Terror in France, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Somalia, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett but No Bill de Blasio at Clinton Fundraiser in NYC, Lexus Hoverboard Just a Tease: A.M. Links

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Lexus Gunmen in Tunisia stormed two resort hotels, killing at least 19, the largest such attack in the country since Islamist gunmen killed 21 in a museum in March. Meanwhile, an attack on an American-owned chemical plant in Lyons included a decapitation and a failed attempt at blowing the factory up. In Kuwait, ISIS took responsibility for a fatal explosion at a Shi'ite mosque after Friday prayer. And on Wednesday, a car bomb targeting military instructors from the United Arab Emirates killed three Somali soldiers in a convoy in Mogadishu.
- A $1,000- to $2,700-a-plate fundraiser for Hillary Clinton headlined by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett in New York City was attended by Letitia James, the public advocate and number two elected official in the city, but not by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who managed Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign but has declined to endorse her so far.
- Leaders of the European Union agreed to relocate 40,000 migrants who entered Greece and Italy to other member states over the next two years.
- A human rights report from China criticizes the U.S. for racial discrimination and being "haunted by spreading guns."
- Former Walter Mondale campaign manager Bob Beckel has been dropped by Fox News.
- A hoverboard from Lexus only works in a controlled environment and was designed for an ad campaign only.
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Former Walter Mondale campaign manager Bob Beckel has been dropped by Fox News.
Too many f-bombs?
Hello.
Does Tunisia qualify as an 'advanced nation'?
Tunisia, France and Kuwait are not advanced nations. Somalia would be if it weren't for their old-school libertarianism.
The show sucks w/o Beckel. How many times can you laugh at Greg Guteld calling for the droning of Edward Snowden or saying if you have nothing to hide why wouldn't you want the government spying on you.
Genuine conflict is the only reason to watch political talk shows.
Bill Maher had Ann Coulter and a conservative from the Daily Caller on this past week (with a Dem Congressman).
Sparks flew. Highly entertaining.
or more likely completely insufferable
The problem is Beckel is just too stupid. He's like a caricature of a mindless liberal.
I will watch a thoughtful debate but not an idiot just yelling random talking points.
Most liberals seem to pretty much just repeat random talking points. There usually isn't a whole lot of thought or analysis going into their positions from what I've seen.
They should hire Jeannine Garafalo for the 5.
Pretty sure it was an Rx med problem.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....short.html
He ain't no Ninja Warrior, that's for sure.
Saw that and it was genuinely hilarious. Especially the dude watching in the foreground who looks back at the camera with a smirk - its like you're there with him watching this dude make a fool of himself.
A hoverboard from Lexus only works in a controlled environment and was designed for an ad campaign only.
Duh. Hello McFly, hello McFly, anyone home McFly?!
+2 symmetrical neckties
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....t-him.html
Japanese people are weird.
He can't be that good looking if he doesn't have any tentacles.
Japanese dudes need to up their game. Maybe we can export Mystery and he can show them how.
Our exports of felt top hats and fuzzy boas would skyrocket.
"It's called 'peacockin'.'"
You have no idea. The term "grass eater" was coined for how much Japanese guys are pussies. Definitely not carnivores. God, Japanese girls are the bomb and it is so easy to just pluck one if you so desire because they are so fucking starved for real men...
Obligatory South Park.
"so small"
never gets old.
Maybe they secretly wish the American GIs would come back.
I just finished reading a detailed account of the battle for Tarawa (Betio)
Apparently the Japanese have mellowed
You know it's truly incredible just how much the culture there has changed. Baffling really.
Agreed. +1000
You know it's truly incredible just how much the culture there has changed. Baffling really.
Here too.
Bloody Tarawa - every Marine has to memorize the details of that bloodbath.
I think that is when we realized "oh shit, they are going to be like this every time."
Australian-raised ape finds fame as women flock to the zoo to see him because he is 'so good-looking'
Sounds like the story of INXS singer Michael Hutchence
...too soon?
+ 1 erotic asphyxiation
We keep our real apes here
Strangely addicting...especially the bridge
I prefer this Gorilla
Actually, that gorilla is pretty good-looking. For a gorilla.
The ACA decision:
Could Kennedy have decide for before Roberts and then Roberts went along so he could write the decision? He did undercut Chevron a bit and if he didn't write it, the author may have used Chevron, strengthening it.
I've heard something like this before, back when Roberts first upheld ACA, but some conservatives said it was an "ingenious" ruling because it undermined some prior precedent. IANAL but we still ended up stuck with ACA.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....-tour.html
What the fuck is wrong with her face? She looks like a mutant.
She has a huge jaw.
Looks like one of the infected on I Am Legend, only with hair.
She should be in "The Hills Have Eyes" 3....
*smells fingers*
WOOOOOOO!!!
Yeah, she's kinda scary.
She's a cross between Demi Moore and Bruce Wilis.
More like she was assembled from their parts. The top half of face is Demi, the bottom is Bruce.
Yeah, she didn't get the right parts from Mom
Mom's right parts are mostly silicon, so...
She looks like a mutant.
Stop spreading rumers!
Meanwhile, an attack on an American-owned chemical plant in Lyons included a decapitation and a failed attempt at blowing the factory up.
Before he calls Hollande, Obama's going to find out how to say workplace violence in French.
Well, he can't call it terrorism; after all, the attackers weren't waving a Confederate flag.
and the assailant likely was not a white boy from the deep, terrible South.
They would have known that if they just consulted this handy pie chart.
That needs to be a Venn diagram with overlapping areas.
It is real!
I use Youjizz for my research. It's a fountain of knowledge.
Fortunately we can't actually see what you did there
Here you go:
0-:
8===)~~~~~ 0-:
0-:
Also fuck the reason writers that say we are crude scum.
Goddamn margin correcting format!!!
Unlike cocaine for example, porn does not make the user think "I want more!" afterward.
Therefore it cannot be an addiction.
Which brain did they scan?
Study: Austerity in Greece led to tragic increase of 35% in suicides in just two years
Looks like the market is correcting itself, far too many useless people.
Progressives actually think that we feel this way
Culling the herd is critical to maintaining a steady food supply.
Works for me. Can we get austerity here?
How can that be? They don't have guns.
Now we're talking!
Austerity ~= Climate Change
Of course, Greece never really took any actions that would even remotely resemble real austerity.
True, their economy is collapsing because it's based on fairy tales and gov jobs. No word about increased tax enforcement and regulation killing the economy. It's always Krugabe and the evils of living within your means.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....party.html
Dang. That's almost enough to get me to watch tennis.
Sharapova's dress is remarkably hideous. Not that I would care...
I would look better on the floor.
Really?
*It*
drink (even) more
And her shoes! Ugh! What is this, 2004?
I was thinking 2003.
What are you two, the Manolo twins?
With that attitude I assume you are the sort of guy who wears these
Ha! How did you get those out of Tulpa's closet?
maybe they were worn at the WPGA ball?
AIIIIIIII!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....eborn.html
No Ali Larter.
=-(
A hoverboard from Lexus only works in a controlled environment and was designed for an ad campaign only.
Next you're going to tell me those Kia hamsters aren't real.
Wait...they aren't?!
It looked like it was filled with liquid nitrogen so it was a 123 superconductor over a big magnet. They didn't show it supporting the weight of the guy because it couldn't support him.
haunted by spreading guns
Nice album name.
Finally! You are finally starting to get the difference between band name and album name. This IS a nice album name.
Gee, thanks! 😎
Nobody makes albums anymore!
Albumen do.
nice!
Album has kind of evolved to mean "a group of songs released together," which I'm ok with.
That's what it has always meant.
Testimony: Gov't Labor Officials Coordinated With Union To Intimidate, Silence Workers On Key Vote
Recently uncovered legal testimony out of California details a long list of alleged abuses from state labor agents who, the testimony alleges, secretly coordinated with union officials to intimidate, silence and disenfranchise thousands of Latino farm workers.
"They call me ignorant," Silvia Lopez, one of the farm workers, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "They said they'd call immigration to take me out of the country."...
I'm sure La Raza will be all over this one.
in the next round of Prog Wars: union thugs vs latinos. Which favored constituency will advance?
I don't think there can be any doubt that the unions win in this contest.
There is nothing worse to a progressive than a minority who does not fall in line with his progressive masters.
The only reason progressives have any interest in minorities is to form a coalition to advance the progressive agenda. That's why they are continually identifying new minorities to splinter based upon perceived victimization.
Maybe. Sure if one minority leaves the Prog plantation they demonize him, but I'm not sure what they would do if Latinos just started leaving in mass.
Find new latinos.
Declare every latino that isn't a democrat white. The precedent is already there. Pretty soon a proggy academic will come up with an argument how if a latino isn't a democrat they are no longer culturally latino and therefore they are white. It'll be the same as they did for the word racism.
...but not Mayor Bill de Blasio, who managed Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign but has declined to endorse her so far.
He's just running a little behind.
Nice.
Texas Dep't of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today on a case involving what constitutes housing discrimination, deciding in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project that federal law impacts not only intentional discrimination but also practices that have a discriminatory effect - even without an actual intent to discriminate....
Intentions only matter when it helps the government.
21st century is going to be so much fun!
A $1,000 to $2,700-a-plate fundraiser for Hillary Clinton headlined by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett in New York City was attended by Letitia James, the public advocate and number two elected official in the city, but not Mayor Bill de Blasio, who managed Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign but has declined to endorse her so far.
She knows she'd go from rags to riches, if he would only say he cared.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tra.....alive.html
I get butterflies just looking at the pictures.
Meh. Have sex while dangling from a cliff, maybe then I'll be impressed.
I'm thinking that these pictures look truly dangerous and daring from certain fairly precise angles. that one from above kinda let's you see that no one was really dangling over some huge drop.
The Hopping Dead: a nine-minute teaser for a horror movie with a zombie kangaroo
Kiwi's beat you to it with Black Sheep
King v. Burwell and the Triumph of the Administrative State
The king's proclamations "shall be obeyed, observed, and kept as though they were made by act of Parliament."
Sounds like Roberts writing for the majority.
Police withheld bombshell report revealing how gangs of Muslim men were grooming more than 100 schoolgirls as young as 13 in case it inflamed racial tensions ahead of General Election
Britain's second largest police force withheld a report about gangs of Muslim men grooming children in case it inflamed racial tensions ahead of a General Election, it was revealed today.
West Midlands Police were warned more than 100 predominantly white children - some as young as 13 - were at serious risk of child exploitation five years ago.
A document entitled 'Problem Profile, Operation Protection' from March 2010 reveals Asian gangs targeted schools and children's homes across the force area.
The report, written for senior officers, also reveals how white girls were used to recruit other vulnerable victims on behalf of the gangs.
But there were fears over a row ahead of the May 2010 General Election and an English Defence League rally in April leading to a 'backlash against law abiding citizens from Asian/Pakistani communities'....
Labour's 'secret plan' to lure migrants
The release of a previously unseen document suggested that Labour's migration policy over the past decade had been aimed not just at meeting the country's economic needs, but also the Government's "social objectives".
The paper said migration would "enhance economic growth" and made clear that trying to halt or reverse it could be "economically damaging". But it also stated that immigration had general "benefits" and that a new policy framework was needed to "maximise" the contribution of migration to the Government's wider social aims. ...
Just who are the barbarians in this sad story?
What exactly has Britain, or any other European country for that matter, gained by allowing the absolute scum of the Earth, members of the worst fucking culture that ever existed, settle in their island?
Islamic civilization is one giant steaming pile of shit, and it's well past time for people to start saying that.
In that case, you might want to put "civilization" in quotes...
I agree.
Well, the Labour Party gains votes, which is really all that matters to them.
You know who else withheld bombshell reports in advance of an election?
Charles Foster Kane?
Castro?
Billy Mitchell?
Mother acquitted of dangerous driving after court finds meth had a 'positive effect' on her driving skills
more
Dr. Johnny Fever.
+ 1 Fish Story
+1 Defying science and a state trooper.
A hoverboard from Lexus only works in a controlled environment and was designed for an ad campaign only.
Wouldn't CGI have been easier?
A CGI LF-A would be cheaper too, but that doesn't buy you "prestige".
America's health care system is still broken: Why single-payer is the only thing that will ever fix it
Traditional Medicare, in contrast, spends about 2 percent on overhead.
And runs a surplus every year!
Medicare needs the multiple private payer model of Obamacare.
So does the VA health system.
Or maybe routine medical procedures need to be transacted solely between the patient and their doctor, with no third-party payments involved whatsoever, so that price signals could keep medical care actually affordable. But that's just too simple a solution, and would leave too many bureaucrats unemployed.
Even better.
If we are going to go socialist, I would much prefer a guaranteed minimum income rather than all these silly programs. Just give us the money and let us figure our own shit out.
I'd rather they never take it in the first place, but sometimes you have to live with what you got.
NPR has been running a lot of stories critical of the VA lately.
"The VA's Broken Promise To Thousands Of Vets Exposed To Mustard Gas"
"The Unfinished VA Hospital That's More Than $1 Billion Over Budget"
Then there's the LA VA hospital where the VA has been leasing space to commercial operations.
Then the story about how one VA hospital was just a bus stop veterans had to wait at to take a long bus ride to Chicago for care rather than go to a non-VA hospital across the street.
"Profits are a waste of money. Return it to the people." Familiar prog territory.
"And health-care workers will work to their fullest potential because they're doing it out of the goodness of their heart."
Rock Hudson and Bea Arthur sing about drugs
This is hilarious.
Those were the days - when a homo could BELIEVABLY keep it in the closet!
You mean Bea, right?
What was she anyway?
Chinese Stock Plunge Leaves State Media Speechless
124 percent market gain of the past 12 months.
Now that is a fucking bubble.
THE FED PRINTING MONEY!!
(wingnut explanation for everything)
How many people have dropped out of the labor force since 2008?
A few early retirees and a lot more people in college.
The LFP rate for 25-48 is about the same as 2008.
Name a time when there were more people in the workforce AFTER Obama took office than before.
Nice cherries you got there, but you're still lying.
"The LFP rate for 25-48 is about the same as 2008."
Well, assuming this is true (and I always doubt your numbers unless you provide a source), it's a good thing no one works between the ages of 48 and 65. After all, if people worked past 50 then your '25-48' number isn't particularly meaningful.
http://minion-yaoi.tumblr.com/. Probably NSFW
Some links tell you that they shouldn't be clicked on. That's one of them.
Signs Swedish QE Backfiring as Liquidity Evaporates
NeedZ moreZ VolvoZ!
I miss Saab. I'm Saad.
Brandon, is that you?
*waves Blackhawks rally towel*
Signs Swedish QE Backfiring as Liquidity Evaporates
dah - that's what the squirrels intended.
The French surrender.
Not the first time....
I had no doubt France would ban Uber. The unions own that country.
What a shit hole of a country.
The countryside is nice, but the politics are horrible
Fine, the people of France, generally speaking, are dick faces.
That's only true of Paris, not the country in general.
I'm going to guess it's true of all cab drivers, too.
That's been my experience. The folks out in the sticks are some of the most wonderful, kind, and generous people I've ever met. Parisians live in a hellhole full of dogshit and surrounded by car-burning "youths", so have an attitude to match.
War on Women?
Check out how sneeringly mean and gleeful this Gawker article is regarding Bristol Palin's unexpected pregnancy:
http://gawker.com/bristol-pali.....1714002057
Goddamn, double standard much? What if this was a woman on the left? What do you think the reaction would be? And how sick is it for Gawker to suggest an abortion just because the child may be inconvenient?
It appears they really do not give a shit about reproductive choice...
The worst part of that article is that Gawker clearly thinks 'choice' means 'you should choose how we would choose.'
As an adult, Bristol Palin obviously could get an abortion if she wanted, and her family wouldn't even have to know. So the issue isn't that Bristol Palin 'doesn't realize she has a choice,' it's that Bristol Palin has moral compunctions against abortion and has chosen not to get one based on her belief system. So Gawker's basically saying 'you must choose how we would choose, otherwise you're too stupid to realize you have a choice.'
And it takes a lot to get me to defend Bristol Palin given that she's an abstinence speaker who has now had two illegitimate children by the age of 24. If anything, maybe people should be informing her that condoms are an option.
You'd better give Irish a hat tip
*Doffs my chapeau.... looks around*
WAS THAT SO FUCKING HARD?!?!?!
*adjusts monocle*
Also, Irish:
And it takes a lot to get me to defend Bristol Palin given that she's an abstinence speaker who has now had two illegitimate children by the age of 24.
Totes on that take. Fucking annoys me - stop preaching to other people to keep their legs closed if you can't manage it yourself...
I thought we agreed on bum taps?!
*smacks Rufus on the ass*
GOOD GAME!!
If Bristol had only gone with the bum tap, she wouldn't be pregnant.
They view Alaska with the same disdain that they view the South. They're pathetic little people with no developed worldview other than it's good to emit the proper social signals.
I feel dirty having read that, but at least I was warned.
Wow, yeah, these guys are assholes.
US intel chief calls Iran the leading terror sponsor, as nuke talks enter final phase
As long as they keep the nukes and terror separate, we're good.
/John Kerry
The dean of Washington National Cathedral called Thursday for two stained glass windows that depict the controversial Confederate flag to be replaced.
They should be reassembled into new windows spelling "Black Lives Matter."
Hall said the cathedral's Confederate-themed stained glass windows were originally installed in hopes of promoting "healing and reconciliation" between North and South nearly a century after the Civil War.
Good to know that's over. Can we go back to killing each other?
If the *intent* of the windows was "healing and reconciliation" we had jolly well better leave them alone!
See? We can learn from the Taliban!
When SoCons are called "Worse than the Taliban", it really is projection, isn't it?
Those stain glassed windows better end up in a museum. Fucking purge happy progs.
ISIS offers sex slaves to winners of Koran memorization contest
That would make the national spelling bee watchable.
Pretty much every Islamic country has Quran memorization contests for boys which are indeed similar to spelling bees. However, the judges score not only on the accuracy, but also the style of recitation.
ISIS is unique only in the prizes that it awards.
What I don't get is the women from the West making the journey to go join these people. What woman would want to voluntarily enslave herself to these animals?
No wage gap? All slaves are paid the same, regardless of gender
No pressure to be thin under a burqa?
Zakat?
New species of yeti crab discovered
STEVE SMITH CRAB?
STEVE SMITH HAVE KING CRABS. NEED SPECIAL SHAMPOO
That's the real Deadliest Catch.
The Octonauts will investigate!
Not much of an existence...
Eating them would almost be doing them a favor.
"A human rights report from China criticizes the U.S. for racial discrimination and being "haunted by spreading guns.""
So that last part must be a compliment, since it shows we're protecting the human right to bear arms.
And China criticizing anyone for racial discrimination is hilarious given how the Chinese treat the Uyghurs and the animus between mainland Chinese people and Hong Kongers and the Chinese and Tibetans.
Also, don't forget the millions of dead people from the "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution". Don't forget the Tienanmen massacre.
Spreading guns are a good thing.
Unless you're talking about Saudi Arabia or something, these human rights reports about first world countries are always political nonsense based on a desire to smear a rival rather than make a rational point. The UN Human Rights commission currently has Iran on its board and they went and lectured Japan about Japanese race relations, as if that matters at all compared to the crimes of the Iranians who were doing the lecturing.
+1 "And you lynch Negroes?" Soviet smear
I found some pamphlets from the USSR in my grandparents' house after they did. One of them said in the USSR, "the only protected minority are children".
Because in the USSR, they just exclude people based on their fifth line.
Yeah-k.
China.
Please.
It's actually not that common to require racial discrimination around the world the way affirmative action is practiced in the US. Most countries officially claim that all their citizens should be treated equally. Affirmative action is a form of institutionalized racial discrimination and a legitimate reason to criticize the US.
"Meanwhile, an attack on an American-owned chemical plant in Lyons included a decapitation and a failed attempt at blowing the factory up."
Obama Birdman's first words: 'Were there any Confederate flags in the building? And Frunce is advanced, correct? Where's my Fun Facts book for Juniors!?'
I'm pretty sure that the first words were something to the effect of "Let me be clear: this attack had nothing to do with Islam, the religion of peace."
The truth about TV's rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity, on screen and off
How about you first fix rape on campuses, especially ones involving broken glass tables and mattresses, and then we'll talk fixing rape on TV.
How do these people even function in society?
They apply for positions at Slate and the NYT.
Poorly, which is why Salon can get away with paying them very little.
Our $335 Million Power Plant Outside Kabul Is Operating at 2% Capacity
Kabul relies, mostly, on the dam in Surobi for electricity. No way the Afghans can afford fuel of any type for a conventional plant.
Agency for International Development invested $335 million in the plant
I'm not sure they're using "invested" correctly. That term implies a future benefit. This is more of a jobs-program labor expense with possibly some scrap value.
Yeah, that metal will all end up in a Pakistani mill, with various Afghans getting the salvage price.
"Invest" also implies that there are "investors" as opposed to taxpayers who don't bring their money to the table voluntarily. But how else could you expect to finance thoroughly bad ideas if not by forcing people to "invest" as taxpayers?
Progressives Can't Stand that Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley Don't See Themselves as Victims of the White Man
Also, this: it is uncool to attack Carson, but it is okay to attack Ted Cruz (like Mark Halperin did) or Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley.
It looks like there is a pecking order of who you can spew racism on.
Why liberal racists are attacking Bobby Jindal
Ben Carson is also a brilliant doctor and decent individual I hear.
The left prefer their leaders possess flawed morals and mediocre minds with questionable job descriptions.
And Carson is a political idiot.
Takes one to know one, eh shriek?
I'll put you down as a vote for Carson.
Cancels out your vote for Bernie.
We already know whose ass you're brown-nosing.
Well Ben Carson doesn't axe questions, he asks them. If I'm going to vote for a black man, I want him to be authentic. He needs to speak like he doesn't know how and wear his pants like he doesn't own a belt. That'll prove he's not trying to act white. /Unspoken Proggy preference
Would that make him a cigar-store indian? [ducks]
*flings empty foil roll*
'Hey, Jerry look what I got!'
Also correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't Indians always viewed themselves as being white?
Believe it or not, some of us even look almost white. If you go to the northwest or far north, you have people who supposedly have Greek blood in them from intermarriages with Alexander's army. Some of Alexander's generals' daughters married Indian princes as a way of easing Greek rule over the northwest. If you go to the northeast, you will find people who have East Asian features. And in the deep South, people supposedly have links to Australian aborigines. Some of it is just speculation, but India is too complex and mixed to categorize into neat little buckets.
Not only are northern Indians (minimally) descended from Alexander's army, but they are a sub-group of European ethnic and language families themselves. They put the Indo in Indo-European after all.
Yeah, the many Indians I work with are all different shades.
I've known quite a few Indians who could easily pass as a southern European ethnicity.
Pretty sure that theory of the Kalash (and other mountain peoples in the area) ancestry has been debunked.
I worked with some people from Kashmir? they looked Greek to me.
Plus I've read a number of history, and geography books written in the 1800s, and they all considered Indians to be white as well. This whole Indians are not white idea seems to be a more recent thing. Perhaps an attempt by Progs to splinter off another group of people they can then label as victims?
That is what Gandhi's first claim to fame is ? he got the Afrikaaner governments to recognize Indians as white.
I thought they were Asian.
Linguistically, their languages are related to European languages (thus, Indo-European).
And genetically. They, the Iranians, Afghans (Pashtuns), and the Kurds are all Indo-European groups.
Only the Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi (and old Sanskrit). The Dravidian languages are in their own branch.
They are caucasian.
Principals, not principles.
Lefties should celebrate that we're becoming more like Europe every day.
Because non-whites are Indian-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc., not American.
Kevin Williamson nailed it here:
Escape socialism, emigrate to America, work hard and succeed, and then get punished and sneered especially if you are vocal about policies in your home country that caused you to emigrate in the first place.
That just about describes it.
Video Shows Harlem Prisoner Fleeing Police
Needs more Yakety Sax. Obviously there's no weight requirements once you're a detective, guy is handcuffed and still out-running the waddlers by 50 feet.
I blame DeBlasio.
Seriously, I should never be surprised, but I am always surprised at how heavy many members of the NYPD are.
BLOOOOOMBERG!!1!
The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the [Lyons] suspect had been known to the intelligence services and had been under surveillance
One surmises that's why he succeeded only in the decapitation part of his attack.
We're all responsible for the death of Britain's fattest man
It wasn't his fault! We didn't understand his root causes! Plus _teh science_ says that it was determined by events in the womb!
I'll take collective guilt for $800 Alex.
"Anal Bum Cover" for $200.
It is society's fault. It paid him welfare benefits to subsidise his lifestyle.
I understand that this man suffered depression, and I'm not indifferent to his mental suffering, but let's not pretend incentives didn't play a role here. It's easier to eat yourself to death, instead of dragging yourself to therapy, when you know that you don't have to hold down a job to pay for your preferred self-medication
But how many people can die doing what they love?
+1 Turducken
I blame the person who kept bringing him food after he got too fat to move.
Seriously, no one should ever be too fat too move. When they get that way, don't bring them food and they will eventually lose enough weight to move again.
No patterns here. These could have just as easily been Taoist, Confucian or Christian terrorists. Derp.
Like President Obama has said, "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state."
So, no, there are no patterns here. None at all.
In other news, the US has always been at war with ISIL.
It's just a weird coincidence that the universe would have all of this religiously fueled violence befall that one particular part of the world. It's got nothing to do with the cultures that predominate there obviously. It's like supernovae, you just never know where and when it's going to happen next because there are absolutely no predictors.
Really interesting, albeit longish, piece on the violence of the American left in the 1970s, in The Nation, would you believe.
Nostalgia for the good ol' days.
^This.
Does it give off a sense of longing in tone?
Phrases such as "narcissistic violence" and "Bill Ayers... creepily evasive" would suggest otherwise
And phrases like "ignorant goodwill" suggests he ultimately thinks their goals were noble. Because leftism means never saying your ideology is putrid and anti-human.
That phrase does not suggest it. He's describing the ignorant, mushy, let's help people and be compassionate! middle-class lefties who are basically so unable to think through their own positions that they support anti-human positions. The sort of people who vote Green and drive me up the walls with the earnestness, smugness, and inability to see that their goodwill is fundamentally ineffective because their politics are so awful.
Then again, he writes for the The Nation, so maybe he does.
The "ignorant goodwill" describes knuckleheads like the New York Episcopalian Diocese that gave office space to FALN's ostensibly non-violent political wing, Jane Fonda who celebrated the antics of the New Left, and Maestro Leonard Bernstein who entertained the Black Panthers as the radical chic.
When I was a kid it was the lefties who hated government most (Vietnam, lack of civil rights, police brutality).
Now it is conservatives that hate government (teaching evolution in schools, no school prayer, legal abortion).
Good stuff.
Conservatives love government (foreign wars, drug war, military spending, protect the borders, respect the police...)
Leftists may have hated their contemporary overlords. But they would have loved to have imposed a vaguely leftist totalitarian regime.They were never really 'anti-government' and have never been.
The left doesn't understand the distinction between government and society, so when they demand "Power to the people!" what they want is a more powerful government.
I agree with that. In the 60s and 70s lefties didn't have the right type of type of government - thus hated it.
Yeah. It wasn't remotely communist. Now they like it a lot more.
This is why any type of hyphenated anarchism (apart from anarcho-capitalism*) is bullshit. Ultimately they either rest upon an assumption we'll all spontaneously want to form workers' collectives, primitive societies etc, or that we'll all be forced into their preferred model by some coercive force that isn't government-government.
* because it leaves you the option of fucking off and forming your own little primitive Gaia-worshipping syndicalist shithole if you want
Of all the schools that claim to be "anarchy", the only one that actually deals with real anarchy is anarcho-capitalism and it's trouble-making cousin agorism. Every other variety; synicalists, communists, greens et cetera, all require a centralized institution with a monopoly on law making and is the ultimate arbiter of legitimate violence. Which you or I would call a state, but they would surely call by some other euphemism.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
All hyphenated anarchism is stupid. You've either got anarchy or you don't. Hyphenating it implies that there will be some kind of mechanism to enforce the style of anarchism that exists.
Bear cam is back! Watch live feeds of Alaskan bears at national park
Who or what are they feeding, alive, to the bears?
Who or what are they feeding, alive, to the bears?
Salmon mostly, with an occasional idiot thrown in.
Idiot remain a part of the bear diet at Yellowstone, IIRC.
I think that's Jellystone you're thinking of.
So relaxing! thanks so much, Grand!
OK, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary ? but do you know what 'cis' means?
I can't make heads or tails of the whole damn thing.
"cis" is not actually a formal word itself, but rather a prefix indicating normativity. Cisgendered vs transgendered. Now, the prefix itself is often used as a verbal abbreviation for the full term.
I can't make heads or tails of the whole damn thing
I believe that's the point. The incessant complication of language and ever-shifting meanings are part of the process. It's nice to know the Supreme Court is on board too.
Seriously though, I believe that the increasing divisions of people into smaller and smaller groups (greater than one of course) is a point of pride and a tool to confuse those who do not subscribe to the social justice worldview. They thrive on complication.
I'll clarify a little more. The meanings are not necessarily shifting, but the number of buckets that people are to be sorted into are multiplying exponentially. Each bucket has its own particular list of grievances and/or privileges that provide a never ending source of material for senior theses.
Yet the recognition that the smallest minority is the individual is outright rejected.
"gender non-conforming" ... describes anyone who doesn't quite fit into generally agreed expectations of gender.
Emphasis added. Well, that should queer clear it up for you, Slammer.
You use 'cis' instead of saying 'normal' .
See?
Yo, Krayewski, that city in France is Lyon (no "s").
LA PWNED
He needs to tow the Lyon!
*narrows gaze*
Oh shit! She flipped the script!
I...I...don't know what to do?!
Widen gaze? Or, as we say around here - manspread your gaze.
See? The enlightened Chinese, with their grinding rural poverty and income inequality say we shouldn't have gunz!
Uyghur? I hardly know her!
Uyghur? I hardly know her!
Looks like you Uyghur'ed her twice
rimshot!
OT: a project that I've been working on - sure to make OMWC cringe.
A New Dynaco PAS tube preamplifier
Without the tubes plugged in it has all the sex appeal of a toaster
You've never wanted to make sweet sweet love to your toaster?
(Blushes)
So today is the last day of our two-week extension as the idiots here try to hammer our our contract's option year. Who knows - maybe I'll be spending a lot more time at reason, elevating my uncouthiness to new heights.
Excellent!
*rubs hands together with glee*
Question: if your squeeze has been away for more than a month (working for a *gasp* union), is it acceptable to ask him to help you do some physical labor, such as getting rid of an old couch which needs to be carried down three flights of stairs?*
*(of course there will also be a steak and BJ. I'm not some third wave feminist, you know!)
"of course there will also be a steak and BJ"
For that, I'd carry the whole damned USS Iowa down three flights of stairs.
LMFAO
As long as those two are involved you can ask for anything.
As long as it's not the first request coming thru the door, then yes.
Well, shit. Looks like I need to get my ass to the store for some ribeyes.
My kinda woman...
Terror in France, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Somalia
Religion of peace.
So I just got a new phone
It just alerted me that the SCOTUS has made gay marriage a constitutional right.
I'd be happier if it didn't seem like free speech and rule of law took kicks in the nuts this week as well
Also - seriously, scotus should really make more effort to make the morning links
Damned inconsiderate of them!
The gay marriage opinion is posted
Next up, the gleeful filing of suit by polygamists?
"And in a rare double whammy ruling, the court also finds polygamy constitutional."
"I can't wait to tell my husband!"
I hope so.
what about polyandrists? are they chopped liver
psst! 'polygamy' covers polyandry ANd polygyny--it's the catch all. But don't worry--it'll be replaced with 'polyamory' soon.
Good news, indeed.
A great line from the Chief Justice's dissent:
"But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority's approach is deeply disheartening."
The complete lack of self-awareness would be amusing if it were so terrifying
Did he recently come out saying that he believes in a government of men making bad "political choices"?
RobertsCare is fucking with us. It must be trolling as performance art at the highest level ever seen.
So, I guess this should also apply to CCW licensing, in the interest of consistency?
silly teabagger, rights are for progs
A police officer can be fired: Officer Fired After Posting Photo Of Himself In Confederate Flag Boxer Shorts On Facebook
For those of you who want to skip right to the photo, here it is.
We need Warty to make fun of that guys lack of any visible muscle.
He's not in our current timeframe. I will have to take on the task.
He looks like a human tube of GoGurt.
I can't top that. Kudos.
That guy's picture is in the dick-tionary next to "dad bod"
Did ya'll read this Balko? Great stuff.
pooping in their houses is a childish step too far.
Our heros in blue are classy. Don't worry, the union covers this.
I will try to replace this with how much is a hoverboard to get real solution.