Tonight on The Independents: Thomas Massie on Hemp, Julian Sanchez on the NSA, Christie's Saber-Rattling, Hillary's Age, Mrs. De Blasio's Parenting, Switzerland's Minimum-Wage Rejection, Plus Sexy After-show!
Tonight's live episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three hours later) begins with Party Panelists Katie Pavlich (co-host, Outnumbered) and Basil Smikle (Democratic political strategist) chewing on possible weaknesses of two major-party presidential candidates for 2016: Hillary Clinton's age/health, and Chris Christie's hawkishness. Later in the show the panel will be back to talk about the fake 9/11 gift shop controversy.
Beloved former Reasoner Julian Sanchez, now of Cato, will then come on to talk about some of the latest National Security Agency fooferaw: The physical hacking into Cisco Systems, the listening in on "every phone call in the Bahamas." There follows a discussion about New York Mayor Bill De Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, recalling about her daughter when she was an infant, "the truth is, I could not spend every day with her."
Then frequent guest Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) comes on to talk about the feds getting between his constituents and legal hemp. And I'll deliver a quick rant about people giving superly-duperly prosperous Switzerland a hard time for note adopting a $25 per hour minimum wage.
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And...Hello.
We're waiting for Francisco to tell us to Assemble.
It's a libertarian place. We don't need to wait for nobody!
He's MIA. I'll send out a search party.
Awesome pregame at the Forum
Later in the show the panel will be back to talk about the fake 9/11 gift shop controversy.
What would they sell there? A burning tower lighter? (Too soon?)
Box cutters
Allah Akbar engraved box cutters
Lee Greenwood CDs
Jenga
Thermite! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
No welcome back for Foster?
The Sweathogs are going to surprise him.
And I'll deliver a quick rant about people giving superly-duperly prosperous Switzerland a hard time for note adopting a $25 per hour minimum wage.
Would their minimum wage be backed by all that Nazi gold they have?
(Too soon?)
Should be a salty, hammy good time.
on possible weaknesses of two major-party presidential candidates for 2016: Hillary Clinton's age/health, and Chris Christie's hawkishness.
Strike that, reverse it. Christie seems like he's one prime rib dinner away from a heart attack and Hillary would burn down the Realm if it meant she could be queen of the ashes.
Damn I was just going to post that these attributes are interchangeable between the two
What an unbiased formulation!
Christie is unelectable because of his policies.
Hillary unelectable because she sacrified her health and the best years of her life in the service of her country, and now she's old and sickly, and I hope you're happy, haters!
Especially considering that Hillary's support of the Iraq war makes her at least as hawkish as Christie.
Say what you want about Palin, but this is pretty funny-
Hey! Hillary's brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone!Democrats are right ? scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. You can't probe a woman like that because, well, it's a war on women!
Point: Palin.
Also, point: Cheney.
D.C. Reasonoids: we will be arriving late this evening and should be in town for a couple of days looking for places to live.
If anyone wants to get together tomorrow night, shoot me an email.
Your going away party is going to be so awesome. I'm getting a cake with penises. I'll video conference you in at the cake cutting.
I see that you had your own little party in Vegas, though. This'll teach you.
What's going on? Where's he going? Clue me in. I'm needy.
Sloopy is leaving Gomorrah for Sodom. Moving from California to DC.
Don't think of it so much as a "goodbye", think of it more as a "so long, suckers".
I'll be shacked up with kibby next week in Tucson (first time visiting in 10 years), so I'll see if Arizona is to my liking.
Change is (mostly) good.
Tucson's pretty cool. But small. I visited my sister there once for a few days. And outside the city is just...desert.
We're going hiking, which I enjoy, so I'm glad for the natural deserve environment. But if I were to move to AZ it would be to Phoenix and only if I could find a decent job first
The desert? I like to drink beer and swim in pools there!!!
That is what makes it desirable.
That's what's so great about it. That and the jaguar population.
Tucson is the most awesomest city in this benighted country.
Also I may be biased, I grew up there.
Tucson is great. I used to live just south and east of there in a tiny development in the desert. It was cool to take a short hike after work and see the wildlife.
Does Kibby know this and is she in agreement ?
I did not know until today that it was sloopy-in-ca rather than sloopy-inca. Had you pegged as one of our exotic twofer minority libertarians.
I didn't pick up on that either. I thought he was Peruvian until I met him.
Yeah, it took me a bit, too.
... Hobbit
I might change my handle to sloopyinyourmom to remove any racial confusion. But I'll probably stick with the whole geography thing and change it to sloopyinhell.
Ah.
For work I reckon?
Good luck. Welcome to the east coast. We're the best.
For me, this is a homecoming. Most of my adult life was spent in Virginia. And since DC borders Virginia, it will be the same thing, right?
You bet!
Man, that's the second time someone got me a dick cake.
I'll save you the best piece.
The foreskin?
No, he's saving that piece for Nicole.
Aww, yay!
Apparently, Ken, when you bought that medium drink, you entered a binding contract that enables them to rip off your dick.
Well, at least he gets to hang out with Barbie.
Only this time it won't be because someone wiped their dick on it.
Don't give Playa any ideas.
I just got an idea. Check your Facebook page for pictures in a week or 2.
So roughly how many millions of people has The Independents converted to libertarianism?
0 millions.
hmm..
That is more then I expected.
You think it's about converting people?
People gather to watch a train wreck, but not to be converted.
(kind of kidding)
but only kind of.
The Friday episode was OK.
Municipal pension crisis - and not a syllable about Beyonce or the royal baby!
And Kennedy's interrupting was at a minimum. Any less, and she wouldn't have been interrupting anyone at all!
I don't think it's bad at all - except for Kennedy's grating ability to interrupt.
There are far worse programming on cable. Like The View and Hardball.
Well, having watched Hannity's America on Dope Special, maybe you're right.
The Independents: There's Far Worse Out There
Homer: "They ruined all our best names, like Bruce and Lance and Julian!"
INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTEhUECaXk#t=10
Give him a few. It's not your place.
Now that the fishing season's started, if it ain't there at 8:50, feel free.
We're here for a good time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHnl7jNK6us
" the fake 9/11 gift shop controversy"
I think its terrible anyone would sell fake 9/11 gifts.
"Terrorists blew up the Twin Towers, and all I got were these lousy wars."
To be fair, I would totally buy a rubber "Osama's head on a spike" to put in my front yard. I am still mad that NYC didn't get at least temporary exclusive rights to hang his corpse from a gibbet to be feast for crows.
His body should have been preserved in carbonite and kept in a crate alongside The Ark of The Covenant for study by TOP. MEN.
How do you know it hasn't been?
Hear ye, hear ye: I have finished compiling and annotating The Derponomicon. I do not recommend reading it all at once. I barely held on to my sanity.
http://platedlizard.blogspot.c.....art-1.html
Dude, I don't know how you could put up with that guy without losing your sanity. I only read a few parts and felt like I was gazing into the maw of madness.
You don't know the power of the Derp side. Once you embark upon its path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
So I should draw an Elder Sign on my forehead before reading...?
JOOOOOOOOOOS!
Who is that guy?
Another brainiac musician. The average IQ of rappers seems to be around that of rock drummers.
Is anyone going to tell Kmele how horrible the show was without him?
He knows, GILMORE. He knows.
So GILMORE is our Dr. McCoy?
Maybe make this the bumper music?
A prog student makes a ridiculous comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCxC3WIfOMk
FEMA agrees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPg9MdN9Gio
Why is FEMA weighing in on this issue? That is not related to their job. It hasn't got anything to do with withholding food and water from disaster victims.
look at the date of the video.
Pre 9/11 and probably a hold over from the Clinton administration.
My guess is FEMA was worried about domestic terrorists just as much as the FBI and DOJ were under Clinton...and wanted to work out responses to it with local police.
Prediction: Cleavage.
No cleavage tonight. Welch is covered up.
No earrings? Is the show making cutbacks already?
Who wore it better: Kmele or Welch?
I just want to remember potential voters that at the end of her hypothetic administration's first term Shrillary will be six years older than she is today and look it.
The presidency ages you in dog years, so she'll look 30 years older, actually.
Meow.
That wasn't a bad interjection by Kennedy.
If Hillary becomes President I look forward to how grotesque she looks in post-presidency photos.
Geez, Bill is looking bad.
I bet you liberals hated that quote when it was uttered.
If only we *could* have an old, sick person in the White House. Sitting in bed watching Matlock, not worried about a legacy or anything.
Matlock....nice.
I can't believe Warren the socialist, fake Cherokee is actually in the conversation.
I actually put her as the odds-on favorite should Hillary chose not to run.
Oh, I don't doubt that.
Just like I said Justin Trudeau was gonna become the Liberal party leader after the eulogy to his father he delivered.
He may very well become PM.
More empty suits and dresses will be leading our countries.
A lot of people are talking about Elizabeth Warren in the sense that, "Elizabeth Warren will never be president."
Did Matt and Kmele go on their shopping spree?
Outlook not so good
Kennedy (the President, not the host) had all sorts of diseases, but he was fully qualified!
FDR was in a wheelchair.
Andrew Jackson got shot in a duel or two. He had one of the bullets in his body for years. He could never get through an airport security checkpoint.
Christie can't read a teleprompter.
Krispy Kreme always sounds so lispy, fucking whiny
But he can read a drive-thru menu...
He's too important to drive.
Who are these guys that, the first time I hear about them, they're running for President?
I don't want Christie dragging out the corpse of Reagan. He might start snacking on it.
Then he'd have more brains in his stomach than in his head.
It's interesting how when I was a teenager, everyone laughed at Reagan. Now they fall over themselves quoting him.
Who can't do a Kissinger accent?
NOWWW MISTUH KRRRISTY, REPEAT AFTUH ME:
KAAAAAAPET BOM ZEM.
Since when do the Jews care about Israel?
Vitality and charisma are so important in politics. Hillary looks fragile and soooo old. She has the charisma of a damp dish rag. If she wins it will be because the Republican candidate is worse and because the media made it happen.
If she wins it will be because the Repulitards nominated Christie.
Speaking of fat, Hillary is getting a big fat ass too
getting? Circa 1994.
She'll be like FDR, they'll never show her standing without a podium or crowd to cover her.
Then they'll never show her from the lower lip down. Have you seen those chins recently?
More Chins than a Chinese phone book.
More chins than Christie?
STOP RESISTING... the love.
She read the comments and went looking for emotional support on the street.
Well who wouldn't want to give Kennedy a hug? It would be more interesting if Matt did that segment.
chewing on possible weaknesses of two major-party presidential candidates for 2016: Hillary Clinton's age/health, and Chris Christie's hawkishness.
That's the best you could do with those two?
Julian Sanchez is not going to fuck you.
That's Julian Sanchez? Then I wonder whose porch light I've been shooting out all this time?
The NSA knows that terrorists don't use Mac.
Think different.
That's longer than 10 seconds.
Kinky? Really, Kennedy?
Why is there one guy in that gaggle of real estate brokers?
That's it. I'm moving to Belize.
It sure is interesting the NSA thinks it will be more effective through mass surveillance...
WHEN IT CAN"T KEEP A CONTRACTOR FROM WALKING OFF WITH ALL THEIR SECRETS!
Wow.
Ugly people.
The Independents Attire Review, 19 May 2014
Dark Day-Edition
- Kennedy: The Izod (and its an *official* one this time, according to the gator) has gone Pink, and we could not be happier. We've already scored the Tinky-Winky (Purple) a shade below the Miami-Vice (Turquoise); we believe the Boca Raton (Pink) here splits the difference. The cherry-red lipstick is a natural go-to; however, with Kennedy's marble-esque complexion combined with my crappy reception it does leave a subliminal impression of 'herpes'(?)
- Matt: The "New" Tie and Grey Shirt. Despite rumors of The Matt/Kmele shopping spree being premature, Matt has consistently Failed To Fail the last few weeks. He's been sticking to the few 'inoffensive' and easy-wins in his arsenal. If "the beatings will continue until Morale Improves" - then we here sense a genuine improvement in Independents Fashion-Morale.
- Kmele: DONT CALL IT A COMEBACK The digs go Boom. I'm not going to waste words on what speaks for itself. Also, I need to save room for...
- Julian Sanchez = ...will also be doing his Magic Act @ Ballys in Atlantic City all week. WTF are those lapels? He's clearly missing pinky rings and a laser-cane. BOW TO GUIDO FROM THE 23RD CENTURY
Gracias
Ok, Kennedy's lipstick is definitely more pink-something...
I blame any errors here or afterward entirely on FBN's terrible streaming bandwidth
They're trying to combine Kennedy's love for gossip with her job's requirement for political infotainment.
This segment is shit.
Why is Welch directing that rant in Foster's direction? He doesn't even have kids. (That he knows of.)
Potholes, Matt?
You should see the ones here in Montreal.
Legendary.
I saw Bourdain go to Montreal on his "parts unknown" series on Netflix, and now... I'd really like to visit Montreal. I don't speak a lick of French though, but I love soccer.
I thought you didn't have cable.
N. E. T. F. L. I. X.
You can get by in English. Montreal West of St. Laurent is bilingual.
I presume you're referring to the Impact?
Hit me up if you ever visit.
Wait, that wasn't the Topical Storm?
The topical storm is just like the rest of the show, but faster!
No Francisco tonight? I had a question for him.
Ask anyway. I'll email it to him if he doesn't show up.
Pretty much only the bottom of the barrel commenting on tonight's show. (But I'm not free to talk; they're reading this right now.)
But *I'm* here!
You obviously mean the Independents, RIGHT?
Francisco and kibby are the straws that stir the drink.
Solution:
Shots
Is this what we'll do when we run out of orphans?
I hate when people take pictures of their pregnant stomachs and post them on the facebook.
What about the existing product on the shelf? What about orphanages?
So what are the chances she produces so many kids that two of them end up hooking up decades later unaware of who their mom is?
She's not really the "mom" of surrogate children. It isn't incest if they hook up. But it would be pretty weird though.
As a man, pregnancy sex is teh awesome.
Kmele, damning with faint praise. I guess.
Who elected Ron Swanson mayor?
Nice stache!
Wait, Kmele got to it before I could.
yeesh, kennedy. Too soon.
"Please state the nature of the musical emergency."
No one did holograms like Scooby-Doo.
Obama has toothpick legs.
Not enough squatz.
What do you expect? He's not athletic.
Something about a President in shorts just bugs the fuck out of me.
Pantsfan? Did you change your handle?
Welch on fire tonight.
Kamaylay.
Let's all stutter awkwardly after Matt says something eloquent.
Har-har -har Valerie. Up there with "Predator Drones." huhuhuh
At least she's not wearing an alligator shirt.
I wonder what looks more frightening, Valerie Jarrett's face, or her soul.
Tell me more about these boats, Kennedy.
Rosebud
I was thinking an execution method.
I think "something about boats" is Independents code-language for "OMG I WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING TOTALLY NOT ALLOWED ON TV"
something about boats
I thought it was a reference back to the "using government to plug my hole" comment during the Santorum interview. Guess we will never know.
Or, the boats.
Was that a shoutout for scaphism?
Okay, now that my 4 month old niece woke up I can turn up the volume and actually hear what they are saying.
It might not improve the show for me.
You could improve it by giving your niece a position as host.
Gross.
What?
You want his niece to be a sex symbol? Not cool, bro.
That was absolutely not what I was saying - it was about the intelligence level of the questions!
Why are you hating on Serious so much lately?
I think you're reading a lot into my comments...I was just making a joke about the quality of the show's hosts being worse than four year olds...
If I've been disrespecting him, I certainly apologize, because I meant no such thing!
Your apology makes me even more suspicious. It's almost like you're planning something.
Sir, have you been drinking?
I haven't not been drinking.
I'm positing that Jarrett and Obama plan to be kingmakers/blackmailers in many future elections. Maxine Waters thinks so too.
Maybe instead of the topical storm, which I'm sure was Kennedy's idea, they could discuss a quote from Bastiat or Spooner or Sowell. Many those quotes are memorable and are good way to introduce libertarian ideas.
Music coming from the commercial was The War On Drugs. clever.
Nerdbilly!
(I can say that, because I'm one too.)
Massie is totally high right now. He didn't even wait for Kennedy to ask a question.
Theory: Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are controlled by the same species of alien creature that sits perched atop their head.
Tousled Curly-Mop Hair-Creature From Mars politely defers.
"We're just friends"
Why don't they just find some ditch weed?
Hemp isn't dangerous? Tell that to the noose-wearer.
You're right - ban it!
You're right - ban it!
You're right - ban it!
Are you a commando clicker?
?
Oh, I see, it multi-posted.
I think Massie got a makeover
He looks like a grownup now.
Maybe they evened out that candy-apple effect on his cheeks.
The DEA is rogue.
Dissolve it.
What major agencies has the U.S dissolved in recent times?
Whichever agency tells Obama what's going on in his adminstration.
This ain't Somalia, dude. We don't just dissolve agencies.
Sense of agency
The Libyan chapter of the State Department.
zing
Preferably in acid.
I like to think the terrorists have lost if we go about the business of America: selling shit
Whoa whoa whoa. Massie thinks we need a DEA outlawing coke. Fuck, I thought he was a libertarian. I say keep hemp illegal because it makes the feds look more obviously ridiculous to the "pot is ok, but ban hard drugs" crowd.
Um, that sounds like "the worse, the better."
They've banned hemp for decades - have they been laughed into oblivion yet?
No, you're right, it was just an emotional reaction to finding out how unlibertarian Massie was, as well as drug legalization losing its cool factor, which it will once pot is decriminalized.
Boy, I sure look forward to the day when I can smoke a blunt and the kids will ride by on their hoverbikes and mock me.
So is it bad form to start eating before the guest of honor arrives? Because my dad finished barbecuing ribs and chicken a half hour ago and my brother still hasn't arrived for his own birthday dinner.
I think nibbling is ok. I might be wrong.
Would he wait for you?
If you have a good spot to hide the bones, go for it. Nothing wrong with sampling the goods.
Nope.
My brother showed up 1 hour late this week-end at my house and I told everyone to eat. And we did.
It was my daughter's birthday.
Sorry. Missed it was his b-day. I think nibbling as suggested is fine.
Is this a habit of his?
He works two jobs and lives far away by SoCal freeway standards, so his tardiness is understandable.
I'm just really hungry and this is an hour later than I normally eat dinner.
Ah.
Sounds like he deserves some slack.
My brother doesn't work two jobs and didn't really have an excuse.
And he showed up literally as I hit submit on that last comment.
Worth the wait.
It's been 14 years, fuckwit. 14 years.
12 and half. Whatever.
I guess time flies... WHEN YOU'RE ENABLING TERRORIST WINNING.
Katie?
I have a box of crackers here in bed. Feel free to eat them.
There's nothing more American than bauble purchasing.
Twin Tower-shaped chocolate bars?
Plane-shaped Zippo lighters?
Cotton candy colored black to resemble bin Laden's beard?
And View-Master reels of the event. For the kids !
President Bush ordered everyone to buy things after 9/11.
Knock-knock
I don't know what they're complaining about. I got an awesome ashtray @ Auschwitz.
I got a temporary tattoo.
I got scrap metal from Oradour-sur-Glane
They also had used shoes on sale.
TOO SOON
This is like the trigger warning bullshit. We can never return to normalcy because some people are delicate flowers.
NON-SANCTIONED GRIEVING.
I also got some really cute night-lights in Hiroshima.
I got a Miley Cyrus CD at Bayreuth.
That is barbaric.
FIST, eh?
"Fist of Matt Welch"? What a stupid name.
Whatever the market will bear.
Where it's Matt? Is that a play on where it's at?
Its not a 'play' on anything. Its a horrible admission of failure and surrender to mediocrity.
Why don't you just marry Switzerland, Welch?
Because he married France.
I offer the following idea to the Nation magazine about the defeat of Switzerland's minimum-wage referendum:
SWISS MISS!
Kennedy forgets/ignores Italian. Nice.
AH! Lou Dobbs.
The server thinks you were first, but we all know the truth.
Bottom of the barrel? No. That's where the cream rises to the top.
If you are a retard, use the word "Dobbs" in a comment.
Dobbs said Play Manhattan is a smart guy!
I see you are playing 3D chess, sir.
What's chess?
It's basically checkers, but with less booze.
Dobbs Booooosssshhh CHRISTFAG!
Not fair
Everybody do the Dobbs.
A little Dobbs'll do ya
AHH! SHE SAID DOBBS!!! DOBBS!
You can charge the government of China? Who is expected to show up to the arraignment?
No worries. The Chinese will show up, but they need time to line up 4 across and march past a point.
Several tasteless ideas for the 9/11 museum:
A photo-op cut out of the hijackers
A ring toss game featuring the twin towers
A jumbo jet log flume ride
A spot the box-cutters game with a real x-ray machine
Hijacker targets.
Knife fighting manual.
Instructions on how to cower properly.
You said tasteless.
AFTERHOURS WEBSITE FAILURE
No, wait. There it is.
I got the detroit show
Did you click the "Watch Live" link?
I did now. I was totally going to figure that out.
Yeah dude, we saw the movie X as well.
Great minds think alike!
I like how Basil explained how he admired Malcolm X without saying anything about Malcolm X but just reciting biographical facts.
Because he's a *pussy*. Come on man, say something you actually MEAN
Yeah, I saw the movie, too.
The Habs have work to do here in the 3rd.
AHH, the hockey horde has hit HnR.
Did you see Cherry offer his take on Lucic?
I never watch him. What did he say? How Lucic was misunderstood?
No, he didn't condone it but he pointed out Markov actually started by saying something.
Are they trying to get me to turn this thing off?
Oh wow, Tu Quoqe from a liberal?! Will wonders never cease?
The Christian Farrakhan is probably some guy in the Lord's Resistance Army
hey Thailand, chill.
I'll let Matt in on a secret...European Catholics have some history of commercialism...I don't think I'm telling tales out of school.
Do you ever get tired of being so predictably boring? The rest of us are certainly tired of you, and have been for quite some time.
HE LOOK YOU'RE A FUCKING CATHOLIC!!!! We get it, now maybe shut the fuck about it for one moment.
Look, a sockpuppet saying shitty things.
That's quite an admission.
I just have to repeat.
Damn, Kmele The jacket/tie kills.
The panelists are shutting up when the Indies are talking about state use of force to further either party's ends.
yeah, you noticed?
they even laughed about it, since neither would dare have anything bad to say about State Power.
I don't recall where they fell on 'hemp'? or that was without them, right?
Matt actually touches on interesting topic of how both GOP and DEMS use holy-roller morals to justify impositions by the state.
of course, things like this will never make it on the 'real show'
Fox is like some governor with a liberal pardon policy - never letting Kennedy finish a sentence!
Fox always knows how to silence Kennedys.
I'm still pissed at the NHL for giving Eddie Livingstone the Donald Sterling treatment and for killing off the Wanderers and Maroons.
What a Maroon!
You Montreal Anglos should support the Leafs, not the French team. I mean the Leafs will finally win the cup, eventually....soon...in the next 50 years....before the Cubs win another World Series....before the Sun becomes a Red Giant....
An Irishman founded the Habs - Ambrose O'Brien and later George Kennedy.
I don't support the Habs anymore. Not as long as they keep playing politics with their hiring practices.
For the record, I'm not Anglo or Franco. I'm just an English-speaking Canadian who lives in Quebec who happens to speak three languages. They label us 'Allophones.' Stupid terms they come up with.
most people don't understand economics.
So water is wet?
Krugman ... : the economy is like a bicycle, and you just have to keep it moving forward.
The Official Paul Krugman Web Page
The guy's middle name is Robin, and he has been married twice -- both times to women named Robin. Weird, eh?
Hey Pantsfan did you know that Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000 was born in Winnipeg?
I also caught a film of Oedipus Rex with Rain and William Shatner among the cast.
How does he not have a street named after him yet?
He's alive and hasn't paid up?
So is Winne the Pooh.
So was James Bond.
i
Did you guys hear about the Kentucky Fried Chicken promotional bucket of Hilary Clinton chicken?
It has 2 fatty thighs and 2 left wings.
*ducks*
Is the tagline "What Difference, at this point, does it make?"
Yikes!
http://instantrimshot.com/
You're right. Accidental jokes are much funnier.
Like implying that you furiously masturbate to Willy Brown.
*Drops mic in pitcher of beer*
"Like implying that you furiously masturbate to Willy Brown."
Yep, that was the implication.
Jury's still out.
UK department store shocks with 12 Years A Slave display mannequins
At least they didn't arrest the management. Yet.
Though frankly, I was expecting something more offensive, like the mannequin playing the banjo while eating a watermelon.
And saying, "pardon me, my good man, can you direct me to the white women?"
Get your quotes right.
So what sort of seconds did the Swiss demolition of M/W get? Who argued which side?
A guy from Occupien Zurich, who just finished a 10-day sit-in in a bank vault, was on the show to defend a minimum wage hike.
"A guy from Occupien Zurich..."
Ruas! Snell!
You Know Who Else wanted to occupy Zurich?
Russian oligarch ordered to pay out $2.7 billion in divorce settlement
So, you know, your divorce could always be worse.
Hah.
He's doing it wrong.
Huh it looks like Shriek finally went too far with a post of his edited and a bunch of posts deleted.
Where?
http://reason.com/blog/2014/05.....nt_4521772
Seems he went full Warty.
You never go full Warty.
I don't want to get in trouble but did you see it?
Yo. Johnny come lately.
Had to happen eventually. Shriek had been the poster child for flailing irrelevancy for the last couple years. Sooner or later the inner tulpa/mary/tony/mng had to come out.
I will never understand why people go full sockpuppet.
Jesus people, it's the fucking internet. Get over yourself.
Thanks for the reply on Sloopy & Banjos this morning.
Independent Lens just came on, and it looks to be very interesting...
Kennedy finally admits that it is strange to have a last name for a first name but triumphs nonetheless due to her sharp wit and intellectual humor. Actually quite a good debate with wit and shameless poking fun at obvious non common sense issues.
The entire base issue in this show was something very mundane from an uneducated observance or acutely attuned to the pulse of the populace.
Would you agree that the government can kill you at any time for any reason because they said that they had done a complete investigation and had no doubt that you were a danger to other Americans without due process?
Interesting how Democrats and Obama would gladly with premeditation murder others while making it illegal for others to consider them as the target and expendable.
The truly unknown story to an uneducated public is why Rand Paul would filibuster (as best as possible - no its impossible under Harry Reid's nuclear option) the man that is a "shoe-in" for appointment to a high judicial court appointment over what he wrote as "justification" or legal opinion for POTUS or stated more easily seen as "justifiable deniability" for the President as to how the government can kill any citizen without due process based solely upon the Executive branch's decision - wait no, based solely upon Barack Hussein Obama's decision as American "god". A citizen now lives at the mercy of the "god" of America...how sad for the world.
And Atlas Shrugged.