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Reason Morning Links: Firin' Missiles, Firin' Executives, Fire in the Pits of Hell
• North Korea launches missile, flummoxes the world.
• The administration says it's prepared to fire people who work at banks, too. On a related note: See this.
• Next time the White House decides a company needs to be reorganized -- or subsidized -- these guys might have some advice.
• So much for cutting farm subsidies.
• Creepy "cybersecurity" legislation.
• Palestinian unity talks grind to a halt.
• An update on Iraqi refugees.
• The myth of water wars.
• The backmasking crowd discovers Obama.
• Cops break up a pillow fight.
anarch|4.6.09 @ 8:57AM|#
police confiscated the 32-year-old man's pillows but returned their cases
Soft on crime! It's still an open case!
jtuf|4.6.09 @ 8:58AM|#
Saudi Arabia's efforts to mediate between Fatah and Hamas failed a few years ago. I am not surprised that Egypt's efforts failed.
|4.6.09 @ 9:01AM|#
SugarFree | March 30, 2009, 11:06am | #
Leftists are perfectly fine with "consumer culture" as long as they
get to choose the winners and the losers.
Obama makes the tough decisions.
I think it would be funnier if that wasn't what he was doing.
(For those who can't watch, SNL of Obama choosing which companies
will be allowed by the government to survive. "Coke... you made it
and Pepsi as well, but not 7-up. You should have seen this
coming.")
jtuf|4.6.09 @ 9:05AM|#
The pillow confiscation is just absurd. Distain for the second amendment has gone so far that you can't even keep a pillow. I can just imagine the bill to require a manditory 5 day waiting period before purchasing a pillow. Oh, and make sure only a licensed interior decorator picks the pillow case for it.
The Angry Optimist|4.6.09 @ 9:13AM|#
Jesse, don't discourage him! We're all just glad he didn't mess
up the link this time.
One step at a time, man. Now we hope he'll read the post
before commenting.
Skip this post|4.6.09 @ 9:14AM|#
Soft cases make bad law.
Politics makes bedfellows strange.
This'll go on your wrap sheet, Son.
High Every Body|4.6.09 @ 9:15AM|#
Cops break up a pillow fight.
Was an unlicensed interior decorator involved?
Vines & Cattle|4.6.09 @ 9:18AM|#
Obama cutting ag subsidies? About as likely as him allowing repayment of TARP funds. Farmers are about to get the lesson that GM and the banks are starting to figure out. Go around with your hand out, and the one paying the bills owns you.
|4.6.09 @ 9:18AM|#
Damnit, sorry Jesse. I didn't check the addendum link.
I'll be in my shame corner.
High Every Body|4.6.09 @ 9:19AM|#
Jesse and Jerry,
If the link worked it could have been an imposter.
Taktix®|4.6.09 @ 9:21AM|#
The bill does not only add to the power of the president. It
also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all relevant data
concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of
law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." This
means he or she can monitor or access any data on private or public
networks without regard to privacy laws.
Sadly, I called this last week.
I fucking hate this guy...
High Every Body|4.6.09 @ 9:23AM|#
Taktix®,
Good thing nobody on this board or magazine voted for Obama,
huh?
anarch|4.6.09 @ 9:23AM|#
Archie: Jughead, why are you writing so fast?
Jughead: I've got to finish this homework before my pen runs out of
ink!
|4.6.09 @ 9:24AM|#
I wouldn't have all these problems if Episiarch hadn't abandoned
me for the Pacific Time Zone.
He said "East Coast forever!" But I guess forever doesn't mean the
same thing to him.
The Angry Optimist|4.6.09 @ 9:27AM|#
He abandoned the East Coast and had the audacity to go on and on
about how New York Pizza is the Alpha and the Omega of Pizza?
What a traitor. I'm here for you, SugarFree...let me hold you.
High Every Body|4.6.09 @ 9:29AM|#
SugarFree,
Isn't your whole generation why we have all of these problems?
Taktix®|4.6.09 @ 9:33AM|#
Does Penn ever post here?
I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. I remember him saying
in one of his internet shorts that he hates seeing his own name and
words on comment sections.
FWIW...
|4.6.09 @ 9:34AM|#
I'm here for you, SugarFree...let me hold you.
It's been tough and I can't suffer in silence any longer. He's
abandoned all of us that participate in the HnR Morning Show,
decamped for the afternoon Access Hollywood version.
|4.6.09 @ 9:36AM|#
Isn't your whole generation why we have all of these
problems?
I'm only 38. I'm a solid Gen X'er. I dodn't cause problems, I only
complain about them without offering any solutions.
The Angry Optimist|4.6.09 @ 9:37AM|#
38? Oh man, I think that means you get some HTML "get out of jail free" cards...I mean, it can be tough to hit "Preview" when you're on dial-up. :P
|4.6.09 @ 9:42AM|#
TAO,
That's not as bad as Epi not being able to figure out how I was
posting when I was out on the back porch of my house. Laptop and
wireless, duh. We have wireless in Kentucky, you know.
|4.6.09 @ 9:44AM|#
I doubt your parents would agree.
If my mom complains, I'll just kick her out of the house I let her
live in rent-free.
High Every Body|4.6.09 @ 9:49AM|#
We have wireless in Kentucky, you know.
And running waterless too, but you guys don't brag as much about
that one, do you!
The Angry Optimist|4.6.09 @ 9:51AM|#
How much are cigarettes down there, SugarFree? I think you guys are about to see a big increase in bootleggers.
Taktix®|4.6.09 @ 9:52AM|#
And running waterless too, but you guys don't brag as much
about that one, do you!
All y'all need is one of them there MacDonalds and yall'll have a
real, bonafide city, dagnamit!
|4.6.09 @ 9:52AM|#
I think one man should control the internet. Screw
national emergencies, too. He should just have the power all the
time. Have you seen some of the stuff people post on this here
interweb!
We need to be controlled.
|4.6.09 @ 9:54AM|#
It has been a while, Warty. It would probably sound like a rusty
portcullis opening.
True story: After high school, my dad starting dating a girl I had
dated briefly in ninth grade. We had parted amicably and she had
moved a few towns over and out of the school system shortly after.
We still had a lot of mutual friends, and so it got back to me that
they were dating. The next time we were all at a party together, I
walked up to her and asked in an innocent voice: "Are you going to
be my NEW mommy now?" They didn't last long after that and Dad went
back to stripper girlfriend #9 or #17. (They all looked sort of
alike.)
|4.6.09 @ 9:56AM|#
How much are cigarettes down there, SugarFree?
They are close to the lowest in the non-tribal nation. But our
liquor tax is the second-highest since April 1st.
I've taken a carton or two to my NYC friends in the past. I'm sure
the TSA will put a stop to that sometime soon.
|4.6.09 @ 9:57AM|#
It also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all
relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any
provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such
access."
without regard to any provision of law
WTF? So John Yoo is a consultant for the Presidential Suit,
now?
*whispers*
suckers!
Taktix®|4.6.09 @ 10:00AM|#
It also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all
relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any
provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such
access."
Why even bother passing laws anymore?
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted...
robc|4.6.09 @ 10:00AM|#
SugarFree,
Our new sin taxes are to make up for an emergency shortfall so Im
sure they will go aw.... no I cant even write it.
|4.6.09 @ 10:04AM|#
robc,
I know. If we are going to be the laughingstock of the nation we
should at least not have to pay a lot for the privilege.
Warty|4.6.09 @ 10:04AM|#
True story: After high school, my dad starting dating a girl
I had dated briefly in ninth grade.
Sister or cousin?
|4.6.09 @ 10:06AM|#
The Bozeman paper had a front page article recently about how
all those poor family farmers are going to be driven into the
streets (naked, shivering and starving, one expects) if this
onerous reduction of agricultural assistance welfare
is allowed to happen.
No mention of the inflationary effects of government money in their
cost structure, which make it so tough to turn a profit on a
half-million-plus dollars of gross income.
|4.6.09 @ 10:08AM|#
As a christian egalitarian marxcist socialist envious passive aggressive, I find this whole mess to be very, very invigorating. Exhilirating in a nearly orgasmic fashion.
|4.6.09 @ 10:08AM|#
Neither, Warty. If I had a sister or a cousin, I'd have been married long before ninth grade. You sure do have a lot of educatin' you need to get done.
robc|4.6.09 @ 10:15AM|#
Bullitt County (unless there was a bullet joke that wooshed over
me head).
Bullitt is urban practically (its in the Louisville MSA after all),
there are plenty of counties to choose from that would be much more
accurate.
|4.6.09 @ 10:16AM|#
I probably just missed the announcement, but I'm sure Nancy
Pelosi and her co-workers have offered free entry to any and all
displaced Iraqis.
Because that would be the right thing to do. And they always do the
right thing.
Warty|4.6.09 @ 10:30AM|#
I bet they marry lots of cousins in whatever shithole holler Tim Couch is from. Goddamn, that place sucks. Fucking Tim Couchville. Asshole hillbilly fucks, always sucking at football.
T|4.6.09 @ 10:35AM|#
Way to start my week off right, Jesse. I keep joking about buying guns and ammo, but every passing day makes me more paranoid and angry. I either need to drink more or start work on my fortified bunker complex.
|4.6.09 @ 10:44AM|#
The cyber-security bill doesn't just give the Prez an off switch
for the entire internet (see, also, burning the village in order to
save it).
It gives him all kinds of new warrantless wiretap powers.
Change you can believe in!
Is there anything left of the Obamatarian project? Anything at
all?
Bronwyn|4.6.09 @ 10:46AM|#
The cig tax hike finally convinced hubby to quit (again). Hope
it sticks this time, because we can't afford to support both his
beer habit AND his smoking habit.
And I enjoy the ol' Sam Adams enough that I'm not willing to give
him up.
The cigs have to go.
This morning's Morning Links are full of WTF today. Sheeyit.
|4.6.09 @ 10:53AM|#
Yeah, I meant Bullitt. My son just moved back to Maryland from Louisville. I only wrote Bullitt because Louisville surprised this east coaster at not fitting the stereotype I had of KY. The stereotype was closer to reality once I headed into Bullitt County not that is a bad thing or anything - just a lot more double-wides and flea markets. The reason I was going into Bullitt County was that there was a good trap and skeet range down there, so I guess I don't fit the stereotype of a Marylander.
|4.6.09 @ 10:57AM|#
MayorOmalleySuxs,
You really want to see where the stereotypes* come from, I can take
you to see tarpaper shacks with satellite dishes epoxied to the
roof. Lexington and Louisville are fairly civilized, but the rest
of the state can be dicey.
*When a stereotype is true, is it still a stereotype? Isn't a true
stereotype just an accurate description that someone objects
too?
Bronwyn|4.6.09 @ 10:57AM|#
I suppose that I should take this opportunity as a loyal Louisvillean (by marriage) to say, GO CARDS!
|4.6.09 @ 10:59AM|#
Cops break up a pillow fight.
Detroit police spokesman James Tate says cleanup was the issue.
The Men's NCAA basketball championship game, scheduled to be
contested this evening at Ford Field in downtown Detroit has been
cancelled.
Noting the mess left behind by college hoops fans after Saturday's
semi-final games, Detroit police spokesman James Tate says cleanup
was the issue.
robc|4.6.09 @ 10:59AM|#
MayorOmalleySuxs,
You need to get to the counties away from the interstate to truly
appreciate how much of KY resembles the stereotypes.
On an odd note, my parents (who live a short hop from Bullitt Co -
but grew up in those non-interstate counties I referenced above)
are currently in Maryland visiting my sister.
|4.6.09 @ 11:58AM|#
After high school, my dad starting dating a girl I had dated
briefly in ninth grade. We had parted amicably and she had moved a
few towns over and out of the school system shortly
after.
Bill S. Preston, Esquire! Hello, Missy...I mean, mom.
|4.6.09 @ 12:12PM|#
Next time the White House decides a company needs to be
reorganized -- or subsidized -- these guys might have some
advice.
The article is obviously a lie. The Chosen One has sealed the
government corprorate insider revolving door.
Change!
|4.6.09 @ 12:16PM|#
For a while I thought Kentucky was making some progress
rehabilitating it's image. That we could be seen as a kind of big
"small town" place and not just a bunch of backwater hicks.
Then someone had to go and build that fucking Creationist Museum
down the road. Way to move into the 21st century Kentucky.
It's a good thing I respect property rights otherwise I would do a
drive by firebombing on that thing once a week.
vinny gates|4.6.09 @ 2:30PM|#
As someone who grew up in eastern KY and moved to Louisville as
soon as they hit the age of majority, I can tell you that Bullitt
doesn't really hold a candle to some of the shit I saw growing
up.
It's not everywhere that things like the police getting into a
shootout with an old blind man happen on a regular basis. Though,
as a testament to eastern KY police, the blind guy held his own for
a while.
Dr Duck|4.6.09 @ 2:42PM|#
Kentucky is a great place to take a driving vacation. Beautiful
scenery, great land features, good twisty roads, and spectacular
farms around Lexington. Sure, there's some blight and poverty and
ignorance -- but you can just motor on by!
Plus, Big Bone Lick is in KY, and who doesn't like the KY
jelly?
Stop the hatin'.
Craig|4.6.09 @ 7:04PM|#
None of these stories are as creepy as the one about the EU's
requirement for ISPs to archive every email and the browsing
history of every PC for 12 months. Apparently the UK is
enthusiastically enforcing the plan, while Switzerland is basically
ignoring it.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/136610
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