Oregon Happy Hours Get a Little More Free, Trump's Infrastructure Plan is Delayed Yet Again, and Solar Companies Beg for More Tariffs: P.M. Links

• The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has abolished a rule that prevented Oregon bars from advertising their happy hour prices. The price mechanism can now freely guide consumers looking to get hammered on a budget.

• In a typical showing from the constantly behind-schedule administration, Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, announced that work on Trump's yet to be submitted infrastructure proposal "might spill into next year." Trump had promised to release a more detailed infrastructure proposal in May, but is now projecting a Fall-time unveiling. Don't hold your breath.

• Solar companies file yet another anti-dumping case with the US International Trade Commission. Check out Reason's coverage of how even with tariffs, solar is still a bad bet.

• Speaking of tariffs, Trump says that trade deficits with South Korea can't be allowed to continue.

• Education Sec. Betsy DeVos begins rewriting many of Obama's higher education rules and regulations.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The price mechanism can now freely guide consumers looking to get hammered on a budget.

TRYING TO WEED OUT THE POOR.

[BestUsedCarSales]

We should alcohol test all the poor, wasting their welfare on 40 oz of Mackies and Steel Reservation.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Education Sec. Betsy DeVos begins rewriting many of Obama's higher education rules and regulations."

Fucken-A.

Make is progressive presidency a mistake of history and a distant memory.

[Sevo]

CA D legislators want to put some 'reasonable' limits on privatizing government activites:
1) Avoid replacing any existing or potential public employees
2) Ensure their compensation will be roughly equivalent to government pay and benefits
3) Show that any savings aren't "outweighed by the public's interest" in employing government workers
4) Prove that they will produce "actual overall cost savings ? for the duration of the entire cocntract"
Not kidding, this is the gist of Assembly Bill 1250, Reginald Jones-Sawyer, D, Los Angeles (copied from today's SF Chron editorial page).

[Square = Circle]

"Show us that you'll spend more and make it cost less and we'll let you do whatever you want (as long as we don't have to cut any public employees)."

[Get To Da Chippah]

Okay, private sector. If you can save money without doing anything that might actually make what government workers do cost less, we might allow it (but probably won't.)

[Griffin3]

Fuck you, cut spending!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...work on Trump's yet to be submitted infrastructure proposal "might spill into next year."

#NotShovelReady

[BYODB]

Well...can we at least use these gold shovels to bludgeon Trump with in order to show him how much we want a massive infrastructure crony-enrichment bill?

[Square = Circle]

Look. If the federal government isn't going to fix the potholes on my street, who's going to, smart guy?

[BYODB]

I don't know, I figure the City can pay for it's own streets. If not, than your neighborhood association can do something useful for once. ^_-

This is literally something that I can support as a local bond issue if the streets are really screwed up, but the FedGov? Naah. That's just crazy.

[Square = Circle]

A local group? Banding together and paying $200 apiece to repave the streets in our own neighborhoods?

That doesn't compute. Please report to an education center for a discussion session.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Happy 4th to all of you.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's not even July yet.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Eh I figured Reason would just repost this PM links on July 1st.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Sorry it's too early to LOVE OUR COUNTRY you fucking commie.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

More like Fist of Marxism, am I right?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The calendar is the calendar.

[BearOdinson]

In Soviet Russia, calendars mark you!

[Charles Easterly]

What day is it where your mind is?

/Asking for AG

[BYODB]

Fist of Etiquette, Lord of Calendars!

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Greater Manchester Police to double number of Taser officers

The force will equip 1,100 of its 6,300 front-line officers with the stun devices to "better protect the public", Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said.

He said the threat level officers were facing was "significant" and so was "necessary to increase the number authorised to carry Tasers"

Take that, ISIS.

[BYODB]

I guess their rapid response teams are a misnomer after all.

[BearOdinson]

You mean "Hot Fuzz" wasn't a documentary?

[Juice]

Interesting that once upon a time, almost no cops in England were armed. Now some of them are, and they have to declare "Armed Police!" and not just "Police!" before barking commands. And then there are some cops with tasers and some without. Why don't they just arm all cops with guns and tasers like the US does and get it over with. Afraid to admit defeat?

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

It's not like armed police make a damned bit of difference in Chicago.

[Juice]

Oh yeah? How many dogs could they shoot if they weren't armed, huh?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Even with special training to break the dogs necks, they are still just too limited without guns.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Education Sec. Betsy DeVos begins rewriting many of Obama's higher education rules and regulations.

I'm guessing she's writing the Right to an Education right out of the Constitution.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

'Babe' Star James Cromwell Sentenced to Jail Over Power Plant Protest

Actor James Cromwell ? whose credits include "American Horror Story: Asylum" and "Babe," for which he was nominated for an Oscar ? has been sentenced to a week in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from the protest of a natural-gas power plant in Wawayanda, New York.

[Dillinger]

there'd be a prison-joke in there about "that'll do, pig" if he wasn't 194 years old.

[Jerryskids]

And Still Mine.

[Charles Easterly]

Jerryskids,

I intend to watch that.

Thanks.

[Charles Easterly]

For anyone else interested, I think that this might be a good link .

[Charles Easterly]

Drat: this .

[Dillinger]

in a world, where nobody remembers a damn thing...

[BearOdinson]

Fucking Zefram Cochran at it again.

[Dillinger]

tasers > suicide bombers?

[Juice]

You'd think a taser might set off some explosives.

[BestUsedCarSales]

That's some sweet RE4 logic. I'm down for this.

[Dillinger]

you first.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Sure, give me a terrorist, I'll shoot em with tazer. Nobody cares if I die. So it's allllll gooooood.

[Dillinger]

>>>Nobody cares if I die.

I would be left without your comments.

[pan fried wylie]

"Hold my beer...."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Speaking of tariffs, Trump says that trade deficits with South Korea can't be allowed to continue.

The Simpsons animation is about to get more expensive.

[PurityDiluting]

something something sunshine policy something something my ass

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Arrest affidavit details sexual abuse allegation against Marlin police captain

"(The woman) explained Captain Gonzalez promised to keep her safe and take care of things for her because she had no documents to be in the United States," the affidavit states. "He told her if she ever got in trouble with law enforcement for her to call him for help in exchange for sex."

It's just quid pro quo.

[pan fried wylie]

or the first actual case of squid pro roe?

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Bill DeBlasio wears cargo shorts to the gym.

I think cargo shorts get way too much hate by dorks on the internet who think they are trendy even though they are dorks, but the ultimate dork move is to exercise in them. Dork.

[PurityDiluting]

no one needs more than 1 pair of shorts

[BestUsedCarSales]

In each Velcro pocket he is secretly carrying a 1-Liter bottle of Shasta he bought from a dollar store in Newark.

[Fuck You - Cut Spending]

Only dorks care about what's dorky.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

You've cut me to the core, Fycs.*

*Pronouce it feces, people. Feces. Ha.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Education Sec. Betsy DeVos begins rewriting many of Obama's higher education rules and regulations.

What? She can't just go around changing the rules! This is anarchy!

[BestUsedCarSales]

Can the market handle this level of instability?

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

On how protestors lack creativity: A Handmaid's Tale of Protest

As symbols of a repressive patriarchy, the crimson robes and caps ? handmade, repurposed or ordered online ? have become an emblem of women's solidarity and collaboration on rights issues, similar to the pink knitted hats worn during the Women's March after President Trump's inauguration.

Handmaids Tale and Harry Potter, that's where we are.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Silent Hill 2 was pretty fucking great. Good job protestors.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Speaking of tariffs, Trump says that trade deficits with South Korea can't be allowed to continue.

Christ, what an idiot.

[Rich]

Education Sec. Betsy DeVos begins rewriting many of Obama's higher education rules and regulations.

"I will not make the Obama administration's education mistakes.
I will not make the Obama administration's education mistakes.
I will not make the Obama administration's education mistakes.
...."

[Jerryskids]

Solar companies file yet another anti-dumping case with the US International Trade Commission. Check out Reason's coverage of how even with tariffs, solar is still a bad bet.

You forgot the link to the text of the filing.

[BestUsedCarSales]

He makes a lot of good points.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Female teachers having sex with students: Double standards, lack of awareness

To summarize:

The road to equality between the sexes when it comes to criminal justice remains a long one.

Meaning, put ladies in prison for longer terms.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I wonder if one of the female teachers was caught fucking a male student with a strap-on would get in more trouble.

Does a female teacher with a female student get in less trouble than a male teacher with female student? Is penetration the basis of this fear?

I'll continue to update my erotic fiction in the coming weeks, stay tuned.

[Juice]

Obligatory

[BestUsedCarSales]

Damn shame too, pederasty made the boy I am today.

[BearOdinson]

I could say:
"Hey Walter, what's a pederast?"

But I won't.

[Dillinger]

Pedarasty is Gepetto?

[Dillinger]

I apologize for this ^^ the 6-year-old in my head often hits submit too quickly

[Rich]

Trump says that trade deficits with South Korea can't be allowed to continue.

Well ... as long as Waveya videos are allowed to continue

[BestUsedCarSales]

K-Pop is like J-Pop for non-pedophiles.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Just a Twitter-tard story, but these people better not try to ruin this movie:
New Christopher Nolan WWII Movie 'Dunkirk' Portrays White People as White, Runs Afoul of Diversity Police

Plenty of people have taken to social media to express why they won't be seeing it, and it's all to do with the movie being "too white."

I believe the movie is under two hours, too! Hooray!

[PurityDiluting]

they'd prefer to see all the non-whites slaughtered instead? Racists!

[Square = Circle]

It's because all the Nazis are portrayed by white people, right?

[BestUsedCarSales]

We all know who struggled for diversity requirements.

[Dillinger]

there's a Howard University joke in here...

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I believe the movie is under two hours, too! Hooray!

No fucking way.

[Crusty Juggler - Equalist]

Runtime: 107 min

I almost always despise long movies - someone force an editor on to Tarantino, Scorcese and yes, Nolan - so I am pleased.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

"WE WUZ LIMEY EVACUEES!!"

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I can't wait for that movie.

[BearOdinson]

How dare they whitewash the contribution that people of color, and non-binary people made in trying to wipe out the Allies!

[Rufus The Monocled]

IF I DON'T SEE A CANADIAN FLAG ON THIS SITE ON JULY 1 I'M GONNA...

....complain.

And then go do some shopping at Canadian Tire and buy Mastercraft screwdrivers I don't really need.

[Libertarian]

See you in court.

"Canadian Supreme Court Says It's Fine To Censor The Global Internet"

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/268665/#respond

[Libertarian]

"The price mechanism can now freely guide consumers looking to get hammered on a budget."

Or you could just drink at home and really save money. Like real alcoholics do it.

[Libertarian]

"Trump had promised to release a more detailed infrastructure proposal in May, but is now projecting a Fall-time unveiling."

This is just so typical of normal government infrastructure projects that I can't even get mad. Not only do I not expect a Fall release, I expect the study to come in over budget as well.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Via Ian Tuttle: "voxdotcom Writer Discovers What "Public Good" Means"

I think health care is a right. I asked an expert to tell me why I'm wrong.

...

Sean Illing: I believe that health care should be regarded as a public good, not a marketplace commodity. Tell me why I'm wrong.

Craig Garthwaite: Well, first of all, it's not a public good. It's both rival and excludable, so it doesn't have the characteristics of a public good, right?

Sean Illing: Explain what you mean there.

Craig Garthwaite: If I consume health care services, someone else can't. So it's not a public good in the sense of, like, a park or something like that. Or clean air. Those are things that we think of as public goods.

Sean Illing: I guess what I mean is that's a social good or resource. Health is vital to our social capital, our human capital.

Even worse, this is the start of the interview.

[BearOdinson]

Hey I can play that game:
I believe that [INPUT CHOICE FROM LIST BELOW] should be regarded as a public good not a marketplace commodity.

Healthy food
Affordable housing
Decent clothes
Sturdy shoes
Loving companionship
A worthwhile occupation
Higher education
Exercise options
Reliable transportation
Honest news
Living wage

What the fuck is left? Why even get a fucking job?

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

He continues on like that for a while, replying that he feels like health care ought to be provided without monetary considerations.

[Libertarian]

Food is more of a necessity than health care. Guys like this need to be asked why, without government intervention, our grocery stores are efficient purveyors of literally acres of affordable food.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

IT'S DIFFERENT.

Because it feels different, y'know?

[Dillinger]

sound a lot cooler if he went by Sean Illin'

[setonuf]

my stepmum recently bought an awesome gold Hyundai Elantra Touring Hatchback by working parttime off of a pc online ||| EARN MONEY JOB -

[setonuf]

my stepmum recently bought an awesome gold Hyundai Elantra Touring Hatchback by working parttime off of a pc online ||| EARN MONEY JOB -

[yihiy]

uptil I saw the draft for $9576 , I be certain that...my... neighbour was actually bringing in money in there spare time on their apple labtop. . there friend brother has done this for under twenty one months and by now paid the debts on their apartment and bought a top of the range Car -*