Word: stupidity
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...Noorzai case is a perfect example of this Administration's botched war on terrorism and the Drug Enforcement Administration's handling of the incredibly stupid war on drugs. Haji Bashar Noorzai could have been a real asset in rooting out the Taliban. Intelligence on the ground is a most valuable resource. Has Noorzai's arrest really made a difference in heroin production? U.S. taxpayers are now going to have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow through legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit...
...allowed to break rules during training and never received the standard punishment of doing push-ups. "We had to stand next to a shooter and catch his bullet shells as they were ejected from the rifle before they hit the ground. Golden Boy Hicks thought it was childish and stupid and absolutely refused. All that happened was he was told to go back to [our accommodation]. Golden Boy was probably thinking of 'pulling the pin' as he would always say until Golden Boy and Hudaifah had a nice little chat and patched things up. Whereas if everybody else did that...
...within one with less than five minutes to go, it was, fittingly, a penalty that shaped the game’s final minutes. Sophomore Jimmy Fraser was whistled for hooking at 18:58, giving Brown a chance to pull Rosen for a 6-on-4 advantage.“Stupid penalties down the stretch, no doubt about it,” Reese said. “We took two penalties within five minutes, one with a minute left—they’re just unacceptable.”After a grueling contest that had thus far featured 22 penalties...
...Covett. The story concerns the arrival of Blanchett’s Sheba Hart at the gritty London middle school where Covett chairs the history department. Hart is an instant school celebrity, more for her figure than for her teaching abilities. “Is she a sphinx, or merely stupid?” Dench’s character inquires with characteristic acidity in one of the narrative voice-overs that take regular—and usually shocking—extracts from her journal entries. According to the movie’s tagline, “one woman?...
...lift your drink, while Portman sexy-dances for Owen—gay or straight, you’ll find yourself highly aroused. 8. Mix yourself a nice, large, self-satisfied cocktail the moment you realize that none of these people will ever be happy because they are all stupid and mean. 9. Drink every time this movie makes you glad to be single. You may have to use an intravenous drip for the last fifteen minutes, but it’s worth it. —Jillian J. Goodman