Obama Preps Gun Regs, More Stupid Student Suspensions, Bureaucracy Hampers Sandy Recovery: P.M. Links

• President Barack Obama will be introducing a package of gun regulation proposals tomorrow. His plan for a new "assault weapons" ban is drawing opposition.

• Legislation moving forward in Mississippi would prohibit poorly performing school districts from vetoing the creation of charter schools in their midst.
• Speaking of education competition, when will "no tolerance" school rules die already? Two 6-year-olds were suspended from an elementary school for playing "cops and robbers" during recess.
• Need more reasons why government involvement in disaster recovery creates more problems than it fixes? FEMA and zoning laws make it a nightmare for any victims of Hurricane Sandy to rebuild their own homes.
• Even though Washington State has legalized marijuana use, authorities in Bellevue are still prosecuting pot cases.
• The Miami Dolphins want taxpayers to help pay for $400 million in stadium renovations.
• French President Francois Hollande says his country's troops will remain in Mali until stability is restored. Well … good luck with that.

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Comments

[Thane of Whiterun]

Fist?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

nope. not on topic, doesn't count

[Thane of Whiterun]

+1 non-rule

[Francisco d Anconia]

Even though Washington State has legalized marijuana use, authorities in Bellevue are still prosecuting pot cases.

How is that NOT being fisted?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

The Dolphins suck

[Brett L]

Didn't they already get a new stadium? Or was that the equally sucky Marlins?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

THat was the Marlins, before they traded all their stars to the Blue Jays

[Mike M.]

At least they don't need any wide receivers like Wes Welker or Brandon Marshall on the team, since they're so totally stacked at that position.

[mad libertarian guy]

We had to get rid of Welker. There was a poison pill in his offer from the Pats that would have made it impossible for us to match their offer.

And Marshall was never any real help to the Phins anyways.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Legislation moving forward in Mississippi would prohibit poorly performing school districts from vetoing the creation of charter schools in their midst.

I imagine the success bar is pretty low for charters there.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

University of Toronto student group hosts "epic sex club adventure"

[Brett L]

Meh. If you have to go to a sex club while you're in school, you're doing something wrong. OTOH, drunken girls with an excuse to get naked. I see both sides.

[Thane of Whiterun]

The group's mission is to foster a sex-positive attitude in the greater U of T area, by offering information, programming, safer-sex supplies, and peer counselling in a welcoming environment. Their sexual awareness week includes a discussion on sex positivity, an interactive sex toy demonstration and an afternoon of pornography.

"Sex positivity" is all well and good, but I really don't see the need for these type of events to promote it.

Sometimes I suspect "sex positivity" is code for "please, please lower your standards and fuck me".

[John]

You say that like it is a bad thing.

[playa manhattan]

There was one of those in my dorm freshman year at UC Berkeley. 75 people showed up, over half were chicks. Not a single girl was attractive, not even after 8 beers.

No, I didn't stay and participate. I did bleach my eyeballs, though...

[Zeb]

The fact that over half were chicks is impressive, even if they all were unattractive. I'd pretty much expect any such thing where guys weren't required to come as part of a couple to be a sausage fest.

But I did also notice in college that the only people who seemed to be having any kind of orgies were ugly weirdos.

[Francisco d Anconia]

not even after 8 beers.

So drink 9.

[playa manhattan]

I was 17 as a freshman. 9 beers = passed out at that age...

[Francisco d Anconia]

Pussy. 🙂

[Ted S.]

Those women were probably all lesbians.

[Dr. Frankenstein]

It's not a toga party it's an orgy.

[A Serious Man]

Galactic Empire taunts the planet Earth for its lack of vision in declining to build the Death Star.

[Pro Libertate]

It would be dumb for us to build a Death Star without FTL. What, we're going to threaten to blow our only planet up? Lame.

[Agammamon]

Jeez, its like you've never read "Dune".

"He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing."

[Agammamon]

And don't you dare tell me "Dune" sounds like a dry read.

[Pro Libertate]

Well, I suppose, but we have that right now as the only functional major nuclear power. And it works the same way--we can only threaten everyone else by blowing up the planet we're on, too.

[Thane of Whiterun]

How Warty pays his bills

[Warty]

Whaddaya mean I don't pay my bills?
Why do ya think I'm broke? Huh?

[Brett L]

Jesus Christ, for $3000/mo under the table, I'd consider it.

[C. Anacreon]

You'd think students at Penn State would be a bit more cautious about
"sugar daddies." But there they are at twelfth place in the country.

[John]

I love coed tail as much as anyone. But who pays $3000 a month for it? That is a lot of money.

[Brett L]

Seems like you could rent it every friday for about $250 in food, drinks, and hotel rooms. Maybe $400 including a nice room.

[John]

Yeah. And you could be eating from the variety pack instead of the same thing every week.

[Auric Demonocles]

More work though.

[R C Dean]

But who pays $3000 a month for it? That is a lot of money.

There's a lot of guys in New York for whom that really isn't that much money, at all.

[Ted S.]

Referring to Client Nine, by any chance?

[Agammamon]

Here's what I don't get.

If you're going to be a whore, why half-arse it?

A few years ago, when Craigslist still allowed this sort of thing, I looked at what women were charging in San Diego - $150 for a half hour. Do that 3-4 times a night on Friday and Saturday and you're looking at taking in $1200 a week/$4800 a month - as your own boss.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Two 6-year-olds were suspended from an elementary school for playing "cops and robbers" during recess.

The police union complained that the kid playing the cop got a harsher punishment.

[gaijin]

How did they know who was who?

[Francisco d Anconia]

How did they know who was who?

Well, one was pretend shooting at a dog.

[Francisco d Anconia]

was

EDIT FUNCTION!

[Apatheist ?_??]

Still wrong.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Why?

[Agammamon]

"pretending" not "pretend"

[Francisco d Anconia]

Not after I "edited" out the was.

Confused. Asked wife, she thought it was right.

...Well, one pretended shooting at a dog.

I may be wrong, because it didn't sound quite right when I "fixed" it, but upon re-reading it I thought it was okay.

This would be better:

... Well, one pretended he was shooting at a dog.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Never mind, I'm a fucking idiot.

ed

[Apatheist ?_??]

I'm glad you worked it out.

[Rich]

And I'm starting to understand the *real* reason "jungle gyms" are a thing of the past.

[$park?]

At least "jungle gyms" weren't "monkey bars."

[Rich]

Well, actually .... RACIST!

[Thane of Whiterun]

The police union complained that the kid playing the cop got a harsher punishment.

That's the problem. The kids need to learn how to play "cops, robbers, and union lawyers".

[Ryan60657]

isn't "cops and robbers" the same as "tag"?

[Zeb]

No, because they probably pretended that their hands were guns and made fake gunshot noises. So they are clearly terrorists.

[mad libertarian guy]

My 5 year old's teacher clearly sees it that way. We got a long email about the eeeeeeeeeevul of "violent games" and how they are truly SCARING children.

I call bullshit. They offend her sensibilities, and she wants to punish children for that. She's a controlling ass bitch.

[Killazontherun]

Over her career, she has the chance to make a difference in the lives of thousands of males, and if she can reach out to them, and feminize them, who knows the number of rapes, wife beatings and mass shootings that she'll prevent.

There are many who go into the profession with exactly that mindset.

[Episiarch]

Even though Washington State has legalized marijuana use, authorities in Bellevue are still prosecuting pot cases.

It's Bellevue.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Last week is was monopoly tokens changing, now it's scrabble letters changing values

[John]

http://cnsnews.com/news/articl.....-troubling

There must be some very interesting things in those emails.

[Brett L]

Print them all. That's the only way for them to get clear of it.

[Rich]

Damn straight those toys encourage violence! They look like fucking bullets!

[Brett L]

I've never seen bullets fuck.

[Rich]

This guy has.

[gaijin]

or suppositories...especially the blue ones.

[Spoonman.]

Capitalism +1:

consumers can purchase anything between a completely furnished, newly built residence ? even get a loan and title insurance ? to a simple home accessory. Or they can get ideas for redecorating a single room or undertake a renovation project.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Well, my friend Jay Reimenschneider eats horse all the time. He gets it from his butcher.

[Jerry on the road]

The Japanese apparently eat it as substitute for whale meat.

[Proprietist]

I still regret not trying the horsemeat sashimi when the option was available to me in Japan.

[Episiarch]

You fool!

A friend of mine was in the Navy and could have bought whale meat when stopped in Norway one time, but didn't. Oh sure, he had no where to cook it, but still. Find a fucking way.

[Tim]

Whalemeat is steak. Whales are mammals just like cows. It's a red meat as opposed to pork.

[Tim]

Imagine being able to buy beef cut from a 60 foot cow. Who wouldn't want a piece of that?

[Chinny Chin Chin]

It definitely does not taste like cow, though. Or any other terrestrial animal I've eaten. VERY dark red meat. Very strong flavor. Not bad, but very different.

[Episiarch]

You ever cut up a cetacean, Tim? I have. They have extra hemoglobin in their muscle for oxygen storage, so the meat is super, super dark red. That makes me curious what it tastes like.

Besides...it's whale. I want some.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I prefer baby seal.

[mad libertarian guy]

I'll let you know when I go to Norway and the famous Bergen fisctorget next year. Again. 🙂

[Live Free or Diet]

Well, my friend Jay Reimenschneider eats horse all the time. He gets it from his butcher.

I love how articles like this show up without bothering to tell the level of sensitivity of the test. I read about environmental tests finding pharmaceuticals in rivers and streams for years before someone bothered to mention the tests had become sensitive enough to detect parts per billion.

[kbolino]

Absolute concentrations are meaningless without context. One part per billion of polonium in a liter of water is lethal to 50% of the population.

Also, what the fuck are you responding to? We don't generally measure the concentration of horse in parts per billion.

[Live Free or Diet]

Also, what the fuck are you responding to? We don't generally measure the concentration of horse in parts per billion.

I was responding to Archduke Pantsfan (above, 1.15.13 @ 4:33PM). The article he linked was talking about British beef contaminated with pork and horse. Or rather, they found "traces" of horse and pork DNA.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

You know who else was from Sweden and took a Joyride?

[Warty]

Puma Swede?

[$park?]

JOYRIDE!!!!!

[A Serious Man]

23 year old man wonders if unlimited access to porn has warped him forever.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

didn't we mock him yesterday?

[A Serious Man]

Who the fuck is 'we', kimmosabe?

[Thane of Whiterun]

The motherfucking Thane, that's who, bitch.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/01.....nt_3483725

Now go get me a sweet roll.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I used to be a commentator like you....

[Brett L]

No. He's a self-centered little bitch, but that's not porn's fault. Also, aren't women the one who get relationship jealous?

[Live Free or Diet]

He's a self-centered little bitch, but that's not porn's fault.

Nope. Seems like nobody's ready to grow up anymore. Treat people like babies, they act more like babies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

French President Francois Hollande says his country's troops will remain in Mali until stability is restored.

The stability of France that only dog wagging can bring.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

They ain't doin so hot

[John]

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/20.....low-grave/

Looks like they may find Hoffa's body in a shallow grave in Michigan.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Don't we get that story every 3 months?

[John]

Yes but this one may be real.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

send in Geraldo!

[Live Free or Diet]

Geraldo, opening the vault! That was great TV, but for the wrong reason.

[Zeb]

He's in a landfill in New Jersey and never will be found.

[Tim]

He's fifty feet down with a stack of vantage Mad Magazines for a pillow.

[Pro Libertate]

No, I bought the corpse from the mob a while back. I'm going to display him next to Lenin.

[Zeb]

Is Lenin still in the mausoleum by the Kremlin? I wonder if he is still a big draw. I was there right after the end of the USSR and the line for the tomb was hundreds of people.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

The Onion gets their own sponsored article

[wingnutx]

Obama to Surround Himself With Children During Gun Control Announcement

[John]

I am surprised he is not using small coffins.

[Episiarch]

If he can't push through this legislation, that's next.

[$park?]

And he can just use the kids that are already there to fill them.

[Episiarch]

Nah, he probably has some Iraqi or Afghan kids on ice for that. After all, you don't let a drone strike that murders children go to waste, do you?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Hamas doesn't, especially when they accidentally kill their own kids.

[wingnutx]

Accidentally on purpose.

[wingnutx]

I picture it looking a little something like this.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

human shields.

[Rich]

"Now, remember, children, when you see the President don't point at him."

[Warty]

As hostages?

[Proprietist]

I wish someone would show up with a sign saying "The man next to you murders children," just to see how the children react to the truth.

[AZ]

Right before the press conference, someone should hand little toy models of drones to the kids, and let their figety nature and short attention span do the rest.

[wingnutx]

And hand out caffeinated chocolate.

[ant1sthenes]

Toy guns might result in more lulz.

[Sevo]

wingnutx| 1.15.13 @ 4:38PM |#
"Obama to Surround Himself With Children During Gun Control Announcement"

No bust of Lincoln in the background?

[Heroic Mulatto]

No, but he'll be sure to have a crying Statue of Liberty.

[Francisco d Anconia]

So ends the reign of the Democrats. I predict a backlash the likes of which even God has never seen Go ahead, try regulating ammo under the EPA. I'm going to enjoy the show.

[Zeb]

Yeah, trying to ban lead ammo would not go over well.

[protefeed]

Obama to Surround Himself With Children During Gun Control Announcement

Well, he did invite congresscritters to attend ...

[$park?]

Speaking of education competition, when will "no tolerance" school rules die already? Two 6-year-olds were suspended from an elementary school for playing "cops and robbers" during recess.

As far as I'm concerned, kids should be discouraged from playing cops and robbers. Maybe it will stop them from believing that the cops are always the good guys.

I say we get them back to playing cowboys and Indians, at least then you could clearly tell who the good guys were.

[Pudgeboy]

Suspended from kindergarten and going on his permanent record... he's 6, who cares? I'd tell my son he did nothing wrong, and then we'd go to the movies or park or whatever the hell he wanted to do for fun... really over the top, so the word would get around school to his friends... why? cause he's 6

[Scott S.]

I found a picture of a kid in a toy SWAT team uniform and was tempted use it with an alt-text to the equivalent of "Maybe those Nanny State playground monitors are on to something."

[Auric Demonocles]

Why not both?

[Matrix]

We've gone full retard as a country. We're doomed. Hopefully it will be a quick death.

[A Serious Man]

Woman accidentally includes naked picture of herself while trying to sell a yellow dress on eBay, ends up getting bids of more than 153,000 pounds.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

that reminds me of the image of a young lady doing a bathroom pose before flushing the toilet.

[John]

She looks pretty cute.

[gaijin]

accidentally...rriiigghhtt.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris Cooley empathizes.

[Kaptious Kristen]

mmmmmm....naked Chris Cooley. I'll be in my bunk. And I ain't even a Redskins fan.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Wait! Yesterday, a 23-year-old kid writing for Salon told me that women only masturbate to images of kittens, rainbows, and fields of tulips.

I call shenannigans on you!

[Killazontherun]

Reminds me of a little ditty:

'If you sit on my face I'll tell you that I love you . . . .'

[hamilton]

"I love to hear you moralize... when I'm between your thighs..."

[rac3rx]

"...you blow me away!"

[John]

Violent video games are bad MMkay? That is unless they involve liberal revenge fantasies.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/k.....d-n1489825

[Episiarch]

Projection, John. They are the manifestation of projection.

[Warty]

I'm appalled by the shitty graphics.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ok. Just for that, I'm going to reinstall JFK Reloaded.

And you should download it too...

[Xenocles]

I was sort of hoping that the preview frame indicated a grassy knoll mode.

[Brett L]

Fuck me. So much for prom.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

SF'ED

[Brett L]

Take two. Fucking squirrels.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's always the squirrels' fault, isn't it, Brett?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

except when it's your fault.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's only ever my fault when I'm not even suspected. I'm that good.

[Brett L]

HAHAHAHAHA. *gasp* HAHAHAHAHA. Jay Carney pwned at presser.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

They won't be the Ottawa Rough Riders

[Warty]

"The Red Blacks, to me, seems to get you to a soccer situation," Jackson said. "I don't know of a professional North American football club that's named with just colours but that seems to be the one that's bouncing around."

Hey, what about the Browns...oh, I get it now. That hurts, Jackson.

[Apatheist ?_??]

It's retarded too. Liverpool's team name is not "the Reds," that's just a nickname.

[Ted S.]

Actually, they were named after Paul Brown, IIRC.

[Warty]

I know. Do not interfere with me making fun of my beloved horrible team.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ottawa and Saskatchewan should split the name.

[Gene]

It should be the leeches.

[Pro Libertate]

Huh. I had submitted "Rough Riders" for the Tampa baseball team, because of the historical connection. I thought it would be cool to sit around in the stands saying, "Bully play." Instead, they went with the lame Devil Rays.

[BakedPenguin]

Then removed "Devil" because Jesus cried.

[Killazontherun]

Most insane authoritarian shit of the day:

NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/2.....z2I5DSWr27

[Killazontherun]

Holy crap. They inserted a string of info that was useful to what I wanted to do with it.

[John]

People are just going to have to suffer a bit.

[Killazontherun]

They say it is to deter thieves, and it might well be, but, for one, down the road, with practice, it becomes standardized and then required. New York is ALL slippery slope. Once thieves are aware of this, they'll dump the bottles, and that takes just seconds, but the rest of us get stuck with a stupid law where our pill bottles are all tacking devices and that is pretty much inevitable after that first brain fart got released into the atmosphere.

[T]

I would be sending empty pill bottles on trips around the metro area, preferably on city buses.

[Killazontherun]

Sweet idea.

[Warty]

Has anyone posted this video yet? The real fun is about 9 minutes in when the gun guy accuses the douchehost of projecting.

[Tim]

He calls him on the "long overdue discussion" bullshit.

[Spoonman.]

That was BRUTAL. Awesome.

[Rich]

The douchehost exemplifies Poe's Law.

[General Butt Naked]

Saw this on a local forum a while ago. Dude destroys.

I like when he tells the anchor that he's armed. I think the anchor needed a quick underoo change during the next break.

"That's actually scary to me"

Fuck off you old bitty.

[Francisco d Anconia]

That was fucking AWESOME!

To his final point, is there anywhere online that has records of guns being used in self defense? I know some of the NRA magazines used to publish such accounts. I Googled it the other day but got the typical 5 pages of bullshit opinion pieces. Anyone got anything?

[General Butt Naked]

The Armed Citizen has a bunch of stuff. Many, many articles.

[mad libertarian guy]

To his final point, is there anywhere online that has records of guns being used in self defense?

http://davekopel.org/Briefs/07.....iners;.pdf

If there is a colon before the .pdf just delete it. I was having problems with the squirrels inserting a random ;

See page 14. The data shows that there are anywhere between 725 and 3300 DGUs (Defensive Gun Uses) per DAY. This is some of the data used in the Heller case. There are references as well so you can look at the raw data.

[mad libertarian guy]

Delete the ; and you're good.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Thx, both of you.

[Brett L]

You have to be a special type of stupid to drive across half of Europe before realizing that maybe the GPS has led you astray.

[SFC B]

When she started to see all the signs had umlauts she didn't think it was strange?

[Xenocles]

I was driving from Seville toward Malaga a couple of months ago and several of the highway signs were in Arabic. I understand why they were, but it was still weird to see.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

I'm guessing Sabine is a blond.

[Matrix]

After 75, eat whatever the hell you want!

Awesome. Only 44 more years to go!

[Xenocles]

Why wait?

[John]

http://www.popsci.com/cars/art.....y-too-long

The new corvette. I like it.

[Warty]

Looks like a Charger with some swoopy shit tacked on. Looks shitty. I want one.

[Episiarch]

We, you do need to compensate for something...

[Episiarch]

Where did my Ls go?

I guess I need to compensate for something too.

[Warty]

But that's why I bought all these superautomatic assault guns!

[Episiarch]

Well, you do have a lot of compensating to do...

[AlmightyJB]

"We, you do need to compensate for something..."

Like Obama compensate's for his lack of an argument with dead kids.

[John]

No. It looks like a Ferari F12 Berlinetta

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ferrari/index108.html

which is like saying a woman looks like Bar Rapheli.

[Killazontherun]

Or that woman in the new add kicked off during the playoffs. Sweet Jesus I have no idea what they are advertising, but her light blue eyes are like something out of discarded lyrics to Sweet Child O' Mine.

[Killazontherun]

There are crossbows with burning arrows in that commercial if that helps.

[Ska]

Direct TV I think. Same commercials as "you look like a brie man" and "hurry up with those chips boys, chop chop."

Hot chick in a gold dress.

[Jordan]

Fuck GM. That is all.

[AlmightyJB]

Here you go: 2013 Agera R

http://www.koenigsegg.com/models/agera-r/

[Matrix]

Texas state Rep proposes law to jail any Federal Agents trying to enforce new gun restrictions

awesome!

[rac3rx]

Yeah, this is my new State Rep. He knocked off an establishment guy in the primary, which in my area WAS the race for State Rep. When I saw this earlier, I thought, "I like this guy already."

[Cowboy]

Reminds me, I have to write an email to Bonnen to support this.

[nicole]

It's all fun and games until someone gets suffocated.

[Heroic Mulatto]

That was the plot of a sexploitation movies from the 70's....but I can't remember the damn title!

[Jeff]

Deadly Weapons?

[Heroic Mulatto]

YES! Thank you! It was driving me crazy.

[Episiarch]

Sorry, that still doesn't hold a candle to the horse fucker.

I've seen some of the video he shot. It's fucking insane.

"Sex with animals?!? There's no time, man!"

[Heroic Mulatto]

My wife and I rented Zoo blissfully unaware that it does show actual footage from the Mr. Hands video....

I laughed. She didn't.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Dear god! That is the worst thing I have ever read in my entire life. Did you know what it was about before you rented it? The fuck is wrong with you?

[Heroic Mulatto]

The description said it featured "re-enactments", and stories of people who have sex with animals are usually hilarious....

(Link SFW but not your sanity)

[Andrew S.]

A friend of mine got me the DVD of that as part of a White Elephant/Secret Santa gift.

Not only am I scared to watch it, I'm scared that something's going to happen to me and my family will find it while going through my house.

[Episiarch]

Don't be scared. Give in to the dark side. Shit, I was shown the videos before there was even a documentary.

[Generic Stranger]

"Sex with animals?!? There's no time, man!"

For some reason whenever I read that line I hear it in Shatner's voice instead of Master Shake's...

[The Late P Brooks]

Fuck GM. That is all.

I concur.

[nicole]

Oh, I knew I was saving something else. LA Review of Books interviews guy who wrote Glock book about NRA and gun control. For their usual audience, this was probably frighteningly pro-gun. Less so for us.

[General Butt Naked]

I've seen this guy before, on (I think?) CSPAN's bookTV.

Some in the audience were trying to get him to make anti-gun statements but he wouldn't. Christ, the guy wrote a whole book on Glocks, he obviously likes guns.

[wingnutx]

He was interviewed on NPR several months ago.

It was a pretty good interview.

[Enough About Palin]

I just learned that the city is going to rip out the street in front of my house and replace it with a greenway. I am so psyched!

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/h.....isGreenway

[rac3rx]

How the hell are you supposed to get to your house?

[Agammamon]

So, you get a tiny bike trail instead of a road?
Do you park your car at the communal lot a mile away and tediously carry a couple of grocery bags back home on your bike?

[Agammamon]

Oh - my - god, looking deeper into this and that greenway stuff is fucking horrifying.

NO vehicle access to the house means that when I move in, everything will have to be carried from wherever the nearest road happens to be. No package deliveries, no access for emergency vehicles.

For personal transport I guess the idea is to get on your bike and pedal who knows how far to the nearest bus stop (these jag-offs are probably trying for light rail) and wait catch mass transport.

I did mass transport when I was younger - a small city like my hometown of Tucson can take 30-40 minutes to cross in a car and over three hours by bus.

[Agammamon]

With that said, I could see converting *some* of the roadway into "greenspace". The road out in front of my house is like 30+ feet wide - you could run three tanks down it side by side - I could see it being cut down a bit and converted to "greenspace" (though here it'd be like "more-damn-sand space).

[General Butt Naked]

Been watching this dude's videos for a while now. This is an especially good one on a country going full retard.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

"The only person responsible for your safety, is you!"

When will this uppity boy learn that Massuh' Government is the only one big and strong enough to protect him? This boy needs to stop filling his head with self-ownership and get back out in the fields.

[General Butt Naked]

It's funny you say it like that, because he has had problems with supposedly tolerant lefties leaving all kinds of nasty racist bullshit on his videos.

[hamilton]

Wow, this guy is really good. I just spent a half hour going through the more interesting titles. Thanks for the link.

[Brendan]

Another Video

Awesome.

What did we do to you people in another life?

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor who advised then-President Bill Clinton during passage of the 1993 Crime Bill and 1994 assault weapons ban, urged Obama to limit the congressional debate and seek to achieve as many measures as possible through executive actions.
"Whatever you can do administratively, clear the table, man," said Emanuel, during an address in Washington yesterday. "Don't allow a side issue to derail these things."

Yep, the separation of powers is a side issue.

[General Butt Naked]

I think they really want armed insurrection; it would give them the perfect excuse to enact all of their dictatorial fantasies.

[Brendan]

For a few months until it crumbles further or they have an accident.

[Coeus]

Krugnuts finally realizes the truth about Jon Stewart 4 years after everyone else got the memo:

Above all, however, what went wrong here is a lack of professionalism on the part of Stewart and his staff. Yes, it's a comedy show ? but the jokes are supposed to be (and usually are) knowing jokes, which are funny and powerful precisely because the Daily Show people have done their homework and understand the real issues better than the alleged leaders spouting nonsense. In this case, however, it's obvious that nobody at TDS spent even a few minutes researching the topic. It was just yuk-yuk-yuk they're talking about a trillion-dollar con hahaha.

Hey, if we want this kind of intellectual laziness, we can just tune in to Fox.

[General Butt Naked]

OOOOOOH, Fox! Very harsh, brosephus.

[Ska]

Actually, Krugnuts is all butthurt that Jon Stewart had the nerve to mock him for endorsing the $1T coin BS. Can't say that I disagree with Stewart on that one.

[Coeus]

I know, but I posted it because it's funny how he ignored all the ball-licking of Obama as being indicative of the very issues he identifies, simply because he has the other one in his mouth.

[MJGreen]

they're talking about a trillion-dollar con

Is that what Stewart called it, or is this a Freudian slip from Kruggy?

[Coeus]

We've just got to do something about all these white males.

"Do you also think it's odd that white men commit the overwhelming majority of mass murders," wondered Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Senior Director of Advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation, "but that people don't identify that as a causal factor? Instead we talk about mental illness and gun control. If it were Asian women or Jewish men or elderly African-American, it would be topic number one. But not white men." In fact, the media response to mass shootings often reimagines white men as victims.

What media are these people following? What dimension does this planet exist on? And why is it so important to people that spree killing is one of the only categories of crime that white men approach (but don't quite reach) full demographic representation? I thought progressives wanted proportionate representation in every category.

"Oh, my god, there's almost a proportionate amount of white spree killers to the rest of the nations demographics. Something must be done, immediately."

[Heroic Mulatto]

"Do you also think it's odd that white men commit the overwhelming majority of mass murders, but that people don't identify that as a causal factor?"

No, I don't that that's odd, Ms. Hogshead-Makar, because most people aren't racist shits like you. Identifying someone's race and gender as "causal factors" in crime is the very definition of racism, you daffy cunt!

[Episiarch]

We are really seeing the masks slip and the idiots crawl out of the woodwork on this one, because they actually think Obama's going to deliver comprehensive gun control to them. I can't wait for him to fuck them over. The cries of woe will be sweet, sweet music.

[General Butt Naked]

I just want this shit to blow over, so that I can start building my evil black rifle.

My dumbass said months ago, "I'll wait until the holidays are over and I've paid the christmas bills. THEN, I'll start assembling my high capacity, dual killing clip, assault bullet, teflon coated glock rifle!"

The stripped lowers that I was looking at were like $150 then; now there 4-5X that.

[Episiarch]

I kind of regret not having bought an AK, but I already have my SKS. I'll get an AK when all this shit dies down.

I hate overpaying for guns.

[General Butt Naked]

I hate overpaying for guns.

I hear you. Something inside my head rages against higher than yesterday prices on firearms. Other things, I could give a fuck. Like lunch meat, or beer or whatever: the price goes up a buck, that's fine, but with guns I want the BEST deal and want to brag about how cheap I got 'em.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If it were Asian women or Jewish men or elderly African-American, it would be topic number one. But not white men.

Now, I'm not going to question the criminological expertise of the author of Asthma and Exercise, because obviously that was such a groundbreaking study on the sociological and psychological factors behind mass homocide, but when did we reinstate the N?rnberger Gesetze, am I going to have to get a "J" stamped in my passport now?

[C. Anacreon]

I can't believe someone would allow the last name of Hogshead Maker. Sounds like a branch of taxidermy. I'm sure she is just lashing out because she has been cruelly teased her entire life, and it's time for those white males to finally get theirs!

[General Butt Naked]

Oh, it gets worse:

Because resources are limited, gains for women and minorities necessarily equal losses for white males. . . . Can you imagine being in the shoes of the one who feels his power slipping away? Who can find nothing stable to believe in? Who feels himself becoming unnecessary? That powerlessness and fear ties a dark knot in his stomach. As this knot thickens, a centripetal hatred moves inward toward the self as a centrifugal hatred is cast outward at others: his parents, his girlfriend, his boss, his classmates, society, life.

The first sentence is so dumb, that I really don't even know how to respond. I'm kinda sittin' here, all white and shit, befuddled in the face of this wall of stupid. I have heard many here speak of going "full retard" and how one isn't supposed to do that; is this an instance of going full retard?

[Episiarch]

It might be more FULL PROJECTION.

[Lost_In_Translation]

My hatred doesn't spin, it collapses inward until critical mass is reached and explodes outward in a sphere of destruction. So they got that wrong.

[ant1sthenes]

The racial demographics of murder in the U.S., huh? Is that really a can of worms you want to open, lady?

[mad libertarian guy]

But it's only the mass murders that count. I mean if you take the VT shooter, and discount the Beltway Shooter . . .

But in the Shootings that Matter?, it's all white men.

[Coeus]

See how many lies, leaps of logic, and misrepresentation of fact is crammed into this piece of shit article in the NYT.

Darwin was Wrong About Dating

[Heroic Mulatto]

*shrugs*

I think he is spot on in his criticism that much (not all) of Evolutionary Psych is basically a stand-up routine from Night at the Apollo dressed up in academic lingo. (Bitches be shoppin'!) Again, the observations might be on the right track, but often times the research needs more rigor.

[Coeus]

Again, the observations might be on the right track, but often times the research needs more rigor.

Much of the science reporting on the studies mis-represents what is being said, and that is all that most people know of it. And the fact that the observations are correct distinguishes it from psychology, since the vast majority of that starts with a theory, and strives to make the observations fit. In other words, it's actually usefull. Take this article for example. They want to say that there is no biological difference between the sexes (at least not one we can quantify) and uses studies that were designed to obfuscate and hand-wave away those that we observe. And it's all bullshit.

We do have data on what the sexes prefer in absence of the expectations of the other sex. Homosexual relationships. Anybody want to guess which group is more promiscuous and open to casual sex? Lesbians or Gays?

This data is readily available, but does not fit the theory they are proposing, thus it is ignored.

[BigT]

Newt Gingrich, doesn't understand default.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says House Republicans are making a mistake by using the issue of increasing the borrowing limit to challenge President Barack Obama on spending issues.

Gingrich tells "CBS This Morning" that's a losing proposition. "In the end, it's a threat they can't sustain," he says, because no one wants to see the country default on its debts

[Clich? Bandit]

blond obama says "governing is hard!"

[An0nB0t]

I wonder if Obama's glib 'lil fascists raise the threshold to 100,000,000 when the "Bend Over and Fuck Yourself" petition appears tomorrow following his 19-pronged attack on civil liberties.

[waaminn]

Now thats what I am talking about dude, makes perfect sense.

http://www.make-anon.tk

[Coeus]

Gawker article about Clarence Thomas. Watch all the liberal racists come out to play.

A sample:

JamesFromCambridge 21 hours ago
Uncle Tom here is a contemptible little fuck. What an utter embarrassment...completely unable to think for himself, does as Scalia tells him to every single time, hasn't written even one opinion in twenty years and hasn't asked a question from the bench in almost six years! Stupid, repugnant fucker, still unqualified after all these years...

[wingnutx]

Thomas wrote my favorite opinion in Raich.

[Coeus]

I don't always agree with him, but I usually understand the reasoning he uses. He's the only one of those bastards who actually does his job, that job being to strike down laws in conflict with the constitution. Everybody else seems to think that their job is to poorly rationalize their personal preferences into their rulings.

[mad libertarian guy]

He also wrote an epic opinion in McDonald.