World Awaits ISIL Speech, Obama Administration a Bit Understaffed, What Is This Police Militarization You Speak Of?: P.M. Links

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  The world breaks out the popcorn awaiting just what President Obama has in mind, strategy-wise, for his Wednesday ISIL speech.

• Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are shocked—shocked!—to discover the federal government is providing $1 billion in military gear every year to police departments around the country.
• So much to do, and nobody to do it—the Obama administration finds itself shorthanded as "talent" heads for the doors and the Senate seems in no rush to confirm a new batch of seatwarmers.
• The latest tussle over accused Boston blomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is over whether he'll be tried in Massachusetts or someplace else. The defense wants to move proceedings to Washington, D.C., where Tsarnaev can certainly find a jury of his peers.
• Activists and clergy in Ferguson, Missouri, say maybe it's time to pick up Officer Darren Wilson and charge him with something. Hmmm. Wonder how long it would have taken to charge Michael Brown if he'd been the one to squeeze the trigger?
• The conservative Breitbart News Network is being audited by the IRS. Wonder if that has anything to do with— Nah. Must be a coincidence.
• The Ebola death toll climbs to 2,296, with no end in sight. So get those bunkers stocked up, you preppers!

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The conservative Breitbart News Network is being audited by the IRS. Wonder if that has anything to do with? Nah. Must be a coincidence.

They plead the fifth on that.

[Pro Libertate]

And records of the audits were sadly lost due to a server crash. Or ennui.

[Rich]

“What are the chances?”

Breitbart should forget and stonewall (E.H.) and plead the Fifth (L.L.) until publicity sinks this.

[Pro Libertate]

And claim lost documents and files.

[Rich]

And solicit proposals for hard-drive shredders.

[hamilton]

New order for hard drives expected to come out of New Carrollton in 3…2…1…

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hello.

“The conservative Breitbart News Network is being audited by the IRS. Wonder if that has anything to do with? Nah. Must be a coincidence.”

So basically, despite all what’s gone down it’s business as usual?

Man.

[John]

Why wouldn’t it be? It is not like they have paid any price for this shit.

[Restoras]

It shows the contempt the IRS has for their ‘overseers’. They know nothing will change, nothing will be done to make them change, and all of them are untouchable.

[Ted S.]

Will Justin Trudeau try this shit in Canada?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

You’re awfully obsessed with that guy.

First, let’s see if he gets elected.

I pray he doesn’t.

But if he did, I just don’t see Canada being this politicized. Quebec I can totally see pulling crap like this. Less so Canada.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are shocked?shocked!?to discover the federal government is providing $1 billion in military gear every year to police departments around the country.

A change in policy is nigh. I can feel it!

[Root Boy]

Congress will work on this as fast as they worked on the NAS spying revelations.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I had no idea the rappers were spying on me.

[Root Boy]

At least I didn’t SF a link.

Naval Air Station? Bunch of squids are spying on us.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I do suspect my network attached storage of having ulterior motives.

[Fist of Etiquette]

…the Obama administration finds itself shorthanded as “talent” heads for the doors and the Senate seems in no rush to confirm a new batch of seatwarmers.

I wondered why the world seemed to be rotating more slowly.

[Los Doyers]

Three in a row? You schoolteachers always have so much time on your hands.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It was only the span of 90 seconds! If my day was the Earth’s history, could you determine climate patterns from in the time it took me to comment?

[Los Doyers]

THE BROWNIES ARE BURNING WHILE YOU COMMENT YOU FOOL

[hamilton]

The defense wants to move proceedings to Washington, D.C., where Tsarnaev can certainly find a jury of his peers.

Millennial dipshit Euro-trash mass murderers?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Congressional staffers hellbent on the destruction of Western culture

[Jordan]

The capital abounds with mass murderers.

[Jerry on the sea]

And sociopaths.

[The Last American Hero]

I thought it was because they couldn’t find enough citizens Boston Strong enough to come out from under their beds and sit on the jury.

[Steve G]

Give ’em a break, they haven’t been given the ‘all clear’ from the police yet

[BiMonSciFiCon]

The Ebola death toll climbs to 2,296, with no end in sight. So get those bunkers stocked up, you preppers!

That only attacks people with souls, right? I’m good.

[MJGreen]

Not many gingers in Africa.

[Coeus]

That’s cause they eat them.

[New Normal]

Nobody cares what Obama is going to say. He’ll make some retarded request of billions upon billions of dollars without any detail whatsoever as to how it will be spent, then Republicans will block it and the Media will say Republicans support ISIS.

[Rich]

Fair prediction.

[Lord Humungus]

Pretty much this. I would hope that most of America has tuned out this gasbag by now.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Doubt it. Everything I’ve been reading says that the Red Team faithful are pretty stoked about killing them some ISIS and there is an election right around the corner.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The defense wants to move proceedings to Washington, D.C., where Tsarnaev can certainly find a jury of his peers.

Yeah, like D.C. is full of people who bomb indiscriminately.

[Winston]

So does anyone find it disturbing that changing the First Amendment is now mainstream Democratic policy? And what pushback is there? Not a good sign?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Drinking helps

[Lord Humungus]

At this point it is the only way I get through the day.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

Huffpo creams their pants over Krugman

Krugman Demolishes Classic Argument Against Raising Minimum Wage

Demolishes?

fast-food worker jobs can’t be outsourced overseas or performed by machines, the New York Times columnist said, debunking a classic argument against raising pay for low-wage workers.

“Minimum wage workers are almost all in the United States employed in non-tradable industries — the production can’t move to China,” Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for economic sciences, told Business Insider executive editor Joe Weisenthal in a video posted Monday. “They’re employed in areas where — yeah, you can mechanize some but not very much actually.”

Solid argument right there.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

“You can’t go to China, so hmpf. Suck it.”

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

What a load of shit. It can absolutely be automated. Keep raising the cost of employing people and eventually the headache of having employees outweighs the capital cost of automation.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

There’s computer screens at every table at one of my local restaurants, letting you pay for your order by credit card. They still have wait staff, but, you know, I bet those folks are nervous.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I’m envisioning a phone app that allows you to order and pay with a preregistered credit card and a large automat that delivers your order when you enter your one time order code or scan your barcode on the screen.

[Pro Libertate]

It’s not just automation that’s the threat, either. So long to the kids who are working fast-food, because if the wages go up, why not hire people actually worth the money? Since the cheaper but inferior option would be denied.

[Almanian!]

Yep to all of that. Automate OR hire experienced people.

At least The Millenials will have more time to play video games since they won’t be working! Bonus!

[A Frayed Knot]

Are you sure about that? Maybe someone should poll them to find out what they’d do with their newly found free time.

[hamilton]

Paying fast-food workers $15 an hour won’t cause big companies like McDonald’s to cut jobs, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

A friend posted this on Facebook. I want an award for not responding. Since my very first thought was “well I guess they’ll just raise prices, then, dipshit”.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

You get a sticker for not smashing your computer screen.

[Episiarch]

They don’t care if they raise prices. All they care about is sticking it to who they hate, and in this case that’s “corporations”.

[Pro Libertate]

Given how resistant consumers have been to increases in fast-food prices over the years, I’m sure a horde of fat, fast-food craving Americans won’t kill and eat those who pushed through this stupid wage increase.

[hamilton]

Totally. Just wait till they take the double cheeseburger off the dollar menu.

[Pro Libertate]

All this leftist garbage is now visibly causing pain to people in areas they care about. It was doing that before, but now it’s not just obvious, the left is running around bragging about it. Comeuppance is comeupping, I think. Probably too late and not enough to save us, but at least there will be schadenfreude.

[hamilton]

The problem with lefty comeuppance is that by the time it comes we’re all fucked. I fully expect the Citizen’s United amendment thingy to be a clear example of that, but I also am living in terror of it actually passing.

[Pro Libertate]

No way.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

They tried to get me with that McDouble bullshit. 2 slices of cheese or GTFO.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Given how resistant consumers have been to increases in fast-food prices over the years

My cousin posted the copy of a Mickey D’s menu from the early 1970s on Derpbook a few weeks ago. I was actually surprised how close it was to the current prices in inflation-adjusted dollars when I checked the inflation calculator.

[DrAwkward]

I have come to refer to him as ‘former economist Paul Krugman’.

[New Normal]

Self Order and Self checkout stacked with automated burger flipping robot. Only thing left in the damn place will be a janitor to clean up the vomit in the ball pit. The janitor will probably get about $30/hr though.

[flye]

It’s called “Japan.”

[Harvey_birdman]

WaWa is a line of convenience stores in Pennsylvania. When you go in, you order your food on a computer screen. Sure you still have 2 or 3 people in the back preparing the food, but they cut the workforce in half by not having a front line. And automated burger machines in McDonalds already exist in France.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05…..s-by-2016/

I mean, Krugman is just a lying asshole.

[Restoras]

In order to lie you have to know the truth. He doesn’t so actually he’s just stupid.

[Gluesponge]

Krugman is in the classic last stage of dementia… or as doctor’s like to call it, “Progressive”. Pretty soon he’ll be unable to zip his fly and stand up, much less keep from drooling.

I always like to think his degree/awards are like the consolation prize… the academic equivalent of a “participant” ribbon.

[Jordan]

“They’re employed in areas where — yeah, you can mechanize some but not very much actually.”

I wonder how many have had to eat those words throughout history.

[Root Boy]

Come on! Didn’t you see the title — Krugman DEMOLISHED the argument against $15/hr fast food drones. That is the key word for lefties – feel the burrrrn dude!

[DK]

Krugman enjoys his own vomit. Second quote down at this link.

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

[Pro Libertate]

“Dumbass” seems too tepid a word.

[Juice]

In the comments someone linked to this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/busines…..bor.1.html

In Praise of Cheap Labor

Bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all.

Krugman demolishes Krugman!

[Kaptious Kristen]

Yep. The entire McD’s in-store operation can be mechanized. Only thing that would need doing by humans is driving the truck to deliver the product to the store. And Google tells us that the driver will be obsolete in the near future.

[kinnath]

My first job was at McD’s {back when Tricky Dick was still president}. We employed about twice as many staff in a typical store as they do now. And everything was manual, including taking orders, calculating the tab, and making change.

McD’s could pretty easily cut it in half again in the next 10-15 years.

[MJGreen]

An important clarification: the current labor operations can be mechanized. McDonalds would need to increase hiring of higher skilled workers to maintain the machines.

So not only do the low skilled lose their jobs, but some of that money is redirected toward highly skilled workers who already had good prospects.

[This Machine Kills 40s]

“They’re employed in areas where — yeah, you can mechanize some but not very much actually.”

Technology begs to differ.

[Ted S.]

Wait until McDonald’s starts installing machines to input your order manually.

[Invisible Finger]

Wouldn’t most of us PREFER a machine that can do the 3 or 4 tasks we ask it to do rather than the human at McDonald’s that can do thousands of tasks but not the 3 or 4 McDonald’s is specifically asking it to do.

I mean, I can get a roomba to vacuum my house. There will be automated bathroom cleaning machines at McDonald’s a lot sooner than Krugabe wants to believe.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

“you can mechanize some but not very much actually”

Says noted robotician Paul Krugman.

[hamilton]

HE HAS A NOBEL PRIZE!!!!11!!!1!one!

[The Other Kevin]

Well, another option is that the companies go out of business because expenses are too great. He didn’t mention that.

[Episiarch]

Corporations have unlimited money so that’s impossible.

[Harvey_birdman]

That’s possible for small mom&pop; diners, but McDonalds is much too smart for that.

[New West Republic]

And lefties are too stupid to know their desired policies destroy small businesses, leaving no options but megachains and hollowing out their hip neighborhoods.

[DrAwkward]

They will just take it out of their filthy profits, don’t ya know.

[MJGreen]

1. Krugman presents the classic argument against raising the minimum wage in his textbook. If you’re interested in an actual economics argument, and not what he said on TV, maybe you should consult that first.

2. His argument is hilariously wrong. He’s either cluelessly out of touch and ignorant about technology, or cynically political. Either reason is possible with Krugman.

[Gluesponge]

I chalk it up to a head injury.

[rts]

Crossborder radio stations anger South Asian broadcaster

Sher E Punjab, Radio India and Radio Punjab all operate from B.C.?but their radio signals are transmitted from Washington State.

SFU Marketing Professor Lindsay Meredith says by broadcasting from the U.S. the rogue stations avoid the costs their legitimate competitors have to pay.

“This may be a case of radio station broadcasting out of the U.S. to purposely duck Canadian taxes, Canadian content requirement and, oh by the way, undercut Canadian stations that are trying to sell their advertising to Canadian companies.”

Of course, the problem isn’t the onerous regulations, oh no!

[hamilton]

Stupid Canadians clearly need to build a really big wall.

[Auric Demonocles]

I was just there. Not only have they not built a wall, they cut down all the trees. They actually made it easier to waltz across that line!

[Ted S.]

I thought radio stations and other businesses were inverting into Canada to avoid US taxes.

[Episiarch]

How dare they slip through our grasp as we tighten our grip!

[Almanian!]

PS Simon Fraser Univ (SFU) has one of the best bagpipe bands in the world. Multi-time world champs. Last pipe major I played for in Toronto was ex-SFU.

Good times.

As you were.

/bagpipe trivia

[Ted S.]

You should post a trigger warning before you start talking about bagpipes.

[T]

Show us on the doll where the bagpipe touched you, Ted.

[d3x / dt3]

*sobs*

*points to ears*

[Fist of Etiquette]

Activists and clergy in Ferguson, Missouri, say maybe it’s time to pick up Officer Darren Wilson and charge him with something.

Mob justice, whether the mob is badged up or not, is seldom justice.

[John]

those people are so fucking loathsome they make me sympathize with a cop.

[Almanian!]

THIS ^

[Juice]

I don’t understand what makes them loathsome. These aren’t the looters.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Activists and clergy

In the African-American community, these are largely the same people.

[PD Scott]

I’m trying to imagine if Obama would be more or less insufferable if he were Rev. Obama.

I’m going to go with more but would probably not have been elected.

[The Last American Hero]

Less. A Reverend acknowledges there is a higher power.

[PD Scott]

Even politician reverends?

[Ted S.]

+1 Ray Rice

[Les]

I think the point is, as J.D. noted, if the cop had been shot, there would be charges. There would at least be a completed incident report. If it takes a mob to get the police to follow the law, then why not?

[Juice]

Exactly. I don’t get the animosity upthread.

[ant1sthenes]

Since when does asking for prosecutors to file charges in a case that you feel merits them, and where they are being avoided for improper reasons (e.g. because one of the King’s men killed a peasant, and a low-status peasant at that), constitute “mob justice”?

I think black people of a certain age know a little bit about what actual mob “justice” entails, and it isn’t a request to the proper authorities, it’s a gang of angry people showing up at your house in the middle of the night with torches and rope and murder on their mind.

[This Machine Kills 40s]

Is that dumbass cop in the picture using his M4’s magazine as a foregrip?

Specialized training, my ass. More like specialized guaranteed-to-jam-your-gun, you retard tacticool wannabe.

[d3x / dt3]

We should encourage this kind of cop “training”

[Jordan]

So much to do, and nobody to do it?the Obama administration finds itself shorthanded as “talent” heads for the doors and the Senate seems in no rush to confirm a new batch of seatwarmers.

All that porn isn’t going to watch itself.

[Rich]

‘Meatless Monday’

Yummy! Slather some more cheese sauce on that, Cafeteria Lady!

[Ted S.]

Catholics used to do this, albeit on a different day of the week.

[Los Doyers]

Used to? I still very much enjoy my filet o fish Fridays.

[Ted S.]

Catholics are no longer required to go meatless on Fridays, except during Lent. It’s one of those Vatican II changes. Or at least, that’s what I learned growing up.

Vatican II also gave us that “spread your germs by giving each other some sign of Christ’s peace” shit. I remember when I visited my German relatives and went to Mass there. I was pleasantly amazed that they skipped this part of Mass.

[Pro Libertate]

VATICAN III: THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I’ve been telling people this for years but no one listens. My wife still busts on Fridays about meat and fish.

[Los Doyers]

Oh, I’m well aware that abstinence from meat is only for Lenten Fridays now. I went to a pre-Vatican II Latin mass a few months ago, never again.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

You certainly don’t have to, but what was the turnoff?

[Sudden]

You never told me you were part of the Mel Gibson family.

[Gluesponge]

From the WB cartoons, I thought it was “Meatless Tuesday”… because of that song the flea sang…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwA7zmbryY

Admittedly, that’s not the whole song…

[Almanian!]

This ebola scourge scares the shit out of me and gives me hives.

[Jordan]

That’s the first symptom.

[Almanian!]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[Rich]

That’s the second symptom.

[The DerpRider]

Here, take this facemask.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Drink salt water

[Rich]

Florida student accuses school of forcing her to wear ‘shame suit’ for dress code violation

After all, teenage girls are very fashion conscience.

the school used to have a more subdued outfit for violators to wear. But those clothes were repeatedly stolen.

The article is full of such gems.

[Bam!]

After all, teenage girls are very fashion conscience.

Public high school is mostly a place where teenage girls go to show off their clothes.

[Almanian!]

Oh. My. GOD. Tell me she didn’t by that at the….GAP.

Gag my with a chainsaw!

/graduated in 1980

[Lord Humungus]

H0ly shit, Almanian, you’re older than me. (and twice as mean)

[Ted S.]

Gag your what with a chainsaw?

[Almanian!]

HAHA!

[PD Scott]

Teenaged girls are fashion conscious. Mean girls are fashion conscience. Or so I am given to understand.

[Doctor Whom]

Gee, Quinn, I’m sure you’re too deep and stuff for any of that.

[PD Scott]

That was a great show. Now I don’t think MTV has anything animated at all.

[Harvey_birdman]

Holy reference, Batman! Well done.

[Ted S.]

Teenage girls are mean? That’s not a surprise.

[Auric Demonocles]

What’s up everyone? I’m back.

[Rich]

We’re all waiting for Obama’s strategic announcement tomorrow.

How ya been?

[hamilton]

Welcome back! I presume you aren’t bear poop.

[hamilton]

Also, the Pats came in second this past week!

[Mike M.]

Bad move trading Logan Mankins. Belichick thinks he knows everything, but that’s going to continue to be a costly screwup.

[Brandon]

Mankins didn’t seem to help Tampa Bay too much.

[Auric Demonocles]

He wouldn’t have done much for the shitty play of the Pats’ OTs either.

[Auric Demonocles]

I got to my parents in time to watch all of the games on Sunday, as painful as that was.

[hamilton]

Better if the bear’d gotten you.

[Los Doyers]

Auric is very anti-poop.

[hamilton]

Well, he’s anti-delivery-mechanism at least.

[Los Doyers]

Heh, yeah that sounds about right.

[Auric Demonocles]

Didn’t see anything larger than a porcupine.

Though I did see a hilarious amount of moose poop.

[Rich]

But the turds were all smaller than a porcupine, right?

[Lord Humungus]

How was STEVE SMITH? And how did you escape? Just asking.

[Ted S.]

I didn’t know you were gone. :-p

[Auric Demonocles]

Was the alt-text that good these past several weeks?

[Ted S.]

You write good alt-text?

[UnCivilServant]

No, he scares it off.

[Tonio]

Welcome back, Auric. Can’t wait to hear some ripping yarns about your trip.

[Auric Demonocles]

It’s mostly walking alone in the middle of the woods with nothing happening, but I do have one where I see the vagina of a middle aged woman.

[Brandon]

You can subcontract that one out to Sugarfree to tell.

[Mike M.]

Philadelphia Eagles running back Lesean McCoy leaves .20 tip on a $61.56 bill at PYT in Philadelphia.

Man, that’s an even bigger dick move than leaving nothing at all. I can’t stand guys who do shit like that.

[Ted S.]

Wait until the “increase the minimum wage” people call on Roger Goodell to suspend McCoy for this.

[robc]

Maybe he tipped appropriate to service?

Or, he could be a dick. But if tip is supposed to represent the range of service, no reason not to use the whole range.

One of the big problems with tipping – if you leave a 13% tip, it turns out that servers assume you are cheap and not that you were deducting 5% for poor service.

Its not a subtle mechanism like its meant to be.

[Pro Libertate]

Apparently, they need a comment field on the receipt (“Waitress sucked ass, which is why I’m leaving this tip: ‘Buy low and sell high'”).

[Auric Demonocles]

I put their order in and forgot one of their appetizers, which I apologized for. They ordered things and, once they got it, said ‘We ain’t eating this s—. We don’t want it.

The article does give some credence to your theory, with sources from both McCoy and the (apparently clueless) server.

[Max Power]

I’ve never been to PYD (too many hipsters), but the service is supposedly pretty shitty. They don’t have very good Yelp reviews. Although now it looks like people that haven’t been there are leaving reviews because they like or don’t like Lesean McCoy.

[Sudden]

The greatest part about the increase in the minimum wage? Don’t have to tip machines.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

One of the big problems with tipping – if you leave a 13% tip, it turns out that servers assume you are cheap and not that you were deducting 5% for poor service.

Inflation has even destroyed the economics of tipping. It used to be that 10% was sufficient to make a decent living–now servers are disappointed if they don’t get 18-20% and even that might not be enough to pay the bills.

It’s not minimum wage that causes inflation, although it doesn’t help–it’s inflation that destroys purchasing power.

[brokencycle]

In fairness, it is a dick move to post someone’s receipt. I don’t know the details, but as the owner I would not be happy with either party.

[Pro Libertate]

I think a lot of those are faked, too. Doesn’t take much to do that.

I’d fire an employee who posted something like this, by the way.

[Auric Demonocles]

I’d fire an employee who posted something like this, by the way.

Absolutely for my hypothetical restaurant as well. Regardless of how great their service was and how much they got stiffed, if they show up the customers they are gone.

[Pro Libertate]

Customers are quite easy to lose and quite difficult to get. My employees can fucking suck it up and make our customers happy. Jesus, what a whiny bunch of losers we Americans have become.

[flye]

Well, tipping nothing is open to interpretation. Tipping 20 cents leaves no doubt about intent.

[Pro Libertate]

Wait, I have an idea. Negative tips. If service really sucks, you subtract money from the food and drink bill.

[flye]

There was an odd SNL cartoon from the 80s (?) where someone puts a helium-filled balloon in a shipping box, and it floats when they put it on the mail scale. “I guess you owe ME money now, huh!”

[Pro Libertate]

Seems fair enough to me.

[Trouser-Pod]

where someone puts a helium-filled balloon in a shipping box

Tippy Turtle, FTW!

[flye]

Nice get, thanks.

[Trouser-Pod]

No prob! I knew that, one day, my lurid, and possibly retarded, love for this kind of trivia would come in handy.

I’ve been singing the theme to that for…well, years.

[Pro Libertate]

There’s also the bit from Third Rock from the Sun, when John Lithgow started with a stack of dollars that constituted the base tip, then added or subtracted a dollar as pleased/annoyed. Fucking awesome.

[Invisible Finger]

I believe that was the original way mankind did its tipping. Then it became an entitlement.

[Pro Libertate]

Earn it, bitches.

I cannot stand this idea of tipping people at the register. I’m sorry, isn’t that included in the price of the food/drink?

[PBR Streetgang]

I swear my Mother in Law (Korean) did this at a Korean restaurant. She thought the food and service was bad, told the owner how she felt and paid about 80% of the amount on the bill. I fear her.

[Pro Libertate]

My God… the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

[PBR Streetgang]

And that is a stellar quote!

[PBR Streetgang]

She was a child during the Korean War and suffered a significant rifle wound. I think that shaped her into the badass she is.

[Pro Libertate]

Is she from Sinanju?

[Restoras]

Maybe he left the tip in cash? I’ve done that on several occasions.

[Pro Libertate]

You mean, some sort of gold flakes?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

WTF?

“GINGER JIHADIS: WHY REDHEADS ARE ATTRACTED TO RADICAL ISLAM”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breit…..ical-Islam

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Because they’re all nuts?

[Restoras]

Based on this theory all women are potential jihadis.

[Rich]

There are no surveys of jihadis, of course.

*** rising intonation ***

What about millennial jihadis?

[Doctor Whom]

Deep-dish pizza is haraam.

[Coeus]

boca haraam?

[AlmightyJB]

They’re all libertarian jihadis

[Auric Demonocles]

Redheads are attracted to radical Islam? I may have to convert…

[Rich]

Just don’t stick it in crazy.

Your sword, I mean.

[ant1sthenes]

Can the soulless be martyrs?

[Lord Humungus]

I’m here drinking a 220z bottle of the Saison batch that I made. Damn good stuff. And something that I need to fortify myself against the world of derp out there.

[The DerpRider]

We’re gonna need a bigger mug.

[Lord Humungus]

Aye, it’s a potent ale.

[Ted S.]

Asshole grandstanding politician suggests Roger Goodell should consider resigning

Without clicking, guess which asshole. (Yes, I know there are a lot of choices.)

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I guessed DWS

[Ted S.]

I should add that my guess was Schumer.

[Lord Humungus]

I’m with Ted.

[Jordan]

I guessed Reid.

[Rich]

Peter King?

[BiMonSciFiCon]

DiFi or Schumer.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Goodell: “Hmm… I made $40 million last year. Should I resign?

No.”

[Certified Public Asskicker]

I would be one and done if I earned $40 million in one year.

[db]

The problem is you never work your way into a job that pays 40 million a year with that attitude.

[Rich]

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the NFL “has to be a leader” on domestic violence.

Oh, go back to saving the newspapers, Ben.

[Coeus]

SJWs dox and threaten a 10 year old.

And he handles it better than any of the so-called “feminist heros” of the narcissistic wave.

[Ted S.]

Redzos is actually a 10-year-old?

[Coeus]

It appears so. And they certainly think he is.

[Brandon]

WTF is “Dox?”

[Coeus]

here you go.

[Mock-star]

I like this kid.

And best comment on this goes to:

“Jesus christ, you know the world is coming to a bad place when the ten year old is the one telling the adults that their bullying does not harm him. “

[PD Scott]

From last night’s Conan show:
Over the weekend, President Obama visited Stonehenge. The cold, rigid entity no one can quite figure out said he enjoyed Stonehenge.
– Conan O’Brien, September 08, 2014

[PD Scott]

Now that’s a big TV: World’s first 110-inch curved 4K television unveiled.
The 110-inch China Star Curved Ultra-HD TV felt more like the display you might find in a small cinema setup rather than something you would expect to see in someone’s living room. The 3,840 x 2,160 resolution curved LED display boasts a high image depth that’s said to create a “near glasses-free 3D effect” and offers a reflection-free 55 degree field of view from 3 m (10 ft) away.

[Invisible Finger]

That’s TV’s so big it’s government-sized.

[d3x / dt3]

And since there’s nothing yet to watch on it, it performs like the government too!

[Root Boy]

Stupid Party at work:

http://news.yahoo.com/key-u-la…..ector.html

[Lord Humungus]

The movie for tonight is Corridors of Blood (1958) with Boris Karloff and even Christopher Lee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corridors_of_Blood

I expect plenty of non-scares.

[Episiarch]

It’s MGM. Hammer could always be counted on for good stuff, though.

[Ted S.]

Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker, tonight at 11:45 PM on TCM. It’s got female boobs in it.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

For history buffs…or not: Franklin Expedition found.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2…..-pmo-says/

[Jordan]

Holy shit. The Terror was a good horror novel, except for the ending which was garbage.

[Almanian!]

I remember seeing a couple documentaries about this. The lead poisoning – terrifying.

Makes Shackleford’s escape from Antarctica with EVERYONE ALIVE all the more miraculous (albeit several decades after Franklin).

Cool! Thanks!

[kilroy]

+ 1 Mad Hatter

[Coeus]

Male Birth Control, Without Condoms, Will Be Here by 2017
Vasalgel, a reversible, non-hormonal polymer that blocks the vas deferens, is about to enter human trials. How will rhetoric change when male bodies become responsible for birth control?

I will immensely enjoy making her pay for mine.

[Auric Demonocles]

I suspect they will have to be very careful with their marketing to get men to buy into anything that messes with their junk en masse.

[Coeus]

It’s a single injection. I have not spoken to one man under the age of 45 who has any problem doing it whatsoever. I asked a bunch of people when the stuff about RISUG came out.

A needle to the dick, or 18 years of child support?

No one picks the child support.

[Kavalerov]

Sign me up. The pill makes her a lunatic and condoms suck.

[Brandon]

I’m in. Is there a beta version I can try now?

[Aloysious]

Jeb Hensarling, a key opponent of the bank, who now “thinks a temporary extension of the Export-Import Bank is in order.”

Does Jeb have any kneecaps left?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I don’t think it’s right Ray Rice loses his livelihood over this. Dish out punishment whatever they feel is appropriate but to ban him like Kraft alluded to today? That’s wrong.

Meanwhile, it’s okay Ray Lewis gets to continue to make money though, right?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

‘This’ being a bad thing of course.

[AlmightyJB]

If his wife had any brains (and it’s pretty clear that she does not), she would take him for everything he has before he blows through whatever he’s managed to save or acquire so far.

[Ted S.]

It’s all about showing the right amount of righteous indignation.

[The Late P Brooks]

Activists and clergy in Ferguson, Missouri, say maybe it’s time to pick up Officer Darren Wilson and charge him with something. Hmmm. Wonder how long it would have taken to charge Michael Brown if he’d been the one to squeeze the trigger?

LYNCH MOB!

[Corning]

Soo…

After a year or two of Polygon and Kotaku and indy dev community telling the world that the video game industry is a misogynistic septic tank of sexual harassment and glass ceilings it turns out is all true…

But they failed to mention that they were in fact the misogynists gatekeepers soliciting sexual favors from women in exchange for access, media exposure and jobs within the industry.

Search #gamegate if you want to read about it.

[Coeus]

Now that is some wierd, wild stuff.

The first thing to know about your penis is, that despite the way it may see, it is not your penis. Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while.
While His penis is on loan you must admit that it is sort of just hanging out there very lonely as if it needed a home, sort of like a man wondering the streets looking for a house to live in. Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.

Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home. But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not. And, though women other than your wife may look like a home, to rest there would be breaking into another man’s home. And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.

I did not know that.

[PD Scott]

Somehow I don’t think he’s thought through his theology to consider “hotel rooms”.

[Coeus]

Nevermind. False alarm. He must be totally correct. He provided citations later:

Paul tells us that your penis actually belongs to your wife, and once you are married she will trade you it for her home (I Corinthians 7:4), and every man knows this is a very good trade for him to make.
With his penis, the man is supposed to learn to please his wife and learn how to be patient, self-controlled and be educated on how to keep his home happy and joyous (I Corinthians 7:3). The man should be aroused by his new home, and the wife should rejoice at seeing his penis rise to greet her (Song of Songs 5:14b).

[Pro Libertate]

I thought that business in Corinthians was all about sexing up your spouse on demand.

[Ted S.]

Ooh, “Song of Songs”. He must be Catholic.

[Aloysious]

From the comments:

Earthlings Make Me So Angry ? a day ago

A few theological questions are raised:
1) What does Mr. Driscoll think about men having a cabin by the lake for holidays?
2) Is it the man’s or woman’s job to cut the lawn?
3) Can a woman hire a maid to help out around the house?
4) Is it kinky to live in an apartment block?

I laughed.

[AlmightyJB]

I prefer to just stay in nice hotels one night at a time.

[Coeus]

“you can rent, but you can never, ever own.”

[Ted S.]

When I read the first sentence, I thought it was going to be some Jezebel shit.

Then I read the second sentence.

[Coeus]

Yeah, the second sentence is great.

Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis

I have the penis of God himself. Quick, someone inform twitter.

[Sudden]

So he can sue me?

[Pro Libertate]

Hey, wait a second. Isn’t this an old Sam Kinison bit?

[The Late P Brooks]

The movie for tonight is Corridors of Blood

I prefer Throne of Blood.

[BakedPenguin]

Agreed, although Kurosawa’s done better.

[Pro Libertate]

I liked his The Magnificent Seven, Fistful of Dollars, and Star Wars.

[Invisible Finger]

Drone strikes in the Middle East will continue until Sunni/Shiite morale improves.

[Invisible Finger]

Is that $1 billion of military equipment per year the MSRP or the flea market value?

[Coeus]

Activists Explain Why The Mike Brown Shooting Is A Feminist Issue

Go fuck yourselves.

[Trouser-Pod]

Indeed-they should all do just that.

Coeus, I may not always see eye-to-eye with you, but damn if that isn’t a terrific summation.

[d3x / dt3]

“Excuse me, is there room for just *one* more person to stand on this corpse? Thanks!”

[prolefeed]

The Ebola death toll climbs to 2,296

aka “One day’s worth of death toll from mosquito-borne malaria”

[PapayaSF]

Which you don’t get from people, and which doesn’t kill half the people infected, and for which there’s a cure.

I’ve been saying Ebola is far more worrisome than many seem to think. The latest news is that sick people are traveling around in taxis looking for unavailable hospital beds, they don’t disinfect taxis, and you can get Ebola by merely touching something a victim touched.

[d3x / dt3]

I find the “unknown unknowns” about Ebola to be disquieting as well. And CNN, et al do not help:

“World Health Organisation says Ebola spreading like wildfire!”

“Death toll rises beyond anyone’s expectations”

“United Nations recommends shitting pants with fear, points to its role as leaders in this regard”

Followed by:

“Americans urged to not worry about it here”

“CDC describes the deliberate importation of two Ebola-infected individuals into the US as ‘not at all like the plot of every recent zombie movie'”

And it turns out that Ebola is transmissible by contact with semen for weeks or months! Based on my newfound knowledge from upthread, that means that Ebola infects GOD’S PENIS!