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Latest on San Bernardino Attack, No Charges in Chicago Police Shooting, Cruz Leading Trump in Iowa: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 12.7.2015 4:30 PM

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  • A friend one of the San Bernardino shooters who provided them the two semiautomatic guns used in the attacks has checked himself into a mental hospital. He may not have been aware of the couple's plot.

  • A man who stabbed three at a subway station in London Sunday had ISIS propaganda and information about the San Bernardino attacks on his phone, officials say.
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  • Venezuelan's opposition leaders, celebrating their victory in electing a legislative majority, promise to free jailed critics of the socialist government.
  • Catholic schools are resisting some components of Common Core in order to keep room for spiritual teaching.
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  1. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    He may not have been aware of the couple's plot.

    He would have to be crazy not to.

    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

      "A friend one of the San Bernardino shooters who provided them the two semiautomatic guns used in the attacks has checked himself into a mental hospital."

      Too bad progressives aren't so courageous.

      1. wareagle   9 years ago

        and again with the "semi-automatic."

        1. BigT   9 years ago

          Fist's firsts are semi-automatic.

          1. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

            I pull the trigger separately on each one.

            1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

              So... you're typing with one hand?

      2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

        Arrrgh.

        HELLO.

      3. Unicorn Abattoir   9 years ago

        It's not courage. It's planning his legal defense.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    ...the American Civil Liberties Union believes that, if reformed, the list could be used to restrict gun purchases.

    Oh, I'm sure they do.

    1. Catatafish & Woodchips   9 years ago

      There's that unprincipled ACLU I have come to expect and loathe over the past 25 years...

      1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

        Assholes.

        Progtardian fucktard assholes.

        Chickenshit useless progtardian fucktard assholes.

        I am outta insults.

        Woodchipper food, everyone.

    2. Pro Libertate   9 years ago

      Too bad they hate guns and love progressive politics so much more than civil liberties.

  3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

    "A friend one of the San Bernardino shooters who provided them the two semiautomatic guns used in the attacks has checked himself into a mental hospital. "

    That's a smart move.

    1. Illocust   9 years ago

      Best place to hide that I can imagine.

      1. BigT   9 years ago

        King of Hearts.

      2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        It seems to have worked for Isaiah Washington. He got in trouble for some homophobic slurs, and went to "rehab", whatever the fuck that means.

    2. Jerry on the rocks   9 years ago

      Basically he found out he was already living in California.

      1. Overt   9 years ago

        Then isn't he already checked into a crazy house?

        1. C. Anacreon   9 years ago

          c'mon, you know that you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

          bwar-whar-whar-weeeee!

  4. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    A small group of men who survived the attacks gathered at the site to remember.

    In twenty years will the Muslims be making our cars and electronics?

    1. Heroic Mulatto   9 years ago

      You can't walk around the UAE without stubbing your toe on a sweatshop nowadays.

      So, maybe?

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        I thought those were mostly foreigners.

        1. Zeb   9 years ago

          But mostly Muslim foreigners, I think.

          1. kbolino   9 years ago

            I don't know about that. Traditional Islamic views on slavery held that non-Muslims could be enslaved after being conquered, but Muslims could not be enslaved and if already held in bondage, should be manumitted. Of course, banking in Muslim countries still exists despite an explicit ban on collection of interest, so it's very likely that they find a way to work around the limitations. But I wouldn't be surprised if the worst work conditions were reserved for non-Muslims; at the very least, it makes the whole thing more socially acceptable.

            1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

              But I wouldn't be surprised if the worst work conditions were reserved for non-Muslims; at the very least, it makes the whole thing more socially acceptable.

              See: Yazidis

            2. OneOut   9 years ago

              Interest just isn't called interest.

              It's a penaltax or sumpin.

            3. OneOut   9 years ago

              Interest just isn't called interest.

              It's a penaltax or sumpin.

            4. OneOut   9 years ago

              Interest just isn't called interest.

              It's a penaltax or sumpin.

              1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

                300% Squirrelz Interest.

            5. Zeb   9 years ago

              I'm talking about paid workers in "sweat shops, not slaves. I may be wrong, but I am under the impression that the rich gulf Arab countries import a lot of "willing labor from poorer Muslim countries.

              1. kbolino   9 years ago

                Not everybody who comes from a "Muslim country" is a Muslim and even so the willingness of many of them is questionable (sure, they want to work, the question is about the conditions, especially how they're treated w/r/t their desire to get paid in full and return home in a timely fashion).

    2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

      Depends... will we drop a nuke on them?

  5. Ted S.   9 years ago

    1th!

    1. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   9 years ago

      Of Forth?

      1. Medical Physics Guy   9 years ago

        Forth road bridge closed right now. Bollocking up everything round here, it is.

        1. Medical Physics Guy   9 years ago

          *Bollocksing

  6. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

    "Despite suing the federal government over the lack of due process implemented for the no-fly list, the American Civil Liberties Union believes that, if reformed, the list could be used to restrict gun purchases."

    Ummmm, so they should so over that too.

    1. Illocust   9 years ago

      The ACLU has been pretty anti-2nd amendment for years. It's one of the things that made me lose any respect for the organization I had otherwise gained.

      1. Pro Libertate   9 years ago

        Even so, they're letting their gun animus push them into a very bad position on due process. Not good.

        1. wareagle   9 years ago

          Principals vs principles. Gun people are icky and they often vote Repub or, god forbid, are libertarians. Come on, man.

      2. Tonio   9 years ago

        Illy, they do some good things. Not all friends are perfect.

        1. Illocust   9 years ago

          They do, and I support them when they do. The second amendment issue just showed to me that they don't have actual principles. They're only going to fight for the things they want the option to do.

        2. Pro Libertate   9 years ago

          Yes, but the problem is that they aren't fighting on the fronts they used to. No more free speech absolutism, chinks in the fight for due process, and other questionable concessions made to advance political and cultural agendas. Think they'd defend Nazis in Skokie today with the same zeal?

          Of course, the chapters and the national organization all differ markedly, so results may vary.

          1. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

            Think they'd defend Nazis in Skokie today with the same zeal?

            Maybe if it were a BDS issue..?

            1. Pro Libertate   9 years ago

              Possibly. Are today's Nazis smart enough to try that angle?

              1. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

                Just reading Road to Serfdom for the first time (yeah, yeah), and Hayek would tell you

                a) yes, they are, and
                b) they went back to being Socialists

          2. R C Dean   9 years ago

            questionable concessions made to advance political and cultural agendas.

            Jeez, haven't we bitched about the cosmos enough?

          3. kbolino   9 years ago

            Think they'd defend Nazis in Skokie today with the same zeal?

            It's my understanding that they lost a sizable number of their membership (many to ADL) after taking such a strong position in that case. While I agree with the fight wholeheartedly, it's possible that they alienated some people who, while not absolutists, were more consistent than those who remained.

            1. C. Anacreon   9 years ago

              And shortly thereafter the Blues Brothers singlehandedly wiped out the entire Nazi parade team themselves, so it turned out that the ACLU needn't have bothered in the first place.

              1. kbolino   9 years ago

                Those wily Nazis and their non-linear flow of time!

                1. kbolino   9 years ago

                  Goddammit, I should have known better. For some reason, I thought the Skokie case happened in the 1990s.

    2. Tonio   9 years ago

      As is often noted here they are not perfect friends of the constitution.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    Catholic schools are resisting some components of Common Core in order to keep room for spiritual teaching.

    Too fallible.

    1. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   9 years ago

      *genuflects nervously*

    2. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

      Do these people just enjoy being hated?

      Catholic University MUST remove all crucifixes ...

  8. Tonio   9 years ago

    NYT reporter Rukmini Callimachi responds to Obama foreign policy speech with 19 tweets comprising a very short course in the aims of ISIS which were NOT addressed by the president.

    1. Heroic Mulatto   9 years ago

      Would.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        Me first, pal! You can have the sloppies.

      2. Zeb   9 years ago

        Yes. And very informative.

    2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

      Sshhhh! He might bomb Dabiq now!

      1. Tonio   9 years ago

        That would be interesting.

    3. BakedPenguin   9 years ago

      They're having trouble finding a Sunni proxy force - I have a feeling that the force they find will not be very effective.

      1. Tonio   9 years ago

        The really scary thing was that she thinks the Kurds will stop when they reach what they consider to be the borders of Kurdistan. Not that I blame them; they didn't ask to be divided and subjugated by Arabs and Turks.

        1. Juice   9 years ago

          The really scary thing is that the Kurds are the "good guys" in the region and they're not that good.

    4. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

      That was pretty epic. And the comments are decent.

      It all adds up to maybe it's time Obama considers resigning if he's gonna take this track.

      Hey. It's just a thought.

      1. LynchPin1477   9 years ago

        From the comments:

        I read an article that state we should have "Citizen Marshalls". These are background checked, FBI vetted, Police trained citizens with their own weapons. These people would be responsible to carry their firearm at all times when in public in all areas. They would have to be at least 20 million strong to cover the nation properly and they would continue to have police-backed training annually. They would be the force backing law enforcement in the event of an emergency. I don't own a firearm, but I would do this if it meant keeping my family, friends, neighbors and community safe. Or safer than not being there for them at the very least.

        Maybe you got there before it started getting bad 🙁

        People need to take a step back and look at the actual risks here. Chances of that happening are near zero, though.

    5. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

      1. Turn Dabiq into glass parking lot.

      2. Set up Pulled Pork BBQ joint on said Parking Lot.

      3. Twelver Armageddon avoided.

      4. PROFIT!

    6. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   9 years ago

      / While it's hard to get our heads around this, I have spoken to enough ISIS fanboys & members by now to believe that they mean this

      Phrasing...

    7. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   9 years ago

      So, the lesson Obama would learn from these 19 tweets would be "Fight ISIS on the ground with some boots, but as a compromise, take away some civil liberties at home".

    8. Lord at War   9 years ago

      3/ The "Romans" (us) invade Dabiq, a town that still exists today in Syria. In scripture that battle sets the stage for the end of times

      Give Dabiq an annual 9/11 "celebration" nuke for the next hundred years... See if the dumbfucks get a clue.

  9. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

    The FBI said the couple had been radicalized for 'some time' and that the idiot husband was not being watched by law enforcement.

    Isn't that special.

    Goes to show how hard this fighting nutcases is.

    Also. That pic of the girl. Not hot. Please stop showing. It's giving me the heebies jeebies.

    1. Tonio   9 years ago

      It's the dead eyes...

      1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

        They look like cows eyes. She has a stupid cow face.

        1. Tonio   9 years ago

          Cows have lively, dumb-but-sweet eyes. Or at least just dumb.

          That woman has the eyes of a purely evil psychopath. I would say soulless, except I don't believe in those.

          1. jesse.in.mb   9 years ago

            But how do you feel about goat eyes? (Absolutely SFW)

            1. Tonio   9 years ago

              Creepy, and I didn't have to look. Sheep also have that H-shaped iris.

              1. jesse.in.mb   9 years ago

                That reminds me, I need to go through my pictures of Bearizona. I got some good shots of my friend being gnawed on by pygmy goats.

              2. Krabappel   9 years ago

                Sheep, goats, and octopods!

            2. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

              Evil for sure

          2. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

            That woman has the eyes of a purely evil psychopath. I would say soulless, except I don't believe in those.

            Fitting that they seem to be at DMV.

        2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   9 years ago

          Sheesh. You're talking about a lady, guys. Maybe show some respect.

          1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

            I thought we were!

    2. grrizzly   9 years ago

      Not every terrorist can be as dreamy as Dzhokhar.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        We need to get that thing on the cover of Rolling Stone.

        1. Lord at War   9 years ago

          +10 copies for my mother

    3. bacon-magic   9 years ago

      Wait...that's who radicalize him supposedly??? He could've found better at a goat farm.

      1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

        I would absolutely (well, maybe) use one of my three wishes to have a porn video of those two leaked on the internet.

        1. Tonio   9 years ago

          Rufus, that's even more disturbing than something Sug would write. Have you no decency, Sir?

          1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

            I'm not familiar with the words 'disturbing' and 'decency' and 'sir'.

            1. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   9 years ago

              Your orphans, what do they call you if not sir? Monsieur?

              1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

                My orphans call me Lord or Master.

              2. Enough About Palin   9 years ago

                Mine call me master.

          2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her)   9 years ago

            It's canadian decency, which appears polite and reserved on the surface, but is totally depraved when you break the surface.

            He's like that quiet neighbor who watches your dog for you; then you find out he's been eating the pizza delivery guys.

            1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

              Fucken right, eh?

            2. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

              Please do not judge us all based on the denizens of Ruinous Den of Sin and Debauchery.

      2. Tonio   9 years ago

        Apparently SoCal has a large muslim population. He went looking online for a bride. If he wasn't already leading himself down the path of radicalization, he was looking for someone to do that for him.

        1. grrizzly   9 years ago

          As an American with a decent job, he could find a nicer bride abroad. But I guess the looks were not what he was into.

          1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

            He did want a girl who was willing to cover herself up so yeah.

          2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

            Don't be shallow, Hal. It's what's inside that counts.

            1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

              Well he got to see what was on the inside for sure.

          3. The Last American Hero   9 years ago

            When your dating match profile included phrases like: must be willing to die in a hail of gunfire after provoking the Great Satan, must have extensive knowledge of pipe bomb building, and must be willing to share me with 72 virgins in the afterlife...

            ...you don't get many responses.

            1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

              How would you know?

              Maybe it's a winner.

              1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

                Does SHE get 72 virgins, too?

                And, really, what woman would even want that?

        2. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

          We have the largest concentration of Persians here of anywhere outside of Iran. But they're the "dude bro good deal on car stereo" type muslims, not the suicide bombing type.

          1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

            Heh. That's funny.

          2. Medical Physics Guy   9 years ago

            Great Neck?

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

              My FIL does have some relatives there. But more in LA. The mayor of Beverly Hills is Persian.

          3. The Last American Hero   9 years ago

            You should have seen the threats they made to GM when the Camaro was taken out of production for a few years.

          4. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

            We have the largest concentration of Persians here of anywhere outside of Iran. But they're the "dude bro good deal on car stereo" type muslims, not the suicide bombing type.

            My old landlord was Iranian guy who lived next door to my place, and he had two hot daughters 22 and 19 years old, and a 16-year old who was on the way to being the Hottest of Them All. It was the Irandashians over there. They would get in Facebook tirades about how USA maps incorrectly name the 'Persian Sea' the 'Arabian Sea.' And the teen-angst fights I could sometimes overhear were in Klingon/Farsi peppered with English like 'Hot Pocket' and 'Honda.'

            As an American with a decent job, he could find a nicer bride abroad. But I guess the looks were not what he was into.

            Religion is all about believing to see instead of other way around - beer goggles for the meek and sober in this case.

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

              Oh yeah, hot and fun.

              In LA, some people get Persians and Armenians confused. For the record, Armenians are the ones who start fights with the beach lifeguards and lose very badly.

              1. TheZeitgeist   9 years ago

                I work with Armenian guy (who's family came to USA by way of Iran), and he told me if anyone has last name with more than two syllables and it ends in 'ian' then they are Armenian. So far, the dude has been correct.

                Unless they're from Glendale, in which case they're Armenian no matter what...lo.

                1. BakedPenguin   9 years ago

                  I worked with an Armenian woman. Your name guide included her.

    4. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   9 years ago

      Also. That pic of the girl. Not hot. Please stop showing. It's giving me the heebies jeebies.

      I blame Gilmore.

      1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        He's not going to be happy until he gets his 24" x 36" wall poster. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him yet today; he's probably "using" the picture right now.

      2. GILMORE?   9 years ago

        I blame me too.

    5. Zeb   9 years ago

      To be fair, after a long plane trip most people have pretty dull and blank expressions on their faces.

      But nice to see that they are just dreary awful looking people with zero sex appeal, so we probably won't be seeing them on Rolling Stone's cover.

  10. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

    ...promise to free jailed critics of the socialist government.

    And jail proponents of the socialist government?

    1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

      Please, very much.

  11. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   9 years ago

    Lou Reed will be devastated:

    Holly Woodlawn, the ebullient transgender actress who starred in Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's 1970s films "Trash" and "Women in Revolt" and was immortalized in the first lines of the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side," died Dec. 6 in Los Angeles. She was 69.

    1. Tonio   9 years ago

      Holly came from Miami, F-L-A,
      Hitch-hiked her way across the USA,
      Plucked her eyebrows on the way,
      Changed her name and then he was a she,
      She said, hey, baby, take a walk on the wild side.

      1. Notorious UGCC   9 years ago

        But what do the colored girls think about this?

        1. Tonio   9 years ago

          Do, do do, do, do do do...

        2. DEATFBIRSECIA   9 years ago

          "Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."

          1. Tonio   9 years ago

            D'oh!

    2. Francisco d'Anconia   9 years ago

      He's a vibrant caring man.

    3. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

      When's his next album gonna be released? I'm getting restless.

      On a side note, I'm very happy I got to see NYC pre-Giuliani.

      The smut was still there.

      1. Jay Dubya   9 years ago

        Huh? He's dead, Jim.

    4. Jerry on the rocks   9 years ago

      Do you think that the Armed Services discriminate against transsexuals? (NSFW)

  12. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

    Spiked magazine has a very good and scathing article about Obama's idiotic response. It is notable as the only non-American article I found that doesn't think problem is Teh Gunz and cure is Sensible Right-Thinking Regulation.

    Nonetheless, the speech was revealing, especially when it came to the domestic front. Here, Obama showed that, when it comes to fighting terrorism, he views the mass of American people as a far more immediate problem.

    1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

      100% on point

    2. Illocust   9 years ago

      That article was truly impressive. I don't agree with his calling for attacking ISIS (I don't give a fuck about these guys, let them murder each other in peace), but everything else he said was on point and what I myself have been thinking since this all started going down. It's rare that an opinion piece doesn't make arguments that make me cringe at how easily they could be dissected.

      1. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

        Spiked is very interesting magazine, especially for being located in UK. I'm always happy when Reason borrows one of their editors for an article.
        I was first introduced to them as "anarcho-Marxist", but seem fairly old-school Liberal.
        Oh, and when the artcile says :

        Here's how the BBC's James Cook described the shootings: 'Just another day in the United States of America, another day of gunfire, panic and fear.' So, no outrage or sorrow like after Paris; instead, to cynics like Cook, it's just gun-crazy Americans doing what they do.

        they aren't exaggerating. This is what my entire Facebook feed is like. "Retarded Americans, Y U No Hev sensible GunZ ControlZ?" I'd probably ditch the app, but need it for my weekly D&D game...

        1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

          That was pretty evident.

          There's something wrong in people's minds who go this way. See Cunt Linda Stasi.

          1. BakedPenguin   9 years ago

            Ha ha ha - her last name is Stasi? How telling.

            1. BakedPenguin   9 years ago

              Or you were just joking. Oops.

            2. Tonio   9 years ago

              No, Baked, there really is a person who writes for the NY Daily News under the name Linda Stasi. Hier is the loathsome article in question. Now, I have no idea whether Stasi is actually her name by birth or marriage, but it sure fits. And that's a shame, actually, because she has an intrinsic "cheap shot" defense.

      2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer   9 years ago

        Libertarians do recognize a ground war is indeed brewing, right?

        I'm just saying.

        Someone around here has to be blunt.

        1. Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair   9 years ago

          Better blunt than sharp, I always say.

        2. Tonio   9 years ago

          Yes, Rufe, it's inevitable. And probably unproductive since we're not fighting a nation-state, but an ideology that can morph and relocate.

    3. The Last American Hero   9 years ago

      He always has. Immediately following his election, he's was more concerned about white males over the age of 30 that vote third party and support second amendment rights than he has about Islamic radicals, despite the fact that we had significant amounts of troops in 2 separate countries waging open warfare against Islamic radicals at the time.

    4. LynchPin1477   9 years ago

      That is damn fine reading.

      He avoided acknowledging that ISIS is one violent enemy in what is a broader struggle confronting us: a fight for the Enlightenment and freedom.

      Because progressives aren't really fans of Enlightenment values, either.

  13. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

    So GOP voters starting to decide they don't want Hillary to be Prez huh?

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

      Speaking of which.

      Hat Tip, the worst.

      1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

        He's like a cartoon. Not sure which one though.

  14. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   9 years ago

    Only a month until new Sunny.

    1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

      Why are their commercials so funny and yet their show is so lame.

      1. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

        their show is so lame

        is so lame

        lame

        I just can't even.

      2. Tonio   9 years ago

        Because the commercials show the actual funny parts without any of the unfunny filler. Like a formulaic comedy film where you know the trailer has all the gags...

        1. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

          Just.

          Can't.

          Even!

          (Though comparisons to Seinfeld have always irked me -- yeah, I understand the structural and thematic similarities, but Sunny is not anywhere near the same level.)

          1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

            I want to like it. The commercials make me laugh. It's not terrible. The whole, who got the chick pregnent thing was pretty good. Too much of it just not that funny. Sorry

            1. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

              "Sorry" is not good enough. It is vitally important that everyone I associate with has the same tastes as I do.

            2. MJGreen - Docile Citizen   9 years ago

              JB IS A BASTARD MAN!

              1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

                Oh I've been called so much worse:)

              2. C. Anacreon   9 years ago

                JB IS A BASTARD MAN!

                Duh. What did you think the "B" in "JB" stands for?

          2. Juice   9 years ago

            To me it's like a combination of Seinfeld and The Young Ones.

      3. Fist of Etiquette   9 years ago

        I will SMASH your face into a- into a JELLY!

        1. C. Anacreon   9 years ago

          Stop being so jelly, mkay?

      4. Juvenile Bluster   9 years ago

        You're a terrible human being and your seed should be wiped from the earth. Just saying.

        1. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

          You. I like you. You are a man of taste.

          1. Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)   9 years ago

            +1 magnum condoms and wad of hundreds

        2. Enough About Palin   9 years ago

          and your seed should be wiped from the earth.

          You mean like with a cloth or something?

          1. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

            Nice.

      5. Pl?ya Manhattan.   9 years ago

        BLOCKED

  15. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

    Let me make this perfectly clear. In order to prevent future terror attacks like the one in San Bernadino we need to enact policies that would have had no impact on that shooting. /dumbass

    1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

      I can assure you that the fact that these policies have been on my wish list far prior to the massacre is just a coincidence. /shameless lier.

      1. Juice   9 years ago

        The PATRIOT Act had been waiting in the wings for a few years before 9/11.

        1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

          As had the 2nd Iraq War. Clinton would have done it had Albright and Cohen been able to sell it. They crashed and burned right out of the gate here in Columbus at a Town Hall.

    2. wareagle   9 years ago

      but's that our history. Many policies are designed to stop what just happened, i.e. the shoe bomber. The others are mostly feel-good activity disguised as action.

  16. Winston   9 years ago

    What does the Granudain say? What sort of gun laws stopped the IRA?

    1. Tonio   9 years ago

      ^This. Very on-target (pun intended).

  17. Winston   9 years ago

    http://reason.com/blog/2015/10.....lone-is-th

    Nobel Peace Prize: In Tunisia Alone Is the "Arab Spring" Still Green

    Here's hoping that the award will help safeguard Tunisia's nascent democracy.

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

    ...was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926

    Just saying Ron...

  18. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

    Day 7: Carrie Fisher Calls Controversy Over Princess Leia Bikini Toys 'Stupid'

    Over the summer, Fox 29 in Philadelphia ran a story featuring a father enraged over the Hasbro toy's getup.

    "I got two daughters I don't need seeing that crap," he said, according to the Mary Sue.

    In her WSJ interview, Fisher seemed to reference that particular segment.

    "I think that's stupid," she said. "The father who flipped out about it, 'What am I going to tell my kid about why she's in that outfit?' Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn't like it. And then I took it off. Backstage."

    1. Trshmnstr, terror of the trash   9 years ago

      #DoSomething

    2. Pro Libertate   9 years ago

      "And then I took it off. Backstage. Then slept with Luke in unused footage."

      1. Notorious UGCC   9 years ago

        They kept it in the family?

      2. The Last American Hero   9 years ago

        Actually, it was a Devil's Threeway with Luke and Han. I haven't seen the out-takes, but rumor has it Han shot first.

        1. Juice   9 years ago

          lol

        2. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

          I always thought she had a little twinkle in her eye for chewie.

      3. In League with the Dark Ones   9 years ago

        Nope, blocked by C3-P0.

    3. Notorious UGCC   9 years ago

      "You mean she didn't enjoy wearing it?" /creepy nerd

    4. RBS   9 years ago

      "I got two daughters I don't need seeing that crap," he said

      /Throws batteries at reporter, cheers as she lays motionless on sidewalk.

    5. Mickey Rat   9 years ago

      Fisher killed Lucas on set?

  19. Free Society   9 years ago

    Despite suing the federal government over the lack of due process implemented for the no-fly list, the American Civil Liberties Union believes that, if reformed, the list could be used to restrict gun purchases.

    HOLD THE PHONE. Are you telling me that the venerable ACLU is an inconsistent defender of liberty!?!?

    1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

      Sure they are. Just like the SPLC.

      1. Free Society   9 years ago

        I haven't known the SPLC to be any kind of defender of liberty, unless by liberty you mean "positive liberty" or "bring white males to their knees".

        1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

          There not. I was building onto your sarcasm.

          1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

            They're

  20. Krombopulos Carl   9 years ago

    Allahu Quackbar

    1. Juice   9 years ago

      nice

  21. Mazakon   9 years ago

    A new poll has Sen. Ted Cruz overtaking Donald Trump among Iowa Republicans.

    Now we wait for Trump to call Iowans stupid again.

    1. AlmightyJB   9 years ago

      They usually have to pay extra for that kind of abuse.

    2. Juice   9 years ago

      Oh, they're stupid. Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz...

  22. Swiss Servator   9 years ago

    "Venezuelan's opposition leaders, celebrating their victory in electing a legislative majority, promise to free jailed critics of the socialist government."

    Joe from Lowell objects.

  23. Entropy Drehmaschine Void   9 years ago

    OH NOES!

    If it hasn't been linked already ...

    Libertarian Moment officially over ...

    1. Pan Zagloba   9 years ago

      Dr. Krieger hardest hit!

  24. Crusty Juggler   9 years ago

    New Jersey's latest bear hunt begins with 6 days of hunting in 8 counties

    1. grrizzly   9 years ago

      NOOOOOO!

      1. pan fried wylie   9 years ago

        first climate change forces you to move to NJ and now this.

        #blackbearsmatter

  25. JoWaDat889   9 years ago

    lol US Politics, best politics money can buy lol.

    http://www.GoneAnon.tk

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