Feds Threatened Foley's Parents, Tumor Knocks Rob Ford Out of Race, Germany Bans ISIS Symbols: P.M. Links
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James Foley's parents say the Obama administration threatened to charge them with supporting terrorism if they paid the ransom to the ISIS terrorists who ultimately killed the man. (Hat tip to Francisco d'Anconia)
- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, for whom the word "embattled" is clearly insufficient, is withdrawing from re-election efforts and has been hospitalized with a tumor in his abdomen.
- In other updates of news that was hot months ago, George Zimmerman, for whom perhaps the word "embattled" is also insufficient, has been accused of threatening to kill another driver in a road incident in Florida.
- A woman legally growing medical marijuana in northern California had a pack of armed men in fatigues descend from an unmarked helicopter in her backyard, refuse to identify themselves, and destroy her crops. She thinks it's a private security company working with local law enforcement, but they insist it's not them.
- Germany won't join airstrikes against ISIS, but it did ban all flags and symbols that represent them.
- Powerful and controversial Northern Irish Unionist leader Ian Paisley has died at age 88.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, for whom the word “embattled” is clearly insufficient, is withdrawing from re-election efforts…
It will be a hell of a retirement party, eh?
Hello.
Get your own form of entertainment damn Yankees. Ford belongs to us.
Hey, we’re happy to share Joe Biden with you, all we ask is a little reciprocation.
Look here Rufus, after all the entertainment we’ve given the world, and after all the psychological harm your nation has cause by allowing ‘entertainers’ like Dion and Bieber out of the US’ attic, you can at least let us have a little Ford.
Anyway, he’s not going to do what all other Canadian entertainers do when the hit it big – move to the US.
Pish posh!
I will not let Americans be entertained at our expense!
/caresses Ford doll.
2/3 of Rush still live in Canada.
So does all of Nickelback.
It’s not a toomah!
A Day at the Police Station by Richard Scarry
He also wrote “A Day at the Airport”.
Is that the one that starts out
“Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head.”?
It’s the one where Helen Hayes tries to stow away.
Or the one where Clark Gable’s plane runs out of fuel?
Is that like the Little Golden Book adaptation of “Training Day?”
young readers will get an up-close look at police work?from solving crimes, to helping lost children and more! The fun, lively art will appeal to fans of Richard Scarry?and police officers?everywhere!
I’m Scarryed!
She thinks it’s a private security company working with local law enforcement, but they insist it’s not them.
I’m sure the cops will investigate thoroughly.
Either they’re working with law enforcement or it’s criminal destruction of private property (yes, yes, I know, I know. But we’ll go with the police thoughts on this one for the purposes of this post). So I’m sure indictments will be forthcoming, right?
Why can’t it be both?
Why can’t it be both?
That’s where I was going with the “Yes, yes, I know”
Going onto other people’s property while dressed in camo, including balaclavas, and without a shred of legal authority, in order to destroy their property, strikes me as an excellent way to get your head blown off.
I can only hope they drop in on an old-school grower, the kind who will defend his livelihood from armed trespassers. Even in CA, that’s going to be a hard case for the prosecutor to win.
I can only hope they drop in on an old-school grower, the kind who will defend his livelihood from armed trespassers.
Somewhere down Copperhead Road maybe?
mmmm.. balaclavas. I was just hungry and thinking of Greek desserts.
SPANAKOPITA!
Nothing wrong with more gyros for desert.
Its CA – only the state has guns there.
The state and weed growers in the north.
IIRC all civilian aircraft (at least) must have a “tail number” visible. That’s a federal jurisdiction thing, so either it was the feds or someone violated federal regs. Should be able to track it down from its flight plan.
Probably didn’t operate on a flight plane, but depending on the airspace in the area there.may be ATC tapes with an identifiable call sign.
This was in the north. Mostly rural up there.
Still, I imagine the FAA might take some interest in this.kind of operation.
I’m curious to know what the rules are about flying in a helicopter with guns. Surely, they must have flown over a gun free school zone.
Scotland, you want out? We’ll take your place
Nauseating.
There is a simpler solution for the author…
Does it involve running a garden hose from his exhaust pipe?
Ok, that’s even simpler than my solution, which begins with a “r”, ends with a “n”, and rhymes with “pronunciation.”
‘ronunciation’?
Damn you!
That costs money. And Mr. Obama won’t have any of it.
That man has an eminently punchable face.
Stephan Kinsella writes for CNN?
And where did all that get them? Possibly slightly wealthier than Mississippi (but probably not even). They should look to join us just for the welfare.
Queen of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
Ewned!
Or, as the teenage girls say it, eeewe.
I’m sure they can’t wait to debase the pound sterling by linking up with the dollar!
Yes, merely by “joining them,” we will suddenly receive all of these “benefits.”
The day the “Yes” side blew it
Just when I was starting to like the idea of Scottish independence…
That’s assuming the majority of folks around here don’t feel that way. Salmond is a lefty. This country, as far as I can tell, is pretty far left. When I arrived I figured SNP was like UKIP. Not so.
I wonder if chav porn would be less of a turn on if it were suddenly “domestic”.
Do Brits search for Juggalo porn?
THERE IS NO SUCH THING!
Nothing, nothing, you can say will convince me otherwise.
The 7th Seal still holds.
Rule 34 begs to differ with you.
Dammit… Should have refreshed the page. Get out of my head, Ted!
Rule 34 begs to differ.
I don’t want to harm anyone’s emotional well being so I’m going to make this not a link, but it is a purported “Gathering of the Juggalos” sex tape
www[dot]worldstaruncut[dot]com/uncut/49604
LOOK UPON IT AND DESPAIR
I don’t know. There are studios that specialize in white trash boys from Florida though. Wouldn’t that be the equivalent?
Or Guys/Girls Gone Wild maybe?
He’s just in denial. I can honestly say I haven’t looked, but I will eat my own hair if there isn’t.
Jesse, several of my friends are connoisseurs of the white trash southern boy scene. At least, judging by some of the FB pictures.
First instinct is to go for *ahem* cinema about chavs, but the southern white trash thing can be charming too. I met a few folks in that category the last couple of times I was in NOLA.
And if we can’t land the UK, we’ll settle for France.
Foreign cultures always look so much better when you are not exposed to the more vulgar aspects of it. For example how many people outside of France and England watch the actual native films and TV shows that are popular in those countries?
Though sometimes vulgar trash is well received in foreign countries such as Film Noir or Doctor Who.
Film noir is not trash.
I’ll agree with you on Doctor Who, though.
Film noir is not trash.
When they were made they were regarded as such in the US. It was the French who began lumping those films into something distinct and praising them as art that led to their current reputation.
America doesn’t have a culture. It has lots of different cultures all mashed together. A big mistake that Europeans make is to think that Americans are all from basically the same place, whether that means they think we all eat fried chicken every day or we’re all inbred rednecks, or whatever. America probably has the best and the worst culture in the world all at once.
People should watch the movie It’s Trad, Dad to see the sort of music that was popular just before the Beatles hit it big.
It’s also a surprisingly entertaining picture, directed by Richard Lester who also did A Hard Day’s Night.
To be fair that didn’t start happening until the 20th century, which was also when the US became the dominant superpower of the world. Before then Europeans laughed at the backwardness of savage American “culture”.
It probably has a similar genesis to Indian and Nigerian businessmen wearing black jackets, pants, and neckties, an impractical practice even in Northern Europe where it started, let alone the tropics. Everyone wants to imitate the big dog.
The author has apparently never heard of Chavs or soccer fans.
Like fuck we will.
Counterrevolutionary scum.
James Foley’s parents say the Obama administration threatened to charge them with supporting terrorism if they paid the ransom to the ISIS terrorists who ultimately killed the man.
What if they paid in weaponry?
They should pay in S&H green stamps.
I am actually OK with this. In fact, I’d support a UN resolution/treaty that banned paying of ransom. If you disagree, tell me why.
Because you could pay in bills soaked with a mixture of DMSO and arsenic? 😀
George Zimmerman appears to be the icy sidewalk of self defense law anymore.
By which I mean, every two-bit ambulance chaser in Florida dreams nightly about a client who has, well, spent time in the same room as Zimmerman.
OTOH I can’t imagine Zimmerman has deep pockets. Sue away, everyone, you can divide up all his assets! I wonder if after splitting the proceeds from a 2003 Celica and a well-worn TJ Maxx wardrobe, there’ll be enough to cover legal fees?
Okay so.maybe the lawyers aren’t dreaming, but the.kind of.people who look for a payday out of bogus.slip and falls or whiplash may think he’s backed by big money.
TJ Maxx?!? Check your privilege!
No privilege check needed, a quick look here suggests George shops to get the Maxx for the minimum.
Slow clap, accompanied by an eye roll.
If I was Zimmerman, I would have a camera secretly recording me everywhere I go. He made way too many enemies, now he’s in some sort of legal version of Final Destination.
The story seems fishy. Light on details, a guy said he said something…
Germany won’t join airstrikes against ISIS…
You know who would bring death from above?
The RAF?
Drop bears?
Zeus?
Herman?
That meteor in that movie about a plague.meteor?
The Death Star?
Delta Airlines?
Oh man I hope that’s not topical.
The Rocketeer?
You know who would bring death from above?
Dave Mustaine?
Was the other driver wearing a hoodie?
More importantly, was he of some descent other than Caucasian?
Or even just named such that his ancestry could be implied to be something other than Caucasian?
…George Zimmerman, for whom perhaps the word “embattled” is also insufficient, has been accused of threatening to kill another driver in a road incident in Florida.
The 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman they don’t need him to do that.
James Foley’s parents say the Obama administration threatened to charge them with supporting terrorism if they paid the ransom to the ISIS terrorists who ultimately killed the man.
America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists unless there’s a VA scandal needing distraction.
Wow. I just snerked so hard I hurt myself. Well played, Fist.
“James Foley’s parents say the Obama administration threatened to charge them with supporting terrorism if they paid the ransom to the ISIS terrorists who ultimately killed the man.”
But if it were Obama’s kids…how would that play out?
He’d send Joe Biden to perform “special services” on the IS leaders.
He would be happy to trade some jihadists for them. Oh, wait, that’s aiding the enemy. Treason.
James Earl Jones Used to Pretend to Be Darth Vader on the CB Radio
That’s classy.
Baddeck pharmacist pulls sugary drinks off shelves
This man is a pharmacist, for derp’s sake.
At least the link is sugar-free’d.
Working link
“We’re talking 10 to 11 teaspoons of sugar in some of these drinks. There is no argument that that’s not healthy for customers,” MacKenzie said
, as his customers went to the pharmacy in the next block for soda, or whatever it’s called in Canada.
Canadian Mountain Dew has a nice flavor to it.
Drink Canada Dry!
From the picture, it looks like Rob Ford has been trying to do exactly that.
Poutine?
http://amishbabymachine.files……z-meme.jpg
Most Canadians I know say “pop”, but I’m only familiar with Ontario and Saskatchewan.
In other news “Pharmacist pulls contraceptives from shelves to keep local girls from becoming skanky sluts”.
I wonder how that would play.
He’s just pissed off that no one comes in for a cherry phosphate after a long day of cycling around the park on a velocipede while whistling the latest Stephen Foster parlor song.
I still have no idea how much cyanide my homemade wild cherry phosphate syrup has in it.
Obviously not enough to kill.
It could just be playing the long game!
Is he serving the original recipe Coca Cola or something?
“Refined sugar is almost as addictive as some street drugs. It starts at an early age.”
Wasn’t there a study recently that debunked this?
Be wary of this pharmacist he may prescribe you sugary thingys!
RIP, Ian Paisley,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgma–0WYU
War on ISIS and Ian Paisley dying. Peter King must partying tonight.
He’s doing lines of hairgel in the bathroom as we speak.
So Rob Ford is out. Who is happier? John Tory or Olivia Chow?
Trigger warning NYT david brooks.
Not sure how being elected POTUS twice is evidence of “reluctance.”
Winston he’s burdened by the simple retards he governs.
And still on the campaign trail. Reluctantly.
When will the cocksucking end?
For Brooks, when the warboner finally goes flaccid.
Bear in mind, this is the NYT’s idea of a Responsible Conservative. Anyone to his right is a terrorist Teathuglical nihilist.
I’ve noticed over the past couple years that conservatives surveying the response of the “conservative media” always mention Douthat and ignore Brooks completely. He’s been completely written out as far as I can tell. Douthat seems to get people’s respect. I wouldn’t know I hardly ever read him.
But Obama’s pants have perfect creases!
Yes, Brooks, the “conservative” at NPR
In fairness read the whole piece. It literally the most hilarious thing I’ve read all day.
oooooooooooohhh, it’s got italics
Brooks is a moron. He truly deserves to be writing alongside of Krugabe and the FreedMan
He called Obama a ‘reluctant warrior’ the other night on PBS.
My wife didn’t bring the bucket in time as I vomited all over the rug.
These days, you might want to look into a colostomy bag-style arrangement for that. Maybe some kind of modified waterproof feedbag.
I hope that people like Brooks and Krugman are just playing these parts in their columns because it rewards them best, and that they wash their hands and never read their own writing the moment it is submitted.
It is a work of art. It has to be.
aye caromba the comments
How can these people claim to be liberals?
These are New Age types.
Illusion is magic and magic is illusion.
What the heck is that cunt smoking anyway?
I know, I know. She’s someone’s ‘mother’ maybe. Still.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus introduces resolution demanding Congressional approval before anti-ISIS operation
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5807210
I await the mass anti-war demonstrations. Oh, and maybe Code Pink can go to Mosul as human shields.
Cool.
Will they demand impeachment if it isnt done?
FINALLY!!!
HUZZAH!!!
HUZZAH!!!
Congrats, bro.
Did you finally get a date Francis?
Congrats!
I assumed it was a different Francisco.
It must be as there is a space between the c and o.
I’d like to thank the Academy and, of course, Mrs d’Anconia, without whose support, none of this would be possible.
So, you’re a kept man, eh? Nice work if you can get it.
Really? I would have thought she was working against you.
Well done. You snared the elusive hat tip, and on a Friday no less. Huzzah!
What the fuck is up with the comments on Reason’s Facebook page? I have no clue who those people are, but they ain’t the same people that comment here. The comments on the story about the High School girl tackled by 3 cops for her cell phone are so awful they make Tulpa look like a cop hater.
Did you set them straight?
Why? Do you try to command the tide or look for intelligence in youtube comments?
I do one of those things.
How’s the tide thing coming?
Almost cost me my firstborn.
It’s as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.
Really, Jesse? Clueless quotes?
Can’t a guy get his cliche on occasionally?
Yeah, Jesse! Didn’t you get on my case for a Zoolander quote the other day?
That’s totally different. Your movie has Will Farrell in it. I can hate on it all I want and you’re morally obligated not to judge me for it.
http://xkcd.com/386/
Facebook comments on reason articles.just.sounds like a horrible idea.
It seems that the Facebook “fans” of Reason are mostly neocons who want to take shots at Obama, but still worship authority.
Maybe that’s why we occasionally get floods of programmers in here accusing us all of being neocon republican sympathizers.
“Programmers” s/b “progtards”
Well, we get a lot of posts from Anonbot, too.
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-sto…..d-steps-in
Rob leaves. Doug steps. When Doug leaves. Rob will step back in.
Why bother trying to get rid of them?
Ah, for the days of Lurleen Wallace.
I got my first paycheck after receiving a sizable raise, so I’m gonna be a little cliche and say again:
Fuck taxes. Fuck you, Feds. Fuck you, NY. Fuck you, Social Security.
Fuck taxes. Fuck you, Feds. Fuck you, NY. Fuck you, Social Security.
More superrich misanthropy; now you know why we have to Equalize you.
-Top Men
Somebody got a sizable raise, but it wasn’t you.
I once had a boss who said he came from a family of Democrats, and considered himself one as well, until he got his first paycheck, looked at the difference between the gross and the net, and became a Republican on the spot.
You worked for PJ O’Rourke?
I wish.
Senator Cruz calls on audience of persecuted Arab Christians to support Israel as their best ally.
“If a man is standing on the roof of his house that is underwater in a flood, and you are standing in a rescue boat, you don’t tell him how he ought to think about politics and expect him to agree as a condition of saving his life.”
http://www.theamericanconserva…..hristians/
So if Scotland leaves will the UK still call itself the UK? Not sure that England, Wales and Northern Ireland can be considering separate kingdoms. Peter King would certainly disagree with the last one.
Well, United States is taken. How about United Wee Little Island Chunks?
THE KOCH BROTHERS ARE COMING FOR OUR CHILDRENS’ MINDS!!!
You got that right. College students=children.
They’re not even 26 yet!
Progs would be very, VERY happy if they could just eradicate that damn nuisance called independent thought.
They’re coming to eat our childrens’ brains, and after that light appetizer, they’ll have a *real* dinner.
Where can I get some of this Koch money?
So very different than, say, the AAUP doing the same thing.
Remember how some of us were wondering how the “never hit a woman back if you’re a man” thing worked in feminism? Forget all that stronger stuff, it’s apparently still bad if the guy is smaller. We forgot about the opression olympics.
How to know that you hate women.
Since that was written by a man, does it count as mansplaining?
I wanna know which of our female commenters will volunteer to go lay some smack down on his stupid ass.
If there are no takers, can I borrow a wig?
Also along that vein,
Compare:
and contrast.
Another editor slapped a guy when “he told me he thought he had breast cancer.”
John Shaft says you can go fuck yourself.
Those women sound like great catches. Line forms to the left, guys.
I see what you did there…
All these women should be fired and never allowed to work again in their profession.
What profession? Screaming into the internet for a couple hundred dollars a month?
That’s a very charitable estimate.
It’s little-person syndrome. Contra Gregor Clegane, it’s always the little dogs who are the nastiest, as they can get away with it.
I learned this lesson early in life when Chuck Finley revealed that Tawny Kitaen beat him with her stiletto heels and doused him with boiling water. But on the other hand, he got to fuck Tawny Kitaen when she wasn’t sending him to the ER and the DL.
It’s not that inconsistent. The action isn’t the important part, it’s who’s doing it. As long as it’s the right person, it’s OK.
I had a girlfriend in college who learned how to get drunk and hit people from her daddy. I was twice her size, so all I could do was protect my sensitive parts and remove any sharp objects from sight. Sometimes I’d miss the keys, that was unpleasant.
That relationship ended pretty quickly thereafter.
It takes a lot of discipline to not Ray Rice a girl when you’ve had 6 beers, and she’s going all cat-on-couch on you with her nails and keys.
Needless to say, I have very little respect for people who blow off woman on man domestic violence.
So where did you bury her?
Oh no, I would never give her such an easy out. I introduced her to Warty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU
I’d have hit her.
Get violent with m;, I get violent back. I don’t care if you are smaller and/or have a pussy, if you hit me I’m going to hit you back.
Don’t like that?
Well then, don’t fucking hit me.
Well, at least they’re admitting that they’re not equal, and since they’re the ones that can’t take a hit, inferior.
I refer only to the Jezebels, mind you, not women in general.
Vikings’ Adrian Peterson indicted in Texas, reports say
Beating a child? That’s a 2 game suspension, unless they find the video.
Isn’t there some sort of immunity if he was playing the cop in a cops and robbers game?
+28 All Day
Here’s a fun paradox.
A guy makes gazillions developing and selling virtual reality machine that will make brick and mortar educational institutions obsolete. Then, in a drunken spending spree, or something, he donates 30m for a brick and mortar building at an university he quit when he realized is wasn’t providing him with what he needed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html
wtf?
Here’s your problem: It’s a university.
Tax. Purposes.
Ego.
A brick and mortar building dedicated to research how to make his company’s inventions (let’s be clear, there are real tech enthusiasts working there, including about half of old-school id, but he’s a suit) more profitable, mind you.
“Germany won’t join airstrikes against ISIS, but it did ban all flags and symbols that represent them.”
Turkey won’t let ISIS-related sorties out of US/NATO airbases there.
The Arabs won’t send troops. The Russians object to airstrikes in Syria.
Peace-Prize Obama claims unilateral authority to declare war, and can’t even assemble a “coalition of the willing” as well Bushitler. Kerry doesn’t bother with the UN, because he knows he has miserably failed the “global test”.
Where is the “anti-war” left? Why won’t a bunch go to Syria and Iraq to serve as human shields? Or at least stage a feisty protest that likens Obama to Hitler?