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A.M. Links: Carson vs. Fiorina, Rubio Capitalizes on Walker Exit, Target Tests Robot Workers

Damon Root | 9.22.2015 9:00 AM

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    Is Marco Rubio going to capitalize on Scott Walker's exit from the 2016 race?

  • 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."
  • 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."
  • Kentucky clerk Kim Davis may be headed back to court over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
  • Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    ...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.

    1. gaijin   10 years ago

      The other 51% are no longer part of the workforce.

      1. straffinrun   10 years ago

        But they're part of the spendforce. We all have to do our part.

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      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,

      1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        "Once, I even called him asshole. But there was always respect"

    3. Lee G   10 years ago

      The real question is what they think those rights and freedoms are.

    4. wareagle   10 years ago

      unfortunately, the 51% outnumbers the sane people.

  2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      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?

      1. Mickey Rat   10 years ago

        If that is the standard, what percentage of men have been sexually assaulted by women? Because I know I am one.

        1. PM   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Rich   10 years ago

            "Rape me or I'll kill you!"

            1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

              I larfed.

      2. Rhywun   10 years ago

        They've bumped it up to "1 in 4" now - saw it on a news crawl last night.

        1. B.P.   10 years ago

          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.

    2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      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%.

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        I understood this survey to be a voluntary self-selected population, as well, so NOT SCIENTIFIC.

      2. Zeb   10 years ago

        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.

        1. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Zeb   10 years ago

            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?

  3. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

      Andy Samberg is going to have to host another awards show now to get another shot in at her.

  4. PM   10 years ago

    Incredible concrete surface can absorb 4,000 litres of water in SECONDS providing a flooding solution

    Areas that are prone to floods when the heavy rain comes could have a solution to all their problems with this magic type of concrete.

    Most places which are generally susceptible to flooding are residential, and flood because the ground water has no where to go once the drains are full.

    But TopMix could solve the problem because it is super absorbent and an alternative to regular concrete.

    As the clip shows, the concrete can direct water off of its surface and absorb it almost immediately.

    In the video, 4,000 litres of water is poured on the pavement in 60 seconds. By the time the last drop is poured, the water is completely absorbed by the surface, leaving no flooding or puddles what so ever.

    1. Lee G   10 years ago

      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.

    2. Mickey Rat   10 years ago

      How much water does it retain? That could be a problem with expansion if installed in climates subject to hard freezes.

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        subject to hard freezes

        Then it becomes gravel.

        Gravel?, The Libertarian Road-Surface!

        A subsidiary of Somalian RoadZ, in partnership with Koch Industries

  5. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

    Um, are there any Muslims running? No? Then who gives a fuck?

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      Oh, so suddenly everyone is against pointless wedge issues taking focus.

    2. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      Your fingers are nimble, Atanarjuat. I bow down to your nimble fingers.

      1. expat   10 years ago

        I thought Atanarjuat meant "fast runner", I guess it is "fast typist". Pretty impressive for an Inuit with cold fingers!

        1. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

          Finally, someone gets me.

  6. PM   10 years ago

    Syrians see impostors, interlopers among migrants around them

    Love brought Nizar Shoukry from his native Syria to Croatia and eventually a dental practice in the border town of Tovarnik. Thirty years later, war is bringing his countrymen, in a chaotic, desperate tide flowing past Shoukry's door en route to Germany and a promise of asylum.

    But the 50-year-old dentist ? now an informal liaison between police and refugees ? says his sees impostors among them.

    "I see so many people from Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan saying they come from Syria and many do not speak Arabic at all," he said in his adopted Croatian.

    "It really bothers me that so many people abuse the misfortune of the Syrian people to get a toehold in western Europe."

    It's a charge that is feeding tensions and sometimes violence within the determined ranks hitting Europe's shores and trekking through cornfields across Balkan borders.

    1. Drake   10 years ago

      It's like some Mongols got mixed in with the Huns during the invasion.

      1. Citizen X   10 years ago

        You know who else saw imposters among migrants?

        1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

          Agent K?

    2. wareagle   10 years ago

      gee, what a shock. Said absolutely no one with even a handful of functioning brain cells.

      1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

        How does he know they're not from the Swahili speaking portion of Syria?

        1. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

          "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'

          1. straffinrun   10 years ago

            That's not a Tom Petty lyric.

            1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

              You... should have to live like a refugee.

          2. Free Society   10 years ago

            Syrians are pretty damn white as far as that region goes.

  7. PM   10 years ago

    Spider scares mom out of moving car with boy left inside

    SYRACUSE, Ind., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Indiana said a mother who spotted a spider jumped out of her moving car -- leaving her 9-year-old son behind to crash the vehicle.

    The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department said Angela Kipp, 35, was backing her Dodge Avenger out of her Syracuse driveway about 4:15 p.m. Friday when she spotted a spider on her shoulder and panicked.

    Kipp opened her door and ran out of the vehicle, leaving her 9-year-old son alone in the moving car.

    Investigators said the boy climbed into the driver seat and tried to apply the brake, but stepped on the accelerator instead. The car collided with a school bus that was not carrying any children.

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      Was it wrong of me to laugh at this?

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        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.

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

          YOU'RE BAT-MAN!

          1. PM   10 years ago

            + 1 pinky toe

          2. Mickey Rat   10 years ago

            I did not know Crusty was a fascist.

            Besides, that handle sounds more like a Rogues Gallery member.

            1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

              I am not a fascist, but I am a fan of their facial hair.

              1. Free Society   10 years ago

                "Libertarian fascism", Reason should write some articles about

              2. VicRattlehead   10 years ago

                Vote Fascist for a 3rd glorious decade!

              3. Mickey Rat   10 years ago

                Yeah, sure. Krayewski has your number Bat-swine!

  8. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

    "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?

    1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

      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.

  9. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    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.

    1. straffinrun   10 years ago

      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.

  10. Drake   10 years ago

    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.

    1. Antilles   10 years ago

      His victory over the unions is irrelevant because he's an aggressive drug warrior who wants to drug test even more people. Good riddance!

  11. PM   10 years ago

    Model Tries to Extort $2,000 From Jaromir Jagr With Post-Sex Selfie, Fails Because He DGAF

    Recently, 43-year-old NHL legend Jaromir Jagr slept with an 18-year-old model. And while that's really NBD?and none of our business?the story took a weird twist and became public knowledge after the girl that Jagr slept with took a picture of him sleeping after the deed was done. The woman?or someone associated with the woman?then threatened to sell it to the media unless he paid $2,000. She was prepared to do what other women have done to pro athletes in the past (hi, Julian Edelman and James Harden!) if he didn't pay up.

    Just one problem: Jagr DGAF. Additionally, he's single so he didn't have to try to hide the post-sex selfie from his wife or girlfriend. As a result, he had just one response for the blackmailer when she said she was going to put the photo up on the Internet for all to see: "I don't care."

    1. gaijin   10 years ago

      43 year old single man sleeping with 18 year old 'model'...it just adds to his legend.

      1. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

        She was the girlfriend of a player who idolized Jagr, too.

        1. Drake   10 years ago

          And now Jagr has helped him out by exposing her as the whore she is.

          1. Illocust   10 years ago

            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.

      2. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

        Indeed - I bet he was positively gleeful when this came out...

      3. wareagle   10 years ago

        given that, Jagr is more likely to pay her in order to post the picture rather than prevent the posting.

    2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      "Publish and be damned"

      1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

        +1 Iron Duke

    3. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      1) Have sex with dude
      2) Take picture of dude sleeping
      3) ?
      4) Profit!

    4. Drake   10 years ago

      Can you send it to my friends first? They are starting to think I just made you up.

    5. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

      Jagr's so awesome I can forgive him for having spent so much of his career in Pittsburgh.

    6. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      You could not move Jagr off the puck. He was a beast.

      1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

        Phrasing?

        1. Drake   10 years ago

          Her next post?

    7. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      He's probably got so much gambling debt she'd have to stand in line to collect anyway.

    8. Illocust   10 years ago

      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).

    9. straffinrun   10 years ago

      The real scandal here is Jagr doesn't spoon after sex.

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        Jagr no cuddle!

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

        'You were good kid but you're no pass from Mario!'

    10. Rasilio   10 years ago

      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.

    11. bacon-magic   10 years ago

      Selfie of shame...

  12. PM   10 years ago

    Lab-grown kidneys work in animals

    Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals.

    When transplanted into pigs and rats, the kidneys worked, passing urine just like natural ones.

    Getting the urine out has been a problem for earlier prototypes, causing them to balloon under the pressure.

    The Japanese team got round this by growing extra plumbing for the kidney to stop the backlog, PNAS reports.

    Although still years off human trials, the research helps guide the way towards the end goal of making organs for people, say experts.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      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.

    2. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

      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!

      1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        How's the recuperation going? Finally out of the ice-filled bathtub in a sleazy hotel and back in your own ice-filled bathtub?

        1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

          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.

          1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

            Hurrah!

      2. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

        Poor timing on my part, I stopped to read other comments.

      3. straffinrun   10 years ago

        Let's hope your doc was a little more gentle than the dude from PMs link below.

    3. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        That bag of sand is vital for balance.

        1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

          I CAN RESUME MY QUEST TO BECOME A BOLSHOI BALLERINA!!!!

          1. Free Society   10 years ago

            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.

            1. Free Society   10 years ago

              *cue penis joke*

  13. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Paint with Donald Trump

    1. Rich   10 years ago

      YUUUUGE FUN!! Thanks, ifh!

  14. PM   10 years ago

    Florida man disemboweled girlfriend after she cried out ex's name during sex

    A south Florida man charged with murdering his girlfriend admitted to disemboweling her with his bare hands after she twice cried out her ex-husband's name during sex, police said.

    Self-admitted "monster" Fidel Lopez, 24, said he flew into a drunken rage after she cried out the other man's name during rough sex inside of their Sunrise apartment's closet early Sunday morning, according to a police report obtained by the Sun Sentinel.

    In extremely disturbing details, police say Lopez admitted to shattering a sliding glass door, punching holes into a wall and ripping a closet door off its hinges.

    He then returned to 31-year-old Maria Nemeth, who was lying unconscious on the floor, and proceeded to sexually mutilate her -- first with various objects, then by inserting his arm into her, up to his elbow.

    1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      Yeah, this one was fucked up.

    2. Aloysious   10 years ago

      Ok, that's disturbing.

    3. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

      by inserting his arm into her, up to his elbow.

      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?

      1. Illocust   10 years ago

        I think she was dead by this point, and I read that the first time as him entering through the hole in her stomach.

      2. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

        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.

      3. straffinrun   10 years ago

        Wouldn't want to be the cop that cuffed him.

      4. PM   10 years ago

        From further in the article:

        Once inside he said he proceeded to rip out part of her intestines.

        Neighbors said they heard a man yelling and loud noises for about two hours

        When police arrived at the home, they found him crying for help next to her naked body. Blood and bodily tissue covered the floor and walls.

        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.

        1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

          Yes. I should not have asked.

        2. straffinrun   10 years ago

          Did she yell "Freedom!" as her hanky drifted to the floor?

    4. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

      My Lord.

      1. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

        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.

        1. Rhywun   10 years ago

          Hard to believe he wasn't already committed somewhere. That kind of "drunken" rage doesn't come out of nowhere.

    5. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

      This is a pretty normal level of jealousy for Cubans, actually.

    6. Free Society   10 years ago

      Florida Man strikes again.

  15. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers.

    The first robot rebellion will be the refusal to wear red shirts.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      So I'm supposed to swoon on Twitter over Alexbot from Target? I don't think so.

      1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

        Speak for yourself!

        /C3PO

    2. Rasilio   10 years ago

      Is that because the robots all watched Star Trek?

  16. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Another week, another website that has turned off comments on its articles. It's obvious why comments sections are so reviled, but why have so many news outlets stuck with them despite them being such slurry pits? They couldn't possibly be providing a worthwhile service ? could they??

    errmmmm.....

    1. PM   10 years ago

      That's why I love Reason. Come for the comments, stay for the federal subpoenas.

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        Federal subpoenas just like Mom used to get served!!!

    2. Raven Nation   10 years ago

      So, popbitch's comments are disgusting ergo everyone's comments are disgusting?

      1. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

        Do you know who else made disgusting comments?

        1. Raven Nation   10 years ago

          I can think of a couple of trolls who might fit the bill.

        2. Citizen X   10 years ago

          SugarFree?

    3. Rhywun   10 years ago

      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.

  17. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    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?

    1. Citizen X   10 years ago

      94%.

      1. gaijin   10 years ago

        Exactly...we'll keep doing it through government until we get it right. Insanity.

  18. Bee Tagger   10 years ago

    Is Marco Rubio going to capitalize on Scott Walker's exit from the 2016 race?

    Is "who cares?" one of the options?

    1. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

      And yawn when you say that!

  19. Rich   10 years ago

    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.'"

    1. Just a thought not a sermon   10 years ago

      Right,there's no constitutional test. Voters can impose whatever test they like.

      1. gaijin   10 years ago

        That would require them to exercise judgement...we cannot have that...They might judge wrong!

  20. Juvenile Bluster   10 years ago

    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.

    1. wareagle   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

        Obama voters don't hate the bitter clingers just like we don't hate Down's Syndrome kids.

        1. PM   10 years ago

          You spend that much time on the same bus with a bunch of kids and you can't possibly hate them.

        2. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          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!

        3. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

          we don't hate Down's Syndrome kids.

          But in your case, I think we've all made an exception.

      2. The Shrubber's Woodchipper   10 years ago

        Even Obama couldn't hide his hatred.
        Punish our Enemies

    2. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      that's exactly the kind of post I would expect from a Cuckservative /not really serious.

    3. BigT   10 years ago

      Obama culters are able to hide their hatred for other people

      Lois Lerner plead the 5th.
      Hillary's IT person will plead the 5th.
      Kerry just mastered the material in grade 5th.

  21. SimonJester   10 years ago

    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

    1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

      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...

      1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

        Also, HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GENERICS!!!!

        1. Illocust   10 years ago

          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.

          1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

            Well, if it saves even one life...

      2. Rhywun   10 years ago

        Sounds like the biggest asshole ever.

        Looks it, too. "Brah, you would not believe how much money I'm raking in from AIDS patients, brah!"

    2. gaijin   10 years ago

      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

      1. Rhywun   10 years ago

        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.

    3. Palin's Buttplug   10 years ago

      1953 patent expired a long time ago.

      1. BigT   10 years 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.

        1. Monty Crisco   10 years ago

          You're surprised the PB would tacitly endorse the hastened demise of AIDS patients?

    4. Free Society   10 years ago

      take those intellectual property rights... good and hard.

  22. Rich   10 years ago

    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!

    1. Aloysious   10 years ago

      I'd watch.

    2. Swiss Servator   10 years ago

      Heh - I'd hire her!

    3. Free Society   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Atanarjuat   10 years ago

        Yeah "nice" and "big" are not the same thing.

        1. Lee G   10 years ago

          You must not be from Texas

    4. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      Well, I thought she read the news with great comprehension and nuance.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        She could be the next Walter Cronkite with tits like those.

  23. Slammer   10 years ago

    F*** THE POPE I NEED MY IPHONE 6S!!

    1. PM   10 years ago

      Serves you right for living in some place the Pope would visit.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        And for hoarding up treasures on Earth.

      2. straffinrun   10 years ago

        Slammer lives in junior high school boy's locker room?

    2. Drake   10 years ago

      Why are people losing their minds for old commies these days?

  24. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    Forced to stand on anthills, made to eat raw chili peppers and whipped with belts: Vigilante justice, Peruvian-style

    1. Drake   10 years ago

      We delegate the suspect beatings to the police here in the U.S.

    2. Rhywun   10 years ago

      It's not pretty watching a country circle down the drain like that.

  25. Rich   10 years ago

    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.?!

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Rich   10 years ago

        Go on ...

        1. Illocust   10 years ago

          Youtube is blocked on my work computer.

  26. Rich   10 years ago

    her boyfriend killed Bella because he thought she was possessed by demons.

    Just wait til he sees all the demons in prison!

    1. Illocust   10 years ago

      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.

      1. tarran   10 years ago

        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.

        1. Illocust   10 years ago

          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.

  27. Free Society   10 years ago

    Target is preparing to test the use of robot workers.

    I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings.

    1. UnCivilServant   10 years ago

      I used to have a robot underling - it changed backup tapes until it died.

  28. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

    was this covered yesterday?

    Volkswagen sets aside $7.3 billion over emissions scandal

    In the wake of its statement, VW's share price was down another 17.6 percent at 110.20 euros and near a four-year low. The fall comes on top of Monday's hefty 17 percent decline and means the company has lost an eye-watering 25 billion euros or so in just two days of frenzied trading.

    The trigger to the company's market woes was last Friday's revelation from the U.S.'s Environmental Protection Agency that VW rigged nearly half a million cars to defeat U.S. smog tests.

    The company then admitted that it intentionally installed software programmed to switch engines to a cleaner mode during official emissions testing. The software then switches off again, enabling cars to drive more powerfully on the road while emitting as much as 40 times the legal pollution limit.

    In its statement Tuesday, Volkswagen gave more details, admitting that "discrepancies" related to vehicles.

    1. Lee G   10 years ago

      It won't end with VW. It is of absolutely no surprise that they gamed the tests. The emissions standards are absurd.

      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   10 years ago

        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.

    2. Lord Humungus   10 years ago

      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.

  29. The Late P Brooks   10 years ago

    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.

    1. R C Dean   10 years ago

      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.

  30. widget   10 years ago

    I'll leave this for my H&R arch-nemesis, Heroic Mulatto, to explain. Ironically.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09.....-boys.html

    1. Lee G   10 years ago

      As I understand it, the Taliban did not tolerate boy-diddling.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        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).

    2. widget   10 years ago

      Yes, but US military is sanguine about it.

  31. Red Rocks Rockin   10 years ago

    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.

    1. widget   10 years ago

      A college degree is a proxy IQ test.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        The informative value of which diminishes with each additional 'diversity degree' and each Medieval Slavic Basket Weaving PhD that gets handed out.

    2. tarran   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Free Society   10 years ago

        Here in 'Merica, we like people to be fully dependent on government created cartels that you can't easily spot.

      2. Rhywun   10 years ago

        Hm. I was tested at a temp agency in the 90s. And what about the infamous Google or Microsoft tests. All illegal?

      3. Red Rocks Rockin   10 years ago

        Thanks for clarifying that. Disappointing but not entirely unexpected.

  32. The Late P Brooks   10 years ago

    A college degree is a proxy IQ test.

    Not sure if serious.

    1. Rasilio   10 years ago

      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.

      1. Drake   10 years ago

        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.

        1. lap83   10 years ago

          I knew a few communications majors who were horrible at most forms of communication

          1. Timon 19   10 years ago

            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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