Military Transgender Ban Ending, Indiana Abortion Restriction Blocked, Possible House Gun Bill Coming: P.M. Links

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  The Department of Defense officially announced today it was ending its blanket ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.

• Iowa's Supreme Court ruled that ex-offenders convicted of felonies in that state can be permanently stripped of their right to vote.
• Fears of an active shooter situation at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland turned out to be somebody being fooled by an active shooter drill.
• Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the mass surveillance of Muslims living in the country.
• A federal judge has blocked a law in Indiana that forbid women from seeking abortions on the basis of a fetus's genetic abnormalities.
• Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the mass surveillance of Muslims living in the country.

All three of them.

[Free Society]

Rearry?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Lacist!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the mass surveillance of Muslims living in the country."

Japan is not stupid. They watch the news. Like Obama.

[Ted S.]

Japan is not stupid.

They just have strange sexual fetishes.

[jesse.in.mb]

Quiet! You'll wake the kraken...and a bunch of salarymen will get raging hardons.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Hardons are causing bizarre clouds:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/.....re-opening

[kevrob]

They also wrote "... minus the lightening strikes." So, these strikes are affecting local gravity, and things are becoming less massive? I see you were in the spirit when you misspelled Hadron.

Did they let Daniel Jackson visit CERN, or something?

Kevin R

[Riven]

According to whom, sir!

[jesse.in.mb]

Riven can't get lady-hard unless there are pixelated pubes involved.

[Riven]

Jesse, If you took all the girls I knew when I was single and brought them all together for one night, I know they'd never match my sweet imagination.

[jesse.in.mb]

Are we talking "together" as in sharing the same room in a wall-to-wall girls way or in a KAAAAANEEEDDAAAAAAA-Akira-mutant kind of way?

[Riven]

I'm not opposed to meat walls.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Or the number of willing orifices.

[Ted S.]

Everybody has at least one sexual interest that the vast majority of people would consider a strange fetish.

[Riven]

Some of us have several

*Politely sips coffee*

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Nods in agreement.

*Politely buttchugs coffee.*

[Bee Tagger]

See, we'd do the same thing.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

We're all in favor of spying on Japanese muslims.

[Libertarian]

Can internment camps be far behind?

[Slammer]

Does that mean they...

[puts on sunglasses]

Extra Narrowed their gaze at them?

[The Fusionist]

"Wait, our mistake, I thought you said mass surveillance of *schoolgirls*!"

[Slammer]

The tentacles are furthering their reach as we speak

[Fist of Etiquette]

A federal judge has blocked a law in Indiana that forbid women from seeking abortions on the basis of a fetus's genetic abnormalities.

THAT'S WHEN IT'S MOST NEEDED.

[Free Society]

Your all caps is setting of my sarcasm detector, but you're not entirely wrong.

[waffles]

If we aborted all freaks then who would populate our sideshow attractions?

[Free Society]

We can grow the freaks in specially designed axlotl tanks in West Virginia.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

You haven't felt smooth, until you've petted an axolotl.

[Free Society]

axlotl tank

[KerryW]

or Congress...

[Libertarian]

A federal judge has blocked a law in Indiana that forbid women from seeking abortions on the basis of a fetus's genetic abnormalities

Are you telling me the Kardashians are still reproducing? AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

There's Kardashians in FUCKING INDIANA?!?

*passes out

[right across the river]

[__Warren__]

FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!

[rts]

Hear hear.

[Citizen X]

I know, right?

[Hamster of Doom]

Someone promote this man!

[waffles]

Doom?

[thrakkorzog]

Thank god those children are hear to some authenticic frontier gibberrish.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

This just in: The GOP wants to coddle terrorists!

[Agent Cooper]

Tables. Turned.

[Rich]

Fears of an active shooter situation at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland turned out to be somebody being fooled by an active shooter drill.

Or someone "cleverly" getting out of a test.

[Slammer]

When the new broke they reported a "shelter in place" order. I said to my wife, "At a fucking military base??"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fears of an active shooter situation at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland turned out to be somebody being fooled by an active shooter drill.

Similar thing happened to me during my last active driller shoot.

[Hamster of Doom]

Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

The Democrats are going to start handing out white feathers next.

[Juvenile Bluster]

What does this have to do with our future Vice President?

::starts crying, curls into fetal position in corner::

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

They'll select the VP by handing out roses on reality TV.

[AlmightyJB]

"would give federal officials three days to go to court to block a gun sale to a suspected terrorist

Thats how long I always have to wait.

[PBR Streetgang]

I misread that as "white FATHERS".

[W. Chipper Dove]

I know a certain someone who could have used one.

[Tonio]

FYI, the handing out of white feathers was done in the US during WWI to shame young, able-bodied men who were not in uniform.

[BigT]

Wasn't that in the UK?

[Tonio]

Apparently so. My bad. Thanks.

[GILMORE?]

File Under = Lifestyle Choices

Dubbed the "vampire trucker," Vafeades held women captive in his truck, the "Twilight Express," sexually and physically abused them and sharpened their teeth with a power tool, according to the charges.

The Murray man wore bracelets on his wrists that he called "slave bracelets" and would hit his victims with the bracelets if they didn't follow his commands, court documents say. He owned a pair of dentures that were carved to make the two front teeth appear as fangs, prosecutors said.

If he lived in West Village, he'd have been charged with being "boring"

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

the "Twilight Express,"

I bet he sparkles in daylight.

Worst. vampire. ever.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Iowa's Supreme Court ruled that ex-offenders convicted of felonies in that state can be permanently stripped of their right to vote.

They can still run for office, though, right?

[Juvenile Bluster]

This is Iowa, not Illinois.

[Brett L]

Iowa's Supreme Court ruled that ex-offenders convicted of felonies in that state can be permanently stripped of their right to vote.

So they read the definition of felon and the Constitution and came up with a valid and historically correct decision? I guess that is newsworthy.*

*Were felonies still confined to murder, rape, and brigandage, this would not be the pressing civil rights issue it currently is. I'm not saying the law is right, but the interpretation is correct.

[Hamster of Doom]

The law is an ass.

[Libertarian]

Too many "n's"

[Bee Tagger]

but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

#PoliticsIn2016

[This Machine]

Pretty much every F-to-M I've seen looks like a military guy already.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THAT IS BRUTAL, SHACKFORD.

[Scott S.]

What? I mean post-transition. As a compliment. Because I tend to think military-looking guys are hot. Actually, I tend to think most F-to-M dudes are pretty hot.

[Brett L]

I thought you meant all military-looking guys were short, under-muscled but thin, and liked to wear tank tops. Agree on the haircuts, though.

[Crusty Juggler]

This is why there are no libertarian military-looking f-m dudes.

[Microaggressor]

So... would?

[Crusty Juggler]

This is why libertarian writers do not play in the comments.

[This Machine]

What? I mean post-transition. As a compliment.

Mhmm. Sure. I'm just gonna pretend you were being super catty to stir up drama.

[GILMORE?]

Nice save.

[Agent Cooper]

There's obviously an LGBTQ fundraiser/cocktail party in his future.

[bacon-magic]

Scott, cut your losses and walk away. Slowly. Ewww.

[jesse.in.mb]

Oh man, based on your silence on the issue, I was starting to think you might really be way into transmen. Good save, bacon-magic, now the commenters definitely know that you're totally not into transmen. Because you've told us you think they're gross. just so we know.

*punches bacon-magic and runs away crying like it's kindergarten*

[bacon-magic]

Sorry Jesse, if I was into men, I would want a man's man. A bear, if you would. *rubs arm and thinks about the N.A.P.

[Warty]

You're saying you want to fuck Buck Angel, right?

[bacon-magic]

Warty Hugeman would be the #1, Buck Angel I'm not aware of. #2 would be Tom Cruise, Scientology is hawt.

[bacon-magic]

Damn, just googled him, he is a man's man. He might be #2 now.

[This Machine]

You guys are fucked up. The only correct answer is early-80s Tom Platz.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

"Pretty much every F-to-M I've seen looks like a military guy already."

Don't make fun of the divorced guys. There is no shame in the M if you are alone.

[jesse.in.mb]

A federal judge has blocked a law in Indiana that forbid women from seeking abortions on the basis of a fetus's genetic abnormalities.

I bet the lizard people are behind this law. They don't want women aborting their hybrid babies. Stop knocking up random human Iowan women, Bob Filner!

[jesse.in.mb]

Oops, Indiana women, damn you "I" states being over represented in the PM Links today.

[Mr Lizard]

We don't need a law to out-breed you stooopid mammals

[rts]

Lipstick discrimination case hits human rights tribunal

A woman who claims she was fired from her job as a server at a Maple Ridge pub for refusing to wear makeup and coloured lipstick has filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

[Tonio]

There is such a thing as clear lipstick?

[Brett L]

I think they call it "chapstick".

[jesse.in.mb]

sparkly lip gloss? chapstick?

[Ted S.]

Lip gloss?

[Crusty Juggler]

Lip balm?

[Ted S.]

Using lipstick on the job

[Agent Cooper]

Maybe she's better off not working there?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I bet she contributed nothing to the rainbow parties in high school!

[But Enough About Me]

That was in the Black Sheep pub in Maple Ridge. It's not as good as the Jolly Coachman in Pitt Meadows (the next municipality west). The Coachman, for one thing, has an actual chef, not just an endless array of line cooks with pretensions.

Mmmmmmm, the Coachman. Now I'm hungry. "Wife? We're going out! Don't forget to duct-tape the dog first!"

[Rich]

Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Obama-appointed judge, had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that "the [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted"

"Tough shit. Cough up the documents or be jailed for contempt."

*** pounds gavel ***

[Juvenile Bluster]

27 month delay from July 21. Figure they'll fudge that a few more weeks and it'll conveniently not be produced until after the 2018 midterm elections.

[Tonio]

And it's not like they couldn't have seen this coming. Twenty seven months is a bit long. Why, that would be almost halfway through her first term if she wins.

[Rich]

This is total bullshit. I'm starting to think it's part of a ploy to delay the elections.

*** adjusts tinfoil hat ***

[Ted S.]

As if anybody in the Obama Justice Department would enforce the contempt citation.

[Tonio]

The Department of Defense officially announced today it was ending its blanket ban on transgender people serving openly in the military.

Well, good. Because if you're going to let them serve, they deserve blankets like everyone else.

[Bee Tagger]

Well done

[Fist of Etiquette]

So I feel like that alt-text confirms every stereotype about a gay man's opinion of lesbians and the like.

[Ted S.]

I know what goys want;
I know what bis like

[The Fusionist]

"much more due process than what Democrats want."

And probably much less due process than the Constitution requires.

Middle of the road! Common sense!

[Hamster of Doom]

If you can't compromise on your principles every now and then, we'll never get anything done.

[Brett L]

Barnes and Noble to sell alcohol -- for when my wife and I want to get drunk and buy books together but our internet is down or we're out of alcohol at home. I mean we can Amazon together right now while getting drunk.

[Ted S.]

I presume it won't be allowed in my state.

[Libertarian]

which is.............?

[waffles]

Imma guess Pennsylvania.

[Agent Cooper]

LCB gonna LCB.

[Agent Cooper]

LCB gonna LCB.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Semi-comatose?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Of constant arousal?

[Crusty Juggler]

It is only going to happen in the wealthy communities. They like their overpriced brick and mortar books and booze.

[lap83]

If the bookstore clerks are also bartenders maybe they'll leave me alone.

[Slammer]

I work there..."Ask me anything!"

[Anomalous]

I mean we can Amazon together right now while getting drunk.

Amazon and swill?

[lap83]

Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

FBI agents can still ignore gun shop owners who see something and say something, but they have to add them to a database first (the gun shop owner)

[Brett L]

Hopefully, it will at least prevent the ATF from forcing gun-shop owners to make illegal sales.

[GILMORE?]

A Tale of Two Terrorisms

Case Study #1

Keebler's "militia" had seven members, including three who were actually undercover FBI agents, Daniels said.

Undercover agents built the inert explosive device and placed it against a cabin door last week before handing Keebler the remote detonator, defense attorney Lynn Donaldson pointed out. Some of Keebler's so-called recognizance involved simply driving by offices, he said.

"Not liking a particular religion or minority group or action of the federal government is not illegal, it's just not politically correct," said Donaldson.

Case Study #2

""Police Captain's Son Charged With Support for Terrorist Group"" - former "peace activist" arrested with pressure cooker bombs, weapons, and plans to attack and kill people on university campus

What do you think the odds are that Redneck Goofball goes to prison for decades, and that the "Peace Activist"/ISIS supporter/son of police-captain gets leniency because of "mental health"-issues and because Dad ratted him out?

[Brett L]

Please tell me Keebler called his militia "elves".

[Juvenile Bluster]

Goddamn elves. I knew those cookies were trouble.

[Ted S.]

Dammit! Two people beat me to the "elves" joke.

[GILMORE?]

TERRORISM IS NO LAUGHING MATTER!!

"Keebler made it clear he didn't plan on blowing people up for now, but he wanted his group to be prepared to escalate things and take people out if necessary," according to the indictment.

All he needed was some help from the FBI.

re: the latter example.... its like a case study for "The True Believer".

He goes from "Peace Activist" to ISIS member in all of 3 years.

[GILMORE?]

If it were not for the Gore family, the planet would already be destroyed

[Rufus The Monocled]

She can play with my pipeline.

[GILMORE?]

I'd lie in her trough and donate to her fund

[GILMORE?]

""trough ""

That should really have been "trench"

Karenna Gore was among demonstrators who tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench dug for the pipeline

[Crusty Juggler]

I'd contribute to her green piece.

[VG Zaytsev]

Gore, who serves as director of the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary in New York

WTF

[Rich]

U.S. swimmers using therapy dogs to relax before Olympic trial races

U.S. figure skaters using therapy gerbils to relax before Olympic trials

[Brett L]

Thank you, reasonable.

[GILMORE?]

You know who else used "therapy gerbils"?

[Ted S.]

Robby Soave?

[GILMORE?]

(gasp!) the secret of his head-pelt, revealed!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Completely unrelated--

Why do you wrap a gerbil in duct tape?

So when you fuck it, it won't explode.

[GILMORE?]

huh.

(takes notes)

[NYC2AZ]

Milo?

[thrakkorzog]

Richard Gere?

[Animal]

Mister Slave?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Stephen Lynch?

[Free Society]

I actually like that song, so jokes on you.

[bacon-magic]

Rich rolled...

[GILMORE?]

Won't Someone Think of the Baristas??

Employees shocked to learn that higher-minimum-wages translate to fewer hours, and... shocker....

Some employees said new technology that allows customers to order and pay from mobile devices is putting additional pressure on employees at some stores.

"Mobile orders have increased sales and created more need for labor, yet the company is cutting labor," wrote Makenna S., identified as a shift supervisor.

well, technically the technology *speeds* transactions because it doesn't require some meatbag-dipshit to swipe people's cards *for them* and stand there looking goofy before handing them a receipt.

and speedier transactions means you have to spend more time actually "pouring coffee" and shit; and i wonder how that particular "problem" is likely to be solved?

[Rufus The Monocled]

I hate that I have to keep asking for a receipt. It should be handed over. Some of us write these things off people!

[__Warren__]

There's one that can cook a meal and it only costs 30,000 pounds.

I like how she says that the 85,000 pound cost means they're not going to be available. Like businesses base their purchasing decisions on cost rather than return.

And even at 85K rather than 30K if the payback is say 24 months instead of 12 months depending on the all-in cost of the employee that's still going to be tempting.

[a better chipper]

Cinemark bills Aurora victims 700K in legal fees.

No winners here, but hopefully its a cautionary tale for families and victims of tragedy to not get sue happy why grieving. It'll be interesting to see if Cinemark settles for a much lower amount or if they take them to the mat over it.

[Tonio]

Last month, a Colorado state jury officially declared that Cinemark, which is the third largest theater chain in America, is not to be held responsible for the fatal Colorado theater shooting carried out by James Holmes in 2012. Now, Cinemark is asking for all of the victims involved with the case to pay legal fees for what happened the night of July 20 nearly four years ago.

No, they are demanding those fees under the law. The fees are not for the shooting, but because the families of the victims took it upon themselves to sue Cinemark. And they lost. Cinemark is merely seeking to recover the money they spent defending themselves.

[SimonD]

I would prefer it if Cinemark would add the families' attorneys to the suit, considering it was likely the lawyers who persuaded the families to sue in the first place. As long as you are suing, you may as well get the mother fuckers who are at fault.

[__Warren__]

Still though, writing it off is likely cheaper than the cost of a negative PR hit.

[thrakkorzog]

Sometimes it's better to fight off trolls. If you settle, then expect more trolls. Get a rep for not paying off lawyer, and lawyers stay away.

[The Fusionist]

Do Japanese Supreme Court justices look like Portia in Manga Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice?

[GILMORE?]

UK introduces the ability to report hate-crimes via a form on a website...

.....FOLLOWED BY SHOCKING 500% EXPLOSION IN HATE-CRIMES

""negative social media commentary including xenophobic language"" seem to be the bulk of these 'Crimes'.

I wonder = if i ran around screaming "RACIST" at people constantly, do you think some people might actually *oblige*? hmmm

[Rufus The Monocled]

UK, EU whatever.

All consumed by bull shit.

[Je suis Woodchipper]

i've watched Peaky Blinders. the Brits once had spines.

[GILMORE?]

ISIS Book Club

"This week, we will count the "Haram" in Chapter 1 of Tropic of Cancer"

[The Late P Brooks]

Fears of an active shooter situation at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland turned out to be somebody being fooled by an active shooter drill.

This is why no guns are alowed on base.

[bacon-magic]

I haven't seen the Clinton/Lynch "grandkid talk" meeting on here yet, so here you go.

[Ted S.]

You must have missed yesterday's PM Links.

[bacon-magic]

I did, actually had to work at work! *runs away sobbing

[GILMORE?]

When "Being a Victim" Fails

"In a moment of desperation to get out of the cell, I took the pay phone off the wall and hit myself once across the forehead with it as hard as I could. I knew I had to injure myself to get out of the cell and into a hospital, and it was the only solution I could find to get myself out of there."

Sounds Legit.

[GILMORE?]

Beverage Companies = "Seriously, We Ran Out of Ideas Last Week."

[Ted S.]

I'm reminded of the Saturday Night Live fake ad for Crystal Gravy.

[Crusty Juggler]

They should take celery soda nation wide.

[Tak Kak]

"Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the mass surveillance of Muslims living in the country."

Antonio Inoki hit hardest

[Tonio]

No, Elizabeth Warren can't just take a DNA test to prove her Cherokee ancestry.

I've read two articles on this and they both focus on Cherokee ancestry and ignore the greater question of whether such tests would conclusively reveal Indian (as in Native American) ancestry. The WaPo article confirms what the Slate article implied - that the limitation is not the tests themselves, but the databases used to read the tests. IOW, to confirm Cherokee ancestry they'd need a lot of Cherokee people in the databases.

[jesse.in.mb]

I wonder how Heather Locklear feels about all this.

[Rich]

But Hillary can take a DNA test to prove her humanity, right? RIGHT?!

[Libertarian]

Okay, Rich, just exactly WHAT are you planning to swab?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

If the DB is limited on Cherokee, how limited do you think it will be on Innsmouthians?

[The Late P Brooks]

Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

Will it provide for awarding triple your legal expenses in the event of a successful appeal? Otherwise, fuck off.

No, wait- just fuck off, anyway.

[Rich]

Fears of an active shooter situation at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland turned out to be somebody being fooled by an active shooter drill.

There ought to be a law that everyone participating in such drills be required to wear a pink tutu.

[Crusty Juggler]

Fox Business producer, Chipotle executive and Merrill Lynch banker arrested in huge cocaine bust in New York

It followed a year-long investigation into a massive drug ring that sold $75,000 worth of cocaine and operated from the Lower East Side.

As detailed in the indictment, members of the ring allegedly used car services to deliver the drugs to buyers, including to delis, restaurants, bars, apartments, hotels, and the buyers' workplaces.

The defendants delivered to locations across Manhattan, including the Lower East Side, the Upper East Side, Chelsea, the Financial District, and Midtown, as well as areas of Brooklyn and Queens. Many of the sales took place in delis or Duane Reade and CVS pharmacies.

Customers generally paid between $200 and $300 per transaction.

They also got HuffPo blogger!

[Crusty Juggler]

It's from the Paper of Record, so naturally they included a bikini selfie from the lady kingpin. Also, courtroom photo of someone's pregnant wife. Class!

[Riven]

Would

[GILMORE?]

Oh come on. It has hips like a holocaust survivor.

[GILMORE?]

That joke needed more time to marinate. I should have said, "she looks like an overweight holocaust survivor"

[Riven]

I'd marinate her. Nomsayin'

And then I'd make her a sandwich or something

[GILMORE?]

a massive drug ring that sold $75,000 worth of cocaine

That's a small-time delivery service for yuppies.

[GILMORE?]

Also = is that face photoshopped? The distance between the eyes i think qualifies as "extra-terrestrial"

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

is that face photoshopped?

It looks a lot more realistic when the jaw unhinges and she eats the top of your head.

[The Fusionist]

A Fox Business producer?

[tasteless and totally false Kennedy joke deleted]

[GILMORE?]

Abortion = Its all about the *timing*

[Crusty Juggler]

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails packed with America's secrets were stored by company 'wide open to hackers' and run by 'morons' whistleblowers reveal

A Daily Mail Online investigation has found that a second firm - hired to store a back-up of Clinton's secret server - was so lax in its security employees failed to change passwords frequently and left computers logged in, unattended for extended periods and its own clients stumbled upon other clients data.

Datto Inc, the company in question, was hired to store Hilary's emails by Platte River, the mom-and-pop company contracted to maintain her 'homebrew' email system.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A Daily Mail Online investigation-

Stop right there.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

What is wrong with a Google search?

Or are you one of those Bing fags?

[Crusty Juggler]

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails packed with America's secrets were stored by company 'wide open to hackers' and run by 'morons' whistleblowers reveal

A Daily Mail Online investigation has found that a second firm - hired to store a back-up of Clinton's secret server - was so lax in its security employees failed to change passwords frequently and left computers logged in, unattended for extended periods and its own clients stumbled upon other clients data.

Datto Inc, the company in question, was hired to store Hilary's emails by Platte River, the mom-and-pop company contracted to maintain her 'homebrew' email system.

[Crusty Juggler]

The failings included allegations that security was so lax that customers warned the firm they had stumbled on other clients' data; that in 2010, the company's internal servers were hacked; and that staff were not required to regularly change passwords, seen as a basic requirement for keeping systems secure.

Staff computers ? which had access to servers holding confidential client information - were left logged in while unoccupied for extended periods of time, whistleblowers said.

And Datto headquarters were easily accessible and had no security guards on their floor, while employees opened and held doors open for others which should only have been accessible with a security pass.

A longtime Datto partner, Marc Tamarin, told Daily Mail Online: 'Those guys were really morons. They weren't qualified to handle our back-up and that was the biggest concern for us.'

[Libertarian]

If this were happening on House of Cards I'd fire all the writers and hire some who didn't smoke pot all day.

[That's A Bingo!]

were stored by company 'wide open to hackers' and run by 'morons' whistleblowers reveal

But enough about the State Department.

[Je suis Woodchipper]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-bank.html

EXCLUSIVE: Slush funds to pay 'personal consultant' Huma Abedin, a $34,000 a night Caribbean holiday for daughter Chelsea and payoffs to silence Bill's sex accusers - How Hillary has used donations to the Clinton Foundation as her 'personal piggy bank'
Jerome Corsi claims in his book, Partners in Crime, that the Clinton Foundation is 'a vast, criminal conspiracy' and 'a slush fund for grifters'
The money that was donated to help earthquake victims in India and Haiti and HIV/AIDs sufferers has mostly enriched the Clintons, Corsi claims
The Clinton family also schemed to monetize the White House
Hillary used her position as Secretary of State to leverage lucrative deals for the Foundation as well as six-figure speaking fees for Bill Clinton
The scheme engineered through the Foundation has enriched the Clintons by hundreds of millions of dollars
It also added $2billion to the Clinton Foundation and raised $1billion for Hillary's second run for the presidency
Corsi claims that the Clinton Foundation is 'a philanthropic foundation the Clintons appear to use as a personal piggy bank'

[Libertarian]

I'm assuming all these issues will be addressed the next time Hillary sits for an interview with CNN.

[GILMORE?]

Is the Daily Mail picking up on all the investigative slack being left behind by mainstream US newspapers?

I would have thought they'd be joining their peers in the UK and focused entirely on how the EU-breakup was the end of the world.

[Libertarian]

I look at the Guardian (yes, I know, god help me) and sometimes I wonder if the USA readers outnumber the UK readers.

[GILMORE?]

sometimes I wonder if the USA readers outnumber the UK readers.

I'm pretty sure its close. Most UK media gets a lot of crossover readership from other anglophone countries, the US (obviously) in particular.

[The Late P Brooks]

How Hillary has used donations to the Clinton Foundation as her 'personal piggy bank'

Shocked, I am.

[The Late P Brooks]

The Clinton family also schemed to monetize the White House

Say it ain't so, Shoeless.

[Libertarian]

I say we have a Brexit-type referendum in order to pick someone who throws a dart at a phonebook. Where ever the dart lands, THAT is who we inaugurate in January for President. Even if the dart bounces off the phone book and lands on a cockroach, it would be an improvement over our current choices.

[Free Society]

As long as the cockroach is dead, I'll vote for him.

[Glide]

Just use his theme song in ad buys, the Latino vote will pour in.

[GILMORE?]

Self-Driving Cars Reach Key Milestone

[GILMORE?]

How weird would it be to see the summit meeting between this guy and this guy?

[GILMORE?]

I suppose i missed the "Kang/Kodos" joke

[AlmightyJB]

SPECTRE Summit?

[The Late P Brooks]

The company said "the high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S."

Ow, my head.

[The Late P Brooks]

"neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.">

Hey, look, Ma; no hands. Now, where's that Grey Poupon?

[Hyp's Brexit Butthurt Lotion]

Republicans may allow a House vote on a bill to try to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, but it will likely offer much more due process than what Democrats want.

WTF? Due process? Taking away someone's constitutional rights without due process now contains too much due process? How is that even possible?

Just say goodbye to your due process, the constitution, and the rule of law.

These people need to be arrested for treason.

[Cytotoxic]

A while back a frequent poster and scientific illiterate was seriously posting that the possible incoming Maunder Minimum heralds a new Little Ice Age. This is bunkum. The previous LIA started before the MM that coincided with it, and was likely due to volcanism.

http://news.agu.org/press-rele.....hers-find/

[The Fusionist]

"Great, another volcano-induced Ice Age and we're fresh out of virgins!"

[BigT]

More recent expts show that aerosols form much more readily under 'normal' conditions than previously thought, diminishing the influence of volcanism on climate. That article was 2012.

[bacon-magic]

That amount wouldn't be enough for a local Cop's backyard bbq.

[GILMORE?]

Those delivery services normally have protection.

Someone fucked up. The fact that they went after the *buyers* is also hugely suspect. Someone decided to make a case out of "open secrets" and they did it for some reason which no idiot at a newspaper will ever pick up on.

For clarity - these so-called "Massive Drug Rings" have basically been an open secret for decades.

They're not massive. They're tiny. They're how well-off white people buy weed and coke in NY. They're called "Delivery Services", and they done quietly and professionally and police normally never have anything to do with them because they see them as "harmless" and see no political benefit in busting rich-white-people. they want to get drugs "off the street", and this stuff is not on the street.

I'm not arguing for the fairness of 'white-people drug-dealing'. I'm just saying its very unusual that any police would ever bust anyone for something so petty. Much less try and make headlines with it. It suggests that maybe someone involved made a very very big boo-boo.

A la, did not pay-off their protection, and/or was competing with someone who decided they were a nuisance.

[Hamster of Doom]

Hey, we're just happy those Californians are finally awake.

[jesse.in.mb]

Way harsh. I don't think of Indiana as a flyover state.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Actually, you can't get anymore flyover than Indiana. It looks like it has the most routes crossing its territory.

[jesse.in.mb]

Little of that (3 weeks in the Scandi countries) and a little bit of commenting burnout. Trying to get back into it.

[jesse.in.mb]

Y'all are making it really hard to slyly insult Iowa.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Perverted minds...

[Libertarian]

You good man, Types-With-One-Hand.

[__Warren__]

Ah the ol' qwerty-squirty!

[Riven]

You people act like I have such discerning tastes. Get a grip--former chubby girls are still enthusiastic about just having willing partners

[Crusty Juggler]

I hear you, sister.

[robc]

I dont understand peoples hatred for self driving cars.

Even if you dont use it, having the idiots around you using them makes you safer.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'd definitely like to see more of Norway. Our plans got a bit garbled (the friend I was traveling with has poor impulse control) so the Denmark portion disappointed, but it was more our fault than Denmark's.

[jesse.in.mb]

Oh, and I enjoyed the shit out of Sweden, particularly Gothenburg. A roller coaster nerd friend from home was excessively jealous that I got to go to Liseberg. The wooden roller coaster there (Balder) was smoother than any I've been on and fast, and their river rafting ride was entertainingly named "K?llerado".

[Michael S. Langston]

I dont understand peoples hatred for self driving cars.

Not that you are doing this, but I don't understand the idea that technology is automatically the solution to everything and when done correctly will be superior to any human based alternative.

As I could easily argue that this isn't the car's fault in that an attentive driver, watching the road in front of them, should've been able to see brake lights and feel the lack of deceleration and then do something about it.

If Tesla could, this is likely how the story would read: inattentive driver using computer to drive failed to slow down when required, causing a fatality. Instead they just said something like, remember even auto drive requires a human to ensure safe operations, etc, etc.

As given it's brand new tech and a human died, doing this would be stupid.

But no one would say the autopilot of an airline which crashed directly into the ocean while the pilot did nothing, would be the fault of the plane's computer control.

However, all of that ignores the data that if you take away too much control through automating driving or flying, humans are prone to start trusting those systems to such a degree that it becomes dangerous. Similar things were find wuthering pharmacists and systems which automatically show if patient has scripts which conflict - their reliance on those systems results in lowering their ability to know contraindicated medications without it.

[jesse.in.mb]

The Danish thing is a bit of a sore spot. The original trip was supposed to be a loop from Stockholm up to the north and back down to Gothenburg, then Gothenburg to Copenhagen and a loop out around Denmark by bike for about a week.

Between my friend's "planning" and a Swedish pilot strike it ended up three weeks of being in transit and spending almost no time in any of the locations. LA to Stockholm, to Gothenburg, to Alesund, Norway to Copenhagen, to Gothenburg to Copenhagen to Berlin to Copenhagen (because of the strike) to Stockholm and then home.

It was still beautiful and we had a lot of fun, but I feel like I would've been happier with the original itinerary, making it a two week trip instead of three, and just lighting an extra $2k that I didn't have on fire instead of the trip we ended up having.