Jill Stein CNN Town Hall, Turkey Frees Prisoners to Make Room for Alleged Coup Plotters, UFO Crosses Moon: P.M. Links

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  New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) said "yes," she believed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was trustworthy, a day after refusing to answer the question multiple times in a CNN interview. Mikhail Baryshnikov says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reminds him of the Soviet Union. Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson points out most Americans support legalizing marijuana. CNN will hold a town hall with Green party presidential nominee Jill Stein tonight.

• Officials in California ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as a wildfire spreads in San Bernardino County, but less than 5,000 residents have left the area.
• A judge in Brazil ordered two U.S. swimmers who competed in the Olympics to remain there as authorities accuse them of filing a false police report over a late-night robbery.
• Turkey plans to release nearly 40,000 prisoners to make room for alleged coup plotters.
• North Korea's deputy ambassador in the United Kingdom has defected to South Korea.
• A black speck crossing the Moon during a livestream is taken for a UFO.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

A black speck crossing the Moon during a livestream is taken for a UFO.

Nuke it.

[Crusty Juggler]

Why it gotta be a black speck? Huh?

[Doctor Whom]

That's what the Amazon women are wearing this season.

[Brett L]

AIN'T NO FUCKING THELMA HERE!

[SusanM]

#blackspecksmatter

[Slammer]

The moon has horrible acne

[Jerry on the rocks]

Damn those illegal UFOs crossing into the Moon. Let's build a wall and have Mars pay for it.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[R C Dean]

is taken for a UFO

Is it an object? Yes.

Is it flying? Yes.

Is it unidentified? Yes.

Sounds like a UFO to me.

[Mickey Rat]

Are you trying to say that denotation is more important than connotation, RC?

[R C Dean]

I am a firm believer that detonation is more important, yes.

[Zeb]

I don't know. How do you define "flying"? Is an object in freefall (as it would be if orbiting the Earth or Moon) flying? Is a floating balloon flying?

Could also be some kind of mite or something on the lens.

[R C Dean]

How do you define "flying"?

Not on the ground?

Could also be some kind of mite or something on the lens.

Oh, stop it with your facts and your Occam's Razor, already.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Moves like a bug crawling on the lens.

[But Enough About Me]

Moves like a bug crawling on the lens.

If it was actually on the lens, you wouldn't see it (too close to resolve).

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yes, I realize that. That's why I said moves "like".

It moves side to side and not in a straight line, which means it's not flying in space.

[mad.casual]

It's a tea kettle until proven otherwise. And I'm gonna say it's a black tea kettle because I can.

[IndyEleven]

It's the same old speck as yesterday.

[Fist of Etiquette]

North Korea's deputy ambassador in the United Kingdom has defected to South Korea.

His family must be so proud.

[Citizen X]

Proud, and dead. Mostly dead.

[Ted S.]

They're all dead now.

[Injun, as in from India]

And The Nation will blame the US for that. We were not nice enough to Dear Leader Kim Jong-Un.

[Tommy_Grand]

fault = trump

[Crusty Juggler]

At this point the family is dead.

[R C Dean]

But how? Mortar fire? Anti-aircraft guns?

[Brett L]

They get to go to the park and eat grass and bugs last.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Shame suicide, of course.

[Krabappel]

Two shotgun blasts to the back of the head suicide?

[Zeb]

Accidentally cut his head off while shaving.

[robc]

The article says his family is with him. Although generally one member must be left at home and that is unknown.

[But Enough About Me]

The mother-in-law he always secretly hated? Yeah, that's gonna suck for her.

[Fist of Etiquette]

They're probably all dead, dummy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Turkey plans to release nearly 40,000 prisoners to make room for alleged coup plotters.

That's why the coup failed. Too many cooks.

[Injun, as in from India]

Every Thanksgiving, I hear of a turkey getting pardoned.

But in this case, Turkey is pardoning people.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Get off the stage.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

"I've heard of people pardoning a turkey, but Turkey pardoning people?? What's going on?"

That better?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

[Jerry Seinfeld voice]

Whoo are theeeeeese people?

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

I got an idea: knock it off!

[flye]

Yusuf Smirnoff everyone, give him a hand.

[ant1sthenes]

So that's why the Democrats are pushing for criminal justice reform so hard.

[OneOut]

40,000 co conspirators remained silent ?

I think not.

The Purge is on as we all here know.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A judge in Brazil ordered two U.S. swimmers who competed in the Olympics to remain there as authorities accuse them of filing a false police report over a late-night robbery.

Your country is now known as crime-ridden, Brazil. Make peace with it.

[Ted S.]

It wasn't know for that before?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Christ the Redeemer and quality porn. That's what it was known for before.

[Florida Hipster]

Christ the redeemer shouldn't be one of the seven wonders. There, I said it.

[John Titor]

And butts, don't forget the butts.

[jesse.in.mb]

quality porn

Umm, no.

[Ted S.]

Apparently not your kind of porn.

[jesse.in.mb]

No, their production values tend to be garbage. Brazilian porn squanders excellent talent on weakly executed POV nonsense, and they also produce the most insufferable camwhores on earth.

Put some effort into your craft, Brazil.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Jesse wants to replace Christ the Redeemer with a statue of Warty. With three extended appendages.

[jesse.in.mb]

Only three? Are the other six writhing downward?

I'm picturing this, but muscled, hairier and with at least 27% cephalopod DNA.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Christ The Rod Reamer is my favorite Brazilian porn title.

[Injun, as in from India]

I read that article and I'm not convinced that the swimmers filed a false report. Human memory is unreliable.

My friends and I once had a knife pointed at us. It was a harrowing experience. If we had filed a report, we would have contradicted one another with details about the knife, the perp, the time, etc.

[R C Dean]

Why would they file a false report?

And what happens if they just leave anyway?

[tarran]

It's Brazil.

When an american air-crew picking up an Embraer jet to deliver it to a customer was routed by Brazilian ATC on a colission course with a Brazilian passenger jet, a huge faction of the Brazilian government wanted to blame the Americans and jail them for murder.

Over the vociferous objections of the Brazilian investigator who cleared them from fault, a warrant was put out for their arrest, and they ended up having a very tough time leaving the country.

[Stormy Dragon]

According to the article, one of them already did.

[jesse.in.mb]

Isn't one of the swimmers Ryan Lochte? I'd be impressed if he *didn't* get confused by the details.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

My friends and I once had a knife pointed at us.

Was it loaded?

[But Enough About Me]

Was it loaded?

Aren't they all? D00d, it's like you don't even Journolist...

[Slammer]

We messed up

Yesterday we published a review of Seth Rogen's new animated film, Sausage Party. After we received feedback about it from our Trans Editor Mey Rude, the members of the QTPOC Speakeasy and Facebook commenters, we decided to un-publish the piece.

None of the senior editors saw the film or wanted to.

After we published the review, we heard from Latinx readers who believe the portrayal of Salma Hayek's taco was racist and that it reinforced harmful stereotypes. We heard from readers who were upset that we labeled the taco a lesbian when it seems more likely that she was bisexual. We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun. We heard from readers who found the taco to be a damaging portrayal of a predatory queer woman.

we allowed a non-Latina writer to cover a story about a caricature of a Latina, and while the review didn't specifically mention the film's stereotyping, by praising the film as a positive portrayal of a queer Latina, we allowed a white writer to, in effect, condone that stereotyping

These people are discussing cartoons.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Dammit!

[Ted S.]

So we should deny the existence of predatory queer women?

[The Fusionist]

No, silly, have a lesbian write about it, straight writers should shut up.

[The Fusionist]

Also, the lesbian writer should be sure to blame straight white men, or else she'll be branded as some kind of Republican.

[Slammer]

I can't make heads or tails of any of it

[The Fusionist]

"We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun."

I was going to comment, but I realized I can't really improve on the quote itself.

[flye]

What is the age of consent for a taco? Asking for a friend.

[TheZeitgeist]

Does it take Sonia Sotomayor a leso-rican to realize phrase "talking taco in Seth Rogen movie" is kind of a p.c. red flag, especially if one chooses not to watch said portrayal?

[John Titor]

The author and editor pictured here.

[Slammer]

Perfect. We ain't that far away from the actual practice.

[Carl on a cob]

by praising the film as a positive portrayal of a queer Latina, we allowed a white writer to, in effect, condone that stereotyping

I know that, Fagell! I know that!

[GILMORE?]

This isn't..... a .... .parody?...... O.........M........Geeeeeeeeeeee

[Pan Zagloba]

We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun.

This has to be sarcasm. Savage, pained satire embedded in the ritual self-criticism for badthink. Whoever wrote this is screaming for sanity on the inside. So it's both a heartfelt apology and a parody at the same time.

[GILMORE?]

If that's so, then the effusive praise from the comment-section is a sign of a cult clamoring for more Kool-Aid.

[ant1sthenes]

If they were getting the Koolaid, we wouldn't have this problem.

[Red Rocks Okey-Dokein]

This would be hilarious if these broken-ass people weren't rapidly asserting themselves our nation's educational and social institutions.

[R C Dean]

Trans Editor Mey Rude

Oh, fer fucks' sake.

We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun.

I just can't even.

We heard from readers who found the taco to be a damaging portrayal of a predatory queer woman.

Is there such a thing as a non-damaging portrayal of a predatory anyone?

[mad.casual]

Trans Editor Mey Rude

Oh, fer fucks' sake.

At first, I thought it might be someone who's in the process of becoming an editor. Then, given the context, I assumed the correct answer is probably an alien robot from another planet that can disguise itself as an editor.

[Enough About Palin]

These people are discussing cartoons.

[But Enough About Me]

These people are discussing cartoons.

These people are cartoons.

FTFY.

[But Enough About Me]

**SIGH**

Read the whole thread before replying, BEAM...

[Suthenboy]

Well, they are cartoons themselves.

[Homple]

These people are discussing cartoons.

[Juvenile Bluster]

So, can we talk about Autostraddle's apology for a positive review of the movie "Sausage Party"? I mean, a parody couldn't be written any better than this. Just look at this masterpiece of a paragraph:

After we published the review, we heard from Latinx readers who believe the portrayal of Salma Hayek's taco was racist and that it reinforced harmful stereotypes. We heard from readers who were upset that we labeled the taco a lesbian when it seems more likely that she was bisexual. We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun. We heard from readers who found the taco to be a damaging portrayal of a predatory queer woman.

[Ted S.]

Isn't Autostraddle part of Gawker?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Don't think so.

[jesse.in.mb]

Nah, it's independent. Maybe Univision will pick it up too though, who knows.

[Lee Genes]

How are you commenting?

Do you get free WiFi in Canadian jail now?

[Slammer]

LOL

[jesse.in.mb]

Wait, what?

[Slammer]

I posted a story in the AM links about an Amercian guy who may be in legal trouble in Canada for spearing a bear.

[jesse.in.mb]

ooh fantastic call back then.

[The Fusionist]

The hot dog bun consented, in fact it relished the encounter.

[The Fusionist]

It's time we mustard up the courage to reject these false accusations.

[PapayaSF]

I can't catsup with what humor is allowed any more.

[Anomalous]

That's got us all in a pickle.

[Rasilio]

So the movie is getting a chilli reception among the PC crowd for it's Cheesy jokes?

[Trigger Hippie]

You're the wurst.

[PBR Streetgang]

I can't decide which pun here is the wurst.

[Slammer]

To be frank, all of them.

[Trigger Hippie]

Goddamn it! A guy forgets to refresh just one time....

[bacon-magic]

Does the wiener know about this encounter?

[OneOut]

Is the Taco gonna face charges ?

Does the Hot Dog Bun have to press charges in a case like this or is it just automatic ?

[Free Society]

OT: I was perusing my county's welfare department website today. Downloaded the pdf forms that welfaristas fill out. All of the forms for the various handouts come with a couple pages at the end meant for registering welfare recipients to vote. This is almost as enraging as the local welfare office advertising it's programs at the local liquor store checkout. Fuck democracy.

[Injun, as in from India]

It's all by plan.

You know who should be registering voters?

Gun stores.

And the f***ing IRS should include a voter registration form somewhere when you download the 1040 PDF. Tax payers can't get outvoted by welfare recipients.

[Free Society]

Tax payers can't get outvoted by welfare recipients.

LOL (sorry I couldn't make the font any bigger so I had to go with bold)

[TheZeitgeist]

And the f***ing IRS should include a voter registration form somewhere when you download the 1040 PDF. Tax payers can't get outvoted by welfare recipients.

Note tax day is about far away on the calendar from election day as possible.

[Injun, as in from India]

Maybe the tax year should not be the calendar year, but should be July 1 through June 30 instead.

So April 15 will move nicely to October 15, just weeks before the election.

[Doctor Whom]

I've long thought that withholding should be abolished and that taxes should be payable in a lump sum due shortly before the election.

[Injun, as in from India]

^THIS.

And have the governments send a billing statement listing what the tax dollars went to.

[R C Dean]

I've always thought the best thing you could do to change hte political culture in the country would be this:

(1) Do away with all withholding taxes. All of them. Everybody has to write a single check for all their federal taxes (income, SocSec, Medicare, you name it).

(2) Checks are due on October 31.

I guarantee you that, if everyone saw and felt the amount of federal taxes they actually pay, right before election day, this would be a different country.

[perlchpr]

Which is why it'll never happen. The people who would have to do it are the people who would be most harmed by it.

[Pan Zagloba]

"I want to register to vote at the above address" is actually a checkbox on page 1 of the Canadian income tax form, oddly enough.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

They have it exactly backwards.

Voting should be advertised at the local liquor store. Welfare should be advertised at the polling place.

[The Fusionist]

"Obviously, sobriety isn't working."

[Tonio]

That just can't be true; why, I am regularly informed by progs that no poor person is able to register to vote because they don't have ID, and can't get to the registrar's office. FS, do you know if they have to show (government) ID to the welfare office before they get benefits?

[Free Society]

It's the worst thing since Jim Crowe perpetrated the Kristallnacht.

[Brett L]

But you have to have a state issued ID to pick up your Welfare card.

[Doctor Whom]

I just checked the requirements in DC. Just to apply, you have to bring documentary evidence of up to ten things about you and your family.

[Tonio]

Is that in addition to, or in lieu of, government-issued ID? Linky?

I've seen situations where if you don't have an ID you have to produce documents such as utility bills for your name and address.

[Injun, as in from India]

Which state do you live in, if you don't mind sharing?

[Free Society]

Ohio.

[Injun, as in from India]

Wow. Based on what you said, I thought you lived in an irredeemable deep-blue state.

[Free Society]

We're marching that direction. It's not even the state's doing I imagine, not to say that they don't do the same thing necessarily. This is a local county welfare agency. When our local government isn't building low income housing to attract deadbeats from nearby shitholes into our nice wealthy town to solve a non-existent housing shortage, they're advertising to deadbeats on how they can get a piece of my stolen wealth at the liquor store and getting them registered to vote so our county will go from red to blue. It's all so very loathsome.

[Krabappel]

But don't be confused, Ohio is irredeemable.

[Free Society]

At least it's not New York, California, Illinoise, Missouri, New Jersey or Washington DC. So there's that.

[Krabappel]

Ohio, it's better than cancer!

[Glide]

? It could be worse though, at least we're not Detroit! ?

CLEVELAND: We're not Detroit!

[Brett L]

Eh. They ask you when you go for a DL or a state ID. I think the every state office should have to ask you..

Side note: I blew a liberal friend's mind when she said, "why don't they automatically restore voting rights to felons who have served their sentence?"
Me: "Why don't we just limit felonies to crimes that are so heinous that caging a person for years and denying them the franchise doesn't seem insane?"

[Free Society]

Threading error? You're responding to a post about voter registration cards coming with welfare forms. But that aside, much agreement here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Officials in California ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people as a wildfire spreads in San Bernardino County, but less than 5,000 residents have left the area.

The other 75,000 had already moved to Texas.

[flye]

A not insignificant portion of those people still have a cook going and can't afford to stop now.

[Juvenile Bluster]

The Nation: Okay, maybe Venezuela *is* in crisis. But it's totally the fault of the US and the opposition to Maduro.

[Injun, as in from India]

I'm an immigrant and I love America more than the commie f***s at The Nation ever will.

[The Fusionist]

Dinesh?

[Rufus The Monocled]

You tell 'em Pinto.

/wink.

[bacon-magic]

Thanks for migrating. Patriots are welcome.

[bacon-magic]

Thanks again for this.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Didn't you mean to thank him for this?

http://bit.ly/2bjt93x

[bacon-magic]

Oh my.

[But Enough About Me]

Ohhhh, God, yesssssssssss...

[OneOut]

Which one ? Can you be more specific ?

Don't they have several hundred ?

[TheZeitgeist]

Makes one wonder why Trade Federation maintains the embargo. So lame.

[perlchpr]

God this article is fucking retarded.

"The Venezuelan government has repeatedly gang-fucked the economy, but it's not really their fault!"

[Fist of Etiquette]

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) said "yes," she believed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was trustworthy, a day after refusing to answer the question multiple times in a CNN interview.

Someone got a phone call.

[Injun, as in from India]

From who would be the question to ask?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Barack "Undeserved Nobel Peace Prize" Obama?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh, I'm quite sure from several parties.

[flye]

"Maggie, you can *trust* that we will bury you up to the neck in an ant hill if you don't go out and call Hillary trustworthy, pronto."

[TheZeitgeist]

Viagra Willy sucks so many ways Maggie.

[Drake]

The ghost of Seth Rich.

[The Last American Hero]

She'll be fine as long as she doesn't go jogging in DC.

[Citizen X]

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) said "yes," she believed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was trustworthy, a day after refusing to answer the question multiple times in a CNN interview.

Someone should check and make sure none of her kids got kidnapped in the interim, and that she doesn't have any recently-amputated fingers or toes.

[ATXChappy]

I'd check her bank account. Positive reinforcement works a lot faster than negative reinforcement does.

[Trigger Hippie]

She suddenly developed the fear she might kill herself.

[Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)]

The wheelchair kid is particularly at risk. He loves to do his civic duty and vote!

[grrizzly]

Mikhail Baryshnikov, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Sad!

[Crusty Juggler]

She is probably the only fan of his movie White Nights.

[Citizen X]

I have, somehow, accidentally, seen that movie like 3 times. My thoughts and prayers are with me.

[R C Dean]

My thoughts and prayers are with me.

I will find an opportunity to use that at this afternoon's Finance Committee meeting.

[Ted S.]

I think this guy liked it too.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Because she'll take on Vladimir Putin and lick him good!

[Ted S.]

Eeeeeww, that's creepily kinky.

[The Fusionist]

He liked the talent Hillary showed as she danced away from questions about her misconduct.

[TheZeitgeist]

Being old KGB man Vlad also appreciates an easy score, from IT security and blackmail perspectives, for the foreseeable future being installed as potentate of his primary antagonist.

[Crusty Juggler]

Greek Villagers Rescued Migrants. Now They Are the Ones Suffering.

he and other fishermen in the tiny village, Skala Sikaminias, were making a more unusual catch: thousands of sea-drenched asylum seekers who streamed across the Aegean to escape conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. As one of the landfalls in Greece that is closest to Turkey, Skala Sikaminias, with its 100 residents, fast became ground zero for the crisis, the first stop in Europe for people trying to reach Germany in a desperate bid to start a new life.

"I'd be in the middle of the sea and I would see 50 boats zigzagging toward me," Mr. Valamios said, gazing across the narrow channel. "I would speed toward them, and they would throw their children into my boat to be saved."

The village is nearly empty of tourists this year as Germans, Swedes and other visitors who had long flocked to the crystalline waters of Lesbos choose to vacation elsewhere, wary of spending their holidays in a place now associated with human desperation. Business at the island's hotels and tavernas has slumped around 80 percent, especially along the 7.5-mile stretch between Skala Sikaminias and the vacation town of Molyvos, where many of the more than 800,000 refugees who survived the crossing last year washed ashore

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

There's a riddle in here about what really happens when Greece Business slumps by 80%.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

"I would speed toward them, and they would throw their children into my boat to be saved."

He means 20 year old men, right?

[Tonio]

So the muslims drove the lesbos tourists away?

[Free Society]

wary of spending their holidays in a place now associated with human desperation. violent gang rapey welfare migrants with an average IQ well below 85.

[Rhywun]

the first stop in Europe for people trying to reach Germany in a desperate bid to start a new life

And crossing a dozen other perfectly good countries where they could just as well "start a new life" if by "start a new life" they meanr something other than "take advantage of the generosity of a people cajoled into giving away the bank for historical reasons".

[The Last American Hero]

Did Maggie come out on video and say it? Because what happened yesterday is she ducked and dodged on CNN and then had her campaign release a statement later in the day that nobody read that said yes HRC is honest. Maggie did NOT want to be caught on video saying HRC was honest as that would be a ready-made attack ad for her opponent.

[Red Rocks Okey-Dokein]

Given Trump's displayed skills at making even marginally effective attack ads thus far, Hillary could come right out and say "I paid off Comey to not press charges" and Trump still wouldn't know what to do with it.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

A black speck crossing the Moon during a livestream is taken for a UFO.

Until it's identified, it IS a UFO.

[TheZeitgeist]

Yeah, but 'UFO' is a connotation for so much more beyond the literal, and a litmus test affirmation between Believers and Deniers.

Kind of like the term 'climate change.'

[Tonio]

The problem is that the UFO people have coopted the term to the degree that I can write "UFO people" and you know exactly who I mean and that they share a core belief that the US government has and is suppressing evidence of visits to Earth by extraterrestrials. Bitches stole a neutral, technical term. WTF we supposed to replace that with and how long would it take the media and the LGM (Little Green Men) fetishists to co-opt that term, claim that the terminology change was evidence of ongoing conspiracy, etc?

[stomps on collection of tinfoil creations in a fit of pique]

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mikhail Baryshnikov says Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reminds him of the Soviet Union.

I would have thought more the current oligarchy.

[Careless]

I'm confused by the comparison to an entire empire. Is he saying Trump is huge?

[Careless]

and mostly barren on top

[Trigger Hippie]

Well he has conquered a few eastern Europeans in his time...

[John Titor]

Anyone else notice that UFO photos seemed to become less common and more obscure with the advent of the cellphone camera?

[Citizen X]

Yep. Ditto all sorts of cryptozoological phenomena.

STEVE SMITH LUCKY HE ALREADY HAVE ALOPECIA, EASY TO BLEND IN WITH HIKERS UNTIL IT TOO LATE.

[jesse.in.mb]

XKCD did.

[John Titor]

There's still yearly lake monster sightings at one of the places I got camping every year. We're pretty sure it's a giant sturgeon though.

[jesse.in.mb]

This happened nearby last year, so I'm totally comfortable believing in sea monsters.

[PapayaSF]

+1

[Fist of Etiquette]

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson points out most Americans support legalizing marijuana.

CNN would like America to answer to this grieving heroin mother.

[Ted S.]

I'm sorry for your loss, Fist.

[Crusty Juggler]

This place needs a little more class and a little more culture: David's Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World's Most Perfect Statue My obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo's masterpiece.

NSFW: statue nudity

[Fist of Etiquette]

Thick ankles hasn't helped Hillary stay rock steady.

[Free Society]

She has rock solid cankles actually, with enough tensile durability and structural integrity to carry ten times her own weight in bullshit.

[Rhywun]

The Clinton Foundation has allowed her to take advantage of the latest advancements in robotics.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Imagine if David had cankles!

[Crusty Juggler]

What's cooking good looking? Giada De Laurentiis turns up the heat in a low-cut orange dress for NYC lunch

I'd nosh her sweet Italian muffin.

[Slammer]

My god you're a hateful disgusting sexist pig.

Thanks!

[Florida Hipster]

I hear she doesn't eat any of the food she cooks... or any food at all.

[Brett L]

"What are we having for lunch?"
"Cotton balls and pretend food"

[Citizen X]

You like 'em with far too many teeth, huh?

[Brett L]

30 is enough for me

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Thanks for the T&T.

[Crusty Juggler]

I won't stand for celebrity chef shaming!

[Rasilio]

First, why would you be turned on by an anorexic bobble head?

Second, what the hell is wrong with those pictures, they are quite obviously and badly photoshopped to hell as the lighting is all wrong based on the scene in the background, the edges to sharp, and there is something screwy with the focus. I'm pretty sure those pictures of Giada were not actually taken outside on that street but rather they were photoshopped into the existing photos with the other woman in the background.

[OneOut]

Who cares ?

She is a hot woman and for 45 she is double hot even if photo shopped.

I watched her show when she first got on tv and I know I would eat her food, were I not happily married to half my age Mrs. OneOut.

[But Enough About Me]

Food Network's best biscuit.

[Rhywun]

Sorry, too distracted by the link to Bieber's disgusting tatts and underwear hanging out.

[Pompey (91% LOLLOLZ)]

I like the Jonah Hill in drag walking in the background

[Carl on a cob]

Trigger warning: stale derp

"Comment is Free" hits it out of the park again: BoJack Horseman: to avoid another show about a white dude, make him a horse

By making BoJack white in every respect apart from the visual one (he's a horse), the show is able to take all the shortcuts that come with not having to consider race a factor in his life. It also functions as a shallow elision of race to BoJack's keenest audience: young and educated pop culture consumers, the very people who are most likely to analyse the show in identity-political terms.

If he were actually a white guy, rather than a horse, I suspect many more elements of the show would be regarded as problematic.

Take this scene, in which Bojack rants at a group of young, attractive women for, among other things, being young and attractive. Modern pop culture criticism doesn't usually look too kindly on this sort of aggression from white male characters.

But remember, he's a horse. If he weren't, we would likely notice that BoJack is actually a very well fleshed-out Troubled White Man archetype whose destructive behaviour we're primed to excuse because the show does such a good job of portraying him as a complex individual.

Also, I have one ep left of season 3. DAE remember when BoJack Horseman was funny?

[Carl on a cob]

Also, the author clearly doesn't understand the scene she's criticizing.

[John Titor]

I wouldn't expect her to, it's all about her projecting her views onto the subject material rather than trying to properly analyze it.

The only thing I got out of Season 3 is the realization that I don't really like Bojack. The entire series can be summed up as 'I want to be happy but I'm unwilling to try to change or better myself in anyway, I should just be allowed to be as big a scumbag fuckup as I want to be but happy at the same time." By the end of the season I'm just thinking "Jesus Christ, yes, kill yourself already, you're broken because you refuse to change."

[Ted S.]

The whole problem is that these people analyze *everything* in identity-political terms.

[jesse.in.mb]

That's super white of you, Ted. If you just checked your white privilege by seeing everything through the lens of race you'd no longer not see everything through the lens of race.

QED: Ted is racist

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Writing QED is racist. FACT!

[grrizzly]

BoJack seems like a brown horse to me.

[Tonio]

The show is highly allegorical, and reminds me of the old bestiaries where various species were held to exemplify human traits - lions/bravery, etc. Also, it's funny and absurd. But we can't have that.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Or, y'know, the idea of a horseman came first and he built the character from it. And as he cast consummate white man Will Arnett to play him, we're probably to assume that his real world analog is white.

Is there at least any whinging about a white woman playing a Vietnamese character?

[GILMORE?]

Was there a memo released to the SJW community that its "Cartoon Week"?

[Carl on a cob]

It's from a year ago, actually (that was what my trigger warning referred to).

[Free Society]

But remember, he's a horse. If he weren't, we would likely notice that BoJack is actually a very well fleshed-out Troubled White Man archetype whose destructive behaviour we're primed to excuse because the show does such a good job of portraying him as a complex individual.

Because as we know, all white men are dull minded simpletons, who only take breaks from farting and raping long enough to oppress hapless minorities.

[The Fusionist]

Jack Daniels distances itself from the Confederacy

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I believe the boutique Whisky Brand, Rebel Yell (after which Bill Idol's song was named) also has distanced itself from its States Rights roots.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

*whiskey*

[Crusty Juggler]

Over-the-top self-promoter is seeking attention? No way.

Crazy that the Jack Daniels folk would not want to get in the middle of a political issue.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You just came here for the Jill Stein.

[Crusty Juggler]

Jill Stein is a foxy lady, not that I support her somewhat questionable politics.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Slavery too, was pretty bad.

[Slammer]

the first amendment only applies to government regulation of speech and there's nothing unconstitutional about what Jack Daniels is doing here, In fact, they're perfectly within their rights to decide that they don't want to associate their brand with Outkick. But is there any doubt that if I'd Tweeted support for Vandy's decision to erase history that Jack Daniels would have had zero issue with my Tweets? Of course not. So Jack Daniels doesn't have a problem with my having an opinion on a controversial public issue, they have a problem with my having an opinion on a controversial public issue that is different than theirs.

[The Fusionist]

I think I just found out why they're backing away from the Confederacy

"The slave who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey: Bourbon giant finally acknowledges the truth after 150 years

"Story went that Jack Daniels recipe was created by white moonshine distiller named Dan Call who passed it down to Jack Daniel

"Now the brand have revealed it was in fact one of Call's slaves Nearis Green who taught the young Daniel how to distill

"'Uncle Nearest is the best whiskey maker that I know of,' Call had said

"Brand is celebrating its controversial heritage on its 150th anniversary

"Green's influence has been known to local historians for decades but was only recently acknowledged by the whisky makers"

[The Fusionist]

Jewett Williams Update

[Slammer]

That would make a good movie 😉

[The Fusionist]

Ha ha, yes, it would.

[SusanM]

Was this covered?

http://www.philly.com/philly/n.....esign.html

HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, who was convicted Monday of perjury and other crimes, will resign Wednesday, her once-promising career in state politics felled by a fixation on seeking revenge against enemies that led her to break the law.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It was sure covered everywhere else.

[SusanM]

Just checking. Having trouble getting online regularly. I've missed some of the news stories of the decade so I shouldn't be surprised I missed this too.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I've missed some of the news stories of the decade

Hint: Venezuela burning isn't one of those stories.

[SusanM]

The obvious is never news.

[Tonio]

It was indeed, Susan. Now the question is what will her sentence be? How will the appeal turn out? Will she lose her law license. But the resignation and conviction are good news on their own.

[SusanM]

Best guess: She gets the book thrown at her and then gets pardoned by Hillary in February.

[AlmightyJB]

Kane 2024?

[Careless]

Heard a radio ad for Jimmy Johns today that was making light of spousal abuse and domestic violence (one spouse forced the other to live outside in a dog house and struck them with a lamp hard enough to break it). Can't find anyone complaining about it online. Unclear why

[AlmightyJB]

I for one am not outraged

[Krabappel]

Did you check twitter?

[The Fusionist]

Uppity black clerics exercise First Amendment rights even though Congress specifically told them not to

[Isaac Bartram]

Black churches have long been a major advocacy arm for the Democratic party just as unions have long been the major fundraising arm.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Yes, any criticism of Hillary's soon-to-be Presidency is, alas, all sexism.

A Clinton victory also promises to usher in four-to-eight years of the kind of down-and-dirty public misogyny you might expect from a stag party at Roger Ailes's house.

You know it's coming. As hyperpartisanship, grievance politics, and garden-variety rage shift from America's first black commander-in-chief onto its first female one, so too will the focus of political bigotry.
[...]

But in plenty of other cases, slamming Hillary as a bitch, a c**t (Thanks, Scott Baio!), or a menopausal nut-job (an enduringly popular theme on Twitter) will simply be an easy-peasy shortcut for dismissing her and delegitimizing her presidency.

Well, come on now, we couldn't do it by pointing out her criminal activities.

[John Titor]

Somehow, I don't think 'every criticism of Hillary is misogyny' is going to fly as well as 'every criticism of Obama is racism.'

The main reason being that she's been in the spot light for over twenty years, and almost everyone is aware of what kind of person she is. The problem being that she's been around for so long that very few people care anymore. People have known Hillary is corrupt since her and Bill got into the office, she's the only First Lady to have been fingerprinted. Hell, most of the people voting for her don't consider her trustworthy. Everyone outside of the most diehard Hillary fans recognize her for what she is, a bought-and-paid for politician. Criticism of her Administration are not going to disappear by screams of 'sexism', partially after the Republicans have ran a candidate that entirely rejects political correctness.

Best case scenario? Clinton's health issues knock her out of the Presidency fast. At least that's what I'm hoping for.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I've noticed there are progs who don't even believe she's corruption because there's no evidence of it including what she does with her foundations.

They're on another planet.

[Red Rocks Okey-Dokein]

Yeah, if pointing out her criminal activities and sexual predator enabling isn't going to delegitimize her, then calling her a bitch or a cunt is a perfectly reasonable tack to take with her intentionally obtuse supporters since they aren't going to give a shit either way.

[DOOMco]

Fucked if you either. Go big.

[Slammer]

I'm all for a woman President. Just not her.

[lafe.long]

Happy 83rd birthday, Catwoman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E73ZacDl8Zw

[lafe.long]

Here's a recent Julie pic

[Slammer]

Look how hot she was when young

[Slammer]

It's National Black Cat Appreciation Day btw

[lafe.long]

Wrong Catwoman.. you're thinking of Eartha Kitt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPo6zekYxw

[GILMORE?]

Florida Face Biter = I'm ready to suggest "schizophrenic break"

FYI - 99% of schizos are non-violent (to others). But the "Superpowers" thing sounds like the give-away.

[lafe.long]

Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Thinks Russia Is Behind Leak of Alleged National Security Agency Malware

"This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server," he tweeted, adding the leak of stolen NSA tools is unprecedented.

[GILMORE?]

FBI puts all Clinton-related evidence on lockdown

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The FBI is strictly limiting access to documents from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and warning members of Congress not to leak them.

Congressional aides told The Associated Press Wednesday that the investigative materials demanded by Republicans are being kept in a secure room typically reserved for the nation's most closely guarded secrets. Documents containing classified information are commingled with those marked as "Unclassified/For Official Use."

Those without sufficient security clearances can read only redacted versions and are forbidden from note-taking.

I understand it from the POV of 'its an election year' and they don't want to give ammo to political hacks.

That said - i wonder where this will be memory-holed after she wins?

[The Fusionist]

That's the securest this information has ever been!

[Red Rocks Okey-Dokein]

Congressional aides told The Associated Press Wednesday that the investigative materials demanded by Republicans are being kept in a secure room typically reserved for the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

What, her bathroom closet wasn't deemed to be secure enough?

[DOOMco]

*claps*

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Too lazy to read the linked story. These are documents from the investigation, and/or do they contain the emails? If it's the emails, why are the closely guarded secrets and heavily redacted? Hillary's emails were totally not secret or classified. Hunnert percent.

Also, I heard a report last night which made passing note that Hillary's interview with the FBI was neither recorded, nor transcribed- although some present "took notes".

I'm no lawyer (or Doctor) but if you were doing an investigation of a key witness, let alone the target, would you not record or transcribe the interview so if charges are actually brought, that testimony would be fucking evidence? Is this unprecedented?

[GILMORE?]

if charges are actually brought,

I think you answered your own question right there.

Not transcribing means there was a predetermination not to charge. They were going through the motions just to pretend they'd done an investigation.

Its the same conclusion Joe DiGenova came to back in May, when they noted that they'd agreed not to ask certain questions of Cheryl Mills.

In effect = "we'll have an interview, but we will agree in advance to avoid anything to do with any actual crime"

He said "the fix is in". Because they were obviously not pursuing a real investigation, but rather putting up the show of one.

You'll never find what you don't look for.

[Ted S.]

I thought it was FBI SOP not to record or transcribe interviews. It's so they can get people later for lying to investigators.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

How do they prove they lied to investigators if there's no fucking record of the conversation?

[Slammer]

It's their word against yours. And lying to the FBI is an automatic felony, I think.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I mean, seriously, my lawyer would have a fucking field day with that.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Well, ok, interesting, Ted. Here's what I'm finding. An article from 2011:

Instead of electronically recording its interviews and interrogations, the FBI's policy is to rely on agents' typewritten "section 302 reports," crafted to reflect the supposed substance of the exchange. At such sessions, one agent takes notes by hand while the second agent?in the traditional two-agent FBI interviewing team?conducts the interview/interrogation. Tape recordings are almost never done because such recordation is ? believe it or not ? against formal written FBI policy. Therefore, the 302 report becomes the sole arbiter of what was, and was not, said; moreover, as we will see below, any interviewee who contests its accuracy risks prosecution. Hence, a potential witness' script is written ? and not necessarily by the witness himself ? the moment he opens his mouth in the presence of an agent.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

contd:

Now here's an article from 2014:

Under a new policy announced Thursday by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., federal agents investigating drug and gun crimes, as well as the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI, will videotape or audiotape suspects starting July 11. The interviews will be recorded between the arrest and first appearance in federal court.

For years, FBI agents have been criticized by defense lawyers in criminal trials for testifying about interviews based on recollections gleaned from scribbled notes.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

And another from 2013

The public and the media should withhold judgment not only as to what Phillipos did or did not do, but also as to what he did or did not say when questioned by FBI agents. Indeed, the public should look skeptically at the accuracy of any FBI claim regarding what transpires in the bureau's infamous witness interviews. Here's why.

The tone of this article (and the previous) suggest that the FBI can manufacture a case based on the lack of an accurate transcript. This last article gets all ACLU.

So the question then is, did it help or hurt Hillary to not be recorded?

[Ted S.]

Somebody needs to enter that stuff into the Congressional Record.

[The Fusionist]

British Home Secretary is a descendant of Charles II and one of his mistresses

[Isaac Bartram]

Big deal, a third of the aristocracy a half the upper middle class is descended from the mistresses of Charles II.

[lafe.long]

Chris Christie: Under Governor, New Jersey Forgave $25 Million Tax Debt for Trump's Casinos, Report Says

After Christie took office, New Jersey settled a yearslong tax dispute with Trump casinos in 2011 by accepting $5 million of the $30 million that was owed, The New York Times reported.

[jesse.in.mb]

Nerds rejoice: Jezebel will NOT be reviewing No Man's Sky, the procedurally generated space exploration sim that everyone was excited about and then realized was kind of boring.

For those of you who have spent the past week wondering why Jezebel has not yet published a review of the long-awaited PC/console game No Man's Sky, allow us to explain ourselves: we find the name of this "first person space travel" game to be distasteful, offensive, and shamelessly anti-feminist.

Jezebel will not be reviewing?or even playing?No Man's Sky. In a game that claims to take place inside "an infinite procedurally generated galaxy," there should be more than enough room for equality.

For an in-depth review, please visit our sister site [Kotaku].

No Person's Sky is a totes compelling title, Jezebel, TOTES compelling.

[lafe.long]

You'd think they'd celebrate "No Man's"

Ya can't win.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That's what I thought... an entire universe with NO MEN IN IT! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE THE BITCHEZ HAPPY?!

[John Titor]

I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.

Also, come on Jezebel, you're failing the whole feminist hack routine. I could get at least eight hundred words out of taking about how the title 'No Man's Sky' is a bold criticism of the inherent sexism and patriarchy in heteronormative property ownership.

[lafe.long]

Also, come on Jezebel, you're failing the whole feminist hack routine. I could get at least eight hundred words out of taking about how the title 'No Man's Sky' is a bold criticism of the inherent sexism and patriarchy in heteronormative property ownership.

You said it better then I did.

[R C Dean]

Maybe something like "No Fag's Sky" would placate them?

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Jezebel will not be reviewing?or even playing?No Man's Sky.

What happens if one of them is discovered playing it?

[Rhywun]

Struggle sessions.

[Ted S.]

More compelling than Depression Quest.

[ant1sthenes]

Uh, do they fail to realize that the name is a just a play on the term "No man's land?"

Oh, fuck it.

[KerryW]

Of course they don't, they are too self-absorbed...

[lafe.long]

Switzerland: European Alpine Nation Tops Global Innovation Index for 6th Consecutive Year

The Global Innovation Index, released Monday, is compiled by Cornell University and the U.N. It ranks 128 countries on a number of metrics. Sweden, the U.K., the U.S. and Finland also made the Top 5.

[lafe.long]

Shaun White: Drummer in Snowboarder's Band Says He Sexually Harassed Her, Report Says

GRAPHIC SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS
... Penis Pics, Fecal Matter, Hair Demands

[GILMORE?]

I'm not sure rock bands have a human resources department you can complain to.

[lap83]

No, but they can complain to the post-rock band Human Resources Department. Not that it would do them much good.

[Careless]

One of the videos Zawaideh claims she was forced to watch was a couple killing a bear and then having sex on top of it.

That's a new one for me

[John Titor]

I actually remember that one, it's fairly old, I seem to remember someone showing it to me in 2007 or 8 maybe?

[Ted S.]

Jesse has a sad.

[GILMORE?]

Detroit = "That'll Show Those Deadbeats!" - and surely lead to a flood of new real-estate investment

Apparently no one understands the vicious and virtuous cycles of economic growth. You'll get your 10m, detroit. After 4 years and 3m in legal fees. And in the interim, you'll lose $200m in opportunity cost from all the people trying to dump derelict properties back on banks.

[lafe.long]

Daniel Radcliffe apologises to co-stars for racial slurs on set after playing white supremacist

The actor, who plays a white supremacist in new film Imperium, said he would beg forgiveness after difficult scenes, feeling guilty about the words spewing from his character's mouth.

"Whenever I was using racial slurs and stuff in the film I would have to go up to the actors afterwards and be like, 'I'm so sorry'," Radcliffe told US chat show The Daily Show.

[The Fusionist]

I wonder if Gert Fr?be ever apologized to Sean Connery for Goldfinger's crotch-laser.

[The Fusionist]

ALTERNATE JOKE: "You don't need to apologize, you're such a bad actor that it didn't seem in the least authentic."

[GILMORE?]

I had no idea who "Daniel Radcliffe" was.

Why didn't you just say "Harry Potter is a Nazi now"?

[The Fusionist]

"Watch me make the Jews disappear!"

Too soon?

[jesse.in.mb]

Radcliffe is Jewish on his mother's side.

[The Fusionist]

So...he's Jewish?

[jesse.in.mb]

Yeah. The information was included intentionally because it's significant here, not as a throwaway tidbit.

[Krabappel]

Harry Potter and the Gas Chamber of Secrets

[lap83]

I hate myself for laughing at that.

[Slammer]

Harry Potter and the Half-Aryan Blood Prince

[Krabappel]

Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Auschwitz

[Slammer]

Harry Potter and the New Order of the Phoenix

[Krabappel]

Harry Potter and the Goebbels of Fire

[flye]

You know who else was a Ravenclaw?

[GILMORE?]

You people. You complete me.

[Slammer]

Don't take the part if it bothers you so much. And if you think the part is important, then don't apologize.

[The Fusionist]

I remember the witch from the Wizard of Oz coming on Mr. Rogers' show to explain that she wasn't really an evil witch.

Of course, that reassurance was aimed at children.

[lafe.long]

Well I knew she wasn't really evil - I'd seen her Maxwell House commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Aw7dQsTsY

[Free Society]

What a pussy..... Excuse me, I need to go apologize to the nearest woman.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

The actor, who plays a white supremacist in new film Imperium, said he would beg forgiveness after difficult scenes, feeling guilty about the words spewing from his character's mouth.

So either he and/or his fellow actors aren't very bright.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

You wouldn't feel any reflexive shame when yelling nigger at a colleague?

[John Titor]

Somehow I'd think professional actors would be, I don't know, professional enough to recognize it as acting. I'm sure Bruno Ganz regularly apologized to people for his portrayal of a non-fictional racist.

[You Sound Like a Prog (MJG)]

Part of professional acting is tapping into emotions and a willingness to be pushed to emotional extremes.

Were his co-stars giving him shit for speaking racist dialogue? Or was he just instinctively feeling awkward for saying horrible things to people he likes? Not all of us are robots.

[John Titor]

There's a difference between 'being a robot' and 'engaging in self-indulgent emotional whining about the imaginary things you are saying/someone is saying to you.' Somehow people are able to play genocidal monsters, or people who engage in acts of abuse, torture or murder, without constantly apologizing for it. Somehow mean racist words are just the worst though, and this has nothing to do with narcissistic virtue signalling. Hell, if people were trying getting worked up over it, a competent director like Kubrick would have used it to his advantage.

Get back to me when everyone involved in a presentation of The Crucible apologizes profusely to everyone else for their paranoid behaviour.

[The Fusionist]

Heh, I was the judge in the Crucible.

I will apologize for my acting, but not for the character.

[PapayaSF]

For a moment I had my hopes up that "Imperium" would be the Francis Parker Yockey story, but no....

[The Fusionist]

Bruno Ganz spends two-thirds of his time apologizing.

[Ted S.]

There's the apocryphal story of Laurence Olivier telling Dustin Hoffman, "That's why they call it acting."

Besides this already happened 65 years ago when Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier made "No Way Out".

[Rhywun]

And I had such high hopes for him, after that horse penis thing. Sad!

[flye]

Meanwhile Daniel Day-Lewis would probably insist on separate facilities and craft services.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

+1 method actor.

[The Fusionist]

Speaking of Harry Potter...

Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance

[Krabappel]

Tolkien did it first. Sam and Frodo?

[The Fusionist]

Sam was a batman.

[lafe.long]

North Charleston, South Carolina: 2 Teens Charged With Killing Man Who Helped Pull Their Car From Ditch

Deon Antonio Frasier, 17, and Michael Odell Anthony Dupree-Tyler, 19, have been charged with robbing and shooting Chadwick Garrett after he helped free their SUV from a ditch on Monday night.

#BLM crickets

[Brett L]

Goddammit. I stopped at Publix tonight for milk and birthday cards. I saw a guy with a little baby in a stroller outside when I went in. When I came out 15 minutes later, he was still there. I went up to him and said, "Hey, I just want to make sure you and the baby have a ride home. I have carseats, I can give you a ride if you need it." Turns out he was waiting for his babymama, who works there and was due to get off. Please, don't give me any more reason for pretending these people don't exist.

[Ken Shultz]

More details are emerging in the $400 million cash payment to the Iranians for hostages story. Among them, it's been confirmed that the plane with $400 million in cash wasn't allowed to leave until the hostages had been released.

"U.S. officials wouldn't let Iranians take control of the money until a Swiss Air Force plane carrying three freed Americans departed from Tehran on Jan. 17, the officials said. Once that happened, an Iranian cargo plane was allowed to bring the cash back from a Geneva airport"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-.....1471469256

----WSJ

Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to deny any interpretation that might reflect badly on the Obama Administration.

[Suthenboy]

Mikhail Baryshnikov is a lying sack of shit. 'Make the rich pay their fair share', social justice blather, etc etc is the same language and same tactic the soviet union used. Hillary Clinton reminds him of the soviets because she is using the same language, same tactics, and has the same end as the soviets.

[PapayaSF]

Hillary reminds me more of a geriatric Evita.

[TheZeitgeist]

Nixon post-op.

[ant1sthenes]

Same end as the nomenclatura, at any rate.

[Ken Shultz]

I've been looking at other stories from that source newspaper for the moon blip video is

That Daily Star is less reputable than a whorehouse newsletter.

I'd just as soon believe the story from Weekly World News about that time when Bat Boy endorsed Al Gore for President.

[The Fusionist]

Bat Boy is in the tank for the Democrats?

[Ken Shultz]

He endorsed Al Gore for President, which was unexpected since he'd endorsed Dole rather than Bill Clinton the election before.

Bat Boy can't speak, really, but as I recall, he came into a newspaper room somewhere with a campaign picture of Gore, pointed to it in front of a reporter, and nodded his bat head in approval. The reporter asked him if he was endorsing Gore for President, and apparently Bat Boy made the correct hiss for yes.

Then he scurried out into the darkness and disappeared again. There have been very few sightings since.

[Suell]

Bat Lives Matter

[Ken Shultz]

+1

[grrizzly]

A trenchant analysis.

Possibly in reaction to this, NBC Sports, the de facto owner of the Olympic Games, just doesn't include the "testosterone" sports in their coverage -- unless there is a severe injury that looks very bad on TV. Swimming is fine (no hairy men), all women's sports are fine (no hairy men), gymnastics, ditto (basically a children's sport), skiing is okay (hair doesn't show through lycra), and the equestrian events are just fine (horses are innocent even if hairy).

[lafe.long]

Related:

Renaud Lavillenie: French Pole Vaulter Booed During Competition and Medal Ceremony

Olympics chief Thomas Bach called the crowd's behavior "unacceptable." Lavillenie said it was like the treatment Jesse Owens faced at the Nazi-era 1936 Berlin Games, a comment for which he apologized.

[Krabappel]

What are the "testosterone" sports in the olympics? Asking for a friend.

[flye]

I watched some of the boxing just to see if the judging was still insanely corrupt. Turns out: yup.

[DOOMco]

Smash off?

[Crusty Juggler]

Handball, table tennis, field hockey, rowing, and anything involving a canoe or bicycle.

Wrestling and weightlifting are not "made for tv" sports.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Hammer throw.

[Slammer]

Make Metallica Great Again

[bacon-magic]

That would be Lars.

[GILMORE?]

Once you've gone platinum, bands do become more like corporations.

Short of that, they're more like.... well, they're just bands. Usually, "Losing money", but having a lot of fun.

[robc]

Thats a mace, not a hammer.

[Drake]

Openly, blatantly, completely corrupt.