A.M. Links: Two Weeks Until Presidential Election, ISIS Attacks Police Academy in Pakistan, Obamacare Premiums Going Up

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  Department of State

  The presidential election is two weeks from today.

• Hillary Clinton is campaigning against down-ballot Republicans in the hopes of securing a Democratic-controlled Senate on election day.
• "How election day could be a victory for Gary Johnson."
• ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in Quetta, Pakiston, that has left at least 60 dead.
• The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017.
• "A Chinese electronics maker has issued a recall for millions of products sold in the U.S. following a massive cyberattack that briefly blocked access to websites including Twitter and Netflix for many U.S. users, but has lashed out at critics who blamed its devices."

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[Bee Tagger]

"How election day could be a victory for Gary Johnson."

If no one tells him the results

[Florida Hipster]

Hello.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017."

And that's how we calculate $2500 savings in politics. Don't forget to hand in your papers tomorrow!

[Florida Hipster]

It could have been 50 percent. You're welcome.

[PurityDiluting]

It was more than a 50% hike for me. Thanks for that!

[Florida Hipster]

Ouch.

[PurityDiluting]

Percentages can be misleading, so I'll offer up some whole numbers:
Premiums in 2013: $1800/yr. Premiums next year: $5400
Deductible went up as well, but I haven't been to the doctor over that time period except for the annual physical. One year that did include getting a tube shoved up my ass in a preventative search for dingleberries. I thought it was a nice touch that the cost of getting reamed was already included in the premium.

[Tonio]

Surely the fault of greedy kochporations and the obstructionism of the Harding administration.

[Doctor Whom]

I know people who actually are blaming corporate greed. When asked how, they offer that all-purpose analysis known as name-calling.

[Tonio]

Don't you know that the president of that insurance company makes like six million every year? And what about those greedy shareholders and their greedy insistence on profits?

[Free Society]

People should be investing their money with no hope of reward. If they weren't so greeeeedy, breaking even would be enough for them.

[Tonio]

You laugh, Freebie, but people actually believe that. Those people are economic illiterates and rarely have enough money to invest (not that they would know how or care to do so). They don't realize that many of those investors are pension funds or retirees who actually depend upon that income. They see all investors as the idle rich with swimming pools of money.

[Free Society]

I know full well. It's good to explore the depths of leftist stupidity because it's good to know thy enemy. They are either unaware or just pretend that they are unaware for political brownie points, that investors are usually little old ladies living off annuities or retirees living off dividends or regular people parking their money in mutual funds et cetera. I think the answer is two-fold, 1) financial instruments are complicated and so hard for a leftist to understand and 2) because financial instruments are complicated and the average person receives the opposite of an education regarding finance, so it's easy to get the average person to reward you politically and socially by vilifying investors as greedy fat cats.

The left is good at what they do, stupidity and sophistry.

[Gadfly]

It's the hypocrisy of self-centeredness. They frown on other people making money, but you can be sure that they like making money for themselves. To give them the benefit of the doubt, I think a lot of people really are so myopic that they can't see things from others' perspectives and so can't comprehend that an investor seeking profit or a CEO getting paid handsomely is no different from them asking for a raise or choosing to work at whichever job offers them the greatest compensation. The same holds true for people who complain when a company ships jobs overseas or otherwise seeks to cut costs; you can be sure that most of the complainers in their own lives seek to minimize expenses (shopping around for the best deal, using coupons, only buy something when it goes on sale). Sure, everyone should be allowed to disagree with or dislike any particular action someone or an organization takes, but it's blatant hypocrisy to move beyond disagreement and criticize someone as immoral (which is what charges of greed amount to) for behavior that one engages in oneself.

[thom]

People aren't paying their fair share! We need to make sure everybody pays their fair share!

[Jerryskids]

No, it's the fault of those Republican-run states that failed to expand Medicare/Medicaid as Obama asssumed they would and Hillary has promised she will make sure happens. See, if all those poor and old sick people now struggling to pay for health insurance had instead been given free healthcare by the government the taxpayers wouldn't now be saddled with higher healthcare costs. So Obama wasn't lying when he said healthcare costs would go down, he just didn't realize how evil Republicans are that they would deny people free healthcare just to spite the Democrats. (No, seriously, that's what I heard on CNN this morning.)

[gaoxiaen]

One thing that is not considered is that nationalized healthcare in some countries (Taiwan, for example) amounts to a business subsidy that the USA does not bestow upon its entrepreneurs. This allows for greater flexibility and mobility in the labor market as well as lower car insurance premiums. Instead, the USA incorporates the worst of all systems, with a labor union (the AMA) writing the laws. America should have a free market in health care, which would allow pharmacists to prescribe, or regulate the medical care cartel as a public utility.

[Cyto]

There is a lot of truth in this.

[PBR Streetgang]

What is 'Victory'?

[The Last American Hero]

It's the Obi-Wan defense - strike him down and he will become more powerful.

[juris imprudent]

Did Fist go on vacation?

[Tonio]

Congrats, Bee, on your official First! Well-done, Sir.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Fist (Tulpa) forgot to change his handle.

[Elspeth Flashman]

Depends on how you define victory.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The presidential election is two weeks from today.

Fourteen shopping days until Hillary.

[Atanarjuat]

Gun shopping days?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Foundation shopping days.

[Florida Hipster]

Ammo, if the past is a predictor for the future.

[AlmightyJB]

I've started.

[UnCivilServant]

I am sad because I was so rudely reminded that Cuomo banned online ammo sales to New York. I finally found decent prices for the calibres I use and they tell me that they can't ship to a New York customer.

[Rasilio]

How close are you to the border? I am sure there are any number of UPS stores just the other side of it that will gladly rent you a PO box for a nominal fee

[UnCivilServant]

I don't think they'll ship to a PO box. (Not positive, as I've not checked.)

[OneOut]

Maybe an out of state relative who will drop ship to you ?

[UnCivilServant]

*cries* they live in Maryland!

More seriously though, the total cost of that double-shipping would exceed the savings from buying online.

[Zeb]

UPS store "PO boxes" aren't really PO boxes. Though they might have rules about ammo deliveries.

[Agent Cooper]

I'm so glad he knows what you should and should not buy. He's so smart!

[Gadfly]

I don't see how they can legally do this. If you were to buy online from someone out of state and have them ship the ammo to you, that's interstate commerce, the regulation of which constitutionally belongs to the federal government and not the states. I hope someone sues and the courts have the good sense to strike down that law (a longshot, I know, but I can dream...).

[Zeb]

I'm not sure, but I think that the commerce clause means that the feds could forbid such laws, but not that they have to.

[UnCivilServant]

The lawsuit stalled when Scalia died. It had failed at the 2nd circuit and there was not a good chance of hitting Supremes with a favorable outcome.

[Gadfly]

That's unfortunate to hear.

[Bubba Jones]

The judicial precedent for wine shipments is that you can ban interstate shipments so long as to also ban intrastate shipments.

[Chipwooder]

Precisely. Just picked up an M1A myself.

[Florida Hipster]

I'm jealous. I really want one, but can't really justify spending the money.

[Chipwooder]

No doubt. I don't have the scratch for a new one, but found one on consignment for $900.

[spqr2008]

I either want one of those or a Garand. Have to check prices. If I can find one for around that price, I'd totally go for it. I'd seriously love to have one for the history involved, plus, when Liberals complain about Assault Weapons, I can point and say, hey, this is an assault weapon that isn't covered by any of your bans, fools!

[gaoxiaen]

The M-14 is a great all-around rifle, but the 30.06 is my favorite for big game and long-range shooting.I traded my Garand for a 2.18 Bee (without the original stock) long ago. Still have a Swiss-made Cougar-Voerre chambered in 30.06. Great rifle. Hardly any recoil compared to the Garand.

[G?C]

Dang Chipwooder - that's a good deal. I thought I got a good bargain when I got my SOCOM II in a Troy MCS for $1300...

[bacon-magic]

Nice.

[Domestic Dissident]

Second place is just the first loser.

[Seriously not Tulpa, you guys!]

The presidential election is two weeks from today.

Hillary Clinton wouldn't be able to obtain tge necessary clearance to attend basic training.

So, in two weeks, civilians are going to hand the US military over to a person the US military wouldn't trust enough to teach how to read a map.

This is where we are.

[thom]

Really though, how many 68 year old women does the military take every year?

[Gadfly]

They are also going to hand the presidency over to one of (if not the) most openly corrupt individuals to ever pursue the office. It is truly a sad state of affairs. I can only hope that the old quote holds true, that "nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives".

[Scott Foval, Jr.]

ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in Quetta, Pakiston, that has left at least 60 dead.

One of the victims was a black guy making dead sounds.

[straffinrun]

See, even ISIS doesn't use the passive voice.

[Swiss Servator]

Quetta, Pakiston

Pakiston? Isn't that in Canada?

[Mike Laursen]

A bit north of Indio.

[Yusef Adama]

So, Pakiston is Desert Hot Springs?

[Agent Cooper]

It's Quetta, Pockeestan.

Jeez.

[Bee Tagger]

but has lashed out at critics who blamed its devices."

So they're going to throw their remotes at the critics.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hillary Clinton is campaigning against down-ballot Republicans in the hopes of securing a Democratic-controlled Senate on election day.

Someone's counting chickens.

[Citizen X]

These masturbation euphemisms aren't abstract enough anymore.

[Animal]

Counting. Not choking.

[R C Dean]

+1 clitdong

[Crusty Juggler]

Related: Norm's Dirty Johnny joke.

TW: It's six minutes long.

[Idle Hands]

I just watched that saturday.

[Scott Foval, Jr.]

"How election day could be a victory for Gary Johnson."

"But in another, more accurate way, Hillary's the winner."

[gaoxiaen]

And the USA's the loser. Likewise if Dumph is elected.

[Bee Tagger]

The presidential election is two weeks from today.

The country has given its two week notice.

[Florida Hipster]

You're doin' work today son!

[Fist of Etiquette]

The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017.

It's hardly the law's fault that human nature and reality refuse to adapt.

[Doctor Whom]

We don't deserve the Obamessiah.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Economics is rrrracist!

[Rasilio]

Funny you should say that, not 10 minutes ago someone on my facebook feed posted precisely that statement only they were serious

[Rufus The Monocled]

Life drops all sorts of hints about us being a dark age.

[WTF]

We simply have to cut CO2 and Gaia will reward us!

[Free Society]

I think we're certainly getting there. It will be a new sort of dark age. There will still be cultural works produced and development taking place, but censorship will be rife, history will be misremembered, academia will be producing even more falsehood that it will add to our body of knowledge and the state will have stagnated human potential even more profoundly than it already has.

[Rufus The Monocled]

It's a popular conception to think nothing *happened* during the Dark Ages. In fact, smart people are gonna smart and innovate. That never stops. It's when the general belief among people gives way to superstition, pseudo-intellectualism and science, prevails over reason and rational thought. After Rome fell, there was a bit of a 'vertigo' moment for Europe. The Renaissance is just Europe emerging from it and the rest is history: Scientific Rev., Enlightenment, American Rev. etc.

Now it's reverting back. People are letting their own private narratives rule the day in their splendid intellectual isolationism. Na-ah! Plastic is bad and nothing you say can change it and if your science says otherwise then your science is racist. Economies of scale is the construct of white privilege and if you think otherwise I will censor you. $15 minimum wage because rigged Etc.

But that doesn't mean people won't still go out and innovate - ie Uber/Lyft, Silicon Valley, etc. Except, it's getting harder and harder....and harder.

[Free Society]

It's a popular conception to think nothing *happened* during the Dark Ages. In fact, smart people are gonna smart and innovate. That never stops. It's when the general belief among people gives way to superstition, pseudo-intellectualism and science, prevails over reason and rational thought.

I'll be the first to tell people that medieval Europe was far more technologically advanced that the Romans. Better farming methods produced higher yields and the feudal order itself, not to be confused with serfdom, was a vast improvement on what preceded it.

But that doesn't mean people won't still go out and innovate - ie Uber/Lyft, Silicon Valley, etc. Except, it's getting harder and harder....and harder.

The deliberate stagnation of human potential. Government never fails at that. Ours is better than ever in that regard.

[gaoxiaen]

+1 Savanorolla

[Rasilio]

There is a science fiction book written by Niven and Pournelle called Fallen Angels that actually details how this future plays out and it isn't pretty...

[SimonD]

That's not the first time I've heard that said in all seriousness.

It's starting to become a thing (as a justification for more statism, perhaps? That's usually the net effect of any solution for whatever issues the lefties are whining about today)

[SimonD]

I've said on more than one occasion that it's impossible to parody the Left. No matter how ridiculous we get, there's always an Ivy League professor saying the same thing for real (or worse).

[gaoxiaen]

Vis a vis Toddlers Kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjlxXAy1_eE

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Rufus is serious too, he just thinks it's a good thing.

[Citizen X]

The presidential election is two weeks from today.

Ugh, and i haven't a THING to wear.

[Florida Hipster]

I'm voting today. I'm really excited to cast my vote for soil conservation officer, group 2, district 4.

[straffinrun]

Lots of mudslinging in that race?

[Swiss Servator]

*narrows gaze*

[Florida Hipster]

I think it was John, not sure, that said the smaller stakes the more vicious the fighting. I wouldn't be surprised if some dirty tricks were involved.

[Swiss Servator]

Sayre's Law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low."

[Florida Hipster]

Thank you, Sir.

[Gadfly]

It's a funny line, but clearly false. Politics in a fractured society with a powerful government becomes the most vicious sort of politics, as evidenced by the behavior of partisans in fascist, communist, and late-stage socialist states, as well as in the late-stage republican period of ancient Rome and the time periods antecedent to civil war in dozens of nations (including our own).

[The Last American Hero]

Could be worse, you could be stuck in District 13 with those grubby miners.

[Florida Hipster]

Or district 9 with those smelly Prawns.

[PBR Streetgang]

DAMMIT!! Refresh, then post. ugh.

[PBR Streetgang]

Or District 9 with those space alien thingys

[Agent Cooper]

What a shitty-looking big budget franchise movie. I can't believe how bad the production values for the entire series are.

[Tonio]

That's...special. Although I suppose that office could make a difference if its holder decided to not enforce or poorly enforce regulations.

[Rasilio]

Ron Swanson for President

[Florida Hipster]

There are like three soil management people to vote for. I'm leaving it blank. I spent an hour researching all the other politicians, so when I got to that section I just couldn't even.

[Princess Trigger]

haha
Research? What a nerd.
I pick the school board members with the weirdest names.

[Florida Hipster]

Judges are the easiest. Should X be retained? Nope.

[R C Dean]

I did that, too.

[Elspeth Flashman]

Weird thing about my job now is I can recommend people to vote for judges running. Weird to me, at least.
Side note: One of the people running for family law court in my county withdrew voluntarily because of the issues in his own divorce, which were eventually close to headline news. The sad thing is the remaining candidate still has to run a campaign, she won't win by default- the withdrawn candidate's name will still be on the ballot (too late as ballots were already printed) and the right to life voting machine may elect him.
/end of local judicial politics nerd rant.

[Bubba Jones]

Is that bad?

[Rhywun]

soil management people

Wait, that's for real? I thought you were joking.

[Florida Hipster]

http://orlando-politics.com/20.....ion-board/

[Agent Cooper]

Sometimes, the government just can't do enough.

[Chip Woodier]

I would pay big money for a meme with Hillary's face on Glenn's busted up head.

[straffinrun]

Said the same thing on the overnight. Someone is on that already, although it would work with her as Negan, too.

[PurityDiluting]

My theory is that they left who Negan picked a mystery at the end of last season in order to use that as a bargaining chip for contract negotiations. Whoever asks for the biggest salary bump gets the bat instead

[Elspeth Flashman]

I will wear black.

[gaoxiaen]

Wear nothing. Make a statement tat the local papers cover, unless you're fat, old, or ugly, or any combination of those.

[gaoxiaen]

*that- Fucking alcohol.

[Princess Trigger]

The presidential election is two weeks from today.

Good. Let the cleansing begin.

[Rufus The Monocled]

The Cleansing.

Starring Crusty Juggler as the Spic and Span Man, Sugar Free as Little Timmy and yours truly as the mop.

[Tonio]

I'm terrified. Also, vaguely racist.

[Crusty Juggler]

What do you call a Puerto Rican midget?

A spec.

[straffinrun]

Lil' Taco, Amirite?

[Florida Hipster]

Delete your account.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Rufus racist joke:

Black couple walks in with their child.

Rufus (licking ice cream): Cute kid. Who's the father?

[UnCivilServant]

Why are you othering black lesbians?

/sjw lite

[JEP]

My friend's cousin does some stand up comedy in Baltimore. He managed to get away alive after asking "So, what happens in families with two homosexual African American fathers? Are both dads going to leave?"

[straffinrun]

Or are they both going to come?

[Rufus The Monocled]

SJW (holding decapitated head of comedian): This is what happens when white privilege gets uppity!
Reporter: Who's that?
SJW (looks at head): Not sure.
Reporter: Where did this happen?
SJW: I don't know. I wasn't there.
Reporter: What happened?
Reporter: Why?
SJW: I don't know. Ask the head.
SJW: He made a funny.
Reporter: How?
SJW: By saying black kids are often fatherless.
Reporter: Isn't that statistically true?
SJW (drops head and reflects): Aw, nuts. Now I've done it.

[UnCivilServant]

SJW: By saying black kids are often fatherless.
Reporter: Isn't that statistically true?The Racist!
SJW (drops head and reflects): Aw, nuts. Now I've done it.I know, right?

Fixed for lack of self-awareness and facts.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Heh. It did occur to me I was giving too much credit to the sjw.

[gaoxiaen]

Someone generated that gamete.

[Tonio]

Jack Chick, one of the greatest practitioners of unconscious self-parody, has died. He was one of the people responsible for the satanic panic. Apparently his cause of death is being kept quiet. Curious, that.

[Animal]

I'm guessing "auto-erotic asphyxiation."

[UnCivilServant]

What a terrible way for the pre-eminent humorist of his niche to go.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Nah. Something much more simple. He died of a heart attack while in bed with his boyfriend.

[Chipwooder]

One of my all time favorite Norm McDonald bits when he was on SNL was him doing Charles Kuralt, chatting about autoerotic asphyxiation

[Florida Hipster]

Did he go out the Hemming-Way? We want to know.

[Tonio]

I don't know. I'll keep an eye out but I don't think the family has to release a cause of death, and there may not have been an autopsy.

My guess is complications from HIV/AIDS which could well have been contracted from a blood transfusion. But that is pure speculation based only on the refusal to list a cause of death - you used to see that a lot during the eighties and nineties with fundagelical families who lost family members to AIDS.

[Atanarjuat]

I'm calling it first: auto-erotic asphyxiation.

[Tonio]

Animal beat you to that.

[Princess Trigger]

Erotic asphyxiation.
It's always erotic asphyxiation if they don't say something like "congestive heart disease" or some other bullshit health thing.

[straffinrun]

Asphyinsxiation?

[Florida Hipster]

Assfixiation.

[straffinrun]

Saved by zero.

[WTF]

Assphincter says what?

[Tonio]

What is it with you people?

[Florida Hipster]

YOU PEOPLE?!?

[Animal]

Hey, I'm a trendsetter!

[Jerryskids]

Satanic ritual gone wrong.

[gaoxiaen]

If you're going to autooaxphyxiate , erotic is the only way to go. Just ask Grasshopper.

[Rasilio]

Heart Attack while in bed with an underaged male prostitute?

[Florida Hipster]

At least he died doing what who he loved.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Murdered by the IRA for the Pope by a poison that causes cancer.

[thrakkorzog]

Lost a save role while playing D&D.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

No Consequences From Media Peers for Reporters Caught Colluding With Hillary

[bendover]

Just an observation ? why is it that the vast majority of the pictures of Hilary always look like they are glamour shots - while the vast majority of pictures of Trump are, to say the least, less flattering ?

By the way, still waiting on that hard hitting article concerning the violence at Trump events perpetrated by the DNC dirty trick division.

[UnCivilServant]

It might have something to do with the fac that one of these candidates actually puts himself where the press can take whatever pictures they want and the other keeps herself hidden, even from the fawning media.

[WTF]

There are plenty of equally unflattering Hillary photos available. Reason just chooses not to use them.

[Agent Cooper]

All they have is a file photo from 22 years ago.

[Bubba Jones]

Somehow NRO manages to find them.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

No Consequences From Media Peers for Reporters Caught Colluding With Hillary

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Rigged Debates: Wikileaks Emails Confirm Media in Clinton's Pocket

[Domestic Dissident]

I heard a rumor that Block Yomomma implied he may leave the country if Trump wins? That may be the best reason yet to vote for the man, right up there with the Supreme Court.

[UnCivilServant]

If even half of the odious people threatening to leave with a Trump Victory follow through, that's ample reason to vote for him.

[Atanarjuat]

I'd bet good money no one has ever upheld a pledge to leave the country if X wins the election.

[UnCivilServant]

I donno, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas made good on their promice to leave the country if Lincoln was elected.

[Swiss Servator]

Zing!

[Domestic Dissident]

Johnny Depp is the only one I can think of who actually followed through.

[Florida Hipster]

He came back once he realized the 75 percent tax rate applied to him.

[Zeb]

How about Groovus Maximus and Guy Montag?

[Elspeth Flashman]

I thought Groovus left for work reasons.

[Zeb]

I think he wanted to leave the US too. Possibly work related political reasons.

[Brett L]

In post-Soviet Ukraine, he was mail-order groom

[Brett L]

Shit. I fucked that up. In Ukraine, bride mail-ordered him.

[Agent Cooper]

Who moved when W won? Oh yeah, nobody.

[Scott Foval, Jr.]

Block will leave the country is Dumb-old Tramp and Mite Pants defeat Hitlary Clitdong and Dim Kind in the Farcical Erection of Dummy Sex Fiend.

[straffinrun]

Can't we just do a version of *narrow gaze* for these? Maybe *Self Wedgie*?

[Tonio]

Dude, the combined penalty for those is so long that it actually wraps around the earth and moves you forward. Well-done, though still annoying.

[Crusty Juggler]

Back to Kenya, that's what I say.

[Private Chipperbot]

He could troll us by running for president or dictator (whatever) of Kenya and producing his birth certificate to prove he is eligible.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Haven't the Kenyans suffered more than we have?

[Citizen X]

I'm not sure the fevered yammerings of your prolific yet oddly stunted imagination rise to the level of "rumor," Mikey.

[Doctor Whom]

The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017.

Why didn't anyone try to warn us?

[Tonio]

Nobody could have foreseen that, Kulak.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

It's like opening the Ark of the Covenant... Seeing it melts your face off, but the only way to not see it is to keep your eyes shut really tight.

[gaoxiaen]

That's affordable if you don't count food and utilities.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Going through the motions.
...Feminism is in many ways a cargo cult, with the pervasive belief that if women just ape the dress, language, and mannerisms of men, the accomplishments they see men achieving will magically follow. Indeed, play acting the role of a famous man is all it takes to become a true feminist hero. This is why all it took for Amelia Earhart to be nicknamed Lady Lindy and Queen of the Air and be thrown a ticker tape parade was to cut her hair short, don a flight jacket, and ride as a passenger on a transatlantic flight.

The same could be said for Holmes and Theranos. What exactly did Holmes accomplish besides mimicking the dress and mannerisms of Steve Jobs and declaring that she was going to change the world? In both cases, all it took was a coat and a hairstyle, and feminists around the world swooned....

[UnCivilServant]

Well, Ms. Head of Theranos also committed fraud. Unlike Steve, who was a salesman with actual products that worked within a given definition of the term.

[Horatio]

Passenger? Do tell

[Chip Woodier]

Part of a 3 person crew whose only task was to keep a log

[Horatio]

Dead thread and all, but that link does mention she made a solo transatlantic flight in 1932, FWIW

[Bubba Jones]

Yes, but she became famous on the basis of the earlier ride.

[gaoxiaen]

+1 Madame Butterfly

[Rufus The Monocled]

Here's Freeland defending herself in Parliament. What is it with this Cabinet and their inability to speak without notes? She sounds so wooden and unnatural. Man oh man it really is amateur hour in Parliament:

http://globalnews.ca/video/302.....e-meltdown

[Rufus The Monocled]

She wrote a book of progressive talking points:

http://amzn.to/2eqNB9B

Apparently multiple prize winning book, Rhodes Scholar and former managing editor of the Financial fricken Times.

Doesn't say much at all for all three if this is what it produces.

[UnCivilServant]

Well, Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, so that already says something about their ability to judge character.

[Crusty Juggler]

Jonah Lehrer was a Rhodes Scholar, too, and he was held in high esteem until former Reasoner Michael Moynihan ruined his career.

Also: Susan Rice.

[UnCivilServant]

And? As an organization they have a track record of not being able to judge character. It's almost as if it's not a metric they use.

Really, I've just not liked them for decades.

[Private Chipperbot]

Really, I've just not liked them for decades.

/another item to Unciv's list...

[Private Chipperbot]

Really, I've just not liked them for decades.

/another item to Unciv's list...

[Agent Cooper]

Damien Sandow?

[Longtorso, Johnny]

PLEASE, BREAKUP WITH ME!
...What this guy is experiencing is actually a very common rationalization strategy women will use when they are saddled with a man their subconscious recognizes as Beta. In The Medium is the Message I point out that there's really no such thing as 'mixed messages' and that women's behaviors will generally inform a guy as to what a woman's real intent is. This is a basic behavioral psychology principle; behavior is the only true measure of motivation and intent. Thus, all the verbalizing of intent, verbal rationalization of purpose and 'open communication' simply becomes a part of the behavior which Red Pill behaviorists then parse as true intent....

...Most women's confessions of extra-pair infidelity isn't rooted in guilt. That's not to say women don't feel guilt or regret, it's just to say that the functional purpose of the confession doesn't subconsciously originate in feelings of guilt.

When women 'cheat', even when it's non-sexually, their subconscious is testing the man it suspects is Beta which she's paired with for confirmation of him being Beta. ...

[Longtorso, Johnny]

...Yet here, with the benefit of Red Pill awareness, we can see a perfect example of a guy suppressing what his peripheral awareness is basically screaming at him. This woman has essentially verified his Beta status by his default willingness to forgive her Alpha Fucks indiscretions with few (if any) questions asked. That test failed, she now hopes he will actually get angry enough to break up with her. Again, test failed, as all of his efforts are directed towards his unconditional love and forgiveness....

[Crusty Juggler]

"Please block me," said Johnny Longtorso, so block him I did.

[Juvenile Bluster]

What percentage of these "red pill" guys have actually seen a naked woman that wasn't on a computer screen? And waifu pillows don't count.

[Citizen X]

My calculator doesn't have enough room on the screen to the right of the decimal.

[WTF]

I had to google waifu pillow. I really wish I hadn't.

[UnCivilServant]

Really? All the shit that flows through these comments and that bothers you?

[WTF]

At least SugarFree's stories are not real.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I'm sorry. Truly sorry.

[straffinrun]

Japanese invent neato stuff.

[WTF]

The Japanese really are the weirdest fuckers on earth.

[Rasilio]

Especially given how little actual fucking they do

[Tonio]

I take comfort in the fact that I have probably had sex with more women than Longtorso.

[Florida Hipster]

Sick burn.

[straffinrun]

Ouch.

[UnCivilServant]

I thought he was confessing to being really bad at spotting trannies.

[Tonio]

LOL. But, no.

[Animal]

So, one?

[MikeT1986]

Who un-ironically uses "Red-Pill"

[Citizen X]

Chubby virgins with neckbeards.

[gaoxiaen]

Morpheus and Neo?

[Crusty Juggler]

The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017.

He talks to Zach Galifianakis and Jim Fallon. LOL he is so cool.

[Juvenile Bluster]

With the caveat that 95% of things posted on /r/legaladvice are bullshiit...

My friend took her roommate's dream catcher because she thought her roommate appropriated it from a Native person or tribe but she didn't

Her roommate is a Native but my friend didn't know that. My friend tried to return the dream catcher but the tribe she brought it to said it wasn't one of theirs. Her roommate actually called the police because a dead person gave it to her and she wanted it back. My friend was arrested for theft. How much will her bail be? Will she actually go to jail over this? My friend also reported her roommate to the school for appropriation but now she knows that her roommate is Native. Sorry for all the questions but my friend was just arrested today and I'm waiting to see if I can bail her out.

[UnCivilServant]

To the person who posted that quoted text - your "friend" is an asshole. Stop associating with them. If you find you share the same beliefs and that this would have been appropriate havahiour had the owner been non-native, go find some comflicting opinions and actually ingest what is being said.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

I'm waiting to see if I can bail her out.

Johnny Torso will tell you that this is a beta move.

[gaoxiaen]

Blame it on the Manitou.

[Citizen X]

Your friend is a thief but she is also mentally retarded, so she will probably be let off with a slap on the wrist.

[straffinrun]

So she thought the tribe sold it to her, obviously voluntarily, and she thought they'd be happy to be getting it back because of appropriation? This is not a smart girl.

[Tonio]

It's all about the feels. And given that the roomate is both batshit-crazy AND Indian (not from India) she will pass through the university like shit through a goose. Nobody will want to do anything that might anger her and bring down a USDOE/OCR investigation. The she'll end up as a diversity hire at some corporation and they won't be able to dislodge her because of the cray-cray and she'll drive away actual productive and talented people.

[Juvenile Bluster]

The "friend" isn't Native. The "friend's" roommate is. The "friend" seems to be your typical college white girl getting offended on other peoples' behalf.

[Tonio]

I wrote "roomate". Misspelled, but stil...

[straffinrun]

This is why I love multiple universe theory. I assume in one of them she ends up sucking dick in a dark alley for cheezits. Too bad it's not this one.

[gaoxiaen]

Give it some time.

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

From a link in the comments: is adult breastfeeding considered adultery?

SC: If a guy gets breastfed by a woman but there's no other sexual contact will his wife be granted a divorce with fault based on adultery? The wife found a picture of it and filed (Serious, not trolling)

[straffinrun]

The Grapes of Wrath II I believe takes off on just that premise.

[Tonio]

Well, breastfeeding isn't an explicitly sexual act. Duly acknowledging that some people view it as such. So, if a woman takes off her shoes for a man not her husband who derives sexual pleasure from watching that is she cheating? The assumption is that for the woman, the taking off of the shoes is just taking off shoes and doesn't arouse her.

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

Photographing it and keeping the evidence on hand would seem to indicate that the husband found it erotic. Keeping that stuff around is pretty damning.

[yet another dave]

Let me check with the wife......
Does "stop asking me stupid questions" count as a response?

[Agent Cooper]

Rex Ryan, is that you?

[Zeb]

A dream catcher? Every fucking hippy craft fair is full of dream catchers. And she thought it was some precious cultural artifact or something?

[gaoxiaen]

Why no dream releaser? Forbidden Planet phobia?

[The Late P Brooks]

Two more weeks of nativist hysterics and "Who's a REAL Montanan?" political ads. Who will save us from teh kkkarpetbeggerz? The race for governor is hotting up.

Also- there is a strange absence of interest in the Presidential race out here. The only signs I see are faded Bernie signs. There is one Trump sign down the road, and I cannot recall seeing a single Hillary sign. The Republicans' county HQ doesn't even have a Trump sign out front. Sampling errors abound. Your mileage may vary.

[Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos]

To be fair, the migration of the parasite Californicus progressivius assholus isn't an unfounded concern.

[Rasilio]

'ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy in Quetta, Pakiston'"

Steve Gutenberg hardest hit

[Juvenile Bluster]

Why didn't the Stonecutters Ancient Society of No Homers help him?

[Domestic Dissident]

Possible unelected future president Tim Kaine holds a rally in Florida and only 30 people show up for it.

[John DeWitt]

Wonder how many votes that equates to. 30 x 6 polling stations. Or maybe 6 is too ambitious.

[UnCivilServant]

They'll lose enthusiasm after the bus stops at the second, stop at a denny's and not leave until the polls close.

[Princess Trigger]

" They said there'd be cookies."

[Brett L]

And in some of the Florida papers, it was equivalent to the Trump rally in Tampa. They really are lying motherfuckers. I do not believe any coverage I don't see recorded without cuts anymore. I did not believe I could possibly have gotten more cynical in 2016, but here we are.

[gaoxiaen]

I always say that it can't get worse, but I'm always wrong.

[Jordan]

Consumer Reports Now Ranks Tesla Among the Least Reliable Carmakers

On Monday, Tesla made its debut at 25 out of 28 on Consumer Reports' annual car brand reliability rankings, putting the company just above Dodge (yikes!) and just below GMC (double yikes!).

Ha ha!

Trigger warning: Gizmodo

[Juvenile Bluster]

Obviously Elon Musk needs more government subsidies.

[Florida Hipster]

Did they beat out Land Rover? There is another car cult.

[Rufus The Monocled]

And Audi.

[Florida Hipster]

Yeah..
*pulls car cover over R8*

[Certified Public Asshat]

CR has Audi at #4.

Buick at #3 as well?

[Tonio]

Don't you mean Range Rover, their yuppie line of vehicles? Actual Land Rovers are respectable.

[Florida Hipster]

Yes. My mistake. I had a friend who had a Range Rover that was always in the shop, but he loved it.

[Chipwooder]

But....but.....Tesla is a GAMECHANGER and the awesomest car ever made!!!!!

The "game changer" bit always cracks me up. There's a guy on a football board I frequent who is a massive Tesla fanboy (to the extent that his screen name there is Tesla...yeah, on a football board) who was wetting his pants with excitement over the Tesla 3, and how it was going to revolutionize everything, and Musk is such a genius, etc etc. It will be for everyone, you see, because everyone can afford $40K small cars that you can't drive more than 200 miles at a time.

[Certified Public Asshat]

I can't tell if this comment is serious or not:

Thank you, Tesla, for re-energizing the auto industry again. Every car was beginning to look like a Camry, was shaped like a Camry, had the features of a Camry, and all sedan designs from all mainstream brands were predetermined from the get-go to start with a Camry-like setup. Tesla is the only non-exotic brand that anyone gets excited about today. In my day I had posters of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Today, kids have pictures of Teslas on their phones. CR can suck it. We want our trick door handles, frameless glass and autopilot. Lesser cars can continue to have doors that you have to operate like a caveman.

I think the last line gives it away, but being that it is Gizmodo, still hard to tell.

[UnCivilServant]

I saw a Tesla waiting to leave a parking lot a few months back. It only stood out as one because I was stuck behind it at the light and could read the manufacturer nameplate. It was a boring looking car.

[gaoxiaen]

I prefer doors that unlock when you want them to. Some may disagree.

[The Late P Brooks]

My friend also reported her roommate to the school for appropriation

Your friend is a Heroine of the Revolution.

[Mazakon]

I know it's mostly because she's anti-Hillary, but Jill Stein has been saying some amazing things lately:

Dr. Jill Stein ?@DrJillStein 13h13 hours ago
Dr. Jill Stein Retweeted Bernie Sanders
I agree, Bernie! Democrats shouldn't be able to disenfranchise voters whose political views are an inconvenience to them, either.

[IAMTHEGODOFTHEINTERNET]

DUTERTEDIDNOTHINGWRONG#FROGLIVESMATTER

[UnCivilServant]

your shift key is stuck.

[Florida Hipster]

Space key is also broke.

[IAMTHEGODOFTHEINTERNET]

PUNCTUATIONISFORTHEWEAK#SORRYNOTSORRY

[UnCivilServant]

Capitalization is not punctuation.

Sorry trolly. Better luck next taunt.

[IAMTHEGODOFTHEINTERNET]

KNEELBEFOREMEANDCONFESSYOURSINS#TACOBELL

[Citizen X]

#TACOBELL

I laughed.

[gaoxiaen]

Fuck Duterte with a rusty M-60. No sort bursts.

[gaoxiaen]

*short

[Crusty Juggler]

The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017.

Hillary Clinton blames the insurance companies and their essential monopolies for this increase, and by God after she is elected she will bust those companies up, which is why I'm with Her.

[Rasilio]

If only Chairman Obama knew what they were charging on the exchanges...

[Chips&Salsa]

He'll know when he reads about in in the paper.

[The Late P Brooks]

And yet, Tesla owners themselves rate the cars as 'excellent'.

Go figure

How many Tesla owners actually *rely* on the thing to get them to work in a timely manner? It';s a lifestyle accessory.

[UnCivilServant]

How many own just one car?

[Chipwooder]

I'm guessing most Tesla owners can afford to own multiple vehicles. Oh, the Tesla is on the fritz? No matter, I'll just drive the Audi today.

[John DeWitt]

Yeah, it's basically a Jaguar from the 60s

[Tonio]

But at least those were stylish. And you could also get one with a V12.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Can you drive a Tesla in the rain?

[Ken Shultz]

"The premiums for certain health plans offered through Obamacare will rise by an average of 25 percent in 2017."

I don't understand why we're concentrating on ridiculous stories like this when Donald Trump is literally going around grabbing people's's pussies.

[Ken Shultz]

"How election day could be a victory for Gary Johnson."

You mean because he can finally smoke another bowl and no one will ask him any more geography questions?

[UnCivilServant]

"Wait... I was Governer of New Mexico?" /gj

[straffinrun]

The veto stamp made from an altered 2 foot water bong.

[damlidit]

my Aunty Madison recently got a new gold GMC Savana
see more at----------->>> http://tinyurl.com/Usatoday01

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

Aunty Madison, the premier cheating granny website.

[gaoxiaen]

It was for appreciation of Uncle Madison's fulfillment of his desire for anal. With niece Ashley.

[Florida Hipster]

GMC? No thanks.

[Jordan]

Spam bot needs to check my consumer reports link.

[Agent Cooper]

Wait, a cargo van?

Someone's algorithm's is way off.

[Agent Cooper]

Grammarly made me extra possessive.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Why can't I shake the thought that every time I see Hillary smile she must swear under her breath?

[Zeb]

Probably because she is a mean, angry, spiteful person.

[UnCivilServant]

I am offended. As a Mean, Angry, Spiteful person, to be compared to someone as downright vile as Hillary is insulting.

[Zeb]

Sorry about that. I forget who the audience is here.

[Agent Cooper]

She's a Nasty Woman?. And we all know Nasty Women are awesome!!

/Derpbook Meme

[gaoxiaen]

+6 (Vanity)

[WTF]

She looks like she's thinking "just wait until I have all the power, then I won't need to pretend anymore for these assholes."

[Domestic Dissident]

Also, I love that every picture of Trump at Reason is spittle-flecked engraged Trump, and every picture of Hildog is kindly, smiling grandma Hillary. Gee, I wonder why that is.

[CatoTheChipper]

One need on watch Gilespie's performance a moderator at the Freedom Fest debate over which candidate was worse. Most of the time Reason writers are pretty good libertarians and pretty good journalists, but sometimes they drop ball.

[Crusty Juggler]

Donald Trump 'hosted wild parties with sex, cocaine and underage models' when he owned the Plaza Hotel

Donald Trump used to host wild cocaine-fueled sex parties with underage models as young as 15 at the Plaza Hotel, a new report claims.

Two men who attended the bashes said the Republican nominee threw them regularly in the suites of the Manhattan luxury hotel when he owned it between 1988 and 1995, the Daily Beast's Michael Gross reports.

Trump, who was married to his second wife Marla Maples at the time, never took cocaine at the parties, but would have sex with the girls, one of the men who attended has said.

While other guests did cocaine and drank, Trump was 'getting laid like crazy,' the man, a fashion photographer based in New York who wished to remain anonymous, said.

When will Reason cover this?!?!??!?!?

Also, I thought starring in Tremors 6 was a new low for Michael Gross, but writing for The Daily Beast is just sad.

[Krabappel]

Sounds like a voluntarily good time was had by all.

[gaoxiaen]

Henry the Horse agrees, while dancing the Watz.

[Florida Hipster]

Well now I have to consider voting for Trump. Damn you CJ, I used pen to fill out my sample ballot.

[Crusty Juggler]

Trump was in and out. He'd wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy,' he added.

'Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total f****** beast.'

"Vote Fuck Beast."

[Florida Hipster]

Don't blame me. I voted Fuck Beast.

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

Get you, fuck machine!

[Citizen X]

Fuck Beast 2016: Grab America By the Pussy

[straffinrun]

Trump was getting laid like crazy

What's the ruling on crazy doing the sticking it in part?

[Florida Hipster]

Don't let crazy stick it in you? Ladies. Lil help.

[Chipwooder]

Sounds almost as good as Jeff Epstein's shindigs at Pedo Island. Maybe someone could ask Bill Clinton about that?

[Idle Hands]

The stars are just like us.

[Tonio]

That's unlikely to alienate anyone who is already voting for him, and may attract a few more votes. Well-done, Daily Mail.

[The Fusionist]

Bear in mind that during most of this time he was a Democrat and had no reason to suppose the media would pile on him about a few peccadilloes.

[R C Dean]

I'm disappointed that Trump's response to the groping claims wasn't something like "Hey, I was a Democrat at the time. If it was good enough for Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy, it was good enough for me! "

[jarflax]

What other reason is there for being a billionaire and living in New York?

[Rasilio]

Well you could be Batman

[Zeb]

He really is our Silvio Berlusconi.

[The Late P Brooks]

Donald Trump used to host wild cocaine-fueled sex parties with underage models as young as 15 at the Plaza Hotel, a new report claims.

To Whom It May Concern:

If you think stories like this will make me refuse to vote for Trump, there's something you should know.

You're doing it wrong.

XOXO

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Had my job interview yesterday. I think I killed it. They have one more person to talk to. The other person is not affiliated with the recruiter that I am going through, so he can't give me any intel. Keep your fingers crossed. I am so ready to put Take This Job and Shove It on full volume and blast it across our fucking open floor plan.

[UnCivilServant]

Grats, I guess. Might be early to say that though.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Don't tase jinx me, bro!

[Florida Hipster]

Good Luck.

[Florida Hipster]

Also, I was listening to that song the other day and realized he didn't quit. He was singing about what he wanted to do if he had the courage to do it.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

HHMmm...maybe something from Office Space would be more appropriate. Like the song that played during the printer beating scene.

[Florida Hipster]

Alternatively, leave them with an ear worm. It'll drive them nuts for the rest of the day and they'll think of you whenever they hear it.

[The Fusionist]

A Rickroll?

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

Hall & Oates, She's Gone.

[The Fusionist]

Sure, if you want them to report you to Homeland Security. /sarc

[Elspeth Flashman]

Fingers crossed for you!

[Tonio]

Good luck. But don't burn your bridges.

[R C Dean]

Hope it works for you.

Seriously, though. Don't burn any bridges. Nothing but downside there, after the feelz rush wears off.

[Lord Rollingpin]

Thanks, I was going to say something similar, but you nailed it.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Thanks for the advice to a 44 year old who has been in the workforce 22 years and had many crappy jobs and not burned on single bridge, gize!

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

Mob of black teens descend on Temple University, beating and robbing students in apparently random attacks.

[Free Society]

Only four people in the mob got charged with a crime. Remarkable.

[Florida Hipster]

Multiple news sites reference a call for the mob on social media, but none of them say what the message was. They also claim random beatings but the only victims of the black mob are white (that I can find). I'm not saying there is a coverup, but more details would be nice.

[Zeb]

Gun free zones are awesome.

[Gadfly]

Incidents like this, of which I've seen many reported in the last couple years, are probably part of the reason (along with the riots) why confidence in police is up, despite their apparent tolerance for blue misbehavior.

[commodious cam't contmpla..]

That's my thinking, too. BLM really did reform efforts a disservice.

[IAMTHEGODOFTHEINTERNET]

CHIPOTLEISTHENEW9/11#NARWALARBY'S

[Agammamon]

Quetta, Pakiston

Damn American schooling.

[straffinrun]

They're using the social contract as toilet paper in Venezuela. That's how I'm gonna use mine.

[Zeb]

There will be a loud crack, as the social contract is broken. And there will be a loud pop as that contract ceases to exist. The mutual obligations it stipulated will disappear

Load of crap. The social contract isn't a real thing. Hillary is going to suck, but it's just another step in the direction we've been headed.

This is where the anarchist in me comes out, I guess. Commentary like that shows an undue trust in the possibility of good government. There is no social contract that has been holding things together and keeping people honest. Government is just another group of people doing shit. Once enough people have decided that the government is the country, and everything depends upon government policy and decisions, it's already too far gone. The world won't change. That's the world we already live in.

[Chips&Salsa]

The crack people hear will be the glass ceiling they think has been there.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

"no longer"?

[CatoTheChipper]

" There will be a loud crack, as the social contract is broken."

A fanciful metaphor about a fanciful metaphor.

No, there won't be a loud crack, nor will the social contract be suddenly broken. People might be disabused of the fantasies that they learned in government schools, and finally realize that the social contract is actually quite different from what they thought it was and that it is always subject to revision by the ruling elite.

[Citizen X]

What is this "social contract"? I never signed or saw such a thing.

[straffinrun]

And yet it has your signature on it. Did you leave your luggage unattended at some point?

[Swiss Servator]

Not going to admit dropping 6 figures on a lemon.

[Chipwooder]

Apple owners would pay $250 for a 1970s Coleco football game if it came in a stylish housing with an apple on it. The people who buy Teslas are making a statement, not buying a car.

[Zeb]

They are probably great when the batteries are charged and they aren't broken.

[Illocust]

Eh, my step dad is in love with the Tesla. He breathlessly await their every press release and then tells everyone he knows about how amazing they are. The latest one was pretty ridiculous, with him going on and on about how amazing Tesla is for getting a self driving car that can get on a highway and then get off the next exit. It's like he's completely forgotten about how google has been doing that for over a year now.

[Bubba Jones]

If they receive good service, people won't mind the extra hassle of dropping it off.

[Holger da Dane]

Speaking of signaling and driving a Tesla. I saw a Tesla on the road one day, complete with a little old baby-boomer lady behind the wheel, and the biggest Bernie sticker she could fit on the back of the car.

These people have no self awareness. If their political dreams came true, they would be driving a Wartburg to the bread lines. If they were not still starving in the car line.

[Bubba Jones]

This.

There was no glory day. It's petty corruption going back hundreds of years.

Realizing this is kinda liberating. And a relief.