A.M. Links: Puzder Withdraws as Labor Secretary Nominee, More Arrests in Death of Kim Jon Un's Half-Brother

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  Gage Skidmore

  Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as labor secretary nominee. His Senate confirmation hearings had been scheduled to begin today.

• "A months-long inquiry into contacts between Russian government officials and associates of President Trump's campaign and business interests will continue despite the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn for misleading White House officials about his communication with Russia."
• House Republicans are calling for a Justice Department investigation into the leaks that resulted in Michael Flynn's ouster.
• Three people have been arrested in Indonesia in connection with the death of North Korean leader Kim Jon Un's half-brother.
• Restaurants, stores, and other businesses around the country will be closed today as part of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

I DON'T CARE FOR THE TATS, DAMON.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Day Without Immigrants"

How about a a 'Day without ignorant progressive retards and their unprincipled, faux righteous partisan gibberish'?

I'd be down for that.

[juris imprudent]

Could we call that "everyday"?

[straffinrun]

You could call it "East Asia".

[Rhywun]

Or "Africa" or "South America".

[juris imprudent]

So abandoning ship is the answer eh?

[straffinrun]

Granted Judah Ben Hur stayed in the galley after the ship crew was killed, but I'm not of Jewish royalty so...

[Citizen X - #6]

A big chunk of the commentariat seems to think so.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Is this salt because Trump won and Reason is not giving the coverage they want, or salt because Clinton lost and Reason is not giving the coverage they want?

[Zeb]

If wishful thinking is your thing, sure.

[DEG]

Gr?? Gott!

How about a a 'Day without ignorant progressive retards and their unprincipled, faux righteous partisan gibberish'?

Hell yes!

[Free Society]

Yes please. Whatever edginess protests have had historically, that's gone now. It seems like everything that can conceivably be protested, has been protested ad infinitum. Don't these people ever experience outrage fatigue?

[Zeb]

I don't know if "edgy" is the word I want. But the only protests that ever really matter are ones where the protestors have something on the line (and I don't mean the possibility of spending a night in jail and paying a small fine). People taking to the streets to (hopefully) bring down tyrannical governments and American Civil rights protestors in the 60s often took real risks for real gains. Protests in the US today are pretty much all vanity or social gatherings.

[Free Society]

It's just unimpressive. "Hey boss, there's a thousand people outside holding signs, calling you Literally Hitler?"

"Oh, so it must be a Thursday."

Protests become less and less relevant as their frequency increases. In all likelihood, the protesters are doing more to damage their various causes than if they just stayed home and signaled their virtue on facebook.

[jcw]

Remember that people are protesting the Reason H & R comments section. Protesting is a human need, I think. It's just the topics of the protest that differ.

[commodious rebrands]

I personally am boycotting Kate Upton until she's more inclusive in her choice of partners. Six years strong, baby!

[Gene]

Someone listened to the podcast.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Or was sitting with binoculars outside the Reason office's onsite gym.

[Gene]

Which in retrospect is more likely the case.

[Citizen X - #6]

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as labor secretary nominee. His Senate confirmation hearings had been scheduled to begin today.

Sinking ship!

[Bee Tagger]

Congrats on first

[Citizen X - #6]

Thanks man. I'm gonna go call my parents, they'll be so proud.

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

Grats Citizen.

[Bee Tagger]

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as labor secretary nominee

His daughter's school has a PTA meeting tonight and he can't afford to be blocked by a handful of protesters.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Restaurants, stores, and other businesses around the country will be closed today as part of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

And gardeners??? Racists.

[DJF]

And if nobody cares will they all leave the country?

[juris imprudent]

Just be thankful this didn't happen on taco Tuesday.

[Rich]

I'll be running some errands later today. We'll see how pervasive this is.

[commodious rebrands]

Going to guess: not very.

Gotta work to eat, homes.

[Not a True MJG]

Consumer businesses that need to hire undocumented immigrants probably can't afford to just shut down for a day. Especially since staying open means gaining some of the business that other places are giving up.

[Certified Public Asshat]

Good thing I got my new roof installed yesterday.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Kim Jon Stewart? Kim Jon Snow?

[Citizen X - #6]

You know nothing, Kauzig Kristen.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Kim Jon Lovitz?

[Kauzig Kristen]

Kim Jon Bon Jovi?

[commodious rebrands]

Kim Jan van Eyck?

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

Kim Mike Rowe

[Kauzig Kristen]

LOL - that would be awful, though, if he turned into a Nork Commie!

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

Dirty jobs that have to be done, or else.

[0x90]

Kim Jon Clod Van Dam.

[PBR Streetgang]

Kim Jon Boy?

[Fist of Etiquette]

House Republicans are calling for a Justice Department investigation into the leaks that resulted in Michael Flynn's ouster.

OUSTER LIKE FLYNN THERE I SAID IT

[UnCivilServant]

Three people have been arrested in Indonesia in connection with the death of North Korean leader Kim Jon Un's half-brother.

Few prisons in the world can compare to just living in North Korea.

[colorblindkid]

Unless you are a black person in America, which is the same exact thing as living in a North Korean prison camp.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....31122.html

[Bee Tagger]

Restaurants, stores, and other businesses around the country will be closed today as part of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

The "Buy American" crowd should like this.

[UnCivilServant]

I'm annoyed that I can't find a cotton american flag made in america. I don't want a polyester flag.

[Bee Tagger]

Sew what.

[Rich]

"We don't cotton to your kind."

[Billy Bones]

You should contact Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) about that.

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

UnCivil: this site might be able to help.

[UnCivilServant]

Nylon and Ployester 🙁

[Bacon-Magic <3 Hayek]

Call them, I believe they do custom too. It's been a while since I talked to them.

[SRVolunteer]

CF Flag here in Huntsville, AL

[straffinrun]

Even Ashton Kutcher?

[american socialist]

Isnt buy american ironically progressives? In my experience

[commodious rebrands]

I'd already bought the pubic wig before realizing I'd misheard.

[Bee Tagger]

House Republicans are calling for a Justice Department investigation into the leaks that resulted in Michael Flynn's ouster.

Soon there will be more investigations than members of the government.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

They love this shit. MORE COMMITTEES.

[Rich]

This.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Three people have been arrested in Indonesia in connection with the death of North Korean leader Kim Jon Un's half-brother.

Half-brother? Did the previous Glorious Leader sleep around?

[UnCivilServant]

Yes. A lot.

[straffinrun]

Kim Jon Un sounds like Kim Jong Un's half brother.

[Rich]

He's the Un half brother.

[straffinrun]

He actually got busted sneaking around Tokyo Disney Land a few years back. Seemed like an oddball, but not homicidal. Wonder why he didn't get the nod from Kim.

[Citizen X - #6]

He got the knife instead of the nod because he apparently once said something about how North Korea should maybe take some steps to be less of a shitty prison hellhole country.

[straffinrun]

Sounds like he could've beaten Trump or Hillary with that platform.

[Citizen X - #6]

"MNKGA, bitches!"

-Nork SIV (who eats chickens instead of fucking them)

[DEG]

I thought that was one of the other siblings? I thought Kim Jong Nam got the knife because of the Tokyo Disneyland incident?

[straffinrun]

You may be right. I have trouble when I remember Nam. Flashbacks, man.

[AlexInCT]

Ping pong province?

[american socialist]

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8779

Do lefties and progressives have a built in self destruct button? It is like they gain ground and boom flush down the toilet

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Blocking traffic, damaging property, rioting, and other forms of extreme protest behaviours can reduce popular support for social movements, a new study concludes.

That looks like a PhD thesis to me.

*facepalm*

[american socialist]

How much lack of awareness do you need to have a study determine this

[Rich]

Hey! People used to believe in the ether!

[Zeb]

Nobody needs that much lack of awareness.

-Bernie.

[American Memer]

You jest, but I've heard that sometimes you need studies to determine obvious things first before you can get to the cool stuff. The example I recall had something to do with nerds getting bullied by jocks, though it's been a long time so it's fuzzy. /shrug

[ant1sthenes]

Yes, I think Serpent Isle covered it fairly well.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Speaking of the Day Without Immigrants thing - the owner of Busboys & Poets decided to close the restaurant. He was on the local news this a.m. talking about it, and revealed that even though he closed the shop, his employees need to use sick or vacation leave today. Motherfracker.

[robc]

My first thought was, "welp, that is one day the immigrants aren't going to get paid for, I doubt they support this."

[Kauzig Kristen]

He is paying them, but, per his own words, they have to use sick or vacation days. What kind of scam is that? His own employees are essentially paying for him to close the restaurant.

[Rich]

What price raising popular awareness of the plight?

[robc]

I am betting in most cases they just won't be paid.

Honestly, what kind of restaurant employees get paid sick/vacation days? Isn't that mostly an hourly gig?

[Kauzig Kristen]

It's Busboys & Poets. They're a hippy dippy operation where all the white upper-middle-class activists go to sit on couches, pat each other on the back, and have $10 chicken salad sandwiches. No busboy could ever afford to eat there, in other words.

[Kauzig Kristen]

(my point being, it's not McDonald's. They have sick leave and vacation time)

[Fatty Bolger]

Full time employees at McDonalds get those things. I doubt part timers at B&P do.

[Juice]

Yeah, that place is a major rip off.

[straffinrun]

Virtue signalling doesn't come without a cost.

[juris imprudent]

Preferably on someone else's tab.

[straffinrun]

You pay either way. A chunk of your soul and dignity or a day's pay. The employees got off cheap.

[Billy Bones]

I have worked at places that shut down for 2 weeks to do inventory or whatnot, and the employees had the choice of using their vacation time (and employees only got 2 weeks until 10th year) or just eat it. Yeah, thanks for the vacation days as a benefit.

[american socialist]

Wow what a scumbag

[Citizen X - #6]

Christ, what an asshole.

[Anomalous]

His virtue signaling cost his employees a day's leave. What an asshole.

[WTF]

Seems like a very nice illustration of the typical leftist's mentality.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

I would have just shown up anyway. With a TV and gaming system. Ain't worth using vacation time when you can have a whole empty restaurant to yourself to do whatever you'd probably be doing at home anyways.

[Rhywun]

Except the restaurant is probably locked.

[American Memer]

My friends and I actually do this sometimes at some of the less-fancy places while they're open. So far nobody has seemed to mind yet--we buy stuff while we're there, chitchat with some people, etc. It's cheaper than booze anyway.

[The Last American Hero]

They should threaten to unionize and see how he feels about it.

[Rich]

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as labor secretary nominee.

One might think that paying an undocumented worker would be a *feature* in these days of modern time.

[Fatty Bolger]

These scientists think giant machines could help refreeze the Arctic

(CNN)A team of scientists has a surprisingly simple solution to saving the Arctic: We need to make more ice.

A team at Arizona State University has proposed building 10 million wind-powered pumps to draw up water and spill it out onto the surface of the ice, where it will freeze faster.

Doing so would be complicated and expensive -- it's estimated to cost a cool $500 billion, and right now the proposal is only theoretical.

But the need to solve the problem is urgent, said professor of astrophysics Steven Desch. He and a team of scientists published a study about how to refreeze parts of the Arctic in the December 2016 issue of the "Earth's Future" journal.

[UnCivilServant]

Or we could do nothing and the solar cycle will do that for free.

[Citizen X - #6]

Do you want Snowpiercer? Because this is how you get Snowpiercer.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

John Hurt's dead, yo.

[Not a True MJG]

He is. 🙁

[Monty Crisco]

That movie had the absolute DUMBFUCKIEST ending of ALL FUCKING TIME!!! I could have been down with the concept but the ending was fucking retarded. That annoying fucking Korean - BONG FONG DING DONG or whatever the fuck his name was - is like "Well, Imma blow up the train - the only thing keeping us ALL alive in this incredibly harsh environment" and my simple question is "WHY!??!?". And why did those fucksticks LET him?!
Ultimately, I was happy to see them all die and I hope the polar bear ate those fucking kids who lived.

[Get To Da Chippah]

Or we can just harvest ice from space.

[Rich]

"'Gas music from Jupiter', indeed!"

[John Titor]

Geoengineering concepts always get rejected immediately by mainstream environmentalism under the logic of "BUT THEN WE WON'T LEARN OUR LESSON, WE NEED TO ACCEPT OUR CARBON SINS AND PROSTRATE OURSELVES TO GAIA."

[american socialist]

Yea they need the scam money too

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

My sarcasm meter in is in the shop. Is AmSoc unSocking itself?

[commodious rebrands]

The name's been hijacked by a ne'er do well.

[Citizen X - #6]

The current american socialist poached the name from the previous american socialist, which annoyed the previous amsoc so much that he seems to've disappeared.

[Citizen X - #6]

You'd think a socialist would be understanding about redistribution, but noooo.

[The Last American Hero]

It turns out that American Socialist is really like the Dread Pirate Roberts. One day, the current American Socialist will retire and find a successor.

[Kauzig Kristen]

So which one is the good twin, and which is the evil twin?

[Citizen X - #6]

Both are evil.

[Griffin3]

Both twins are Tulpa

[Kauzig Kristen]

Then my filter shall remain!

[american socialist]

What happens when the wind doesnt blow?

I thought the earth is warming such that how will the water freeze when on top?

[Tyler.C]

Ah yes we humans are so intelligent that we know precisely how to fix this problem affecting the entire planet! Nothing could go wrong.

[Zeb]

Hey, at least they are getting beyond "everyone needs to be poorer and use less energy".

[Rhywun]

But the need to solve the problem is urgent

Noble savages on ice

[colorblindkid]

This is the dumbest fucking thing in the world. Thickening the ice cap does not lower sea levels. It stays the exact same height. They would need to pump sea water thousands of feet up onto the Greenland ice sheet to actually accomplish anything.

[Bee Tagger]

The federal inquiry ? which has amassed intercepts of telephone calls, business records and subject interviews ? is looking at how Russian officials sought to meddle in the November election

Whether the meddling had any significant impact will remain un-inquired.

[Chipwooder]

Actually, it's already been inquired, and nothing was found. That's why we're now obsessing over a basically meaningless phone call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.

I'm perfectly fine with seeing Flynn out on his ass, but the means used to accomplish that are profoundly disturbing.

[Bee Tagger]

I'm perfectly fine with ..., but the means used to accomplish that are profoundly disturbing.

welcome to the next 4 years of extremely uneasy alliances with anti-Trump groups.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"A months-long inquiry into contacts between Russian government officials and associates of President Trump's campaign and business interests will continue despite the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn for misleading White House officials about his communication with Russia."

Assault on the First Amendment continues!

[american socialist]

the immigrant strawmans are nauseating. Anyway do lefties like illegals because they mean low prices and can get around labor laws while Simultaneously grand standing about how much they care by piling on min wage and mandatory benefits

[Rich]

Christian university in Texas opens prayer room for Muslim students

You can't fool *me*, Jeremy -- that's from The Onion.

[The Last American Hero]

Yeah, but it's in the old Swine Research Lab, so joke's on them.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Term of the Day: Graysexuality

One of the biggest changes we can celebrate in our media over recent years is the increasing visibility of LGBTQIA+ people onscreen. But what about people whose sexuality doesn't fit into any of those labels?

There are many, many people who think of themselves as not quite gay or straight ? especially asexual-leaning and questioning people who struggle to find the right name for their identities.

Filmmaker Christopher Stoudt has an interesting new visibility project for people who don't fit neatly into any orientation: his video "I'm Graysexual," which explores his romantic life as a young graysexual man.

Graysexual is a term that covers the fluid area between people who are sexual and people who aren't. While graysexuality is usually under the asexuality umbrella, a huge term that includes a lot of different identities, it's a bit of a misnomer to include graysexual people in the same category as people who never experience sexual attraction or sexual desire in any circumstances.

The More You Know

[John Titor]

Filthy neutrals...

[straffinrun]

I'm more of throbbing, purple sexual.

[Anomalous]

I thought graysexual was someone who fancies old people.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

I'm pretty sure that's a juggler.

[0x90]

I thought graysexual was someone who fancies old people.

Or, extra-terrestrials. Maybe old ones. Well, not The Old Ones. That would be a weird kink.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Is there a bot that just makes up ______sexuality terms every day and then a team of writers fill in the definition?

[Citizen X - #6]

Yes.

[John Titor]

Everyone's got to have their little category that they can base their identity off of and prove their 'uniqueness', at least in their immediate social group.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

It's a great substitute for effort and talent.

[OneOut]

At the rate the proggies sre going in a decade everyone will be an identity group and we will have come full circle to individualism.

[American Memer]

Well, if that's what it takes to bring them around...

[straffinrun]

Wake me up when they make rapesexual a category.

[Citizen X - #6]

IT ALREADY CATEGORY, JUST NOT POPULAR ONE.

[straffinrun]

It wouldn't be rape if it were.

[Citizen X - #6]

WHY OTHERING STEVE SMITH?

[John Titor]

STEVE SMITH GO TO LGBT GROUP AND TRY TO APPLY, THEY NO ACCEPT HIM SO HE SHOW THEM HIS SEXUALITY.

[Monty Crisco]

I'm homo-textual. Which means I send dick pics and all kinds of filthy innuendo via texts to all my guy friends but then when I'm actually hanging out with them just act like a normal bro and don't mention any of that text shit. It's a little weird, but also slightly hilarious....

[AlexInCT]

I am try-sexual... will try most sex offered..

[Fist of Etiquette]

It looks like "graysexual" should be the final one. Unless I'm reading that wrong, it's a catchall for everything not already labeled.

[Tyler.C]

At very some point even progressives can't be bothered to create even more tribes?

[american socialist]

They might as well recognize everyone as unique individuals that they are!

But that is crazy talk

[Rich]

While graysexuality is usually under the asexuality umbrella, a huge term that includes a lot of different identities, it's a bit of a misnomer to include graysexual people in the same category as people who never experience sexual attraction or sexual desire in any circumstances.

Exactly. That's why *those* people should be placed into the asexuality *closet*, another huge term.

[Kauzig Kristen]

I can't wait for the day when human beans decide that not everyone and everything needs to be categorized.

[Rhywun]

Unfortunately that and the narcissism that go with it are human nature.

[Chipwooder]

I can't think of anything less interesting than obsessing over the minute details of random people's sex lives.

[Eternal Blue Sky]

I remember from math class the difference between "orientation" and "magnitude"

The whole "graysexual"/"demisexual"/"aromantic" nonsense is just coming up with terms for "magnitude" and trying to insist it is an "orientation".

[Rhywun]

Shut up and pay attention to me and my weirdness!

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

"You know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To not know why you're here... That's... That's just an awful feeling. I almost gave up hope. There were times when I questioned myself... But I found you. So many sacrifices just to find you. Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense!"

[0x90]

Eschewing individualism, and yet still yearning to be individual... you come into the need for a lot of categories.

[Rich]

Judge Orders Mom Not to Get Pregnant Again After She Loses Fourth Child Due to Neglect

"Parent's rights to their children are constitutional protected because families are worthy of fundamental constitutional protection. However, nowhere has this court found a case where a constitutional right to procreate was protected, when there was no reasonable possibility of that parent and child becoming a family."

*** scratches head and gets coffee ***

[Zeb]

If the right to reproduce isn't a right retained by the people, I don't know what is.

[ant1sthenes]

Is it retained even after committing reproduction-related crimes? Meaning, if castration of sex-offenders can be justified as a measure to prevent recidivism, couldn't sterilization of child-neglecters be said to have the same effect, and to raise identical constitutional issues?

[Zeb]

Are we castrating sex offenders now? I guess there is "chemical castration", but I thought that had to be voluntary.
As the woman in this case seems to have no interest in actually having children, it seems likely that she'd happily take free sterilization. But it seems like that's not what the judge has ordered.

[Rhywun]

It's like a little slice of Venezuela in Brooklyn.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Money quote:

In 2011, for instance, coop members were caught paying other people ? notably their nannies ? to take over their 2-hour-per-week shifts at the market. As it turned out, the well-heeled bankers and lawyers and psychiatrists in the neighborhood who bill several hundred dollars an hour for their time didn't think rearranging the broccoli was worth it.

[straffinrun]

Glad I refreshed first. That little part, right there *taps finger on The Post*, gave me a giant smile.

[Citizen X - #6]

Always relevant.

[Fatty Bolger]

For decades, the coop has been offered a useful lesson to anyone paying attention: Socialism doesn't work.

Nuh-uh. It's just never been done right.

[Juvenile Bluster]

It's never been done at all! Venezuela? China? Cuba? USSR? Capitalist systems!*

* This derp courtesy the Socialist Party of Great Britain

[Kauzig Kristen]

From the article: gotta read this. Sounds interesting.

Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left

[Kauzig Kristen]

(but no Kindle version??????)

[commodious rebrands]

It is, after all, supposed to be an "alternative to commercial profit-oriented business."

Much like homeopathy is an alternative to actual medicine.

[Not a True MJG]

I know a Reason employee or two are members there. Which probably means they too must be purged from this organization.

[robc]

Interesting note from house construction:

Bricklaying was done by spanish speakers.
Framing was done by dutch speakers.

I was okay with having the Amish do the framing, seems like something they would be good at.

House should be complete in mid-March.

[Lee picked the wrong week....]

Most construction jobs would shut down if there were no Mexicans.

[Zeb]

I thought the Amish spoke some kind of German.

[WTF]

They do, the term "Dutch" as applied to the Amish is a corruption of the word "Deutsche" or "German".

[robc]

yeah, its Pennsylvania Dutch which is German, sorta.

[Citizen X - #6]

They still refer to all non-Amish as "English."

[SQWRLZ://cdn.panopticon.gov]

Throw the caw ofer da fence some hay, vunst naw.

[Juvenile Bluster]

Didn't we do the whole "Day Without Immigrants" before?

[John Titor]

It offers a satirical look at the consequences of all the Mexicans in the state of California suddenly disappearing (with a mysterious "pink fog" surrounding the state preventing any communication or movement with the outside world)

You've got way bigger problems than no Mexicans to clean toilets if California is completely cut off from the rest of the world. Start building power plants and waiting for your economy to collapse. Least their agricultural sector is still decent, but you're going to need some serfs to run it.

[american socialist]

So is illegals california the way they can not have insane costs of goods to buy (get around labor laws) while at the same time can go all prog with min wage and mandated bennies?

[Fatty Bolger]

I think the California middle and upper classes enjoy having an underclass available to act as servants, and justify it with a paternalism that really annoyed me when I talked to people about it.

[robc]

And the agriculture is in trouble without water from out of state.

[DEG]

For anyone interested, especially those who are considering stepping away from the Reason comments, whether temporarily or permanently, I co-admin a private email group strictly for the Reason commentariat. We've currently got about 40 members. It's Tulpa-free (with verification) and anonymous (unless you wish to voluntarily self-identify). For an invitation, email me at dgroves140 AT gmail DOT com with your handle, and we'll get you verified and added to the group.

We'll post this on the AM and PM links every day this week to give everyone a chance to see it.

[WTF]

Glibertarians is also worth checking out.

[commodious rebrands]

Blocked at work. Pity.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Me too...thank gawd for smart phones!

[Citizen X - #6]

The story at the top right now is a brand new SugarFree joint, so that's probably why.

[Kauzig Kristen]

My work's firewall apparently doesn't like newly-registered domains.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Glibertarians.com: It's like a high school reunion!

Exactly like a high school reunion.

[Zeb]

Yeah, it is a bit.

[Citizen X - #6]

I hadn't checked it out until just now. Your assessment is accurate.

[Rhywun]

Wait... so the dissatisfied have splintered into two offshoots already?

[Kauzig Kristen]

It's just gonna keep dividing until we're all just sitting in our houses, alone, screaming at the TV.

[Citizen X - #6]

That's just called "a weekday," though.

[Ska]

At least I have a glass of bourbon with me when I'm sitting alone screaming at the TV.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

We're going to spread you open and force our liberty down deep inside you.
Take that fuckin' liberty. Yeah. Take it. Take it good.

[WTF]

Shit, that's funny. Made me larf.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Does Robby Soave scare you? Me too! I found a Soave-free safe space just for people like us, and it's called Glibertarians.com.

He can't hurt us anymore.

[balff]

you seem a bit upset about the whole thing

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Do I?

[Zeb]

Heh. Soave derangement syndrome is real!

I like the glibertarians crew, but they do take this shit awfully seriously sometimes.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Hey, somebody with a sense of humor!

[Azathoth!!]

Thank you for that torrent of tears.

You're like an endlessly whiny Old Faithful.

[dajjal]

Can I join your circle jerk?

[Banjos]

No.

[straffinrun]

RBG's secret is out.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Engineers have been using 'patch and pray' techniques to repair Oroville Dam for YEARS as shocking pictures show the scale of the erosion caused by huge hole opened up in the spillway

Engineers had been using 'patch and pray' techniques to repair California's crumbling Oroville Dam before it threatened to collapse last week and sent the region into a panic.

Cracks in the main concrete spillway have been included in site reports since 2009 but crews have been using quick-fix concrete solutions to try to stop them from getting worse.

Engineering experts described the effort as a 'patch and pray' approach on Wednesday as the emergency situation in Oroville persisted.

Shocking.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Inspectors with the state agency that both operates and checks the dam, the nation's tallest at 770 feet, went into the half-mile-long spillway in 2014 and 2015 and did not find any concerns.

'Conditions appeared to be normal,' the inspector wrote in reports from both years. The most recent report which deemed the dam safe was in August last year when a team of inspectors checked it from only from afar.

[dajjal]

Sky daddy promised no more floods. I'm not worried. (Has anyone seen a rainbow lately?)

[CatoTheChipper]

97% scientific consensus said that California was in permanent drought caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

What's the point of a spillway that will never be used? Especially when politicians needed the money for choo-choo trains, alternative energy, and transgender restrooms.

[Rhywun]

Some minor functionaries are drawing straws to see who takes the fall.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Silly Rhywun.

One of the state inspectors who went to Oroville Dam in August said authorities may never know exactly what destabilized the spillway.

'Any type of evidence that might have been there is gone,' Eric Holland of the water resources department's dam safety division said. 'Everything has been washed away.'

[Rhywun]

Ah, so like that river they poisoned.

"Shit happens. *shrug*"

[dajjal]

#FreeAddictionMyth

[dajjal]

Trump praises Wikileaks and then cries when it happens to him. What an idiot.

Anyway the American people won't stand for the prosecution of the heroes that ousted Flynn. Their message to Trump & The Generals: "Don't even think about it."

[Rational Exuberance]

Trump praises Wikileaks and then cries when it happens to him. What an idiot.

Are you serious? You draw an equivalence between (1) the DNC practicing poor security and getting hacked by Russian teenagers, and (2) the US security apparatus misusing its powers to fight against reforms?

Anyway the American people won't stand for the prosecution of the heroes that ousted Flynn.

The American people seem to be divided in half, one half being totalitarian idiots like you, and the other half wanting change.

[Citizen X - #6]

Oh my god people do NOT respond to it.

[dajjal]

But I'm sooooooOOOoooooo hungry 🙁

[Evan from Evansville]

Korea's getting mighty interesting in my 6th week back.

ALL of the kids know and talk about Park Gun-hye's impeachment and they're all against her and tsk tsk and boo whenever her name is mentioned. I don't trust these kids to know what's going on but it seems like a pretty good reflection on what their parents are telling them.

Such a weird family. Park Chung-hee was IMO a very mirror image of Pinochet in Korea. Did some horrific shit and brutalized protesters and shut off freedom of speech and association...but he lifted SoKo out of an economic dark age. Granted it was done with Soviet funds, but SoKo didn't have a higher per capita GDP than the NoKos until 1979.

Then he was assassinated by his friend, the head of the Korean equivalent to the CIA at a dinner party. How cool is that?

And now this week Kim Jung-nam is assassinated and all the kids are talking about it feverishly. My debate classes this week were a no brainer...fucking talk about political intrigue! All the kids have a theory.

And the best thing about the Disneyland thing is that he used a Dom. Republic passport....um....Asian.. .Hispanic....Asian....Hispanic....that was the best he could get a hold of? Christ. I know Asians can tell each other apart than I can but lord. At least put in SOME effort.That's like me trying to pass for Mongolian.

[Azathoth!!]

Ummm........there are Korean people who live in the Dominican Republic.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

ICE detains alleged domestic violence victim

The section which caught my eye:

"There were six ICE agents on the 10th floor," Bernal said.

Six ICE agents to arrest one person?

[commodious rebrands]

No, lieutenant, your men are already dead.

[Kauzig Kristen]

+01001001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110100

[Juice]

I watched a PBS special about Ruby Ridge last night.

[Agammamon]

Restaurants, stores, and other businesses around the country will be closed today as part of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

Uhm, where? Because I live in a town, in a part of the country, full of immigrants - and all those motherfuckers are working their arses off.

Are you sure its not 'a day without immigrants who have made enough money that they can afford to take a day off to social signal'? Because the one's around here DGAF. Must be because they're not sufficiently 'conscious' or 'woke' and as such are 'class traitors'.

[Pompey:? Class Mothersmucker]

Restaurants, stores, and other businesses around the country will be closed today as part of the "Day Without Immigrants" protest.

Otherwise known as "Dumb Loss of 1/28 of your February Brick and Mortar Revenue Day."

[Fatty Bolger]

Like Kristen pointed out above, it's just an opportunity for progressive douchebags to do a little social signaling at the expense of the very people they are supposedly trying to help.

[Rational Exuberance]

Do they ever do anything else?

[Citizen X - #6]

From what my local paper is reporting, it's all native hipster-owned businesses that are closing, due to an excess of wokeness.

[Rhywun]

And, shockingly, all the man-on-the-street soundbites on my morning news were cheering this on.

[Citizen X - #6]

Probably the first they've heard of it. "What's that? Oh, that's nice. Well, i have to get to MY job."

[american socialist]

Do these hipsters even employ illegals?

[Rhywun]

Doesn't matter. It's a day of woke for ALL immigrants.

[Citizen X - #6]

I saw no indication that they do.

[Zeb]

It's almost as if most immigrants are here to work their asses off, and not to get involved in politics.

[dajjal]

Did Puzder beat his wife? I assume that's why they picked him, but she recanted. Also - is this the real reason he was rejected or was it because of the illegal domestic help?

[Rational Exuberance]

Most likely, he just got tired of the b.s.

[dajjal]

Did he beat his wife or not? She sure seemed pretty credible on Oprah. But then some people are great liars. I don't know!

[Citizen X - #6]

Seriously, don't reply to it.

[dajjal]

must.... #resist....

[Rational Exuberance]

As soon as the Reasonable extension actually kills entire subtrees...

[dajjal]

Every illegal I come across makes a point of telling me how hard they work. I respond, "Work harder mother fucker or we're gonna deport your ass!"

LOL haha I don't actually say that. But that's what I'm thinking.

[dajjal]

As long as Trump targets the illegals with teenage kids I'm fine with rounding them up and deporting them or whatever needs to be done to keep us safe.

[0x90]

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn Pudzer pulled as labor secretary nominee. His Senate confirmation hearings had been scheduled to begin today.

[dajjal]

A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment that will probably result in the woman's deportation after she completes her sentence.... Ortega, a single mother of four children ages 13 to 16....

I jerked off to this last night. #IsThatWeird?

[Chipwooder]

Do you want more troll posts? Because this is how you get more troll posts.

[commodious rebrands]

I don't think it needs a reason to post. It's unhinged.

[dajjal]

#PagingKafka

[dajjal]

I'm running on a platform to utterly abolish safe spaces for trolls and decimate entire subtrees. Can I count on your vote?

[SFC B]

Is Mary back and off her fucking meds because this is looking a lot like those bad ol' days.

[Zeb]

You must be repressing some memories, because those days were far, far worse.

dajjal is another sock of buttplug/shrike/AddictionMyth as far as I can see.

[(??o?)?? S?X?_|_]

I concur.