Tonight on The Independents: A-Rod Rage, Christie's Acting Skillz, Hillary's Hit List, the French President's Mistress, Sen. Bernie Sanders on the NSA…Plus a Special Overtime Segment!
Tonight's episode of The Independents, which airs on Fox Business Network live at 9 pm ET and repeats at midnight, features an interview with a real life independent Senator, none other than the Vermont "democratic socialist," Bernie Sanders. Indie Bernie will talk about his inspired little stunt a few days back of asking the National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander whether the NSA is now or has ever been spying on members of Congress, and also explain how his idea of an expanded social safety net can co-exist with exploding entitlements.
Also appearing on the show: Washington Times Senior Opinion Editor Emily Miller, who drew the ire of many libertarians last week when she Tweeted that "No one gets prison for just smoking pot," and wrote a column warning that "Stoned citizens will further burden the dependency society." Panelists tonight include Democratic political strategist Basil Smikle and Lawfare Project Director Brooke Goldstein, who will chew on Hillary Clinton's reported hit list, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's promotional/acting skills, and the passing of Israel warhorse Ariel Sharon.
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Ah yes, the lunatic from Vermont. The way that socialism coexists with exploding entitlement spending is to simply raise taxes. That's only fair after all.
If everyone was on welfare we'd all be rich.
What? Another one?
This is getting ridiculous. How many of these are they going to make? This is worse than the Friday the 13th franchise.
QUALITY not QUANTITY, that's what FoE's mom always says.
I thought it was 'yeah, whatever you want, 50 bucks.'
She delivers a lot of QUALITY for those 50 bucks, Ag.
I thought you were implying that YOU were quality. Guess not.
Don;t be stupid, I would never imply that. That would be asinine. No, I am neither QUALITY or QUANTITY, I am QUAALUDE-ITY. Yup, you heard me.
Well, at least Archer is on tonight.
Looking forward to that. According to Reed and the producers they are completely changing the status quo of the show to shake things up.
I am so, so hoping for heavy Miami Vice references and just 80s drug trade references in general. There's a lot of material there, which is why I think Reed chose it.
Tywin Lannister promotes the Olympics for the BBC
They seem to be taking it a bit too seriously considering that their most famous winter Olympian is Eddie the Eagle Edwards.
I thought Canuckistan still paid them tribute.
You don't remember Torvill and Dean? Granted, ice dancing is a completely bogus sport, but they still won a gold medal.
Holy crap I remember them. Damn that was a long time ago. Why do you torment me with memories, Ted? I only want to forget.
I don't care if they're taking it too seriously. That was awesome.
Fuck, they show up in Sochi in July, imagine how embarrassing that is going to be for them.
I read an article a few weeks ago in one of the British dailies on the theme of 'what's the matter with those Yanks, and their inability to keep the days/months/years all proper?' I give credit to some who answered in the accompanying thread for not descending into John Bull intellectual impoverishment by correctly noting that due to fiscal cycles, months are more prominent on office calenders, hence the tradition. However, a great deal of it was the usual cultural chauvinism you would expect. Even when given the correct answer, they would turn it around and complain about he US being a nation of office drones, reveal gross ignorance of their own history ('a nation of clerks').
t he US being a nation of office drones, revealing gross ignorance of their own history ('a nation of clerks').
Cut out a superfluous phrase, it decided it wasn't going down alone.
For your edification and enjoyment.
Nelson Mandela Is Dead.
Thank god we still have Lou Reed.
And Francisco Franco.
And Abe Vigoda.
Some good news: New Mexico Court Holds There is a Right to Physician Assisted Suicide
http://www.volokh.com/2014/01/.....dividuals/
And EvH arrives to criticize the decision in 3, 2, 1 ...
The decision is wrong. There.
Thus saith the Lord
I thought I already debated this. I thought you didn't *want* a replay of that discussion?
Are you kidding? What else are we going to do all night?
^What this guy said.
Of course we could always debate a deep-dish circumcised gay abortion if you prefer
*about
Lord who?
Lord Nibbler.
Is there even anything in the bible that says you go to Hell for committing suicide?
Isn't that just Catlick Dogma? (Which was a good movie BTW, if it wasn't Affleck and Maaaaaaaatt Daaaaaaamuuuun.)
"We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives."
http://www.vatican.va/archive/.....s2c2a5.htm
Hey Bernie...answer the question.
Bible or Dogma?
Ima gunna have to go with Dogma as your answer based on your evasion.
The link I gave provides the following Biblical citation: "Ex 20:13; Cf. Deut 5:17."
But even if no Bible had ever been written, even if Moses instead of going to Sinai had become the Undersecretary for Pyramids in the Egyptian Interior ministry, suicide would still be wrong.
Purely "secular" reasoning suggests that you didn't give yourself life, so how can you take what isn't yours? And there's also the practical arguments about being skeptical of the "voluntary" part of "voluntary suicide" of terminally ill patients under pressure from families and cost-conscious hospitals.
Plus, it's doubly bad for physicians to get into the killing habit. Organized medicine doesn't even want doctors executing convicted criminals, and there's even a stigma against abortionists. Why expand the social respectability of a healing professional offing people?
Nobody *gave* me life, I TOOK it.
And that's not really 'secular' reasoning - you're still operating from a different premise than I am on the origin of human life.
Unfortunately, I think that based on the 'someone else gave me life and therefore I don't own it' would 'logically' lead to the conclusion that society should be a pyramid scheme where what I produce and own belongs to my parents and what they produce and own belongs to *their* parents, all the way up to the last surviving predecesor.
The parents' contribution to your life is significant, but they didn't *create* life, they just gave it a chance to emerge!
Yeah, well that throws out the whole 'secular logic' thingy then - 'cause that's *religious* logic.
Is there a relevant difference between "religious logic" and "operating from a different premise than I am"? 🙂
Um...yes.
My parents "created" my life, but I'm their heir, so it's mine, mine, mine.
No offense Ed, but that may be the most idiotic thing you've ever said here.
There is nothing in this universe that's more mine than my life. I will do with it as I see fit.
If not mine, then whose?
And, thou shalt not kill? That's all ya got?
Thou shalt not kill what? Can I kill cows? Can I kill in self defense? If you are going to take those words that literally then you must think you're going to hell for killing in self defense. Where do you stand on the death penalty?
It's hard to find an exact English translation for the Hebrew word translated "kill," and the meaning isn't exactly self-evident. Among Jews and Christians who believe in this commandment, there is a certain interpretive tradition, reaching back a couple millennia or so. Part of the point of being, say, a Catholic or Orthodox Jew is that one has the benefit of such a tradition, including the suicide interpretation above.
But my other point was that you don't have to be a religious nutter to disbelieve in a particular kind of killing.
In any case, the role of physicians in the proposed physician assisted suicide laws is a BIG problem. So is the cost-cutting-hospital context in which many of these cases arise. These practical objections should occur to anyone, whether Christian, Pastafarian, or Browns fan, who looks behind the rhetoric.
No, there's no *right* to physician assisted suicide.
That would imply that you could force physicians to assist you in killing yourself.
^This^
Conversly there is also no "right" to require the assistance of anyone else to keep you alive if you cannot function on your own and do not wish to die.
You may own your own life but you do not own anyone else's to compel their assistance.
"...Then there's 17-year-old Cody Chitwood of Cobb County, Ga. Police charged him with a felony for bringing weapons into a school zone. The "weapons" were fishing knives, and they were in a tackle box in Cody's truck....
Once upon a time, it made sense to insist that ignorance was no excuse for violating the law. Today, that maxim often sounds like a cruel joke. Let's work to ensure that people are criminally punished only for wrongdoing, not for ignorance of laws that they had no reason to think existed in the first place."
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....an-bernick
No, every person should carry around the full list of all local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
We have the technology, all it needs is a new agency to purchase tablet computers from a politically favored supplier and provide subsidies for everyone to purchase those tablets.
Bernie Sanders explains why the government is allowed to kick the shit out of everyone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIKP4W50-I
"The institutional Left hates homeschooling, hates it with a remarkable intensity, even though homeschooling recently has come into vogue with a certain subset of Park Slope?style progressives. Robin West of Georgetown's law school has written admiringly of the suppression of homeschooling and regimes under which "parents who did so were criminals." She writes that homeschoolers are dangerous precisely because of the fact that, far from being docile sheep, homeschoolers are as adults more likely to be politically engaged, which Professor West worries might "undermine, limit, or destroy state functions that interfere with family and parental rights." For good measure, she notes that many homeschoolers were enthusiastic about George W. Bush in 2000 ? quelle horreur....
"In the case of the Romeike family, a judge already had seen fit to offer them asylum, but the Obama administration wants to hand them over to the Germans...."
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....williamson
Catholic schools teach that Catholicism is best.
Jewish schools teach that Judaism is best.
Government schools teach that government is best.
-paraphrased from a commenter whose name escapes me.
INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!
Jumping the gun just a tad, aren't we?
10 till 9. M,T,W,F
Made me watch Kahbootow talk about sex aids...
Need to leave time for Serious to post inspirational music.
Like this?
SF'd link
Now you see why only I perform the task of setting the mood for The Independents.
Let's see if I get it right this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM
POLITICIANS DISSEMBLE!
You can watch this garbage, I'm watching Tennis.
Unfortunately, ESPN tends to give us the same few Americans over and over and over.
Why is Kennedy wearing a Tron suit?
Wait until she gets out the Frisbee...
OT: Is David Suzuki the slimiest global warming twit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0nWrItaY1g
No, he's just the most obviously clueless. I'm not sure what happened to the guy but he went for scientist to science reporter and never looked back.
The pirate stream doesn't work today. 🙁
Any bets that ol' Bernie is going to get his ass kissed?
This one worked for me, somehow got to it off the usual site:
http://www.zenex.tv/foxbusiness11
Thank you kindly. It works!
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE.
Why not Snookie?
Welch does a fine Swarzenegger inpersonation.
The commercials had to be filmed in widescreen. That's more expensive.
Fat jokes? Isn't that above you?
Hey, when I sit around the house thinking fat jokes up...
Welch was right about one thing - this "ad" bullshit is a useless fucking distraction.
Bridgeghazi only killed a woman.
And he's fat.
Wait, they had a guy on, on the 10th, who admits to being an "Occupy Wallstreet Leader" and they're took him seriously?
Is every single TEAM RED member who goes on this show going to sandbag Christie? Because that would be awesome.
No one seems to like him. Repubs see a sinking ship and Democrats see the chance to destroy their greatest threat.
Unless they have Karl Rove or some hardcore establishment hack on, I think that's to be expected. The conservatives despise Christie.
This just in: Libertarian wants to do away with roads.
Huh, Hitlary and I have the same enemies list.
I'd move Chris Dodd to #1.
I should think that's only part of your enemies list, the other part being her friends list.
Is there any place livestreaming this? I *have* a tv but its only hooked up to the computer.
http://www.zenex.tv/foxbusiness11
Thank you.
Kill em with kindness?
Fake their suicide?
Ohh, the TEAM RED chick is going all Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy. Nice. You can't beat cute and wacky.
Yeah, way to live down to the Fox stereotype.
Now they're talking about Israel...where will she go?
Damn, that was less interesting than I hoped.
When she's got something in her teeth...
If tax free zones are so great, why don't they make all of NY a tax free zone?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They just played a New York ad for tax free zones and want businesses to move there. Yeah, that's a great use of your money in Seattle, New York.
Feminist writer reads a bit too much into the Pope's endorsement of public breast-feeding.
Pope: If your baby is hungry, feed it, even in church.
Journalist Evi Quinn: "What he was essentially saying was that the human body is beautiful and that there's nothing shameful about showing it off in public?especially in church. This was a ringing endorsement of public nudity and of the liberation of the female body. At one point while he was speaking, he pointed upward, as if to say, 'Do not be afraid. Look up at all the boobage in this place [Sistine Chapel]. You are not alone.'"
Picked the wrong time to troll. Keep watching the fascinating TV show.
I get the feeling a lot of progressives actually bought all the critical analysis crap they were taught in AP English instead of seeing it for what it was: competitive bullshitting.
Ay, Sharon-a.
"I think the only chance for peace in the Middle East is to nuke 'em all and let Allah sort 'em out."
"You don't like the muzzers" LOL
Think of the Muslim children---as we rain drone bombs upon them
We have to blow them up to see what's in them.
I'm gonna have to go on record as being a fan of Ms. Goldstein. She does slightly nuts in a really articulate way.
That was a little more than slightly nuts.
I'm being generous; she's charmed me. With well-spoken insanity. Stop interrupting, Kmele!
I just turned on the T.V. in time to see this Republican woman start talking about the Middle East.
Holy cow, is this woman dumb.
"Yes, I believe the way to stop problems in the Middle East is to have parents stop teaching terrorism."
"Is...is that all?"
"Yes. Stop teach terrorism. NOOOO terrorism. Terrorism bad."
DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT CRAZY BROOKE
Why do you want Muslim children blowing themselves up?
So really, it's a problem with outdated textbooks.
Has she cited Farfur the Mouse yet?
Isn't this a re-run?
"Just say NO!"
"I think you have to completely remove yourself from reality..."
Well, you seem to have a head start on that!
You dream about muzzer gang-bangs, don't you Brooke?
Is 'I Co-produced my movie with Palestinians" the Middle East version of "Some of my best friends are black?"
Is butt the fuck out an option?
Is Brooke just here to push her movie?
Holy shit Kenendy's look at her was amazing. I can't believe they stayed on that for that long. This is fun!
I missed that. Was it a flirty look? Because Kennedy has a bizarre tendency to hit on the female guests.
No, it was a deer in the headlights "what the fuck are you talking about" look. It was pretty great. It was only on for about 2-3 seconds.
That was great. Saw it instantly. Rewound it three times for my wife who didn't get the context. My wife overthinks things and doesn't see what's right in front of her way too often while watching stuff like that.
"Honey, Kennedy thinks that bitch be crazy!"
That was outstanding camera direction.
This conversation is really horrible in this format
Did she just call Sanders a total statist? Is it me, or is Kennedy on fire tonight?
I have a solution to the Palestine-Israel problem:
We have Huda Naccache mud-wrestle with Esti Ginzburg
Winner gets to decide the issue.
Not permanently, though. Just for a 2-week period. Then rematch.
I want them to spit every time they say the word socialist.
"Hello, Senator, you crazy old fuck."
Just turned it on... HOLY SHIT THIS IS WHAT BERNIE SANDERS LOOKS LIKES.
How'd they respond?
Fuck off, Senator!
Ha, Bernie is solely concerned about political blackmail.
Bernie's got some stuff in his background to hide?
The most scandalous thing is the thing he boasts of most openly.
If you had a Nixon type! If!
THANK GOD WE DON'T HAVE A RICHARD NIXON TYPE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Reminder: this is a man who became a socialist after living on an Israeli kibbutz during the 1960s
IF you had a Richard-Nixon-type as POTUS. *IF*.
God damn you playa!
And Fist.
Why the fuck does Bernie Sanders talk like Doc Brown from Back to the Future? I need him to scream at Marty about Ethiopians.
Yeah, or a Bill Clinton type, or a Barack Obama type, or a George W Bush type.
Or a Bernie Sanders type.
Or any other type who wants the job of president
They should ask him the following question:
"Given that you are concerned with the privacy of American citizens, how can you advocate a socialized medical system which requires massive amounts of personal information and medical records to be collected by the government? Isn't that massively hypocritical, nonsensical, and unprincipled?"
The government medical system will be run by good saintly people that do it out of love, not for dirty profit.
Next Question:
You mean totally unlike every other government agency?
Get your facts right, Welch! Social security is so totally solvent.
What's the matter, Senator Sanders, chicken?
A spoonful of democracy makes the socialism go down.
Steal from the rich.
I'm shocked.
You can't spell socialism without a social security, Kennedy.
Europe does it!!!
Senator Sanders: what's the max number of retired people I should have to support? 1/3? 1/2? When it hits 1:1, I want my sponsored decrepit's name, picture, and brief biography, like those "sponsor a kid in Africa" commercials.
For less than $.33 a day, you can sponsor someone just like... Bernie?
He grafted enough not to have to worry. Worst case, he can write an occasional sponsored article/op-ed.
Why? Are you going to track them down to their RV they live in while wintering over in Yuma?
Get ahold of me, I can tell you where the snowbirds congregate.
Them's good hunting - .22 rifle from the orchard next door and BAM! some old lady's rat lap-dog is running for safety, yipping all the way.
I'm not hunting old people. And certainly not talking about hunting old people ON THE INTERNET.
No, no, no - not hunting *old people*, hunting 'stray dogs'.
You shoot the dogs of people you don't like?
So...you're kind of a shithead, huh?
Oh, Kmele. You're just toying with Sanders with that question.
Run ya crazy son of a bitch, run! I'd love to see him take on Hilary in a primary debate.
They must mean for Senate,.
INCOME DISPARITY INEQUALITY BLAH BLAH
Do we really have a disappearing middle class? He, and people like him, say this shit...do they have the slightest amount of "evidence"?
They hold these things to be self-evident.
We certainly have a middle class that's getting ground to dust in highly expensive progressive cities like San Francisco and New York.
Oh! That's not what he meant?
If it is happening, and I say IF, it is directly because of liberal policies.
These days, you're either a maker or a taker.
I've also never seen a Democrat explain why the middle class votes Republican if the Democrats are the ones who want what's best for them.
After all, the Democrat argument about why black people vote Democrat is because Democrats are trying to help black people. By that logic, doesn't it stand to reason that the middle class votes Republican because the Democrats are actively opposed to middle class interests?
Ah, but here I am asking for logical consistency!
I've also never seen a Democrat explain why the middle class votes Republican
I've seen it. The explanation is that they are duped into voting against their self-interests.
Were you hoping for something more in depth?
No. A regurgitation of Marxist false consciousness is about what I've come to expect out of the Democratic party.
False consciousness?
I thought "racism" explained pretty much everything these days.
Yeah. "False consciousness." It's one of their favorite excuses, along with "It's never been truly tried!" and "ASTROTURF"
Do you feel middle-class Epi? Do you feel like you're middle class when once upon a time in the 1950s the rich were taxed at 90% and government spent money on everything?
Do you feel middle class when today the Waltons have a lot more than you?
Topical storm?!? Too early! Change bad!
Hollande should call Gingrich and Edwards for advice.
Why not go straight to the master? Clinton.
Sweet softball questions for Sen. Sanders, guys. Way to pass over that "Nixon type" golden opportunity by the way.
For the record, Holland cheated on his previous significant other to be with his current girlfriend.
Not sure what she was expecting.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me seven or more times, shame on me."
Interestingly, the new babe is younger but not nearly as good-looking.
And, Kennedy finally loses it. Awesome.
This is very unprofessional.
They're drunk, aren't they?
They think they're on a morning talk show.
They filmed this episode 9:30am this morning. That's the bad part.
It's always happy hour somewhere!
It's happy hour in SweatingGin's kitchen
Good Morning America or one of those shows have two women hosts who are always getting blitzed while hosting. Typically right on camera.
FCC, asleep at the switch.
Kathie and Hoda Lee Gifford are the final (8572748525784th) hour of the Today show.
One Swedish-made budget enlarging pump!
Cut to commercial! She's giggling out!
It's not mine, baby. Someone's playing a joke on me, baby.
PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY PANTS, COLORADO.
If you used Carl, they could be bigger-boy pants.
stay cool... he doesn't know we're high... heheheh...hah
Anyone who goes to Times Square is a tourist and gets everything they deserve.
My dad's office was on Times Square for +/- 5 years. Never got around to visiting, though.
Good move. Even going to a Broadway show you should go around Times Square and hit the theater from a different direction.
The statue in the park has lost his crown.
That almost makes me want to go to Times Square
To see two Spider-Mans making out?
A-rod's fucked. No way he'll file in federal court. Discovery's a bitch.
He's on the phone with his attorney who advises he takes the fifth.
Hey are you on the phone?
Yeah.
Cool, do you think....
LOL, again.
I lolled
Of course a Jets fan doesn't know who A-Rod is. He's probably never heard of the Yankees, just the Mets.
A-Rod is a retired tennis player that ESPN fellated for years, disappointed that Roger Federer won everything that was supposed to be his.
Speaking of tennis, I see the Wolf of Wall Street guy around town quite a bit, and apparently he plays tennis with Jeff Tarango everyday. I wonder how much those lessons cost?
Does it include throwing rackets at the net?
"Hard hitting reporting!"
"Hard hitting reporting". And they lose it again.
So... are they on the weed?
Matt is the only one who gives a shit about A-Rod
Sorry = about Baseball
I don't even like hockey.
Bobby, foosball is the devil!
Ma, ma, mama says Vicki Vallencourt is da debil.
And in interest of taking a joke too far
And I like Vicki, and she like me back! And she showed me her boobies and I like them too!
No, that was the right amount.
PLAY BY THE RULES YOU AGREED TO.
I want robots playing against each other.
The steroid debates in baseball are going to look so stupid once the cyborg leagues are integrated.
That will all pale in comparison to Major League Blernsball.
They'll clean up the majors for the purity of the game and then attendance will plummet because it's so fucking booorrrrriiiinnngggg zzzzzz.
If by robots, you mean lipstick lesbians.
Fembots ok?
Matt with the baseball conspiracy theory.
And then Kmele with the anti-baseball digs again.
PROOF. I already knew kennedy was WGAF -Kmele admits: Boring
Babe Ruth played with performance degrading drugs.
Did Kennedy just accuse Matt of playing for the other team?
It was code language for, "you play fantasy baseball, dont you, you loser"
Was an accusation even necessary?
Accuse? Epi, Welch's life choices are not a crime.
If Welch wants to grind up against a sweaty lumberjack in the privacy of his own home or on a public merry go round or whatever, then that's his decision to make.
Speaking of which, what happened to Jesse.in.mb?
I heard he was in Germany. Don't know if he's back yet.
Oh, that's right - bathhouse tour.
Good thing he didn't go to Thailand, we'd never get him back here.
Oh please. I was able to leave Thailand just fine. Germans are way more my thing. Although there was a very handsome fellow in Bangkok working the bar HotMale. I highly recommend it.
Welcome back.
Can I post a portion of your Facebook message?
Of course.
Me: "The commentariat hopes you banged a lot of hot German dudes and looks forward to hearing about it."
Jesse: "There was also a Bosniak, Italian and Venezuelan dude."
^^^ Hi-Five for this guy!!!!
How does this stack up?
http://alphadesigner.com/wp-co.....ay-men.png
No idea. I didn't end up in any dungeons.
Jesse, while you were gone, Serious said he looks just like Ryan Gosling. I was going to make fun of him, but I pass the torch along to you.
I only meant there was a curious resemblance in one photo I saw of him where his hair was buzz cut like mine.
Curious resemblance? After I claimed I was extremely good looking, you said you were too, and cited it as a source. Check Mate!
*drops mic and then catches it on the way down*
I can still be good looking and have somewhat of a resemblance to a movie star.
And it's just the face, I certainly don't have his body that causes female movie goers everywhere to flood their panties.
To quote Warrren:
"Why hello!"
I might have missed that. Does Jugwine Warren play for the other team too?
He just says "why hello!" a lot at awkward moments.
He got back this weekend. I'll inquire what the problem is.
He has been summoned.
For cosmotarians like them, aren't straight people the other team?
Boom goes the dynamite!
I'ma like this next segment!
Will they please ask the anti-pot lady why she's using the same bullshit arguments against pot that liberals use against guns.
AHHHHHH LOU DOBBS!!!!
In 14 minutes.
Krystin Ritter is advertising Proactiv? I'm so disillusioned.
What's released in my mouth?
Carl?
With a K.
Government has been involved in B-Ball since the BlackSox.
We need a new Arnold Rothstein to fix another World Series.
You can't mess with perfection
But you can moisturize it.
What the fuck?
Dicks. He's talking about dicks.
Many men find women in a tight T-shirt hot.
Add moisture by putting her in a tight, wet T-shirt, and she's even hotter.
I'm having a crazy idea where we could have a contest in a bar... just brainstorming here...
The 420 Amendment.
The circular reasoning is stunning.
What happened, Emily Miller? I thought you were cool.
It's wrong because it's illegal.
"Because DRUGS!"
...
Who's allowed to research with marijuana??? LOCK THEM UP FOR POSSESSION.
Jebus, this is brutal. She was about to hang herself on "we as a society"
Let her.
THERE'S NO HEALTH BENEFITS FOR MARIJUANA
The gun chick is a fucking retard prohibitionist. Way to break out of the conservative moron stereotype. At least Kennedy is hassling her for her stupidity.
I am going to get so stoned as soon as I get back from my errands.
derp
Republican idiot.
Her argument about health benefits is moronic. A shot of tequila has no health benefit and yet we don't make it illegal.
Don't give her any ideas.
It should only be legal if it's good for you.
Solid logic, Emily. Good work.
No positive health benefits.
Neither does a fucking twinkie.
'There's so much money in this business.'
Which is why it should be legalized! I call it the 'marijuana instant jobs and tax revenue program!'
Yeah, Emily, there's a ton of money in it. For the fucking cops and the prisons. Fuck she's stupid.
Seems like Kmele's "give me a number" could work on someone that wasn't a true believer.
"It must be less than 16 trillion, right? More than a buck? So, to avoid the damage from weed, how much should society pay? Just a number. Pick one."
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
She's outright lying.
Fucking THC toxicity, how does that work?
Marijuana: You don't want any of this shit!
Shorter Emily Miller: Guns should be legal because I like them. Pot should be illegal because I don't.
There's so many lies and fallacies in her argument that you have to wonder if she's just a robot programmed by Mel Sembler.
And Kmele just handed her her ass.
why do they let these fucking people get away with ridiculous counter factuals? You don't need to yell at them - you can just go, "that actually isn't true".
Her scare data about "addicts" is basically saying, "we categorize people who choose to consume X, ADDICTED, where if they consume Y, they've GOT TASTES"
Emily get your gun.
I'm a girl and don't yell at me.
It must be awkward arguing against pot when all of the hosts of this show are probably high right now.
Of course they are -- it's ADDICTIVE.
Go National. Make it so.
Also = I give Kmele a pound for at least *trying* to get the bitch to acknowledge that the Drug War hasn't exactly been the most cost-beneficial program for certain aspects of the population.
Kmele got sidetracked doing internet research...
Kmele, your line is "you all look alike to me"
Kmele: "I believe him. I don't need a paternity test to prove it."
Kmele has apparently adopted the Emily Miller scientific method: Whatever I believe to be true, is magically true.
I couldn't tell it was sarcasm. I hope so.
*if*
Joking. He was trying a funny.
LEAVE KMELE ALONE!
It was obviously a joke. I know that.
(narrowing eyes) Well, alright then.
Which one is yours?
The black one.
Oh, right - makes sense.
Mike Lee is stealing Stossel's bit.
Hey Kmele, you're getting close to realizing that it's all bullshit! You're almost there, keep going!
No one told them to stop printing, of course they are still printing it.
AH! Lou Dobbs.
WHAT? Only at midnight? FUCK THAT
AAIIGHHHHH LOU DOBBS
Alright, it's Archer time! Welcome to the Danger Zone!
Thanks for the reminder.
John Stossel can do anything.
Ahh!!! Lou Dobbs!
Did she just say no 9PM show for the rest of the week?
Is this going to become an Archer thread?
I sure hope that was a dream sequence.
Fuck you, I don't get it for hours. You know what? To hell with you, I'm going to go buy some weed so that I have a new strain to smoke before Archer later.
You should say "To Emily Miller!" and raise the bag solemnly in the air before you light up. You know, in her honor.
Wait... I have something for this...
Well, its certainly not going to become a Lou Dobbs thread.
What the fuck is the car auction? It's preempting the show this week.
Wah? Seriously?
Fox Biz isn't at all a second rate network.
Wounded Warrior car auction?
I heard a commercial on the radio earlier for a workers' comp attorney. I swear to god their web site is "woundedworker.com"
If that is not disrespectful in some way, I must need recalibration.
Barrett-Jackson?
Apparently they're only allowed to say things like, "The Drug War is bad" on the un-televised after-show.
All the obvious points get to be made in the secure confines of a live-stream.
Speaking of the boob tube, it's Popes Gone Wild!
http://reason.com/blog/2014/01.....nt_4242379
Shorter Eddy: PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE!!!!
🙂
It's hard out there for a troll
Kmele just said Kanye West was in Monsters Ball?
What? No he wasn't.
The famous movie lines you've been saying wrong
Fairly weak sauce - fairest of them all versus fairest one of all. The meaning is the same, the audience just did some stylistic improvements.
The one misunderstanding that may affect the meaning is:
"Field Of Dreams (1989)
"What everyone says: If you build it, they will come.
"What the actual line is: If you build it, he will come."
The first version sounds like it's in the same genre as "build a better mousetrap and the world will build a path to your door." A pep talk for business people.
*he* will come sounds less business-y and more creepy.
Eduard
Serious question for you.
On redstate today some moron claimed that advocating for legalization of marijuana was a religious sini.
Is there any mainstream Christian church that makes that claim? And on what basis if there is.
I'm afraid I don't know what a religious sini is. 🙁
Unless you meant *Sinai* -
When I was high upon the mountain, God revealed the truths of the earth...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kRAKXFrYQ4
So they advocate *for* drugs then?
Look, seriously, not all Christian churches are down with legalized weed or its advocates, just as not all atheists/agnostics are into libertarianism in general.
I regret that I don't have specific links, but I could always look if you're curious. Have a wonderful day!
I'm fine with religious people wanting to keep the current legal scheme, ok not really but I'm not going to automatically hate them for that position.
But I was kind of shocked that someone would claim that merely advocating a change in the law regarding weed was a sin against god.
I've got a fair amount of religious education as a kid and I think that it's a really big stretch to claim that taking drugs recreationally is in and of itself a sin, let alone saying that someone who does should not be locked in a cage or have their house shot up.
So I'm curious if you've ever encountered or are aware of a religious claim like that.
That calling for dope to be legal is a sin? No, haven't encountered that. Bill O'Reilly seemed to verge on it in one program I saw, but I don't think he's a representative Catholic, and he didn't speak 7n theological categories or mention his religion.
Yeah I was pretty sure that he was just some knuckle dragging moron talking out of his ass.
Bill O'Reilly seemed to verge on it in one program I saw
Yeah, he's an absolute asshole zealot on the issue. It amazes me how so many people get so stupid over the issue of drugs.
And looking only at my own neck of the ecclesiastical woods, I found some Papal and Vatican statements about how drugs should be illegal, but nothing high-level enough to suggest that conscientious dope-legalizers are sinners (unless they use the stuff themselves). I don't think that a Catholic calling for emptying the prisons of victims of the War on Dope would be sinning.
Good point.
Now, Pope Francis opposed legalization in a Youth Day address in Brazil, and in the diplomatic realm they lobby for some form of war on drugs (while giving a pastoral focus re users), but my meaning is that I don't think these statements are on the same level as encyclicals, etc. So in Catholic terms I think the legal dope question can still be deemed open for discussion, unlike say the renunciation of Satan at baptism (the Episcopalians just made that optional, which is not the Catholic approach).
Regarding the religious argument for making drugs illegal, I don't see how the person arguing so can possibly be in favor of legalizing some drubs and making others illegal. If intoxication is a sin, then it is still a sin even if a doctor says that it is ok.
'She told me to destroy my guns': Sean Penn hints Charlize Theron is the 'strong woman' who got him to gets rid of his 65 'cowardly killing machines'
Hollywood culture is so fucked up, a woman who would be presently dead if not for her mother shooting her abusive father has been brain washed into a raging hoplophobe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....earms.html
I, for one, don't trust a man who only owns 65 guns.
In the words of my grandfather:
"That pussy is some strong shit!"
I only have seven currently. But you are completely right to treat me with suspicion.
I only have 8 +2 not working (yet). It was more of a dig at Penn, who went to the trouble of collecting 65 guns before changing his mind about gun ownership. It tells me all I need to know about him.
So, what the hell is Penn slinging that that woman would end up with him?
Walton Manor for sale.
Not those Waltons.
I sure am sad about Ariel Sharon's passing. He was a god among men. Knew how to put the enemies of Israel-be they settlertrash or palitrash-in their place.
He's essentially been dead for 8 years now. And it's not like Israel is in want of hard-line leadership in Bibi.
Detroit Free Press Reporter makes incest joke about West Virginia after a chemical spill.
Obviously conservatives have their panties in a bunch over this because people in West Virginia vote Republican and must therefore be protected. Ho hum, idiotic partisan politics as usual.
Personally, I'm just wondering what made a Detroit reporter think there's anywhere else in America that she's allowed to make fun of.
I mean, you live in Detroit. That would be like the Elephant Man calling someone ugly.
"Shit, my mountain cabin is more urbanized than your howling wilderness of a "city!""
Popes gone wild - feminist journalist Evi Quinn's creative interpretation of Pope Francis' advocacy of public breastfeeding:
"What he was essentially saying was that the human body is beautiful and that there's nothing shameful about showing it off in public?especially in church. This was a ringing endorsement of public nudity and of the liberation of the female body. At one point while he was speaking, he pointed upward, as if to say, 'Do not be afraid. Look up at all the boobage in this place [Sistine Chapel]. You are not alone.'"
http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2.....r-reports/