A.M. Links: Trump Picks H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser, CPAC Disinvites Milo Yiannopoulos

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  Gage Skidmore

  Donald Trump has picked Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser.

• Authorities are investigating the vandalism of a historic Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
• The British government is defending its decision to invite President Donald Trump for an official visit.
• "Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference after his attempt to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men fell flat with organizers."
• Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, has died at age 69.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff...

Not very.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Donald Trump has picked Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser."

I read that as Rational security adviser.

[Rich]

I like it.

"Show your work."

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

I read that as Raisin Maturity Survivor.

[XenoZooValentine]

Well, non-mature raisins are just grapes....

[Bee Tagger]

The British government is defending its decision to invite President Donald Trump for an official visit.

And yet Michael Savage is sitting on his couch looking like a fool #smh

[UnCivilServant]

Alienating the US while in a divorce proceeding with the EU would give the Eurocrats a stronger negotiating position. May is no fool, even if she dislikes the current administration, she's going to present a strong appearance of alliance to keep on sure footing in disentangling from brussels.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference...

Oh, no! Milo found himself in the news again. I feel for him.

[Libertarian]

It's okay, you can feel for him. Assuming you're over 18, that is.

[Anomalous]

I don't think that would be a dealbreaker for Milo.

[Anomalous]

I don't think that would be a dealbreaker for Milo.

[Citizen X - #6]

"If there's grass on the field, play with its balls!"

[XenoZooValentine]

You really grabbed this controversy right by the pussy.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

As far as pederasts go, he's CATA-MITE!

[Bubba Jones]

Note that he denies being a pedophile.

I must have missed the quote where he denied being a pederast.

[Tejicano]

I have to admit that I have not watched a lot of Milo's alt-right diatribes but it tickles me to see the left confronted with his persona. I mean, right smack-dab in the middle of their Trump-ageddon, the meltdown of their political world, they are forced to deal with a spokesman for the right who not only has the correct British accent and intellect but is gay as well! He has the appearance of the poster child for their side, but flying the wrong colors! I can see that he is just too much for them at this particular point in political time - and it has me giggling.

[Monty Crisco]

Jaw-droppingly stupid take on "America's opioid crisis"?..

http://www.nationalreview.com/.....ion-crisis

Yes, yes, let's FURTHER stigmatize painkillers and make it HARDER to get legitimate treatment for chronic pain, while at the same time bolstering arguments FOR the WoD, and simultaneously endorsing arbitrarily using government as a cudgel for social engineering!!!

IT'S A THREEFER!!!!!!

Seriously, this is WEAPONS-GRADE stupidity?.

[Rhywun]

The part about being dependent on government is spot-on.

[chemjeff]

I don't see it that way. I think Geraghty's main point here is that Medicaid unintentionally subsidizes opioid abuse. Of course the correct solution is not to have a Medicaid program at all. But if we are going to have a Medicaid program, I don't think it is unreasonable to place limits on how that money may be spent particularly when it comes to addictive substances.

[XenoZooValentine]

The current war on pain meds is one of the dumbest fucking things the government has inflicted on us in a while.

There are people in this world who actually need these meds, possibly for the rest of their lives, and our asshole Top Men are making them jump through hoops and treating them like criminals because it plays well in the papers.

I'd like to break their spines with a sledgehammer, and tell them to take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

[commodious rebrands]

ast week, my two stepsons' father, a man who loved life, killed himself. I would like to tell you why.

Two years ago, a 62-year-old father of three named Bruce Graham was standing on a ladder, inspecting his roof for a leak, when the ladder slipped out from under him. He landed on top of the ladder, on his back, breaking several ribs, puncturing a lung, and tearing his intestine, which wasn't detected until he went into septic shock. Following surgery, he lapsed into a two-week coma.

In retrospect, it's unfortunate that he awoke from that coma, because for all intents and purposes, his life ended with that fall. Not because his mind was affected; his mind was completely intact until the moment he took his life. His life ended because, while modern medicine was adept enough to keep him alive, it was unable or unwilling to help him deal with the excruciating pain that he experienced over the next two years. And life in constant, excruciating pain, with no hope of ever alleviating it, is not worth living.

[commodious rebrands]

Linky

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

/Wesley

[XenoZooValentine]

Well, I guess the Dread Pirate Roberts understood that, which is why he set up that website.

Too bad they sent him to jail for it. And tried to send other people to jail for bitching about it.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Few people know he wasn't the real Dread Pirate Roberts.
The read DPR has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia

[XenoZooValentine]

The Silk Road guy is a direct descendant of Wesley and Buttercup?

This is my new headcanon.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Have fun stormin' the castle!

[Scotticus Finch]

for all intents and purposes, his life MOSTLY ended with that fall

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Because he had "To Blave" to live for.

[Monty Crisco]

Well put. That was one of the things l took away as well. Hopefully, sometime in the near future they will federally de-schedule marijuana.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Maybe in the year 2000.

[XenoZooValentine]

But then we'll all get stoned and crash our flying cars!

[dan'o en barrel]

Descheduling mj isn't likely to be liberation event I thought it was... I recently read that it would mean FDA regulation for medicinal use. Studies to verify each treatment use will be required- possibly for each strain. I suppose if it was completely removed from the schedule that it could exist as most herbal remedies, but that seems unlikely any time soon.

[XenoZooValentine]

They don't want to just let people sell it the same way people sell pretty much everything else in this world, because that would be roadless Somalian anarchy I guess. Oh well, baby steps.

[dan'o en barrel]

I'm left wondering if state-by-state recreational legalization isn't the best case scenario. Its true that US studies are hindered by schedule I classification, but research teams from other nations (especially Israel) are putting in some serious work to verify/debunk treatment claims.

[Bee Tagger]

Donald Trump has picked Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser.

After Giger and PuffAndStuff turned him down.

[XenoZooValentine]

*golf clap*

[DJF]

I blame Trump.

""""Meanwhile, Rioting Breaks Out In Sweden""""

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/.....out-sweden

[Libertarian]

And it *literally* happened last night!

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Shh, Reason and the MSM hasn't found out about this yet!

Keep it secret, Ahmed

[Princess Trigger]

more anti-Trump riots.
"Not my President! (since I'm a stateless person living in the Swedanland)"

[Monty Crisco]

Many of us believed that Barack Obama was doing great damage to America. And now we are convinced that he did more damage than any other two-term president to America domestically, to America's position the world, and to the world at large. He left office with racial tensions ? many of which he exacerbated ? greater than at any time since the civil-rights era half a century ago. He left the world's worst regimes ? Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, Islamist terror groups ? stronger and more aggressive than they were before he became president. Economic growth never rose above 3 percent, a first for a two-term president. He doubled the national debt, with little or nothing to show for it. Obamacare hurt more people financially than it helped medically. More people than ever are on government aid.

But we handled his tenure like mature adults. Most obviously, we didn't riot. In fact, in America, rioting ? not to mention shutting down highways and airports, taking over college offices, and protesting at people's homes ? is a monopoly of the left. Nor did we allow our children to take a day off from school to demonstrate. Nor did we as teachers preach opposition to Obama in our classrooms. Nor did we print posters declaring "Not My President." Nor did our clergy declare fast days.

Moreover, the left has done ALL of this after fervently exhorting Trump supporters NOT to do ANY of it as a moral imperative integral to the strength of our republic.

[american socialist]

The left projects...it is known

[Bubba Jones]

Dude, as far back as the '90s they were printing "Charleton Heston is my President" stickers.

on the other hand, I had to laugh when I saw the report that "historians" had ranked Obama #11 of all time.

[Voros McCracken]

Just behind Woodrow Wilson.

[Pope Jimbo]

It is funny that this happens right after we have had countless stories in the MSM about how wrong, wrong, wrong Trump was in his comments about Sweden.

[Bubba Jones]

Tyler Durden?

small world.

[XenoZooValentine]

"This is your life, and it's ending one comment at a time." -- Reason.com unofficial motto

[Fist of Etiquette]

Donald Trump has picked Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his new national security adviser.

His nom de plum was H.P. Lovecraft, who was also a three-star.

[Rich]

Ah, yes. Lovecraft. "The Crawling Chaos"

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

And his dog, Racist-jack.

[Grand Moff Serious Man]

?"Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference after his attempt to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men fell flat with organizers."

I feel bad for CPAC. They invited an obnoxious right-wing troll in good faith only to find out he's an obnoxious right-wing troll and a sex pervert.

Who woulda thunk it?

[Princess Trigger]

And Mitch McConnel will just waltz in like hero.

[XenoZooValentine]

It's like 9/11 all over again.

[Rich]

She said she didn't know if the headstones had been damaged as an act of hatred but questioned motives that would lead to the act.

*** facepalm ***

Seriously, who the fuck does stuff like this? Judge: "Restore everything to their original states, starting now."

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Damaged as an act of love. But the "hatred" was necessary to create the love.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Onerous drunk driving laws have made me unable to drive on the main streets while drunk. So I only drunk drive and do donuts in cemetaries now. That the Jewish one was closest that day was mere coincidence.

[commodious rebrands]

Well, she's not wrong. Was it Nazi-wannabe fuckwits? "Punch a Zionist" fuckwits? Islamist fuckwits?

[XenoZooValentine]

Garden-variety fuck-witted fuckwits?

[Citizen X - #6]

The British government is defending its decision to invite President Donald Trump for an official visit.

"Because he's the bloody President of the United States, that's why."

[Rich]

"Bloody 'ell!"

[Anomalous]

Bleedin' wankers!

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Piss orf, you daft coont.

[Citizen X - #6]

I mean, i guess it's possible to do a reverse Mikey and refer to him as "so-called president Fondled Con Dump."

[XenoZooValentine]

That's what a cosmo who secretly voted for BLOCK INSANE YOMOMMA would say.

-- YouKnowWhoGuzzlesWine

[Rufus The Monocled]

And I'd be very polite considering they're gonna have to come in and save your sorry asses again in the not too distant future.

[american socialist]

I take it they havent had saudi arabia then?

[Libertarian]

I don't understand the "could embarrass the queen" angle.

[american socialist]

Pure grandstanding

[Citizen X - #6]

Seriously, it's like they've completely forgotten about Prince Charles. Which... is understandable.

[John DeWitt]

Who?

[spqr2008]

And also like they don't remember their history, which says they ought to make sure Charles never becomes Charles III.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Shouldn't they be far more embarrassed that they even have a queen?

[Mickey Rat]

The Brits tried not having royalty, it did not suit them.

Now the Canadians shoild be embarrased about having a queen, especially since they are time sharing the Windsors with the UK, Australia and others.

[Memory Hole]

"President Trump is a piece of shit but we have to kiss his ass because we desperately need a good trade deal." I watched the debate and that's literally the argument from the people who support the state visit.

[commodious rebrands]

What's wrong with a phone call? Or an email?

[XenoZooValentine]

Smoke signals? Carrier pigeons? Tin cans and string?

[commodious rebrands]

He's a business man, right? Fax machine or GTFO.

[XenoZooValentine]

I remember this paper RPG from the nineties called Underground that envisioned the far future of 2021 having a sophisticated global network of... fax machines. And lots of cable TV channels.

Of course, to publish anything on this network legally required a free speech permit. Which you could only get after registration, a waiting period, and a background check from the Anti-Sedition Squad.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

I don't know about you blokes, but now we're all like overly bloody chuffed innit?

Cor blimey, ya wankstains, he's a tyrant! Like that German codger

[Libertarian]

Ferdinand Porsche?

[Rhywun]

You know who else was appeased by a European leader?

[Monty Crisco]

NIXON?!?!?!

[UnCivilServant]

The barbary pirates?

[Kauzig Kristen]

Wallace Simpson?

[XenoZooValentine]

Cleopatra?

[Citizen X - #6]

Guyuk Khan?

[Rich]

Hillary Clinton's in the House

For Broadway audiences, she's become a familiar sight ? and another reason to applaud.

Whew! For a second I thought it was the House of Representatives!

[Citizen X - #6]

and another reason to applaud.

"Hooray! She's here, and not in the White House!"

[Rich]

"The Glass-Ass Ceiling"

[american socialist]

Sounds like she is eyeing 2020. Please do

[John DeWitt]

I see what you did there.

[Citizen X - #6]

[vomits]

[Rhywun]

another reason to applaud

*barf*

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

I read that as:
"To be appalled"

[XenoZooValentine]

Tomato, tomatoe...

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Well, she has to do *something* with all the money her donors gave her. You expect her to return all that sweet, sweet cash?

[Memory Hole]

"Trump's actions in office have been even more disturbing. His visit to CIA headquarters on his first full day in office, an overture designed to repair relations, was undone by his ego and bluster," Price said.

"Whether delusional or deceitful, these were not the remarks many of my former colleagues and I wanted to hear from our new commander in chief. I couldn't help but reflect on the stark contrast between the bombast of the new president and the quiet dedication of a mentor ? a courageous, dedicated professional ? who is memorialized on that wall."

"I know others at CIA felt similarly," he added.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/21.....faith.html

[american socialist]

Why should we be sympathetic to the cia

[Libertarian]

Because there's a Republican in the White House.

[Rhywun]

More importantly, one who is stirring shit up.

[Citizen X - #6]

Who else is gonna keep America safe by destabilizing the governments of tiny third-world countries and telling lies to start wars?

[XenoZooValentine]

Who keeps the metric system down?

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Who's the black private detective who's a sex machine to all the chicks?
Who wants pie?
Who is John Galt?

[Princess Trigger]

We should just thank a federal worker for their "sacrifice" and their efforts to protect and serve us - every fucking day.

They're the real heroes.
Doing God's work in worst neighborhoods.

[Libertarian]

Fairfax, VA?

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

I can smell the stench from here.

[Kauzig Kristen]

Sorry - I had beans for dinner.

[XenoZooValentine]

+1 Beans-With-Bacon Mega-Rocket

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Ain't nothing quite like rich girl farts.

Purest Ozone on Earth.

[Memory Hole]

The CIA is bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Central Intelligence Agency? More like Rectal Integrity Austerity, amirite?

[Citizen X - #6]

Well... bye.

[XenoZooValentine]

"You know, Bob, if I ever see you again..."

(Sadly, I cannot find a link that clip.)

[Voros McCracken]

If he's lost the CIA, he's lost America.

[Pope Jimbo]

How is this not the top link?

Minnesoda house finally passes Sunday Liquor Store Sales law.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

White people stuff? You're commenting on the wrong site, luv.

[Libertarian]

I just don't understand how such blue states can have such blue laws. It doesn't add up to me.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

White guilt/man's burden.

[Monty Crisco]

Let's agree in the phrase "White man's guilty burden"....

[Rhywun]

It doesn't get bluer than a dry county - which are all in red states.

[Bubba Jones]

Liquor stores don't *want* to be open on Sunday.

But if you are open, then *I* have to be open.

[UnCivilServant]

Funny, my liquor store is open on Sundays. They close at 6pm.

I only remember because it was somehow surprising when I found out.

[XenoZooValentine]

I had somebody try to tell me that it gives the cops a day off or something. No, I don't know how that works either.

[american socialist]

Damn the links comments in recent weeks really took a hit

[Monty Crisco]

Only game in town as far as I'm concerned.... maybe the American Spectator?

[Monty Crisco]

ALSO: DAMMMMMMMNNNNNNN, new amsoc!! You're right!!! 115 comments after TWO HOURS?!?!? Wow...

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

A sizable chunk ascended to Shameful-La.

[Rasilio]

"Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, has died at age 69"

Well if she had just stuck to 69 she wouldn't have needed that abortion

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Hey-ooo! badoom, pish!

Hard to believe people are leaving the comments section when pearls like these a given out for free.

[Monty Crisco]

GOLD, JERRY!! GOLD!!!

[XenoZooValentine]

I'm a people person! I'm good with people! What the hell is wrong with you people?

[Bubba Jones]

I just want to know why the "filter" button doesn't work on reasonable any more.

Maybe I am doing it wrong.

[XenoZooValentine]

Too much data clogged in the series of tubes?

[Raston Bot]

Uber rocked by systemic sexual harassment claim. Eric Holder and Arianna Huffington brought in to do an investigation. No shit. This is really happening.

here are the claims by the female engineer in blogpost format..

https://tinyurl.com/j5vvzhu

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

They should change their name to UberMensch.

[XenoZooValentine]

"Nice business you got there, would be a shame if anybody were to make shit up about it for political gain."

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Alt-text:

Trump Nazi-salutes the crowd.
(Dr. Liet-Kynes voiceover: He shall know your ways as if born to them)

[Colonel Slanders]

Been gone for a week or two. Where the fuck did everyone go?

[XenoZooValentine]

There's been kind of a "commenter revolt" going on.

A lot of the regulars are displeased with the editorial direction and have migrated to other forums.

[Colonel Slanders]

Anyplace in particular?

[Citizen X - #6]

Somalia.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Somalia.

[Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon]

Ha ha.. Reversal from my earlier win. 2 points.

[Banjos]

glibertarians.com

[XenoZooValentine]

I notice there's yet another gap in the comments on another thread.

That handle was a dangerous mix of socks and puppetry.