Fed Raising Rates, House Intel Committee Probing Leaks, China Sending Marx Statue to Germany: P.M. Links

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  Harald Tittel/dpa

  The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point.

• The House Intelligence Committee is opening up a probe into leaks in the intelligence community about President Trump's aides.
• The Department of Justice charged four people, including two intelligence officers from Russia, in connection with the hacking of Yahoo.
• European Council President Donald Tusk says the European Union would not be "initimidated" by the United Kingdom over Brexit.
• Voters in the Netherlands are choosing a new parliament.
• Karl Marx's German hometown has decided to accept a statue of the philosopher from China on the occasion of his 200th birthday.
• A McDonald's worker in Florida jumped through the drive thru window to try to help a woman who had lost consciousness.

Comments

[Citizen X - #6]

European Council President Donald Tusk says the European Union would not be "initimidated" by the United Kingdom over Brexit.

Was... Was that an issue?

[Citizen X - #6]

GOR BLIMEY CHIM CHIM CHEROO

[Citizen X - #6]

WOT WOT CHEERIO OLD CHAP

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

Just wait until the unleash the hooligans.

[Rich]

the unleash the hooligans

Nice band name.

[Stormy Dragon]

There actually is a celtic rock band named The Hooligans in the the Philadelphia Area.

[Brandybuck]

Hooliganism! Sheer hooliganism!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[XenoZooValentine]

We will not be manipsinated! You gots to get your edumacation!

[Not a True MJG]

TUSK!

[Citizen X - #6]

Karl Marx's German hometown has decided to accept a statue of the philosopher from China on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

Man, they are not vetting immigrants AT ALL.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Trojan Marx!

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Maybe that Austrian town should accept a statue of the socialist philosopher who contributed so much to mid-20th century culture. I admit he was just a piddling murderer compared to all the moral descendants of Marx, but he's their boy and they should be proud of what they got.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point.

I do it better.

[Citizen X - #6]

[citation needed]

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Lol.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Citation Needed was one of my nicknames in college.

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

I didn't know you had anything to do with the Fed interest rate.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

We all do Tulpa.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

That's why Tulpa has trunk butt.

[Aloysious]

We all do what to Tupla?

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

We do what we want.

[Rich]

The four men face 47 criminal charges including computer fraud and economic espionage. This marks the first time the U.S. government has issued criminal charges against Russian officials for cyber attacks.

And the first time it's been able to collect damage payments for the victims?

[Rich]

Karl Marx's German hometown has decided to accept a statue of the philosopher from China on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

It's a TROJAN HORSE!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

You win this time, Rich.

[Rich]

We're all winners when we participate. 😎

[XenoZooValentine]

...and knowing is half the battle!

[Chipper Morning Wood]

G. I. Joe Biden!

[Rufus The Monocled]

"A McDonald's worker in Florida jumped through the drive thru window to try to help a woman who had lost consciousness."

Vote for Pedro.

Illegal or not!

[Citizen X - #6]

"All your wildest dreams will come true."

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Someone check on Fist...

[Citizen X - #6]

In epic battle i slew Fist, and have taken his commenting powers. KNEEL BEFORE X

[Chipper Morning Wood]

There was some slaying, and a fist was involved, loosely, in Citizen X's afternoon,and perhaps even a little kneeling, but the rest is questionable.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

[no citation or pics needed] *wretches*

[XenoZooValentine]

Go on...

[Fist of Etiquette]

I can't be here every second to hold everyone's hands all the time.

[Rich]

A McDonald's worker in Florida jumped through the drive thru window to try to help a woman who had lost consciousness.

Because she was choking on the fries?

[Citizen X - #6]

But the beef tallow makes 'em slide so easily down the gullet.

[Citizen X - #6]

Just like me, ladies.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

If you keep asking nicely, they probably eventually will.

[Rich]

*** reads article ***

Seriously, nice job, Pedro!

[XenoZooValentine]

Florida Man to the rescue!

[Fatty Bolger]

Maybe Florida Man's finally getting his act together?

...Nah.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Blame Anthony Bourdain for ruining New York

But enough's enough! The malodorous menaces clog up enough city streets and spew too many discordant scents into New York's already pungent air.

Unlike real restaurants, street-food sellers don't have to post Department of Health letter grades. They make sidewalks near-impassable on parts of Sixth Avenue, West 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth, and on Broadway south of Fulton Street.

They siphon business from legitimate brick-and-mortar eateries ? and serve much of the worst, albeit cheap, food in town.

[Rich]

The malodorous menaces

Nice band name.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

That was a nickname shared by all of us in college, i believe.

[Not a True MJG]

My odors were always bon.

[Rhywun]

I blame Steve Cuozzo for being the biggest pompous ass columnist at the Post. Seriously, every article of his is elitist garbage.

[XenoZooValentine]

Everybody hates them, which is why everybody keeps buying and eating food from them and keeps them in business.

[CZmacure]

I read that article a few days ago. I was fucking amazed at how seriously a food critic could take themselves.

Dude, you literally turn food into shit for a living. Shit writing, that is.

[gaoxiaen]

Those food trucks' customers don't know what good food is so the shouldn't be allowed to choose for themselves.

[Not a True MJG]

Christ, what an asshole.

And so Tulpaesque. But I repeat myself.

[Rhywun]

"The decision, however, does not stipulate the size of the sculpture or where it will be placed," said the city council in a statement.

Chinese artist Wu Weishan has suggested the statue should be 4.9 meters tall atop a 1.4 meter high pedestal at the Porta Nigra, the city's most famous landmark and one of the biggest and best-preserved Roman gates north of the Alps.

Translation: it will be tossed into a basement somewhere and forgotten. God willing.

[grrizzly]

Heute hab ich dir gebracht
Sch?ne Blumen in der Nacht,
Keine R?slein leg ich dir ins Bett.
Wei?e Pracht in zartem Strau?
Kam mit Maigl?ckchen ins Haus.
Auf dem Kissen lagen sie so nett.

Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Du bist die Stadt roter Blumen,
Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Aber ich mag nur wei?.

Keine Sch?nheit' in der Bl?te,
Steigt der Duft nur ins Gem?te.
Bringt uns jetzt der Fr?hling Zauber,
Als ob ein wei?es Lied erklingt.
Als' dein erster Hochzeitsring,
Also deine erste Liebe, glaube ich.

Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Du bist die Stadt roter Blumen,
Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Aber ich mag nur wei?.

Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Du bist die Stadt roter Blumen,
Karl-Marx-Stadt, Karl-Marx-Stadt,
Aber ich mag nur wei?.

[Rhywun]

Funny, I was just reading the Wikipedia article about Chemnitz last night for some reason. I don't recognize the lyrics, though.

Oh, it was because I get caught up in a vortex of articles about the shitty concrete housing that went up all over East Germany after the war.

[grrizzly]

The song was performed by a Russian band. Perhaps, it's not very German.

[Conchfritters]

I took a train through Dresden once and witnessed said concrete housing. It was terrible.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Yoga pants and comfy clothes blamed for rise in ocean pollution and contaminated seafood because microfibers wash into the sea

Clothes made from nylon, polyester and other synthetic materials shed microscopic plastic fibers every time they're washed. The 'microfibers' are then flushed into the waterways and eventually make their way into the sea.

One study, conducted by volunteers in Florida, revealed 89 percent of their samples included at least one piece of plastic. Among those, microfibers made up 82 percent of the plastic found.

The Greens vs Lazy Women: it's on!

[Rhywun]

At the other place there was a link about some socialite and her whipped guy pal who was really into protecting the oceans from plastic. This sounds like a job for that guy.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

It was only a matter of time before the joykills took on yoga pants. Over my dead body. The dude that invented yoga pants deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Rich]

When you've lost yoga pants, ....

[XenoZooValentine]

If we can't freely gambol across the plains, in the rain, in nothing but yoga pants, a sports bra, and a pair of flip-flops, I don't know what we're doing with our lives.

[Bronson, Missouri]

Hey- what ever ended up happening with that bad tweet? Did it get destroyed or what?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Protesting at Lunchtime: Defying Trump Becomes a Washington Lifestyle

Protesting is the new brunch" sounds like an inscription on a T-shirt ? and, thanks to the internet, it is. But it's also a phrase traded among friends at bars, at work or on the walk home from yet another demonstration. "See you next weekend," people say.

Another sign of an uptick is the crowd at All Souls Unitarian, a Washington church where social justice and worship have long gone hand in hand. Each Sunday service has attracted about 200 more people than before the election, said the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Hardies, the church's senior minister. The 2,400 people who attended the first service after the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington set a record

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

"The word 'protest' often gets a bad rap," Ms. Einwohner said. "'Resistance' is also a little more acceptable and safer."

It's also not uncommon for friendship and the occasional romance to blossom. Brendan Orsinger, a 35-year-old activist, said that he met a love interest last year after they had both been booked and put in handcuffs for civil disobedience at the Capitol.

"We ended up dating," he said.

The love did not last. Mr. Orsinger met someone else ? at another protest.

[John]

So basically he is doing this to get laid. Can't say that I blame the guy, but what a scam.

[Rhywun]

They each discovered that being a miserable bitch isn't very attractive.

[John]

Donald Trump is going to get more douchy white guys laid than any President in history. I am not sure if that is a good thing, but it is something.

[creech]

LBJ and Nixon admins were pretty good for that too, as I recall.

[John]

Yeah, probably better I suppose.

[Fatty Bolger]

Hey, Hey, LBJ!
Thanks for getting me laid today!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

people over money

[Rhywun]

Einwohner?! That's an unusual (((name))).

[B.P.]

picking up chicks at protests? What will these kids think of next?

[american socialist]

LARP

[Rich]

Small drone 'shot with Patriot missile'

"In fact, if I'm the enemy, I'm thinking, 'Hey, I'm just gonna get on eBay and buy as many of these $300 quadcopters as I can and expend all the Patriot missiles out there'."

STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS!

[Stormy Dragon]

US Ally uses $3m missile to shoot down a $200 drone:

Small drone 'shot with Patriot missile'

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

So the missile worked?

[XenoZooValentine]

Fire ze missiles!

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

The 'Forgotten' Ratcatchers of Paris Went on Strike Yesterday

citing a variety of grievances, the city's ratcatchers spent Tuesday on strike. Several dozen workers gathered outside City Hall with a banner that read, "The staff are angry," Agence France-Presse reports. (They also laid a dead rat under the banner, for effect.)

Among their demands: reinforcements, and payment of last year's bonus, which was lost in an administrative shuffle. But mostly, The Local writes, they just want a little more respect. "They only want to be recognized," union representative Olivier Garret told AFP.

[Stormy Dragon]

Where will Parisians get meat for their rat stew, rat soup, rat pies, or the ever-popular ratatouille?

[John]

When you can be replaced by an ally cat, just how much leverage do you really have?

[Stormy Dragon]

And we all know the ally of my cat is my dog's enemy.

[XenoZooValentine]

"Rats in a Cream Sauce. Rat Flambe. Rat Necrom, with Bone Meal Gravy. Deep Fried Rat. Lemon Rat and Wild Rice. Rat Ragu, with Powdered Deer Penis!"

[Mickey Rat]

This is a crkisis for John Kerry, as it will depress French ketchup sales!

[Rich]

Ratcatchers of Paris Went on Strike Yesterday

Sounds like a Warren Zevon song.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Their hair was perfect.

[Rich]

😎

[John]

Sadly, they don't really serve Pina Colodas at Trader Vics.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Crusty once tried to hire a ratcatcher when a horizon expanding experience expanded his horizons too wide.

[Mickey Rat]

...they then led all the children out of Paris to a rousing flute tune.

[Stormy Dragon]

If there's a rat catchers union, what do they use to protest scabs?

[John]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kenben......eiWV50lnN

If I were a Russian gangster or an out of work former KGB agent, I think I would get Evan McMullin and Bill Kristol on the line and tell them how I had the real Trump KGB dossier available for the right price. These idiots will apparently believe anything.

[CatoTheChipper]

Clinton/Soros shill David Brock offers $5 million reward to anyone with Trump's tax returns.

Trump ought to release 2006 to punk Brock and his progressive allies.

Then sue their asses for the $5 million. Maybe sic the feds on them for fraud as well.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

A man claimed he stood his ground with a warning shot. A judge revoked his carry permit.

Brown, who did not return messages seeking comment, would later tell authorities that he thought the pursuers were drug dealers, or possibly loan sharks, and that the white man was in trouble. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, an officer testified that Brown told him "he saw two black guys ganging up on the white dude," and "I've been told if I saw anything going on, I could use lethal force."

But Brown was wrong ? and Craig said he was about to make a bad situation worse.

"He was under the mistaken impression that if he came across a situation like this he could use lethal force to break it up," an incredulous Craig told The Post. "I think he had a stand-your-ground-type defense confused and thought that he could just be a vigilante."

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

According to Winston-Salem police, Brown "attempted to stop the struggle by pointing a handgun."

One of the black men, Fredrick Morgan, testified that Brown pointed his gun at the group and demanded that the scuffling trio show ID.

"I'm like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. You need to put that gun up,' " Morgan testified, according to the Journal.

When the three men wouldn't listen, Brown fired a bullet into the ground a few feet in front of Morgan.

It wasn't until after Brown had made a new hole in the asphalt that he learned the truth. The white man was mentally ill and had fled from two care workers. The chase was their attempt to corral him near Hanes Mall

He was acting like he was Johnny Law.

[B.P.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6lNDrCi88

[Juice]

If he was Johnny Law, he'd get to keep carrying his gun.

[Stormy Dragon]

"Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's my policy."

[Chipper Morning Wood]

+1 assault with a concrete dildo

[mad.casual]

[Officer J.R. ] Huffman responded: "Where'd you get a concealed-carry license from? Kmart? . . . Warning shots? We don't fire warning shots."

There you have it. Shoot the attackers without question because the police told you to.

[bevis the lumberjack]

http://deadspin.com/presenting.....1793264800
The 2017 Name of the Year Bracket has been released!

First glance through I'm thinking YourMajesty Lumpkins, although Aphrodite Bodycomb and Andy Brandy Casagrande IV are pretty damn strong.

Those stuck in the "still mentally a 15 year-old boy" phase of their life can line up behind Faraj Fartass.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Alpha McMath and Marmaduke Trebilcock are pretty good, too.

[bevis the lumberjack]

Yeah they are. Marmaduke could definitely win the thing.

If you prefer simple, there's also Boats Botes. Or for those that weaned poorly you've got Eliza Fox Teats. Those two square off in the toughest first round matchup.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Fun fact: Alpha McMath is an English professor. Who saw that coming?

[Get To Da Chippah]

I would expect Sultan McDoom vs. Christian Joo to be something you're see on Celebrity Deathmatch.

[mad.casual]

Karl Marx's German hometown has decided to accept a statue of the philosopher from China on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

Damn you Germany! *I* was gonna buy the statue and be sure to have them stamp 'Made In China' on the bottom so it went with my Che Guevara T-shirt. Now they'll probably just put it up where any dumb European can see it and, before you now it, everyone's gonna want one and we're all gonna have to settle for crappy desktop replicas.

[american socialist]

Does anyone think liberals secretly love trump? Like he helps their egos by them resisting or whatever. He is a drug to their identity

What would they do if went away?

[John C. Randolph]

Marx was not a philosopher. He was a professional sniveller.

-jcr

[Mickey Rat]

And moocher.

[OneOut]

he was a less successful Bernie Sanders.

[DanO.]

Nothing else happened.

[XenoZooValentine]

Procedures were followed. Warning shots were fired. Mistakes were make. Benchmarks were raised. Leaks were probed. Missiles were fired. Drones were detonated. Drive-thru windows were dove through. Statues were deported.

Just another day in our funny little post-modern, post-consumer, post-alpaca-lips world.

Welcome to Earth.