The Genius Of Exchanging Wood/Rock for Gold

Burn traitors

20 energy 10 warriors 4,000 wood Requirement Info This item is required and will also be depleted from your stats/inventory.

23-28 experience 3000-3250 gold

Quest Successful!

A rip roaring fire and the crackling of human fat goes a long way to pacifying the populace.

You used: 20 energy, 4000 wood
You gained: 27 experience, 3051 gold

Repair outer walls	20 energy 10 warriors 4,000 stone Requirement Info This item is required and will also be depleted from your stats/inventory.	23-27 experience 3000-3250 gold

Quest Successful!

Solid stone walls make for good neighbors.

You used: 20 energy, 4000 stone
You gained: 23 experience, 3111 gold

50 Most Loathsome People In USA 2008, According To Buffalo Beast

I liken this one:

13. Joe Lieberman

Charges: A fickle, flabbery fiend reviled by both parties, Lieberman somehow finds himself more powerful than ever, failing forward by virtue of the Democrats’ unfalteringly chumpish lack of discipline. After promising that he was “not going to go to…the Republican convention, and spend my time attacking Barack Obama,” Lieberman went to the Republican convention and attacked Barack Obama. But that was just the beginning of his descent into a self-dug hole of betrayal that should have proved inescapable. Lieberman thought it was “a good question” to ask if Obama was a Marxist. He campaigned not just with McCain, but with Palin and down-ticket Republicans, another thing he said he wouldn’t do. But the most loathsome trait Lieberman exhibits is that most loathsome of all: Smearing dissent as treasonous. The kind of suppressive asshole who would accuse you of helping terrorists by beating him at checkers should not be Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and is not someone worth rewarding for his own dissent.

Exhibit A: “In matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.” “Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility.”

Sentence: Lieberman awakes to find himself in the body of an impoverished Iraqi living in a small apartment with 12 family members and no electricity. Shocked by this inexplicable turn of events, he stumbles outside and cries to God, looking up just in time for the white phosphorous to hit him in the face.

THE BEAST 50 MOST LOATHSOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA, 2008

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Taken from The Economist: Coffee King