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12 Dead in Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Flooding Continues in Colorado, State Department Benghazi Investigation Criticized: P.M. Links

Ed Krayewski | 9.16.2013 4:30 PM

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    The death toll in the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard has risen to 12. Up to three shooters may have been involved. At least one, identified as Aaron Alexis, was killed by police.

  • More than 1,200 people were unaccounted for in massive flooding that continues in Colorado.
  • A House Oversight Committee report determined the State Department's investigation of failures surrounding last year's Benghazi attack was not independent and ignored the role played by senior officials.
  • Joe Biden may want to be elected president in 2016 because he thinks Barack Obama's done such a bang up job.
  • Bill Thompson has dropped out of the New York City mayor's race and endorsed fellow Democrat Bill de Blasio. De Blasio may or may not have reached the 40 percent necessary to avoid a run off. He faces Republican Joe Lhota in November.
  • A former TSA agent accused of making airport threats appears in court today for a bond hearing.
  • Janice Lokelani Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele complains that her name doesn't fit on her Hawaii driver's license. The state says its working on increasing the name character limit from 35 to 40.
  • Amazon.co.uk has reportedly shipped some pre-ordered copies of Grand Theft Auto V before the video game's official release date.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    A House Oversight Committee report determined the State Department's investigation of failures surrounding last year's Benghazi attack was not independent and ignored the role played by senior officials.

    On the plus side they were just as incompetent in circling the wagons at State.

    1. Tonio   12 years ago

      Also, "first."

  2. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Joe Biden may want to be elected president in 2016 because he thinks Barack Obama's done such a bang up job.

    For shits and giggles.

    1. Certified Public Asskicker   12 years ago

      I guess he is just reminding us, it could always be worse?

  3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Joe Biden may want to be elected president in 2016 because he thinks Barack Obama's done such a bang up job.

    His funniest gaffe yet.

    1. andarm16   12 years ago

      If Biden wins, any remaining optimism for the fate of this country that I have will be gone.

      1. Restoras   12 years ago

        Dude, seriously? Do you have any idea how frickin' HILARIOUS a Joltin' Joe Biden presidency will be? I hope he runs and wins just for the laughs!

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          sldo, ^^this

          Lulz City!

          1. Almanian!   12 years ago

            For today, "sldo" = "also"

            Apparently, my left hand has become more right wing of late...

            1. Rich   12 years ago

              Sinister Is Dexter Otherwise?

            2. Killazontherun   12 years ago

              Wore out your WASD set up and had to move it over to ESDF did you?

              1. Almanian!   12 years ago

                I'm just a shitty typer.

                But you knew this...

          2. BiMonSciFiCon   12 years ago

            Don't talk about Lucy!

        2. andarm16   12 years ago

          Well, I guess it is about that time where you stop worrying and start laughing.

        3. JWatts   12 years ago

          It's President Camacho or nothing!

          http://media.vintagecotton.com/shirt/191/cam03.gif

      2. Almanian!   12 years ago

        TAKE HIM TO THE TREE OF WOE, WHEREUPON HE MAY PONDER HIS GLIB MOOD IN THESE DARK TIMES!

      3. Killazontherun   12 years ago

        If it's Biden versus establishment Rockefeller tool, I'm voting Biden, for the giggles. At that point, if the GOP can't get a guy worth pulling for, we can at least go out as a nation like Delta Tau Chi instead of a bunch of chumps who get shot in the back by our own allies.

        1. hotsy totsy   12 years ago

          I'd way prefer Biden over Hillary. At least he's funny.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Janice Lokelani Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele complains that her name doesn't fit on her Hawaii driver's license.

    She can always choose not to use the government's roads.

    1. andarm16   12 years ago

      God! There are Tines with names shorter than that!

      1. robc   12 years ago

        Most of them.

        Even Amdi's full name wasnt that long.

        You would need a pack of 14 or so to make that last name.

        1. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

          if I may just cut in on you there, Herr Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- n?rnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- sh?nedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, and ask you - just quickly - if there's any particular thing that you remember about Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- n?rnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- sh?nedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?

    2. CE   12 years ago

      She lives on an island, so why not use a boat to row around to where you want to go?

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

      Thank God she doesn't play a pro sport.

    4. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

      Goddamn foreigners.

    5. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

      Either she is the first Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele in Hawaii to apply for a drivers license, or the first to complain about their letter limit.

      Or perhaps her ancestors accepted FYTW when they complained.

      1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        It's possible that Hawaii has changed their policy on aliases. CA did around the time I got my license.

    6. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

      Based on the article, we only know about this woman because police are assholes.

  5. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Janice Lokelani Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele complains that her name doesn't fit on her Hawaii driver's license. The state says its working on increasing the name character limit from 35 to 40.

    You, madame, are a mouth full.

    1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

      You should really get that tape recorder.

    2. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      You can spell out my entire name First, middle and last in twelve letters. We are a terse people when sober.

      1. Bobarian   12 years ago

        So terse, but not very often?

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          Yup. If my coworkers saw how florid my writing got on here in interoffice communications, they'd wonder who took over my body. One reason I quit the work day flask, I noticed how breezy and lengthy I was getting in them. It was cutting in on my goof off time.

          1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

            Your workday flask was cutting in on your goof off time?

            1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

              That's exactly right. I found myself spending too much time on work related matters, trying to make an impression, a silly notion that would never occur to my sober self.

  6. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

    XKCD for Ted

    1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

      In the Kochtoputopia, slideshow use gets the death penalty by brazen bull.

    2. mnarayan   12 years ago

      He already posted that.

  7. Slammer   12 years ago

    The wife has Fox News on while I have headphones on. It's an endless loop of cop cars, Emergency Services vans and trucks, fire trucks, fat cops on motorcycles, speeding SUVS, unidentified black trucks, and sirens sirens sirens and flashing lights. It's swarms of full on military gear and fully automatic weaponry, creaking polished leather, and armor all screaming FORCE.

    An the other hand, I did get a chuckle out of the guy in full black body armor with sniffing dog who pauses at a tree to take a leak (the dog).

    1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      Dude was thinking, 'wished I could do that. Fucking cameras!'

  8. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

    There's A Clown Terrorizing A British Town

    1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      You leave Boris Johnson alone!

    2. andarm16   12 years ago

      Wanna bet it's some viral marketing campaign?

    3. CE   12 years ago

      The Joker?

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

        The Midnight Toker?

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          Hurts me that I got that.

          1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

            Now, this is in my head.

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

            1. robc   12 years ago

              Neat trivia item: Steve Miller's godfather was Les Paul.

              1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

                Hey, that is neat. Was Les Paul ever in the studio production of Miller Band albums?

              2. Marshall Gill   12 years ago

                Also the person who taught him to play guitar, or so I have heard.

                1. BakedPenguin   12 years ago

                  Really? He should have been better at it, then.

          2. CE   12 years ago

            We're not that old.

            1. robc   12 years ago

              Some of us are.

    4. William of Purple   12 years ago

      Hammond you idiot.

  9. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

    Nevada atomic tests as seen from LA

    Sample

    1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

      My grandpa was an Atomic Veteran, so he actually witnessed an H-Bomb blast up close during nuclear testing in the 1950s.

      Pretty scary shit, can't imagine what they must have felt like.

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        Watching a documentary on the Bikini atoll tests. Very interesting.

        1. John   12 years ago

          Read the Making of the Atomic Bomb sometime. and its squeal Dark Sun about the building of the H bomb. Great books.

          1. kinnath   12 years ago

            squeal

            Beautiful

          2. andarm16   12 years ago

            +1 for Dark Sun and Making of the Atomic Bomb.

          3. PapayaSF   12 years ago

            I'd recommend Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Stephane Groueff. It focusses on the engineering and logistics aspects, which were just as incredible as the physics.

        2. William of Purple   12 years ago

          There was a recent biography on Oppenheimer. Very good stuff.

    2. Slammer   12 years ago

      Cool. Thanks, jesse.

    3. John   12 years ago

      That is awesome.

    4. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      Link on the side lead to one about the ten best monsters invented for Dungeons and Dragons. No, Gygax and company did not invent the Drow fellas,

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

      According to Sir Walter Scott: 'Possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed by the natives of Orkney and Zetland Islands, to the people called Drows, who may, in most other respects, be identified with the Caledonian fairies.'[2]

      Dey (1991) speculates that the tradition, and perhaps that of the selkie, may be based in part on the Norse invasions of the Northern Isles. She states that the conquest by the Vikings sent the indigenous, dark-haired Picts into hiding and that "many stories exist in Shetland of these strange people, smaller and darker than the tall, blond Vikings who, having been driven off their land into sea caves, emerged at night to steal from the new land owners."[3] However most Roman sources describe the Picts as tall, long limbed and red or fair haired.

      and almost everyone of the others mentioned have origins in the fantasy literature GG loved with a passion.

      1. Fatty Bolger   12 years ago

        Of course the greatest monster is the orc, invented by World of Warcraft. I thought everybody knew that. (LOTRO totally ripped them off, too.)

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          You're not trying a Clerks II on me are you? This is trivia I learned while researching the connection between the lizard people and the Caucasoid race. I'm a conspiracy nut, not a nerd!

      2. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

        What the Illuminati are trying to conceal with their false-flag Kenya conspiracy theories is that Obama is a Dark Elf Drow prince from Orkney, with a Charisma of 7 which, in the case of liberals, he can magically enhance to 19.

        He also has an intelligence of 11 and a Wisdom of -14.

        Alignment: Chaotic Wanker

        Weapons: +3 Drone of Doom, Magic Nuclear Button of Armageddon

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          When he is responding to something off the cuff, he sounds like he could be no better than a 9 in IN.

          1. Aloysious   12 years ago

            I'm pretty sure he is a Hopeless Character: every ability score in the single digits, with a couple of natural three's.

    5. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      If you have Netflix, watch Trinity & Beyond.

  10. rts   12 years ago

    Mountie touting road safety charged with speeding

    An RCMP officer honoured for his work improving road safety will appear in court in North Vancouver this week to face a charge of excessive speeding.

    Corp. Michael Arbulic deliberately sped through a speed trap on the Upper Levels Highway last year on Valentine's Day, North Vancouver Insp. Dave Attfield said.

    Arbulic apparently meant it is a prank against his traffic enforcement colleagues and wasn't ticketed, Attfield said.

    But at least one member felt that was wrong, and complained, prompting an internal investigation.

    1. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      But at least one member felt that was wrong, and complained, prompting an internal investigation.

      How long until this guy is fired or made so miserable on the job such that he quits? There is no thing worse to cops than one of their own turning on them.

      1. rts   12 years ago

        Sure, but you've got to give that one guy props for not going along with it.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      Excessive speeding? As opposed to non-excessive speeding?

      1. Zeb   12 years ago

        Honestly, who drives the speed limit?

      2. rts   12 years ago

        "Haha" aside, excessive speeding means 40 km/h or more over the speed limit (about 25 mph), and for regular people means mandatory impounding of vehicle.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    At least one, identified as Aaron Alexis, was killed by police.

    Well, they shot someone. Let's call him a shooter for now to keep the questions to a minimum.

    1. CE   12 years ago

      One shooter, as I suspected. The other reports were mistaken descriptions from eyewitnesses, or law enforcement people coming to help.

      http://www.latimes.com/nation/.....7381.story

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        One shooter, twelve kills.

        He didn't follow the rules!

    2. db   12 years ago

      I'd stay inside today if I lived around D.C. The Blue Pickup Brigades will be out in force.

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        You might be mistaken for Christopher Dorner

        (elderly black woman in an Australian Ford Falcon Ute....right? Wasn't that the description?)

  12. Rich   12 years ago

    Michelle Obama said that the president "will shake his groove thing"

    There are some who say that Barack is gay.

    1. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

      I don't think he has a groove thing. I have visions of the Elaine Dance going through my mind.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

        Her timing is impeccable, what, with the shooting and all.

        Classy.

  13. Almanian!   12 years ago

    Derp.

    that is all

  14. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    And you thought your marriage was bad...

    I found out a few weeks ago that I'm expecting a child. My husband has two children from a previous marriage. About two years ago I got pregnant and my husband went into a violent depression. He didn't speak to me for weeks except to tell me how I had ruined his life. Then, when I miscarried he celebrated. I started bleeding in the grocery store, and he fell to his knees and "praised God" for this wonderful blessing. After months of therapy, we decided to try to make the marriage work, under the agreement that we would never have a child together. However, I now find myself pregnant again. And, I want this baby as much as I wanted the last one. The trouble is, I decided back then that I would never want a child with my husband. There is a very good chance that my husband will divorce me and leave a man-shaped hole in the front door as he grabs his two kids and runs as far away as he can. I am not ready for the end of the marriage I have put so many years and so much work into. But, I'm even more not ready to hear my husband try to talk me into an abortion?which is not an option...I have to tell him. But how?

    1. CE   12 years ago

      There are people who will serve papers for about 35 bucks.

    2. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

      I have to tell him. But how?

      "Hey, you know how I promised we wouldn't have a kid again? I lied."

    3. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      Dear Prudence, I'm a man who doesn't want any more children, but my wife seems inclined to get pregnant, I wish there was something I could do to prevent myself from inseminating my wife.

      Dear Asshole. GET A FUCKING VASECTOMY YOU USELESS TWAT.

      1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

        Twist: He did, but she doesn't know that yet.

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Appropriate

      2. Tonio   12 years ago

        Could also be pill failure. Or "failure".

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          I started bleeding in the grocery store, and he fell to his knees and "praised God" for this wonderful blessing.

          Still his fault. If he's that emotionally invested in not having any more kids, and she's already gotten pregnant once he should've gone straight to the doctor and gotten snipped and asked them to double knot it. Really he should've done that the minute he knew he was done having kids.

          1. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

            That particular line, though, was right out of Shitthatneverhappened.txt.

          2. Tejicano   12 years ago

            No joke. I know a guy who has been divorced three times and has children with three women - one he was never married to. After the third divorce he went out and got the snip done.

            I cannot imagine a guy who doesn't want any more kids not getting a vasectomy. It is one of the least complicated procedures and entirely removes a source of problems without any downside.

    4. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

      I agreed to something and now want something completely different. How do I get my way and force other people to honor the agreement I'm breaking?

    5. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

      Do what any sensible woman in your position would:

      Hit yourself with an orange in a sock, call the cops and cry DV, get him locked-up, and while he's inside, serve him with divorce papers which include sizable maintenance and child support requests.

      1. General Butt Naked   12 years ago

        Close enough:

        Keep in mind, just because you're married to a dreadful person does not mean you can't celebrate your own pregnancy. And if you fear for your safety, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE about what steps to take next.

      2. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

        Given the way this guy acts, I don't think DV is that far-fetched.

        She could just "go for a hike" and push him off of a cliff.

        1. hotsy totsy   12 years ago

          Be careful with the green Jello and Gatorade.

    6. Rich   12 years ago

      Start with "Hey, asshole, you knocked me up again" and take it from there?

    7. John   12 years ago

      I often like Prudence when it is harmless but funny antics by crazy people. The insane bridzillas are my favorites. But lately, her columns are just disturbing. That is horrible. Why is Emily Yoffe publishing that? Surely there was some nutty bride or expectant mother whose letter she could publish.

    8. Calidissident   12 years ago

      So she wants a baby, but not with her husband? How did these two people get married? Did this subject not come up before they tied the knot?

      1. General Butt Naked   12 years ago

        I never understood the two people that have vastly different ideas on how they want to spend the rest of their lives deciding to spend the rest of their lives together.

        1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

          "Oh, I can change him!"

          1. Restoras   12 years ago

            Yes, this is what EVERY woman believes.

    9. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

      Get a divorce you idiot.

  15. jasno   12 years ago

    Real news is boring... let's discuss Breaking Bad...

    1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      Bro, I'm 5 seasons behind. No spoilers.

      1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

        You don't get to cry "no spoilers" if you haven't watched any of the show yet, jesse.

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          Oh, I know. It's unlikely I'll pick up the show at this point. Partly I'm just sick of hearing about Breaking Bad.

          1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

            Now you know how I felt about Game of Thrones.

            Except, you know, Breaking Bad is good and Game of Thrones sucks.

            1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

              I'm a season behind on GoT, so all I know is RED WEDDING RED WEDDING RED WEDDING RED WEDDING RED WEDDING! That shit was annoying.

              1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

                Game of Thrones: A Bad Show Disguised as a Good One.

            2. Anonymous Coward   12 years ago

              The books remain superior to the show. It's not even "OMG! Books are always better!" The directors derailed the last season with their peculiar obsession with torturing Theon. The RW felt so mechanical and unemotional that I couldn't find myself giving a fuck at the end.

              1. Terr   12 years ago

                Agreed about the red wedding. It was disappointing.

              2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

                They were following what was happening (offpage)in the books to Theon. They included it to give his actor something to do while his character goes missing for a couple of books.

            3. Ed   12 years ago

              I feel the opposite way. I don't think Breaking Bad sucks, but I think it's overrated.

              1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

                All those who do not love both BB and GoT have shit taste that is all.

                1. SugarFree   12 years ago

                  Cytotoxic, did you ever find out who did the song for that 3D printed pepperbox? If not, here it is.

                  1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

                    I found that a few days ago but thanks anyway. I think they used the best part for the Hexen advert. The music video would've been better and gone with the title better if it had starred the WSJ editorial board.

        2. Matrix   12 years ago

          I'm near the beginning of Season 4. I recently started watching this show. Wasn't what I expected. It's actually pretty good. Wasn't expecting it to be bad or anything. Still, very fun show.

          Netflix is awesome!

          Oh, and fuck Hulu Plus. Why the fuck am I paying $8/month and still have to deal with ads? At least Netflix doesn't pull that shit!

      2. db   12 years ago

        Same here. NO SPOILERS.

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          Turns out Nookie and Chalkie are gay lovers, and open a broadway show under the direction of Edde Cantor.

          And Richard Harrow kills the FUCK out of EVERYONE.

          And Al Capone becomes Al Capone.

          And there are some surprises...

          1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

            The first two Boardwalk episodes have been pretty good.

            I like Jeffrey Wright as the Marcus Garvey-type black nationalist type and the exploration of black jazz clubs.

            1. Almanian!   12 years ago

              Yeah - I have come to love that show. This Dr. Narcisse guy appears deadly. He'll be fun.

      3. Gene   12 years ago

        I thought I was the last person on the continent not watching.

        1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

          I haven't seen it either.

        2. db   12 years ago

          It's not that I'm not watching it, it's just that I'm only halfway through Season 1. I don't watch TV on any network's schedule.

    2. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

      I can't quite put together how the story ends. It seems to me that his family is destined for WitSec, which means the M60 has to be for the white supremacists.

      1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

        My theory: Walt takes off for beautiful New Hampshire but discovers that someone is making the Crystal Blue (Todd having forced Jesse to cook with him).

        Enraged, he returns to Albuquerque with the M60 for the Aryan gang and the ricin for Lydia.

        1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

          I guess so, but I don't see what the motivation is. Revenge over the money? Professional Pride?

          1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

            If Walt's family is gone for good and he's almost dead, I can see the Heisenberg Crystal Blue being his only legacy.

            So wiping out the Aryan gang that took over his operation would be his way of going out in a blaze of glory instead of dying alone and away from home.

            Or maybe he could use Saul to track down Skyler and the kids and give them what's left of the money somehow.

          2. andarm16   12 years ago

            Todd isn't going to let Jesse die. You can see it in how he's acting. Walt's lost everything. Seeing the blue meth make a new appearance could have sent him over the edge. He knows Todd could never make it on his own, so that throws in another level of betrayal.

        2. andarm16   12 years ago

          I think you've got it. This is the only ending that makes sense, short of the M60 being a red herring (Which I'd put at around 25%).

        3. jasno   12 years ago

          I think Walt sees the return of blue meth(although not being a meth head, how would he know?) as a sign that the nazis failed to live up to the deal and kill Jesse. Because they broke the deal, he wants his money. He's also still dying of cancer, and it's been two years (the bacon ages are 2 years apart, right?) since he's seen his family. He's taking pills, but not real chemo(cause he has hair). So I think he's coming back to die. He needs the ricin... for who? Lydia? Jesse? The nazi guy? Himself?

          On a side note, the whole BB series doesn't include any modern policing techniques which would have wrapped the whole thing up a lot sooner. Imagine if Hank had a fake cellphone tower to drop outside Gus Frane's restaurant or house? The whole 'drop phone' trick doesn't work anymore thanks to network analysis.

          1. MJGreen   12 years ago

            Only one year. Walt turned 51 in season 5, and the flashforward had him setting 52. So it's been maybe 8 months.

            The M60 must be for the neo-Nazis. The question is whether it's revenge, or if he's trying to save Jesse. After last night... revenge is the more likely scenario. The ricin is probably for Lydia, maybe himself if he is trying to save Jesse and has gone full redemption. Or maybe it's for Jesse, to kill him slow and talk at him some more.

            And the problem is that pretty much everything Hank has done on the Heisenberg case has been extralegal. He hasn't been able to use agency resources, except when he was tailing people last year.

            1. MJGreen   12 years ago

              Though, thinking about it now, it's possible the ricin is for Todd. He reaches out to Todd, poisons him (and perhaps tries to get the ricin distributed to others in Todd's network some how), and that's the first part of his attack. A straightforward assault isn't Walt's style, anyway.

              1. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

                I could see him doing something similar to Todd that Gus did to the cartel--but instead of trying to vomit up the ricin, he simply takes his medicine, if you will, and dies since the cancer is probably burning through him by now.

    3. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

      I still stand by my belief that Gus was the best character on that show.

      1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

        Well...yeah obviously. Is that even up for debate?

        Last night's episode was a bona-fide horror show. The way the show can effortlessly shift tone is amazing.

        1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

          I had to watch it twice before realizing that his phone call to Skyler, where he calls her an ungrateful bitch, was all a show for the cops so he could give her plausible deniability as a battered spouse abused by her husband into keeping quiet.

          But fuck, the scenes with baby Holly were gut wrenching.

          1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

            Yes, that was an act so his family is not implicated in any of the goings-on.

            1. Almanian!   12 years ago

              I didn't get that at first, either. The acting on this show is just stupid good. And the writing...excellent.

              1. andarm16   12 years ago

                Except for when they try to describe a technical subject that they don't quite understand. (See the cringe worthy scene where Aaron Paul sounds like a press release when he's describing Jesse's new stereo.) Other than that, the writing is near perfect.

                1. Mokers   12 years ago

                  Isn't that intentional, as in Jesse purchased based on whatever buzzwords the salesperson told him?

      2. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

        And the second-best character is Todd, obviously.

        1. jasno   12 years ago

          I can't decide if Jesse will eventually kill Todd, if Todd will save Walt and/or Jesse by going against his uncle, or if Todd ends up with his own meth empire after Walt, the Nazis, and maybe Jesse all die in a fire(fight).

        2. andarm16   12 years ago

          The writers have a great ability to pull seemingly one dimensional background characters, and turn them into 3d people.

          1. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

            They did that really well with Hank, too. I didn't like him because he was a big-mouthed LEO, but Vince Gilligan, to his credit, didn't make Hank a goony caricature.

      3. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

        Duh.

      4. Don Mynack   12 years ago

        Mike had it all over Gus.

    4. andarm16   12 years ago

      All I can say, is that had to be the most shocking episode yet. I couldn't believe that Walt did what he did. I thought when he finally got to the point he reached, he was going to become a homicidal maniac.

    5. Brandon   12 years ago

      Has anyone else watched "Ray Donovan?" It sucks. I was extremely disappointed. A rare miss for Showtime.

  16. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

    A House Oversight Committee report determined the State Department's investigation of failures surrounding last year's Benghazi attack was not independent and ignored the role played by senior officials.

    You must be shitting me! How dare you suggest that The State Department investigating The State Department would yield results that may not be as accurate as they would like you to believe? These are government workers. Self Sacrificing Citizens? that give a part of themselves so that the rest of us can live civilized society. Besides, what difference, at this point, does it make?

  17. Matrix   12 years ago

    So I sat through an hour and a half video today about sexual assault in the military. Name of the film is "The Invisible War". Not your typical sexual assault training like "don't touch the private's privates" kind of stuff. No, it's more about how sexual assault victims (mostly female and some males) are threatened by their chain of command, and very little if anything is done to the alleged assailants.

    So, my daughter is 14 and about to turn 15. If she asks me if she should join, I would tell her "no." Actually, more like "hell no".

    1. CE   12 years ago

      Tell your son the same thing.

      1. Matrix   12 years ago

        don't have one, yet.

        1. Matrix   12 years ago

          AFAIK

        2. jasno   12 years ago

          Your daughter is considering the switch?

          1. Matrix   12 years ago

            No. She's very girly.

            But I don't know if I have other kids out there. One of my ex's has a son that was born about 10 months after our last... encounter.

    2. Bobarian   12 years ago

      Take that video with a large grain of salt. It was prepared by the lawyers putting together the class action lawsuit by the victims.

      The bottom line is that your son or daughter is at much higher risk going to college than they are in joining the military. Also, these are the extremes in a force of millions of people strong.

      One note on some statistics spouted in this propaganda -- the conviction rate in the military is a lot lower because the military is much more likely to prosecute. If a case in the civilian world comes down to 'he said, she said', it will never go to trial.

      1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

        Yeah, but if the college administration is making life miserable for you, you can leave whenever you like.

        1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

          Yeah, that's a real comfort. Just walk away from that $100,000 investment you've made.

          1. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

            Beats having to deal with it at risk of going to jail.

    3. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

      Those films are total BS.

  18. #   12 years ago

    Lefties won't be happy - doesn't fit the narrative:

    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seek.....dia#images

    1. Rich   12 years ago

      Seems you can get whatever "complected" you'd like, too.

      1. PapayaSF   12 years ago

        He seems to have had a superpower that allowed him to vary the width of his head.

    2. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      No it doesn't. But they can't help themselves when it comes tp guns, so they'll surely let the mask slip a time or a hundred.

    3. andarm16   12 years ago

      So will it be work place violence again?

      1. #   12 years ago

        Depends on his religious affiliation.

  19. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    I just checked the NFL schedule and the Cleveland Browns don't even play in DC this week.

    1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

      So they won't be letting the deceased down one last time?

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        In retrospect, it may be too soon...

        1. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

          It's never too soon.

    2. NoVAHockey   12 years ago

      I went to Ravens - Browns game yesterday. As as Steelers fan, the Brown can't let me down, but damn what a shitty football team. Same mistakes year after year. they had 3 or 4 delay of games. missed assignments on 3rd down. just awful.

      1. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

        When did the McCaskey family buy the Browns?

      2. flye   12 years ago

        I went to the Jags-Raiders game. The Raiders may not win 3 games this year, but holy cats the Jags are horrible.

        I'm not sure how big the line will have to be for Jags-Seahawks next week. 28 1/2?

    3. Almanian!   12 years ago

      I believe the Lions are filling in as the "let downers" in DC this week.

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        From what I've seen so far, the Deadskins are not gonna need any help letting people down in DC this season. They suck.

        1. Pro Libertate   12 years ago

          If you can't score much on Green Bay before the game is out of hand, you have serious problems.

          1. Andrew S.   12 years ago

            They couldn't score on the Eagles until the game was out of hand, and just look what Philip f'n Rivers did to the Eagles yesterday.

            (I really need to request players from the Eagles to be pallbearers at my funeral)

            1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

              They'll never let you down.

            2. CE   12 years ago

              You mean the Philip Rivers with the 95.0 career passer rating, sixth best of all time?

              1. Neoliberal Kochtopus   12 years ago

                That statistic seems to be meaningless.

                1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

                  He also would have been the MVP in 08 if writers didn't have a hard on for Peyton.

        2. Mike M.   12 years ago

          With that secondary the Redskins are running out there, Megatron will probably go for over 200 yards just by himself.

          1. CE   12 years ago

            ONly if he takes the 4th quarter off.

    4. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      All I know about the NFL right now is that MY DOLPHINS AREN'T A JOKE.

      1. Bobarian   12 years ago

        Just because you fail to see the humor, doesn't mean it isn't a joke.

        I think we're just waiting for the punchline.

        1. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

          Maybe.

          But it sure beats the hell out of what the fuck we've been doing for the last decade.

      2. Mickey Rat   12 years ago

        You have not seen their uniforms?

        1. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

          The Dolphin uniforms are proof that early-90s fashion nostalgia is alive and well--that's something right out of the World League.

  20. Irish   12 years ago

    The person they're now saying was the shooter is a civilian contractor for the army who fired a gun through a neighbor's apartment floor 3 years ago.

    Nice to see the military hiring such upstanding citizens.

    1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      And the Teabaggerz Sequester gets blamed in 3...2...1...

      1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

        I've already read commentary calling for more funding for the ATF.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      But it was in Tarrant County, Texas, so he wasn't charged. They can't go arresting everyone who shoots through their neighbors' floors or walls there, or the jails would be overflowing.

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        What the fuck?

        /Plaxico

      2. John   12 years ago

        Or maybe he didn't do it. Amazing to think that someone was innocent after they were not charged with a crime.

  21. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Study: 1 in 10 high school senior are binge drinkers

    Plenty of high school seniors are binge drinkers, consuming five or more alcoholic drinks in a row, but a new study shows that some are extreme binge drinkers, knocking back as many as 10, 15 or more drinks in one session.

    The research out Monday shows one in 10 high school seniors have engaged in extreme binge drinking (10 or more drinks in a row) while 5.6% have consumed 15 or more drinks.

    "This is the first study to document extreme binge drinking in a sample of adolescents," says lead author Megan Patrick, a research assistant professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.

    About one in five seniors report binge drinking. That percentage has decreased from 22% in 2005 to 18.1% in 2011, the study shows.

    The percentage of high school seniors who binge drink overall has gone down, but the percentage extreme binge drinking has stayed virtually the same in recent years, which may explain why emergency room visits for kids in this age group have not decreased, she says.

    Need more prohibition.

    1. John   12 years ago

      Maybe we should turn them onto pot. No one ever ended up in the emergency room from binge toking. Keith Moon and Bon Scott are dead. Willie Nelson is in his 80s and goes merely on.

      1. BardMetal   12 years ago

        I've never really cared for the whole "Pot is safer then alcohol" argument. It makes it really hard for me to support potheads when they act like they want to slap the glass of bourbon out of my hand.

        1. John   12 years ago

          It is true. I say that as a lifetime drinker. There is really no comparison between the two. Pot can't kill you but alcohol absolutely can and does quite often.

          1. Gene   12 years ago

            alcohol absolutely can and does quite often.

            That hits home with me. Not only did booze cause my late wife's demise, it also led to a search of my house due to the unknown nature of her death in our home. I was a fool for not getting a lawyer stat but I honestly figured the Coroners photographer wouldn't be opening up closets and shit. But sure enough he found a 3 big bags of shake and trim, really just bubble hash material but 900 grams looks great to the prosecutor.

            I also agree with BM, they often act like sanctimonious pricks.

            1. Clich? Bandit   12 years ago

              A. Sorry to hear about the wife.

              B. You can't leave a story hanging like that. Seriously what happened to you?

              1. Gene   12 years ago

                You can't leave a story hanging like that. Seriously what happened to you?

                Sorry about leaving anyone hanging, I basically got off lightly. The Crown-I'm in Canukistan- wanted 3 months the judge ruled a suspended sentence with one year probation. The probation was nothing really, I had to meet with a parole officer three times and that was it.

                The whole ordeal is long behind me now, however it has served to awaken the always present libertarian inside of me.

                And thanks for the condolences.

        2. Zeb   12 years ago

          Obnoxious, holier than-thou douchebag stoners aside (though honestly, I know very few people who smoke but don't drink, though I do know a number of people who drink but don't smoke because of the legal status of each), it does also happen to be true. I don't particularly like it as an argument for legalization, as the only argument that should be necessary is that it is no one's goddamn business what kind of intoxicants someone wants to use. But if it works to move things in the right direction, I'll take it.

        3. thom   12 years ago

          Just let the potheads do what they want and they'll forget all about you.

    2. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

      10 or 15 Coors Lights isn't binge drinking. It's just binge pissing.

      1. Almanian!   12 years ago

        Coors Light = diet water

        1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

          High schoolers need a way to sober up before they drive home too.

          1. Almanian!   12 years ago

            fair point

      2. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

        It's tailgating a Broncos' game.

      3. Certified Public Asskicker   12 years ago

        Who can afford Coors Light in high school?

        1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

          Coors is one of the fairly cheap beers. In undergrad it would even occasionally be on sale as the cheapest out of ~30 kinds.

    3. CE   12 years ago

      Isn't this yet more evidence that underage drinking should be banned?

    4. Slammer   12 years ago

      The percentage of high school seniors who binge drink overall has gone down, but the percentage extreme binge drinking has stayed virtually the same in recent years,

      There's binge drinking, and now there's EXTREME binge drinking. What a bullshit stretch. And some kids drink..so fucking what?

      1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

        Well, "extreme binge drinking" is probably what would actually be considering binge drinking by normal people. The official definition for binge drinking is stupidly low. Something like 5 beers in a day.

        1. Slammer   12 years ago

          But what about extreme extreme binge drinkers who make the extreme binge drinkers look normal?

          1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

            Those are called college students.

        2. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

          Yep. In that case, my neighbors binge drink EVERY DAY. Yet they never seem drunk. Fancy that.

        3. CE   12 years ago

          If 5 beers is a "binge", why do they sell beer in six packs?

          1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

            They're enablers!

          2. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

            They expect you to have 5 friends.

          3. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

            5 beers for you, 1 for your starving orphan child-servant.

            1. Clich? Bandit   12 years ago

              5 before I start grilling for dinner. Then there is wine, likely two bottles with the wife, then often a Padron 4ooo and a nightcap of the Doublewood.

          4. PapayaSF   12 years ago

            1938: Birth of the six pack, probably by Ballantine. Larger packages are deemed to be too heavy for the average housewife buying beer at the grocery store and Coca-Cola was already being sold in units of six.

        4. Tejicano   12 years ago

          I rarely drink 5 beers in a day. Usually by the third label I've found what taste I was looking for and stick to that for the rest of the evening.

        5. Tejicano   12 years ago

          I rarely drink 5 beers in a day. Usually by the third label I've found what taste I was looking for and stick to that for the rest of the evening.

          Or if I am going to ne of the nice German places I know of I will get the one liter mug. I usually only have three or four of those. Rarely five.

    5. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      Do they address the butt-chugging or Vodka-soaked tampon binging that also goes on in American high schools? Because, you know, that kind of stuff is rampant too.

      And jenkem.

      1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

        And rainbow parties!

        1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

          The closest I ever came to anything like the orgies the news reports was a party where some dumbass kid took a few crushed ritalin that weren't prescribed to him and the paramedics had to be called.

          Well, that and the party I threw right after graduation where people were roller-blading naked down the street and I had to be restrained while brandishing a butcher knife.*

          *Ah, yes. Living on a private road with neighbors who party has its perks when you're 18.

      2. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

        Don't forget the rainbow parties. Media panics make high school seem a lot more awesome than it was, at least for me.

    6. Zeb   12 years ago

      Needs more butt-chugging.

    7. andarm16   12 years ago

      Is this actual binge drinking, or "binge" drinking using the federal government definition of binge?

      1. Zeb   12 years ago

        10-15 drinks in one sitting seems like it probably counts as a binge by most people's standards. Though I am not entirely clear on what counts as one sitting.
        Seems like usually any drinking for the purpose of getting drunk is considered binge drinking.

        1. CE   12 years ago

          4 to 6 drinks is enough to get drunk (unless you're huge or drink every day). 7 to 10 will make you sick. More than 10 is dangerous.

        2. thom   12 years ago

          Though I am not entirely clear on what counts as one sitting.

          Exactly.

          If I crack a beer at noon and take down 12-14 before I go to bed at midnight or 1AM, I'm probably not very drunk and won't have a hangover.

  22. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Guess who?

    One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right (and its fathomless think tanks and media outlets) is that the "free market" is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control. And whatever ways we might seek to reduce inequality or insecurity -- to make the economy work for us -- are unwarranted constraints on the market's freedom, and will inevitably go wrong.

    By this view, if some people aren't paid enough to live on, the market has determined they aren't worth enough. If others rake in billions, they must be worth it. If millions of Americans remain unemployed or their paychecks are shrinking or they work two or three part-time jobs with no idea what they'll earn next month or next week, that's too bad; it's just the outcome of the market.

    According to this logic, government shouldn't intrude through minimum wages, high taxes on top earners, public spending to get people back to work, regulations on business, or anything else, because the "free market" knows best.

    1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

      In reality, the "free market" is a bunch of rules about (1) what can be owned and traded (the genome? slaves? nuclear materials? babies? votes?); (2) on what terms (equal access to the internet? the right to organize unions? corporate monopolies? the length of patent protections? ); (3) under what conditions (poisonous drugs? unsafe foods? deceptive Ponzi schemes? uninsured derivatives? dangerous workplaces?) (4) what's private and what's public (police? roads? clean air and clean water? healthcare? good schools? parks and playgrounds?); (5) how to pay for what (taxes, user fees, individual pricing?). And so on.

      These rules don't exist in nature; they are human creations. Governments don't "intrude" on free markets; governments organize and maintain them. Markets aren't "free" of rules; the rules define them.

      We are winning because our opponents have such an egregious misunderstanding of human nature.

      1. Tonio   12 years ago

        The old "doesn't exist in nature" BS...

        They are desperate. The stench of their fear is becoming hard to hide.

      2. Rich   12 years ago

        Weird fact: In 2004, he published Reason, a book on how liberals can forcefully argue for their position in a country increasingly dominated by what he calls "radcons", or radical conservatives.

        1. Boisfeuras   12 years ago

          "Radical conservative"... Those words are literally opposites.

      3. Raven Nation   12 years ago

        Isn't that basically what Adam Smith wrote? the market has always existed, governments don't create markets, all they can do is control them to a greater or lesser extent.

      4. OldMexican   12 years ago

        These rules don't exist in nature; they are human creations. Governments don't "intrude" on free markets; governments organize and maintain them [sic!]. Markets aren't "free" of rules; the rules define them.

        A liberal faux-economist engaging in equivocation [rules = government] and question-begging [government = free markets because government = rules]?

        Gee, what are the odds?

        1. hotsy totsy   12 years ago

          "By this view, if some people aren't paid enough to live on, the market has determined they aren't worth enough. If others rake in billions, they must be worth it. If millions of Americans remain unemployed or their paychecks are shrinking or they work two or three part-time jobs with no idea what they'll earn next month or next week, that's too bad; it's just the outcome of the market"

          How ELSE would you determine what job is "worth it"? What you pay for something indicates what it's worth to you, unless it's coerced. And who has a monopoly on force? Hmmmmmm.

      5. MJGreen   12 years ago

        These rules don't exist in nature; they are human creations. Governments don't "intrude" on free markets; governments organize and maintain them. Markets aren't "free" of rules; the rules define them.

        Therefore, the government can make whatever rules it wants and it will always succeed!

        1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

          He's making the New Soviet Man argument: capitalism is imposed on people, it isn't a system that naturally suits human nature.

          So we just need the right Top Men in government to have the power to make a new kind of man that values the collective over himself.

      6. flye   12 years ago

        A colleague once got mad at me because in response to his quoting an op-ed by that guy, I said, "why should I care what he thinks when that midget has never been right about anything?"

        Yes, I used the m-word.

        1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

          I'm sure Reich is ok with it, it helped him beat the Vietnam draft. Men under 5 feet tall were automatically disqualified.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      No, the "government" shouldn't intrude, because taking something that belongs to someone else is stealing, and morally wrong, and an initiation of violence, and makes it easier for evil men and women to gain control over others, and holds back the most productive and creative individuals, who would otherwise improve the lives of everyone else immeasurably.

    3. Andrew S.   12 years ago

      Aw, I was wrong. Guessed Krugman.

      If you ignore the commentary, the last two paragraphs are actually correct.

    4. Matrix   12 years ago

      By this view, if some people aren't paid enough to live on, the market has determined they aren't worth enough.

      Completely wrong.

      If you aren't paid enough to live on, then your JOB isn't worth enough. It says nothing about that individual person.

      1. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

        But people like this don't see a distinction between what one does and who one is. What you do is your job. It's how you pay the bills. It is NOT who you are.

        1. hotsy totsy   12 years ago

          Oh Jesus, now the government has to give people an IDENTITY?

  23. Cdr Lytton   12 years ago

    From the WaPo:

    Three weapons were found on the gunman: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol, an official said.

    "It's hard to carry that many guns, so there is some thinking that he may have taken some of them from security or whoever else he shot," the official said.

    The stupid!! It burns!!

    1. John   12 years ago

      It is a good thing that there are not things like holsters and shoulder straps or these shooters would really do some damage.

      1. Cdr Lytton   12 years ago

        If there was, it would look like:

        http://rangereport.org/wp-cont.....ethany.jpg

    2. Cdr Lytton   12 years ago

      More from the article:

      "If you are in a military building and there is some type of attack, men wearing military uniforms will undoubtedly be seen running with guns in the aftermath, and that there would be a lot of confusion,"

    3. Tonio   12 years ago

      Earlier there was a WaPo article up with scare/ignorance quotes around the phrase long gun.

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        They used the term "olive garb" also. I think they mean "drab".

    4. Rich   12 years ago

      Senior law enforcement officials identified the gunman as Aaron Alexis, 34. He was identified through his fingerprints

      which were found, no doubt, on "his" IPhone 5S.

      /snark

    5. BardMetal   12 years ago

      Oh boy an AR-15. Get ready for the shrill liberals to start spewing their firearm ignorance.

      1. BardMetal   12 years ago

        Maybe we can even make a game out of it. Do a shot every time you hear the media use the words "high-capacity" "Large-caliber" "Fully automatic" or "Machine gun" to describe the AR-15.

        1. William of Purple   12 years ago

          ow my liver

    6. Tejicano   12 years ago

      My usual "travel bag" holds a semi-automatic rifle and 12 gauge shotgun (both with folding stocks) and a handgun as well - with multiple magazines for all three. The bag itself is made to hold three or four tennis rackets and carries over my shoulder as easy as any other piece of luggage.

      Not hard to carry.

  24. John   12 years ago

    http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/.....narrative/

    Speaking of the Obama Time cover, check out the Time cover at the top of this article. The war on gays it was. Which we now know was based on a complete lie that could have been confirmed with even a minimum level of competent reporting. They really will believe anything you tell them, provided it fits their narrative.

    1. Eduard van Haalen   12 years ago

      See, the media isn't biased! After 15 years of milking the false narrative for all it was worth, they deigned to give us the facts.

  25. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    OK, I'm gonna post what might be one of the most chilling PoliceOne comments I've ever read. For context, it's from the "Merced, CA police policy of taking injured animals to the range under fire".
    Here it is:
    Posted by rickg217 on Saturday, September 14, 2013 11:15 AM Pacific Report Abuse
    In my day we were told to shoot stray animals on the midnight shift, we carried personal .22 cal. rifles to dispatch the dog's and cats. We were even told to go out to the local airport ( only one runway)and shoot the rabbits. That was until the airport manager found nearly fifty dead rabbits one morning.

    Once I had to fill in for the animal control officer while he was on vacation. Animals were killed as soon as we could determine they were stray's. Kitten's and cat's were struck with a wooden nightstick (the only kind around then) as were small dog's. Larger dogs were shot with a .22. That was all in the 60's and early 70's. I hated that job.

    We lock kids up for even thinking of doing something like this to a single stray and he talks of following his orders rather nonchalantly. I mean, that's as mentally disturbed as you can get.

    1. John   12 years ago

      At least he hated the job. I bet most of the sickos on police one are wondering where they can apply.

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Yeah, and do you know who else probably hated their job but dutifully carried it out?

        1. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

          My old man?

          1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

            You missed a beautiful sea of scarlet and gray on Saturday, brother. You better not sit out the Rose Bowl or NCG.

            1. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

              I'll definitely make the Rose Bowl/NC. Watched the game on TV and kept laughing at the TV screen. It looked like a home game. Other than Oregon, and maybe USC, Pac-12 fans stink.

              1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

                I just saw the ticket prices for the Stanford-ASU game this weekend, $8 a ticket. Now explain to me how a small stadium like Stanford's can't pull in better ticket prices than that for a conference game against a ranked opponent.

                It's a fucking joke.

          2. sloopyinca   12 years ago

            Also Script Ohio on the road FTW!

            1. robc   12 years ago

              Still dont understand doing that for the Bobcats.

              Did yall lose a bet or something?

              1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

                [narrows eyes]

              2. EDG reppin' LBC   12 years ago

                Not. funny.

                1. robc   12 years ago

                  What isnt funny is you not being able to spell your school's name.

                  You would never see the GT band spell out "Georgia" by itself.

            2. playa manhattan   12 years ago

              If I heard correctly, they did script Cal at halftime too.

              1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

                They did. The Cal fans were quite appreciative. Oh, and Cal did some crazy OHIO thing that looked like a barbell. It was pretty cool as well.

                1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

                  Nebraska takes the cake for classiness last weekend. My brother flew out to the game and said that a lot of the fans teared up in the UCLA section.

        2. BardMetal   12 years ago

          McDonald's employees?

    2. BardMetal   12 years ago

      Wait a second. So does this mean that people would have been wandering around town the next day and stumbling upon a bunch of dead animals?

      Seems odd there wasn't immediate controversy surrounding that.

      1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Perhaps they took them back to the station or chucked them in the nearest trash can after "humanely" destroying them.

        Or perhaps the local townsfolk were terrified of a police force so fucking deranged that they went around killing stray animals with billy clubs.

    3. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

      To be fair I favor eliminating strays it makes a lot of sense. They spread disease and cause problems.

    4. Generic Stranger   12 years ago

      That is horrible. All those poor, stray apostrophes....

      (I think I'm becoming desensitized to this shit.)

  26. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

    'Almost Everything You Think You Know About the Matthew Shepard Narrative is False'
    ...Almost immediately Shepard became a secular saint, and his killing became a kind of gay Passion Play where he suffered and died for the cause of homosexuality against the growing homophobia and hatred of gay America.

    ...As gay journalist Aaron Hicklin, writing in The Advocate asks, "How do people sold on one version of history react to being told that the facts are slippery ? that thinking of Shepard's murder as a hate crime does not mean it was a hate crime? And how does it color our understanding of such a crime if the perpetrator and victim not only knew each other but also had sex together, bought drugs from one another, and partied together?"

    This startling revelation comes in The Book of Matt to be published next week by investigative journalist Stephen Jiminez, who over the course of years interviewed over 100 people including Shepard's friends, friends of the killers, and the killers themselves....

  27. Troy muy grande boner   12 years ago

    Black Adder, "I have a cunning plan...." links

    http://cunningplan.com/links.html

    1. Paul.   12 years ago

      So cunning you could brush your teeth with it?

    2. Troy muy grande boner   12 years ago

      The Black Adder, with Valerie Jarrett as Baldrick.

  28. Paul.   12 years ago

    Aaron Alexis is a civilian contractor. I'm pretty sure the sequester is responsible for this shooting.

    1. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

      He's black, but his political views aren't known yet.

      But if he voted for Obama he was probably a victim of a lifetime of racism and white supremacy, a poor desperate sap driven to the end of pitiful rope by the sequester cuts to his department.

      1. Paul.   12 years ago

        What if he voted for Romney?

        1. Mad Scientist   12 years ago

          If he voted for Romney it's clear he was deranged and he slipped threw the cracks of his community and started down an angry path of blaming the very people who were trying, without sufficient financial backing, to help him. If only he had had access to basketball courts and after-school support groups he could have turned out a better person.

    2. Rich   12 years ago

      First, Snowden; now Alexis.

      This crap will never end until we are all government employees.

      1. Pi Guy   12 years ago

        A good start.

        Too soon?

  29. Sevo   12 years ago

    "A House Oversight Committee report determined the State Department's investigation of failures surrounding last year's Benghazi attack was not independent and ignored the role played by senior officials."

    Somehow, I think the IRS investigation will have the same outcome for the same reasons.

    1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      That's a lot of words from the House when "Whitewash" would have sufficed.

      1. Sevo   12 years ago

        Just wait'll they finish with the new IPCC report!

  30. Cascadian Ephor Xenocles   12 years ago

    Maybe that Hawaiian lady should just change her name to McLovin.

    1. Rich   12 years ago

      Janice Lokelani McLovin?

      Nah, doesn't have the same musical lilt.

      "Toke-a-lani", OTOH ....

  31. Coeus   12 years ago

    The plan is in:

    CAGW true believers are now saying that no one ever said that the increase was .2 per decade, and even if they did, it's all going into the deep oceans which we just conveniently started measuring anyway.

  32. Coeus   12 years ago

    Even if the science is wrong...

    "Let's say that science, some decades from now, said 'we were wrong, it was not about climate', would it not in any case have been good to do many of things you have to do in order to combat climate change?."

    At least they're being honest about it now.

    1. Bam!   12 years ago

      would it not in any case have been good to do many of things you have to do in order to combat climate change?

      No, it wouldn't have been good. They were costly programs that would've made the entire world poorer. You dumb fucks.

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

        ...Bjorn Lomborg, a professor at the Copenhagen business school and the author of Cool it, a book arguing that too much climate change policy is based on scaremongering, accused the commissioner of being "both callous and wrong".

        "EU climate policies have directly increased energy costs and caused more energy poverty - 300,000 households in Germany lost their power last year because they couldn't pay the bills, and millions are energy poor in the UK. EU climate policies will cost ?174 billion annually by 2020, the EU commissioner seems to suggest wasting ?174 billion is no problem," he said.

        "To the extent the EU climate policies have affected the world, it has made energy more costly, reduced growth and consigned more people to poverty." ...

        1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

          In unrelated news, Bjorn Lomborg's credentials as a climate scientist have been disputed by the IPCC and the aforementioned scientist has been asked to not participate in the upcoming climate conference, which will be held at a remote location at great expense and with much travel for the participants.

          1. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

            He's an economist - his point is that we can spend the money in ways that help more people than blowing it on AGW shit.

    2. Longtorso, Johnny   12 years ago

      Yep, the 'science' just so happened to 'require' the same massive govt interventions they had been pushing for outside of AGW claims for years. Convenient.

    3. Matrix   12 years ago

      "good" is highly subjective here, especially when that "good" will further hurt emerging economies and further cripple the people already living in abject poverty.

      but your "good intentions" and your "good feelings" trump all, right?

      Bastards...

  33. Coeus   12 years ago

    Human sexuality continues to increase in variation.

    1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      Jamie Lee Curtis most affected.

      1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        Jamie Lee Curtis Buck Angel most affected.

        1. Coeus   12 years ago

          That dude has got to be one of the most successful transitions of all time. Saw him on some talk show a few years, and could not believe he was born with a vagina.

          1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

            I've come across some very convincing guys-with-vaginas. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued, but yeah, Buck Angel really pulls it off.

  34. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Jezebel touts study asserting porn makes men sexist

    New research shows that watching pornographic fap flicks can turn mild-mannered believers in inclusive workplace policies for women into people who think that maybe women don't deserve a professional leg-up (eye-brow wiggling workplace-inappropriate joke about how great women's legs look when they're up). Yep ? porn makes both men and women less into affirmative action for women. But why?

    The research, published in Psychology of Women Quarterly interviewed a very small number of adults (190) over a period of a few years. Researchers found that, even after controlling for religion and cultural background, consuming porn made participants less likely to support preferential hiring practices for women.

    The folks behind the study surmised that the downtick in support for measures designed to further women's professional equality is partially due to the fact that a lot of porn seems to reduce women to objects of derision and humiliation. Subconsciously, they argue, this may translate to an assumption on the part of porn viewers that all women should be similarly objectified; if one woman appears to relish degradation, therefore all women must. I guess that even though the patriarchy is like super dead right now, people's brains still treat women monolithically while men have the luxury of being judged as individuals.

    1. Auric Demonocles   12 years ago

      I guess that even though the patriarchy is like super dead right now, people's brains still treat women monolithically while men have the luxury of being judged as individuals.

      From the people who want women to be given preference for hiring based on being a group, and guys be judged on their individual backgrounds.

      1. Raven Nation   12 years ago

        Hmm, sudden surge in porn studies:

        http://www.sciencedaily.com/re.....102536.htm

      2. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

        1. Protest "Treating women monolithically"
        2. Demand affirmative action for all women
        3. ????????
        4. Whatever Step Four is, it can't be "profit", because "profit" is a cisgendered, heteronormative construct of Kochtopus banksters.

    2. General Butt Naked   12 years ago

      Researchers found that, even after controlling for religion and cultural background, consuming porn made participants less likely to support preferential hiring practices for women. ... ... Is simply watching women have sex enough to make people think they're less deserving of equality?

      Ummm, that word, "equality", it doesn't mean what you think it does.

    3. OldMexican   12 years ago

      consuming porn made participants less likely to support preferential hiring practices for women.

      So let's ban porn!

      Oh, and while they're at it, give men mind-altering porridge to turn them into slaves!

    4. Brandon   12 years ago

      porn makes both men and women less into affirmative action for women.

      How does this translate to "Sexist?"

  35. Damned Fool   12 years ago

    Btw, are there any Dilbert readers here? There's been a great storyline skewering the government recently.

    1. kinnath   12 years ago

      yup

    2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      Dilbert's mom being the most rational actor in the arc?

    3. PD Scott   12 years ago

      I want a Wally penny.

    4. The Bearded Hobbit   12 years ago

      Dilbert is a daily habit and I've loved the new story line.

      Tap, tap, tap. I love it!

      Shoot, shovel, shut up!

      ... Hobbit

  36. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Japanese man screwed by Olympics: twice

    The IOC hates Kohei Jinno.

    When Tokyo was awarded the 1964 summer Olympics, the 30-year-old Jinno discovered that his home and business were on the site of what would become the Olympic park. He was forced to pack up and resettle in another town for two years, until the government gave him a replacement home, on the edge of the Olympic Stadium.

    Now the games are coming back for 2020, and the new Olympic Stadium is going to go right where the old one is?only it's going to be a lot bigger. Jinno's home and tobacco shop are again forfeit.

    "I don't want to see the Olympics at all," Jinno said. "Deep inside, I have a kind of grudge against the Olympics."
    The government has offered to resettle him, but Jinno is 79 years old now?he doesn't want to go anywhere else. "Probably I may go where you cannot set up a tobacco shop," he says. That means I will lose my reason for living."

    1. CE   12 years ago

      You know who else had the Olympics not go his way?

      1. William of Purple   12 years ago

        Ben Johnson?

      2. andarm16   12 years ago

        Gustav Heinemann?

      3. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

        Bode Miller?

      4. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel?

      5. Slammer   12 years ago

        The 1980 Soviet hockey team?

      6. sloopyinca   12 years ago

        Vinko Bogataj?

      7. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

        The 1972 US Men's Basketball team?

      8. Sevo   12 years ago

        Eddie the Eagle?

  37. The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc   12 years ago

    Rubin: Rand Paul angers Jews, Christian Republicans

    Evangelical leader and strong Israel supporter Gary Bauer told me today, "The
    GOP has been the party defined in part by support for a strong national defense
    and a robust defense of freedom. Obama's feckless foreign policy, which all too
    often has led to Isolationist success in the Middle East coupled with the
    perception that over time Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be inconclusive
    at best, has eroded traditional conservative support for confronting our
    enemies." He admonished the junior Kentucky senator: "Senator Paul is 'mining' these discontents but his characterization of Christians as 'anxious' to go to war is an outrage and will hurt him."
    Rand Paul perhaps doesn't fully appreciate that his foreign policy extremism (he said, for example, he'd be open to containing a nuclear-armed Iran) runs headlong into the concerns of evangelical Christians, a key force in the Republican base and primary presidential system. Pro-Israel foreign policy and U.S. engagement in the world have become central principles even for groups not previously involved in the foreign policy debate.

    Concern troll is concerned.

    1. CE   12 years ago

      But apparently not about "a robust defense of freedom", or he'd like Rand Paul more than the 99 other Senators.

    2. Killazontherun   12 years ago

      Jennifer, You keep up the bad fight; you will destroy the GOP, yet, girl.

    3. MP   12 years ago

      is characterization of Christians as 'anxious' to go to war

      Reading comprehension fail. Fucker doesn't know what "some" means.

    4. Hillary's Clitdong   12 years ago

      The GOP has been the party defined in part by support for a strong national defense hog-wild military spending and a robust defense of vague slogans about freedom

    5. Irish   12 years ago

      Here's what Paul actually said:

      "I think some within the Christian community are such great defenders of the promised land and the chosen people that they think war is always the answer, maybe even preemptive war. And I think it's hard to square the idea of a preemptive war and, to me, that overeagerness [to go to] war, with Christianity."

      He specifically said 'some Christians.' If you're offended by this, then you're probably one of those Christian warmongers who is having trouble squaring your militaristic beliefs with your spiritual ones. Don't blame Rand Paul for calling you what you are.

      1. Red Rocks Rockin   12 years ago

        "I think some within the Christian community are such great defenders of the promised land and the chosen people that they think war is always the answer, maybe even preemptive war."

        Considering what happens in Joshua-1st Samuel, it's not out of the ordinary that some Christians would think this.

    6. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      Rand Paul perhaps doesn't fully appreciate that his foreign policy extremism[. . .]

      Because NOT wanting to bomb Muslims the world over is EXTREME.

  38. Sevo   12 years ago

    Concordia up ~15* from repose; looks like it's going to be a 24hr effort:
    http://media.smh.com.au/nation.....51321.html

    1. Gbob   12 years ago

      Good. After the Kilrathi attack, I thought we lost her for good. She fought well at Enigma sector.

      (Wow. That's a geeky and obscure reference at best. I apologize to all involved in reading it.)

      1. OldMexican   12 years ago

        Semi-obscure.

      2. Killazontherun   12 years ago

        Are you kidding, there's a wound where my heart use to be. I couldn't even bring myself to woo either of the other two ladies who came courting when Big Frenchie Red was killed. Went home in the shuttle flight looking like an older but wiser Luke Skywalker.

        It's a video game. They are not obscure just not given the sanction and the recognition of older media, but nearly everyone under sixty has played a butt load of them.

      3. MJGreen   12 years ago

        I remember the 90s too, man.

  39. sloopyinca   12 years ago

    And the winner of the Most Fucked Up Bootlicking Comment Of The Day goes to the New York Daily News.

    1. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      Whoops. Here is the article.

      1. Slammer   12 years ago

        The 2nd video on the bottom has Ray Kelly discussing the accidental shooting

    2. sloopyinca   12 years ago

      Headline: Crazed man had 'death wish' before taunting cops near Times Square into shooting two: sources

      Get it now? He taunted the cops into shooting those two other people. They bear no responsibility at all for their negligence and total disregard for the safety of anyone around other than their brothers.

      Un. Fucking. Believable.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

        Hopefully he will be charged with those two shootings.

        1. CE   12 years ago

          No, but he was charged with rioting (by himself) and "impeding the administration of government", and I'm not making this up.

      2. Scruffy Nerfherder   12 years ago

        You think that's impressive? I'm going to taunt Obama into nuking the Mid-Atlantic. Just watch.

        1. Killazontherun   12 years ago

          Hey, weight, woah, fucking woah! As one supervillain to another, I plead with you. If you don't go through with it, I'll go halfsies with you on my raid on Fort Knox. Deal? You can have front row seats to the Yeti rapist taking out the guards.

        2. CE   12 years ago

          Enough of your cyber bullying already.

  40. Rich   12 years ago

    I just heard on the radio that the Senate will not conduct any more business until the potential suspects in today's shootings are accounted for.

    With all due respect, WTF?

    1. Rich   12 years ago

      It can't be: "Vote on attacking Syria while there might be another gunman somewhere? It simply isn't proper."

      It must be: "We need to free up all security personnel to look for a white van!"

    2. Invisible Finger   12 years ago

      Shit, if this is all it takes...

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        I hope they're still looking until Christmas

    3. CE   12 years ago

      Since there were 2 other potential suspects initially, and the shooter most likely acted alone, they could be looking for a long time.

    4. Zeb   12 years ago

      You are either a suspect or not. Everyone is a potential suspect.

  41. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

    US News & Weekly World Report: Defense Department Says It's Not Too Broke to Afford Replacement Fax Machine for FOIA Requests

    Despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in annual taxpayer funding, a surprising bit of news was reported about the Department of Defense on Thursday: one of its busiest Freedom of Information Act offices cannot afford to immediately replace a fax machine used to process information requests.

    1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

      We are become The Onion.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      Nothing left to cut.

  42. Coeus   12 years ago

    Hehe.

    "McCain's apparent belief that she deserves a seat at the table?that her thoughts, such as they are, ought to drive the national conversation?shocks the conscience. It is the hauteur that only a millennial could possibly possess."

    Hmmm. The irony is thick here, hess.

    1. CE   12 years ago

      Isn't the belief that everyone's thoughts deserve a seat at the table a core tenet of democracy?

  43. BlueBook   12 years ago

    So I'm looking for a decent intro to investing, any recommendations?

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      Bacon grease recycling.

      1. BlueBook   12 years ago

        Believe it or not I already know a guy in that line of work. Stinky but profitable. So much so that someone's been stealing his grease from the restaurant containers before he can collect it.

        1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

          It was a joke from The Simpsons, but with the whole emergence of the BioDiesel industry, it is quite profitable now...

      2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        I made a very tasty pineapple upsidedown cake with leftover bacon fat. I've been storing up enough to do maple shortbread recipes.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      Harry Browne's Fail Safe Investing.

      There might still be a free PDF somewhere.

    3. Stormy Dragon   12 years ago

      I've been doing:

      10% Stable Value Fund
      20% Inflation Protected Treasury Securities
      20% Corporate Bond Index Fund
      20% S&P 500 Index Fund
      20% Russell 2000 Index Fund
      10% PIMCO Comodities Real Return

      And it's been doing pretty well the past few years.

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        I have everything in my sweep account right now. I'm waiting for the right time to short for-profit online universities. The Obama administration is going to ruin them any day now.... MWAHAHAH

  44. RyanXXX   12 years ago

    Who else watched Breaking Bad last night? Holy shit. It was like Game of Throne's Red Wedding stretched out over an hour

    1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

      GOD DAMMIT I'M TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT RED WEDDING

  45. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

    I'm in Canada and want Hulu. I know I can mirror a US IP address-that will also get me US Netflix-but how can I get and use an American billing address?

    I'm assuming that these awful regional differences are due to government regulation and therefore my actions to skirt them are morally permissible and justified. Can someone give confirmation?

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      A password sharing arrangement with an american friend is probably your best bet.

      1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

        No playa, he should act as a fifth column for American forces to take over Canada. Once Canada is part of the US he can have all the American Netflix and Hulu+ he wants.

        1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

          I'm already doing that.

          1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

            I know. That's why I figured it wouldn't be a tough sell for you. Fair warning your Coke is better than ours and we don't have ketchup chips.

            1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

              Their Mountain Dew is sweetened by glucose-fructose syrup also. Quite delicious.

              1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

                ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING

              2. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

                Is Canada the country that limits caffeine in non-cola colored sodas?

                Sunkist Orange soda has more caffeine per oz than Coke apparently.*

                *Lesson learned while babysitting a kid whose parents let him drink the stuff like water. He scaled the kitchen cabinets when I tried to take it away from him.

                1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

                  Not sure about the law, but Canadian Sunkist doesn't contain caffeine.

                  American Sunkist is 41mg per 12oz can, Coke Classic in its current formulation is 29mg, but used to be much higher.

                  My morning intake is above 400mg.

        2. playa manhattan   12 years ago

          Seems easier than splitting $8/month two ways...

          1. CE   12 years ago

            That would be 4 bucks each, if a calculator isn't handy.

    2. rts   12 years ago

      How to get Hulu Plus in Canada

      1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

        Okay, I'll try that stuff again but I did that zip code stuff before and Hulu sniffed it out. I'll just have to use a US-Paypal account I guess.

      2. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        The first 4 digits of a Visa card are the bank code (i.e. 4888=BofA Visa, 4465=BofA Debit). If you have a Visa from a Canadian bank, it ain't gonna work, even with a fake zip.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

      I think the assholes in the CRTC are behing this. It pisses me off too we can't get Hulu. It's retarded.

      1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

        We'll find a way. The 'net and NF in particular are already making their jobs harder and harder.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

          Good. I can't stand those unelected, paternalistic fuckers.

  46. Slammer   12 years ago

    Fox news reporting gun incident at White House

  47. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

    From the Department of Environmental Derp:

    Fracking is a technique to extract shale gas from the earth by forcing water, laden with a cocktail of hazardous chemicals, into the rock under high pressure. This releases shale gas, as well as toxic gases such as methane, salts and metals. Fracking causes earthquakes, contamination of aquifers, leakage of toxic chemicals into the ground, air pollution, increased road traffic and significantly contributes to climate change. Each well drilled requires millions of litres of water, which will place an immense strain on already scarce resources.

    If the Prime Minister had, as he claimed in April last year, given Britain 'the greenest government ever,' he would have written an entirely different article. The satirical version of his piece, by the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC), which substitutes renewable energy data for Mr Cameron's fracking statistics, shows us what he should have said. The UK should be committing to a conversion to renewable energy. Instead of shale gas, the UKYCC dryly suggests, the Prime Minister should be endorsing solar panels, wind turbines, tidal power and hydro - sources which do not threaten our communities, our safety, our air, water and environment as fracking does.

    Solar Panels in England. Yeah. That'll fucking work.

    1. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      Linky

    2. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

      The Derp runs strong in the comments:

      The entire fracking project is looking more and more like the subprime mortgage debacle: a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by financial firms (in league with drillers) who securitize barely productive wells and sell shares in these sketchy investments to unsuspecting investors.

      Then they have to drill yet more wells to keep the scheme going.

      It will turn out to be a bubble as disastrous on a purely financial basis as certainly as the mortgage bubble did. This one will leave the landscape scarred with wells as the last one left it scarred with empty McMansions.

      *Facepalm*

      1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

        "Barely productive wells"

  48. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

    The KOCHTOPUS Strikes Again!!

    1. Cytotoxic   12 years ago

      I like having a rich powerful organization at my back. Better to be feared and hated than...anything else.

  49. mad libertarian guy   12 years ago

    Daisy Lowe is yum yum.

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      The immaculately dressed guy in the first picture doesn't seem to notice her for some reason.

  50. playa manhattan   12 years ago

    Diane Feinstein is the first to publicly stroke her ban boner:
    http://dailycaller.com/2013/09.....-shooting/

    1. jesse.in.mb   12 years ago

      That woman will whip it out anywhere, anytime.

      1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

        Her ban boner, or the concealed weapon that she has a permit to carry?

        1. Paul.   12 years ago

          Are you being snarky? Because if she really does have a permit, she should be nuked from orbit.

          1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

            She does. One of the only people in San Francisco County. After the hypocrisy was pointed to her publicly, she claimed that she didn't renew it...

            1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

              "pointed out to her"

            2. Tejicano   12 years ago

              I can't imagine that this would surprise anybody who has been paying attention.

  51. jester   12 years ago

    12 vs 1200. Mother Nature has always been the best mass murderer. She's one sick fucking virago.

    1. ZackTheHypochondriac   12 years ago

      agreed, she is the most cruel and sadistic mother i've ever seen. Some people still worship her though.

  52. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

    Damn, one of the shooters is black.

    There goes the narrative.

    Apparently Obama will be out dancing tonight for Hispanic history month or something according to his wife's tweet?

    Wow.

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      "If I had a son, he would look like..."

  53. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

    I know the statistics show these incidences are low but is it fair to ask what is going on in American culture/society that this stuff keeps happening every few months as some conservatives have been asking?

    1. BlueBook   12 years ago

      There are more Americans than ever before, and more news coverage than ever before. So there's bound to be more news coverage of more American crimes.

    2. Irish   12 years ago

      Our population is half of the continent of Europe. I'm sure it's still more common in America, but if you account for population size the difference isn't as stark as it seems.

      I know the statistics show these incidences are low but is it fair to ask what is going on in American culture/society that this stuff keeps happening every few months as some conservatives have been asking?

      It doesn't really happen every few months. The last one was almost a year ago. I guess 10 months could be considered 'a few,' but that doesn't seem like the best word usage. A shooting of decent size happens maybe once a year.*

      *Technically there are several 'mass shootings' a year, but most of the rest are gangland shootings in which like five people are shot. It's technically a mass shooting because they count anything over 4 people, but gang members getting shot up isn't what most people think of when they think mass shooting.

  54. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

    I know it's cancelled. Not sure when Michelle tweeted it but if it was after the shooting then what more do Americans need to know about the mindset of this Presidency?

    I remember when liberals went off on Bush for staying to read to the kids after 9/11 hit. The guy was doing the absolute right thing by maintaining normalcy among children. He was dignified in that moment. Bush played every single card properly that day.

    Obama has yet to show, and this is just my personal perception, he can match Bush on that leadership level.

    http://twitchy.com/2013/09/16/.....nce-floor/

  55. Don Mynack   12 years ago

    From the Daily Mail, blowing the gun-grabbers minds:

    "Although she emerged unscathed, Pat said she would have felt safer if she had been permitted to carry her own gun to work.

    'I'm a gun owner, and so is my husband,' Pat said, 'but I work in D.C. so I can't carry a weapon. Now I wish they would let us do it anyway. I felt like a fool walking around unarmed after shots were fired.'

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....z2f6T7HOsy

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      Glad somebody is getting out in front of this.

      Also, there is a lot of disjointed info about his previous gun crimes. Some news agencies are reporting an incident in TX where he shot through his neighbor's floor from below, and other news agencies are reporting an incident in WA where he shot out a construction worker's tires in a blind rage.

      If both of these are true, he shouldn't have been a military contractor, and some would argue that he should have been prohibited from ever owning a firearm again.

      1. Suthenboy   12 years ago

        Yes, some would, including me, the biggest gun nut on these boards.

    2. CE   12 years ago

      Good luck taking your gun out to defend yourself in DC against a rogue shooter when the authorities arrive. Everyone with a weapon out will be shot first and questioned later.

  56. Sevo   12 years ago

    Concordia ~25* from upright now:
    http://media.smh.com.au/featur.....51321.html

    1. playa manhattan   12 years ago

      Cocaine is a helluva drug*

      *Captain Schettino had traces of cocaine in his system after the crash.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

      It's nuts what they pulled off.

      1. Sevo   12 years ago

        And they DID IT!
        I'm gonna guess there's a lot of folks off the coast of Tuscany getting some shut-eye with a smile on their face.
        NICE job!

  57. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

    This guy. Is Jimmy Kimmell hiring?

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