Megyn Kelly Reportedly Enters the Fray Against Roger Ailes, Melania Trump Steals Speech: P.M. Links

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  Megyn Kelly was also sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, according to reports. Sources say that Fox News will give Ailes until August 1st to step down willingly.

• A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech.
• Build the wall or dig the ditch?
• New York University's China campus has more freedom of speech than its American campus, according to a student.
• Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.
• Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sources say that Fox News will give Ailes until August 1st to step down willingly.

And another Trump enemy bites it. Sad.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Three comments before anyone?

Wow.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That has more to do with them than me.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He rubbed one out after the live stream, and then he had 2 whole hours to prepare.

[DEG]

Hello Rufus. I'm late this time.

[Jerry on the rocks]

And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.

[Ted S.]

Technically, shouldn't that be after Playa Manhattan's comment?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

VOLATON!

http://www.rollingstone.com/mu.....ge-w429857

[Fist of Etiquette]

A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech.

They've found the thing that will make people finally see Trump for what he is!

[BigT]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Why are progs angry?

Oh, right, they are assholes.

[CE]

Again "ripped off" is pretty strong language for someone saying the same generic platitude. There aren't that many ways to say it.

[But Enough About Me]

Yep. String those clich?s together into recognizable forms, and I'm willing to bet that there's more than one never-recorded (or recorded and languishing in obscurity) political speech that looks and sounds like it "ripped off" portions of some earlier political speech.

In fact, I believe Zerohedge (bless their little tinfoil-hat-wearing heads) has an example of this up on their site right now...

[Mad Scientist]

If anyone wants to put in the time, I'm sure they can find all sorts of parts from Michelle's speech that are "ripped off" as well. There are only so many ways to be banal.

[BigT]

Melania Trump's speech is derivative of 'My Little Pony,' John Legend and Kid Rock songs, RNC chief strategist points out in her defense

"Melania Trump said: 'The strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them.' Twilight Sparkle from "My Little Pony" said: 'This is your dream. Anything you can do in your dreams you can do now.' "

[Juvenile Bluster]

Voice acting goddess Tara Strong (voice of Twilight Sparkle) is having way too good a time with this on twitter.

[Playa Manhattan.]

You can tell she's a goddess by her voice?

[John Titor]

A Goddess of Voice Acting, yes. Woman's in almost everything animated in the west.

Also, she looks like this.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

^ What John T says.^

She's a voice-based Swiss Army Knife/Leatherman Tool.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Anything that doesn't have Tress MacNeille?

[R C Dean]

With looks like that, she makes a living voice acting?

Nice.

[Brett L]

More money, less shaving.

[John Titor]

This whole incident just makes me long for a bachelor President (I guess the last one was Buchanan?). Imagine the media shitshow that would follow a President going out on dates.

[Citizen X]

Buchanan was almost certainly the first gay president.

[waffles]

"The Old Public Functionary" was a popular nickname for President James Buchanan.

Almost certainly.

[This Machine]

This whole incident just makes me long for a bachelor President (I guess the last one was Buchanan?). Imagine the media shitshow that would follow a President going out on dates.

Oh dude. Dream big. You could turn it into a gameshow. Have the First Lady position filled by a different woman every week.

[But Enough About Me]

I would totally watch that.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Bachelor?

[Ted S.]

Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom, anyone?

[Akira]

I thought that a polygamist president would be funny for the pants-shitting value, but then I considered that instead of just one "first lady" pontificating to us about stupid shit, we'd have five or six.

[AlmightyJB]

Yeah, she wrote it herself.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.

Phew. Good thing I didn't use "dust" in my opening comment.

[Ted S.]

Why would anybody want to use "We Are the Champions" anyway?

[RBS]

He should switch to "Fat Bottomed Girls."

[CE]

Because we're not tired of winning yet.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

It seems "I Want it All" would be more appropriate for Trump, no?

[Private Chipperbot]

He should want to live forever.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

He no doubt thinks of himself as one of the Princes of the Universe.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I thought 'We will rock you' was more appropriate, no?

[Mad Scientist]

It's a convention, not a hockey game.

[Rufus The Monocled]

A DONALD TRUMP convention, hockey.

What's the difference?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

No Hanson brothers at the convention.

[Mad Scientist]

"The fans are standing up to them! The security guards are standing up to them! The peanut vendors are standing up to them! And by golly, if I could get down there, I'd be standing up to them!"

[Agammamon]

Fa-fa-fa-FLASH! AhAAAA! SAVIOROFTHEUNIVERSE!

[R C Dean]

Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.

Here's hoping Trump says "Suck it, boys. I bought the rights to use your music, and I'm going to use it. Don't like it? Pull your music from the licensing agencies. You had it for sale, and I bought it. Its mine now. BWAhahaha!"

[Suicidy]

That would be awesome.

[Citizen X]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

Who does Turkey think they are, America?

[That's A Bingo!]

Alt-text: Who paid for these? I paid for these.

[This Machine]

New York University's China campus has more freedom of speech than its American campus, according to a student.

Nobody tell Thom Friedman.

[BigT]

Tree rings show no global warming in China since 1600. Oops!

A new 368-year tree ring temperature reconstruction has established that regional (China) summer temperatures were warmer than they are now (2012) during the mid-1600s and early 1700s, and that the temperature variations can be linked to variations in solar activity, volcanic forcing (cooling), and natural oceanic-atmospheric oscillations (AMO/PDO).

The authors are intent on pointing out that it is "noteworthy that 20th century warming was not very obvious in our reconstruction."

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

All the smog is blocking the global warming. Obviously.

[Citizen X]

Obviously, they need to restrict their examination to the period since 1970, like all the other consensus-makers do.

[CE]

How soon before the people funding that study can be locked up in jail where they belong?
No one is allowed to doubt the established climate science. Maybe they'll recant.

[Juice]

Tree rings don't measure temperature.

[Suicidy]

So basically everything I've been saying for the last fifteen years.........

[Juvenile Bluster]

Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.

Will the DNC be able to use "Fat Bottomed Girls" for Michelle Obama's speech?

[BigT]

Hillary called dibs.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Fat Cankled Girls; they make my stomach turn upside down.

Get on your hoverround and ride!

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

Robby, don't let everyone here calling you a worthless proggie asshole get you down. I still like you.

[Elspeth Flashman]

I don't.

Note: I only like a half-dozen people in the whole world, subject to change at a whim.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Does your husband know?

[Citizen X]

Shh. He didn't make the list.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I know. I don't want to be the one to tell him.

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

Nobody cares what you think.

[CE]

What does it take to make the short list?

[Crusty Juggler]

I am still honored to be on that list.

[Citizen X]

Crusty, the only list you're on is a shoot-to-kill order if you ever try to go back to the Mall of America.

[Crusty Juggler]

Gosh! I tripped and fell on one of the ferns! It happens.

[SIV]

That's no way to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

[Playa Manhattan.]

"A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech."

No, I was. Prove me wrong.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

How'd the bacon turn out?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Here.

Yes, I had to salt it, but I turned shitty bacon into good bacon. Next, I'm going to try it with Black Forest.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

"Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup?"

If the Americans didn't want to be blown up they shouldn't have been harboring a terrorist. It's their own fault for doing nothing about the terrorist in their country.

[Libertarian]

"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

-- G.W. Bush

[Akira]

"Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."

- Hillary Clinton

[John Titor]

Build the wall or dig the ditch?

Gilmore's shark-infested moat is the only real answer.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Bull Sharks in the Rio Grande?

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

LASER Sharks.

It is a special breed designed to thrive in muddy, shallow water.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Man eating cows and gators!

Trump is really Chairface Chippendale!

[Citizen X]

+1 CHA

[Rufus The Monocled]

+1 Ill-tempered bass.

[geo1113]

Shark with fricken laser beams.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music."

Queen is dead.

[This Machine]

Long live the Queen!

[Jerry on the rocks]

Queen is dead.

Trump was walking on the wild side.

[Fist of Etiquette]

New York University's China campus has more freedom of speech than its American campus...

Rerativery speaking?

[Crusty Juggler]

"Guys, she's nippin."

[Trigger Warning]

Dude.

[Rich]

Reagan also waded into immigration

Hence his ditch idea.

[bassjoe]

"Quit or we'll fire you!" Okay...

[John]

Megyn Kelly was also sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, according to reports. Sources say that Fox News will give Ailes until August 1st to step down willingly.

And she just never mentioned this until Allies was on his way out and there was no danger of being able to back any of her allegations up. Funny that.

[CE]

It's called keeping your job.

[Suicidy]

Apparently, everyone but her is backing Ailes and threatening to walk with him if he is forced out.

[Rich]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

Well, then just wait until he visits New Jersey.

[Playa Manhattan.]

And make it a nuke instead.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

If it's Philadelphia, go ahead and level the whole place to get him. Hell, the police tried to do it themselves once trying to get a guy.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Just stay away from the sports complex in South Philly. And stay away from the National Constitution Center, which is actually a good place.

[Fist of Etiquette]

No deal.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Yeah, you wouldn't want any of those winning sports teams to lose their home...

[DEG]

And the taxpayers won't get a refund.

[John]

If they are big enough and bad enough to enter our airspace and do it, sure.

[Ted S.]

They just need somebody with an umbrella.

[Suicidy]

Can Turkish planes even make it here? Do they even HAVE an air force?

[PBR Streetgang]

And please avoid the suburbs immediately to the west of the City.

[(((Renegade)))]

Drexel Hill is toast.

[DEG]

I think the guy in question is in the Poconos.

[Chip Woodier]

Now, that's a lawless area just asking for a drone strike.

[John]

Ailes's legal team ? which now includes Susan Estrich, former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis

Lawsuits make for strange bedfellows.

[Rich]

Ailes's legal team ? which now includes Susan Estrich, former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis

"Susan Estrich". Doesn't she own a minkey?

[The Fusionist]

That retired cop who shot a guyshot a guy in a movie theater? The next hearing in his trial is early next year. The trial may not happen "until late 2017 or even 2018."

[Juvenile Bluster]

It will be held up as long as it takes until (a) everyone forgets about it and they can quietly drop the charges, or (2) he can get the charges dropped for violation of the right to a speedy trial.

[Crusty Juggler]

'We have had a Muslim president for seven and half years': Actor Antonio Sabato Jr says Obama is 'absolutely' not a Christian after backing Trump on stage at the RNC

'This guy has made it really hard for me to support him. First of all, I don't believe that the guy is a Christian,' Sabato told ABC News in a convention-hall interview.

'I don't believe that he follows the god that I love, the Jesus that I love, I think he has an agenda from the beginning,' Sabato continued.

'We had a Muslim president for 7 ? years ? absolutely,'

When pressed about Obama's trips to church and repeated statements about his own Christian faith, Sabato claimed inaccurately that Obama has never spoken about Jesus.

'No he doesn't. Actually he does not attend church. Actually he's never talked about Jesus Christ once. I have met a lot of Christians. I know Christians. I am one and I don't believe he is.'

Pressed for the foundation of his views, Sabato said, 'It's in my heart ? I just see it for what it is. The Middle East ? he's with the bad guys. He's with them. He's not with us.'

[Juvenile Bluster]

If Scott Baio is a D-list actor, what is Sabato? Q-list? Z-list?

[Crusty Juggler]

He is on the beefcake list.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You're witnessing the foundation for a comeback.

[JaimeRoberto]

He's half right. I don't think Obama is Christian either. Sure, he sat in the pews for a while, but that was only to check the checkbox before running for office. But that hardly makes him unique among politicians, Democrat and Republican.

[Juice]

Yeah, like Trump's a fucking Christian.

[Suicidy]

More than that marxist devil Obama.

[Knarf the Yenrab]

When he attended a Catholic school in Indonesia, he was registered as a Muslim and attended Islamic religious classes rather than Christian. His stepfather was a muslim, and his half-sister has stated that their whole family was muslim. At best, the guy's a secular, fallen muslim who likes to get wasted on martinis (by some reports).

BHO can profess whatever religion he likes, but the idea that he's a son of the heartland and spent his formative years sitting in a pew hearing the "be good, be good, be good" message of Christianity is laughable. To the best of my knowledge, he never spent a single night in the continental US until he matriculated at Occidental.

Guy's been an internationalist goon and media creation from day one. Good riddance.

[Suicidy]

One bonus of a Trump presidency could be the aggressive prosecution of the Obama administration, and the Clintons. Oh, how I would love that.

[josh]

i'm not the only one who thinks he's pointing at his wife's tits, right?

[bassjoe]

Her heart, sicko.

[Rich]

"Make America Stare Again"

[Suicidy]

His wife's tits are awesome. So are Ivanka's.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Megyn Kelly was also sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, according to reports. Sources say that Fox News will give Ailes until August 1st to step down willingly.

Roger Ailes doesn't have to harass anyone to pull some hot 'tang.

[John]

It was unwannted sexual advances. It is Megyn in the 8th grade telling her boyfriend "that nerd talked to me".

[mad.casual]

Yeah, I heard her say that Ailes (and the industry at large) has a policy of making female host/anchors 'spin' as part of the interview process.

Unless 'spin' is a euphemism for taking a naked lap around the pole, I blame Ailes for not mentioning to Kelly that she's done a great job grinding down and covering up the horns but we need to be sure that her tail doesn't show.

[Rich]

WHITE HOUSE PRESS SEC. SAYS OBAMA DIDN'T PLAGIARIZE DEVAL PATRICK IN 2008 INSTEAD HE WAS INSPIRED

Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal

[The Fusionist]

Another genocide? Germany, you scamp, you've got to stop doing that.

[Ted S.]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

Has it actually been proved that he organized/instigated the coup?

[Eternal Blue Sky]

The Afghan government said if the US gave them proof they would hand over Osama.

Instead we just bombed them.

So just by asking that question you've given Turkey a valid casus belli.

[Crusty Juggler]

J.J. Abrams Reveals the 'Star Wars' Anthology Movie He'd Like to See

"I gotta say Kathy Kennedy, who's running it all, she seems to be pushing all the right buttons. There isn't something that I'd love to see?I guess the one thing I would say is there's a Knights of Ren story that I think would be pretty cool to tell."

Nerds, what say you?

[That's A Bingo!]

Unless Lucas did it first, not sure how Abrams would pull it off.

[The Fusionist]

Klingons vs. Ewoks. Make it happen.

[John Titor]

If it's doing something weird and different with the universe, I'm all for it.

Admittedly, I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but my reaction to the new movie was 'Meh. That was fine, but it's basically just a worse retread of the first one, so utterly pointless.'

[John Titor]

Random ideas:

1. Some sort of Star Wars crime thriller about the various gangs trying to gain power under the Empire. If you really want to really half-ass, it have it star a young Han Solo.
2. Something from the average Imperial supporters' perspective, or just make this awesome youtube cartoon a full series.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It's so easy...

The "Tales from...." series.

I don't see what's so hard about that.

[IndyEleven]

For #2 The 'Death Star' book was awesome, with some perspective on living and working inside the first Death Star. Though at this point, any movies with Death Stars probably just serve to mock the whole series.

The Darth Bane trilogy of books was also fantastic.

[mad.casual]

2. Something from the average Imperial supporters' perspective, or just make this awesome youtube cartoon a full series.

From a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away to beyond the future to a universe you've never seen before?

[Suicidy]

I would like to see a film or series starring HK-47. That would make for some truly macabre comedy.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

"Knights of Ren" referring to the group of Kylo's friends that killed all of Luke's students?

So Abrams is complaining about not seeing the story that he skipped over?

[Suicidy]

Kylo was a huge whiner and could barely use a lightsaber.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Erdogan targets more than 50,000 in purge after failed Turkish coup

I recall early reports said there were maybe 3-5K people involved in the actual coup-action itself, 90% of whom were just low-level flunkies doing what they were told.

The idea of this thing as a false-flag setup to destroy opposition isn't even necessary -- because the outcome is turning out to be the same regardless; an escalation of political violence rather than an attempt to nullify it.

[AlexInCT]

whole thing makes you wonder. I mean this smells of the whole Reichstag incident all over to me...

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

The thing that seems the fishiest is that they've flagged no one in the military who were the main ringleaders. They've been super vague about what the scope of the conspiracy was, presumably to grab ANYONE who happens to disagree with Erdogan about something.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

New York University's China campus has more freedom of speech than its American campus, according to a student.

Proof that communism is the superior system.

[B.P.]

"A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech."

When accepting the nomination, I think Trump should just recite Obama's 2008 nomination acceptance speech, word-for-word.

[Rich]

How about if he recited it *backwards*?

[Citizen X]

Pretty sure that would call forth the Old Gods and unmake the Earth.

[The Fusionist]

She's leaving the Republican Party, and will probably take up with the Constitution Party instead.

[Rich]

NO!! Not *Susan Wright*!!

[Citizen X]

Who? Huh?

[The Fusionist]

She's never heard of you either, wise guy.

[Citizen X]

Who hasn't? The fuck are you talking about, Eddie?

[The Fusionist]

It was Doonesbury joke when John Anderson was running for President.

"Anderson - never heard of him."

"He's never heard of you, either."

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

WTF is a 'Doonesbury'? Huh?

[Crusty Juggler]

A cute broad who stabbed her husband 193 times and then buried him in her backyard.

I guess I have competition if and when she gets paroled.

*cracks knuckles and glares at Eddie*

[Playa Manhattan.]

Either that's pregnancy acne, or she eats pepperoni pizza 3 times a day.

[Trump's Penis Logo, Jr.]

I did not leave the party. The party left me.

PLAGIARISM!!

[John]

Kelly has told investigators that Ailes made unwanted sexual advances toward her about ten years ago when she was a young correspondent at Fox.

How did hitting on someone become sexual harassment? If he told her put out of else, that is sexual harassment. Saying that hitting on any woman in the work place is now illegal is to put it mildly insane.

[CE]

Go back and read the law. Things have changed.

[Suicidy]

Yep, anything a bitch doesn't like, even retroactively, is now 'harassment'.

[Drake]

I'm not sure it rises to the level of sexual harassment, but is very bad form for an executive to hit on a junior employee even if there is no threat or reward implied. Violates policy in many companies - maybe Fox. Certainly would be a violation in the military if a General was hitting on a Lieutenant.

[Private Chipperbot]

*but not the President.

[Drake]

If it's a Clinton, no. A Republican, yes.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Using a woman for a cigar humidor is not harassment; it's just being practical!

[Domestic Dissident]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

At least according to the radical Muslim terrorist in a suit who is making himself the dictator for life in Turkey, and.. (does some quick research to find out what the fuck "The Intercept" is), Glenn Greenwald??

Ahhh, that explains it. Greenwald never met a Muslim terrrorist he didn't like.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.

I'll bet Queen doesn't want Paul Detrick to use Freddie Mercury's look.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

h/t Hugh Akston.

[Crusty Juggler]

h/t Hugh Akston.

*blocks Paul*

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You're the last one.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Norks = Get Their Bang On

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Red Letter Media has their review of Ghostbusters, and I like it because it confirms my suspicions. I can now act like I have legit critiques of the movie without ever seeing it.

It is more evidence that Edgar Wright seems to be the only person making live-action comedy films these days. His are the only ones I can think of that use writing, visuals, editing, sound, and music to tell jokes. Instead of pointing the cameras at actors and letting them stop the movie cold to improv for five minutes, with little or no regard to the plot.

[commoditous moves for no man]

New chairs?!

[John Titor]

God, watching an Edgar Wright movie back-to-back with a typical American comedy is such a fantastic contrast. It's just amazing how lazy American comedy directors are when it comes to how they shoot.

Giving Edgar Wright Ghostbusters would have been great. I mean, he made bloody Antman enjoyable.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

He dropped out of (directing) Ant-Man, but it was quite clear that the director was doing his best Edgar Wright imitation.

[Carl #TeamBlue #RedSucks]

I'm hearing an electro voice phenomenon...

[mad.casual]

I can now act like I have legit critiques of the movie without ever seeing it.

I did this without watching Blues Brothers 2000 or The Three Stooges, I'm sure as hell not going to start now.

[Illocust]

That was greatness. Also loved how they slowly got drunk through the entire thing. You could tell the guy on the left was starting to have trouble getting his thoughts together by the end. Plus ending line was perfect.

[Drake]

Erdogan's gone nuts with the purge after his fake coup. 26Former Generals arrested - that makes them what? Pensioners?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36838347

[The Fusionist]

Network TV commenters.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Erdogan's gone nuts

That's not a Sackflashers episode, is it?

/asking for an acquaintance

[Rufus The Monocled]

"Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music."

'You're my best friend' is out of the question!

[Heroic Mulatto]

But what sets it apart from America is the freewheeling classroom discussions and the administration's refusal to protect students from offense, she says:

Professors and students alike debated hot-button topics and openly appreciated the ability to say things that were typically taboo off campus. In fact, in my time there I heard several of NYU Shanghai's Chinese professors praise the university for allowing them to discuss a myriad of controversial subjects in class without fear of retribution.

Yes, I'm sure those hot-button topics included the status of Taiwan and Tibet, China's South China Sea claims, and the latest Bloody Harvest report that detailed systematic on-demand organ harvesting of political and religious dissidents.

but she's stumped by the stunning hands-off approach by administrators to a campus art exhibit

Well, that's what really matters, I guess.

[Rhywun]

^^^THIS^^^

What a stunningly air-headed commentary.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You mean the things that are controversial in American society aren't also controversial in a civilization that had developed independently for almost 5,000 years?

This girl is a regular Zhuge Liang!

[Rhywun]

And the things that aren't controversial in American society can get you memory-holed in China.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It's ok, American Students have no interest in talking about the status of Taiwan and Tibet, China's South China Sea claims, and the latest Bloody Harvest report that detailed systematic on-demand organ harvesting of political and religious dissidents either.

[John Titor]

and the latest Bloody Harvest report that detailed systematic on-demand organ harvesting of political and religious dissidents.

It's fine to talk about it as long as you preface every statement with "Falun Gong is a cult that causes people to set themselves on fire so really they deserve it."

[Carl #TeamBlue #RedSucks]

Don't talk about Water Conservancy buildings shaped like toilets, either:

In February, Chinese officials banned "weird buildings" from being constructed. The decision came after people complained that the People's Daily Headquarters looked like a phallus, and the design for the new Beijing airport looked like a giant vulva.

[Krabappel]

Everyone's an architecture critic.

[John Titor]

And yet that's less tacky than half of these.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Race-Freakouts = How To Ensure Children Can Participate

[commoditous moves for no man]

The people freaking out about race already sound and behave like children, so... what's the problem?

[Rich]

Families that may have once discussed racial disparities in policing with older teens now face questions from preschoolers such as Autumn, who want to know why people are being so mean.

"Well, Autumn, when a daddy police officer and a daddy protester hate each other *very* much ...."

[RBS]

That sounds remarkably similar to how you get another Autumn.

[commoditous moves for no man]

Build the wall or dig the ditch?

Moat America great again.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Why No Police Violence in Cleveland?

Because they're too lame-looking

[That's A Bingo!]

No man in shorts has authority.

[commoditous moves for no man]

What about capris?

[The Fusionist]

What about this fellow?

[That's A Bingo!]

He's wearing a briefs and leg warms. Alpha as fuck.

[Drake]

These guys looked pretty tough.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_LenCZlyz.....imgmax=800

[Tak Kak]

"Megyn Kelly was also sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, according to reports. Sources say that Fox News will give Ailes until August 1st to step down willingly."

I thought a few months ago she said she was sticking around because she liked Ailes and not FN themselves.

[The Fusionist]

I'm curious, can't Trump just get a compulsory license to use Queen's music?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Using their music while they're speaking out against you probably isn't the best optics. So his campaign is probably working on that right now.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Lets Use Rand Paul's Photo on the Plagiarism Story - Because Fuck That Guy

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

At least we know that Rand will live until 2106, and won't look a day over 50.

[The Late P Brooks]

Please- no inflammatory rhetoric

This chain of events has raised fears that the country might be entering period of open warfare in the streets between citizens and the police. Given this combustible backdrop, elected officials, political candidates and protesters have a responsibility to temper their remarks so as not to inflame what is clearly a dangerous situation.

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The Baton Rouge killer, Gavin Long, a former Marine, had claimed allegiance to a "sovereign citizen" group, an antigovernment organization that sees itself as exempt from state and federal authority.

The "sovereign citizen" movement has origins in the violent, racist, anti-tax platform advanced by the infamous Posse Comitatus that promoted conspiracy theories about the government. The posse has since faded, but its successors have flourished, benefiting from virulent antigovernment rhetoric that has been used by the extreme right in the Republican Party for decades.

Those fucking rethuglitards. Always playing to the basest instincts of their insane lowbrow racist antigovernment thug base. They oughtta be ashamed.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

The AP ran this conflation of very-white "Sovereign citizens" and the very-black group the baton-rouge fellow was associated with yesterday.

its si ridiculously desperate to try and tar 'right-wing whities' that they're lumping in kooky black spiritual groups with them as some kind of 6-degrees of Kevin Bacon game.

[The Late P Brooks]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup?

Why the fuck not?

[That's A Bingo!]

Countries can only drone-kill in countries that are less powerful than it. Or: fuck you, that's why.

[This Machine]

An Open Letter to Tiny House Hunters

I find that there exist two overall categories of tiny house hunters.

One group of you is the lone individual. You're maybe young, an artist, with lots of student loan debt, and you tell us all the lie that you're going to buy the tiny home and buy some property with it, except the truth is, your tiny home will forever haunt the yard of one of your siblings because that's where you plant it. Or maybe you're older ? a musician gone to pasture or an aging hipster or a yarn lady ? and you're divorced or your spouse has perished in the usual way and now you just want to pare down your life. I understand that.

Another group of you are the couples.

Oh, the couples.

It's a long fucking rant. But I found it rather funny.

[The Fusionist]

Writing an open letter is the non-drunk equivalent of standing outside their apartment building and yelling insults.

[robc]

It can be done drunk too.

[Playa Manhattan.]

My browser doesn't like the link.

[This Machine]

Let's try it again.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

JUSTICE!!

Founder of NY 'Safari Park' Trampled to Death By Antelope

You can take the 'lope out the veldt, but you can never take the veldt out of the 'lope.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Update on my bacon project:

Incredibly tender, even when crisped. And I used the cheapest store brand I could find. PERFECT for a bacon double cheeseburger, which I'm going to have tonight.

Downside: a lot of salt rendered out with the liquid in the first step. Not salty enough.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Wait, I'm getting an "update" on something I didn't know existed.

[Certified Public Asshat]

How to make bacon more complicated than it needs to be.

[bacon-magic]

Bravo sir. Pay no attention to the haters. Cooking with bacon is part of the culinary arts.

[Playa Manhattan.]

This is truly the magic of bacon.

[Brett L]

Yes. I was quick to criticize last night and then I thought, "that sounds like the perfect bacon for a burger."

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Yokels = Now They're Guilty of Wanting To Stop Occupying Federal Buildings

[Crusty Juggler]

Wow: Crane Collapses on Tappan Zee Bridge, Shutting Down Traffic

A crane collapsed on the Tappan Zee Bridge in the midst of work on the bridge's replacement on Tuesday afternoon, injuring five people and shutting down traffic in both directions, according to New York State and local authorities.

The crane, one of 28 being used in the construction of the $3.9 billion replacement for the aging bridge ? what is being called the largest infrastructure project in the country ? fell around noon on the Rockland County side of the bridge, the authorities said.

[Crusty Juggler]

Since work began on a new Tappan Zee Bridge in 2013, there have been no deaths or serious injuries involving the workers. Mr. Cuomo said the project's track record had been extraordinary for an undertaking of its size.

"Somebody will drop a hammer," he said. "Things happen."

Officials said they had yet to pinpoint the cause of the crane's crash. But they ruled out high winds.

It's a miracle that the boom fell across six lanes of traffic, cars that are doing 60 to 70 miles an hour, and not one car was hit by the boom," Mr. Loughlin said.

The crane's crash raised concerns about the integrity of the Tappan Zee Bridge, which was built to last only 50 years after being constructed cheaply in 1955. Rockland County officials said the crash damaged the bridge, creating a hole in its deck.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Crane accidents are almost always negligence. Operating in high winds included.

[Brett L]

Yes. Although sometimes the negligence happens by civil engineers and superintendents and kills crane operators and riggers.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Right after Melania's speech. Coincidence? I think not!

[Drake]

I wonder how fast they can clear that off. Alternatives to the Tap are not pretty.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I imagine that they're cutting it into pieces right now.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Alternatives to the Tap

Swim? Holland Tunnel? Ferry?

I honestly don't know.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Should have said, "G-dub" as first thought.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yep, it's closest.

By the way, your bridges are fucking expensive.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Do you know what 10 blocks of theoretical-subway costs?

[Playa Manhattan.]

No, but I do wonder how much it costs to employ police officers as toll collectors.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Its a trick question = No one does.

[Playa Manhattan.]

That is.... Amazing.

They built tunnel segments, and then.... nothing.

That's like erecting a skyscraper and not putting in drywall.

[Crusty Juggler]

They mentioned it in the story, but the Bear Mountain and George Washington bridges, or driving down the Taconic.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I drove Taconic for the first time in May. Interesting "parkway".

[Crusty Juggler]

My relatives love that road, but I am not a fan. It is a speeding ticket waiting to happen, plus I always feel like I am going to hit a wall or something. I do drive it when I go North from I-84, but then it is very convenient and opens up a little.

[Playa Manhattan.]

The wall is what really bothered me on the Northbound side. Those lanes are so fucking narrow.

[Crusty Juggler]

I hear ya. There are a few roads leading toward the city that are like that. The road with this view does not lead into the city, but I drove over it this weekend and I was not enjoying it.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Fuck your california scare quotes. What, you want herds of buffalo roaming alongside the roadway?

Beats the Meritt. at least you can go fast.

[Playa Manhattan.]

If there were buffalo, you'd see them in CA. You can see for dozens of miles. Fuck that overgrown forest. It's a serial killer dumping ground.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

It's a serial killer dumping ground.

our killers are way too impulsive and lazy, and the Bronx River is much closer.

also - what, were you not wowed by the creepy sculpture-gardens on the side of the road? So highbrow.

[Ted S.]

You guys apparently aren't talking about the parts of the Taconic (Dutchess and Columbia Counties) that have random little roads crossing them, and the potential for collisions with deer.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Anything beyond Rockland Country is the barbarian-hinterlands to me.

[Dennis, Constitutional Peasant]

Apparently there's a bear mountain bridge.

[Crusty Juggler]

The Bear Mountain Bridge is the one where Samuel Israel (the hedge fund manager) faked his suicide.

On June 9, his sport utility vehicle was found abandoned on the shoulder of the Bear Mountain Bridge on the Hudson River, with the words "suicide is painless" written in the dust on the hood. The words are the title of the theme song from the movie and television show "M*A*S*H."

The car keys and a bottle of pills were still in the vehicle, but authorities quickly concluded he had faked his death.

And then drove to a campground in Mass and hung out for a month.

[DEG]

Damn, and the crane didn't bring the old bridge down.

I look forward to when the Tappan Zee replacement is done.

[The Fusionist]

"Rabbi Haskel Lookstein led a peaceful and rather charmed existence until recently. At the helm of Manhattan's East Side synagogue Kehillat Jeshurun and the Harvard of New York's Jewish day schools???Ramaz???for decades, he has had a long and storied career as a respected and beloved second-generation spiritual leader, presiding over the blossoming of Modern Orthodox Jewish life in Manhattan.

"But at the age of 83, thanks to Donald Trump and the Israeli rabbinate, Lookstein has been on a turbulent roller coaster ride of publicity for the past month. He has been both angrily attacked and loyally defended, buffeted by not one, but two storms in two countries: the anxiety-ridden reaction to Trump among American Jews, and the pitched battle between modern Orthodoxy and the ultra-Orthodox dominated Israeli rabbinate."

[Carl #TeamBlue #RedSucks]

Public Schools? To Kansas Conservatives, They're 'Government Schools'

OH NO

"Some have begun to call public schools 'government schools,' a calculated pejorative scorning both education and anything related to government," he wrote.

That elicited a response from Bob Weeks, the host of "WichitaLiberty.TV," a show about Kansas politics and public affairs.

"It is surprising to me that liberals and progressives object to the term 'government schools,'" he said on the show. "They like government, don't they? These people want more taxation and government spending, don't they? Well, when we think about our public schools, we find they have all the characteristics of government programs."

Don't read the comments. The MR comments on the post that linked to it were a shitfest as well, of course.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

a calculated pejorative scorning both education

Umm... how so?

Yes, yes, fill in the Bastiat quote here.

[Certified Public Asshat]

I will always read the comments:

To those who like the term Government Schools.
Why not call the Supreme Court the Government High Court. How about the Upper chamber instead of the Senate. Or The President's mansion instead of the white house. Or Bebop music instead of Rock and Roll. or Quercus Tree instead of Oak Tree, or cold milk food instead of Ice Cream. Using a novel term to describe things is OK, but don't expect to be understood.

On the other hand, I suppose that you want to get rid of "Government" Schools because you hate government, so this is less about names as it is about your personal lack of respect for the institutions we as a people, in a democracy, have brought about over more than 200 years, for our "Common" good.

Public Schools are usually very local. There is a school board which is elected by the local people and which is usually separate from the local government. Public schools have educated the majority of our fellow citizens. And, If you don't get a good education from your local schools you can get a good education by joining the Army! What do you want? no government will get you Somalia

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

That guy went from getting it to absolute derp.

[0x90]

Replace government with church (and 200 years with 2000) in those last two paragraphs and see how it sounds.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Why not call the Supreme Court the Government High Court. How about the Upper chamber instead of the Senate. Or The President's mansion instead of the white house. Or Bebop music instead of Rock and Roll. or Quercus Tree instead of Oak Tree, or cold milk food instead of Ice Cream. Using a novel term to describe things is OK, but don't expect to be understood.

All of those would be legitimate questions if we had a private alternative to the above. We don't, so when you say the Supreme Court, people usually know what you're talking about. But when talking about schools, we might want to differentiate between the public and private version. Sure, we could say "public schools", but "government' is perfectly legitimate. If you don't have anything to hide...

[geo1113]

Let's see. If one reads The Constitution, Supreme Court and Senate are specifically defined. Could that be the difference!!!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

On the other hand, I suppose that you want to get rid of "Government" Schools because you hate government, so this is less about names as it is about your personal lack of respect for the institutions we as a people, in a democracy, have brought about over more than 200 years, for our "Common" good.

+1 #BlackLivesMatter.

[Agent Cooper]

We are Cold Milk Food and we are here to rock you!

[DEG]

I remember getting strange looks when I called government schools government schools. When those folks asked what I was talking about, I said "Most people call them public schools." "Why don't you call them public schools?" "Because the government owns them and runs them." I got blank looks.

[Carl #TeamBlue #RedSucks]

How could this go wrong?

EU citizens might get a 'right to explanation' about the decisions algorithms make

Algorithms discriminate. It's not their fault, they're strings of math, but people program them. Software used to predict future criminals is biased against blacks. Google Images thinks C.E.O's are men and shows women listings for lower paying jobs. Our generally racist society leads to racist search results even when searching for something simple like "three black teenagers."

In a new paper, sexily titled "EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a 'right to explanation,'" Bryce Goodman of the Oxford Internet Institute and Seth Flaxman at Oxford's Department of Statistics explain how a couple of subsections of the new law, which govern computer programs making decisions on their own, could create this new right.

These sections of the GDPR do a couple of things: they ban decisions "based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces an adverse legal effect concerning the data subject or significantly affects him or her." In other words, algorithms and other programs aren't allowed to make negative decisions about people on their own.

[Carl #TeamBlue #RedSucks]

Don't worry, though -- they'll still be clubbing successful foreign tech companies with vindictive antitrust suits.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

they'll still be clubbing successful foreign tech companies with vindictive antitrust suits.

I don't like to entertain hypotheticals.

[AlmightyJB]

We'll see what Skynet has to say about that.

[The Late P Brooks]

"Some have begun to call public schools 'government schools,' a calculated pejorative scorning both education and anything related to government," he wrote.

Yup. I hates me sum edjikashun.

[OldMexican sine qua non]

Megyn Kelly was also sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, according to reports.

The advances could not have been successful, judging by her meteoric rise inside the news corporation. Am I being too cynical?

A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech.

When you have too much time on your hands, parsing the words of speeches given by boring people probably beats doing the NYT crossword puzzle.

Build the wall or dig the ditch?

Why not call it "The Moat"?

New York University's China campus has more freedom of speech than its American campus, according to a student.

"We give to the needy", the school says.

Queen doesn't want Donald Trump to use the band's music.

They don't want Donald to use "Fat Bottomed Girls"???

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania.

That's a 'complication'?

[bacon-magic]

A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech.

I give zero fucks about a stupid speech. This is the worst "most newsworthy" takeaway from the R convention? Get a life you hacks. Go out there and find a real story.

[Agammamon]

Would Turkey be justified in drone-killing the leader of the Turkish coup? Complication: he lives in Pennsylvania

I don't see what the complication is. Existing precedent is pretty clear - if you've been declared a terrorist by the head of an existing state then you may be killed by that state anywhere in the world. Even without the permission or knowledge of the state that you are hiding in.

Sauce for the goose and all that.

[DEG]

Rules are for little people.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

There might just be an unwritten requirement to be the 'right' state in that scenario.

[Knarf the Yenrab]

A laid-off television journalist was the first person to figure out that Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech.

We first caught on when Trump's foreign, melanin-deficient whore was caught on camera saying "thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!"

[(((Renegade)))]

Looking at the photo, I was reminded that someone (SugarFree?) was asking earlier about the flammability of silicone. Our SDSs show a flammability rating of 1, which means, "Maybe if you try really really hard you can get a puff of smoke out of it if you hit it with a flame thrower." The confounder is residual cyclics like D5 (dimethecone).

She will not need flame retardant brassieres.

[The Fusionist]

You said "brassiere." You said "retardant."

[(((Renegade)))]

Some years ago, I was having dinner with a couple friends of mine in Lyon. The wife was a delightfully ditzy North Carolina girl who was trying to learn some French and had just discovered the wonders of the classic cheese course. I couldn't resist, and told her about a wonderful cheese made near Orange called "San Bustier." So when the waiter came back to the table, she said, "Je voudrais manger San Bustier." The waiter, Yahweh bless him, immediately bowed and replied, "Si vous voulez, Madame."

[Sevo]

O-care keeps the cost of medical insurance down!

"Covered California rates to jump average of 13 percent in 2017"
[...]
"After two years of moderate rate increases, Californians who get their coverage through the state health insurance marketplace will see their 2017 premiums increase by an an average of 13.2 percent."
Pay-walled, but I'm sure it'll be available

Translation: We kept the lid on long enough that we don't think it can be repealed and lose our jobs!

[Sevo]

Here ya go:
http://www.ocregister.com/arti.....vered.html

[Knarf the Yenrab]

"Covered California rates to jump average of 13 percent in 2017"

Linky

This is why poor Californians needed a minimum-wage increase.

[R C Dean]

If I was Gulen, I'd be headed for the border and shopping for sanctuary, because no way on earth would I trust the administration not to hand me over to Erdogan.

[The Fusionist]

Is Gulen actually guilty, do you think?

[The Fusionist]

(I'm asking because I don't know)

[ant1sthenes]

Doubt it. That coup looked fake as shit to me.

[ant1sthenes]

Who, Snowball?

[Knarf the Yenrab]

Yes, Paul Ryan has always been at the front of the parade. Why do you ask?

[lukashik]

We can even create playlists of them so it will be very easy to find our videos which we like. We can also download those videos and can watch them offline. Showbox for pc

[Free Market Socialist $park?]

You just say you do in hopes of getting laid. We all know it.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

The power of MUSTACHE completely negates the shorts effect.