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Kerry To Answer Benghazi Questions, Putin Jabs Obama, Tupac's Last Words Revealed: P.M. Links

Zenon Evans | 5.23.2014 4:30 PM

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    Secretary of State John Kerry will go before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about Benghazi.

  • Responding to accusations by President Obama that he's lied about his involvement in the Ukraine crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin shot back, "Who is he to judge, seriously? If he wants to judge, why doesn't he get a job in court somewhere." Zing…?
  • The military can force-feed Guantanamo Bay detainees again, decided a federal judge. Freedom fries are not on the menu.
  • Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who teamed up with Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) last year in a bid to stop blanket NSA phone record collection, lost an appeal to get on the ballot for re-election after some paperwork flukes.
  • Kansas City, Denver, Dallas, and Cleveland are the final four cities being considered to host the 2016 Republican National Convention.
  • Donald Sterling has relinquished control of the Los Angeles Clippers to his estranged wife.
  • "Fuck you" were Tupac's last words, according to the police officer who first reached the scene of the 1996 shooting that ended that rapper's life.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    I say we boycott libertarianism until commenting gets fixed. WHO'S WITH ME?

    1. Paul.   11 years ago

      Being a libertarian, I'm not much of a joiner.

    2. fish   11 years ago

      It's lacking in a little of the Belushi like enthusiasm that we libertarians expect in a leader!

    3. Mike M.   11 years ago

      Dipshits like Dalmia, a website that doesn't work; this place is slowly swirling down the crapper.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    "Fuck you" were Tupac's last words, according to the police officer who first reached the scene of the 1996 shooting that ended that rapper's life.

    He died as he lived. Profanely.

    1. Fr?ulein Nikki   11 years ago

      HIT 'EM UP

  3. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Secretary of State John Kerry will go before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about Benghazi.

    Maybe he can answer what difference, at this point, it makes.

    1. 110 Lean   11 years ago

      Ambassadore Stevens had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of Libya in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

        It's seared into the secretary's memory.

      2. VG Zaytsev   11 years ago

        So he was a typical American cop.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    This is killing everyone, isn't it?

    1. JW   11 years ago

      You just made the list, pal.

  5. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who teamed up with Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) last year in a bid to stop blanket NSA phone record collection, lost an appeal to get on the ballot for re-election after some paperwork flukes.

    Maybe he'll be replaced by someone who actually does stop blanket NSA phone record collecting.

    1. Geoff Nathan   11 years ago

      Turns out a federal judge just countered that decision
      http://www.clickondetroit.com/.....d/26140352

      1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

        Just like they would do if it was a 3rd-party candidate!

      2. Brandon   11 years ago

        U.S District Judge Matthew Leitman's official decision: FYTW.

  6. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

    I hate to be that guy, but is somebody doing this to the Reason website on purpose?
    http://108.166.83.148/localdom.....track.html

    1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

      Perhaps somebody who shows up at 4:41PM and can suspiciously comment after all my comments all the sudden? Somebody like that?

      1. Suthenboy   11 years ago

        Or maybe someone who seems to be able post freely while everyone else languishes in comment hell prodded relentlessly by squirrels with tiny pitchforks. Maybe it is someone like that.

      2. Suthenboy   11 years ago

        Or maybe someone who seems to be able post freely while everyone else languishes in comment hell prodded relentlessly by squirrels with tiny pitchforks. Maybe it is someone like that.

      3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

        You weren't a suspect, but you are now.

        Mary is turning us against each other.

        1. DesigNate   11 years ago

          Well since by his own admission, Fist IS the internet, he should always be the prime suspect for any posting shenanigans.

    2. Drake   11 years ago

      I can't comment with Chrome or Explorer from my work machine. For some reason I can comment using Sea Monkey on my home PC.

  7. INFORG   11 years ago

    If nobody can comment, I'll have to go to Huffpo for my commentary fix. Please don't make me go to huffpo

    1. The Other Kevin   11 years ago

      I can only read so many hockey blogs, especially when it's not game day.

  8. 110 Lean   11 years ago

    This is cute:

    Boy Meets Gay Couple for First Time

  9. 110 Lean   11 years ago

    This is cute:

    Boy Meets Gay Couple for First Time

    1. 110 Lean   11 years ago

      FUCK THIS SHIT!!!!!1111!1!!1

      1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

        Homophobe.

  10. Paul.   11 years ago

    Secretary of State John Kerry will go before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about Benghazi.

    Mr. Kerry, tell us what your predecessor wouldn't...

    1. ?rboles de la Barranca   11 years ago

      Old horse face will be doing a lot of neigh-saying at those hearings.

  11. DesigNate   11 years ago

    Kansas City, Denver, Dallas, and Cleveland are the final four cities being considered to host the 2016 Republican National Convention.

    As a resident of Dallas, I politely decline on behalf of my fellow residents.

    1. Mike M.   11 years ago

      It has to be Cleveland, because nobody lets people down like the republicans.

      1. Swiss Servator, CH yeah!   11 years ago

        The Browns are insulted!

  12. R C Dean   11 years ago

    OT (if that's possible in a links post):

    Looks like crypto-Marxist proggie darling Piketty was cooking the books for his "income inequality, OH NOES!" screed.

    http://www.businessinsider.com.....tty-2014-5

    1. Suthenboy   11 years ago

      Someone pointed that out earlier. It makes no difference. The left gives zero shits about facts or truth, only about advancing the narrative. Piketty will be lionized alongside Rigoberta Menchu, Margaret Mead and Michael Mann.

      Hell, he will probably get a Nobel just like Krugman and the Lightbringer.

    2. poloniusium   11 years ago

      "I have tried ... to make the most justified choices and arbitrages about data sources and adjustments" which he accomplished by adding integers to figures that didn't come out the way he wanted.

      1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

        +2

      2. Mad Scientist   11 years ago

        The IPCC could use a good man like him.

      3. Sevo   11 years ago

        So, his response is 'tough shit; I like it'?

        1. poloniusium   11 years ago

          Didn't some AGW cultist say something like "It isn't true, but it's accurate"?

          1. Brett L   11 years ago

            "Fake, but accurate" was Dan Rather's defense when it turned out the Bush TANG memos were fakes. Also, the last time Charles Johnson at LGF had a working grasp on reality.

            1. Sevo   11 years ago

              Brett L|5.23.14 @ 6:42PM|#
              ""Fake, but accurate" was Dan Rather's defense when it turned out the Bush TANG memos were fakes"

              I read someone else's defense of that lying POS and it amounted to 'no proved Bush *didn't* do that!'
              Well, he's got a point and no one has yet proven Rather doesn't have carnal knowledge of goats on alternate Tuesdays, either.

      4. Suthenboy   11 years ago

        To him, making the data fit the narrative is a 'justified choice'.

      5. robc   11 years ago

        At least he made his adjustments public, unlike certain climate "scientists".

    3. WDATPDIM?!   11 years ago

      Somewhere in Historians' Fallacies, David Hackett Fischer observes that hefty tomes tend to be deemed important simply because of their size.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        Importance by the ounce!

  13. William of Purple   11 years ago

    WHAT DO WE WANT?

    Comments!

    WHEN DO WE WANT THEM?

    NOW!

  14. Pi Guy   11 years ago

    WTF? I get home at 545 with the intent of reading the 247 comments thus far and there are... 24? I can never comment because all the good things have been said by then but I still get to laugh and learn some really neat stuff. And now I get to hit the first 25? This is not entertaining at all.

    The end is nigh.

  15. Sevo   11 years ago

    I think they're saluting "People. Planet. Profit.", but maybe it's something else:

    http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/.....499656.php

    1. poloniusium   11 years ago

      Heil Pork! Heil Pork! Pork Uber Alles!

    2. Suthenboy   11 years ago

      They are calling it 'The Hive'?

      Holy shit.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        I predict bankruptcies followed by government subsidies.

  16. Sevo   11 years ago

    And let's see if anyone cares about O-care's latest fudge:

    "Health care law changes could give 'bailout' to insurers"
    [...]
    "The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature health care law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry"
    http://www.sfgate.com/default/.....496730.php

    Quietly. Just before a long weekend.

    1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

      Obama administration officials said the new regulations would not put taxpayers at risk.

      Well, that's alright then! Whew!

      1. Dixon_Sider   11 years ago

        Thank God we dodged THAT bullet!

        1. Sevo   11 years ago

          Obo's got tomatoes growing on the East Lawn and the girls are gonna sell 'em to tourists from a stand out front!
          That'll cover the shortfall.

    2. Ayn Random Variation   11 years ago

      Just the final installment to Buffet.

  17. Grand Moff Serious Man   11 years ago

    Hello!

  18. Grand Moff Serious Man   11 years ago

    "Fuck you" were Tupac's last words, according to the police officer who first reached the scene of the 1996 shooting that ended that rapper's life.

    Oh so in 200 years we go from 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country' to 'fuck you'?

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      John Brown's last words were "f*** off, slavers!"

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

        Don't forget, "they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

      2. robc   11 years ago

        Actually, those were p brooks, before he became late.

    2. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

      "Tell my wife.... she's a bitch"

    3. poloniusium   11 years ago

      Ask them dirty pigs, why the fuck you in my face?

    4. Chinny Chin Chin   11 years ago

      Sgt. Carrol says Tupac was "noncooperative" before he died. If I'm trying to get dying words out to my friend, but can't because an unsympathetic cop is shouting at me, I might tell the cop to fuck off, too.

  19. WDATPDIM?!   11 years ago

    I'm finally getting around to reading the opinion striking down Pennsylvania's anti-same-sex-marriage laws. When an opinion starts out like this, you can be pretty sure where it's gonna wind up:

    Today, certain citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are not guaranteed the right to marry the person they love.

    1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

      "Tough shit for them, I guess."

      1. WDATPDIM?!   11 years ago

        That would be AWESOME.

  20. Derpetologist   11 years ago

    On Derpbook, I saw a prog complaining about his Blue Cross premium going from $200 to $862. He also didn't get his $140 subsidy. I resisted the urge to do the Nelson laugh.

    1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

      Did he blame Republicans, the Koch brothers, or the evil insurance companies?

      1. Derpetologist   11 years ago

        He blamed Blue Cross. I dropped them in December before joining my company's health plan.

        1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

          If I gave enough of a shit, which obviously I don't, I'd dig up the comment some smug progtard posted here just a couple weeks ago saying that if the cost of universal coverage was everyone's rates going up just a couple percent, why, that was just OK with him.

          1. Derpetologist   11 years ago

            Back in November, this guy was boasting of how he was about to get cheaper insurance.

          2. SusanM   11 years ago

            "Fuck you, I got mine" progressive style

        2. Sevo   11 years ago

          Derpetologist|5.23.14 @ 6:24PM|#
          "He blamed Blue Cross."

          Damned free market!

      2. Brandon   11 years ago

        Or all three?

        1. Derpetologist   11 years ago

          90% of his posts are complaining about Republicans. Haven't seen anything about the Koch bros yet.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

      $862? How old is this dude?

      1. Derpetologist   11 years ago

        About 38.

  21. Derpetologist   11 years ago

    A montage of Special Ed's spazzing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbYDujTqk0

  22. WDATPDIM?!   11 years ago

    Eighty years ago today, Bonnie and Clyde were blown to hell in an ambush.

    1. SusanM   11 years ago

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....ar1933.jpg

      All she needed was a monacle

      1. poloniusium   11 years ago

        *whistle* That is a V-neck.

    2. GILMORE   11 years ago

      I think you meant to say,

      "In an unfortunate, isolated incident, bullets allegedly struck two bank robbery suspects during a routine traffic stop. Luckily no law enforcement officials were harmed in the exercise of their duty. Nothing else happened"

  23. Troy muy grande boner   11 years ago

    Russian President Vladimir Putin shot back, "Who is he to judge, seriously? If he wants to judge, why doesn't he get a job in court somewhere." Zing...?

    It's like Muhammad Ali vs. Moe Howard.

    1. SusanM   11 years ago

      The Pain in the Ukraine 2014

  24. Derpetologist   11 years ago

    Maddow proudly representing the reality-based community:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emyi2HgyxpM

  25. Derpetologist   11 years ago

    You see, MSNBS is better because Fox has a political slant:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyUwHBZVv8s

  26. Derpetologist   11 years ago

    Olbermann does some show and tell with his college diploma:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LJrnHtveo

    1. lap83   11 years ago

      Every communications major I've ever met has been incredibly stupid yet incredibly arrogant.

      Olbermann's face makes me laugh though. He has this furrowed brow/over-focused facial expression whenever he's speaking that reminds me of a toddler learning to do some elementary task like tying their shoe. You could say that thinking doesn't come naturally to him.

  27. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

    Well, I waited too long to book a hotel for Memorial Day, so now I'm staying at the Lawrence Welk Resort for Old People. Woo hoo.

    1. Brett L   11 years ago

      Maybe your wife won't come away pregnant from this vacation?

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

        Not while she's 6 months pregnant. Although, we're going to the San Diego wild animal park, which is always a turn-on.

        I'm getting snipped this summer anyway.

  28. 619 Limo   11 years ago

    what!??!^^

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