A.M. Links: Executive Action on Immigration Imminent, Sailors Assaulted in Istanbul, Kim Kardashian Tries to Break the Internet

- Executive action on immigration could be announced by President Obama as early as next week.
- Bank regulators from the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland fined six banks $4.25 billion for allegedly trying to manipulate currency markets. The Justice Department is continuing a related criminal investigation.
- Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by nationalists while in Istanbul in an incident caught on tape.
- Protests in southern Mexico continue over the government's handling of 43 missing students in Iguala.
- George W. Bush called Bill Clinton his "brother from another mother" on Instagram.
- Paper magazine hoped to "break the Internet" by featuring a pair of risqué Kim Kardashian covers.
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Informal survey in minor etiquette. What is the proper procedure for allocating limited space in bus handicapped slots?
This putz is suing for his vision to be forced on everyone.
Throw 'em in the luggage hold.
[/sarcasm]
It looks like a "pushchair" is just a stroller? Then the actually handicapped guy gets priority. If there are too many handicapped people, first come-first serve.
Yes, "Pushchair" is one of several britishisms for child conveyance.
I thought they were "prams".
I did say "one of several"
I just wanted to say "pram".
I thought prams were the old-style baby carriages (imagine a baby lyind down), and pushchairs were more like strollers (imagine a toddler sitting up).
I thought prams were big shrimp. Huh.
So a pram is the thing in Ghostbusters 2?
I've never heard that term either but if it's wheelchair-size then I'm picturing those monster strollers that Park Slope yuppies strut around with and in that case I'm going to have to side with the cripples.
Can't believe the Europeans are horning in on our comet scheme. This, of course, means war.
I suggest cratering Pskov, as a demonstration of your ire.
Solire system!
They're European bureaucrats. They are physically incapable of considering the possible... "business" applications.
But yes, this is very much an "industry" where first-to-market is crucial.
Hello.
"brother from another mother"
I got nothing.
I picture them both in college, GW calling Billy a pussy for not inhaling...
Meanwhile, Billy snakes GW's girlfriend.
Make them fight for it.
The cripple and the mom or the cripple and the baby?
Why are you being picky?
Cripple fight!
Zenon never would have posted a pic like that.
He would have posted the front instead!
You hate us, don't you?
Sometimes.
Only sometimes?
It does seem pretty poor form to put the NSFW tag in the alt-text (though at least it's still alt-text!).
I've always thought it was amusingly entitled that anyone think that anything should ever be tagged NSFW for them.
*thinks
The use of 'pilgrim' in the alt text makes me read it in the Duke's voice...
Which is AWESOME!
how much was it photoshopped? That waist looks impossibly waspish compared to some other pics of her.
but I could be wrong
http://cdn01.cdnwp.celebuzz.co.....00x470.jpg
I bet it is heavily modified. It could also be partly an optical effect.
No zits or dingleberries is a clear giveaway of a photo-shopped ass.
Wait. Aren't dingleberries poop? Why would a lack of poop indicated photoshoppery?
Waist is too narrow, and she's pretty busty, but nothing showing from that angle. Probably too much sag, so eliminated. Skin, of course, was also modified.
It's safe to say that modifications were done in pre- and post-production.
Well, yeah.
No ass that size doesn't have dimples and bumps. If you saw the original, unshopped pic, your enthusiasm would be . . . . diminished, I am sure.
I doubt my enthusiasm could be much diminished, because she is, after all, Satan incarnate.
But the ratios and the relative sizes of the different parts of her. Is it an honest depiction of those?
Lord Humungus|11.13.14 @ 9:17AM|#
"how much was it photoshopped?"
All of it.
Paper magazine hoped to "break the Internet" by featuring a pair of risqu? Kim Kardashian covers.
She's disgusting.
She is, and yet...that ass...
...is disgusting.
I concur. The net doesn't need any more greasy fat asses than it already has.
I'm talking to YOU, Michael Moore!
-jcr
*eyes slowly meets Auric's, slowly goes back to the ass*
She's still nowhere near as gross as Miley Cyrus.
I hear Miley's crabs caught gonorrhea.
it's like a flesh trampoline.
flesh trampoline
Nice band name.
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Talk about mudflaps,
My baby's got em.
Big ass makes big shits
Wait a minute. Wasn't this story in yesterday's AM Links?
someone has a KK ass fetish
Yeah. I'm a bit puzzled. Must be close to a deadline or something and everyone is too busy to find good links.
Or else they're desperate for clicks, since nobody goes to 24/7.
They really should change the name, I mean it only gets updated about 6 times per day and twice on the weekend.
6/2?
Ed's trying to break HyR.
Too late, we were broke years ago!
Also, this is sarcasmic's turf, and he may have posted it already for all I know, but...
The Internet parodies Kim Kardashian's outrageous bare-bottomed magazine cover with hilarious memes
The centaur is perfect.
She's disgusting.
Seconded. Fellow other brothers can confirm.
Reason gets fixated with some people sometimes.
Hey, has anyone heard if Lou Reed is coming out with a new album?
the Coffin tapes
He's stuck in her ass I heard.
Well, yes. But dat ass.
When it comes to a big fat ass, she has nothing on Michelle "The Wookie" Obama.
Two words: Serena Williams.
All those steroids, it must be lumpy and hairy.
Chelsea Handler's ass was far more attractive.
The right answer was Rebeca Linares.
Meh.
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Is there anything you're not wrong about???
Yes, this. Brainless skank. Her, not you. OK, well, maybe you, too.
Sir Mixalot approves, and he cannot lie.
Perhaps some other brothers will deny?
No. In fact, my anaconda don't want none, unless you got buns hun.
I'm hooked and I can't stop starin
red beans and rice dinnit miss her
even white boys got to shout.
are yuo guys singing that nicki minaj song
Paper magazine hoped to "break the Internet" by featuring a pair of risqu? Kim Kardashian covers.
I feel like going to the track today.
NSFW guys.... and while I toil mightily for my Swiss masters, they won't want arse showing on my screen while I wait for reports to churn out. Thx.
The 'comment' anchor tag will load below the links proper and avoid having it on-screen.
Oh, aye - just a gentle chiding, not a full out screech.
Don't follow the link to its conclusion - nothing left to the imagination.
"That's no moon"
*stands to begin thunderous ovation*
Winnah!!
"NSFW guys.... and while I toil mightily for my Swiss masters, they won't want arse showing on my screen while I wait for reports to churn out. Thx."
Again, that sounds like something that is entirely your problem.
It is, thanks for your concern.
I use Stylish to hide all pics on this site. Comes in handy at work.
I wait for reports to churn out
TPS reports?
Waiting on the WENUS?
Just the TPS
That comment is stupid no matter who utters it. I want to go back a few decades and strangle the first fool to spew forth that stupid descriptor.
1997, 21st TAACOM HQ, UNS delivers me from this constantly made remark by strangling my immediate supervisor...
This just proves how incestuous our political class is.
Like the Lannisters
At the very least the Lannisters have a reputation for paying their debts... ours don't.
Well like our political class, the Lannister's reputation turns out to be undeserved once they are in power.
OK, time to expose some more of my ignorance of popular culture. What the heck is Instagram? It seems to have something to do with square pictures. But I have no idea why.
Instagram is where the self absorbed with access to cameras and the internet hang out.
It is both a cameraphone filter suite and a social media platform for posting images.
Now explain Snapchat.
"My mom goes through my phone, but I want to keep sending pics of my boobs to Brad. Brad is so hot."
And Square Cash?
A small white device that allows you to go to a taco truck even after you spent all your cash at the strip club.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of apps?
Twitter for photographers. One photog at the shop just doesn't understand why I don't post my own work pix on Instagram. Dude -- life's too short. And I'm a writer/Twitt at heart.
George W. Bush called Bill Clinton his "brother from another mother" on Instagram.
Georgie was just slipping into a 'black dialect' to bond with our first black president.
Well, either that or George H.W. found a way to get serviced in Arkansas.
Rethinking John Muir
John Muir did more good for the cause of environmentalism every day of his life than these academic shitheads could do in a thousand lifetimes.
-jcr
Thanks for the laughs.
Environmentalists are not Conservationists. Jon Christensen and his like can go fuck themselves.
FFS...can't a pleasant walk in the woods just be that. Progressives really do fuck up everything they touch.
Because helping people to appreciate the wilderness and conserve it are small potatoes compared to signalling to other jackasses that you're more environmentalist than thou.
Critics also say Muir's vision of wilderness is rooted in economic privilege and the abundant leisure time of the upper class.
They're only now getting this? I love the National Parks, but it was pretty clear from the beginning that they were the product of upper class romanticism.
They're only now getting this?
I took the statement;
To be more indicative of their mental handicap about Muir than any shortcoming of Muir's about the world around him.
At least, the phenomenon that they describe as being unfathomably futuristic from the 19th/20th century certainly existed well before even the 19th century.
Economic privilege blah blah communities of color blah blah reimagine our relationships blah blah white Anglo-Saxon Protestant blah blah.
Jon Christensen and Richard White are about two decades behind the times. It's the 2010s. Nothing less than going full SJW will do now.
No denunciation of John Muir for being a cissexist neurotypical beneficiary of penis privilege who didn't understand allies and the intersectionality of oppression?
"Abundant leisure time of the upper class..."???? Really? Have they ever been to Yosemite? The upper class flies to Switzerland.
" Bank regulators from the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland fined six banks $4.25 billion for allegedly trying to manipulate currency markets. The Justice Department is continuing a related criminal investigation."
I hope one of those banks was the FED.
Someone didn't get their cut.
Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by nationalists while in Istanbul in an incident caught on tape.
They were singing that They Might Be Giants song and things just got out of hand.
"So, which way to Byzantium?"
Its a Four Lads song.
I love TMBG but that song predates them by decades.
The Four Lads version of Istanbul peaked at #10 in October 1953.
Between The Four Lads and They Might Be Giants, it was covered by Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Bette Midler and a bunch of people Im unfamiliar with.
Calling it a TMBG song is a pet peeve of mine.
God damn you're a stupid boring asshole.
stupid boring asshole
2 out of 3, probably.
This is literally the only thing I've ever seen The Whole Truth post. Word for word, exactly the same post.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/d.....deo-785463
I can't say that I'm surprised. And Fuck that Leach guy, "Too bad all your friends and family think you are a want to be rapist, but hey, you're with me now and, now that I'm huge, I'm going to take care of you."
If anyone cares to lawyer, up, the people who made this video are in big trouble.
They're probably judgment proof, but you can still hang a garnishment on their future earnings that will follow them forever.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci.....-side.html
"I have a bad feeling about this"
+1 mynock
Comet Cave!
On the plus side, the hardware itself might be protected from random meteroid impacts for a long time (until the comet ablates around it)
They should shoot the inside of the cave, to make sure it's really a cave.
EU Probe droids are unarmed.
Stab it?
EU Probe droids are unarmed.
You are so naive.
No, no, he'd be right if this weren't actually a U.S. death probe in disguise.
If only there were some sort of thermoelectric power source that was compact, could last years and would fit on a probe like this...
Wind turbine?
Solar wind turbine. It's doubly renewable!
Aren't all wind turbines ultimately driven by solar power?
Wow, man. Can I have a hit off that?
???
The only power source not ultimately traceable to the sun is nuclear - which came from a different star.
Just making a stoner joke, man. You need to chill out. Like have some 'shrooms.
Imagination powers the universe, man.
"Solar" Wind turbine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....raine.html
Russian military aviation is going to run itself down just trying to make Putin's dick look an inch longer.
I was thinking the same thing. Lot of pointless usage for 50-year-old aircraft.
What else ya gonna do with planes that old?
Sell them to the Afghan Air Force?
So they can sell them for scrap?
CORRECT!
Pointless? Putin seems to be successfully making his point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....arman.html
Is this going to fall under some new BS revenge p0rn law?
must be a really slow news day.
Very.
Uh the worst part is they pulled that from the front page of Reddit. I can't even imagine the stupid self righteous comments from the neck-beards who have never been in a relationship in their lives.
Is a 'slow news day' myth or fact at this point?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....y-car.html
Couple months ago there was a guy begging on a median near a McDonalds, and when I asked the person behind the counter about him she said the manager had offered the guy a job but he refused. Then he drove home in a nice pickup truck. While I would like to help people in need, it seems more and more that these beggars are frauds.
I see a group of beggars coordinating with each other on my morning and evening commutes.
The same people show up on the streets at rush hours to panhandle. All of them look healthy and able-bodied.
Unlike most jobs, the interview and hiring process for begging is pretty easy and there's no drug testing.
Which is why we need a beggars bureau, to insure that beggars are licensed and drug free.
Yeah, we have a group of beggars where I live who seem to coordinate, too. The head beggar seems to assign different crew members to different street corners and then rotate them throughout the day.
+1 Amateur Mendicant Society
Once, I ended up with an extra roll from lunch, so I wrapped in a paper napkin to take back to the office. A beggar on K Street (no, the other kind of beggar on K Street) asked me for some help for food. When I offered her the roll, she said, "I'm sure I wouldn't like that." What I ended up giving her is left to the reader as an exercise.
An obscene gesture?
I NEVER give money or food to beggars.
I know someone who gave their sandwich out of kindness to a beggar, and the beggar had the temerity to throw it back at them saying he wanted money not food.
I also know someone who offered a job to someone standing with a "Jobless Homeless" sign, and the guy basically turned around and walked away at the offer.
As Ben Franklin said, Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I once saw one that said "why lie, I want beer". I gave him a couple of bucks for a 40 just for being honest.
Amen. When they start yammering about how they're gonna use my donation for soup, I say "Get whatever the hell you want. It's your money now."
Me neither.
My favorite is "I need a dollar to get the bus to NJ". I hear that one like once a month.
Dude she would have sucked your dick for a dollar.
That was funny.
Any beggar with a good story or some other really good angle is probably a fraud or a scam. The legit ones are mostly drunks and crazy people.
I feel bad for anyone legitimately in a situation where they just need help to get to where they are going or had some shitty luck, because I'm not giving anything to anyone out pan handling.
Maybe some people just enjoy begging so much they beg for sport.
At a gas station in Denver (yes, Colfax), a man approached me holding an empty gas can wanting some money to buy gas. Seeing his empty can, I asked for it and filled it for him instead of giving him money. He had the most disappointed look on his face when I handed it back to him.
"A rule not ultimately backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion. States rely on laws enforced by men ready to do violence against lawbreakers. Every tax, every code and every licensing requirement demands an escalating progression of penalties that, in the end, must result in the forcible seizure of property or imprisonment by armed men prepared to do violence in the event of resistance or non?compliance. Every time a soccer mom stands up and demands harsher penalties for drunk driving, or selling cigarettes to minors, or owning a pit bull, or not recycling, she is petitioning the state to use force to impose her will. She is no longer asking nicely."
-- Jack Donovan | Violence is Golden
Product test: Armored car CEO sits in SUV while shot at with an AK-47
"I stand fully behind our products - just don't expect me to stand in front of them"
Bravo Fox Delta. A Kalashnikov isn't an anti tank weapon. It does hit harder than a handgun but that's a rather low bar for any rifle.
I have fired one through a car body at the engine block. The rounds which did manage to get through to the engine only left small lead smears.
If you note in the video he's firing at the Windshield, which is far from bullet resistant in a normal car.
Actually, the standard windshield will usually deflect handgun rounds - at least for three or four shots if not too close together. Depending on the angle I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two AK rounds not penetrate one.
Confident enough to sit inside while being shot at?
Just because the intermediate power round of the most common firearm in the world isn't a tank killer doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch armored glass soak about eight rounds. (Though I do note the shooter was avoiding focused hits. A real assailant would keep hammering at the driver and eventually get through)
However, it's not far off how the distribution of hits would be. After the first shot, the driver would certain respond to evade fire.
That's probably what is needed from an armored car in most cases. It's not going to have to hold up to sustained fire in most cases since it can move.
Flight systems damaged.
A Kalashnikov isn't an anti tank weapon.
And an armored SUV is not a tank. But I'd be interested to see what a .308 or something a bit bigger would do to the windshield.
Executive action on immigration could be announced by President Obama as early as next week.
Anyone else find this kind of "news" ridiculous?
"Executive action on immigration could be announced by President Obama as late as next September. Executive action on immigration could be announced by President Clinton as early as next decade.
Executive action on immigration could have been announced by President Obama as early as 2009."
There's no such thing as purple urine.
Sounds like a challenge ....
There are chemicals that when injected will turn urine blue or red... so do they not both work if introduced at the same time?
*ingested, not injected.
Damnit, now you tell me!
Ever had a four loko? I'm pretty sure that will do it.
Isn't that stuff illegal? I'm pretty sure the nannie-statists banned it.
They removed the caffeine and put it back on the market.
Wouldn't that make it "Three-Loko" instead?
They took out the tuarine and gurana as well, so it might just be "Loko" at this point.
It's actually been renamed as [Abelist Slur]
i loled
What's porphyria?
Working from home today...
first snow on the ground and the battery in my car decided to die. Went to replace it via Autozone but they didn't want to do the job since they thought the car wouldn't start after a battery swap. Wallet raping dealer couldn't get me until next week Friday. Like I'm going to go without a car for a week because of a friggin' battery. So I'll do it myself.... once I take care of some work-work stuff first.
Got my last battery at Wal-Mart. The only thing I'll let them touch on my car.
After spending a small fortune on dry-cell racing batteries that didn't last a year, I went back to Walmart. But getting one to fit in the trunk location of a BMW is difficult.
Sitting in Starbucks like a chooch sipping cappuccino among students waiting for my to be repaired.
Life is very cruel.
Your auto-correct seems to be acting up.
Heh.
CAR needs repairing. Auto-correct doesn't check for run-ons.
Went to replace it via Autozone but they didn't want to do the job since they thought the car wouldn't start after a battery swap.
???
That is where I did my last battery swap.
BMW... no one wants to touch 'em. Apparently the later model than mine require a code entry for the type of battery being used.
replaced battery. Car works. That is all.
At least with the battery in the trunk my tender hands don't get as dirty.
What's with Germans putting the battery in weird places? A friend with a Mercedes once had to change or charge their battery or something and realized they had no idea where it was. Eventually found it under the back seat, I think.
weight distribution/handling? Mini Cooper is the same way though as far as I can tell the non-S models have it under the hood.
weight distribution/handling
This.
A battery is a lot of weight that can be moved around. Most of the other heavy bits pretty much define the vehicle by their location.
What's with Germans putting the battery in weird places?
It's not just the batteries; I heard tell that sometimes they put the freakin' engine in the back!
2001 Buick LeSabre (about the farthest thing from a BMW) has the battery under the back seat. Saturn Ions have the batter in the trunk, as do some Volvo station wagons.
Obama may be too sane for our crazy world
Mr. "I Won" wants people to simmer down. It's like people are living in a different world when it comes to Obama fellating.
He wants his opponents, both foreign and domestic, to simmer down, dispense with threats and do the logical thing.
OK, fearless leader -- what is that "logical thing"?
Compromise.
Where compromise means "do exactly what Obama wants".
Whatever Obama wants done. Duh.
what Obama wants
Oh, I understand that.
But a "smart, well-behaved lad" should be able to articulate a specific end state that is not over-constrained.
OK, fearckless leader...
FTFY
Have we reached the point yet that opinion pieces in a major newspaper have dropped below YouTube comments in cogency?
I wouldn't know - I don't read either.
But ... but ... 4D Vulcan chess!
The projection is amazing.
More commonly referred to as a pussy.
Hungry Women TEAR UP McDONALD'S After They Were Late for Breakfast Menu (Video)
Hey, if you want it your way go to fucking Burger King.
Michael Douglas did it better.
Robert Duval sucks.
The big guy catching the swinging chairs is awesome.
They couldn't order anything off the lunch menu?
Ted, did those two strike you are reasonable individuals?
Sonic has breakfast available the whole day.
The only Sonic near me closed a few months back.
I almost did that once. They still had the breakfast menu up, but wouldn't give me my goddamn bacon egg and cheese biscuit.
What happened to saying "you just lost yourself a customer" and going to the place next door?
"WORLDSTAH! WORLDSTAH! WORLDSTAH!"
Actually, they told me the same thing once. Being mostly sane, I just ordered something off the lunch menu.
Of course, this was Philly, America's answer to Millwall.
...the freaking out women were in Philly. I was on the NH/MA border.
Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by nationalists while in Istanbul in an incident caught on tape.
Heh, "nationalists". Fascinating. Last night someone here told me that they were "communists".
National socialists?
And yes, I should've said "You know who else was a Nationalist and a Socialist"? BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
'Hey! You got your socialism in my nationalism!'
'Hey! You got your nationalism in my socialism!'
What kind of a nutty bar is this?
A Munich beer hall.
+1 Putsch
Maybe it's both.
Here's one description:
The Union is an odd group: ultra-nationalist, anti-Islamist, and anti-West. It is bitterly opposed to the Islam-inflected politics of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, but equally suspicious of European and American influences.
Turkish Nazis, in a nutshell.
http://qz.com/295832/it-wasnt-.....d-and-bad/
They are communists:
Youth Union of Turkey
Come on- the internet is swarming with ugly naked fat chicks. One more won't break it.
Fat? You ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
I think we might be on the John list.
well fat ass surely
And I say this despite personally being sarcasmic's ideal of what a woman should look like, as I believe one has seen.
Sure. It's always a fat black guy. Always.
That statement makes no sense. The Kochs don't allow blacks on here.
Says the so called "sarcasmics ideal women" poster. This leads me to two conclusions, either your a prepubescent white teenager with long black hair, or a fat black guy tying to throw me off his scent.
As I said, I believe one of the morning posters has seen me, but the short version of my stats is 6', 138 lbs, B cups, 27 inch waist, 5 1/2 inch penis. If that's not sarcasmic's ideal woman, I don't know what is.
PICS PLZ
No freebies!
But I could post a Bitcoin wallet address...
Most of the non-existent female libertarians on here are quite attractive.
Episiarch is hideous, but he only feels like a woman on the inside, despite his ambiguous genitalia.
How do you know what Epi feels like on the inside? What have you been sticking in there?
They do, however, allow mulattos.
Only if they are Heroic.
If a part of someone is really fat, that makes them fat. I don't know what else you'd call them.
People with ugly feet are ugly.
Agreed.
Hmm, I think I was going for something else there, but now I agree with you and myself.
Not that I have a foot fetish, but women who are wearing strappy sandals with busted feet, yeeech.
lol
I hate when people wear jeans and sandals.
Male toes should ever be exposed in a restaurant.
@Rufus J. Firefly
So says us all. With the one exception being a bar directly adjacent to a beach.
It's kind of a shame though, that you think fat is the same as ugly...
I would call it non-pygeal lipodystrophy, obviously.
House science committee chairman challenges NSF 'Truthy Project' funding
Lamar Smith wants to know how and why a federal agency gave nearly a million tax dollars to a project studying targeting of political speech on Twitter.
"Sorry, Congressman. Hard-drive crash."
Oh come on, I think we all know the reason why at this point.
The Ministry of Truth is still in its infancy. Strangle it while it's still in the cradle. Or jam a pair of forceps in the base of its skull and suction its brain cavity out with a vacuum while it's still in the womb.
"Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by nationalists while in Istanbul in an incident caught on tape."
In related news, Turkey's greatest national monument was built by Christians, and simply taking a shit in Turkey is still a complete fucking nightmare.
http://ramblecrunch.com/wp-con.....toilet.jpg
I'm just sayin'.
A nightmare? Have you never been camping or something? Shitting from a squat is completely obviously superior to shitting while seated. It turns your ass into a fucking poop cannon. It's glorious.
And people who squat to shit don't get hemorrhoids.
I don't get why people are so horrified by squat toilets. Would you really want to sit down on a public toilet in SE Asia or Turkey?
Are you supposed to get undressed to use the damn thing? Or do you just let your clothes soak it all in?
And how do you use the three sea shells?
"Ha! He doesn't know how to use the three sea shells!
All restaurants are called Taco Bell!"
Jesus Christ. You shit on the ground, not on your feet.
Usually? It's not an either/or kind of process.
So, you're pulling your jeans down, you've got some #1 and some #2, and you're squatting with your jeans in the middle of that--self assured that you're going to miss on both sides--without even looking?!
I do not believe you.
And that bucket under the spigot in that photo, that's presumably for flushing, I take it?
Fair enough, but that pink cup sitting on top of the bucket--that isn't for getting yourself a drink of water I take it.
If I had to guess, that pink cup is for catching #1 while you're going #2--am I right?
And all this to avoid sitting down for some unknown reason?!
Barbarism.
No wonder they're so pissed of at Americans...
They see Americans using reasonable toilets on television, and--not being able to use them in Turkey drives them insane!
Do your #1 first, in the usual way, then take a squat.
You have to account for the pink cup in the photo, Zeb.
For the love of God, why did they have to put that pink cup there?!
What is it for?
Just how do you think bipeds naturally shit?
And I squat to shit every day. Squatty Potty, yo.
Stay out of SW and Central Asia...and parts of the Balkans too, if you can't handle a bombardier station...
Dangitt,
Now I want some fresh off the conveyor belt Krispy Kreme!
Kim Kardashian is gross. That is all.
When you put Kim Kardashian and Kanye together it spells...
KKK.
Likewise with Kim, Khloe and Kourtney.
Didn't Dad represent OJ Simpson?
Kimmy gotta big ol' butt.
Finally!
Baby got back is fine, but it was getting tired.
Went to replace it via Autozone but they didn't want to do the job since they thought the car wouldn't start after a battery swap.
Errr, whut? Does the little man in the box die of hypothermia, or something?
Not for ol' Kimmie wink-wink-nudge-nudge!
Fat? You ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
That's not the only photo of la Gargantua I have seen, unfortunately.
Three U.S. sailors were assaulted by nationalists while in Istanbul in an incident caught on tape.
By the logic of going to war against ISIS, does this mean we need to invade Turkey?
How many decapitations where involved?
The problem is that it's unrealistic to think that Turkish nationalists are any kind of threat to America.
But ISIS is about to take over America and start decapitating people--it could happen at any moment!
When ISIS is going around forcing all our women to wear burkas, maybe then you'll be happy?!
Since the sailors weren't hurt, a few simple dronings will do.
By the logic of going to war against ISIS, does this mean we need to invade Turkey?
Ab
so
fucking
lutely.
BOOYA! USA USA USA!
AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
One the best thing about Reason is that it has been a relatively safe harbor from the Kardashian stain that has infected most of the internet. Sad to see those days are over.
On this weeks episode of Keepin' up with the Libertarians, SugarFree rediscovers his lust for hobbits, known to the regulars as Epi's mom.
Bitch, you better never come to a meet up. I will rip that Walmart weave right out your hair!
Good luck, I shop at kmart you fat-bottomed blood sugar deficient douche.
I may have the sugars, but at least I ain't no ho.
It is for shame. I thought a paper is 'supposed' to know its readers.
I come here for the...never mind.
Asses covered in maple syrup?
Too sticky.
Poutine?
Mom jokes?
Is that a chainsaw in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Florida Man
Good thing it wasn't electric-start.
Pull start is more the usual thing, after all.
*narrows gaze*
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014.....ducts-ban/
Even Massholes have their limits. Angry town residents shout down town nannies in meeting on proposed tobacco ban.
"AMERICA!"
Good for them. Good quotes from townspeople in there too.
I don't know whether to believe this happened or not.
Robin Williams was suffering from Lewis Body Dementia:
Robin Williams' Death Report Finds Lewy Body Dementia
The disorder has symptoms similar to Parkinson's, but when treated with Parkinson's drugs causes vivid hallucinations which may have been what drove Williams to suicide.
jeezus
Go back to the drugs that cause vivid hallucinations, pls?
Ultimate irony is that after all the fighting over the Keystone XL Pipeline, even if it gets approved it may not get built as the recent plunge in oil prices makes it a money loser:
Economics no longer makes Keystone pipeline viable
Oil is a boom and bust commodity. It always has been and always will be. The problem is that since you have to drill for it supply always lags demand and demand is price inelastic at first. It takes a while for people to respond to higher oil prices. You don't just immediately move closer to work or get a more fuel efficient car. So when the price goes up it takes a while for supply to catch up and when it does it comes as a surge in production combined with a drop in demand as people finally start adjusting to the higher prices. This causes the price to crash and starts the cycle all over again.
My guess is that they still would build it even if it would lose money in the short run. The oil companies know the boom and bust cycle of prices and thus understand that it will eventually make money when the price comes back up, which it always does.
I think the current bust is due to fracking massively increasing the supply of petroleum, as well as reducing demand via substitution effects in the natural gas market.
In which case oil may be down for quite some time.
"I think the current bust is due to fracking massively increasing the supply of petroleum"
No, not really. At least not how you express it.
The most significant factors are the combined effects of 3 things -
a) reduced demand due to global economic slowdown
b) a 10% rise in the dollar in the last 3 months alone
c) price cuts by OPEC to preserve their overall volume share in the global market
the impact of NA production is mostly to reduce costs for domestic refiners; we're still a net importer, and demand growth is not slowing; but the impact is comparatively minor on global prices relative to the influence of OPEC, $ impact, Asian demand, etc
" as well as reducing demand via substitution effects in the natural gas market."
What is gas substituting oil for, again, aside from home heating?
The "math" they're using at the moment to calculate the profitability of the pipeline assumes a fixed-extraction cost and headline oil price - based on today's prices and costs...
...for a project that probably will take 2-3 years to complete, and would be expected to be in operation for decades.
Do i need to go further?