Millennials Favor a Republican Congress, Ebola Breeds Quarantine Fever, ISIS Gets More Stuff That Goes BOOM: P.M. Links
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University of Texas-Arlington Hey Democrats: Millennials aren't so into you. A new national poll of 18- to 29- year-olds finds that a slim majority of the generation that once went wild for Barack Obama now favors a Republican-led Congress.
- Grab the popcorn! Anti-incumbent disgust is fueling strong independent and Libertarian campaigns and making this year's midterm elections highly unpredictable.
- Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home as part of an escalating national battle over quarantining people who may have been exposed to Ebola.
- Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.
- ISIS apparently got its hands on Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles that were intended for non-psychotic Syrian rebel groups. Who could've predicted that?
- The FBI just can't keep its hands off the Associated Press. The feds admit they created a fake AP article and site to get a bomb-threat suspect to click a link and download malware onto his computer. The news agency is not pleased.
- A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City. It immediately flipped the finger to scientists and demanded hand-crafted booze in its drink.
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Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home...
Isn't being in Maine isolation enough?
Enough for Cujo!
Oh, you're one to talk about isolation.
I AM ONE TO TALK.
Yeah yeah, save it for Sasquatch.
most of us would permanently lose our occupational license for being that defiant of the state.
The feds admit they created a fake AP article...
Creating fake stories is the AP's job!
The news agency is not pleased.
I'd believe that more when they sue the FBI or try to get them prosecuted. Until then it's just pro-forma.
It immediately flipped the finger to scientists and demanded hand-crafted booze in its drink.
JUST REPORT THE LINKS, TUCCILLE, AND LEAVE THE JOKES TO US.
hand-crafted booze
What? No artisanal ice?
Hand carved cubes from polar bear dens
Pfffff - hacker!
Ice made from the tears of orphans working in my sweatshops who miss their mothers and dread the future in my service, but not enough to commit suicide.
Now THAT'S a cool drink....aaaahhhhh!
As long as it isn't chipped off of a madona made of frozen vaginal sweat.
Bartender, a Sweaty Mary, and make it a double!
Nice.
Is this a thing? If it isn't, it should be.
extra salty rim plz
But does it have a hipster pompadour, and what does it think about the issues?
How many divisions does the Associated Press have?
Big city dailies, small town dailies, rural weeklies. Oh, you meant...
A new national poll of 18- to 29- year-olds
... includes mostly people who weren't allowed to vote 8 years ago.
Raaacist!!1
WE R TEH FEWTCHER!!!
Aw shit, it was only 6 years ago. Seems like 100.
Hello.
Well, Denmark is doing it! $20/hr that is.
http://yhoo.it/1FWpDa2
The Nordic model is an example for us all.
One day we will have our mOm E nt!
Needz moar zen Vikings
They're trying to price out the Moose Limbs.
The FBI just can't keep its hands off the Associated Press. The feds admit they created a fake AP article and site to get a bomb-threat suspect to click a link and download malware onto his computer. The news agency is not pleased.
CIA is barred from using journalism as a cover story but the FBI can steal the identity of the AP?
We only care about not lying to foreigners.
Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.
How To Tell If You're Infected With Ebola In 21 Days or Less.
Ebola For Dummies
This one weird trick will tell you which of your friends is hiding an Ebola infection!
My girlfriend's mother made $5363 last month from home using this methood!
http://www.ebolamyass.com/job/derp
Hey, that's not a real link!
SF'ed the link.
Did he?
My friends mom makes 6,200 every fortnight doing ebola screening from her computer!
Pics
Careful. We have no idea if Tonio suffers from fruit blindness.
Hier
Well played.
drunk 5
...I was 5 minutes late, but mine was better...
Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.
In case they have the desert pox. YOU KNOW WHO ELSE...
Patton?
Montgomery?
Christopher George and "The Rat Patrol"?
Does anyone know where you can get the episodes on shiny disk? There is one episode on YouTube but I can't find the others anywhere...
Amazon?
The news agency is not pleased.
Maybe there's hope that news agencies will stop being the state's press agents
You crack me up, finger.
Anti-incumbent disgust is fuelng strong independent and Libertarian campaigns and making this year's midterm elections highly unpredictable.
NO SPOILERS.
fuelng? Fondling?
Tuccille's got a cold, so you're hearing his phlegm.
Well somebody tell the CDC God dammit.
I wish there was a CDC God, dammit.
Only if he can turn my quarantine water into whiskey.
Tonio, can we get a ruling?
Honored that you'd think of me, but a ruling on what? Fist was predictably First, as usual. And I'm not seeing a "you know who else" in this part of the thread...
You know who else was first? Well I'll answer that for you: Emile Ouamouno.
Usain Bolt?
...but a ruling on what?
Comma, I assume.
Changes the meaning, surely. And goddam(n) is usually one word.
I wish I could vote for an independent or Libertarian candidate this election but California has gone to a "Top Two Candidate" system.
I'm sure it's to prevent "spoilers" from keeping the Chosen Candidate from winning.
...now favors a Republican-led Congress.
A Republican-led Congress will change that.
Krugman admits that tax increases are actually responsible for lowering economic activity.
Always knew his "austerity" winging was disingenuous prattle.
Comment:
"I fully share with your view about Japan tax hike, in general.
However, you seem to me to be still confused about which debt you are talking about.
Japan does not have net external debts, but has significant net external assets, amounting to about 300 trillion yen (60% of the GDP). In other words, Japan is an external creditor.
Japan has huge (gross) government debts (2000 trillion yen), but its entire (net) debts are fully owned by the domestic creditors.
Your cautious and skeptical view on the proposed tax hike in Japan, therefore, could be significantly underrepresented or underestimated.
I very much welcome your view and keen interest in Japan, nonetheless.
Tomo Nakamaru"
So the Japanese economy is basically a huge Ouroborotic Ponzi scheme.
Always knew his "austerity" winging entire schtick was disingenuous prattle.
Newton County GA teacher kept out of school after her spouse returns from Sierra Leone.
Newton County Schools spokesperson Sherri Davis-Viniard says the teacher's classroom has been sanitized as a precautionary measure. Students say the school has closed off an entire hallway for cleaning.
The teacher will not return to school until the district receives clearance that she is safe to be around students.
There is no indication that he has Ebola or that either of them have any symptoms, but out of caution the school says they are working with the CDC and state health officials.
"They're making it a big deal but the teachers say it's not a big deal. I don't think it's a big deal," said one senior.
Responsible parents would keep their kids out of school for 3 weeks.
Would you rather be in a story on p. 3B about "panicky reactions to Ebola" or in a story on p. 1A about "school officials allow infected teacher to spread Ebola to students"?
Ebola is probably the least harmful thing most teachers could spread.
Maybe she should just hold off fucking any students for 3 weeks. Unless she's in a union, in which case that might be a contract breach.
Here is an interesting article about Private Cities from the excellent Pan Am Post. It talks about ZEDEs of course but also about other private cities. It gives short shrift to the two private cities in Nigeria and India but says the really excellent pro-market one is in...Saudi Arabia.
http://blog.panampost.com/mark.....r-success/
Everyone wants to live in Riyadh. Commentbot wouldn't let me write that out in Arabic, racist fuck.
You can slip some Cyrillic in if you bury it in enough English.
That sounds vaguely, unintentionally dirty. Go me.
Some Cyrillic to bury in your English
Sploosh!
*makes notes to keep change of undergarments in office convenient location*
I suddenly have the urge to learn Russian. I don't need to learn that many words, though.
A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City.
If you kiss it, what does it turn into?
Or maybe someone finally kissed Bloomberg and he reverted to his natural state.
Episiarch.
*unzips pants*
A smelly Frenchman.
redundant
I know, Warty beat me.
Phh. Get in line.
No, I meant that smelly and Frenchman are mutually inclusive.
And Episiarch is a New York French Jew or something. He's some kind of mud person at least. Idiot.
You got your facts all wrong, pal.
Don't call me pal, buddy!
Come at me, bro.
Ah, you messed it up.
You're supposed to say "Don't be buddy, friend!" or something like that...
Who's this guy, Bobarian? Your bodyguard? I'll knock you both out, bros.
Do you even lift, Bro?
I SQUAT AND LIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Someday you'll get to that 315 deadlift, brah. Then you can start that cut and work on your abz.
Your mom
Quarantine-bait.
I can't recall seeing this posted here before, but this here is ten different kinds of amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI
Catchy song, too!
"The news agency is not pleased."
Then grow some balls, AP.
The agency was not pleased the secret got out. They were happy to be the FBI's paid dupes.
It's okay, it happened in 2007, so BLAME BUSH.
Two words: Quarantine Sex.
Ladytarians: smile, baby.
How traumatic is it to get catcalled, anyway? I've only been catcalled a few times and it was a little annoying.
Well stop walking around with your fucking shirt off and you won't have an issue. Unless you're referring to your dungeon dwellers catcalling for food.
Slut-shaming!
I once called my cat... Does that count?
I noticed she wasn't wearing a burka.
Time for me to get my consciousness raising on...
It's not traumatic; it's just annoying and in poor taste.
If anything, that guy saved you some time--you can pretty much just write him off after that.
You don't plan on meeting your future husband via an expertly executed catcall? Cus it's either that, or Tinder.
I almost followed a fellow home based on an expertly executed catcall. I suppose that's a low bar to clear though.
You were in the mood for tacos al pastor that night.
Wait, I'm always in the mood for (good) al pastor.
Hey baby, wanna go on a series of dates slowly culminating in an exclusive relationship that eventually results in me buying you an expensive token of my attachment for you and paying for a giant party where you wear a white dress and promise to live with me until you die, only to leave me for my best friend a few years later?
/really bad catcaller
Bad cat caller or FACT in your case?
They say honesty is the best policy.
You learn from your mistakes or some shit.
My wife loves my overly pedantic and not-even-remotely-romantic style. She cries every night when she goes to bed, but I bet it's not related.
But we should all be forced to live in high density population centers, right?
And wear tight pants and tight tshirts.
TEACH MEN NOT 2 LOOK
I find it totally othering, what with the scads of women that throw themselves at me every day.
hehe
DreamOutLoud
2:32 PM CDT
looking can be pretty obnoxious too. that stop and turn of the head and staring at the person walking away can be just as bad behavior. it all needs to stop.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suppose that the person who wrote this is complaining because she does not get "that stop and turn of the head".
Apparently this only started happening in 2014 and not for the last 11,000 years like I had assumed.
Rufus: Hello.
Woman: Monster!
/slaps Rufus. Next man walks up to her.
Man: Yo, babe.
Woman (looks him up and down. Sticks tit out): You want some?
Is this woman on your lawn?
Ha, yeah Rufus, is she trampling your daffodils?
Ah, another entry for the "cheap porno or actually what happens in Canada" contest!
I am reminded of this SNL skit.
Grr, too slow.
1. Be attractive
2. Don't be unattractive.
*Mindblown*
It's a constant reminder that you're surrounded by stupid assholes who have no idea how to be civil, but it's not that scary if you're packing.
A woman who's been raped might find it nerve-wracking, though.
I once went out partying with some coworkers and was tremendously unimpressed to discover that they liked to catcall women. It's like finding out that someone kicks dogs.
Yep, it's rather trashy, and I know trashy.
And they're completely delusional about what gets you laid, yes.
I read an article last week talking about how flirting in English speaking societies is just awful.
It revolves around implication and guess work instead of saying what you actually mean. "Negging" is apparently only prominent in English speaking countries.
Compare to the Italians or the Brazilians who are supposed to be very straight forward with advances, yet still respecting women.
It's a Mexican thing. I can say that without fear of retribution because I'm part Mexican.
I'll admit that I do get a bit of a self esteem boost out of it because I'm newly cute. But there are 12,000 better ways to get that compliment across that might conceivably result in me talking to you/letting you fuck me.
12000 ways?
*prepares to take copious notes*
The only time I've ever seen it work is on college vacations.
Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home as part of an escalating national battle over quarantining people who may have been exposed to Ebola.
Let's hope they have snipers to take her out if she tries to escape.
"A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City."
I think the appropriate joke here was,
"Apparently the Frog was part of a DJ-duo at a weekly alt-house-music party at an East Village bar, and was working during the week as a waiter at a SoHo brasserie"
Yay, I feel cultured enough to understand this!
Travel: it broadens your horizons!
You just got bit by the NYC bug. Let the east coast kooks make their region-specific jokes while you eat a double double and animal fries to recover.
You had me at "zen Vikings"
I might be easy, but I ain't cheap.
I went to In-n-Out on my way home from the airport and was kinda disappointed.
I'm going to need a second for my seppuku.
Ugh, Gyu kaku before seppuku. They've got 2 for 1 marinated meat deals.
My name is jesse.in.mb and I endorse this message.
Cop gets a little aggro.
Even though we don't have a formal complaint, we are being proactive and investigating it," she said.
"All good! Carry on MacLeod."
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccar.....d-science/
Holy shit.
Alan Greenspan: "Gold is a good place to put money these days given its value as a currency outside of the policies conducted by governments."
So before and after his tenure he is all for gold. During the 19 years he was chairman of the Fed he simply sold out.
On second thought, it could also be hubris and he really did think he was a Top Man making fiat money a gold substitute.
Slovakia has your flying car here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....-slovakia/
No nerd is safe.
If people are getting into this game at a young age, then there is a duty to make sure they are not only taught how to win an incredibly complex and interesting game, but constructive ideals as well.
How about we start teaching people that the world doesn't conform to them? Don't like what an event has to offer, go somewhere else.
If young people like your entertainment you have a duty to indoctrinate them in correct ways of thinking.
IOW, not enough women like what you like, so you need to be reeducated.
If people are getting into this game at a young age, then there is a duty to make sure they are not only taught how to win an incredibly complex and interesting game, but constructive ideals as well.
Levesley can fuck right off. Why do these assholes need to inject their social commentary into every little thing? Just leave well enough alone when it comes to other people's fun.
Isn't that one of the things #gamergate is about? SJW types wanting games to stop being about fun and start being about changing the culture or whatever?
You Know Who Else insisted that art must be some political weapon designed to attack the establishment and whatnot?
Bob Dylan?
Hitler?
*narrows gaze*
Way to ruin it.
But he was an artist, tho
Isn't that one of the things #gamergate is about? SJW types wanting games to stop being about fun and start being about changing the culture or whatever?
The more I read, the more it seems they want to use fun things as a vehicle to carry their message and in doing so change the culture. Like the "Educational AND Fun!" shit I used to see all the time as a kid. Usually it ends up being neither.
Nannys gonna nanny.
Lena Dunham is even more reprehensible, vile, narcissitc and fucked-up than previously thought...
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....williamson
She is a legitimate sicko.
Williamson's last line is gold.
After reading this and Tmans 'witchwind' link in ENB's 4:31 post, I've lost my will to live, or look at women for today. ugh.
Aw, come on! Lookin' at women instead of Lena Dunham should help! Go get your pr0n on, man!
Dude, these stories are legitimately awful.
(if you have any asian pr0n suggestions...)
Geez, I'm definitely not going to vote now!
So is it for Will Hayes and Joe Breen get their reputations up because of Gamergate? They didn't like how movies were aimed at young men, thought that rape was too sensitive a subject to discuss and wanted to clean up the morality of movies with its lawbreaking and drunk sex.
SJW vs. SJW fight breaks out at Slate:
The Problem With That Catcalling Video:
The derp - it is deep in these commenters.
"Pardon me, ma'am, do you have any grey poupon?" just doesn't carry the same political weight.
The woman in the video is barely a 5 and if she had walked through the Upper East Side, she wouldn't have even gotten a look, much less a "catcall."
And yes, the "racial politics" are fucked up, but then, keep in mind that the original "rape hysteria" in America was directed against the Scary Black Man for the protection of white womanhood (in no small part at the insistence of white women).
The "sexual politics" are even more interesting. The video shows that any man who shows interest in a woman who is not interested in him is guilty of harassment and should have his rape-stick, I mean, penis, ceremonially removed and cast into the fire.
+1 "where da whyte wimminz at?"
You Know Which Other Democrats liked to chop of black men's penises?
"Ten hours of walking through the crummier parts of Manhattan in tight clothes and all I got was 30 catcalls and 2 creeps following me for a couple minutes each."
If this woman had actually gotten attacked, I wonder how the directors would have rationalized their stunt.
newsweek: 7 out of 10 between 17-24 are too fat, stupid, and corrupt to serve the Fatherland in battle
This is not how I expected the welfare-warfare state to die, but I'll take it.
To deal with this shrinking pool of quality soldiers, the Army plans to redefine "quality"?or define it "in a more precise way," as Batschelet puts it.
They're not lowering their standards, they're just making their criteria less selective.
"Death by fat, emotionally broken and morally bankrupt cowards" isn't so bad.
Diabetic and weak as a little girl? Not the most dignified death.
Meh, how good to they need to be to be cannon fodder. That said, maybe the governement can create some sort of youth organization can whip them into shape to be good soldiers.
That is the entire point. Government hates its subjects.
Remember, in 1941 the government trope was that American boys were too skinny and bookish to be effective cannon fodder.
They aren't really helping themselves by doing stupid shit like using the BMI as a measure of fitness.
Legitimately fit people get denied promotions because they don't meet the BMI cut off.
I calculated my BMI the other day. 34. Ask jesse if I'm obese.
Does one call a mountain obese?
Excellent, you led me to some crappy music.
I've never calculated mine, but for three months 2 years ago I was walking around at 190 lbs. and I'm 5'7". I'm sure I was "overweight" by every metric any doctor would use.
I'm 5'9" and ~215
According to the BMI system my ideal weight would be 149.
If I weigh anything less than 170 I start getting concerned comments about my health because my eyes look deep set, I get dark circles, my cheekbones become very pronounced and my cheeks become hollow.
I'd be pretty happy between 185 and 195, which would still have me on the high end of overweight.
I start getting called lanky and scrawny if I drop below 210 (6'1"). My recommended 170 is downright impossible. I tried. 190 is as low as I can go, even doing 6 hours of manual labor each day.
I have a friend who's 6'3", 145 lbs, and eats enough for 3 people.
He doesn't lift, but I've seen him deadlift 400+
That's fucked up. I'm 5'6" with a light frame, and I just weighed myself and I'm 161. Granted I'm 45 years old, but no one would call me fat. Leave it to government to fuck up everything they touch.
So has anyone seen the Imitation Game? Considering all the Gamergate stuff will anyone judge it independently of its subject matter?
I'm not sure I get the connection you're drawing between that film and GamerGate.
Are you saying that liberal-minded critics will feel obliged to give the movie rave reviews regardless of quality because it's about a persecuted gay man? Probably. But I bet the movie is actually pretty good, I'm interested in seeing it.
Are you saying that liberal-minded critics will feel obliged to give the movie rave reviews regardless of quality because it's about a persecuted gay man?
Yes, that's what I'm saying. People here have been constantly attacking the notion that games should be about Important Messages and that having the right message is all that matters. How are movies any different?
Haven't seen it but I think the point will be missed.
People will think Turing was crushed by government because he started sucking cock when the reality is he was crushed because he stopped sucking government cock.
I haven't seen it, but I've read two kinds of complaints:
A)Alan Turing was gay and didn't suck enough dick in this movie.
B)Alan Turing was a mathematician and sucked too much dick in this movie.
I'll need to torre...legally purchase this film from a reputable, licensed seller and view it before I make my own comment on the appropriate ratio of math-to-gay-sex in a this film.
And now for the real Turing Test...
I'm disappoint there aren't many complaints about Turing being a White Guy and how the film should have been Gandhi or the Mau Maus or some black gay guy who was persecuted.
So has anyone seen the Imitation Game? Considering all the Gamergate stuff will anyone judge it independently of its subject matter?
har har
Come on. It was pretty good 🙂
Speaking of movies, if you haven't seen Birdman, drop whatever the hell you're doing and get to a movie theater. It's nothing short of brilliant.
So guns, car chases, hot chix, and martial arts?