A.M. Links: Lugar Loses, Federal Inmate Gets 40% Against Obama, Twitter Hack Wasn't

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 8:53 AM

Senator Richard Lugar lost his bid to be re-nominated by the Republican Party in Indiana while federal inmate number 11593-051 scored more than 40% of the vote against President Obama in the Democratic primary in West Virginia. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will be the Democrat facing Scott Walker in the recall election this November June.
A group of hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous claimed to have hacked Twitter. The company says the claim is bogus, with the hacked information largely coming from suspended spam accounts.
Joe Biden on Iran: "When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We were the problem. We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe." A Mitt Romney spokesperson said the comments were "completely inappropriate."
British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the Euro single currency needed a single government as well. "The euro is a project in transition that could go in a number of different ways … all these countries have to make their own choices, " Cameron said.
California is considering a ban on gay conversion therapy, because it is harmful and ineffective.
That Cherokee ancestor of Elizabeth Warren's might've actually been rounding up Indians on the Trail of Tears instead.

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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

California is considering a ban on gay conversion therapy, because it is harmful and ineffective.

Harmful and ineffective? The Cali state government is heading toward self-banishment.
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  At least ban the War on Drugs.
  1. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    can't do that; too much profit in it. Easier to focus on conversion therapy since there is no extra money in it for the state either way and govt can look like it is doing something meaningful without actually doing anything at all.
  2. Robert S 13 years ago
    
    Ironically, the war on drugs is a sort of gay conversion therapy; they're just converting them the other way.
2. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  They should ban themselves, since they're harmful and ineffective.
  
  Eat shit, Sacramento.
3. John 13 years ago
  
  1st Amendment, what is it?
  1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
    
    1st Amendment, what is it?
    
    Dead. Or at least maimed to the point it is irrelevant.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      Maimed certainly, but not yet irrelevant. With the obvious glaring exceptions, you really can publish or say what you want, without prior restraint or censorship. The stupid restrictions on commercial and political speech are a problem, but they aren't everything.
4. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  If we're going to ban the ineffective, then let's get started.
  
  This could be fun.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Former Great Yorkshire Show boss jailed for filming a man having sex with a pony

Ex-cop and peddler of kiddie porn too. But the Daily Mail knows what we'll click on
1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  Stay classy Daily FAIL, stay classy.
2. NeonCat 13 years ago
  
  Did the pony say neigh?
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    Right, let's keep our focus on the mane issue here.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

A group of hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous claimed to have hacked Twitter.

HFS, if we can't trust Twitter feeds, chaos will ensue! ENSUE!
1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  Stop using big words, libertard. Public school kids will be unfairly discriminated against!
  
  /Sacramento.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the Euro single currency needed a single government as well.

Vlad Putin says he can help with that.
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  This could well come down to two choices: Abandon the Euro or double-down and complete the political unification of Europe.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    I still maintain the Germans are going to build the 4th Reich out of this mess. They'll be pushing for the unification, just wait.
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      Unconditional unification!
    2. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
      
      The situation has the possibility of leading to another war.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Oh, goody. This time, maybe we should stay out of it.
        
        Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
        
        Like that could happen.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, we just gots to meddle.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Krugman just got a boner.
        
        Ben the Duck 13 years ago
        
        Can an inverted penis, no matter how comparatively tumescent, ever really be accurately termed a "boner?"
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    There's no question in my mind that they have to choose.
    
    And that creating a Euro superstate can only be done over the vociferous objections of a solid majority of Europeans.
    
    I would say its on a knife-edge, right now. It will probably come down to the Germans: are they willing to foot the bill/go into serious inflation? If not, then they can kill the Euro currency and superstate.
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      It's hard to read the tea leaves in Europe. Right now, you'd think they'd just dump the Euro and allow the EU ties to weaken. But this is Europe we're talking about, so it's not impossible that they'll just unify into one big, messy country. I doubt it, but times are weird.
    2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      And that creating a Euro superstate can only be done over the vociferous objections of a solid majority of Europeans.
      
      Depends on which ones are the majority. I assure you Eastern Europe will have a lot to say over this, since those newer countries are more solvent individually.
      
      I would say its on a knife-edge, right now. It will probably come down to the Germans: are they willing to foot the bill/go into serious inflation? If not, then they can kill the Euro currency and superstate.
      
      True, since Germany is the solid economic leader in the EU for now. I also find it ironic since the UK has yet to adopt the Euro as de facto currency and PM Cameron making such suggestions. If Germany was to start printing Deutchmarks immediately, I wonder what affect that would have on the British Pound. The recently independent states can make some interesting demands at this point prior to inclusion in the EU, if that is their desire.
    3. robc 13 years ago
      
      The Germans will be fine with it if they are in charge.
      
      As I said sometime back, they spent the entire 20th century trying to uniform Europe, why back off now that they have succeeded.
      1. robc 13 years ago
        
        s/uniform/unify/
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        No, no, I see what you did there...
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        RCz law...my typo was funnier than the original.
    4. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Its like all the stuff from the '90s about this being the only logical outcome (and therefore the point all along) has been memory-holed. But I distinctly remember the anti-Euroists saying exactly this.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

The dread hand of government tries to destroy the naive folk art of prison tatts

http://www.canberratimes.com.a.....1ybfg.html
1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  But the government cites reports by prisons expert Keith Hamburger, from the virology research centre the Burnett Institute, and former health minister Michael Moore, which recommended a safe tattooing facility to control the spread of HIV and hepatitis.
  
  The good Minister is aware of the epidemiology and etiology of sexual contact for these diseases is the same as parenteral contact? If they aren't poking needles in each other, they will be poking something else, and these are not mutually exclusive either.
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    Aaah, they're all aware of that. That's why they hand out condoms to them!
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      Unfortunately...
      
      Dispersal =/= Use
      
      Unless their incarcerated trysts are supervised.
      1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        This is the People's Republic of the ACT so they probably would supervise if they had the cash. Or even facilitate ("Jaysen, what do we say? That's right, please bend over, bitch. Now, don't forget what we learnt about reacharounds...")
  2. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    Michael Moore was a former health minister? Was this before he started making crappy mockumentaries?
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

The company says the claim is bogus, with the hacked information largely coming from suspended spam accounts.

Yeah, just because some accounts were hacked doesn't mean Twitter was hacked.
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Let me try that sarcasm again with more sarcasmy flavor...
  
  "We weren't hacked! See, look at these hacked accounts as proof!"
2. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
  
  It does seem like there's a difference between hacking accounts and hacking a service.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Yes. Especially when "hacking accounts" usually means guessing passwords (which is pretty much what all the supposed "phone hacking" in the UK was).
sarcasmic 13 years ago

You can feed your kid any way you want, any where you want.

And if you want to practice making another kid, give me a ring.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....h-old.html
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Breastfeeding a 21 month old kid? That's about a lot of things, but doing the best for the kid isn't one of them.
  
  My old GP used to have a patient out in the bush who breastfed all five kids at lunchtime - the eldest one was eight, and they would come home from school. All I could think of was this
  1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    Perhaps she is related to this stately lass.
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      I have to admit, I kind of love that picture.
      1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        I'm afraid to look. "Fat+Dancer.jpg" is enough for me. Though I figure John would fuck her.
      2. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        The Venus of Neverbathingdorf.
      3. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        As did Jabba, Demonica Archiva. She was his favorite dancer.
        
        Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        LOL. Although, I also have to admit I have often nerdishly wondered what an intelligent slug would find sexually attractive about a human(oid) harem girl.
        
        Alack 13 years ago
        
        I always assumed that, for Hutts, it was more of a status/power thing; like, Jabba realizes that other people desire "attractive" slave girls, so he buys them up to show he can afford it and to deprive other people of them.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Let's just say Jabba's tastes rival that of STEVE SMITH!
        
        Though no documented evidence exists that Jabba was bi-sexual or majored in Greek Studies.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Did you ever see any female hutts?
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    You do have a point.
  3. T 13 years ago
    
    My wife's old boss had a wife who was very active in La Leche and gave breast feeding classes at local hospitals. She breast fed all 4 of the kids until they were 5 or 6. The office staff did the math and figured out she'd had a kid on the tit for something like 17 straight years. 42 longs, indeed.
  4. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    21 month old isn't so weird. 8 is definitely fucking nuts.
2. Rich 13 years ago
  
  Hamilton was breastfeeding her baby in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art when a female employee told her that it was making another patron feel uncomfortable
  
  Based on the photos, I'll wager a male employee told her to go right ahead.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    I would.
  2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
    
    Based on the picture, she has LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE! written all over her. I have absolutely nothing against breastfeeding in public, but it's not too much to ask to throw a receiving blanket over yourself and the kid.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      I agree, Demonica Archiva, but you have factor in the potential attachment parenting issues, not to mention the potential claustrophobia from covering the suckling babe.
    2. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      I went to a party thrown by a bunch of goth people. At least three women were openly breast feeding kids. I have no problem with that, but it did seem like they were just doing it to be "cool" and "edgy".
    3. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      I think that if people don't want to see it, they shouldn't look.
      1. Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        I think people need to get over the whole "boobs are weird/sacred/gross" thing. I've never understood why two lumps of fat need to be cloistered or why only female nipples need to be blacked out/covered up in magazines. This is one area where cultural conditioning is pretty retarded.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Sacred? Yes. Weird? 52% of the population is supposed to have them, about 60% actually does. Gross? Rarely, except in that extra 8%
      2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        Kind of hard not to look when she's sitting in the middle of an art museum.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Unless she's up on pedestal with lights shining on her, there's something lese to look at. Like teh arts.
        
        Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        Just make sure to shield your virgin eyes if you come across any topless paintings. Because, you know, it's such a big deal.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Decorum is a lost art, Demonica Archiva.
3. John 13 years ago
  
  That may be the first recorded case of an actual attractive women doing that in public. Usually the word "sow" comes to mind when witnessing it.
  1. rac3rx 13 years ago
    
    ^THIS^
l0b0t 13 years ago

Krugabe is the current guest on Washington Journal. I've been hitting redial for 20 minutes in an effort to speak with him but all of the callers so far have been sycophants and fellow travelers.
1. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  You're a better man than I.
2. l0b0t 13 years ago
  
  Unintentionally hilarious Krugabe quote - when asked if he thought there was a danger that the US would not be able to borrow money, he replied "People have been talking about a debt crises in Japan for as long as I can remember; basically about 12 years."
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    Japan's debt is at about 220% of its GDP. When the house of cards comes down, it's going to come down hard.
    1. l0b0t 13 years ago
      
      Krugabe actually used Britain and Germany during the 1920s and 30s as an example of why deficits do not matter. As long as people will loan you money, keep borrowing, seemed to be the thrust of his argument.
      Also, I urge everyone to go to the C-SPAN video archive and watch his segment once it is posted. A caller asked him to explain to the rubes and the monsters at FOX News how the multiplier effect works. Krugabe's stammering ramble about how a 1st grade teacher paying her bills turns $1.00 of tax money into a $1.75 once it hits the 'economy' is top-notch stupid. He was in rare form today.
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        I'm afraid to watch it. I might bust a forehead vein.
        
        l0b0t 13 years ago
        
        Yeah... the next guest was some liberal hand-wringer from Harper's Magazine bemoaning the loss of Cabrini Green Houses. Mrs. L0b0t wisely commandeered the television set and is making us watch Bad Girls Club; I yell at that televisual feast as well but there is less danger of me throwing things at the screen.
        
        Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        "bemoaning the loss of Cabrini Green Houses"
        
        ???
        Don't we all long for the days that inner city minority students had to dodge bullets raining through their classroom windows in their government-run projects?
        
        Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        http://www.harpers.org/archive.....c-90008600
        
        Here's the strange, nostalgic article. Funny part about the white Maoists who moved to Cabrini Green, got beaten when they confronted cops, and then sued the city successfully. Maoists never seemed to have a problem with administering state beatdowns; they just hate receiving them.
        
        l0b0t 13 years ago
        
        Thanks for the link. I followed it to Ben Austen's other stories for Harper's. His 2009 piece about Detroit's saintly UAW and the evils of those sandle-wearing goldfish-tenders at Toyota who had the temerity to open a plant in the Bluegrass State is not to be missed.
        Also, I really don't know who to root for in his Cabrini piece; I hate cops and Maoists.
        
        Rhywun 13 years ago
        
        You'd think he could have gone to the trouble of locating someone who DOESN'T pine for their old urine-soaked bullet-riddled hellhole residence.
  2. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
    
    as long as I can remember; basically about 12 years.
    
    So Krugnuts is roughly as intelligent as, say, any random member of Creed...?
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

I like the look of West Virginny's Obama challenger in that pic up there. Business in the front, Dothraki horse lord in the back.
1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
  
  ...Dothraki horse lord in the back.
  
  No bells though. If he beats O, should he add one?
2. Underpants Gnome 13 years ago
  
  That is the best sentence describing hair that I have ever seen.
3. robc 13 years ago
  
  Since he lost, he has to cut it off, right?
Rich 13 years ago

Contest! What was (or should have been) the campaign slogan of Keith Judd (federal inmate number 11593-051) in running against Obama?

"A Candidate With Conviction"

"A Troubled Man for Troubled Times"

"A Snake in Every Pool"

...
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  "I've killed fewer people and stolen less money"
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    *like*
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Nice.
    
    You owe me a new keyboard and monitor, I just spewed soda all over this one.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      you're not hitting me up for the soda as well? That's pretty big of you
2. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  "Washington Needs to Be Reformed from the Inside"
3. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  "It Takes a Thief..."
4. Rongsida Bedd 13 years ago
  
  "Fuck you, that's why!"
5. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
  
  "The Only Candidate with Full Disclosure"
6. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
  
  "I had my political platform tattooed on my chest so I won't forget it."
  
  "I won't be squeamish about using my pardon power."
7. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  "I can win by a hair!"
8. Al Bakortoona 13 years ago
  
  "You Know Where I Stand on Gay Marriage"
9. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  "I have never ordered a drone strike and I have never bailed out a bank."
10. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  "Vote for a President who has paid for his crimes"
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Winner.
  2. JW 13 years ago
    
    Yer on fire this morning!
11. Loki 13 years ago
  
  "What Washington really needs. Prison rape, now more than ever."
12. ChrisO 13 years ago
  
  "Meth. Legalize it. Subsidize it."
Bardas Phocas 13 years ago

So now my choices for president are between Gary Johnson or Keith Judd. Johnson, though not a perfect libertarian, is better than everyone but Ron Paul.

But Judd has that whole federal prisoner and making theats going for him.
1. Proprietist 13 years ago
  
  Depends. Johnson is better than Ron Paul on immigration, gay marriage and the 14th Amendment assuring equal protections by state governments (Kelo, Lawrence, etc.)
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

Those dumb teabagging conservatives were right after all, part XCVIII:

The Atlantic on "How Expanding Student Rights Undermined Public Schooling"

http://bit.ly/IeBezQ

The first sentence could be the start of many an article: "There was a time not long ago when well-intended reformers thought..."
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Anybody who ever thought you could reason with or negotiate with a child has obviously never raised one.
2. J_L_B 13 years ago
  
  The law of unintended consequences provides us with a good lesson here. With expanding due process in schools comes expanding punishment for the student. Far from freeing students from an stiffling authority, the SC opinions have helped to enact even stricter policies and reactions to violations.
  
  In previous days bringing aspirin or tylenol to school for a headache was not a problem. Even if the principal or teacher objected, they merely reminded the student that their policy is to get medication form the school nurse. These days the consequences for doing the above is even criminal.
  
  The due process pushers wished for a more formalized process of discipline and got it. The problem is that an increasingly formalized process of disciplining results in a decreased use of common sense, and an increased severity of punishment.
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    "law of unintended consequences"
    
    As some commenters have pointed out, forseeable=intended.
    
    Right-wing types were screaming bloody murder when these "reforms" were adopted, but of course the reformers didn't care. "OMG why do you *hate children!*"
    
    Now they are belatedly acknowledging that this wasn't such a hot idea, but getting rid of these reforms will be extremely difficult, even assuming they have the will to try. ("OMG why do you hate children? Racist!")
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd votes.

I honestly thought it was Ashely Judd making a more extreme point that we, as a culture, focus too much on looks.
Tim 13 years ago

BIDEN UNLEASHED!

heh.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd. The state party also believes that Judd has failed to file paperwork required of presidential candidates, but officials continue to research the matter, Scarbro said.

Embarrassing. It doesn't look like Judd's campaign is any more on the ball than Gingrich's or Santorum's were.
1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  To be fair, he has been boxed in as of late.
2. Ed 13 years ago
  
  I'm sure they can find a Ron Paul delegate to go.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Body was in Derriford Hospital car park for two days

But at least his disabled parking pass was valid
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  "Disabled users have unlimited parking time on site"
  
  I think I see a way to avoid burial expenses.
Mike M. 13 years ago

Dear Senator Lugar: don't go away mad, but by all means, please do go away.
1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  🙂 Well done. Let's see how gracious a loser he is.
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    Odds that he moves back to Indiana?
    
    (Answer: 0)
Enough About Palin 13 years ago

"The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex.
However, the true number of victims, who were "passed around" by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted.
Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have now apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim - Girl A - to trial following her cry for help in August 2008.
One 13 year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being called racist", former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....acist.html
1. ALHaines 13 years ago
  
  Someone please explain to me how the mass import of Asiatic immigrants has helped Britain.
  
  This crime was not, of course, racially motivated. Culture clash must not exist!
  1. Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
    
    I'm trying as hard as I can to see what a story about the police failing to do their jobs has to do with immigration.
  2. Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
    
    Incidentally, "the mass import of Asiatic immigrants" was a consequence of British law that held that British subjects, regardless of their birthplace had a right to live in Britain. The place was lousy with Aussies, Kiwis and Canucks for years too. They usually didn't stay long though as their homelands aren't shitholes like India and Pakistan.
    1. ALHaines 13 years ago
      
      I understand that. But how many Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks were plying teenage girls with alcohol and forcing them into prostitution for the shits and giggles of their fellows? They were either a) not doing so, or b) not getting caught.
      
      They may have been British subjects, historically, but Muslims from British territories have never really been British, and they don't see value in white teenagers except as sex slaves. Notice they were not abducting their own ethnic teens to serve as prostitutes, they were preying specifically on white girls. They might live in England, but Britons they will never be, and never respect.
      1. ALHaines 13 years ago
        
        Also, would the police have feared charges of racism if they'd gone after a gang of Kiwis forcing girls into prostitution?
        
        No.
        
        The over-sensitivity to such charges against Muslims (and the very real possibility that the Muslim tendency to violently retaliate, to the death) prevented the police from doing their jobs.
        
        Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
        
        I don't know for certain but I'm fairly sure that by a huge majority "Asiatic immigrants" are not "plying teenage girls with alcohol and forcing them into prostitution".
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        "The over-sensitivity to such charges against Muslims (and the very real possibility that the Muslim tendency to violently retaliate, to the death) prevented the police from doing their jobs."
        
        Seems like simple cowardice prevented the police from doing their jobs. The over-sensitivity is just a convenient excuse.
        
        Isaac Bartram 13 years ago
        
        Actually, there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that English police are quite slack about following up on rape complaints. Actually From newsp[aper reports English cops sound like the laziest bastards on earth when it come to responding to almost all criminal complaints but there lack of action on rape cases is especially inexcusable.
        
        It's quite conceivable that once confronted with some bleeding heart counselling cultural sensitivity their natural laziness combined with their subservience to bureaucratic superiors and gave them an excuse to ignore everything.
        
        As to the invasion by Asiatic hordes, it has for the most part been positive. The immigrants tend to be far more entrepreneurial and self reliant than the native born English working class yobo, and heavily represented in the small merchant and shopkeeper class.
        
        Isaac Bartram 13 years ago
        
        All of the preceding should be read from a complete FWIW perspective.
        
        I am fully aware that anecdotes are not data and your anecdotes and the conclusions you draw from them might be quite different than mine.
        
        Isaac Bartram 13 years ago
        
        Also, if the stories my handful of Jamaican and English born black friends are true, English cops could use a shitload of real cultural sensitivity training.
        
        The way they tell it they're truly a bunch of raging bigots. And these are guys that pretty much shrug at any of the casual racism that happens in this country.
2. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  While the willingness of the local po-po to tolerate gang rape of teenagers as long as the rapists are Muslim is horrifying, I can't help but notice that in an article about the corrosive effects of political correctness, the newspaper couldn't stop itself from referring to Muslims as "Asians".
  1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
    
    Limey Island. That's all you need to know to discount expectations of logic or reason of any sort.
  2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    RPA is right RC. In the UK this is par for the course. In UKR, this would not have been tolerated at all. Even if bribes were necessary to take a more "individualized" approach to justice.
  3. Timon 19 13 years ago
    
    That's common parlance in the UK for those from the subcontinent, which is decidedly in Asia, and is where most of the eastern immigrants in UK come from.
  4. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
    
    tolerate gang rape of teenagers as long as the rapists are Muslim
    
    "Welcome to Liberaltopia!"
3. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  For those of you who haven't read the article, read it. This is one reason why Britain is doomed. Cultural sensitivity is taking precedence over basic human rights.
  1. ALHaines 13 years ago
    
    How long before that starts to happen here? Or is that a moot question yet?
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      I'd say we're following by about 20 to 30 years.
      1. ALHaines 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but isn't the standard libertarian response to restricting immigration that immigration shouldn't be restricted, and that we need immigrant labor to keep our economy going and our population robust (and also to ameliorate perceived collective guilt over colonizing less advanced civilizations 400-500 years ago)?
        
        Or can we do it better next time?
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Oh goody, another troll telling us what we think. This one seems to be of the NeoCon "tuk er jorbs" variety, which I guess is sort of refreshing after the last couple of emotional nitwits.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Libertarians don't tend to give a shit about, or at least don't want to blame the current generations for, crimes that may have been perpetrated by our ancestors. The "White guilt" ad hom doesn't really stick to people who eschew identity politics. As for the semi-lucid part of your question, no, immigration should not be restricted, generally, but people should also be free to defend themselves and their families from shit like this without having to rely on police and social workers. Blaming this on immigration is disingenuous, as this group was, what, .0001% of the total number of immigrants to Britain in the past 10 years? Even .01% of the total number of Muslim immigrants? It was 9 fucked up individuals, and a failure of the State to protect its property.
      2. wareagle 13 years ago
        
        periodically, this member of the EU Parliament makes the rounds, Daniel Hannan (I think). His summary is just that - you (the US) are where we (the UK) were a couple of decades ago and you are headed in our direction quickly.
    2. Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
      
      Actually, most of this kind of "cultural sensitivity" was invented in the USA and has just been imported into countries like the UK (and Canada and Australia) where it got distilled and refined into the kind of lunacy that is its logical outcome.
      
      It would actually be an interesting historical study to see just how many of the ideas ravaging the world today were originally advanced by American "thinkers" and wisely rejected by the populace at large only to be adopted enthusiastically by other governments.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

For years, former laborers in Nazi-era ghettos have been fighting to get the pension that German law ostensibly guarantees them. A strict interpretation of that legislation, however, has meant that a vast majority of applications have been rejected. Now, a complaint has been filed with Germany's highest court.

Waiting for them to die, no doubt

http://www.spiegel.de/internat.....32103.html
John 13 years ago

Headline of the day.

Obama takes a Wide Stance on Gay Marriage to Placate Voting Blocks

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05.....ing-blocs/
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  ... tap, tap, tap ...
2. T 13 years ago
  
  Didn't they run the last guy to take a wide stance out of office?
3. Rich 13 years ago
  
  The article continues, President Barack Obama is staying in the gay marriage closet.
  
  Nice.
4. Pope Jimbo 13 years ago
  
  The Onion nails it: Obama Blasts Obama's Evasive Stance On Gay Marriage
Coeus 13 years ago

Coming to you live from South Korea, so I'm about to go to bed. But first:

Check out the policeone commenter's reaction to the guy whom the DEA gave kidney failure. It's every bit as execrable as you think it might be.

And, bonus, isn't this cop just such a big damn hero. Imagine if he put in that much effort to solving real crimes instead of potential ones.

Oh, and thanks to Groovus for posting that taser stuff yesterday. First argument I ever got into with dunphy. And I guarantee he still won't admit he's wrong.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  That's a pretty big screw up! Hopefully the Agent that was responsible won't get fired and can take his lumps and move on.
  
  Let's not forget what is important here.
2. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  Check out the policeone commenter's reaction to the guy whom the DEA gave kidney failure. It's every bit as execrable as you think it might be.
  
  Two standouts:
  
  "They are going to pay him. Wait for him to do something wrong then arrest him and take their money back. Recycle 101."
  
  and
  
  "Unacceptable on any level. When we arrest an individual, we assume liability for that individual.
  We are responsible for their safety, their well being, their hydration, their nourishment, their medical care, etc. There is no excuse for allowing something like this to happen. We're not China."
SugarFree 13 years ago

Banned from tanning? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO [gasp] OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  The heartless wretches. She'll fade away without their help
2. Tim 13 years ago
  
  She can still cross state lines to get tanned. Unless the Feds invoke the fucking tenth ammendment.
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Or The Mann Act.
  2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    COMMERCE CLAUSE!
sarcasmic 13 years ago

I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,' Peterson said in the sermon.
'We should've never turned this over to women. It was a big mistake... And these women are voting in the wrong people. They're voting in people who are evil who agrees (sic) with them who're gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.
'And this probably was the reason that they didn't allow women to vote when men were men. Because men, in the good old days, understood the nature of the woman. They were not afraid to deal with it and they understood that if they let them take over, this is what would happen.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-vote.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Women were given the vote in what 1919? It was only 13 short years before the Republic as we knew it ended. He may not be right. But his theory does agree with the known facts.
  1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
    
    But his theory does agree with the known facts.
    
    John, correlation does not equal causation.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      No, it does not necessarily mean causation. But its existence is certainly a necessary predicate to causation.
      1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
        
        I agree that its existence is certainly a necessary predicate to causation. but I think we had already started down the road to ending the republic long before women got the right to vote.
        
        As Sugerfree notes the Whiskey Rebellion was 128 years before. Also the Alien and Sedition Act was 121 years before they could vote.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        The first Republic ended with the Civil War. The second one ended with the New Deal. I happen to like the second one a lot. And I think women getting the vote had a lot to do with it ending.
        
        ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
        
        I would say passing the Fed. Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment in 1913 ended the Republic. Nothing has done more damage than these two IMHO.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        I think that there is little in the past that one should want to return to. I think that the only reason why people might have been freer in some sense in the past is because it was technically impossible to monitor and control people to the extent possible today.
        
        As for the women voting question, I am sure that that had something to do with the success of the progressives and the New Deal. But so what? Judging groups of people collectively is always wrong.
        The thing about caring about freedom and self determination is that you have to support freedom even for people who disagree with you and will oppose freedom. Or you are just as bad as they are.
  2. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    The Whiskey Rebellion was put down 128 years before women got the vote.
    
    That's when America jumped the shark.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      That's when America jumped the shark.
      
      At what point, TWR or Womyn's Suffrage?
      
      *ducks*
  3. Alack 13 years ago
    
    John, I know you're not one to agree with anarchists but might I recommend Democracy: The God That Failed?
    
    The premise is that, as democratic rights expanded, the role of government necessarily had to change to the horrid thing we have today. The author wants to unite conservatives and anarchists/libertarians as common allies against a state that destroys traditional values.
    
    It also vaguely advocates monarchy as being preferable to democracy. It's not something I agree with, but a thought-provoking read nonetheless.
    1. Tim 13 years ago
      
      I am a monarchist: Ser Ilyn, bring me his head.
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      I will have to check that out. I had the pleasure of knowing a few professors in college who were straight up monarchists. And they made some good points.
      
      The problem is that when you have a good king, it is great. But when you have a bad one, it is that much more horrible. And then succession is a problem. You have to be willing to live with idiot sons.
      
      I think the British had it pretty close to right with the Glorious Revolution. You have a King to intervene when the Parliament goes crazy. Sadly, the British monarch has become a figure head. A real monarch would have refused the royal seal to most of the nonsense that Parliament is passing.
      1. Alack 13 years ago
        
        In that case, I also recommend the (cancelled) show, Kings. It's an alternate-history of the world where monarchy remained the standard formula; it's also sort of a retelling of the rise of biblical King David.
      2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        I'm voting for Warty for king. Sure, the world would become inhabitable, but the laffs would be epic.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        I've been voting for lulz for years. That's why I like it when LaRouchies are on the ballot.
  4. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
    
    Women were given the vote in what 1919? It was only 13 short years before the Republic as we knew it ended.
    
    Prohibition passed in 1919 also.
    
    Coincidence?
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      Prohibition actually was the galvanizing issue that brought women into the Big Tent of The Temperance Leagues during The Temperance Movement. They wanted to ban booze and the right to vote and got both. So women have been on the forefront of limiting choice and expanding government for a long time.
      1. nicole 13 years ago
        
        So why do we complain about how few of us there are here? Seems like a plus.
    2. robc 13 years ago
      
      I personally think the 16th and 17th are much bigger problems than the 18th. The 19th was pretty damn bad -- but, at least they were still following the constitution. Soon thereafter, prohibition stopped requiring an amendment.
2. Coeus 13 years ago
  
  Submitted without comment.
3. gaijin 13 years ago
  
  So the 'men who are men' in the Afghanistan have it right? I think this guy would make an excellent Taliban.
4. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  That's one of my favorite ways to wind people up, when popular election of Senators isn't getting the reaction I want.
  
  "Well, if you don't think popular election of Senators was the fatal blow to our Constitutional system, that pretty much leaves you with allowing women to vote."
  1. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
    
    Do men and wymenz assign value in differently? If so, I'd say it is reasonable to assume that doubling the number of voters with people with different values, will change the narrative. To predict how would be speculative, but I have a few ideas that I occasionally piss off my wife with.
  2. Emmerson Biggins 13 years ago
    
    Thats a good one. I'm gonna use it in real life sometime. I occasionally try to bring up the 17th when engaged with non brain dead people. But even around what I consider to be pretty smart people, bringing up the 17th amendment can often induce blank stares of boredom. Maybe this rhetorical tactic can introduce a little bit of emotional oomph to the conversation.
Enough About Palin 13 years ago

I love a happy ending...

Penn. Korean War vet, 84, shoots home intruder with gun he carried in war

ELIZABETH, Pa. - Police say an 84-year-old western Pennsylvania man wounded a home invasion suspect with the gun he carried in the Korean War.

Elizabeth Township police say 25-year-old Raymond Hiles was captured not long after trying to break into Fred Ricciutti's home early Tuesday morning.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/150749315.html
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Please tell me the perp was looking for the keys to the Gran Torino in the garage.
  1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
    
    Clint's not amused.
2. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
  
  Here's the flipside:
  
  D-Day Paratrooper and Wife Murdered in Oklahoma
John 13 years ago

Pictures from the Occupy LA May Day Rally

I would call them retarded, but frankly that is an insult to retarded people. They can at least write proper signs.

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012.....a-may-day/

Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what those signs are supposed to mean.
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Those first few are incomprehensible, even to me, and I can usually translate from the Leftist Idiot patois quite easily.
  
  "Prescribed Degrees Lag / Free the Capacity to Craft Free"? Huh? Is Esty demanding credentials to make beard hats now?
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    "Duty to Defy Time
    
    Not War
    
    Wages Rise"
    
    WTF?
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Maybe it works out as a haiku in Sanskrit.
    2. Alack 13 years ago
      
      "The time is now, and our duty is to defy. We should focus on raising wages rather than spending all of our money on war."
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Wow Alack did you go to school to learn to speak leftist retard or did your parents speak it in the home?
        
        I am impressed.
        
        Alack 13 years ago
        
        I spent most of my life in MA and CA. You need to know the lingo to get by.
  2. Alack 13 years ago
    
    "Prescribed Degrees Lag / Free the Capacity to Craft Free"
    
    TRANSLATION: "The idea that we need to get approval to get degrees, via the price system, causes us to lag behind in our march toward a better future. We must make it free to learn so that we can be free to improve ourselves and others to the fullest capacity."
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      Your advanced command of the lingo here is quite impressive. It still sounds stupid, but at least now it's comprehensible and stupid.
      1. Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        Looks like he just put it into Google Translate to me.
    2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
      
      Wow. Your skills are impressive.
      
      Also, has the dumb fuck ever heard of the library or Google?
    3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      You could make a decent living as a douche-to-adult translator - hospitals, the court system etc would all pay to understand what the poor dears were trying to say
      1. Alack 13 years ago
        
        I, uh, actually work with hospitals. So. Mission accomplished?
      2. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I have a friend who is transcribes legal depositions for a living. The excerpts she posts are priceless.
    4. rac3rx 13 years ago
      
      Holy shit, dude...you're like the retard whisperer.
      1. perlhaqr 13 years ago
        
        Laughing my ass off now. 😀
2. Alack 13 years ago
  
  Well, the homeless guy was asking people to give him money. The other ones I can make neither heads nor tails of.
  
  Something about greed and 1% and corporations, I'm sure.
3. rho 13 years ago
  
  Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what those signs are supposed to mean.
  
  "SNAKES SNAKES SNAKES SNAKES IN MY FACE!"
4. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  I rather liked adoptahomelessmotherf??ker.com (as seen on TV). It would be better of course as employahomelessmotherf??ker.com. I do sometimes ask professional beggars what they will do for my spare change. Considering the arse-ache I have to go through to earn the spare change, it seems a fair question
  1. Rich 13 years ago
    
    Amazingly, that site actually exists.
5. Alack 13 years ago
  
  Your monthly bonus is my college tuition
  
  "I am entitled to the money you have earned; it is more important that I be given an education than that you are able to buy things in accordance with the others' valuation of your abilities/contributions".
  
  Capitalism Kills Animals Humans and the Earth
  
  "If it weren't for the free and voluntary exchange of goods, we would still be living in the Garden of Eden."
  
  Wake the f?%! up America[...]
  
  "A cabal of foreign money-lenders are the source of all worldly problems. By starving others and frightening them into submission, they gain dominance over us. Lincoln and Kennedy, two great presidents, were assassinated precisely because they saw this fact."
  
  PO Trucks Drug Tunnels Meth Tanks DEA FBI US Coast Guard Up to 5 Million US Dollars Reward Lee Kuan[...]ew People's Action Party Singapore Police Up to 1 Million US Dollars
  
  "I am a paranoid schizophrenic. Please bring me to the nearest care facility."
  1. rho 13 years ago
    
    You're like the Retard Whisperer.
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      LOL. This should be the motto of OWS observers.
6. Pope Jimbo 13 years ago
  
  Unless they can top this protest I remain unimpressed.
  1. Pope Jimbo 13 years ago
    
    Sorry, just linked the picture, here is the story.
    
    Alzheimer's Sufferers Demand Cure For Pancakes
Ken Shultz 13 years ago

That Cherokee ancestor of Elizabeth Warren's might've actually been rounding up Indians on the Trail of Tears instead.

Why does everyone keep picking on Elizabeth Warren?

She's just a poor little Indian girl, who needs some extra help because of all the discrimination she's suffered all her life--because of her Indian ancestry!

One more time, it isn't about Elizabeth Warren's ancestor. It's about Elizabeth Warren. She disgracefully billed herself as a minority, who was discriminated against, in an effort to aggrandize herself. ...at the expense of some deserving Native American professor somewhere, who probably would have had an opportunity to teach at the University of Pennsylvania--if only Elizabeth Warren hadn't been so greedy.

Elizabeth Warren callously exploited the people she claims to be fighting for--she certainly didn't let squashing some minority's opportunity get in the way of self-aggrandizement. And the people of Massachusetts should be ashamed of themselves if they elect her to represent them.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  But she means well. I am sorry for that poor Indian who didn't get that Harvard appointment. But sometimes the individual has to be sacrificed for the greater good. If he had gotten that job, Harvard would have been deprived of the fairy godmother to Occupy Wall Street.
  1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
    
    It's the disturbing pattern on display here, too.
    
    She claims not to be part of the 1%--despite making over $400,000 a year and having millions in assets.
    
    She's obsessed with portraying herself as a poor victim of discrimination--even though she's wealthy as all hell. She's a classic limousine liberal--and she's scared to death of the truth.
    1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      One of most sickening part of Warren and the other "elites" of her ilk is they produce nothing of value. What has she done, other than make a bunch of BS papers supporting lefty causes, with her life? And she gets all the money for producing essentially nothing.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        ^^This^^ She doesn't even train good lawyers. Her students at Harvard would do just fine no matter who taught them. And they get their legal training at the firms that hire them.
        
        At some level deep in her mind, Warren has to know this. And I think he hatred of the "system" and capitalism is at some level hatred of her self.
      2. plu1959 13 years ago
        
        And the lofty salary she's been earning is largely the result of tuition inflation fueled by easy government money/credit.
        
        Ken Shultz 13 years ago
        
        It's not just the professor's salary!
        
        She made a ton of money by fighting asbestos claims for Traveler's Insurance--way to fight for the little guy, Elizabeth!
        
        She made $165,300 for working as a special adviser to Barack Obama. She earned a few hundred thousand dollars--from you, the taxpayer!
        
        "She collected a total of $192,722 for leading the congressional panel that oversaw the US bank bailout."
        
        http://www.boston.com/Boston/p.....index.html
        
        Harvard Tuition isn't the half of it. She took money out of your paycheck! How's it feel to be the 1%, Elizabeth?
        
        P.S. Her husband is a Harvard Professor, too. They're stinking rich!
      3. Restoras 13 years ago
        
        The sickening thing to me is that these people do this all in pursuit of power and to satisfy there own inflated egos. It's disgusting and repulsive. She and her ilk beleive they are btter than everyone else, deserve their trappings and benefits, while all the rest of us are supposed to knuckle under, behave oursevles, and let our betters decide how we should will live our lives.
        
        When the common man revolts, and these people find themselves tarred and feathered, swinging from a gibbet, or under a guillotine, or worse, they will still beleive in the righteousness of their cause - which is nothing but a base pursuit of power.
    2. tarran 13 years ago
      
      My mom picked up on something very interesting... Warren is vain about her appearance.
      
      Warren made some crack about not having to take her clothes off to get ahead, and Brown apparently made a joke along the lines of "Thank God" and she got mad. My mom heard Warren's response and says that Warren was really pissed that someone would think she wasn't attractive enough for a magazine to shoot naked.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        All women are vain.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        Let me guess...
        
        All men are rapists = hysterical feminist collectivist nonsense
        All women are vain = just the facts, ma'am
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Calling someone vain is not quite like calling them a rapist.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        It is still a lazy unfair generalisation, no?
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        Everyone knows not to take John too seriously. Every comment he makes begins with "All" or "Every". To John there is no middle ground.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        Everyone knows ...
        
        I saw what you did there
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Not all of my my comments begin with a universal declarative. But yes, Mo, the ones that do are generally not to be taken literally. They are either tong in cheek or making a rhetorical point.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        But yes, Mo, the ones that do are generally not to be taken literally. They are either tong in cheek or making a rhetorical point.
        
        Believe me, I understand that point. That's what makes it so easy to not take anything you say seriously.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Well you are such an intellectual giant there Mo, I would hate to force you to lower yourself down to us mortals. I am just glad someone like you is willing to even speak with us let alone share his smugness.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        Well you are such an intellectual giant there Mo, I would hate to force you to lower yourself down to us mortals.
        
        Just you John, just you. I know the angle you come into any discussion from so I know how to take your comments, usually with a shaker full of salt.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Of course you do Mo. That is just because you are so much fucking smarter than the rest of us and your farts smell like roses.
        
        There is a reason why all of us hang on your every word and take it like Gospel. You don't need to be modest. Let your smugness flow. You are among friends.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        Thanks John, I appreciate the high praise but coming from you it means nothing. You're just another angry artifact on the Internet. As far as I know, I am so much fucking smarter than the rest of you, though maybe not as specialized in some areas like doctoring or lawyering. I don't know what gave you the idea that I was being smug, I was simply pointing out that a lot of the time you're a douche. There's no need to get your panties in a twist when someone calls you out on it, none of the other people here do.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        You were just pointing out how wonderful and superior you are while dismissing other people completely, ignoring any possibility of iron from the other side while being completely pedantic. But you were not being smug at all.
        
        Keep up the good work there champ.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        You were just pointing out how wonderful and superior you are
        
        Didn't do it.
        
        dismissing other people completely
        
        Just you.
        
        ignoring any possibility of iron(sic)
        
        I know it was just you being you John.
        
        irony from the other side while being completely pedantic
        
        FTFY. And I don't think irony is the right word. How's that for pedantic?
        
        But you were not being smug at all.
        
        You got it.
        
        Keep up the good work there champ.
        
        I'll do my best.
        
        PS - I haven't accidentally fallen into MNG's spot have I?
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        "tong in cheek"
        
        Sounds painful.
        
        rho 13 years ago
        
        Well, there's no Rape Quarterly, but plenty of fashion and beauty magazines.
        
        Neither one of those statements are true, but one is more true than the other.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        If I am not mistaken Steve Smith is the long time editor of Rape Quarterly.
        
        rho 13 years ago
        
        Mea culpa.
        
        Please don't rape me, STEVE SMITH.
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        All the hot ones are - that's how they stay hot.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        This explains Warren how, exactly?
      2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        She's pissed because he zinged her. She set up the pitch and he knocked it out of the park. Serves her right. Should have played along with the joke and moved on.
      3. Michael 13 years ago
        
        She smiles the way a little kid shows you he just lost a tooth.
2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  All this is making me wonder if I can claim sort of superfecta of discrimination when I apply for stuff. I have to admit I hadn't considered it, but hey, if it
  s good enough for our "elites"... Cherokee ancestry: check. Irish ancestry: check. Catholic ancestry: check. Impoverished tenant farmer ancestry: check.
  1. plu1959 13 years ago
    
    You forgot gayness. That's the easiest one to fake.
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      Well, the husband-unit and child-unit might be taken as a claim against that, but perhaps I could respond that I am bisexual, perhaps even with lesbian tendencies.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Oppression by a heteronormative culture forced you to make decisions to fit in.
      2. JW 13 years ago
        
        Yes, yes, go on.
    2. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      True, this. I'm not gay. I'm straighter than a statute mile, but I manned the GLBT table at work last month, so no a lot of people think I'm gay. Even the gay folk that were there. But what am I supposed to do? Tell everyone who comes up to the table, "Hell no I'm not gay. That shit's disgusting."?
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        "I'm a lesbian who had the misfortune to be born male."
        
        Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
        
        That's my line.
        
        rac3rx 13 years ago
        
        My husband and I are just a bulldogga & a drag queen.
        
        That pretty much does it.
        
        Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Demonic Archiver and now rac3rx? How many women do we actually have here?!
      2. Proprietist 13 years ago
        
        Who cares? Let them think what they want to think, and if they make assumptions in conversations, gently correct them. It shows you're completely comfortable about your sexuality.
3. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  at the expense of some deserving Native American professor somewhere,
  
  I don't accept the premise that her position at Harvard was reserved for Indians.
  
  She defrauded Harvard at the expense of all the other applicants.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    It was sure as hell reserved for minorities. If they hadn't hired her, they would have found another minority to meet the quota, although not necessarily an Indian.
    
    I love Harvard's claim that she was qualified and would have been hired had she not claimed to be Indian. Okay, then why do you need affirmative action if minorities would get hired anyway? Is Harvard admitting that they are racist and would be unwilling to hire qualified minority candidates if affirmative action policies didn't force them to? Seems that way to me.
  2. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
    
    I don't accept the premise that her position at Harvard was reserved for Indians.
    
    The position at Harvard may not have been reserved for Native Americans, but would Harvard have hired her if she hadn't been at the University of Pennsylvania?
    
    She started listing herself as Native American when she was at the University of Houston--is my understanding. Would the University of Pennsylvania have hired her if she wasn't supposedly Native American?
    
    If she didn't think it would help her, then why did she list her ethnicity as Native American?
    
    Do you know what her answer is?
    
    She says she listed her ethnicity as a Native American in the hope of meeting new people!
    
    "I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am," said Warren.
    
    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....t-friends/
    
    That's another reason to vote against Elizabeth Warren--she treats the people of Massachusetts like they're stupid.
    1. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
      
      That's another reason to vote against Elizabeth Warren--she treats the people of Massachusetts like they're stupid.
      
      There's a reason for that. I'll give you two guesses what that reason is.
      1. Restoras 13 years ago
        
        Seriously. I love the state and it's history but geez they can be unbeleivably dumb when selecting representatives.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        The entire history of the Kennedy clan is a testament to the stupidity of the MA voter.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        Bingo!
    2. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
      
      "I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am," said Warren.
      
      By "people who are like I am", what the hell did she mean?
      
      People that are also taking advantage of a technicality to deprive some minority professor, who has genuinely suffered discrimination? People who are doing that for their own self-aggrandizement--and then turning around and running for office on a platform of fighting for minorities and the downtrodden?
      
      How many more people like that are out there?! I guess she imagines the rest of us are just as depraved as she is.
      1. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        deprive some minority professor, who has genuinely suffered discrimination
        
        Are you sure you're a libertarian? I could have sworn part of that profile meant not accepting that discrimination is not real.
        
        Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        er, discrimination IS real.
        
        Ken Shultz 13 years ago
        
        Nah. If we libertarians are gonna make inroads with minorities, we're gonna have to acknowledge that the discrimination they suffer is real.
        
        And the best solution to that? The best way to create more opportunities for minorities who have been discriminated against?
        
        It ain't affirmative action at Ivy League schools that the elite like Liz Warren just misuse for themselves anyway.
        
        I have a dream. That we will one day live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. I call call that dream "free-market capitalism".
        
        There is no better way to create more opportunities for minorities who have been discriminated against than free market capitalism.
        
        nicole 13 years ago
        
        Preach it, Ken!
    3. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      She says she listed her ethnicity as a Native American in the hope of meeting new people!
      
      Yet somehow never got around to socializing with the "real" Indian law profs.
      
      And for good reason. If she had shown up at one of their dos, they would have laughed her out of the room.
      1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
        
        She's have been found out--for sure.
    4. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
      
      she treats the people of Massachusetts like they're stupid.
      
      I am grudgingly forced to confess open admiration for Warren's spot-on assessment of her own voting base.
4. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
  
  Ken, if you keep banging on that Lizzy the Limousine Liberal harp you're going to break the strings. We get it, you don't like her. You also seem to be under the impression that only YOU can see the true woman. Well guess what, the voters of MA don't give even one half of a shit what you think. People like her are the type of people they've been putting in office for decades.
  1. plu1959 13 years ago
    
    It's giving me a helluva good laugh.
    1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
      
      It's supposed to be funny.
      
      Fer Christ's sake, if you can't bash a limousine liberal on a libertarian blog--who participated in TARP, helped bring about the CFA and claimed to have "created the intellectual foundation for what the Occupy Wall Street Movement is doing?
      
      Then what the hell's a libertarian blog for?
      1. plu1959 13 years ago
        
        Right on.
      2. Brandon 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, Mo Money Parky, lighten up.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

New toys take cyber sex to a new level!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....emote.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  You missed the Kate Middleton split skirt pics? You disappoint me sarcasmic.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem.....split.html
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    not sharing != missing
  2. Resto Druid FTW 13 years ago
    
    Her toes look delicious.
2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  The video for this MAKES this article. Pure gold.
3. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
  
  Using tht Motion2Vibration technology, the device is able to transform the movements performed by each user into vibration signals and send them to another selected device
  
  Can you save the file for playback at a later time?
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    Does it have the equivalent of picture-in-picture, if you know what I mean?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

New Documents Shine Light on Euro (the single currency) Birth Defects
1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  Newly revealed German government documents reveal that many in Helmut Kohl's Chancellery had deep doubts about a European common currency when it was introduced in 1998. First and foremost, experts pointed to Italy as being the euro's weak link. The early shortcomings have yet to be corrected.
  
  but with usual government foresight, they decided to plow ahead.
2. Jerry 13 years ago
  
  A common currency was already proposed I believe shortly after the Second World War, but then dumped. 40 years of studying the issue apparently didn't make people wiser.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

S.E. Cupp: So where do you stand, Mr. President?
From gay rights to Syria, Obama is maddeningly vague
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I can think of a few places I would like Ms. Cupp to stand.
  1. Jerry 13 years ago
    
    Does it involve a countertop and kitchen?
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Or any piece of furniture about that height.
2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  What I think is interesting about the "gay community" (at least the people whose blogs I follow, at any rate) is that by and large they seem to be bitterly disappointed in Obama, and yet by and large they still plan on voting for him. All those rainbow pins are pretty sad.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    And in my experience, the gay community is full of people who run small businesses. The very ones Obama is screwing over.
  2. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
    
    I was working for a UCC church, and it was sad to see the group emails that would go out about Obama, discussing his "record" of talking out of two sides of his mouth, lack of backbone for the gay community, but still determined to cast a vote for him.
  3. Alack 13 years ago
    
    A rainbow never smiles or blinks/it's just a candy-colored frown
    1. Brandon 13 years ago
      
      SF'd
  4. Rhywun 13 years ago
    
    yet by and large they still plan on voting for him
    
    So they vote largely on social issues just like the rest of America.
Res Publica Americana 13 years ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05.....icans.html
1. John 13 years ago
  
  In Russia government has affinity for you.
  1. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
    
    Russian immigrants daring to proclaim capitalism the mechanism of their success, and daring to condemn socialism, while natives squirm and caress the cock of authoritarianism.
    
    My family is squarely in this category. They ran from the reds. Not a single member of my immediate family is a Democrat, and most are stern Goldwater-esque Republicans -- much like you, in fact.
    
    My parents were exceptionally vocal in their hatred of communism, and, incidentally, had become highly patriotic Americans very quickly.
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      Reminds me of the former Soviet citizen talking to/ confronting some of the OWS people about their usage of Communist symbols and ideology.
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVe95s6gH1s
      
      I thought it was interesting; it shows just how little actual thought some of these people put into their so-called politics.
2. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  Among NY's Soviet Immigrants, Affinity for GOP:
  
  "To many Russian and Ukrainian immigrants, the cornucopia in the shops along Brighton Beach Avenue -- pyramids of oranges, heaps of Kirby cucumbers, bushels of tomatoes with their vines still attached and a variety of fish, sausages, and pastries -- seems like an exuberant rebuke of the meager produce that was available to them when their lived in the Soviet Union.
  
  This contrast helps explain a striking political anomaly: immigrants from the former Soviet Union are far more apt to vote for Republicans than are most New Yorkers, who often drink in Democratic Party allegiance with their mothers' milk and are four times as likely to register as Democrats than as Republicans."
  1. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
    
    Don't worry,
    
    America's socialist schools will make good little socialist out of their grandkids.
3. Res Publica Americana 13 years ago
  
  "One reason these voters tend to support Republicans is that they see them as more ardent warriors against the kind of big-government, business-stifling programs that soured their lives in the Soviet Union. Their conservative stances on issues like taxes and Israel seem to outweigh their more liberal views on social issues like abortion.
  
  Tatiana Varzar came to the United States in 1979, at age 21, from the Ukrainian seaport of Odessa. She worked as a manicurist and then opened a small restaurant on the boardwalk that grew into Tatiana Restaurant, a spacious magnet for foodies who like a whiff of salt air and a sea view with their pirogen. Today it is a destination for high-powered Russians, like some of the executives who own the Brooklyn Nets.
  
  "I am what I am because of capitalism," Ms. Varzar said, "and Republicans are more capitalistic."
  
  Anatoly Alter immigrated from Kiev, Ukraine, in 1978, worked as a machine operator in Manhattan's fur district and now owns one of the fur emporiums on Brighton Beach Avenue, a shop lush with mink, sable, and ermine coats. In his view, Democrats like Obama have introduced a "socialist mentality," which is why he prefers Republicans. "Too many people want to rely on free money and socialist institution, and they want businessmen to pay for it," Mr. Alter said."
  1. Alack 13 years ago
    
    God bless those immigrants. May the be successful and use their earnings to run ceaseless SuperPAC ads against their enemies.
    
    Seriously.
4. Emmerson Biggins 13 years ago
  
  despite the antipathy many Russian immigrants expressed toward state programs, a large number of his compatriots worked in hospitals, nursing homes and social-service agencies that received government financing
  
  good old New York Times. making the "you can't really be a libertarian because you drive on the roads" argument. Is there a name for this piece of shit argument? There should be.
  1. Brandon 13 years ago
    
    Reductio ad somalia?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

The sweet tooth that spawned an epidemic

What this means is anyone's guess, but it isn't far-fetched to infer that a government-mandated health-care system eventually would necessitate a government-mandated diet to control costs. In another study, Finkelstein and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that obesity costs about $147 billion per year, accounting for about 9 percent of all medical expenses.
The Other Kevin 13 years ago

Ron Paul's numbers were disappointing, but at least we got rid of Lugar yesterday. Happy to say I was part of that.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Bruce Hoffman: What Osama Was Thinking at the End

Americans were repeatedly told that al Qaeda had ceased to exist as an organizational entity, that it had become nothing more than a hollow shell, a leaderless group of disparate individuals unconnected to any central authority. Bin Laden was said to be completely estranged from the movement he created: living in a remote cave, isolated from his fighters, sympathizers and supporters, unable to exercise any meaningful role in the movement's operations and future trajectory.

The picture that emerges from the seized Arabic-language documents is of a leader involved in both al Qaeda's day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. Ever the policy wonk, opining on topics as diverse as the "Arab Spring" and the declining U.S. economy, bin Laden also retained his penchant for attempting to micromanage-however unresponsive his franchises and affiliates may have been beyond the villa.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  What Obama was thinking at the end:
  
  "Abottabad Falafel House 30 minute delivery MY ASS!"
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    (sigh) Osama. Whatever.
  2. Elspeth Flashman 13 years ago
    
    I larfed.
Longtorso 13 years ago

Your morning STEVE SMITH fodder:

Killing Bigfoot OK in Texas ? if he's Texan
1. Emmerson Biggins 13 years ago
  
  Just don't use a rimfire. Then it would be illegal.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Greek Parties Have Little Chance of Forming Government

There seems to be little chance of Greece's political parties being able to form a viable coalition government after voters punished the two main parties in Sunday's election. It's a worst case scenario for the country's European partners, whose whole approach to fighting the Greek debt crisis is now in question.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Greek Parties Have Little Chance of Forming Government a Rational Thought
  
  FIFY
2. ChrisO 13 years ago
  
  Toga! Toga! Toga!
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Cherokee Liz's Shoddy Scholarship

In 2010, as Obama was floating Warren's name as someone to run his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, "The Atlantic" magazine reviewed her academic work and found a disturbing "pattern" of using bogus metrics to inflate the case for left-wing causes. "Deeply, deeply flawed," it said of her research. "This isn't Harvard (Law) caliber material ? not even Harvard undergraduate."
1. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Once a fraud, always a fraud.
  
  I predict a stellar political career for her, by Senate standards. She's spent her whole life lying to gain position, and lying to advance left-wing causes. She's a natural.
2. Tim 13 years ago
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoRa-S8mckI
3. John 13 years ago
  
  Odd how colleges never seem to over look conservative academic fraud. Yet, people like Liz and Ward Churchill go right to the top despite being obvious frauds.
4. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
  
  "This isn't Harvard (Law) caliber material not even Harvard undergraduate."
  
  Actually, it was.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    ^^This^^ Since when has that school produced anything but leftist tripe? Forty fifty years maybe.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Carla Bruni threatens to start singing in public again after Sarkozy is kicked out of office

OK, how many of you would hit that if it meant listening to her sing a wistful song about your pitiful performance?
1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
  
  Oh my - Carla's been hittin' the plastic surgeons office with a vengeance hasn't she? That bottom picture looks like she's entering Jocelyn Wildenstein territory.
  1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
    
    OMG, you are right. Perhaps they are secret twins, separated at birth. I wonder if Carla wants cat eyes also.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      You be nice to that girl with the plastic surgery! She's been going through a trying time, what with all her social climbing harlotry. And the secret to Jocleyn Wildenstein's fountain of youth is still unclear. Nothing a little base and some powder can't cure!
  2. John 13 years ago
    
    She is not aging well. Bone skinny and lots of bad work is not a good look for anyone.
    1. rac3rx 13 years ago
      
      Many thin women don't age well. What keeps a face younger looking is fat.
nipplemancer 13 years ago

Apparently there's a noise that only Canadians can hear.

The so-called Windsor hum, described as a low-frequency rumbling sound, has rattled windows and knocked objects off shelves in this border community just across the Detroit River from the Motor City. Locals have said it sounds like a large diesel truck idling, a loud boom box or the bass vocals of Barry White.
1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  it's the mating call of STEVE SMITH
  1. nipplemancer 13 years ago
    
    I thought STEVE's mating call was the generic sounds of lost hikers.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      The seven sweetest words to STEVE SMITH: "You left the map in the car?!?"
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        The seven words to make a rapesquatch love you. Reminds me of this. Which I highly recommend as the best fantasy series being currently written. Waiting for the 3rd book is killing me.
2. Tim 13 years ago
  
  It's the underground UFO base.
Coeus 13 years ago

Not sure about the premise, but the talent is promising:

Written by Eric Kripke, directed by Jon Favreau and produced by JJ Abrams' Bad Robot and Warner Bros TV, "Revolution" is described as a high-octane action drama following a group of characters struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist. Billy Burke plays the lead, with Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiradakos, Graham Rogers, and Anna Lise co-starring.
1. MP 13 years ago
  
  Some good post-apocalyptic fare is always entertaining. But Jericho and The Walking Dead have set the bar for this pretty high.
2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  I'm getting bored with the JJ Abrams style mystery plots that always play out to be some of the worst written plot devices by the time the series ends.
  1. MP 13 years ago
    
    I'm still holding out hope for Fringe.
    1. R C Dean 13 years ago
      
      Just let it go, MP.
3. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
  
  That reminds me - I should look for Damnation Alley on Netflix streaming when I get home.
4. Tim 13 years ago
  
  All forms? How do their cells metabolize?
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    I was slow, my first thought also.
5. John 13 years ago
  
  That sounds dumb. All forms of energy? You can't burn wood or cattle dung? All the coal in the earth disappeared? The rivers stopped running?
  1. nipplemancer 13 years ago
    
    Yea, it's kinda stupid. Kinda reminds me of SM Stirling's books. They're a fun read but the idea that IC engines and gunpowder don't work because of some mysterious force are retarded suspensions of the laws of physics.
    1. Coeus 13 years ago
      
      Like I said, not sure about the premise. But with that talent I'm willing to give it a shot.
  2. Coeus 13 years ago
    
    All forms of energy?
    
    Don't forget photosynthesis. I'm guessing the blurb is incorrect.
6. robc 13 years ago
  
  So, without any form of energy, how do they move.
  
  Burning sugars and etc for fuel inside the body is a form of energy.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    And moving itself is kinetic energy.
    1. ant1sthenes 13 years ago
      
      E = MC^2. Everything is energy. Apparently they're trying to survive in a universe that contains nothing, not even them. Sounds difficult.
7. rac3rx 13 years ago
  
  If Kripke's writing, I'm in. Supernatural has really gone downhill since he left as showrunner.
TangoFingo 13 years ago

So that is what they mean by all that? OK wow I get it now.

http://www.Get-Privacy.no.tc
Joe M 13 years ago

Senator Richard Lugar lost his bid to be re-nominated by the Republican Party in Indiana

Best news of the day. I'm tap-dancing with delight.
Joe M 13 years ago

California is considering a ban on gay conversion therapy, because it is harmful and ineffective.

Of course, homeopathic medicine is fine.
Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago

Okay, I have a FUCKING Lysol commercial playing in the background every 10 FUCKING seconds and I can't fucking find it to turn it off! I't driving me nuts! What happened to pop-up blockers? Why can't they filter this shit out.

AAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
1. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
  
  NoScript is your friend.
  1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    Are you the same Sparky or a different Sparky? As in the Soc Indv variety?
    1. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
      
      Yes. I just changed my name to fit in a little better with the hip young crowd.
      1. Mo' $parky 13 years ago
        
        Also, to show my undying love for Ke$ha.
  2. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
    
    Chrome
some guy 13 years ago

http://www.nationalreview.com/.....el-tanner#

Michael Tanner on why Paul Krugman is wrong... again.
Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago

French sophistication reaches Jersey Shore levels:

French Pres's girlfriend: We're not getting married just to make diplomatic events less awkward.

She also says that when the Pres's former GF ran for office, she (the current GF) didn't vote for her - too "painful."

The PM has four children by the ex-GF.

http://tgr.ph/Jeypm2
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  In France this is "sophisticated", in the US, it is a reality TV show.
2. Kreel Sarloo 13 years ago
  
  The PM has four children by the ex-GF.
  
  Sorry to be pedantic but the PM (Prime Minister) is a separate position from the President in France.
  
  Francois Hollande is the new President of France, the Prime Minister is Francois Fillon.
  1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
    
    I forgot.
    1. Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
      
      But they're both named Francois, that's the key point.
Brandon 13 years ago

"That Cherokee ancestor of Elizabeth Warren's might've actually been rounding up Indians on the Trail of Tears instead."

So she's the perfect Democratic candidate.

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