Why House Intel Hearing Was Cancelled, SCOTUS Blocks Texas Execution, Spiders, Spiders, Spiders, Spiders, and More Spiders: P.M. Links

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  The latest in the President Donald Trump/Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)/Russian government/intelligence leaks epic drama: According to letters received by The Washington Post, Nunes cancelled a House Intelligence Committee hearing in order to keep fired former acting Attorney General Sally Yates from testifying what she knew about links to Russia.

• Trump plans to respond to a defamation suit against him by claiming that, as president, he's immune to all civil suits until he leaves office.
• The Supreme Court ruled today, 5-3, that Texas didn't properly evaluate the intellectual disabilities of a man on death row and reversed a lower court ruling, blocking his execution.
• Scotland's parliament has voted to support a referendum as to whether they want to be part of the Brexit or not.
• U.S. officials say there's a "fair chance" that a recent airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, killed civilians. So far more than 100 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a strike from earlier in the month.
• Will Congress actually fund Trump's wall?
• And the most important question of the day: Are spiders coming to eat you and all your loved ones? Because they could. And here everybody was worried about a nuclear war.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Commenting system... out of danger?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Oh look. It showed up after three 'refreshes'.

How refreshing.

[Juice]

What? No *dons sunglasses*?

[Rufus The Monocled]

No.

/crosses arms petulantly.

[OneOut]

Checking back in from time to time so soon ?

Come over to the dark side Rufus.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

White privilege means never having to come over to the dark side.

[DanO.]

Narrows gauze.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Nope. I post. I hit enter. I don't see comment. I refresh and still nothing. It eventually shows up mysteriously. I've had enough.

I'll check back from time to time to see if it gets fixed. But I've got no more time for this.

/picks up Hello and leaves.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Refreshes = page views. There are perverse incentives not to fix it.

[Endless Mike]

See you at the Gulch

[Citizen X - #6]

Those sugar maples aren't gonna tap themselves, eh?

[Zeb]

It's close to fixed. I've got a good feeling.

If you see the actual article after posting, it will show up eventually. If you get the blank page, it's gone forever. I haven't seen the blank page today. In my mind that means that everything will be back to normal tomorrow.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Pretty dad when back to normal means there us some chance your comment will eventually appear.

[$park? leftist poser]

Pretty Dad is my nickname at my son's school.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

Is it because of the eyeliner and lipstick?

[Mickey Rat]

"I don't mean to say that the commenting software hauls garbage, I mean to say that the commenting software should be hauled away as garbage."

[Fist of Etiquette]

PICTURE DON'T WANT

[Mickey Rat]

Boris the Spider!

[Philadelphia Collins]

+1 Ox

[Citizen X - #6]

Spiders, Spiders, Spiders, Spiders, and More Spiders

FUUUUUUUCK

[Citizen X - #6]

The spider link goes to the Virginian-Pilot, the rolled up paper version of which has ended the life of many an arachnid foolish enough to wander into my house.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I, for one, welcome our arachnid overlords.

[Fist of Etiquette]

According to letters received by The Washington Post, Nunes cancelled a House Intelligence Committee hearing in order to keep fired former acting Attorney General Sally Yates from testifying what she knew about links to Russia.

So suddenly being a partisan hack in the House is a bad thing?

[Bubba Jones]

Only when it is a republican.

Just like only republican scotus nominees can be filibustered. And they blame Gorsuch for having an agenda.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Are spiders coming to eat you and all your loved ones?

Take it from Bill Shatner, it's rabbits you gotta worry about.

[Fist of Etiquette]

U.S. officials say there's a "fair chance" that a recent airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, killed civilians.

Meaning the US gave them a fair chance not to be in war zone.

[$park? leftist poser]

They should have chosen better countrymen.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Fair is a place where Halal animals go to win capitalist demarcations of excess.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Will Congress actually fund Trump's wall?

Only the Mexican-American members.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Scotland's parliament has voted to support a referendum as to whether they want to be part of the Brexit or not.

A referendum? Why do they even need a parliament if it can't make this simple decision without crawling to the people for help?

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Students Confess Their Sins At 'Masculinity Confession Booth'

A university will be hosting a "Masculinity Confession Booth" along with a number of other workshops and screenings to combat "hypermasculinity."

"We have all reinforced hypermasculinity one way or another regardless of our gender!!" explains the University of Regina event description. "Come and share your sins so we can begin to discuss how to identify and change our ways !!!"

The "Man Up Against Violence" initiative will be hosting these events at the University of Regina in Canada during the present week.

Confession: A strange man started a conversation and made eye contact with me while I was standing at a urinal (one that did not hide anything), and I liked it.

[Citizen X - #6]

Confession: i sometimes wait-shame the women in my life by being ready to leave the house on time, rather than 45 minutes to an hour late.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Fascistly Late? What kind of women are you waiting on? All the good ones are dirty commies!

[Mickey Rat]

And tbey Catholicism is a religion that thrives on guilt. At least Catnolics have Carnival.

[Citizen X - #6]

Confession: Sometimes i get tired of being the only one in the house who can open a damn jar.

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Confession: I don't believe my wife has as many headaches as she claims.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Confession: After two feet of snow dropped, I spent hours shoveling helpless women either into our out of their parking spots, and I did not enjoy it.

[creech]

Confession: I have changed flat tires.

[Zeb]

I have a big penis.

[Cowboy]

Confession: I like the new Honda Ridgeline, but will never buy it because it's barely a truck, and would never live it down in this land of brotrucks

[Jimbo]

University of VAGINA, amirite??!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump plans to respond to a defamation suit against him by claiming that, as president, he's immune to all civil suits until he leaves office.

"I am the law!"

[A Cynic's Guide to Zen]

Tinfoil: The Trump was a grassroots libertarian movement to discredit and deflate the Executive Office with the most brilliant of patsies.

[Mickey Rat]

Ah, the Clinton gambit. It did not really go over when Bill tried it. Bill Maher should be on Trump's side on this, fot consistancy's sake at least.

[Jerryskids]

That was my immediate reaction - haven't we already settled that argument? Is Trump really unaware that this dodge was already tried or is he just less-shameless than Slick Willy in trotting out whatever ridiculous argument he can and he doesn't give a crap how stupid it makes him look?

[Zeb]

I think it's the second one. Or maybe a bit of each.

[Stormy Dragon]

It did not really go over when Bill tried it.

How does a unanimous SCOTUS ruling agreeing with him qualify as "not really going over"?

[Stormy Dragon]

Oh whoops, misread the wikipedia article. NEVER MIND.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

: Are spiders coming to eat you and all your loved ones? Because they could.

I hope so, because then it will finally be okay to rustle ladies.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Bret Easton Ellis: Barbra Streisand, Lena Dunham Shouldn't Blame Trump for Their Own 'Neuroses'

Bret Easton Ellis says "childish meltdowns" by Hollywood liberals who still can't accept Donald Trump's win are ruining his dinners out with friends ? and even hurting his relationship with his boyfriend.

In a 35-minute monologue on his latest podcast, the "American Psycho" author says coastal elites who embrace the anti-Trump "resistance" are testing his patience. He talked about a ruined night out at Spago's, and another dinner spoiled by a millionaire who was furious about "patriarchy." He also called out Lena Dunham, Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep.

"Barbra Streisand says she's gaining weight because of Trump. Lena Dunham says she's losing weight because of Trump. Really? You're blaming the president for your own problems and neuroses?" Ellis said.

He needs to return some videotapes.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

No lipstick, no perfume - The wife of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen is placed in solitary and fed through a slot in the door as she awaits extradition to Florida, charged with aiding a terrorist

Sgt. Kelly said: 'It's not three-course meals or fine cuisine by any standards but when you're in jail and you're hungry, it's not the worst food in the world.
'There's vegetables. Vegetables and protein ? all the necessary food that you need, including dessert or something like it. Drinks are milk, juice or water, and there's no alcohol.'

The government argument, seen by DailyMail.com, notes that Salman initially lied to the FBI by failing to admit to concocting a cover story for herself and Mateen 'in the event Mateen's mother inquired about his whereabouts on the evening of the attack.'

According to Salman, Mateen also scoped out the Pulse Nightclub during the same time frame.
Prior to that, the 30-year-old told the FBI, Mateen had spent two years obsessively watching violent recruitment videos produced by ISIS, often in front of their young son Zakaryah.

[Zeb]

Yeah, that guy was definitely gay.

Where was she all this time anyway?

[mad.casual]

Where was she all this time anyway?

Wherever she was and whatever she was doing, you can rest assured that she was acting alone and not doing it as part of a larger network, that's for sure!

[Juice]

Spiders are our friends. They eat all the nasty bugs you don't want in your house.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

Respect Your Cat (Not That It Cares)

Real respect requires something much more than babying; it requires overhauling our whole perspective on cat kind. It's time to open our eyes ? like really, really wide, the way my sister's cat does when it spies the vacuum cleaner ? and see this animal for what it really is: not a helpless furball to be patronized and mollycoddled, but an entity both fearsome and sublime, commanding respect in the manner of a mafia don, or the ocean.

For in truth, the humble house cat is one of the most stunning organisms on the planet. No creature is more exquisitely sensitive, and yet none is hardier. None beguiles us more but needs us less. There are more than 600 million domestic cats on the planet today, and we are hard-pressed to explain why. Humans apparently never tried to cultivate them (their abilities as ratters are overhyped). Rather, cats took the reins in our relationship, undergoing a novel process of self-domestication, tweaking their brain structures to better withstand the terrible stresses of human company and thereafter radiating out from the Middle East in determined furry battalions. In an era when lions, tigers and other types of felines flirt with extinction, house cats are themselves an intensifying menace to endangered species.

[Zeb]

Meh. Respect is a two way street.

[Crusty Juggler - #2]

U.S. officials say there's a "fair chance" that a recent airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, killed civilians.

The Times had a photojournalist in Mosul for three weeks.

Fun fact: it doesn't look nice there.

[mad.casual]

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year
...
If you gathered up all the spiders on the planet and placed them on a very large scale, together they'd weigh about 25 million tons, according to Nyffler and Birkhofer.

So, sliding the napkin out from under my beer to do the math... it would take spiders approximately 1 year to exhaust us as a fuel/food supply and approximately 4 hrs. for us to exhaust them as a fuel/food supply. It will take longer for us to cleanup the protest of our TransCanadian spider pipeline.

[DanO.]

The Glibs (the "fun" libertarians) think Fist is a Reason employee.
Discuss.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Team Red found their own little corner of the Webs.

[Palin's Buttplug]

The Glibs rejected my comments.

FOR CONSERVATIVES ONLY! GET LOST!

[Domestic Dissident]

Good. Here's hoping that they never, ever allow Alinskyite left wing scumbags like you and Gillespie infiltrate, hijack, and ruin their site the way you have so many other once great American institutions.

[Stormy Dragon]

On the bright side, clock spider promises no to eat you or any of your loved ones.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Buttplug check.