Trump Selects Betsy Devos for Education Secretary, Jill Stein Raising Money for Recount, Monday Night Football Ratings Collapse: P.M. Links

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  Donald Trump selected Betsy Devos for Secretary of Education. Ben Carson may be mulling an offer to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

• Trump says he wants Apple's Tim Cook to build iPhones in the United States.
• Vox.com's not saying the election was rigged, but it does want Hillary Clinton to request recounts, while Jill Stein is raising money to do so.
• Mosul is reportedly surrounded by Iraqi-led forces.
• Ayatollah Khamanei says Iran would react if the U.S. renewed sanctions against it.
• The central bank of Mexico cut its growth outlook for 2017, based on risks posed by potential U.S. policies.
• Monday Night Football ratings collapsed for ESPN this week.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump selected Betsy Devos for Secretary of Education. Ben Carson may be mulling an offer to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Let the healing begin.

[FreeToFear]

Whoa whoa whoa... He picked a woman to be Secretary of Education? Because only Women can be secretaries and teachers?!? What a sexist

[Zunalter]

[opera clap]

[Aloisius Kohalich]

Who's Trump going to pick to replace Tea Leoni?

[But Enough About Me]

No one can replace Tea Leoni. She's just too . . . perky.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Does Betsy hate the children?

[MarkLastname]

Yes. She is a long time advocate for school choice, which means she has probably murdered and raped and eaten hundreds of children.

[RBS]

Sure, but not necessarily in that order...

[Free Society]

She's the type who'd want to have her children and eat them too.

[Zero Sum Game]

Reavers for teachers.

[MarkLastname]

True. I think her predecessor at the Alliance for School Choice was caught on tape raping a half eaten corpse, which shocked those accustomed to the eating of half raped corpses.

[C. Anacreon]

What happened to the idea of putting Christina Rhee in charge? I thought she would have rocked that post.

Too lefty on issues besides school choice, perhaps?

[Tuan Jim]

Not sure, but one WaPo article today said she had tweeted that she wasn't interested.

[CatoTheChipper]

Read up about Rhee's husband. I don't think she'd get past confirmation no matter how good she is.

[Sansos]

Yeah Kevin Johnson is kinda a corrupt douche.

[jesse.in.mb]

A woman Secretary of Education!? THIS IS JUST HOW CAPRICA GOT DESTROYED

[Fist of Etiquette]

How. DARE. You.

I had finally erased that thing from my memory.

[Stickler Meeseeks]

That's exactly the kind of thing a Cylon would say!

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

To which the proper response is:

IM HUMAN!!!!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Not if you watched all of CAPRICA you're not.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Two BSG references in two day!

I love this place.

[dan'o en barrel]

Was really hoping for Eva Moskowitz... not only because I think she'd be great, but also because it would really piss off de Blasio

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Amway soap for all the schoolchildren!

[Marty Comanche]

And ... her brother is Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater.

[BigT]

Betsy Devos?

Are we not men?

[Swiss Servator]

OK, this is a bit late, but must be done.

*narrows gaze*

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump says he wants Apple's Tim Cook to build iPhones in the United States.

Because they're not expensive enough.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

The best part? Trump wants Cook to build them himself.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

And make Foxconn pay for them.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Someplace with a low regulatory burden, low overhead, and low wages, like Manhattan or San Francisco.

[FreeToFear]

the joy that those workers feel at being paid a living wage will mean they can make way more iPhones than foxconn, duh

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Kraft durch Freude!

[jack sprat]

He's bossing around gays! Evil, bad man!

[Robert]

Everybody's been afraid Trump will try to get his nationalist economic policies by some bad means like burdening int'l trade, but instead it's leading to something good, cutting taxes.

[__Warren__]

If a pussy is sucking it up, can it also be grabbed at the same time?

[Free Society]

First off, yes but it's hard to get a firm grip, you need to grab that pussy like you would grip a bowling ball.

[jack sprat]

No, bowling ball grip is the shocker method.
Yes, as a matter of fact it is a favorite of mine.

[Free Society]

Secondly, if a solid grip is achieved while not using the bowling ball method to do so, it's probably a penis.

[Sevo]

Largest state employees' union sets 1-day strike for Dec. 5
[?]
"The Sacramento-based union's employees voted 92 percent in favor of a strike on Nov. 15 if their demands couldn't be met. State negotiators had offered the union an increase in pay of nearly 3 percent per year, or roughly 12 percent over four years.
In rejecting that offer, union officials criticized another condition of the proposed raise: mandatory increased employee contributions to their own retirement plans, as well as restrictions on retirement health benefits for new state hires."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/art.....631790.php

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

California being eaten from the inside out. A glorious sight to see.

[MarkLastname]

We'd better get Calexit pushed through as soon as possible before they realize they're going to need the rest of us to cover their hundreds of billions of dollars in liabilities.

[Hyperion]

Don't worry, Canada's got them covered... oh wait, never mind.

[american socialist]

You know that we here in Cali pay more in taxes than we receive from Wash D.C. Combine the fact that I don't think Californians care for invading Iraq and 600 billion dollar defense budgets and I think Sevo there in SF might be getting a tax break. Too bad, I guess, about all the Social Security, Medicare and other forms of Welfare he gets. Maybe it will balance out. Why don't we give it a try?

[Sevo]

Fuck off, asswipe.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

I see he's back to enlighten us.

[BigT]

You should pay even more, you're getting fat off of all that cheap illegal alien labor and adding to the regulatory burden of all. Get the fuck out of the country.

[american socialist]

This is a criticism being levied on a libertarian website? Why should you care about cheap labor from illegal immigrants? As for getting out of the country, talk to my wife. I've been threatening divorce over the matter.

[DenverJ]

So she thinks you're an idiot, too.

[MarkLastname]

Which is completely beside my point: that you have enormous (and fast-growing) unfundable liabilities (state employee pensions being the most notable one, among many) that are going to be materializing at an unsustainable rate in the near future.

Current revenue minus current state expenditure isn't a good way to measure the fiscal state of things; you also should take into account future liabilities and future revenues, and assuming the state of California doesn't discover more gold soon, to put it mildly, you're fucked.

[Austrian Anarchy]

If only the disgruntled Clinton voters would strike for a month or two.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

Monday Night Football ratings collapsed for ESPN this week.

Turn out the lights, the party's over.

[Ted S.]

Fuck Forbes' ad-heavy pages.

[Rhywun]

They also block adblock. Haven't been there in months.

[C. Anacreon]

How'd that happen? Everyone I know watched that Raiders game.

/Pauline Kael of Oakland 2016

[Hyperion]

Raiiidddderrzzzz!

[Mickey Rat]

Houston's star player is out on season ending injury the Raiders are threatening to leave Oakland again, it was another regular season game played outside the country. Maybe it was just an unattractive product for casual viewers by a League that is crapping on its base customers?

[Hyperion]

I can actually see why the Raiders want to leave Oakland. They're a speed team who cannot remain standing up on torn up artificial turf. And with Oakland in no way having the cash to replace the oldest stadium in the NFL, which BTW is shared with a baseball team, they often have problems at home even thought they're great on the road.

[Mickey Rat]

Maybe thay have good reasons, but that is not going to excite the local fan base, and they have been bad for so long their out of town fan base is likely down as well.

[Hyperion]

Not so much, there are quite a few Raiders fans here on the EC USA. Raiders fans are pretty die hard. I suspect they will remain just as popular in New Vegas.

[Bubba Jones]

Just saw a raiders t shirt with a Texas outline on it. Actually pretty cool.

[Bubba Jones]

You can replace the turf without replacing the whole stadium.

[Swiss Servator]

Somebody tell the #$% McCaskey family that....

[BigT]

"League that is crapping on its base customers"

THIS!! In their efforts to appeal to fringe fans they have damaged the product.

MNF and SNL have outlived their usefulness.

[Tonio]

Wishing everyone a safe, happy and plentiful Thanksgiving. I realize that many of us will be sharing a table with progressives and wish everyone the strength to take the moral high ground and not participate in wrecking the holiday or meal for everyone else; that is in itself a small moral victory.

[Private Chipperbot]

Cheers!

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

And to you, Tonio - along with all the other deplorables - may you have an enjoyable Original Cultural Appropriation Day as well.

[FreeToFear]

or is it... Ab-Original Cultural Appropriation Day??

[Tonio]

Boo!

[DenverJ]

Another monicker, eh junior? You change your handle more often than I change my sheets.

[C. Anacreon]

Eeeewwww!

-Teenage Girl

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

Everybody here has their thing...Fist is a sentient offshoot of HnR, Playa is the Chipotle guy (he can deny it all he likes), sarcasmic likes 'em too thin, John likes 'em too thick and is Red Tony - I guess that's two things - and on and on it goes. Crusty has restraining orders against him in every state and technically isn't even supposed to be in the same room as himself.

Me? I'm the handle-change guy. And every day I wake up in the morning, I throw down a steaming cup of joe, look myself in the mirror, and ask: "Is today the day? Will I change my handle again...today??"

Most days, the answer is no. But once every 10-14 days or so, the answer is yes.

[Swiss Servator]

I used to make mine the rotating Swiss feature - but couldn't keep up. I admire that you can.

[Juvenile Bluster]

A Happy Thanksgiving to you, Tonio. I will be spending my holiday with my grandmother, who's voted Democrat in every election since 1940, my mother, who thought Hillary was the greatest candidate of all time, and my brother, who volunteered for Obama in '08 and '12 and voted Hillary this year. I am praying to every deity I know of that none of them try to talk politics.

[Ted S.]

So Grandpa is at least 97. I hope he's doing well.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Grandma. And she's doing well.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I'm spending the weekend with my future in-laws. Not a big deal since they're both conservative and happy Hillary lost.

[Florida Hipster]

My pop, who is coming around to libertarians, went full "You have to vote Trump cuz Hillary". Luckily, Trump won, so he'll drop it.

[jesse.in.mb]

A friend of mine has already gotten the "BUT YOU HAD TO VOTE HILLARY" speech from his family for Thanksgiving. "I'm registered to vote in CA, why the fuck would it matter who I vote for?" was apparently not a valid response.

[straffinrun]

Because the PopuLAR VOte! It adds legitimacy to our rioting!

[CZmacure]

Because the PopuLAR VOte! It adds legitimacy to our rioting!

Woo! Plurality truly is the mandate of heaven.

Clinton has 48.1 percent of all the popular votes cast compared to 46.6 percent for Trump

[Chipper Morning Wood]

You know it wasn't about affecting the outcome of the election, but about sharing their core value of hating all Republicans.

[jesse.in.mb]

Of course, which is why you hit a brick wall when you have exchanges like this.

My aunt said something about it being stupid voting third party in this election but understanding that I had to vote my conscience (this was the morning after the election). "It's only stupid if you're ignorant of how the electoral college works." Was the let's-agree-to-disagree point.

I'm normally more polite when talking politics with my aunt about politics, but if you're going to call my thought out and strategic vote for a third party candidate "stupid" because *your* preferred candidate didn't win...

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

My future father-in-law is a professor of finance so when I last saw him a few weeks ago we had an interesting discussion at dinner about Trump's idiotic trade policies.

So I'm glad we have that to agree on.

[Playa Manhattan.]

That, and the best way to fuck his daughter, amirite???

[Rufus The Monocled]

#notmysoninlaw!

[Jimbo]

Inappropriate!

[Jimbo]

In response to Playa.
Also, NOT OK!

[Playa Manhattan.]

You're right. They probably shouldn't discuss it.

[Swiss Servator]

Just arch an eyebrow or two.

[A Thinking Mind]

Unfortunately, I'll be using my Iphone to try to ignore the conversations being held by extended family and their socially conservative ideas. They're hoping looking forward to Trump passing federal laws to ban gay marriage, marijuana, and Sunday alcohol sales (that last point being only a minor exaggeration).

[MarkLastname]

Oof, I guess that's the big difference between protestants and Catholics. For the former drinking on Sunday is against the rules, for the latter, its required.

Seriously though, I can't stand the dry denominations. I'd bring my own bottle of wine if I had relatives like that. If I have to listen to them pray they have to watch me drink.

[Tonio]

Thanks, JB. Good luck. Focus on your grandmother and her life experiences.

[CatoTheChipper]

It's easy to agree with everybody this year. Depending on who they say they voted for, I have a standard response:

You voted Hillary? I understand ... Trump is awful.

You voted Trump? I understand ... Hillary is awful.

You voted Johnson? I understand ... the major parties fielded awful candidates and he really isn't as dumb as he seemed.

You voted Stein? I understand ... the major parties fielded awful candidates and she really isn't as crazy as she seemed.

The only people I'd fault for their vote would be the 0.5% of Arkansas voters for the Prohibition Party candidate. Fortunately, I've never met any of those knuckleheads.

[A Thinking Mind]

You voted for Prohibition? I understand. I really liked Robert De Niro's portrayal of Al Capone.

[Swiss Servator]

*polite applause*

[Darth Squirrel]

Happily, in my family the only proglodyte is my bernie bot brother, who has learned not to start that shit in my house.

[Ted S.]

Just me and Dad this year. My one sister was originally going to go down to Dallas to visit her daughter who got a job down there fresh out of college as well as my other sister, but then her husband got a big promotion that required his moving to Minneapolis.

I picked up turkey steaks, because there's no way I'm cooking an entire bird for two of us.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Just go Hungry Man's and call it a night.

[Hyperion]

Wife and I got game hens, again. Just the two of us. She calls them 'little chickens'.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Well, they are. You should apologize for mocking her on the internet.

[Hyperion]

Shutup before she figures that out. I told her that they're still hunted and that they're really hard to kill because they have big sharp teeth and they attack in hawk like fashion. When she first came to the USA I had her convinced that we eat Iguana, which we call 'tree chicken', for Thanksgiving.

[Swiss Servator]

*waggles finger*

Hyperion is a very bad man!

[Sevo]

"Wishing everyone a safe, happy and plentiful Thanksgiving"

Article in the rag today had a snowflake not going home for Thanksgiving since Trump won and she couldn't stand the thought of listening to her Trumpette family.

[Ted S.]

I'm sure they're happy not to have her at the dinner table. And thrilled that she aired the dirty laundry in public like that.

[Playa Manhattan.]

So she'll be turning down next semesters' tuition check, right?

[Austrian Anarchy]

You can't turn down an entitlement!

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Well, she can't deny them their penance. That tuition is their recompense for exercising their rights hate crimez.

[Jimbo]

aahhaahhahaha!
Come on, she's not THAT political!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Krayewski will be here tomorrow and I expect all of you to be, as well.

[Tonio]

Aha! So Eugene is a Reason insider!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I wish I was insider.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The sausages don't taste as good.

[Cdr Lytton]

-1 reason centipede

[Playa Manhattan.]

I won't be. My sympathies to those who will.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I want to thank you all for helping me deal with the difficult election!

Peace, love, and turkey my bros.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Bird dissected, crown removed for roasting whole. 1% sodium phosphate solution injected into the breast, along with msg and onion extract. Crown is now on ice in the vacuum tumbler, where it will stay until final seasoning tomorrow. 141 F in the water bath for 3 hours, 1 hour rest, and then 10 minute sear in the oven at 475. Gravy made from neck and back has been simmering since Monday.

I'll probably mostly have the beef tenderloin roast, though. Beef is better. It's science.

[jesse.in.mb]

Look at you you hipster food asshole!

[Playa Manhattan.]

I shop at Costco, and there are millions more like me.

What was that recipe you were just talking about 20 minutes ago?
Go ahead, I'll wait.

[jesse.in.mb]

I didn't say I wasn't a hipster food asshole, but you're definitely more of one.

And I was looking for a sous vide advocaat recipe, so if anyone sees one lying around I'd like to spend my holidays consuming a boozy semi-custard/semi-drink until my organs fail. Kthxbye

[CZmacure]

hipster food asshole

The alternative seems to be enjoying poorly executed food, non-ironically.

Why should food preparation be any different from any other skill? If you practice it and use techniques invented by skilled people, your result will be different than if you have no skill.

Put another way : a good chef can elevate average ingredients; a bad chef can render great ingredients inedible.

[C. Anacreon]

Whatever happened to someone being a 'good cook'?

My farm-town grandma was the greatest cook ever. She could even make a plate of string beans taste like heaven. So many incredible dishes -- and don't even get me started on the tray of cinnamon rolls that always seemed to come out of the oven exactly at the moment our car would pull in front of their house after a three-hour drive, then be served up with butter on the side (to melt on the roll sections as you unwound them) and a tall glass of milk.

If you told her she was a 'chef' she would have looked at you funny, shaked her head and gone back to the oven.

[Playa Manhattan.]

She was also great in the sack.

[Zeb]

True. A chef is in charge of a kitchen full of people. A good cook and a good chef are quite different skill sets.

[Slumbrew]

Precisely - 'chef' = 'chief'. I can cook reasonably well but I'd never call myself a chef (nor any other title out of the brigade system).

[CZmacure]

Fair points, "good cook" is what I'm going for.

[The Hyperbole]

Gravy made from neck and back has been simmering since Monday.

What? Are you making 2 cups of gravy out of 5 gallons of stock?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Covered. I did an entire test turkey on Monday. Lots of flavor to extract.

The stock is also a base for the stuffing, in addition to the sausage and minced bacon.

[Hamster of Doom]

I knew there would be beef in there somewhere. Knew it.

I've got a wet baste of bacon fat, mustard, onion, garlic, salt, pepper and rosemary. Stuff a bunch of that under the skin, generous slatherings everywhere else.

Graaaaaaavy... I'm starting to get twitchy in anticipation. Gravy. GRAVY.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I'm skipping the baste this year. I chose chemical enhancement instead.

[Florida Hipster]

Alton Brown says opening the oven to base just increases cook time and doesn't really add flavor.

[jesse.in.mb]

IIRC it doesn't improve flavor but the skin has a better texture.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It's all about the skin texture. And the moist meat.

[Hamster of Doom]

Tell Alton Brown to stop opening the oven. You might need hand puppets.

My bird is resting happily, stuffed with aromatics, under a tent of special Texas foil (be jealous). It goes in the oven tomorrow at nine. I'll take the foil off to brown at the end. Shit, I'm practically done.

*kicks up heels*

*pours a drink*

[MarkLastname]

I have a grudge against Alton Brown ever since I used his recipe for br?l?e recipe and it came out all 'soupy.' Had to double his number of eggs to get the right consistency.

[MarkLastname]

*recipe for creme br?l?e.

Seriously, iPhone autocorrect doesn't know what creme br?l?e is? Cursed philistines at apple.

[Florida Hipster]

What wine are you serving?

[Playa Manhattan.]

My little brother is bringing the wine. He's the wine expert. Wino, I believe it's called.

I have a few Gulden Draaks that I'll be serving. Mostly to myself.

[Florida Hipster]

My little brother is bringing the wine. He's the wine expert. Wino, I believe it's called.

So This?

[Florida Hipster]

http://www.bumwine.com/nighttrain.html

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I want to break down the walls this year and bring a jar of primo bud and a clean bowl and set it out on the wine table this year.

The times are a changin' folks

[Hyperion]

Commissar Sessions would like a word with you.

[Florida Hipster]

Report back how it goes over.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I'm only worried about my grandma and crazy aunt't reaction.

[MarkLastname]

Most importantly, how many boxes is he bringing?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Thunderbird

[Mr Drew]

Jesus, Tonio, you're a nice guy. I'm not sure you belong here.

[Hyperion]

Nah, he's just another deplorable now. But he's our fucking deplorable, damnit!

[Hyperion]

It's taken me 8 years to convert my wife from being a socialist. Unfortunately now, she's became a Trumpet. I still have work to do.

[Free Society]

I'm going to wear the over-the-top Trump shirt I bought precisely for this purpose.

[Hyperion]

My wife has an adorable deplorables shirt and my son-in-law has one of the red Trump hats that he uses to troll his co-workers. He's the top guy at his office, so no one can do anything about it.

[Free Society]

"The tears must flow."- Muad'Dib

[Jimbo]

I'm getting one for me and my brothers for Christmas. That will cause heads to explode where I live...Mare-in County (as GHWB used to pronounce it).

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Same to you, Tonio.

[Lee Genes]

We're eating at the Korean restaurant in town. Kids like it more than turkey anyway.

[BigT]

"I realize that many of us will be sharing a table with progressives and wish everyone the strength to take the moral high ground "

Easy. Just laugh!!

[DEG]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Donald Trump selected Betsy Devos for Secretary of Education. Ben Carson may be mulling an offer to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Awesome! So does that mean future public housing projects will be shaped like pyramids?

[Tonio]

Oh, that is going to piss the hell out of the left. Epic troll.

[Jerry on the sea]

A granary in every city. Let's make America Grainy Again.

[Hyperion]

They'll all be used for grain storage.

[Private Chipperbot]

Monday Night Football ratings collapsed for ESPN this week.

When the coverage for the next six days is about the officiating, you're product sucks.

[Private Chipperbot]

And so does my grammar.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I don't get the officiating at all. The CFL doesn't have the same problem. There's little or no controversy yet the NFL has all these consistency of calls issue. I mean, there were a couple of roughing the kicker plays (that went against the Bills and Eagles) that weren't called that blew my mind. Infractions that HAVE ALWAYS been called full stop.

The Eagles, for the record, should have taken out both the Giants and Cowboys if they could hold on to (or catch) the %@&^!%^@ ball.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

The Eagles seldom have good receivers. They had a few great years of DeSean Jackson and a couple from Terrell Owens, but most of their receivers have been average at best. Jeremy Maclin was okay.

Almost every other team has come up with multiple great receivers that they had for many years. The WR position has more talent than any other, but the Eagles can't ever seem to get those guys.

[Rufus The Monocled]

True, but they always seemed to at least be effective and made big catches when needed.

[Mr Drew]

Dude, I'm in Cincinnati. Cry at me some more about shuda wun.

We need to fire fucking Marvin Lewis and beg Mike Zimmer to come back

[John Pittman]

One of the growing number of Libertarians on the east side of Cincy. I share your pain and shame.

[BigT]

In CLE Brown refers to bags.

[Bubba Jones]

Isn't holding on to the ball a key feature of the game and not just a technicality?

[OneOut]

Rufus if a frog had wings it wouldn't bust it's ass everytime it jumps.

I can hardly wait until the Cowboys ride the Iggles once more time this year.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Monday Night Football ratings collapsed for ESPN this week.

Due to Trump-caused racism, since the game was in Mexico City, I'm sure.

[Private Chipperbot]

The wall blocked the TV signal.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Could be that it was two teams for which, collectively, not a single fuck is given.

[GILMORE?]

Trump says he wants Apple's Tim Cook to build iPhones in the United States.

(checks samsung stock)

[Tonio]

Krayewski - typo in headline, you spell the name "Davos."

[Tonio]

And in the links you spell it "Devos." I believe she spells that "DeVos."

[Ted S.]

Music by DeVos.

[C. Anacreon]

Your De Vol and my De Vol are the same guy, btw. Funny we both thought of his name. He was a well-known composer and conductor for TV and movie scores, who ended up in the Doc Severinsen role on "Fernwood Tonight" because of his droopy-dog face and deadpan way of speaking.

[Ted S.]

I always thought of him as the composer of the "Brady Bunch" theme, but he was nominated for four Oscars.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Davros?

[Private Chipperbot]

Devos?

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

DAMN YOU CHIPPERBOT

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

She is not men, she is DeVos.

[Jerry on the sea]

Crazy like a fox.

[0x90]

Doves?

[C. Anacreon]

Devol?

aka Happy Kyne and the Mirthmakers

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

How am I still at work? This is bogus, man!

[Florida Hipster]

I feel ya. I'm here until 11.

[straffinrun]

What are you? Spinal Tap?

[DOOMco]

spinal clerks.

[Florida Hipster]

*gets lost in store room*

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yeah, but you actually work.

[RBS]

I'm here so I don't have to hang out with my in-laws.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Take back your house, man!

[RBS]

When I got home the other night it was total chaos. Dogs running around the front yard, 4 year old yelling about Christmas lights, in-laws trying to hang said lights, shit strewn all over the house.

[Florida Hipster]

My sister is bringing her two dogs, plus my two dogs equals destroyed dog doors on the patio, again.

[jesse.in.mb]

Veterinary dosing guide for opiates. I'm not recommending you get some fentanyl patches for the dogs and then drug them into submission, but if you did...here's the proper dosing guide.

[Florida Hipster]

I have ready access to ketamine, which is much safer than fentanyl for sedation. I keep some in the shed, Jesse, if would like to see it...

[jesse.in.mb]

What? You have a ketamine shed and have been holding out on me? I might need to be sedated and taken advantage of.

[CZmacure]

> Florida Hipster
> I have ready access to ketamine

Truth in advertising.

[Playa Manhattan.]

We just had our cabinets refinished. 2 weeks with no kitchen.

If I don't get my way, nobody will.

[MarkLastname]

Don't you have a crate or something? For the 4 your old, not the dogs.

[RBS]

He's usually great but after eating nothing but cookies and candy for supper with grandma and grandpa there isn't really anything you can do.

[rts]

Colin Jost faces backlash after transgender joke on 'Saturday Night Live'

"The dating app Tinder announced a new feature this week, which gives users 37 different gender identity options," Jost set up the joke, his permanent smirk on prominent display.

Then, the punchline: "It's called, 'Why Democrats lost the election.'"

[Rufus The Monocled]

Of course he did. Everyone has lost their mind.

[MarkLastname]

Haha. It seems like progs get upset every time SNL makes a good joke.

[Free Society]

Haha. It seems like progs get upset every time SNL makes a good joke. anything.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

#not my humor!

[Rufus The Monocled]

#notmySNL!

[Zero Sum Game]

Does anyone remember when there was no Twitter for news services to farm for "news?"

[MarkLastname]

Oddly enough I do, and I'm in my 20s. Good times. Back when something wasn't national news unless at least 3 people died. Now it's national news if a single 'journalist' has a sad about it.

[Dick N. Bimbose (n?e Cooper)]

This is why my wife is paranoid about bad things happening to our kids.

[Free Society]

In a response later on Twitter, Jost would argue the joke was arguing that identity politics, particularly on the left, helped Trump pull out his surprising upset victory over Clinton. There have been no reported poll results so far to back up that claim, and as Boston Globe columnist wrote,"there's no evidence transgender rights pushed the country to Trump."

We need totally accurate WaPo polling to verify this claim. And did you know, 37 different gender pronouns is a "transgender right"? The fact that this WaPo writer sees those pronouns as a "right", tells me that xe doesn't have the mental acuity necessary to understand the joke.

[Zero Sum Game]

Well, and we all know that the polls got everything right. They accurately predicted who would be President.

[BigT]

"The fact that this WaPo writer sees those pronouns as a "right", tells me that "

...he has no sense of humor.

Most progs think jokes are only funny if they skewer their political enemies.

[Free Society]

We'll add that to the long list of truisms about progressives. They really are terrible people.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I thought I was going to take pleasure in the inevitable purging that was and is occurring on the left, but strangely I'm not. They're just shrinking the bubble over Brooklyn.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The central bank of Mexico cut its growth outlook for 2017, based on risks posed by potential U.S. policies.

Not as many greenbacks projected flowing in?

[SIV]

Mexico should issue Wall bonds.

[FreeToFear]

I think it's called mortar

[Chipper Morning Wood]

From the ground up bones of the cartel war victims.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Something backs flowing where now?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Finally, someone took the bait. I didn't know it would be you. You broke my heart.

[Crusty Juggler]

Add a Surrealist Touch to Your Thanksgiving With These Dali Recipes

In 1973, he published the wonderful, confusing, and delectable cookbook Les D?ners de Gala?a title referring both to his wife, who went by the name Gala, and the lavishness of the dishes he included.

As with everything Dali, the book is all about finding extreme pleasure. But this pleasure is combined with the grotesque, the morbid, and even the violent. He writes at the beginning of the book:

Do not forget that woodcock "flambee" in strong alcohol, served in its own excrements, as is the custom in the best of Parisian restaurants, will always remain for me in that serious art that is gastronomy, the most delicate symbol of true civilization.

[0x90]

A genius, and also, the original troll.

[Ted S.]

Makes me want to watch Babette's Feast again.

Or maybe Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.

[BigT]

No Chien Andalou?

[Stickler Meeseeks]

Turduckin?

[Jerry on the sea]

Ayatollah Khamanei says Iran would react if the U.S. renewed sanctions against it.

Trump might be crazy enough to let Israel have a go at Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

[Tonio]

I wasn't aware that they needed our permission.

[The Last American Hero]

If you want to keep getting our foreign aid, you need our permission (or at least our willingness to look the other way).

[Tonio]

Um, they blew a US warship the fuck out of the water and continued to be the largest single recipient of US foreign aid for decades after. USS Liberty; always remember.

[MarkLastname]

Oh come on now, that was just a friendly prank, we're best friends. Can't friends josh around occasionally?

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yeah, but that was a long time ago, you anti-semite.

[MarkLastname]

How do black people say hello to a Jew?

'Yosemite'

Now someone go figure out how to make that into an actual joke.

[Jerry on the sea]

They don't, they even finished Iran's work in Iraq in 1981: Operation Opera.

[Gojira]

Even deer are having gender identity issues.

[The Fusionist]

Is that why they're too confused to get out of the road?

[The Fusionist]

Bambi had two mommies

[Austrian Anarchy]

Is that why she is a pole dancer at every club?

[Playa Manhattan.]

I think that deer has bigger problems.

[GILMORE?]

yeah, a TRUMP PRESIDENT

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Not that deer's president!

[GILMORE?]

dammit you beat me to that.

[Johnny Hit n Run Paulene]

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you here on the ol' H&R. I appreciate all y'all. Out.

[The Fusionist]

"Vox.com's not saying the election was rigged..."

I'm not saying Hillary's a vote-rigger...

[FreeToFear]

But she Ain't gettin votes from woke........

[Fist of Etiquette]

FINISH IT, ALT-RIGHTER.

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

...Hitlers?

[FreeToFear]

Kanye West, original alt-righter...

[DenverJ]

... But she ain't following that Barack nigga?

[GILMORE?]

Vox.com's not saying the election was rigged, but it does want Hillary Clinton to request recounts, while Jill Stein is raising money to do so.

Previous Vox entries on the topic =

Donald Trump's "rigged election" myth, explained - Vox
Oct 19, 2016

Election will not be rigged - Vox
Oct 20, 201

The election isn't "rigged." - Vox
Oct 26, 2016

The simple truth about voter fraud - Vox
Oct 31, 2016

Want to rig the US presidential election? Good luck. - Vox
Nov 2, 2016

[0x90]

I was wondering about getting some references like that... didn't figure on so many just from vox. It truly is -- fittingly -- a cornucopia of derp.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

That's good work, Lou.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Wait til you hear Harry Reid's thoughts on filibusters.

[Austrian Anarchy]

#7 will shock you!

[A Thinking Mind]

Guys, clearly you're dismissing this too easily. I mean, one computer expert from one university made a claim that, in counties in Michigan that use purely electronic voting machines, instead of hybrid paper/scanner methods, Trump received 7% more of the vote.

I am absolutely not being sarcastic. There really is a 7% discrepancy, and there's no point even bothering to check if there's any other potential reason for that correlation. Really, why else wouldn't different counties within a state have a perfectly uniform distribution of votes? It happened, and because there's a small but noticeable statistical difference, fraud is the only possible conclusion we can draw.

[Chip Your Pets]

The stories I've seen said Michigan has all paper ballots.

The Vox story claims that recounts are still necessary because Michigan's paper ballots are tallied by vote scanning machines, which theoretically could be hacked -- though this would require some extremely sophisticated malware since they are not connected to the net.

[Slumbrew]

As pointed out elsewhere - apparently, Russia is savvy enough to rig the election for Trump but can't manage to rig the popular vote.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

So, Ukraine has a new deputy minister of EU Integration, and her youth is causing a bit of an issue

Anastasia Deyeva, 24, has been appointed a deputy interior minister, unprecedented for anyone of her age. And some Ukrainians think she is not qualified for the job.
"There's nothing wrong about a woman being an adviser, especially if she's pretty and smart," was one typical comment on Facebook. "But it's very wrong if she's that young and has no experience. Or the wrong kind of experience."

Despite the photos in that link, it's from BBC, not Daily Mail. But I just had to check, and of course, DM doesn't disappont:
Naked photographs emerge of 24-year-old Ukrainian minister.

Ukraine: Making Politics Great Again!

[FreeToFear]

Or the wrong kind of experience.

Subtle

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

In politics, you need to know how to work the shaft.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I see nothing wrong here.

[Private Chipperbot]

I bet she's fantastic at all sorts of integration.

[Jerry on the sea]

She looks like she would devour anything passing through her bedroom.

[Rufus The Monocled]

So much for life experiences and wisdom.

Sheesh.

[straffinrun]

Wise Latino Trumps Wise ass Ukrainian.

[John Titor]

The Ukrainian Parliament, known for its awesome fistfights, is surely aghast at her unprofessionalism.

[The Fusionist]

"Mr Avakov has defended her 'high capacity for work and communication skills' and pointed out she was fluent in French and English"

Who wants to deliver the inevitable punch line?

[The Fusionist]

I admire everyone's taste and restraint.

[Free Society]

The punchlines are legion. Not sure which one is inevitable though. I just know that I would.

[The Fusionist]

Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer prepares a sex-discrimination suit because nobody offered to take artistic naked photos of *him.*

[Free Society]

I can't make my font big enough when I say: WOULD

[gaoxiaen]

She looks qualified to me.

[BigT]

Anastasia screamed in pain ecstasy?

[GILMORE?]

Ayatollah Khamanei says Iran would react if the U.S. renewed sanctions against it

""CRYING LIKE A BITCH"' IS STILL A REACTION"

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ayatollah Khamanei says Iran would react if the U.S. renewed sanctions against it.

That's odd. Trump never gets a reaction.

[0x90]

Jill Stein is raising money to do so.

A tacit admission of guilt on her part, for helping to steal all those votes from their rightful owner.

[Tonio]

[golf clap]

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Mosul is reportedly surrounded by Iraqi-led forces.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em, you terrorist fucks.

[Crusty Juggler]

Ice cream for breakfast makes you smarter, Japanese scientist claims

Good news, fatties:

Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo's Kyorin University, has carried out a series of clinical trials in which test subjects were required to eat ice cream immediately after waking up.

They were then put through a series of mental exercises on a computer.

Compared to a group that had not eaten ice cream, Prof Koga's subjects exhibited faster reaction times and better information-processing capabilities, the Excite News web site reported.

[The Last American Hero]

Real ice cream or that weird Asian soy-stuff?

[Real and Legitimate News, Jr.]

Used panties soaked in soy sauce, served with Wasabi.

[gaoxiaen]

Fresh from a vending machine.

[0x90]

Okay, I suppose, as long as you keep pounding red bull for the remainder of the day.

[straffinrun]

I love mental exercises on a computer. I can do a thousand one-handed push ups.

[jesse.in.mb]

Once upon a time my mother made a big deal about the sugary cereal I was eating (honey nut cheerios I believe) and said at that point I might as well be eating ice cream. I read over the calorie information on a bowl of cereal with milk and a bowl of ice cream and it was basically the same thing, so the next day she comes out to me having a bowl of ice cream for breakfast and she loses her shit.

Lesson: women are implacable monsters who do not mean what they say.

[Florida Hipster]

You learned well.

[Pro Libertate]

Dad is great, he gave us the chocolate cake.

[Cdr Lytton]

I loved listening to that album as a kid.

[Pro Libertate]

Me, too.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I was devastated to learn that "chocolate cake" was 70's slang for quaaludes.

[Pro Libertate]

Don't ruin what is left of my childhood.

[gaoxiaen]

The next day you should have used the Cheerios for sprinkles.

[Bubba Jones]

Why did she buy cereal?

[GILMORE?]

Proof that tag-sales yield the best Halloween costumes

[creech]

Everyone, enjoy your Thanksgiving feast. As for me, I'll be re-upping my membership in PETA
(People Eating Tasty Animals)!

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Monday Night Football ratings collapsed for ESPN this week.

Make Football Fun Again -- FFS.

[I can't even]

India is committing economic suicide. Too bad Reason doesn't have an Indian writer on staff to cover this.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11.....it-warning

[John Titor]

Please don't ask Shikha to write about Modi and his policies. It was bad enough the first time.

[I can't even]

I'm more interested in the economic policies than how he hurt her feelings.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I also object to calling her a writer.

[Zero Sum Game]

They had to give her a title that HR would accept. "Klaxon" is not a recognized job title.

[Austrian Anarchy]

The new UN Ambassador could be the guest Visiting Senior Editor Emeritus for that one.

[DOOMco]

So when do the sport associations like the nfl just setup a Netflix system? I'd pay for a teams games for a season. NHL too. Their current setup still has some ridiculous blackouts.

[The Last American Hero]

I'm sure they work the cost-benefit on this constantly. The trick is that once they are selling it separate, the lucrative contracts with ESPN and the major networks may be done, or significantly reworked.

[DOOMco]

i do think the cable distribution system has a lot of power over the nfl. I would assume that some less popular or money making sport will make the first plunge. lacrosse? nhl? maybe cfl. widen the audience.
the other thing i assume they fear would be live broadcasting would become easier. its already being done now, but who knows.

[Raven Nation]

Yep. Once sports figures out how to sell direct, cable may be done. But as the Last American Hero points out, it is probably still better for groups than individuals. SEC got a $347 million TV deal. Along with bowl games, etc., every school got $34 million. Hard to see how Vanderbilt or Missouri could sell enough individual packages to match that.

[DOOMco]

the leages or collective whole could still be the source. i would prefer "every _____'s game this season" as a choice but would be very happy with "football"as a package.

[Raven Nation]

Yeah, good point. I'm sure they keep running numbers trying to figure out how to bypass cable. Probably easier for the NFL than the college conferences.

[DOOMco]

college football would be harder. i still think its theoretically possible, but they would have a shake up in how they devide profits or give single teams rights to distribute coverage of games.
I want it to happen though. I think part of the reason views are down is from the cost of cable. many people dont use it. not sure how bars are counted for viewer, though.

[Raven Nation]

I'm irritated that I can't buy access to a network on line. For example, I don't want cable, but why doesn't NBC Sportsnet sell an online package?

[DOOMco]

this. at least let this be a thing.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Colleges are still pretending that their sports programs are non-profit.

[Bubba Jones]

NFL Sunday ticket streaming is about $50/month.

[GILMORE?]

setting aside their model for "live games"...which i don't think will change....

I've always wondered why they didn't do a Netflix style model for OLD games.

Because i'd totally pay extra for the ability to re-watch the mid-1990s eastern conference playoffs whenever i wanted.

[John Titor]

Since some people here apparently haven't seen David Angelo's work, here's his episode on ROADZ.

Somehow this guy doesn't identity as a libertarian.

[Zero Sum Game]

I wonder why he hates the word "conflating" so much. It's a classic proggy trick to avoid talking about things that make them uncomfortable so they can respond with a canned response that they like better and can provide links to the Huffingglue Post about.

I'm with him that practically everyone should stop talking about strawmen and other logical fallacies since only 0.01% of Internet commenters can identify any of them correctly. The moment I see ad hominem used to mean "I feel offended" I instantly stop reading further because it will contain sanctimonious drivel and social signaling to others that their college education went to waste.

[GILMORE?]

Dogs = Cheaper than TSA, More Polite When They Sniff Your Balls

To relieve passengers' anxiety, airports in cities including Chicago and Memphis, Tennessee, have deployed therapy dogs to wander around terminals with their owners to help ease stress among travelers.

At Chicago's O'Hare and Midway International Airports, the dogs in service this week include a Jack Russell Terrier mix and a German Shepherd mix provided by a local charitable group, Canine Therapy Corps.

"Just the entertainment of a dog distracting your attention for a least a little while helps to improve your experience at the airport," said Ann Davidson, the group's operations manager

[Tonio]

Look for that to be terminated the first time someone from some desert shithole complains. Oh, wait...

[The Last American Hero]

Yes, but just like the TSA, if they start humping your leg, it's best just to let them finish.

[Suell]

They had them in SF when we flew this past summer. The kids loved them.

[Cdr Lytton]

Therapy dogs on the ground. Companion dogs (or parrots) in the air.

Sucks to be someone with pet allergies.

[GILMORE?]

or a "cat person"

[GILMORE?]

Because every day for the next 6 months there needs be a story with "White Nationalist" in the title, this is news

[straffinrun]

I have a feeling you may see this at the end of every article:

President-elect Donald Trump has drawn criticism for naming Steve Bannon, former head of Breitbart News, a website linked to the alt-right, as his chief White House strategist.

[Jerry on the sea]

Why do they hate the performance arts?

[Tuan Jim]

OT - In European news Wilders' latest "speech" trial is finishing up: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38083903

It never fails to amaze me how someone left of the Democrats on virtually every social element of the spectrum is still labeled a far-right populist at every turn. (ie. http://nyti.ms/2e4Y70d - not necessarily the BBC article). (And while banning books is very unlibertarian - ie. calling for banning the Koran - under Dutch law, it is legal following the precedent of "Mein Kampf", etc).

On the other side of things, we have another rant by one of my other favorite Europeans - Pat Condell - https://youtu.be/j9e_vcSut0A - somewhat more vitriolic than usual - pass Shikha the fainting couch. Man never fails to tell it like it is.

[Tonio]

Sigh. One does not pass a fainting couch as one would pass the salt; one gently leads swooning ladies to the couch and gently deposits them on it.

[Tuan Jim]

Yeah...I know better than that. 🙁

[The Grinch]

Wilders has stones the size of watermelons, I'll give him that.

[GILMORE?]

I didn't read the whole article, but i think the point is that ... To end the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests? We need to send in One Of These

[The Last American Hero]

I thought we just needed to give them another casino license. If I was Governor of North Dakota, I'd have that thing wrapped up in a week, and within a year, my citizens would have yet another place to buy cheap cigarettes and spend money at the tables.

[GILMORE?]

Speaking of the Gov of North Dakota...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ? North Dakota's governor and congressional delegation are pressuring President Barack Obama to pave the way for completion of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, protests over which they say are taxing law enforcement and are costing millions of dollars.

Republicans Gov. Jack Dalrymple, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven and U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer implored the Democrat in a letter Wednesday to authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to approve the pipeline's crossing under a Missouri River reservoir in southern North Dakota....

Obama said his administration is monitoring the "challenging situation" but would "let it play out for several more weeks."

They're so clear to note everyone's political affiliation; as tho this is so-clearly a political matter, rather than one about property-rights and a very-vocal minority trying to jawbone authorities into acting on their behalf.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Or, winter.

[0x90]

Hard-hitting journalism.

Trump breaks streak of white, male appointments
The president-elect is starting to make good on his pledge to build a diverse Cabinet. But he still has a ways to go.

Only 14 women, and 15 people of color, were among the stream of visitors potentially vying for a job in the president-elect's new administration, according to a POLITICO analysis of pool reports since Election Day.

[Tonio]

Condi Rice could be brought out of retirement.

[John Titor]

AND MORE PEOPLE OF COLOUR!

[Rufus The Monocled]

That's 29 people. How many bloody positions are there to fill?

Whatev. It's NEVER good enough.

[GILMORE?]

Proof That Transgender is Natural

[Playa Manhattan.]

I love my dead, transgender deer.

[0x90]

Nice rack.

[straffinrun]

Doh!

[Hayeksplosives]

I'd guess intersex is the more appropriate term here. Unless the doe were undergoing hormone treatment deliberately during xer transition...

[GILMORE?]

I'd guess intersex is the more appropriate term here.

Way to deny his lived experiences, dude.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Did ESPN blame the ratings collapse on racism yet?

[DOOMco]

what show will do it?

[RBS]

Does Jemele Hill still work there? That is right up her alley.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Surprised they didn't have it on the lunchtime shows today.

[The Fusionist]

World-First Sacraments App Announced by Scottish Archbishop

"The app will allow users around the archdiocese to find the nearest and soonest opportunities to go to Confession and Holy Mass, as well as Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament."

[MarkLastname]

Do they have the version out that shows you a picture of the Eucharist and you just lick the screen to get it?

[The Fusionist]

I knew I shouldn't have posted that article. See Matthew 7:6.

[MarkLastname]

Are you calling me a pearl? Why thank you!

[Agammamon]

Papalmon Go?

[GILMORE?]

Why exactly is someone arrested for a crime labeled an "Ex-Chemistry Student"? is that supposed to be more-relevant than, say, a person's *religion*? or political affiliation? or family-background?

If the crime were "mixing up LSD in his kitchen", i'd understand. not so much here.

As a side note - Is this entrapment? Probably. I think the frequent examples of this sort of thing fall in a spectrum of "distasteful" to "absurd" to "the FBI are the #1 terrorist recruiters in the world"...

....and this seems on the lower end of the scale.

[Playa Manhattan.]

It's the nicest thing they could say about him.

Like when a gang banger gets clipped, he's a "father" in that he's fathered children at some point.

[C. Anacreon]

Around here, every time a gang-banger gets killed the TV news reports he was an 'honor student' and everyone in the family is shown wearing t-shirts with a picture of his face on the front.

[MarkLastname]

they neglect to mention that all classes are honors classes at that school to avoid hurting anyone's self esteem.

[GILMORE?]

It's the nicest thing they could say about him

That's an interesting theory. Sort of like "always say something nice before you criticism someone", there's an "Always point out the most redeeming characteristics of would-be terrorists"-rule.

[Hayeksplosives]

The motorist Rodney King?

[C. Anacreon]

Once you've studied chemistry, that shame rightly sticks with you like a scarlet letter for the rest of your life.

[thrakkorzog]

Not really, entrapment usually requires the officers blackmailing or otherwise extorting someone to do something they otherwise wouldn't do.

This seems like one of those cases where a dumbass asks a random guy in a bar to hook them up with a hitman to kill their spouse, and random bar guy introduces them to an undercover cop. You can argue that a 'hitman' allows them resources for their murder plot they wouldn't otherwise have, but they were still looking for a way to murder someone.

[MarkLastname]

'Bill Johnson, a Scorpio and recreational golfer with an 11 handicap, is suspected of stealing a large quantity of tempons from Walgreens...'

[GILMORE?]

Exactly. As long as you're putting his former college-major the headline, why not mention his hobbies and his shoe size?

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

University of Kansas suspends cheerleaders over Trump KKK post

The University of Kansas has suspended four students from its cheerleading and spirit squads after one reportedly posted a Snapchat image over the weekend that featured a caption reading "KKK go Trump."

The school's athletic department announced Tuesday that it had suspended three male students from the spirit squad and one female student from the cheerleading squad. The picture appears to have been posted over the weekend. The university learned about it on Monday, during Kansas' men's basketball game against Alabama-Birmingham.

The University of Kansas has suspended four students from its cheerleading and spirit squads after one reportedly posted a Snapchat image over the weekend that featured a caption reading "KKK go Trump."

The school's athletic department announced Tuesday that it had suspended three male students from the spirit squad and one female student from the cheerleading squad. The picture appears to have been posted over the weekend. The university learned about it on Monday, during Kansas' men's basketball game against Alabama-Birmingham.

Gagin later tweeted that she did not post the image, according to the Star.

What are the chances male cheerleaders are also KKK supporting racists?

[The Grinch]

Was the caption a collaborative effort or did one person take the picture and write the caption? If the latter is the case (most likely) the school jumped the gun and might just have put themselves in a bit of a pinch.

[GILMORE?]

that 4 -paragraph quote was like 2 sentences put in a blender.

[Hyperion]

Wait, I thought that Betty Davis was dead?

[Playa Manhattan.]

To those opposed to school choice, your ride is here.

[straffinrun]

Not appropriate, I know, but "Johnthony"?

[GILMORE?]

there was some racist-ish joke back in the 1990s which said, "Black names = White Names, Misspelled"

[straffinrun]

Did you just Bannon me?

[Dick N. Bimbose (n?e Cooper)]

Lemonjello and Orangejello.

[MarkLastname]

"Johnthony"
That name may just qualify as child abuse

[Free Society]

White or black, I'm going to have real reservations about hiring someone named Johnthony. It screams of stupidfuck parents and implies a whole lot more.

[0x90]

Bus drivers can be the worst. Had one here recently who finally got canned for being abusive; in addition to constant yelling, she thought it was cool to call kids by nicknames... called this freckle-faced third-grader "ginger". So yeah, we get it, you're a middle-aged hag who never amounted to anything, so your life sucks, but damned if you're going to take it out on some little kids.

[Hayeksplosives]

Is school bus driving a union job, by any chance?

[The Fusionist]

"Our next step as a school system in the coming days, weeks, and months is to work to heal as a community."

No, if even half of that article is true, the next step in the school system is firing the people responsible for that guy driving a bus.

[The Fusionist]

next step *is* the school system

[The Fusionist]

And, yeah, that wouldn't happen at Sidwell Friends.

"Got another call from one of those whiny parents, something about their kid's bus driver drinking and speeding...like it's my responsibility to protect those little brats..."

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Let's hear it for the cops! this was so hard on them.

Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said at a press conference late Monday that the type of accident to which his department and others were responding is "every public safety professional's worst nightmare."

"As bad as it is for the police officers, firefighters and paramedics working that crash and that investigation, we can't even begin to imagine how much worse it is for the families, the friends, the loved ones of the victims. All of our hearts go out to them," he said.

Well, that happens without empathy.

[Agammamon]

Grieving mother of three bus crash victims says she REPEATEDLY warned school that the arrested driver would 'drink on the bus, cuss and speed'

But she was completely helpless when it came to her kids being forced on the bus at gunpoint everyday?

[gaoxiaen]

It was Bart's fault.

[straffinrun]

Ben Carson may be mulling an offer to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Or Ben Carson may be just dozing off.

[The Fusionist]

"It says Housing and Urban Development, and you're 'urban.'"

[MarkLastname]

"And you own a house and appear to have a developmental disability so that's 3 for 3."

[Hyperion]

A career in neurosurgery is somehow the qualifying prerequisite for that.

[The Fusionist]

What about the word "Urban" is unclear to you?

[straffinrun]

Papal Threat!

[C. Anacreon]

I thought it was the honorific for whoever coaches Ohio State, like "King" or "Professor".

[GILMORE?]

"Living in Baltimore", actually.

*and black.

[Hyperion]

They treated Ben pretty badly at Hopkins before he left, because of his political views. No wonder he's now a deplorable.

[Jerry on the sea]

The second that doomed Schiaparelli: 'Momentary glitch' in navigation sensor caused Europe's Mars lander to jettison its parachute over two miles from the red planet's surface.
The error stemmed from a momentary glitch in a device that measured how fast the spacecraft was spinning, the report by the European Space Agency said.

The spacecraft activated its ground systems, even though it was still about 2.3 miles off the surface, the ESA said.

'When merged into the navigation system, the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative - that is, below ground level,' ESA said.

'This in turn successively triggered a premature release of the parachute ... and a brief firing of the braking thrusters.'

What good is a parachute when you're already six feet under?

[Hyperion]

I'm sure the Eurotards where more concerned about having a multicultural and inclusive team than they were about actually landing something on another planet. I mean if it was going to just be a bunch of white guys making this happen, then what was the point?

[GILMORE?]

"momentary glitch"

Isn't the whole point of these sorts of mission is to run simulations where you make EVERYTHING glitch at least 100 times, to ensure these "1-shot attempts" actually work on the first-shot?

[Jerry on the sea]

Not only simulations but also implement everything with multiple redundancy, so you don't care if one sensor reading is faulty.

[Pro Libertate]

Make them cheap.

[DOOMco]

result of a negative altitude? "idk land sequence???"

[Hyperion]

IOW 'we fucked up'.

[MarkLastname]

Yeah, it seems like, if the altitude were correct, then the parachute wouldn't have deployed until it hit the ground.

The guy who fucked up the parachute is breathing a sigh of relief that the altitude guy fucked up too, and his fuck up materialized first.

[westernsloper]

"This in turn successively triggered a premature release..."

Been there. It was in Thailand though, not Mars.

[But Enough About Me]

Oh my God! POLITICAL GERRYMANDERING!!!

My friend on Facederp has used this as the latest point for him to clutch at his pearls over the results of the U.S. election. My reaction:

Captain Renault: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: "Your winnings, sir."
Captain Renault: "Oh, thank you very much."

[kbolino]

I'm having a somewhat difficult time breaking this part down:

In Monday's ruling, the court was swayed by a new and simple mathematical formula to measure the extent of partisan gerrymandering, called the efficiency gap. The formula divides the difference between the two parties' "wasted votes" ? votes beyond those needed by a winning side, and votes cast by a losing side ? by the total number of votes cast. When both parties waste the same number of votes, the result is zero ? an ideal solution.

It's a little hard to parse this "folksy" explanation from the NYT but if I read it right, it sounds like an "ideal" outcome in a two-party race under this metric occurs when 2/3 of the votes are cast for the winner and 1/3 of the votes are cast for the loser. More generally, if A is the number of votes cast for the winner and B is the total number of votes cast for the losers, then the election is "ideal" from a "wasted vote" standpoint if A ? 1 = 2B. Moreover, the winning party has the efficiency advantage if A ? 1 < 2B and doesn't have it if 2B < A ? 1. An interesting problem with this way of assessing gerrymandering is that it does nothing to ensure minority representation. If a state's population leaned 2/3 towards one party and 1/3 towards the other major party, then every district could be perfectly ideal without seating a single minority party representative.

[kbolino]

Thinking on this a bit more, and again assuming I understand it correctly, if more than 2/3 of a state's voters tend to vote for a particular party, then the metric actually punishes minority representation.

[Ted S.]

If I read it correctly, a legislature in which every member represents the same party would have both parties wasting the same number of votes.

[A Thinking Mind]

Gerrymanding is a morass that defies any logical penetration. I'll do my best, based on my understanding.

I'll start with the most damning sentence in the entire article: "Courts have generally agreed that some partisan advantage in redistricting is tolerable, in part because voters themselves are not spread equally across a state or district by party." Translation: We need to make it "Fair" by allowing both parties to rig elections so that there's very little change to the status quo. But then, you probably already know this.

To explain their kangaroo math, let's make it concrete. We'll use real, round numbers for examples.

10 congressional districts in a state. 1 million voters. 600k vote Democrat, 400K vote Republican. That means 100k voters per district, so assuming only two party candidates, the minimum required to win each district is 50,001 votes, right? If the Republicans are blatantly trying to rig things, they can shove all the Democrats into three districts and carry 7 districts fairly easily. But that means a lot of Democratic votes are "wasted," since only 150,003 of their votes were needed to secure 3 representatives, and the other 449,997 were extra votes for candidates who had it in the bag, or candidates who were hopelessly outnumbered.

Does that make sense?

[A Thinking Mind]

For fun, you can play around with this: http://www.redistrictinggame.org/

It's fairly educational. I've used it to teach high schoolers about Gerrymandering, which only highlights what a gigantic mess it is.

[MarkLastname]

The essential problem, as I see it, is that representation is based on geographical entities, which inevitably leads to arbitrary boundaries largely determining outcome, or designed boundaries.

The only way around the problem is to have a one statewide vote and a fixed number of reps with each party getting a number of reps proportional to the number of votes. This would solve the party representation problem. But geographical representation would be lost. So that's the trade off here: proportional geographical vs. party representation. No way, it seems, to have much of both.

[The Fusionist]

Let's run this up the flagpole:

States should amend their constitutions to set up unicameral legislatures with one legislator per county.*

Each legislator should be able to cast a number of votes equal to the county population as of the last federal census.

Thus, "one person, one vote" - no dilution of voting strength in the larger counties (which the Supreme Court wouldn't approve of).

The creation of new counties would require a state constitutional amendment, so a partisan legislature couldn't gerrymander at will.

Good idea, or not?

[The Fusionist]

Plus, you'd at least have some identification with the district in which you live.

I doubt most Americans can rattle off the numbers of the legislative districts they inhabit, but they can generally tell the name of their county.

[kbolino]

I don't like your proposal because it only reinforces the voting power of larger regions over smaller ones. It does have one unique advantage in that it fixes the district boundaries somewhat, but in many states it is not that difficult to amend the constitution.

However, the Supreme Court has already forced this situation more or less upon us. It boggles my mind why larger counties should get to dominate state government axiomatically; are they not able to govern themselves? Why is it that the state must represent the bare majority will of the voters, when each county can do that sufficiently? The state is there to handle certain functions not well suited to local government; instead, it plays the position of "impose the larger counties' policies upon every other".

[kbolino]

In case you can't tell, I rank Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims as among the worst Supreme Court decisions this side of Dred Scott, Korematsu, and Kelo.

[Agammamon]

Its the State/Federal relationship writ small.

Just like the Federal government seeks to dominate otherwise autonomous states, the state government's seek to dominate otherwise autonomous county and city governments.

[Agammamon]

Bad idea.

1. The city/county divide in most of the country *is* the rural/urban divide. So now if you've got a large city inside your county you're held hostage to whatever the city-dwellers want down to the country level. Its bad enough at the national and state levels.

2. Unicameral legislature means removing one of the largest sources of friction when it comes to the smooth creation of ever more legislation - the jockeying for power between House and Senates.

3. Preventing the creation of new counties - new counties are pretty rare nowadays to start with because its not as simple as drawing a new line on a map (like a House district) and slapping down a Representative. You have to start up a whole new government apparatus to manage the county.

https://www.census.gov/geo/ reference/county-changes.html

One county created since 2010

But redrawing the borders of *existing counties* - that can still be done at the drop of a hat.

[Hayeksplosives]

Ugh. What a day.

Related question: What beverage goes best with Vicodin?

[MarkLastname]

If you take enough Vicodin you won't care what you're drinking.

[Hayeksplosives]

🙂

I am going to be kind to my liver and only have one Vicodin since there's acetaminophin in there too. I settled on a tall rum 'n' diet coke for the first round.

Should kick in in about 20 min, I think. And all the meal pre-prep is complete, so it's time to relax a while.

Cheers!

[Aloysious]

Add that rum to some freshly squeezed orange juice and a twist of lime for a wonderful Cuban Screwdriver.

[jesse.in.mb]

How much do you value your liver function?

[Playa Manhattan.]

That's not until tomorrow.

[Hayeksplosives]

Meh, I still test OK on liver function, so I keep doing what I'm doing. I only have a vicodin a few times a month when pain is at major distraction levels, but admittedly it's often with alcohol.

I don't think it's in the cards for me to live to a ripe old age, so I don't obsess much about health. That sounds a bit fatalistic when I read it typed out, but I tilt optimist/realist mostly.

[Hyperion]

Wait, what is Vicodin? Is that related to oxycodone or anything like that? That shit makes me sicker than it's possible to even imagine. I'm talking projectile vomiting hell here.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hydrocodone and acetaminophen (Tylenol). The government capped the acetaminophen content of opiate/analgesic blends like this and Norco because people would pop them and then take a couple of Tylenol with it to take the edge off of whatever remaining pain they had and cause hepatoxicity.

Alcohol and acetaminophen is a rough blend for liver function.

[Crusty Juggler]

If you're ever prescribed Vicodin you should fill the prescription, but instead of ingesting the drug, you should send the pills to an awesome hit-and-run commentor. It is totally legal - don't worry.

[Hyperion]

Yeah, I'm sure, I'll totally exchange it for lorazepam and Russian vodka and other stuff that actually makes me feel good and doesn't make me deathly sick. Let me know when that free market shit arrives.

[CZmacure]

You forgot that Vicodin also makes you super constipated and contains tons of hepatoxic acetaminophen, which is for sure a combo I look for in drugs of abuse.

At least it's not, you know, dangerous like that unregulated, uncontrolled marijuana?

[A frilly pink thing]

"You forgot that Vicodin also makes you super constipated"

Not really and only if you take it for long periods

"contains tons of hepatoxic acetaminophen"

Lol "tons" it normally contains the same amount as a single tylenol.

[CZmacure]

In the doses that heavy users abuse it, yep, "tons" of it.

[Rhywun]

Wait, what is Vicodin?

I got a bottle (and a refill!) once after having a tooth pulled. I used one pill for the pain.

[Crusty Juggler]

Proper liver function is overrated.

[westernsloper]

Exactly. And what is "proper function"? It's like choosing the period in the history of the world when the proper climate existed.

[Hyperion]

Vodka of course, it goes better with everything. Just make sure you spend the bucks and don't get the finger nail polish remover shit like Svedka *cringe*

[To: Trshmnstr From: Hrod [C]]

*sigh*

I got a call from an identity thief this morning posing as an AT&T rep. Shortly after I got off the phone with him (I didn't even give him any information), I got an address change notification for my account. I called AT&T and had them lock down my account, but somehow they screwed it up and my cell service is gone. Unfortunately, I would have to log in to my (temporarily) locked out account to chat with them online, and I can't call them on my phone because it doesn't work. Once the Thanksgiving bread is out of the oven, it's off to the AT&T store! Fuck that scammer!

Also, I tried making my own cream of mushroom soup for the green bean casserole this year. Definitely worth it!

[Free Society]

Those people call my office literally 5 times a day. They alternately claim to be associated with Google, Time Warner, "Your Credit Card Company", "Your power Company" et cetera. I can smell those people a mile away owing to my experience with them.

[Ted S.]

My phone is off most of the time, so the calls would just go to my voice mail.

[jesse.in.mb]

Ohhh, what kind of bread did you make?

[To: Trshmnstr From: Hrod [C]]

Standard boule. All purpose wheat, salt, water, (past its expiration) yeast. I did a test run this afternoon since I wasn't getting any rise out of the batch, but it rose just fine in the oven.

The real loaf looks amazing (I brushed some olive oil over the top), and it should taste pretty good. I think I pulled it about 5 minutes too early, but that's okay because I'll just blast it for 5 minutes tomorrow to warm it up and get the crust exactly right.

[Aloysious]

What kind of mushrooms did you put in the green bean casserole?

[Florida Hipster]

Destroying Angel.

[To: Trshmnstr From: Hrod [C]]

half button and half portabella. I made a light roux with butter, put the mushrooms in with some onion and chicken broth, let them simmer for about 45 minutes, puree'd them in the food processor, added heavy cream, more broth, and herbs, and let it simmer for 3-4 hours. Then I puree'd it again, got the seasonings right, and have it sitting in the fridge with the green beans. Tomorrow it just needs 35-40 min in the oven with crispy onions and bread crumbs and it'll be ready.

[Aloysious]

Yum. Love portabella's. Have an extra helping for me.

[Crusty Juggler]

Did you use fresh or canned green beans?

[To: Trshmnstr From: Hrod [C]]

Canned, because I'm a heathen. I just happened to have everything on hand to make the cream of mushroom soup, so I didn't want to go to the store just to get fresh green beans.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Trump will find him and deliver justice because America is great again.

You know, I think what he means by MAGA is to rid of - or at least marginalize to the point of throwing them a tea biscuit every once in a while to let them make their hippie-lefty spiel - it of all the commies and progs running amok.

[Agammamon]

So, to give you all an update to a story I p[robably neglected to tell you about in the first place:

Couple of weeks ago couple of cars containing some wannabe gang-bangers wandered into my friend's convenience store and a couple of them proceeded to get into a fight. A pathetic one that looked more like a middle-school tussle than an altercation between grown (technically) men - just two were fighting, the other six standing around looking confused. Me and my friend broke up the fight and sent them on their way.

Couple blocks away one of the guys shot another dude (from the other group) in the face.

You know where they found the shooter a day or two ago? Hanging out at home. Because when you live in a town of less 15k *nobody's* going to now who you are and the police certainly aren't going to swing by your home to see if you're there. Morons. Fucking border is literally less than 15 miles away and all these people speak Spanish here - I'd have gotten my ass out of town for a while if I was him.

But then again, if I was him, I wouldn't have been dumb enough to shoot a guy in the face over a stupid 'who's the bigger badass in Somerton' argument. In fact, I wouldn't have been stupid enough to have that argument in the first place.

KILLER FACT: One of the dudes is a midget.

[Hyperion]

"KILLER FACT: One of the dudes is a midget."

Did he drive a giant pickup truck? Just asking.

[Agammamon]

Its the southwest - everyone drives a gigantic pickup truck.

[Rufus The Monocled]

The guy shot in the face. Did he survive?

[Agammamon]

Don't know - last I heard he had been flown to Phoenix for treatment.

[The Hyperbole]

If you are a conflicted honky lib, and your friend is a black queer bad-ass (or vice versa) you got yourself the makings of a nice Joe R Landsdale novelette. Just be careful, shit usually escalates and blows back on our protagonists.

[The Hyperbole]

That should probably be black bad-ass queer.

[Agammamon]

Thanks, the first post was gay enough already.

[Ted S.]

Black bad ass-queer.

[DenverJ]

Black ass bad queer

[Playa Manhattan.]

Where's the actual crossing? Algodones?

[Agammamon]

San Luiz, AZ is the closest. from where I live. If you lived in Yuma proper it'd probably be faster to go to Algodones because you can run right down I8 to the Quechan casino and head south.

[MarkLastname]

Hey, midgets are tough targets, he'll have the last laugh when he's the only one left standing after the big gunfight.

[Sevo]

Remember how you didn't want to ride Uber or Lyft, 'cause they didn't have any insurance? Hold that thought.

"San Francisco's largest taxi company up for sale"
[...]
"The blows keep coming for San Francisco's struggling taxi industry. The city's largest taxi company, the bankrupt Yellow Cab Cooperative, is up for sale.
A series of large personal injury lawsuits against the company combined with the growing popularity of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft pushed Yellow Cab into financial insolvency."
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/.....633301.php

OK, Yellow Fucking Regulated Cab Company carried a total of $1m in liability insurance, and their hacks are as reckless as any other, so they got sued and lost.
Yessir, those gov't regulators looking out for, uh, who was that?

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

This is capitalism's fault, as I'm sure the good geniuses at Vox will explain.

[Ted S.]

Aren't they busy bitching about rigged elections?

[__Warren__]

Whatever happened to that Big Mike asshole? Probably was a hired shill and with the cab companies hemorrhaging money they couldn't afford to keep paying him.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Working on a pecan pie for tomorrow. This is the only time of year that I ever bake. I always forget how violent baking terms are. Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs, rape the pie crust.

That last one makes me reconsider asking Warty for dessert recipes.

[MarkLastname]

Fun fact: raping the turkey is not technically beastiality once it's been cooked.

[Crusty Juggler]

How many Bills fans does it take to throw a dildo onto the field of play? Two.

My peoples ain't gots class.

[Florida Hipster]

New York values, indeed.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

An anonymous Bills fan took credit for the erotica, on which he had scrolled "Tom Brady's Dildo."

So, yeah-excellent band name.

[Rhywun]

the man explained he had snuck the accessory from his girlfriend's Halloween costume into the stadium simply with an extra pair of pants

I'm not sure how to untangle that but... couldn't he have just put it into a bag? or a European carry-all? Or do they now ban carrying anything?

[DenverJ]

She has Betty Devos eyes.

[Sevo]

"Koch Brothers, others can keep Madoff millions"
http://www.sfgate.com/business.....631360.php

Commenters foam at the mouth!

[straffinrun]

Peter Schiff says Trump should make Madoff Treasury secretary. He knows Ponzi schemes.

[Sevo]

Hey, perfect guy to head Social Security!

[straffinrun]

Snowing here. Earliest snowfall in 54(?) years.

[Ted S.]

We had two snowfalls already.

[straffinrun]

It's weird, but the coldest winter I ever experienced was in Seoul. Odd given I grew up in Northern Wisconsin. There's Western cold and Asian cold.

[Ted S.]

I fount Sankt Peterburg at the end of March worse than most winters. It was right around freezing, with a heavy wet snow coming off the Gulf of Finland. That and the wind made things miserable. And it didn't get that much better until early May.

[Hyperion]

Fuck that shit. In the 40s here today, too fucking cold.

[Ted S.]

My sister lives down in Dallas. I texted her a picture of the first snowfall, and she responded with the weather app on her phone showing 79 degrees. 🙂

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

CLIMATE CHANGE!!111!!

[Playa Manhattan.]

70s tomorrow. Went for a swim today (twice).

[Sevo]

"Koch Brothers, others can keep Madoff millions"
http://www.sfgate.com/business.....631360.php

Commenters foam at the mouth!

[Sevo]

Skwirls upset, too!

[gaoxiaen]

Bernie's serving 150 years. He'll be eligible for parole around 2090.

[Hyperion]

Are they just glad it's over?

Really? Of course they're glad it's Trump. Now we get an unknown instead of 100% ensured disaster.

[Ted S.]

"Between two evils, I pick the one I've never tried before." -- Mae West

[AlmightyJB]

Cucks gonna cuck

[AlmightyJB]

What?

[AlmightyJB]

That's right. Talking 'bout Shaft!

[Pompeius the Quant Retard]

$600/Oz gold!

[John Titor]

Tomorrow when none of you Americans are around the Canadians and Australians shall overrun Reason and make it into a proper Commonwealth site. Drunken debauchery will be had, words will be spelled correctly, and we'll paint The Queen on everything.

[Ted S.]

We'll be around.

[DEG]

The drunken debauchery is good.

[Sevo]

The hell with the queen, paint that Kate gal on everything.

[Playa Manhattan.]

She's alright, I guess.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Would.

Also, wood.

[C. Anacreon]

I kept hearing about how her sister has the greatest ass in world history, but I've never seen hide nor hair of it. Every picture I've ever seen of sis is of her wearing white gloves and one of those queenie hats.

[But Enough About Me]

*Damn* straight!

[straffinrun]

MFers wait until I haul my ass across town before they to call me and say, "Uh, yeah, we're gonna cancel our meeting today. Enjoy the day off." Less than an inch of snow on the ground.

[DenverJ]

I hope you called them a bunch of pansies. Great sales technique.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

He should call them dumbfuck racists and openly worry they'll engage in violent behavior that you yourself actually plan to commit. That seems to be the Dem strategy for winning people to their side.

[Quincy.]

I blame Gary Johnson.

[Rhywun]

#501

What'd I miss?

[DenverJ]

Being #500, but just barely.

[Rhywun]

I missed 501 too :/

Someone up there beat me.

[Sevo]

Man, out for dinner and places were PACKED!
What's with all these folks out the night before T'day? You should all be home in bed or driving out of town. Go skiing for pete's sake.

[Sevo]

"Sorry, Donald: Elton John is not playing your inauguration"
[...]
"John was an avid Hillary Clinton supporter during the election, calling Trump a "barbarian" while attending a Hollywood fundraiser for Clinton in October."
http://www.sfgate.com/entertai.....632806.php

Was this after or before he called that hag a felon?

[PapayaSF]

It must have been after he'd played in a Middle East Muslim monarchy that imprisons gays....

[DenverJ]

Shirley, my good man, you are not suggesting hypocrisy?

[avh00688]

My first job out of High School was at St Paul and over the next 5 years Iearned so very much. Seeing the hospital torn down tears a small piece of my heart out. The Daughters of Charity and the doctors and staff of St Paul Hospital will always be with me..???????
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.homejobs7.com

[Crusty Juggler]

True. I blame the good people over at Four Roses for making such a simple task so unattainable.

[Crusty Juggler]

It is unpatriotic to question the name.

[Rufus The Monocled]

WHAT'S A GOLDEN KNIGHT?

[Crusty Juggler]

Agreed. I celebrate their entire collection.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I was partial to The Las Vegas Moe Greens Or Las Vegas Degenerates. Or Las Vegas Compulsive Gamblers. Or Las Vegas Vices.

[Florida Hipster]

Four roses is pretty good. Blanton's and Angel's envy are two of my favorites.

[Florida Hipster]

Also University of Central Florida mascot. Weird fact: the UCF chant looks like a white power salute.

[Crusty Juggler]

The ellow label is easily the best budget bourbon, and it is superior to most blended scotches as well as the entry-level Irish whiskies.

[Ted S.]

The Bellamy salute?

[Florida Hipster]

Similar. This isn't the best example. Usually it's faster and more aggressive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_SaWxLWGc

[straffinrun]

If you consider using the snow as an excuse to be late for work "Thansgiving", yes. Meh, I'm gonna head in now. Have a good one.

[Ted S.]

Thankfully, the bridge I'd normally take on the way to work is supposed to reopen in a few weeks. In addition to replacing it, they decided to redo the road around it, shutting down the first detour. So for three weeks I had to go over a twisty road up one side of a hill and down the other, at 5:30 every morning.

If you could close off the road like in car commercials, and it were daylight, it would be fun to drive. But with all the traffic pushed onto it? Yikes.

[RBS]

Because of her huge dick?

/John

[Ted S.]

The quote I gave is actually from a different movie. In the one you pictured, somebody says to Mae, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds," and Mae responds, "Goodness had nothing to do with it."

[DEG]

Yep.

[Ted S.]

Going into work at 10AM?

[Ted S.]

Going that way, the downhill part has nastier hairpin bends. Going up them while it's light out is more fun.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Yes.

[BigT]

Las Vegas Flying Elvises.