Centrists Nurse Third-Party Dreams, bin Laden's Bumbling Minions, Chicago Pays Big for Repeat-Offender Cops: P.M. Links

• Political elites continue to dream of a centrist third-party presidential candidate, even as pollsters warn that the public isn't really looking for a stroll down the middle of the road.

• Obama will likely do well with young voters, but increasingly libertarian views in that group are eroding his base and driving many one-time boosters to look elsewhere.
• Osama bin Laden "was frustrated by what he viewed as the incompetence" of his followers, and their tendency to kill Muslim civilians, according to documents released a year after he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs.
• Attorney General Eric Holder is getting ever-closer to facing a contempt order for "refusal to cooperate" in the investigation of the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.
• The ACLU filed a motion to open the trial of accused 9/11 conspirators to the general public, allowing the airing of allegations about their treatment by the CIA.
• After four weeks of rising jobless claims, applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week. Even so, the labor force participation rate is at its lowest ebb since 1984.
• "Prevailing uncertainty" dominates the outlook for the European economy, warns European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.
• Chicago is paying millions of dollars to settle lawsuits sparked by police officers who repeatedly engage in abusive conduct without suffering personal consequences.
• Refused help by school officials, a bullied gay teen warned off his assailants by brandishing a stun gun. Now he faces expulsion.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

This small group -- 140 in all -- proved costly. Despite making up one percent of the police force, they accounted for more than a quarter -- or $11.7 million -- of all damage payments incurred from police misconduct lawsuits. The city defended a good number of those officers in additional cases as well; nearly a third of the 140 officers were named in at least five misconduct lawsuits since 2000."

But those officers are very valuable to the city. Apparently, they're worth at least $11.7 million (plus court and defense costs) for those two years alone. You get what you pay for, Chicago.

[Tim]

In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
And they talk about it still

[Ska]

Tim, I saw this link and thought you'd appreciate it.

Regarding puns.

[Soc Indv Sparky]

Fan-fucking-tastic. I like.

[Episiarch]

If I could reach through the screen and strangle you, I would.

[Groovus Maximus]

I'm laughing at your superior intellect. 🙂

[Episiarch]

He tasks me!

[Tim]

Thanks, belatedly!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Political elites continue to dream of a centrist third-party presidential candidate...

...who will draw votes away from each other's big party candidate.

[VG Zaytsev]

Nah

These "elites" have a fantasy of cutting loose the voters that they have to con-bribe-cajole, to gain power, and replacing them with voters that like the elites for what they are (power whores).

Hopefully, they'll pursue this middle way presidential run. Spending hundreds of millions, going towards a billion, dollars to get fewer votes than the libertarian, constitutional or green parties will be a learnable moment for those elites (which most of them will no doubt, obliviously let pass)

[Fist of Etiquette]

But while some Republicans were busy trumpeting Issa's draft contempt order [against Holder], the leading Democrat on the Oversight Committee expressed serious reservations, warning that holding someone in contempt is "one of the most serious actions Congress can take."

"Holding someone in contempt is one of the most serious actions Congress can take, but it is being used in this case as part of a partisan election year witch-hunt," Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said in a statement.

Don't worry, Elijah. Next January, when the Romney Administration moves in, your fellow congressmen from across the aisle will once again share your unzealousness when it comes to oversight and accountability, checks and balances.

[Groovus Maximus]

when the Romney Administration moves in

That is the worst clause I have ever read.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I just knew you were an anti-Mormon bigot.

[Groovus Maximus]

I have nothing against Morons! That is slander, sir! I find Morons to be a funny, entertaining segment of the population. Provided they are nowhere near levers of power.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're a rabid anti-Mormite!

[BigT]

I look forward to hating a new Prez and ridiculing a new VP.

[Fist of Etiquette]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, a welcome sign after claims had previously risen four weeks in a row.

And then...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think.

While it's true that the unemployment rate is falling, that doesn't include the millions of nonworking adults who aren't even looking for a job anymore.

The same CNN Money reporter filed both stories, hours apart.

[Old Mexican]

Re: Fist of Etiquette,

The same CNN Money reporter filed both stories, hours apart.

Must be the White Imbecile's real job.

[Tim]

However, he said, no one was trying to blame Young for the bullying.

HE SAID AND THEN BLAMED YOUNG ANYWAYS:

"They're just trying to make his transition over here as easy as they possibly can," he said. "They've said, 'If you're going to dress the way you're dressing, people are going to say things. If you could tone it down as much as possible, then people won't have as much to say.' "

[DesigNate]

Fuck that fuckity fuck and fuck those fucking kids.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Very few of Obama's young supporters from 2008 are likely defect to Romney. Some may not vote, and I see the possibility of others abandoning both parties and instead choosing the Libertarian candidate.

Just wait until Mittster Roboto trots out that youthful Latino hunk Marco Rubio as his running mate. The youngsters will come flocking muy r?pido!

[Groovus Maximus]

Meh. I still think The Gubernatorial Glutton, Christ Christie, will get the nod. And a nod. And another nod. (It takes a lot of oomph for him to set that noggin in motion.)

[sage]

Is that his neck or a pack of Nathan's?

[Groovus Maximus]

It's his neck FULL of a pack of Nathan's. His satiety cannot be assausaged.

[sloopyinca]

Chicago is paying millions of dollars to settle lawsuits sparked by police officers who repeatedly engage in abusive conduct without suffering personal consequences.

Chicago, Illinois. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We should be cautious.

[Brandon]

Um, DC?

[Tim]

No nurses, no party and no nurse party dreams. Fuck this thread.

[Groovus Maximus]

Nurses are highly overrated in that aspect.

[Karl Hungus]

When glamor shots go horrifyingly awry.

[Episiarch]

Oh. My. God.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Can't believe they used your portrait without permission, eh?

[Episiarch]

Or yours! Or NutraSweet's! How did they get pictures of everyone here?

[Karl Hungus]

Can't believe they used your portrait without permission, eh?

Okay, we'll play this game. One of those portraits is, in fact, mine. A substantial cash prize to the first person to correctly guess which.

[Episiarch]

The first one. WHERE'S MY MONEY, BITCH?

[Karl Hungus]

The first one. WHERE'S MY MONEY, BITCH?

You would be wrong. But I'll give you a hint: I've been told I look positively delicious in a red bandana.

[Episiarch]

Then it looks like Ken figured it out.

[sloopyinca]

And BOOM! goes the dynamite.

[Hugh Akston]

You've really let yourself go since Saved By the Bell.

[Groovus Maximus]

A substantial cash prize to the first person to correctly guess which.

I want this in writing. I spotted you very quickly, lad.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Here I am. I can't believe I took my picture with that thing. What was I thinking? Wicker?

[Groovus Maximus]

I can't believe I took my picture with that thing.

Weren't you the computer nerd in Under Siege?

[End Child Unemployment]

Nevermind the wicker, you're breaking rule 3!

[Karl Hungus]

Here I am. I can't believe I took my picture with that thing.

Why is the front-sight assembly upside down?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'll right it in the clock tower.

[Zeb]

I like how his finger is on the trigger.

[sloopyinca]

I'm going to be seriously disappoint if it's not this one.

[Groovus Maximus]

Fuck you sloopy! Twinkle fingers!

[sloopyinca]

Wait just a goddamn minute. Did anybody else notice that Karl Hungus has never denied that he is a post-op F2M Tranny?

I'm changing my vote to this pic.

[Episiarch]

That's the same person. Isn't it?

[sloopyinca]

Just kidding. I already won.

Now, where's my money?

[Karl Hungus]

Now, where's my money?

You won! I'll just need you to go out and stand by your mailbox, your check will be along any minute now.

[Karl Hungus]

F2M

Dyslexic much?

[sloopyinca]

I assumed it was your pre-op pic from the early 80's and you went for the full transformation afterward.

Nevermind. It looked stupid when I typed it and it's only getting worse by the minute. I'm standing by my first guess.

[Karl Hungus]

I'm going to be seriously disappoint if it's not this one.

Dark glasses and a moustache?? I bet you think I drive a primer-gray windowless van, too!

[RBS]

That guy with cat... WTF?

[Ska]

And I thought having dreadlocks in my high school year book was embarrassing.

He probably describes it as a "sweet pic of me stroking some pussy."

[Groovus Maximus]

It's nice to see Christopher Atkins can still get work after The Blue Lagoon.

[sloopyinca]

OK, seriously, aside from the horrible clothing and the dated hair, this chick looks pretty hot in an 80's kind of way. Am I right?

[Groovus Maximus]

Ummm. No. Banjos, it's time to liquidate sloopy.

[Banjos]

Whoa, hold on a sec doc. You and Epi bet me that I couldn't get sloopy to marry me in less than 6 months. You said nothing about offing him.

[Episiarch]

You might want to reread our contract again, dude. Make sure you study the fine print carefully.

[Groovus Maximus]

(squints at contract) Yep, Epi's right. No women and no children. Sloopy is neither. I'm sorry. A contract is a contract.

[Banjos]

Huh, according this, The Reason Foundation becomes guardian of any offspring we produce.

[Coeus]

They will be sent to work seven days a week in the monocle factory.

[End Child Unemployment]

Agree. 80s fashion or no I would be very nice to her genitals.

[sloopyinca]

I would be very nice to her genitals.

I thought we were all still referring to it as her cunt.

Can I get a ruling, Doc?

[Karl Hungus]

Can I get a ruling, Doc?

You shouldn't need a physician to tell you that "cunt" is in fact the correct medical term.

[Groovus Maximus]

Cunt applies, especially since it's a Brit rag.

[Warty]

Dude, I would cunt the cunt out of that cunt's cunt.

[Groovus Maximus]

When you put it that way, I cuntcur.

[sloopyinca]

How long are we gonna cuntinue beating this dead horse?

[Restoras]

At least until someone leaves the cuntry.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Shultz baiters.

[darius404]

OK, seriously, aside from the horrible clothing and the dated hair, this chick looks pretty hot in an 80's kind of way. Am I right?

Yes.

[Brett L]

Napoleon Dynamite pose.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I'm with ya Sloop. 80s chicks were hot. I miss the headbands and legwarmers.

...and spandex!

[Banjos]

Gotta love the saddle shoes.

[AlmightyJB]

releasing his inner school girl? I hope he did that as a joke. Actually I hope most of these people did.

[Banjos]

The disturbing part is knowing that a company made saddle shoes and knee high socks in his size.

[sloopyinca]

BRB

**runs to closet to hide a couple of things**

[fish]

Banjos...you're with child!

You shouldn't be seeing things like that!

Sloop looks good in knee socks though!

[WarrenT]

...and nothing else.

[sloopyinca]

I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a watch with an expando-band, thank you very much.

[Coeus]

Wait, is that just a really, really drunk Larry Hagman?

[WarrenT]

I could barely masturbate to some of those photos.

I pulled through, though.

[Ska]

See link above regarding puns.

[Karl Hungus]

I could barely masturbate to some of those photos. I pulled through, though.

So which one provided the coup de grace?

[WarrenT]

That Shelly Duvall type redhead in the second line.

[AlmightyJB]

Actually I would take Rambo's girlfriend out to the barn.

[sage]

Jesus. I'm all for free speech, but...

[Doktor Kapitalism]

I've seen the Karate one before, but those have for once actually left me feeling kind of scarred. Congratulations and I'm going to take a bath in mouthwash.

[fish]

When glamor shots go horrifyingly awry.

I didn't know the president practiced martial arts?!

No....thank you Chuck Norris!

[A Serious Man]

Meet Julia. Barack Obama's dream woman. She's faceless, helpless, and totally dependent on the Great One's benevolent rule to survive. Obama intends to use this virtual person to remind voters why they need the Great Leader in their lives and how the evil Mitt Romney would fuck her over.

Seriously. This is what the Obama campaign has stooped to, creating a literal, virtual strawman.

[RBS]

I thought it was meant to be mocked?

[A Serious Man]

Yeah, he might very well just be trolling the right, but damn if that isn't pathetic. If Obama speaks of it personally to show he is serious Mittens better jump on it as exactly what is wrong with left-wing ideology.

[Brandon]

I don't think so. *The consensus among HuffPo commenters is that this is Brilliant Campaigning and a great tool to show women how much Obama cares about them.

*The above description of comments at huffpo is a composite of several different comments.

[RBS]

Well, damn. Either way, its pretty stupid.

[mad libertarian guy]

Nothing says "I care" more than a faceless woman.

[Mad Scientist]

That's what I thought, but whenever I make them wear the mask they always say I'm objectifying them.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Use a pillowcase.

[Killazontherun]

Sure it was. That Susan Fluke earnestness is winning in 2012, baby!

The people who brought you The War On Women are all about mocking feminist collectivism in an election year. Yeah, I believe that.

[RBS]

I think I completely misread his little article. He was pointing out how easy it is to mock. I thought he was saying they purposely made it easy to mock because its brilliant, or something. Chalk it up to my assuming Team Blue being able to rationalize anything to make the Obama team seem genius.

[Killazontherun]

No worries. I just assumed you were the messenger here, and didn't intend that as a criticism of anything but the surrogates of the flaming pile composed of dog shit in the office of the presidency.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, it was meant to be mocked AFTER everyone started mocking it.

[AlmightyJB]

Fuck that bitch. She's a stupid whore.

[Pip]

Barack Obama has a new composite girlfriend, and her name is Julia. Her story is told in an interactive feature titled "The Life of Julia" on the Obama campaign website. Julia, who has no face, is depicted at various ages from 3 through 67, enjoying the benefits of various Obama-backed welfare-state programs.

As a toddler, she's in a head-start program. Skip ahead to 17, and she's enrolled at a Race to the Top high school. Her 20s are very active: She gets surgery and free birth control through ObamaCare regulations, files a lawsuit under the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and pays off her student loans at a low interest rate. We get updates at age 31, 37 and 42--and then the narrative skips ahead 23 years when she enrolls in Medicare. Two years later, she's on Social Security, at which point she can die at any time.

In a column amusingly titled "Who the Hell Is 'Julia' and Why Am I Paying for Her Whole Life?" David Harsanyi raises an obvious objection to the story: "What we are left with is a celebration of a how a woman can live her entire life by leaning on government intervention, dependency and other people's money rather than her own initiative or hard work. It is, I'd say, implicitly un-American, in the sense that it celebrates a mindset we have--outwardly, at least--shunned."

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....TopOpinion

[John]

Notice also Julia has a baby all alone. No dad required, except big government

[Groovus Maximus]

Best kind of hubby, supposedly.

I'M INDEPENDENT, BITCHEZ!!! (on your dime)

[Pip]

"In 1999 Lionel Tiger coined the word "bureaugamy" to refer to the relationship between officially impoverished mothers of illegitimate children and the government."

[ant1sthenes]

Nice, I should remember that one.

[VG Zaytsev]

Ironically that concept was invented in post WWII Soviet Union.

[Zeb]

Well, you wouldn't want to accidentally shame some single mothers.

[Len Bias]

I like how when she's 67, she gets preventative health care and free pills.

Nothing about how she gets expensive, but life-saving, surgery when she's 75. Obama can't even lie about giving a shit about old people.

[John]

Best line ever. @Julia at 67 "why is there a trench out in the communal garden?"

[plu1959]

"Once Julia has exhausted her healthcare allotment, the Obama wishes her into the cornfield."

[Pro Libertate]

What's the big deal? So he had a virtual, composite girlfriend. Everyone who voted for him voted for a virtual, composite president.

[darius404]

And now available, ComPres 2.0, Mittens?!

[WarrenT]

We really have got to stop electing black people to be president.

[sloopyinca]

I said the President is near!

[A Serious Man]

O loddy, lawd! He despit, he despit! Do wat he say, do wat he say!

[ant1sthenes]

Dude, this is a new age of enlightenment. Il Douchey is her companion, her provider, yadda yadda.

[sloopyinca]

It's time for everybody on here to take the isidewith.com Presidential Quiz.

Proud to say I came in at:
95% Paul
56% Mittens
1% Obama
-and-
90% Libertarian
57% GOP
25% Green
1% Democrat
My results here.

If you take it, make sure to expand the answers and click the extra questions in every category where applicable. It opens things way up for people like us (except shrike and urine), since the libertarian perspective is rarely presented.

[Soc Indv Sparky]

How many times will this exercise need to be done?

[sloopyinca]

Just one more.

[WarrenT]

Until you are in ideological shape.

[WarrenT]

90% Paul 12% Jimmy McMillin

[Anacreon]

90% RP: You side with Ron Paul on issues of Healthcare, the Economy, Social, the Environment, Domestic policy, Foreign Policy, and Immigration.

6% BO "you both believe in evolution"

[Anacreon]

And I guess I am 85% libertarian. The 15% I'm not is probably the "Big L" part.

[RBS]

I was 96% RP and 1% Obama, I guess they don't give out zero's.

[Banjos]

You can't 100% disagree with someone. I am sure there is at least a movie you both can agree on.

[RBS]

Maybe, but can't I disagree out of spite?

[sloopyinca]

You can, but that doesn't mean he won't change his public view in an attempt to pander for your vote.

[Brandon]

Barack Obama 0%
I do not side with Barack Obama on any major issues. More info

[Soc Indv Sparky]

Here's my results page.

I still say this test is not very comprehensive.

[Brandon]

93% Paul, 92% Johnson, 0% Obama. I did not know I was that racist.

[Brandon]

I did get 24% on Jimmy McMillan, so I guess he's an uncle tom?

[AlmightyJB]

97% Satan, 2% Jenna Jameson, 1% Random Armadillo.

[sloopyinca]

That's odd, seeing as Satan's score was:
98% Obama
94% Romney
2% Johnson
0% Paul

[Fist of Etiquette]

Some crazy how I came up with 92% libertarian, even though everyone knows my motto is: "Nuke 'em all and then nuke Allah while he's sorting 'em out." And apparently O-bams and I are tight 8% of the time.

[End Child Unemployment]

I was only 87% Paul. I think I screwed up their inference engine by adding too many of my own responses. What kind of libertarian would I be without quibbling over specific wordings of policy proposals?

[plu1959]

Maybe if you weren't so dismissive of grammar, you would have had better luck, Bub.

[End Child Unemployment]

Putting words together correctly is for people who blog at night and clean the 22 oz fine crafted beer bottles and condoms and Russian corpses out of my sauna during the day.

[Killazontherun]

Mine
http://www.isidewith.com/results/5432480
Though I envy you that you are only 1% in accordance with the flaming pile of composed of dog shit in the office, I suspect it it may be my answers on abortion, gay marriage and evolution that were the key differences. However, I was pleased that I it also came back that I agreed with the flaming pile of composed of dog shit in the office on a single major issue.

[darius404]

25% Obama? Wow, I laughed out loud. I don't have the coveted 1% and 0% agreement that some do, but I still feel smugly superior with my 5% agreement.

[DesigNate]

Two way tie between R Lee Wrights and Ron Paul with Gary Johnson in a close third. A surprised 12% for McMillan (I do think the rent is too damn high).

[DesigNate]

Stupid hitting submit before I'm ready.

The Results.

[plu1959]

73% Jimmy McMillan! And ...

92% Ron Paul
74% Mitt Romney
71% Gary Johnson
16% Obama (WTF?)

87% Libertarian
75% Red
16% Green (why?)
16% Blue

[sloopyinca]

Probably because the green's stance on foreign entanglements and going to war is a pretty passive one, IIRC.

Stopped clock and all that...

[darius404]

16% Green (why?)

Don't feel too bad, somehow I got 52% Green.

[sloopyinca]

Green's foreign policy platform is almost a mirror image of the LP's and Ron Paul's foreign policy. That should account for 15-20%. I don't know where the rest of it comes from, you pinko commie.

[Wilt Chamberlain]

http://www.isidewith.com/results/5440357

Turns out I agree with R Lee Wrights the most, (87%) I didn't even know he was running. I should probably pay more attention to the LP.

[darius404]

I'd never even heard of him before the test.

[Alack]

Sweet, I got 95% on the Libertarian Purity Test. Looks like I survive this round of purges!

[Mickey Rat]

I think that means you are instigating this round of purges.

[darius404]

92% Paul
91% R. Lee Wrights
83% Gary Johnson
52% Kent Mesplay
5% Barack Obama
-and-
91% Libertarian
52% Green
31% Republican
5% Democrat
My results here.

[ant1sthenes]

Ron Paul: 88%
R. Lee Wrights: 86%
Gary Johnson: 86%
Mitt Romney: 54%
Buddy Roemer: 53%
Jimmy McMillan: 31%
Kent Mesplay: 21%
Fred Karger: 18%
Barack Obama: 1%

Are you sure this isn't conservatarian propaganda? I certainly don't feel like there's a 53% spread in my agreement between Rombot and Il Douchey. At any rate, I think all the custom answers I gave confused it. I think it should just assume that anyone that actually gets that precise about things is probably a libertarian.

[ant1sthenes]

On the plus side, looks like get to part of the 1%.

[Suthenboy]

I didnt expand the questions and I got;

91% Paul, 88% Libertarian and 81% Repub.
I am suspicious of scoring method as I also got 43% king urkel.

[AlmightyJB]

"Osama bin Laden "was frustrated by what he viewed as the incompetence" of his followers, and their tendency to kill Muslim civilians"

Well he doesn't have to worry about it now. How come we can't get our prez to worryabout those same type issues.

[plu1959]

It's so hard to find a suicide bomber you can rely on these days.

[Groovus Maximus]

It's the virgin clause. I think potential bombers are catching on.

[WarrenT]

They advertised for suicide bombers but insisted on at least one year of experience.

[Pip]

This is amazingly fucked up:

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia

[Karl Hungus]

Refused help by school officials, a bullied gay teen warned off his assailants by brandishing a stun gun. Now he faces expulsion.

According to the article, the name of the school is Arsenal Tech High School.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mixed signals from the get-go.

[Brett L]

Please tell me their mascot is a Gooner, er, Gunner.

[John]

Why doesn't Reason be honest and say

Political elites seek way to re-market the same, stale, failed, big government ideas in new third parties after such ideas have destroyed the brand of the two existing parties.

[Pro Libertate]

You know, that's a brilliant idea. The major parties should rebrand. Drop the names, reword the platforms, etc. Change the appearance while altering nothing whatsoever about the substance.

[mad libertarian guy]

You mean like how the government is no longer fighting a war on drugs?

[Groovus Maximus]

And it's a post-racial America?

[rts]

Parks Canada to privatize hot springs operations in three national parks.

[Groovus Maximus]

Radium Hot Springs in Kootenay National Park.

I think we now know out what cesspool Justin Beiber slithered.

It probably explains Avril Lavigne and Green Slime, too.

[WarrenT]

Not a single commentator there had even a shred of a clue.

Wasn't there a Reason vid of park privatization recently?

[WarrenT]

http://reason.tv/video/show/pr.....nia-doesnt

[John]

WTF is this 50 character thing?

[WarrenT]

Character counts.

[plu1959]

The content of your character, to be specific.

[Trespassers W]

LOL, nice to see you back, John.

[John]

thanks. actually been working lately

[Pip]

You have to replace the punctuation of cut & pasted text.

[Brandon]

Yeah, Tulpa is a poor substitute for authentic neocon.

[Restoras]

Yeah were've you been? I was beginning to think your inner Golum had defeated your inner Smeagol.

[ant1sthenes]

Reason hates stolen punctuation. Write your own quotations marks and dashes, parasite!

[rts]

Student's 'Jesus' shirt sparks feud with school

So much for freedom of expression.

[WarrenT]

I read that as Jesus's shit and was wondering how a school kid got a hold of the most holy of turds.

[sloopyinca]

Could someone pick up one of Jesus's turds by the clean end?

[Loki]

How'd he manage to get into Obama's bathroom? /sarc

[sloopyinca]

Stupid fucking Canadian government. That kind of shit would never ha......hahahahahahahaha. I couldn't finish the sentence with a straight face. Looks like our idiocy is spreading north of the border.

[darius404]

Other way around, sloopy, we've been canadaned.

[AlmightyJB]

Maybe tomorrow he should wear one with a picture of Jesus holding up the middle finger. Do they make those? Cause if they do, I want one.

[sloopyinca]

Why don't you overnight one to him.

Image of the above shirt.

[AlmightyJB]

Nice:) I think just the picture without any words would actually be cooler.

[darius404]

Why don't you get something for your car while you're at it.

[John]

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit......59-PM.png

this is funny

[WarrenT]

Awesome. Now make 'em kiss!

[Loki]

As I pointed out in a previous thread, left wingers exist simultaneously in both our world and Bizarro World. They have trouble keeping the two straight, which explains a lot.

[sloopyinca]

I just wish someone could get Obama to say his name backward so he could be sent back to his fucked-up dimension.

[Brandon]

Amabo Kcarab?

[Brandon]

Is Adam West still alive?

[mad libertarian guy]

Just remember: it's Team BLUE that is in the reality based community.

[Coeus]

Alternatively, you could do this: White and American Indian

[Coeus]

Odd how reasonable switched them in the display.

[sloopyinca]

It always does that unless you put a paragraph break in between the links.

Now you know!

[Coeus]

Thanks, sloop. That's half the battle right there.

[sloopyinca]

Sure is.

[plu1959]

Dream nurses, however, are just what the doctor ordered.

[Restoras]

Just not the Dream Police.

[crazyfingers]

From the bin Laden article:

"Bin Laden wanted to see another major terrorist attack occur in the United States and wanted to kill President Barack Obama and Gen. David Petraeus when he was the commander of international forces in Afghanistan. Bin Laden ordered that units be established at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and in Pakistan to target planes carrying Petraeus or Obama.

Vice President Joseph Biden should not be attacked, he instructed."

Apparently Obama didn't even consider killing Uncle Joe worthy of a stinger missle.

[Pro Libertate]

Even mad terrorists have trouble finding kids who are qualified to work. It's a global problem.

[WarrenT]

And I command you thusly, my minions; Delaware's Favorite Son is not to harmed. Not one hair on his princely head is to be mussed!

[darius404]

Sounds like Bin Laden thought Biden would be the greatest President Al Qaeda could wish for.

[R]

It's because Osama knows that leaving Biden in charge is the worst thing he could do to us.

[Mickey Rat]

Why would he kill someone who would advance his goals (however unintentially)?

[crazyfingers]

Um, Osama, not Obama. I swear I don't work for Fox News.

[crazyfingers]

If Obama were killed and Biden took control of the White House, bin Laden wrote, it would "lead the US into a crisis."

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WTF. How is this even true? Biden is just as capable of being told what to do by the oligarchs as Obama has been. And second, since when did Osama bin Laden not want the U.S. to be in a crisis?

[Brandon]

I think that's why he wanted Biden to stay safe and Obama dead.

[Episiarch]

"Let's put the retard in charge!"

Also, Being There was one of bin Laden's favorite movies.

[Groovus Maximus]

Do I have to say something nice about OBL? I rather like Peter Sellers movies.

[Banjos]

This comment is appropriate here as well.

[Brandon]

Inaccurate here as well? I apparently disagree with Obama 100% of the time.

[Loki]

Osama bin Laden "was frustrated by what he viewed as the incompetence" of his followers

"All I want is some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!"

[Hell's Librarian]

LOL. That's what I thought of when I read that.

"We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS!"

[darius404]

Ask, and ye shall receive.

[darius404]

Ask, and ye shall receive.

[darius404]

Woah, first time squirrel encounter.

[Joe M]

Even at this late hour in the 2012 election, there's still hope in elite circles that a fresh face will enter the field. Columnists continue to plead publicly for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run.

That's not exactly a match.

[Pro Libertate]

Yeah, please run. He's just what this country needs. A good laugh.

[Groovus Maximus]

Oh hell no! I'm not willing to take a chance on him actually being taken seriously just for a guffaw!

I thought that was Trump's schtick.

[WarrenT]

When is he going to drop the act and finally add 'von' to his name?

[ant1sthenes]

Hey, after the first black president, I think we're ready for our first Tenctonese president.

[Pip]

British military tank destroys Minnesota home

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....-home.html

[End Child Unemployment]

Fucking redcoats!

[Pip]

I just think it's cool that in my state you can rent a tank.

[sloopyinca]

I would imagine the pants-wetters in St Paul will close that loophole in their next legislative session.

[Restoras]

Lobstahbacks!

[Loki]

For a second there I thought maybe a filming of Richard Hammond's Crash Course had gotten out of hand.

[WarrenT]

That's not a tank it's an AFV.

And that lady saying "only in Minnesotah" has obviously NOT heard of Joe Arpaio.

[Death Rock and Skull]

It is a fucking kind of tank.

[Mad Scientist]

Kinky

[Death Rock and Skull]

What other kind of tank could you comfortably fit a water mattress inside of?

[sloopyinca]

A septic tank?

[WarrenT]

I thought that was a tank that carried people that didn't believe in things.

[sloopyinca]

No, no. Those are the Chinese Army tanks.

[Death Rock and Skull]

Glenn Evans is guilty of assault.
Also, personally doing dirty work on sphincter and nuts turns him on.

[sloopyinca]

link?

[Pip]

http://www.medboard.nv.gov/Dis.....DavidG.htm

[Death Rock and Skull]

Wrong Glenn Evans.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/inve.....71045.html
I was referring to the Chicago Police one, from the p.m. links.

[Rich]

Holder is getting ever-closer to facing a contempt order for "refusal to cooperate"

Good grief, Issa, just *do* it already!

[Soc Indv Sparky]

Oooooooooone. Twooooooooooooo. Two and a haaaaaaaaaalf. Two and three quaaaaaarters...

[plu1959]

"I swear, I'll do it! I'm not bluffing this time! I really will! See, I'm getting out my pen right now!"

[Hell's Librarian]

"Don't MAKE me call your Dad!!"

[WarrenT]

I don't know...thee might be some politics involved...

[WarrenT]

thee?

[A Serious Man]

God yes, I want to see the House Sergeant-at-Arms walk into the DOJ with his mace to arrest Holder.

[Rich]

I think this guy can take Holder even without pepper spray.

[sloopyinca]

Remember when he tried to break up that party Gary and Wyatt were throwing, but Lisa finally got them to sack up and throw them out? They both got laid that night.

[Old Mexican]

Chicago is paying millions of dollars to settle lawsuits sparked by police officers who repeatedly engage in abusive conduct without suffering personal consequences.

Police Officers Union: "We protect our own! Even when they act against the very citizens that pay our salaries."

[WarrenT]

Who would have ever thought that a monopolized service that people have no choice in paying for would ever turn out to be so corrupt?

[Death Rock and Skull]

Even when they act against workers from another thuggish, yet lower city department such as the Chicago Water Works, apparently.

[sloopyinca]

Oh, are they actually going to vet Obama this time around? At least one writer questions why they didn't four years ago.

BTW, the comments are priceless.

For instance: ImNoDhimmi
4 minutes ago
Neither daughterl looks anything like Barry or Me-Chelle. Nor do the girls resemble each other. Google "Michelle Obama pregnancy pictures". You won't find any. Not even one.

Personally, I suspect Me-Chelle is either transgendered or intersexed. With those linebacker arms and shoulders, the coarse facial features, and the many weird photos with the ill-fitting trousers and suspicious crotch bulges, could she be a he?

[WarrenT]

Oh yes. Please, if there is a God let this be true.

[ant1sthenes]

That would be epic.

[Rich]

Thanks, sloopy! I needed that.

[Pip]

She probably checked "female" so she could get into Harvard Law.

[sloopyinca]

Denver man outed as gay by Best Buy employees. NTTAWWT...except for the fact that he's not gay...NTTAWWT

I smell a lawsuit coming.

[TingoZing]

So OK man who comes up with all that stuff. Wow.

http://www.Privacy-Dudes.tk