Our Galtian Overlords run the economy into the ground to the point where people don’t have jobs or money, then wonder why this happens:

The Volos barter network — people can join for free online — started two years ago with only 15 members.  As the Greek economy continued its rapid decline the network mushroomed to 600 active members. About 400 more are registered with the network.

“People need some way out, some other way to do things.  I guess also people need to get to know each other,” said founding member Christos Papaioannu.

The market is not simply about trading goods — it is a way for people to reconnect with their community and foment solidarity during difficult times.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Bartering Takes Hold in Austerity-Wracked Greece [MSNBC]

Damn, what’s a similar action-verb that starts with L and means “gone” so I could have perfect alliteration?

Yeah, I can’t think of something right now. So meanwhile from Stinque’s Dep’t of To Be A Vagina-American Today/Dep’t of Lady-Bits/Dep’t You Have to Be Fucking Kidding Me, I Will Now Return to Book 2 of The Hunger Games and the Giants Baseball Game Before Researching Emigration to New Zealand:

As those wacky feminists at Planned Parenthood put it – “Woman lawmaker banned from speaking after saying ‘vagina'”.. it sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s what actually happened today in Michigan’s state legislature.”

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She’s clearly off the Klonopin:

… We remember Walter Chronkite, as a grandfather figure trusted iconclast when in fact he wa a red and did the country incalculable harm.

Twenty years of the Chroncrite legacy and we ahve gonthat much further of the deep end. Media ia a propactvisit arm whose one goal – shape the news, change the ness, even live about the news to advance a collectivist, pro-sharia agandena. How else culd an unqualfied, bitter Ameria hater hold the eat in the Obama office.

It gets better:

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Good clean fun – here’s my contribution:

also:

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Wingnuts pissing off other wingnuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrgVC7u7DU

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This company is like a fucking zombie – nothing short of a shot to the head will kill it:

UPDATE: Looks like Chinese/Japanese-Swedish company National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) bought Saab with the intention of producing, mostly, electric vehicles. Saabs have always been strange, so why not?

UPDATE 2: Our friends at Saabs United have more details on the purchase, but here are the bullet points:

• NEVS bought the intellectual property rights to the 9-3 but nothing else
• The first new Saab product will be an electric 9-3 for China
• The cars will be designed and built in Sweden

Don’t think I don’t love this – Saab was/is a great brand, and now they’re back. Top Gear’s eulogy (premature, it turns out) after the jump:

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[via Know Your Meme]