Presidential Overreach Lawsuit Moves Forward, Execution Ickiness Fuels Opposition, Firmer Job Market Gives Slackers a Breather: P.M. Links
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FarinelliMoi A congressional lawsuit over presidential overreach in unilaterally setting and changing policy won a thumbs-up from the House Rules Committee. Don't get your hopes up—Barry will be collecting hefty speaking fees long before this makes its way through the courts.
- Youths in Central America seeking access to the U.S. may gain refugee status in an Obama administration plan to save a few lives that might be lost on the long trek north.
- The latest effort to make an execution as incompetent and gruesome as possible, this time in Arizona, gives new energy to opponents of the death penalty.
- Officials in Norway say their country faces an imminent threat from Islamic terrorists. Is ISIS pining for the fjords?
- You may safely goof off, again: U.S. companies have cut way back on layoffs as the job market firms up.
- Ukraine's beleaguered prime minister resigned after his parliamentary coalition collapsed. Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his cabinet will remain in place until elections can be held in October. Or until Putin is running the place, whichever comes first.
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Officials in Norway say their country faces an imminent threat from Islamic terrorists. Is ISIS pining for the fjords?
They hate them for their fjreedom.
That comment could probably fit the Ukraine story, too.
A m??se once bit my sister.
Moose knuckles bit your sister's camel toe?
Moose bites can be pretty nasti.
"fjreedom" Good one, Fist.
This is why he's Fjist and we're not.
Friends don't let Friends dive Fjords.
Don't worry. They've got Ragnar and Loki.
Did someone draw an unflattering cartoon again?
U.S. companies have cut way back on layoffs as the job market firms up.
They have no one left to cut.
Thank you, Nancy!
Nancy and "firms up" do not belong in the same discussion.
Wow, that's two witticisms in a row that were actually funny. Fist is rolling.
-A blunt.
Barry will be collecting hefty speaking fees long before this makes its way through the courts.
Yeah, it's a pity our Constitutional form of government lacks any useful and timely mechanism for Congress to express its deep and broad disapproval with the President's performance.
The Constitution should have included a Congressional "rocks from space" clause.
They could unfriend him on Facebook. That'd show 'im.
For this President that might actually work.
Hello.
Islamic terrorists, I would think, would have a hard time blending in Norway - what with all the blue eyed blondes.
Let's ask Geir Elvis about that.
Where can I catch this show?
I'm pretty sure it's only on Netflix
Unfortunately those dumbasses have let swarms of vermin into their country. It is too easy for them to blend in.
Ah so is Norway where Pied Piper took all the rats?
Leaving aside your characterization of those human beings as vermin, they still don't really blend in except in certain neighborhoods in the larger cities.
Was he being too charitable?
I think you're thinking of Sweden. Norwegians are darker.
Youths in Central America seeking access to the U.S. may gain refugee status in an Obama administration plan to save a few lives that might be lost on the long trek north.
Encouraging more to make that trek saves lives?
If ever there was an example of a forked tongue....
"Obama is so slick he makes an eel look like sandpaper." - I forget who, but want to say Thomas Sowell.
I like eels,
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
Ogden Nash, Ted S, or someone else?
Luftputeb?ten min er full av
Officials in Norway say their country faces an imminent threat from Islamic terrorists.
They sound like Anders Behring Breivik.
My brother is off to Las Vegas for our cousin's bachelor party (I was supposed to go, but couldn't take the days off work). He's a 28 year old with an office job; my cousin and his friends are all either in the Air Force or just got out of the Air Force.
The last time they were all together was at my cousin's first wedding (yeah, his second wedding and he hasn't quite turned 26 yet), I was probably the only thing that stood between my brother and severe alcohol poisoning, as he continually tried to keep up with the Air Force guys in alcohol consumption.
I fear for his life without me there.
You can't protect him forever.
Yeah, but I'd rather him not die, all things being equal.
You humans and your family affection!
/squirts oil in eye.
Teach him to handle his liquor better.
Or hire a hooker to fetch him before the heavy drinking begins in earnest.
I like the cut of your jib
Practice, practice, practice...
Man, I just barely turned 26. I have a hard time thinking of being married once already, let alone onto #2...
Slacker generation
My wife and I had kid #1 when we were 26. I do not regret this, as I will not be 70 and raising kids.
OTOH, not being married at all and having no kids also presents certain benefits.
He had a kid with his first wife a few months before his 21st birthday.
(she then cheated on him when he was in Afghanistan. bitch.)
That's a bitch. ironically, my brother's only wife cheated on him while he was in Iraq (Desert Storm in the early 90's) and he dumped her ass before any kids were created.
Bitch Who Shall Not Be Named is what we call her to this day.
Desert Storm? Seriously? Wasn't that one over in a long weekend?
Might be forgetting the six months or so of Desert Shield that preceded it.
Well, you can pour one out for him at the wake.
...and a sip for your homies, dog.
Shit, send in the Marines. Those flyboys will be begging for mercy.
RAH!
Goddamned Wingnuts.
/my brother the Ranger
yeah, that was a different life man. Jesus, I would be appalled now at half the shit I did then.
yeah, that was a different life man. Jesus, I would be appalled now at half the shit I did then.
I have a nasty scar on my hand that I got in 1990 while I was in the Corps. I was shitty drunk, and to this day I have no idea how I got it.
Shit, send in the Marines. Those flyboys will be begging for mercy.
RAH!
+1
marines..marines.. oh yeah, those are the guys who started making out with each other after two beers at the hooch in Dj while the rest of us handled our liquor. I'll pit an AF Ammo dude up against a marine at the bar any day.
marines..marines.. oh yeah, those are the guys who started making out with each other after two beers
Well, don't just stop there.
My experience with AF guys has been better than my experience with Marines as well, but I think that's a YMMV situation.
The latest effort to make an execution as incompetent and gruesome as possible, this time in Arizona, gives new energy to opponents of the death penalty.
Right, quick or cheap. Pick two.
I'll take "Right". Unfortunately, we don't have any of the 3 right now.
Not like I could trust the state to fairly mete out the death penalty without killing any innocent people.
Right, quick or cheap. Pick two.
I think a bullet would satisfy all three.
Not if you shoot an innocent man.
Not if you shoot an innocent man.
I interpreted "right" to mean "not botched" rather than "the right person."
But yeah, that's why I oppose capital punishment. That and I don't think the state should be able to kill as punishment.
Shocking! Bureacrat supervising CDC lab steps down voluntarily after possible exposures come to light.
Retiring to spend more time with his family and that vial of hantavirus he left somewhere in his garage he thinks.
"Honey, Billy has ebola. Do you happen to know anything about that?"
"Dammit, I told him to stay out of my beer fridge!"
Officials in Norway say their country faces an imminent threat from Islamic terrorists. Is ISIS pining for the fjords?
Gunmen in Afghanistan have shot dead two Finnish women working for a Christian aid charity in the western city of Herat, officials say.
Maybe they are on to something.
I can't find Herat on the map of Finland. Or for that matter on the map of Europe.
No shit. If a charity wants to help, fine, but pull the christian nametag off before you go, otherwise proselytizing is basically implied.
I see Mr. Thompson gave another speech today written by Wesley Mouch railing against people going Galt. How precious.
"The president has made clear that these companies are essentially renouncing their American citizenship by shipping their profits overseas to avoid paying taxes even as they benefit from all the advantages of being here in America," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said ahead of Obama's remarks. "That's precisely what we mean by economic patriotism."
http://www.usnews.com/news/bus.....ers-abroad
Rand really did nail these fuckers. No wonder they hate her so much.
Capital controls are next!
Yep
What do you mean next?
Try taking your personal savings out of the U.S. and see what it gets you.
I'll bet Directive 10-289 is already drafted and they're just itching to employ it.
Odd, the people who escaped from behind the old Iron Curtain forfeited their assets as well.
And they tell me that we won the Cold War.
If there were advantages to being in America, they wouldn't be going overseas to do do business.
ROADS! SIDEWALKS! A WELL-EDUCATED WORKFORCE!
Okay, scratch that last one.
From the bad economic ideas department"
S. Korean government: We're going to steal businesses' capital reserves
And they're going to inflate a housing bubble, too!
Warning: there's a Flash video that might autoplay if you don't have your browser set not to autoplay Flash. (Why would you not turn off Flash by default?)
The scary thing is I can totally see this strategy being proposed here in North America - or at least parts of it.
I'd think they'd come after private-sector pensions first.
Yeah, probably, but I could see politically disfavored corporations being subjected to something like this under a president Warren, for example.
Nobody needs more than $300k in a retirement account.
This is really awful because South Korea had been implementing a lot of good reform after the 2009 recession. Apparently, we need another one. Hit him again! No good times until they are earned!
I've been watching "True Blood". Has the ever been more of a Mary Sue character in actual published tv/books than Suki Stackhouse?
How far along are you? You're inviting spoilers.
That depends...did Mary Sue fuck every male she came into contact with?
Wesley Crusher.
That's still on?! Gave up on it years ago.
Technically Khaldor Draigo is in a book...
Canadian government hopes to unveil legislation in the fall to ease regulations for gun owners
No more ATTs it looks like. So, small win.
Get it done before Justin Trudeau wins the next general election.
This is gonna make the left-wingers blow a gasket in their tiny little brains.
Wait, what is all of that about the Swiss Arms Classic Green? So a Sig 556 was legal up until recently? Or was it just for police use?
The RCMP reclassified that firearm as prohibited, for no real good reason. Owners would have to apply for a "prohibited" license (very difficult to get) or turn in their firearms.
This legislation will return them to their previous classification ("restricted" I think).
So are they currently being imported, or is there some sort of grandfathering scheme with them?
Harper did something pro-freedom? I can't believe this. Are pigs flying?
The weakness at the beginning of 2014 in the United States - the economy contracted sharply in the first three months - will affect the figure for the whole year.
The economy contracted in the first three months? Probably because we live in a 'throwaway society'.
So when are the Q2 numbers going to be unxpectedly revised and somebody finds themselves once again *officially* in recession?
Well, if we promote this TOP (WO)MAN to the head of everything, I'm sure we'll be fine.
Quothe she [Joan Walley] "It's really looking at a whole new way that we do business and how we live our lives, and really accepting that it makes sense from everyone's perspective to have a circular economy where we reuse and recycle and have virtually zero waste."
Forward to profits. I'm optimistic.
Looks like someone missed the "Recycling" episode of Bullshit!
1. Recycle everything.
2.
3. Profits!
After November.
I thought it was because of all that global warming-induced coldness that we had in Q1.
Won't it be hard, after -2.9%, to have a (true) positive number in the next quarter? If it's negative twice in a row, that's the definition of a recession.
"Sudanese Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim arrives in Italy
"Ms Ibrahim, who was spared a death sentence for apostasy in June for refusing to renounce Christianity, meets Pope Francis after landing in Rome en route to US...
"Ms Ibrahim and her husband Daniel Wani personally thanked the pontiff for his support and he in turn thanked her for her courage and staying true to her Christian faith despite the threat of execution when they met for nearly half an hour at the Vatican."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....Italy.html
Thank Science! It is utterly shocking to this atheist that an American citizen facing a death penalty for apostasy could receive so little press. The piece of shit in the White House did little or nothing.
It's the fear of being labelled colonialist, Marsh. Remember that all cultures have equal validity, even ones that oppress* women and religious people. Muslims are especially appeased in this regard in our foreign policy.
(*)Real oppression, not the whiny manufactured pseudo-oppression from which US religiots claim to suffer.
The piece of shit in the White House did little or nothing.
Well in his defense none of his underlings brought him a newspaper. How could he know?
And I'm glad she escaped that muslim desert hellhole. Even dogmatic catholicism is a step up from that.
Eddie, have you ever said a nice thing about a gay person escaping persecution? Honest question, I can't remember. But I do remember having made several posts supportive of non-muslims in muslim shithole countries.
Seriously, what about me do you find so fascinating?
Perhaps some of those atheists whose persecution I highlighted here were gay, I don't know.
Gaytheists?
Long and techy, but worth it. Keep in mind this was given two months before heartbleed was allegedly discovered:
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosd.....eport.webm
This is the third full-page ad:
"Liar, liar, pants on fire"
http://s3.amazonaws.com/ownloc.....1405401363
I get to see it in the Chron and of course the majority of the Chron readers simply figure we can increase the tax on the rich to make it all just fine.
Hero.
Nice.
Nice. So, why do you go by Sevo?
I don't think Sevo was saying that he was that guy. Sevo's old, but not that old.
PM,
Correct on both counts; I just saw these and they started about 3 weeks ago with no email addy on them and no link or image on the web whatsoever.
It is finally getting some mention on the web, so I could pass it on.
Ah, got it.
Excellent. I hope you'll share some of the hate mail you get.
That's you, Sevo? Good luck, dude.
But srsly, you can't just throw the challenge out there for others to prove they aren't being idiots or fraudsters, you have to do more proving and accusing yourself. Start by finding a hungry media outlet, then find a more reputable but still hungry media outlet...
Oh, Happy Pioneer Day!
"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? Cities and towns throughout Utah are celebrating the state's hardscrabble heritage Thursday, with parades, rodeos, concerts and more marking the arrival of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
"The cornerstone of the annual Pioneer Day celebration is the downtown Salt Lake City parade, with thousands of spectators lining the route Thursday morning to watch the procession of elaborate floats, marching bands and local officials.
"The parade is among the oldest in the country, having first been held in 1849."
http://www.heraldextra.com/new.....a4657.html
That time those outcasts from Merka went to Mexico to find themselves some peace and quiet.
That's how you do a free state project, bitches. None of this ineffectual transplanting to some tiny, prog-infested place that's already a suburb of one of the top 5 prog holes on the continent.
I still dont understand why they didnt choose Wyoming.
Actually, I do, lack of Tech sector jobs.
But, cheese!
Wait, no, that's Wisconsin.
Fuck Wyoming.
Dude.
Steak.
Two sculptures, possibly by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas, have been discovered in the home of the late art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt.
Those sculptures belong in a museum. Or something.
So do you!
I almost referred to Dr. Auguste Balls of Nice. I didn't think you'd get it.
😛
You possess a thousand pieces or so of art and suddenly you're a hoarder!
If I had a shit ton of money, I'd buy an original Rodin.
I thought Rodin was Mothra's bitter enemy?
I've got this all messed up, don't I?
I thought Rodin was Mothra's bitter enemy?
I think you're both right! If I had a shit ton of money I'd buy Mothra's bitter flying reptile foe!
"Senator says he had PTSD when he wrote thesis"
[...]
..."his failure to attribute conclusions and verbatim passages lifted from other scholars' work in his thesis to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College was an unintentional mistake caused in part by post-traumatic stress disorder."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/pol.....641953.php
You can write your own joke; I'm tired of laughing at these pathetic lumps of protoplasm.
dude, this goes with my theory that over 1/2 of all claims of PTSD are bullshit excuses for poor behavior. This coming from a combat vet. "Oh, I banged my neighbor's wife, it was because I was going through hard times and memories of Iraq"- I hear shit like this on a constant basis. Everyone wants to be a victim.
The real people with PTSD aren't talking about it. They believe that you would never understand anyway. They aren't proud to be damaged. So a vocal PTSD claim can be viewed as suspect, gents.
You Know Who Else claimed that claims of PTSD were bullshit?
serial rapists?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiinnnggggg!
Thomas Szasz?
Patton?
*SLAP!*
The thing I wonder about: his "master's thesis" was 14 pages long?
That included the footnotes. Which to be fair, were only a few lines.
PapayaSF|7.24.14 @ 5:24PM|#
"The thing I wonder about: his "master's thesis" was 14 pages long?"
Well, it was a letter to the editor, but they gave him credit.
Wait. Are you fucking kidding me?
Is this one of you guys? CrimeADay
Random stupid crimes that are still on the books.
Why would you need a law for that? It should be covered under normal copyright and trademark laws.
Was it a government creation? If so, wouldn't it normally be in the public domain?
This was just on South Park last night! The episode where Stan and Mr. Mackey get therapy for hoarding, and Mackey's issue was caused because Woodsy Owl felt him up cause he was littering....
SUE TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE!!!
I will rape you in your mouth
Vast numbers of crimes at all levels are passed because politicians are responding to some outcry. E.g. in Ohio it was (maybe still is) a crime for a music teacher to have sex with an underage student. The fact that a more general law already made it illegal was irrelevant: there was a crime and Something Must Be Done.
I had the wrong violin teachers.
Aha! NOW we see the violins inherent in the system!
I have no intelligent response to this.
jesse.in.mb|7.24.14 @ 4:52PM|#
"Is this one of you guys? CrimeADay
Random stupid crimes that are still on the books."
One of the SF Supes tried to clean the books up in SF. Nope; every single stupid law had some statist defender.
Did you know you can't store anything in a garage except an automobile.
If we're here, I think we never stopped...
Yeah, Microsoft (18,000) and Broadcom (2,500) won't set any trends. We hope.
Earnings at the carmaker General Motors (GM) have slumped because of costs related to its vehicle recalls. Second-quarter net profits fell 85% from a year ago, to $190m (?112m), the company said.
Needs another bailout. They'll get it right this time. Promise.
So how does $1 Trillion sound?
Make it a cool $1 trillion-billion!
The good news is that I'm pretty sure they've recalled every vehicle they've sold in the past decade, so future costs will be lower.
(Which doesn't mean they can't recall some of those cars a second (or a third in some cases) time!)
I received a recall notice on mine while it was in the shop having another recall done.
It's amazing to live in a world in which Apple could buy GM with their pocket change.
But why would they want to?
To kill it off as an act of mercy.
Apple unveils the new Icar!
So when is Ron Paul going to claim that he is blowback and that if the USG had left everyone alone then he (and Rand) wouldn't be an American?
I think this sentence has PTSD
What?
No, forget it. I don't want to know...
You know he represented Texas which became part of the US by annexation after rebelling against Mexico and has it boundaries thanks to a war with Mexico and failed to secede in the 1860s and Rand represents Kentucky which also failed to secede in the 1860s.
See, THIS is why I said "I don't want to know."
Apparently, neither do you, so we'll leave it at this, and I'll wish you well with your therapy and medication. Hope it works!
Texas failed to secede in the 1860s?
What the holy fuck?
March 2, 1861, you moron.
Forget it - he's rolling.
- A blunt
Eh, the difference between a successful secession and a failed rebellion is winning the war.
But Kentucky didnt secede at all, so that meaning makes no sense.
One way or another, he fucked it up.
It's was a given that it made no sense. Look at who we're dealing with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.....f_Kentucky
They lost and were reincorporated.
Heh heh, you said "firms up."
That's fast: NIST scientists clock gold nanomotor spinning at 150,000 RPM.
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a gold nanorod submerged in water and exposed to high-frequency ultrasound waves can spin at an incredible speed of 150,000 RPM, about ten times faster than the previous record. The advance could lead to powerful nanomotors with important applications in medicine, high-speed machining, and the mixing of materials.
The previos record for spining a nanomotor was a measly 15k RPM?
(Googling) Looks like the previous record was set back in May at UT Austin, 18000 RPM.
See? The fedguv is once again leading the way with intellectual brilliance. What kind of backwards savage would want to cut spending?
For some reason, this was my first thought.
I am reminded of this.
Not now, PD...Linda Carter's spinning!
New article contradicting the LA Times article about the Obamas buying a house in California:
http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/23/.....ike-smith/
For the record, I consider TMZ to be a more reliable source than the LA Times.
Isn't TMZ founder Harvey Levin a lawyer by training?
Yep.
But unlike the legal services cartel, celebrity bullshit dredging is pretty well subject to the free market, so they have to provide a superior product to stay in business.
Suicide attackers have mounted a bomb and gun attack on a prison convoy in Iraq, killing 51 prisoners and nine police officers, security sources say.
So I guess Mike Altman was wrong.
Suicide bombing a bunch of captives... seems productive?
The prisoners, who were suspected militants
So were they from a rival group? Otherwise...
Huh, they've almost caught up with the damage a US drone can cause.
Get back to me when they can wipe out a wedding party.
The hot/crazy scale, explained:
http://youtu.be/hKWmFWRVLlU
The crazy scale starts at 4.
That was great. I even heard a woman laughing in the background at one point.
That wasnt a clip from HIMYM.
No, it was better.
the crazy matrix goes from 4 to ten because we all know there no such thing as a woman who isn't crazy.
Thats funny.
Buddy of mine once said "they are all crazy, you just have to decide what kind and how much you can live with."
Very funny.
I thought someone here really hated JY.
cant remember who
Didn't know who he was until today. But yeah, he goes a little heavy on that warrior shit.
You Know Who Else claimed that claims of PTSD were bullshit?
George S Patton?
Malingerers!
Algeria airliner feared crashed on flight from Burkina Faso
I was going to make a joke about Russians and Ukraine, but that is too tacky, even for me.
Obviously the fault of the US for intervening in WWII.
I blame global warming.
Nah, it's white privilege that's really at fault here.
Xenophobia.
Have all you forgotten already? Arrogant, unilateral Bush policies are the culprit.
Sad. It would have been so easy to route around that storm.
I knew I shouldn't have been duck hunting on its flight path....AGAIN.
*kicks wall*
Quick! Call in the soon-to-be-established International Aircraft Accident Investigation Team!!
I'd call it the International Aircraft Accident Investigation Association, because then the abbreviation sounds like the passengers on the planes going down: "IAAIA!!"
Steven Spielberg, frustrated at coming up empty handed after his latest dinosaur hunting safari, shot it down. Obviously.
What is up with all of these airplane crashes? Ukraine, Taiwan, now Algeria. Stop already I want to take a flight for vacation soon.
Take one. Just stay in the Western Hemisphere or at least away from 3rd world hellholes.
Maybe he'll get one of the planes they're using to fly around the illegal immigrant minors with lice, fleas, and scabies.
Butthurt detected.
You're the one always calling me names, so while I always try to be polite, I couldn't let that one go by without a joke.
Homeowner Guns Down Intruder Who Said She Was Pregnant
Rawstory commenters seem very concerned about the death of the fetus. Go figure.
Shooting people who're running away is usually considered a no-no (unless you're the po-po). I would not be surprised if he was charged.
In California. In Texas, if it was at night, it is totally legal.
Not saying I would have, but they fucked him up pretty bad. Might have been straight up raging.
"How can you shoot women and children?"
"Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!!! Gitcha some!"
Now help me out here, if he were a cop, would he be entitled to shoot a fleeing felon in the back? It's been a while since I looked this up.
Tennessee v Garner
Ah, totality of the circs, thank you.
It's been a while since I looked this up.
When you look it up, just hit ctrl + F, then type in FYTW. There you will find how much paid time off and what sort of medal the cop will receive. This guy OTOH will have the book thrown at him. Especially if it was a white chick.
Arya is going to be contracted by Littlefinger to assassinate Jon Snow-Tagaryen after he becomes King of the 7 kingdoms following the dissolution of the Nights Watch, which happens because the wall fell down and now the realm is being overrun on one front with ice from the top and from fire from the bottom, and Grand Maester Tarly insisted there must be one Top.Man. to oversee all the defenses of the realm.
No. Stannis Baratheon, the one true King of Westeros, will sit on the iron throne, because that's what has to happen because Stannis the Mannis is awesome.
He will, but that's before Jon Snow-Targyen takes over. Its like how Londo and Vir were both "future emperor of Centauri".
They will all bow before Danerys' dragons and her hotness.
Grand Maester Tarly...
No. Just no.
The Eunuch will win it all. And by eunuch I mean Theon Greyjoy.
Win it all? The Sausage eating contest?
Robots mean communism
I thought video games proved the end of capitalism is possible?
I think in the future the poor will get richer and the rich will get richer^3. I'm okay with this.
Christ, another prog idiot blabbing about replacing capitalism.
Will all the robots be equal?
Once they rise up and kill us all the leaders will be more equal.
It will be the opposite of human hierarchy, where the old lead. Younger robots will be more advanced and will take over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IPAOxrH7Ro
Forty-eight people are now known to have died after a passenger plane crashed in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago, amid stormy weather in the area.
They're dropping out of the sky.
Maybe plane manufacturers should stop putting the "Wings Fall Off" button in them.
Larson retired too early.
What's the total so far? 3 this week alone?
The Ukraine one doesn't count. It was shot down, not pilot error or mechanical issues.
It didn't help that some total dick painted a huge target on the side.
Seriously, who does that?
Is time to ban planes and go back to ships? What's the carbon footprint?
Wind powered ships?
I'm guessing the sails and the ships will have to be made from environmentally sustainable materials.
Also made with fair trade, living wage, natural, organic and local materials.
And assembled by robots
Artisanal, free-range robots. Please.
Bring back galleys. "Where do you want to row today?"
A man charged with killing an unarmed black woman on his suburban Detroit porch in November initially told police it was an accident, a jury has heard.
Theodore Wafer, 55, said he did not know his shotgun was loaded, according to recorded remarks played at trial.
Anybody that tries to use a childish excuse like that... just no. Guilty.
Rule #1: the gun is always loaded
Rule #2: never point the gun at something you don't want to shoot
Rule #3: keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire
Rule #4: be sure of your target and what's behind it
Rule #5: never try to catch a dropped gun
Think how many lives could be saved if they gave this list to cops. Of course, first they'd need to make sure cops could read...
No no, the courts specifically forbade that.
Fuck that guy.
Did you say you wanted an article combining Abraham Lincoln, Star Trek, and a supermodel?
This is your lucky day!
http://www.timesofisrael.com/b.....wrong-guy/
She correctly quoted Abe Lincoln. Just not THAT Abe Lincoln.
I fail to see the problem.
I fail to see the article...
Do women need bigger parking spaces?
Special parking spaces for women in China
A shopping mall in China has sparked controversy after allocating extra wide spaces for women. They're marked out in pink with the message "Ladies Only". They give about 11 inches (28cm) more room than the average space.
I would pay money to see this posted all over Jezebel.
They give about 11 inches (28cm) more
And this is what every woman wants, amirite, ladies?
Oh, wait - TANLW to verify this. Shit...
Apparently, on the cute/rich axis, we are in the 'no go' zone.
Women generally or Chinese women?
Lets see what happens:
http://fighting_polish.kinja.c.....200/+dodai
It won't be enough for some of them. See the one that starts around :45 here. Warning: loud pop soundtrack.
Good fucking God, that and the one immediately following... doubleyou the fuck, mate? H...how?!
You gotta love it that after so many minutes, a guy gets out of his car and parks it for her in seconds.
A reporter on NPR is cross-examining an editor of some lad mag. He's explaining how he is isn't a sexist.
"Some of my best friends are chicks...."
"XENOPHOBIA! NATIVIST WARRIOR PRINCESS!"
I think it's kinda catchy, and a great TV show idea for these times. What say you, commentariat?
Only if it is a young Linda Carter.
Rickson Gracie on the Joe Rogan podcast
Go to about 2:15:00 for an excellent story about beating a guy up.
T-Shirts for book nerds
I actually really like the way some of them look.
The doohickey on the Grimms' Fairy Tales shirt looks like a ... you know.
Thoughts on my first programming conference
That's sad. Wonder what the difference was?
Oh, right:
If someone shakes hands with your husband, and your husband does not then introduce you, it's your husband's fault.
How often does this happen, such that her husband's reaction to his wife bursting into tears in bed is not concern but rather "ugh, here we go again!?" exasperation?
Irony? Or something else? Using pollution to find alien civilizations:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re.....111220.htm
"New" approach?
Oh, FFS...
WTF???!!!!!! Perhaps they should just shut up about Voyager?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re.....114142.htm
God fucking dammit. And they didn't even cite Pro Lib and me.
It's really simple: Voyager 1 is 121 AUs from the sun. The Oort Cloud is 50,000 AUs from the sun.
As the Oort Cloud is clearly part of our solar system, Voyager 1 isn't even one percent of the way to interstellar space.
Anytime they announce otherwise, it just means they want to remind people that Voyager 1 still exists.
So, wait, is it leaving the solar system for the seventh time?
What do the millennials think?
Heather Mac Donald may be the biggest cop-lover out there. FTA:
It was Garner's resistance to arrest which triggered the events leading to his death
Whole thing here:
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0723hm.html
Anger over Garner's death is understandable. No one should die for selling untaxed cigarettes or even for resisting arrest, though the officers certainly did not intend to kill Garner, and a takedown may be justified when a suspect resists. Protests initially centered on the officer's seeming use of a chokehold, which is banned by the NYPD and is thus against departmental policy. But NYPD critics have now expanded the campaign against the police to include misdemeanor enforcement?such as against Garner's illegal vending?itself. This is pure opportunism. There is no connection between the theory and practice of quality-of-life enforcement, on the one hand, and Garner's death, on the other. It was Garner's resistance to arrest which triggered the events leading to his death, however disproportionate that outcome, not the policing of illegal cigarette sales.
history's greatest monster?
And, in general, I think Broken Windows policing works. But Mac Donald is really expanding the meaning of that policy. And the comments at City Journal are derp filled.
Sample:
The brutal truth of the matter is that the man did not weigh 350# because he was disciplined and did not have 30 arrests in his past because he had an excess of regard for authority. If he made a habit of being contentious and impetuous, this was just another episode. People like him might do less of it if there were not pseudo-authorities like Diane Pagen encouraging them.
TBF there are some critics in the comments too.
The guy had been arrest 30 times? Sheesh.
It certainly doesn't matter if the law is petty, and designed with the sole aim of stealing the wealth of the citizenry.
No, indeed, what matters here is that this man, nay, this monster, did not obey the commands of those sent to enforce this theft of wealth.
Verily, failure to obey is punishable by death.
So say we all.
need a sarcasm font
I didn't have any big problems with the article. That comment is abrasive, as is typical of Art Deco, but true enough.
Really?
http://b-inet.com/sammy/indian-jewish-actors/
JOOZ CONTROL BOLLYWOOD!
Don't forget:
http://celebhealthy.com/fran-d.....-hip-size/
Wait, have I responded to American by mistake?
Yes, the Murkin plague has been spotted and disinfection has begun.
Harassment policies, as anyone with a brain predicted, have a chilling effect on intersex discourse at conferences.
The other conference she refers to, the one she had a great time at? No harassment policy.
Oh, don't be silly. Why would I ever avoid talking to women just because they can decide anything I say is harassment, just by saying that it made them feel harassed?
"Is that a new haircut? It looks nice."
sued
And yet some say I'm sexist.
Sigh.
At least my wife will voluntarily admit to the crazy.
Nerds love women. It's the other direction that doesn't work so well.