A.M. Links: Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Denied Bail, Libyan Militants Bragged to Al-Qaeda About Benghazi Attack, Boston Police Record Thousands of License Plates a Day
News from California to the North Pole
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The filmmaker behind Innocence of Muslims was picked up on charges of violating probation and denied bail.
- Radical Islamic militants in Libya apparently bragged to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb about their assault on the U.S. consulate and assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
- A FOIA request from the ACLU reveals Boston police create up to 3,000 records based on license plate reads a day, and hold on to the information for 90 days, or forever if they need it for an investigation or intelligence!
- Muslims in Sydney complain their reputation has been ruined by a handful of extremists who they say used turned a protest over an anti-Islamic film in front of the U.S. embassy there into a veritable riot.
- The French prime minister offered a budget proposal that raises taxes on the rich up to a 75 percent tax rate. He called the budget courageous, responsible and a "budget of conquest."
- A Russian bishop "consecrated" the North Pole, which Russia claims has fallen within its sovereign domain for more than a millennium. The region is slowly being remilitarized.
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The filmmaker behind Innocence of Muslims was picked up on charges of violating probation and denied bail.
Finally! Peace in the Middle East.
We shall overcome!
Terrorism, rewarded. They demanded that we arrest and jail the filmmaker, and we bowed and scraped and complied.
I wonder of rewarding terrorism will result in more of it, or less?
The US does not negotiate with terrorists.
Because negotiating would imply we aren’t just giving them everything they want.
Ke$ha’s been putting on the pounds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..video.html
The filmmaker behind Innocence of Muslims was picked up on charges of violating probation and denied bail.
when a probation violation is treated with the same gravity as a murder charge…….
if someone’s a flight risk, whatever happened to taking their passport?
Hey, if he was truly innocent, he wouldn’t be in this situation.
/Derider and others
Gaga’s been putting on the pounds. If you thought she was gross before…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..-gain.html
Ick.
John would…
Looks like Lady Mumu,
The extra thigh makes it easier to tuck.
And easier to forget your doing a dude!
A Russian bishop “consecrated” the North Pole, which Russia claims has fallen within its sovereign domain for more than a millennium. The region is slowly being remilitarized.
Well, Philadelphia, looks like you need to up your game the next time Santa takes the field.
So Santa has been conscripted by the Russian Orthodox, eh? I wonder what the Pope will do in response?
As for Filthadelphia… maybe they can throw bottles of holy water at Santa in December’s home games.
Brazilian student to auction off her virginity for the poor. How altruistic. Gonna do the deed on an airplane over international waters to avoid prostitution laws (and join the Mile High Club).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..-poor.html
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Ha, I outbid you with a $1.13!
I raise you to tree fiddy!
Damn you, I fold!
LH: I’ll give you a dollar.
Girl: A dollar? What do you think I am?
LH: That’s been established. We’re just quibbling over price at this point.
Unless you have some very, um, exotic practices, that is not the part that is for sale.
Dude, at best she is going to be slightly better than self abuse – and you have to buy a plane ticket, and you have to take vacation time etc.
Far more likely she’s going to be worse than masturbation. Forget it.
and if you’re really unlucky, you’ll get the lecture on the many projects you’re funding before, during and after
“No, no dear, that’s how you kept your virginity. To lose it, shut up about that shit.”
If somebody is dropping 155 large on that ass, she’d better expect that the word ‘no’ isn’t in her vocabulary for the duration of that plane flight.
No hole will be left unscathed.
No orifice untouched.
tarran, I wouldn’t pay more than the $1.13 I bid above…of course, the plane ticket, time off and all does probably make it a deal breaker.
Why is the price currently at $155k?
Also:
Not that I’m saying being a prostitute is bad, but if you’re having sex in exchange for money from the gym screwing you, you’re a prostitute.
“money from the gym screwing you”
That is a most excellent typo! A whole gym of sex worker patrons!
I just did a “little blow”
A 20 yr-old virgin in Brazil? It is to laugh.
Just for you.
For the right money, you can annul your Catholic marriage. Apparently you can annul prior sex acts for free.
Whorin’ credits. You can buy those from nuns.
Cap and trade.
Fap and trade?
Damn it. I knew there was a better joke somewhere.
She’s been waiting so she can get a big payday.
The physical education student will be followed every step of the way by an Australian film crew
She’ll probably make way more than $155k on proceeds from selling the film. Not sure if she’s smart enough to realize that, but I sure hope so. Not that I would pay for it. I’ll just wait for it to be uploaded to xvideos.com, but a lot of people are still dumb enough to pay for their porn.
Not bad, but for a 20 year old Brazilian, could be a lot better
Radical Islamic militants in Libya apparently bragged to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb about their assault on the U.S. consulate and assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb is the gossipy arm of the terrorist organization.
but but but but….the movie!!!11!!
I have heard the cries! I have heard the tears!
“Where is Lord Humungus?” the crowds ask, eyes filled with tears.
The response: He has been in the Wasteland of software conferences, moving boxes to his new home (thank you Toyota truck), and will be closing on his old house today.
I didn’t even notice your absence.
Who?
And here I thought you were out terrorizing a dystopian future Australia.
I’ve mentioned this woman before. She’s probably one of the hottest gals in the company. One of my guilty pleasures is to be exceedingly rude to her and pretend she doesn’t exist.
So she ends up at the same software conference that I do. Our salesman takes us all out to an expensive restaurant. This woman and I end up sitting next to each other with a table of a dozen others. Conversation is stilted.
Well… three drinks later and she’s locked in conversation with me, talking (many times) about her hotel room with the two beds, and how she’s going to hit up the hot tub tonight. Then she orders dessert, demanding that I split it with her. She’s pretty much acting like a teenage girl trying to get a boy to like her.
…and nothing else happened…
Ah, you have mastered the art of radiating unavailability – the strongest attraction.
Or she might now think he’s gay.
This is one thing I can’t really comprehend. Unavailability shuts down my attraction pretty much instantly. I can’t figure out why other people find it appealing.
Usually it seems that the womyns suddenly take it as some sort of challenge or “what’s wrong with me? I can prove I’m desirable and can get him!” thing (?)
Yeah, I’ve seen that too, but I still don’t comprehend it.
You have a Y chromosome. Don’t try to understand the XX. That way lies madness.
Interesting, because most men I know are more turned on when they find out a woman is attached. It means any sexual success he has with her is more than likely a one-time deal and he won’t have to worry about all that icky “relationship” stuff.
It sounds like you only hang out with absolute assholes.
What in god’s name is wrong with you?!
As a married man, I’ll pretend to be all high and mighty – a moral, upright citizen – unlike you filthy vermin.
There are religions in which polygamy is acceptable.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
She didn’t bring a dollar?
It sounds like you missed the last day of Game class.
Now attending the Friend Zone.
Lulz.
…and nothing else happened…
Pansy. That’s why you go down to the hot tub with a bottle of wine or champagne later and then fain surprise that she’s there too. 30 minutes later your back in her hotel room licking the wine off of her body.
Ann Coulter goes on The View and, surprise of surprises, Goldburg has a meltdown. I’m shocked!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..eople.html
But Goldberg had had enough, exploding with rage she shouted: ‘B*******! B*******, I’m sorry! That’s bull, that’s bull.
No actual counter argument? I’m shocked too!
what does Whoopie know about being black? Coulter can be a bit much at times, but it’s amazing how the left always reacts with hyper emotion when its sacred cows are challenged.
Ann Coulter is just Rush Limbaugh with smaller tits, but it’s great to see her get under the skin of those bitches.
The benevolent Democrats would never have harmed their blacks!
Goldberg, probably at the peak of the intellect pyramid on The View, cleverly presented as her argument the ever incisive, “I’m Black and you’re not.”
a “budget of conquest.”
At last, a Socialist tells it like it is.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49206756
Wait, a lazy and ineffective Socialist?! You don’t say.
I can’t wait to see those idiot Frogs watch things implode even more.
The French president knows his budget is a sham, tax revenue will drop massively. He only cares about not having to lower pay for teachers and bureaucrats, and if a sham budget will do it, so be it.
If we ever got our act together here, we could welcome their fleeing corporate HQs with open arms.
Wait a few weeks till Obama is re-elected and save the eye strain.
Together, those two measures will bring in around half a billion euros.
Why do I doubt the take will be quite that high? Something about the mobility of capital and labor, especially in a unified economic zone, perhaps?
Waloon parts of Belgium seen rubbing hands together and muttering “muhuhuhuwha!”?
When Wallonia splits off and forms their own French speaking country, it would probably be even better.
a “budget of conquest.”
At last, a Socialist tells it like it is.
He’s French though, so he will surrender as soon as the Germans look at him funny.
Frozen french fries cause cancer! Ban them! Ban frozen french fries! It’s for the children!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..mical.html
As soon as I saw your description, my thought was “Not the fucking acrylamide scare again!”
According to wikipedia, the cancer-causing dose is 500x (or more) the average daily intake.
but what about the children who eat 50pds of french fries a day? You monster!
French fries come in pod servings in the wasteland? Or did you mean 50 libras (lbs)?
You’re more likely to get cancer from the fryer oil that hasn’t been replaced in months.
But according to my kid’s middle school, french fries are vegetables? So vegatables must cause cancer!!
It was only a matter of time before the word teledildonics entered the lexicon. I see that now.
This is funny:
I was going to start a teledildonicz company years ago, but the hardware wasn’t up to the AI challenge. But I think you could host a virtual brothel of different “personalities” in the cloud now.
I see what you did there.
Ke$ha’s been putting on the pounds as well, Gaga style!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..video.html
Boston police create up to 3,000 records based on license plate reads a day, and hold on to the information for 90 days, or forever if they need it for an investigation or intelligence!
That investigation into whether recording license plates makes officers more intelligent is really going to start paying off now.
Ke(dollar sign sets of spam filter)ha has been putting on the pounds as well!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..video.html
Muslims in Sydney complain their reputation has been ruined by a handful of extremists who they say used turned a protest over an anti-Islamic film in front of the U.S. embassy there into a veritable riot.
It might help the non-terrorist Muslims to stop getting pissy over non-Muslims not adhering to the supposed tenets of a religion they don’t belong to. Do they think people enjoyed hearing from Bill Donohue on every little pop culture thing?
At least Donohue doesn’t blow up stuff, or even force people to read his press releases or watch his TV appearances. He honors the right to ignore him, a right which his opponents don’t often exercise.
so the difference between the “handful” and the other Muslims is one of degrees then. It’s okay to protest someone’s right to free expression, just don’t break anything.
On one hand, seems like a counter expression. On the other, whatever happened to just ignoring something instead of feigning outrage.
All the free publicity for this movie *almost* makes me want to watch it. Normally, I wouldn’t have considered almost watching such an obscure film.
You could have ignored them, but you chose to post.
true but I’m not outraged about anything. These folks have given the film more publicity that it could have ever hoped to gain on its own.
GOP fires GOTV contractor in FL after discovering probably fake registrations by the company. Why, its almost as if they really are against voter fraud.
Can’t be. Tony has inside information that it’s all about voter ‘suppression’.
They were registering Blacks and non-Cuban hispanics?
There’s a Daily Fail about $parky’s pop princess putting on the pounds, but it keeps getting marked as spam.
Thank you, squirrelz.
Well that’s one way to describe her new thighs
When your land-speed record-breaking car smells like a bakery, it must be the fuel.
Call it “The little engine that curd.” Students at Utah State University have broken a land speed record in a car fueled by the waste that remains from cheese making.
…
The fuel was created by feeding the byproducts of cheese production to yeast, which yields a result that can be made into a biofuel that has a lower carbon footprint than conventional diesel. It’s one of three biofuels created in the lab of USU professor Lance Seefeldt, though only the cheese-based fuel was used at Bonneville.
Quick – send them subsidies! Have O! visit their production facility and take credit for 1,000,000,000,000 green J-O-B-S!
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
A Russian bishop “consecrated” the North Pole, which Russia claims has fallen within its sovereign domain for more than a millennium.
The elves aren’t going to be seeing a Pussy Riot concert anytime soon.
Santa’s elves + Pussy Riot, FTW!
So, for those of you who watched Last Resort, was it as shitty as I expect it to be? Have they revealed the Koch-like villain yet?
I liked the part where they declared the Russian commandos POW’s and ostentatiously treated them humanely.
I didn’t watch it, so I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not.
I didn’t watch it either. I only know about this from reading a review.
I’m tempted to watch it, because as far as I can tell from reviews the problem reviewers have with it isn’t that there’s an evil Koch conspiracy, it’s that Braughner is a Mary Sue who’s “too perfect”; perfection in 2012 consisting of refusing to follow illegal nuke orders or torture prisoners. Because, after all, if the Chosen One supports torture, obviously only unrealistic Mary Sue’s won’t use it regularly.
Hmm, it is sounding better and better…
It was loaded with cliches and seemed a bit too divergent from any reasonable alternate reality.
I’ll give it a few more weeks.
Now SOA this week…THAT’s good TV.
Yeah, Sons of Anarchy is fuckin awesome.
Agreed. But it was better than I expected.
Also watched pilot of Elementary. Its House 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I had a hard time getting excited enough to watch Elementary after seeing the commercials and with Sherlock on Netflix. I only have room in my life for one modern retelling of Doyle’s classic and I doubt this network version can stand up to the other.
“They are just revolting, there is nothing pleasant about seeing anybody in a mankini. We have had a real crackdown on the fake penises.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..wquay.html
“I remember one of our PCSOs said a 16-year-old boy had 64 cans of super-strength lager at 2pm,” said Supt Whitmarsh. “But the mother had a real go at the police saying they had ruined the boy’s fun.
Nice
What is the insistence of these british magazines to copy and paste an entire paragraph that can be found in the body of the article as the entire caption for one of their pictures? Is it that difficult to make a decent caption? Alt-text requires varying levels of originality and coherence, but a caption is just describing the picture. Their laziness infuriates me! I will be protesting their poor use of free speech by burning down the British embassy (as soon as I can find one that is within walking distance).
“France’s youth should leave a “decaying and ultra-centralised country run by old men”, according to a new campaign that has sparked debate on how the country treats its younger generation.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..warns.html
so the French hate children?
Oh, those Russians!
Road rage Russian style: How motorists settle their scores with guns, bats and AXES
You should see what Russian airline pilots do when Santa’s sleigh crosses their flight path.
The term “venison” comes to mind.
Paid protesters in Cleveland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5DTqvX74O4
That fat one at the very beginning is Warty.
New Megaupload: Kim Dotcom Shows Off Trailer for Megabox
Why you should always read the damn instructions first: Man accidentally aends sechsy text to all his contacts, ends up in jail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..z27lnXIdWU
you’re doing a fine job of filling in for / augmenting sarc, adding some newsy things to his usual fare of models, starlets, etc.
Evans had typed an intimate invitation to his girlfriend asking her if she would like to engage in sex with him ‘skin on skin’.
I can’t believe they don’t include the full text message. What they hint at here doesn’t even seem that bad… barely warrants a Chris Hansen visit.
Brothel sponsors German ice hockey team, doesn’t demand naming rights. Which is a pity, because the team is called The Cannibals
http://www.thelocal.de/sport/20120927-45231.html
The Clit Cannibals?
The Coitus Cannibals?
The Cock Cannibals?
Mayor of East St Louis doesn’t understand the Constitution. Proposes martial law.
The first comment was “hidden due to abuse reports”. Luckily you could unhide it: “Too many free Obama phones.”
That’s considered offensive by some people? What a bunch of pussies. They’d probably be horrifed if they read some of the comments here.
‘It’s getting warm, Seth, and this is on a global scale. Do the math.’
That’s right, I over came my own snobbery (in my defense, it was well earned after dozens of bad seasons) and quoted SNL. That shit was funny!
You don’t have to defend yourself for SNL “snobbery”. That would be like calling me a culinary snob because I refuse to eat shit and drink Thunderbird.
I love the way you put things.
I do my best.
Let the excuse making begin!:
so now the ME events are problematic? As best anyone can tell, between Letterman and The View, he’s done his level best to avoid governing.
Sometimes, I get the feeling Obama still has not grasped the fact that he won in ’08, that he really is POTUS and not just some guy campaigning for the job.
Well, yeah, I think the “you have to change Washington from the outside” quote sort of sealed the deal on that.
nothing says outsider quite like sitting in the Oval. I am amazed at the level of stupid it takes to support this man.
I haven’t been watching TV lately but if Romney isn’t using that Obama quote in an ad, he’s an idiot.
He’s not, and yes, from the way his campaign is going, he’s an idiot.
I live at a figurative Ground Zero for campaigning and I see very little Romney ads at all. It’s like he’s trying to lose.
There’s something to that. People ask why in the world Obama wanted to win in 2008, with all the problems he knew he was facing. I would ask the same now. Maybe the RNC and Romney are deliberately throwing this one because they think Obama’s approval and reputation are going to go the way of GW Bush in a second term.
Probably not, but you’d have to be an idiot to want your place in history to be defined the them coming decade.
“…defined by the…”
Damn though, there are about 20 golden quotes out there that you could mine for hours of commercials:
“Spread the wealth around” (state Senate edition)
“Change Washington from the outside”
“you didn’t build that”
“Middle Eastern speed bumps”
I hear none of this…ever.
Would it be wrong for some Romney SuperPAC to run the “Obama gave me a phone” clip as a commercial? Nothing else, just run that.
Would it be wrong for some Romney SuperPAC to run the “Obama gave me a phone” clip as a commercial? Nothing else, just run that.
There’s nothing inherently wrong at this point with Romney running Ms. GIBSMEDAT as a campaign commercial. They’re going to call him racist anyway, might as well have some fun with it.
Like somebody said the other day; he’s a morMon, but you’re spelling that with too many Ms.
events in the Middle East. what’s to know? the guy made a video and is now in jail.
because of his busy travel schedule ? because of just the constraints of governing,
What travel has he done that wasn’t campaigning?
How much time is actually spending on the whole tedious governing thing?
there is some parallel, mentally at least, between being an Obama dogwasher and being an abused spouse.
“Nineteen of 20 cabinet-level agencies disobeyed the law requiring the disclosure of public information: The cost of travel by top officials. In all, just eight of the 57 federal agencies met Bloomberg’s request for those documents within the 20-day window required by the Act.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…..g-law.html
The God-Emperor was too busy hounding Romney about his tax returns.
Most Transparent Administration in History…
“WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department’s use of electronic devices to intercept phone numbers, email addresses and online information has climbed by 64 percent since 2009, according to a study of records released under the Freedom of Information Act.”
http://www.washingtonguardian……-listening
“Authorities believe that this new system will detect planning and preparation for the next 9/11-which will happen anyway because all this info will be ignored by key agencies.
Most of the information gained will be used to ruin political rivals of whichever Administration is then in power.”
Kirk and Picard Team Up to Fight Cablevision
The problem here is that the last time Kirk and Picard teamed up to fight evil, Kirk ended up anticlimactically dead.
Warm up your Shatner obituaries.
“because of just the constraints of governing”
$155K champagne towers with Jay Z, appearances on The View and Letterman between Los Vegas and Hollywood fundraisers are now considered governing?
Shut up, racist!
It’s hard work being the Campaigner in Chief.
Waiiiit… $155k? Did you know that just happens to be the same price as the current bid for the Brazilian girl’s virginity, which will be taken on a flight into the US…
Hmmm…
Jay-Z banging one of the finest women on the planet is enough to turn anyone racist.
I swear I am not trolling when I say that Beyonc? is just OK.
Damn, dude. Your standards must be stratospheric.
No, it isn’t that. She just doesn’t do it for me, which is weird.
All of the elements are there for a perfect 10 in the ol’ Randian Sexomonicon, but something just doesn’t add up for me.
I know what you mean. Beyonce is not the best example for me (big strong black women appeal to me), but there are definitely a lot of women who by all objective standards should be very attractive, but really don’t do it for me.
She’s just plain old too large.
Fat is not the issue here, because she’s not fat. She’s large, though. Take a girl with big bones and make her a dancer, and what do you get? An NFL running back.
I’d agree with this. She’s very pretty, but I always got the feeling that if she wasn’t in the entertainment industry, she’d blow up like Jessica Simpson.
If that qualifies as large, then I will gladly admit to liking large girls.
$155K champagne towers with Jay Z, appearances on The View and Letterman between Los Vegas and Hollywood fundraisers
Whores gotta whore…
“Russians seize santa’s workshop and only Lee Majors can stop them.
The Night the Reindeer Died (gunshots)”
“This is one Santa who’s goin’ out the front door.”
OK, last story:
I have faith that humanity’s creativity will not let us reach peak cat.
I understood that article all the way up to the word “cat”.
Hey the cat jumped into a suitcase last night, then he stuck his head out. So cute…
Because I am a sick bastard, I offer cats and dogs sleeping together.
http://weruletheinternet.com/2…..-together/
needz moar hatz
I always get that Benny Hill music stuck in my head.
cats and dogs sleeping together
…mass hysteria!
The New York Times Ross Douthat has had some good blog entries lately about rent seeking and the growth of the Imperial City.
German Farm Girls calendar 2012
.. disappointingly SFW
They can milk me any time.
I’ll be in ze bunk.
Februar looks like she’s trying to hold in a massive bout of the hershey squirts. Marz looks like the twin of the other life form appearing in the picture. November and Juli are pretty hot.
Pic #5….Seventeen-year-old Julia from Baden-W?rttemberg…..I’m not ashamed to say that I would yodel in her canyon.
Hold onto your chairs for this shocker: the Post Office still can’t pay its bills.
He has not been detained over the contents of the inflammatory video.
Right. I’m sure it’s purely a coincidence that he was denied bail. The fact that the guy allegedly produced the stupid video never entered the judge’s mind because judges aren’t human beings with the same foibles and weaknesses as the rest of us. They’re pure as the driven snow. /sarcastaball