Reason Morning Links: Emails: ATF Used "Fast and Furious" to Push Gun Control, Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown in New Poll, Jon Corzine "Simply Does Not Know Where The Money Is"

Mike Riggs | 12.8.2011 9:00 AM

ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.
House Republicans grill Eric Holder on Fast and Furious today.
Elizabeth Warren is polling seven points ahead of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).
Corzine's testimony to Congress: "I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date."
Republican enthusiasm for voting in 2012 has fallen from 58 percent to 44 percent.
The State Department is keeping classified the 250,000 document leaked by Wikileaks.

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.

Uh-oh.
1. WTF 13 years ago
  
  I'm sure MNG will be along soon to explain how those e-mails don't really say what we think they say.
  1. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    I look forward to seeing the mental gymnastics.
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      he must have one helluva strong back since moving goalposts is such hard work.
    2. Gus 13 years ago
      
      I can't wait to piss in his mouth!
      1. ? 13 years ago
        
        He's a poopy head!
        
        protefeed 13 years ago
        
        This was the most infuriating line of the linked article:
        
        "It's like ATF created or added to the problem so they could be the solution to it and pat themselves on the back," says one law enforcement source familiar with the facts. "It's a circular way of thinking."
    3. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
      
      It must infuriate the lefties that CBS is the network doing this; it spikes all of the arguments they would make if Fox were doing it.
      
      I wonder if they'll just have to fall back on Standard Defense #1: "...you just can't stand it that a black man is president".
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    Say, where is MNG today? I'm looking forward to him admitting that John was 100% right about F&F - that the only logical and consistent explanation for it was to push gun control, because nothing else about it makes any sense at all.
    1. Sparky 13 years ago
      
      I think MNG is probably at the same place as John right now only he's the one bent over since he lost the bet.
      1. Unpopular Guy 13 years ago
        
        Maybe he decided to get a life.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Posted this yesterday:
  
  http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....guns-walk/
3. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
  
  Hopefully gun groups will sue Holder and the ATF for civil rights violations / conspiracy. Since it's unlikely anyone else will do anything.
4. rather 13 years ago
  
  ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.
  
  Uh-oh.
  
  Hmm, how else are we going to find the guns the government keeps misplacing? 😉
5. SFC B 13 years ago
  
  How the fuck is this not a big deal?
  1. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    The wrong people are in charge of the media.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      I never realized how Liberal the media was until the internet.
      1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
        
        The veil has dropped even further recently with the GOP coverage.
        
        Even with Paul polling like he has been, he's almost never mentioned. It's sickening to see such a blatant attempt to herd.
      2. I 13 years ago
        
        I thought "legacy media" was dead and bloggers were the new kings of information. No?
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        It's a still-ongoing process. Government hasn't even started bailing out their MSM lapdogs yet, so we're still in a fairly early stage. But 20 years ago, you wouldn't even have heard of Ron Paul. On the other hand, you wouldn't have heard of Fist of Etiquette, Rather, Maxx, Old Mexican or Sloopyinca either, so I'm not entirely sure it's an improvement.
        
        I 13 years ago
        
        I comprehend your potato.
        
        20 years ago...you wouldn't have heard of Fist of Etiquette, Rather, Maxx, Old Mexican or Sloopyinca
        
        [sigh]
        
        Good times.
        
        Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        Hey now!
    2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
      
      Guns are bad. Ends justify the means. Etc.
6. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  I don't care where you are on gun rights, this is a huge abuse of power. In a rational America, the whole administration would likely fall over this.
  
  Today, however, it may not even get much coverage. WTF?
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Today, however, it may not even get much coverage. WTF?
    
    Because the right people are in charge!
  2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    Also amazing is the fact that the ATF are the assholes the anti 2A nuts want to give gun control power to.
    
    And F & F will not dissuade them.
    1. SFC B 13 years ago
      
      F&F will encourage them. Anti-2nd folks have to be giddy at the thought of a government agency that not only tried to control guns, but activly tries to subvert American's right to own firearms.
  3. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
    
    So, we should be getting a special prosecutor any day now, right? I mean, this makes Iran-Contra and Whitewater look small and petty.
    
    Pity that Congress blew their impeachment wad on trying to prove perjury in a collateral matter, because it sure seems appropriate here.
  4. JW 13 years ago
    
    rational America
    
    Is that located anywhere on the North American continent?
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      In between Canada and the United States.
      1. JW 13 years ago
        
        "Death to the 49th Parallelites!"
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        To be fair, they do act as a buffer between the U.S. and Canada.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        They'd be easily conquered with their inexperienced, 2-dimensional thinking.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        I'm not sure they even have two dimensions.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        If you really want to piss them off, tell them that you're laughing at their superior intellect. It's their weak spot.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Well, they did offer the world order.
  5. anon 13 years ago
    
    In a rational America
    
    I see flawed reasoning here.
  6. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
    
    Intentions, goal oriented, etc.
7. Tulpa 13 years ago
  
  The emails only show that some low-level individuals considered that to be the purpose of the program. We don't know if that's what the program was intended for by the people who ordered it.
  
  I'm still favoring the incompetence explanation over the malice one, but it's not as much of a gap at this point.
8. Bradley 13 years ago
  
  Well, I guess this proves Fluffy correct again.
Arduin Grimoire 13 years ago

U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels
1. CoyoteBlue 13 years ago
  
  They are too big to fail.
  1. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
    
    Too many American (union) jobs depend on the drug cartels for their existence.
    
    If we were to allow the cartels who fail, what would happen to the poor prison guards and police officers who prosecute the War on People?
Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago

ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.

I can haz impeachment?
1. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Holder does not deserve LOLcat's attention.
  1. NeonCat 13 years ago
    
    Ceiling Cat is watching you commit felonies.
WTF 13 years ago

ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.

That can't possibly be right. MNG explained to us fools in great detail how we were just being paranoid Obama-haters to believe such a thing.
Arduin Grimoire 13 years ago

Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie, Freddie, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance (long PDF)
...Was the growth in private label MBS the culmination of the dream of the deregulation
advocates of the 1980s coming to fruition, albeit two decades later? Or was it the emergence of
new government-sponsored enterprises in the form of too-big-to-fail financial institutions? We
argue the latter, and, with this emergence, came a battle between the GSEs and the too-big-tofail
large complex financial institutions (LCFIs), and a race to the bottom in mortgage finance....

...Of course, the GSE firms and these LCFIs were not identical in form. The LCFIs had a
more diversified product line, were afforded greater flexibility, and increasingly were perceived
to have a too-big-to-fail government guarantee -- while the GSEs had a public mission, received
a more explicit government guarantee, and were subject to lighter capital requirements. But
when one digs beneath the surface, the failure of the LCFIs and the GSEs is quite similar ? a
highly leveraged bet on the mortgage market by firms that were implicitly backed by the
government with artificially low funding rates only to differing degrees....
1. PR 13 years ago
  
  the GSE's are nothing compared to the FHA debacle coming our way.
  1. Dweebus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    Meh. I'm still waiting for the REITs to fail.
Appalachian Australian 13 years ago

So how's that whole moderate-Republican strategy working out when running against a fringe far-left opponent like Warren?
1. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  I've said it before and I'll say it again. Elizabeth Warren is going to be the next senator from MA.
  1. tarran 13 years ago
    
    Don't be so sure; her predecessor started out with a lead and then imploded as the voters got to know her better.
    
    And Warren strikes me as the type of person who has a paper trail of very dumb things she has said a la Van Jones.
    1. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      Warren strikes me as the type of person who has a paper trail of very dumb things she has said a la Van Jones
      
      Maybe so but I wouldn't underestimate the reflexing retardedness of MA voters to vote Team Blue.
      1. tarran 13 years ago
        
        Honestly, it'd going to come down to whether there is a strong Republican presidential candidate or not:
        
        Outside of I-495 MA residents are very much like Ohioans. There is a huge strain of resentment at the corrupt Democratic party that runs things for the benefit of Boston. If the Republicans run a strong candidate they might not be so apathetic and come out in droves.
        
        Sparky 13 years ago
        
        There are a number of fairly libertarian pockets out here in the west end of the state but the population centers out east have us outnumbered.
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        I believe this. However, this segment of the MA population is not numerous or influential enough to wrest power from the Deep Blue part of the state, no?
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        Actually, they could.
        
        The backbone of the Democratic machine are the Catholics living in the Boston area - they are culturally conservative, tend to be union workers and vote Democratic due to the machine politics we have here and the tradition of always voting for the party of rum, Romanism and rebellion.
        
        They broke for Reagan in 1984 and turned on Coakley in the last election.
        
        Warren, being an utter elitist snob, has a better than average chance at alienating them so they break for Brown.
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Unfortunately most of the people live inside of 495. This could go either way. Warren really has a bitchy school-marm persona that will alienate all but the ultra-libs.
        
        Old Soldier 13 years ago
        
        Unfortunately most of the people live inside of 495. This could go either way. Warren really has a bitchy school-marm persona that will alienate all but the ultra-libs.
    2. Sparky 13 years ago
      
      I have no faith in the MA voters. I think most people are going to think that Warren is a better replacement for Uncle Ted's seat than Brown ended up being.
      1. Sky Captain Au H20 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, I could see left wingers moving to MA for a year to campaign for Warren just like right wingers did for Brown. She is a left wing darling and it pisses those people off that an R took Teddy's seat
        
        protefeed 13 years ago
        
        Considering that all nine Massachusetts U.S. Representatives are currently Democrats, I'm not really buying the notion that there are libertarian or conservative pockets of any substantial size anywhere in MA.
        
        My gut feeling is Scott Brown gets booted out, unless Warren turns out to be incredibly icky and incompetent like Coakley.
        
        Sparky 13 years ago
        
        Trust me, there are pockets. They're just size 0 jeans pockets.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama's Godfather Speech
The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....LEFTSecond
1. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  But, but, but... hapman said Obama isn't a class warrior.
  1. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    I think Chapman is Tony.
    1. Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand 13 years ago
      
      Doesn't Chapman not even like Dr. No?
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  It's absolutely true. You know all those bad things I've said about Obama over the years? Well, he asked me to stop through his good friend, Eric Holder. I said no, then I woke up with a horse's head in the bed. That might've scared me, but I've never owned a horse.
  1. Brandon 13 years ago
    
    That's funny, I rolled over this morning, and my usual horse's head was missing. Was the horse's head wearing a monocle, by chance?
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      Oh, sorry. . .this must be yours.
Spoonman. 13 years ago

The Fast and Furious thing needs to lead to arrests if not treason prosecutions.
1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
  
  It won't.
  1. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    ^THIS
2. Jozef 13 years ago
  
  Last time they that, the person responsible got a cozy anchor position at FOX News. You really want to see Holder on TV every weekend?
  1. Chupacabra 13 years ago
    
    Holder would most likely end up on MSNBC, so no one would have to see him again.
tarran 13 years ago

And now for something completely different.

Dog plays with baby.
1. PaulGoddardSpoof 13 years ago
  
  Nice
2. James Ard 13 years ago
  
  I think that baby has a UFC championship in his future.
3. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  So, I guess boxers are good with kids?
  1. tarran 13 years ago
    
    I think it depends on the dog and his/her owners.
    
    From the videos they've put up about Linus playing with the kids, it's apparent that these are really good parents who run a non-dysfunctional home -> the dogs and the kids are in an environment that minimizes the likelihood of neurotic behavior.
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    The best dog I ever had when it came to kids was an enormous (95 pound) pit bull. The second best was an even more enormous (150 lb) Newfie. Both dogs were completely bullet-proof and knew it, so they were tolerant of anything.
    1. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
      
      A nanny dog and a Newf. I got raised with a Lab and I'd put both of those other breeds with it in dogs that are outstanding with small kids. From the limited experience I have with Newfs, they seem even more docile than Labs, if that's even possible. The dogs have to be trained, of course.
      
      A Newf'll probably be our next dog, assuming we don't fall for whatever has big eyes at the pound. Need a house and a pool first though.
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Don't forget a gross of dog brushes and an industrial vacuum cleaner. Newfs are frickin' hair factories.
        
        And drool. When I was home, I always kept a dishrag in my pocket to swipe under his jowls.
        
        Wonderful dogs, if you like 'em big and a smart.
        
        Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        GF's family showed Pyrenees, so she's familiar with the grooming costs. I still laugh at the stories of getting estimates for grooming your dog. It takes me about 10 minutes to bathe and dry the Weim. I'm guessing Lab-like shedding frequency---constant---only a much greater amount.
        
        Not something I have to worry about right now though.
        
        Gus 13 years ago
        
        I've got a Newfy and yes, they shed like crazy. For a good three months the floor looks as if it's covered in Brillo pads no matter how often it's vacuumed.
        
        FlyoverCountry 13 years ago
        
        My wife and I have a corgi and hardwood floors... I can never tell where the rugs end an the dog hair begins.
        
        Has anybody had any luck using a roomba on dog hair on hardwood? It seems like the best idea ever, but I don't want to spend the money if it won't pick it up
        
        Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        Never had a roomba, but I did manage to keep ahead of Lab fur with hardwoods by constantly carpet-sweeping/fuzzy cross between a mop and a broom. The area behind her crate still looked like drifts of black snow... Great dog, but damn do Labs shed.
        
        I get that Newf fur is like another order of magnitude greater.
  3. Field Marshall Gill 13 years ago
    
    Boxers, as a breed, are especially good with children. The AKC description of the breed includes something like "never a danger in the home". They are often large, and can hurt people if they are allowed to jump on them. Otherwise, they often breed boxers into other breeds to make them family oriented.
    
    I once had a boxer-chow mix. One day a two year old child took one of the dogs big lips between his teeth. The dog tried to pull away but when she realized the child wasn't going to let go, she just stood there and looked at me. She didn't growl or move until I came and rescued her.
    
    I have a boxer-lab mix now. Boxers are without doubt one of the most gentle breeds.
4. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Neither of those idiots knows how to fight effectively.
  1. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    I LOL'd!
    1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
      
      Same here.
      
      Well done FoE.
  2. Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
    
    What I dont get it Baby Face seems focused on the scissors, I mean cmon, skill levels and techniques have evolved. She needs to update her training if she is going to be successful. And Linus? Dancing around and throwing an occaisional jab will not win you a fight.
rather 13 years ago

I don't like Thursdays - Major Nidal Malik Hasan
1. Barfman 13 years ago
  
  *baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarf*
Arduin Grimoire 13 years ago

$6M RoboTorso, aka Johnny Longtorso, apologizes for the backwards GG blurb in the webathon banner. F'ing tshirt size selection box made him have to redo the donation pages and they got out of order.

Does he get credit for SugarFree-ing the banner?
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  I laughed even harder because it was backwards.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Subsidizing Wall Street to Buy Chinese Solar Panels
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....n_newsreel

One of the largest solar-system installers in the U.S., SolarCity Corp., uses the LLC strategy and currently buys a majority of its solar panels from the low-cost Chinese supplier, Yingli. Thus when President Obama said that we must subsidize our solar industry to remain competitive with the Chinese, it would have been more accurate to say that we subsidize Wall Street to create employee-less corporations that buy and install Chinese solar panels in the U.S. Wall Street and consumers understand that free markets are borderless; Washington does not.

worth reading the full article for the disconnect between politics and markets.
1. God 13 years ago
  
  One of the largest solar-system installers
  
  You rang?
  1. Gravity 13 years ago
    
    solar-system installers
    
    you rang?
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Elizabeth Warren is polling seven points ahead of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).

That poll makes it look like any random Democrat would be trending better than Brown, since the commonwealth leans so far to the D side of things and Team Blue voters are putting her over the top. Almost any Dem other than Warren would probably be doing better for them.
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  That is not what I would call a healthy margin in a Deep Blue state.
  
  If Brown is willing to get his knuckles bloody, he ought to be able to take her.
2. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  The election is 11 months away. She has lots of time to say and do stupid stuff.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

This just in: Christina "the forehead" Ricci poses for some really strange pics!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....shoot.html
1. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  I must say she looks rather fetching in those - far more so than I thought possible. It's amazing what make-up, lighting, and photoshop are capable of.
  1. mr simple 13 years ago
    
    She could be an air hostess from the 60s.
    1. robc 13 years ago
      
      or a part-time model.
2. tarran 13 years ago
  
  How can a person spend that much money on designing and crafting clothing, make a beautiful woman look ugly and live with themselves?
  1. Masturbatin' Pete 13 years ago
    
    Gay.
3. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
  
  I don't think they're that strange, but they do look more like a fashion editorial than something for what looks like an industry magazine. She looks pretty decent in them, I thought.
4. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Is Pan Am any good?
  1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    I don't know about the movie, but that picture of her in her stewardess uniform brought back a lot of childhood memories. We flew on Pan Am a LOT when I was a kid, and I fondly recall my Pan Am flight pins and the trips to the cockpit to talk to the captain and see the plane fly.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Ever see a Steve Reeve's movie?
      1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        Haha yes, if you mean Hercules and his various Roman costume flicks.
        
        I grew up in the 60's and 70's.
    2. Sky Captain Au H20 13 years ago
      
      So, do you like gladiator movies?
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        I just wanted to say good luck, and we're all counting on you
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        I just recorded Gladiator on my dvr - awesome opening scene.
        
        heller 13 years ago
        
        Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
      2. heller 13 years ago
        
        I prefer Turkish prisons.
      3. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        Mmmmm. Oiled muscles. 6-pack abs. Skimpily clad men with long, strong thighs. Mmmmm.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure they're straight. Positive.
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        C'mon now. The homoeroticism is about 90% of the joy of watching.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        I can't compete with those impossibly sculpted gay men!
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        LOL.
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        Actually, I was thinking of 300 when I wrote that, which I think we can all admit is one of the gayest movies EVAR.
        
        Sky Captain Au H20 13 years ago
        
        So, I take it that you have seen a grown man naked then?
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        Yes. And I enjoy exposing him to my FEMALE GAZE.
        
        Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand 13 years ago
        
        I don't think there is anything gay about appreciating a well-sculpted male form. There is a social taboo against it for men, but that does not make it a sexual thing.
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        but that does not make it a sexual thing
        
        I agree, but I think it is perceived that way but a great many men (and women). I find it interesting that women are socially "allowed" to perceive other women as physically beautiful without there being a perceived sexual component to it.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        I find it interesting that women are socially "allowed" to perceive other women as physically beautiful without there being a perceived sexual component to it.
        
        Trust me. We're adding one in for you anyway.
        
        Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        Look kid I am out there bustin' my ass every game!
5. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  with a noggin like that, I'm surprised she isn't a telepath or can think in 7 dimensions.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Then I'm just a shill for Big Forehead, because I also find Summer Glau and Olivia Wilde very pretty.
    1. T 13 years ago
      
      All three are geek hot. They get extra points for appearing in iconic bits of geek culture.
      
      Don't get me wrong, they're all cute, but they aren't nearly as hot as the internet thinks they are.
      1. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        I never really cared who other people thought were hot.
        
        I'm not sure in what iconic bit of geek she culture appeared, but Olivia Wild is a very mainstream actress. Otoh, Glau pretty much only seems to do geeky stuff.
        
        . 13 years ago
        
        "I never really cared who other people thought were hot."
        
        i.e. "I intentionally chase uggos so I don't get rejected by hot chicks"
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Because being rejected by "uggos" is better, am I right?
    2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      Come on! Olivia Wilde so outclasses the other two in both looks and talent!
  2. robc 13 years ago
    
    All of you guys with a problem with her fivehead can leave her to me, I will happily put up with it.
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      hey, I'm not complaining - I'm just sayin'
      
      (disclosure - I wear a big hat)
    2. kinnath 13 years ago
      
      http://fitsnews.com/wp-content.....an-001.jpg
      
      Luv that forehead
      1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        WARNING - *NSFW*
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        Your warning is pointless to those of us who wield the might Reasonable.
        
        I'm having some after images from those high beams.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Then you'll love After Life. She's topless in almost every scene.
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        [Adds After Life to Netflix list].
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        You might want to add Prozac Nation also.
      2. FlyoverCountry 13 years ago
        
        Damn, my work filter blocks xkcd, but let that go through.
  3. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    Big foreheads denote intelligence!!
    1. Restoras 13 years ago
      
      or...a scanner?
6. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  You guys can have. Fucking freak.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Dude, the math for that doesn't even work.
    
    Overall = 150.
    Forehead = 55.
    Forehead is 36.6% of face.
    
    Or forehead is 55/95 or 57.8% of her 'face'.
    
    Somebody needs to try harder at the maths, and explaining what they mean. With the numbers given, you can't get 42%.
    1. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
      
      Transposition error. 1-(55/95)=42%. Still a screw-up, but I see how they got there. Best to use the right numbers in the first place, and I see where they were going with the Klingon crack.
      
      Not having seen Black Snake Moan, two things: 1) impressive fake tits, and 2) is that some kind of jacked-up birthmark on her right breast, a bruise, a tat, or what?
      1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        If the same doc did hers that did Tara Reid's, it might be a nipple.
7. Urkobold? 13 years ago
  
  WAS IST LOS? WHERE DID HER MAGNIFICENT BOSOM GO? WAS THERE A TRAGIC ACCIDENT? CANCER? CAN THE URKOBOLD DONATE MONEY TO RESTORE IT?
8. chris 13 years ago
  
  Hard to believe she is only 31. Seems like she has been around forever.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Euro's fall may doom all
US gov't not ready for calamity
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/o.....tMSSv3lfUI

Euro-area policymakers are finally talking about the kind of bold reforms needed to fix their ailing system. But they've waited so long that they're now racing against time, and a collapse can't be ruled out.

Leveraged to the hilt and broadly exposed to the risky debt of countries on the brink of default, many euro-area banks are floundering, so depositors and other bank creditors are running for the hills. Unless the run can be halted, it will at some point shut down much of the banking system in the euro area.
1. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  It's going to be an earth-shattering kaboom when it goes off - and it will.
  1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
    
    Yep. And when it do...
    
    http://youtu.be/JofwEB9g1zg
2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Let me add some doom to your doom...
  
  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/.....-risk.html
  
  Major US Banks have $5 trillion in exposure to credit default swaps on sovereign bonds
  1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    hurray!
  2. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    Jesus. H. Christ. Is it too late to buy a dairy farm in upstate NY and take a crash course on hubandry at Canton ATC????
    1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
      
      Yeah. You should be planning on Road Warrior levels of redundancy now to be safe.
    2. JW 13 years ago
      
      "Just give us the milk, the cheese and walk away. Just walk away."
3. Lost_In_Translation 13 years ago
  
  DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
  1. JW 13 years ago
    
    Doom
    DOOM
    DOOM
4. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  It's all okay now, fellas. The Fed coordinated with the other central banks so foreign banks can now borrow from the Fed for rates cheaper (.59%) than what the Fed offers domestic banks (.75%).
Ice Nine 13 years ago

Corzine's testimony to Congress: "I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date."

A billion bucks doesn't just disappear. Isn't this something for which an average forensic accountant could provide Corzine an answer, with a pencil, a paper and a spare afternoon? Doesn't he know that? Wouldn't it have been more simple for him to just plead the Fifth?
1. T 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, a billion dollars doesn't fall between the couch cushions. It had to go somewhere, and if you don't know where it is, you are criminally negligent in running your enterprise.
  1. rather 13 years ago
    
    It happens
2. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  Imagine if he is telling the truth. What Wall Street CEO doesn't know why the Accounting Department isn't reconciling accounts or where their cash is flowing?
  
  He's admitting to a level of incompetence and laziness that is criminal. He is going to lose everything to the lawsuits.
3. Jerry 13 years ago
  
  A bit late for pleading the 5th.
  
  Corzine (2010): "We can't go running 30 to 1 leverage ratios on our balance sheet."
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    30 to 1 - amateurs
    
    "Now, consider this: the top four US banks (JPM Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs) control nearly 95% of the US derivatives market, which has grown by 20% since last year to $235 trillion. That figure is a third of all global derivatives of $707 trillion (up from $601 trillion in December, 2010 and $583 trillion mid-year 2010. )
    
    Breaking that down: JPM Chase holds 11% of the world's derivative exposure, Citibank, Bank of America, and Goldman comprise about 7% each. But, Goldman has something the others don't ? a lot fewer assets beneath its derivatives stockpile. It has 537 times as many (from 440 times last year) derivatives as assets. Think of a 537 story skyscraper on a one story see-saw. Goldman has $88 billon in assets, and $48 trillion in notional derivatives exposure. This is by FAR the highest ratio of derivatives to assets of any so-called bank backed by a government. The next highest ratio belongs to Citibank with $1.2 trillion in assets and $56 trillion in derivative exposure, or 46 to 1. JPM Chase's ratio is 44 to 1. Bank of America's ratio is 36 to 1. "
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Let me repeat that just for emphasis:
      
      But, Goldman has something the others don't ? a lot fewer assets beneath its derivatives stockpile. It has 537 times as many derivatives as assets.
      1. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        Scruffy, at a certain point, aren't those degrees of leverage overkill, like asking if your chances of survival are better if the building you jump from is 200 feet tall, or 2300? None of the banks you've mentioned can survive a derivatives collapse, whether at 36 to 1 leverage or 537 to 1.
        
        What happens if, by sovereign diktat, the EU, US, Japan, and whoever else got their dick in the grinder, agrees to zero out all outstanding derivatives contracts: refuse to enforce, grant immediate rescission, that sort of thing?
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        40 to 1 / 400 to 1 doesn't really matter. But what it says is important. It's saying that we're at the end game on the financial markets. It's saying that Wall Street and the Fed are absolutely out of control and DC is either ignorant, doesn't care, or is colluding.
        
        In answer to your second question, I'm guessing violence and a grand mal seizure of the global economy.
        
        Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        war
        
        # 13 years ago
        
        this isnt leverage - the ration si not assets to capital, its dirrivatives to assets. It still has its own risk but its different.
        
        And all dirrivatives are not the same - many of thes eliekly cancel each other out. What you need to know is the net exposure. Doing some complex risk managment its quite possible to have dirrivatives that pay out on opposite event results.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Haven't we definitively proven with AIG, Bear Sterns, and Lehman that for most of these firms, the risk analysis was either wrong or incomplete? In any event, I ain't betting that the risk analysis was managed any better than the rest of this clusterfuck.
        
        Goldman appears to be the only smart player, since they figured out co-opting the regulators makes you bulletproof.
        
        CrackertyAssCracker 13 years ago
        
        Not if you just assume everything follows a normal distribution, then the math works out all nice and tidy.
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        I understand the distinction. But the reality is trying to unwind these positions is next to impossible. They're really not much more than bets in a worldwide casino based on highly complicated quantum physics equations that are fraught with risk.
4. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  The money went all over the damn place. Some of it ended up in Corzine's bank account, some of it went to the DNC, some of it went to Obama's reelection fund, you get the idea.
  
  He was commingling his clients funds with all the rest of it, which is illegal.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    OK, maybe a couple of afternoons.
  2. Restoras 13 years ago
    
    Who wants to bet he doesn't go to prison? Anyone?
    1. Old Soldier 13 years ago
      
      I'm betting he remains free but loses every civil lawsuit from investors and shareholders. I hope he ends up broke and homeless.
    2. T 13 years ago
      
      I'm betting he doesn't even get charged with a criminal offense.
      
      Flip side, he'll be in civil court until he suck starts a 12 gauge over the whole thing.
      1. Restoras 13 years ago
        
        ...suck starts a 12 gauge...
        
        I'm stealing this.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        I think I swiped it from Tam K. over here. I recommend highly. She throws down some fine snark.
    3. Mike M. 13 years ago
      
      Of course he isn't; he's a highly well-connected leftist, which gives him carte blanche to get away with anything.
5. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Here's what happened:
  
  IMF shipped the money to London, which has looser regs on what banks do with customer money.
  
  It then pledged that money to secure loans back to the bank ("hypothecation"), thus effectively exposing customer money to the bank's trading risk. When the bank's trades failed, that money was taken by the lenders.
  
  Guess what? IMF isn't the only bank that does this, and it looks like its legal, at least under US security laws.
  
  http://newsandinsight.thomsonr.....n_scandal/
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    hoooooooooooly shit
    
    It's outright fucking madness on the part of Wall Street et al. They won't stop until the whole system comes crashing down around them.
    1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
      
      Quick gains my man, quick gains.
      
      It seems as though any form or medium or long term thinking is impossible now.
  2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    You know, just when I think they couldn't possible get any more fucking stupid and/or thieving in their practices, you come along and drop that in my lap.
    
    And my friends wonder why I go on a rant when they bring up banks in a conversation.
  3. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    I just love this little blurb from MF Global's customer agreement:
    
    "7. Consent To Loan Or Pledge
    You hereby grant us the right, in accordance with Applicable Law, to borrow, pledge, repledge, transfer, hypothecate, rehypothecate,loan, or invest any of the Collateral, including, without limitation, utilizing the Collateral to purchase or sell securities pursuant to repurchase agreements [repos] or reverse repurchase agreements with any party, in each case without notice to you, and we shall have no obligation to retain a like amount of similar Collateral in our possession and control."
    
    They were outright announcing that they would put all of it on the line with no reserve to their customers and it went unnoticed. How common is this among the big investment banks?
    
    How far does this go before they burn some mafia or yakuza group and they start "accidentally" falling thru plate glass windows?
    1. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      How common is this among the big investment banks?
      
      I suspect its universal. I know I'll be flyspecking some agreements today.
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        MF Global's may be unusually abusive, but if you happen to be counsel to any organization that has any kind of asset management agreement with an investment bank, you should run, not walk, to your filing cabinet and pull that agreement.
6. Dweebus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  I'd still like to know how the investment team he hired to handle NJ's pension fund was pulling over 17% returns.
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    Not fucking possible. I'm willing to bet it was thru Madoff style accounting
    1. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      Quite possible, with insider trading, inside deals with investment bank(ers) willing to "bucket shop" and the like, etc. Lots of ways to lie, cheat, and steal your way to 17% returns.
7. Devil Inchoate 13 years ago
  
  Wasn't there talk of a billion dollar Obama war chest?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

related to the link above?
Battleground-State Voters Leaving the Democratic Party
http://decoded.nationaljournal.....-leavi.php

President Obama and his re-election team have prided themselves on their well-oiled get-out-the-vote effort. But a new study from the centrist think tank Third Way suggests Democrats are losing ground organizationally in nearly all of the key battleground states in the general election.

The group's analysis found that, in the eight politically-pivotal states that register voters by party, a significant number have left the Democratic party since 2008, with many choosing to register as independents. Over 825,000 registered Democrats in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have departed the party rolls since President Obama's election in 2008, a much more significant share than the number of Republicans (378,000) who have done the same. Meanwhile, the number of registered independents has ticked upwards by 254,000.
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  centrist think tank Third Way
  
  Really? A quick look at their website fails to reveal anything that Nancy, Harry, and Barack wouldn't be perfectly happy with.
  1. heller 13 years ago
    
    Maybe they meant European centrist.
  2. heller 13 years ago
    
    Maybe they meant European centrist.
  3. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Crazy how much bullshit there is these days. It's obviously not centrist. Why lie and say it is? Besides, when did "center" become an end rather than a description? The center isn't always the place to be: "Oh, hey, I'm a centrist. . .between God and Satan."
    
    "Moderate" to me can be a good thing, in the Aristotelian sense, but even it is corrupted by this idea that there are two extremes and being in the middle is an absolute good.
    1. Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand 13 years ago
      
      Argument to moderation has long been a popular political fallacy.
      1. rac3rx 13 years ago
        
        Moderates, bipartisanship, and compromise got us into this nasty mess, I'm more that ready for what these idiots would call extremism.
  4. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    I suppose that's centrist for some people. Like some of our (not-so) favorite commentators.
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      Lord Humungous was a centrist in the wastes.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.prnewswire.com/news.....12653.html

CCRKBA Applauds Walsh Legislation to Withhold United Nations Funding

"The [CCRKBA] today applauded Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh's introduction of legislation to withhold funding from the United Nations and assuring that the United States does not adopt any treaty posing a threat to national sovereignty or that abridges the firearms rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Second Amendment."

"Rep. Walsh's bill, developed with the cooperation and assistance of CCRKBA staff, would block U.N. funding unless the President certifies that the world body 'has not taken any action to restrict, attempt to restrict, or otherwise adversely infringe upon the rights of individuals?to keep and bear arms, or abridge any of the other constitutionally protected rights' of U.S. citizens." ...

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Well, at least SOME decent news
1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  Oh, and Georgia's going to be voting on constitutional carry soon
2. robc 13 years ago
  
  Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh
  
  I loved County Fair
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    And just found this on youtube. A really young Joe.
    1. robc 13 years ago
      
      Any chance we could see a Barnstorm reunion tour? I would much rather go see that than The Eagles.
      1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        Or a James Gang reunion.
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        Im thirsty. 🙂
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        Let's see how the playoff goes, robc...
      2. Matrix 13 years ago
        
        don't capitalize "The". It's just Eagles.
        
        oncogenesis 13 years ago
        
        I hate the fuckin' Eagles.
        
        Matrix 13 years ago
        
        Man, what is with the Reasonoids and hating great music? sheesh.
        
        Matrix 13 years ago
        
        Do all you bastards listen to Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and all that other BS? wtf is wrong with you people?
3. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Political life's been good to him. So far.
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    Really? You want for the low hanging fruit?
    
    I would have accepted: "When did Illinois become a Rocky Mountain State?" before that.
    
    Ooooh...a political barnstorming reference...that would have been the real winner.
    1. robc 13 years ago
      
      went for...not want for.
      
      Im not donating until we get a damn preveiw button.
  2. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
    
    Sounds like an ordinary average pol.
Ice Nine 13 years ago

Republican enthusiasm for voting in 2012 has fallen

I'm pretty sure that Obama can fix this over the next ten months.
1. WTF 13 years ago
  
  Republican enthusiasm for voting in 2012 has fallen
  
  Newcular. Titties.
2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Things might also change when the Republicans have a candidate.
  
  Were Republican voters enthusiastic about voting for the last candidate? If they work up a hardon for McCain, they can get enthusiastic for anyone.
  1. DJF 13 years ago
    
    I think the only enthusiasm was for Palin. Even McCain did not seem very enthused about being President and probably voted for Obama.
  2. Lost_In_Translation 13 years ago
    
    McCain lost...
    
    ...now is the winter of our malaise.
3. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
  
  I think you might be right about that.
rather 13 years ago

American government played 'hide the truth' with Japanese atrocities
1. Appalachian Australian 13 years ago
  
  Shush, let's not deviate from the accepted groupthink that FDR is a hero of civil liberties.
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    ahh immunity was granted at the end of the war...when truman was president. >radio entertainment aint education
    1. rather 13 years ago
      
      The facts were known during the war, and mum was the word
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        of course the allies knew about japanese atrocities DURING the war. >the immunity was granted AFTER when Truman was POTUS.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....istration/

Who Wouldn't Be for National Gun Registration?

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Lol, pretty cool
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  I thought it was pretty funny too.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://sipseystreetirregulars......olice.html

More on the militarization of the police.

------------

"The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US: http://www.businessinsider.com.....z1fgCE0oI1

"Some folks see danger in the transfer of military equipment to local police, and there is that. But there is more danger in the psychology of federalization of local law enforcement than there is in this hardware."

"As for me, I also see opportunity. Personally, I would like to thank the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations for spreading out all this military hardware into the hinterland where, in an emergency, the armed citizenry can get its hands on it without having to trespass on a military base." ...

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It's getting worse, folks!
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

Also, dudes, Halligan's been rejected for a judicial post by the Senate, 54 to 45!
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

"I'm Jealous of Calendar Girls"
http://dearwendy.com/columns/i.....dar-girls/

I'm 24 and have had a relationship problem since I was 13: I find it offensive and hurtful when my boyfriend looks at other women, watches movies or even when he goes to his parents' house where he works in his dad's shop that has calendar girls. I get angry at him and want to break up with him when he sees a stripper in a movie or a naked woman. It's so painful because those people in movies and on the calendars are perfect and I can't even come close to looking like that. When I asked my boyfriend if he thought they were better looking than me, he said yes and ever since then, I think about it.....
1. WTF 13 years ago
  
  I do find it odd that he told you he thought the women in movies are prettier than you...
  
  Because he should just lie. Then you can feel okay while you're working on your second helping of pasta.
  1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    The woman in question is actually probably underweight, unless she is very short (she says she is 110 pounds). She's just an insecure wimp.
    
    I can easily imagine a guy saying this in exasperation when it is in his fricking face all the time, as it clearly is here. Otherwise, he's a jerk too.
    1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      The correct answer when a woman asks you that is, "Why would you ask me that?"
      
      If she presses the issue, come with "Do you know how much time those people spend in makeup to look like that? I'll bet _________ (insert starlet's name) doesn't really even look like that in real life. Now, let's get you out of those clothes."
      1. WTF 13 years ago
        
        ^^DING DING DING!
        
        We have a winner!
      2. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, that's not bad.
      3. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        Fuck all that bullshit. It's far more than I can muster.
        
        The REAL answer to that is "Don't ask me that question if you're not prepared to hear the answer."
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but sloopy's now having sex and you're not.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        nah, just find another GF
        
        mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        Patently false.
        
        My wife understands that 1) I'm married, not dead, 2) just because one is on a diet, doesn't mean one can't look at the menu, 3) honesty with her is fucking sexy.
        
        I also get the occasional unsolicited and unreciprocated BJ.
        
        Shit couldn't be better. I DON'T have to lie, am not in want/need, get BJs, AND she works while I stay at home with the kids.
        
        Karl 13 years ago
        
        I also get the occasional unsolicited and unreciprocated BJ.
        
        Have you been to any musicals lately?
        
        And I'm not sure what to make of the fact that this implies that you could, in fact, reciprocate a BJ with your wife.
        -K
        
        Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        Ms. Bandit just says "Yeah, she is kind of hot" and then i lose focus.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Or perhaps "What do you think?"
  2. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    I think it is stupid for men to lie about things like that. Of course the calendar models are better looking. That's why they are in calendars. I can't imagine that a person can really get over body image problems without accepting that there are indeed lots of women who are more attractive and that men are going to look at them and appreciate that fact. And there is nothing wrong with that and it indicates nothing about your relationship.
2. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
  
  This girl is an idiot, but Wendy actually pretty much nails it in her response. And the comments also, for the most part. (!!)
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, the advice was actually pretty good. I can't imagine what a needy ball of insecurity this chick is in person.
    1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
      
      I know, I feel sorry for the BF having to endure that. It must be pretty horrific (unless that is why he is actually with her). Some guys like fixeruppers as much as some women do.
      
      But otoh, if he is saying things to her in exasperation "YES!! THEY'RE BETTER LOOKING THAN YOU!!!" then it sounds as if he's fed up with her neediness. I honestly think that's more of a dealbreaker than looking at sexy pictures of women (which is not a dealbreaker at all in my book). Who wants to live with that crap day and and day out.
      1. T 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, I can't imagine living with somebody who every time you're watching a movie starts with "Is she prettier than me? Huh? Do you think she's better looking? Huh? Huh? Huh?". That would get old real fast.
        
        oldtimer 13 years ago
        
        I see you've met my ex-wife...
      2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        Some guys like fixeruppers as much as some women do.
        
        It's Superman Syndrome--guys are basically hardwired to solve problems, and a woman whose got a lot of problems can make them feel empowered and needed at first. After about 2-3 months, though, they realize that these "problems" are largely self-inflicted and perpetuated, and they begin losing interest. It's no fun dating a girl that can't get her shit together, especially after you've provided good counsel.
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I'm skeptical. I like crazy chicks for the crazy, not because I think I can fix them.
        
        Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        ALL chicks aer crazy, it is a matter of degree and control.
        
        Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
        
        I have male friends who claim crazy-chick sex is the best, but not as a long term relationship. I can't see it myself, but I intensely dislike drama.
        
        Matrix 13 years ago
        
        but how many of those crazy chicks have such a severe lack of self confidence that this girl has? She just seems to have major self esteem issues.
        
        Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
        
        the problem with real crazy chicks is they don't go away...and they are hell of your expensive elctronic shit.
        
        Matrix 13 years ago
        
        Well, in this girl's case, I doubt she would be very good considering she would probably be too self conscious to even get in the mood. Hell, I wouldn't doubt if she was still a virgin.
3. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  "When I asked my boyfriend if he thought they were better looking than me, he said yes..."
  
  Sit down here, son, I need to have a little talk with you.
4. Old Soldier 13 years ago
  
  "Would you leave me for her?"
  
  "I would kill you for her."
  1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
    
    Ha!
5. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  "How am I supposed to compete with good-looking women who get hours of work done on them before a photo shoot?"
  
  Anal.
  1. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
    
    +1.
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    Bringing a "friend" home with her wouldn't hurt either.
    1. Matrix 13 years ago
      
      I think that would only spell trouble for the guy, because she wouldn't really be for it with all of her self esteem issues. She would probably accuse him of cheating or any number of things after such an event.
  3. Sky Captain Au H20 13 years ago
    
    Also learning how to give good head. Always amazes me how many women suck at head... Wait, that isn't...
6. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  Everything my boyfriend needs he can get from movies these days.
  
  I want to know what the fuck kind of movies this guy is watching.
  1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Maybe they're in Feel-Around
  2. Sparky 13 years ago
    
    He must have one of the new TVs that comes with a built-in Fleshlight.
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      quoting my brother here:
      
      "Someday all computers will come with a hole built in the side."
      1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        What's that "someday" shit?
        
        Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        ^^Version 2.0^^
        
        Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
        
        :applause:
        
        This, is fantastic! So, so good.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        I wonder if having a picture of Mike Tyson staring at him helps.
      2. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
        
        Indeed.
        
        Make it a liquid cooling feature.
      3. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        "It'll make crack look like Sanka."
        
        Too bad he stopped being funny after 9/11.
7. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
  
  On a somewhat related note, I have a friend who's husband had a quite extensive video collection (before the days of free 'net stuff) and as a present to her, he shredded it all. I think it may have made him go more underground, though.
  
  I used to feel a sort of competition with the chicks in those sorts of things. (I was a bit younger then, too.) Now, I'm more like "whatever" b/c my guy still gets turned on by me 🙂
  1. JW 13 years ago
    
    as a present to her, he shredded it all.
    
    The man is a fucking genius. There should be a statue of him in a bar somewhere, so that we lesser men can pay homage to him.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.examiner.com/gun-ri.....icial-lamb

Is former Arizona U.S. Attorney to be F&F sacrificial lamb?

"With Thursday's anticipated grilling of Attorney General Eric Holder by members of the House Judiciary Committee looming large, a careful reading of the letter sent to Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley by Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole the other day suggests that the Justice Department has selected its fall guy(s) for the Operation Fast and Furious fiasco." ...

--------------------

Scapegoat located -- obfuscation amplified
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Go for it, Eric. Throw a US Attorney under the bus. I'm sure he'll still want to cover your ass when Congress puts him under oath.
  1. cynical 13 years ago
    
    It really depends on the strength of the charges they can throw at him. What's a year in jail, if the possible alternative is a very long time at the bottom of the Chesapeake?
2. Bones 13 years ago
  
  Just once I want one of the Grill Team to say "No, you lying sack of shit, we will not accept this scapegoat. We are coming after YOU because you are the fucking boss and we have evidence you orchestrated this whole thing! Or we can go to YOUR boss."
  
  Michelle would have Holder's head rolling faster than Barack can say "but, baby, wait a...."
anonymous commenter some guy 13 years ago

The State Department is keeping classified the 250,000 document leaked by Wikileaks.

Oh, good. That means they retain the power to confiscate any computer that was ever used to download those files, even if the files have since been deleted. They can also fire any federal employee who looks at these files without authorization.

I wonder if they intend to use either of those powers...
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.examiner.com/gun-ri.....to-cartels

Government hiding numbers of guns LEGALLY sent to Mexico, diverted to cartels

"CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson continues her excellent coverage of the 'Project Gunwalker' scandal on a somewhat different tack. This time, rather than focusing on the Department of Justice, and that department's illegal arming of the drug cartels ... she looks at how much the State Department's entirely legal actions have contributed to the drug cartels' firepower."

"In the CBS report, we learn that the State Department has approved sales of tens of thousands of guns to the Mexican police and military, very many of which soon thereafter ended up in criminal hands. ..." ...

-----------------

Very interesting.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  What's surprising is that CBS has a history of being very anti-gun.
  1. SFC B 13 years ago
    
    They might be anti-gun, but someone there probably realizes that if they provide the only MSM investigation it is going to get a lot of traffic driven to them. Theyre anti-gun, but not always anti-money.
    1. Bones 13 years ago
      
      Maybe they're actually principled anti-gun people. If they believe guns are bad (I know, bear with me...), then they believe the government should not be providing guns to anyone, much less anyone who will end up forking them over to criminals who will then kill people with them.
      
      Or what SFC B said.
2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Somewhere, Dan Rather is having severe heartburn.
3. cynical 13 years ago
  
  There were some rumors that in that same part of New Mexico where the local government was caught running guns to the cartels, a State Dept program was providing guns directly to the Zetas. I don't know that anyone ever followed up on it, since it was just an allegation by some former CIA guy.
  
  I'd like to see Congress do some more grilling about why the DOJ caught a guy on the border with crapload of grenade parts and just let him walk without even bothering to consider a case against him.
  
  This shit really needs a special prosecutor, though.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/8108

OH: Hearing for Canton police officer who threatened to execute concealed carry licensee postponed again

"The Canton Repository reported recently that a hearing for Officer Daniel Harless, the Canton police officer who was caught on dash cam video berating an Ohio concealed handgun license-holder and threatening to execute him, has been postponed yet again."

"The article also reveals that Harless continues to receive sick pay, even though he is out of paid time off, thanks to a special clause in his union contract." ...
1. robc 13 years ago
  
  Why would the other officers donate sick days to that fuck?
  
  Oh yeah, thin blue line bullshit.
  
  This is the problem with cops, the union members should be actively working to get their leadership to expel him from the union.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    It's a workplace karma thing. You donate to this guy, even though he's a scumbag, because when something happens to you, you'll need people to donate to you. I'm sure cops are just like the military. You go along to get along, or you will get fucked.
  2. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
    
    The only way this will happen is if these assholes suffer genuine, harsh punishments for their crimes.
    
    And of course, if any serious action would be taken en masse to remind the police just what exactly their role in society is, there would be an epidemic of Blue Flu and all of the hollering that chaos will rule in an attempt to threaten the citizenry in to backing off.
    
    Don't have to worry about that though. We can't even get the first part right.
    1. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
      
      The only way this will happen is if these assholes suffer genuine, harsh punishments for their crimes.
      
      You mean a four week unpaid suspension won't be enough? You're just further proof of the evil double standard against cops at this site.
      
      What's the benefit of delaying the hearing, other than it lets media attention die down some more? They're not making the complainant show up for each hearing that gets continued, are they? I don't recall that the guy was near vesting for retirement, so that can't be it.
      1. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
        
        BIGOTS!!!!1!
yet another dave 13 years ago

yea well the end is nigh

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....space.html
1. yet another dave 13 years ago
  
  and page 3 is kinda nice too
2. JW 13 years ago
  
  You'd think these guys have never seen a Fithp ramscoop before.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    + Foot
3. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  User siniXster uploaded the video.
  
  He said: "It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked."
  
  Well, if siniXster says it's a cloaked ship then fuck everyone else. This guy obviously knows what he's talking about.
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, it's cloaked, that's why you can see it so well, uh, wait, what?
4. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Heh.
  
  ricroc911
  This is all to do with next year, ive said it before and ill say it again...2012 is going to be an earth changing year....I knew this was coming and so do many others who have taken the time to read and watch how much proof there is about 2012.... Disclosure is upon us and the world goverments are preparing us for this and have been for many years!!
5. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  Doesn't it kinda look like the Enterprise?
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.examiner.com/gun-ri.....sal-truths

In Kurdistan, the standard sentence for illegal firearms possession is one year. Kurdistan. Compare it to the US, in federal and state-level terms.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  why? are we supposed to model US law after kurdistan ?
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.latimes.com/news/na.....1601.story

inquiry

"The chief of the Homeland Security Department's drone aircraft program is facing an ethics investigation for joining the board of directors of the largest industry group promoting the use of unmanned aircraft, officials said Monday."

"The internal affairs office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reviewing whether Tom Faller, director of unmanned aircraft systems operations, violated internal rules when he took an unpaid position as a board member of the Assn. for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International on Aug. 16." ...
1. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
  
  Unpaid. Yeah. Until he gets that cushy "consulting" job after his appointment and magically pulls in 7 figures in a year or so.
Rich 13 years ago

This revelation angers gun rights advocates. ... "disappointing and ironic." ... "deeply troubling"

Eric Holder needs to have a national conversation on treason.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Democrats See a Two-Horse G.O.P. Race, Adding a Whip
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12.....l?_r=1&hp;

Democrats have made it clear they have no plans of letting up on Mitt Romney. But they are hoping to help stretch the Republican nominating contest into a longer and bloodier battle ? meaning they are eager to define Mr. Gingrich for voters in unflattering terms without necessarily wounding him fatally and assisting Mr. Romney, whom they still view as a formidable general election opponent.
DanD 13 years ago

OK, this has really been bugging me. Can someone please explain the "gambol lockdown" meme to me? Sorry for my ignorance.
1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  don't ask.
2. Lost_In_Translation 13 years ago
  
  Shhhh...don't awaken him!!!
3. WTF 13 years ago
  
  gambol.
  lockdown
  1. KDN 13 years ago
    
    Hey, one of my comments is in the top 3!
  2. Appalachian Australian 13 years ago
    
    reasonable's auto-WI detection seems to be flagging anyone who talks about g4mb0l l0ckd0wn. I've had to turn the feature off or I miss amusing conversations like this.
  3. DanD 13 years ago
    
    Right, so I googled it last night and saw a similar set of results. I guess I'm asking for its origins. Best I can tell, a troll was arguing that capitalists and communists alike restrict the freedom of others to tread (or gambol) where they please, thus free markets are antithetical to true freedom. That argument was mockingly summarized as "gambol lockdown." Is that pretty much the whole story?
    1. WTF 13 years ago
      
      Basically, more or less, the White Indian troll and all its other handles maintains stupidly that libertarians don't really believe in freedom because we support the concept of property rights, and spouts other inanities, claiming we don't support its supposed right to 'gambol freely', or some such crap.
      1. CrackertyAssCracker 13 years ago
        
        It's not just the stupid either. A plain old troll would be fine. Its the spammy/cut&paste;/denial-of-service nature of the comments that make it so bad.
    2. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      Close enough. You've already spent way too many brain cells on this, Dan.
    3. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
      
      Actually, I am glad to see this "explained" (as much as it can be explained) b/c I had the same question.
4. tarran 13 years ago
  
  About a month ago or so, Rather must have watched Apollo 13, where one of the issues they battle is something called gimbal lock, a condition that messes up the gyros used in guidance systems.
  
  Rather, who copies and pastes diatribes about anarcho-primitivism obsessively and frets about gamboling, and is impressed by observations like "dog" is "god" spelled backward, seems to have been struck by the similarity between the word gimbal and the word gambol, and a new Reason meme was born.
  1. rather 13 years ago
    
    You must be stupid, Tarran or just sugarfrees' lapdog . Which is it?
    1. ? 13 years ago
      
      Why can't it be both?
    2. Old Mexican 13 years ago
      
      Re: Rather,
      
      Do you still whore with librarians?
    3. Epi Spoof 13 years ago
      
      Actually, he's my lapdog, rectal, you retarded bipolar sand-in-vagina excuse for human excrement. Congratulations on being really fucking stupid. That takes effort.
    4. shorter rather 13 years ago
      
      It's so sandy!
      1. Epi Spoof 13 years ago
        
        Are you purposely obtuse, or just unbelievably stupid? You are either a mendacious fuck or you can't fucking read.
        
        Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
        
        Reason hit & run, come for the comments, stay for the insults! I'll have to remember these for those choice moments when I need a really good insult.
        
        Epi Spoof 13 years ago
        
        Just do a site search for "Episiarch."
        It's a veritable gold mine of failed anger management.
        
        http://reason.com/search?cx=00.....&sa=Search
        
        Neu Mejican 13 years ago
        
        But Episiarch is so bad at insults.
        He might be a good source for examples of how not to insult people, I suppose.
        
        Epi Spoof 13 years ago
        
        Fuck you, loser. Is the pendulum swinging back to the manic side, or are you still a pathetic depressive blog-whore? Either way you're just a griefing attention-magnet. Hahahahaha!
rather 13 years ago

American sentenced under Thailand's lese majeste laws. Moral of the story: don't piss off the king
KDN 13 years ago

Red Cross to discuss whether gamers are war criminals.

"Exactly how video games influence individuals is a hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed our role and responsibility to take action against violations of IHL in video games," the Red Cross wrote in its daily bulletin.

"While National Societies shared their experiences and opinions, there is clearly no simple answer. There is, however, an overall consensus and motivation to take action."

Looks like I'll need to find a new charity for when the need arises.
1. Appalachian Australian 13 years ago
  
  Hasn't it already been established that the Red Cross spends most of its money on overhead?
2. T 13 years ago
  
  Red Cross just hit peak stupid and peak troll in one fell swoop. Add another reason to the long list of why the Red Cross doesn't get any money from me.
3. Jordan Elliot 13 years ago
  
  This can't be serious.
4. Nephilium 13 years ago
  
  How about this one? Especially since it was started as a way to show up Jack Thompson?
5. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  gee, I've already killed over a thousand enemies playing RO2 alone.
  
  Of course by the next round, my enemies are suddenly my comrades.
  
  Completely unrelated - when playing RO1, I tended to favor picking the German team. With RO2, I'm Russian 95% of the time.
6. SFC B 13 years ago
  
  Given the number of times I've killed surrenduring enemies in Skyrim I'm rorally fucked. Hell, I used a mace which is dual-enchanted to absorb health and set them on fire. That has GOT to be a banned weapon.
  1. cynical 13 years ago
    
    I actually tried to be honorable, but since they just wait 30s and go hostile again, it isn't worth bothering. I hope a mod allows permanent surrender.
7. Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
  
  Special Olympics...from what I have seen a excellent organization, money stays local, no top down admin (state level only). Lean mean runnin machine.
  
  I will be donating again.
  1. Clich? Bandit 13 years ago
    
    Ohh, and no government money PERIOD! gotta love that.
8. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  Wow... they just topped PETA in stupidity. I did not think that was possible.
A Lotta Guys 13 years ago

"I simply do not know where the money is"

Perhaps this will refresh your memory. And, Jon, we know where your money is.
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  "I appear at today's hearing with great sadness. My sadness, of course, pales in comparison to the losses and hardships that customers, employees and investors have suffered as a result of MF Global's bankruptcy. Their plight weighs on my mind every day ? every hour."
  
  Very well, Jon. Then you won't mind simply finding out where the money is.
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get a load of this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats at the Pentagon have called the Ft. Hood massacre "workplace violence".
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get a load of this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats at the Pentagon have called the Ft. Hood massacre "workplace violence".
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get a load of this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats at the Pentagon have called the Ft. Hood massacre "workplace violence".
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama threatens veto if pipeline decision is added to payroll tax cut
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wi.....e-decision

The battle between the White House and Republicans over the Keystone XL pipeline escalated Wednesday with a veto threat delivered personally by President Obama.

Obama warned that he would veto an extension of the payroll-tax cut, his top legislative priority, if House Republicans link it to a measure that would force the administration to greenlight the pipeline project.
1. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  Thousands of good paying jobs that don't require more than a high school education in many cases? Get the fuck out here with that kind of talk.
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  Nebraska lawmakers vote to reroute oil pipeline By Michael Avok LINCOLN, Neb Wed Nov 16, 2011
  
  LINCOLN, Neb (Reuters) - The Nebraska legislature on Wednesday voted unanimously to advance a proposed law that would reroute the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline to avoid the sensitive Sandhills and Ogallala aquifer.
  http://www.reuters.com/article.....QK20111116
3. Dr. Sam Johnson 13 years ago
  
  He said the president's near.
  1. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Hahahahahahahahaha.
    
    Ah, I know what I'm gonna watch tonight after the Steelers beat the piss out of the Browns.
4. cynical 13 years ago
  
  Please, oh please be so stupid as to do that.
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get a load of this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats at the Pentagon have called the Ft. Hood massacre "workplace violence".
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats in the DoD have called the Ft. Hood massacre a case of "workplace violence".
Mike M. 13 years ago

Get a load of this: Obama and the worthless goldbricking bureaucrats in the DoD have called the Ft. Hood massacre a case of "workplace violence"!
1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  Might have something to do with disarming an army on a fucking military base.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    That policy doesn't make sense to me either.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  What does that even mean?
  1. Barack Obama 13 years ago
    
    Let me be clear: it means we can continue to claim there has been no domestic islamic terrorist activity under our watch.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      the terrorism arrests are "activity" sherlock.
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        i wish my brainz had some activity derp
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    The base is a workplace.
    
    There was violence there.
    
    Of course, under this formula, just about any crime committed at a business is "workplace" "violence".
3. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
  
  so this is equivalent to "going postal" or a stalking crime that went wrong. . . (rolls eyes).
  1. Mike M. 13 years ago
    
    I know, can you believe this shit?
    
    And guys who go postal at the workplace aren't usually detained indefinitely without a trial.
P Brooks 13 years ago

"In the CBS report, we learn that the State Department has approved sales of tens of thousands of guns to the Mexican police and military, very many of which soon thereafter ended up in criminal hands. ..." ...
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Which is pretty obvious when the criminals have new M-16's.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Goddammit.

"In the CBS report, we learn that the State Department has approved sales of tens of thousands of guns to the Mexican police and military, very many of which soon thereafter ended up in criminal hands. ..." ...

No kidding.

How many people seriously believe the narcoterroristas have built their arsenals by buying guns one or two at a time at gun shows or from dealers.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  You mean they don't sell machine guns at Walmart?
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Not at the one by my house.
    
    More seriously, if I were running Wal-Mart, I'd have heartburn over the way they handle firearms sales. They haven't the first faintest clue about how to fill out a 4473. I bought a rifle there, and won't do it again. The possibility of paperwork errors was way too high.
    1. robc 13 years ago
      
      I buy 9mm target ammo at Walmart. Otherwise, I dont use them for my firearm needs.
      1. T 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, you can't beat their ammo prices unless you're buying in bulk. And even then it's not by much. I buy my .45 practice ammo there until I get motivated to set up the reloading gear.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Have you tried looking on the internet?
        
        Although I agree there is not much of difference in price for name-brand inexpensive ammo. Walmart has huge buying power.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        To make internet ordering worthwhile, you pretty much have to buy in case lots or shipping eats you alive. I bought 3 20 round boxes of .308 recently and shipping was more than the cost of a box. For more specialized ammo (6.5 Grendel, .338 Lapua, etc.) you almost have to do it and just accept the fact it's more expensive.
        
        But for something like .45 ACP FMJ 230gr? It's fractional cents per round cheaper to buy off the internet, and Wally World is always there. I usually pick up a box or two when I'm there buying other random crap.
        
        mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        For more specialized ammo (6.5 Grendel, .338 Lapua, etc.) you almost have to do it and just accept the fact it's more expensive.
        
        Not when you reload. My 6.5 Grendel purrs with handmade ammo. I know she likee when I hear that "PING" from 700 yards out!
        
        mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        Get fucking motivated.
        
        It's not only cheaper, but you will shoot more and the end product is generally of much higher quality.
        
        If your looking for pistol rounds and you do a lot of shooting, a progressive press is a must.
        
        Terr 13 years ago
        
        ammoseek.com has paid off for me big time with defense rounds.
Appalachian Australian 13 years ago

Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes on yourself

Golly, like taxes aren't high enough. I had to relocate my business out of the state because it was mathematically impossible to make a profit in CA. (Despite my willingness to earn less profit and the fact we don't want to leave.)
1. Lost_In_Translation 13 years ago
  
  California is the Titanic of states. Get out now!!
  1. Appalachian Australian 13 years ago
    
    Well, I did as far as work goes. I've still got one foot in the door was far as personal goes. Just too many good friends to leave.
    
    Long term it looks like the best place to go for a tiny manufacturer is Ontario, South Carolina, or Texas. Not very excited about any of those places.
    1. Lost_In_Translation 13 years ago
      
      I know. California is perfect, aside from the Californians. Places with nice weather attrack the worst people I'm convinced.
    2. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
      
      Don't worry. Rednecks don't bite.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Even if they do, they have so few teeth...
        
        mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        Too funny not to laugh.
  2. Poet Laureate sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Do I get to fuck Kate Winslet from 15 years ago before she goes down? Please?
P Brooks 13 years ago

Looks like I'll need to find a new charity for when the need arises.

You haven't been paying attention. The Red Cross is a fucking scam, AT BEST.

I wouldn't give those crooks a nickel.
1. KDN 13 years ago
  
  I'm very much not charitable since I don't have the disposable income required. But my old company used to match donations to the Red Cross 2:1 so hey, why not.
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  I give them blood for the karma and cookies.
  1. cynical 13 years ago
    
    +1 Sacrifice, Avatar.
P Brooks 13 years ago

My sadness, of course, pales in comparison to the losses and hardships that customers, employees and investors have suffered as a result of MF Global's bankruptcy. Their plight weighs on my mind every day ? every hour."

"Fortunately, the millions of dollars I managed to pocket in compensation for my incredible financial astuteness and investment savvy allow me to mitigate that sadness pretty effectively"
R C Dean 13 years ago

The idea that Corzine didn't know what was being done with overa billion dollars of customer money (hell, of any of IMF's money) is ludicrous.

And it doesn't even help him on the legal front. Gross negligence is also a fiduciary violation.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Live feed of Attorney General Eric Holder testifying at the House Oversight Committee:

http://issues.oversight.house....../live.html
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Thanks, RoboCain. This is a much better feed than C-SPAN.
  
  It's getting good: Sensenbrenner is threatening impeachment.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    No problem.
    
    I think there will be some good rhetoric, but I'm still not optimistic about justice being served.
    1. Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand 13 years ago
      
      The only way justice could be served for Holder is if Mads Mikkelson disemboweled him with his bare hands.
  2. rac3rx 13 years ago
    
    Ted Poe stated in an interview this morning that he was specifically going to request that Holder resign. I wonder if that's gone down yet?
Old Mexican 13 years ago

ATF emails show the agency planned to use "Fast and Furious" to implement new gun control regs.

I love it when their intended eviscertion of the constitution just blows up in their faces, don't you?
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Unfortunately, that didn't appear to happen in Holder's "grilling".
  
  P.S. What a weasel.
Neu Mejican 13 years ago

A very pleasant morning links today.
Mike M. 13 years ago

Pujols to sign with the Angels: 10/$250. Matt Welch will probably be pretty happy about this one.

Basically a repeat of the horrible A-Rod contract though. As awesome as Pujols is, the Angels will likely really be hating the last three or four years of this.
1. Restoras 13 years ago
  
  Wow.
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  isnt pujols 31 or 2? i dont believe insurance covers any player beyond 35 or 36.
Jordan Elliot 13 years ago

http://youtu.be/s9raw6qc6hs
Neu Mejican 13 years ago

http://blogs.plos.org/obesityp.....n-a-vacuum
1. Neu Mejican 13 years ago
  
  To be honest, all journalists really need to do is dial back the enthusiasm a bit, rather than painting every study as a GROUNDBREAKING NEW FINDING.
Joey Seymore 13 years ago

Now thats exactly what I am talking about dude. WOw.

http://www.ano-net.tk
Guest 13 years ago

BIG NEWS Reason ignores because you're all racist. Republicans want to bring back Jim Crow laws...just ask Barbara Lee or the NAACP.

IMO, Jim Crow is happening already, just the other day on the way to the mall I saw a Black woman sitting at the back of the bus because all the seats up front were taken. I think the GOP is purposely pursuing policy that takes people out of their cars so more people will take the seats up front on the bus before it gets to the Black neighborhood.

So then after arriving at my destination I was walking through the shopping mall, there were three water fountains and two of them were occupied by White people. However I noticed a Black man (must have been thirsty) was heading for the unoccupied drinking fountain. I suspect its because GOP policies lead to prosperity for Blacks and some have moved to the suburbs. It's a secret right-wing conspiracy by Republicans to bring back segregation at the water fountains. Just like the Republicans push energy and social engineering policies to get more people out of their cars and onto the front seats of the bus - which starts out its route in the suburbs - so Blacks will have to sit in the back on the way into the big city the Republicans want us herded into.

/sarcasm

Actions really do speak louder than words but I'm pretty sure Democrats openly admit they want more people living in the cities using public transportation and their energy policy proves Democrats are at war with suburbia.
Mr. Mark 13 years ago

On the subject of classification, do a search on one of the job sites out there for the phrase "TS/SCI" and be amazed by the tsunami of positions available.

Then, think - when everything is secret, nothing really is.

secret noun. 1. A thing known to no more than one person.
1. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  That is not what secret means. An example, but not a definition.
Mike Laursen 13 years ago

Unless they have an email with Holder's or Obama's address on it, they will ultimately make out like Teflon.

It was just a bunch of rogue agents from the branch office, you see.
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