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- Ben Carson says he "absolutely" stands behind his comments that a Muslim should not be president. "We don't put people at the head of our country whose faith might interfere with them carrying out the duties of the Constitution," Carson declared. Carly Fiorina, meanwhile, has rejected Carson's anti-Muslim stance. "I think that's wrong," Fiorina said. "It says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office."
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- Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers.
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...49 percent of Americans believe the federal government is "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."
Mitt was just a few percent off.
The other 51% are no longer part of the workforce.
But they're part of the spendforce. We all have to do our part.
Hello.
"Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers."
Will they be armed? Because we all saw what could happen in the Robocop boardroom,
"Once, I even called him asshole. But there was always respect"
The real question is what they think those rights and freedoms are.
unfortunately, the 51% outnumbers the sane people.
94) Good Lord, these people are bound and determined to have their "1 out of 5 of every college woman sexually assaulted" statistic. I know we've discussed this before, but I'm going to bring it up again because it infuriates me every time. So there's a new survey on sexual assault at universities, the biggest one ever, with 150,000 completed student surveys from 27 different colleges. I always read these because I've been trying to get a straight answer for years on how many college students are genuinely sexually assaulted.
But this one has the same flaw these surveys always have: they conflate rape and assault with fairly innocuous flirtation that happens to be unwelcome. How hard is it to ask the simple question of whether the respondent has ever been raped? It is maddening that these surveys never ask this clean question.
(Here is the 228 page stats breakdown, if you're interested.)
For instance, this survey asks a question about "Nonconsensual Sexual Contact by Physical force or Incapacitation"?sounds good right? And of course, 23.1% of undergraduate women report being a victim of this. This is what generates the headlines. But if you look, the actual survey question asked included "kissing" and "grabbing, groping, or rubbing?even if the touching is over the other's clothes." So, yes, nearly 1 in 4 college women have had their asses pinched. Great. But how many have been raped or assaulted? Who knows?
If that is the standard, what percentage of men have been sexually assaulted by women? Because I know I am one.
I guess I could have filed charges against the drunk, ugly skank that kept trying to grind on me at the last concert I went to.
"Rape me or I'll kill you!"
I larfed.
They've bumped it up to "1 in 4" now - saw it on a news crawl last night.
It was 1 in 4 back in the late 80s/early 90s when I went to college, and then fell to 1 in 5. Because, you know, millennials are slackers and stuff.
I think the telling thing here is this quote: "Of those who said they were victims of physically forced sexual touching or kissing, 7 percent reported the incident. The dominant reason for why students who didn't tell authorities: They said it wasn't serious enough. 'That will stimulate a lot of discussion,' said Bonnie Fisher, a professor at the University of Cincinnati and a Westat consultant. 'We as researchers don't know a lot about this ? it hasn't been measured in the past.'" Ha ha ha! Stimulate a lot of discussion, right.
But I think this is how we can get the actual figure. Multiple that 23.1% figure by 7 percent, and you get 1.6%. As far as I'm concerned, that's the actual figure, or as close as we'll ever learn, to how many college students experience a real sexual assault or rape: 1.6%.
I understood this survey to be a voluntary self-selected population, as well, so NOT SCIENTIFIC.
Which is still a lot of rape happening on a campus with several thousand people. They seem to be overplaying their hand. I have to hope it backfires on them because this is getting ridiculous.
Rape or sexual assault. It's not far out to think 1.6% of college women experience groping or offensive sexual comments at some point.
Not sure how good Sermon's method was, but he was trying to narrow it down to those who were actually significantly assaulted or raped, so I was just going with that. Who knows what the actual numbers for rape or other forced contact are?
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis may be headed back to court over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Someone likes the martyr spotlight.
Andy Samberg is going to have to host another awards show now to get another shot in at her.
Incredible concrete surface can absorb 4,000 litres of water in SECONDS providing a flooding solution
Pervious isn't new. They'll usually put a reservoir underneath it to capture the water. The problem is trying to keep the stuff clean. It clogs up with dirt.
How much water does it retain? That could be a problem with expansion if installed in climates subject to hard freezes.
subject to hard freezes
Then it becomes gravel.
Gravel?, The Libertarian Road-Surface!
A subsidiary of Somalian RoadZ, in partnership with Koch Industries
Um, are there any Muslims running? No? Then who gives a fuck?
Oh, so suddenly everyone is against pointless wedge issues taking focus.
Your fingers are nimble, Atanarjuat. I bow down to your nimble fingers.
I thought Atanarjuat meant "fast runner", I guess it is "fast typist". Pretty impressive for an Inuit with cold fingers!
Finally, someone gets me.
Syrians see impostors, interlopers among migrants around them
It's like some Mongols got mixed in with the Huns during the invasion.
You know who else saw imposters among migrants?
Agent K?
gee, what a shock. Said absolutely no one with even a handful of functioning brain cells.
How does he know they're not from the Swahili speaking portion of Syria?
"Look, I may be fat, white, speak english with an american dialect and not know a scrap of arabic, but this passport says I'm Syrian, so can you put me on the dole already?"
/'refugee'
That's not a Tom Petty lyric.
You... should have to live like a refugee.
Syrians are pretty damn white as far as that region goes.
Spider scares mom out of moving car with boy left inside
Was it wrong of me to laugh at this?
No.
I have been in a car driven by a grown man who is apparently afraid of bees, and when a bee flew into the car he opened the driver's side door and tumbled out of it. Luckily we were puttering along at a low speed, and your humble Juggler was able to stop the vehicle.
YOU'RE BAT-MAN!
+ 1 pinky toe
I did not know Crusty was a fascist.
Besides, that handle sounds more like a Rogues Gallery member.
I am not a fascist, but I am a fan of their facial hair.
"Libertarian fascism", Reason should write some articles about
Vote Fascist for a 3rd glorious decade!
Yeah, sure. Krayewski has your number Bat-swine!
"Ben Carson says he "absolutely" stands behind his comments that a Muslim should not be president."
Did I miss something? Is there a Muslim running for president? Is it that kid with the clock? Or is this all speculation?
He was asked about it directly on "Meet the Press." I don't know all the context so I don't know if it was a planned "gotcha" question or if arose from an earlier discussion.
Is Marco Rubio going to capitalize on Scott Walker's exit from the 2016 race?
Rubio moved into Walker's dorm room after the latter exited college prematurely. True story.
If Walker had any sense of fun, he'd do a cameo on Walking Dead. Show him feasting on some dead, bloated middle aged lady wearing a Wisconsin! sweater in front of the Capitol stairs.
I'm kind of sad that Walker dropped out. He wasn't my first choice (not that Rand is going anywhere) but he was the only candidate in the race who ever took a real libertarian stance - and won.
Nobody else in the race has that kind of accomplishment on the resume.
His victory over the unions is irrelevant because he's an aggressive drug warrior who wants to drug test even more people. Good riddance!
Model Tries to Extort $2,000 From Jaromir Jagr With Post-Sex Selfie, Fails Because He DGAF
43 year old single man sleeping with 18 year old 'model'...it just adds to his legend.
She was the girlfriend of a player who idolized Jagr, too.
And now Jagr has helped him out by exposing her as the whore she is.
Yep, thank you cards are in order. Especially as Jagr did the extra favor of embarrassing her for him. Player finds outs his girl is cheating on him and has wholesome revenge at the same time.
Indeed - I bet he was positively gleeful when this came out...
given that, Jagr is more likely to pay her in order to post the picture rather than prevent the posting.
"Publish and be damned"
+1 Iron Duke
1) Have sex with dude
2) Take picture of dude sleeping
3) ?
4) Profit!
Can you send it to my friends first? They are starting to think I just made you up.
Jagr's so awesome I can forgive him for having spent so much of his career in Pittsburgh.
You could not move Jagr off the puck. He was a beast.
Phrasing?
Her next post?
He's probably got so much gambling debt she'd have to stand in line to collect anyway.
Always love reading stories like this. Good on Jagr. After he's finished making her a laughing stock and this has all died down a bit, he should pull her up on blackmail charges. Taking down a blackmailer in court will give his lawyers ammunition in the future if someone else tries the same stunt but with something he cares about (or you know just a straight up lie).
The real scandal here is Jagr doesn't spoon after sex.
Jagr no cuddle!
'You were good kid but you're no pass from Mario!'
The dude got lucky she was stupid.
Had she been smart she'd have told him that she liked it rough and made sure that he left some bruises on her the blackmailed him and said that if he didn't pay up there'd be rape charges.
Selfie of shame...
Lab-grown kidneys work in animals
You're a fool if you don't think they're actually secretly cloning to get these miracle organs to harvest. I mean, crack open a copy of the movie The Island or Never Let Me Go once in a while why don't you.
Oh fer fooks sake...They couldn't have sped this up a bit and let me keep both of mine?!
GET ON THE BALL, SCIENCE!
How's the recuperation going? Finally out of the ice-filled bathtub in a sleazy hotel and back in your own ice-filled bathtub?
I am already starting to resume Uncle Warty's DEADLIFT, YOU FOOL! program. My donation recipient looks years younger and sounds better than he has in years.
Hurrah!
Poor timing on my part, I stopped to read other comments.
Let's hope your doc was a little more gentle than the dude from PMs link below.
Hey Switzy - start saving up now and you might be back to a full set and they can take that bag of sand out of your back.
That bag of sand is vital for balance.
I CAN RESUME MY QUEST TO BECOME A BOLSHOI BALLERINA!!!!
Just don't let that sand bag break open. You know how sand is, once you get it in there, you can never get it out.
*cue penis joke*
Paint with Donald Trump
YUUUUGE FUN!! Thanks, ifh!
Florida man disemboweled girlfriend after she cried out ex's name during sex
Yeah, this one was fucked up.
Ok, that's disturbing.
He told the police he did this? I am sure I will sound very naive here, but is even that possible to do with an unconscious person?
I think she was dead by this point, and I read that the first time as him entering through the hole in her stomach.
I'd imagine so. "Unconscious" is a vague term - you can be technically alive but so injured you ain't waking up, no matter what's done to you. And if a baby can come out, an arm can surely go in, albeit doing a lot of damage.
Oh and damn you all for making me think about this.
Wouldn't want to be the cop that cuffed him.
From further in the article:
Sounds like he probably knocked her unconscious (or more likely killed her) in his initial rage while he was knocking holes in the walls and tearing the doors off the hinges, then got... creative.
Yes. I should not have asked.
Did she yell "Freedom!" as her hanky drifted to the floor?
My Lord.
This sort of thing is the reason why I can't oppose the death penalty in all cases. This guy deserves a date with Ol' Sparky.
Hard to believe he wasn't already committed somewhere. That kind of "drunken" rage doesn't come out of nowhere.
This is a pretty normal level of jealousy for Cubans, actually.
Florida Man strikes again.
Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers.
The first robot rebellion will be the refusal to wear red shirts.
So I'm supposed to swoon on Twitter over Alexbot from Target? I don't think so.
Speak for yourself!
/C3PO
Is that because the robots all watched Star Trek?
errmmmm.....
That's why I love Reason. Come for the comments, stay for the federal subpoenas.
Federal subpoenas just like Mom used to get served!!!
So, popbitch's comments are disgusting ergo everyone's comments are disgusting?
Do you know who else made disgusting comments?
I can think of a couple of trolls who might fit the bill.
SugarFree?
The NY Post is an interesting example. They used to have comments on any article and it was overloaded with mouthbreathing racists so I figured that's why they stopped it. But every once in a while, maybe 1 article out of 20, I see some comments still.
According to a new Gallup poll, 49 percent of Americans believe the federal government is "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."
What percent believe the federal government is the best way to correct that threat?
94%.
Exactly...we'll keep doing it through government until we get it right. Insanity.
Is Marco Rubio going to capitalize on Scott Walker's exit from the 2016 race?
Is "who cares?" one of the options?
And yawn when you say that!
Carly Fiorina, meanwhile, has rejected Carson's anti-Muslim stance. "I think that's wrong," Fiorina said. "It says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office."
And, to invoke another non sequitur, "It says in Moby Dick 'Call me Ishmael.'"
Right,there's no constitutional test. Voters can impose whatever test they like.
That would require them to exercise judgement...we cannot have that...They might judge wrong!
As much as I've loathed the Cult of Obama over the last few years, the #Cuckservative-spewing Cult of Trump may actually be worse (except that there's zero chance he gets elected). At least the Obama culters are able to hide their hatred for other people. Seen so many outright Nazis among the Trumpers.
how did the Obama cult "hide their hatred?" Was it the dismissive bitter clingers part? The constant painting of opponents, critics, or skeptics as racists? Maybe painting anyone who dissents from Dear Leader as driven by evil motives? Just stop.
Obama voters don't hate the bitter clingers just like we don't hate Down's Syndrome kids.
You spend that much time on the same bus with a bunch of kids and you can't possibly hate them.
That actually is the perfect demonstration of leftist "tolerance". You don't hate DS kids, but you would happily euthanize them.
Oh, I forgot that you are classically liberal!
we don't hate Down's Syndrome kids.
But in your case, I think we've all made an exception.
Even Obama couldn't hide his hatred.
Punish our Enemies
that's exactly the kind of post I would expect from a Cuckservative /not really serious.
Lois Lerner plead the 5th.
Hillary's IT person will plead the 5th.
Kerry just mastered the material in grade 5th.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....-per-pill/
Ex-hedge funder buys rights to AIDS drug and raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
Sounds like the biggest asshole ever. But I don't know that I buy this. Either way, he may have to face the reality that EVEN LIFE-SAVING DRUGS are an elastic good...
Also, HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GENERICS!!!!
Apparently the FDA is getting in the way of generics coming to market. Unfortunately that's not what people are focusing on. So instead of making it easier for the drug market to be competitive we are instead going to get heaps of regulations that will raise the prices on all drugs.
Well, if it saves even one life...
Looks it, too. "Brah, you would not believe how much money I'm raking in from AIDS patients, brah!"
Outrage ensues as those whose life is saved by a $750 pill confirm that their lives are not worth $750...but their iPhone6S is like totally worth it.
/judgystereotypyme
Doesn't say that it "saves lives", nor does it say how many pills are typically consumed - but I bet it's more than one.
1953 patent expired a long time ago.
Yes, captain obvious. But the FDA hasn't yet approved the generics, and that takes time and money. So your precious regulators are f*ing up the market bigtime.
You're surprised the PB would tacitly endorse the hastened demise of AIDS patients?
take those intellectual property rights... good and hard.
Newsreader lands anchor role after leaving her blouse undone in very raunchy screen test
A spokesperson for the channel said: "Most agree that her presentation style is somewhat awkward, but we are working on that and to be honest it doesn't seem to be doing any harm to her viewing figures."
Emphasis added. You dog!
I'd watch.
Heh - I'd hire her!
Sometimes giant tits are just to gianty. It tells you something that you always hear fat girls talking about their "big tits" being her best physical appeal. Too bad those ham sandwiches don't concentrate only in those stretch marked utters you're so proud of.
Yeah "nice" and "big" are not the same thing.
You must not be from Texas
Well, I thought she read the news with great comprehension and nuance.
She could be the next Walter Cronkite with tits like those.
F*** THE POPE I NEED MY IPHONE 6S!!
Serves you right for living in some place the Pope would visit.
And for hoarding up treasures on Earth.
Slammer lives in junior high school boy's locker room?
Why are people losing their minds for old commies these days?
Forced to stand on anthills, made to eat raw chili peppers and whipped with belts: Vigilante justice, Peruvian-style
We delegate the suspect beatings to the police here in the U.S.
It's not pretty watching a country circle down the drain like that.
The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into ... Clinton's email server, telling the State Department that they won't even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government what's going on.
W.T.F.?!
That could mean several things. It could mean Obama wants blackmail material to force Hillary out of the elections, or it could mean the FBI is refusing to tell the people who are going to be hauled off to jail what evidence they have found so they can't start covering for themselves.
Go on ...
Youtube is blocked on my work computer.
her boyfriend killed Bella because he thought she was possessed by demons.
Just wait til he sees all the demons in prison!
Sound like a genuine insanity plea. If the kid was older it'd be easy to just say he's covering for anger, but trying to genuinely tell people the baby is possessed rings of legal insanity.
It's not legal insanity; he took steps to conceal his act demonstrating he knew it was wrong.
Legal insanity is very narrowly defined as being incapable of understanding what one is doing is a crime. When a person conceals their act, they are demonstrating that they are aware that others think what they have done is wrong, from which it's safe to infer that they are not legally insane.
Even if he sincerely believed she was possessed by a demon, the fact that he hid the body and lied about its whereabouts makes it clear he knew other people would find what he did wrong.
That's the rationale.
Ah, I thought it included cases where people thought other just didn't know enough to agree with them. Like thinking the neighbor is a shapeshifting alien and thinking the wife is only upset about his murder because she doesn't realize this.
I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings.
I used to have a robot underling - it changed backup tapes until it died.
was this covered yesterday?
Volkswagen sets aside $7.3 billion over emissions scandal
It won't end with VW. It is of absolutely no surprise that they gamed the tests. The emissions standards are absurd.
This... Also, 40 times almost nothing is still almost nothing.
I seem to remember a stat that said just tuning up an old clunker has the same pollution impact as removing 700 modern cars.
I see this was covered in the PM links... carry on.
A number of interesting comments at "The Truth About Cars" site - and the usual: if it wasn't for government regulations (and by extension the EPA), we would live in a polluted hellhole of a planet.
I cannot shake the suspicion that VW's "crime" is largely semantic.
The EPA's credibility on stuff like this is nil, in my estimation.
VW is just engaged in ritual self-abasement before the altar.
Another UAW hit job.
Technically, VW probably didn't even break the rules. I seriously doubt there is a rule for emissions testing that requires a certain run mode from the ECU. If the VW ECU goes to any run mode that is available when driving for these tests, VW broke no laws. Even if it goes to an "emissions test only" mode, technically I think they are legal.
I'll leave this for my H&R arch-nemesis, Heroic Mulatto, to explain. Ironically.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09.....-boys.html
As I understand it, the Taliban did not tolerate boy-diddling.
I heard quite the opposite. Osama bin Laden's son said of the Afghans, that male child rape was treated as a sort right of passage for the youngest recruits (who were generally forced to be there to begin with).
Yes, but US military is sanguine about it.
Imagine if US employers started hiring based on entrance assessments rather than university credentials
One of the UK's biggest graduate recruiters is to remove degree classification from the entry criteria for its hiring programmes, having found "no evidence" that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications.
Accountancy firm Ernst and Young, known as EY, will no longer require students to have a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level to be considered for its graduate programmes.
Instead, the company will use numerical tests and online "strength" assessments to assess the potential of applicants.
I suspect there'd be a lot of "UNFAIR TESTING STANDARDS!!!" prog limpouts if this became more common, and I'm not certain of the legalities, but it seems a lot more logical for employers to give their applicants a basic knowledge exam prior to hiring them rather than having their HR directors scan for a degree before even considering a resume.
A college degree is a proxy IQ test.
The informative value of which diminishes with each additional 'diversity degree' and each Medieval Slavic Basket Weaving PhD that gets handed out.
Actually, it will run afoul of US employment law.
The lawsuit against Duke power by the EEOC resulted in the de jure outlawing of most forms of pre-employment testing.
Here in 'Merica, we like people to be fully dependent on government created cartels that you can't easily spot.
Hm. I was tested at a temp agency in the 90s. And what about the infamous Google or Microsoft tests. All illegal?
Thanks for clarifying that. Disappointing but not entirely unexpected.
A college degree is a proxy IQ test.
Not sure if serious.
Actually it is being used as such.
Companies can't legally ask very many real questions and can't use any sort of aptitude test in their hiring process which means they need something to weed the obviously unqualified and limit the number of candidates and therefore they use the college degree.
The know it doesn't map well to skill, ability, or intelligence but at least it shows a minimal level of intelligence and some small degree of perseverence and they can't be sued for discrimination because they have that requirement.
There was a time when a fair amount of work and discipline was required to get that degree. Maybe why companies are more attracted to science and engineering majors now.
I knew a few communications majors who were horrible at most forms of communication
Communications was the major they put the completely retarded football players and wrestlers in so they could have a chance at graduating.
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