Russian Ambassador to Turkey Assassinated, Truck Plows Into Christmas Market in Berlin, Electoral Voting Going as Expected, P.M. Links

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  Russia's ambassador to Turkey was assassinated today by a man who shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and yelled for people not to forget Aleppo and Syria. He was then killed in a shootout.

• A truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine.
• North Carolina legislators may rescind HB2, the now-infamous law that requires transgender people to use bathrooms and other public facilities in schools and government buildings that match the sex listed on their birth certificates. This would be a compromise resulting from Charlotte agreeing to abandon its new city ordinance that mandated accommodation in government and private facilities.
• A New Mexico lawyer's attempt to force Senate to consider and vote on whether to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court has been rejected.
• President Barack Obama wants President-Elect Donald Trump to be careful about using his executive power in today's "Do as I say, not as a I do" news.
• Electors have started casting their votes and thus far there do not seem to be any shocking twists, meaning that Trump will probably win.
• There's a battle brewing in New Jersey over who gets the money for government-mandated posting of legal advertisements. Gov. Chris Christie is pushing a bill that will let governments post the ads themselves, taking the money away from local newspapers. (As somebody who survived the recession as the editor of a small newspaper, this will kill several publications off if it passes. It doesn't mean the proposal is right or wrong, just that the monopoly for legal ads kept many local newspapers afloat when real estate and auto ads disappeared.)

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Comments

[Playa Manhattan.]

Tell me your secrets. I'll tell you mine.

[Tonio]

"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies..."

[thrakkorzog]

Umm, I wear sunglasses at night.

[SoCal Deathmarch]

I've got Bette Davis Eyes.

[Red Rocks Dickin Bimbos]

Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

[Animal]

I'm too sexy for my shirt. So sexy it hurts.

[PBR Streetgang]

Lies, Lies, Lies, Yeah!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

I like to pour some creme anglaise over strawberries.

[Citizen X]

Whoa, that's quite an evocative euphemism.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I've been practicing Dentistry without a license.

[jesse.in.mb]

I find this believable and a little worrisome.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

What man hasn't been an unlicensed barber-surgeon at least once in his life?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Does manscaping count?

[Crusty Juggler]

Pics?

[jack sprat]

I'm not a gynecologist but I'll be happy to take a look.....

[OneOut]

"I've been practicing Dentistry without a license"

Are you a really good dentist Playa ?

A man and a woman meet in a bar. During the evening the man excuses himself and goes to the bathroom only to wash his hands. At one point the woman asks the man why he does that so often and the man explains he is a dentist and it's just a habit from work.

At the end of the evening the two go home together and have sex.

Afterwards the woman says to the man, " "You must be a very good dentist ".

"Why do you say that", he asks.

"Because I didn't feel a thing" , was her reply.

[C. Anacreon]

I laughed.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Recipe just for you.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Nice. Will give it a shot. Why not?

[Jimbo]

That looks good and easy to make

[Brett L]

Is that just eggnog in small doses?

[C. Anacreon]

So I am at the LAX airport, flighr delayed, so at the bar .... and they don't stock sweet vermouth, so I can't get a Manhattan (they don't have any Rye, either!)

What kind of hellhole is this "Los Angeles" anyhow?

[Mad Scientist]

You're in the "not from around here" bar. The good bars will require you to take a cab to someplace that is not LAX. Try this place.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I read that as "Labia Garden"

[Playa Manhattan.]

That just means you're in Terminal 1.

[C. Anacreon]

Yep. Terminal 1. That horrible place.

[Animal]

LA is pretty much every kind of hellhole known to man, and a few that aren't.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

- 1 vagina dentata

[Mr. Dyslexic]

Recipe's with Imperial weights/measure's or GTFO!

[Citizen X]

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

He got better, but i did 2 years for aggravated assault.

[thrakkorzog]

I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but then I got distracted. Some friends tried to describe it to me afterwards, but it just wasn't the same.

[Florida Hipster]

They always leave that verse out in the radio version.

[Citizen X]

Johnny Cash's best years were... not necessarily the ones when he was hopped up on pills.

[Zeb]

Really? That's like the crucial line in the whole song.

[Ted S.]

You're in Quebec. Call it English cream.

[Crusty Juggler]

I'm not wearing any panties.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

And yours, neither!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

There is a first time for everything.

[OneOut]

"I'm not wearing any panties."

Me either !!one!!

I gots my draws on though.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Nobody wants to know about your choice of underwear!

[Crusty Juggler]

I'm eating chocolate-covered Oreos I purchased as a gift for someone else.

[Jimbo]

Trader Joe's candy cane Joe-Joe's...mmmmm

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Brain research has shown that people with a high time preference perceive the future self as a different person. True story.

[Crusty Juggler]

Reading taunting comments frequently leads me down a road to self-pleasure.

[jack sprat]

Reading taunting comments frequently leads me down a road to self-pleasure.

I think you spelled 'self- abuse' wrong.

[jack sprat]

I'm eating yogurt covered blueberries at work and I'm telling myself blueberries are healthy.

[Zero Sum Game]

These euphemisms.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Blueberries are a euphemism for some sort of testicles? Oh dear...

[Groovus Maximus]

I don't have the heart to tell the truth about snozzberries, now.....

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

The road to self-pleasure is paved with Crusty's intentions.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

The Road to Self-Serfdom

[Animal]

"Reading taunting comments frequentlyPretty much everything leads me down a road to self-pleasure."

FTFY.

[Enough About Palin]

We stopped using toilet paper.

[Zero Sum Game]

A truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine.

We need common sense truck control. This will happen here in America, and there are few limitations on trucks! Terrorists and people with mental illnesses can get them. People can just walk into a dealership and drive off with a weapon. This needs to be addressed. We need to get these dangerous assault trucks off of the street. Children may die in these senseless truck attacks. When will we learn?

[The Last American Hero]

Assault trucks? Are those the ones with the brush guard attachment?

[thrakkorzog]

They're the kind with shoulder things that go up.

[Zero Sum Game]

Can you tell which of these two is for assault?

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

[OneOut]

The only thing those two will be assaulting are gas stations and mechanic's shops.

[But Enough About Me]

Can you tell which of these two is for assault?

It's always the sinister black one, d00d.

[gaoxiaen]

A salt truck? It has thing on the front that goes up and down.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

This is just another example of the violence inherent in the workplace system!

[esteve7]

i've told people this before, but unless you want to live in a police state, there's really nothing stopping a mass shooting, someone plowing a truck into a farmers market, etc. If someone wants to do that they will

The only real thing you can do is arm people to mitigate how much damage these people do.

[thrakkorzog]

We could stop importing people who think driving a truck into a crowd is God's will.

[Trigger Warning]

Racist!

[BestUsedCarSales]

This should be a new commercial for Ford.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

This wouldn't happen if we licensed drivers!!!

[CatoTheChipper]

The government would have to register the trucks, also, but I see your point.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Russia's ambassador to Turkey was assassinated today by a man who shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and yelled for people not to forget Aleppo and Syria.

Probably mad at a YouTube video.

[bacon-magic]

Not first, unless you consider that Playa didn't quote anything.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I'm trying to conduct an auction here. If you don't bid, move out of the way.

[Fist of Etiquette]

ZSG did, however. And quite an impressively wordy comment with it, to boot.

[Florida Hipster]

I will bid for ZGS's secret then.

[Zero Sum Game]

First, comrade, you send phishing e-mail. Then password it is set by stupid American. You put in. p@ssw0rd Then comment section become propaganda for Putin.

[Tonio]

The traditional, though not universally accepted rules require a quote from one of the links.

[Brett L]

Not to pick nits with Scott in particular, but at what point does allahu ackbar not need to be translated anymore?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

at what point does allahu ackbar not need to be translated anymore?

It means "Oh my God, it's a trap", right?

[Brett L]

Did I butcher it? I can't be arsed to look it up.

[Florida Hipster]

Allah mode means "God be with ice cream".

[TheZeitgeist]

This explains prohibition on prophet's image. I mean, who in 7th century would believe in space-crustaceans?

[Fist of Etiquette]

When people stop watching Return of the Jedi.

[John Titor]

The moment people start responding with DEUS VULT.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

It's 21st century, we say Remove Kebab.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

It's 21st century, we say Remove Kebab.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Are we supposed to say it twice?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

If I say it three times, it becomes true!

[John Titor]

The Serbs have a long history of failing to remove kebab, at least the crusaders got a few good hits in. And I mean, come on, Latin.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

You see any Arabs in Acre or Jerusalem? Oh.

You see Turks in Belgrade or Nish?

Defense rests.

[Ted S.]

You see Turks in Belgrade or Nish?

I see Jews in Knish.

[Trigger Warning]

*narrows delicious gaze*

[John Titor]

That's not a fair assessment of Arabic Caliphate expansion and Ottoman administration and you know it.

How's that Battle of Kosovo Memorial going? Oh. Right.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Hey, at least Prince Lazar made it to the battle with the Turks, instead of, say, drowning in the river on the way there, or mass-murdering Christians while looting the largest church in Christendom.

[John Titor]

Hey, it's a long walk to Jerusalem, and you get bored. Lazar just had to stroll out to the local sheep field to get killed.

[gaoxiaen]

All that traveling makes a guy horny.

[thrakkorzog]

Unless the Pope calls a Crusade, I'm staying on newbie island. The only point of going to Jerusalem is to get the Crusader trait. Actually winning Jerusalem is just a massive pain.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

I'm super-impressed with Pope in my current Amalfi game. Not only has he figured out where Jerusalem was, he called the Crusade for it again, after Scots lost in two years.

Of course, they'll probably lose it eventually but at least Pope isn't considering Azov or Crimea more important. I guess me booting him from Rome a century ago made him interested in geography.

I ended up as Orthodox anyway, so mostly they had my good wishes and my army stomping Sultan of Egypt so he couldn't stop them. Hey, I got Alexandria out of it!

[John Titor]

If they haven't changed the way they used to do it, that shouldn't be happening. Crusades and Jihads prioritize holy sites heavily, followed by secondary kingdoms (so Egypt for the Catholics, Greece for the Muslims). There's a chart somewhere that might be obsolete.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Yeah, there was something on the Wiki, but Heresy seems to be overriding concerns - first Crusade Pope declared (after I had to solo deal with Shia Jihad for Tunis, and help Byzantines with Sunni Jihad for Anatolia) was for Burgundy, because it was ruled by a Fratricelli ruler. Fuck that south of France was Shia-controlled, and of course Antioch or Jerusalem.
Sunni seem obsessed with Anatolia, while Shia may have given up on the Tunis (maybe because it finally de jure drifted into my kingdom), so last time, they decided on Anatolia as well - marching from Spain to Asia Minor. It was kinda impressive to see.

[John Titor]

Shia Jihads were actually really useful in my Rome playthrough. There were only like 3 kingdoms with Shia rulers so they only had around six thousand troops, and they always when for Jerusalem. So I'd just park my retinues on Jerusalem, get the massive opinion bonus for defending the realm, and constantly declare war on everyone else for the next twenty years without much opinion loss.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

God, how I envy you. In my game, Hispania and Mauretania are Shia, so when they Jihad it's 20-30K from rulers, plus all the vassals start spewing 5-6K stacks as subsequent waves. Luckily, their moral authority is now in the toilet, so they're too busy fighting off revolts, and Italy was kind enough to lodge itself on Spanish peninsula, which hopefully makes them the primary Jihad target.

But there was a cute Shia incident - Hashashim got Majorca, and a few baronies in Mesopotamia. Then Decadence Revolt started in Majorca, and 7.8K troops took the island. But they can't leave cause no boats, so can't finish the revolt. So they've stalled at 78% warscore for the past decade and a half. I'm considering invading them out of pity.

[John Titor]

Don't be too envious. I fought a four hundred year long war against the Abbasids, who refused to collapse and expanded north into Russia because I was blocking off their traditional invasion targets. It was a slow grind of getting the Levant, Egypt and the rest of North Africa with six jihads mixed in. I finally started to completely crush them and take Mesopotamia, and then the Mongols invade Persia and are right next door.

[Gadfly]

Yes, heresy does seem to be the overriding concern. And it is funny when there is a main pope and a heretic pope and they start calling fruitless crusades on each other's home turf. When I was playing as the Bengals conquering India there were half a dozen (failed) crusades for Italy in relatively rapid succession, three each by the rival popes.

[Threedoor]

Or translated apropriatly.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Wut aboot speeling?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Not to pick nits with Scott in particular, but at what point does allahu ackbar akbar not need to be translated anymore?

The point when it is translated correctly as "Allah is greater" as opposed to "Allah is great". The first is the expression of religious triumphalism it is intended to be, the second a milquetoast sentiment.

[Zeb]

Could it also translate as "God is greatest" (I have no idea how they do comparatives in Arabic)?

Seems like that is just what all monotheists believe.

[BearOdinson]

I think you have identified the problem right there. All the atheists have it backwards.

It isn't that these nutjobs have too many "gods", it is that they don't have enough of them!

Hail the Aesir and Vanir!

[Heroic Mulatto]

It isn't that these nutjobs have too many "gods", it is that they don't have enough of them!

Hail the Aesir and Vanir!

There is a section of the Exodus story as related in the Hagaddah, which Jews read on Passover, where the Abrahamic god goes to wherever Egyptian gods are (referring to them as elohim, the same noun used for the Abrahamic god, capital G) and beats them up.

I don't know about you, but the image of this guy going Jet Li on Ra, Osiris, and Anubis in a 3 on 1 fight is hilarious.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Yes, it can. And you are correct, it is an expression of monotheism. In both "Allah is greater" and "Allah is the greatest" there is the implication that the deity, and by extension Islam (as it is just Allah's words), is being compared to something secular and less worthy.

[OneOut]

Maybe he was mad a GayJay for not knowing what A Leppo is ?

[Austrian Anarchy]

I just want to know how the hell is assassinating the Russian ambassador to Turkey an appropriate retaliation for Russia convincing six electors to vote against Clinton?

[Fist of Etiquette]

A New Mexico lawyer's attempt to force Senate to consider and vote on whether to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court has been rejected.

Did he try emailing his electors?

[Zero Sum Game]

An electoral college vote tracker.
259 for Trump so far, 160 for Clinton, 4 faithless (all Clinton voters).

[That's A Bingo!]

Voted for Colin Powell? WTF is that?

[Citizen X]

It's hilarious, is what.

[Hyperion]

Not as hilarious as one of them voting for Faith Spotted Eagle!

[Pro Libertate]

Is that an Indian or an eagle?

[TheZeitgeist]

It is a band, and the lead singer is hot.

[Pro Libertate]

Ah. I doubt they collectively qualify for office.

Ever wonder what becomes of their votes after they are used?

[Raven Nation]

According to the Times link, Faith Spotted Eagle is chairwoman of the Yankton Sioux Tribe's treaty council.

[Zunalter]

I assume it's an "FU" to the electorate about the 'fake email server' scandal that they see as sinking Hillary's electoral bid.

[Pro Libertate]

I rather this the fuck you was aimed at all of us. . .including the leftoids.

[waffles]

It's no more silly than Faith Spotted Eagle.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

I think her full name is Faith Spotted Spread Eagle.

[Free Society]

Delicious.

[Juice]

4 faithless (all Clinton voters)

See, that part is just funny.

[PurityDiluting]

"4 faithless (all Clinton voters)"
My election boner has lasted way longer than 4 hours. Each day brings a new way to keep it up

[kinnath]

Five faithless (all Clinton voters)

[kinnath]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the.....fraud.html

[kinnath]

so my link may be out of date

[Playa Manhattan.]

The Colorado elector was replaced.

[kinnath]

The first was from Maine. My link assumed he wasn't replaced.

[Austrian Anarchy]

There were six faithless Clinton voters, but two were unseated and replaced with The Right People.

Maybe my count is off. Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota would be three. Plus the four from Washington. Okay, seven if I have all this straight.

Two in Texas voted against Trump without interference.

[The Last American Hero]

But I've been assured by the news over the last week, that Russia hacked our voting system and gave us Trump. Is that not the case?

[Rufus The Monocled]

When does this end? When is it time to get worried?

[Zero Sum Game]

When you see a spike in Canadian citizenship applications? Imagine a big chunk of angry Californians moving to your city.

[Jimbo]

Hey, man: scaring Rufus like that is NOT ok.

[Zero Sum Game]

With the current definition of 'terrorist' now watered down to near uselessness by the proggies, I think I now qualify. The Canadian Death Squads will be arriving eventually. Hopefully I hear the clop-clop-clop of the mounties on their moose and get out before it's too late.

[Rufus The Monocled]

/bites into blanket.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Which way of scaring Rufus is OK? Talking about the projected shortage of hockey pucks?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Demanding 14 different colors of recycling bins or else they will not enter!

[The Last American Hero]

Don't worry, they'll leave when they learn that the daylight is only 4 hours long in the winter and there is a thing called windchill that makes your piss turn to ice before it hits the ground.

[Volren]

This. Some Californians can't even handle East Coast US winter. I expect even if they are allowed in their makeshift camps will be snowed under shortly, resolving the issue.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

He has two mighty generals, Snow and Quebecois French, to keep the invaders at bay.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Invaders have NO CHANCE against Quebecois in snow shoes.

[Citizen X]

In 1808, six New York electors from the Democratic-Republican Party refused to vote for James Madison and instead voted for the party's vice-presidential candidate, George Clinton.

Man, Parliament has been around FOREVER.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Democratic-Republican Party"

We've had that forever too.

[Jerry on the sea]

Both are wings of the funkybusiness party.

[Tonio]

+1 Holy Disco Mothership

[Juvenile Bluster]

Is it wrong if I cannot think of George Clinton without thinking about P.C.U., that masterpiece of American cinema?

[Brett L]

I don't know. He used to rent a house down the street from where my wife grew up in Tallahassee. Maybe after the PCU bump when white kids rediscovered his music?

[SRVolunteer]

That is in no way wrong.

[PBR Streetgang]

Why must it be like that?

[Social Signaling Hair]

Free your markets and your ass will follow

[gaoxiaen]

Yeah. They used to be fifty cents a pack.

[Mad Scientist]

Tear the roof off, we're gonna tear the roof off the mother, sucker
Tear the roof off the sucker

[Jimbo]

4 faithless (all Clinton voters)

How appropriate.

[jack sprat]

Faithless Clinton sounds redundant.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

It's called 'driving the point home'.

[Jimbo]

"It's just a cigar!"

[PurityDiluting]

One last parting bitch slap.
Well, hopefully it won't be the last and is just the latest in the series of well-earned slaps

[esteve7]

there have been more faithless clinton electors but they were replaced.

How is that legal for the legislature to replace them?

[Brett L]

The states, through their legislatures, get to set the conditions for their electors. One of which can be, "votes for the winner of the popular vote in that state."

[Caput Lupinum]

Since the electors represent the states, some states have passed laws binding the electors in various ways to vote according to the outcome of the election. The specifics will vary from state to state.

The federal legislature, however, can't do anything about faithless electors.

[kbolino]

I suppose it would depend on when they were replaced. Once the votes are cast, they're final, but if the state knows an elector is going to cast a vote against the legislature's wishes, they can just appoint somebody else.

[kbolino]

This is, apparently, not accurate. This whole process is quite the charade.

[kinnath]

The spin is going to be that only Democrats have a conscience and that all Republicans toed the evil line.

[Volren]

Never mind that faithless Republicans would likely have suffered the same fate

[Gadfly]

The tracker has been updated to show two faithless Republicans (both from Texas), with all R electors supposedly being counted. Ron Paul wins his first electoral vote.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

A truck drove into a crowd of people

God dammit, Bailey, John tried to warn you about autonomous vehicles, but no one ever listens!

[Zero Sum Game]

Don Quixote tilted at windmills. John will be tilting at autonomous vehicles, a la Maximum Overdrive.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It's because autonomous vehicles have an ambiguous gender.

[John Titor]

And once they get the solar panel electric cars worked out, The Machines will know that mankind is no longer needed.

[Zeb]

John also announced that Reason wasn't going to mention the truck attack. So make of that what you will.

[Citizen X]

Electors have started casting their votes and thus far there do not seem to be any shocking twists, meaning that Trump will probably win.

Yet more anti-Clinton bias from Reason.

[Free Society]

Russia's ambassador to Turkey was assassinated today by a man who shouted "God is great!" in Arabic and yelled for people not to forget Aleppo and Syria.

And don't forget the Alamo either!

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Barack Obama wants President-Elect Donald Trump to be careful about using his executive power...

Don't grab that power by the pussy, is what Obama is saying.

[jesse.in.mb]

A truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine.

I'm gonna need a gl?hwein.

[Jerryskids]

Weihnachtenkreig?

[BearOdinson]

Es ist Weihnachtenkrieg, Dummkopf!

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Good to see you commenting, Jesse. I was worried you were in Berlin getting plowed.

[jesse.in.mb]

I was worried you were in Berlin getting plowed.

Dad joke alert!

But yeah, that's not particularly improbable. I do like Berlin Christmas markets AND having sex with Berliners.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Who does gay best, in your opinion? I know it's not cool to generalize, but how do the Germans stack up against other Euros?

[jesse.in.mb]

I have an unfair preference for Germans. My first bf was German and I work in an area that gives me easy access to Lufthansa flight crew.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Electors have started casting their votes and thus far there do not seem to be any shocking twists, meaning that Trump will probably win.

THAT'S WHAT WINNERS DO.

[jack sprat]

"President Barack Obama wants President-Elect Donald Trump to be careful about using his executive power"

With great power comes great responsibility he whispered into the Donald's ear....

[Jerryskids]

I'm sure Trump wasn't planning on using Obama's executive power in the first place.

[PapayaSF]

A-a-a-a-a-n-d it's Muslims....

[Tonio]

The Berlin incident? Linky?

[PapayaSF]

I was being flip, and referring to the Russian ambassador, but also making a prediction.

[Derpetologist]

file under: from now on, I want you all to call me Loretta

Why We Need Gender Neutral Language for Abortion Access

I had an abortion when I was 20. I was really isolated at the time. I didn't have access to a community. People at the clinic constantly read me as a woman and called me "ma'am," "she," "miss." Having an abortion is tough enough without having to navigate constant misgendering. It's like being slapped every two seconds.

[Free Society]

And yet clearly she has come nowhere near having been slapped enough.

[Ted S.]

Relevant

[Free Society]

Extremely.

[0x90]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs3XxEIG0d8

[John Titor]

Would it be possible to have someone actually slap you every two seconds, in order to show you how ridiculous you sound?

[tarran]

My guess is that she'd like it.... just a vibe I get.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

He/ze/xe/it... You cis-gendered hater!

[PapayaSF]

Oh lordy, this crap cannot end soon enough.

[Free Society]

Deport them to the surface of the far side of the sun. I wouldn't want any of the stupidity finding it's way back to earth in the form of a cosmic ray.

[Christophe]

The sun, unlike the moon, rotates relative to the earth (26 days), so it doesn't have a proper "far-side".

We may need to improve our space program substantially to make deliveries to the supermassive black hole at galactic center.

[Free Society]

Within those 26 days, the stupidity has been rendered harmless by the sun's plasma.

[Playa Manhattan.]

OK then. So it's not a "women's health" issue anymore?

[Steve G]

*ze walks into the clinic*
Receptionist: "Dude, are you lost?"

[TheZeitgeist]

*ze walks into the clinic*
Receptionist: "Dude, are you lost?"

Discrimination lawsuit initiated.

[gaoxiaen]

No, just want some pizza toppings.

[Lurk Diggler]

kind of creepy that both of those words have changed meaning now.

[Jimbo]

*looks for gun so that I can shoot myself*

[Tonio]

Don't do it, Jimbo. Don't be weak and give into despair like an emo prog.

[thrakkorzog]

Where's the baby going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box by the corner?

[Pro Libertate]

But, Stan, you haven't got a womb.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Some body part is gonna have to moonlight.

[Juvenile Bluster]

AMENDMENT XXVIII (2016)

1. Linking people to the website "EverydayFeminism.com" may be punished as appropriate. Such punishment may include summary execution.

[Jimbo]

Second

[Col. Chestbridge]

HnR has a constitution? With amendments?! Hell, I thought we were a plutocracy!

[GILMORE?]

Uber = Probably responsible for stabbings too

I just think its odd that when 2 people get into a fight, the fact that one person is an Uber driver seems to be in headline as though that were a causal-factor. How many taxi-drivers got into altercations in MI in the last month? I assure you the number is not 'zero'.

[Ted S.]

Cool link, bro.

[GILMORE?]

So much fail

[GILMORE?]

whoops, didn't mean that as a reply

[Tonio]

You are a brave man, Derpy.

I'm also reconsidering my previous position that Everyday Feminism was not intentional parody. Which one of you is it?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

No, that's it. Everyday Feminism is a Breitbart false flag operation, and they're losing it, coming up with ever more ridiculous stories on hopes they will finally be unmasked and they can stop it.

[Tonio]

We need another corollary to Godwin's law.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Poe's Law would be more appropriate here, I think.

[Groovus Maximus]

No, this one *FAR* exceeds Poe's Law. Oprah's Pregnant Woman "Man", yes?

[Zunalter]

I lol'd. Thanks!

[PapayaSF]

It's a cry for help. I imagine a bunch of high-testosterone males walking into the offices, saying they want wives to stay at home and raise children, and about a third of the office yelling: "Yes! Fuck this shit! Take me, please!"

[Groovus Maximus]

No, assuming this not that FAKE! Nooze! that the USA has been prattling about lately, this rises to Sigmund Fraud levels of psychiatric disturbance and flat out dissociative disorder.

[DOOMco]

wheres the fetus going to gestate?!

[Volren]

Stupid as it is I hope these narratives continue. The sooner the feminists outright turn on the nonbinaries, the better for normal people.

[Rothbard'sbitch]

So she identifies as a man who likes men?

Next up abortion clinics should be required to give abortions to men who identify as women and the taxpayers should pay for it.

[Groovus Maximus]

A) I take it you have forgotten the fraud that is Oprah's Pregnant Man? This is just an extension of that.

B) "Should," is not in the question. "Will," is more accurate, and yes, they will pay.

[Mickey Rat]

If being "misgendered" bothers this per SD on that much, how did they allow themsekves get into a state where an abortion was possible?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gov. Chris Christie is pushing a bill that will let governments post the ads themselves, taking the money away from local newspapers.

That's what they get for not airbrushing pounds off the photos accompanying stories about the governor.

[PapayaSF]

Smart people are now thinking hard: "How can we blame these Muslim terror attacks on Trump?" I'm sure "Islamophobia" will be involved.

[JayU]

If we just stopped showing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer so often, the poor non-Christmas celebrating children wouldn't feel the need to lash out in anger at their lack of representation.

[Threedoor]

im phobic of all the phobias I have been labeled with by the left.

[Rothbard'sbitch]

I remember a while ago Slate or Salon vowed not to cover terrorist attacks at all because they didn't want to promote islamophobia.

[Brochettaward = (((pants)))]

I think the assassination of Russia's ambassador shows why it's not wise to threaten nuclear powers publicly based on secret evidence that you yourself admit doesn't prove that they were 'involved.'

[ant1sthenes]

Was the assassin an angry Hillary supporter?

[bacon-magic]

Google is Godwinning the Road to Serfdom.
Hey there peeps, your intellectual banter and dumbfuckery on this site has given me some good suggestions on reading material. One of the must haves according to you guys(I finished the first chapter and already understand why you guys recommended it) is the Road to Serfdom by Hayek. Since my local library didn't have a copy available and I broke my Nook I ordered from Google Books. When I typed it in one of the suggestions was Mein Kampf by you know who. Why would this be a suggestion? Is there something about Hayek I should know? So far I'm chalking this up to Google's progressive bent to label anything not progressive as Hitler but wanted your thoughts on it.
BTW I just got my first dead tree issue of Reason and I loves it. I'm for sure on a list now even though I'm not (L)ibertarian.

[Brett L]

You know who else was Austrian and had an economic plan?

[Ted S.]

Ludwig Erhard was German, you Dummkopf.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Empress Maria Theresia?

[PBR Streetgang]

Falco?

[Col. Chestbridge]

Governor Schwarzenegger?

[Zunalter]

Hans and Franz?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Mises. The answer is clearly Mises.

[gaoxiaen]

The Terminator?

[Hitler]

...one of the suggestions was Mein Kampf by you know who.

And? What are you trying to say?

[bacon-magic]

Nothing! I know nothing! - Schultz

[Citizen X]

You know who else wrote a book by Hitler?

[Swiss Servator]

Norman Spinrad (The Iron Dream)?

[Tonio]

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

[John Titor]

Meh, Road to Serfdom has a lot of argumentation in regards to the nature of national socialism, so it's not a completely random connection. If Bastiat's work was leading to suggestions related to Mein Kampf, that'd be ridiculous.

"Hey, you're worried about the transition to national socialism? Read the book that popularized it!"

[????? ????]

So far I'm chalking this up to Google's progressive bent to label anything not progressive as Hitler but wanted your thoughts on it.

It is substantially more likely that the recommendation automatic, resulting from the tendency of readers of Serfdom to read other books related to political philosophy, history, and the rise of fascism / socialism -- books like Mein Kampf.

[GILMORE?]

Why would this be a suggestion?

The Road to Serfdom shows the eventual results of fascism and communism (*the two principal ideologies driving WWII) are the same.

The book was born (*much like hoffer's "True Believer") as an explanation of why both ideologies were emerging, and also why they would inevitably result in totalitarianism. I would assume they're associated because people studying WWII probably end up searching for both.

[John Titor]

Solid proof that Crusader Kings 2 turns you into an amoral, land-hungry monster.

[Heroic Mulatto]

It is as it was.

[Ted S.]

Same as it ever was

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Damn that's a blast from the past.

Wary of its dialogue in Latin and Aramaic - possibly with no subtitles - and the row it has provoked, Hollywood has steered clear of mainstream distribution.

From IMDB:

Budget: $30,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:
$370,782,930 (USA) (31 March 2005)
$611,899,420 (Worldwide) (13 February 2013)

[thrakkorzog]

There's a reason https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitCrusaderKingsSay/ is a thing.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I don't know about you homos, but I'm spending my holidays dropping E and masturbating to Ami Tokito videos until I experience dehydration and/or cardiac arrest.

[Crusty Juggler]

Florida Hipster will lose his job if you continue to not tag your silly little fetish videos as NSFW.

[Florida Hipster]

Too late.
*warms hands other meth lab Bunsen burner*

[jesse.in.mb]

Finally my mental picture of you and your reality can live in harmony instead of you being well educated, gainfully employed and not high enough to eat someone's face.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If your work doesn't allow you to view upskirt-shot videos of 20-something Japanese girls walking around Thailand while dressed in sailor girl outfits, then you should seriously question your life choices.

[Brett L]

Like, 2 X chromosome female? Asking because Thailand.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I don't give spoilers.

[jesse.in.mb]

If you can't tell, does it matter?

[Crusty Juggler]

So much this.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It's more exciting if you are not sure. Plausible deniability.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Groovus, does it turn you on that it could be a trannie?

[Groovus Maximus]

Nope. I am happily married to a factory original, authentic Ru-Krainian babe. Quite frankly, my wife is all the Pr0n I need. *grins*

[Groovus Maximus]

Yes. It does.

[jesse.in.mb]

Some of us don't have the time or patience to do a genetic screening on every sex worker in SE Asia, Groovus.

[Heroic Mulatto]

PROTIP: She's wearing a choker to hide "her" Adam's Apple.

[jesse.in.mb]

Sigh. I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since I was thrown out of a Bangkok brothel.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Time to book a ticket and celebrate an anniversary?

[jesse.in.mb]

Perhaps. I was there for a long weekend when I had time off while working in Korea. I'd love to see more of Thailand than Bangkok, and wouldn't mind hitting up some of the surrounding countries.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I'd love to see more of Thailand than Bangkok

Yes. Bangkok is Thailand, but Thailand isn't Bangkok. I'd recommend at least a week in Hua Hin if you want the beach, Chiang Mai if you want the mountains, or Pattaya BoyzTown if you want the D.

Up to you.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Jesse, tell us about that time when you were fired for working too many hours without management approval.

[jesse.in.mb]

Are you sure that was me? It happened to a friend of mine. Corporate coffee shop, he was coming in and working a bit before clocking in so he wouldn't have to rush at the end of his shift. His supervisor didn't care, bu corporate didn't want to be liable. Overtime was explicitly forbidden.

[jesse.in.mb]

Jesse, tell us about that time when you were fired for working too many hours without management approval.

God damn, I'm slow-witted today. I've only been paid for sex once, CMW. I wish I could make a living doing things I love to do.

Actually I was thrown out because my impromptu travel companion was trying to haggle the house manager down to rural Chinese prices and wouldn't budge. I think he ended up picking up a street walker later and then complained about her personal odor at breakfast the next day.

[Groovus Maximus]

If one has time to do a CarFax on an auto's DNA VIN, jesse, I would think a quick verbal verify of one's claimed sex would be simpler. What's wrong with making sure what's claimed is Exactly What It Says On The Tin?

I, for one, am not a huge fan of fraud, myself. Fortunately, I am happily hitched, so's I know well what I have. *grins*

[Jimbo]

I'm out!

[John Titor]

And this man is an educator...

Extra credit marks for students who wear Japanese schoolgirl outfits?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

And this man is an educator...

He's been schooling us for years.

[Rufus The Monocled]

/Japanese schoolgirl giggle.

[bacon-magic]

How you doing? *Jersey accent

[Heroic Mulatto]

Extra credit marks for students who wear Japanese schoolgirl outfits?

I did a distance learning thing over the summer to a certain part of Japan. How sad was I to learn that the students don't wear their uniforms on Saturday and Sunday tutoring sessions.

[Groovus Maximus]

I did a distance learning thing over the summer to a certain part of Japan.

That's a helluva reach, HM. Welcome Home, Brother Charles indeed, HM. Mrs. HM is either in her glory in perpetuity, or has been frozen in catatonia for a *long* time.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You think the episiotomy was just to get the kid out?

[Groovus Maximus]

I thought she was just concomitantly constipated.

[GILMORE?]

Ancient Indian Skeleton Returned to Natives for Burial
- Hollywood = "We've already milked it for every shitty horror-movie plot possible."

[PapayaSF]

So much for the left being "pro-science."

[Crusty Juggler]

Has GILMORE weighed in on the clothing choices of the Turkish gunman?

[GILMORE?]

Pretty snappy, if a bit cheap. (the shoes, belt, cuffs)

Given it was a suicide-mission, i think he dressed how he wanted to be buried. For that = A+

[PapayaSF]

How in the world are you able to tell "cheap shoes" from that photo?

[GILMORE?]

Thick rubber soles, mainly.

[PapayaSF]

Huh.

[Jimbo]

Using a half windsor on the tie...gauche.

[GILMORE?]

1 - i sincerely doubt you can tell the tie knot at that resolution. it doesn't look like anything.
2 - no.

[Jimbo]

aha! made you look.

[GILMORE?]

(hides face in shame)

[grrizzly]

No need to be ashamed. I cannot recall when the photos of the victim(s) and perpetrator(s) of a terrorist attack were so widely published before.

[TheZeitgeist]

Strikes me as bizarre take on a minstrel show, where a clown dons Westernface, but still does camel-dealer type things to delight of his camel-dealer convention audience.

[bacon-magic]

That's a disco move. He wouldn't look out of place at Studio 54.

[ant1sthenes]

I think that one was Reno, but not sure.

[Juice]

Someone needs to photoshop that into a disco gif.

[Jimbo]

Stayin' alive?

[Juice]

Not for long.

[gaoxiaen]

He was a John Travolta fan?

[Derpetologist]

Spot the Not: Turkish PM Erdogan

1. Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

2. Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

3. There is no Kurdish problem.

4. Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

5. These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

6. It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide.

[bacon-magic]

4

[Hitler]

Did somebody say...genocide?

And #3.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

I'll go with 3, just because it's every Turkish politician since Ataturk.

[DOOMco]

ugh.
6?

[tarran]

3

[tarran]

Shit! I meant 2!

[Derpetologist]

Wrong on both counts. You disappoint me, Tarran. I figured you would know Turkey better than anyone else here.

[tarran]

I think that only leaves... 4?!?

[bacon-magic]

Please be 4, please be 4! I'm going to win this time and my Derp prize will be on it's way. What is the prize by the way? Orphans? Monocle cleaning cloths? 55 gallon drum of lube? A free ticket to Warty's Wonderland??

[Derpetologist]

1st place is immortal glory as a STN winner.
2nd place is an autographed pic of yours truly.
Everyone else gets to choose the form of The Destructor.

I like the remind people that 2nd place is 1st loser.

[bacon-magic]

If you're not first, you're last. - Ricky Bobby's dad

[Nephilium]

Derp, I know this is late, but were you a reader of the Acts of Gord?

[GILMORE?]

I'll go with 2. I'm not sure the term "middle east" is used all that often by turks. they're more specific.

[Tonio]

Two.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

This is a trick!

These were all Obama.

[Derpetologist]

1 is the Not. Ataturk said that. Rumors that he named all his pets Abdul are of course unfounded.

Since there are no winners, choose the form of The Destructor:

1

2

[CatoTheChipper]

#2, because ALL real experts agree on this.

[Sevo]

"...Electoral Voting Going as Expected,..."
Sorta...

"4 electors choose candidate other than Clinton"
[...]"The count is in for Washington state's Electoral College votes.
Democrat Hillary Clinton received eight votes, former Secretary of State Colin Powell got three, and Faith Spotted Eagle, an elder in the Yankton Dakota tribe, got one. Clinton won the state's popular vote."
http://www.sfgate.com/

[Libertarian]

If Clinton has fewer votes at the end of the day than she had going into this, I'm not sure we can avoid a mass proggy suicide that makes Jonestown look like a slumber party.

[Crusty Juggler]

Red Wine Hot Chocolate Is a Thing, and It's (Surprisingly) Delicious

The basic idea is not new. Most versions follow the same formula as the one posted in 2014 on Imma Eat That, a food blog that has frequently been cited as the recipe has rocked around the internet in the past few years. It's pretty easy to follow:

1) Make some hot chocolate.

2) Put some red wine in it.

3) Add whipped cream on top.

4) Take the Instagram picture.

5) Drink.

Depending on your thoughts on hot chocolate, on red wine and on the trend of mixing two separate foods together in heretofore unimagined and occasionally unholy ways, this sounds like either the best idea or the worst idea.

[bacon-magic]

Meh, it can't be worse than peas in hummus.

[Zunalter]

chickpeas?

[Florida Hipster]

Bad idea: port in coffee. Trust me on this.

[But Enough About Me]

Bad idea: port in coffee. Trust me on this.

Sounds like a waste of good port *and* good coffee.

[Brochettaward = (((pants)))]

This is the gayest thing posted here in quite a while. It's somewhere just below actually kissing another dude, but slightly above rubbing lotion on him at the beach.

[esteve7]

it's not gay if the balls don't touch.

[Tonio]

Nope, this isn't something you can blame on us. I'd never pour wine into hot chocolate.

[jesse.in.mb]

This is pure upper middle class hausfrau.

[RBS]

Yeah, this sounds very "white girl."

[Crusty Juggler]

I apologize for the despicable homophobia you gay monsters just witnessed.

[jack sprat]

NTTIAWWT

[Heroic Mulatto]

That shit is gayer than a lion, tiger, and bear living together in harmony.

[Derpetologist]

[Takei voice]

Oh...myyyyyy....

[Heroic Mulatto]

Trump will #MAFA.

Make Animals Fight Again

[jesse.in.mb]

Dude you'll give SIV an erection. Knock it off.

[waffles]

That was his single issue? Cockfighting?

[Crusty Juggler]

Yes.

[Groovus Maximus]

FRAUD! I was expecting Snagglepuss, Tony the Tiger, and Yogi Bear, here.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Awwwww

*unzips*

[thrakkorzog]

Can't be any worse than Skittlebrau.

[DOOMco]

my favorite Instagram page is hipster barbie.

[DOOMco]

this one.

[Jimbo]

More like SF'd Barbie

[DOOMco]

dammit.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

6) Throw up uncontrollably.

[PapayaSF]

Red wine in hot chocolate? No. But orange liqueur in hot chocolate... yum!

[Mad Scientist]

Hot Chocolate and Peppermint Schnapps is the cure for your winter blues.

[commodious buggres alle]

Whoever linked Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby earlier, thanks for that. Good stuff.

[esteve7]

The times tracker is missing 38 votes for Trump, something holding up the TX delegation?

[Sonoran Desert Rat]

Ted Cruz

[Domestic Dissident]

A truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine.

Was it one of those new self-driving trucks that I've been reading so much about lately, or was it being driven by someone? It wouldn't by any chance have been driven by yet another bloodthirsty Islamonazi animal, would it?

[Derpetologist]

file under: nothing left to cut

Student activists within the San Mateo Community College District are demanding that their administrators require all faculty members to complete a semesterly "microaggression workshop."

"Professors and people in student-serving positions must go through cultural fluency and microaggression workshops each semester as part of their contract," a list of demands authored by a student organization known as "Rise Up" requests.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

"Frankly, both quality and quantity of microaggressions in this school are appalling, and we think only formal training can bring them to the level we expect."

[kbolino]

I too agree with these students that they should drive all of the talented teachers out of the school and into more productive work. Let us all learn nothing in college and go into exorbitant amounts of debt!

[Christophe]

"Struggle sessions" are here.

[PapayaSF]

"A student organization known as 'Rise Up'"??? OMG, that name is a microaggression against the wheelchair-enabled!!

[GILMORE?]

"The various artworks were titled, "POW! BIFF!! KER-THWACK!!""

[Jimbo]

I am holding out for the Yikes, Zoinks and Jinkies from Scooby Doo.

[Derpetologist]

Elsewhere in Yerp this week:

Greece: Muslims set fire to church, paint "Allahu akbar" on wall

Over 1,000 Muslims screaming "Allahu akbar" march in London demanding caliphate for second time in a week

[bacon-magic]

They keep this going the political right will keep winning elections. I don't think they understand a new tactic is in order yet. Keep it up you peaceful enlightened refugees, you will soon get to see Allah whether you like it or not.

[PapayaSF]

Why would they ever stop? It's their religion.

[JayU]

All those Muslims in London need to do is quote Winston Churchill. Then the Brits can throw them in jail.

[Free Society]

The west really needs more Muslims. We need them to jobs that westerners just won't do. Like gang rapes, constant terrorism, over-representation in violent crime and political action to bring about the downfall and conquest of western civilization. We NEED them.

[Groovus Maximus]

HazelMeade concurs.

[Free Society]

Yeah, she manages to pack a whole lot of naive stupidity into one or two sentences. It's like some sort of ideological committment to seeing our civilization vanish from the face of the earth. Groovus, why can't you just be a decent person for once and give your full support to the doom of your children and grandchildren?

[Groovus Maximus]

I am, actually. I am personally hoping Dr. ZG likes the USA so much, that she will consider moving. As exciting as the last four years have been, I have personally found invasion is not all it's cracked up to be.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Oh, c'mon! I lived through 2 coups d'etat in my expat days. 😉

[Groovus Maximus]

Serious question: How close did you come to being shot? I don't *EVER* want to be that close to it again. Ever.

[Swiss Servator]

I hear ya, doc!

[SFC B]

Yup, it's really not all it's cracked up to be.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Yeh.

Time for a deportation program.

[Juice]

Someone needs to photoshop that into a disco gif.

[DOOMco]

im enjoying trying to think of the rationale behind a blue elector voting for not-clinton.

[JayU]

The super-lefties hated her all along.

[DOOMco]

yeah, but i cant see how this hurts trump. what was the plan again?

[JayU]

It doesn't. Protest vote. Super-lefties love to protest. But there's never a plan involved with protesting.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

They were supposed to vote for Clinton, so it's not as if they're not not-voting for Trump. And isn't the ultimate idea that, if Trump gets under 270, the House elects the president according to whoever has electoral votes? (or the top 3 persons to get EVs) Voting for Bernie or someone else puts that person in the hypothetical running.

[DOOMco]

thats true. it just relies on a bunch of Republicans going rogue.

[JayU]

House is controlled by Republicans by a wide margin though.

[Free Society]

Something something Bernie Sanders something something.

[DOOMco]

yeah. i did want someone to vote for ron paul in the electoral college last time around. i didn't want to pretend it would stop obama, but i can respect the theory behind it. colin powell is a head scratcher

[Free Society]

Yeah that's an odd one. Those electors must have all talked to the same charismatic weirdo.

[JayU]

Dicking bimbos!

[Pro Libertate]

Why not Bernie? Because everyone hates Clinton?

[kinnath]

no risk, all reward.

[DOOMco]

like the prom?

[Juice]

They think the Republican electors will see them having all the fun and want to join in by voting for Kasich or something like that. No seriously. It's that stupid.

[DOOMco]

i cant wait to hear npr tomorrow after they wouldnt shut up about hamilton electorz!1!

[Free Society]

You get one stupidly diverse play and everyone on the left suddenly gives a shit about Hamilton and his legacy.

[Derpetologist]

The theme song to the Hydraulic Press channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NNlqCjGcQ

[GILMORE?]

Media Hyperbole = Exibit 2348713894

Critics see the birth of a neo-Dark Age where anti-intellectualism is king as a harbinger of populism's power to upend a Western society, one that echoes in Washington as Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House.

Or, you know.... a "slightly less left-wing" government that mostly does the same stuff. Either/or.

[Pro Libertate]

What morons.

[Juice]

'member when liberals rightly made fun of righties who foretold 1000 years of darkness if Obama was re-elected?

I 'member.

[JeremyR]

It did suck a lot. Easily the worst president since Carter, even worse than Bush II

[kbolino]

Look, dead bodies in the Middle East don't count until they start adding up to the hundreds of thousands. Merely displacing hundreds of thousands of people is a "humanitarian crisis" and obviously not anyone's fault. Haven't you gotten the memo?

[Free Society]

'member when liberals rightly made fun of righties who foretold 1000 years of darkness if Obama was re-elected?

I'm looking around my underground bunker that I moved into in 2009, still looks pretty dark to me.

[gaoxiaen]

993 to go.

[Volren]

"Slightly less left-wing" = "Extreme right" nowadays

[kbolino]

"Birth of a neo-Dark Age" = election someone who would have been at home in the Democratic Party up until very recently and whose plan is basically "the Democratic Party platform, ca. the mid-1990s"

[John Titor]

Of course, reflexively screaming "WE'RE DOOMED TO A NEO-DARK AGE" because people you don't like are being elected is not reflective of an anti-intellectual mindset AT ALL.

[kbolino]

Apparently, the only way to fight anti-intellectuals is to beat them to the punch.

[JayU]

I like how that ambassador got shot at a photo exhibit so there is lovely artwork on the walls as the murderer screams incoherent nonsense over the body.

[Derpetologist]

Today in pants-shitting:

Trump is out to change or destroy so many things we believe in ? our environment, social security, immigration, freedom of choice, civil rights, and much more. We cannot let this happen.

The above is Alternet's current banner ad.

[Volren]

What's an AlterNet? Are these those "alt right" people?

[PapayaSF]

They're the Ctrl-Left.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

We cannot let this happen

Sooo...giant paper-mache heads? Tweetstorm? Smash some shop windows and take the goodies inside?

[GILMORE?]

freedom of choice

this is their euphemism for "get preggos and have sugar-daddy govt pay for the abortion"

[Groovus Maximus]

Of course, GIL. The, "Right to Seek," jumped the shark to, "Right to Guaranteed," some time ago. Remember, it's not a plenary, guaranteed right, unless it's subsidised into perpetuity, GIL.

[Libertarian]

Alternet? I was figuring Krugman.

[Crusty Juggler]

4 companies chosen to pursue nuclear waste burial test

Four companies will pursue the possibility of conducting a test to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground, federal energy officials announced Monday, months after two prospective sites in the Dakotas were abandoned over local opposition.

The U.S. Department of Energy said the companies will explore potential sites for the test in South Dakota, Texas and New Mexico. Only one company will eventually carry out the borehole field test, which at no point will involve the use of actual nuclear waste.

The project's contract dictates that after the project is completed, the borehole will be permanently sealed. The land will then be restored.

[PurityDiluting]

Use it instead of the usual fracking fluid

[DEG]

Lagarde convicted of misuse of public funds and not punished

Warning: auto-play video

In Monday's ruling, the judges did not find negligence in Lagarde's decision to seek an out-of-court settlement with tycoon Bernard Tapie. But they said her failure to contest the award to him of about 400 million euros ($417 million) was negligent, and led to a misuse of public funds.

"The context of the global financial crisis in which Madame Lagarde found herself in should be taken into account," Martine Ract Madoux, the main judge on the case, said in explaining the absence of any sentence.

She also cited Lagarde's good reputation and international standing as reasons why the court did not hand down a punishment. The charge against Lagarde could have carried a sentence of up to a year in prison.

[Derpetologist]

July 2016: jihadi attacker drives truck through crowd in France

Dec 2016: attacker drives truck through crowd of shoppers at a Xmas market

You don't need to be the Brahmin of Baker Street to conclude that the 2nd attacker was probably a jihadi too.

ThinkProgress

Truck in Berlin kills multiple people, wounds up to 50
Police are investigating the driver's motivation.

[Free Society]

Maybe he was depressed?

[DOOMco]

jake brake failure.

[jesse.in.mb]

He could've just been frustrated with how much sex Berliners were having while disincluding him a la Elliot Rodgers

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

If he killed twice as many men as women, we will know he was a misogynist.

[Volren]

We will never know.

But in all seriousness Merkel is going to go down right?

[Libertarian]

Are you volunteering?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

If she "goes down" it'll be because Social Democrat Party got more votes this time around.

And if neither Conservatives nor Social Democrats get enough votes to form a government? They'll just continue their current coalition. Any yokel-based party is not gonna get anywhere close to levers of power until it can muster 55%+ of the votes cast.

So election or no election, Germany will continue more or less the way it has been going for the past decade. May diddle on the edges, like how much slack Greece gets, and how many coal-fired power plants get reopened.

[Groovus Maximus]

^This, unfortunately, is the most likely outcome.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

until it can muster 55%+ of the votes cast counted

See, edit button would be nice to have here, as the above is, in retrospect, closer to truth.

[Lurk Diggler]

Europeans weren't nice enough to xe, xer?

[Derpetologist]

'F*ck injustice': 4.0 GPA student quits Kansas State after first semester over college debt 'scam'

"You're spending thousands of dollars to learn information you won't ever even use just to get a piece of paper," he said. "Colleges are REQUIRING people to spend money taking gen. ed. courses to learn about the quadratic formula (and other shit they will never use) when they could be giving classes on MARRIAGE and HOW TO DO YOUR TAXES."

People are learning the quadratic formula in college now? Pathetic.

[Volren]

I guess that GPA wasn't all show.

[kbolino]

What would a class on marriage even offer? Talk about pointless navel-gazing wastes of time.

Also, I'm down for removing the quadratic formula from the curriculum. The real goal is solving quadratic equations, not memorizing the formulas. But good luck completing the problems quickly if you have to solve the equation every time. Although, I suppose it would teach you an appreciation for memorization techniques.

And if your life after college will never involve solving quadratic equations (etc.), then why are you even going to college in the first place?

[DOOMco]

im trying to teach myself programming.
its hard on top of the full time job, but i hope to switch careers. twice the income, no debt!

[Free Society]

If that person opposes the welfare state that actually is a root cause for the unraveling of marriage, I'd be shocked.

[Heroic Mulatto]

the welfare state that actually is a root cause for the unraveling of marriage

Not that the welfare state doesn't contribute, but I would argue the "unraveling of marriage" is a multivariate, and culturally-specific, phenomenon. For example, Japan, Israel, and China all have fairly liberal social benefits as compared to the US, however the rate of bastardy in those countries are 1.4%, 3.1%, and 5.6% respectively. On the other hand Latin America and Scandinavia all have rates around 60% to 70%. I don't think Somalis are responsible for all 66.9% of Icelandic bastards. I would argue that things like the abortion laws, cultural beliefs, family structure, overall economic situation, overall educational status, etc. play as great a role, if not at times greater, than the amount of social benefits.

That having been said, Johnson's Great Society was the worst thing to happen to Black America since Elvis.

[Crusty Juggler]

Great Society
Elvis
#Oscarssowhite
Allen Iverson

[Free Society]

a root

For the record 🙂

[Lurk Diggler]

A lot of it is a waste of time because the degree has little to do with job prospects. If loans were primarily granted on the basis of ability to pay them back then colleges would be more tailored to useful classes. That probably wouldn't include quadratic equations for many, but it definitely wouldn't include taxes or marriage classes. Nobody gives a shit about your marriage.

[TheZenomeProject]

It's official: Trump has won the electoral college. Only 2 faithless electors, both in TX, one for Ron Paul and another for Kasich. In hilarious news, three WA electors voted for Colin Powell and one WA elector voted for activist Faith Spotted Eagle.

[DOOMco]

i knew it!

[Zero Sum Game]

What may not be over just yet: more Clinton voters going faithless. So far, 6 faithless electors is tied for highest number ever recorded. We can do it, America! We have faith in your faithlessness!

[TheZenomeProject]

Wouldn't it be ironic if CA had a bunch of faithless electors? It would be even more salt into the gash for the Hollywood left.

[GSL in E]

Plus 1 MN elector and 1 ME elector tried to vote Sanders instead of Hillary.

Clearly Martin Sheen didn't scold the electors enough.

[GSL in E]

Plus 1 MN elector and 1 ME elector tried to vote Sanders instead of Hillary.

Clearly Martin Sheen didn't scold the electors enough.

[0x90]

He told 'em to vote their conscience, right?

[Groovus Maximus]

Martin didn't mean *that* conscience, 0x90. (Excellent Star Wars droid name, by the by!)

[Groovus Maximus]

robc hard hit.-)

Gay Jay hardest hit.... He lost both to a Breakfast Sandwich and his gubernatorial home state, and didn't even get a pity fuck vote.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

But he taught the world where Aleppo was! He's like a Libertarian Jesus, looking stupid on TV for all our sins of foreign policy ignorance.

[Groovus Maximus]

Indeed; apparently, this Turkish shooter was listening, and decided to further highlight the geography lesson.

[Crusty Juggler]

A truck drove into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine.

I hope Flula is okay!

[DOOMco]

flula is cool.

[That's A Bingo!]

I never heard of Flula before Conan. Flula is awesome. Him with Conan is amazing.

[Chip Your Pets]

North Carolina legislators may rescind HB2, the now-infamous law that requires transgender people to use bathrooms and other public facilities in schools and government buildings that match the sex listed on their birth certificates. This would be a compromise resulting from Charlotte agreeing to abandon its new city ordinance that mandated accommodation in government and private facilities.

Interesting how the NC ordinance is "infamous" while the explicitly anti-liberty, anti-freedom of association, anti-property rights Charlotte ordinance is not.

Reason ain't your father's libertarianism, it seems.

[Just Say'n]

Hey, there are cocktail parties to attend. Icky issues like 'liberty' should not get in the way of being 'hip'. Ask Gary 'Religious Liberty is a blackhole' Johnson.

Honestly, all the libertarians are running as Republicans now. The Libertarian Party is just becoming a left-wing Reform Party.

[The Late P Brooks]

"You're spending thousands of dollars to learn information you won't ever even use just to get a piece of paper," he said. "Colleges are REQUIRING people to spend money taking gen. ed. courses to learn about the quadratic formula (and other shit they will never use) when they could be giving classes on MARRIAGE and HOW TO DO YOUR TAXES."

Someday maybe that kid will be woke enough to need to know how to *avoid* doing his taxes.

[OldMexican Blankety Blank]

North Carolina legislators may rescind HB2, the now-infamous law that requires transgender people to use bathrooms and other public facilities in schools and government buildings that match the sex listed on their birth certificates. This would be a compromise resulting from Charlotte agreeing to abandon its new city ordinance that mandated accommodation in government and private facilities.

So good sense and reason won the day!

Didn't it?

[Just Say'n]

Yeah, I remember Reason shitting their pants and denouncing NC HB 2 bill. I don't remember any articles against the Charlotte bill, though. Cosmos are always going to sacrifice property rights to appease whatever the sexual revolution demands, even when their demands are imagined (how many businesses were preventing the transgender from using washrooms?).