White House Done with Drone Revelations, Mexico, Ireland, Among Countries Lobbying for U.S. Immigration Reform, Gang Uncovered in LA County Sheriff's Department: P.M. Links
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The White House says it will provide the legal opinions underpinning the policy that governs killing U.S. citizens. Senator Ron Wyden wants those memos declassified, but the White House says no more information will be made public. The White House even resisted releasing even the white paper leaked earlier this week, rejecting a FOIA request for it less than two weeks ago. John Brennan's confirmation hearing for CIA director, meanwhile, was interrupted by a Code Pink protester trying to draw attention to drone killings.
- The FAA has released the most updated list of local jurisdictions authorized to use drones; there are 81, including municipalities, colleges and even an Indian tribe.
- Mexico, Ireland and several Central American countries are lobbying Congress as well as the White House for immigration reform.
- New unemployment claims dropped by 5,000 last week, according to government statistics.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has found a gang among its deputies. No, not the whole department.
- Two storm systems are converging on the Northeast, bringing the possibility of record-breaking snowfall.
- Spray paint could heat up asteroids headed for Earth enough to alter their courses.
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Mexico, Ireland and several Central American countries are lobbying Congress as well as the White House for immigration reform.
All right, we’ll take the Latinos and the Asians, but we don’t want the Irish!
+1 Rock Ridge
NO IRISH NEED APPLY
I see we’re got serious competition in the browser refresh race now. F.O.E. is going to have to step up his game.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has found a gang among its deputies.
I wonder what signal they flash.
This?
LEGOs
They’ve gotten absurdly expensive.
Linked article actually argues against that notion
I know. I read it.
The price of construction material is down across the board.
Yes, well, with fabricators being all the rage, I sit here laughing at Danish pretensions. Soon, I will be 3-D printing my own Legos at will, and there’s nothing they can do about it!
My own private space elevator will be a reality!
The RIAA would like to have a word with you.
Out back, in the alley.
What, they’re protecting blocks of plastic now? Ha!
They’re expanding to cover all IP and taking a page from the mafia handbook – settling disputes with a pair of pliers and a 2×4.
Can we at least agree Mega Blocks suck?
But they have Power Rangers!
I raise you Ninja Turtles
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Tee…..es-ByTheme
You mean ‘tard Legos? Absolutely.
I want to see some GoT-themed castle sets:
Black Harran’s Folly w/ roughed up whores and roast goat
Castle Black w/ collapsing stair
Tower of Joy w/ baby
Sacked Winterfell
White Harbor w/ head and hands nailed outside
Sack of King’s Landing
Sacked Astapor
Sacked Meereen
Moat Cailin w/ 63 flayed men
The kids will love it!
man that’s a violent series.
I want a Red wedding playset
Yes! can’t forget The Twins.
Spray paint could heat up asteroids headed for Earth enough to alter their courses.
I see a movie about NASA teaming up with private sector graffiti artists. Michael Bay to direct.
Get out there and tag that asteroid!
This might cause problems with certain “civic” groups.
(Very loud, bombastic voice) “Banksy? IN? SP-A-A-A-A-CEEE!”
Oh, sorry Banksy, we forgot to put air in your tank. Sigh, lloks like the world has lost a “great” “artist”.
Pressurized cans in space? Please. It’ll never happen.
What? You don’t think taggers need emergency thrusters?!
I’m skeptical that the albedo would change that much.
They mean high-gloss paint.
I’m still more concerned about the Pak protector being employed by the administration than about a little of the ol’ drone process.
Maybe I’m being dense but I don’t–
OH. Brennan.
Everyone would’ve gotten it when Virginia was editor.
That’s his name, too. It was Jack in the book, but, of course, that means his real name was John Brennan.
Yeah, at first I was trying to figure out who in the Administration has a beak and loves sweet potatoes and then remembered the name.
If a Protector was employed by this Administration, wouldn’t at least some of the things these they do be based on logic?
He must be manipulating them in some sort of insanely subtle and brilliant way. It’s not like a protector would be led around by a bunch of dumb breeders, after all.
he would if they controlled his access to the Tree of Life.
Seriously, you think they could do that without him circumventing whatever they were doing to deny him access? You haven’t been around many protectors, have you?
Here, smell some Tree of Live.
Life.
My joints are all fucked up and my hair is starting to fall out. It really is time.
Former LAPD cop is on the loose and armed and dangerous after going on a violent rampage against people he believed led to his termination.
What disturbs me is that his first two victims were murdered in Irvine less than a mile from where I live and his residence, according to the news, is also less than a mile from where my parents live. Scary world we live in.
LA cops prove his point by shooting up two trucks that vaguely resemble his, injuring two women.
Well they wouldn’t be the LAPD if they didn’t mistakenly target someone else.
I guess losing the status of “fuck you, that’s why” is worth going on a killing rampage.
LAPD needs to call on their officers to stand down lest the mask slip too far.
What the fuck? If they know who he is and what kind of truck he has, wouldn’t they have the plate number? Or at least see that it isn’t a large black man driving?
Could be a cover-up.
The dude claims he’s been fired as retaliation for reporting on misconduct of his peers.
One of those was by the Torrance Police Department, which has a pretty well known reputation for that sort of thing.
My understanding of this is that while the shootings (of the wrong vehicles) took place in Torrance, it was LAPD on protection detail for one of the people mentioned in the manifesto.
The shooting in Torrance was by LAPD on protection detail, the one in Redondo Beach on Beryl & Flagler was by the Torrance Police Department. It is their 2nd shooting of an unarmed person this week….
Shit, my sister in law used to live on Ripley, near Beryl and Flagler. Isn’t there a playground right near there?
Now to be fair there were dogs in the trucks.
More importantly, the LAPD appear to be lighting up any blue pickup truck they see:
Too slow.
Bastard! I’ll do you for that!
Look further down…
They’re blatantly trying to kill the guy and not take him in. And apparently don’t care how many ‘civilians’ get murdered along the way.
Maybe they’re afraid of him talking.
Yeah. Pretty much.
Wait, don’t cops have networked computers in their cars that can check license plate numbers?
Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.
The story that’s been released so far sounds like complete bullshit to me.
Running gun battles with LAPD forty miles outside the city, and attempted boat jacking in SD where he dropped his badge and then immediately went to murder some Riverside cop. Throw in the police shooting two elderly Asian woman that were mistaken for the black suspect.
It is possible that one of his hobbies was dressing up as an elderly Asian ventriloquist. The cops thought the other woman was Mrs. Kim, the dummy.
The fugitive ex-cop has issued a manifesto which, for some reason, is being underplayed in the mainstream media.
Samples of the rhetoric:
“Mia Farrow said it best. “Gun control is no longer debatable, it’s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.”
“Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB. Never again should any public official state that their prayers and thoughts are with the family. That has become cliche’ and meaningless. Its time for action. Let this be your legacy that you bestow to America. Do not be swayed by obstacles, antagaonist, and naysayers. Remember the innocent children at Austin, Kent, Stockton, Fullerton, San Diego, Iowa City, Jonesboro, Columbine, Nickel Mines, Blacksburg, Springfield, Red Lake, Chardon, Aurora, and Newtown. Make sure this never happens again!!!”
http://www.soopermexican.com/2…..-comments/
Wow.
“And everybody else, shut up, and watch Terms of Enrampagement!”
“Clearly, a working title.”
“Hmm, cock-flavored spit. Well you never know what’s going to be on the board. Survey says!” (shoots Irish guy’s kneecap)
“Seriously, what is cancer?”
He’s pro-Obama? Man, there’s a shocker.
He has another manifesto where he comes across as almost reasonable.
http://content.clearchannel.co…..213161.pdf
That’s part of the same manifesto. Just the 10 pages the media published. They left out the part where he praised Biden and Feinstein…
Ah, I see. No wonder that’s what they released. Fuck, the second part makes it sound like he’s going on a rampage to prove a point about gun control.
Ironic, considering that he claims to own a Barrett .50, which has been illegal in California for a long time…
If you had a well regulated AWB, this would not happen.
He clearly wasn’t trained to not murder people. Mistakes were made. Procedures were followed.
Anyone have a link corroborating the redaction without making hay on a “pro-gay” stance the killer may or may not have? I want to send this to a bunch of folks but do not want that part muddying the waters of discussion.
I haven’t found the full text anywhere without some right-wing commentary along with it. Just copy the manifesto text and email it to people.
I’m nervous about doing that in case it turns out to be a troll hoax. I’ll wait until I see independent corroboration.
He’s in that house!”
The SBSD Swat team just shut down Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Big Bear to search for the suspect.
Evidently, they think a 270 lb black man is trying to blend in at a ski resort…
RACIST!
…was interrupted by a Code Pink protester trying to draw attention to drone killings.
Points to those nutjobs for ideological consistency.
Frankly I’m astonished, but good on them.
People have a deep fear of robot killer from space. Because of the race memory we have of our future extermination.
Or maybe all those Australopithecus babies being snatched by large birds of prey…
“Washington is in a fit of collective terror over the “sequester,” aka the impending across-the-board spending cuts. Trying to explain the zero economic growth at the end of 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney blamed Republicans for “talk about letting the sequester kick in as though that were an acceptable thing.” He left out that President Obama proposed the sequester in 2011.”
This is why I hate Obama’s fucking, lying guts. What a piece of shit.
Look, Obama proposed the sequester because he knows that the Rethuglicans in Congress can only be motivated to reasonable compromise with Democrats when you threaten defense spending. It’s not his fault that conservatives would rather let poor government beneficiaries die on the street than raise taxes; that’s on them.
Hey, EAP, don’t forget the classic: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a Sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here’. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and Grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
talk about letting the sequester kick in as though that were an acceptable thing.
Obama proposed the sequestration, he signed the sequestration into law, but it’s the Republicans’ fault?
GGGGAAAHHHHH!!!! THE STUPID! IT BURNS!
I watched a very interesting History Detectives on PBS last night talking about Japanese balloon bombs used during WW2. I had heard about them before but had no idea they’d launched so many and gone so far (one got all the way to Toledo, apparently). I also didn’t know we deployed P-61s to patrol for and shoot them down.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1912239130
Weren’t they trying to set fire to Pacific Northwest forests?
Yes, in fact they started a few fires and unfortunately killed some Sunday school picnickers who messed with a crashed one, not knowing what it was – the only domestic casualties of enemy action in WW2, I believe.
Episiarch| 2.7.13 @ 4:36PM |#
“Weren’t they trying to set fire to Pacific Northwest forests?”
That and western cities.
How do you set fire to a *rainforest*?
Anything burns if you get it hot enough.
When it doesn’t rain for 89 days straight in the summer like last summer, forest fires happen. Like they did last year.
I thought you guys only gor 89 *non-rainy* days.
Yes, and those were all of them.
Elise Luray has a PHD in babeology.
Screw it.
Tried watching the ‘non-commercial vid’ link and got a commercial.
Nemo, actually. It’s named Nemo.
What’s all this about naming non-hurricanes? What’s next, naming rain showers?
Why do you hate tornadoes?
Sorry, I’m busy naming the breeze that just went by.
OK. I understand that “Summer” has been retired.
Then Jasmine it is.
Liver ‘n’ Onions is the breeze people in Florida are hoping he’ll retire.
Scientists think they have an idea of : a small, insect-eating rodent-like animal.
Bleh: scientists think that a small-insect-eating rodent is the mammal from which all mammals today are commonly related to.
That thing with the frat and the Asians at Duke
Tasteless, but I dunno why this kind of thing merits national attention.
I wish I went to Duke so I could pick up chicks at the rallies, though.
How the hell is a frat party at Duke a national news story? The media just hunts for anything that fits the narrative don’t they?
But John, as we learned a couple of days ago, it’s great when non-Muslim woman wear a burka.
Because college Greek societies have always been known for their tasteful and understated class.
I don’t understand. Conical straw hats are NOT worn in Asia?
I once saw a white woman wearing one. Of course, she was elderly, so she was probably senile.
And if I could find one I’d fucking wear it while I work in the yard.
Quick! Somebody light the Jezebel signal!
Ugh…
You can link to one other example and hence it’s “notorious” (maybe it is, but you get the point)?
Isn’t it great that whenever Republicans/conservatives/Boy Scouts/churches (etc) try to clean up their acts the same proggies who told them to get mad at them for doing so?
Come on, if a British prince can dress as a Nazi, the standard for style has been set.
Greek life? How dare those frat boys appropriate classical greco-roman culture?
TOGA! TOGA!
Really, if these so-called “Greeks” were serious, they’d be out hopliting, spouting philosophy, and sodomizing each other. Like they do at Oxford.
“Why do it for real? It’s easier and safer to fake it.”
“Because it has something that you don’t have, Max. It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.”
*appropriated
What about laziness and fiscal irresponsibility?
Oh, wait, “classical”…
Jezebel should probably stay away from Duke and Rape in the same conversation, since the whole Lacrosse thing
Why? They have no shame, or self awareness, or consistency, or the ability to think, as opposed to emote.
The Brothers of Kappa Sigma regret to inform you that our forebrothers’ secrets of the far east have not survived the move back onto campus. Without them, Asia Prime cannot go on and must be cancelled. Instead, Kappa Sigma presents: International Relations. A celebration of all cultures and the diversity of Duke.
IOW, “So solly.”
This isn’t a guy who built the railroads here.
See, because culture is the intellectual property of people from the gene pool that invented that culture, so any “appropriation” of that culture by outsiders is ipso facto racism.
Except, of course, when it’s done in a sensitive manner by accredited non-racists. So it’s OK for liberal schoolteachers to have Asian Culture Week, but when post-secondary students want to have their own Asian cultural appreciation event it’s wrong and racist.
Two storm systems are converging on the Northeast, bringing the possibility of record-breaking snowfall.
Snowzilla versus Desnowyah.
So I stole Tim’s point about if it was legal for Obama to kill Al Alwaki why wouldn’t it have been legal for Nixon to order the killing of Jane Fonda during her trip to Hanoi and posted said question on facebook.
I have more than a few liberal friends who love to use FACEBOOK as a platform to advance the cause. Yet, not a single one of them has posted a response. You can hear the crickets chirp.
Maybe they just set you to “ignore” after that one? It happened to me once after I made a joke about 1%ers having good taste in booze.
Aww, I was hoping for butthurt.
But…that’s not the good kind, nicole.
I’d be pretty stupid if I was coming here for the good kind.
You know, I’m still waiting for someone, someday, to decide that “butthurt” is anti-gay slang and yell at people for saying it.
And this site is mind-blowingly pretentious.
Looks like they are a bit butthurt over other people’s use of butthurt.
this is butthurt (DNSFW)
Don’t worry, John. I’m sure they are frantically searching TPM and DailyKos for something to rebut with.
I’m just fine with self-defense. Kill that fucking jihadist already.
Look out! He’s got a webcam!
…the White House says no more information will be made public.
Suck on that, transparency!
…the White House says no more information will be made public.
..unless it’s leaked
“The fact is, when it comes to public disclosure, we have been … publicly discussing these matters at the highest levels of government”
“Drones are cool!”
“Hehehe. You said ‘drones’!”
The Progressives hate the big corporations for holding so much cash, which they say is hurting the economy. Some even say that the evil corporations are doing it to ultimately hurt a black president. Well surprise, surprise, surprise!
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..bs=article
That’s a nice stockpile of money you got there, it would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
Really, what company needs $100 billion in cash?
A lot of corporate cash is held overseas to avoid onerous US tax obligations.
While that is true it depends on where it is held because you get a tax credit for the taxes paid in that country.
Japan has a tax rate similar to ours so a Google will bring that home tax free.
Ireland has a 12% rate – no luck there. Still the NOL benefits most companies so this issue is nearly moot.
Also, corporate planning, budgeting, finance, allocations, etc – are all my areas of expertise.
Feel free to ask me anything.
How come you’re such a useless tard?
How do I get a 6 figure payout from the slush fund?
But us liberals love companies like Apple and Google and their cash hoard.
Thursday.
Thursday is self-imposed “no intercourse” day. Only the specific type of narcissistic introvert known as the libertarian would be happy about that.
*barf*
No, you just love plundering them.
Shareholders certainly have a right to bitch if they aren’t getting adequate access to Apple’s profits, either through dividends or stock price increases, but that’s about it.
Well, the shareholders have a point. *Most* of the didn’t buy stock in Apple so they could have a pretty piece of paper to hang on the wall – they did it for the dividends.
If Apple is holding onto the extra money, then Apple needs to give the shareholders a convincing reason for that plan – after all, its the *shareholders* who own the company, not the board.
Someone a week or so ago was saying that total shareholder liability was fair in part because shareholders got all the profits and should share in the total downside risk. I said that wasn’t always true (probably never completely true with a publicly traded company). See?
That is absurd. Apple has never been a dividend stock until now. Its yield has been pathetic.
Dividends are generally discretionary, though it obviously depends on the company by-laws.
Yeah, I got that – though they should have a sitdown with the shareholders and tell them in no uncertain terms that the reason Apple is holding onto the cash (and not paying it out individends) is because a huge chunk of it would be lost in taxes and never get to the shareholders in the first place.
Contrary to popular belief, the National Security Act does not allow the president to classify information based on the “fuck you that is why” standard. The White House is absolutely in violation of the law for classifying those legal memos. There is no need for them to be classified.
You know, I took National Security Law in law school (third year, of course), and I don’t think anything that’s happened in the last two administrations along these lines has been legal in my casebook.
Is there any recourse for this blatant disregard for the law then? Is it all resting on Congress growing some balls and holding impeachment trials, i.e. never going to happen?
Other than some member of the executive branch, what, arresting him?
We’re dealing with Obama here. Even if the courts tell him to pony up, he’ll simply ignore it, and NBC will tell us the courts are totally out of line!
That’s about it.
There’s recourse, as almost all of this stuff is likely illegal, strictly speaking, but everyone just lets it slide. Congress, the courts, us the people, everyone.
That authority is contained in Title XII of the National Security Act of 1947.
Most of what’s hidden, classified, redacted, etc. in the name of “National Security,” or for that matter withheld from the public by state or local governments, is done so to hide illegal, immoral, unethical or embarrassing acts by government officials.
Grand Forks. ND? WTF???
Well they do have a world-class flight school at UND, so maybe that’s it.
Well they do have a world-class flight school at UND, so maybe that’s it.
And programs in the maintenance of non-piloted vehicles. So there’s that!
Did you really expect me to make it through the 24/7 wall and actually see what colleges were involved?
Nukes?
Its ND – there’s about 30 square miles per person there. No need to worry aobut people crashing drones into things.
What is the Libertarian position on public masturbation?
http://boards.straightdope.com…..p?t=659140
What public property would exist in Libertopia?
Trick question: Libertarians want to end all public everything, all the time. There’d be no ban on masturbating in public because public wouldn’t exist.
What about a guy jacking off from his lawn chair in his front yard while the school bus unloaded?
Enough about your “Bucket List”.
Sounds like a complete shithole. How is being a prisoner on your own property (since someone owns the property on all four sides of it, presumably) equal to more freedom?
Congratulations, Alack. You caught a pair of morons in your sarcasm trap.
Mantrap! You fell in!
Can really, really stupid sockpuppets actually be morons? Or are they just really, really stupid sockpuppets?
If they have a job and wear a hat and bring home the bacon, you can never know.
Don’t pretend that you actually listen to Devo, Warty.
Every man, woman, and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about de-evolution.
How dare you quote General Boy! You should quote Booji Boy instead! Do you have the papers the Chinaman gave you?
Don’t you have a woman (or gay lover) to abuse?
Or are you too much of a misanthrope to score some ditched-ridden abuse victim?
Fly away to the empty bin of your imaginary superheros then.
Them’s good eatin’
“What is the Libertarian position on public masturbation?”
You mean like what you’re doing right now on this board? Truth be told, this libertarian finds it highly offensive, but I would never call the cops over it.
Its perfectly legal, rude and indecent. You have every right to do it in public (as long as you clean up the mess)and I have every right to turn the hose on you like a rutting dog.
If there’s a negative externality, then put a price on it.
Agree.
Women delivering newspapers in Torrance shot in manhunt for ex-cop
Two women who were shot by Los Angeles police in Torrance early Thursday during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer were delivering newspapers, sources said.
The women, shot in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue, were taken to area hospitals, Torrance police Lt. Devin Chase said. They were not identified. One was shot in the hand and the other in the back, according to Jesse Escochea, who captured video of the victims being treated.
It was not immediately known what newspapers the women were delivering. After the shooting, the blue pickup was riddled with bullet holes and what appeared to be newspapers lay in the street alongside.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..-shot.html
Shot in the back. You can’t make this shit up.
Asian women!
Look, it’s one thing if a burly black guy in the same color and make of pickup truck gets out and the cop gets jumpy. It’s not a good thing, but it’s semi-defensible in this specific situation. But if two little Asian women get out why the fuck would you be shooting?
The women rolled up in a truck with its headlights off (I expect so that their nighvision wouldn’t be ruined as they peered at houses for street numbers). The rolled up to the house where one of the people being threatened lived. They were shot by police guarding the house.
I think the cops were convinced by the fact pattern that they had their man and were ambushing him.
Not that the LA cops deserve a smidgeon of credit for gangland style shootouts with innocent Asian women driving a car with a different license plate from their fugitive, but it did look from the picture like the back window was not exactly transparent.
To you and terran:
So. The. Fuck. What.
Neither of those situations warrants that kind of force.
If you don’t know what is going on, you keep your fucking finger off the trigger.
N
Trust me, I agree and am outraged and think these cops should be tried for attempted murder and the city of LA owes the women a good $30M payout.
Qualified Immunity. They were only doing their heroic Public Hero duty when they wildly opened fire on a random pair of citizens on the suspicion that a suspect might be in the vehicle.
The initial APB said that the truck had non-removable bike/luggage rack on the roof. The truck they shot had no such thing…
Whoops!
Damn, this just gets worse and worse. Now imagine if one of the women had a gun and tried to protect themselves from nearly being murdered by these thugs? They’d be off to the gas chamber if they weren’t gunned down first.
I love it: Shooting blind into a truck. Even if the suspect had been in the truck, I didn’t think cops were supposed to shoot on sight.
Did somebody already light the dunphy signal?
Why? Do you honestly give a shit what that mendacious, honorless and depraved piece of shit has to say?
^^THIS^^
Why anyone engages with him beyond suggesting he kill himself is a mystery to me.
They want this guy dead. He’s a cop killer and they don’t want him talking.
They’re taking a page from the presidents use of force memo.
If the suspect has committed a crime in the past then you are legally justified to open fire on the mutherfucker any time you see him.
It was necessary to ensure public safety.
Who do we root for in this, the deranged radical leftist mass murderer, or the LAPD? It’s a tough call.
Is there any way everyone can lose?
Oh, I know how: the two innocent LAPD shooting victims sue them and all the taxpayers lose!
Only our brave, badged public heroes are responsible enough to carry semiautomatic weapons of war!
As I noted yesterday, Floyd Corkins, the guy who planned to kill a bunch of people at the Family Research Council offices in Washington, DC and then rub Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces as they died, pleaded guilty yesterday. And he admitted that he picked the FRC and several other targets based on a “Hate Map” at the Southern Poverty Law Center website:
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02…..z2KFhQigXL
Wow, that will totally be covered by the media – not.
Eliminationist. Rhetoric.
And this is how gay progressives reacted to the news:
http://www.towleroad.com/2013/…..uilty.html
Funny, he shoots a guard in what is probably the least lethal place and is charged with terrorism. The group’s headquarters he attacked advocates the death of millions, and they are still considered the innocent victims.
I feel so sorry for Floyd Corkins. I hope he gets a lenient sentence. The hateful tactics of the Family Research Council could drive anyone to lose control. May he find peace and get help. He has my sympathy.
This was a set up by the anti-gay Christians to make LGBT people look bad. Think about it, he had his bag full of Chick fli-A sandwiches and he went to shoot some anti-gay people? How many gay people pack a picnic bag with anti-gay Christian hate groups things to go and shoot anti-gay people? This kind of propaganda is what the millions of dollars the Catholics, Mormons and Evangelical Christians are paying for, more hate towards LGBT people to stop gay marriage and stop LGBT people.
Shot the wrong individual I say,should have waited for Perkins…
Posted by: DC Arnold | Feb 7, 2013 8:18:11 AM
How many gay people pack a picnic bag with anti-gay Christian hate groups things to go and shoot anti-gay people?
At least one, apparently.
US Conference of Catholic Bishops denounces new HHS “compromise” –
“[quoting Cardinal Dolan] It appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education and Catholic charities. HHS offers what it calls an ‘accommodation’ rather than accepting the fact that these ministries are integral to our church and worthy of the same exemption as our Catholic churches….
“In obedience to our Judeo-Christian heritage, we have consistently taught our people to live their lives during the week to reflect the same beliefs that they proclaim on the Sabbath,” Cardinal Dolan said. “We cannot now abandon them to be forced to violate their morally well-informed consciences.”
http://www.usccb.org/news/2013/13-037.cfm
The Bishop!
I posted this in response to comments a few days ago from some H&R folks that the USCCB and religious people in general were so dumb they’d accept this “compromise” at face value.
Obama is not going to be ‘held hostage’ by…
Hey Abbot!
“We was too late. The Reverend Grundy bit the ceiling.”
Okay, Devious, don’t move!
‘STARRING THE REVEREND E. P. NESBITT’
‘AND INTRODUCING F. B. GRIMSBY URQHART-WRIGHT AS THE VOICE OF GOD’
‘SPECIAL EFFECTS BY THE MODERATOR OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND’
I don’t know why, but I love that sketch.
By the way, I’ve always pictured you as Devious (the Michael Palin character in the sketch).
Could be worse. How’s the nude lady?
Oh, she’s fine.
Not Quite Getting the Concept
“If men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.”–Ayn Rand, “The Virtue of Selfishness,” December 1963
“Idaho Politician Proposes Making ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Required Reading”–headline, San Francisco Chronicle website, Feb. 6, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..TopOpinion
Well to be fair he said he wasn’t being serious when he proposed it, he just wanted to make a point about making graduation requirements.
Can you be convicted of making a false statement if the statement true, but you thought you were lying?
Well, you can be convicted of lying if you thought the statement was true but it wasn’t – mens rea be damned.
Obviously the activist court is legislating from the bench.
You can, however, be convicted of crimes that are physically impossible.
Lea Thompson looks good for 51, but her 18 yo daughter looks even better.
True. I forgot which movie Lea got spectacularly naked in but I have it on videotape somewhere.
All The Right Moves.
Thanks. You know I am a classic liberal Ayn Rand atheist.
People here hate me.
Dipshit,
They hate you because you’re a lying, stupid lefty.
Sevo…just shhhhh! Shreeek is trying to chat up ChrisO.
“Though the company has no immediate plans for any actual group genital masturbation, Shuker-Haines pointed out that, should a member of a company begin to masturbate during a meeting, they would not stop that member from doing so ? as long as the activity is useful to the exercise and no other member is traumatized by the action.”
That’s not even the funniest part of the story. Or the saddest.
That’s…that’s a joke story, right?
Because if it’s not NutraSweet is going to want to join.
the goal of these exercises is to fill a void
That’s done differently, not by masturbating.
Depends on how yo do it.
That is why I am a classic liberal – our exceptance of the weird future people. Who knows, we may even evolve more in the future.
No you’re not you lying fuckbucket.
I wonder if they asked the janitorial staff if they were traumatized cleaning up the mess they made?
Squeezed by historic funding shortfalls, school districts across [California] in recent years have been illegally dipping into cafeteria funds meant to provide meals to poor students to pay other school expenses, according to a report released Wednesday.
The strongly worded report by the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes identified the Los Angeles Unified School District as the biggest offender. LAUSD was among eight school districts across the state ordered to repay a total of $170 million to student meal programs.
“Perhaps more troubling, department officials candidly acknowledge they have no idea how big the problem may be and fear they may have uncovered only a hint of the ongoing abuse,” the report states.
About $158 million of the $170 million debt belongs to LAUSD, which allegedly shifted money from the cafeteria fund to pay for expenses such as lawn sprinklers and the salaries of employees at the district’s television station.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/…..eria-funds
Yes, Virginia, there is a Dildo, Newfoundland!
http://mentalfloss.com/article…..mes-canada
I actually have been there.
“Lament Washington dysfunction.”
Pretty sure this should be
“Lament obstructionist Rethuglicans”
Minneapolis police officer arrested; suspected of sexually assaulting girls
A Minneapolis police officer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting several girls in off-duty incidents, according to the Anoka County Sheriff’s office.
Investigators from the Brooklyn Park Police Department were alerted that Bradley Schnickel, an Anoka County resident, allegedly used social media to contact a female in Brooklyn Park and sent inappropriate messages to her. The investigation widened and multiple juvenile female victims were identified, authorities said. Cmdr. Paul Sommer of the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office wouldn’t say an exact number.
The girls were between 12 and 14 years old, authorities said. Schnickel was arrested on suspicion of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He has not been charged.
Schnickel, who was arrested Wednesday, has worked for the Minneapolis police department since 2008. He has been placed on paid administrative leave, and Chief Janee Harteau has ordered an internal affairs investigation, the police department said.
Sommer said the Anoka County sheriff’s office investigation is “ongoing and fluid.”
http://www.startribune.com/loc…..38461.html
Bradley Schnickel
This man should be trusted with semiautomatic weapons of war. You should not. Why? Fuck you, that’s why.
You know, I just don’t get this. I mean , I can understand (not condone mind you) this happening in a close relationship (say with a teacher) but I just don’t understand dudes that whip their dicks out for random 13 year olds.
What sort of insanity do we men have when so many do this shit, from 21 year old meth-head truckers to 50 year old city councilors.
I’d have the same reaction if I had to go to Saskatoon.
Re: the picture. Biggest. Boner. Ever.
I think you just jumped the shark.
Your mom jumped the shark.
THE Queensland police union is calling for tougher laws to send risk-taking pregnant women into safe houses in an effort to monitor their behaviour.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifesty…..z2KFx2sC8q
They’re the mothers of the race. If they can’t take responsibility for their duty to spawn more taxpaying Aussies, then the state must step in and pick up the slack.
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
Can Sugarfree and Raylan be kin?
This ain’t right: A Blonde Anne of Green Gables
Probably posted: http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html
That would still be below 1968’s level, but it would represent a $5,000-plus raise for close to 30 million workers at or near the minimum today
Assuming that all of those 30 million workers keep their jobs (hint: they won’t).
How could you foresee that!?
Because…it’s happened before?
This time is DIFFERENT!
Wow. According to the Post, the problem with this country is that the government just isn’t doing enough interfering in the market.
“(it would also add $25 billion to gross domestic product, according to the Economic Policy Institute).”
FUNNY!
Yep, that money would just magically appear once the gov’t mandated it!
“Ron Unz, the eclectic libertarian activist. . . is seeing Nader’s $10 and raising him to $12”
It just means that Ron Unz either isn’t a libertarian, or just doesn’t understand economics (or both).
If he was a libertarian and/or understood economics he would be pushing for a raise in the minimum rate. That way these people could see a larger paycheck without the concommittant problems of a minimum wage.
As a matter of fact, no-one who lobbies for a “living wage” should be taken seriously unless they’re also pushing for a minimum rate at least equal to whatever they say the :livign wage” should be.
WOW: McLaren 50 Year Tribute video
A good start? Canadian Senator sent to jail
That’s gotta be a crippling blow to the Canadian government. Can they even reach a quorum with one member oot?
Don’t worry Tim Thomas, you’ll never have to snub Obama at a White House victory party anymore.
Good; now I can hate the Bruins unreservedly. Not too happy about feeling sympathy for any Islander, however.
So do the 81 jurisdictions authorized to use drones follow the same rules the president follows – i.e. can the Dean of UND just decide the Dean of USD needs killing and dronestrike his ass?
Lerts hit it up man, Wow.
http://www.ImaAnon.tk
The other fun question to ask is
If it was illegal for Nixon to bomb Cambodia, why isn’t it also illegal for Obama to bomb Pakistan.
That will get the crickets chirping real quick.
I tend to point out the drowning shit and how 176 Pakistani kids have been killed and how a 16-year-old American was killed by Obama (as was his father) without due process. I basically go all Code Pink on their asses. Shuts them up fast.
drowning = droning
We’re drowning in drones.
I’m guessing that the crickets result from the fact that maybe 1 in a 1000 Facebook users has a clue about Cambodia!
Or Libya, or Yemen, or …