Feds to Probe Planned Parenthood, Clinton Pledges Billions for Alzheimer's, Virginia Ends Concealed Carry Reciprocity: P.M. Links

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• Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson has opened an investigation into Planned Parenthood's compliance with fetal tissue regulations. 
• Is America moving to the left?  
• Hillary Clinton has promised to devote $2 billion annually to Alzheimer's disease research, which she will pay for by closing "tax loopholes." 
• Virginia will stop honoring concealed carry permits from other states. 
• Canada says it will take in 50,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016. 
• "We want our kids not to have to decide which bathroom they get to go in," explained Republican presidential hopeful and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about his opposition to letting transgender students choose the bathroom they use. 
• A federal jury awarded $11.3 million to a man who was shot in the back—leaving him partially paralyzed—by San Jose police officer Dondi West. 
• Genetically engineered babies: full force ahead? 
• In defense of the flesh light. 

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Is America moving to the left?

Into the Pacific?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

"John McCallum, minister of immigration and citizenship, made the announcement when visiting Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan who were preparing to head to Canada. He reportedly told one family: "Everyone in Canada is waiting to meet you."

Liberals are so gay.

[Citizen X]

Technically, the plate on which most of North America sits is subducting the Pacific plate, but yeah.

[OneOut]

"Merica rules

Fuck yeah !

[OneOut]

"Merica rules

Fuck yeah !

[greasonable]

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[Trigger Warning]

Badass!

[greasonable]

Thanks! I appreciate it.

[B. Woodrow Chippenhaus]

The lead-in under the headline is pure derpium.

Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation's statehouses?and could well win the presidency?but the liberal era ushered in by Barack Obama is only just beginning.

Yeah, conservatives may have both houses of Congress, a historic number of legislative seats among the states, almost two-thirds of the governorships, and might win the Presidency, but LIBERAL ERA!!!!

[Frankjasper1]

The part about tax rates and bush slashing to 35 and deregulating leading to income inequality was full of derp.

[Hyperion]

The cosmos had it wrong all this time! libertarian liberal moment!

[Hyperion]

Yes, there is a trend towards the nation becoming more socially liberal. However, there are still a lot of Americans who do not want communism. Liberals has a sadz.

[Frankjasper1]

Yea i think that is more accurate. Though it shouldnt even be socially liberal as liberal in american terms is authoritarian.

Should be socially libertarian

[Nativist, Racist & Xenophobe]

Nah. All you're seeing is some taboos going out of style, and other taboos coming into style. The net amount of Puritanism remains constant, the only thing that changes are the objects of scorn.

In the early 20th century ethnic humor was cool, sexual humor was verboten. Today it's the other way around. In another hundred years, it'll probably have flipped again. It's the Law of Butthurt Conservation.

[Mickey Rat]

It is the Harlem Shuffle.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Why do you hate Australians?

[Fist of Etiquette]

In defense of the flesh light.

Making women obsolete!

[BearOdinson]

Put a fleshlight into a robot that makes sandwiches, and we lights out to the human race!

[Crusty Juggler]

Do women still make sandwiches? I feel like the women who make sandwiches (not the women who will make their kids a sandwich, and then make you one, too), are sort of the black unicorns of the lady world.

[Hyperion]

Well, Crusty, this is how you find the woman you want to keep around long term. After you've dated for a while, you do 'the test':

You're enjoying a nice evening at home with your sweety, watching a movie. You pause the movie and say 'Hey woman, make me a sammich'. If she just gets up and does it without giving you any lip, she passed test one.

Once you get your sammich and she sits back down, you wait a couple minutes and pause the film again. Then you say 'Hey, can you get me a beer?'. If she gets up without giving you any lip and returns with your beer, she's passed the test.

Now you know.

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

Your test is stupid. My equally stupid test goes as follows:

Ask your date how much money he makes. Check his pay-stub. If it's more than 6 figures consider sex.

[Pan Zagloba]

Your test does not depend on maleable irrationality of human emotion, but on objective, verifiable facts. I deem it - superior.

[Hyperion]

Sure, that will work.

Woman: Let me see your paystub.

Guy: Sure, here it is.

Woman: Let's have sex.

Guy: Sure, I'll keep this out in case you need to see it again later.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Something for the X-mas shopping list?

[Hyperion]

War on vaginas!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Genetically engineered babies: full force ahead?

They will offer the world ORDER! After you change their poopy-diapers.

[BearOdinson]

"Yours is superior."

Your poopy I mean.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I would think that would be the first thing they engineered away.

[Brett L]

You can't get rid of waste disposal, it violates thermodynamics.

[B. Woodrow Chippenhaus]

Just make humans capable of photosynthesis. Yeah, maybe our factories make CO2, but we need it to survive!

[Brochettaward]

I just wanted to point out that, once again, the people all on board with genetically modified humans are terrified of a genetically modified tomato.

I don't either way, but it never stops being fun to point out their insanity.

[Hyperion]

Well, genetically modified tomatoes are already here, so they're late to the party.

[CE]

You don't eat genetically modified humans.

[thrakkorzog]

Yeah, but that is only because of the trans-fats.

[Hyperion]

If they can be engineered to start polishing your monocle at around age 2, it's one giant leap forward for mankind.

[Citizen X]

Damn, Eugene, save some commentary for the rest of us.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Virginia will stop honoring concealed carry permits from other states.

Reciprocity atrocity!

[RobSmalls]

This is going to fuck over a good many of us Virginians, myself included. The state 2A groups are in a frenzy over it.

[SIV]

Your state didn't have reciprocity with Georgia even before this move. I like the state and the people but your government sucks worse than most states.

[Tak Kak]

I blame Marylanders.

[Scalro Humillimus]

I blame No(t)Va.

[Tak Kak]

"I blame No(t)Va."

Which is just more pleasant southern Maryland.

[Bubba Jones]

You still have reciprocity with Texas and this has no impact on Maryland, Tennessee or North Carolina. So, I fail to see the issue.

Funny thing is that two years ago Texas was bitching about the "loophole" of getting a nonresident permit from Virginia without taking any proficiency tests.

Seems obvious to me that states should not accept out of state permits from their own residents.

Tldr: this is a non issue, but a better solution would have been to deny recognition of Florida permits held by Va residents.

[DaveSs]

This is a bigger issue than you might think.

Out of state visitors from affected states get screwed here, though they can switch to open carry and remain perfectly legal.

VA residents who travel out of state to places that have reciprocal recognition are also screwed.

[Bubba Jones]

It is a non issue because I am from texas.

It is a non issue for any of the surrounding states because they aren't affected by this change.

It is a non issue for anyone traveling to DC, because DC.

It is a non issue for anyone with regular business in Va because you can get a nonresident permit online.

[dantheserene]

What the fuck are you talking about? Your ignorance is almost as appalling as this decision.
We dropped NC. Maryland has never had reciprocity with anyone.
Why should anyone have to apply for a non-resident permit? Who is going to the trouble to just visit? What effect would that have on the states that automatically drop us in response?

[PapayaSF]

But won't this help reduce the number of massacres committed in Virginia by out-of-state concealed carry permit holders?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Canada says it will take in 50,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.

The hosers heard "ice us" instead and thought everyone was talking about the zamboni.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

You're just jealous we all know how to operate one.

[bacon-magic]

That's what you drive for drive education, right...I mean eh?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

We race 'em.

[PapayaSF]

Canada is really stupid to do this.

[ant1sthenes]

Hey, maybe next time they'll successfully take out Canada's government.

[Cytotoxic]

INVASION CALIPHATE

Man you're going to look really stupid when The Apocalypse doesn't happen yet again. Stupider than usual that it.

[d3x / dt3]

Did you learn about that in 7th grade?

[PapayaSF]

It's all going so well in Italy.

[PapayaSF]

And Norway.

[PapayaSF]

And France.

[PapayaSF]

And, wonder of wonders, it turns out the law of supply and demand applies to labor, too! Migration DOES depress wages for the low-skilled as poor British workers lose hundreds of pounds a year

[Cytotoxic]

No it doesn't. That's not how economics works, illiterate twats of the Daily Mail notwithstanding.

http://www.cato.org/blog/immig.....employment

The rest of these headlines are every bit as insipid and worthless as expected.

[PapayaSF]

The DM is referencing reports by the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Bank of England.

[Cytotoxic]

I'll take the Cato institute over them.

[PapayaSF]

Yeah, it helps to see something as an unalloyed positive, if you simply ignore the costs: public services, infrastructure, welfare, crime, more electoral weight and votes for Democrats, feeding the maw of the statist race hustlers, decreased social trust, cultural decay, disease, and terror risks. You and Cato are blind to all that, so mass immigration looks great!

[CE]

Trump better build another wall.

[Derpetologist]

Tales from the Derp

While at boot camp, I met both Sgt Sargent and Sgt Slaughter. Still waiting to meet Major Major, Private Public, and General Specific.

[Citizen X]

What about Corporal Punishment?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Did you meet Sgt. Bilko, Private Benjamin and Beetle Bailey yet?

[C. Anacreon]

The general and the major and the captain,
The lieutenant and the sergeant and the corporal,
They will tell you with a shout
They would rather do without
A certain private by the name of Beetle Bailey,
Beetle Bailey!

/cartoon theme song

[Hyperion]

Major Pain?

[Derpetologist]

SSgt Max Fightmaster is a real person:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/re.....on-notice/

[Not okay]

I know a major major.

[Anomalous]

Is that like a major seventh?

[Tejicano]

I was once sworn in by a Major Johnson

[Not okay]

Worst name I ever saw was PFC Fagg. But I'm sure he didn't get made fun of, they said its against the rules.

[B. Woodrow Chippenhaus]

What about Captain Obvious?

[bacon-magic]

Beat me by 3 minutes...

[bacon-magic]

What about Captain Obvious, Major Fuckup, Major Domo, Major Minor, Lieutenant Lefty, and General Grievous?

[Hyperion]

Captain Murderdrone? Oh yeah, he's hiding out in the Whitehouse.

Captain Fubar?

[Crusty Juggler]

What about Judge Dredd?

[Crusty Juggler]

What about Captain Ann Tennille?

[The Hyperbole]

What about Captain Beefheart?

[SIV]

Sgt Rock, Sgt Fury?

[TheZeitgeist]

Commander of the huge and super-stealthy (it can make billions of dollars invisible) USS Zumwalt is, of course, Captain James Kirk.

[Scalro Humillimus]

I have worked with SSG Major, MAJ Payne and LCDR James Bond.

[Ornithorhynchus]

I know a former marine who was Corporal Sargent.

[DenverJ]

Any corporals from Austria?

[Trigger Warning]

I had to meet Major General Dick's plane, and be the VIP bitch for the visit.

Actual quote from his wife to a terrified young officer: "It's okay! You should have known him when he was just a Major!"

I was too scared to laugh. I managed a rictus.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

I went through basic with a Pvt Sirr.

[Derpetologist]

Sam Harris on Salon:

"I consider Salon to be among the worst offenders of the new pseudo-journalism, and I have long maintained a personal boycott of the website. . . . My reason is simple: Despite the work of a few blameless writers, Salon has become a cesspool of lies and moral confusion."

[BearOdinson]

Of the 4 Horseman of the Athiest Apocalypse, I find Sam Harris the least objectionable. He had an ongoing written debate with Dennis Prager a few years ago, and it was a very thoughtful and entertaining discussion.

[JeremyR]

I dunno. he sees Sarah Palin as some sort of Christian theocrat bent on imposing some sort of puritan like government over the land, which is completely insane.

I mean, her daughter got knocked up through pre-martial sex (and AFAIK, she said nothing) and think pot smoking is no big deal. Not exactly a puritan.

[Anomalous]

"Salon" and "blameless writers" do not belong in the same sentence.

[PapayaSF]

They may be getting better, though. They just had an article by a liberal Puerto Rican professor defending Trump from charges of racism.

[Hyperion]

To be honest, they have nothing on New Republic.

[Suthenboy]

Christ, no one does.

[CE]

I maintain a personal boycott of Red State. Ever since they banned pro - Ron Paul posts, claiming the most fiscally conservative, constitutionally conservative and pro-life candidate wasn't conservative enough because he didn't want to bomb everyone.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...which she will pay for by closing "tax loopholes."

Those loopholes that let you keep your money.

[Doctor Whom]

Tax loopholes are the new swimming pool full of gold coins.

[Brochettaward]

More annoying in that it's just a misuse of the word loophole. These assholes are the ones who carve out a million exceptions and rules in the tax code. They aren't loopholes because a loophole is something allowed unintentionally. That's not the case in tax law.

[Tonio]

"We never envisioned that it would be used that way."

"We never envisioned that the courts would interpret it that way."

[Bubba Jones]

"I didn't actually read it before I voted for it. "

[PapayaSF]

A "loophole" is anything used by oppressors. I'm sure that anything used by a victim group member doesn't count.

[Atanarjuat]

As if the Democrat audience cared how the spending was going to be paid for.

[Tonio]

Well, a small but declining minority of them. I suspect that this is an attempt to appeal to swing and independent voters.

[Derpetologist]

Today's winner for most politically incorrect quote:

"If our lives are preserved and our attempt prospered, we shall next new year's day be in India, and perhaps wish each other a happy new year in the uncouth dialect of Hindostan or Burmah. We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilized life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to celebrate the worship of idol gods."

Adoniram Judson, Baptist missionary

[BearOdinson]

You know who else had swarthy countenances everywhere meeting their eye?

[Nonstopdrivel]

House Atreides?

[DEG]

David Livingstone?

[Tonio]

Sir Richard Francis Burton?

[Atanarjuat]

Paul Ehrlich?

[C. Anacreon]

The Wicker Man?

[gaoxiaen]

Sonny Barger?

[BearOdinson]

I asked the freaking question 30 minutes ago and NO ONE answered "SAURON"?

What the hell kind of geeked-up sausage fest is this place, anyway?!

[AlmightyJB]

I think you answered your own question twice.

[Tonio]

That was a good one, Bear.

[AlmightyJB]

Trump?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Sauron?

[Heroic Mulatto]

A character in an H.P. Lovecraft story?

[Yusef Adama]

Crab People!

[Suthenboy]

Shawn King?

[thrakkorzog]

Conan the Cimmerian?

[Zunalter]

Warty?

[DenverJ]

Thomas Jefferson?

[CE]

The Khaleesi after her brother died?

[Gojira]

In today's "All Women Are Materialistic Bitches And Muslims Have It Right When They Treat Them Like Shit" news, woman walks away from elaborate proposal and refuses to marry a man because he couldn't afford a big enough ring.

[Nonstopdrivel]

In related news that should surprise no one, splurging on an expensive ring increases your chances of divorce by 30 percent.

http://www.dailydot.com/lifest.....y-divorce/

[lap83]

Some people put way more thought and effort into the wedding than the resulting marriage.

[Brett L]

Think how much money she saved him. That's like having a runaway truck barrel in front of you because your car can't go fast enough.

[Brochettaward]

Why have I never seen feminists complain about the practice of giving women giant diamonds as a sign of commitment?

[Nonstopdrivel]

There have, however, been complaints that giving rings hearkens back to supposed ancient traditions of binding women until they submitted to intercourse.

[BearOdinson]

In addition, these same feminists argue that women want sex as much as men.

And then when they finally decide to settle down, they spend the rest of their lives proving that statement false.

[Tonio]

A little joke for you, BO:

Q: How do you stop a Jewish girl from fucking?
A: Marry her.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

"Who don't know shit about cooking,
And is arrogant looking."

[Tonio]

La la la la

[Yusef Adama]

And squeaks when She comes?

[Atanarjuat]

The one feminist I dated had an unbelievably insatiable sex drive. Horrible personality, though.

[commodious spittoon]

My FWB is an obnoxious feminist prog who aspires to be a prosecutor when she finishes law school. We can't have anything approaching a political conversation that doesn't ruin the evening.

For some reason, she can't find a steady boyfriend. It's a mystery.

[Bubba Jones]

How much self loathing is involved in a prog woman fcking a libertarian man?

I know the man doesn't give a shit.

[Atanarjuat]

I think she kind of respected my calm, reasonable libertarian-ness, deep down. I don't think she was so much a hardcore prog as an awful person with a racial chip on her (nonwhite) shoulder who used politics to justify her behavior. I actually never slept with her because she was so unpleasant. She wasn't very happy with getting turned down. And she was hot. She was just had that bad of a personality.

[Notorious UGCC]

"woman walks away from elaborate proposal and refuses to marry a man because he couldn't afford a big enough ring"

Buy that guy's guardian angel a drink.

[Notorious UGCC]

Seriously, he's escaped a lifetime of misery.

[Mickey Rat]

For its supposedly diminutive size, that was a ring of power that saved him from a terrible fate.

[Atanarjuat]

You know what else had a diminutive size and saved someone from a terrible fate?

[Suthenboy]

Bilbo Baggins.

This one is too obvious.

[CE]

The Munchkins?

[C. Anacreon]

Better to go with the woman that says:

"Money can't buy my love. However, it can rent you some......"

[BearOdinson]

Always remember:
You aren't payint them to have sex with you.
You are paying them to leave when you are done!

[Nonstopdrivel]

Funny. I've never had to pay for that. They usually seem to scramble away as fast as their little legs can carry them.

[commodious spittoon]

Might help if you loosened the rope a bit.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Ah man that guy seriously caught a break. Once he overcomes the embarrassment he'll realize she's not worth squat and will meet a fine gal. Unless he's a ham and is attracted to twats.

[Atanarjuat]

Well, surely he put up with a bunch of shit before that proposal. Hopefully he'll see the light now.

[tarran]

He's living in China. Do you know what the male to female ratio is there?

I feel sorry for the poor slob.

[BakedPenguin]

It's bad for hetero men, especially for the young boys.

[Rhywun]

It's impossible he didn't already know she was a bitch. Some guys just like being the doormat.

[gaoxiaen]

That's the luckiest day in his life.

[Brochettaward]

Hillary is advocating for pumping billions into Alzheimer's research? Something tells me she's not in such good shape.

[Jerry on the rocks]

She forgets to go the bathroom. She forgets she has a cell phone. She forgets she uses private email for official purposes. She forgets she came under sniper fire. She forgets she is married to Bill Clinton.

[Nonstopdrivel]

Which is worse . . . deleting tens of thousands of private emails or admitting you've only sent two emails in your entire life?

[DJF]

The Clinton's are famous for their selective memory loss.

[Bubba Jones]

As if billions weren't already being shoveled down that hole.

[Suthenboy]

Yeah. Considering the bumblefuck things she has been doing and saying I figured something is wrong with her. I mean, Christ, who accuses their opponents of being an Isis recruiter without any evidence at all when your own husband is just that?

He gaffes are legion. My wife is convinced that Hillary has brain damage.

This explains much.

[Pan Zagloba]

Maybe her election strategy vs whoever wins the Republican nomination is to copy Uncle Leo from Seinfeld?

"I am an old woman, I'm confused!"

[JeremyR]

Eh, that ISIS thing was pandering to her base. Terrorists can't possibly evil, thus they must have some rational reason for their acts, ie, Westerners (or Jews) being mean to them.

[Crusty Juggler]

In defense of the flesh light.

Finally, someone who speaks to me. Thanks, ENB.

[Crusty Juggler]

The article is mostly about toys used for anal stimulation. I feel mislead.

[Tonio]

I can see how guys, particularly straight ones, would be embarrassed about that. And I'm not being judgy, here, but it's definitely a taboo.

[Crusty Juggler]

Oh, I agree that is a taboo. I was referring to how she titled the link "in defense of the flesh light" while the article focused more on anal toys. They are both taboo, of course.

Eventually male sex toys will be considered more socially acceptable to the typical straight male (my people), but we are a simple, boring bunch so it is going to take time

[GILMORE?]

"we are a simple, boring bunch "

Speak for yourself.
- R.Kelly

[__Warren__]

If I shove a Fleshlight up my ass and then let a guy fuck that, are either of us having the gay sex?

[Careless]

hahahaha

[Gene]

If someone compiled a list of funniest quips each year on H&R, I would nominate that one.

[AlmightyJB]

Doesn't sound gay to me. I think you're good.

[ant1sthenes]

I feel like this should be one of those "ask an imam" questions.

[The Hyperbole]

Micro-assgressioned?

[Tonio]

Only if it's the starter model. Oh, the story I could tell you.

[Atanarjuat]

I can't not know this story.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Work your way up from the white one, to the black one, to the plaid one?

Old joke: "I got $75 for my thermos!"

[bacon-magic]

I heard you're all about anal. If not, why did you read the whole article and looked for source material?

[Crusty Juggler]

What me and my left thumb do after sharing bottle of white zin is none of your business.

[SIV]

Its the 3rd leg of the cosmotarian stool.

[AlmightyJB]

I wasn't aware that the fleshlight needed defending? We don't live in a Grey's Anatomy episode where we bring our sex toys to work to show off to everyone. Unless your "in the industry".

[Atanarjuat]

I saw a behind-the-scenes thing on a porn set where one of the girls was talking about realizing she still had anal beads in halfway through the drive home.

[AlmightyJB]

That will be a funny story for her to share at Christmas dinner with the fam:)

[Jerry on the rocks]

Zimbabwe to make Chinese yuan legal currency after Beijing cancels debts.

[DJF]

So are they going to cancel US debts if the United States make the Yuan legal currency?

[JPyrate]

Buy debt.
Use debt to pay off debt.
?
Profit.

[AlmightyJB]

Just until you hit that big trifecta

[TheZeitgeist]

"They [China] said they are cancelling our debts that are maturing this year and we are in the process of finalising the debt instruments and calculating the debts," minister Patrick Chinamasa said in a statement.

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

[BakedPenguin]

Too bad. I enjoyed collecting their hundred trillion dollar notes. 100? notes with mass murderer Mao are less fun.

[Brett L]

So can we force CCW recognition the same way marriage licensure was litigated? IE, Full Faith and Credit forces your state to recognize my state's licensing power.

[Tonio]

IANAL, but I'm all for that. Both for the practical reason, and that it would make certain peoples' heads asplode.

[Not okay]

That's different, marriage is in the bill of rights. The right to bear arms is just made up.

[Atanarjuat]

Want your child to be above average? Pick your mate carefully.

[C. Anacreon]

Or, move to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

[CE]

Have 3 kids. One of them will be above average.

[Derpetologist]

When It Was Dark- the popular novel from 1902 in which the world descends into chaos when Christianity is proven to be false

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

[robc]

Falsely proven to be false. The joos are behind it.

[PapayaSF]

Let's do that to Islam.

[Arizona_Guy]

Good thing she set up this site:
.
.

http://www.hillaryclinton.net/

[PapayaSF]

Forgot to buy the domain, ha.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Nice trolling... Give that an A-

[Notorious UGCC]

"Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson has opened an investigation into Planned Parenthood's compliance with fetal tissue regulations."

Progs breathe a sigh of relief - finally they'll get a professionally-produced official narrative complete with talking points for the New York Times to summarize.

And Harvard can put those talking points on placemats for when Johnny and Suzie Freshman go home for Spring Break and have dinner with their crazy prolife aunt.

Until Harvard issues an apology for assuming that students would spend spring break with their families.

[Tonio]

Bitter, party of one. Bitter...

[AlmightyJB]

It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right

[Derpmaster General]

http://tinyurl.com/qypnoyy

"She was favored to win, and she got schlonged," Trump said, turning a vulgar noun for a large penis into a verb.

^ This is the greatest sentence ever written in WaPo. The whole article is accidental brilliance.

[greasonable]

For the anony-link weary

[Cytotoxic]

No one should be happier about this than Clinton. This kind of thing is going to make her president.

[Frankjasper1]

So do folks actually think the country is becoming more progressive or are progs just again deluding themselves with delusions of grandeur?

[Atanarjuat]

We're certainly not accepting the whole bag. Yes on gay marriage, no on giving up gun rights, etc.

[Frankjasper1]

They also seem obsessed with taxing the hell out of everyone

[Not okay]

There was this health care law passed recently, but it's pretty right wing.

[Frankjasper1]

Yea but i think the healthcare law helped give team red its current house and senate advantage. Healthcare and gun control will harpening on will be bad for team blue

[PapayaSF]

In some ways the long march through the (educational) institutions is paying off for the left.

[Frankjasper1]

See i disagree. I think their nuttiness is turning alot of people off. My sister doesnt care about politics at all and is not a team red supporter at all..she thinks the sjws are nuts, thinks their stoopid for believing min wage of 15 will raise out of poverty and doesnt buy into the whole women make less than men due to discrimination.

She also thinks bernie sanders is a full blown commie hah

[Zunalter]

Thank you for that bit of empiricism, Cpt. Anecdote.

[VG Zaytsev]

In some ways the long march through the (educational) institutions is paying off for the let

Only if their goal was to finally kill the century old University system.

[Cytotoxic]

If the GOP nominates Trump then they won't be so delusional. It will make the GOP toxic to the touch, giving permanent advantage to the Dems, and the conservative movement will have a much-needed meltdown.

[CE]

Everyone's always talking about permanent advantages, the demise of the Democrats, or the demise of the Republicans, but it's just a giant game of ping-pong, with each side eroding different freedoms and never restoring what the other side took away.

[Cytotoxic]

The Trump Candidacy would be different. That stink will not come out.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

"Barack Obama urged Americans to show generosity to Syrian refugees in a Thanksgiving message on Thursday, reminding them that the Pilgrims who came to America in 1620 were themselves fleeing persecution."

Aaaand John has an outrage.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-.....s-pilgrims

[tarran]

Of course, the pilgrims coming to America weren't fleeing religious persecution. They accomplished that when they landed and settled in Holland.

No, they were fleeing religious freedom, specifically the religious freedom that was tempting their kids to abandon the pilgrims' religion.

[Suthenboy]

What tarran said.

[CE]

Didn't some of them wander off into the woods and plains to gambol with the Indians though?

[d3x / dt3]

DON'T!

[Adans smith]

I believe the pilgrims were religious fanatics and John Wayne kicked their asses out. Joking aside,they had a very strict society only ISIS could love.

[PapayaSF]

Muslim refugees aren't fleeing persecution due to religion, they're just on the losing side of a civil war. It's like saying Trotsky was a refugee fleeing persecution, just like the Pilgrims!

[Cytotoxic]

A losing side that is subject to religious persecution.

[ant1sthenes]

I expect that once things turn against ISIS, they will be subject to some persecution on account of their religious beliefs. Boo fucking hoo.

[Cytotoxic]

The word you're looking for is 'vengeance'.

[PapayaSF]

And yet about a quarter of Syrian refugees have a positive (4%), mostly positive (9%), or not entirely negative (10%) view of ISIS. Welcome to Canada!

[Cytotoxic]

I'd ask for a citation but I really don't need another link to Nutbar.com. Not that these numbers mean much. They might say they like ISIS but that doesn't mean they are going to actually do anything. And almost none of them do. People who have rational judgement know the risk is so minute as to not be worth worrying about.

[PapayaSF]

Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find an excuse to dismiss a poll by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. They're probably just Islamophobes.

A poll published in November 2014 by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies found that 13% of Syrian refugees have positive feelings towards the Islamic State terrorist group. The data should raise questions about the risks posed by the acceptance of Syrian refugees into the United States.

The poll surveyed 900 Syrian refugees equally split between Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The think-tank found that 4% expressed a positive opinion of the Islamic State (ISIS) and another 9% expressed a "somewhat positive" opinion of the terrorist group. Another 10% only view the group negatively "to some extent."

[Cytotoxic]

So you conflated these refugees with the ones coming into Canada. Nice sloppy conflation right there.

[PapayaSF]

Oh, give me a fucking break. You can't dismiss the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies itself, you can't claim that definitions have changed, so all you've got is that I am "conflating" 900 Syrian refugees in three countries with the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who are coming into Canada? You do know how sampling and statistics work, don't you? Do you have some hypothesis about how your refugees are less ISIS-oriented than those sampled? Of course you don't. You've got nothing.

[ant1sthenes]

So, he's saying that middle easterners are going to infect us with disease, steal our land, take our religion and culture, and commit genocide against us?

[B.P.]

"Is America moving to the left?"

Wherein Peter Beinart becomes the living embodiment of that old chestnut about Pauline Kael not knowing anyone who voted for Nixon.

Really. Wade into that article. It's hilarious.

[tarran]

God. Beinart is really just as insufferably idiotic and delusional as he was when I knew him in high school.

[d3x / dt3]

He's probably still angry about that ass-kicking you gave him.

[Crusty Juggler]

Virginia will stop honoring concealed carry permits from other states.

Hopefully this signals the end of McAuliffe.

In general, I hate how it is difficult for truck drivers to legally carry while driving through different states

[Tak Kak]

Hopefully this signals the end of McAuliffe.

Unless the law was changed, he's not up for reelection.

[Crusty Juggler]

In the future. Sheesh.

[Tak Kak]

I think his public career depends on if he can deliver Virginia to Hilary. I'm sure they'll still let him funnel money by selling visas.

[DaveSs]

I wonder if anyone told the dipshit that open carry requires no permits and that non-residents are likely to just switch to open carry.

Thats what I would do if I happened to have to go to VA since my IA permit isn't honored anyway (though my UT permit is, for now at least)

[Six of One]

McAuliffe had nothing to do with it. The AG is elected, not appointed.

[JPyrate]

Considering Trump ran as a Democrat at one point in time, and Hillary is a life long Democrat. Then yes The U.S. is moving towards the left.

[JPyrate]

Disclaimer. IMO the "Left" is totalitarianism.

[Tak Kak]

Wasn't Hilary a Goldwater Republican in her early days?

[JPyrate]

You are just reinforcing my Agorist philosophy. =)

[Tak Kak]

I try to do one good thing per day.

[JPyrate]

=D

[GILMORE?]

Groundbreaking lesbian Air Force officer killed in Afghan suicide attack

5 others not worth headline. 27 this year hardly mentioned.

[Atanarjuat]

Not sure if they still do this, but during the Bush administration the PBS news hour had a somber moment of silence at the end of each show with pictures of all the soldiers who died that day. I haven't watched but assume that practice stopped around January 2009.

[GILMORE?]

I used to watch the news hour every day for like 10 years.. until I got a job that had me coming home late-late-late every night. I always thought that was an example of how they 'did things better' than anyone else in the news media. They preserved a modicum of class in a world of sleazeballs. I don't know how much its changed, aside from the recent blatant-partisan kerfuffle

[CE]

Life gets much better if you stop watching the news all together.

[d3x / dt3]

"Life gets much better if you stop watching the news"

/Airplane joke

[greasonable]

Although I share a level of cynicism with you, it appears, they did continue after that date:
From them
From an antagonist

The latter, I would guess would throw whatever they had at them..

[GILMORE?]

I was not aware they had excluded deaths in Afghanistan.

The comment there from RedState initially smacks a little of GOP hysteria, perceiving 'left-wing bias' in everything... but then, reading the ombudsman's note he mentions where they explain the exclusion (and that they were now including Afghan deaths in the "honor roll")...

... he basically confirms the guy's complaint. Instead of *just* saying, "It was an oversight and there was nothing political about it".... he also says (in so many words), "if there had been something political about it, it had a good point"

It reminds me of what I call "The Japanese 2-part defense against accusations of War Crimes in WWII" =

#1 = IT NEVER HAPPENED!! AND #2 = THEY DESERVED IT

It reminds one of how awfully partisan everything was about 10 years ago. And how - surprisingly - its mellowed since then. And is likely to go back to being awful.

[GILMORE?]

A LEVEL OF CUNNING WHICH SHOULD STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEART OF EVERY AMERICAN

San Berdoo Shooter, Tashfeen Malik, Checked "No" Box on Entry Questionnaire, "Are You A Terrorist, Or Are You Affiliated With Any Terrorist Organization"?

[Adans smith]

Sly djinn

[AlmightyJB]

I think they need to add another question after that one: "Are you sure?"

[GILMORE?]

"Pinky Swear"?

[Hayeksplosives]

I always assumed they include those sentences (like plotting to overthrow the govt, etc) so that if you check "No" and then get caught later planning that very thing, they can add perjury to your list of offenses.

Either that or it's a literacy test because who the heck would say "Aaaaah! You got me there with your clever questions! Guess I'll start over now!"

[GILMORE?]

Whoops! = Thousands of Prisoners Accidentally Released Early in WA State, Because Inompetence Reasons

Don't worry, they're making up for it by throwing the book at people for petty crimes

[Agammamon]

"We want our kids not to have to decide which bathroom they get to go in," explained Republican presidential hopeful and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about his opposition to letting transgender students choose the bathroom they use.

Well, at least he's honest about being a fascist.

[JPyrate]

At some point in our adult life we have all seen dicks, assholes, tit's, and pussies.

[DJF]

So that means that men even if they are wearing a dress can still use the men's room. If its no big deal then there is no reason to let women in the mens room or men in the womens room

[JPyrate]

It's not like we are all forced to shower together right ? =)

[BearOdinson]

It isn't fascism to tell kids that they are one sex or the other. They may want to try to change their sex when they become adults. And what they do at home is between them and their parents. But in a public school, keep it simple: "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina". (Obviously the libertarian answer is to remove the state from the education business so a school can offer a traditional approach or not).

I know this discussion can blow up, but bottom line:
Humans are sexually DIMORPHIC. Physically you are a male or you are a female.
(I understand there is a tiny percentage of folks with genetic disorders involving extra chromosomes or ambiguous genitalia. But with the extra chromosomes they are still generally identifiable as male or female. And ambiguous genitalia can be solved with genetic testing followed by plastic surgery).

You may feel like you should have been the other sex. You may feel like you want to change to the other sex. Fine. (I won't even get into the argument about whether or not surgery and hormone replacement actually changes your sex. If you are an adult, and doctors will work with you, do whatever floats your boat.)

But until then, you are the sex that nature made you. If your child is having sexual identity issues, openly discuss it. Listen to them. Be compassionate.

[BearOdinson]

(cont.) but don't just tell them that even though they have a penis, and have to shave their face twice a week, if they "feel" like a girl, they ARE a girl.

[JPyrate]

Hey I'm all for making men and women strip naked, and line up against a wall, then hosed down, with fire hoses, like what the public schools want to do. =)

[Not okay]

There's some pretty fucked up stories of parents pumping their kids with hormones to change their gender pre-puberty. It's celebrated. Kids can't make any decision legally but changing their sex before they know what sex is apparently is cool.

[Ornithorhynchus]

I was in a bar with the only transsexual I've ever known Saturday. (Well, I might've met some others without knowing it, and I have a neighbour who might be trans, but I'm not sure.) He's only been doing the hormones for a couple of months, but he's already pretty masculine. When he got up to go to the bathroom, he hesitated for a long time, trying to decide which one to use. He eventually chickened out and used the ladies' room, just like he always has.

I told him he could probably get away with the men's room (and there's rarely any waiting there), but he was too scared.

He was really thrilled later that night, though, when someone said 'Pardon me, sir' to him.

[DenverJ]

I had a guy who worked for me once who was "pre -op", but dressed as feminine as he could at a construction site.
Was an ugly man, made an even uglier woman, and had a girl friend.
Very strange, but i hope he's happy where ever he is.

[BakedPenguin]

I worked in the same area as a M-to-F trans for a while. I once referred to her and the other people she worked with as "you guys". After a short pause, it occurred to me that could be misinterpreted, and I went back over to talk to her and make sure she understood I was using it only as a collective noun.

Fortunately, she understood, and told me she used "guys" all the time herself.

This law would make that a $125,000 mistake.

[BakedPenguin]

Oops, wrong thread.

[Not okay]

Trams people have been around for awhile. I assume they've found a way to take a shit. What problem does this solve?

[thrakkorzog]

Meh, I've been to plenty of bars, concerts, etc. where there was a long line for the ladies room, so some women just hop into the men's room, and never saw any guys taking a piss complain.

[Hyperion]

Hillary Clinton has promised to devote $2 billion annually to Alzheimer's disease research, which she will pay for by closing "tax loopholes.

Look, Hillary, stealing tax payer money and spending on alzheimers is not going to cure you. You need an anti-sociopath fix for that and no one's working on it.

[Tak Kak]

"Is America moving to the left? "

Nah, just like it didn't move to the right because of Reagan. Just a awkward march forward towards authoritarianism.

[Frankjasper1]

I get a kick how the author thought the country moved way right due to reagan

[GILMORE?]

The author there basically uses 2 pieces of evidence to claim a "Leftward" trend

- relaxing of socially-conservative views among the broader population
- high-polling for "activist government" from young people

Neither of these things really has anything to do with Left-Wing politics.

The latter might give that impression, but young people's opinions are most notable for how rapidly they change when they have skin in the game - and the degree of appetite for 'activism' tends to be in directly inverse-proportion to age and asset-ownership

the former is just so much self-back-patting by liberals, claiming "victory" against Racism and Sexism and Homophobia etc. even though they are the same people who claim this nation is fundamentally "white supremacist", and who did nothing to change anyone's minds that weren't changing of their own accords anyway.

These facile arguments claiming 'victory' in culture-wars don't really bother me. i far prefer a smug, self-satisfied liberal who thinks they've "Already Won"... to the OWS types who think we need to dispose of the current order and replace it with.... well something to be determined in a committee at a later date.

[TheZeitgeist]

The latter might give that impression, but young people's opinions are most notable for how rapidly they change when they have skin in the game

To paraphrase Churchill:

A twenty year old conservative has no heart
A fifty year old liberal has no brain

[Tak Kak]

The citing of polls really made me laugh, not long ago I was reading polls of the the youngest millennials who grew up during Obama's first term and they were his biggest opponents.

You're spot on about the backpeddaling. In the US, the Left overall have lost, they've pretty much given up on their initial goals of radical economic changes (either through Unions or outright Socialism) and retreated to legal nitpicking to sway minor cultural issues.

Basically, to claim victory they've had to completely re-define and neuter themselves.

[Cytotoxic]

Your last sentence is really important. You know we often talk about how far even our preferred 'political avatars' ex Massie are from us. Well, so is the lefts'. The CCCP-commie farmers of the 30s-were serious hardcore collectivists who got power. Things could be a lot worse.

Even if the polls did show a leftward lurch, there is just no money for it. The world is too competitive.

[Libertymike]

Hmmm.

The CCCP-commie farmers of the 30s? They were serious hardcore collectivists who got power?

Methinks that you have swallowed too much of Jebito's jizz.

[Cytotoxic]

Know nothing of Jebito or his emissions. My only mistake was mistyping the name of the
CCF.

[Not okay]

I don't see how anyone thinks we haven't moved left? It's illegal to not bake gay wedding cakes, 10 years ago that was unthinkable. More regulations than ever. Penaltax, huge spending, identity politics everywhere.

Less left than 5 years ago but the long term projection is left. Imagine trying to ratify the Constitution today. No fucking way the 1st, 2nd, 9th, or 10th ever pass.

[Cytotoxic]

At the state level there has been some real reform. Walker's Act 10. GamerGate also was a huge pushback on the ID politics.

I think I saw some article here that showed that economic freedom in American plunged several years ago (Obama's Congress domination) and then held steady since then.

[AlmightyJB]

Rand Mother Fucking Paul! Maybe he should run for president?

http://hotair.com/archives/201.....ntrol-eos/

[ant1sthenes]

Maybe he should run for senate, he seems to be doing good there.

[VG Zaytsev]

South Carolina,
too small to be country
too big for an insane asylum.

[CE]

Maybe Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada will come to their senses in time. South Carolina is a lost cause.

[d3x / dt3]

He screwed himself by trying to be neoconservative lite.

[JoWaDat889]

Dude this is gonna be really cool.

http://www.GoneAnon.tk

[Cytotoxic]

There's a liar in the AM Links (whose very handle is false advertising) who is lying about statements I have made regarding immigration. FTR: immigration has never been bad for a country only good, but not all immigrants are good.

[Libertymike]

Who is the poster?

Why does his handle constitute false advertising? Is he selling something?

Please explain how the poster is prevaricating "about statement [you] have made regarding immigration."?

[Cytotoxic]

Did you notice how I deliberately didn't name them? Does that really go over your head?

[d3x / dt3]

Cytotoxic vs Libertymike

CRIPPLE FIGHT!!

[JeremyR]

1) Ireland. Did the English colonization really help them?
2) Uruguay. Go ask a native about how colonization worked for them. Oh wait, there aren't any, they were all killed.
3) Egypt . Go ask a Copt how all those Arabs and Muslims have improve their lives.

[Cytotoxic]

Colonization =/= immigration. Anyone who conflates the two is a moron.

[Michael]

Is America moving to the left?

I clicked the link, scrolled down the page to the photo of the pimply faced putz with a dollar bill glued to his pie hole and immediately recalled some study done a while back which concluded that US currency in circulation is slathered in human fecal matter to a degree you really shouldn't even think about. There's your Occupy movement in just so many pixels, folks.

[juris imprudent]

For those who might not have noticed...

Popehat's censorious asshat of 2015 - The US Atty's office for the Southern District of NY is narrowly trailing the [presumably Hon.] Tim Grendel, an Ohio judge.

Fire up them woodchippers boys!

[Rhywun]

Vote or die, people.

[BakedPenguin]

If it only weren't various flavors of shit, Rhywun. I continue to, but it's a fucking joke.

[thrakkorzog]

It's not all a shit sandwich. Sometimes it is a giant douche instead.

[VG Zaytsev]

YOu leave Breet alone.

He's just a boy that wants to fuck his goat in piece.

[greasonable]

Need to test youtube urls:
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