Bloomberg Attacks Mormons Over Gun Sales, Judge Gives Shrinks More Time to Review Jared Loughner, Former White House Intern Reveals JFK's Pervy Side: P.M. Links

• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attacks the LDS Church for selling guns.

• Judge: Four more months to determine if Jared Loughner is sane enough to stand trial.  
• Clint Eastwood's Detroit ad wasn't filmed in Detroit. 
• Syrian violence causes world leaders to fidget with concern. 
• Former JFK intern says he never kissed her on the lips, tried to make her service Teddy. 
• Tea Partiers on Mitt Romney: "Meh."

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

5PM. Let's make that a practice, shall we?

[Episiarch]

"You're being rude to me. Don't chain me down with your manners."

[Fist of Etiquette]

We offer P.M. Links order.

[Episiarch]

I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Because threaded commenting is only warfare concealed.

[Pro Libertate]

This is Comment Number 5!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You are an excellent tactician. You let your second-in-command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.

[John]

I'm so stupid, until I was loudly corrected I thought Islam was thousands of years old and argued such for hours, and after being corrected, I attempted to pretend I knew it was not thousands of years old.

In addition, I am so fucking dumb that I repeatedly argued that "corporations have all the rights of people and behave exactly as they do" until I was informed that I was wrong in respect to how the 5th applies to corporations.

Yes I am an attorney, or so I claim.

[cynical]

Islam is thousands of years old. It's around 1.4 thousands of years old.

[lily]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

In granting an extension of Loughner's commitment to a federal prison hospital in Missouri, U.S. District Judge Larry Burns in San Diego cited a psychologist's report finding that the accused gunman was making "measurable progress" in his treatment there.

THE FOOLS! Any day now Palin could enter the race and pow, Loughner's back to square one.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It's sad how the devadasi to the Boomer God, JFK, is still so starstruck at being chosen for cult prostitute that she still rationalizes about JFK not "rape" raping her.

[Hugh Akston]

It wasn't rape because he let her keep her job afterwards.

[spencer]

Isn't that how it works?

[Hugh Akston]

Clint Eastwood isn't really that great a director, from what I can tell.

[SIV]

Clint is pretty good but he's no Don Siegel or Sergio Leone.

[Arcaster]

The "Imported from Detroit" ad reminded me of this bit of awesomeness from Cafe Hayek.

http://cafehayek.com/2011/02/d.....rders.html

[Dagny T.]

I finally figured out a few days ago where the cool beat in the background of the old Imported From Detroit commercial was from Jay Z apparently sampling this guy. Jay's version is slicker. Chrysler should stick with that tone instead of Clint's mushy bullshit.

[mad libertarian guy]

Why not metal?

[Warty]

Cool shit.

[mad libertarian guy]

Yeah. It has a Sigur Ros meets black metal thing going on. I dig it.

[rather]

onetime I went to church and I prayed real hard and went to heaven but when I woke up I was in a dumpster instead.

[spencer]

with diapers for shoes, right?

[Rather]

Make a mental note: Spencer is a blonde

[Fist of Etiquette]

The movement has influence early on, forcing candidates to parrot its language and promote its agenda of restrained spending.

But the coalition was fractured and plagued by infighting. It also watched as all of its preferred candidates fell out of favor or left the race. The remaining candidates have attributes tea partyers like but also face huge hurdles. The leaves them with Romney.

That final sentence shall one day apply to us all. Like the "Tea Party", I suggest we make peace with it.

[TrickyVic]

""One would think that a church would feel a special obligation to make sure that they weren't fueling a black market for a particularly deadly form of commerce," a source involved in the report says."

Assuming that's true. Bloomberg does not understand what actually fuels a blackmarket.

[Bobarian]

Besides which, churches have been dealing in deadly forms of commerce for millenia.

[TrickyVic]

Well yeah. You need to protect all that treasure the suckers gave ya.

[TrickyVic]

I half joke about that. But the LDS really believe in being prepared for the end of days including defense.

[spencer]

And that's why they are happy the giants won the superbowl.

[Fluffy]

He also doesn't understand that legal sales aren't black market sales. Ever.

[tarran]

Also, it appears that Bloomberg & Menino are ignorant of the memory Mormons have of massacres of their ancestors perpetrated by Yankees.

[grrizzly]

You mean this one? It was the other way around.

[pgt]

We can expect to see September 11 becoming a subliminal theme in the general election campaign this year.
Actually, an explicit theme, on its 155th anniversary.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...tried to make her service Teddy.

Since JFK first put the moves on her in the White House pool, he at least knew this one could swim.

[John]

I forget the name but I read a biography of Joe Kennedy a couple of years ago. Joe Kennedy did shit like take his teenage sons to whore houses and such. They really were the worst kind of trash. That the media worships them the way they do is just amazing.

[Episiarch]

Well, they're Irish, John. What do you expect?

[Hugh Akston]

I LOL'd

[Bingo]

...rofl

[Warty]

Goatwhore

[rather]

Why does sex with a consenting adult(s) make Kennedy a 'perv'?

[John]

I think banging a teenage virgin on your wife's bed makes you a bit of a pervert.

"Honey where did this bloody spot on the sheets come from?"

[Warty]

It is not a human, John. You know better.

[rather]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/01.....nt_2777706
http://reason.com/blog/2012/01.....nt_2772195

[rather]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/01.....nt_2753833
http://reason.com/archives/201.....nt_2760411

[rather]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/01.....nt_2763119
http://reason.com/blog/2011/12.....nt_2687063

[rather]

http://reason.com/blog/2011/10.....nt_2582929
Follow your own advice, POS

[rsi]

404
The webpage cannot be found.

[rather]

He keeps on promising to incif me; but the puppy dog can't help follow me; Oh, he reads my blog too

[rather]

The White House is essentially a hotel, they have daily laundry service. Jackie new he was banging every girl he could; she may have preferred to keep it in her room. They were all paranoid about the FBI in that era

[J. Edgar Hoover]

Paranoid? That's an irrational fear. Their fears were certainly not irrational, dear.

[Warty]

Look what you did, John. LOOK AT WHAT YOU FUCKING DID. This is what happens when you talk at it.

[Rather]

I'll blow anybody who gives Warty the incf link

[Warty you're fucking stupid]

John IS rather, it's been obvious for a while.

Sockpuppet gonna sockpuppet

[rather]

I love that theory; John made crazy claiming I was 'White Indian'; there is a delicious game in this

[You ARE John]

Hi John.

[Sy]

I was told there would be blowjobs.. somebody owes me a blowjob.

[protefeed]

I think banging a teenage virgin on your wife's bed makes you a bit of a pervert.

If it was consensual sex with a girl above the age of consent, "pervert" is not the word I would use to end that sentence. "Stud" comes closer.

[Coeus]

Agreed. I also have a problem with this "made her perform oral sex" line I keep seeing. She obviously had a choice in the matter. No coercion is ever mentioned. Further, she refused when it was his brother. No coercion there either.

[A Serious Man]

An older, married man seduces a teen girl and makes her service his cronies at sex parties and that isn't perverted?

[TrickyVic]

Are we grading on the DC curve?

[rather]

No; she did it because she wanted to, and said so.

Her choice is hers

[A Serious Man]

Yes, she is responsible for her actions, but that doesn't mean JFK isn't a degenerate piece of shit for doing what he did. Ever heard of integrity or principles?

[rather]

Ever heard of MYOB on other people's choices?

[A Serious Man]

Using your position of authority to seduce a girl (regardless of if she wanted it or not) is highly unethical. Nearly all employers will fire you in situations like that, so I'm more than justified in calling JFK a morally repugnant piece of shit because that's what his behavior shows.

[Rather]

Make a mental note:
Get serious mind to sign a consenting to sex letter in permanent ink blood semen

[PapayaSF]

No, no, no: it's only sexual harassment when Republicans do it. Didn't you get that memo back in the Clinton administration?

[.]

No; she did it because she wanted to, and said so.

Her choice is hers

You must be a man, right?

[Kreel Sarloo]

What she describes as her first time with JFK would be considered rape by every liberal college administrator today. Oh, except for the fact that it was the great martyred JFK.

And every subsequent encounter would be considered as an unequal power balance, except as noted above.

As I see it she was a starstruck heroworshipper and if she has a problem with it today, tough titties, she made her choices. But it will be fun to see the Camelot cultists dance around defending their hero.

[Kreel Sarloo]

Alford was first publicly outed in 2003 when historian Robert Dallek...

Ah, yes, "historian" Robert Dallek, the presidential fellator that none of these women can hold a candle to.

[Heroic Mulatto]

In the devadasi's own words:

"I wouldn't describe what happened that night as making love, but I wouldn't call it nonconsensual either."

Does that sound like a healthy, loving relationship to you, my White Tigress?

[Rather]

What does a booty call have to do with love?

Make a mental note: HM is a puppy; give him wrong phone number

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ok. Just for that, you deserve this.

I'm sorry, but you forced my hand.

[SIV]

Who the fuck is she?

[rather]

she's a woman

[.]

Does that sound like a healthy, loving relationship to you, my White Tigress?

What makes you think sexually hung up Irish Catholics in those days had healthy, loving relationships? Ever hear of something called the Madonna-Whore complex?

[Fist of Etiquette]

But contrary to what the might ad suggest, the spot was actually filmed in New Orleans and Los Angeles.

You don't spend halftime out on the field. Maybe Los Angeles is Detroit's locker room.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

The script throws in a few mixed sports metaphors as well.

This country can't be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines.

So it's a football halftime, with a little boxing thrown in, and some auto racing, too. If you ask me I think Eastwood really shot this through the five-hole and out of the park. It was a real hole in one slam dunk. America!

[Xenocles]

Strike three!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe he just saw Real Steel.

[West Texas]

Off-topic, but I live eastern Massachusetts these days and the whole Bloomberg/Menino intercourse on the couch thing was all over the news this weekend.

Somewhere buried in that garbage they say, "We support the Second Amendment."

Guess what you clueless, unironic schmucks? That you can even think that there IS such a thing as "illegal guns" is the whole fucking reason we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place.

Talk about patronizing...

[Res Publica Americana]

Doomberg and Meningitis: "We support the Second Amendment! We DEFINITELY don't believe it's only for the Confederate population in the Deep South!"

Fine-minded Citizen: "So I guess you two won't mind if I strap a gun to my belt and walk through Times Square, right? A loaded gun, too. Oh, and I guess you won't throw me in jail if I shoot some maggot your shitty progressive policies spawned in self-defense, right? Right?"

[*]

I will have to re-skim Symour Hirsch's The Dark Side of Camelot - IIRC it contained some fairly detailed descriptions of JFK + Co.'s poolside group sex shenangians. I wonder if they correspond chronologically with this intern's tenure.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Bloomberg Report Takes Aim At Mormon Church For Online Gun Sales

Everything in that article was so maddening. First, who the fuck is Bloomberg to complain about a company making profits? Is "profits over principle" the new measure of business success?

Ah, fuck it. I just re-read the article and now I'm even more pissed. Fuck Bloomberg and his (fake) concern about the LDS, profits over principle, GUNZZZZZ!!!!, black markets, unregulated markets, and whatever else he is wringing his hands about.

Bloomberg would be better off keeping his nose out of other people's business.

[A Serious Man]

This was mentioned in the A.M. links, but how ridiculous is it that Shitorum is now experiencing a second bounce as Gingrich implodes into a caricature of bitterness? Is the GOP really going to go back and forth between these morons because they hate Paul that much?

[Episiarch]

Oh yes they will. Their war boners are too hard.

[Warty]

If Ron Paul just promised to kill a lot of brown motherfuckers, he'd win in a landslide. Murder is important.

[Pro Libertate]

It's really weird when you think about it.

[Res Publica Americana]

I don't like the race angle.

[Pro Libertate]

But that's who we kill. At least lately.

[Res Publica Americana]

A robber who walks into a store and shoots everybody dead isn't racist just because all the victims happened to be, say, white, or black, or Latino.

I detest interventionistic fuckwads more than anybody, but let's drop this race crap already.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I detest interventionistic fuckwads more than anybody, but let's drop this race crap already.

If you can get the average Infantryman to stop talking about all the "Hadjis" they kill, then we'll have a deal.

[T]

Slopes, Jerrys, Huns, Nips, Krauts, Gooks, Hadjis. It's got nothing to do with race.

We other our opponents to keep us relatively sane, HM. It eases the cognitive dissonance of blowing other human beings into meat chunks if we can, by pejorative, etc., make them less than human. It's a coping mechanism.

[Res Publica Americana]

And to be fair, T, that only matters/applies with SOME enemies; Talibani insurgents are the sort of enemy that deserve pejoratives and hatred. Militant, monstrous theocrats get no sympathy from me.

Then again, I also hate communists, Nazis, and cult-fanatic Japanese Imperialists.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It's a coping mechanism.

I fully understand that. But let's not pretend that when we "other" them race, that is "they don't look like us" doesn't come into it. Look at posters from WW1, we did our best to turn white, European Germans into Asian-looking 'Huns'.

[Res Publica Americana]

1) That might be because the German Empire was steamrolling its way through Europe, in a way reminiscent of the Huns.

2) Seeing racial overtones when there are none is bad sign.

3) "Let's not pretend that "they don't look like us" doesn't come into it." -- Why would anybody care?

[Heroic Mulatto]

2) Seeing racial overtones when there are none is bad sign.

You honestly don't think there are racial/ethnic overtones to the War on Terror? C'mon, son!

3) "Let's not pretend that "they don't look like us" doesn't come into it." -- Why would anybody care?

Because soldiers eventually come home. McCain has said 'he still doesn't forgive the gooks for what they did.'

Hypothetically, if you lost your buddy over there, would you vote for someone who would give you another chance to go over there get some revenge? I'm having a hard time saying I wouldn't.

[rather]

McCain needs to get over it, typing on the internet is overrated

[Res Publica Americana]

You honestly don't think there are racial/ethnic overtones to the War on Terror? C'mon, son!

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

You're not one of those guys that conflate religion with race/ethnicity, right? Because if you are, you're arguing with the wrong guy -- I detest Islam just as much as I detest communism. And even then, I wouldn't agree entirely, either.

""""""""""""""""""""""""Because soldiers eventually come home. McCain has said 'he still doesn't forgive the gooks for what they did.'""""""""""""""""""""""""

I don't blame him. And if it had been KGB agents that had captured and tortured him, I'd bet he'd have said, with equal fervor, "I still can't forgive the Ruskis/reds/commies for what they did, and last I checked, Russians are white -- I saw it just an hour ago, when I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror.

""""""""""""""""""""""""Hypothetically, if you lost your buddy over there, would you vote for someone who would give you another chance to go over there get some revenge? I'm having a hard time saying I wouldn't.""""""""""""""""""""""""

If by "over there" you mean Iraq or Afghanistan, and I were an Iraq/Afghanistan veteran, no, I wouldn't. Wars of adventure and nation-building are unjustifiable for us. But if, say, the PRC launches intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States, causes war, and my buddy dies in THAT war, I'll vote for whoever promises to grind Beijing to dust the quickest. It all depends on the circumstances.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You're not one of those guys that conflate religion with race/ethnicity, right?

I don't, but many war cheerleaders do, which is all I'm saying.

[anarch]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.....to_Germans

[T]

Look at posters from WW1, we did our best to turn white, European Germans into Asian-looking 'Huns'.

Eh. Playing off the difference in appearance is the easiest method. Plus, you kind of need a visual shorthand for propaganda and 'the guy who looks much like you do' isn't really a great piece of visual communication.

[Res Publica Americana]

I don't give a shit about what Private Pyle and Sergeant Smith call Afghanis or Iraqis, whether it's "brown people", "Iraqi", "Afghani", "sandnigger", or "subhuman slime", simply because Private Pyle and Sergeant Smith don't start wars -- politicians do.

[Heroic Mulatto]

simply because Private Pyle and Sergeant Smith don't start wars -- politicians do.

Yeah, but the ones that choose pejoratives often go home and vote for those war-bringing politicians.

I'm just saying it works both ways.

[Res Publica Americana]

Except American adventurism has never, ever been shown to be motivated by anything so retarded. What Eurotrolls, Africans, and Asians do isn't my concern, and I'm assuming we're talking about the United States exclusively.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Except American adventurism has never, ever been shown to be motivated by anything so retarded. What Eurotrolls, Africans, and Asians do isn't my concern,

I disagree. Look at the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The causa belli of both of them boils down to, "We don't like Spics".

[Res Publica Americana]

Dude, you're not serious, are you?

[Heroic Mulatto]

You need to read up on your Hearst.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Yeah, but the ones that choose pejoratives often go home and vote for those war-bringing politicians.

Dude, you've been watching too much TV. NO ONE hates war more than the soldier. RP has significant support in the military.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

What if the robber keeps picking stores in black neighborhoods?

[Res Publica Americana]

Oh, Mohawk, of course it's possible that he's a racist. I'm saying that just because all his victims happen to be of one color isn't in and of itself proof of racism.

[T]

What if the robber keeps picking stores in black neighborhoods?

What, you expect robbers to commute?

[Res Publica Americana]

What if a black robber keeps picking stores in white neighborhood? Fact is, most everybody would fail to recognize that as a pattern, whereas everybody registers it when it's a white guy in a black neighborhood.

Main point -- who gives a shit? Murderous robbers all deserve the same thing, regardless of mitivation: electric chairs, or lead to the head.

[SIV]

Especially because they are nearly all Caucasians.Even the Somalis.

[Res Publica Americana]

In other words, if it served their adventuristic purposes, they'd bomb whites, blacks, browns, pinks, yellows, rainbows, translucents, and whoever the fuck else exists on Earth.

[Pro Libertate]

But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft!

[A Serious Man]

But at the same time he might win Maine and Minnesota, so Tuesday can be a good night for him.

[Hugh Akston]

Is that why the media is so focused on the newsletters? Because he said 'black people be robbing' instead of 'brown people be jihading'?

[Dick Hertz]

Be lucky they just spout bullshit about newsletters. You'd be surprised at what the fringe left stoops to.

[Res Publica Americana]

This just in - daring documentary crew brings back new footage of Detroit, barely survives the horror:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjsSrD2uG4

[Francisco d Anconia]

Why do the lights never work in monster flicks?

[Eduard van Haalen]

Wasn't Bloomberg getting promoted once as a moderate, middle-of-the-road, extremes-avoiding Presidential candidate?

Now this "moderate" politician has waged Five-Minute Hates against the Mormon Church, and a foundation to fight breast cancer.

What would he do if he *weren't* moderate?

[Res Publica Americana]

Instigate martial law and summarily execute everybody with firearms memorabilia in their homes.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Gun-owning NYPD would get a pass, of course.

[Res Publica Americana]

Oh, no doubt, Mulatto. They've been properly vetted and guaranteed to be Awesome, Godly, & Infallibe (tm) by a few forms and an employment stamp.

[RoboCain]

"Clint Eastwood's Detroit ad wasn't filmed in Detroit."

And JLo's Bronx ad wasn't filmed in the Bronx.

[T]

Chrysler: piss-poor cars and geographically confused. No wonder they needed a bailout.

[RoboCain]

Actually, I think JLo was selling Fiats.

[JLo]

Actually, I'm selling the sizzle.

[PapayaSF]

Fiat owns Chrysler now.

[Rather]

They stole the idea from Reason Save Cleveland fundraiser video party in LA, or was it NYC?  It sure as hell wasn't in Drew Carey's hood

-imitation is the sincerest....

[RoboCain]

Speaking of SuperBowl automobile adds:

http://whoisthathotadgirl.tumb.....y-21-super

http://jalopnik.com/5862629/ca.....-abarth-ad

[Michael]

Clint Eastwood's Detroit ad wasn't filmed in Detroit.

Even more astoundingly, and despite being four times as long as the average TV commercial, it manages to feature nary a single product that people might actually want to buy.

[RoboCain]

Menino and Bloomberg ? The Lost First Take

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....irst-take/

[protefeed]

but an official involved with Bloomberg's investigation is calling out the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for putting "profits over principle."

I'm guessing whoever wrote that has not read much Mormon scripture, or Mormon history, or spent much time around actual Mormons, or even visited Utah. Being well-armed and fighting back against would-be oppressors IS one of their principles. They're pretty cool with the "profits" part, too.

[Joe Smith]

If you live with ten wives, you'd need to be armed too

[John]

I'm so stupid, until I was loudly corrected I thought Islam was thousands of years old and argued such for hours, and after being corrected, I attempted to pretend I knew it was not thousands of years old.

In addition, I am so fucking dumb that I repeatedly argued that "corporations have all the rights of people and behave exactly as they do" until I was informed that I was wrong in respect to how the 5th applies to corporations.

Yes I am an attorney, or so I claim.

[rather]

Why are you mean to John? 🙁

I love John

[You ARE John]

And he is you

Sockpuppet gonna sockpuppet

[rather]

Wow, that's a new one but you should apply your logic to a few of the regulars; you may hit the proverbial head

[You ARE John]

Hi John.

[Robert]

What's a service Teddy, and how attractive are they to make?

[Brett L]

Who knew JFK stood for Jayne Fuckin Kobb?

"That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth. "

[Lenny Domo]

lol, they are ALL corrupt as the day is long lol

http://www.Be-Anon.tk

[cynical]

Is Bloomberg secretly shilling for Romney? I can't think of anything making him more sympathetic that Cocteau's attacks on his coreligionists.

What the fuck is wrong with New York that it is the source of pretty much the worst political figures I can think of? I mean, Illinois is corrupt, Massachusetts is rapacious, Cali is retarded up the ass, but I can't think of any place whose political culture makes me hope the terrorists do take out a city more than NYC.

[The Mormons]

Bring it on, Jew-boy! We'll kick your kosher ass back to Israel, and once you're dead we'll make a Mormon out of you, too.

[The Buddhists]

Can't we all just get along?

[The Westboro Baptists]

GOD HATES EVERYBODY!