A.M. Links: More Compensation Shenanigans Revealed at Solyndra, Afghan Bibliophiles Kill Two U.S. Soldiers, Economists Don't Like Obama's Tax Plan

Mike Riggs | 2.23.2012 9:03 AM

More on Solyndra: Several employees "who were approved for bonuses Wednesday had months earlier received pay raises as high as 70 percent."
"Economists note that Obama's plan would carve up the very playing field the administration says it wants to level."
Virginia GOP backs off plan to require women seeking abortions to be needlessly penetrated.
Koran fans kill two U.S. troops.
Liberal hawks call for U.S. to intervene in Syria.
Budget watchdog says everyone but Paul would increase the federal budget.

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RoboCain 13 years ago

"An Ohio woman who compared animal-welfare work to the liberation of World War II concentration camps has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer...and she offered him $730 in jewelry or cash for the killing of a victim of at least 12 years but "preferably 14 years old or older" outside a library near a playground in her hometown."

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-ohi.....42665.html
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  She looks like one of those killer dwarfs from Phantasm.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I don't think I've ever seen that, but she sure does look creepy.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Here you go.
    2. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Here you go.
    3. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Hmm... seems that you can no longer post single image links.
      1. Assassination Politics 13 years ago
        
        Paid assassination is libertarian.
        
        Assassination market
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
        
        sage 13 years ago
        
        You can say that again! And again, etc.
2. Suki 13 years ago
  
  So every lefty issue really does come down to fashion.
  1. Tophat and Monocle 13 years ago
    
    Yep.
  2. rac3rx 13 years ago
    
    Fashion and genitalia.
3. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  She hoped to be arrested so she could call attention to her beliefs and to get out of the home she shared with her parents and brothers who eat meat and eggs and use fur, leather and wool, investigators said.
  
  Seems like she could have killed two tofurkies with one stone right there at home.
4. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Nothing says "WE'RE SERIOUS!" like having somebody's kid murdered.
5. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  She gave him instructions on how to perform the hit (use a silencer or a knife that can be concealed etc). I know she was only paying the guy $730 but damn, you should be able to assume your hitman can thinks those issues through for himself.
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    That's the kind of precautions you have to use when dealing with a non-union hitman.
  2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    You should also be able to assume that giving a stranger instructions by email on how to murder someone is an express ticket to the big house. So maybe you're expecting a bit too much of her.
  3. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
    
    She must think silencers work like in the movies. In real life, a silencer doesn't make a gun sound like a weak fart. It would still be quite noticeable to anyone nearby.
    1. Film Buffy 13 years ago
      
      Not if you use a soda bottle silencer or fire through wadded up cloth.
    2. WWNGD? 13 years ago
      
      This confused me also, not only because of the suppressor doesn't silence the sound but because she said she wanted to bring attention to the cause. Wouldn't a gun shot bring the attention she wanted so she could distribute her propaganda? I am beginning to think she isn't the brightest baby seal at the clubbing.
  4. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    When it comes to murder, why farm out the work? It just complicates things. /psycho
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Especially when she wanted to be there when the victim was whacked so she could distribute flyers and get arrested. The stupid here is just painful.
    2. Assassination Politics 13 years ago
      
      She was a libertarian.
      
      Assassination market
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
      1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        Not libertarian, dumbass.
6. Montani Semper Liberi 13 years ago
  
  Does this mean rather won't be posting here anymore?
7. Warty 13 years ago
  
  Meredith Lowell, 27, of Cleveland Heights
  
  Obviously.
8. Assassination Politics 13 years ago
  
  Maybe she was a libertarian.
  
  Assassination market
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
9. jacob 13 years ago
  
  27? Really?
RoboCain 13 years ago

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1. John 13 years ago
  
  How do they know they died without experiencing the joys of homosexuality? Haven't these guys ever heard of the closet?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Isn't it better to make sure? Pascal's Homo-Wager and all that.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Touche
    2. Grant M 13 years ago
      
      One dude isn't enough. You need to try at least 10.
      To be sure.
      1. WWNGD? 13 years ago
        
        I will wait until after I am dead.
      2. Tom Cruise 13 years ago
        
        So up to 9 is OK?
        
        Whew!
        
        Hey, Katie, good news...
    3. The Dan 13 years ago
      
      so, Schr?dinger's Mormon?
2. Tonio 13 years ago
  
  Cute, but ultimately no less a carnival sideshow than the original issue.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Kate Gosselin is looking for a man.

Good luck!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....brood.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Wow. I am thinking she could go for one of the Olson twins' cast offs. They might be desperate enough for attention to go for it.
  1. JW 13 years ago
    
    There is't enough tequila in the world to make that level of control-freak crazy palatable.
    
    Her vagina could be lined with mink and spit our solid gold coins and it still wouldn't be worth it.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Never underestimate what pathetic people will do to get on TV and in the tabloids.
    2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      With the price of gold these days?
    3. WWNGD? 13 years ago
      
      Mink lined vagina and spits gold coins? I don't know, if she farts silver I might be interested.
      1. WWNGD? 13 years ago
        
        Scratch that, she needs to piss fuel.
        
        JW 13 years ago
        
        Nope. She still has negative value.
        
        She could shit out the Higgs bosun aand warp drive technology, and I'd still run screaming.
        
        WWNGD? 13 years ago
        
        My standards are lower than yours OKAY??!???!
        Pissing fuel, spitting gold coins, a mink lined vagina, on a crazy beotch is acceptable to me. Besides she has all those annoying spoiled brats that probably have physiological problems, that has to be worth something.
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  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    Haha! Good one, anonbot.
  2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    GE "Forcing" Employees Into Chevy Volts
    http://gas2.org/2012/02/20/ge-.....evy-volts/
    
    The memo, sent to employees of GE Healthcare Americas team explains that all sedan, crossover, and minivan purchases in 2012 will be replaced by the Chevy Volt. Only field engineers are exempt from having to drive a company Volt.
    
    GE will offer estimates for installation Level 2 Charging Stations, though all-gas use will be allowed when there is no electric option. Any employees who opt out of the Volt program will not be compensated for their expenses. Those who do choose to drive the Volt will be reimbursed for public charging and home charging costs, in addition to gas uses.
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      geez - I blame the squirrels. Or my own stupidity.
    2. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      Got this in the email:
      
      A Follow the Money test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
      
      For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
      
      Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. . . .
      
      According to General Motors, the Volt battery hold 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
      The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
    3. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
      $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
      
      Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
      
      $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
      
      I deleted (for length) a bit where they added the charge time to the trip time, which seemed a little skeezy, but what about the rest?
      1. hugeevilrobot 13 years ago
        
        I assure you that you don't pay $1.16/ kWh, unless you are burning stacks of dollar bills to spin your turbine. $0.16 or so is on the high side on the east coast, in Cali you can get up north of $0.30 if you are a big user on block rates, and I believe the highest kWh charge in the country is in HI, where >50% of generation is oil boilers.
      2. Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        $1.16/kwh is really excessive even for CA.
      3. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Hmm. Not surprised. It sounded too good to be true.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        This is what you get when you let lawyers do math.
        
        rac3rx 13 years ago
        
        Guilty!
        
        But seriously, I'm guessing he meant to say that he pays $0.116 per kWh.
        
        hugeevilrobot 13 years ago
        
        FWIW, my boss got to use a company volt for a few weeks, I got to drive it about 100 miles coming back from a meeting. The best thing I can say is that if I didnt know it cost $45k, I wouldnt have been wildly dissapointed if I got it as a rental economy car.
        
        His daily commute is something like 15 miles round trip, so over a few weeks, he had averaged around 140mpg (it got ~30 mpg on the highway, and was totally gutless). IF gas was something like $6-8 a gallon, and IF a person had a round-trip commute that was exclusively electric, it could be cost effective IF that person didn't value driving enjoyment at all.
    4. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      Those who do choose to drive the Volt will be reimbursed for public charging and home charging costs, in addition to gas uses.
      
      How the hell do you track that? Calculate the difference between home electric bills before and after the purchase? Seems like an incentive to crank up the heat and A/C, buy a big-ass hot tub, and stick GM with the bill.
3. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Looks like Dr. Drew made it all better, though.
4. free2booze 13 years ago
  
  Tearful Mother-of-eight Kate Gosselin says she wants a man... but he has to be able to handle her large brood
  
  Is brood Brit slang for vagina?
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    I don't think so, or they would have said "enormous" instead of "large".
5. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  'No. I'm too busy. I think a lot of my friends who are being constructive say "gosh, who are you going to meet that is going to be able to deal with eight kids?"' she said.
  
  'My answer is always if they can deal with eight kids in our situation it probably will be the person. It will sort of prove it.'
  
  That would have been your ex-husband, you moron.
RoboCain 13 years ago

California Cheeseburger:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....trial.html
1. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  how sick can a person be?
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Is she gonna say she confused it for the dog? Or the cat?
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Two minutes? That's barely enough time to nuke the frost off a Lean Cuisine!
    1. RTFM 13 years ago
      
      "Microwave power may vary."
3. JW 13 years ago
  
  She and her giant forehead look so sane. How could this be?
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Pensioner bludgeoned to death by intruder after police failed to respond to 911 call because they were 'too busy with Occupy march'"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....march.html
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  ergo OWS bludgeoned the pensioner eh?
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Or, maybe they facilitated the bludgeoning by monopolizing police elsewere who could have otherwise responded to the intruder call.
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      Not OWS's fault in my book. First, the cops are the ones that decided to go all super-SWAT on Occupy Oakland. They should have just left those idiots to their own devices or arrested them all for violating private property rights. Instead, they chose to babysit them and crack the occasional head for kicks.
      Second, the man should never, ever expect his personal protection to be handled by agents of the state. If he wanted to be secure in his property and possessions, he should have handled it himself. Expecting the police to protect you is a fatal mistake too many people make.
      1. WTF 13 years ago
        
        All true, and I agree. I just don't like how quick orrin is to excuse OWS idiocy because they're leftys.
      2. Public property is public 13 years ago
        
        And all abstract property (what isn't needed for direct personal survival) seeks to cause privation.
        
        Public property is public 13 years ago
        
        Amazing how I can type with all this Twinkie cream and Dorito dust caked on my fingers.
        
        Tonio 13 years ago
        
        That's "creme" not "cream." The filling of a twinkie never got near a cow.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure the truck full of Twinkies passed a cow at some point on the drive.
      3. Second Point is Correct 13 years ago
        
        But Occupy Oakland is dominated by violent thugs. They would not let workers leave a facility for several hours after surrounding it at one point. That is kidnapping.
    2. o3 13 years ago
      
      effect causes teh cause. got it
2. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  But gun-grabbing liberals would say we still don't need guns to defend ourselves because we have the poliec to defend us.
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Dial 911 and Die.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Not only do cops have no duty to turn up to a 911, you could be better off if they don't
      1. Officer Cates 13 years ago
        
        Bitch wuz askin' for it!
3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  What a weak-ass intruder. If I hit someone over the head once with a ceramic flower pot, I'd break it. Who was this guy, Screech?
  1. WTF 13 years ago
    
    I don't know, my wife has some large ceramic flower pots that have inch-thick sides and weigh a ton.
  2. Ted Kennedy Doll 13 years ago
    
    What the hell is a "Screech?"
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      This is a Screech.
      
      And this is badass Screech.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Hello, Nurse!

http://www.newser.com/story/14.....urses.html
1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  The great Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Christina, who shot to fame as Mad Men's feisty office manager Joan Holloway, was viciously targeted by cruel classmates for being a teenage misfit."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/ce.....con-688867
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  "Christina, who recently appeared in Drive, I Don't Know How She Does It and is tipped to play Wonder Woman in a remake of the 70s series"
  
  Whaaa???
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    To quote the Japanese, how will Wonder Woman not fall over?
2. Heroic Mulatto 13 years ago
  
  was viciously targeted by cruel classmates for being a teenage misfit
  
  Which makes her only hotter in my opinion.
3. anon 13 years ago
  
  She has a couple of great "assets," but again, the face ruins it for me.
4. AuH20 13 years ago
  
  If only she had been made a crew member on Firefly, we could be looking at six seasons and a (much better) movie.
  
  Although apparently Joss' plan for Book's backstory was straight up retard.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I don't think Firefly got canceled due to a lack of hot chicks.
  2. Britt 13 years ago
    
    I heard that he was supposed to be a retired Operative. I fail to see how this is retarded.
    1. Senior Postal Inspector AuH20 13 years ago
      
      The comics... tell a different story. Just don't read them.
5. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  "Having larger breasts has made it harder to shop, but I've learned to love it... But now I feel like everyone talks about my bust in public."
  
  Unless she wants to leave the biz, she's going to have to get used to it--her boobs are basically her meal ticket now.
6. jacob 13 years ago
  
  so my friends and I were all weird theatre people and everyone just hated us.
  
  Having dated 2 chicks into theater, I can attest to this. They are just a different breed. I wouldn't say hate-worthy, but different.
  1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
    
    I was Drama Club president in high school and I got nothing but love -- especially -- being a straight guy in Drama Club -- from the Drama Club chicks.
    So I had to go to a Marcel Marceau performance or two. Definitely worth it.
  2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    The drama clique in our school was like a cult--I've never seen so much worship for a teacher as I did with those kids. The teacher wanted the drama students to call her "Mom," which was just creepy as fuck.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Virginia GOP backs off plan to require women seeking abortions to be needlessly penetrated.

And they make ultrasounds look so happy on the TV.
1. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Thank goodnes. You'd hate to see abortion reduced to something sordid.
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    like forced birth
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      derp de derpity derp
    2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      So you support abortion even in the 9th month? Up until the moment the baby's head crowns?
      
      Thanks for letting us know where you stand.
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        yep its obvious that continual forced abortions are teh final solution.
        
        WTF 13 years ago
        
        What about post-partum abortions, orrin?
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        that's santorium
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        You're the one who brought up "forced birth." Are you now saying a woman can be forced to give birth? If so, when does that happen? And how did you determine that time?
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        reread abdul' post before cleaning ur room
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I did. Turn on your sarcasm-meter (for abdul's post) before your mom comes in to wipe the drool from your chin and change your diaper.
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Daily Show really abandoned the humor angle when addressing this issue the other night.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    "Women's health issues" seem to do that to the left.
    1. protefeed 13 years ago
      
      I thought the Daily Show made a pretty good point about the wrongness of the government requiring women to be raped in order to go through with an abortion.
      
      Sounds like the VA legislature also is having second thoughts about that idiotic failure to understand how medicine works -- did no one at the hearings on this mention the rape aspect?
      1. Maxxx 13 years ago
        
        This is such utter bullshit.
        
        Any surgical abortion is always preceded by an ultra sound. You know, to like make sure there's a baby in there before they start scraping away. It's like sound medical practice or something.
        
        And yeah, an abortion is just like rape, but inserting a scraper through a vagina isn't.
    2. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      The choicers would have us believe that the female legislator who introduced that bill was in some conspiracy to have women penetrated. The claim is that, in some cases, the required ultrasound would be invasive.
      
      But abortion is invasive in *all* cases. The abortionist penetrates the woman's body with drugs or instruments to kill the child inside her.
      
      The female legislator who introduced the bill simply wants women to look at the child before making a final decision to kill it. Also wants a determination of fetal age.
      
      She agreed to a new version of the bill ruling out the possibility of any invasive ultrasound - which is more than the choicers are willing to do with abortion procedures. Why not a bill forbidding abortionists to use invasive procedures?
      1. AuH20 13 years ago
        
        Eh, I think in abortion it is important to differentiate human personhood and human life. It is human, it is alive. The question is, I think, at what point are human beings people with rights and shit.
        
        I mean, I think the Shciavo thing is another facet of this same debate- at what point could you remove that woman's feeding tube even though you lacked her explicit consent.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        The judge claimed to have proof, from Schiavo's pre-death statements, that she wouldn't want to be on a feeding tube - so he thought she had effectively consented. For those who believe the judge, it's about honoring her request (and deciding that withholding hydration isn't suicide).
        
        There's no such issue with abortion. The fetus doesn't make out a living will expressing a wish to be killed.
        
        And if we say that the government can designate a category of living human beings without human rights, then we have arbitrary outlawry - for which King John got into trouble and which Magna Charta supposedly prevented.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Plus, most abortionists use the penetrative form of ultrasound, meaning that they do two invasive procedures. But the choicers don't work themselves up into a lather of indignation about that.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        men who stare at zygoats
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Men like Jill Holtzman Vogel, who introduced this bill in Virginia?
        
        You really need to come up with a new set of stereotypes.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        those virginina theocrats are running over the water for the weeds now
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        If you mean they're retreating, they're only adding language specifying that the ultrasound need not be invasive. They're not giving up on the idea of having women look at the fetus before killing it.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        no prob, i looked at the iraqis i shot.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        and by 'shot' i mean masturbated to the thought of
        
        AuH20 13 years ago
        
        But Schiavo didn't have a living will. Yes, the judge based it on some evidence, but given the court fight, it is pretty clear that there was room for differing opinion, so we are back to the idea of arbitrary outlawery.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        I'm certainly not a fan of what they did to Schiavo, but they *claimed* to be honoring her wishes.
        
        Like you say, the evidence was somewhat dubious. In the circumstances, I agree she was arbitrarily outlawed because they were all too eager to assume she had asked to die.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        It went beyond outlawry in that the judge forbade the feeding.
        
        AuH20 13 years ago
        
        Eduard, I guess my opinion is also in part influenced by watching my own grandfather go through Alzheimers, and knowing that 40 year old him would have shot 85 year old him, but 85 year old him lacks the marbles to know that.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        That sounds horrible - and it's why it's not the same thing as killing a fetus. How do we know what a fetus would want at 40, other than letting him/her live that long?
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        ask ur fetus eduard. you have a fetus dont you?
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        I was a fetus, just like you were.
        
        Why not have a deal where all the men *on both sides* remove themselves politically the abortion issue? Meaning that all the prochoice men who want their girlfriends to be able to have abortions would have to butt out of the process.
        
        And the prolife women like Jill Stanek, Charmaine Yoest, Jill Holtzman Vogel, etc. etc. Would go toe-to-toe with the choicer women, and we'll see who wins.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        fine w me since most women support choice.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        "because of heightened pro-life sentiment among [men and women], women as well as men are more likely to be pro-life."
        
        http://www.gallup.com/poll/118.....-time.aspx
        
        AuH20 13 years ago
        
        Also, can you imagine the size of the welfare state needed to deal with a world without abortion, where everyone who didn't want a kid just gave it up for adoption?
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        This requires a lot of assumptions.
        
        It requires that we assume adoptive parents would end up with the kids on welfare. There are plenty of potential adoptive parents, with stable home lives, waiting to adopt kids and try to give them a good productive life.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        And you can call it a coincidence or not, but the welfare state expanded considerably at the same time that abortion was getting legalized.
        
        AuH20 13 years ago
        
        I'm just saying that even in the current system, not all kids put up for adoption find homes. Now imagine adding tons of kids to that.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        From the purely economic point of view, I don't think these kids would be a net burden - they could even get jobs and help postpone the bankruptcy of Social Security, Medicare, etc. And there *are* parents wanting to adopt - sometimes they go abroad if domestic adoptions are held up.
        
        Anyway, it comes back to personhood - how can we kill someone to keep them off welfare? And at one age would this stop being legal? Would it not be better not to have welfare at all, if the alternative is killing off the recipients? Or potential recipients?
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        A lot of the reason kids in America don't find homes is because it is prohibitively expensive and there is a herculean amount of paper work. As always, the better solution is stopping the welfare state and getting the government out of the way of things.
        
        Of course this will never happen, thus the situation we find ourselves in.
        
        Tonio 13 years ago
        
        But the anti-abortion people also imagine a world where premarital sex is shameful and rare. So they're at least consistent in their reality-denial.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        You're painting with a broad brush. There are pro-lifers who are OK with sexual freedom/license so long as you don't kill your kids.
        
        And there are some prolifers who, having taken sex ed, are aware of the link between sexual activity and pregnancy and want the former confined to marriage. But these are generally the same people who offer help and support to unmarried mothers, so I don't see the reality-denial.
        
        Tonio 13 years ago
        
        The Santorum mindset is far more predominant in the anti-abortion movement than the mindset you describe, Eddie.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        And I don't see how this supports the pro-choice argument. Unless the argument is that legal abortion is necessary in order to make premarital sex more available and convenient. If that's the argument, then we need to balance the rights of the fetus against the other factors involved.
      2. Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Consent, dude. A violation of someone's body depends entirely on what they want done to their body.
        
        I think that calling it rape is stupid. But the law is even more stupid. Abortion is legal. People should be able to use legal services on their own terms.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        "abortion is legal" states the problem, it doesn't answer it. Prolifers don't dispute that abortion is legal - that's the very thing they complain of.
        
        Virginia pro-lifers are trying to go as far as the federal courts will permit to restrict abortion. They are also trying to get the federal courts to back off from the issue so it can be made illegal.
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        ...and there's always the point that abortion does something to the baby's body.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Yes, we disagree on the moral status of the fetus. We already know that. Do you want a fucking medal for pointing it out again?
        My point is that the whole purpose of the law was to make it more unpleasant, difficult and expensive to get an abortion. If you think it should be illegal, then you need to try to overturn Roe v Wade and then pass a law in each state, not to try to annoy people who want abortions. This is an inappropriate use of law.
  2. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    I thought the daily show abandoned the humor angle at about the start of the run up to Bush's second term.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Kaley Cuoco is still hot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....azine.html
1. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Now this is hotness I could get behind.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I see what you did there.
  2. protefeed 13 years ago
    
    Pics don't show her ass -- I'm thinking there's a reason they avoided that particular camera angle. She might have a bony little okole. =P
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      She really wants to date a pirate - or a Higgs bosun.
2. JW 13 years ago
  
  Meh.
Brett L 13 years ago

Why do I think there's an eating disorder at the bottom of this?

"Authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin died after being forced to run for three hours as punishment for lying to her grandmother about eating candy bars. Severely dehydrated, the girl had a seizure and died days later. Now, her grandmother and stepmother face murder charges."
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Were they pageant moms?
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    I'm just saying, making a kid run for 3 hours to burn off a candy bar and then not letting her drink her fill of water after seems like one or both of the authority figures has an adversarial relationship with food.
    1. Abdul 13 years ago
      
      I blame Michelle Obama.
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      Either that or they are total cows who wanted live through their daughters. The pageant and dance moms tend to be fat cows who torture their daughters about being thin.
      1. Jim Fixx 13 years ago
        
        I'm with Mom and Gram.
    3. Sparky 13 years ago
      
      Not water, that would probably be bad. Some Gatorade or the like would be better.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        After running for 3 hours, any sort of liquid would be good. 9 year olds probably won't be hypoelectrolytic from just one session of drinking as much water as possible. It usually only happens to runners who spend a couple weeks overhydrating.
        
        Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        The article said she had a very low sodium level.
      2. bosty 13 years ago
        
        "But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes."
    4. tarran 13 years ago
      
      one or both of the authority figures has an adversarial relationship with food.
      
      I guess no one told them that ugly women are beautiful too.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Wait, she "died days later." Doesn't that mean the running and dehydration didn't kill her, but the resulting illness did.
  
  Or does that defense only stand up when a cop tazering a woman causes her head to smack the concrete so hard she ends up a vegetable?
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    I had to read that a couple of times. She went into a seizure the night of the run and then died a few days later, never regaining conciousness.
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      So did the lady who hit her head after Tubbo The Pig tazed her because she was running away from him (cuffed). But he will face no discipline.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        Different jobs have different perks.
        
        Cooks often eat for free.
        
        Salesmen often get a company car.
        
        Law enforcement officers get to commit acts of callous violence that would land mere citizens in the slammer.
        
        It's all about the perks.
        
        jacob 13 years ago
        
        To quote Marky Mark in The Departed
        
        "Some guys just sign up so they can put a nigga's head through a plate glass window"
3. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  This story bothers me a great deal, as I have a daughter roughly that age who is an avid runner. So while I don't support the death penalty, it's stories like this that keep me from thinking of death penalty supporters as neanderthals.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Put them on a treadmill inside a sauna until they die. It is just fucking horrible. I don't like people like that breathing my air.
    1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
      
      No, that's cruel and unusual.
      
      Life imprisonent, no parole, sentence to be served in the general population at a male prison.
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Barba is now the second weapons trafficker who had been under ATF surveillance to be linked to Zapata's murder. As CBS News previously reported, ATF had also been watching suspect Otilio Osorio during the time he trafficked a different weapon used in Zapata's assault. Records show ATF watched on Nov. 9, 2010 as Osorio, his brother Ranferi and Kelvin Leon Morrison transferred a cache of illegal weapons to a confidential informant but failed to arrest the men at the time."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31.....aytown.pdf
Fernando 13 years ago

Tell Walmart: Don't sell Monsanto's potentially toxic GMO sweet corn
http://act.credoaction.com/cam.....mo/?rc=tw2

"Walmart, wrote to us that "nothing is more important than the safety and satisfaction of our customers." But that's just not consistent with selling this unlabeled GMO sweet corn, which contains three genetic modifications -- including the insecticide Bt -- and hasn't been tested to prove it is safe for humans to eat."
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  What does 'unsafe' mean? People have been eating GMO crops for years without any sort of syndromic effects being brought to light by the CDC, which is actually pretty good at analyzing that sort of shit. It doesn't get much more safe than that.
  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    I've determined he's just trolling for "organic" foods.
  2. JEP 13 years ago
    
    I have friends who could point you to all kinds of scientific studies, but I prefer the strict logical approach.
    
    Food is like a drug, and your body reacts to what you put in it. The generic wheat gene structure had a single digit number of chromosomes. After all these years of genetic modification, it has over a hundred.
    
    We don't yet know what kind of subtle differences there will be in how our bodies react to the kind of genetically modified food we're eating - especially long term.
    
    Meddling in what we don't yet understand generally has some nasty results, so I'm betting we don't know all the long term effects yet.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Yep. Our bodies certainly didn't evolve to be able to handle new foods they came across. If you're European, how can you eat a tomato or non-GM maize? You're not evolved for it!
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      But we have been cross breading and modifying plants for thousands of years. This is really nothing new.
      1. robc 13 years ago
        
        The western carrot is orange because the Dutch are patriotic.
        
        That is a very unnatural color for a carrot to be.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Whosa...whatsa...huh?
        
        (Seriously, carrots aren't supposed to be orange?)
    3. anon 13 years ago
      
      Food is like a drug, and your body reacts to what you put in it.
      
      And, as with most drugs, your body experiences a beneficial reaction.
    4. shorter JEP 13 years ago
      
      I have no proof, I just FEEL it must be bad, m'kay?
    5. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      JEP, peddling the precautionary principle.
      
      So, I guess JEP won't be using any pharmaceuticals when he gets sick. I hope he doesn't need surgery, because that can be a bitch without anesthesia. After all, it hasn't been proven that drugs and anesthesia don't have adverse health effects.
      1. tarran 13 years ago
        
        What do you mean it hasn't been proved?
        
        We know anethesia has terrible health effects: that's why there are doctors who specialize only on how to administer them.
        
        Anesthesia is hazardous as hell!
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Under the precautionary principle, then, I suppose we need to ban anesthesia.
        
        Get right on that, would you, JEP?
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  What I don't like about GMO sweet corn is that it is too icky sweet.
3. db 13 years ago
  
  How about you buy tour food where you want to and eat what you want to eat and I'll do the same, and you won't have to get all worked up about my business.
  1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
    
    ^^^ Nailed it.
Fernando 13 years ago

Monsanto has a revenue of over $10.5 billion per year, yet it is currently suing farmers in poor countries who make less than $500 per year.
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Is there any evidence that it's -unsafe?-
2. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Is there a point in there somewhere?
  1. Abdul 13 years ago
    
    Hired goons would be a cheaper, more cost effective alternative to high-priced lawyers?
    1. AuH20 13 years ago
      
      Homer: Who is it?
      Goons.
      Homer: Who?
      Hired Goons.
      Homer:Hired goons? [opens door]
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    I was just hoping for a link in there somewhere.
3. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  If I'm given more than one reason to protest a company I tend to get confused and patronize them anyway. Can you pick just one of these monumentally evil things Monsanto does for me?
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Monsanto are pretty dickish when seeds from their GMO fields blow over into other farmers' fields and hybridize with their crops. They've been knows to go after those farmers financially.
    
    Other than that, I'm pretty sure they've been a huge net gain for quality of life in the world.
    1. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      Monsanto are pretty dickish when seeds from their GMO fields blow over into other farmers' fields and hybridize with their crops.
      
      I thought GMO crops were sterile, to prevent that happening.
      1. robc 13 years ago
        
        Life finds a way.
      2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        They're designed to be, but IIRC, some can still cross-germinate with other seed to form a tertiary seed that has some disease-resistant capabilities the original (unmodified) seed didn't have. Monsanto has (again, IIRC) been known to go after farmers in adjacent fields whose crops have benefited from this blowover. And, in their defense, they have laid out some pretty solid evidence that some of it was actually deliberately taken.
      3. tarran 13 years ago
        
        The archetypal case was one in Canada where they sued a farmer for using their seeds without a license.
        
        He claimed that the seeds had contaminated his crop after they had blown into his fields and he became a cuase celebre.
        
        Monsanto won the court case; the jury accepted their argument that the amount of seeds and their distribution were inconsistent with accidental windfall and that one must infer that they had been planted purposefully by the farmer.
        
        Perhaps someone with access to legal judgements could look up the actual case.
        
        The thing about the Monsanto genetic engineering; it works. The crops are hardier, cheaper to grow and more profitable for a farmer.
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        The thing is, if they blew into his field, he collected them and then planted them purposely, I dont see the problem.
        
        Then again, I oppose most IP, so YMMV.
        
        tarran 13 years ago
        
        Let me put it this way, it wasn't a few seeds. IIRC it was most of his field.
        
        But yes, if you want to keep your seed design secret, you gotta secure it.
        
        On the other hand, if oyu secure it, and someone breaks in and takes your stuff... that's a horse of a different color.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        The case is Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, 2001 FCT 256 and it's on canlii.ca. I tried to post this with a link but it got blocked as spam. Paragraph 92 is worth a look
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Thanks to all who have provided a bit of clarity to what has been a muddy issue for me.
        
        Seriously. I've never gotten all of the facts in these cases. I now have a better understanding.
        
        Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        Let's see if this .pdf of the judgemnent, from presumably Mr. Schmeiser's website, will take?
        
        Here's a law article on the topic, from the Northwestern Journal of Tech. and IP.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        I think this is the case Tarran is talking about:
        Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, 2001 FCT 256 (CanLII)
        
        The judge found on the balance of probabilities that the farmer did plant Monsanto's seed. Even if it had blown in from the field next-door, the farmer couldn't then do what he pleased:
        
        [92] Thus a farmer whose field contains seed or plants originating from seed spilled into them, or blown as seed, in swaths from a neighbour's land or even growing from germination by pollen carried into his field from elsewhere by insects, birds, or by the wind, may own the seed or plants on his land even if he did not set about to plant them. He does not, however, own the right to the use of the patented gene, or of the seed or plant containing the patented gene or cell.
    2. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
      
      Doesn't Monsanto have a duty to secure their genetic property if they actually mean to prevent others from taking advantage of it?
      1. T 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, I would think it's similar to a trade secret. Monsanto has an affirmative duty to protect their genetic material, and once it's released, too bad for them.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four more wounded by an Afghan solider who turned his gun on his allies in apparent anger over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, an Afghan official tells CBS News.

I call for violent justice to be brought against those who defile the Quran by misspelling it. Yay Quran!
1. tarran 13 years ago
  
  The priorities here are facinating:
  
  1) A guy throws acid in the face of a girl learning to read = no big thang.
  
  2) A book gets disposed of improperly = must kill the infidels.
  
  Some people have priorities that are sooooo wrong.
  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    Burn a book? INFIDELS!
    
    Stone a woman to death for infidelity? Awwwwright.
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      because women = books ?
      1. typical muslim 13 years ago
        
        women < books
      2. WTF 13 years ago
        
        Just keep fuckin' them books, orrin.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Well, we know he ain't fuckin' the women. Give Piss Facktory a break.
        
        o3 13 years ago
        
        I only bone higher orders of life like books.
  2. Hidden Bek 13 years ago
    
    Which is why some of us do NOT think all religions are the same. Give me a hundred million Mormons or Buddhists or even Christians over the equivalent # of Muslims.
    1. Fatwa Issuer 13 years ago
      
      I can be peaceful, as long as you're NOT MAKING ME ANGRY!!
    2. Tonio 13 years ago
      
      Sure they look cute now, but they're all just one heartbeat away from jihad (or its equivalent) if you break their taboos. Oh, see also, Spanish Inquisition.
      1. Spanish Inquisition 13 years ago
        
        So you agree that Islam supports a primitive culture equivalent to 15th century Spain. Okay.
      2. Tonio 13 years ago
        
        I don't play favorites. They're all dangerous.
  3. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, it's why I get so pissed off at the cultural relavatists and the people who are anti-End of History.
    
    Not all of Fukuyama's ideas in that were right, but the idea that Western culture was the best idea is pretty unassailable. To wit, one of my buddies is dating an Indian chick (her parents are first-ish generation immigrants). She's going to a wedding in India soon and is bitching how at 20, everyone is trying to get her married. I keep telling her that all she has to say is, "Well, my culture (American) doesn't burn widows... so that."
  4. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
    
    What's the percentage of ISAF casualties in Afghanistan that are caused by their own Afghani troops turning on them? Seems like everytime you turn around, another Afghani soldier or cop is spraying his American minders with automatic fire and grenades.
2. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
  
  I wonder if this is truly about the Quran anyway. It may be that they're so tired of being occupied by foreigners that any little thing sets them off.
  
  No no no I'm not claiming that it's right. I'm just saying that's the way people are like it or not. Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
  1. Rubicon 13 years ago
    
    I have a difficult time believing that we actually did burn any of their magic books,doesn't pass the smell test. Everyone in the military over there goes through sensitivity training on this and even the densest jarhead is well aware they are bat-shit crazy over this kind of imaginary outrage in these countries. I find it more than a little unbelievable that we would not only do this in a public setting but allegedly give the job to unsupervised potentially taliban leaning native workers to be done. Every base has a locked,secure,behind closed doors area for the destruction of top secret and sensitive items. Has no one considered that the taliban MIGHT be smart enough to scorch a few books and wave them around in public if that would result in exactly what is happening. I think the odds are pretty close to 100% this is a false flag.
    1. Rubicon 13 years ago
      
      Expect more of this in the future. Even President Karzai is demanding the people"responsible"for this be put up for a public trial/lynching. And this is from our pro-democracy/anti-taliban ally. Too bad this tactic isn't effective in this country. Imagine if a few Libertarian janitors could step forth with a few scorched copies of the Constitution from a federal building and this would immediately result in rioting in front of the Capitol Building and White House followed by politicians swinging from telephone poles or being tarred and feathered and run out of town by angry mobs.
    2. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
      
      My own military experience (admittedly a bit dated) is that the military can easily fuck up something like this, multiple times. But I don't claim that proves anything. I did see that the U.S. government has 'fessed up to it, but heh who can trust them? I've also seen that the Taliban is exploiting it, whatever the source.
      
      In any case, my point is basically that it doesn't matter. I don't think it's right to kill people over a burnt book but a lot of people over there hate the foreigners occupying their country and it is probably quite easy to get them to riot. The notion that American troops should occupy the place more or less forever (which the neocons want) bumps up against that reality.
Fernando 13 years ago

HP and Dell say Foxconn wage rises may trigger price increases
1. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  They have to pay more so to make up for it they're going to charge more? Say it ain't so.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I'm shocked, shocked to find out a company raises prices when their costs of production go up.
  
  What's your next bombshell, Fernando? That the sun rises in the East?
3. o3 13 years ago
  
  yep 5 cents/hr to 10 is teh endz for capitalism
  1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
    
    So why not a world-wide minimum wage of $100 an hour? Poverty eliminated in one stroke! Plus, everybody can buy a Volt! Win-win, I tells ya!
    1. Chinese workers 13 years ago
      
      We'll settle for 100 cents/hr
      1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        Why settle?
        
        Red Army Industries 13 years ago
        
        Not settling = free-market treason
Rich 13 years ago

Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four more wounded by an Afghan solider who turned his gun on his allies in apparent anger over the burning of Korans

OK, *now* can we GTF out?
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  But, we need a launch point for our next scheduled war, Iran.
  1. Rich 13 years ago
    
    Meh. From Iraq we can do both Iran and Syria.
  2. db 13 years ago
    
    No, see, what we need in Afghanistan is a direct sea access to the country. Overthrowing the regime in Iran is just the next step in the Afghan conflict. Once we establish direct sea access and a solid overland route into central asia all will be well. /sarc
2. Suki 13 years ago
  
  Magic Obama says "not likely." Clinton disagrees.
Ice Nine 13 years ago

The horror... the horror...
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  For some reason the idea of a golfer with a nervous wanking tic makes me laugh. Sleep deprivation, probably
Fernando 13 years ago

Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
1. John 13 years ago
  
  "Linked" doesn't mean what you think it does.
  1. Suki 13 years ago
    
    +1 unless they mean pouring it into a pipe organ affects the sound.
  2. anon 13 years ago
    
    "Only 10 rats were measured per group for blood and urine parameters and served as the basis for the major statistical analyses conducted."
    
    Yup, I'm going to starve the world based on the results of 10 rats.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      They said "organ failure" not "organ failure in humans"
      1. anon 13 years ago
        
        Well yeah, I'm just assuming the premise in good faith. Reading the reveals several major flaws. Considering the study itself says it's inconclusive, I take it with a grain of salt.
        
        WTF 13 years ago
        
        .. I take it with a grain of salt.
        
        Gahh, NOOOO!!!1111!! The salt wil kilz us all!!111!! /retard
    2. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      The best part of that is they later on mention that they need to have at least 17 animals to test to get to p < 0.05. Why only test 10 then?
      1. anon 13 years ago
        
        The hippies doing this in their back yard probably couldn't afford 17.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Its weirder than that. If I read correctly, there were 20 animals of each sex in each feeding group, but they only sampled from 10 at random and extrapolated the results. But that doesn't make sense. Maybe there were 20, 10 of each sex. Because the authors actually seem to be doing the science and analysis parts according to pretty rigorous criteria. They aren't really over-reporting their results. idk.
      2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        The other 7 refused to participate.
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  That study is crap. By their own admission they don't take enough samples to have the statistcal validity. The only thing it appears to clearly demonstrate is that male and female rats have different liver and kidney functions on the axes they sorted on.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    This problem can easily be solved by placing a label covering half the can that says, "The Surgeon General has determined that this product is not to be consumed by rats."
    1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      Actually, a grain that was nutritious for humans but poisonous to rats would be an awesome advance.
      1. JW 13 years ago
        
        I suspect the Aussies would welcome that.
        
        That and the bugs that kill Cain toads.
  2. Brett L eats rat poison, dies. 13 years ago
    
    Cuz male and female rats have different liver and kidney functions, ya know.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      I'm just sayin... If you look at the 2 axis graphs you don't see clusters of GM and clusters of non-GM. You see clusters of male and clusters of female. The leading indicator they measured of differing liver function they measured was having a y chromosome.
Matrix 13 years ago

Heroic federal agents defend themselves against radical and dangerous sect

If an average person came into your house pointing a gun at you, you would be well within your rights to defend yourself and drop the fool. But federal agents, nope, their immune. They can threaten the lives of unarmed people at will.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Budget watchdog says everyone but Paul would increase the federal budget.

THEY'LL BE NO BUDGET WHEN WE'RE ALL DEAD FROM AN IRANIAN NUKE. Or, I don't know, lawn darts.
1. DJF 13 years ago
  
  Oh, No, Iran has developed Intercontinental Lawn Darts? We are doomed!!!!!
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    the darts were banned for a reason
    1. 655321 13 years ago
      
      Morons like you kept trying to catch them in your mouth. Much to our misery, you failed at even that task.
      1. o3 13 years ago
        
        sez who?
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      "the darts were banned for a reason"
      
      Most things are done for a reason. That doesn't mean it is a good reason.
2. Hissy Story 13 years ago
  
  Exactly. An Iranian nuke will CHANGE EVERYTHING?.
Royal Navy didnt get teh memo! 13 years ago

UK submarine data de-classified to aid climate scienceBy Paul Rincon,Science editor, BBC News website

The UK Ministry of Defence is to de-classify submarine data to help shed light on climate change in the Arctic.

This, he explained, could tell scientists a lot about how the Arctic is likely to change as it becomes more seasonally ice-free.

Some computer models forecast that the Arctic could be completely clear of summer sea ice within a decade, though others recently published say there may be high years and low years en route to the final disappearance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie.....t-17129988
_
Denier epic FAILZ again. Failing to inform: The animals who no longer migrate; The ice-free NW passage; und now failing the Royal Navy!

>Get the denier distribution list re-organized & properly published. jeesch
1. DJF 13 years ago
  
  I blame the melting of Artic ice on nuclear submarines.
  1. The Amazing Kreskin 13 years ago
    
    Can you prove it didn't happen?
    1. o3 13 years ago
      
      Not needed if there's a mis-spelting in the navy's announcement which prima facia proves its all made-up for fun n profit
      1. WTF 13 years ago
        
        Is there some kind of point you're trying to make?
2. Anthropomorphic Global Warming 13 years ago
  
  Hardiness Zones
  See Changes From 1990 to 2006
  http://www.arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm
  1. But, but, but, but.... 13 years ago
    
    ...some places got cooler. So the science isn't settled.
    
    Your Sweet Sugar Daddy,
    KOCH
    1. Personal Responsibility is... 13 years ago
      
      ...for the Poor. Not the Rich.
      
      Dumbass.
      1. Sugar Daddy Soros 13 years ago
        
        I'm not paying you to talk to yourself! You've barely disrupted this thread at all. Post more! I expect at least five irrelevant, whiny posts per minute.
        
        Money = Political Power 13 years ago
        
        Thanks for admitting that, Fibertarian.
        
        Capitalism purchases the best government money can buy.
        
        Sugar Daddy Soros 13 years ago
        
        Fibertarian? Excellent. That's just the sort of stupidity I'm paying you for. Keep it up, wage slave.
        
        rather 13 years ago
        
        Look, I can change my handles. I am trolling!!
        
        KOCHsucker 13 years ago
        
        I'm the one who pays for Fibertarian stupidity. Yours is different.
  2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    "Anthropomorphic Global Warming"
    
    That's pretty funny. I like it.
    1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      Yeah. That's awesome. Probably looks something like Cthulhu but with David Koch's head.
      1. WTF 13 years ago
        
        Probably looks something like Cthulhu but with David Koch's head.
        
        So, Kochtopus?
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        I knew I had seen that beast somewhere.
  3. White Indian loves little boys 13 years ago
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

The irrepressible Dick Morris on Fox & Friends this morning when asked to say who won the debate last night:

"Romney won and Santorum lost... and Gingrich came in a close second."

The hosts moved on quickly after, implicitly confirming that it was a 3 person debate.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  How can you watch that show? That helmet haired blond they have on there drives me up the wall. They used to have good looking hosts. But they have settled on that annoying former Miss America and they just won't change.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    How can you watch that show?
    
    Scarborough must have been on commercial.
  2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    I agree with everything you're saying. I made three increasingly poor, Todd Margaret-like, decisions.
    
    1) Turned on OReilly last night to see if he was talking about the debate so I could whine about the lack of Ron Paul coverage.
    2) Didn't change the channel before going to bed so Fox & Friends was on when I woke up.
    3) Didn't turn the channel quickly enough this morning.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      If they would get rid of Gretchen Carlson, I could almost stand to watch it. I didn't mind it when they had ED Hill on. But Carlson is just annoying.
      
      I actually watch the weather channel in the mornings. They have a little bit of news. And in a real break from the past have good looking women.
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        No one is worse than that utterly doltish tall blonde guy.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        On where?
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        Weren't we talking about Fox & Friends?
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Yes. Now I know who you mean. And yeah he is annoying. But not as bad as Carlson.
      2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
        
        The morning weather woman for Univision is MILF. I would superscript a 10 after MILF but html tags not working today??
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Univision only hires hot women. The morning women on the Weather Channel, Stephanie Abrams, has a real geek charm about her.
    2. Sparky 13 years ago
      
      Heh, sounds like my routine too. I always check out O'Reilly and F&F. Gives me a good excuse to keep hating those people.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Do you forget how annoying O'Reilly is? I haven't turned him on in years. But I figure that thinking he is the same populist crank blowhard he has always been is one of the safer bets I can make.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        I went to see him live recently. He's a pretty funny person while not on TV.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Like most things on TV, he probably has an act. It pays the bills. So I can't say I blame him. Just don't watch him.
        
        Sparky 13 years ago
        
        Sometimes I just like to get my hate on. The best time is around Christmas when Fox News goes all "War on Christmas".
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        I only watch O'Reilly when Dennis Miller is on. Otherwise, I have no use for the show.
        
        But, in the interests of being even-handed, I force myself to watch about five minutes of MSNBC.
        
        Then... I puke.
2. 13 years ago
  
  "Santorum shows behind Romney and Gingrich"
RoboCain 13 years ago

Eliza Dushku is still hot:

http://flisted.com/136014/a-ve.....ously-hot/
1. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  Hooray for RoboCain bringing out the real hotness. Well done sir.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    That's what you get when I search sites that don't contain actual news.
2. robc 13 years ago
  
  If only she could act.
  1. JW 13 years ago
    
    She doesn't need to. Just show up and stand there, looking awesome.
    1. robc 13 years ago
      
      Maybe Dollhouse would have lasted longer if she could act.
      1. JW 13 years ago
        
        Probably not. If my wife is any indicator of the average public perception of Things-They-Know-Nothing-About-But-Have-An-Opinion-On-It, and I can usually count on her to be that, the show was all about whores, white slavery and the subjugation of women.
        
        RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Is that from Jezebel?
      2. JW 13 years ago
        
        And for that, I give you freddiew.
      3. RoboCain 13 years ago
        
        Yes, not the best choice of actress to play someone who has to play different people every week. But after I watched it a second time, I noticed she did a better job than I previously thought.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Emma Stone is still adorable:

http://drollnation.com/2011/12/emma-stone/
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Now this woman I'm in love with.
  
  I didn't realize she was one of the Zombieland chicks though until recently.
2. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  I loves me some Emma Stone.
3. jacob 13 years ago
  
  Huge fan of Emma Stone here
4. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  she looks horrible as a blonde though.
  1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Kind of ironic considering that's her natural hair color.
  2. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
    
    Agreed. Stick with that borderline redhead look.
5. Mainer 13 years ago
  
  Emma Stone will be stunning till the day she dies.
RoboCain 13 years ago

I have no idea who this is:

http://brosome.com/jorgie-port.....tely-nuts/
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Bad case of huge head - but, who's lookin'?
  1. jacob 13 years ago
    
    Didn't even notice until you said that and I re-checked the link
John 13 years ago

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....drobe.html

Jennifer Love Hewitt still has an incredible body at 33 even if she still is a bit of a butter face.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Her face would be OK if she wasn't always making that "I'm an actress... can you speak slower and use smaller words... wait...is there a picture menu I could use?... whoa! did you see that bird?!? wait... who are you again?" look on her face.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    God only deals so many cards. And when you are a natural size 4 with D boobs and long legs, there are not many other cards left to deal you.
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    You want your females to be sentient?
    
    Pah! Hu-mans.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  I just find her annoying.
3. Cover her face with a flag... 13 years ago
  
  ...and fuck her for old glory.
4. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  I'll give you credit for a good pick today John but I really don't have a problem with her face.
  1. I've got friends in low places 13 years ago
    
    Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases
5. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  how long does it take butter to burn off? You would think 33 years would do the trick.
6. robc 13 years ago
  
  I think her face is getting better with age.
  
  In her 20s, she was a KY derby contender.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    She is still a KY derby contender, if you know what I mean.
7. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  She looks great, but she's going to be like that woman in the Atlantic article who, at 40, realizes she's still single and doesn't have kids, and either tries to talk herself into thinking she's okay with that or adopting a guilt kid from some third-world shithole.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    I think that's every women in every Atlantic article.
    1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      Yeah, but this one is epic:
      
      http://www.theatlantic.com/mag.....dies/8654/
      1. jacob 13 years ago
        
        Long ass article, but interesting read. Thanks!
    2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      As was one of the HnR responses to it (and remains one of the best rants I've ever seen on this site):
      
      http://reason.com/blog/2011/10.....nt_2569286
      1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        Given the ideal man is apparently Fonzi with a PHD
        
        Nick Gillespie?
      2. WTF 13 years ago
        
        That truly was one of the greatest rants I've ever seen.
      3. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
        
        Awesome rant, Troy. Bravo!
      4. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
        
        Spoonman never answered my question!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

"The administration is not making sense," says Martin Sullivan, contributing editor at publisher Tax Analysts. "The whole idea of corporate tax reform is to get rid of loopholes, and this plan is adding loopholes back in."

That's not the "whole idea" of Obama's corporate tax reform. You can't buy big money support without offering up some loopholes.
1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  Obama says one thing, means another.
  
  It's almost like he uses poll-tested phrases and ideas, but the actual implementation is nothing like the sales pitch.
  
  "With Obamacare, you will get to keep your doctor."
Spoonman. 13 years ago

The great thing about Bt is that it was specifically evolved to kill insects that eat it. So it poses no known danger to humans, unlike the synthetic insecticides which need to be used on non-GM crops.
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  This:
  
  The great thing about Bt is that it was specifically evolved to kill insects that eat it.
  
  Does not imply this:
  
  So it poses no known danger to humans,
  
  Plants are perfectly capable of creating chemicals that harm humans.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Hemlock is all-natural, RC. Organic, too!
RoboCain 13 years ago

Dating Don'ts: 10 Things You Should Never Say To A Man In Bed

http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-.....an-in-bed/
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  "Its even smaller than it looks!"
2. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  That was some funny shit!
3. 13 years ago
  
  "Is it in yet?"
4. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  *Yawn*
  or
  "Ow, ow, leg cramp!"
  1. AuH20 13 years ago
    
    I actually did once get a charley horse mid-coitus.
  2. Konfounded Kristen 13 years ago
    
    I get charley horses once in a while in the sack, and there ain't no fucking way to hide them. So, man up and deal with it.
5. 13 years ago
  
  "We have to talk."
6. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Paul: Sex with Tim is like 'Waiting for Godot' - has he come yet?
  Tim: Sex with Richard is 'Great Expectations' - is that all there is, Dickens?
  Richard: Sex with Paul is like 'Oliver Twist' - Please sir, can I have some more?'
7. o3 13 years ago
  
  i cant get-up on the dryer even if it would hold me
8. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  "Does this look infected to you?"
9. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  "Wait - I have to take this call."
Tim 13 years ago

Let's bomb Syria!
1. Bashar al-Assad 13 years ago
  
  Already on it.
2. alQaeda 13 years ago
  
  ditto
Karl Hungus 13 years ago

Inbred people force 9-year-old girl to run until she dies because she lied to them about eating a candy bar:

http://news.yahoo.com/2-charge.....16169.html
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Look upthread. We're on it.
  1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
    
    Look upthread. We're on it.
    
    Aww shucks. Was it that Robocain guy? Did he beat me to the punch again??
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      Dude wakes up to railroad tracks up his nose. What do you expect?
    2. RoboCain 13 years ago
      
      http://reason.com/blog/2012/02.....nt_2860058
2. o3 13 years ago
  
  just beat em (moar) senseless & back the cruiser over their carcasses.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Where is the LAPD when we need them?
3. Agorist Hoard 13 years ago
  
  That's free market cooperation in action!
  1. No such thing as free candy 13 years ago
    
    Was that little girl a Democrat? The she got what's coming to freeloaders!
Buddy Bizarre 13 years ago

Wait... but I thought Iran was only developing a peaceful nuclear program? Why would they not allow inspections?

http://news.yahoo.com/un-inspe.....40782.html
1. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, these guys are playing a very dangerous game with the rest of the world now. It's like they haven't been paying any attention at all to what's been going on these last ten years or something. If they can't see what's coming, they're not nearly as smart as I thought they were.
  1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Maybe, but they're showing huge brass balls by doing so. After their crackdown a couple years ago when the country nearly had another revolution, while the rest of the world basically went "eh, whatever," the regime seems to think it can do whatever it wants without serious repurcussions.
    
    Part of me wants to see Iran continue to thumb its nose at the rest of the world, just to demonstrate how completely worthless the UN really is.
2. Iranian Dissident 13 years ago
  
  Beats the shit out of ME.
3. Officer Krupke 13 years ago
  
  If you got nothing to hide, you won't mind me looking through your garage, would you?
Dick Hertz 13 years ago

STOP TEH ISLAMINIZASHUN OF AMERIKA!!11!

http://networkedblogs.com/ujsd8
1. Stop teh Gambolizashun ofRezun 13 years ago
Solar Mia 13 years ago

Solyndra: Several employees "who were approved for bonuses Wednesday had months earlier received pay raises as high as 70 percent."

See? Green jobs are good.
1. Chinese wind turbines 13 years ago
  
  No kidding, sher gut
Matrix 13 years ago

Just what we all needed to know. What happens when you shoot a gun in space?
1. db 13 years ago
  
  Haven't read the link yet, but I've been looking forward to interplanetary rifle competition for years now.
2. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  I'll believe it when someone actually tests it.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Completely OT: Is the Game of Thrones series on HBO worth watching? The first season is coming out early March. Some time ago, I read the first two book of the series - will I be disappointed by the changes made for the series?

The reason I ask - I've seen some recent movies and even series, where the scriptwriters made such massive changes to book, that it made me wonder why they even bothered to use the novel in the first place.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  It's not perfect, but as adaptations go, it's about as good as they get. The tone is pretty dead on and the casting is great.
2. JW 13 years ago
  
  I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    The Oatmeal is hilarious.
  2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    Heh. Exactly what I went through looking for it. I was kind of surprised that you couldn't subscribe to HBO without having cable first.
    
    I didn't grab pirated copies, just decided to wait for the DVD's. I'm not surprised that people take the easy route, though.
  3. Raston Bot 13 years ago
    
    Thank you. Obviously the solution is an HBO subsidy.
3. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  I watched the entire first season, and have no plans to watch the second one.
  1. RyanXXX 13 years ago
    
    You're an asshole then
4. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  Watching Peter Dinklage snark his way through the role of Tyrion Lannister is worth all of the money currently in your wallet.
  1. kinnath 13 years ago
    
    Huzzah!!
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      Hodor!
RoboCain 13 years ago

"It's frustrating to see advertisers and toy manufacturers decide what should interest girls and what should interest boys, but it's also interesting to see how they do it."

http://jezebel.com/5887428/let.....at-happens
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  That's probably the best-written Jezebel article I've read in a while. It's short, pointless and devoid of rabid anti-man speech. How it got past the editors is beyond me.
  
  I especially like the first comment, which laments girl toys, then goes on to heap praise on a few girl toys.
2. T 13 years ago
  
  I was actually reading about this a few months ago on a non-crazy website. Lego did a ton of market research with actual children instead of academic feminist harridans. That's why they're selling well. So while it may not be what people at jezebel want, Lego figured out what children want.
  
  So blame the kids for wanting something other than what approved feminist orthodoxy thinks they should, don't blame Lego.
3. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  http://www.businessweek.com/ma.....42011.html
  
  This article talks about all of Lego's market research and what Lego did.
JW 13 years ago

It's a brick!

Tesla Motors, almost a member of the $500 million Federals Dineros Club, tells owners of bricked Roadsters to cough up $40K for new batteries or pound sand.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Teslaites had a fit when Top Gear branded it a piece of junk that couldn't get around their track without breaking. Turns out Top Gear wasn't lying.
  1. JW 13 years ago
    
    Tesla's arrogance in this situation is absolutely mind blowing. What could possibly go wrong with being such galactic dickheads?
    
    Follow the updates and it looks like they've dispatched they're best PR hit squad to take out the main complaining owner.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      They were a bunch of tech geeks that got into the car business. Gee building cars is a bit different than writing code. Who would have thought such a thing?
      
      That is the problem with amateurs versus professionals. An amateur thinks that because he can do something well in his garage in a single project, he can make a living doing it. It turns out making a handmade one off, be it a car or a meal, is a whole lot different than making thousands of said thing each made to the same exacting standard. The latter is a completely different task in the former. It is why cooks are not chefs and backyard tinkerers, no matter how smart, are not manufacturers.
      1. Steve Jobs ghost 13 years ago
        
        Say what about garage inventions?
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Steve didn't personally manufacture those things. That is a different problem entirely.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Nope. Woz did.
      2. JW 13 years ago
        
        Appropos....the courts threw out Tesla libel lawsuit against Top Gear.
      3. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        If all else fails, apply for a federal grant.
  2. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    If you want a Lotus design, you are better off getting one that runs on gasoline. All things considered, it might even be better for the environment.
2. Technology will save us! 13 years ago
  
  Until it doesn't.
  1. Technology =/= Energy 13 years ago
    
    Someday people will understand that.
P Brooks 13 years ago

10 Things You Should Never Say To A Man In Bed

"I am Spartacus!"?
1. NeonCat 13 years ago
  
  "THIS. IS. SPARTA!!!" (kick)
P Brooks 13 years ago

I'd read that Tesla link, but it's Jalopnik. All things Gawker suck.

Let me guess: early adopters suckers buy expensive unreliable technology.

Regrets ensue.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Jalopnik is Gawker? I didn't know that.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Scroll to the bottom of the page.
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, but it suffers from much less of the weeping douchbaggery of the other Gawker sites. It approaches tolerable.
    
    I've mentioned before, that if I met someone in a bar and they said "Why, yes, I write for Gawker," my fist would shoot out of its own volition right into their neck or dick.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      I find it to be generally tolerable. That is why it surprised me that it was part of gawker.
      1. JW 13 years ago
        
        Avoid articles by Ray Wert, for example, and you should be OK.
2. AuH20 13 years ago
  
  Eh, Deadspin is normally pretty good, especially when they are shitting on ESPN.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Why Romney's High Growth Tax Plan Trumps Obama's
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/.....aspx#page1

The contrast between the two plans could not be more plain. Romney provides a path to a high-growth economy by simplifying taxes and allowing people to keep more of what they earn, and spend it more freely. Obama's plan seizes more capital from businesses so that he and his team can choose where investment goes and who benefits from it, rather than focus on growth and prosperity.
Ken Shultz 13 years ago

It now seems possible that non-diplomatic options?namely, arming the rebels or using Western airpower to weaken the regime, as we did so successfully in Libya?might be the only way to halt the killing. Should the United States act on these options?

http://www.tnr.com/article/wor.....DliZjYyNjQ

The correct answer is no, not at this time.

Some of the arguments against arming the rebels or deploying airpower in Syria are of the old, cynical, hard-hearted variety; but plenty of others are sober and worth taking seriously.

They won't take smart, strategic thinking seriously because it's supposedly old, cynical or allegedly hard-hearted?

If we'd had a little more old, cynical, "hard-hearted" thinking on Iraq, we might have avoided the whole mistake.
P Brooks 13 years ago

a grain that was nutritious for humans but poisonous to rats would be an awesome advance.

*posts "hitman wanted" ad on Craigslist*
1. Assassination Politics 13 years ago
  
  It's libertarian.
  
  Assassination market
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
2. Matrix 13 years ago
  
  There are plenty of things that are poisonous to some animals but nutritious for us.
  1. Matrix 13 years ago
    
    okay, I may have been wrong about "plenty" because there really aren't enough. But there are some things. We just need to create more.
  2. kinnath 13 years ago
    
    theobromine
RoboCain 13 years ago

"Once the boys are gone, we learn the main reason Kreayshawn's been so pensive this past hour. And it's not that the pressure of her newfound, instant fame was bearing down on her with enormous psychic weight.

http://www.gq.com/entertainmen.....ucci-gucci
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  As soon as the door shuts, she yells: "I have to POOP," like a proud potty-trained toddler. This has clearly been on her mind for some time?when I'd originally asked if I could hang out in the room while she got dressed, she'd responded, "Are you going to write about how I pooped, ate nachos, then pooped again? Men won't like that." Her girlfriends are instantly behind her in this effort, no pun intended. Lady Tragik encourages, "C'mon, girl. Poop thug life," and throws up the West Coast sign. Avian starts pumping her arm, in a sports-stadium chant: "Number two! Number two! Number two!" Kreay pumps her arm too, like an athlete encouraging the cheers. Then Avian puts on a mock-serious tone: "You prairie doggin' '?"
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    Kreayshawn cracks up. I ask, "What's 'prairie doggin'?" Just trying to be a good reporter. She stops before the door to the bathroom: "You know how a prairie dog kind of pops his head out and then pops it back in?" She bends her spindly arms up like prairie-dog paws and demonstrates with her head bobbing up and down. "That's what my shit is doing." The bathroom door slides only halfway shut."
    1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
      
      We call this "turtling" around our house.
RoboCain 13 years ago

Kreayshawn cracks up. I ask, "What's 'prairie doggin'?" Just trying to be a good reporter. She stops before the door to the bathroom: "You know how a prairie dog kind of pops his head out and then pops it back in?" She bends her spindly arms up like prairie-dog paws and demonstrates with her head bobbing up and down. "That's what my shit is doing." The bathroom door slides only halfway shut."
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  This new 900 char limit is too small.
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    And it's not really doing anything about the problem, as evidenced by the comments on this article.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      She does seem to be calmer today. Not sure what happened. But she seems to have toned it down.
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        It's still time for registration. And to make me a mod. Oh, the flesh will be torn at the opera house that night.
  2. db 13 years ago
    
    Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
  3. JW 13 years ago
    
    Either way, I'm still not forgiving you for introducing that knowledge into my brain.
burp 13 years ago

According to this article, Republicans are just a bunch of knuckle draggers. Liberals are oh so enlightened about science and stuff:

http://www.alternet.org/teapar.....qus_thread
1. AuH20 13 years ago
  
  Eh, it's alternet. It's a hive of liberal douchebaggery.
P Brooks 13 years ago

What the fuck is a Krayshawn?
1. RoboCain 13 years ago
  
  Some whigger who likes to shit in front of her entourage, apparently.
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  I think it's a freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster. Tasty in gumbo.
Anonymous Coward 13 years ago

Unfortunately, as we go to press, President Obama seems disinclined to arm the rebels or use U.S. airpower to stop Assad.

Remember when using airpower on other countries was considered an act of war?
P Brooks 13 years ago

I'll believe it when someone actually tests it.

Do you seriously think the TSA is going to let you take a gun on the Space Shuttle?
1. db 13 years ago
  
  Little known fact: Soyuz spacecraft launching to the ISS are armed with at least one short barreled shotgun and ammo. This has been the case ever since a botched landing sometime in the 1960s or '70s when a capsule landed far off course and rhe crew was surrounded by wolves.
  1. RoboCain 13 years ago
    
    The article shows this three-barreled thing.
  2. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
    
    The Soviet space station Salyut 3 had a modified aircraft cannon emplaced as a "self-defense" gun. Per the wiki, I guess they fired it in orbit 2 or 3 times.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Remember when using airpower on other countries was considered an act of war?

Only when the Nips do it.
Underpants Gnome 13 years ago

Question of the day: who here would vote for a Romney/Paul ticket?

I'm pretty conflicted. As much as I dislike Mittens Romneybot, I would like to see RP with more of a chance to get his message out, and a lame duck Obama admin makes me nervous.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  If Romney took Paul, you would have to hold your nose and vote for him. I despise Romney. But my God, an actual Libertarian as VP. That is unthinkable. I don't care if the job is mostly going to funerals.
  1. Proprietist 13 years ago
    
    Think about it - the Senate proportions are close. Ron Paul gets to break ties and oversee/influence the Senate = awesome. I'd probably have to vote for that ticket, as much as I love Gary Johnson. If one of the Paul's aren't on the ticket, I see GJ taking 7-10%.
2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  I'd vote for a Romney/anybody ticket over Obama. Romney/Paul would be cool, though. Romney/Rand Paul - even better.
  1. Proprietist 13 years ago
    
    No, I'd prefer Ron - Rand should stay in the Senate and work with his VP dad to introduce legislation. Then again, Rand is probably more popular amongst the GOP base and would improve the chances of victory.
3. anon 13 years ago
  
  I'd vote for Dale Peterson over Obama.
  1. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    I'm glad they cut the part where he puts the horse down.
4. Rand Paul 13 years ago
  
  It would be awkward working at the same place as Dad. The other Senators would probably haze me harder, too.
5. T 13 years ago
  
  I'd vote it and hope Mittens suffered an unfortunate event.
6. jacob 13 years ago
  
  I'd vote MR/RP
7. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
  
  It will be Romney/Santorum if it isn't Romney/Rubio. Sorry.
  
  In your hypo, I'm still voting Johnson though.
8. CrackertyAssCracker 13 years ago
  
  I would. I wouldn't enjoy it, but I'd do it.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Banjos and I have been going round and round on this Romneybot-Paul ticket thing. She thinks there's just no fucking way Paul would do it, but I disagree.

Look, the man ain't getting any younger, and the time to strike is when the iron is hot...which is right now. He's going for a brokered convention and is amassing delegates as we speak to end up #2 at the convention. Now there's no way he can control the majority of the delegates, but he can pretty well keep anyone else off the ticket he wants, meaning he's going to get the VP nod if he wants it (unless Assgrease somehow ends up with more delegates than him and Romneybot). And Rand is just too young to go on the bottom half of the ticket.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Team Blue can't say shit about his age (not with Biden), they can't say shit about his experience like they did Palin, they can't bring up the military, they can't dig up any dirt except the newsletters, which are almost old news by now. He's a fundie that also is for personal liberty. Face it, he's about the perfect VP candidate: attack dog on policy with zero personal baggage.
  
  And Romneybot is the kind of wishy-washy pol who will follow the populist sentiment, which is leaning further and further in the way of small-government, tax-cutting, war-ending and freedom-oriented. And that plays into Paul's wheelhouse.
  
  I'll vote the Romney-Paul ticket in a minute, because Paul would run that White House. And we will finally have a seat at the table the two-party system has tried to keep us away from.*
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    *Also, there's no guarantee Rand Paul will ever gain the traction his father has, and there's no guarantee our nation will be as receptive to libertarian principles when it becomes "his turn."
    
    (900 character limit is way too short, btw)
    1. Rhet Orical 13 years ago
      
      Of the millions of characters you've posted here, how many of them did not repeat something you've said a thousand times already? Character limits force you to focus on essentials.
      
      Or keep posting till you're done...
  2. - 13 years ago
    
    You seem to forget that the VP is a mostly ceremonial position with no power.
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      In a narrowly-divided Senate and with a President that will act like Clinton (as far as being a populist), I'd have to strongly disagree.
      
      That, and he'll be able to give speech after speech about libertarian ideals with that big seal in front of him...and soldiers or civilians cheering wildly behind him. Again...it's about perception.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  If he was the bottom half of the ticket, other Republicans could no longer call him crazy.
3. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  So, do you guys call each other "Banjos" and "Sloopy" in person? That would be cute.
P Brooks 13 years ago

Rand is just too young to go on the bottom half of the ticket.

?

I think he has more than adequately demonstrated his "seriousness".
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Maybe to you and I, Brooksie, but this is about perception, not reality. And the media won't give a first term Senator a free pass unless he's also a minority from a political machine like Chicago.
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    The MSM tried giving a free pass to John Edwards, a first-term Senator. But it turns out the MSM doesn't own the narrative any longer.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

If your friend has trouble breathing, don't lend them your athsma inhaler. That might be dangerous!

http://denver.cbslocal.com/201.....U.facebook
Matrix 13 years ago

NH man who used gun to nab criminal has charged against him dropped

Good. Now, will the officers involved in his arrest be whipped, tarred, and feathered?
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Fuck! I really wanted this to go to trial so the law could be nullified by a jury or overturned by some popular revolt. All this means is that the next time, the cops and DA will be more discrete in charging someone.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    In this case, I don't think that there is a law that needs to be nullifed. He was charged with reckless conduct. So it was really just a poor application of a law. The cops overstepped and the DA saw it. Seems like things worked mostly the way they should.
jacob 13 years ago

but subsequent facts discovered since have led me to believe that such a charge under these circumstances would be unjust

What he reallly meant to say is that after talking to the dipshit arresting officers, he realized this was a waste of time.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Or, he realized prosecuting this guy would kill his career and/or his conviction rate, which is all he gives a fuck about.
  
  And lest we all get too excited, there's still a shitty law on the books and those who wear badges are still treated differently than the rest of us when put in the same situation.
  1. jacob 13 years ago
    
    How's the wedding planning going? Did you get your monocle?
P Brooks 13 years ago

I get charley horses once in a while in the sack, and there ain't no fucking way to hide them. So, man up and deal with it.

"Willlllbur-r-r-r-rrrrrrr!"

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