Reason Morning Links: Sctlnd Yrd Pwns LulzSec, U.S. Continues to Bomb Libya, Banks Repay TARP Using TARP Jr.
- New Scotland Yard has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker from Essex who is said to be a member of the dreaded LulzSec hacker group.
- Governor Rick Perry pushes wussified Texas legislators to pick up abandoned anti-TSA patdown bill.
- U.S. warplanes have bombed Libyan targets 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times since NATO "took over."
- Representative Allen West (R-Fla.) calls for withdrawal from Libya.
- Most of the 627 banks that still hold money from the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, have filed applications to roll the obligations into the government's new Small Business Lending Fund.
- FDA rolls out new anti-smoking ads.
- A Mexican drug-war columnist and his family are slain in their home.
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New Scotland Yard has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker from Essex who is said to be a member of the dreaded LulzSec hacker group.
New Scotland Yard's website promptly goes down.
Point #4 below shows the problem w/ the sweeping regulations the left supports. They give govt the power to order behavior outside their legal limits by giving them an unrelated threat to hang over the heads of the regulated. You couldn't get a "sell drugs to Mexican cartels" law passed, but if the ATF has a million ways to threaten gun dealers, thanks to the left, no such law is needed.
Gun laws have now provably, even to a liberal, killed:
BATFE Report
...3) Fast & Furious worked exactly as the ATF and the people holding its strings -- the Department of Justice and probably Homeland -- planned for it to work. That is, it put demonstrably made-in-America, sold-in-America guns at Mexican crime scenes, waiting for the largely inept, totally corrupt Mexican law enforcement to find them, submit them to the US for tracing and shout loudly that they had found the literal "smoking gun," that American gun shops/shows were flooding Mexico with arms. That's why supervisors were "jovial, if not giddy" when the first Gunwalker guns began turning up at Mexican crime scenes...it was working!
4) I think ATF believed it had enough regulatory juice to keep the gun stores involved from talking, or if not keeping them from talking demonizing them, and maybe driving them out of business, if they did....
Gunwalker: From Obama's Inauguration to Issa's Report
...Within weeks of President Obama's inauguration in January of 2009, newly installed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder began to craft the meme that Mexican drug cartel violence was rooted in what they view as lax American gun laws. By February 4, we were hearing the infamous "90 percent lie," the administration's false accusation that 90 percent of the guns used in cartel crime could be traced to U.S. gun shops.
The assertion was not based upon the total percentage of civilian-origin firearms captured from Mexican cartels and traced back to U.S. gun shops, but upon the small percentage of weapons that the Mexican government saw markings on which indicated they could have come from or through the States. Only this much smaller percentage of guns were sent to the ATF for tracing. Unsurprisingly, a large percentage of guns with U.S. markings did come from the U.S., but they were a small fraction of the total number of guns confiscated by Mexican authorities.
How large was the discrepancy between the Obama administration's lie and reality?
Mexico has more than 300,000 confiscated weapons locked in vaults. Mexico has asked the U.S. government to trace just a small fraction of those, including just 11,000 in 2007-2008, of which a little more than half ? close to 6,000 ? were successfully traced. This means roughly 5,000 of the 11,000 submitted could not be traced at all. Of those 6,000 guns that could be traced, 5,114 were traced to the U.S....
Sad..
Guest Post: New Hampshire Man Lights Himself On Fire To Protest America's Decline: http://www.zerohedge.com/artic.....as-decline
Read his letter...its saddening and infuriating..
http://www.sentinelsource.com/.....03286.html
The dude was pissed because the state was taking his daughter from him. Why? Because he punched his 4 year-old daughter in the face and bloodied her nose. He should have set himself on fire years ago. Fuck him.
Punched? never listed anywhere I saw. You have a link?
just saw ProL had covered this with a great post. FYI...he was innocent of abuse charges.
http://freedominourtime.blogsp.....s-man.html
Was 'Gunwalker' a PR Op for Gun Control?
Buckle up: An agent testifies that surveillance stopped at the border, meaning the operation didn't actually trace guns to cartels to make arrests. The only conclusion? Law enforcement wasn't the point, orchestrated violence was, and that's a history-making scandal.
Just so you don't forget what the left and ATF was trying to claim:
GUNS SOLD HERE KILL IN MEXICO / Plentiful shops, border proximity make Houston the go-to market for drug cartels
Weapons sold in Houston kill in Mexico
As Mexico drug violence runs rampant, U.S. guns tied to crime south of border
From first link:
The ATF's Webb said those who purchase weapons for drug cartels play a key role in the terror cartel hitmen unleash.
"They are just as responsible for the killing of that person in Mexico, that police officer or innocent bystander as if they had pulled the trigger themselves," he said. "They have blood on their hands, just like that person who pulled the trigger in Mexico."
lololol. Can we hang the little shit (if he was involved, of course)?
Fast and Furious was part of Project Gunrunner, a broad A.T.F. program aimed at stemming the flow of guns to criminal groups in Mexico. Since it began in 2006, Gunrunner has seized more than 10,000 firearms and led to the arrests of more than 800 suspects.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/us/16guns.html
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The op began in 06 when lil w was prez. but hey, ur on a roll like bluto baby! and faux noise is sure foaming the wingnuts judging by google results. SEND UR PATRIOTIC DONATIONS NOW NOW NOW !!!
But the "Fast and Furious" part of the operation began in '09. Didn't you read your own link?
Orrin can't read--he has his kids do it for him, which explains the lack of reading comprehension.
oh so now u believe them? hahahahaha
where do i send money to stop commie muslim organizers?
What's the correct Latin for "argumentum ad smugness"?
derp
Solanum, don't be unfair. Once the guns arrived in Mexico, it was not longer safe for our unarmed agents to track them.
:-(!
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....3311/posts
Did it occur to the freeper who posted that to question why "we" have agents in Mexico in the first place?
I'd bet he'd be outraged if there were Mexican agents in the US.
Whether US agents have legitimate business with Mexico is moot. I think housekeepers and anchor babies need to be fucking armed crossing that border.
Governor Rick Perry pushes wussified Texas legislators to pick up abandoned anti-TSA patdown bill.
President Rick Perry will be humming a different tune.
My favorite counter-headline:
Texas lawmakers urge Perry to run for President.
A Fatal Overdose of Irony...
I think they must inhabit an irony free universe that coexists with ours.
Just like sarcasm is officially the world's greatest kind of humor. Please post more Jezebel links so we can all not look at Zooey Deschanel.
You do know she's getting her own prime time sitcom, right?
To be fair, it's on Fox, so she's technically getting a canceled sitcom.
True. Fox will show the episodes out of order, bury it on Friday night after the premiere, then cancel it after three episodes and declare it a failure.
Only if its any good. If it stinks, it will run slightly longer than Married...With Children.
What is the last Fox live-action half-hour sitcom that run for more than 24 episodes? I really cannot think of one since Arrest Development. Or before, for that matter.
Malcolm in the Middle it looks like, although Raising Hope might get there as it ran 22 epis last season and has been renewed.
D'oh. Forgot about MiM. For good reason, but still.
While it seems like exactly the kind of show I would never watch, Im amused by Raising Hope.
robc:
I agree completely. Would never have picked it up if my ex didn't sit me down and make me watch the first couple epis on hulu.
I gave it a chance for Garret Dillahunt, but I couldn't hack it. I've hated Martha Plimpton for decades and there was nothing there to change my mind.
I've hated Martha Plimpton for decades
She never sent the signed naked photo you requested after The Goonies?
My boner's already programmed the DVR.
A comedy about the sexual politics of men and women.
Whoa! That sounds hilarious and unique!
Did anyone see the Top Chef episode with Zooey?
She is a vegan with a gluten allergy who doesnt like tofu.
Now fix a meal for her birthday party.
If a girl don't eat meat, you know she don't like the bone.
Also, by definition, vegans cant swallow.
Yowza.
until yesterday, I didn't even know who Zooey Deschanel was. Thanks Reasonoids.
I had no idea either until recently when a friend told me that Emily and Zooey's dad had been in our elementary school class. The looks must come from mama as all I remember was a nerdy little ordinary looking kid.
If you remember your Twin Peaks... Their mother is the actress who played Donna's mom, Mary Jo Deschanel.
The casting of Zooey as Trillian was the most awesomest casting in the history of movies, unfortunately the movie blew hard.
The TSA just declared babies potential terrorists. Finally, something I can get behind.
And isn't it...ironic...
/that Canuck chick with the long hair, whatshername...
Who cares?
*golf clap*
That right there was pretty subtle. Well done!
I heard a little snippet of that song the other day. It's even worse than I remembered.
Most of the 627 banks that still hold money from the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, have filed applications to roll the obligations into the government's new Small Business Lending Fund.
Can't we just sell them houses they can't afford? Why should they be denied the American Dream?
Since the banks are repossessing homes they can use these homes as collateral to give themselves home equity loans. The banks thought this was a good idea for homeowners and since the banks now own lots of homes it must be a good idea for themselves.
New Scotland Yard has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker from Essex who is said to be a member of the dreaded LulzSec hacker group.
Incriminating evidence: fascination with Angelina Jolie, Crystal Method music, and an unhealthy relationship with Fisher Stevens.
Anyone with a positive opinion of Angelina Jolie is probably guilty of something.
Zero Cool lives!
U.S. warkinetic military actionplanes have bombed Libyan targets 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times since NATO "took over."
I swear, "kinetic military action" has got to be the single worst example of newspeak I've ever heard. The PR dipshit who came up with that one ought to be taken out and beaten for insulting the intelligence of every single person in the USA. Obama ought to be impeached just for saying it.
"kinetic military action" has got to be the single worst example of newspeak ... Obama ought to be impeached just for saying it.
Let me be clear.
Kiss My Ass.
If you get married in Massachusetts, make sure you earn less than your spouse
[...] under Massachusetts divorce law, first spouses can collect alimony for life (even after the payer has retired) regardless of the duration of the marriage.
Thus, a man who earns more than his former spouse of less than five years may be forced to pay lifetime alimony, even if the ex is an educated 30-something fully capable of supporting herself.
A sexual inequality feminists are falling over over themselves to correct, I'm sure.
As the mancession continues and women start to have to pay, you bet they will.
See, this right here is what I warn the young 'uns about.....
Wait! Mrs. Almanian is coming!
*hurriedly shuts off computer manually*
I'm married but still question the decision. These days, it doesn't seem worth the potential financial agony. Not that I expect any imminent divorce proceedings from Lady Humungus, but ya never know what twisty path life can take.
And you can't pre-nup out of that law?
Snow falls in Colorado on the eve of the northern hemisphere's summer solstice.
Weather isn't climate! Unless we want it to be!
Sign on the Sports Editor's desk @ the college newspaper when I was in school:
If You Don't Like the Weather
Change It
That phrase still SPEAKS to me...
weather=pennies & climate=dollars. deniers get foamed-up over pennies
Ah, Johnny Manureseed, spreading his shit across the interwebs.
Hey, Urine! Happy Tuesday!
Having lived in Colorado, we have a saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes."
Seriously, I once saw it rain, sleet, hail, snow, and be sunny, all in one day. That day? May 1rst.
"A Mexican drug-war columnist and his family are slain in their home."
I propose that we stop calling it the drug war and start refering to it as the drug horror. Or perhaps the war on liberty.
I hope this wasn't Old Mexican...
OM lives in Houston.
Drug war violence has nothing to do with drug prohibition. When it comes to drugs, the physical laws of the universe--like, say, cause and effect--no longer apply.
huh?
Sarcasm EXTREME! Pass me a Mountain Dew, bro.
Hey, I wanna watch!
I'm warning you, Buster.
Kinetic Substance Interdiction
Kinetic Substance Interdiction
(not spam, you fuckers)
Don Boudreaux has been calling it something like the "war on peaceful individuals who may or may not be using government-disapproved narcotics".
As best I can tell, Huntsman is either the Manchurian candidate or a dirty trick by the Obama camp to destroy Mitt Romney and then self-destruct.
I call him the Republican Kucinich. Dunno why he reminds me of the good Congresstard, but he does...
I thought he was dead: Huntsman
"Huntsman possessed a mind that spread through skin contact, placing those he touched under his control, presumably by spreading nanites through his clawed fingers. He also possessed a coral-shaped exposed glowing brain, presumably the source of his powers."
Can't be worse than any of the other candidates.
presumably
LOL
You say this as though destroying Romney would be a bad thing.
Worse than Obama's re-election as punches around Huntsman, who may be the only lighter-weight politician on the scene? I'll take door #3. Any other scenario.
A Mexican drug-war columnist and his family are slain in their home.
I hope the gunmen set off their car alarm for a few seconds and then weakly knocked beforehand.
3 seconds before breaking down the door and emptying their magazines into innocent people, murdering them and making it a priority to capture, prosecute, and execute the mother-fuckers for their crimes? Yeah, although those steadfast servants of good and justice in Arizona didn't suffer that last part, unfortunately.
U.S. warplanes have bombed Libyan targets 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times since NATO "took over."
Let me be clear, I'd be happy to do this secretly like in Yemen. So, drop the attitude.
FDA rolls out new anti-smoking ads.
WARNING: SMOKING WILL MAKE YOUR DICK FALL OFF.
+1
WARNING: SMOKING WILL MAKE YOUR DICK FALL OFF.
and into a girl, who is smoking; impregnating her.
NEW WARNING: IF SHE SMOKES, SHE POKES
Tattoos and smoking. Always good signs.
unless she's an earth mama
According to okcupid, the single biggest indicator of if a women will consider sleeping with you on the first date is if she likes beer.
What's with that crappy baby cartoon (#7) instead of a gross photograph?
Ben Ali sentenced to 35 years in jail
Hopefully the first of many.
It's too bad he's living the high life in Saudi Arabia and won't actually be going to jail.
In other news, I bought and installed a soft top for our Jeep Wrangler? so we can go convertible style in the summer. Hardtop goes back on for the winter.
Between that and the Mustang GT Convertible, Mrs. Almanian and I can pretty quickly forget about teh stoopid in the world as we go for a spin and selfishly waste gas on pleasure trips. If we hit some wildlife or a small child during our forays, well, I like to call that "natural selection"...or "a bonus".
Life is fucking AWESOME!
Things like this make me regret my decision to cut way back on paying work and go to grad school.
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
We finally get the boat this weekend, too - time for a trip to the islands, don't you know...
*adjust monocle, replaces top hat*
Believe me, my loathing is all self directed.
Mrs Flyover and I are picking up BMW Z3 this saturday - it's 12 years old, but should still be a fun way to get around over the summer.
She's a little upset we now have 4 vehicles for 2 people, but I call it flexibility.
You get over it after your hope fades to a shadowy memory. Poverty isn't so bad.
is boring
You'll get over it after your wealth fades to a shadowy memory.
The rich aren't like you and me.
Snows of Kilimanjaro?
Congratulations, literate one.
Just stay off my lawn, you whippersnapper
In other news, he wasted a shit-load of cash on a soft top for our Jeep Wrangler?. WTF is it with him and soft? I want it hard, so we do it any style in the summer.
Between that and the Mustang GT Convertible, Mr. Almanian and I can't forget about teh stoopid in the world as we go for a spin and selfishly waste gas on pleasure trips instead of a fucking trip I would enjoy in the Belize.
If we hit some wildlife or a small child during our forays, well, I like to call that "natural selection"...or "a bonus" when Mr. Almanian gets out of the car to check on the damage and I accidently-on-purpose run him over a half-dozen times.
Life is fucking AWESOME SUCKS!
Satire is tough, isn't it?
U.S. warplanes have bombed Libyan targets 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times since NATO "took over."
But it's all been without hostility, so it's cool.
Sapphire warheads of pure love.
They're not shooting back, so its not a war.
Plus, we aren't necessarily targeting military or government facilities, so that helps.
It kind of raises the question: The Constitution only says we need Congressional authorization to go to war. Does that mean the President can commit war crimes without Congressional authorization?
I really don't like showcase-style (such as industry and agriculture and whatever else) seals and flags like Colorado's -- I much prefer principle-driven shit, like Iowa's flag design, for example. I'll never care about snow in Colorado just for that. Ha!
What do you guys think is the best (1) flag and best (2) seal of any of the 50 states and the territories?
Colorado has the best flag. California's will be greatly improved after the apocalypse.
Seals are only for states whose legislative and executive branches have an inflated sense of self-importance.
Fallout geek alert
Professor Bandit:
"what we are looking at here is a Gamma Ray Burst from the direction of M86. As you can see the outer crust through to the upper mantle has been completely disintegrated. Soon the core will become unstable and an explosion will occure. Clearly AGW is to blame for this tragedy and Colorado shows its solidarity in bringing awareness to this threat by displaying this on their flag."
Colorado and Hawaii have the best flags. NM, AK, and TX have solid designs, vexologically speaking, but they are boring and/or have bad colors.
I'm partial to Virginia's, which features the state seal and it's motto Sic Semper Tyrannis
Virginia's is awesome, but I still like the Texas flag - nice and simple.
Any flag that has a hot chick showing a naked boob is presumed to be awesome until proven otherwise.
If it weren't for liberal bitching about Confederate heraldry, Mississippi's would be widely popular --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....ssippi.svg
Missouri's is pretty nice, too -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....ssouri.svg
racist swine
Semper Fidelis Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Texas has the best flag, much as it pains me to say it.
I gotta agree with you on Iowas - I think its my personal favorite, and, by and large, I think we do a good job of sticking with the motto.
"Our Liberties we Prize and Our Rights we Will Maintain."
http://www.50states.com/flag/iaflag.htm
Iowa's blows. Its very similar to Louisiana's POS flag. Any flag that has the name of the state spelled out sucks (OK almost gets away with it). Any flag thats a seal on a (usually blue) background sucks (exception for FL).
Even the red/white/blue proportions on IA's flag sucks. One of the worst.
Most of the 627 banks that still hold money from the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, have filed applications to roll the obligations into the government's new Small Business Lending Fund.
But, no, you can't refinance your 5.4% mortgage to...whatever it is now...4.0% or whatever. Nope. That's DIFFERENT.
Carry on, proles.
Did Obama Really Prevent A Second Great Depression?
Does the NYT care about the carbon footprint of its wonderful pizza-cooking technique?
"Heat the oven and pizza stone at 500 degrees for one hour..."
Oh, hell! Shut up about my light bulbs. Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up....
Congress just wants to feel needed once in a while.
That's about right. They cut their own balls off about 40 years ago. Now they just want to cuddle after being ass-raped.
You know, it just occurred to me - you know what would solve ALL of this?
If the Fed would just print MORE MONEY. That's what we need - a veritable FLOOD of greenbacks. Mo' Benjamins, biotch.
Yep, if we could just get The Bernank to print more dollahs, it would pretty much address everything noted in the Moaning Lynx, and make it better.
Get on it, Ben!
They're trying!
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I find it interesting that when Planned Parenthood closes clinics, it's the ones that don't scrape out the babies.
http://www.startribune.com/lif.....34928.html
My guess is that most of those clinics could barely afford to offer those basic services and that there was no way they could have afforded abortions anyhow.
All those places are out in the middle of nowhere (Brainerd is a tourist trap, but there aren't many locals).
That coupled with the virtue of the women here in MN (I'm sure all the abortions done in the Twin Cities are for those welfare queens who moved here from Chicago or Gary for our generous benefits), means that it is economically infeasible to run an abortion mill.
keep guessing
"from contraception to cervical cancer screenings to testing for sexually-transmitted diseases"
These are very inexpensive. But unlike abortion, there's just no money in them.
I think this speaks to the mendacity of their claim that abortion is secondary to caring for the health needs of woman.
Get a load of this: noted climate science con artist Michael "Piltdown" Mann has come out with a new ridiculous hockey stick chart.
Its hockey sticks all the way down!
Doesn't he know hockey season's over, and the AMERICAN TEAM won?
The comments to that are hysterical
"Kinetic Substance Interdiction"
Joe Barton (R - TX) is saving are light bulb:
"I do thank the lord, I live in Texas"
The best statement was if the Feds want to put light bulb police along the Oklahoma, Louisiana..... borders....
Hmm, reminds me of my FY to: dominion blog. Our Alamoized Texas VS Feds 2.0 will start this summer 🙂
That intrastate-only Real Bulb law sets up a very nice Commerce Clause challenge.
Between the FY to the TSA, and the light bulb backlash, Texas is exercising its ex cathedra that will go 'tea party' in other states.
An interesting swing of power
No more manual HTML? This is an outrage.
Quiet, you!
A Hit and Run where your links work and John can use italics is no Hit and Run at all.
Whining Officially The World's Most Annoying Sound, Reports Jezebel
See, the good thing is that teh SugarFreeing still works. Er, doesn't work...you know what I mean.
I didn't try to link that. Of course, you'll just call me a liar.
LIAR
See...
Actually, I figured you were being teh humorous. But the ultimate humor would be you actually TRYING to link, and then NOT linking, so...
anyway.
LIAR!
In your heart, you know I'm right.
Actually, what I'm really pissed about is the continued lack of support for the blink tag.
I wonder if the blink tag could be enable for reasonable users.
If that sounds reasonable to you, I think you've been spending way too much time at Jezebel.
I'm sure Alissi will include it in the next round of upgrades along with avatars, 'like' buttons, fans, and whatver other bullshit the Hufflepost is doing this week to clutter up its interface.
[like]
I will not stand for blinking fonts. They enable blinking tags for anyone and I will torch this place faster than Ed Schultz at MSNBC.
* A Mexican drug-war columnist and his family are slain in their home.
With guns bought at an American gun show?
...BY ANCHOR BABEEEEZZZZ!!!!!!!!onethousnadonehundredandeleventy!!!
With guns bought at an American gun show?
Say "Hello" to my little friend!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....in-it.html
Eight million gallons of water had to be drained from a reservoir in Oregon after a man urinated in it.
The operation is costing the state's taxpayers $36,000 and was ordered after Joshua Seater, 21, was caught on a security camera relieving himself in the pristine lake.
Health experts said the incident would not have caused any harm to people in the city of Portland, who are supplied with drinking water from the reservoir. They said the average human bladder holds only six to eight ounces, and the urine would have been vastly diluted.
But David Shaff, an administrator at the Portland Water Bureau, defended the decision to empty the lake. "There are people who will say it's an over reaction. I don't think so. I think what you have to deal with here is the 'yuck' factor," he said.
But I bet Shaff doesn't care that fish shit in that water all the time.
"Water, never touch the stuff. Fish shit in it."
"Water, never touch the stuff. Fish shitfuck in it."
REGGIE!!!!
Thank you. Archer fans are rarer on this board than I would have thought.
My city gets its water from the Ohio River. It also wins awards for best tap water in the US (and I happen to agree with this, its actually drinkable).
Portland needs to man up. Who knows what the fuck Pittsburg and Cincinnati are doing in my water.
I think what you have to deal with here is the 'yuck' factor," he said.
How can satire exist in a world this stupid?
It's getting harder every day, much like the nodules in Episiarch's scrotum.
Those are ticks.
I told him not to free-ball it when he was hiking.
STEVE SMITH LIKE FREEBALL HIKERS!! FREEBALL HIKERS LIKE STEVE SMITH RAPE!
Why not just pour in a gallon of bleach for similarly homeopathic qualities of disinfectant. People are stupid.
Speaking of homeopathy, shouldnt the dilution in the reservoir make the urine stronger?
+1
Multiplier Effect
Those homeopathic remedies aren't just for Teh Gaiz any more. NTTAWWT.
Exactly. "Fortunately we have these pee-neutralizing tablets. No, you can't buy them and you can't have one, they're too powerful."
It's my understanding that urine is pretty much a sterile solution unless the pisser is suffering from certain diseases. As for the various salts in the stuff, they were probably present in the water already in quantities greater that the spoonful in a single piss.
This is just one more case where a mediocrity has been given a position of responsibility far beyond his level of competence.
Though I must confess that one aspect of the story disturbs me to some extent.
One story I saw said the water was already treated, which leaves the question of how a member of the public was able to get access to this part of the water supply.
The decision in this case was decidedly an overreaction but there are legitimate concerns about what kind of agents could be introduced into the water supply by someone really determined to cause harm.
Even though water agencies perform frequent tests and can shut off the supply from any given source if anything untoward is found the notion that someone got this close to a treated source of water ready for distibution is cause for some concern.
That is where the angst of the water system managers should be being directed.
The Angst of the Water System Manager
The Decemberists finally have their next album title.
Almost makes you want to fly out to Oregon just to take a piss.
Methinks that David Shaff is projecting here. Someone should tell him that his own bad experience with water sports doesn't justify spending $34K of taxpayer money.
Exactly. It's not the taxpayers fault that he can't remember a tarp.
If terrorists don't exploit this overraction, they don't really hate our freedoms.
I piss on your freedom!
Ew! Throw it out!
Anyone else see the new front runner for prime minister of Thailand? She is a babe.
http://www.google.com/search?q.....80&bih=707
I too was thinking of linking to that. Wow!
I don't trust anything from Thailand anymore since I've seen the Hangover 2.
Any relation to Frank Shinawantra?
what you have to deal with here is the 'yuck' factor," he said.
This guy will probably be getting a job offer from Janet Napolitano. He's definitely got the sort of highly refined risk assessment skills DHS needs.
"Fish shit fuck in it."
Actually, so do I. But I use a condom.
Admittedly, it does have fins. For her pleasure.
Fins on the inside. For my pleasure!!!
STEVE SMITH update: Bigfoot Investigators Hope DNA Test Will Confirm Existence Of Two Man-Beasts
"Two Man-Beasts" or "The Beast With Two Man-Backs?"
Inga: In other vords: his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly.
Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying.
Inga: Voof.
Igor: He's going to be very popular.
How Wellesley College Turned a Libertarian into a Liberal, Feministing Community blog
Um, can we make a new rule? No true libertarian would major in Feminist and Gender studies!
How Wellesley College Turned a Libertarian into a Liberal, Feministing Community blog
Um, can we make a new rule? No true libertarian would major in Feminist and Gender studies!
Jesus Monkeyballs, that was a lot of words. I made it through almost a paragraph.
I made it through the whole thing. Now, I'll need a lighter and a tank of gasoline. I'm going out monk-style
Homicide, not suicide should be your guiding principle. There is always someone else you can kill that will make your life better.
Feministing on Princess parties
As someone supposedly responsible for enhancing R's "spiritual life," I felt especially conflicted about the best way to interact with this whole scene. On the one hand, she is the agent of her own desires, and though I'm well-aware that her desires are already socially-constructed (as are mine, of course), I do think they should be honored. There were moments when the diversity of her interests shone through?as when the princess asked what she would like her face to be painted as, and she chose a tiger above many other options, most of them stereotypically feminine. Developing her muscle to self-assess what she likes, articulate it, and get it is far more important than the symbolic powers of petal pink.
On the other hand, oh-my-lord that princess shit is so homogeneous, lacking in creativity, and consumer-oriented. R. is adopted from Guatemala, already immersed in a largely white world both at home and at school, and the last thing she needs?it seems to me (neither a parent or a child development expert)?is more reinforcement that white=beautiful.
Feminism: the worry that some woman, somewhere is enjoying herself doing the wrong things, like not reading Susan Sontag.
It's good that the link is broken, because I've now got my own vision of what a "princess party" would be, and I'd hate for it to be ruined.
Words fail me.
Promise?
And last, but not least, Feministing on "nice guys"
Is this an article of feminists totally shitting on nice guys? Hell yes. Would they say this to a woman who described herself as a "nice girl"? Hell no. Does this prove SF's point about feminism really being about women's preferences are good, men's are bad? Well, yeah, yeah it does.
I feel like i'm one in a million- One of the "nice guys". The guy who becomes "too close of a friend to date", the one who would never take advantage of a girl if she was drunk, or emotionally distressed. As if this con wasn't enough, it comes with the slanderous stereotypes: nerd, weird, stupid, and any other names that apparently today translate to respectable, timeless, old-fashioned. Does it make me a nerd to want a real, meaningful relationship with a girl? Does it make me weird to actually respect women? Does it make me weird to want more than a physical, one-time encounter with a girl? Does it make me stupid to be equally as turned on from a girl's smile as I am with her breasts? If so, I am all of those things.
I live to break stereotypes.
Somebody get this little fuck a beer and make him lift some weights. He's not too far gone yet.
Shit, just tell him to stop hanging out with the hipsters and start talking to the shy girls out with their sorostitute friends at bars. Most of them might be in the 6-7.5 range, but they'll be grateful for the attention.
Meh. They could have been less dickish about it, but "chicks don't want me, it's because I'm too nice" really is a very tired line of self-serving crap. I have to agree with the overall premise of the piece, which is to look past your "I must be too nice" defense and figure out what the real issue is.
I felt especially conflicted about the best way to interact with this whole scene.
Agony aunt is agonized.
North Korean comic books are fucking awesome. Sadly, to see them, you have to go to Slate.
Wow. We should have stuff like this here. It would make my job so much easier.
Hint: if you're going to Wellesley, you're probably not a libertarian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLAiXsVOyS8
Lmao
Hey, you guys! Did you know rectal has anger and self-control issues?
Just check out some of its posts.
Whoda thunk it?
/back to real life
Thought this was cool:
Workers build a footpath around the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in China
No more manual HTML? This is an outrage.
Really? Even with every script-blocking doohickey off, I don't see any format buttons.
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FOILED, MFs!
thanks