Boehner Says No to Wage Hike, Four Loko Agrees to Label Changes, Delicious Fracking Fluid: P.M. Links

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  House Speaker John Boehner is already shooting down President Barack Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage, arguing that it will kill jobs.

• Four Loko has agreed to change the labeling on its cans to make its alcohol content more clear in order to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission.
• The sports community is confused and rallying against the decision by the International Olympics Committee to drop one of its sexiest oldest events: wrestling.
• Christopher Dorner's wallet was reportedly found in the rubble of the burned down cabin where a charred body (presumably his) has been found.
• The Democratic Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, drank fracking fluid to show that it's safe.
• The European horsemeat scandal will likely lead to more regulations. Meanwhile in the notably regulated nation of China, consumers will soon be able to buy tools to test the safety of their own food at home.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Christopher Dorner's wallet was reportedly found in the rubble of the burned down cabin where a charred body (presumably his) has been found.

The wallet turned out the be one of the hostages he was holding.

[sloopyinca]

I hear that Seal is in hiding, concerned the police will unload on him because they may confuse him with Dorner post-standoff.

[Episiarch]

"This is our skin color chart. It goes from Seal, to Seal's teeth."

[Groovus Maximus]

He haz sadz Heidi Klum auffed him.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Wouldn't you?

[Groovus Maximus]

I don't know, I haven't wrestled him, and I don't need to, as I leave that task up to Dr. PG.-)))))))

(Spoiler Alert: Either way, I win. And Dr. PG is HAWTTER!)

[playa manhattan]

My screenplay is finished. Does anybody have the phone number of LL Cool J's agent?

[Episiarch]

No, dude, Forest Whitacker.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ghost Dog 2: The Quickening

[rac3rx]

A sequel to Forest Whittaker driving around in stolen cars and wallowing in pigeon shit on the dirty roof of an abandoned building?

Hell no...there can be only one.

[Groovus Maximus]

Where have you been hiding, rac3rx?

[Agammamon]

While I think the earlier consensus *was* for Forest, might I suggest Lawrence Fishburn for consideration - he's as fat as the other two now.

[C. Anacreon]

I still think the gay cop from Six Feet Under.

[brlfq]

BR-549

[Xenocles]

I actually thought the pic of him in fatigues looked a lot like LL Cool J's NCIS character.

[generic Brand]

When I heard about this earlier today I couldn't help but think that this whole episode was almost the exact same way (****SPOILER ALERT****) Lieutenant Doakes was killed off in Dexter.

[JW]

Christopher Dorner's wallet was reportedly found in the rubble of the burned down cabin where a charred body (presumably his) has been found.

That can't be true. Fletch escaped in the movie.

[Emmerson Biggins]

I'm afraid to go see Alex Jones's explanation for this.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

MATT DAMON

[Generic Stranger]

Sometimes I wonder if Matt Damon is functionally retarded, and is simply very good at hiding it. Then I read stories like this and stop wondering.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...John Hickenlooper, drank fracking fluid to show that it's safe.

Imagine how much grosser that would be if he was a character on Battlestar Galactica.

[Brett L]

Propylene glycol and water. Pretty hard to die on a shot of that. Now the ethylene glycol and water version... that'll kill ya.

[SweatingGin]

I'd imagine he'll be getting super powers now.

[Mickey Rat]

He would have drunk frakking fracking fluid.

[db]

Because the best place in the world for a person-to-person transmissible lethal coronavirus to be successfully contained is within the UK's National Health System.

Someone pour me a drink. We are so fucked.

[Tim]

Check back 28 days later.

[Episiarch]

"No, no. No, see, this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really obviously a shit idea."

[Fist of Etiquette]

What does Sandra Bullock have to do with anything?

[Tim]

Think! Just think! What would you do with a diseased little island?

[Cytotoxic]

ALL THE LIMEYS ARE DEAD! YAY!

[db]

Don't worry, Dr. Maximus:

Collapse of Chernobyl Roof Poses No Threat. Nope, no Threat.

It's just the roof of the Unit 4 turbine room, not the reactor sarcophagus, but...

[Groovus Maximus]

We're not worried in Donets'k. We're far enough away. But Kiev and Belarus might be a tad concerned. When my Chicken Kiev and pirogi can be seen in the dark, then I'll be worried. We already got a communique about that.

[BakedPenguin]

Shaktar couldn't beat BV at home. Your boys might be on their way out, GM.

[Groovus Maximus]

Shakhtar, and kindly stuff it. A mere glitch. A road apple, you might say.

[Cytotoxic]

Well if Ukraine says it's okay, then it should only be a concern to the Stalkers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the International Olympics Committee to drop one of its sexiest oldest events: wrestling.

The committee is just mad they don't wrestle in the same uniforms they did in the first games.

[fish]

They do wrestle in those "uniforms"...they just have other uniforms over them!

[Generic Stranger]

I saw a good suggestion the other day: They should replace it with MMA. Keeps the spirit while drawing larger crowds.

[Mickey Rat]

Hell, they should just call it by its Ancient Olympic name...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration

[db]

Seriously?

I'm not much of a sports fan, but I don't think you can get much more Olympic than Greco-Roman wrestling.

[gaijin]

Next they will be eliminating the javelin and marathon events in favor of synchronized golfing or something 'modern'

[Tim]

Gangnam dancing, we've got to attract younger viewers.

[Cytotoxic]

Olympic Droning!

[Emmerson Biggins]

Handball! the Euro-weenie kind, not the prison kind! It's like the Esperanto of sports.

[Mickey Rat]

Team Handball has been an Olympic sport for some time.

[C. Anacreon]

Next they will be eliminating the javelin and marathon events in favor of synchronized golfing or something 'modern'

Yup. Beach volleyball is a joke, it's just a "sport" to look at ass cracks and sandy bikinis. And if you argue that it is a real sport, how come they show the Brazilian chicks in prime time, and the men's beach volleyball comes on one of the off-channels during the morning?

[Mickey Rat]

And your problem with this is...?

[alittlesense]

I vote the Olympic Committee includes "Beach Wrestling"....Misty May and all that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Shackford goes to all the trouble of throwing up those links and you people completely ignore them.

[db]

I had this one ready since last night, missed the morning links, saw no mention of it all day here, and get scooped by the PM links? Bah.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Vrai.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't speak Klingon.

[Brandon]

Well, now that sodomy is no longer illegal in most of the world, I just don't see the point of wrestling anymore.

[nicole]

Duh, to decide who gets to be on top. At least that's why I do it.

[Brett L]

And that's why I wrestle to lose.

[nicole]

Oh Brett, is it really losing?

[Brett L]

Only when I wrestle men.

[Raston Bot]

you may not be familiar with ultimate surrender and what happens to losers.

[Anonymous Coward]

You support Peter Acworth. You are the worst sort of human being.

[Raston Bot]

I think this is parody of the law enforcement that busted him for using his indoor shooting range.

[Heroic Mulatto]

From what I hear, it's a pretty common fetish in the gay world. Any Homo n' Run regulars want to confirm?

[nicole]

No homo, but I have had male homosexual friends who did wrestle to make this decision. It wasn't fetish-level though.

[grrizzly]

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/03/paul-donahoe.html

Paul Donahoe, the nationally-ranked wrestler who with another teammate was dismissed by the University of Nebraska wrestling team after being discovered on a gay porn site last August, transferred to Edinboro University and is now again ranked #1 in his weight class nationally.

"Obviously, I did it for the money. We kept thinking no one would ever find out because it was a gay website and we really wanted that money. They left me a lot of messages, so I thought, 'What the heck?' People do worse for money, so... They were supposed to cover [the tattoo on his left thigh that says 'wrestling'] up but obviously they left it. Gay kids in Lincoln [Neb.] wrote, 'Hey, nice website. I saw you.' I wrote back, 'Don't tell anyone,' but with word of mouth, people found out. I believe it was unfair for Nebraska to dismiss me from the team. For one, there's plenty of athletes throughout the University of Nebraska who have had DUIs and who have been in fights and are still playing. But I guess that's OK. Posing nude, I guess, is worse than someone drinking and driving and risking someone's life, in their eyes."

[Warty]

A little digging shows that he didn't even fuck any dudes, he just did some solo posing. It's clearly for gay dudes' consumption (heh, consumption), but it seems a little disingenuous to imply that he did gay porn like the reporter is doing here. Either way, if he didn't want to get kicked out of Nebraska, he should have just beaten a woman.

[jesse.in.mb]

When I was in school a kid did some solo stuff, and one guy (who actually paid for a subscription to a porn site) saw it. Long story short the guy (a lacrosse player) spent the next several years being called by his porn name, but nothing ever happened to him.

[fish]

Well of course he played "lacrosse" it was gay pron wasn't it?

(hidden canadian reference)

[Groovus Maximus]

gay dudes' consumption

He cures gay mens' tuberculosis?

[Heroic Mulatto]

His semen might possess massive anti-bacterial properties.

[Warty]

I was referring to the penicillin shots you need after fucking him. Idiots.

[jesse.in.mb]

It's not high on my list of priorities, but I'm generally in favor of good looking men in singlets rolling around.

[Groovus Maximus]

Speaking of (kinda), did you get your yummy, yummy BBQ?

[jesse.in.mb]

No 🙁 the only BBQ near me that's quick enough for a lunch break is exceedingly mediocre, and everything else is a 90+ minute ordeal.

[playa manhattan]

Which, Johnny Memphis?

[jesse.in.mb]

Haven't been, that's close to home. I work by Del Amo though. I was talking about Babe's Southern Grill.

[playa manhattan]

In the old Weinerschnitzel building? Hell no! My wife gave birth to both of our kids at Providence LCM, and I knew that she would want some substantial food from somewhere other than the hospital cafeteria. I offered to go to Babe's, and she said something to the effect of "Fuck no. Go to Giulianos and get me 3 sandwiches!".

[jesse.in.mb]

This is why my hankering for BBQ went unfulfilled. The only thing southern about Babes is the Korean owner/manager screaming at the cooks.

In other news I

[jesse.in.mb]

Bah! I love Giulianos, I should call orders in more often.

[rac3rx]

Less wrastlin' and moar trampolining and ribbon gymnastics. Woot.

Bob Costas' dumb ass isn't the only reason why less people are watching this stuff.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The Olympics is/are bullshit.

Wrestling was dropped probably because the various amateur wrestling federations didn't bribe the notorious corrupt IOC enough.

I would pay to see a real modern Olympics with wrestling, track and field, pankration/MMA, a marathon and other running events, modern pentathlon, and perhaps bicycling (to replace chariot racing). And that's it. If it's not an athletic event that would help an ancient warrior develop combat skills, it shouldn't be in the Olympics.

[Groovus Maximus]

Don't forget the boxing with fists wrapped in leather straps studded with lead.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I forgot the dude's name now, but some guy set up a kickboxing league in Thailand where the fighters basically strapped stun guns to their fists. He then streamed the fights on the Internet with a PPV model.

[Warty]

There was also a team racing event where you had to race in full armor and in formation to simulate a charge.

Also, the marathon is a made-up bullshit race that started in 1896. No ancients would be dumb enough to run that far, except for, you know, that one guy. And he died, so fuck him.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If we got rid of the marathon, it would start a famine in Kenya.

Racist.

[Warty]

If not for Olympic rasslin', we would never know about the meanest man in the world. So it would be a fucking shame if it went away.

[Sy]

The committee is just mad they don't wrestle in the same uniforms they did in the first games.

As long as they replace every dropped event with female hurdling .

[fish]

Goddamn that's nice!

[Mickey Rat]

She was trying to outrun Wang.

[Enough About Palin]

Retail sales growth slows as higher taxes kick in

http://www.reuters.com/article.....U520130213

Who could have seen that coming?

[Episiarch]

Your mo...anyone with half a brain?

[mad libertarian guy]

How dare you insinuate that taxes have unintended consequences? How. Dare. You.

[NeonCat]

How much longer will Obama have to suffer from racist consumers?

[R C Dean]

Four Loko has agreed to change the labeling on its cans to make its alcohol content more clear in order to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission.

"No, Mr. FTC Man, don't make me put "THIS CAN CONTAINS A CRAPLOAD OF ALCOHOL" in 18 point letters on every can!"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sarcasm. That's real helpful.

[playa manhattan]

Seriously. I don't buy any beer that doesn't list ?V or gravity...

[playa manhattan]

weird. that should read percent alcohol by volume...

[Groovus Maximus]

I liked your version better. It looks dangerous and alluring. I cannot resist...

[Fist of Etiquette]

Four Loko has agreed to change the labeling on its cans to make its alcohol content more clear in order to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission.

Does anyone think that would be a deterrent?

[gaijin]

"DANGER" = good marketing in lifestyle brands...or brains.

[Eduard van Haalen]

Sure, because until now everyone thought it was just a new kind of cream soda with a smidgeon of unicorn urine.

[BakedPenguin]

Sure. Idiots.

[h3k86qc35923]

It's not about deterrence. The labels must be on the inside of the cans, and the dyes are leaching into the alcohol, making it less clear.

[bmp1701]

The Federal Bro-Trade Commission has determined that the labeling on Four-Loko is insufficiently brotastic to adequately inform sorostitutes as to the bitchin' alcohol content of this beverage.

[Jack the Reaper]

They should totally play it up and advertise the hell out of it. Huge letters advertising the amount of alcohol as though it is a selling feature (which it is. would anyone drink it if wasn't?)

[Fist of Etiquette]

House Speaker John Boehner is already shooting down President Barack Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage, arguing that it will kill jobs.

Except he's really opposing it because he's a racist.

[Tim]

Spray tanning is too expensive already without giving the teenager at the checkout a raise.

[gaijin]

shooting down President Barack Obama's

Well the second IS the racist amendment don;tcha know.

[A Serious Man]

Inside the Battle of Hoth: explaining the Empire's strategic failure.

Goddamn defeatists, probably a Rebel sympathizer. Lord Vader shall drone him!

[Tim]

They lost to Ewoks, that's all you need to know about their effectiveness.

"This is a General Dynamics Mark 9 Walker, it's ray shielded and and can withstand a 1 megaton blast. Wooden objects can destroy it sure, but who uses wood anymore?"

[Brett L]

The trees smashing up the AT-STs were probably the most accurate physics in the entire series. I mean, figuring out how 30 ewoks got those fucking trees set up, they'd need a fucking crane, but still...

[Groovus Maximus]

To be fair, they weren't expecting traps made with huge redwoods. The logroll traps were also surprisingly effective.

[Brett L]

I think those suspensor tanks from the Clone Wars would have been the obviously better choice for warfare on uneven terrain.

[Groovus Maximus]

Repulsorlift vehicles are clearly the way to go. The speeder bikes alone were really their best weapon. AT-ATs were too limited in their mobility in such dense foliage and arbor.

[Eric Johnson]

I would thinkt that after years under corrupt Imperial rule, the quality of the galactic war machine quickly degraded from it's heights during the Clone Wars.

Those walkers that got their butts kicked on Endor probably were built by whoever managed to bribe the highest ranking Imperial official.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Absolutely. I've always interpreted Kenobi's statement "a more civilized age" to mean precisely that.

[AuH2O]

I could really expound on this subject, but to make a long story short, my friend and I have had numerous discussions about this, and the Empire clearly offered benefits over the Republic, which was extremely ineffective and fairly corrupt. There were a lot of reasons to support the Empire and hate the Jedi, all I'm saying.

[sloopyinca]

What do you do with someone that's been convicted of assault but is also a police officer?

Well duh! You extend their paid vacation even longer.

[Brett L]

Trainee shot by training instructor. Guy probably thought he had another Dorner on his hands.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has suspended some training academy staff after a campus police trainee was shot in the head by an instructor on Tuesday.

[Episiarch]

Were cops always this incompetent but we just didn't hear about it, or are they at whole new levels of incompetence as their accountability shrinks to near-zero levels?

[Brett L]

Yes?

[Episiarch]

Answering a question with a question? Seriously? You're going to do that?

[Brett L]

No?

[Virginian]

I think that their gun skills have declined to an insane degree over the last few decades. The ones in the force now literally believe the badge gives them the ability to shoot a handgun accurately. Practice is not needed.

[Episiarch]

Yes, I have seen that attitude up close and personal. Truly moronic.

[Enough About Palin]

Go on...

[entropy]

Were the ever accountable? This does look kind of familiar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jphxpi1ro

[Fist of Etiquette]

At least they didn't knee-jerk this one a good shoot.

[Brandon]

Tulpa is angry with Ron Paul over this.

[entropy]

Link won't work for me.

[Brett L]

Trying again.

[rts]

B.C. to use gas revenues to pay down debt

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says she wants to use the trillion-dollar development potential of liquefied natural gas in the province by establishing a B.C. Prosperity Fund to pay down the provincial debt.

"potential"

[Brett L]

Yao Ming is motherfucking giant.

And if you want proof that Yao is not in proportion with a normal human being, he made the NFL's defensive player of the year look like he was a little kid bothering the former Houston Rockets star for an autograph in a restaurant.

[Groovus Maximus]

Brett, if you are trying for the Slavic flavour, you need to remove both "is", "are" and all the articles.-)))

Naprimer: "Yao Ming motherfucking giant!"

[Brett L]

Thanks, Doc. Will work on it.

[Episiarch]

Holy shit. That dude is 9 inches taller than Andre the Giant was. But still about 200 lbs lighter.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

but can he drink as much?

[Brett L]

Nobody. In fact, no two people, can drink that much.

[Groovus Maximus]

Anaesthesiologists the world over have rejoiced since his back surgery.

They learned much just from that one case. Also goes to show the incredible alcohol tolerance of the Russian (and Ukrainian) born.

[Episiarch]

Oh, I have known about Andre's unbelievable drinking habits for a while. He was a hero.

[Zeb]

No one can do that.

[Groovus Maximus]

Not anymore, no.

[BakedPenguin]

In college, one of the frat boy wannabes was sentenced to a "100 beer weekend", which is what you'd think it is. He got through about 55 or so, puking a lot, and had a 3 or 4 day hangover. Andre's drinking 110 or so in one night really set the bar.

[Groovus Maximus]

Ah, aversion therapy. Tends to create more alcoholics than it is intended to cure. There was a string of rehab outfits in the late 80's that tried this approach, and it ended as well as you might expect.

[RBS]

Hahaha, like the King of the Hill episode when Hank makes Bobby smoke a whole carton and Bobby winds up addicted while Hank and Peggy reignite their own addictions.

[entropy]

That's 33 beers per day, that's 2 beers per hour for 16.5 hours.

Sounds like a wuss. (55/3)/16 = 1.14 beers per hour. How could he even get drunk?

[BakedPenguin]

He probably was a wuss, but in his defense, they started on Saturday morning, and the cutoff time was Sunday midnight.

[SweatingGin]

Modern Drunkard is great.

[T]

I knew the guy who runs it when I was in college. And yes, he's as big a drunk as you'd think.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

News you can use: Canada is Zombie Free!

[Groovus Maximus]

Oh, David Frum has left for good?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Trouble on Vday? Ask the Hoff!

[Enough About Palin]

Finally submitted my application to purchase a handgun. What's the price-range for renting a firearm at a range?

[nicole]

I assume this varies hugely. I pay $10/hr (with the time totally not measured) plus a $50 deposit (that they don't actually run, just hold my CC).

[Episiarch]

Nah, it's usually cheap like you. I mean yours. They want you to buy ammo, that's where they make their money. So the rentals are cheap, and can also lead to you buying a gun too.

[nicole]

Yes, good point. They will try to sell you the most expensive stuff they have.

[Episiarch]

Wade's here in Bellevue requires you to buy their ammo for rentals, so it only costs about $15 to try as many guns as you want. The more you try, the more you shoot, the more ammo you buy. And then you realize that the gun you liked the most costs $1300.

[nicole]

What's annoying for me is that they don't actually require we buy ammo there to rent, but we're not legally allowed to keep any ammo of a caliber for which we don't also have a permitted firearm. So before we had a .22, we couldn't keep any .22 in the house and had to buy it if we rented at the range. Etc.

[Episiarch]

That's really, really dumb and obnoxious. What the fuck? "Hey, I have ammo I can't use, so it must be a great danger to public safety!"

[nicole]

Yeah, it's probably the actual stupidest one of the regulations. Not necessarily the most annoying, but the stupidest.

[entropy]

What state does that? They've got an individual gun registry and checks on ammo purchases? California?

IL isn't even that bad.

[nicole]

Chicago

[entropy]

Huh? Really?

Why not just drive to the suburbs?

[Virginian]

What's an application to purchase a handgun?

[Virginian]

Oh and its 15 for handgun, 20 for rifle, and 75 for automatic weapon at my range.

[Enough About Palin]

In Minnesota you have to get a background check in order to purchase/own a handgun:

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/p.....un-permits

[NeonCat]

In NC you have to ask (and pay, IIRC) the local sheriff if it's okay for you to have one.

[mad libertarian guy]

In KY, all you don't need permission from anyone but the guy on the phone who does the check.

If you know which gun you want, you can be in and out of a gun shop in 10 minutes with your new gun in hand.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Hmmmm... I'm going to Kentucky in April.....

[AZ]

Minnesota? Since you mention the purchase permit.
In the Cities, the big rental ranges are $15 for the first and $10 for subsequent rentals, but also buying ammo from them for $rape.

[Brett L]

Repost for the men who want to get their MALE GAZE on. Michelle Jenneke's swimsuit issue photo shoot.

[Enough About Palin]

I can't imagine a better choice. Wow and thanks!

[A Serious Man]

God bless you Brett L.

[Art Vandelay]

Does "MALE GAZE" mean hard-on?

[fish]

It does at this moment!

[generic Brand]

I keep getting Error #2124 instead of the video playing 🙁

[Archduke Pantsfan]

I am neither pleased/displeased with today's Champions League results.
/no spoiler

[A Serious Man]

Donate today and help fight the Empire: Kickstarter project to fund squadron of X-Wings.

[Brett L]

NYPD very srs! about turnstile jumping.

The arrest occurred last year, but Sanabria was sentenced just a few days ago to seven years in state prison and three-and-a-half years of probation.

[Virginian]

Does the subway turn a profit? Or do they need money from the general fund in addition to the fares?

[Episiarch]

The city subsidizes the MTA for the subway. Only Metro-North makes a profit, as I recall.

[nicole]

I thought Metro-North took state subsidies? Sometime when I was in high school or between HS and college the CT state subsidy went down and ticket prices went way up. I don't know though.

[Episiarch]

I remember reading somewhere that of all the MTA forms of transport, only Metro-North made a profit. This would have been within the last 10 years or so.

[sloopyinca]

"Troubled" Orlando police officer fired for beating up his girlfriend a couple of times over the past year and for witness tampering.

And even though they had recorded jailhouse calls on the witness tampering, he faces no criminal charges.

[generic Brand]

ORLANDOOOOOO!!! Fuck Lake Eola (and the police of this city).

[Slammer]

Oh ferchrissakes:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2.....g-her-a-c/

[Coeus]

hehe....

Here's the backstory: Ms. Thode was in her last year of a master's degree in counselling and human services in 2009 when she received the offending C+. Turns out she needed to earn a B in a fieldwork class in order to meet the requirements to complete her degree, but her grade sunk after her professor, Amanda Carr, gave her a zero score for classroom participation.

And here's where the sexual discrimination claims come in: Ms. Thode is arguing through her lawyer that Ms. Carr was biased against her because of the student's support for gay and lesbian rights. This claim was refuted by Lehigh's lawyer, who said Ms. Carr has a close family member who is a lesbian.

[Heroic Mulatto]

We were talking about this around the coffee pot today. What bothers me is that the prof might have a problem justifying why she have Carr a zero in classroom participation, as it is a very subjective assessment. Unless the Thode had, beforehand, written up a qualitative rubric for assessing classroom participation and shared it with the students, Thode might lose this case. I know I cover my ass with such a rubric, though "participation" is less subjective in a language class (i.e. at some point you gotta speak).

[Heroic Mulatto]

Switch Thode and Carr...dammit

[Raston Bot]

She spoke in class. But when she spoke she cussed and cried.

[BakedPenguin]

Ha ha ha ha.

Adding another interesting layer is the fact that Ms. Thode attended the private college for free because her father works there as a finance professor.

[Killazontherun]

House Speaker John Boehner is already shooting down President Barack Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage, arguing that it will kill jobs.

Rethugs standing in the way of progress with tactics consisting of obstruction, obfuscation and down right ignorance of the issues.

Four Loko has agreed to change the labeling on its cans to make its alcohol content more clear in order to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission.

Without progressive regulation the only thing greedy capitalist know how to do is exploit and deceive for profit.

The sports community is confused and rallying against the decision by the International Olympics Committee to drop one of its sexiest oldest events: wrestling.

Wrestling is primitive and violent, and impedes the Olympics as a means of the world coming together and sharing in a collective vision of progress.

Christopher Dorner's wallet was reportedly found in the rubble of the burned down cabin where a charred body (presumably his) has been found.

Help us out here, Rachel. What to think?

The Democratic Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, drank fracking fluid to show that it's safe.

He's a democrat so it must be okay? Rachel?

The European horsemeat scandal will likely lead to more regulations.

Progress!

Thanks for that link to the Maddowblog earlier Jesse. Our proglodyte aping trolls are not nearly as much fun as the real thing.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now that's how you do P.M. Links.

Now do P.M. Dawn.

[Groovus Maximus]

"Set adrift on A.M Links bliss..."

[HazelMeade]

Fracking fluid is made from a type of bean grown in India called Guar.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi.....than-india

[Heroic Mulatto]

They put the same stuff in ice cream.

[Groovus Maximus]

Also a pack animal indigenous to Morrowind.

/Elder Scrolls Nerd

[Heroic Mulatto]

Do you name all the dragonbone weapons and armor you craft in Skyrim in Dragon language like I do?

[Groovus Maximus]

You know it!

[Killazontherun]

All of them has consumed vast ammounts of my time except for Arena which I never played. Marrowind remains my favorite. The setting was just so interesting in a Jack Vance describing an exotic alien culture way.

[Killazontherun]

Morrowind. Damn. Saw the mistake as I hit the button.

[Groovus Maximus]

Modders are STILL making mods for Morrowind, and I still play it. (Russian version and Russian Mods FTW!)

[Killazontherun]

This project is huge:

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes3Mod:Tamriel_Rebuilt

Larger than the original game. I've played the first pack and was impressed by the professionalism. The towns and cities are well laid out.

an artist rendering of my favorite place.

http://tapiture.com/image/3976.....-gdefon-ru

I want to be uplinked there when I die.

[Groovus Maximus]

Prekras'no! Got it, play it, and max out the res. Morrowind Graphics Extender FTW!

The Dwemer dungeons they made were HUGE!

[Killazontherun]

Replacing segment based animation with skeletal based models is incredibly laborious. I can't imagine doing that for free. That's dedication.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Indeed.

[Proprietist]

Iceland moving to block ALL internet porn?! Was there already a thread about this one?

[sloopyinca]

If so, half of the commentariat missed it surfing YouPorn.

[Coeus]

Let me guess, feminists?

.... Yup.

A law forbidding the printing and distribution of porn has long been in place in the Nordic nation ? but it has yet to be updated to cover the internet.
Two years ago, the Icelandic Parliament ? led by female prime minister J?hanna Sigur?ard?ttir - successfully banned all strip clubs on the grounds that they violated the civil rights of the women who worked there and were harmful to society.
This argument - that porn violates the rights of both women who appear in it and children who are exposed to it - is the cornerstone of the new proposals under discussion.

[Killazontherun]

I watched part of a documentary many years back on Bravo. It was about the unionization of a strip club. Unions and feminism. So spirit sapping it depresses me to this day.

[Eduard van Haalen]

"I'm sure you want Kristie, but Bertha here has seniority."

[generic Brand]

That's basically what the Bunny Ranch in Las Vegas is.

[Heroic Mulatto]

In the Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes, women dress as men to sneak into the Athenian assembly and vote in laws that favor women.

One of the laws they vote in is that older women get priority in sex, so if a man wants to bang a young chick, he has to bang any old hags that want it first.

[jesse.in.mb]

I think a Malaysian establishment I was in once operated on that principle.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Hey, if the old lady can make a good roti matabah and milk tea, I'm down.

[Proprietist]

It's not like women never watch it...

[Killazontherun]

Collectivist feminist, on the other hand, have adopted the Puritan belief system that sex is vile, evil and degrading. Therefore there needs to be a layer of laws as thick as lead containing a nuclear reactor around the act to safe guard women from exploitations.

[fish]

Collectivist feminist, on the other hand, have adopted the Puritan belief system that sex is vile, evil and degrading.

It's Moldbugs Cathedral. Nothing escapes it!

[mad libertarian guy]

The Vikings which precipitated Icelanders are rolling in their buried ships.

[Night Elf Mohawk]

Are they moving to block all VPNs, too?

[Rich]

Sorry, but Interior Minister ?gmundur J?nasson looks like he's viewed a bit of porn.

Also, what does Bj?rk have to say about this?

[jesse.in.mb]

Maybe they're just hoping to jumpstart their home grown porn industry. Legend has it Hungary or the Czech Republic's biggest export was porn for the man-on-man inclined in the late '90s.

[BakedPenguin]

I thought Hungary had a huge rep for every flavor of pron.

[jesse.in.mb]

Yeah, Hungary definitely keeps things interesting.

Apparently the Czech Republic is "just behind" America in gay porn production (couldn't resist the pun).

I miss the '90s titles though: Czech Mate, Czeching In, Double Czech, Czech Point, etc

[Gbob]

Besides drinking and clubbing seals, what the hell else would you do in iceland? Eat pickled fish, I suppose.

[Coeus]

Twitter using fans of UK television are dismayedthat BBC has multiple meanings.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

it ALSO means British Broadcasting Corp???
who knew!

[nicole]

That just made me so happy. Thank you, Coeus.

[Coeus]

In that case, here's a bonus pic.

[nicole]

NOM

[Heroic Mulatto]

You could have asked my permission before posting my personal pics, you know.

It was meant just for you, you bastard!

[Groovus Maximus]

You should have wrestled him more forcefully. Wimp.

[Coeus]

If you didn't go flapping your beak, you would have remained safely anonymous.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Eventually, I would have been identified by my plumage.

[Groovus Maximus]

Too easy...

[Coeus]

Too easy...

It's true, he was.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Eh, at this point in my life...just turn off the lights and I'm good.

[sloopyinca]

Talk about bullshit charges! These fine upstanding officers probably just took bribes from drug dealers because they are so horribly underpaid for putting their lives on the line every day. No way in hell is it because there's such a fine line between cop and criminal that it's often crossed.

I'm sure not a soul in their departments could have done anything about it before the Feds stepped in.

[brlfq]

Christopher Dorner's wallet was reportedly found in the rubble of the burned down cabin

Reportedly?

KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

[NeonCat]

Good thing I have to show ID and sign a log every time I buy damn Sudafed.

Meth Lab found in Porta-Potty on Golf Course.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/.....-golf.html

(It was just a shake and bake, if you don't want to read the article)

[Brett L]

Grr. That's like calling an empty bottle of Pepto chemical waste.

[Eduard van Haalen]

"As a lifelong Democrat, controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee never thought she'd support school vouchers. Until she did. In Radical, she details her transformation."

..."Here's the question we Democrats need to ask ourselves: Are we beholden to the public school system at any cost, or are we beholden to the public school child at any cost?"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....paign=link

[Agammamon]

"Are we beholden to the public school system at any cost, or are we beholden to the public school child at any cost?"

The public school system?

[brlfq]

House Speaker John Boehner is already shooting

Anyone else get a war-boehner over that?

[A Serious Man]

Dorner was hiding in plain sight, less than half a mile from the command center for the Big Bear search and no one thought to check those cabins!

But it was totally necessary to do armed searches of every car coming down the mountain and point guns at children.

[Episiarch]

I swear they're going to make a movie out of this whole charade...and it's going to be a dark comedy.

[A Serious Man]

Perfect Coen Brothers material.

[Episiarch]

Dorner Fink

[Groovus Maximus]

Razing Dornerzona

[A Serious Man]

A Serious Dorner...

[Episiarch]

Oh Christopher, Where Art Thou?

[JW]

Cop Simple

[JW]

Burn Before Killing

[A Serious Man]

The Copsucker Proxy

[nicole]

The Copfucker Proxy

[BakedPenguin]

The Dorner Killers

[Warty]

Christopher Mitty.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Dorner's Crossing

[Archduke Pantsfan]

The Dorner Who Wasn't There

[brlfq]

Epi Felches IV: The Reckoning

[JW]

"Based on a true story. Yes! We swear that we didn't make of this up! They really are nothing more than a gang of armed and fairly dim baboons."

[Groovus Maximus]

and it's going to be a dark comedy.

BOO!

[Rich]

The Hills Don't Have Eyes

[brlfq]

No one thought to check those cabins!

Should they have? You are on record, then, as supporting that kind of state intrusion on private property?

Allow me to make a supposition: If he had gotten away, your theme would have been: Despite checkpoints and a massive dragnet, folk hero Christopher Dorner managed to escape from the pigs!

Is that about right?

[A Serious Man]

Should they have? You are on record, then, as supporting that kind of state intrusion on private property?

A simple knock on the door would have sufficed or contacting the owners of the cabins and asking for permission to look around. But that's assuming the cops are interested in following the Fourth.

Allow me to make a supposition: If he had gotten away, your theme would have been: Despite checkpoints and a massive dragnet, folk hero Christopher Dorner managed to escape from the pigs!

Never once have I lionized Dorner as a folk hero. He did, however, do an excellent job exposing the incompetence of the police and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out.

[Killazontherun]

Should they have? You are on record, then, as supporting that kind of state intrusion on private property?

A simple knock on the door would have sufficed or contacting the owners of the cabins and asking for permission to look around. But that's assuming the cops are interested in following the Fourth.

He's not going to get the point. It needs more false dichotomy.

[brlfq]

A simple knock on the door

What are you, a fascist?
What if there were toddlers behind that door, or worse: puppies?

He [Dorner] did, however, do an excellent job exposing the incompetence of the police.

So you think that Dorner's intent all along was to "expose the incompetence of the police" and that he did "an excellent job" of it?

[brlfq]

[crickets]

[Killazontherun]

Reminds me of a guy who once lived in New York who assumed that just because he parked his car in a lot within yards of a small building that served as a 24 hour post used by cops, that his vehicle would be safe. Only to find it up on blocks after leaving it there a few hours.

[NeonCat]

Hey, he could have totally skinned one of those children and hidden inside it!

[Coeus]

An article in which a jezzie pines for the days of being kept property of the upper class.

[nicole]

If this the anti-flirt movement had caught on, who knows how things might be different today? Obviously these clubs weren't aimed at eradicating what we now think of as flirtation, they sought to punish the guys who make it so unpleasant for ladies to walk down the street. You have to wonder if the outrage men felt over these mashers was born from chivalry, or from believing that a woman's modesty should be deeply guarded. Either way, it's interesting to think about an alternate present where street harassment is taken seriously.

You have to wonder about that? Because I don't have to wonder. Not for a fucking second.

Instead, we live in a world where on any given day, a man might masturbate into your sandwich on the subway* and nobody says boo. Our culture dictates that women must grin and bear it; we're told to always remain alert, wield our keys like weapons, and smile through it all.

And before, you would have been doing the same shit, with less power, and more of a chance of being called a whore afterward. STFU.

[Heroic Mulatto]

a man might masturbate into your sandwich on the subway* and nobody says boo.

Wait, what?

[nicole]

I know. I really hate shit like this. Do nasty guys cop an illicit feel on the subway? Sure, it happens. But get a fucking grip and deal with the real problems of the real world, not some bullshit you completely fucking made up.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Then again, Japan.

[Groovus Maximus]

The frotteurism and serial pinching got so bad there that separate cars there are now the norm in Nippon.

[Coeus]

Ahh, the joys of a weaponless country. You know, in South Korea, self defense is pretty much completely illegal. If I was a molester, I'd definitely vote progressive.

[crashland]

Is this some new code for blowing strangers on a train?

[Episiarch]

a man might masturbate into your sandwich on the subway

Uh...what?

[Groovus Maximus]

I think they mean the restaurant chain.

[fish]

I told you to decline when the guy asks if you want the "special" sauce.

[Heroic Mulatto]

See, this is why Miracle Whip is disgusting.

[Groovus Maximus]

Miracle Whip makes one rethink ARTISINAL MAYO!

[Coeus]

Feminism: The radical notion that women are people but not adults.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Fuck, if she want's that, all she has to do is relocate to pretty much anywhere in the Muslim world...and in some places she'll have the bonus of having the offending "flirter" be beheaded for the audacity of attempting to talk to her without the permission of her wali (male guardian).

[A Serious Man]

Teenager wins Teen Jeopardy! Tournament with style.

[fish]

Big Daily Double...pretty cool!

[Night Elf Mohawk]

Very easy question. My luck, I'd have to name the 12 actors.

[fish]

Yeah difficulty level fair to middlin but he didn't know that going in!

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Nightmare at 125mph

[NeonCat]

Couldn't you put it in neutral?

[Rich]

Mai non, I was not driving a stick shift!

[Agammamon]

Couldn't he have turned it off?

[JW]

The 36-year-old was on a dual carriageway on his way to a hypermarket when the car's speed dial first jammed at 60mph.

I defy you to not read this in the voice of Nigel Fawlty.

The driver is either a blithering idiot or a supreme liar. Maybe both.

[JW]

Fuck.

Basil. BASIL.

[Pro Libertate]

Who the fuck is Nigel?

[JW]

I'm not sure, but we're making plans for him.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

He has his future in a British steel

[Night Elf Mohawk]

Basil. BASIL.

I defy you to not read that in the voice of Sybil Fawlty.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

I read all the comments in the voice of Sybil

[Groovus Maximus]

You sicken me, JW. To think I called you...friend.

[JW]

"You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend,"

[Groovus Maximus]

^^Dick Jones^^ approves.

"I'll buy that for dollar!"

You have now redeemed yourself, JW.-)

[JW]

I really need to send my brain out for a dry cleaning.

[fish]

One of my all time favorites! Good pull!

[Pro Libertate]

I assume most here have watched all of the Fawlty Towers episodes, but if you haven't, I highly recommend that you do.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

and you're all dead to me until you have

[nicole]

You're all dead to me if you haven't already.

[Heroic Mulatto]

MAKE ME A WALDORF SALAD!

[Pro Libertate]

Don't mention the war.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Earth-buzzing asteroid could be worth big bucks: $195B if we could catch it

[Pro Libertate]

Yeah, as if.

[A Serious Man]

Propagandists going to propagandize: From the Washington Post, 'No Marco Rubio, Government Did Not Cause the Housing Crisis.

The kicker:

As I don't believe Rubio is referencing them, I'm putting to the side the complicated debate on interest rates being "far too low for far too long" and policy, or the idea that there wasn't enough U.S. government debt in the 2000s [!] to meet the demand for safe assets. Though those are the debates people actually engaged with these questions are studying.

So in other words, herp derp, I'm going to ignore any mentioning of monetary policy of the Fed because it doesn't suit my bias against free market capitalism.

[NeonCat]

It's a lot easier to come to the Proper conclusion if you don't let a lot of messy evidence stand in your way.

[Agammamon]

A logical arguement missed be dismissed with absolute conviction!

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Don't call me Ben!

[NeonCat]

What a Dict.

[A Serious Man]

Justice Antonin Scalia: SotU is a 'childish spectacle'.

Cue outrage in the comments section.

[Episiarch]

Methinks he hit a nerve.

[db]

Cue childish spectacle.

[Anonymous Coward]

Scalia's views are shared by Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito, both nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush. Roberts once said the presidential speech has "denigrated into a political pep rally" and added that it was "troubling" to expect members of the high court to sit there expressionless.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you elect me to Congress I promise to show up to the State of the Union Address with some of D.C.'s finest prostitutes, male and female, a donkey (who will be my honored guest), and to heckle the President unmercifully.

[Groovus Maximus]

It's like they forgot Dread CJ Robert's abysmal and abominable ObamneyCare decision.

The joke's on him and I hope that man gets cornholed with a freshly broken broom handle.

[Warty]

And I strike gold on the second comment.

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Anyone that side stepped democracy in the 2000 Presidential election and then went on to sell out democracy to corporate America through Citizens United is hardly credible when it comes to commenting on one of the country's oldest traditions. Scalia is all ego and very limited intellect.
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[JW]

DELICIOUS. That's prime TEAM RETARD shit there.

[Episiarch]

Projection, thin-skinnedness, excuses, it's all there.

[Warty]

DUMBPLOSIONS!

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Scalia and thomas are two real emabarassments to the United States, with their blatent political partisanship and non-conforming Supreme Court Justice behavior. They should be impaeached for their improper political support and relationship with David Koch and other extremist right wing cheerleaders and operatives trying to take down the President.

For Scalia to call the State of the Union speech "child's play" just confirms how WORTHLESS his opinions are and how unqualifed he is to judge anything.
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[JW]

How can you type all that out when your caretakers force you to wear your mittens.

[Warty]

Some of these retards are very clever.

[JW]

Strong too.

[Episiarch]

Who wants cake?

[JW]

They do. All of them.

[nicole]

I do! I do!

[Coeus]

And they love cake. They all love cake.

[Coeus]

dammit, too slow...

hehe, slow.

[Groovus Maximus]

Magnificent. Simply magnificent.

[RBS]

WTF is "non-conforming Supreme Court Justice behavior"?

[Groovus Maximus]

Means a not acknowledging "Positive Rights" and "Living, Breathing, Silly-Putty Doctrine".

Odd, considering he coined, "The New Professionalism."

[A Serious Man]

Fascist fucker thinks the judicial branch is supposed to be independent of the President's whims or something.

Don't they know Obama was DEMOCRATICALLY elected and therefore to oppose him to oppose society?

[Heroic Mulatto]

John Galliano: Asshole or World's Greatest Troll?

[Episiarch]

It can be both.

[Warty]

In fact, the latter requires the former.

[Episiarch]

You would know.

[nicole]

BOTH!

[Anonymous Coward]

House Speaker John Boehner is already shooting down President Barack Obama's proposal to increase the minimum wage, arguing that it will kill jobs.

This time things will be different, you'll see. Barry's magic wand, made of unicorn horn and a phoenix feather, will stop the evil market forces in their place and not allow any negative consequences to happen.

Believe in him, and you will be saved.

[DRM]

Let's just repeal the special law that gave the USOC a specially-protected trademark on "Olympic" in the US. Let anybody that wants to sponsor their own "Original Famous Olympic Games".

[Warty]

Warty's Original Olympic Death Fighting Bloodbath! EXPLOSIONS!

[Episiarch]

Warty just suplexed one of his victims wearing a bolo tie. You might be wondering, who was wearing the tie, Warty or the victim? ANSWER: YES!!!

[Warty]

Treat nicole nice. BECAUSE NOTHING IS MORE BADASS THAN TREATING A LADY WITH RESPECT!

[RBS]

Famous Original Olympic Games

[Agammamon]

Superhero Olypmics.

First up rioded up kickboxers with tasers and Powerstriders.

http://www.getjumpingstilts.com/

[Caleb Turberville]

Okay, so I've been in DC the last few days. It's the first time I've been since 2001. I wanted to visit the Jefferson Memorial because it's my favorite design and probably my favorite president.

It was the first time I took notice of the inscriptions on the walls. I've read that they were selected and editted to appeal to the New Dealers during construction (early 40s). But, by far, the most egregious example is the circumcision of the quote from the Declaration that supported the Right of Revolution.

[Warty]

MALE TEXTUAL MUTILATION

[Caleb Turberville]

But the design is still my favorite. Jefferson is standing as opposed to sitting like the monarchal Lincoln Memorial.

[JW]

You mean Ape Lincoln, right?

[Caleb Turberville]

General Thade?

[Episiarch]

Did they take this one out?

"I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

[Caleb Turberville]

No. That's still there. That's the most balls-to-the-walls Jeffersonian sentiment expressed on the walls. The other quotes were definitely selected for political reasons by the Roosevelt administration and don't really speak to Jeffersonian ideals.

[SugarFree]

That's taken out of context as well. Full quote:

"The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they [the clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: & enough too in their opinion, & this is the cause of their printing lying pamphlets against me. . ."

[RBS]

Don't worry, he's going to be replaced by Barack the First anyway.

[Caleb Turberville]

General Thade?

[The Late P Brooks]

Chrissie Matthews is talking to Bratton. Mistakes were made. LAPD never should have hired Dorner.

Introspection is for weenies.

[brlfq]

Chrissie Matthews

Har! "Chrissie." Because he's what...a girl?!
Hahaha1 Comedy gold!

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Your living room is incomplete.

[JW]

I need that. I NEED THAT.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I find this extremely easy to masturbate to.

I shall buy it for the guest bathroom.

[Coeus]

Found one for KK

[The Late P Brooks]

Boy, if you want to terrify Chrissie Matthews, the best way to do it seems to be to attack the figures and symbols of authority.

[fish]

Well when he's in the act of performing fellatio on his betters he might get his melon thumped during said attack. It's an Officer Pundit safety issue!

[brlfq]

Dad?
You're "The Late P Brooks"?
I knew we shouldn't have gotten you that computer.

[Cavpitalist]

This makes me want to strangle someone.

The Pentagon will be awarding a new medal to drone operators - the medal will rank more highly than some awards for valor, like the Bronze Star.

[Enough About Palin]

Bill's in Robbinsdale (blocked at work).

http://www.billsgs.com

[Enough About Palin]

It's within walking distance from my house.

[AZ]

Yup, I shoot occasionally at Robbinsdale and a little more frequently at Circle Pines.

CP has the nicer range but fewer lanes and a smaller rental case, though it has the essentials for someone looking for a first handgun.