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Democrats Helped Torpedo Obama's 529 Tax Scheme, Rubio Loves NSA Surveillance, Plurality of Americans Think Pats Cheated: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 1.28.2015 4:30 PM

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    Members of his own Democratic Party helped torpedo the president's scheme to tax 529 college savings, and now Republicans are pushing to expand the plans' benefits.

  • Senator and likely GOP White House contender Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) thinks the NSA's domestic spying is swell and should be made permanent.
  • Heading into the Superbowl, 41 percent of Americans believe the Patriots cheated in the AFC championship game, while only 27 percent disagree. (The rest probably believe the Pats suck for a multitude of reasons and that Deflategate is just a cherry on top.)
  • Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney are slamming each other over their wealth, guaranteeing entertainment for all.
  • An attack by Hezbollah militants killed two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish UN peacekeeper.
  • Everybody crosses their fingers that the Saudi Arabian succession doesn't get messy.
  • Veteran (and pioneering) blogger Andrew Sullivan hangs it up.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Veteran (and pioneering) blogger Andrew Sullivan hangs it up.

    The internet weeps.

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Yo.

      The thing is, that pre-Obama, Sullivan was actually sane. Something about the Obama worship pushed him over the deep end. It's almost like he was fighting with himself over how absurd it was.

      At least I no longer have to share an internet first name/last initial with him.

      1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

        That's not the impression I am getting. I heard he went from one of the most dishonest Iraq war supporters to one of its opponents because Bush signed DOMA. Really.

        1. grrizzly   10 years ago

          It was Bill Clinton who signed DOMA. Bush expressed his support for the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

          1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

            Okay, I guess that was enough to get Sullivan to turn.

            1. Enough About Palin   10 years ago

              So he's straight now?

          2. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

            Shhh! Hateful things only happen when Republicans are President!

        2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          Conservative gays shifted hard to the left during the push for a "Federal Marriage Amendment" and Bush's use of that as a rallying point for his base. Sullivan absolutely lost his shit at that point.

          He really wasn't too bad before that although he banged the war drum harder than I would've preferred.

      2. JW   10 years ago

        At least I no longer have to share an internet first name/last initial with him.

        I knew it! You're not fooling anyone!

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      I'm thinking of hanging it up.

      1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        When I stop commenting here, will I get a send-off post? Highlighting my best and worst comments?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          When Lou Reed dies maybe they will.

      2. Smilin' Joe Fission   10 years ago

        Leaving H&R???

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          Not any time soon, but I may retire in the coming decades at some point. Commenting pays well and has great benefits.

    3. Tonio   10 years ago

      Et tu, Fist?

      1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

        I'm no backstabber!

    4. BigT   10 years ago

      He was about as interesting as watching a 3-legged dog take a dump.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        That actually sounds interesting.

        *goes to youtube*

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Rule 34 is in effect.

  2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

    The rest probably believe the Pats suck for a multitude of reasons and that Deflategate is just a cherry on top

    The only sane way for anyone outside of New England to feel about the Patriots.

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      Or they just don't care about gridiron football.

    2. grrizzly   10 years ago

      They hate us cuz they ain't us

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        No, that's not it at all.

        1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

          It's because when I want to think about a Brady and football, it's Marcia getting hit in the nose by a football.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Eh. He's good for memes. I was "Sad Brady" around my house when I found out my wife was pregnant again.

      2. AnonCowHerd   10 years ago

        Peanut butter and jealous!

    3. Drake   10 years ago

      Suck it losers.

      1. Gluesponge   10 years ago

        Funny, that's just what the Steeler Nation says. 🙂

  3. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Senator and likely GOP White House contender Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) thinks the NSA's domestic spying is swell and should be made permanent.

    We should probably make these guys take some sort of oath regarding the Constitution or something.

    1. TwB   10 years ago

      That would be nice

    2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      He gets a big, fat NO.

    3. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      How about if we make them pledge to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic?

      1. Paul.   10 years ago

        from all enemies, foreign or domestic?

        Like tea-baggers and crotchety "originalist" glibertarians?

      2. Libertarian   10 years ago

        That's extremist talk. Besides, didn't I just read something about you retiring from bloggin?

    4. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      I want:

      1) duct tape covering Rubio's mouth, while he is forced to practise Islam.
      2) all guns, knives, and blunt objects taken from him
      3) US Army soldiers posted in his house, who Rubio has to cook for.
      4) cameras installed all over his house, webcasting live feeds to anyone on the Internet.
      5) have his sh1t taken without any due process.
      6) go through secret trials with secret testimony from secret witnesses.

      Anyone want to add to this list?

      F*** that authoritarian twat btw.

      1. Doctor Whom   10 years ago

        A ban on all future photos of him unless there's a really strong wind.

        1. Dances-with-Trolls   10 years ago

          By wind you mean the type generated in nursing homes rather than the sky, yes?

        2. Bobarian (hyphenated-american)   10 years ago

          Move all his water bottles out of reach?

      2. Tonio   10 years ago

        Damn, Hiawatha, way to break bad, dude. Respect.

      3. SoCal Deathmarch   10 years ago

        Sometimes you must abandon the principles of Liberty to save the Constitutional System.

        /Rubio Republicans

        1. BigT   10 years ago

          Sometimes you must abandon the principles of Liberty to save the Constitutional System.

          "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system"

          They are all the same.

    5. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      Rubio's a full-blooded neocon, no surprises here.

      1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

        I've been told by our resident neocons that there is no such thing. Which is just like STEVE SMITH trying to propagate the fiction that STEVE SMITH doesn't exist.

    6. MJGreen   10 years ago

      That'll stop 'em.

  4. rts   10 years ago

    For reasons unknown to me, the chief medical officer for Vancouver Coastal Health weighs in on the debate to raise taxes for transit:

    "We know from studies that we've done that people who use public transit get about 40 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity that people who don't use public transit don't get. This will help improve their overall health," Dr. Patricia Daly told The Early Edition's Rick Cluff.

    Ergo, raise the tax for more transit!

    But, you'll never find the good doctor mixing with the proles:

    Daly admitted she does usually drive to work, because the nearby 99 B-Line bus is often packed with people.

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      Get rid of the transit and make them walk. That's a hell of a lot more exercise!

      1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

        Why not just stop picking them up and chase them with the buses instead?

        That should get them their precious aerobic exercise in for the day.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      When can we start flogging public health officials?

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

        All this incremental public good crap really gets my goat.

        We can save 3.5 years of life per 100,00 people if just tax the living shit out of something enjoyable!

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          Replying to your own comments harms the public good. I propose a 3% tax.

      2. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

        Once you produce a study that shows that people who flog a public health official get more aerobic exercise that people who don't.

        Produce a snazzy chart showing that flogging officials can add 3.5 years to someone's life.

        If it bends the cost curve, don't we owe it to ourselves?

    3. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

      people who use public transit get about 40 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity that people who don't use public transit don't get.

      In the admittedly small sample size I see waiting for the bus on my way to work, most of them only seem to get "moderate to vigorous physical activity" through eating or hauling themselves up those three steps to get on the bus.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

        In DC, the fatties mostly drive. I rarely see anyone on the train whose ass spills into the next seat (though I see plenty of normal-sized men spreading their legs so wide they take up 1/2 of the next seat. What's up with that? Keep your legs closed, whores!)

        1. rts   10 years ago

          It's called "manspreading".

          1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

            When did disregard for the conventions of social etiquette becomes something that needed legislation to "ban"?

            I can't even comprehend the myopic narcissism it would take to invest so much energy in campaigning for a ban on spreading one's legs into another's personal space when you could invest just as much energy into, I don't know, advocating for ethnically-Nepali Bhutanese who are disenfranchised by specific nationalist policies of the Bhutanese government?

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              We've lost the ability to independently shun.

  5. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

    I hope Clinton and Romney start trying to out-do each other in their poverty roots. Pretty soon, Hillary will be talking about when she was a coal-miner's daughter in West Virginia.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      But wasn't Romney's old man an ethnic of some sort?

      1. Tonio   10 years ago

        I don't believe so.

      2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        I believe he was a former SS guard.

      3. John   10 years ago

        He was President of American Motors. Romney's father is the man who gave us the Gremlin and the Pacer. I am generally not a sins of the father pass to the son kind of guy, but this might be an exception.

        1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

          Wasn't he also the guy who came up with the Special-Edition Levi's Gremlin, where the seats were all upholstered in denim, complete with the little red Levi's tag on each seatback?

          Gah, what a pathetic little car the Gremlin was. Perhaps the worst-ever American-made car.

          1. John   10 years ago

            He also sold Jeep to Chrysler and let them get their dirty paws all over what was once a great brand.

            1. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

              Couldn't agree more. Fuckers could've kept making the 4 liter inline 6 Cherokee for another 20 years and selling 50,000 a year without needing any marketing. But no, they wanted to put out the plastic toy Liberty instead. And then they brought back the Cherokee as a fucking Rav-4 knockoff. I despise Chrysler for what they have done to Jeep.

          2. SoCal Deathmarch   10 years ago

            Yes!

            / Ford Pinto, Chrysler K-Cars, Pontiac Aztec

      4. Tonio   10 years ago

        According to the Wikipedia bio, George was born in Mexico. George was a perennial candidate for prez, back in the day. I thought you had to be native born to be president. Anyone?

        1. grrizzly   10 years ago

          You're worse than Stormy.

          1. Tonio   10 years ago

            WTF? Was the wikipedia article wrong? Was George Romney not a candidate for president? Am I wrong about US presidents having to be native born?

            1. grrizzly   10 years ago

              See what Raven posted below.

          2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            That's harsh.

            1. grrizzly   10 years ago

              Yeah, I exaggerated a bit.

        2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          We secretly declared all ex-Nazis to be natural-born U.S. citizens.

          His parents were both American citizens. That's enough right there.

        3. Raven Nation   10 years ago

          The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents

          Congressional Research Service via Wikipedia.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            What's more interesting is if one of the parents wasn't a U.S. citizen, which is relevant for a potential candidate.

            1. Libertarian   10 years ago

              No, what would be REALLY interesting is if "natural born" meant you couldn't be president if you were a caesarian birth.

              1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                Or a clone.

  6. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....-feelings/

    Looking at pictures of Ryan Gosling might turn you into a feminist.

    1. lap83   10 years ago

      I don't get the hipster girl fascination with him. He's good looking, but not classically handsome. Maybe his close-set eyes are ironic or something.

      1. Caleb Turberville   10 years ago

        I liked Drive (2011). But other than that, I can't say I'm a fan of his acting.

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          He's an indie Keanu Reeves

        2. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

          He was ok in Remember the Titans.

      2. Tonio   10 years ago

        Well, presumably you're not a hipster girl. I could never understand what the older girls saw in The Monkees when I was growing up.

        1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

          The Monkees weren't about music, Marge. They were about rebellion.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            What's funny is that this is actually going to prove to be true.

    2. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

      That's funny. The only effect those pictures had on me was to exponentially increase my interest in bitch-slapping Ryan Gosling.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Members of his own Democratic Party helped torpedo the president's scheme to tax 529 college savings, and now Republicans are pushing to expand the plans' benefits.

    Time for Obama to pivot from endorsing the 529's to vetoing any expansion.

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      It's like he's daring the Democrats to hate him just as much as everyone else.

      1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

        Everyone has just let him down so bad.

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          How does he live with the disappointment?

          1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

            By inviting his choom gang over?

            1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

              From the Conan show: Obama's cue card guy at the SotU.

              Under a minute, I thought it was pretty funny.

              1. Bean Counter   10 years ago

                OK...freaking hilarious!

              2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                Okay, that was funny.

        2. SoCal Deathmarch   10 years ago

          It's almost like everyone in America is a Cleveland Brown.

          1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

            Well they do love to wear a "keeping it real" Browns jersey

            http://cbssports.com/images/bl.....se_Win.png

    2. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

      Just in time for his kids to take advantage of their 529s...

  8. TwB   10 years ago

    "The Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled it would keep short-term interest rates near zero at least until midyear and set the stage for tough debates in the months ahead about whether to wait even longer."-WSJ

    Interest rates just can't stay at near zero forever. It's not a viable economic policy in a sane world. But I guess we ventured out of a sane world awhile ago.

    1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

      At the very least they could sell some assets.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      Hush your mouth! Both of my bond funds are doing really well.

      Don't ruin this for me.

      1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

        Yeah, wait until I pay down cc balances a little bit at least.

  9. BigT   10 years ago

    Russian oil companies backing environmental and anti-fracking activity in the US.

    Yes, the greenies are paid by Big Oil.

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      Why ever would they do that? It must be the purity of their commitment to the environment and their undying love of Gaia.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      But of course they do. I'll save that one for the next anti-fracker I run into. Thanks.

      1. Tonio   10 years ago

        I'm sure they'll discredit that as lies. Or say it doesn't matter since their intentions are pure, which takes all the taint (!) out of that money.

  10. rts   10 years ago

    Parking tickets: Vancouver could tow chronic offenders, even after fines paid

    Vancouver's current policy is if a driver has three unpaid parking tickets ? assigned to their licence plate ? their vehicle will be towed if it is parked at an expired meter.

    The city is in the preliminary stages of changing that policy to include tickets that have been paid, said Taryn Scollard, director of city streets.

    You'll never guess who donated $10K for the mayor's re-election.

    1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

      Mayor Robertson is a retarded asshole, and Vancouver is a totally overrated suckhole of a city /immature but accurate

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Now, now. Montreal can be pretty retarded too.

        http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/jud.....-1.2210048

        Apparently that because Quebec (specifically French-Canadians) has a low birth rate and are in perpetual fragile mode, the rest have to pay for it through punitive measures.

        1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

          "It reconfirms that we're really second class citizens in a first class country in a zero-class province," said Shapiro.

          He forgot to mention that they're broke. At least he's going to appeal.

          To be fair, French is in danger. It is getting wiped out partly thanks to new migrants. Benefit #87987 of mass immigration.

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            No one disputes vigilance may be needed.

            Our argument is why do they go after its own citizens? The line between freedom of expression and collective protection of a language is constantly breached in favor of the latter.

            Punitive measures are an outrageous way to deal with it; not to mention it just breeds an ill-feeling among people.

            It rubs me the wrong way. It's enough for me to have one foot out of this place.

            Quebec simply doesn't respect individual civil liberties.

      2. grrizzly   10 years ago

        What will you beat Vancouver with, Alberta man? Red Deer?

        1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

          CALGARY. Canada's best.

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            Ah Calgary.

            Lina where are you!?

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess rts is from...Vancouver?

      1. rts   10 years ago

        No, but nearby.

        It is a rich source of prog derp.

      2. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

        Victoria-Vancouver-and the Gulf Islands for The Axis of Derp that has given BC a bad name ("Beyond Communist").

  11. Paul.   10 years ago

    Members of his own Democratic Party helped torpedo the president's scheme to tax 529 college savings, and now Republicans are pushing to expand the plans' benefits.

    Say what you will about Democracy, but when a million upper middle-class progressive voices cried out about their college savings accounts and GET programs, some folks are gonna listen.

  12. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

    The Deflategate anthem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqg15tCyiA

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      It better not be some Dropkick Murphys shit.

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

        No, just some adolescent puns, you'll like it.

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        They stand by their unionize brothers against Scott Walker!

      3. Tonio   10 years ago

        Does Eddie like the Murphs?

        1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

          Ah, Tonio, we meet again.

          We quarrel, but what would we do without each other?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnK-EmZME3Q

  13. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

    Hezbollah and Iran have decided it's time for a war with Israel at the same time that they are losing control of southern Syria. Really hope Israel kills them all.

    http://english.alarabiya.net/e.....ttack.html

    1. TwB   10 years ago

      Who knows what will happen. It seems like every couple of months, Hezbollah or the Palestinians start shit in Israel, things get riled up for a couple weeks, then they calm down. I expect the same results w/ this situation. But I could be wrong.

  14. rts   10 years ago

    Wherein Neil Macdonald discovers fiat currency

    So, with Germany's reluctant consent, the European Central Bank has begun operating the printing press day and night; it intends to print a trillion euros within the next year, and lend most of it to governments, virtually interest free.

    It's probably a good idea. We shall see.

    ...

    But I still can't get that lesson from Paul Fisher out of my head. Waving around a banknote, and saying it's only worth something as long as everyone agrees it is.

    It's a confidence game, in other words. What wealth you think you have may or may not be there tomorrow, depending on bets placed by the unelected, albeit very smart people in charge of creating our money.

    1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

      Well thank God they're very smart people. They never do anything stupid.

    2. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

      Reminds me of this:

      During the worst of the inflation, the Austrian central bank printing presses were working night and day churning out the vast quantities of the currency. At the 1925 meeting of the German Verein f?r Sozialpolitik (the Society for Social Policy), Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises told the audience:

      "Three years ago a colleague from Germany, who is in this hall today, visited Vienna and participated in a discussion with some Viennese economists . . . Later, as we went home through the still of the night, we heard in the Herrengasse [a main street in the center of Vienna] the heavy drone of the Austro-Hungarian Bank's printing presses that were running incessantly, day and night, to produce new banknotes. Throughout the land, a large number of industrial enterprises were idle; others were working part-time; only the printing presses stamping out banknotes were operating at full speed."

    3. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      Why don't they just save some time and print one $1 trillion Euro coin?

      1. rts   10 years ago

        Simpsons did it.

  15. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

    Awakening to the damage done by teachers' unions

    Decent article, but my take on it is that when government gets SO f***ing big, tinkering around the edges gets you lots of praise.

    I would love to see someone COMPLETELY take out government-run schools and replace them 100% with the private sector. Until that happens (if it ever does), I guess I will have to be satisfied with minor changes that will irritate the authoritarian left.

    1. Tonio   10 years ago

      Yeah, but the "right people" don't read the Examiner, they read the Post.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder   10 years ago

      Hell, if the GOP would just follow thru on that promise to end the DOEd...

  16. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

    Puppy Shaming is real.

    GoDaddy Pulls Super Bowl XLIX Puppy Ad After Backlash, Petition

    Like the "Lost Dog" commercial for Super Bowl XLIX, GoDaddy's 30-second spot features an adorable little pup who loses his way. When he finally makes it home, his owner is thrilled -- because she just sold him online using a website she built with GoDaddy.

    Viewers immediately reacted to the commercial online -- and not very well. While some thought the twist ending was funny, others said it made light of puppy mills. There's even a Change.org petition calling for the commercial to be removed; as of Tuesday evening, it had been signed by more than 33,000 people.

    "Whether or not this was meant to be satirical, it's offensive," the petition states. "Essentially, Go Daddy is encouraging private breeding/puppy mills while shelter animals wait patiently for their forever homes or worse -- to be euthanized...Animal rights are no laughing matter and to portray them as such as cruel and irresponsible."

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Doesn't GoDaddy do this every year? Leak "controversial" ad, people get pissed, they get more out of it than they would have just from the ad.

      The only difference is that this year it's puppies and not scantily clad women.

      1. Bean Counter   10 years ago

        Scantily clad puppies?

    2. grrizzly   10 years ago

      Is there anything more retarded in America than "signing" a change.org petition?

      1. Sidd Finch v2.01   10 years ago

        Starting a change.org petition?

        1. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

          ...over a fucking puppy commercial.

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            Many of these people are young idealists. Not surprising.

            That they're able to get so many signatures is impressive I guess.

    3. BigT   10 years ago

      Don't worry there will be some very tasty commercials.

      1. TwB   10 years ago

        I would argue she is more attractive than Kate Upton

        1. Dances-with-Trolls   10 years ago

          I'd agree, but when the girls on top I draw the line at risking a concussion.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        I have to watch a commercial in order to watch a commercial?

        1. Bean Counter   10 years ago

          I don't know whether to be amused by the irony or outraged by hubris...

      3. Juice   10 years ago

        hummanna hummanna hummanna

    4. TwB   10 years ago

      It's satire, goddammit. Jesus, when did so many people become so easily offended?

    5. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

      So, how long till these fuckers go after the Clydesdales?

  17. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

    I hear that American Sniper is basically full of lies. Is this not true? I don't think I want to go see a movie and contribute money to lies.

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      Apparently it's not pro-war enough for Cytotoxic.

      1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

        No asshole the problem is that Chris Kyle told some tall tales and the movie incorporates them.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          1001 tales?

    2. John   10 years ago

      No. The only thing that is a "lie" is that they added in a rival sniper for dramatic purposes. It is not a blow by blow perfect account of the guy's life. It is a Hollywood "based on a true story" film.

      The left hates the movie because it humanizes an American fighting the war and it is a war movie that isn't a polemic on the evils of Bush and Haliburton. From what I have read the movie doesn't even talk about the politics of the war. And it is hardly a mindless pro war movie. It just shows the war from this guy's perspective.

      1. BigT   10 years ago

        I've seen it. It is a character study of a guy who became the best sniper ever and how it affected him.

        Lots of people think he was a hero. Maybe so. It really made me think of how awful it is to send these good people over to that shithole that is the ME for no really good cause. It's kind of anti-war in that way since quite a few Americans get killed and it exposes the ugly side of war along with the 'heroic' side.

        1. The Other Kevin   10 years ago

          I agree. It functions on a lot of levels - what soldiers dealt with in Iraq, the horrors of war, the affects on family back home.

          One thing I noticed is that after 4 tours, he was pretty much doing the same damn thing. Not much had changed. Which is in itself a commentary on the war in Iraq.

        2. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

          Carlos Hathcock eats Chris Kyle for breakfast.

          1. paranoid android   10 years ago

            Simo H?yh? laughs at both of them from atop a throne of Soviet skulls.

          2. BigT   10 years ago

            Carlos Hathcock eats Chris Kyle for breakfast.

            Aren't the worms ahead of him in line?

          3. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

            I was wondering about this "best sniper" thing - while he's probably in the American Sniper HOF, does the ridiculous duration of the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts distort the stats a bit?

      2. Irish   10 years ago

        Matt Taibbi made this explicit. He claimed it's immoral to make a movie about an individual person during war because their individual experiences aren't political enough, so you ignore the politically important issues all True Art must be exploring.

        Matt Taibbi sounds like he'd be a blast at parties, huh?

        1. John   10 years ago

          That is just it, it is bad enough people like Tiabbi are retarded and evil, they are boring and humorless as well.

        2. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

          So, Heroic Realism for the win?

        3. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

          So he must be a really big Leni Riefenstahl fan.

    3. Agammamon   10 years ago

      Not full of lies.

      Its just not a particularly *nuanced* story.

    4. The Other Kevin   10 years ago

      I saw the movie last weekend and just ordered the book. I can't vouch for its' accuracy, but the story was believable to me. Nothing in it struck me as super-human.

      1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

        Okay I'll go see it this afternoon.

      2. Sidd Finch v2.01   10 years ago

        Isn't this the same guy who claimed to have beat up The Body and ended up paying him a huge settlement?

        1. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

          Yes.

  18. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

    Guess who's the head of Students for Liberty at Duke University?

    http://www.businessinsider.com.....ian-2015-1

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      I rather suspect she'll be on the LP ticket when of age.

    2. Tonio   10 years ago

      Hitler?

      1. Dances-with-Trolls   10 years ago

        Worse than that.

      2. Brian D   10 years ago

        I did Nazi that answer coming.

        1. trshmnster the terrible   10 years ago

          It was the Reich answer, though.

          1. Brian D   10 years ago

            Think we can take the joke any fuhrer?

            1. Slammer   10 years ago

              Wannsee more?

            2. S. Quincy   10 years ago

              This is Weimar women aren't libertarian.

  19. Andrew S.   10 years ago

    The loonie is back below 80 cents US. I think it's time to plan a trip up to Victoria, BC. Been wanting to go back.

    1. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

      NO! NOT OUR GLORIOUS LOONIE!

      Why does everyone love Victoria so much? I lived there for several years and it's kinda nice but meh. Whatever you do, do NOT go anytime by May or during the summer unless you have a fetish for rain.

      1. Ted S.   10 years ago

        Vintage Victoria

        1. BigT   10 years ago

          We visited Butchart Gardens. I couldn't stop snickering about that name.

      2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

        I spent a little while there once before an Alaska cruise out of Vancouver and have been wanting to go back for a longer trip.

        Montreal's also a possibility. Haven't been there since I lived in upstate NY.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Like I offered John. Give me a shout.

          Like 'Hey RUFUS!' and maybe I'll wave back.

          1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

            Do Quebecois laws require that I also scream "BONJOUR RUFUS!"?

            1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              Probably. But fuck them.

              WE'RE LIBERTARIANS!

    2. John   10 years ago

      The Canadian dollar is that low? I am thinking Montreal baby.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Give me a shout.

        1. John   10 years ago

          Will do.

        2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          I think John might like shouting.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Canadians can't seem to understand that's what our dollar is worth historically against the U.S. dollar.

      In the 75-82 range.

      Why they brag when it's on par shows they don't quite understand it usually means demand for resources are high and little else.

      1. John   10 years ago

        Rufus, we may have to have a beer at some point. Montreal is calling.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Sure. We got lotsa beer.

          1. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

            When I get back to Montreal, you n me are gonna hipster out and go to Les Foufounes Electriques. I used to go there between the ages of 18 and 21 when I would visit my VT friends.

            1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              I think Foufounes closed!

              And those days are loooongggg gone!

              1. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

                Nope - they're still around. I follow them on Facebook! We can go early to avoid the idiot youths and loud bands 🙂

                1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                  I musta confused them with another club OR a story.

      2. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

        I WANT MUH PARITY BACK

      3. Rhywun   10 years ago

        Yeah, I remember visiting a lot growing up - it was always around 80 cents.

  20. Sidd Finch v2.01   10 years ago

    This seems very dumb.

    Jurors' names now public record

    WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)? In a decision made Tuesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the names of jurors who serve in criminal cases are to be available to the public.

    1. Catatafish   10 years ago

      It's okay. The state has a duty to protect those citizens from retaliatory attacks.

      Oh, wait...

  21. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

    Gawker: Rich Colleges Get Richer and Richer

    College really is a training ground for the real world?the rich get richer and etc etc. Not much to say about all this except to point out that if all that money had been donated to real charities, tens or hundreds of thousands of human lives could have been saved, but instead we have the Stanford Alumni Association.

    Ha, and the derpiest comment:

    Maybe if we forgave student loans, colleges wouldn't be able to afford overpriced headliner professors.

    1. Matrix   10 years ago

      The colleges already got their money, dipshit. It's not the colleges handing out student loans. (in response to the derpiest comment)

    2. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Reading that comment has caused me to go into debt because its vast black hole of stupidity managed to remove everything I learned in college from my brain.

    3. John   10 years ago

      I agree with that. Make student loans forgivable in bankruptcy and pay for it with that money. Those assholes benefited from the loan problem, they should have to pay to clean it up.

    4. Ted S.   10 years ago

      They should just get rid of student loans altogether and stup inflating the education bubble.

    5. lap83   10 years ago

      "College really is a training ground for the real world"

      and I stopped reading

      1. Certified Public Asskicker   10 years ago

        No it is! And we must subsidize it with taxpayer money!

        Rich people donating money to colleges however, very bad and must be stopped.

    6. Irish   10 years ago

      Let me see if I have left-wing arguments right:

      1. When government gives money to colleges it's good and makes people smart.

      2. When rich people give money to colleges, it's bad and makes people starve.

      1. Catatafish   10 years ago

        Well, when you say it like THAT.

      2. Doctor Whom   10 years ago

        Government force is necessary and sufficient for all good things, duh!

        1. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

          Government force sanctifies all bad things.

  22. Matrix   10 years ago

    White House argues that US swap of Bergdahl is different from Jordan swap with ISIS

    Of course... Bergdahl is a deserter. The Jordan pilot's plane crashed during a mission and he was captured.

    so yes, it is different. One deserved to be captured for deserting his unit, while the other deserved to be freed because he was actually on a mission.

    1. Agammamon   10 years ago

      Uh no. One swap was legit because it was planned by 'Top Men' in the US - men we know and can trust to be on our side and do what's right by 'Murica.

      Jordan's swap was made by a bunch of ragheads half of whom are al-Qaeda sympathizers and the other half are double agents.

      1. Agammamon   10 years ago

        Asked how the Jordanian government's response is any different from the Taliban-Bergdahl trade, Schultz said the Taliban are an "armed insurgency," while ISIS is a "terrorist group."

        Wait, if al-Qaeda are 'armed insurgents' then they would *not* be illegal combatants and the legal fiction holding them in Gitmo indefinitely without rights goes out the window.

        Further, he described last year's swap as part of an "end of conflict interaction," as part of the wind-down of the Afghanistan war.

        And if we're 'ending conflict interaction' wouldn't that mean a release of all EPW's? That's a pretty standard capstone at the end of a conflict.

  23. Hyperion   10 years ago

    The rest probably believe the Pats suck for a multitude of reasons

    They're from Boston. There's no reason other than that needed to hate someone or something.

    1. Smilin' Joe Fission   10 years ago

      Listening to Boomer and Corton this morning on WFAN from NY.. this story came up:

      98.5 The Sports Hub's "Toucher and Rich Show" reports that the Patriots turned in their game balls slightly under-inflated and an official ? presumably head referee Walt Anderson ? signed off on them. The show's source indicated that a pressure gauge was not used.

      Not sure how much truth there is to it, but if this is the case, the pats may not have really done anything wrong here.

      1. Agammamon   10 years ago

        If the balls were under-inflated (even 'unintentionally') then they still did something wrong. It wouldn't be cheating, but its a form of negligence that should not be tolerated considering the sort of money on the line here.

        If this was cheating, there's a whole line of people who should be shown the door.

        If this was a mistake, there's a whole line of people who should be shown the door.

      2. Catatafish   10 years ago

        I'm still trying to get past the part where a guy named "Toucher" is talking about balls.

      3. BigT   10 years ago

        If the balls were inflated indoors at 72 F and then taken outside to where it was 51 F the air inside would contract about 5%. That would be enough to put them 'out of spec'.

        Science. It rocks.

        1. Jerms   10 years ago

          Yeah but why didnt that happen to the kickers balls, or the Colts balls?

        2. Jerms   10 years ago

          Yeah but why didnt that happen to the kickers balls, or the Colts balls?

      4. Jerms   10 years ago

        I have been saying this all week. I even called in one show on WFAN and gave that theory. Guy called me inspector Clusoe and laughed at me. This is definitely what happened.

      5. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

        Wow, a lot of 99X alumni at WFAN ? both Fred Toucher hosted an evening program on WNNX and Rich "Heywood Jablome" Shertenlieb was an intern there. Crash Clark was a traffic reporter for Power 99 and stayed on when they renamed themselves 99X and got fired when he accepted an challenge that a woman would give a man a BJ at an Atlanta club in exchange for 311 tickets. Unlike previous times this happened, she actually went through with it and the club (and the programming manager) complained and he got fired.

        1. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

          Not WFAN, WBCN/WBZ.

  24. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

    Loretta Lynch: You can home a-drinking, but don't smoke the devil weed.

    She is another in the remarkably long list of Obama administration figures who openly challenges their boss's "deeply-held convictions."

    I wonder how long the head of HHS would last after opposing Obamacare?

    http://www.politico.com/story/.....14690.html

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

      you *can* come home a-drinking

    2. John   10 years ago

      There is no reason for the Senate to confirm any Obama nominee. Fuck him, let the civil servants run things.

    3. Agammamon   10 years ago

      You must be confusing her with Loretta Lynn.

  25. nuffcedmcgreevey   10 years ago

    WTF......??

    http://www.13wmaz.com/story/ne...../22464673/

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

      Strip the principal naked and put him in the stocks.

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

        Worse yet, fire him.

    2. lap83   10 years ago

      If that isn't enough to pull your kid out of the hell that is public school, I don't know what is

    3. Matrix   10 years ago

      I'm sure just standing near a kid that shit his/herself would be enough to figure out who did it. No need to go all creepy and ask kids to pull down their pants.

      1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

        Drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs aren't enough. Our schools cry out for dogs trained to sniff asses for errant feces.

    4. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      Dafuq?

      And of course the only reason Supernintendo Chalmers might possibly have any discipline here is that she's being forced into it.

    5. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

      Balbricker: Now, Mr. Carter. I know this is completely unorthodox. But I think this is the only way to find that boy

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwQ8_H3DFw

  26. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

    Stupid work story to relate:

    So we had a mass meeting with one of our big government bosses today. About a year or so ago, he got the idea to redesign about 500 web sites, as well as move them to a new content management system (which in and of itself is perfectly fine. It's been a while since we'd done a redesign and the CMS we're using is a dying product).

    In today's meeting, he updated us on that project and - surprise! - he was shocked at the bureaucracy he's encountered in trying to launch this. He's also shocked at the number of stakeholders who have a strong say in the project. Shocked, I tells ya! He thought, seriously, that he could redesign, consolidate, and change technologies for ~500 web sites in 6 months.

    Bureaucracy and petty fiefdoms in government? NO WAI! He is one or more of the following: 1) retarded, 2) naive. I think it's about 95% #1, 5% #2.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Amazing, eh?

    2. Cytotoxic   10 years ago

      This is good. We want the energies of Big Government to be wasted on internal turf wars.

      1. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

        I'm only gobsmacked that he DIDN'T KNOW it would be so fraught with politics and bureaucracies and laws and regulations. Like, WTF? The last time we did a redesign of these web sites - not even changing the technology, just doing a cosmetic change - took about a year with everyone who had a say and all the fucking regulatory hurdles.

  27. Andrew S.   10 years ago

    Police in Quebec leave handcuffed 17-year-old girl in back of police car alone with non-handcuffed sex offender, seem surprised at what happened.

    $400,000 doesn't seem like nearly enough money to be suing for there.

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

      "The constable was suspended and later resigned. However, an internal investigation by the Kativik regional police Force cleared her of any criminal wrongdoing."

      Well, I wonder how she'd handle The Boats:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

      1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

        For this type of offense, the Judas Cradle seems a much more appropriate form of torture.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      You know Seinfeld holds too much influence in one's life when the first thing that pops in one's head is the police scene with Jerry, George and the killer in L.A. (Clint Howard).

      Ann Landers sucks!

    3. Somalian Road Corporation   10 years ago

      The constable was suspended and later resigned. However, an internal investigation by the Kativik regional police Force cleared her of any criminal wrongdoing.

      I'm shocked, shocked.

    4. GILMORE   10 years ago

      This is the one thing We Didn't Want to Happen

  28. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

    America, FUCK YEAH:

    KFC releases Double Down Dog sandwich

    1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      The press pictures almost look edible, but then there are pictures from the product in the wild.

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        I'm sure my bowels will hate me later for it, but I will still eat one should they become more widely available.

        1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          I was trying to remember the other day if I actually tried the original Double Down sandwich. I don't think I did though.

  29. Matrix   10 years ago

    Sally Kohn thinks she can spend the Koch brother's money better than they can.

    But isn't it like a proglodyte to tell other people what to do with their money?

    1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

      Is it just me or do she and Rachel Maddow look a lot alike? Is it a requirement or something?

      1. Matrix   10 years ago

        Or perhaps they are made in some sinister factory that produces progressive lesbian journalists.

        1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   10 years ago

          "Meanwhile, at the Progressive Lesbian Journalist Factory..."

          My God, it does sound sinister.

    2. trshmnster the terrible   10 years ago

      I want to write a response column called "ten things Sally kohn could have done with her spare time to help others rather than waste it on this awful article," but I don't have the time.

      1. GILMORE   10 years ago

        CROWD FUND IT!!

        9 things Sally kohn could have done with her spare time rather than waste it on this awful article

        #9 - Make me a sammich
        #8 - Audit an economics class so that in the future she cause less damage by spreading fiscal/financial illiteracy
        #7 - Shave her legs and donate the hair to cancer patients
        #6 - Reduce her carbon footprint by deleting all her prior written work from the intertubes, freeing up valuable electrons
        #5 - Give her cats to charity
        #4 - Provide a home for a Goat, which will replace her garbage disposal unit
        #3 - Work on her Cisgenderphobia = Volunteer at a Strip Club
        #2 - I'm still waiting on that sammich
        #1 - Improve her Ben Affleck impression

  30. Irish   10 years ago

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/192900.php

    In honor of Andrew Sullivan.

    "Andrew, I just wanted to compliment your bravery on your post "Bugs." You captured a feeling deep in the heart of this country, but which too many are afraid to express. When you write "Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!," you sum up the frustration of millions of Americans who are tired of seeing Bush/Cheney transdimensional parasitic beetles burrowing into their skulls and devouring their cortex fluid.
    And when you write "BugsBugsBugs! Shitbastard!," you give me hope that the incompetence of Donald Rumsfeld will one day come to an end, and that the nine foot tall centipede who has taken the place of my wife will finally be exposed as the Infiltrator Insect it is.

    Thank you for your courage and independence, and keep on bugsbugsbugsbubsbugs! Dirty ratwhore soup! Bugs!"

    "Thanks to reader "Good Andrew" for that, who is the "Other Andrew" who hides in my left eyeball when "Bad Andrew" is looking for him. "Bad Andrew" does... things to "Good Andrew." Terrible things.

    We must talk of this no more. He's coming.

    Oh, hi, Bad Andrew! I was thinking of you! I bought you some pants at the Gap!

    Why... why are you holding that meat-cleaver, Bad Andrew? Talk to me... I don't like it when you stare like that..."

  31. The Late P Brooks   10 years ago

    He is one or more of the following: 1) retarded, 2) naive. I think it's about 95% #1, 5% #2.

    Neither of those options excludes political appointee, I suspect.

    1. Kaptious Kristen   10 years ago

      *whistles a jaunty tune, looks at ceiling*

      (he came from the private sector via....drum roll...the White House!)

  32. Irish   10 years ago

    Attorney General nominee seems a little confused.

    "Well, Senator, I believe that the right and the obligation to work is one that's shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here. And certainly, if someone here, regardless of status, I would prefer that they be participating in the workplace than not participating in the workplace?"

    Cool. So if you support the right to work for illegal aliens, then surely you're in favor of right to work laws that stop unions from erecting barriers to entry, correct?

    Also, what's the 'obligation to work?' That sounds vaguely sinister.

    1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      Can't enslave people and toss them into slave-labor camps without them having a legal obligation to work. Laying the groundwork, people!

  33. Slammer   10 years ago

    Cat claws it's way out of the grave after 5 days of being buried

    Warning: graphic if you're a cat lover

    1. paranoid android   10 years ago

      Well, if the events of a Stephen King book had to play out in real life, I guess we're all lucky it was Pet Sematary instead of The Stand.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Poor Bart.

  34. Somalian Road Corporation   10 years ago

    S&P is apparently considering downgrading Greece's credit rating.

    There's a lot of idiocy on my Facebook right now by permanent postgrads who claim that "austerity" caused the Greek financial crisis. Now, you'd think that one of those liberal arts educations which supposedly "teaches you how to learn" would cover cause and effect, as in, the Greeks were already in a crisis before any of the laughable "austerity" requirements were imposed on the hundreds of billions of euros of bailout money they've received, but, hey, I guess not.

    In fairness some of them are just saying that austerity has made it worse, but of that lot they're also arguing that there's a direct correlation between government spending and the health of the economy. I attempted to trot out ye olde Soviet Union example, but, nope, it'll be different this time, promise!

    1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Syriza may be a Russian catspaw:

      Alarm bells ring over Syriza's Russian links

      1. Somalian Road Corporation   10 years ago

        Communists abroad taking orders from Moscow, eh?

        Annexing Ukrainian Lebensraum, funding US ecological groups who oppose fracking, now this. Putin's really going for that "hardest working man in show business" crown.

        1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

          Actually this makes sense. Peeling Greece off from Europe would complicate the attempts to build a natural gas pipeline around Russia.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            Boy, would I be doing that post-haste if I were Europe.

            1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

              They were:

              Trans Adriatic Pipeline

      2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        Huh. Well, not all of those KGB agents came home after the Iron Curtain collapsed.

    2. GILMORE   10 years ago

      "In fairness some of them are just saying that austerity has made it worse"

      because they way you "grow yourself out of a debt crisis"?

      PILE ON MORE DEBT

      The only thing their argument tells you is that they've never looked at the European economic issues any deeper than a Salon headline.

      They don't really understand how the EU debt crisis is partly the consequence of creating a financial union with a common currency, but no 'fiscal union', with common control mechanisms for debt and accounting. This basically made the entire EU bond market a recipe for ripping each other off = everyone's selling each other's State banks bonds while simultaneously hiding their own fiscal insolvency.

      They did all sign the Maastricht Treaty, but 'pledges' aren't worth shit when there's no disincentives to cheating.

      Basically, liberals seem to think that Enron-style financial gimmicks are *A-OK* for governments, but not actual private businesses which can go bankrupt.

    3. Puddin' Stick   10 years ago

      they're also arguing that there's a direct correlation between government spending and the health of the economy

      Well, if you use GDP as the measure of the health of the economy, then there is:

      GDP = business income + government spending + (exports - imports)

  35. The Late P Brooks   10 years ago

    Well, Senator, I believe that the right and the obligation to work is one that's shared by everyone in this country

    Finally! DoJ will be vigorously sweeping away pointless restrictions on entrepreneurship, from kids shoveling driveways to innovative internet middlemen transaction facilitators.

  36. The Late P Brooks   10 years ago

    they're also arguing that there's a direct correlation between government spending and the health of the economy.

    GDP cultists.

    Obsessed with the number, and not the actual phenomenon it represents.

  37. Winston   10 years ago

    This guy is Greece's new finance Minister: Yanis Varoufakis a self-described Libertarian Marxist.

    And from BBC:
    pledged to halt the full privatisation of Greece's biggest port, Piraeus Port Authority, a sale made as part of its international bailout.

    It also said it would also stop the planned sale of its 51% stake in Public Power Corporation of Greece, its biggest utility.

    Well I highly doubt these sales are free from corruption but...

    Mr Tsipras also plans to reinstate public sector employees deemed to have been laid off without proper justification and has announced rises in pension payments for retired people on low incomes.

    Already doubling down on Derp.

    1. Somalian Road Corporation   10 years ago

      Mr Tsipras also plans to reinstate public sector employees deemed to have been laid off without proper justification and has announced rises in pension payments for retired people on low incomes.

      Going to take a guess that "we have no fucking money to pay you with" is not considered "proper justification" for laying people off or cutting pensions.

    2. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is Valve's former Steam Market economist

      Greece will be leaving the Euro for a monetary system based entirely on trading cards and hats.

      1. rts   10 years ago

        I swear this wasn't here when I hit refresh.

    3. rts   10 years ago

      He was also Valve's Steam Market economist.

      1. GILMORE   10 years ago

        The Greek economy is sort of like Fallout.

        And his face?.... definitely looks related to Super-Mutant

        He should do fine as long as they can prevent unauthorized bottle-cap production.

        1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

          HATS! HATS FOR EVERYONE!

    4. GILMORE   10 years ago

      " a self-described Libertarian Marxist."

      I'm a self-described "7 foot, Heavily Muscled Viking God"

      on dating sites at least.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Points directly to how dishonest the left-wing are with themselves.

        Libertarian my ass.

  38. Matrix   10 years ago

    Little Johnny learned well from the government

  39. userve32   10 years ago

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  41. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

    Well, naturally he'd be the one writing the hagiography.

  42. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    You know, Power Glutes.

  43. BigT   10 years ago

    La Fin Du my marriage is more like it with that stuff.

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