Occupy Wall Street Forms a PAC, CNN Cancels GOP Debate, Underwear Bomber Gets Life Sentence: P.M. Links

• Georgia Alabama man forms Occupy Wall Street PAC. 

• Would-be underwear bomber sentenced to life in prison. 
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau picks its first target. 
• CNN cancels GOP debate. 
• Congressman doesn't want HHS head attending Super PAC fundraising events. 
• Santorum's biggest fundraiser has interesting ideas about birth control. 
• Obama campaign unveils secret weapon. 

Do you want hot links and other Reason goodies delivered to your inbox twice a day? Sign up here for Reason's morning and afternoon news updates.

Comments

[Rick Santorum]

First!

[wsd]

Looking to bring more bisexual passion to your life? Welcome to=== Datebi.C/0/M ===, the world's largest bisexual community for no strings attached encounters. Hundreds of thousands pretty girls and handsome guys eager for hookups, bisexual stands, and discreet affairs are active here. Come in and discover the excitement you deserve! u_u

[Fabius]

Beautiful.

[koment?tor]

Podium!

[koment?tor]

What does this mean?

[Beatrice Potless]

It means a ban on his creepy music!

[rather]

He's on a roll

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho.....hrine.html

[Loki]

Print|Email
Occupy Wall Street Forms a PAC

Now it's official: Occupy movement has no sense of irony...

[Fist of Etiquette]

Money will also be used for federal candidates such as Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders because of their pledges to get money out of politics.

Apparently not.

[Pro Libertate]

I was right to call it the Stupefy movement. Because I'm stupefied just trying to unravel their "reasoning."

[nicole]

I am starting to think there must be some high-level performance artists behind the whole thing.

Puppeteers, even.

[RoboCain]

I see what you did there.

[Loki]

their "reasoning."

TEAM BLUE = GOOD
TEAM RED = BAD

[Xenocles]

I can't wait to hear about their negative ads in Massachusetts which will trigger a debt of honor on Warren's part to donate to a charity of Brown's choice.

[Proprietist]

I mean, to us that looks like hypocrisy or a broken irony meter. But technically, why should they voluntarily be less electorally competitive while opponents take advantage of all the political loopholes?

It's like Ron Paul and earmarks, or Gary Johnson and matching funds. Just because they'd prefer those things not to be in existence doesn't mean they should grant the proponents of these things political the advantage. You play within the system, your chances are better to change the system.

[Proprietist]

"of these things the political advantage"

[Eduard van Haalen]

Maxine Waters literally demonizes opposing politicians:

http://huff.to/x7mUUS

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I don't use this word very often, but when I do, it's reserved for Maxine Waters.

What a cunt.

RACIST!

[Eduard van Haalen]

The article also says she looks forward to serving on the Financial Services Committee.

[Eduard van Haalen]

As Chairwoman.

[a fan]

As charwoman.

FIFY

[The Pointer-Outer]

Apparently, cunts come in many colors.

[Anklu]

avoid blue

[Tulpa]

"The Most Mysogynist Man In The World"

[Binky]

"Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston," [Fox New host Eric Boiling] said. "Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from the Lorazepam because it's going to get you in trouble." After a commercial break, he clarified that he was "kidding about the crack pipe."

Gold, Jerry.

[RoboCain]

I'm thinking it's either Ativan and Xanax, or lorazepam and aprazolam.

[RoboCain]

I hate the stupid spam filter. Apparently it won't even let you use certain drug names.

[Eduard van Haalen]

Buy discount V1@gra now!

That seems to have gotten through.

[Warty]

What's all this about Viagra? Does anyone know if there's some sort of website where I could buy this Viagra, whatever it is?

[Warty]

Ha! Fooled you, stupid fucking spam filter. Eat my ass.

[Eduard van Haalen]

Chill out - put an aspirin between your legs.

[Brandon]

As an email address.

[RoboCain]

Testing: aprazolam

[RoboCain]

Testing: Ativan

[RoboCain]

Testing: Xanax

[RoboCain]

Testing: lorazepam

[RoboCain]

Testing: Ativan and Xanax

[RoboCain]

But it won't let me post At1v4n and X4n4x in the same post.

[Eduard van Haalen]

Ativan, Zanax!

[Eduard van Haalen]

Try it this way:

A t i v a n

Z a n a x

[Eduard van Haalen]

I f t h e s p a m f i l t e r w e r e i n s c h o o l i t w o u l d b e i n s p e c i a l e d .

[Eduard van Haalen]

Dr. School's Viagra-based foot powder. Because you know what they say about men with big feet.

[T]

Yes, they wear big shoes!

[RoboCain]

http://bigshoediaries.blogspot.com/

[Suthenboy]

I dont know who the dildo is who introduced the dildo Maxine, but someone should freeze the video at the point where he is scratching his head with one eye closed. Priceless.

[Sudden]

I swear it is impossible to listen to Maxine Waters talking and without losing several points in IQ with each passing word.

[Seamus]

Ah, yes. The new civility.

[Obama Supporter]

Obama's team is working to link once completely separate repositories of information so that every fact gathered about a voter is available to every arm of the campaign.

Cool!

[Loki]

Obama's team is working to link once completely separate repositories of information so that every fact gathered about a voter is available to every arm of the campaign stormtrooper.

FIFY

[BigT]

Obama's team is working to link once completely separate repositories of information so that every fact gathered about a voter is available to every arm of the campaign stormtrooper the Ministry of Truth.

FIFY

[Iatrogenic Government]

Hee, hee, hee.

[nicole]

I wonder if that means they will catch on that when you write them a nasty email it doesn't mean you are a supporter who wants to be asked for donations all the time.

Because that's what happened to me last time around.

[T]

Damn, all I'm getting from being a supporter is the weird catalogs now showing up in my mail since Reason started selling their address list.

Although, I'm stumped how a catalog for European and British fashions in sizes 10-28 correlates with the readers of this site. Unless you're all really just a bunch of fat chicks.

Hey, that would explain the Jezebel and Feministing links! I may be on to something here!

[Brett L]

Their database thinks you're a crossdresser, dude.

[Jack the Reaper]

Those were meant for John.

[koment?tor]

Actor's Death unknown for 5 years

[Rick Santorum]

I disapprove. Not of his death. Of the show.

[Fist of Etiquette]

CNN cancels GOP debate.

I say we live blog it anyway.

[Joe M]

It would be just as, if not more, entertaining.

[Auric Demonocles]

Ron Paul might get more questions.

[Joe M]

Maine GOP plans to provide revised caucus vote after correcting mistake

Webster says the revised numbers won't change the outcome, and may even increase Romney's lead.

They get complaints, so they're going to massage the numbers a little more, because fuck you, that's why.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Thornton is an active member in the Alabama Occupy movement. He said he came up with the idea when he was laying in bed.

An active Occupier and he has a bed? Sellout.

[RoboCain]

Was it at least made of hemp?

[Episiarch]

Did they actually write "laying" in bed and not "lying" in bed? Fucking journalists are paid to write and they can't even do that right.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Damn, missed a [sic] opportunity.

[Pro Libertate]

You were close to committing an article foul.

[Warty]

I rigorously observe the distinction between "laying" and "lying", but I couldn't give any less of a shit about the difference between "further" and "farther". I blame my shitty public schooling.

[Pro Libertate]

Go no further.

[Warty]

I am your further!

[Pro Libertate]

Mein Further!

[Voice of Reason]

No. *I* am your further.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Dr. Frankenfurther?

[koment?tor]

The quick and dirty tip is to use "farther" for physical distance and "further" for metaphorical, or figurative, distance

[Voice of Reason]

Your Mom is quick and dirty.

[CrackertyAssCracker]

for all intensive purposes there all the same

[BakedPenguin]

Irregardless, you've misconscrewed the argument.

[Barack Obama]

Winning.

[who cares]

If Alabama is not Georgia.

[RoboCain]

Well remember the people here who argued the VA OGAM law was effective?

They are who we thought they are:

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c.....ore-107485

[Mike M.]

Light sweet crude break $102, Brent Crude tops $120, and eight month high. Here comes the $4+ a gallon gasoline, bitches.

[Matrix]

Great. Of course it will go up that high even though a few years ago when oil was that high, gas was not. But, no worries, they'll overprice gas anyway.

I also loved it when oil prices tanked quickly, the price of gas slowly trickled down. But when oil prices spike, the price of gas spikes just as fast.

When oil prices drop, they claim to be waiting for it to settle and see what the real value is. When it spikes, they accept it as the gospel truth.

[BigT]

You figured it out! I worked for an oil company for a while and that is precisely how it is done. No one notices that the price should be declining by 25 cents when they see it drop 10 cents. But some will drop it 15 cents to grab market share - temporarily.

[Sudden]

Ah, inflation's leading indicator.

Thanks Bernanke

[Barack Obama]

Release the reserves! Don't give me that shit about how it's not supposed to be used to manipulate prices. I've got an election to win, fuckers!

[NeonCat]

Anyone seen this?

I think it's pretty funny. I saw it at Neatorama.com; most of the comments were on the negative side, since libertarians are morons and/or history's greatest villains.

[Joe M]

That's awesome.

[JW]

I've seen variations floating around over the past couple days. These posters seemed to come out of nowhere and suddenly they're being applied to every subject.

[koment?tor]

It's a new "meme". I heard about it on the radio, so that means it's pretty much dead already.

[Almanian]

Yeah - literally (LITERALLY!) just started seeing these a few days ago....and it's already played.

STOP IT GODDAMNIT!!!

[Auric Demonocles]

Soon we will reach the meme singularity, and they will start becoming finished before they even start.

[RoboCain]

Saved.

[koment?tor]

Here's a metric ass load
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/.....-do/photos

[BigT]

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos.....-really-do

[Fatty Bolger]

Excellent.

[Periodic Warrior AuH?0]

Libertarians as history's greatest villians? Hardly.

Kif: Oh, dear. I fear the Holo-Shed might be broken again. Well, as long as we don't cross paths with Attila the--
Amy: Look! Spirit!
Kif: And there's Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, Evil Lincoln!
Moriarty: Right-oh, gents, it's another simulation gone mad, so murder and mayhem, standard procedure!
Jack the Ripper: Rampage!
Evil Lincoln:Real holographic-simulated Evil Lincoln is back!
Kif: The Holo-Shed's on the fritz again! The characters turned real!
Zapp: Damn. The last time that happened I got slapped with three paternity suits.Listen up, history's greatest villains...

[Fist of Etiquette]

A federal judge Thursday imposed multiple life sentences on failed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009.

So now the system worked?

[System of a Clown]

I hope the system patched up his burned parts well. He's going to need them.

[RoboCain]

Best Holiday Ever:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/d.....ult-654912

[Binky]

While Brown was locked in the bedroom, Reed "threatened to kill him and cut him." She then got a knife and "began cutting the door in an attempt to get to the victim."

The kicker: Reed was busted
for aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor.

[Almanian]

If I'm EVER arrested for "aggravated menacing", I hope someone kills me.

That is seriously weak...

[Warty]

Note that koment?tor is rectal. Ignore it, please.

[koment?tor]

I am not. Please continue.

[RoboCain]

Stay classy, PETA:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....riend.html

[Pro Libertate]

Seriously, they should just drop the animal business and start producing porn exclusively.

[Warty]

Yes, nothing makes one into a testosterone-filled, hypervirile alpha make like a diet of soy, guilt, and nutritional deficiencies.

I'm gonna start a new ad campaign for the Vatican. "Try our new, totally radical, XXXXtreme hairshirt! It'll get you laid!"

[Pro Libertate]

As I mentioned previously, my wife is experimenting with a vegan diet. I discussed that with my doctor, and what he said was that it can have certain benefits, if nutritionally balanced, but the real advantage is that a vegan diet tends to involve significantly fewer calories than a omnivorous diet. As we've all heard, studies do indicate that a subsistence diet can mean a longer lifespan.

In other words, you could do the same thing eating anything, provided that your total calorie intake was low.

[Warty]

It's not a longer lifespan if you're not living while you do it, dude. I can't wait to eat the rest of my leftover pulled pork tonight.

Also, doctors are alcoholics and not to be trusted.

[Sudden]

They only tell you you're liver is swollen so that you won't be the guy that leaves work early to snag the latest release of a rare and special craft beer.

[Ron Paul]

Some of us deliver babies and run for President and try to End the Fed and stuff.

[Pro Libertate]

No, no, my doctor said the same thing you did. He said it could work, but he'd rather die.

[Trespassers W]

doctors are alcoholics and not to be trusted

I'm stealing that. Information wants to be free, man.

[nicole]

a vegan diet tends to involve significantly fewer calories than a omnivorous diet

That seems surprising, since it's stuff like carbs that really pack in the calories, and it's not like vegans can't eat plenty of carbs.

I mean, I'm sure it would feel like starving, but I'm pretty sure if I went vegan I would end up eating a lot more high-calorie shit (that I've taught myself to avoid in favor of more protein-heavy things...like meat [yes I know vegans can still eat protein but would you rather have soy or bread?]).

[Proprietist]

When I was vegan for exactly two and a half years, I ate just about nothing but carbs. I hate most fruits and veggies.

Definitely lost weight though - that's why I quit, in fact. Got as low as 155 lb, and I'm 6'8.

[nicole]

Hmm...the coffeeshop around the corner does amazing vegan baked goods...maybe I am using the wrong strategy.

[RoboCain]

Other studies show that it needs to be a high-volume low-calorie "bulky" diet, not just a low-calorie diet.

[Xenocles]

If only the major sources of vegan protein weren't some of the biggest food allergens out there, maybe vegans would have a point about health.

[RoboCain]

Wouldn't that only be a problem if one were allergic to them?

In Thailand, soy and peanut are in everything.

[Xenocles]

You forgot wheat / gluten. And none of the three are very good for you even if you are not allergic.

[Scott Pilgrim]

You once were a vegon, but now you will be gone!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/.....an_police/

[cynical]

"As we've all heard, studies do indicate that a subsistence diet can mean a longer lifespan."

In mice. It's debatable whether that applies to humans, since (as social creatures which pass acquired knowledge to our offspring through teaching) human evolution has probably been selecting for healthy longevity for a while, at least within reason.

[JW]

Like he's going to do anything but shoot bean sprouts.

[Eduard van Haalen]

What it it was a sheep that got injured like that? They wouldn't think it was funny *then,* would they?

I mean, *I'd* think the concept of a sheep injured during sex would be pretty durned funnny.

But PETA would probably say, "Ewe, that's gross! And cruel!"

[Pip]

One. Sweet. Ass.

[Eduard van Haalen]

And it doesn't say *she's* a vegan, so probably her injuries are well-deserved punishment for her carnivorous ways.

[rho]

If you're into teenage boys, yes.

[Pip]

That's a very tired meme. She has two x chomosomes, two tits and one vagina. Teenage boys lack tall of these things.

[Almanian]

Correction - tennage boys have two tits. Usually small ones, unless they're fatties, in which case, BONUS!

[Sudden]

The comment is simply stating that her ass lacks the curvature and shapeliness that the commentator prefers, and does bare a striking resemblance to that of a teenage boy in it's shape, lack of hips, etc.

It doesn't insinuate that the rest of the anatomical parts are unmatching.

[Almanian]

and does bare a striking resemblance

HAHAHA! Did ya see what ya did there!! HAHAHA!

[RoboCain]

Too skinny.

[koment?tor]

Gary Carter has died.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/s.....-57-021612

[Periodic Warrior AuH?0]

As a Mets fan... sad face.

Also, as a Mets fan... why, god, do you so enjoy kicking us in the balls? And yet you reward the Dodgers for running away because of black people!

[EDG reppin' LBC]

RIP. One of the all-time greats.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday proposed to add debt collectors and credit bureaus to the list of industries that agency officials can supervise in-person.

Populist targets.

[nicole]

Supervise in person? For reals? So I am going to pay someone to literally (yes, literally!) look over the shoulder of people working in less-equal businesses? It's happened again?I'm actually surprised by the extent of the screwedness.

[mikey]

Non union and not campaign contributors.

[cynical]

Even thought debt collectors are unethical assholes, I still thought the commenter who said "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" in regard to them, with no heed paid to the fairly unconstrained power granted to the CFPB in watching them, was precious.

[twenty-something]

Aspirin between the knees? Sorry, Foster Friess, but that doesn't work if you hit it from the back 😉

[Periodic Warrior AuH?0]

I want a PSA that goes, "Anal prevents pregnancies!"

[nicole]

And yet, for Santorum, it's still procreative!

[Pip]

"Would-be underwear bomber sentenced to life in prison."

Seems about right.

[Coeus]

Didn't he already burn his dick off? Give him probation and an ankle monitor and let him go. Dude lost his dick. Prison ain't shit.

[Old Mexican]

Officials say they chose debt collectors and credit bureaus because those industries touch a vast number of consumers. They say consumers can't shop around if a debt collector is abusive or unfair.

"Hey, pay back the money you owe!"
"I want to shop around!"

That doesn't make any sense. Are these guys doing an Abbott and Costello routine or something?

[CNN debate canceled?]

I would love to see a debate with only Newt Gingrich.

[Joe M]

Gingrich versus the moderators, perfect! He would see a huge jump in his polling numbers again.

[Almanian]

They're talking about the Team Red "Battle For Michigan?" on the TEEVEE.

Living in that sorry political entity, I must say I envision two people fighting over a smashed clay pot. Fighting over Michigan? You don't have something better to do?

[Anklu]

They're living in mad max times.

[Almanian]

"Children of the Wasteland, you disappoint me...."

[Brett L]

Goddam Canada won't take it. Not even the UP.

[Almanian]

I know as a lifelong resident of a Border State? - them Canadians ain't dumb...

[Old Mexican]

Santorum Backer Suggests Women Use Aspirin Between Their Knees As Birth Control

"Because if you don't want to procreate, then don't act like a slut!"

But she can still blow, right?

[fish]

Thinking outside the box again Old Mex?

[RoboCain]

I see what you did there.

[Coeus]

That guy must have an incredibly boring sex life if he can't conceive of having sex with a woman with her knees together.

[-]

Where did Mike Riggs get the idea that it was a Georgia man that formed the OccuPac? He is from Decatur,(not just a town in GA) Alabama. Yes, yes a minor detail.

[Eduard van Haalen]

You can't seriously expect someone in California to tell the difference between one podunk state and another?

[-]

Yeah, geography is probably too hard a subject for most journalists.

[-]

from Cali or otherwise.

[DK]

Headline: CNN Cancels Debate After Romney and Paul Pull Out

Revised Headline: CNN Cancels Debate After Santorum Pulls Out

[Periodic Warrior AuH?0]

CNN Cancels Debate After Santorum Flies Out

[Joanie Woods]

You have to admit dude that makes a lot of sense.

http://www.anon-dot.tk

[Jumbie]

I admit nothingk! Nothingk!

[-]

On a more important subject, could Reason.com stop people from posting links to urls with viruses? Joanie Woods fuck you.

[RoboCain]

That's just anonobot, he's like a stray cat that lives in our building.

[Brett L]

Hot, known to be a goer, and now rich. Amanda Knox is my favorite non-celebrity celebrity.

"Amanda Knox has agreed to a nearly $4 million book deal about her trial and imprisonment in Italy for the murder of her British roommate. "

[RoboCain]

#whitegirlproblems

[Francisco d Anconia]

Birth control? Birth control is an issue in the 2012 election? Really? Not whether birth control should be publicly funded? But birth control? As in...birth control is bad and we need to do something about it?

The Republicans call Ron Paul a loon and the majority of them support Santorum?

We are FUCKED!

[Uncle Pfizer]

The Republicans call Ron Paul a loon

Not only Republicans

[Tulpa]

Some doucheblogger from American Spectator was on Dobbs last night talking about Mitt's enthusiasm problems, and he mentioned that the conservative blogosphere would rally around whoever the GOP nominee was so Mitt didn't have to worry about that. Then he started talking about something else for a few seconds, before stopping to clarify that he meant anyone who got the GOP nomination besides Ron Paul.

I mean, seriously? He has to know that Paul has no shot at the nomination, so why did he feel it necessary to add that in? It was clearly an emotional need.

I criticize RP a lot, but he is doing one thing right -- getting in the heads of the neocon shit stains that populate the conservative media elite.

[Greg]

Another funny thing about that is that a lot of the Team Red people I've talked to don't seem to think they need anything else. "Well, all the GOP voters will vote against Obama anyway"... as if you can win a national election just by getting the votes of the small segment of the population that calls itself "Republican".

[cynical]

Isn't requiring everyone to purchase insurance, and requiring all insurance to cover birth control basically just publicly funding it in a roundabout way?

The only gopper making birth control an issue is Santorum and his dumbass supporters. The bulk of the progtard movement is behind their president's idiocy, and are trying to paint it as the next Roe vs. Wade.

[Coeus]

The forensics lab in Austin is giving out positives (often false positives) for drugs without following procedures.

http://www.statesman.com/news/.....78748.html

Comments are disabled on the story. The reason being that a while back the douchnozzle police chief sued for identities of commenters critical of him and fucking won. Goddam Texas. This is the same douchenozzle who pushed for the new .05 BAC ticket (that's right, they give you a ticket and send you on your way).

[Tulpa]

She was fired for violating several lab policies and police procedures, Assistant Police Chief Sean Mannix has said.

MANNIX!!!!!!

[Coeus]

Interestingly enough, this came after her first complaint was cleared. So they cleared the lab of violating pocedures, then fired her for violating procedures which the public was assured didn't happen.

[Tulpa]

The first rule of Forensics Lab is you do not talk about Forensics Lab.

[Tulpa]

I was so incensed by the story about the police chief going after commenters "critical of him" that I did some research.

It wasn't critical commenters, it was commenters falsely claiming to be cops that he went after.

[Coeus]

Ya, but just like he who shall not be named they went after the entire list of commentors, not just those who used a cops name.

[Hazel Meade]

Just wait until Occupy forms a non-profit corporation. Their heads will implode.

[Franklin Harris]

Georgia man forms Occupy Wall Street PAC.

Actually, he's a Decatur, Alabama, man who has been in jail and whose parents say is mentally ill, according to a 2008 story: http://www.decaturdaily.com/st.....ated,15192