Donald Trump Slumping, Putin to Meet Obama at UN, Singapore Schools Closed Due to Haze: A.M. Links
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Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton now trails Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire in polls that do and do not include Joe Biden, and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is starting to look like he might be dropping in the polls. Meanwhile, presidential candidates for the Libertarian and Green parties are planning to sue the Commission on Presidential Debates on anti-trust grounds. They're seeking to be allowed to participate in the debates.
- Republican leaders in Congress say they're working to prevent a government shutdown.
- Pope Francis is in New York City for the third leg of his trip to the United States.
- Vladimir Putin will appear at the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in 10 years. He asked to meet with President Obama on the sidelines to discuss Syria and Ukraine.
- Schools in Singapore were closed today due to haze.
- Rapper Puff Daddy says there's no such thing as a "child prostitute."
- The New York Mets will no longer feature players from the opposing team on their Kiss Cam as a gag, after some fans complained the joke was homophobic.
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Friday morning fun. Rowdy Roddy Piper, Billy Squier, Danny DeVito, and Mean Gene all in one short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEKw6tRnnhE
Hello.
What do you mean by that Rufus?
Shhh. I’m trying to be less Canadian for waffles!
She’s not going to fall for that
waffles is a she?
/spits on fingers. runs through hair.
Danny Devito looks pissed, It’s also weird that he appears sober.
He will always be Louie De Palma to me.
/grrrr.
What the fuck is on DeVito’s neck?
His head?
Republican leaders in Congress say they’re working to prevent a government shutdown.
I’m sure they are.
Code for Surrendering.
95) Hillary growing in stature:
“I used to be the only person writing about this. But lately several publications, perhaps influenced by my work, have begun to seek the same data. You can find their height reports all over the Internet. They all say that Clinton is 5 feet 7 inches tall?. [But] when the then-senator first ran for president in 2008, she was only 5-foot-5.”
She must have finally pulled the ruby red slippers from Joe Biden’s feet.
Well now she’s really dead to me.
There’s some old study that the taller the candidate, the more likely voters are to vote for him (or I suppose her).
Didn’t seem to work for Bill Bradley
More info here
Thank you for that.
Your link is wrong, I have it on good authority that Washington was a lot taller than that.
+ 6′ 20″
+12 stories high, made of radiation
Sorry, here’s the link.
That looks an awful lot like your last link.
Fuck it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ style/is-hillary-clinton-getting-taller- or-is-the-internet-getting-dumber/ 2015/09/24/ 58af4dfa-5e33-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html
Paging SugarFree…..
cankle implants?
*vomits in own mouth a little*
Well, to be fair, if she’s talking, the length of her nose can vary so much that it actually affects her height.
Nice
Newly identified remains of WWII Marine heading home
Bloody fucking Tarawa
Some higher officers should have at least paid a little for that mess. Whadaya mean, ‘the tides were a surprise’?
It was a neap tide, so kind of a curveball.
First big amphibious operation of the war, so Mr. Murphy was calling all the shots that day.
Leah Remini book out Nov. 3: ‘Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology’
Say what you will about Scientology, at least it’s an ethos.
“Give all your money to the church and hide away from people who tell you the organization is abusing you”?
Who am I to judge?
At least they believe in something. If they didn’t believe in anything, there’s no telling what mayhem they’d be doing.
It’s the commitment that counts.
-1 toe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_29yvYpf4w
Call me nuts but I actually enjoy her show.
Also. IFH, not sure if I ever mentioned this but I have relatives in Melbourne.
They’re crazy.
Were they transported because they were crazy, or did the antipodes drive them insane?
A little of this and a little of that.
I think.
We used to call them the Australian Hatrocks.
Or Gruesomes.
I forget. It was the 80s. I was high on Galaga.
No, you didn’t. Are they first-generation transplanted Canucks struggling to understand football, or real Melburnians?
I love Melbourne.
Worse. Southern I-talians.
You’re nuts, Rufus!
WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP TELLING ME THIS?
My mother gave me a look like I just raped, say, Alamanian, last night after I told someone to go fuck a crippled goat with Sugar Free’s dildo while Warty filmed and Nikki directed.
I get it. I want to tap dat ass too, Ruf.
Whether I refer to Remini or Almanian, I leave for the dear reader to decide.
Both, at the same time?
Sounds like a spit roast to me.
But what about the donkey?
Too late. Already went with Alamanian.
You’re tagged.
I think this means they didn’t like Morrissey’s first novel:
It is an unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey’s imagination.
You shut your mouth
How can you say
he goes about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved.
Just like anybody else does.
I am the sun and air
Now he knows how Joan of Arc felt.
Satire Warning:
We’re Sorry For Producing Our Cisgendered Son
I, a patriarchal oppressor, have created more patriarchy. Read, and weep.
Pitch perfect.
Had to verify that this was satire. That’s how bad its gotten.
It’s pretty obviously satire because it doesn’t read like a halfwit wrote it.
Maybe it’s just the difficulty of dredging up anecdotes from memory and attempting to capture them in prose, or maybe it’s because they spend as much time writing as they do checking their thesauri and their problematic language astrology charts, or maybe it’s because they’re generally terrible writers who nonetheless want to force their social justice shtick, but authors parodying their rancid ideology are much more fluent and readable.
In that moment, Gwen and I watched as all our work began to slip away. “No!” I said, as I yanked the hammer out of his little hand. Pat looked at me, very confused, both of us unable to articulate just how awful what he did was. “Look!” I said, handing him an African-American doctor Barbie doll. He took it eagerly, and we all breathed with a sigh of relief. I walked away, confident that I had averted a crisis?until Gwen and our friend gave a terrified squeal.
I heard it before I saw it. The banging sound had returned, only when I spun around to look I saw with horror Pat using the African-American doctor Barbie as a hammer. Gwen did not allow me a second chance at fixing this. She tipped over the chair as she ran toward Pat. Yanking the doll out of his hand, she screamed “No!” repeatedly. We left quickly, not willing to risk any more male toxicity creeping into our child.
Awesome.
It would have been more believable if he’d used “cisgender” instead of “cisgendered.”
Nikki. You should write a bad ass, non-PC, rude book on grammar or writing rules. Grammar Bitch or something.
It would be awesome.
I’m serious.
I’d buy the book.
Hmm, that is an interesting idea.
I’d buy it to.
Eye’d bye it two.
Ide by it too
Hit me with your grammar stick!
Strunk and White was written by a couple of old white dudes back in the prehistoric age, and therefore has no relevance in the modern age.
Hm.
Maybe I should get into publishing.
How about a book on Reason comments with Agile as editor?
/looks into future. Half star rating on Amazon. Top comment with millions of thumbs up: ‘Who are these idiots and why did Penguin publish them?
Rufus pitching Reason: Anal Anthology to Penguin.
You’re giving me waaayyyy too many ideas.
(Chortles at computer)
/Looks around nervously for Swiss
and here I was perpetuating rape culture by being sexually turned on by my partner.
This monster lives within us all.
Usually shit like this isn’t that funny, but this one is fucking genius. I literally LoLd at:
We couldn’t believe it. Not only had Pat exhibited masculine traits despite our best efforts, he had done so by using a woman as a tool, and an African-American woman no less.
Nearly naked ‘grumpy old woman’ glues bum to Croydon department store in bizarre protest
Shriek’s grandmother?
If you lived in Croydon, you’d be fed up with everything too.
I can speak with authority, having escaped the place some years ago.
I would never glue my bum to anything. Just in case anyone wonders.
Didn’t go so well the last time?
Semen is sticky but it isn’t glue.
Paging Crusty Juggler…. Crusty Juggler to the grumpy old woman please…
America’s IMAGINARY great past?..
http://gawker.com/americas-ima…..1732840807
Doesn’t get much worse than gawker and ALL of her minions ? deadspin, gizmodo, IBT, engadget. I truly wish every one of those organizations would be consumed in a sulphurous fire ? with all the employees inside.
America is truly one of the few countries in the world where our sheer, outright success (obese poor people!) has resulted in the bizarre self-hatred of the left. Hard to figure..
I love how “segregation” is one reason why America NEVER had a great past. Wonder if he will elaborate who was responsible for that?..
My favorite comment:
“Nearly every negative socioeconomic trend in the U.S. can be traced back to Reagan’s election. It’s kind of astonishing how much havoc that man has wreaked.”
Jesus, people?
Stupid is as stupid does
But I thought global warming started in 1978? Or maybe he’s counting Reagan’s stint as California’s governor.
It started 10000 BC.
Nearly every negative socioeconomic trend in the U.S. can be traced back to Reagan’s election. It’s kind of astonishing how much havoc that man has wreaked.
I was born in 1984, so I don’t remember it personally, but I have heard that the economy the the Carter Administration was AWESOME. 0% unemployment, everyone made $15/hr living wage! Free health care! Unions for all! HUZZAH!
“Nearly every negative socioeconomic trend in the U.S. can be traced back to Reagan’s election. It’s kind of astonishing how much havoc that man has wreaked.”
Someone clearly doesn’t understand the basic fact of social evolution, since logically speaking every positive socioeconomic trend can be traced back to that as well.
Climate change is like ISIS, or something:
New Zealand has deported a Pacific islander who launched a failed bid to become? the world’s first climate change refugee
You know what other organization resembled I.S.I.S?…
KAOS?
COBRA?
SMERSH?
GOPe?
The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society?
Ha ha. I wonder if they’re regretting that choice of acronym?
“NO! NO! We’re the OTHER ISIS!”
“Why should we have to change? They’re the ones that suck!”
UNCLE?
ODIN?
W.A.S.W.A.S.?
CAIR?
Bay City Rollers announce reunion
And you know what Hell is, folks? It’s Andy Gibb singing “Shadow Dancing” for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange plaid bellbottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers.
Saturday’s just weren’t the same without them.
I actually just heard a remake of that somewhere? Like within the last month.
My sister had their album. I have no idea where it is. I keep looking for it.
It’s time to let go, Rufus…
I know.
/slowly lowers head.
Well it’s been a tough few years for the boys. According to Popbitch:
* Drummer Derek Longmuir (Alan’s brother) was done for child porn.
* Flautist Billy Lyall died from AIDS.
* Manager Tam Paton served jail time for gross indecency with teenage boys.
* Lead singer Les McKeown killed someone owing to reckless driving; arrested (but acquitted) of cocaine dealing; and only managed to come in 5th in the UK heats for Eurovision 1990.
Has to be because of climate change.
Flautist Billy Lyall
You cannot imagine my crushing disappointment when I googled and learned that that’s just Limey for flutist. I was really hoping the word came from flatus.
+1 Fartophone
He plays the Flemish Fart Flute!
Damn furrinerspeak!
Skin Flautist.
Lead singer Les McKeown killed someone owing to reckless driving
Should have gotten a sex change. He’d be a hero now.
I’ve got a ticket for the Bay City Rollers, and everything will be out of sight. . .
You’re carrying it in your anus?
Hillary Clinton trails Sanders in New Hampshire, even without Joe Biden in the race
Well, I guess we are going to see how many American still dislike Socialism in a national election.
Meh, I think Biden would destroy him in a two-way primary.
Ah, the “Live Free Stuff or Die” State.
Put Bernie’s face over the “Live” part of that motto.
“Love Free Stuff of Die” seems more appropriate
They’re only talking about Democrats in NH. Taking the party-affiliated together with independents, Republicans still hold a plurality in the population. But yes, NH Democrats have become absolutely batshit insane in the past decade. Kuster? Hassan? Porter? Fuck you!
I blame immigration from VT and MA.
Everyone wants to move to NH because it’s nicer, then vote for all of the policies that made their home states so shitty.
This has been happening for a long time, but the Democrats really have lost it lately.
Have you ever seen a book called North of Monadnock by Newt Tolman? It’s an amusing read about rural NH life, and he writes about the same phenomenon of people moving to NH for a rustic, rural life, but then demanding all of the government services they are used to, but from the perspective of 40 years ago.
I blame all the Masshole transplants. And it doesn’t help that all of the candidates are terrible.
If Ayotte wasn’t so blood-thirsty, she would be tolerable.
Marines Trained That Rape in Afghanistan Is a ‘Cultural’ Issue
I had no idea the USMC is such a progressive institution.
I’m very disappointed that this took so long to break into public view.
This would be an excellent topic for Congressional hearings, with subpoenas and shit. But, $20 says we get hearings on concussions in football and the Proper Naming of Sports Teams instead.
Same thing came to light in Iraq and…. nothing else happened.
But, but, but Obama was for peace and shit. There isn’t anyone dying in Afghanistan anymore since that warmonger Bush left. Right?
Oh you mean more Americans have died in Aghanistan under Obama than died in Iraq??
Seriously, we gave it a good effort to try to civilize those goat fuckers. Now let’s leave them to rape each other.
I am interested in a newsletter by Afghan student/rapists about their cultural integration at American Liberal Arts Institutions.
Warty- Can I get a referral?
“he might be dropping in thge polls.”
Are those like push polls?
*narrows gthpze*
Those polls are TERRIBLE. NOBODY likes them. The have ZERO chance of being right.
Facebook ‘unfriending’ can constitute workplace bullying, Australian tribunal finds
So refusing to let someone into your personal life is workplace bullying even if you don’t actually work with them?
Ah whoops, thought the woman was just the wife of the principal. Turns out she works there too. Still, you shouldn’t be required to allow coworkers to gather blackmail material on you. Facebook is a gold mine for pulling up info that makes someone look bad.
That description is unclear. Ms Bird wasn’t just the boss’s wife; she worked there too. There was more to it than the unfriending – refusing to talk to her, and generally being a bitch.
As I have said many times “If the workplace wasn’t hostile, we wouldn’t have to pay people to come here every day.”
IRS agent accused of sexual battery appears in court
These are the folks Tony finds superior to the rest of us…
She was being uncharitable. Garza taught her humility and deference to her fellow man.
“Hump or die!….it’s good to be the King!”
Humperdink?
Hump or death. Hump, death, hump, death, you’re running out of time…
There is no higher calling than working for the government.
Even local enforcer class have a certain disdain for your agents of monetary collection.
I am amused.
I guess no one explained to him that raping the taxpayer was a metaphor.
If an audit is inevitable, sit back and enjoy it.
Close your eyes and think of England the American administrative state.
Mmmmm MMmmmm MMMMMmmmmmm!
Police: Woman disrupted pig chase at Ephrata Fair
Who were the pigs chasing?
Talk about the tables turning: woman interrupts pig chase, gets chased by pigs?
OJ?
“Woman” disrupted pig chase at Ephrata Fair
Fixed the headline for them.
“THAT LADY’S GOT A PECKAH!”
/Chip Chipperson
Tiss.
I have always wondered what Olive Oyl has been up to these days (see pic in the link)
That’s… quite a masculine chin on her.
“Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places…”
Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault
You would think they might move that particular gene bank.
Or at least wait until the war is over to restock.
– You, Ghitan of Aleppo.
– Sherif?
– Where do we ride?
– Damascus, sherif.
– Aye, but for what?
– Sherif, for seeds.
But does Sherif like it?
*narrows gaze, strums guitar*
Interestingly, I heard this mentioned on Elementary.
Pope backs nuns protesting ObamaCare’s birth control mandate
Good on him, as the leader of his organization supporting the people lower down is part of his job.
Meh. This is only because he vehemently opposes effective Birth Control. The Pope has no problem making people pay the medical bills of others at the point of a gun.
The most effective birth control is to not have sexual intercourse. I would guess he supports that.
Did you forget that he recently came out and excoriated his followers for not having enough sex and producing enough children? The Catholic church doesn’t want married couples to practice abstinence because then there’s no chance of them producing a bunch more baby Catholics. Non-married people aren’t allowed to have sex, but if they do then they better not use any birth control or their sin is compounded.
Larry Wilmore demolishes Ayn Rand capitalism: “The more we leave things to unfettered markets, the more we have to clean up their sh*t”
Scary part?
It will work to pull people to his side.
1) The FDA created that scarcity
2) Regulations sure didn’t help there (and there’s no shortage of them)
3) Perverse incentives create perverse outcomes
That final example doesn’t even make sense – VW made a product that people wanted for a price they wanted then fiddled around so that it could be sold without the anti-market forces killing it. And this is supposed to be a condemnation of capitalism?
Drugs, food, and cars. Much unfettered.
Quiet, stupid woman. Did you not see the DEMOLISHES? He DEMOLISHED capitalism. Oh no he di-int. *gif from Clueless* *sassy kitten gif* *baby dancing gif*
Detroyed, owned, PWN’D. It was an epic takedown.
*big fat woman displaying sass gif*
Big ol’ woman killer Death Metal
Warty, would you actually include links to these gifs?! I really want to see them and it would enhance my whole day!
It’s yet another moronically bombastic clickbait title so that people can share it to be circlejerked over on social media. Put “John Stewart demolishes” into Google and the very first result I get is, shocker, Salon, with various Gawker tripe and fucking Alternet right after.
Nikki, can I have Warty when you’re done with him? He’d come to love his new box, I’m sure.
That breed can turn on you.
Oh, I’m an experienced handler.
Jesse has dibs. Better fight it out with him.
I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out. I think he’ll appreciate you being made a bit more…accessible.
Okay Warty. It’s up to you now. Ready to achieve your potential?
You’re an experienced Warty Wrangler?
I doff my cap to you in breathless admiration.
( I misread SF’s comment as “turn you on” rather than “turn on you“, which initially triggered a massive gag reflex)
Ha! Yeah, turn you on wouldn’t work for me. But based on what I’ve read here, Warty is in great shape, has a dungeon, so he’ll be familiar with some of my equipment and techniques, (although I am an engineer, so I like to think I’ve made some improvements over the traditional methods.), so I think he’ll be a quick learner.
And the improvement in his value! I think I can double his value on the open market within six to eight months, as he won’t have to go through the entire Academy, I would just consider it a “finishing school”.
So, what do you think Jesse? I don’t train ponies anymore, (the amount of tack required got to be ridiculous!), but I could throw in a specialty if you have a preference.
It’s weird getting name-checked in the AM Links. I’m pretty fine with whatever. I was just going to Cosby him anyway.
Let me know when he’s ready for pickup.
Oh I supply the training crate and everything to get him home. No worries.
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess.
Aww, don’t sound so unsure! You’ll come to love your new life. I promise.
Sounds good to me. Just make sure he keeps up on leg day during training. I dislike chicken legs.
Absolutely! Producing sub optimal stock could ruin a girl’s reputation as a reputable dom.
this is one of the scariest things I’ve ever read on H&R
I have a problem with you, LH. I can’t read anything you submit without hearing your Kjell Nielson voice.
The resulting laughter wakes all my coworkers from their blissful, bureaucratic slumbers.
The second example of the Beelzebowels was the peanut butter CEO who continued to sell his product even after he found out it was laced with poison.
And even without the FDA, under the principles of capitalism, libertarianism, or common law (take your pick), this CEO would have been sued into bankruptcy and probably jailed.
That CEO would have gone to jail in the Randyist Randroid world imaginable. He poisoned people without their knowledge. Literally no one thinks you should be able to get away with that.
“Literally no one thinks you should be able to get away with that.”
Clearly, you never stood trial at Nuremburg….
Larry Wilmore somehow manages to take all the worst of parts of Jon Stewart (smug, self-righteous) without having the redeeming quality of being, you know, actually funny.
You should watch his video after Pamela Geller was almost shot to death. He basically blamed Geller entirely, didn’t even seem to care that she was actually the victim of an attempted murder, and actually blamed her for the security guard who got shot in the foot.
Got that? If you have a totally peaceful meeting and know you might be attacked, it’s your fault if the people you know might attack you shoot a security guard. Wilmore has spoken.
Ugh.
Pretty much the first time I ever watched him he was on some garbage rant heavily mischaracterizing Citizen’s United and “OMG Kochtopus!” so I’ve been paying zero attention since then.
To ask the question is to know the answer.
C’mon Irish, you know that’s not the conclusion. You know what Wilmore is really saying: Muslims can’t be responsible for their actions. If you provoke them, it’s like provoking a bear, and it’s your own fault for thinking they won’t try to kill you.
Entirely unearned smug self-righteousness. Stewart at least knew how to punch down.
He’s a funny actor and writer, but seems totally wrong for the Stewart/Colbert kind of show. Or maybe it’s that he and his team think the key is to be political and “informative,” rather than making fun of what’s going on in the world.
Re: The first one – If that drug is from the 1950’s, shouldn’t any other company be able to make a generic version and sell it for, I don’t know, $20 a pill?
Good question. Apparently the market just isn’t big enough
Yes, Vox will always answer all your questions in good faith and accurately.
I wasn’t aware what a nasty person Larry Wilmore is. I mean, from that face alone there was no way I was ever going to watch the show but wow.
Skreli does seem like a big asshole, but it is exactly the fettering of the markets that allows him to do that.
I take it there was no mention of the EPA spill turning that river orange, or that prison torturing and watching that guy die, or the OPM losing millions of people’s fingerprints to hackers.
No, the government does not make mistakes or allow bad things to happen, unlike that damn market.
Rapper Puff Daddy says there’s no such thing as a “child prostitute.”
Donald Trump is slumping, on to the next important story!
I wonder if anyone will be pissed at him for ruining the narrative that all prostitution is involuntary sex trafficking?
GOP thumbs its nose at Pope Francis immediately after congressional speech with attack on climate science
The pontiff’s exhortations to solve climate change haven’t prompted Republicans to rethink their denialism
“Democrats thumb their noses at Pope Francis immediately before congressional speech by voting to continue funding abortion facilities.”
Or maybe in a secular society we could just not give a shit what the Pope says and ignore his opinions because he is totally irrelevant and has no actual power or experience that should cause us to care what his opinions are.
Well, I think, in fact, we don’t.
The media is just pretending we do for a week or so.
I just love fucking Salon telling us we should obey some dumbass religious leader as if he has any authority in this country when in all other instances they criticize religion.
But he says so many nice things about causes we believe in! I. Love. This. Pope!
/facebook derp
He said something they agree with. So, we should listen to themhim.
How many SJWs does the Pope have?
A division of them?
/confused
Cadres?
I believe they are counted by flocks.
A “shrill” of SJWs.
I think it’s a trick question. Is this measured in congregations or constituents?
He asked to meet with President Obama on the sidelines to discuss Syria and Ukraine.
Sideline interviews are always so awkward.
Yeah, see my first post.
Republican leaders in Congress say they’re working to prevent a government shutdown.
Can’t wait to be reminded by the Left how much Republicans hate government over the next year.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton now trails Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire in polls that do and do not include Joe Biden
With or without you! With or with-out you oh-ohhh! I can’t win… with or without you!
*narrows gaze, puts on Bono style shades over said narrowed gaze*
Schools in Singapore were closed today due to haze.
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.
While I puke and die.
Little girl spontaneously gives Pope Francis a letter and by spontaneously I mean she did this in a staged, planned stunt that took months of planning from an LA based immigration organization.
You know, when you see things like this, you begin to see why there are suspicions about Ahmed Mohammad’s story being a purposeful hoax by his activist dad. Activists seem to lie and manipulate to get what they want with absolutely no conscience, and I can definitely imagine a father using his son as a political pawn.
Enough of your anti-fatherist microaggressions!
Irish, can you for once just go with the narrative?
What’s funny is that I saw people on Twitter calling this immediately, but of course the media ate it up.
“Oh, immigration is currently a hot button issue? This little illegal immigrant girl just happened to somehow get right next to Pope Francis and give him a cute letter about immigration reform! That sure is a weirdly coincidental occurrence!”
I read about the Pope letter and my immediate reaction was eye-rolling. But let’s be honest, clock-trutherism has more to do with Spencer’s past history with Ahmed’s dad than anything of real substance. And I say this as someone who remembers when Hugh Fitzgerald wrote for Jihad Watch.
Most of the evidence brought up by clock truthers comes from non-Spencer sources though. I don’t think Spencer’s been the leader of this.
Don’t get me wrong, I am glad that Ahmed’s story met with a healthy skepticism from some wings of the media. (Though the authorities’ story should also be met with the same skepticism.) And I do realize that clock-trutherism didn’t originate from Spencer, but as a regular reader of his blog, I have to admit that he picked up that ball and ran with it like the Gipper. I haven’t seen him this cranky since his feud with Cathy Young.
Yeah, there’s been a lot of that going around recently. I got linked to this a while ago: http://www.brainpickings.org/2…..er-disney/
Go ahead and read it and tell me just how likely it is that that vigorous proclamation of it being entirely the work of the kids is true.
It’s so transparently bullshit that only an utter idiot would think for the slightest moment that it could be the case… but, hey, I can’t fault them for knowing their audience.
Why to ruin a kids childhood with indoctrination into your cult. They will be forever ruined as human beings if they are unable to deprogram themselves before they become adults .
I didn’t buy the “innocent 14-year-old builds a clock” narrative for a second, because unless the kid is mentally challenged there is no way he could not have expected the shitstorm it caused.
And may I just say that using an actually innocent 5-year-old child for your propaganda ploy is really sickening. She’s lucky she didn’t wind up pumped full of bullets.
Whenever I see footage like that, it reminds me of this scene from Guns of Navarone.
Richard Dawkins linked to somebody pointing out that the clock was not “invented” as per the claim but was merely a commercial alarm clock stripped from its housing.
Unfortunately he got assailed for his skepticism towards the almighty narrative and backpedaled so as to not endanger his future cocktail party invitations.
NYT reporting Boehner resigning next month
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09…..gress.html
more detail at RedState:
http://www.redstate.com/2015/0…..resigning/
This should have happened after the 06 midterms.
*a single orange tear runs down, Iron Eyes Cody-style*
Oh, who am I kidding?
PISS OFF YOU JELLY SPINED ORANGE CRAP SACK!
90% of me is happy Boner is on the way out.
The other 10% of me is still rejoicing he is on the way out, just will miss referring to that useless fuckhead as a useless fuckhead.
It’s the GOP. They hold so many seats. There’s a huge backbench of useless fuckheads from whom to draw.
Sorry…link
!!!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I’d break out the champagne if his replacement as Speaker were Justin Amash, Dave Schweikert, or Tim Huelskamp. That said, I’d certainly be delighted to see Raul Labrador take the gavel.
Man Blames Wife for Stashing 21 Pieces of Female Genitalia in Freezer; She Disagrees
“Off-the-books female circumcision?”
Is on the books female circumcision common in South Africa?
Jesus, Sweet’n’Low. I didn’t realize you were collaborating with Eli Roth these days.
To be fair, many European men were relieved of their genitalia years ago.
No wonder he’s a psycho. The guns warped his mind.
This is it what happens when you come from a welfare state that offers one type of toy.
hoarding-body-parts-for-the- sake-of-hoarding-body-parts
This isn’t even accurate. Gein didn’t collect them for no reason. He kept a small bowl of salted vulvas by his bed for late night snacking.
That’s what you get when you don’t have common-sense gun control!!!
/derp
San Francisco’s last gun shop closing
Under the same logic applied to abortion clinic closures, this is denying people of their Constitutional rights….
Breaking news: John Boehner is leaving Congress at the end of October. I’m sure he will cry, go lay down in the tanning bed for a half hour, then have a good long smoke. See ya, Johnny Boy.
Well hell, I’m late of course. See Slammer’s post above
WASHINGTON ? Speaker John A. Boehner will resign from Congress and give up his House seat at the end of October, according to aides in his office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09…..mid=tw-bna
You know I heard…
Finally, a good reason to have orange links.
*standing ovation*
I want to believe it, but the source is the New York Times. That rag is full of fail.
Is Lou Reed available for comment?
Well, that’s why he’s resigning. He has AIDS!
New Yorker: Why aren’t we inspired by Hillary Clinton.
Or maybe she just fucking sucks.
I was going to suggest it’s that she’s a corrupt liar whose tenure in the Senate was negligible and tenure at State was an utter disaster, and who used her position of power to destroy her political enemies and enrich her self.
But then I realized that, yeah, it’s because she’s a woman and voters are SEXIST!!!!
Interesting. I thought I disliked her because she’s a lying, incompetent crook. It turns out I’m sexist.
Everything is Sexist!
I really want Fiona to win so I can watch the democrats implode. I think it would break a lot of progs to find out that people disliked Hillary because of who she was not because she’s a woman.
If Fiorina ran against Hillary it would be a slaughter. I think the Republicans would win every swing state. Fiorina doesn’t make the dumbass errors people like Carson make, she’s a great debater, and she trumps Hillary’s “FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT” card.
I actually saw polls that had Hillary losing to basically every viable Republican other than Donald Trump in the general election while Bernie Sanders polled much better with a general electorate.
In other words, the two worst candidates when it comes to winning a general election are Hillary and Trump, so of course they’re the ones leading the primaries.
This has been the greatest political cycle I’ve ever seen, and we aren’t even through our first primary yet.
Hill’s been in a slow motion train wreck all month. I won’t completely write her off because ‘Clinton’, but even if she doesn’t get prosecuted, the party faithful are starting to call her untrustworthy and corrupt. The young vote is nearly all Bernie.
Trump is still to early to tell. He’s got all the potential for early flash in the pan candidate. If his harsh nature rubs off on the other guys running he’s going to begin to lose his appeal.
In other words, the two worst candidates when it comes to winning a general election are Hillary and Trump, so of course they’re the ones leading the primaries
Hillary has the backing of her party’s power elite and Trump doesn’t, and that makes a huge difference. Bernie, at this point, is basically Howard Dean; he’s there to pull Hillary left. If he was really in it to win it, I don’t think he’d be soft-pedaling on her like he’s done so far.
What makes you think the typical prog is capable of realizing that? More likely, they’d just attack Fiorina as a gender traitor, using the most misogynistic language possible.
Fiorina is not really a woman. /progderp
Oh they will absolutely attack Fiorina as a gender traitor. They’ve already begun that, but Hill losing to another woman would have to fuck with their heads no matter how deep they are buried in the sand.
Fiorina doesn’t have the money or the campaign apparatus to compete in the primary. It’s going to be Rubio or Trump.
My dream scenario is Trump winning the primary in total votes only to have the delegates pick Jeb at the convention. That would be the most Republican thing to ever Republican.
“Winning in total votes” = progtards don’t understand how representative democracy works under the U.S. Constitution
She’s already moved from a second tier candidate to a first tier on performance alone. Her ability to handle Trump in the debates is going to make her very popular with party officials that can’t stand the man. Plus, republicans like being seen as progressive just as much as democrats do. It gives the repubs the warm and fuzzies to run a woman.
Money is the most important thing in a political campaign and she doesn’t have it.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor approves of this statement.
She doesn’t have it yet. She’s in a great position to suck up the big donors as people drop out of the primaries.
The more ‘Narco’ Rubio talks the more people will realize he’s an imbecile. I used to have a positive opinion of him–not any more.
Even if they understood that about themselves, they would never realize it applies to other people as well. We talking about people that are a wee bit short on wisdom and perspective.
I guess. I just really want some of the moderate cases to wake up. It seems like right now once you’ve disappeared down that hole, you never come back.
Funny that the same disability did not hurt Margaret Thatcher, who is still quoted today and whose speeches get plenty of views on Youtube.
Yesterday, a guy called Thom Hartmann’s show to complain about taxes being used to pay for the Pope’s visit because church-state separation, etc. Hartmann just rolled his eyes and said it costs less than a penny to each taxpayer. That’s most likely true, but that isn’t the issue. That 10 Commandments monument didn’t cost anything to the tax payers but the left still went nuts about it.
Hartmann and the other progs like the pope because he makes the right noises on climate change and economics.
Paying taxes for security at these events is part of the states job. People have the right to congregate, even if their reasons are religious in nature. If the state is going to require that congregation over X amount require security then it is up the state to pay for its requirements, not the people exercising their rights.
Paying taxes for security at these events is part of the states job.
The state routinely charges private parties for providing security, you know.
Ahmed should rush up to the Pope unannounced and give him his clock.
I think the government is receiving the Pope as the head of state of the Vatican City.
Has anyone heard about John Boehner? He’s stepping down in October!!!
Congress is like the Cleveland Browns
Because orange?
They do that douchey Johnny Manziel touchdown dance after passing a bill?
US immigration law is fair and wise
Cedar Point is pretty cool. R&R Hall of Fame is nice way to kill about 3 hours. Then there are the skankiest ho’s that ever came from skankville hanging around the casino.
skankiest ho’s that ever came from skankville
go on…
lol.
“Who vacations in Cleveland?”
That is what I said!
/Joakim Noah
I have a racist question that may have appeared previously and I just don’t recall the “discussion”.
Is Africa proof that blacks are resistant to civilization? I say resistant because I know a good number who are not “gun toting thugs”.
Define civilization.
Something other than widespread poverty, starvation, and dirt huts.
My suspicion is that warlords terrorizing the populace is the real problem, but you just don’t see that much outside of Africa.
You used to see that kind of thing in other parts of the world. Unlike Africa there were no outside forces subsidizing the continued survival of the people. Eventually the warlords had nothing more to plunder and had to move on, reform, or be overthrown. Things will eventually get better, but it’s just going to last a lot more generations than it had to.
Chechnya probably qualifies and probably the Wa State of Burma
I’d expand that to pretty much all of Burma.
I did say ‘much’. I acknowledge that it can happen elsewhere, especially Burma.
The empires of Mali, Songhai, Ghana, Benin, Kongo, Abyssinia, and Great Zimbabwe would like to have words with you.
Perhaps allergic to “Western” civilization?
The Kingdom of Kongo did pretty well for a while even after adopting Portuguese as its official language and Catholicism as its state religion.
I was going to say that many of denizens of Mali were scholars, physicians, and wealth gold merchants living in cities with functioning aqueducts when many Europeans were rolling around in pig shit and living in mud hovels. So much so that in medieval Europe Timbuktu became synonymous with gold.
Of course, the empires of that region could only last so long against the depredations of almost 600 years of jihad imitated against them by the Moroccan Almoravids, Almohads, etc. A cautionary tale, no?
So mainly because of the proximity to the Middle Eastern shitshow?
Indeed. Smack dab on the southern bloody-border of early and middle-period Islam. While Mali and Songhai did convert (and a fat load of good it did them in the end!) Similarly, Ghana while one of the most technologically and militarily advanced countries in the region during that time, had to devote almost all of its energy in defending her southern border from the converted Malians and Mansa trying to get their jihad on. This is still reflected in Ghana’s demographics with are like 70 percent Christian, and 20 percent Muslim (I’m guessing the remainder are Animist?), with those Muslims occupying the southern region of the country.
Do me a sold and cross out “while”.
Makes sense, thanks.
I guess that raises the question of why is that region so prone to instability? Is it just the sheer number of religious factions that absolutely cannot coexist? Are there more Islamic factions than there are Christian?
Well, I do think that is part of the answer. For the past 1000 years that region pretty much lies in the center of the line that divides Muslim Africa from Christian Africa. That having been said, Ghana is one of the few success stories of Africa: an economy that doesn’t suck, 20 plus years of political stability under a multi-party presidential republic, relatively low rates of violent crime and corruption, etc.
Some guys recently adjusted Mansa Musa I’s net worth for inflation since his death in 1337, and he’s still the richest person who has ever lived.
And that’s after his predecessor Abubakari II spent the entire Malian treasury on an enormous fleet of ships, abdicated the throne, and sailed off into the Atlantic in search of new lands on the other side, never to be heard from again.
The other day on the radio, I heard that a coup by Sovereign Citizens to seize power in WV had been foiled. The coup plotters had been using conference calls and social media to organize.
Here is the transcript of the call. Authentic Frontier Gibberish.
We need this guy on HNR. Somebody has to sub for Pirate Truther.
So… we must preserve our precious soil?
Did someone watch Dr. Strangelove while reading the Lord of the Rings?
My image of these dudes is Grizzly Adams after being trapped in a cabin with Ted Kaczynski for a couple years in rural Idaho.
Global warming models debunked.
“There are dozens of climate models. They have been run many times. The great majority of model runs, from the high-profile UK Met Office’s Barbecue Summer to Roy Spencer’s Epic Fail analysis of the tropical troposphere, have produced global temperature forecasts that later turned out to be too high. Why?
When you get a discrepancy between a model and reality, you obviously can’t change the model’s known factors ? they are what they are known to be. If you want to fiddle the model to match reality then you have to fiddle the unknowns. If your model started off a long way from reality then inevitably the end result is that a large part of your model’s findings come from unknowns, ie, from factors that are not understood. To put it simply, you are guessing, and therefore your model is unreliable.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201…..te-models/
Well, it doesn’t matter. According to Tony and Jack in yesterday’s pope-talk thread, it’s now a ‘moral duty’ to, uh, do something about global warming. And I think the “something” has to do with letting Tony and Jack tell the rest of us what to do.
Now both these guys claim to represent the ‘science’ behind the issue but I didn’t get an answer to the question of which experiment showed it was a ‘moral duty’.
When you get a discrepancy between a model and reality, you obviously can’t change the model’s known factors
So naive.
Shocked!:
“Hey waiter, this fish tastes like plastic!”
[…]
“About a quarter of the 64 fish purchased at fish markets in Half Moon Bay and Princeton and analyzed for the study turned out to have bits of synthetic clothing in their guts, said lead researcher Chelsea Rochman, of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.”
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/…..527514.php
And if they look a bit farther down the GI tract, I’m guessing they’ll find guts filled with fish-shit!
So those trout shirts were popular, but not in the way we expected…
Sepp Blatter being questioned by Swiss Attorney-Generals office.
*arches eyebrow*
Now officially being described as “defendant.”
From the Singapore story:
“Smoke from Indonesian forest fires has shrouded the city-state with a layer of haze in the past few weeks. Data compiled by Global Forest Watch showed a concentration of fires in parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra and Kalimantan, driving the air quality of cities located in the areas to hazardous levels.
“The minister identified four Indonesian companies that may be linked to the fires on a Facebook post on Friday. The environment agency has also served Asia Pulp & Paper Co. in Singapore with a notice seeking information on its units, as well as measures taken by its suppliers to put out fires in their Indonesian concessions.”
Meanwhile, the commie-Pope keeps babbling about a so-called environmental crisis.
there should be ellipses between the quoted paragraphs
“If High Bridge Arms Abortions-R-Us is so scared of implementing such a practice, my first question would be, ‘What do you have to hide?,'” he said. “Why in the world aren’t we requiring all gun stores to tape sales abortion clinics to sign a transfer agreement with a hospital at this point?”