The most money I’ve ever seen in person is like 30k. I was working on staff for a golf club and there big member/guest was that weekend and I had to help count the purse. 30k was cool, I cannot imagine 6 billion.

this reminds me of Blow when they couldn’t figure out where to put that box of cash because that apartment they were in was full of other boxes of cash.

i forgot who it was (think it was warlord hazret ali) or where i read it, but some afghan warlord was paid an estimated $60 mil in duffel bag CIA cashgrabs. how ridiculous is that?

we’re doing good work there. giving the opium lords duffel bags full of cash and all that…

at least we’re making them work for those duffel bags of cash instead of begging up bricks of sequential bills and flying them over to hand deliver.

Basically he said that if the US can prove that you are affiliated with the Taliban — they will destroy it, if they can’t the US will let you grow it b\c it’s so vital to the economy.

well yea…97% of the afghan GDP is dependent on foreign aid. they don’t have a climate suitable for almost anything other than opium and the opium lords provide ridiculous amounts of intelligence and local help that’s at least somewhat reliable.

that’s how fucked up the place is…the best people to depend on are drug dealers and warlords focused on their tribal rivals.

and that’s why the US leaving would be a HUGE mistake right now.

we’re doing good work there. giving the opium lords duffel bags full of cash and all that…

We’re also giving away 6.6 billion to Iraqis who will now sue us for it (as TBL linked to). Lawyers, drugs and money….

One of my best friends (and fellow tOSU alum) is a 1st Lt. Marine Infantry and he says that this problem is so rampant that he is shocked that most Americans don’t know about it. Basically he said that if the US can prove that you are affiliated with the Taliban — they will destroy it, if they can’t the US will let you grow it b\c it’s so vital to the economy. Gotta love the Afghan war.

heard like 37 people mention Game of Thrones on the web recently. never once did i google. just found out this morning it was a TV show. what a horrible name.

Now, Gossip Girl is a great name for a show!
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we’re doing good work there. giving the opium lords duffel bags full of cash and all that…

When my friend was the TV critic for the Sun Times he got to write off his entire cable bill.

Doug Elfman?

Tell me more about opium wars.

People liked to get high…. then imperialism and colonialism plus a weak central govt fucked up a 1000 yr old empire and led directly to Mao, famine, anti-intellectualism and hundred million dead.

But why do I have to pick a topic and lead the discussion. Too heavy a load. You go while I try to figure out a bowel movement that rhymes with Tyson.

The Opium Wars and their effects on modern day China.

Get the fuck out.

you go first. Most of us were talking about television shows, but I can understand if you don’t watch any of them. Tell me more about opium wars.

I’ve known a few people that just randomly start becoming allergic to certain foods. Friend of mine developed a soy allergy a few years ago out of nowhere. Sucks because a ton of shit has soy in it.

Generic Red Bull. Don’t know what the ingredient is, but whatever is in that Red Bull Lite stuff they have in the liquor gun at college bars made me blow up like Mission to Mars. Back in the days when I drank Red Bull and vodka at the same time.

so what do you want to talk about? You choose the topic, and we can chat. I’m OK with that.

The Opium Wars and their effects on modern day China.

so what do you want to talk about? You choose the topic, and we can chat. I’m OK with that.

Man, I hope so. I’m gonna be super bummed if I can’t drink Trader Joe’s Prosecco anymore… I love that stuff.

I’ve known a few people that just randomly start becoming allergic to certain foods. Friend of mine developed a soy allergy a few years ago out of nowhere. Sucks because a ton of shit has soy in it.

I made it through the first two seasons, think I started with season 3 and lost interest. season 1 is real good though.

Was season three where they end up in that South American prison with Bunny Colvin? I think that’s when I bailed