A.M. Links: Sheriff Asks for Independent Review of Seth Adams Shooting, George Soros' Euro Warning, Gaydar Real

Ed Krayewski | 6.4.2012 8:46 AM

It took 47 minutes to get Seth Adams, the unarmed 24-year old shot four times by a West Palm Beach sheriff's deputy, to a hospital fifteen miles away, records released by his family's attorney show. The sheriff, Ric Bradshaw, has now requested an independent review from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Immediately after the shooting, Bradshaw said "there's only two witnesses here: the suspect and the deputy. And the suspect was not able to be interviewed. Why he decided to assault the deputy? We may never know that."
An NYPD officer has been charged with official misconduct, offering a false instrument for filing, falsifying business records, making an apparently sworn false statement, perjury and making a punishable false written statement. The officer, Diego Palacios, appears to have straight-up lied when he arrested a Brooklyn man. Palacios claims the man tried to run him over but security video completely contradicts that.
Former Republican presidential candidate Thaddeus McCotter will soon be a former Congressman too. The 5-term representative from Michigan dropped his write-in bid for re-election. His name was removed from the ballot after most of the petition signatures were found to be fraudulent.
George Soros claimed in a recent speech that Germany had three months to "correct its mistakes and reverse the current trends," which point to the disintegration of the EU.
Johan Santana delivered the Mets their first no-hitter in franchise history on Friday, against the St. Louis Cardinals, leaving the San Diego Padres as the only major league baseball team without a no-hitter. R.A. Dickey followed with a complete game shut-out on Saturday and the Cardinals didn't earn a run against the Mets until the eighth inning of Sunday's game.
New research suggests gaydar is real, but not all that accurate.

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Karl Hungus 13 years ago

Los Angeles: Two men, hearing a woman scream, rush to her aid and find a man attempting to sexually assault her. They whale on him, hold him for the police. To me, this story is noteworthy because it's being reported by a British paper, which seems to be suggesting that these guys are heros. Ironically, had this taken place in Britain, the two good Samaritans would likely have been arrested and charged with God knows what for using force to subdue the would-be rapist. Even without this angle, it's still a good story.
1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  *heroes
  1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    Thanks for posting this Karl. Every little grain of human decency reported helps keep alive the notion that humankind does have it's bright spots.
    
    Also true about the remark about how Britalin would treat these impromptu rescuers.
    1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
      
      Also true about the remark about how Britalin would treat these impromptu rescuers.
      
      Funny, some of the commenters there seem to agree. But even though that sentiment seems prevalent, I still have little doubt that a UK prosecutor would be able to find a jury to convict these guys, had this happened on British soil.
    2. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
      
      According to a certain poster here,
      
      Those two fuckers are fundamentally evil. Investigations are in order.
    3. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
      
      Britalin
      
      Is that some new ADHD treatment?
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        It has unfortunate dental side effects, so use at your own risk.
      2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        That was on purpose. SOD knows those malocclusioned sad sacks could use something to pull their heads outta their bums. I think the buck teeth get caught on their colons.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

We may never know that.

The problem with killing a law-abiding man with a willful family. Sometimes we will find out.
1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  The fact that the guy was unarmed indicated shoddy police work. If the dead guy doesn't have a throwdown piece in his cold, dead hand by the time backup arrives, then it sounds like additional training is needed. Such training could perhaps be completed while he's on paid administrative leave.
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    I blame the current policy. I don't know what that policy is, but I call for it to be studied and amended so this doesn't happen again.
    1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
      
      I blame the current policy. I don't know what that policy is, but I call for it to be studied and amended so this doesn't happen again.
      
      Nothing to study here: every officer needs to have a throwdown piece, period. And while they obviously can't just up and issue them out, maybe they could simply pay a yearly allowance to each officer so that he can procure his own piece
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        I thought that's what the "evidence" locker was for.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

The mystery of dunphy's absence solved? Maybe.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Remember, people. These are the people that need a union or thy'd be on the other side of the cage door.
  1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    I have heard it said it takes a thief to catch one.
2. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  He has received internal reprimands for inappropriate dealings with his son in a holding cell and over his effort to retrieve nude photographs of a relative.
  
  Dealings? What the hell are dealings? This could be anything from jokingly locking his son in a cell on a tour to molestation. Nice reporting.
3. The Hammer 13 years ago
  
  Couldn't be. Dunphy doesn't think the police need reform, and we're all just mean cop haters.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

His name was removed from the ballot after most of the petition signatures were found to be fraudulent.

But I thought Peter Guzinnia was one of his staunchest supporters.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Dixon Kuntz was also a noted supporter.
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    I wonder if he'll send back the campaign contributions Phil Accio sent in on behalf of his girlfriend, Amanda Mount.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      But what of the staunchest of supporters, Cravon Moorehead?
      1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        He was on holiday with Philippa Hole
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I thought Dick Burnz was with them, no?
        
        Bobarian 13 years ago
        
        Jack Meoff? Ben Dover? Anita Mann? Amanda Hugginhold?
        
        Karl Hungus 13 years ago
        
        Ivan Yurkinov was deemed ineligible to donate, due to citizenship concerns . . .
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Wayne Kerr was also declared ineligible due to his thick Geordie accent...
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        Heywood Jablome.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        But Ivor Biggun was legit, right?
        
        Eduard van Haalen 13 years ago
        
        Jacques Orff.
        
        Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Mike Hunt was a really staunch supporter as well.
        
        Kant feel Pietzsche 13 years ago
        
        Dick Fitzwell and Pat McGroin had no comment.....
        
        KMA Too 13 years ago
        
        My God, it took that long to get to Mike...
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Thaddeus McCotter ended being the most ridiculous name on that list.
mr simple 13 years ago

George Soros claimed in a recent speech that Germany had three months to "correct its mistakes and reverse the current trends," which point to the disintegration of the EU.

"...or I shall release devastation upon you the the likes of which the world has never seen. Fools, you'll rue the day!"

I tried to read the piece, but I guess Soros isn't noted for his brevity or general point making.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  He's the Oracle of Omaha Beach, stormin' Europe's western front
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

His name was removed from the ballot after most of the petition signatures were found to be fraudulent.

OK, who wants to confess writing their HandR handle on the slaphead's petition?
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I'd never be caught dead in that state up north. How dare you imply my presence in that shithole.
  
  O-H...
  1. robc 13 years ago
    
    OHIO==MICHIGAN to the rest of us.
    1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      ...I-O!
      1. robc 13 years ago
        
        Ive always wondered why Buckeye fans do a cheer for the Bobcats.
        
        Weird.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        I've got sons at both fine institutions, so it works for me.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I was cheering them when they beat scUM this year in the tourney, that's for sure.
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        The Bobcat Band should do a script Ohio State at halftime for one show to "return the favor".
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        They could select two trombone players to "cross the Ts"
        
        AlmightyJB 13 years ago
        
        It's kind of like how we all call the USA "America".
Groovus Maximus 13 years ago

It took 47 minutes to get Seth Adams, the unarmed 24-year old shot four times by a West Palm Beach sheriff's deputy, to a hospital fifteen miles away

I see the NHS approach to EMS is alive and well in FL. If he had been brained to near death, instead of shot, that would have been The Full Monty, so's to speak.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

...Germany had three months to "correct its mistakes and reverse the current trends," which point to the disintegration of the EU.

It's a threat not a warning.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

I want a pet so I can kill it and get this done to it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....d-car.html
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  DAMN YOU!
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    hey sarcasmic, it's such a freakin' awesome story it should be posted twice
    1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      But, but, but you beat me by mere seconds!
2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Thank you, thank you, thank you. That made my day.
3. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  That is fucking tits. Thanks!
4. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  I like that he gave it a surprised look on its face.
5. heller 13 years ago
  
  Step off old men, she's mine.
  1. heller 13 years ago
    
    God damn you squirrels.
6. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  I want a pet so I can kill it and get this done to it
  
  If there was an X Prize for best story posted to HR, you'd have just won it. This shit is going straight to my Facebook page.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Emma Watson is all growed up!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....dress.html
1. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
  
  She's pretty and has stellar legs, but she ain't got no titties.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Christina Ricci shows off her five-head!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....tches.html
1. robc 13 years ago
  
  Anyone noticing her 5-head is doing it wrong.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    The hair helps.
2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  what's with the crappy back tattoo of a gay lion? I blame CS Lewis
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    You want gay lions? Here's some gay lions.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      The top lion is a real jerk - doesn't have the decency to give him a reacharound or nuthin'
      1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Have you seen the claws on those beasts? *Groovyhood withers*
      2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        At least he had the courtesy to give the other lion a tap on the shoulder when it was his turn to be Top Cat.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        I didn't see any spats.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Here kitty kitty!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....d-car.html
1. DJF 13 years ago
  
  Finally,someone has come up with a new use for a dead cat.
  1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    What's the old one?
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      Dissection and vivisection.
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        Whoops. How could I have forgotten Comparative Anatomy?! My hands still smell like dogfish shark.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Perhaps you should wash more often.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Too easy.... 🙂
    2. Silver Fox 13 years ago
      
      Chicken balls.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Barone: America looks like Texas, not like California
http://campaign2012.washington.....nia/576006

Texas prospers not just because of oil and gas, but thanks to a diversified and sophisticated economy. It has attracted large numbers of both immigrants and domestic migrants for a quarter-century. One in 12 Americans lives there, according to Examiner columnist Michael Barone.
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

the Cardinals didn't earn a run against the Mets until the eighth inning of Sunday's game.

This is the best response to anyone who refuses to believe it's not currently the month of September.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  What the fuck is a "Mets"? I thought it was a delicious sausage.
plu1959 13 years ago

Can someone explain to me what the deal is with Zimmerman and his website revenue, and why the court is upset about it now?

As I recall, this issue was already argued in court when bail was set the first time. Why are they acting like this is some new development? I haven't been able to find a news story explaining this.
1. tarran 13 years ago
  
  When bail was set, he didn't disclose that there were some $200,000 in the account. In his defense, it appears most of that money had been deposited in the previous few weeks by strangers wishing to contribute to his legal defense and it's possible he wasn't aware of the fact it had grown to a huge sum.
  
  With that being said, he's clearly not a flight risk, and the judge is being a dick.
2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  it's because they're said to have lied about how much it had raised at the April hearing:
  
  Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, was asked about the website at the April bond hearing, but she said she didn't know how much money had been raised. The judge set bail at $150,000. Zimmerman was freed a few days later after posting $15,000 in cash ? which is typical.
  
  ...
  
  Prosecutors said last week that Zimmerman and his wife told the judge at a bond hearing in April that they had limited money, even though he had raised about $135,000 through a website set up for his legal defense. They suggested more has been collected since and deposited in a bank account. Defense attorneys say the matter is a misunderstanding.
  
  http://www.time.com/time/natio.....z1wpTyrM00
  1. plu1959 13 years ago
    
    The thing I don't get is that the website issue was already ventilated at the April 20 bail hearing.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Sorry, i thought that made it clear. From what I can tell, it's not the existence of the website that is the alleged new fact, it's the alleged lie about how much it had brought in.
      
      Mrs Z says in April "hey, i dunno if it's raised anything". Court says, "OK, you don't have a lot of assets, bail set at 150,000." Prosecutors now say they have proof that she knew there was a warchest from the website and fibbed
      1. plu1959 13 years ago
        
        Unless I dreamt it (not impossible), I have a distinct memory of the fact that the website had brought in $200k being pointed out to the judge by the prosecutor and O'Mara apologizing and explaining it, back in April.
  2. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Earlier versions of the story said he had an unrevealed passport, but I don't see that in any of the new stories.
3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I think it has more to do with placating a mob than serving the best interests of justice.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    aye
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Who had the worst week in Washington? Elizabeth Warren. Again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

Whether and when Warren made clear to her employers that she is Native American is a decidedly tiny issue in a campaign likely to be dominated by jobs and the economy. But her ham-handedness in dealing with it should be an early warning to Democrats expecting her to coast to a victory over Brown this fall.

Elizabeth Warren, for turning a minor nuisance into a major headache, you had the worst week in Washington. Again. Congrats, or something.
1. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  Your tears are so yummy and sweet.
2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  So she doesn't braid her own Cherokee hair tampons?
  1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
    
    LOL. You are on a tear this morning, IFH.
  2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    IFH....I now have proof women are more funny than men. That was monstrously, disturbingly funny. As an aside, there is a scrub manufacturer specializing in women's medical apparel named "Cherokee"
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      They also make clothes sold at WalMart. My charwoman and houseboy have been spotted wearing them on occasion as I have them strip-searched before leaving for the barn at night.
3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Who had the worst week in Washington? Elizabeth Warren. Again.
  
  Damn. I bet she goes on the warpath when she sees this story. She needs to offer a peace pipe to the media outlets covering this. If they keep it up, Scott Brown will have her scalp in November.
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    How?
    1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      [golf clap]
4. Abdul 13 years ago
  
  Elizabeth will be able to get in touch with her fictional ancestors after november when she's selling blankets on the highway.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Kathy Griffin shows off her undies (and gives John a major woody) ew!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....-life.html
1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
  
  No way am I clicking that link. NFW.
2. DJF 13 years ago
  
  Warning, what was once seen cannot be unseen.
3. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  She's funnier than any man, you patriarchist.
  1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    [Citation Please]
    1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      It's a well-known fact that women are funnier than men. http://jezebel.com/5914084/hey.....r-than-you
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Laughing over this with The Wife, she pointed out:
        
        A lot of people don't think I'm sexy. But enough people DO think I'm sexy that they give me money to have sex with them. So unless people give you money to have sex with them, I am probably sexier than you. The end.
        
        bostonaod 13 years ago
        
        brilliant!
      2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        I'll need source with a bit more veracity and believability, like the IPCC or East Anglia or something like that.
    2. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      Asking for a citation is just further proof of your patriarchy doc.
  2. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    Lady, I'd totally go Dewey for you.
4. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  Have gay men ever created a star who wasn't godawful?
  1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
    
    Bette Midler is actually funny and talented, IMO.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      She is a good actor.
      1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        She is a good actor.
        
        That's because she plays herself in every film she's been in.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        She didn't in Drowning Mona.
    2. plu1959 13 years ago
      
      OK, I'll give you that one.
    3. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      I'd say Liza and Bette, like Cher, were stars long before gay men began obsessing over them.
  2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    I used to despise Liza Minelli, but after Arrested Development, I have tempered my hatred.
5. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  I may have to review that policy of, "All Red Haired Sirens are Hot." Blech!
  
  Demonica Archiva, quick! I need a MALE GAZE-able wimmins!
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    GAZE upon THE GAZE!
  2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
    
    Here ya go! Christina Hendricks
    1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
      
      Nothing from Firefly?
      1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        Just for you! Firefly Screencaps
        
        sarcasmic 13 years ago
        
        My wonderful employer won't let me go to that website.
        
        Love the filters!
        
        Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        Hmm. How about this one? There's a Mal beefcake shot for the ladeeez too.
        
        http://supportyourlocalgunfigh.....cks-alert/
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Thank you! Thank you! My Groovyhood nearly withered from exposure to Kathy Griffin. Firefly Christina Hendricks brought it back.
        
        Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        The other Christina pics should have revived you too. 😉 It was surprisingly hard to find pics where her attributes didn't look like they were about to spontaneously detonate.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Not quite. While she is attractive and has the most awesome complexion and fiery siren hair, her boobs are too big and disproportionate to her figure.
        
        Still, beats KG by a Midland Mile.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Meh, I thought whoever plays Kaylee was more attractive.
        
        The Fatman 13 years ago
        
        Jewel Stait, also Morena Baccarin is super effin hot.
        
        mr simple 13 years ago
        
        her boobs are too big and disproportionate to her figure.
        
        Strange, I understand all of these words individually, but not in this order.
      2. DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Wait. Christina Hendricks was in Firefly? Why the hell haven't I seen that show?
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Obviously because you're gay. I can say that because New York says it's not discrimination.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Shhhh. My wife doesn't know yet. j/k
        
        Thanks for othering me.
        
        Just Dropping By 13 years ago
        
        She was only in two episodes ("Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Trash"), what a pair... of episodes.
      3. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        You know what that means.
        
        anon 13 years ago
        
        Too bad we didn't bring any grenades.
    2. Randian 13 years ago
      
      Why does she look normal in everything else, but in Mad Men they make her look like a cross between a linebacker and a battleship?
      1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        I think it's a combination of the clothing styles of the time, and the fact that the character Joan trades upon her sexuality.
        
        Randian 13 years ago
        
        Has the opposite effect on me. Mad Men Hendricks looks like she should be fighting Michelle Obama above the streets of Tokyo.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        **turns around**
        **walks away**
6. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Oh God, that Kathy Griffin. It seemed like a good thing that I had completely expelled her from my mind until it didn't deliver a warning to not click that link. She's just a terrible person.
7. Randian 13 years ago
  
  Griffin's a little more up your alley than John's. Right age, right weight, redhead. Yeah, you'd do her.
8. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Kathy Griffin shows off her undies (and gives John a major woody) ew!
  
  For sarcasmic.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    Can't get to youtube from work either.
    Frankly I'm surprised Reason isn't banned.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      I blame The Daily FAIL. It's the Britalin.
DJF 13 years ago

So the US wants to ally with the communist dictatorship of Vietnam to counter our friend the communist dictatorship of China. How about instead we leave the communist dictatorships to settle their own problems.

"Pentagon Looks to Expand Military Relationship With Vietnam"

http://www.defensenews.com/
1. T 13 years ago
  
  Didn't we try that once, and didn't it end poorly?
  1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
    
    Didn't we try that once, and didn't it end poorly?
    
    Those that don't learn from history and all that.
    1. fried wylie 13 years ago
      
      It'll be different this time. What part of Top.Men. don't you inbred, tractorpulling, moonshining, sugarwaterswilling, childraping, goddamned peasants understand?!
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I don't think neighboring Cambodia is gonna like this.
3. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Leaving the world alone is as dangerous as it is stupid, like standing between Oprah and a honey baked ham. Wihout a hall monitor other countries would be running everywhere and making a mess, like Oprah when she gets her honey baked ham. That ham was meant for the children. Why do you hate children?
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    I hate children because they keep eating my honey-baked ham.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

George Will: Wisconsin's Peter Pan progressivism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

This state, the first to let government employees unionize, was an incubator of progressivism and gave birth to its emblematic institution, the government employees union (in 1932 in Madison, the precursor of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) ? government organized as a special interest to lobby itself to expand itself. But Wisconsin progressivism is in a dark Peter Pan phase; it is childish without being winsome.
1. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  Nice.
Solanum 13 years ago

2 people dead after swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town

It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.

Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.
1. mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
  
  GLOBAL WARMINGZ!!
  
  /greentard
2. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  Someone call Jon Goodman. He'll know how to stop them.
3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  celebrating a Hindu festival
  
  I wonder what they were praying for
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Birds to eat the spiders would be my guess.
  2. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    How many arms does Shiva have?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Still waiting for our first black president
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

Obama has pursued a racially defused electoral and governing strategy, keeping issues of specific interest to African Americans ? such as disparities in the criminal justice system; the disproportionate impact of the foreclosure crisis on communities of color; black unemployment; and the persistence of HIV/AIDS ? off the national agenda. Far from giving black America greater influence in U.S. politics, Obama's ascent to the White House has signaled the decline of a politics aimed at challenging racial inequality head-on.
1. DJF 13 years ago
  
  Mitt Romney seeing an opportunity to once again be something for everyone has ordered a search of his genealogy records to find someone in his family history to meet the one drop rule.
2. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  Obama doesn't have to address those things because black people are going to vote for him no matter what.
  1. Spoonman. 13 years ago
    
    I live in a mostly black neighborhood. There is one house near me where people have pictures of Barack Obama in their living room windows.
    
    It's exactly as creepy as you expect.
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      I play pool with a lot of black people. I will quote: "Fuck that nigga. He ain't done shit."
      1. Spoonman. 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, I imagine most of my neighbors feel the same way, because they are most likely not all insane.
      2. DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        I wonder if they plan on voting for the one guy who doesn't want to throw them or their friends y relatives into jail for smoking dope.
        
        Spoonman. 13 years ago
        
        Old middle class people are the biggest fans of the War on Drugs, right? That's who lives in my neighborhood.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Well, at least until they need pot for their glaucoma and dialysis.
  2. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    Hasn't this been the de facto truth in nearly all democratic canidates for the past 20+ years?
3. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  Obama has pursued a racially defused electoral and governing strategy,
  
  Wow. Lost me right out of the gate.
4. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Obama has pursued a racially liberty defused electoral and governing strategy
  
  FIFY
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Jenkins: The 5th Avenue to Serfdom
Nobody thought about taking away your Big Gulp until the government began to pay for everyone's health care.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....on_LEADTop

Call it the growing chattelization of the beneficiary class under government health-care programs. Bloombergism is a secular trend. Los Angeles has sought to ban new fast-food shops in neighborhoods disproportionately populated by Medicaid recipients, Utah to increase Medicaid copays for smokers, Arizona to impose a special tax on Medicaid recipients who smoke or are overweight. New York itself, with private money, some of it from Mr. Bloomberg's own pocket, has also tried the carrot approach, dangling direct payments to encourage beneficiary families to adopt healthier habits.

So perhaps the famous "broccoli" hypothetical during the Supreme Court ObamaCare debate was not so fanciful after all. It flows naturally from the state's fiscal responsibility for your health that it will try to regulate your behavior, even mandating vegetable consumption.
1. RGaines 13 years ago
  
  And here's a device that will ensure we have all eaten our vegetables:
  
  http://www.gizmag.com/laser-sc.....ake/22751/
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

On Thursday, the Brooklyn district attorney's office said Officer Palacios, 30, an eight-year veteran of the force, had been indicted May 15 on charges of offering a false instrument for filing, falsifying business records, making an apparently sworn false statement, perjury and making a punishable false written statement. He also was charged with official misconduct. He has been suspended.

With pay? Without pay? Any court case in which Palacios testified or provided a written account should be reviewed at the very least.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

An Economy Built to Stall
With a third slowdown in three years, maybe the problem is the policies.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....on_LEADTop

Maybe Milton Friedman was right that "temporary, targeted" tax cuts don't change the incentives to invest or hire because people aren't stupid. Maybe each $1 of new federal spending doesn't produce a "multiplier" of 1.5 times that in added output. Maybe the historic burst of regulation of the last three years has harmed business confidence and job creation. And maybe the uncertainty that comes from helter-skelter fiscal and monetary policy has dampened the animal spirits needed for a durable expansion.
1. plu1959 13 years ago
  
  Teh multiplier. The biggest crock of shit to come down the pike since the four humors.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    The multiplier only exists when they are advocating spending. Later, when they actually spend, it turns out to mysteriously not to have happened in this case.
  2. robc 13 years ago
    
    The multiplier exists, its just less than 1.
2. robc 13 years ago
  
  In 2008, I predicted a dodecaduple recession. 3 down, 9 to go.
3. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  Gotta love the retards that still think this:
  
  Michael Matus
  Spending on WW II helped up finally and decisively emerge from the Great Depression. Eisenhower's highway system helped drive a great deal of construction and manufacturing activity in the post WW II era.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Couldn't you just as well argue that rationing during WWII and the associated savings that went along with it were the real driving force? Bring back chocolate rations!
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      or that the secret to economic recovery is obliterating a few hundred thousand Japanese?
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Don't forget having the only extant manufacturing base on the planet.
      2. DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Screw just obliterating a few hundred thousand Japanese. We need to get biblical with this shit.
    2. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
      
      Bring back chocolate rations!
      
      Mikey Bloomberg's office: FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Actually, it would be more accurate to ration production of cars, home appliances and construction materials, but chocolate rationing has more emotional appeal.
Solanum 13 years ago

New Jersey State Police admit to using unreasonable force on disabled man

On an early May morning in 2009, after the State Police had searched through the night trying to find two burglary suspects in Warren County, they stopped a car James Bayliss, then 21, was riding in and asked him to step outside so he could be searched.

What happened next was captured by a dashboard video camera inside a State Police patrol car. The recording, which never before has been made public, was recently obtained by The Star-Ledger.

It shows Bayliss standing against the car as Staff Sgt. Richard Wambold Jr. frisks him. A few seconds later, after what appears to be a slight movement, the video shows Wambold throw Bayliss to the ground, kneel and punch him several times in the face.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  well you have to punch disabled people - other people can punch back, and where's the fun in that?
2. John 13 years ago
  
  Beating up on the retarded kid. All class cops, all class.
3. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  **Lights Dunphy Signal**
  1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
    
    Procedures, officer safety. Also, continuum of force.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      And, Fried Chicken.
      
      (Void in NYC and wherever prohibited)
4. mr simple 13 years ago
  
  "I respected (troopers) before," said John Bayliss, who in 1982 won a State Police road race held in honor of a murdered trooper. "I thought they were the elite of the elite over town cops. Now my concept has totally changed because it seems all they do is try to protect their own."
  
  It's sad that it takes personal tragedy for people to realize this.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    all they do is try to protect their own.
    
    The sooner one learns that truth the better off they are.
mr simple 13 years ago

That is, it may be that straight men's faces that are perceived as even slightly effeminate are incorrectly classified as gay, whereas straight women's faces that are perceived as slightly masculine may still be seen as straight. That would be consistent with how our society applies gender norms to men: very strictly.

Are we turning teh male gaze to ourselves? I feel so othered.
1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  It would appear that that study is microaggressing against men.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  ^^This^^ explains why Steffi Graf was still considered attractive by many men.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    She was considered attractive because of her body not her face. A better example would be Linda Hamilton or Hillary Swank.
  2. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    I assumed it had something to do with how she stood there imperiously rolling two balls in her hand for a few seconds before choosing one and going in hard on it
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      I have this incredible urge to watch Wimbledon all of a sudden...
      1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        You know the French Open is going on now, don't you? And FWIW, the French is the only men's tournament worth watching. The slowness of clay makes it bearable. OTOH, it makes women's tennis too slow, therefore Wimbledon is the best of the slams for the fairer sex.
  3. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
    
    ^^This^^ explains why Steffi Graf was still considered attractive by many men.
    
    From the neck down, she is nice.
  4. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
    
    I thought Steffi was quite attractive; however, she has the Germanic equivalent of The Babooshka Gene, known as The Gro?mutter Gene, where formerly feminine German fraus become indistinguishable from German herrs, especially with the prevalence of gynecomastia in the herrs.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      She just needed a nose job.
    2. John 13 years ago
      
      Gabriele Sabatini on the other hand.. Who I have on good authority totally plays on the other team.
      1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Gabriele Sabatini on the other hand.. Who I have on good authority totally plays on the other team.
        
        Say it ain't so, Shoeless Joe.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        I had a friend in college whose mother was an event planner in Puerto Rico. Her mother did all of the catering and events for this charity tennis tournament there back in the early 90s when Sabatini was at her peak. Said it was well known that she was gay as hell. And had once hooked up with Gigi Fernandez. Let the sick fantasies fly over that one.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I spent two years there in the resort bidness. Where did this lady work? (I would assume the Hyatt Dorado and/or Hyatt Cerromar if she did a tennis tourney)
        
        Anybody stay at the El Conquistador any time from 96 to 98?
      2. mr simple 13 years ago
        
        plays on the other team.
        
        You don't say.
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        When did Canseco take up tennis?
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Obviously before all the juice.
robc 13 years ago

Government doing something right.

They worked in Methsourri, surely Atliens can figure them out too.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Adams, 24, called his sister-in-law to tell her he'd been shot at 11:41 p.m. He arrived unconscious at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach by helicopter at 12:28 a.m. May 17, according to the records .

The dude was alive and able to make a phone call? This is fishy as hell.
John 13 years ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....rated.html

Axelrod and Holder in shoving match. I love how these douche bags always try to be tough guys.
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  My money would have been on Ax. He looks kinda mean and Holder always looks like a pussy.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Ax palled around with enough terrorists in Chicago back in the day, I figure he could probably put together a good package bomb to send to Holder.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      I dunno, Holder is a pretty cagey one. I think he would have made sure illegal straw gun purchase receipts would have turned up in his accounts, but that would risk Fast and Furious to be dredged up.
      
      So he would probably just have David "The Ax" poisoned.
      1. T 13 years ago
        
        Ax gets mysteriously beaten on a federal reservation and DOJ declines to pursue the case.
      2. DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        I could see that. Holder looks like a slimy little weasel that doesn't have the honor to try and take out an adversary face to face.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Holder is the anti-Mal.
        
        Axlerod: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
        Holder: You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be asleep. You'll be face down, and you'll be tied up.
        
        mad libertarian guy 13 years ago
        
        Axlerod: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?
        
        Holder: You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be asleep. You'll be face down, and you'll be tied up SWAT Teamed at zero dark thirty while I sleep soundly in my bed. And your dog too.
        
        FIFY
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, look who was capable of breaking them up.
  
  Ms Jarrett "pushed her way between the two men, her sense of decorum disturbed, ordering them to 'take it out of the hallway'
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Been funny if she would have bitch slapped both of them.
  2. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    She's always been kind of scary, IMO.
3. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  "Its a good thing the teacher was here to break us up, or I would've had to kick your ass."
4. ant1sthenes 13 years ago
  
  Holder and Napolitano work for House Clinton. They can't be trusted (at all, but particularly by the Obama loyalists).
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

OT: I have another Amazon Kindle freebie up:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0087Q13KU/reasonmagazinea-20/

Promotion will end on Tuesday night, so get it while you can. This is perhaps my favorite work: Post-Civil war, set in New York City, horror, mystery, a caddish main character, etc etc.
1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  I have nabbed it, thanks. Looks interesting and fun!
2. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
  
  Thanky, my Masked Potentate.
DesigNate 13 years ago

I am eagerly awaiting shrike's analysis of Soros' speech.

/sarc
sloopyinca 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure this path ends in a back alley giving rim jobs to homeless people while TMZ films it. I hate people who are famous for no apparent reason.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Damn you
  1. ?Ex Nihilo? 13 years ago
    
    Seconded.
2. John 13 years ago
  
  We need to bring back circus freak shows to give these people somewhere to go where the rest of us don't have to see them.
3. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  John would fuck her.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    This from the person in lust with Kathy Griffen and posting pictures of her this morning.
  2. Randian 13 years ago
    
    Gets more hilarious every time and not at all stale.
4. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  dammit, she always has this expression on her face that screams "escapee from special ed class"
  1. Randian 13 years ago
    
    Octomom?
  2. Randian 13 years ago
    
    Could it be Octomom?
  3. Ice Nine 13 years ago
    
    Make fun of her all you want, you guys; at least she is principled:
    
    TMZ claim that Nadya has drawn the line at going topless, despite the gentleman's club ordinarily following 'all-nude' guidelines.
    The insider also told the gossip site that the American mother feels 'sexually liberated' after filming her debut porn film
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      Where's Barfman when you need him?
      
      *barf*
5. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Its like watching Boogie Nights, sped up.
6. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  She really does have unattractive feet and hands. I don't think showing off her body is a viable career path.
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Her only hope is if Hobbit porn somehow gets a following when Peter Jackson's movie finally comes out.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      it already does have a following, so she has found her niche
      
      http://www.google.com.au/searc.....obbit+porn
      1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        niche
        
        Is that what she calls it? Ew.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        I was going to say she calls it her atrium, but she had a caesarian, right?
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        She did. She had too many pups for any OB to risk vaginal births.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Serious medical question: Why? I know some really old Catholic women that had 15-16 kids before they stopped due to menopause. She had only had 6 prior to the litter of 8.
        
        Did you mean pups in that litter or pups previously?
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        Answered at 10:30, sloop.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        She has six other kids. No word on how they wiggled their way free.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        She either birthed her spawn all vag, or had a VBAC with the octuplets. I honestly don't know.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        I assume natural births for the first six as they were from four different pregnancies, and you aren't supposed to have more than two caesarians. Well, that's what i heard
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        you aren't supposed to have more than two caesarians.
        
        That's accepted medical practice, because of what's called adhesions that are a common result and complication post-op. Also as a result of the Pfannestiel incision which has gained more popularity that the traditional midline laparotomy for numerous reasons, mostly cosmetic.
        
        KMA Too 13 years ago
        
        Boy, he talks pretty.
fried wylie 13 years ago

Palacios claims the man tried to run him over but security video completely contradicts that.

So, what's the penalty for fabricating video evidence in the attempt to besmirch Respectable Law Enforcement Agents?
1. T 13 years ago
  
  Find a Respectable Law Enforcement Agent first and we'll talk.
  1. fried wylie 13 years ago
    
    BESMIRCHERY! DEATH PENALTY!!!
Cloudbusting 13 years ago

Already been posted?

Congressman screams in outrage on house floor; peers barely react.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Jesus, that's beautiful. Jefferson Smith ain't got shit on Mike Bost.
JW 13 years ago

The officer, Diego Palacios, appears to have straight-up lied when he arrested a Brooklyn man. Palacios claims the man tried to run him over but security video completely contradicts that.

You don't say.

Has the video EVER corroborated the cop's story?
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Has the video EVER corroborated the cop's story?
  
  Those stories don't ever make the news because the bigorati in the press only publish stories that make cops look bad. Furthermore, they usually present stories to sensationalize any time a cop is accused of a crime, evidenced by the myriad stories where they name a cop and his address before he gets charged. And police departments aid this by being overly transparent and releasing information about investigations into police officer malfeasance as soon as it comes in.
  
  /dunphy
  1. Ed 13 years ago
    
    I can't speak for the whole bigorati but I'm always on the look out for positive cop stories.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Now we know what's at the end of the rainbow: Bar Rafaeli!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....beach.html
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  She is cuter than basketful of kittens.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  FTA: The New York Post has reported that Leonardo DiCaprio's former flame enjoyed a steamy night out with Olympic Gold Medalist snowboarder Shaun White.
  
  Are you fucking serious? That ugly fuck? She's just moved down on my hotness list. She may as well date Carrot Top.
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    She dispenses sympathy fucks and that's a turn-off? How does that work?
  2. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    I happen to like the fact that there is the occasional hot chick with a dweeb fetish.
  3. JW 13 years ago
    
    She's obviously a serial douchebag dater.
    
    Dear fuck, even my son can't stand that hyper-self-promoting twerp.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

John says Mila Kunis is unattractive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....wards.html
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  That Brooke Hogan did a really good job of hiding her penis in that dress.
  
  And Ray Liotta is looking worse every year.
2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  Well... I don't generally think she's unattractive, but that certainly isn't her best "look." I have to say no one pictured in this article covered themselves with sartorial glory.
  
  Ans OMG, Christian Bale looks totally greasy. WTF D:
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    Greasy? Perhaps, but still totally mad, bad and dangerous to know.
    
    BTW, is McConaughey sick or something? His shirt is done up nearly all the way for once
mr simple 13 years ago

What enough campaign contributions can get you.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Ashley is a social worker and career development/education liaison for the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families.
  
  Is that like an actual job?
The Hammer 13 years ago

No mention of Krugmans latest excrement? Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, The Republican Economy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06.....ef=general
Pi 13 years ago

So.

The next time I deliver a pick-up line to a guy, he looks at me like I'm psychotic, and asks "Why would you say that?" I can respond with "SCIENCE!"?

Awesome.
Agile Cyborg 13 years ago

Pretty sure faggot LEO's have Kill Lists, too, these days... why not? Drones will be in town next week. Hmmm.... Secret Sniper Cop Killers due to hit the streets in 20013. Munch on THAT nsa pricks...

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