Janet Yellen Testifies Before Congress, Christie, Fiorina Suspend Campaigns, Delaware Apologizes for Slavery: P.M. Links

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  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen appeared before Congress to defend the December rate hike.

• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign. So has Carly Fiorina.
• Ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to plead guilty to a single county of making a false statement in relation to a jailhouse corruption investigation.
• Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan appeared before his 15th parole board hearing today.
• The government of Delaware formally apologized for slavery.
• Two female suicide bombers in Nigeria killed more than 60 people.
• The British envoy to the United Nations called on Russia to stop bombing Syria.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign.

He’s going to be Trumps AG.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

[TheZeitgeist]

Good call.

[KDN]

That’s what I always figured he was angling for. It’s a natural fit. (Insert fat joke)

[BigT]

Talk about your big government. They’ll need to reinforce that office.

[Fist of Etiquette]

When he sits around the statism, he sits around the statism.

[spqr2008]

As long as he doesn’t get stuck in a tub, like President and Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft. They actually have said tub in his half brother’s former home, which is an art museum in Cincinnati.

[Sevo]

That car? You don’t own it:

EPA Seeks to Prohibit Conversion of Vehicles into Racecars
[?]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a regulation to prohibit conversion of vehicles originally designed for on-road use into race cars.
[?]
The proposed regulation was contained within a non-related proposed regulation entitled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles?Phase 2.”
http://theshopmag.com/news/epa…..s-racecars

Can you say ‘slimy’? I can?

[waffles]

My miata IS a racecar. Fuck the EPA.

[Medical Physics Guy]

What’s your take on the 2016 Miata?

[waffles]

I haven’t driven one. But it looks like the most fun lightweight sports cars imaginable. On paper it doesn’t seem like much, but it outtracks and handles the Subaru BRZ while being considerably better at taking it’s top off. Going 100 mph in a miata basically feels like 150+ in anything else. I’d really like to own a 10 year old one that was owned by a paralegal or something.

Let the chicks, gays, and retirees by them new and I’ll scoop up the most fun-to-drive thing as a toy when the depreciation has fully set in.

[Medical Physics Guy]

The old Miata has an incredible reputation. I suspect that’s why they brought it back. If it still has the magic I may look into it.

[waffles]

The recent one has been favorably compared to the first edition (mine is a 1993). They weigh close to the same (~2300 lbs) and the new one gives you an extra 45hp. If reliability is anything like mazda’s past record it should be fine to own. The Elise is a whole ‘nother cost bracket. It’s going to be 70 and sunny where I live this weekend. If I don’t ski, I will roadster.

[TheZeitgeist]

Did…did someone just say Miata was a racecar!?

[waffles]

RACECAR

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Miata spec racing is a great place to start racing (if you’re a girl).

Neons are good starter race cars. Both have higher levels of handling as compared to their levels of power.

[BigT]

did someone just say Miata was a racecar

There you go, playing the race card

[GILMORE?]

(polite applause)

[TheZeitgeist]

That should clarify culture war underneath the carbon costume for a few more derps to finally see.

[blighted non millenial]

No shit.

[blighted non millenial]

Oh and fuck Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/cars/20…..-race-car/

[JWatts]

“Oh and fuck Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/cars/20…..-race-car/”

It’s Ars. They are as Proggie statist as any website on the internet. Their only redeeming quality is their technical stories that have no possible political angle. If it’s got any political angle, the tilt to the articles is noticeable. And occasionally there will even be a political comment dropped in on a completely non-political subject, just because that’s the way they roll.

[blighted non millenial]

True. This one just rubbed me rawer than most.

[RAHeinlein]

Pinky Tuscadero is sad…

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

What about Leather?

[Crusty Juggler]

I did just did the “thigh slap.”

[GILMORE?]

What scumfucks.

We’re talking about – at best – a few thousand vehicles. this isn’t some fucking ‘danger to the environment’. Its just the EPA fucking with people so they can tell their greeny cronies that they fucked those combustion-engine-loving people *good*

[The Last American Hero]

A few thousand – most of which spend a lot of time disassembled while the weekend gearhead slowly tinkers away for years.

[Jerryskids]

“This proposed regulation represents overreaching by the agency, runs contrary to the law and defies decades of racing activity where EPA has acknowledged and allowed conversion of vehicles,” said Chris Kersting, SEMA president and CEO. “Congress did not intend the original Clean Air Act to extend to vehicles modified for racing and has re-enforced that intent on more than one occasion.”

This is the regulatory envelope-pushing that SCOTUS has allowed with their god-awful “deference” crap.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The government of Delaware formally apologized for slavery.

How about an apology for Biden?

[Medical Physics Guy]

Interesting. Usually the reason govenments like to avoid these apologies is because it attracts the reparations hyenas.

[Los Doyers]

Dogfish Head Brewery cancels out Biden.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My knuckles are about to cancel out your nose.

[Los Doyers]

I thought your poor circulation made those knuckles useless long ago.

[Fist of Etiquette]

My haymakers are about to circulate about your noggin.

[jesse.in.mb]

FoE’s knuckles are the white noise of facial features.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Developed to help Se?or Wences avoid facial recognition software.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

One for the over-ninety crowd!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I like toss some entertainment at every age, race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or socioeconomic status.

[Medical Physics Guy]

LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM . Provide one example of how you have entertained each of these groups or face Title IX sanctions on your comment.

[Los Doyers]

Well he’s always hitting on me, so there’s that.

[Citizen X]

How about an apology for Biden?

Since he was born in Scranton, they’re still fighting with Pennsylvania over who has to claim him.

[Medical Physics Guy]

He was actually born in a steel factory in Scranton. The foreman delivered him on the factory floor.

[Rhywun]

Not a gay steel mill, then.

[Medical Physics Guy]

NTTAWWT

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

ZZZZZZZAP!

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Where you been, Rhywun? Entire steel industry’s gay, yeah, aerospace too, and the railroads, and you know what else? Law enforcement.

[Mock-star]

We work hard, and we play hard!

*Everybody dance now!*

[Winston]

Delaware was part of Pennsylvania during Colonial times.

[Citizen X]

And before that it was part of Sweden.

[Winston]

Bork Bork Bork Bork Bork Bork

[Medical Physics Guy]

I thought the Templars got there first.

[Caput Lupinum]

We have enough problems in Scranton, Delaware can take the hit on this one. We may have produced him, but they were the ones dumb enough to elect him.

[Los Doyers]

Would you say you have a couple two tree problems?

[Caput Lupinum]

I’m tinkin it’sa kupple too tree, hayna?

[Los Doyers]

We drove through Scranton on our road trip. I bought a shirt at Coney Island Lunch after some Texas wieners.

[Caput Lupinum]

Where were you coming from and going to that Scranton got in the way? Coney Island Lunch is a pretty good place for a quick lunch, so at least you got a decent meal out of it.

[Los Doyers]

Boston to Pittsburgh, returning to LA

[Caput Lupinum]

That would take you close to Scranton, yeah. Sorry you had to experience that.

[CE]

Wait a second… Delaware? But they were in the slavery-hating Union….

[Injun, as in from India]

Two female suicide bombers in Nigeria killed more than 60 people.

Yawn. Wake me up when the religion of peace is as peaceful as Buddhism.

[Just say Nikki]

Knock knock!

[Citizen X]

I… uh, don’t think that’s what he meant.

[Crusty Juggler]

Who’s there?

[ant1sthenes]

Blowback is a bitch.

[Seguin, the Mighty Monoclops]

10/10 would bang

[Timrekgrun]

So, PM Links without the label. Sneaky, sneaky Jacketes.

[Los Doyers]

Hillary and Cruz should fuck.
Nope, not an SF blog post.
Trigger Warning: Guardian
Trigger Trigger warning: picture of author

[Injun, as in from India]

But Cruz isn’t gay.

[Citizen X]

Robots seldom identify as a gender, true.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

The author looks hastily put together.

If you get my drift.

[Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)]

-1 shagging.

Geez….no wonder she “writes”.

/not scare quotes

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

That’s Donald Trump in his alternate wig.

[Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)]

I kinda dou….yeah, you’re right!

[bacon-magic]

How many cats does the author have?

[Injun, as in from India]

With a face like hers, good luck seducing the enemy, unless you get him black-out drunk.

[Lady Bertrum]

I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with her hair. She looks like she has a hair hat on top of her normal hair.

[Crusty Juggler]

I laughed. Also, I like her style.

[Los Doyers]

Just marry her already.

[Lady Bertrum]

Things that make me go hmmmmmm: Why are the people most likely to instruct others on who they should be fucking are invariable old/fat/ugly/unattractive? The exception is porn stars who want everyone else fucking everything else because misery loves company.

Really attractive people rarely tell others who they should be have sex with least they draw attention to themselves.

[Crusty Juggler]

I don’t think you should fuck me.

[Los Doyers]

Pretty sure you’re referring to the writer, BUT, I’d rate myself as mostly fuckable. I was also telling CJ to marry the writer, not you. You’re from NJ!

[Lady Bertrum]

Pretty sure you’re referring to the writer, BUT, I’d rate myself as mostly fuckable. I was also telling CJ to marry the writer, not you. You’re from NJ!

I was referring to the writer. Telling Crusty to marry her precludes any fucking because marriage.

New Jersey is a very nice place.

[Los Doyers]

It is. I was just being preemptively catty in the off chance you were disparaging my honor. All is good then.

*presents peace cannoli*

[Crusty Juggler]

*presents peace cannoli*

Millennials have strange euphemisms.

[Los Doyers]

I’m Mexican/Irish, you think I care euphemisms when I want to be vulgar, pendejo?

[Los Doyers]

care about* DONDE ESTA MI PINCHE EDIT BUTTON PINCHES PUTOS CABRONES DE REASON VETE A LA VERGA

[Lady Bertrum]

*makes mental note: Crusty Juggler must be super attractive.*

[SugarFree]

She looks like she was rode hard and put away wet thrown down a well.

[Fist of Etiquette]

So has Carly Fiorina.

She saw Bernie getting the vag vote.

[Timrekgrun]

Bernie, in reference to a hot vag…”I’d tax that!”

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I think we’ve got a whole new slogan there.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Bernie is the guy from Robo-cop

[Injun, as in from India]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign. So has Carly Fiorina.

Zero regret for gun-grabbing Fatso.

I will miss Fiorina.

[Medical Physics Guy]

I will half-miss her. She had chops, took on Hillary, and I liked her take on some issues. But in the end she stuck to too many Republican-generic ideas and faded into the wallpaper. She should retool her platform and come out swinging next time.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

And smile more.

[Medical Physics Guy]

I like tough as nails bitches. Jessica Jones is my type.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I’d giggle too much.

[Injun, as in from India]

Fiorina’s YUUGE cross at one of the recent debates was nauseating.

I took the iSideWith quiz last month and Fiorina was my top match. It was a surprise.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

In bed?

[regularidiot]

I actually got Bernie for that…

He just wants to take, take and take

[Timrekgrun]

Yeah one of the few “also rans” I actually wanted to like but couldn’t get past the apathy.

[Winston]

Will New York and Albany apologize for slavery and for being named after a slave trader?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

New York? Why don’t you add Canada to it while you’re at it?

Sue me? Why not? Sue everybody!

/Jerky Boys.

[jesse.in.mb]

Ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to plead guilty to a single county of making a false statement in relation to a jailhouse corruption investigation.

What an interesting count word.

[Los Doyers]

I could see Orange County being a false statement.

[Ted S.]

Until John Boehner moves there.

[Los Doyers]

No more transplants! No peace!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to plead guilty to a single county of making a false statement in relation to a jailhouse corruption investigation.

That’s some pretty high up and simultaneously weak scapegoating.

[Injun, as in from India]

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen appeared before Congress to defend the December rate hike.

“I swear I am independent, and not jacking up rates just in time for the election in November.”

“Seriously. Believe me!”

[Timrekgrun]

County Sheriff is pleading guilty to a single county? Well I guess his jurisdiction didn’t extend any further.

[John]

Greatest tweet of the year

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Saw your beer comment. We had Ommegang Hennepin at a Mexican resto in Cooperstown in the fall and enjoyed it very much.

[John]

It is good stuff.

[Los Doyers]

Mexican food outside of a border state? Gross.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Colorado actually has some decent Mexican food. I guess because when people get to New Mexico they just want to keep going.

[Old Man With Candy]

Chicago reputedly has the best in the US. I don’t eat that beaner shit so I wouldn’t know personally.

[Los Doyers]

Citation fucking needed. LA has the best, hands down. No citation needed.

(Mexico actually has the best, but best you gringos never figure that one out.)

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Chicago’s is horribly overrated, LA doesn’t have the best anything. Houston has the best Mexican food in the US, which is why we gun-toting racists tolerate some Mexicans. Colorado is a distant second, but palatable. Cozumel has the best in the world.

[Los Doyers]

Did you just cite a ridiculous tourist destination as having the best in the world? You should’ve at least said M?rida. How are their salsas? It’s near Quintana Roo, on the Yucat?n, so habanero should be prevalent and heavy. If you say “I don’t care too much for spicy,” you can stick your head in an oven. And their cochinita? Show your work. Texas is known for its barbacoa, but the taco scene there is crap. LA has the best. Our diverse Mexican population beats everywhere else. Best salsa, best tortillas, best seasoned meat, in ALL the U.S. En punto, cabron. No me chinges aqu? guey.

[Tejicano]

Mexico, yes. But LA?.. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!… Ha hah ha ha ha ha ha! *cough* *gurgle* Ha ha ha ha ha! The only thing LA out-does everywhere else is in attitude and the road time needed to get to anything almost decent.

[Brett L]

Pssh. Not even close.

[Los Doyers]

None of your opinions are valid. My stance remains.

[jesse.in.mb]

I had surprisingly excellent Mexican in SLC

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

The Mormons recruit strategically.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

The Mormons recruit strategically.

[Nwallins]

10 pesos says it was at the Red Iguana, possibly Red Iguana 2.

[GILMORE?]

“Two female suicide bombers in Nigeria killed more than 60 people.”

#Bringbackourgirls

[Injun, as in from India]

Do female suicide bombers get 78 virgin men?

[jesse.in.mb]

What would she do with a room full of pimple-faced programmers?

[Injun, as in from India]

$ touch;
$ finger;
$ unzip;
$ strip;
$ mount;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ mv;
$ halt;
$ core dump;
$ unmount;
$ sleep;

[Always a Carl, Never a Clyde]

You go through all that and leave out “fsck”.

[Medical Physics Guy]

Well this is awk

[Always a Carl, Never a Clyde]

Yep. We should go ahead and nix this whole thing.

[Nwallins]

$ man woman

[Timrekgrun]

They came back with a bang!!

[Private Chipperbot]

In pieces.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Rand Paul Was Always Bullshit

All along, the myth of Rand Paul (and of his dad, That Weird Elf-Kid From Legend If He Got Old And Was Super-Duper Racist) basically has been as follows: The right’s obsession with waging wars both cultural and, uh, military had underserved/was underserving/is underserving traditional conservative principles of limited government, fiscal discipline, and individual liberty. This has alienated a body of smart, skeptical, rational people, who can’t be pandered to with anti-intellectual horseshit or roped into culture-war signaling or rallied around whatever the next great unnecessary foreign war might happen to be, but who also mistrust liberalism’s notions of an empowered, activist government fixing people’s problems. These people were fundamentally conservative, the myth goes?more so along certain axes than their Christian-right brethren, even?and the Republican Party lost them in its rush to solidify the South. These people, according to the myth, are the Pauls’ constituency.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Anyway, fuck Rand Paul. If he believes his brand of conservatism is good for anybody but the powerful, he’s an idiot, and if he doesn’t, he’s a fraud. The dais will have no shortage of either for him having been winnowed the fuck off it, and South Park fans don’t vote anyway, at least not until you can cast your ballot via Reddit.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

So Deadspin is into politics now?

[Certified Public Asshat]

They always were.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Ah. Haven’t read it in years and years.

[Crusty Juggler]

Don’t start now. ESPN also has politics on their page, for some reason (I get it is because of Nate Silver, but I don’t need that noise mucking up my sports).

[Krabappel]

I can’t stand the writing style at Deadspin. It has this desperate “look how many times we say fuck” quality to it that is both obvious and grating.

[Crusty Juggler]

I fucking agree 100 fucking percent.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Yeah. The only thing they do worth reading is the “Why your team sucks” NFL previews, and those are 80% fan comments.

[robc]

Disliking Paul okay. But saying South Park sucks is going too far.

[Always a Carl, Never a Clyde]

South Park used to be great.

It’s pretty stale now.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Not last season it was. It was reinvigorated.

[Always a Carl, Never a Clyde]

The most recent season was awful.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

WE FIGHT AT DAWN!

No. Too early. Sunset!

But wear reflective gear in case it’s too dark.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Disliking Paul okay.

Hey!

[GILMORE?]

The crux of the problem the guy seems to have w/ South Park (which i’ve hardly ever watched) is that it sneers at “Political Correctness”…

..from the POV of ‘privilege’

Is this guy’s shtick just sort of a muscular, dudebro version of Gawker?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

if he doesn’t, he’s a fraud

I don’t think the author understands what “fraud” means…

[Certified Public Asshat]

He doesn’t understand anything. He thinks South Park is in bed with Donald Trump.

Except for the fact that you know, they did an entire episode shitting on Trump.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

And had Garrison basically fuck Trumpeau to death.

[Fred Zuccini]

“If he believes his brand of conservatism is good for anybody but the powerful, he’s an idiot”

I’ve yet to find any other brand of politics that was good for anybody but the powerful.

[Hyperion]

What even in the fuck is that? Talk about unhinged rambling.

[KDN]

It’s a very Tony-esque argument.

[Rhywun]

It’s just word salad to me. Even Tony can form a sentence that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eyes out.

[Hyperion]

Don’t read the comments. You’ve been warned.

[Trouser-Pod (The blowhard)]

Psshh…I’m gonna read whatevHOLY SHIT!

“Fuckwit” doesn’t even come close to describing those commentators.

[KDN]

The first part is, I agree. The second part seems like it was plagiarized from an old Tony post.

[GILMORE?]

That seems almost as insightful as the author’s other piece “Sting? More like Stink!

[Certified Public Asshat]

He also wrote this gem:

Do’s And Don’ts Of Blizzard Survival, From A Snowed-In Dumbass

He was snowed in long after his neighbors because he didn’t have a shovel. He never once thought to either pay someone to shovel him out or you know, ask a neighbor to borrow one.

[KDN]

He thinks he’s very funny. He’s very wrong. He’s also trying super hard to be edgy, and it’s really not working.

This was intolerable: http://adequateman.deadspin.co…..1755190956

[KDN]

Jesus fucking christ this guy is a long winded douchebag.

Someone needs to get his info to ESPN. He is perfect for whenever they reboot Grantland.

[Krabappel]

Oh of course it’s Albert Burneko. Try reading some of his recipes. They are the most desperately-trying-to-be-funny tedious posts you will ever read in your life.

[Krabappel]

*gouges out eyes*

http://deadspin.com/how-to-mak…..1485209965

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Deadspin: shit on everything that pops into your little mind, and 1% of the time it will be funny. But hey, at least it will get clicks.

[GILMORE?]

“The British envoy to the United Nations called on Russia to stop bombing Syria”

I think it was something like this

[jesse.in.mb]

Consortium of Chinese companies set to buy up Opera browser

The Financial Times reports that the Norwegian browser company has received an offer of $1.2 billion for its takeover. The potential deal is being led by Kunlun Tech (a gaming company) and Qihoo 360 (which makes anti-virus and browser software). The bid’s supported by two investment firms, too.

The offer seems a little high. In fact, compared to its stock prices before rumors of the deal began to swirl, the offer seems to overvalue Opera by an impressive 53 percent.

Ted S. hardest the only one hit

[Medical Physics Guy]

Opera was a publicly traded company???

[jesse.in.mb]

Inorite?

[Rhywun]

I used the browser for awhile a long time ago. It has some… oddities.

[jesse.in.mb]

I think it’s a customized front-end for the chromium (Chrome) now.

[Injun, as in from India]

Let me guess…. Chinese stimulus package? Shovel-ready internet browser project?

[Old Man With Candy]

Chinese stimulus package

Go on…

[Ted S.]

I haven’t been reading H&R on Opera for some time. 🙁

[jesse.in.mb]

I must have missed the announcement.

Congratulations! *throws confetti*

What are you using now IE 6?

[Always a Carl, Never a Clyde]

He’s probably using Vivaldi like a true bitter Opera fan.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Or Leoncavallo.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Whatever came on that AOL disk.

[Ted S.]

My smartphone. H&R is slow on my old desktop. 🙁

[jesse.in.mb]

Commenting on mobile is miserable. I’m sorry to hear that.

[Los Doyers]

But have you heard the *mobile* version of Hallelujah? Man.

[jesse.in.mb]

Someone is disinvited from having a pineapple-rohypnol Sculpin at my place later.

[Los Doyers]

FATE WORSE THAN DEATH

[RBS]

What was it, like 4-5 years ago when every time someone complained about their browser Ted would pimp Opera?

[Michael]

Ted S. hardest the only one hit

(Meekly raises hand)

[a better chipper]

I used Opera mini on my old Blackberry Pearl. I thought it was fine. Much better than any other mobile browser at the time.

The trackball eventually stuck and I got a droid. Never thought about Opera again until this post.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign. So has Carly Fiorina.

Shouldn’t he have belted and suspended his campaign?

[__Warren__]

Homeschool parents facing 23 years in jail over late paperwork.

http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/oh/201602020.asp

[John]

Fucking horrible.

[Injun, as in from India]

By God I want to take a wrecking ball to government.

[Ted S.]

Who’s the last government school employee to get 23 years for *anything*? Pamela Smart?

[JWatts]

“Who’s the last government school employee to get 23 years for *anything*?”

Well a whole lot of them get at least 23 years and often much more than that. Oh wait, you aren’t talking about pension payments are you? Never mind.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

That’s disgusting.

Talk about wanting to set the woodchipper into over drive.

Fucking paper work.

The paper work they force on us here is retarded and DOES JACK SHIT to help anyone except give the false sense of making a ‘difference’. All it does it ensures people justify their jobs.

[Drake]

Too bad their Governor moved to New Hampshire.

[Winston]

I demand that January, April, June, August, September, November and December all be reduced to 29 days and for those ten days be added to February, which is Black History Month, as reparations for millennia of institutional discrimination by Imperial slave-owning tyrants. Also get rid of the Papist calendar that removed February from its rightful place as last month of the legal year (well sort of…) and eliminated three leap days in 400 years which is unacceptable discrimination against that month. And why not get rid of leap day too, isn’t it convenient that Black History Month has a day created by a slave-owning imperialist tyrant? And rename July and August too.

[Medical Physics Guy]

September should be the seventh month. Is that so hard people?

[Winston]

We can think Numa Pompilius for that, or at least according to legend that is.

[Ted S.]

Numa Numa!

[jesse.in.mb]

Eh, as long as you aren’t advocating for the French Revolutionary calendar…Fuck metric time in the ear.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Are you trying to tell me something? /moves in closer to listen.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

If you don’t stop that you’ll go blind deaf.

[JWatts]

“Eh, as long as you aren’t advocating for the French Revolutionary calendar…Fuck metric time in the ear.”

That’s not metric time. Metric time is based upon seconds. If you aren’t talking kilosecs or megasecs, then you are just a poser.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Black history should be its own month. Say. Blackuary? Or Blackpril.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

“Blacktober” has a nice ring.

[jesse.in.mb]

“Blacktober” has a nice ring.

That’s African Ameritober to you, sir.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Can black face now be allowed on Halloween?

[Certified Public Asshat]

I was asking for Irish, in case that wasn’t clear.

[Crusty Juggler]

Or, you have just been outed as one of Irish’s socks.

[Irish ?s ESB]

Why would I wear blackface on Halloween when there are never any minstrel shows on holidays?

[DEG]

China is buying gold

The Chinese are on a massive gold shopping spree.

China’s government doesn’t share exact figures, but the vast majority of gold heading into mainland China passes through Hong Kong, which does make its records public.

Gold imports to China have surged over 700% since 2010, according to the latest data from Hong Kong.

Exactly what China is doing with all that gold remains somewhat of a mystery. The increasingly wealthy Chinese are buying, but that doesn’t explain all the jump in demand.

[Injun, as in from India]

They must be making a ton of motherboards and other electronics…

[Brett L]

Exchanging T-Bills for real money?

[John]

http://www.thenation.com/artic…..les-votes/

True but damn.

[Irish ?s ESB]

One thing that should probably be pointed out is that she brings up how bad crime was in black America in 1992, but doesn’t mention that by the time Clinton left office, the murder rate had fallen 50% and a large percentage of the falling murder rate occurred in black inner cities.

If you’re going to blame Clinton for every bad thing that happened to black people during his presidency, shouldn’t you credit him with the massive decline in homicides too?

[John]

If you were rational and not a Prog retard sure. But if you were that, you wouldn’t be writing for The Nation.

[Irish ?s ESB]

Also, she claims the problems in the inner cities began with Reagan basically, but completely neglects to mention that the increases in crime she’s complaining about (as well as the growing problems with poverty and job losses) actually began in the 60’s and 70’s. All the really terrible projects people talk about were built in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s and many had been demolished before Reagan even took office.

Pruitt-Igoe was one of the worst projects this country has ever seen. It was built in 1954 and demolished in the mid-70’s. Progressives have a hilarious tendency to totally ignore 30 years of urban decay that occurred before Reagan because then they’d have to acknowledge it wasn’t caused by the resurgence of small government conservatism.

[Winston]

Progs have at times expressed this bizarre notion that everything between 1933 and 1981 was perfectly fine until Reagan came along. Never mind that this includes the 1950s, ‘Nam, Nixon and Segregation and that I am pretty much no one in the 1970s believed themselves in some utopia. The British Left express similar attitudes when attacking Thatcher as well.

[Drake]

I remember watching Yankees – Red Sox games in the 70’s when the Bronx was burning. Good times.

[Injun, as in from India]

Look at the subheading: “?From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted?and Hillary Clinton supported?decimated black America.”

Seriously?

[John]

Its the Nation. So of course even if they get it right, they do so for utterly retarded reasons.

[waffles]

Well crime went down, but more people went to prison. I’m not sure if one out every ten black Americans went to prison but if they could be close.

[waffles]

One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime.

So this NAACP organization says it’s probably even better than decimation. Though I don’t think it’s fair to put all the blame on the Clintons. I mean we had two Bushes!

[Irish ?s ESB]

And Reagan and also Nixon. The War on Drugs is really a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Oh, plus people who get fucked in places like Ferguson by continuously getting nailed with fines they can’t pay, after which they go to prison for non-payment. That’s always sweet too.

[Notorious UGCC]

You know who else went down in the Clinton administration?

[waffles]

Bob Dole?

[Crusty Juggler]

Vince Foster?

[BigT]

Ron Brown?

[Winston]

Pennsylvania ought to demand The Wedge back in exchange for Biden.

…..But what a minute I thought Joe Biden was born in Wiltshire?

[Winston]

So I see Gillespie has taken my advice and is writing articles on how Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are harbingers of The Libertarian Moment. Nice.

[Drake]

Byron York too. Or at least he can’t tell the difference.

http://www.washingtonexaminer……le/2582703

[Jerryskids]

“In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper told a Senate panel as part of his annual “assessment of threats” against the US.

[Jerry on the rocks]

Paul’s campaign manager joins Rubio.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Great career move.

[GILMORE?]

Obama Seeks Compromise, Greater Comity in Government….Wonders Why He Can’t At Least Get A Few Hundred Billion in New Taxes Passed Before He Leaves Office

[Injun, as in from India]

I really wish he would talk louder about the $10 barrel tax. It would be fun to see if the Comrade and the Crook denounce their President.

[GILMORE?]

Seriously. The media has been wonderfully helpful keeping this abomination off the front page because everyone knew he was spitballing. But there’s nothing like Democrats being all like “I WILL BE OBAMA 2.0” while Obama is desperately throwing new tax ideas out there like its going out of style.

[JWatts]

“I really wish he would talk louder about the $10 barrel tax. ”

What’s really amazing is the belief that the $10 tax won’t be passed onto the consumer. Yes, as stupid as that is, I’ve heard people insist it’s true.

[The Last American Hero]

The $10/barrel tax is about a $0.25 per gallon tax. I wonder why he doesn’t called a $0.25 per gallon tax?

[GILMORE?]

“I wonder why he doesn’t called a $0.25 per gallon tax?”

The former suggests he’s taxing oil companies. The latter admits it will be passed onto consumers.

and its $.23 i think

[BigT]

A barrel of crude gives about 12 gallons of diesel and 19 of gasoline.

So if the $10.00 is split evenly, it would be $0.32 per gallon.

[John]

The only reason the Republicans won’t give him everything he wants is because they are racist. If the country wasn’t so racist and unreasonable, there would never have been a single bad thing happen during his administration

[John]

The report said that the administration was planning to cull struggling freshmen from the institution as part of an effort to improve retention numbers ? a big factor in rankings published in outlets like U.S. News & World Report ? and that the university’s president, Simon Newman, had used disturbing language to sell the idea to a skeptical professor last fall.

“This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t,” Mr. Newman is quoted as saying. “You just have to drown the bunnies.”

He added, “Put a Glock to their heads.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02……html?_r=0

This guy might be America’s greatest college president.

[Notorious UGCC]

“Mr. Newman declined a request for an interview through a spokesman, but he has apologized for his choice of words and explained that his retention proposal was intended to help students at risk of academic failure and possibly suffocating debt.”

The fact that he’s acknowledging this problem and saying he wants to take drastic action about it makes me inclined in his favor, but I’d like to know if he respected the contractual rights of the people he fired.

[Winston]

Speaking of Leap Day, it actually isn’t February 29, at least not originally…maybe. It was February 25…or 24. It’s complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29

The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the “bis sextum”?literally ‘double sixth’, since February 24 was ‘the sixth day before the Kalends of March’ using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the ‘first day’). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or “bissextile” day since the third century.[2] February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages.

[R C Dean]

Two female suicide bombers in Nigeria killed more than 60 people.

Radical feminists?

Militant Presbyterians?

Or just random explodey-dolts?

[John]

I am totally sure if a Christian terrorist ever murders 60 people Ed will not mention their religion.

[BigT]

Two female suicide bombers in Nigeria killed more than 60 people.

Hillary campaign workers?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Democrats, who usually are allies of Yellen’s Fed, criticized aspects of the recovery as well. With the Fed tightening policy for the first time in nearly a decade, it was their turn to air anxiety over the prospect of a short-circuited recovery before many Americans have regained work or seen their paychecks grow.

Holy shit.

[Drake]

Hmm. They could cut taxes to stimulate the economy.

I kid of course.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Lawmakers know you’re kidding, they’re laughing too.

[Lady Bertrum]

Right. Because the recovery was sub-par because Yellen hiked by .25 in December. The anemic recovery has nothing to do with unprecedented levels of debt, NIRP for 80 months and QE after years of bubble blowing by Greenspan and Bernanke.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

By the by, I still haven’t heard one analysis if the Fed has even successfully hit their .25 target, seeing as they can’t raise interest rates by raising interest rates any more. Did they hit .25? Did they overshoot and is it effectively 19%?

[Lady Bertrum]

It is messed up. Nothing makes sense any more at the lower bound. Yields on Treasuries didn’t respond as expected while internationally liquidity was negatively hit (dollar shortage).

I liked this:

One of the most surprising comments this year came from a closed session on fintech where I sat next to someone in policy circles who argued that we should move quickly to a cashless economy so that we could introduce negative rates well below 1% ? as they were concerned that Larry Summers’ secular stagnation was indeed playing out and we would be stuck with negative rates for a decade in Europe. They felt below (1.5)% depositors would start to hoard notes, leading to yet further complexities for monetary policy

From zerohedge.

After screwing up our economy with shitty Keynesian policy, they’ll double-down and attempt outright theft.

[Old Man With Candy]

And Bernie kissed Sharpton’s ring. Because he wants to show that he won’t tolerate support from rich, corrupt, and bigoted folks with blood on their hands.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

He’s gotta reach out to the ministers. I’m repeatedly hearing Hillary has a lock on that shit.

[Old Man With Candy]

You forgot the scare quotes. “Ministers.”

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

they were implied.

[Shpip]

Jeremy Clarkson says anyone who buys a manual transmission is ‘mad’

Heretic! Burn him!
I mean, he has a point an all, especially in rush hour traffic, but… see if he floats, then cleanse him with fire.

[Old Man With Candy]

Dude, I have 4 hours a day in bumper to bumper Chicago traffic. Fuck manuals.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Meh, the manual transmission is a bit like releasing records on vinyl. Automatic transmissions especially in high-performance cars have become sophisticated enough that you just don’t really need it.

He wrote: “‘Why,’ I wailed inwardly, ‘would anyone ever buy a car with a manual gearbox these days?’ It’s like saying, ‘I don’t need a television with a remote control. I’m perfectly capable of walking over to it and changing the channel myself.'”

I agree with Clarkson.

[John]

They are fun to drive. It is also fun to have a car that few people under 25 can drive. It is kind of a built in anti-theft feature. Driving a manual is like being able to ride a horse or use a slide ruler, one of those archiac skills that are a pleasure to have.

[Lady Bertrum]

I love manual transmissions but Jersey has too much traffic. When I move to Tasmania, I’m getting a car with a stick.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

They were fun to drive when I was 21 and lived in flyover country where the freeways were long and empty.

[Heelbilly Woodchipper]

Exactly right. They are more fun to drive. I just bought a new (to me) car. Took forever to find the one I wanted because I had to have a manual. I was explaining to the sales person why I prefer one “When you drive a manual, you engage your entire body in the act of driving”. That’s why it is more fun for me.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

People who would buy a gearstick manual “are the sort who choose not to have a washing machine because they prefer to clean their clothes in the local river,” he continued.

the more I read the more I agree.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

There still is not an automatic transmission that transfers as much power to the ground or gets as much efficiency as a standard. I understand why people buy automatics, but don’t shit on something just because you’re too much of a lazy cunt to use it.

[John]

I thought the really high end double clutch automatics were better than manuals these days?

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

There still is not an automatic transmission that costs less than $10,000 that transfers close to as much power to the ground or gets as much efficiency as a standard. I understand why people buy automatics, but don’t shit on something just because you’re too much of a lazy cunt to use it. There are a few high end double clutch automatics that are close, but nothing that has consistently beat a good driver in a standard.

[waffles]

I choose my battles and this is one of them. I row my own gears.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My mother would have washed our clothes on a rock by the river had she been able to get away with it. She too was convinced that washing machines just weren’t as good as the old ways.

[kbolino]

I learned on an automatic and drove them exclusively until I picked up my first stick 2 years ago. I can say that I don’t have any interest in going back. It was frustrating as hell at first (dammit, I just want to *go*, not think about this damn process), but now that I’m used to it, I like it.

However, I do avoid traffic like the plague. Not that I didn’t before, but it’s especially bad with a stick. City driving is bad, too. I went 18 months without burning any clutch, until I had to drive in downtown Baltimore.

[Warty]

Fuck CUDA and fuck memory coalescence. Stupid shit is preventing me from leaving and squatting and bench pressing.

Here, this is fun.

[Los Doyers]

Not music.

[Warty]

SORRY IT DOESN’T HAVE AUTOTUNE YOU KIDS THESE DAYS AND YOUR CRAP MUSIC I CALL IT CRAP NOT RAP

[Los Doyers]

All hail Queen Yonc

[Charles Easterly]

-infinity polyhedron dice.

[ant1sthenes]

Maybe you should run programs on CPUs like God intended.

[Frankjasper1]

Bernie Sanders idiocy…we are so screwed if he wins

http://prospect.org/article/fa…..payer-plan

Originally the Sanders campaign 324B in savings on drugs a year….the UNITED STATES SPENT 305B on drugs in 2014

They have now revised the savings NOW TO 241B

[Frankjasper1]

I was reading a few articles at various locations regarding how he would tax the middle class (zerohedge whatever that is) and his fantasy single player plan (spectator.org).

His devout followers swarm the comments and just repeat the same talking points he has used over and over and over.

What is the psychology of these type of people? Cognitive dissonance? Their weird desire for a savior and free unicorns?

It boggles my mind how stupid they are

[John]

I think they have never learned how to think and have lost the ability to think rationally, if they ever had it. They really do think words are magic and if you just say the right words, reality will conform.

[John]

I would say they are real life versions of Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap telling the narrator “but this one goes to 11”.

[JWatts]

“Here’s one stunning detail: When the Sanders campaign released its plan, it estimated $324 billion in annual savings on prescription drugs?until Thorpe noted that the United States spent only $305 billion for that purpose in 2014. ”

Well now, that’s a Plan crafted by some Top Men.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

HuffPo gonna HuffPo:

A Vote for Hillary Is a Vote for Hope — New Hampshire Voters Miss the Mark

It’s 2016, and while England, Germany, Denmark, Chile, Argentina, India and even Pakistan have elected women heads of state, we still haven’t even nominated a woman for our highest office. With Hillary Clinton, we have a female candidate who not only has a stronger resume than that of any of her rivals in either party, but who is firmly committed ensuring equal pay for women, and who has been uniquely outspoken on the impact that women have on the economy.

Rana Florida CEO, The Creative Class Group & Best-Selling Author, Upgrade

Can’t bring myself to click on the link.

[John]

So the interests of women are the only interests that count in this country.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

Well, one very narrow interest of women, anyway.

[Charles Easterly]

I suppose that several lesbians also agree with your interpretation, WcP.

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

…I have no idea what this means.

[Charles Easterly]

“… one very narrow interest of women….” vis a vis “I suppose that several lesbians also agree with your interpretation….”

Ahem…

The “Altar of Venus”

“Nature’s treasury”

“Narrows of Wonder”

“Lady’s low toupee”

“Venerable monosyllable”

I’ll have to ask what other phrases are currently in use (or even if these actually are) from someone, when she’s available.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Electing a woman shows that the country as a whole has reached a certain level of enlightenment.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

By ‘stronger Resume’ they’re referring to her lengthy experience with DC corruption and cronyism?

[WoodchipperPatriarch]

A Vote for Hillary Is a Vote for Hope

Is this gonna be Hillary’s insipid tagline? Hope? Hope and Same?

[The Last American Hero]

Her staffers experience the same gender pay gap that the country does. Apparently, Rana doesn’t do her homework.

[BigT]

Don;t worry the DNC has taken care of the chance an old white socialist could win.

The DNC Just Screwed Over Bernie Sanders and Spit in Voters’ Faces

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

IT DOESN’T SAY PM LINKS …. WHERE ARE THE PM LINKS???????//1!!111111111!!!!11!

[Charles Easterly]

“Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan appeared before his 15th parole board hearing today.”

Did anyone there reference or provide video of British Entertainer Derren Brown’s “The Assassin”?

[Rt. Hon. Judge Woodrow Chipper]

The government of Delaware formally apologized for slavery.

If Delaware sincerely meant the apology, they’d abolish all their taxes and trade restrictions.

[andythomas12501]

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[lukashik]

The technology is so developed that we can watch videos, live streaming, TV serials and any of our missed programs within our mobiles and PCs. Showbox
All we need is a mobile or PC with a very good internet connection. There are many applications by which we can enjoy videos, our missed programs, live streaming etc.

[waffles]

I like the part where they destroy the quaint middle eastern village.

[Jerry on the rocks]

Needs more daisies.

[Aloysious]

“I gave money to Anthony Weiner.”

ouch. That’s hitting below the belt.

[JWatts]

Yes, pretty funny.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Like an Alfa-Romeo pre-fuel injection. But a blast nonetheless.

[Los Doyers]

Don’t play cute with me, gabacho.

[Tejicano]

I don’t count borders that are not obvious at night from 30,000 feet up.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My 16 year old drives one!

How does he text and shift at the same time?

[coloraDOOM]

This comment is why I’m here.