Texas Cops Torture Teen on Camera, Rentboy CEO Sentencing Today, Democrats Profit Off Trumpcare Fears: A.M. Links
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After passing the U.S. House yesterday, the American Health Care Act "is still far from law," FiveThirtyEight reminds us.
- A FOIA request from Graham Dyer's parents turned up videos of police tasering their son in the testicles multiple times and standing on his head, among other things, not long before he would be taken to the hospital and declared brain dead.
- Jeffrey Hurant, former head of gay escort site Rentboy, will be sentenced in New York this morning.
- Facebook is shutting down its in-house virtual reality studio for Oculus Rift.
- A fool and his money… How "Trumpcare" has been good for Democratic groups and causes.
- More than mere internal politics, Jim DeMint's ouster from the Heritage Foundation speak volumes about "the conservative movement's identity crisis" writes Daniel McCarthy at The Week.
- While "sipping cocktails and eating crab cakes and salmon hors d'oeuvres" yesterday, guests of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty panned Trump's Thursday order on religious freedom.
- It's been a bad local-election week in Britain for UKIP, which doesn't bode well for the party ahead of the general election in June.
- Another Maryland police officer has been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution and harassing women he was supposed to be helping.
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Facebook is shutting down its in-house virtual reality studio for Oculus Rift.
#FakeReality
Zuckerberg needs the money for his election campaign to be King of the World
Hello.
After passing the U.S. House yesterday, the American Health Care Act “is still far from law,” FiveThirtyEight reminds us.
It’s unkillable.
After passing the U.S. House yesterday, the American Health Care Act “is still far from law,” FiveThirtyEight reminds us.
Give us the odds on it becoming law, do it.
A fool and his money… How “Trumpcare” has been good for Democratic groups and causes.
I’m starting to think there’s money to be made in never accomplishing your stated political goals.
Another Maryland police officer has been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution and harassing women he was supposed to be helping.
I thought engaging in commerce with small business owners was helping them. GET YOUR STORIES STRAIGHT, ENB. Although the harassment probably… isn’t… all that… helpful. I guess.
Jeffrey Hurant, former head of gay escort site Rentboy, will be sentenced in New York this morning.
Lest you forget which party is the 100 percent on the side of the LGBT community.
It’s almost as if the “LGBT community” isn’t a real thing and is actually a collection of diverse individuals.
Yeah, right. Individuals. Pssh.
Of course it’s a collection of individuals.
Individuals who all believe the same thing.
Well, Hillary and Obama have supported gay marriage since 2012 or so. That was like a million years ago.
If you are for the gay community does that necessarily mean you have to be for gay prostitution enterprises?
I am not sure that follows.
While “sipping cocktails and eating crab cakes and salmon hors d’oeuvres” yesterday,
ENB playing to the crowd. Between this and the 9:00 post time and the number of links, ENB is establishing herself as the clear best at links right now.
As I’ve said in the past, she gives you the respect you don’t deserve.
I remain a big ENB fan.
Remain? Remain?!? You should be on your knees begging to be allowed to read her links and thanking her profusely, profusely, for the mere opportunity.
“Ahem.”
Any Alt-Text?
Far from perfection.
That’s a separate honor, distinct from “best links”. I think Ed still wins that one.
Roger that.
A FOIA request from Graham Dyer’s parents turned up videos of police tasering their son in the testicles multiple times and standing on his head, among other things, not long before he would be taken to the hospital and declared brain dead.
Something must be done about FOIA requests.
FOIA requests endanger the lives of good officers by showing them being bad officers.
I thought the nut punches were bad enough, now we’ve got nut tasering and, Jesus Christ, if you can’t get a lynch party going over shit like “Motherfucker, I’m going to kill you” or the “See these hands? They’re going to fuck you up” shit from the dude that got beat to death out in Cali, there’s really no hope for this society. What the hell does it take to start a real war on this shit?
What the hell does it take to start a real war on this shit?
People willing to die for their principles.
Trump has a dangerous disability
Oh snap! That piece makes me want to burn all of my denim.
Trump probably does not even know that there are 57 states!!!!!
Which reminds me that “chronic narcissism” seems like a dangerous disability, too.
To be honest, I’m not sure what it is to know something. Or how you can even know whether or not you know something. I certainly think I know things, but who can say for sure?
I had no idea Trump was a philosophy major.
You know what’s a really good book, Personal Knowledge by Michael Polanyi.
I don’t know that book.
How do you know that you don’t know?
How do you know if you don’t know if you know?
I know!
Good book.
I had no idea Trump was a philosophy major.
But do you actually know that he was?
No.
If you know that one of your friends owns a Corvette, and he sells it to another one of your friends without your knowledge, do you still know that “one of your friends owns a Corvette”?
That’s a good example of what I am getting at. If you were to define what it is to know something, an obvious criteria would be that what you know must actually be true.
If I know what pumpkin pie tastes like and you know what pumpkin pie tastes like but we don’t agree on what pumpkin pie tastes like, is one of us wrong?
It tastes like nutmeg. The subjective experience of another mind probably is unknowable.
I’ll just assume based on your taste in beer that you are the one who is wrong.
I’ll just assume based on your taste in beer that you are the one who is wrong.
Oh SNAP!
The subjective experience of another mind probably is unknowable.
And as such, it becomes mighty difficult to pin down what is actually true. Seriously, if you’re at all interested in it, check out that book. It really does well in tackling the subjectivity of truth.
Yeah, sounds interesting, I’ll take a look.
Epistemology rocked my world. I firmly believe that “knowledge” as we ‘know’ it (there’s no escape from common vernacular) is simply an illusion. There are only beliefs and intuitions with varying degrees of conviction. True knowledge is unattainable to a fallible mind. Paradoxically Truth is real, as it truly exists outside and regardless of the perceiver.
it truly exists outside and regardless of the perceiver
And how did you attain that knowledge?
The greatest theme song in pornographic movie history was about my president.
He has it all, yes he does. He knows how to please in every detail…
Better than Trace Adkins’ Brown Chicken Brown Cow?
“A Taser was deployed in an effort to control decedent, prevent escape and prevent him from injuring himself,” the city stated in court documents, adding the officer had been aiming for Graham’s leg and it was dark.
A good shoot tase was done.
A FOIA request from Graham Dyer’s parents turned up videos of police tasering their son in the testicles multiple times and standing on his head, among other things, not long before he would be taken to the hospital and declared brain dead.
Testicle tasering was not specifically forbidden during training.
Don’t wanna get tasered to the testicles like a thug, shouldn’t have THROWN IT TO THE GROUND like a thug.
Oh wait, they tasered his butthole in the video, not his testicles. Goddamnit.
No stupid, they got him in the most underrated erogenous zone, the maple bar.
The moral of the story is, you can’t trust the system, man.
“Sigh”
Mistakes were made.
this is why capital punishment should be an option
EXCLUSIVE: FBI report finds officers ‘de-policing’ as anti-cop hostility becomes ‘new norm’
Poor guys.
defiance and hostility displayed by assailants toward law enforcement appears to be the new norm
And people used to love being stopped on the street for no reason, being arrested for petty bullshit and being considered lesser creatures than the porcines in blue.
But they are still getting a pay check, right?
“Blue Qaida” always get their checks.
^ very good, first time I saw that.
Stealing that.
And in areas where “de-policing” is in effect, I wonder if overall crime goes down. And revenues fall.
So people are mad at police, and now police have a sad? I suppose tazing people in their fucking balls until they die has nothing to do with it.
I watched “LA 92” on Hulu last night. Really good cinema verite documentary about the LA riots.
The LAPD chief said basically the same thing. If you don’t support our brutality, we won’t “protect” you. Not in those words, but pretty close to where there was no ambiguity.
‘She’s a victim of her own poor choices’: Family of doctor mom-of-three does NOT deserve compensation after she died of a cocaine overdose on a night out partying in NYC, says her drug dealer’s lawyer
She was forced to do it.
‘People can’t use cocaine just anywhere,’
This is true. But most places do have bathrooms.
No, but her body was forced out of the building and disposed of in what I would think is a illegal manner. Dumping bodies is probably illegal even in NYC..
Dermatologist
So, not a real doctor.
Pimple-popper MD!
I mean, skin cancer isn’t cancer cancer.
At least she wasn’t a podiatrist.
Derms have a reputation for being the smartest ones.
You treat incurable but non-life-threatening diseases – you have patients for life. Sweet gig.
Lena Dunham Thanks Fans After Emergency Hospitalization, Vocally Advocates for Healthcare Access
Trans sisters? Problematic!
Okay Crusty, I’ll just go out and say it – You have an unhealthy fascination with Lena Dunham.
A FOIA request from Graham Dyer’s parents turned up videos of police tasering their son in the testicles multiple times and standing on his head, among other things, not long before he would be taken to the hospital and declared brain dead.
Remember Waco, Timothy McVeigh did. This pig culture will fuck with the wrong people one day and maybe they already have. These immunity laws are like putting a lid on boiling water so that not a drop escapes. It would be wiser if they released some of the pressure every now and then, better for public safety, better for us all.
Another Maryland police officer has been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution and harassing women he was supposed to be helping.
Wait for it…
LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOL
They spelled “portrayal” wrong.
Blame autocorrect.
Hiyo!
Let me guess, he didn’t put in a good word for her friend?
Those Texas cops deserve this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-d5yU-aQ34
Best blog post of the day.
‘Best’? Hmmm…
So it’s like Sharia Objectivism?
You might chalk this up to internal politics. After all, DeMint lost a power struggle inside the heavyweight conservative think tank. But he’s also a casualty ? not the first, and certainly not the last ? of the conservative movement’s drifting sense of purpose and identity.
David Brat’s ouster of Eric Cantor was a wake-up call to the GOP. It meant the TEA Party was serious and they were going after RINO’s. Unfortunately, the wake-up call didn’t stir the GOP to take action on all their promises to make government smaller, it stirred them to take action against the TEA Party. There’s no “drifting sense of purpose and identity” in the GOP, they’re fat hogs wallowing around in a big ol’ slop trough and they have no intention of giving up the sweet life, they’ve accomplished everything they’ve had any actual intent to accomplish. Even if they have to stomp the dogshit out of any sonofabitch trying to actually accomplish any of the bullshit the GOP’s been spewing for years about what they want to accomplish.
Besides, the Tea Party never really wanted “small government” in the way libertarians think about it. They want government bennies for THEM and not for THE OTHERS.
First attempt at tagging a link. Apologies if this goes wrong, with no STUPID DELETE BUTTON.
Canadian teen with leukemia dies with willing donors.
Love hearing about how wonderful the Canadian health care system is and how Americans should aspire to that.
Jesus Fucking Christ, those pigs should fry like bacon.