FBI Investigates More Clinton Emails, Paul Krugman Can't Even Right Now, Halloween Costume Craziness: P.M. Links

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Jeff Malet Photography/Newscom So, the FBI is investigating some additional Hillary Clinton emails, after discovering something amiss during a separate investigation of Anthony Weiner's sexting. This storyline has officially jumped the shark.
- Paul Krugman is losing his mind, so that's something. Donna Brazile, too.
- One university says warpaint "threatens our sense of community."
- University of Texas discourages Halloween costumes that appropriate other cultures.
- Nobody at Yale thinks conservative students are welcome.
- Erika Christakis on censorship and Halloween costumes, one year later.
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This storyline has officially jumped the shark.
Friday afternoon announcement means the FBI is super serious about this.
Hello.
How awful can humans be?
Just look at the whole treatment of Steve Bartman saga.
Rufus, did you see the post a couple of days back where I told you I took my Canadian citizenship test ?
It was multiple-choice, and every answer was "eh".
They actually sneak one in there that's easy to miss asking what you're wearing on your left foot. The answer of course is 'a boot'.
No.
Why would you do that for?
/smirk.
Bartman has nothing to do with the Blue Jays though, or any other hockey team for that matter.
Hello. I've waited here for you everlong.
Friday afternoons and holiday weekends are when all the juicy stuff comes out
Usually for an agency to protect itself, but here the FBI is protecting a target of investigation.
I'm sure they need to hand out a few more immunities just to make sure no one can actually be prosecuted for breaking the law. This is so disgusting. We're so fucked.
Will he appoint the same lead investigator, the one who's wife received over $675,000 in Democrat funneled campaign contributions during the investigation, in charge ?
I'm sure he will get to the bottom of the corruption and criminality this time.
goo.gl/XFLSGt
The Virginia Democratic Party, over which Mr. McAuliffe exerts considerable control, donated an additional $207,788 worth of support to Dr. McCabe's campaign in the form of mailers, according to the records. That adds up to slightly more than $675,000 to her candidacy from entities either directly under Mr. McAuliffe's control or strongly influenced by him. The figure represents more than a third of all the campaign funds Dr. McCabe raised in the effort.
If you don't like the link it's easy enough to google if you're curious.
Someone pointed out that the $675,000 doesn't count as influence buying because McCabe lost the election.
Apparently you don't owe any quid pro quo in that eventually
They should have influenced mo $.
I am actually rather horrified that no one saw a problem with assigning this case to the husband of an aspiring politician.
Almost as if... It was intentional.
Oh come on. Putin obviously planted those emails on Weiner's computer! All the unnamed intelligence sources agree!
The proper term now is "Popped the eyeball."
Thanks to The Walking Dead.
What happened to riding the fridge?
Paul Krugman is losing his mind, so that's something. Donna Brazile, too.
It's a full election moon out for the next week or so.
Both of those ships sailed long ago.
Today on Campus Beat!
Hey they're better than Robby's last links.
That Krugman thing is gold!
Krugman is deflecting himself into a derp-fueled tizzy.
Heh. Now I'm seeing a "Tiger Beat" parody with Rico on the cover, 3/4 downshot with him looking up into the camera for maximum hair coverage.
You're welcome.
I LOLed.
Sister publication of Teen Beat and Tiger Beat?
Remember, never Beat a dead Campus.
Paul Krugman is losing his mind, so that's something. Donna Brazile, too.
Uhh.. Who dat?
Who dat? What's dat?
Hawaiian noises?
They're banging on the drums like a chimpanzee.
that ain't working
money for nothing
(BTW, thanks, C, I never understood the first word in the second verse.)
I always thought it was "what's all them noises? "
Who dat man?
One university says warpaint "threatens our sense of community."
Well, it is really just blackface lite.
Redface?
No, I'm not embarrassed by that joke at all.
My thoughts and prayers are not with you, then.
I mean, it's not like warpaint was limited to one culture or even one continent. As a Celtic-American, i am totally justified in dyeing myself with woad before charging into battle nude.
Do you pronounce Celtic the Larry Bird way or the wrong way?
Knives at dawn Jr., wear only a gold torq. (k)eltic is the right and only way.
I NEVER SEEN NO KELTIC DROP 60 POINTS ON THE ATLANTA HAWKS, MAN.
The French way: celtique.
They can turn anything gay. NTTAWWT
You can't fool me.
Celtique is one of the X-men, a hot chick whose power is she can become sloppy drunk instantaneously.
^Awesome
Correction: You were justified.
Past tense? No, i don't think so.
I guess he forgot about last Friday.
[Scowls at Half-V]
As a Celtic-American, i am totally justified in dyeing myself with woad before charging into battle nude.
Does this mean the Roman-Americans are totally justified in stomping on your face?
The Romans never got to Hibernia. And, by Toutatis, there was that one hold-out village of Gauls....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul.....-Gaul.html
I do the exact same thing, if you replace "charging into battle" with "going to work".
...Mom?
I have ancestry from both; do I have to conquer myself?
A different kind of Warpaint.
Warpaint is a decent band. I don't think they threaten anyone, really.
Well this sucks.. I was really looking forward to going as a Woad Warrior this year. Damn liberals!
Well this sucks.. I was really looking forward to going as a Woad Warrior this year. Damn liberals!
Well this sucks.. I was really looking forward to going as a Woad Warrior this year. Damn liberals!
Paul Krugman is losing his mind, so that's something. Donna Brazile, too.
Yeah, but how much did either have to lose, really?
It's easy and fun! Pick your faves and trade them with your friends!
http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
#1 and #3 look like contendas!
I could sure go for some taco bowl engagement.
Lame euphemism, dude.
Yo quiero
taco Bell?
Shoutout to beloved H&R commenter Sarcasmic. Hope your warrantless home search by CPS went well for you (as well as can be expected).
Whoa, that sucks. He has my thoughts, and even Eddie's prayers I imagine.
Yes.
Really? Is his ex going that route?
He said that it was because of something his kid said at school.
Yep...
The longer we go without hearing from him, the more I worry.
^This
If it turns to legal issue, isn't silence the best course?
That's all the positive spin I can put on 🙁
Yes. Particularly if the ex wife knows his handle and is waiting like a spider for any damaging admission.
Sarcasmic is very... er. demonstrative... So Ithink it's highly likely his wife can dig for dirt here.
I think he will either be very terse going forward or retire his current handle and reappear under a different handle. And like the Highlander, he will disguise himself so that nobody will recognize that the new guy is really the same person as the old guy who vanished.
I don't expect to hear anything anytime soon.
That is so fucked up. If I was licensed in his state I would offer my services.
Thank you. He said he wasn't able to afford legal representation.
Sarc, if this has turned out badly please let us know. I'm good for a few bucks if a gofundme is needed and wouldn't offend you.
ditto.
Me too, I will donate what I was going to give to Reason this year.(TDS has consequences)
I turn money into booze and weed like a third rate alchemist -- Sarc take your pick!
As would I.
Yes. Same here.
Me, too. And I like bacon-magic's take.
Count me in! Victims of psycho ex-spouses need to stick together.
I'm in. We Mainers have to stick together!
... Hobbit
Another Mainer chiming in, late-ish.
Willing to help if you'll allow.
I'd toss in a C-buck for legal rep. In a past life, I (tried to) help(ed) fathers who were getting screwed over by the "justice" system re: getting access to their kids and (while the litigation was ongoing) their salaries so's they actually had the resources to fight their psycho soon-to-be-exes.
Good luck. And if a GoFundMe is set up, ping me, please.
Yikes. Using the 'authorities' as a weapon in a divorce. Lovely.
Happened to my uncle and, yeah, it was truly horrific
Yep. I've had some male friends and relatives get raped and pillaged in court on these deals. It sucks and is usually unfairly tilted in the woman's favor.
It says a lot that hitmen are cheaper than lawyers.
It says a lot that hitmen are cheaper than lawyers.
Nah everything will be fine. His male privilege will protect him surely.
Free thinking around the kids is way too dangerous. They now that kids are too susceptible to non-government controlled education that's why they punish those parents so tough. I hope Sarc can come through unscathed.
Ixnay on the "elovedbay ommentercay" - a look at his browser history and his comments here probably ain't gonna be a character witness for the defense.
I've mentioned here before my sister worked for DFACS and there were generally two types of people there - ones like my sister who really cared about the kids, oftentimes because of their own childhood experiences, and the do-gooder ones, generally upper-middle-class types who really had no clue how the other half lives. Her go-to illustration is that if you got one of the do-gooder types doing a home check they'd mark you down for having dirty dishes in the sink and piles of laundry laying around. If my sister showed up, she'd check for dirty dishes in the sink and piles of laundry laying around and if there weren't any she'd demand to know why not. When the hell was the last time was you fed the kids and where the hell are all the kids' clothes? Let's hope Sarc gets one of the good ones.
The child experiences crowd are not always the best guys to run into.
It was one of those that nearly cost me the kids.... she saw similarities to her childhood in my household and decided to get revenge on me for the wrongs done to her.
The deposition where she basically took the Clinton route ("I can't remember", "I don't know what I said because I was going through my own issues at the time", "I never emailed him." ... /after being handed an email from me to her and her reply "Oh wait! I just remembered! I forgot to archive my emails and that's why I didn't find any when I was subpoenaed") was surreal: I have never been so happy and angry at the same time.
I like that.
Having to worry about things like this is one reason why I'm never marrying or having kids.
I saw him post here once of twice in the last couple of weeks, but much much less than usual. So I don't think he's incarcerated, necessarily...
University of Texas discourages Halloween costumes that appropriate other cultures.
Slutty microbials.
A yeast infection is not the kind of culture you want to be appropriating. Trust me.
That's no way to talk to Tony Orlando.
Good thing my culture is represented by a long tradition of invading other cultures, raping and enslaving and slaughtering the locals (not necessarily in that order) and stealing all their shit. We're not going to have some double standard with regards to marginalizing my culture, are we?
You're a Mexican? (Aztec or Spanish descent, works either way)
Paul Krugman is losing his mind? Wrong tense by accident or to bring the funny?
This storyline has officially jumped the shark.
I think we are in for at least a triple shark jump.
Derp of the Day:
Um, yeah, those "heavily armed" white men were arrested too, and one of them was killed. And you can't be acquitted until you've been tried, which hasn't happened yet.
If Malheur was native land, how come the federal government was claiming it as a National Wildlife Refuge, and why weren't you doing anything about that?
The trial wrapped up yesterday, actually, and they were all acquitted. They were almost convicted on some of the charges, but it turned out that the juror pushing for the guilty verdict was a fromer BLM employee and admitted to being heavily biased against the defendants. The judge kicked him off and then the jury refused to convict.
Yeah, that was poorly written. Sorry. Made sense to me at the time. The sentence you quoted was in reference to the pipleline protesters, not the Malheur protesters. I was pointing out that it was ridiculous comparing the outcome of a done deal (Malheur) to something still in progress (Pipeline).
Its funny - both groups are protesting Federal actions. One group is the one Progressives think should have been flat out murdered for doing so, the other group they think should have been left alone to continue.
Ah, gotcha. I kind of figured that might be the case...after I had already hit "submit".
That's pretty ironic. One of them was killed by law enforcement, so you'd think the BLM guy would sympathize (if it were really victims of police homocides he cared about).
Should just go change their name to the We Hate White People movement, it'd be far more relevant to their ethos.
It's the other even more useless BLM
Let's give Robby credit for getting the links out on time.
Never forget(Thanks InjunfromIndia wherever you are, hope you are well)
LOL! Great Hitler meme dog!
Only 4/6 are Robbyhorses. It's a measurable improvement.
Look, if Robby doesn't cover the college beat, how's he going to have an excuse to talk to co-eds?
Solid point. Offering to sell them meth only goes so far as a conversation starter.
All kidding aside,
Robby really can use his trolling for good, not just evil.
That is awesome. He must of channeled his other personality Milo for that.
Zero Sum clicks the links, so he outed himself as a loser. LOSER!
That's great, though - well done, Soave.
I usually refuse to click links to Twitter especially, out of spite for that shitty platform. This is one of the rare times I actually did and ended up with a worthwhile belly laugh.
Dude Robby has a picture of Link from Zelda as his Twitter handle? Niiiiice.
Milo is what happens when Rico puts on The Mask.
Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time? Just asking questions here.
You couldn't actually link to the tweet, but only to a screenshot?
I'll be honest: I don't know how to permalink a tweet and I don't know if the link Robby posted has a lifetime or will eventually linkrot. I'm not a neoluddite or anything, I just hate Twitter. I just have to get over the hump of not giving a fuck about it to learn how to do anything related to it. It'll happen any day now, I'm sure.
If I really wanted to troll you guys, I could've taken a picture of the screen with my phone and linked that to you.
Taken a *video* with your phone. Portrait mode. With the screen all shaky.
Bonus points if you can get some chick to yell hysterically in the background.
I think the way to get the direct link to the tweet is to click on the timestamp (the date just above the actual tweet).
If you recall the derp-tastic article I posted the other day about how the debt doesn't really exist, the guy apparently got a bunch of angry reactions and has decided to double down on the stupid.
Trigger warning: contains stupid bullshit and shouldn't be read by anyone.
And I get my money from bacon grease! What's the problem?!?
We run the grease racket in this town! And the shovel racket.
"...The government can "print" any amount of money it wants..."
He's right, ya know.
And I'm sure he wouldn't paying his grocery bill with a wheel-barrow full of currency, since 'they can print all the money they want'.
Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Or something like that.
That's true. My cousin flunked US History, had to take it again the next year.
The sad thing is the people who do learn from history are condemned to repeat it as well.
Good point. Prior knowledge alone is not sufficient to avoid being part of the collateral damage.
I'm not sure what is sufficient to avoid the train wreck that is coming.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And always look on the bright side of life.
thestreet.com is printing that kind of idiocy?
"436 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days."
No thanks.
The first few were too many.
As someone pointed out the first time, if the debt is meaningless why does the Gov. tax us at all then ?
If printing money for Gov. spending has no effect then why don't they cover all their *investments* that way ?
Hyperinflation episodes in history
"Hyperinflationary episodes have appeared several times over the past century ? 55, to be exact ? as the world's nations have experimented with fiat currencies backed by the full faith and credit of the governments that issue them. At times, that full faith and credit has been misplaced ? and holders of unstable currencies have been caught empty-handed in countries all over the world"
"The government can "print" any amount of money it wants....436 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days."
Did you sign up?
Copy the title, paste it into Google, clink the article, read the full article for free.
So assuming it magically works the way it does:
If the Government CAN pay for things magically by getting debt which apparently isn't even remotely bad.
WHY ARE THEY TAKING MY MONEY?!
It's a simple question. They clearly don't NEED my money because debt is magic. So why would they take money from the citizens that they DON'T NEED?? Is he saying the government is tyrannical??
^This here
Same reason the honest liberal will, if drunk enough, admit that they know that punitively high marginal tax rates actually reduce revenue, but want to do it anyway.
Huh, it let me read the whole thing, and no, I never signed up.
Anyway the short version is Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany were special cases that can never happen to a country as large and with access to as many resources as 'Murica.
Because currency devaluation never happened anywhere else in the world. Ever.
with access to as many resources as 'Murica
Would those resources they can access include our wallets, by any chance?
Total market value of the S&P 500 is roughly equal to the national debt.
So nationalize IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Google, Derpbook etc. and we can wipe the slate clean.
Good thing debt doesn't matter
Which is why gas is still ten cents a gallon and a bottle of coke can be had for a shiny nickel.
Pepsi-Cola hits the spot!
Twelve full ounces, that's a lot!
Twice as much for a nickel, too!
Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you!
"...This is an ad..."
- Jimmy Valmer
Nobody at Yale thinks conservative students are welcome.
It's called university not diversity. Go be nonconformist somewhere else.
So, the FBI is investigating some additional Hillary Clinton emails, after discovering something amiss during a separate investigation of Anthony Weiner's sexting. This storyline has officially jumped the shark.
Thank you Breitbart wherever you are.
Vernon councillor says city wading into 'culture wars' with 'divisive' rainbow crosswalk
Posting for no other reason than it's my hometown, in the news finally!
Maybe it's just me, but crosswalks should look like crosswalks.
So pedestrians don't, you know, get run over.
So you're saying you're a bigot.
/sarc
No one need 23 different kinds of crosswalks.
Christ, why do people do this? Think of my Facederp feed, Councillor Scott Anderson! Now there will be a preening parade of enlightened right-thinkers the whole weekend.
Jesus, man, that hill has been overrun, wounded have been shot and prisoners shipped off for brain washing. Just raise your hand and nod.
I find this idea othering to the colour-blind.
Fuck the colo*u*r-blind. Damned foreigner, can't spell proper 'Mercan.
You sir shall speak the Queen's English properly or not at all, you colonial cad!
Some of us aren't don't have to pay gold bricking type setting union members to stick extra 'u's in words.
But apparently you're paying them for apostrophes.
Well, you've got one sane and reasonable city council member there, so that's news-worthy. How fast they gonna make him an ex-city council member for that kind of divisive nonsense about how we shouldn't all be so divisive?
Does the city council know that its not actually something they should be doing, this 'solidarity' with *any subset of their community*.
They're supposed to serve everyone there equally - this gives the impression of favoritism. And as I was told when I worked for the government, if it *looks* unethical you have to treat it as if it is - even if its *technically* legal.
Paul Krugman is losing his mind, so that's something. Donna Brazile, too.
James Comey pissing both sides off makes me squeal with glee.
It's how we know he's good at his job.
Since when are Krugnuts and Brazil eon opposite sides?
I think he's talking abou the "the election is rigged" rhetoric used by krugman and how similar it us to Trump. I can't wait for alk tge thought pieces criticising krugman for even saying such a thing, and for john oliver to mock him for such a fantastic view.
Robby Horses on a stampede today
I think you've caused enough trouble today. Go take a timeout.
oh please. You can't hang the ENB-breakdown all on me.
and i really don't think there's anything at all inappropriate about pointing out that the idea of 'self-ownership' (e.g. 'pro sex-work') runs into some serious confusion when your stated support for freedom-of-association is 'iffy at best'... having specifically argued that "people don't have the right to discriminate between customers".
Link? Please.
*ibid
Thank you.
She started it, and you finished it. Right?
So clever. Much smug.
To be fair, College Halloween-Costume Kerfuffles are a huge part of all of our lives.
Wait, so why is the Weiner sexting thing a federal case in the first place?
crossing state lines?
He was sexting a 15 year old.
Can't make this stuff up.
And sex crimes are in the Constitution where?
... Hobbit
It's a different time. When the Constitution was written sex hadn't been invented yet.
Nor had state lines.
No it was invented and the constitution guaranteed you could have all the sex you want with the flintlock muskets that were available at the time the constitution was written.
Ex-National Guard Member From Virginia Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charge After Supporting ISIS
Sierra Leone?! I didn't realize they were setting up franchises so far afield.
Sounds like someone is too naive to hold any position of authority at any university.
Internet Scams More Successful With Millennials Than Seniors
Somebody from the Internet called. Why would they lie?
What are the numbers like when weighted by usage?
Don't ruin the headline.
Its what I do.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
Previous successes have made seniors immune.
Putin Ally Died in U.S. After Drunken Fall, Not Foul Play, Prosecutors Say
Falls and smashes his head while blind drunk? That doesn't sound very Russian.
A likely story...
He was looking for the wessels.
Wreckage of U-boat sunken by 'sea monster' found off UK
TW: Scottish Energy News is a pinko, Commie rag.
I thought Warty was younger than that.
My guess: It was one of the numerous discarded doomcocks Warty so haphazardly detaches and tosses into the sea.
Time-travel, Scott. Warty has been everywhere and everywhen.
He's a the Timelord.
Too many Jager bombs, Capt. Krech?
SCOTUS Takes Up Trans-Toilet Case
If "where people pee" hasn't been too-ridiculous a public-debate up until now... oh, just wait
Sharkford is way ahead of you. By one minute.
And with better alt text.
SO NOT COOL MAN
related =
SCOTUS to Take Up 'Whether Sex Offenders Can Be Banned from Social Media'
Didn't know that was a thing. Jeesus, that seems ridiculous. Isn't this just leading to some sort of insistence that "sex offenders" be put under 24/7 scrutiny for the rest of their lives?
If you want them under 24/7 scrutiny, shouldn't you enourage them posting on "social media"?
good point
PedoBear Foursquare check-ins.
Probably so. And the progs are salivating at the proposition of being able to create multi-tiered citizenship. "Class 4 citizens banned from this area at all times."
I take it they're not going to go with the Brave New World name scheme after the Longtorsos of the world ruined their terms 'alpha' and 'beta'.
Heh.
Social Media are private businesses.
So, no.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKE9W0O8bX8
The brief Mr. Show chat from yesterday sent me on a clip hunt. Your story instantly brought this to mind.
I didn't respond yesterday, but I did think it was funny that we could have confusion over *which* blowjob-themed joke from Mr. Show we were talking about. There are several good ones to choose from.
"I have great respect for the fact that the F.B.I. and the D.O.J. are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made," Mr. Trump said
So, Comey and Lynch will continue into the Trump administration?
Where's Lynch at in all this?
Maybe looking down the barrel of Comey's woodchipper?
She's in the West Wing, getting marching orders from Valerie Jarrett.
Nah. Her people and Bill's people are arranging another totally coincidental meet-cute to talk about grandkids.
Commie-kid was here last week assuring us that only right-wing wackos use violence:
"Rock thrown through Trump-tied Mission tattoo shop"
[...]
"A rock shattered the window of a Mission District tattoo shop that has been the target of a graffiti campaign after it became known that the shop owner's boyfriend was a Donald Trump supporter."
http://blog.sfgate.com/inthemi.....ttoo-shop/
Wasn't a Trump campaign HQ torched a while back? I recall that the local opposition were so embarrased that they donated to rebuild the place.
Not gonna happen in SF; it's a very tolerant place so long as you 'think right'.
That was a Republican Party office in North Carolina I think.
"after it became known that the shop owner's boyfriend was a Donald Trump supporter."
Owner's boyfriend? Seriously? That's the reason you vandalize a business? Terrifying.
That's merely the excuse the vandal needed.
I heard the McDonald's near me is owned by a guy whose niece's best friend voted for Bush, on my way to torch it right now.
Reddit /r/politics always delivers:
This hurts too much to laugh. My boss is laughing about it right now. Salty tears for everyone!
Different sub reddit but more clueless:
Oh how little they understand.
or care.
... Hobbit
Another stupid statist:
Such stupid.
I wonder what it is like to turn being obtuse from a way of life to an art form?
Buy this...um, person a drink.
Russia Unveils "Satan 2" Missile
Onion, right??
*Clicks link*
Well shit.
"is capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France,"
Either lies, or the crazy guy who told me a few years ago that the entire world's population would be reduced to 1/3 of it's population by the end of this year actually WAS a prophet.
Lies. Something that big would have a yield several orders of magnitude larger than even the theoretical maximum yield on the Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear warhead ever developed.
Yeah, something that powerful would be a SMOD-level extinction event.
Lies.
Its 40 megatons. The Soviets already detonated a 50 MT back during the Cold War - Tsar Bomba. *That* one didn't cover an area the size of Texas with anything.
Plus, the issue is that there's a difference between a *rocket* and a *nuclear weapon* (with an exception made for nuclear rockets which can double as both).
RS-28 Sarmat rocket "is capable of wiping out parts of the earth the size of Texas or France,"
Bulllshit Russia (I know, propaganda). The rocket can't do shit but send the actual payload to its location.
And according to nuke map, you need some goddamn big nukes to take out Texas or France.
There is also a theoretical limit to the size of a nuke. Something about the explosion destroying fuel before it can be consumed. However, they could be building a dirty bomb of some sort.
... Hobbit
We've all agreed that their claim is bullshit. Let's assume it can carry double the warheads of the previous Satan, the SS-18 (NATO), R-36M (what the Russians called it). Which would be a gigantic number. That monster was huge, similar to the Titan 2, but supersized, and usually carried on the order of 10-15 500kT weapons or one 25MT weapon whose purpose was, as Tom Clancy put it, "to turn Cheyenne Mountain into Cheyenne Lake."
From the very helpful Dr. Alex Wellerstein's NUKEMAP site, we can predict how much area is destroyed by a given nuclear device. Let's make each warhead 1 Mt, instead of 500kT. It's in the ballpark anyway. For nuclear warplanning, it's assumed that everything within the 5 PSI overpressure ring is destroyed when we're taking about non-hardened targets. For a 1 MT airburst of optimum height (not quite 2 miles AGL), 5 PSI overpressure is present within an area of 60 sq. miles. Everything in there is going to be set on fire (3rd degree burns are happening to anything within 7.5 miles of ground zero) and smacked with 160 MPH winds
Multiply that by the 30 warheads we're worst-casing, and you're busting up a good 1800 sq miles of Texas. Which is the area of a 23-ish mile radius circle, or about the size of the greater Houston metropolitan area. Bad news, but not the size of Texas.
FWIW, using the same criteria as above (160-ish MPH or greater within the given effects radius) and using a more applicable model like the Impact Effects Calculator for meteors, a bolide moving at typical cometary impact speeds (51 km/s), and as dense as iron, need only be 0.9 miles across to cause 145 MPH or greater winds within a 450 mile radius area. Which is around the size of Texas. You'd get a crater about 35 miles across. Or a touch less than the size of the Manicouagan impact crater.
Its kinetic energy would be around 4 million megatons, and it's thought we get hit with things like that about every 13 million years or so.
Nature doesn't screw around.
One doesn't even need to invoke a SMOD. The Yellowstone Caldera could let go.
Millenials Wants Employers to Make Them Happy with Free Stuff
I'm young! Gimme gimme gimme!
Hasn't this stuff gone on forever? When I was a kid (80s) my dad got all sorts of crap (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc) with the company logo on it.
Losers.
I never expected - and didn't get - no perks.
/WAVES FIST.
Let's be real, you mean 'cane' Rufus.
Walker.
I mean I wouldn't say no to some tickets to the Vikings game. But I'm dead last in the pecking order, got some Twins tickets once, at 530pm when the rest of the world had passed.
I feel similarly, my Dad used to get tickets to games and he'd take me or one of my siblings. But once he transferred to a new company that ended.
Free stuff? That isn't free stuff? that's just another form of compensation.
And employees like compensation.
AND TAXABLE!
Hey kids, you know what's a great job with tons of perks?
The military!
Want free trips around the world and all the rum and sodomy you could want? Join the navy!
Caution: Free trips around the world may result in you freezing your ass off somewhere far north. The navy no longer provides rum because they're less fun than they used to be. But at least there's women in the ships now. Which is a mixed bag apparently.
How about Secretary of State? Hillary Clinton set a record for countries visited after all. And had nothing to show for it at the end.
Nothing? She was bagging millions for her foundation in pay-for-access deals.
There's no rum in the US Navy - we'vethey've been dry for a hundred years.
Way to be even less fun than the bloody Royal Navy guys. Up here it ended in 1972. The fucking New Zealanders got to keep it til the 1990s, lucky bastards.
"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash." Rum and the lash both now forbidden; sodomy, formerly forbidden, now legal.
sodomy, formerly forbidden, now legal.
There's still debate as to whether it was 'behind closed doors only please' or 'don't put your penis in that man's butt or a sea monster will eat us.'
I thought sodomy was mandatory. At least that's what I was told. At least five or six times ...
Just today, my boss left a bag of assorted "fun size" candy bars in the break room.
I think they should rename those Disappointing Size.
Brilliant!
No, "joke size."
Skyscanner, an Edinburgh-based flight comparison site, gives employees discounts at local sandwich shops and hairdressers.
This is a perk that Robby Soave would overuse.
Could bottomless fruit sushi platters be an employee perk?
So, they being given gifts is more satisfying then getting paid?
It is not just the entitlement, but the form it takes is just so childish and cheap.
My employer already gives me a big amazon gift card every month, which doubles as a Walmart, target, and McDonald's gift card. It's called a salary. Well, a stipend in my case.
Nevada Senate Race Brings Out Union Big-Guns
Chartered buses shuttle casino workers to an early voting site during their paid lunch break, and they're handed a boxed lunch for the ride back.
So, coercion and bribery.
Not seeing any coercion here.
Culinary Union members may be mindlessly voting (D) here but there's no evidence anyone is forcing them to.
That Jacob hacker guy from early today is a totalitarian top man. I knew I had recognized his name before
He wrote that if you want prosperity vote blue clap trap
Hey staffinrun, remember that crazy heckler guy you posted in the A.M. links? I already watched the entirety of that clip when Rufus posted it a few days ago. So give me my can of dog food or whatever.
Could Weiner's weiner actually end up affecting the presidential race? You can't make this shit up.
It must be one hell of a penis to warrant top secret status.
Like you don't know what it looks like.
I guess.
Did you finally get your internet back after being forced to cancel it after you lost your shirt in bad bets on the stock market?
Weiner looms small.
HUMA AND HILLARY DONT LIKE WIENERS PUN INTENDED MIKE M. TOLD ME SO
Two women busted for election fraud in Miami-Dade
resulting in an unknown ? but small ? number of fraudulent votes being cast for mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado.
I assume they assume it was small because of the size of her operation?
Not possible, reason assures us that voting fraud dies not happen
Krugman nugget: Yet the announcement has done measurable damage to the Clinton campaign -- which was predictable. Comey behavior inexcusable.
Actually, Comey's stopping the investigation before was inexcusable.
And it's doubtful the announcement alone will do much, unless there's more to follow it up.
When Comey concluded the investigation: that was unbiased justice, from authority on high, in the noblest of spirits and virtues.
This?
This is just plain political maneuvering.
You can tell by whether it makes Hillary look bad or not.
Oh, Buddha....
"As a part-time comedian..."
The good thing about this scandal is that it gives us an indication of what we'll be hearing the next 4 yrs... "YAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGAAAAAAAGGGGGG... DON'T YOU FUCKING PROGGIES UNDERSTAND? ANTHONY WEINER'S EMAILS TO AN UNDERAGE GIRL PROVES THAT CLINTON HAS BEEN SELLING STATE SECRETS TO ISIS? FUCK, MAN, IS THIS TOO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND?"
Does it hurt being that dumb? It must hurt.
Dumb? Not much self awareness there. But being a totally unrepentant racist? Totally self aware.
You were taken in by a Jason Chaffetz press release and I wasn't. That makes you the sucker, sucker.
You do realize that the only reason you're so arrogant is because you're too profoundly stupid to actually understand the world around you right?
If he realized that, he wouldn't be so profoundly stupid in the first place.
Being stupid is like being dead. It mostly affects other people.
Your tears are delicious.
Hey everybody, let's pretend you don't know who Weiner is married to and who also used those devices so we can change the subject real quick.
Ok, caught up on campus news around America.
DT:"THIS IS BIGGER THAN WATERGATE!"
Can someone make this utter bullshit stop? Please.
It's not bigger than Watergate. Nixon got in trouble because he covered up a break-in at a hotel which was designed to figure out what the democrats were up to.
All hillary did was guide the foreign policy and american war machine in accordance to which governments donated, and how much.
Yeah, Nixon was a Girl Scout compared to Hillary at dirty dealings.
Not only was he a paragon of political virtue compared to Hillary, Nixon was as competent, realistic, and successful in foreign affairs as she has been incompetent, unrealistic, and spectacularly unsuccessful during her tenure as SoS.
It really amazes that Democrats would nominate such an abject failure (from the standpoint of anybody not named Clinton.) Of course, it also amazes that the GOP would nominate a caricature of Silvio Berlusconi.
Am Soc, Can you please send me your contact information? Id love to meet with you for the following reasons:
1) is there seriously out there a faction of people who think like you do?
2) do you meet all my stereotypes of being an insufferable homo twat?
3) Can we end our date with an unarmed fight to the death in a parking lot (Yes, I am an average height gal, but I'm pretty sure I can kick your ass all over the place simply based on your bleating comments.)?
Let's meet up and get diverse!!
Email Gate, again? But Trump grabbed some pussies!
Hilarious.
Turns out Clarence (the Affirmative Action Justice) Thomas, is a groper too.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/.....legations/
Wasn't he lynched [rhetorically!] for this?
Hurrr! Nice racism gig. Now you get to add a negroid notch to your bigot stick. You fucking suck.
Did he grope you, shreek? I didn't realize he lives in Dogdick.
One tiny bit of a silver lining if Trump wins this is all the leftard heads that will assplode.
-jcr
Shreek hit hardest.
He's not going to win but I agree the head explosions would be phenomenal.
Yes, I want it to happen now, just for the lulz.
So, the FBI is investigating some additional Hillary Clinton emails, after discovering something amiss during a separate investigation of Anthony Weiner's sexting.
Hillary blame the Russians yet?
CNN headline about emails: "Clinton wants answers!' No seriously. That's the actual fucking headline.
Guess she shouldnta done all that shady file sharing/storing stuff then.
Karma's a bitch.
She can blame Huma for this one...
Wouldn't these e-mails Weiner received from Hillary be emails we previously saw from the investigation into the e-mails she sent?
Or maybe they're copies of emails that were since deleted and unrecovered?
These may be the same, they may be different. that's why the FBI needs to do due-dilligence.
I suspect it's both. Any new ones and the immunity deals are off.
What if there is classified intel on Weiner's laptop? Wouldn't this be a new level of breach and wouldn't someone need to go to jail? This isn't just careless, this is an actual breach.
The immunity deals were only as a condition for turning over the original laptops. This laptop was seized in a completely different investigation of a different person (Anthony Weiner) and different crime (sexting with a minor). They wouldn't be covered by the immunity agreement. Anything they find on here is outside the scope of the other immunity agreements. If they're copies of other emails they've found, they can be used as evidence against the original people.
If we get a Trump regime, I will not only blame those who voted for him, I will also blame the Democrats for nominating the only crook who could possibly lose to him.
This election would be a cake walk for any decent human being running against Trump, but for some reason it was apparently necessary to feed Hillary's black hole-sized ego.
Nominating her for president is like tossing her the Department of State as a consolation prize, but several orders of magnitude worse. It is the greatest mistake that Democrats have made since firing on Fort Sumter.
-jcr
"any decent human being"
I think modern politicians are required to be sociopaths, so good luck finding that decent human being.
Yes, because Robby Soave wants to go back to writing bullshit articles about rape culture and people who hurt other people's feelings on college campuses.
Reason Magazine's coverage of this election has been nothing but vapid and disgustingly shallow. They should bring Virginia Postrel back and fire most of the staff here.
Yeah?
No shit.