Glee Actor Arrested on Child Porn Charges, Trump and Bill Clinton Court the Female Vote, All Star Wars All the Time: P.M. Links

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  Police arrested actor Mark Salling on suspicion of possessing child pornography. Salling is best known for his role on Glee.

• Donald Trump, defender of virtue, goes after Bill Clinton for mistreating women.
• "Affluenza teen" arrested. (If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.)
• National Review defends the Tamir Rice decision.
• Glenn Greenwald: "Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to U.S. Than ISIS."
• They are going to make a whole bunch more Star Wars films.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

They are going to make a whole bunch more Star Wars films.

So many it will catch up to modern times.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

'Affluenza teen" arrested. (If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.)'

Ahem. It *means* he's too rich to be smart and do the right thing.

[Tonio]

Oooh, a three-way with Fist and Rufus. 2016 was the year of the gay, or so I'm told. ;-D

[Juvenile Bluster]

"Was"? You're a time traveler? Who wins the 2016 Presidential election?

[Tonio]

Shit. 2015. I was...distracted.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

By Fist? Yeah, I heard about that from a certain worst.

[Zunalter]

Obviously squeezing one off.

[Swiss Servator]

A fist pump?

[Jimbo]

Are you using your whole Fist, Swiss? : )

[Adans smith]

There's nothing wrong with that kid that a good beating every day wouldn't cure.

[TheZeitgeist]

The Star Wars/Mary Poppins crossover mashup is going to be one for the ages the accountants say.

[Lee G]

In which we discover that the Force is created by little tiny chimney sweeps.

[Hamster of Doom]

midicloroxians

[Aresen]

The Star Wars fandom will desert en masse when it is discovered that midi-chlorians cause cancer.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

That series had some of the stupiddest fucking names ever.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

Could be worse (in that respect). Could been writ by Dave Weber and everyone's name was CaCaC or CuLaC, where C is any consonant and L is any liquid, with random H's and apostrophes thrown in for no reason.

Then there's Norton, whose names tend to be so bizarre they must have been chosen for very specific purposes. A couple times I noticed characters with names which could possibly be read as seemingly apt phrases in other languages. Then and her fondness for names with "arse" in them, like in that one series where the elfs worship the god "Arsepal".

Then there's the Dick Asston novels. Maybe that was Weber too.

[Lee G]

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is dominating pop culture at the moment as it breaks all kinds of box office records and moves toward potentially dethroning "Avatar" as the highest-grossing movie of all time.

It pisses me off that Avatar, hippie science fiction piece of shit that it is, is currently the highest-grossing movie of all time. So more power to Star Wars.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If that's even true why have there been no sequels? I saw the movie but don't remember anything about it but surely one could wring another movie out of whatever the premise was.

[Hamster of Doom]

White Jesus trope.

Ferngully, basically. With CGI.

[AlmightyJB]

It was already a sequel of Fern Gully

[Lee G]

whatever the premise was

hippy dippy blue eco warriors resist big bad corporo-military invaders, complete with West Side Story love angle

[C. Anacreon]

with West Side Story love angle

Um, you mean, Romeo and Juliet?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Dances with Wolves or Disney's Pocahontas but with blueskins instead of redskins.

[Ted S.]

Dances With Smurves.

[Zunalter]

According to James Cameron's IMDB page there are 3 Avatar sequels currently in the works.

[greasonable]

James Cameron wants to live Homer's dream..

[Limpee Wiltstock]

"If that's even true why have there been no sequels? I saw the movie but don't remember anything about it but surely one could wring another movie out of whatever the premise was."

No.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

Heck, the command center set was very nearly identical to another set from one of his other films.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Meh. If you look at the list of the highest grossing movies of all time, you'll see that 16 of the top 20 were all released in 2009 or later. Movies didn't suddenly become super-awesome seven years ago, the price just went up drastically.

But yeah, Avatar was awful.

[Fist of Etiquette]

All the best movies were made in 1997-98. They don't call it the Golden Age of Cinema for nothing. (A certain little film released in 1982 is the exception that proves the rule.)

[Crusty Juggler]

All the best movies were made in 1997-98

Con Air was a pretty good movie.

[Lee G]

It's got nuthin' on Batman & Robin

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Poison Ivy 3: The New Seduction

[Hamster of Doom]

Let's fight!

The Rock was a far better Cage movie, and Face/Off is arguably one of his better works.

[Lee G]

Not enough bees in either one

[Florida Man]

Agreed.
/kicks Lee G in chest while wearing bear suit

[Crusty Juggler]

The Rock was not a 1997-1998 movie. You are such a girl.

[Ted S.]

Brainstorm and Twice Upon a Time were both actually released in 1983, not 1982.

[Pro Libertate]

It's a total scam not to even adjust for inflation. The top grossing movie ever is Gone with the Wind.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Frankly, my dear, no one gives a fuck.

[Pro Libertate]

I actually dislike Gone with the Wind. . .almost as much as Leslie Howard.

[Florida Man]

I liked Melly. She was better than everyone else but was too humble to rub it in their smug faces.

[Aresen]

I enjoy GWTW,

It is a fairly good story, fairly well told.

It also gives a great deal of insight into the attitudes of the 1930s.

Though it is appallingly racist, one point that is often missed is that is the way black people had to behave in the presence of whites in order to avoid being lynched in the 1930s.

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

The Margaret Mitchell novel is the awesome. Scarlet is a complete psychopath in the novel and confirms the all the worst fears of MGTOW.

[PapayaSF]

I disagree that it was "appallingly racist." It was a movie about a racist time, but for its day it was pretty unprejudiced.

[Ted S.]

Try "49th Parallel" and you might get a new appreciation for Howard.

You'll also laugh at Olivier.

[Pro Libertate]

Howard is fine. I was referring to his utter hatred for the film.

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

Frankly, my dear, no one gives a fuck.

I'm not familiar with that film. Sounds like a Merchant Ivory production.

[greasonable]

Merchant Keenen-Ivory perhaps?

[Zunalter]

Gone with the Wind was in release for 4 years (and made inflation-adjusted $506 million during that time). Its total sales include the 8 re-releases that happened over the next 60 years. The Avengers made $623 million over 5 months...domestically.

[Pro Libertate]

There are other factors to consider. Don't let Hollywood hype or accounting deceive you.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

The seminal gimmick to Avatar wasn't that awful. But if we're going to do films about people getting modified to live in unpleasant conditions, why not CALL ME JOE, which I think the guy that wrote Avatar should have had to pay royalties to (there was another novel from around that period that he seemed to draw every fucking other idea in AVATAR from. I can't remember the name.) or, better yet, MAN SEED, one of the best science novels ever.

[Aresen]

Look at the inflation adjusted list, which is more meaningful.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

Titanic is the only one in the top 10 made after 1990

Avatar was an amazing technical achievement, but otherwise a POS. Unfortunately, they are making a sequel..

[C. Anacreon]

That's a really cool list, thanks! It shows the true movie titans.

Interesting to see The Graduate at #21 all time. Who'da thunk it?

I'm glad to see Animal House make the Top 100, as well as Goldfinger, American Graffiti, Blazing Saddles and even Rocky Horror.

I think I will permalink that site.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

'Interesting to see The Graduate at #21 all time. Who'da thunk it?'

I don't know, really, but I'd put in my top five personal favorites.

[John C. Randolph]

hippie science fiction piece of shit that it is

If you look at it as a computer graphics demo as I did, you'll enjoy it much more. Kind of like Tron, back in the day.

-jcr

[Fist of Etiquette]

National Review defends the Tamir Rice decision.

To shoot him? Yes, I guess so.

[Juvenile Bluster]

From the article:

Then when Rice didn't put his hands in the air despite shouted commands to do so

There never was any evidence they actually shouted commands to drop the "weapon", other than the officers' word, was there?

[BearOdinson]

"PUT YOUR HANDS (BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM) IN THE AIR!"

[Mickey Rat]

Even if they did, does 2 to 4 seconds of not complying justify lethal force on someone who does not have a weapon in hand?

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Is this the picture that convinced the grand jury not to charge Tamir Rice's killers? Photo compares 12 year old's toy gun to real weapon as John Legend leads celebrity outrage over decision

[Mickey Rat]

So the prosecutors are quoted as saying that without the orange cap it was "functionally equivalent" to a real gun. Does that mean they think if you remove the cap it will fire bullets instead of little plastic pellets? Because it is a helluva of thing to confuse "functionally" with "visually" in the evidence you present to the grand jury.

[LynchPin1477]

That might be relevant if the cops had time to actually see the gun.

[Aresen]

National Review is the go-to magazine for cop suckers.

[Raven Nation]

If true, City Journal is a close second.

[Rhywun]

^This. Someone there just had the gall to claim that guy in Baltimore with the snapped spine was "accidentally" tossed around the back of the cop-truck.

[Raven Nation]

Heather Mac Donald?

[Rhywun]

Fred Siegel

[Old Man With Candy]

David French, yes. Charles Cooke, not so much.

[Tonio]

So, a derpbook holiday whine that was on my feed today - a friend whinging about a family debate about "who 'the libs' would support in a conflict between a gay baker and a muslim." If this was any of you, well-done. If not, up your game.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Facebook has gotten too easy. Sometimes I get tired of winning.

[Hamster of Doom]

... bored with it, even?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

To quote a genius, yes.

[greasonable]

Indeed

[Ted S.]

Speaking of holiday wines, our family went out to dinner on Sunday. I ordered a pinot noir with dinner while my dad ordered a chardonnay.

When the server arrived with everybody's drinks, he tried to give me the chardonnay and had no idea he was giving me the wrong drink. "Uh, that's not the pinot noir."

[Fist of Etiquette]

White people problems.

[Lee G]

Did you firebomb the place afterwards? They were sure asking for it.

[Tonio]

OK, I can sorta see not knowing that pinot noir was red, but I would imagine that everyone knows what Chardonnay looks like (thanks, cougars!), and by process of elimination.

[Ted S.]

I have no idea who poured the wine for him.

I should have asked to see his ID. A

[Tonio]

The bartender.

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

(thanks, cougars!),

DON'T YOU FUCKING OTHER ME, TONIO!

jk, I don't drink chardonnay.

[grrizzly]

It happened to me once or twice on a plane when I asked for a zinfandel and a flight attendant couldn't find it because she was looking for a white wine.

[C. Anacreon]

maybe she was thinking of "white zinfandel".
but of course, that's pink.....

[grrizzly]

Of course, she was. That's what made it so embarrassing. Also, good to know that white zinfandel is pink, I had no idea.

[greasonable]

Hey, We Got A Signaler Here!

[grrizzly]

Come on, it would be simply unfair not to finish the joke!

[greasonable]

S'ok, though I was joking about the white/pink topic, and I think you refer to the other sentence.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

They're all pink on the inside.

[GILMORE?]

/ Jeffrey Dahmer

[Limpee Wiltstock]

'"who 'the libs' would support in a conflict between a gay baker and a muslim."'

Depends on whether you want anthrax or AIDS with your pie.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.

YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHAT IT MEANS. It's the modern day Twinkie defense. (Does an older reference help at all?)

[Tonio]

Dammit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I claim the twink defense. (If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.)

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It has something to do with your BMI, about which you are very skittish.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm planted firmly in the sweet spot of body mass science. It's too settled for me to be skittish.

[Zunalter]

+1 Consensus.

[Tonio]

"Affluenza teen" arrested. (If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.)

It means that armed men in comical state-issued costumes forcibly took him from whatever he was doing, and locked him in a cage. Possibly shooting a dog if one was available. Sheesh, Robbie, do we have to explain *everything* to you?

[Aresen]

The little jerk got probation for killing 4 people (and injuring others) while driving drunk. He skipped out on his probation after a video showed him partying and drinking. His mother aided his flight.

He faces 10 years in jail for violating probation.

I don't know what charges his mother faces, but I hope she gets at least 10 years.

[Ted S.]

That's more than a cop would have gotten.

[Aresen]

A cop would have gotten a commendation for "driving under a handicap".

[Limpee Wiltstock]

Needed that judge that can fight people with his mind.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Can someone look up the Cal score? I don't have the internet right now.

[Juvenile Bluster]

The game was cancelled due to a protest from Berkeley students that football is cultural appropriation.

(they're up 42-21 with about 6 minutes left in the 3rd)

[waffles]

You are lies.

[AlmightyJB]

Lance Armstrong beat Cal 30 - Love in Overtime. There was a major collision on lap 357. The fans tore down the goalpost.

[greasonable]

I know what you are hinting at, but I am not going to integrate box scores into greasonable. Sorry.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Is there a game today? I thought they were already done for the season.

[Zunalter]

I mean, its the Armed Services Bowl, so same thing.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Fresh attack on named person policy after claims it will involve 'stasi-like interference into family life' by taxi drivers
THE Scottish Government's named person legislation came under attack from the right-wing press yesterday after claims that taxi drivers carrying children in the Borders will be expected to report "conversations to their state guardians".

The Daily Mail suggested this was a "stasi-like interference into family life," a reaction SNP MSP Mark McDonald said was "a giant pile of sensationalist codswallop."

Effectively taxi drivers with contracts for transporting children will be expected to alert the authorities if they hear children talk about abuse or anything else worrying. Although the Tories and the Daily Mail do not support the named person proposal, it has support from all the other political parties and just about every children's charity in Scotland.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

What is this legislation?

Every child in Scotland will have access to a named person from birth until they turn 18 years old. For most children the named person will be a health visitor or a teacher. For most the new role is quite similar to roles they already perform. The governments say the named person is there to help young people who may have short-term difficulties, "as a result of illness, bereavement or moving school", as well as those with long-term condition. The named person will "be available to listen, advise and help a child or young person and their family, providing direct support or helping them to access other services." It is essentially about joining services up and trying to prevent situations becoming more serious....

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

A few years ago I joked that one day we'd all be assigned a bureaucrat to our homes to report on things.

I'm not joking about it anymore.

[Lee G]

FREEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM

*gurgle.... gurgle.... exhale....*

[Pro Libertate]

All those people migrated years ago, mostly to the U.S.

[Zunalter]

Mel Gibson must be rolling over in his grave about this...

[Aresen]

One could wish.

[BearOdinson]

I remember when the SNP started taking off. I thought it was cool. Except for the fact that SNP is just like Labour on about every position of importance (except of course, for Scottish independence). And to call Tory press (Sunday Telegraph?) right-wing is to stretch the definition beyond coherence.

My fucking ancestors must be laughing their asses off in Hel (or for those brave ones, Valhalla) when they see what has become of their lands (primarily Britain and Germanic countries).

[Tonio]

The pussification of the west will be our undoing. My only hope is that I live long enough to tell a prog "I told you so" as he's carted off by the government.

[Raven Nation]

I told you so, you fucking fools.

Reported Robert Conquest comment when asked if a new title should be used for an updated edition of The Great Terror.

[PapayaSF]

He'll be carted off by the Sharia police.

[Limpee Wiltstock]

"My fucking ancestors must be laughing their asses off in Hel (or for those brave ones, Valhalla) when they see what has become of their lands (primarily Britain and Germanic countries)."

What the fuck you talking about? Your ancestors didn't even have names. Sveinn Feigi Karlssunr isn't a name. It's just old-timey Danish for "Man's good-for-nothing son young man". And Karl is still the number one name with these people, which happens to still be a word for "man" in their language, the default term for that matter in many contexts. I've also seen it used as an adjective meaning manly and upstanding, or something like that, though it could have just been the dialect. They wouldn't know what to do with a named person except rape and kill him if the instructions were written on the bottom of a wet paper sack.

[Hamster of Doom]

What? What? Hat tip?

Et tu, Suave. Et tu.

[Tonio]

Hey, I've been here [redacted] years and have yet to get an H/T. Also, I understand that it's not enough to simply post the link in an earlier thread, but one has to send in a notarized copy via USPS registered mail.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump, defender of virtue, goes after Bill Clinton for mistreating women.

If only Bill was running. (Just let Hillary twit again how all sexual assault accusers should be automatically believed.)

[Ted S.]

Were.

[Fist of Etiquette]

White people problems.

[Copernicus would chip]

This might be the only highlight of having Trump in the race. Willie should have been run out of town and especially out of the Women's Party decades ago. Looking forward to Trump just hammering him on this.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

The whipping girl: Screaming in agony, a woman collapses as she and a man are caned under Sharia law in Indonesia merely for being 'seen in close proximity' to each other without being married

[Tonio]

Western feminists demand action!

[waffles]

...crickets...

[Lee G]

Why would they demand crickets?

[Florida Man]

Sustainable protein?

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Instead of popcorn?

[C. Anacreon]

Indonesia usually has a great cricket team.

[BearOdinson]

No, no, no. I know this isn't true because Indonesia is one of those modern, tolerant Islamic countries that hasn't been hijacked by the few extremists.

[PapayaSF]

I know, Cytotoxic has told us so.

[Akira]

How can you bring up such trite clickbait stories when there are far more pressing problems right here in our own country? I mean, did you know that transsexuals are routinely aggressed upon by being forced into the bathrooms corresponding to their gender assigned at birth??

[Copernicus would chip]

Indonesia: Before I even clicked on the article I could have told you this happened in Banda Aceh. It is not indicative of "Indonesia" in general.

Also, from the pictures, it is obvious that there is a theatrical element to this punishment, and part of that requires that the girl "scream in agony" to convince everyone she's been thoroughly punished. It's part of the culture.

[BearOdinson]

While I am certainly against any attempt to censor the internet (whatever that actually means in real life), I think Greenwald is being way to hyperbolic. Shit like this doesn't help get the slightly libertarian-leaning Rs to our side. And yes, any threat to free speech is a long term threat to ALL free speech, but that is just counter-productive.

[Hamster of Doom]

"Sure, you're right in every respect, but you go too far with it!"

[Crusty Juggler]

I agree with you. I am all for free speech, but there should be some limitations.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

'National Review defends the Tamir Rice decision.'

Lemme guess. David French.

Ah yes. David French.

Fucken douche.

[Crusty Juggler]

What does David French look like?

[Lee G]

ewwwww

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

He should get a tattoo of two cop dicks on both sides of his mouth. While we're at it with cum drippings down his chin.

[AlmightyJB]

You could just take a picture of his lunch break.

[Tonio]

Eeeeewww!

[AlmightyJB]

That's even douchier than I imagined. Shudder.

[Crusty Juggler]

David French looks like a turtle who had a blood transfusion with Deputy Travis Junior.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

David French looks like he can handle two cocks at the same time.

[C. Anacreon]

That's even an uglier Mr. French than the Mr. French who was Buffy and Jody's nanny.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Ever have that "not fresh" feeling?

Thousands queue in Australia to smell flesh-odoured corpse flower which blooms every 1000 days

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Bay Area Job Growth Slows After Minimum-Wage Hikes
...The pace of hiring in the leisure and hospitality sector fell to a five-year low for the Bay Area last month, Labor Department data show. Job gains have slowed to less than half the rate that preceded Oakland's and San Francisco's adoption last spring of the highest citywide minimum wage in country.

After rising close to 5% a year, hiring at restaurants, hotels and other leisure sector venues rose just 2.2% from a year ago in November. Meanwhile, in the rest of California, where the minimum wage is generally $3.25 below the $12.25-an-hour level set in Oakland and San Francisco, leisure and hospitality employment rose 4.9%.

The data suggest potential employment headwinds from the higher minimum wage, which jumped 36% in Oakland and 14% in San Francisco. On top of that, Oakland's minimum wage is set to rise to $12.55 in January while San Francisco's will jump to $13 in July....

[Tonio]

That can't be true. Why, I am assured by progs that minimum wage increases lead to prosperity for everyone. And free ponies!

[Fist of Etiquette]

If one can't make a living wage, is employment worth it at all?

[Doctor Whom]

That's just a bunch of Randroid, Teathuglikkkan talking points. Smart people assure me that if the minimum wage affects employment at all, it will boost employment in some mystical way that the unwashed masses cannot hope to understand.

[Aresen]

Please, no Krugmanomics when I have just had lunch.

Or dinner.

Or breakfast.

Or when I am about to eat, sleep, or breathe.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Last time I flew through SFO, I noticed a benefits surcharge listed under the prices. Maybe there is a limit to how much can be rolled into the prices.

[Rhywun]

My one and only job in SF was an entry-level hotel job - it paid well over minimum wage, like several dollars more - which tells me that raising it has a ratchet effect some ways up the ladder because there is no way anyone in SF is making the actual minimum.

[Ted S.]

Never heard of Mark Salling.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Pictured.

[Hamster of Doom]

That was my first thought. "Oh, the femme blond guy, I guess? .... Wait...."

[GILMORE?]

The most implausible part of this guy's story is the part where he's accused of having an 'ex-girlfriend'.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

He's kind of a hippie nutbag. I'm sure he fishes with a wide net.

[greasonable]

Hasn't SoCal evolved symbiotes who sustain mostly on proximity to celebrities?

[Rhywun]

Glee aside, from various pictures I saw he actually looks like a world-class (and hetero) douchebag to me.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Union Posts Names of Non-Members, Urges Shunning
Local 412 of the United Auto Workers has placed a spotlight on employees who have chosen to exercise their right to not support the union financially under Michigan's right-to-work law. In a recent newsletter, the local urges co-workers not to share "tools, knowledge or support" with individuals who chose not to pay union dues.

It then lists the names of the employees to be shunned....

[Lee G]

Unions, proving how classy they are once again.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Other than FYTW, how is that not a blatant violation of current labor law against coercion? Unions file complaint after complaint if an employer used similar tactics.

[Akira]

But you see, it's different because evil corporations are out for a profit, which automatically means that they are seeking to bring death and pestilence upon their fellow man, whereas unions are benevolent organizations that faithfully represent the worker and always have profits- er, the workers' best interests in mind!

[Hyperion]

Hey, I just got here. Is there any Trump in this thread?

[Lee G]

Loser

(now there is)

[AlmightyJB]

Going after Bill for Misogyny which is perfect.

[Hyperion]

Not enough Trump, needz moar Trump. I'm going to get beer...

[B.P.]

As long as we're flogging the TSA today...

News radio informed me this morning on the way to work that my local airport (Denver International) had 1 1/2 to 2 hour waits in security lines, resulting in a massive number of missed flights. Turns out TSA was "taken by surprise" by the volume of travelers, and didn't have enough security lanes open. Yeah, the holiday season really snuck up this year. Doesn't TSA have access to the number of flights departing a particular airport daily?

[Doctor Whom]

Here we see another example of the perfect flow of information that makes government better.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

It's more than just the number of flights. There's been a lot of cancellations and missed connections due to weather in the Midwest and TX so standby passenger volumes have increased enormously. Additionally, passengers that would have transited Denver without leaving the terminal may be overnighted in a hotel, which then requires screening to get back into the terminal.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

RoK: 3 Ways To Keep Your Woman From Cheating

[Lee G]

You make me yearn for Jezebel links.

[Tonio]

Just keep telling yourself that you don't have to click.

[greasonable]

Hey, I can not click on more than one thing at a time!

[Mr Lizard]

Hold her in place by chomping on the back of her neck and keeping her gravid?

[Longtorso, Johnny]

RoK: Star Wars Lost $4.2 Million Because Of Our Reporting That Identified It As SJW Propaganda

[Juvenile Bluster]

One of these days Roosh is going to post an article with a trollface titled "I've been making fun for years. How the fuck did you idiots believe me once?"

(these are things I tell myself to keep myself sane)

[Aresen]

"Lost $4.2 million"

- 6 Imax 3D tickets not sold?

[gaoxiaen]

As if I need discouragement.

[paranoid android]

Conor Friedersdorf on San Francisco's housing crisis

This paragraph suggests we may be approaching Peak San Fran:

A recent This American Life episode, "Poetry of Propaganda," describes a San Francisco after-school program's production of an original musical starring young children. "I don't know what I expected," said the writer Jon Mooallem, whose daughter played a tiny part, "but it wasn't this. Act One opened on a sinister tech-executive meeting with a corrupt mayor and San Francisco's board of supervisors."

His daughter was a 6-year-old kindergartner at the time.

[GILMORE?]

Comments are all sad head-shaking about what a "Far-Right-extremist Conor Friedersdorf has become"

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Someone has to stand up to the Republican Board of Supers...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

BTW, that "sinister tech executive" was played by a 20 something millennial wearing an Apple watch and New Balance Sneakers and an Obama tee-shirt, right? Because that would at least treat the subject accurately.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Boom

[Crusty Juggler]

Oh my God.

[B.P.]

Good God.

Attention American males: Please don't go anywhere but your back yard or the beach wearing rubber slippers (or whatever those things are).

[Crusty Juggler]

Attention American males: Please don't go anywhere but your back yard or the beach wearing rubber slippers (or whatever those things are).

Another addition to Team: We Do Not Want to See Your Feets

[Ms. Eleanor Lavish]

He has hobbit feet. Those things need shoes.

[gaoxiaen]

No gay angle? I doubt the veracity of this.

[GILMORE?]

"Use the Force, Amanda Knox".

Does the star wars girl have a lesbo makeout scene in the new movie? Because... well, i hadn't planned on seeing it....

[Florida Man]

Don't watch it.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Not pictured: present day Amanda Knox.

[GILMORE?]

She'll always be hot to me. I loves me a woman accused of stabbings with Tom Cruise eyebrows.

[Crusty Juggler]

She looks even lovelier now.

[Crusty Juggler]

She wants a hug! Mandy, I am here for you. I will not let those dirty Italians put their pepperoni fingers anywhere near you.

[Crusty Juggler]

Yes! I will make you the happiest gal in the world.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

She's no Lady B, but whatever floats your boat.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Of course you would say that. And that's fine.

[paranoid android]

I look forward to seeing her played by Kate from Lost in the inevitable movie.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

That's incredibly generous.

She's probably busy doing shampoo commercials.

[C. Anacreon]

Kate from Lost is doing far better than tv commercials. She played the hot-bod boxing scientist love interest in AntMan, if you didn't see it.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

She WAS ass eating hot. Now, I wouldn't trust her to sort my mail.

[Crusty Juggler]

Don't listen to the bad man, Mandy!

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?

PAU GASOL DISSES DEEP DISH.

"I've tried it. I'm not a fan of this deep dish pizza. To me, it's just a cake of melted cheese. I like the thin-crusted pizzas better."

http://www.foxsports.com/buzze.....ese-122915

[GILMORE?]

Who?

[Mr Lizard]

I like this mammal despite being unaware of his existence.

True domineering species prefer their cheese covered meat pastries to be thin, greasy, and assembled by creatures from New Jersey.

[Buddy Bizarre]

New Jersey? Everyone knows New Haven, CT is the center of the universe for the best pizza pie.

[WTF]

New Haven?! HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Swiss Servator]

BURN ANOTHER BRIDGE, YOU LAZY, NO HELP DEFENSE PLAYING OLIVE EATER!!!!!!!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"Affluenza teen" arrested. (If you're like me, you have no idea what that means.)

Huh?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

They are going to make a whole bunch more Star Wars films.

I say go for it, now that George Lucas isn't involved.

[Derpetologist]

I saw it expecting to be appalled and was merely bored instead.

[Florida Man]

My 3 biggest complaints are that it is derivative, the pacing was too fast, and there was no character development.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My 3 biggest complaints is it lacked hotties in slave-girl outfits.

[Brett L]

Your one complaint is that JJ Abrams did his notmal job?

[Derpetologist]

fun etymology facts

-the word puppy comes from the French word for doll

-the word idiot originally meant a free man in ancient Athens who was not allowed to vote or hold office

-the word amazon means breastless in Greek; supposedly the legendary women warriors cut their breasts off so they could be better archers

-the word larceny comes from the French word for mercenary; mercenaries of the time were notorious thieves

side note: once while waiting outside the chow hall at Fort Sill, I saw a bunch of soldiers singing the "all we own, we owe" song from the Wizard of Oz. I laughed and a drill sgt yelled at me.

[Aresen]

the word idiot originally meant a free man in ancient Athens who was not allowed to vote or hold office

Now being an idiot is the primary qualification for government office.

[Derpetologist]

That was the first thought that came to my mind as well.

[B.P.]

Aren't you supposed to be away being beaten by rubber hoses at boot camp?

[Derpetologist]

I was until we all got 2 weeks of xmas leave.

[Hyperion]

So Derp, have you been trained yet on how to combat global warming? That's the enemy, right?

[Derpetologist]

No, but I have been thoroughly briefed on sexual harassment, and how it's a problem and totally not cool and also that includes many things I didn't think were even in that category.

During one briefing, a sgt asked us to raise our hands if we were offended by the word "teabagging". No hands went up. She then became upset and ordered us to put our hands up, because that phrase is offensive, damn it!

It made wish I was in the gas chamber.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

a drill sgt yelled at me

Yelled, not smoked?

*shakes head in disbelief*

[Swiss Servator]

Derpy!

You a PFC yet? 🙂

[Derpetologist]

Ahem, I am a SPC, because I am so very special.

http://platedlizard.blogspot.c.....after.html

I head back to Fort Sill on Thursday via autobus, because I'm tired of flying.

Oklahoma has about 9 seasons and most of them happen before lunch.

[Swiss Servator]

Ah, the stripes for college still working - outstanding. I want you in NCO rank soon!

[Derpetologist]

I was thinking of going officer at some point, so that I may be the oldest 2nd Lt in the Army. Not looking forward to those stupid ascots they have to wear.

[Derpetologist]

Says here I can apply up to age 32:

http://www.goarmy.com/ocs.html

[Swiss Servator]

If at all possible - do try.

[Pinky]

When I entered Navy boot camp way back in the late 70's I couldn't fold my own underwear. When I got out of boot camp I could fold all of my clothes and I could do 100 pushups. That's what boot camp is good for.

[GILMORE?]

The $144,000 in "Damages" have been paid

[Derpetologist]

I have long suspected that the only reason most progs care about gay marriage is because it gives them an excuse to punish socons.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If punishing your enemies can't be achieved, what's the point? Oh, you thought people actually wanted to wake up to the same partner for the rest of their life?

[BearOdinson]

I am telling you. I understand the lesbians. But if I was gay (or a woman) I would be down at the dock, waiting for the fleet to come in!

[Judge Forrest's Clitdong]

Mmm, sailors...

[Hyperion]

Progs just follow the script, whatever it is. If their masters commanded them tomorrow to hate gays, they would comply and do the necessary mental contortions that allow them to justify it to themselves.

[RAHeinlein]

Outrage. Refreshed.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer - enjoy your ill-gotten, evil money.

Cunts.

[Judge Forrest's Clitdong]

How the fuck, short of murdering a person's child in front of them and force-feeding them the body parts, could I actually inflict $144,000 of emotional damages on a person without physically touching them?

[Zunalter]

Genocide < Cake Denial

[Judge Forrest's Clitdong]

Who can forget when the Nazis refused to serve cake to Jews?!?

[Zunalter]

Kuchen Macht Frei

[Heroic Mulatto]

Only if its Black Forest Cake.

[Swiss Servator]

*Simmers with righteous anger over omission of Apfelkuchen*

http://www.chefkoch.de/rs/s0/a.....zepte.html

[Zunalter]

Sounds like about the only type of cake I would be down with.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Dampfn?del!

[Limpee Wiltstock]

Fuck, 144 thousand d?lares is more than a person's life is worth.

[GILMORE?]

Et Two, Brutus? =

"A South African lion called Brutus who fathered three "miracle" cubs despite having had a vasectomy in his youth is going back to the vet to have the operation a second time.

Brutus and his partner Nala, who live at the Drakenstein Lion Park near Cape Town, stunned staff at the sanctuary when she gave birth to the cubs just before Christmas."

[greasonable]

I'm sorry, I thought lions were so precious that the loss of even one was an affront to humanity!

[Mickey Rat]

Why did they give him a vasectomy in the first place?

[kbolino]

I'm gonna guess that the lion park has enough lions already.

[Copernicus would chip]

And if the lion park don't need 'em, nobody needs 'em!

[GILMORE?]

It was a drunken bet.

[GILMORE?]

Taliban?
Or
Orlando Bloom?

[waffles]

would

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Are you a dude?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Albiet, with skiing skills...

[greasonable]

Are you implying only a dude would?

[waffles]

What difference ? at this point, what difference does it make?

[greasonable]

It goes better with some video.. and maybe a little more context

[lafe.long]

Police arrested actor Mark Salling on suspicion of possessing child pornography. Salling is best known for his role on Glee.

FTA:

Salling posted a picture of him with a squirrel on Christmas Day to Twitter and had recently returned from a vacation in Costa Rica.

[lafe.long]

Chelsea Manning: Transgender Soldier Who Was Convicted of Espionage Calls Caitlyn Jenner a 'Grinch'

"In 2015 @Caitlyn_Jenner was the grinch who stole (and sold out) the trans movement. All I want for Christmas is Universal Trans Lib," Manning tweeted on Friday. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence.

In August, Manning was charged with four violations of custody rules, including having possession of the June 2015 Vanity Fair issue that featured Caitlyn Jenner on the cover.

[B.P.]

Like most things on Twitter, I didn't understand that.

[GILMORE?]

(sniffs) "Bitch"

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I think we can all agree: Manning and Jenner suck.

If you're interested in that particular cause, find decent people to worship.

[Swiss Servator]

How the FUCK is someone in the USCB Tweeting and perusing Vanity Fair?!?!

*headdesk*

[Swiss Servator]

How the FUCK is someone in the USCB Tweeting and perusing Vanity Fair?!?!

*headdesk*

[GILMORE?]

Go Banana Slugs!

[GILMORE?]

I so screwed up my own joke.

The mascot of UCSB is the "Gaucho". Which i suspect should be problematic.

[C. Anacreon]

Who is the gaucho amigo?

[Mickey Rat]

Well, if anyone knows about selling out, it is Manning.

[lafe.long]

Ivanka Trump: Donald Trump's Daughter Says Her Father Is 'One of the Great Advocates for Women'

She referred to her father as "highly gender-neutral" in an interview with People. The GOP presidential candidate has received criticism in the past over remarks he has made about women.

[Hyperion]

Finally, more Donald. I was having withdrawals.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Not pictured: Ivanka naked

[Swiss Servator]

Damme!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Can somebody check the Cal score for me? I don't have the internet right now...

[Juvenile Bluster]

Bane attacked and the stadium collapsed. Only Hines Ward survived.

[Zunalter]

55 - 36 Cal 1 minute left in the game.

Man, I really hope you get that Internet fixed soon so you can look this up for yourself.

[Hyperion]

It's college football? The score was 110 to 94. The defense really showed up today in this low scoring game.

[Hyperion]

Teh evul is real, teh evul is here!

Cloned puppies of Satan

[GILMORE?]

ISIS = Reining In Free-Market on Sex-Slaves With Common-Sense Regulations

""Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.

The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.""

[Hyperion]

Well, you have to have rules and regulations or else you'll wind up with a libertarian hell.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Professor Abdel Fattah Alawari, dean of Islamic Theology at Al-Azhar University, a 1,000-year-old Egyptian center for Islamic learning, said Islamic State "has nothing to do with Islam" and was deliberately misreading centuries-old verses and sayings that were originally designed to end, rather than encourage, slavery.

"Islam preaches freedom to slaves, not slavery. Slavery was the status quo when Islam came around," he said. "Judaism, Christianity, Greek, Roman, and Persian civilizations all practiced it and took the females of their enemies as sex slaves. So Islam found this abhorrent practise and worked to gradually remove it."

In the face of such mendacious, I am speechless.

[Swiss Servator]

"Hey Ottoman Sultans! Ur doin' it wrong!"

[Derpetologist]

I was about to say that Ottoman sultans captured many Armenian women for their harems. In 1915, there was another splurge of mass rape:

link

"During the genocide, between 100,000 and 200,000 Armenian women were taken into harems by Muslim husbands and children were converted, forced into slavery, or kidnapped and raised as Turks or Kurds."

[Hyperion]

The thing about religions, I've found, is that they can and will be interpreted in various ways to such an extent that you wouldn't even think some of the sects are even the same religion. At least this is true in Christianity.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I'm not even talking about doctrine. I'm talking history. When did Saudi Arabia get around to de jure abolition? Oh, yes, 1964. And only under great pressure from the West.

[Hyperion]

I've heard that in some ME countries, I don't know if true, that people will sponsor visas for people in 3rd world countries to come work and then basically enslave them by stealing their visa. It's pretty recently that I read some stories like that. Again, I don't know if it's true.

[GILMORE?]

"In Islamic law, the topic of slavery is covered at great length.[1] The Quran (the holy book) and the hadith see slavery as an exceptional condition that can be entered into under certain limited circumstances.[2] Only children of slaves or non-Muslim prisoners of war could become slaves, never a freeborn Muslim.[3] ...In addition, a Muslim slave is equal to a Muslim freeman in religious issues and superior to the free non-Muslim.[5]

In practice, slaves played various social and economic roles, from Emir to worker. Slaves were widely employed in irrigation, mining, pastoralism, and the army. Some rulers even relied on military and administrative slaves to such a degree that they seized power. In some cases, the treatment of slaves was so harsh that it led to uprisings, such as the Zanj Rebellion.[6] However, this was an exception rather than the norm, as the vast majority of labor in the medieval Islamic world consisted of free, paid labour.[7] For a variety of reasons, internal growth of the slave population was not enough to fulfill the demand in Muslim society. This resulted in massive importation, which involved enormous suffering and loss of life from the capture and transportation of slaves from non-Muslim lands.[8] In theory, slavery in Islamic law does not have a racial or color component, although this has not always been the case in practice.[9]',

[B.P.]

"So Islam found this abhorrent practise and worked to gradually remove it."

610 to 1962* is pretty goddamn gradual.

*when Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I was only off by 2 years. Not bad.

[Judge Forrest's Clitdong]

Some of these women have been rumored to have "assault vaginas".

[Zunalter]

A...um...friend wants to know if you have to pay extra for that?

[Judge Forrest's Clitdong]

I dunno, I always have to search for the thing that goes up. It's clearly too concealable to be legal.

[Hyperion]

Black and scary?

[lafe.long]

Puerto Rico: Governor Says US Has Changed Historic Position on Island's Political Status

"I believe it is my moral obligation to defend and to clarify the historic record," Gov. Alejandro Garc?a Padilla wrote in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

[lafe.long]

NASA: Congress Asks Agency to Develop Deep Space Habitat Prototype by 2018, Report Says

According to Space News, a report attached to the 2016 omnibus spending bill directed NASA to spend at least $55 million on a "habitation augmentation module" to support space exploration.

[Hyperion]

Oh, ok. We've just asked an agency who has not been able to get out of low earth orbit for 50 years to develop a 'deep space' something. I larf.

[Raven Nation]

I don't know if the science or engineering works, but Bigelow Space has a solution:

http://bigelowaerospace.com/

[AlmightyJB]

Santorum trying to help Ted Cruz win

http://hotair.com/archives/201.....servative/

[Zunalter]

How is that guy even still in the race?

[Hyperion]

Cruz should threaten to give him a wedgie with his sweater vest if he don't stay the hell away from him. I mean, what could be much worse than being helped by Santorum? Get Obama to stump for him?

[Zunalter]

The article was Santorum criticizing Cruz for not being willing to use the power of the Feds to push SoCon issues, instead leaving it up to the states to decide.

[Hyperion]

Santorum is a well known statist. Him and Huckleberry both would like to use the power of the state to legislate morality. They're no better than the progs.

[PapayaSF]

Eh, I'd say enforcing traditional morality is better than enforcing whatever morality the progs have dreamed up this week.

[AlmightyJB]

And Santorum is too stupid to realize that his distaste for Cruz not being socon enough actually helps Cruz.

[Zunalter]

What makes me sad is that most socons are some level of convinced that wielding State power is acceptable if it means doing the things you want to do.

[kbolino]

Every argument I've seen against libertarianism is premised on pitting the philosophy against unicorn government run by the right people who make the right choices with the right intentions.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, I think we pretty much just said the same thing:)

[AlmightyJB]

I also think that a lot of times people hide behind good intentions in order to punish people they don;t like. Not sure what drives that nature in people. It's hard to explain the WOD any other way. We're going to help people by putting them in cages and giving them criminal records? No, it's about punishing people for their vices because they can.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, it's across the board whether your talking about socons or progs. It's all about "good" intentions and the belief that they are the smart ones capable of delivering us all from our sinful and ignorant ways. The socons are a dying breed, but the puritan legacy lives on in many other forms.

[Rich]

"affluenza," characterized as "a lifestyle where wealth brought privilege and there were no consequences for bad behavior."

What better place to get cured of "affluenza" than in prison?

[JoWaDat889]

Off with his head I say, Off with it.

http://www.GoneAnon.tk

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Look, I'm just trying to get the score. No internet at work. We can save the human interest stories for when I home.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Wait a minute, if you don't have internet, how the hell are you posting here?

[BakedPenguin]

42 - 21

[BearOdinson]

"Jason! You don't lie to me. You lie to girls!"

[Ted S.]

Games and is??

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

It's an ongoing thing.

Don't worry, you won't see it again for 9 months.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

52-29 end of 3rd QT.

[Zunalter]

Re-gestating inside your mother?