Trump Searches for a VP, Cruz Plots, Clinton Pivots Left: P.M. Links

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  Screenshot via Fox News

  The search for Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee is in the capable, delicate hands of Corey Lewandowski. 

• Military voters back Trump over Hillary Clinton.
• Clinton is moving to the left, for the moment.
• Ted Cruz: It's not over until it's over, and even then, maybe not.
• The Cliven Bundy family is filing suit against President Obama.
• Jack Hunter and Milo Yiannopoulos argue about the true nature of the alt-right.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The search for Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee is in the capable, delicate hands of Corey Lewandowski.

NEVER HAPPENED THERE'S VIDEO

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

You Americans are exhausting.

Thank God we have Robby with his thin links keeping sanity.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

There is alt-text, and it's on time?

Are we really sure that Robby posted this?

[Tonio]

Lizard people? [tears off length of tinfoil, passes roll along]

[Pompey]

Rufus, going to Montreal for 4th of July weekend. Would you advise avoiding downtown on July 1 or will it be traffic-tolerable?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Actually downtown Montreal is pretty quiet on July 1 but it's been years since I've been there on July 1. So take that with a grain of salt. I wouldn't trust it because construction is pretty bad these days.

Feel free to hit me up.

[SIV]

"Grab its motherfucking arm"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Military voters back Trump over Hillary Clinton.

She has a record. He doesn't.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Corey LewandowskiScreenshot via Fox NewsThe search for Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee is in the capable, delicate hands of Corey Lewandowski.

His pick is sure to grab our attention.

[Citizen X]

And throw it to the ground?

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

He's intent on leaving his mark on this campaign.

[Free Society]

Is that what happened? She was thrown to the ground?

[Citizen X]

I don't even know anymore, man.

[Free Society]

Neither do I. I unplugged from the Grabbocaust many moons ago.

[Enough About Palin]

It's Grabbergate, dude.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Lewandowski is not gonna be part of your system, man.

[BiMonSciFiCon]

Clinton is moving to the left, for the moment.

It's just that part of the song in the Cupid Shuffle. She'll be going back right soon.

[Drake]

And all the leftist stuff she's spouting will be used in Republican campaign ads this fall.

[Doctor Whom]

Let's do the Clinton aga-ain!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Madness takes control!

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Cliven Bundy family is filing suit against President Obama.

Yeah, that will go far.

[Pat (PM)]

They might run into some roadblocks, if you know what I mean...

[Libertarian]

I guess it's worth a shot.

[Citizen X]

Eh, the suit is probably DOA.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

The suit reached for a weapon by referring to the Constitution.

[Charles Easterly]

Would that have been a furtive reach, or an openly aggressive reach, Chipper?

[some guy]

It's obvious they have a beef with the administration but they're going to have to steer this suit carefully to keep it from being put out to pasture.

[Charles Easterly]

It seems utter insanity to launch a lawsuit against such an administration.

[Pat (PM)]

Arkansas judge accused of trading sentence reductions for sex resigns

An Arkansas judge accused by a state panel of trading sentence reductions for sex with young defendants has resigned, legal documents released on Monday showed.

Joseph Boeckmann of state district court in Wynne, Arkansas, was suspended over the scandal in November by the Arkansas Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction over the state's lower courts.

He was accused of issuing "substitutionary sentences" to certain defendants, and offering sentence reductions or dismissals to others, all allegedly to entice them into sexual relations.

The Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, charged with overseeing judges, said in the documents made public on Monday that it had recovered more than 1,000 images of nude or semi-nude young men from the judge's home computer.

Many of the men were photographed at the judge's home, the commission said, adding it anticipated uncovering more than 3,000 similar pictures.

In his letter of resignation, provided by the commission, Boeckmann vowed to never again "seek employment as a local, county or state employee or public servant in the state of Arkansas." The resignation was effective as of Monday, it said.

[Rich]

"It's physically possible for you to get a shorter sentence."

[Ted S.]

They're discriminating against gay judges!

[BiMonSciFiCon]

How did this go on for so long? How were these defendants getting to his house?

[Tonio]

Yeah, I was going to ask that about the defendants. If they were transported by the police or sheriff then those folks got some 'splaining to do.

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

Bail and ROR? Minors are often remitted to the custody of their parents.

[Anomalous]

Either way, they're fucked.

[BigT]

"Boeckmann vowed to never again "seek employment as a local, county or state employee or public servant in the state of Arkansas."

SCOTUS or bust!!

[BiMonSciFiCon]

that's what got him in trouble in the first place.

[Rich]

Cruz floats restarting campaign if he wins Nebraska primary

Ah, so *that's* why I got a request for $ from Ted *yesterday*.

[Ted S.]

Feel free to send your money to me.

[Rich]

Lord help me, that's what I *did*!

*** starts sobbing ***

[Ted S.]

Then how come I never got that money?

[Rich]

*** regains composure ***

Sheesh, Ted, I just mailed it this morning.

*** stops payment ***

[Anomalous]

Well, he didn't end his campaign, he merely suspended it.

[Crusty Juggler]

On time with alt text? Where muh Soave gone?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Well, the links are still short and light on the substance, so we can at least take solace in that.

[Hamster of Doom]

*groans*

Someone take the boy's alt-text away, he doesn't know what to do with it.

[Crusty Juggler]

I thought it was punderful.

[Los Doyers]

Just right out back here behind the shed, Crusty. Granny's waiting for you with a nice tray of cookies...

[bacon-magic]

Look at the flowers CJ.

[Jerry on the rocks]

Milo doesn't know jack.

But he does know a johnson or two.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Heh. I see what you did there.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Cars with bad alignment tend to pull left, right? It's no different with politics.

Hillary is moving left?

What she - WE - need is proper balancing and alignment!

Who shall I bill?

[Libertarian]

I think one of her problems is Bill's ball barings.

[Michael]

Ka-BOOOOOOM!!!!!

[Enough About Palin]

I think it has more to do with his crooked drive-shaft. Isn't that why DJT calls her Crooked Hillary?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Close, but no cigar.

[Ted S.]

Canadian Tire?

[Ted S.]

Hitler?

[Ted S.]

Nicole? She is the worst, after all.

[Karinka]

Are you single tonight? A lot of beautiful girls waiting for you to http://goo.gl/pI9ucn
The best adult dating site!

[Playa Manhattan.]

This shit is getting a little ridiculous.

WEBMASTER, BAN THIS PERSON

[Rich]

Really. How many beautiful girls are there in Greenland, anyway?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

As many we libertarians can smuggle in?

[Ted S.]

Just for the meta, they should follow up the "Are you single tonight" with a link to the anonymity sites like the old Anonbot pushed.

[Jordan]

Nice try, FBI.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Clinton is moving to the left"

Is that how you win the general?

[Los Doyers]

He who would pick a pun would pick a pocket.

[GILMORE?]

[insert standard gasping disbelief that this collection of links comprise what Robby thinks 'matters']

Muslims Assault Citadel

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Family spokesman Ibrahim Hooper".

Family spokesman, eh? And yet, I've heard his name before. Many times.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ibrahim Hooper is the Abe Foxman of Muslims.

[Tonio]

Nice.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Ibe Foxman?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

I liked him better when Burt Reynolds played him.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Mr. Hooper on Sesame Muslim Street.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Get with the program, this is the latest CJW outrage.

[Rich]

What?! They dare call it "*Nininger* Hall"?!

[Heroic Mulatto]

To be honest, I did do a double take when I first read that.

[tarran]

I think they meant to call it "A'near Hall".

[Rich]

LOL

"Arsenio Hall"

[Pan Zagloba]

+1 new sheriff.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Is that a derogatory name for an ugly ninja?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Why my link no work 🙁

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Diabeetus?

[Hamster of Doom]

Searching John Burk brings up a retired Gen-X douchecanoe who "teaches fitness". Apparently through Youtube and Facebook. And he is offended by black female raised fists, and someone else needs to do something about this!

Mary Tobin is a graduate of the academy who said she is a mentor to some of the women in the photo and has spoken to them since the inquiry was launched. She said the pose had nothing to do with politics.

"They weren't doing it to be aligned with any particular movement or any particular party. It was, 'We did it and we did it together,'" Tobin said, referring to their completion of four years at West Point.

-.-

[Heroic Mulatto]

Do you know how many grams of protein it takes to keep your telepathy that strong?

[Rich]

"Uniformity is the cornerstone of this four-year leader development model. The standardization of cadets in apparel, overall appearance, actions and privileges is essential to the learning goals and objectives of the college," Citadel President retired Lt. Gen John Rosa said in a statement.

We are all God's children.

[Los Doyers]

The decision disappointed the student, according to a family spokesman who said they are considering legal options because they believe "it's the same issue faced by African-Americans and women in this situation."

Yes, this student faced down fire hoses and police beatings just to wear her headscarf.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Jack Hunter and Milo Yiannopoulos argue about the true nature of the alt-right.

Does it really matter exactly where on the autism spectrum they're on?

[Rich]

Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off limits, [and] Mills and her lawyer left the room

"If you have nothing to hide ...."

[Playa Manhattan.]

They weren't softballing enough. Clinton and her people already have a deal with Justice, and the FBI won't play along.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Dave Dk Kelly

4:51 PM EDT

I gotta remember that if the FBI ever comes calling, you cannot ask me about that body laying over there.

[PBR Streetgang]

Sorta O/T, but a "Bernie or Bust" acquaintance and I were discussing Hilary's speeches to Goldman Sachs and he believes that the reason she won't release transcripts is because she never gave any speeches. She just collected the fee. Interesting theory I thought, doubt he is the originator, but I hadn't heard it before.

[Rich]

Nothing would not shock me.

[Playa Manhattan.]

True or not, the question remains the same.

Maybe she didn't show up. But maybe she did show up, and said damn close to nothing. For all we know, the speech was powerpoint slides of cat pictures.

Either way, she didn't give a speech that was worth anywhere near $250k (or $1k, for that matter).

So the question is: why were they paying her?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Who would be idiotic enough to pay and not get a speech?

I wouldn't spare a toilet paper square to hear her.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

One of her speeches she didn't deliver but got paid for:

This administration will not tolerate derp and opposition! We will do whatever it takes to deliver the good to the American people and mark my words those goods will be AWESOME!.......

Cankles. Ever since I was a kid people made fun of my cankles. I promised myself that not only would I be as poor as the person who votes for me I would make everyone pay for making fun of my cankles. I had NO CONTROL over this! But I will have control of Congress and god dammit will I make them deliver heads on a platter.

[VG Zaytsev]

I've been saying that for months.

[Libertarian]

I wonder if the future will be a place where school children learn that, in all history, three presidents have been impeached and that two of them were named "Clinton."

[waffles]

You just gave me chills.

[Chip Woodier]

If a president can commit murder and not be impeached, what would make you think that Hillary wouldn't get away with something less?

[Crusty Juggler]

'I was convinced that bugs were crawling up my body, eating at my organs and brain.' How Tommy Hilfiger's daughter Ally suffered unrelenting paranoia and excruciating pain as Lyme disease from a tick bite went undiagnosed for years

Her constant bouts of strep throat, emotional insecurity, pain in her knees and difficulty concentrating had everyone fooled as to what they were dealing with in the early years ? until an astute doctor years viewed her symptoms as being Lyme disease.

The disease is 'a multisystemic illness that can affect the central nervous system causing neurologic and psychiatric symptoms', according to the National Institute of Health

[Playa Manhattan.]

That may be partly true.

[Libertarian]

It's not paranoia if it's true.

[Brett L]

I'm getting laid off Friday. Sweet. Sloopy, banjos, I know our kids get along, but I think we're off to FL again. Anyone need a coder in Tampa/St. Pete? I'm aiming to be out of work just long enough to be ready to go sit at a desk than be with my kids for another full day -- so probably next Tuesday.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Ah, that's rough. Best of luck, Brett.

[Brett L]

I know, we just started hanging out with sloopy and banjoes. I was hoping to arrange a couple of marriages for my sons. I was going to be an Ancestor in the Libertopian Breedinh Project. Or just hang out and drink a lot with them.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Or just hang out and drink a lot with them.

FWIW, that's more or less how I ended up married.

[PBR Streetgang]

Man, that stinks. Sorry to hear it.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Sorry to hear that.

Coder? I thought you were in construction?

[Brett L]

I wanted to be an engineer, but I was doing construction for the experience. Now there's no engineering or construction jobs and my wife wants to be closer to family. I supported myself for a long time as a coder.

[OneOut]

There are about 200,000 roofs to build in San Antonio.

[ant1sthenes]

Was office space an autobiography?

[Ted S.]

Isn't it Denver L who's in construction?

[Los Doyers]

Square = Circle is also in construction.

[DEG]

Sorry. Hopefully you find something soon.

[JW]

Ah, feck. Sorry dude.

[Old Man With Candy]

I'll pile on here to express sympathy. I wish I had coders working for me, I could use some libertarian support around work. Any chance you could fake a chemistry degree?

[Brett L]

Chemical engineering close enough?

[Banjos]

Awww...Fuck.

[Los Doyers]

POKEMONS!

I choose the fire kitten thing.

[Mazakon]

Even with a type disadvantage, your Litten will still lose to my Rowlet.

[Los Doyers]

I dunno...fire-type starters usually learn their first decent fire-type move (ember) before the grass losers (vine whip...racist!).

[Heroic Mulatto]

Rowlet is also a Flying-type. It's going to drill-peck the shit out of Black Meowth.

[Los Doyers]

Yeah, except that any 4x effective ice-type attack will turn your Rowlet into a Hootsicle.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

This is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay nerdier that discussing how to do a 120 sided dice.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Clinton is moving to the left, for the moment.

Huh?

Hasn't Clinton been falling all over herself to agree with Mr. Sanders the entire primary season?

[Libertarian]

Indeed. He got her to increase the minimum wage amount to $15. Perhaps the socialist could teach the Donald a thing or two about the art of the deal.

[Jerryskids]

If I were anywhere on Trump's radar, I'd be more than a little concerned that Lewandowski's searching for a VP, he's probably carrying a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

Is Islamophobia accelerating global warming?

"This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as 'generalised domestication.'"

[Playa Manhattan.]

In related news, when I liquidate the 529s I set up for my kids, I'll be getting this.

[Doctor Whom]

Alan Sokal, is that you?

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

From the author of White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society?

Sounds like he really believes this stuff

[Heroic Mulatto]

I was wondering when they'd get around to blaming "climate change" on the Jews.

[Old Man With Candy]

Since the Jews control the Saudis and the Saudis control the oil, the circle is closed.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!
Sithi uhm ingonyama!

[Old Man With Candy]

I'm disappointed you didn't reference the Mr. Hankie version.

[BigT]

"was wondering when they'd get around to blaming "climate change" on the Jews."

Obviously. A lot of Jew CO2 came out of those furnaces.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Shut it down. Thread won.

[Pat (PM)]

This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today...

But then...

[Tonio]

What. The. Fuck?

[Ted S.]

I thought it was Brexit that was accelerating global warming.

[GILMORE?]

Priest Playing too Much Elder Scrolls Online

[Tonio]

Not the worst thing he could be doing on his off hours.

[GILMORE?]

Tobin says he's heard about "zombie-like" people who are "completely stoned" filling public places in Colorado, where marijuana is legal. He says young people already addicted to electronic devices and "attached to their virtual umbilical cords" would become more detached if the drug were legal.

Tobin says his viewpoints are purely theoretical because he's never smoked pot.

[Crusty Juggler]

Benghazi suspect from Libya won't face death penalty, Justice Department says

It would be too harsh to request the death penalty just for making a video.

[Drake]

Probably shouldn't kill a Presidential candidate.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

[Los Doyers]

Khattala, captured by U.S. special forces in Libya two years ago and brought to the U.S. aboard a Navy ship, has been awaiting trial in federal court in Washington in connection with the September 2012 violence at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi.

Why was he captured and brought back to DC for a trial? Serious question.

[Tonio]

As opposed to summary execution?

[Los Doyers]

No, I was just unclear on what the law would be for a foreign national attacking a U.S. Embassy. I guess they are treated the same as terrorists and fall under the purview of the DoJ and FBI.

[Restoras]

I assume this falls under the FYTW clause.

[Enough About Palin]

I would think that its because a US embassy is considered US Territory.

[Los Doyers]

Ah, of course. Duh doi.

/goes back to sniff glue

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

And burial at sea?

[GILMORE?]

As opposed to summary execution?

Actually, when he was captured (kidnapped), it was in the context of operations where SOCOM guys were actually killing Libyan 'suspects' sort of willy nilly. I can't find the story, but it was early 2013? We waxed like 3-4 dudes. And people were kind of suggesting it was "not cool bro" when they captured this guy, which changed the story and made everything OK.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

The search for Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee is in the capable, delicate hands of Corey Lewandowski.

Didn't they previously announce that Ben Carson was handling this?

[Libertarian]

You're talking about a candidate who simultaneously says that "labor costs are too high" and that we need to "increase the minimum wage."

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

"Jack Hunter and Milo Yiannopoulos argue about the true nature of the alt-right."

The Southern Avenger and a professional troll debate whether or not other trolls are actually racist or are just doing it ironically.

Riveting.

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

Jack also has a retarded writing style. He can't seem to fit more than a certain number of syllables into a line before he hits the return key.

"I really wasn't trying to demean Milo. I still think how he takes on the extreme left is great and hilarious. "Social Justice Warriors" are a plague on campuses across the country.

But I did want to warn young libertarians about the true nature of the alt-right.

I did want them to know that being alt-right also meant becoming something really nasty.

It turns you into an asshole.

That's actually the entire point.

It's a movement that is perpetually somewhere between race-obsessed and explicitly racist ? with pride.

Mostly white."

I write sentences.

Many incomplete.

But I am being paid to write.

Why?

[John]

What the hell is up with that? Are paragraphs now a microagression?

[Heroic Mulatto]

I write sentences.

Many incomplete.

But I am being paid to write.

Why?

While that's good poetry, Agile Cyborg is still our poet laureate.

[John]

I always wanted to be like E.E. Cummings but I was born retarded.

So instead I write sentences.

But I am paid to write.

No one knows why.

[SusanM]

It's a pretty good Shatner impersonation.

[John]

Jack Hunter is such a tiresome douche bag, he makes Yiannopoulos seem calm and erudite. Yiannopoulos is at least entertaining. He may be a troll but he is at least a good one. Hunter is like a villain from a John Hughes movie. What a humorless prick. He has no argument other than "I found some people on twitter who said racist shit" and "you said mean things about me and that proves you are racist (even though I might be the whitest man in the universe)."

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

I sympathize with Hunter's hatred of the alt-right jackasses, but Hunter himself is such a prig that he's impossible to really side with.

"Hunter is like a villain from a John Hughes movie."

Yes. He's a southern conservative who dresses like he's always on his way to the countryclub. The problem with a lot of people who criticize the alt-right and related bigoted conservative movements is that many of them look and act like every kind of negative, Buckleyite, well-heeled, humorless conservative stereotype.

[John]

I am just too much of a subversive not to side with the alt right. And if it is the alt right or people like Hunter, forget it. I can forgive mediocrity. What I can never forgive is mediocrity combined with smugness. And that is Hunter. How dare he act like he worthy of anything. God I hate stupid people who think they are smart.

[Ted S.]

You must really hate yourself. :-p

[John]

Who said I thought I was smart?

[Nativist, Racist & Xenophobe]

You and a few others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjnJ3TGNBeY

[Heroic Mulatto]

Just as Bill Clinton was our first "Black" president; how do you deal with the cognitive dissonance of your support of Trump, who might become our first "Jewish" president?

[John]

What is wrong with a Jewish President?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ask Slappy, John.

[Brett L]

I thought Roosevelt was err...No?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Which one?

[Brett L]

Theodore. Frank would have bewn too stereotypical.

[Drake]

Seems like the EU is going to fall apart faster than I previously thought. The bureaucrats who run Europe want to fine Eastern European nations $290,000 for every single "refugee" they refuse to accept. Strangely, there have not been any terrorist attacks in those countries.

Would not be surprised to see much of Eastern Europe follow the UK out the door.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/.....kiss-death

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

$290,000 for every single "refugee" they refuse to accept

How is that even calculated?

[Rich]

$290,000 is equivalent to 1320 Syrian pounds?

[Drake]

With a calculator? In Euros probably.

[Restoras]

As with all diktats, arbitrarily.

[gaoxiaen]

Here's a one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill. Keep the change.

[Careless]

They've allocated x migrants to each country for resettlement based on various factors.

For some reason, Germany doesn't want to keep all that trillion dollar bill it's found for itself.

[MetalBard]

I've been predicting the fall of the EU for a long time. It cannot survive the economic crisis, the Syrian refugee problem, the Islamist threat, and the rise of various Nationalist parties all at the same time.

[Rich]

Hillary's indictment will be the final straw.

[GILMORE?]

Strangely, there have not been any terrorist attacks in those countries.

That's because there would be a subsequent wholesale slaughter of muslims in Refugee camps and they know it.

[Bubba Jones]

Can you imagine a Muslim refugee uprising in Serbia? Lol

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Fuck the EU. This compassion shit is coming with all sorts of coercive bull shit. This is how wars start - and this one will be all bureaucrat driven.

I hope EE holds their ground and tells them to suck it.

[GILMORE?]

Surrounded by crates of potatoes, apples and turnips and pallets of canned ravioli and green beans, the singer best known for rock anthems like "Livin' On A Prayer," ''You Give Love A Bad Name" and "Wanted Dead Or Alive" said hunger is something he can actually do something about.

- Everyone politely pretended to not notice that Hurricane Sandy happened 3 years ago

[Drake]

I've been hungry at the Jersey Shore. The restaurants are packed in the summer.

[Mazakon]

State Department Blames 'Glitch' For Missing Iran Video

The State Department said Tuesday that a "glitch" led a video on its website to be altered in such a way that it removed comments from a spokeswoman who seemed to admit in 2013 that the government lied about when the Iran nuclear talks started.

"There was a glitch in the State Department video," spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters.

State was forced to respond to questions after it became clear on Monday that a Dec. 2, 2013 video of a briefing with reporters was selectively edited. That edit removed a discussion between former spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Fox News reporter James Rosen about when the Iran talks began.

Between this, the IRS' destroyed hard drives, the server guys e-mails getting lost, and the French President's comments on Islamic terrorism being 'glitched', it's amazing how anybody could trust government with greater technology than a can opener.

[Crusty Juggler]

Clinton aide Cheryl Mills leaves FBI interview briefly after being asked about emails

Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off limits, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Mills and her lawyer left the room ? though both returned a short time later ? and prosecutors were somewhat taken aback that their FBI colleague had ventured beyond what was anticipated, the people said.

[Crusty Juggler]

Stupid Rich, posting first.

[Rich]

"Stupid! Stupid!"

[Rich]

Munich knife attack: One dead as man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' attacks four at train station in Grafing, Germany

Attacker "suffered from psychiatric issues"

That's not a nice way to refer to his, um, belief system.

[Pat (PM)]

Imagine how relieved the victims were when they realized he had a knife and not a gun.

[tarran]

Given the cops had picked up several times while he mumbled at a wall, I don't think his ecstacy was a religious one so much as he rationalized his murderous impulse as being a jihadist one.

He's kind of like the mother with a history of psychotic breaks who murders her baby to save him from Satan.

[Tonio]

You know who else mumbles at walls?

[Private Chipperbot]

Humpty Dumpty?

[Restoras]

Chinese dissidents?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Pebbles?

[BigT]

Jews?

[Enough About Palin]

A shit ton of Jews?

[lap83]

Libertarians?

[Chip Woodier]

A guy who sat in a cave pretending to talk with an angel?

[Rich]

he rationalized his murderous impulse as being a jihadist one.

*** scratches head ***

[tarran]

God! That is a word salad isn't it?

What I meant was his madness impelled him to hurt someone, and the Alah Akbar stuff was to justify the impulse. Not that he was a muslim guy who rationally decided to stab people in the name of his god.

Just like the woman screaming during the chorus of White Zombie's Real Solution #9 about Jesus while an EMT asks her if she's thinking of hurting herself.

[Stormy Dragon]

Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery

On a conference call with the campaign's National Prayer Team, Heidi Cruz portrayed Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, which ended a week ago, as one part of a broader journey similar to the abolition of slavery.

WTF, National Prayer Team? This is the sort of thing that makes everyone think you're Elmer Gantry, Ted.

[Tonio]

Yeah, it's an actual thing. They really think they are accomplishing something.

[Ted S.]

It's no worse than Biden saying the Republicans would put black people in chains.

[BigT]

"https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/10/heidi cruz-likens husbands efforts-slavery/"

Well, he would loosen the chains of dependency on the govt, so she ain't all wrong.

[VG Zaytsev]

Maybe ZTed,promised to emancipate Heidi if he won.

[GILMORE?]

A magazine aimed at tween girls apologized Tuesday for offering adult-like tips on choosing bathing suits based on size and curves, unleashing a body shaming backlash.

Girls who are "curvy" on top, for instance, were advised in the latest issue of Discovery Girls to go for a one-piece with other side cutouts or ties to draw attention to elsewhere. Big block patterns were offered for those rounder in the middle ? all under the headline: "What Swimsuit Best Suits You?"

And a politically-correct magazine suggests what? Unitards for all?

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

We should all completely ignore our body types when choosing clothing. No matter what size you are, all types of clothing will be equally flattering on you.

If you're really fat and wear yoga pants, you'll look totally fine and it's horribly cruel to tell someone they shouldn't do this.

[Brett L]

You realize the magic of yoga pants is they pretty much work that way, right. I mean, "good" is obviously relative, but relative to 20 year old yoga instructors, yoga pants do way more for the curvy woman.

[Bubba Jones]

People are outraged that young girls were encouraged to draw attention away from their tits?

[Crusty Juggler]

China scrambles fighter jets as U.S. destroyer steams past disputed island

"This operation demonstrates, as President Obama has stated, that the United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows," said Cmdr. Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman. "That is [as] true in the South China Sea as in other places around the globe."

The Lawrence passed near Fiery Cross Reef in what the Pentagon calls a freedom of navigation operation and exercised its "right of innocent passage," according to Urban. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the operation. The vessel was not conducting military maneuvers and was allowed to sail near the reef under international maritime law, U.S. officials said.

[Crusty Juggler]

According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the U.S. destroyer entered the area without China's permission.

"The American naval vessel threatened China's sovereignty, security and interests, and it harmed the safety of the people and facilities in the island, damaging regional stability," Lu Kang, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said in a regularly scheduled news conference. "As we have stressed over and over again, China firmly opposes such behavior and we will take necessary measures to safeguard China's sovereignty and territory."

[Ted S.]

I'd troll them by saying we had Taiwan's permission.

[Greater Questions of Carl]

"What's the big deal? We checked with the Republic of China Navy beforehand."

[paranoid android]

Yeah, I wouldn't fuck with a guy named Lu Kang, he might just bicycle kick your head off.

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

I'm having a hard time taking anything that a Mortal Kombat character says seriously.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Finish Him!

[Ra's al Gore]

New Republic blames Donald Trump for Budweiser's new 'America' beer

[GILMORE?]

Do they bother to note that Budweiser is owned by a Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate?

[invisible finger]

Last refuge of a scoundrel.

[Restoras]

Yeah, I hate Budweiser too!

[Ra's al Gore]

IS ISLAMOPHOBIA ACCELERATING GLOBAL WARMING?

[Anomalous]

You can't make this shit up. Except they totally did.

[creech]

"Military voters back Trump over Hillary Clinton."

Sure, until they get captured by the Taliban or ISIS and President Trump labels them a coward or something for being a P.O.W. How any veteran could back this disgusting piece of crap, until he apologizes to Mc Cain and other p.o.w.s is a mystery to me.

[John]

Suddenly National Review decides supporting the troops is not so cool anymore.

[Pat (PM)]

Considering McCain publicly berated the families of POW/MIA activists to tears for daring to persist in questioning the whereabouts of their loved ones, I think he pretty well got his just desserts on that one.

[Pat (PM)]

*just deserts. English is stupid.

[Rich]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Private Chipperbot]

I. Uh. Go for it!

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

"Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says"

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

I like how it takes until paragraph 9 to mention she's a Democrat. Because CNN totally wouldn't mention the mayor's party affiliation at least once per sentence if she were a Republican.

[Crusty Juggler]

Blame Zuckerberg!

[Tonio]

Nice. And although it did take CNN nine paragraphs, they did obtusely mention the mayor's party affiliation.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Rule of thumb: If party affiliation is not mentioned in the first paragraph, the subject is a Democrat.

[Crusty Juggler]

From playboy to president? Trump's past crude sex talk collides with his White House bid.

When asked by Playboy magazine in 2004 about Viagra, Trump boasted: "I just have never needed it." He went on to say that what he really needed was an "anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect."

"I'm not bragging," he bragged. "I'm just lucky."

[John]

Because after Bill Clinton, we couldn't elect anyone that is beneath the dignity of the office.

[tarran]

Oh God! I hope my future MIL posts this on her facebook feed!!!!

Because I'm going to have so much fun throwing Bill Clinton back in her face; the inevitable, frantic phone call to my fiancee shrieking about my horrid political views amuses me greatly.

[Tonio]

tarran, no good will come of antagonizing the MIL.

[tarran]

Good does come of it. It's called setting expectations.

When she comes over to visit the MSNBC is staying *off*. Unlike the time we were introduced when she visited my girlfriend when it was on for hours in the background.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Sounds like a liberal version of my mother.

[John]

Imagine if Trump had an accuser that was as credible as Anita Broderick. Forget ending his political career. He would be on his way to prison.

[BigT]

Trump needs to invite Broderick, Flowers, Jones, Monica, and Willey to speak at the Heffalumps convention.

Prime time!

[robc]

Standards dont change because someone limbos under the bar.

[Bubba Jones]

I wasn't there, but IIRC they called Lincoln's wife a confederate whore.

So, I don't think we ever had high standards of political discourse.

[HeteroPatriarch]

Oh, but they do if you're a trumpkin.

[Crusty Juggler]

Amazing! This Woman Ordered a Drink at a Bar After Only 7 Attempts

"I said, 'One Goose Island IPA, please,' with all the strength I could muster ? although I'm pretty sure my voice cracked and came out quieter than I meant for it to," Patton said.

Against all odds, Patton eventually emerged from the crowd triumphant, drink in hand.

"It was incredible," Menard said. "Liz and I didn't think she could do it."

[GILMORE?]

Alternate headline = "Chick complains when not served first after lifetime of having dudes get her drinks for her"

[Chipper Morning Wood]

A feminist Onion?

http://reductress.com/post/my-.....t-at-once/

http://reductress.com/post/i-a.....low-hal-2/

I literally can't even.

[GILMORE?]

It seems a parody of every feminist-mag/plus-Cosmo type stuff.

- 5 Ways to Make Him Climax Without Touching His Gross Dong

- How to Fake Personal Experience So You Have Something to Blog About

I like. But you get the joke in like 5 seconds and then everything else is just more of the same.

[Crusty Juggler]

Gosh I thought it was funny.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

?

Huh?

Wtf?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

WTF was that?

I think it's supposed to be parody or satire, but I have no earthly idea what the point even was.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Man, I love Clickhole.

Wait...

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

I have a theory. Trump is pretty much a left-wing populist if you ask me. So the people who hate him on the left actually hate themselves!

[Libertarian]

Not a bad theory. But with a belief system in which the government is better than individuals at making decisions, your theory is almost common sense.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

the government is better than individuals at making decisions

Common good before individual good!

[BigT]

Just Think......

If Trump wins the election it'll be the first time in history that a billionaire moved into public housing vacated by a black family.

[Rich]

Nice!

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Awesome!

[John]

Awesome!!

[Libertarian]

Eminence Domain.

[bacon-magic]

Beans don't burn on the grill. ???

[GILMORE?]

kudos.

but did you just bite that from somewhere?

[BigT]

From an email from my brother. Author unknown.

[GILMORE?]

Honesty is the best policy.

unless, you know, girls.

[OneOut]

And the first time a billionaire was elected President and was a trillionaire when he left offuce.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Assuming, of course, that Trump is a billionaire... unless you're talking about Hillary.

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

Proof The New Republic is run by idiots who don't read the news: Here's a blurb about Hiroshima that contains this paragraph

"What kind of history will Obama make by visiting Hiroshima?Simply by showing up at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in late May, he'll be the first sitting American president to visit the site of the world's first nuclear attack, which killed 140,000 people. Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security advisor, wrote in a post on Medium that the president will not "revisit" the U.S.'s decision to drop an atomic weapon on the city on August 6, 1945, but will instead "offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future." Rhodes added, "This visit will offer an opportunity to honor the memory of all innocents who were lost during the war.""

^^^ Less than three days after Ben Rhodes flat out admitted that his primary goal is to get gullible, 27 year old saps in the media to unquestioningly recite his talking points, TNR's Ryu Spaeth (who looks to be about 12 years old) does exactly that.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

To be fair, how hard does Ben Rhodes have to work to get gullible, 27 yr old saps in the media to unquestioningly recite his talking points?

[Irish is a Millennial, Poll Me]

Apparently all he has to do is write a Medium post, so not very

[John]

They are all morons Irish. They deserve nothing but abuse and contempt.

[Libertarian]

I still remember this quote by G. W. Bush:

"...for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/m.....ident/3907

[John]

We were aligned with Japan from about 1880 until around 1935 and then again in 1945 until now. Why dwell on the bad things Libertarian?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Japan has its own demons and skeletons in the closet. They've entered the post-war era and played their part in the G7 by being for all intents and purposes a friendly nation.

Rehashing this atomic bomb shit is unproductive. I'm pretty the Japanese don't want to revisit it because they're probably smart enough to realize it can reopen their own bad deeds in the war.

Let this sleeping dog lie.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

As far as the Japanese are concerned, WWII was a series atrocities committed against them, if taught at all.

"What Japanese history lessons leave out":

Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia.

[Stormy Dragon]

There's a segment of Japanese society that's kind of their version of neo-confederates in the US. They've convinced themselves that Japan's actions in WWII were purely a defensive reaction to US aggression, and that they fought and lost the entire war nobly and are now biding their time until the day Japan finally throws off the chains of foreign oppression.

Hiroshima is part of that narrative, and they truly do want to revisit it, because in their mind all Japanese war crimes are lies made up by the US, Chinese, and Koreans.

[GILMORE?]

"Obama Heals The World's Wounds"

He's so "the good side" of America. He recognizes our mistakes and... well, if not 'atones' for them, he puts on a good-show of pretending to give a shit.

There will of course be absolutely zero perspective from the japanese added to these stories, or whether they're much interested in having Obama use their memorial as his own personal PR event.

It reminds me of when Clinton "apologized to Africa for slavery"

So white of him.

(of course, he never actually apologized for his 1990s Africa policy under Susan Rice, which - much like Obama in Syria - inadvertently helped start a Civil War which killed millions)

The takeaway from the Ben Rhodes piece is not that the white house spins journalists.

The takeaway from the Rhodes piece is that Obama's Foreign Policy is entirely about political PR and nothing to do with any actual interest in world-affairs and improving the status quo.

He's so much better off doing these bullshit photo-ops than he is "Diplomacy" like the Iran deal. The mistake he made there was confusing the two.

[GILMORE?]

I think it would be funny if Obama then suggested that maybe the Japanese PM should take a similar trip to Nanjing

I think the warm-fuzzy would go all record-needle-scratch....

[Rich]

Biden might say something like that!

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Odds on Obama apologizing for American aggression against Japan in the 1930s and 1940s?

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

How does Robby not have this in the links? This is his beat!

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/harv.....-privilege

[GILMORE?]

it was actually a robby story from last week.

[Catatafish & Woodchips]

(facepalm)

This is what I get for actually working.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You know what story that has been around for almost a month now that Robby (or the rest of Reason for that matter) hasn't seen fit to cover?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Is it something about hair care?

*clicks link*

Well, that was my 2nd guess.

[Pan Zagloba]

I know we have some Yes, Minister fans. One of the authors (Jonathan Lynn) just sent a letter to UK Home Secretary, as written by Sir Humphrey Applebee.
I'm not big on remakes, but if he still has some gas in his tank, we need a remake!

You are fortunate that the SNP and Labour Party courageously abstained from the vote on the Investigatory Powers Bill, content with government assurances that mass surveillance of British citizens is not government policy. Mass surveillance is not, and could never be, government policy. Merely government practice.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Heh.

Applebee.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Does the Law of Inverse Relevance mean nothing is going to be done about the 15$ minimum wage and gender pay gap?

[Hayeksplosives]

A little something for Florida Man.

an Imgur link

[Bra Ket]

I don't believe that is actually a pun.

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[GILMORE?]

that's funny, we both thought of that at exactly the same time.

[John]

We really don't want them to start going Japanese on people's asses again.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

So you admit to having rape on your mind.

Imma report you to the BRT.

[GILMORE?]

I don't know.

In my memory, 9th Grade was where they normally covered "WWII" related events like the Holocaust... and I think some students would get an extra dose in AP History by senior year, where maybe the Sino-Japanese war might be covered in greater detail.

My suspicion is that 'other people's atrocities' are probably downplayed in current high-school curricula in favor of American-Made atrocities, like the Trail of Tears, or Gunboat Diplomacy, or the reprisals to the Moro Rebellion, etc.