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Obama Roasts Hillary Over Emails, Kerry Slapped by Assad and His Own Staff, College Students Like Guns: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 3.16.2015 4:30 PM

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    President Obama is the latest political figure to give Hillary Clinton the business over her email shenanigans. Though it's all in good fun. Of course.

  • Secretary of State John Kerry's remark that the U.S. might  be willing to talk with Syrian President for Life Bashar Assad was quickly "clarified" by the State Department, but not before it got Assad himself snorting that he didn't really give a damn what Kerry had to say.
  • With his appearance at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Sen. Rand Paul may or may not win over a traditionally Democratic crowd, but his outreach efforts win on the press attention front.
  • Emerging after a 10-day absence, perhaps from a coffin filled with the rich soil of mother Russia, Putin took up his duties and made jokes over press speculations about his health. The health status of his opponents is less amusing.
  • Brazilians are tiring of scandal-plagued President Dilma Rousseff. They've taken to the streets to ask her to quit.
  • It turns out that giving college students opportunities to shoot guns makes them much more enthusiastic about the things. Competitive shooting is booming (yes, it is) on campus.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Brazilians are tiring of scandal-plagued President Dilma Rousseff.

    They're not as tolerant as our voters here in the USA?

    1. DEG   10 years ago

      Looks like I tied you. Almost.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

        Look again.

        1. DEG   10 years ago

          Curses

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      A) Are we doing a NCAA pool this year?
      B) I'm a little wasted on - hang on don't have a grip on these German names - Hacker-Pschorr Weisse (traditional wheat) beer.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror, and said

        "Self?!? You aren't going to day drink today!! Do you understand?!?!"

        And yet here we are.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          I went cross-country skiing and said to myself, 'you deserve not any beer. GERMAN BEER.!'

          1. Sudden   10 years ago

            I just enjoyed myself a nice Brooklyn Lager on my lunch break. Now back to the grind.

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              Hipster.

              It's hot, and I don't have AC. A cold Dogfish Head seemed like the right thing to do.

              1. Sudden   10 years ago

                Is Brooklyn even distributed in California? I brought the sample 12-pack back from Vegas with me because I haven't seen it out here.

                And I suppose it's hipster because its brewed in Williamsburg. And because I'm drinking it downtown. And I have a beard now. My buddy out in Vegas was calling me a hipster this weekend. E Tu Playa?

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  If the beard fits.

                  It's not like you have a designer dog...

              2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                Every year on the beach in Delaware we drink (against beach rules) Dogfish and Newcastle.

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  Beach? Delaware?

                  *shakes head*

                  I got a keg of Newcastle for my kid's 5th birthday. It was much appreciated by all of the parents. I think that is the last time I've had it.

                  1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                    WEST COAST BIAS!

                    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      Yes. I suppose so.
                      My beach.

                    2. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

                      The good news: When California finally cracks and falls into the ocean it will be Nevada's beach.

                    3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      That's a very common misconception, Lady B.

                      SoCal will eventually be a peninsula, with water on all sides, thus increasing my property value even further.

                    4. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

                      If it has water on all sides, isn't it an island?

                    5. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      If it has water on all sides, isn't it a FUCK YOU SLOOPY?

                    6. Ornithorhynchus   10 years ago

                      The REAL Southern California is already a peninsula. What everybody keeps calling 'Southern California' is actually the middle part.

                      The US only acquired half of California back in 1848, and ever since then, Americans have tried to convince themselves it's the whole thing.

                  2. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

                    Way back when I was a magazine editor, Newcastle Ale had the back cover ad on our rag every month. They paid us in a combination of cash and cases. We had an old fridge in our offices that didn't have room for food because it was always completely full of Newcastle bottles.

                    As you can imagine, our editorial meetings always got more hilarious and disoriented after they exceeded 45 minuites, and production weekend was one long bender of nut brown beverages.

                    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      It's a calorie thing for me. I consider Newcastle to be a light beer, which means I have to drink a lot of them. That's too many calories.

                      8+% or GTFO

                    2. Elspeth Flashman   10 years ago

                      I worked for a weekly newspaper that had the back page "paid" by Founders Brewing when it was just begining. We had pallets delivered.

                  3. Bobarian (sexbot hand model)   10 years ago

                    Sending all the kids home tired and blitzed?

                    /contibuting to the delinquency of future libertarians?

                    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                      There are only a few places in town to have a decent kid's party. Only one of them allowed booze. It's a lot of fun when the parents start going down slides and getting rowdy in the ball pit.

                    2. Dry_Gin_Wet_Farts   10 years ago

                      The ball pit is fun until you hit pee.

                  4. OneOut   10 years ago

                    What did the 5 year olds think of it ?

            2. EDG reppin' LBC   10 years ago

              I drank a Firestone Walker rye IPA with lunch today. Pretty bitter, but delicious. I don't drink much beer.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                Bitter is what makes it so damn good. Did I mention that I like the taste of Asprin?

        2. Bobarian (sexbot hand model)   10 years ago

          This is the sole reason you put the mirror above your bed, right?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            I can't remember. I put it up when I was day drinking.

      2. DEG   10 years ago

        I'm a little wasted on - hang on don't have a grip on these German names - Hacker-Pschorr Weisse

        It's tough to go wrong with a German wheat beer, though it can be done.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It took me two minutes to type this sentence.

          1. Elspeth Flashman   10 years ago

            Drunken commenting is fun!

        2. Sudden   10 years ago

          I'm generally not a wheat beer fan. My exceptions are dunkelweiss and berlinerweiss (i love sours).

          1. DEG   10 years ago

            Dunkelweiss beers are good. I've never had a Berlinerweiss, though I have one in the queue in the cabinet.

      3. Whahappan?   10 years ago

        Double Dark Animator or GTFO.

    3. Bam!   10 years ago

      Fake scandals. Things are perfect when women are in charge. Anyone who disagrees is an intolerant caveman perpetrating abuse.

      1. Hyperion   10 years ago

        Well, besides Dilma stealing several billion dollars from Petrobras while she sat on the board there, and nearly ruining Brazil's economy over the last several years, everything is fine with her.

    4. Hyperion   10 years ago

      There were nearly 2 million protesters over the weekend. Almost all of my family there joined in the protests against Dilma and the PT.

      If Aecio Neves would have won the election, it would have been very good for Brazil. He may not be the best, but I can tell you with certainty he's better than Obama, a lot more pro-business.

  2. DEG   10 years ago

    Florida Man beer

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      That's only going to make Florida Man more powerful.

    2. Bobarian (sexbot hand model)   10 years ago

      Manbeerpig?

  3. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    President Obama is the latest political figure to give Hillary Clinton the business over her email shenanigans.

    Via the DoJ?

  4. rts   10 years ago

    Wonder what the China fellaters will think of this?

    China's Li Keqiang pledges to reduce government role in economy

    Premier Li Keqiang expressed determination Sunday to press ahead with reforms meant to reduce the Chinese government's role in the world's second-largest economy in hopes of spurring growth despite what he acknowledged would be pain for "vested interests" that benefit from regulation.

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen   10 years ago

      They'd say communism is withering away the state.

    2. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      And reforming their education system too. It's almost like they don't think of themselves as technocratic geniuses the way Tom Friedman does.

    3. HeteroPatriarch   10 years ago

      Is Friedman going to become a libertarian now?

      1. tarran   10 years ago

        Become? No.

        Claim to be one? Possibly. Friedman's muddled brain occasionally spits out random sentences that it thinks are profound. "Ich bin ein libertarian" is certainly within that set of possible random sentences.

        1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

          "The only thing worse than the one-party democracy of the Republicans, is the zero-party democracy of the libertarians." /friedmangenerator

        2. MJGreen   10 years ago

          If he were a dog, and libertarianism a wash rag, Friedman would be just as likely to ride the mango as Obama would be to sign a carbon trade agreement with Angola's allies.

          But don't count it.

        3. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

          I'm pretty sure "Thomas Friedman" is actually an Orangutan with an ergonomically adapted keyboard.

          1. Restoras, Comptroller-at-Large   10 years ago

            Why do you hate orangutans, Lady Bertrum?

          2. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

            It would have to an orangutan with a sense of humor who wanted to spoof the received wisdom of East Coast elites.

            But I think most orangutans have better things to do.

    4. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

      Once the fellating is, um, finished, they could take a brisk walk in the fresh air to clear their heads, or a quick swim to wash off that dirty feeling:

      http://www.boredpanda.com/pollution-china/

  5. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    ...but his outreach efforts win on the press attention front.

    Who will going forward make certain he never wins over a Democratic crowd ever.

  6. rts   10 years ago

    Canada could save billions of dollars by covering everybody for virtually every drug

    A universal prescription drug plan could reduce total spending on medications in Canada by billions and cover everyone at an affordable price for taxpayers, health policy researchers say.

    Magic!

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      God dammit this fucking country.

    2. Bam!   10 years ago

      Canada government says do drugs, kids!

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      "Government plan could save billions of dollars while keeping drug costs affordable, study suggests"

      Of course, once it becomes too expensive like anything else run by the government the researchers will say, "IT WAS JUST AN ACADEMIC SUGGESTION! You're the morons who listened to us!"

    4. Rich   10 years ago

      And what's magic only about *drugs*? Universal food and housing could save even *more*!

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        I truly am perplexed a politician hasn't pushed for universal food yet.

        I mean at this point...

        1. Bobarian (sexbot hand model)   10 years ago

          Quotas of rice and rat meat?

    5. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      Bend that cost curve!

    6. MJGreen   10 years ago

      What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with people?

    7. Brett L   10 years ago

      *by forbidding off-label or any other prescription not officially endorsed and permitted.

      Did the British NHS already do this. And they aren't dying in the streets -- just from neglect in hospitals.

  7. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    Nice work, Reason commenters. We had some troll attempts this weekend, but everyone did their part.

    Keep up the good work!

    *wipes tear from eye*

    1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      Speaking of this. Has Reasonable always had that hover feature, where hovering over the filtered comment shows why it was filtered, in case I want to view it? That's fabulous.

      1. tarran   10 years ago

        Yes.

    2. MJGreen   10 years ago

      I don't know, GKC got a lot of responses.

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

        *smooches*

        1. MJGreen   10 years ago

          Dude, gay.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        While I strongly disagree with his beliefs, they are sincere, and he isn't trying to troll.

        I went after him pretty hard a couple of weeks ago, and ended up going a little bit too far. So for the time being, I'm staying out of all matters Eddie.

        1. Warty   10 years ago

          He's witnessing to us. It's not trolling, strictly speaking, but it's not terribly polite either.

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

            I'd love to have you Joiiin Uuuus, but on only a couple occasions have I made a specifically proselytizing post.

            But I'll do one now - drop by your local Catholic church, talk to the priest, kick the tires, drop in on their RCIA classes, you might like it!

        2. MJGreen   10 years ago

          The off-topic posts about Lincoln and gay sex might qualify as trolling, but then those rarely get any kind of response.

          And I did enjoy the 'families are penalized by not getting a big enough tax credit' argument this weekend.

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

            I like doing deep-dish and Lincoln trolling, I usually wait for a gay article to discuss a gay topic, but maybe I slipped up a couple times.

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

              Oh, and circumcision.

              It's kind of post-modern trolling.

          2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            He often doesn't realize that he's doing it. That was my mistake, assuming that he does it on purpose.

            See above, er.. I mean supra.

            Warty: " but it's not terribly polite either"

            GKC: "But I'll do one now - drop by your local Catholic church, talk to the priest, kick the tires, drop in on their RCIA classes, you might like it!"

            1. Tonio   10 years ago

              He often doesn't realize that he's doing it.

              Maybe, maybe not. It's a short leap from sincere believer to True Believer.

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

        Every libertarian discussion board should adopt a SoCon troll. They like regular feeding, but they can provide lots of entertainment.

        1. Marshall Gill   10 years ago

          Who's posts would you rather read, Eddies or the shrieking imbeciles? Everything is about perspective.

          1. Tonio   10 years ago

            Ummm...

  8. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Competitive shooting is booming (yes, it is) on campus.

    Corresponding with the competitive police-calling clubs?

    1. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

      If I can get them to the range, every gun "control" argument disappears. Let 'em run through a box of nine millie and the scales are blasted from their eyes. I've had to replace my passenger seat several times because of the moisture.

    2. LarryA   10 years ago

      There's a small minority of bitter old white men* at MIT? Who knew?

      (* Cause we gotta bleve the survey. It's science!)

  9. Rich   10 years ago

    Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to 'Punish Climate-Change Deniers'

    He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers.

    Can we get a poll of Millenials about this?

    1. Bam!   10 years ago

      Religious zealot says something stupid, film at 11.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      I love that guy. Love him.

      I can't think of a single individual that could do more damage to the movement than Al Gore.

      1. mad.casual   10 years ago

        If "he" hadn't lashed it so thoroughly to *science as a whole* I would agree.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      We need to punish Al Gore.

      Now. To figure out the punishment...

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Take away all his petroleum-related things.

        1. Elspeth Flashman   10 years ago

          Wait, he gets credit, because . . . intentions, amiright?

      2. Dry_Gin_Wet_Farts   10 years ago

        Life with Tipper.

        1. Tonio   10 years ago

          My understanding is that she's kind of a party girl. Serious Dead Head, at least back in the day. Of course she is a scold and a moral panicker of the worst sort.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Fine, then. You first.

      3. John Titor   10 years ago

        Flood his beachfront property.

    4. tarran   10 years ago

      Oooooh!!!!!!

      We're going to be called out?!?!?

      That's scary!!!!

      Oh wait! It's climate change deniers he wants shamed! Is he referring to natural climate change deniers like himself? Or is there some other mythical sort that he's after?

    5. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

      Al Gore looks like he sweats gravy.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        That's used motor oil.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        ManBearPig makes for a very rich, gamey gravy.

      3. Brett L   10 years ago

        Suet

        1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          He's a walking, living haggis.

    6. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      It's almost like you guys don't agree with Ezra Klein that Al Gore should run for president.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        It's almost like you guys don't agree with Ezra Klein that Al Gore should run for president.

        Correct.

      2. Homple   10 years ago

        Say what you want about George Bush, he wasn't Al Gore and he wasn't John Kerry.

        And still isn't, I'm pretty sure.

    7. waffles   10 years ago

      Al Gore is kinda fat. I don't like fat people.

    8. MJGreen   10 years ago

      He has ridden the mighty moon worm!

    9. Brett L   10 years ago

      As soon as his personal power consumption is less than the city of Austin's, I'll start rethinking my position on Al Gore's credibility.

      1. DesigNate   10 years ago

        So much this^

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        That's just one of the gifts. There's the private jets and motorcades as well.

  10. Mike M.   10 years ago

    Left-wing Washington Post editorial board member Jonathan Capehart admits that "Hands Up Don't Shoot" was based on a lie.

    Gee whiz, thanks for that timely apologia there Einstein. You'll probably be shocked to know that some of us had that figured out months ago. Also, that's pretty rich considering it's coming from one of the typical media scumbags (that's you) responsible for perpetrating the lie around the entire country in the first place.

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

      "Through exhaustive interviews with witnesses, cross-checking their statements with previous statements to authorities and the media, ballistics, DNA evidence and results from three autopsies, the Justice Department was able to present a credible and troubling picture of what happened on Canfield Drive."

      Wow, if only we had private organizations willing to do that sort of investigative work, acting on deadline, so as to enlighten the public about controversial and disputed events involving the government!

      "More credible than the grand jury decision to not indict Wilson."

      Pull the other one. In what universe does a thorough state investigation have less credibility than the Obama administration?

      Shorter Capehart: I didn't do my job, I swallowed a bunch of lies - the same kind of ridiculous lies my paper discredited in the UVa case - and now Obama pulled the rug out from under me by exonerating the cop, so I have to eat my words, covering my retreat with a bunch of racial-justice rhetoric.

    2. Big Chief   10 years ago

      Overall the media do a good job. You just need to have a healthy skepticism when they write about science, religion, politics, or current events.

  11. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    Evangelicals Aim to Mobilize an Army for Republicans in 2016

    .......

    "They say you're anti-Israel," Mr. Lane said he told Mr. Paul when they met, and asked if he had ever been to Israel. When Mr. Paul said he had not, Mr. Lane, whose daughter now works for Mr. Paul, asked if the senator would be interested in going on a tour with evangelical leaders from Iowa and South Carolina.

    Two years ago, Mr. Paul, his wife, Kelley, and their sons joined about 50 pastors and evangelical leaders on the trip. Afterward, Mr. Lane said, he received a note from Mr. Paul in which he wrote that he had awaked from a dream singing "How Great Thou Art" and that two of his sons had committed their lives to Christ.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03.....pe=article

    1. SIV   10 years ago

      We need more SoCons like Rand Paul and his father.

  12. Jerry on the sea   10 years ago

    Remember that island in the South Pacific that was under treat of rising sea levels because of climate change? No worries, it got hit by a cyclone instead.

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      A cyclone caused by global warming, right?

      Fun fact: Without global warming, hurricanes would not exist.

      1. MJGreen   10 years ago

        Before climate change, we only had to deal with hurricanes. Now we have cyclones too!

  13. Rich   10 years ago

    Surrounding the Fed's policy meeting this week is the widespread expectation that it will no longer use the word "patient" to describe its stance on raising interest rates from record lows. The big question is: What will that mean?

    Many economists say the dropping of "patience" would signal that the Fed plans to start raising rates in June to reflect a steadily strengthening U.S. job market. Others foresee no rate hike before September. And a few predict no increase before year's end at the earliest.

    Would someone *kindly* explain WTF this word-parsing crap is all about? (And exactly what Janet Yellen *does*?)

    1. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      She occupies a position somewhere between court-jester, court-soothsayer, and court scape-goat.

    2. Brett L   10 years ago

      Brokers get paid when people trade. News outlets are entirely in the thrall of brokers. Therefore every Fed discussion must be carefully parsed to force as many suckers to make trades as possible.

    3. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

      The word-parsing is what happens when real power evaporates. People focus on the trivial because it's distracting and comforting.

      Think of the Fed as sorta like the guy who gives the monkeys at the zoo peanut treats. The guy has a big red button that releases peanuts into the monkey cage. The monkeys bang on the glass demanding more and when they get overly worked up the guy presses the button to quiet them down.

      So, Janet Yellen is a monkey trainer who's lost control of her monkeys.

      1. Brett L   10 years ago

        To be fair, Bernanke and Greenspan threw so many peanuts at the monkeys that she doesn't have any left. There's nothing left to do when you are creating money as fast as possible and the economy doesn't inflate.

        1. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

          Yes. It's only a matter of time until the monkeys start flinging their shit.

          1. Tonio   10 years ago

            And worse, they're nasty little creatures. Cute when things are going well, but smart enough that keeping them captive is creepy and difficult.

      2. BigT   10 years ago

        "So, Janet Yellen is a monkey "

        Enough, good lady, enough.

      3. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

        More that the quiver is empty and Grandpa Yellen has nothing but words to play with now. Any real rise in rates would crash the economy and that's treason in this modern .gov age. Any move towards NIRP would be a blatant admission of failure, and that's also treasonous behavior.

    4. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

      Interesting, because there's been the expectation by many that doctors should no longer use the word "patient" either.

      In our case it's because some language warriors feel a 'doctor-patient' relationship gives the 'doctor' too much power.

      So instead, we're supposed to be 'providers' now, and our patients are 'consumers.' This is how the very PC people speak now.

      Sometimes, I have to be alone with other docs in the charting room before we can feel comfortable enough around each other to utter such derogatory words as 'patient'.

    5. Big Chief   10 years ago

      She's a shaman.

  14. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

    NRA fears Grover Nordquist may be a secret muslim terrorist:

    Wayne assured me and asked me to convey to you, that he and the NRA are taking this very seriously. They are beginning an open and transparent investigation into these alleged ties and relationships and will provide the results to me, my audience and NRA Members.

    1. waffles   10 years ago

      Dude goes to burning man. It would be hard to be a secret muslim anything there. Although...

    2. Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

      Note to NRA web designer (reason squirrels pay attention): if you site requires a popup to tell people how to navigate your menu because you've hidden it in that pseudo mobile version of "clean" design, you're doing it wrong.

  15. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Here is the email I sent to the Turd Burglar mentioned in today's Brickbat:

    Great work, Batman
    Freaked out over a gun, huh? There, there. The bad, scary man and his wicked bang stick are far away now.

    We all know that criminals and mass shooters carry pistols on their hips where everyone can see them, so you did the right thing by calling the po-po.

    I can only wish that perhaps someday I could be as brave and mighty as you, o great hero of the University of Michigan Band Dept.

    Guns are like the ring of Sauron- no one can possess one without being corrupted by its evil aura. Except police, of course.

    BTW: If you're going to dox a guy, you should probably do a better job of scrubbing YOUR contact info from the web.

    Peace, Love, & Smooches

    1. Tonio   10 years ago

      What Daily Brickbat, Derpy.

      Good letter, though.

    2. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      This one: http://reason.com/blog/2015/03.....-s#comment

    3. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      Dipshit goes to Michigan, what did you expect?

    4. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Derp, you're the reason my daughter came to me and said, 'we should invent a drink called MOUNTAIN DERP.'

      I love that girl.

      1. Derpetologist   10 years ago

        And now you see why I became a derpetologist- to make a difference in the world.

      2. Rich   10 years ago

        Nice!

        "The choice of a stupid generation"

      3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Mountain Dew is perfect. Don't.

    5. Anomalous   10 years ago

      Good one.

    6. Paul.   10 years ago

      "Ask any "people" you'd like why they were concerned. I can tell you that I am concerned about firearms being brought into schools," he added.

      The ones that you can see or the ones that you can't?

  16. Thymirus   10 years ago

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....ement.html

    "The US won't let the UN look at prisons to investigate solitary confinement."

    I'm not sure why anybody puts any sort of faith into the United Nations. It's a self-deluded socialist's wet dream even in purest theory, and an utter abomination in reality.

    Allowing the United Nations on American soil is Satanically awful.

    I especially love the guy's bitching about our obligations as a member of the Human Rights Council. The irony stings.

    1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      While that's true, I have a strong feeling that if another country had the type of policing and jail conditions as we do in the US, there would be a large call, especially from the left, for tough sanctions (and possible military involvement).

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      I agree. Fuck the UN.

  17. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

    Repost from last night, because Sundays suck:

    The Guardian posted a piece about how Reddit is not censored to their liking.

    While it's not much different from other pieces in the genre, what I found notable is that in the graphic, "bad Reddit" includes "GentlemanBoners"* and "RandomSexyGIFS".

    Neither allows nudity. The former goes as far as to require that the women featured be wearing formal attire.

    So at The Guardian, it doesn't even have to be porn or deviant to be sinful.

    Also, Ellen Pao is hot.

    *So named because it was inspired by a subreddit called LadyBoners, which features pictures of men (so of course was not mentioned in the Guardian piece).

    1. Bam!   10 years ago

      Looking at women is ocular rape.

      1. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

        Maybe they could wear some sort of special garb that hides their figures?

        1. Bam!   10 years ago

          You're wrong. Women aren't the problem, men are. Men need to wear blinders at all times when in the presence of a woman.

          1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

            Wow...that's like the reverse Islam of Earth-29.

    2. John Titor   10 years ago

      What a surprise, zero mention of the subreddits tailored towards women and homosexuals that provide pornography.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        You missed out on a lot of nerdy time travel talk in the robot thread.

  18. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

    You know, I think maybe this contempt for John Kerry at last gives us middle ground for meaningful rapprochement with Assad. For I, too, don't give a damn what Kerry has to say.

  19. Mike M.   10 years ago

    American patient with Ebola at NIH downgraded from serious to critical condition.

    Whoa whoa, whoa. Number one, I thought the Ebola problem had been eradicated already and everyone was cured since the media basically disappeared all the coverage. Number two, I though it was basically impossible to get the disease in the first place.

    1. Bam!   10 years ago

      Number three, critical is better than serious?

      1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

        Downgraded means you've gotten worse. 'Critical' is the next rung down the ladder after 'serious', not much farther you can go after that and still be alive.

      2. DesigNate   10 years ago

        Downgraded means he got worse. Right?

        1. Steve G   10 years ago

          What, this is like when my wife tells me to turn down the A/C. Does that mean make it colder or make it warmer??!? Gah!

    2. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      Careful, I think that scarecrow is stuffed with ebola contaminated straw!

  20. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

    For hockey fans. IT'S HAMMOND TIME! Now is this a mask or what?

    http://www.cbssports.com/nhl

  21. Jerry on the sea   10 years ago

    Venezuela: President Maduro granted power to govern by decree.

    1. Bam!   10 years ago

      Obama looks on in envy.

      1. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

        Give 'em a break. They're working around the clock to create Shaddam I:

        http://www.zerohedge.com/news/.....te-its-foi

    2. Tonio   10 years ago

      And how is that effectively different from how things were before. I love how dictatorships go through the motions of rule of law, elections, etc.

      1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        It's a sign that the leadership is dumber and more arrogant. Augustus took over and ran as an autocrat, but he hid it all under the auspices of constitutional rule. His successors got increasingly bad at doing that. Of course, much later, the autocracy was firmly established and everyone stopped resisting.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Thing is, Augustus was competent. Which we can't say about these idiots.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            I dunno what happened to the fascist left, but they sure like showing their tyrant-wannabe hands nowadays. That's not the best way to seize power.

    3. PRX   10 years ago

      thanks a lot joe

    4. Brett L   10 years ago

      Apparently, they just weren't hitting it hard enough.

    5. paranoid android   10 years ago

      Sean Penn hardest hit.

  22. Thymirus   10 years ago

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015.....p=HPBucket

    "Restroom at an Indiana Wal-Mart closed indefinitely after backpack meth lab is found inside."

    "MUNCIE, Ind. ? A restroom at a Wal-Mart in eastern Indiana has been closed indefinitely after an employee discovered a working meth lab inside.

    State police say a Wal-Mart employee alerted police after seeing a man he described as suspicious enter the restroom about 11:30 p.m. Thursday with a backpack and leave without it. The Star Press reports (http://bit.ly/18o9m0E ) that members of a state police meth suppression team removed the dangerous chemicals.

    Delaware County Health Department inspectors closed the restroom and a nearby women's restroom until they could be "decontaminated" by a professional cleaning company."

    --------------------

    He's in the empire business.

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      Suspicious?

      Was it this guy?

      1. Anomalous   10 years ago

        Drugs and acahol have ruined mah life!

  23. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Spot the Not: Che T-shirt... I mean Guevara

    1. My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands!

    2. Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

    3. Political power springs forth from the barrel of a gun.

    4. Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.

    5. Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

    6. Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates.

    1. Mike M.   10 years ago

      Number three is from that other commie hero Mao Tse Tung. I know this from my Civilization IV playing days.

      1. Andrew S.   10 years ago

        Civ V taught me that Gandhi is a warmongering maniac. I wouldn't trust that game when it comes to history.

        1. John Titor   10 years ago

          The 'Gandhi is a bastard' joke has been in Civilization since the first one, where there was a bug in a mechanic where he was supposed to be really peaceful.

          1. Dry_Gin_Wet_Farts   10 years ago

            I always randomize the personalities, and Gandhi is still the biggest prick.

          2. Restoras, Comptroller-at-Large   10 years ago

            I'll bet it was Ghandi Phalanxes that kept defeating my battleships!

    2. Tonio   10 years ago

      Damn, Derpy, you're good. Not familiar enough with Guevara to venture a guess, but you did use the "acrid odor of gunpowder" quote in the AM links, so presuming that one is legit.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Careful, Tonio. He's probably used "the smell of napalm" at some point, too.

    3. Thymirus   10 years ago

      The third is Chaircunt Mao, isn't it?

    4. Warty   10 years ago

      5 sounds a little too self-aware to be real.

    5. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      Fun fact: Che's last words were not the defiant "Go ahead and shoot, coward. You will only kill a man."

      According to a Bolivian general present, his last words were "I am Che Guevara and I have failed."

      Another said his last words were #4 above.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Either way he was a scumbag. Mona from 'Soap' was braver.

        She's still alive by the way.

    6. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Mike M. ruined it for me.

    7. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      I'll call this one since 2 have already guessed correctly. The Not is #3 and it is indeed from Scare-man Mao.

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

      I think 3 is Mao, so I'll say it's the not

  24. Rich   10 years ago

    ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield?

    The men put on makeup, wore dresses and some even wore women's bras. Others chose not to shave their facial hair, though still applied eyeliner, eyeshadow and blush. It is unclear what will be the fate of the Islamic State members now that they are in police custody.

    It is clear, however, what will be the fate of their rectums.

    1. Thymirus   10 years ago

      "You're hereby sentenced to a lifetime of hourly cavity violations, to be carried out by a Bubba of our chosing. God have mercy on your rectal soul."

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

        If this is true, and not just war propaganda by their opponents, then it is a welcome development and should subject them to much mockery.

    2. DesigNate   10 years ago

      Isn't it against Islamic law for a man to dress as a woman? Cause if so, the hypocrisy is hilarious.

    3. Andrew S.   10 years ago

      The truthfulness of that notwithstanding, that may be the single worst comment section I've ever seen on the internet. Holy shit.

      1. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

        Wow...

    4. Trouser-Pod   10 years ago

      He's an ISIS fighter/and he's OK
      He kills all night/ and he prays all day

  25. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

    Poles Steel for Battle, Fearing Russia Will March on Them Next

    For evidence of how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has jangled nerves and provoked anxiety across Eastern Europe, look no farther than the drill held the other day by the Shooters Association.

    The paramilitary group, like more than 100 others in Poland, has experienced a sharp spike in membership since Mr. Putin's forces began meddling in neighboring Ukraine last year.

    Thirty students took an oath to defend Poland at all costs, joining nearly 200 other regional members of the association ? young men and women, boys and girls ? marching in formation around the perimeter of the dusty high school courtyard here. They crossed Polish Army Boulevard and marched into the center of town, sprawling in four long lines along the edge of St. Joseph's Square.

    Gen. Boguslaw Pacek, an adviser to the Polish defense minister and the government's chief liaison with these paramilitary groups, marched with them. He has been making the rounds in recent months of such gatherings: student chapters like this one, as well as groups of veterans, even battle re-enactors.

    1. Thymirus   10 years ago

      Poland's safe. An invasion of Poland, since it's part of NATO, constitutes a declaration of war upon the United States. Putin can try, the motherfucker. but he won't.

      1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        I guess if I were Polish I might be concerned about whether the U.S. would face up against an invasion of Poland, given that the U.S. provided security guarantees to Ukraine (in exchange for giving up its nukes) that weren't worth too much.

        1. Thymirus   10 years ago

          I'm unsure, to be honest. On one hand, the idea that the United States would abandon NATO in the event of Russian aggression strikes me as mathematically impossible and unconscionable. On the other hand, Obama's government is cowardly, retarded, and immoral to its very core, and were such an invasion to occur, there's a good chance, however much I'd love to be in denial about it, that we'd be horribly disappointed. Obama's progressive hellspawn, so I sure as hell don't put it past him to let Poland burn, though I'm ever the optimist.

          1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

            I honestly don't know what this government would do.

            1. Brett L   10 years ago

              Wait to see which side had the better PR campaign.

              1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                Well, does Putin or Merkel poll better in the U.S. among Democrats?

          2. Warty   10 years ago

            Even Obama couldn't let that slide.

            1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

              Oh, I'm sure stern words would be issued. Of course, Poland is different than Ukraine in that I'm not sure the Russians could actually win. And Europe would sure the fuck wake up if that happened.

              1. Restoras, Comptroller-at-Large   10 years ago

                We would do nothing.

                Europe might wake up - but then what are they gonna do? Issue their own strongly worded statement?

                1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                  You know, I'm not sure Germany couldn't defeat Russia head-to-head in a conventional war right now.

                  1. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

                    The Germans could just sweep the Rooskies away with their Brooms of Might +2.

                    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....4352358293

              2. Lady Bertrum   10 years ago

                Haven't we btdt already?

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63DPFxZ4Ns

            2. tarran   10 years ago

              Even Obama couldn't let that slide.

              Snort!!!!!

              1. Warty   10 years ago

                You think? As much as he might want to, I don't see any way he'd feel he could weasel out of NATO obligations.

                1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                  What are we going to do to him, not re-elect him? Impeach him?

          3. grrizzly   10 years ago

            It seems inconceivable that Russia would invade Poland. That is just too much. A more plausible scenario would involve "protecting Russian-speaking minorities" in the east of Estonia and Latvia. Will Nato start a full-fledged war with Russia for a small territory where ethnic Russians constitute the majority of the population?

    2. John Titor   10 years ago

      Given Poland's long, long history of being fucked over by the Russians, Germans, Austrians, or a combination of the three, I'm amazed the whole country isn't surrounded by bunkers manned 24 hours a day.

      1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

        They fucked up. They trusted us.

        1. Restoras, Comptroller-at-Large   10 years ago

          ^^Yeah, this, but I'm guessing they have a manpower problem.

  26. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Hank Hill listens to ISIS music:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gI1XrnPCw

  27. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    Federal agencies made $125 billion in improper payments last year, including tax credits to people who didn't qualify, Medicare payments for treatments that might not be necessary and unemployment benefits for people who were actually working, said a government report released Monday.

    The level of improper payments was a new high after several years of declines. In addition to fraud, the errors included overpayments and underpayments, as well payments made without proper documentation.

    While the errors were spread among 22 federal agencies, three programs stood out: Medicare, Medicaid and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....r-29677793

    Cut some spending, GOP!! For once!! Quit dicking around with Hil-Dog and letters to Mullahs!!

    Nawww. Won't happen.

    1. Thymirus   10 years ago

      How many different medications are you prescribed when you visit the pediatrician?

    2. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      Social Security has no death record for 6.5 million people who would be at least 112 years old, according to a report by the agency's inspector general.

      In reality, only a few could possibly be alive. As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world.

      1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

        Social Security has no death record for 6.5 million people who would be at least 112 years old

        Curiously, however, there were voting records available for all 6.5 million of these people, who all had recently registered as Democrats in states with no voter ID requirements.

    3. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      Mr. Hopey Changey promised to curb waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare - color me shocked that it hasn't happened.

    4. Brett L   10 years ago

      What I love about the GOP being back in control is how much more libertarian (well, anti-govnance by the heretics) you suddenly become.

    5. Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

      So who's in charge of the executive branch again?

  28. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Just think- the next election could feature Gore vs. a different Bush!

    Maybe there will be another recount!

    OH, JOY!

  29. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    Bradley Cooper's girlfriend is smoking hot (pic linked):

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....lp00000592

    Suki Waterhouse

  30. Warty   10 years ago

    GENERATION WAR! GO!

    Researchers at Princeton-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) expected it to be when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Sponsored by the OECD, the test was designed to measure the job skills of adults, aged 16 to 65, in 23 countries.

    When the results were analyzed by age group and nationality, ETS got a shock. It turns out, says a new report, that Millennials in the U.S. fall short when it comes to the skills employers want most: literacy (including the ability to follow simple instructions), practical math, and ? hold on to your hat ? a category called "problem-solving in technology-rich environments."

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      Think you're smarter than a Millennial?

      Take the test.

    2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

      It's because of their inferior video games. All they play now are FPS games. They grow weak.

      1. John Titor   10 years ago

        We need more games that require keyboard diagrams to know how to play.

        1. Warty   10 years ago

          That fucking game was the fucking shit.

        2. Hamster of Doom   10 years ago

          If you aren't using both hands and all fingers, you're not really involved.

    3. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      Young cone, let me tell you. I used to walk 7 zerls, knee-deep in farthrite crystals to one-room daladala center...

      /conehead sketch

    4. Brett L   10 years ago

      "He say Millenials have low IQ. "

    5. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

      We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume it must be true.

      From my experience, my fellow younguns are not "tech savvy". They simply have slightly less learned helplessness around tech than old people.

      Also, the way the report is formatted/laid out is stupid. I skimmed it and the whole way it's being spun is mildly stupid, but I don't really want to get into it.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        That's what I was getting at - it's thinly veiled Kidsthesedaysism.

        1. John   10 years ago

          Yeah. It has always been spoon fed to them. Just because you can play Play Station doesn't mean you know how it works.

  31. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    Someone should make a movie about Felix Rodriguez, the CIA spook who captured Che Guevara. Mostly because his life story is interesting and also to hear the howling from the Che-loving pinkos.

    He even has Guevara's Rolex in his possession. Now that's a trophy.

  32. Warty   10 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-uzN8gH5fs

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      Oh goddammit. How'd I fuck that up? Fuck preview for not working.

      Trying again: Puscifer

      1. Carl ?s the level   10 years ago

        I used to really dig Tool/APC/Puscifer, but lately I'm not as keen on Keenan.

  33. Butler   10 years ago

    Most transparent administration in history.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/...../24844253/

    1. Wicked Skin   10 years ago

      It's a good thing I've chosen to be apolitical or this would piss me off. Rather than giving a shit about what those fuck heads in Washington do or do not do, my only mission is to avoid all contact with government at every level.

    2. bodenlosen Schweinerei   10 years ago

      I knew I should have scrolled down further. I'm such a naughty.

  34. Ted S.   10 years ago

    One party to the contract has a sob story and the other is easy to hate on, so Chuck Schumer says fuck contract law.

    How is this not an unconstitutional interference in contracts? And when will the federal government forgive the tax liens of the deceased?

    OK, I know the answer to the latter question.

    1. John   10 years ago

      I am all for buyer be ware. The problem is when the lender buys off the government to get the loans guaranteed and then the recipient of the loan buys off the government to get the loan amounts raised so they can raise their prices way above market, I say fuck the whole lot of them. I have no sympathy for anyone in higher ed or the student loan business. They are all a bunch of crooks who deserve to lose their money.

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        OMG, JOHN WANTS TO NATIONALIZE THE BANKS!!! DERP!!!

    2. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      If the borrower on a student loan is dead, does is matter if the loan is forgiven? What exactly is the penalty for default? They repossess his brain? The corpse gets a bad credit score?

      1. OneOut   10 years ago

        No. The parent/family co-signers do.

        1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

          Oh. It's not, strictly speaking, a student loan then, is it?

    3. OneOut   10 years ago

      The obvious answer to this is STUDENT LOAN INSURANCE .

      Just like mortgage insurance it will solve that problem and create new avenues for big bank revenues.

      Problem solved, as long as it is MANDATORY.

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        More seriously, why not just get a term life policy for the sum of the student loan? Do you know how dirt cheap term life insurance for someone that age is?

  35. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    I can't remember who was self-appointed colonel.

    As you were.

  36. Warty   10 years ago

    We're all Kentucky Colonels here, right?

  37. Sudden   10 years ago

    RC

  38. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    He said punishment. Gore would almost certainly like that, the sick bastard.

  39. Form 27B/6   10 years ago

    "Release the Second Chakra!"

  40. Andrew S.   10 years ago

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. The 8th Amendment exists for a reason, you know.

    (I'll leave it up to you to decide which one of them would be getting the cruel and unusual punishment)

  41. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

    Oddly this reply was filtered for the use of the word "gambol". That reference must be before my time

  42. Mad Scientist   10 years ago

    Count your blessings.

  43. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    You don't want to know.

  44. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

    Dammit MedPhysGuy, there's a reason that's filtered. It triggers really bad memories for people.

    Think of all the people you've othered by your blunder.

  45. Notorious G.K.C.   10 years ago

    What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?

  46. Brett L   10 years ago

    A friend of mine is. Apparently, making a good impression on a Kentucky state representative is all it takes. I was disappoint

  47. Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

    Reason Colonels are a step above Kentucky Colonels and Nebraska Admirals.

  48. Trouser-Pod   10 years ago

    Where the girls have two lips that...

  49. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

    Heh.

  50. Warty   10 years ago

    I would absolutely go by Colonel Warty if I were a Kentucky Colonel. I'd get a belt buckle that said Colonel. I'd have business cards that said Colonel. I would drive a sparkly-painted Cadillac with license plates that said COLONL. I'd open a strip club by some train tracks in the woods outside of town and call it The Colonel's. In conclusion, If I were a Kentucky Colonel I'd let people know I was a Kentucky Colonel.

  51. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

    Did you hear about the woman in the army who went to bed eating popcorn and woke up with a kernel between her legs?

  52. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

    And you'd sip lemonade on the porch and say, "Beauregard!"

  53. Warty   10 years ago

    Related: hilarious mint julep recipe

    March 30, 1937

    My dear General Connor,

    Your letter requesting my formula for mixing mint juleps leaves me in the same position in which Captain Barber found himself when asked how he was able to carve the image of an elephant from a block of wood. He replied that it was a simple process consisting merely of whittling off the part that didn't look like an elephant.

    The preparation of the quintessence of gentlemanly beverages can be described only in like terms. A mint julep is not the product of a FORMULA. It is a CEREMONY and must be performed by a gentleman possessing a true sense of the artistic, a deep reverence for the ingredients and a proper appreciation of the occasion. It is a rite that must not be entrusted to a novice, a statistician, nor a Yankee. It is a heritage of the old South, an emblem of hospitality and a vehicle in which noble minds can travel together upon the flower-strewn paths of happy and congenial thought.

    So far as the mere mechanics of the operation are concerned, the procedure, stripped of its ceremonial embellishments, can be described as follows:

  54. Elspeth Flashman   10 years ago

    Isn't there another reason why the license plate would say "COLONL" ?

  55. Brett L   10 years ago

    Pronounced: bee-gar

  56. Warty   10 years ago

    Go to a spring where cool, crystal-clear water bubbles from under a bank of dew-washed ferns. In a consecrated vessel, dip up a little water at the source. Follow the stream through its banks of green moss and wildflowers until it broadens and trickles through beds of mint growing in aromatic profusion and waving softly in the summer breezes. Gather the sweetest and tenderest shoots and gently carry them home. Go to the sideboard and select a decanter of Kentucky Bourbon, distilled by a master hand, mellowed with age yet still vigorous and inspiring. An ancestral sugar bowl, a row of silver goblets, some spoons and some ice and you are ready to start.

    In a canvas bag, pound twice as much ice as you think you will need. Make it fine as snow, keep it dry and do not allow it to degenerate into slush.

    In each goblet, put a slightly heaping teaspoonful of granulated sugar, barely cover this with spring water and slightly bruise one mint leaf into this, leaving the spoon in the goblet. Then pour elixir from the decanter until the goblets are about one-fourth full. Fill the goblets with snowy ice, sprinkling in a small amount of sugar as you fill. Wipe the outsides of the goblets dry and embellish copiously with mint.

  57. Warty   10 years ago

    Then comes the important and delicate operation of frosting. By proper manipulation of the spoon, the ingredients are circulated and blended until Nature, wishing to take a further hand and add another of its beautiful phenomena, encrusts the whole in a glittering coat of white frost. Thus harmoniously blended by the deft touches of a skilled hand, you have a beverage eminently appropriate for honorable men and beautiful women.

    When all is ready, assemble your guests on the porch or in the garden, where the aroma of the juleps will rise Heavenward and make the birds sing. Propose a worthy toast, raise the goblet to your lips, bury your nose in the mint, inhale a deep breath of its fragrance and sip the nectar of the gods.

    Being overcome by thirst, I can write no further.

    Sincerely,
    S.B. Buckner, Jr.

  58. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

    Beauregard!

  59. Emmerson Biggins   10 years ago

    thats some good shit there man.

  60. Homple   10 years ago

    Needs a bowstring warning?

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