A.M. Links: Santorum Smothers the Midwest, Payroll Tax Cut Fails Again, U.S. Embassy in Iraq Faces Splenda Crisis

Mike Riggs | 2.8.2012 9:00 AM

After big wins in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri, Santorum is on everybody's lips.
Pilots object to FAA bill's authorization of unmanned drones in U.S. skies.
No extension for payroll tax cut (yet).
Ben Bernanke has been vindicated, claims Bloomberg.
The U.S. embassy in Iraq is facing a sugar/Splenda shortage. Also the salad bar sucks.
CDC declares bread/dinner rolls gastronomic enemy number one.

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Santorum Smothers the Midwest

Oh, come on!
1. WTF 13 years ago
  
  After big wins in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri, Santorum is on everybody's lips
  
  Seriously, guys......
  1. Third-grade boy 13 years ago
    
    Even I've outgrown this.
    1. Miramonte Elementary Teacher 13 years ago
      
      That just makes me like it more.
      1. The Mossy Spaniard 13 years ago
        
        Oh, shit...
  2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    I'm allowed to feel bad for his kids, right? At least the Internet-aware ones.
    1. Tonio 13 years ago
      
      Only after you feel bad for the parents of teen suicide victims who were bullied because they were gay. Priorities.
      1. +? 13 years ago
        
        In fact, no: I demand more salty ham tears threads.
    2. djones 13 years ago
      
      Yes, I feel bad for his kids but for other reasons than their name.
  3. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Santorum is on everybody's lips
    
    OK, true believers! IT'S BUGGERIN'TIME!
    1. db 13 years ago
      
      Sexual detectives FTW.
  4. annonymous commenter some guy 13 years ago
    
    Giant fucking facepalm on that one.
2. Ska 13 years ago
  
  Santorum is on everybody's lips
  
  A felching pun and you choose that other line as your quote?
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    I've been trying to figure out a good one-liner about Santorum and a 3-way all morning, but I'm failing.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      "Newt and Mitt surprised by Santorum Surge?"
    2. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Just "Santorum Surprise," which sounds like a horrible variant of lava cake.
    3. anon 13 years ago
      
      "Santorum party?"
      1. + 13 years ago
        
        Why won't anybody take libertarians seriously?
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Why won't anybody take libertarians seriously?
        
        Because the two major parties are fear-mongering douchebags that have the media in their pocket?
        
        + 13 years ago
        
        Was that supposed to make sense?
        
        Or prove my point.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        What about sloopy's sentence doesn't make sense?
        
        Ray 13 years ago
        
        Yes, a sense of humor means an individual lacks all knowledge and has no room in the discussion. Humor is just about the only thing that makes life worthwhile and/or bearable. If you are unable to understand that...well, just fuck you very much I guess.
        
        Nooge 13 years ago
        
        Well, people- and "people" here means "Democrats, Republicans, and their toadies"- take libertarians seriously when they need a convenient political bogeyman.
        
        But yeah, anonopussy, you're right. Having a sense of humor about anything is unforgivable. We should all get our jokes from NPR and laugh politely into the backs of our hands.
    4. Joe M 13 years ago
      
      Santorum squeezed between Gingrich and Romney: a m?nage ? blah.
3. lily 13 years ago
  
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  1. Jeffersonian 13 years ago
    
    Lily's spam is actually in context today.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      what about poly-curious?
      1. Pip 13 years ago
        
        You fuck birds?
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        no, plastic.
  2. Jumbie 13 years ago
    
    The best was still yesterday, when Lily questioned the anon-bot's sexuality.
4. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  C'mon, bicurious spammer, don't let us down on the santorum thing. . .
  1. Proprietist 13 years ago
    
    We can trust President Santorum will do what our squirrels have failed at so far.
5. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  Should have said "Midwest santorums all over the rest of the country."
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    I thought it was a noun.
    1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      I thought we just made our own grammer rules here.
6. Loki 13 years ago
  
  I thought I smelled something odd in the air this morning...
7. Flytomoon 13 years ago
  
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RoboCain 13 years ago

"Firearms pervade our culture; they make some people feel secure and others afraid. Many people have no interest in owning (much less firing) one. And we'd rather not live near a commercial establishment that supplies folks who do."

http://www.philly.com/philly/n.....25769.html
1. db 13 years ago
  
  I suggest contacting a Realtor.
2. WTF 13 years ago
  
  "And we'd rather not live near a commercial establishment that supplies folks who do."
  
  So move. Problem solved.
  1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
    
    I propose legislation establishing Moron-Free Gun Zones!
    
    Also, for restaurants and commercial flights, "Will that be an Armed or disarmed?"
3. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  Freedom is scary. Thinking is hard. Waaaaa. Somebody slap that bitch.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    The mere presence or existence of things that make me uncomfortable should be banned. I can't live in my bubble if you people persist in letting reality too close to me.
4. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Says lifelong resident Melinda Gaffney, 69, "the question is, is a gun shop a good idea?
  
  "And what kind of town do you want your town to appear to be?"
  
  And the answer is: the kind of town that is inhabited by primitivist idiots who are afraid that evil spirits from the gun shop will curdle their cow's milk and steal their babies.
5. nicole 13 years ago
  
  As an editor, I'm willing to ascribe a lot to almost universally piss-poor writing and communication skills, but I think the secret key is in this sentence: "Many people have no interest in owning (much less firing) one."
  
  The columnist has less interest in firing a gun than in owning one?that is to say, firing one seems even more horrible than just owning it. And there are two ways this indicates extreme ignorance about guns: first, it's a good thing he's not going to buy a gun, because I wouldn't want him to try using it for the first time when he actually needs it; but also, who here wouldn't be generally more interested in firing than owning a gun? I mean, not that you don't want to own it too, but owning can be a hassle. Firing is just plain fun. Peeps have no idea how much fun they're totally ignorant of here.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I think he meant firing one in anger, which most people understandably don't want to do. The idea that you could fire one not in anger and just for fun never occurred to him.
    1. nicole 13 years ago
      
      Which is also part of my point...
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        To the more primitive among us, guns are just icky and only to be fired by professionals when they have to.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Obviously lightsabers are the weapon of a more civilized era.
        
        Jumbie 13 years ago
        
        Hokey religions are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
        
        Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
        
        One in the left hand, the other in the right. Blast and slash!
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Those professionals have dogs to shoot, don't they?
    2. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
      
      I think you're on to something with that, John. I've known a few people who bought guns "for protection" and seemed to think the thing was a holy talisman whose mere presence kept burglars and muggers away with gun-ly magic or something.
      
      They universally had horrible safety habits; would carry in a waistband sans holster, if they carried it at all; had little idea how to operate the weapon or handle malfunctions. Even in Texas, it surprised me how many people I found with those kinds of attitudes, who nevertheless had a gun around the house.
  2. mr simple 13 years ago
    
    I like the "Until recently." scare-sentence fragment that gets its own paragraph.
    1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
      
      How about the uncritical acceptance of the area being "residential," not "business" when it's obscured behind a chicken joint?
6. cynical 13 years ago
  
  Hey, you know who else didn't want to live around commercial establishments that supplied folks who made them afraid or that they looked down on?
  1. Tonio 13 years ago
    
    Anti-porn hysterics?
  2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Ted Kaczynski?
7. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Alt title: Woman from Brooklyn dismayed when small town not caricature she envisioned.
8. The Mossy Spaniard 13 years ago
  
  "...says DiSalvo, who grew up in Brooklyn."
  
  Makes sense. New Yorkers ruin everything they touch.
  1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
    
    I noticed that quote and was going to say that it explained a lot.
    
    We have several gun shops around here and the area is one of the most peaceful places you can find. AlsoI wonder what she'd think of all the gun ranges here?
    
    Oh, and I "shot Bambie" recently. OK, so it wasn't with a gun... but does an arrow make it better?
    1. Brooklynite DiSalvo 13 years ago
      
      Arrows don't make loud noise go boom!
9. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
  
  And we'd rather not live near a commercial establishment that supplies folks who do.
  
  Fastest way to "get guns off the streets?" Take them away from the cops.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Youth is wasted on the young.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....razil.html
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  She's hot, but other than being famous, I have no idea who she is.
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Apparently she is the Beeb's beard.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Maybe she is like Tim Tebow and wants to wait until she is married to have sex. Dating Bieber is one way to take the pressure off getting in the sack.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        Maybe she's a fag hag.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        My bet is on this. She's too awkwardly skinny, and somehow I associate that with being a fag hag.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I have always said, Mitt missed his calling as a gay porn star.
        
        Therapist 13 years ago
        
        Have you really always said that?
        Come on, seriously?
        
        REAL Therapist 13 years ago
        
        Why do you feel that way, John?
        
        Griefer Troll 13 years ago
        
        Please pay attention to me!!! Everyone is ignoring me. This isn't fair.
        
        ? 13 years ago
        
        Everyone is ignoring me
        
        Not everybody, evidently.
        
        Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but the blonde to the left looked like a contender.
        
        Juice 13 years ago
        
        Since when are fag hags remotely close to skinny?
2. John 13 years ago
  
  Well she is dating Justin Bieber. So she might even still be a virgin.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Isn't he a father? I think I read that somewhere, but I can't say I was actually paying attention.
    1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      Last I heard the woman who claimed her kid was his dropped the charges when he said he would do a paternity test.
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      I think that turned out to be a hoax. Short of Johnny Wier, no man on earth has the kind of credibility Beiber has when he says "I did not sleep with that woman."
      1. anon 13 years ago
        
        How does one attain that kind of credibility?
        
        I really wish it had worked for Herman Cain.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        It usually involves being a big show tunes fan and having perfect hair.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        No wonder people trust Mitt after his blatant flip-flops.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I have always said, Mitt missed his calling as a gay porn star.
        
        sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        I've never seen any gay porn so I wouldn't know.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        I'm calling bullshit on that. I know I've accidentally clicked on gay porn. Also: Brother left his in VCR when I was about 8.
        
        Jumbie 13 years ago
        
        I bet that had less santorum than today's news.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        That is what they all say sarcasmic.
        
        sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        If any of the candidates were into porn I'd say Santorum.
        He's got that vacant look in his eyes that I would expect from someone giving a speech while getting head from someone under the podium.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I don't think Romney is into porn. I just think with his perfect hair and reptilian good looks, he could have been a gay porn star.
        
        And if any of them are into porn it is Gingrich.
        
        Therapist 13 years ago
        
        That's a revealing fantasy from someone who's just claimed that he's never seen gay porn...
        
        The santorum thickens...
        
        Real therapist 13 years ago
        
        Revealing ignorance from someone who has never seen Police Academy.
        
        Derp dee derpity derp dee derp!
        
        The Rapist 13 years ago
        
        Looks like "Therapist" has gotten under "Real therapist's" skin.
        Tee hee hee.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Only on Reason does a discussion of credibility lead to gay porn.
Tim 13 years ago

Santorum wins! It's like the Friday Unfunnies came early this week.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Big deal; he's just the next anti-Romney on the list. Next month it will be...wait...
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    In the end, the last Not-Romney will be Obama. Ponder that on the tree of Woe.
    1. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      Holy shit that just blew my mind.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Nice bagel shop. Shame if anything should happen to it?

http://moonbattery.com/?p=7752#comments
1. WTF 13 years ago
  
  It looks like she dropped the suit when she found out who owned the shop.
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  "Nice bagel shop I have here, right? Shame if something were to happen to you while you were lamenting a scenario where something were to happen to it."
3. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  "vito, you moron, you can't put cement shoes on prosthetic legs!"
RoboCain 13 years ago

Biden Admits Government Subsidies Have Increased College Tuition

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....ition.html
1. Bill 13 years ago
  
  So he's not a complete idiot after all. Didn't he used to be Vice-President?
2. Chinny Chin Chin 13 years ago
  
  [Biden continued,] "But if we went the rate your view of the free market route what we would have done is we would have not of done that."
  
  Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Vice-President.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    LOL
    1. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
      
      Biden proves we need a syntax sin tax.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Google announced to publishers late last month that the Google Affiliate Network will no longer collect or pay commissions on weapons-related merchandise...Advertisers are already prohibited from promoting these items directly through Google's advertising networks."

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19905593
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  I noticed that when googling up the new Sig Sauer 1911. Had to go to gunbroker to even get a hit on it, but nobody's selling it there. 🙁
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    How many machines are still in production, essentially unchanged after 100 years? No, not the fuckin lightbulb.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      I don't understand the context of this. Then again, I didn't read the linked article.
      1. Tim 13 years ago
        
        The M1911 pistol. It's a machine that is still in production after 100 years. The light bulb had a longer run but it's banned now.
        What other devices are still in actual use today (not preserved antiques) that were around in 1912?
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Oh ok. Still waking up this morning.
        
        But yeah, the 1911 is a great pistol.
        
        Pip 13 years ago
        
        Is Ron Paul a device?
        
        Robert 13 years ago
        
        Claw hammers? Ball peen?
        
        0x90 13 years ago
        
        Schrader valve.
      2. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        I think he meant that people are still making 1911's. Although I would suggest that the lever-action rifle is an even better example of a gun design that has not changed.
        
        Tim 13 years ago
        
        +30-30
        
        Mr. Wheelie 13 years ago
        
        Revolvers are even older. He meant the specific gun, not the general pattern, but today's 1911 is not the same as the original 1911 in small ways.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I have a lever-action rifle that is an exact replica of the 1897. Well, they may used different steel now. But I think that may be true of 1911s as well.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Revolver designs have changed more. But you can still by lever action rifles today that are practically blueprinted from 19th Century designs.
    2. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
      
      Ask Tony about old technology. He's an expert, it would appear.
      1. EscapedWestOfTheBigMuddy 13 years ago
        
        It would be helpful if he was...
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Maria Menounos is still good enough to eat!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....l-bet.html
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Now you're speakin my language.
2. sage 13 years ago
  
  What a porker!
3. Trespassers W 13 years ago
  
  Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull.
4. Camel Toe 13 years ago
  
  I think I spotted myself in a couple of those pictures.
5. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  She is all kinds of yummy.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Emily Miller (got gun) TV interview:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49317
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  I think the DateTimeOffset on your autoposting script might be off. You posted these previous 2 links yesterday.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I did post the Emily (of the Got Her Gun series) yesterday, but I decided it was worth repeating.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  Damn she is cute.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    She is also an excellent journalist who is pro-gun:
    
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      What is not to love? And I bet she gets more interesting men hitting on her over her gun interests than any ten feminist harpies combined.
      1. Randy 13 years ago
        
        Not true, as feminist harpies never get hit on.
3. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  Emily wanted to talk about her attempt to purchase the handgun but the interviewer wanted to learn about the home invasion and empathize. Skip the first three minutes of the video.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea.....chool.html
1. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Boys as young as thirteen performed even more invasive procedures, again without their parents knowing.
2. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Can't have that, it might interrupt the life cycle of the perpetual welfare state!
RoboCain 13 years ago

Marilyn Monroe is still dead:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....YEARS.html
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  That last photo looks like STEVE SMITH took it.
Tim 13 years ago

F-35 broke, maybe can't be fixed:

Aviationintel.com reported that the design flaw is not fixable because there's just not enough space on the belly of the F-35C to move the tailhook back.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012.....f=obinsite
1. . 13 years ago
  
  A tailhook scandal, if you will.
2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  It's amazing how all these attempts to "save money" by making joint-service variations of the same model always seem to end up costing more in the end than if the services had simply made proprietary aircraft.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    I won't give the whole 2000 word rant, but yeah. This -- as well as having all of the NATO countries design by committee -- has essentially doomed the F-35 to be a platinum-plated turd from day one.
    
    It seems like they put this out for bid at one point, and then dicked around with the design they bought. Changing requirements after the contract is signed is a guaranteed way to pay a shit ton of money for something that doesn't work well.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Ending unionism as we know it
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02.....e-know-it/

The problem with Wagner Act unionism isn't necessarily that unions aren't democratic. It's that they are granted a power?mainly the power to go on strike as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent of a firm's workers without the strikers getting fired?that maybe they shouldn't have. The UAW is a democratic union. That didn't stop it from crippling the auto industry. The problem is that the wrong people voted in the UAW's democratic elections?not the suppliers who would be hurt when UAW members decided democratically to win themselves inefficient work rules, not the mayors whose towns were decimated, not the taxpayers who had to bail them out (in part to save the suppliers and mayors), and certainly not the customers. Making even entrenched undemocratic unions more democratic might have the perverse effect of validating those unions' exercise of their Wagner Act power. According to Barnes, Sen. Hatch "insists the ERA isn't antiunion." That's not a feature. It's a bug.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  and yet mgmt agreed to the contract once mgmt's preferred concessions were agreed to by teh union. >evidently LH doesnt agree, but couldnt or wouldnt be a party to negoiations.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Anyone else notice that Orrin seems to have stopped cutting his English classes?
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Means that it's probably a spoof.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Such a prospect worries Lee Moak, the head of the Air Line Pilots Association, an organization representing commercial pilots. He told reporters Monday there's currently no system that allows operators of unmanned aircraft to spot and avoid helicopters and planes, Bloomberg reported.

He said unmanned aircraft shouldn't be allowed to fly with other traffic until it can be demonstrated that they won't crash into other planes or the ground, according to Bloomberg.

It sounds like someone is worried about job security.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  While it's an easily biased source, it still sounds like a reasonable concern to me.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    There's a legit concern here, to be sure, but no one is voicing it. As far as I can tell no one is talking about Skynet.
    1. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      As a member of the cyborg community, I find your comment othering and nanoagressive.
  2. Querulous Yellow 13 years ago
    
    "See and avoid" is fundamental to anyone holding the stick.
    
    "Sorry, didn't see your aircraft on my PC, please contact the public affairs officer to coordinate the public announcement of the mid-air" is not fundamental to the trade.
2. Tim 13 years ago
  
  A human pilot on board a plane has got the very best incentive to be careful. Some (shudder) unionized drone pilot will be checking porn sights and jerking off while his aircraft drifts across the sky.
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    Even the sights they use have porn embedded in them?
    1. Tim 13 years ago
      
      Mrs. Smith is sun bathing in her backyard again.
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    joy stick
  3. Jumbie 13 years ago
    
    I'd reply to this, but I was in the cockpit on my laptop. Also my co-pilot was drunk.
  4. Querulous Yellow 13 years ago
    
    If they do this, aside from enabling 24/7 surveillance for people like Bloomberg, there *will* be midairs.
3. o3 13 years ago
  
  deconflicting drones & choppers will be a concern over boroughs populated by teh blacks.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    We bombed the ghetto once, we can do it again. Gentrification goes quicker that way.
4. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Valid concern. NASA tests small unmanned jets near us. They are definitely a danger to low-flying craft like helicopters.
5. 0x90 13 years ago
  
  My uncle had a Mooney 201; one time, I was flying with him, when all of a sudden we notice a bunch of parachuters close by. They literally just came out of nowhere. Anecdotal, sure, but I don't doubt those parachuters would rather have had four pairs of eyes seeing them than some guy (hopefully) remotely viewing them through a camera.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Hahahahahaha....

Barone: GOP must show young it's party of options
http://campaign2012.washington.....uth/363281

The Republican presidential candidates, except for Ron Paul, haven't been paying much attention to young voters in the primaries and caucuses so far. But any Republican nominee ? which is to say, probably Mitt Romney, or maybe Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum ? had better be paying attention to them in the summer and fall.

The reason three of the four Republicans haven't paid much attention to young voters is that the under 30 folks have been turning out in the Republican contests in miniscule numbers...
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  except for paul, the gop has lost the under 30 voters...along w women & hispanics. >old white men wont be enough except in the old south
2. T 13 years ago
  
  Young people don't vote. For all the energy of youth, they can't seem to be bothered to hit the polls on election day.
  
  But the geriatrics? They will show up dragging their entire complement of medically necessary machinery behind them. There's a generation or two that literally has to be too sick to move before they miss an election.
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    the under 30 crowd IS voting for paul. try again
  2. annonymous commenter some guy 13 years ago
    
    There's a generation or two that literally has to be too sick to move before they miss an election.
    
    And then they vote absentee.
  3. Loki 13 years ago
    
    ...because they have to make sure they keep the social security/ medicare gravy train going. Most younger voters just don't care and (rightly) don't think it makes much difference who wins from TEAM RED vs. TEAM BLUE.
    
    Hell, I'm almost 34 and the first election I bothered voting in was '08, when I was 30.
John 13 years ago

http://volokh.com/2012/02/07/g.....ghts-laws/

This is disturbing. A government run university is now free to fire an official for the act of criticizing gay rights laws.

A free society is a bargain. You get to be gay or whatever you want to be. And no one can come beat you up for it or have you arrested. But in return other people are free to criticize you and dislike you for your choices.

The problem is that the gay and the feminist left are totalitarian ideologies. They don't want that bargain. They want to not only live how they wish to but also to use government coercion to ensure that it is illegal for anyone to object or publicly think anything differently.
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  It's just like that student who was suspended for "bullying" for writing about how he thought homosexuality was wrong.
2. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  America is truly getting subjected to the Full Alinsky now. I shudder to think what four more years of this crap would bring.
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    Saying Alinsky's name won't bring back Jesse Walker, now. But I still appreciate the effort.
    
    http://reason.com/archives/201.....r-radicals
  2. o3 13 years ago
    
    no kidding since the teaparty uses alinsky also
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      derp de derpity derp
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, his rules are pretty universally used now.
  3. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Well, I think you will find out in any case. The federal judiciary doesn't go away when a president leaves office.
3. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  As the Volokh poster points out, Pickering makes this shit inevitable.
  
  Pickering plus discrimination law = complete dissolution of political participation rights for government employees.
  
  We have to decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Frankly, if there was some way to leverage this decision to squelch the political participation of every government employee everywhere on every issue, I'd do it out of sheer spite. If we can't all be free, we can at least have the satisfaction of seeing the bureaucracy in chains.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    That is a nice idea but the reasoning of the decision goes a bit further than that. The court upheld the firing because they said that this guy saying such things could potentially open the university up to suits from aggrieved gays.
    
    If that is true, then the same applies to private sector. That means that a corporation has a fiduciary duty to fire someone who expresses such an opinion. How can you not and risk liability?
    
    Religious freedom and freedom of speech were fun while they lasted I guess.
    1. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      John, private companies already could fire HR people for reasons like this.
      
      That situation hasn't changed since yesterday.
      
      What's happening in this case is that we are once again paying the price for the dumbassery that was Oliver Wendell Holmes.
      
      A 1st amendment "radical" like myself would say that the state has no power to police the private political statements of its employees, because the state cannot extend or withhold a benefit based on the exercise of an enumerated right.
      
      Holmes got rid of that for us.
      
      Basically all government employees are vulnerable based on any political participation whatsoever if a determined litigant can act butt hurt enough. That's been the case for some time. Seeing it extended in this way just makes me wonder aloud if we can't find ways to start acting butt hurt about every last registered Democrat employed anywhere in any federal, state or local bureaucracy, and litigate them all one at a time.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        I would even live with government employees being muffled. You work for the government. That makes you a court eunuch. Now take your job security and fat retirement and don't worry about it.
        
        But this extends to the private sector. And you are right, it has for years. It started with the racial discrimination laws. Even if I wanted to, I could not ethically as a manager keep someone who was an open white supremacist. It would expose my company to liability. I could even live with that, if the line had been drawn. But it wasn't. Then game gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Now you have to fire someone who makes a joke that offends someone. What is important here is that it is not that you are free as a private sector employer to fire whomever you want. It is that that doesn't matter. You have to fire or discipline the guy no matter what you think or what the circumstances because to not to exposes you to liability. The government is enforcing a standard of behavior.
        
        And now it has spread to homosexuality, which is even worse because that implicates freedom of religion. The fact is you cannot be a devout Muslim or Jew of Christian (or Hindu for all I know) without objecting to homosexuality. And if you can't say such things in public, which clearly you can't, I think you effectively can't practice the religion.
        
        jacob 13 years ago
        
        . The fact is you cannot be a devout Muslim or Jew of Christian (or Hindu for all I know) without objecting to homosexuality.
        
        Horseshit. There are numerous denominations of Christianity where homosexuality isn't denounced. In fact, they have openly homosexual ministers in some denominations.
        
        Please remind me what Jesus said about homosexuality.
        
        Griefer Troll 13 years ago
        
        You miss the point Jacob. You may think you can. But a lot of people disagree. And that is their right. Whether you agree with them or not has nothing to do with it. Freedom means freedom not it is okay to think and say what you want as long as Jacob agrees with it.
        
        jacob 13 years ago
        
        @Griefer Troll
        
        Well, doesn't what you said apply to John as well? Why not?
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        If there were a way to limit this to government employees, I'd consider it pretty much kosher.
        
        You work for the state, the only right you should have is voting, when it comes to politics.
        
        Tonio 13 years ago
        
        Uh, no. Jacob was making the point that the existence of gay-accepting xtian denominations invalidates the point that "you cannot be a devout ...Christian...without objecting to homosexuality."
        
        See also, No True Scotsman.
        
        jacob 13 years ago
        
        Careful Tonio.....you might confuse Griefer Troll with your fancy "logic."
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        "Freedom means freedom not it is okay to think and say what you want as long as Team Blue agrees with it."
        
        FIFY'd. No charge.
4. jacob 13 years ago
  
  Meh. About as disturbing as Don Imus getting fired, which is not really.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Sorry second order thinking is apparently beyond you.
    1. jacob 13 years ago
      
      What do you want me to say? A lady is fired by her employer for saying something they don't agree with. This is your idea of "disturbing?"
      
      Please explain to me how it's not like the Don Imus incident.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        The employer is the government. And last I looked the 1st Amendment applied to them. And further how this rule effectively makes objecting to Homosexuality illegal is explained in detail above. This is nothing like Imus.
        
        jacob 13 years ago
        
        I suppose the 1st amendment ruling somewhat applies here, though when I think of government I think of law enforcement, legislators, and the judicial system, not mid-level HR personnel at a University. Fine, then either you allow all university employees the right to say whatever they want (white supremacists included) or ban whatever any politically charged speech.
Korduroy Kristen 13 years ago

Why is my browser (Chrome) no longer showing alt text? God dammit.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  Fuck You. That's why.
  1. TSA 13 years ago
    
    You're hired.
    1. DMV 13 years ago
      
      No! We wanna hire him!
      1. DNC 13 years ago
        
        Fuck that, we're running him after Obama's second term.
2. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Are you using reasonable? I had to turn off the auto show alt-text below pics option to see the alt-text.
  1. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
    
    A ha!! That'll do it!
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Meanwhile, in the No Shit department:

Capitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ml?hpid=z1

Some members of Congress send tax dollars to companies, colleges and community groups where their spouses, children and parents work as salaried employees, lobbyists or board members, according to an examination of federal disclosure forms and local public records by The Washington Post.

A U.S. senator from South Dakota helped add millions to a Pentagon program his wife evaluated as a contract employee. A Washington congressman boosted the budget of an environmental group that his son ran as executive director. A Texas congresswoman guided millions to a university where her husband served as a vice president.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  It is funny skimming that article it is nearly impossible to find the names or the parties of the people they are talking about. Why refer to "a US Senator from South Dakota"? Does said Senator have a name?
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, doesn't the author watch Jay Leno? People (reading this) on the street are so dumb.
  2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    The names are a mystery; the party is not.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Something tells me that if the party began with an "R" exclusively or even mostly, the names and parties wouldn't be so hard to find.
      1. Huge MSM conspiracy 13 years ago
        
        we'll make it read "R" in the end.
      2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        That was pretty much my point.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        It is so biased it is hysterical. Who are these people? Why would any editor allow that type of writing? "A Senator from South Dakota"? Are kidding me? The only thing more pathetic is to watch people like MNG and the griefer troll claim that such biases don't exist.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        The only thing more pathetic is to watch people like MNG and the griefer troll claim that such biases don't exist.
        
        Those claims are hilarious. Do these people really think that their life experiences haven't led them to a bias in one direction or the other?
      3. Matrix 13 years ago
        
        18 Rs and 14 Ds.
        
        Rs are the majority.
        
        I was sad to see Sen. Inhofe on the list.
  3. db 13 years ago
    
    There's like, a hundred of them! Sheesh..
  4. H. Reardon 13 years ago
    
    Maybe if you did more than skim the article you would find the information you were looking for. Although I usually agree, no need for the obligatory charge of MSM bias this time. Here, I did did you a favor pressed the left mouse button for you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....interests/
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      I didn't say it wasn't there. I said it was difficult to find and not in the lead. Maybe if you would read my post and think about it for a moment, you would be less confused.
      1. H. Reardon 13 years ago
        
        With a fear of being compared to MNG, it is with much trepidation that I offer the following:
        
        It is so biased it is hysterical. Who are these people? Why would any editor allow that type of writing? "A Senator from South Dakota"? Are kidding me? The only thing more pathetic is to watch people like MNG and the griefer troll claim that such biases don't exist.
        
        I agree that the writing style is horrendous. I don't agree that it is an obvious example of MSM bias.
        
        I will no be getting into a 20 post argument over this. You and MNG can have each other.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        They buried the names and the parties of the offenders in a map you had to click twice to get through. I can see no other reason they would do that other than this story is embarrassing to Democrats and they want people to read it as "Congress Bad". When Democrats do bad things it is a bipartisan problem. When Republicans do bad things it is because Republicans are evil.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        And the people at the Post know how to write and knew that was bad style. It wasn't a mistake. It was done for a reason.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        And the people at the Post know how to write
        
        filing dispute.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I think they are silly. But I will say the generally know how to write. They certainly know better than that.
  5. cynical 13 years ago
    
    When they actually get into the details of that Senator, they do mention his name and party affiliation (Democratic).
2. Tim 13 years ago
  
  No shit?
3. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Wasn't it Hal Rogers who sent $5,000,000 to a Save the Cheetahs program where his daughter worked?
4. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  ..."A Texas congresswoman guided millions to a university where her husband served as a vice president."
  
  I can tell you the names of these people without even looking this up: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-umbass, Houston) "guided millions to" the University of Houston "where her husband," Dr. Elwyn Lee, currently serves as Vice President Community Relations and Institutional Access.
  
  In all fairness, as the 3rd largest public university in Texas, UH is going to get funds. And, the U is located in her district. Regardless, I don't think special influence from the giant joke that is the triple crown weave is going to effect substantial change on this particular issue, unless she's earmarking.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Nagy: It's 2012, so eat like a caveman
http://www.salisburypost.com/N.....s.facebook

t's that time of the year. The time when we all decide we're going to be healthy and eat better. The question that frequently arises is, what is the best diet for me to follow? The answer to this question has been so varied and changed so frequently over the years that it's no wonder we all suffer from analysis paralysis when trying to decide what we should be putting into our mouths. We have been influenced by nutritional researchers, our doctors and our government and look at the sad state we're currently in. Let's try empiric logic and attempt to discover what we should be eating based on what our genes dictate. We couldn't do any worse.

The new diet I am recommending is actually 60,000-100,000 years old. It is called the Paleolithic, or Caveman diet. Simply, if you can hunt it, fish it, pull it off of a tree or out of the ground, then you can eat it. Simple as that. This is how we ate thousands of years ago and how we have evolved to eat and should be eating now. Back in Paleolithic times there were no processed foods or food manufacturers. Another basic recommendation is, eat what you are. We are primarily composed of protein and fat and very little carbohydrate. We don't need to spend millions of dollars to figure that out.
1. gaijin 13 years ago
  
  Lifespan...how does it work?
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I think they are advocating a caveman diet, not caveman medicine and occupational risk. Not that I'm saying it's a healthy diet, as I don't know enough about it.
    1. Tim 13 years ago
      
      WHat about caveman sex?
      1. STEVE SMITH 13 years ago
        
        SQUAT DOWN BY STEVE SMITH AND STEVE SMITH DRAW YOU PICTURES IN DIRT AND THEN STEVE SMITH SHOW YOU HOW PICTURES WORK!
        
        Admiral Ackbar 13 years ago
        
        IT'S A TRAP!!!
    2. gaijin 13 years ago
      
      Agreed...though I can't imagine anyone else alive today can actually know what "cavemen" (a pretty broad identity group) ate...in a manner that would allow them to tell 'modernmen' how they should eat.
      1. Tonio 13 years ago
        
        Analysis of ?tzi's intestinal contents showed two meals (the last one consumed about eight hours before his death), one of chamois meat, the other of red deer and Herb bread...
        
        So, yeah we do definitively know what one stone age human from a specific geographic location ate.
        
        And we do know what they hunted based on cave paintings, burial clothing, etc.
        
        I'm not taking a position on the Caveman diet, here.
        
        gaijin 13 years ago
        
        yeah. I just meant a few data points (like those you describe) are not particularly useful in prescribing a diet for millions of individuals...I should have been more thoughtful in my comment...like many of the commenters below 🙂
      2. Butts Wagner 13 years ago
        
        Aliens taught us how to farm 10,000 yrs ago, when they built the pyramids. Obviously, it's a plot to slowly destroy humanity through a diet of processed foods.
    3. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, but it seems like you could extend the logic to include medicine, too, i.e.
      
      This is how we treated infections years ago and how we have evolved to treat infections and should be treating infections now. Back in Paleolithic times there were no processed antibiotics or pharmaceutical companies.
      
      Obviously, this is bullshit, though, which kind of leads me to think the logic behind the paleo diet is bullshit, too.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  What these yokels fail to realize is that 7000 years of agriculture is PLENTY of time for basic dietary adaptation.
  
  You think the first guy who drank cow's milk didn't blow chunks?
  
  Russian researchers have shown that you can turn wolves and foxes into animals pretty damn much like dogs in just a few generations. You can turn cavemen into wheat-eaters just as fast.
  
  Especially when you consider the fact that it's pretty likely that wild barley was hunter-gathered in the near east for tens of thousands of years before it was domesticated.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    We certainly can adapt to new foods pretty well. That is a large part of why humans are so successful and don't just live on the African Savannas. But, at least as far as I can tell, there does seem to be something to the idea that a diet with more protein and fat and less carbs is a good thing.
    1. Bill 13 years ago
      
      There are many vitamins, several fatty acids, half the amino acids, etc. that we can not make ourselves and must get from our diet. Looking back at what our ancestors ate 100 years ago and also to how we evolved does make sense when you look at these nutrients.
      
      We used to eat liver more than most people in USA do now and be out in the sun more so it makes sense that many studies are showing that we need more Vit. D than most are getting.
      
      We evolved eating a lot of fish and it was in most people's diets 100 years ago since you had to live near a water source. Huge benefits to the omega-fats in fish-oils that many don't get in their diets.
      
      Raw foods are good for you if it means they have more fiber and more vitamins. But everything in moderation, I say. Just eat a varied diet and a more mediterranean diet and you'll be fine. Lots of wine.
  2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    Surviving is one thing; doing well is another. Look at societies where nearly the entire diet is made of grain - Southeast Asia (rice) and the descendants of Mayan civilization (corn) come to mind. The people are often short and scrawny. Grain is best left for making beer and feeding pigs and cows.
    1. Priestess 13 years ago
      
      ^^This^^
    2. anon 13 years ago
      
      Unless it's that damned rice-beer. That shit is -nasty-.
3. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  One of the weird consequences of the popularization of evolutionary theory is how many people take it to be some sort of guide on how to live.
  
  There's evolutionary advantages to mulitiple sex partners--therefore we were meant to be swingers!
  
  We were evolutionarily designed to tolerate raw foods--therefore we should never cook!
  
  Evolution is descriptive, not proscriptive.
  1. Jumbie 13 years ago
    
    or even prescriptive
4. Pip 13 years ago
  
  I think this also applies to dogs. I read shit that says you shouldn't feed your dog onions because it will kill them. If that were true, there wouldn't be a dog alive in eastern Europe.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

The United States will "right-size" its Iraq embassy staff, which has grown to nearly 16,000, but contrary to a media report it will not halve its diplomatic presence there, State Department officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

But if State did halve the staff, which part do you suppose they'd leave there? Just the top means you keep the diplomatic knowhow in place but there's not much mobility, but if it's all a bunch of waists with legs, sure they're walking around but what good would they do? That would be a tough call.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Santorum Smothers the Midwest

That's why they call it flyover country.
1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
  
  I is ashamed to live in Missouri.
  1. Juice 13 years ago
    
    And you should be.
    1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
      
      I can't afford to move, Juice. Besides, it's not all bad... except for the Republicans and Democrats.
Ice Nine 13 years ago

When a megadouche like Olberman and a megadunce like Granholm are the best you have to offer, yeah Current, you're in trouble.
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Just who does Olbermann think will hire him after this? It takes a special kind of person to think they have the upper hand in this kind of situation.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Yep. That suppurating chancre is truly delusional.
    1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
      
      Yikes, why were "suppurating" and "chancre" on the tip of your tongue?
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        Tools of my trade, I guess.
      2. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        He refuses to go to the doctor.
        
        The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
        
        Does Obamacare cover treatment of suppurating chancres?
  2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    If he's the only one bringing in any kind of ratings, then he has more leverage than you might expect.
    
    I don't know why anyone would watch Current when they have MSNBC, PBS, etc. anway.
2. Jeffersonian 13 years ago
  
  Blue on Blue...who does one root for here?
  1. Ray 13 years ago
    
    America?
3. B.P. 13 years ago
  
  I used to watch Current a fair amount before they went hard-left-all-the-time last year. They showed some interesting documentaries. Now it's just a slightly snootier MSNBC.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

and for no particular reason (ha!) - the car chase scene from the movie "The Seven-Ups"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....vACWV5sRcY
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  A classic. Roy Scheider was terrific.
2. James Ard 13 years ago
  
  The first movie I ever saw at the theater. It was all downhill from there.
3. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  Excellent choice LH. This chase is often overlooked in the world of cinematic car chases. I really like this chase because the stunt drivers exhibited a recklessness that other car chases lack.
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    And you have to tell kids, that was no computer animation, those are real cars with real stuntmen driving them.
    1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
      
      And not just cars, but big heavy Dee-troit steel fuckers with squishy suspensions and fluffy steering.
      1. Tim 13 years ago
        
        From Wikipedia, there was actually a driver in the big crash:
        
        The chase sequence is located near the middle of the film: in it, Hickman's car being chased by Scheider. The chase itself lends heavily to the Bullitt chase, with the two cars bouncing down the gradients of uptown New York (like the cars on San Francisco's steep hills in the earlier film) with Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville sedan pursued by Scheider's 1973 Pontiac Ventura Sprint coupe. While Scheider did some of his own driving, most of it was done by Hollywood stunt man Jerry Summers.
        
        Location shooting was done in upper Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge, and on New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Parkway and New York's Taconic State Parkway.
        
        In the accompanying behind-the-scenes featurette of the 2006 DVD release of the film, Hickman can be seen co-ordinating the chase from the street where we see a stuntman in a parked car opens his door as Hickman's vehicle takes it off its hinges. The end of the chase was Hickman's 'homage' to the death of Jayne Mansfield, where Scheider's car (driven by Summers) smashes into the back of a parked tractor-trailer, peeling off the car's roof.
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven-Ups
      2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I've always been amazed what good drivers could do with such cars.
        
        The Ventura certainly doesn't sound stock, but it could be some SFX overlayed, or a modified engine.
rather 13 years ago

The field

Romney
Ice Nine 13 years ago

This is pretty significant news. Why have I only seen it on this obscure website?
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Probably some conspiracy with the media to help the TSA keep their jerbs.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  Of course BO will never sign such a thing. But it will be funny to force him to veto it.
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  "The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from aviation security altogether."
  
  That is significant news.
  
  I think the catch is that the airports would have to pay for their own private security.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    It is my understanding that some airports have already done this (somehow; can't remember) and that many others want to.
    1. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      It could easily be a competitive advantage for an airport. The problem is that few airports exist in a competitive market.
      
      Worst case scenario, the TSA decides that the private security is not up to their standards and insist on screening all passengers from a non-TSA airport before allowing them to disembark incoming planes.
      1. EscapedWestOfTheBigMuddy 13 years ago
        
        Worst case scenario, the TSA decides that the private security is not up to their standards [...]
        
        Well, obviously.
        
        But at least every thinking person will be highly amused by the assertion.
4. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  would force the TSA to reconsider applications from airports to replace TSA workers with their own privately hired screeners.
  
  While it's good that it makes the TSA actually consider these applications it's still bad that they have the final say on whether or not they get fired.
John 13 years ago

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/.....d=15532865

US Air Marshals gone wild.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Who would have guessed that an overpaid group of law enforcement types that don't have a damn thing to do 99.99999% of the time would come up with juvenile ways of amusing themselves?
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    99.99999%? More like 100% in the last ten years.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      You're forgetting the times that a drunken Alec Baldwin has been on a plane.
      1. Tim 13 years ago
        
        They should make him an honorary air marshal.
  2. John 13 years ago
    
    And give them the world's most boring job and fly them to nice places. Never would have guess that. Next you will tell me the men and women ended up screwing on the road. Shocked, shocked I tell you.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Say it isn't so! That's unpossible!
    2. Tim 13 years ago
      
      I know a woman who works for a large airline. She says the air marshal's and TSA regularly come in and demand seats (usually business class) to "suspect" destinations. Apparently the policy is to just give them what they want and no questions asked.
      1. . 13 years ago
        
        Not sure why I read that as:
        
        "I know a large woman who works for a airline."
      2. Abdul 13 years ago
        
        It's not just airline policy, the Air Marshals can get any seat they want: http://www.usatoday.com/travel.....titialskip
        
        On the one hand, first class is closest to the cockpit, and therefore a tactical spot for air marshals.
        
        On the other hand, Adam Carolla was on his podcast telling people how more than one air marshall identified himself and divulged security informaiton (like the % of covered flights) simply because they met a B-list celebrity.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I love how we created this giant abusive bureaucracy of air marshals just to avoid the horror of issuing pilots guns. And how long before a terrorist organization gets a mole into the organization? It wouldn't be that hard. And such a mole, could pull a gun and a badge and get people to acquiesce just like they did on 9-11.
        
        Barack Obama 13 years ago
        
        WORKPLACE VIOLENCE!
        
        Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
        
        Z-list
2. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  "Category pickle smokers was directly aimed at gay males,"
  
  Sometimes, people mis-use the word "unique." However, I think it is accurate to say that this sentence is unique in human history.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, but it also suggests that these guys aren't bringing roses to the old lady often enough.
    1. Tony 13 years ago
      
      It's not that unique.
3. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
  
  They're government union employees. Of course, they're going to feel like they can get away with anything.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

A Fairness Quiz for the President
Is it fair that some of Mr. Obama's largest campaign contributors received federal loan guarantees?
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....n_newsreel
Abdul 13 years ago

I have this crazy friend who says homeschooling is okay. Is he crazy?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/n.....ation.html

No, Timmy, just ignorant--unless that friend is an urban elite who can characterize educational choice as some sort of boutique lifestyle thing--like locally grown arugala.
1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
  
  I have this crazy friend who says homeschooling is okay. Is he crazy?
  
  Yes, but that's a separate issue.
  
  My version? My kids go to public schools, which are pretty good here. But I also inoculate them. "A lot of what they teach is correct, but you also need to learn what they have to say that's wrong. The better you know what they falsely believe, the better you can defend yourself from it because we're also teaching you the truth."
  1. Tony 13 years ago
    
    You mean you indoctrinate them with right-wing, pro-capitalist nonsense.
    
    Breeders.
    1. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      I love how you say Breeders like it's a bad thing to perpetuate the species.
      
      Also, if LFD were to call you a pillow-biting Obama fellator you'd say he was homophobic.
      1. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
        
        From what I've observed, he's just like most liberals... do what we say, and don't pay attention to our faults - of which we have none.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

"Hidden" mortgage fee paying for payroll tax cut
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50.....l-tax-cut/

Just before Christmas, American workers got a rare gift from Washington politicians - the current payroll tax cut would be extended for two more months.

At the time, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner lauded the move to avoid a tax increase for millions of working Americans.

But there's something the politicians weren't bragging about - the fact that they're paying for the two-month tax cut with what has turned into a brand new fee on home buyers.
1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  As someone who lives in an apartment and flat-out refuses to buy a house, I find this amusing.
2. # 13 years ago
  
  considering there are a shit load of existing subsidies for home buyers as is, this isn't the worst place to place a tax. It just evens it out a little.
Roger 13 years ago

How many primaries has Ron Paul won? While Rick Santorum leads?

What's the major difference between these two?

Hmmm...looks like, what's that? A sensible foreign policy that defends America rather than blaming it?

It's okay by the way, I know you guys want to defend and justify everything Iran and North Korea do. They're you're favorite nations after all.

You should still take half a second to ponder the FACT that America also has interests to follow.

Maybe then you'll start to consider that some Americans want America to pursue its interests and not roll over for terror states.
1. Shorter Roger 13 years ago
  
  AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  It's okay by the way, I know you guys want to defend and justify everything Iran and North Korea do. They're you're favorite nations after all.
  
  So I take it your goal isn't to convince anyone of your point of view using good faith arguments?
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I thought his goal was to troll and look like an asshole.
    1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
      
      Yeah. I was feeling generous.
    2. Loki 13 years ago
      
      Goal met.
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Way to gloss over Paul's reasoning, Roger.
        
        We've been sticking our noses into shit where we didn't need to be, for decades. Iraq was the latest example.
        
        Doesn't mean there should have been no retaliation for 9/11, but let's get real... having your way, we'd be doing even more meddling.
3. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  Well, dumbass, one other difference is that Rick Santorum unabashedly boasts of being a big-government conservative, who openly embraces social engineering if it "helps families".
  
  The fact that you are completely unaware of this is pretty incontrovertible evidence that you have paid no attention to the candidates' economic freedom and small government positions at all. And that to you "conservative" means "hates gays and abortion and Muslims". I'd probably trade you abortion, and even a war or two, for a candidate who genuinely supported small government at home. But Santorum ain't that candidate so I can't make that trade.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Most people would vote for Paul if they didn't have the genuine impression that he blames the US for most of the problems in the world.
    
    You guys hate it when I point that out. But it is true. And it doesn't matter if Paul actually believes that. He let his opponents create that impression. And that is his fault. Part of being a politician is not giving your opponents the ability to marginalize you. And Paul wasn't disciplined enough to do that.
    1. Fluffy 13 years ago
      
      That's fine, dude.
      
      And while I think you are wrong on the foreign policy issues, you're at least aware of them, and know where all of the candidates stand on them, in detail.
      
      But to think that the difference between Paul and Santorum is foreign policy, as Roger apparently does, you have to be utterly ignorant of where both candidates stand on economic, regulatory and budgetary issues. As in, not have the first idea.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        That is true. There is a huge difference. But honestly, I am not sure Santorum has a domestic policy beyond feel your pain populism.
        
        0x90 13 years ago
        
        People have noted, during debates, that he's a good attack dog. Give him a position, and he can counter it. But ask him to articulate a position of his own? Good luck.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        That is a good way to describe him.
    2. tarran 13 years ago
      
      I disagree. Paul bends over backwards to put stuff in context.
      
      Moreover, speaking for myself, I don't hate on you when you point out that alot of people believe that Paul is a blame America-er.
      
      I get pissed at you when you accuse people who point out that the U.S. contributes to many problems of being blame America-ers, for example in arguments you and I have had about the run up to WW II. I get pissed off because you are too intelligent not to get the nuance that while we cannot control what Japanese politicians and noblemen do, we putatively do have control over our own government - and I apologize for going Covey'tard here - that we should be focusing on our circle of control than blaming others in our circle of concern.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Since we could not control what the Japanese were going to do, we are not responsible for them starting the war. They are. It is really that simple. The only way you can blame America for the war is to say that the US was at fault for not acquiescing to Japan conquering and raping all of Asia. The rape of Nanking was 1937, long before the US embargo. And it was obvious even before that just how aggressive and depraved the Japanese actually were. If anything the US bears some responsibility for being too apologetic to Japan and letting them conduct a brutal colonization of Korea. That was the blue print for what happened later. And they did while they were the US's ally. No surprise that just encouraged them.
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        You nailed it. It is the very reason that pacifism is an immoral philosophy.
        
        mr simple 13 years ago
        
        You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        I take it you support Obama's attack on Libya then?
        
        Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        It wouldn't be an immoral philosophy if everyone followed it. That indicates it's not so much an immoral philosophy as it is a naive philosophy.
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        The sky wouldn't be blue if it were green.
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        John, a libertarian criticizes Commodore Perry for bombarding Tokyo, and the U.S. for participating in the imperialist looting of China alongside the other European powers as was done in the 1880's - 1920's
        
        You scream that we are enabling the rape of Nanking.
        
        And you wonder why we get pissed?
        
        You are intelligent enough to get this...
        
        Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        Actually, Paul comes across as blaming the rape of Nanking on America because of Perry's forcibly opening Japan.
        
        No, I haven't seen or heard him make that argument, but it is fundamentally what he does when he blames Islamic terrorism on the American actions of 50 years ago.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Let's see how much you like it when Iran comes and kicks our democratically elected president out and institutes a king. I'm sure you'll just be lining up to say job well done.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I am not blaming the US for the rape of Nanking at all. I am saying that the US embargo was not the cause of Japanese expansionism. That was happening anyway and the only way to avoid war was to completely roll over for Japanese barbarism.
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        I am not blaming the US for the rape of Nanking at all. I am saying that the US embargo was not the cause of Japanese expansionism.
        
        No, the cause of Japanese expansionism was the decision of the Emperor to adopt a Japanese flavored version of European imperialism - to join the European powers as an equal rather than to end up like China as a colony.
        
        And, one of the powers partitioning China was who? I'll give you a hint, it gave something called a CMOH to an officer who would later pen an essay called "War is a Racket" for his actions fighting in Shanghai.
        
        And which power attacked Japan, threatening to shell one of its major cities if the government continued its centuries long tradition of isolationism?
        
        Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        Moreover, from the Japanese perspective, they were just doing the same thing the Europeans and Americans were doing. They just happened to be somewhat more brutal about it, but there was still a double standard where Eastern imperialism was bad, and Western imperialism was ok.
        
        STEVE SMITH 13 years ago
        
        WHO WALK BY CAVE IN NANKING JUST ASKING FOR IT.
    3. Quetzalcoatl 13 years ago
      
      Part of being a politician is not giving your opponents the ability to marginalize you. And Paul wasn't disciplined enough to do that.
      
      Unfortunately, his opponents microaggressions and dog-whistles have effectively othered Ron Paul.
4. anon 13 years ago
  
  Rick Santorum is a theocrat.
  
  Ron Paul is not.
  
  That's a big difference.
  1. Maxxx 13 years ago
    
    How many people are voting for Santorum instead of against Newt and Willard?
    
    Face it, Paul marginalizes himself with his blame America rhetoric.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      He does. It doesn't mean he's wrong though.
      
      It would appear that our country hates taking blame for our own actions, as evidenced by TARP, GM, et al.
    2. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      If you don't think blowback is real you are a fucking moron.
      1. Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        Yes blowback is a real effect.
        
        Lecturing voters wrt blowback is idiotic.
5. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  I know that 'men' like Roger are well-known sheep rapists. The little voice in my head told me so.
6. Tony 13 years ago
  
  They're both morons.
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    Which is why we need four more years of Biden as VP... right?
7. 0x90 13 years ago
  
  You miss the point entirely. Paul doesn't have to win anything; his function is to alert you to the fact that you can't win without second-guessing some of the assumptions you noted above. A non-trivial share of Paul voters are not pragmatic party-line GOP Republicans.
8. Lord Ballsac 13 years ago
  
  Sounds good Roger as long as you sign up and die over there because the MOOOOSSSOIILLMMSMSMS ARE EVVVVUVUUULLLLL!!!!!!! Otherwise, you are a fucking pussy hypocrite.
COXSWAIN HARDY 13 years ago

Woman busted for DUI says big boobs made her fail sobriety test
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Don't be comin' here with that kind of link and no pictures!
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  http://www.examiner.com/headli.....oman-photo
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    On second thought...
    1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, I was wondering "if that's true, why didn't the cop let her off?" Then I saw the pic.
      1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but if she was 21, 120 lbs, cute and claimed she can't perform on a sobriety test 'cuz she likes banging random cops...
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    Guilty!
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      ... of being too ugly to look at.
  3. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    Yikes.
3. jacob 13 years ago
  
  pics or it doesn't count
P Brooks 13 years ago

"The Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from aviation security altogether."

Unless they have also removed to requirement that all aviation security falls under the "supervision" of TSA, this is pretty much meaningless.
COXSWAIN HARDY 13 years ago

How Your Dollar Got To Be Worth Just 3.8 Cents
P Brooks 13 years ago

to the
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Word.
  1. . 13 years ago
    
    Up.
Warty 13 years ago

What do you do with 1,700 diplomats, anyway? My mind is thoroughly blown.
1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
  
  1680 'diplomats' work for the CIA.
2. Trespassers W 13 years ago
  
  A good start! Drowning them, I mean.
  
  Wait, let me start over.
3. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Apparently even 1700 isn't enough because they're always begging & pleading & cajoling & threatening & browbeating to get warm Foreign Service bodies to put Baghdad on their job bid lists. In fact, last I heard, Foreign Service Officers were required to put Iraq or Afghanistan on their "wish lists".
Dev Geemore 13 years ago

Sounds like a plan to me dude. WOw.
http://www.anon-puter.tk
Apatheist 13 years ago

A female Ron Swanson is elected to the City Council and the Houston Chronicle throws a fit including this spectacular line:

you shouldn't balance the budget on the backs of schoolchildren

And this pathetic whine about her not explaining her no votes:

Unfortunately, her Twitter feed has fallen silent since she was elected.

Print media deserves to die.

http://www.chron.com/opinion/e.....122492.php
1. Mean Girl 13 years ago
  
  I like how you look to sitcoms for your libertarian heroes. Might I suggest cartoons as well? Did you know that Bender is a libertarian robot? True!
  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    I feel like Stewie is a libertarian too. But only because of his odd fascination with Star Trek and Star Wars.
    1. Mean Girl 13 years ago
      
      Nah, Stewie is an anarchist.
      But Scooby-Doo...is there a better spokesdog for Rothbardian ethics on TV?
      1. Actual Mean Girl 13 years ago
        
        Shut the fuck up you manatee whore.
        
        Mean Girl 13 years ago
        
        Ooh, somebody is butt hurt.
        Would you like to talk about it?
        
        Reason CSI 13 years ago
        
        Shut the fuck up you manatee whore
        
        Sarcasmic? Is that you?
        
        Passer-by 13 years ago
        
        I smell cunt.
    2. Jumbie 13 years ago
      
      Stewie is an authoritarian. He just wants to be the one in charge.
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  From Justin Amash's facebook page:
  
  Insider trading laws already apply to Members of Congress. So what does the STOCK Act actually do? As written, it attempts to silence any Member who communicates openly with his constituents about the legislative process, or who would expose corruption in Congress. The STOCK Act effectively would ban many of the Facebook posts and comments that I make on this Page, and it would prevent my office from answering many of your questions when you call or write. Even town halls would be impacted.
  
  http://www.openmarket.org/2012.....unication/
  1. cynical 13 years ago
    
    I don't know. The whole "non-public" thing is a pretty big mitigating factor. It seems like you would be indemnified so long as you made any facts you wanted to discuss in private available to the public first. Add it to your Congressional website, or even have a special "public disclsure" site for members of Congress.
3. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  Well at least she got elected. There may be some hope for Houston yet.
P Brooks 13 years ago

What do you do with 1,700 diplomats bagmen, anyway?
Tim 13 years ago

Pakistanis catch 40 foot Whale Shark: claim it was dead when they found it.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  I swam right next to one of those in the Sea of Cortez. Mind-blow-er.
heller 13 years ago

How could you stay mad at a face like this?

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35y61i/
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  I saw footage of that this morning. That contraption shoots marshmallows.
  
  Anyone know how Jay Carney is recovering from his wounds?
  
  Hey-oh.
Live Free or Diet 13 years ago

CDC declares bread/dinner rolls gastronomic enemy number one.

Because of salt?! (Irony: I'm defending bread.) The CDC isn't paying attention to the science. For instance, a Scientific American article last Summer named It's Time to End the War on Salt.

"This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure."

"In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine?an excellent measure of prior consumption?the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease."

"Over the long-term, low-salt diets, compared to normal diets, decreased systolic blood pressure (the top number in the blood pressure ratio) in healthy people by 1.1 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) by 0.6 mmHg. That is like going from 120/80 to 119/79."

Why doesn't the CDC know this?
1. PS 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, and Taubes debunked this like 15 years ago, although the article is hard to find these days.
  1. Live Free or Diet 13 years ago
    
    The (Political) Science of Salt
    http://garytaubes.com/wp-conte.....f-salt.pdf
    
    Reason's Ronald Bailey also wrote about it.
    http://reason.com/archives/200.....rd-science
    1. PS 13 years ago
      
      See, I told you it was hard 😉
2. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
  
  The CDC doesn't care about nutrition. It's all about politics.
3. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Maybe CDC should stick to actual diseases instead of applying the "disease model" to things that aren't diseases and won't be affected by the model.
Anomalous 13 years ago

If Santorum drops out, things could get messy.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I see what you did there.
Old Mexican 13 years ago

The U.S. embassy in Iraq is facing a sugar/Splenda shortage. Also the salad bar sucks.

"What? No bacon springles??? This sucks!"
1. tarran 13 years ago
  
  OM, you have no idea how bad food can get on government installation.
  
  For example on Sunday nights on my carrier, when the ship was in port, the food in the officers' mess was inedible. The salad bar had whatever was left over from last night. The entree were build your own tacos from grated american cheese, ground low-grade hamburger, limp lettuce, and baked pinto beans that were more effective than Ex-Lax.
  
  The food was so vile that most of us on watch would just skip eating all together.
  
  If the supply line to the compound is cut, these guys have been eating swill on that level for weeks now. MRE's would likely be an improvement to their diet.
  
  I don't think this is kvetching. It sounds like these guys are starting to suffer real privations.
  
  Of course, the solution is very simple. I think 20 guys could handle stamping the visas of collaborators/allies who need a ticket out of the country. The rest could go home.
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    dont eff w soldiers food, pay, & mail. that is all
  2. anon 13 years ago
    
    OM, you have no idea how bad food can get on government installation.
    
    Unpossible. Most of us have eaten in a public school.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

I haven't spoken to any of the primary voters, but let me advance an educated guess as to why Santorum kept winning. I think my guess is just as good as the "lol, Santorum is a theocrat who reminds me of a byproduct of sodomy" explanation.

Three times in the past couple of weeks, we've had instances of high-profile progressive aggression on culture-war issues.

First the administration requires employers - including Catholic schools and hospitals - to provide "free" contraception, sterilization and even abortifacients to employees as part of their health insurance in the name of "preventive" medicine.

Then a federally-subsidized abortion provider - planned parenthood - shakes down a nonpartisan breast-cancer charity, threatening to boycott and ruin it unless the charity gives them more money. The progressives own this one because they spent political capital to keep up federal funding for planned parenthood.

Then as people are going to the polls, the 9th Circuit imposes gay marriage on California.

Despite the alleged priority progressives give to economic issues, they have three times initiated culture-war battles, and each time the federal government is implicated.

That can only be good news for the candidate who has been consistently associated with the conservative position in the culture wars. Sorry, Florida voters, but that candidate isn't Gingrich, it's Santorum.

I would be surprised if these three culture-war aggressions were unrelated to Santorum's good showing.
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  This.
2. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  Except the 9th circuit didn't "impose gay marriage on California". It struck down a law that sought to overturn a previously enacted law. It's not as if their decision has somehow forced all Californians to get gay married.
Robert 13 years ago

Funny that CDC noticed about 4 days after I did how much sodium I was getting in bread. It's like they read my mind.
Pip 13 years ago

OT

City seeks ban on pajamas in public...

http://www.ksla.com/story/1668.....pajama-ban

How stupid. I am a suit and tie guy. Recently, I have been hearing complaints about people who wear pajamas in public. I have seen this and my take is that the people who do this are young women (high school / college) so what's not to like?

So I wnt out and bought pahamas for the first time ever and damn, are they comfortable. Mow I'm not going to wear them out in public, but again, who cares if other people do? They cover a person from waist to ankles, so it's a lot better than saggin'.
1. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  While I think a ban on any clothing is statist lunacy, I get where this guy is coming from. When i see girls walking around in pjs or sweats with the whole "I just got out of dance" look going, I first feel sorry that their parents never taught them how to dress themselves. I also think it's insulting to both them and me that they can't properly comport themselves for public appearance. I'm not saying they need to be in dresses and makeup, but just put some real clothes on when leaving the house. They end up looking like lazy slobs.
  1. beevis 13 years ago
    
    he said comport!
    
    *snickers und snorts*
  2. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    This guy was bitching about people wearing pjs in Walmart, not at work. Why would anybody clean up to go shopping at Walmart? Do you bitch when people show up at wearing paint or oil stained clothes, too? Sometimes people just don't give a fuck what they look like.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      I don't know why he'd care so much that other people are wearing PJ's. Half the time I go I wish the people there were wearing clothing that covered up more of their bodies anyways.
Pip 13 years ago

Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock

http://www.lvrj.com/news/video.....01274.html
1. Pip 13 years ago
  
  Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face.
  
  "Stop resisting," officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face pushed into the pavement, hasn't resisted. He doesn't even move -- maybe can't move -- because he's gone into diabetic shock caused by low blood sugar.
  1. Wilford Brimley 13 years ago
    
    Diabeetus!
    1. TSA 13 years ago
      
      Wait, let us get our notepads out... this sounds like another way to harass the poor schmucks who think they need to get on their flights.
2. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
  
  Read some of the comments from here:
  
  http://www.lvrj.com/news/video.....01274.html
  
  Disgusting.
anon 13 years ago

Ron Paul 2nd nationally, according to whatever poll DailyCaller is citing:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02.....nd-romney/

Fucking glimmers of hope, must crush.
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Wow, it was Reuters.
2. Jumbie (here to crush) 13 years ago
  
  Polls was of 405 adults.
  
  The polls of 1000 Likely voters and 1200 Registered Voters released the same day shows Paul at 11%
  1. Jumbie 13 years ago
    
    Here's a thought: Paul's supporters are generally disaffected with the political process. It might be leading to him having more supporters who not registered to vote or likely to vote, even to vote for him.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

"The President's War on Religious Freedom

"By Sen. Rand Paul

"
1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  That was weird.
  
  "The President's War on Religious Freedom
  
  "By Sen. Rand Paul
  
  "In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism...
  
  "Pope John Paul II's indictment of socialism is illustrated in the Obama administration's recent edict requiring nearly all employers ? including Catholic hospitals, schools, and charities ? to cover sterilizations and contraception in their employees' health-care plans. Because "contraception" includes abortifacients, this decision ? made under the powers granted to the executive branch under Obamacare ? also threatens many Protestant employers."
  
  http://www.nationalreview.com/.....-rand-paul
Joe Shmoe 13 years ago

You Reasonoids fuck me up.

Tbis is by far the most entertaining board on these internets.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
  1. Steve McCroskey 13 years ago
    
    Looks like Joe picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      Looks like Joe picked the wrong time to start sniffing glue.
      ftfy.
      1. Mrs. Shmoe 13 years ago
        
        Glue, I could handle. But he's started shooting heroin into his cock, and it has me a bit concerned.
Jumbie 13 years ago

Roland Martin of CNN under fire for 'anti-gay' tweet.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....57036.html

I gotta say Martin's explanation seems fake. He never says smack the ish out of any *girls* who like the ad.

Also given his violence against men who wear pink tweet earlier in the day, I'd say he can't use the 'anti-soccer' excuse credibly.
----

But last, and most important. When will the congress pass Federal legislation designating it a hate crime to advocate violence and ridicule against the scorned and powerless minority that is soccer fans?
1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
  
  How odd... a black man, being bigoted against another "oppressed" group...
  1. The Pointer-Outer 13 years ago
    
    I'm surprised anyone would dare criticize him; after all, he is black AND liberal.

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