Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Judge Napolitano, TV's Andy Levy, Meth Babies, Crap Presidents, Gun Hysteria, V.A. Privatization, and More!
Did you think last night's episode of The Independents was some pretty damn acceptable television? Then I reckon you'll like tonight's installment (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, with re-airs three hours later), which starts off with Party Panelists Andy Levy (co-host, Red Eye) and Mike Baker (ex-CIA dude) riffing on Dick Cheney's contention that Barack Obama is the "worst president" of his not-inconsiderable lifespan. The duo will also talk about the asinine contention by Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) that "the border is secure," which ranks right there in stupidity with the notion that that border can be "secure"…plus the most idiotic Rolling Stone listicle in the magazine's history, and the almost-as-pointless Republican outrage over the White House bowling alley.
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and Reason.com columnist Andrew Napolitano will come on to square the circle in the complex immigration debate between natural rights, rule of law, and open borders. The co-hosts will have a spirited discussion about what should be done about mothers who test positive for meth, KABC radio host (and multiple-theater combat veteran) Bryan Suits will make the case for voucherizing the Veterans Administration's health care system, and then the show will close with some discussion about the presidential possibilities for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
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Welch comes through.
Really Matt? 9:5fucking9?
Don't be so dramatic. It was 8:58 EDT.
INDEPENDENTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
You have nothing to lose but your brains!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0
It's a-no fun being an illegal alien.
It's no fun, being an illegal Elian.
The Deportation Game
It's an ancient flash game.
Elian Gonzales! FLASHBACK TO WHEN MEDIA FREAKOUTS WERE MORE RARE@!!
Prediction: Hoops.
INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!
Harry Reid dissemble!
Who wears a sweater in July. Unless, this was recorded back in February.
Which is why Kennedy is sleeveless?
The bow-tie has been in 'experiment' phase. He found something that failed, another that works, and is branching out to find other combos.
I pass no judgement.
The border is secure, paying your taxes is voluntary and GILMORE isn't judging wardrobe choices.
Im protesting.
(sits more firmly in his chair)
Protest.
Gag me with a spoon! Kmele Klown outfit.
Tonight there will be no attire review, in formal protest of belated Independents thread
that is all
[muffled gasps and murmurs; monocles fall from eyes]
[celebrates]
The border is secure and paying your taxes is voluntary.
Frisky Kennedy Lingua!
No man wearing a tie should wear it loosened. NO matter how strong his jaw may be.
No loose tie with a coat. And only in a bar after hours.
This guy's tie knock isn't secure.
Remember when the fashion was a turned-up collar?
Yeah, me too.
It was never that.
This wanna-be Jack Bauer? Is a screaming douchebag and very very insecure about his manhood.
Andy Levy has no such worries about the security of his manhood.
Shouldn't it be hate night?
MOATS FILLED WITH ALLIGATOR/SHARK HYBRIDS.
Sharktigators?
Sharktopus?
No.
Sharkticons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juc69G6F-q0
So America.
Canada looks better and better, huh?
I'm waiting to see if the current solar minimum is going to be serious before I make any decisions on this.
I'm waiting for Global Warming to accelerate before investing in Hudson Bay beach property.
I'm looking at the Bay of Fundy.
Our climate is colder but our elections are fewer. Our gun rights are trampled upon but our cops aren't as out of control.
MOAR LAWZ!
CHeney criticizing Obama...pot-kettle
I see what you did there.
RACIST!
Nixon was tame compared to what we're seeing now.
Holy shit. I agree with Cheney.
Oh, and fuck you Matt. Nixon isn't even close to this idiot.
Fillmore was bad, but I bet Napolitano will tell us who was even worse!
Douchebag needs to try to be funny too.
Obama has done more illegal things than Nixon. Just the IRS scandal is worse than anything Tricky Dick did.
Douchebag feels uncomfortable and wants to be asked his opinion of .40 cal vs. 9mm+p
Shouldn't Cheney be hunting lawyers?
Biden will make the rounds, but no one will be inviting him.
Immillennialgration!
they support e-legal immigrants?
Douchebag smiles real hard at philosopher joke, because he has no idea who they're talking about.
Is this what happens when you stifle your fashion critique for the night?
Somehow, I ended up at Gyu-Kaku tonight...
I'm having leftover root vegetable gratin, which turned out really well, but Gyu-Kaku sounds better.
Beef... cube?
It't the place where we had our last Reason meet-up.
http://www.gyu-kaku.com/menu/ca_tr/tr_alacarte.jpg
you seem to have a real problem with said d-bag...where did he touch you?
Maybe he didn't touch him. Douchebag failed to smile at him in a bar and buy him a drink. GILMORE wasn't really interested but is annoyed at not having received Douchebag's affections.
aha! a man scorned.
It's my solution for everything.
Epi should be around any minute to hand out leaflets on projection to explain why.
*??
Did you bite my comment below, or was that simultaneous inspiration??
Wait, which comment. I'm going to go with simultaneous inspiration.
I'm not ginger biter!
I joked that Kmele would be handing out lecture notes.
He looks like someone's Teacher's Assistant. Or raising money for UNCF/KOCH-BROTHERS DIVISION.
No, saw that afterwards. Definitely Simultaneous inspiration.
You know who was a worse leader than Hitler?
Nicole?
Mussollini?
salondotcom?
Mr. Carlson?
Its hard to say. I mean, Napoleon also tried to fight the Rus in winter.
For fuck sake, Judge. Just let that hair go grey.
He's buckin' for the Grecian formula endorsement!
This just in: The Judge calls brown child "a tool".
The Judge's hair is considered a suitable substitute for hog-bristles in oil painter's brushes.
Did the judge dye his hair?
I have a alternate thought-experiment for you.
Do Matt's thighs sunburn easily?
I cannot ignore the vanity of the dye job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHbjpGw1s9c
Does he get two minutes for looking so good?
oh my!
Judge is wrong. You don't have the right to go on others property.
It's not even relevant to immigration.
La-dee-daw. The Judge is a Northern Italian. Alt'Italia!
Means test their birth certificates!
I like the judge.
Normally I agree. He was weak tonight.
Cloward-Piven Immigration judge?
Kmele will be handing out the lecture notes today for my class on Real Estate law.
A rare shot of Kennedy's undercarriage!
of which i have No Opinion.
Timestamp of your comment noted. I was out to dinner, and will have to watch the re-run.
The world's most beloved loser: Globetrotters legend Red Klotz (of Margate) passes at 93
Thanks Red, from one fan who always secretly wanted the Generals to win.
Was he the white one?
Yeah, the child should be with its meth head mom, because it's her property.
Pokin' people with sticks...
Damn, Welch is fired up!
Ha! My mother stopped doing some kind of amphetamine analogue when she found out she was pregnant for me and I turned out pretty well.
*Narrows eyes, dares someone to say otherwise*
Is this the part where I say that whatever she *kept* taking was *fabulous*?
That would be really offensive.
She may have continued to smoke. I'm not sure.
But.
You're gay.
/ducks.
It's the first time I've teased a gay person.
Feels weird.
Do you not have gay friends that you tease? Why is your friend group so heteronormative!?
*narrows eyes further, purses lips*
I had a couple in university.
Known a few here and there.
We have a strong suspicion my wife's cousin - who's in his 50s and our pediatrician - is gay. It's like 'dude, out with it already.'
Can't imagine living like that. I told my wife it's a shame he's not comfortable with outing himself.
I wonder if all those anti-gay bashing jokes and marriage is for cunts'n cocks at family gatherings had anything to do with it.
Meh. Probably not.
Those types of stories always bum me out, but if he's gotten by for 50-something years in the closet there's no reason for him to change things up now.
Everyone has their own back story I guess.
One of my favorite poets from that era. Thanks!
Someone screen grab Welch's Nazi salute there.
Sometimes I wish I could watch the show instead of the awful crap my wife likes, and sometimes I am glad I can't.
Welch is linking the law against taking meth during pregnancy with the laws for excessive sentences for non-pregnant people taking crack.
Crazy talk, right? http://www.ussc.gov/report-coc.....g-policy-5
My understanding of the Tennessee law is that it needs actual evidence of harm to the unborn child in the particular case.
If not, then I would support legislative tweaks to embody this principle.
In contrast, the crack laws don't require evidence of harm, and they apply to non-pregnant people.
IOW, I see your point about the crack-baby panic, but if the law actually includes specific harm to a specific child as an element of the crime, I don't see how the analogy is all that strong.
It's abathsault
Welch, on a tear!
Kennedy is thinking with her vagina.
My first thought as well...maternal argument
Kennedy should remind them that they don't have uteruses so they can't judge.
Matt Welch: We should test meth on kids.
Matt is fired up tonight, has he been testing meth on Matt Welch?
Adderall Bobarian, Adderall.
Chopped up and snorted, I suppose.
Doesn't work. Adderall is mixed amphetamine salts. It still needs a first pass on your liver.
And they dye it bright colors do further discourage it. Your snot will be blue for days.
EXACTLY! Thats what *all* Libertarians say! THEY'RE CRAZYTOWN!
Matt makes a great point!
The state will punish you if a baby is born 'affected' by your behavior....
...but if you choose to abort the baby? More power to you!
Adverse incentives.
Margaret Sanger approves
Aaaaaaaaaaand Kennedy gets the last word.
Kennedy gets confused and upset when she is unable to make a snap judgement.
Really, guys? If Kennedy wants laws to protect unborn babies, she's being an irrational, emotional female?
The female part isn't germane but the rest is true.
I'm thinking of the references to vaginas, maternal arguments, and uteruses.
You need to be a fair, rational *man* to discuss this subject!
My thought about maternal arguments is not meant as a comment on emotional or irrational argumentation...or genitals. To the contrary, I don't think there is anything irrational about an argument that comes from an innate bias toward life and protecting it. "For teh Childrenz!" is a maternal argument. DO all women have this bias...of course not. Do most? I would say yes. DO i think it is an irrelevant argument? No. IN this case, I disagree with it.
OK!
Prove harm.
no to irrational and emotional...
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes... he did it.
If you are doing drugs while with child, and that child survives to term, you've endangered that child and are a criminal. I don't know if taking away the kid is the right thing to do, but there is a moral space.
If you are doing drugs while with child,
So coffee drinking mamas are criminal? Glass of wine? Blood pressure meds?
Pedantry is the worst drug. METH and stuff like it. And you shouldn't be drinking any alcohol either.
METH and stuff like it
How much meth and stuff like that?
Wasn't trying to be pendatic...but I know lots of women who moderately drank wine and coffee while pregnant...their kids are all well adjusted and successful. I'd hate to think they should have been in jail...and I don;t know enough about Meth to know that it should justify this kid growing up with his mom in jail. That's all I was asking.
Meh you can drink alcohol. I think it's 3 glasses of wine or beer a week or something with zero ill effects. You're probably also not going to give your baby listeria even if you eat soft cheeses.
My younger brother was born addicted to methadone (that was fun!) and had my parents not spoiled him rotten for this fact would be a competent human being.
I don't think it's a GOOD thing, but it's probably less of a crisis than pregnant women think it'll be.
So, IOW, you are JUST like Kennedy, and don't have any idea what you are talking about.
Okay fine 3 glasses a week.
Actually!! -
I knew 2 women who were crazy dieting and stuff during their pregnancy... avoiding like everything that might have "preservatives", or diet soda... or were scrutinizing their ()#*$@ salad dressing...
...but refused to consider taking a break from their @*#$@ "Stress medications" their therapists had them on. Prozac, wellbutrin, etc.
Fucking idiots. seriously, i ranted to their faces how idiotic they were and their husbands still have to make excuses when i end up at the same party.
European doctors are okay with small amounts of alcohol.
In the days before multivitamins, UK doctors would recommend a Guinness per day for the zinc.
Peter Parker's alternate timeline.
Magnifying glass. Sun. Sidewalks. Ants. Do the math.
What do you use for ferrets, Kmele?
Just run -- run away
Check his long form.
Also, WD40 makes the best makeshift flame-thrower.
I put that shit on everything.
IT'S SOLVENT NOT LUBRICANT!
I read a story once about a guy who was hospitalized for adding it to his coffee for a few weeks...he thought it would help with his arthritis.
Honey, the TV isn't working again!
Psh.
Honey, the flowers are dying!
Psh.
Honey, this salad lacks punch!
Psh.
Honey, my ass is dry.
Psh.
Idiot. Everyone knows you have to inject it directly on the spot that binds.
Agreed. Oh, boy, agreed.
I did my first night in jail over that one. Age 12! I wore that like a badge of honor for years. Until my second night in jail.
"Kid, what are you in for?"
arson
I want my lawyer!(*dad)
The boys on the show are sympathizing with the micropenis guy.
as long as they don't identify with him, i guess it's natural...for those with a soul.
Sieg Hieltrailor.com
Most dangerous gun? The one that explodes in your hand.
Quick! Ask him whether he prefers .40 or 9mm! He sees his opening!
Prison is full of guys with 9mm scars. None of them have .45 scars.
SalonDotComLives @AceofSpadesHQ ? Jul 15
Next @RollingStone: America's Deadliest Knives 4. The pointy ones 3. The sharp ones 2. The sharp pointy ones 1. Knife-guns
The ones with BLADES!
Free advice: do not look at facefuckingbook and this thread at the same time. I am not drunk enough.
A shot at BuzzFeed from out of nowhere.
The sperm count in the semen found at crime scenes.
Obama. That creep can roll.
President can't go down to the local alley and hang out. I have no problem with this.
Ex CIA douchebag guy is really, REALLY banking on his future on television.
The private sector is *hell*, isnt it buddy? They demand *results*
Who bowls a 37? How useless do you have to be?
I never bowl and go well past 100 whenever I do.
And I've never seen him play ball.
I suspect the creep has Rheumatoid Arthritis. I saw a closeup shot of him somewhere and his fingernails have ridges in them characteristic of RA.
To bowl a 37 you have to be insanely uncoordinated.
Its an ART
SOOOOOOOOOOOOTSSSSS
So what's going on?
Well, looks like GILMORE has been on a roll all night.
This is what's going on.
there are some things that were meant to be forgotten.
I like this one better.
I've always thought of "4 non-blondes" as the Founding Mothers of Jezebel
Probably so. But I still like the song.
I would like to commend The Independents for responding to the audience and bringing back Brian Suits as a regular feature. He's funny, succinct, and informed. Totally unlike the rest of the show!
Been a while since I visited the threads. Didn't realize that Suits had a (deserved) following!
He takes one day off from his fashion review and you come running back?
I didn't mean it as a criticism of you being back in the thread, I'm just worried you might have battered wife syndrome or something.
Hey, what happened to the Two Minutes segment? You know how popular that is down here.
Two Minutes Hate probably the wednesday after next
That's like a month between, no?
Wasn't it going to be every two weeks?
First it was two weeks, then three, and now a month. It's almost like they don't enjoy getting roasted on TV in front of tens of people.
Are y'all lacking material for it?
LOL
oh, that's rich.
Yeah, we could step it up if you need us to.
oh, i kid... but he is the best.
I think of him as "Charlie", and you guys are our Angels.
yes, matt, you are totally Farrah.
You should get Kennedy to "visit" the threads. In fact, maybe even start a segment titled "Kennedy visits the threads," with comment tracking in real time!
I vote "foe".
Thank you?
Everyone here likes you too, Kmele. Don't worry.
How?
I wonder if they use the 5th or 6th edition of the AMA Guidelines at the VA.
Going on the Warren-path?
Did you think last night's episode of The Independents was some pretty damn acceptable television?
No.
I'm shocked that Warren is even thinkable to anyone as a candidate.
It's not just that she utterly lacks charisma, it's that she's a total retard on economics and would trip all over herself once the media starts paying attention to the contradictory message of left-wing populism.
*The media* would question her positions?
No, but they would be self-evidently absurd to the vast majority of Americans. Just ask her about immigration, welfare, and why taxes need to be much higher.
Kmele is correct, she would get slaughtered like Goldwater.
"ask her about immigration"
Immigration? What's her stance on that?
Pretty vague. Comprehensive reform with a path to citizenship is what I got out of her website.
Yes agreed, I just looked at it myself, it seemed like the first prong was written by unions, the second by the DNC, and the third by Silicon Valley.
http://elizabethwarren.com/issues/immigration
There's only so much retard they can take before the criticism damn bursts. You have to *appear* not to be a moron. Articulate blacks can talk nonsense but not a white faux-squaw.
She's got Trudeau in her pocket, for whatever that's worth.
His Sunday panels have occasionally been pure campaign lies.
That is worth the smallest amount something can be worth while still not worthless.
One quantum of worth.
Who? What's a newspaper?
What keeps my coffee off the table in the morning.
Sudden is staking quite a bit on her getting the nom.
Are you kidding? Most of the journalists I have seen orgasm on the spot if you mention Fauxcahontas.
If you think they covered for the chocolate jesus, watch and see what happens if that lying bitch gets in the whitehouse.
Barack Obama and his organization were great at campaigning. Warren is a walking gaffe machine that only sounds good in sound bites, selected video clips, and headlines.
Put her in front of a live national audience against a Republican that is moderately intelligent (let alone someone like Rand Paul) and she'd crash and burn like nothing we've ever seen.
She's electable Mass, not on a national stage. Not even the media can change that.
Fauxcahontas is funny, but Lie-a-watha is funnier.
Honorable mentions:
Crazy Whore
Dances with Fools
Sitting Tool
Crapagawea
Geronidope
If I were a candidate debating her on the national stage, I would come out wearing a headdress and war paint and start whooping around the stage doing a rain dance. Seriously, people like her would be laughed off the planet by an intelligent populace.
And the the debate:
CNN debate moderator: So, Mr....
Me: I Big Chief Bullshit, more full bullshit than White Squaw!
The polls show her an order of magnitude behind Hillary-even with self-described liberals.
Ok guys it is official we can close up the internet, peak derp has finally been reached...
http://witchwind.wordpress.com.....s-to-come/
You ACTUALLY read all that?
I stopped a couple of paragraphs in.
I'd rather tease Jesse with my time.
Yessssssss. God this is more delicious than The Bible Code bullshit I had to use small words to debunk for my folks.
You had a hard life.
I prefer to think of it as quirky and entertaining.
Entertainingly they asked me to read and assess it and tell them what I thought and then were FURIOUS that I thought it was bunk because it made a bunch of serious and verifiable claims and then ended with a giant weasel package "Will you change it." Beyond that it claimed that the Bible was full of multiple possible time-lines of prophecy which would get super confusing if you started reading prophecies related to another timeline.
My brother-in-law had to step in to calm them down because they thought I was belittling their faith.
Besides a long-standing flirtation with birtherism they've been much more receptive to me debunking just about everything they get caught up in. Last time all it took was "You know a few chapters past where you're at this guy gets into some heavy "Cabal of Jew bankers" stuff". Good times.
I got 16 years to get to Cooperstown then.
Bible Code = word search is how I explained it.
I was afraid, but what harm can a link do, I thought?
Ten seconds to ctrl + w.
I really should stop trying out random keyboard commands I find while reading comment sections on the internet. At least this one didn't terminate my X-server session...
"... according to the science, Near Term Human Extinction within one or two generations is where the parasitical/ cancer tumorous system of patriarchy and Homo Rapiens (males) have brought not only humans but all complex life on Earth. The Sixth Extinction experienced in the 5 billion years or so of
Earth's lifetime and presently underway is being caused by Homo Rapiens.
Why is this so thorougly ignored on radical feminist blogs? Please don't tell me that radical feminists ? of all people- are climate change denialists?"
Homo Rapiens. Yep.
Homo Rapiens
That's got to a band name someday. Or when I start up my shadowy radical Objectivist Fifth Column, that's what we'll call the anti-environmentalist wing of it.
Rape Kulture Klub
Moby Rape
Planet of the Rapes
I don't think that counts as 'anything' since they aren't really living on planet earth.
Pretty pathetic, but I'm not sure it's peak.
The thread with the comments on and quotes from 'post structural' philosophers beat it for rank stupidity.
Sweeties ? ? ?
I have known this for a couple of decades now.
All we can do as witches is to raise our energy for our re-incarnation on a female planet. Parthenogenesis. It's a huge Universe, we're out there in our own Worlds.
Sounds like New Agers that I have known, and avoided after I knew them.
But how I do wish that all of these retards would find a new planet and find a way to get there, one way ticket.
What if that planet has inhabitants? That can invent interstellar travel? Do you think they think they will not pay us back for that?
"Sounds like New Agers that I have known, and avoided after I knew them."
When I went to bars and ran into one, I found it effective to give them a serious look and ask:
"Have you been SAVED?"
Classic
I have friends with wives and ex-wives like this. One of them was mumbling some EM interference BS about our in-floor heat in the master bath. I pointed out that her husband and I both work in a building with a 5T magnet. A little electricity running in the floor under your feet isn't going to hurt you.
Even worse she's got their 20yr old son on some boiled everything diet to improve his intellectual capacity. He bombed out of his first year in college and now is getting A's in his second. Occam's razor would say he fucked off year one and grew up his second year, but no, it's the boiled everything...
"I pointed out that her husband and I both work in a building with a 5T magnet."
Pretty sure ANY WWII submariner was exposed to fields that far exceed any current circumstance.
If there were problems, I have a feeling some data-miner would have found them by now.
by definition, Peak Derp will have to be achieved by some ostensibly 'mainstream media outlet'
It will be the signal that they've completely lost any grip on reality and are just click-bait fishing now like Salon and Slate.... who actually at one point *had some credibility*. Hitchens!
That was when the internet was young...
The fact that Hitchens used to write for Slate and Greenwald used to write for Salon is frankly amazing. It's impossible to imagine anyone of any talent or integrity writing for those sites any more.
This is fucking wonderful. I love that she has to tell us what she meant by Homo Rapiens, as if it were such a witty joke that its meanings might go over our head.
I love the cat fight in the comments. One of them eventually calls OP a misogynist. She starts off with this, managing to somehow come off even crazier debunking OP:
Ahhahahahahaha.
lol
Some anti-transgender bigotry in her comments too, which I'm not surprised to see in this wing of feminism.
This totally debunks the peak derp claim, there is a commenter even derpier than OP.
They can apparently manipulate electricity and magnetic fields with a their witch powers.... I probably should stop reading this.
D-D-D-DOOOBBBBBSSSSS
DERBZ!
"Australia votes to repeal carbon tax
"Australia's Senate has voted to repeal the carbon tax, a levy on the 300 biggest polluters passed by the Labor Party when they were in power in 2011."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-.....EET1186035
Oh shit that awesome! I had read a couple days ago that the senate blocked the repeal so I was a sad. Now I am not.
I don't pay much attention to Aussie politics but I recall people on the left freaking out at the current government like it were the Tea Party on steroids.
Hey Lou Dobz, let's also leave time to discuss the yellow peril that is consuming the county that is California's famed bastion of conservatism
My hometown is now OC's first Asian-majority city!
You have to know that Asians are NOT "minorities"!
They wreck the curve.
Yeah, they're pretty much devils just like the white devils, only with slanty eyes. Privileged slanty eyed bastards, that's what they are.
Smart assed, uppity, privileged slanty-eyed bastards, taking all the prime spots at UC, 'cause they CHEAT by studying!
Well to be fair, the UCs do have a lot of Chinese students that are the privileged children of millionaire businessmen and bureaucrats.
At UCI you could see a lot of them driving exotic sports and cars and being total pricks about it.
@ 0:54 seconds if the time coding doesn't work.
The Asian fraternity across the street from me in Berkeley caused two multi-car pileups on I-5 in the same day as they were caravanning up from SoCal at the end of Memorial Day Weekend.
I took great pleasure in seeing a rice cooker with an obnoxious muffler get crushed by a semi.
I would've guessed Santa Ana.
There are some residential streets in La Palma that literally turn into Cerritos (and thus LA county) halfway down.
Cerritos is 60% Asian.
Santa Ana is majority Latino.
How is Irvine not more than 50% Asian?
Ya'll named a city after that cocksucker?
Probably should have picked a different cuss word out of the cuss hat.
I have no problem with gay people...but do I need to get rid of all my funny cuss words because of it?
Deadwood was on my mind when I wrote it, it really rolls off the tongue. No need to drop the word and I don't think Jesse would be offended but I try to practice not using derogatory words in the company of people they are actually derogatory towards. There are plenty of cuss words to choose from after all. Just good practice.
I can see how some would be offended. But when I've called someone a cocksucker, gay people were the last thing on my mind. It's one of those words that has transcended its original meaning.
Other examples: Gay, bitch, bastard...
But I'm not the sensitive type anymore. Was as a kid. Learned it was counterproductive.
California being Overrun by Asians is probably its only hope of actual *survival*
Who else can do the maths? No one.
Russians. My math classes were full of Asians, Russians, and Slavs.
Hell yes.
Um, Lou Dobbs?
Reminder:
"In about 600 million years, the level of CO2 will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method, allowing them to persist at CO2 concentrations as low as 10 parts per million. However, the long-term trend is for plant life to die off altogether. The extinction of plants will be the demise of almost all animal life, since plants are the base of the food chain on Earth."
from wiki
10ppm? No way. Source?
"Quoting philosopher Immanuel Kant and drawing on the words of the Declaration of Independence, Dan Courtney made history on Tuesday speaking before the Greece Town Board.
"Courtney, past president of the Free Thinkers of Upstate New York, delivered the first atheist invocation at a town board meeting, following the May U.S. Supreme Court decision that said Greece's practice of allowing sectarian prayer was permissible, as long as the town didn't discriminate."
http://www.democratandchronicl...../12714037/
Presumably his quotes from the Declaration of Independence didn't include the part about the "Creator," "Nature's God," or the "supreme judge of the world."
Somehow, I'll bet every one of your quotes does.
I would have linked to another article, but it had an autoplay ad. That article, if you want to risk it, says
"Courtney said his request was granted without question and Tuesday's 6pm meeting was the first open slot.
"Town supervisor William Reilich said Monday a variety of views have been represented during invocations, citing the instance of a pagan Wiccan for one....
"Reilich said there has been no backlash against any speaker and he doesn't expect any on Tuesday.
""The only unusual thing here is that this group notified the press," he said. "They're making more of this than there usually is.""
http://www.theguardian.com/law.....yer-ruling
Odd, that they, not once, mentioned God. Went out of their way to appease the holy warriors, yet still refused to say "God".
I'm just yanking their chain.
If they want to use the Declaration, that's fine - it's the heritage of *every* American.
But if they want to suggest that the Declaration is some uniquely humanist document, to be cited in implied rebuke to the theocrats, then their point fizzles.
They could always quote Bertrand Russell or Penn Gillette instead.
Kant, the guy who thought the summum bonum required divine grace to proportion happiness to virtue? The lifelong devoted Christian?
That Kant or is there some other he had in mind?
OK, the last link looked like I was deliberately setting out to provoke you. I'm sorry - let me make it up to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0
I missed it - did The Judge talk about his new book, "Napster"?
OK, the link equivalent of Russian Roulette - one of these is white girls twerking, the other is a country-music cover of an Internet classic -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGwo8-OCDcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTL6l8DoBLw
Heh - surely someone has the guts to try this?
Which one quotes the bible?
Not any book of the Bible *I'm* familiar with.
Fuck both your links.
Here is some *real* Russian Roulette - one link will interest and entertain you, the other will make you want to rinse out your brains with bleach.
Are you feeling lucky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMUvVvMLVBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6MAvKAQ6Q
Fuck these too.
http://weknowgifs.com/wp-conte.....ng-cat.gif
That's as good as *my* links!
A commenter at MR left a link to his new (very) short story. Worth a read.
That's as good as *my* links!
Musical Roulette - place yer bets! Which is the good one, and which is the earworm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtME-3rcP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE0HTp3-AQo
Link Roulette - which is the good trip and which is the bad trip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYlGgPmom0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8
If anyone wants to play 'Dump on Dolt', over on the AGW thread the shitbag Tony is still trying to claim that models = "science" and data is, uh, not "sciency" or "truthy" .
Dr. Who-lette: What image do you want in your mind just before you go to bed?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho.....e=Computer wallpaper&summary=The Great Healer.&info;=&tag_file_id=s4_13_wal_19
http://www.dvdactive.com/image.....0/3/u1.jpg
Hopefully, some insomniac will come along later and try their luck with my links.
Hey, I tried four and they were *terrible*. The country music one is literally worse than Hitler.
Half are *supposed* to be terrible. The other half ought to be rewarding to most people.
Come on - buck, buck, buck, ba-caw!
Man! Tough crowd!
Uber is operating in Vancouver without city permission.
http://koin.com/2014/07/16/ube.....officials/
Uber Ice Cream on demand will soon be a thing.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/.....is-friday/
I've very much enjoyed riding Uber "illegally" here in Houston. They recently slashed prices by 25% to really put the hurt on the cabbies. Don't know if that is a national thing or not. It was already cheaper than a cab before, literally no reason at all to take a cab.
I was able to provoke my first driver into a tirade against the cabbies and City Hall, which pretty much sold me forever. Plus he had free candy.
So it *is* good to take candy from strangers who offer you rides! I've been lied to all this time!
Only if you contact them on your iphone first.
Baker is an anti-Snowden fascist. An embarrassment to the show.