A.M. Links: RNC Has a Theme, BoJo Endorses Gay Marriage, Todd Akin Pleas For Forgiveness, Thiel Unfriends Facebook

Matthew Feeney | 8.21.2012 9:00 AM

"We Built This" is to be the theme of the RNC convention. If by "This" they mean a vast military, the Department of Homeland Security, an expansion of the welfare state, and Gitmo, what's not to like?

Todd Akin is pleading for forgiveness in a new campaign ad after his comments on rape and pregnancy caused outcry. He has until the end of the day to heed the GOP leadership's recommendations and abort his campaign.

London Mayor Boris Johnson endorsed gay marriage saying he wants same-sex couples to enjoy the 'happy state' of marriage, something the once divorced adulterer would know a lot about.

A rocket hit the plane of the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey in Afghanistan. Some minor injuries were reported.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died in Brussels after weeks of speculation about his health and whereabouts.

Peter Thiel, the angel investor of Facebook, sold a majority of his stake in the social media giant.

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MP 13 years ago

Worst.
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  FIST
2. Caleb Turberville 13 years ago
  
  Worst movie ever made?
  
  http://www.empireonline.com/fe.....asp?film=1
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Any list that says that Plan 9 from Outer Space is worse than White Chicks has no credibility with me.
    1. Rich 13 years ago
      
      Plan 9 is a *great* film.
      
      Memorable quotes.
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Manos: The Hands of Fate. Hands down, worst movie ever.
        
        Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
        
        No way. Without it, there wouldn't have been the MST3K episode on it.
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Always found it odd MST3K never riffed on Plan 9. Such a rich pile of derision material, all gone to waste.
        
        Ted S. 13 years ago
        
        Have you ever seen Dondi?
    2. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
      
      You people are retards.
      The Creeping Terror, hands down.
      1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        That's a horrible flick as well, CN, but Manos FTW.
  2. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
    
    Batman and Robin? Nah. It's got decent stroke potential with Alicia in her little Batgirl costume.
    1. Bobarian 13 years ago
      
      Had they put the nipples on the Batgirl Suit instead of the Robin, I'd agree with you.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      It was pretty awful. I saw it in the theatre for some reason and was sort of embarrased for whoever made it (and for myself for sitting through it. I'd say it was certainly the worst I have seen in a theatre.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Nah. I walked out of Pearl Harbor. On a date.
        
        The Hammer 13 years ago
        
        Did he walk out with you?
  3. Loki 13 years ago
    
    It's definitely the gayest movie ever. Not that I expected anything different from Joel Schumacher.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Newsflash! Christina Hendricks still has huge sagging tits!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....-bust.html
1. Mike M. 13 years ago
  
  Man, do I wish I was Vince.
2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  Best gem from the comments: "It looks like she has lost some weight recently."
  
  Not that her gradually getting bigger has to be particularly negative, mind you--some women still manage to look good even after putting on a substantial chunk of weight. But you'd have to be blind to think that she's gotten smaller.
  1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Oh, and speaking of fat girls who were formerly skinny girls, the Jessica Simpson link is amusing in its own right:
    
    Jessica was spotted arriving at the gym today in her workout wear as she attempts to shift the 70 pounds she gained while pregnant as part of a multi-million dollar deal with the weight loss brand.
    
    Normally, a woman is supposed to gain about 25-50 pounds while pregnant, depending on how big they were before conception--and the latter number is only if they are actually underweight, because the baby needs more food. Jessica must have loved having the excuse she was always looking for to pig out on crap.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Blinded by birdshit!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....pings.html
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  That's how you get MEGA-AIDS.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Fight Club! 3 Delaware Daycare Employees Arrested For Encouraging Toddlers To Fight
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.c.....-to-fight/
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  Theys gotta learm sumtime!
2. Jerry on the road 13 years ago
  
  Damn, I wanted to link that one.
3. Proprietist 13 years ago
  
  When I read the headline my initial thought was Crack Baby Basketball.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Getting naked with monkeys!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....nkeys.html
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  This is how we get AIDS!
2. Whiterun Guard 13 years ago
  
  A university lab technician was arrested after he was found intoxicated with his pants down, surrounded by two monkeys who had been released from their cages.
  
  Oh come on, we've all been there!
3. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  That's when you know it's time to move to Central America. No rep can recover from that.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    "Hey, monkey man, thrown any more parties in the lab? That one over there has been giving me the eye. What do you think of her?"
4. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  Some people will do anything to be in a 3 way.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Guns don't kill people, bras do!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....1-03-50-36
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Little Slaughterhouse On The Prarie!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-known-Blo

ody-Benders.html
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  oops
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....nders.html
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  SF'd
3. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
  
  here? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....nders.html
4. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....nders.html
  
  fixed
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Megan Fox is still preggo!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....dress.html
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

First Lady serves 'Cabbage Sloppy Joes' and 'Zucchini Fries' to kids for state dinner
http://washingtonexaminer.com/.....le/2505429

nice way to carb the kids up.
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  Next step: Diabetus.
  1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
    
    Next step: explosive diarrhea and cabbage farts, then diabeetus.
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      I'd rather just skip to the 'Beetus.
    2. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
      
      My Grandmother used to make a dish with cabbage, beans, and bacon. It was de-lish, but man, look out!
2. RBS 13 years ago
  
  I'm trying to imagine the horror of a cabbage sloppy joe. Is that like a hot sauerkraut sandwich?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    "hot sauerkraut sandwich"
    
    Just walk away, SF. You are in control of your thoughts and actions. Just walk away.
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      Is that one on Urban Dictionary?
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        The closet that comes up. It's fairly lame.
        
        Sauerkraut that bitch 8 up, 2 down
        Sau-er-kraut that bitch (v)
        
        1)A process in which an individual proceeds to tightly pack a woman's vaginal cavity with sauerkraut, then eats it out of the vagina.
        
        Sometimes the sauerkraut is not eaten and other actions are taken, such as exiting the room and leaving the vagina filled with sauerkraut. This, and other certain visual aspects, lead toward alternate uses of the phrase.
        
        2) Packing the vagina with sauerkraut, then leaving.
        
        3) Covering or stuffing food with sauerkraut. This comes from the fact that a sandwich stuffed with copious amounts of sauerkraut and roast beef highly resembles a vagina after someone has 'Sauerkrauted that bitch'. It is possible to 'Sauerkraut that bitch' with any type of food however, provided enough sauerkraut is available.
        
        4) A proposal to leave quickly. Originates from sprinting out of the room after filling a vagina with sauerkraut. It is interchangeable with other sayings such as let's bounce or let's roll.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Why am I hungry for some 'Kraut now?
        
        RBS 13 years ago
        
        Sometimes the sauerkraut is not eaten and other actions are taken, such as exiting the room and leaving the vagina filled with sauerkraut.
        
        That was kind of a letdown.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        I assumed this was a hilarious riff made up on the fly by SF. Then I googled "Sauerkraut that bitch."
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        I mean, how did this become a thang?
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure it had something to do with the Germans, CN.
        
        Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        I'm always amused by the fact that youporn has a category called "German".
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure there is one labeled "Japanese" as well.
        
        RBS 13 years ago
        
        I'm sure there is one labeled "Japanese" as well.
        
        There is a whole subsection of nothing but Japanese women masturbating in public bathrooms.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        **Goes to Youporn**
        
        **Life changed forever**
        
        AlmightyJB 13 years ago
        
        See you in six months Drax
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with German people?"
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        It didn't. Plenty of fake entries make it into UD. In fact, I've put a few there myself.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        Plenty of fake entries make it into UD.
        
        Fuck, no! If you can't trust the UD, who can you trust?
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        Whatever. In any case, "Sauerkraut that bitch" has now entered my personal lexicon.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Sauerkraut Sannich 3 up, 4 down
        A rotten vagina.
        I had me some sauerkraut sannich last night. My mouth still stinks. Can I borrow a toothbrush? And some antiseptic?
        
        Rich 13 years ago
        
        Apparently many women prefer it to the sausage.
        
        gaijin 13 years ago
        
        So, it's a stuffed bird then?
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        +1
3. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  thanks for highlighting this gross lack of self-awareness. God forbid youngsters should get any protein, which their bodies need for growth. Instead, carb load them so they begin their path to overweight right now. And at govt expense, too.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    Don't forget fat. Nothing wrong with having some good fat in the system.
4. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  I'm pretty sure it's a vegan meal as well. Because vegan carbo-loading is just what children need.
  1. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
    
    Kids can be loaded up on just about anything. What they need is, to be kicked out the back door and told to, "go fucking play, you fat little bastard".
5. Suki 13 years ago
  
  IIRC, this is known as the North Korean Diet
  1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    grass fed?
    1. wareagle 13 years ago
      
      and what was the grass fed by?
      1. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
        
        the blood of the worker?
      2. LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
        
        The Shining Light of Dear Leader's face?
6. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  "All the kids are winners," stressed Michelle Obama's Deputy Communications Director Semonti Stephens to the children that attended the dinner.
  
  [eye roll]
  1. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Did they all get participation ribbons for eating that garbage? If so they got ripped off.
  2. Somalian Road Corporation 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, that stood out to me as well. Boo hoo, it's just not fair if there are both winners and losers; the losers might get self-esteem issues and absolutely nothing is worse than that.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Mitt Romney Paid 30%, Not 13% In Federal Income Taxes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ch.....ome-taxes/

The second and most important reason is the majority of the Romneys' income is taxed twice ? first at the corporate level, and a second time when they report it on their personal income tax return.

Taxable interest income accounted for $3.3 million of their $21.7 million in total income. Since companies are able to reduce their income dollar for dollar with the interest they pay out, interest income is not taxed at the corporate level, but only once as personal income. In the case of the Romneys, it was taxed at 35%, the top marginal personal income tax rate.
1. MP 13 years ago
  
  Oh yeah...double-taxation...now there's a debate that the electorate will find intoxicating.
2. CampingInYourPark 13 years ago
  
  Attempting to explain double taxation on investment income in a 30 second ad or a minute of a debate isn't going to work and nobody that thinks Romney's taxes are an issue is going to read Forbes. The only thing that matters is the $21.7 million that makes Romney "rich and out of touch with the American people"
  1. gaijin 13 years ago
    
    In the Alinksy model, why explain it? Just say, "Mitt Romney and millions of senior citizens and middle class Americans who rely on investment income pay taxes twice to this bloated Obama government! And now it wants more!"
  2. Drake 13 years ago
    
    I disagree. It's an easy ad.
    
    "First they taxed your income...now they want to tax it again because you invested or saved it. It's not right. Taxes should be once and done."
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      "...invested or saved it."
      
      Hardcore Lib: THOSE EVIL FUCKING BASTARDS!
    2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
      
      How can we have a growing economy if everybody isn't out there spending more than they bring in? Huh? HUH?!!
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        That is exactly the model we have been operating on for at least 20 years.
    3. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      Taxed when you earn it, spend it, save it, invest it or give it away.
      1. LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
        
        Or die and leave it in a will.
SugarFree 13 years ago

Russian Tyrants Cancel Sex Doll Rafting Race

Fuck Putin!
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  Rio 2016 should make that a demonstration sport
2. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
  
  That water looks damn cold.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

"We Built This" is to be the theme of the RNC convention.

Please let the Starship number be the theme song for their convention.
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Followed up by Rock You Like a Hurricane
  
  Could hurricane wreak havoc at Republican convention?
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    You know that anything smaller than a Class 3 will make Floridians grudgingly retreat from flooding but otherwise go about their business, right? We'll be here, whatever the pantywaists from out of state choose to do. Also, the nearshore weather patterns are unfavorable. Coastal rain every day for a month means no heat buildup in shallower nearshore waters.
    1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
      
      Get a load of Willard Scott over here. Tell us what the five-day looks like across the Great Plains and who's celebrating their hundredth today.
      1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
        
        Get a load of Matt Lauer over here telling Willard Scott what to do.
      2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Willard Scott would know that hurricanes are categorized, not classed. Or maybe he wouldn't. He did go to my alma mater, after all. We never had a strong science curriculum.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Yeah. I caught that. Too much time watching storm chasers chase tornadoes.
    2. RBS 13 years ago
      
      That's pretty much how we do it in SC. Everyone knows that the storm will most likely swing out and hit the Outer Banks instead of make landfall in SC. Of course the ones that do hit us directly tend to wreak havoc.
      1. wareagle 13 years ago
        
        Hugo rings a bell.
        
        LTC(ret) John 13 years ago
        
        Hugo rang the bell, ripped it off the house and threw it 2 miles down the road.
    3. T 13 years ago
      
      A class 3 really isn't a problem here unless you're going to get hit by the storm surge. So Galveston is fucked, but I've been saying this for years: don't build things you want to keep on coastal barrier islands.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        A class 3 really isn't a problem here
        
        Yeah, Houston only really gets fucked up by tropical storms that stall out over top of it.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Yup. Allison was a bitch. On the other hand, it was great shopping for real estate right after. We just drove through neighborhoods and looked for carpet on the curb. If the house you were looking at didn't flood during Allison, it wasn't going to.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        During Allison I lived in a house that had completely flooded out in '94 when the same thing happened. I'm not gonna lie and say I wasn't nervous. But apparently they fixed the drainage in River Plantation between '94 and Allison.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Allison was kind of a wakeup call for Harric Count Flood Control. We did some plant expansion work about 3 years after and the District made us use 1/3 of the site as retention ponds. Basically, if it wasn't paved or structure, it was retention pond.
        
        It also led to one of my all time favorite comments ever. A guy I know was pumping water out of the basement of one of the research hospitals. I'm on the phone with him about generators and he says "Ooops. Gotta go, I just pumped a dead monkey."
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Awesome.
        
        Anacreon 13 years ago
        
        Count Floyd?
        
        BakedPenguin 13 years ago
        
        Excellent.
        
        Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        Was his name Coley Mitchell?
        
        Bobarian 13 years ago
        
        'Pumped a dead monkey'?
        
        Does that have anything to do with the threesome thread above?
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        Allison hit just a few weeks after I moved to Houston for my first job out of college. I got to drive home in the middle of it. Needless to say, I now laugh at people here in CO who freak the hell out over a little rain.
        
        Likewise, a couple of years ago when they got a slight dusting of snow in Houston and the whole city practically shut down, I laughed my ass off again. The only thing that would have made me happier would have to been on a business trip to Houston so I could drive around in it and laugh at people in person.
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

London Mayor Boris Johnson endorsed gay marriage saying he wants same-sex couples to enjoy the 'happy state' of marriage

The happy state of marriage must come from government recognition and benefits.
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  The happy state of marriage must come from the land of Unicorns and cancer-curing farts.
  1. RBS 13 years ago
    
    the 'happy state' of marriage
    
    Citation Needed
2. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
  
  ...government recognition and benefits.
  
  Otherwise what's the point?
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Obama campaign's spending outpaces its fundraising
http://www.usatoday.com/news/p.....57174798/1

Last month alone, Obama spent nearly $59 million through his main campaign account ? $10 million more than he raised, financial reports filed late Monday afternoon show. The cost of his campaign so far: more than $325 million, not counting spending by the the Democratic Party committees aiding his re-election.

By contrast, President Bush had spent $205.4 million to retain the White House at this point in the 2004 election
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  Not unlike his Administration.
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    Exactly. We should be applauding the genuineness of his campaign.
  2. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
    
    This surprises anyone?
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      It probably surprises all those disingenuous bastards who think Obama and his crew were smart and could handle money better than Bush and his cabal of super-villains did.
      1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        think = thought
        
        Loki 13 years ago
        
        Present tense works too. There's still a lot of people out there who still don't seem to get this.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Case in point.
      2. Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Well that's just dumb. Everyone knows that super-villains are very good with money.
2. generic Brand 13 years ago
  
  Of course their response to this information would just be that "OMG Citizenz United of course he haz to spend more! The EVUL Republicans are outspending him and that is the only way to compete!!!"
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Gov. Deval Patrick's New Health Law Is Flat-Out Dangerous
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sa.....dangerous/

Described as "immensely complex" by the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the core of the 349-page law aims to control the state's mounting medical costs by indexing healthcare expenditures to the gross state product (GSP) ? that is, the state's total economic output. Starting next year, healthcare spending will be allowed to grow no faster than GSP ? and between 2017 and 2022, no faster than a half percentage point below GSP.

Insurers and large hospitals in Massachusetts will also have to pay $225 million in surcharges over four years, starting in 2013. The measure's backers project savings of $200 billion over 15 years.
1. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  it has apparently never dawned on anyone that costs inevitably go up when people are under the false illusion that everything is free. In other words, when $20 co-pays mask the actual value of services, you cannot be surprised that those services get used a lot.
  1. o3 13 years ago
    
    it thinks legitimate rape victims are treated "free" at the ER?
    1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      Way to miss the point
  2. generic Brand 13 years ago
    
    I have been trying to pound this idea home to my girlfriend who is a nurse. She chastises me for not having insurance while I point out that I choose not pay $800/yr for possibly two trips to the doctor's office. Then of course there is the simple fact that I could maybe pay $20 a month for insurance against catastrophic damage and still pay out of pocket for those couple of visits. The idea is anathema to her.
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      I have been trying to pound this idea home to my girlfriend
      
      Wow. That's a novel form of argumentation
    2. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
      
      Where are you seeing these $20 a month catastrophic insurance policies?
      1. Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, probably more like $100 or a bit more. And I don't know how long you will be able to get policies like that under Obamacare.
    3. RBS 13 years ago
      
      I have insurance but it is pretty much the equivalent of flushing $112 down the toilet every month.
      1. Zeb 13 years ago
        
        That's how insurance is supposed to work, no? I do the same on my house and car insurance (knock on wood). Insurance is supposed to be for things that you want to avoid happening if possible.
2. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  As far as I can tell - and maybe I don't understand all the intricacies of the law - this appears to literally have come right out of the last stages of Atlas Shrugged, or the last 50 years of the western Roman Empire:
  
  All health care establishments are allowed to have total billings equal to their previous year's total billings times (1 + the rate of increase of the GSP).
  
  This appears to literally mean that if you invent a cure for cancer, you can't sell it, if it would increase your billings more than the rate of increase of the GSP.
  
  It also appears to mean that if you have a private medical practice and a new doctor wants to join the practice, he can't, because he would bring over new patients that would add too much to your total billings.
  
  I'd like to be disabused of my perception here, but nothing I can find appears to make any of what we might think of as obvious exceptions to the new rule.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I don't think it applies to each individual doctor but to expenditures overall. So, if you bring in a new doctor, you will be okay, provided someone else loses an equal amount of business.
    
    It would seem to pretty much end the building of new hospitals or the expanding of the healthcare sector. Considering that the healthcare is one of the State's proudest and most important industries, insane would be too modest of word for this. Imagine California putting a cap of tech spending and you have a pretty good analogy to this.
  2. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
    
    Not exactly. A new cancer cure could bump a superfluous treatment off the list.
    
    Of course, the state has no business in medicine anyway but since they are they get to triage as they see fit. The MA goal is to limit costs.
    1. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
      
      Death Panels on the way!
      1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
        
        The state has no business in medicine anyway, Sarah.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        You really believe that sockpuppet. That explains why you have been sucking Obama's cock for four years.
        
        gulo gulo 13 years ago
        
        That explains why you have been sucking Obama's cock
        
        So you're saying he's you and Obama is his Paul Ryan.
        
        VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
        
        The state has no business in medicine anyway
        
        Well except for Obamacare, medicare, medicaid, insurance regulations, fda, licensing providers, taxing the shit out of everything.
        
        Right Shrikey?
        
        Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
        
        Obamacare is private insurance mandated by the feds. I already pay for private insurance so I won't be affected.
        
        The rest all predated Obama.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        And Obama worked so hard to eliminate them.,
        
        Do you still promise to kill yourself when Obama loses in November? Please?
        
        wareagle 13 years ago
        
        if govt is mandating that you buy a product, then govt is part of the process. And, it's tough to call it "private insurance" when a lot of public money is to be used in funding the program. That's quite a knot you have tied yourself into.
        
        Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
        
        Yes, making deadbeats buy insurance is anti-liberty.
        
        We agree.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        That is right dipshit. You elected Obama to make sure poor people pay more for their health care by being forced to buy insurance.
        
        Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound? Do you even think before you mouth your talking points? Of course not you are fucking sock puppet.
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        Not just "deadbeats", cocksucker - it forces EVERYONE to buy a government-approved product.
        
        Fuck that shit.
        
        Enough About Palin 13 years ago
        
        No, it's a tax.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I already pay for private insurance so I won't be affected.
        
        First they came for the Gypsies, but I did nothing...
        
        Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
        
        Yes, making deadbeats buy insurance is anti-liberty.
        
        LOL--you say this as if it's middle-class white people who take advantage of those "free" ER visits.
        
        In 2007 the Census Bureau reported that more than 14 million people without health insurance earned annual incomes of at least $50,000, with 7.2 million of them making over $75,000.
        
        In December 2007, the Association of Health Insurance Plans issued a report showing that nationwide annual premiums for private health insurance policies averaged from $2,613 for individuals to $5,799 for families.
        
        http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/.....estats.htm
        
        Why should a middle class family that makes between $50K and $75K be forced to pay for their healthcare with a health insurance plan that would cost up to 10% of their before-tax income, when the cash-based system we had 60 years ago provided first-class healthcare at affordable prices?
    2. wareagle 13 years ago
      
      The MA goal is to limit costs.
      -----------
      
      because history is full of examples of how govt has done just that.
  3. CE 13 years ago
    
    It's the anti-dog-eat-dog rule, in real life.
3. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
  
  There's no enforcement. It sets those targets, but if the providers miss them they have to come up with a plan to eventually meet targets.
  
  The bigger deal is the law creates a new agency that will have the authority to break up hospital networks that are suspected of anti-competitive pricing.
  1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
    
    aka "cartels"
  2. Fluffy 13 years ago
    
    So the $500,000 fines I'm reading about don't exist?
    1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
      
      they're only fined if they fail to cooperate with the new agency. so you'd have to miss targets and not submit a corrective action plan to be subject to the fine. and you'd have to not act in good faith to meet the plan before fines are imposed.
      1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
        
        "(q) If the commission determines that a health care entity has: (i) willfully neglected to file a performance improvement plan with the commission within 45 days as required under subsection (d); (ii) failed to file an acceptable performance improvement plan in good faith with the commission; (iii) failed to implement the performance improvement plan in good faith; or (iv) knowingly failed to provide information required by this section to the commission or that knowingly falsifies the same, the commission may assess a civil penalty to the health care entity of not more than $500,000. The commission shall seek to promote compliance with this section and shall only impose a civil penalty as a last resort."
  3. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    The bigger deal is the law creates a new agency that will have the authority to break up hospital networks that are suspected of anti-competitive pricing.
    
    Which could have been fixed by simply mandating that hospitals openly list the cost of their services, as opposed to setting up a whole new government agency. But I guess the former wouldn't provide "jobs" for a bunch of low-information, tax-sucking social workers.
Brett L 13 years ago

McCaskill still polling behind Mr. Legitimate Rape. How fucking bad is your campaign when people look at that asshat and think, "Fuck it, he can't be any worse."
1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
  
  My girlfriend brought this moron up last night, and observed how our current society seems to be full of these sort of people--well-educated types who should theoretically know better about life in general, not just on rape and pregnancy.
  
  I pointed out that when you cater your education system to the lowest common denominator, incidents like this are the inevitable result.
2. Bobarian 13 years ago
  
  You got to figure he picked some votes from the 'LRL' (Legitimate Rape League) and some of those fence sitters from the "It's not 'rape'-rape" contingent.
  1. Bobarian 13 years ago
    
    And don't forget STEVE SMITH.
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Study: Red states more charitable
http://www.politico.com/news/s.....79888.html

The eight states whose residents gave the highest share of their income ? Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Idaho, Arkansas and Georgia ? all backed McCain in 2008. Utah leads charitable giving, with 10.6 percent of income given.

And the least generous states ? Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire ? were Obama supporters in the last presidential race. New Hampshire residents gave the least share of their income, the Chronicle stated, with 2.5 percent.
1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
  
  Red states also lead in porn use, welfare, divorce, and are the least educated.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    Red states also lead in porn use...
    
    Say what you will about the other Red State specific issues, but I fail to see a problem with this one.
    1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
      
      I see porn as a net positive for society but conservative leaders sure SAY don't.
      
      YOU SINNERS ARE ALL GOING TO HELL!
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        Most people who are angry about porn are old school feminists. Liberals hate porn more than conservatives.
        
        Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
        
        Wait, I thought it was "my body, my choice."
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        It's only "my body, my choice" when it comes to homosexuality and abortion, Elf. Other than that, neither Team believes in self-ownership.
        
        Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
        
        Damn, you are fucking stupid. Anti-porners like the FRC and Focus on the Family are conservative and so are all the blue laws in Southern states. Then there was the Meese Commission. Current feminists are not even anti-porn (see Susan Block) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Block
        
        Dr. Laura is on your team, asshole.
        
        invisible furry hand 13 years ago
        
        poor old Kitty MacKinnon, officially non-current
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        And all of the old school feminists who claim that porn leads to rape are on your team retard.
        
        mnarayan 13 years ago
        
        I think I must have missed the announcement. When did Obama declare that "most" would mean the same thing as "all"?
        
        Azathoth!! 13 years ago
        
        And Fred Phelps is on yours.
        
        gagster 13 years ago
        
        I'm not sure who you are addressing or which side you are saying Phelps is on, so, just to be clear, Phelps is a democrat.
        
        "Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times..."
        
        "Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primary election."
        
        gagster 13 years ago
        
        That was addressed to Azathoth!!
        
        Also, I'm not sure why that link didn't work. Here it as plain text:
        
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
  2. wareagle 13 years ago
    
    and they are still far more generous than pompous, self-righteous blue states who hold a healthy lead in handing out other people's money.
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      ...handing out and fleecing at the point of the prison-rape gun...
      
      FTFY
  3. Loki 13 years ago
    
    IOW only poor, uneducated, porn addicted redneck divorcees on wellfare are stupid enough to give away their money to charity instead of relying on the all caring benefiscent state to provide a safety net hammock? Is that what you're trying to say? 'Cause otherwise I don't see the point of your comment.
  4. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Red states also lead in porn use, welfare, divorce, and are the least educated.
    
    http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  I'd be curious to see how much correlation there is between high tax states and low tax states wrt charitable giving. I suspect that in states where people are allowed to keep more of their money charitable giving is probably higher. States with lower taxes are more likely to be "red" states. Gee, now where did I leave my shocked face?
3. Jersey Patriot 13 years ago
  
  This has been noted before. The reason is that red states give their churches more money.
Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago

Peter Thiel knows a sinking ship when he sees one.
1. Romulus Augustus 13 years ago
  
  How soon until Obama wants to bail out this "too big to fail" Facebook?
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
    
    Maybe they can trade their GM stock for some FB stock.
    1. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
      
      Nah. But I believe there will be a new "GOV" ETF on the way, soon.
      1. Mr Whipple 13 years ago
        
        My bad. There is already a "GOV" REIT. I guess they'll have to name the nationalized business index "NBI", or something.
  2. T 13 years ago
    
    This is all teh excuse he needs to nationalize! That guy at Slate was a prophetic genius! What fools we were to have doubted!
Lord Humungus 13 years ago

Porn group: Filming to halt during syphilis probe
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....TE=DEFAULT

A pornography trade group has called for a nationwide filming moratorium while performers are tested for syphilis and Los Angeles County public health officials investigate a possible outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.

One performer has tested positive, and the performer's sexual partners are being notified, according to Joanne Cachapero, a spokeswoman for the Free Speech Coalition.

Steve Smith could not be reached for comment, even though the intrepid reporter combed the beard woods for an interview.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  OK, I must live a sheltered life but what sort of sexual practice is a syphilis probe?
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    That's actually just what they call it when a European royal has sex. I believe because so many of them were syphilitic for so long, that even today they still carry the reputation.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Rosie O'Donnell posted on her blog on Monday that she suffered a heart attack last week and doctors had to insert a stent. O'Donnell said she suffered symptoms after helping an "enormous" woman to her car.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/c.....ttack.html

It would be unkind to suggest the identity of the enormous woman
1. Rich 13 years ago
  
  In Rosie's own words:
  here is what happened
  on tuesday morning
  while walking in a parking lot in nyack
  i heard a loud commanding voice
  
  "can u help me"
  
  more of a demand than request
  a challenge ? a plea
  i turned and saw an enormous woman
  struggling to get out of her car
  
  So, *out of*, not "to" her car. "Journalism" these days. ** rolls eyes ***
  
  Anyway, I unkindly suggest it was this woman.
  1. Scotticus Finch 13 years ago
    
    while walking in a parking lot in nyack
    i heard a loud commanding voice
    
    I'm pretty this is a Tyler Durden situation.
    1. PS 13 years ago
      
      +1 Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Rich 13 years ago

He has until the end of the day to ... abort his campaign

or suffer a miscarriage of justice.
1. EDG reppin' LBC 13 years ago
  
  Perhaps give birth to a new career?
Brett L 13 years ago

Canada wants to build $13B refinery with 3000 permanent jobs. I guess $50K+ refining jobs are something Americans won't do now, too.
1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
  
  They should refine their tar slop there. Its cheaper than piping that heavy shit cross-continent.
2. gaijin 13 years ago
  
  Why do 'they' always refer to jobs as permanent? Maybe full time, maybe good paying, but by now aren;t unions the only ones who think a job is permanent?
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    In this case, it means that there are 6000 construction jobs, but 3000 full-time jobs when the refinery opens. So the differentiation is construction v. "permanent".
  2. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    The idea of any job being permanent is anathema to innovation and progress. The whole point, at least in my mind, of advancing technology is to free people up for shit they'd rather be doing. The whole reason you work at an oil refinery is because it beats working on a wooden ship hunting whales for their oil.
    1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
      
      Fuck, shrike is stoopid.
      1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Yes...it is?
        
        Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
        
        "Tar slop" shows the stoopid, at least for the moment and on this topic. He brings the stoopid every time he posts.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Oh well that goes without typing...as the time approaches infinity.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died in Brussels after weeks of speculation about his health and whereabouts.

If you have to leave the country you're leading to get health care, maybe your permanent departure is for the best.
Enough About Palin 13 years ago

Vaginal Tightening Gel '18 AGAIN' Goes on Sale in India.

http://news.gather.com/viewArt.....4981567542
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  I hear Octomom was hired to promote it.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    "Now only two men can cartwheel in and out as opposed to a baker's dozen! It's like I'm sixteen again!"
2. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  India also markets labia-bleaching products.
  1. Palin's Buttplug 13 years ago
    
    Asshole bleaching is now popular in the USA.
    
    http://www.anusbleaching.org/index.html
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Those gentlemen callers just wanted to make themselves pretty for you, sockpuppet.
    2. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
      
      so you have a completely white pair of lips?
    3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      It used to be something that was more reserved for those who worked in adult industries and entertainment, but today many everyday people are turning to anal whitening for a variety of reasons
      
      Does anyone care to suggest even one of those reasons?
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Who wants to look bad while mooning?
      2. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
        
        I cannot come up with a reason to let anyone or anything with the word bleach in it near my asshole.
        
        Assholes are best when you don't know you have one.
      3. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        What bride doesn't want to look his best for down there for the honeymoon?
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Fifth base is very important in America nowadays.
      4. Warty 13 years ago
        
        "The name's Artemis. I got a bleached asshole!"
    4. Rich 13 years ago
      
      Typically, whatever the general public has to say about a product can be a good guide to your anus bleaching needs.
      
      No way. HyR is the only reliable source for this sort of information.
    5. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      "Anus bleaching is becoming very popular among mainstream Americans."
      
      [citation needed]
  2. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    The country who promoted Lysol first as douche can hardly point fingers.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      I'm the whole country now? I'm mean... I have a bit of a weight problem, but it's not as bad as all that.
      1. Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Did I write "country"? I meant "county".
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        Cuntry.
3. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  where are the before and after pictures?
John 13 years ago

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08.....ism-video/

Occupy Wall Street goes full retard.
1. Drake 13 years ago
  
  There was a time they weren't?
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    They used to try to at least hide it.
    1. AuH2O 13 years ago
      
      Did they?
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Goes? They were that out of the gate. Hence, Stupefy.
  
  I've wondered whether someone would try to co-opt the largely aimless scam. It's clearly being financed and supported by some element within the Democratic Party, which apparently believes that some sort of unrest helps their party, but without a clear mission, it seems to me that someone could push the "movement" towards a more tangible goal. Of course, communism would go over here--even now--like an SF-authored children's book, so it figures that would happen with at least some of these morons.
  1. BakedPenguin 13 years ago
    
    ...an SF-authored children's book...
    
    Bi-curious George?
    Are You There, God? It's Me, Ron Jeremy?
    Pippi Longsucking?
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Little Hump on the Prairie?
    2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      Yes, something along those lines.
    3. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Are you there, STEVE SMITH? It's me, Margaret.
    4. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      The Hard-on Brothers Mysteries
    5. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
      
      James and Giant Penis
    6. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Jumanjizz
    7. Enough About Palin 13 years ago
      
      Heather has Two Donkeys
    8. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
      
      One more Roald Dahl:
      
      Charlie and His Chocolate Factory
    9. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
      
      Mrs. Frisbee and the Twats of Nymphomania
3. Loki 13 years ago
  
  "Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization," Golash said during an Occupy DC "People's Assembly" on August 19.
  
  No shit. Shocked face.
anomdebus 13 years ago

Steve Landsburg puts it better than I could have here.

Which is to say, I expect that Akin is wrong on the particulars, but the female body does have an influence on conception. I don't expect it to break along neat monogamous/rape lines, hence Akin being wrong. (also see the first link of yesterdays 400+ comment thread)

Is it too much to ask when you are arguing against a scientific point (even one as badly stated as Akin's) that you at least make an attempt to add some research to the rebuttal?
1. Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
  
  I loved him in Barney Miller.
2. Killazontherun 13 years ago
  
  Not a biologist, myself, but my understanding of rape as a means of conquering people, comes from a few trips to Mexico, and, uh, looking around.
3. Randian 13 years ago
  
  anomdebus, please, when a Hate Orgy is going on, you don't interrupt the ecstasy to ask if it's a good idea.
4. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Some statements are dumb enough to dismiss out of hand. I think that Akin's was one of those.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Peter Thiel, the angel investor of Facebook, sold a majority of his stake in the social media giant.

I hope the government bought it.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

There's just so much wrong with this story, I don't know where to begin.

Maybe we can start with them beating on the guy who screams, "I surrender" and then High-fiving afterward.

Or maybe it's when they enter a house without a warrant or probable cause and taze the man inside.

Or maybe it's the case being assigned to the APD IA Division, and one single charge of misdemeanor battery and two offices being placed on "administrative duty."

Fucking pigs.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  All for marijuana possession
2. PS 13 years ago
  
  The chief then criticized Holland and other reporters in the room, saying reporters should call his office if they receive information that APD officers may have committed a crime.
  
  That would be a better course, Schultz said, than "trying to hide behind the open records act ? and say: 'We gotcha.'
  
  Hide behind the open records act? Why not stop covering up this sort of behavior and there won't have to be any 'gotchas'.
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    All investigations are to be done internally in closed-door sessions to ensure accountability.
    
    /Police Chief Shithead
    1. PS 13 years ago
      
      Stop hiding behind transparency!
John 13 years ago

http://www.reuters.com/article.....2920120812

I find this lawsuit endless entertaining. But it is also a pretty sorry statement on the men involved. These guys are tenured federal employees. They cannot be fired. And is it that hard to humiliate a woman?
1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
  
  Sexual harassment in that department could have been way worse for them if Sis was, you know, no homo.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Is it really that hard to deal with a woman who wants to get into a dirty talking contest? Really Miss? You would like me to do what with my cock? Well, lets just talk about that a bit. Some broad ever said that to me, I would turn her so red people would think she was sun burned.
Brett L 13 years ago

Best caption EVAR.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  always good to see that pic of him doing his debauched Mr Bojangles act
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Police officer lies on arrest report.
Taxpayers forced to pay settlement.
Nothing else happens.
John 13 years ago

The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brian calls Nial Ferguson a big meany.

http://www.theatlantic.com/bus.....ma/261306/
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  I guess The Atlantic are the last people on Earth still reading Newsweek.
2. VG Zaytsev 13 years ago
  
  It's sad that the Atlantic has become such a swamp of Obama propaganda.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    It is terrible. And it is not even interesting. Basically, O'Brian argues that Obama should get a pass for doing nothing about the deficit since Congress refused to pass Simpson Bowles, a plan Obama never supported.
    1. wareagle 13 years ago
      
      I find that fascinating - a pro-Obama writer who, by all rights, should know that POTUS appointed and subsequently ignored the panel, yet the writer marches on as though that is not true. As a bonus, he counts on reader buy-in to advance the narrative.
      
      It's why I keep saying liberalism can only survive with a massively uninformed population.
      1. John 13 years ago
        
        His audience are people like Tony and Shreek who will believe or repeat anything.
  2. Somalian Road Corporation 13 years ago
    
    See also: Time. Not like they were great before, but it's basically just turned into an unofficial DNC newsletter.
AuH2O 13 years ago

So, there's this TNT show called Perception, and it has Levar Burton as a Dean of a College of Neuroscience. And whenever he is on screen, I can't help but make the joke, "And the Distinguished Professor of Reading..."

(Filed Under: Reasons it is good I live alone)
1. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Fuck. I finally read this comment. Now I have the goddam song stuck in my head. I hope you encounter STEVE SMITH.
2. Rasilio 13 years ago
  
  My wife and I were making jokes about that last night as we were getting caught up on the DVR'ed episodes of the show. Which incidentially is actually pretty good if a bit formulaic
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Note to all police officers: Don't move to Pensacola, Florida. You might not have as much fun as you do in other departments.
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  the incident was found through a routine supervisory review of the videotape and was not the result of a complaint.
  
  I'm shocked. Seriously. No sarcasm. I'm shocked.
  1. tarran 13 years ago
    
    Guys, based on my experience with cops in several towns here in MA, there are good police departments and there are bad ones.
    
    My town, for example, have guys who are pretty good and see themselves as peace officers.
    
    Two towns over, the police are a dangerous street gang that are to be avoided at all costs.
    
    Go two towns over the other way, and you have a "Respect ma ahtorite" group that cares only about maintaining a semblance of order.
Stormy Dragon 13 years ago

I think we just saw this election cycle's "I'm not a witch" ad. If a candidate actually has to release an ad clarifying that they're not in favor of rape, they should probably just give up.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I think if you are too stupid to tap dance around the abortion rape question, you are probably too stupid to hold any kind of public office.
  1. ant1sthenes 13 years ago
    
    The funny thing is, he probably thought he was being very clever.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      Part of being stupid is not knowing it.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

I've had to recreate my iTunes library and reimport the playlists, and of course iTunes fucks up and inserts wrong songs. This has a touch of genius about it, however

https://p.twimg.com/A00qH9VCUAA9oTj.jpg
1. Translucent Chum 13 years ago
  
  I think iTunes was desperately trying to reject that data.
2. Night Elf Mohawk 13 years ago
  
  Fucking iTunes has been truncating some of my songs lately. If I copy them to my desktop, delete them from iTunes, then add them back, they work fine so it isn't the song file itself. It's kinda starting to piss me off.
SugarFree 13 years ago

Tony Scott, Dead At 68; Women Affected Most By Passing

Yes, Scott made lots of movies about tough men and the women they fall for. But other action directors could take a note from him in remembering that women can tote a gun as the lead rather than simply as a love interest, and that love interests have priorities and principles of their own.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  World to end tomorrow...
  
  They really do their best to live up to the stereotype don't they?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    It's a lot of hard work that goes into being that irrelevant.
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Oh yeah, when I watched the director's cut of True Romance with the extended motel scene fight between Patricia Arquette and James Gandolfini, I was thinking the whole time, "man, this was written and directed by men who truly love women."
  1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    I forgot about that fucking awesome movie. This must be rectified! TO AMAZON!!!!
  2. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    Tarantino and Scott have the nerd's bipolar view of women--Dulcinea types who they can white-knight and put on a pedestal until those same women fail to live up to the nerd's completely unrealistic standards of behavior and devotion, after which they become worthless whores to be completely scorned.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      How many people can critique Tarantino with Cervantes? Well played.
John 13 years ago

http://www.abc15.com//dpp/news.....ummer-heat

PHOENIX - The City of Phoenix could face a lawsuit if the city doesn't apologize to a Valley woman for telling her she could not hand out free bottled water to people in the summer heat.

Dana Crow-Smith said a City of Phoenix worker came up to her during the First Friday festival in downtown Phoenix last month and told her she was violating city code by handing out free water because she did not have a permit.
1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
  
  What was the concern? She might have been handing out poison or something? Like the razor-bladed Halloween apples that never happened?
  1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
    
    undercutting local restaurants?
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      Restaurants that have to give free water to their patrons anyway?
      
      Interesting Side Note: In China, you have to pay for water at most restaurants.
      1. Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        In China you had better be paying for water in restaurants, otherwise you're not drinking bottled water - bad idea.
        
        Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
        
        They usually boil it. If you demand cold water, they are like "Whelp, they're your bowels buddy."
        
        Ice Nine 13 years ago
        
        It's that "usually" part that is the rub.
  2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    The concern was that a private citizen was charitably donating her time and resources. If people started doing that en masse, the city's monopoly on providing services to the needy might be questioned.
    
    Those city workers have families to support, Drax. Why do you want their children to starve just so a bunch of homeless people can stay hydrated when it's 115 degrees?
    1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
      
      Maybe it's because I actually do want them to starve. Occam's Razor, Bitch!
2. wareagle 13 years ago
  
  so there might be a lawsuit if there is no apology? Sure, that makes sense. Compound public sector stupidity by sticking the taxpayer with one more expense. Let the media shame govt; that should be enough. Goddamn; people and their incessant desire to sue someone over everything.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 13 years ago
    
    Suing is easier than working. So is voting.
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    Let the media shame govt
    
    You mean when they don't have the govt's cock tickling their tonsuls, right?
The Late P Brooks 13 years ago

Makes ya proud, don't it?

Did Gibson acquiesce in this settlement solely to end the expense, distraction, danger and agony of a federal criminal prosecution?the usual reasons for shouting "uncle" to Uncle Sam? We will never know. Why? Because federal prosecutors required, as part of the "criminal enforcement agreement," that Gibson not only "accept[s] and acknowledge[s] responsibility for the conduct" alleged, but also that the company's "public statements regarding this Agreement will not contradict the statement of facts" set forth in an appendix to the settlement agreement.

Put another way, Gibson is now forbidden to tell the world the whole truth about its conduct and its reasons for settling a case it previously claimed publicly, including in an opinion piece in this newspaper, involved no criminal conduct on its part. In exchange for agreeing to read the government's script, Gibson regained its ability to conduct business without a federal sword of Damocles dangling over its corporate head.

Torquemada, updated.

"I repent me of my sins, and beg the forgiveness of the Church."
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Interesting bit about FBI interviews in there:
  
  The FBI has a formal, binding policy that forbids its agents from conducting witness or target interviews with the aid of electronic recording...
  
  Instead, one federal agent does the questioning while the other takes notes. Those notes, once typed up in a "Form 302 report," become the official version of what the interviewee said. A witness deviating from that version risks up to five years imprisonment for making a false statement to a federal official, even if the statement was not made under oath. In this way, it is the FBI agent, not the witness, who controls the witness's official story.
  
  Remind me never to talk to the FBI, ever.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    No kidding. That is fucked up.
  2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
    
    I'm sure there is nothing nefarious about this. After all, audio recorders are so bulky and expensive, you couldn't expect an agent to carry one around all the time.
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      To be fair, the government is often decades behind in technology.
  3. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
    
    So the witness doesn't even get to sign off on what was written in the report? Fuck that shit, I'm with Han Solo over here.
  4. Lord Humungus 13 years ago
    
    my answers would be: "I want a lawyer", repeated endlessly until they get annoyed and leave the room.
  5. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    That sounds to me like a 5th Amendment issue. They are denying a defendant the opportunity to review evidence underlying the prosecution by prohibiting recording of witness interviews.
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      The quotation doesn't say that recording aids are off-limits to the person being interviewed, just that the FBI aren't allowed to use them.
Killazontherun 13 years ago

You would think that after suffering a massacre Sikhs would be the first to understand the mainstream media wisdom that guns are bad, personal ownership is dangerous and only the professional agents of the state should have them because your safety is their highest priority and even there they know better than you. Some people just can't be taught!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blo.....ore-118522

I am a certified handgun instructor at a small firearms supply store in the Milwaukee area. I work as the on site instructor conducting classes and evaluations for new members. About a week ago, I was conducting a class and one of the employees from the store politely interrupted my class, took me aside and mentioned to me that a "representative from the Sikh Church in Oak Creek is here to speak with an instructor." I was a little nervous and wasn't quite sure what to expect, as the vicious attack on their church had happened so recently and had seemed to have such a devastating effect on their congregation.
1. Fate 13 years ago
  
  A heart warming story on HyR.
  
  Well, I'll be damned.
John 13 years ago

http://www.rollcall.com/news/L.....os=htmbtxt

Congressman feed at various Washington troughs with big donors. Check out the guy in the picture. Representative Billy Long has clearly not missed many meals and has never mixed in a salad.
1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
  
  I like Charlie Palmer and Hill Country too. but damn hit the Hill gym once in awhile.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    I have been meaning to try Hill Country. Having lived in central Texas, I am a total snob about that stuff. So I am a bit skeptical. I really like Carmine's across the street though.
    1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
      
      I like it better than Capital Q up on H, which unfortunately closed a few weeks ago. Haven't been to carmine's but have heard good things.
  2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
    
    Any good NC BBQ recommendations? Rocklands doesn't do it for me.
    1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
      
      http://www.carolinabrothers.com/
      
      haven't been myself b/c it's in ashburn. but i've heard it's really good. FWIW.
      1. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        Ashburn?!?! Fuckin-a. Well, next time I'm out Dulles-way, I'll see about popping in. But shit, man, if I'm gonna go all the way to Ashburn, I might as well just keep going til I get to North Carolina.
        
        Citizen Nothing 13 years ago
        
        Carolina barbecue. Aaaaaah! I did a bbq tour through the Greenville - Goldsboro area earlier this summer. Heaven.
        B's in Greenville. Skyline Inn in Ayden. Grady's in Dudley.
        
        I repeat myself: Aaaaaaah!
        
        Christina 13 years ago
        
        I'm an Ashburn resident who has been to Carolina Brothers a couple of times. I was unimpressed. Save yourself the trip.
        
        My mom, a NC-native, tells me that there's a place on Route 1 near Mount Vernon that has excellent and authentic NC BBQ. I have not tried it yet, but my mom knows her stuff, so I trust her judgement.
        
        http://dc.metromix.com/restaur.....67/content
        
        If you want "Alabama BBQ" that is super excellent go to Dixie Bones in Woodbridge. It is widely considered the best BBQ of any type in the DC region.
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Thanks. Will have to try that.
        
        Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
        
        That's right by my house (and on my way to Tubby's Chili Parlor). I've noted it as a place to check out in the future because small shacks always have the best BBQ. Now I'll move it on up the list of places to try!
Loki 13 years ago

Todd Akin is pleading for forgiveness in a new campaign ad after his comments on rape and pregnancy caused outcry.

Somethin like this?
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Kickstarter's Project of the Day is one for sloopyinca: "Super tasty, super spicy, preservative-free artisan hot sauces."

http://t.co/NfjJdYWk
1. RBS 13 years ago
  
  I make my own hot sauce, does that make me an artisan?
  1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
    
    Where's your permits, RBS? And are you paying enough taxes to make up for the hot sauce you're NOT buying from the store?
    1. Mr. FIFY 13 years ago
      
      /snark
      
      BTW, you didn't make that hot sauce. Someone else made it for you.
  2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
    
    If you're not making it on a rooftop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you're not an artisan.
    1. Ska 13 years ago
      
      It's Red Hook now. That's where the true hipsters have gone off too.
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  How fucking hard is it to make vegan friendly hot sauce? That's like making vegan friendly pico de gallo. Fuck these douches and their buzzword sales pitch.
3. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  Salt and vinegar aren't preservatives?
  
  I think it is great that people are into making good, quality food items in traditional ways. Those types of things are often the best tasting food. But the idiotic language that so many such producers have adopted is pretty annoying.
  1. Atanarjuat 13 years ago
    
    THIS
4. R C Dean 13 years ago
  
  About half the damn Food category on Kickstarter is frikkin' hot sauce.
  
  Seriously, dudes. We are not exactly desperately short of hot sauce options. You want to fill an artisanal need, go mayo.
  1. T 13 years ago
    
    Urban Honey flavored artisanal mayo.
  2. Somalian Road Corporation 13 years ago
    
    A lot of people seem to get really worked up by stupid Kickstarters, which I personally don't understand, as it's quite literally one of those problems you can simply ignore and it will go away.
Raston Bot 13 years ago

For a politician, this is pure balls:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/as.....24jae.html

"Even taken at its worst, if the allegations made by these two women were true, 100 per cent true, and even if a camera in the room captured them, they don't constitute rape," Mr Galloway reportedly said. "At least not rape as anyone with any sense can possibly recognise it. And somebody has to say this.

"Woman A met Julian Assange, invited him back to her flat, gave him dinner, went to bed with him, had consensual sex with him, claims that she woke up to him having sex with her again. This is something which can happen, you know. I mean, not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion."

Apoplexy is imminent... this guy's in Australia so maybe it'll take a few days to reach our shores.
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  It's unbelievable, isn't it.
  
  A small correction: he's not in Australia, he's in the UK. The report is actually taken from the New York Times
2. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Podcast partially transcribed...
  
  It might be really bad manners not to have tapped her on the shoulder and said, "do you mind if I do it again?". It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning.
  
  http://www.newstatesman.com/bl.....-etiquette
  
  And correction: he's British, not Australian. My bad.
3. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Eh. You can count on George Galloway to take the stupidest path to an issue, even on the rare occasion that I almost agree with him.
  
  And screwing a one night stand while she's asleep is pretty creepy. Its one thing to have rollover sex with your live in, but the first night calls for a bit more courtesy.
4. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  I mean, not everybody needs to be asked prior to each insertion.
  
  I know this is supposed to be the money quote (excuse the pun) but it's not actually that shocking a statement.
  
  Do you have to re-establish consent every time you switch positions?
  
  In a narrow enough time frame, it's not really possible to establish when one sex act ends and another begins. It's pretty much all one extended act of "fucking with occasional breaks". Once consent is extended it should default to lasting until withdrawn.
  1. Fluffy 13 years ago
    
    After all, think of it this way:
    
    If I run up to a girl on the street right now and grab her in the spoon position, it's a sexual assault.
    
    But if we have consensual sex and fall asleep and we wake up in the spoon position, it's not a sexual assault.
    
    Why not?
    
    Because claiming that the "chain of consent" broke when we fell asleep and has to be re-established when we wake up is fucking stupid, that's why not.
TongReee 13 years ago

lol, that pompous windbag just looks corrupt as the day is long lol.

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