Reason Morning Links: Porn, Coal, and Reality TV

• Barack Obama flip flops on signing statements.
• Forty-two senators urge the Justice Department to crack down on porn.
• The Ex-Im Bank approves a giant new coal subsidy.
• The Department of Homeland Security gets its own reality TV show.
• Do police need a warrant to track suspects with a GPS device?
• William Rusher, 1923-2011.

The latest from Reason.tv: "Ethan Nadelmann on the Future of Legalization."

Comments

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

Golden Girls Nazi erotica
Nude art of the Golden Girls with nazi regalia on sale online

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

I’ve been waiting all weekend to post that. While the rest of you have been wasting time on hobbies, loved ones, and religious services, I’ve been counting the minutes to the Monday morning links.

You’re welcome.

[Abdul]

You may be the only person in the world with a “golden girls” google news alert.

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

Google can’t supply my Golden Girls needs. They aren’t powerful enough.

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

Stripping Congress of its Power of the Purse?

Man catches fire while watching porn at San Francisco sex shop; vic ran out ‘engulfed in flames’

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but we haven’t heard from cap l lately, have we?

Man catches fire while watching porn at San Francisco sex shop; vic ran out ‘engulfed in flames’

[waffles]

I think he’s a yinzer though. From my experience, about 35% of yinzers burst into flames simply by visting San Fransisco.

[Mango Punch]

The wrath of God?

[waffles]

I think they just get insta-raptured.

[Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso]

The UN ‘disappears’ 50 million climate refugees, then botches the cover-up

Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

[Rich]

Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores

You can’t fool *me*, Johnny. That’s from The Onion.

[CaptainSmartass]

September 9, 1999. Old news is awesome.

[omg]

The news is old, but it does seem to explain recent events nicely.

Why one would be intelligent and want to be a cop is beyond me, though.

[Xenocles]

I don’t think they should need a warrant to track you, but they sure as hell should to plant anything in your car or on your person.

[Zeb]

I think that this is the big point about the GPS tracking. You may not have any reasonable expectation of privacy on public streets, but you do have a reasonable expectation that other people will not tamper with your vehicle or person.

[sloopyinca]

Don’t you people get it? The only ones with an expectation of privacy on a public street should be the public officials on that street.

Your private property? Subject to tampering at any time.
Your person? Able to be dashcamed whenever.
Taping or filming a cop? “Is that camera on? Hands behind your head, motherfucker. Stop resisting! Stop resisting!”

[Spoonman.]

Alright, what’s the halfassed excuse for Obama on the coal subsidy?

[sloopyinca]

Buffett and Soros must have bought some serious coal futures over the past week or so.

Don’t worry, though. I heard they are selling the futures off next week, so look for the subsidy to get pulled as soon as they get the confirmation e-mail that their profits have been deposited.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Barak Obama flip flops on signing statements.

Two years in and it’s already quicker to list the promises the president hasn’t gone back on.

[Mango Punch]

Barack Obama flip flops on signing statements.

What I really want to know is his opinion on singing greating cards. I bet he’s a fan.

[Obamabot]

I don’t care. Obama is awesome.

[Gus]

+0

[Mike E]

Obama did his first signing statement March of 2009

[Bee Tagger]

Forty-two senators urge the Justice Department to crack down on porn.

They also wonder if the Justice Department would mind if they watched.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Actually, it looks like we have fifty-eight pervs or accessories to pervitude in the United States Senate.

[Mango Punch]

Joh[nn]y Lo[n]gtorso’s link Man Catches on Fire while watching porn at sex shop seems appropriate.

[John]

I posted this this weekend but it is worth posting again. Oceana was never at war with Abu Garhib.

http://pajamasmedia.com/eddris…..bu-ghraib/

[Mike Laursen]

There is a big leap between so-and-so is running as a Democrat and so-and-so is being run by the Democrats.

[John]

Something from the British tabloids to offend Tulpa’s feminist sensibilities.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..-Show.html

[Au H20]

Paul Krugman finally admits to being a scoundrel.

[Au H20]

Eh, in retrospect, his column today, posted further down thread by me, makes the argument better, as in it he explicitly rejects civility.

Here it is, even though it will be a double post of a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04…..ef=opinion

[Mike Laursen]

It’s OK because “We’re talking about children here.”

[Gomer Pyle]

But on Friday, Obama did exactly that which he vowed in that answer he would never do.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Do police need a warrant to track suspects with a GPS device?

Do we want cops wasting taxpayer funds filling up the tanks of their unmarked Crown Vics following suspects manually?

[Brett L]

I’ve got random electronics all over the the underside of my rear bumper. Not random, but prototypes of a sensor array. The cop who tags my car is going to think their organization was late to the party.

[Lord Humungus]

that’s why I drive twenty different cars and my clones and I all drive in different directions.

[Ba'al]

Worked out for me for quite a while.

[John]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea…..heart.html

Maybe the movie Sleeper really is the future. Fat may be good for your heart.

[Au H20]

The NY Times is not getting laid lately. Blame Wikipedia.

[rather]

Eric Holder accused of neglecting porn fight

I have a feeling he’s still stuck on the research part

[Eric Holder]

Correct. When I review the literature, I’m having trouble separating the pages.

[rather]

ahhh 🙂 Who is the clever boy/girl?

[CUNT-VOMIT ALERT!]

EOM

[rather]

Eric Holder accused of neglecting porn fight

I have a feeling he’s still stuck on the research part

[Au H20]

Remember: Civility is only important for liberals

[NoVAHockey]

The Post ran a similar column this weekend. Apparently liberals are too “tolerant.” This was opposite a column from Mondale about how American’s love taxes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html

must be the talking point of the week.

[Hizzoner Rahm]

The transparent and obvious goal was to use deficit fears to impose a vision of small government and low taxes, especially on the wealthy.

See, this is different than that stimulus thing, because government is good.

[Walter]

I think most cat owners are familiar with teh “”death bagz” Guess I better SWAT proof the house!

Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey is advising road cleanup crews out this spring to be on the lookout for more than just trash.

Bailey said that mobile meth labs are becoming more common in the area and, in some cases, the remnants of the labs are being dumped on the side of the road.

The discarded labs can contain potentially toxic debris, he said. Meth is a highly addictive stimulant which can be made from common household chemicals and equipment along with common cold remedies containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine.

Cleanup crews who come across materials to make the drug can be burned or have their lungs damaged from inhaling fumes, Bailey advised. If you encounter any of the signs of a meth lab, leave the area immediately and call 911. Do not touch anything if you suspect it may be meth lab waste.

The waste can be extremely dangerous and may even be booby-trapped, according to the news release issued by Bailey. Entire labs can be found in tool boxes, coolers or other storage containers.

Labs are sometimes run out of car trunks or RVs and then discarded on the roadways.

The following signs could indicate the presence of a meth lab:

Empty bottles attached to a rubber hose.

The smell of ammonia.

Coffee filters stained red or containing a white powder residue.

Garbage bags with cat litter (these can contain deadly gases and are sometimes called death bags).

Corroded propane tanks.

Empty or used alcohol products.

Numerous empty cold medicine and diet pill bottles or blister packs.

Unused matches without striker plates.

[Brett L]

Seriously, who puts his face in an fucking trashbag found on the side of the road? We should call them Darwin bags.

[db]

+1. Seriously, everyone should know you’re supposed to waft that, not just go sniffing willy-nilly.

[Sinister Urge]

Forty-two senators urge the Justice Department to crack down on porn.

A. Fifty-eight senators urge the Justice Department to go “crack down” on porn.

B. Fifty-eight senators urge the Justice Department to crack up on porn.

[Au H20]

Huffington Post doesn’t understand income taxes.

[John]

This is an interesting line.

In all, the tax code is filled with a total of $1.1 trillion in credits, deductions and exemptions,

So we could close every exemption and make everyone pay their full tax rate and still not cover the budget deficit. But Huffpo no doubt things we have a tax problem not a spending problem.

[Cyto]

This morning’s NPR broadcasts agreed with the HuffPo. The emerging “consensus” is that Ryan’s budget proposals are extreme right wing and Obama has a moderate proposal – but the two sides are too far apart and may not reconcile before the 2012 elections.

They couched the entire argument in terms of “sharing the burden” and “refusal to raise taxes on the very wealthy”. The notion that anyone could call the Ryan proposal “extreme” is just silly.

I don’t think anyone outside of the Reason crowd is aware of the 18% GDP trend for federal revenues. The “progressive” position as universally pushed on NPR programming was that we need to raise revenue, not cut expenditures. Anyone who has seen the historic trend for GDP/Revenue ratios would have to suspect that the current rate of collections is about as high as you can expect to go – but they see the “reasonable and rational” position as a 25%+ increase in revenues. And even this wouldn’t put much of a dent in the debt load.

They actually had a panel of experts this morning discussing the “$38 billion in cuts” as too extreme and “radically right wing” – never once acknowledging that this comes on top of a trillion dollar increase in spending.

By my rules of accounting, any spending over $3 trillion (roughly 2008 plus inflation) is an increase. We are supposedly spending about $3.8 trillion this year – so any “cut” less than ~$800 billion is an increase.

And that’s before we even debate whether we were drunk on spending in 2008.

[alan]

I don’t recall them marching in the streets in 2007 seething that their favorite programs were being underfunded by hundreds of billions less than what is allocated to them now, so they themselves must be right wing extremist. Perhaps they have reformed from their evil grandma and children hating ways, but how far to the Right Thinking Way could they have really progressed in that short span of time?

It is inconceivable to think what monstrosities these people were comparatively in 2000 when they were happy little capitalist fatcat cocksuckers living it up large and content with Clinton flinty 2.1 trillion budget. If this year’s budget projection is the line in the sand between what is acceptable and what is right wing extremism then, Goddammit, where were they before the new baseline when the babies were dying in the streets for lack of cancer research funding? Heartless bastards.

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[Sal Paradise]

‘Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said he has a solution for rich people who want to pay more in taxes: Write a check to the IRS. There’s nothing stopping you.

“There’s still time before the filing deadline for them to give Uncle Sam some more money,” Hatch said.

Schoenberg said Hatch’s suggestion misses the point.

“This voluntary idea clearly represents a mindset that basically pretends there’s no such things as collective goods that we produce,” Schoenberg said. “Are you going to let people volunteer to build the road system? Are you going to let them volunteer to pay for education?”‘

SOMALIA!!!

[Mr. FIFY]

The stupid! It burns!

[Au H20]

Matthew Taibi has made the feminists not amused

[Mr. FIFY]

More stupid! Burny hot!

What the flying fuck is wrong with Jezebel and HuffPo posters?

[SugarFree]

Depressed man eats own finger

[Rich]

he had a “vulnerable personality structure”

Is that V(PS) or (VP)S? Just trying to be precise here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He had initially felt excited about what he had done but later regretted his first act of self-harm because of its debilitating effects.

Debilitating? A pinky? Get back to me when you hack off a whole arm or foot or penis.

[SugarFree]

debilitating effects

Maybe eating his own pinky gave him the runs for three weeks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, and about that. How much of a meal is a pinky? Sure, the kangaroo jockey (or kiwi eater or whatever NZ has) could be 400 pounds or something, but that fat digit would still proportionally be unsatisfying, I don’t care how many veggies you supplement it with.

I think that guy has mental issues.

[Brett L]

“I think that guy has mental issues.”

Captain Obvious, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[R C Dean]

No kidding. Who knows where that pinky had been?

[Clich? BaNDIT]

SHOCKER!!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Did you hit the caps lock early?

[Au H20]

The Times finally gets it!!!

Or not

[Rich]

It will follow DHS investigators from multiple points of view, tracking counterterrorism, border security and immigration enforcement.

What?! No TSA fondling investigation?!

[Au H20]

The Huffington Post is touring stip clubs. It’s… well, I like the stip clubs part

[John]

Only the Huffpo would be dumb enough to run a series on strip clubs with no pictures.

[Brett L]

Its probably illegal to take photos during business hours. Knew a guy who did a photography project for a degree who wanted to use strippers. He had to do it while the business was closed and have written permission from the owners and a letter from the U he was at.

[mr simple]

Thanks, I almost clicked the link.

[Slap the Enlightened!]

Nationalist True Finns party makes huge gains in Finnish election.

[Abdul]

No True Scotsman was available for comment.

[John]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/n…..G1GXxbMGwL

Now I know what happened to Joe Boyle. He saw this and had a heart attack.

[sloopyinca]

Those racist bastards at the GOP.

[sloopyinca]

…but I repeat myself.

[Nick]

Did you capitalize because he’s deceased?

[SugarFree]

In death, one acquires the shift key.

[Tyler Durden]

I want you to SHIFT me as hard you can!

[West Texas]

Eric Holder accused of neglecting porn fight

Fortunately for Vivid Video, I doubt that Orrin Hatch has any nefarious plans to push aside competition for Utah’s nascent homegrown porn industry, so this is likely not going to lead to anything like we saw last week with poker.

Get with the program, Hatch. The morality excuse is just a cover for cronyism!

[Ted S.]

Mormon porn? Do they wear magic condoms to go along with the magic undergarments?

[Rich]

The court said then that people on public roads have no reasonable expectation of privacy.

The police are people! They’re PEO…PLE!!

[Pip]

Man! I’m at the bus stop this morning and this high school girl about a block away is yelling into her cell phone. She’s got the head roll and everything. She gets to my stop and keeps it going until the bus arrives. She then sits down with some other high school girl she knows and starts bitching about whatever to her, again complete with the never-ending head roll and multiple punches to the seat.

One. Fucked. Up. Kid.

[SugarFree]

Sounds like the beginning to the hottest Penthouse letter ever.

[Pip]

Seriously. To carry that much anger at such a young age. Pretty tragic.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Would you rather she internalize it? That’s just a cardiac event waiting to happen.

[waffles]

I thought swallowed emotions were calorie-free. Do they have trans-fats?

[Wind Rider]

Just protein.

[sloopyinca]

It sounds like this girl needs to swallow something else that’s full of protein.

At least it’d shut her up for a few minutes.

[Tony]

Trust me… there’s no protein in emotions.

[Rich]

Another thing, FWIW. I was too late yesterday for the Atlas Shrugged “Two Thumbs Up” session. Mrs. Rich and I saw it and we were both pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the film. Admittedly, it’s not a *great* picture — but it is *much* better than nothing. Basically what I had hoped for was that it not, um, demolish the book, and it did not — it was pretty faithful and easy to follow. The acting, pace, etc. were all decent, especially for a low-budget production. I can find any number of nits to pick, but I still recommend it. Also, the (mixed-age) audience applauded.

[Tim]

Shit, I saw it and Atlas wasn’t even in it.

[Atlas]

meh

[Rich]

He *was* in it — at the very beginning.

[mr simple]

I really didn’t think it was very good at all. It was clumsy at best. It had a good pace and that helped to cover up that nothing was really going on. It kept building and moving like something was going to happen, and then there was a train ride. The characters were pretty one dimensional. I had no idea why I should care what happens to them at all. There was no explanation as to why Dagny cared so much about the company. The treasure hunt for the engine seemed like filler. Rearden’s private life shots were throwaway scenes. It was only 1:42 long; they couldn’t spend anymore time on character development? You and I know free enterprise is good and government is evil, but they didn’t explain why at all in the movie. I’m not sure we’ll get many converts.

I will say it was nice to hear these ideas expressed on the big screen.

[Rich]

I agree with some of your “nits”. E.g., the engine hunt time could have been better used for character development — although in a sense it was doing that for, um, off-screen characters. I disagree that “nothing was going on”. The bad guys and good guys interacted a lot in doing their thing — anyone looking for “action” in AS will probably be disappointed. It *was* nice to hear these ideas expressed on the big screen, and I expect we’ll get more converts in the long run.

[Comment]

>Insult- Objectivists are onanist cuntbags.

>-Body Converts to what? If you think a shitty made for teevee movie with cardboard cutouts for characters will convince anyone of anything then you are either an objectivist cunt or stoned out of your gourd.

>Conclusion- Ayn Rand’s terrible box office performance will prove the insipid cancerous invalidity of her ideation. One can not be free if oppressed by the iron mandate to be prodcutive. To be truly free the government needs to provide for the well being of one and all.

[Nick]

Trolls should have names.

[Pip]

My hope is that enough people see it to justify more lavish productions os AS Parts 2 and 3.

[Old Mexican]

Re: mr simple,

It kept building and moving like something was going to happen, and then there was a train ride.

So was The Fellowship of the Ring.

There was no explanation as to why Dagny cared so much about the company.

There’s no explanation why my kid loves his stuffed puppy so much, either, despite being worn and ugly.

There are things you can’t explain, like why are women so obsessed with handbags. These things simply are.

[sloopyinca]

There’s no explanation why my kid loves his stuffed puppy so much, either, despite being worn and ugly.

The fact that your kid is worn and ugly doesn’t render him incapable of love.

As to his being loved, well that’s a different story…

(I keed. I keed.)

[Mr. FIFY]

Burning stupidity here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..49582.html

The HuffPosters are doing their gods’ work.

[Mainer]

The math is clear. The liberal welfare state cannot be sustained. The incivility is going to get alot worse, as reality closes in.

[Resto Druid FTW]

Truly. It will be fun watching people circling the drain tho… Opps, my sociopathy is manifesting itself again. 😀

[sarcasmic]

But, but, but it is intended to be sustained.

That’s what the social contract means.

You know, your grandparents got to pick your parents’ pockets so your parents get to pick your pockets so you can pick the pockets of your children when you retire, and so on and so on.

It’s a contract for fuck’s sake, and it is intended to work!

How dare you insert math into the discussion!

Intentions are all that matter!

Have you no feelings?

[Jersey Patriot]

The math is clear. The liberal welfare state cannot be sustained.

Just a friendly helping hand for you.

[SugarFree]

Beijing’s Empty Bullet Trains

The problem, of course, is that no country can be productive enough to reinvest 50 percent of GDP in new capital stock without eventually facing immense overcapacity and a staggering nonperforming loan problem. China is rife with overinvestment in physical capital, infrastructure, and property. To a visitor, this is evident in sleek but empty airports and bullet trains (which will reduce the need for the 45 planned airports), highways to nowhere, thousands of colossal new central and provincial government buildings, ghost towns, and brand-new aluminum smelters kept closed to prevent global prices from plunging.

[Pro Libertate]

The Truth will set you free.

[Spoonman.]

I love the morons who wail and weep about China investing more in infrastructure than the USA.

China has 4 times the people and very little modern infrastructure, so it ought to be investing more in infrastructure.

And yet their planned economy can’t do that right, either.

[Trespassers W]

So what you’re saying is that the Chinese are beating us at malinvestment, too.

[sloopyinca]

Just wait and see what happens when they steal our printing press technology.

[SugarFree]

At least one commenter understands how damaging this could be to the cuckhold child support economy.

[Warty]

Nina and her lawyer argue that she shouldn’t be held to the “social mores of the 1950s,” since times have changed and it isn’t as shocking to suggest that a woman could give birth to another man’s child while married.

Come on, what’s the big fucking deal? Just keep signing those checks.

[Rich]

Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.

[Brett L]

Chinese can’t compete with SpaceX on price.

“Declining to speak for attribution, the Chinese officials say they find the published prices on the SpaceX website very low for the services offered, and concede they could not match them with the Long March series of launch vehicles even if it were possible for them to launch satellites with U.S. components in them.”

Suck it, The Truth.

[Spoonman.]

China-worshipers request FTC investigate SpaceX for anticompetitive pricing in 3..

[The Truth]

Perhaps you should take a look at where companies like HP and IBM are doing their research today. China is now the largest manufacturer in the world, and the fastest growing major economy, and under current trends they will pass us in 20 years or less. This is just a minor miscalculation because China is relatively new to pricing aerospace for global trade. In the next decade SpaceX will have to increase costs while China will be able to lower. This is simply inevitable.

[Warty]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Scruffy Nerd Herder]

The Truth has got to be a spoof. Is that you waffles/pancakes? C’mon and fess up.

[pancakes]

Rats! I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids and your toad named Warty.

drugs are like that
http://www.archive.org/details/drugs_are_like_that

[Brett L]

Yep. I went to the same place. I finally was convinced it was a spoof.

[Sandi]

I took a shit in China once. They used it to make a soup with noodles.

[Gregory Smith]

Government Logic: There are not enough blacks attending civil war events and the National Park Service thinks that’s a problem.
http://libertarians4freedom.bl…..-make.html

[Lei-Ter Tan]

Hey, what are us Asians, chopped liver?

[Mr Weebles]

No, chopped river.

Sorry … I just couldn’t resist.

[Lei-Ter Tan]

Plick.

[sloopyinca]

“You have my gratitude.”

[Mr Weebles]

“Plick.”

Awesome.

[Gregory Smith]

Asians don’t have an NAACP raising a ruckus for events they don’t give two shits about.

Then again, George Takei is complaining about “whitewashing” in an upcoming film adaptation of Akira. Apparently, it’s creative to have black actors play Romeo & Juliet but it’s racist to have white actors play Japanese characters. Stupid Takei!

[Old Mexican]

Re: Gregory Smith,

Asians don’t have an NAACP raising a ruckus[…]

Which explains why Asians do so well in America!

Schwing!!!!

[heller]

Who the fuck cares GREGOOOOOOOO?

[Gregory Smith]

You don’t care, Heller? So called “diversity” and “inclusiveness” and political correctness are destroying us from within!

[Gregory Smith]

You don’t care, Heller? So called “diversity” and “inclusiveness” and political correctness are destroying us from within!

[Lord Humungus]

The S&P has downgraded the financial outlook for the U.S. Anyone surprised?

[Lord Humungus]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42643384

[Mike M.]

Alfred E. Krugman might be, but no sensible person with a brain in his head could be. And so it begins.

[Scruffy Nerd Herder]

I notice it wasn’t Moody’s. Could Mr. Buffett be exercising his influence?

[Warty]

It’s in America’s Interest to Stay in Iraq
Having active bases would allow us to project power and influence in the region.

WAR WAR I LOVES WAR

[P Brooks]

times have changed and it isn’t as shocking to suggest that a woman could give birth to another man’s child while married.

I hope she said this while sitting amidst her possessions at the curb.

[R C Dean]

Certainly not. It is rather appalling to require the husband to support another man’s child, though.

I may be somewhat optimistic here, but I bet she knows who the father is. Send him the bill. Why should her husband subsidize some other guy’s hobbies?

[Wind Rider]

What hobby? I was just doin the guy that liked to take pictures of other men bangin his wife a favor, buddy.

[Warty]

Another stupid-looking Beetle unveiled

Something something Jesus something

[Rich]

[Heaven] signifies life in the New Jerusalem, which, properly understood, is the reality that will result when God brings together the heavens and the earth.

It doesn’t get much clearer than that. We’re talking *asteroid strike*.

[SugarFree]

Hey, let’s make it look more like a Porsche. They collaborate on a couple cars, and VW stalks them for decades.

[John]

It looks like an Audi TT

[SugarFree]

Headlights and front grill are much more like a Boxter than a TT.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Unless its air-cooled engine is rear-mounted, has a barely functioning heater and the windshield washer works off the air pressure from the spare tire, it’s not a Beetle.

[Warty]

the windshield washer works off the air pressure from the spare tire

You’re lying. Even Hitler’s car couldn’t be that evil.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Krauts used every part of the buffalo when they put that thing together.

And when the zombie apocalypse hits, do you want to rely on a car that requires computers to magically dish out the exact right amount of fuel and oxygen? Or do you want a car that anyone who’s tinkered with a two-stroke lawnmower can repair?

[SugarFree]

My dad had an orange Beetle during the 70s gasoline shortage. It was a hard to kill car. My only complaint was that there was a hole about the size of a grapefruit in the back seat floor board. I was fascinated by the road whizzing by, at first, but then a lost a paperback down the thing and it became less amusing.

[Restoras]

I think my friend owned it after your dad.

[Tim]

Where’s the 88mm gun?

[Lost_In_Translation]

VW’s revenge for Porsche trying to take it over is to water down the brand until it becomes VW’s Pontiac. Audi will be Buick. Bentley will be Cadillac. Guess who won’t be around in 30 years.

[The Gobbler]

Betty White?

[Brett L]

I’ll take that bet. She looks like she could do it. She’s been old for 30 years already. What’s another 30?

[sloopyinca]

?Meet the new Bug.
Same as the old Bug.?

[Nick]

Uh oh. Make it look too much like a real car and the fame hippies won’t buy it.

[P Brooks]

I bet she knows who the father is. Send him the bill.

You’re the sort of person who is destroying this country, R C. All this niggledy-piggledy about “causes and effects” is just a smokescreen for stealing money from society’s most vulnerable and handing it to the Plutocracy on a silver platter.

[West Texas]

stealing money from society’s most vulnerable

Even in your sarcasm, my skin crawls to hear this type of reasoning – that not giving away something that is rightfully yours is “stealing” from the person to whom you were going to give it.

[sarcasmic]

Not confiscating property that does not belong to you (tax breaks) is a gift, and not giving something that does not belong to you (entitlement cuts) is theft.

You see, we’re all in this together, like it or not.

No man is an island, he is part of the collective.

Therefor there can be no individual ownership of property.

Individual ownership denies others the use of that property, and that opportunity cost is akin to theft.

So what’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.
If you don’t like it you can take it up with those guys over there who are from the government. They’re on my side and they’ve got guns.

Collectivist principals trump individualist principles every time.

[Restoras]

A+
This is what Tony believes.

[Comment]

.Insult. you suck donkeydick

.Body. libertarians are insufferable pricks. Their selfish and childish views on governments and overbearing sense of entitlement make them dangerous leaders and inadequate lovers.

.Conclusion. Friends don’t let friends date libertarians.

[Warty]

TrollTemplate v1.1 is a big improvement over 1.0, when it called itself “Tony”.

[Restoras]

Oh My God i Laughed Out Loud exclamation point

[SugarFree]

Please don’t feed the troll.

[Lost_In_Translation]

I don’t think he’s feeding so much a being the microsoft paperclip assistant to trolling.

[SugarFree]

“I see you’re trying to troll a comment board… would you like help with that?”

[Clich? BaNDIT]

SPLTTZZTT!!!!

Thanks, coffee on monitor again.

[Max's Mom]

Honey, it’s time for your appointment with Dr. Betsy.

[Sayin']

Please don’t feed the troll.

That counts as feeding.

[pancakes]

dude, stop feeding the troll.

[Brett L]

Don’t worry, you’ll have neither friends nor dates.

[P Brooks]

Has Janet Napolitano added Standard & Poor’s to the list of terrorist organizations, yet? I suspect Bennay and Timmay have been burning up the phone lines, this morning.

[Warty]

Holy shit. I’m staying the fuck away from fault lines from now on.

[VangVoo]

Anyone else getting fed up with all this “reality TV” garbage?

http://www.web-anonymity.at.tc

[MacGhil]

33 rounds to kill one dog.

“The cop said he felt like he was going to attack him,” said Aycox, “and he just shot at him. The one cop hollered ‘don’t shoot him’, but he shot him. When he shot him, the dog fell to the ground, was shaking and crying, but he just stood over top of him and kept shooting repeatedly.”
[…]
The dog was hit and fell in one area, but the bullets sprayed elsewhere, shooting out the window of a van that several women were getting ready to get into. The women say there were children everywhere.

Neighbors say several other vehicles were hit, and the bullets pierced a nearby home, hitting a window and a wall inside.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/st…..id=8077437

[Warty]

You don’t take any chances with zombie wolfdogs, dude. They’ll fuck your throat out as soon as look at you. Good shoot.

[Tony]

They’ll fuck your throat out

I had the same thing happen to me, except, ahem… back there. My friends now call me “Blossom”.

[Cyto]

Would you offer your throat to the zombie wolfdog with the red, red rose?

[Lost_In_Translation]

Assuming it was just one police officer, how many times did he have to reload to get 33 shots in?

[Tim]

33 rounds.Just stab it to death, it’s cheaper and safer for bystanders.

[Lost_In_Translation]

Perhaps the UK was right to take police officers guns away.

Several attempts were made to speak with Camden officials, but there has been no response.

They were caught in the crossfire, no doubt.

[P Brooks]

It looks like an Audi TT

????????

One of us needs new glasses.

It looks like a beetle with a chopped top and some random styling accents shit they bought at the SEMA show.

Let me know when they make it rear wheel drive.

[P Brooks]

Jared Loughner wouldn’t have wasted thirty three rounds on one dog.

[Lost_In_Translation]

3 round burst, move on to next target.

[prolefeed]

There’s nothing inherently illegitimate about a President’s expressing his view on various laws. It’s vastly preferable for a President to openly declare his intent to violate the law than to do so secretly. Signing statements themselves are just instruments for conveying constitutional views of the law

* facepalm *

Yes, it was evil when Bush signed laws instead of vetoing them, and then openly declared he intended to violate those laws, but when Obama does it, it’s OK, because he’s GOOD.

/sarcasm

[P Brooks]

Where’s Chad?

I need somebody to explain to me why the snow which is currently falling is proof positive vast swathes of North America will be uninhabitable sun-scorched desert in a few years.

[The Truth]

Climate is not weather, you fucking idiot, and you damn well know it.

[Britt]

This is dishonest bullshit. You fucking global warming cultists are always ready to trot out freak weather as proof of AGW, but when the other side does the same you call foul.

[Britt]

This is dishonest bullshit. You fucking global warming cultists are always ready to trot out freak weather as proof of AGW, but when the other side does the same you call foul.

[Stereotypical Black Preacher]

Can I get a third tiiiiiiiime!!!

[Restoras]

Then why is weather climate?

[Gus]

Harassment complaint filed against Jesse Jackson

Detailed accusations of gay harassment by the Rev Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition came to light Thursday.

The claims, published in the Windy City Times, are by a former coalition employee who says he was mistreated, and eventually fired, because he is gay.

Tommy Bennett is a gay man who worked for Chicago`s Rainbow PUSH Coalition for roughly 2 years-and-a-half years.

During that time, he had a job in community affairs that he loved, according to the Windy City Times, and later a job he did not as the Rev. Jesse Jackson`s travel assistant.

In a formal complaint Bennett claims he had to escort women to Jackson`s room and clean up his room after sexual intercourse with women.

He claims he had to do it because of his sexual orientation.

In the detailed complaint, the former PUSH employee says there was more.

In 2008 Bennett says Jackson summoned him to his New York City hotel room where he was eventually instructed to apply cream to Jackson who had a rash between his legs. Bennett says he refused.

Another time at the Hilton O`Hare, Bennett was allegedly called to Jackson`s room at 1 a.m. The Reverend, according to the filing, was standing only in his briefs and a white t-shirt.

Bennett makes the claim that Jesse Jackson Sr. was excited, and took this to mean, that Jackson wanted Bennett to perform oral sex on him.

http://www.wgntv.com/wgntv-jac…..8439.story

[Meme Guy]

Racist?

[P Brooks]

And when the zombie apocalypse hits, do you want to rely on a car that requires computers to magically dish out the exact right amount of fuel and oxygen? Or do you want a car that anyone who’s tinkered with a two-stroke lawnmower can repair?

Voila!

[Lost_In_Translation]

French cars also require magic pixie dust, parts made of unobtanium and french cursing to function.

I’ll stick with the Toyota Hilux. You can find them everywhere in the world, can run on anything resembling deisel and still drive after being drenched in the ocean, set on fire and then had an entire building demolished underneath them.

[Brett L]

Hell yes. Still trying to find one that I can afford whose frame isn’t too rusted out.

[pancakes]

but you can’t get a Hilux in America. I believe it’s call a Toe-coma, or Taco-mama or something.

[Lost_In_Translation]

It’s called a Taco and sadly they forgot to provide the deisel (or punished us stupid americans for not admiring the awesomeness of deisels in general). but don’t let that stop you from acquiring this amazing vehicle. There plenty of grey market 80’s models over 25 years old that will last another 25 years if properly maintained. And most Taco parts should be interchangeable.

[Beavis]

Uhhhh. Taco Supreme?

[Warty]

War is the National Industry of Prussia

[Warty]

Pretty pictures

[Donald Trump]

Garey Busey will be my running mate.

[Brett L]

If he’ll wear his Buddy Holly outfit (and lose a couple pounds) you could probably win 40% of the hipster vote. The other 3 will vote for Obama because college told them to.

[sloopyinca]

Religion of Peace hosts get-together for sore losers after it looks like Nigeria will elect a Christian president.

[Stereotypical Black Preacher]

Tea Party Republicans introduce a term limits bill.

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve to 3 in the House of Representatives and 2 in the Senate.

[mad libertarian guy]

Fucking joke handles and their tendency to stick when you don’t want them too.

Or

Why the fuck do I proofread everything EXCEPT the handle?

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