A.M. Links: Capitol Hill Staffers Warned Not to Trust Obamacare Website, US Government Lobotomized About 2,000 Veterans After World War II, South African Fake Sign Language Interpreter Claims He Was Hallucinating
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Staffers on Capitol Hill are being warned not to assume they've successfully enrolled in Obamacare just because they completed the process at healthcare.gov and the website confirmed their enrollment, but to seek confirmation in person.
- Legislators in New York plan on introducing a bill to legalize marijuana in the state, where currently even medicinal marijuana is illegal.
- An appeals court in Florida ruled students attending the state's public universities cannot be prohibited from keeping their guns in cars parked on campus.
- The US government lobotomized about 2,000 soldiers it found to be mentally ill after World War II, according to historical research by the Wall Street Journal.
- The police chief in Durham, North Carolina claims a teenager who died in custody last month shot himself while handcuffed in a squad car, something the chief pointed out has "happened in other jurisdictions".
- A detective with the Arizona state police resigned after uncovering that she was in the country illegally; she says her parents had told her she was born in the US but that she was actually born in Mexico.
- George H.W. Bush joined Twitter this week, already accumulating more than 70,000 followers with just one tweet.
- The fake sign language interpreter from the Nelson Mandela memorial, who had previously fake signed for the ANC, says he was hallucinating, while officials say they can't track down the owners of the company they hired him through.
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I got my Redline watch in two days using Amazon Prime (USA).
Maybe they should us Amazon!
Two refreshes and no FIST!?! HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?
I’m starting to get worried.
I’m pouting.
sure, all this concern over FoE, but no love for the ruler of the wasteland. Typical.
We all know you saunter in whenever you’re ready.
Exactly. Getting the gang together, prepping your high tech audio / PA equipment for your speeches takes time, and we’ve gotten used to that.
The fake sign language interpreter from the Nelson Mandela memorial, who had previously fake signed for the ANC, says he was hallucinating,
Perhaps he was just possessed by the spirit of Mandela?
This is getting better and better.
I was watching a video of him next to a real interpreter. He kept doing the same signs. It was fucking god dang hilarious. I couldn’t take it it was so funny.
I’m just amazed we were able to see his signing over the size of his balls.
“””””says he was hallucinating”””
So Mandela isn’t dead?
Was he hallucinating when he was signing “Kill the Boer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fzRSE_p1Ys
He may have been channeling Mandela.
I’m kind of surprised he didn’t blame it on a sorceror.
Weekend at Bernies II style?
An autopsy confirmed the self-inflicted gunshot wound.
They looked at his brain and saw the intent. The science is settled!
Yeah how exactly can an autopsy determine if a gunshot was self-inflicted or not?
They asked the cops! SCIENCE!
“Yeah how exactly can an autopsy determine if a gunshot was self-inflicted or not?”
Powder residue on the victims hands and angle of entry.
Angle of entry doesn’t rule out cop-inflicted. Not even close.
Now, powder residue might be dispositive, but I’d have to know a lot more detail about it.
Sometimes I wonder if these coroners do their work surrounded by a half dozen large men in uniform, resting their hands on their weapons.
I’m still not convinced. It seems pretty easy to imagine that if one was about to be shot in the head that one’s hands might be on that gun trying to keep it from happening. How owuld they conclusively know the difference?
With all due respect, General Alexander, I submit that banning clothing is another, probably *more* protective, way.
Everyone will be forced to wear their underwear on the outside.
+1 Puppet Masters
NSA chief says there’s ‘no other way’
Why not just imprison everyone? Or ban travel? Or would he have some principled objection to those tactics?
Or would he have some principled objection to those tactics?
Not wanting to do all that work would be a principle, yeah? I mean, collecting data, that’s a breeze. Pop in a new tape every couple hours, then kick back and get back to catching up on netflix.
Universal imprisonment (in a building, or just the country-as-prison) would be such a goddamn hassle. Can you imagine the amount of whining?
Not wanting to do all that work would be a principle, yeah?
Indeed. Lazy AND unable to admit to fallibility. A winning combination!
TOP. MEN.
At some point one would think the ‘feared for my life’ line will be met with skepticism in the halls of public opinion and the law.
Anybody accused of killing a poilce officer ought to try this defence. Complete with case law of where it was considered a valid defense.
Has anyone ever gotten away with killing a police officer in self defense? I’ve tried looking it up to no avail.
Franklin & Bash should try it.
Franklin & Bash… Rissoli & Isles… TNT became Logo so gradually barely anyone even noticed…
ANGIE HARMON hmmmm…..politics aside she is smoking hot.
I know I’ve heard/seen Balko talk about one case where that happened. Can’t remember the exact circumstances though.
There was a case in Titusville, FL in the early 90s.
I posted a link for it here once but I’ve since lost it.
There was the guy that killed a cop when they invaded his home in the early morning (aka a no-knock raid), and I think he was acquitted. Or maybe I just prefer to believe he was.
Corey Maye was sent to Mississippi death row for shooting a cop that invaded his home (IIRC without a warrant). His sentence, due in part to Balko’s intercession, was reduced and he was released for time served.
As far as I know, no one has actually been found not guilty by reason of self defense.
maybe this is why the ‘guns as dangerous totem’ message is pushed so shrilly
I’m guessing the guy he killed wasn’t even a looter. If he really was, piggy probably wouldn’t need to lie about it.
Real looters deserve to be shot.
Why?
the one common thread in these stories, he said without any irony, is that you only find them in The Daily Freaking Mail.
How is a newspaper expected to have access to information from the police if they print articles that show law enforcement in a bad light?
access actual reporting. Journo professors never taught that, which probably explains why there were teaching instead of still reporting. It must the profession’s prime directive.
Out here in the real world ‘ Gaining and keeping access” translates into acting as propaganda agents for the government that you cover.
Journalists had to kill the free press to save it, or something.
Out here in the real world ‘ Gaining and keeping access” translates into acting as propaganda agents for the government that you cover.
Journalists had to kill the free press to save it, or something.
Don’t forget the promotion.
Putin the SoCon:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new…..s-war.html
They love Putin over at Free Republic. He is their kind of leader – authoritarian, militaristic, and reactionary.
What does this have to do with anything?
Putin the SoCon:
Are you kidding?
Don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
He is their kind of leader – authoritarian, militaristic, and reactionary.
Sounds like Obama.
Well, Putin is also effective and competent, so the comparison only holds so far.
It’s starting to seem that Rick Perry is moonlighting as Putin (or Putin as Rick Perry).
They have similar stature. Why with a little nose prosthetic, a wig, and some additive process for the jawline when Perry… just saying… it’s possible.
what?
Something about cake. Just back away slowly.
Fun Fact, Rick Perry and Vlad Putin are both characters portrayed by Fred Savage as avantgarde performance pieces.
Wouldn’t be the first time. I remember reading a fine expose in the Weekly World News about how Gorbachev had been moonlighting for years as Roy Orbison.
When glasnost hit and Gorby got too popular he had to kill of his alter ego Roy.
G-orba-chev Orbi-son. See? They also had photos where a picture of Gorby with dark glasses photoshopped on was shown next to Roy. Proof Positive!
Isnt a a SoCom?
Isnt “he”.
Gah.
Don’t quit your day job, robc.
It isnt very funny, but is true.
Are you here all of the week?
Try the veal like substance.
SoCom sounds like a mod for XCom. Except instead of aliens, it’s teh gays.
I know I said I was done picking on them, but but this is insane.
It’s a real dilemma, Coeus. At what point does one decide a writer has crossed the line between sanity and insanity and stop responding to them?
“Respect a kid when they say, ‘No’ to a kiss or hug or other affection.”
Yes! This happens so rarely. More often, kids are ordered to show affection: “Give your grandpa a kiss.” And then the order is repeated, more sternly, until they do it. Little kids are taught that adults’ desire to show and receive affection from them should override their own wishes.
Forcing a small child to show affection to their grandparents is rape!
Well I know that my enhanced tolerance for slavery is a direct result of my being forced–well, at least asked pointedly–to mow the lawn as a teenager.
The rampant unsated sexual lust of a 6 year old boy must be crushed before he becomes a raping machine.
Yeah, she is literally insane.
*than*
HHS ordered the private contractors partly responsible for the Healthcare.gov fiasco not to cooperate with congressional investigations [because] they signed contracts obligating them not to share information with “third parties.”
Surely Sebelius’s probe will get to the bottom of this.
Surely Sebelius’s probe will get to the bottom of this
I’m still waiting for someone to probe Sebelius’ bottom over this
Eeew.
Seconded.
*Paging Barfman, Barfman pick up the red courtesy phone.*
She’d have to buy me dinner first.
If you like your anal fissures, you can keep them.
“Lean forward, turn to The Left, and *cough*!”
Where’s Warty when you need him?
That’s an interesting legal question, anyone have any insight into that?
Obviously HHS does.
We the people are the “shareholders” in the US government, so arent a 3rd party.
They may need to keep the info secret from non-citizens, so do the congressional hearings in private and then use the franking privileges to send every US citizen a transcript.
I’ve got news for HHS:
The contract is with the government. HHS is not a separate legal entity. Thus, sharing information with any governmental agency or representative, most def including Congress, is not sharing information with a third party.
The Bloombergers are in a panic about the potential in-flight cell phone use ruling. It would be so awful!
I keep waiting for them* to start whining about how air travel has gone to shit since Alfred Kahn broke up the cartel.
*Most of whom weren’t even born when Carter was President.
since Alfred Kahn broke up the cartel.
KAAAAAAAAAAHN!
All that said, I really hope that airlines disallow the use of TALKING on phones during a flight. The last thing that’s conducive to a good flight after having your balls groped by 3 separate men, having all your shit hand searched by some TSA enforcer, and having had to catch a later flight because all of said searching and groping caused you to miss your original flight is to have some schmuck yacking on next to you all flight. Even worse would be some teenaged princess: “yeah, that’s, like, totes adorbs.”
That shit would turn me in to the terrorist they already think I am.
But the bullshit pants shitting about people being able to listen to their music, or play a game, or whatthefuckever below the magic 10,000 foot threshold is goddamn ridiculous.
Suggested by Shaker ActivistSheep: “Have you had the experience of trying something for the first time and really enjoying it and then trying it again later and it not living up to the memory of the first time? Tell the story, if you’d like to share. (I call this phenomenon “marzipan” because of my experience with marzipan.) :-)”
Don’t tell Patty and Selma MacGyver is gay.
I am always confused when people on TV have kids but they didn’t show an explicit scene of his conception.
confused or disappointed?
Do Mike and Molly have kids?
Thanks for that. Now I need brain bleach.
Exactly. What the heck, sitcoms? Where did this house come from? I never saw any scenes with a real estate agent or titles changing hands or anything!!
How did Ross ever get a job as a paleontologist? I never saw his graduation!
Like we’re supposed to just suspend our disbelief. Every sitcom should start out with an “I, Pencil” style documentary explaining how all the props and scenery came to.be.
“HIS conception”
Patriarchy much, dammit?!?
So this guy was a bore since pre-teendom. I guess some people are born that way.
Another successful re-education!
Sheep is fucking right.
I can’t imagine going through life wondering why nothing meets my expectations of what they should be, and why they’re evil because they don’t.
College has ruined this fucking guy.
Surely Sebelius’s probe will get to the bottom of this.
*puts down fork, pushes plate away*
😎
“Ladies and gentlemen, you’re 2014 Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog champion!!”
FoE must be on vacation; it has been a while since he didn’t make the top five.
He’s still in Warty’s rape dungeon. What happens in Warty’s rape dungeon stays in Warty’s rape dungeon.
Until a dude comes back from getting McDonald’s saves whatever is in the dungeon.
I knew something was wrong when H&Rs; most active member wasn’t contributing and longer… dead giveaway.
Ugh, sorry for all the errors. Too much Estancia at the Christmas party last night it seems.
+1 Big Macs for life
Report: Scientists predict a century of global cooling
Better start investing in some warm clothes because German scientists are predicting that the Earth will cool over the next century.
German scientists found that two naturally occurring cycles will combine to lower global temperatures during the 21st century, eventually dropping to levels corresponding with the “little ice age” of 1870.
“Due to the de Vries cycle, the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the ‘little ice age’ of 1870,” write German scientists Horst-Joachim Luedecke and Carl-Otto Weiss of the European Institute for Climate and Energy.
Researchers used historical temperature data and data from cave stalagmites to show a 200-year solar cycle, called the de Vries cycle.
They also factored into their work a well-established 65-year Atlantic and Pacific Ocean oscillation cycle. Global warming that has occurred since 1870 can be attributed almost entirely to both these factors, the scientists argue….
So the science is not settled? I thought we had a consensus!
German scientists, hmm. Fardenstarke!
You know what other issue Germans are denialists about?
They think people want to see their naked bodies at the beach. 🙁
The market for scheiss pron?
Shoddy Volkswagen assembly/production?
David Hasselhoff’s vomit?
If Michael Mann were truly a man of his convictions he’d wear nothing but shorts and t-shirts for the rest of his life. No parka for you, hockey stick boy.
were truly a man of his convictions
And there’s the issue with many a warmist isn’t it!
I’m gonna have to go ahead and ask for Consensus TPS report to back that assertion.
“called the de Vries cycle”
The Harkonnens are sabotaging our weather!!!!!!!
+1 parched wasteland
Start collecting the water.
Start collecting their water!
*pulls crysknife*
Come at me bro.
SJWs, hoisted by their own petard.
Sarah Jessica Warker?
Some Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Single Jewish White?
And I’m confused as to who’s going after whom here. (Although, to be fair, this confusion probably isn’t a bad thing.)
Social Justice Warriors
I have a better idea.
Stop trying to intervene on everyone’s “behalf” for “their own good”?
Worry about your own fucking life and leave people the fuck alone.
Has anybody heard from Fist of Etiquette. It’s been nearly 5 minutes. I’m worried he drowned while swimming in his vault of gold coins. It’s a common mishap among libertarians.
Seriously.
/waits anxiously by the phone biting nails.
If he’s too poor to afford a lifeguard for his gold pool then he doesn’t deserve to live anyway.
What do you think the webathon was for?
Poor bastard… almost made it.
High school rowing team finds dead body in river
How long does it take gentials to decompose?
Cold water, dude. Cold water.
This is why they will never, ever dredge Buffalo Bayou. Too many off the books HPD kills chained to batteries down there.
Fish and turtles eat the soft parts first.
How long does it take gentials to decompose?
I asked Siri. She says I’m now on a government list.
You may be on a few mailing lists, too, after that query.
Aside from extreme bloating that happens to a water logged body, the extremities are the first to be nibbled on by local wildlife. A body that’s been in the water for a while could be very difficult to identify.
You know, even if your dick was nibbled off by turtles, it still wouldn’t look like a vagina. The body would look like a man missing a penis.
You’ve apparently never had your dick was nibbled by turtles.
Need more turtles coffee.
You’re othering the transgendered!!!111!!!
It’s the transgendered all the way down!
Diabetic woman dies in jail after being denied her insulin
Some jail workers saw an opportunity for a long paid vacation.
Or they thought she was going to snort insulin to get high.
She was going to inject them with insulin as part of a daring escape attempt.
You know, when prison guards see a woman unconscious on the floor of her cell, I doubt that taking a vacation is the first thing that crosses their minds.
The Obama administration is bringing in the “Sexiest Man Alive” to help “boost” Obamacare enrollment numbers.
Show the depth of their desperation if they’re willing to enlist *Vladimir Putin*.
Seriously, if *any* taxpayer money is financing this shit ….
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare on the state level.
ARGHH!!
Actually, “promote” is misleading.
“Build” would be more accurate based on the links:
http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resou…..ts/hi.html
Still it is a waste of money.
Whoa, THAT dude is the sexiest man alive? Even People Magazine has turned into a bunch of trolls.
I might be off here but isn’t that insensitive to ugly people?
Could be the scandal that finally brings down the administration!
George H.W. Bush joined Twitter this week, already accumulating more than 70,000 followers with just one tweet.
“Act now! Offer ends soon!”
“Save hundreds with this one weird trick”?
Signed off by Nurse Ratchet.
The bitch.
Has South Park jumped the shark? It was just boring last night. The 3-week stint on Black Friday/console wars was stale too.
When will you blame Bush if it has?
The Game of Thrones three-parter was good.
I didn’t watch last nights, so I can’t comment on that.
Not enough Obama-fellating, am I right?
Re: Jordan,
The Buttwipe is angry at the great one for flirting with the viking hottie.
You jumped the shark years ago, and yet you’re still around.
“Weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner one weiner next to another weiner”
“Oh god, he hasn’t even ordered the pizza yet!”
The National Institutes of Health is spending over $224,000 to study Latino children’s “menu ordering and consumption behaviors” in 12 restaurants, followed by the “restaurant-based intervention.”
Un *linda* proyecto que ser
?Va a estar de su puta madre el proyecto ?se!
(It’s going to be one motherf&*@g project that one!)
Me volver?a a pagar diez mil d?lares a la mierda Dora la Exploradora en el culo. Diez de los grandes.
Just your basic “men need to clean more!!!1!!” article, but it is a good opportunity to talk about Tracy Moore. I’m not going to suggest you actually fool with doing it, but if you have read her articles over the last few years, pieces on child-raising, post-partum depression and the long string of articles in the last year that are very pointedly hateful toward men, something obvious emerges: Her marriage is crumbling, and I’m pretty sure she has no idea.
You know, I’ve never really clicked on the links here that go to Jezebel…it was an intuitive sense that I would be damaged for having done so. Today I went ahead and clicked on your link. I should have listened to my intuition.
Your sacrifice is noted. You have spared others of us…
Wait, I think I prove my point with just her article titles:
What Does It Even Mean to Be a ‘Needy’ Girl?
Are You Sure You Want an Orgasm EVERY Time?
In Defense of Being a Lover AND a Fighter
If Yelling at Kids Is as Harmful as Spanking, What the Hell Is Left?
Will Women Ever Have the Freedom to Be Ugly?
Ten Advantages to an Unplanned Pregnancy
Some Ladies Just Don’t Give a Shit About Having It All
A Handy Guide for When Everyone Hates You
Trying To Be Perfect Is Destroying Us All
How to Still Have a Drink When You Have a Newborn
Women Are Doing the Man Things But Men Won’t Do the Lady Things
Are You Ambivalent About Pregnancy? Join the Club.
When Is It Better to Just STFU?
Stop Acting Like “Bouncing Back” From Labor is Even Possible
How Nice Does a Woman Have to Be to a Guy She Rejects?
The Secret to Lasting Love Is Staying the Hell Away From Each Other
Sometimes I imagine how my life would have turned out if I had married that girl*, instead of breaking up with her by e-mail while she was on the other side of the planet. Makes me shiver.
*Not this specific woman, but her spiritual cousin.
Well, that last one really gives the game away.
That is hideous.
Fall of the West. Reason #488 e495 tty786.
She should consider writing one entitled:
“Examining My Premises, or How Everything I Think Is Fucked Up At The Start”
How Nice Does a Woman Have to Be to a Guy She Rejects?
The fact that they ask this question at all is an improvement. Hell it is the only instance i can see Jezebel even acknowledging that men might have feelings.
The rest all seem like what any Cosmopolitan issue might hold.
Who in the fucking FUCK would want to be married to a woman like that?
not her husband, apparently.
I’ve wondered at times what the men who marry these people have to be like. Do they enjoy being miserable?
Ahem:
Only pre-pubescent boys have smooth-faces. Any women that prefers a clean-shaven man is a pedophile.
On the strength of her beard work, three different Ivy League schools are fighting over who will get to hire her.
That sentence could be misinterpreted in so many interesting ways taken out of context…
The boundary between Self and Environment is a social con[struct].
No, I’m pretty sure the boundary between self and environment is anatomical, going by the name of “skin.”
I liked the linked article about a problem Lindy West surely will never have.
Which is odd, considering that she eats an entire wedding cake every day.
I imagine this guy does all the housework:
And she leaves him a few years later because he’s impotent. Where have all the good men gone?!?
Pre-marital counseling is a good thing, but Im not sure that is what is going on there.
I dont see the big deal about the name change thing. In certain cultures you dont change your last name, in some you do. In Iceland you dont really have a last name to begin with.
Shrug.
Go with your cultural flow.
^This.
My comment was referring to Apatheist’s 10:13 post.
The feminist thing to do is to retain your father’s last name.
The feminist thing to do is find a female ancestor’s name to use (who was also using her father’s name). Or adopt a new last name entirely for both members of the couple.
Again, I ask, why do you guys read this shit? I know it’s novel and fun at first, but then it becomes disturbing and sad to watch these cuntcases.
Is it a question of keeping your friends close but enemies closer so as to know what libertarians are up against?
but then it becomes disturbing and sad to watch these cuntcases.
You answered your own question.
I rarely click-through, but I do find it useful to keep up with what others are thinking because I will eventually encounter those viewpoints and need to be prepared to refute them, and if necessary refrain from laughing out loud.
I think laughing out loud is the most appropriate response.
There are certain social situations in which it is advantageous for me to not LOL when viewpoints like that are presented earnestly.
Also, if the goal is to sway third-party observers, LOLing is seen as bullying etc, and it is better to choose the moral high ground and attack the viewpoint not the person.
If third party observers even remotely entertain that point of view needing swaying back to common sense then I argue they’re already lost. Move on.
“Also, if the goal is to sway third-party observers”
This is frequently used as justification for behavior, and frankly, it is fucking moronic, and RJF already pointed out.
It’s just a cover for stupid shit you can’t deal with.
Why is it that when you say “women have lower sex drives” they raise holy hell, but if you say “the person who wants it cleaner should clean more” they scream “that just means the women end up doing it!!!”
Stereotyping double standards. Yet another popular feminist tool.
I asked exactly this question two days ago, and surprisingly, my wife agreed.
Battered women morally entitled to kill abusers, U of O professor asserts
OTTAWA ? Battered women are morally entitled to kill their abusive partners, even those who are passed out or asleep, says a respected University of Ottawa law professor.
BUT at least she does tell women who are arrested to not talk to the police without a lawyer!
(and I have to admit I like the talking point of selling shelters as not just good for the battered, but they save the lives of abusers, too!)
Are we talking beer battered, or other types of batter i.e.-cake?
Well, seeing as how 70 percent of non-reciprocal domestic violence is committed by women, I can see why they gendered the statement.
Although something tells me if asked if battered have a right to kill their abusers, this cunt’s response would be “he just needs to man the fuck up and stop being such a pussy.”
*battered men
Oops. Commenting fail.
Stop mansplaining, you micro-aggressing otherer!
Of course, an ambush killing isn’t exactly “shifting the risk of death.”
If that’s what you’re after, well, ordinary self-defense law is all you need.
There has to be a hockey reference or joke in there. I know it.
The police chief in Durham, North Carolina claims a teenager who died in custody last month shot himself while handcuffed in a squad car, something the chief pointed out has “happened in other jurisdictions”.
Yeah! Y’all remember that jurisdiction where that happened? I sure do. There were several of them. Jurisdictions, I mean. Whacky shit going down day and night, in those other jurisdictions.
Actually, it happened twice in 2012.
Of course, saying all three were suicides is the bullshit part. I believe the Arkansas incident would have required the suspect to break his thumb and wrist first to be able to shoot himself in the temple at that angle.
“Just like a nigger, to steal more chain than he could swim with.”
Actually, it happened twice in 2012.
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
I’m guessing this police chief also used this same line of logic on his wife when he was explaining how he got the clap from a toilet seat.
“Honey, if you look at the stats you will see lots of other married guys got the clap from a public toilet seat and not from banging some skank on the side!”
Oh, yeah. They also said that the reason for Roy Orbison’s combover was to hide that big wine mark on Gorby’s head.
Flirty Obama owes us an apology
I got a few laughs out of this column.
Example: Not to be outdone by the president’s bad behavior, the Danish hellcat hiked up her skirt to expose long Scandinavian legs covered by nothing more substantial than sheer black stockings.
Caption time: In the pic Rich linked to. the guy at the bottom right looking down on his phone.
I’ll give it a whirl.
“Obama is acting like a douche again. Be home for dinner at 6pm.”
“It’s bad enough that I have to sit here and listen to his narcississtic self absorbed speech, but now I have to sit right in front of him while he runs his game on the Danish Prime Minister. C U l8er”
“Django’s at it again.”
“If you like your interracial sexual fantasies, you can keep them.”
That’s supposed to be satire, right?
It is satire, but not intended as such. Unconscious self-parody is one of the cruelest and therefore funniest forms of humor.
Where da white wimmin at?
Yeah, the slut-shaming is epic. Thanks, Rich.
I’m just curious. What exactly was he and the Danish prime minister talking/ laughing about? Does anyone even know? Also, what’s so scandalous about sheer black stockings and a skirt? I see professional women dressed similar to that all the time. Also, did Obama put his hand on her leg or touch her in any way that would suggest lewd or inappropriate conduct?
You could argue that perhaps he should have been in a more serious, somber mood and his joviality was inappropriate at a funeral, but without knowing what they were talking/ laughing about, and unless there was some kind of inappropriate physical contact I’m not seeing it. I mean, it’s not like he mounted her right there in front of everyone.
Yeah, the context of the situation would be useful. It could be pulled right out of it.
Still, I look at all the people around them and they all look rather serious which suggests to me that the “celebrating” was taken place elsewhere.
I think it is the joking and laughing that is appalling. They were at a memorial service for a national hero of the country they were in. It is appalling behavior and beneath the dignity of the office.
That I can see. And it’s possible that that’s why Michelle was giving him the stink eye, because she didn’t think it was appropriate for him to be laughing and carrying on at a memorial service. If it was a wake afterward, that’s one thing (especially an Irish wake), but not there. Or maybe he was really stupid enough to run his game right in front of his wife. We’ll never know for sure.
Know, it really seems to boil down to him being a frat boy.
Question is would he be allowed into Delta House Fraternity.
Michelle has permanent stink eye.
“Never mind Mandela, baby, let me show you something *really* stiff.”
“So, Mr. President, would you like a Danish?”
Who do you have in the resulting cat fight? I know Michelle has the edge in size and general nastiness. But Viking chicks are crazy and likely to fight dirty.
Michelle has the shoulders of an experienced sculler. She would tear that majestic president to shreds, and not in the good way!
Go ask Tiger Woods how fucking with Viking chicks works out. It would all be fun and games for Michelle until that Dane pulled out the golf club.
Klingons laugh at your puny golf clubs.
Tear to shreds…with her jaws.
I’m pretty sure the PM would win if a hobbit stabbed Michelle in the leg to distract her first.
That is funny. So, if another world leader is an attractive woman, then you are not allowed to be friendly with her.
Attractive women exist so that other women can gossip about them and ask their significant others “do you actually find her attractive?”*
Naturally, all attractive women are sluts and starve themselves, and only have jobs because they sucked their way to the top.
*Yes, I do. I always do.
Those two pictures are frikkin’ hilarious.
A visibly pissed off Michelle switches seats with her husband, who can’t keep his mitts off the Danish hottie, who appears to be pouting after the switch.
Small college pushes for CEO pay caps, realizes their own college administrators make bank:
http://www.nationofchange.org/…..1386341976
And good news to all of us heartless bastards, admissions are down!
http://www.somdnews.com/articl…..landMobile
Call me a heartless bastard if you want, but if this means that prices will start to come down, I’m extatic.
In this case though, the students successfully pushed through a higher living wage for the lowest paid employees.
And now admissions are down. Delicious.
Well he backed up that claim by saying that he thought Obama showed great humility.
Listening to Obama’s divisive class warfare gibberish, one could surmise he hallucinates all the time on matters of economics.
The fake sign language interpreter from the Nelson Mandela memorial, who had previously fake signed for the ANC, says he was hallucinating, while officials say they can’t track down the owners of the company they hired him through.
This story elicited some serious horrified outrage on the part of one of the Bloomberg Babes. “OMG THAT CRAZY GUY WAS LIKE THREE FEET AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENT!11!”
Too bad they searched that guy and took his tire and gasoline away.
so during the breakfast meeting, one of my co-workers mentioned the future tobacco surcharge on healthcare costs. He’s part of the health awareness group – the company is may be doing swabs to test for the presence of nicotine.
Some random thoughts on this: privacy issue? also, how long does a swab go back? I mean if I smoked a cigarette this morning, could a swab 4 hours later pick up nicotine. Also, do e-cigarettes count as a “tobacco user”, since it’s actually nicotine.
Yes.
It is appalling. Just because the government isn’t doing it, doesn’t make it alright. I understand the cost issues. But I value my privacy more. I am fine with paying a bit more as a nonsmoker in return for not having my employer drug test me.
They go back weeks.
And yes, they assume nicotine = tobacco products. Which will suck for e-cig users since ecigs don’t contain the carcinogens that tobacco does, so they should be in the non-smoker risk pool.
If the test can detect it for weeks, that means the guy who has the odd cigar out drinking will be treated just like the pack a day smoker.
I’m a part-time smoker: I can go months and months without a smoke. But once I’m at a bar with my friends – I get the urge to have a cigarette. So, no, I’m not particularly worried about passing, but I do consider it intrusive.
ahh yes, the occasional Lung Butter evening.
Doesn’t it make you nauseous?
Also, do e-cigarettes count as a “tobacco user”, since it’s actually nicotine.
Likewise, would chewing a piece of nocotine gum also leave traces of nicotine in your saliva? I think it would. I suspect the only alternative nicotine delivery method that wouldn’t show up would maybe be the patch.
maybe be the patch
I dunno, once it’s in your blood, it might be detectable in your mouth. Like breathalyzers.
It depends on what they are actually testing for. If they are testing for nicotine, then a patch would cause a positive test.
And don’t trust that “health awareness group” guy – he is not your friend.
Find a trusted third-party source for this info.
just in case anyone cares:
from: http://thelawdictionary.org/ar…..he-system/
Private employers can test for what they want.
Depending on the test, it can pick up nicotine from, I think, as long as a couple weeks ago, depending on how much you have taken in.
And yes, these tests count ecigs as the equivalent of unfiltered Camels.
Brewery update:
Saw a few properties on Tuesday, 2 have strong potential, details and etc to be worked out, lease could be signed in January.
I thought you were already going. Is this an expansion, or was I wrong?
You were wrong.
Its been a long slog. Things are happening rapidly now, including change of cities.
What’s the new city?
What city are you in now?
I still live in Louisville (for now) but am location shopping in Bowling Green, KY.
Sweet. Well, good luck man. In my experience people, “friends” and family even, will try to prevent you from opening this brewery. Whether it is their own risk aversion, jealousy of you, or just malevolence, they don’t want you to succeed. Fuck ’em. Don’t listen to those people. Push ahead and open this brewery. We’ll be out in KY for The Derby next year, and I want to drink one (or six) of your beers.
good luck – it’s always easy to dream, but actually doing something is a big step. It takes courage, but it is far better to take the risk and even lose than to never take a risk at all.
Yeah, I know. Ive been tiptoeing at the edge for 2 years now.
Great news!
Awesome, robc. Next time we bet a six-pack, it’s going to be a real six-pack.
Free advice, from someone who has seen too many small businesses fail.
Do not hire family or friends to work there, no matter how pitifully they whine or how they bluster and threaten. I’ve seen too many family members and friends of the owner drag down and destroy a business. They get all entitled and lazy and shit, and the owners are way too slow to fire.
1. I owned a small business from 2000 to selling my share off in 2012, so I know a bit about running a business. I think Ive already made just about every mistake possible. Except the one you specifically mentioned.
2. Good advice though. Fortunately, my family and friends arent that way, so not a problem. And none are in BG.
Glad to hear it, robc.
Didn’t know your background, and restaurants/bars/brewpubs are notorious for having newbie owners who hire all their drinking buddies and deadbeat relatives.
I consulted for a company where the owner, who was a very sharp guy, had six daughters and by coincidence six son-in-laws ensconced in the c-suite.
The CFO’s previous job had been the seater/greeter at an Old Country Buffet.
Yay! Exciting (and exhausting) times.
Heard about this on the radio this morning: Man sues government after google auto-correct mishap caused him to be harrassed by gov. agents and lose his job.
I’m not sure I entirely buy his story. Not the part about the government harrassing him and causing him to lose his job. That part I have no problem believing. The part about google auto-correct changing “airplane” to “bomb.” Seems like that would require one to pretty badly mangle the spelling. FWIW, right now if type in “how to build a radio controlled…” google doesn’t suggest “bomb.” Although it’s possible they changed their algorithm. Weird story to say the least.
I don’t get it. How does a google search raise flags? How do you police what people search for without getting an extremely massive amount of false positives?
BRB-clearing my search history.
I find this difficult to believe. First, how did they know about it? Did he do the search on a government computer? Yeah, I know the NSA collects everything. But just because they collect it doesn’t mean they do anything with it. Just how exactly is the google search of some random contractor important enough to get their attention?
Second, this paragraph makes me wonder.
Kantor states that he took his complaints to the Anti-Defamation League, which caused an increase in veiled death threats and retaliation from government investigators.
Veiled death threats? Really? He is a contractor not a GS employee. If the government doesn’t like him, they can just call the contractor and say “get this guy out of here”. Even if you believe the NSA took notice of him, they wouldn’t have needed to issue death threats or do anything except call the contractor and tell them one of their employees is a security risk. After Snowden, no contractor is going to need to be told twice.
My guess is this guy is a paranoid nut.
After Snowden, no contractor is going to need to be told twice.
Apparantly the search that allegedly started all of this was in 2009, before Snowden, but yeah, the story definitely sounds fishy. I can believe the government goons acting like thugs part, but the rest of it not so much. I’m thinking a combination of paranoid and looking for a big day.
*big pay day
Fucking typing, how does it work?
Even pre Snowden, if the government doesn’t like a contract employee, the contractor just fires them or sends them to a different job. And security clearances are shockingly easy to revoke. I find it hard to believe the government agents’ actions here not because I think they are above such things, they are not, but because they didn’t need to do it to screw the guy.
Thinking a little more about it, it’s possible, even likely, that that’s what really happened and he’s making up the harrassment story.
Kantor states that he took his complaints to the Anti-Defamation League, which caused an increase in veiled death threats and retaliation from government investigators.
Entirely plausible, IMO. This is the same administration that immediately begins tax audits of people who appear on news shows criticizing ObamaCare, after all.
It is not very plausible. This guy was a nobody and all they had to do was pull his security clearance.
C’mon, John. This administration has sicced the IRS on people because they appeared on the wrong TV show.
I’m not willing to rule out the idea that the atmosphere that apparently now exists in these agencies would lead to employees making threats against people.
Another likely explanation is that he wasn’t to listening to a word president teleprompter was saying. Lucky him. Too bad he got caught.
“This guy is still saying a bunch of silly stuff, so here is a joke about the farmer’s daughter and the travelling salesman.”
Salesman is out driving in a rural area when a snowstorm hits. His car skids off the road and is stuck. After trudging five miles through drifts, half frozen he comes to a farmhouse. “Can I stay the night?” he asks the farmer. “Sure, but it’s only fair to warn you…I don’t have a daughter.” Salesman: “How far is it to the next farmhouse?”
NEVER GET OUT OF THE CAR!
/winter safety tip
I’m going with fraudster. And it’s quite possible that the company knew, and didn’t care.
So, the government’s inability to find the company they contracted with – deliberate incompetence to save face and protect cronies, or were they disappeared to send a message?
the government’s inability to find the company they contracted with – deliberate incompetence to save face and protect cronies, or were they disappeared to send a message?
Or perhaps they got the hell out Dodge. “Oh shit, they’re onto us! Time to clear out and lay low for a while.”
Illinois man released from prison after serving 31 years of a 100 year sentence for a rape he did not commit but confessed to under police torture.
Intentional torts are not dischargable in bankruptcy. That means when Chicago goes belly up, the victims of their police department will collect before the police department pension does.
Sure, Obama will probably try to banish that law. But we can at least hope that justice might be served.
Costs the people $85 million and gets to keep his pension.
The day we show balls as a society to not tolerate such barbaric behavior is the day we’ve reached maturity and self-dignity.
Another mind-boggling aspect.of this is that none of the perpetrators be charged or sued in conjunction with this due to the fact that the statute of limitations timing has expired. Somone please explain to me why there is a statute of limitations on any crime relating to abuse of power!
Because the people who write the statute of limitations are the same people who abuse power, perhaps?
Somone please explain to me why there is a statute of limitations on any crime relating to abuse of power!
Because people with power write the rules.
Holy fucking shit. Reading that made me sick to my stomach.
jeezus christ.
Remember the us aid which was only going to the secular rebels in Syria? Well, it appears some of it ended up in the hands of Islamist groups.
http://theam.cn/1aYBYHI
Sorry, my shocked face is still in the repair shop from the Obamacare debacle following close on the heels of the NSA revelations.
Funny how that Syrian civil war has almost completely disappeared from 24/7 news cycle.
Aw! Really? Well, it wasn’t like the government wanted that to happen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y80EL6d2peI
Just another isolated unintended consequence?
“South African Fake Sign Language Interpreter Claims He Was Hallucinating”
How do you say “chuzpa” in Afrikaans?
“Visions of Angels.”
NYC: FYTW
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/…..e_city.php
Newsstand forced to close because the guy can’t afford to pay $37K to the city. Comments blame the evil greedy rich for not paying the fine for him. Holy derp.
According to a Congressional Budget Office report this week, America’s top 40 percent of earners pay 106 percent of the taxes and the bottom 40 percent pay negative 9 percent, reports CNBC.
Income inequality! If they can afford to pay 106% of the taxes, then they’re Making Too Much Money?!
All taxes or just income taxes?
Probably income taxes.
I have a spreadsheet of the breakdown, up thru 2007. In 2007, for income taxes, the top 40% paid 98.7% and the bottom 40% paid -3.3%.
For total federal taxes, it was 85.4% and 5.2% respectively.
The trend line suggests that the 106% and -9% for INCOME taxes is probably correct.
And total 2007 breakdown for funsies (bottom to top quintile):
Income -3.0 -0.3 4.6 12.7 86.0
Soc Ins 4.8 10.8 16.6 24.7 42.9
Corp 0.6 1.4 3.3 6.8 86.8
Excise 11.0 14.1 18.1 22.2 34.3
ALL 0.8 4.4 9.2 16.5 68.9
“We won’t be happy until the top 1% is paying 110% of total taxes and the bottom 99% is paying -15%!”
-Derpy Krugscum
This is exactly what I would expect. And the upshot of it is that for once Democrats are going to get bit by low information voters rather than benefiting from them.
In Durham last month with Obamacare navigators, I sensed not elation at the law’s passage but a general sense of confusion that may help to explain the poll’s finding. “I have to tell people all the time, ‘It’s the Affordable Care Act, not the Free Health Care Act,'” one navigator told me. The same navigator said the consumers who come to him are largely unaware that they will have to pay a penalty if they choose not to purchase insurance.
A large number of people out there, most of them Democratic voters, honestly think that Obamacare means free health insurance. They have no idea they are going to have to pay for insurance under the program or that not getting insurance is going to cause them to be fined. On top of that, a good number of these people get the earned income credit. So the Obamacare fine is going to be collected. They are going to be pissed. I still don’t think people fully appreciate how huge the fallout from this is going to be.
http://www.nationalreview.com/…..na-johnson
A large number of people out there, most of them Democratic voters, honestly think that Obamacare means free health insurance. They have no idea they are going to have to pay for insurance under the program or that not getting insurance is going to cause them to be fined. On top of that, a good number of these people get the earned income credit. So the Obamacare fine is going to be collected. They are going to be pissed. I still don’t think people fully appreciate how huge the fallout from this demand for single payer is going to be.
ftfy
You think that. But liberals don’t seem to be very convinced that fucking up everyone’s health care is such a good thing. They seem pretty worried about it and seem pretty committed to pretending that Obamacare is a good thing. Maybe you just understand their situation better than them.
You have such a religious faith in the coming of single payer. If I honestly thought the majority of Americans are so stupid that they will reward liberals for screwing this up by giving them more power, I would give up on freedom and go full fascist. I couldn’t in good conscience allow a group of people that stupid to live their lives unsupervised. But I don’t believe that and I don’t think you do either. So single payer isn’t coming through that door.
And even if liberals wanted it, advocating for it would require admitting Obama is a failure. And no one wants that. Thanks to Obamacare, advocating for single payer is now racist.
If I honestly thought the majority of Americans are so stupid that they will reward liberals for screwing this up by giving them more power, I would give up on freedom and go full fascist.
It doesn’t take a majority of Americans. It takes a majority of voters. Not the same thing.
And isn’t it the liberal way to demand more government to fix problems created by government?
And even if liberals wanted it, advocating for it would require admitting Obama is a failure.
Failure, or just didn’t go far enough thanks to obstructionist Republicans?
But it won’t be a majority of voters. At most maybe 30% of the country, the real low sloping forehead types, support single payer. It would take not just a majority but a big majority to get it. You would have to effectively outlaw insurance. That won’t happen. The Dems would have to get 60 votes in the Senate again and somehow manage to get all of their members to buy on. Considering the fate of those who voted for Obamacare, I doubt many Democratic Congress creatures are going to be too interested in the next guy who comes along with a new health plan, much less single payer.
I doubt that the damage done by Obamacare will ever be totally fixed. Things will probably remain worse than they were until hopefully technology makes some improvements. But single payer isn’t going to happen. We will just blunder forward.
You would have to effectively outlaw insurance. That won’t happen.
Or force insurance companies into only being allowed to offer plans that don’t cover anything and cost more than anyone can afford. Kinda like what they’re doing now.
Then blame the free market and corporate greed. Kinda like what they’re doing now.
Then shuffle people into Medicare. Kinda like what they’re doing now.
But none of that is working. Didn’t you read the polls Reason put up yesterday?
No one is buying those excuses. Everyone knows what is going on. And moreover liberals admit as much. They are not blaming insurance companies. They are claiming that those high priced plans are better for you.
None of this is playing out like you say it will. None of it. I don’t understand why you keep thinking it will.
They are not blaming insurance companies.
Yeah they are. They’re blaming insurance companies for selling worthless plans and ripping people off.
They are claiming that those high priced plans are better for you.
Exactly. But what happens when people can’t afford those high priced plans? Oh yeah. Single payer.
Speaking of radio controlled bombs, I have some drifts which need to be cleared away.
Anybody have any good designs?
THIS IS WHY CHAIN GUNS SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Anybody have any good designs?
None that I would be willing to share on a website that is no doubt monitored by the NSA, DEA, BATFE, FBI, and probably several others.
Did anyone hear the final tally for H&R? Will the new interns’ monocles be platinum or simply gold?
I think you mis-spelled “manacles”, Brett.
Ah, joez law?
Man fined $183k after joining Anonymous DDoS of Koch Industries for one minute
None that I would be willing to share…
Selfish bastard. Only thinking of yourself.