A.M. Links: World Stocks to End Year With Gains, Obama Reflects on Newtown, Clinton Hospitalized, Syrian Military Trying to Take Damascus Suburb, Israel Relaxes Gaza Shipment Restrictions

• World stocks look set to end 2012 up almost 13 percent despite stalled fiscal cliff negotiations. 

• The neutrino may be its own anti-particle, which could help explain the scarcity of anti-matter. 

• Obama says that the day of the Newtown shooting was the worst of his presidency. 

• Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized after a blood clot caused by a concussion earlier this month was discovered in a follow-up exam. 

• The Syrian military is making a push to take back a strategic suburb in Damascus. 

• More building materials are to pass into Gaza after Israel relaxed shipping restrictions.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The neutrino may be its own anti-particle, which could help explain the scarcity of anti-matter.

I'm never going to get my home made Starship Enterprise off the ground.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Obama says that the day of the Newtown shooting was the worst of his presidency.

Phew, I was afraid he wouldn't be able to make it about him.

[RBS]

It's about all of us Fist.

[Rich]

It would have been even worse without the stimuli.

[Trespassers W]

Disco. For most of a day, the news was about something other than him.

[VG Zaytsev]

Phew, I was afraid he wouldn't be able to make it about him.

That would be a first.

I'm surprised that he's not pushing gun control so that he won't have another bad day like that one. Not for the children but because it ruined his day at the links.

[hamilton]

Obama says that the day of the Newtown shooting was the worst of his presidency

I wonder where he ranks the day he ordered a drone strike that killed 22 kids in Yemen.

[DJF]

The day he qualified himself for a second Noble Peace Prize.

[hamilton]

I continue to have friends that see no irony in that prize being awarded. I am thinking that my 2013 resolution is going to be to just STFU about political philosophy forever and stick to drinking.

[Killazontherun]

Resolve to get a better class of friends.

[RBS]

Top 5, at least.

[Doctor Whom]

They were all terrorists. My one liberal Facebook friend who even acknowledges the drone strikes told me so.

[RBS]

I'm shocked by the acknowledgment, for most of them anything that happen outside of the US and Western Europe doesn't count.

[iggy]

'Anything that happens outside the US and Western Europe doesn't count.'

That also helps explain how they can ignore the roaring success of free market institutions in Chili, Singapore and Hong Kong. It's not Amurica or Western Europe, so what does that prove?

[Ted S.]

Mmm.... Free-market chili.

[$park?]

Which special ingredient tastes better, love or freedom?

[Ted S.]

If you work your child labor too hard, their meat becomes too gristly.

[Lord Humungus]

my mom, a die-hard Obama fan, blames Bush. They're "Bush's Wars". I love my mother dearly, but jeebus!

[hamilton]

Wow. I didn't know Dubya was still able to order air strikes. Being an ex-president is way cool.

[mad libertarian guy]

Yes. Murder droning people in lands with which we are not at war, on Obama's say so alone and with zero oversight at all is all BOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!

No offense, Humungous, but Jeebus Fucking Christ your mom is retarded. Mine is too, because she's apt to simply accept as gospel whatever dreck the MSM forces down her throat (and wasn't even aware of the dronings until I accused Obama of being a child murderer and forced her to look at what print there is of the drone strikes), but the appeal to blame BOOSH after a full term in office is simply mind numbing.

The one thing, politically, that my mom has going for her though is that she didn't vote for Obama. Not this time at least.

[Ted S.]

Why are our taxes going to pay for Rose Bowl floats?

(Yeah, I know, "Because fuck you, that's why.)

[Xenocles]

You can choose between general welfare and commerce, if you like.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized after a blood clot caused by a concussion earlier this month was discovered in a follow-up exam.

She's got an acute case of the vapors and won't be able to entertain her gentlemen callers on Capitol Hill.

[$park?]

How long before CIA conspiracies start springing up?

[cavalier973]

That was my immediate thought after reading the statement.

[Drake]

Did she Vince Foster herself?

[sloopyinca]

These killing machines must be stopped. Sorry, but I believe it's time to ban any one of them that are designed to hold more than ten.

[RBS]

Then how will my grandparents and their church group get to Branson?

[Rich]

Can you believe there are some who call for more of these for OUR SCHOOLS?

*** shudders ***

[VG Zaytsev]

I thought that was a link to another drone strike report.

[sloopyinca]

What's more dangerous: a fully armed drone or a Chinese Bus Driver?

[Brian Combs]

It was a charter bus. If it were a public bus, it wouldn't have crashed.

[invisible furry hand]

Darwin golfer in mankini reportedly angers airforce bosses

more

[Jerry on the road]

I wonder where he keeps his divot repair tool.

[Kaptious Kristen]

Is that a divot repair tool in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

[sloopyinca]

What a putz.

[Translucent Chum]

A for effort.

[The Late P Brooks]

With any luck, an impeachment will come along and take the pain of Newtown away.

[DJF]

Not going to happen, do you think anyone wants a President Joe Biden?

[RBS]

Why can't they be tried jointly?

[DJF]

Do you think anyone wants a President John Boehner?

Or President Patrick Leahy?

Or President Hillary Clinton?

Or President Timothy Geithner?

Or President Leon Panetta?

Or President Eric Holder?

etc

[RBS]

So what you're saying is we should just leave the office vacant? I like it.

[DJF]

That is why we need "none of the above" as a choice during elections.

[Kaptious Kristen]

I have voted "No one" before - in the write-in box.

[robc]

I voted for "Lizard People" in one race this year.

Had to support the disenfranchised Minnesota voters.

[VG Zaytsev]

I voted for "Lizard People" in one race this year.

Oh great, another Obama voter.

[Fist of Etiquette]

In that event I would seize control for myself.

[hamilton]

We sort of expected that already, Fist.

[Xenocles]

A great number of people seemed to want a President Hillary Clinton four years ago.

[robc]

Impeachment =! conviction.

Clinton was impeached and we never got a President Gore.

[robc]

=! ???

!=

[Dweebston]

=! != != !!

[robc]

Exactly.

I was afraid that was going to be confusing, but I see I was perfectly understood.

[Trespassers W]

I think that when applied symbolically to propositions, =! = != though.

[Killazontherun]

Its time to face reality. A joint presidency consisting of Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden would be better than the sack of Chicago machine shit we have in office now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More building materials are to pass into Gaza after Israel relaxed shipping restrictions.

Good news. Between that and Israeli settlements, Gaza housing starts are up!

[DJF]

And if Israel stopped deporting African immigrants they would have plenty of people to take out mortgages and buy those homes. What could go wrong?

[Red Rocks Rockin]

The Palestinian economy is a roaring success!
/Krugman

[Cavpitalist]

This is a real chance to see the housing market explode.

[sloopyinca]

Armed man threatened to shoot two young men walking down the sidewalk. He is charged with a misdemeanor and gets a few days off of work as a reward.

[Ted S.]

Your link is to the bus crash in Oregon.

[sloopyinca]

Sorry. Here it is.

[Ted S.]

You damn well better be sorry. 😛

[Fist of Etiquette]

The department's K-9 unit program, used for narcotics investigations and tracking purposes, has also been suspended indefinitely as a result of the incident, Williams said.

Unfortunately the K-9 officer won't take cues from anyone but the suspended Vanek.

[The Late P Brooks]

Somebody should tell Tulpa about Viet Nam.

[invisible furry hand]

Other bloody Germans are ruining German capital, says German

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know who else was annoyed by other Berliners?

[$park?]

Ronald Regan?

[Rich]

Krispy Kreme?

[Ted S.]

Alan Berliner?

[hamilton]

Frederick Irontooth?

[Kaptious Kristen]

That German dude in college who used to cut out pictures of nekkid boobies from various magazines and paste them onto a huge poster board?

[Ted S.]

Women are just as sex-obsessed and shallow as men.

[hamilton]

Wait, what? Was this a pre-internet form of data aggregation?

[Kaptious Kristen]

He was German, man. Who knows why they do the weird sexual things they do?

[invisible furry hand]

Mom, if you were in a German sheisse video you'd tell me, right?

[Ska]

Of course, hunnykins.

[hamilton]

"Collecting pictures of boobs" = "weird sexual things"? Damn, I had a fucked-up adolescence and never even knew it...

[Kaptious Kristen]

A 22-year-old college graduate is not an adolescent.

[Kaptious Kristen]

BTW, it was just the tits. It was a poster board of tits, and only tits - no faces, torsos, legs, nothing. Just bewbs.

(a friend with previously questionable taste in men was dating him and found it in his closet. At least he knew enough to try and hide it).

[Ted S.]

Was this really "a friend"? 😉

[Kaptious Kristen]

Thankfully, yes. Even back then in my salad days I knew to avoid skinny Krauts who dressed all in black and didn't believe in daily bathing.

[mad libertarian guy]

Salad days? You were once one of the . . . of the . . . veggie people?

[Kaptious Kristen]

C'mon, man - didn't you ever read any Regency Romances?!?!? Salad days!

[hamilton]

Sam Peckinpah's "Salad days".

[$park?]

WTF? Hide it? That's something to be proud of!

[Cavpitalist]

BTW, it was just the tits. It was a poster board of tits, and only tits - no faces, torsos, legs, nothing. Just bewbs.

Inside Man Secret - He got all of the important parts.

[LTC(ret) John]

Egon Krentz?

[sloopyinca]

Irving Berlin?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Syrian military is making a push to take back a strategic suburb in Damascus.

It's near the airport, taxes aren't bad and the schools are top notch.

[LTC(ret) John]

Thread shutter downer victory.

[$park?]

Update on the crazy subway pusher: it was a hate crime.

"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," Menendez told police, according to the district attorney's office.

"The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter's worst nightmare," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Menendez was incoherent at her arraignment in Queens criminal court, at one point laughing so hard that the judge told her defense lawyer, "You're going to have to have your client stop laughing."

[RBS]

So, Harley Quinn's real name is Erika Menendez?

[invisible furry hand]

oddly, she kinda looks like Harley Quinn Smith's big sister

[Trespassers W]

Oddly, I woke up from a nightmare last night, and the shadows in the room looked for a second like Harley Quinn's big sister.

[Ted S.]

Why couldn't it have been Bob Menendez?

[Rich]

"every subway commuter's worst nightmare"

What is Jeff, chopped liver?

[Ted S.]

I haven't clicked on the link, but from hovering over it it looks as thought you've really SugarFreed it.

[Rich]

JEFF!!

[Rich]

JEFF!!

[mad libertarian guy]

I couldn't imagine the kind of coverage this would get if her name were John Smith or George Vickers rather than Erika Menendez.

I'm not sure how a woman minority could commit such acts of racism. There must be a mistake. Only white rat bagging tea fuckers are capable of this kind of racism.

[Ted S.]

I didn't click through to see if there's a picture of her. Is she perhaps a White Hispanic?

[Xenocles]

I think we'll find that some sort of privilege is involved. Stay tuned.

[Kaptious Kristen]

We need to ban arms. Not guns, actual arms with ulnae and humeri. They're dangerous when attached to the mentally crazy.

[R C Dean]

Menedez must be one of them white Hispanics.

[Ted S.]

Hmmm, I never thought of it like that before.

--Anonbot

[mad libertarian guy]

NEEDZ MOAR TYPOS.

[The Late P Brooks]

Nice. Bloomberg has a "OMG FISCAL CLIFF!!" countdown clock in the corner of the screen.

Will we feel weightlessness when we plunge into the Abyss?

[LTC(ret) John]

Stand by with air sickness bags!

[$park?]

Santa Monica smells a new revenue source.

"Some people have also expressed concerns about people operating a business on city land and putting the city at risk of liability because they aren't carrying insurance," she said.

So now the City Council is considering requiring that fitness trainers who conduct workouts in Santa Monica's parks and on its beaches pay an annual $100 fee and turn over 15 percent of their gross revenues to the city.

The council was to take up the issue of regulating fitness trainers this month, but that's now been pushed back to at least March. Meantime, Ginsberg said city officials are looking at what restrictions they might put on the use of weights, bands and other equipment.

[mad libertarian guy]

And when all of those Democrat voting gay fitness trainers are coughing up a large chunk of their income to the state where nary a republican is to be found in the chambers of power, on top of their already burdensome tax obligations, will it still be the fault of obstructionist republicans?

[LTC(ret) John]

Yes. Next question.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Richard Simmons hardest hit.

[The Late P Brooks]

do you think anyone wants a President Joe Biden?

I DO.

How could it be worse?

[RBS]

Imagine, every progtard woman spontaneously orgasming.

[Ted S.]

Don't they fake their orgasms?

[RBS]

Not when Dreamy Joe Biden is involved.

[$park?]

No way, their sexual partners wouldn't feel sufficiently guilty if they thought the women were enjoying it.

[Lord Humungus]

Happy Last Day of 2012! Just another day in our decline.

Mort Zuckerman: Brace For an Avalanche of Unfunded Debt
The fiscal cliff isn't as scary as the looming deficit and debt crisis about to swamp the country
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/.....unded-debt

The greatest fiscal challenge to the U.S. government is not just its annual deficit but its total liabilities. Our federal balance sheet does not include the unfunded social insurance obligations of Medicare, Social Security, and the future retirement benefits of federal employees. Only in the small print of the financial statements do you get some idea of the enormous size of the unfunded commitments. Today the estimated unfunded total is more than $87 trillion, or 550 percent of our GDP. And the debt per household is more than 10 times the median family income.

If only we could raise the tax on the rich just a little more, then everything will work out fine. *phew*

[$park?]

Barack Obama is the most awesome since awesome came to awesometown.

Chris Matthews (97 points)
"This guy's done everything right. He's raised his family right. He's fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, in a blind test becomes head of the Review, the top editor there. Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong. He's the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American. And all they do is trash the guy."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris will be in his bunk.

[RBS]

"he's never done anything wrong"

Nope, nothing at all wrong with killing children. Nothing at all.

[Kaptious Kristen]

He's never not only broken any law,

Choom Gang, anyone?

[mad libertarian guy]

He's never not only broken any law . . .

It's hard to break law when you make it up as you go along then tell the world what you're doing is so sensitive that no judge can review the legality of your actions.

he's never done anything wrong

Unless you count the untold number of civilians he's killed with his murder drones. Or the innocents killed with F&F weapons. Or the number of campaign promises he gone back on.

Nope, nothing wrong at all.

[Mickey Rat]

"He's never not broken any law..." is a double negative construction implying that he always that Obama always breaks the law. That obviously is not what Matthews meant, but it does show how little thought Matthews puts in before engaging his mouth.

[R C Dean]

Matthews is apparently unaware that the top job at Harvard Law Review isn't awarded on the basis of a blind test, but on the basis of a vote.

For that matter being an editor of Harvard Law Review is based on either grades/a writing competition or "discretionary". Nobody knows how Obama got on the Review (well, a few people do, but they ain't talking).

So, yes, there is plenty of scope for affac.

Now, grades are done entirely on a blind basis, and Obama got very good grades.

[DJF]

How do we know, nobody has release his grades. He is suppose to have graduated Harvard magna cum laude but we don't know what this is based on.

[sloopyinca]

I think RC Dean was there at the same time in the same program, so he would probably know personally.

Weren't you in the same class as Obama, RC?

[R C Dean]

we don't know what this is based on

Its based strictly on grades, which are blind. I graduated a few months before he started, so I know the rules. He got better grades than I did, I can tell you that.

Weren't you in the same class as Obama, RC?

I graduated in May '87. He started in September '87.

[mad libertarian guy]

Some of the very best students I have ever known have also been some of the very dumbest people I have ever known.

Good grades mean dick.

[Mainer2]

Oh for f*cks sake...Harvard Law Review ?
I believe it was beloved commenter John who pointed out how pathetic it is for a middle aged man to still point to something he did in college as one of his accomplishments. Matthews doing it is pathetic squared.

[The Late P Brooks]

With President Biden in the Oval Office, can anyone doubt the trains will run on time?

[invisible furry hand]

If I understand, the question you're asking me is if you should pursue a romantic relationship with your male ex who is becoming a female ex.

Oh Prudie! (halfway down the page)

[Rich]

"Everyone into the pool!"

[VG Zaytsev]

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index will probably surpass its record high in 2013 as bears capitulate and the lure of a four-year bull market pulls "everyone in the pool,"

A trillion+ dollars a year of QE helps too.

[Lord Humungus]

Kevin Williamson: Risk, Relativism, and Resources
Three things conservatives must know about progressivism in order to defeat it
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....williamson

First: Progressives and those who sympathize with them are economically risk-averse compared with conservatives

Two: Progressives benefit enormously from the fact that economic inequality matters much more to Americans than conservatives like to admit.

Three: Conservatives see people as assets, and progressives see people as liabilities.

much, much more in the link

[sloopyinca]

Police officer demands that "civilian" give her their dog. Civilian complains to department but nothing happens. Civilian goes to the media and officer ends up being suspended and her boss ends up demoted.

But there's no thick blue wall or culture of corruption, is there? I'm sure they would have gotten around to investigating one of their own the very next day and it was a mere coincidence they hadn't done anything until the media-fueled outcry.

[The Late P Brooks]

Impeachment =! conviction.

Impeachment, even without conviction and removal from office, would be a moral repudiation and a stinging personal rebuke.

The poor dear man would be heartbroken, and spend his days locked away in isolation brooding morosely about his legacy. A rudderless Ship of State cannot be worse than one being driven at full steam onto the rocks.

[Ted S.]

I'm sure Bill Clinton feels heartbroken.

[Chris Mallory]

Clinton and Obama each have wildly personality disorders.

[LTC(ret) John]

All the way to the high $ lecture circuit and continuous press fawning over his senior statesmanship. Heck, our trolls still lick his bum.

[Lord Humungus]

Why does Cuba buy butter from New Zealand, which is 8,000 miles away? 'Crony socialism'
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/.....socialism/

In a post titled "New Zealand Butter," Cuban blogger Yoani Shanchez tries to explain why Cuba has so many expensive basic food items from faraway places, like the butter that comes 8,000 miles from New Zealand and the rice that travels 10,000 miles from Vietnam. Obviously, many of the basic food products (milk, cheese, hamburger, chicken, cheese, rice, etc.) could easily be produced domestically at a much lower cost and without the high transportation costs from distant countries. As you might expect, the explanation has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with "crony socialism."

[Trespassers W]

Color me skeptical. However hard it may have tried, Cuba isn't exempt from the law of comparative advantage.

[R C Dean]

No, but a totalitarian kleptocracy can certainly shift the costs of ignoring the law of comparative advantage onto the proles, while skimming whatever crony profits there are to be made.

[The Late P Brooks]

He's never not only broken any law

Chrissie must have gotten kicked in the head while trying to give that pony a hand job.

[Rich]

Chris has never not only given that pony a *hand* job ....

[Lord Humungus]

Real Housewives of the Beltway
How the script for the fiscal cliff melodrama was written.
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....on_LEADTop

The larger point here is that the fiscal cliff is an entirely made-in-Washington fiasco that is the result of bad policy choices. It reflects a dominant political class?mostly Democrats but increasingly many Republicans and conservative intellectuals?who think that growth derives from government spending and that tax rates don't matter. Until that policy fever is broken, the Beltway's cable ratings aren't likely to improve.

[Ted S.]

How the hell did anybody ever come to think the "real housewives" are real, anyhow?

[$park?]

It's called reality TV. That makes it real. Duh!

[Mike M.]

America doesn't have a gun problem, it has a gang problem.

"Chicago's murder rate has hit that magic 500 number. Baltimore's murder rate has passed 200. In Philly, it's up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it's approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it's almost at 200. New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los Angeles, it's over 500. In St. Louis it's 113 and 130 in Oakland. It's 121 in Memphis and 76 in Birmingham. Washington, D.C., home of the boys and girls who can solve it all, is nearing its own big 100.

Those 12 cities alone account for nearly 3,200 dead and nearly a quarter of all murders in the United States. And we haven't even visited sunny Atlanta or chilly Cleveland.

These cities are the heartland of America's real gun culture. It isn't the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it's Obama's own voting base."

[Doctor Whom]

RACIST!!!

[Rich]

Why does any civilian need a neighborhood that holds more than ten young males?

[Jerry on the road]

White, black or yellow?

[thom]

And it all traces back to the "war on drugs", which those in power cling to and will never voluntarily give up. To this country's elites, 3,200 bodies is nothing compared to the vast amount of power and authority derived.

[Rhywun]

Predictably, FrontPage does not make the obvious connection.

[Mike M.]

Agree totally. Do away with the stupid "War on Drugs" and the homicide rate will plummet in no time.

[The Late P Brooks]

Obviously, many of the basic food products (milk, cheese, hamburger, chicken, cheese, rice, etc.) could easily be produced domestically at a much lower cost

Dubious, I am.

But who knows what cost-cutgting tricks those economists from Patrice Lumumba University have up their sleeves?

[R C Dean]

There's no question they could. Of course, that would take a free market economy.

[LTC(ret) John]

+ 1 Order of the Golden Monocle for excellent use of "Patrice Lumumba University".

[The Late P Brooks]

I'm sure Bill Clinton feels heartbroken.

He's feeling much better. Thinking of going for a walk, he is.

[Lord Humungus]

On the Lord Humungus news front:

I am now the co-owner of twenty acres of woods - close to Lake Michigan and a few tourist traps. Not sure what the future will hold for this property: split it into 1 acre lots to sell? Or save it for myself and a future little cabin?

I've finished re-writing my semi-sci-fi/post-apocalypse/action book. After a small break, I'll take a second stab sorting everything out.

I'm getting a Heathkit W-4AM tube amplifier to rebuild.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/ima.....165420.jpg

I've been enjoying this 1968-era Sansui solid-state tuner. I really like the round radio dial.
http://6streetbridge.blogspot......tuner.html

[Ted S.]

Save it for the cabin.

[$park?]

Clear cut the land, put a giant hunk of twisted metal in the middle of it, then put barbed-wire fencing around it. If anyone asks why you ruined the forest, tell them "Fuck you, that's why!"

[Citizen Nothing]

Keep it. Every libertarian needs a compound (and a monocle factory, but that's another story entirely.) I've got 20 acres, and it's not enough!

[R C Dean]

Hang onto it. You might go ahead and work the subdivision, if you've got the cash to spare to do the surveying and get the zoning approvals, etc.

Its a hard asset, though. Good to have some of that on hand given the ongoing debasement of currency worldwide.

Depending on what your woods look like, you might be able to make some money by selling the timber. When I owned 20 acres in Wisconsin, it had probably 10 acres of black walnuts that were only about 40 years from being marketable.

[Lord Humungus]

land - as a hard asset - also has a more tangible feel to it. Like a big fist of bills, or gold. Men will fight and die for land, but numbers in a bank account? Meh, I have a hard time getting excited about money unless I'm gambling.

[R C Dean]

If you do the subdivision now, you can always sell off a few parcels as and when you need the cash.

Personally, unless its very very close to the lake, I would think 5 acre parcels would be more marketable, but I'm sure there's local experts who could help on that front.

[Kaptious Kristen]

My Pa tells me a story fo a dude who bought a parcel of land and planted timber on it (not sure what kind). When it came time for retirement, he sold all the timber. No muss, no fuss, no work. That might be an idea, depending on how much time you have left before you shuffle off the mortal coil.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Save it for the cabin so you can live the shackbrah lifestyle when the SHTF.

[Translucent Chum]

I look forward to the state declaring it a wetland and not allowing you to do anything but put up a "DNR = Damn Near Russia" sign in front.

[Translucent Chum]

I have my eye on our old family farmhouse that has mucho acreage on the Muskegon river just east of town. Just have to convince the wife to move from sunrise to sunset side of the state.

Seriously though, turn it into a campground and start printing money.

[R C Dean]

If you wait to inherit, you'll have to pay the estate taxes.

Let's say its a half section, or 320 acres, at $5,000/acre. As of tomorrow, the federal estate tax on that will be $330,000.

Because obviously, asset stripping old family farms is the only way to achieve social justice.

[Mad Scientist]

Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots
He sells 'em owner financed
Strictly to them that's got no kind of credit 'Cause he knows they're slackers
When they miss that payment
Then he takes it back

[Trespassers W]

Obama says that the day of the Newtown shooting was the worst of his presidency.

Hey you, White House
Ha ha, charade you are
You house-proud town mouse
Ha ha, charade you are

[SugarFree]

The neutrino may be its own anti-particle

See?!? I told you fucking Cosmos that gay marriage was a bad idea!

[invisible furry hand]

from Twitter

KimKierkegaardashian ?@KimKierkegaard
Want a red carpet look for New Year's? Clothe yourself in pain.

[nicole]

That's my absolute favorite Twitter feed, by the way.

[mad libertarian guy]

Obama says that the day of the Newtown shooting was the worst of his presidency.

Boy, they really are milking this one for ever last drop aren't they?

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Did you see Peter King's SWPL-y jeremiad on this last week? He was practically covering his head in ashes.

[invisible furry hand]

unsuccessful comedy writer is so much better than successful comedy writer

more

[sloopyinca]

A well-written article chronicling the culture of misdeeds that exists at the New Jersey State Police in the immediate aftermath of DoJ oversight coming to a close.

FTA: Though statistics show racial profiling has diminished, misconduct in myriad forms persists, the paper's reporting found: troopers illegally escorted dozens of luxury sports cars at 100 mph along state highways to Atlantic City; they beat a disabled man following a traffic stop; they wrestled a man in diabetic shock to the ground, arrested him and denied him the juice he requested to raise his blood sugar; they stole gas from state pumps, got in fights and drunkenly crashed their patrol cars.

A good read.

[sloopyinca]

I guess corrupt law enforcement is nothing new. Here's a story from 1864 about a sheriff that ended up in the gallows he built.

[sloopyinca]

And the winner of the "Most Fucked Up Small Police Department in America" award for 2012 goes to.......The Crestview, Florida Police Department.*

*The chief of police couldn't be here to collect his award today because he has been fired (but not charged for his crimes).

[Kaptious Kristen]

I think Balko has mentioned that particular PD several times in the past.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

"Liberal Arts" colleges find their degrees are worthless, forced to adapt:

http://www.citizen-times.com/v.....lve-market

[sloopyinca]

Fiscal cliff got you down? Rising taxes bumming you out? Do our endless wars depress you?

Well cheer up because a daredevil gorilla at a German zoo can walk across a tightrope.

[sloopyinca]

Talkeetna, Alaska knows how to do elections right. If only the rest of the country would follow their lead.

[cavalier973]

Reviews of the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer: http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-.....ewpoints=0

[Kaptious Kristen]

Did you see two of the pictures of the product itself? Awesome.

[R C Dean]

You almost have to think the product itself is some kind of prank.

[Raston Bot]

I would rate this product as just okay. It's kind of cheaply made. But it works better than the hammer I've been using to slice my bananas.

hater.

[Eduard van Haalen]

I give these reviews five stars. I laughed out loud - which is more than I can say about movies labelled "laugh out loud funny."