College Yanks Down Mississippi Flag, Police Urged to Pay Attention to 'Black Lives Matter,' Budget Deal in Negotiations: P.M. Links

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  The University of Mississippi has stopped flying the state's flag on its campus because of the Confederate battle emblem that makes up part of the banner.

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• FBI Director James Comey is urging law enforcement agencies to actually pay attention to the "Black Lives Matter" hashtag to learn how they're perceived rather than just dismissing it as being "anti-police."
• A two-year federal budget agreement that would increase the debt limit is in negotiations. If passed, it would eliminate any possibility of a looming government shutdown.
• It really is "White House or Bust" for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida). He is not interested in trying to keep his Senate seat if he doesn't get the Republican nomination for president.
• Ben Carson has opened up a 14-point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The University of Mississippi has stopped flying the state’s flag on its campus because of the Confederate battle emblem that makes up part of the banner.

They should fly it upside down.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

Dark Age edition?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

And stop accepting taxpayer funding. You know, for consistency.

[R C Dean]

But they are still willing to take the State of Mississippi’s money, I bet.

[BigT]

But they are still willing to take the State of Mississippi’s money, I bet.

Except for Confederate currency.

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

And I hope Mississippi’s response is to stop funding Ole Miss

[Winston]

With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, classes were interrupted when the entire student body from the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate army.

Shouldn’t they all quit en masse then?

[AlmightyJB]

They should just require the old States of the Confederacy to create their own country.

[Mickey Rat]

That kind of stand might have undesirable consequences.

[widget]

It’s curious, in this age of sensitivity, that the University of Kansas still uses the name Jayhawks for their football team. It’s true that the Jayhawkers gave asylum to fugitive slaves from Missouri, but mostly they just raided Missouri for booty during the chaos of the Civil War. I doubt a team named The Missouri Bushwackers would stand to scrutiny.

[Brett L]

Of course not! Its anti-feminist. They should only shave if they want to.

[Fist of Etiquette]

FBI Director James Comey is urging law enforcement agencies to actually pay attention to the “Black Lives Matter” hashtag to learn how they’re perceived rather than just dismissing it as being “anti-police.”

And also to learn where the agitators are.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The FBI?

[R C Dean]

When Rubio is an ex-politician. . . .

I won’t miss him a bit.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

But you know who’s gunning for Rubio’s seat right?

Better Summon Sol!

[Juvenile Bluster]

I love my state.

I’m writing in STEVE SMITH for Senate next year.

[Mazakon]

A two-year federal budget agreement that would increase the debt limit is in negotiations. If passed, it would eliminate any possibility of a looming government shutdown.

If When passed, it would eliminate any possibility of a looming government shutdown. Fixed that for you, Scott.

[BigT]

When passed, it would eliminate any possibility of a looming government shutdown.

When passed, it would eliminate any possibility of fiscally responsible government. Fixed that for you, Mazakon.

[Ted S.]

As if there is any possibility of that right now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If passed, it would eliminate any possibility of a looming government shutdown.

And, by extension, a shut down of our very lifeblood.

[Krombopulos Carl]

Not Enough Women in China? Let Men Share a Wife, an Economist Suggests

A shortage raises the price of goods, in this case, women, he explained. Rich men can afford them, but poor men are priced out. This can be solved by having two men share the same woman.

[jesse.in.mb]

A chicken in every pot and a spitroast in every bedroom!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Da wobbrey H?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I don’t think that’s the kind of sharing they meant.

But I wouldn’t mind a Chinese spit roasted chicken for dinner.

[jesse.in.mb]

I wonder what the Chinese term for eskimo brother is.

[PBR Streetgang]

Bro Mein

[Brett L]

Make it so.

[JW]

Ekimo Blothel?

[Crusty Juggler]

But I wouldn’t mind a Chinese spit roasted chicken for dinner.

Pics?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Ok, but I’m actually talking about food.

[waffles]

That sounds like a terrible solution. They should just have a war instead.

[jesse.in.mb]

China needs desperately to close the homo-gap here. I’m suggesting a “Great Circuit Party Forward”

Think of the job stimulus if China starts producing enough domestic cocaine and house music to make this happen.

[Zeb]

That does sound like the humane solution.

Did you ever read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess?

[jesse.in.mb]

No, but the synopsis sounds like fun. I’ll look into it.

[Zeb]

Burgess was an interesting guy. Sort of a Catholic Monarchist anarchist, if that makes any sense.

[Restoras]

Well, young Japanese men don’t seem terribly interested in getting young Japanese women pregnant…

[Ted S.]

Plural love wins!

[Tonio]

Yeah, good luck with that.

[Rhywun]

It can also be solved by not aborting so many females.

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

Stop trying to deny women’s health to the Chinese!

[jesse.in.mb]

Your solution has an 18 year…*checks wikipedia*…14 year lag time.

[Rhywun]

Well, yes, today’s males are SOL. I can’t solve everything, geez.

[lap83]

sex robots now, real women later?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I assume this has everything to do with the one-child policy and the desire for male heirs.

[Slumbrew]

Correct: one-child policy + desire for male heirs + sex-selective abortions (and/or female infanticide) = way too many dudes.

Nobody could have seen that coming, obvs.

Now, Russia has too many women, since all the dudes drink themselves into an early grave, so…

[Mrs. Lemuel Struthers]

Why just two men to a single women? Shouldn’t good looking women be allocated more men? It just seems fair. 🙁

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Good looking women can have all the men they want.

[jesse.in.mb]

Dick size isn’t a stackable trait.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Mrs. Lemuel Struthers et al.

[Lee G]

Redistribution of ribitches

sorry, couldn’t resist

[Slumbrew]

Bravo. No gaze-narrowing required.

[Mickey Rat]

So the solution to the problem in Herbert’s “The White Plague”. Though so the women get any choice in this?

[lap83]

or they could stop killing infant girls

[Rich]

Comey is urging law enforcement agencies to actually pay attention to the “Black Lives Matter” hashtag to learn how they’re perceived

Is he also urging law enforcement agencies to actually pay attention to the “Hit & Run” blog to learn how they’re perceived?

[Juvenile Bluster]

He can’t get over our strange fetish for woodchippers.

[R C Dean]

I think they are already “paying attention” to us, if recent subpoenas are any indication.

[Rich]

Good point.

[Rhywun]

Tell me about it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He is not interested in trying to keep his Senate seat if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination for president.

For he will have made a deal to serve on Trump’s cabinet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ben Carson has opened up a 14-point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa.

And if Iowa were the country, this might mean something.

[SusanM]

For perspective, Pat Robertson won Iowa.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Huckabee won Iowa in 2012. Santorum won in 2008.

So, yeah. IDGAF.

[Rich]

Dog named Trigger shoots owner during hunt

Why does anyone *need* a dog?

[Ted S.]

You’ve just othered all those people with bogus service dogs. (Note that I’m making a distinction between them and the folks with legitimate service dogs.)

[Slumbrew]

The bogus ones are “support animals” – actual service dogs are pretty badass.

[BigT]

Needs a Trigger warning.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Does Roy Rogers need a Trigger warning now?

Am I showing my age by knowing who Roy Rogers is?

[Rasilio]

Didn’t he own that roast beef place?

[lafe.long]

Facebook’s on fire with this one:

Decatur City Schools: Teacher Apologizes for Wearing Blackface to Halloween Party, Report Says

Heath Morrow wrote a letter of apology for attending a private Halloween party dressed in blackface as Kanye West. The district’s superintendent read Morrow’s letter at a press conference Monday.

Nichols said the district is investigating the incident, but he wouldn’t comment on the teacher’s current employment status with the school.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I know what/who to be this Halloween.

Just to piss people off.

Not that – sigh – anyone will care around here.

[Tonio]

Heath Morrow?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Heath’s chick is a p’tite pitoune.

http://bit.ly/1LSqYiA

[Fist of Etiquette]

A Nazi in blackface?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

AWESOME.

[Juice]

You would get your ass murdered around these parts.

[VG Zaytsev]

Go as a goat fucking DA from NY, maybe with Breet for a name tag.

[BigT]

I wore blackface to a New Year’s Eve party once. My fiance was none too pleased to see black smudges on every other woman’s face.

[Krombopulos Carl]

Trigger warning: coming dangerously close to an actual trigger warning

Trigger warning: The Chive

Pics from Nippon Airways’s Star Wars-themed flight

Dat Boba Fett chick…

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

of all of the nerd things ever posted here, this one takes the nerd cake.

[Krombopulos Carl]

I could go for some Star Wars cake.

[Rasilio]

I’d rather have some of the dark sides cookies

[Zeb]

Japan will always out-nerd anyone.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

What’s the point of making it a flight? Where are they flying to?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Somewhere sexless?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Oh come on. Those Darth Mauls have got to be gettin’ it on.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Somewhere sexless?

You have no idea what happens at cosplay cons.

[jesse.in.mb]

You have no idea what happens at cosplay cons.

Great, now I’m thinking about people yiffing.

[Rasilio]

Wtf is going on with the 3rd pic, it looks like someone swapped helmets on their Cylon costume to make it look vaguely like a Stormtrooper

[Tejicano]

This flight was pretty big news here in Japan. My 7 year old is really into Star Wars recently so my 5 year old took his inflatable ANA toy jumbo jet and scrawled “Star Wars” on it – just to delight his older brother. That was cute in bold font.

[Winston]

You Know Who Else didn’t want rebellious symbolism to be shown?

[PBR Streetgang]

Ol’ Miss?

[PBR Streetgang]

Ol’ Miss?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Chancellor Palpatine?

[Rasilio]

President Snow?

[Slumbrew]

President Snow

Clearly, my knowledge of tween books needs some work – all I could think was “the ‘Informer’ guy?”

[PBR Streetgang]

+1 licky boom-boom down (or whatever the hell he said)

[Mrs. Lemuel Struthers]

Daenerys Targaryen?

[Heroic Mulatto]

The University of Mississippi has stopped flying the state’s flag on its campus because of the Confederate battle emblem that makes up part of the banner.

Huzzah! The Union wins again!

Say, darkies, hab you seen de massa, wid de muffstash on his face,
Go long de road some time dis mornin’, like he gwine to leab de place?
He seen a smoke way up de ribber, whar de Linkum gunboats lay;
He took his hat, and lef’ berry sudden, and I spec’ he’s run away!

De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho!
It mus’ be now de kingdom coming, an’ de year ob Jubilo!

[Juvenile Bluster]

Reminds me of Florida’s illustrious state song. Or at least the version I learned as a kid, before it was… um, modernized.

Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere’s wha my heart is turning ebber,
Dere’s wha de old folks stay.
All up and down de whole creation
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for de old plantation,
And for de old folks at home.

All de world am sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I roam;
Oh, darkeys, how my heart grows weary,
Far from de old folks at home!

[Winston]

Can’t forget Maryland My Maryland.

[Rich]

Apparently Martin O’Malley could.

[Krombopulos Carl]

‘Steve Jobs,’ ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Flop at the Box Office

“Rock the Kasbah,” starring Bill Murray as a washed-up music producer who finds a star in Afghanistan, barely filled any seats with $1.5 million. That would have been a record low for a movie opening this year in wide release ? had “Jem and the Holograms” not also opened this weekend and taken the dubious distinction. The reboot of the 1980s children’s show arrived as a flicker, grossing only $1.3 million. Both movies have now beaten the record set by the Zac Efron movie “We Are Your Friends,” which opened in August to $1.76 million.

Sheesh.

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

I really can imagine few movies I would find less interesting that an adoring Steve Jobs biopic.

[Rhywun]

It’s Michael Fassbender, so probably more “creepy” than “adoring”.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Seriously.

Yawn.

[Cytotoxic]

Didn’t they just have a Jobs movie with Ashton Kutcher?

[Winston]

Yes, this is Aaron Sorkin’s version.

[Cytotoxic]

Ugh.

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

AND it’s directed by Aaron Sorkin? Good science, they did find a way to make it less appealing

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

He’s an asshole, yes, but what a genius!

Ma, go make pancakes for your kid and be a real dad!

[Winston]

Sorkin wrote it, Danny Boyle directed it.

[grrizzly]

One is Jobs, the other one is Steve Jobs.

[Lee G]

oooooohhhhhhh….

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Pronounced ‘yobs’. Or ‘yobes’. I forget.

[Lee G]

‘yobs’

So it’s a documentary on illegal aliens?

[Slumbrew]

Soccer holligans,

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Can you say ‘Direct to Video’?

Who in holy fuck thought Jem would make a good successful movie? Truly outrageous!

[Rasilio]

The really sad thing is the only way they could ever have made Jem a success was to sell it to women as a feminist nostalgia trip. Instead they went and gutted every thing that had anything to do with the tv show and made it all about millenial social media angst

[Juice]

The comment below should have been here:

Jem and the Holograms might have been great, but they decided to completely depart from the original show. The movie has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the show. If old fans of the show who want to get nostalgic aren’t going to go, who the hell will? Stupid.

[Cytotoxic]

How about just making fewer movies and making them better?

Anybody seen Hyena Road? Any good?

[Juice]

Jem and the Holograms might have been great, but they decided to completely depart from the original show. The movie has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the show. If old fans of the show who want to get nostalgic aren’t going to go, who the hell will? Stupid.

[Juice]

Oh! I thought it was a movie called “Steve Jobs: The Last Witch Hunter.” That sounds like something worth watching.

[Rich]

Israel developing app to call for help in event of terror attack

What could *possibly* go wrong?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

The app won’t work?

[Ted S.]

Not on Shabbat, at least.

[CampingInYourPark]

Be a lot faster just to get Sid Blumenthal to send an email

[This Machine]

And it’s Camping! From the top ropes! With a folding chair!

Seriously, well played.

[Crusty Juggler]

Absolute carnage!

[SFC B]

Today has been an absolutely bizarre day. There were a couple of newly-arrived 2LTs talkinig in the hallway I was walking down. As I passed between them I said “Good morning ladies”. One of them stopped their conversation, ordered I get back to them, and demanded I explain myself. I was confused. After a couple seconds it became clear she was pissed I called them “Ladies” since she felt it was dismissive and offensive. It ventured into disrespect when I told her that it was the authorized word when addressing multiple female commissioned officers. These are our future leaders. We are doomed.

[Juvenile Bluster]

It’s your fault for assuming that xe identified as a woman, you know.

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

Yeah, xe will probably be filing a complaint with the U.S. Armed Forces Sensitivity Bureau for your microagression again xem.

[Tejicano]

I bet you think you are making a joke here.

I am a kind of Rip Van Winkle in uniform – I did 4 years in the infantry in the late 1970’s, had a long gap out of uniform, came back as a reservist in 2001 in a kind of unit that was basically a holding place for soldiers (no pay, no uniforms, just points), then just this year came back into a regular reserve unit.

Imagine the shocking differences between the post-Vietnam military and what we have today. It is a bizarre trip for me.

[Restoras]

Well, hopefully the ladies won’t get their panties in the same twist when leading troops into combat.

[Rhywun]

What are you supposed to call them, “fellas”?

[SFC B]

That is what I asked. Met with a blank stare then some blathering about nothing. I have no idea what SHARP class they sat through at ROTC, but their insidious was clearly fucking with them.

[Tejicano]

(SHARP = Sexual Harrassment/Assault Response & Prevention) and yes, we have classes in this stuff in the Army.

[Brett L]

“My apologies, I meant to say ‘Go fuck right off, ma’am!”

[Zeb]

What do they want you to address them as? “Gentlemen”? How do you address a group of male officers?

[Rasilio]

Dickheads (but only under your breath where they can barely hear you and can’t prove what you said)

[SugarFree]

You should have just nodded and then cropdusted them.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Proper response?

“Sorry Sir, my mistake!”

[This Machine]

Dammit, SFC B, they are OFFICERS and they DEMAND your respect! Reminds me of this gem.

NutraSweet’s got the right idea.

[MacDaddy81]

Why the fuck were two butter bars questioning a senior enlisted?

[Mazakon]

Obama pushes poop plants to fight climate change

The White House is announcing $6 million in grants Monday to promote the use of a mix of garbage and/or animal feces to produce a renewable form of electricity to help fight global warming, as the president sets his sights on reaching a global deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Paris in December.

The Department of Agriculture is taking the lead in promoting smart agriculture practices by funding “anaerobic digesters” that can use garbage and an array of waste from livestock to produce clean, renewable energy from the production of biomethane gas.

[Winston]

Obama’s telling everyone to eat shit? What a surprise. Is Matt Damon up to doing it for real?

Turdeau Jr. is on it, after all his Daddy knew all about telling people to eat shit.

[Tonio]

Energy, not food, Winston. I’d be happy if they could make that work. Anything we can do to become more independent and innovative in our energy production. But having said that, a robust nuclear program is much more practical.

[Cytotoxic]

Nuclear currently is every bit the subsidy-dependent bust that renewables are and it’s not because of regulations. France has fewer regs and the nuke power is just as expensive. America’s nuclear industry is rife with subsidy. I hope that IMSRs change all that.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It already works, and it’s already pretty widespread.

Scattergood generating station in Los Angeles runs on methane produced from the sewage treatment plant across the street.

My garbage trucks are powered by natural gas created from the landfill.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, why waste it.

[Rich]

Remember “Glasphalt”? Next is “Assphalt”.

[Old.Mexican]

The White House is announcing $6 million in grants Monday to promote the use of a mix of garbage and/or animal feces

The rumor that the system will be run and managed by a tiny genius who calls himself Master has not been corroborated.

[Lee G]

I’m picturing Barack riding on Michelle’s shoulders.

WHO RUNS SMARTERTOWN?

[Rich]

College Yanks Down Mississippi Flag

Nice, Scott.

[Tonio]

[Narrows gaze in the Swiss fashion]

[SugarFree]

What is everyone going as for Halloween?

I will be Col. Culpepper, a fine Southern Gentleman who prefers a simpler time, when women wore dresses and children worked in coal mines. Col. Culpepper has just returned from Darkest Africa and has many tales of safari to relate. And his thirst for bourbon and fine cigars is greater than ever.

[Winston]

Will you be treading on him?

[SugarFree]

It comes from an impression I did 15 years ago to irritate my wife. He has taken on a life of his own in the ensuing years.

[Unreconstructed (Sans Flag)]

Nice, but have you considered going as Colonel Lingus? Y’all could act out the SNL skit ‘n everything.

[Unreconstructed (Sans Flag)]

Nice, but have you considered going as Colonel Lingus? Y’all could act out the SNL skit ‘n everything.

[greasonable (was sthgrau)]

SF,
That’s two votes to one, maybe you should reconsider?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Racist.

I’m going simple. Rick from Rick and Morty. Lab coat + blue spiked hair + hip flask. I estimate that approximately zero people in my small suburban neighborhood will know who I am.

My daughter is going as Queen Elsa, because I am a consumer whore indebted greatly to Disney.

[SugarFree]

It’s a group costume. My wife is going as Lady Culpepper, and my sister-in-law will be Sissy Culpepper. Her husband is going as the feeble-minded farmhand that Sissy loves in secret, Simple Jed. It was the role he was born and subsequently dropped on his head to play.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Do you mind if I go as the old chifferobe Sissy asks Simple Jed to bust up for her, the catalyst for a flurry of false accusations of wrongdoing? I just like to be the center of attention.

[SugarFree]

Please do.

[waffles]

You need a Morty or else you’ll be detected and taken to space prison.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I lost my Morty. I was given a coupon for a replacement one.

[Cytotoxic]

Doctor.

[Juvenile Bluster]

A doctor or The Doctor?

[Cytotoxic]

The former. Fuck Dr. Who.

[CampingInYourPark]

ahhh…going as a libertarian. Good idea

[Rich]

I’m going as the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory.

[Chupacabra]

So…..drunk and racist Irish-Americans?

[__Warren__]

I’ll be going as Chipper Wood, the annoyingly upbeat erection.

[jesse.in.mb]

The Akeley, MN Paul Bunyan

[SugarFree]

May your ox always be shivering.

[jesse.in.mb]

Sadly I couldn’t get my friend to go in a “sexy Babe the Blue Ox” costume.

“I’m neither a woman nor petite” blah blah blah.

[lap83]

You should have a tiny woman figurine to carry around

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I’m going as a dad who likes to look at women in slutty costumes while I take my kids trick or treating.

[SugarFree]

So, just sticking your dick in a pumpkin again.

[widget]

Shouldn’t you be locked up during Halloween for the same reason my passport should be revoked during Carnival in Brazil?

[SugarFree]

Halloween is when I can rest. 364 days of terror and revulsion takes a lot out of me.

[Lee G]

Middle-Aged Man, it’s low prep.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nostalgic for the days when I was young and went as the same thing every year: a slutty trick-or-treater.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I’m just gonna sports a monocle while sporting a child on a leash.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

sport.

[This Machine]

Where’s Waldo. Simple and recognizable, plus no puke stains on it from last year. Perfect.

[Crusty Juggler]

Werner Herzog reads Where’s Waldo

[lap83]

the closest I’ve come to a halloween costume in the past, oh, 16 years is one year I stuck lint and bubblegum wrappers to my clothes and went as “under the couch”

[Notorious UGCC]

It’s hard for me to decide on a costume, there are so many choices.

[Notorious UGCC]

I narrowed down my choices to Kanye West, banjo player and watermelon salesman. I couldn’t decide, so I decided to wear all three costumes.

[Cytotoxic]

Anybody here have impressions on Halo 5?

[__Warren__]

Garrrr pew pew pew boom crash zoom!

[Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)]

Bravo!

[bacon-magic]

Saw the first 3 scenes play through…looks buy-able.

[Cytotoxic]

Oh also I have heard that getting Fallout 3 and NV to run smoothly and stably on Windows 7 is a problem. Any ideas?

[Tonio]

Get a Playstation. Srsly. That’s why I abandoned PC gaming – I was spending all my time tweaking and tuning. You put the disk in, it works. Every time.

[Cytotoxic]

KNEEL BEFORE THE PC MASTER RACE PLEB

Hyperion, we have an infidel. Please bring the gasoline and cage for this one.

[Danger Actual]

But it works at half the quality in every respect. There are few PC games that really require any tweaking to play out of the box.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Yeah. Get a job you bum.

[Cytotoxic]

I have a job. Not helping.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Working for Trudeau?

[Cytotoxic]

No. My job doesn’t suck that much.

[AlmightyJB]

Rob Ford?

[Lee G]

There are hacks for it, but a lot of add-ons break them. I gave up on Windows 10.

[Danger Actual]

I’m running NV with 90+ mods and an ENB. It runs fine on Win7. You may want to invest a few minutes in the 4GB tweak. If you’re into modding, try the Fear and Loathing guide, it’s *extremely comprehensive*.

[Gray Ghost]

Danger Actual hit the high points. I was running Win7 ultimate with only 4GB and the GOTY editions ran very cleanly once fully updated. I like Tale of Two Wastelands and Project Nevada, but YMMV.

It’ll still have some issues, rarely—I had occasional problems getting stuck in the scenery—but nothing too annoying. Have fun!

[GILMORE?]

getting Fallout 3 and NV to run smoothly and stably on Windows 7 is a problem

Not in my experience. and i ran both on a budget system and ran NV earlier this year on a new one with 2K textures and all the hi-def modding-finery.

If you’ve got a reasonably fresh PC (last few years) and 2GB or more video memory, both will run high-frames with high-textures no problem.

Go to Nexus Mods to DL all the extra goodies that go with them to exploit their potential on a PC

[Cytotoxic]

Another thing: shitcan Gillespie already. His mind is broken and all used up. He’s a washed up burnt out hipster who doesn’t know the difference between irony and insight. His Benghazie column was typically insipid.

[Mrs. Lemuel Struthers]

You really are a crazy fucker.

Gillespie is fine, but you’re cray-cray.

[Cytotoxic]

No he sucks. See his article on Benghazi earlier today. Or almost of his recent articles.

[lap83]

It was bad, but he’s fine when he talks about economics. He’s not like Richman with his one-trick-pony anti-jooos shtick

[Cytotoxic]

True but he’s getting worse and is basically as bad as Ed.

[IceTrey]

So when are the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial coming down? They WERE slave owners.

[SugarFree]

Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou

[Tonio]

You kid, but expect to see serious pushes for this. Under Louisiana law, public schools cannot be named after slavers.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

So they can’t be named after anyone in government?

[Winston]

Um…

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

[DRM]

Thus forever saving us from the existence of a Muhammad High School.

[Winston]

I’m waiting for New York, Albany, July and August to be renamed too. And isn’t Yale named for a guy involved with imperialism and slavery?

[Bern-o-Matic 5000]

Didn’t the Democrats recently drop “Jefferson and Jackson” from the name of their big fancy dinner?

[Winston]

The logical thing would be to dissolve the Democratic Party and create a new party without the baggage of being formed by slaveowners, right?

[Homple]

So take Jefferson Airplane to please Bernie’s old hippies and Jesse Jackson to please the rest of the party.

The Jefferson Airplane Jesse Jackson Day. Why not?

[Migrant Log Chipper]

No, they just had one in Iowa.

[AlmightyJB]

They should just require the old States of the Confederacy to create their own country.

[Juice]

The name Washington Redskins is highly offensive. Don’t you know that Washington owned slaves?

[Notorious UGCC]

Wow, you just managed to be funnier than 88% of professional comedians. Excellent job.

[Jerryskids]

So did I miss the big flap over Bruce Jenner being named ‘Woman of the Year’ by Glamour magazine? Is it sexist because it suggests that a man can do a better job of being a woman than a woman can or is it empowering because it suggests that the manliest man is a woman?

[AlmightyJB]

Did that really happen? Cause the same thing happened to Ron Swanson on the P&R episode I watched the other day.

[SugarFree]

It won’t be formally announced until Nov. 3.

Jenner has to share with with Reese Witherspoon, though. At least someone on the cover will have a vagina.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

I just read that Jenner has a big flap.

[This Machine]

Dammit, paging Barfman. Barman to the green courtesy telephone.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It’s for all the wonderful things he did, like vehicular homicide.

[grrizzly]

There’s apparently a feature called “My Magazine” in my Samsung phone that I never use and it stopped updating months ago. Today I accidentally opened it and the top headline is “How Bruce Jenner’s Sons Are Supporting His Transition.” It’s from People Magazine. How time flies!

[widget]

It’s probably not a coincidence that race and gender have quite suddenly become personal choices just after the human genome has been unraveled (which says just the opposite). But I cannot explain that.

[jesse.in.mb]

All of human history is only “quite suddenly” in geological timescales.

[widget]

I’ll be pedantic. History is the study of the written, drawn, or otherwise documented story of mankind, by mankind. There is no such thing as pre-historic history.

[jesse.in.mb]

To be counter-pedantic. “History” has been used to describe “the study of past events”, recorded or not, for over 500 years, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that your pedantry is just assertion of a preferred definition.

It also has little to do with my point that just because transgressing one’s genetic sex is new to you, doesn’t mean that it happened “just after the human genome has been unraveled”.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I don’t see it as such a head-scratcher that just when people discover how something works, the next thought of some is how to alter or enhance it.

[jesse.in.mb]

I agree with that sentiment, but I don’t know if that’s what either widget or I was getting at. Hijras didn’t pop fully formed out of Watson and Crick’s beakers. Race (as far as “race” has been a defined characteristic rather than clan or something) and gender have been flexible things that people have actively transgressed for as long they’ve been things.

It only seems like they’ve “suddenly” become a thing because people are just learning about it, not because it’s actually a new thing.

[widget]

Delete. I read that again, more carefully. Your point is?

[jesse.in.mb]

Shit. Did not refresh in a timely manner.

[Cytotoxic]

Some athletes and salon workers think spending a couple minutes below -100 degrees (C or F doesn’t matter anymore) is ‘healthy’. As long as it doesn’t freeze you solid.

http://news.nationalpost.com/n…..nt-chamber

[Winston]

Locke was involved with slavery too. And not only was Shaftesbury involved with slavery he also helped execute innocent people based on anti-Catholic forgeries (Eddie Alert!).

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Aren’t we all, in a sense, slaves and slave owners?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Here’s a video of a cop walking up to a High School student sitting in a chair, flipping them over and dragging them out of the classroom. Because power.

This is Richland County, SC; home of Sheriff Leon Lott, and that gigantic fucking tank of his. So I’m sure absolutely nothing will come of this.

[AlmightyJB]

Kasich doesn’t feel your pain.

http://www.cincinnati.com/stor…../74636402/

[Pan Zagloba]

Why does anything Germans say come out wrong? So Merkel is trying to reassure her countryfolk that it will be easy to integrate the migrants. Sure, noble goal. But, the formulation…

“There are very, very many, but there are 80 million of us,” she told residents of Nuremberg, Bavaria. “We can and will manage this integration.”

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Well, there aren’t all fun and games.

[__Warren__]

“I’m sure there is a fix to this problem and that will be the end of it!”

[Homple]

Ich hab gesehen was sie gemacht haben.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

A Solution Final, so to speak?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Response to my suggesting not having a min. law:

“No, it’d just be a race to the bottom. After all, why wouldn’t it be? We’re seeing that play out every single day at Wal-Mart and other similar stores. If, what are now minimum wage jobs, had no minimum wage requirements, what’s to prevent them from offering the lowest wage that is just over welfare benefits? Or, further, what’s preventing them from offering wages at $0.05/hour?

If everyone in those jobs is competing against one another (let’s face it, if they were minimum wage, they’re probably not able, now, to compete for more prestigious, higher paying jobs), then the choice becomes, “should I not work and not receive an income or should I work for $0,05/hr. Well, $0.05 is more than $0 so, I’ll take that job.” There’s a reason why we instituted a minimum wage, never forget that. Capitalism left unchecked becomes oligopolist or monopolist.”

[Cytotoxic]

Don’t let her/him/xe get away with this. Fire back. Ask why this didn’t happen ever before. Also point out that the only lasting monopolies/oligos are created by cretins like her.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

“There’s a reason why we instituted a minimum wage, never forget that.”

To protect the jobs of white men? Or was it different up there in Canada, eh?

[widget]

“should I not work and not receive an income or should I work for $0,05/hr. Well, $0.05 is more than $0 so, I’ll take that job.”

That’s a disingenuous argument. It costs more than $0.05 to eat enough breakfast make the walk to Walmart more than a few times. Why is there a comma between your zeroes?

[Cytotoxic]

Interesting story about taxes and whine in Canada.

http://business.financialpost……ine-cellar

CRA wanted to reduce the charity tax credit for the donated auction wine by 3.2x and lost in court.

Great way to dodge taxes: donate ‘wine’ that might just be water and food coloring, give it fraudulently high appraisal, have friends/people who would be donating money anyway fake-bid for your ‘wine’. Profit.

[DRM]

. . . And next, the State of Mississippi passes a law public linking funding directly to the number of state flags on display per pupil.

[Crusty Juggler]

This message was seen on a Tacoma with many other bumper stickers, all of them hippie/progressive/coexist related:

“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”

[Zeb]

At least that one shows some awareness of how markets work to provide people with things they want. But I suppose that might not be the intended message.

[lap83]

I’ve been sick and buying a lot of soup lately. Is Big Soup going to take over now?

[Notorious UGCC]

“FBI Director James Comey is urging law enforcement agencies to actually pay attention to the “Black Lives Matter” hashtag to learn how they’re perceived rather than just dismissing it as being “anti-police.””

Yes, don’t follow Reason or Balko or others who have been covering the heck out of this important topic, listen to the retards who disrupt political gatherings, who think Kelly Thomas got off easy for being white, and who think Michael Brown is an ideal poster child for the fight against police abuse.

That should get cops to take their critics seriously.

[wareagle]

If the state flag can’t be allowed to fly at Ole Miss, what is the new nickname for athletic teams going to be because surely Rebels won’t be allowed to stand?

[Raven Nation]

I imagine the next Ole Miss home game (Nov. 7 vs. Arkansas) may be visually interesting.

[Trshmnstr has a soft carrot]

Anti-rape moron activist can’t get laid

She animatedly tells a story about a recent Tinder rendezvous: “One time, I agreed to meet with this guy at 8 or 9 at night. Before we met, I said to him, ‘This is the work I do, I know the chief of police … so, don’t try and get creepy; I know all my rights.’ And five minutes later, he was like, ‘Actually, I’m really not OK with how you just assume I’m a bad guy. And I get very bad vibes from that, so we shouldn’t hang out anymore.'”

“I was in a rage. He was a total fuckboy about consent,” she said.

[paranoid android]

“I was in a rage. He was a total fuckboy about consent,” she said.

Clearly, this guy missed out on a real catch. He is probably just kicking himself for letting her get away.

[Notorious UGCC]

“You seem to be sending mixed messages…also, and don’t take this the wrong way, you seem to be completely insane.”

[Cytotoxic]

I hate to be a jerk (no really) but I am pretty she has some fairly bad autism.

[AlmightyJB]

Pass

[Brett L]

“Hey, my grandma just droppyacid and kidnapped a bus load of nuns. Plus my brother just microwaved his arm. I’ve gotta go. Bye.”

[GILMORE?]

“He was a total fuckboy“

[Gray Ghost]

Image of Ms. Keenan, the activist. She’s on the right.

I see her face, and the first thing that came to mind was the, “Judging, watching, look at the baby” scene from Old School. Or ‘resting bitchface’, as the kids say.

Wasn’t there a commenter here, who got out of what would have been a date rape charge by showing the would-be-complainant the texts she sent shortly after the encounter indicating the sex was consensual?

She’s surprised that any guy not already 8 beers in the bag would choose not to put himself in that position?

[jesse.in.mb]

Ah shit, that’s the plus-sized link? They use the same picture for the petite one.