Supreme Court Takes More Death Penalty Cases, IRS Releases List of Targeted Groups, Trump Ads Banned from BuzzFeed, Elementary School: P.M. Links

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  The Supreme Court will be taking up two more death penalty cases next term.

• The IRS has released the list of mostly conservative, tea party groups it targeted for extra scrutiny before approving their tax-exempt status.
• A California school has told a 9-year-old third-grader that he cannot wear his pro-Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" hat to classes.
• BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes.
• A Hillary Clinton flack is catching flak for saying that the candidate takes a questions frequently from the press while on the campaign trail.
• Due to some recent alcohol-related incidents, U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The Supreme Court will be taking up two more death penalty cases next term.

Isn’t two their limit for cases altogether?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Hello.

“A California school has told a 9-year-old third-grader that he cannot wear his pro-Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat to classes.

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes.”

Repeat: If I were an alien army prepping to invade, I’d strike now.

[BigT]

If I were an alien army prepping to invade, I’d strike now.

[Rufus gathers Cytotoxic and the RCMP]

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Cytotoxic is rogue.

[JWatts]

Nice try Rufus, but Canada can’t deny culpability with its Weapons of Mass Distraction that easily.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Cut me some slack! Sugar Free already took me to task and I’m not sure I can deliver!

[Mr Lizard]

And ruin the show?!!! Stoooopid mammal

[Injun, as in from India]

The IRS has released the list of mostly conservative, tea party groups it targeted for extra scrutiny before approving their tax-exempt status.

What difference at this point… LOL

[ThomasD]

No context missing from that statement. Nope, none at all.

[rts]

A California school has told a 9-year-old third-grader that he cannot wear his pro-Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat to classes.

Make recess great again!

[Rich]

The kid is standing up to the bullies!

[Injun, as in from India]

Would a Mexican flag shirt or hat be acceptable? I’m thinking yes…

[Rich]

*** dons (get it?) “Make Mexico Great For Once” hat ***

[PapayaSF]

Apparently it’s OK for schoolkids to be led in song praising the Great Leader Obama, but a Trump hat is just too, too political to allow.

[Suthenboy]

That is what popped in my head – all of the sickening ‘praise and worship dear leader’ sessions held in schools across the country.

[Akira]

I remember the Left having a conniption fit because there were two ~8 year old girls at a Trump rally singing some patriotic song (I may be wrong, but I don’t think the song even mentioned Trump’s name).

I guess they forgot about this creepy cult shit that kids were forced into:

https://youtu.be/WtGrp5MbzAI?t=127

[Atanarjuat]

Trump will cause dissent to once again be patriotic and acceptable.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He shouldn’t be wearing a hat indoors anyway. Doing so cancels out any level-upping of America’s greatness.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Yeh, what the hell, does he think he’s in the army? All sailors and Marines know you don’t wear a cover indoors!

[thrakkorzog]

It’s not just a military thing, it’s basic manners not to wear a hat indoors.

[(((Renegade)))]

ANTISEMITE!

[Episteme]

To be fair, the yamulke is a jaunty skullcap, not some sort of Hebrew cowboy hat (arguably a valid option given the desert origin of the Jewish people),?so I’m voting for “they’ve perfectly met the RFRA Line between No Hats Indoors and Cover The Tiny Bald Spot Before God.”

[(((Renegade)))]

Real Men wear shtreimels.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Except the Army (and Air Force?)

[Certified Public Asshat]

Why though? Who decided a hat indoors was poor manners?

[Brett L]

Unless they are wearing a sidearm.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

a 9-year-old third-grader

Being a Trump fan, I’d have expected him to be 13.

[mattcid]

He just hates Obamalunches. 9 year olds think with their stomachs.

[Domestic Dissident]

Chairman Mao pantsuits on the other hand are acceptable.

[Rich]

the candidate takes a questions frequently from the press while on the campaign trail.

Indeed. She simply refuses to answer them.

[Notorious UGCC]

She takes the questions and keeps them.

[(((Renegade)))]

See, you know how to take the question, you just don’t know how to *answer* the question and
that’s really the most important part of the question, the answering. Anybody can just take them.

[Hamster of Doom]

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes.

A legal and valid option?

[How You Like Me Now?]

In any other similar case, wouldn’t the typical pwoggie wesponse be something like “we cannot allow wealthy advertisers’ discriminatory practices to subvert the free flow of speech”?

[Hamster of Doom]

Trump dreams of such an opening.

[Enough About Palin]

Tonight, at 8:00 pm ET, the Decades TV channel is airing a Dick Cavett Show and the guest is California governor Ronald Reagan.

[Episteme]

That rain-like sound you hear is thousands of local Republicans ??those who’ve acquiesced to Trump and those who haven’t alike ??crying as they listen to the Gipper speak…

[ThomasD]

No. I’m pretty sure they consistently deny that money equals speech.

Unions on the other hand, apparently exist in a monetary void.

[Libertarian]

Does that mean Bernie is the equivalent of an e-cig?

[Citizen X]

Bernie is an IPA – bitter and gross and really made for a time that is long past, but for some reason beloved by millennial hipsters.

[waffles]

I don’t get the anti-IPA position. It makes you the hipster. The glorious beerscape of our time has multitudes of nonhoppy options.

[The Last American Hero]

If exclude the macro-brews, there are a handful of non-hoppy options but most everybody else is in some kind of hops-arms race.

[Zeb]

Maybe it’s because people buy them. And maybe people buy them because they like them. I find that a lot easier to believe than some kind of vast hipster conspiracy.

I will grant that their ubiquity probably also has something to do with the fact that lots of hops can hide flaws in your brew, making IPAs easier to produce for less skilled brewers.

[Trigger Warning]

IPAs are brewed by amateurs, for amateurs to guzzle. My hat is now in the IPA ring.

[Zeb]

There is nothing more hipster than worrying about what is and isn’t the fault of hipsters.

[Atanarjuat]

I’m not exactly anti-IPA, but around here they represent 75% of the craft beer selection in many stores, and that crowds out other stuff I like more.

[Bubba Jones]

At the grocery store I see 600 pale ales and maybe 2 stouts.

[Libertarian]

“bitter and gross and really made for a time that is long past,”

Sounds more like an ex-wife than an IPA.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Don’t you dare.

[Episteme]

*secures Bernie below deck for long voyage to South Asia*

[Trigger Warning]

Are you saying that HOPS HOPS HOPS with nuclear notes of CASCASE HOPS GRAPEFRUIT FLAVOR and PINE OIL and A FUCKING SHITLOAD OF ALCOHOL is a wearisome one-note experience? That the only thing more disagreeable than the style is its unending trendiness amonst young hipster douchebags?

[bacon-magic]

Don’t ruin my vaping.

[CE]

What’s BuzzFeed?

[Libertarian]

Dunno, Sounds like the munchies you get when you’re drinking.

[Long Woodchippers]

IIRC there at least used to be a law that a media outlet could not pick and choose which candidates to air ads for. If they accepted an ad from one candidate in a particular race, they had to accept all.

If that’s still the law, BuzzFeed would also have to stop running any Hillary ads.

[Injun, as in from India]

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes.

If Trump is cigarettes, Hillary is… ??

[Hamster of Doom]

… whack.

[How You Like Me Now?]

right in the feels my furry, morbid friend. Right in the feels…

[Hamster of Doom]

… whack.

[Rich]

Big Gulps?

[bacon-magic]

Cigars.

[TheZeitgeist]

Cigarettes are to Donald as lung cancer is to Hillary – she skips the fun part.

[Ted S.]

Trump is cancer and Hillary is Ebola.

[Jerry on the rocks]

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump Hillary, comparing her to adult diapers.

FTFY.

[Rich]

Nice!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Testicular cancer?

[Fist of Etiquette]

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes.

Buzzfeed.uk called him a fag.

[This Machine]

Oh, very clever, yes, quite indeed.

*polite applause*

[Injun, as in from India]

Okay. So we’re on!

The Fag vs. The Hag!

[Episteme]

Would Roger Stone lie to us?

Roger Stone Addresses ‘Reports That Donald Trump Is Gay’ [VIDEO]

“Folks, there is no report Donald Trump is gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but he is a red-blooded American male and he is most definitely heterosexual.”

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

*gracious guffaw*

[Juice]

Micheal Bisping is one of their writers.

[Hamster of Doom]

Due to some recent alcohol-related incidents, U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.

Never again volunteer yourself.

[Notorious UGCC]

Josephus Daniels drinks…coffee…to that

[How You Like Me Now?]

Due to some recent alcohol-related incidents, U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.

This will end in nukes

[Injun, as in from India]

Due to some recent alcohol-related incidents, U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.

Saudi Arabia!

[CatoTheChipper]

Back in the ’80s when I lived near a port on the Arabian Gulf, the US expats used to invite sailors for a home-cooked meal. Homebrews were discreetly served with dinner, but not so much that anybody would get drunk. I doubt that happens much anymore since there are too few expats and the Saudis have gone batshit crazy.

[rts]

Baby boomers under 75 set to inherit $750B in next decade, CIBC says

“The large proportion of the looming bequest boom that is expected to go to high-income Canadians suggests that income inequality will be further transformed into wealth inequality,” the bank said.

“Simply put, if wealth is not evenly spread across society, then inheritance will repeat the pattern and exacerbate inequality.”

*sigh*

[Citizen X]

Yeah, but that’s Canadian money, not REAL money.

[Ted S.]

They’d rather inherit Canadian Tire dollars anyway.

The loonies, they stuff between the cushions of their chesterfields.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

This is why your sketch comedy sucks and need to outsource it to us!

[Ted S.]

The funny Canadians come to the US to make a success of their lives. The rest stay behind and bitch about the US.

[Rich]

income inequality will be further transformed into wealth inequality

and thence into whining inequality.

[Injun, as in from India]

It’s called INCOME/WEALTH DIVERSITY, not inequality!

[PapayaSF]

+1

[This Machine]

Hey, there’s only so much wealth out there. Can’t start giving away pieces of that finite amount of pie to just anyone, you know.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

The Zero-Sum Inheritance Game!

[Libertarian]

Didn’t click the link, but since the oldest baby boomer is only 70 or so, I find the headline weird.

[BigT]

Maybe premature ejaculation made the Canadian baby boom sooner?

[Libertarian]

Did Canada quit fighting WWII in 1940?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

70 = 75 in Canadian Years.

/Exchange Rate

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Are we done here?

[waffles]

Hardly.

[Libertarian]

“Are we done here?”

Said Canada in 1940.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Canadian wealth is measured in gallons of maple syrup.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Shows what you know ignorant Yank.

It’s measured in Hootch.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

We went until the end. D-Day, lunch pails and all. 1939-45.

[Crusty Juggler]

Canada cultivated the Allies’ greatest spy.

[CE]

So the obvious answer is to steal their money.

[esteve7]

yes my proggie roommate thinks that there should be no such thing as inheritance. It all belongs to society.

[Citizen X]

Teachable moment: eat all of his food, use his towels, borrow his stuff and don’t give it back, etc. Hey, it’s not his, it’s “society’s.”

[Long Woodchippers]

When my son was in high school, one of his teachers proposed to take away 10 points from everyone who got an A or B on the test and give to those who had a D or an E. The kids quickly comprehended.

[rts]

Texas on record-setting pace for inappropriate teacher-student relationships

Everything’s bigger in Texas, amirite?

[Ted S.]

Cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third-biggest state.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Damn. Gotta move there.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Don’t you run a preschool?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

And?

I have needs too!

[Idle Hands]

I recommend the slideshow, although I was disappointed they didn’t autoplay Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

^^This.

13 yr old Bobarian would have happily done any of that assortment.

[Crusty Juggler]

6-15 years.

I have googled some photos, and my conclusion: she can’t look bad.

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

Aren’t the handcuffs a bit much. I mean in court.

Not necessarily in bed.

I’ll stop here.

[Long Woodchippers]

She looks better than the vast majority of girls I went to school with, and she could probably pass for 16. According to the story the 13 year old boy took her home to meet his parents, saying she was his girlfriend.

[Idle Hands]

BuzzFeed will not be accepting ads from Trump, comparing him to cigarettes

This is a complete non story from the article:

RNC spokesman Sean Spicer responded: “Space was reserved on many platforms, but we never intended to use BuzzFeed.” He added, in a reference to Hillary Clinton, “It is ironic that they have not ruled out taking money from a candidate currently under investigation by the FBI.”

lol.

[This Machine]

“It is ironic that they have not ruled out taking money from a candidate currently under investigation by the FBI.”

Spicer coming down from the top ropes on that one!

[Idle Hands]

I just enjoy the “well we didn’t intend to use your site anyway” defense. They are admitting that they run their party like they run the country, “let’s pretend it’s not uncommon for us to piss away 1.5 million dollar on ad space we don’t plan to use anyway to save face.” Typical.

[This Machine]

Yeah, classic butthurt response. “She didn’t dump me, I dumped her. So nyeah!”

[commodious spittoon]

You know so could use a big ad buy?

Gawker.

[Juvenile Bluster]

You mean Hogan-Geithner Media?

(wait, sorry, that’s what it is in 2018)

[Aloysious]

Things My Father Taught Me: Joe and Hunter Biden on Family Bonds

Got the new PM dead wood issue in the mail the other day. This was the very first issue I didn’t pass on to someone else. Just threw it away.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Jesus Christ. Has all of legacy media gone mad? Popular Mechanics???? God Damn.

[Aloysious]

The picture that turned me off the most, and this is aside from the sycophancy in the article, was of crazy Joe planting a kiss on the cheek of his son. Just wasn’t my thing.

[The Late P Brooks]

Common sense seaman control.

[Ted S.]

Women and seamen don’t mix.

[Libertarian]

+1 Smithers

[Rich]

Apparently you’re not stirring the pot correctly.

[Unreconstructed (Sans Flag)]

We all know what you think, Smithers!

[thrakkorzog]

They should try setting up a base on candy apple island.

[commodious spittoon]

Usual caveat, this should not be construed as support for Trump, but in a fight between him and the media, there’s no one to root for.

Ace made a good point this afternoon. When lefty outlets report on a racially-tinged court case (tinged in large part because they’ve spent months tinging it), they never fail to note the racial makeup of the jury, implying that white jurors can’t be relied on for impartiality. How is that any different from Trump’s remarks pertaining to the judge hearing his case? I don’t think Trump honestly believe it, but making the claim helps him dismiss the seriousness of the suit.

[PapayaSF]

Yup.

[Libertarian]

The only time Trump looks the tiniest bit reasonable is when the Left is attacking him.

[Michael]

Well, we can expect a non-stop barrage from the left for the next four years if he manages to get elected, so he could theoretically prove to be the most reasonable POTUS in history.

[PapayaSF]

“Always look on the bright side of life…”

[Notorious UGCC]

“Usual caveat, this should not be construed as support for Trump, but in a fight between him and the media, there’s no one to root for.”

As between the media and Trump, of course I root for Trump to embarrass the heck out of them and expose them for the hacks they are.

As between Trump and Darrell Castle, I’m for Castle.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Related to the San Jose riots, there’s some tweets out there showing the San Jose police chief pimping for the local La Raza chapter, and others arguing that foreigners attacking its nation’s citizens while standing under a foreign flag would be considered an act of war by most countries that still possessed a pair.

It seems that Trump’s candidacy isn’t exacerbating racial divisions, it’s merely bringing to light what already exists.

[commodious spittoon]

So much for racial unity and national healing.

[Rich]

Human-pig hybrids for organ transplants could develop into monsters with ‘OUR brains’

WDATPDIM?

[Hamster of Doom]

But would it affect the flavor of the bacon?

[Citizen X]

Food tastes better when it’s self-aware. Of course, it’s probably not possible to make bacon taste too much better, since it’s already about perfect.

[DenverJ]

And pigs are pretty smart. So, your theory has been 100% proven. So… Where do we go from here?

[Crusty Juggler]

Where do we go from here?

The closest roller coaster.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Hmm… I wonder what dolphin tastes like?

[DenverJ]

(keeps self from making a joke so inappropriate that it would make Crusty blush)

[John]

Pigmen and the women who love them.

[BigT]

Human-pig hybrids for organ transplants could develop into monsters with ‘OUR brains’

Police union hardest hit.

[Juvenile Bluster]

No, this says they might have human brains.

[Libertarian]

The Greens love them hybrids.

[Plisade]

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

[The Last American Hero]

I’ve seen this in Minecraft. It ends with nobody left in the world except for some dude named Steve with some tools and a lot of time on his hands.

[thrakkorzog]

Wasn’t this an episode of Seinfeld?

[Injun, as in from India]

Obama endorsement coming as Clinton allies plan for unity push

The Con Law Professor is going to make a proclamation from his Ivory Tower.

That you proles can’t criticize Hillary if you band together into a group, and you sure as hell can’t own a gun, and that you have to vote for her because it’s high time America apologizes for its sexist past by voting for a female crook instead of a male crook.

[John]

I don’t think Bernie is going to play ball. Bernie is nuts and really has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

[Rich]

Bernie should point out The Professor’s complicity in Hillary’s shenanigans.

[CatoTheChipper]

Bernie has a cult following that will dissipate quickly if he concedes to Clinton. He’ll be able to milk contributions out of his addled followers for years if fights through to the bitter end.

[Episteme]

BERN EVERYTHING DOWN!

[Hyperion]

Sleazy leftist endorses other sleazy leftist, world in shock, news at 11…

[Jerry on the rocks]

Supreme Court Justice Obama.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Plot twist:

Republicans won’t vote to confirm unless they see college transcripts.

He’s a law talkin’ genius, right?

[DenverJ]

Have we seem Trump’s birth certificates, yet?

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Doesn’t he have an unprecedented number of unanimous losses at the SC? That alone ought to disqualify him.

[Playa Manhattan.]

9-0 losses, yes. And he nominated Sotomayor, who was overturned in the New Haven case just the year before. That alone should have disqualified her the Supreme Court.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A Hillary Clinton flack is catching flak for saying that the candidate takes a questions frequently from the press while on the campaign trail.

She dodges tough questions from the press just like she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia.

[Injun, as in from India]

+ .50 BMG

[tarran]

She dodges tough questions from the press just like she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia.

Hey! Don’t you demean Hillary’s lived experience! That girl was holding an assault bouquet.

[Injun, as in from India]

Like this assault bouquet?

[Rich]

Of refers them to her chief of staff.

[Playa Manhattan.]

She dodges the easy questions too.

She wouldn’t even say if she supports the death penalty for Dylan Roof. It took 8 days and a bunch of negative press for her state her position on the matter.

She’s the brave and principled leader America needs right now.

[Enough About Palin]

Batwoman?

[Glide]

I’d believe it, with that shrill voice.

[Hyperion]

I see that pic with the hat. Reason luvs the Donald, neener neener neener! Reason and Donald sitting in a tree…

[Rich]

… something something G.O.P.

[Michael]

…fist came buttseks…then gay marriage…..then the Messicans in the judiciary.

[Playa Manhattan.]

“U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.”

Beer runs?

[Hyperion]

They were getting rapey?

[Juvenile Bluster]

A murder, a rape, and a DUI (where the soldier was driving the wrong direction on the highway). Plus lots of protests from the locals.

[Hyperion]

If they’re too wild for the Japanese, they must have really been out of hand.

[Crusty Juggler]

The base was already under a 30 day period without alcohol because a civilian employee had been arrested for dumping a local woman’s body.

[Drake]

Was he supposed to recycle it or something?

[PapayaSF]

The upcoming book by the Secret Service guy that’s all over Drudge will be interesting. Hillary’s going to have a hard time arguing that Trump will be a dangerous, volatile figure in the White House when yet another person has a first-hand account of her being a dangerous, volatile figure in the White House.

[Hyperion]

I wouldn’t bother buying it, it’s probably gonna be so much fluff. $14 to read about what a bitch Hillary is. Everyone already knows this.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Heard some second hand accounts from AR State Troopers in Little Rock and a military WH liaison who both told ‘no shit, that bitch did…’ stories.

e.g. Busted Bill’s head with an ashtray.

[Suthenboy]

Haven’t we been down this road before? Last time it ended in a SC battle.

[Episteme]

I’m guessing that now, finally after everything else, is when Hillary will introduce the Evil Twin Sister Defense.

[Greater Questions of Carl]

This Bikini Airline Has Spawned Vietnam’s First Female Billionaire

Thao, who made her first million at 21 trading fax machines and latex rubber, started really raking it in when she replaced VietJet Air’s flight attendants with ai wearing ridiculously sexy outfits.

In just a few years the titillating transporter, whose new motto is “Enjoy Flying!”, has gobbled up over 30 per cent of the airline market share in Vietnam.

In a further masterstroke, Thao’s has boosted profits by publishing eye-popping calendars starring the sexy stewardesses, which also act as a marketing tool for the airline, which mostly flies to resort destinations within Vietnam and its surrounding environs. Thao dismisses any criticism of her bikini-fueled business as old-fashioned and irrelevant.

“Spawned”, “gobbled”, “masterstroke”. That can’t all be an accident.

[Warty]

Oh hello there.

[Greater Questions of Carl]

Warty J. Firefly?

[Warty]

I WAS TALKING TO THE TITS

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

ZOMG.

[This Machine]

“Spawned”, “gobbled”, “masterstroke”. That can’t all be an accident.

Don’t forget “titillating!

[Hyperion]

That’s terrible! I’m appalled, look at those poor exploited victims being abused by the rapey male gaze!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The woman who created the airline is herself a victim. She’s forced to cater to the base needs of the patriarchy. This, and this alone is the ONLY way in which a woman can become successful and powerful.

[Greater Questions of Carl]

Internalized misogyny. Up your game, dude.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My game was up the moment I viewed the pics.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

No ‘worming’ involved?

[bacon-magic]

“Me love you long time, now please fasten your seat belts.” /what a stewardess should say

[Injun, as in from India]

This is Hooters Air on steroids.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Oh and would. And not just the woman the created the airline, but her employees too.

[tarran]

Yeah. They look nice.

But in a crash they’ll be fucking useless. First jagged edge they brush against will turn them into casualties.

[GamerFromJump]

with ai wearing ridiculously sexy outfits.

Those are some realistic robots.

[lafe.long]

Seabather’s Eruption: Sea Lice Confirmed at Florida Panhandle Beaches, Officials Say

Sea lice have been confirmed in South Walton and Santa Rosa Beaches and are moving toward Alabama, officials said. They cause a rash known as seabather’s eruption.

[Suthenboy]

They weren’t there already?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

A California school has told a 9-year-old third-grader that he cannot wear his pro-Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat to classes.

I’m having a hard time getting my panties in a bunch over this.

[Hyperion]

Kids learning to troll at an early age.

[Drake]

This.

My 15-year-old wants one too. He doesn’t care about politics, he just knows it will drive all the right people nuts.

[Rich]

“U.S. sailors in Japan are forbidden from drinking alcohol entirely and from leaving base except for essential trips.”

“I do not deny them my essence.”

[Crusty Juggler]

A good read: Nixonian palace guard now protects Hillary: Jonathan Turley

The problem is that Clinton has surrounded herself with aides who have demonstrated an unflagging loyalty and veneration. Take Huma Abedin, perhaps her most influential aide. Abedin described her first meeting on the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast: “She walked by and she shook my hand and our eyes connected, and I just remember having this moment where I thought; ‘Wow, this is amazing. And … it just inspired me. You know, I still remember the look on her face. And it’s funny, and she would probably be so annoyed that I say this, but I remember thinking; ‘Oh my God, she’s so beautiful and she’s so little!'”

What is so concerning is that Clinton seems to invite such expressions of absolute loyalty and reverence. The question is whether there is a John Dean willing to walk into her office and tell her of a cancer growing within the White House. After years of scandals and investigations, Clinton has distilled a team down to the truest believers who have little difficulty repeating truth-defying spins or refusing to cooperate with investigators.

[This Machine]

‘Wow, this is amazing. And … it just inspired me. You know, I still remember the look on her face. And it’s funny, and she would probably be so annoyed that I say this, but I remember thinking; ‘Oh my God, she’s so beautiful and she’s so little!’

This… this explains so very, very much.

[Rich]

‘Oh my God, she’s so beautiful and she’s so little!’

Paging Barfman!

[lafe.long]

Maisie Williams: Actress Responds to Daily Mail Headline That Pointed Out Her Sheer Dress at Charity Event

“Game of Thrones actor, Maisie Williams, helps raise thousands at a Summer Masquerade Ball for @NSPCC,” she said on Twitter, giving an alternative that focused on philanthropy rather than her clothes.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I’m in love.

[John]

I don’t think she is very hot.

[Warty]

She’s totes adorbs though.

[John]

I don’t know who this woman is but oh my God.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..-Cabo.html

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

A girl does not understand the point of the Daily Mail.

[Long Woodchippers]

Oh, she meant raising money? I thought she was doing a clever play on words.

[Haven "Irish" Monahan]

Local rape apologist troll thinks he can offend me by calling me too ugly to be raped by gays. Little does he know that my ass is the best thing to happen to the human species since the invention of the wheel. My ass is what happens when God finishes a job and thinks ‘this is just a little too perfect. Lesser creatures will commit the sin of envy as they gaze longingly at those toned and that gravity defying booty’

Checkmate, troll. Every gay in America wants my dick

[waffles]

I’m going to need jesse or someone equally qualified to give me a ruling on this one.

[bacon-magic]

Except the black ones, right? (some jokes get never get old)

[Haven "Irish" Monahan]

“(some jokes get never get old)”

Just like my posterior

[bacon-magic]

Gluteus Immortalis

[C. Anacreon]

I see you took Snape’s Incantations class.

[Crusty Juggler]

Irish?

[bacon-magic]

Irish

[Haven "Irish" Monahan]

“”Lesser creatures will commit the sin of envy as they gaze longingly at those toned and that gravity defying booty'””

That should read ‘toned glutes.’ Sometimes I get distracted when thinking about my glorious butt

[waffles]

I went to a fire spinning summer camp for a long weekend trip. It was fun. But I don’t get why people bring their children to events like this, or burning man for that matter. I’m not saying there oughta be a law but it just seems irresponsible. Don’t bring your kids to burning man.

[Rich]

9.6 *million* hits?!

W.T.F?

[bacon-magic]

Saw kazoo kid on Red Eye.

[Greater Questions of Carl]

Is there anyone here who knows something about finance/law who can tell me if this article is a fair characterization of the decision (a journalist, incorrect about a specialized field? NEVER!), and if so, it it’s as retarded as it sounds?

Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply

That is, Vice Chancellor Laster checked his work — and his price of $17.62 — by looking at the actual results of Dell’s sales process, which got a price of $13.75. If Dell was worth $17.62, then no strategic buyer would be willing to bid more than $13.75, because at only a 25 percent discount to fair value “the massive integration risk” would make Dell unappetizing. And if Dell was worth $17.62, then no private-equity buyers would be willing to bid more than $13.75, “because of their IRR requirements and the Company’s inability to support the necessary levels of leverage.” The proof that $17.62 was the fair price is that no one was willing to pay it:

1. Public shareholders won’t pay fair value for Dell, because they are obsessed with the short term and can’t understand the long-term strategic vision.
2. No strategic buyer would pay fair value to buy Dell, because that would be risky.
3. No private-equity buyer would pay fair value to buy Dell, because private-equity firms only buy companies at a discount.

[GILMORE?]

i glanced it over.

there’s a difference between “fair value” as an analyst might refer to it in a merger… or in setting 12 month price targets based on forwards earnings models and P/E or EV/EBITDA relative to the current market-valuation at the time…

… and the way *lawyers* will use it in any shareholder lawsuits.

He’s seems to be waffling intellectually about the notion of fair value from a Wall St. lawyer POV versus how the street perceives it. In doing so papers over some major differences in how the term/concept is applied and is measured.

it seems to be the sort of thing that would *only* be interesting to a Wall St. Lawyer.

[The Late P Brooks]

Clinton has surrounded herself with aides who have demonstrated an unflagging loyalty and veneration.

Joan of Arc was eventually burned at the stake. I cling to hope, however feeble.

[JWatts]

Hillary is Not the Burnee in that story, she’s the Burner.

[John]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..nswer.html

Why would anyone care if she knows anything about the economy?

[Aloysious]

The daughter of ‘Rico Suave’ singer Gerardo…

Heh. That’s funny.

[Ted S.]

That song is a quarter-century old.

[DenverJ]

Exactly. She looks much better than the economic illiterate that I am “dating”.

[Libertarian]

“Why would anyone care if she knows anything about the economy?”

Didn’t click the link but from your comment I assume it was something about Hillary?

[AlmightyJB]

Would

[GILMORE?]

TERRORISTS YOUR GAME IS THROUGH

[Libertarian]

A guy from W. Virginia. What was he gonna do, build a meth lab inside Lady Liberty?

(there’s a joke there somewhere — someone better than me can find it)

[AlmightyJB]

He was talking about this.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_srOh…..doll_c.jpg

[lafe.long]

Apologies if this was covered:

Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns Before Leaking, Report Says

The article, published by Vice News on Saturday, says 800 pages of documents challenge the government’s stance that Snowden, a former NSA contractor, had not warned officials before the 2013 NSA leak.

[Libertarian]

Clapper lied to Congress, under oath, with zero repercussions. I don’t think truth is a factor in government or politics anymore.

[lafe.long]

You think it was a factor at some point? Cute.

[lafe.long]

Ben Stein: Actor and Author Says He’ll Vote for Donald Trump Despite His Ignorance of Economics

In an interview with Jana Kasperkevic of The Guardian published Saturday, the long-time Republican said all three major candidates for the U.S. presidency are wrong on free trade and other policies.

[DenverJ]

Oh, Johnson is ok on economics.

[Libertarian]

Apparently Gary Johnson needs to make a phone call.

[AlmightyJB]

“as to Mr Sanders, I think he is purposely, willfully ignorant. I think he is a person who could be educated but he has some kind of personality defect that prevents him from being educated.”

Nice:)

[lafe.long]

Horizon Air: Food and Drug Administration Issues Warning to Airline About Lack of Sinks on Its Planes

The May 13 letter said that the lack of sinks on Horizon flights violated food preparation guidelines. Alaska Air, which owns Horizon, said Thursday that it would require its crew to use disinfectant.

SEE?!?!? If you freakin libertardians had your way, all the corporations would be leaving sinks out of airplane shitters… making people SICK on PURPOSE!

[tarran]

I doubt they are preparing food in the shitter.

[Suthenboy]

Have you ever eaten on an airplane?

[DenverJ ?'s Kennedy]

Saves a step

[DOOMco]

Denver peeps,
I have to go into the city tomorrow for some classes for work. It’s just in the morning, and I’m looking for some lunch ideas.
I also need a way to drive my shitty truck into town that might avoid pissing everyone off. So not 36 and 70.

[DenverJ ?'s Kennedy]

From where to where?

[DOOMco]

Boulder to 42nd ave, so Montebello. Which basically means I have to take 36 to 70. It’s just harder to go that fast in my old landcruiser. The doors and roof being gone don’t help.

[DenverJ]

You could take Broadway. CO 93. Take you about 3 times as long

[DOOMco]

I think I’ll just try to hop off 70 asap. I feel bad for the people passing me.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

If you’re going to Montbello, can you hop off the Turnpike onto 120th and take that out to Tower Road? Would probably take a while but you’d miss most of the rush hour traffic.

[DOOMco]

That looks good. Thanks red rocks

[DenverJ]

Also, for lunch, you’re not in a local where I know the good eats. If you wanna drive all the way out to Mississippi and 225, Guadalajara’s is insanely good. I love their Carne Asada.
Chubby’s on Federal (maybe ~ 8th?) has insanely cheap steaks.

[DenverJ]

Apparently, “insane” is my word of the day.

[DOOMco]

Well i don’t have anything really after. So Mississippi and 225 it is. Thanks man

[DenverJ]

Cool! I love that place! I’m sure you have Google, but just in case: Get of from 225 at Mississippi, turn east. Take your next left that is not the on ramp back to 225. Can’t remember the name of the street, it’s like a frontage rd. Home Depot is on the corner.
After the left, home depot will be on your right, and mission inn on the left. Guadalajara’s is behind the mission inn.

[DenverJ]

Oh, and the latter you get there, the longer the carne Asada has been marinating 😉

[DOOMco]

Fucking fantastic. Or, as you might say, insane

[DenverJ]

If I didn’t have to work tomorrow, I’d join you. It probably my favorite place in the Denver metro for Mexican, and that’s saying something in Denver.

[Red Rocks Rockin]

Take your next left that is not the on ramp back to 225. Can’t remember the name of the street, it’s like a frontage rd.

That’s Abilene.

[DenverJ]

Yes it is. Thanks. I used to live on Blackhawk, the next street east, and i could not remember “Abilene”.