Bill Clinton Attacks Bernie Sanders on Campaign Trail, Star Wars Movie Hits $2 Billion, Broncos Defeat Panthers: A.M. Links

Ed Krayewski | 2.8.2016 9:00 AM

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Bill Clinton launched an attack on Bernie Sanders during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, calling his plans disconnected from reality and his campaign a dishonest one.
Security services in Russia say they have arrested seven people on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.
The new Star Wars movie hit the $2 billion mark worldwide.
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell died aged 85.
The Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50.
A leopard wandered into a school in southern India, injuring three before it was caught.

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Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

The Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50.

The turnovers were racist.
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  The first thing that came to mind were apple turnovers...
  
  I don't watch sports.
  1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
    
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
  2. Loki 9 years ago
    
    I don't watch sports.
    
    The only thing worse than people who watch sports and yell and scream at their TV (like it has any bearing on the results of the play whatsoever) are people who don't watch sports and act all smug about it like they deserve a cookie or some shit.
    1. Spoonman. 9 years ago
      
      I don't watch sports, but I did wake up at 4:45 AM yesterday accidentally and played several hours of Civilization until my family woke up, so I don't have a lot to be smug about.
      1. SFC B 9 years ago
        
        I thought I was finally broken of my Civilization habit. Then I discovered mods and the new civilizations people have built.
        
        Free Society 9 years ago
        
        Crusader Kings II is similarly addictive.
        
        Citizen X 9 years ago
        
        I played a Civilization mod once in which Libertarianism was a government option, but if you went with it, you (as the central authority) could no longer choose what your cities were building.
      2. CE 9 years ago
        
        Libertarians, always plotting to rule the world....
    2. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
      
      If you picked up any smug, that says more about you. It was a shrug and a statement of fact.
      
      I still want to find some apple turnovers. They sound like a good idea.
    3. waffles 9 years ago
      
      Look Loki, yelling at the tv is one of the greatest parts of sports for me. You cannot and will not ruin this for me. Sadly NFL football is the only sport that really gets my vocal cords going. So now I have to find something else to yell at.
      1. Billy Boogers 9 years ago
        
        I didn't watch the game either, but happened across a replay of USA vs Argentina on ESPN2 from the Saturday Americas Rugby Championship and settled in to watch that. The spousal unit is a huge KC Chiefs fan; she took one look and was hooked.
        
        She had never seen a match before and could not believe how raw it is... She loved every second of it...:) she's made me promise that we will watch the USA vs Canada match this Saturday.....
        
        I cant believe USA blew their advantage in the last 5 minutes to end up with a tie........
    4. cavalier973 9 years ago
      
      I'll take the cookie, if you dont mind.
      
      Also, I don't watch football, because I don't have a television. *assumes ultrasmug expression*
    5. Zeb 9 years ago
      
      I like to watch sports from time to time. But I don't give a crap about the outcome.
2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Hello.
  
  Bill Clinton calling someone else dishonest. That's rich.
  1. expat 9 years ago
    
    Don't you remember -- they are broke. She said it herself.
    1. expat 9 years ago
      
      Hillary Clinton saying they are broke. That's dishonest.
      1. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
        
        Morally broke? Yes.
      2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        The whole thing around the Clinton's stinks horribly. $675 000 she commands to speak at engagements.
        
        I wouldn't pay $6.75. In fact, you'd have to pay ME. What could she possibly say that's of any value?
        
        Illocust 9 years ago
        
        It's not what she says, it's the sign that you are part of the in group. You've paid your dues and can no benefit from the Clinton machine.
        
        Hamster of Doom 9 years ago
        
        This. Chelsea gets paid $65k for speaking fees. Now tell me, what could Chelsea possibly say in a sixty-minute flesh-presser that is worth more than the median American yearly income. She's selling access, not words.
        
        Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        Explain, then, how Canadians paid Justin similar fees. I doubt they were paying for access.
        
        Which, I guess, makes it worse! I mean, I doubt he has anything more substantial to say than Chelsea.
        
        Maybe they should hook up.
        
        Ken Shultz 9 years ago
        
        How much is Chelsea getting to work for the Clinton Foundation?
        
        All those governments giving all that money--what's Chelsea's cut?
        
        gaoxiaen 9 years ago
        
        duh!
        
        Frankjasper1 9 years ago
        
        Or how about Paulie Krugman and Robert Reich getting 5 figure speaking fees. I can't understand what their appeal is.
        
        Jerryskids 9 years ago
        
        Krugman and Reich I'm assuming get paid to address groups that might have some interest in hearing what they have to say, if nothing else as a way of gauging popular or contrary opinion, they're not getting paid to be the featured entertainment at some kid's birthday party. Hillary, on the other hand - what does she have to say that's of any interest to the groups she was speaking to? What makes her opinion or analysis in any way an "expert opinion"? The only thing I can imagine is that they were paying a form of protection money, letting her know they were interested in what she had to say simply as insurance against the day it might matter whether or not they had shown an interest. In other words, the money is exactly as dirty as you think it is.
        
        Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        Your comment reminds me of the bureaucrat Stepan in 'Anna Karenina.
        
        Citizen X 9 years ago
        
        Krug-man and Reich tell powerful people what they want to hear. They provide a pseudo-intellectual gloss to totalitarian economic planning.
        
        BigT 9 years ago
        
        Many are paying for Hillary to affirm their righteousness about the issues. Foreign govs are buying access and the prestige of inviting their friends to see a celebrity. Think Kardashians.
        
        Pay up, Palin's Buttplug! 9 years ago
        
        Krug-man and Reich tell powerful people what they want to hear. They provide a pseudo-intellectual gloss to totalitarian economic planning.
        
        That's Keynes and Keynesianism in a nutshell ? anything the government decides to do is good.
    2. creech 9 years ago
      
      Sure they were broke. Had to take the dinner plates from the White House when they left or they had
      nothing to put their welfare cheese on.
      1. Brett L 9 years ago
        
        Even I don't blame Hillary for the behavior of her brothers.
  2. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    Rich yet accurate. He speaks with the benefit of experience.
  3. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    Marc Rich?
3. WTF 9 years ago
  
  They were afraid of a black quarterback in the Super Bowl.
  1. Billy Boogers 9 years ago
    
    After the Shellacking Doug Williams gave them in XXII, they had reason to be fearful........
    1. Anomalous 9 years ago
      
      True dat.
4. Rasilio 9 years ago
  
  That Denver D line sure looked like a group of KKK enforcers with the way they smacked around Cam that's for sure.
  
  That was the most dominant performance by a D line I've every seen, even better than the Giants line that broke up the Pats undefeated season and the 85 Bears
  1. Medical Physics Guy 9 years ago
    
    and the 85 Bears
    
    Pistols at dawn.
    1. Drake 9 years ago
      
      It has to be sarcasm. Nobody's that stupid.
      1. KDN 9 years ago
        
        Purely in terms of D-Line play? It's arguable, though the Panthers' line was getting way, way too much credit going into this game. They were a decidedly average group this season, and Denver's pass rush was historically gifted.
        
        I was really hoping Corey Brown would continue hauling in every pass thrown to him, eventually resulting in a Panthers win, so the Browns or Raiders would gift him with a nonsensical 4 year contract for way too much money. That's my favorite part of any offseason after a role player gets SB MVP.
        
        Mainer2 9 years ago
        
        D-line ? Anything to do with D-Money ?
  2. Idle Hands 9 years ago
    
    '01 Ravens?
    1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
      
      *'00
  3. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
    
    It was pretty horrific the way they harassed that poor black man.
    
    Spike Lee demands equalization!
    1. Citizen X 9 years ago
      
      I didn't realize Irish played football.
  4. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
    
    Best defense to never win a SB were the Eagles circa late 80s early 90s.
    
    Incredible.
5. Loki 9 years ago
  
  If Wade Phillips weren't such a racist, his defense would have gone easier on Cam. They only played so hard because they didn't want to get beat by a black QB. /sarc
  1. Loki 9 years ago
    
    Obviously I'm joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if some dipshits actually float this theory for real within a week.
    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
      
      Money on Coates.
      
      Melitha Harrith Perry is a good hand to play as well.
      1. Loki 9 years ago
        
        Melitha Harrith Pewwy would be my bet. I mean, she already tried to promote the whole "Star Wars is racist" BS.
        
        OneOut 9 years ago
        
        There was a post on NFL.com claiming that the entire NFL is racist because the black players are forced to play position that take the hardest hits like RB and receiver while white players are allowed to play easier positions like offensive line.
        
        I'm not exagerating. It was that stupid. Every NFL player has out performed thousands of other players of all colors.
6. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
  
  A black quarterback throws to a black wide receiver and completes a bobbling catch. Ruled no catch.
  
  Racism or at the very least extreme incompetence.
  1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
    
    I knew it was going to be ruled incomplete the second CBS's resident officiating expert predicted it would be overturned, I don't think the guy's been right about any call the whole year. It's the best part of the broadcast.
    1. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
      
      In this case at least, I believe he correctly assessed what happened on the field, even if he was ultimately wrong.
      1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
        
        Agreed, I just knew the second he agreed with me that I was wrong.
      2. BigT 9 years ago
        
        We did not see whether the ball touched the ground after he rolled over. That could have made it incomplete. Otherwise they blew it.
    2. Jerryskids 9 years ago
      
      BWAHAHAHA! My take exactly - I told my nephew I didn't think it was a catch because by the time he arguably had control of the ball he was already down and therefore couldn't have "made a football move" (or whatever the hell chicken entrail-examining rules they're using to determine what constitutes a catch these days) and he disagreed, but when jackass said it was a catch and the call should be reversed, we both knew the call was gonna stand.
      1. Loki 9 years ago
        
        I didn't think it was a catch because by the time he arguably had control of the ball he was already down
        
        That was pretty much how I saw it too. The ball was still moving around and wasn't "secured" until he was on the ground, so he didn't have full control of the ball all the way to the ground. If that was a catch, so was Dez Bryant's against the Packers last year.
        
        The funny thing is, there was one camera angle in particular that showed the ball still moving around in his hands on the way to the ground, but for some reason CBS only showed that angle once, and instead showed the other replay angles where it was harder to tell several times.
    3. CE 9 years ago
      
      The CBS expert was right. It should have been ruled a catch.
  2. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    And the challenge by a Hispanic coach denied!!!!!1!1!1!oneoneone!
  3. R C Dean 9 years ago
    
    That was one of those that could have been called either way on the field, and there wasn't the kind of laydown visual evidence on tape to reverse.
    1. Teaching Student 9 years ago
      
      I called it incomplete on the first viewing. It hit the ground on the first roll and he was still bobbling it afterwards.
      1. CE 9 years ago
        
        Except the receiver had his hand under the ball, so it never hit the ground. It did bobble before and after that, so call in a team of NFL attorneys to review the catch rule again....
    2. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
      
      THIS^^^
      
      Every Bronco fan in the room however said "yup, that's a catch." It wasn't a game changing call either way however.
      1. Loki 9 years ago
        
        It wasn't a game changing call either way however.
        
        Arguably it was. It was a play or two after that that Denver got the fumble at the goal line recovered in the end zone for a TD. That TD play definitely had an impact on the momentum of the game
      2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        Of course it was - it led to a TD.
        
        It looked like a catch to me and Mike Carey too.
7. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
  
  did not watch super bowl.
  1. Roger the Shrubber 9 years ago
    
    Do you even TV, bro?
    1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
      
      I have a television but no cable or satellite. Yes I'm one of "those" people.
    2. gaoxiaen 9 years ago
      
      No/
  2. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
    
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    1. DenverJ 9 years ago
      
      Uh huh, uh huh (does the cabbage patch)
8. some guy 9 years ago
  
  Newton actually played better than Manning. He just didn't have an O-line. It was like watching the '08 Sugar Bowl again. Well... maybe not that bad.
  1. Muzzled Woodchipper 9 years ago
    
    Carolina had no answer for the Denver blitz. None.
    1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
      
      curl into a ball and cry is an answer
      1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
        
        Did you see Cam NOT dive for that fumble? He should check his ball privilege.
        
        Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        Yes. I'm wondering if anyone is gonna make an issue of it.
    2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 9 years ago
      
      Technically, Denver did not blitz much. That was just dominant pass-rushing.
  2. Red Rocks Rockin 9 years ago
    
    Newton is damn lucky that Denver's offense sucks so bad and he had as many opportunities to make something happen as he did. If you watch his body language, beginning about halfway through the second quarter his swagger was completely gone; he was walking around like an old man on the huddle breaks and moving with no sense of purpose at all. Not fighting for his own fumble is going to haunt him the entire offseason.
    
    Watch his press conference after the game and you get a great example of someone who's not emotionally equipped to handle adversity.
    1. Loki 9 years ago
      
      Watch his press conference after the game and you get a great example of someone who's not emotionally equipped to handle adversity.
      
      Ungraceful in victory, whiny crybaby in defeat.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

...calling his plans disconnected from reality and his campaign a dishonest one.

This is the idealist I'm supposed to vote blindly for?
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed

Finally, she spotted the man she'd been waiting for. She stepped out of her car, and her husband put his hands on his head in horror.

"Is it my eyes?" she recalled him saying. "Is it a ghost?"

"Surprise! I'm still alive!" she replied.

Far from being elated, the man looked terrified. Five days ago, he had ordered a team of hit men to kill Rukundo, his partner of 10 years. And they did - well, they told him they did. They even got him to pay an extra few thousand dollars for carrying out the crime.

Now here was his wife, standing before him. In an interview with the BBC Thursday, Rukundo recalled how he touched her shoulder to find it unnervingly solid. He jumped. Then he started screaming.

"I'm sorry for everything," he wailed.
1. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  The Washington Post ran this too, making the point that the hitmen the husband had hired didn't carry it out because they didn't think killing a woman was honorable.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    What kind of half-assed hit man is that?
    1. BigT 9 years ago
      
      Scarface wouldn't kill kids.
  2. Copernicus would chip 9 years ago
    
    Never heard of an "honor killing"?. Sheesh. It's right there in the name.
2. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  He was holding a funeral without a body or death certificate?
  
  Or was there a body and this tale gets even darker?
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    Your next novel, UCS!
    1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
      
      Hrmmm...
      
      I could work it in as one of Rookhound's mysteries (I haven't launched that series yet, I wanted to get Shadowrealm in print first.)
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        Just give me a shout out in the comments.
        
        "based on a suggestion by a H&R commenter!"
  2. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
    
    I sort of read the article, and it doesn't get that specific.
Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago

146) You know, in some ways, America used to be a better, freer place.
1. straffinrun 9 years ago
  
  the aroused housewives had the intruders begging for mercy
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    Go on.....
    1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
      
      Seconded.
      1. straffinrun 9 years ago
        
        You guys really need more than that?
        
        Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        ....sure.
        
        straffinrun 9 years ago
        
        Fine, Since your diggin' the housewives
2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Enemies of the state.
3. Pompey 9 years ago
  
  The way America used to be.
Bee Tagger 9 years ago

Bill Clinton launched an attack on Bernie Sanders during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, calling his plans disconnected from reality and his campaign a dishonest one.

Bernie seems like the kind of guy to let that go without comment.
1. Troy muy grande boner 9 years ago
  
  Cuz with Hillary, you will be connected, assuming your donation is large enough.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

A leopard wandered into a school in southern India, injuring three before it was caught.

Looks like this cat...

[dons sunglasses]

...wasn't spotted in time.
1. sloopyinTEXAS 9 years ago
  
  Just like him, you'll never...change.
  1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
    
    Hey Sloop,
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    Broncos won the SuperBowl!
    1. DenverJ 9 years ago
      
      Uh-huh, uh-huh
    2. gaoxiaen 9 years ago
      
      Steelers. Others are pussies.
2. Rasilio 9 years ago
  
  You just ignore Swiss when he gets here with his wee beady eyes and keep on being you
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    *narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
3. JwoodchipperD 9 years ago
  
  Does this leopard have a name? I hear the name Cecil is available.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

New Zealand: TPP protester boldly chucks dildo at Steven Joyce at Waitangi

The Economic Development Minister was giving a media conference at Waitangi when Josie Butler flung the dildo, shouting "that's for raping our sovereignty".

She was taken away by police.

Mr Joyce said he was surprised but "fine" after the dildo incident.

"Fair to say I don't think those sorts of things happen everyday.

"We actually thought it was a little bit humorous at the end of it all ? new experiences in politics everyday, it's the privilege of serving."
Bee Tagger 9 years ago

A leopard wandered into a school in southern India, injuring three before it was caught

Should give the schools here worried about cougars with their male students a little perspective
1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  *narrows gaze*
2. R C Dean 9 years ago
  
  There's an actual jaguar that lives not far from me, in the wild, in the Santa Rita mountains. Which are clearly visible from my house.
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/wor.....eo-arizona
  
  Kinda cool.
  1. Mainer2 9 years ago
    
    Jaguars, I seem to recall, are so powerful they kill with a bite to the back of the neck, rather than going for the throat as other predators do.
    1. Copernicus would chip 9 years ago
      
      It's even cooler if you pronounce it "Jag-yu-war" like the brits do.
3. gaoxiaen 9 years ago
  
  Cougars are okay.
Domestic Dissident 9 years ago

The Clintons calling someone dishonest? I can't even.
1. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  They should know better than anybody, right?
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Attack of the squirrels: Horror as 'gangs' of rodents pursue mothers with babies

Elena Somailik, 49, said she and her friend were confronted by the marauding squirrels at Nothe Gardens in Weymouth, Dorset.

She said: "There were seven or eight of them.

"They were pulling at our hands with their claws and then they bit my friend several times."

Dorset Wildlife Trust is now warning people not to feed squirrels in the area and encourage their aggressive behaviour.
1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  "Here now, stop providing them with extra server space, and it should remain calm from now on!"
2. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  What kind of mom are you? Beat a couple of the bastards to death and they won't touch you or your baby again. Seriously, they are fluffier rats. You'll be doing the world a favor.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    That's easier said than done.
    
    And in England there are a lot of people who are absolutely pathological in their concern about animals, even invasive pests. They'd probably end up in prison for unlicensed hunting or something.
    1. Illocust 9 years ago
      
      I guess you're right. It's just ugg. I expect mom's to mamma bears when it comes to something threatening their children. It rings wrong when that doesn't happen.
    2. WTF 9 years ago
      
      Similar incident with a racoon in New Jersey.
3. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  I can see it. Even the mightiest can fall before a squirrel onslaught.
4. Free Society 9 years ago
  
  Is "squirrel" some kind of euphemism? Because I know the squirrel population over there aren't all native to Europe, an ever increasing proportion are invasive grey squirrels, known for their aggression higher-than-native rates of reproduction.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    You know who else was noted for high aggression and reproduction rates?
    1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
      
      Skaven?
    2. PBR Streetgang 9 years ago
      
      Josh Duggar?
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        *chokes on coffee, starting laugh frantically*
    3. Citizen X 9 years ago
      
      Zerglings?
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        +1 Zerg Rush
    4. BigT 9 years ago
      
      Genghis Khan?
      1. CE 9 years ago
        
        +1 billion descendants
    5. DenverJ 9 years ago
      
      The imperial Japanese?
5. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
  
  I remember being at college and eating my lunch on a park bench - the squirrels there were so tame. They were waiting for me to throw away the core of the apple I was eating. I yelled, jumped, it did nothing; they never flinched one jot.
  1. Brett L 9 years ago
    
    I believe squirrel fishing youtube videos were done on thhe UT campus in Austin.
    1. spqr2008 9 years ago
      
      We did that at a scout camp in Mid Michigan with Chipmunks. They were too friendly, and not scared of us, so we cut the top off a pop bottle, hung it from a tree with rope, and put nuts in it. Then when they'd go in, we'd yank them up and swing them around a little, then let them go. By the end of the week, they'd run away from us like they are supposed to.
6. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  It's the Ducky Boys!
7. Copernicus would chip 9 years ago
  
  Can't compare to The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, but that rodent has a mean streak a mile wide!
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      Look at the bones!
      1. Mainer2 9 years ago
        
        Run away ! Run away !
8. Brett L 9 years ago
  
  I assume that stomping the shit out of bitey squirrels is illegal in Britain? I'm pretty sure around here, its okay, but you have to eat them.
Swiss Servator 9 years ago

"A leopard wandered into a school in southern India... injuring three before it was caught."

That was NOT a funny punch line.
1. Citizen X 9 years ago
  
  So a leopard walks into a bar...
  
  Three people were injured.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    OK, it is funnier when you put it that way.
    1. Citizen X 9 years ago
      
      A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar.
      
      They spend several hours talking and laughing, and come away with a great respect for each other.
      1. Azathoth!! 9 years ago
        
        A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a....well, not a bar, because the imam does not condone alcohol, so, a restaurant--a halal restaurant so the imam and the rabbi don't have to deal with the possibility of pork.
        
        By this time the priest has wandered off to a pub where a man can get a drink and he has a fine night talking to people who aren't so uptight.
        
        The rabbi and the imam, seeing that the priest has gone, kill each other.
Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago

"The new Star Wars movie hit the $2 billion mark worldwide."

Is this more money than Han Solo can imagine?
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  No, he can imagine the US National Debt and then some
2. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  I dunno,..I think he can imagine quite a bit.
3. Medical Physics Guy 9 years ago
  
  That's enough money to give everyone in America health care 20 times
  1. Loki 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, I'm just waiting for the math challenged facebook meme: "Disney could split that money up and give every person in America 10 million dollars" or some shit. It's not called Derpbook for nothing.
4. Free Society 9 years ago
  
  He's got over 20 parsecs in his bank account.
  1. straffinrun 9 years ago
    
    FATCA is repossess the Falcon.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Clinton looks to sisterhood, but votes may go to Sanders

Steinem apologized Sunday for saying on a TV appearance Friday night that younger women were supporting Sanders because "the boys are with Bernie." On Saturday, Albright drew criticism for saying that "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other," even though she has expressed that sentiment many times before.

Clinton's struggles with women underscore the extent to which she has not yet figured out how to harness the history-making potential of her candidacy in the same way that Barack Obama mobilized minorities and white liberals excited about electing the first black president.

Cognizant of the challenge, the Clinton campaign has sought in recent days here to address the problem, tweaking her speeches to put a focus on Clinton as an advocate for women. Clinton spent part of Friday with a group of female U.S. senators she calls the "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits."
1. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  I think the dems are running into the issue that women don't make as good of demographic for permanent majority as blacks do. Black people in America live mostly segregated surrounded by other black people, and this makes an ideal environment for indoctrination where no matter your personal beliefs you can't imagine voting Republican.
  
  Women on the other hand are dispersed. You can't segregate the entire demographic in the same way, so some of them are going to be raised in a republican friendly environment. Those you can segregate you won't have as strong a hold on because they will have people you tell them are good (women) arguing from the other side.
  
  This causes interparty issues as well. Women are used to disagreeing with each other politically, so its much harder to get them to act as good soldiers and fall in line behind anyone with a vagina.
2. WTF 9 years ago
  
  tweaking her speeches to put a focus on Clinton as an advocate for women.
  
  Hmm, maybe her history of aiding and abetting her serial-abuser husband has an effect? Nah, what difference at this point does it make?
  1. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
    
    What you did there, I see it.
  2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
    
    Or making rape victims cry.
    
    She's a witch. She can't appeal to the sisterhood.
  3. SFC B 9 years ago
    
    This is the graveyard I think a whole bunch of Democrats are whistling past when it comes to Hillary. I have a number of younger women in my family and the extent of Bill's crimes, and Hillary's efforts to either cover them up or discredit the accusers, was simply not known to them. They thought the whole thing was about Bill and Monica and a little head in the White House (and even that is an almost text book case of sexual harassment, but at least she consented). That he has women going back 40 years accusing him of various degrees of sexual assault, with Hillary constantly defending him and demeaning lower-class women who come forward. Jezebel would explode if a GOP candidate or even Sanders had 1/10th the history of Hillary when it comes to victim-blaming and slut-shaming.
    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
      
      Would they have been as forgiving, say, if Bush had a Monica Lewinsky?
      1. SFC B 9 years ago
        
        Jezebel ran a 2000 word story about Ted Cruz is while they were researching an outlandish claim about him doing something sexual while in college. They never mention what the rumor was because of how outrageous it was, and how it almost certainly wasn't true. Imagine how extreme the rumor has to be for a Gawker site to not state it. But they still ran the story about trying to substantiate it because it let them get some quotes from former classmates about how weird Cruz was(is?).
        
        The treatment of Hillary during this campaign is the counter-factual conservatives have always asked for in the treatment of GOP vs Democratic politicians.
        
        Zeb 9 years ago
        
        Cruz is a sheep fucker?
        
        OneOut 9 years ago
        
        But in his defense it was an unusually pretty sheep.
        
        Brett L 9 years ago
        
        Huh. I didn't think he weent to TAMU.
      2. DenverJ 9 years ago
        
        Well, Monica Lewinsky had a bush...
  4. R C Dean 9 years ago
    
    tweaking her speeches to put a focus on Clinton as an advocate for women.
    
    I read this as "twerking" the first time.
    
    DO NOT WANT.
  5. Red Rocks Rockin 9 years ago
    
    No, it's because most young voters are stupid as shit. Not because not voting for Hillary isn't a wise choice, but because Bernie's running his campaign like an elementary school student council contest--"Free pizza for lunch and 4 hours of recess every day!" That's the perfect campaign for our Clown World country.
    
    They probably figure there will be plenty of other women down the line, but Bernie's offering free shit now, and doing it better than Hillary. Why not vote for the person who makes them feel good as opposed to someone who reminds them of Dolores Umbridge?
3. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  Does Albright believe there's a special place in hell for people who don't abet women in committing felonies?
  1. Citizen X 9 years ago
    
    If she does, there could be a subpoena in her future.
  2. Hamster of Doom 9 years ago
    
    The hive vagina has spoken.
    1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
      
      STOP GIVING SUGARFREE MATERIAL!!!
      1. WTF 9 years ago
        
        Don't you want to know what sort of creatures inhabit such a place?
        
        Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
        
        Yes.
        
        Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        I should have known you would...
    2. Lord Rollingpin 9 years ago
      
      The guys who designed XCOM 2 would like to talk to you, they want you to provide the story line for XCOM 3
      1. Brett L 9 years ago
        
        How is XCOM 2? Previews ran from awesome to shitshow. I'm hilding out for someone else to buy it.
        
        Lord Rollingpin 9 years ago
        
        It's very good. The hostiles have some nice special moves which will entertain you the first time you meet them.
        
        Brett L 9 years ago
        
        Thanks. May purchase and play. Am currently replaying Pirates! For the zillionth time.
4. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other,"
  
  I heard that this morning. What the fuck is the even supposed to mean? All women are obliged to help each other in all circumstances and in every case? At best it's retarded. At worst, really pretty fucked.
  1. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    But the irony... the delicious irony...
  2. Florida Man 9 years ago
    
    Is the flip side true? Do you really want to face a monolith of opposition from men? Dumb.
  3. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
    
    We pressure you into the sisterhood, which makes you free and independent from male domination, but also makes you submit to our will(s).
  4. robc 9 years ago
    
    It means Steinam isvoting for Carly.
  5. Jerryskids 9 years ago
    
    I liked Gloria Steinem's assertion that all the young women were flocking to Sanders' camp just because that's where all the boys are. Can you imagine the reaction to somebody like Rush Limbaugh implying that young women are so air-headedly shallow?
    1. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
      
      Jerry, the silly, young girls with boys on the brain misinterpreted Steinem's remarks, and for that she apologized.
  6. Mickey Rat 9 years ago
    
    Instead of submitting to the patriarchy, feminism requires women to submit to the demands of the matriarchy.
    
    On the other hand, what is the motivation for voting for Clinton other than her sex? Of course they are appealing to gender solidarity, it is the only thing she has.
5. BigT 9 years ago
  
  "Clinton's struggles with women underscore the extent to which she has not yet figured out how to harness the history-making potential of her candidacy in the same way that Barack Obama mobilized minorities and white liberals excited about electing the first black president."
  
  Hildebeast has a track record and disagreeable manner. Obama was a blank blackboard.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

India: Govt 'confirms' meteorite blast in Vellore killed man

A meteorite crashed into an engineering college in Vellore district on Saturday , causing an explosion that killed one man and injured three others, the Tamil Nadu government said on Sunday.

Scientists, however, said it wasn't clear how the government concluded that a meteorite strike caused the blast. There has been no established death due to a meteorite hit in recorded history, they said.

If a meteorite indeed caused the death, bus driver Kamaraj will be the first person ever to have died in a meteorite strike. Saturday's blast also injured two gardeners and a student.

"You have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time," is how astronomer and author of the book, Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors & Meteorites Michael Reynolds describes the likelihood of such an event in a National Geographic report.
1. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  "You have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time,"
  
  Apparently not, since that's never happened, and this has.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    That's not how probability works.
    1. Florida Man 9 years ago
      
      People say you don't have a sense of humor Zeb. I don't see it myself.
      1. Zeb 9 years ago
        
        I have a fine sense of humor. It's just not always on.
        
        Tonio 9 years ago
        
        I feel your pain, Zeb.
    2. Jerryskids 9 years ago
      
      Do you know how tornados and hurricanes work? The odds of a hurricane and a tornado being in the same place at the same time are not merely astronomical.
      1. Zeb 9 years ago
        
        Actually, those odds are quite down to earth
      2. Rasilio 9 years ago
        
        Given that Hurricanes can occasionally spawn tornadoes when they come on shore those odds are actually pretty good
  2. CatoTheChipper 9 years ago
    
    A better way of expressing the unlikelihood of getting struck by a meteorite would be to say that it is comparable to getting struck by lighting and an earthquake at the same time.
    
    Hurricanes often spawn tornadoes and lightning.
2. SFC B 9 years ago
  
  There currently are over 7 billion people on the planet and meteorites are constantly hitting the Earth. The odds of any individual at any given time being stuck and killed by a meteor are almost nil, but given how many people there are and how many objects strike the planet doesn't seem like it should be impossible that it happens.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    How many meteorites actually reach the ground big enough to cause damage, though? That's quite rare, I think.
    
    But of course it's something that can happen. Highly improbably things happen to someone all the time.
    1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
      
      There was a woman who was hit in the hip or something. Ohh and Cam Newton was just struck by a large number of meteors...cause,
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      Broncos won the SuperBowl!
      1. DenverJ 9 years ago
        
        Uh-huh, un-huh (gyrates in pathetic attempt at dancing)
  2. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    I believe this is the first known (documented) case of a meteor killing or injuring a human being.
    1. BigT 9 years ago
      
      You get an 'A' for reading comprehension.
      
      "If a meteorite indeed caused the death, bus driver Kamaraj will be the first person ever to have died in a meteorite strike."
      1. Tonio 9 years ago
        
        Derp.
      2. kbolino 9 years ago
        
        Did they show their work on verifying that fact through the 150,000 years of unrecorded human history?
    2. Hyperbolical 9 years ago
      
      The good thing is that a meteor strike never kills the same person twice.
      1. cavalier973 9 years ago
        
        Sounds like an idea for a Creepypasta story.
VG Zaytsev 9 years ago

The walking dead have long voted democrat, but Hillary has them campaigning for her.
1. WTF 9 years ago
  
  The actual buried and cremated dead also have a long history of voting democrat.
LoneWaco 9 years ago

so glad Manning decided on spending time with his family and Budweiser instead of Disneyland.
1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  He could have at least said "Avery"....sigh.
  1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
    
    In Denver there was an audible groan when he said Budweiser. We ARE the craft beer capitol after all.
2. Lee G 9 years ago
  
  I was expecting him to celebrate by tea-bagging one of the team physical therapists.
  1. Loki 9 years ago
    
    For all we know maybe he did.
3. Brett L 9 years ago
  
  I'm buying me some HGH tomorrow.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Ford to More Than Double Mexico Production Capacity in 2018

Ford Motor Co. will build a new assembly plant in Mexico and sharply increase factory output from that country, representing the latest shift of investment abroad by a Detroit auto maker following the signing of a costly new labor deal.

The No. 2 light-vehicle seller in the U.S. plans to add 500,000 units of annual Mexican capacity starting in 2018, more than double what it built in 2015, according to people briefed on the plan. The plan mirrors General Motors Co. 's $5 billion investment to double Mexican capacity by 2018.

Ford will build a new assembly complex in San Luis Potos?, and expand an existing factory near Mexico City. The moves will make room for several models, including a yet-to-be-disclosed hybrid vehicle that is described as a Toyota "Prius fighter," and will allow Ford to focus its U.S. factories on higher-profit trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
1. straffinrun 9 years ago
  
  If Henry had asked people what they wanted, they would've said faster Mexicans.
  1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
    
    Available in only one color.
    1. straffinrun 9 years ago
      
      Well played, racist.
      1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
        
        *gives secret honkey handshake*
    2. straffinrun 9 years ago
      
      Well played, racist.
2. Jerryskids 9 years ago
  
  representing the latest shift of investment abroad by a Detroit auto maker following the signing of a costly new labor deal
  
  And it's not that part of the cost equation includes US goverment regulation vs Mexican government regulation, I'm sure. EPA and OSHA and DoL mandates are free benefits we all receive.
  1. BigT 9 years ago
    
    "following the signing of a costly new labor deal"
    
    Proximate cause. Govt may be the ultimate cause, as you suggest.
3. Hyperbolical 9 years ago
  
  That's wonderful: a Prius workalike made in Mexico by non-union workers and imported into the USA. It's a hybrid for republicans because you'll never catch a smug democrat driving one.
Slammer 9 years ago

Chicago police officer sues victim's family over shooting

Robert Rialmo shot 19-year-old student Quintonio LeGrier six times, killing the boy's neighbour in the process.
Mr Rialmo says Mr LeGrier swung at him with a baseball bat from close range, but Mr LeGrier's lawyers say the two were at least 20ft (6m) apart.

Joel Brodsky, Mr Rialmo's defence lawyer, said it was important in an atmosphere charged by police shootings to send a message that police are "not targets for assaults" and "suffer damage like anybody else".

"The fact that LeGrier's actions had forced Officer Rialmo to end LeGrier's life and to accidentally take the innocent life of Bettie Jones has caused, and will continue to cause, Officer Rialmo to suffer extreme emotional trauma," the lawsuit says.
1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  Ah, Joel Brodsky - he is a special type of Chicago lawyer.
2. Free Society 9 years ago
  
  If only cops feared for their life as much as they claim they do, there wouldn't be as many cops.
3. WTF 9 years ago
  
  Because it is a well-established principal of law that a person's relatives can be held liable for that person's actions when the person in question is deceased. I hope his family counter-sues the living shit out of these assholes, including going after the fucking lawyer.
  1. R C Dean 9 years ago
    
    If this one doesn't get dismissed as frivolous and the lawyer who brought it required to pay all the expenses, then, well, I just can't even . . .
Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out its Teddy Waste Awards:

http://bit.ly/1okNIme.

Nominee (not the winner):

"Federal ? Canadian Human Rights Commission: For allowing David Langtry, acting commissioner to rack up expenses of over $760,000 while commuting from Winnipeg to Ottawa ? for eight years and counting. "

Not an elected official to boot. Mark Steyn approves I'm sure.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

10-Year Old Austrian Boy Raped By Iraqi Refugee Due To "Sexual Emergency"

The attack wasn't reported to the press at the time in order to protect the victim who ran crying to a lifeguard after the assault which took place in a "cubicle."

The refugee - who at that point had gone back to swimming and diving - was arrested on the spot and taken into custody where he told police that he was experiencing a "sexual emergency."

"I followed my desires," the man said, adding that he "hadn't had sex in four months." He went on to say that although he was fully aware that his actions were "forbidden in any country in the world," he had "a marked surplus of sexual energy."

The man said he had a wife and a daughter in Iraq.
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  Flayed alive with his hide hanging from the pool flagpole isn't harsh enough.
2. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  Oh hell, don't tell me this is a common opinion. Europe is screwed if it is, because telling them it's illegal won't matter if they see it as something beyond their control.
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    Oh, they can get the message - if it's delivered in the style of Vlad the Impaler.
    1. Azathoth!! 9 years ago
      
      Well, that's who Vlad's audience was when he was impaling, so I don't see why it wouldn't work now.
  2. Medical Physics Guy 9 years ago
    
    No link for this, not even Breitbart?
    
    It is amazing how the EU media has gone right back to burying these terrible stories.
    1. Illocust 9 years ago
      
      Ah, that's something I didn't check. This could very easily be a just so story, that tend to proliferate around these things. I wish the media black out would stop though. It's a pain not to be able to reliable check story sources.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        Here's their story on this one: http://www.breitbart.com/londo.....in-vienna/
        
        Illocust 9 years ago
        
        Thank you UnCivil.
    2. Free Society 9 years ago
      
      It's easier to destroy the homeland of western civilization if no one believes it's happening.
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
  3. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    It would be nice if anyone were interested in being honest about this stuff. Seems like people either want to gloss over any bad things that happen among the migrants or condemn them all as irredeemable savages.
    1. Free Society 9 years ago
      
      The most dishonest of all are those who claim it's just a few lone individuals behaving poorly, with a propensity towards barbarity that is no more or no less than the native Europeans.
3. Just a thought not a sermon 9 years ago
  
  "The man said he had a wife and a daughter in Iraq."
  
  I bet they're hoping he doesn't come back.
4. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Europe's funniest migrants/refugees (whatever they're called):
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7wypDW0jY
  1. Slammer 9 years ago
    
    WTF is the laugh track for?
5. Loki 9 years ago
  
  Would it be Islamophobic to point out that pederasty is often encouraged in muslim/ middle eastern societies?
  1. Slammer 9 years ago
    
    What's a pederast, Walter?
    1. Citizen X 9 years ago
      
      Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
  2. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    Encouraged or tolerated?
    
    I've read about it being common in the fucked up tribal areas in the 'stans. But is it such a big thing in the Arab world?
    
    Comes back again to what I said above. I have no idea what to make of a story like this. Some people will play it like it's common and just one example of all the horrible things going on, and others ignore it or insist it is just an isolated incident.
    
    Until I see some reliable numbers, I won't assume anything. In any group of a few million people there will be some child rapists.
    1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
      
      Until I see some reliable numbers, I won't assume anything
      
      I'd love reliable numbers. The problem is so many groups are engaged in hiding the activity that we can't tell the prevalence.
    2. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
      
      I saw a lot more of it in Afghanistan ... "Women are for babies, boys are for pleasure". I didn't get amongst the regular folk in Iraq or Kuwait - just their armies, so I cannot report much 'bout Arab lands.
    3. Tonio 9 years ago
      
      Apparently it used to be pretty institutionalized in North Africa. The locals did a booming business catering to a certain sort of English gentry.
6. Copernicus would chip 9 years ago
  
  You intolerants... Masturbation is probably against his religion.
  1. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    Good one, Perny.
7. Mickey Rat 9 years ago
  
  He has seemed to absorbed the rationalizations of social liberalism.
  
  "If you think raping little boys is wrong, then do not rape little boys."
Ivan Pike 9 years ago

Light pillars in Alaska.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/imag.....y_1115.jpg

And Finland.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/imag.....st_960.jpg

I love the north.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

The new Star Wars movie hit the $2 billion mark worldwide.

Yeah but that is far, far away galaxy money not adjusted for long, long ago inflation.
1. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  You don't think 2 Death Stars and Starkiller base were funded just by raising taxes? The rebellion would have had no problem overthrowing the Empire if the average Joe had to pay for those boondoggles out of pocket. They had to hide the true cost by issuing debt and debasing the currency.
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    When you look at the numbers involved in the budget of a galactic empire, a Death Star is just a rounding error in terms of cost.
  2. BearOdinson 9 years ago
    
    But I bet Palpatine at least gave them universal health care and a decent minimum wage!
    1. spqr2008 9 years ago
      
      But only for the humans.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Byron York: As vote nears, a more radical Trump emerges

In a nearly one-hour speech, Trump railed against pharmaceutical companies. He railed against oil companies. And insurance companies. And defense contractors. And he set himself against a political system that he said allows big-money corporate "bloodsuckers" to control the government with campaign contributions.

"Whether it's the insurance companies, or the drug companies, or the oil companies, it's all the same thing," Trump said. "We're never going to get our country back if we keep doing this."

Trump promised to allow the government to negotiate drug prices ? a common position among Democrats but rarely heard at nominally Republican events. He said he would not raise military spending, arguing that the nation's defenses can be improved without increasing its already huge Pentagon budget. He promised tough sanctions on American companies that move jobs overseas.
1. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  So, more like Bernie?
  
  Trump/Sanders 2016!
2. Copernicus would chip 9 years ago
  
  It'd be cool if he worked himself into such a froth that he started railing against unscrupulous real estate developers.
3. Jerryskids 9 years ago
  
  I heard an insane rant he was making about all the companies leaving New Hampshire for Mexico just because of lower taxes and how the companies that stuck it out and stayed here were wonderful companies and how we were going to go get those companies in Mexico and bring them back here. If you squint hard, you might could say we're going to bring those companies back here by lowering taxes, but the way he was talking about them seemed to be calling them traitors and he was suggesting bringinng them back at gunpoint. "Those are our companies with our jobs and our money and those bastards kidnapped them and took them to Mexico!"
4. BigT 9 years ago
  
  ". And he set himself against a political system that he said allows big-money corporate "bloodsuckers" to control the government with campaign contributions."
  
  Great, but he (like Bernie) wrongly blames the companies for eating at the trough rather than Congress that fills the trough.
Stilgar 9 years ago

With Cuntillary trotting out Halfbright and then Bill to moan about Sanders lack of FP chops (and other things) isn't it time for an add asking about the FP experience of such luminaries as Reagan, Bill Clinton and Obama prior to their taking office? This weekend smacks of desperation by her campaign.
1. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
  
  Someone took their nickname pills this morning.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    +1 Block Insane Yomamma
2. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  Hillary has experience in FP, but no successes to speak of. What exactly are her chops? Russian Reset? TPP that she was for before she was against? Fomenting civil war in Libya that led to radical Islamists gaining territory and ISIS getting weapons from the US? At least she stopped Boko Haram and saved those poor girls, oh wait...
3. R C Dean 9 years ago
  
  Yeah, if I was Hillary I wouldn't want to draw attention to the details of my tenure at State.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

This Week's Dumb Talking Point: Ted Cruz Is An Anti-Semite

Ted Cruz was recently asked to react to Donald Trump's comments about his wife's relationship with Goldman Sachs. Cruz retorted that for the billionaire "to make this attack, to use a New York term, it's the height of chutzpah."

Dropping the word chutzpah, even if sounds a little awkward coming from Cruz, works in this context. There's really no effective English equivalent. "Audacity," "guts," "nerve," "boldness;" all of them are fine, but none of them really have the punch of "chutzpah."

But if you're a lefty columnist adept at ferreting out nefarious conservative dog whistles, the word also conveys anti-Semitism. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank?who makes a habit of embellishing innocuous statements with imaginary bigotry? explains that voters were finally given a clue as Cruz meant about New York Values: "For Cruz, 'New York' is another way of saying 'Jewish.'"
1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Is Cruz hate because Americans are racist against Canadians and Canadian related products?
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    Well no, because Americans aren't aware of Canadian-related products, and are barely even aware of Canada.
    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
      
      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3570768/
      
      You better get aware pally.
      1. WTF 9 years ago
        
        Look, the Shat is awesome, but he didn't exactly invent Hollywood, eh?
2. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
  
  So if "New York" is another way of saying "Jewish," what about all those times leftists attack "banksters" at "Goldman Sachs?"
  
  I don't think that's anti-Semitic either, but it comes a lot closer than talking about 'New York values.'
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    *looks around New York office*
    
    Only one Jew in sight, (ironically, he works in accounting). There are more Hindus in proximity to me than Jews.
3. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  That's so incredibly stupid. The right loves Jews because of Israel. This accusation doesn't even pass the sniff test. God these idiots desperately need to get out of their bubble.
  1. spqr2008 9 years ago
    
    The irony of course is that Israel's government is much more like Bernie Sander's vision of what government should be than the U.S. government.
4. Frankjasper1 9 years ago
  
  Isn't Dana Milibank a complete hack? I have seen other stuff from him and it is just full of burfle
5. Roger the Shrubber 9 years ago
  
  In this instance, I think the 'Cultural Appropriation' attack would have been more appropriate.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Sen. Ben Sasse: Democrats Have Gone 'Post-Constitutional'

Is the United States facing a constitutional crisis?

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., thinks so, saying that the Democratic Party has largely gone post-constitutional and that even inside the GOP, there is a crisis of confidence in the American idea. Sasse believes many lawmakers like the idea of being in power, not understanding what the job of Washington and government actually is.

So how do we go about fixing it and what should voters expect if a conservative wins the White House in 2016? In our interview, Sasse shared a few ideas.
1. CE 9 years ago
  
  It's not just the Democrats. Trump is going post constitutional too. He would throw the whole thing out, thinking he can solve problems better himself.
  
  And Chris Christie actually said in the last debate that he could make the trains run on time, apparently missing the historical reference he was making.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Kevin Williamson: Mrs. Clinton's Ode to Serfdom

Terry Shumaker, former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad (I wonder what that gig cost him) and current abject minion in the service of Mrs. Clinton, quotes Herself telling an audience in New Hampshire: "Service is the rent we pay for living in this great country."

There is a very old English word for people who are required to perform service as a rent for their existence, and that word is serf.

Serfdom is a form of bondage. Americans are not serfs. We are not sharecroppers on Herself's farm or in vassalage to that smear of thieving nincompoopery in Washington that purports to rule us.

We don't owe you any damned rent.
1. Tonio 9 years ago
  
  That's not a nice thing to say about minions.
2. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  Wow. What are the odds she uses the word Proletariat in a speech before November?
3. Jerryskids 9 years ago
  
  Clinton disgusts me with her bragging about her life of "public service". It ain't service when you're obviously lusting after power and getting rich doing it. Try being a busboy at a Mexican restaurant some time if you want to know what "service" looks like.
  1. kbolino 9 years ago
    
    Most "servants" don't pull in the average household income 100 times over each year.
4. Mainer2 9 years ago
  
  The Rent is Too Damn High !
5. Mickey Rat 9 years ago
  
  Next, she will be giving us directions to the services she wants perform, a Road to Service if you will.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Turkey delivers aid across border as Syrian forces step up Aleppo assault

Rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo, Syria's largest before the war, are still home to 350,000 people, and aid workers have said they could soon fall to the government.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, said air strikes, thought to be from Russian planes, hit villages north of Aleppo on Sunday including Bashkoy, Haritan and Anadan, the latter two near the road to Turkey.

Russia's intervention has tipped the balance of the war in favor of President Bashar al-Assad, reversing gains the rebels made last year. Advances by the Syrian army and allied militias, including Iranian fighters, are threatening to cut the rebel-held zones of Aleppo off from Turkish supply lines.

"In some parts of Aleppo, the Assad regime has cut the north-south corridor ... Turkey is under threat," Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by the Hurriyet newspaper as telling reporters on his plane back from a visit to Latin America.
1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  - You, Ghitan of Aleppo.
  
  - Sherif?
  
  - Where do we ride?
  
  - Damascus, sherif.
  
  - Aye, but for what?
  
  - Sherif, for Lawrence!
  1. DenverJ 9 years ago
    
    +7 pillars of wisdom
2. Lee G 9 years ago
  
  I can hear the neocons like Nuland screaming bloody murder from here.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    Or Samantha Rice calling for "humanitarian intervention"?
    1. Lee G 9 years ago
      
      Susan maybe?
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        Gah!
        
        spqr2008 9 years ago
        
        Samantha Susan Powers Rice?
Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago

"A leopard wandered into a school in southern India, injuring three before it was caught."

Leopards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcyXt6dkhvo
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

European Stocks Fall, Credit Weakens as Signs of Distress Abound

Signs of distress in financial markets are gathering force as concern over the state of the global economy deepens.

European stocks are down for a sixth day and the cost of protecting European banks' and insurers' senior debt is on its worst run since March 2013. In addition, yields on bonds for Europe's most-indebted countries are rising, while the rate on Germany's 10-year bunds are at the lowest since April. Oil fell below $30 a barrel and nickel is trading at its weakest level since 2003 as supply exceeds slowing demand. Futures point to declines in U.S. shares amid a retreat in emerging markets.
SugarFree 9 years ago

OITNB Star Diane Guerrero Advocates for the End Of Deportations

You mean the deportations being done by her hero, Barack Obama?
1. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
  
  She's hot...
  
  and dumb.
  1. straffinrun 9 years ago
    
    and full of ...
    1. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
      
      Wholesome goodness?
  2. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    Actresses, CPA, actresses. Remember that they make their living feeling and emoting. While some of them are also capable of rational thought, it's not what they are selected for.
2. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
  
  The Democrats can't lose on some issues.
Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago

I love how ESPN just invents controversies no one could possibly give a shit about. Cam Newton was a little ornery last night after he lost the SUPER BOWL and ESPN radio was reporting this like he'd murdered then eaten a baby on live T.V. You lose the biggest game of the year and I think you have the right to be a little pissy with the tabloid journalism media.

This might be worse than the time ESPN spent a week and a half hyperventilating because Matt Leinart was photographed with a beer bong at the age of 23, which is clearly unheard of delinquent behavior.
1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  anybody could have seen it coming after two weeks of hyperventilating about how some people don't like cam because he "showboats" and what that says about us as a nation. They've really jumped the shark.
  1. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
    
    ^ I was actually just thinking that. I love the whinging about Cam's 'showboating' because the only people I've seen complaining about that were people on ESPN.
    
    On Mike & Mike they actually talked about a week ago about whether it's racism that causes people to complain about Cam's showboating. Since the only people who I've actually seen discuss the topic are on ESPN, I'd say probably not, unless ESPN itself is admitting it's a racist institution or something.
    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
      
      Some local sports kid who has command of a morning show with scant experience was making an issue of this as well believing it was race related. When lawyer Eric Macramella presented a sound and logical case for what it largely wasn't, the kid arrogantly scoffed it off. It was obnoxious.
      
      Made me realize dumb people fall back on that excuse.
      
      By the same token, the fawning over Manning is nauseating - especially given the latest development with him, HGH, PI's and Ari Fleischer. I'm beginning to suspect if his persona is just that.
      1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        'why it wasn't'
      2. Loki 9 years ago
        
        given the latest development with him, HGH, PI's and Ari Fleischer.
        
        Speaking of invented controversies no one could possibly give a shit about...
        
        KDN 9 years ago
        
        Look, all people implicated, however tenuously, in a doping scandal are worse than Hitler and should be treated as such.
        
        Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
        
        Maybe but...if it were why is he going through such dramatic lengths?
        
        I'm just keeping a healthy ear up is all.
    2. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
      
      I would strongly recommend that you stop listening to Mike and Mike. Only on ESPN can two intensely boring individuals be on the air for so long.
    3. R C Dean 9 years ago
      
      Newton is an incredible football player, and pretty much of an asshole.
      
      http://nypost.com/2016/02/06/c.....-humility/
      
      If you don't people thinking you're an asshole, don't act like one.
    4. Rasilio 9 years ago
      
      Steve Smith,Dan Lebatard, and Bomonte Jones...
      
      Yep, sounds like a pretty racist institution to me
2. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys tossed a chair at a wall. As long as he doesn't punch or attack somebody over it, he's having a pretty reasonable reaction to a big fucking deal in his world.
3. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  Newton had marketed himself as having fun, a joy in the game - it was never true, but that was how he was branding himself. Last night showed that to be false, so the Boo-yah network has a story (one they helped create, to be sure).
  1. Domestic Dissident 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, I wanted to try and give him the benefit of the doubt and an honest fair chance to show that he has changed, but he exposed himself. He's a completely full of shit phony.
    
    His so called "joy" when things are going well is nothing but gloating and bad sportsmanship. The real Newton came out for everyone to see last night.
    1. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
      
      It's still a total non-issue that the media shouldn't care about when they have, you know, an actual game to talk about.
      
      Yeah, let's not talk about Denver's ridiculous defensive line play because Cam Newton had a sad.
      1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        Is Ware going to tell us were the Fountain of Youth is located? It is obvious he found it.
        
        Rasilio 9 years ago
        
        I heard he got a tip from Payton that it was located near a medical clinic in Indiana
      2. Loki 9 years ago
        
        The media still wants to make the Superbowl all about the Panthers and Cam Newton instead of acknowledging that Denver's defense shut down their current favorite golden boy.
        
        I also think the sports media really hates it when defenses win championships because it means a "boring" game. They want lots of high scoring action, not a low scoring affair with only 2 total offensive TDs. They're pissed that, once again, defense wins championships. That and they're pissed that they were wrong about which team was going to win. The national sports media was in the tank for Carolina the last 2 weeks.
        
        KDN 9 years ago
        
        I also think the sports media really hates it when defenses win championships because it means a "boring" game.
        
        See also: hockey media gnashing their teeth for 20 years following the NHL's return to pre-expansion scoring rates.
        
        It's an odd sport: the more talent in a league, the harder it is to score.
        
        Rasilio 9 years ago
        
        I don't know, I've seen Defensive games that were still exciting but yeah last nights game was pretty boring
  2. CE 9 years ago
    
    Oh, I think the fun, joy of the game bit was true. Cam plays like a kid -- happy when he wins and pouty when he loses. At least we won't have to watch Peyton Manning play football any more.
4. Domestic Dissident 9 years ago
  
  ESPN might be even worse than MSNBC. At some point along the way, a truly once great network devolved into pure lowlife scum.
  1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
    
    I've officially put an X on ESPN. Problem is, they own all the rights.
5. Loki 9 years ago
  
  Meh. At worst he wasn't he wasn't very graceful in defeat. Big whoopedy-doo. I think the bigger question is why anyone would expect a known "showboater" to be. Most people who showboat usually are sore losers too.
6. Red Rocks Rockin 9 years ago
  
  I don't think anyone expected him to not be upset about it. The problem is that the same media spent the entire season blowing smoke up his ass. Someone who celebrates like a kid is going to pout like a kid when things don't go his way, and I'd be surprised if the media *didn't* try pushing those buttons.
  
  It's easy to be full of "joy" when everything is going your way. Being positive in the face of adversity is a lot more difficult. The dude was sulking as early as the second quarter and the game's outcome still in doubt, and this is the supposed MVP of the league. Guy should have shown some fortitude and been an actual leader in a situation that demanded it. I can't feel sorry for someone who invites the attention only when things are going his way.
  1. CPRM 9 years ago
    
    That's been the knock on him the whole time, when the team hits adversity he sulks instead of leading. He'll sit on the sidelines with his face covered instead of motivating his teammates.
7. Mickey Rat 9 years ago
  
  Not letting the sports reporters have their way with you makes you a terrible monster in their eyes. Denying them their "access" is the worst thing a celebrity athlete can do. They have, as a group, the biggest sense of entitlement in the media.
Drake 9 years ago

So some "Refugees" decided to get all gropey and rapey in Russia. Things worked out very poorly for them.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02.....t-morning/
1. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  Dumb idea on their part. Russia hasn't built a culture on thinking themselves horrible people. Their egos may make them do some bad stuff, but it also stops them from letting other people walk all over them.
  
  God, if there was just some way to get the good parts of liking your own culture without the bad parts.
  1. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    And given that it was Russia in Feb, the "refugees" lack even the excuse of scantily-clad western harlotry.
    1. Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
      
      You've clearly never been to Moscow. The women in that city are either 90 year old babushkas selling flowers in the subway OR smoking hot dressed to the 9s friendly forward women. It is unbelievable. I will never understand why we had a cold war with them.
      1. Tonio 9 years ago
        
        Clearly. So the hotties dress scanty there even in the dead of Winter? Chicks be crazy...
        
        Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
        
        Their looks are the most important thing. They will spend two months salary on clothes but live in a 600sq' apartment with three generations of their family.
        
        Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
        
        THEY WEAR HEELS ON FUCKING ICE MAN! IT IS INSANE! and awesome.
        
        Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
        
        Also, I wonder if it was just the guys who sent them to the hospital or the women had a hand in it too. Don't fuck with ruskies in winter man...basic fucking logic.
        
        Clich? Bandit 9 years ago
        
        I just read that article. I couldn't have written it better myself. It is the epitome of Russian culture. Hilarious. And Russian dudes do a lot of "harassing" themselves but what they do is considered courting where here it is stalking, harassment, restraining order evidence, etc. So what those refugees were doing must have been real bad.
      2. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
        
        I had a violin teacher from Russia. She was over 50 and dressed that way all the time. It was strange. At the same time, she always had a super-serious expression on her face, not flirty at all. She also have a huge chest and wore lots of cleavage baring tops. It seemed like a point of honor to dress that way, somehow.
2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  From Sicily to Budapest to Russia. Europeans on the ground will draw the line.
  1. Drake 9 years ago
    
    Related - French 4-Star General and Former Foreign Legion CO arrested at a PEGIDA march.
    
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b5_1454862237
    1. Tonio 9 years ago
      
      And the irony that they are labelled as neo-nazis but are supporters of Israel.
      1. spqr2008 9 years ago
        
        But if they aren't labeled as Neo-Nazis, then maybe people will figure out that fascism is a socialist, leftist movement.
3. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  Police arrived to break up the fight but locals report that they threw a few punches at the refugees before arresting 33 of them.
  
  I'm torn.
  
  Principle says "I should condemn this as improper use of force". It's also less of a reaction than I expected from the Russian police. The Eurocops would have arrested the mob and let the migrants go. US cops would have hunkered down a few blocks away and waited for it to end.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    Or showed up and shot everyone.
    
    /Waco
  2. Jerryskids 9 years ago
    
    Security services in Russia say they have arrested seven people on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.
    
    And no mention of sticking them in some offshore hell-hole military prison and enhanced-interrogationing their ass until they confess to being terrorists? When did the Russians become such big pussies that they can't even remember how to be a proper Red Menace?
Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago

NARAL goes on angry Super Bowl tweetstorm

NARAL Pro-Choice America, a leading advocacy group on the issue of abortion, started firing a string of tweets about ads running during Super Bowl 50 on Sunday night, criticizing several in particular as "transphobic" or "sexist."

Here's one:

#NotBuyingIt - that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50

? NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016
1. SugarFree 9 years ago
  
  But they say nothing about the horrific puppymonkeybaby.
  1. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
    
    That was repulsive.
  2. Loki 9 years ago
    
    The main takeaway I got from the puppymonkeybaby ad was that Mountain Dew Kickstarter is laced with LSD. Not sure if that's what they were aiming for or not...
  3. FreeRadical 9 years ago
    
    Come on, PuppyMonkeyBaby was obviously there for the stoners to blow their minds and induce them to run out to the store for munchies and Kick Start. I think I'm triggered; I can't stop watching it.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql7uY36-LwA
2. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  Humanizing little humans, what a novel concept.
3. Slammer 9 years ago
  
  I'm thinking of delivering a few cases of Doritos to their headquarters
4. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
  
  Hahahaha,
  
  not from NARAL (they retweeted it though):
  
  Dear advertisers for #SB50 ,
  
  You would have a larger audience if you didn't sexualize women just to sell a burger. #NotBuyingIt
  
  ? Tristan Suel?? (@TristanDania) February 7, 2016
5. Frankjasper1 9 years ago
  
  This is about as bad as the cosmo tweet the other day regarding more women getting pregnant
6. Drake 9 years ago
  
  I'm quite sure that Fritolay had no desire to insert themselves into an abortion debate. They just want to sell chips.
  
  But they failed to realize how completely the pro-abortion movement has de-humanized the human fetus.
7. WTF 9 years ago
  
  Yes, yes, we all know human fetuses aren't human.
8. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  "humanizing fetuses" So every happily expectant parent is engaging in anti-choice tactics? They do realize it is natural to bond with an infant while it's still in the womb, right? Fairly sure there are some hormones that help with that process.
  1. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
    
    That was my thought exactly. I can't imagine that many women go in to have an ultrasound and the technician says "well, your little bundle of cells that isn't technically a baby seems to be progressing well."
    1. Just say Nikki 9 years ago
      
      Millions of women go in to have an ultrasound before an abortion, so you should imagine harder.
      1. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
        
        Sorry Nicole. "I can't imagine a woman who wants to have the baby (which was the point of the fucking Doritos ad) will get told it's not a real baby by the ultrasound technician. You know - because that would be immensely rude and people care more about the feelings of expectant mothers than about NARAL throwing a politically motivated hissy fit."
        
        I'll try to be clearer in the future.
        
        Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
        
        More succinctly - it's kind of interesting women have the right to choose, but according to NARAL they don't have the right to choose to see their fetus as a living baby.
        
        You have the right to choose so long as you think what we tell you to think and don't wander off the party line.
        
        WTF 9 years ago
        
        There are reasons Nicole is the worst.
        
        Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        When you are bitter about your own existence, it is not hard to see why.
      2. BigT 9 years ago
        
        "Millions of women go in to have an ultrasound before an abortion, so you should imagine harder."
        
        Citation required.
    2. R C Dean 9 years ago
      
      "well, your little bundle of cells that isn't technically a baby parasite seems to be progressing well. I expect it will tear itself out of your body right on schedule."
      
      This is what Nikki actually believes.
      
      Kidding! I think.
9. John C. Randolph 9 years ago
  
  What does NARAL have to do with trannies? They can't get pregnant, so they don't need abortions.
  
  -jcr
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    Any victim narrative they can glom onto will be subborned to their search for supremacy, those that can't will be minimized or ignored.
  2. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    Women-to men-can. "The uterus can be a male organ."
  3. Just say Nikki 9 years ago
    
    What does NARAL have to do with trannies? They can't get pregnant, so they don't need abortions.
    
    Why would you even think this was the case?
10. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  TWO WORDS: KETCHUP DORITOS.
11. CE 9 years ago
  
  Human fetuses are human.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

As immigration resurges, U.S. public schools help children find their footing

The schools have to, because it's the law: Children who are living in this country have a right to a public education, regardless of their immigration status. But for many educators it's also more than a legal obligation, it's the moral thing to do.

"The United States is founded on human rights," said Sandra Jimenez, the principal of High Point High School in Prince George's County, Md., a Washington suburb where the immigrant population has grown rapidly. "The only reason these people are here is because they are desperate. These people are coming to survive."

There were more than 630,000 immigrant students nationwide in the 2013-2014 school year, according to the latest federal education data available, which defines immigrants as children born outside the country and enrolled in U.S. schools for less than three years. That figure has grown since immigration across the southern border surged two years ago: Between Oct. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2015, federal officials released more than 95,000 unaccompanied minors into U.S. communities, virtually all of them entitled to enroll in public school.
1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Sure they have a right. YOU pay for it.
  
  I love how everyone just declares something a 'right' and expect people to agree and subsequently pay for it.
  1. Free Society 9 years ago
    
    Clearly the purported existence of property rights and tax supported "education rights" are in conflict here, they can't both be valid rights within the same universe. Which is the valid claim? Which one trumps the other? Answer that, and you can with minimal effort, defeat this entire school of lefty thought with just a bit of logic.
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      Lefty thought cannot be defeated with logic. You can't logic someone away from a position that they didn't use logic to get to in the first place.
2. Old Mexican Mighty Aggressor 9 years ago
  
  Children who are living in this country have a right to a public education[...]
  
  Which encompasses the weirdest math teaching with the most annoying and confusing of algorithms, the most obnoxious inclusiveness propaganda known to man and the most boring 7-hours stretch that any human being has to endure in his or her early life.
  
  "The United States is founded on human rights," said Sandra Jimenez, the principal of High Point High School in Prince George's County, Md.
  
  You say that word but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Idle Hands 9 years ago

Are we just going to pretend that halftime show didn't happen? I think that may be the best way to handle it.
1. WTF 9 years ago
  
  Halftime show?
  1. CE 9 years ago
    
    The worst ever. At one point they showed a montage of actual good halftime shows, and people cheered.
2. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
  
  Sorry for all the twitter posts, but this was my thought as well:
  
  LOL someone forgot to tell Coldplay to leave
  
  ? Drew Magary (@drewmagary) February 8, 2016
  
  It was better when it switched to Bruno and Beyonce (although whatever she sung had no chorus), but then they cruelly brought Coldplay back.
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    The entire thing was awful.
  2. CE 9 years ago
    
    Coldplay was boring. Bruno and Beyonce were good when they had their own halftime shows, but they weren't nearly as good yesterday.
3. Loki 9 years ago
  
  I didn't even watch the halftime show, but then again it's sucked for years now.
  1. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
    
    I generally, agree, but I actually enjoyed Katy Perry's show last year. It was fun, and it had great spectacle.
    1. R C Dean 9 years ago
      
      Eh, I thought it jumped the shark.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmcWZ2Bzoho
    2. Loki 9 years ago
      
      it had great spectacle.
      
      Two great big, round spectacles...
4. R C Dean 9 years ago
  
  I fast-frowarded through it, with a bief stop to marvel at how Beyonce is getting . . . thicker.
  1. Loki 9 years ago
    
    I believe the proper PC term is "curvy."
  2. SFC B 9 years ago
    
    I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who saw that first shot of her and thought "Man, that is not a flattering look for her".
Ivan Pike 9 years ago

Intensely Inuit. Life in remote Alaska.

http://www.adn.com/article/201.....ote-alaska
1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  /taps Ivan on shoulder.
  
  I watch APTN.
  1. Ivan Pike 9 years ago
    
    No everyone does though.
    1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
      
      That's because *everyone* seems to watch The Big Bang Theory.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        I don't.
John C. Randolph 9 years ago

Oh man.. Bill Clinton calling someone dishonest.

He's right about Bernie, of course, but the irony is just too rich.

-jcr
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  "Trust me, I know dishonest."
  1. DenverJ 9 years ago
    
    "Senator, I knew am honest man, and believe me, you're no honest man."
Matrix 9 years ago

Batman vs Superman: Retro makeover

Definitely watch it all the way through. Doomsday's arrival is solid gold.
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  It is against my browsing policy to give pageviews to any site owned by Gawker.
  1. Matrix 9 years ago
    
    Link to Youtube video ya big baby
    1. Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
      
      It's against my browsing policy to watch YouTube videos.
      1. Hamster of Doom 9 years ago
        
        What have you got against cats, fat people and K-pop?
        
        Crusty Juggler 9 years ago
        
        The last two cats I have been around attacked me, with one hissing at me until I left it's house.
        
        I disapprove of unnecessary titty-sweat.
        
        The only music I respect involves spoons and a jug.
        
        Swiss Servator 9 years ago
        
        My thoughts and prayers are with you.
        
        bacon-magic 9 years ago
        
        Cats do recognize evil spirits.
        If the titties aren't sweaty, you are doing it wrong.
        Spoonman by SoundGarden was...ok.
2. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  That movie is going to be a disaster, there is way too much going on.
  1. SFC B 9 years ago
    
    Oh yeah. Marvel spent like 5 years and several movies establishing a shared universe for their Avengers before breaking out the ensemble. And it still had a bit too much going on. DC is throwing together Batman and Superman, trying to start the Justice League, and bringing in the character who killed Superman, at at once? It's going to be a trainwreck.
    1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
      
      It's going to be a trainwreck.
      
      So what you're saying is they're actually doing the Alan Scott Green Lantern Origin Story?
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

This Is the Evidence the Jury in Adnan Syed's 'Serial' Murder Case Never Heard

Despite newfound doubts about his guilt by some members of the public, Syed was presented to the court as a convicted murderer. He was shackled at his ankles and wrists, and wore a pale blue prison uniform, a long beard, and a skull cap. He occasionally waved to his family while entering the courtroom. In a statement delivered through Vignarajah, who is arguing the state's case, Hae's family said the fresh hearings have brought on "a nightmare we thought was behind us."

"We believe justice was done when Adnan was convicted in 2000, and we look forward to bringing this chapter to an end so we can celebrate the memory of Hae instead of celebrating the man who killed her," the statement said.

But 15 years later, Chapman maintains that she was with Syed in the library adjacent to their high school at 2:15pm on the afternoon when authorities believe the murder was committed. Chapman, who was 17 at the time, says she remembers the day of the murder clearly because she normally left school around 10:45am as part of her academic program, but on January 13, 1999, she was in the Woodlawn Public Library for several hours, waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up. That's when she spoke to Syed, she told the court, for 15-20 minutes.

Any thoughts on this case?
1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  I think he did it or was definitely involved, probably wouldn't have said guilty if I was on the jury.
2. Jordan 9 years ago
  
  He didn't get a fair trial. The prosecutor witheld exculpatory evidence in the form of Asia's testimony and the cell phone records fax cover sheet. Also, their star witness was a compulsive liar who changed his story a half dozen times while being coached by the police.
  1. Jordan 9 years ago
    
    Basically, the prosecution's only pieces of evidence - Jay's testimony and the cell phone records - are completely worthless.
3. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  Seems like a big fuckup by the defense lawyer. And the feelings of the victim's family should have no bearing on anything.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Reports of Rape Linked to Online Dating Rise 450 Percent in Five Years

The report by the NCA's Serious Crime Analysis Section said the rise appeared to be the result of the increased popularity of online dating combined with "the behaviors and expectations fostered by an online environment." One in three UK relationships now start online and seven million UK users are registered with online dating sites, according to market research published last year.

The NCA said early analysis indicated "a new type of sexual offender" had been created through the online dating phenomenon. "These offenders are less likely to have criminal convictions, but instead exploit the ease of access and arm-chair approach to dating websites," it said. "This is aided by potential victims not thinking of them as strangers, but someone they have got to know."

Online relationships tended to progress more quickly than those offline, said the report, "as people feel freer in the anonymous online world to be more open and emotionally honest." This higher level of trust could lead to individuals taking more risks than they otherwise would and putting themselves in more vulnerable situations, it warned.
1. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  So the rapes linked to online dating jumped from 2 people a year to 9? Percentage Rises are useless for these sort of comparisons. It would be better to compare ratios. Number or relationships started online vs. number of rapes, and number of relationships started offline vs. number of rapes. Otherwise this is just sensationalism.
2. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Go back to what we all used to do: Cruise in a bar you lazy bums!
Ken Shultz 9 years ago

I think Clinton should be doing damage control, already, ahead of New Hampshire.

Her biggest asset (to progressive voters) is her supposedly being more likely to win in the general election vis a vis Bernie, but ff she gets spanked in New Hampshire after sputtering in Iowa, that 'more likely to win' argument is going down the shitter.

I wonder what it's like to be her. Does she realize that old wrinkly Bernie Sanders is more charismatic than she is? Is anyone allowed to talk about it while she's in the room? I bet her maids and cooks walk around her like they're on eggshells.

In real life, she's probably like a mix between Imelda Marcos and Bruce Banner. She imagines she's ingenious and adored by millions inside her little bubble, but when that bubble pops, she turns into the Incredible Hulk. Hillary knows her husband has cheated on her 20 times, and she knows that the whole world knows about it, too.

All that being publicly scorned. All that repressed rage. I wonder if she's ever gotten physically violent.
1. creech 9 years ago
  
  My ex-FBI buddy knows an ex-Secret Service guy who was on White House detail for some time. Says Bill was a friendly, randy, good old boy. Says Hillary was a total bitch who treated the staff like shit (I'd say slaves but at least they were paid and could quit.)
2. Swiss Servator 9 years ago
  
  Didn't she supposedly brain Bill with a lamp?
  
  http://www.washingtontimes.com...../?page=all
3. Knarf Yenrab! 9 years ago
  
  Her biggest asset (to progressive voters) is her supposedly being more likely to win in the general election vis a vis Bernie
  
  The gap between Obama and Hillary might be the single biggest dropoff in political talent that the nation has seen between sequential candidates. As for the rest, provided that Rubio doesn't get the nod, the debates will be hilarious if Cruz or Trump turn out in full troll mode and give Hillary the Biden treatment, which is pretty much all most of us want to see right now after eight years of Obamamania and the utter vapidity of presidential campaigning.
  
  And since it's the Internet and my sarcasm detector doesn't work as well here, Hillary is widely reported to have clocked Bill with a book during l'affaire du Lewinsky and drawn blood. Which I'm sure was a complete outlier for such a warm, friendly personality.
  1. mousefeathers 9 years ago
    
    As a polyamorous sort, I always figured Hillary and Bill had some sort of arrangement (which would be logical for political animals), the terms of which were "no blabbermouths to embarrass us." Failure to ensure lack of publicity would certainly be grounds for temper-tantrums. And lots of laughs from the viewers.
Pope Jimbo 9 years ago

Non-Muslim Minnesotans donning hijab to show support

Especially stupid was this line: "Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges has worn a head scarf when meeting with leaders of the city's Somali-American community."

No wonder our newest immigrants seem to think that they don't need to change and instead all the rest of us should accomodate them in whatever manner they feel necessary.
1. Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer 9 years ago
  
  Useful idiots.
  1. Drake 9 years ago
    
    Submission is the idea.
2. Irish ?s ESB 9 years ago
  
  The worst is how Western female political figures wear hijabs when they go to Muslim countries but then the president of Iran goes to Italy and the Italians cover their naked statues to avoid offending him.
  
  So when Westerners go to Muslim countries we obey Muslim traditions and when Muslims come to Western countries we obey Muslim traditions. It seems to me that if the president of Iran whines about nude marble statues, the proper response is to tell him no Western women will be wearing hijabs the next time we go on a diplomatic mission to his country. It's a clear example of the head of state of a theocracy trying to establish dominance over secular societies and secular societies go along with it.
  1. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    So when Westerners go to Muslim countries we obey Muslim traditions and when Muslims come to Western countries we obey Muslim traditions.
    
    ^This. So-called multiculturalism is clearly a one-way street.
    1. Drake 9 years ago
      
      And the "West" used to have balls.
      1. cgr2727 9 years ago
        
        Until one of the popes way back when chopped them off all of the statues.
  2. R C Dean 9 years ago
    
    Its a show of submission, is what it is. Proggies have a deep, deep desire to submit to a Strong Man, and Islamists are easily processed as the Strong Men.
    
    Sure, you want to be courteous and respectful, but that has to be a two-way street.
    1. Free Society 9 years ago
      
      Sure, you want to be courteous and respectful, but that has to be a two-way street.
      
      Exactly. I'm courteous and respectful toward everyone the first time I meet them, then after that I treat them how they treat me. They deserve to get what they give. And Muslim migrants and societies haven't given much that could be described as "good" to other societies.
    2. Tonio 9 years ago
      
      I think you may be on to something, RC. But Proggies hate them some white, christian western strong men.
Sevo 9 years ago

It's always comforting to see Obo stumble around:

"Obama's plans on gun violence amount to little action so far"
[...]
"WASHINGTON ? The centerpiece of a plan for stemming gun violence that President Barack Obama announced last month largely amounts to this: an updated web page and 10,000 pamphlets that federal agents will give out at gun shows...."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/n.....ar/2264516

But he MEANS well!
Crusty Juggler 9 years ago

Netflix Confirms Acquisition of Hitler Satire 'Look Who's Back'
1. Old Mexican Mighty Aggressor 9 years ago
  
  I hope it is as successful as "Springtime for Hitler"
Sevo 9 years ago

Idjit CO craft beer brewers worried, 'cause KORPARASHUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"In Colorado, fears about InBev's entry into craft beer"
[...]
" But Fuerst fears that idyllic lifestyle is in danger now that the world's largest beer maker, Anheuser-Busch InBev, has staked a claim to Colorado's craft beer paradise."
http://midco.net/news/read/cat.....raft_be-ap

Looks to me his biggest fear is someone might offer someone else some money to buy their business.
1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
  
  I've gone from beer snob to disliking many recent beers.
  
  Or maybe I just prefer a gin & tonic.
  1. R C Dean 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, too many craft breweries are one trick ponies. Beer is not hop juice, already.
  2. Knarf Yenrab! 9 years ago
    
    There's a lot of preciousness going on right now, like the imperial stout made with peanut butter cups (?!?) mentioned in the article. There'll be some macho pushback coming in the next few years to clean things up and send lots of these DFH-wannabe hipster brewers back to the abyss from whence they spawned.
Idle Hands 9 years ago

How the fuck am I just finding out this came out 6 days ago?
1. Citizen X 9 years ago
  
  Plot Keywords: nudity | american football | male rear nudity | male nudity | male frontal nudity | See All (5) ?
Idle Hands 9 years ago

How the fuck am I just finding out this came out 6 days ago?
Sevo 9 years ago

And finally, the answer to a question I know you all have:

"Study explores how black men succeed in college"
[...]
"Harper said universities have a role in disrupting environments that perpetuate racial bias, and that this is the most important takeaway from his study."
http://www.registercitizen.com...../160209715

Yes, the poor dears have to rely on the goodness of others, because, well, uh, we all all liberals here, aren't we...
My guess is the ones who do, do so by that magical technique called "STUDY"!
Old Mexican Mighty Aggressor 9 years ago

We Won: Climate Change is Settled, So Here's Your Pink Slip. Don't Slam The Door On Your Way Out, Please!

Australian officials have decided to axe 350 jobs from its government-backed science bureaucracy last week, as they switch from climate research into ways to mitigate and adapt to global warming. The announcement set off a media firestorm, and the scientists who could lose their jobs are livid.

Oh, I bet they are!
1. Frankjasper1 9 years ago
  
  They should have been more vague imo.
2. Brett L 9 years ago
  
  I just about blacked out from schadenfruede.
3. Illocust 9 years ago
  
  Huh, wonder if this will result in the science becoming more transparent and verifiable in Australia. Without government grants it will be hard to keep the incestuous nature of the current batch going.
4. R C Dean 9 years ago
  
  That's hilarious.
  
  "The science is settled!"
  
  "Then why are we paying you to keep doing it?"
  1. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    ^This. Who was it who said that foreseeable consequences are not unintended?
5. Free Society 9 years ago
  
  The announcement set off a media firestorm, and the scientists who could lose their jobs are livid.
  
  The trick to being a court intellectual, a state subservient academic, is to not outlive your usefulness to the state.
Old Mexican Mighty Aggressor 9 years ago

Repressing Memories Of A Once Joyful Life, NARAL Abortionist Sourpusses Spend Superbowl 50 Tweeting Weird Criticisms Of TV Ads

The best one in their litany of complaints is where they take issue at Doritos for "humanizing" a human fetus.

# NotBuyingIt - that @ Doritos ad using # antichoice [sic] tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. # SB50

Women only give birth to humans only when harvesting their parts is illegal.
1. Old Mexican Mighty Aggressor 9 years ago
  
  Sorry - Certified Public Asshat already posted something similar. Except his link is from Politico, and mine is sanitized.
  1. Certified Public Asshat 9 years ago
    
    Touche.
2. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  What a bunch of sad sacks. I'm all for legal abortion, but the people who make it their central or only issue are pretty sad.
Free Society 9 years ago

Twenty-seven migrants drown as boat capsizes near Turkey, coast guard says

Twenty-seven migrants, 11 of them children, drowned off Turkey's Aegean coast as they tried to reach a Greek island, the Turkish coast guard said.

Four migrants were rescued and a search operation was underway for nine remaining passengers.

One migrant was rescued by a fisherman and three more were rescued by the coast guard, which said it had deployed boats and helicopters to search for more passengers.

The boat sank in the Aegean Sea near the Edremit area of the northwestern province Balikesir.

Separately, the private news agency Dogan said 11 migrants died and three were rescued when another boat sank further south, off the coast of Dikili in the province of Izmir.

More than 900,000 people fleeing Syria, Afghanistan and other war-torn or impoverished countries arrived in Greece from Turkey last year, often risking their lives in the short but perilous sea crossing in overloaded boats. Hundreds have died making the attempt.

Cue the hand-wringing that the anti-migrant crowd is to blame. It's got nothing to do with the promises of other people's money going to one and all that manage to arrive in Western Europe.
CE 9 years ago

Peyton Manning win number 200. Hope he bought the Denver defense some Isotoner gloves.
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