This could've been avoided if our government would just admit that the Cold War is over and begin leading NATO towards a working relationship with Russia. We have the same goals here. This coup seems to have enlisted absolutely zero international support, which is inexplicable considering democratic backsliding in Turkey is good for nobody.

Erdogan is firing everyone. If they're not fired they're being arrested.

So did Obama grow a spine and fix this yet?

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We should stay the fuck out of it.
Turkey does this every couple years anyway.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Sorry, I'm going to have to go with Chas on this one.

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My concern is for the cymbals.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

aren't we supposed to see grainy videos of people being lined up for execution after a coup?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Goodness, DB. Is that what Dempster wore in the booth? I did not see the game or video yet.

That's awful. He looks like Doc Brown holding a Cubs mic. What a douche. Fuck him and whoever green lighted that shitshow.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

May have to rely on those renegade Zildjian kids making their Sabian's in Canada or some German Meinl's.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

300 Energy Ministry employees dismissed
184 Customs Ministry employees dismissed
8 top-level parliamentary executives removed
All Turks require extra documentation to travel outside country
86 Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) employees dismissed
51 Borsa Istanbul (national stock exchange) employees dismissed
245 Sports Ministry personnel suspended
All Turkish academics banned from traveling abroad
140 members of the Supreme Court and 48 members of the Council of State (the highest court) got arrest warrants 4 days ago, no info on releases etc.
15,200 Ministry of Education personnel fired
24 news/media outlets broadcast licenses withdrawn
492 state religious personnel (Diyanet) removed
21,000 private teachers licenses revoked
393 personnel in Ministry of Family and Social Policy dismissed
257 personnel at PM's office dismissed & ID's seized
Demand for all 1,577 University Deans resignation
30 governors of 99 fired
9000 in the Interior Ministry fired
180 intelligence officials (MIT, Turkey's national intelligence agency) suspended
2,745 judges dismissed
3,000,000 civil servants banned from going on holiday
Talks of reinstating the death penalty
1,500 Finance Ministry officials suspended
103 generals/admirals detained for questioning
?? soldiers fired/imprisoned

Clearly he had no idea that this "coup" was happening ... I mean, you can do all of this in an afternoon, maybe into the early evening if you need to create duplicate sets of paperwork.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Save the "democratically elected" despot.

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