McCain Looking to Push Back on Trump Agenda, Theresa May To Meet With Trump, UFO Hunters Look to Antarctica on Google Earth: P.M. Links

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  Google Earth

  President Trump, who reportedly still uses an unsecured Android device, said on Twitter he wanted a "major investigation" into voter fraud, including being registered in two states, something senior adviser Stephen Bannon has been found to be. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pushed back on Trump's voter fraud claims as well as reports that the White House was considering a return of CIA black sites and torture methods.

• UK Prime Minister Theresa May will be the first foreign leader to meet Trump, to talk about relations post-Brexit. Trade talks may be delayed for a lack of negotiators from the United Kingdom.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 20,000 for the first time.
• Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan, yielding a threat posture increase by NORAD.
• A defector from North Korea says the country's elites are turning their backs on Kim Jong Un.
• UFO hunters are searching Antarctica, on Google Earth, for evidence of alien ships.
• Mary Tyler Moore dies.

Comments

[bacon-magic]

President Trump
Don't like the sound of that.

[Playa Manhattan.]

LAME

[bacon-magic]

Yesssssssss, yesssssss, let the hate flow through you. /some creepy guy in a hoodie

[Sumio Mondo, Jr.]

Bill Belichick?

[bacon-magic]

That works, he cheated too.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

/some creepy guy in a hoodie who isn't that evil.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

/some creepy guy in a hoodie who isn't that evil.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

/some creepy guy in a hoodie who isn't that evil.

[Slammer]

Three and out

[Johnniest Doe]

/some creepy squirrel in a hoodie...

[Hamster of Doom]

Can't decide if you mean Zuckerberg or Shkreli. It's really an open field here.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

/throws beret in air.

[bacon-magic]

Bon jour

[Rufus The Monocled]

I don't speak Spanish.

[bacon-magic]

I don't speak English.

[Free Society]

I don't speak any language particularly well.

[bacon-magic]

Me neither, I'm not very good with names either. /still sorry

[Free Society]

#HashtagIwillNeverForgiveYou

[Free Society]

Am I not supposed to write the word hashtag? Well whatever. I plan to haunt you after I die.

[bacon-magic]

Yes sir. *hangs head

[Zero Sum Game]

#deported #BuildTheWall

[Tonio]

A raspberry beret?

[bacon-magic]

Rip Prince.

[Rufus The Monocled]

It's over. Move on.

[bacon-magic]

We could've used "pussy control" for the recent marches. I tried posting the video but Reason is white screening on me.

[Tonio]

Even the website code is racist.

[bacon-magic]

#princelivesmatter

[CZmacure]

AWWWWWWWWWWWW.....

PUSSY CONTROLLLLLL.

[Johnniest Doe]

Finally! Not too soon!

[jack sprat]

you go girl!

[Aloysious]

/throws beret in air.

I first read that as "throws beet in air" and was wondering what kind of strange gnostic Canadian ritual I was hearing about for the first time. Never mind. Carry on.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Let your inner Dwight Shrute flow.

[Ted S.]

Just give her the goddamn camera!

[DEG]

Hello

[Fatty Bolger]

Don't worry, it'll never happen.

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

Yes, but every picture of President Trump (this doesn't have to be weird unless we make it weird, baby) I've seen today, his facial expressions ranged from shit-eating grin to full on "Hah, Ha Ha Ha!" smile.
It's cracking me up.

I'm not a fan, but I am grabbing popcorn and watching for all this punishment he keeps building up that he wants to inflict on the government. It's 17 agencies he wants to kill as of today? I'm a little sad about some of them (Arts and stuff, Civil Rights) but I have no control and they're doing such a great fucking job anyway!

[bacon-magic]

Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan, yielding a threat posture increase by NORAD

Japan is not happy.

[Playa Manhattan.]

EVEN LAMER

[Brett L]

Maybe Trump can get himself a Nobel for negotiating the second Russo-Japanese war peace.

[Tonio]

Aren't they like technically still at war? As in, have never signed a formal peace treaty after WW2?

[grrizzly]

No Islands, No Peace.

[Free Society]

I think the existence of "normal" relations, embassies, trade agreements et cetera sort of supercedes any lack of formal peace treaty. De jure and de facto, they're not at war.

[Raven Nation]

Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

[OneOut]

Russia wasn't at war with Japan in WW2.

[PurityDiluting]

revisionist? though Russia did wait until almost the end before taking on Japan

[Tonio]

Actually...

[Ted S.]

Actually, they declared war 90 days after the Nazi surrender. I think that was agreed to at Yalta.

[Raven Nation]

It's a technicality: Japan was at war with the USSR not Russia.

[bacon-magic]

We beat the Russkies to the punchline on Japan.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 20,000 for the first time."

Yeah, but Chipotle didn't. HAHAHAHA

[Slammer]

Mary Tyler Moore dies.

You might not make it after all

[Groovus Maximus]

PWND

[Holger da Dane]

All I learned from your link was to eat peppers with my grilled meat and call it even.

[Groovus Maximus]

Your Reason is broken then.

[Holger da Dane]

It never worked to begin with!

[Private Chipperbot]

What's Lou Reed think?

[bacon-magic]

He can't talk right now, long distance rates are killing him.

[rts]

More like Mary Tyler no Moore, amirite?

[Rufus The Monocled]

You and Slammer.

Time-out.

[kinnath]

HERE LIES LESTER MOORE, FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LES NO MORE.

[Hamster of Doom]

I'm going to start judging this childish behavior as soon as anyone says something unfunny.

[Groovus Maximus]

^reported as spam

[DEG]

Something unfunny.

You can start judging now.

[jack sprat]

agreed. Do not insult the capri pants from the Dick Van Dyyke Show

[Pat (PM)]

Dan Rather Blasts Kellyanne Conway, Says 'Alternate Facts' is a 'Propaganda Tool'

Speaking on his show Dan Rather's America on the SiriusXM's Radio Andy Channel, Rather used strong language to condemn the now infamous "alternate facts" term Conway used during an appearance on Meet The Press this past week.

"(T)his idea of "alternate facts" is a propaganda tool. Yes, I used the word "propaganda" ? a propaganda tool in order to confuse people. Personally, I think this is very dangerous."

Fake but accurate?

[Tonio]

In Dan Rather's America...

[Rufus The Monocled]

Nothing worse than known liars calling out others.

What part of The Inferno does Rather belong?

[bacon-magic]

Right next to Brian Williams and Jeffrey Dahmer.

[BakedPenguin]

Tell us more, Dan.

[Pro Libertate]

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

[Brett L]

I know. Its fun to see the media take umbrage that the Republican president's press operation uses the same dirty tricks they thought they owned.

[Suthenboy]

Don't you mean to say he used Rather strong language?

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

Swiss! I need a ruling.

[Endless Mike]

You know who else would like to blast Kellyanne Conway?

[bacon-magic]

Republican Party? I assume your question is a euphemism.

[Sumio Mondo, Jr.]

*takes a long look at Kellyanne Conway*

Skeletor?

[AlexInCT]

Some people are into that sort of thing.... Some like them chubby and cigar worthy..

[Tonio]

More delicious infighting from the nascent March for Science:

Burning Issue Number 1: Are only scientists allowed? Who counts as a scientist? Current status: The folks who think it's enough to just love science are winning, because intersectionality.

Burning Issue Number 2: What color shall our pussy hats be? Current status: Green seems to be winning.

So tempting to troll these bozos with the need to include "other ways of knowing," ie pseudo-science bullshit, in their platform.

[BigT]

Green pussy inedible. Either one.

[Shirley Knott]

Don't eat green meat, it ain't good for you.
Killed your father, killed your sister too.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

"So tempting to troll these bozos with the need to include 'other ways of knowing,' ie pseudo-science bullshit"

Go for it.

I bet you can do it if you ease them into it.

Starting with something like "It is important that our march not be merely about reinforcing white hegemonic science but be open to the often marginalized sciences and experiences of peoples of color too."

Then start, as you get more and more support, gradually start injecting talk about chi, chakras, "medicine of color" (various traditional medicines), etc.

[Tonio]

That's really good, EBS.

[bacon-magic]

Good idea, go all holistic on their ass.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

This reminds me of Black Sails. We're rewatching the first three seasons before Sunday and when they end up on the island of freed slaves and they have medicine men with drums tossing powders in the air as medicine, I got to mocking it. So every time Silver complains about his stump hurting, I keep imagining the queen or princess saying "can I get a set of drums in here, stat!" Or when he bashed in Dufresne's skull, it was "oh, were gonna need a whole bunch of drums for this guy!" schtick.

Banjos says it's funny, so if you do t think so, fuck you.

[mr simple]

It's probably one of those things were you have to be there. I'm sure it's funny in the moment.

[OneOut]

She's humoring you.

Maybe her birthday is coming up ?

Say it again and then watch her Michelle Obama eyeroll out of the corner of your eye.

[Volren]

You can be like 4chan taking credit for people pissing themselves if it goes through.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Trolling is fun.

I've resigned myself to doing it as often as possible on twitter when I've got a little downtime during the workday. It's cathartic, plus it helps me fill my tear barrel more frequently.

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

I hear the CIA studied "other ways of knowing".

[Slammer]

Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan,

Godzilla sighting?

[Libertarian]

"Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan,"

Meh. What's the worst that could happen?

[BigT]

They couldn't locate Hiroshima?

[Sumio Mondo, Jr.]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 20,000 for the first time.

I loved how Obamabots used to brag about the state of the stock market when discussing Obama's awesome presidency. I guess the spin today is that Trump is inheriting the best economy ever.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Of course they did. They're idiots.

The markets are flying basically because of low interest rates. Little or nothing to do with Obama.

[DOOMco]

I thought wall st making a bunch if money was bad?

[CZmacure]

It's bad, but less bad than when they deliberately wreck the economy to screw over workers.

[Shirley Knott]

Low interest rates and massive infusions of cash with the ink not yet dry. The stock market growth is almost entirely inflation and when that bubble pops...

[DOOMco]

We will move back into the housing market?

[Microaggressor]

It'll be all Trump's fault?

[PapayaSF]

Of course.

[Volren]

Honestly though what are the odds that the Fed's non-stop easing has inflated another stock bubble? Now that they are making noises about "accelerated" rate increases it seems they want the house of cards to come down on Trump's watch. Technocrats despise populists.

[OneOut]

I also subscribe to this idea.

If they know thst sooner or later the bubble has to pop who better than a political outsider to pop it in.

"Now see little people ? That's what you get for electing someone out of the inner circle ".

[California socialist]

It's 5 days in and already the Trumpkins are trying to take credit for the peace and prosperity of the Obama years.

[kbolino]

Back in reality, the DJIA continues to be a ridiculously overrated metric with poor predictive power that is only tenuously connected to the economy at large.

[Obviously]

The kids call that "pulling an obama"

[Playa Manhattan.]

"UFO hunters are searching Antarctica, on Google Earth, for evidence of alien ships."

*link to some crazy bullshit*

No, I'm not talking about the New York Times.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Alienshit, I think. Greenshit. Enviroshit! The circle jerk is complete.

[kbolino]

In terms of the quality of modern geographic imagery, the poles may as well be labeled "HIC SVNT DRACONES". You'll be lucky if the image resolution gives you one pixel per 10 meters, which is gonna make it kinda hard to find UFOs.

[John Titor]

This isn't new, the 'Operation Highjump was a secret U.S. military program to find Nazi bases in Antarctica where they found UFOs/aliens' conspiracy theory has been around since at least the 90s.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Well, can you think of a good reason why a bunch of people aren't living in Antartica?

[John Titor]

It's The Thing's turf?

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

You need to velcro yourself down or else you fall into space?

[CE]

It's cold and there's no liquid water and you can't breathe? No wait, that's Mars.

[mr simple]

You don't want to know the answer to that question or what we found. Tekeli-li!

[Conchfritters]

A previous article mentioned that the Nazis may have moved to Lawrence Kansas.

[Trigger Hippie]

Quantrell strikes again!

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Isn't this how Nazis At The Center Of The Earth started?

In case any of you are unaware of the awesomeness that is that movie, here's a little taste.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

It is known that aliens are camera shy. Antarctica is one of the few places cameras aren't everywhere.

[CE]

Obviously. If everyone had a cell phone camera in the 1970's, there wouldn't have been nearly as many alien sightings.

[Pat (PM)]

Scientists have discovered the secret to happiness - and it's stripping off and getting naked

Casting off clothes as well as cares may be the key to happiness and well-being, research suggests.

Scientists revealed the naked truth after investigating the psychological effects of nudism.

They found that people taking part in naturist activities felt better about themselves, their bodies and their lives overall.

The more time they spent naked, or partially disrobed, the happier they were.

Lead researcher Dr Keon West, from Goldsmiths, University of London , said: "The naturists have been saying this for some time.

"However, despite a lot of positive claims, little to no empirical research has investigated whether naturist activity (rather than attitude or beliefs) actually makes us happier or, just as importantly, why it makes us happier."

[flye]

little to no empirical research

Science!

[BigT]

I'll volunteer to study the interns acting as subjects for this.

[Tonio]

The naturists have been saying this for some time.

Plus, every toddler ever.

[waffles]

At least once a week in ski school there would be one kid who comes in from the snow and decides to take off all of their clothes. I found it perplexing and hilarious, at least when it wasn't a kid in my class.

[DOOMco]

Hypothermia. What is this, race school?!

[The Fusionist]

Guess what I'm wearing right now...trick question!

[flye]

Monocle?

[Rich]

Thin? Out your welcome? 😉

[The Fusionist]

You win this round, but I shall be back.

[Hamster of Doom]

Chanel No. 5

[But Enough About Me]

?go?ste!

(Is this enough English script for your stupid commenting system, Reason?)

[bacon-magic]

Rosary beads in your hand and anal beads in your can?

[Free Society]

A bloodied and tattered choir boy outfit?

[The Fusionist]

I really need to remember where I'm posting before inviting people to engage in a tastelessness contest.

[bacon-magic]

Fusionist,
I had a conspiracy theory yesterday that you were the one posting under the American Socialist spoof account. Was I right?

[The Fusionist]

No, I will give advance notice if I change my handle.

And I can't see calling myself a socialist even in jest.

But of course I *would* deny it, wouldn't I?

[bacon-magic]

Thanks for the answer. Most of the commenters on here said that you don't sock. *continues investigation

[The Fusionist]

Seriously, I find the stuff with two AmSocs very irritating, and I would not inflict either of those personas on y'all.

[The Fusionist]

personae

[Sumio Mondo, Jr.]

Goddamn YouTuber, it's CAPTAINS Kirk, not Captain Kirks!

[Pay up, Palin's Buttplug!]

Captain Pike!

[bacon-magic]

Yes sir, I believe you. The fake one just had a religious bent to it so I assumed...you know what happens when people assume, I assume?

[The Fusionist]

Make an ass out of u and me?

That's OK, I may have made an assumption once myself.

[But Enough About Me]

But of course I *would* deny it, wouldn't I?

As would we all, TF, as would we all . . .

[Mr Drew]

I thought that Crusty had owned up to that?

[bacon-magic]

A lead! *scribbles furiously and tips hat

[Trigger Hippie]

*psst*

Hihn is reall just Nicole fucking with us.

[Trigger Hippie]

*psst*

*y*

[Playa Manhattan.]

I'm naked posting right now.

[Brett L]

Just type with both hands, buddy.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Ew.... I was on the shitter. Business trip, not pleasure.

[bacon-magic]

Pics

[Libertarian]

So people who like to take their clothes off are happy that they take their clothes off. What a shocker. I imagine if you polled people in a bar and asked them if drinking made them happy, they'd say yes as well.

[jesse.in.mb]

Sooooo, can I book stays at clothing optional resorts with my HSA?

[Ted S.]

You may be happy going around naked, but the rest of us aren't happy with you going around naked! :-p

[Playa Manhattan.]

Says the guy with his tongue out.

[jesse.in.mb]

That's silly. I look great compared to a lot of people wandering around naked.

[Trigger Hippie]

So I take it you do not suffer from 'too much angle in your dangle'?

[Eternal Blue Sky]

they got the causation flipped. It's not a nudist lifestyle that leads to a more positive body image, it's people with a more positive body image are more likely to want to be nudists.

[Mad Scientist]

Fatties often think they look great.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hurtful.

[OneOut]

You've never been to a nudist colony.

[CE]

Has anyone checked for any alternative hypotheses suggested by the data?
Like maybe, time disrobed = time not at work? And time not at work is correlated to happiness?

[Mad Scientist]

I love to disrobe at work.

[BakedPenguin]

Originally posted on the NK thread: North Korean concentration camp. 4 star reviews.

[Playa Manhattan.]

"Amazing experience, couldn't get enough of the small pot of rice you got once a day, and the rock beds were so comfortable, they reminded me so much of home!! 15 hours of forced labour every day is an excellent workout routine!!"

[Col. Chestbridge]

Follow-up on His Holiness's link from yesterday, Dayton opts not to follow HRC's example:

Dayton reveals prostate cancer diagnosis, intends to finish term

Dayton disclosed his diagnosis at a news conference the morning after he collapsed during his State of the State speech, cutting the address short and rattling several hundred state legislators and others gathered in the House chamber.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Ugh, link.

[Ted S.]

Doesn't prostate cancer generally have a relatively positive prognosis?

[Col. Chestbridge]

Damnit, Ted, I'm a colonel, not a doctor!

[Jerryskids]

Yeah, but you've got "colon" right in your name, don't ya?

[Playa Manhattan.]

The treatment can me quite... graphic.

[Playa Manhattan.]

*be*

Google Transperineal Insertion if you'd like to know more.

[bacon-magic]

No.

[Groovus Maximus]

Apparently, you've never had a Transverse Urethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP)

Dr. ZG does these, by the by, and it **MUST** be caught early to avoid surgery and rely on anti-neoplastics and other modes of TX to avoid surgery. If you're defining "positive" as avoiding either surgery or chemo/radiation, well, let's just say that Movember is serious shit, and why I give Fist such a hard time. Dr. ZG hates dealing with prostate cancers, because by that time, if metastatic, you're in a world of hurt, literally and figuratively.

Otherwise, if a TURP is deemed necessary, well, it Depends (pun intended)

[Ted S.]

I meant positive in the sense that I was under the impression it had higher survival rates than a lot of other cancers.

[Groovus Maximus]

Nowadays, yes, survival rates have increased sharply in the last ten years or so, thanks to MIS, improved radiography, and the *MOST* important, early detection and lab testing.

All of these to avoid surgery and improve survival rates, which I figured you would grok without me explicitly stating it, Zheodor: By the time you need surgery, you have seriously compromised your survival odds as opposed to early detection and minimal TX.

[Obviously]

I think it's kind of funny that you thought anyone wanted to hear you pontificate, instead of just saying yes, most prostate cancer is relativey minor.

Which it is.

[Obviously]

And where the fuck is this surgery stupidity coming from?

Why is your go to move to try to horror-scare people with extremely low probablity scenarios?

Do you think anyone is impressed? Or doesn't see what you're doing?

Give it a rest.

[Obviously]

"Nowadays, yes, survival rates have increased sharply in the last ten years or so, thanks to MIS, improved radiography, and the *MOST* important, early detection and lab testing."

Also, that is false. Survival rates hav been extremely high for much, much longer than that. There hasn't been any sharp increase. None.

[Pope Jimbo]

My guess is that HRC's prostate is still pretty healthy (and much bigger than Gov. Mumbles).

I'd also guess that Gov. Mumbles was told by his press agent NOT to mention the prostate cancer. But he got confused and blabbed it all by accident.

It would be nice if the local press would ever try to get him to come clean on what medications he is on.

[Slammer]

A defector from North Korea says the country's elites are turning their backs on Kim Jong Un

Nothing another purge can't fix

[SIV]

I really hopoe this is just the start...

[GILMORE?]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pushed back on Trump's voter fraud claims

"its not fraud when they vote for me!"

[Jerryskids]

McCain better be careful with his sass or Trump will get on the twitters and call him a loser again.

[Pat (PM)]

Carjackers drop off boy found in back seat, tell him to 'Have a good day at school'

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A pair of carjackers in Chicago wished a boy a good day at school after stealing his parents' car and finding him in the back seat.

The boy, 10-year-old Richard Rodriguez, entered the car and put the key in the ignition and was waiting for his parents when a man and woman entered the car and drove off, according to WGN.

He said the pair didn't notice him until one of them turned around to find him sitting in the back seat.

"I went to open the car door for my mom and out of nowhere some girl came over and took me with her," Rodriguez told NBC Chicago. "I was scared but I didn't want the girl to see me. I was afraid I was going to get hurt."

Police said the theft occurred around 6 a.m. on Tuesday. The woman hastily fled the scene by speeding through the streets of Chicago.

"She was driving crazy," Rodriguez said. "Going at least 50 miles an hour."

The pair eventually dropped him off in an alley and wished him well before driving away in the stolen vehicle.

"They told me to get off, fast, fast from the car," he said. "When they saw I had a backpack they told me, 'Have a good day at school.'"

[Tonio]

How could they? I mean, he'd be better off with hardened criminals than in a Chicago public school. Might learn a useful, though not honest, trade.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Selling things at an agreed upon price is dishonest?

[bacon-magic]

"She told me that it was goodpussy! /overpayingJohn(not John)

[ant1sthenes]

Nice to see that some thieves still have a little human decency. I mean, a little.

[Drake]

There's a world of difference between car theft and kidnapping. In terms of punishment and how vigorously the cops investigate. Same thing happened a few weeks ago in NJ when a lady left her car running with little kids in the back. The thief bailed a few miles away when he realized there were kids in the car.

[Brett L]

Be polite, be professional, don't hurt kids. These people are going somewhere in life.

[Trigger Hippie]

Oh, those zany Gallaghers.

[GILMORE?]

a defector from North Korea says the country's elites

the ones who are allowed 2 rice ball rations. DAMN 1%ers!

[Playa Manhattan.]

I shared this with my inner circle yesterday, but here's Piers Morgan making sense for five whole minutes.

How can this be? Should I go buy lottery tickets? Rub one out?

[ant1sthenes]

What it means is that he is perfectly capable of being sensible, but chooses not to be for the sake of his career.

[DOOMco]

"He's an actor, so you can tell his excitement is genuine."

[bacon-magic]

^this

[Free Society]

When he was on this side of the pond I could have sworn he was an avowed socialist.

[Rufus The Monocled]

He's been making a whole damn lotta sense lately.

[Holger da Dane]

Maybe someone AmSocked him?

SugarFree can probably come up with a story..

[Suell]

From today's NYT:
WASHINGTON ? The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties, officials said.

Nikki Haley hardest hit?

[Volren]

Like not funding them?

Also she'll be fine, she's only there for resume padding. So long as the UN continues to exist through Trump's tenure she won't lose out on anything.

[BigT]

Maybe Obama hardest hit.

[Pat (PM)]

D.C. deli gets influx of wrong-number Trump compaints meant for the White House

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A Washington deli a few blocks from the White House said a simple typo led to a flood of calls from people seeking to complain about President Donald Trump.

Bub and Pop's deli, about seven blocks from the White House, said the calls started coming in Monday after a Twitter user posted an incorrect number for the White House comment line.

The owners said the mistake was an easy one, as the numbers are only one digit apart -- the White House line is 202-456-1111, while the deli's is 202-457-1111.

The eatery said it has received about 100 calls complaining about the new president since the typo was tweeted. Employees said some callers continue to rant about Trump even after being told they have the wrong number.

[Stormy Dragon]

Employees said some callers continue to rant about Trump even after being told they have the wrong number.

And some employees apparently continue to listen to them rant even after being told that its not a customer.

[Volren]

Unhinged people can be entertaining, especially when you're not in physical proximity to them.

[flye]

Whereas I inadvertently called the White House to complain about the ham, and no one told me I had the wrong number.

[Stormy Dragon]

House Republicans create bill that would require private employers to start paying income tax on health insurance that includes abortion coverage.

[RAHeinlein]

Cadillac tax?

[Groovus Maximus]

Tax == Penalty == Fee

[SimonD]

President Trump, who reportedly still uses an unsecured Android device, said on Twitter he wanted a "major investigation" into voter fraud, including being registered in two states,

I think it's pretty well established that the voter rolls in the country are a mess. I'm sure there are millions of registrations that aren't current, through people moving or dying and just never being removed from the lists.

However, there is a big difference between inactive registrations and illegal voters. I would actually like to see how much of an issue it really is. The media could be playing into President Trump's hands (again) with their typical hyperbolic freakout.

[The Fusionist]

Any day now the Democratic National Committee will issue a press release demanding a full investigation of our voting system, because of course such an investigation will show that the only problems in the system are caused by Republicans.

In fact, I'm surprised the Democrats haven't asked for such an investigation already.

/sarc

[Fatty Bolger]

I still get absentee ballots in the mail from my old state, more than a decade after leaving.

[one true athena]

I got two absentee ballots from California this past year to my new address though I only registered once. So when people try to sell me on the idea that California is the land of the Super Accurate Voting System, I have some doubts.

[Jerryskids]

If Trump was serious about voter fraud he'd be asking for a tremendous investigation, maybe even a yuge investigation, rather than some lame-ass "major" investigation.

[BigT]

No 1040, no ballot. Problem solved.

[OneOut]

WOW.

I get a 1099.

Do I still get to vote ?

[A Thinking Mind]

It's actually not surprising that many registrations are inaccurate.

Voter rolls are handled by the state offices. If you move within a state, your registration will be transferred from your previous precinct into your new one. But if you move out of the state, they don't cross reference with other states to see if your name exists elsewhere. That's because it's a list with literally millions of names on it and keeping track of the motions of everyone is more than they want, or should want, to do.

In addition, they're pretty loathe to purge names from the voting rosters in general because you'd hate to find that voter who is mad they're no longer active because they haven't voted in six years and ignored/lost/threw out the reminder that the voter registration office sent them. And I've worked polls before, and it's a pain to get paid minimum wage for at most a couple weeks' work to deal with people like this using all the best training you can get in an afternoon.

In fact, you're typically more likely to get accused of shenanigans when you have an actual live complainant. If you purge someone from the rosters who hasn't voted in a decade and then that person shows up on election day to learn he/she can't vote, they will kick up a ton of fuss about their vote being suppressed. So it takes serious documentation to purge a voter roster, usually, like a signed death certificate.

[But Enough About Me]

. . . it takes serious documentation to purge a voter roster, usually, like a signed death certificate.

Preferably one signed by the actual voter in question, naturally. Just to be sure. 😉

[PurityDiluting]

"their typical hyperbolic freakout."
prog tears are delicious, but the media's knee-jerk jump to the panic button has gotten old

[GILMORE?]

Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan, yielding a threat posture increase by NORAD.

I love how news media love to describe these sorts of things as super-scary, without noting that US nuclear subs and aircraft carriers and surveillance aircraft and long range bombers pretty much cruise on the periphery of everyone else's sovereign territory every single day. Because we're the good guys.

[GILMORE?]

I mean, this summer's Russian Aircraft Carrier-panic was probably one of the dumbest things ever.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I built that out of Lincoln Logs.

[John Titor]

Is this before or after it breaks down and has to be pulled by tugboats?

[Private Chipperbot]

I'm picturing an admiral with a bullhorn calling out to the tugs to turn into the wind...

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

FTA: "Onlookers at Dover said no words could describe the sight of the flotilla of ships"

[Tonio]

Passersby were surprised...

[Pat (PM)]

University of Washington instructors push for 'calling BS' class

Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A pair of University of Washington faculty members are proposing a course dedicated to a specific aspect of critical thinking -- "calling BS."

Dr. Jevin West, who works in the school's data lab, said he and colleague Carl Bergstrom developed a curriculum for a "Calling Bull[expletive]" course that could be ready to accept enrollment during the spring semester if it is approved.

"It's something you can use in any circumstance," West told KOMO-TV. "You tend to find a lot of BS, I don't know if we can call it the other version on camera, so we'll just call it 'bad science.'"

He said the course, which already has a full syllabus published online, would focus on how data can be manipulated.

"The ability to identify BS, sift through the BS, to be able to respond to BS," West said.

He said the course would also deal with the proper way to call out "BS" when students recognize it.

"Being careful not to attack people's character," West said.

[ant1sthenes]

BS? Like, bulshytt?

[Hamster of Doom]

"Be A Better GoodThinker In Six Easy Lessons"

[Libertarian]

How would this differ from a Critical Thinking class? I call bullshit.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

Fuck!! Some of the made-up useless classes from the show Community seem more useful to me. Ladders 101 and VCR Repair are MILES more useful than actual college courses these days.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Also known as Introductory Logic.

On that note, I recommend The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Maybe a good name for this course would be "How to waste more of your student loans"?

[PurityDiluting]

There's certainly plenty of b.s. at u dub

[Tonio]

The left is truly going to exhaust themselves in the first one hundred days of this administration. They are going to then suffer massive burnout, depression and apathy. But they will still have the energy to whine bitterly and constantly.

I also get the impression that they are trying to force people to join them or label them as the enemy. They think they will win, but this will backfire. That same plurality that didn't want anything to do with their candidate or platform wants even less to do with them now that they are labelling people as facists for no good reason.

[bacon-magic]

I'm really starting to believe my whole Trump is PT Barnum. He is playing the SJW's/Progressives/Media like a fiddle.

[bacon-magic]

whole needs to be changed to *theory that

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Nobody wants to know about your whole.

[bacon-magic]

That's not what your mom said. #bringhomedabacon

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

Now I know why Ringling Bros. went out of business.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

In other news on the Senatorial Dick from AZ, I received the following from Rand Paul's office about Mick Mulvaney hearing:

The attacks from the Democrats were predictable. Unfortunately, they also came from the GOP side from one member of the Perpetual War Caucus, whom I won't name (but he represents Arizona.)

He senselessly berated Mick Mulvaney for daring to try to reform the Pentagon, lower our debt and make us a stronger country. He was irate that someone would dare to not be a blank check for his adventures in nation building and policing.

I had enough, and I had a few words to say back at the hearing, including those of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mullen, who said the greatest threat to our national security is our debt.

You and I understand that. Mick Mulvaney understands that. Unfortunately, one angry US Senator doesn't and chose to attack.

It is a fact, Mick Mulvaney believes the primary function of the federal government is national defense, and as Congressman from a very pro military state, South Carolina, Mick always supported our troops and Vets.

But he also knows that most great countries have collapsed from within and that we must be strong militarily AND fiscally, or we won't be strong at all.

[Conchfritters]

What a schmutz head (Richard from AZ). I'm afraid that he is fossilizing, and may be there for a few hundred years.

[Tonio]

McCain (AZ, Get Off My Lawn), is the new Senator Robert Byrd (WV, Onion on Belt).

[BigT]

Historian Paul Kennedy agrees.

[GILMORE?]

"Ok, Now You Do Me"

[Ted S.]

Now you do me

[Jerryskids]

More evidence for my theory that Florida Man is a snowbird from Ohio.

[rts]

Two Russian nuclear bombers flew around Japan

Red Dawn with katanas. I'd watch that.

[John Titor]

It'd probably be an anime. With Japanese schoolgirls. With impossible tits.

(I googled "High School of the Dead dumbest scene" to find that. Good job Google.)

[Pat (PM)]

Sex is painful for nearly one in 10 women, study finds

Nearly one in 10 British women finds sex painful, according to a big study.

The survey of nearly 7,000 sexually active women aged 16 to 74, in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, suggests this medical problem - called dyspareunia - is common and affects women of all ages.

Women in their late 50s and early 60s are most likely to be affected, followed by women aged 16-24.

Doctors say there are treatments that can help if women seek advice.

But many still find the subject embarrassing and taboo, the survey results show.

Painful sex was strongly linked to other sexual problems, including vaginal dryness, feeling anxious during sex, and lack of enjoyment of sex.

However, there can be lots of different physical, psychological and emotional factors causing painful sex, which can be complex to treat.

Some women said they avoided intercourse because they were so afraid of the pain.

The pain for British men is waking up sober the next morning.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

BRITISH STEVE SMITH IS SLACKING.

[Free Society]

Further proof that penis-in-vagina sex is always rape, ok?

[Eternal Blue Sky]

"Nearly one in 10 British women"

Could the problem be they're mating with British men??

[Playa Manhattan.]

*opens The Big Book of British Smiles*

[Pope Jimbo]

I like to think that that number is significantly higher for those poor gals who try to handle the Papal Bull.

[Playa Manhattan.]

74? I just can't even.

[Hyperion]

"A defector from North Korea says the country's elites are turning their backs on Kim Jong Un."

"UFO hunters are searching Antarctica, on Google Earth, for evidence of alien ships."

For some reason, I can't help but to think that those two stories are somehow related.

[Pat (PM)]

Sex is painful for nearly one in 10 women, study finds

Nearly one in 10 British women finds sex painful, according to a big study.

The survey of nearly 7,000 sexually active women aged 16 to 74, in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, suggests this medical problem - called dyspareunia - is common and affects women of all ages.

Women in their late 50s and early 60s are most likely to be affected, followed by women aged 16-24.

Doctors say there are treatments that can help if women seek advice.

But many still find the subject embarrassing and taboo, the survey results show.

Painful sex was strongly linked to other sexual problems, including vaginal dryness, feeling anxious during sex, and lack of enjoyment of sex.

However, there can be lots of different physical, psychological and emotional factors causing painful sex, which can be complex to treat.

Some women said they avoided intercourse because they were so afraid of the pain.

The pain for British men is waking up sober the next morning.

[Mr Lizard]

STEVE SMITH NOT REALIZE HAVE BIG STATS

[John Titor]

Now are we factoring out 'recent arrivals' with FGM? Because that might explain a few things...

[Fist of Etiquette]

UFO hunters are searching Antarctica, on Google Earth, for evidence of alien ships.

They should probably also rent The X Files: Fight the Future.

[GILMORE?]

Parks Service Joins Libertarians and Old Ladies As Vanguard of Trump Resistance

[Free Society]

So they're pointing out that Democrats held Japanese people in concentration camps in WWII. This is resistance against Trump...how? These people are so out of touch with reality that their going to spend the next four years tilting at windmills. I only worry about the people these delusional fucks mistake for windmills.

[Fatty Bolger]

The National Park Service employees' Twitter campaign against President Donald Trump spread to other parks on Wednesday, with tweets on climate change and a reminder that Japanese Americans were forcibly interned in camps and parks during World War II.

What President did that again? Ooops, never mind.

[Stormy Dragon]

President Trump, who reportedly still uses an unsecured Android device

I'm shocked to discover that Republicans completely stopped caring about the unlawful use of private systems for official business on November 9th.

[Pat (PM)]

I'm shocked to discover you don't know the difference between a client and a server.

[Stormy Dragon]

Ah, the traditional moving of the goalposts to mark the new year.

[Pat (PM)]

Haha, ya got me! MAGA!

No, seriously though, here's how the client-server model works. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt on hopelessly stupid vs disingenuous only because experience tells me that either is equally likely.

[Stormy Dragon]

Yes, I'm sure Trump is totally hooking his personal phone up to a government e-mail server (even though that's not allowed) and not just sending it from his existing e-mail account through whatever private system that was attached to before the inauguration.

Because if there's one thing Trump is known for, it's his conscientiousness.

[CZmacure]

So you're calling for "us" to get pre-emptively upset?

I agree that it's possible this story is equivalent to Clinton's use of a personal phone. Call me when he's been President for longer than about three days, and that has shown to be the case? I promise you, I will be outraged then.

[Stormy Dragon]

No, I'm asking for Republicans in congress to look into it, but realizing they won't because they didn't actually care about Clinton doing it beyond it's tactical usefulness during the campaign. Same reason Clapper, Petraus, Armitage, etc. got away with it too.

[CZmacure]

You won't find me disagreeing that the Congresspeople of Team Red are also insincere.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Yes, and if you have evidence of this, you should publish it so that he can be investigated by the FBI and later let off.

[Pat (PM)]

Forgive me if your hunches about Trump's use of technology aren't quite enough to draw an equivalence to the Clinton bathroom server. If it turns out all his email traffic is coming from a third floor suite in Trump tower and the Republicans don't say anything about it then I'll be right there at the barricades with you.

[kbolino]

Yes, I'm sure Trump is totally hooking his personal phone up to a government e-mail server (even though that's not allowed)

It is when you're the President or Vice President. Again, we're talking about official business here, not classified information.

not just sending it from his existing e-mail account through whatever private system that was attached to before the inauguration

... which he is allowed to do, provided that he either CCs an official email account or forwards the email to an official account within 20 days.

Here is the law on Presidential records.

[OneOut]

"Stormy Dragon|1.25.17 @ 5:04PM|#

Yes, I'm sure Trump is totally hooking his personal phone up to a government e-mail server (even though that's not allowed) and not just sending it from his existing e-mail account through whatever private system that was attached to before the inauguration."

http://govnews.us/id/17147464382

Fuck off douchebag.

Either get current or get quiet.

[Stormy Dragon]

Yeah, that phone was mentioned in the article Krayewski linked to. The problem is Trump's not actually the new secure phone and went right back to his old one.

Why don't you try reading the fucking article before you start flapping your pie hole about it next time?

[Hyperion]

I don't think you know what moving the goalposts means.

[kbolino]

The law says that records must be kept. The server keeps the records, not the client.

However, if the client has been compromised, or if it's being used to access classified information, then the situation is different and different laws apply.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm shocked you didn't realize "private systems" was could refer to either.

[Pat (PM)]

It could. It just doesn't in the context of the comparison taking place. Owning and operating a "private system" that acts as an internet client isn't really comparable to owning and operating a "private system" that transacts official executive department emails and privileged information that is supposed to be transacted on government servers exclusively as a matter of law.

[jesse.in.mb]

Depending on whether he's using a private client to perform state business it'd need to be allowed access to secured servers. Allowing a more easily compromised client access to an otherwise secure server is a pretty big chink in the wall.

Even if he isn't, carrying around a more easily compromised device could mean malicious access to device sensors like GPS, mic, camera, which could also be a security issue without access to a secured server. I seem to recall Obama joking about his secured phone not even having a camera on it.

This has all come up previously. And I assume that he'll get a nerfed/security enhanced Android for personal use in the near future.

[Pat (PM)]

All true enough as far as it goes. But the risk from an unsecured client accessing a secured server (which we're not even sure is happening here) is still substantially less than operating an unsecured server. If the worst thing Clinton did was use the Gmail app to access a secured state department email server then I'd say the comparison was fair, but it was substantially more than that.

[jesse.in.mb]

Agreed. I do think the Republicans are unnecessarily harming themselves by not being militant about Trump and device security since they spent so much time churning up the issue in this election. Especially with all the weird nonsense about Clinton using the server because she didn't want to carry both a secured phone and her iPhone.

[OneOut]

http://govnews.us/id/17147464382

[Not a True MJG]

If I've learned anything from TV, it's that all it takes is Jim Caviezel getting within a dozen meters from the cell phone, and it will turn into a microphone and GPS tracker.

[Playa Manhattan.]

He's so handsome.

[BigT]

I am not shocked to hear that this idjut doesn't understand the diff between personal and official.

[kbolino]

I'm don't think tweeting insults counts as official business, even under President Twitter.

[Tonio]

^This.

But if he is using it for anything official that does raise concerns.

[kbolino]

But if he is using it for anything official that does raise concerns.

Maybe. A clearer case would exist if he is using a personal email account to conduct official business, and the government doesn't have access to that account.

[kbolino]

Here, "the government" = NARA if I'm not mistaken.

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

I thought it was well established that NSA had access to all communications.

[PurityDiluting]

Not just NSA. Obama signed executive order in the waning days to have NSA share their spoils with the other 17(?) security departments.

[Lurk Diggler]

Apparently not communications over a server in a bathroom.

[Hyperion]

"President Trump, who reportedly still uses an unsecured Android device"

Well, is he using it to Tweet with or to run the State's email server? That just might be an important factor.

[lap83]

Sadly I don't think that is the important factor so much as the letters after his name

[Playa Manhattan.]

Quiet, you.

[Fatty Bolger]

Tweets are classified info now? Who knew.

[Rich]

Anybody having squirrel trouble?

[Hamster of Doom]

It's friggin' insane.

[Mr Lizard]

Still yes?...

[Slammer]

yep

[Hyperion]

Yep.

[Tonio]

If they were they probably wouldn't be able to post about it. Slow comments plus multiple posts of the same comment is your clue.

[waffles]

DEATH TO SQUIRRELZ

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

DETH2U2FUWAFLZ

[Zero Sum Game]

Fist of Etiquette went into the deep desert, pursued by first-posting patrols. There he harnessed the power of the desert squirrels and returned to wrest the power back from the bastard commentariat thieves who have deprived him of it for several days.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Riding the squirrels is fun until you want to get off.

[Drake]

Yes - little bastards are out tonight.

[DOOMco]

Lots. I think ill have 3 comments appear up there in an hour.

[Slammer]

What always drives me crazy is Reason always harping on the idea that the advance of technology will drive liberty, but the website constantly sucks

[John Titor]

It kind of reminds me of an old copy of a Soviet engineering book I have praising the USSR for its innovation and technological achievement. In 1960. When Lysenkoism was still a thing.

[The Fusionist]

I tried to answer "yes" but the squirrels ate my answer.

[Tonio]

*Narrows gaze at Eddie*

[The Fusionist]

It's true, I was illustrating the Catch 22 of answering the question.

[Mr Lizard]

Try preview then post...kill sqlrs with this one wierd trick

ps your mother hates it.

[Rich]

*Sometimes* that works. Things seem OK now anyway.

[Aloysious]

I did not know Lizards were vexed by squirrelz. Can't your superior technology eradicate the fuzzy menace?

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

LZZRD.

[Ted S.]

Yes. I had to refresh to post one of my comments.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Just got the house tented last week. They're all dead, and now I have an ant problem.

[Fatty Bolger]

Yep. But no worries, they're hiring a PHP guru who knows MySQL to make it all better.

[Zero Sum Game]

This is how to defeat the squirrels once and for all.

[bacon-magic]

Yessssssss.

[GILMORE?]

The Apotheosis of the "Non-Protest"

Arty-Farty Decides NOT To Erect Mammoth Art Display On Public Land ...Because Trump

I actually liked the quote... but then the substance of what he was saying sunk in and it really just seems like an epic-retarded rationalization

DENVER (AP) ? The artist Christo said Wednesday he has abandoned his plan to drape translucent fabric above portions of Colorado's scenic Arkansas River, a proposal that generated fierce opposition and a long court battle.

"I no longer wish to wait on the outcome," the 81-year-old artist wrote in a website for the project, called Over the River. He cited 20 years of planning and five years of legal fights.

In a story published in the New York Times Wednesday, he said his decision was a protest against President Donald Trump.

The project would occupy federal land, and Christo told the newspaper he did not want to deal with the Trump administration.

"I use my own money and my own work and my own plans because I like to be totally free," he said. "And here now, the federal government is our landlord. They own the land. I can't do a project that benefits this landlord."

I'm sure they're real broken up about it too, Christo my boy

[DOOMco]

So he's against property tax now?

[BakedPenguin]

So much derp.

"I no longer wish to wait on the outcome," ...He cited 20 years of planning and five years of legal fights.

Yeah, but Trump's the reason. Sure.

The project would occupy federal land, and Christo told the newspaper he did not want to deal with the Trump administration.

"I use my own money and my own work and my own plans because I like to be totally free," he said. "And here now, the federal government is our landlord. They own the land. I can't do a project that benefits this landlord."

Over the River called for eight sections of fabric panels to be suspended in intervals along 42 miles of the river between Canon City and Salida. It would have taken two years to install and was to be on display two weeks
...

Christo said he would focus on another project in the United Arab Emirates called the Mastaba.

Because their government is so much better than Trump for Christo? Jesus.

[Libertarian]

"TRUMP SINGLE-HANDEDLY STOPS MAMMOTH ERECTION"

[Eternal Blue Sky]

And you, sir, win the internet for today.

[Fatty Bolger]

That's... that's beautiful.

[PapayaSF]

Christo needs a new schtick.

[GILMORE?]

he's 81. i wouldn't hold your breath.

[DOOMco]

Rand paul introduced his Healthcare bill.

[Zero Sum Game]

Nice!

Sorry to hear that your city stuck its neck on the "sanctuary city" chopping block, btw.

[DOOMco]

Eh, we were already doing all the sanctuary things.
Maybe we can trim some fat when the budget shrin-hahahahahaha

[Zero Sum Game]

That's what I mean. There's the ideological issue, but also the practical issue which are separable.

For example, Ron Paul putting pork for his district to get some of his constituents' tax money back for them, and then voting against the bill in futility.

It's one thing for Boulder to whisper "we want to make an underground railroad stopping point here for illegals" and to proudly put out its chin for the Trump administration to punch.

I'm all for open borders, as long as we roll back the welfare state first. Boulder's exactly the kind of pinko city that wants to roll out the red carpet for them and turn your tax dollars over to them in entitlements. It's a bit of a moot point; Boulder hates building new homes and is already too expensive for illegal immigrants to live in anyway.

And, as a wise man here on Reason once named himself: "Fuck you, cut spending."

[DOOMco]

I doubt we can keep it up long. That's the only bright side.

[Pat (PM)]

That webdev should be paid the entirety of Reason Foundation's endowment.

[Pat (PM)]

Defining a true 'pre-industrial' climate period

Scientists are seeking to define a new baseline from which to measure global temperatures - a time when fossil-fuel burning had yet to change the climate.

At the moment, researchers tend to use the period 1850-1900, and this will often be described as "pre-industrial".

But the reality is that this date range came after industry really got going.

And the influence of humans on the climate was already in play, judging from the ice cores that retain a record of carbon dioxide emissions.

These show a perceptible uptick by 1850-1900; likewise for other greenhouse gases such as methane.

It is these inconsistencies that prompted Ed Hawkins from Reading University and colleagues to look for a more appropriate historical reference period.

I wonder how cold it is if we take the Big Bang as our starting point.

[tarran]

So, basically, their climactic Eden is the depths of what was known as the "Little Ice Age".

Worthless fucking savages.

[John Titor]

I assume they'll just go back to before the Fertile Crescent went into decline, and blame climate change on Islamophobia.

[Gadfly]

And considering we are technically still in an ice age (in an interglacial period thereof), any average temperature taken during human history will be colder than the average of earth history. Humanity grew up in the cold and is now freaking out over a little heat, but the earth itself may just be returning to normal. In any event, climate operates on such long time scales that we won't truly know what's happening until it's over.

[Holger da Dane]

"My sons are happy because they are now feeling true freedom in South Korea," he said. "When they got out of the embassy I told them that I am now cutting off the chain of slavery and you are now free men."

Citation needed.

[Conchfritters]

I miss Art Bell, the kingdom of Nye, the wildcard line, all of it. The mid 90s was a great time to be a pizza delivery driver working the overnight shift.

[PapayaSF]

George Noory is just not the same, huh?

[John Titor]

YEAH PROTOMEN MUSIC VIDEO, LIGHT UP THE NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS!

Someone give these people the money to make their Orwellian Objectivist Megaman 80s rock opera already.

[GILMORE?]

I don't get it. A shoddy Mr Roboto remake? 80s revivalism was so 2010

[John Titor]

A shoddy Mr Roboto remake?

That's cold man.

80s revivalism was so 2010

80s revivalism will never die, so long as the synthesizer continues to exist.

[GILMORE?]

I was in a 80s "live karaoke" band for a few years. it was more a favor for my buddy, because i mostly loathed it. It was called Sexy American Girlfriend.

I would be happy if i never heard another DX7 ever again

[Suell]

Here in SF the voters just passed a proposition that allows non citizens to vote for school board members only. They just have to ask for the illegal immigrant ballot when they arrive at the polls.

[Tonio]

Wedge strategy. We are fucked.

[Rich]

Or, just ask for the legal immigrant ballot and vote for everything.

[flye]

Of all the things we let illegal immigrants do, wasting their time voting is probably the least of our worries.

[The Last American Hero]

So I assume Trump's plan is to wait one year, then obtain copies of the list of who obtained such ballots, and the roundups begin?

[PapayaSF]

Just crosscheck the DMV records of licenses for illegals with the voter rolls. They'll probably find that at least hundreds of thousands voted.

[Rich]

The poker-playing AI is getting smarter and the humans are getting tired

With a little over 80,000 hands played, out of 120,000 total, the humans are down by roughly $750,000, a massive amount that will be all but impossible to come back from.

$750,000 in bitcoin?

[The Late P Brooks]

Christo told the newspaper he did not want to deal with the Trump administration.

Finally, someone has struck a blow against Trump.

[GILMORE?]

A Character Study

profile of a wannabe low-life american jihadi-lover who seems to have actually leveraged his shitty behavior into a career with the FBI and Think-Tanks.

unfortunately, got busted smoking crack with a whore. so much for his deep insight into the islamic mind.

[Playa Manhattan.]

I think he's in The Book of British Smiles too.

[PapayaSF]

He is charged with possession with manufacturing a controlled substance and residing in a bawdy place.

LOL

[MythicalLibertarianWoman]

Today in publishing: Freedom of association is cool as long as it only works in one direction.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Who? I've never heard of that ... woman.

[MythicalLibertarianWoman]

Consider yourself lucky

[John Titor]

"How to be heard."

Seems rather counterproductive.

[Playa Manhattan.]

Screeching? Yeah, they'll "hear" you.

[The Late P Brooks]

Scientists are seeking to define a new baseline from which to measure global temperatures - a time when fossil-fuel burning had yet to change the climate.

Make the monster bigger and scarier. See if it helps.

[flye]

A time when they had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.

[lap83]

Ohh, the pre-Trump years

[BigT]

Green alligators and long-necked geese?

[PurityDiluting]

a humpy-back camel and some chimpanzee

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

a time when fossil-fuel burning had yet

I believe that was called The Dark Ages.

[Lurk Diggler]

The fact that they don't know what the fuck the global temperature was much longer than 30 years will not slow them down. Next they will declare global warming twice as bad as before by measuring the shriveled dick of Cro-magnon man.

[DJF]

"""""Two Russian nuclear bombers""

Nuclear capable bombers

Just like the nuclear capable B2 bombers that just bombed Libya

[Rasilio]

Looks like Sessions is already hard at work

On FetLife, members pay to access premium features on the website. Alongside ad sales, the website is dependent on the revenue from these credit card payments to stay operational?revenue that is processed using a merchant account. Baku said that FetLife received a notification that one of their merchant accounts was being shut down.

[jesse.in.mb]

I have friends who will be crushed (possibly literally, under a work boot or stiletto heel) on hearing this.

[BakedPenguin]

The BDSM scene is premised on consensual non-consent; it's one of their core beliefs, just like how modern-day Republicanism is based on a rabid hatred of female bodily autonomy. Strip either out, and there's not a whole lot left.

She obviously needs a spanking.

[John Titor]

I will solemnly volunteer for this duty.

[DEG]

Could thrown in a brain cell or two for her while you're spanking her?

[AlmightyJB]

I think it was only a couple weeks ago I was talking about how doable MTM was back in the day.

[Playa Manhattan.]

And now, even more so?

[BigT]

Crusty still would

[The Fusionist]

Who?

[Groovus Maximus]

Just in case

[CE]

If only McCain had pushed back on TARP, instead of throwing in the campaign towel and heading back to DC to make sure he helped it pass. He might have spared us 8 years of Obama.

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

How would we have known the difference?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

McCain would have possibly been worse than BO... and Hillary would now be POTUS.

[BigT]

150 million dead ..Hildog likely as well

[The Late P Brooks]

one of their core beliefs, just like how modern-day Republicanism is based on a rabid hatred of female bodily autonomy.

Ooh, tell me more.

[Mr Drew]

Foodie Question:

I have a small consumer quality deep fryer. Like a reasonable human I load it up with animal fat to fry anything. My question for you food nerds is, what do I do with the fat afterwards?

Throw it out? That's gonna get expensive
Refrigerate it?
Let it sit? I mean it came as a solid in the can but then after use it starts to smell weird, not rancid, but not pleasant.

I'd appreciate your advice.

[Mad Scientist]

Homer Simpson: Okay, boy. This is where all the hard work, sacrifice, and painful scaldings pay off.
Employee: Four pounds of grease... that comes to... sixty-three cents.
Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo!
Bart Simpson: Dad, all that bacon cost twenty-seven dollars.
Homer Simpson: Yeah, but your mom paid for that!
Bart Simpson: But doesn't she get her money from you?
Homer Simpson: And I get my money from grease! What's the problem?

[flye]

Strain it through cheesecloth while liquid back into a container and refrigerate. Reuse until it smells bad then throw out. You get fewer uses than other oils, but w/e. Might get 3 or 4.

[Fatty Bolger]

I've also used a reusable coffee filter to strain oil, works pretty well.

[GILMORE?]

It rubs the grease on its skin or else it gets the hose again

[BakedPenguin]

You could always make bio-diesel.

[jesse.in.mb]

I generally strain/filter it, refrigerate it and use it again a few times. It'll depend on the oil and if you get it hot enough that it starts burning. You could also try this technique for cleaning your oil before storing it for reuse.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

If you're using it for lubricant, you probably shouldn't reuse it for cooking.

Just sayin'

[BigT]

Extra nutrients!!

[Quincy.]

Make friends with a home-brew bio-diesel enthusiast.

[jesse.in.mb]

[Insert personal ad hoc personal lubricant joke here]

[Mad Scientist]

He said he had a can, not a drum.

[Quincy.]

Hah! Never owned a diesel car.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Drink the Fat!

[Playa Manhattan.]

Oil doesn't spoil. It goes rancid, either through oxidation or UV exposure. Either way, it's not a health risk.

Strain it after you use it, and continue using it until it starts tasting/smelling rancid. It's what every restaurant in America does.

Every time you bring the oil to cooking temperature, it's sterilized. It's safe, unlike the sandwich you found under your couch from Thanksgiving.

[Mr Drew]

Ok, for clarification...hmmm...i mean the understanding kind...are you and jesse referring to melted fat as oil? Cuz I'm using frikken lard here.

Jesse's link above refers to "pouring off the oil" after the mixture has been refrigerated overnight. Thus I am confused. It will be a solid again at room temperature.

[Mr Drew]

Oh and for the record, Mr Smart Playa, I didn't even find that sandwich. The dog did and and she's too smart to have eaten half a sandwich that had gone bad. Border Collie ya see. Ha!

[GILMORE?]

Dave Weigel, Doing What He Does Best

[Tony]

Any buyer's remorse among the 80% of reasonoids who support this putrescent grapefruit yet? I mean, he's basically Hitler already and it's day 5.

If not, can I have the word "libertarian," or do you plan to simply set it on fire and throw it into a canyon?

[The Fusionist]

"he's basically Hitler"

You know who else was basically Hitler?

[Tony]

Godwin's corollary has been rescinded along with political correctness and basic decency.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Hitler's clone?

[Mad Scientist]

Doctor Algernop Krieger?

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Charlie Chaplin?

[lap83]

Tony?

[Rasilio]

I don't know that there were ANY reasonoids who supported him.

Quite a few who if forced to would have picked Trump over Hitlery and for those of us in that camp, yeah he's been pretty much exactly what we expected to this point, almost comically inept and rapidly headed towards either being removed from office for mental incompetence or corruption but still better than an actively evil and somewhat competent Hillary.

[Tony]

By actively evil you mean supports boring progressive technocratic governance.

Anyone who couldn't hold their nose to prevent this ridiculous cretin from having his finger on the button (when it's not on unwilling women's vaginas) is a fucking moron ipso facto.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

I get so much joy out of the fact that Trump grabbed your pussy so hard he wadded your panties.

[Tony]

Actually I find a slight amount of relief knowing how simple it is now to separate the men from the fucking retards.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

I've never seen you so upset. Do you need a binky and a coloring pad? How about a giant vulva costume and a poorly knit hat?

[Tony]

Save the binky for the grapefruit in chief. Has someone coaxed him out of the corner or is he still crying about losing the popular vote?

[kbolino]

is he still crying about losing the popular vote?

2017 is shaping up to a fine vintage for projection

[BigT]

More tears Tony, my 3rd 55-gal drum needs topping up.

[PurityDiluting]

Correct the Record still cutting early termination checks?

[ant1sthenes]

By crying you mean baiting the media into discussing voter fraud instead of hurriedly dismissing the subject by claiming there was no evidence (which is to be expected when there is no investigation).

[GILMORE?]

By actively evil you mean supports boring progressive technocratic governance.

its so cute to see him come close to digesting reality, then spitting it out. its like feeding a 2yr old applesauce.

[jesse.in.mb]

Hasn't SIV been starting each of his posts with MAGA? I can never tell if/when he's being ironic.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

I think SIV is the only unsympathetic Trumpkin I've seen here. A few others have admitted to voting Trump, but they were all less than enthusiastic about it.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

unapologetic* (unsympathetic probably works there, too)

[The Fusionist]

Shut up, you [rhymes with 'luck']

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

firetruck?

[EdWuncler]

Puck?

[Mr Drew]

Suck! ?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Does it float?

[jesse.in.mb]

I'd argue there were a few more who liked Trump, but then said they didn't, but maybe also wrote op-eds for a NY newspaper defending him.

You don't write op-eds defending candidates you don't really care about.

[grrizzly]

In his defense, acknowledging here that he wrote that op-ed would be equivalent to self-doxing.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Are you trying to say that Shreek is Weigel and he wrote an op-ed supporting Trump?

/sarc

[EdWuncler]

I was called a Trump supporter because I didn't vote for Hillary. And then after being berated about supporting her, then they try to convince why I ought to vote Democrat in 2020.

You can't make this shit up.

[Tony]

Look at Trump. Look at what the Republicans did. Get your head out of your ass and realize that, even if you don't like that they want to raise taxes on billionaires, at least Democrats are fucking not totally unbelievably batshit insane.

[Mad Scientist]

Tip your waitress, folks! Tony will be here all week!

[EdWuncler]

"....even if you don't like that they want to raise taxes on billionaires."

Hahahaha, and I live in Illinois where the Democrats have complete control. If you didn't know, Illinois is not in great shape.

[EdWuncler]

I haven't voted for a Republican since 2008, sooooooo nice try there little buddy.

[kbolino]

Look, just because $50,000 US is equivalent to billions of Zimbabwean dollars doesn't mean people call them billionaires. While you and most Democrats are no doubt innumerate, the "policy wonks" who actually write your party's shitty laws aren't. The taxes will always hit the middle of the income scale the hardest because that's where most of the income is. Multiplication is a bitch.

[EdWuncler]

Like fuck, I live in Illinois and Chicago. I'm sure as shit not a billionaire but yet whenever the Illinois Democrats at City Hall or in Springfield want to raise taxes, people like myself are hit the hardest.

[Mr Drew]

I didn't support him, but like many here, I'm starting to wish I had. Fur the lulz, ya see.

The trolling, misdirection and manipulation has been awe-inspiring. We are witnessing a master-class in negotiation.

[Sumio Mondo, Jr.]

he's basically Hitler

"I swear, you guys, it's totally a wolf this time!!"

[Tony]

He's trying to put 11 million people in camps. Hitlery enough for me to object, dunno about you!

[Fatty Bolger]

Yeah, but they'll be amazing, five star camps, with plush amenities, a links style golf course, and a fine dining experience better than any camps you've ever seen.

[kbolino]

He's trying to put 11 million people in camps

... he's not trying very hard.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

*holds vial up to Tony's tear duct*

I needed to top off my flask. Thankfully I haven't had to get into that 55g drum of salty ham tears quite yet.

[Groovus Maximus]

They can come live with you, Tony. Say, did you know that gal that killed her husband? Apparently, that was a big, big deal. Hope your equity didn't take a beating on that one....

[See Double You]

So he's basically FDR?

[GILMORE?]

buyer's remorse

lol

I've had a warm pleasant feeling ever since i learned he was tearing through the EPA like a scythe. today i learned he was basically cutting funding for all the bullshit UN agencies we underwrite. its like the christmas that never ends.

I missed the part where Hitler made government measurably smaller in his first days in office.

[EdWuncler]

I hope he reduces our role in the UN. That institution is more useless then my two cats. And those assholes just sleep, eat, and destroy my furniture.

My expectations for him are low, but it's still great to see him shaking up the current order.

[PurityDiluting]

Didn't Hitler build the autobahn?
Good thing we already have enough Lebensraum

[ant1sthenes]

Didn't buy, got lots of free entertainment. So, nope.

[Groovus Maximus]

Finally, someone has struck a blow against Trump.

Yeah, the post modernist nut job who wrapped an island into pretty pink vulva is on firm footing to shun President Troomp

Also, Christo is currently responsible for more violence against women than Troomp is (until the Droning begins again).

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That's a lot of material. Was that ecologically sourced through the standard green-washing methods?

[Playa Manhattan.]

But that was an equal opportunity umbrella. They didn't KNOW it was going to kill a woman. Until it did.

[The Late P Brooks]

he's basically Hitler already and it's day 5.

And you're basically in favor of freedom.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

President Trump, who reportedly still uses an unsecured Android device,

There's nothing wrong with that... or so I've been told.

[EdWuncler]

http://www.mediaite.com/online.....n-in-2018/

"With the Democratic Party in search of new leaders, many pundits have mentioned Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as a possible standard bearer for the party going forward. But some new polling suggests she may have difficulty hanging on to her seat in 2018."

Polls are bullshit but imagine if she did end up losing her seat. There would be mass suicides among her Progressive followers.

[kbolino]

I feel like they don't understand the meaning of the word "new".

[PurityDiluting]

Maybe Weld will run against her

[greasonable]

No one wanting to say that the Antarctic image is a puddle?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It's probably a natural land formation of frozen ground with water undercutting it. Those kinds of things aren't unheard of.