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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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He may not have been aware of the couple's plot.
He would have to be crazy not to.
"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.
and again with the "semi-automatic."
Fist's firsts are semi-automatic.
I pull the trigger separately on each one.
So... you're typing with one hand?
Arrrgh.
HELLO.
It's not courage. It's planning his legal defense.
...the American Civil Liberties Union believes that, if reformed, the list could be used to restrict gun purchases.
Oh, I'm sure they do.
There's that unprincipled ACLU I have come to expect and loathe over the past 25 years...
Assholes.
Progtardian fucktard assholes.
Chickenshit useless progtardian fucktard assholes.
I am outta insults.
Woodchipper food, everyone.
Too bad they hate guns and love progressive politics so much more than civil liberties.
"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.
Best place to hide that I can imagine.
King of Hearts.
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.
Basically he found out he was already living in California.
Then isn't he already checked into a crazy house?
c'mon, you know that you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
bwar-whar-whar-weeeee!
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?
You can't walk around the UAE without stubbing your toe on a sweatshop nowadays.
So, maybe?
I thought those were mostly foreigners.
But mostly Muslim foreigners, I think.
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.
See: Yazidis
Interest just isn't called interest.
It's a penaltax or sumpin.
Interest just isn't called interest.
It's a penaltax or sumpin.
Interest just isn't called interest.
It's a penaltax or sumpin.
300% Squirrelz Interest.
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.
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).
Depends... will we drop a nuke on them?
1th!
Of Forth?
Forth road bridge closed right now. Bollocking up everything round here, it is.
*Bollocksing
"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.
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.
Even so, they're letting their gun animus push them into a very bad position on due process. Not good.
Principals vs principles. Gun people are icky and they often vote Repub or, god forbid, are libertarians. Come on, man.
Illy, they do some good things. Not all friends are perfect.
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.
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.
Maybe if it were a BDS issue..?
Possibly. Are today's Nazis smart enough to try that angle?
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
questionable concessions made to advance political and cultural agendas.
Jeez, haven't we bitched about the cosmos enough?
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.
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.
Those wily Nazis and their non-linear flow of time!
Goddammit, I should have known better. For some reason, I thought the Skokie case happened in the 1990s.
As is often noted here they are not perfect friends of the constitution.
Catholic schools are resisting some components of Common Core in order to keep room for spiritual teaching.
Too fallible.
*genuflects nervously*
Do these people just enjoy being hated?
Catholic University MUST remove all crucifixes ...
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.
Would.
Me first, pal! You can have the sloppies.
Yes. And very informative.
Sshhhh! He might bomb Dabiq now!
That would be interesting.
They're having trouble finding a Sunni proxy force - I have a feeling that the force they find will not be very effective.
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.
The really scary thing is that the Kurds are the "good guys" in the region and they're not that good.
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.
From the comments:
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.
1. Turn Dabiq into glass parking lot.
2. Set up Pulled Pork BBQ joint on said Parking Lot.
3. Twelver Armageddon avoided.
4. PROFIT!
/ 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...
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".
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.
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.
It's the dead eyes...
They look like cows eyes. She has a stupid cow face.
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.
But how do you feel about goat eyes? (Absolutely SFW)
Creepy, and I didn't have to look. Sheep also have that H-shaped iris.
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.
Sheep, goats, and octopods!
Evil for sure
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.
Sheesh. You're talking about a lady, guys. Maybe show some respect.
I thought we were!
Not every terrorist can be as dreamy as Dzhokhar.
We need to get that thing on the cover of Rolling Stone.
+10 copies for my mother
Wait...that's who radicalize him supposedly??? He could've found better at a goat farm.
I would absolutely (well, maybe) use one of my three wishes to have a porn video of those two leaked on the internet.
Rufus, that's even more disturbing than something Sug would write. Have you no decency, Sir?
I'm not familiar with the words 'disturbing' and 'decency' and 'sir'.
Your orphans, what do they call you if not sir? Monsieur?
My orphans call me Lord or Master.
Mine call me master.
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.
Fucken right, eh?
Please do not judge us all based on the denizens of Ruinous Den of Sin and Debauchery.
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.
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.
He did want a girl who was willing to cover herself up so yeah.
Don't be shallow, Hal. It's what's inside that counts.
Well he got to see what was on the inside for sure.
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.
How would you know?
Maybe it's a winner.
Does SHE get 72 virgins, too?
And, really, what woman would even want that?
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.
Heh. That's funny.
Great Neck?
My FIL does have some relatives there. But more in LA. The mayor of Beverly Hills is Persian.
You should have seen the threats they made to GM when the Camaro was taken out of production for a few years.
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.
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.
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.
I worked with an Armenian woman. Your name guide included her.
I blame Gilmore.
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.
I blame me too.
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.
...promise to free jailed critics of the socialist government.
And jail proponents of the socialist government?
Please, very much.
Lou Reed will be devastated:
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.
But what do the colored girls think about this?
Do, do do, do, do do do...
"Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."
D'oh!
He's a vibrant caring man.
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.
Huh? He's dead, Jim.
Do you think that the Armed Services discriminate against transsexuals? (NSFW)
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.
100% on point
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.
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 :
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...
That was pretty evident.
There's something wrong in people's minds who go this way. See Cunt Linda Stasi.
Ha ha ha - her last name is Stasi? How telling.
Or you were just joking. Oops.
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.
Libertarians do recognize a ground war is indeed brewing, right?
I'm just saying.
Someone around here has to be blunt.
Better blunt than sharp, I always say.
Yes, Rufe, it's inevitable. And probably unproductive since we're not fighting a nation-state, but an ideology that can morph and relocate.
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.
That is damn fine reading.
Because progressives aren't really fans of Enlightenment values, either.
So GOP voters starting to decide they don't want Hillary to be Prez huh?
Speaking of which.
Hat Tip, the worst.
He's like a cartoon. Not sure which one though.
Only a month until new Sunny.
Why are their commercials so funny and yet their show is so lame.
I just can't even.
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...
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.)
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
"Sorry" is not good enough. It is vitally important that everyone I associate with has the same tastes as I do.
JB IS A BASTARD MAN!
Oh I've been called so much worse:)
Duh. What did you think the "B" in "JB" stands for?
To me it's like a combination of Seinfeld and The Young Ones.
I will SMASH your face into a- into a JELLY!
Stop being so jelly, mkay?
You're a terrible human being and your seed should be wiped from the earth. Just saying.
You. I like you. You are a man of taste.
+1 magnum condoms and wad of hundreds
You mean like with a cloth or something?
Nice.
BLOCKED
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
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.
The PATRIOT Act had been waiting in the wings for a few years before 9/11.
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.
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.
What does the Granudain say? What sort of gun laws stopped the IRA?
^This. Very on-target (pun intended).
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...
Day 7: Carrie Fisher Calls Controversy Over Princess Leia Bikini Toys 'Stupid'
#DoSomething
"And then I took it off. Backstage. Then slept with Luke in unused footage."
They kept it in the family?
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.
lol
I always thought she had a little twinkle in her eye for chewie.
Nope, blocked by C3-P0.
"You mean she didn't enjoy wearing it?" /creepy nerd
/Throws batteries at reporter, cheers as she lays motionless on sidewalk.
Fisher killed Lucas on set?
HOLD THE PHONE. Are you telling me that the venerable ACLU is an inconsistent defender of liberty!?!?
Sure they are. Just like the SPLC.
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".
There not. I was building onto your sarcasm.
They're
Allahu Quackbar
nice
A new poll has Sen. Ted Cruz overtaking Donald Trump among Iowa Republicans.
Now we wait for Trump to call Iowans stupid again.
They usually have to pay extra for that kind of abuse.
Oh, they're stupid. Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz...
"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.
OH NOES!
If it hasn't been linked already ...
Libertarian Moment officially over ...
Dr. Krieger hardest hit!
New Jersey's latest bear hunt begins with 6 days of hunting in 8 counties
NOOOOOO!
first climate change forces you to move to NJ and now this.
#blackbearsmatter
lol US Politics, best politics money can buy lol.
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