Judge Slaps Administration Over No-Fly Lists, Dumbed-Down Mortgage Market, Krauthammer Cautions Against Gun Confiscation: P.M. Links
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The Obama Administration's insistence on using secret evidence to short-circuit challenges to the no-fly list was shot down by a federal judge who slapped the government's "persistent and stubborn refusal" to follow the law.
- In its efforts to pin down a definition of "homeland security," the Congressional Research Service discovered that there is no definition — the phrase means whatever federal officials want it to mean, at any given time.
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed a Los Angeles park area the size of 40 football fields because, they said, it had become a hangout for gay men and homeless campers.
- Restrictive new mortgage rules would severely dumb-down offerings in an effort to make them comprehensible to the least common denominator. Too bad for anybody looking for a more-sophisticated deal.
- Virginia is caught up in yet another series of battles over abortion, apparently facing off fans of restrictions against proponents of subsidies in an everybody-loses match.
- Proposed legislation in Pennsylvania would legalize marijuana, treating it just like alcohol.
- Crusty political commentator Charles Krauthammer caused a bit of a stir by cautioning that outright confiscation of scary-looking firearms would be "unconstitutional and would cause insurrection." The NRA, by the way, remains popular with a majority of Americans.
- Twitter is refusing French demands for the name of a racist user, saying it's subject only to U.S. jurisdiction.
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Proposed legislation in Pennsylvania would legalize marijuana, treating it just like alcohol.
Gonna have to add shelf space at the state stores.
There’s a model to follow.
No pot on Sundays. It’s the Lord’s day, after all. You shouldn’t be partaking of your evil weed on the Lord’s day.
In the case of pot, that is a good model to follow, because of federal law that says officers enforcing state law don’t have to register with DEA to distribute controlled substances.
Best smoke I ever had was in Milheim, PA 30 years ago.
You just thought it was good because you were drunk at the time.
Wait…that was me!
Carry on!
You sure it wasn’t Centralia, PA?
Has about as much chance of passing as the Quakers have of using non-union labor to build a meeting house.
So if they put in a provision that the pot has to be grown and sold by union members, it stands a chance?
Oh, wonderful. Welcome to substandard, even more outrageously expensive pot.
Twitter is refusing French demands for the name of a racist user…
If the French are running around demanding the names of all the racists in France, they’re going to be surrendering quicker than usual.
Twitter is refusing French demands for the name of a racist user, saying it’s subject only to U.S. jurisdiction.
Twitter of France would give a pussified answer like this, though.
They’re retreating backwards faster than the speed of sound. Who could ever hear them?
outright confiscation of scary-looking firearms would be “unconstitutional and would cause insurrection.”
Well, Chuckles is most likely right. Which is why I predict the Executive Order “solution” potentially coming our way.
If your insurrection lasts more than four hours consult your physician immediately.
If your insurrection lasts longer than 4 days call in the ATF and FBI to kill almost everyone, including children, immediately.
EVERYONE KNOWS FLASHBANGS CAN’T START FIRES
Insurrection? That’s what I’ve been saying, well “Little Wacos”.
It’s one of the worst movies in the franchise, I agree.
Not even ONE line worth quoting or spoofing. NOT. ONE.
It’s the Curse of the Pink Panther of its own franchise.
Restrictive new mortgage rules would severely dumb-down offerings in an effort to make them comprehensible to the least common denominator. Too bad for anybody looking for a more-sophisticated deal.
Did David Frum not teach you anything? Society has already reengineered itself enough for you smarty-pantses.
YOU’VE BEEN FRUMMED
I’m gald I got taht vaccination.
French gays rebel against gay marriage.
http://www.nationalreview.com/…..-gallagher
Why do gay Frenchpersons hate freedom marriage?
Apparently at leas some gays don’t want to act like straight couples.
There’s something to this argument. I know many blacks who support traditionally black schools for just this reason. They want an institutionalized way of preserving their culture, not someone else’s institution.
That said, it shouldn’t stop those gays who do want to act like straight couples from doing so.
straight men everywhere are wondering why they never thought of rebelling against straight marriage.
No kidding. If you really hated homosexuals, I can think of nothing worse you could do to them than stick them with marriage and worse make them subject to family courts.
This is something I’ve said forever. You want to make sure gays don’t marry? Grant them the ability to do so. Within about 10 years every gay person would at least know someone who was subjected to the horrors of divorce court and asset division. No gay person will be willing to put themselves through that.
Better yet, someone could do a divorce court show that consists of nothing but bitchy Queens getting divorced. The slap fest would make for delicious TV and a deterrent as a bonus.
Sshhhhhhh! You’ll spoil my nefarious plan to ensnare gays in 50 era norms…..well except for the whole gay thing.
Libertarians are skeptical that state-backed violence is the solution to private patterns of gendered injustice
Oh those libertarians and their skepticism.
I read ‘private patterns of gendered injustice’ and thought ‘whaaaa….huh?’.
So I read the article thinking it would all make sense.
Things didnt turn out like I had hoped.
…cautioning that outright confiscation of scary-looking firearms would be “unconstitutional and would cause insurrection.”
Confiscation in America isn’t going to have the same look that it did in certain other pansy countries I could name.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed a Los Angeles park area the size of 40 football fields because, they said, it had become a hangout for gay men and homeless campers.
Did they remember to salt the earth?
I hope they chased out the fags and the bums first…
LAPD said they didn’t even have that many problems with homeless or gay cruising in the park and made none of the complaints the Corps claims they got. The article is full of what-the-fuck moments.
Spooge farms?
Not good: Analysis of brain tissue that former NFL player Junior Seau had brain disease from repeated head injuries.
Maybe he shouldn’t have played in the NFL FOR 17 YEARS. Perhaps like boxing, professional football is a sport that ought to be enjoyed in one’s 20s.
You’d have to have brain damage to keep playing for all those years…
Maybe this will be the karma Ray Lewis receives for that incident that we’re not allowed to talk about anymore.
BACONS!!!!!
You know, cats intentionally do things the hard way just for the challenge of it.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed a Los Angeles park area the size of 40 football fields because, they said, it had become a hangout for gay men and homeless campers.
Is “bulldozing” slang for something in the lexicon of the gays or of the homeless? Luckily the Corps doesn’t have to explain itself to anyone, being federal and all.
Bulldozer: whilst during anal penetration, the act of driving your partner around the room on their face.
– Urban Dictionary
I didn’t need that picture in my head
No, that’s a “Rusty Venture!”
“Boom! Right out of the gate you ask for a Rusty Venture! That is BOLD, my friend. Kudos.”
Done it recently.
No wonder your face looks so bad.
Simmer down. It ain’t like I’m asking for a kiss.
This just in: Union teachers hate the idea of non-union teachers.
The nonprofit Teach for America is a “fraud” whose participants are nothing but “educational tourists,” said Ayers, a onetime associate of President Obama who was a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago before retiring. The 68-year-old firebrand, now a self-styled educational theorist, said the program’s young grads are merely passing through the gritty neighborhoods where they serve to pad their resumes at the expense of longer-term educators represented by unions.
where they serve to pad their resumes at the expense of longer-term educators represented by unions.
Because the purpose of the education system is to sere the interests of the educators. The fact that the kids benefit from the odd smart kid teaching for a few years has nothing to do with it. At least she is honest.
can they get any more desperate looking and ridiculous?
Oh fuck, what am I saying? Of course they can… and by god, they’ll make this look completely well thought out and rational in comparison to their next level of stupidity.
This just in: Ayers is a shithead.
*still
I know quite a few people who did Teach for America, and the reality is that the program accepts very few, if any “Education majors”. I’ll let you all connect the rest of the dots.
Oh, so what you’re saying is that they have standards
In the accounting profession, many aspiring CPA’s serve a couple years at a large firm, then move on to industry or a smaller firm. The large firms have adapted their business models to this trend.
Yep. I spent time at Big 4 before going to a smaller firm.
Of course, part of how they adapted was to offshore tax prep. I am not convinced this is beneficial in the long run, but hey, it works for them.
My roomate from college just did the exact same thing.
He got his BS in 09, Mac in 10, and just now left a big 4 for a smaller firm w/ better pay etc…
He said it was a grind and that he was very much so a number to mgt.
said the program’s young grads are merely passing through the gritty neighborhoods where they serve to pad their resumes at the expense of longer-term educators represented by unions.
You mean like the Peace Corps or Americorps?
I’m guessing that most of the “educational tourists” are actually better educators than the “educational professionals.”
In all seriousness, this is a Public Service Announcement:
Gay people, why are you still in the parks? There is this thing called “the Internet” now.
Nostalgia? Not wanting their wives to know they like to cruise on the low down?
I mean just buy yourself a private laptop. Or go out ‘drinking with the guys’ once a week or something. I don’t know – cruising in parks is pretty damn sad.
I think so. And pretty disgusting, gay or straight.
Everyone knows to avoid Balboa Park in San Diego after dark unless you get excited by rustling bushes.
That infuriates me. Fuck them. That is a public park. You shouldn’t be able to ruin it like that.
That said, I love that park. I hope the Corps doesn’t know about this.
Fuck you, that’s how they want to enjoy the park.
That said, this is a lesson on why there shouldn’t be “public parks.”
I thought they had moved to bookstores these days. The last time I went in Barnes ampersand Noble in shreveport it was full of middle aged men peeking out from behind crochet magazines and books on teen idols, leering at the college girls and winking at each other.
It creeped me out so bad I havent been back in a bookstore in two years.
Were there holes in between the men’s room stalls?
Dee: Why would you want to have sex with someone you can’t see?
Dennis: Well, Dee. I think the real question is, why wouldn’t you want to have sex with someone you can’t see?
Dennis Reynolds: It’s the safest way, Frank.
Frank Reynolds: Dennis, if I was looking for safe, I wouldn’t be sticking my dick through a wall.
Twitter is refusing French demands for the name of a racist user
I think Twitter is demanding the demands be in German.
You know who else made demands in German?
Frau Blucher?
Neeeeiiiighhhhhhh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54XAMQ7KKI
Colonel Klink?
Facing increasing criticism for bulldozing a cherished bird habitat and wetlands ecosystem spanning 40 football fields
Where are the EPA on this? Shouldn’t they be facing fines in excess of $75000 a day if they don’t return the land to it’s original condition?
Donald Trump pissed at Bill Maher for questioning his birth credentials – threatens lawsuit.
http://www.politico.com/story/…..85958.html
I feel pretty confident in predicting this ends with Bill Maher on Celebrity Apprentice.
I think you’re failing to grasp what’s really going on there. That being said, I’m not really surprised by that.
I know exactly what is going on. Trump is the butt of a joke again and his massive ego cannot stand it.
Bill Maher, the non-thinking man’s thinking man, versus The Giant Inflatable Ego.
Anyone paying attention to this loses.
No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer
*Note – blog writer is opposing gun-grabber views.
Well, unless you are a terrible, terrible shot… or you just want to make that deer punish, then you probably don’t need 10 bullets to kill a deer.
Still, I could think of several scenarios where one would need a rifle with more than 10 rounds in a magazine, and all of them for legitimate purposes. Killing a pack of predatory animals that are looking to attack you, your family, or livestock. Some larger game may be more difficult to take down with just a couple of bullets if you don’t hit them in the right spot.
While Mundell kneeled on the bobcat, his wife darted inside to retrieve a handgun, which Mundell used to shoot and kill the animal, Blancherd said.
So there’s that.
the hunting thing is a red herring, and they know it. They know what it’s for. Any gun-grabber with 1/2 a brain knows exactly what the 2nd Amendment was for… not for hunting… not for home defense. It was for protecting the citizenry from a tyrannical government.
the 2nd Amendment is the only thing that keeps the Constitution on life support and out of the grave.
What part of “…being necessary to the security of a free State…” don’t they understand?
Asteroid Apophis, which came within 15 million kilometers of Earth last night, has a small, but not completely dismissible chance of hitting the Earth on another pass in 2036.
People laughed when I cried at the end of Armageddon, but who’s laughing now?
Do you also cry when someone tells you they laughed at the end of Armageddon?
I laugh at them until they cry.
I cried because Affleck lived
Your mom?
All the way to the bank.
The sperm bank?
The Hitler bank, if you must know.
So, you’re basically admitting to being one of these guys. I knew it!
I was the pretty one of the bunch.
But will Bruce Willis still be alive then?!? What will we do?
Send him back in time to be liquidated
DON’T CROSS THE REFERENCE STREAMS
Yippee kay yai
epi, acting as both gatekeeper and keymaster
Why would it want to hit us? What’s it’s motivation?
Gaia is summoning it to correct global warming with an asteroid induced winter.
It read some of your comments.
Here’s what we do…
We tell the Army Corps of Engineers that the asteroid is infested with homeless camps and spacegays.
Problem. solved.
+1
Well, if we don’t have Bruce Willis, that’s obviously our best next option.
I have never heard the word spacegays. Pretty funny.
They come from the rings around Uranus.
“Carter, I can see my house!”
…was shot down by a federal judge who slapped the government’s “persistent and stubborn refusal” to follow the law.
To which the Obama Administration replied, “Fuck you.”
If you don’t get a flu shot, you’re going to die! How could you not get a flu shot when the flu will kill you?
Overall, Esper maintained there is a degree of apathy when it comes to the flu.
“I think that people are unimpressed with the seriousness of flu,” Esper said. “We have 5 to 10 percent of people who get infected with this virus each year, but not necessarily 5 to 10 percent of people are dying. But that’s not true at all. Flu is the number one cause of infectious disease death.”
Every year, anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 people die from flu-associated illnesses, Esper added.
we should ban the flu.
Fuck you, flu-grabber!
I remember once when normal people would get the flu, stay home in bed a few days, and take some drugs. When did the flu become some fucking catastrophic event?
1918?
When the government needed to cause another panic in order to institute yet more control over the populace under the guise of Doing Something??
I’ve never had the flu, nor been vaccinated against either (egg allergy). I attribute this to staying the fuck away from sick people and taking Vitamin D in the winter.
Pretty sure most of those people are really young, really old, or have compromised immune systems.
For the average healthy person it is not a bfd to get the fucking flu.
However, I have a 5 month old baby, so I got vaccinated.
the phrase means whatever federal officials want it to mean, at any given time.
Sort of like my girlfriend and every phrase she ever says.
AM I RIGHT, GUYS?
The fact that you are correct is the reason there are NO LIBERTARIAN WOMEN.
No according to the article SIV linked to at the head of the comments it is because women are more sensitive to being accepted and libertarians are social pariahs.
Women would rather be accepted by their peers than be free? Or something.
It’s all about feelings, not cold hard words.
Fuck you.
-From the libertarian women
Did anybody else hear anything? Thought maybe I heard… nah, just the wind.
Just like in the US, workers in the UK cannot quit their jobs.
By her own assessment, Kate Baker was a competent attorney who also wanted a personal life. But her boss, Chris Lingard allegedly saw things differently, berating Baker and her work, and telling her not to have a relationship or children.
The “bullying” that she experienced at the Follett Stock law firm, Baker, 33, told an employment tribunal in Exeter, England, this week, caused her to take time off from work after she became sick from the stress, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Why didn’t she just kick him in the nuts? Seriously, I am constantly amazed at how people will put up with abuse.
When did saying mean shit to people become “bullying”?
Did he smack her in the snatch and tell her to not use that stanky thang? Now THAT would be bullying.
“Don’t cause me to use my procurer’s hand.”
By her own assessment, Kate Baker was a competent attorney who also wanted a personal life. But her boss, Chris Lingard allegedly saw things differently, berating Baker and her work, and telling her not to have a relationship or children.
Funny, but TCM ran the movie Employees’ Entrance last night, in which the boss was much the same way.
Employees’ Entrance was released in 1933.
Good film.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed a Los Angeles park area the size of 40 football fields because, they said, it had become a hangout for gay men and homeless campers.
Arm up, Castro. Arm up!
Now that the abortion and birth control-restricting, rape loving evil Republican Mitt Romney has been vanquished, feminist groups are pissed that Obama isn’t appointing more women to his cabinet.
their war with the patriarchy will never end until they are the dominant sex and have emasculated us all.
But then Riker will come and smooth jazz his way to freeing us all.
You can’t make me click that
You know you want to.
their war with the patriarchy will never end until they are the dominant sex and have emasculated us all.
Until the average woman can beat the average man in a fistfight, human society will remain a patriarchy.
If all the wymmins get guns, your statement will be irrelevent.
And yet millions of so-called feminists hate, hate, hate guns. Strange, that.
I know. God may have created humans, but Smith and Wesson made them equal.
And all of the top spots are taken. So he really can’t rectify it. Oh well, if there is one thing feminists groups know how to do, it is take a beating from a liberal politician and come back because they just know he really loves them.
Golf clap.
He could do a Clinton, repeatedly fuck a young intern and then force the femministas to go on cable defending and rationalizing his behavior.
And face the wrath of the Wookie? She’d tear his arms off.
Saw some rag at the checkout counter with a headline about Michelle’s “jealous rage” at Obama’s other woman. What’s that about?
It must be America. His dedication to this country is so great, he’s like Kirk with the Enterprise.
Can’t be true. The Wookie is definitely a beard.
Jesus, if that ever really happens it’ll be epic.
Since the intern would probably be male, the feministas would have an easier time defending him.
“…the intern would probably be male…”
No. Shit.
“…if there is one thing feminists groups know how to do, it is take a beating from a liberal politician and come back because they just know he really loves them.”
Heh, I really laughed at that one. +1 John.
Can you blame him? The last guy with a binder full of women got ridiculed for it.
Perhaps it’s because the most well-known woman in his administration came down with a case of the vapors when she had to give a briefing on a dead ambassador.
Women aren’t cut out for the political world; not that they aren’t stupid enough (because they are), but because they aren’t ruthless enough.
Obviously Wasserman-Schultz and Feinstein aren’t really women, as they are both huge CUNTS.
((I summon thee, Kenneth Schultz))
Hilary has a serious toe fungus right now.
Why doesn’t she just quit now. She’s going to in a couple weeks anyway.
That’s why the phone call in her ads was at 3 A.M. – she’d have plenty of time to rest after not fucking Bill.
I second your strong disagreement. Women are plenty ruthless.
I disagree with both parts. Due to socialization, I feel that women are probably better politicians on average than men.
Affirmative action president doesn’t act affirmatively? Fuck, that’s impeachable.
http://blogs.findlaw.com/strat…..WL-pro_top
Male jurors biased against fat women.
I’m filing that under OBVIOUS
Yeah. If that chick in Florida had been a fat black woman, she would have gotten the chair rather than been acquitted.
OBVIOUS
Re: John,
Why, you cynic!
Everybody knows she was aquitted because it was obvious the little girl staged her own murder!
AND framed her mother.
I’ve always said that I could never vote guilty on a jury for a good looking woman if it was merely her first murder. But I’m no more biased against fat women as I am guys of any weight disposition.
If AJ McCarran’s girlfriend got shot some guy holding up a Burger King, how could you not give her another chance? I know I would. She is such a sweet girl.
And she might date a juror who got her off. Women like getting off and those who help them do it.
Or so I have read.
SEX JOKE
I find it odd that receiving a not guilty verdict and achieving orgasm have the same phraseology.
Am I the only one who thinks she looks like a tranny?
That is possible.
I love how there are no numbers from the study listed anywhere. We’re just supposed to take their word that it’s “significant”.
Maybe it’s the DMV effect. Seriously has anyone ever seen a thin woman at the DMV?
the phrase means whatever federal officials want it to mean, at any given time.
Sorta like how they treat the Constitution.
The commentators at Gawker are confused that the US is only 10th on the list of freest economies despite all those years of GOP deregulators and unfettered capitalism they have read about in left-wing propaganda.
Yay Canada.
We’re 18th according to the Fraser Institute
Wait, what?
I know, right? It’s either “science fiction” or “sci-fi”… not this sci fiction amalgamation from Hell.
It’s spelled SyFy, you fucking idiot.
…and pronounced “Siffy”.
Nothing says, “Hi, we’re fucking stupid” more than that name change.
I’m trying to recall what the Sci-Fi channel showed before they became SyFy. Has the channel always been B-quality movies and science fictiony series, or did they actually combine some of the better elements of Discovery and [old] A&E back then?
It’s always been movies and scifi series, but years ago (late 90’s-early 2000s) they tended to just show a ton of syndicated scifi like Dark Shadows and Buck Rogers and Earth 2 and Star Trek and lots more. They then started moving into making their own made-for-TV super cheap B movies a lot more, which is what you see now. They always tried to have a few original series and usually had one or two pretty good and popular ones going at all times, like Farscape or the Stargate shows or BSG. The WWE stuff…that’s pretty recent.
Basically, when TV sucked more, they were a great alternative as TV has gotten better and better, they stayed cheap, and they aren’t going to compete well with The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or Community, etc.
I liked the reruns of early SF TV shows like Science Fiction Theatre.
No. The reason they went to Colorado is easy access to Mexican labor.
The freedom not to fail is the most important freedom of all, except for the freedom not to trade. I wonder how widespread these piss-poor attitudes really are.
They really are incapable of imagining any regulation not doing what it was intended or resulting in any harm.
I mean, all this sounds great.
Apparently they believe that giving tax money to bank executives does that.
Sounds like Hayek’s defense of regulations.
*barf*
Regulations do no such thing. I really don’t see how people think that regulations help to make a “free market” or prevent monopolies or do anything of those “wonderful” things that he mentions.
It is simple, you become a retarded sock puppet like Shreek.
sure they do. you just accept them as so obvious as to not be regulations.
the prohibition against using a gun to force somebody to sign a contract is a REGULATION.
does that not make for a freer market?
regulations on NYSE specialists regarding offering shares and buying shares at the ask/bid also help ensure a freer market.
a million other examples.
Wait, what?
Regulations can be laws, but not all laws are regulations. The two examples you provided are not the same thing.
both … well… regulations I cited are just that… regulations.
they are backed by law, but they are regulations in the most obvious sense.
it is because of regulations against … for example… contracts signed under duress, that people can’t force people to sign contracts at the point of a gun and expect them to be legally binding
I think you are confusing terms unnecessarily. Regulations are put in place to facilitate something or to prevent it, however, moral laws against use of force already exist, and are not “regulations”.
Regulations are made by regulators (who regulate any stealing of this property, and they’re damn good at it too). Laws can exist in the absence of legislators, though, such as the ones designed against killing or forcing someone into a contract.
I think we disagree about word definitions. i’m sticking with my belief that, for example, prohibiting use of force during contract negotiation is a regulation on how to “do” contracts that are legally binding.
it’s clear we are arguing over definitions which is rarely fruitful and almost always boring as hell! 🙂
You mean all those monopoly-preventing regulations that allow Comcast to run cable in the entire Northeast?
Or the ones that create a monopoly in government schools?
Good point.
Gawker does not draw in the most intelligent crowd.
Nor intelligent writers,
“I can just tweak, and tweak these gun totin’ rednecks with impunity”
Smart idea
New Zealand and Chile are starting to look pretty good to me. Not sure the’ll let me into New Zealand, but Chile…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed a Los Angeles park area the size of 40 football fields because, they said, it had become a hangout for gay men and homeless campers.
Why do journalists insist on using football fields, jumbo jets, swimming pools, etc. as units of measurement?
See also: the thickness of a human hair.
No one wants to hear about your penis, Dr. Farnsworth.
Oh my, yes.
But they did the math to convert from acres to football fields. Are they trying to show off? Do they think people are really better at picturing 40 adjoined football fields than a ~50 acre plot?
As a city boy, I don’t have the slightest idea how big an “acre” is. Not all of us manage acres of fields tended by orphans 😛
What are you, retarded? Everyone knows an acre is 1/15th of an oxgang or about 1/10th of a square furlong!
Shouldn’t the EPA be fining the crap out of the Corps for destruction of wetlands? If a private person did that they would be in jail.
DID YOU KNOW TERRORISTS ON THE GOVERNMENT NO-FLY LIST CAN BUY GUNS?
The more you know….
And a good thing, too, or else I’d be defenseless.
Twitter is refusing French demands for the name of a racist user, saying it’s subject only to U.S. jurisdiction.
Haha, Frenchies! The glove is on the other foot, now, so to speak.
you mean hand shoes.
Is This Modest?
I always love it when I see MALE GAZE used unironically.
Is that like “Ask an Imam?”
You can marry more than one woman, but you can’t fuck them two at a time? Then what’s the point, Islam?
To get a younger model at will, duh.
Some virgin I would have to train all over again, no thanks.
Haha, I forgot that “Ask an Imam” is an actual thing.
Amid the current propaganda campaign for gun control, NewsBusters.org calls our attention to a C-Span video from 1995 (unearthed last March by Breitbart.com) in which Eric Holder, then the District of Columbia’s top federal prosecutor, outlines a plan for dealing with what he apparently regarded as the scourge of firearms:
“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we’ve changed our attitudes about cigarettes. You know, when I was growing up, people smoked all the time. Both my parents did. But over time, we changed the way that people thought about smoking, so now we have people who cower outside of buildings and kind of smoke in private and don’t want to admit it.” Laughter followed.
At the end of this clip, Holder says anti-gun ads should run every day, and we need to “really brainwash people to think about guns in a vastly different way.”
Fourteen years later, Holder was appointed attorney general. In that position he hatched a brilliant plot to embarrass Mexican drug lords.
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..TopOpinion
What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore
So was his plan to team up with Tipper Gore and blame the evil “rap music”?
Eric Holder is the arbiter of cool.
Does this make sense to anybody?
“Alsup, who had dismissed the suit twice before and had been overruled both times by a federal appeals court, said the government’s actions this time were “too hard to swallow.”
Why would a judge who had already dismissed the suit twice find the governments actions too hard to swallow?
He probably dismissed it for standing or ripeness issues. You have to wait for the government to take final action before you can sue them. You also have to have some kind of interest in the case and show you are suffering some kind of harm. My guess is that the plaintiffs filed too early or had the wrong parties and now have fixed that.
thank you. for offering intelligent legal analysis. at reason.com!!!!! of all places
The Nude Professionalism.
Pretty sure he had dismissed it in the past and now changed his mind as a result of government responses.
This time, he *didn’t* dismiss it.
The nonprofit Teach for America is a “fraud” whose participants are nothing but “educational tourists,”
It’s a dumb question, admittedly, but…
Why the fuck would anybody expect people to be teachers forever?
that quote is so revealing. teachers unions want to, and have succeeded in credentializing their profession. it has ceased to be about ABILITY to teach. it’s about having the right pieces of paper (education degree, teacher’s certificate) and time served (seniority), not TALENT or even competency. look at their hostility towards competency exams or merit pay, however merit is measured.
as a civil servant myself, i see this in my profession, too.
it’s also prevalent amongst lawyers who have fought successfully to limit the scope of paralegal duties, because paralegals don’t have the right “credentials”, even though they can do task X perfectly fine, and for far cheaper than lawyers, they aren’t part of the GUILD and therefore must be heavily reigned in
recall the states where shit like interior decorating requires a LICENSE. lest a fatal feng shui disturbance be created or something
Years ago, in an effort to cut down medical costs hospitals started training CNAs and such to do things like draw blood.
The largest critics of this plan were nurses, who up until this point were the lowest level medical employee who was allowed to do these things.
In some cases, in some hospitals, nurses actually unionized. This started attempts at legislation to prevent anyone trained below a nurse to be barred by law from doing certain things. In some cases, nurses even went on strike – claiming it was for the “patients” of course.
Now of course, many nurses are happy to let many things that used to require their help go to others, to allow them more time to devote to other priorities.
The point is – we also hear things about how teachers are sacrificing good pay and such to do such a wonderful job as educating the youth.
& nurses of course are only in the medical profession to help others.
Both of which may be factors in people’s selections of these careers, but truth is they’re human like all of us and when scared of losing their power, will willingly and predictably sacrifice those they are trying to help, in order to directly serve heir personal needs and protect their power.
Interior designers are just wondering why they cannot try the same protection schemes that everyone else seems to employ.
Not that this should relieve these statists of mockery or shame – but it is predictable.
As your owner, master, and self appointed god, Sam reserves the right to define, or leave undefined, whatever Sam damn well pleases.
Regulations ensure that corporations operate responsibly and sustainably.
Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
Conspiracy theories in the death of 2 gun rights activists
Never heard of EUtimes.net, but they are claiming to get their sources from Russian intelligence in this article.
Just like those Weekly World News stories datelined “behind the iron curtain”.
The scary thing isn’t that it’s true (it’s not), but Obama essentially has precedent to do that.
Declare gun activists terrorists, then put them on the to kill list.
Yeah. They’re not really worth going after anyway. The government doesn’t often assassinate activists, well… okay there was MLK Jr, possibly.
But I don’t put it past them to take out scientists behind the development of certain biological or radiological weapons, especially those most likely to blow the whistle or have the ability to counteract the effects of such weapons.
I’ve smoked weed maybe twenty times in my life. Of all those times, I’ve enjoyed it exactly once; the rest of the time, it made me feel stupid, hungry, and paranoid. I’m assuming that the lone exception was something hydroponic or something. I don’t tihnk it was laced with anything; it just felt like a “cleaner” high, for want of a better description.
The paranoia part might have to do with where you were or who you were smoking with. Unfamiliar surroundings tend to make me start to have these elaborate storylines to fill in the gaps, and shit gets cray, to quote Kanye.
As for the stupid or hungry stuff, not sure what the problem is. Weed’s not for everyone, but it should be for everyone to decide.
the rest of the time, it made me feel stupid, hungry, and paranoid
Isn’t that the way you normally feel?
Feeling hungry is half the fun, but you make it sound like a bad thing.
*LIGHTS WARTY SIGNAL*
Steven Wilson is going on tour in the US in the spring. Go, or forever be mocked for being lame. He and his band are fucking amazing.
Opeth and Katatonia are also going on tour again. AND THEY’RE COMING TO LEXINGTON!!!!!!!!!
He is swinging through NYC on Fri. 4/26. I will be there.
I want to see Katatonia, but Opeth…Opeth…why, Mikael?
And Steven Wilson would be cool to see, I’ll see what I can do.
Shoot first; ask questions later, because “Officer Safety”
fucking damn shit… Well, at least he survived. But fuck those damn fucking cops.
Some day in the very near future, we will all be talking wistfully about “drop guns” and how the police used to need them.
Do the good rich exist?
All your money are belong to us!
And not a single question about how someone got rich, and whether that was through providing things that others valued enough to voluntarily exchange their money for.
no, they all assume that it was done illegally. They don’t question. they just assume.
By any reasonable definition, Detective Thompson and Officer Rongen committed the crime of attempted homicide.
Who needs reasonable definitions when you have a badge? Blaze away.
What are the opportunity costs to society of having billions of dollars concentrated in the hands of a single person?
What
the
fuck?
Why isn’t anyone talking about this picture?
What’s up with her fingers?
She just dunked the phone into a bucket of water, that’s why they look shiny.
they appear to be wet. There’s some liquid (probably water) coming off of the phone. Probably dunked in water to show off how it is waterproof or something….
wait… hold on! erm… what phone? All I see is cleavage!
Speaking of some liquid….WHY IS THIS NEWS NOT IN PM LINKS?
There is a dude that jsut seems to know whats going on man. Wow.
http://www.Cyber-Anon.tk
So pot will be more expensive because of the state’s monopoly on it in PA?
I don’t smoke, but yikes. Sorry, potheads.