Trump Says 'Inaction' Not an Option on Healthcare, Another John Wayne Gacy Victim ID'd, Madonna Auction Stopped: P.M. Links

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  President Donald Trump tells Republican senators "inaction is not an option" on healthcare.

• The Supreme Court is allowing extended family remembers to remain covered by an exemption to the Trump travel ban.
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rolling out a new policy to make it easier for federal authorities to seize money under asset forfeiture.
• The Department of Justice is closing its investigation of the killing of homeless man James Boyd by police in Albuquerque.
• The Supreme Court of India will decide whether privacy is a basic right.
• The Cook County sheriff has identified another victim of John Wayne Gacy.
• O.J. Simpson is appearing before a parole board in Nevada.
• A judge is temporarily halting the auction of a number of personal and intimate items that once belonged to Madonna.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump tells Republican senators "inaction is not an option" on healthcare.

Failure to act, however...

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

How is asset forfeiture not theft by other means again?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Government action is Justice by definition.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

When the president's men do it, it's not illegal.

[MarkLastname]

How can the government steal from you when your right to own property comes from the government?

-Tony

[Zeb]

FYTW.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

President Donald Trump tells Republican senators "inaction is not an option" on healthcare.

Just like the 'Trolley' scenario.

[Tom Bombadil]

It's hard to keep it all straight in my head, but didn't I see a Trump tweet in the last couple of days suggesting to Congress to just step back and let Obamacare go down in flames?

[The Last American Hero]

You are apparently unfamiliar with the Trump character. He's similar to sports radio jockeys who do 14 mock drafts and claims powers of prescience or who talk good, bad, and indifferent about a player during training camp and then later say "I was singing this guys praises back in September". He says a bit of everything so he can always claim to have been for or against something. Politicians in general pull this all the time, he's just less subtle about it.

[Calidissident]

If I didn't know better, I'd say that this is typical, lying, flip-flopping, two-faced politician behavior. But I've been assured that Trump's a straight-shooter who "tells it like it is" so this can't be the case.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

My alt-text:

*Shwing!*

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Christian, are you taking notes?

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

My alt-text:

Check out the pair of sefirot on that tree.

[Libertarian]

Jokes on you. The euphemism "insert your own alt-text" IS the alt text!

[yet another dave]

Eww I don't like inserting my alt text where so many alt texts have been

[BestUsedCarSales]

My Alt-Text:
"Gacy's Victim as they found them in their grave"

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Dark as night.

[Citizen X - #6]

President Donald Trump tells Republican senators "inaction is not an option" on healthcare.

Yeah, well, action doesn't seem to be in the cards either.

[Zeb]

Inaction is always an option. Why do people love to say things that are obviously untrue so much?

[BYODB]

Hell, I would go so far as to say that inaction is the default mode of operation. Or should it should be, when it comes to governance.

[Jerryskids]

President Donald Trump tells Republican senators "inaction is not an option" on healthcare.

Talk, on the other hand, being cheap and plentiful, is never off the table. #STS

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Supreme Court is allowing extended family remembers to remain covered by an exemption to the Trump travel ban.

So that annoying relative that you thought you'd have an excuse not to come visit...

[Stormy Dragon]

The Department of Justice is closing its investigation of the killing of homeless man James Boyd by police in Albuquerque.

The name's Boyd. James Boyd.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Gimme a forty of PBR. Shaken, not stirred.

[Libertarian]

Now that would be a golden shower.

[Phil Miller]

And it would taste like piss.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

As subways suffer, Cuomo plans choreographed bridge lights

amid daily reports of infrastructure failures and the governor's sliding poll numbers, the Cuomo administration will not even say how much the lighting scheme will cost ? except to dispute early, internal estimates it could cost more than $350 million ? or where that money will come from.

"This is definitively NOT being paid for by the MTA," emailed Cuomo spokesman Jon Weinstein.

The project, part of a broader plan called "New York Crossings," would outfit the MTA's seven bridges and two tunnels ? and the Port Authority's George Washington Bridge ? with pulsating, multicolored LED lights that can be choreographed with each other, with the Empire State Building and with One World Trade.

ReasonNN (is this easier to get, people who are beneath me?) should cover this.

[Citizen X - #6]

The man has his priorities in order.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Can one put a price on beauty?

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I forgot the joke.

[Dick Puller, Attorney at Law]

Perhaps being an interior decorator would have been more fitting to his talents.

[Libertarian]

I can't shake the nagging feeling that the voters of NYC should bear some of the blame for their mayor.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

(guvner)

[Libertarian]

mea culpa. I saw "subway" and jumped to conclusions.

[Zeb]

The one's that voted for him should. Unfortunately for the ones who didn't, they usually get lumped in with the majority (of people who can be bothered to vote).

[Zeb]

Well, they have something like that in Hong Kong. And Hong Kong has very nice subways. So I'm sure it will help.

[Domestic Dissident]

There isn't a human being on earth who's beneath you. In fact, you're beneath the dirty insect life that swarms around deer carcasses and dung heaps.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

No Mikey, you are beneath me, and no, not like in your fantasies.

[Zeb]

I still don't get it.

[KerryW]

Something something while something burns.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Reason Neural Network?

[Citizen X - #6]

A judge is temporarily halting the auction of a number of personal and intimate items that once belonged to Madonna.

Just until the Board of Health finishes cleaning all the sex fluids off of them.

[Phil Miller]

What's a sex fluid?

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

When sometimes you think you are a boy and then sometimes you think you are a girl.

[Citizen X - #6]

In a pinch, plain old spit.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Ewww, gross.

[Citizen X - #6]

Chipper Morning has only had sex twice, and he didn't much care for it, and the second time was an accident.

[Phil Miller]

The accident is how he was conceived.

[Zeb]

Woah. Mind blown.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Maybe if you didn't just lay there like a starfish, I would have been willing to give it a third go.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

He thought you were into the 'frigid farah' type.

[NAL]

Where does she find the time for lawsuits? Shouldn't she be making good on her promise to blow all the guys who voted for Hillary?

[Phil Miller]

All two of them?

[NAL]

Hillary got 41% of the male vote and males made up 47% of the total number of voters (which was ~136.7 million). That's roughly 26.3 million dongs to which Madonna owes "lip service".

[Phil Miller]

Are you sure that "male" vote is only male because they couldn't check "other"?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The Supreme Court is allowing extended family remembers to remain covered by an exemption to the Trump travel ban.

God forbid Granpappy Bin Laden doesn't get to visit Walt Disney World.

[Rhywun]

Presumably he's from Saudi Arabia - we're friends with them.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

What's good enough for Krushchev is good enough for bin bin bin Laden.

[Ride 'Em]

I was always confused by that Ibn was used for sons whereas Bint or Bin was daughter of.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rolling out a new policy to make it easier for federal authorities to seize money under asset forfeiture.

Because he's not sure you realize just how much of an asshole he can be.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Department of Justice is closing its investigation of the killing of homeless man James Boyd by police in Albuquerque.

Enough time has passed, they reckon, that you've lost interest.

[BestUsedCarSales]

There's not family to sue, so they don't have to care.

[Texasmotiv]

Plus, wrong color.

[Charles Easterly]

Good day Ed,

I would like to insert a lower case "t" at the appropriate place in you own Alt-Text.

... Even if you intended what you didn't type.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, insert that t right between those 50-year-old titties!

[Phil Miller]

Are you saying she got her titties at age 8? Maybe... She was probably a precocious girl.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

You want to replace OMWC? Because that is how you replace OMWC.

[Phil Miller]

Do they speak English in What?

[Charles Easterly]

I, however, did indeed intend to type "your own Alt-Text" rather than "you own Alt-Text".

Apologies.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

One cannot own alt-text, because it is not a rivalrous good.

[Jima]

The term "rivalrous good" is not one you hear every day...I had to google it. You're unwittingly expanding my vocabulary.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rolling out a new policy to make it easier for federal authorities to seize money under asset forfeiture.

Something, something, something, DARK SIDE! Something, something, COMPLETE!

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The Supreme Court of India will decide whether privacy is a basic right.

Nobody is born alone.

[Libertarian]

It takes a willage.

[Tom Bombadil]

With India's population, this is going to be a hell of a test case.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

A Bookseller's Elegy

While I have some theories as to why?mostly, liberalism and conservatism's shared tendency to privilege individual agency over systemic forces?I'm more concerned here with my response as a bookseller. Despite the immeasurable good work independent bookstores and their staff do?from promoting children's literacy to hosting readings and book clubs to being a vital part of local economies, and more?I'd hazard that the primary goal is always going to be customer satisfaction. So what can you do when a customer wants a book that you not only find objectionable but also believe actually dangerous in the lessons it portends amidst such a politically precarious time? If it helps, swap Elegy for any book that you find particularly insidious, whether it's Atlas Shrugged, The Communist Manifesto, or The Bible. The question remains: without stooping to the level of crazed book-burning, does the bookseller's role ever evolve past the capitalist exchange of money for paper and pulp? And are there meaningful ways to resist the continued sales of disastrous books?

You will read nothing stupider and more insulting the rest of the month, if not the rest of the year.

[Citizen X - #6]

"How can i keep my failing business afloat? I know! I'll be really pushy and opinionated and insist on NOT giving the customer what he or she wants!"

[Juice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_rE1lTPLg

[Rhywun]

does the bookseller's role ever evolve past the capitalist exchange of money for paper and pulp?

No. Next.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

So you're just denying outright that booksellers have any moral responsibility? They should just pass on whatever their customer requests, even if it's BOMB-MAKING MANUALS, and it's stupid to even talk about this?

I can't even right now.

[BYODB]

Umm...there is this thing called the internet and the Anarchists Cookbook. Don't look it up. The chances that a kid or terrorist would think to themselves 'lets go to Barnes & Noble and see if they sell bomb making books', even if they did sell those, is infinitesimal.

[Jima]

There's also the chance the bomb could be used for non violent purposes... like removing a stump from the ground or something. My grandfather said they used to do that with dynamite at their farm. I think that might be more fun than renting a bulldozer...

[Cyto]

Kids these days really miss out. So does natural selection.

When I was a kid, it was the God-given right and responsibility of every boy to do something magnificently stupid and dangerous. Like building bombs. Or cannons. Or rockets. Or damming a creek and making a huge flood. Or making big ramps for your dirt bikes. Or catching poisonous snakes.

The list of stupid things that a young boy could do for fun was just about endless. And it included a whole lot of potentially life threatening (or at least maiming) activities.

No more. Now building black powder bombs will probably get you arrested and shipped off to a black site. Sure, we'll have a lot fewer grown men missing fingers. But I still feel like we've lost more in exchange.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Your my hiro.

[Zeb]

There's ink too.

[Dillinger]

>>>does the bookseller's role ever evolve past the capitalist exchange of money for paper and pulp?

no, idiot.

[Dillinger]

sorry Rhywun...

[Libertarian]

". . . the primary goal is always going to be customer satisfaction."

I dare say this is the primary goal of any business. Even a dominatrix has to please her customers by not being nice to them.

[Rich]

*** riing intonation ***

What about "Safety is our number one concern"?

[Griffin3]

Safety is Job Three.

[cgr2727]

Vital part of local economies? So I guess his bookstore is also a 24/7 operation with a steady stream of customers, just like the gas station, grocery store, or waffle house. As much as it pains me, the local gubmint is usually a more vital part of the local economy than indie bookstores, in terms of people employed and money burnt.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

mostly, liberalism and conservatism's shared tendency to privilege individual agency over systemic forces

Just like Hitler did.

[Phil Miller]

Godwin has arrived.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Despite the immeasurable good work independent bookstores and their staff do

Just fuck right off. The world isn't big enough for this type of vanity.

[68W58]

From the comments;

John C. Randolph
AT 12:21 PM ON JULY 19, 2017
Gee, maybe sneering at your customers isn't conducive to running a viable business.
-jcr

Dude gets around.

[The Last American Hero]

Most book stores (back before Amazon crushed the book store industry) paid their bills selling romance novels to middle aged women, and made their profits selling Mysteries and Stephen King books. It's not like they are purveyors of high art.

[Longtobefree]

So you do not have a twitter account?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Presumably you can give your opinion if people ask you what's good.

[Dillinger]

why are grandma's boobs out again?

[Phil Miller]

I'd hit that.

[Dillinger]

tag-team, sure...still old.

[Phil Miller]

Still old...if you're a millennial and focused on tweens still.

[Dillinger]

unless i'm in the kinky kinky part of town, Boomers are a level up for me...

[Crusty Juggler :)]

tag-team
"back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
DC's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice
Says there's a party over here, a party over there
Wave your hands in the air, shake your derierre"

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Supreme Court of India will decide whether privacy is a basic right.

It will come down to Justice Abdul Kennedy's vote.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

A judge is temporarily halting the auction of a number of personal and intimate items that once belonged to Madonna.

How intimate? I'm asking for a friend.

[Phil Miller]

By "friend" do you really mean your mom?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*Narrows Gaze*

[BYODB]

Haven't seen that one in a while.

[Jerryskids]

Put it this way - it's the CDC that's blocking the sale on public health grounds.

[Cyto]

It is in the article.

Used panties and a hairbrush with her hair in it.

[Dillinger]

>>>the auction of a number of personal and intimate items that once belonged to Madonna.

opening bid for Sean Penn?

[notJoe]

I larfed.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

One way ticket to Caracas?

[Jerry on the sea]

One way ticket to Pyongyang?

[Phil Miller]

One-way ticket to Bangkok.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

One of the programmable personalities for the robot is 'Frigid Farrah', described as "reserved and shy" on the True Companion company website. Like 'Wild Wendy' and 'S & M Susan' whose characteristics are self-ascribed, the website says that for Frigid Farrah, if you touch her "in a private area, more than likely, she will not be to appreciative of your advance."

In the website's description, the model lacks an attempt to reproduce consent in the real world and the company say that their robots "allow everyone to realise their most private sexual dreams."
Also:

Another programmed personality that has been heavily criticised is that of 'Young Yoko' who is described by the website as: "oh so young (barely 18) and waiting for you to teach her."

Wake me when the doll has an "apathetic Agatha" setting which makes the robot loudly sigh after each touch.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

They should just go ahead and rename her Rape Fantasy Farrah.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

"Tsundere Tessa" may get a bigger market response.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Nah, Tsundere is Asuka, this sounds more like Rei.

[chemjeff]

"Howlin' Hillary" might be a real best-seller. For a particular type of customer.

[Citizen X - #6]

[vomits, dies]

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

[prays for death that will not come]

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

You joke, but if someone left a Hillary sex doll on your porch, you wouldn't just throw it away.

[perlchpr]

After I finished vomiting, yeah, I'd probably find a use for that.

Have it service homeless folks down in the trainyard, for starters.

[gaoxiaen]

Put it in the back yard to keep the birds out of the cherry trees.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*Signs up for the 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' treatment*

[Phil Miller]

I can't remember that movie.

[CE]

I saw it once. Or maybe several times. I'm not sure.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I'm more of a "Surly Sarah" man myself.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

HV inevitably fails to satisfy it

"Sorry, Sarah."
"Shut up."

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Hawt. Go on...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I'll be in my bunk.

But you can continue or w.e

[Eek Barba Durkle]

I somehow always end up with "Crazy Fucking Bitch Catherine".

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I get the impression that 'Catherine' wasn't picked out of the aether but is actually the name of your ex-wife?

[Griffin3]

In my experience, C|Katherine (vs C|Kathy) are all crazier than stepped on roaches.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The robot realistically reads a copy of Red Book during fuck.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

alt text: "Would if she talked 'Murican."

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Is that a typoe for "insert" or "infer"?

[Libertarian]

Not sure that Trump has figured out that his true opposition is the Republican congress, not the democrats.

[Tom Bombadil]

His true opposition is the one-two punch of scatter-brain syndrome with blitherer's disease.

[Azathoth!!]

Yes, you are so much smarter, why just look at you--the billionaire president of.....oh, wait.......you're just a commenter on a website, not a billionaire or a president.

Just some scattered electrons.

[chemjeff]

"Insert alt-text here"?? C'mon Ed, you can do better than that! Maybe like some reference to "Material Girl" or some such?

[Phil Miller]

"Maybe like some reference to "Material Girl" or some such?"

At least go B-sides.

[Phil Miller]

Or "I'd like to see her face in my secret place."

After all, there's no crying in baseball!

[Charles Easterly]

The Supreme Court of India will decide whether privacy is a basic right.

For the sake of their fellow citizens, I hope that the Supreme Court of India does not look to the United States' Supreme court for guidance in this regard.

[GILMORE?]

Hope For Tony?

[BYODB]

?The Supreme Court is allowing extended family remembers to remain covered by an exemption to the Trump travel ban.

How is this constitutional, again?

[Stormy Dragon]

Body cam video shows police officer planting drugs, attorneys say

[Jerryskids]

Police are investigating if the officer planted the second set of drugs there or if he was recreating the discovery when his body camera was rolling.

"It's certainly a possibility that we're looking into, to see if the officers, in fact, replaced drugs that they had already discovered to document the discovery with their body-worn cameras on," said Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis.

You gotta give them points for creativity. "We weren't planting drugs, we were doing a re-enactment!"