ISIS Takes Credit for Berlin Attack, South Carolina Considers Porn-Proof Computers, Lena Dunham Has Abortion Regrets: P.M. Links

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  ISIS is claiming responsibility for the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin yesterday that killed 12 people and injured dozens more. German police have now released the man arrested yesterday as a suspect, citing insufficient evidence.

• The October 30 warrant authorizing the FBI to search Anthony Weiner's laptop was unsealed today.
• Four more government officials have been charged in conjunction with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
• South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.
• Notoriously overreaching California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D), who was elected to Congress in November, will serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Committee on Environment & Public Works; and the Committee on the Budget.
• "This is the kind of thing that makes legislators go 'we need to pass a law that says you can't do this,'" said FBI agent Dale Carson about selling peed-upon sticks.
• Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."
• Can your mouthwash treat gonorrhea?

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

Seems a tad desperate these days.

[Playa Manhattan.]

She's quoting her mom, right?

[Rhywun]

And... it took until the 2nd comment to go there. You guys are slipping.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

It should've been in the links! C'mon, Liz!

[John C. Randolph]

You win the thread. Well done.

-jcr

[Mad Scientist]

Fist is back on top!

[???? ??????, Jr.]

Hey Fist, can you sell me Playa Manhattan's secret on posting first?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I posted the instructions in a comment once. No one cared, which gave me hope for humanity.

[commodious lies and cheats]

Fist scours the internet for probable headlines, then types out a pithy quip for every one. After that it's a waiting game.

[Zero Sum Game]

It's simpler than that. Even though there are often a decent number of links, it is instructive to look at which ones he comments on first if you need a hint as to how it's done.

[Zero Sum Game]

I figured the trick out a while back and didn't care enough to use it until yesterday. Still not really caring today. My guess is that there are probably more people who know how to do it than are letting on.

You've got your thing. Keep on keepin' on.

[Mr Drew]

I don't know the trick, and am even curious on an intellectual level but I'm happy to just keep it Fist's thing.

I'm am also curious about how many people responded to Playa's "learn the secret of fisting" internet ad.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Interested?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

I would like to be the first to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Mr Drew]

just asking for a...friend

[PapayaSF]

Damn, I missed it! Repost, please.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Faith in humanity: ruined.

[Rat]

The seventh poster gets the concert tickets.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

She's simply not cool.

And grosse.

[Hyperion]

I would highly advise the DNC to make Lena their future spokesperson. I say this without the least bit of irony or ill will.

[Rich]

Beautiful.

[JWatts]

Though not making her their future spokesperson could be considered misogynist. Just saying.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Friedrich der Grosse?

[C. Anacreon]

Hello.
She's simply not cool.
And grosse.

You said it, pointe taken.

[Crusty Juggler]

I'm drawing a blank as to what you two are going on about.

[See Double You]

It's aboot something, alright.

[Lord Humungus]

First she has to get a man drunk enough to be a donor.

??

Profit!

[bacon-magic]

She's got money, turkey baster, and the # to one of David Crosby's kids.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Or scour the dumpsters in Waikiki for used condoms.

[Florida Hipster]

Translation: no one will have unprotected sex with me!

[juris imprudent]

...which gives me hope for humanity.

[C. Anacreon]

She's the 21st Century version of saltpeter.

[Florida Hipster]

Yeah, but she really is effective at killing the male sex drive.

[Bill Dalasio]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

Well, Lena, sorry to break it to you, but first you need to get pregnant. And there just aren't that many guys willing to stick it in ugly and crazy.

[Zeb]

You say that. But I think you overestimate people.

As repulsive as Dunham is (she seems to actually put a lot of effort into being as unattractive as possible), there are a lot worse out there who manage to get laid.

[Bill Dalasio]

Yeah, but don't they generally have "wonderful personalities"?

[Zeb]

Heh. So they say.

I'm fairly sure that any woman can find some guy desperate enough to fuck her if she is willing to have low enough standards. I suppose any man could too, but it might require shelling out some cash.

[Florida Hipster]

You just have to be willing to be a human toilet...or so I'm told.

[Mr Drew]

I think this kind of desperation public move indicates a trip to the asylum in her near future. From whence she will return a hero. Stunning and brave

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

As we chicks like to say "dick is abundant and low-value". Basic market econ.

[Mr Drew]

Stop objectifying me!

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

I heard a story that Patrick Wilson saw her on the street, then invited her to his brownstone and plowed her for two days straight.

[Crusty Juggler]

I'd play him in a game of pong.

[thom]

Dunham works hard to make herself unattractive. If she were just some cool level headed chick her looks wouldn't by any means be a deal breaker.

[Inigo Montoya]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that she's married. To a guy.

Even though he's surely very beta, I still figure he must be so proud. I kinda picture him as Kif from Futurama, sighing dejectedly every time his Zap Branigan-ish wife makes yet another embarrassing comment in public.

[Buddy Bizarre]

Last time I saw her on the front page of a tabloid at the checkout, it said she was with that ugly guy who plays Kylo Ren (sp?) from the last Star Wars.

[TheZeitgeist]

Doesn't someone have to fuck it, first, before the abortion part? Cisgender male has to be involved I think, too. Lena might not be up on these details.

[R C Dean]

Turkey baster, dude.

I would not be surprised to learn that Dunham got artificially inseminated solely so she could have an abortion. I honestly wouldn't.

[TheZeitgeist]

Think for Lena it might be safe to generalize from turkey, to bird, to just a 'theropod baster.'

Keep options open...so many euphemisms.

[ant1sthenes]

She could always just adopt a baby, then throw it in a dumpster.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Dude, that's just wrong. I can't believe you went there.

[Chip Your Pets]

What's worse than 9 dead babies in a garbage can?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

8?

[Michael]

One dead baby in nine garbage cans.

What do I win?

[Jimbo]

Very nice!

[Zunalter]

As disturbing as that image is, it is a better fate for the baby than being raised by Lena Dunham.

[Tyler.C]

Does ENB have a contractual obligation to have a link about abortion in her links?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Can your mouthwash treat gonorrhea?

I hope so, because that's where mine is.

[Citizen X]

I'd say that i feel bad for Winston's mom, but this is the life she's chosen to lead, soo....

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Did she, though? Or was she driven to it by the bitter disappointment in Winston?

[bacon-magic]

She was disappointed in Winston's Dads.

[waffles]

Why not just keep a normal pet, like a hermit crab or something?

[Fist of Etiquette]

You don't want to know where that is.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Hermit crabs are anything but normal. Most of them are on the spectrum.

[Citizen X]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

SC state Rep. William Chumley feels guilty and has $20 to burn, i bet.

[PBR Streetgang]

I bet his browser history is..uh....educational.

[Citizen X]

I bet it's a fucking millstone. "That can go in THERE?!?"

[TheZeitgeist]

Eight year olds, dude...eight year olds.

[C. Anacreon]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers

Wow, Chumley is really getting into high tech. That's the first time I've ever heard him say anything but
"Duh, gee, Tennessee."

[Zombie Jimbo]

+1 penguin

[Inigo Montoya]

Chumley is the dark-haired young guy who is a little slow from that Pawn Shop show, right?

Somehow I figured he'd be more into porn than wanting it banned.

[BigT]

I'll bet he runs an adult bookstore and is simply cutting competition.

[C. Anacreon]

I'm guessing you may not be familiar with Tennessee Tuxedo.

[XenoZooValentine]

"You never know what's going to walk through that door."

(A wild spray-tanned blonde appears, bearing a statuary.)

"Excuse me, sir can you take a look at my bust? *giggle*"

(Bow-chicka-wow-wow...)

[Ted S.]

How many people would become interested in Linux?

[JWatts]

For $20. Not many. If you are willing to fork over $100 for a Windows license, and extra $20 is not going to be the breaking point.

[Nunya]

Tried Linux with the wife. A modified Ubuntu to make it easier. She would pay $2000 for Windows now.

Linux ain't for some people.

[Greg F]

Try Zorin.

[Fk Censorship]

Oh, you and your euphemisms...

[Anomalous]

I liked him better when he was on Pawn Stars.

[Tonio]

That is some real stupid, right there.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I ain't paying for porn.

[jack sprat]

This has guilty conscience written all over it.

[juris imprudent]

He is only thinking of the chidrenz.

[TheZeitgeist]

That's where the guilt part comes from.

[Careless]

Oh no

[Brett L]

So you want me to pay $20 for something that I can do for free in the first five minutes after powering up my computer? Negative.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.""

What's the odds that this requires an electronic payment which gets you on a scarlet letter list?

[Trigger Hippie]

Never let it be said that SoCons aren't clever enough to at least attempt to impose sin taxes in modern ways. Good for them, I guess?

[SadlyShakingHead]

In other news, computer sales rise in Charlotte, NC and Savannah, GA.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

*checks retail rent prices in Tryon*

[Nunya]

Something, something, commerce clause, illegal.

Gotta have my tax stamp on my computer, liquor, cigarettes....

You know who else wanted a tax stamp on everything?

[Holger da Dane]

Farmer Bob?

[Tyler.C]

They need those computers for the federal government

[???? ??????, Jr.]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

"We've won! Let's overreach ASAP!"

[Mad Scientist]

They ain't called the stupid party for nothing.

[TheZeitgeist]

Terry Schiavo redux on line 2.

[Gadfly]

In fairness, this is the local state legislature, not the delegation to Congress. There are always a lot more...unusual...politicians at the lower levels. Until it garners more support than a single state rep, this is more of a human interest story than political news.

[XenoZooValentine]

Where muh libertarian allies gone? Fuckin' cosmo-cuck-a-somethings, I tell you. It is a mystery.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The October 30 warrant authorizing the FBI to search Anthony Weiner's laptop was unsealed today.

The FBI opened its coat and flashed the warrant for everyone to see.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It was rolled and tucked into the underwear.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The October 30 warrant authorizing the FBI to search Anthony Weiner's laptop was unsealed today.

It had been stuck shut.

[Gojira]

That earlier thread about libertarian gifts had me looking.

I think these two items are great options for the libertarian in your life.

[bacon-magic]

No.

[Rich]

Don't understand the second.

[Gojira]

It's the most marvelously stupid, nonsensical thing I've ever seen. Much like Jello, there's always room for a non-sequitur.

[Mad Scientist]

Shower curtain, uh, uh, finds a way.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Jeff Goldbloom locked up my browser. I don't know why that always happens.

[Zeb]

The second is hilarious. I love shit like that.

[C. Anacreon]

Only $15 with free shipping, too! I think I've found the answer for that hard-to-shop-for brother-in-law.

[TheZeitgeist]

The solid five star reviews say it all.

[Hayeksplosives]

Best review was:

"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."

[Mad Scientist]

I feel the strong need to order this put it up while my wife is out of town.

[Crusty Juggler]

This is a tad pricier, but obviously superior in every way.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

You obviously overlooked the Christopher Walken one.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Now I'm in search of a Tesco Vee shower curtai for the squeeze

[Injun, as in from India]

Can your mouthwash treat gonorrhea?

Ouch! The very thought of sticking your dick in a bottle of mouthwash.

[R C Dean]

Like it would even fit. Geez.

[pan fried wylie]

fucking TSA-approve travel-size bottles.

[thrakkorzog]

I would avoid old timey Listerine ads if I were you then.

[Mad Scientist]

The original Freshmaker.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Who said anything about dick? I don't know how you managed to get gonorrhea on your dick.

[R C Dean]

German police have now released the man arrested yesterday as a suspect, citing insufficient evidence.

Hmm. Not sure what to make of this. Could be they got orders from on high to cool it on the terrorism thing (they have been covering up a lot of migrant crimes, after all), but that seems like a real stretch.

My guess is, if that wasn't they guy, they'll never catch whoever it was.

[tarran]

My understanding is that the guy had no injuries.

The murdered truck driver had clearly put up a hell of a fight, and it had taken 10 knife wounds and a gunshot to kill him. The inference is that whomever they arrested was not the man who killed the driver.

[bacon-magic]

So the rest of his terror cell did the beat down and he called dibs on the drive.

[Free Society]

So expect more from these up-and-coming mass murderers.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Gun-control is perfect for criminals.

[John]

How do you arrest the wrong guy? I really would like to hear how that happens in that circumstance.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He was the right color.

[Free Society]

Which doesn't explain why a million other people weren't arrested. But yeah, racism works. No need to think too deeply.

[Hyperion]

You live in a proggy echo chamber? I wouldn't in the least put this past the Merkel admin. She's facing certain defeat and irrelevance. She should be arrested for treason.

[Free Society]

Hung.

[jack sprat]

And they was right....

[Free Society]

Hanged just sounds wrong and how it sounds matters more to me...

[jack sprat]

I was just making a Blazing Saddles reference....

[Free Society]

I thought it was some sort of dual pronged assault. Covering both improper grammar and Blazing Saddles at the same time. Clearly, I've given you too much credit.

[jack sprat]

Indeed, any credit beyond zero is too much!

[Mr Drew]

You're redeemed. I read it and laughed out loud. In a movie if great lines, that was one of the best

[Aloysious]

Hanged.

[Aloysious]

Joke. Ruined.

[Free Society]

Ha ha. I got my mea culpa out there just in time.

[Hyperion]

But not before tar and feathers, and much drankin by the happy Germans.

[bacon-magic]

Bring out Das Boot!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Someone should make a porn called Hung Jury about a female blond Nazi guard being judged by twelve black men.

[Homple]

The fact that Merkel is still Chancellor in Berlin instead of digging potatoes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern indicates that the German people and their political system are badly fucked up. For the third or fourth time since Kaiser Wilhelm fired Bismarck.

[Free Society]

Incumbents in Germany, much like the United States, are a little too secure in their positions of power if you ask me.

[bacon-magic]

Bring out Das Boot!

[bacon-magic]

Wrong person to reply to...eh, it still works.

[Free Society]

Mehr das Boot?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Today's Spectator has a good article on upcoming German election from perspective of CSU.

Long story short - they are Bavarian conservative party who wins Bavaria and has no pull anywhere else. Normally they ally with CDU (Merkel's party) but last time around, she went into coalition with Social Democrats, and it cost them influence. They aren't sure what to do this time around - join again and be diluted, refuse to join coalition with CDU and probably hand over the government to Social Democrats.

[Free Society]

I don't suppose joining with the AfD ever crossed their mind?

[Ted S.]

As FS points out, the article omits the not-unlikely possibility that CDU/CSU + AfD is by itself greater than the red-red-green coalition.

There's also the fact that the quasi liberal (in a European sense) FDP may make it back into the Bundestag. The polls I linked to implied it would be a hung parliament between the CDU/CSU/FSP coalition on one side, red/red/green on the other, and AfD with whom nobody will work.

(Kind of like what happened in Sweden in the last election.)

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

No, article is quite clear on it:

AfD made the biggest gains, winning 231,000 votes (almost as many as the Greens or Die Linke) but no other party will work with them ? for now.

AfD as it is now is not getting into power. Ever. Under any circumstances short of winning 55%+ of votes counted.

You'll see return of SDP+CDU before the AfD smells power. This is how politics in Europe work. And hey, it's working for the two main parties - why not?

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

You know who else was in a small Bavarian-centric political party?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

*polite applause*

[Ted S.]

I wouldn't in the least put this past the Merkel admin. She's facing certain defeat and irrelevance.

Schau mal bitte die Umfragen an.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

So guy jumps out, another guy follows him at a safe distance while in contact with cops on the phone. Trailing guy loses the perp in the park, cops scour the park and find the suspect. But, they can't prove he did it, so presumption of innocence etc.

Overall, it will be far more convenient for everyone involved if they don't find who did it. Then they can do the German thing and blame the Poles or something.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

It's that radio usage that seals the deal.

[Rich]

Furtive movements.

[R C Dean]

They arrested him over a mile from the scene. Somebody spotted the driver leaving and followed him, in phone contact with the cops. Could have made a mistake along the way, I suppose.

[John]

Another argument for an armed populace. Had he done that in America, he would have never made it out alive, unless it was in some gun free city.

[Florida Hipster]

Very easy to make a mistake in a state of high anxiety.

[Mike Schmidt]

But very easy to enjoy that great movie

[Florida Hipster]

It's not my favorite.
1.blazing saddles
2. Space balls
3. The producers
4. 12 chairs
5. Men in tights
6 young Frankenstein
7. History of the world
8. High anxiety
9. silent movie

[Mike Schmidt]

Tough to argue with that ranking Hipster. Blazzing Saddles is in my all time top 5 favorite comedies. Mel is a genius.

But I haven't seen 12 Chairs. I will have to check that out.

[Florida Hipster]

It's different from a lot of his other work. Kind of a serious comedy if such a thing can exist.

[Crusty Juggler]

Young Frankenstein at #6, behind Men In Tights? You're dead to me.

[Mike Schmidt]

I wasn't going to argue the rankings, but since Crusty opened the door...

I would actually put Young Frankenstein at number #2

[Florida Hipster]

How many assholes we got here?!? This is a Mel Brooks ranking, so not all of them can be in the top five. I like them all, except Dracula which I refuse to acknowledge.

[Crusty Juggler]

not all of them can be in the top five

Right, but five of them can, and Young Frankenstein is one of the five, and Men In Tights is not.

[Mike Schmidt]

I learned something today: Mel was co-creator of Get Smart

[Florida Hipster]

Dave Chapelle is a favorite of mine, so it gets a bump.

[Florida Hipster]

Fine. Flip Frank and Tights. Happy?

[Crusty Juggler]

I am not happy. I have not seen 12 Chairs, therefore it should not be on anyone's subjective list.

[Florida Hipster]

Watch it. It's a good one.

[Crusty Juggler]

I shall! Thank you.

[tarran]

It happened in the marathon bombing here in Boston.

Some guy locked on someone he felt was behaving suspiciously. When his suspect took off running after the second bomb blast, he pursued. He pointed out the unfortunate 'suspect' to the cops who took the man into custody.

It turned out the suspect was completely innocent and, after a few uncomfortable days, he was released.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Does it matter, John? All Muslims are guilty.

[a better chipper]

Considering the guy they arrested was discovered to be a recent refugee, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that he might be released for craven political purposes.

While it's not likely to be the case, it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was discovered to be true. Most likely he was unfortunately the first guy spotted by the driver side door who happened to be Muslim-looking.

[Injun, as in from India]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

Dunham wasn't born. She was pooped out.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Howdy-Ho!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EA2F3Y8Lk

[Libertarian]

+1 Bono

[Free Society]

I just assumed that she emerged from some sort of swamp or perhaps a lagoon, probably with dark brackish water teeming with genital mutilating parasites. I mean, where else?

[juris imprudent]

Say what you will about Winston's mom, she didn't give birth to this.

[Libertarian]

"The October 30 warrant authorizing the FBI to search Anthony Weiner's laptop was unsealed today."

Latex gloves for everyone!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Make sure and double up, boys!

[???? ??????, Jr.]

"This is the kind of thing that makes legislators go 'we need to pass a law that says you can't do this,'" said FBI agent Dale Carson about selling peed-upon sticks.

If only there were laws against fraud.

[Rich]

require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

Oh, FFS! Even *Maryland* is not that desperate for revenue!

[Fist of Etiquette]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

This seems unworkable.

[Steevie]

seems like it will just increase online computer sales a bit...

[tarran]

That affidavit just screams parallel construction.

[Injun, as in from India]

Notoriously overreaching California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D), who was elected to Congress in November, will serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Committee on Environment & Public Works; and the Committee on the Budget.

*** thinks of cracking a half-Indian joke, but runs away **

[Anomalous]

Freshman, and Democrat? She'll have no say in anything.

[Injun, as in from India]

Freshman

I take exception to your marginalizing word.

Please call her a fresh woman.

[Mithrandir]

It's not a freshperson?

[Injun, as in from India]

I've noticed that the new PC word for chairman / chairwoman is "Chair". (Seen in multiple academic departments).

Feminists who bitch about objectification have finally fully objectified a person as an object - a damn chair.

So leave it up to them to come up with a BS object word. Freshdung perhaps?

[Zeb]

It's not that new.

I really don't have a problem with finding gender neutral terms for positions that were once generally held by men but now are not. Language should evolve as society does.

[Florida Hipster]

Cuck! Seriously though, I agree. Times are a changing.

[Bill Dalasio]

Meh. Why not just chairman or chairwoman?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Feminists who bitch about objectification have finally fully objectified a person as an object - a damn chair.

*shrugs*

People talking about "the Throne" were first, however.

[BigT]

Freshmeat - unisex name.

[C. Anacreon]

They don't refer to first-termers as 'Fresh-' anything anymore.

The new proper prefix is 'DJ Jazzy-'

[creech]

No say? In four years this will look extremely good on her resume, even lacking any accomplishments, and help position her for the presidential or vice presidential nomination.

[Free Society]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

Damn it I had a link complete with HTML tags all ready to go for PM Links. If Robby had done the links it would have been 50% self-referential and 50% campus shenanigans, with plenty of red meat left over for the commentariat to post. If he bothered to post links that is. But still, this is an outrage!

[Tonio]

So, where's the link?

[Free Society]

Thank you for making me feel needed.

Lena Dunham says she never had an abortion but 'I wish I had'

The "Girls" creator recounted visiting a Planned Parenthood in Texas several years ago where a young girl asked her to join a project where women share their stories of abortion.

"I sort of jumped," Dunham said. "'I haven't had an abortion,' I told her. I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women's options, I myself had never had an abortion."

It was then, Dunham said, she realized "Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman's right to choose, felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department."

She added, "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

[waffles]

She's a sick fuck and this is all some sort of twisted game for her. The only winning move for us is to not play.

[JEP]

I used to think that the common ground between pro-choice and pro-life was that an abortion was never a positive thing. It's a medical procedure that you want to avoid if at all possible.

Apparently, I was wrong...

[Zunalter]

Far from not positive, pro-choice advocates are seeking to remove any negative connotations from the procedure.

[Free Society]

Like they have largely done with single motherhood.

[BigT]

+1 Murphy Brown

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

"Because, while fingering my sister was nice, killing an unborn infant would have really made me a well rounded person" she didn't add... out loud.

[Free Society]

Thread winner. Because any time you can remind people that Lena Dunham bragged about molesting her sister, it's a win.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

This happened?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

It was in her autobiography, so...no, probably didn't.

Well, the claim happened, but you know what I mean.

[Free Society]

I'm honestly not sure which scenario would be worse. That she, as a child herself, give her sister a right ole finger banging. Or that she, as an adult, bragged about giving her sister a right ole finger banging to gain some sort of twisted social acceptance.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Well, given that she made up her rape at the hands of Barry the Republican, and was then forced to climb down and spin, the second seems more likely, and, let's face it, less bad. I'll take fictional over real-world pedophilia any day*.

*this is also how you tell an old-school anime fan from a modern one.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Niiiice.

[bacon-magic]

No Rufus, it was her sister. *mumbles about Canadian words that are misspelled

[Free Society]

Now say you're sorey, Bacon.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I WAS REFERRING TO BOBARIAN!

[Hyperion]

South Carolina and ISIS unite!

[Tonio]

^This. I think 2017 will be the year to start hammering SoCons on how very similar their policies are to what ISIS wants to achieve.

[Hyperion]

I, for one, would just love for ISIS and SoCons to go extinct together, Tonio.

[Marshall Gill]

Truly pitiful. I don't know if I have seen Tony use such moral equivalency.

I, for one, would love for both of you to go extinct together.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Tonio ? Tony

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

That might actually be fairly effective. I'm looking forward to inevitable Friday Funny on the theme...

[kbolino]

Yeah, I don't think it's going to work better this time than the other times it's been tried. The raping, pillaging, destruction of historical monuments, and summary executions kind of make it hard to take the comparison seriously.

[mad.casual]

I think 2017 will be the year to start hammering SoCons on how very similar their policies are to what ISIS wants to achieve.

I'm not a fan of a(n ineffective) $20 porn tax but I must've missed the part where Muslims offer to accept cash payment in lieu of being hit by a truck or otherwise gunned down.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Jizya? I remember ISIS allowing some infidels to stay if they paid it in gold.

$20 is rather low, though.

[notJoe]

Logged in just to say the same thing as Pan.

mad.casual threw a softball with that one...

[mad.casual]

I guess I'm confused about the penalty for not using or subverting a porn filter or being a manufacturer of a computer (in SC?) that doesn't have a porn filter in place is.

Jizya was a tax for being an infidel, not a tax for using a hammer. You could pay the tax and still be slaughtered for being an infidel whereas this sounds more like you'll be fined $20 and have a porn filter placed on your computer.

[mad.casual]

Again, not that I condone the malware (a portion of my income is porn related) just that $20 for porn filters sounds like you'd engender a big 'meh' in people who already lay out tons of cash for malware, computer hardware, and porn and validate the people putting the porn filters in place.

Just quietly subvert the filters like everyone else so that, in a couple years the porn filter law will be a money sink and get abandoned (if enacted in the first place).

[notJoe]

Thanks for the explanation.

As far as "meh" goes, fuck that. This asshole deserves to be mercilessly mocked for sticking his SoCon nose in his neighbors' private affairs. F-the "fighting sex trafficking" lie -- it's all about people doing something he thinks is nasty. SoCon=SJW with better grooming.

"Porn-related" income? Cool. (I'm guessing -- from the general makeup of the commentariat -- that you do web-related work...)

[mad.casual]

"Porn-related" income? Cool. (I'm guessing -- from the general makeup of the commentariat -- that you do web-related work...)

Yes. Also, full disclosure, megachurches make up a significant portion (though not as large as porn) as well.

[notJoe]

Also, full disclosure, megachurches make up a significant portion (though not as large as porn) as well.

Beautiful.

[mad.casual]

I remember ISIS allowing some infidels to stay if they paid it in gold.

Happen to recall how things worked out for these supposed infidels?

Still an apples-to-oranges comparison and not just because Jizya is a centuries-old throwback. If various nations of the Muslim World sent notice to Charlie Hebdo that, in response to editorializing The Prophet, they'd be imposing a $20 tax on their magazine, I would expect libertarians (among other) to be much more divided over the appropriateness of that action/response.

[JaimeRoberto]

Jizya? I barely know you.

[Stormy Dragon]

Jizya

Jizya or jizyah (Arabic: ?????? ?izyah IPA: [d?izja]; Ottoman Turkish: ????/cizye) is a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects?dhimmis?permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law.

[Zunalter]

Nothing like a little false equivalency to make a point!

[RBS]

That dude is from the Upstate. Strange people up there.

[Mr. Paulbotto]

Their flag with the palmetto and crescent already looks like it would feel right at home in the Middle East.

[Sevo]

"James Hetfield moved to 'quiet' Colorado to enjoy outdoors, escape 'elitist' Bay Area attitudes"
http://www.sfgate.com/entertai.....808564.php

Bay Area commenters in denial.

[Brett L]

"Go back to California, hippie!"

Oh wait, they cut their hair, didn't they? Now they just look like fifty-year olds.

[bacon-magic]

I bet the name of his double barrel shotgun loaded with salt rock is "harvester of sorrow".

[Mickey Rat]

They Turned the Page.

[The Last American Hero]

Except Lars, who has some kind of weird bald-guy-mullet thing going on.

[Injun, as in from India]

The October 30 warrant authorizing the FBI to search Anthony Weiner's laptop was unsealed today.

What sits on top of Weiner's lap?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

That seems more infanticide adjacent than normal abortion. Like begging for a puppy so you can drown it.

[Libertarian]

If and when she has a child, I wonder what it will think of statements like this.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

"Don't judge mommy, that's how we got our second house."

[Bill Dalasio]

"Don't judge mommy, that's how we got our second house."

You know, when I read her statement, the thought did occur to me, "What if all of this is some sort of epic troll of the left on her part?" I mean, it would funny, in a sick sort of way, to get your political opponents to line up in support of the most repulsive caricature of their views you could dream up. To date, she's got them lining up behind false accusation, child molestation and infanticide, with a side of effeminate boyfriend. If she's able to start a left-wing craze in favor of coprophilia, it would lend a great deal of credence to my theory.

[John Titor]

Before or after she molests them?

[Volren]

That would be a daughter right? Who knows what she would inflict on a son.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

So there was this guy called Norman...

[John Titor]

Gardening shears and a bottle of witch hazel. "Oops, botched circumcision!"

[mad.casual]

Like begging for a puppy so you can drown it.

The puppy injects a bit of self-awareness that is lacking from the original as well. I still haven't murdered Lena Dunham...

[Juvenile Bluster]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

More blatantly unconstitutional: That, or this proposal to punish wrongthink?

[Lurk Diggler]

More of a penaltax.

[Rich]

U.S. postal worker is charged with delaying and destroying mail after investigators found about 4,500 pieces of mail in the woods

HATE CRIME!

[Libertarian]

NEWman!

[Mad Scientist]

Government is just what we call the mail we throw away together.

[jack sprat]

Newman

[jack sprat]

*shakes fist at Libertarian for beating me to the punch*

[DOOMco]

that has to be a NAP violation 0

[Col. Chestbridge]

Hey, he's gotta win sometimes.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

How else was he supposed to fuel his meth lab?

[Injun, as in from India]

Four more government officials have been charged in conjunction with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Anyone know the party affiliation of those charged? The article fails to mention it.

[Libertarian]

That tells you all you need to know.

[Derpetologist]

file under: celebrate diversity

Teen dies in menstruation hut

Though the ancient Hindu practice has been banned since 2005, a 15-year-old girl in Nepal was banished to a shed while she was menstruating. On Monday, police confirmed that she died.

[Libertarian]

Yet some feminists say the U.S. is a patriarchy.

[mad.casual]

Well, at least we know we can trust her.

[Mike Schmidt]

"Well, at least we know we can trust her."

Good call

[Zunalter]

Wow, harsh.

[The Last American Hero]

The same people hold up the simple peoples of Nepal as being more in tune with what's important in life.

[Ted S.]

Will they ban the mikvah, too?

[???? ??????, Jr.]

At Menstruation Hut, they've got a great Two-for-$20 carryout deal. Monday thru Thursday, every week.

[jack sprat]

OK, now folks at work looking at me for laughing so loud on that one.

[bacon-magic]

That's bloody awful, Jr.

[Swiss Servator]

*narrows gaze*

[Mr Lizard]

I'm late to the party and all the other mammals at the bar are staring at me. Guess they never heard a reptile chuckle before.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Where's Dave Foley when you need him?

[Chipper Morning Wood]

That's terrible.

[The Late P Brooks]

an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

"We just need your info for the receipt. Oh, goodness no, we're not using it to put you on some sort of perverts' list. That's just silly."

[some guy]

Don't worry though. It's a very long list. At this point there's only a few people not on the list and we're reeeeeally suspicious of those guys.

[John Titor]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

If her mom has even a degree of self-respect she'll be considering the same thing.

[Playa Manhattan.]

ahem.

[John Titor]

I don't see a copyright on that comment Playa, I developed mine on an independent basis with no prior knowledge of your work. I'll see you in court.

[Swiss Servator]

You are found to have infringed upon Playa's intellectual property rights. I award him a 50 Timbit pack - pay the bailiff on your way out, Defendant!

[But Enough About Me]

FIFTY?!?

What, Titor's made outta money now? Man, I shoulda stayed involved with the Canuck military when I had the chance...

[Ted S.]

OT: First world problems

[mad.casual]

I guess we have to ask for a left-handed meteorologist on R?V, or ask them to start using the pointer as they used to back in the day.

I love how the goto solution is arcane-style retrograde. Telling the existing weatherguy(s) to move around more and/or repositioning and rescaling the digitally applied map is unpossible! What they really need to drive this nail is some manner of gantry system that allows the weathermen to hover above the display.

[Krabappel]

It's so important that the people in Iceland know the exact degree of how cold it is there.

[thrakkorzog]

If only there were some other way people commenting on the internet could look at weather forecasts.

[Injun, as in from India]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

The only people fapping to this are tax collectors.

Twenty dollars!! [fap]

[John Titor]

It won't work. You were too busy thinking about what you could do, you didn't think about whether you should. Porn, porn finds a way.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Awww, twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut!

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

+1 exchange for goods and services

[some guy]

Politicians keep finding new ways to display their ignorance of technology. That's for sure.

[Rich]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

Check out her father's artwork sometime.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Check this out. Those are some crazy fish:

http://www.foxsports.com/buzze.....rth-122016

[Libertarian]

Look at those teeth. I wouldn't hold those fish even if they were dead.

[John Titor]

When ever life sucks, just remember: you could have been a male angler fish.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

That doesn't sound so bad. I mean you don't even have to eat. Just ejaculate. That's your only job.

[PapayaSF]

Wow.

[Lord Humungus]

Saw this via twitter - note original piece is from 2012

Critical Pedagogy and Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice

n this article, the authors explore critical pedagogy within the context of mathematics classrooms. The exploration demonstrates the evolving pedagogical practices of mathematics teachers when teaching mathematics is explicitly connected to issues of social justice. To frame the exploration, the authors provide brief overviews of the theoretical tenets of critical pedagogy and of teaching mathematics for social justice. Through using narrative and textual data, the authors illustrate how a graduate-level, critical theory and teaching mathematics for social justice course assisted, in part, in providing not only a new language but also a legitimization in teachers becoming critical mathematics pedagogues.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Yeah-k.

[Injun, as in from India]

Teaching mathematics for social justice? Is that pedophilia or pedagogy?

[Lord Humungus]

+1 Foot Doctor

[John]

How can they write such shit? I do not believe the person who wrote that has any idea what it means. It is just buzzwords strung together.

[juris imprudent]

It would be awesome if that was trolling.

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

It doesn't matter if it makes sense? you want to use enough fancy language and right thinking terms that the peer reviewers will pass it on for fear of being thought to dumb to understand the paper or too wrong thinking to approve it.

[Darth Squirrel]

+1 invisible clothing

[John Titor]

One of the reasons that mathematicians largely dodged the purges and ideological rigidity of their fellow Soviet intellectuals is that mathematics is really hard to politicize. But the social justice crowd is trying.

[The Last American Hero]

Dumbass Soviets forgot about "consensus".

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Lesson 1: Numbers Are Meaningless

Lesson 2: How To Get Numbers To Confirm Your Narrative

[Tonio]

WTF?

[Injun, as in from India]

Social justice demands that the culturally appropriated Indian numerals be returned to Indian people.

Back to Roman numerals, white people!

For the XLVII'th freakin' time.

[bacon-magic]

Lol. Oh no, what about the alphabet? Should I be using runes?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Greeks de jure drifted into being white, so you might be OK. Modern progs don't see any difference between a Greek, a Finn and a Georgian, they are all Privileged White. Spaniards might be an exception, I'm not sure whether "Hispanic" applies to them.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Can you imagine if we all had to use runes? All the summoned demons that would be roaming around....

[Episteme]

Time to see how a return to 20-base Celtic numerals affects my ordering beer...

[Lord Humungus]

replies on Twitter:

Josh Walrath ?@JoshDWalrath 2h2 hours ago
@NonWhiteHat when will it infect engineering? I know I'll feel better flying in an aircraft that was designed around critical race theory

marilyn maupin ?@marilynmaupin 3h3 hours ago
@NonWhiteHat So... math taught by people who can't math.

(((Matcluck))) ?@AblativMeatshld 3h3 hours ago
@NonWhiteHat brb need to chug vodka

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

brb need to chug vodka

Finally, a universally applicable tweet!

[Marshall Gill]

Vodka?! I like whiskey!

[Christophe]

Reading the paper is somewhat edifying. The graduate math course was aimed into turning math teachers into propagandists for social justice. The two examples were racial profiling and the minimum wage, presented in the context of high school math classes.

For instance, some students asked,
"What does this have to do with math?" Surprisingly, one of the few African
American students in the class was resistant to the topic altogether, suggesting,
"Why don't you just give us data instead of having us read some stupid article?"

I love how the high school kid that's supposed to be the beneficiary of this approach (because he's a member of the proper oppressed groups) is the first one to call bullshit on it.

[Zunalter]

I blame patriarchy.

[Lord Humungus]

Man wins OK to wear goat horns in driver's license photo

Maine resident Phelan Moonsong said that unless he's sleeping or bathing, he always wears his goat horns, which serve as his spiritual antennae and help him educate others about Paganism.

But Moonsong is questioning why he had to appeal his driver license's photo to the state after explaining his religious beliefs to Bureau of Motor Vehicle staff. Plus, he adds, the horns didn't obstruct his face.

The Maine Secretary of State's office said the state was not familiar with his choice of headdress and had asked Moonsong for more information to review the issue. A spokeswoman said the state allowed the goat horns because Moonsong cited their religious purposes and also because they didn't obstruct his face.

Maine motor vehicle staff can hold license photos for review if they have a concern about religious headdress.

[Injun, as in from India]

his goat horns, which serve as his spiritual antennae

Yet another phallic symbol of the patriarchy.

[Volren]

Does he self-identify as goatkin?

[thrakkorzog]

How are those different from a cuckold's horns?

[BearOdinson]

If the guy is trolling Muslims, I say "Well Done!".

If the guy thinks he really is a pagan, and this is the way it should be done, I am going to go full berseker on him.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Hey! He might be a follower of Pan or Dionysus. Check your Nordic privilege!

[bacon-magic]

Since Paganism is mostly oral history(insert oral joke here), I was under the impression that the way these beliefs were practiced and the particular rites were different depending on location.

[Christophe]

Quebec had a colander-wearing Pastafarian try the same thing. Don't remember if it worked or not.

[The Late P Brooks]

After decades of life in the San Francisco Bay Area, Metallica's James Hetfield and his family now live in "super quiet" Vail, Colorado.

------

Hetfield also says that in the Bay Area, he felt "that there was an elitist attitude there ? that if you weren't their way politically, their way environmentally, all of that, that you were looked down upon."

Nothing says "down to earth" like Vail. Jesus, how far up your own ass can you get? If he'd said he moved to Fruita, or Lamar,I might cut him some slack.

[Mad Scientist]

The people in Vail are his kinds of eliststs.

[Libertarian]

If he thinks Vail is super quiet, I wonder how much traveling he's done.

[notJoe]

If he thinks Vail is super quiet, I wonder how much traveling he's done.

He plays for Metallica -- he probably doesn't realize he's gone stone deaf.

[The Last American Hero]

Lots, but most of it was getting shuttled from one arena to the next in the back of a charter bus. Philly, Dallas, and LA are all the same when the view you get is the inside of a basketball stadium.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Christ, what an asshole.

[Jgalt1975]

Fruita or Lamar? Well, la-dee-dah! If someone's really down to earth in Colorado, they're in some place like Mancos or Abarr.

[But Enough About Me]

No, if someone's really down-to-Earth in Colorado, they live in Wyoming.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

+1 Magpul

[Derpetologist]

CSU hires counselors to treat students with "racial battle fatigue".

[Volren]

PTSD from the culture wars. Sad!

[Crusty Juggler]

PTSD from the culture wars. Sad!

Treat that shit with some MDMA. WIN.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

My throat goes raw after too much screaming as well.

[jack sprat]

So how would these kids have done at Normandy?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Helped the Nazis?

[John Titor]

Would've been useful as a first wave, make some nice little mounds of bodies to hide behind.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

How would you get them onto ships, though?

I mean, back in NY, to cross the Atlantic.

[John Titor]

If the Soviets could get penal battalions to clear minefields, we can get SJWs on ships.

"Hey, there's a transgender poetry slam tonight on the U.S.S. Missouri!"

[Volren]

Stick a sign on the ship saying "Safe Space" or "Gun-free Zone"

[C. Anacreon]

Second wave could have been "Operation Get Behind the Whiners".

[Lord Humungus]

What about the many people who suffer from SJW-fatigue?

[Christophe]

May my alma mater never sink that low.

[notJoe]

That's my alma mater -- taking "full retard" up a notch.

[GILMORE?]

The university is also exploring a "curriculum change" that would "require Introduction to Ethnic Studies and Introduction to Women Studies to be taken by all students."

lol

[DOOMco]

colleges really dont get it.

[Lord Humungus]

Wife thought husband was having an affair because he had a shave and a hair cut

Fatima Fardous repeatedly contacted her partner, Mirza Raza, with 'vitriolic' phone calls while he was at work.

When the carpet fitter returned to their home, he discovered Fardous had smashed up the television and a mirror before she lunged at him with a kitchen knife during an argument.

Prosecutor Nick Adlington told Bradford Crown Court, West Yorkshire, that the victim was able to move to avoid being stabbed in the chest but the knife dug into left upper arm, hitting the bone and causing the handle to break.

[Zero Sum Game]

How is it that so many are so very bad at HTML?

Here's the link.

[Lord Humungus]

Hitler.

[Zero Sum Game]

Worse. I ran for President of the squirrels. While I lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote. Half of the squirrels are busting a nut over it and the other half are crying inconsolably that their leader is now #notasquirrel.

[Lord Humungus]

Squirrels are tricky little bastards. Sleep with one eye open.

[Zero Sum Game]

Wait until they see the Redwall I'm going to build. It's gonna be yuuge.

[waffles]

#notmysquirrelmaster

[Darth Squirrel]

Hey!

[Libertarian]

Well, he IS a "carpet fitter." Suspicion and jealousy pretty much come standard with that.

[Mickey Rat]

Mr. Bad Example

[The Late P Brooks]

To frame the exploration, the authors provide brief overviews of the theoretical tenets of critical pedagogy and of teaching mathematics for social justice. Through using narrative and textual data, the authors illustrate how a graduate-level, critical theory and teaching mathematics for social justice course assisted, in part, in providing not only a new language but also a legitimization in teachers becoming critical mathematics pedagogues.

What on Cthulu's little green earth is that even supposed to mean?

2+2=4. Period, the end.

There's only one correct answer, and I don't give a fuck how that makes you feel.

[Tonio]

^This.

[juris imprudent]

cisdigitalnormativeshitlord

[Injun, as in from India]

2+2=4. Period, the end.

cisdigitalnormativeshitlord

He's period-shaming female mathematicians.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Off to the hut with them!

[Jerry on the sea]

2+2=4. Period, the end.

There's only one correct answer, and I don't give a fuck how that makes you feel.

It all depends on what the meaning of the sign "=" is.

[JayU]

You haven't figured out the strategy yet?

Use big words. Sound smart. Eliminate disagreement.

Come into contact with an actual smart person? Call them a bigot. Math is racist you nazi!

[Libertarian]

Did you actually say "period"?!?!? Get thee to a menstruation hut!

[TheZeitgeist]

Somewhere in the great harbor of Alexandria lies an undiscovered bronze masterpiece of Hypatia, capturing the mathematical brilliance in her eye and the beauty of her face - both things that made her famous - and that statue is shedding a tear.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Heh.

Racist progs example 4857677667:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odB1wWPqSlE

[John Titor]

Watching the entire voter ID debate from a Canadian perspective is just hilarious. We get to see massive freakouts about how racist and horrifying they are while sitting here thinking "Uh, we have them, they're fine."

[Rufus The Monocled]

Seriously. It's absurd. I always have to produce ID when I vote. American progressives against it are just being dimwitted idiots.

[Mickey Rat]

It may stupidity for the rank and file, for the leadership it is malice.

[JayU]

I really don't believe there's much overlap between people who don't have ID and people who vote anyway.

Also, 77% of non-white people support voter ID laws.

[mad.casual]

I kinda wish Ami would ask the white people if they have any black friends or know any black people. It would be funny as shit to make them call up their black friend(s) and ask them if they know where the DMV is or how to use the internet.

[Lurk Diggler]

Someone made a video doing something similar. Asking white people why the laws are racist. The answers were that black peoples couldn't find the DMV, use the Internet, etc.

Then they went to a black neighborhood and asked told black people the reasons and those people thought that sounded racist.

[mad.casual]

That's what the Ami video is.

I'm more interested in challenging their prog bullshit to their face. That is to say, I'm fairly certain that at least some of these people have employed the "Just because you have one black friend doesn't mean you aren't racist." argument against 'bigots'. The fact that they have no, some, or many black friends and still act like they're all neanderthals would (presumably) be yanking their cognitive dissonance out at the root. Additionally, unlike the usual SJW tantrum hoard, flash mob, and 'scream loud and change nothing' tactics, this would be somewhat more legitimately one-on-one, social responsibility, use your brain because words mean things-type of lesson. Even if they claim the number of black friends is none of anybody's business, you've at least won the point that people are or aren't bigots because they have none, one, or many black friends. Less "OMG, what would Twitter say?" and more "OMG, what would the people I value as friends and interact with face-to-face say?"

[Krabappel]

That video is delightful -- a bunch of privileged Berkley white left wing progtards talk about how stupid and inferior blacks are.

Of course what he didn't ask is why someone who can't figure out how to get an ID that the vast majority of legal citizens have should be allowed to vote in the first place. They can't get an ID but their opinions on public policy and governance is super critical?

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Charles Easterly asked about negative v positive rights in the AM... I repeat that I think we ought to reject a lot of rights-talk, including that distinction*, but I get that negative vs positive rights is a thing** and can be persuasive. Tom Palmer's "Saving Rights Theory From Its Friends" is worth checking out. It's not something you'd want to just forward to your friend, but it goes in to the different ways modern liberals have used the language of "rights" to justify whatever they want the state to do.

Particularly good is his talk near the end about how the self-ownership argument provides a good base for "compossible" rights,

that is, rights that are capable of being jointly realized.

If a theory of rights generates incompossible claims to act legitimately, as do the theories criticized earlier in this essay, that theory generates contradictions as fatal to it as are logical contradictions to a system of mathematics. It is in the nature of "right" that two mutually incompatible actions cannot both be "right"; they may be understandable, or virtuous, or even noble, but both cannot be right and just at the same time and in the same respect

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

So even without the moral problem of the state forcing obligations on non-consenting people, you have the practical problem of a bunch of duties and obligations conflicting with one another. It's a recipe for conflict and exploitation.

* "I have the right for you to abstain from murdering me"? Why not just say, "You do not have the liberty to murder me"? Better to start giving liberty its due, and distinguish between liberty and rights.

**usually attributed to Isaiah Berlin, but he was talking negative vs positive liberty, with positive liberty having to do with self-fulfillment, not the 'liberty' gained by guaranteed health care or a minimum income or whatever.

[esteve7]

LOL Porn Filter. I'm sure any 12yo could find their way around that.

[PapayaSF]

How's that multiculturalism working out for you, Europe?

'The children were PETRIFIED': Asylum seeker STORMS nativity play to read from the Koran

[GILMORE?]

The random capitalization sort of ruins their story.

[Stormy Dragon]

?Can your mouthwash treat gonorrhea?

My mouthwash doesn't need to treat gonorrhea...

[Crusty Juggler]

Yet...

[Swiss Servator]

*slow clap*

[Lord Humungus]

Black Panthers hold 'human rights tribunal' in Sherman Park

Members of the Black Panthers of Milwaukee, some armed with guns, marched through the Sherman Park neighborhood on Sunday to protest what they called the "genocide" of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement.

The afternoon march, which they called a "human rights tribunal," was held in the name of Sylville Smith, Jay Anderson and others who have been killed by police officers.

"This is genocide. It can't go on. Any other country, any other people it would be declared as such," said Dr. Alli Muhammad with the Revoluntionary Black Panther Party.

...

A police spokesman said officers monitored Sunday's demonstration. "Open carrying a firearm is not arrestable absent any other violations of the law," the spokesperson said.

[Juvenile Bluster]

A police spokesman said officers monitored Sunday's demonstration. "Open carrying a firearm is not arrestable absent any other violations of the law," the spokesperson said.

True, though you'd hope some more of their fellow cops would understand that.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

You want them to risk their lives arresting people carrying weapons openly?!

You monster! They need an armoured vehicle, backup and four magazines, extra large capacity, for such situations.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"This is genocide. It can't go on. Any other country, any other people it would be declared as such," said Dr. Alli Muhammad with the Revoluntionary Black Panther Party.

Well, no, not quite. But I do support your right to bear arms.

[Suthenboy]

Lena Dunham, prog extraordinaire is the poster child for "When your politics appeal to the worst parts of human nature you attract the worst kinds of people."

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

She's manged to bring together the pro-lifers and pro-choicers in their mutual disdain of her. Call it an early Festivus miracle!

[????? ????]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley

Pictured

[The Late P Brooks]

it goes in to the different ways modern liberals have used the language of "rights" to justify whatever they want the state to do.

The concept of "rights" has become so tainted I avoid using the word if I possibly can. Most of the time, "right" as used in conversation would more accurate if replaced with "power" or "authority".

[GILMORE?]

2016, Politics-in-Music In Review

Macklemore = White Privilege II

(*If you loved White Privilege I, You're going to LOVE WPII! - because nothing says "woke bae" like some white dude telling other white dudes how not to be so white)

Pussy Riot = Straight Outta Vagina

Because Russian vagina = 1980s Compton.

MC Lena Dunham = Sexual Pantsuit

...

Le Tigre = I'm With her

If you felt that this lesbian-punk-act was painfull talentless before, only achieving momentary hipster notoriety because of a gratuitous DFA remix
... oh man. This will redefine what "talentless" means. Its a talent-vacuum so intense that it sucks everything around it into its bottomless depths and spits it back out smelling like kombucha and used tampons.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Macklemore, Hip Hop for the NPR totebag crowd, there I said it... again.

Antidote.

[waffles]

I liked that hit song about balling out at the thrift store. But I listen to NPR so there's that.

[Mr Drew]

So trump won the electoral college?

We need more celebrity videos telling people to not recognize his presidency. Surely it will work this time!

This deafness is both hilarious and horrible. The progs keep doubling down on the things that are actually part of the reasons they lost in the first place.

I can take much more. Someone here referred to an election boner...I'm getting sore.

[John]

Maureen Dowd nailed it. She said Hillary's popular vote win can be her participation trophy. Ouch.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Rep. William Chumley

Say again?

Is he trying to keep questionable images of the First Lady away from the innocent eyes of tween boys everywhere?

[GILMORE?]

Better Call Saul

Orlando victims' families sue tech companies

The families of three men killed at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc in federal court, accusing the companies of providing "material support" to the self-radicalized gunman.

[kbolino]

self-radicalized

WTF is this even supposed to mean?

[GILMORE?]

Its a category invented by the media to mean

"OK there are some terrorists in the US, but not *technically* ISIS-affiliated because, like, they read shit on the internet rather than actually visiting some camp in Pakistan or Syria"

its an attempt to downgrade the nature of radicalism, suggesting "they did it to themselves", and there's not actually any coordinated effort by Islamic groups to foster these sorts of people.

[kbolino]

So was Dylann Roof "self-radicalized" according to the media? I'm sure they wouldn't be inconsistent with their use of terminology...

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

No, Rush Limbaugh and Trump are the source of the problem.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It means the press fucked up and has accidentally absolved Rush Limbaugh and Trump of being the source of the problem.

[JaimeRoberto]

I thought it was another euphemism for masturbation.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

F...fake news?

[John]

http://www.france24.com/en/201.....lin-attack

This is why the "what are your chances" excuses for ignoring terrorism don't work. It doesn't matter that your chances are low. They hit specific things and activities and cause people to refrain from doing them. First it was anyone who drew Muhammad or insulted Muslims. Now it is Christmas markets. Next it will be any woman not wearing a head scarf. And over time they will violently enforce their will on society and we will no longer have our freedom. That is how terrorism works.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"I ask everyone to continue to go to markets or big events, albeit while exercising the greatest caution," he said.

I suppose for some people, exercising the greatest caution means they don't show up.

[kbolino]

What is that even supposed to mean, in context? If you see a truck, just start running?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Exactly. If you go out and are in a crowd of people, you're... I don't know what you're doing.

[Mr Drew]

it means bring your gun

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

I know you'll bitch me out, but, from Mark Steyn's post of Feb 17:

Over the summer, I met a lady from southern Germany who had found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers. As a result, she no longer goes out after dark. She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.

"Why would you do that?" I asked.

"Because it's Christmas," she said, "and I'm worried Christmas will be a target."

Clearly an irrational idiot - she is from Southern Germany, nowhere near Berlin. 12 year-old who was looking to bomb near her was captured, so everything is fine.

And why do I quote Steyn? Because he says things and sometimes is proven right. No CBC reporter I've seen said anything about Christmas markets until yesterday.

[John]

He is right. And it infuriates me how people who should know better but are too fucking PC to admit the truth don't see it.

[Lurk Diggler]

Didn't Penn Gilette refuse to do Muslim jokes because of the Killy nature of Muslims. Not sure about South Park.

[Chip Your Pets]

Yes, it is -- thankfully a lot of terrorists get hung up on big flamboyant attacks on high-profile targets like 9/11, which are extremely difficult to pull off and actually less effective at creating terror than seemingly random attacks on soft targets.

The problem from our side is that there is really no way of preventing ALL terrorist acts while maintaining anything approaching a free society, and reducing the chances from 0.0001% to 0.00001%, which would be an impressive 10x drop, doesn't change the effect on society.

[Lobster]

They hit specific things and activities and cause people to refrain from doing them. First it was ______________. Now it is _____________. Next it will be ___________________. And over time they will violently enforce their will on society and we will no longer have our freedom.

Is terrorism more of less of threat to my freedom than a homeowners association?

[GILMORE?]

Nativity Wars - Episode 7,851

[OldMexican Blankety Blank]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

What an interesting way of conceding that men find her unattractive.

[__Warren__]

Not only would you have to close your eyes you'd need to hold your nose and that makes the act all the more difficult. And the effort certainly is not near worth it.

[Volren]

Plowing Lena Dunham so she can abort your kid to gain street cred with the lunatic fringe of the pro-choice movement? Talk about negative incentive.

[Free Society]

I firmly oppose abortion for everyone except Lena Dunham, for whom they should be mandatory.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Her current boyfriend? Used to date Scarlett Johansson, so she's got something.

[TheZeitgeist]

What she has is the sheep-and-Weiner video the current boyfriend is desperate to keep off the torrents.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I'm quite sure Scarlett is as surprised as Lena was.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Jebus, Reason, how in hell did you miss this:

Gun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs - and even start preparing for the collapse of society.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

[__Warren__]

I'd rather the left not be armed. I'll not help anyone in the progsphere on any aspect of purchase or training.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I disagree. I'll run to train them, help them and talk about how awesome the 2nd amendment is when there's someone in the white house you don't trust.

[__Warren__]

They're very purgy these progs. The more competent they are with firearms the more likely they are to use them against non-progs.

If there's going to be any purge in this country I'd prefer it happens to them.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I guess I'm not that bitter. Any time I see an opportunity to help someone see why we have these freedoms, I see as a net win.

[mad.casual]

The more competent they are with firearms the more likely they are to use them against non-progs.

I'm with Paul, stuff them to the gills with firearms training. Their ignorance of military history and general obliviousness with regards to politics and totalitarianism means better odds that they'll be the ones caught in a collapsing dictatorship outnumbered and without ammo.

And if you train them to use firearms, thoroughly familiarize them with military history, and sufficiently equip them with a preparedness mindset and they're *still* progressives, I'd say the problem is with you.

[Lurk Diggler]

I think you overestimate them in assuming that if they like guns they will apply a consistent principle. They've never done that.

[Darth Squirrel]

Larry Correia was all over this last month.

[GILMORE?]

Obama uses final weeks of his tenure to "Ban Stuff"

Question = are green-lefties really so dense as to see this and applaud it? Because all he's doing is saying, "I was too big a pussy to try this when it would have political fallout", and implementing a "ban" that will be revoked the second he steps out of office.

Will they applaud it anyway? Of course. Symbolism. It also forces Team Red to go through the motions of "unbanning" therefore confirming their role as Planet Killers par excellance.

[Mickey Rat]

From the linked article comments:

"Oil production in the Arctic represents a tenth of one percent of the nation's oil production overall"

Conservatives will fight to the death over something this silly then turn around and refuse to feed poor kids breakfast before school. Muriken Conservatism - cow flops on parade."

So breakfast does not require plentiful oil to run the farms that grow the food and trucks to transport it to where the poor kid lives?

[The Late P Brooks]

Another welcome to the White House gift:

White House officials described their actions to make the areas off limits to future oil and gas exploration and drilling as indefinite. Officials said the withdrawals under Section 12-A of the 1953 act used by presidents dating to Dwight Eisenhower cannot be undone by an incoming president. It is not clear if a Republican-controlled Congress can rescind Obama's action.

"There is a precedent of more than half a century of this authority being utilized by presidents of both parties," a White House aide said. "There is no authority for subsequent presidents to un-withdraw. .?.?. I can't speak to what a future Congress will do."

Statesmanlike.

"My legacy! My precious precious legacy!"

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

The announcement by the White House late in the afternoon was coordinated with similar steps being taken by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shield large areas of that nation's Arctic waters from drilling

Goddammit, PM Zoolander!

I swear, if Trump gives him a noogie or a wedgie on their first meeting, I'm exploring moving to the States and joining GOP.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

We don't need to import more Canadian Immigrants!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I mean "refugees"

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Fuck it, you can take Syrian refugees, you can take Zoolander refugees! He's your fault, Liberals decided they needed their own Obama.

[John Titor]

STOP GIVING US BAD IDEAS AMERICA.

[Volren]

What if we implemented an exchange program where a Canadian libertarian came south in exchange for an American prog moving north?

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Wouldn't help me, Pope HazelMeade expelled me from Libertarian Church for heresy not caring.

Unless I can set up Heroic Mulatto as an Anti-Pope. More twerking = true Libertarianism.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I support this.

I get confused when people abbreviate HazelMeade as HM anyway.

[John]

He has my vote.

[You ARE a Prog (MJG)]

Late, indeed.

[John]

It is not clear if a Republican-controlled Congress can rescind Obama's action.

So there is a law besides the Constitution that can't be rewritten or repealed by Congress? Not last I looked. God journalists are fucking stupid.

[mad.casual]

I like the White House aide feeding them "There is a half-centuries' worth of precedent..." lines too. As though Congress, the Executive, or Trump give two shits about it or Obama consistently honored similar or equal long-held traditions.

[Chip Your Pets]

A past president cannot unilaterally bind a future president, only by signing a treaty which is ratified or by signing an act of law. If the 1953 law says otherwise it's unconstitutional.

[But Enough About Me]

Yep. Turns out Trump's got the same kinda pen and phone as Obumbles.

[Rebel Scum]

South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment that would require anti-porn filters to be installed on all computers sold in South Carolina but allow consumers to opt-out of the filter for $20.

Can I get filter that shows me ONLY pr0n?

[__Warren__]

Sure, Internet Sexplorer, Firecocks, and Google Choad all have that functionality.

[Rebel Scum]

Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

I would ask "why?", but I know the answer is that she is a crazy, sjw, proggie, cunt. I mean, I am not against abortion per-say, but I think this is a weird thing to assert.

[__Warren__]

Well who doesn't want a stuffed fetus head on a trophy above one's mantle?

[ant1sthenes]

It would be like gun-rights guy lamenting that he had never had a chance to kill someone in self defense. Which, in fairness, probably happens.

[Volren]

Nah, there are plenty of hunters and sport shooters and even home defense types who are perfectly happy with never having to shoot another human.

Abortion is only ever used for one thing.

[__Warren__]

Two, now that social signalling has been added to the list.

[ant1sthenes]

No doubt, but I imagine most people who support abortion don't share the Dunham and Pelosi view of it as a sacrament of sorts.

[Volren]

True. I am also generally pro-choice but this stance is grotesque.

[Mr Drew]

**It would be like gun-rights guy lamenting that he had never had a chance to kill someone in self defense. Which, in fairness, probably happens.**

True story I'm afraid.

[MJBinAL]

Still I say, it would have been better if Lena's MOTHER had an abortion.

[Rebel Scum]

Notoriously overreaching California Attorney General Kamala Harris (D)

There's a crude joke about her reaching all over my junk in here somewhere...

[Crusty Juggler]

I appreciate you not making that crude joke. This blog is not a forum for rude, juvenile humor.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

I agree, Ms Postrel could be...well, certainly not reading, but within half a mile of the server where the comments database dwells.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Ms. Postrel is an entirely decent human being. Why libertarianism ever claimed her, I know not.

[Ken Shultz]

"South Carolina state Rep. William Chumley (R-35th District) has introduced an amendment . . . "

No, I don't care enough to comment.

I care enough to say that I don't give a shit what some state representative in South Carolina proposes.

In related news, earlier today, a senile old man in Poughkeepsie wore his underwear on the outside.

[Ken Shultz]

"Lena Dunham is keeping herself in the spotlight this week by declaring: "I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

The senile old man claimed to have beaten famed boxer Rocky Marciano in arm wrestling match back in 1954.

[Libertarian]

It's worse than that. What is the word "still" doing in that sentence of hers? Is she planning to get pregnant so that she *can* get an abortion?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Four more government officials have been charged in conjunction with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand

How many were Donks?

[josh]

dunham tries so hard to be a version of what she thinks other people think the next generation gloria steinem should look and sound like.

[DOOMco]

starting to look for my next apartment.
god, i hate zoning.

[Charles Easterly]

starting to look for my next apartment.
god, i hate zoning.

It is not that I care for you, DOOMco, or your search for a place to live, yet at this point I appreciate your contribution to the current thread.

[Mickey Rat]

"If only someone would come along and spell it all out for us. And here is Jeff Nesbitt at Time magazine, as antiquated a media dinosaur as you can think of, to reveal the end game. "Fake news," he thunders, is "an existential threat to Facebook's reputation." The only solution: "partner with legacy media to curate real news and reward them for it." In other words: give us back the power and money we lost. Make us the gatekeepers and toll collectors again. It's a shakedown, and the motive is nakedly financial: he laments that legacy media's "business models aren't sustainable."

(Meanwhile, it turns out that Nesbitt, who boasts that real journalists "can spot fake news in a nanosecond" was previously peddling an outright conspiracy theory about "how Big Oil and Big Tobacco invented the Tea Party.")"

http://thefederalist.com/2016/.....-facebook/

[esteve7]

Here is your periodic reminder to go check out the election night thread. Bask in its glory

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11.....egular-upd

[Zero Sum Game]

Hey, I recognize some of those deplorables.

[Pan Zagloba "The Stickler"]

Thanks for the reminder I should pick up some booze. But this Bordeaux...it's not a success.

[MJBinAL]

Hmmm, I was kinda wishing that Lena's MOTHER had an abortion.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Is there a better duo than Calvin & Hobbes?

[Rufus The Monocled]

I wonder if they can petition him once in power.

[DOOMco]

i got to meet a toyota engineer while at the airport.
i asked if they were ever bringing the diesel engine to the us and he laughed at me. between the EPA being knucklefucks and the consumers not being "able" to put all the extra fluids and additives in, its not going to happen.

[Mickey Rat]

Bringing the NOx content down reduces fuel economy as you do not get hot enough to fully burn the fuel.

[DOOMco]

the only reason I would want one is long term reliability and ease of rebuilding. the newest ones are just as complex, but the older ones are very simple.

[DOOMco]

so dumb.

[kbolino]

release the news late some Friday?

I'm pretty sure the announcement on Twitter will preempt the official press release, in terms of coverage.

[GILMORE?]

Yes, which was exactly my point. The "bans" won't last long enough to be implemented.

[Zunalter]

I assume that's rhetorical.

[AceDroman]

Turner and Hooch? Eric B and Rakim? Johnson and Johnson?

[AceDroman]

Turner and Hooch? Eric B and Rakim? Johnson and Johnson?