Olympics to Return to Los Angeles, Scaramucci Dumped Already, Arpaio Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt: P.M. Links

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  God help all Angelenos: The Summer Olympics will be returning to Los Angeles in 2028.

• Anthony Scaramucci is already out as President Donald Trump's communications director. I hadn't even memorized how to spell his name yet.
• The son of Nashville's mayor died of a drug overdose over the weekend.
• Former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been found guilty of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop his immigration round-ups.
• Qatar has filed a legal complaint with the World Trade Organization about the boycott other nations have launched against it.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73.
• Hackers were quickly able to breach an electronic voting machine and reprogram it to Rick-Roll folks at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
• Hackers also got their hands on written material from several HBO shows, including apparently the next episode of Game of Thrones.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Anthony Scaramucci is already out as President Donald Trump's communications director.

Maybe he wouldn't do the fandango.

[Juice]

Mighty, mighty frightening.

[Juice]

and i fucked it up

[Fist of Etiquette]

You did. You're not ready for the big leagues.

[Juice]

Do the big leaguers double check the lyrics before posting or do they just know?

[Dillinger]

they just know.

[Juice]

It's all good. Nothing really matters. Anyone can see.

[Dillinger]

there are better Queen songs anyway...

[BearOdinson]

FLASH!!! AAHH AHHH!!
SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!!

[Dillinger]

indeed. still own the vinyl.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

indeed. still own the vinyl.

No one wants to hear about your pants.

[Dillinger]

can't help. squeaky and stuck.

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

there are better Queen songs anyway...

Yeah, like "All The Young Dudes," "Ballroom Blitz," and "20th Century Boy," to name a few.

[Juice]

"Ballroom Blitz,"

um...

[Juice]

there are better Queen songs anyway...

I just thought about it for a bit and no, no there aren't.

There are many great Queen songs, but Bohemian Rhapsody tops them all. I think about what went into writing the song and what came out of it, and it's a true timeless classic for the ages.

[Dillinger]

you're not wrong about what went into writing it, but it was forgotten but for Wayne and Garth...

Keep Yourself Alive
Killer Queen
Tie Your Mother Down
Bicycle Ride.
Fat Bottomed Girls

[Juice]

Those are all high quality catchy pop songs, but BH is something a little more. IMHO

[BestUsedCarSales]

Ogre Battle

[Cyto]

Somebody to love

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I always double check! Can't give the internet any spare ammo cause there will always be some savage around to come by and take pot shots, e.g., gay ass grammar police who MUST note typo's with scorn and contempt.

[Stormy Dragon]

I'm sure you didn't mean to make us cry.

[Juice]

If I'm not back this time tomorrow, carry on.

[Palin's Buttplug]

His wife just recently filed for divorce too.

http://pagesix.com/2017/07/29/.....-pregnant/

[MarkLastname]

I bet you have the latest scoop on whether Sean Spicer wears tightey whiteys.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

?@MattWelch 51 minutes ago
Every "Bohemian Rhapsody" Scaramouche joke is terrible.

This is why he's Editor At Large.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He just wishes he thought of them all first.

[Rich]

LOL

[JFree]

I thought Scaramucci was the dwarf in that TV show who yelled Da Plane Boss Da Plane

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

That was Webster, stupid.

[Dillinger]

what you talkin' bout, Willis?

[JFree]

Actually I remember what it was. That dwarf was also in a James Bond film as the sidekick of the villain - Scaramanga.

Never mind

[Mickey Rat]

Easy come, easy go.

[Stilgar]

Does he get to keep the tax waiver for selling his firm to join up with the Trumptard?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Summer Olympics will be returning to Los Angeles in 2028.

And they'll finish construction right under the wire.

[loveconstitution1789]

But over budget.

[Bob K]

Will they have tidal wave surfing as an event?

[Mickey Rat]

Did they not learn from last year not to hold them in a banana republic?

[CE]

Fortunately I will be retired to a lower tax state by then....

[Fist of Etiquette]

Former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been found guilty of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop his immigration round-ups.

What ethnicity was the judge???

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Human.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Sounds like Arpaio has a grievance, then.

[LoneWaco]

should have done asset forfeiture instead and let the feds wet their beaks

[Stormy Dragon]

In other good news, we've finally reached peak Boomer:

Millennials and Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in 2016 election

[Rat on a train]

Unleash the power of apathy and cynicism!

[Juice]

That's Gen X.

Millennials are supposed to care and try hard and stuff. Or are they lazy and stupid? I can't remember. Doesn't matter.

[Stormy Dragon]

Or don't. I don't really care. It's not like it's going to make a difference anyways.

[Dillinger]

good. tired of the Oldie Hawns running shit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hackers also got their hands written material from several HBO shows, including apparently the next episode of Game of Thrones.

NO SPOILERS

[loveconstitution1789]

Westeros people will be free people from kings and Lords in the end. BOOM!

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Sam discovers a copy of Human Action in Oldtown.

[ChipToBeSquare]

"Valar Calculus"

All men must calculate

[Rat on a train]

It was all a dream.

[Rich]

Bob Newhart's dream, moreover.

[Lord_at_War]

Suzanne Pleshette?

I could work with that...

[Dillinger]

the dragon wins.

[lap83]

It turns out that Jon Snow knew something all along

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

There will be lots of war and killing and just when it looks bleakest for Westeros they will somehow prevail at the last moment.

[CE]

Danerys marries Sam to steal general Tarwell away from the Lannisters.

Cersei shoots down the dragons with her new THAAD giant crossbow, bringing the Age of Magic to a permanent end, causing the white walkers to turn to dust, er, snow.

Unfortunately this also means Jon Snow's resurrection is undone and all that is left is his wavy hair.

The Unsullied desert Danerys and open up Casterly Rock as an all-inclusive night club.

The Dothraki marry Westerosi women and slowly become civilized, taking out their remaining aggression on each other while watching Sam's latest invention, soccer.

Cersei rules with an iron fist, until Arya, disguised as the Mountain, kills her with a strategically placed banana peel on the stairs to the Red Keep.

Littlefinger and Sansa are about to get married and take the Iron Throne until it is revealed that they are father and daughter. Sansa kills him with a glare, and takes Tyrion back instead.

[ChipToBeSquare]

SPOILER: Euron Greyjoy drives the plot forward when the writers don't know how else to provide an obstacle for Team Dany

(Seriously though, I enjoy the hammy acting and see him as necessary for making Cersei a believable threat, but WHY IS HIS FLEET GETTING THE DROP ON LITERALLY EVERYONE)

[Zeb]

Hackers were quickly able to breach an electronic voting machine and reprogram it to Rick-Roll folks at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

Which isn't really all that different from how voting works now.

[Juice]

Oh, they're gonna let me down.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Could they not have come up with a more recent meme?

[Zeb]

It's like a long term running gag.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Plus, the hacker was Rick Astley.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hackers were quickly able to breach an electronic voting machine and reprogram it to Rick-Roll folks at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

Never gonna block those ports, never gonna patch you out...

[Jerry on the sea]

Never gonna leave a trail and count you.

[Domestic Dissident]

People from Los Angeles are Angelenos. Angelinos are dudes who have fucked Angelina Jolie.

[loveconstitution1789]

Or they go by Tomb Raiderettes.

[loveconstitution1789]

*Tomb Raiders.

Tomb Raiderettes would be the people watching trying to get you all into it.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Womb Raiders

[Juice]

I hate when I get my hands written. Takes forever to get that damned ink off.

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

Moooooooooooooch!

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Smoooooooch!

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

I'm scared u guys.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Me too.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73.

Playwright, eh?

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

Ploughwright.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Qatar has filed a legal complaint with the World Trade Organization about the boycott other nations have launched against it.

WTO said you just boycott them right back.

[Rhywun]

"They refuse to call us Gutter!"

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73.

The Ringer had a good piece about him.

[Dillinger]

R.I.P. Sam Shepard.

who else could play Chuck Yeager and pull it off?

[Bob K]

Dolph Lundgren?

[DRM]

No one plays Chuck Yeager and lives.

[Rebel Scum]

God help all Angelenos: The Summer Olympics will be returning to Los Angeles in 2028.

May the peoples republic of californistan continue to slide into the pacific.

[Dillinger]

>>>The Summer Olympics will be returning to Los Angeles in 2028.

will U.S.A. boycott?

[Juice]

Los Angeles: 2028 sounds like a bad 80s sci-fi movie.

[Dillinger]

Son of Pliskin.

[mad.casual]

I heard he was dead.

[Dillinger]

I had to look that up and just discovered they *remade* Escape from NY? wtf?

also I learned I can't spell Plissken

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

What? No! Please no! That movie is perfection. FFS I didn't cry boo when you aborted out remakes of every other beloved 80s movie but Escape from New York... FUCK YOU. They are going to take a truly glorious and libertarian flick and chop its dick off and sprinkle progressive dust all over it.

I weep.

[mad.casual]

I had to look that up and just discovered they *remade* Escape from NY? wtf?

*made*? Maybe as in 'In the can' but AFAIK, nothing's been released. From what I recall, everybody was on board. Russell was to have a role, Carpenter was to direct or otherwise have a hand in it and somebody you'd totally like/expect to be involved in the update, like Rodriguez, was writing.

The bigger kerfuffle/hearbreak I recall was Dwayne Johnson as Jack Burton in Big Trouble In Little China. The Rock seems to want to respect original fans, but rumors keep circulating about it moving forward without Carpenter *or* Russell, which is exceedingly disheartening.

I guess you could be talking about Escape From L.A. which was a sequel rather than a remake...

[Dillinger]

googled son of plissken...bunch garbage about a remake came up, with pics of the "sons of anarchy" blonde dude...looked real enough to me but i didn't research further

if they didn't make it yet, the world still spins in the proper direction...

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

Meet the parking ticket judge whose mercy has made him an internet star - thanks to the heart-wrenching stories of the accused and his unique way of delivering justice

n one video earlier this year, a grieving mother, Andrea Rogers, appeared before Judge Caprio with an accumulation of parking fines. She wept as she explained her struggle to keep her life together after her son was murdered.

'I'm going to take into consideration the horrific story you just told us, relative to your son. I don't think anyone in their lifetime would ever want to experience that,' Judge Caprio tells her before dismissing all the penalties. 'With our best wishes and hope that things turnaround for you. Good luck to you.'

[Juice]

Anarchy!

[loveconstitution1789]

So not Judge Dredd then?

[mad.casual]

Andrea Rogers, 35,... Just over a year later, Andrea Rogers found herself in Providence's Municipal Court before Judge Caprio. 'By then I had lost my apartment and my Social Security check had been cut off.
'When I went to court, I thought I had a few recent parking tickets but the judge started mentioning tickets from 2004 and 2005. I didn't even know that I had those because I had moved house.

I'm not entirely convinced Judge Dredd wouldn't have saved the money too.

[Juice]

'I'm always mindful of the fact that the power of the sovereign as opposed to the power of the individual is so disproportionate. Shame on me if I represent the sovereign and I give someone something that they don't deserve. That's a strict interpretation of the law.

'I take it to another extent. If I think there are certain circumstances in an individual's life or it's a close call, I give them the benefit of the doubt. I don't subscribe to the theory that because you were charged you must be guilty.'

Damn. A role model for all judges right here.

[CE]

What happened to judging the facts and not the law?

[Rebel Scum]

Hackers also got their hands on written material from several HBO shows, including apparently the next episode of Game of Thrones.

Hacked by a hacker called "Night King".

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

My nickname in college.

[chemjeff]

Now now. Everyone knows your nickname in college was "Morning Regret". 🙂

[Lord_at_War]

That was the ladies...

[brady949]

"Former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been found guilty of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop his immigration round-ups."

This might complicate his inevitable nomination to run DHS.

[Rich]

"No reasonable prosecutor ...."

[Paloma]

About time he got locked up. Bring on the pink underwear and green bologna sandwiches.

[BearOdinson]

I have never had a problem with that approach to jail conditions. The problem is that there are so many gods damned victimless crimes that can get you into jail.

I have very little sympathy for those that murder, rape, rob, etc. But, obviously a person caught with a bag of weed or a hooker shouldn't be in there in the first place.

[brady949]

That's the problem though. A lot of people who shouldn't be in jail at all got treated like that so he could put on a show for the TV cameras.

[Crusty Juggler - Hero]

72-year-old Oklahoma woman kills 11 venomous snakes

Susan Thompson posted a series of photos to Facebook showing her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Newby, and the venomous snakes she killed at her Lequire home using a shotgun, a shovel and a rake.

[BearOdinson]

She has probably spent the last few years developing her resistance to iocaine powder rattlesnake venom.

[Dillinger]

>>>Anthony Scaramucci is already out

the phish run @msg > the mooch tenure

[Number 7]

"Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73"

So did Jeanne Moreau. What's she, chopped liver?

[Dillinger]

c'est malheureux.

[Number 7]

don't know what that means, I'm an American and only watch subtitled French films but she was smoking hot in Jules and Jim, and sort of naughty too.

[Dillinger]

"that's unfortunate"...and yes, yes she was.

[Tony]

You know it's 5-dimensional chess because otherwise Mooch being gone after 10 days would indicate an absurd lack of seriousness in this administration.

[OM Nullum gratuitum prandium]

So the orange pu..y-grabber is as easy a target as one can get. But, nevertheless, you're right.

[chemjeff]

Oh I think we are way beyond 5 dimensions by now.

[brady949]

Jerry Brown had to veto a law that would have banned releasing most balloons into the air. Seriously.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/pol.....25167.html

[Number 7]

Jesus. Have you ever seen a baloon being released into the atmosphere that was NOT accompanied by a crying kid? That really had to criminalize this?

I gotta go out of California.

[MP]

Balloon Laws

[CE]

They never intended the law to pass. It was just a trial balloon.

[Number 7]

"The son of Nashville's mayor died of a drug overdose over the weekend."

Politician has personal tragedy. What are we supposed to do with this? Yay?

[OM Nullum gratuitum prandium]

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at age 73.

Shame. And only 73 years old.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Weather Channel Idiots.

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