Rand Paul Surges as Hillary Slips, Latest Shooting Fuels Body Camera Debate, Gun Control Talk Drives Production Boom: P.M. Links

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  After announcing his presidential candidacy, Sen. Rand Paul surges in the polls, giving a slipping Hillary Clinton a run for her (foreign) money.

• With its funding dwindling, Obamacare advocacy group Enroll America slashes staff. Hmmm…Maybe they should sign their finances up for a bronze plan.
• The debate over making cops wear body cameras heats up in the wake of the recorded (by a bystander) shooting of Walter Scott by lying sack of shit former Officer Michael Thomas Slager.
• Thank you, oh fearful opponents of an armed populace! You drove U.S. firearm manufacturing to a record 10.8 million guns in 2013—doubling production in three years.
• The U.S. considers dropping Cuba from the list of terrorism sponsors, easing closer to normalizing relations between the countries.
• The Internal Revenue Service wants more money and staffers to inflict the tax system on us. Uh huh. Fuck off.
• Former Republican Rhode Island senator, turned independent governor, Lincoln Chafee wants to run for president as a Democrat. Yeah, we don't care either.
• FEMA wants to require state governments to estimate future risks associated with climate change. Yes, really. (HT: Almanian)

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[rts]

Canadian man aims to break world record with ridiculously big Nicolas Cage face

"I want what you want; a 21,646-square metre mosaic of Nicolas Cage," reads the freshly-launched Kickstarter campaign trying to make this happen. "The current Guinness World Record for largest photo mosaic has 176,000 photos held by Transitions Optical. I think we all can agree that Nicolas Cage deserves to hold that record."

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hello.

We're so weird.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Yes you are.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

You're jammin' me.

[Pan Zagloba]

I'd object, but I just read this out in a Bob & Doug accent, and yeah, it's bang-on.

"The current Guinness World Record for largest photo mosaic has like176,000 photos held by Transitions Optical. I think we all can agree that Nicolas Cage deserves to hold that record, eh?"

[Andrew S.]

http://www.reddit.com/r/onetruegod

[Mickey Rat]

You obviously have no idea what I want.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Why Cage? Why not some great Canadian, like Justine Bieber or Celine Dion?

[GILMORE]

Joe Biden = Iraq Now More Unified Now Because of ISIS

Iraqi Tribal Leaders = Iraq is Permantently Fragmented, 'Finished' as a Country, Because of ISIS

[Andrew S.]

I so want Biden to run in 2016. I want him to be the Democratic nominee, and I want Rand Paul to be the Republican nominee, and I want to see those debates. It would be the greatest thing ever.

[Atanarjuat]

Biden would be convinced he won, no matter what.

[C. Anacreon]

Everyone thought Paul Ryan would kill Biden in a debate, but Uncle Joe more than held his own and many said he won it. I think if he only has to concentrate for 45 minutes he can pull it off. Of course, that was three years and millions of brain cells ago......

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

That was very carefully scripted. I want to see Grandpa Joe unleashed.

[robc]

Why can't they both be right?

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

The fragments are more unified than ever?

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

It might be more unified if one side wins so convincingly that the other side gets totally ethnically cleansed.

I'm going to guess that is not a conclusion Biden would support, however.

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

I'm going to guess that is not a conclusion Biden would understand, however.

[Rich]

More on Joe:

Biden apparently put a baby's pacifier in his mouth

*Please* let him be re-elected VP!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Former Republican Rhode Island senator, turned independent governor, Lincoln Chafee wants to run for president as a Democrat. Yeah, we don't care either.

A man for those who think Jeb Bush isn't WASP-y enough.

[C. Anacreon]

Call me Lincoln Chap-Stick! (skis away)

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

*golf clap*

[Robert]

Easy path to the nomination, I guess. Seriously, everybody's just been waiting for whoever to step up & knock Hillary out of consider'n. Only thing is, as soon as she's knocked out, everybody else jumps in too.

[Bam!]

Thank you, oh fearful opponents of an armed populace! You drove U.S. firearm manufacturing to a record 10.8 million guns in 2013?doubling production in three years.

Come on down to Gunthers Guns.

[tardisisbiggerontheinside]

You know what else helped? Fear, and Massive, huge marketing by the gun lobby, NRA and wholesalers.
(Obamas gonna git your guns, stock up! ) etc.
Not choosing sides, or saying its right or wrong, in fact dont really care.

[Trouser-Pod]

Massive, huge marketing by the gun lobby, NRA and wholesalers.

It's almost as if the gun grabbers* gave them ammunition...

*that would include Obama

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Do you have a tard newsletter that I can subscribe to?

[Trouser-Pod]

You know, after reflecting on it, I could have gone with:

You know what else helped? Fear, and Massive, huge marketing by the gun lobby, NRA and wholesalers efficiency! And, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

[PRX]

You know what else helped besides fear? fear.

you said fear twice. you like fear? you know who else liked fear?

it's fear all the way down. til you get to the shoulder thing that goes up.

[Florida Man]

You mean predator's energy weapon? Sweet!

[Trouser-Pod]

+1, in the 40-watt range

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

Just what you see, pal!

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

What about ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms?

[Trouser-Pod]

Great minds, great hands!

[Andrew S.]

JD, between the link sarcasm and the alt text, this may be the greatest collection of Lynx ever seen on this site. Take a bow.

[Raven Nation]

J.D. unleashes some pretty aggressive commentary in the links.

[Hamster of Doom]

Maybe he's having A Moment. As opposed to a... moment.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Especially the hat tip. Who does that guy think he is?

[The Laconic!]

I know. I can pretty much tell now just by looking at the commentary whether it's Too-chiles. Or the first few sentences of a post.

[GILMORE]

New York Times = No One Will Vote For Rand Paul Because Libertarians Are A Small Minority

Poll = Rand Paul Beating Clinton In Colorado, Iowa, Despite Lower Name-Recognition

[Pro Libertate]

It must be hard for them, sorting out all of their delusions.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Is there a political group in America currently not attacking Rand Paul?

[Pro Libertate]

No, and it's beautiful. I don't think they all realize how much that beefs him up. "Look, they all hate me, and you hate them."

[gaijin]

I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes alot of sense.

[Pro Libertate]

I think a lot of voters want a real maverick, not the fake ones we've seen before, or the insane ones like McCain. Paul has excellent credentials for that already. As does Cruz, I suppose, though he's not as good for our purposes.

[Crusty Juggler]

And very few voters like the media, so I think the more shit he gives them the better it will be for him.

[Puddin' Stick]

Reminds me of the reporters saying things like "people are panicking to escape" in front of film of people calming filing out.

[C. Anacreon]

I love how all the comments in our local Bay Area paper's online story about Paul running essentially say he "comes from the batshit-crazy wing of the Republican Party".

I wish I could ask these people to give one example of anything he's said that's even remotely "crazy". Against the statism they hold dear, perhaps -- but not the words of a drooling lunatic, far as I can tell.

Slate or Salon did a piece on how Paul's idea for 'Free Enterprise Zones' would lead to a 'dangerous, deranged Ayn Rand-style future." Good grief, can't have free markets and wealth, wouldn't that be terrible for the poor and minorities?

[Pro Libertate]

He should couch it in terms of Five-Year Plans or New Economic Policies. Then they'd be happy.

[Suthenboy]

Free Enterprise Zones would mean fewer poor and less people clinging to minority status. Those are the life blood of the left, so yeah, it scares them.

[Pro Libertate]

How many leftwingers would push a button that would simultaneously end all poverty and the Democratic party?

[Zunalter]

Is there a single R presidential candidate that they WOULDN'T say that about?

I am sure they said the same thing about Mitt Romney, so who cares?

[robc]

Despite or because of?

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

Those aren't really mutually exclusive. Paul isn't running as a libertarian, he's running as a libertarian/conservative hybrid.

The New York Times is saying Paul can't win as a libertarian and the fact Paul isn't running as one tells me he agrees.

[GILMORE]

I agree, your version is funnier

[Pro Libertate]

It is truly remarkable that the Democrats aren't pulling out the stops to get other candidates to announce. Clinton is toast, and they're total fools to ignore that.

[Statutory Ape]

Wait...Rand Paul is a libertarian again? Does it alternate days, or what?

[Sudden]

Remember how I said that Hillary was an albatross that will weight her party down until they drop her for Lizzie Warren?

Jesse, get ready to whip out that $20.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'll whip out something all right.

[Sudden]

Yes you will. And his name is Andrew Jackson.

In either event, whatever you whip out will be responsible for a trail of tears.

[Dweebston]

*claps excitedly*

[jesse.in.mb]

Tears of joy

[Rich]

the shedding of more than 900 IRS jobs in Utah alone

WTF?! Just how many people "work" at the IRS?

[Xeones]

One is too many.

[HeteroPatriarch]

No, I think one is about right. A single career-transition facilitator. Who decides whether each agent can be rehabilitated as a productive member of society or just needs to be tossed into a volcano.

[Xeones]

Hell, i'd do that on a volunteer basis.

[Xeones]

Spoiler alert: they're ALL going into the volcano.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

We're gonna need a few more volcanoes.

[jesse.in.mb]

Wait is Xeones an alternate spelling for Xenu?

All hail the Overlord!

[Mickey Rat]

Come on, how many of them are just henching to make ends meet?

[Sevo]

About half?

[Puddin' Stick]

About 94.5K a couple years ago. Probably more now.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

In this corner in the gold and red trunks we have Aaron Goldin....and in...that corner we have, er, Al Gore...in a spiffy speedo.

"Aaron Goldin this week won the grand prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology for his invention that harnesses the ocean -- 70 percent of the world's surface -- to create energy.

"I call [it] 'gyro-gen,' and it generates electricity from the power of rolling ocean surface waves," said the 17-year-old high school student from Encinitas, Calif.

"...I hope in the future to see not just solar, not just wind, not just ocean or nuclear power but as many ideas as possible, some things that we may not even realize now would be a possible source of energy," he said. "I think that anything new is valuable."

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Pers.....amp;page=1

[Kaptious Kristen]

Pretty sure I saw the same invention on Shark Tank

[Spoonman.]

Does it produce gold as a waste product?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

POINT IS WE NEED MORE AARON'S AND LESS THE OTHER GUY!

[Zunalter]

But if we dont have Al Gore, who will tell us that the Earth has a fever?

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

The Internal Revenue Service wants more money and staffers to inflict the tax system on us.

They're hoping to get Cuba's place on the list. With just a little nudge, they'll be over the top.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

Fuck you, cut spending...and the code.

[Pro Libertate]

Exactly when are the prosecutions going to begin?

[GILMORE]

Obama = Sorta Pretending to Give a Shit about Black People Again, but Not Really

"Some analysts say a key reason why Washington is suddenly paying attention to the Caribbean Basin is it wants to wean the islands off dependence on cut-rate Venezuelan oil that Caracas has long used to wield influence in the region."

He also visited Bob Marley's Grave. NYT will likely describe something as "Historic" soon.

[Kaptious Kristen]

That fucker paying any homage to Bob Marley makes him an even bigger hypocrite than he already is.

[Enough About Palin]

To be fair to our Choomer in Chief, Bob Marley 's music trumps his weed use by an incalculable number.

[BakedPenguin]

Bad link. Hopefully, this'll work.

Jamaica's Prime Minister looks like Obama in drag.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Michelle?

[Rich]

Weird.

[BakedPenguin]

Seriously, doesn't that look like a still from a bad comedy where the lead also plays a character in drag?

[C. Anacreon]

It really does. I laughed so loud my secretary just came in to ask what was so funny. She's African-American and a big Obama fan, so I thought it better just to say 'inside joke.'

[Heroic Mulatto]

That goes into the "C. Anacreon" blackmail file...

[seguin]

...is she hot?

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Salon headline just possibly drifts into hyperbole.

Our coming theocratic hell: Look out, the right's "religious freedom" push is just the beginning

Bonus points for kkkorporations!

Yet the real menace to our priceless heritage of secular governance comes from the Supreme Court, which a year ago (in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby) ruled that corporations, on the basis of their religious convictions (yes, the Court decided corporations have those), can exempt themselves from the Affordable Care Act's relevant articles and refuse to pay for contraceptives in their employee health plans. (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her dissent, warned that this was a "decision of startling breadth," and she was right.) If a case involving a new manifestation of such legislation (say, the Arkansan RFRA) ever lands before the nine-member Roberts Court, its five conservative justices will no doubt adjudicate in favor of the faithful ? and against rationalists who hold that religion, in no shape or form, should be allowed to infect our legal system. What is really needed is a federal LGBT shield law, but none exists.

[Andrew S.]

DAMMIT I SAID NO MORE SALON LINKS WITHOUT TRIGGER WARNINGS! CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Okay. Here is a palate cleanser.

My Little Pony To Children: Marxism Is Not Magic

Yes, My Little Pony is really brave enough to tell kids about the dangers of enforced equality.

[Andrew S.]

That was a disturbing episode. 1984 and Animal Farm references all over the place too.

[BakedPenguin]

Seriously?

[Andrew S.]

Seriously with the references, or seriously with I know what went on?

The references were all there, and were a nod to the adult audience. That I know what was going on? I thought it was already well known that I'm H&R's resident brony.

[BakedPenguin]

I was wondering if that post was an elaborate joke. Good on MLP's producers for having the guts to do that.

[Puddin' Stick]

were a nod to the adult audience

Aren't there nods to an adult audience in a lot of episodes?

There's the A. K. Yearling reference to J. K. Rowling?

[Stormy Dragon]

There's a MLP parody thing called "What We Learned" which is basically a list of family un-friendly aesops for each of the MLP episodes. The one for that episode was "Stalk your favorite author and they'll make you a character in their next book".

[Stormy Dragon]

What do you think of the theory this season is going to set up a "elements of disharmony" corresponding to the "elements of harmony" the main 6 have?

With Starlight Glimmer being Envy to Rarity's Generosity?

[Andrew S.]

I actually hadn't heard that. I could see that happening. They definitely set up Starlight Glimmer's return in the season finale.

(haters can fuck right off)

[Monty Crisco]

....hating....

[expat]

um...

(shakes head, walks away quieltly)

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Are we talking about the Starlight Express? What is this?

[CampingInYourPark]

I'd rather my parents send me to a de-gayer therapist than sit me in front of that

[BuSab Agent]

That would be cool. MLP is the only thing that makes having to sit through endless hours of mindless children's programming with the grand kids bearable.

[Puddin' Stick]

Did the SJWs go after bronies like the GNAA did?

[crab_apple]

Of course they did. SJWs will criticize anyone and anything for attention. My favorite are the white girls apologizing for white people while telling everyone how much they can relate to the struggles of Colored People because vagina. I don't know. None of it makes sense to me either.

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

I like that they believe allowing people to practice their religion freely is the equivalent of religion 'infecting our legal system.'

This reads like a McCarthyite tract against Communist interference in Hollywood.

[Mickey Rat]

Apparently "theocrat" now means being against secular totalitarianism.

[HeteroPatriarch]

Whatever ad hom cones to mind means being against secular totalitarianism.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

So much bullshit

[GILMORE]

Post Office Truck Kills Alan Dershowitz's Sister = US Government Is Getting So Fucking Sued

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I wonder if it was one of the Mail trucks that has the steering wheel on the wrong side...

[jesse.in.mb]

If it's a Postal truck instead of a van it's probably an LLV (Long Life Vehicle), which has the steering column on the right side. It could've been a 2-ton, but that's unlikely given the location.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Right side meaning the wrong side.

[jesse.in.mb]

Right.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Wrong.

[seguin]

Widdershins.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Oh, he's going to end up owning the whole department when he's finished suing.

[mikey]

So, you think he'll lose?

[Zunalter]

+10

[LynchPin1477]

The Internal Revenue Service wants more money and staffers to inflict the tax system on us. Uh huh. Fuck off.

Never change JD.

[Hey Nikki!]

But he left off the "slaver"!

[Hey Nikki!]

You'll never believe this secret fact about Christianity...that Christians talk about every week.

[LynchPin1477]

It's in the freaking Creed!!! Do these people even consider that someone other than blithering idiots will read their garbage?

[Puddin' Stick]

It's not in the Creed used by the Ruthenians?

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

Splitters...

[Florida Man]

I really need to start hovering over the links.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Live dangerously and click

[Florida Man]

Cute bear.

[Swamp Think]

That looks like something out of Tool video.

[Sevo]

Is it shocking?!

[Protagoronus]

How is this not an action movie yet?

[The Laconic!]

Half of my Twitter feed now is people ragging on either Salon or TNR.

[Hey Nikki!]

I think that's half of everyone's Twitter feed.

[The Laconic!]

SHUT UP I'M SPECIAL

[HeteroPatriarch]

Nobody tell Salon that Jesus is coming back and he's gonna have a tattoo.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Only the handful of people who pray the Rosary mention the descent into Hell thing.

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

WRONG.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I should have said /sarc

[jesse.in.mb]

It came up in my (admittedly atypical) church experience, not all the time, but it was in some hymns/worship songs and would show up in particularly florid prayers from church elders.

[trshmnster the terrible]

My pastor is particularly fond of the phrase "He conquered sin, death, satan, and hell"

Pretty hard to conquer somewhere you've never been.

I do get irritated that we don't recite the apostles' creed in my southern Baptist church... it was one of the things that stuck with me when I was lutheran.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Today hell cries out groaning
I should not have accepted the Man born of Mary.
He came and destroyed my power.
He shattered the gates of brass.
As God, he raised the souls that I held captive.

Glory to the cross and resurrection, O Lord!

Today hell cries out groaning.
My dominion has been shattered.
I received a mortal man as one of the dead
But against him I could not prevail.
But behold, He raises all
Because of him do I perish.

Glory to thy cross and resurrection, O Lord!

Today hell cries out groaning.
My power has been trampled upon
The Shepherd is crucified and Adam is raised
I have been deprived of those I have ruled
Those I have swallowed in my strength I have given up
He who was crucified has emptied the tomb
The power of death has been vanquished.

Glory to they cross and resurrection, O Lord!

http://changinglenses.blogspot.....urday.html

[GILMORE]

Associated Press = Rand Paul Says Nothing: Therefore, Probably Racist

[kmc212]

I was waiting for Reason to post something about Rand Paul today.

[Pro Libertate]

No point in bitching about this. A libertarianesque candidate with an actual shot at winning has announced. That's about as big of a deal as libertarians have seen in, well, since the founding of the U.S.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

I have a feeling before it's over that libertarians are going to end up attacking Paul worse of all. I don't think the risk of giving up the martyr's mantle is going to be bearable.

[Pro Libertate]

Sure, there will be some of that, but I suspect most libertarians will vote for him when the time comes. What other chance to we have? And, in my opinion, we don't have many more years before changing course won't be an option anymore. It may already be too late, in fact.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

I'm in the already too late camp, personally, but I will surely vote for him given the chance. I'm just not looking forward to a year of libertarian concern-trolling his lack of ideological purity.

[Pro Libertate]

That only really matters when he's in office. Then we can bitch freely.

[C. Anacreon]

Paul makes so much damned sense every time I hear him speak. I think anyone who hears him will have a difficult time embracing the derp and BS being spread about him, and that's what gives him a chance. What his biggest problem will be is the huge numbers that will never give him a chance, who've already decided what they're supposed to think, because of what someone else told them to think about him.

[Zunalter]

I personally prefer Cruz but don't think I would be sad with Paul instead.

[Derpetologist]

Spot the Not: Mistakes were made...

All but 1 of the following are real quotes from American politicians.

1. Mistakes were made. Then, other larger mistakes were made.

2. Mistakes have been made, as all can see and I admit.

3. Serious mistakes were made.

4. It is quite possible that mistakes were made.

5. Mistakes were made in terms of comments.

6. Serious mistakes were made.

[grrizzly]

6

[Andrew S.]

It's either 3 or 6, because it wasn't said twice in a row.

(Maybe #2. Because it contains an explicit admission. A politician would never explicitly admit a mistake, they'd surround it by other language.)

[Bam!]

1

[This Machine]

Goddammit, Doc.

Um, I guess 2. Admission of guilt? No way that's a politician.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

You made a mistake

[Derpetologist]

I just realized that 3 and 6 are the same. So here's another one:

7. Mistakes were clearly made.

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

2. The 'I' in that statement should be followed by 'can place the blame entirely on my opponent.'

[Dances-with-Trolls]

4

[Derpetologist]

And the Not is #1: That is from Dale Gribble of King of the Hill.

#2 is from Ulysses Grant. It is the earliest use of the phrase by a US politician.

[lap83]

Dammit, I totally recognized it as Dale then I saw you had already given the answer.

[Derpetologist]

You deserve a prize. Shi-shi-shaw!

As you will see from this incontrovertible evidence, Sergeant, then Private, Bill Dauterive was given large doses of an experimental drug from 1982 to 1984. The Army was trying to create an elite group of Arctic commandoes, stationed in Alaska and able to withstand frigid temperatures. They called it "Operation Infinite Walrus." Their mission: to repel an invasion if and when the Communists came over the polar ice cap. The drug was designed to promote accumulation of heat-retaining blubber on the torso, foster the growth of insulating body hair, and create the ability to undertake long periods of hibernation.

http://i.imgur.com/SyjO1SY.png

[Derpetologist]

Spot the Not: MEMRI videos

1. Kuwaiti Officials Watch Public Exceution While Enjoying Refreshments

2. Hamas Children's TV Show Encourages Killing of Jews

3. Saudi Astronomer Explains Which Direction a Muslim Astronaut Should Pray Toward

4. Shiite Cleric Yasser al Habib: Caliph Omar Had Anal Disease Making Him Addicted to Homosexuality

5. Sunni-Shia Debate Deteriorates Into a Brawl on Egyptian TV

6. Egyptian Diving Instructor: Israel Responsible for Fatal Shark Attack For Lethal Jellyfish

[Heroic Mulatto]

I've posted the transcript to 4 several times here, so I'm going to go with 3 as it just sounds too normal.

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

I assume in #4, he was trying to scratch at an itch?

[Heroic Mulatto]

It is told [in the hadith] that Omar Ibn Al-Khattab had an anal disease, which could be cured only by semen. One should know that this is a well-known medical condition, which is also mentioned in sacred texts. Someone who, God forbid, has been penetrated in the anus ? a worm grows within him, due to the semen discharged in him... A disease develops in his anus, and as a result, he cannot calm down, unless... That's right, it becomes like an addiction, and he cannot calm down unless he is penetrated again and again.
...
One of the devils is present at the birth of every human being. If Allah knows that the newborn is one of our Shiites, He fends off that devil, who cannot harm the newborn. But if the newborn is not one of our Shiites, the devil inserts his index finger into the anus of the newborn, who thus becomes a passive homosexual. If the newborn is not a Shiite, the devil inserts his index finger into this newborn's anus, and when he grows up, he becomes a passive homosexual. If the newborn is a female, the devil inserts his index finger into her vagina, and she becomes a whore.

At that moment, the newborn cries loudly, as he comes out of his mother's womb. Note that some children cry normally at birth, while others cry loudly and incessantly. You should know that this is the work of that devil, according to this narration.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Higher brain function can go so so wrong in so many ways.

[The DerpRider]

I'm guessing #3 because it sounds reasonable.

[Derpetologist]

6 should be "And For Lethal Jellyfish".

My ampersand was devoured by the skwerlz.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

3.

I remember seeing 2. Fucking psychos. Yeah, Israel is 100% responsible for your moral compass.

[Dances-with-Trolls]

1

[Puddin' Stick]

3 is real? there was a Muslim astronaut and it was a real quandary as to the direction to face during prayer since the qibla can change by 180? during salat in certain orbits.

[Derpetologist]

#3 is the Not- that was a real question posed to a Muslim Cleric, but there is no MEMRI video about it.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

1

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Wow, not it looks like I lost betting on the instant replay.

I actually didn't look at the answer before I posted.

[GILMORE]

Turkish Men Kidnap, Rape Horse

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

As long as it was a female horse.

[Jordan]

Horses bodies have defenses against legitimate rapes anyway.

[GILMORE]

Libertarian Claims Some Rape is "Legitimate"

[Florida Man]

You mean kicking you in the dick, right?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

People pay good money for that.

[Rich]

"Neigh" means "Nay"!

[hamilton]

Threadwinner.

[Hamster of Doom]

Seems appropriate.

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

To SF a link?

[Hamster of Doom]

Crap. Thanks for mentioning something, I hadn't noticed.

His wife? What is his wife, you ask?

[GILMORE]

Poly want a cracker?

[Wasteland Wanderer]

What the fuck did I just read?

[Trouser-Pod]

I didn't know that STEVE SMITH is Turkish!

[GILMORE]

Lawsuit Against Bigass Corporation Surprisingly Going Nowhere

[The DerpRider]

One and done. Seven of Kentucky's players declare for draft.

The 6-11 Towns could be the first player chosen overall on June 28 and Cauley-Stein and Lyles could soon follow with both projected as possible lottery selections. Booker is also a potential first-rounder, with the rest projected to go in the second.

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

One what?

[Dances-with-Trolls]

Year of indentured servitude?

[The DerpRider]

Hell on Earth...

[Stormy Dragon]

You know who accuses you know who of mansplaining to female reporters:

Is Rand Paul Sexist or Just a Jerk?

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

Based on the URL, I'm guessing Marcotte.

[Andrew S.]

Slate XX Factor? Yeah. It's Marcotte.

Wouldn't click on that with someone else's mouse.

[MJGreen]

Hitler accused Lou Reed of mansplaining?

[trshmnster the terrible]

Is Marcotte a moron or just mendacious?

[Antilles]

Yes.

[Xajow]

From the National Catholic Reporter:

In the end, however, what became obvious in the course of the day is that libertarianism is not very interesting at all. It is little more than an effort to turn selfishness and self-assertion into a political platform. [...] There is a totalitarian itch at the heart of libertarianism, an itch that could not be more different from the complex, rich, nuanced understandings that emerge from both liberalism and from Catholic Social Teaching. [...] Libertarianism goes out of its way to reduce the complexities of the world to one thing and one thing only, whether it be how we make decisions, what decisions we make, and what our decisions imply for others. [...] It is when we grow out of that fantasy and begin to understand just how complex the world actually is that adherents to libertarianism begin to understand the limits of what had once been so appealing to them.

Basically what I got from this was that it is that they have oversimplified the nuances of libertarianism so that they can then claim the fault of libertarianism is oversimplifying the complexities of the world. Which makes them smarter and more mature than libertarians. Or at least, they would like to think so.

[Xajow]

...what I got from this was that they have...

[Andrew S.]

Most arguments against libertarianism create a strawman of things that libertarians don't actually believe and then argue against that strawman. Salon is especially "gifted" at doing that.

[Derpetologist]

And another thing- we are expected to *believe* he was shot, and yet he did not go flying through the air upon being hit!?

/derp

[Derpetologist]

oopsy- should be response to Walter Scott conspiracy theory

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

There is a totalitarian itch at the heart of libertarianism

From a Catholic? Now there's some real projection.

[HeteroPatriarch]

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you...

[Hey Nikki!]

Hey Irish check this THERE ARE NO FEMALE HATERS apparently

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

Holy fuck, did you read that ridiculous Matt Forney tweet someone linked to in there:

"Most women writers are absolutely horrible. If 95% of female writing was dumped in a hole and burned, the world would be a better place."

I love ESB because not only is she a moron with moron supporters, but she also brings out a specific breed of sexist right wing moron to attack her.

Her writing therefore results in the biggest clusterfuck I've ever seen with idiots yelling at each other in increasingly higher pitches.

A lot of ESB's more vociferous critics actually are horrible people which makes reasonable, seasoned ESB-haters like myself look bad.

[Hey Nikki!]

Somehow even though I follow Nrx peeps the Nrx peeps never seem to talk about her, so I only see more normal critics like Charles CW Cooke.

I mean Forney ain't wrong but you could say the same thing about men and also not be wrong so.

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

Forney's not wrong in that 95% of all writing is shit, but he's a sexist douche for claiming this is somehow primarily an issue with women.

Matt Breunig is just as horrible a writer as his wife, so you've got a crappy male writer canceling out a crappy female writer within the same family.

Regardless, Breunig got pilloried on Michelle Malkin's twitchy so the claim that this is because of her gender is absurd. It also needs to be pointed out that Vox writers get much the same treatment, as did Jesse Myerson after he wrote his various articles on Communist apologia.

[Hey Nikki!]

I mean if you're going to be 12 and write about the wonders of communism in a formerly major publication, people are going to give you shit.

[Viscount Irish, Slayer of Huns]

You shouldn't say such mean things about ESB, Nicole. Epi might come in and tell you off for insulting his future wife.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Who the fuck is that little nebbish?

[GILMORE]

Hating on ESB just gives her attention. I don't think anyone really reads her shit as much as people fume about her smug steelo

[Hey Nikki!]

Irish does.

[GILMORE]

true dat

I twittered her once and she pwned me. i cried

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Irish and Derp do our dirty work.

[PapayaSF]

There's already a Walter Scott conspiracy theory.

Walter Scott, a resident of North Charleston, South Carolina and a 50 year old black male was shot by a police officer in execution style and his murderer - appeared to use a "pop-gun" to take him down as there was NO SMOKE coming out of his Glock 21 automatic hand gun and then the body of Walter Scott had no signs of blood on it and he was apparently hit 8 times by North Charleston Police Officer Michael Thomas Slager. Let's take a look at this latest shooting hoax shall we!

[Stormy Dragon]

there was NO SMOKE coming out of his Glock 21 automatic hand gun

Hence the term "smokeless powder".

[Florida Man]

They did a myth busters where they try to dodge a bullet by watching for muzzle flash. They had to get movie rounds because modern powder doesn't create much of a flash. I'm guessing this clown doesn't know that either.

[Warty]

Arm the pigs with M44 Mosins. Problem solved.

[BakedPenguin]

Mosins are your solution to everything.

[Warty]

Do you have a better solution???

[BakedPenguin]

No.... (hangs head, kicks rock, walks on)

[PapayaSF]

Yes, that did come to mind.

[Jordan]

It was the chemtrails wot done it.

[Xeones]

I... what?

[The Laconic!]

So they staged a shooting but apparently forgot to bring fake blood? That's a compelling hypothesis.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Sign me up for an automatic Glock 21.

[MJGreen]

Do they go into a reason for it? Is this all an elaborate hoax to get Walter Scott out of the country or something?

[Rich]

Half of Americans avoid the stock market

A study from the Federal Reserve found that only 13.8 percent of U.S. households owned stocks in 2013

Hmm. How about requiring participation as a condition for receiving health insurance?

[Florida Man]

Lots of people lost big recently. It's going to take sometime before confidence returns.

[Stormy Dragon]

If they'd stayed in, they'd have made it all back and more.

[Florida Man]

My dad made that mistake. I tried to tell him, but parents rarely listen to kids.

[Stormy Dragon]

S&P 500 is up 134% since the pre-crash peak in 2008.

[Florida Man]

That's my current strategy. Dollar cost averaging a S&P 500 index and my emergency fund in I-bonds to protect against inflation. People use to ladder CD's but it doesn't make sense with current rates, so I'm basically doing the same thing with bonds instead.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Tax free bonds. I live in state that's shitty enough to make them possible.

[Florida Man]

Do you mean municipal bonds?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Yes and no. I have a fair chunk of money in Vanguard's CA tax exempt bond fund. A portion of that is muni bonds.

[Stormy Dragon]

My current mix:
50% in 2035 Target Date Fund
5% in Insured Money Market
10% in Inflation Protected Treasury Bonds
10% in Corporate Bonds
10% in S&P 500
10% in Russell 2000
5% in Leveraged Commodities

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Long term corporate, I hope

[Stormy Dragon]

Intermediate Term (JCBRX to be specific).

[Florida Man]

I use to have a target date fund before I changed jobs. After reading the intelligent investor I wonder if they fall in the same trap as mutual funds. Basically to big to respond to market changes.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Target date funds aren't supposed to. They're very long term. Usually, a computer picks the holdings.

[Stormy Dragon]

Well, my theory is I have a third party investing half my money and me investing the other half, so I should be okay as long as we don't both screw up simultaneously.

[Enough About Palin]

^^THIS^^

And thankfully, I had the good sense not to sell when everyone was panicing. In fact I was buying.

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

That is when I do most of my buying.

[Pro Libertate]

It sure would be nice to have a decent alternative to the stock market. Real estate is shaky over time, and I'm not sanguine about dumping everything into precious metals.

[Rich]

This?

[Florida Man]

You could start a small business.
*turns red trying to stifle laughter*

[Pro Libertate]

I'd do just that if it weren't for the things that cause you to laugh.

[Florida Man]

I feel so bad for the people who sink their lives into a business just to have it destroyed by some new regulation.

[mauricegirodias]

Ahh, Chokepoint, Schmokepoint. Just use international distributors.

[Pro Libertate]

It's why just slowing spending and promoting civil liberties isn't enough. We also need massive deregulation, particularly in lifting these intentionally anticompetitive barriers to entry. One of the reasons we can't fully recover, aside from the spending and currency manipulation that goes on is that the option of starting a small business grows less and less appealing.

[Florida Man]

There are so many side businesses you could throw a little money in to see if it works if there weren't so many barriers to entry. When I was in Japan they had these tako yaki stands. Delicious little dough balls with octopus inside. I sometimes think about trying that but then think about all the crap you need, like a business license, a vending license, health inspectors, etc. not worth the headache for a little extra scratch.

[MJGreen]

And it's why tax cuts are often a red herring. They would be great, but if you really want to spur growth, deregulation is the more vital solution.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

BUT THE OBAMARKET IS AWESOME!

[Certified Public Asskicker]

High school's 'sexist' dress code faces backlash after honor student is sent home for wearing leggings

Honor student Macy Edgerly, wearing leggings and a long top that covered her bottom, was asked to leave class and change because her outfit violated Orangefield High School's dress code.

Yeah, that's bullshit.

Her outraged older sister, Erica, took to Facebook to blast such 'sexist' school dress codes, which she believes contribute to 'the rape culture of today's society'. So far, the post has been shared more than 88,000 times.

That's...sigh.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I like leggings, minus the long top.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Looking at, not wearing.

Fuck you, Rufus, and any other potential smart asses.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Enjoy your water cutbacks.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm poolside in the desert right now.
*flexes*

[jesse.in.mb]

What about the Delta Smelt Fish!?!?! MY AVOCADOS!?!?!

[Hamster of Doom]

That's a euphemism. He's taken the laptop into the bathroom with him.

[C. Anacreon]

Macy, the girl with the leggings, is pretty hot. I wonder if she's named after the store where she buys her clothes.

[bodenlosen Schweinerei]

"How about instead of body shaming women, school systems should start teaching 15 to 18-year-old boys to stop degrading women with their eyes"

I'm giving as much power to the derp as I can, Cap'n, but I can't guarantee she'll hold together!

[DEG]

Is this bizarro day? CNN/money ran a prominent (when I checked CNN/money's front page) story on how the government can fuck you over for seemingly minor things.

[Derpetologist]

So this got printed in a sociology book:

http://everydayfeminism.com/wp.....00x300.png

[Pro Libertate]

SCIENCE!

[Enough About Palin]

Women don't hold political, economic and institutional power?

1) Warren, Pelosi, Feinstien, Clinton
2) The vast majority of wealth in the US is held by women
3) The overwhelming majority of people in the institution of public education are women

Additionally, there are now more women attending colleges than men.

[MJGreen]

It's right that there is no such thing as reverse racism/sexism. It's just racism.

[MJGreen]

Uhh... or sexism. Respectively.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Rasecxism.

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

Racy Sexism?!

[DEG]

Big oil discovery in the UK

[Hey Nikki!]

Being more likely to be good at something MUST BE STOPPED

[Rich]

Harrison Bergeron lives!

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Yeah, I posted that earlier. It's not only stupid, but incredibly insulting to women.

[Trouser-Pod]

OK, so which one of you wrote this?

Cummbottom ? a day ago
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whom getting. Ahead straight never late guys. Nice try Ellen best of luck. Aftermath of
Reddit_partnerships trusted. Companies listen to old guard. i ask you were is democracy? Leverage of chosen few telling. Tech world what not to do? Women and
LGBTQ face uncertainty industry. Kudo's Ellen proud of you making. Stance yeah!
? Reply?Share ?

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

Tony.

[Trouser-Pod]

Ah, yes....can see that in his screen name...

/That was excellent, Switzy. Kudos.

[HeteroPatriarch]

Ellen Pao is just setting things up so that reddit's board has to make her the permanent CEO or she'll say they're punishing her for being non-sexist and them sue them for sexism.

[DEG]

Bad money management

[Bobarian (sexbot hand model)]

^^This!

Coincdentally, I'm getting nearly $4.5K back, because I ended up taking a bath on my rental property.

So, I'm extra bad.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

I'm still waiting on my damn CPA. It's the "cut me a check on 4/15" surprise.

[DEG]

Ouch.

[GILMORE]

Obama's Yemen Policy Continues to Navigate Complex Issues...

whoops, sorry, I meant

US Military Aircraft Refueling the Saudi Planes Indiscriminately Bombing Yemenis

[Derpetologist]

The Navy also rescued some Saudi pilots who bailed out over the Red Sea.

[GILMORE]

They hadnt been properly trained on how to "turn around"

[Derpetologist]

I think the problem might be the inshallah school of aircraft maintenance.

True story: a US Army helicopter instructor is teaching a Saudi student. Before take-off, he points to a button and says "do not push that button unless I tell you." The Saudi immediately pushes the button and the explosive bolts on the canopy blow out all the windows. The instructor says "why did you do that?" The Saudi says "because you told me not to."

Saudi student pilots tend to be the children of royalty so they are used to always being able to do what they want.

[GILMORE]

Always relevant: Why Arabs Lose Wars

re: "maintenance"

"The Arab difficulties with U.S. equipment are not...a matter of "Arabs don't do maintenance," but...much deeper. A weapons system brings with it specific maintenance and logistics procedures, policies, and even a philosophy, all based on U.S. culture, with its expectations of a certain educational level, sense of small unit responsibility, tool allocation, etc.... The expertise, initiative and, most importantly, the trust indicated by delegation of responsibility to a lower level are rare. The U.S. equipment and its maintenance are predicated on a concept of repair at the lowest level and therefore require delegation of authority. Without the needed tools, spare parts, or expertise available to keep equipment running, and loathe to report bad news to his superiors, the unit commander looks for scapegoats...."

...Having learned to perform some complicated procedure, an Arab technician knows that he is invaluable so long as he is the only one in a unit to have that knowledge; once he dispenses it to others he no longer is the only font of knowledge and his power dissipates. This explains the commonplace hoarding of manuals, books, training pamphlets, and other training or logistics literature...."

[Caleb Turberville]

http://mnras.oxfordjournals.or.....2910.short

"A structure in the early Universe at z ? 1.3 that exceeds the homogeneity scale of the R-W concordance cosmology"

This new, Huge-LQG appears to be the largest structure currently known in the early Universe. Its size suggests incompatibility with the Yadav et al. scale of homogeneity for the concordance cosmology, and thus challenges the assumption of the cosmological principle.

[Rich]

thus challenges the assumption of the cosmological principle.

It's about time. Well, *and* space.

[Caleb Turberville]

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.....verdensity

This would be an extremely huge structure of the universe, with the mean size no excess of 2 billion to 3 billion parsecs (6 to 10 billion light-years). Such a supercluster can explain the significant distribution of GRBs because of its tie to star formation. If such a structure did exist, it would be the largest structure of the observable universe.

[The Laconic!]

The largest structure of the observable universe is in my pants. OH YEAH.

[Caleb Turberville]

http://www.sciencemag.org/cont.....5/52.short

"Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom"

Absolute temperature is usually bound to be positive. Under special conditions, however, negative temperatures?in which high-energy states are more occupied than low-energy states?are also possible.

[Caleb Turberville]

Oops, I meant to blockquote the second paragraph, which comes straight from the abstract.

[Stormy Dragon]

It's not negative temperature in the sense you're thinking. If you have a system constrained such that it has a maximum possible energy state, it can be treated like the maximum energy state is absolute zero and all the lower energy states are "negative temperatures".

It's just creatively defining your coordinate system to ease calculation, not a system that has actually dropped below absolute zero in the normal sense of the term.

[Caleb Turberville]

In some sense, it may be clever arithmetic, but at the same time it result in odd thermodynamical and quantum mechanical effects.

For example, at negative temperatures, electrons are no longer seeking the lowest energy state. Now, the pyramid is inverted, and matter has a tendency to climb the energy ladder.

[GILMORE]

Scott Walker Critizes Obama's Foreign Policy...

....So, "Foreign Policy Magazine" says, "WALKER IS A STUPID POOPYHEAD, NYAH"

witness the delicate appraisal of Walker's credentials

"'Walker, who does not have a college degree, has good reason to be on the defensive about his foreign-policy prowess. He refused to talk international relations during a recent trip to London and made the unfortunate comparison of battling labor unions to fighting the Islamic State.

Walker, who cites former President Ronald Reagan as the biggest influence on his foreign-affairs thinking, also has called the Gipper's decision to break up a 1981 strike of air traffic controllers "the most significant foreign policy decision of my lifetime" despite witnessing the war on terror, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of China. He said Reagan's actions illustrated toughness to adversaries around the world. Lee Edwards, a Reagan biographer, said Walker has a long way to go to get up to speed on foreign policy.

But misgivings about Walker's knowledge of the world go far beyond a few badly placed words. A recent story in the Washington Post painted him as a complete novice when it comes to world affairs."

Never mind Obama had no 'foreign policy' at all in 2008 other than, "I didn't vote for Iraq"

[Pro Libertate]

The administration couldn't do worse in foreign policy if it were populated by secret Nazis aiming to destabilize the world.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Hail Hydra!

[Pro Libertate]

My Hitler clones will call on your Hitler clones.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

It's Hitlers all the way down...

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Speaking of which, I've noticed my Hitler clones are starting to get a little lethargic. Not nearly as much pep and vigor during the weekly basement rallies.

Have you noticed any change in yours?

[Pro Libertate]

You haven't been feeding them meat, have you?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Just bone meal and turnips

[tarran]

Try adding some crystal meth to the feed. It did wonders with the original.

[Pro Libertate]

I also recommend exposing them to mustard gas.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Ahhhhhh...... maybe that's how they get those really extraordinary goosesteps.

[Pan Zagloba]

They always start getting verklemmt this time of year. Once April 30 passes, they will start picking up.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

"And another thing, If I were a clone of Adolf Goddamn Hitler, wouldn't I look like Adolf Goddamn Hitler?!"

[jesse.in.mb]

Sigh, I worry about how they teased the next season. Unless of course Pam goes on another epic coke bender.

[Florida Man]

Aren't you suppose to whisper that into ProL's ear?

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

+1 Hail Hydra

[The Laconic!]

Welp, that disqualifies every single governor for president.

[Pro Libertate]

It's silly. One of the advantages that governors do have is proven experience as administrators (or proven ineptitude in that regard). Obama is amazingly bad at that, and has also proven to be horrible at appointing competent people. He could be a moron but look better if he surrounded himself with geniuses.

I'd see this as a knock against Paul, but someone willing to take scissors to the budget and an eraser to the stuff penciled in over the Constitution doesn't need that much administrative experience. Not to mention that he's articulating a fairly principled (even if we don't all agree with it) foreign policy, based on more pragmatic policies than recent administrations have had.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I don't expect a governor to be a foreign policy expert, but shouldn't Walker have at least hired some advisors by now to give him talking points on the subject?

[C. Anacreon]

but shouldn't Walker have at least hired some advisors by now to give him talking points on the subject?

And how can he do that on a Wisconsin governor's salary? Not everyone is as wealthy as you, Grand Moff Serious Man.

[Enough About Palin]

Walker: I can see Canada from my cabin!

[Enough About Palin]

"'Walker, who does not have a college degree, like Bill Gates...

[PH2050]

That creepy visage....ugh.

Next time put a pic of Pelosi and we're in business!

[GILMORE]

Kids these days

[Heroic Mulatto]

BRILLIANT!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Which one are you?

[GILMORE]

the one with the best style, obviously

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Invisible?

[GILMORE]

That's it, now you're not invited.

[jesse.in.mb]

What the fuck is a cybergoth?

[Heroic Mulatto]

wikiHow has the answer!

[jesse.in.mb]

Ugh, wikiHow is up there with Buzzfeed on things that I don't click on, but since it's you, HM, I will...

That was both informative and I feel much stupider for having read it. Thank you, HM!

[Heroic Mulatto]

You might have many emos/Mall Goths stopping you to ask you where you got your clothes/shoes/hair from, and although this may seem fun, the novelty soon wears off, and it becomes annoying. This is just the price of looking amazing.

[jesse.in.mb]

Please, stop! I beg of you.

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

Mall Goths...?

Like Junior Juggalos?

[GILMORE]

Mall Goths = 'junior goth'

Soon they will graduate from the Mall to the Parking Lot, and if they work on their Raving Style and invest in the right color Furry Boots...

...only they may be allowed to join the Elder CyberGoths ...under the Bridge, or in that park near the lake, and learn the sacred mysteries of the Masters

[Sudden]

Cybergoth is apparently a Tyroshi wedding celebration

[Libertarian]

"The Internal Revenue Service wants more money and staffers to inflict the tax system on us. Uh huh. Fuck off."

And Reason's flavor of the month, Rand Paul, wants to give more money to the military even though it's already the largest in the world. And that money will go toward inflicting not a tax system, but actual death and destruction. Is Reason ready to tell Rand to "fuck off"?

[Derpetologist]

Don't forget the money for Gilligan's Island and Star Trek parodies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zU2BxRw9_Q

[Jumbie]

Tucille went with a distinctly bitchy vibe for this PM's links I think.

[Swiss Servator... Switzy!]

AND IT WORKED!

[Almanian!]

I miss PM Links WHEN I GOT A HAT TIP???

Thanks, JD!

[Rich]

An idea whose time has come.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

If we're the helmet are you the root canals?

/drops hockey gloves.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I don't want to hurt you in front of all these people.

[Enough About Palin]

Watch out Tundra. Those dirty Canadians like to pull your jersey over your head. Filthy bastards!

[This Machine]

Wooooo! Murder that Canuck bastard!!

/the only reason I come to these games anymore

[Stormy Dragon]

Unless they're being hired as a negotiater, being good at negotiating doesn't necessarily mean they're good at whatever their job is.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I drink before noon on vacation. It really adds to the level of discourse.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Starts punching aimlessly at the wind.

[Crusty Juggler]

If you win we will all sign your dick.

[fish]

This is the real reason that I frequent this place....Canuck on Canuck violence.

[Carl ?s the level]

That's not the issue. The issue is that promising candidates often have multiple offers on the table (or are already employed elsewhere). If a company can't negotiate salary during hiring then they can't counter-offer competing prospective employers, which puts that at a disadvantage.

[Stormy Dragon]

I'm not agreeing with the "no-negotiating" policy. I'm just pointing out it's not necessarily going to effect "best employees" more. Given how introverted computer types area, their best employees may be terrible negotiators.

[Charles Easterly]

Crusty, on occasion I must openly declare when I am not one with the Reasonoids or those few who "speak" on their behalf.

This is one such occasion.

Simply put (and at variance with usual avoidance of profanity): I ain't signing dick.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Did you miss the part where I was *joking*?

[Notorious G.K.C.]

I thought "handful of people who pray the Rosary" was the giveaway.

It's a bit more than a handful, I thought you knew that.

[Charles Easterly]

No Rufus - pull the sweater up and over the opponent's head with your weak hand while pummeling the entire time with your strong hand.

[Charles Easterly]

I know the two of you write in jest, but a few hours ago I was thinking of the "tin foil hat" idea that Rand Paul would be assassinated shortly after taking office and giving indications that he would actually reign in the various agencies of "leviathan". And then I remembered a joke about President Obama and Vice-President Biden.

It had something to do with why no one in the "leviathan" apparatus, and the joke stressed NO One - would murder President Obama.

[Marshall Gill]

Sorry to hear that you have to wait until noon. Or do you mean noon somewhere?

[seguin]

He's on vacation....noon is when he wakes up.

Maybe a little before.