Americans Continue to Distrust Government, Clock Kid Demands Millions, Trump Lies and Supporters Don't Care: P.M. Links

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  Only one in five Americans trusts the government "always or most of the time," but many of them still want to see government taking major roles in a number of issues.

• A University of Kansas professor was suspended for using the N-word in a graduate-student-level class where she was talking about incidences of racial discrimination on campuses.
• It doesn't seem to matter to Donald Trump's supporters that he's frequently spewing out stuff that's not true. Here are some theories why. (Maybe see the first link again.)
• The Texas kid who got arrested for bringing a clock to school, prompting fears it was a bomb, is demanding $15 million or he'll sue.
• Belgium's prime minister says alert levels in the country will remain at their highest levels out of fear of possible terrorist activity, but schools and the subways will begin reopening Wednesday.
• Common Core is screwed up, part 3,146: Glitches in systems have screwed up the computer tests students had to take, and now states are wondering whether to release the results.

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[Juvenile Bluster]

Belgium's prime minister says alert levels in the country will remain at their highest levels out of fear of possible terrorist activity, but schools and the subways will begin reopening Wednesday.

Just in time for Thanksgiving!

(what?)

[Juvenile Bluster]

Great. The one time I legitimately beat Fist and apparently he hasn't even shown up.

[LynchPin1477]

He's doing it on purpose because he knows it hurts you. Like letting a child win and then telling them that you weren't really trying in the first place.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Exactly.

[Tonio]

IOW, a slow, phased return to normalcy. You know, to give the appearance of...something.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

What's the 'N-word'?

[UnCivilServant]

Nova Scotia

[R C Dean]

Nigeria?

[UnCivilServant]

Nemo?

[B.P.]

Nutella.

[Ted S.]

Norovirus?

[d3x / dt3]

*barf*

Get it?

[Mindyourbusiness]

Nonsensical.

Fits.

[JW]

Newfies

[Enough About Palin]

Nagger?

[Res ipsa loquitur]

Ni?

[Jerryskids]

Nitler?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Nice.

[Mongo]

Nowledge.

[Jimbo]

No

[CE]

Nazi.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Niggardly.

[gaoxiaen]

Nipple.

[Just say Nikki]

What does the perfect Republican stump speech look like?

[Gray Ghost]

Interesting article. Thanks for linking it.

The funny thing for me was, the speech mentioned in the article was a lot clearer and more appealing than official speeches I've read from the candidates in the GOP. Even knowing it was a deliberate attempt to make its content fit polls and focus groups.

[TheZeitgeist]

It doesn't seem to matter to Donald Trump's supporters that he's frequently spewing out stuff that's not true. Here are some theories why. (Maybe see the first link again.)

The mushroom cloud is gonna be YUUUGGGGGE!

[Ted S.]

It doesn't matter to Obama supporters that he constantly spewing out stuff that's not true.

[Rich]

"That's not true!"

[Ted S.]

He's instead of he, or spews instead of spewing. Trying to read the text and the posting box on my phone made me miss getting the tenses to match.

[Rich]

Or, RACIST!

[VG Zaytsev]

It doesn't matter to 'jourolists' either, even the cosmo variety.

[Just say Nikki]

Chicago's new killer cop video is so bad, the cop is getting charged before it comes out.

Sneed has learned a criminal probe launched by Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez into the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is expected to result in criminal charges Tuesday against 37-year-old Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.

Sneed hears rumbles murder charges were on the table.

?The shocker: If a murder charge is placed against Officer Van Dyke, it will be the first time in Chicago history an "on duty" police officer was charged with such a crime.

Maybe that means we won't have riots.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Maybe that means we won't have riots.

Well, not until the judge acquits him in a bench trial.

[Just say Nikki]

Look, I'm just trying to get through the week here.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Jesse Jackson: "while McDonald is perishing in his grave"

ORLY?

[LynchPin1477]

I know there are some callous cops out there, but to be burying people alive...damn.

[Gray Ghost]

This would be the PCP-intoxicated kid holding a knife and using it earlier in the encounter to damage cars? Including one of the police cars sent because the kid was threatening people?

Did the kid drop the knife, surrender, and then the cops blasted him? Because otherwise, I'm not seeing a crime committed by the officer here. Other than, of course, the officer committing the crime of being a white guy shooting a black kid.

I also like the discussion in the Sun-Times of the kid's prior criminal record. It mentions he's 17, mentions "he had reportedly been arrested on juvenile complaints", and was "a troubled teen" but mentions he didn't have an adult criminal record. Well, are 17 year olds able to get one? And if so, when did he turn 17?

I'm trying to see what makes this case riot-worthy. Other than it, like Mike Brown, is a good case for splitting people apart from one another.

[B. Woodrow Chippenhaus]

On Saturday, Rev. Jesse Jackson: told the press he was hoping for a "police shakeup from top to bottom" after the release of the dashboard cam video; expressed anger Officer Van Dyke was still getting paid "while McDonald is perishing in his grave"; and called for Alvarez to step down for "failing" to charge him.

So not only did the cop shoot this guy, he dug a grave and buried the kid and he's still hasn't died yet? Why doesn't the good reverend grab a shovel and get this kid some medical attention?

[yet another dave]

On my third beer here, but damn, just from that snippet, those are the best names ever. We have the plucky, Alvarez battling for the family of Laquan, against the evil Van Dyke. Best shitty prime time lawyer drama shtick ever. Not to mention I love to fuckin hate hate dutch people

[Tonio]

A University of Kansas professor was suspended for using the N-word in a graduate-student-level class where she was talking about incidences of racial discrimination on campuses.

Nebraska?

[Old.Mexican]

Nantucket?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Naggers?

[DEG]

Niggardly.

[bacon-magic]

Nostradamus?

[Rich]

Ninny?

[Suthenboy]

Winner.

[F. Iron-Ass Stupidity, Jr.]

Nhitler?

[UnCivilServant]

Nucular?

[Rich]

That *should* be.

[jesse.in.mb]

Namaste?

[Ted S.]

Nebra ska is a racist cultural appropriation of Caribbean music!

[Old.Mexican]

Only one in five Americans trusts the government "always or most of the time,"

The other shocker is that 80% of Americans are a bunch of fucking liars. Maybe 79% if we count out libertarians.

[Krabappel]

I think Americans often do the "imagine that the right people are in charge of the government..." when they are considering support for government programs, but then in reality, the "right" people are never in charge.

[robc]

Munger's unicorn theory (I was listening to econtalk this morning) -- people can imagine a solution that requires unicorns to achieve, then act based on that.

[Krabappel]

Nice -- I really need to listen to that podcast more often (especially since I did get a GMU Econ degree...).

[commodious spittoon]

What are you doing with it now? Genuinely curious. Econ is my fallback in the likely event I flunk out of ME.

[Krabappel]

Not much directly related... marketing, analytics, sql reporting.

[rts]

Schools reporting zero sexual assaults on campus not reflecting reality, critics, students say

The new survey found that, for 2014, the total number of alleged incidents of sexual assault reported to campus authorities amounted to 1.85 per 10,000 students, which is well below what many researchers believe is the case.

"It's undercounting," says Holly Johnson, a University of Ottawa criminology professor who studies violence against women on campuses, referring to the Canadian numbers.

"It's not counting what is the true experience of students, because there is no campus in which this doesn't exist."

[Tonio]

Just because the communists don't operate out in the open doesn't mean they aren't there. Just because the homosexuals don't operate out in the open doesn't mean they aren't there. Etc.

[Rich]

Exactly. They're like ninjas.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm a ninja. And I'm everywhere.

[Rich]

Exactly. You're a ninja.

[EMD]

Now we know that you're here.

Worst ninja ever.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Nobody expects the Canadian Inquisition!

[Pan Zagloba]

Hurrah for Canada, always behind on US idiocies, then takes them to their (i)logical conclusion!

I'll also add UBC apologizes for not taking sexual assault complains seriously enough

Despite the apology, one of the former students in CBC's story, Glynnis Kirchmeier, says she plans to file a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal by the end of the year. She's asking anyone who reported sexual misconduct to the school during the past 20 years to contact her at [e-mail].
...
In School of Secrets, which will be livestreamed online Monday evening, the fifth estate reveals that UBC took more than a year and a half to act against a grad student despite mounting complaints of harassment or sexual assault by at least six women on campus.

Not mentioned in any of the articles - sexual assault is a crime, and why didn't police arrest this horrible man? But who cares about rape, he's expelled and now it's time to squeeze the university.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Wasn't Cytotoxic saying this crap doesn't happen here?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It might not have happened at his particular junior college.

[Cytotoxic]

Ew college is for plebs*.

And by 'plebs' I mean 'people that actually want to make a decent living in a trade'.

[Pan Zagloba]

Yup, keeping up with his persona of "idiot who spews nonsense with 100% certainty".
There was also Dalhousie Facebook Scandal, which is beneath even SJWs in the States (for now). And the stupid "yoga is cultural appropriation" from this morning.
Our idiots are starting behind, but, with state support, I have every faith in their ability to overtake US in retardation.

[Cytotoxic]

Actually I only spew facts. Perhaps you should have read my original comments more carefully, where I made clear that I was referring to mobs of student progs surrounding targets. Please be more careful next time.

[Cytotoxic]

I was specifically referring to mobs of student proggies surrounding unpersons.

[XM]

"Unpersons"

That's sounds like microaggression language to me.

[EMD]

You know what word sucks?

Tribunal.

It's a bad word. Sounds like fascism.

[Mrs. Lemuel Struthers]

She is correct. They obviously didn't count the number of Indians raped (culturally) by appropriating white yoga instructors.

This is Ottawa, right?

[R C Dean]

"Damn the data! My theory says different, and if the data doesn't validate my theory, the data is obviously wrong!"

[Ted S.]

Only one of the datums is wrong; you just have to figure out which one.

[Suthenboy]

Which theory are you talking about? That doesn't really narrow things down very much. That could be any or all of the lefty causes.

[CE]

Sort of like global warming. It has to be happening.

[gaoxiaen]

When females do it, nobody reports them.

[Jerry on the rocks]

Glitches in systems have screwed up the computer tests students had to take

Common core dump.

[rts]

+1 SIGSEGV

[FreeToFear]

Shouldn't that be +11? Or +0xb...

[Scalro Humillimus]

Common core deserves a kill -9.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Common core dump.

Picturing something brown and smelly.

[Enough About Palin]

RACIST!!!111!!

[d3x / dt3]

That'd be SIGSJW, I believe.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

UNHAPPY MAKNAM

... Hobbit

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Only one in five Americans trusts the government "always or most of the time," but many of them still want to see government taking major roles in a number of issues.

20% of Americans work for Vox?

[Gilbert Martin]

"but many of them still want to see government taking major roles in a number of issues."

Yeah - issues related to giving them some free stuff and making somebody else pay for it.

[Old.Mexican]

The Texas kid who got arrested for bringing a clock to school, prompting fears it was a bomb, is demanding $15 million or he'll sue.

Besides a fake bomber he is also an extortionist. Well played, sir. Well played.

[waffles]

I think this whole incident is disgusting and lends credence to the idea that the whole thing was a setup.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

For you and all the other west coasters:
Open for business.

[waffles]

I waxed and tuned my skis over the weekend. I was out too late to hit the slopes just yet, but I have definite plans for next weekend.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I'm a maybe. I have relatives in town for the holiday. I'm wondering how many days I can skip out.

[Pope Jimbo]

Looks like a good crop of cocaine in Columbia!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Mountains of it.

[Juice]

Do you have any idea of the street value of this mountain?

[Griffin3]

+1 Better Off
Thank you for reminding me of that movie

[In League with the Dark Ones]

I thought it was salt...

[XM]

We have snow in the west coast, you know.

[Gray Ghost]

(Cue Homer Simpson) Ooooohhhhhh. (drool falls from lips)

Where is that, Playa?

[R C Dean]

Oh, it was a setup from day one.

The only thing that would surprise me is if the cops were in on it, and got involved in exchange for a piece of the lawsuit action. The only reason that would surprise me is, I don't think many cops are that smart.

[CE]

Way to squander the good will generated for nerds everywhere and turn it into a money grab. Now you have to major in Econ instead of Engineering.

[F. Iron-Ass Stupidity, Jr.]

"Everyone in the country and around the world believes this has been a wonderful experience for Ahmed's family, and in some ways, it has been," said Anthony Bond, a family friend. "But now they are settled in Qatar, they have realized they are tremendously traumatized."

Cha-ching.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I always thought it was 'ka-ching!'

[Rhywun]

Qa-ching

[GamerFromJump]

Winner.

[d3x / dt3]

I wonder if his "homemade clock" will fit in his ass.

[UnCivilServant]

With enough effort, if you ignore the bleeding...

[d3x / dt3]

Cos I'm hoping that's where Texas shoves it.

[EMD]

It's his birthright ...

[R C Dean]

I'm sure an experience that gets you oodles of publicity and opportunities, yet also gives you a claim for a phat payout, is, indeed, a wonderful experience.

[Tonio]

The lefty and IFLS folks haven't said a word about this after the first week.

[PBR Streetgang]

If you have to later "realize" that you are traumatized, were you really traumatized?

[Mickey Rat]

They were so traumatized they did not know they were traumatized.

[Rhywun]

To be fair, I would traumatized if I had to live in Qatar too. And possibly tossed off a building.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

"But now they are settled in Qatar, they have realized they are tremendously traumatized."

Settling for Qatar would tremendously traumatize me as well.

[Seamus]

Instead of suing, why doesn't he just threaten to set off his clock?

[DEG]

Investigation shows drunk Russian sailor (I know, redundant) is the reason a freighter crashed into the Scottish coast

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?

Don't put him in charge of a 7,000-ton, 423-foot (129-meter) cargo ship, for starters.

That's how a Russian mariner who drank half a liter of rum before work, according to investigators, managed to crash into the coast of Scotland last winter -- at full speed.

The Lysblink Seaways was on its way from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Skogn in Norway when it slammed into the rocky shoreline near Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula at about 2:30 a.m. on February 18.

When the ship was salvaged, it was so badly damaged that it had to be scrapped.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Simpsons did it.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I'll offer you 100 bucks to take the blame.

[UnCivilServant]

He was so drunk he hit scotland? It wasn't even headed to/from scotland.

[Tonio]

Maybe he was distracted by the thought of comely Scottish lasses.

[Brett L]

Maybe he just left England and was suicidal at the thought of having to fake not speaking Englishone more time to escape the comeons of English girls.

[UnCivilServant]

They sailed from Ireland.

[Brett L]

Pssh. Who reads the links?

[UnCivilServant]

Normally, not me, but I had to check to see if they were trying to come into port or meant to miss scotland entirely.

[Brett L]

"Sir, I regret to infotyou that we apear to have run aground on a small island."

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

They have a bonded liquor store onboard the ship that's not supposed to sell to the employees. Who in the fuck is it supposed to sell to?

[waffles]

Gotta leave some space for a middleman to wet his beak.

[Pan Zagloba]

Locals, in exchange for fresh fruit, parrots and colorful feathers, as has been the custom for centuries?

[UnCivilServant]

The problem isn't that he got drunk, it's when he got drunk. He failed to save half that liter for lunch.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Russian Sailor == 1/2 liter was probably not enough to function fully.

At least a liter before he's ready to drive.

[tarran]

Some freighters take paying passengers. The cost is much lower than a cruise liner. The accomodations are much more meager. They've been doing it forever, and apparently the custom hasn't died out yet.

[UnCivilServant]

They're not passengers, they're "Live Cargo"

[Sevo]

"the custom hasn't died out yet."

Give this guy another command, and he'll see what he can do about that.

[Tejicano]

I've traveled that way myself. Partly to save money but mostly for the experience.

[Mickey Rat]

Michael Palin did that for "Around the World in 80 Days".

[Ted S.]

Where do you think the drunken sailors are supposed to spend that money?

[Brett L]

Half a liter? Isn't that considered the breakfast ration in the British Navy?

[Pan Zagloba]

Royal Navy! To go with Royal Air Force, and British Army (legacy of some unpleasantness between Kings and Parliament).

[UnCivilServant]

Well that's just because half the Army Belongs to Parliment. A few regiments still belong to the crown.

[R C Dean]

I believe the daily ration back in the day was a pint. So, yeah, this dumbass chugged his whole day's supply in one go. Geez.

[Enough About Palin]

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Fuck him in the poofter.

[Juice]

Fuck him in the homosexual?

[Mickey Rat]

"Put him in the hold with the Captain's Daughter!"

[Suthenboy]

A Russian got drunk on half a liter of rum?

Bullshit.

[BigT]

"slammed into the rocky shoreline near Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula at about 2:30 a.m"

Russkies don't know about licensing hours?

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Investigation shows drunk Russian sailor (I know, redundant) is the reason a freighter crashed into the Scottish coast

Did they pee test the Scottish coast? Because there's a good chance it was as drunk or drunker than the sailor.

[Juvenile Bluster]

My wife and I were joking back and forth about the Yoga-as-cultural appropriation story. She texted me telling me that by replying to her in English, I'm appropriating the culture of her ancestors. So I've been replying to her in Polish all afternoon. She's stopped finding it funny. I'm wondering when I should quit.

[Tonio]

How big is your doghouse? Do you have relatives nearby?

[Restoras]

Sounds too late....

[Tonio]

^This. Sorry, bro.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Tell a polish joke, and when she tells one back, bust her on it.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Meh. I always go overboard.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Spend all of dinner talking to her in Polish. Do not relent!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Single, are we?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Damn right!

[Aloysious]

Incentives matter. What do you get for stopping?

[Mrs. Lemuel Struthers]

She's stopped finding it funny. I'm wondering when I should quit.

Before. Just before would have been ideal.

[Pan Zagloba]

I'm wondering when I should quit.

Appease and back down rather than stick to your guns, come what may? Might as well never speak Polish after that!

[Juvenile Bluster]

So I should've started speaking to her in German?

[Pan Zagloba]

I was gonna say Czech if you want to bow down to avoid conflict...

[Suthenboy]

"I'm wondering when I should quit."

That depends on the divorce laws in your state.

[The Last American Hero]

As Cowherd noted years ago, if Bikram Yoga was invented by a guy in Cleveland, it would be called Stretching and nobody would go. The mystique of it coming from an exotic land of silk scarves and sitar music adds a mystique that makes it popular.

[Gray Ghost]

Stretching in a sauna, more like. And people would think, "Shit like this is the reason I didn't try out for wrestling in h.s., so why am I doing this now?"

The yoga trend has brought with it yoga pants, so I have a lot of tolerance for whatever petty annoyances its practitioners will come up with next.

[Long Woodchippers]

I was in the local convenience store this morning when I spot the cute young cashier from the grocery store - in yoga pants. It raised my spirits.

[jesse.in.mb]

You'll make Joseph Pilates spin in his grave.

[EMD]

SoulCycle?

[Mickey Rat]

If you want her to eat kielbasa again, ASAP!

[BigT]

Send her 'translations', and be sure they are sweet nothings.

(37 yrs of doghouse escape practice)

[SIV]

I can't believe a fine objective journalism outlet could fall for this tired old oft-debunked myth.

[SIV]

SKWERLZ

Ronald Reagan's Lies Echo From the Grave

[LynchPin1477]

Only one in five Americans trusts the government "always or most of the time," but many of them still want to see government taking major roles in a number of issues.

This suggests to my optimistic mind that people want an alternative but don't see one that they trust. Sounds like an opportunity to me, but we need competent and skilled libertarians spreading the message.

[jesse.in.mb]

Derpetologist texted me earlier. He's currently en route to Fort Sill. Apparently he's got a rough layover schedule today, so he might pop in, but his military recruitment has been successfully executed, athletic goals met, etc.

[Tonio]

Yay! Thanks for the update. You are quite the social butterfly, jesse. Or should I say "Julie, your Cruise Director."

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

He's the social secretary.

[bacon-magic]

Woo hoo. May he be safe and find the derp he was looking for.

[Swiss Servator]

Speaking as one who spent 27.5 years in the Army National Guard, Army Reserve and Active Army.... he most certainly will.

[Tejicano]

I would bet that the derp finds him first.

[Res ipsa loquitur]

Awesome ! I'm actually stationed there. Wish him the best !

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Belgium's prime minister says alert levels in the country will remain at their highest levels out of fear of possible terrorist activity, but schools and the subways will begin reopening Wednesday.

You know who else put Belgium on high alert?

[Pan Zagloba]

Moltke the Younger?

[Tonio]

+1 Pickelhauber

[UnCivilServant]

Eurocrat #3351, when he filed the wrong form?

[Just say Nikki]

Poirot?

[Aloysious]

Winner

[Ted S.]

Tintin?

[Jerry on the rocks]

Tintin?

[Doctor Whom]

Philip II of Spain?

[Rich]

Rin Tin Tin?

[gaoxiaen]

Holland?

[EMD]

The Netherlands?

Which kind of high?

[Juvenile Bluster]

An FBI informant seduced Eric McDavid into a bomb plot. Then the government lied about it

tl;dr: FBI uses useful idiot woman to seduce anarchist man, creates and encourages bomb plot, man sentenced to two decades in prison, then released after it was revealed the government lied about nearly everything.

[Brett L]

If it weren't for Federal agencies, there would be no bomb plots. And then their funding might be not raised next year, which we all know is a cut.

[d3x / dt3]

And the woman got paid $65,000 for it. She completely entrapped him, lied about it, then got paid off.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I save my rage for the people who should know better. Like the FBI.

[CE]

Isn't the FBI guilty of trafficking then?

[John]

There are two main activities of the FBI these days; distributing child porn and luring stupid people into fake bomb plots. That is it. That is 90% of everything they do.

[Juvenile Bluster]

You don't expect them to do real work, right? What's next, you're going to expect police officers to investigate actual crimes with victims?

[Rich]

The family of a Texas teenager, arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, demanded $15 million in damages and an apology from the city of Irving and its schools to avoid a lawsuit, lawyers said on Monday.

"OK. We'll take it out of your $17 million exit tax for moving to Qatar."

[Tonio]

Yeah, I thought they had moved. I guess the cost of living in Qatar was higher than expected.

[R C Dean]

I think they have. But that's no reason not to sue.

[Rich]

It'd be something if they got, um, a clock for a housewarming present.

[Free Society]

The Texas kid who got arrested for bringing a clock to school, prompting fears it was a bomb, is demanding $15 million or he'll sue.

But it seems like he was building a clock that was actually intended to look like a bomb. And I read somewhere that his sister went through the same controversy a few years earlier.

[bacon-magic]

And a whole lot of idiots fell for it. Even when people said "hey, wait a minute, he just tore apart an old clock" the idiots shouted them down for being islamophobic hillbillies.

[Free Society]

Well I've never met a Muslim who did something wrong. Because when a Muslim does something wrong, he is no longer a Muslim or something. /Hilary

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

+1 Workplace violence.

[BeefJokey]

Just like law abiding gun owners, who break the law.

[Tonio]

Yeah, why would he package it in a briefcase that had to be opened to view the display? At his age, making a nice case for a commercial, off the shelf (COTS) electronic item would be a reasonable project, but not a remarkable one. Now, had the kid built his own circuits, written his own software, that would have been something.

[Free Society]

Yeah. Start to finish, I haven't seen any evidence to indicate that he actually built a clock. Only that he built a fake bomb.

[Cytotoxic]

There is no evidence he built a fake bomb.

[Free Society]

It could have passed for a bomb prop in a movie. It may be intentional and it may not be but you can't blame the overreaction on racism or Islamophobia.

Once upon a time, cops got called and I got suspended from school because a friend of mine drew a picture of Bart Simpson with a gun, I never even saw the picture or knew that he intended to give it to me as a gift. And I'm white and waspy as they come. "My" incident was far more of an overreaction by school officials but alas it never made the social media (pre-myspace) rounds and I'm not a member of an accredited victim class. I never even fathomed a 15 million dollar out of court settlement.

[Copernicus would chip]

"there is no evidence he built a fake bomb"

Everything is a fake bomb (except for a real bomb).

[EMD]

Whoa.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

He disassembled a working clock and put it in a briefcase. The entire process involved unscrewing about 10 screws.

That kind of science project gets you invited to the white house these days.

[Suthenboy]

Considering the level of competence coming out of the White House these days that seems apropos.

[Brett L]

I, for one, am proud of the way this young child of immigrants learned the traditions of the American system of micro-aggression turned to megabucks.

[Pan Zagloba]

He can now export it to Qatar. Immigrants to America open ethnic restaurants because new society lacks them, American immigrants elsewhere may as well go expand their legal systems.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I don't think he'll get much, if anything at all. They don't want this claim reaching the discovery process.

[Juice]

micro-aggression turned to megabucks

nice

[F. Iron-Ass Stupidity, Jr.]

You guys are all just a bunch of pants-shitters.

[Free Society]

I prefer Yokeltarian

[d3x / dt3]

(Checks)

Dammit, right again!

[Rich]

Dammit, d3x/dt3, keep your hands to yourself!

[d3x / dt3]

I just wanted to make sure there was a witness!

[Pan Zagloba]

Look, it aint' my fault both toilet paper rolls were used up before I got there!

[Gilbert Martin]

"It doesn't seem to matter to Donald Trump's supporters that he's frequently spewing out stuff that's not true"

That's hardly a unique phenomenon.

Bill Clinton lied all the time and his supporters didn't care.

Obama lies all the time and his supporters don't care

Hillary lies all the time and her supporters don't care.

And so on.

[d3x / dt3]

Trump's supporters see him as a wrench in the machine (and I don't mean that maliciously). What difference does it make if he tells tall tales if his plan is to gum up the works?

[John]

Exactly that. What is puzzling is why so many journalists are too stupid to understand that and keep acting like Trump lying would ever matter to the people who support him.

[Cytotoxic]

True. His supporters are clearly a cut below the average partisan retard.

[John]

I am not sure about that. At least they are honest enough to admit every politician is a liar and thus what they say doesn't matter. Your typical partisan thinks "no our guys are telling the truth". The typical Trump supporter exhibits a level of cynicism and grasp of reality that your typical partisan does not.

[Cytotoxic]

No the typical Trump supporter doesn't think at all in any capacity. They don't care about truth, so they don't mind lies. They just want a big protector figure who lashes out at things they don't like (the media, Muslims, other minorities) so they can live vicariously through him.

[John]

That is because they are smarter enough to realize that every politician lies and have lost faith in any of them to deliver what they say. That strikes me as a lot more in touch with reality than your typical partisan.

[Mickey Rat]

From what I have seen, they regard Trump as Molotov cocktail being thown at the Establishment. They just want to burn it all down because they do not think anyone is going to give them what they want.

[Cytotoxic]

Because President Trump wouldn't 'gum up the works'. He is a fascist and his ideas if implemented would ruin America.

[Suthenboy]

As opposed to what we have now.

[Cytotoxic]

Yes, as opposed to what we have now. What we have now is bad. Trumptopia would be vastly worse.

[d3x / dt3]

I wasn't defending it, by the way. Just offering an explanation.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Fullerton County, California Police taxpayers to pay $4.9 million after city approves wrongful death settlement with the father of Kelly Thomas.

We already know nothing else happened here.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It's a city, but yeah. Nobody did anything wrong, but here's 5 mil.

[GILMORE?]

"The Texas kid who got arrested for bringing a clock to school, prompting fears it was a bomb, is demanding $15 million or he'll sue."

My shocked face is in the drawer, unfortunately.

Whatever happened to the kid's supposed meet w/ Obama, his NASA space-camp offer, his MIT internship, etc? There was like a Christmas-day bounty of freebies being thrown at the kid but then he up and ran off to... Qatar? Did everyone just quietly shelve the idea that he was an 'electronics genius' with nothing but beneficent intentions?

[John]

He allowed the creation of talking points and facebook memes. He has served his purpose Gilmore. Stop confusing the issue with facts and stuff.

[GILMORE?]

ah. as usual, RTFA first

"The boy's family said in October that they would be moving to Qatar and he had accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation to study at its Young Innovators Program. The announcement came a few hours after he was at the White House for an astronomy night hosted by President Barack Obama.

The family, now living in Doha, has also traveled the globe to meet foreign dignitaries.

Sudanese state radio reported that his father took him to meet Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The Sudanese leader is accused by the International Criminal Court of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict."'

You really can't make this shit up.

[John]

No you really can't. But give a a few years and the kid will either be a war lord in Sudan or blow himself up in some shopping mall somewhere.

[GILMORE?]

Your cup runneth over a tad.

More likely is that daddy will milk his little wunderkind until people catch on he's not quite Achmed "Doogie Howser" Mohammed, then come back to the US when he's of college-age and ensure he becomes a campus cause celebre as well.

[Res ipsa loquitur]

The kid had a below room temperature IQ, the next Einstein will have to wait.

[John]

http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....pands.html

Remember when cooking the intelligence to say what you wanted it to was a big deal? Neither do I.

[Suthenboy]

They are just a JV team John. Stop getting so excited.

[Troy muy grande boner]

A University of Kansas professor was suspended for using the N-word in a graduate-student-level class where she was talking about incidences of racial discrimination on campuses.

I would just like to say a couple of things. First, I would like to say nigger. And I hope there hundreds of you lightweight Mizzou and Yale students out there. Please read this. Because I hope this triggers you to jump off a bridge. Head first, please. Life is hard and you'd be better off dead than suffer the detrimental consequences like, for example, a large black male must suffer when someone asks him if he plays cornerback.

Secondly....So since there are only 26 letters (31 in the Obama household), then there can only be 26 bad words. So fucking, fuckstick, fuckhead, fucktard, fuckface...all can't be a bad wordw because everyone knows feminsim is the F word. Who gets to vote for the bad words. Two a few of my nominees, A: Authority,S: Security.

[John]

Here is what I don't get. The little snowflakes who apparently just froze in terror when the teacher said the dreaded Nigger word, likely have listened to or do listen to hip hop records that use the word in every single sentence.

[Res ipsa loquitur]

Meh, she is a professor, thus 99% sure she is a progressive. She helped support and create the hyper-vigilant insanity running wild today at College campuses, too bad if she is swept up before the people's tribunal and beheaded like all the moderates and conservative professors before her.

[John]

I am not saying justice wasn't served. It likely was. I am just pointing out how stupid and irrational these kids actually are.

[Troy muy grande boner]

It is only triggering if enunciated by a melanin deficient speaker.

[Res ipsa loquitur]

True, I just have no sympathy for the creators of the system being caught in it. She no doubt thought her SJW cred and claims of throwing off the yoke of white privilege would save her. There is no safety when the SJW target you.

[Mickey Rat]

John, that word is "nigga". It is part of black culture! It cannot be held the same as that other evil construction that only a racist would use.*

*I actually heard this argued on ESPN DURING the Riley incident with the Eagles a couple of years ago.

[Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)]

Security isn't a dirty word, Troy. "Crevice", on the other hand...

[gaoxiaen]

My nominees...
A= Ass sex M= Mexican P= Pot

[Cytotoxic]

This may have been mentioned already, but Argentina has elected a pro-business non-Peronist for Presidente.

http://www.bloombergview.com/a.....ond-chance

Unfortunately, Macri is no libertarian. He will keep energy subsidies in place, crack down on drugs, and he has a history of statism, but he will at least get rid of the worst aspects of Argentina and strengthen rule of law.

[John]

I am pretty sure they could have elected Obama and it would have been an improvement over what they had.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Charles CW Cooke is having a good time on Twitter, regarding the "loophole" known as due process that lets non-convicted suspects enjoy their rights. There's probably a way to 'storify' the best tweets, but I don't know how that works. Just keep scrolling down and reading, for tweets from the last 2 hours or more.

[John]

Why do you hate women MJGreen? You just want rapists to go free on one of your loopholes like requiring proof they are guilty.

Sadly, that is exactly how these idiots think.

[Cytotoxic]

Good stuff. Awful legislation.

[GILMORE?]

Democrats freaking out over foreseeable consequences of shitty regulations and taxes

"Democratic politicians condemned Pfizer Inc's tax-avoiding "inversion" deal with Ireland's Allergan Plc on Monday, bringing another round of Washington hand-wringing over corporate taxes, but probably no immediate legislative action.

Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, blasted Pfizer for using legal loopholes to avoid paying its "fair share" of U.S. income taxes in a deal she said "will leave U.S. taxpayers holding the bag."

"We cannot delay in cracking down on inversions that erode our tax base," the former U.S. secretary of state said in a statement.

Pfizer is doing the largest inversion deal of all time. In a $160-billion transaction, it plans to move its tax address from the United States to Ireland, if only on paper, by buying out a smaller, Dublin-based competitor, Allergan."

I sort of follow this stuff, and this is at least the ~4th deal of this kind (US pharma company merging with Irish/other tax-benefited-country pharma/medical firm) I've seen in the last 2 years.

[Cytotoxic]

"Loophole" is newspeak for "things I don't like that aren't banned".

Tim Hortons got bought out in a similar inversion, with the location being in Canada instead of Ireland. Ireland has low corporate income taxes.

[GILMORE?]

Tim Hortons was always canadian, last i checked? Did Sbux buy Tim's and move out of the US?

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

It was Burger King.

[GILMORE?]

Right. So BK moved to Canada? Good for them.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

It was owned by Wendy's for a time. A good decade if I'm not mistaken.

[Troy muy grande boner]

What is a Tim Hortons?

[Troy muy grande boner]

Is it something stupid like canadian bacon?

[EMD]

Donut/coffee shop started by a hockey player.

[d3x / dt3]

I thought "loophole" was pronounced "remaining freedom".

[John]

They are nothing but the retarded grandchildren of the old Marxists. The old Marxists were evil and stupid but even they were smart enough to realize socialism had to be a world wide revolution to work and until it was you had to build a wall to keep the capitalists from escaping and taking their human capital with them.

These people are so fucking stupid they actually think you can tax the hell out of people and companies and the ones who are able won't leave. They have lost touch with reality. There is no hope for them.

[Cytotoxic]

What are Ireland's gun and speech laws like? When it comes down to Hillary vs Trump or Trudeau or Mexico it might be nice to go to a solidly first-world English-speaking country for a while. What are their women like?

[ant1sthenes]

Redheaded.

[Copernicus would chip]

They don't speak English. Women are pasty.

[gaoxiaen]

When they're angry they turn blue.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

Pretty terrible. I know they have a blasphemy law and retains censorship powers. Gun laws are some of the most restrictive in Europe.

But they have fresh Guinness and beautiful countryside, so... toss up.

[Mickey Rat]

You would not like it. They think babies have rights..

[Hank Phillips]

Correction, they think pederasts have rights and pregnant women don't.

[GILMORE?]

Sweden: Conflates ISIS with 'Palestinians'; Israel naturally pissed off.

Notable is that Palestinians - the 'usual suspects' of international terrorism of the 70s and 80s - pretty much gave up on the 'dramatic terrorist acts' stuff decades ago, and have mostly focused on trying to use international-diplomatic-strongarming and domestic (i.e. shooting rockets from Gaza, etc) troublemaking.

[Long Woodchippers]

aka "lawfare"

[bassjoe]

A University of Kansas professor was suspended for using the N-word in a graduate-student-level class where she was talking about incidences of racial discrimination on campuses.

This reminds me of a story I read ages ago about a professor who used the word "niggardly" in class. He was an old fogey who probably didn't think anything of it, especially since "niggardly" is not at all related to the word it, uh, sort of sounds like. People, of course, didn't seem to both to pick up a dictionary and were instead offended that anybody would say a word that SOUNDS like an offensive word and the department forced the professor apologize.

[jesse.in.mb]

Rush Limbaugh did it (at least) once. He clearly did it to be provocative, but then held up his hands like he was *shocked* idiots responded vehemently and then rolled in a big pile of money he got for goosing his readership/listenership with controversy.

[Juice]

It's a problem that crops up from time to time.

http://bit.ly/1FsQ3mq

People are just really stupid and we're just going to have to live with it.

[Hank Phillips]

So? Prohibitionists misuse liberal every every day for lack of courage to just say looter or admit that the neolibertarian liberal party of 1930 forced the Dems to come out for repeal of beer prohibition, which enabled them to beat the GOP. Just today the LP managed, after 43 years, to force the lead republican wannabee to declare for medical marijuana and to apply the repeal Amendment (the 21st) to weed. Everywhere else non-GOP English is spoken liberal is a libertarian stripped of courage and convictions.
That compromise of Trump's will cut into the LP vote some, but that's what the LP vote is for: it's to get rid of idiotic laws and looter taxes! Watch what happens. Anyone want to wager on whether whatzername climbs down of the fence alluva sudden?

[EMD]

The Black Hole/Black Ho controversy a few years ago was fun for a second.

[Agammamon]

The Texas kid who got arrested for bringing a clock to school, prompting fears it was a bomb, is demanding $15 million or he'll sue.

[Hank Phillips]

He didn't look Texan, more like them dudes that lost the gunfight at the Draw Mo contest in Garland.

[Scalro Humillimus]

Will the cultural police be ready for Saint Patrick's Day? Get your DNA test in before it is too late.

[Hank Phillips]

So it's a lie that "Donald Trump softened his tone on marijuana legalization on Thursday, saying at a political rally that states should be allowed to legalize marijuana if they chose to do so. Trump reaffirmed that he supports making medical marijuana available to patients who are very sick." This is the ONLY republican that likes libertarians, remember?
Well? The most popular and least superstitious, obnoxious, xenophobic and ignorant boob willing to have anything to do with God's Own Prohibitionists has just changed the game completely. No clearer proof of the LP's ability to change the law by changing election outcomes could be provided. What's that great silent sound I hear?

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[Juvenile Bluster]

This is the least surprising news of all time.

::opens desk, takes out flask, drinks, cries::

[Troy muy grande boner]

Researchers say the main perpetrators of those creating toxic environments were men in powerful positions who were likely to target those beneath them or female employees.

Riiiiiight.....

Doesn't have anything to do with incompetent judges (but I repeat myself), incompetent and spiteful colleagues, incompetent court clerks, 200 case load with cases at different stages with their own deadlines, clients that will turn you into the bar in an instant, fuckstick partners on their third martini, 4th wife, who want you to bill 25 hours in a 24 hour day, that response to that motion for summary judgement that you have to get out yesterday, discovery requests, logging all your time, ethically getting all your discloure out........

...nah...... it is fucking misogyny.

[The Last American Hero]

The study excluded Russian sailors.

[EMD]

Most journalists are horrible novelists.

[Juvenile Bluster]

That all sounds familiar.

::curls into fetal position, rocks back and forth while crying::

[Tonio]

Ha.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Enjoy.

[Troy muy grande boner]

Thank, bro. [Gulp], *hands glass back* Can I have another.

[gaoxiaen]

*opens cookie jar, takes out flask, ...