Solar Storms Not So Bad, Ayatollah Khamenei Praises Obama's Attempts to Avoid War with Iran, The FBI Spied on Christopher Hitchens: P.M. Links

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.8.2012 4:40 PM

Nothing even mildly apocalyptic has happened in spite of today's big old solar storm. Some planes were rerouted, though. And more storms might be a-rolling in in the years to come.
Compliments! Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "We heard two days ago that the US president said that (they) are not thinking about war with Iran. These words are good words and an exit from delusion."
Mississippi Supreme Court upholds Gov. Haley Barbour's 198 pardons, which he made before leaving office in January.
Jobs? Jobs? Jobsity jobs? Gallup tracks unemployment as up for February: it was at 9.1 percent, compared to 8.6 in January.
The FBI spied on Christopher Hitchens in the '70s and '80s.
Great moments in my boyfriend didn't have to go into work today after all: shooting at a Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic kills two, injures seven.

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Nipplemancer 13 years ago

Fist!
1. Second 13 years ago
  
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    1. Smart Guy with a Life 13 years ago
      
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      1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
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    2. Xenocles 13 years ago
      
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shrike 13 years ago

Bibi is an asshole who thinks Obama is stupid enough to use for his ground war in Iran. He will have to hope for Romney instead. This is not 2003.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, but this being an election year the Prez is especially vulnerable to the temptation of acting like MacArhtur. And I don't mean leaving the cake out in the rain...
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Oh, no!
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Refueling planes and bunker busters. In return for delaying attack until post-election.
  
  http://israelinsider.net/profi.....he-electio
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    That is probably the case. Obama is such a lying sack of shit. What a fucking turd. He is going to lie to the country to try and get re-elected and then get us in a war as soon as he possibly can.
    1. shrike 13 years ago
      
      I hope Iran obliterates those fucking Jew-fags.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        They say anti-Semetism is socialism for stupid people. So it makes sense that you are an anti-Semite Shrike. Most leftists are.
        
        Neu Mejican (~_??) 13 years ago
        
        Most leftists are.
        
        [face palm]
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I said leftist, not American leftists. If you count leftists world wide including Europe, most leftists are anti-Semitic. The European left is almost entirely anti-Semitic.
        
        Sorry NM, a lot of your fellow travelers have flees.
        
        Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago
        
        have flees
        
        [face palm]
        
        NM home of the flea, land of the plague.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        If you don't like the facts, you can always talk about the spelling.
        
        I am not a liberal you are. Therefore I don't have to defend or apologize for those people.
        
        Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago
        
        John's world where some = most.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I will give you credit NM. You will at least admit that some leftist somewhere is capable of fault. That puts you above MNG. And probably will get you kicked out of the tribe.
        
        Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago
        
        I can't get kicked out of the tribe as I am not a leftist.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        And I don't see anyone on the Right ranting about the Jews and Israel and the evil corporations and bankers.
        
        Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago
        
        And I don't see anyone on the Right ranting about the Jews and Israel and the evil corporations and bankers.
        
        [face palm]
        
        Yeah. Never happens. Ever.
        
        Now the Zionist plot for world government, that's different.
        
        Sherman 13 years ago
        
        "And I don't see anyone on the Right ranting about the Jews and Israel and the evil corporations and bankers.
        
        Hmmm, never heard of someone named Pat Buchanan? Or the various right wing conspiracy theorists. Back in the nineties this was fairly common fodder for extreme right as well as the populist right, like Bucky.
        
        Mike M. 13 years ago
        
        As much of a psychopath as Shrieking Idiot truly is, I don't believe it was really him who posted this.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Good point Mike.
        
        shrike 13 years ago
        
        I heart the Jews for their outsized contributions to science and art.
        
        Mahler over Wagner.
        
        13 years ago
        
        "Wagner is better than he sounds."
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Has to be a shrike spoof. The real one would never be so kind.
    2. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
      
      I will give Obama the credit he deserves. Letting Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney play stalking horse for his war with Iran is smart. They will beat the drums for war, he'll call for restraint and keep saying "all options are on the table" (including bombing Tehran into rubble), then after November, it's game on.
    3. Fascinating! 13 years ago
      
      Obama is such a lying sack of shit. What a fucking turd.
      
      Tell us what you really think, John, but for a change, try to say something you've never said before. Fun, no?
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Why rearrange the deck chairs, Fascinating?
    4. Sherman 13 years ago
      
      Bush lied, Obama lies, Romney, if elected, will lie. What else is new? On a related note, I'm wondering which presidents were the most dishonest, top ten
    5. buhh 13 years ago
      
      And now it's time for another game of partisan hackey sack with GOP shillster, John.
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Swing a dead cat, Sherm... you'll hit one.
  2. Gray Ghost 13 years ago
    
    The tankers---and the unspoken allowance for a strike to overfly Iraq---are the important things here. Israel's easily capable of making their own hard target capable bombs.
    
    Wonder if Netanyahu had a representative ask the same concession from Romney?
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      I bet so. It almost sounds too plausible to be true.
    2. Mr. Saveloy 13 years ago
      
      According to Wiki the IAF has 4 Boeing 707s that make up their in-air refueling fleet. I don't see why they'd even need our help with that.
      1. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Because 707s are fucking old. Also 4 is not very many. My guess is they'd need more than that. Especially if the other countries they'd have to overfly on their way to Iran shoot some down (most of them aren't exactly friendly afterall).
      2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Looks like Israel should buy some new fucking refueling planes. They can use all that money we shovel over to them.
        
        Gray Ghost 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure Mcdonnell-Douglas, or whatever they're calling themselves now, would love to sell them some KC-10s
        
        I can't see 4 IAF KC-135s refueling an entire strike package, even if you give buddy packs to all of the F-15s.
        
        Given previous comments here about the Saudis not being happy about a Shiite nuke, wonder if they'd allow free passage for the Israelis? Or refueling at any of the myriad airfields they have?
        
        Timon19 13 years ago
        
        Saudi has already said (something like 12-18 months ago) they'd look the other way.
        
        And McDonnell-Douglas is part of those Boeing assholes.
omnibot 13 years ago

podium!
rts 13 years ago

BC government turns down $40 million.

The Finance Minister keeps going on about fiscal restraint, yet turns down an easy $40 million for no reason other than sentimentality.

Why the government is even in the stadium business in the first place is beyond me.
1. omnibot 13 years ago
  
  popularity
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Nipplemancer!
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Nothing even mildly apocalyptic has happened in spite of today's big old solar storm.

My peter burned a little more than usual when I urinated today. But I was putting out a campfire at the time so admittedly...
1. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  The skanky, possibly infected hos Epi says you've been fucking might have something to do with that burning sensation ...
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    But not account for the single, solar storm day increase in burning. LEARN TO READ.
    1. protefeed 13 years ago
      
      So, my not commenting on the solar storm thing is what gets your dander up, not the fucking skanky hos thing? 🙂
2. Killazontherun 13 years ago
  
  Oddly enough, I noticed my foreskin retracts normally again while pissing today. Thanks solar storm!
  1. Killazontherun 13 years ago
    
    And I promise, solar storm, no more metal accessories down there to make it look bigger.
    1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
      
      Foreskin? Freak!
3. gaijin 13 years ago
  
  Interestingly, the Federal Reserve has a point of view on Solar Storms and susnpots (I know, right?)...so maybe the true apocalypse is a trade waiting to happen 😉
  
  http://www.scribd.com/doc/84539205/wp0305b
Tim 13 years ago

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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost
1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  Two armageddons diverged in a wood and I
  I chose the zombie outbreak because, frankly, it was way cooler than either ice or fire
  And that has made all the ... braaaains!
  1. Zombie Jimbo 13 years ago
    
    I concur.
    
    BRAAAIINSSS
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Fire and Ice was a kickass movie.
  1. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    Ya, but it couldn't hold a candle to Scorcher VI.
    
    http://movieclips.com/8Auip-tr.....tion-hero/
    1. Loki 13 years ago
      
      Hear we go again... again.
3. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Good old Frosty.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

"We heard two days ago that the US president said that (they) are not thinking about war with Iran," the Iranian leader was quoted as saying. "These words are good words and an exit from delusion."

"What the President said is unimportant, and we do not hear his words."
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  "he can kiss my Persian ass"
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

As long as we're discussing secular humanists, the Freedom from Religion Foundation has released an open letter to liberal Catholics calling on them to leave the Church:

"Obama has compromised, but the Church never budges, instead launching a vengeful modern-day Inquisition. Look at its continuing directives to parish priests to use their pulpits every Sunday to lobby you against Obama's policy, the Church's announcement of a major anti-contraception media campaign ? using your tithes, contributions and donations ? to defeat *Obama's laudable health care policy*." [emphasis added]

http://ffrf.org/news/releases/.....ic-church/
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Don't leave your religion because we want you to believe the truth. Leave your religion because it is attacking our prophet Obama.
  
  Serious atheists should be ashamed of those people.
  1. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    We are.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Good. That is just pathetic.
    2. Double D 13 years ago
      
      +1000
  2. Silver Fox 13 years ago
    
    And they wonder why some people call them "militant".
    1. Coeus 13 years ago
      
      They should:
      
      http://scienceavenger.blogspot.....rtoon.html
      1. Silver Fox 13 years ago
        
        Everyone else has to actually be violent to be called militant. We atheists get the label merely by making an unapologetic counter argument.
        
        While being an unrepentant dick about it, too.
        
        Coeus 13 years ago
        
        Ahh, did someone make you question your rediculous, contradictory beliefs?
        
        (kinda like that? Don't be such a pussy. There ain't nothing militant about that.)
        
        Nope 13 years ago
        
        "Ahh, did someone make you question your rediculous, contradictory beliefs"
        
        No, someone made me question their ability to use a dictionary
        
        "mil?i?tant? ?[mil-i-tuhnt] Show IPA
        adjective
        1.
        vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
        2.
        engaged in warfare; fighting."
        
        MILITANT Atheists who think that violence is required to be militant are idiots.
        
        Coeus 13 years ago
        
        And saying or typing something slightly dickish is "vigorously active and aggressive"? Or was it the releasing of an open letter which was "vigorously active and agressive"?
        
        It's pretty obvious why you're not sticking with a handle. You'd have defend idiotic statements like that. I'd imagine it'd end up being a full time job pretty quickly.
        
        Joseph Stalin 13 years ago
        
        Watch who you're calling an idiot, comrade!
  3. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Serious atheists should be ashamed of those people.
    
    I would if I felt I had any kinship or affinity to them. I don't identify with those people any more than I do with Catholics who think contraception is a sin.
  4. nicole 13 years ago
    
    Lord, yeah, Coeus is right, we are. Also feeling marginalized, othered by my own kind.
    1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
      
      There has been a lot of microaggression around this issue. 🙁
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  instead launching a vengeful modern-day Inquisition
  
  Noone expects the Spanish Inquisition!
  
  Seriously though what planet are these fuckers from when speaking up for one of the tenets of your beliefs = murdering untold thousands? There's no equilivancy there. Not even close. What a bunch of assclowns.
  1. Jack the Reaper 13 years ago
    
    3000-5000 over the course of 140 years. Just saying. I don't agree with anything anywhere but it isn't really an untold number.
    1. Loki 13 years ago
      
      I just said that because I didn't have the actual number off the top of my head and was too lazy to google it.
3. MJ 13 years ago
  
  What would you expect from an organization calliing itself "Freedom from Religion"? Such a goal can only come about by actively suppressing religion.
Brett L 13 years ago

Hmm. Ads seem to think I'm in the market for companionship -- apparently of the paid variety. Russian cupid and singles.net. I deny it strenuously. In a college town I have no need to pay more than the cost of several drinks for short term companionship.
1. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  But that kind of short time companionship won't give you the pleasure of taking half your stuff.
  
  You get what you pay for.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Eww. Refreshing drew BBW Cupid. I blame the Morning Links for that.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Ooh, Filipina and Latin American Cupid. These, I would click if I didn't believe it was a giant scam (and know the average sanity level among such women to approaches zero).
      1. protefeed 13 years ago
        
        I knew a Filipina woman who was one of those MOBs -- super hot looking, late 20s, married to a guy in his 60s who would leave her alone for weeks while he took off for the Mainland to "ride motorcycles".
        
        I pointed out to her that motorcycles were prolly not what he was primarily riding there.
        
        She was, needless to say, looking for a chance to upgrade.
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        Now for the money question: did she upgrade to you (assuming you'd actually be an upgrade, which I have no way of knowing)?
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        I only ask because I'm married and therefore will probably never get a chance to bang a super hot 20 something Filipina, so I'm forced to live vicariously through others.
        
        protefeed 13 years ago
        
        You say that like being married prevents you from getting a GF or Mail Order Bride of your own.
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        Only because I take marital fidelity more seriously than Newt Gingrich does. Or maybe I'm just not as patriotic as he is, or I'm too lazy. Or both.
        
        protefeed 13 years ago
        
        "Only because I take marital fidelity more seriouslyhaven't yet found a hot 20-something Filipina who loves me enough to let me fuck her, and who I would prefer more than my current wife "
        
        FIFY
        
        protefeed 13 years ago
        
        Of course I'm an upgrade. 🙂
        
        No, she didn't upgrade to me.
2. Binky 13 years ago
  
  The singles.net ad I see is practically NSFW. Nice sponsors, H&R!
3. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  I got ads for FilipinoCupid.com. It's kind of scary that it knows my taste in women like that. Though not as scary as if it had run ads for a website called FrenchVietnameseBabesWithHotAsses.com.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Let's Rule 34 that thing. I'll bet with a ticket to vietnam, a DSLR camera, and $2500 cash we could get that up and making money in 3 weeks.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Great moments in my boyfriend didn't have to go into work today after all...

Second day in a row, I would suspect, as he surely took off yesterday to see the statue unveiled.
Brett L 13 years ago

FL lawmakers 99 problems but a bitch ain't one. The House is pretty much waiting on the Senate for the budget and redistricting, and apparently have too much time.

"Two Florida state representatives got into a debate over the lyrics to Jay-Z's "99 Problems" on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives Wednesday while discussing an amendment to the Florida Evidence Code regarding allowing certain types of hearsay as evidence:"
1. Coeus 13 years ago
  
  That was a bit surreal.
omnibot 13 years ago

Jose Canseco has lost it on twitter.
"Who is behind the conspiracy and the lies"
"Why are they lieing (sic) does anyone have an idea"
"Jealousy hatred and envy the American way"
"All the haters bring it on you complete me"
"Come on haters is that the best you got make my day"
1. omnibot 13 years ago
  
  "Why don't you haters jump into a mma ring with me and feel the pain"
  
  LOL
  He's on fire
  1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    Clearly another Adonis warlock with tiger blood.
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Jose Canseco has lost it
  
  No need to go any further. Sounds like he's back to doing the good shit.
Brett L 13 years ago

Heh. Porn Actress teacher draws no protesters. Probably because the fact that she wasn't practicing on students is a new twist in the LA school district.
1. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  Maybe the parents felt it was none of the school district's goddamn business what kind of side job the teacher got to earn more money?
  
  Naaah, too libertarian for the statist hell that is CA.
2. Coeus 13 years ago
  
  You gotta at least link to a picture:
  
  http://www.opposingviews.com/i.....iffany-six
  1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    Apparently an office worker at the school somehow stumbled onto one of the videos
    
    So. Was this person "stumbling" onto the video while at work in the school? It is ambiguous from the article (and I read elsewhere that it was some kids that "stumbled" across it, which actually makes more sense to me). But if this office worker was supposedly working while s/he "stumbled" across it, I have feelings about that.
    1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
      
      "I found them while looking for material on ... uh... anatomy."
      
      "You're a Spanish teacher."
      
      "Look over there!" (runs off)
    2. Chupacabra 13 years ago
      
      "Really, honey. I was just crossing the street and I stumbled onto that 22 year old Korean woman...over by that hotel."
3. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  Unless she was shooting a double anal scene in the science lab, I'm not sure what, if any problem anyone should have with this. Sure some intrepid, sexually awakening middle schooler might stumble across her work on the internet, but the question is, who has she harmed?
  
  Obvious answer: No one.
  1. Devil's Advocate 13 years ago
    
    I have mixed thoughts, in that while I agree that it shouldn't affect her employment, it might be kind of hard for her to actually teach students who have seen her tape. At that point I would think the teacher/student dynamic is probably irrevocably gone. Maybe a transfer is the answer, I dunno.
    1. Coeus 13 years ago
      
      There probably isn't a male in that class who hasn't already ran those scenes in his head with every moderately attractive teacher in the school, video or not. Trust me on this.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      I think you are probably right. Which is a shame. If the person who first noticed it could have minded his own business, they wouldn't have to worry about it at all.
      But teaching 8th graders with that information out is not going to go well.
      1. protefeed 13 years ago
        
        I think the appropriate, non-statist response would be to do something about it only if the tape prevented her from doing an effective job of teaching, rather than this knee-jerk preemptive bullshit.
Yuno Hoo 13 years ago

today's big old solar storm

Good practice for the cyberwarriors, though.
rac3rx 13 years ago

Pat Robertson: It's time to legalize pot and treat it like alcohol.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw.....t=1&f=1001
1. Dandelion Whine 13 years ago
  
  Robertson told the Times. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: This war on drugs just hasn't succeeded."
  
  Why limit it to MJ, Pat?
  1. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
    
    Walk before you run.
Alt Text 13 years ago

RAACIST!!
John 13 years ago

http://freebeacon.com/sebelius.....e-deficit/

Sibileus has no idea if Obamacare adds to the deficit.
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Oh, she knows. She just can't politically tell the truth.
2. Kathleen Sebelius 13 years ago
  
  Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as Republican senators publicly embarrass us.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Hood had said the Governor's Mansion trusties and about 165 others didn't meet the requirements of the Mississippi Constitution, which says people seeking pardons must publish notices for 30 days in a newspaper.

Hood contended that if ads weren't run in daily papers every day for 30 days, or weekly newspapers once a week for five weeks, the pardons weren't valid.

Any respectable, living, breathing constitution is going to know that print journalism is dead at this point anyway, so why bother?
Silver Fox 13 years ago

Canada's education woes.

Mr. Watson nailed it. Our schools are run like a bunch of factories from the early industrial age. They have rigid work rules, negotiated for the benefit of management and labour (but not the parents or the kids). Seniority reigns, everyone has job security for life, and a distant, top-heavy bureaucracy decrees exactly what gets taught and how. Students of wildly varying talents proceed in lockstep down the assembly line until the system spits them out.
1. Mr. Saveloy 13 years ago
  
  One of the things that Dr. Philip Zimbardo addresses in this video is how we need to reform our outdated education system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  I'm confused. Are they describing Canada's education system or ours?
  1. Silver Fox 13 years ago
    
    Canada's.
    
    Not that there's much difference, by the sounds of it.
John 13 years ago

Carl Levin doesn't "think" he would legislate to ban Rush Limbaugh from having a radio show. I guess that could be subject to think in the future.

http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/c.....-silenced/
T 13 years ago

The lights flickered at work today. Must be the solar storm.

Or our marginally competent maintenance staff, or our piss-poor electrical system. Whichever.
Ice Nine 13 years ago

The FBI has released some of its files on the late Christopher Hitchens, including records indicating that he was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation in the 1980s.

They just couldn't have thrown a dying man a bone and released this before Hitch died? It would have pleased him immensely to have known this.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I sure the file reads something like Hitchens got drunk and puked tonight. Followed by Hitchens woke up the next morning, got drunk and puked before lunch. And so forth.
  1. Sherman 13 years ago
    
    No, by all accounts, Hitchens could hold his licka.
2. Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
  
  I'm not sure why anyone is surprised that the FBI had a file on Hitch.
  
  They keep tabs on people with far less controversial political beliefs than his.
Block Yomomma 13 years ago

Gallup tracks unemployment as up for February: it was at 9.1 percent, compared to 8.6 in January.

Gallup Schmallup, what do those idiots know about jobs?

I am the greatest job creator in the history of mankind, and my evil minions, I mean the undisputed professionals in my outstanding government, will let you know shortly what the true official unemployment rate is without any fudging of the numbers whatsoever.
Pro Libertate 13 years ago

They challenged his pardons? That's a dead-end street. The pardon power is too inherent in the executive for the court to mess with it much. What were they alleging, some technical violation? If so, even more hopeless.
Silver Fox 13 years ago

51% of Greek youth jobless.

The average unemployment rate for 2011 jumped to 17.3% from 12.5% in the previous year, according to the figures, which are not adjusted for seasonal factors.

Youth were particularly hit. For the first time on record, more people between 15-24 years were without a job than with one. Unemployment in that age group rose to 51.1%, twice as high as three years ago.
1. omnibot 13 years ago
  
  Why can't geeks find work?
  1. Sevo 13 years ago
    
    Who's gonna hire 'em with the labor laws like they are?
Silver Fox 13 years ago

Nothing even mildly apocalyptic has happened in spite of today's big old solar storm. Some planes were rerouted, though. And more storms might be a-rolling in in the years to come.

That last part is making the Aboriginal Appropriator all tingly just thinking about it.
omnibot 13 years ago

Jose Canseco says:
"If you love me I will love you back but haters need to be exterminated now who will help me"
"Join my army to exterminate the haters its about time we stand up to them I will lead you"
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

Gloria Allred wants county prosecutor to investigate Rush Limbaugh for his "slut" remark about Ms. Fluke.

A Florida statute provides that it's a misdemeanor to "falsely and maliciously imput[e]" to any woman "a want of chastity." The statute makes no comparable provision for men (the Equal Rights Amendment is printed at the bottom of Ms. Allred's letter).

http://www.radaronline.com/sit.....les/Allred Letter RE Rush Limbaugh.pdf
1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  try this: http://bit.ly/xPMaPc
2. Silver Fox 13 years ago
  
  Wow they really won't let this one go will they?
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    If they did that then people might start talking about the unemployment rate, or Iran, or the deficit, or the price of gas, or something else that actually matters. Can't have that can we?
    1. Silver Fox 13 years ago
      
      Sex: Keeping adults from having important conversations on things that count for something since the Stone Age.
3. Anonymous Coward 13 years ago
  
  A Florida statute provides that it's a misdemeanor to "falsely and maliciously imput[e]" to any woman "a want of chastity."
  
  Wow, I am glad I don't live in Florida anymore.
  1. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    It's cool. It's falsely and maliciously. Pretty high standard.
  2. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    That would be an amusing trial. It could come down to determining whether or not she is in fact a slut if it must be done falsely and maliciously.
4. MJ 13 years ago
  
  "A Florida statute provides that it's a misdemeanor to "falsely and maliciously imput[e]" to any woman "a want of chastity.""
  
  While "slut" may be unwarranted, is not a public statement by an unmarried woman that she has a use for birth control for non-medical reasons a tacit admittance of a "want of chastity"?
  1. dunphy 13 years ago
    
    in WA we used to have a similar law...
    
    "Defaming a woman".
    
    lots of states have such outdated laws on the books. in MA we had "blaspheming the name of god" as a misdemeanor, too
5. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
  
  If Fluke isn't a virgin how did he falsely impute a want of chastity?
6. Xenocles 13 years ago
  
  Of course if they did that then Fluke's entire sexual history would be discoverable.
Coeus 13 years ago

The bitches are getting serious:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/.....rling.html
Coeus 13 years ago

Further proof that feminists can be offended by anything:

http://feministing.com/2012/03.....billboard/
1. Warty 13 years ago
  
  They'd better take that down if they don't want to get sued by that one guy.
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    They should stick to their earlier, inoffensive ads, like "Christmas quality, Hanukkah pricing."
    
    http://fxn.ws/utLnwG
2. MJ 13 years ago
  
  "...dehumanizes its subjects by suggesting that there is a material difference in value between an "escort" and a "hooker" and that this difference is directly linked to how society commodifies their labor."
  
  And you are dehumanizing McDonald's cooks when you suggest there is a difference between fast food and fine dining. They are human beings, you know!
3. rsi 13 years ago
  
  Back in the day there were things called Granny Dresses. Basically sacks that reached mid calf. They will stop the whistles.
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    There's also something called a burka...
    1. Sevo 13 years ago
      
      THAT'LL stop the whistles!
Coeus 13 years ago

In other news, chanting USA, USA is now apparently racist:

http://www.ksat.com/news/defen.....index.html
Material Continuum 13 years ago

I thought this was interesting.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....8-13-11-19

So, now both the left and the christfags want to legalize pot
1. Brandon 13 years ago
  
  Wasn't this on H&R yesterday?
Material Continuum 13 years ago

Fuck ... take two

This
Brandon 13 years ago

So the best thing that can be said about Obama is that he might not start a war with Iran?
1. Sevo 13 years ago
  
  Well, he doesn't seem to have horns, cloven hooves and a tail.
  1. Brandon 13 years ago
    
    Come on, that would at least give him some Goth cred. As of now, he's got nothin. Except maybe union cred, but punting on the Keystone pipeline seems to have hurt him there, too.
Texan 13 years ago

Should Gingrich drop out?
1. Material Continuum 13 years ago
  
  Yes
mad libertarian guy 13 years ago

Jobs? Jobs? Jobsity jobs? Gallup tracks unemployment as up for February: it was at 9.1 percent, compared to 8.6 in January.

Gee, who could have ever predicted that jobless rates would rise after the Christmas season was over and retail establishments scaled back to normal employment numbers?
Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago

Rush versus Rush

http://dcist.com/2012/03/rush_.....ack_on.php
Neu Mejican (~_?) 13 years ago

the Canadian prog-rock legends are fed up with Limbaugh using their tracks as bumper music
sloopyinca 13 years ago

I may not be the smartest guy in the world. Hell, I may not be the smartest guy in the room. But I know a good thing when I see it. And The Reason Hit & Run Superpimp March Madness Pick-Em is a veeeeeeery good thing.

It's free. It has no rules. It's anonymous (if you want it to be). And it's run by somebody else so you don't have to score shit.

So, unless you're a big fat pussy, you'll click the link and enter the password: reason.

And you'll enter one bracket or two. Because that's what people do this time of year, goddammit!
1. Sevo 13 years ago
  
  Sloopy, gotta tell ya:
  College kids in squeaky shoes running back and forth accompanied by screaming comments from bulge-eyed, hyperventilating old farts who don't seem to have a life?
  Boredom....
  How do I set up a pool on whether red dries quicker than other paint colors, BAYBEE?!
(A poem by) Grandpa Whithers 13 years ago

I'll tell you 'bout Sandra Fluke,
Man, does she love to fuck,
The whole time she's grinding,
She's not one whit minding,
It's all on the taxpayers' buck.
1. Sevo 13 years ago
  
  There once was a man from Nantucket/
  And I'll bet he 'knew' Sandra Fluke...
2. ? 13 years ago
  
  Who's the guy who used to post really crappy limericks here...was it sarcasmic?
anon 13 years ago

Reasonoids going to the Houston rodeo next week?

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