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Lafayette Theater Shooter Identified, Sandra Bland's Death Ruled Suicide, 'Threatened' L.A. Cops Tase Man in Wheelchair: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.24.2015 9:03 AM

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    A 58-year-old shooter at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater last night killed two people and injured nine others before shooting himself. Police today identified the man as John Russell Houser, from Alabama; they are not sure why he was in Lafayette. 

  • Inspectors general are asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the potentially classified emails Hillary Clinton stored in her private email account. 
  • Sandra Bland's death in her Texas jail cell was declared a suicide via hanging by the county district attorney.
  • Los Angeles authorities are investigating an incident where officers used bean-bag rounds and a Taser on a homeless man in a wheelchair; the officers allege that the man tried to attack them. 
  • Musician Chris Brown was allowed to leave the Phillipines this morning, after being trapped there for three days over allegations from Maligaya Development Corp that he backed out after accepting $1 million for a gig last New Year's Eve; in a video released yesterday, Brown pleaded with Obama for help. 

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  1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    Butt Plug is employed. No, this isn't an article about Hillary.
    WASHINGTON POST BRINGS BACK VENOMOUS ANTI-CONSERVATIVE TO COVER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

    Post blogger Weigel likes to waggle, sweat
    ...Weigel told Yeas & Nays he danced alone because his girlfriend wasn't there, she lives in Canada Alaska...

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      Yeah, we went over this a couple weeks ago. Also, I note his new job hasn't stopped him from posting here.

      1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        Although, to be fair, I don't think any of the commenters here let their jobs stand in the way of posting.

        1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

          Trolling is his job.

          1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

            Trolling is his business, and business is good.

    2. Weigel's Cock Ring   10 years ago

      Gay butt sex may now be hip, but we still don't quite have the guts to bring our real "girlfriend" Matt Yglesias to the weddding.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      "Taser on a homeless man in a wheelchair; the officers allege that the man tried to attack them."

      What the hell?

      1. Charles Easterly   10 years ago

        Rufus, did you expect the officers to back away or somehow outdistance the dangerous menace that this man was?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Cop apologist:

          Do you know how dangerous it is to get clipped by a wheel chair? Have you not watched Murder Ball? People need to obey!

      2. Adans smith   10 years ago

        He may be a Xman

        1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

          He's lucky he's not an ex-man.

          1. Jimbo   10 years ago

            Bobo's here ALL week!

      3. Zaytsev   10 years ago

        He was aggressively talking smack to them, which is a clear and present threat to their authoritah.

        Bastard forced them to taze him.

      4. Free Society   10 years ago

        "My wheels, my wheels! I can't feel my wheels!"

        1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

          +1 Medusa Transducer

      5. Jerryskids   10 years ago

        Hey, they merely used tasers and bean-bag rounds instead of killing him. Baby steps.

      6. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   10 years ago

        Did you think "Stand Your Ground" laws were intended for civilians? You poor deluded fool!

        1. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

          "Stand your ground"?!?!

          Typical cis able-ist!

          1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

            Terrestrialist too.

            Incoming ire from mermaid-americans in .... 3 ... 2 ... 1

    4. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      Who gives a fuck about conservatives? They're idiots. Just a bunch of Bible-beating authoritarian greasy headed rednecks.

      And progressives are stupid too.

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Hey Weigel. How's the problem acne?

        1. crab_apple   10 years ago

          Do you guys actually believe this guy is Weigel? And why does everyone seem to hate him so much? I'm confused.

          1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

            A vocal minority makes this claim.

          2. Mike M.   10 years ago

            Do you guys actually believe this guy is Weigel?

            It's definitely him.

            And why does everyone seem to hate him so much?

            Because he's a vile, loathsome cretin.

          3. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   10 years ago

            Doesn't matter who he is. His logic counters his own logic, he argues out both sides of his mouth simultaneously, he changes stories at the drop of a hat. When called out on various stupid claims, he either ignores the post, insults the poster, or doubles down on his refuted claims.

            1. crab_apple   10 years ago

              "When called out on various stupid claims, he either ignores the post, insults the poster, or doubles down on his refuted claims."

              Oh I know Shriek sucks, but I mean why do you all hate Weigel so much? Assume that they are not the same person.

              1. R C Dean   10 years ago

                Weigel was part of the JournoList group back in the day, and essentially acted as a mole/provocateur here, writing faux-libertarian articles here while referring on the Journolist slagging his readers as rat-fuckers on JournoList.

                He's scum. Lying, stupid, dishonest, amoral scum.

              2. KDN   10 years ago

                Weigel used to be a writer here and was strongly suspected of not actually being a libertarian. Those suspicions proved true after he got a new job and the journolist emails leaked.

          4. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

            I am an independent Southern white male who has escaped the GOP plantation.

            GIT HIM BEFORE HE RUNS OFT!

            1. IndyEleven   10 years ago

              I believe you mean before he R-U-N-N-O-F-Ts

            2. cavalier973   10 years ago

              I hate to break this to you, but as long as you hold on to your hate, you can not consider yourself free from the plantation.

      2. WTF   10 years ago

        Dreams are a great thing, but you know something? They take a lot of energy. But that's OK. There's a job waiting for you down the block from your house that doesn't require a thought in your head or a hope in your heart. So come on down and work for the artificial flower factory. Why fight it? OK? Thank you.

      3. Zaytsev   10 years ago

        Hey Weigel have you come out of the closet yet?
        Being openly gay will probably help your career.

        What's that? you're girlfriend is actuall eight years old.
        Best stay in that closet then.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

          Must

          not

          insult

          conservatives

          on

          libertarian

          site.

          I have to remember that.

      4. Citizen X   10 years ago

        True libertarians like Barack Obama are pretty rad, though, right?

        1. Almanian - Trump's Woodchipper   10 years ago

          I am the 8%!!

          1. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

            I scored 99.5% pure on the deep test!

            1. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

              *derp test

            2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

              Deep test?

              Something to do with pizza preferences.

        2. Red Rocks Rockin   10 years ago

          Whether PB is actually Weigel or not, it's quite a joke that Reason once employed a reporter who ascribes to the intellectually stunted theory of white privilege and thinks Democrats are just the coolest.

          He's a great example of clueless urban shitlibbery masquerading as libertarianism. So it's easy to see why PB and Weigel are frequently conflated.

          1. Citizen X   10 years ago

            The 'plug was already a frequent commenter with the nom de H&R 'shrike' back when Weigel was still writing for Reason.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    A 58-year-old shooter at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater last night killed two people and injured nine others before shooting himself.

    More crisitunity for the White House!

    1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      This is going to now quickly replace the Planned Parenthood videos as the TOP NEWS STORY on mainstream media outlets.

      They were ignoring the PP leaks to begin with, and spinning it like crazy. Now they can start talking about something else.

    2. HolgerDanske   10 years ago

      http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015.....e-theater/

      He was ordered hospitalized by a judge. There is no way he would have passed a nics background check.

      And lets not forget the fact that guys with guns showing up stopped it right then and there. In fact they ended it before he reached the required number of dead victims to truly be considered a mass murderer.

  3. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    What no Trump or abortion links?

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      Nobody aborted Trump? Hell, the man has his own link at the top of the Reason masthead.

      1. straffinrun   10 years ago

        Send him a leather jacket.

  4. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    Anti-GMO vs. Global Warming....
    Rice revolution? New rice could help feed world, fight climate change.

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      So would nuclear, but the global warming crowd doesn't support that either. The anti-gmo side will win.

      1. commodious spittoon   10 years ago

        Hell, natural gas is green in all but name; fat chance the warming crowd will cross anti-frackers in defense of it.

  5. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

    75) Several weeks ago I discussed the five most overrated movies. It seems negative not to balance that with the five underrated movies.

    Fresh?This movie got lost in the shuffle of 90s black gang movies, but it's really different and more interesting than most of those. It's got Fresh, an inner city kid who doesn't talk much but plays a lot of chess, and how he uses lessons from his chess games to effect major changes in his life. Requires at least two viewings to completely glean everything, and has a really devastating ending.

    Dark City?Science-fiction noir, a little like Blade Runner but with its own thing going on. I think this came out around the same time as the Matrix and got overshadowed, but it's far better than that movie.

    Cape Fear?Okay, everybody knows the Scorcese remake, which is excellent, but how many have seen the original 1962 version with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck? Same story but different feel to it, very much worth watching.

    Dark Passage?I'm a big noir fan, and this one with Bogart and Bacall is strangely forgotten. A lot of suspense, and absolutely beautiful shots of late-1940s San Francisco.

    The Conversation?Gene Hackman is a surveillance expert who finds himself mixed up with a client he doesn't want to be involved with. A masterpiece of paranoia.

    1. Florida Man   10 years ago

      I like the original cape fear better. It's creepier because the daughter seems more vulnerable.

      1. SugarFree   10 years ago

        Yeah, I spent most of the remake hoping De Niro would kill Juliette Lewis.

        1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

          I'm still hoping for that.

        2. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

          My reaction, exactly. And De Niro's character was silly.

      2. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        How could anybody be more vulnerable than the mentally retarded girl in the remake?

        1. Florida Man   10 years ago

          Did you see the original? The girl is 12 and weights like 70 lbs.

          1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

            no, I guess I should keep a look out for it on Netflix.

      3. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   10 years ago

        And Robert Mitchum is far creepier, a real sense of unpredictability.

    2. Jordan   10 years ago

      Was Drive on your list of overrated movies?

      1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        No, but it was certainly a contender. The list was Easy Rider, The Usual Suspects, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Deep Throat, Forrest Gump.

        1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

          I fell asleep watching The Usual Suspects and woke up during the final scene. So I figured there wasn't much point in my watching the in-between stuff, and I never did.

          1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

            (P.S. Gladiator is the most overrated movie I have ever sen. It was so bad that Russell Crowe in his prime wasn't enough to keep me interested. I walked out during the penultimate scene for a cig. When my friend came out after it was over, I said "Let me guess....". )

            1. John   10 years ago

              It kind of is. It should be great but it really isn't that great.

              1. Pro Libertate   10 years ago

                As a whole, no, but it had its moments. Oliver Reed was good, as usual.

            2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

              Kristen was not entertained.

              1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

                Thumb down, indeed.

                1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

                  Thumb down, indeed.

                  I just got this reference! Good job.

            3. Lee G   10 years ago

              I just think we need another movie with people brushing their hands over a wheat field in a light breeze.

            4. Florida Man   10 years ago

              I hated the cinematography.

            5. Terc   10 years ago

              The battle scenes are fun. I usually fast forward to them. But I remember watching it in theaters and being entertained. It won best picture right? I thought that was odd at the time. It doesn't hold up under multiple viewings I guess.

            6. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

              (P.S. Gladiator is the most overrated movie I have ever sen.

              Gladiator had a lot going for it to be Best Picture, especially for industry-insiders actually voting. The movie was incredibly difficult to make; Oliver Reed died during production for instance, and it is impressive that nobody notices when his character is CGI and not him - work all done in post-production and not in the original schedule or budget.

              The script is frankly mediocre. But Russell Crowe was great. Joaquin Phoenix doing Commodus was pure Caligula as intended. Fact they did their characters so well despite not one memorable line in the script is worth noting.

              And consider the Academy is full of Hollywood senior citizens. The vintage of senior when Gladiator was made were from the sword-and-sandal era of Hollywood, and they must have had some memories while screening the film, not to mention they were watching their pal Derek Jacobi pine on about the Republic again.

              I can see why Gladiator won Best Picture that year.

        2. Almanian - Trump's Woodchipper   10 years ago

          Fuck you - Forrest Gump is the shizznit!

          My mam always told me, TRUMP Trumps all. And that's all I have to say about that.

        3. R C Dean   10 years ago

          The Usual Suspects is fun. And I thought it held up on repeat viewings, where you can spot all the little clues, etc.

          Gladiator was also fun. And rewatchable, although mostly for the fightin'.

          How any list of over-rated movies can leave off Titanic, I have no idea.

          1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

            Could certainly have been improved by having a kraken pluck her off the bow of the ship.

          2. thom   10 years ago

            Kevin Spacey anything is going to be overrated. The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, House of Cards, etc. I don't know why everybody loves the shitty crap that guy makes.

      2. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        That movie was way to long. It could have been better if they cut about 30-45 minutes off of it especially since the main character you know didn't like talk.

        1. Jordan   10 years ago

          Every time he just stared at people like a retard, I wanted to punch the screen.

          1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

            I can't watch "Face the Nation" for the same reason.

            1. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

              now my keyboard has coffee on it

          2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

            Exactly. Whatever "cool" genre shit people praise it for, the film was 80% Gosling staring like an idiot, often with some crappy music playing.

            The only worthy part of the film was Christina Hendrick's head exploding.

    3. lap83   10 years ago

      Often "overrated" and "underrated" just seem to be a matter of who you talk to about movies.

      1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        Obviously it's all just opinions,but I actually think the overrated list is more objective because it's the most famous and popular movies that I think suck for easily identifiable reasons.

        The underrated list is more along the lines of "some cool movies I like that most people probably haven't seen."

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          Your overrated list is good. Although I can tell you're probably older than me based on your choices. My list would probably consist of The Matrix and the rest would be Harry Potter

    4. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      I recently saw God Bless America which is described as 'Idiocracy' meets 'Natural Born Killers'.

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/?ref_=nv_sr_1

      A terminally ill middle aged white guy takes a 16 yr old girl on a shooting spree to rid the country of celebrity idiots.

      Thumbs up.

      1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        I can see why you identify with that one. Just keep in mind it's not supposed to be a blueprint for life.

        1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

          Oh, I believe in the NAP. But Frank and Roxy and their ammo don't.

          1. Free Society   10 years ago

            How could you possibly believe in the NAP? Don't you support a a heavy government hand in the economy? Aren't you always posing state-centric solutions to a litany of problems, real or imagined?

            1. Jordan   10 years ago

              Shriek supports all manner of central planning as long as it involves either central bankers or Democrats.

            2. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

              Fuck you. You've never seen me espouse a "heavy Big Gov hand" in the economy. I am a market liberal as described by Hayek.

              With one exception - I support the modern concept of a central bank like every single country in the world does. Free banking is as archaic as alchemy.

              1. straffinrun   10 years ago

                Appeal to consensus and an unbacked assertion as fact. Well played.

                1. WTF   10 years ago

                  Just give him the cake and hope he calms down.

              2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

                Very nice. Invoke Hayek and then, in the very next sentence, embrace central banking.

                "I'm a vegetarian, with one exception - I eat veal."

                1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

                  Rand Paul Loves Milton Friedman, but Milton Friedman Would Have Hated Rand Paul

                  Rand Paul really knows nothing of Milton Friedman's work on monetary policy

                  http://www.theatlantic.com/bus.....ul/278589/

                  1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

                    Ah, well, you can't second-guess the unbiased nature of "The Atlantic"...

                    Dipshit.

                  2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

                    ...What does that Atlantic link have to do with anything?

                    That shit came out of nowhere.

                2. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

                  Veggies grown in a crate?

                3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                  Veal is not 'meat meat' because baby calf.

              3. R C Dean   10 years ago

                Yeah, because if you don't want "alchemy" in your banking, fiat currencies controlled by governments are obviously the only way to go.

                1. Free Society   10 years ago

                  Yes fiat money is real money Shreek, unlike the "money" the people would actually prefer to use in the absence of a gun in their ribs helping them make that decision. Nothing more nuanced than central planning and brute force. Thanks, Shreek, you proved me so wrong.

        2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

          Some people are terminally mentally ill...

      2. MOFO.   10 years ago

        Only you would like that total piece of shit. Its like if falling down was written and directed by a retard.

        1. MOFO.   10 years ago

          Yea, the main character is an angry narcissist that blames all his problems on everyone else and so he decides to murder people whos only crime were being unliked by him.

          The worst part about it is that the whole thing is done without even a hint of self awareness. With Natural Born Killers or Falling down, the movies understand that the main characters are horrible, with this turd the vacuous, murders are offered up as heroic for standing up to... something.

        2. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

          IMDB rates it a 7.3/10.

          Does it cross the absurdity line? Probably. And Bobcat Goldtwaite wrote and directed it.

      3. Juice   10 years ago

        I thought God Bless America was ok, but it's easily Goldthwait's worst movie and I'm a big fan of his movies. His best by far is still Shakes the Clown. Honorable mention to World's Greatest Dad and Sleeping Dogs Lie.

    5. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      I never understood the love for Shawshank Redemption - there are better prison movies out there. Heck I preferred Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz.

      1. Suellington   10 years ago

        The novella by Stephen King, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" was excellent. I like that in the book the main character actually did kill his wife and you still root for him.

    6. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      "Fresh" has always been one of my favorites. Basically an inner-city version of "Fistful of Dollars" which has been told a thousand times, but this version is fantastic. I saw it when it was released just due to luck and it has always ( along with "Miller's Crossing") been my favorite version of that story. Coincidentally, they BOTH have haunting musical scores....

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        Yep, great one.

        I think it was directed by Boaz whatisname. He's done other good films.

    7. Zaytsev   10 years ago

      Fight Club

      Grandmas Boy

      Chef

      1. Almanian - Trump's Woodchipper   10 years ago

        "What do all you little crackers have against Isaac Hayes?" - Chef

    8. Surly Chef   10 years ago

      Fresh was fucking awesome. That is all.

    9. Suellington   10 years ago

      The Wages of Fear is a great French movie from the early 50's, set in South America. The late 70's remake with Roy Schneider, Sorcerer, also excellent and very much overlooked. I think it came out the same time as Star Wars, which obviously didn't help.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        And Sorcerer has an excellent Tangerine Dream soundtrack
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_KXK3eNdI

        1. Suellington   10 years ago

          True, excellent synth work. You can smell the late 70's suspense.

      2. Root Boy   10 years ago

        Will second that one as well.

    10. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

      Fresh is a great movie. Haven't seen in a long time. I like both the original and remake of Cape Fear. DiNero was great.

    11. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

      Pretty good list except for The Conversation. Terrible movie, even among the 70's paranoia genre.

      I like Buffalo Soldiers as an underrated movie. Not that it's a great movie either but it captures a feeling of pre-9/11 garrison Army life, much the same way From Here to Eternity tries to.

    12. Clich? Bandit   10 years ago

      My favs for under rated are :
      Galaxy Quest - Tim Allen was excellent as well as the rest of the cast.
      (this one movie with a dude in a bubble in space eating tree bark) - very cool
      Goonies - Might not actually be underrated.
      The Incredibles - Amazing story telling
      Contact - Foster and McConaughey were outstanding
      Company Business - Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov, An AWESOME Cold War Era End movie.

    13. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

      I may be late to the party, but how can you make a list of overrated movies and not include "Rain Man"? His card counting is the most unrealistic and/or lazy plot device I've seen since sSperman was dumb enough to open that lead box.

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        We could also add that perennial stinker, Ishtar.

  6. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

    Planned Parenthood Paid Disgraced Official More Than $200,000 On The Side

    Backlash RIPS Lib Journo After She Blames Planned Parenthood Videos On 'Patriarchy,' 'White Supremacy'

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      Yeah, I wish I had the money to run advertisements posting the salaries of various non-profit officials in various liberal orgs. Liberal because otherwise the progs would laser focus on the guys they don't like and ignore the ones they do.

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      Fucking non-profits, anyone who elevates them over for-profit corporations as examples of virtuousness and selflessness are class A idiots.

      1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        Come to DC, where people when prompted to explain what they do retort that they work for a "non-profit". As if that is some kind of explanation.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          It's the new prog-money industrial complex.

          And Bus Schools have gone in whole hog on that with degrees in non-profit management.

          But hey, you get to the top in those fucking orgs and you will rake in buku tax free dollars for pushing paper and pretending you are improving people's lives more than a real job does.

  7. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

    Los Angeles authorities are investigating an incident where officers used bean-bag rounds and a Taser on a homeless man in a wheelchair; the officers allege that the man tried to attack them.

    They're not even trying anymore.

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      Have you ever had your foot run over by a wheelchair? That shit can hurt.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Especially a *motorized* wheelchair.

    2. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      HE WAS COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM!!!!! WHAT ELSE WERE THE POOR GUYS TO DO????

      /PoliceOne

      1. The DerpRider   10 years ago

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UFQWKjy_I

    3. straffinrun   10 years ago

      Did they wet the sponge on his head first?

    4. Illocust   10 years ago

      Wheelchair bound doesn't mean harmless. Physical disability either makes you a simpering weakling living off the good will of others or mean as fuck and willing to go much further than normal folks in a fight. Also, one of the main causes of homelessness is some kind of mental illness. Mentally ill may not be a huge percentage more likely to attack you than regular folk, but when they do there is a lot less logic behind it and they are a lot harder to calm down.

      That being said. The cops could be making shit up, but the evidence provided has not made it any more or less likely that if you said 'officers used bean-bag rounds and a taser on a man they alleged tried to attack them'.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        Dude, are you serious?!? He's in a FUCKING WHEELCHAIR. Unless he can actually, ya know, WALK, then an LEO should not feel threatened by, what I imagine, is an older person in a wheelchair unless they have a fucking crew-served weapon that they are aiming at them...

      2. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

        Fair. More fair than I'm willing to be to police officers at this point. Unfortunately the "bad apples" make me no longer willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

      3. R C Dean   10 years ago

        Wheelchair bound doesn't mean harmless.

        No, but unless you've got a weapon, its makes you pretty fucking unthreatening.

        1. Azathoth!!   10 years ago

          yeah you go tell Mad Hamish that.

    5. SusanM   10 years ago

      Cops need this technique

      https://youtu.be/RI0i_tL-8aU?t=152

    6. Libertarian   10 years ago

      I've said it before and I'll say it again. Tasers were originally promoted as a non lethal alternative to pulling a gun -- but they have evolved into a way that cops can deal with people without getting there hands dirty (literally).

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        I have read that using a taser instead of their hands/fists/nightstick is a way to keep lawsuits down.* Of course, that just makes them lazier and less apt to learn self-defense/martial arts and to stay physically fit. As we commenters know, body cameras would keep the brutality complaints to a minimum, but that is just too easy.

        1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

          Are they going to do as bad a job of editing body cam footage as they did with Sandra Bland's dashcam footage?

          1. WTF   10 years ago

            We can look forward to the jump cuts where a photoshopped gun suddenly appears in an empty hand.

  8. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    British couple caught having sex in phone booth open up about romp

    A passing motorist who was outraged snapped pictures of the couple getting it on doggie-style.

    Their dirty deed, first reported by the Sun, blew up all over the British tabloids this week, shocking the couple of one year.

    But the pair, who has had sex everywhere from canals to fields, was not sorry.

    "We like having sex outdoors. It's healthy and gives you an extra buzz."

    1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      A phone booth? Was it bigger on the inside?

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Her or the booth?

      2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        "A passing motorist who was outraged snapped pictures of the couple getting it on doggie-style."

        So outraged he had to stop and got some pictures! Outraged, I tell you!

        1. Rich   10 years ago

          "I captured almost an *hour's* worth of their disgusting antics. Even had to change memory cards!"

          1. lap83   10 years ago

            Oh, Crusty

        2. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Has it ever been easier to call BS?

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      "It's healthy"

      Yeah, ok

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        May not be healthy, but doing it outdoors is fun.

    3. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

      So... dogging doggie?

      At least it wasn't with a canine.

  9. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Here's a seagull killing and eating a starling

    1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      If only we could teach them to eat squirrelz....

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Squirrel gets 'drunk', causes hundreds of dollars in damage

      2. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Ever Get That Feeling You're Being Watched by a Pervy Squirrel?

        1. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

          I can't stop laughing at that one. Good thing I have a door.

      3. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Or Possibly Both, Nutty Little Multi-taskers...

        1. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

          I see you found the server squirrels

    2. Citizen X   10 years ago

      How is this "cannibalism?" Starlings and seagulls are not closely related styles of bird at all. That's like saying that i'm a cannibal for eating a steak.

  10. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Inspectors general are asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the potentially classified emails Hillary Clinton stored in her private email account.

    In her defense, she's seen how vulnerable emails on government storage are to deletion.

    1. Princess Trigger   10 years ago

      It's a question of adminstative discretion. Does the Justice Department have enough investigators/bully boys to investigate every transgression of the Clinton crime family?
      Not if they want to protect us from terrorists and pornography.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        They don't have enough neutral prosecutors to investigate the Clintons. 99% are going to be Dems and find nothing.

  11. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

    7 year old girl mauled by neighbor's Police K-9 after trying to pet the dog through the fence.

    I'll give you one guess as to whom the police are blaming for the 7 year old girl getting mauled.

    1. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      Well to be fair, you should never, ever touch a dog you don't know. Especially what I presume was a German Shepherd trained to do that to people.

      You can't fault the dog for responding to however the cops trained it to respond in situations like that.

      1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

        I don't fault the dog, I fault the handler.

        1. WTF   10 years ago

          When they are at home, they are typically more relaxed and aren't as aggressive, but all it takes is a false move," said K9 Trainer Bill Heiser to the Orlando Sentinel. "You have to remember that these dogs are tools used for policing, so it's always best to be cautious."

          Yup. Idiot handler. No dog, especially a trained working/protection dog, should ever just go off at "one false move".

          1. Enough About Woodchippers   10 years ago

            One False Move

            Now THAT'S an underrated movie.

      2. Florida Man   10 years ago

        She was in her own yard when the dog mauled her. The dog should be destroyed and the handler sued, just like I would if my pits did that.

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          This. It jumped over the fence and attacked her. If it was owned by anyone other than a cop it would be put down.

          1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

            well the taxpayers will probably have to pay the civil lawsuit as well.

          2. straffinrun   10 years ago

            Neuter it. I'm not talking about the dog, either.

        2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          This is why there needs to be a movement not just against asset forfeiture but against all of the this fucking overmilitarization by the cops. K-9 units do NOTHING except assault people and allow the cops to violate the fourth amendment. They train these fucking animals to be the WORST companions to people possible, and then destroy them when they get old. Fuck the police...

        3. Free Society   10 years ago

          Well the dog is legally a human of higher standing than the girl and her family right? I mean, if the girl's dad came out and shot the dog, would this be one of those states where they treat it as though you literally just killed a costumed human and charge the dad with murder of a LEO?

      3. WTF   10 years ago

        K9s and other protection dogs are only supposed to attack when commanded by their handler/owner. They should otherwise be perfectly safe to be around.

        1. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

          Or if not safe, then shouldn't be left unattended outside. Does the cop leave his service weapon lying on the porch? Stupid question because the answer is quite possibly yes.

    2. Tonio   10 years ago

      Hitler?

    3. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

      The Jews?

    4. straffinrun   10 years ago

      Rio?

    5. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      The boogie?

    6. sarcasmic   10 years ago

      My stepson's father is a K-9 cop. I will not get out of the car when I pick the kid up and drop him off. No fucking way.

    7. Princess Trigger   10 years ago

      Black people?

    8. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      whom the police are blaming

      The Bossa Nova?

      1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

        Dammit it, Torso?!?!

    9. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      The Bossa Nova?

    10. Zeb   10 years ago

      If "all it takes is a false move" to set the dog into attack mode, maybe the dog shouldn't be loose outside without supervision.

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        There is a state trooper who brings his K9 around the main area where I jog. Every time I see that thing unleashed I get scared. This story will not help.

        1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

          It is good to know that Travis Junior found work after Reno 911 ended.

        2. WTF   10 years ago

          A properly trained K9 will not chase or react to other people unless given a specific command. "Properly trained" being the key, of course.

          1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

            The two times I have seen it unleashed it just looked at me like it didn't care, but the cop eyed me like I was a John Q. Terrorist, so I am still going to be worried.

    11. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

      I was mildly encouraged by the comments, but then I saw it was PINAC. I'm sure the comments at the local paper are sufficiently depressing.

    12. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      The Patriarchy?

    13. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

      I asked this on PINAC's Facebook: WTF was a $14k police dog doing running around a yard unsupervised? If it were supervised, it would never had had the chance to jump the fence to begin with, and the handler could have warned away the little girl before she got close.

      1. R C Dean   10 years ago

        Well, unsupervised in a fenced yard would be fine.

        If the fucking fence was tall enough to keep it in. If the dog can get over the fence, its not really fenced, and was basically running loose.

        That strikes me as the negligence here.

        Prediction: the Cop-Industrial Complex will call in their CPS auxiliaries to go after the family for letting their child pet the dog.

    14. Citizen X   10 years ago

      The rain?

    15. Free Society   10 years ago

      The out-of-control animal has been said to help with several drug busts since being purchased one year ago.

      If you want to look up these dangerous non-violent criminal scum, we're going to have to put up with the occasional little child being mutilated by the police. It's all for a good cause.

      1. Citizen X   10 years ago

        Eggs, omelets, etc.

  12. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Planned Parenthood Pulls Names of Corporate Donors After Coca-Cola, Ford and Xerox Object

    Representatives from Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co. and Xerox say they've asked Planned Parenthood to remove their names as corporate donors to the embattled organization.

    The move follows a Daily Signal report revealing the names of 41 companies that Planned Parenthood listed as donors. That list, which was featured on Planned Parenthood's website, has since been removed.

    1. Tonio   10 years ago

      Rot row.

    2. Illocust   10 years ago

      What corporation would want to donate to planned parenthood? Donating to a domestic abuse shelter will get them the same brownie points from feminists and also from the public in general. I'm betting this was probably one of those employee donations things, and PP just listed them as actual corporate support.

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Nobody I know voted for Nixon.

        1. Illocust   10 years ago

          How is that relevant to what makes business sense from a national corporation point of view? Yes, certain demographics respond favorably to PP donations, but there are also huge demographics that respond negatively to said donations. Donating to domestic violence centers on the other hand get the same favorable response those who like the PP donations and they have the added benefit of getting a favorable response from those who don't like PP donations.

          Now, I could see these 'corporate' donations in reality being corporate matching to employee donations, something that a lot of big guys do. In that case, they aren't really corporate donations, in that they've been vetted by P.R., and it would make sense how the national corps ended up in such a bad position.

          1. Free Society   10 years ago

            A corporation is still ethically on the hook even if they match contributions. If employee's were donating to the local KKK chapter, do you think the company would match that donation blindly? Of course not, they know they'd be morally culpable and certainly so in the eye of the public.

      2. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

        Nothing gets as many brownie points from feminists as donating to PP.

      3. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

        What corporation would want to donate to planned parenthood?

        Coca-cola is reliably lefty, so it's not shocking that they donate to PP.

        1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

          PepsiCo too. Remember their image change about 8 years ago.

          I'll resist the temptation to note that they need some EBT customer loyalty too.

        2. Free Society   10 years ago

          I've always found it odd that there exists socialist rich people and lefty corporations. I suppose there's some incentive to stay on the good side of the mob in order to be the last one to get shot by them.

          1. Lee G   10 years ago

            Read The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Mises. You can probably find the text for free on the itnernet.

            1. Root Boy   10 years ago

              Does it mention fascism, that's what I think of when I hear about lefties and corporations joined at the hip.

    3. R C Dean   10 years ago

      Remove their names?

      What about withdrawing their support?

  13. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Thirty-five stone man who hasn't worked for nine years because he is too fat is denied NHS weight loss surgery 'because he isn't unwell enough'

    more

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      He needs to go on the Homer Simpson diet a la "King Size Homer."

      1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

        He needs to get Mr. Burns to pay for the blasted liposuction?

        1. Ska   10 years ago

          One Iriquois twist, two Iriquois twists...

  14. John   10 years ago

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/...../30585031/

    Celebrity lesbian divorces are going to be so much fun.

    1. lap83   10 years ago

      Brittney Griner claims Glory Johnson cheated, had 'sexual relations with man'

      Now that gay marriage/divorce is legal and love wins can we stop pretending that sexuality isn't a choice?

      1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        Earlier this year, Johnson said in an interview with The New York Times that she is not a lesbian but was attracted to Griner.

        "I'm not a lesbian," Johnson said. "But Brittney is different."

        "Glory is straight," Griner said in the May 11 interview. "That was another reason why I thought this could end really bad."

        Talk about a red flag.

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          They sound like idiots, but I fail to see the difference between being an lesbian and being a woman who is attracted to another woman. Sorry.

          1. Florida Man   10 years ago

            I've know several women that had sexual relationships with other women but aren't attracted to women in general. It's like that game of "who would you go gay for" you play when you're drunk enough to be honest.

            1. Rhywun   10 years ago

              This seems to be more common with women than men.

              1. WTF   10 years ago

                Yes, male sexuality seems to be firmly fixed by about age 11, while female sexuality tends to be much more flexible.

                1. crab_apple   10 years ago

                  Female sexuality, in general, seems to have a stronger emotional dimension to it than male sexuality. I would expect far more women to identify as bisexual than men.

              2. Idle Hands   10 years ago

                Maybe. Or maybe men just don't talk about it.

                1. Florida Man   10 years ago


                  Maybe. Or maybe men just don't talk about it.

                  Possible. Didn't reason have an article about putting probes on people's junk and showing porn and the guys (gay or straight) got really turned on for their respective porn and women had a more midline approach for all porn.

            2. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

              STEVE SMITH PLAY "WHO YOU GO RAPE FOR?"...ANSWER - EVERYBODY!

            3. lap83   10 years ago

              "aren't attracted to women in general."

              I know I'm in the minority but this phrasing is bullshit to me. You don't have sex with people in general.

              1. lap83   10 years ago

                STEVE SMITH aside

              2. Florida Man   10 years ago


                I know I'm in the minority but this phrasing is bullshit to me. You don't have sex with people in general.

                I'm not attracted to men, so I don't consider myself gay. However if I met "Mr. Right" and we had chemistry, I'm still not attracted to men in general, I'm just attracted to "mr right". It hasn't happened to me yet, but I don't find it ludicrous.

      2. lap83   10 years ago

        and I'm not someone who thinks gay people can be "straightened", but clearly it's retarded logic to say that certain types of gay relationships are not choices while claiming that other relationships are

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          it's retarded logic to say that certain types of gay relationships are not choices while claiming that other relationships are

          I would say that for most actual gay people (not gay-for-kicks like this woman) there is indeed "no choice", just as there is "no choice" for most straight people. Besides, I don't think anybody is making the argument you want to refute.

          1. lap83   10 years ago

            There may not be a choice about who I'm attracted to, but there is absolutely a choice about whether I act on it. Marriage is a deliberate limiting of choices.

            1. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

              There may not be a choice about who I'm attracted to, but there is absolutely a choice about whether I act on it.

              This^^. I also don't exactly buy that I don't choose (on some level) who I'm attracted to. If you show me a picture of a hot celebrity from the 80s, I really don't find them very attractive. Their hairstyles and clothing choices distract from the supposed attractiveness. People are going to have a very hard time convincing me that I was born predisposed to view 80s styles as a turn-off.

  15. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

    Would any of you Texas Peanuts fill us in on this Jade Helm 15 FBI takeover of Texas and institution of Obama martial law? That is if you still have internet?

    You know that pro-Obama liberal media is not reporting on this.

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      How's the problem acne, Weigel?

      1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

        Jade Helm 15 is some serious shit, little dude.

        July 15 - Sep 15 is the military/federal takeover of Texas by Obama's gestapo.

      2. Weigel's Cock Ring   10 years ago

        It's tough to get rid of with all the loads that get shot in our face!

        1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

          Turn over like a good little pillow biter.

  16. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Hillary Clinton Rebuffs Liberals' Push to Break Up Banks

    Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for president, said she would not be pushed by liberals in her party to advocate for a breakup of big banks or the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall law that separated commercial and investment banking.

    In response to a question about Glass-Steagall, she said: "I think it's a more complicated assessment than any one piece of legislation might suggest."

    Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who are challenging her for the Democratic nomination, are both advocating a breakup of the banks. Mrs. Clinton suggested that was a simplistic response and promised to lay out her plan for Wall Street regulation at a future date. It isn't expecte

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      Is Deregulation to Blame?
      ......In fact, multiple exemptions to Glass-Steagall had been granted for years before Gramm-Leach-Bliley was signed into law. Most European financial markets, not normally known as more "deregulated" than the U.S., never separated commercial and investment banks in the first place. And there is no correspondence between institutions that benefited from the repeal and those that recently collapsed. Institutions that didn't take advantage of the Glass-Steagall repeal, such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, were the ones that failed most spectacularly, in part because they lacked the stability provided by commercial banking deposits.

      If anything, Gramm-Leach-Bliley may have softened the blow. The George Mason economist Tyler Cowen argues that Gramm-Leach-Bliley made way for more diversity in the financial sector, and "so far in the crisis times the diversification has done considerably more good than harm." Under the Glass-Steagall rules, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase would not have been able to acquire Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns. Nor would Goldman Sachs and Citibank have their current unified form, which may have helped them survive.... ...

      1. Zaytsev   10 years ago

        LOL

        The commerical banks acquiring flailing investment banks in 08-09 were shotgun marriages forced by the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs magically became a commercial bank on a Sunday night to gain access to the Fed's discount window.

        If that set of events is the best defense of GLB, then I may have to change my mind about the benefit of it.

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          The left thinks that without Glass-Steigel (or insert other arbitrary statutes), the economy can't function. Taking that position to it's logical conclusion, then we can only assume that cavemen must have had similar statutes written on animal hides in order for ancient humanity to develop to where we are today. OR just maybe such laws are not so vital, or at all beneficial, to the proper functioning of an economy.

  17. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Los Angeles authorities are investigating an incident where officers used bean-bag rounds and a Taser on a homeless man in a wheelchair; the officers allege that the man tried to attack them.

    THEY FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES. It was like staring down a pit bull on meth behind the wheel of a car!

    1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      +1 see this scar?

      1. commodious spittoon   10 years ago

        Und so Klaus gets a curb party.

  18. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Why Isn't Rand Paul Making a Data Deal With the GOP?

    Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is living up to his promise to run for president as a "different kind of Republican." His campaign appears to have decided that he can win the nomination without even basic help from party bosses, and that if he comes up short his loss should not serve to strengthen their infrastructure.

    Several presidential candidates are likely to sign contracts allowing them to simultaneously receive voter profiles from both the Republican National Committee and i360, a rival data warehouse managed by the political network associated with Koch Industries. Paul, however, seems to be following a different path?one that will allow him to maintain full control of any data collected by his campaign or affiliated super-PAC and set up a distinct power base beyond 2016 entirely independent of the Republican Party.

    1. R C Dean   10 years ago

      His campaign appears to have decided that he can win the nomination without even basic help from party bosses,

      That's smart, because the party bosses want him to lose to their buddy Bush III.

  19. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    A fat nation about to get even fatter: Tim Tams now available at Target in the US, and soon Walmart too

    Behold the Tim Tam slam (SFW, but not for waistlines)

    1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      she was pretty hot in the 90's.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        GODDAMN RIGHT!!!!

      2. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        I would walk one thousand miles if I could just see her...tonight.

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      I find nothing wrong with her now.

      1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        she's no longer lying naked on the floor?

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          Well that would be unfortunate, yes.

  20. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Bison selfies are a bad idea: Tourist gored in Yellowstone as another photo goes awry

    On Tuesday, a 43-year-old Mississippi woman and her six-year-old daughter were snapping a selfie in front of a wild bison when the massive animal attacked.

    The woman, who had her back turned to the bison even though it was barely six yards away, tried to flee but was overtaken by the bison and tossed into the air, according to the Associated Press. The unidentified tourist was taken to a clinic nearby and treated for minor injuries.

    The attack is the fifth so far this year in which a Yellowstone tourist got too close to a bison.

    1. John   10 years ago

      A friend in college worked up there in the summer. He said at least five or ten tourists a year volunteered to help the gene pool. People are really stupid

      1. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

        Six year old daughter so she didn't even do the Darwinning right either.

        Before you procreate! Before!

    2. Ivan Pike   10 years ago

      People don't realize just how fast animals can move.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        People don't realize that the docility of our domestic livestock is not an innate feature of their wild counterparts.

  21. John   10 years ago

    http://gawker.com/wyatt-cenac-.....1719885751

    Jon Stewart turns out to be a thin skinned prick who is a bit racist. Not surprised.

    1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      Won't click on Gawker links, but I read something about that elsewhere. Who's Gawker defending here? On the one hand, they're big on calling racism everywhere, but on the other hand, they loves them some Jon Stewart.

      1. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

        Was it this article?

        http://www.salon.com/2014/04/0.....ist_jokes/

        One of the sad Gawker commenters posted it.

    2. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

      From the comments:

      Pepper_Ann Hudson Hongo
      7/24/15 3:10am

      Welp, this is disappointing. I don't think there was anything racist with Jon Stewart's voice when mocking Herman Cain with the voice he used. I'm at a loss trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Maybe I'm missing something since I have know idea who Amos and Andy were.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Jesus Cripes.

        1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

          Remember, this is the "reality-based, I Fucking Love Science!, educated in all the issues" crowd.

      2. RBS   10 years ago

        These people truly have defective brains.

      3. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

        I don't think there was anything racist with Jon Stewart's voice when mocking Herman Cain with the voice he used.

        TRANSLATION: A leftist can never be racist.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          I do a pretty darn good Southern black man impersonation if I do say so myself.

          For a Canadian anyway.

          1. commodious spittoon   10 years ago

            Well, you're white, ergo inherent racist, but you're Canadian, so all is forgiven.

            1. Citizen X   10 years ago

              Canadians are the junior varsity of white people.

              1. U+1F4A9   10 years ago

                New Zealand!

          2. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

            "What do y'all think of the cotton crops, eh? Are you going to the ro-day-o tonight? No? Take off hoser!... uh. i mean... Take off y'all!!!"

          3. R C Dean   10 years ago

            What counts as a Southern black man in Canada, anyway? Somebody who lives in Vancouver?

            1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

              See: http://www.theonion.com/articl.....laws-19927

        2. WTF   10 years ago

          Now, if Stewart was using that voice to mock Obama, that would be racist. Not that he would ever mock Obama.

    3. Illocust   10 years ago

      Jon will go. He's served his purpose, and they need some new blood that can criticize the next republican president without his baggage.

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        Jon is getting out before the post-Obama Dem collapse (even if Hillary gets elected). He made his $$.

    4. Zeb   10 years ago

      On the one hand, Jon Stuart does seem to be a dick and a bit thin skinned.

      On the other hand, the increasing demands that comedy be all PC and inoffensive, particularly about race, also sucks.

      1. John   10 years ago

        No Zeb. What it shows is how white Progs actually view black people. I am a evil right winger but if a black person I worked with said "man I think this voice you are doing is racist", I wouldn't automatically agree with him but I wouldn't tell him to fuck off either, which is what Stewart did.

        To white Progs black people are a prop. They are there to use as a weapon to fight for the cause and to make white progs feel superior to other whites. That is it. If some black person's sense of integrity or personal dignity gets in the way of either of those two things, then they need to sit down and know their place. That is what is going on here.

        The other thing is this shows how Progressivism becomes nothing but a rationalization for awful people to be awful If you are a good leftist like Stewart, you can be a racist, misogynistic and nasty as you want to be, just so long as you aim it at the other side. It is no wonder so many public leftists turn out to be awful broken people in private.

        1. Zeb   10 years ago

          I think you may be a bit too confident in your assessment of the typical white Progressive psyche.

          1. John   10 years ago

            My assessment proves true over and over again. show me a case where it doesn't?

            1. Zeb   10 years ago

              You can read minds?

              1. R C Dean   10 years ago

                He can read what they write, and hear what they say.

        2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

          Uh-huh. You wouldn't tell someone to fuck off in the midst of a heated argument in which you're being accused of racism?

          Sure.

          1. John   10 years ago

            Yes. I wouldn't get into a heated argument over it in the first place. I might actually take what he had to say seriously. And even if an argument did break out, I wouldn't get defensive about it because I know I am not a racist. Stewart seems to lack that confidence and got defensive as a result.

            Moreover, if this story were about any figure on the right, it would be a national story and every Republican in America would be expected to disavow the person. Since it is Stewart, it will be a one day story on Gawker.

      2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

        There is a lot of pressure in Stewart's job. It's pretty common for people in his position to have such episodes; he's running a popular show that airs 4 days a week. And while he often blows up at people, he supposedly is always contrite about it afterwards. I think Cenac is right and Stewart wrong, but the "fuck off" comment really isn't that bad. I wouldn't call him any more of a dick or thin-skinned than most people.

        I'm a pretty passive, always-be-nice-to-everyone kind of guy. But I've also gotten in to these loud and crass arguments on set or in the editing room. I honestly think it's a healthy part of the process, so long as everyone remembers you're just making dumb art.

        1. John   10 years ago

          Yeah. Things got a little out of hand. It is just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson and...I would never hurt you. You know that.

    5. Mike M.   10 years ago

      When does he finally go away?

    6. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      So doing a black voice is forbidden by the PC police now?

      Fuck them.

      Fuck Islam too. I hadn't said that today yet.

    7. Zaytsev   10 years ago

      He's also a self loathing Jew that changed his name to fit in.

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

        To fit in with whom? Cable TV ain't an 1890s country club.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          Or the 1920s studio system.

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

      This Cenac guy sounds like a bundle of laughs. Still, I wonder what Stewart would have done of a Republican had mocked some black Democrat.

      And I *still* don't get how Herman Cain was less of a serious candidate than any of the clowns we've had recently?

      1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        here.

        here.

        here.

        1. John Titor   10 years ago

          Don't forget the SimCity tax plan! Cain is basically the Biden of Republicans. So I utterly support him just for fun.

    9. Rhywun   10 years ago

      I don't see any good guy in that story - they both seem thin-skinned and a bit racist to me tho Stewart admittedly seems more of a prick.

    10. Juice   10 years ago

      "I represent my community," added Cenac. "I represent my people

      I'm afraid I have to side with Stewart on this one.

  22. Rich   10 years ago

    Inspectors general are asking the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the potentially classified emails Hillary Clinton stored in her private email account.

    Are they asking nice? Are they asking twice?

  23. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Vox: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture

    But without realizing it, or even asking for it, a better life quality came to us. And this is why, now that I'm back, I'm angry that my own country isn't providing more for its people. I will never regret living abroad. It taught me to understand another culture. And it taught me to see my own. But it also taught me something else ? to lose touch with the American version of reality.

    Here are seven ways living abroad made it hard to return to American life:

    1) I had work-life balance
    The Swiss work hard, but they have a strong work-life balance. According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the average Swiss worker earned the equivalent of $91,574 a year in 2013, while the average American worker earned only $55,708. But the real story is that the average American had to work 219 hours more per year for this lesser salary.

    etc

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      I vote for Vox to leave then.

    2. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      "the average Swiss worker earned the equivalent of $91,574 a year in 2013, while the average American worker earned only $55,708."

      And the cost of living in Switzerland (not mention the taxes) is out of this world... so I would throw the bullshit flag on this one.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        It's Vox. He just discovered a shiny pony.

      2. This Machine   10 years ago

        That was going to be my question - what's the cost of living in a place like Switzerland? I know this is Vox, but come on, everyone knows that a dollar goes farther in Kansas City than it does in New York City. And I'm fairly certain a dollar goes even farther in America than anywhere in Western Europe.

        1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

          Adjusted for cost per living, Switzerland's per capita GDP is like $2,000 higher than America's. They looked at nominal dollars without adjusting for purchasing power parity because it's Vox and they're fucking morons.

          1. Free Society   10 years ago

            They looked at nominal dollars without adjusting for purchasing power parity because it's Vox and they're fucking morons and they're disingenuous cunts.

        2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Cost me $30 Cdn for crepes (or some variation of it I forget) and a hot chocolate in 1994.

          Mind you I paid $12 for an orange juice and croissant on the TGV.

      3. Zeb   10 years ago

        I was going to guess that those salaries probably have about the same buying power. Does that seem about right?

        1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

          You're almost exactly right.

          Switzerland: $58,087 per capita GDP PPP

          United States: $54,597 per capita GDP PPP

          So Switzerland is a bit wealthier per capita but it's pretty close.

          1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

            Switzerland is also super conservative to the extent that there are Cantons in Switzerland that didn't allow women to vote until the 1990s and they have virtually no central government to speak of since almost all decisions are decided at the local level.

            They also are rich largely because of a highly secretive banking sector. Switzerland in most ways is the exact opposite of what progressives claim to want - very free markets, limited central government, highly traditional, weakly regulated banking sector. The fact that this idiot is holding up Switzerland as their ideal pretty much proves progs have no idea what they're talking about.

            1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              Oh absolutely. Plus, they did turn a profit during the Nazi regime.

              But don't tell lefty dumbasses that.

              1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

                Plus, they did turn a profit during the Nazi regime.

                *glares...mops sweat from brow*

            2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

              Except Uncle Sugar is now pressuring them to make that banking sector far less secretive.

              Frequent regulatory nutpunches aimed at UBS are seeing to that.

            3. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

              Don't they also have an armed civilian population, owing to compulsory military service?

              1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

                Heavily armed population.

                1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

                  Meh. Not like the south...

                2. Root Boy   10 years ago

                  Yes, lots of nice sturmgewehrs and Sigs.

              2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

                Yes, and a kind of Fortress Switzerland approach to their defense strategy.

                1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

                  Yep. Sure does sound like liberal progressive paradise! Guns n money!!

            4. R C Dean   10 years ago

              You know the other thing Switzerland doesn't have?

              Open borders. They aren't EU members, and their immigration policies are quite restrictive.

              May have something to do with their per capita GDP, is all.

          2. crab_apple   10 years ago

            I wouldn't sneeze at a 6.3% extra wealth.

            1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

              Well, by PPP America is 28% richer than Britain, so in the grand scheme of things, 6% is not that much. You can be considered a first world nation while being pretty damn poor by American standards.

              1. crab_apple   10 years ago

                Fair point. We can all agree that the UK sucks.

                1. Lee G   10 years ago

                  We can all agree

                  Isn't that against the libertarian credo?

            2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

              And - it's only 'extra wealth' if it's residual income as disposable wealth.

              A 6% income differential really isn't that great if you're paying 20% more for essentials such as food, energy and housing,

              1. crab_apple   10 years ago

                I used the wrong phrase -- you are correct that income isn't wealth -- but the income is already adjusted for PPP so they are making more money than us on average.

                1. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

                  I'd love to see it compared by demographics. I bet U.S. whites make more than Swiss whites, but U.S. blacks make less than (the two or three) Swiss blacks.

                  1. Root Boy   10 years ago

                    Yes, poverty is probably pretty low in Switzerland and they are pretty homogeneous (if you don't count the language differences).

                2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

                  I was just being nitpicky, but 'adjusting for PPP' is a statistical minefield just like 'neonatal mortality rates', 'gun crime' and 'campus rape'.

                  Tell me how much it's going to cost for me to live in a 2200 sq ft, 3 bedroom home, and feed a wife and 2 kids, with a 30 minute commute to a job in Geneva, and compare that with the same setup where I have a similar job in Philly with a 30 minute commute. Then I can figure out my residual income along with a slew of intangibles such as 'quality of life', 'flexibility of career choices' etc.

                  The point I'm trying to make here is that we live our lives on an indifference curve, which is largely determined by intangibles. 6% 'more' disposable income is readily offset by the fact that I don't have to speak in German, French or Italian, for example. It's telling that the original article reduces everything to money - even the observation that the average worker works 2.5 hours a week less, is framed in primarily financial terms.

                  But even if money were the only factor to consider

                  1. crab_apple   10 years ago

                    All true. And PPP for the US is kind of pointless when you have places like San Francisco, NYC, and then low cost areas like Kansas City and Houston which have lower poverty rates when adjusted for the CoL.

                    1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

                      The real test, of course, is how many Swiss are migrating to the US, compared with Americans migrating to Switzerland. All the information is out there for the market to work, and the beauty of it is that all relevant factors will be priced in.

    3. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

      LOL, he went to one of 9 countries on Earth with a higher GDP per capita than America and it ruined America for him!

      This just proves how myopic progressives are. He goes to one of the very few countries that are actually richer per capita (a country which is one of the only countries with freer markets than America, I might add) and determines there's something wrong with America, rather than just acknowledging that both America and Switzerland are in the top 10 richest countries.

      And 219 hours is four hours a week. Oh no! Americans have to work half an hour extra a day! It's like a fucking slave colony!

      1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

        The Whitest Privilege
        ......The Left occasionally indulges in bouts of romantic exoticism ? its pin-ups have included Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Mao Zedong; we might even count Benito Mussolini, "that admirable Italian gentleman" who would not have been counted sufficiently white to join Franklin Roosevelt's country club ? but the welfare states that progressives dream about are the whitest ones: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. The significance of this never quite seems to occur to progressives. When it is suggested that the central-planning, welfare-statist policies that they favor are bound to produce results familiar to the unhappy residents of, e.g., Cuba, Venezuela, or Bolivia ? privation, chaos, repression, political violence ? American progressives reliably reply: "No, no, we don't want that kind of socialism. We want socialism like they have it in Finland."

        Translation: "We want white socialism, not brown socialism!"... ...

        1. crab_apple   10 years ago

          This whole article is such a brilliant piece of trolling. Not to say that they aren't making fair points, but using progressive idiocy against them? Just, A+ work, right there.

      2. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

        Progressives also have a very tough time understanding that America is basically a continent in and of itself. Switzerland has 8 million people - or, in other words, about the population of New York City. There are 7 times more people in Texas than in Switzerland.

        America is hyper-diverse, very large, and has 45 times more people than Switzerland, but these idiots think we could impose the same policies on a diverse nation of 320 million people spread out over an entire continent and it would work in the same way as it does in Switzerland, a 95% white, homogenous country of 8 million people.

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          And that's why the per capita GNP difference between the countries isn't as impressive as Voxxers believe. 8 million Swiss compared to which set of 8 million Americans? I bet we could find a city in the US, or a state, whose GNP per capita is far and away higher than Switzerland's per capita. This sort of comparison is arbitrary.

          1. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

            We could, but many of those counties would be around DC. 🙁

    4. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

      My old neighbors were from Switzerland. They moved back several years ago, but we still keep in touch.

      The Swiss wife still bitches about not having a car. She has a great story about having to buy a vacuum cleaner when they moved back and how hard it was to get it home (trains, stairs, etc.).

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        I have an old DIY audio friend who lives in Norway. He has some epic stories of moving speakers & heavy tube amplifiers on his bicycle.

      2. Illocust   10 years ago

        Oh god, I had to live without a car when I was in college. Never fucking again. One grocery trip in the rain with paper bags and you'll never romanticize public transportation or plastic bag bans.

    5. MOFO.   10 years ago

      Thing that stood out for me on that story is that, by her telling, they just up and decided to come back to the states.

      Im suspicious. If its so great,why would you ever leave? Could it be that all those luxurious benefits of Swiss life are only possible if you make 100k a year?

      1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

        You might need more than 100K...

      2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        The Swiss are notoriously picky about who they let live there longterm. Maybe he had no choice but to come back to the nasty ole' US.

      3. U+1F4A9   10 years ago

        Switzerland is one of the Earth's most boring countries.

        Like, mind-numbingly, painfully boring.

        I would give you like 6 months...

        1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

          *narrows gaze*

    6. Juice   10 years ago

      I was flying to Switzerland from DC and there was a guy on the plane going back to Switzerland after being in the states for a few months. He was sad to go back. I asked why. "Switzerland is so boring. I can have much more fun in the US."

  24. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    12 year old girl learns an important lesson after her cat dies: "adults are cruel"

    1. Jordan   10 years ago

      🙁

    2. straffinrun   10 years ago

      Feline dies after having its pelt shorn. Hmmm, I got nothin.

  25. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Obama: Inaction on guns biggest frustration of my presidency

    President Obama said Thursday the failure to pass new gun laws has been the most frustrating part of his presidency.

    In an interview with the BBC, Obama lamented the fact Congress refused to tighten gun laws "even in the face of repeated mass killings."

    "If you ask me where has been the one area that I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws," he said.

    1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      Ha ha. Fuck you.

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      "But I hope we also see the 30 precious lives cut short by gun violence in this country every single day."

      "Obama Hopes To See Daily Gun Violence"

    3. This Machine   10 years ago

      "If you ask me where has been the one area that I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws,"

      Cry more, you tryhard totalitarian shithead. I need your delicious statist salty ham tears to cool my processors.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Ha, ha. He brought back the word 'common sense'.

        1. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

          I like the "sufficient" qualifier. We have plenty of "common-sense" gun laws. At what point are they determined to be "sufficient"?

          1. Root Boy   10 years ago

            They never seem to want to say full confiscation and they never will tell you this new law I want will stop x-number of deaths.

    4. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      "If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws," Obama said, "even in the face of repeated mass killings."

      Here you go, Mr. president, courtesy of the NRA. Please follow these rules next time you see a gun lying around:

      1) STOP!

      This first step is crucial. Stopping first allows your child the time he or she needs to remember the rest of the safety instructions.

      2) Don't Touch

      A firearm that is not touched or disturbed is unlikely to fire and otherwise endanger your child or other people.

      3) Run Away

      This removes the temptation to touch the firearm as well as the danger that another person may negligently cause it to fire.

      4) Tell A Grown-up

      Children should seek a trustworthy adult, neighbor, relative or teacher ? if a parent or guardian is not available.

      1. Zeb   10 years ago

        Every time I think of those rules, this little gem comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIEBrb_wRYc

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          How delightfully diverse those children are.

    5. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      NEW Poll from the Pew Research Center: The Republican Party has wide leads for better reflecting people's views on gun control (48% to 36%) and dealing with the terrorist threat at home (44% to 34%).

      The Republican Party has wide leads for better reflecting people's views on gun control (48% to 36%) and dealing with the terrorist threat at home (44% to 34%).

      ...

      Over the last two years, the Republican Party has opened a gap over the Democratic Party when it comes to views about which party better reflects Americans' views about gun control. In May 2013, following months of debate about gun policy, the public was divided over which party could better deal with gun control. Today, the GOP holds a 13-point edge on this issue.

    6. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      "It just would have made my 24/7 armed security detail THAT MUCH more effective....as it is, I can't guarantee that I can just have them slaughter whoever I want without someone shooting back. And that makes me sad. It REALLY makes Michelle sad..."

  26. hamilton   10 years ago

    Last notice, New England meetup Sunday. Who will be there? Well, let me tell you:

    Nick,
    Matt,
    Elizabeth Nolan Brown,
    Rand Paul,
    Libertarian Girl,
    Ron Bailey,
    and Lobster Girl

    are all people who will not be there. But it might be fun anyway, and there will be artisanal mayonnaise.

    Email me for details if you are not a troll or a US atttorney.

    1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

      What town in New England?

      1. hamilton   10 years ago

        Near Nashua, of New Hampshire fame.

        1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

          A tad too far for me, I'm afraid.

          It's a shame, I was in Merrimack a couple weekends ago.

        2. crab_apple   10 years ago

          I've never been to New Hampshire but I really want to make a trip up to Lebanon to go to Poverty Lane Orchards.

    2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      "Elizabeth Nolan Brown"

      If she is there, she will be three minutes late.

      1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

        Now, now. The timestamp is actually 9:03. Usually when they're late they leave the timestamp as 9:00 and act like nothing happened.

    3. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      Email me for details if you are not a troll or a US atttorney.

      Can trained, licensed wood chipper operators come?

      1. commodious spittoon   10 years ago

        That's the sort of skilled technician we'll need after the revolution.

  27. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Impatient protesters begin digging up Confederate general's grave ? themselves!

    He believes if the general who died 137 years ago can just be eliminated, that will really help things.

    "If he's gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone," he said, shovel in hand. "We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up."

    Others see their actions as little more than destruction of property.

    "They can protest all they want. Just because they don't like it, doesn't mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism," says Lee Millar, spokesman Sons of Confederate Veterans.

    1. Mazakon   10 years ago

      It's amazing how fast people can be taught to hate something so much, they'll commit criminal acts just to get rid of it. Just a few months ago most of these people probably didn't care for the Confederate flag, but probably wouldn't have done something about it when they saw it.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        And they say conservatives are 'crazy' or 'irrational'.

        Remember how the media and politicians went into over drive pleading people don't take out their aggression on Muslims after 9/11 (and still do today). I have yet to see a violent act (unless I missed it) directed at them.

        Yet, we DO see lefties commit crimes or behave poorly (this incident, OWS etc.).

      2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        Rwanda had been peaceful and prosperous for 20 years, but a few weeks of radio broadcasts followed by the assassination of the president was enough to set off one of history's worst genocides.

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          Zimbabwe and South Africa had some of the highest agricultural productivity on the African continent. Then they decided it was unjust that white people owned so many farms and businesses and they violently expropriated them. They gave the land to unskilled blacks, simply because they were black and had political connections. Now those sectors of the economy are in shambles and Robert Mugabe is looking for some whites to jump start their economy again. Fuckin' social justice, how does it work?

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Such people need a good sound beating.

      Disgusting fucks.

    3. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      Now if the general was part Native American, this would be the desecration of an Indian grave site.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        And Obama would have commented.

        'Hey, if I had a son it would have looked like that skeleton!'

    4. SugarFree   10 years ago

      A group surrounded a shovel Wednesday and ceremoniously removed a chunk of grass and soil.

      Now that is some fine writing. Are you paying attention, Pulitzer Committee?

    5. Zeb   10 years ago

      Uh, he is gone.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        Unless he was buried in a Fisk coffin:
        http://strangeremains.com/2014.....c-science/

    6. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

      They're in denial that the Civil War ever took place, it seems.

      It's like the commies in Burma who got rid of all the ancient Buddhist monuments. Or the Taliban doing the same.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        Excactly. Trying to airbrush history is an old story.

        Never heard about the Burmese commies, its usually jihadists these days who like to get rid of religious monuments as you say.

      2. Red Rocks Rockin   10 years ago

        "It is no longer politically correct to glorify someone who was a slave trader, someone who was a racist on public property," City Council member Myron Lowery said at the time

        Fucking hell, why stop with Forrest? He can't be the only racist buried in that cemetery.

  28. Rich   10 years ago

    Bowe Bergdahl found during California pot raid

    Sheesh, should have involved the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office in the first operation.

    1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      Van Patten said Bergdahl was detained, but ultimately was "determined not to be connected to the operation, at least there was no evidence to suggest he was involved."

      When Bergdahl encountered the law enforcement team, Van Patten said he identified himself while the sheriff's office reached out to the Department of Defense. The agency confirmed Bergdahl was on leave, and asked for their assistance in getting him back.

      Sheriff's office personnel later drove Bergdahl "to a halfway point," where he met up with army representatives.

      That guy get's like all the breaks ever.

      1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

        They only break he should be getting is a 15 minute rest break from hard labor at the US Correctional Barracks at Fort Leavenworth.

        1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

          probably not till after Obama leaves office, because you know it may not look good politically.

  29. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders

    The murder of Kathryn Steinle on the Embarcadero in San Francisco by an illegal alien is the most familiar example of a crime committed by an alien. But an unreleased internal report by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that aliens have been involved in thousands of crimes in Texas alone, including nearly 3,000 homicides.

    PJ Media obtained a never-before-released copy of a Texas DPS report on human smuggling containing the numbers of crimes committed by aliens in Texas. According to the analysis conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety, foreign aliens committed 611,234 unique crimes in Texas from 2008 to 2014, including thousands of homicides and sexual assaults.

    The report describes an alien crime wave of staggering proportions exacerbated by federal officials unwilling to enforce immigration laws.

    1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

      ayy lmao

  30. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Winter Haven man head-butts bus, loses

    The driver told him he would have to pay another $2, and he got mad.

    The driver left the bus and went inside the terminal. The passenger sat on a bench, then walked away. But about four minutes later, he returns and head-butts the glass doors on the bus, shattering the glass.

    He appears to be knocked out for a few seconds, but then wakes and runs off.

    The suspect is described as about 5-foot-9 with a slim build and wearing glasses. He was wearing slip-on shoes with socks, and dark green or gray shorts. His T-shirt has the graphic "Ounces 40" on the front.

    1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

      + fo-ty!

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        He should leave the Glaswegian Kisses to professionals.

        Though hopefully his foty helped his headache.

        1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

          "Glaswegian Kisses"

          I had not heard of the "Glaswegian Kiss" until I got to spend some quality time with the 1 Scots and 4 Scots... heh.

          1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

            Well, strictly speaking, a Scot would call it a "Gorbals Kiss" - it's a district of Glasgow filled with what an American might call "Section 8 housing".

            Anecdote:
            I used to go drinking with a Glaswegian company Accounts Payable manager and maybe the toughest SOB I'd ever met. Have you any idea how intimidating it is to sit down and go over a budget with a guy with calluses on his knuckles?

            One day, we went out for a drink at a local bar, and some guy nudged into him. Bill (the acounts payable manager) invited the guy to "Pick a window, you're leavin'!"

  31. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    One for the pedants: Every tautology in The Wire, in chronological order.

    1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      I still don't know if I liked season 2 or not.

      1. Zeb   10 years ago

        I like it a lot. The only part I don't like is the stupid fake serial killer plot-line.

    2. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

      Fist is first.

      Well, except today.

    3. Lee G   10 years ago

      It is what it is.

    4. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

      The game is the game.

  32. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    Rand Paul grills has a polite conversation with John Kerry on Iran deal

    The Kentucky senator and 2016 presidential contender adopted a more dispassionate, even diplomatic stance as he pecked away at the agreement during the Foreign Relations Committee hearing with Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Thursday. In doing so he contrasted himself not just with his more bombastic GOP colleagues but also with more hawkish rivals in the GOP presidential race, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who are making their plans to undo the agreement a central plank of their foreign policy platforms.
    Instead of launching into a monologue, Paul asked measured questions about why sanctions will be lifted so quickly under the agreement and whether Iran has any plans to create a nuclear bomb.

    Though Paul is distinctly to the left of most 2016 GOP hopefuls on foreign policy, the Kentucky Republican was one of the first Republicans to publicly announce opposition to the deal last week, despite keeping what he called an "open mind" as the agreement came together. He dislikes the sanctions language in the pact and fears Iran can still develop a nuclear bomb.

    But the libertarian-leaning senator made clear that he prefers a diplomatic settlement with Iran. The only other committee Republican who sounded that conciliatory was Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

  33. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Obama Fires AFFH Warning Shot Over Hillary's House

    Hillary Clinton's suburban hometown of Chappaqua, New York has just become ground zero in the Obama administration's efforts to nullify local control over America's housing. Obama's Justice Department has fired a powerful warning shot at Westchester County, New York, where the administration is conducting a dry run of its new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation.

    At issue is whether Westchester's obligation to "affirmatively further fair housing" compels county officials to crush local opposition to a low-income housing development in downtown Chappaqua.

    The Draconian legal settlement imposed on Westchester several years ago by the Obama administration creates a court-appointed "monitor" who has effectively usurped Westchester County's right to democratic self-governance. The monitor insists, and Obama's Department of Justice agrees, that Westchester County officials must not only obtain financing for new low-income housing developments in Chappaqua, but must suppress local opposition to the project.

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      That's brilliant. Either Hillary opposes it and loses the primaries or she is forced to support it and the provision gains legs. Either way Obama gets what he wants.

    2. WTF   10 years ago

      Where again in the Constitution does it grant the federal government power to require affordable housing in various locales? Other than the FYTW clause.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        I'm afraid of the implications for my suburb - 95% white, best school in the area, also some of the highest incomes (and highest property taxes).

        Don't know if the city government owns any land - they are actually kept on a tight leash and confined to two buildings. Don't know if the city receives any HUD funds.

        But if low income housing was brought into the area there would be an uproar. Right now developers are buying old homes in the $150-$250k range and just tearing them down to build new houses. We were lucky to get into our house, which is nothing special, for the price that we did. I can't imagine - but I could be wrong - anyone making a profit building residents for the poor. But I won't ever underestimate the stupidity of HUD.

        1. Sevo   10 years ago

          "I can't imagine - but I could be wrong - anyone making a profit building residents for the poor."
          When it's paid in tax dollars, it's easy to make money.

        2. Free Society   10 years ago

          I almost bought a quarter of a million dollar home a few years ago. But the neighborhood didn't have any low-income housing to milk me for local welfare dollars and the crime rate would not be nearly as high as I would've liked, so I passed.

    3. Rhywun   10 years ago

      Why isn't this initiative getting more (or any?) airplay? You would think what sounds to me like the largest executive power-grab in American history might make the MSM once in a while.

      1. John   10 years ago

        Because it is that and tons of Democrat voting suburbanites are going to go ballistic when it happens. So, the media is doing all it can to make sure they don't find out before the 2016 election after it will be too late to stop.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          Yeah, it will be fun to watch Westchester voters getting this shoved up their asses.

          Need to move on to Potomac, MD and McLean, VA.

    4. R C Dean   10 years ago

      Westchester's obligation to "affirmatively further fair housing"

      Wait, what?

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        I can't wait to see the Section 8's they're gonna build in Pound Ridge.

        They'll look all Le Corbusier-y and the locals will love the tasteful art deco sensibility.

  34. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    Man in Milwaukee shoots dog after mistaking it for lion

    It's been a rough 24 hours for a dog now being called Simba. The dog was wandering on a street in Milwaukee when animal control says a person mistook him for a mountain lion, pulled out a gun and shot him, reports CBS affiliate WDJT.

    "The bullet went through his leg, fractured his bone," said Karen Sparapani, executive director of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission.

    1. R C Dean   10 years ago

      How Ready for Hillary* would you have to be to mistake a white pit bull for a mountain lion?

      Trying to get this going as a synonym for "on the verge of passing out drunk", "acting like a blithering idiot", etc.

      1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

        *applause*

  35. RBS   10 years ago

    Uh oh, Hulkamania runs wild no more.

  36. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

    No mention of the Oklahoma teen who hacked up his family?

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/...../30555119/

    What's more fucked up - looking for link, I discover teen Familycide is like 'a thing' in Oklahoma

    http://mobile.reuters.com/arti.....TR20141015

    1. SugarFree   10 years ago

      Kentucky has quite a bit as well, but it's more in the father/mother shoots son/daughter or entire-family-burned-alive-in-mobile home variety.

      1. WTF   10 years ago

        Well, Ava did kill Bowman and Boyd did want to kill his daddy.

      2. R C Dean   10 years ago

        Wouldn't that be more father/brother/uncle shoots son/brother/nephew in Kentucky?

        Unless there's a lot more trannies in Kentucky than I thought.

  37. Mazakon   10 years ago

    Obama to take 19 Democrats and Jeff Flake to Africa

    1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      Please stay there.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Will he notify his family?

      'Spark up the wood Umabal! Obama is coming for some good home style zebra testicles and fly stew!'

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Hm. Was supposed to be Umbala. But whatever. It was stupid anyway.

  38. Rich   10 years ago

    This court ruling has the potential to crush the marijuana industry

    On July 9, 2015, in the case of Olive v. Commissioner, San Francisco's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. tax code section 280E which states that expenditures in connection with the illegal sale of drugs don't qualify for any deductions or credits. What this means is that marijuana-based businesses aren't able to deduct ordinary and necessary business expenses, and are thus being taxed on 100% of their gross profit as opposed to net profit.

    Good thing MJ is "legal", huh?

    1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

      Bo assures me that Democrats are totally cool with marijuana and its the evul GOP that makes it hard for anyone to simply toke their ganja in peace.

    2. Zeb   10 years ago

      It is a good thing that it's "legal". It would be nice if it were actually legal too.

      Actually, I think that what they have in DC is really the best scenario at this point. No commercial sales, but pretty much no regulation either. Obviously it would be best if it were just another product that people buy and sell, but it is going to be so heavily regulated under any legalization that is likely to happen that I think that people just being able to grow it and "give away" to friends is far preferable.

    3. Tonio   10 years ago

      Despite the clumsy wording in the quote, this appears to be the US Court of Appeals located in SF. So that ruling affects all of the west coast.

      1. Root Boy   10 years ago

        But still, 9th Circuit is the most liberal, so surprised to see them not throwing a bone to the MJ growers. But libs do not believe in federalism, right?

  39. Warty   10 years ago

    Police today identified the man as John Russell Houser, from Alabama

    UH OH

    This should be a fun media frenzy.

    1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      Did he have a banjo on his knee?

    2. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

      I don't know what's worse: the butthurt Muslim apologists demanding we treat this guy like a Muslim terrorist or the butthurt Black Lives Matter people who demand we call him a thug.

      Even if they have a small point the sheer amount of whining is enough to make me hate them.

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        How about a Thugorist? Terrug?

        1. RBS   10 years ago

          Teaterrothuglican

    3. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

      Will they have his motives nailed down before that of the Chattanooga shooter's?

      1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

        If his Facebook page is as information-rich as that Tea Party profile, i think the deconstruction of his psyche may require Dr Phil-level talent

        1. Citizen X   10 years ago

          i think the deconstruction of his psyche may require Dr Phil-level talent

          So it'd be pretty easy, then?

      2. Zeb   10 years ago

        Depends on what color the people he shot were.

        1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

          Amy Schumer movie

          I'm going to go out on a limb and say victims were 100% Caucasian, and 50% overweight

          1. Zeb   10 years ago

            In that case, the gun made him do it.

            1. Longtorso, Johnny   10 years ago

              Mercy killings

              1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

                *narrows gaze*

  40. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    No, Islam is not inherently misogynistic

    Muslim societies have long been the battleground for a conflict between classical patriarchy and the revolutionary spirit of early Islam. The pre-Islamic environment of 7th century Mecca, with its tribalism, lack of law and order and constant warfare, was strongly male-dominated. The advent of Islam challenged the status quo and sought not only to introduce a new kind of social order but to limit the excesses of Meccan society, which directly harmed women and girls -- abolishing the custom of burying baby girls at birth is one of the best examples of this spirit. Early Islam sought to elevate women and define them as independent agents possessed of free will, responsible for their own actions and imbued with certain rights over men (just as men are imbued with complementary rights and privileges over women).

    Many detractors of Islam point to inheritance laws, polygamy and certain verses in the Quran that they have interpreted as condoning domestic violence, sex slavery and other travesties of justice and human rights. There are many Islamic feminists, such as Amina Wadud, Kecia Ali, Riffat Hassan and Laleh Bakhtiar, who are actively working to retranslate and reinterpret many of these verses of the Quran.

    Sure lady.

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      Didn't Persian women have a lot of rights up until Islam was adopted in that area?

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        Iran and Afghanistan both had quite liberal (in a good way) treatment of women in the urban centers, until the mullahs took over. AFAIK, the rural areas were a lot more traditional, as you might expect.

      2. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

        lllocust, you should punch up, not down! That's what progressives tell everyone!

        In the name of multiculturalism, please don't criticize Islam!

    2. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

      There are many Islamic feminists, such as Amina Wadud, Kecia Ali, Riffat Hassan and Laleh Bakhtiar, who are actively working to retranslate and reinterpret many of these verses of the Quran.

      Ok, considering the Salafi/Wahhabi consider such re-translation and reinterpretation to be the ultimate theological crimes, what's your point, lady?

      1. WTF   10 years ago

        This. I thought the Quran was the literal word of God and could not be "reinterpreted".

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      "James Scott ? Cockshut Hill Technology College
      Are you an expert on Islam all over the world ? I somehow doubt it. All religions tend to be practised conservatively and you have you own problems with Christian misogyny in America."

      Again with the spooky Christianity talk.

      Fuck off James you asshole.

      1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

        Hey man, sometimes Christians say mean things about gays or don't believe in evolution or vote for Republicans.

        This is 100% the same thing as the fact that all 10 countries on Earth where they execute gay people are Muslim, the fact that apostasy is illegal in 23 out of 49 Muslim majority countries (and is not illegal in any other country on Earth), and the fact that 90+% of all terrorist attacks are carried out by Muslims.

        But I heard one guy set off bombs in an abortion clinic in 1987, so it's like the same thing.

        1. Zeb   10 years ago

          I'm all for criticizing Christians or any religion for peddling misogyny, violence, intolerance or whatever negative thing. But if you are even a little bit consistent, it's pretty fucking obvious that Islam does all the bad things that conservative Christianity does, but about 10x worse.

          1. Free Society   10 years ago

            Well I remember being told that all cultures are equal, except western culture, which is less equal.

            1. Root Boy   10 years ago

              Even though Christianity is from the East and has a woman at almost of the top of it's revered figures.

        2. Free Society   10 years ago

          and the fact that 90+% of all terrorist attacks are carried out by Muslims.

          Now before someone chimes in that only a "tiny minority" of Muslims are responsible for all that violence, it's worth noting that large minorities and even substantial majorities in some places offer moral and material support to the "tiny minority" who actually pull the trigger.

          1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

            Wasn't there someone else who pulled the trigger ...?

            1. R C Dean   10 years ago

              Lee Harvey Oswald?

              John Wilkes Booth?

              1. Free Society   10 years ago

                Christina Hoff Summers?

            2. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

              Roy Rogers?

    4. Zeb   10 years ago

      If you want to try to create a more reasonable version of Islam for the modern world, that's great. But don't pretend that is what it has been all along. It's like people who still apologize for Communism. "Communism is great, but no one ever did it right."

  41. Warty   10 years ago

    Secrets of the Viking Sword

    I need to get me one of them big fancy tomato knives.

    1. tarran   10 years ago

      Warty, you linked to the wrong video. This is what you should have linked to.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        Amon Amarth is a fun band to see. I distinctly remember Johan Hegg drinking beer out of a cheesy plastic horn and going, "Cleve-LAND! You have the true spirit of a Viking!"

        1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

          "Cleve-LAND! You have the true spirit of a Viking!""

          Oh, i would love to have a recording of that.

    2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      If you offer up the tomato slices to Odin, the next harvest will be good

  42. Derpetologist   10 years ago

    Spot the Not: Trump flipflops

    1. said in 2009 that Obama was "a strong guy who knows what he wants," a person with "the mark of a strong leader," and "totally a champion."

    2. called Hillary Clinton "very talented," a "great appointment" for secretary of state, and, in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, called her "a wonderful woman who has handled pressure incredibly well."

    3. said in 1994 that he is "deeply religious", prays often, reads the Bible daily, and fasts occasionally. He also goes on silent retreats a few times a year so he can better contemplate god's word in away from all distractions.

    4. "Hillary's always surrounded herself with very good people," Trump said to CNN's Wolf Blitzer in 2007 when asked of who would do a good job negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. "I think Hillary would do a good job."

    5. "I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better," Trump said, before adding that "it's an entitlement to this country if we're going to have a great country." He said that year that as president he would fund a "comprehensive health care program" with "an increase in corporate taxes."

    6. Trump said in 1999 that, though he hated "the concept of abortion," he was "strongly pro-choice." He reversed his stance in 2011. "I'm pro-life," he said then.

    1. tarran   10 years ago

      3. It's gotta be 3!

    2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      Imma say 3 as well. Not Trump-like...

    3. Derpetologist   10 years ago

      3 is the Not. prize

  43. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    I've been pulling carpeting at the new house - the entire upstairs was nothing but oak hardwood until they decided to put carpet on top. Other than pulling staples and the tack strips, it hasn't been that bad. The last bedroom is a different matter - the padding was glued to the wood...

    Last night I tried some orange/citric based paint stripper on the gunk and it seems to work if you put some elbow grease into the scraper.

    When I'm done with this early-60s house I hope to have a retro-swinger pad - a Herman Miller Eames chair, vintage Macintosh gear, and some other mid-century junk.

    1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

      Anyone who covers hardwood with carpet deserves to be shot.

      1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

        Careful man.

        If that "anyone" turns out to be a federal judge, a US attorney from New York will subpoena your IP address and email account from Reason.

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          I didn't use the 'W' word, so I figure I'm all set.

      2. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

        At the very least for being stupid enough to devalue your home.

        If you are selling and you know you have hardwood under the carpet, why aren't you pulling it up?

        *I had the same nice surprise LH did when i bought my house. I was just expecting a plywood subfloor, but when I peaked under the carpet it was hardwood.

      3. Zeb   10 years ago

        Yeah, I don't get it. I guess it was the thing to do for a while. Upgrade your home with all the modern conveniences.
        When my parents bought their house in the 70s, all of the nice maple floors were covered with 1940s linoleum.

        1. crab_apple   10 years ago

          I would expect part of the issue was that refinishing floors back then was a lot harder than it is today. Power tools are so much cheaper now. Sand that shit down and spread some polyurethane finish over it.

          1. Lee G   10 years ago

            Instead of urethane, you might consider oiling the floors. It's a more traditional look and doesn't show scratches as much.

            1. crab_apple   10 years ago

              Yeah but with oil you're going to be re-oiling relatively often. A poly finish lasts for a long time. People worry about scratches too much.

              Aesthetically, I think a oil-wax finish looks the best (nice matte finish) but it really is more work to maintain.

              1. Lee G   10 years ago

                I like the oiled look and hate the disruption that recoating poly creates. If I were to redo my floors, it's definitely the way I would go.

        2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

          Wall-to-wall carpet is quiet, tolerates hard treatment for a while, and for a few decades it was popular.

          I remember when I moved into the first house I bought here (in the US) in the 90's, the fact that every room had cheap carpet was touted as a selling point, and really if you have one or more kids, and 0 incontinent pets,it might just possibly be seen as a selling point. A lot of New Yorkers who moved up here knew nothing other than drab studios with crappy lino floors with concrete under that. The idea of a soft floor was probably tempting.

          Then everyone who had mild hay fever started blaming autism, diabetes, beri-beri, herpes, AIDS and typhoid on 'household dust', and the fad reversed. With our kids old enough to not wreck the decor, we stripped every damn inch of that shitty, ugly stuff out of the house, and taught the kids how to walk quietly and mop liquids up when they spilled them.

          And life is far better.

          1. crab_apple   10 years ago

            Carpet is really disgusting if you have any pets.

            1. KDN   10 years ago

              I still have nightmares of the carpet I had to remove when I bought my place. Unchanged for 25 years, 15 with an incontinent chihuahua. The padding was mostly disintegrated.

              Jacobean stain saved me from having to rip up the floors in all of my common rooms. The flooring guys were worth every penny I paid them.

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      Get a tile remover from a rental store like this one.

      Make sure the blade is flipped so the ground edge is down on the floor, this keeps it from biting into the wood. Also run it along the length of the planks and not across so it won't grab the joints.

      That will remove the bulk of the padding and some of the glue without using stripper. If you're lucky, it will take enough that you can sand the rest of the crud off while refinishing the wood.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        I'm worried about the tarry glue having asbestos... so I'm going to try the stripping method first since the glue remains are just jelly when it gets scraped up.

        Probably will want all the floors refinished for the best results. Gah - money money out the door.

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          Is the glue black?

        2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

          If that's a real worry, counterintuitively, you might consider stripping by hand, if the area isn't too huge.

          Get a used scraper plane, or just get some old school scrapers. Make sure you raise a burr on the edge and get down on hands and knees - with a mask. I did it on a few of the floors here, and was surprised how fast you can get the stuff off.

        3. Lee G   10 years ago

          Asbestos in carpet adhesive is not particularly common. It was used more often for putting down vinyl tile and linoleum as a thickening agent. Regardless, the asbestos fibers generally make up 5 to 10% of the glue by volume if it was used (usually about 5%) and the fibers are trapped in the glue itself making it non-friable by definition.

          Short version, unless you grind it up into a dust and snort it, you're not at any risk whatsoever and even then it's not significant as you aren't doing it for a living. The real problematic asbestos is pipe lagging, and occasionally you'll find it in HVAC ducting.

    3. egould310 reppin' LBC   10 years ago

      Pics please! I'm a MCM maven, and would love to see what you do.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        My wife and I are starting a blog about our mid-century adventure. Not much up yet, just pictures of the bi-level.

        It looks like a swingin' dentist office

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          It's like Tudor meets rancher.

        2. The DerpRider   10 years ago

          GR has some really interesting residential architecture.

          1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

            We've got a Frank Lloyd Wright house

            and on the lake of the suburb I live in:
            http://blog.mlive.com/chronicl.....state.html

    4. NoVAHockey   10 years ago

      I've had good luck finding vintage furniture on etsy of all places. that and i had a custom sputnik chandelier made from a store that uses the site. i've got a 50s MCM.

      1. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

        I'll keep that in mind... been looking at several sites that do some modern versions
        http://www.allmodern.com/

        1. IndyEleven   10 years ago

          There's some MCM modern versions on http://www.joybird.com and you can customize to some degree on upholstery, etc.

      2. Tonio   10 years ago

        Sputnik chandelier - so cool.

        1. Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!   10 years ago

          Seconded.

    5. Free Society   10 years ago

      I've been pulling carpeting at the new house - the entire upstairs was nothing but oak hardwood until they decided to put carpet on top. Other than pulling staples and the tack strips, it hasn't been that bad. The last bedroom is a different matter - the padding was glued to the wood...

      There was a time period between the late 60's and late 80's where things that are classy or aesthetically pleasing were utterly dismembered to make way for total shit. Mahogany trim was painted, ornate crown molding was mutilated by the anchors to put in a dropped ceiling of fiber glass tiles and hardwood floors made from trees that are exorbitantly cost prohibitive to use nowadays were slathered with glue and perforated by tack strips. It was like the dark ages for aesthetics and absolutely stomach turning whenever you see that kind of dumbfuckery perpetrated by the generation of property owners who preceded us.

      People who've attend The Ohio State University and saw what they did to the grand old library know exactly what I'm talking about.

      1. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

        I like crisp white trim.

        1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

          Disgusting.

        2. Free Society   10 years ago

          Well then you are in luck.

        3. R C Dean   10 years ago

          Well, then don't buy a house with tens of thousands of dollars worth of mahogany, and paint it white.

          1. Root Boy   10 years ago

            No shit. That's a crime.

      2. Rhywun   10 years ago

        I am reminded of the many NYC subways stations where beautiful mosaics were covered with giant, bland tiles during mid-century "renovations". There really was an aesthetic of ugly that set in during that era and is only now fading away.

        1. Root Boy   10 years ago

          Someone posted a link to Mashable yesterday (was it here?) showing the old Penn Station being taken down piece by piece in the 60s.

          Depressing.

  44. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

    Have we discussed the Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj semi-feud?

    I am trying to figure out how Minaj is the SJW's feminist hero fighting against patriarchy and skinny white women.

    Is it obvious from such great lyrics as:

    This dude named Michael used to ride motorcycles
    Dick bigger than a tower, I ain't talking about Eiffel's
    Real country ass nigga, let me play with his rifle
    Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil
    Now that bang bang bang,
    I let him hit it 'cause he slang Cocaine
    He toss my salad like his name Romaine

    1. Injun, as in from India   10 years ago

      That last line. UGH.

      1. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

        It's art, or something.

      2. SugarFree   10 years ago

        Lettuce tosses salad? This dumb asshole doesn't even know how to salad.

        And "slung" is the past tense of "sling."

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          No, no, no, she means that he has all sorts of cool street terminology for cocaine and that gets her hot.

        2. Zeb   10 years ago

          I think that is a racist correction.

    2. RBS   10 years ago

      Quoting her lyrics is racist.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Nicki Minaj has a weird face and an IQ of a piece of used Kleenex.

      1. Jordan   10 years ago

        Yeah that body is wasted on her Muppet face.

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          She has a nice body?

    4. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      Anybody who performs a song like this probably shouldn't criticize other people for their musical tastes.

      1. Lee G   10 years ago

        That actually made me laugh out loud.

        1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

          If you take note of the "133 million views", it should make you weep silently

      2. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

        She's not even singing, and her voice is weak & thin.

        Missy Elliott she ain't.

        1. Free Society   10 years ago

          Didn't missy elliot sing about her ability to make really good milkshakes? So good that it brought boys to the yard or something?

          1. Certified Public Asshat   10 years ago

            Kelis.

            1. Free Society   10 years ago

              I'm happy to report I don't know who that is. But I'd love to try one of her milkshakes. I'll drink it in the yard if I must.

              1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

                Wow. Kelis is actually super-talented. Don't judge.

  45. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    [Warning: Auto-Play] Clayton Kershaw blanks Mets in most unfair game in baseball this year

    For six innings Thursday, Clayton Kershaw mowed through the New York Mets' lineup like the greenkeepers at Augusta National, the only thing resembling hard contact a grounder off the bat of Bartolo Colon. He'd thrown just 62 pitches, 47 for strikes, and punched out eight batters. Considering the Mets' cleanup hitter on this night entered batting .170 and the No. 5 hitter .179, this wasn't exactly a surprise, as far as potential perfect games go.

    It didn't happen. Curtis Granderson led off the bottom of the seventh and Kershaw threw an 0-2 slider that didn't slide off the plate and Granderson hit a soft liner to right field for a base hit. With two runners on in that inning, Kershaw fanned John Mayberry Jr. -- that cleanup hitter -- on a nasty curveball and then got Eric Campbell to ground out, and that was the ballgame. Kershaw finished the 3-0 win with a three-hit shutout, the 11th of his career, and over his past three starts has recorded 38 strikeouts and no walks, just the third pitcher in 101 years to have three straight games of 10-plus K's with no walks.

    The Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw has been overshadowed by teammate Zack Greinke, who has a 1.30 ERA and a streak of 43 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings.

    Koufax and Drysdale.

    1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      meh. Fuck the dodgers.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      OT but in sports. Anyone notice Mexico's favorable calls at the Gold Cup?

      Nuts.

      1. Timon 19   10 years ago

        "Favorable" ain't the half of it, but all the people calling Mark Geiger a crooked cheat are stupid.

        There's a referee forum at bigsoccer.com that is tends toward policeone-style "defend the brotherhood at all costs" when something big like this happens, and even they are not willing to go all-in defending Geiger, especially on the first PK against Panama.

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          There needs to be video review inside the box. Period.

          It doesn't have to be American football-style endless delays, either. In Australian football the video review is like 30 seconds at most.

          1. Timon 19   10 years ago

            Thing is, I GUARANTEE you that if they reviewed that play, it would have taken forever. There were things that, upon continued super-slo-mo review would actually turn you AWAY from the proper call if you weren't careful to realize that super-slo-mo makes things appear to be obvious when they really aren't at full speed.

            Plus, what happens when the crew on the field DOESN'T call anything leading to any stoppage whatsoever, but there's some controversy? How do you deal with adjudicating that and the various options to restart the match properly?

            After-action review is about as good as it's going to get without fundamentally changing the game.

            1. Rhywun   10 years ago

              it would have taken forever

              You get 30 seconds. If it's inconclusive, the original call stands. (I don't know if that's what they do in AFL but I've never seen it go longer than that and it's not like soccer is any tougher to call.)

              Plus, what happens when the crew on the field DOESN'T call anything

              Nothing happens. You can only review a call that one of the refs has made.

              Yeah it's not perfect but anything is way better than what we have now.

              1. Timon 19   10 years ago

                Then the penalty would have stood, which is absurd - at least based on what a group of referees (acting like policeone posters) is saying.

                It's funny that practically everyone else in the world of soccer thinks the call was bullshit.

                1. Rhywun   10 years ago

                  I dunno, it took me a lot less than 30 seconds to decide that the call was bullshit. Then again, I happen to believe that not every little brush of a finger deserves a caution. I think the rules could stand some refinement in that area.

      2. Rhywun   10 years ago

        Even weirder, the ref who gifted the win to Mexico was an American.

        1. Timon 19   10 years ago

          The suck of it is, he's actually a pretty good ref, by even global standards. He just got the first PK shockingly wrong, then dealt poorly with the disturbances (he should have ordered the teams off - he suspended play, technically, after all, and that's what you're supposed to do). Then he put himself in a position to give a questionable second penalty that he should never have even thought about calling given the 100+ previous minutes.

          Of course it all kicked off with a massively harsh interpretation on the red card (that's NEVER a red for me - a floppy wrist in someone's face is not the tip of an elbow; no one was endangered by that beyond any other aerial situation in a typical game. A foul? Probably. A yellow, even. But a red? Come the fuck on!

          1. Rhywun   10 years ago

            I was just being flippant... I know how tough that job is. But with the nature of the game (low scores so each score is a huge deal) plus the gazillions of dollars hovering around these matches - something has to be done to bring some sort of accuracy to it. It's not the old days where everyone was mostly just playing for fun.

    3. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Impressive duo. Kershaw has to get his act together it in the playoffs.

      1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

        Nationals vs Dodgers series should be good.

  46. Warty   10 years ago

    Barbell basics

    Come for the useful information, stay for the pleasant Texas drawl.

    1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

      Wish I could find someone local to me that uses "Starting Strength" as their training model. Nearest I've managed to get is a Crossfit guy who will just do the strength and weights bit.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        Then you're actually lucky. Very few Cultfit gyms will allow people to do useful things with their equipment.

        1. Dark Lord of the wood chipper   10 years ago

          Bullshit! They'll let you pay off an orthopedic surgeon's car. That's at least useful to him.

    2. Florida Man   10 years ago

      Funny. I was talking to a guy about getting into lifting. Thanks.

    3. Jed Templin   10 years ago

      Warty! It was you that posted the Jacques Pepin videos, yes? I just wanted to say, "Thanks." I made Chicken Galantine last night. A lot of work but also a lot of fun. And it was delicious!

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        That was me. Galantines are fun, aren't they?

  47. dantheserene   10 years ago

    I'm not sure I realized Sandra Bland had been in jail for THREE DAYS before she died. Over an improper lane change and declining to put out a cigarette.

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      Remember the Berkeley student who got arrested for MJ possession and was forgotten about, left in jail for 5 days with no food or water? He tried to kill himself, if I remember right. Something like that could well have happened here.

    2. sarcasmic   10 years ago

      Over an improper lane change and declining to put out a cigarette.

      Um, no. She was jailed for failure to show sufficient respect. Had she groveled in the dirt like a good peasant, nothing else would have happened.

    3. Lee G   10 years ago

      She was threatening his life with second-hand smoke

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        If she had been on antidepressant meds, and then locked up for three days without them, that could explain a lot.

  48. Warty   10 years ago

    Video game characters if they were as disgusting and sloppy as average American women

    Fat Lara Croft is my favorite.

    1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

      My favorite is Cortana since she's a fucking hologram so any body she might have is 'realistic.'

      She's blue for Christ's sake.

    2. RBS   10 years ago

      The funny thing about these is that the women are all elite level fighters or action driven women of some sort, I expect them to not be fat.

      1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

        Lara Croft spends her entire day spelunking, so clearly it's unrealistic that she doesn't weigh 200 lbs.

        1. Idle Hands   10 years ago

          Fat girls spelunk too.

          1. WTF   10 years ago

            Well, their boyfriends do.

    3. SugarFree   10 years ago

      I know the conventional wisdom on the subject, but stuff like this makes me think sometimes that retards really do rule the night.

    4. Idle Hands   10 years ago

      at a website called bulimia.com, you would think they would idolize those characters.

    5. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

      They could have saved themselves a lot of photoshopping by just linking to Comic-Con cosplay pics

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        Sadly, most female cosplayers at Comic Con are not 'average American Women'.

        http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/upload.....ay_4.0.jpg
        http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1932.....ON-900.jpg

        Yeah, I know it's Vox and HuffPo, but they won't be able to monetize your clicks.

    6. SusanM   10 years ago

      wouldn't mind the girl for DOA5. Would look great in the kimono and glasses.

  49. straffinrun   10 years ago

    Little Girl gets first buck fever

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE BIGHORN SHEEP

      1. straffinrun   10 years ago

        She'll make a fine wife someday.

  50. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Seattle, you need to ask your citizens this: How would citizens like it if they walked into a rental agency and the agent told them to register and come back in 10 years?

    The grim reality of Stockholm's rent control

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      If you don't have a rental control type agency, you eventually end up with Episiarchs and Dagnys and other undesirables. I bet Seattle wishes it had thought ahead.

    2. Sevo   10 years ago

      Ana amazingly good article on rent control:

      "Not that I have any special knowledge about San Francisco's housing market -- in fact, as of yesterday morning I didn't know a thing about it. But it was immediately obvious from the story what was going on. To an economist, or for that matter a freshman who has taken Economics 101, everything about that story fairly screamed those two words -- which are, of course, ''rent control.''"
      http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06.....ffair.html

      1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

        You know, there are many issues where Krugman is actually great, they're just not the issues that he gets quoted talking about. He's always right on rent control and he's right on sweat shops in 3rd world countries, which he's argued in favor of as a necessary means of economic development.

        I don't think he necessarily deserves the hate he gets, since he's hardly a doctrinaire leftist.

        1. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

          My problem with Krugman is that he's nasty and completely uncharitable to those he disagrees with, which makes it difficult to trust anything he writes. How do I know whether I'm getting "good" Krugman or "bad" Krugman?

  51. Sevo   10 years ago

    Glass house residents gather stones:

    ""There is no relief in sight because drug companies keep challenging the market with even higher prices," the doctors wrote in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07......html?_r=0

    I wonder if these are the same MDs who advised Obo on the economics of O-care?

    1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      I've said before that I work in pharma. Maybe if the company I work with didn't have to spend over $50 million to test a drug THAT WE ALREADY KNOW WORKS AND IS APPROVED EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, they could charge less for it. Maybe if costs for other major drugs from development to approval wasn't sometimes over $1 billion, and that without a guarantee of the final approval, maybe drugs wouldn't cost quite so much.

      1. Sevo   10 years ago

        Hey, I'm the choir!
        Believe me, if the BS regarding pharm prices were true, I'd own a LOT of stock in the companies and be very wealthy.

  52. WoodchipsandDerp   10 years ago

    Ted Cruz is on the senate floor calling Mitch McConnell a liar. Fascinating

  53. sarcasmic   10 years ago

    Well, I gave up on my search for a Ruger Mark II. Collectors have ruined the market. So I settled on a used Browning Buck Mark. Guy was asking $230 and accepted my offer for $200. Unless someone else gets to it first, I'll be picking it up tomorrow. Single owner, and not used much. Hopefully I'll be doing some plinking this weekend.

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      Buckmarks are fine guns. I've never shot a Ruger Mark II, but the Mark III I've shot is a nice little pistol.

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        I don't think you'd be disappointed with either, but the entry cost for Rugers is getting a bit silly, either the Mark II's or the new 22/45s.

        My partial Scots heritage balks at paying that kind of money for a rimfire pistol.

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          I didn't want to pay more than two bills, and I'm just not going to find a Ruger for that. Oh well.

          1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

            Actually, that's not true. I did find a used Mark III for $200, but the guy wanted to do the transfer at a gun shop. The whole point of this exercise is to get a gun without filling out any federal paperwork. Just as a matter of principle.

            1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

              Those rugers (I HAD a 22/45) are damn hard to break down and clean and their actions, if you aren't careful will cut your hand to the bone. My cousin used to call it "the deli slicer". Ultimately, I couldn't justify keeping it.

              Now, my conversion slide for my Glock 22 - THAT'S A KEEPER!!!

              1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

                Everything I read about Rugers said that putting them back together is a bitch and a half. That's one of the main reasons I chose to get the Browning instead.

                1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

                  I'm hoping my CZ Kadet conversion arrives tomorrow so I too can start shooting some 22LR, but USPS tracker says probably Tuesday 🙁

                  The info on the 22/45 is valuable though - SWMBO was thinking of getting one, and now I can tell her to do some more homework before plonking down the money.

                  1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

                    Here's what I gathered from my research.

                    Ruger pros: Very accurate. Holds value. Can run tons ammo before needing to be cleaned.
                    cons: Costs more. A serious hassle to put back together. Ejection port is small, so while it doesn't jam often, dislodging a stovepipe can be a hassle.

                    Browning pros: Costs less. Easy to put back together. Easy to fix a jam.
                    cons: Not as accurate as a Ruger. Need tools to field strip.

                    The reviews I read were evenly split as to which was the better gun.

      2. John   10 years ago

        I think my favorite piston in the world to shoot is a Buckmark .22. They are fabulously accurate, have virtually no recoil and the ammunition is cheap. If you like to target shoot with a pistol, you can't beat a Buckmark.

        1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

          "I think my favorite piston in the world"

          I was so expecting Isiah Thomas

          1. John   10 years ago

            No. I was always more of an old school Bob Lanier guy

        2. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          Are you saying they're chubby? (just kidding, I couldn't resist)

  54. Warty   10 years ago

    More of my homey Jacques

    The brussels sprouts fricasse looks interesting.

    1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

      One of the few ways to make brussels sprouts palateable.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        You are an insane person. Brussels sprouts are one of the best of all vegetables.

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          I'd rather suck on a lump of sulfur.

          1. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

            What warty said.

          2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

            I thought so too until I started roasting them. Mmmmm, roasted brussel sprouts ...

            1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

              Roasting being one of the ways ....

            2. Trshmnstr doesn't recycle   10 years ago

              Yep, roasted brussels sprouts with fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt, and a little bit of lemon juice. That's good eating.

        2. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

          Blame it on my British upbringing.

          With a mother who learned to cook during the war, 'al anglaise' - i.e. cooked for 45 minutes at a brisk boil, in salt water. The resulting food bearing a more than passing resemblance to a reprocessed phone book.

          Since then, as an adult, I have learned to embrace brassicas, but the forces of nurture are strong and resistant.

      2. *GILMORE*   10 years ago

        par-boil, cut in half, throw in lightly oiled pan with salt, garlic, little chopped onion, cook until they are lightly browned and caramelized on outside.

        I eat em all the time w/ steak or fish.

        1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

          I haven't tried them since I was a kid. Tastes change. Maybe I'll give them another try, though I'd have to cook them outside. The wife would freak out over the smell.

        2. crab_apple   10 years ago

          I need to eat more brussel sprouts. I already eat a ton of cabbage.

          My partner and I often make a couple gallons of kimchi so our fridge always smells like a korean fart. 😀

          1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

            You sure it's only your fridge that smells like farts?

            1. crab_apple   10 years ago

              Kimchi is the gift that keeps on giving.

              1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

                That's why we own a dog.

  55. John   10 years ago

    If the Left had ever been able to get real power, we would now be in the reign of terror stage where formerly loyal and trusted members of the revolution are sent to the guillotine.

    This is one of the crazier parts;

    WHITE GAY MEN V. ANYONE ELSE IN THE LGBTQQIAROYGBIV*? SPECTRUM
    A white gay man is still a white man, which goes some way to explaining why their faces and voices are the ones that dominate all LGBT marketing and news, say an increasing number of disgruntled disabled black lesbians.

    There was recently a furore over the absolute invisibility of "people of colour" at Pride events, with some even accusing the gay community of white-washing the rainbow. Gay men are the masculine oppressors of the LGBT community. They, like the straight white men before them, will eventually be ejected from polite society.

    I predict a split occurring, with white gay men stripped of their LGBT status, relegated to "allies" and forced to forfeit all rights to their victim narrative. The new "LBT" community will be led by a mixed race non-binary pansexual who prefers the pronoun "xhlee."

    Gay white men are still white men. And you really can't square even your average non twink gay guy's masculinity with the kind of neutered cuckold the movement demands.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-g.....-everyone/

    1. tarran   10 years ago

      Dammit! My google fu is failing me!

      This would be the perfect time to link to the Dead Milkmen singing about the lefthanded lesbian eskimo midget!

      1. sarcasmic   10 years ago

        She bit me once, you know. Right here. You see this? Left a mark. She was lowering a friend of mine's kid into the sewer. I run up and tried to stop her, I said "listen there you lesbian midget left-handed albino! You stop right there!" And she bit me.

        1. WTF   10 years ago

          Lesbian midget bites kan be quite nasti, you know.

    2. RBS   10 years ago

      disgruntled disabled black lesbians.

      Jesus Christ.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        DDBLGBTQQIAROYGBIV

      2. John   10 years ago

        Read the article. It is loaded with stuff like that.

        TRANSSEXUALS V. DRAG QUEENS
        Drag performers have a rich history of taking personal tragedy and social oppression and turning them into a glorious pantomime, weaving gold from their struggles and often challenging preconceptions of gender. To some, however, this is seen as transphobic, a mockery of the oppression faced by transgender individuals who can't "take off" their identity after the curtain comes down.

        This has led to the banning of drag queens from performing at Scottish Pride events, to make them a "safe space." What's next? A trans man taking umbrage next time they see a woman wearing a trouser suit?

        In the future, perhaps women will be prohibited from wearing so-called boyfriend blazers, sweaters or jeans, and society will comply with strictly gendered clothing rules in order to protect trans people from distress, in turn robbing us of our current increasingly liberal attitude towards the fluidity of gender.

        I predicted all of this in May 2014, but it gives me no pleasure to see that I was entirely right.

      3. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

        Quote form Modern Family: "Disabled interracial lesbians with an African kicker."

        1. John   10 years ago

          I think the writer is wrong. The next ten years won't be minority wars. It will be the Progressive left completely destroying itself as every person in the movement who is not an utterly broken and or psychotic is either kicked out or runs off in horror. The media is good about covering these things up and making sure the average person doesn't really understand how insane the hard left really is. But they are getting so crazy and so public about it, it is getting impossible to hide anymore, especially with the rise of the internet.

          1. Kristen Bids No Trump   10 years ago

            There's more than just race and gender identity which will cause the left to implode. Environmentalism is already causing rumblings, as competing "solutions" to the "problem" clash with each other. Economics is also causing rifts, between the pure commies and the hipsters engaged in the "sharing economy" (aka capitalism).

            1. John   10 years ago

              Yes. Eventually, you are going to get the knock at the door. The whole movement is based on social signaling and fighting some kind of enemy. The problem is they are running out of enemies and are going to have to create new ones. It is just a matter of time before each one of them is next.

              1. Citizen X   10 years ago

                Live by the identity politics, die by the identity politics.

              2. Free Society   10 years ago

                Eventually, you are going to get the knock at the door.

                No eventually you'll get your door kicked in by a one-legged black gay woman with a speech impediment because it's rumored that you have some politically incorrect civil war memorabilia stashed away under the floor boards.

      4. R C Dean   10 years ago

        That's got to be a parody, right?

        1. John   10 years ago

          Nope.

    3. Free Society   10 years ago

      say an increasing number of disgruntled disabled black lesbians.

      Self-perpetuating stereotype much ladies?

  56. Clich? Bandit   10 years ago

    Y'all want to see stupid? Feast your orbs on this derp:
    Dumb article

    1. Free Society   10 years ago

      What's the Matter With San Francisco?
      The city's devastating affordability crisis has an unlikely villain?its famed progressive politics.

      They had me convinced at the headline. Progressivism is the unlikely villain to housing affordability?

      1. Plush Cthulhu   10 years ago

        The problem being that SF obviously wasn't progressive enough.

        You'd think that a movement that fetishizes 'progress' would rather like shiny new buildings, wouldn't you?

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