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I was reading an article over lunch in the Financial Times newspaper call "Autocracy is the cause, not the cure, of the Middle East's ills" (it's a pay subscription site so I can't link to it). Here's what a reader wrote in the "comments section" underneath the article: "What utter drivel. The cause of Middle East problems are two things: the violent nature of bitterly divided modern Islam and the complete breakdown of Arab society. In fact the ONLY stability that has been enjoyed is with a strongman running a country. It has been that way for 1400 years. The Middle East destabilized for the worse when the USA took out Saddam Hussein and thought if we stuck a 3 piece suit on some Iraqis and had an election that somehow it would help. It is now worse than ever. In fact, Iraq is de facto divided into 3 nations right now: Sunnistan (ISIS), Kurdistan, and Shiastan (Bagdad). Only the borders of these 3 nations is being defined through conflict. Egypt devolved overnight with the "election" of the Muslim Brotherhood into power into a looming terrorist state that openly spoke of its plans to co-operate to destroy Israel as soon as possible. It openly welcomed Hamas (since it is a Brotherhood offshoot). Christians were murdered for being Christians by the truck loads, while the Brotherhood government looked the other way. El-Sisi stopped it, and was right to do so. Now Egypt has a strongman it is has become stable. Arab and Islamic culture have no sense of "democracy" in its traditions, culture, or mindset. Dominance and power are how governing is accomplished. They are tribal and sectarian and wish to remain that way. All they want to enjoy the wealth of the West under those same traditions, cultures, and mindsets. To the Arab, "democracy" simply means putting your strongman in power in place of your rival's strongman. Have the guts to spend some extended time there, as I have, and you'll learn it for yourself instead of pontificating some Liberal philosophy that works well in a classroom and sounds so high minded in a pithy editorial."

From the other side... We contract out a lot of work every year ($200m), including scientists, engineers and many other skills. This work is VERY complex and detailed, so we need to see people who have extensive experience. The contract companies that we hire promise us experienced people, but they always try to push young, inexperienced people on us. They negotiate a price for experts, but instead give us millennials. We yell at these companies and end up terminating their contract. And the companies yell at us (seriously), saying that their work is "good enough". Ageism is really a large problem out there today.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20150504/news/150509767

Pilot practiced crashing the plane on previous flight, prior to the actual crash: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/91f0db7e8181462aa3aaa080e2630fca/french-investigators-release-report-germanwings-crash

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Prosecutors-say-father-killed-2-in-honor-6233275.php

The jury may be split on the issue.

... then only outlaws will have bowling pins. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/illinois-man-bowling-pin-strike-burglar-head-cops-article-1.2184490

http://www.nj.com/education/2015/05/rutgers_diversify_scarlet_knight_mascot.html

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Opp-Teacher-Arrested-For-Alleged-Sexual-Contact-With-Students-302435961.html

http://nypost.com/2015/05/03/this-sexy-sexagenarian-model-proves-beauty-is-timeless/

I was skimming through youtube and saw the clips-spurs highlights from Saturday. They showed the foul on the spurs at 13 seconds and the foul on the clips at 8 seconds. And these are fouls? This kind of contact happens on every NBA play. Maybe that's why I don't watch basketball anymore, as there seems to be violations and infractions on every play, but they get called arbitrarily.

More workplace violence: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150503-police-kill-2-men-who-opened-fire-outside-muhammad-art-show-in-garland.ece

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150501_Frank_Olivo__66__substitute_Santa_hit_with_snowballs_at_Eagles_game.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWvza6en5Rg

Who?

No, What will be having a concert in Cardiff, Wales tonight: https://www.facebook.com/thebigwhatband/posts/10152813535821560

That's right.

That is correct.

The guy from Buffalo Rumblings came up with several ideas for alternate jerseys - some cool, others

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/prom-dress-sparks-debate-for-being-too-revealing-117698417467.html

Vous êtes laid et votre mère vous habillez drôle.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/30/judge-rips-boyfriend-for-cocaine-gals-deteriorating-looks/

It's not the Koch Brothers, you idiot - it's LEAD PAINT! http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/freddie-grays-life-a-study-in-the-sad-effects-of-lead-paint-on-poor-blacks/2015/04/29/0be898e6-eea8-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html

In all fairness, we have a team that has not made the playoffs for 16 years. That is a generation of poor and mediocre teams. If I had to write articles about a team that has gone nowhere for so long, my articles would be "negative" as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/business/media/sexism-and-anti-semitism-charged-in-al-jazeera-america-lawsuit.html