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Professor Killed at Mississippi College, Schwarzenegger Replaces Trump, Clinton Has Email Gaps: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 9.14.2015 4:30 PM

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    So, there's four months of gaps in Hillary Clinton's emails according to communications from within the State Department.

    Lois Lerner has them.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Hello.

      1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

        Good to see you today Rufus.

        I was a bit worried that you were in a Minnesoda hoosegow.

        A convicted sex offender and international drug dealer from Ontario was caught with an equally soaking wet fellow Canadian after they swam from their homeland across a river and entered the U.S. illegally at the far northeast corner of Minnesota, a strategy the felon had used previously without detection, according to federal prosecutors.

        http://www.startribune.com/can.....327412761/

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          "Good to see you today Rufus."

          Said nobody, ever.

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            YOU ALL LOOK BACK ON MY COMMENTS AND SMILE WHILE LYING IN BED.

            1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

              HOW DID YOU KNOW?!

              *starts searching for hidden Rufus-cams*

              1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

                Be cool Pan. Rufus is just making an educated guess.

                After all everyone knows you should smile when lying in bed, it makes the lies more believable.

                The guy who frowns when saying "I won't cum in your mouth" is not going to get half the BJ's as the guy would says it with a smile.

          2. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

            I meant "good" as in that means my taxes are not going to house his lazy iceback ass in our jails.

    2. Illocust   10 years ago

      So how long does she have to come up with the missing emails for that time period before she's charged with both withholding evidence and violating federal record keeping laws. Even party faithful's can't straight face the claim she wrote no emails for four months straight as secretary of state. The most they can do is ignore it and not report on it having been found out.

      1. Sevo   10 years ago

        Illocust|9.14.15 @ 4:35PM|#
        "So how long does she have to come up with the missing emails for that time period before she's charged with both withholding evidence and violating federal record keeping laws."

        Oh, 50 years or so; that stuff is hard!

      2. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

        The latest WaPo polling of Democrats indicates that over 70% think Hillary's e-mail scandal is "not a legitimate issue".

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....dXgcyYUWUg

        1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

          Hate to break it to you but Hillary Clinton could slice an orphan's throat and offer up his corpse as a sacrifice to the return of the Elder Gods on on live television and 60% of Democrats wouldn't consider it a legitimate issue.

        2. A Cynic's Guide to Zen   10 years ago

          Legitimate and Democrat are mutually exclusive.

      3. Sapient Mulch   10 years ago

        "Even party faithful's can't straight face the claim she wrote no emails for four months straight as secretary of state."

        And yet, even now, they rush to explain away and taunt the R's with "See? You got nuthin!".

        1. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

          "Even party faithful's can't straight face the claim she wrote no emails for four months straight as secretary of state."

          And yet, even now, they rush to explain away and taunt the R's with "See? You got nuthin!".

          Sigh. So many extra apostrophes not pulling their weight.

          Plurals, people, PLURALS.

          1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

            Thi's i's an unwinnable uphill battle OMWC. I think I've mentioned before that my predecessor at work got so used to writing 1980's instead of 1980s and had no idea what the rule's for apo'strophe use were that I found a bunch of report's with 89' instead of '89 and 80's instead of '80s.

            1. db   10 years ago

              That literally made me I'll.

      4. Paul.   10 years ago

        Even party faithful's can't straight face the claim she wrote no emails for four months straight as secretary of state.

        Yes, yes they can.

    3. Rich   10 years ago

      though the government claims it has since filled in the gaps.

      Oh. Never mind.

      Seriously, W.T.F.?

      1. Scott S.   10 years ago

        WTF indeed. That was not in the first version of the story (I see there's an update notice at the bottom of it. I guess I'll update this version.)

  2. That's A Bingo!   10 years ago

    Seattle's public school teacher strike is in its fourth day, and community centers are doubling as child-care facilities.

    Did parents go on strike to?

    1. Ted S.   10 years ago

      Did parents go on strike to what?

      1. That's A Bingo!   10 years ago

        I realized my mistake the moment it was posted.

        1. Sevo   10 years ago

          Grammar nazis on the prowl!

          1. Ted S.   10 years ago

            It could have been worse: Nicole could have been the one to correct him.

            1. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

              I may be the worst, but I don't really correct typos. At least not without getting paid.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                I can pay you in smiles and dick pics.

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Bayern came up in the AM links this morning. About the call this past week-end.

        I learned Rhywun hates both Bayern and Milan.

        Da heck were you?

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Actually I like Bayern. I just like Augsburg better because they have moxie.

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

            Ah. What did Milan ever did to you?

            1. Rhywun   10 years ago

              Be a magnet for players I don't like.

              1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                Heh.

                Lately it has been the case.

    2. Brett L   10 years ago

      Probably a lot more free-range 9-15 year olds in Seattle this week.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        I don't know about free-range. Cage-free maybe.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Seattle's public school teacher strike is in its fourth day, and community centers are doubling as child-care facilities.

    Is this implying that public schools are simply child-care facilities?

    1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      If you look hard enough, you can find a school which performs other functions, maybe even education. YMMV.

    2. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

      Everyone knows public schools are children's prisons, anyway.

    3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      So kids can be jailed for not showing up, but not the teachers

    4. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

      The shittiness of North American education system at large is a never-ending source of amusement for us born elsewhere. I think I could cause strokes among leftist by describing what the school was like when I was growing up in a self-described Marxist-Socialist (though real Marxists knew it was a bunch of Revisionists) country.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        And that was where? If you don't mind me asking.

        1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

          Probably Poland with a handle like Pan Zagloba.

          1. grrizzly   10 years ago

            Hint: Revisionists

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              Can I get a better hint? I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

            2. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

              Yes, since breaking up with Stalin in 1948, for all their proclamations of loyalty to ideas of Marx and Lenin, Yugoslav communists essentially went with Revisionist Marxist ideas. Little things, like reversing collective farming, allowing private enterprise (provided it's family-based), right to passport as shall-issue, and non-confrontational foreign policy (mostly).
              My handle is based on one of my favorite books, since I think that character would fit really well with H&R crowd, being boisterous, loud, lover of food and drink, arrogant, privileged, brave, clever, resourceful and deep down honorable.

              1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

                Sounds like there were two silver linings in the former Soviet Bloc: unspoiled countryside, and anachronistic preservation of effective educational systems

                1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

                  Countryside wasn't really unspoiled as much as left fallow in bits, and the education system was copied from Germans all over Europe. Soviets I think adopted and spread it through Russia when they came to power, though, and hence it was largely preserved in most of the Eastern block. God knows what it's like these days, what I described was almost 20 years ago.

        2. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

          Former Yugoslavia. Even though education was republic- (i.e. state-)level responsibility, talking to people from Bosnia and Croatia, it was very similar. Like most of Europe, essentially old German system. Grades 1-8 mandatory, if you don't do well, you get held back.
          After, you can go to trade school (including for white collar jobs) or the gymnasia (won't give you lots of immediate skills, but is preparation for university). To enter gymnasia, write an entrance exam that will count for 60% of your score (40% how well you did in grades 5-8), hope the school you want will take you in. It's your responsibility to get there (90 minutes each way on public transit for me, for example), if you do poorly you get held back or kicked. Schools have two shifts (8-1, 2-7), that you alternate each week. Classes are 30+, 40+ not unheard of when we had refugee influx in 91/92.
          Things I got taught in grades 9-12 equivalent: Integral and Differental Calculus, Matrices, Functional and Object-Oriented Programming, Political Philosophy (but no mention of Locke, Bastiat or Madison of course, Mill is the most Liberal allowed), Special (but not General except in passing) Relativity, World Literature (Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Rablais, Balsac among others). Made first year of university in Canada a joke, like for most immigrants I spoke to.

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            Wait, are you one of those Croats who fancies themselves an Italian?

            /runs

            1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

              Those bastards? Fuck those! They may as well be Italian, especially ones who fancy themselves Austrians instead.

              1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                Lol, they're going for Austrian too now, eh? I went to high school in a heavily Italian/Croat district of LA. They were all Italian until Croatia was playing soccer somewhere.

                1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

                  Here's generally how it goes: Dalmatian coast was influenced and ran by Italians for centuries, so that part of Croatia is very Italian in culture and outlook. The Slavonian part (including the capital, Zagreb) was technically part of Hungary, but they looked towards Vienna and consider themselves to be Mitteleuropean, rather than Balkan. As expected, the hard-corest Croat nationalists are from Herzegovina, which is not in fact part of Croatia (not for their lack of trying).
                  I was from Serbia, the part of the country that was SO NO LIKE TURKS, even though they have more in common with the Turks than Bosnian Muslims do (of course, Bosnians will tell you they know more about Turkishness than Ataturk's apostates).

                  1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                    Interesting. I had a Serbian coworker when I worked at a coffeeshop in the aforementioned town who got along well with most of the Croats, but one particular asshole had his license plate customized to commemorate a battle where Serbs were slaughtered by Croats. She would go to the back whenever he walked in. Probably for the better, because she was someone I would NOT want to piss off and would almost never talk about her childhood during the wars.

                  2. grrizzly   10 years ago

                    More in common with the Turks? And I thought the Serbs just looooved Russia.

                    1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

                      Oh yes. They love Russia and, well, not so much hate Turks at this point. It's more like, yes, they were our ancestral enemy, but we could respect them and they were badasses, and now we have no problems with each other.
                      But culturally, in food, architecture, music, custom, Turks left a huge impact on the Serbs. It's just really hard for Serbs to accept the fact. Whereas Russia, while much loved and sometimes reciprocated (Tchaikovsky did write Marche Slave for Serbs, after all) didn't affect the Serbian culture or outlook at all.

            2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

              An ex-girlfriend of mine was Croatian and her father was an Italophile who insisted his kids learn Italian.

            3. Timon 19   10 years ago

              What about my ancestors, the Slovenians???

              Why does everyone forget Slovenia?

              🙂

              1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

                What about my ancestors, the Slovenians???

                Might be too late, but, let's see, what racist thing I can say about them?

                Nothing really. They're just Croats without self-respect and literary talent.
                Now, if we want to get onto the subject of Montenegrins...

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Where? Answer even if you do mind me asking.

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          Disregard.

          1. Paul.   10 years ago

            Goes without saying.

  4. Antilles   10 years ago

    Love it when Leftists are held to the same standards they impose on the rest of us:

    http://tinyurl.com/ng6afud

    And no, I'm not bitter that I was a Top 100 Finalist in Project Greenlight 3 but Ben and Matt rejected me. Fuckers.

    1. Antilles   10 years ago

      Links to Jezebel...sorry...

      1. Rhywun   10 years ago

        Can someone translate unfunny, tantrumy pre-teen into English, please?

        1. Antilles   10 years ago

          Who, precisely, are you referring to? I know it wasn't me because I simply stated facts and wasn't attempting to be funny.

          1. DesigNate   10 years ago

            I think he meant Matt Damon. Or possibly Effie. Or possibly the Jezebel writer.

            1. Rhywun   10 years ago

              Yup, the Jezebel writer. Any Jezebel writer, really.

            2. Paul.   10 years ago

              I breezed through the story. Effie seems imminently reasonable. Matt Damon is in his own echo chamber.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      "Matt Damon Interrupts Successful Black Woman Filmmaker to Explain Diversity to Her"

      For the love of God. Is he that insufferably arrogant?

      Diversity. One of the words I've come to loathe thanks to vapid asshole leftists.

      1. Lee G   10 years ago

        Is he that insufferably arrogant?

        Yes, it comes with the moral superiority complex.

      2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        They should've left his sorry ass in France.

        1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

          So he didn't earn this, after all?

          1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

            A waste of tank-buster fuel, if you ask me.

      3. Antilles   10 years ago

        "For the love of God. Is he that insufferably arrogant?"

        Evidently. This wasn't live and could have been edited out, but it was left in for some reason. Now he's being accused of both "mansplaining" and "whiteplaining." Funny, no one ever gets accused of "femsplaining" or "blacksplaining," which is odd since those groups spend more time explaining to us than any other group.

        1. Juice   10 years ago

          The woman being "whitesplained" to had a whole "blacksplaining" movie called Dear White People. So she kinda had it coming although I don't think either of these people (Damon or Brown) will ever catch on. They won't ever look at each other during this argument and see themselves. Self-awareness is getting tougher to come by these days.

          1. Antilles   10 years ago

            Yeah, I saw the trailer for Dear White People. It was the personification of the racist double-standard.

            1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              Haven't seen it, but from what I understand from people who have the movie starts off with what you get in the trailer and resolves with the main character having to become more introspective about her politics.

              The friend who saw it may have been misrepresenting it, but you're judging a book by its cover if you're just going by the trailer.

              1. RBS   10 years ago

                What makes you think people who don't take 5 minutes to read an article will sit through 1.5+ hours of movie?

              2. Antilles   10 years ago

                "you're judging a book by its cover if you're just going by the trailer."

                True. I just found the title and tone of the trailer condescending. But my time is valuable and there are many, many other movies I'd rather see first.

                1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

                  But my time is valuable and there are many, many other movies I'd rather see first.

                  Well as long as you don't let your busy schedule get in the way of forming opinions about the personification of black people talking down to you, I guess everything's hunky dory.

                  1. Antilles   10 years ago

                    Glad you understand. 😉

      4. Sevo   10 years ago

        "One of the words I've come to loathe thanks to vapid asshole leftists."

        I'll add "sustainable".

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          That too.

          'Equitable' too.

          1. Lee G   10 years ago

            I stand in solidarity with you

          2. Rich   10 years ago

            "Justice"

            1. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

              "Justice"

              Hey!

              1. Rich   10 years ago

                Oops!

                I am "sorry". 😉

        2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

          I love to use the word "sustainable" when talking to leftists about the debt, Social Security, Medicare, mass immigration.... Somehow, they don't like to think about the concept in those contexts.

          1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

            I always talk about how I'm trying to bring back a sustainable prairie grassland to my yard. My sister - the liberal - gets really pissed and accuses me of stealing liberal words to cover for my laziness when it comes to taking care of my lawn.

            1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

              Ha!

            2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              I should tell Playa Manhattan that next time he gives me shit for my objectively terrible front yard. We do have local dune grasses growing around the house though, so it isn't a huge stretch.

        3. Akira   10 years ago

          My own list of terms that now produce involuntary throat-vomiting thanks to lefty bullshit:

          - Middle class
          - 1 percent
          - Equality
          - Sustainable

    3. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

      I hate everyone in this story and want bad things to happen to them.

    4. NYC2AZ   10 years ago

      I do love when SJW's turn on each other with such venom.... but did you have to send me to Jezebel?

      1. Antilles   10 years ago

        I didn't realize what I did until after I posted. Don't really want to give that site additional clicks. Will post a warning next time...

        1. NYC2AZ   10 years ago

          I'm just giving you shit. It was at least entertaining how the SJW's in the comment section were using the Team America "Maaaattt Daaaaymonn" line as an insult. They don't even know their source material.

      2. GILMORE?   10 years ago

        "cats a'breadloafing - twoMadamS. 9/14/15 1:39pm

        i don't know if she has a hierarchy of her identities like i do so i wouldn't say that one is first or more important than the other. he both mansplained and whitesplained in this situation."

    5. GILMORE?   10 years ago

      "My favorite Effie Brown story:

      I was at a workshop/small Q&A she was doing, and this recently graduated white guy asks something along the lines of, "Since so many TV and film programs are only available to diverse filmmakers, do you have any advice on how to break into the industry as a young white man these days?"

      She asks, "Wait, you're seriously asking ME this question?"

      "Yes?"

      She laughed for a solid half a minute, said that was the funniest thing she's heard in a while and would definitely be sharing it with all her Facebook friends later, and went on to the next question.

      Effie Brown fucking rocks."

  5. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Arnold Schwarzenegger will be replacing Donald Trump as the new host of Celebrity Apprentice.

    "You're fired." [fires machine gun at apprentice]

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      Apprentice: "I'll be back"
      Arnold: "Only in a rerun"

      1. rts   10 years ago

        "I let him go"

        1. Brett L   10 years ago

          "Remember when I said I'd fire you last? I lied. "

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        "It's not a tumah"

      3. Rhywun   10 years ago

        "Conzider dis a divorce."

    2. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

      +1

    3. That's A Bingo!   10 years ago

      Will his catch phrase be, "You are terminated?"

      1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

        I would do a shitty job just to get told that by Arnold.

    4. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      "Get yoah ass off da set!"

      "If I vanted to vatch someone jacking off all day, I'd go home and look in da mirror."

      "Consider dis a divorce."

      "Hasta la vista, fails to meet expectations."

      "I vouldn't hire you if you had twice as many breasts."

      He could also run the Top Chef show.

      "Your goose is cooked."

      "Your ideas are as half-baked as your pie."

      "You haf zis much in common with a good worker - you use a shoe-leather approach."

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        'Don't disturb my friend. He's dead tired.'

    5. Antilles   10 years ago

      As long as Schwarzenegger stays away from politics, I don't care what he does.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Worst governor in history.

        1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

          Are you sure about that?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Yes.

        2. Rhywun   10 years ago

          What are Gray Davis and/or the current occupant, chopped liver?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Arnold is worse. He was a "republican environmentalist".

          2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

            Yeah, Arnie was a disappointment, but far from the worst.

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

              He's the worst because he knew better, but wanted to hang on to power.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                Oh, and fuck him for pardoning Fabien Nunez' kid. That kid is an evil little fuck and a murderer.

                1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                  "The family of the victim was outraged.[24] Bonnie Dumanis, the San Diego district attorney who prosecuted Esteban Nunez, stated that Schwarzenegger's decision "greatly diminishes justice." San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith stated that Schwarzenegger reduced the sentence to "help his political crony's son".[25] In April 2011, Schwarzenenegger responded to the controversy stating, "Well hellooooo. I mean, of course you help a friend."

                  Wow. What an immoral piece of shit. Very disappointing.

                  1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                    Did you read what the murder was about?

                    Little fucker didn't get into a frat party and he was angry.

                    1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                      Yes. I did. Persing around the internet. That's why I was disappointed.

                    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

                      Perusing.

                2. Antilles   10 years ago

                  Damn, forgot about that. Yes, that was truly despicable...

              2. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

                ^ THIS.

                I never trusted the guy, but was tempted when he held up Friedman's "Free to Choose" and said it was his political philosophy.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoTF3fwvU0

                1. CatoTheChipper   10 years ago

                  It was just an act.

        3. Suthenboy   10 years ago

          Whut? You don't read the news, do you Playa?

          One word. Moonbeam.

        4. Antilles   10 years ago

          Absolutely. Ran on an anti-tax platform and then signed the biggest series of tax increases in California history before leaving office.

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            The global warming shit is even worse. Hidden taxes. It's pure insanity.

            1. Antilles   10 years ago

              Damn, forgot that too. Or maybe I'm trying to repress those awful years he was in office. Can't believe Jerry Brown (the one responsible for so many of our current problems) is actually an improvement. At least Brown vetoes something from time to time.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                Arnie vetoed very little, and when he did, he got in trouble.

                Remember the FUCK YOU letter?

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....36319.html

                  1. Antilles   10 years ago

                    Hadn't heard about that. No way that happened by accident. For someone who became famous playing tough guys, he sure was a petty wuss in real life.

                2. Rhywun   10 years ago

                  Holy crap, that is hilarious. Let's be honest - Ammiano probably deserved it - if not for this, well, for something. I remember him from living in SF 20 years ago and he's still farting around?

    6. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      MENDOZA!!!!

    7. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

      If producers listen to half the ideas here, it will be the greatest TV show of all time!

      "Remember when I said I'd fire you last?"

      "yes, you did say that!"

      "I lied".

  6. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    They should have put Omarosa in charge. She'd fire everybody the first day and declare herself the winner.

    While "Who Let the Dogs Out?" plays in the background in front of a portrait of President George W. Bush. Wonder if he'll win a 2nd term.

  7. rts   10 years ago

    $1.9B surplus pushes economy back to top of election agenda

    The Conservative election campaign was buoyed by news today that the government posted a nearly $2-billion surplus for the last fiscal year, but opponents say that was done by squeezing vital services for seniors and veterans.

    Where's my refund?

    1. DesigNate   10 years ago

      I love their definition of surplus.

  8. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

    Houston projected to edge out Chicago as America's third largest city in ~10 years

    Nicole hardest hit.

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      I'll give you something that's third-largest in 10 yea...wait. What are we talking about?

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Your traps? No, that doesn't sound right...

        1. Warty   10 years ago

          Speaking of, get a 12-foot section of 1.5 inch rope, loop it over a beam, and use it for chinups. SWOLE FOREARMS BRO

          1. bacon-magic   10 years ago

            I will sell you rope for your dungeon. The others will sell you Manila, I will offer you some nice soft 3 strand nylon so your torture fingers are not raw. I still want a BLT too.

            1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

              You act like hands aren't already calloused enough to make a Palmolive hand-model faint.

      2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

        I'm not sure what's going on here, but would.

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Nice knowing you.

    2. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

      Ahem, everyone knows Chicago is the second city anyway.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        Don't be othering. Urban sprawl is as much as city as a deep dish a pizza.

      2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

        I thought that was El Segundo?

        Preemptive

        1. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

          In America, we speak American. Their shit is probably full of rapists.

      3. Warty   10 years ago

        You'll occasionally find local Cleveland shit marketed as something like "fifth city". It always seemed desperately sad to me.

        1. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

          Damn, that is.

        2. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Enh, even Buffalo was the 8th largest city at one time. I know it's hard to believe but Cleveland was once a great city.

          1. Warty   10 years ago

            Yeah, 100 years ago. It's like people are happy to live in ruins as long as the ruins once were nice.

            1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

              similar to Italy and Greece.

              (anyone says Scotland, I'm charging you with my battle axe)

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                Scotland was nice as recently as 80 years ago.

              2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

                I thought Scotland was England for most of its history.

                1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

                  I thought Scotland was England for most of its history.

                  You deserve to be murdered by a geography professor.

                2. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

                  Scotland was never even beaten by England. They went bankrupt in a Panama land deal and just folded. It was pathetic.

                  Some parts of Scotland are poverty and rust belt, but the cities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen are boomtowns and Glasgow is not doing so badly either.

            2. Rhywun   10 years ago

              It's like people are happy to live in ruins as long as the ruins once were nice.

              Is anyone really happy living in Cleveland? I am actually curious about this as my new company is headquartered there.

              1. Warty   10 years ago

                The place grows on you. I miss it.

              2. Timon 19   10 years ago

                Cleveland proper? Probably not. AROUND Cleveland? Yeah, actually. Quite happy. It's surprising if you're not from here (NE Ohio).

                We really DO have to do something about that fucking snow machine on our northern border, though. Fuck that shit.

                1. Rhywun   10 years ago

                  I grew up with snow - that would not be an issue.

                  But I am a city boy, there is no living "around" Cleveland for me.

                  For example, Buffalo has some nice city neighborhoods. Not sure if Cleveland does.

          2. creech   10 years ago

            Philly was the fourth largest city in the whole world in 1860.

            1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

              Is that when NYC caught up? I know NYC was much smaller for a long time.

      4. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

        Ahem, everyone knows Chicago is the second city anyway.

        When I was growing up in the Chicago area, Chicago was the second-largest city in the USA. Then LA passed it some time in the 1970s. And now Houston? sigh......

        1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

          I grew up on the Near North side and I remember when LA passed it too.

    3. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      That'll be fun the next time a huge hurricane heads towards Galveston/Houston and they try to evacuate the city.

      1. Ted S.   10 years ago

        Hurricane = normal Houston humidity plus a slight breeze.

        1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

          Houston: The only city that can make normal Florida summer weather look pleasant.

          1. Brett L   10 years ago

            Ehh. You understand that "Houston" is larger than Rhode Island and routinely mives several million cars per day over three different interstates. I would imagine running all lanes of I-10, I-45 and US 59 outbound could empty the city and suburbs of everyone who wanted to leave.

            1. Unreconstructed (Sans Flag)   10 years ago

              Heck, unless it's a Cat 12 storm, very little of Houston proper needs to evacuate.

          2. Rhywun   10 years ago

            I keep hearing that's no big deal because air conditioning. Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that.

            1. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

              You can't air condition a barbecue.

              1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                Can't, or shouldn't?

              2. Brett L   10 years ago

                Actually, they have these blowers on all commercial smokers and pits that blow the smoke up the stack, rather than into the lungs of the cook. Its pretty much conditioning the air at the barbecue pit.

  9. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    So, there's four months of gaps in Hillary Clinton's emails according to communications from within the State Department.

    When she had that stroke?

  10. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

    The Russians are moving tanks into Syria now. I find a perverse satisfaction anticipating the likes of ISIL et al getting to deal with the Russians, and soon.

    1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

      I can just imagine the Russian delight

      "It's like Chechnya, except they have no mountains to run to!"

    2. Illocust   10 years ago

      Just means things will get real quite for few months, then ISIS will get a new name in the American media and be called freedom fighters.

      1. grrizzly   10 years ago

        Yesterday I inexplicably tuned into one of the Sunday morning shows. A guest was talking about providing support to the moderate militants in Syria.

        1. Mickey Rat   10 years ago

          Everything is relative.

        2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

          The moderate radicals or the moderate reactionaries?

      2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        Mujahideen?

        1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

          +1 hand held stinger missiles.

    3. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

      Hmmmmm, Russians using tanks in a ME country...I've heard this somewhere before. It didn't turn out well.

      1. jmomls   10 years ago

        *Russians using tanks in a ME country...I've heard this somewhere before. It didn't turn out well.*

        No, you haven't, because Afghanistan is not in the Middle East.

    4. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      You know, me too.

      ISIL will have to deal with a former KGB who likes to pet leopards and plays hockey.

    5. Agammamon   10 years ago

      Yeah, I'm not thinking the Russians are going to come out of this in good shape and ISIS will have gotten plenty of practice shooting at live targets, infiltration, and extortion.

      I mean, they didn't do so well in Afghanistan, nor have they managed to pacify Chechnya.

      "This means that a number of former-Soviet states are left sovereign over the entirety of their territory in name only. In reality, they do not exercise full control over areas still under the control of rebel factions. Rebel groups are essentially left independent over large chunks of the territories they claim. In many instances, they have created institutions which are similar to those of fully fledged independent states, albeit with little or no international recognition."

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Post-Soviet_conflicts

      1. TheZeitgeist   10 years ago

        Politically the Russians were clowns in Afghanistan.

        But they did annihilate around a million Afghans for around twelve thousand dead Russians, so there's that - and monopolized Sunni Islamo-stupidity for more than a decade while doing all that Afghan-murdering.

        Plus, as kind of a bonus, when Russians are on the ground they've beaten us to the stupidity of likewise; where one is already the other does not go - Russian and American militaries are like antiseptic for their respective political class's taste for military adventure.

        Excepting that rule here though, the only thing I really worry about here is the Russians manufacturing an 'incident' with US assets in-theater - just to put President Clown into an unworkable spot.

        I do believe the Russians have seen an easy mark in the Lightworker, and get the sense they are anxious to prove it in a place like Syria.

        1. Agammamon   10 years ago

          IMO, the only thing Russia being in there on the ground will do is harden ISIS the fuck up, give them access to a bunch of new hardware, and drive up recruitment - "Sure, ISIS may be a bunch of homicidal fucks, but at least they're *from here*."

      2. C. Anacreon   10 years ago

        I'm guessing that Putin needs to ride in on top of a tank with his shirt off. The sight will be so intimidating to ISIS that they will immediately surrender, possibly even make him in to their new prophet (and dump that other guy).

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          Obama should do the same.

          1. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

            The shirtless look loses its edge when you are wearing mom jeans.

  11. rts   10 years ago

    Gaze into this derp, if you dare

    A truck unloads prohibited firearms in 1997 at a scrap-metal yard in Sydney where they were loaded into a shredder and destroyed after the Port Arthur massacre changed gun laws in Australia

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      Booooooooo!

    2. Lee G   10 years ago

      All I see are shotguns

    3. Trump's Grenzmauer   10 years ago

      I would read it but I have a feeling that the images of such a wasteful act are going to make me sick.

      1. Trump's Grenzmauer   10 years ago

        Basically this is the leftist version of the Taliban destroying the Buddhist statues. Both minds just see evil idols that must be destroyed.

    4. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      Meh. The barrels are all bent anyway.

  12. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    I really don't want to hear about Clinton's gap.

    1. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      I noticed thigh-gap in the wild for the first time on some girl running in Venice a week or two ago. I'm assuming she was photoshopped.

      1. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

        Wait, what? You hadn't seen thigh gap before IRL?

        I mean, I know you stay away from the pussy, but still.

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

          He must be blocking it out.

        2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          If I'm looking at a woman, I'm looking squarely at her tits, like a gentleman.

          None of this inappropriate thigh-looking that my esteemed heterosexual counterparts engage in.

        3. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

          I saw it Saturday morning in the form of a jogger. Seems like you'd find it easily if you are out and about during peak jogging hours in suburbia or at a popular beach.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      Speak for yourself.

    3. Pope Jimbo   10 years ago

      No, they said lie gap, not thigh gap. You should be fine.

  13. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    So, there's four months of gaps in Hillary Clinton's emails according to communications from within the State Department.

    She's an email artist. Reinventing a craft often requires a fallow period.

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      IIRC, she even read had access to a *book* about emailing.

      1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

        This book?

  14. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency.

    So then there are times when California isn't in a state of emergency?

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      Its fire season. Next cones flood season and the winter.

      1. Sevo   10 years ago

        And then "Monday".

  15. Los Doyers   10 years ago

    If you're going hiking in Idaho, don't forget your goat spray. Do these angry goats not know how delicious birria is?

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      The U.S. Forest Service has temporarily closed a northern Idaho hiking trail over concerns about aggressive mountain goats

      Trump: If those goats can't prove they're legal, deport 'em.

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        He's just speaking from the soul!

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      Goat spray? Does that work like peanut butter does for dogs?

      1. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        I plead the fifth.

  16. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    Arnold Schwarzenegger will be replacing Donald Trump as the new host of Celebrity Apprentice.

    "Is my job safe?"
    "That's a big lou ferigNO"

  17. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

    A geography and social science instructor at Mississippi's Delta State University was named a "person of interest" in the fatal campus shooting of a history professor on Monday, police said.

    Shit...and I thought the Linguistics Wars between Chomsky and Lakoff were vicious.

    1. Brett L   10 years ago

      Probably some ignorant redneck hillbilly.

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        Dr. Hatfield remains the prime suspect in yesterday's shooting of Prof. McCoy....

        1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

          Was it really a Prof. McCoy?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            Today seems like the day to try and trick you into sending me nudes.

            1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

              You first.

              1. Warty   10 years ago

                Somebody help me out here. For some reason I don't see Lady B's email address when I over over her handle.

                1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

                  My email is full with dic pic spam already. Sorry.

                  1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                    I don't understand how I'm supposed to follow through, then.

                    1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

                      I don't understand how I'm supposed to follow through, then.

                      Yes.

                2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  You're just going to have to post publicly.

                  Just give her a semi, you don't want to give it away all at once...

                  1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

                    To hell with a semi, just show off a little neck, that's how you keep the dick pic classy.

            2. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

              I was excited by the possibility a relative could've actually been gainfully employed (even though a potential murder) and not just selling meth out of a trailer and calling him/herself and "entrepreneur".

              1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

                Jesus, shit.

                a potential murderer

                an entrepreneur.

                Iphones suck for commenting.

                1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

                  You come from McCoy stock? Nude offer revoked.

                  1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

                    Oh, boo-hoo. My hillbilly heart is broken. Perhaps I need to begin a vendetta against you and your kin to last over several generations. Watch your back, shitheel.

                    1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

                      You're from New Jersey. You don't get to pretend you're still a hick just because you have famous hick ancestry, you culturally appropriating oppressive cis-female shitlord.

          2. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

            Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a professor!

            1. Sapient Mulch   10 years ago

              +1 Keepin it Real

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      And? Who do you side with?

    3. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      Looks like it was a love triangle thing, and the suspect is a German immigrant who killed his (ex-?) girlfriend as well.

      1. Mrs. Lemuel Struthers   10 years ago

        Another violent immigrant!

        /Trump

      2. Brett L   10 years ago

        Ahhh. Ze Germans.

  18. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

    Reason spurns links on public holidays, has them on Jewish holidays, is clearly Anti-Semitic. Discuss.

    1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

      I was waiting for a Richman article yesterday...perhaps they're saving him for Yom Kippur.

  19. Los Doyers   10 years ago

    More charges coming against FIFA scum.

    Gooooooooooooooool.

    1. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      FIFA is seriously the worst organization in the world. They make the IOC look virtuous.

      1. Heroic Mulatto   10 years ago

        Worse than ISIS?

      2. Lee G   10 years ago

        Worse than the FEC?

      3. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

        (Blast you, Reason. One of these days you'll get an edit button).

        They're the worst SPORTING organization in the world, ok?

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          Worse than the Bunny Ranch?

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

            I don't think you can hunt there anymore.

        2. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

          Wait, have you compared level of ball deflateness across sports?

          1. Sapient Mulch   10 years ago

            Before and after the game?

      4. Ted S.   10 years ago

        Worse than Nicole, Inc.?

      5. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        What about congress?

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      What's a 'gool'?

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        I was one of those for Halloween one year?

      2. Los Doyers   10 years ago

        It's like nails on the chalkboard for Trump.

  20. Sevo   10 years ago

    "So, there's four months of gaps in Hillary Clinton's emails according to communications from within the State Department."

    OK, do we have an image of how this came about?
    http://www.bing.com/images/sea.....ajaxhist=0

  21. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

    I'm not going to watch the video, but the title could be '5 things Trump said this week', and have the same things played.

  22. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

    Weed/Messican/Asssex NEW FLASH:

    Scientists have created yeasts that can make important constituents of marijuana, including the main psychoactive compound, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.

    Your grow-op just became WAY more efficient.

    Link

    1. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

      Or your bakery just became way more illegal. Whichever.

  23. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

    Something different today, inspired by Fioria thread. No attractive Slav women this time, just the greatest woman in English history since Elizabeth I.

    1. Antilles   10 years ago

      "just the greatest woman in English history"

      No, that would be Jane Seymour.

      The actress, not one of Henry VIII's wives.

      1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

        She's half-Dutch, though. Which certainly explains the level of attractiveness. And if you want to talk accomplishments instead, hers were Made in America (like below mentioned Live and Let Die).

    2. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      Would.

      Vote for her.

    3. lap83   10 years ago

      She beats a lot of men for greatness as well

      1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

        I was tempted to say "the greatest Englishman since Nelson, and she was a woman" but didn't want to come off as sexist.
        Something I try and fail on daily basis.

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          I didn't think you were being sexist, it was more of a dig at all the crappy male politicians

  24. Rich   10 years ago

    So, when *is* Hillary going to answer all questions about her emails?

    At her Congressional testimony next month, presuming no more falls in the bathroom?

    1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

      Is never soon enough for you?

      Interesting, how do you think pleading the 5th will affect her candidacy?

  25. Grand Moff Serious Man   10 years ago

    Arnold Schwarzenegger will be replacing Donald Trump as the new host of Celebrity Apprentice. They should have put Omarosa in charge. She'd fire everybody the first day and declare herself the winner.

    Alt-alt-text: "You are terminated. See, see what I did there?"

    1. Agammamon   10 years ago

      Don't forget the mechanical grin.

      1. Agammamon   10 years ago

        ooooh! Even better - have Linda Hamilton pop up and say 'You're terminated, fucker!"

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeX7rB65nvA

  26. Rich   10 years ago

    Black Rapper Azealia Banks Shows How Trump's Message Resonates With Black Voters

    "If the United States of America is an aircraft on its way down, (which it seems to be) I must put my own air mask on before I assist others."

    1. Irish ?s ESB   10 years ago

      Known black racist embraces Donald Trump, ironically proves Trump's appeal to racists of all colors and creeds.

    2. Rich   10 years ago

      Forgot to italicize Azealia's actual statement.

    3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      Black rapper, as opposed to......

      1. Paul.   10 years ago

        The safe kind that get covered on NPR.

      2. Rich   10 years ago

        RACIST!

        *** gets coffee to ponder the question ***

      3. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        It is like you have never heard of Bubba Sparxx. It is sad, really.

        1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

          Or Slim Jesus!

          1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

            OMG @ Slim Jesus. What the hell! That is wonderful.

        2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          NOOOOOOOOOOO!

          I had entirely forgotten about Bubba Sparxx...why would you do this to me!?

          1. PH2050   10 years ago

            "Slim Jesus" is definitely a contender but no match for this incredibly talented musician.

            Speaking of Bubba Sparxx, what about Paul Wall?

      4. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        I like my rappers to have Santa Claus on em.

    4. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

      Hey, Trump can be the answer
      He's ready to rant when the stage up
      And when he hits that line get your camera
      You could see he's been that man since the pamper
      And and that he's got that hot hat, the beacon
      The man who wants to compete and
      He could freak a ticket, the Trump with the veep in
      And you know what the Donald become when his weave in
      He just wants to built that wall for your peeps and
      Throw in a golden door since he's treatin'
      Get the plans together from classy Parisians
      He knows how to do it before picking season
      Keep the rapists away in the evening
      Now vote that Trump, Trump d-deep in
      I guess that cunt gettin' eaten

  27. Agammamon   10 years ago

    . . . police are seeking a geography instructor at the college . . .

    Are you fucking kidding me? A *geography instructor*? Fucking college students can't look at a map themselves?

    And the 'geography instructor' probably lashed out violently at the professor after enduring years of belittlement and other abuse - 'You should be working in an elementary school, not here you worthless . . . "

    1. Lee G   10 years ago

      It won't be easy to find him, he's got a natural advantage.

      1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

        "My primary export is...murder."

        1. Rich   10 years ago

          LOL

    2. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      I suppose you are being funny, but if not, geography encompasses a lot more than that, e.g. GIS.

      1. Agammamon   10 years ago

        If the school was employing him as something other that, 'No, *Australia* has kangaroos, Austria has *chocolate*.' then he'd be a professor and not an 'instructor'.

        1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

          No, people don't generally start out as professors, and that doesn't really correlate with the difficulty of the subject. Here's what he taught.

  28. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

    Well, finding places on the map can be difficult. Like Canada. All tucked away down there...

    1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      I see you have one of those Third World-affirming, southern hemisphere on top maps...good for you, we need more enlightened multicultural people like you...

      Wait, you're just holding the map upside down.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      "U-R-Gay"

      1. BiMonSciFiCon   10 years ago

        "In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people."

  29. DEG   10 years ago

    "Maggie Thatcher, in my opinion"

    1. DEG   10 years ago

      Oh fuck, this was supposed to response to Pan Zagloba's post above with the link to a video about Thatcher.

    2. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

      Thank you, sir, that made my day.

      1. DEG   10 years ago

        You're welcome!

        And thank you for linking to hot Eastern European women!

  30. Paul.   10 years ago

    They should have put Omarosa in charge.

    Maybe they should put that little girl from Aliens in charge!

  31. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

    It is time for another round of everyone's favorite p.m. links game, Fuck/Marry/Kill.

    Today's contestants are: Donald Trump, Kim Davis, and Virginia Postrel.

    My answer: I fuck Postrel, because I think it would be a dignified and glamorous shag.

    I kill Trump, because I am a loser and against all #winning.

    I marry Kim Davis, because she embodies everything I desire in a wife.

    1. Sevo   10 years ago

      "I marry Kim Davis, because she embodies everything I desire in a wife."

      Crusty, ya got MY vote!

    2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

      I marry Kim Davis, because she embodies everything I desire in a wife.

      If only she stuck by her husbands like she sticks by her beliefs.

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        Before I answer, is Kim Davis 4 times married because she is thrice divorced, or does she eat her mates like a praying mantis?

        1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

          Either way it goes, fuck Trump.

        2. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

          Husband 4 and husband two (I think) are the same. So she just loves and leaves, she doesn't snap their heads off and eat them...at least not 100% of the time.

          1. Sapient Mulch   10 years ago

            That's correct, number two became four and was, incidentally, they guy in the overalls and straw hat in many of the photos; and people tell me stereotypes aren't accurate. Pfft!

            1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

              Note to self: purchase overalls and straw hat.

              Thanks!

    3. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

      I fuck,Postrel for the same reason.

      I marry Donald Trump since it's cool now...then divorce him and go to the bank!

      I kill Kim Davis because it would make me a hero of the left...then I run for president as a Democrat, get elected and dismantle the entire executive branch.

      1. Agammamon   10 years ago

        For a minute there, I thought you had gotten into Agile Cyborg's stash.

  32. PapayaSF   10 years ago

    OT: a 1932 newsreel about a backward-walking chicken, taught by 6-year-old Mary O'Connor, who would grow up to be the author Flannery O'Connor.

    1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      "From that day with the Path? man I began to collect chickens. What had been only a mild interest became a passion, a quest. I had to have more and more chickens. I favored those with one green eye and one orange or with over-long necks and crooked combs. I wanted one with three legs or three wings but nothing in that line turned up. I pon?dered over the picture in Robert Ripley's book, Believe It Or Not, of a rooster that had survived for thirty days without his head; but I did not have a scientific temperament . I could sew in a fashion and I began to make clothes for chickens. A gray bantam named Colonel Eggbert wore a white piqu? coat with a lace collar and two buttons in the back. Apparently Path? News never heard of any of these other chickens of mine; it never sent another photographer."

      http://www.openculture.com/201.....age_5.html

  33. simplybe   10 years ago

    If reporters would only ask Trump policy questions and demand real answers instead of vague rhetoric the public would eventually get tired of him crying that reporters are picking on him. If you really want a brain dead clown for present then why not elect someone like Bozo.

    1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      "If you really want a brain dead clown for pres[id]ent"

      [tasteless joke about Woodrow Wilson after his stroke deleted]

  34. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

    Just so you all know, Reason goes in for surgery in her belly tomorrow. They're gonna put her liver and part of her large intestine back inside her. The liver will never be shaped right but should be fully functional. The intestines should be just fine. She'll be in for 2.5 hours or so and the doc thinks it's about 50/50 that it all fits naturally. If not they will put a prosthetic patch for her abdominal muscles to attach to. She'll be in the hospital for a few days to a week and her recovery will be a few weeks or so.

    Needless to say, were nervous as hell. But these docs seem quite capable an their plan is the same one the docs at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cedars Sinai and San Diego Children's all came up with. So we're confident all will be fine. But it's still gut-wrenching to see your kid under three have to go through something like this.

    So keep her in your thoughts and prayers (if applicable). Kara and I appreciate it.

    1. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

      She will have no belly button in case any of you were wondering how that worked out. And the doctor made the call, not us. So that avoids funny looks from family members for letting her look like a clone.

      1. Warty   10 years ago

        You realize this means you have to dress her up as Jeannie for every Halloween, right?

        1. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

          Or Karolina Kurkova.

          http://www.eonline.com/eol_ima.....110813.jpg

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        Good luck friend.

      3. Sevo   10 years ago

        Sorry to hear it's needed, but all the best.

      4. Aloysious   10 years ago

        Best wishes and regards, sloop.

    2. DEG   10 years ago

      I hope everything works out well.

    3. Just say Nikki   10 years ago

      I will, sloop. Good luck to all involved.

    4. Rich   10 years ago

      Best wishes for all involved, sloopy.

    5. Restoras   10 years ago

      Best wishes, sloop.

    6. Warty   10 years ago

      Good luck. Everything will be fine. Remember, those surgeons accidentally killed all those people while they were sleep-deprived residents in order to gain the skills that will keep little baby Reason just fine tomorrow.

    7. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      Best wishes.

    8. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      Yikes. Good luck.

    9. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

      Be thinking of you. Hope all goes smoothly!

    10. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

      Best wishes for her speedy recovery. She'll be in my thoughts.

    11. Brett L   10 years ago

      Will do.

    12. Suthenboy   10 years ago

      I hope everything goes well Sloop. Also, holy hell, she is nearly three already? Wow.

  35. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

    Rocky on Hillary Clinton email: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cDo23Bxj0gg

  36. GILMORE?   10 years ago

    "Seattle's public school teacher strike is in its fourth day,"

    I am confused = i was under the impression Seattle was America's Most Progressive City? Why would teachers ever need protest? Isn't the higher minimum wage reaping massive tax-benefits and other progressive economic miracles?

    how did this happen?

    1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      "So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough." ?Joseph Sobran

  37. jesse.in.mb   10 years ago

    Beneath the Tree: A Violent Death in Early Medieval Sligo

    A 200 year old beech tree tipped over in Collooney in Co. Sligo tipped over in a windstorm revealing an corpse covered in knife/sword wounds from ~1030-1200 AD.

    The top half of the corpse remained tangled in the roots, while the legs stayed in the ground.

    1. Warty   10 years ago

      Neat.

    2. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

      "And that's the last bowl of Lucky Charms *you'll* steal!"

      Is the kind of tasteless joke a racist would make.

    3. Episteme   10 years ago

      If a tree falls in the woods, and no one's there to hear it...does it still pull a thousand-year old corpse impaled in its roots halfway out of the ground?

  38. GILMORE?   10 years ago

    MASHUP VIDEO MAKERS REJOICE =

    Federal Judge Decrees Copyright Holders Must Consider "Fair Use" Before Demanding YouTube Videos Be Removed

    "n a closely followed case over a home video of a toddler dancing to the Prince hit "Let's Go Crazy," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made it tougher for content providers such as Vivendi SA's (VIV.PA) Universal Music Group to force Internet service providers to remove material.

    "Copyright holders cannot shirk their duty to consider - in

    good faith and prior to sending a takedown notification - whether allegedly infringing material constitutes fair use," Circuit Judge Richard Tallman wrote for a 3-0 panel.

    The decision could make it harder for copyright holders to remove alleged infringing content from the Internet by invoking the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998 law intended to curb movie and music piracy online. Critics say abusive takedown notices can suppress free speech."

    (*make sure to press the middle speaker "res" before play)

    1. GILMORE?   10 years ago

      oh, forgot the link

      1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

        Just don't put any Marvin Gaye in it, if you don't want to get sued to the ground.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

      "I considered it. The answer is still no"

      1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

        Yeah, how do they propose to enforce this?

        1. Notorious UGCC   10 years ago

          I suppose they'll have their counsel write a memo considering the pros and cons...and deciding that a takedown notice is appropriate. There, we considered it!

  39. sloopyinTEXAS   10 years ago

    Prosecutors piling on charges is usually bullshit so as to gain leverage for a plea bargain. This, on the other hand, looks legit.

    http://savannahnow.com/news/20.....bade-death

    1. Libertymike   10 years ago

      OT- Good luck with Reason. I have just prayed for success with her surgery.

  40. chipper me timbers   10 years ago

    You may never read more derp than the comments here. It's quite impressive

    Matt Damon is evil

    1. Pan Zagloba   10 years ago

      Good grief, people, stop linking to Jezebel.

      I swear that article is becoming goatse of H&R.

  41. sssbobbyr   10 years ago

    There are geography professors? At a college?

    1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

      Why does this surprise anyone? Here's what he taught.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

        Tulpa?

        1. PapayaSF   10 years ago

          Huh? Me? I've been around longer than Tulpa, as you should know by now, and this has always been my only handle here.

          I don't think it's terribly Tulpa-esque to point out that geography is a deep enough subject that there are college-level courses in it.

  42. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    I need to think about that before I respond.

  43. Frankjasper1   10 years ago

    I blame for profit prisons for this. Nothing to do with unions...

  44. Ted S.   10 years ago

    Three felonies a day.

  45. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    Average. I'm way more than that.

  46. DEG   10 years ago

    The writers for Coupling are an awesome bunch. There was very little not funny about that series.

  47. Antilles   10 years ago

    Yes, she was. But my favorite is Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, mainly because of her wardrobe. Plus, she made a great villain in the East of Eden miniseries back in the late 70s. And she and I share a birthday, although 13 years apart.

  48. lap83   10 years ago

    My perv meter is off

  49. Pl?ya Manhattan.   10 years ago

    Delicious al pastor tacos?

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