EU Ministers Meet to Discuss Migrant Crisis as Germany Reimposes Border Controls, Egyptian Security Forces Kill 12 Tourists, Kim Davis Back at Work: A.M. Links

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  Interior ministers from the European Union are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the migrant crisis as Germany re-imposed border controls, saying it can't handle the thousands of asylum-seekers that are arriving daily.

• Government forces in Egypt fired on a  tourist convoy, killing at least 12, while pursuing Islamist militants in the Western Desert.
• The Liberal Party in Australia elected Malcolm Turnbull its new leader, meaning he wil also replace Tony Abbott as prime minister. Meanwhile, the Labor Party in Greart Britain elected Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, but he's not expected to be able to actually win a national election.
• The federal government launched a website providing scorecards for colleges, without the rankings President Obama said they would include when announcing the project two years ago.
• The campaign of Bernie Sanders doesn't like comparisons to Howard Dean's failed 2004 bid. Hillary Clinton is polling under 50 percent nationally for the first time, fueled by a significant drop in support by white women, while Donald Trump and Ben Carson lead in the latest Republican national polling.
• Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis returns to work.
• Number one ranked Novak Djokovic won the U.S. Open Sunday night, defeating Roger Federer in four sets.
• Three-time NBA MVP Moses Malone, the first basketball player to go pro straight out of high school, died aged 60.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis returns to work.

So to speak.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Hello.

Malone.

Damn.

I remember his 'Fo, Fo, Fo!' prediction.

[KeithC]

A rather enjoyable Madonnina yesterday, Rufus. Adriano will certainly rue his missed chances. Both teams look much improved (admittedly that's not saying much, given what both teams have trotted out the past couple years).

[Rufus J. Firefly]

AC Milan is a mess. I like Bacca. He was devastating for Sevilla.

Inter is definitely on a better path.

How the mighty have fallen, eh?

And then there's Juve and Chelsea. Yikes!

Bayern got a little break this week-end. What a goal by Lewandowski.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

/lights Ted S. signal.

Weak penalty?

[KeithC]

AC Milan look less of a mess than they did six months ago. The big thing is they're spending money again, if not at previous levels.

Bacca looks a good buy. I was quite surprised he was removed rather than Adriano.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Serie A outspent the other three big leagues this year.

They do look better but still meh for now.

Nice goal by Guarin though.

[Rhywun]

AC Milan is a mess.

Good.

I had to laugh at them trotting out Balotelli (again). The man is unmanageable but at least AC Milan seems like a good fit.

[Rhywun]

Bayern got a little break this week-end.

I was so rooting for Augsburg while simultaneously knowing what would happen.

[bacon-magic]

Goooo oooooooooooo oooooaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallll lllllllllllllllllllllll!!! *puts one of those stupid horns(the name eludes me thankfully) in the trash.

[Citizen X]

Vuvuzela?

[PBR Streetgang]

As a (somewhat) proud alum of Petersburg High School, Mo's passing makes me very sad.

[Winded]

Malone's death gives an opportunity for rare basketball talk here...I know we rip on Venezuela's economy, but they won the FIBA Americas championship over the weekend. Basically the biennial championship of the western hemisphere which this year also serves as an Olympic qualifying tournament. (Though the USA hasn't played in one of these since 2007). Maybe with the depression in the world oil market Venezuela can start exporting NBA players to bring hard currency back home? Only 2 of their 12 players play outside of Venezuela. Barring more labor friction the NBA salary market is about to experience another boom cycle.

And wrt Moses...such a joy to watch as an offensive rebounder, although it helps when you're chasing your own (rumored intentional?) misses. Lots of glowing comments from younger players I was unaware he mentored, as he had (at his time) a near-unique background coming straight from high school to the pros.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

At the expense of Canada. Man did their inexperience show. I was disappointed in their play.

[Winded]

Yeah, once Canada avoided Argentina & Mexico in the semis I figured they were in. Given their youth I thought the compacted schedule would be in their favor. Their future definitely looks bright, as long as their young highly-drafted talent doesn't get discouraged as they keep ending up on perennial NBA losing teams.

I still haven't figured out who's going to be impacted once FIBA changes to home-and-home style qualifiers. Last I heard there was talk of the games occurring largely during existing professional seasons.

[R C Dean]

I know we rip on Venezuela's economy, but they won the FIBA Americas championship over the weekend.

This is the new OED entry for "non sequitur", right?

[Winded]

Probably best to pretend I ordered my points a little better:

Venezuela won big basketball tournament Sunday
Country's an economic disaster due to socialist policy and oil price collapse
New natural resource - Pro basketball players
Profit?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The campaign of Bernie Sanders doesn't like comparisons to Howard Dean's failed 2004 bid.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Citizen X]

Say what you want about Howard Dean, at least he sort of had a personality.

[gaijin]

Say what you want about Howard Dean, at least he sort of had a personality.

The perfect type around which to build a cult!

[Bee Tagger]

If only Howard Dean would have realized if he would have slipped some shades up and down his nose and sounded like Roger Daltry things would have gone very differently.

[Citizen X]

[dons sunglasses]

Who?

[Almanian - Micro Trumper]

Bernie Sanders?

[dons' Fist's sunglasses]

Who's Next?

[Frankjasper1]

Is he even serious about wanting to be president? He won't say anything regarding hillary.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He might be serious about settling for vice president.

[Frankjasper1]

His policies concern me. I hope he fades away

[Jerryskids]

I hope this thread dies before it gets old.

[Zeb]

I still have no idea what the hell happened there. Why was shouting "yeeeahhh" a terrible thing? Losing Iowa wasn't good, obviously, but that seems to go down as a footnote to the scream.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Just one of those things. He was going great guns until he let out that scream, then it was all downhill. Lefties are fickle that way.

[TheZeitgeist]

Dean's flame-out overall was like reading a cynic's version of the Little Engine that Could, where about half way up the mountain Tommy the Train sucks a valve.

Dean's 'Yeah' scream was the valve sucking part of the story, the inescapable sign to all involved this little train was rolling back down the mountain.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Government forces in Egypt fired on a tourist convoy, killing at least 12, while pursuing Islamist militants in the Western Desert.

Plot twist: One of those militants was Christopher Dorner!

[Rich]

Government forces in Egypt fired on a tourist convoy, killing at least 12, while pursuing Islamist militants in the Western Desert.

Ooops!

[SugarFree]

Floor Lamp Commands Underage Girl to Dance, Dance

[Idle Hands]

So cousin it is going to ruin the one cache thing it has going for it.

[Rich]

"Thank you, Thing."

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Cousin Itt has two 't's

/TCITBKOC

[Zeb]

Who?

[Idle Hands]

pft. Where have you even been the last year?

[Citizen X]

I dunno. My mom likes her, for some reason.

[sarcasmic]

Twitter backlash for Entourage star Adrian Grenier over his 9/11 tribute to Iraq's war dead - as users brand it 'classless' and a 'slap in the face' to terror victims

Actor Adrian Grenier shared a post on Instagram on Friday - the 14th anniversary of 9/11
The now-deleted post remembered the 2,996 Americans who died on September 11, 2001
It also paid tribute to the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who 'died during the US invasion for something they didn't do'
Twitter users hit out at the 39-year-old, saying 'today was not the day to post this'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....ibute.html

[Fist of Etiquette]

When will they learn? Celeb tweets should filter through their publicists first.

[Je suis Woodchipper]

What day should he post that?

[Irish ?s ESB]

And how exactly is it offensive? The numbers are bullshit since it was not 1.5 million, but I don't know how the Iraqi civilians killed by terrorists following America turning their country into a chaotic warzone are any less victims than the people in the World Trade Center.

[R C Dean]

And how exactly is it offensive? The numbers are bullshit since it was not 1.5 million,

Question asked and answered.

[commodious spittoon]

November 9th.

[Zeb]

American lives matter. Don't you dare say all lives matter.

[Zeb]

On 9/11.

[Rhywun]

I notice all the cool kids are on something called 'Instagram'. Is Facebook the new MySpace now?

[invisible furry hand]

Secrets of a world-class pimp:

Jennerating content

[invisible furry hand]

dammit, where's the rest of my post?

Jennerating content

[invisible furry hand]

Oh FFS

Kris Jenner really is one of the greatest celebrity managers of all time. Not only does she control the family's image on TV but - thanks to a deal with MailOnline last year ? they've ensured a steady stream of positivity where you might otherwise have expected to see the family slagged off.

[invisible furry hand]

And she hasn't stopped there. Kris is said to be behind a whole new circle of well-funded US celeb sites which largely focus on the comings and goings of the Jenner-Kardashian clan.

[invisible furry hand]

The niftiest part is that they can publish whatever stories they like ? including some wild rumours they know that their sister-publications can (and will) immediately debunk ?
all the while knowing that other media sites will pick the stories up and send them round the world.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What's going on here with this thread?

[Rich]

Yes, ifh does seem somewhat, um, agitated this morning this evening at this time.

[invisible furry hand]

i pasted the whole thing into the box, and hit submit. Only the first two lines posted. So i had to do it sentence by freakin' sentence. Would this have happened under Virginia Postrel? I think not

[WTF]

She even got Bruce to become Caitlyn to keep the media attention focused on them.

[gaijin]

I wonder what the history 'books' will say about the Jenners in 100 years?

[Rich]

"Jenner, the first transgender President, precipitated World World IV in a feminizing-hormone-induced rage."

[WTF]

That might be funny if it wasn't so frighteningly conceivable.

[Rhywun]

the comings and goings of the Jenner-Kardashian clan

The only thing I know about any of them is that one or more of them look like misshapen aliens.

[Florida Man]

*draws up 2mg of Ativan, flicks syringe*

Now this will only hurt a little then you can get some rest.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hillary Clinton is polling under 50 percent nationally for the first time, fueled by a significant drop in support by white women...

Me-ow.

[Tejicano]

Praying for a free-fall soon.

[Calvin Coolidge]

She's in a free-fall. She now trails by double-digits in Iowa. Her support from white wimmins had dropped by 50% since July.

It looks like a total meltdown, but we need to see if her new strategy of scripting herself to be more authentic and scheduling more spontaneity will reverse this.

[Rich]

A total meltdown will involve "I'm taking all you clowns down with me!"

[Calvin Coolidge]

Last time, we were treated to Fightin' Hillary shaking her fists while giving speeches from the bed of a pickup truck, and claiming she needed to stay in the race just in case someone assassinated Obama. This time, an "It's just a flesh wound, I've 'ad worse!! I'm invincible! INVINCIBLE!!!!" would be nice.

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

It has nothing to do with the fact that she is a corrupt, Washington-establishment, Wall Street shill with no charisma and no accomplishments to speak of.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

"I'll bite yer kneecaps off!"

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

We just need to keep updating Hill-bot's authenticity and likeability programs.

[Episteme]

Of course, the headline "Hillary below 50%" only works with Biden in the poll ?if one clicks through to the actual numbers, there's a question/version excluding the VP-noncandidate; with only the actual people running as choice, Clinton pops back up above that mark.

[Princess Trigger]

Obligatory: "Where the white women at?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc

[sarcasmic]

Krysten Ritter strips down to skimpy mismatch bikini as she hits the beach with boyfriend Adam Granduciel in sunny Mexico

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....exico.html

[Rich]

skimpy mismatch bikini

Aka "underwear", or nice band name.

[Crusty Juggler]

I am...Jonesin...for more of her.

[Bee Tagger]

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis returns to work.

Where are the thinkpieces on what Donald Trump thinks about this?

[Citizen X]

Fuck that, have the millennials been polled?

[Rich]

And where are the *codpieces*?

[db]

You wrote the word "think" about two times too many for a sentence involving Donald Trump.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

The proper word is 'say'.

There is no 'think' when it comes to The Donald. Thinking is for indecisive little people.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The federal government launched a website providing scorecards for colleges, without the rankings President Obama said they would include...

Has anyone checked to see if the rankings were accidentally put on the Obamacare website?

[Millard Fillmore]

How would we be able to find out?

[Rich]

The federal government launched a website providing scorecards for colleges

Unfortunately, no one could log on.

[PM]

Portland-bound passengers urinated on; man jailed

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) ? A 27-year-old man spent about 5 hours in jail Friday after he reportedly urinated on several passengers right before landing at Portland International Airport.

According to a police report first obtained by KOIN 6 News, Jeff D. Rubin was taken into custody at 4:31 a.m. on Friday by Port of Portland Police.

Officers responded to the C-concourse to meet JetBlue Flight 47 from Anchorage after getting reports from the airline that a man had urinated on passengers, seats and luggage.

[Rich]

criminal mischief and offensive littering.

Haw! And what a smug mug shot!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

All it's missing is some rainbow lasers in the back ground with flying cats.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wouldn't you be smug if you ended up owning two rows of a passenger jet?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

"THESE ARE MINE!"

[Idle Hands]

how drunk was that guy? He at least tried to be discreet:

bout 30 minutes before landing, "he stood up and began urinating through the crack of the seat onto the passengers seated in front of him," the report states.

[WTF]

How the hell did he not get his ass kicked?

[Je suis Woodchipper]

he looks like Dante Hicks from Clerks.

[Lee G]

They obviously wanted to save the experience of Portland for after they arrived

[PM]

Boom goes the dynamite

[Stretchy]

It says he's from Gresham, the New Jersey of Portland

[PM]

Couple admits to getting drunk, having sex in the middle of Norfolk shopping center parking lot

Norfolk, Va. - A Norfolk woman was accused of having sex with a man who police say was unconscious in a parking lot.

"[I] was in the mood, and that's basically what happened," says 36-year-old Kimberly M. Jackson when we asked her about the incident.

When asked what actually got her in the mood, she says it was the alcohol.

[Citizen X]

It's seriously the most interesting thing that's happened at that particular shopping center since the CompUSA closed.

[Aloysious]

Ah yes. The picture of that woman does not disappoint.

[Rich]

She looks better when you're unconscious.

[gaijin]

Couple admits to getting drunk, having sex...

If the man was unconscious, how can 'the couple' admit to having sex?

[PM]

She may have just confessed to rape. YES MEANS YES.

[WTF]

To avoid having to charge the woman with rape, of course.

[Free Society]

Matriarchal rape culture.

[Lee G]

I can think of nothing better to do at Military Circle

[Citizen X]

This... is accurate.

[Citizen X]

Unless you're into Mongolian barbecue or getting shot.

[Lee G]

Well, there is that Schlotzky's

[Citizen X]

The one downtown is better, though.

[invisible furry hand]

A woman who was raped and impregnated by her mother's lover when she was 11 years old has accused her mum of blowing her victim compensation money on a wedding.

more

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hopefully not to the rapist.

[Just say Nikki]

As Ms Jones was under 18 when the compensation money was awarded, it was paid to her mother to look after on her behalf.

Because the mother was really good at looking after things to do with the daughter.

[SugarFree]

Perfect

[Monty Crisco]

Fucking picture of the mother is PRICELESS.

Gotcha!!!

Damn, there sure is some white trash in Old Blighty, ain't there?

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Right out of Kids in the Hall.

[Monty Crisco]

LMFAO

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

I was thinking more like Absolutely Fabulous.

[AlgerHiss]

Davis should hand those licenses out like candy to anyone and everyone that involves consenting adults.

[Rich]

Or at least as she issues them to gays scream "I'll see you in HELL!!"

[invisible furry hand]

I won't feel so bad making faces at them in the future:

Blind people CAN be racist too: Study finds the visually impaired use clues in voices and names to stereotype others

The small study by University of Delaware professor Asia Friedman found the blind are not 'absolved from being a racist'

more

[Rufus J. Firefly]

They'd definitely be racist against me.

My voice is too nasally.

[Elspeth Flashman]

Supposedly voice is the first thing we learn from.

[PM]

Homophobic People Often Have Psychological Issues

A new study of university students in Italy revealed that people who have strongly negative views of gay people also have higher levels of psychoticism and inappropriate coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of homosexuality.
...
The findings position homophobia as a trait more often seen in dysfunctional personalities, but personality isn't the whole story. Homophobia is a "culture-induced disease," Jannini said, so personality traits probably interplay with factors like religion and conservative values.

Or: How to go from pathologizing homosexuality to pathologizing homophobia in 30 easy years.

[Rich]

You know who else had inappropriate coping mechanisms ....

[Citizen X]

SugarFree's editor?

[PM]

By definition, any and all coping mechanisms employed by SF's editor are appropriate.

[Just say Nikki]

By definition, any and all coping mechanisms employed by SF's editor are appropriate.

I always tell people that!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Are you admitting to being SFs editor?

[Rich]

Well, I was thinking of this guy, but your answer is acceptable.

[SugarFree]

Hey, now. None of this is Nicole's fault.

[Mickey Rat]

It is almost as if the field is a completely politicized pseudo science.

[Mindyourbusiness]

You think so?

[invisible furry hand]

University blocks porn sites at residential college? outraging students who pay $200 a semester for wifi and claim they have a right to watch legal erotica

more

[Bee Tagger]

The Liberal Party in Australia elected Malcolm Turnbull its new leader, meaning he wil also replace Tony Abbott as prime minister. Meanwhile, the Labor Party in Greart Britain elected Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, but he's not expected to be able to actually win a national election.

Isn't IFH usually pretty active in AM links? Begging for an appearance isn't a good look, reason.

[invisible furry hand]

I'm a sucker, I'll bite.

Abbott had godawful judgment, and was godawful on the economic management. Malcolm Turnbull is not the Great Libertarian Messiah, but he has promised: "This will be a thoroughly Liberal government. It will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market."

He's an interesting guy: journalist, barrister (who won the Spycatcher case), investment banker, businessman, self-made millionaire, Rhodes scholar, and often considered an arrogant jerk who might have reformed enough to be a decent PM

[WTF]

Libertarian Moment?

[perlchpr]

Sounds about right. Moments are, well... momentary. :-/

[PM]

Meet the petite blonde who earns ?125,000 being SQUASHED by plus-size models for a living

Like most university students, Odette Delacroix had to find an extra source of income to support her through her degree course when she started studying English, four years ago.

But while many students turn to bar work or waitressing to earn a few extra quid, Odette stumbled on something completely different ? and it's now become her full-time job. 5ft tall Odette earns her living from men paying to watch her get squashed by other people.

Sometimes, Odette, who weighs a slender 6st 2lb, will be squashed by up to five large women, who weigh more than 125 stone in total. And Odette claims it's a job she absolutely adores.

[Crusty Juggler]

She has my dream job.

[sarcasmic]

John is jealous.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Women with size 102ZZZ breasts have pressed up against me and I couldn't breathe at all, yet I felt so calm.

Suffocating can be very calming.

[Florida Man]

+ssh, ssh, just let it happen.

[Timon 19]

ssh? Why would you log in...ohhhh....

/geek off

[Clich? Bandit]

thats where I was Timon...my question was How big is her key?

[Elspeth Flashman]

Maybe she has sensory issues.

[Florida Man]

That's disgusting! Measuring in stones. What is this, bedrock?!?

[Almanian - Micro Trumper]

Yabba, dabba DO!

[Aloysious]

That's it. I'm not looking at any pictures of women for the rest of the day. I quit.

[Rich]

Eye bleach

[Aloysious]

I appreciate your effort, but those godawful pictures upthread have made me lose my will to go on. Maybe I'll gOOgle some pictures of Linda Carter.

[Lee G]

The UK is obviously gunning for the top position in trashy.

[Zeb]

I don't get it myself, but that's kind of awesome.

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

Odette, who weighs a slender 6st 2lb, will be squashed by up to five large women, who weigh more than 125 stone in total

These units are meaningless!!!!

[Old Man With Candy]

Government forces in Egypt fired on a tourist convoy, killing at least 12, while pursuing Islamist militants in the Western Desert.

And they immediately called the police union rep.

[Just say Nikki]

Number one ranked Novak Djokovic won the U.S. Open Sunday night, defeating Roger Federer in four sets.

I still love you, Roger! And your SABR! And Djokovic still has a stupid horse-face that should never be on television!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Roger has an unforced error problem as he ages!

[Monty Crisco]

Not against Stan he didn't. Fucking DEMOLISHED Wawrinka. One of his games took 38 seconds!

[Just say Nikki]

Yeah that was a killer match.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Yeah but against top players in the final he does. I wonder if he can get one more GS title.

Last night he had a chance to bury Novak but whiffed.

Novak is lucky he didn't fracture his lower leg/foot yesterday. I cringed when I saw that.

[Monty Crisco]

Well, specifically against one top player in the final who he keeps running into over and over again who is the best player in the world and is more than half a decade younger than him.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

I know. I'm nit-picking but it's because it would have been cool to see Federer win at this stage of his career. Nothing against Novak (he is an AC Milan fan after all) tennis can be frustrating to watch when you lean towards one player.

Or maybe I'm projecting. I'm a solid tennis player but man do I rock with the unforced errors.

[Monty Crisco]

Hey, man, no one wants to see the GOAT in tennis win one more more than me! I am onboard that bandwagon!!

[Certified Public Asshat]

Our new Miss America:

Did he cheat? Um, that's a really good question! I'm not sure. I think I'd have to be there to see the ball, and feel it to make sure it was deflated or not deflated. But if there was question there, then yes, I think he cheated. If there were any question to be had, I think that he definitely cheated, and he should've been suspended for that. That's not fair.

[WTF]

Of course the correct answer is "How the hell would I know? I wasn't there and I haven't analyzed any evidence."

[PM]

I think I'd have to be there to see the ball, and feel it

Lady, you already got the job...

[invisible furry hand]

"see the ball, feel the ball" is crying out to be put on a t-shirt

[WTF]

"Tom Brady's balls are too soft!"

[Almanian - Micro Trumper]

With a picture of Roger Daltry on a pinball machine, right?

[Elspeth Flashman]

+1 What about the boy?

[Citizen X]

[dons sunglasses]

Who?

[Elspeth Flashman]

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uefzFASMIPg

[Citizen X]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74

[SugarFree]

Human with no gag reflex found in California, future in porn uncertain

[PM]

I think that was the wrong link. Also, I have a gag reflex, so pls to stop posting links to photos of Courtney Love.

[Crusty Juggler]

I have a gag reflex, so pls to stop posting links to photos of Courtney Love

This just in: PM does not care for photos of beautiful, talented women.

[Monty Crisco]

Is this sarcasm? Is my meter broken?

[Crusty Juggler]

I am never sarcastic when it comes to women I find to be attractive.

[Monty Crisco]

IF you think CURRENT Courtney Love is attractive then you must go apeshit for Donatella Versace and that female gremlin from Gremlins 2.

And you are probably ACTUALLY crusty.

[SugarFree]

I think that was the wrong link.

THAT'S THE JOKE, NICOLE!

[PM]

Dammit.

But in my defense, we've named busted links after you, so that was like the Poe's Law LSAT.

[SugarFree]

It's OK. I haven't done the retitled headlines joke for a while now.

[Citizen X]

Wait, so is jezebel.com for porn or against porn this week? I can't keep track.

[Elspeth Flashman]

It's for porn as long as . . . . the list is endless. How long have you got?

[Citizen X]

About a minute and a half.

[Elspeth Flashman]

Nicely played. Ok, then it is for porn.

[Rich]

The hospital computer that predicts if your time is up

But, enough about healthcare.gov.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

http://instantrimshot.com/

[Elspeth Flashman]

I call dibs on his room!

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Did they name the computer 'Dave'?

[Rich]

I'm afraid they can't do that, Rufus.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

: Rand Paul will attack Trump on eminent domain abuse at debate

Paul later told me he thinks he has found an approach that will separate Trump from the rest of the GOP field: eminent domain. "A hallmark of Republicans is that they respect private property. But Trump runs roughshod over it," he said. "He is a serious abuser of taking property for his private benefit."

Paul recounted the story of Vera Coking, an elderly widow who lived in a three-story house in Atlantic City. Trump decided he wanted a "fantastic" limousine parking lot for his Trump Plaza hotel. He bought up nearby properties, but Coking declined to sell. So Trump had a local government agency ? the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) ? do the dirty work of seizing her property. CRDA offered her $250,000 for the property ? one-fourth of what another hotel builder had offered her a decade earlier. When Coking wouldn't budge, CRDA went to court to seize her property under eminent domain.

Coking went to court represented by the Institute of Justice and was able to win. As the Washington Post reported this month: "In the long melodrama that is Trump's business career, the house in Atlantic City is the place where all the billionaire's money and all the billionaire's men couldn't keep a 5-foot-3 widow from whupping him."

Nice.

[SusanM]

Average Trump Fan: "Whut!? That there lady wuz keepin The Donald from makin' money? She some sorta Comminist or supmtin'?

[Citizen X]

Actually, all Trump fans are below average.

[gaijin]

Actually, all Trump fans are below average.

Like Lake Wobegon...only in reverse.

[SusanM]

Lake Joibegon?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

"Did she have a hat saying that property was hers?"

[Je suis Woodchipper]

Dipping his hand. Why would he announce his debate strategy?

[Lee G]

My thoughts as well

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

To give the press something to look out for, thus building some hype. And really, what can Team Donald say against that?

"That bitch is a loser who should have taken my generous offer?" Although I realize that might actually work given what Trump fans like to hear.

[Je suis Woodchipper]

He'll appeal to the closeted command/control types about one greedy landlord preventing thousands of high paying construction jerbs and economic prosperity.

[Zaytsev]

"I offered the lady $5 million dollars for her little dump that wasn't worth a fraction of that. She could've taken the money and literally moved anywhere in the world. I don't know if she was crazy or just greedy but I do know that I was very generous to her"

[Zaytsev]

"And ultimately the project failed, in part because of her ... whatever... She kept her house, temporarily and thousands of people lost there jobs because of her. Ultimately, her home was foreclosed by a bank and sold at auction for less than a quarter of what I offered her for the house."

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

I hope Rand means that he will physically attack Trump for this. Otherwise, I don't care.

[perlchpr]

I would *definitely* vote for him then.

[lap83]

I've been trying to remember where I first read about this eminent domain abuse story, so I googled it and found out it was this John Stossel book from a few years ago. I also found a blog post that reprinted Stossel's exchange with Trump in it.

http://www.thelibertypapers.or.....y-re-post/

Donald Trump was offended when I called him a bully for trying to force an old lady out of her house to make more room for his Atlantic City casino. After the interview, the producer stayed behind to pack up our equipment. Trump came back into the room, puffed himself up, and started blustering, "Nobody talks to me that way!"

Well, someone should.

Awesome

I really want one of the candidates to call him on the fact that he's so thin-skinned. I don't give a shit about the fact that he's a "bully", the word is thrown around so much and for such petty reasons that it can reflect worse on the person using it. The bigger problem is when it's overcompensation for being easily offended. It's a bad quality for someone who is supposed to be leading the free world.

[perlchpr]

Whoopsie!

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com.....-standoff/

[Agile Cyborg]

A terse 'sorry' will numb the pain.

[SusanM]

Better than the usual damaging police equipment and littering charges people in those situations usually get.

[Drake]

The cops were mad that a civilian had already shot the dog - so they were shooting something.

[Agile Cyborg]

Making pigeons heavy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KriCr8FvjBQ

[Rich]

Well, that's different.

[SugarFree]

My Gynecologist Found a Ball of Cat Hair in My Vagina

Well, not my vagina. I keep that in a jar under the bed.

[Lee G]

Is this Gyno Monday?

[Citizen X]

Consider the source. We should be so lucky that he'd limit himself to Mondays.

[Just say Nikki]

I can only imagine are creating a mental roster of every single person at the clinic that they're going to regale this story to at lunch.

LEARN FUCKING ENGLISH YOU STUPID BITCH

[Just say Nikki]

I'm not very good at making the bed every day so Cricket and Donut have free reign.

Fuck you all.

[SugarFree]

Meh. It's xojane. Be glad the whole thing isn't in emojis.

[Just say Nikki]

It is.

[Irish ?s ESB]

For all intensive purposes, that woman's ability to speak English is clearly an allusion.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Irregardless, she could care less what some libertarian thinks about her writing.

[Clich? Bandit]

This thread is literally kill me

[The Shrubber's Woodchipper]

That is a Mr. Meaner against the English language.

(This was actually written in an email sent by the multimillionaire owner of my company.)

[Rich]

Yeah! It's "regale *with*"!

[Monty Crisco]

PEDANTIC PREPOSITION MONDAY, BITCHES!!!!

[Crusty Juggler]

No, it is "regale *at*!"

[Rich]

Very well. "Regale at, *asshole*!"

[Just say Nikki]

And the audience is the direct object!

[Citizen X]

Irregardless, this is LITERALLY killing you, isn't it.

[Lee G]

She's not going to take that laying down.

[Irish ?s ESB]

I'm getting really sick of your pendantry.

[Crusty Juggler]

Pedantry is an addiction, and we need to work together to get Nikki to follow straightened arrow.

[Brett L]

Sick "from" your pedantry.

[invisible furry hand]

I do know one thing for sure: I'll definitely be finding a new doctor for my next annual exam.

That's her reward for investigating your uncleanness and curing your hoo-ha? Ungrateful slattern.

[Brett L]

Its more like knowing that the nurses will, in fact, be laughing at her

[Monty Crisco]

Having read half of that nauseating article, I am wondering why anyone would share this with the world.

This is so disgusting I would take it to my fucking grave.

[Pope Jimbo]

C'mon Monty, this is a sharing culture.

If this guy can write about pulling a tape worm out of his ass, is a hairy pussy really that bad?

[Monty Crisco]

Not touchin' it!!

[Crusty Juggler]

Sex was definitely touch-and-go for the first few weeks after my appointment and I can't say I blame my fiance for being a little turned off by the thought of my vagina furtata. Things are mostly back to normal now but I still sometimes make him shower before we have sex.

Who is this poor lucky fella, and why does he have to shower?

[invisible furry hand]

Because his penis was bringing cat fur to her vagina. It had nothing to do with her filthy, and possibly illegal, habits

[Just say Nikki]

To get the cat hair off his dick.

[Monty Crisco]

Yeah, it was the GUY'S fault.

ROFLMAFAO

[Just say Nikki]

I mean, that could have been the mechanism.

It's just...so fucking gross.

[Monty Crisco]

AGREEIN' WITH YOU ON THAT ONE!!!!

[Crusty Juggler]

It is so gross that this part has not even been mentioned:

I'm a Diva Cup girl and I've never used tampons regularly

[SugarFree]

Exactly. Maybe a cat upchucked into her Diva Cup after it got done cleaning it.

[Lee G]

It's comments like these that make the little Postrel angel on my shoulder start whispering in my ear.

[Citizen X]

That's weird, all i hear is a noise as of a million Postrel angels crying out in fear, and then silence.

[SugarFree]

HoW many Postrels can disprove on the head of the pin?

[Elspeth Flashman]

Furtata. That's sooooo gross.

[Monty Crisco]

SECONDED!!!!

[Monty Crisco]

Next thing you know she'll be talking about the moist, chunky curds squirting out of her panties...

[Citizen X]

+1 cunny booger

[Elspeth Flashman]

I definitely regret reading the article after that. After that, and your comment.

[Monty Crisco]

I'm here to help. And to string along into a sentence the top words that disgust women.

Never understood why "moist" is number one, though...

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ah.

http://www.xojane.com/author/michelle-barrow

[Citizen X]

Isn't it funny how people say "Never judge a book by its cover," when sometimes you totally can?

[db]

Kim Davis back at work

That's a relief. I was beginning to get tired of Garfield reruns.

[Lee G]

*tapers stare*

[Almanian - Micro Trumper]

*ponders this deeply - decides to approve*

[Rich]

Excellent.

[Jordan]

Meanwhile, the Labor Party in Greart Britain elected Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, but he's not expected to be able to actually win a national election.

The British Bernie Sanders who had this to say about Venezuela:

"When we celebrate, and it is a cause for celebration, the achievements of Venezuela, in jobs, in housing , in health, in education, but above all its role in the whole world as a completely different place, then we do that because we recognise what they have achieved."

[Jordan]

Has anyone ever seen Jeremy Corbyn and american socialist in the same room?

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

Are you suggesting AmSoc isn't even America?!?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

He's also boastful of his "friends" in Hamas and Hezbollah.

[invisible furry hand]

One of the first people he sacked from his shadow cabinet was the only Jew in it. Purely coincidental, I daresay.

Corbyn is a fucking disaster. No wonder so many senior figures have resigned to be in his shadow Cabinet.

Take his shadow Chancellor ... please

[Jordan]

I've heard speculation that this could devastate Labour and make UKIP/BNP the new opposition party.

Also, Shadow Chancellor is pretty much the coolest fucking title you can have.

[Free Society]

I thought the Shadow Chancellor was subordinate to the Dark Lord.

[R C Dean]

The Shadow Chancellor is the power behind the Dark Lord's throne.

Duh.

[makes notes for ten-book fantasy series]

[Mindyourbusiness]

Sounds like a great cover band name.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

McDonnell previously described himself as, "generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism."

That sentence alone provides two reasons he should not be in any position of power.

[Brett L]

For Christ's sake, the guy spent four paragraphs on Trade Unions. This guy knows its 2015 and mot 1915, right? Trade unions aren't going to so shit to save British jobs. These people are fucking insane.

[Lee G]

They're still reliving the death of unionized coal mining under Thatcher.

[Zeb]

Because everything was awesome and perfect in the UK in the 70s.

There are lots of things about Thatcher to criticize, but it's amazing that people keep harping on that stuff. Yeah, continuing to build shitty cars that don't work and inefficiently mine coal would have made things way better.

[Lee G]

People are dumb that way. People are nostalgic for East Germany too.

[Lee G]

People should review their comments before posting so people don't look stupid.

[Zeb]

I'd think that if you were a socialist, you would want to distance yourself from disasters like Venezuela, say that they were doing it wrong, or that democratic socialism is different or something. Are there really people numb enough to look at Venezuela and say "they've got the right idea, let's be more like that"?

[Lee G]

Being a socialist means always blaming someone else for your failures.

[Eric L]

I am going to start watching again Prime Minister's Question time on CSPAN. This is going to be fun.

[gaoxiaen]

They saved so many trees that used to be wasted on toilet paper.

[OldMexican]

The federal government launched a website providing scorecards for colleges

"Without a government, who will rank the colleges?"

Well...
http://colleges.usnews.ranking.....t-colleges

[Brett L]

you're missing the good news. They published graduate debt and salaries at graduation +5 years. Now anyone with a brain can figure out whether or not to cosign a student loan. The answer is no. Always.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Never cosign any loan.

[Brett L]

Why wouldn't I sign up for all of the risks and none of the benefits?

[Drake]

Germany re-imposed border controls...

I thought it was their inalienable right to get welfare from the richest country possible? Shikha told me so.

[PM]

You know who else imposed German border controls...

[Swiss Servator]

Marshal Zukhov?

[Brett L]

Next up, camps for these refugees where all of the services can be concentrated in one small area for efficiency.

[Jerryskids]

Germany re-imposed border controls...

Germany is just lucky their illegal immigrants can't swim like ours can.

[Rhywun]

It took all of what... a week? for Germany to decide that opening the floodgates was maybe not in their best interest.

[Free Society]

Topless Femen Activists Storm Stage At Muslim Conferance

At least one of the women gets the shit beat out of her on stage by a group of young male Muslim attendees.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/vid.....rence.html

[Brett L]

More balls on those women than the French Parliament.

[Monty Crisco]

Yeah, the second one "ejected" got a nice little boot party.

Oh, well, live and learn, I guess.

[Free Society]

Muslims gonna Muslim. I mean I could see an ass beating coming down on her from a security guard or producers of the event, but it's telling that an angry mob formed in the predominantly Muslim crowd almost instantly to administer this beating.

[Lee G]

Everybody needs a jihad to get into heaven

[commodious spittoon]

There's really no winners here. Certainly nobody to root for.

[Je suis Woodchipper]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMEN

I would like to subscribe to their newsletter or pinup calendar. whatever they have.

[Free Society]

Compared to your average feminist, these femen protesters have nice tits. Probably because Eastern European women are over-represented in that group.

[commodious spittoon]

In September 2013 FEMEN came under heavy criticism when the Australian documentary film-maker Kitty Green exposed a man named Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the group. ... Svyatski admits he is the brain behind the group, stating that the girls would not have been able to start FEMEN without him ... Activist Inna Shevchenko admits later in the documentary that the patriarchal system runs so deep in Ukrainian women, it was probably indeed not possible to start FEMEN without Svyatski, but is also clear that this is not something that can continue much longer.

So they drummed him out because penis. What a charming bunch.

[Episteme]

I misread that as "Topless Fremen Activists" and got worried about how long they could survive without wearing their stillsuits...

[DEG]

Let's see if the squirrels still don't count https links against the three link limit.

Bonus.

[DEG]

Shit. It's a two link limit, not a three link limit, but only if the URL you are posting starts with http.

[Number.6]

Speaking of https://, what's everyone doing now that Reasonable doesn't seem to work well on a reason.com that redirects to https://reason.com/blog ?

[SugarFree]

Most are going to Firefox and fascr. I don't have that option and am marinating in Hell.

[Number.6]

I'm going to feel so dirty, using Firefox. At least there's a Portable version available.

[Timon 19]

Why?

[Number.6]

I had some very nasty experiences with Firefox about 18 months ago, performance, reliability etc. I vowed to never use it again, and I hate breaking promises I make myself.

I'd use Pale Moon, but the current version doesn't seem to like fascr.

[Timon 19]

Interesting. I can't say as I've seen much that I know was attributable to FF itself. I know at work they aren't running the bleeding edge, but I keep the Linux machines at home pretty up-to-date. The Windows machine probably lags a bit, but not much, and my wife hasn't had too many complaints about FF itself (and she's a big-time complainer about anything having to do with computers).

[Rhywun]

Ah, I must try the portable version.

I also wonder if it would perform any better on my complete POS machine at work.

[Number.6]

I've started (selectively) to use portable tools for internet connectivity. They often are faster, simply because when people out there create these portable versions, they'll often disable as much as they can while maintaining 'reasonable' functionality.

[Clich? Bandit]

If reasonable is available on github I would love to port to Safari

BACK OFF APPLE HATERS!

[tarran]

It is!

https://github.com/brymck/reasonable

[Clich? Bandit]

Sweet. I asked for this like 50 MILLION TIMES but whatevs...it takes tarran to deliver, whoda thunk it.

[Rhywun]

Reasonable is available on github.

I want to play around with the code but I haven't been able to get it to build yet.

[Crusty Juggler]

DEG reins supreme over the Reason commentariat.

[Jerryskids]

As the years go by you get more anniversaries that are a cause for reflection rather than celebration and today is such an anniversary for me so I'll just put this here as perhaps something to think about. (Subtitled)

[DEG]

Fuck, there goes the neighborhood.

Hillary Clinton will return to Nashua this week.

Clinton is scheduled for a three-day swing in the Granite State starting Thursday, when she will address substance abuse during a stop in Nashua at 11:30 a.m. Her campaign has not yet revealed where she will speak.

[gaoxiaen]

Maybe she should invite Bill Bennett. He's full of fresh ideas.

[tarran]

They haven't announced where she will speak?!?

Man, she must be real popular to be able to fill up a venue with less than three days notice.

[Rhywun]

she will address substance abuse during a stop in Nashua

This sounds like the party of the century.

[SugarFree]

World Narrowly Avoids Saddest Hipster Fistfight

[Zeb]

I kind of like the Black Keys. Jack White seems to be a giant asshole.

[Timon 19]

Neither the hipsterdom of the Black Keys, nor White's assholishness prevent me from enjoying either's music.

Plus, Akron, bitches!

[invisible furry hand]

Jack White is not a hipster. He's a living, breathing Victorian illustration of the dangers of masturbation

[commodious spittoon]

"dudefights"

You know, to differentiate it from those weave-ripping catfights women are always getting into.

[Citizen X]

That might be a pretty good fight, actually. Both of those dudes are wiry and tall as hell, so they'd have impressive reach.

[Rhywun]

I don't know Black Keys but I have always loathed the White Stripes with the proverbial heat of a thousands suns, so... go Black Keys?

[DEG]

Man with chest wall sarcoma fitted with a 3-D printed implant

Warning: auto-play video.

[DEG]

Pentacontakaitetracopter takes flight

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...a middle-aged British man in what looks to be a modified lawn chair powered by dozens of toy helicopters. Just as Orville and Wilbur Wright first proved the possibility of human flight on a beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, YouTuber gasturbine101 has answered the unasked question?"Can 54 drone rotors be assembled in such a way that they lift a seated human being into the air for a sustained period of time?"?with a resounding yes (disregarding the perhaps equally important, though much less fun, question of "But why would you?").

[Rhywun]

"Next on MythBusters..."

[Number.6]

You'd need a phalanx weapon system to bring that sucker down. Or a punt gun.

[Colonel Slanders]

This is unpossible, isn't it? Nobody and I mean NOBODY could be this fucking stupid and dishonest can they?

http://usatoday.com.co/obama-t.....ace-prize/

[invisible furry hand]

It hasn't been announced yet

http://www.thatsfake.com/is-pr.....ace-prize/

[Idle Hands]

lol.

[Aloysious]

The Nobel Committee cited three separate contributing factors which led to their choice of President Obama a second time. The first was his for his leadership in brokering a diplomatic solution to the disarmament of chemical weapons in Syria. The second was for his strong commitment to drawing down the military presence of The United States in foreign countries, most notably Afghanistan and Iraq. The third was for his strong and continuing support of the United Nations and international law. Specifically his commitment to the U.N Assembly to move aggressively forward on U.N. resolution 21 and provide support for UNODA.

... not. sure. if. serious...

[Antilles]

All the proof you need that the Nobel Prize (and most awards) are complete and utter bullshit. The favored people win them while the people who actually matter and make demonstrable contributions in the world languish in anonymity.

[lap83]

Good lord

[Number.6]

Aww, c'mon. It's a monstrous, lit-up-with-Kleig-lights twofer, demonstrating the vacuous reality of both the Nobel Peace Prize committee and "tanned Jesus".

Give the poor bastard a break. he has to have something on his resume to justify those $500k speaking gigs he'll be selling. Feeding the Wookie isn't cheap.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

That is a good parody site.

I like the news ticker...

"Trump wants to plant a flag in Uranus"

"Cynthia Francis, wife of Pope Francis, seeks annulment to 38 yr marriage"

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

And just added:

"DATEGATE: Every Member of New England Patriots Linked to Ashley Madison Cheating Scandal"

[CatoTheChipper]

Fake website: not usatoday dot com, but usatoday dot com dot co

[Kristen Bids No Trump]

Nerds - anyone have a recommendation for a good, basic, non-jargony intro to using Git? Something that might include integration with GUIs like SourceTree (momma no good with command line).

[DEG]

Non-jargony intro guide? Sorry, I don't know of any such thing exists for git.

I only use sourcetree for a few things because I prefer the command line and I don't think sourcetree was all that well thought out.

Whenever I can't figure out how to do something with git, I spend time searching stackoverflow.

[Pope Jimbo]

I read through this book when I had to learn git. It does get sort of jargon heavy, but it was ok for me.

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

[Clich? Bandit]

I hate to say it KK but Git is most powerful on the command line. But, if you don't need many of the functions it provides then you will probably be fine. As for resources: Here is a good start

[Number.6]

Wow.

When I hit that link, it looked like I'd hit TheOatmeal.

NTTAWWT, of course.

[Kristen Bids No Trump]

Thanks y'all! They've thrown us onto this project where a bunch of people quit at the same time and we had two days of training with the outgoing developer, when two weeks would have been barely enough.

[R C Dean]

Mad props on the pic of the fetal part provider giving a Seig Heil under the headline about German borders.

[Zeb]

Fetal parts? Boy, Kim Davis really has all her bases covered.

[Almanian - Micro Trumper]

Wow - it's like you're pacifically trying to make Nicole mad, for all intensive purposes.

[Mickey Rat]

They were ambushimg with a rich cheesecake?

[Rich]

Nice.

[PM]

We don't need 23 choices of toilet paper.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

It's not authentic if the government didn't build it.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

OT but somewhat related, a couple of years ago an inspector was ball busting at the day care and decided she was gonna nit-pick on whether we should classify dairy as protein on our menus - like as if it mattered to parents. They literally don't give a shit about crap like that and say so at our assemblies. But the government wants it so...you have to follow their trail of arbitrary applications and ignorance.

Out of curiosity, I called the Feds and asked what their position on the matter was. The lady was just as burnt at the provincial one. Lotta 'well you know' and 'it's not easy' crap. No kidding.

So she did what any bureaucrat does and sent me brochures and propaganda regarding Canada's dietary recommendations. All fluff and not really helpful.

All it means in the end is we're slaves to how they interpret the codes and we can never win.

Oh well. Life goes on as Corky taught us.

[Jordan]

Yeah, the whole point of the regulatory state is to give the state the power to make a criminal out of anyone they desire to.

[perlchpr]

"a couple of years ago an inspector was ball busting at the day care and decided she was gonna nit-pick on whether we should classify dairy as protein on our menus"

"OK... You're the inspector, you tell us! Should we, or not?"

[Monty Crisco]

^ THIS +1000

[Trump-o-Trump 5trumpthousand]

You should of spell checked you're post, their.

[Brett L]

My wife learned to mow the lawn this weekend. Your argument is invalid.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Mine knows how, she just refuses to do it or help me.