No Ceasefire in Aleppo, Kasich Vetoes 'Heartbeat Bill,' U.S. Teens Smoking Less Pot: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.14.2016 9:00 AM

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Fighting and bombing are still underway in Aleppo, despite a supposed cease-fire deal that was to allow civilians to get out of the besieged Syrian city. Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed the case-fire was wanted by western countries to save "the terrorists."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has vetoed a bill that would ban abortion just a few weeks post-conception but approved a 20-week abortion ban.
According to a new national study, marijuana use is down among eighth- and 10th-graders and while it rose slightly among 12th-graders, it was still less common than in 2012.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a state law passed in 2014 that would have required abortion-clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hostpital.
At least a dozen more men have been charged with promoting prostitution for posting to Seattle-area escort forum The Review Board.
Stanford University has filed a 29-page response to a lawsuit brought by a female student who says the school mishandled sexual assault cases by not pursuing and punishing an alleged assailant when the victim didn't want to and wouldn't cooperate.
Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

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Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

SECOND!
1. Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago
  
  I second that emotion.
  1. mr simple 8 years ago
    
    A second hand in motion.
    1. BigT 8 years ago
      
      It takes two hands to handle your whopper?
      1. Elspeth Flashman 8 years ago
        
        You know who else had a Whopper?
        
        Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Queeblo?
        
        Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
        
        Milton Berle?
        
        straffinrun 8 years ago
        
        Clapper?
        
        Bob K 8 years ago
        
        David Edgerton & James McLamore?
        
        Elspeth Flashman 8 years ago
        
        Damn, now I'm hungry.
        
        Smalls 8 years ago
        
        JFK, as well as his successor LBJ, as I understand it.
2. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
  
  Well played.
3. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  Can't even get that right.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
    
    ENB was first.
4. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  Hello.
  
  What? No link to Alan Thicke?
  1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
    
    The father of that singer?
    1. Rhywun 8 years ago
      
      Kirk Cameron sings too? *swoon*
  2. Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago
    
    You take the good
    you take the bad
    you take them both
    and there you have
    the Facts of Life
  3. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
    
    Alan Thicke died playing hockey, which is the most Canadian way possible. Except maybe dying by drowning in coffee from Tim's.
    1. EDG reppin LBC 8 years ago
      
      Better than strangling yourself in a hotel closet while jacking off, that's for sure.
      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Lets ask Crusty before we get ahead of ourselves.
        
        Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
        
        The trick is not to die, stupid.
        
        Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        And build up your neck muscles?
    2. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
      
      In other words, he died like a man.
      1. But Enough About Me 8 years ago
        
        Fox alpha, d00d.
    3. Episteme 8 years ago
      
      His heart couldn't handle all the coffee he'd drank before the match?
      
      RIP You Magnificent Bastard
    4. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
      
      ...the most Canadian way possible.
      
      Slipping on a bag of milk - drunk on Molson - while ducking out of the way of a rampaging moose at a pond hockey game while Nickelback sings "O Canada" in French and English. Wearing some combination of flannel and denim. Apologizing.
      
      RIP Dr. Seaver.
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        [crash] "Sore-y!"
      2. pan fried wylie 8 years ago
        
        no syrup.
  4. Kurmudgeonly Kristen 8 years ago
    
    RIP Robin Sparkles's video dad.
5. Domestic Dissident 8 years ago
  
  Now you're just showing off your awesome insider powers way too much.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
    
    I would never work for an organization that would have me as an employee.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

Fighting and bombing are still underway in Aleppo, despite a supposed cease-fire deal...

Bad negotiators.
1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
  
  Smart Diplomacy?
2. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  Fake News strikes again
3. Episteme 8 years ago
  
  SURPRISE!
  
  The "negotiators" just needed an excuse to drink that chilled champagne. Don't worry, Lurch has put a new bottle into the bucket for their next breakthrough...
Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago

267) Obama to loiter around DC after he leaves office

I thought this guy claimed to be from Chicago or Hawaii or some such place? Shouldn't he get back there? But no, he'll be remaining in DC:

"Obama will not have a long commute. The office is about a mile from the Kalorama neighborhood in Northwest D.C. where he and his family have decided to live when he leaves office?"

Has any president before ever had the ego not to leave when his time was over? Bush II went back to his ranch in Crawford. Even Clinton had the decency (?) to find a place in New York. But Obama is THAT important to the free world that he just can't go.
1. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
  
  I (and others) have said it many times before -- Obama is all about Obama. Staying in DC will keep the focus on him longer. That's what he cares about.
  1. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
    
    Keep in mind, too--he and his camp are in a power-struggle right now with the Clinton mafia over who is going to be the Democrat standard-bearer for the next 4-8 years (or until Hillary dies of a stroke and then a vampire hunter puts a stake through her heart just to be sure). I'm sure a lot of his motivation for this is to be sure that Bill and Hillary don't neuter his people, which is a lot harder to do from Chicago or Hawaii.
2. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  FDR.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    *stands to applaud*
    1. Tyler.C 8 years ago
      
      Standing?! Really?! For an FDR joke? People like you need to be sent to some kinda camp to learn about being sensitive and polite. Perhaps a camp in a rural Utah desert
      1. straffinrun 8 years ago
        
        Think a simple "narrow gaze" would've sufficed, but excellent catch.
3. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  It's pretty amazing. Same with Hillary still giving speeches. They're trying to usurp power. I'm convinced.
  1. Suthenboy 8 years ago
    
    I figured that Trump's announcement that he would not pursue prosecution of Hillary was his way of telling her to go away and shut the fuck up. If she keeps this shit up he may change his mind.
    
    Yes, they are trying to usurp power.
    1. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
      
      I truly hope once he gets in, he totally goes Kill Bill on her ass.
      1. BigT 8 years ago
        
        No, it would be a big distraction. He should have the FBI et al further investigate and indict her if warranted (obviously, yes). Then he should let the trial continue until near the end. Then, he should pardon her, saying she suffered enough. Those added months of mental torture and then the pardon would reduce her to the puddle of goo she is.
4. Mickey Rat 8 years ago
  
  It helps that he does not seem to have any ties to anywhere.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    Sure he does...the golf course!
    1. Smalls 8 years ago
      
      Zing!!
5. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
  
  He has a lobbyist's instincts, and the swankier parts of DC are a great place to see and be seen if you're a big deal in the political class. Besides, DC is Hollywood for ugly people, as they say.
6. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  For what it's worth, the neighbors in Harlem hated that Bill put his office there. Shut down traffic every time he showed up or left.
  1. Atanarjuat 8 years ago
    
    I doubt that will bother the denizens of the scummy, villainous hive where Obama will be, it will just be a sign of how close to the lightbringer they are.
7. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
  
  "Obama will not have a long commute. The office is about a mile from the Kalorama neighborhood in Northwest D.C..."
  
  Isn't that the Kenyan Embassy?
  1. PBR Streetgang 8 years ago
    
    The Kenyan embassy IS in Kalorama. Good catch.
8. VG Zaytsev 8 years ago
  
  Trump should offer to make Obama the ambassador to Kenya.
  1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
    
    Didn't Kenya make Obama Ambassador to the US?
9. Mike Laursen 8 years ago
  
  Now hold on. I have lots of criticisms of Obama, but it says righty in TFA that he is staying so his kid can finish high school. That is an admirable thing for he and his wife to do, and I see no reason not to take that reason at face value.
  1. Chinny Chin Chin 8 years ago
    
    Mike, it's the holidays. Let them enjoy their narrative.
  2. DesigNate 8 years ago
    
    I don't accept anything from Obama at face value, but that is a decent reason to not move.
  3. kbolino 8 years ago
    
    ?Porque no los dos?
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

According to a new national study, marijuana use is down among eighth- and 10th-graders and while it rose slightly among 12th-graders

Are these kids so high they don't even know what grade they're in?
1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
  
  It's taking them more tries to get to 12th grade.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

UN drops Wonder Woman because her breasts are too large

But the choice of the white, curvaceous and scantily clad superhero attracted heavy criticism. Almost 45,000 people signing an online petition calling for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to drop the character and dozens of UN employees protested at UN headquarters on the day of the appointment.

"Although the original creators may have intended Wonder Woman to represent a strong and independent 'warrior' woman with a feminist message, the reality is that the character's current iteration is that of a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions," the petition said.

"It is alarming that the United Nations would consider using a character with an overtly sexualized image at a time when the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls.
1. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  I wonder how much the new cinematic Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot, being Jewish figured into this.
  
  (((Wonder Woman)))
  1. Mongo 8 years ago
    
    It's surprising how feminists embrace Wonder Woman.
    
    She was created by a man for their male readership.
    1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
      
      It's like feminists being all excited about Westworld.
      1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Needed moar Rachel Evan Would.
        
        But Thandie Newton has aged very well.
        
        Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
        
        I should find Thandie Newton attractive but I don't. Strange.
        
        Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
        
        I should find Thandie Newton attractive but I don't.
        
        Yeah, she doesn't do anything for me, either. She looks like a grandma at this point.
        
        Lee Genes 8 years ago
        
        You guys are weird.
        
        Lord Humungus 8 years ago
        
        A slutty grandma! /just ewwed myself.
        
        Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Nice euphemism... ewwww
        
        Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Strange
        
        Being gay is not considered strange.
    2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
      
      Almost 45,000 people signing an online petition...
      
      How many of those 45K were from the US? Who the fuck else signs petitions for this kind of weak shit?
      
      White people Liberal douchebag problems.
  2. Bill Dalasio 8 years ago
    
    Nah. I suspect most of the whingers would be perfectly happy with her being played by Amy Schumer.
    
    If you're partially right, maybe they'll settle for Melissa McCarthy.
2. Grand Moff Serious Man 8 years ago
  
  Aunt May it is, then.
3. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
  
  Yeah, the Taliban kill or maim anyone who will even be a teacher to girls, Boko Haram and ISIS take girls and women as slaves....but the UN is on the job vs a comic book character!
  1. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    UN Superhero: The Blue Knob.
    1. Brett L 8 years ago
      
      Superpower: pimping children and spreading cholera.
  2. Hail Rataxes 8 years ago
    
    Yeah, it's weird they thought they'd need someone more powerful than Wonder Woman to fight such serious problems.
4. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  I saw a report on this last night. I think they were gibbering on about WW being a violent American woman. Stoopid pussies. Wonder Woman is Amazonian!
  1. Overt 8 years ago
    
    So for $80 a year, you can get 2-day Justice Shipping for free!
  2. Brett L 8 years ago
    
    I'm pretty sure she's an Amazon from Lesbos.
  3. Col. Chestbridge 8 years ago
    
    Themysciran.
    
    /pedantic nerd
5. Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago
  
  "overtly sexualized image"
  
  If they're referring to her costume, it actually make s a lot of sense considering the fighting and physical adventuring she does. Do gymnasts wear overly sexualized costumes?
  
  "a large breasted, white woman of impossible proportions,"
  
  I can't speak for every image ever presented of Wonder Woman, but in general in the comics, she is presented as an attractive but reasonably-built woman. She is definitely not Barbie, more like a Rosie the Riveter type.
  1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
    
    Yeah, I mean, I haven't kept up with comics, but I don't remember her as especially T&A heavy. In fact, I remember as a child thinking of her as basically the female equal of Superman.
    1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
      
      The female equal to 70% of Superman.
    2. Brett L 8 years ago
      
      I forget, does the Lasso of Truth work on Superman?
      1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
        
        I don't recall. I'm thinking mostly of the old Superfriends cartoons.
        
        Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Form of... Wonder Woman's bath-water!
      2. thrakkorzog 8 years ago
        
        I'm more of a marvel fanguy, but magic works on Superman, so theoretically the lasso of truth should work against Superman.
      3. Darth Squirrel 8 years ago
        
        I believe so, since it's magic and Supes is vulnerable to magic.
        
        (take with a grain of salt, since I'm more a Marvel geek than DC)
6. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  whatever
7. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  I'm a bit of an expert in this area, and I say with confidence that those proportions aren't even close to impossible.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    Go on...
    1. Jordan 8 years ago
      
      Google Hitomi Tanaka if you want to see impossible proportions.
      1. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
        
        I tried but I kept getting the Grand Tetons.
  2. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
    
    I love that the article quotes the inane protesters as bitching about an impossibly curvaceous woman just above a picture of the not-especially-curvaceous - but-nevertheless-I'll-be-in-my-bunk Lynda Carter.
8. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
  
  "But the choice of the white, curvaceous and scantily clad superhero attracted heavy criticism."
  
  For the first time in years, the African contingent stood firmly behind America.
9. mr simple 8 years ago
  
  The Daily Mail article on this also quoted people saying it was a problem she was white and therefore didn't represent all women, as if there was some skin color she could have that would satisfy that
  1. Drave Robber 8 years ago
    
    Of course, there is. Green, blue, purple...
  2. Rhywun 8 years ago
    
    That's the same "logic" some other idiots used when they tried to memory-hole Shakespeare the other day.
10. BigT 8 years ago
  
  Couldn't they put her in one of those burkinis?
11. Episteme 8 years ago
  
  While the Russians and Assadites barrel-bomb Aleppo into oblivion, the UN debates a comic book character....
  
  *cracks desk in half head-desking it just that hard*
  1. Zeb 8 years ago
    
    Debating pointless nonsense is probably the best thing for the UN general assembly to be doing at any given time.
    1. BakedPenguin 8 years ago
      
      Yeah, even if they were discussing actual events, it's not like they'd do anything other than demand more scam money for their villas/mistresses/coke habits.
12. Zeb 8 years ago
  
  the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls
  
  What?
  1. DesigNate 8 years ago
    
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the headline news in the US is the democrats trying to steal the election from the republicans.
13. Volren 8 years ago
  
  I'm pretty sure given the character's background she is supposed to be ridiculously attractive, being blessed by Aphrodite and all. Unless they retconned it. Who knows.
  
  I'm still trying to figure out whether the people who selected a fictional character as "UN Ambassador for XXX" are dumber than the people who went through the trouble of creating a petition to remove her.
14. Eternal Blue Sky 8 years ago
  
  Oh.
  
  When I first saw there was an article about them dropping Wonder Woman from a position of outreach, I was like "Finally, some damn sanity!! Who the hell thought it was a good idea to appoint a fictional character to ANYTHING??"
  
  But now my illusion has been shattered, for the reason for pulling her was just as stupid.
Hamster of Doom 8 years ago

According to a new national study, marijuana use is down among eighth- and 10th-graders and while it rose slightly among 12th-graders, it was still less common than in 2012.

No one wants to get into their parent's stash on the weekends. That's so lame.
1. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  It's up for 12th graders because some of them are 18+.
2. Zeb 8 years ago
  
  I don't know. I always kind of wished my parents had a stash I could get into. And I had several friends who were quite happy to get into their parents' stash.
Grand Moff Serious Man 8 years ago

?Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

"The movie was beautiful and magical until I remembered that Donald Trump will be president and the cold bleakness of reality came crashing down on me again."
1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
  
  *applause*
2. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  Suderman writing at Vox. I am shocked.
SugarFree 8 years ago

Warty Hugeman and The Girl With the Nazi-Ray Eyes: A Warty Hugeman Time Travel Adventure

Chapter Three: My Favorite Weapon Is The Look In Your Eyes

Warty tore off the arms of his baggy jumpsuit.

"The prisoner will not alter their clothing in any way!" the girl yelled.

He wadded the arms of the jumpsuit together and threw them into the corner. Warty began to forcefully rub his biceps and triceps, kneading the skin to activate his oil glands. His bulging muscles began to glisten in the actinic lights of the cube prison.

"What is the prisoner doing?"

"I'm self-oiling. Jealous?"

He struck a sudden pose, knotting his musculature together. The girl took an involuntary step back.

"Stop that," she blurted.

"Stop what?" he asked and tore open the front of the jumpsuit, exposing his massive pectoral muscles.

"Your body?" she began.

Warty reached over to his water tube, took a handful and rubbed it over his head.

"My body," he said.

Warty let the top of the jumpsuit fall down around his waist. He ran through a set of poses designed to destroy the rational parts of her mind: The Front Lat Spread, The Front Double Biceps, The Side Chest? on the Rear Lat Spread she cried out. By The Side Triceps, her knees buckled and an alarm began to cycle.
1. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  "Nein!" screamed The Baron as he ran into the room. "Nein!"
  
  The girl snapped to attention.
  
  "What do you think you are doing, Hugeman?" The Baron demanded.
  
  "Just a little isometrics, Fritz," he replied innocently.
  
  The Baron slapped The Scepter of White Rage against the girl's side and laughed.
  
  "You cannot seduce her, Hugeman. This girl is the result of fifty generations of selective Aryan breeding. She is of the finest stock. A living weapon for the ZeitF?hrur! She wants nothing of your mongrel genes!"
  
  "Of course not," Warty murmured and slipped back into the Front Lat Spread.
  
  The Baron shifted his weight uncomfortably. "I am sending in more guards!" he snapped.
  
  Warty only smiled at him, looking back over his shoulder from a Rear Double Biceps.
  
  "Be brave!" The Baron told the girl. "Remember your breeding and your oath to the ZietF?hrer!"
  
  "Ja, Baron," she replied.
  
  Warty dropped to the floor and did knuckle pushups until The Baron scurried away. He sprang to his feet when he was gone.
  
  "Fifty generations of breeding?" he asked, making a fist to ripple the muscles in the forearm of his free hand. Warty ran his hand slowly down his abs and into the loose front of his jumpsuit.
  
  "Yes," she said. She shifted her hips and crossed her feet like she needed to pee.
  
  "How did they manage that?"
2. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  "Your technology, Warty Hugeman. We cannot travel in time, but we can violate locality to speed up gestation and maturation. It still took the ZeitF?hrer over three hundred years working in secret to create me." She looked down at herself and smiled.
  
  "Should you be telling me this?"
  
  "No, Warty Hugeman."
  
  "Then why are you?"
  
  "You?" she looked away.
  
  Warty got very close to the transparent wall of the prison cube.
  
  "You are the only real man I have ever met," she whispered.
  
  Warty stepped back and tore off the jumpsuit completely. A huge pink penis jutted from his waist like an angry forearm.
  
  "But," the girl stammered, "we took your Schwarzewaffe!"
  
  "I grew another," he said as six more guards stomped into the empty space. They headed right toward him.
  
  "I've learned to always have a back up."
  
  Warty backed up a few steps as the new set of guards approached the cube. They were all yelling at him in broken German. He waited until they were all close and struck the Most Muscular pose. A huge pair of testicles slid out of his body and all the guards fell over.
  
  The girl with Nazi-ray eyes stepped over their twitching bodies, lifted a hand to the cube and Warty felt a rush of displaced air as it disappeared.
  
  "Rosawaffe," she grunted and grabbed it with both hands.
  
  Check back tomorrow for Chapter Four
  
  Catch up on the entire adventure so far.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
    
    I did not see that coming.
    1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
      
      I did not see that coming
      
      I think that is tomorrow...
  2. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
    
    I'm not sure whether I should complement you on this or see if your state allows for a 72 hour involuntary psychiatric hold.
    
    (ok I'll read more tomorrow)
    1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      Why not both - it might be madness...but it is a beautiful madness!
  3. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    You got a concealed carry permit form that DoomCock?!
    1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
      
      That is just crazy talk, you can't conceal one of those...
  4. Citizen X 8 years ago
    
    A huge pair of testicles slid out of his body and all the guards fell over.
    
    Same.
    1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      You fell over too?
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Yes, that's what i meant.
  5. jack sprat 8 years ago
    
    Oh my lord. I need to DVR this so I can binge instead of having to wait for next installment.....
  6. R C Dean 8 years ago
    
    Bravo, Sug. Brav. O.
  7. mr simple 8 years ago
    
    You're just playing to stereotypes with that link.
    1. SugarFree 8 years ago
      
      Red meat for the "I hate SugarFree" crowd.
      
      Real link
      1. DesigNate 8 years ago
        
        Who could hate you, you inglorious bastard?
    2. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
      
      This flirts with deus ex machina. The sudden appearance of phallic redundancy? And the protagonist didn't come to any realization. He didn't work past his obstacle. Instead he just fell back on what he always does, which is seduce the female character. I don't know.
  8. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    Alternative chapter title: The Most Muscular Pose
    1. Citizen X 8 years ago
      
      That is the name of my next child, my autobiography, and my favorite sexual position.
      1. straffinrun 8 years ago
        
        Citizen X is Rip Torn. I knew it. *Confetti Canon*
  9. bacon-magic 8 years ago
    
    I googled rosa waffe...Code Pink "would".
  10. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
    
    Today's reason to live fell like a petal from a dying flower.
    1. Smalls 8 years ago
      
      Just took the rest of the day off, myself.
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

Oh my, is this shade? If so, well done.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

whatever happened to fisticuffs or pistols at dawn?

Florida Man Arrested for Flashing Man During Parking Dispute

The incident happened shortly before 1 p.m. Friday on the 1200 block of S. Hayes Street, near the Pentagon City mall.

"Following a verbal dispute between two parties over parking, a male subject allegedly exposed his genitals to a male victim," according to an Arlington County Police Department crime report.

"Officers conducted a canvas of the area and located the suspect," the crime report continues. "Bret Wayne Reichenberg, 34, of Palm Beach FL, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure and drunk in public."
1. EDG reppin LBC 8 years ago
  
  Is "Wayne" the middle name of every Florida man?
  1. Citizen X 8 years ago
    
    For some of them, it's "Dwayne."
    1. EDG reppin LBC 8 years ago
      
      Pronounced "duuuhh Wayne".
    2. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      Dwayne Wayne Petain?
      1. bacon-magic 8 years ago
        
        Dwayne Wayne Dookiestain, wipes his butt on everythang. -some cruel guy who has a brother with that name *innocent look*
    3. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      Wayne Dwyane Montaigne?
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        KISS MY ASS, BITCH, I'LL BE AT DWAYNE'S. [punches Swiss]
        
        Swiss Servator 8 years ago
        
        +1 case of longnecks
        
        Swiss Servator 8 years ago
        
        Or should I say, +1 volume 7.
2. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  I am Brett L of Clearwater, FL just to clarify.
  1. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
    
    I actually was thinking of you (ain't that sweet?) when I posted this.
  2. Citizen X 8 years ago
    
    Your middle name is still Wayne though, right?
3. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
  
  Bret was just 'presenting'
  
  Florida Man #2 realized he could not hang and ran to the police in shame.
Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago

"At least a dozen more men have been charged with promoting prostitution for posting for posting to Seattle-area escort forum The Review Board."

How is this not a 1st Amendment violation?
1. Atanarjuat 8 years ago
  
  FY,TW
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

At least a dozen more men have been charged with promoting prostitution for posting for posting to Seattle-area escort forum The Review Board.

So drugs and sex are now scourges high enough of the list of dangers to public good that they trump constitutional protections.
Hamster of Doom 8 years ago

Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

How many times during the review did he rail against Trump?
1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  Once, but it was continuous, so no one knows what his opinion of the movie was.
2. bacon-magic 8 years ago
  
  Suderman is the part of the foundation of the rails that are against the Trump Train?.
???? ??????, Jr. 8 years ago

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has vetoed a bill that would ban abortion just a few weeks post-conception but approved a 20-week abortion ban.

Good for him. No abortion should take five months.
1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
  
  *slow clap*
2. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  Oh well. No Nikki v. John battle I reckon.
3. Mr. Paulbotto 8 years ago
  
  I think the 2016 presidential election cycle took a little longer than 5 months.
  1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
    
    That is why there NEEDS TO BE A LAW!
4. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  The idiots just cannot help but overreach.
  
  20 weeks isn't viability, and will be struck down.
  
  If they had gone 24 weeks, or even 22, I think it would stand. Griswold specifically said that states could regulate/ban abortion after viability.
  1. Isaac Bartram 8 years ago
    
    Griswold v. Connecticut is about contraception rather than abortion.
    
    It was Planned Parenthood v. Casey that set viability as the standard for the cutoff of when the state could intervene in a woman's choice.
    
    Roe v. Wade had set it at the third trimester.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

No, officer, I'm not selling real babies on the internet

Kathy Cadle was at home talking with her grandson on the internet when her boyfriend, Casey Kaspirack, interrupted and said an officer was waiting to talk to her.

"Casey kind of freaked out so he just told me, you need to come and talk to this cop," Cadle said. "(The cop said), 'There's a report of you selling a baby.' I said, 'Are you kidding me?'"

It was not a joke. Sgt. Frank Goscewski told the stunned Cadle that he had been investigating her and talking to friends of hers "for the better part of the day," Cadle said.

"I said, well do you want to see what it is you're investigating? So I bring him the baby and he just got this big grin," Cadle said.

What she handed to Goscewski looks and feels like a real baby, except it isn't. Cadle, along with her sister, Rachel Smith, inherited a love of baby dolls from their mother, Dolores Cadle, and started painting them after she died three years ago.

lock her up anyway... weirdo.
1. Bee Tagger 8 years ago
  
  "I said, well do you want to see what it is you're investigating? So I bring him the baby and he just got this big grin," Cadle said.
  
  So the cop was into it?
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    Paging OMWC, an expert opinion is needed here.
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

At least a dozen more men have been charged with promoting prostitution for posting for posting to Seattle-area escort forum The Review Board.

Is this from the musical reenactment?
1. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
  
  Now I'm seeing a string of Johns dancing the can-can to this musical number.
  
  Thanks
Lee Genes 8 years ago

A classic for the ages has just been created.

3 Things My White Husband Needs to Know About the Black Baby We're Going to Have

There are a litany of physical things we need to do to put the proverbial bun in the oven ? sonogram to check the health of my uterus (history of fibroids makes this mandatory), pap smear (history of HPV make this mandatory), genetic testing for me and you (history of children with special needs makes this mandatory), and weight loss (arthritic knees will make the added weight of pregnancy painful and uncomfortable).

However, there is no blood test you can take or vaginal swab I can provide that can prepare you, White husband, to raise our Black child.

Yes, our Black child. Because even though our child will technically be biracial, having a biracial child who is half Black means you have a black child (by social, legal, and sometimes medical standards), and that comes with a whole new set of rules.

While your oldest White child may be targeted for his mental illness, statistically speaking, our Black daughter is 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police. So yes, there are some things you need to know before we embark on this journey.
1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  So what she's saying is that she subscribes firmly to the Jim Crow "One Drop Rule".
  1. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    Ol' Jim didn't mean acid.
2. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
  
  I didn't even have to hover to know that came from Everyday Feminism.
  
  I still choose to believe that site is parody.
  1. Cyto 8 years ago
    
    It has to be a parody. No woman who is in an interracial marriage would talk that way to her husband. This is how people who say "I have a lot of black friends" talk (when referencing their cleaning lady and the guy who works in accounting and sometimes joins the group for lunch as "friends".)
3. Grand Moff Serious Man 8 years ago
  
  While your oldest White child may be targeted for his mental illness, statistically speaking, our Black daughter is 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police.
  
  Awfully nice of this woman to put her mentally handicapped white stepson in his place. Normal, healthy black woman is higher on the hierarchy of oppression than a disable white male.
  1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
    
    No, she is clearly not a normal, healthy woman of any pigmentation. She is clearly insane.
    1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      And apparently riddled with various medical conditions and overweight.
    2. Cyto 8 years ago
      
      It's a fair cop...
      
      /python voice
4. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  Author of such journalistic insights as 3 Ways Burlesque* Has Made Me A Better Mom and I Strip Because Too Many Women Hate Their Bodies.
  
  *This picture is why "no" is always my answer when invited to a burlesque show.
  1. Citizen X 8 years ago
    
    That is a lot of woman. John approves.
    1. SugarFree 8 years ago
      
      Her body is why I hate women.
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        I thought your dysfunctional pancreas was what made you hate.
        
        SugarFree 8 years ago
        
        No, the pancreas makes me emotional and prone to lash out, asshole.
        
        BigT 8 years ago
        
        How long have you had these trans-sexual leanings?
  2. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    If MacAfee would've won, that could've been our first lady.
5. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  OMFG. She must be soooo bloody annoying. 'My black baby this, the dingo at my baby, did you meet my 2.5 bi-raical daughter? Please look at her and see I'm not racist. Did I mention I have a black son? Did you know it's not true about fried chicken? Blah, blah.
  
  God, you want to smear sour cherry jam in their faces. No wait. Make that apricot jelly. I hate apricot jelly.
  1. Free Society 8 years ago
    
    Apricot jelly is, in fact, the worst of all possible jellies.
  2. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
    
    God help this poor black kid if he ever asks for fried chicken for dinner.
6. Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago
  
  "having a biracial child who is half Black means you have a black child (by social, legal, and sometimes medical standards)"
  
  Fear of a Black Planet
  1. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
    
    Fear of a Black Hat?
  2. Lee Genes 8 years ago
    
    I fear for their child.
7. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
  
  "You will be as black as Jeter."
8. Tyler.C 8 years ago
  
  Im sure her white husband is threilled to be publically "black-splained" too. Very classy all around.
  1. SugarFree 8 years ago
    
    I'm going to guess he has some massive issues of his own.
    1. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
      
      Are you implying he ejaculates prodigiously?
      1. SugarFree 8 years ago
        
        That's tomorrow's chapter, Mr. Skip Ahead.
      2. Bobarian (Would Chip Her) 8 years ago
        
        Not when she's there.
  2. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
    
    We're all taking her word that she has a husband at all?
    1. Smalls 8 years ago
      
      This
9. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
  
  So yes, there are some things you need to know before we embark on this journey.
  
  And item number one is that the first thing your wife sees when she looks at you is white privilege.
10. Free Society 8 years ago
  
  1. We're Raising a Social Justice Activist
  
  Today, more than ever in our lifetime, this is crucial. Not just to the world that our child will grow up in, but also, to our child's survival.
  
  So I think I'm coming around on the whole abortion issue.
11. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  Kinda sounds like she shouldn't be procreating at all...
12. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  I have to ask, because I'll be damned before I click through.
  
  Will it be half black because he's white and she's black, or because both of them are white, and the real father is black dude?
  1. Free Society 8 years ago
    
    Mom is black, dad is white. Though that did become clear until a ways into the article.
13. DesigNate 8 years ago
  
  "our Black daughter is 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police"
  
  Is that statistic actually true?
  1. Number.6 8 years ago
    
    I suspect that the number will vary between 10x and 0.1x more likely based on a number of life choices the daughter in question makes.
  2. kbolino 8 years ago
    
    Well, for one thing, more likely relative to what?
    
    And, for another thing, even if skin color and/or sex had some predictive power, a lot of other factors have far stronger predictive power than those.
    
    Finally, Bayes. That is all.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Smart bunch there -

Typo led to Podesta email hack: report

Last March, Podesta received an email purportedly from Google saying hackers had tried to infiltrate his Gmail account. When an aide emailed the campaign's IT staff to ask if the notice was real, Clinton campaign aide Charles Delavan replied that it was "a legitimate email" and that Podesta should "change his password immediately."

Instead of telling the aide that the email was a threat and that a good response would be to change his password directly through Google's website, he had inadvertently told the aide to click on the fraudulent email and give the attackers access to the account.

Delavan told the Times he had intended to type "illegitimate," a typo he still has not forgiven himself for making.

The email was a phishing scam that ultimately revealed Podesta's password to hackers. Soon after, WikiLeaks began releasing 10 years of his emails.

In late October the firm SecureWorks identified a Bit.ly account and WikiLeaks-released email that appeared to have been used to attack Podesta's account.
1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  Total bullshit. The campaigns are notorious for using the cheapest, fresh out of college labor they can get. Delavan probably wasn't qualified in the least to be doing what he was doing.
  1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
    
    They also claim the had low-tech security because they were underfunded.
    1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
      
      because they were underfunded
      
      That's astounding in its brazenness.
      1. BigT 8 years ago
        
        because they were underfunded
        
        $1.2 billion just doesn't go far these days.
        
        Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
        
        Because I have the time (conference calls are stupider than your stupid face), the quote from the NYT story:
        
        There were aspirations to ensure that the D.N.C. was well protected against cyberintruders ? and then there was the reality, Mr. Brown and his bosses at the organization acknowledged: The D.N.C. was a nonprofit group, dependent on donations, with a fraction of the security budget that a corporation its size would have.
        
        "There was never enough money to do everything we needed to do," Mr. Brown said.
        
        Lee Genes 8 years ago
        
        There probably wasn't that much money left after they paid all of their innumerable pollsters and consultants.
        
        The parties are graft machines. Worrying about network security just gets in the way of the goal.
        
        Brett L 8 years ago
        
        I love how these people think corporate IT is just full of fucking money. Usually its two Unix nerds who have fought their way up from the call center because they hate the idea of shit being wrong who probably cost the company $200k/year total including salary, benefits, and $8000 worth of laptops and monitors.
        
        Clich? Bandit 8 years ago
        
        and $8000 worth of laptops and monitors.
        
        This silly point is actually inversely proportional to the size of the company as measured by revenue.
        
        The more revenue the company makes the less they are willing to spend on simple rigs to keep the nerds happy. It is the damnedest thing. Such a low cost (in the world of corp. compensation alternatives, equipment is about the single cheapest). A pair of 36" flat screens, a brand new tower, a test server(s) a local (same building) rack, and a nice top of the line laptop would make most corp geeks swoon...and forget about the salary/bonus/vacation/life. Really, even though i consider myself closer to the outside of super techie I STILL would be much more likely to stay if they supplied a modicum of decent equipment. 10-15k, spent once every three years (maybe two) that is depreciable...i just don't understand their logic. Spend the cap=ex and the op-ex will be nearly free.
    2. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      Call Soros for another few million.
    3. Atanarjuat 8 years ago
      
      Well, which is more important, paying goons to dress as Trump supporters and punch old ladies, or paying for an IT guy, when some idiot college kid can probably just do it, or whatever.
    4. BakedPenguin 8 years ago
      
      They only raised 1.2 billion!
2. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  And these are the people screaming and telling people it was the Russkies, huh?
  
  Huh.
3. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  He accidentally typed "illegitimate" instead of "legitimate"?
  
  BWAHAHAHA yeah right. Just own up to it: you're a tech-illiterate ignoramus who fell for obvious bullshit.
  1. Tyler.C 8 years ago
    
    My thoughs too. That is some post-hoc cover your ass going on there
  2. Number.6 8 years ago
    
    That would have changed "a legitimate email" to "a illegitimate email".
    
    Even OUR IT helpdesk know enough grammar to know when to use 'a' and when to use 'an'
4. Free Society 8 years ago
  
  So how it was that Podesta's emails got leaked is a documented fact, but still the left goes on and on about Russian involvement as though their email system was locked up tighter than For Knox and could only be foiled by powerful Russian spies. I guess that's less embarrassing than the prospect of being phished by a middle-aged man living his mom's basement.
5. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  That would be two typos, then: it should be "an" "illegitimate" email.
Friendly Lizard 8 years ago

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte is a fucking psychopath
1. Friendly Lizard 8 years ago
  
  There's a creepy video of the piece of shit at TheGuardian.com.
2. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  Only half as bad as Trump
3. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  Only half as bad as Trump
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    But not as bad as the squirrelz?
    1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
      
      Orange squirrelz are the worst
    2. BigT 8 years ago
      
      Half as bad as half as bad as Trump is one-fourth as bad as Trump. So maybe just Hitler and Mussolini bad, and not Stalin and Mao and the Devil rolled into one bad.
    3. spqr2008 8 years ago
      
      Only a quarter as bad as the squirrelz.
4. Free Society 8 years ago
  
  I read somewhere he's been admonished by his doctors for abusing narcotics normally proscribed to cancer patients. Not sure if it's more ironic or more hypocritical.
  1. BakedPenguin 8 years ago
    
    If he's been using fentanyl recreationally, he might not be around much longer.
    1. Free Society 8 years ago
      
      Fingers crossed
Krabappel 8 years ago

On an Amtrak to NYC. 😀
1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  Poor, poor bastard.
  
  Both Amtrak and NYC.
  
  I've suffered that fate.
  1. Krabappel 8 years ago
    
    I love visiting NYC and Amtrak in the NE corridor isn't bad - I get on a train a mile from my house and get off at Penn station ~6 hours later.
    1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
      
      Visiting I can somewhat grasp, it's like staring at wreckage.
      
      Most of the times I was there it was passing through to get to an airport.
  2. Krabappel 8 years ago
    
    I love visiting NYC and Amtrak in the NE corridor isn't bad - I get on a train a mile from my house and get off at Penn station ~6 hours later.
    1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      That is kind of you to take the squirrelz with you on the trip.
      1. Krabappel 8 years ago
        
        We are riding through the Virginia forest... lots of squirrelz blocking the wifi from working on this train.
2. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  See if Amtrak still sells margaritas in a can and then don't buy one.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    How about Prince Albert in a can?
    1. SugarFree 8 years ago
      
      I never understood why you'd can penis ornaments.
  2. jack sprat 8 years ago
    
    geezus...coffee through the nose on that one
3. Citizen X 8 years ago
  
  I took an Amtrak to DC a couple years back. The only update they seemed to have made to the trains since about 1986 was a slight misting of urine.
  1. mr simple 8 years ago
    
    It gives it a real big city feel.
4. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  I've had good experiences on Amtrak to/from DC, but once bus services took off they became a way better value. A fraction of the price, similar speed, wifi; it'sa nice!
  
  What are you doing in NYC?
  1. Krabappel 8 years ago
    
    Work tomorrow - visiting with one of my employers investors to review some market research data. Taking the train back down Friday.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Democrats Hold Better Odds of Winning the House Than the Senate

Sen?ate Demo?crats need to pick up three seats to re?take the ma?jor?ity, which would re?quire de?fend?ing all 11 of their vul?ner?able mem?bers while de?feat?ing someone like Ted Cruz in Texas or Bob Cork?er in Ten?ness?ee. Don't bet on it.

But if an anti-Trump wave hits the coun?try, House Demo?crats would be well-po?si?tioned to take ad?vant?age?if they re?cruit ef?fect?ively and of?fer a more mod?er?ate im?age than they've presen?ted in re?cent years. They need to pick up 24 seats to re?gain the ma?jor?ity, around the same num?ber of Re?pub?lic?ans who are rep?res?ent?ing con?gres?sion?al seats that Clin?ton car?ried.
1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  Welcome back, Blue Dog Democrats...
2. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  I predict that the Dems are going to lose their asses in the mid-terms.
  1. R C Dean 8 years ago
    
    Depends entirely on the economy. Economy good, Dems lose. Economy bad, Dems win.
Crusty Juggler 8 years ago

According to a new national study, marijuana use is down among eighth- and 10th-graders and while it rose slightly among 12th-graders, it was still less common than in 2012.

What are they using to get high? Is it Halo? Whippets? DOG FILTER? IS IT DOG FILTER?!?!?!?
Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago

San Diego cops allow K9 to bite unarmed, naked man (who was pinned to the ground by 4 cops) for 44 seconds. Nothing happened to the cops, of course. Taxpayers shelled out a $385k settlement.

In the police video, you see officers asking the naked man to walk up the hillside toward them. He complies with their commands until he gets to the top of the canyon.

You hear the officers ordering the man to "turn around, turn around." He says "no" several times in a defiant voice.

Just two seconds later, and without warning, the K-9 officer gives his police dog the command to bite the subject.

The dog takes down the man immediately. Then four officers pinned the man to the ground, but allowed the dog to violently bite the man's leg for 44 more seconds. Other San Diego Police Officers hold the subject down and cuff him.
1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  There was a case in San Diego years ago where a convenience store owner called the cops concerning a man with obvious mental problems who was hanging around. The cops showed up in force with a K9 unit. The homeless man was carrying a stick and yelling about how he was terrified of dogs. So the cops sic the dog on him. When the homeless guy runs from the dog at the cops with the stick in hand (because he was surrounded), they shot him dead.
  1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
    
    What homeless problem?
2. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  Bonus: the guy will now be disabled for the rest of his life. Bonus bonus: the city says they did nothing wrong.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Trump's Threat Damps Companies' Plans to Move U.S. Jobs Abroad

President-elect Donald Trump's threat of retribution against companies that move jobs out of the U.S. is already having the effect he probably intended: some business leaders are pausing plans to seek foreign addresses.

Ross Baldwin, whose San Diego-based firm Tacna helps U.S. companies set up manufacturing operations in Mexico, said three new clients put their plans on hold until they see what Trump does as president.

At the McAllen Economic Development Corp., which assists companies seeking to expand across the Mexican border from the Texas city, two of five companies currently considering a move have put the brakes on their plans because of Trump, said Keith Partridge, the development corporation's chief executive officer.

Trump's Twitter vow that companies shifting jobs out of the U.S. will face "consequences" under his administration introduced new and difficult-to-gauge political risk for businesses considering offshoring to lower costs. The incoming president's passion for the cause was underscored at his Dec. 1 rally to celebrate an agreement he reached with United Technologies Corp.'s Carrier unit to keep about 800 factory jobs in Indianapolis instead of moving them to Mexico.
1. Friendly Lizard 8 years ago
  
  If Obama had done this you motherfuckers would explode.
  1. Tyler.C 8 years ago
    
    It is bullshit
  2. westernsloper 8 years ago
    
    Obama did do it.
    
    Whenever a president tells a company how or where they should do business it is wrong. I think the difference between Trump and Obama is: Trump sees companies who move as taking jobs and hurting people. Obama sees companies that move as taking his precious tax money since all money a person or company makes belongs to the government, and the government will let you know how much of it you can keep.
  3. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
    
    Don't project your double standards onto the commentariat here. The only real value in what Trump's doing here is that it's turning a bunch of Marxist liberals into free-market afficiandos for the next 4-8 years.
    1. Citizen X 8 years ago
      
      Free market? No, they're just going full on Big Business corporate-cronyist, without sensing even a whiff of contradiction. Principals over principles, after all.
  4. Smalls 8 years ago
    
    'Friendly' lizard, my ass.
2. Hamster of Doom 8 years ago
  
  I give it a week before business heads explore the idea of setting up foreign shell companies through which to do business in the US. Can't leave if yer foreign to start with.
  1. mr simple 8 years ago
    
    They'll just buy/merge with small overseas companies and make that their HQ.
Lee Genes 8 years ago

Admittedly, the entries in TV science fiction have been better this past year, but I guess hadn't realized how hard they're trying to make women the physical badasses in just about every show. It's getting a little ridiculous.

2016 Gave Us Some of the Best Female Sci-Fi Characters on TV
1. Hamster of Doom 8 years ago
  
  You leave Xena alone!!
  1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
    
    Xena can kick my ass any day. In fact, I''m extending an invite right now.
    1. Hamster of Doom 8 years ago
      
      Television was better when there were enormous busty women in scanty leather armor. And Bob Barker.
      1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
        
        Not sure I'd care for Bob Barker in scanty leather armor...but to each their own!
        
        Episteme 8 years ago
        
        He kicks down doors and uses his sword to spay and neuter your pets!
      2. Mike Schmidt 8 years ago
        
        and Alan Thicke
2. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
  
  I quickly scrolled because I have not watched any of those shows, which brought me to the first three comments:
  
  What was the controversy with The 100? I just caught up.
  
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  Lake Desire Melissa Lepley ? 8 hours ago
  
  Lexa was killed off the same way as Tara in Buffy, 15 years ago. Lesbian tv characters always seem to die, especially in SF/F. You can Google "bury your gays" for more background and analysis since I just casually followed the controversy.
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  Melissa Lepley Lake Desire ? 8 hours ago
  
  Aaaah. Okay. Thanks!
  1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
    
    Ew. I should have previewed that mess.
  2. Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago
    
    "The 100" controversy was especially dumb because everyone in that show dies. People die more often than in Game of Thrones.
  3. John Titor 8 years ago
    
    It's funny how much Joss Whedon is being thrown under the bus by the social justice crowd that he actively wants to be a part of. After the Black Widow controversy he quit Twitter (don't know if he came back) because he was being bombarded with complaints. You'd think that would make him maybe question his association with them, but nope, instead he ranted about how they should be attacking Republicans instead of him. Stay classy Joss.
    1. Somalian Road Corporation 8 years ago
      
      He's actually gone stark raving mad:
      
      Voter suppression
      Russian hacking
      FBI collusion
      He has the office
      BUT HE IS NOT WELCOME HERE
      Keep investigating
      Keep protesting#NEVERtrump
      
      Trump supporters are like Adrienne Barbeau in "Creepshow", too busy insulting us to see what's coming for them
      
      Ryan & the GOP were always gonna fall in line for Trump. Libs quibble, evil shrugs.
      
      "Stronger together" wasn't a slogan. It was a warning.
      
      This year, "White Christmas" is reaching "Baby It's Cold Outside" level creepy for me #ThanksDonald
    2. Somalian Road Corporation 8 years ago
      
      He also said something about Patton Oswalt being a better choice for President... well, let's see what Oswalt is thinking:
      
      This fucking election. Fucking Trump.
      These newest revelations, that Russia hacked the election. Piles of evidence, teetering up to the sky. That Russia ALSO hacked the RNC and are holding them over a barrel because of what they know. Which would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightening.
      And the boiling chaos that's resulting from it. I've got conservative friends actually DEFENDING Russia on this. I've got progressive friends gloating that we've finally had done to us what we've done to other countries. That Hillary somehow deserves this. That WE somehow deserve this. That infuriating cliche about, "It's actually GOOD ifTrump destroys everything it'll start a revolution BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH..."
      And in the middle of it all is Trump -- bloated, grinning, oblivious, wearing his cheap baseball cap and ruining people's lives with his Twitter. While all around him -- smarter, better, exhausted people scramble around, trying to sweep up a china shop he keeps stumbling through, laughing the whole time at these stupid nerds picking up the broken pieces on the ground. Losers. Weak.
      Trump doesn't spread evil. He doesn't even spread chaos. Evil and chaos are beyond his abilities...
      
      Clearly well-adjusted, both of them.
3. Just a thought not a sermon 8 years ago
  
  Eleven in Stranger Things was a cute kid. Don't know about these other chicks. Maybe it's because young dudes spend so much time playing video games nowadays it's impossible to actually picture them doing anything active?
4. jack sprat 8 years ago
  
  +1 Jeb Bush for Supergirl
5. Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper 8 years ago
  
  I got into a discussion with my wife about something like this. She said something along the lines that referring to "we" and "they" in regard to a policy position the NGO she works for is taking was othering and therefore bad. I made the argument that it simply recognizes that people ARE different, and they all have different perspectives, goals, ideas, and capabilities. Recognizing that people are individuals is a good thing, because you're acknowledging that each person matters. Ignoring differences and thinking of people as some sort of collective where everyone is planed down to some theoretical mean is lazy and dehumanizing. Differences are what make people important; people who are equal are people who can be replaced.
6. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  Yeah, the whole waif-fu thing leaves me pretty cold.
Princess Trigger 8 years ago

Read this NYTimes story on the russkies CYBERWAR. I was wondering why my proggy friends weren't promoting this on facebook. About halfway through, you come to the conclusion that the Democrats are too stupid to rule us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12.....-news&_r=0
1. Citizen X 8 years ago
  
  Honestly, i came to that conclusion in about 1998.
2. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  Even Mr. Podesta, a savvy Washington insider who had written a 2014 report on cyberprivacy for President Obama, did not truly understand the gravity of the hacking.
  
  I just... I can't... what the fuck man? We're ruled by idiots.
  1. Free Society 8 years ago
    
    So Podesta wrote a report on "cyberprivacy", then gets his email password phished not only because he's an idiot, but because he's an idiot that didn't listen to the IT experts that told him it was a phishing scam.
    1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
      
      It's Kafkaesque in its absurdity.
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Kafka would throw up his hands in bewildered disgust.
    2. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
      
      Apparently the IT guy wrote him back and said it was a "legitimate" email when he meant to type "illegitimate," so Podesta clicked on the link like a goon and gave up his password when he could have used some common sense and gone into his account directly to verify--or at the very least, change his password to something more complex than "Pode$ta".
      1. kbolino 8 years ago
        
        Any "IT guy" worth his/her salt knows that you do not give users assessments of fact or technical opinions. You give clear and concise directions. "Delete this email and do not respond to it", for example.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Putin Is A Threat To Democracy, And Democrats Want To Invalidate The Election To Prove It

Despite the suggestion of some clumsy headline writers, there's no evidence (so far) that Russians tampered with votes or changed the outcome of 2016 in any tangible way. Fortunately, even if Putin had tried, our regional, decentralized voting system ? the sort of system many Democrats would like to federalize ? makes it virtually impossible for anyone to hack an American election.

This fact hasn't stopped some from making reckless charges about the legitimacy of Trump's win. "Did the combination of Russian and F.B.I. intervention swing the election? Yes. Mrs. Clinton lost three states ? Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania ? by less than a percentage point, and Florida by only slightly more," Paul Krugman recently wrote. Neither he, nor any of the other people making similar assertions, have any real evidence to back up the contention.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Stargazers discover priceless planet which has clouds of RUBIES and SAPPHIRES

"When we say clouds, they're definitely not like clouds on earth," he explained in science journal Nature.

Unlike the fluffy white vapours we're used to on Earth, the new Hat-P-7b's clouds are made from corundum ? the same mineral that produces rubies and sapphires on Earth.

And if alien life does exist on the brave new world ? some 1,000 lightyears from ours ? they'll definitely need a brolly.

The scorching planet gets so baking hot the minerals vaporise in the atmosphere ? raining liquid jewels on the world below.
Crusty Juggler 8 years ago

'Are you truly incapable of shame?' U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power blasts Russia, Syria over Aleppo 'evil'

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., offered a stinging rebuke, telling "the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran ? three member states behind the conquest of and carnage in Aleppo ? you bear responsibility for these atrocities." This assault on humanity "will not end with Aleppo, and it will not focus on terrorists ? it never has, and there is no evidence that it will," she said, dwelling on the word "terrorist," Assad's label for any opponent. "Clearly, young children ? they must be terrorists because everybody being executed, everybody being barrel bombed, everybody who's been chlorine attacked, you're going to be told they are all terrorists ? every last one of them, even the infants," she said.

There is more. It's adorbies that she once again seems to care about human rights.

Related: The Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. is located on the 42nd floor of the Waldof-Astoria Hotel.
1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
  
  She then Tweeted:
  
  #Aleppo is joining Rwanda and Srebrenica as defining historical events that embody evil. #Assad, #Russia, #Iran know no shame.
  1. Private Chipperbot 8 years ago
    
    So I guess the red line about chemical weapons was a throwaway sentence.
  2. mashed potatoes 8 years ago
    
    Umm .. I do believe the country that fits that description is yemen.. http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/13/.....n-6319191/
    1. tarran 8 years ago
      
      NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!
      
      THERE IS NO HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN YEMEN! THE YEMENI GOVERNMENT IS A GREAT GOVERNMENT AND THE ONLY PEOPLE BEING KILLED BY SAUDI BOMBS WITH US LOGISTICAL AND INTEL SUPPORT ARE A HANDFUL OF EVIL TERRORISTS ALLIED WITH IRAN!!!!!!!
  3. Suthenboy 8 years ago
    
    Is she implying that the people that Assad and the Russians are fighting are the good guys? Pegging Assad and Russians as the least bad actors in syria is closer to the truth.
2. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  Power is an notorious interventionist.
  1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
    
    Yes. However, since she works for the most powerful country in the world it is pretty lame for her to criticize when others intervene.
    
    Russia's ambassador said that Power was acting like "Mother Teresa" when the United States has its own track record
    
    And then she Tweeted from her ridiculously swanky digs. Smart power at its best.
    1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
      
      Hey, she's married to superdouche Cass Sunstein, what else would you expect?
      1. Idle Hands 8 years ago
        
        Cass Sunstien believes the Star Wars prequels were underrated.
        
        Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Cass Sunstein asks if you're "ready to rock" and then puts on Nickleback.
        
        ???? ??????, Jr. 8 years ago
        
        When Cass Sunstein serves up hamburgers, they're topped with Kraft singles.
        
        Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Cass Sunstein likes his steak well done, and dipped in ketchup. Hunt's ketchup.
        
        Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        Cass Sunstein's favorite color is beige.
3. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
  
  Russia cares about Russia /history books
4. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  Just to recap in case I'm mistaken or lost.
  
  Russia/Assad fighting ISIS, correct?
  1. Tyler.C 8 years ago
    
    My understanding is everyone is fighting everyone over there. Thats why it sucks but as also definitely worth staying out of. No way to keep your hands clean.
  2. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    For the wrong reasons, so Nyet.
  3. Free Society 8 years ago
    
    Yeah but the rebels in Aleppo are all center-left liberal democrats fighting for women's rights and transgender bathrooms, although they pay taxes to ISIS and routinely forward them the equipment given to them by the west, don't let that distract you from the humanitarian crisis at hand.
  4. John Titor 8 years ago
    
    Sort of. The Assad regime is very clearly prioritizing the "moderate" groups. ISIS gives them a justification to clean house so they're taking it. Only group that is really focusing on ISIS is the Kurds, because their other option is death (Kurds are generally seen by other groups in the Middle East as almost like the Thugee, historically bandits and raiders to be wiped out).
5. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
  
  Just a reminder that this Irish banshee was partially responsible for convincing Obama to get involved with Libya.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Man robs bank with note written on rehab discharge papers

Police say a Philadelphia man signed himself out of a Chester County drug and alcohol rehab center, took a cab to a nearby bank and robbed it using a note scribbled on his discharge papers.

Twenty-five-year-old Jamal Goodwin was arrested Tuesday and charged with robbery, theft and other offenses stemming from Monday's holdup at Malvern Federal Savings Bank.

Police say Goodwin took just over $5,000 in cash before fleeing in a Main Line Taxi cab.

Unfortunately for Goodwin, police say he left behind a gym bag containing $2,700 worth of the stolen money in the cab along with his wallet and driver's license. Also in the car were two sweatshirts that a bank teller said belonged to the robber.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

At least a dozen more men have been charged with promoting prostitution for posting for posting to Seattle-area escort forum The Review Board.

They should have called it The Revue Board. It would have made the story less confusing to me.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Take your little girl there...

Dutch restaurant serves up 'My Little Pony Burger' made from real horse meat

The offbeat food truck Keuken van het Ongewenst Dier, which translates to "The Unwanted Animal Kitchen," now supplies its "My Little Pony Burger" year round to Babbe Hengeveld, a chef who runs her own restaurant Food Guerilla, reports Vice Munchies.

Keuken van het Ongewenst Die has been serving the burger periodically for years and the patty itself is made from the meat of butchered, aging horses that have worked at a local amusement park, Slagharen.

The idea behind the unusual protein is to ensure that the meat from older horses isn't wasted when the animals are put down.
1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  Food trucks?
  
  How am I supposed to find a Food Truck in the Netherlands?
  1. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
    
    You wouldn't like it anyway. But maybe you could find the colorless soup truck or the gruel-mobile.
    
    /I keed
  2. Atanarjuat 8 years ago
    
    Look for a trailer being pulled by two dozen straining bicyclists.
    1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
      
      Canal barge.
  3. SugarFree 8 years ago
    
    Tulpa hit hardest.
    1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
      
      My first thought (before I remembered the reference) was that he'd stepped out in front of a food truck and qas quite literally hit.
      1. SugarFree 8 years ago
        
        A dream is just a wish your heart makes.
Citizen X 8 years ago

Fighting and bombing are still underway in Aleppo

Where now?
1. Hamster of Doom 8 years ago
  
  Never heard of it.
  1. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    Get smarter!
    1. Citizen X 8 years ago
      
      GET A BRAIN, MORAN
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Anti-Trump Elector Chris Suprun Paid For Ashley Madison While Bankrupt And Married With 3 Kids

Anti-Trump Texas faithless elector Stephen Christopher "Chris" Suprun, who wrote a widely-shared op-ed in The New York Times about his decision, in which he claimed ideological superiority over Trump, which would prevent him from voting for the President-elect on December 19 as he is required, joined and paid for cheating website Ashley Madison in 2012, using the same address registered to his 9/11 charity, while bankrupt, likely unemployed, and married with three young kids, after he and his working wife owed over $200,000 to multiple creditors ? and that's just the start of it.

sounds like a libertarian...
1. Tyler.C 8 years ago
  
  Ahhhh as predicted, the character assassinations of political opponents will continue into the next regime.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    "into the next regime"? How about "forever"!
  2. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
    
    Eh, in Suprun's case it's the equivalent of Jimmy Swaggart getting caught with a prostitute in a hotel. Self-righteousness only works if you're actually righteous, and someone bragging about their own supposed purity better damn well be pure.
2. ant1sthenes 8 years ago
  
  Well, at least we know he's consistent about being faithless.
Atanarjuat 8 years ago

Trump's latest cabinet appointments are more committed to smaller government than LP-VP candidate Weld's would have been.
1. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  I'm trying not to pick at my progressive friends too much. They're having a hard month. But I did have to put up some Dr. Strangelove.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    +1 Mein Fuhrer...I can walk!
    1. Brett L 8 years ago
      
      "Have you ever seen a [Russkie use a computer without hacking], Mandrake?"
      "No, Jack I can't say that I have."
PBR Streetgang 8 years ago

Salon endorsing trickle down economics via the military industrial complex? Say wuht??
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/1.....45-states/
1. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  Progressives are now reflexively defending Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the CIA. As if we needed more evidence of their complete intellectual bankruptcy.
  1. PBR Streetgang 8 years ago
    
    No doubt.
  2. BakedPenguin 8 years ago
    
    "Goldman Sachs isn't really that bad, ya know."
2. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  Power means opposing your competition. Whatever position they take, you take the opposite position. They oppose something, you endorse it.
  
  Swap around as needed.
3. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
  
  Fuckin LOL at Salon 'tards fanning their face over potential job losses for military contractors.
Suthenboy 8 years ago

FOX is airing a segment in a minute playing up the suffering in aleppo. Goddamned war mongers. What is it with these people? They are as bad as the open borders crowd.

Look, the world is a largely uncivilized place with over 7 billion people in it. We cant fix that. We don't have the room or the resources to take in the 4 billion people who would come here if they could and we cant police the world to keep all the tribal savages out there from killing each other.
1. Raven Nation 8 years ago
  
  You should listen to the BBC news sometime. Their reporting on Aleppo is incredible. And, strangely, it's often followed by a story on the plight of refugees in Europe.
2. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  I keep asking all my peacenik friends who want to DO SOMETHING!! about the civilian casualties in Aleppo how many civilian casualties they are willing to accept to "fix" the situation. They are under the impression that sending in the Marines will cause all sides to stop fighting at once. Its weird how the Marines become magical forces for good or evil in their mind.
  1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
    
    Look, the only way to be sure we stop all the fighting in Aleppo is to nuke the city from orbit.
Juvenile Bluster 8 years ago

We need to find some way to make this happen.

David Burge
?@iowahawkblog

We only need to flip 270 votes to get President Dave Burge #InformTheElectors
1. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
  
  I, for one, support this idea.
  1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
    
    All of his speeches will fit in 140 characters!
    1. Hamster of Doom 8 years ago
      
      Did you see his Cabinet picks? He has my vote.
2. Grand Moff Serious Man 8 years ago
  
  Bourbon in every cabinet and a hotrod in every garage!
  1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
    
    What about those of us who have to deal with streetside parking?!
    
    And if the cabinets are full of bourbon, where am I going to put the rest of my stuff?
    1. Citizen X 8 years ago
      
      Oh my god dude you don't like ANYTHING
      1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
        
        I point out legitimate logistical issues that need to be addressed and you turn to character assassination.
        
        You really are a political operative.
        
        Swiss Servator 8 years ago
        
        IF YOU HAVE A HOTROD ON THE STREET AND A CABINET FULL OF BOURBON, WHO NEEDS OTHER STUFF?
        
        UnCivilServant 8 years ago
        
        I live in upstate new york - subjecting a car like that to the winter weather and the salted roads is just BARBARIC!
        
        Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        No, when faced with the prospect of free bourbon and bitchin' cars, you're all "ugh, really?"
        
        bacon-magic 8 years ago
        
        Uncivil thinks bourbon tastes like wood...how would he know how wood tastes? Hmmmmm?
3. robc 8 years ago
  
  Actually, just flip enough from Trump to Burge so that he finishes 3rd and Trump is under 270 and let the house elect Burge.
4. robc 8 years ago
  
  Actually, just flip enough from Trump to Burge so that he finishes 3rd and Trump is under 270 and let the house elect Burge.
5. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
  
  I am in.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Labor Secretary nominee Puzder changes tune on immigration reform

Andrew Puzder, fast-food mogul and President-elect Donald Trump's labor secretary pick, said he backs Trump's plan for immigration controls to protect American jobs, reports RealClear Politics. In a statement released to the public, Puzder said that if confirmed as labor secretary, his moral and constitutional duty will be "to serve U.S. workers."

Notably, Politico called this a "retooling" of his original immigration stance. In an op-ed published earlier this year, Puzder claimed that deporting 11 million people would be "unworkable."

Puzder said that immigration controls will increase wages and ensure that vacant jobs are offered first to American workers. He said that spending trillions of dollars on jobless benefits and welfare for out of work Americans while hiring foreign workers to fill jobs "makes no sense. "
1. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  Whoa. Labor Secretary to advocate for American labor? SLD, this may not be the most efficient allocation of scarce resources that have competing uses, but it does seem like the Secretary of Labor should advocate for American labor to be employed where possible in preference to foreign labor.
  1. R C Dean 8 years ago
    
    Absurd. The American Dream is to buy cheap crap with your welfare check.
jack sprat 8 years ago

" save the terrorists " is that like save the whales? Will there be a telethon ( or at least go fund me page)?
Ken Shultz 8 years ago

"Ohio Gov. John Kasich has vetoed a bill that would ban abortion just a few weeks post-conception but approved a 20-week abortion ban."

If the trends in the state legislatures continue, the Republicans may have the power to propose amendments to the federal Constitution after the midterms--without the support of any Democrats. That's probably the best shot we'll ever have to get federal spending under control with a balanced budget amendment.

The biggest threat to that outcome will come from those within the Republican party who will want to use that power to propose amendments that ban abortion or gay marriage. We're going to need people like Kasich to save us from those who would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

To Trump supporters everywhere, please be advised: Republicans do much better in an environment in which social issues like abortion and gay marriage are not emphasized. Those wedge issues work to the Democrats' advantage--that's what makes them wedge issues.

Want to get serious about replacing ObamaCare with markets, a balanced budget amendment, not squandering our standard of living for global warming, and turning the tide against the institutionalization of PC bullshit?

STFU about abortion.
1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
  
  Republicans do much better in an environment in which social issues like abortion and gay marriage are not emphasized.
  
  They can't help it, Ken. They have two years of power, so they will do whatever they can to push retarded legislation about abortion and every other social issue none of them have the ability to confidently explain.
2. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  We're going to need people like Kasich to save us
  
  Welp, I guess we're doomed, then.
  1. Ken Shultz 8 years ago
    
    He did the right thing here.
3. The Fusionist 8 years ago
  
  You realize, don't you, that Ohio Right to Life supports Gov. Kasich? Both in signing the anti-late-abortion bill and in vetoing the heartbeat bill?
  
  While some prolifers want a heartbeat bill, Ohio Right to Life opposes it as basically inviting the federal courts to reaffirm Roe v. Wade. Ohio Right to Life is trying for an incremental approach.
  
  In short, you may want to postpone your end-zone victory dance.
  1. The Fusionist 8 years ago
    
    This is a dispute among prolifers as to the best means to restore protection for innocent unborn life.
    
    It's highly premature to insert prochoice triumphalism here.
    1. Ken Shultz 8 years ago
      
      It isn't about pro-life triumphalism.
      
      It's about robbing the progressives of an easy wedge issue nationally.
Free Society 8 years ago

Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed the case-fire was wanted by western countries to save "the terrorists."

Sounds about right.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

There Is No Right-Wing Equivalent to Political Correctness

In a new piece, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration-policy analyst at the Cato Institute, contends that, "Conservatives have their own, nationalist version of [political correctness], their own set of rules regulating speech, behavior and acceptable opinions," a phenomenon he labels "patriotic correctness."

If Nowrasteh means that conservatives tend to find conservative opinions more acceptable than liberal ones, well, duh. If he means that conservatives tend to object to liberal viewpoints, well, duh again. It should even be admitted that, like all collections of human beings, conservatives sometimes succumb to groupthink. But Nowrasteh completely blurs the line between a conservative objecting to a heterodox opinion and a conservative attempting to suppress that opinion by punishing anyone who expresses it. He even throws out the t-word ? "tyranny" ? to describe this allegedly sinister Bizarro PC.

Nowrasteh reaches back 13 years for some of his first examples, "Freedom Fries" and David Frum's 2003 cover story on "Unpatriotic Conservatives," suggesting this description of victims of tyranny started out as a "Things that Annoyed Me Over the Past Decade and a Half" listicle. You may have noticed that everyone calls them "French fries" today;
1. Free Society 8 years ago
  
  Ultimately it comes down to the right and left's differing versions of human nature. The left's version is anti-rational, if not downright evil and leads to all sorts of sanctimonious behavior. No man is more oppressive than the one oppressing you for what he believes is your own good.
2. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  Oh really? Try suggesting to conservatives that maybe blowing up wedding parties and funding dictators creates more terrorists and see how they react.
  1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
    
    Just burn a flag
  2. Idle Hands 8 years ago
    
    Why do you hate america? Are you a muslem?
    1. Jordan 8 years ago
      
      I just really like cocktail parties, alright?
  3. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    I think the point is that they would get all P.O.'d, but they wouldn't hound you from a job, engage in lawfare, get you disciplined or expelled from university, etc.
    1. Number.6 8 years ago
      
      That may have been true until recently, but I see no reason to believe that they (a) couldn't and (b) wouldn't do it once they had the means to do so.
      
      Indeed, there's so much talk about "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" talk going on from the right, that I think it's only a matter of time before we see *plenty* of it.
      
      Not that I think it's unacceptable. Cloward-Piven/Alinsky tactics work whatever your ideology.
  4. John 8 years ago
    
    How is that political correctness? They disagree with you. And maybe they are right. That thought ever crossed your mind?
    
    I get it you think that every terrorist has a personal grudge and that the only way to beat terrorism is not to try. But to say that disagreement with that is the same thing as PC is even more asinine than your understanding of the causes of terrorism.
3. Tyler.C 8 years ago
  
  Yeah saying right wingers have political correctness is retarded. Now lets talk about important stuff like jailing people who burn sky cloth.
Lee Genes 8 years ago

Maximum delusion

My wife told me I messed a great program yesterday, where the German press blasted the American press for doing not only a lousy job of reporting during the General Election season, but actually what seemed like deliberately letting the Republicans lead them around like they were obedient dogs on a leash.

She was in the States for a while earlier this year, and saw it for herself, but never thought they'd be SO complicit in favoring one party over the either during the general election. The German program said the American press neglected facts, repeated innuendo without verification, and generally ignored substance in favor of sensation, whether backed up by facts or not--in short, they all became either greater or lesser versions of Fox "News."

From the comments:

I

I can barely watch CNN or MSNBC anymore.

And I used to be a news junkie.

I can't stand how complicit they were in this debacle.

And I can't tolerate that orange face.

21. Ditto. Joy Reid and Lawrence O are all I can stand.

And I record Samantha Bee, now playing the role established by Jon Stewart of being a better informed truth teller than the news media. She has been incredible from the beginning.
1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
  
  The media is partly to blame for Donald John Trump's victory, in that they did not report accurate news about him, and only reported sensationalist news about Clinton.
  1. Free Society 8 years ago
    
    The media is partly to blame for Donald John Trump's victory, in that they did not report accurate news about him, and only reported sensationalist news about Clinton.
    
    Is that some sort of sick tasteless joke?
    1. Crusty Juggler 8 years ago
      
      Is that some sort of sick tasteless joke?
      
      No, it is not the gnarled underside of Citizen X's feeble dong.
      1. Citizen X 8 years ago
        
        The ladies call it "the tickler."
  2. Citizen X 8 years ago
    
    Yes. That is exactly how i remember it too.
2. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  So the lesson for that person was to choose a person worse than the media in Bee?
3. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  I'd blame the mainstream media, too. They went all in for Clinton, which gave Trump a huge ground swelling of support.
4. Grand Moff Serious Man 8 years ago
  
  The old adage in comedy is that it's never funny if you have to explain the joke. Thus the reason progressive comedians are able to be so successful is because their audience is composed of people who don't want to think and thus never demand the joke to be explained.
  
  So when, for example, Samantha Bee produces a jaw-droppingly vapid segment that compares how easy it is to buy a gun versus how hard it was to rent the NRA's trademarked Eddie the Eagle costume it works because no one in her audience is going to stop and wonder why that's a dumb, pointless comparison.
5. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  I don't know how to comment on that. It has no connection to reality that I can discern.
  1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
    
    It's bizarre. Joy Reid? The woman is a dullard. I'd at least understand someone like Amanpour.
robc 8 years ago

Ohio Gov. John Kasich ... approved a 20-week abortion ban.

I thought it was the Ds who wanted to be more like Europe.
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

Why Don't Poor People Move?

Bailey went back to McDowell after forty years away, to see how things had changed. Because the coal industry has withered, it's worse than ever there; McDowell is the poorest and sickest county in a poor state. The average life expectancy for men ? 64 years ? is the lowest of any county in the United States. Bailey wrote a piece for Reason attempting to answer the question, "Why don't people just leave?"

...

A second aspect of Bailey's story about the poor whites of McDowell County is the role of family and community in perpetuating the habits of poverty across generations. You really need to read Bailey's story to get the whole picture, but the gist of it is that people don't leave because that's where their people are. If a poor person left McDowell County ? assuming they had the money to pay for the move and to establish themselves elsewhere, which is a lot to assume ? they would be moving from a place where they knew just about everybody to a place where they would be a stranger. And not just a stranger, but a stranger with no money, leaving them extremely vulnerable with no one to help them. You can see why the idea of leaving would be unappealing. Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

alot more detail than I can quote.
1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
  
  Sam Kinison looms large
2. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  I had trouble explaining to lifeling academic dean of Undergraduates why it cost money to go on co-op. He just kept falling back on "But you get paid" part without my being able (at the time) to articulate the up-front costs (moving, security deposit, first month's rent, food, all before you get your first paycheck) that were prohibatively high for someone whose bank balance was $0 most of the time.
3. Domestic Dissident 8 years ago
  
  Maybe they're staying because they know that the coal industry isn't "withering", it's being intentionally targeted for destruction by the leftists in Washington.
  
  Now that the America-hating Block Yomomma is on the way out the door and a supporter of America and capitalism is on his way in and the EPA is about to be put in the corner where it belongs, coal jobs will start coming back again.
  1. Lee Genes 8 years ago
    
    Coal's not coming back even if the regulators back off. Natural gas is too cheap.
Friendly Lizard 8 years ago

Trump's national security adviser has a problem:

Although Flynn lacked authorization to share the classified material, he was not disciplined or reprimanded after the investigation concluded that he did not act "knowingly" and that "there was no actual or potential damage to national security as a result," according to Army records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.

During the presidential race, Flynn campaigned vigorously for Republican nominee Donald Trump and drew attention for his scalding attacks against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified material. Clinton was investigated by the FBI for allowing classified information to be transmitted on her private email server when she ran the State Department. No charges were filed against the former secretary of state, but the issue dogged her for more than a year.

At the Republican National Convention in July, Flynn called on Clinton to drop out of the race for putting "our nation's security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private email server." He egged on the partisan crowd in chants of "lock her up," adding: "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today."

Flynn did not respond to requests for comment.
1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
  
  If you're waiting on a lot of Flynn defenders to show up here, you should probably grab a snickers.
  1. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
    
    Erroll Flynn was setup!
    1. John DeWitt 8 years ago
      
      By Trumbo. Trumbo did him in.
2. Idle Hands 8 years ago
  
  String 'em up.
3. Idle Hands 8 years ago
  
  String 'em up.
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    Man, twice?! You are harsh...
    1. KerryW 8 years ago
      
      Once from his neck and once from his ... wherever?
4. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  the investigation concluded that he did not act "knowingly" and that "there was no actual or potential damage to national security as a result,"
  
  People who thought Hillary should get off for precisely this reason are upset that Flynn did, as well?
Domestic Dissident 8 years ago

Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

Fuck Pete Macadoodle Suderweigel, and fuck Vox.

Let his Obama-loving dumb ass work there where he belongs full time so he can leave us the fuck alone.
1. Jordan 8 years ago
  
  Too coherent. Needs moar Block Yomomma.
  1. Suthenboy 8 years ago
    
    I have to agree with him.
2. Somalian Road Corporation 8 years ago
  
  Writers padding their resumes at Reason before fully jumping to some "respectable" JournoList/Wikileaks-indicted left-wing propaganda organization. What's not to love about it?
  1. Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos 8 years ago
    
    Even Balko appears to have succumbed to the Fake News hivemind. Sad!
    1. Somalian Road Corporation 8 years ago
      
      Ugh, really? That is indeed sad... I haven't seen Balko articles linked much anymore (which is kind of funny in that I would often come across them referenced elsewhere when he was actually at Reason) so I didn't know.
      
      I knew he wasn't exactly a radical for capitalism, but you'd think that after experiencing eight years of the palace guard media he'd be inoculated against such idiocy... but perhaps when it comes to such things I'm guilty of wishful thinking.
      
      Hope being invited to the cocktail parties with the rest of the merry band of folks shitting themselves about the PROVEN FACT that Russians rigged the elections for Putin puppet Drumpfler is worth it.
3. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  The important question is, did he do it better than Kurt Loder did at reason?
  1. Swiss Servator 8 years ago
    
    *golf clap*
Chip Your Pets 8 years ago

Stanford University has filed a 29-page response to a lawsuit brought by a female student who says the school mishandled sexual assault cases by not pursuing and punishing an alleged assailant when the victim didn't want to and wouldn't cooperate.

That's a gross mischaracterization of the plaintiff's claims. The lawsuit claims that Stanford was actively discouraging alleged victims from pursuing the disciplinary process, and pressuring them to settle for informal no-contact orders; the lawsuit alleges that previous victim didn't cooperate with the process because she felt like she was not going to get a fair hearing.

As often is the case in recent times, Reason only provides the side of the story that lines up with their preferred narrative.
1. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  Taking this out of the hands of the police and putting it in the hands of university apparatchiks seems like it might lead to undesirable outcomes. Maybe thats just me, I dunno.
2. SugarFree 8 years ago
  
  Fuck off, Tulpa.
  1. John 8 years ago
    
    If what he is saying is true, he has a point. In that case, fuck off reason for giving Tulpa a good point.
    1. Volren 8 years ago
      
      Maybe a little bit for the first one, but why people are dicking around with university disciplinary systems when there are accusations of rape or sexual assault is beyond me anyway.
      
      The second issue isn't Stanford's problem. They don't control what the alleged victim's perceptions. If she won't even try the system because she thinks it will not do any good that's not their fault.
      1. Volren 8 years ago
        
        *perceives. Oops.
      2. John 8 years ago
        
        They shouldn't be telling people not to come forward. They should be telling people not to lie.
3. R C Dean 8 years ago
  
  Nothing prevented her from taking this to the police, so I frankly don't give a shit if she was unhappy with how the school wanted to handle it.
Bubba Jones 8 years ago

Sex at Stanford? Is Robby pissed you didn't save that for him?
straffinrun 8 years ago

So a few FB friends are trying to get this meme off the ground. As if they could refrain from pantshitting long enough. Oh, and the projection is strong in this one.
1. Lord Humungus 8 years ago
  
  I won't be watching the inauguration - but I can't think of a time that I ever did.
  1. John 8 years ago
    
    After the amount of smug bullshit associated with the last two, it would be nice if this were a small affair. I do, hope, however, Kayne West performs. Overpraising the "genius" of Kayne and Beyonce is a requirement for all white hipsters. Their tears and butt hurt over Kayne performing at the inauguration of the dark night of fascism falling on America would be especially delicious.
  2. straffinrun 8 years ago
    
    I wouldn't miss this inauguration for anything.
2. John 8 years ago
  
  It is actually a good suggestion for Progressives. If they would turn off their TVs and smart phones and get a life that doesn't revolve around politics, smugness and butt hurt, we would all be better off.
3. Suthenboy 8 years ago
  
  Like anyone would notice. They just cant get it through their heads that the country has rejected them.
4. Brett L 8 years ago
  
  Its way easier to just skim the transcript of the speech and skip all the bullshit.
5. You ARE a Prog (MJG) 8 years ago
  
  It takes place in the middle of a Tuesday. Other than partisans, who watches these things to begin with?
Sevo 8 years ago

"Energy Department rejects Donald Trump's request to name climate change workers, who remain worried"
http://www.sfgate.com/news/pol.....793061.php

Wait for it
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YOU'RE FIRED!
1. UnCivilServant 8 years ago
  
  I tried to read the article, but anyone who honestly regards skeptecism as being the "flat earth" position can't be taken seriously.
2. John 8 years ago
  
  The high comedy of making Rick Perry Secretary of Energy is something even I wasn't optimistic enough to dream. It is just fucking awesome.
3. Somalian Road Corporation 8 years ago
  
  There was utterly baseless scaremongering elsewhere about how they're apparently backing up climate data because of the fear that Trump will destroy it. Oh, this wild ride never ends.
  1. Darth Squirrel 8 years ago
    
    Is that the same climate data they've refused to release to anyone not a dyed-in-the-wool hot-earther?
Bubba Jones 8 years ago

Very confused by the Stanford case. fundamental complaint is that they had sex a few times. On last encounter he wanted a bj. She said no. He said mean things and cried. She comforted him and then he put her in an arm lock. No actual sex.

Stanford references a coercive text by her to him but does not reprint it.

Dont be crazy. Don't stick it in crazy.
1. Zeb 8 years ago
  
  And don't let crazy stick it in you. Doesn't sound like the guy really has it together either.
  1. Brett L 8 years ago
    
    19 year olds are stupid, inexperienced, and reactive, film at 11.
    1. Zeb 8 years ago
      
      Yeah, maybe it's not so much a case of bad choice of sexual partners as the stupidity of turning normal teenage sexual drama into a federal case (so to speak).
2. Raston Bot 8 years ago
  
  arm lock? assault, then?
Lord Humungus 8 years ago

So how is poor ol' Huma doing these days?

Vanity Fair wants you to know!
1. Number.6 8 years ago
  
  She's still featured as Hillary's email password - huma69.
The Late P Brooks 8 years ago

Peter Suderman reviews La La Land at Vox.

His new home? Good place for him.
1. The artist known Dunphy 8 years ago
  
  Vox is the epicenter of SJW idiocy
  
  their latest article takes the cake that the newest movie finally acknowledges the substantial WAR them in Star Wars...
  
  y'know, the series that opens with a scene of warfare, and is named Star WARS
The artist known Dunphy 8 years ago

In almost all cases, it's inappropriate (even in admin proceedings (vs criminal) to punish an alleged sex assault perp when the victim won't cooperate.

granted, many cops are punished for violations when a victim won't cooperate, but there has to be substantial independent corroboration.

most sex assaults have little to no independent corroboration apart from the accuser, so if they refuse to cooperate, of course the suspect should not be punished in almost all cases.
from reading the article, it's vague but its pretty clear universities tend to err on the side of punishing the accused despite not enough evidence, but if a victim won't even name her attacker for a year, etc. what the fuck does the "victim" expect? I know Laci Green and Anita say we should always believe "victims". I don't automatically believe ANYBODY, and no investigation is fair if the investigators take claims with no skepticism and fail to investigate
Suthenboy 8 years ago

^This. This will work and probably what he ends up doing. The 'consequences' they face for leaving will be missing out on tax breaks. Dave Chapelle made a joke about celebrities leaving the country if Trump won.

"I changed my mind. I think I will stick around and see how the tax breaks work out."
Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago

Could it not lead to civil unrest?
Citizen X 8 years ago

Silly Tundra, Mikey can't read.
Smalls 8 years ago

Not one to be overly melodramatic, but i'd think yes. Possibly rather violent civil unrest.

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