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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

Ed Krayewski | 6.26.2015 9:00 AM

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    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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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Former Walter Mondale campaign manager Bob Beckel has been dropped by Fox News.

    Too many f-bombs?

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      Does Tunisia qualify as an ‘advanced nation’?

      1. fleshy wavefunction   10 years ago

        Tunisia, France and Kuwait are not advanced nations. Somalia would be if it weren’t for their old-school libertarianism.

    2. SIV   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

        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.

        1. Juice   10 years ago

          or more likely completely insufferable

      2. Drake   10 years ago

        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.

        1. WTF   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Root Boy   10 years ago

            They should hire Jeannine Garafalo for the 5.

    3. fleshy wavefunction   10 years ago

      Pretty sure it was an Rx med problem.

  2. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    Please mind the gap between your leap and the platform edge: Idiotic subway rider jumps across tracks – but falls sorely short
    Man was captured on video running toward edge of a subway platform
    Then bent his knees and leaped into the air as stunned riders watched
    But at last moment, his feet missed edge of opposite platform by inches
    His head smashed onto the ground, causing him to rebound onto tracks
    Luckily for him, there was no train in sight and he missed the third rail
    Despite his plunge, rider heaved himself onto platform and walked off
    The incident occurred at 145th subway station in Harlem, New York City

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..short.html
    He ain’t no Ninja Warrior, that’s for sure.

    1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      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.

  3. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    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?!

    1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      +2 symmetrical neckties

  4. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    The ‘handsome gorilla’ driving Japanese girls mad: Australian-raised ape finds fame as women flock to the zoo to see him because he is ‘so good-looking’
    Shabani the gorilla lives in Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan
    He has attracted a large following of admirers who visit him because he is so ‘handsome’ and ‘good-looking’
    The gorilla was raised at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo but moved to Japan in 2007

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..t-him.html
    Japanese people are weird.

    1. LynchPin1477   10 years ago

      He can’t be that good looking if he doesn’t have any tentacles.

    2. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      Japanese dudes need to up their game. Maybe we can export Mystery and he can show them how.

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Our exports of felt top hats and fuzzy boas would skyrocket.

        1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

          “It’s called ‘peacockin’.'”

      2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        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…

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          Obligatory South Park.

          1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

            “so small”

            never gets old.

        2. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

          Maybe they secretly wish the American GIs would come back.

        3. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

          I just finished reading a detailed account of the battle for Tarawa (Betio)

          Apparently the Japanese have mellowed

          1. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

            You know it’s truly incredible just how much the culture there has changed. Baffling really.

            1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

              Agreed. +1000

            2. Ivan Pike   10 years ago

              You know it’s truly incredible just how much the culture there has changed. Baffling really.

              Here too.

          2. Drake   10 years ago

            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.”

    3. gaijin   10 years ago

      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. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        + 1 erotic asphyxiation

      2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        We keep our real apes here

        1. gaijin   10 years ago

          Strangely addicting…especially the bridge

    4. Florida Man   10 years ago

      I prefer this Gorilla

    5. Chipper Chipping Rodrigue   10 years ago

      Actually, that gorilla is pretty good-looking. For a gorilla.

  5. WoodchipperFocus(ed)   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      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.

  6. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    Rumer Willis flashes taut tummy as she walks Amy premiere red carpet in flats… after fracturing foot on DWTS live tour

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..-tour.html
    What the fuck is wrong with her face? She looks like a mutant.

    1. WoodchipperFocus(ed)   10 years ago

      She has a huge jaw.

      1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        Looks like one of the infected on I Am Legend, only with hair.

        1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          She should be in “The Hills Have Eyes” 3….

          1. Florida Man   10 years ago

            *smells fingers*

            WOOOOOOO!!!

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      Yeah, she’s kinda scary.

    3. egould310 reppin' LBC   10 years ago

      She’s a cross between Demi Moore and Bruce Wilis.

      1. Drake   10 years ago

        More like she was assembled from their parts. The top half of face is Demi, the bottom is Bruce.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          Yeah, she didn’t get the right parts from Mom

          1. Chinny Chin Chin   10 years ago

            Mom’s right parts are mostly silicon, so…

    4. gaijin   10 years ago

      She looks like a mutant.

      Stop spreading rumers!

  7. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Enjoy Every Sandwich   10 years ago

      Well, he can’t call it terrorism; after all, the attackers weren’t waving a Confederate flag.

      1. wareagle   10 years ago

        and the assailant likely was not a white boy from the deep, terrible South.

  8. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Your Porn Addiction Isn’t Real
    The brains of those ‘addicted’ to porn bear no neurological resemblance to those of other well-documented addictions while watching it, says a new study.

    1. LynchPin1477   10 years ago

      They would have known that if they just consulted this handy pie chart.

      1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

        That needs to be a Venn diagram with overlapping areas.

    2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      It is real!

    3. straffinrun   10 years ago

      I use Youjizz for my research. It’s a fountain of knowledge.

      1. Mr Lizard   10 years ago

        Fortunately we can’t actually see what you did there

        1. Florida Man   10 years ago

          Here you go:

          0-:
          8===)~~~~~ 0-:
          0-:

          Also fuck the reason writers that say we are crude scum.

          1. Florida Man   10 years ago

            Goddamn margin correcting format!!!

    4. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      Unlike cocaine for example, porn does not make the user think “I want more!” afterward.

      Therefore it cannot be an addiction.

    5. Je suis Woodchipper   10 years ago

      Which brain did they scan?

  9. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Study: Austerity in Greece led to tragic increase of 35% in suicides in just two years

    “Our main finding was that after 2010, when harsh austerity measures were implemented in Greece, we noted a significant increase in suicide rates for the years 2011 and 2012 in comparison to the period between 2003 and 2010,” George Rachiotis, MD, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and occupational hygiene, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, told Medscape Medical News.

    “In addition, we found that there was a significant correlation between suicide rates with an increase in unemployment in Greece, where unemployment has almost doubled [since 2009] and is now approaching 30%.”

    1. Florida Man   10 years ago

      Looks like the market is correcting itself, far too many useless people.

      1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

        Progressives actually think that we feel this way

      2. Mr Lizard   10 years ago

        Culling the herd is critical to maintaining a steady food supply.

    2. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      Works for me. Can we get austerity here?

    3. Citizen Nothing   10 years ago

      How can that be? They don’t have guns.

    4. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

      Now we’re talking!

      Austerity ~= Climate Change

    5. WTF   10 years ago

      Of course, Greece never really took any actions that would even remotely resemble real austerity.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        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.

  10. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    Eugenie Bouchard and Urszula Radwanska attempt to steal Maria Sharapova’s style crown as they sport VERY daring gowns at pre-Wimbledon party

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..party.html

    Dang. That’s almost enough to get me to watch tennis.

    1. Old Man With Gag Order   10 years ago

      Sharapova’s dress is remarkably hideous. Not that I would care…

      1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        I would look better on the floor.

        1. straffinrun   10 years ago

          Really?

          1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

            *It*

        2. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

          drink (even) more

      2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        And her shoes! Ugh! What is this, 2004?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          I was thinking 2003.

          1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

            What are you two, the Manolo twins?

            1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

              With that attitude I assume you are the sort of guy who wears these

              1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

                Ha! How did you get those out of Tulpa’s closet?

                1. Root Boy   10 years ago

                  maybe they were worn at the WPGA ball?

            2. Brett L   10 years ago

              AIIIIIIII!

  11. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    ‘It doesn’t matter how ordinary you think you are’: Hiro Nakamura and HRG return in dark first trailer for Heroes Reborn

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..eborn.html
    No Ali Larter.
    =-(

  12. Bam!   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Wait…they aren’t?!

    2. Juice   10 years ago

      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.

  13. Rich   10 years ago

    haunted by spreading guns

    Nice album name.

    1. egould310 reppin' LBC   10 years ago

      Finally! You are finally starting to get the difference between band name and album name. This IS a nice album name.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Gee, thanks! 😎

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Nobody makes albums anymore!

        1. Rich   10 years ago

          Albumen do.

          1. gaijin   10 years ago

            nice!

        2. fleshy wavefunction   10 years ago

          Album has kind of evolved to mean “a group of songs released together,” which I’m ok with.

          1. Juice   10 years ago

            That’s what it has always meant.

  14. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    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.”…

    1. The Last American Hero   10 years ago

      I’m sure La Raza will be all over this one.

    2. wareagle   10 years ago

      in the next round of Prog Wars: union thugs vs latinos. Which favored constituency will advance?

      1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

        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.

        1. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

          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.

          1. NotAnotherSkippy   10 years ago

            Find new latinos.

          2. Illocust   10 years ago

            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.

  15. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    …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.

    1. JMC1607   10 years ago

      Nice.

  16. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    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….

    1. LynchPin1477   10 years ago

      Intentions only matter when it helps the government.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        21st century is going to be so much fun!

  17. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    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.

  18. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    Living on the edge! Stunning images show daredevil couple cling on to Rio de Janeiro’s 2,769-foot Pedra de Gavea to ‘feel alive’
    Leonardo Edson Pereira, 23, and Victoria Medeiros Nader, 18, fearlessly hang off 2,769-foot-high Pedra de Gavea
    They climb up the rock and dangle off it in a series of breathtaking images with Rio de Janeiro in the background
    Leonardo said they do it for a thrill: ‘I know people think it’s dangerous and crazy but it makes me feel alive’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tra…..alive.html
    I get butterflies just looking at the pictures.

    1. LynchPin1477   10 years ago

      Meh. Have sex while dangling from a cliff, maybe then I’ll be impressed.

    2. Azathoth!!   10 years ago

      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.

  19. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    The Hopping Dead: a nine-minute teaser for a horror movie with a zombie kangaroo

    1. Root Boy   10 years ago

      Kiwi’s beat you to it with Black Sheep

  20. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    King v. Burwell and the Triumph of the Administrative State

    Scalia’s dissent is a blistering critique not only of Roberts’s deeply flawed opinion in Burwell, but of an entire philosophy of governance that has gained ascendancy in America over the past century: rule by decree. Scholars often point to the Progressive era, beginning more or less with President Woodrow Wilson, as the inauguration of the administrative state and the decline of the rule of law. But the tendency to rule by decree goes back much farther, centuries back, although for much of that time it was known by another name ? prerogative.

    Renowned Columbia Law School professor Philip Hamburger wrote a book last year entitled “Is Administrative Law Unlawful?” The book traced the lineage of administrative law back to royal prerogative ? the notion that a monarch’s proclamations carry the force of law even though they are not, in fact, law. Hamburger offers myriad examples of prerogative but one from 1539 stands out. Henry VIII induced Parliament that year to pass the Act of Proclamations, allowing the king to “set forth . . . proclamations, under such penalties and pains” the king deemed “necessary and requisite.” The king’s proclamations “shall be obeyed, observed, and kept as though they were made by act of Parliament.”

    1. WTF   10 years ago

      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.

  21. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    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’….

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      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. …

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Just who are the barbarians in this sad story?

    3. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        In that case, you might want to put “civilization” in quotes…

      2. JMC1607   10 years ago

        I agree.

      3. WTF   10 years ago

        Well, the Labour Party gains votes, which is really all that matters to them.

    4. Jerryskids   10 years ago

      You know who else withheld bombshell reports in advance of an election?

      1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

        Charles Foster Kane?

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Castro?

      3. Chinny Chin Chin   10 years ago

        Billy Mitchell?

  22. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Mother acquitted of dangerous driving after court finds meth had a ‘positive effect’ on her driving skills

    more

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      Dr. Johnny Fever.

      1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        + 1 Fish Story

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        +1 Defying science and a state trooper.

  23. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    A hoverboard from Lexus only works in a controlled environment and was designed for an ad campaign only.

    Wouldn’t CGI have been easier?

    1. Florida Man   10 years ago

      A CGI LF-A would be cheaper too, but that doesn’t buy you “prestige”.

  24. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    America’s health care system is still broken: Why single-payer is the only thing that will ever fix it

    A few years back, as described in a New York Times story headlined, “The President Wants You to Get Rich on Obamacare,” Thomas Scully ? who comfortably alternates between working as a government administrator and a government lobbyist ? tried to alleviate the concerns of a room of investors about Obamacare at the “21” Club in New York.

    “It’s not a government takeover of medicine,” he was quoted by the Times as saying, “It’s the privatization of health care.” As the Times put it, “Billions could flow from Washington to Wall Street, indeed.”

    Next question: Why should we care, if the insured are being covered in the process? Well, we should care because our corporate health care compromise comes at a serious cost.

    First, it’s a waste of good money. Private insurers have notoriously high overhead: They spend perhaps 12 percent of your premium on administration and profits. Traditional Medicare, in contrast, spends about 2 percent on overhead. A recent analysis found that the insurance expansion under the ACA has been particularly costly from this perspective, with about $1,375 spent on overhead for each newly insured person.

    1. gaijin   10 years ago

      Traditional Medicare, in contrast, spends about 2 percent on overhead.

      And runs a surplus every year!

      1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

        Medicare needs the multiple private payer model of Obamacare.

        So does the VA health system.

        1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

            Even better.

        2. Don Mynack   10 years ago

          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.

        3. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

          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.

    2. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      “Profits are a waste of money. Return it to the people.” Familiar prog territory.

      1. Rhywun   10 years ago

        “And health-care workers will work to their fullest potential because they’re doing it out of the goodness of their heart.”

  25. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Rock Hudson and Bea Arthur sing about drugs

    1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      This is hilarious.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        Those were the days – when a homo could BELIEVABLY keep it in the closet!

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          You mean Bea, right?

          What was she anyway?

  26. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Chinese Stock Plunge Leaves State Media Speechless

    Just how much China’s state media are used to telegraph government views on the markets is the subject of debate. Xinhua, founded in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, didn’t answer calls to its news hotline seeking comment.

    But analysts agree that Xinhua, a ministry-level government department, is too powerful to ignore. If nothing else, reports and commentary by state media sway investor psychology and can turn a rout into a rally — or vice versa.

    “Investing in China stocks means you have to follow state media,” said Nelson Yan, the chief investment officer at the Hong Kong unit of Changjiang Securities Co. Government policy, after all, has been largely behind the world-beating 124 percent market gain of the past 12 months.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      124 percent market gain of the past 12 months.

      Now that is a fucking bubble.

      THE FED PRINTING MONEY!!

      (wingnut explanation for everything)

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        How many people have dropped out of the labor force since 2008?

        1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

          A few early retirees and a lot more people in college.

          The LFP rate for 25-48 is about the same as 2008.

          1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

            Name a time when there were more people in the workforce AFTER Obama took office than before.

          2. NotAnotherSkippy   10 years ago

            Nice cherries you got there, but you’re still lying.

          3. Irish Says Enough Woodchippers   10 years ago

            “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.

  27. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    http://minion-yaoi.tumblr.com/. Probably NSFW

    1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      Some links tell you that they shouldn’t be clicked on. That’s one of them.

  28. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Signs Swedish QE Backfiring as Liquidity Evaporates

    It’s probably not what the Riksbank expected.

    Quantitative easing is supposed to drive down longer-dated yields. But as investors obsess over market depth, the Riksbank’s bond purchases are undermining liquidity and driving Swedish yields higher.

    “The financial conditions — the currency and the bond yields — are moving in the wrong direction,” Roger Josefsson, chief economist at Danske Bank A/S in Stockholm, said by phone. The assumption is that “the Riksbank wants yields to go down and the krona to weaken, but it’s been the opposite direction recently. That should pose a problem.”

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      NeedZ moreZ VolvoZ!

      I miss Saab. I’m Saad.

      1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

        Brandon, is that you?

        *waves Blackhawks rally towel*

  29. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Signs Swedish QE Backfiring as Liquidity Evaporates

    It’s probably not what the Riksbank expected.

    Quantitative easing is supposed to drive down longer-dated yields. But as investors obsess over market depth, the Riksbank’s bond purchases are undermining liquidity and driving Swedish yields higher.

    “The financial conditions — the currency and the bond yields — are moving in the wrong direction,” Roger Josefsson, chief economist at Danske Bank A/S in Stockholm, said by phone. The assumption is that “the Riksbank wants yields to go down and the krona to weaken, but it’s been the opposite direction recently. That should pose a problem.”

    1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      dah – that’s what the squirrels intended.

  30. Old Man With Gag Order   10 years ago

    The French surrender.

    1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      Not the first time….

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      I had no doubt France would ban Uber. The unions own that country.

      1. Florida Man   10 years ago

        What a shit hole of a country.

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          The countryside is nice, but the politics are horrible

          1. Florida Man   10 years ago

            Fine, the people of France, generally speaking, are dick faces.

            1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

              That’s only true of Paris, not the country in general.

              1. Rhywun   10 years ago

                I’m going to guess it’s true of all cab drivers, too.

              2. Old Man With Gag Order   10 years ago

                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.

  31. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

    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?

    1. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

      It appears they really do not give a shit about reproductive choice…

    2. Irish Says Enough Woodchippers   10 years ago

      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.

    3. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      You’d better give Irish a hat tip

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        *Doffs my chapeau…. looks around*

        WAS THAT SO FUCKING HARD?!?!?!

        *adjusts monocle*

        1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          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…

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        I thought we agreed on bum taps?!

        1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          *smacks Rufus on the ass*

          GOOD GAME!!

        2. WTF   10 years ago

          If Bristol had only gone with the bum tap, she wouldn’t be pregnant.

    4. Lee G   10 years ago

      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.

    5. Rhywun   10 years ago

      I feel dirty having read that, but at least I was warned.

    6. Illocust   10 years ago

      Wow, yeah, these guys are assholes.

  32. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    US intel chief calls Iran the leading terror sponsor, as nuke talks enter final phase

    The nation’s top intelligence official labeled Iran the leading state sponsor of terrorism and called the regime — and its proxy Hezbollah — the single most important factors keeping Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in power, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

    The warning comes as Obama administration officials enter the final phase of nuclear negotiation with Tehran. But despite the diplomatic track, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assailed the country’s role in destabilizing the region in the letter to Republican senators.

    1. Root Boy   10 years ago

      As long as they keep the nukes and terror separate, we’re good.

      /John Kerry

  33. Rich   10 years ago

    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.”

    1. SIV   10 years ago

      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?

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        If the *intent* of the windows was “healing and reconciliation” we had jolly well better leave them alone!

      2. Igor   10 years ago

        See? We can learn from the Taliban!

        When SoCons are called “Worse than the Taliban”, it really is projection, isn’t it?

    2. Illocust   10 years ago

      Those stain glassed windows better end up in a museum. Fucking purge happy progs.

  34. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    ISIS offers sex slaves to winners of Koran memorization contest

    To the mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Islamic State goons in Syria are holding a grotesque “Koran memorization contest” in which the winners will be awarded female child sex slaves.

    The news of the contest spread across social media on Wednesday. The contests are slated to be held in various ISIS-run mosques in Syria.

    The situation for Syrian women has worsened since ISIS forces captured swaths of the country last year.

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      That would make the national spelling bee watchable.

      1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

        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.

    2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      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?

      1. lap83   10 years ago

        No wage gap? All slaves are paid the same, regardless of gender

      2. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

        No pressure to be thin under a burqa?

      3. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

        Zakat?

  35. Slammer   10 years ago

    New species of yeti crab discovered

    A new species of yeti crab, only the third known to science, was discovered for the first time in the cold waters of Antarctica, living in a harsher environment and clustered more closely together than its relatives.

    White, hairy Kiwa tyleri, ranging in size from under an inch to 6 inches, were found living on top of each “like beans in a jar” in 8,500-feet of water near hydrothermal vents of the East Scotia Ridge,

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      STEVE SMITH CRAB?

      1. Dark Lord of the wood chipper   10 years ago

        STEVE SMITH HAVE KING CRABS. NEED SPECIAL SHAMPOO

        1. WTF   10 years ago

          That’s the real Deadliest Catch.

    2. Je suis Woodchipper   10 years ago

      The Octonauts will investigate!

    3. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      Not much of an existence…

      1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

        Eating them would almost be doing them a favor.

  36. Irish Says Enough Woodchippers   10 years ago

    “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.

    1. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

      “A human rights report from China criticizes the U.S. for racial discrimination and being “haunted by spreading guns.””

      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.

      1. Irish Says Enough Woodchippers   10 years ago

        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. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

          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

          +1 “And you lynch Negroes?” Soviet smear

          1. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

            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.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Yeah-k.

      China.

      Please.

    3. grrizzly   10 years ago

      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.

  37. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

    “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!?’

    1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

      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.”

  38. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    The truth about TV’s rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity, on screen and off

    My complaint with these plots, over and over, is that the stories?usually written and directed by men, despite progress in gender equity?is that so often they focus on the feelings of the men in the story, at the expense of the victims’. But I can see why they focus on the men; the men, as the overwhelmingly more likely perpetrators, present a greater puzzle for us. It would be simpler to dismiss all rapists as monsters, but when so many are fathers, brothers, friends, boyfriends, it becomes harder and harder to do. Sexual assault has only existed the way we think about it for a few decades, and we are still trying to figure out how to address it?how to change the way this world functioned for millennia, and still functions in pockets of untouched refuge all over the world. I don’t particularly have a solution for how to “fix” rape on television; it’s graphic, brutal, violent, and horrible, to the point that it is very difficult to watch, hard to explain, confusing to discuss.

    1. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

      I don’t particularly have a solution for how to “fix” rape on television

      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.

    2. Rhywun   10 years ago

      difficult to watch, hard to explain, confusing to discuss

      How do these people even function in society?

      1. Igor   10 years ago

        They apply for positions at Slate and the NYT.

      2. SugarFree   10 years ago

        Poorly, which is why Salon can get away with paying them very little.

  39. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Our $335 Million Power Plant Outside Kabul Is Operating at 2% Capacity

    The U.S. Agency for International Development invested $335 million in the plant, and yet there are reports of electrical shortages in Kabul following avalanches in northern Afghanistan in February 2015. Despite the usual cost overruns and problems during construction, the power plant was ultimately handed over to the Afghan government in June 2010.

    Last year, the USAID Office of Inspector General completed a review assessing the power plant, concluding that the power plant is severely underused, operating at just 2.2 percent of power production capacity, and that the Afghan national power utility could not afford to operate the power plant, with an estimated $245 million per year needed for the fuel alone.

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Kabul relies, mostly, on the dam in Surobi for electricity. No way the Afghans can afford fuel of any type for a conventional plant.

    2. Je suis Woodchipper   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

        Yeah, that metal will all end up in a Pakistani mill, with various Afghans getting the salvage price.

      2. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

        “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?

  40. Mazakon   10 years ago

    Progressives Can’t Stand that Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley Don’t See Themselves as Victims of the White Man

    1. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

      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

      (The article extolled one line of ethnic sneering as “a series of hilarious tweets.” Sample: “Bobby Jindal spends 2 hours a day in the shower scrubbing his skin with a brush & screaming ‘why won’t it come out?’ #bobbyjindalissowhite.”)

      1. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

        The reason Jindal has come in for such treatment is because he’s an eloquent advocate for integration and the promise of America. They’re not making fun of his background ? they’re treating him like the Indian Clarence Thomas.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

            And Carson is a political idiot.

            1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

              Takes one to know one, eh shriek?

              1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

                I’ll put you down as a vote for Carson.

                1. NotAnotherSkippy   10 years ago

                  Cancels out your vote for Bernie.

            2. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

              We already know whose ass you’re brown-nosing.

          2. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

            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

        2. Tonio   10 years ago

          Would that make him a cigar-store indian? [ducks]

          1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

            *flings empty foil roll*

          2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            ‘Hey, Jerry look what I got!’

      2. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

        Also correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t Indians always viewed themselves as being white?

        1. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

            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.

          2. Rhywun   10 years ago

            Yeah, the many Indians I work with are all different shades.

            1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

              I’ve known quite a few Indians who could easily pass as a southern European ethnicity.

          3. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

            Pretty sure that theory of the Kalash (and other mountain peoples in the area) ancestry has been debunked.

          4. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

            I worked with some people from Kashmir? they looked Greek to me.

        2. Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker   10 years ago

          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?

          1. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

            That is what Gandhi’s first claim to fame is ? he got the Afrikaaner governments to recognize Indians as white.

        3. Florida Man   10 years ago

          I thought they were Asian.

        4. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Linguistically, their languages are related to European languages (thus, Indo-European).

          1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

            And genetically. They, the Iranians, Afghans (Pashtuns), and the Kurds are all Indo-European groups.

          2. Juice   10 years ago

            Only the Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi (and old Sanskrit). The Dravidian languages are in their own branch.

        5. Azathoth!!   10 years ago

          They are caucasian.

      3. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        Principals, not principles.

      4. Rhywun   10 years ago

        They refuse to let him identify by his country of birth, instead forcing him to identify by the birth country of his parents.

        Lefties should celebrate that we’re becoming more like Europe every day.

        1. In League with the Dark Ones   10 years ago

          Because non-whites are Indian-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc., not American.

    2. Injun, Wood Chipper Vindaloo   10 years ago

      Kevin Williamson nailed it here:

      And Asian-Americans, whether of South Asian or East Asian origin, are, culturally speaking, a special case: They generally enjoy a high level of socio-economic success (Indian-Americans are the wealthiest U.S. ethnic group) and are not in in the main very enthusiastic practitioners of identity politics, regardless of their party affiliation. And for the Left, such success must never go unpunished.

      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.

  41. Slammer   10 years ago

    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.

    He has a tattoo that says, “Troll” and a tattoo that says “Militant Soldiers.”

    1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      I blame DeBlasio.

      Seriously, I should never be surprised, but I am always surprised at how heavy many members of the NYPD are.

      1. Rhywun   10 years ago

        BLOOOOOMBERG!!1!

  42. Rich   10 years ago

    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.

  43. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

    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!

    1. Lee G   10 years ago

      I’ll take collective guilt for $800 Alex.

      1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

        “Anal Bum Cover” for $200.

    2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      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

    3. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      But how many people can die doing what they love?

      1. Enough About Woodchippers   10 years ago

        +1 Turducken

    4. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

      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.

  44. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

    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.

    No patterns here. These could have just as easily been Taoist, Confucian or Christian terrorists. Derp.

    1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

        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.

  45. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Really interesting, albeit longish, piece on the violence of the American left in the 1970s, in The Nation, would you believe.

    1. SIV   10 years ago

      Nostalgia for the good ol’ days.

      1. Tonio   10 years ago

        ^This.

    2. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Does it give off a sense of longing in tone?

      1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        Phrases such as “narcissistic violence” and “Bill Ayers… creepily evasive” would suggest otherwise

        1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

          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.

          1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

            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.

          2. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

            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.

    3. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      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.

      1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        Conservatives love government (foreign wars, drug war, military spending, protect the borders, respect the police…)

      2. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

        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.

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          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.

        2. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

          I agree with that. In the 60s and 70s lefties didn’t have the right type of type of government – thus hated it.

          1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

            Yeah. It wasn’t remotely communist. Now they like it a lot more.

        3. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

          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

          1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

            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…

          2. Juice   10 years ago

            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.

  46. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    Bear cam is back! Watch live feeds of Alaskan bears at national park

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Who or what are they feeding, alive, to the bears?

      1. Ivan Pike   10 years ago

        Who or what are they feeding, alive, to the bears?

        Salmon mostly, with an occasional idiot thrown in.

        1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

          Idiot remain a part of the bear diet at Yellowstone, IIRC.

          1. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

            I think that’s Jellystone you’re thinking of.

    2. Slammer   10 years ago

      So relaxing! thanks so much, Grand!

  47. Slammer   10 years ago

    OK, it’s in the Oxford English Dictionary ? but do you know what ‘cis’ means?

    Having a word to describe people who are not transgender is useful and a welcome sign attitudes are changing ? but ‘cis’ still doesn’t pass the hair salon test

    I can’t make heads or tails of the whole damn thing.

    1. Tonio   10 years ago

      “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.

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Lee G   10 years ago

        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.

    3. Rich   10 years ago

      “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.

    4. Azathoth!!   10 years ago

      You use ‘cis’ instead of saying ‘normal’ .

      See?

  48. Tonio   10 years ago

    Yo, Krayewski, that city in France is Lyon (no “s”).

    1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

      LA PWNED

    2. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      He needs to tow the Lyon!

      1. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

        *narrows gaze*

        1. Florida Man   10 years ago

          Oh shit! She flipped the script!

          1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

            I…I…don’t know what to do?!

            1. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

              Widen gaze? Or, as we say around here – manspread your gaze.

  49. Kristen's Vermeer   10 years ago

    See? The enlightened Chinese, with their grinding rural poverty and income inequality say we shouldn’t have gunz!

    1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

      Uyghur? I hardly know her!

    2. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

      Uyghur? I hardly know her!

      1. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

        Looks like you Uyghur’ed her twice

      2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        rimshot!

  50. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    OT: a project that I’ve been working on – sure to make OMWC cringe.

    A New Dynaco PAS tube preamplifier

    1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

      Without the tubes plugged in it has all the sex appeal of a toaster

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        You’ve never wanted to make sweet sweet love to your toaster?

        1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

          (Blushes)

  51. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Excellent!

      *rubs hands together with glee*

  52. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

    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!)

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      “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.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        LMFAO

    2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      (of course there will also be a steak and BJ

      As long as those two are involved you can ask for anything.

    3. Lee G   10 years ago

      As long as it’s not the first request coming thru the door, then yes.

    4. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

      Well, shit. Looks like I need to get my ass to the store for some ribeyes.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        My kinda woman…

  53. Enough About Woodchippers   10 years ago

    Terror in France, Tunisia, Kuwait, and Somalia

    Religion of peace.

    1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

      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

      1. GILMORE, LVL20 Blowhard   10 years ago

        Also – seriously, scotus should really make more effort to make the morning links

        1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

          Damned inconsiderate of them!

  54. Slammer   10 years ago

    The gay marriage opinion is posted

    Held: The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage
    between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage
    between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully
    licensed and performed out-of-State.

    1. Swiss Servator, Holzhacker   10 years ago

      Next up, the gleeful filing of suit by polygamists?

      1. Stormy Dragon   10 years ago

        “And in a rare double whammy ruling, the court also finds polygamy constitutional.”

        “I can’t wait to tell my husband!”

      2. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

        Next up, the gleeful filing of suit by polygamists?

        I hope so.

      3. lap83   10 years ago

        what about polyandrists? are they chopped liver

        1. Azathoth!!   10 years ago

          psst! ‘polygamy’ covers polyandry ANd polygyny–it’s the catch all. But don’t worry–it’ll be replaced with ‘polyamory’ soon.

    2. Woodchip-o-Matic 5000   10 years ago

      Good news, indeed.

    3. Woodchip-o-Matic 5000   10 years ago

      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

      1. Free ?Woodchippers! Society   10 years ago

        Did he recently come out saying that he believes in a government of men making bad “political choices”?

      2. Je suis Woodchipper   10 years ago

        RobertsCare is fucking with us. It must be trolling as performance art at the highest level ever seen.

    4. WTF   10 years ago

      So, I guess this should also apply to CCW licensing, in the interest of consistency?

      1. lap83   10 years ago

        silly teabagger, rights are for progs

  55. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

    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.

    1. SugarFree   10 years ago

      He’s not in our current timeframe. I will have to take on the task.

      He looks like a human tube of GoGurt.

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        I can’t top that. Kudos.

      2. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

        That guy’s picture is in the dick-tionary next to “dad bod”

  56. Kristen?s Vermeer   10 years ago

    Did ya’ll read this Balko? Great stuff.

    1. Je suis Woodchipper   10 years ago

      pooping in their houses is a childish step too far.

    2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      Our heros in blue are classy. Don’t worry, the union covers this.

  57. MN Internet Marketing   7 years ago

    I will try to replace this with how much is a hoverboard to get real solution.

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