Tonight on The Independents: Obamacare Woes, Elizabeth Warrenonmics, Rep. Tim Huelskamp Skewers Budget Deal, Assisted Suicide, Cuban Embargo, and Prince of Darkness Nick Gillespie!

You can watch it live on Fox Business Network at 9 pm ET/6 pm Californian, you can watch the sexy re-run at midnight, or you can DVR that bad boy for later, but whatever the method, please do tune into tonight's Episode Three of The Independents, your very favorite new nightly cable news show.

Our top story tonight! Obamacare by the numbers, both in enrollment and (un)popularity. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) squares off against centrist Democrats on entitlement reform. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) explains why he thinks less than half the GOP caucus in the House will vote for the Ryan-Murray please-don't-shut-down-the-government spending plan. Reason.com/tv Editor Nick Gillespie spreads wisdom on all of the above. Plus, assisted suicide, the Cuban embargo, six-year-olds expelled from school for kissing, and more!

If you want to re-live last night's comments thread, click here. And you can watch the whole first episode here. Follow the show on Facebook if that's the kind of thing you like to do, and for sure start heckling before, during, and after the show on Twitter, @IndependentsFBN.

Comments

[Suthenboy]

"...Elizabeth Warrenonmics..."

I think Fauxconomics works better Matt.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I will say I do support Senator Warren's efforts for better consumer protection.

Just last weekend I bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee only to find out it wasn't even 1/32 Cherokee.

[Almanian!]

+1 wounded knee

[AlmightyJB]

+2 Trail of Tears

[Almanian!]

+3 may I gambol?

[AlmightyJB]

+4 Half Breed

[playa manhattan]

You need to release the rights to this joke immediately so Matt can use it tonight. Or demand a hat tip, whatever.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I think it would sound funnier coming from Nick.

Matt seems too earnest to tell jokes well.

[juris imprudent]

You should souix.

[Lord at War]

I Chickasaw what you did there.

Your pun Illinois me.

[JeremyR]

That other guy really needs a pair of glasses, too.

Also, bigger eyebrows.

[Tulpa (LAOL-VA)]

We don't need a black Gene Shalit, thank you.

[Tulpa (LAOL-VA)]

Is that masking tape on Matt's glasses? I guess Reason really does need our $150K.

[AlmightyJB]

Better w/Kennedy.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ent.....-1.1411968

[AlmightyJB]

I mean are they doing a webathon or not?

[SweatingGin]

If Welch an Gillespie exchange barbs before Kennedy can cut the off, drink.

If Kennedy makes a joke about keeping them apart, drink.

If Nick is wearing the jacket, drink.

"The Jacket" or other H&R fanservice, drink.

"Womb broom": finish your drink.

[Sevo]

I'll have a Jack, barkeep.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Got my Tanqueray and Tonic at the ready!

[playa manhattan]

I have a few Dogfish Head IPAs, which apparently makes me a black sheep around here...

[BakedPenguin]

So long as you don't like deep dish, Epi's with you on IPAs.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I'm liking these Independents daily posts. They can combine the fun of liveblogging TV with a de facto late night links.

Links like this one

The Jersey City Department of Public Safety is issuing a bid specification to purchase new weaponry. It will also be what we believe is a first-of-its-kind policy statement for our expectations of what gun manufacturers owe the American people when it comes to their safety and the safety of their loved ones.

Jersey City will be asking all bidders the following six socially responsible questions:

- What do you do to combat illegal gun trafficking and illegal gun crime?
- Do you manufacturer and sell assault weapons for civilian use?
- Do you agree not to sell certain models of firearms for civilian use?
- Are you requiring your dealers to conduct background checks?
- Do you fund research related to gun violence and smart gun technology?
- Will you commit to prohibiting your brand name from being used in violent video games?

Gun makers are going to complain that Jersey City is overstepping its bounds and interfering with gun owners' rights. Unfortunately that's the typical response from an industry which has fiercely fought to protect its right to manufacture and sell guns and bullets yet shows almost no regard for what happens after they are purchased.

[Almanian!]

Do you manufacturer and sell assault weapons for civilian use?

And there's the dumbest question - second one in. Could hardly wait. Nice job, Jersey City!

[Cyto]

Oh, that's the dumb one? Not

- Will you commit to prohibiting your brand name from being used in violent video games?

'Cause that's the most important thing when you are buying a new weapon. Gotta make sure that they don't use the same brand in "Grand Fallout Theft Halo 7". That could prove embarrassing for the peacekeepers....

Actually, it doesn't appear there is a relevant question on the list. I suppose maybe preventing illegal gun trafficking is of some interest to civilian law enforcement, so I take back my snark on that one. A little.

[AlmightyJB]

Nothin
Yes
No
Are you?
Do you?
No

[Fist of Etiquette]

This is not a links post. What's wrong with you?

[AlmightyJB]

If you want to be the moderator you have to post first

[Francisco d Anconia]

I think the first post every night for this thread should be a play on fist's post last night.

Perhaps...

INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Hey Fist...

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're like the Pel? of OT.

[Generic Stranger]

Jersey City is out of the gorram minds if they think that any manufacturer is going to play ball for them. A $250,000 contract isn't worth pissing off your civilian customers; just ask Smith and Wesson how that worked out for them.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I'm liking these Independents daily posts

Woah, woah, woah...how did I not notice this before? You used a non-stative verb in the progressive/continuous aspect.

You sick fuck.

[playa manhattan]

I'm Lovin' it. The McRib in particular.

[jesse.in.mb]

Ich liebe Es!

[Almanian!]

They (mostly Kennedy) need to STFU and give a little air once in awhile. She does the same thing on RedEye. Just give a little space, Kennedy. You don't need to be That Guy.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Hey Matt, the show is on every night. Plenty of time to spread the gospel. Tell Kennedy to sloooooow doooooown. She's going to burst into flames.

[Ted S.]

Are Matt and Nick going to beat the shit out of each other? I might watch that.

Otherwise, I vote "foe".

[Fist of Etiquette]

Everyone votes foe eventually.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Tonight on Fox Business Network, The New Mod Squad.

[Bam!]

Kennedy invited us into her bedroom.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Great. Now I have to spend the first fifteen minutes of the show talking about Welch's choice of jacket.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Superhero? Really?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Obamacaid.

[jesse.in.mb]

I DON'T HAVE CABLE! (and the watch now page doesn't seem to let me do that)

This is deeply alienating.

[Irish]

You've been othered.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You've been othered.

[Irish]

No fucking way!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm in your brain.

[jesse.in.mb]

God, you both showed up to the party with the same comment. One of you needs to go home and change.

[playa manhattan]

If you're serious, you can come to my house. You have 5 minutes to respond.

[jesse.in.mb]

Gotta pass tonight. I might take you up another night though.

[playa manhattan]

Or be a human being and get Fios Triple Play.

[jesse.in.mb]

I have FiOS internet and apparently we have a phone number from them. It's like double play or something.

[Sevo]

Have a drink.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's always the private sector's fault, isn't it, Obama?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Dude is coming across drunk. I like it.

[Irish]

I miss Rich Benjamin. 🙁

[Irish]

I just realized this show is up against the Kelly File.

Given what a ratings juggernaut that is, we're probably the only people watching the Independents.

[Bam!]

Don't tuck your legs under yourself, Kennedy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You say chomping I say champing let's call the whole thing repealed.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Steve needs to take off his Kool-Aid goggles.

[Irish]

I like that progs made fun of Rove for refusing to admit defeat on election night...and now they're doing the exact same thing with Obamacare and gun control

[Timon 19]

Kennedy wonders if Sebelius will get out the "self-speculum".

My wife chortled.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Steve is the kind of guy who is going to win by talking through everyone.

[Bam!]

He is on cable news, after all.

[BakedPenguin]

Everyone seems to like doing that. Maybe they should allot each person a certain amount of time.

[Timon 19]

Jesus Christ, this is a horror show. It's turned into every fucking left-right yelling-fest.

That segment couldn't end quickly enough.

[Irish]

Yesterday's prog/conservative guests were vastly superior to today's.

MORE RICH BENJAMIN!

[Timon 19]

I second that.

[playa manhattan]

Still watching, but I turned off the 5.1 sound.

[Timon 19]

They managed to calm the fuck down. It's better now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Someone got a talking to over the commercial break.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Don't tell me Foster's never heard Beck.

[Matt Welch]

+ 5000.

[jesse.in.mb]

INFLATION!

[hamilton]

OK, I feel left out. Does nobody else watch this on DVR? I mean, 9 PM. Jesus.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Big Chief Squaw see smoke signals on Social Security.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Good for her. She bitch-slapped him.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're a Democrat if you think there's free money.

[EdWuncler]

Warren is a fucking idiot. How can a person with a brain say that Social Security is a-okay?

[Irish]

The idea that eliminating the social security tax cap would improve the deficit is ludicrous. The government would just decide to spend that money too.

[EdWuncler]

^^^This

[Sevo]

The idea that increasing taxes would reduce the deficit is ludicrous for exactly the same reason.

[Whahappan?]

Eliminating the Social Security tax cap IS a tax increase.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Man in Black gave the Clintons a compliment.

[SweatingGin]

ZOMG THEY'RE USINIG THEIR SAVINGS TO GET THROUGH HARD TIMES!!!

[Irish]

Remember 10 years ago when the Social Security Board of Trustees said Social Security was not sustainability.

Apparently after ten years of doing nothing to fix the problem and declining birth rates, the issue magically fixed itself!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Eating babies line certainly brought the discussion to a stop for the break.

[Timon 19]

She (or her writers) seem to have a knack for snappy segment ending segues.

[jesse.in.mb]

I don't know why pedophagia bothers everyone so much.

[Fist of Etiquette]

YOU MUST BE JEWISH. There, I said it.

[jesse.in.mb]

I get that a lot, but I don't really like what the blood of gentile babies does to my matzo.

[Thane is a cosmotarian!]

This is why there are no libertarian babies

[Heroic Mulatto]

Baby Reason was a hoax?!?!?!?!?

[Thane is a cosmotarian!]

Nah, she's just too young to say "Officer, am I under arrest or am I being detained?"

[Heroic Mulatto]

But she's not too old to pee in their lap.

[playa manhattan]

"And they're going to start eating babies"

Now I'm sure she's a regular commenter here.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Perhaps everyone should fund their own retirements without a government program. Call me crazy.

[playa manhattan]

Ahem.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Are you going to cash your SS checks? 😉

[playa manhattan]

Funny thing about that. I moonlight developing custom software, often for the government, and they pay me as an employee instead of contractor for reasons I don't understand. I have 15 years of SS exempt service, much of it in CalPERS.

I am going to cash both checks if they are still solvent.

[Timon 19]

I'm buying Belize.

[Ted S.]

Belize navidad,
Belize navidad;
Belize navidad,
Brosbero a?o y belizidad!

[Heroic Mulatto]

WHY AM I LAUGHING????

[jesse.in.mb]

Drugs?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Yeah, probably.

[EdWuncler]

I love the fact that Progressives complain that the government is corrupted by the lobbyists but lets give them more power and money. You have to be stupid to actually think this way. To paraphrase PJ O'Roark: "Giving money and power to politicians is like give whiskey and the keys to a Ferrari to a teenager.

[Sevo]

But the teenager might be fun to watch.

[SweatingGin]

Corporations have too much power! Give government more power so that it can force corporations to spy on their customers and then rein in the corporations.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Rotten insider...whore-trading?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Partial shutdown, Matthew.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And speaking of which, is was Welch during the partial shutdown (I think) who was decrying the reporting on the politics of it rather than the policy of it, and yet here we are asking Huelskamp about the politics of this budget proposal.

[EdWuncler]

True.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Foster's grin gives away his attempt at a farm subsidy gotcha question.

[EdWuncler]

Man, this show is way better then the shit that goes on MSNBC and Real Time with Bill Maher

[Fist of Etiquette]

You might want to set the bar a little higher for Kennedy and company.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Today FOX Business, tomorrow HBO.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Reduce isn't the same as abolish, Congressman.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fox Biz sure does like to shout its commercials at me. Why don't they sell me a hearing aid and ease up on the volume?

[Ted S.]

People watch Fox Business?

[Thane is a cosmotarian!]

That's the channel the show is on

[Ted S.]

I probably should have had a smiley in my post.

Does anybody watch Fox Business the other 23 hours of the day, though?

[Bam!]

I spot a jacket.

[Francisco d Anconia]

DRINK!

[SweatingGin]

The jacket!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Oh so THAT'S where they got the title.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Finally, the show title is footnoted.

[Francisco d Anconia]

DRINK AGAIN!

[Irish]

GILLESPIE!

[Bam!]

You get people who talk good on spending issues. Results haven't been as good.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe let's get spending under control and worry about identity politics when we're above water.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Bush years? BUT NINE ELEVEN HAPPENED.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Gollum-like ambition. Always with a clever turn of the phrase Nick.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, Boehner as Gollum.

[SweatingGin]

"Tonya Harding of the Democrat Party"

Yow!

[Francisco d Anconia]

Socialist pig!

[EdWuncler]

Did they make a quip about Kennedy's grandmother?

That's awesome.

[Irish]

That was the most surreal exchange I've ever seen.

Gillespie: The gays aren't the problem.

Kennedy: Don't tell my grandma that.

Gillespie: Well she's probably deaf.

Kennedy: Actually she's dead.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Amen Nick!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Imitation of Christ doesn't necessarily include socialism, much to progessives' lament.

[Ska]

Rantfest.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Nick knows how to make freakin' sound a lot like the fucking.

[Matt Welch]

+ 2500

[Francisco d Anconia]

Kennedy realy does have some nice getaway sticks.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm looking at a commercial where Santa is speaking German to this kid. It's like the Sudetenland is about to get a lump of coal.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

How many degrees of murder are there?

[Irish]

When we have reached the utopia known as TOTAL STATE there will be 1,000,000 degrees of murder, all punishable by death.

1,000,000th degree murder occurs when you watch a television show about a serial killer or speak his name.

[jesse.in.mb]

Two. Angela Lansbury was in Murder (She Wrote). She was in Beayty and the Beast with Rex Everhart, who was in Friday the 13th with Kevin Bacon.

[Bobarian]

Did you google that?

[jesse.in.mb]

I googled a six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon site.

I'm not natively good with that sort of thing.

[Francisco d Anconia]

She's got resting bitchy face.

[playa manhattan]

Copyright 2013 Fd'A

[jesse.in.mb]

Or Funny or Die

A Serious Man is apparently a sufferer.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

:-/

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm just trying to humanize your ailment. If you don't humanize things like this they never get funding to search for a cure.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

That was me laughing on the inside.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm sorry. It's just so hard to tell with you people. Your emotions all look the same.

[BakedPenguin]

Wow. Did they force that woman into a spiked chair? She does not look comfortable.

[SweatingGin]

at first I thought Kennedy was being nice letting her talk... no, Kennedy is being cruel by not interrupting.

[Fist of Etiquette]

In her defense, things like this are difficult to get it all in during a limited time spot.

[SweatingGin]

Oh, I'm sure it's hard. And it's hostile territory, she probably spent all day preparing to be grilled.

And wow, she was red at the end.

I wouldn't be able to do it well (and I do occasional in-person speaking).

[playa manhattan]

I speak to people in-person all of the time. Most friends, family, and co-workers.

[SweatingGin]

Leave the safety of the BASEMENT!??! NO NO NO!

Meant public speaking, of course. By which I mean ranting on street corners, and shouting at walls.

[jesse.in.mb]

Naked?

[playa manhattan]

Without having clicked, is that the Kony 2012 founder in San Diego?

[jesse.in.mb]

Every comment about ranting on a street corner gets the naked Jason Russel treatment. It's SOP.

[playa manhattan]

That guy is a street corner genius. Way better than the naked preachers at Berkeley.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Yeah, I didn't have a problem with it.

They do need to slow the pace a bit.

[Irish]

Libertarians don't stick to your fascist ideas of good pacing or talking at a reasonable pace.

It's talk show Somalia.

[Timon 19]

I sort of got the same vibe out of that. Gave her the rope, etc.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Okay, what is this suicide help she's talking about? Help to commit or help to not?

[SweatingGin]

I'm going to commit suicide if she doesn't stop talking.

[playa manhattan]

"We know that these requests are transient". Who is this we?

[Irish]

Hey, why don't we sack up and ask the really tough questions:

Why shouldn't someone be able to commit suicide whenever they want, even if they don't have a terminal disease?

[playa manhattan]

Here's her reply:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

[playa manhattan]

My apologies for the link. With 60 million+ views, they require you to watch a commercial.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Maybe someone should start a business where terminally ill suicides get to plan a death that is awesome and exciting.

[SweatingGin]

Like in Monty Python's Meaning of Life?

Maybe suicide booths from Futurama... paid in Bitcoin...

[Bobarian]

Bungie Jumping with cheap rope?

Dick Cheney hunting expeditions?

Waiting on Obamacare?

[Francisco d Anconia]

Parachuteless skydiving?

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Russian Roulette tournaments with other terminally ill people.

[Bobarian]

One Loser?

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Each 'loser' gets a pay out according to their place in the tournament.

Last person standing gets the grand cash prize for their final expenses or family.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm not sure she understood Welch's point about pain management's criminalization.

[playa manhattan]

Oh, she did, but she was trying to stick to a script. She didn't think very well on her feet. Basically, she got destroyed.

[Ska]

Do you normally use Curtis Blow as your going to commercial soundtrack?

[playa manhattan]

It's my life soundtrack.

[Ska]

It was Rapper's Delight, and I heard The Breaks. I'm just fucked up tonight.

[GILMORE]

actually going for 'the Breaks' makes you cooler. Every wedding DJ rocks Sugarhill Gang, but Kurtis Blow is a little more tasteful. Unless of course the first time you heard it was in Vice City. OUCH!

My favorite classic party-rap tune remains 8th Wonder =

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwpBYQn3S8

"what 'old school' meant in 1990"

[Heroic Mulatto]

Clap your hands everybody!/If you got what it takes....

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rapper's Delight.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Cuba didn't change because Welch jinxed it.

[Bobarian]

Matt Welch: Communist Libertarian

[Fist of Etiquette]

AKA Cosmotarian. Duh.

[Bramblyspam]

Alright, I'm watching the show for the first time tonight.

Thus far? Kennedy is really annoying me. She talks too much, she talks over others so you can't hear what she or the other person are saying, and she just comes across as really abrasive to me. I feel like she doesn't even listen to what others say, except for purposes of coming up with snappy rejoinders. She needs to realize that the show isn't about her.

The rest of the crew is doing alright, but I think the show would be better served by covering fewer topics more in depth. I think the average non-reasonoid will quickly get lost and change the channel.

[Irish]

Pretty much everything you say is true.

[Ska]

But Kennedy does look pretty good, so they have that going for them.

[Irish]

There are definite positives. The show could just be really good if they cleaned up a few things.

1. Slower pace. Stay on one issue for longer periods of time. Admittedly, I have the same problem with Stossel. It's possible it's the network making them have this ADD style, in which case there's nothing they can do. Otherwise they really should slow down.

2. Kennedy spends way too much time making bizarre jokes and quips and frequently does so at the expense of the conversation.

3. Kmele doesn't seem to talk enough. I don't know if he just isn't as gregarious as Kennedy and Welch, but he has some good things to say when he does speak. He just spends an awful lot of time not talking.

If Kennedy talked less and Kmele got more involved, the show would be better.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If Kennedy talked less and Kmele got more involved, the show would be better.

You, sir, are a scoundrel.

[SweatingGin]

Slower pace. Stay on one issue for longer periods of time.

I was thinking the same, but the fast transitions do seem to help with preventing it degenerating into a shouting match.

Still, covering one or two less things a night would be fine.

[Irish]

You can stay on one issue and switch to different facets of that issue.

There's no reason you can't do an entire episode about the drug war and hit on police abuses, punitive sentencing, three strike laws, the impact on Mexico, etc.

So long as you keep it structured I don't think this would be a problem.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I like that idea.

[JeremyR]

Isn't it her show? The others are just sidekicks.

[GILMORE]

++ ditto Irish yeah pretty much

I think its the "new show jitters". Give them a month. Its like seeing your friends new band on their first gig. OUCH. or, worse = Being in that band! OUCH.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Is there any reason to think that Cuban cigars have not gone to shit under socialism like everything else?

[Bam!]

Fidel smokes them?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Castro likes them.

[Bobarian]

Having recently gotten my hands on a Cuban cigar; no they have not.

[Francisco d Anconia]

We could get them in Iraq. They are fucking awesome!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Alright, I'll take your word for it. Funny how that's the exception, but I guess not even socialism can ruin good tobacco.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Just as socialism hasn't ruined French wine.

[playa manhattan]

French wine is 2nd place to CA wine.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ah California! Another socialist state! They must be good at some heady Reds, or maybe a Rose.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Rolled on the bare thigh of 18yo Cuban virgins.

It's something in the soil.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I've only had a cigar once, and it was like trying to smoke a chicken bone.

The day the trade embargo is abolished I'll buy a Habano.

[Francisco d Anconia]

I want Cuban cigars, dammit!

[playa manhattan]

Nicaragua is the new Cuba.

[Francisco d Anconia]

A distant second.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Er... DR is second.

[playa manhattan]

That's RD to the locals.

[playa manhattan]

I just want to say that I did my part by giving the show 3 thumbs up on Tivo. I'm not sure how that translates to Nielson ratings, but I assume that each of my thumbs up represents 10,000 households...

[Fist of Etiquette]

All the media is state run or in jail.

[Bobarian]

Just like here?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ka-boom.

[Ted S.]

Kaboom!

[playa manhattan]

Who killed 2 Pack?

[johnl]

Thanks for the preview.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Michael Moore bashing? Talk about your low hanging fruit.

[playa manhattan]

Fruit that heavy is gonna hang pretty low.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Actually, the Cubans are getting their internet on USB drives. So there's that.

[SweatingGin]

High bandwidth. Very high latency.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Commercial for the inviting business environment of New York. Way to be ironic, Fox Biz ad sales department.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wouldn't it be easier to have closed caption behind the podium?

[Bobarian]

OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Stop giving money to politicians..that's weird.

[SweatingGin]

Kennedy brings out the claws on Affleck, ouch.

[playa manhattan]

Rightly so.

[Fist of Etiquette]

After Daredevil, it's all uphill.

[Bam!]

For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud spoke of a latency period.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chivalry is dead.

[EdWuncler]

Political money means shit if the government didn't have power to interfere in the market through the proxy of regulations and tax breaks/subsidies.

[Kaptious Kristen]

SCARY HOLSTER! ZOMGZ! SANDY HOOK!

Headline from local Fox station re: possible gunman at my alma mater:

According to a D.C. police source, the man seen with gun at American University is an off-duty officer and had a holster showing.

[playa manhattan]

The definition of "gunman" is so flexible these days. I got pulled over for speeding by a gunman the other day.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Open carry is illegal in DC, no?

Not saying it's "scary" but if it's illegal, it's worth mentioning.

[Irish]

They're talking about sex tomorrow, guys! SEX!

[Fist of Etiquette]

AH! Lou Dobbs.

[BakedPenguin]

Yeah. That was a scary transition.

[Irish]

Who is watching Lou Dobb's show at this point?

[BakedPenguin]

American

[BakedPenguin]

Also, Lonewacko.

[SweatingGin]

People whose remote control isn't working.

People who fell asleep or passed out on the couch.

Old people who forgot to replace the battery in their hearing aids, but still like the pictures to keep them company?

[Francisco d Anconia]

No subsequent thread. Revert to late night links.

[jesse.in.mb]

Ted, has this been posted?

A bank safe swimming pool filled with 8 million Swiss coins is being auctioned off to the highest bidder who wants to fulfill every person's childhood (and adult) dream of swimming in money.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Meh. My orphans clean my money pool twice a day. Kinda old hat.

[playa manhattan]

You make them clean out a frozen pool?

[Francisco d Anconia]

Only twice a day.

[Ted S.]

I prefer to spread my gold coins out on my bed and sleep among them, like Zasu Pitts in Greed.

[playa manhattan]

All snark aside, Reason has people on national TV now explaining libertarian ideas, and somebody threw them a 50 large donation this week. All of this is great news and the future looks bright.

/back to my IPAs

[Episiarch]

IPAs are good, especially Dogfish Head. Still, I'm cleaning guns while stoned and watching the Planet of the Apes musical episode of The Simpsons, which also works.

[playa manhattan]

I have over 8000 rounds through my SA XD 9mm, and I have never bothered to clean it. Not a single FTF or FTE. I'm beginning to think that carbon residue is the perfect lubricant. It sure seems to work will on my cast iron skillet....

[Episiarch]

I can see that for a larger pistol, but if I don't clean my concealed carry pistols, they will jam. So the P3AT and the PF9 are getting cleaned.

[playa manhattan]

True. I keep a dremel attachment to polish the feed ramp of my Glock 36 for the same reason. I just don't shoot it that much...

[Irish]

I was reading Rachel Maddow's first WaPo article when I came across this gem.

In the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, no hearty saplings were ever able to take root in the shade of that big tree. No one expected Vice President Dick Cheney to ever be a contender for the presidency ? part of his effectiveness was his willingness to say and do very unpopular things. When he snapped at ABC's Martha Raddatz, "So?" as she questioned him about public disapproval of the Iraq war, he wrote the perfect epitaph for his vice presidency.

I wonder if Maddow is similarly critical of Hillary Clinton snapping "What difference, at this point, does it make?" in front of a Benghazi hearing.

If not, it would be great for Maddow to explain to us what the difference is.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Clinton is a liberal?

[Ted S.]

I'd have argued it also has something to with Hillary's having a vulva, but that didn't stop lefties from attacking Sarah Palin.

[Bobarian]

That's not a real vulva...

Bill Clinton was the first female president, donchaknow.

[Sevo]

"If not, it would be great for Maddow to explain to us what the difference is."

Cheney = R
Clinton = D
That'll do it every time.

[jamesrk]

Twerking

[Francisco d Anconia]

FUCK YOU!

[playa manhattan]

Let's reserve judgement until we see what Heroic Mulatto has to say about this tweaking video...

[jamesrk]

yea francisco, it may start out slow but it gets pretty epic towards the end.

[Francisco d Anconia]

Need eye-bleach.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Do Australians do everything backwards and upside down?

THE new national broadband network (NBN) will deliver slower speeds and cost up to $30 billion extra to deliver, under the government's new scheme.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

Yes, yes they do.

[Francisco d Anconia]

25mbps? I get 3. I demand the gubmint do something.

[playa manhattan]

I get 300 down 150 up. So I guess there is 1 benefit to living in the People's Republic of CA

[jesse.in.mb]

Quantum?

[playa manhattan]

Fuck Yeah! Quantum BUSINESS!!!!

[jesse.in.mb]

Look, I don't call for killing those with more than me and redistributing their assets often, but I'm considering it right now.

[playa manhattan]

You should focus on your TV deficiency problem right now.

[playa manhattan]

Just to rub it in, here is my iPhone results 3 rooms away from the AP:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3160048489

[jesse.in.mb]

Just to rub it in, here is my iPhone results 3 rooms away from the AP:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3160048489

You're a thoroughly unlikable fellow.

[jesse.in.mb]

This is the only time it has been a problem. I'll get my parents' verizon acocunt info and get streaming working and it'll return to not being an issue.

[Francisco d Anconia]

So you don't wait half a second for your porn to download?

Cool!

[playa manhattan]

It's like they're in my house!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Sex, guns, cocaine-induced heart attacks and a pet Bengal tiger: An inside look at a millionaire poker player, the most followed man on Instagram

That life seems so very empty.

[jesse.in.mb]

It's like a reasonably good looking, bearish, Dennis Quaid facsimile made a rap video in photo form.

[playa manhattan]

"At 33 feels 'bulletproof' having survived two SEAL training hell weeks"

He's doing it wrong.

[Tman]

A friend of mine asked for podcast recommendations tonight on FB, and a great list emerged.

Mine was Startalk (and especially the The Joe Rogan Experience episode where Joe explains his big bang theory) cause I'm a space dork, but what are some of your favorite ones?

Channels or episodes in general.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

You read that right: French foodies embrace British cuisine

[Winston]

Snobs have to love something foreign so what is foreign to the French?

[Francisco d Anconia]

To be fair, fish and chips is the ONLY British contribution to edible cuisine.

[playa manhattan]

You beat me by 1 minute. What about Prime Rib?

[jesse.in.mb]

Full English Breakfast?

[Tman]

One might argue that some of the best chefs in the world are from the UK these days.

Folks who say the food in England is terrible are idiots. Places like Hand & Flowers, Marlow or the Fat Duck are on the cutting edge of the best cuisine man has ever put on a plate.

[playa manhattan]

The Fat Duck is on my list, as was elBulli. I wish I had gone there before I had kids and couldn't do long distance leisure travel...

[jesse.in.mb]

Don't kids come with some kind of return policy?

[playa manhattan]

It's not a very good deal. Usually 20 to life.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Guinness Pie?

[playa manhattan]

You can do a lot with potatoes, oil, salt and malt vinegar. Plus, the British gave us Prime Rib, the greatest food known to mankind.

[Winston]

Don't forget:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

Is it not popular in the US because the kids think it is gay?

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

How about some Spotted Dick?

[Winston]

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

[playa manhattan]

GROW UP, YOU TWO!

[Francisco d Anconia]

I rest my case.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

Huh, did you know it is illegal to import haggis from Scotland into the United States?

It contains sheep's lungs, which is banned by the US Department of Agriculture. So we Americans cannot have a traditional Burns' Supper.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

HOW HAVE WE MADE IT THIS FAR

[playa manhattan]

WHO IS WE AMERICA JUNIOR?

[Bobarian]

To be fair, many of the other parts of the sheep have been spoiled by 'standard Scottish treatment', so lungs may be one of the few unused parts left.

[JeremyR]

Good.

[Archduke von Pantsfan]

NEVER READ THE COMMENTS

Its no wonder I don't like to read the 'Post', because of the heavy capitalist bias. Canada Post is more affordable than any other mail delivery system because it provides a tax-payer subsidized public service. You say '3 times the price of a stamp', name any private company that is willing to deliver my letter for $1.50 or even $2.00? Look at parcels, most of us opt for Canada Post because its more affordable, and they won't rip you off with custom and brokerage fee. Finally, just like I appreciate health care in this country, I appreciate that regardless where I live or send in Canada, mail is affordable and subsidized without discrimination against rural communities, or those without limited access.
It is the minority top 5% who don't value public service. The views of this paper don't represent the views of Canadians, or core Canadian values. I will miss you Canada Post.

[Francisco d Anconia]

It is the minority top 5% who don't value public service.

My assumption is that's because they are the ones paying the subsidy.

[John C. Randolph]

Note to Kennedy and that white dude behind her: those retro hipster frames look fucking stupid. It's 2013, not 1953.

-jcr

[Bobarian]

Some great poet said 'it's hip to be square'.

[Bam!]

Kennedy has a bit of a naughty librarian thing going for her.

[RishJoMo]

That sounds like one crazy plan to me dude. Wow.

http://www.Anon-Go.tk