my EDSBS! (Wouldn’t the real OS disapprove?)

@my last:

To clarify… State-run education is hunky-dory (An ideal Libertarian state requires an educated populous). It’s the FEDERAL run stuff that Libertarians object to. The Department of Education is pretty much a money pit.

If we can’t pull the Mog Bowl off, how ‘bout moving the Sun Bowl to Juarez? It’s only slightly less dangerous and a lot easier to get to.

@8. Then howcum Neal Boortz refers to all public schools (state, local, whatever) as “government” schools, with disdain dripping from his microphone? Somebody needs to clue that dood in, I thought he was the No. 2 Official Libertarian Spokesman after Ron Paul.

Cozying up to a warlord should be easy, as you merely have to convert $50k into a fungible good of value

So… what’ll it be Mr. Shcnellenberger? 2500 bottles of Turfman’s or 5,000 lbs of pipe smokin’ leaf? What’s that? Split it down the middle? You got it. Save me a spot in the tank this Christmas.

I agree that politics is misplaced on EDSBS.

BUT… I have to also point out that Libertarianism is not synonymous with “anarchy” as you infer, Orson.

Libertarianism is founded on the protection individual rights and private property – which requires government. Somalia has no real government so individual rights are suppressed and private property stolen at gunpoint by Islamists and warlords.

Libertarians just want individuals to be free to choose things like their own schools, doctors, insurance companies, retirement plans, and even vices with as little interference as possible.

And despite Neal Boortz’s distain for government schools, he is a TX A&M alum. But I do think there is something to his theory that government schools are not set up to educate as much as they are to condition students for government-run lives.

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Orson, you are displaying Big 10 type speed with regards to staying on top of the developing story that the Big 10 is considering expansion and a conference championship game.
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Karl Hungus approves.

I FUCK YOU! I BELIEF IN NUSSING!

@ #5
No, the Libertarians would sponsor a bowl, but only private schools would get a tie in.

@Golden Hand #11:

Well, most libertarians I know in real life actually hate Neal Boortz. They think he’s a mockery of libertarian ideals. Ron Paul, though, he’s pretty much awesome personified.

He has a blimp, you know.

Please, please, please send UCLA, which had to sit at home and pray for yet another Navy beat-down on Army to “qualify” for a bowl. But you’d probably have to warn them that warlords don’t take a knee when they’re shoving an RPG up your ass.

Boortz is less libertarian and more objectivist, no real purple blooded libertarian would ever support all this foreign war crap that Boortz freely advocates. Also, I think Ron Paul owns a dirigible, not a blimp.

his theory that government schools are not set up to educate as much as they are to condition students for government-run lives.

In more innocent times it was called developing civic minded individuals who could participate in representative government.

Now it seems to be producing minimally educated fodder for the service sector.

Boortz is less libertarian and more objectivist objectionable

Of course you could say that about almost anyone who pontificates about politics.

Dear lord! Came back after several hours to find you idjits hijacked a perfectly good thread.

Off course its not accurate politik. It’s a funny (in both senses of the word) post based on stereotypes for comedic effect.

DC,

Unfortunately poiltics are extremely important. There are hoards of politicians more than willing to fuck up whatever you have going on just to hand it to someone else if they think they can get some votes out of it. Ignore them at your own peril.

Now if Orson had just labled this thing the Anarchist Bowl, then EDSBS could have stayed above the fray.

Libertarian Bowl? Pfft. I’m hoping for a bid to the Liberian Bowl.

Nice technical, BTW.

Don’t make me exercise my rights as despot in this comment thread.

Wave the wand Orson! Wave that bitch!

tzubear-

Be careful what you wish for, or you too might end up rotund, overheated, and subsisting solely on Tums and ice cream…

Would this pick before Shreveport?

Listen, strange women lyin’ in swamps, distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical amphibious ceremony.

Not sure what you are referring to, but “rotund, overheated, and subsisting solely on Tums and ice cream” is a state of being I am already familiar with.

I know where all the looters and the shooters say,
“Welcome to the city we call Doomsday.”
This is Africa… Hooray!!

This is why I have some measure of dislike for the internet.

This thread should have been hijacked into a discussion on the failings of the strategy by officers during Gothic Serpent, and then hijacked into a discussion of Clinton’s actions in the aftermath, and then hijacked into a discussion of the lessons learned – particularly the need for better armored vehicles – I mean, seriously, we’re gonna send Humvees into highly urbanized areas? For God’s sake, just up-armor some old M101s or something. And you had a bunch of Marines. And Marines have Abrams. And Abrams are awesome and the Somalis have nothing to match it. God.

Instead, it’s just crap about libertarians and some Boortz guy and crap. Awful.

M113s, rather.

Mogadishu is fun to look at on Google Earth. Mostly because it’s almost completely empty…in the middle of the day.

Stadium looks like it’ll need a little work, O. Which poses an interesting question- where do Somalians go for their cheap immigrant labor needs? Do they just whip stray dogs until something happens, then call it a day for Qat Time?

This post was hilarious, and Libertarians are so easily butthurt. It was a joke people.

Sad there’s actually a place where Snake Plissken performing the coin toss would be apropo.

I second that. Wave that FUCKING wand! Call forth the Red God of Blood, SUUUHHHHHHHH!!!

@29 I think it’s a “farcical AQUATIC ceremony.”

Misrepresent parties all you want, but misquote PYTHON? Them’s fightin’ words! :D

1. please enjoy a cocktail … +1

Tzubear-

I’m just saying, don’t go calling for Orson’s wand lightly. That thing is loaded. ;)

The weak six wins and bottom tier SEC criteria would guarantee that UK is bound for sunny Eastern Africa. And it would probably be a sell out cause the fans are loyal around these parts. Makes Nashville look good by comparison, eh disappointed Clemson fans?

TCOAN,

Ok, thanks for clarifying. I think some humer was lost somewhere in translation, I am much more charming in real life ; )

I have yet had any of my posts deleted, but would take a little Libertarian pride if one were ‘edited’. (in the flavor of this thread)

Tzubear-

To clarify further: Orson 2.0 is due in several weeks. :)

TCOAN,

Oohhhhh I see (light bulb truned to ON). I will make a special effort to stay away from Orsons wand.

Congradulations! Everyone I know is goin respectable these days.