Tonight on The Independents: Up in Your Business! And Immediately After, Watch Matt Welch Debate Pot Prohibitionists on Hannity

Friday-night episodes of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT) are based around a single theme. Tonight that theme is how the government is getting all "Up in Your Business," in all senses of all those words. For instance:

* Codifying and enforcing all kinds of ridiculously freedom-hating occupational licensing requirements, as explained by Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes.

* Delaying and degrading your experience at the airport in federally managed security-theater lines, as explored by Cato's Chris Edwards.

* Prohibiting online poker, selectively and vaguely, as testified to by professional poker player Dustin Schmidt.

* Coming up with restrictions on your private property so ridonkulous that you can't tell whether the laws are fact or fiction, as demonstrated in a game featuring as contestants Fox Business anchor Melissa Francis and Red Girls Salonista Dee Dee Benkie.

* Having ignorant health inspectors put the fear of God into conscientious restaurateurs, as elucidated by Pink Tea Cup owner Lawrence Page.

* Gratuitously disrupting centuries-old symbiotic relationships between breweries and cattle farmers, as disclosed by Widmer Brothers Brewing Company's Joe Casey.

* Teaching kiddie entrepreneurs to hate (or serve!) government, as lamented by the co-hosts.

The episode repeats at midnight ET and again at 2 a.m.; and also Sunday night at 7 p.m. Saturday night's 7 p.m. time-slot will feature a re-air of Wednesday's "mystery meat" show, featuring Julio Borowski and Chuck Woolery and John Bolton and Two-Minute Hater Bernie Maxsmith.

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING TONIGHT'S EPISODE, please change the channel to Fox News, where at 10 p.m. ET host Sean Hannity is hosting a group discussion with about 20 of us humans on the subject of "Stoned in America." It is a sometimes barky exchange of ideas, to say the least, and the narrow anti-prohibition caucus (which also included known insane person Gavin McInnes and comedian Sherrod Small) did its level best to bring some freedomizin' and rationality into the argument.

Comments

[Jesus H. Christ]

It's not even noon on the west coast and this thread is already up?

[Brett L]

"Gentlemen, start your livers."

[Root Boy]

Sounds like we're skipping PM links and getting right into a drinking game about hoop size.

[DEG]

Yes. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

During a trip to Germany, I had breakfast here. Altbier with their Brauhaus-Fr?hst?ck. I recommend it.

[BakedPenguin]

They're hiring. Sprechen zie Deutsch?

[BardMetal]

Ein wenig

[BardMetal]

Und, nicht sehr gut.

[DEG]

Ein bisschen.

Wann spreche ich den Kellner auf Deutsch, die meisten zeit er auf Deutsch antwortet.

[BardMetal]

Du sagt "ein bisschen" Ich sagt "ein wenig".

Was vershieden im dieses Zeit machst es macht?

Ich denkt Ich fick das uber ein wenig, oder sehr viele.

Ok meine Deutsch ist Scheisse.

[DEG]

Are trying to combine "You say tom-a-toe, I say tom-ah-toe" reference with a Hillary Clinton "What difference does it make?" joke? Or did I really misinterpret what you wrote?

[Swiss Servator, K?se, K?se!]

I got to use a little of German today - we had two of my Swiss masters in for meetings and training - one of them was a very, very attractive woman...that was quite distracting. I NEED UGLIER CORPORATE BOSSES.

[Swiss Servator, K?se, K?se!]

See, I am so distracted, still, that I cannot write clearly!

... oh, wait, that is my default state...

[DEG]

one of them was a very, very attractive woman...that was quite distracting
I learned a very important life lesson related to this point while a teenager.

I was driving. My older brother was riding with me. I noticed some good looking women walking on the sidewalk. I would rear ended had I not turned my attention back to the road when my older brother yelled at me, "When you're driving, don't check out hot women until you're stopped!".

[DEG]

hah!

I can't write clearly either.

"I would have rear ended a car had I not turned my attention back to the road.."

[BakedPenguin]

I NEED UGLIER CORPORATE BOSSES.

Maybe it's just insurance. My last boss at the insurance company I worked for was insanely hot.

[BardMetal]

Yes that was exactly what I was trying to do, although with poor grammer, and a limit vocabulary.

[DEG]

Nice!

[BardMetal]

I need to practice more. I was making a lot of progress with German a few months ago, but then kind of hit a plateau, and now lately I haven't had a lot of time to work on it.

[DEG]

I'm heading back to Germany later this year. I should be working on my German in hopes that I can have more than basic conversations with Germans, but I have not had time at all to do it. I understand.

[Fist of Etiquette]

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. It's a pre-recorded show, so my guess is Welch wants to start his weekend early.

[RannedPall]

Jesus, can I at least finish my breakfast? Cereal and beer.

[Sudden]

I'm half tempted to knock out a bit early today and just binge on oysters and whiskey.

Anyone going to the YAL conference at USC tomorrow? I'm thinking about it, but I kinda have to brew a beer too.

[Episiarch]

I'm going to knock out a bit early myself, go squat, and then happy hour. And now you've made me want oysters, you bum.

[Sudden]

I exist only to fuel your most base desires.

I am programmed to once daily make a reference to either porn, oysters, or cocaine in an effort to implant that desire in your brain.

And one day you will wake up with a craving for deep dish. On that day, you will know who won.

[Episiarch]

Oh, FoE is not going to like how early this went up. Someone get his thorazine injection before he hulks out on us.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I ALREADY SAID IT WAS AN OUTRAGE.

[Episiarch]

God damn it who has the thorazine?!? He's turning green!

[Brett L]

Here you go.

[Sudden]

Two minutes of hate, followed by a panel discussion with Hannity so even more hate can course through my highly pressurized veins.

Oh joy!

[sarcasmic]

Do not EVER fucking tell me to watch Hannity. I can't stand that fucker. His voice makes me want to gouge my ears out with an oyster knife.

[Sudden]

I just prefer to put the TV on mute while he's talking and listen to Hulk Hogan's intro song while fapping vigorously.

[Almanian!]

I read "Hulk Hogan" as "Hogan's Heroes" initially...and that actually made more sense to me.

No Bob Crane...

[Almanian!]

Ditto - two people who make me change the channel faster than anyone else:

1) The President (PBUH)
2) Sean Fucking Hannity

What a douchetard. And by "douchetard", I mean "both of them."

[Certified Public Asskicker]

Oh, have you seen that Jon Stewart fellow make fun of Sean Hannity? Now that is a real treat.

[Brett L]

Congratulations on outsmarting the microencephiliac. Next you can try to beat the TBI kid at memory recall games.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

It's my fault for lurking around Rawstory and Huffpo to find the outrage stories, but Christ, every day on each site is an article about what fucking Jon Stewart did the night before.

What you wrote is perfect.

[Root Boy]

Look at these 15 gifs showing how John Stewart pwned the stupid rethuglicans!!!!

[Swiss Servator, K?se, K?se!]

Mark Levin has an even more annoying voice - I'd rather listen to the yowlling of a bag full of drowning civet cats.

[BardMetal]

Annoying voice or not, you at least get the impression that Mark Levin actually has some core beliefs. I can't say the same thing about Hannity.

[DEG]

Auric, I saw the post about Boston area folks getting together on the AM links after the thread died. I am interested, though whether or not I can make it depends on the time. I'll leave a semi-throw-away e-mail folks can reach me at here since you don't have an e-mail address in your handle: dgroves140 at gmail dot com.

[Brett L]

OT, but I have a meeting during the PM links: Smoking weed -- the best decision Mitch McGary ever made?

[mr simple]

Why does Melissa Francis have yellow eyes on the linked twitter? She should probably get that checked out.

[anon]

Hannity is shit. It's not nice of Matt to go and make fun of retards like that.

[anon]

OT: When I get pulled for DUI on the way home, I'm offering this thread as my defense.

[Sudden]

Just make sure you've bookmarked this page loaded on your phone.

If you have to click through reason, the police officer may see a number of threads questioning his authority and deem you a threat to the public at which point he will savagely beat you to death.

[DFG]

I thought that segment on weed was supposed to be on Wednesday night and sat through an entire hour of Sean Fuckin Hannity waiting for it. Dear God...it...changed me. I no longer find enjoyment in many things I used to do. Food no longer has any taste. I drink and drink and can't get drunk. Not enough anyway. It's not anything I ever want to go through again.

[Sudden]

You're a true American

[Calidissident]

*Great American

You have just exposed yourself as a commie islamofascist traitor.

[BardMetal]

Does Sean Hannity do anything other then repeat Republican talking points? I mean is there any indication that he has given any thought to what he says, or is it always team blue = bad, and team red = good?

[Swiss Servator, K?se, K?se!]

"Does Sean Hannity do anything other then repeat Republican talking points?"

No.

"I mean is there any indication that he has given any thought to what he says, or is it always team blue = bad, and team red = good?"

No (to the thought.) Yes (to the TEAM).

[Root Boy]

I like how he always says "I'm a conservative, not a Republican" though I have yet to hear him rag on a Repub to his face about corporate welfare or any of the anti-freedom crap those mainstreamers push.

[BardMetal]

He'll occasionally go after some RINO once in awhile, but yeah he pretty much sticks by the party line 100% of the time. It's pathetic.

I wish he really was a conservative, and not a Republican, at least then there would be some principles, and something that might get the audience thinking.

[Root Boy]

True. I wish the Independents was on Fox instead of FB. All Fox has is crooked mouth girl (who is pretty good and hits both sides), hot chick (who is fun to watch), O'really (who is mostly a douche), and Hannity. Too much echo chamber.

Red Eye should be on earlier to at least break through the Team Red smugness. Or they should give Carolla a show.

[sloopyinca]

OT: I take it the author of this CL post didn't move to Corona to be a math professor.

[Brett L]

Awesome. $450 it is!

[DFG]

I believe that involves Common Core math techniques. It's the latest thing.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Do you have your eye on that couch?

[Banjos]

Selling similar set, seeing what other people were charging.

[Root Boy]

Jen Psaki (Obamatronic zombie spokesperson for Kerry) lays down the hurt on Putin with a hashtag war. LoLing erupts on twitter:

http://twitchy.com/2014/04/25/.....hotoshops/

[Sudden]

The merciless mockery is delightful.

[Brett L]

Twitchy is pretty fun.

[Root Boy]

One of my favorites is the Tropic Thunder retard one.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The clown shoes were pretty good

[Brett L]

Alright, who's up for an ass-kicking in the name of science?

After a savage beating outside a karaoke bar left him with a traumatic brain injury, Padgett discovered his brain had somehow been rewired to think ? and draw ? mathematically.

[sloopyinca]

Wow, a Texas sheriff fired a cop for shooting a dog. Or maybe he did it because the deputy only shot it once.

[sloopyinca]

Notice the two accompanying pictures. Now, tell me which one looks scarier?

[Root Boy]

A tiny bit of hope in a sea of fucked up cop stories.

[BardMetal]

Hey didn't Texas also pass a law that basically said that if a homeowner shot a cop that was raiding his house, and didn't announce that he was a cop, that it would basically be ruled as self-defense?

Maybe Texas will lead the way in police reform.

[Brett L]

Indiana, I think. In Texas, killing a cop while committing a crime or escaping from prison carries an unofficial death sentence during apprehension.

[DEG]

It depends.

http://www.texasgunlaws.org/chap9.htm

(c) The use of force to resist an arrest or search is justified:

(1) if, before the actor offers any resistance, the peace officer (or person acting at his direction) uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest or search; and

(2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the peace officer's (or other person's) use or attempted use of greater force than necessary.

[Root Boy]

I think a jury just said the guy made a good shoot. Hopefully it's precedent.

Law and order types are still pretty strong in TX, so it will take a lot more screw ups to get rid of things like qualified immunity.

[Brett L]

Shooting cowdogs in a cowtown? Bad for re-election.

[BardMetal]

Ah yes Cops, the only people with enough training to be trusted with firearms.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Prediction: Kennedy wheels out a jalape?o on a stick cart and has an intern come in and shut it down.

Because government gets jalape?o business!

[Brett L]

Ugh. I wish they had the two minute hate for commenters. I'd spend it all on this.

[kibby]

.........We need to talk about this pun problem you have.

[Brett L]

Use a pillowcase full of rocks.

[kibby]

I will take this suggestion under serious consideration.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Beat him with a phone book. It won't leave bruises, so the cops with think he's the crazy one when he files a report.

[kibby]

Domestic abuse advice...not sure how I feel about this.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

"Not sure"?!?!?!!!

[kibby]

One day the puns may drive me over the edge, is all I'm saying.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Yeah, it might make GMSM a math savant, or a drooling retard.

Would anyone notice a difference either way?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

If he becomes a math savant, maybe he will take my career advice.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'm going to take the State Department career assessment test. Which is career advice my Army colonel uncle gave me two years ago.

I'm also going to apply for a civil service job as a quality assurance specialist, which is entry level.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Sean Hannity is hosting a group discussion with about 20 of us humans on the subject of "Stoned in America."

And immediately after that Frank Luntz will be hosting a focus group to determine how many Islamic terrorists were created and kids were made pregnant by marijuana advocates.

[BardMetal]

Ugh those focus groups. Please say that those are not average Americans, but instead a group of high functioning retards someone stuck a camera in front of as part of a sick joke.

[Sudden]

High functioning?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The baqiworld livestream is not working. Is there some other way to watch this for free on my computer? Is that too much to ask?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Um, it's not on yet.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Try cable TV. Where do you live?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Not on my palette of cable choices.

But now the Baqi stream is on again and they're showing some distinguished newscaster with a British accent.

So it's on and off, all night long.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

...as it were.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

...distinguished *looking* newscaster. For all I know they may have fished him out of the local pub, liked the quality of his commentary ("Oi, mate, Manchester United *rules*! Barf..."), cleaned him up and brought him on the set.

DISCLAIMER: I made that last part up

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

You don't have Time Warner in The Vatican?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Of course it's available, it's the Vati-CAN, not the Vati-can't.

But I don't think I ordered Fox Business, I signed up for this instead:

http://en.radiovaticana.va/diretta.asp

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Ok, I just remember that I have to take the kids to a birthday party tonight, and I won't be back until 7:30. Can everybody please refrain from commenting on tonight's show until then?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Aaaaaand...you're back?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It's still 4:50 PM here in the center of the universe.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

And your kids' birthday party is all the way over in the restaurant at the end of the universe? I hope they appreciate what you're doing for them.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It's at this place. We are attending, not hosting. But, I am the fun dad, so I am always in the ball pit and doing flips on the slide.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Hey, that looks cool, can I come?

[Sudden]

I'd recommend this place for the next b-day party.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Michelle Obama takes the kids there all the time!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Hmmm, the Modesto location seems pretty close.

[Sudden]

I pegged you as more of a Victorville kinda guy.

But in all seriousness, straight shot down the 91 to Buena Park. It's really not that bad a drive (which I can legitimately think because I barely ever fucking drive).

[jesse.in.mb]

That's so far away from the Purple Orchid, which is the only reasonable place to be in El Segundo.

[Sudden]

People call playa an extremist, but he's really a centrist

A geocentrist

[Rev Match]

I'm rockin' some Legends Brown Ale. Virginia brewed and delicious.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Oh and I assume somebody is going to ask what everyone is drinking. Me: Anderson Valley Helch O' Hops, followed by a bottle conditioned Allagash Tripel Reserve. That's about all I can handle if I'm going down a 3 story inflatable slide and playing trampoline basketball with 6 year olds.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Just reading that made me hurl.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The sexy athletic part, or the booze?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

It was the combination that got my attention. But I'm recovering from an attack of flu and maybe I underestimate the human constitution right now.

[Sudden]

maybe I underestimate the human constitution right now.

SEE!1!!1!! I TOLD YOU IT WAS A LIVING CONSTITUTION!!1!!!!

/prog

[Sudden]

I posted my drinking lineup in PM links that no one is paying attention to anymore, so I'll do it again here (assuming this thread gets bumped in time for the show):

The Bruery's Chocolate Rain, to be served with soy-honey glazed pork chops, sticky rice, and kim chi.

Should I not be sufficiently drunk after that, I will follow up with Firestone's 17 Anniversary

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

If it doesn't get bumped, they will come anyway.

"Soy-Honey". If only there was another word for your teriyaki pork chops. Whoops!

Did I read correctly that you were brewing for a baby shower?

[Sudden]

Ya, my sister asked me to brew something for my brother in law for the shower as kinda a surprise. He's not much of a craft beer guy (his go to beers are coors light and corona and that makes me die a little inside every time).

I'm working on putting together a recipe for a bland blond ale, something akin to Firestone's 805. I'd do a tasty lager but I don't have the temp control for it.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I drank Bud Light in college. In fact, there is some footage of me on Youtube as "Captain Bud Light" directing traffic in my underwear (Don't bother, you won't find it).

I would like to punch that kid in the face for being so stupid. Bud Light? Come on!!!!

[Sudden]

College is a fine excuse for that. (my only night in jail was the result of drinking Steel Reserve at the tender age of 18, so I cannot judge too hard).

My brother in law is 38 though, there is no excuse for it any more.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

"It tastes like shit. Surprise!!!!"

[DEG]

I drank earlier at a work event. Founder's Porter. Flying Dog's Hefeweizen. An ESB from a brewery I can't remember.

[Sudden]

Ah, you have access to Founder's. Our trade will work out quite well.

[DEG]

Yes, I'm fairly certain their whole line is available in MA, and most of it in NH. Their Breakfast Stout is not available in NH.

It's banned in NH because there is a little kid eating a bowl of oatmeal on the label. You can't have kids on alcohol labels in NH. Sigh. So when I want it, I make a run to MA.

[Sudden]

Wow.

Just wow.

Something banned in the live free or die state that is available in Mass?

The end is nigh

[DEG]

Yep.

http://www.bizjournals.com/bos.....label.html

According to the article, Breakfast Stout is seasonal. I didn't know that.

[DEG]

Futhermorew on the topic of beer:

MA's beer tax is lower than NH's. However, because of NH's otherwise lower taxes and lower cost of doing business, beer is usually cheaper in NH.

You can only buy booze in NH that the NH Liquor Commission has approved for sale. Until about 2006 or so, I couldn't get Chimay in NH. I had to go to MA to get Chimay.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I'll be at Putin's place, so I'll drink whatever he's drinking.

[Sudden]

The blood of Jewish Ukrainian children?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Power.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I don't remember what I had when I was at his place yesterday.

"That wasn't yesterday, that was last March!"

Yeah, whatever.

[Derpetologist]

I'm drinking some Fat Tire. Will probably have some Buffalo Butt beer later. Yes, that is a real beer.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

OK, let's get to trolling, there isn't much time before the show...

Here's one -

"Former Republican Gov. Tom Ridge is stepping down from his position with Michael Bloomberg's new anti-gun organization, The Daily Caller has learned.

""When I signed on as an advisor to Everytown, I looked forward to a thoughtful and provocative discussion about the toll gun violence takes on Americans," Ridge told The Daily Caller in a statement, through a spokesman.

""After consultation with Everytown, I have decided that I am uncomfortable with their expected electoral work," Ridge said. "Therefore, we have decided that we will pursue this issue in our separate spheres.""

http://dailycaller.com/2014/04.....anization/

[GILMORE]

" I am uncomfortable with their expected electoral work,""

WTF does that even mean?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Don't know...maybe he's surprised to find them supporting Democrats?

[GILMORE]

3:00 Independents Threads say = "We quit early on Friday".

You can be sure most of them are drunk already.

I never worked in that kind of environment. Closest I ever got was working for the English - which meant Hard Stop to the work day at 6pm sharp, and drunk by 8PM at least 3-4 days a week.

[Sudden]

I took a 2.5 hour lunch today, arrived back at the office and then had a half hour conference with the boss, who left at 4 immediately after the conference. I, being a diligent employee, am still at work now at 5:15 (commenting on H&R). I should probably walk home now.

[GILMORE]

Walk home?

NYC?

[Sudden]

Downtown L.A.

[GILMORE]

I didn't think anyone actually *lived* in downtown LA.

Except those people under the bridge thing they're gonna tear down.

I thought walking was a sort of crime in LA. Or so I was told. I only ever visited a few times. There was a lot of driving involved.

[Sudden]

Over the last decade, Downtown L.A. (or DTLA as we pompous DTLA scumbags call it) has transformed. Especially over the past few years. Seriously, it is ground zero for CRE capital in Southern California right now.

[GILMORE]

Hipster

[Sudden]

I mostly dress like the korean dude with the cowboy hat in that Gangnam style music video.

I'm not sure if that is technically considered hipster.

[Professor Woland]

Under the bridge downtown? I know of a man of whom it can be said that there is where he drew some blood.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Boo Hoo Hoo. I had to cancel reservations at Fishing With Dynamite because I forgot about the birthday party I had to be at 15 minutes ago.

[Sudden]

Haha. I mention oysters earlier and everyone gets the cravings (and that's actually RannedPaul's fault from three days ago).

Damn, now I'm thinking maybe I should swing by Green Hut Cafe and have a few before making my pork chops.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"The US State Department announced the launch of its third annual "Free the Press" campaign today, which will purportedly highlight "journalists or media outlets that are censored, attacked, threatened, or otherwise oppressed because of their reporting." A noble mission for sure. But maybe they should kick off the campaign by criticizing their own Justice Department, which on the very same day, has asked the Supreme Court to help them force Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen into jail."

(from Freedom of the Press Foundation)

http://bit.ly/1ke1dgQ

[Derpetologist]

On derpbook, the prog consensus was that ranchers who don't want to pay grazing fees should buy private land. When I pointed out that the govt owns almost all grazing land west of the Mississippi, they said the ranchers should find another job. When I pointed out that this would cause beef production to plummet, I was told there are foods beside beef and that urban gardens could pick up the slack. I was also told that there are places in the US that have more cows than people, so that proves we don't need so many ranchers.

I suggested that the BLM should be disbanded and the land should be auctioned. I was told that would destroy the livelihoods of the bureaucrats and their families.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Again, the story below is 100% NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Amusing - and embarassing - if true:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIcHounLZhY

[Notorious G.K.C.]

NSFW NSFW NSFW

[Sudden]

Thank you for the warning.

Now I will leave work.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I can't believe I had to say that for what purports to be a clip from CNN.

[Derpetologist]

3 hours ago, someone asked me what I was still doing at my desk. I said "keeping up appearances."

[Derpetologist]

3 hours ago, someone asked me what I was still doing at my desk. I said "keeping up appearances."

[Derpetologist]

I think there may be a problem with my mouse.

[Derpetologist]

I think there may be a problem with my mouse.

[DEG]

Oops.

Coatesville? Whoa. That was quite a dump at one time.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

That's even worse than this.

[GILMORE]

oh, my, that was so perfect.

I think that was possibly the best thing to happen all day.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm out. Seriously. Don't talk about the fucking show until I get back. Assholes.

[kibby]

Quick! Everybody talk about the show!!

[Sudden]

OMGZ KENNEDY'Z HOOPZ

DA HOOPLA!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Did you hear Kennedy's joke? I was rolling in the aisles!

"Last week, it was some guy with a duck!"

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

What the fuck is Matt wearing?!

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

Kmele made an excellent point there. And looked good doing it.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Some cool/funny old pics.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"An ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)"

I *thought* receptionists today were less friendly than they used to be...

[Notorious G.K.C.]

And did you see the one of Hillary? Whoa!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I thought the Afghan women pic was extremely interesting. Amazing how an entire culture could regress so quickly.

A warning?

[Derpetologist]

A small group of fanatics dragged a country back into the Dark Ages. I get the impression that women were forced into burqas at gun point.

[kibby]

The one in Afghanistan makes me sad.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I'd buy Miss A-Bomb a drink.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

kibby|4.25.14 @ 3:56PM|#|?|filternamelinkcustom

.........We need to talk about this pun problem you have.

You know each day I brainstorm 10 puns that I think will make people laugh. Some days are good and some are bad. Today was brutal though: no pun in ten did.

[Sudden]

WHEN WILL THE PUNISHMENT STOP?!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZcXMRrqN8

[kibby]

I may actually murder you.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

You're 430 miles away so I fear you not.

[kibby]

You should.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Add a techno beat and you're good to go.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

God that movie sucked

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Yep.

[Sudden]

I rather enjoyed the fact that the villain was an OWS type while the hero is a trust fund baby. Its a libertarian wet dream.

And it didn't suck, it only sucked compared to its predecessor.

[Derpetologist]

You are a pun-fu master?

A farmer gave land to his 3 sons for a ranch. They named their ranch Focus, because it's where the sons raise meat.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

That took a second

[GILMORE]

You were too busy thinking about their dicks, weren't you?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

You're projecting again

[GILMORE]

Projecting... *what*?

There you go again.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

You're right. I was envisioning some fleshy teepee pecker game taking place in a barn hayloft.

[Sudden]

So he focused on them raising meat?

[Derpetologist]

sons raise meat

sun's rays meet

light rays meet at the focus of a lens

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Boo, Mother Fucking Boo!!!!

[Derpetologist]

Hugh Hefner is suing a group of monks who have been trespassing on the grounds of the Playboy Mansion to sell flowers.

Well, I guess only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

A man who was swallowed by a whale was rescued today and told the media how he survived his ordeal.

He said he simply ran all the way to the end of the whale until he was pooped out.

[kibby]

*cries* YOU TWO ARE RUINING FRIDAY NIGHT.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

**shush, shush** I'll stop, I'll stop.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm trying to read between the lines here:
You are trying to smother her?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Before she smothers me.

[GILMORE]

As a high-school advisor, what university would you recommend for boys who suffer from chronic masturbation problems?

[GILMORE]

Hello? You have 2 more minutes

[GILMORE]

Duh.

The Sorbonne.

[Sudden]

I would never recommend anything french. Especially French's mustard, since it is insufficiently artisanal (since you called me a hipster earlier, I'll give you hipster)

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I wouldn't say I "suffer".

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Ah, the HISTORY channel. Ancient Aliens.

[Ted S.]

Not as bad as the "American Heroes Channel" (the former Military Channel and before that Disco Very Wings Channel), the sheer name of which makes me retch.

[GILMORE]

Kid who stabbed all those other school-kids wrote a note saying,

""I can't wait to see the priceless and helpless looks on the faces of the students ...[who] realize their precious lives are going to be taken by the only one among them that isn't a plebian."

Note: Misspelled and Misunderstood term, "plebeian".

[Ted S.]

The stabber thinks he's a patrician.

[GILMORE]

I *know*

and he's 16, landless, and can't vote.

By any decent Roman standard, he'd be sold into slavery. Not be pretending to being 'patrician'

[Francisco d'Anconia]

INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetvK6ldl2s

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prediction: Glasses.

[jesse.in.mb]

Oh Kennedy, you did something different with your hair tonight.

[Bam!]

Skrillex hair

[Francisco d'Anconia]

She looks awesome.

[Rev Match]

Holy crap. I was in the midst of preparing an insult and then, BAM! Kennedy looks hot tonight.

[Army of the 12 Monkeys]

I was thinking about...something, then Kennedy cocked her head with that awesome hair, peered into my soul, and now...I feel all tingly.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So I guess it's Casual Friday for the lads.

[jesse.in.mb]

Prying tentacles!? Warty is the government?

[Fist of Etiquette]

All of these people are New York voters?

[GILMORE]

in NYC, only the union votes are counted.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'm digging the Feral Kennedy look.

[DEG]

This sucks. The live stream doesn't work for me.

[kibby]

I know. We're missing all the fun!

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Me either.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

There's just enough of us to form a drum circle...Occupy Reason.

"Share our stream with us...just like we're sharing ours with you..."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Share *your* stream with us...just like we're sharing ours with you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Too bad. They're all doing the show naked to prove a point.

[kibby]

I can't imagine I'd actually want to see that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Are you sure? Kmele is super cut.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Matt hasn't lost his tie, at least?

[kibby]

...Stop it.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm sure Nicole is disappointed.

*ducks*

[DEG]

To each his own. I wouldn't mind seeing Kennedy naked.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It turns out she has a superfluous nipple, but not where you'd think.

[DEG]

Hmmm...

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Here

[DEG]

Always called for. Thanks!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

get cable

[kibby]

You've clearly not consulted my budget.

[Sudden]

Perhaps you need to auction off some orphans. Or simply pare back on the luxury monocle spending binges, peasant!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Get a job?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Careful Francisco, that's the Danger Zone.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Copy Goose.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

So you are in love with the Navy after all.

[Sudden]

And make $0.77 for every dollar you make?!?! Check your privilege yo

[kibby]

I'd never thought about that before!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

HBO is going to want a piece of that business.

[jesse.in.mb]

"The only thing better than seeing America is seeing America on a Segway"

I don't think I can trust this guy.

[Rev Match]

Well, seeing America on a Segway is better than seeing it on Amtrak.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He thinks all < i The Independents does is "make fun" of the government.

[Fist of Etiquette]

In the game of food trucks, you move or you get ticketed.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Maybe the livestream isn't showing the Independents, but the little spinning circle is telling me a lot of things that make sense...about who *really* controls the world...and how we can retake control...yes, yes, I see it all now...

[Rev Match]

Bandwidth controls the world.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Wait, it was the Elks all along? Their lodges are nothing but haunts of blasphemous rites to summon the Elder Gods?

Oh, Doctor, would that I had never seen what I have seen...yes, yes, lock me behind these padded walls if your lack of imagination causes you to dismiss what I say as "insane"...I envy your ignorance...

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The sausage king of Chicago?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Don't worry about it. After all, it is understanding that makes it possible for a people like us to tolerate a person such as yourself.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Two by two, hands of blue.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

oops

Damn you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Keep up.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

*hangs head*

[Derpetologist]

Since the stream is down, I will contribute this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJVOB1UINQ

[Sudden]

induce voluntary cooperation

fucking newspeak

[Fist of Etiquette]

This post wasn't even bumped on the Hit & Run page. Must be a date night for Welch and that French wife.

[Rev Match]

Shouldn't we all have our own personal trans-warp beaming devices by now?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

The TSA is useless 95% of the time all the time.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If not for the TSA, what about the shoe bomber? Huh, Kennedy? What about the underwear bomber?

[GILMORE]

The Independents Attire Review, 25 April 2014

The Hungry Lady-Edition

- Kennedy: ?or Super-Kennedy? We're unsure if that's a "dress" or The Flying-Red-Spider-Woman-costume, minus the cape and black elbow-gloves. Plus, she did something about her hair; which, by the Law of Everything Female, one must mention, or else one will DIE. So, the hair. You're Sexy? *its AWESOME*. What? Why are you mad!??! Look, its not you, its...

- Matt: A week marked by a string of brazen, backhanded, bitch-slaps to The Goddess of Good Taste is capped by Matt just yawning and going, "What, you think I give a shit about your whining? Make me a sammich" We share her pain. He's shrugged off last week's, 'Drunk With Power' Leadership Test-Drive to resume his happy role as Lazy Second Fiddle. At least Sheriff Woody gives us something to mock. This is just.... meh, personified.

- Kmele: "Being Male is a matter of Birth; Being a Man is a matter of Age; Being The Man is a matter of Taste" - or so say I, with a twist on an old saw. We know Kmele to possess this elusive trait: yet today we're getting a big helping of No One Cares. I guess its Friday. (looks at beer) Yeah, ok.

And I'd actually prepared for a Big Comeback to close the week. Sigh.

Happy Friday

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Two by two, hands of blue.

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

These folks don't like theatre
I like Kmele
Seagrams Gin
Noilly Prat
Pinch of salt
Shaken
Perfectly okay

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

These folks don't like theatre
I like Kmele
Seagrams Gin
Noilly Prat
Pinch of salt
Shaken
Perfectly okay

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

wut

[Hyperion]

I just now realized that TI is on, and that there is an active thread about it...

[Hyperion]

Can Reason bump this up the top?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Can but won't. It's the weekend.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Matt's already drunk.

[Derpetologist]

Shrill socialists disrupt Objectivist meeting:

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

[Notorious G.K.C.]

You're going to make me support the Objectivists, aren't you?

[Hyperion]

It's for your own good, comrade.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Dusty is on something.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

"I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It's corrosive, like acid. You got demons little man. And I don't like your face. Makes me want to do stuff to it."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

But the gates, doctor, the gates! The bars have been broken! Do you know what this means!

Sorry, just getting more messages from the spinning wheel.

[kibby]

This thread is far less fun without the stupid show to go along with it.

[Bam!]

There's a poker player on right now with shifty eyes wearing a Cosmo Kramer-inspired shirt.

[kibby]

Thank you for this glorious image.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The spinning circle is much better entertainment.

Doctor, you must understand, and one day you will know that this is the strict truth, not the ravings of a lunatic. Beyond the walls of the world, in a non-Euclidian dimension, the Nameless Ones defy sanity itself with their unutterable twerking. One glance at them, Doctor, merely one glance, will...make you as you see me now....

[jesse.in.mb]

Does Serious have cable? Have him share his account password with you and stream it through the Fox site.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

No dice. She should be writing an essay right now anyway.

[kibby]

I'm still finishing the MIS thing! & then my essay.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Just write "Fuck off and die in a fire" for the MIS thing and move on to the essay you can actually finish with confidence.

[kibby]

I do need to pass the class, you know!

[jesse.in.mb]

Waterboard Playa and have him create a sub account with no financial access for his Verizon account?

[kibby]

You are becoming my new favorite person. Let's put this plan into action!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I can hold my breath for 3 minutes. I really don't care about water boarding. I might even get a boner.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The shine is off Mike Lee's apple all the sudden?

[Rev Match]

Definitely.

[SlV]

Mike Lee is Sheldon Adelson's pet senator.

[Rev Match]

Wuteva! I'll do what I want!

[GILMORE]

Gee, who would have thought casinos ever gave money to politicians??

[DEG]

I'm watching this instead of The Independents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXLxszv9eCM

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stay out of my business! (Except for healthcare.)

[Hyperion]

Everyone likes beer?

OH Nooooeeessss!!!! Wine Snrerbz jumping from high wine tasting builings like bankers!!!

[Francisco d'Anconia]

They are big.

[Derpetologist]

It is very hard to parody these people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARHCxAMAO0

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

Quizes are dumb

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Ooohhh, they can afford graphics now.

[GILMORE]

If the law is described in such a way that its both so confusing and boring you don't understand it?

That means *its real*

[GILMORE]

All you have to do to win that contest is keep saying, "YES ITS A LAW"

[GILMORE]

MATT STOLE MY SYSTEM

[Francisco d'Anconia]

She likes Stossel too.

[Rev Match]

Doesn't everyone?

[Rev Match]

Welch is right. If it is a law that sounds like parody, it is probably an actual law.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

"Kmele goes into the jungle..."

RACIST!!!

[Rev Match]

Was he looking for fun and games?

[GILMORE]

Watching this show makes me mad that people are actually paid to do this.

[Hyperion]

They have to shut down this show, soon, before the anarchists win. For the childins.

[GILMORE]

And yes, the above comment was intentionally contrived with 2mH8 in mind.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Spinning circle...opening new vistas of knowledge...

Thank you, Doctor, for fetching me so quickly...no, these restraints are not too tight, thank you...but you need to realize that the thing on my doorstep was not my dog Roger. It was Roger once, but Roger died long before I smashed in his body's head with that shovel. For when his spirit fled, the body did not die, as with healthy animals. No, Doctor! (can you give me another flask of that medicinal whiskey, my mouth is parched with thirsty horror?) The body of what was once Roger was occupied by a Thing whose very name raises the hair on the scalp of the wise...you see, I went to Miskatonic University Library to peruse their Forbidden Books section (open 1-3 Tuesdays and Saturdays, or by appointment) and what I learned caused me to run back to my house, never mind the late hour...to bring Roger's poor tormented body peace. You should pray to whatever Gods you have that I was not too late...

[Derpetologist]

Maddow on the power of the human microphone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvxDVRVH59U

[Hyperion]

Libertarians are the ultimate thorn in the side of modern day progs. They could probably easily outsmart team stupid, but surprisingly, they have a much more serious problem on their hands.

[Rev Match]

I'd rather not get any "news" from a woman that looks and sounds like Seth Rogan. (Or from her kid sister, Chris Hayes.)

[Rev Match]

Also, everything in that vid is asinine to the n-th degree.

[Bam!]

Ironically, the first video she has of the human microphone technique has a guy holding up a real microphone.

[Pathogen]

That microphone is powered by the souls of dead orphans, sooo... there's that...

[Hyperion]

So, is there supposed to be a WOD debate tonight on FOX instead of Derbz, or did I dream that between other wet dreamz?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

On FOX News, not FOX Business.

[Hyperion]

Ok, thanks.

[Bam!]

Kmele is out of the studio? Independents shake up.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hey, a remote segment.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

If you don't find something, you aren't properly doing your government job.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Did I hear that right? Foster is going to be a reality show?

[Hyperion]

Did the stream die?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bureaucrats being vindictive? No way.

[Derpetologist]

Hmm, there appears to be a common thread among protesters who interrupt meetings and shout down speakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CVzXnVCLU

[Fist of Etiquette]

Was Kennedy fucking with her cameraman there?

[Rev Match]

You love cows, you love beer.

Yes. I like each to be bacon-wrapped.

[GILMORE]

They're making Cow-Flavored Beer!?

[Hyperion]

Recipe:

Kill one cow.

Kill three pigs.

Make bacon of pigs.

Wrap cow in bacon.

Shove two kegs of favorite beer, opened, up cows arse and grill to preference.

[Rev Match]

You win.

I was just gona wrap a steak and the neck of my beer bottle in bacon, and/or put bacon bits in the beer.

[Hyperion]

Is this like, the worlds longest ever commercial break?

[GILMORE]

yeah, WTF

[Hyperion]

Maybe the blonde isn't done raping Kmele yet.

Is that a hate crime?

[Fist of Etiquette]

They had to cue up The Band.

[Rev Match]

Is this guy going to ask me to pick a briefcase that possibly contains a million dollars?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

But beer, and baby milk.

[GILMORE]

I think the stream has gone dead, because aint no show for the last 10mins

[Francisco d'Anconia]

My satellite feed appears to be working just fine.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Here you are again, Doctor, for our customary meeting. It is good in my despair to have someone besides the spinning circle or the rats in the walls to speak to, no matter how oblivious you may be of that of which I speak. And it's nice to have someone scratch under my straitjacket, yes, that's it, that hit the spot...now, where was I?

That's right, I remember. The nurses must have told you that I scream whenever they dim the lights. But if they knew the reason, far from being irritated with me, they would keep this asylum and their own homes lit up throughout the night with illumination as bright as the sun!

Have you ever seen a being of Pure Shadow. Of course not, too dark. But *it sees you.* Most of the universe is shadow, the being lives and thrives there. And it hovers on the borders of our realm of light, waiting for some heedless person to turn the lights off and...AAAAAHHH!

Did I startle you, Doctor? I did not mean to, but I am simply quoting the last word ever spoken by Alhazred the Reckless, after he...I see you are looking at your watch. Very well, I suppose you must go. Could you leave the light on? And the TV. Lou Dobbs is about to come on.

[Derpetologist]

To watch Lou Dobbs, turn to page 38.

To face unspeakable evil, turn to page 39.

[Big Chief]

But they're the same thing!!!

[Derpetologist]

You think American college students are dumb? Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghDIFDWSQV8

[GILMORE]

Yeah, fuck this= i'm going to shoot pool, yall. Have a good one.

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

Beer guy seemed pro-government. Jerk.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Has anyone articulated the reasoning behind the grain regulation push?

[Rev Match]

Something about trusts or something.

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

control

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

BFYTW.

[Derpetologist]

Ah, protesters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T98v1Q5-xFg

[Hyperion]

Apparently ComCrap doesn't stream Fox News.

[Hyperion]

Or, I could be wrong...

[Hyperion]

But, fuck me, that stream is dead too.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Sorry kiddies, rulez are rulez.

[Rev Match]

Gotta shut down that entrepreneurial spirit early on.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Yep

[Raymond Luxury Yach-t]

pretty good show

[Fist of Etiquette]

AH! Lou Dobbs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

-ish.

[Hyperion]

They blacked out the WOD debate, that is what happened.

Fucking pussies.

[Hyperion]

Oops, wrong again, here it is!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

At least the Hannity stream works.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So no dedicated post for Hannity's dope show?

[Hyperion]

Hannity is a pussy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More like Dr. Eric Square.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

What a lying shithead.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah, alcohol doesn't kill brain cells.

[Fist of Etiquette]

IT RAISES OR LOWERS YOU BLOOD PRESSURE OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN!

[Hyperion]

You've lost this war, drug warriors, forever. It's over, now STFU, or continue to entertain us with your comedy tour.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Welch is chiming in.

[Rev Match]

So, I see Hannity is still a raging douchebag. (I know, I know. That is an insult to douchebags.)

[Hyperion]

Blah, blurb, blah, bwah, derp.

Ok, assholes, so what do you want to do about what you THINK? You want to continue to throw people into cages and ruin their lives, and claim that is better?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

This is going to be nothing but a shout-fest.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Won't somebody please think of the blah blah blah.

[Bam!]

Former Miss America? Really?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Pot is bad because someone ate some hashish?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah, my folks never drank in front of me.

[Derpetologist]

More US anti-capitalism protesters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP3pbXvOMF8

[Hyperion]

Wow, how long did it take Fox to round up these assholes?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Defunkicated?

[Bam!]

Is that guy from The Wolf of Wall Street?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Surprisingly, the anti-drug shouters outnumber the pro-legalization group on Hannity's show.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Astounding.

[Hyperion]

Amazing isn't it. It's like an Obama audience.

[Hyperion]

Every pot smoker I know is brain dead.

Jeebus, I smoked lots of weed and I'm a IT consultant who probably makes 6 times what that jackass could even dream of.

[Rev Match]

Idk wtf they are talking about. 1) I have never heard of anyone OD-ing on weed. 2) Since when doe it raise your heart rate? 3) College kids miss classes for a multitude of reasons (alcohol and general boringness included).

[Fist of Etiquette]

Won't the kids think of somebody?

[Hyperion]

Did I say that Hannity is a brainless dickweed?

[Derpetologist]

"We include everyone- except you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYDUnwmG4U

[SlV]

Gavin McInnes argues the anti-prohibition case much better than all those brain-dead stoners that fill the comments on internet news site comments.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

So the Hannity stream works but the Kennedy one doesn't.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Our loyal peace officers work for free, you know. The property they seize, they give to animal shelters.

[Derpetologist]

Eco-protestor blooper reel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqg6f0t7Iuk

[Francisco d'Anconia]

AAAAAAAHHHH! What an asshole!

I'm out!

[DEG]

I am too. No livestream, it's getting late on the east coast.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hannity is pretty insufferable.

[Hyperion]

My gawd, I would love to debate this dickhead.

Let's just bring back prohibition then, dickhead.

Yes, I want all drugs legalized, dickweed, YES!

[Derpetologist]

Do I want to know what Hannity said? I suppose it is my scientific duty to ask.

[Bam!]

Do you want to legalize crack and heroine?

[Hyperion]

YES!

[Derpetologist]

Technically, it would be re-legalizing them. I wonder how many of these drug warriors know that there were no illegal drugs before 1914. The first anti-drug law was a law against opium. Opium was the drug of choice for Chinese immigrants, who were not very popular at the time.

[Hyperion]

Dude, before the drug laws, all of humanity just smoked pot and lied around all day watching the birds.

Why do you think we didn't have interstate highways and bridges before the drug laws? Because everyone was too stoned! If not, we would have had TV in the stone age!

[Derpetologist]

Heh. I bet the drug warriors really believe bunk like that.

I wonder how they explain how the Romans built the world's greatest empire while being drunk off their asses.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

These alert, engaged people in front of their TVs are totally alert!

[Hyperion]

'I never relax'

IOW, you're a bitch

[Hyperion]

OMG, kids committing crimes are HIGH ON MARIJUANA!

This is a total joke.

[Bam!]

What the fuck is this shit?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

WTF?

[Fist of Etiquette]

This is terribly hilarious. I'm out.

[Hyperion]

OMG! They go candy made out of marijuana!!!!

I want to punch that guy in the mouth. I really do.

[Rev Match]

Prohibition doesn't work. You'd think the "pro-gun" people would recognize that there are similar arguments between these two topics, but they don't. I grow weary of trying to rationalize with the unprincipled.

I'm gona go watch something that makes me happy, rather than infuriated. 'Night, guys.

Bonus: To that stupid fat fuck, who I think has been a guest on T.I.:
I'm pretty sure that law enforcement has killed more people in the enforcement of prohibition than weed ever has. Go fuck yourself. that is all.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Why can't they just get someone who doesn't inhale, but neither does he want to get his door kicked in, and get thrown face-down on the ground, because some guy in his house, or the guy next door (those door numbers all look the same), uses or sells a plant?

I think it's like that oldest guy in the room - dirty hippies do it, so it should be illegal. And, no, that doesn't mean I endorse wrong-door raids and the abuses which you *allege* take place!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

/sarc

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The wrong stream was down today. Good night.

[Hyperion]

Prohibition doesn't work

NO! You're kidding us, right!?

[Banjos]

After being pregnant for almost two years straight, I have lost the little tolerance I had for booze. I'm getting a strong buzz off of a single glass of wine.

[Hyperion]

My wife got drunk on 2 beers last night, lol.

You girls are such light weights, but it's too cute.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

He's giving you this year off, right?

[Banjos]

I have a friend who describes herself as not being a dog breeder, but as an irresponsible dog owner. I think my situation is something similar.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

How you doin'?

[Hyperion]

We are witnessing, my friends, live, the death throes of the WOD.

Hannity is an overly annoying dinosaur, no?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'm going to go be different and post in the chronologically last thread, which is really how things should be run.

[Hyperion]

Don't go up there, you've been warned.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Damn it.

[Bam!]

That doctor is cute. Not sure what a "naturapathic" (or whatever it was) doctor is, though.

[SlV]

A quack, just like the rest of the doctors.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Before I sign off:

And then, Doctor, I descended into the crypt with the worshippers, concealing my features beneath a cloak so that they would not realize I was not as they were. We entered into a great chamber, where a great crowd of creatures were gathered for whatever unhallowed ceremony was being held.

In front of the room, facing the worshippers, was a two-legged creature uttering the most sanity-destroying gibberings. As if in response, the worshippers yelled and shouted in some mad frenzy. I could feel the bloodlust in their voices, and shuddered to think what might happen if my face were exposed. I drew my cloak more tightly around myself.

"Throw the eaters of the plants into the Cages!" roared the two-legged gibberer, and the assemblage answered "amen, amen!" Then they took out their six-packs of Miller and...no, Doctor, I cannot go on, the very memory of it has scarred me...

[Hyperion]

Why is Matt saying nothing? Because it's such a hopeless pool of stupidity?

[Rev Match]

I gathered that in the first 5 minutes. It is a stacked deck.

[SlV]

Maybe he's stoned?

[SlV]

To Hannity's credit, he does say marijuana legalization should be left up to the states.

[Hyperion]

Well, when he's conceding his own eventual defeat, then why can't he do us a favor, and shut his stupid trap?

[Banjos]

Hannity is as unprincipled, wishy washy as they come. Two years ago he would never have conceded that. He only is now conceding because the right has clearly lost on this issue. Which gives me a smidgeon of hope for libertarianism.

[Derpetologist]

I really wish Welch and McGinness just said nothing and calmly lit up as soon as a drug warrior opened their stupid yap.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm back. I hope none of you assholes talked about the show yet.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you rustled up some orphans while you were out.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Okay, that Hannity thing got slightly better after that guy Godwinned the fuck out of it. Welch got to bring up incarceration which no one would address and the Conservative in the back acknowledged fiscally the war may not be worth it.

[Poptech]

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