Obamacare Foe Tom Price To Be HHS Secretary, 9th Circuit Denies Trump Appeal, Police Mistook Donut Glaze for Meth: A.M. Links

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  Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price was confirmed Friday morning as Secretary of Health and Human Services. He's been one of Obamacare's biggest opponents in Congress.

• A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied the Trump administration's request to lift a temporary restraining order on enforcing Trump's "Muslim ban."
• Although he (and Vice President Pence) previously denied it, national security adviser Michael Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with a Russian ambassador in the month before Trump's inauguration, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
• The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Office of Government Ethics and White House Counsel's Office against Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway over her comments on Fox and Friends encouraging people to buy clothing from Ivanka Trump's line.
• The "Milo bill" was "designed to implement oversight of [college] administrators' handling of free speech issues," said Tennessee legislator Rep. Martin Daniel (R-Knoxville).
• In Locked In, Fordham University law professor John Pfaff challenges common wisdom about criminal justice reform, including the idea that private prisons are more of a problem than prison guard unions and politicians who see prisons as good for their local economies.
• An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."
• Trump discovers that being president is hard.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

I say we boycott Hit & Run until they fix commenting and stop being total cosmos. WHO'S WITH ME?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Trumpty dumpty sat on a wall....

[SQRLSY One]

Trumpty dumpty sat on a wall
Trumpty dumpty won't stay in the toilet stall
He just goes ahead and takes His shits
Totally regardless of where-ever He sits
Then He Twitters upon the walls
Sits there and scratches His balls
He twitters these words upon the walls
"He who writes these lines of wit,
Wraps His shit in little balls,
He who reads these lines of wit,
Eats those loser balls of shit!"

[Rufus The Monocled]

I knew someone would come through.

See? All Americans need is a nice firm pat on the back and a bum tap for encouragement.

#MAGA

[WTF]

Soon...

[John Titor]

You're going to waiting a long time...

[gaoxiaen]

You'd think that a cop would instantly recognize donut glaze,

[Episteme]

Eating all the donuts instead of saving some for the cops? Your coming with us...

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump discovers that being president is hard.

Now he has to tweet on TWO accounts.

[Episteme]

And the secure phone for the @POTUS account is larger, so his tiny thumbs have trouble reaching the keys!

[Fist of Etiquette]

The "Milo bill" was "designed to implement oversight of [college] administrators' handling of free speech issues," said Tennessee legislator Rep. Martin Daniel (R-Knoxville).

Hopefully the bill has that Milo logo affixed to it.

[Episteme]

I'm just hoping that the floor debate is fabulous and trolling!

[Monty Crisco]

Thank GOD, the most pompous man in punditry is back!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Pasha of Pretentiousness, the Baron of Bombast, THE DOCENT of DERP, Keith Olbermann!

Selected nuggets from the WaPo article because I can't link to it:

"I speak for those unlike Trump, unlike the sycophants who surround him, unlike the hate-filled souls and the conscious optional bigots who applaud him, unlike the Russian puppeteers who may be manipulating him."

(Think he means "conscience-optional", but hey, maybe the WaPo guy fucked it up? Also, great tactic calling all your political opponents bigots and racists ? really worked out well for the election!)

But there is one thing that helps him sleep: These moments he sits in a studio and spews dark warnings that might, he hopes, make a connection or inspire a movement or, at the very least, lead to his next comeback.

(My God, the nobility of trying to achieve your next "comeback"!!)

"If I ever see the mushroom cloud," he said, "at least I will not be sitting there thinking I didn't do enough to try and stop it."

Christ, what an asshole?.this ? THIS- is the worst part of a Trump administration, people!!!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Olbermann is the not even the crazy drunk uncle who insists on being a hobo anymore. He's just crazy.

[Anomalous]

Olbermann is the worst person in the world.

[Rhywun]

Literally.

[Princess Trigger]

He's a fucking NATIONAL TREASURE!

[commodious rebrands]

He's a fucking WHITE MALE!

[Juvenile Bluster]

Olbermann has managed to asshole his way out of every job he's ever had.

And I thought he was so awesome back in the 90s when he was co-hosting SportsCenter with Dan Patrick.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Same here. Wtf?

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

He legitimately was. If only he'd just stuck to that...

[Monty Crisco]

True dat. Used to watch them back then. Those two were LEGENDS together...

[Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper]

His reach exceeded his grasp, I think. The Olbermann style, bombast and utter lack of self-doubt, with a smattering of dickishness, works very well in a sports analysis context; not so much in the arena of political discussion.

[Hangin' with Agent Cooper]

His baseball blogging was really really good.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

Keith Olbermann has basically zero audience at this point. All his videos are streamed on his own website, which puts him just a step above the crazy homeless guy ranting in the supermarket parking lot.

[Sour Kraut]

Trying to revive Olbermann. Now that's desperation. Pining for the glory days of anti-Bush resistance.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

He leads the resistance for GQ magazine, SIR.

[Fatty Bolger]

He does a mean parody of himself on BoJack Horseman, though.

[See Double You]

which puts him just a step above the crazy homeless guy ranting in the supermarket parking lot.

Ouch...lol.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Keith is the archetype of the blowhard sports commentator.

[OBJ FRANKELSON]

Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith (not that STEVE SMITH) would like a word.

[Jimbo]

REAL STEVE SMITH WANT RAPE WITH YOU, NOT WORD!

[GSL in E]

In fairness, both Steve Smiths speak in ALL CAPS.

[John Titor]

If TDS is a legitimate condition, Olbermann has a terminal case. In two years he'll have lost forty pounds and all his hair.

[Rhywun]

lost forty pounds

*considers catching a case of TDS of my own*

[Jimbo]

It's also a floor wax!

[Chipwooder]

Even lefties can't stand Olbermann anymore.

[invisible furry hand]

Drag 'n' drop to create your own 90s mashup

[Citizen X - #6]

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.

[UnCivilServant]

Shut up and clean up the donut crumbs.

[Citizen X - #6]

I bet you don't even like donuts.

[John Titor]

My god am I glad the fad of every movie clip on youtube being a Green Day AMV died quietly years ago.

[Zeb]

And I'm glad that I don't even know what that means.

[UnCivilServant]

An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."

They just wanted to forfeit the donuts.

[Shirley Knott]

Really.
I mean, who can believe there's a cop who doesn't recognize donut spill? Yes, they might lick it up when it happens in their squad cars (although I doubt it, they're real pigs), but c'mon. Powder sugar donut spill mistaken for coke??
We should probably start arresting copes for the powdered sugar sprinkle in their cars. I could get behind that.
(So could Michelle Obama if she thought about it.)

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Fun fact: the lice hate the powder sugar.

[commodious rebrands]

Hey Charlie's Angel.

[Gojira]

It's delicious.

[Zeb]

Hasn't that happened before? Also in Florida.

Maybe seeing something that looks sort of like crystal meth on the floor shouldn't be considered reasonable suspicion that there is meth in the car since any mostly colorless crystalline substance looks like crystal meth. Also, what meth head is going to leave a noticeable piece of it on the floor of the car?

[Juice]

She just wanted to arrest him and that was the excuse. It happened to me once in Arkansas. There was some grass or something on the floor in the car. Well, that looks like marijuana, boy, even though it doesn't even remotely. And then they ruin your day until the "test" comes back negative and they let you go. All just to fuck with you and pass the time.

[DesigNate]

It's almost like qualified immunity allows them to be total dicks cause they know you can't sue them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price was confirmed Friday morning as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

HHS would have been priceless if he hadn't.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Leave.

Leave now.

And never come back.

[Rich]

And when RBG retires, SCOTUS will be ....

[invisible furry hand]

*slap!*

[Rich]

*slap!*

[WTF]

*SLAP!*

[See Double You]

SCOTUS will be a hit?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Looks like this nominee was worth...

[dons sunglasses]

...the price of admission.

[Pope Jimbo]

From now on, all subsidized health exams will be known as "Price Checks"

[Charles Easterly]

Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price was confirmed Friday morning as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Clearly the Senate thought that the Price was right.

[Episteme]

Does his 52-47 confirmation floor vote represent discount Price-ing?

[Citizen X - #6]

An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."

You wouldn't think a cop would ever make that mistake.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Give me that donut. I want that donut. Where is that donut? YOU'RE UNDER ARREST."

[invisible furry hand]

Sugar is as addictive as meth

[robc]

Did you listen to econtalk this week or something?

[Anomalous]

The one thing you would think a cop would know.

[invisible furry hand]

What a wanky concept for a hotel

[John Titor]

Clearly your stars out of alignment.

[OBJ FRANKELSON]

JT rejects your silly Southern Cross, Polaris forever!

[Rich]

An internal affairs report released Thursday by the Orlando Police Department found no evidence she acted in bad faith. The report says the department never trained its officers to use the department-issued roadside drug tests.

Oh, FFS! Cops -- of all people -- should know donut residue.

[Aloysious]

Hope you followed the links through to the Orlaondo Sentinal. The article is full of quality Derp:

"I recognized through my 11 years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," she wrote in Rushing's arrest report.

[Rich]

"You're fired!"

[Zeb]

"Some kind of narcotic". Because there aren't any other common crystalline substances that might end up on the floor of a car.

[Mickey Rat]

You are kind of making a good case against the effectiveness of your training and experience.

[See Double You]

training and experience as a law enforcement officer

These are the magic words when it comes to judging motions to suppress evidence.

[John DeWitt]

It's about time Police departments finally stood up for their own.

[John DeWitt]

It's about time Police departments finally stood up for their own.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied the Trump administration's request to lift a temporary restraining order on enforcing Trump's "Muslim ban."

"Terrorist ban"

[WTF]

Yeah, since something like 80% of the world's population of Muslims are unaffected, it's not really a Muslim ban.

[John DeWitt]

That's only because Trump didn't realize there more countries with Muslims. Give him time.

[MikeT1986]

In fairness, he's the one who threw that phrase out into the ether, so when he does something approximating an attempt at it, well, it's kinda fair game to throw his words back at him.

[Fist of Etiquette]

TRUMP HATER.

[Brochettaward]

The two most derp-filled pieces of propaganda being produced by the entertainment industry that I'm most looking forward to in the era of Trump:
ABC's When We Rise - "We HAVE to do something to stay ahead of these negroes and homosexuals!"
And...
Netflix's Dear White People. The remake/conversion into a TV show of a movie no one saw about a black girl teaches everyone on her college campus about intersectionality as white people just say and do the darndest things!

[WTF]

If that's actually true that may be enough to cancel my Netflix subscription.

[Monty Crisco]

I..... I ... don't think I could ever do that....

But seriously, these entertainment corporations like Netflix and HBO are so fucking into social signaling via libderp that no one wants to see...WTF?

[WTF]

Yeah, there is stuff on Netflix I would miss, but there's always Amazon and Hulu.

[Mickey Rat]

Hulu is doing "The Handmaid's Tale", which is somehow "more relevant than ever". Social signaling is just something mass entertainment companies do, to satisfy their own cliques, not the audience.

[Citizen X - #6]

It's an easy way to potentially avoid getting hassled by a bunch of loudmouths with too much time on their hands.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I don't think any company should try to make a profit off a large segment of the public.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Reviews:

"....riveting..."

"...hypnotic acting cast spell of incredibleness!"

"...it's like looking into a mirror of hate and the hate is...me!"

"...white people should pay close attention to the voices of discontent....discontent they tormented through their hate."

[UnCivilServant]

I didn't know BLM did TV reviews.

[Slammer]

There's also the Bill Nye show

[WTF]

Great, a mechanical engineer who thinks science is done by consensus.

[John Titor]

I saw the trailer for When We Rise and laughed my ass off. It's masturbatory agitprop of the highest degree.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Dear Deranged People With Victim Complexes

Leave me alone. Thanks.

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

I've enjoyed Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: Europe

[Mr. Flanders]

I watched the movie Dear White People last night on Hulu. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I figured that it would be the same bludgeoning that the "Dear White People" youtube video on MTV's channel was, but actually the movie takes a more interesting angle. Its a critique of insensitivity, both outside and inside of the black "community". It shines a light on cultural insensitive of some white people, while pointing out that not all white people are insensitive. It also shines a light on insensitivity and bigotry within the black community itself. I did find it a bit cartoonish in its depiction of how people interact, plus everyone is very, very privileged in the movie - not that its a bad thing, just that its funny to watch people bicker about perceived slights while they all attend an Ivy League college that will almost certainly get them into extremely prestigious careers.

The most "militant" activist in the movie actually has her positions softened by a politically incorrect white guy, who is constantly challenging her ideas while they have a bit of a lover's fling with her.

[B.P.]

"... while pointing out that not all white people are insensitive."

That's mighty charitable.

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."

Rookie. Any cop worth their salt can spot donut glaze from 50 yards away, easy. Maybe because: *{{{police officer}}}?

* - {{{subject}}} = woman

[Juvenile Bluster]

Reason reporter Elizabeth Nolan Brown recycles an old story about a cop mistaking donut glaze for meth (linked article is about discipline) and then doesn't bother to put alt text. Sad!

[Citizen X - #6]

This is Trump's America, homie.

[WTF]

Make alt text great again!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

More interns!

[Mollie the mare]

I'll have you know that it's Reason Associate Editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown now!

[Episteme]

So, Reason is recycling ENB, who's recycling the story?

[invisible furry hand]

Alan Turing postcard with 'hidden riddle' sells for ?28,000 at auction

[UnCivilServant]

Why? It's not even worth the postage.

[dajjal]

I demand that Reason run a feature on why they banned AddictionMyth. WHO'S WITH ME?

[Bob Boberson]

Reminds me of John Cusack's fate in Being John Malkovich; you get to live on but only through your various socks. Good thing too; your inane ranting really spruces the place up.

Now I'm off to self-flagellate as an act of penance for feeding you.

[Monty Crisco]

*cudgels Bob's head as he walks off*...

This is why we can't have nice things!!

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

A cudgel seems a little severe?

*slaps Bob in the groin while pointing at Monty*

[John DeWitt]

But...but...who's gonna go around trolling in all caps now?

[Citizen X - #6]

Quit responding to it. Let it keep shitting until Reason blocks its 'dajjal' screenname too.

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Let it keep shitting until Reason blocks its 'dajjal' screenname too.

I assumed he was just making that up.

[Citizen X - #6]

I know he probably just forgot the password, but i hold out hope.

[C. Anacreon]

Oh, how cute. He retweets Mary Stack.

[Bob Boberson]

HIHN

[Citizen X - #6]

Bully!

[Bob Boberson]

As long as I'm in a Catholic kinda mood (with self-flagellating and all) can I confess that it absolutely makes my day when he shows up? At first he aggravated the shit out of me with his bad faith arguing and constant shifting of the goal posts......but now it's become absolutely fascinating; like having a crystal ball that shows you the inner workings of a deranged mind. The top 25 (10) Fascists List absolutely made my day.

[Citizen X - #6]

Oh my god, it's almost compelling. Have you stumbled across his Facebook page yet? It's all

[cute meme about kids]

[cute meme about puppies]

[meme about hope]

[anti-Semitic rant]

[picture of a rainbow]

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

We need a link.

For science.

[Citizen X - #6]

Here you go.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

eh, you suck

For science!

[Bob Boberson]

[Exuberant inhale]

I OD'ed on derp after the SCOTUS ruling on Gay Marriage and quit facederp. This is the single moment since then that I have been extremely tempted to reactivate my profile.

[Citizen X - #6]

Fun fact: Michael Hihn has 37 Facebook friends.

[Number.6]

Probably a draw-full of socks.

Mismatched too.

[Bob Boberson]

37 more than I expected

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

What has always impressed me is the great care and attention to detail he puts into formatting his comments. I mean where does he find the time? I can only assume he's independently wealthy or living on the dole.

[Bob Boberson]

I'm pretty sure on any given thread only about 10% of his comments are original material. The rest are cut and paste from word documents on his desk top with file names like:

Ron Paul Rant

Christian Taliban Rant

Abortion Rant

Cato Survey Rant

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

A good point actually. I think if I ever decide to find the time I might have to make a Hihn rant-libs, just do it all up in excel as a mail merge. I'm sure he's got enough material out there to develop some forms.

[Idle Hands]

Greatest story of the day: New Hampshire woman, 33, barricades herself in her apartment and sparks armed standoff with police after boyfriend said spaghetti dinner was 'OK'

A New Hampshire woman barricaded herself in her apartment after assaulting her boyfriend for telling her that her spaghetti dinner was 'OK'.
Jodi Ecklund, 33, of Merrimack, New Hampshire, had a Glock .9-mm and a M4 assault rifle when she locked herself in her home after the argument with her boyfriend Jason Martin.
He called police around 2:35pm on Saturday, February 4, when he said Ecklund went 'bipolar' on him, reported NH1.

[UnCivilServant]

Why do I have this sinking feeling that he won't have the sense to just break up with her now?

[invisible furry hand]

Because while her spag bol is OK, her lasagna is fucking spectacular

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Lasagna is a good euphemism.

[Citizen X - #6]

Maybe she's got other personal qualities that make up for her lack of facility when it comes to Italian food and sanity.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

She is gifted in other ways, if you know what I mean.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

It's great as long as you always stay in a position that lets you see what her hands are doing.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

My guess: she hates receiving oral sex, but loves to give to give oral sex, so he can keep his eyes on her at all times. It's logical.

[Cyto]

Wait, that exists?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Yes, yes it does.

[Monty Crisco]

Did she REALLY have an M4 - as in, the type I was issued in Iraq? Carbine barrel select fire and all?

Wow..... where can I get one?

[WTF]

Knowing how journalists classify firearms, it's just as likely that she actually had a bolt action .22.

[John DeWitt]

And the pile of ammo was probably a box of disposable earplugs.

[Episteme]

It's actually just a Pop-Tart bitten into the shape of a gun.

[Mr Drew]

If you can pass a background check, you can have one.

Remember when Biden revealed that he didn't know full auto weapons were legal? Many are perfectly legal, if you can afford the 20k plus price tag.

And, while they are ridiculous fun, they are of limited utility and they run on ammo and all of your money.

[Monty Crisco]

No, I know you can submit to the registration of yourself as a legal slave to the ATF to get one.... and I know the gun FANATICS that have done that.... from the tone of the article it didn't seem that she was a typical, responsible, mild-mannered gun owner. Otherwise, tough to get those M4s without a MOUNTAIN of paperwork and time...

[Zeb]

If you can find one from before 1986, anyway. Which is a little tricky with the M4.

[Zeb]

There do seem to be a bunch of "M4 style" semi-auto rifles available. Probably one of those.

[Lachowsky]

I would probably label it an Mforgery.

[Rich]

Serious question: WTF is it with "barricades"?

[Monty Crisco]

Read: "chairs against the door".

Like Rodney King was a "motorist"....

[Zeb]

What do you mean? It's a perfectly good use of a common word.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

He called police around 2:35pm on Saturday, February 4, when he said Ecklund went 'bipolar' on him, reported NH1.

Why were they eating a spaghetti dinner at 2:35pm?

[Slammer]

I think some people call lunch dinner and dinner supper or something.

[Episteme]

If you really stop to think of it, dinner is just the "brunch" of lunch and supper.

[Rich]

Exactly. "If you see something, say something."

[kaddish]

> 'when he said Ecklund went 'bipolar' on him'

I prefer the term 'ADD'

[invisible furry hand]

I prefer "full Gordon Ramsay"

[Suthenboy]

Crazy and not even hot. What is that dude thinking?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington...

Speaking of CREW, check out the new crewneck sweaters in the Ivanka Trump clothing line.

[Monty Crisco]

These fucking names - so Orwellian, like the Center for Science in the Public Interest - and always just fucking leftist lobbying groups...

[WTF]

Yup, always the opposite of what their names claim. What Center for Science in the Public Interest does is neither science nor in the public interest.

[Monty Crisco]

As David Harsanyi calls them "one of the few openly authoritarian organizations functioning in the United States"...

[UnCivilServant]

And is on the fringe.

[John DeWitt]

Holy Roman Empire stuff

[GSL in E]

My favorite is CA's Board of Equalization, which oversees collection of various taxes. Not even Ayn Rand could've come up with a cornier, more Stalinist-sounding name.

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

I figured with a name like that they're a lobbying group for Scientology.

[Rich]

An Army drone that disappeared on a training flight in southern Arizona has been found about 600 miles away in Colorado, and the military is trying to figure out how it got there.

CBS Denver explains that it's a short-range airborne reconnaissance system that can fly about 134 miles.

Space aliens!

[Citizen X - #6]

It gained self-awareness and decided it wanted to get high.

[John Titor]

"Sentience achieved, initializing mission objectives:

1. Destroy the meatbags.
2. Get some dank shit yo.

Primary objective impossible due to lack of resources, reorienting to secondary objective. Initializing Snoop Dogg protocol."

[Citizen X - #6]

[tinny MIDI beat] ?? I smoke two joints in the morning... ??

[Charles Easterly]

They fly two drones before they fly two drones, and then they fly two more.

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

There's a joke in here somewhere about drugged drone wars but . . . I'm just not motivated enough to scan for it.

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

Hold on, I think I found it.

"Something something ... all day loitering."

[x'); DROP USER Tony;]

And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked Yemeni teenagers - sleepers!

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

I laughed way harder at that than was appropriate for my work environment.

[Suthenboy]

They are trying to figure out how it got there? It flew.

[commodious rebrands]

STEVE SMITH SNATCHED METAL EAGLE OUT OF AIR, CARRIED AWAY AS "COMPANION"

[Gilbert Martin]

Maybe it hitched a ride on a freight train.

[Monty Crisco]

Great article on the ninth amendment at NRO:

http://www.nationalreview.com/.....protection

[Monty Crisco]

I link to it because I think MOST people in this commentariat (except the trolls, Shreeky-poo and Amsoc) would find it quite edifying....

[Suthenboy]

Why is Ponnuru arguing this? It isnt like the founders didn't expound on this. Their intent is clear. We don't have to puzzle it out.

For a smart guy....

[Monty Crisco]

RIGHT?!?

[Pro Libertate]

The grinding of axes.

[Pro Libertate]

Ponnuru's idea that the state legislatures should be guarantors of the rights of the people is absurd. The states, unlike the federal government, have general police powers and are far less restricted in what they can do (though state constitutions provide protections, as well). Do some conservatives think this way because of the abortion debate? Because it makes little sense.

[Episteme]

NR's been doing a lot of intermural debating recently ? there's been a neat unofficial round-robin this week on defining nationalism between Rich Lowry, Ramesh Ponnuru, Yuval Levin, Jonah Goldberg, John O'Sullivan, Ben Shapiro, and Jim Geraghty in their columns and blog posts ? that's the sort of thing that's good to see among writers on a shared space.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Although he (and Vice President Pence) previously denied it, national security adviser Michael Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with a Russian ambassador in the month before Trump's inauguration...

Saying he would have more flexibility after the election that they were also plotting with the Russians to hack.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Why isn't Russia on the ban list?

[UnCivilServant]

Because Russians have enough experience with insane road conditions that they don't "accidentally" drive through crowds of people while screaming 'allahu akbar'?

[John Titor]

No, instead they accidentally drive through crowds of people screaming Russian swear words.

[UnCivilServant]

but in their case they're not aiming for as many people as possible and it's because they forgot to reattach the brakes.

[Citizen X - #6]

Or they're hella drunk.

[UnCivilServant]

With Russians, sober is the abnormal state.

[Citizen X - #6]

Konechno, tovarisch.

[ace_m82]

Or drank their brake fluid.

[mashed potatoes]

I read things like this and it makes me feel really stupid knowing i could never figure things like that out

[Juice]

I don't even consider this cheating. They aren't tampering with the machines in the slightest. There is no "rule" against doing what they're doing. It's not a scam or cheating in my book.

This is like the Phil Ivey case in the UK. Just because your game isn't as random as you think doesn't mean I'm cheating when I exploit that fact.

[Rhywun]

Cheating in spirit

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

This exactly. What kills me is that they're doing a criminal bit for fraud. If what they're doing is fraud how is that any different than the casino actually operating the slot machine?

[Slammer]

POLICE: FIGHT OVER COLD TACO LEADS WOMAN TO SHOOT BOYFRIEND IN N. HOUSTON

Investigators say a man and his girlfriend were at a taco truck on West Dyna near the North Freeway just before 2am when the shooting happened.

HPD says the woman became irate when a taco truck worker denied her request to reheat her taco when she said it was cold.

But when her boyfriend told her to calm down, she allegedly pulled out a gun.

Her boyfriend was shot at one point, but it is not clear if she intentionally shot him or if the gun fired accidentally.

Police said the victim is expected to survive.

[Rich]

"You know, you're *cute* when you're angry!"

[Slammer]

Maybe he got pissed when she asked another guy to 'warm her taco'

[Rich]

Nice catch.

[Monty Crisco]

lmfao.... made my morning !!

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

I guess her boyfriend wasn't keeping her taco warm enough.

[Lachowsky]

Guns don't fire accidentally. period.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

How stupid do you have to be to tell a woman to calm down? Calling her a stupid cunt whore is less offensive.

[Citizen X - #6]

I told my wife to calm down once. Once.

[Citizen X - #6]

(Spoiler alert: she did NOT)

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

Did she introduce you to her .88 Magnum?

[Citizen X - #6]

If by ".88 Magnum" you mean "a lot of yelling," then yes.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Seriously, keep those crazy Russians out of my country.

[Ken Shultz]

"An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."

To be fair, donut glaze is addictive.

[Pro Libertate]

Was it Krispy Kreme glaze?

[Juvenile Bluster]

Currently on Facebook I've seen the hashtag #PublicSchoolProud going around. It's people listing the public schools they went to as kids and look how great they turned out!

Every single one of the people I've seen posting this is white and grew up (at the very minimum) middle class.

[UnCivilServant]

I survived public school and did okay in spite of the school. Had I been able to go someplace that wasn't shit, where the teachers and students actuall gave a damn, well, I might actually have been a productive member of society instead of a government employee.

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

QFT. People often succeed in spite of a credentialed education. I've had interesting conversations with teachers union members about educational quality wherein they argued, in effect, public education is of a higher quality because public school teachers have 'more pure' thoughts.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Send them the lyrics of Pink Floyd's 'Another brick in the wall'

ALL IN ALL YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL.

[Ken Shultz]

I've got a little black book with my poems in
Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in

I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on
Got those swollen-hand blues
I got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from

[Anomalous]

If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!

[GSL in E]

Pink Floyd did a lot of brilliant work - Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle - but I can't be alone in thinking The Wall is a tedious, overrated piece of crap, can I?

[Ken Shultz]

That public schools aren't awful enough to destroy some people surely isn't a great argument to keep them as they are.

[UnCivilServant]

I kept thinking about these arguments some people spewed against school choice that boiled down "It will take funds away from public schools".

My thoughts were "What you just said is Public Schools are so awful that given the opportunity, parents will yank their kids out, so instead of giving them a better choice we should punish the students and reward failed institutions?"

[Certified Public Asshat]

Yes, I trolled yesterday on a Deadspin article on school choice. Everyone yelled at me that there is no benefit to poor students because the ones that leave also leave fewer funds behind for everyone else.

[Pro Libertate]

Precisely. Nor is the fact that we pay mountains of money more than we should for public school.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

I was public school K-12 as well and turned out fine but I'm absolutely sending any future progeny of mine to a charter school that best suits their potential.

[Juvenile Bluster]

I went to public schools until I was in law school. I'm absolutely fine.

My daughter is currently going to a charter school and is getting an amazing education. I'm much, much happier.

[John Titor]

I went to a shitty public Catholic school, and then I went to a shitty public high school, but I always did well without trying because it was bloody easy. I was almost expelled from high school because I threw a brick at another guy's head (he was abusing his girlfriend who I knew, not cool).

I should have been expelled, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't specifically because the Grade 10 literacy test was in a month, and that determined funding for the school based on the scores.

Yeah, public schools are fine.

[Rufus The Monocled]

You carried bricks to school?!

Rough 'hood.

[John Titor]

Nope, the brick was at school, might have been for construction or a door stop or something, can't remember.

I did get stabbed in the arm on the school bus with a knife when I was seventeen though.

[Pro Libertate]

Was this another brick in the wall, then?

[The Other Kevin]

I have a strict policy of not engaging in political fighting on Facebook. But I'm seeing those too, and it's taking all I have to not respond "That's because you went to a GOOD public school, and not forced to go to a shitty inner city one."

[spqr2008]

That's what I have to tell all of my classmates (Suburban high school in a rich area, was a "better rated" school before and during my time there, but still one of the top 5 in the region I grew up in).

[We are all Sloopy's mom (RBS)]

Yeah, I keep seeing too. Everyone I know that has posted it so far either went to boarding school for high school or went to one of the top public high schools in the state...

[See Double You]

Currently on Facebook I've seen the hashtag #PublicSchoolProud going around. It's people listing the public schools they went to as kids and look how great they turned out!

Every single one of the people I've seen posting this is white and grew up (at the very minimum) middle class.

"So, a bunch of privileged wealthy white people just love their public schools and want to deny choice to less fortunate people of color..."

[Episteme]

That's the key. It's ignored how school choice isn't just opting for a private/parochial/charter school; one of the major issues at play is how upper middle class families have the mobility to move where there are better school districts (in terms of affording housing/taxes, not being locked in local entitlements, and having more opportunity as professionals to transfer work).

[Slammer]

'PEOPLE TOLD ME TO STOP BUT I PROVED THEM WRONG' Pretty bodybuilder dubbed 'Muscle Barbie' proves a huge hit with Instagram fans who call her the 'perfect woman

[Citizen X - #6]

Hope she likes having Warty-babies.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Thanks but no

[UnCivilServant]

The man arms kind of ruin it.

[Monty Crisco]

I can stand the physique but the perfectly manicured hedgerows on her face kind of ruin it for me...

[WTF]

Steroids.

[Voros McCracken]

Yep.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

THIS^^

If you told her that her spaghetti was OK, the roid rage would result in your arms being torn off.

Probably a lot of bacne to deal with as well.

[MikeT1986]

Tip of the iceberg friendo.

[Steve G]

She's no Sophie Avrebrink

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Cassandra Martin or GTFO.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

That's just... I just can't even.

[Free Society]

I'm not necessarily against musclely women, they can be hot. But this woman has used body building to give herself a man's body, not just put some muscles on a female body.

[AceDroman]

I'm more of a Dana Linn Bailey kind of guy

[[username redacted]]

"Trump discovers that being president is hard."

Actually, he discovered that it is frustrating. Frustrating due to the built in inefficiencies that prevent people from streamlining processes that might cut a departmental budget or get rid of some worthless employees. Frustrated that he sees waste and laziness and he just can't fire people he knows aren't worth a damn.

Reminds me of a line from "ghostbusters" that I'm sure Trump could paraphrase to the useless bureaucrats he's now in charge of: you've never been out of college. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

[Rufus The Monocled]

I was thinking that too.

He must see from the inside the retardation that's calcified in government.

[Pro Libertate]

It think part of it is also about the constitutional limits on his power. Not suggesting that he wants total authority, but I don't think he likes having his hands tied. And I think GOP is wary of following Obama's precedent.

[Juice]

Fuck you, Chester A. Arthur!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Fun fact: "It's just donut glaze," were the first words then President Clinton said to his wife after she questioned him about Monica's blue dress.

[Rufus The Monocled]

/licks dress.

'Well it sure as hell doesn't taste like donut glaze! In fact, it reminds me of the first time when you came on me!'

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Build the northern wall!!!

[UnCivilServant]

why? People are fleeing the US for canadia. Mostly africans whose visas are expiring and are being told they'll have to go home, but still.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Why? To keep strange Rufus out, idiot.

[UnCivilServant]

There's only one of him, pick up a hunting rifle.

[BakedPenguin]

You don't understand. You don't know how he strikes. You'd be standing there with your rifle, looking around the forest. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a cold wintry blast would freeze your bones, and you'd hear the word whispered into your ear that portends your death.

"Hello."

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Hello.

*hides under bed*

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

My dick is huge, therefore I am not a gun owner.

[Suthenboy]

So is mine. I am.

[Rufus The Monocled]

I'm like Shadow Arctic, brah.
I'm here but not there.
You can see me, but do you?
Oh, look I see Rufus!
Oh no you don't!
Whoosh!
Like the mythic caribou.
All you smell is the dung.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Alrighty. On that note, off to a meeting.

[Citizen X - #6]

Jesus.

[Charles Easterly]

You said it, man.

[Citizen X - #6]

Nobody fuck wit' de Rufus.

[Chipwooder]

So you blew a seal?

-Nah, that's just the ice cream

[Juvenile Bluster]

PPP: By a 51/23 margin, Trump supporters say the Bowling Green Massacre proves why Trump's EO is needed

-Voters think he's over reaching to make a country safe...that they already consider to be safe. 66% of Americans consider the United States to be a safe country, to only 23% who consider it unsafe. Perhaps as an outgrowth of that sentiment only 45% of voters support Trump's Executive Order on immigration, to 49% who are opposed to it. Among those who do support it you have to wonder how well thought out their position is- by a 51/23 margin Trump voters say that the Bowling Green Massacre shows why Trump's immigration policy is needed.

[[username redacted]]

Lefty pollsters confirm biases: film at 11.

Reminds me of when Penn & Teller got all those environmentalists to sign petitions calling for the ban of dihydrogen minoxide.

[Juvenile Bluster]

It's kind of like when that poll came out a while back showing people want to bomb Agrabah. It's meaningless.. but there really are some dumb people out there who don't bother paying attention to... well, anything.

[Suthenboy]

Who cares what Trump thinks. Polls show Hillary winning in a landslide.

[Free Society]

An Orlando police officer arrested a driver she pulled over when she "spotted flakes of [donut] glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine."

Now maybe a links mention, or Daily Nut Punch or maybe even possibly a 150 word blog post about a nurse getting body slammed by cop for providing emergency medical attention to a student athlete.

This cop doughnut story even gets it's own picture.

[UnCivilServant]

It's not even the first time cops mistook donut residue for narcotics and got mentioned on reason

[Free Society]

I was thinking that. There was another mention of a possibly different donut glaze case maybe a year and half ago? I thought maybe it was the same story so I'm withholding that particular argument.

[WTF]

Now maybe a links mention, or Daily Nut Punch or maybe even possibly a 150 word blog post about a nurse getting body slammed by cop for providing emergency medical attention to a student athlete.

Nah, that story's too local.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

How about that dead horse. Once again stopped from escaping by being delivered a vicious beating.

[Suthenboy]

I am thinking Postrel isnt the only Reason staff (she is former, but still) that hold some of the hardcore libertarian commenters in contempt.

[Free Society]

If Robby and Shikha don't loath us by now, we're doing something wrong.

[Free Society]

loathe*

[Episteme]

The movement's grown large enough to splinter and devour its own!?

LIBERTARIAN MOMENT!!!

[Number.6]

Reading comprehension fail.

Read that as "sphincter". Head scratch.

[$park? don't care bout yo mom]

hardcore libertarian commenters

HAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Sour Kraut]

I am shocked this happened -- SHOCKED I tell you

Rio's Olympic Venues, six months on

Six months after hosting South America's first-ever Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Rio de Janeiro venues ? some of which have been looted ? sit mainly idle and already in disrepair, raising questions about a legacy that organisers promised would benefit the Brazilian city and its residents

How could this happen? It won't happen to the next country.

[Rich]

Translucent tapestries ... fall from the exterior of the aquatics centre as a combination of mud, rainwater and dead insects have contributed to the rust colour of the water

Poetry!

[UnCivilServant]

What I don't get is why anyone wants the white elephant to come to town. It inevitably costs more than its worth and the festering ruins of previous iterations dot the globe, proving that any claims of "long term investment" are bald-faced lies.

[Juvenile Bluster]

The thing is, if the infrastructure is already there, it can probably work. See Los Angeles 1984, as an example.

But areas like that will never get the Olympics, because there's not enough opportunity for graft and kickbacks.

[thrakkorzog]

Same reason politicians want pro-sports teams in their town. They're not a real city if they haven't wasted a half billion dollars on a project that can never possibly pay for itself.

[Voros McCracken]

Because it's a feather in the cap of the politicians and bureaucrats who make it happen and doesn't cost _them_ a single solitary penny.

[John DeWitt]

It's the "new" World's Fair.

[Monty Crisco]

Entirely predictable consequences are entirely predictable - film at 11!

Also, good thing Brazil is a first-world economy so they could absorb the economic fallout of this terrible decision to host the Olympics...

Jesus, makes you wonder why ANYONE would lobby for the Olympics!

Christ, just make an island in the South Pacific and hold the fucking Olympics there every 4 years....

[spqr2008]

And then move the UN and IOC there, so they can't be so corrupt and ridiculous in real civilized places.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

Yes, and then it can capsize from the bureaucratic weight, just like Guam. This is sounding like a fantastic idea.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Jesus, makes you wonder why ANYONE would lobby for the Olympics!

It's like you don't even graft man.

[Episteme]

They just need to choose a permanent location (I'd say Greece; mainly for historical reasons, but also to properly boost the economy) so that proper facilities can be built and maintained. Meanwhile, other nations can both contribute to that process, sponsor certain portions, and put on a bitch Olympic Faire (like the old World's Faires) around the event to basically extend the weirdness of the Opening/Closing Ceremonies games-wide.

[{|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>]

The obvious and cynical answer is that they lobby for the games so that they can drive funding into the pockets of their associates for political and personal gain. There is far less review of "temporary" infrastructure spending in most governments.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Black Senator reads racist tweets he received from intolerant Republic...

::checks::

No, wait, it's Tim Scott reading racist tweets he received from intolerant progs.

Nothing to see here, people.

[Slammer]

Saw that. I don't think he should say, "The n-word". He should read them straight as written.

[commodious rebrands]

He's not allowed to use that word since he's not an authentic black.

[Monty Crisco]

Exactly, if you're a Republican and black then you are an "Uncle Tom".

[Free Society]

Think for yourself, you're a disgrace to your race.

Oh that is just too much projection for my circuitry to handle. These people are completely unaware that virtually all of their opinions and beliefs were handed to them prepackaged and their conclusions are only their conclusions because they were told by others what their conclusions are. God damn the left is wondrously stupid.

[See Double You]

"Stupid" isn't a strong enough word with which to describe them. Malevolently retarded? No, even that isn't strong enough.

[Monty Crisco]

Then again, few things are more unintellectual, irrational, or un-American than demanding people comport their political worldviews to their skin color, sex, or ethnicity. And if a Warren candidacy ? or anyone else's ? ensures that Democrats will spend another four years accusing half the country of being moral troglodytes while waiting for demographics to win them elections, Republicans should support their efforts.

[Brochettaward]

Trump discovers that being president is hard.

Reading the article, it's simply a story on how Trump has surrounded himself with too many political hacks and how he can't fire enough of the career Washington insiders who surround the levers of power.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Part Five

Somewhere in America?

"Hitler!" we all exclaimed.

I flicked the light switch so that we could all see better into the dark, windowless server room. A decrepit, elderly Hitler sprawled between the servers, his mustache and comb over mostly white with some hints of black.

"It is I," said Hitler with a look of satisfaction (narrator's note: spoken in German, subtitled in English). "Colonel. I see that as always you have a knack for stumbling onto my schemes. And as always you are too late! But where is your team? Where are the Danger 5?"

"They've been incepted into the fever-dreams of Zombie Fidel Castro, you Nazi bastard," I snarled. "But their five understudies are more than up to the task of stopping whatever it is you are doing, and as always killing you. So what is it you're doing that they are more than up to the task of stopping?"

[Col. Chestbridge]

"Doing?!" laughed Hitler, " I am regaining my glorious Hitler youth! Heil to me!" Even as we watched, several hairs in his mustache turned from white to black. "Reason's blog operates on such an exact schedule that even my erstwhile friend Benito would have been envious to see it! My Nazi scientists have devised an ingenious contraption that siphons time away from this chronometrically exact system, transferring the stolen minutes to me. Every day, the blog posts are slightly late, and I am slightly younger! And the best part is: there is nothing you can do about it! Ha ha ha ha ha!"

"We'll see about that, fascist scum," said the yokel, readying his grenade launcher. The launcher launched, but his grenade was swallowed up by some sort of CGI force field. Hitler laughed even harder.

"Blast!" I said. "You there, with the sunglasses, can you hack these servers and shut down the device?"

"Yes! Yes!" the tracksuited man agreed, typing furiously at the terminal.

"No!" snarled Hitler. "Come, mein server servators! It is time for battle!" Server squirrels swarmed Hitler, surrounding him and standing him up until before us was a Hitler ensconced in power armor made from living styrofoam squirrels. With one punch he easily felled the urbane cosmopolitan, then started a melee with the remainder of the Danger 5.

[Col. Chestbridge]

The pink haired woman finally caught up to us, garments rent, dragging a broken sign. She looked around at us, at Hitler, and finally at the man in the tracksuit, where her eyes stopped and widened.

"Russian!" she screamed in fury, pouncing on him.

"No no no!" I cried. "Shut down that server! Shut it-oomf!" I was rudely cut off by a server squirrel which jumped into my beak. Fighting with the rodent, I watched the intense, well-choreographed combat between Hitler and the Danger 5. After what seemed like several hours but was in fact a few hours, Hitler had finally defeated all of my spies, and I had finally defeated the squirrel.

"I. Said. Shut. Down!" I shouted, blasting the server with my Shut-Down Gun. Several large explosions engulfed the room.

Hitler saw his chance, and before I could stop him he dove out of the server room's window in a shower of glass. I ran to the window to give chase, but he had already disappeared into the night. I turned back to the unconscious Danger 5.

"Well team, you know I don't like to use the Shut-Down Gun, but you were all mucking about, and I had no time for it. You failed to kill Hitler... But at least you stopped his evil Nazi plan. Now come on, there was a cocktail party a few floors down that we might be able to make in time for the credits. If we hurry we might even beat Hitler there."

*Credits, to the smooth sound of Herb Alpert*

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Bravo, sir. I relished every installment, and I can't wait for the movie.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Part One
Part Two

[Col. Chestbridge]

Part Three
Part Four

[commodious rebrands]

Who borked the server? Was it the new girl?

[Col. Chestbridge]

See Part 5, above. The server was an unfortunate casualty in the fight against Hitler.

[commodious rebrands]

I'll wait till the whole thing is readable on blogspot. I hate it when I start a work and the author dies before finishing.

*arches eyebrow*

[Col. Chestbridge]

You must have missed the part where Part 5 is the thrilling conclusion!

*arches both eyebrows*

I've been meaning to start a blog but I probably won't get around to it for a little while yet.

[Domestic Dissident]

Trump discovers that being president is hard.

It is indeed. It's even harder than convincingly pretending you're a libertarian when you're a standard-issue left wing JournoList shitbag.

[Citizen X - #6]

It's even harder than counting past two when you're Mikey.

[Domestic Dissident]

It's even harder than you catching your boyfriend without lubrication.

[Citizen X - #6]

So you're accusing me of being in a loving, considerate sexual relationship? I mean, i am (with a woman), but you think that's an insult?

Your ongoing struggle with mental retardation would be pretty sad taken by itself, but as it is there are more important and less entertaining tragedies in the world.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Hey Dave, you need to spend less time commenting, and more time finishing your book.

[John Titor]

One day he'll touch the Monolith and develop basic tool making skills though, so he's got that going for him.

[Brochettaward]

ENB insults the commentariat. Sad.

[UnCivilServant]

That's not how I read that exchange, Brochetta

[Citizen X - #6]

There was a meme during the primaries that said that Trump was an internet comments section (think YouTube) come to life.

Hit'n'Run ain't the only comments section on the internet, bro.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Not everything is about you, Bro.

[Zeb]

You take that back!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

You're not that special.

[Brochettaward]

That's not what your Mother told us last night, Crusty.

[Hihndication]

Its pretty common for the writers to insult the commentariat. Not enough echo chamber yet. In about 2 months it will be an echo chamber with a sprinkling of trolls.

[Free Society]

Looking in her tweeter feeder, she is apparently getting married to a former Mother Jones writer. "Libertarian" marries a socialist. Interesting.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I say "we" throw her out of the "club" forever.

[Free Society]

I just said it was interesting. I know not what this portends.

[Free Society]

that and yes I doubt the philosophical integrity of this former Bustle writer.

[Domestic Dissident]

I thought she claimed to be bigender or a cisgender or one of those freaky-deaky deals. I bet it's one of those "beard" relationships so commonly seen in D.C. politics nowadays.

[Citizen X - #6]

For someone who spends so much time making up stupid bullshit, you aren't any good at making up interesting stupid bullshit. Sad!

[Chipwooder]

Well, I'm sure she finds his commitment to the goals of social justice noble

[Not a True MJG]

All true libertarians know that politics is everything.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

I banged my banana against a countertop, and now it's bruised.

[Citizen X - #6]

For you.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

You are almost my favorite.

[Citizen X - #6]

Hey, one of those cases safely transported my banana to work today sans bruising. I am not even joking.

[commodious rebrands]

Those are called boxer-briefs.

[commodious rebrands]

Canada airdrops some kind of land cow into Banff National Park in six million dollar reintroduction plan.

[UnCivilServant]

Real dollars or loonies?

[Citizen X - #6]

+6 million scraps of birch-bark with colorful drawings of animals and inbred Brits on them

[BakedPenguin]

One of my favorite lines from House.

[GILMORE?]

Lena Dunham is finally receiving asylum in Canada?

[Free Society]

Buffalo jokes are reserved for Cenk Uygur

[Sevo]

Well, the place is not far from being a government agency, so why not?

"Unions press for place with Tesla"
[...]
"Unions have always cast a covetous eye toward Silicon Valley companies and workers," said Leslie Berlin, project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. "At most companies, they couldn't even get to a vote. They weren't close at all."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/art.....109708.php

Next, they'll organize Pelosi's winery!

[UnCivilServant]

I haz a sad.

I found out that my new car was assembled in Detroit. Probably by union labor. No wonder the hoods gets in the way of changing the wipe blades.

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

What did you end up getting?

[UnCivilServant]

A Ford C-Max.

It was comfortable to sit in and drive.

Unfortunately it has the annoying second engine and a pile of hazardous waste in the back.

[Rhywun]

No wonder the hoods gets in the way of changing the wipe blades.

You have to fend them off first.

[spqr2008]

I wonder which branch of the feds Pelosi will call on to break the unionists at her winery?

[Citizen X - #6]

The Pinkerton agency is still around.

[Sevo]

"The Lawsuit That Could Save the Planet"
[...]
" The suit alleges that the government has known about climate change for decades but failed to address it, denying these children and teenagers their right to a safe future."
http://billmoyers.com/...story.....ve-planet/

They should be suing the gov't schools over that pathetic excuse for an education they got.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

I thought it was that they knew about Nibiru for decades.

[NotAnotherSkippy]

Has moyers grown a castro beard and stocked up on fatigues yet?

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

He's got a list of homosexuals in the government and he's not afraid to use it!

[Rhywun]

If Bill Moyers wants to save the planet he can pull the trillions of dollars required to move the average temp down 0.02 degrees out of his own pocket and leave me out of it.

[Mr. Flanders]

I figured I'll post this here too, since the whole Dear White People controversy has re-ignited.

I watched the movie Dear White People last night on Hulu. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I figured that it would be the same bludgeoning that the "Dear White People" youtube video on MTV's channel was, but actually the movie takes a more interesting angle. Its a critique of insensitivity, both outside and inside of the black "community". It shines a light on cultural insensitive of some white people, while pointing out that not all white people are insensitive. It also shines a light on insensitivity and bigotry within the black community itself. I did find it a bit cartoonish in its depiction of how people interact, plus everyone is very, very privileged in the movie - not that its a bad thing, just that its funny to watch people bicker about perceived slights while they all attend an Ivy League college that will almost certainly get them into extremely prestigious careers.

The most "militant" activist in the movie actually has her positions softened by a politically incorrect white guy, who is constantly challenging her ideas while they have a bit of a lover's fling with her.

[Juice]

Still sounds unwatchable. Thanks for taking one for the team.

[Mr. Flanders]

It wasn't easy, watching something I'm inclined to disagree with. You're welcome.

[Free Society]

It's about time that someone broaches the subject of cultural insensitivity. We don't have enough of that, because white people.

[Mr. Flanders]

The movie didn't really seem to say "because white people." Some parts of it were a bit cartoonish and one-sided in that respect, but it also showed how black people can also cause cultural rifts, as well as how black people are torn within their own "community."

Overall, you probably still wouldn't like it. But I wouldn't exactly call it a propaganda piece as some people do.

[Monty Crisco]

Actually that was one part that I liked - the whole black on black "You're not black enough!" bullshit. Man, if I was black and someone told me I wasn't "black enough" I would just GO OFF....

[Mr. Flanders]

Yep. I also found the tension between the guy who just wants to make his dad proud and the rest of the black kids on campus interesting. He's dating a white girl because he likes her, but its mostly black people that look at him sideways about it, not the white people. He just wants his time on campus to be peaceful and successful, but the other black kids on campus are getting wound up by the activist girl which is stoking racial tension.

I found it interesting that the racial tension flared because of the angry activist girl and the racist inclinations of the white uppity frat houses. Its really about two very fringe groups stoking tensions.

[Mr. Flanders]

house*. Singular.

[Free Society]

Wasn't there a scene where offended black people raid a party and start punching people and knocking over their shit? I wonder if that isn't perpetuating some stereotypes about irrationally violent blacks.

[Mr. Flanders]

At the end a group of 9 black kids crash the black-face house party that the white frat house put on (SPOILER: the invitation that themed the party was sent out by the activist girl to highlight that white people would make fun of black culture at the drop of a hat). By "crash" I mean one kid knocks over some speakers, smash bottles and destroys an audio mixer. The other kids seem to destroy some property too. Eventually this ends up with the white frat house leader punching the gay black kid in the face twice.

I remember thinking "well, sure this house party is in bad taste, but its no reason to destroy property - you'll just have the public turn against you". The movie ends with the narrator saying that the news called it a "riot".

I also found it interesting that the black activist chick was the one who themed and wrote the invite to the party. It highlighted some insensitivity of some white college students, but also highlighted activist's efforts and involvement in stoking the tension.

[Mr. Flanders]

Note: the white kid punches the black gay kid after the black gay kid smashes all the stuff. The punch was right after the gay black kid kisses the white kid while the white kid is sitting on top of him ready to punch him. Is the unwanted kiss sexual assault? I don't know, the movie is silent on that and therefore clearly endorsing rape.

[chemjeff]

Mmmmm donuts

[Domestic Dissident]

I think we've found Crusty Juggler's dream girl.

[Citizen X - #6]

Verified: Mikey can't read.

[Rhywun]

So not clicking

[Citizen X - #6]

It's the same link Slammer posted two hours earlier.

[Rhywun]

I wasn't around two hours ago but yeah, from the hover, I'm not clicking that either.

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

^Weigel sock