D.C. Ponders Drink Ban, CIA Whistleblower Pleads Guilty, Ben Bernanke May Not Be Back: P.M. Links

• New York City remains a trendsetter: Now D.C. is considering laws restricting the sales of sugary drinks.

• President Barack Obama's war on whistleblowers bears fruit: The former CIA officer who revealed the name of an interrogator to journalists pleads guilty, will be sentenced to 30 months in prison.
• Bill and Melinda Gates have given $500,000 to support gay marriage recognition in Washington State and $2 million to support an initiative allowing the foundation of charter schools.
• U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke told friends he will not likely serve a third term even if Obama wins re-election.
• The head of Italy's disaster management agency has resigned in protest over the country convicting seven colleagues of manslaughter for failing to predict earthquakes.
• The remnants of Curt Schilling's bankrupt video game company, which received millions from Rhode Island in a guaranteed loan, are being sold off.
• Perhaps sensing that there's really little difference between President Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's foreign policy plans, four million voters didn't wait for last night's debate before casting their ballots.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Last!

[Auric Demonocles]

I'm going to reply, just to make you look like a sucker.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I DON'T NEED YOU FOR THAT.

[T]

You don't need any of us for that.

[Auric Demonocles]

I've done far worse than kill you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

To the Last! I grapple with thee.

[Groovus Maximus]

I shall leave you as you left HampersandR, as you left the blog; marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead thread... buried alive! Buried alive...!

[The Hammer]

Wrath of Khan is on one of the movie channels pretty regularly; am I correct in assuming that you all would say it's worth recording?

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's worth memorizing.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Unhealthy foods should be taxed the same way tobacco is as part of an effort to battle childhood obesity, Ontario doctors say.

The recommendation is part of an Ontario Medical Association (OMA) campaign launched Tuesday.

[Paul.]

Canadian healthcare for all!

[Warty]

Restricting marketing of fatty and sugary foods to children.

Is that a Boolean AND or an OR?

[C. Anacreon]

When will someone point out to the "leaders" that it isn't fats that are unhealthy? So many nitwits are still stuck on this one.

[R C Dean]

Is that a Boolean AND or an OR?

Yes.

[Groovus Maximus]

Define "unhealthy." Will poutine and Timbits be on this list? What about the waitresses at Timmy's? They certainly can't be healthy or nutritious.

[Gene]

They sure as fuck aren't appetizing.

[OldMexican]

Re: Archduke Pantsfan,

Unhealthy foods should be taxed the same way tobacco is as part of an effort to battle childhood obesity, Ontario doctors say.

Ontario doctors say stoopid, economics-ignorant claptrap.

[mad libertarian guy]

This statement is stupid LONG BEFORE we get to the economics of it.

[Ted S.]

And we're supposed to care what the O.M.Eh? has to say about anything?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

NFL RedZone: The People's Champ
The greatest invention of the 21st Century!

[Auric Demonocles]

I've only watched that while at a game (they show it on the big screen at Gillete starting this year) and while drunk at a bar. I'm obviously not paying a ton of attention at the game, and at the bar I didn't like it. It was way too ADD for me.

[MP]

I love RedZone. I'd love it even more if I didn't have to pay for it.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

People sure are trying hard to make something about that Bayonet comment from last night.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

This is why I don't watch the debates anymore; they've completely degenerated into a snaps contest, not anything substantive.

That horses and bayonets comment by Obama was as retarded as Romney's path to the sea statement.

[Proprietist]

Obama: LOL, bayonets, yo!

Romney: Oh no you di'in't, girl! *snap* *snap* *snap*

[Randian]

Honestly people, the "path to the sea" refers to the MEDITERRANEAN Sea.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Quit sucking GOP dick for a bit, please.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Quit sucking GOP dick for a bit, please.

Quit licking Democrat anus for a bit, please.

[Randian]

That's what he meant. If you value honesty, then you take people by what they mean.

Iran wants a naval base in Tartus, you fucking moron.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

I understood that, but it's still a dumb way to put it. He should have just left that line out entirely.

[R C Dean]

Seriously, having a Mediterranean port is a huge deal to the Iranians. Without it, they've got nuthin' but the Persian Gulf.* And since their only (non-nuclear) strategic card is to close the Persian Gulf, well, you can see where this is going.

*Sure, the Caspian Sea is nice and all, but the only markets on that one are either dirt-poor 'stans or Russian-owned.

[Stormy Dragon]

And how will having a port on the Mediterraen solve that problem? Is the stuff they want to ship just going to magically appear in Syria to be loaded onto boats there?

[Ted S.]

Well, they do have the Gulf of Oman.

[Ted S.]

And yet we all participate in the H ampersand R snaps contest. 🙂

[Proprietist]

Yes, like the binders full of women and the Big Bird memes, they really aren't exactly scathing, substantive criticisms.

[The Craig]

I started watching the debate and I had FB up at the same time. When Obama made the 1980s wanting their foreign policy back, leftist friends went nuts.

I turned the tv off and went to bed.

[Proprietist]

Weren't the 1980s full of undeclared interventions only vaguely affiliated with national security and backing shady and dangerous paramilitaries to overthrow regimes we didn't like?

[Virginian]

Reagan actually got the hell out of Lebanon after the Marine barracks were bombed. He bombed Libya after they sponsored terrorist attacks, and then stopped. The Afghan supply efforts went to the groups who would later be the Northern Alliance, despite the left trying to paint all those fighting the Russians as the Taliban. The Latin American stuff...well, keeping the Reds out of the Caribbean isn't noninterventionism by a long shot, but it's a hell of a lot more sensible then Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, and anything else the last two or three Presidents have come up with.

My noninterventionism runs up against the Cold War in a very big way. The current raggedy pack of cave dwelling savages lacks the ability to seriously harm the United States. The Soviet Union had the ability, and they embarked on a campaign of worldwide subversion and conquest. Of the Cold War Presidents, Reagan and Eisenhower did the best job with regards to balancing the need to fight Communism with the need to carefully choose the vital fights. Furthermore, Reagan accomplished his foreign policy goals with very little loss of life, compared with LBJ, Nixon, Kennedy, or Truman.

[C. Anacreon]

Yet the San Francisco Chronicle is still calling it "Bindergate."

[SugarFree]

He asked for the resumes of women to consider for work in his administration and those resumes came in binders! Hilarious!

This may be the most desperate non-joke from a non-gaffe ever made. Seriously. I hoped the forced laughter strokes them all out.

I couldn't give a flip-flop about Romney, but please stop torturing the very concept of humor for politics.

[Ted S.]

They're using the expletive deleted -gate suffix too?

[SugarFree]

Notorious right-wing blog Slate reports that the Marines alone have purchased 120,000 bayonets in the past ten years.

Obama's fact-checkers are as useless as he is.

[Chris Mallory]

Stars and Stripes reported that the US Army didn't issue bayonets to troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[R C Dean]

That's nice. I doubt the Air Force did either. The point still stands about the Marines. I even seem to recall reading a story in the last few years about some Marines putting their bayonets to their intended purpose.

[Stormy Dragon]

You're probably thinking of this story:

http://www.businessinsider.com.....ct-2012-10

Which you'll note:
1) it's british troops. The last US bayonet charge in 1951
2) the story demonstrates why no one does bayonet charges anymore: they only made it half way to their target before having to hit the dirt and switch to fire and maneuver.

Bayonets are primarily a psychological tool to get the troops all psyched up.

[OldMexican]

Re: Chris Mallory,

Stars and Stripes reported that the US Army didn't issue bayonets to troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Which is why they have to pry open their cans of rations with their teeth!

Only the Marines get the pretty things! Dang!

[Stormy Dragon]

The Marines purchased tons of rolly-office chairs to. That doesn't mean that infantry is going pushing themselves around the battlefield on Aerons.

[Stormy Dragon]

Marines do bayonet training in basic to teach aggressiveness, not because it's something they're going to be doing in combat. It's basically the marine version of army recruits hitting each other with those giant padded Q-tips. That doesn't mean the Army expects to start issuing pugil sticks to the infantry at some point.

Once they leave basic, bayonets are basically only used as utility knifes. In fact if you actually tried to bayonet someone with a modern M-4, you'd likely end up bending your barrel and rendering the rifle useless.

And you want to know the real way it's obvious that the Marines don't actually expect to use bayonets in actual combat? Once they leave boot camp, they never practice it again. There's no bayonet assault course at the infantry school or special forces school or anything else. It's something they do a few times in boot and then never do again their entire career.

[sloopyinca]

This seems like an odd place for a Marine boot camp.

[Stormy Dragon]

Yeah, and you know what doesn't get mentioned throughout that entire article? Marines stabbing people with bayonets. For the reasons explained right at the beginning:

You fix bayonets when you expect to need the aggressive combat mind-set that's produced by the primal sight of massed blades.

It's basically a story about a green commander getting jittery before his first real battle ever and pulling out a placebo.

[R C Dean]

All of which is irrelevant to the point that we have as many or more bayonets now than we did before we mobilized for WWI.

[Stormy Dragon]

M1942 Bayonets produced: 1,505,000

M9 Bayonets produced: 450,000
OKC-3S Bayonets produced: 100,000

Any other bogus statistics you'd like to introduce?

[Robert S]

It was a good line but then he ruined it by saying "We have these things called aircraft carriers, we land planes on them". Anyone want to guess what MSNBC would have talked about for the next 7 years if Romney had talked to Obama like he was a child? It was grotesque. He's just lucky the media is in the tank for him.

[Killazontherun]

A nipple or melanoma?

NSFWish

[Groovus Maximus]

Neither. It's most likely a contusion. Looks like someone punched J-Lo in the milk sac.

Or...maybe a paramour got too zealous with the massage-grabby-grabby-fondle. Or she just went all in on a BSE whilst watching midget pr0n. Who knows? -)))

[Tonio]

Prion diseases are nothing to joke about, Doc.

[Groovus Maximus]

It's the mad cow.

/Denny Crane

[Killazontherun]

Or...maybe a paramour got too zealous with the massage-grabby-grabby-fondle.

I've squeezed some titty in my time, but they never came out of it looking like that. Was the guy using clamps made out of plutonium at the time?

[Groovus Maximus]

I'll need to examine her for bite marks. I'm willing to make such a sacrifice in the name of science and health.

[T]

Shadow from her hair.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bingo.

[Killazontherun]

Wrong. The oddly deformed papilla bumps are clearly in the area you think is shadow. One of the scratch marks goes right through it.

[Killazontherun]

Here is a much more appealing pics of her tits because the nips are hard:

http://tubedork.com/wp-content.....z-nude.jpg

But if you do a close up that right nip you see the papilla on the bottom where you find the scratch marks cover the same dark skin area as the pic at the top. Also, the dark skin of the areola is the same flattened curved shape.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Shadow. It carries onto her arm.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Why are you looking at her arm so closely? Pervert.

[Ska]

I really thought you came up with a new concept here - the Not Safe for (wish), were a hot chick you wish you could see naked is still pictured with her clothes on.

[Gene]

It looks like a shadow to me.

[Zeezrom]

Witch's teat. Burn her!

[hamilton]

"She turned me into a newt!"

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Would you like a losenge?

[BakedPenguin]

I'd recommend this cough medicine.

[Gene]

Smack that cough away.

[Kant feel Pietzsche]

"Head Teacher"...constant throat irritation....I think we've located your problem, Ma'am.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bill and Melinda Gates have given $500,000 to support gay marriage recognition in Washington State and $2 million to support an initiative allowing the foundation of charter schools.

Progressives are four times enraged as impressed.

[Tonio]

Some libertarians and fellow travellers happy.

[Doktor Kapitalism]

"Perhaps sensing that there's really little difference between President Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's foreign policy plans, four million voters didn't wait for last night's debate before casting their ballots."

Mail-in ballots have to be received by election day, you know.

[amelia]

Being a government seismologist is as risky as being a court astrologer.

[sloopyinca]

Man wants to take pictures of damage to his fence and retaining wall. Officer Friendly doesn't think it's a good idea and violently arrests him, causing severe damage to his shoulder. Officer not charged after IA investigation, but is reprimanded.

Yeah, they never charged the guy with anything, but somehow the false imprisonment, assault or battery weren't criminal.

[Tonio]

He. Was. Reprimanded. Possibly even in writing with a copy to his personnel folder.

WTF do you want, you anti-cop bigot?

[Art Vandelay]

Was he specifically instructed to not assault people who take pictures of fences?

No? Then it's obviously not his fault.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...four million voters didn't wait for last night's debate before casting their ballots.

Or make up their minds, really. That was done after the first debate.

[Fatty Bolger]

Video: Romney wins CBS focus group in Ohio

Yeah, who cares. But I linked it for the video:

The silent sadness of the CBS newswoman's face at 0:29... hilarious.

[$park?]

As soon as they went to commercial break, I'm sure her first words were "What the fuck is wrong with people? How can they be so stupid?"

[Auric Demonocles]

That was some really poor newscasting.

[Art Vandelay]

That is awesome.

The only thing getting me through this election is the promise of millions of fucking proglodytes with that exact same face once they see Obama lose.

[sage]

Yes but as the comments mentioned I wish someone could link to the video of Katie Couric after Bush won in 2004. Yummy tears indeed.

[$park?]

Anna Wintour threatens designers, designers rationalize.

"It is just that Michelle brings such a unique, vibrant and youthful style and the average woman can see herself wearing many of her outfits, so designers want everyone to know that she is wearing their clothes," explained entertainment/lifestyle commentator Valerie Greenberg. "And even though Anna Wintour has a reputation for being tough, I don't think she would let her political views dictate the designers she chooses to feature in the pages of Vogue."

Emmy-winning stylist and author David Zyla, who has previously outfitted political figures including Hillary Clinton, said that is simply hard for anyone to measure up to Michelle Obama, who roused the industry after the eight years of the simple style preferred by former First Lady Laura Bush.

[Auric Demonocles]

David Zyla ... said that is simply hard for anyone to measure up to Michelle Obama, who roused the industry after the eight years of the simple style preferred by former First Lady Laura Bush.

Your industry might have a problem if it hinges on the first lady's style.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

The fashion industry is always dependent on manufactured importance. The Wookiee is just the latest in a long line of "trendsetters". Fashion is the realm of the self-important and the bullshit artists.

[Auric Demonocles]

Fun fact: regardless of what the fashion industry has been trying the past decade, I'm still wearing khakis (NOT jeans) and polos.

[hamilton]

Popped collar? I suspected that.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

But is he 4 popped collars cool?

[Mad Scientist]

This is how you pop a collar.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

What exactly has MO inspired in the fashion industry, other than finding what goes best with "angry eyebrows"?

[Art Vandelay]

The "Supersized Pant Suit"?

[rac3rx]

Given Anna Wintour's alleged disgust at any female frame over a size 0, I'm amazed that she doesn't vomit that raw steak she has for lunch daily every time Michelle Obama's enormous wookie arse crosses her path.

Fashion people are repulsive.

[Anonymous Coward]

The bandoleer?

[Fatty Bolger]

Out: Class
In: Wookie arms

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Kiwi Street Fashion
warning - slideshow

[T]

I didn't realize hipsterism had spread so far.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

It's gone global.

[mad libertarian guy]

I really didn't see much that is hipster. This is fucking hipster.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i.....er-007.jpg
http://www.wryandginger.com/wp.....ipster.jpg

[E pluribus, multis]

17 pictures of 17 douches.

[rac3rx]

The one thing they all seem to have in common is dirty hair. Washing yourself does not take that much time out of your day, and you aren't hiding your stench and grease from anyone.

Apparently, these days style = filth.

[Ted S.]

Finland hipster blog.

Technically I suppose you could call it a slideshow, but since it's a blog that's a bit more expected.

[Fist of Etiquette]

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke told friends he will not likely serve a third term even if Obama wins re-election.

Stealing from A.M. Links. How gauche.

[Scott S.]

It was JUST THAT IMPORTANT.

[Art Vandelay]

I can't wait until Paul Krugman is voted in as Big Ben's replacement.

[Groovus Maximus]

I see your Krugnutz and raise you a John Corzine.

[A Serious Man]

'Awesome, Dad! Way to make the family proud!" Teenage son tweeted that after his father was arrested for running a string of brothels offering a 'girlfriend experience' with Asian women.

I dunno, sounds like dad taught him a valuable lesson in knowing how to make money from a specific demand.

[R C Dean]

I honestly don't know how to take Jr.'s comment there.

On the one hand, he is a teenage boy, so having a father who ran a string of brothels would be, well, really cool, right?

On the other, geez, Dad, way to get caught and embarrass me in front of my friends.

[A Serious Man]

If anything that should make him the most popular kid in school. He has connections to high class prostitutes!

[OldMexican]

father was arrested for running a string of brothels offering a 'girlfriend experience' with Asian women.

The guy was running a string of brothels. A string. Not one, or two, no. And full of Asian women, no less!

That would be enough to make ME feel proud of the guy as well.

[$park?]

That's quite a conundrum Gov Brown.

Faced with a $16 billion deficit, Brown is pushing a ballot measure next month known as Prop 30 that would increase taxes by up to 30 percent on those earning more than $300,000. Brown claims that unless voters pass the measure, dubbed the "millionaires tax," he'll cut the school year by three weeks to save money.

"It's either massive cuts to the schools and colleges or the most blessed, the most well-off paying 1 or 2 or 3 percent more," Brown told a group of supporters in Oakland.

[Groovus Maximus]

Yes, three weeks less of proggie leftist nonsense is surely a bad thing. How exactly is he making a compelling case, again?

[A Serious Man]

That and there's the fact that he specifically put the cuts into the budget to ensure that his tax prop passes because God forbid he reduce spending on government workers or reforms the bureaucracy entirely so that 50% of education money doesn't disappear into a black hole.

[C. Anacreon]

This. There is an enormous amount of redundancy and useless pencil-pushers in the CA state government (the list of "agencies" is mind-boggling) and only about 1/3 of school money in the state goes to pay teachers (most schools have a half-dozen "vice principals," for instance, whatever the hell they are needed for.) But unless we add huge new taxes, the only way to cut costs, per Brown, is less school for junior.

They even have Brown in commercials for the tax with a bunch of wildly cheering 7-year-olds. Sadly, not the only constituency gullible enough to buy the tax plan.

[OldMexican]

Re: C. Anacreon,

They even have Brown in commercials for the tax with a bunch of wildly cheering 7-year-olds.

Uh, for a millisecond there, the name "Sandusky" while reading that...

[hotsy totsy]

(most schools have a half-dozen "vice principals," for instance, whatever the hell they are needed for.)

Duh! If the principal drops dead or gets shot or some other school violence that happens all the time, the vice principal takes the oath of office.

[A Serious Man]

If I could say one thing to Jerry Brown. Only replace my 'beautiful mother' with 'state'.

[R C Dean]

I like the way he characterizes "increase taxes by up to 30 percent on those earning more than $300,000" as "paying 1 or 2 or 3 percent more".

[Red Rocks Rockin]

The same math that says $300K = $1 million.

[BigT]

If they're paying 10%, a 30% increase is 3%.

[R C Dean]

But they are paying 30% more, not, as Brown said, 3% more.

[Scott S.]

It kills me that even Fox is downplaying the sales tax increase.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

I am somewhat pleased with today's Championship League results.
/no spoiler

[Spoonman.]

RCP has Obama back up in tracking poll.

[Spoonman.]

Well, I swear I saw that earlier today. Huh.

[A Serious Man]

Barbara Streisand asks for emergency contribution from Obama supporters as Hollywood left panics over disappointing Obama campaign.

[NoVAHockey]

"The election is tight, and Democrats and Republicans are always desperate to raise more money on both sides," noted Los Angeles culture reporter Jenn Hoffman. "Some people just hate Hollywood types and are going to find a way to be envious and cruel to anyone they perceive as rich, famous and liberal. Those people need to spend less time on the Internet and more time focusing on their own lives."

[BakedPenguin]

Some would say the "rich, famous, and liberal" Hollywood types would do well to spend more times focusing on their own lives.

[$park?]

When you really like someone that you work with, you rush off an get married too don't you? Then you get a divorce when you stop working together and start working with someone new, right?

[Auric Demonocles]

Personally, I refuse to date any that doesn't work at my company when we meet.

[Fatty Bolger]

That is strange. I totally get the musical chairs dating. But marriage? Why?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Trailer Park Boys announce third movie.

[Warty]

Finally, some good news.

[Groovus Maximus]

I tells ya, when Newfoundland goes the way of the dodo... Yet another reason in my laundry list for the Maritime Annihilation Project (sans PEI).

Newfies are clearly a pestilence, a veritable plague, and must be destroyed at all costs.

[Gene]

Or relocated forcibly to Ft Mac most of them will go willingly. We then may proceed in creating a new Libertarian homeland. Too bad the climate sucks but there is plenty of moose to eat until climate change kicks in.

[Whahappan?]

Newfoundland isn't part of the Maritimes.

[Groovus Maximus]

That's true, but it is geographically in the vicinity of the Atlantic, and nice trade off for sparing PEI my wrath.

Newfies must be liquidated; of course, I will spare the dogs. -))))

[Isaac Bartram]

Julian, Ricky et al aren't Newfies, they're Bluenosers.

While I think the show is funny, it still grates at times since those guys are so much like so many guys i've worked with. Guys like that are the backbone of Canadian construction labor. Or at least they were from the 50s through the 70s.

[Episiarch]

Awesome. Get ready for a shitsplosion.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

The BEST OF RICKY

[Archduke Pantsfan]

and more Rickyisms

[Wastelander]

Fourth movie.
First was the BW that predates the series, also called "Trailer Park Boys", if memory serves.
Second (between 3rd and 4th or 4th and 5th season?) also called "Trailer Park Boys", but often referred to as The Big Dirty, and sucked out loud.
Third would've been Countdown to Liquor Day.
New one is the fourth.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now D.C. is considering laws restricting the sales of sugary drinks.

Did they skip salt and trans fats? How laissez-faire of them.

[NoVAHockey]

good thing there's not a Starbucks, Caribou Coffee or Corner Bakery at every intersection.

[Randian]

Those are exempt because your Betters like those places.

[sage]

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke told friends he will not likely serve a third term even if Obama wins re-election.

All of you! You think someone's gonna just dump money on you-money they can use? There ain't people like that! There's just people like me.

[mad libertarian guy]

Damn Mudders.

[Warty]

A silly song, Robert E. Howard edition.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Who the hell puts up Halloween Lights????

[T]

Me and Mrs. T. Unless we're staging our house to move, as we currently are.

[Mad Scientist]

I used two red lights as the eyes of the giant spider I built on my roof. Does that count?

[Auric Demonocles]

Alright, that's actually pretty cool.

[Fatty Bolger]

Smoked water the latest dining craze

I bet a few of you have some experience with smoked water, amirite?

[T]

Here, have a sip of the bongwater.

[SugarFree]

My friend chugged bongwater on a bet. We didn't tell him the bong was full of tequila. That was a long, strange night.

[Episiarch]

By "my friend" you mean you, right? Just admit it.

[SugarFree]

No, it was Derek. Who everyone remarked looked like Michael Hutchence. And who had a big poster of Michael Hutchence in his bedroom. He was a little off, but an otherwise nice guy.

[Episiarch]

So you're agreeing with me then.

[SugarFree]

What? If I was Derek I would have fucked many more beautiful women in my life, like he did. He went bald early. Poor fucker.

[Episiarch]

OK, OK, NutraSweet, you can stop shouting. We all get it. You're bald and shave your pubes. Whatever. No one cares.

[SugarFree]

It makes it look bigger.

[Episiarch]

Yeah, but now the lesions are visible. So it's kind of a tradeoff.

[Ska]

Thanks for reminding me of the time I threw a full cup of bongwater to a pair of school children with a "Hey, catch!" The OMG EWWWWWWWW.... music to my ears.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I'm not a big molecular gastronomy fan.

[sloopyinca]

Somebody beat the shit out of this woman, and it was either two cops or a Deputy US Attorney.

Jesus, this case is full of losers. Hilarious? Yes. Pathetic? Certainly.

[rac3rx]

All kinds of fun going on up in my 'hood...

[Brett L]

I never had a problem with the MoCo sheriffs. I see the place of the incident -- Tailgators? Really? Fuck. -- has a location at the front of Needham Rd and one in Magnolia. Both of which were vast wastelands when I left. The Weedlands has just exploded in the last 10 years.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Barack Obama's war on whistleblowers bears fruit...

In a certain way, Obama is being quite transparent.

[Palin's Buttplug]

GOP clinging to horses and bayonets now.

Backward fools they are.

[sloopyinca]

Is that any worse than you hanging onto the failed policies of a failed administration? Or are you OK with Obama's War on Drugs, War on Mexican Immigrants, expanded War on Middle Easterners, War on Coal/NatGas/Oil, etc, etc, etc...

[Palin's Buttplug]

Obama War on Drugs? His biggest failure, no doubt.

His War on criminal immigrants? Fine with that.

War on Al qaeda? I like that too.

War on NatGAs,Coal/Oil? LMAO - you idiot. The US is now #1 in energy production.

[Randian]

When were we not #1?

[sloopyinca]

#1 in energy production? Then explain how the price of gas has more than doubled during his presidency. After all, it's among the most highly regulated industries out there.

[sloopyinca]

Then=But.

[SugarFree]

Kinky.

[Cavpitalist]

My anaconda don't want none. Unless you got buns.

Hun.

[OldMexican]

Re: Palin's Buttwipe,

Obama War on Drugs? His biggest failure, no doubt.

You don't even give him that one, Buttwipe - it's so easy to fail a war on consumption and so disastrous the results of the war, that failure should be its own reward. But not even The Great One can get this one - he failed in failing!

His War on criminal immigrants? Fine with that.

Especially those "criminals" that have families and lives here... makes for great examples, not unlike hanging, drawing and quartering.

War on NatGAs,Coal/Oil? LMAO - you idiot. The US is now #1 in energy production.

Only because Congress has blocked him! Why, those uncooperating bastards!

[Restoras]

Rrrrecord! Cooooooporate! PrrrroooooffffiiiitZZZ! Amiright??

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Horses and bayonets would be a hell of a lot cheaper than F-35s.

[MJGreen]

Didn't Obama brag about subsidizing windmills?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Carving pumpkins the redneck way

[Almanian's Evil Twin]

Carving Pumpkins - discarded potential band names

[A Serious Man]

Gawker laments that Obama has become a petulent and snarky politician rather than the radically transformative Messiah they all know he is deep down on the inside.

[Episiarch]

"What happened, Big O? I used to think you were cool."

[Ska]

That's what happens when you cut off the head of Jebodiah Springfield.

[Episiarch]

Not all lynch mobs are as nice as HR commenters, Ska.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha! Caught in the ampersand snare.

[Episiarch]

Not true! I meant Human Resources Commenters!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Okay. That checks out.

[Episiarch]

Whew. That was a close one. Did I say that out loud?

[Groovus Maximus]

Silly Epi! Everyone know "Human Resources" is a fictional construct. Nice try.

[Warty]

Gawker is complaining about petulance now?

[T]

They're mad he's horning in on their turf and doing it better.

[Emmerson Biggins]

Bean-o will help with that.

[OldMexican]

Gawker laments that Obama has become a petulent and snarky politician[...]

What do they mean "has become"???

[sloopyinca]

Modesto police officer accused of molesting teenage relative.

And not to be outdone by a measly local cop, CHP officer decides to one-up him.

Scum.

[John]

So any bets on what Trumps big October Surprise is? The betting favorite seems to be proof Obama dealt drugs in college. Drug use would be a yawn. But watching the media, who have spent 40+ years pushing the drug war, claim youthful drug dealing is no big deal will be quite entertaining.

[Randian]

Please be a white love child.

[John]

That would be good too. The other possibility is the gay lover. But I don't think Trump is that stupid. A gay lover would just make Obama look sympathetic to anyone with any decency or morality. So we are left with drug dealing.

I frankly don't care if he sold drugs in college. But the media has always claimed that while drug use is just a youthful indiscretion, drug dealers are evil. Watching them explain that a way will be epic.

[rac3rx]

Nah, they'll ignore it, just like they've ignored everything else negative about him.

[Emmerson Biggins]

I fucking hate Obama as much as the next guy. But doesn't anything Trump says deserve to be pre-ignored?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Obama fucked Ivana Trump is the ass and The Hair is pissed.

[OldMexican]

In Russia, the hair in the ass fucks you!

[Art Vandelay]

Thanks, OM, for that....disturbing visual.

[Restoras]

I bet he cheated on his taxes.

[R C Dean]

The betting favorite seems to be proof Obama dealt drugs in college.

He's denying that's what it is.

Gay lover? That would crush his vote amongst blacks.

There was speculation awhile back that one of Obama filed tax returns as a resident alien. That would be priceless.

[Groovus Maximus]

Gay lover? That would crush his vote amongst blacks.

Too late. The early voting initiative was/is specifically targeting this arguably monolithic demographic.

[rac3rx]

I think there were 3 different alleged gay lovers and all have mysteriously died. I don't think there's another one left to come forward.

[C. Anacreon]

Pederasty is in vogue, and still considered illegal for now, at least for football coaches, priests and Scoutmasters. Why not a President?

[sloopyinca]

What's a pederast, Walter?

[OldMexican]

Re: sloopyinca,

What's a pederast, Walter?

A person who loves children so much he wants to keep them from working in factories so they have to offer themselves to him as prostitutes.

[Andrew S.]

What's a pederast, Walter?

[Andrew S.]

Aw, dangit, why didn't I refresh first?

[Brett L]

Dude. Its Trump. Its like yesterday when Alred was saying she could sink Romney. Its total bullshit. He just needs attention.

[A Serious Man]

Tavi, Lena Dunham and Lesley Gore Come Together for Pro-Woman 'You Don't Own Me' PSA because all real women vote Democrat because the Democratic Party...owns them, apparently.

[sloopyinca]

In "you can't make this shit up" news, Wheeling, WV officer able to appeal termination because he says the department was firing him in retaliation to him being charged with sexual assault. Department says they fired him for driving without a license.

And there are people out there that think PubSec unions are a good idea.

[Almanian's Evil Twin]

Was he trained to know he needed a license to drive? Is that in the collective bargaining agreement?

No?

Then PAID VACATION, bitches!

[OldMexican]

Perhaps sensing that there's really little difference between President Barack Obama's and Mitt Romney's foreign policy plans, four million voters didn't wait for last night's debate before casting their ballots.

Some of them voters being at lesat 150 years old.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

'Smash your face in,' Conrad Black tells 'priggish, gullible' BBC interviewer.

After a BBC journalist insisted on repeatedly calling him a "criminal", former media baron Conrad Black said he was proud of "being able to endure a discussion like this without getting up and smashing your face in" during a combative interview.

[C. Anacreon]

Didn't he play Gary Coleman's dad on Diff'rent Strokes?

[Zeezrom]

The remnants of Curt Schilling's bankrupt video game company, which received millions from Rhode Island in a guaranteed loan, are being sold off.

As Martha Coakley cackles like a maniac.

[A Serious Man]

Not lesbians, yet not heterosexual: 'semi-straight' couple adjusts to life after sex change.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Finally a use for all your gay friends.

[A Serious Man]

I really don't care for the Grand Gesture. It's just so unneccessary.

[sloopyinca]

Gloria Allred ready to unearth her October surprise on Romneybot.

Who cares about the story. The comments are where the fun is.

Example: Margie Schmitt Noakes ? Encinal High School
Another classless woman spewing!!!!!!
Reply ? 16 ? Like ? 55 minutes ago

Ernie Kaputnik
Margie Schmitt Noakes: Lord Almighty! Your teeth look like a row of urinals. Looking at you makes me want to piss in your mouth.
Reply ? 16 ? Like ? 40 minutes ago

Damn, I knew Facebook was good for something.

[RBS]

Your teeth look like a row of urinals. Looking at you makes me want to piss in your mouth.

I'm stealing that one.

[Dunphy (the real one)]

darnit, another day of sick leave. another day i can't be out there TERRY STOPPING the world :l

pubsec unions are, like many other things, a tradeoff. in many respects they are a "good" and in many other respects, not so much.

in any job where as a fundamental aspect of employment, employees are expected to do such unpopular things as restraining people's liberty (arrest), use physical force against them, etc. those employees need advocates to fight for their rights and simple due process against a system that often would throw them under the bus for political expediency. that's what our unions are there for.

i've never been sued (knock on wood), or had any serious complaint (knock on wood), but that's largely due to luck, and very good verbal judo skills (imo complaints derive in large part from inability to verbally defuse situations as well as inability in hsotile situations to verbally express the kind of respect and politeness that people want. iow, two officers who use the exact same level of force, in many cases, the one who gets the complaints is the one who fails to verbally defuse. it's not the force, it's the words. as strange as that sounds, i've seen it time and again).

[Dunphy (the real one)]

regardless, if you want good officers, and overwhelmingly in the US, we have good officers, you gotta give them decent pay, benefits and most importantly, due process and civil service protections. that makes the tradeoff in liberty, privacy, etc. that we give up in takin gthe job - a fair tradeoff.

i LOVE my job, but i wouldn't be doing it if i couldn't have union protection DESPITE THE FACT i personally haven't had much if any need.

it's kind of like how i wouldn't own/buy a house w/o fire insurance. police unions, otoh, have negotiated some contracts/benefits schemes that are simply unsustainable financially, and people need to step up to the plate and address it.

[Dunphy (the real one)]

nice hairpull UOF.

that's a "unique" one

http://www.policeone.com/news_.....ew=6017114

[sloopyinca]

Remember Jacob Sullum's story a little earlier today about the charges being dropped on the guy the NYPD cops beat the shit out of in the Jewish center? Well, PoliceOne weighed in on it with predictable results.

Example: This is frickin rediculous!! Get arrested, make a stink about it, and enjoy as the flippin liberal retards throw the pity card and drop all charges. It's getting to the point where shooting criminals should be mandatory. It may be the only way they'll ever see any justice.

These motherfuckers are beyond inane.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Kochtapus!!!