Irma Weakens as Jose Approaches, Sen. Corker Mulls Retirement, Pope Defends DACA: P.M. Links

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  Irma has weakened back into a tropical storm as it dumps rain on Florida and is now heading toward Georgia. Everyone is now worried about Jose.

• Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is considering retiring instead of running for re-election next year.
• Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd is being sued for threatening to arrest anybody with a warrant who sought help at any shelters in the county. The plaintiff claims that he was told that he would have to submit to a criminal background check in order enter a shelter, a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
• Pope Francis says it's not "pro-life" for President Donald Trump to rescind the program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
• Observing the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Trump said today ""Our values will endure, our people will thrive, our nation will prevail, and the memory of our loved ones will never, ever die."
• Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull surprised folks over the weekend by campaigning in favor of same-sex marriage recognition, which is currently the subject of a non-binding, mail-in public vote.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Irma has weakened back into a tropical storm...

So does this mean we're in for Global Cooling?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

I find it amazing the Pope would interfere like this. There were people who thought Obama's policies were anti-humanist. So maybe commie Pope needs to pipe down with his poopy comments.

[AlmightyJB]

Also, I thought this Pope was pro-choice?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Everyone is now worried about Jose.

BUILD THE DAMN WALL.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Canseco is still around? That is the only famous Jose I can think of.

[Citizen X - #6]

He was on Celebrity Apprentice a few years back... hang on. CONSPIRACY!

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I just googled it, and I am correct. He is the only famous Jose.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Not so. "Jose, can you see?" is about some famous blind person, so famous they ask it at every baseball game, even the ones Jose Canseco didn't play in. They still ask it to this day.

[mad.casual]

No way.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Jose Jimenez

[The Real Jose]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos?_Mart

[Rat on a train]

Irma, Jose. Wake me when we get to hurricane Temujin.

[AlmightyJB]

I think the next one should be Krokodil

[The Real Jose]

Too late

[Fist of Etiquette]

Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is considering retiring instead of running for re-election next year.

Looks like this politician has finally decided to...

[dons sunglasses]

...put a cork in it.

[Don't look at me.]

Are you going to be here all week?

[BestUsedCarSales]

He has no where else that will take him.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Rexit would LOVE to have me.

[Citizen X - #6]

Pope Francis says it's not "pro-life" for President Donald Trump to rescind the program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.

Because words mean whatever the hell the person saying them wants them to at that particular moment in time.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It means that everywhere but the United States is a death trap.

[Citizen X - #6]

Well, yeah, but still.

[Hank Stamper]

By that logic Trump is right to build the wall... to save the poor immigrants from ending up in Chicago.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

And Chicago will pay for it?

[CE]

Build a wall around Chicago. Put Kurt Russell in charge.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd is being sued for threatening to arrest anybody with a warrant who sought help at any shelters in the county.

Judd gets publicity, guy gets to sue. It's win/win.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Looks like this judge....

[dons fanny pack]

....will be graded a dud.

[Fist of Etiquette]

No.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Looks like this Judd

[dons sunglasses]

....is nastier than Ashley.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Furious Foodies Call Brooklyn Pizza Festival The 'Fyre Festival' Of NYC Food Events

Hungry pizza lovers, some of whom spent $75 each to attend the New York City Pizza Festival, are demanding refunds for what they're calling a "total scam" that had them waiting over an hour to enter a "shady parking lot" for empty tents and barely any food. And there's a familiar name attached to Saturday's widely panned event: the organizer is allegedly one Ishmael Osekre, the man behind last summer's "EPIC DISASTER" African Food Festival.

Fun fact: never go to Bushwick.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

We all know Crusty prefers Foodie Furries to Furious Foodies.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I did misread that headline thinking it was about a hot new pizza place catering to furries.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I did too. Now that I know it's no I AM FURRIOUS!

[Huzzah]

New York pizza is mostly trash, living on the reputation of a few bright spots.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Fun fact: you're trash.

[Huzzah]

Aw, man I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

[mad.casual]

Fun fact: never go to Bushwick.

What I've learned today:
Chicago pizza beats New York pizza.
Chicago foodie-tourist scam beats New York foodie-tourist scam.
Chicago "disaster" beats New York "disaster".
New York disaster beats Chicago disaster.

[Don't look at me.]

Real men don't eat deep dish pizza.

[mad.casual]

Real men don't eat deep dish pizza.

Agreed. Real men like John Stewart are either too afraid or too weak to eat deep dish pizza. I know when a smaller, more frail woman eats more slices of deep dish pizza than her larger male partner does thin crust slices; in this instance the thin crust pizza has been instrumental in defining who the dominant partner in the relationship is.

[CE]

There is no pizza in Chicago.

[CE]

Pizza is made on a pan, not in a dish.

[Sevo]

"Pope Francis says it's not "pro-life" for President Donald Trump to rescind the program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States."

Old farts in funny hats claiming to represent a sky-daddy ought to have the attention of, oh, four or five people, world-wide.
I'll donate a sock he can stuff in his mouth.

[Citizen X - #6]

Look at Richard Dawkins over here.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Now everyone will read Sevo's comment in the accent of a British man squeezing one out.

[Citizen X - #6]

You weren't already?

[Huzzah]

You know what I've never understood?

The level of emotional investment required to constantly hammer away with epithets like "sky-daddy".

It isn't worth the hatred, man.

[Cy]

Some of us went through a lot because of a bunch of the yahoos who believe in a Sky daddy...

[Sevo]

Huzzah|9.11.17 @ 5:07PM|#
"You know what I've never understood?"

You know what I've never understood? Superstitious twits who feel compelled to defend their superstition. Must be some real emotional investment to co0nstantly support that sort of foolishness.
Not worth the effort, man.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

You're relying on a CNN summary...see below...

[Ra's al Gore]

Pope Francis says it's not "pro-life" for President Donald Trump to rescind the program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.

When I think about treating children morally, my first thought is the Catholic church.

[Anomalous]

When I think about treating children morally, my first thought is the Catholic church.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I love the attempt to rebrand Pro-Life more generally

[Juice]

Well, saying you're pro-life when you really mean that you're anti-abortion is kind of disingenuous to begin with.

[CE]

Abortion ends a life, so it's pretty accurate.

[Juice]

But the term pro-life is much broader than that. Don't you think? To be pro-life, you'd also have to be anti all sorts of other things, but people who call themselves pro-life tend to be in favor of many things that ends a life or two.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Hackers could program sex robots to kill

A cybersecurity scientist has issued a bizarre warning that sex robots could one day rise up and kill their owners if hackers can get inside their heads.

The danger just makes it that much hotter.

[Rat on a train]

"When Safety Words Are Hacked"

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

I saw Blade Runner, too.

[Cy]

I'm more afraid of the implications they'll have on the west's ability to reproduce. Want to change the world? Have and raise good kids.

[The Real Jose]

How hard could it be?

[Fist of Etiquette]

""Our values will endure, our people will thrive, our nation will prevail, and the memory of our loved ones will never, ever die."

Shockfard just couldn't help himself putting in the superfluous scare quotes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull surprised folks over the weekend by campaigning in favor of same-sex marriage recognition...

He's drunk.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

The n-word and child rape jokes: Louis C.K.'s secret film that appears to have been inspired by sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen finally premieres amid claims C.K. inappropriately touched himself in front of women

The film, 'I Love You, Daddy,' is 'a very Woody Allen-esque comedy that simultaneously comments on Allen, and C.K.'s, controversies,' according to the Associated Press.
Both Allen and C.K. have been accused of sexual misconduct. In neither case have such allegations been proven

The New York-set film takes certain plot cues from Allen's 1979 film 'Manhattan', yet it also includes a character that the cast on Saturday acknowledged was modeled after Allen.
John Malkovich, 63, plays a legendary film director who is rumored to have molested a young girl decades earlier.
Meanwhile C.K. plays a successful TV producer whose 17-year-old daughter, played by Chloe Grace Moretz, begins a relationship with Malkovich's aged director. It spawns a kind of crisis for C.K.'s character, who has his own issues with how he treats women.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Allegations of sexual misconduct have dogged C.K. since March 2012, when Gawker published an article: 'Which Beloved Comedian Likes to Force Female Comics to Watch Him Jerk Off?' The article described an incident in which C.K. allegedly forced two female comedians to watch him masturbate in an Aspen hotel room.

The article, while not naming C.K. directly, was widely rumored to have been about his alleged conduct.

The now-defunct website published another article in 2015 that detailed other instances of alleged misconduct, including an instance where he grabbed a female comedian by the neck and whispered: 'I'm going to f*** you.'

Who hasn't forced female comedians to watch them jerk off?

[Anomalous]

No facial, no foul.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Know facial, know foul.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

an instance where he grabbed a female comedian by the neck and whispered: 'I'm going to f*** you.'

I laughed.

[Citizen X - #6]

When is he going to release the sequel to Pootie Tang, is what i want to know.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

If he made a sequel today, it wouls quickly descend from blacksploitation to nihilistic cosmic horror about 15 minutes in, when Pootie Tang discover he is white and his mother has been putting blackface on him every day while he slept.

[mad.casual]

Both Allen and C.K. have been accused of sexual misconduct. In neither case have such allegations been proven

I love the equating of these two incidents as though they were equal when one is more of an assertion from a mentally-challenged minor and her 50+ yr. old principal investigator about perpetual motion machines and the other is more about the existence of cold fusion or the Higgs boson among a group of adults. You almost couldn't have picked a more opposite set of 'alleged rapessault' cases to equate.

[BestUsedCarSales]

With Allen you barely have to make accustations, as he is openly proud of many things that are pretty iffy. Also, his vocal support of Roman Polanski should basically make him a exile from polite society.

[Rich]

Pope Francis says it's not "pro-life" for President Donald Trump to rescind the program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.

To be fair, he just bumped his head.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

After giving students 'drug and sex' quiz that scored their decency, Utah teacher is placed on leave

Are you "as pure as Ivory soap" or "hopelessly condemned"? A questionnaire given to students at Roy High School asks respondents about their sexual histories and drug and alcohol use ? and then provides a score to determine their indecency.

The survey, from a 1981 Dear Abby column, is 30 questions long. Question 27 asks: "Have you (girl) ever had an abortion?" Question 28 asks: "Have you (girl) had more than one abortion?"

Slipping drugs into someone's drink is worth fewer "indecency" points than experimenting with a member of the same gender ? which the questionnaire phrases as: "Even though you are straight would you go kinky to see what its [sic] like."

Being "kissed against your will" also counts two points toward indecency.

The outrage is stupid, but so is giving out the test.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Fun, yet predictable fact: I'm hopeless.

[Rich]

Question 29 asks: "Have you ever given out a 'drug and sex' test?"

Question 30 asks: "Have you ever been placed on leave for giving out a 'drug and sex' test?"

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I take it the Dear Abby column was sponsored by Ivory soap.

[BestUsedCarSales]

"A nerd - Just where you should be at your age"

🙁 If 28 is too soon then WHEN.

[CE]

In 1981, everyone passed. Now they just laugh at the questions.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Marxism isn't pro-life either, buddy. Go suck a priestly dick.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

"Our values will endure, our people will thrive, our nation will prevail, and the memory of our loved ones will never, ever die."

What about the memory of the haters and losers?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Nic Cage movies ranked:

Raising Arizona
Con Air
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
Guarding Tess

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Honeymoon in Vegas?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Didn't make the top five. Sheesh.

[Juice]

Leaving Las Vegas?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Like most serious films that win awards, it belongs at the bottom of the bottom 5 list.

[Cy]

Gone in 60 seconds?

[BestUsedCarSales]

FACE OFF MOTHERFUCKER

[CE]

Face Off dude.

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

Even with Google Translate, I'd rather rely on a transcript of the Pope's press conference than a CNN summary:

Valentina Alazraki:

...Unfortunately, in the United States, the law of dreamers has been abolished...

Pope francesco:

Really, yes, I was wondering what law it meant. I have heard of this law; I could not read the articles and how to make the decision. I do not know her well, but first, getting young people out of the family is not a good thing either for the young or for the family. I think this law - which I think comes not from Parliament but from the Executive - if so, but I'm not sure, there is hope that you will think about it a bit. Because I've heard the President of the United States: he looks like a pro-life man, and if he is a good pro-life he understands that the family is the cradle of life and that he must defend unity. That is why I have an interest in studying that law well....

Valentina Alazraki:

They can be deported from the United States ...

Pope francesco:

Yes, yes, they lose a root ... This is a problem. But really on that law I do not want to express myself because I did not read it and I do not like to talk about what I did not study before.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Tell him to speak english like a real catholic, fag.

[Pro Libertate]

Tampa looked like it was going to be directly hit by a cat 4 for a while. Was regretting not boarding up the windows, but we chose to ride it out. Fortunately, it kept downgrading until it was only a 1, then the eye ended up going east of us. It was an insanely massive and powerful storm, but Cuba helped weaken it, and, surprisingly, it didn't strengthen in the Florida Straits. The Keys, Marco Island, and Naples got hit hard, as did Miami, which was far from the eye. The whole state was affected. Wow.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Nice of the commies to be of some use. Glad you rode it out OK.

[CE]

You know who else left Cuba as a powerhouse and fizzled out in Florida?

[Sports Reporter Charles Manson]

Adolfo Hitler?

[Pro Libertate]

Is this a baseball question?

[Anomalous]

Tony Montana?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Desi Arnez?

[Pro Libertate]

"I'm afraid this is going to happen with a lot greater frequency. What we went through for this storm prepares us all, this team and the community for the next go-around." ? St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, talking about "our changing climate"

I see. What about those years without a hurricane?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

They are the distant future.

Fact: every time you turn on your air conditioner, another hurricane is born.

[Pro Libertate]

Um, what if, hypothetically speaking, I ran my A/C during a hurricane?

[Don't look at me.]

With the windows open?

[Pro Libertate]

That would some A/C.

[Barnstormer]

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

The dead rising from the grave!

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

That's what unleashes the Kaiju.

Thanks.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Nice, I've always found Hedorah kind of sexy anyway.

[Huzzah]

Worth it.

[CE]

At least the governor of Florida didn't give kids nightmares by telling them the storm surge would kill them.
Oh, wait.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If Jose approaches, maybe we should build a wall.

[Cy]

Hell no! Think of all of the lawns he can mow!

[AlmightyJB]

Please who's going to cook for me when I go out to eat at an Italian, Chinese, or Mediterranian restaurant?

[Pro Libertate]

Well, if we sucked the heat out of the Gulf Stream, we could provide renewable energy and lower the temperature, thus weakening hurricanes. Granted, the U.K. would get a lot more snow, but that beats hurricanes.

[AlmightyJB]

So you're saying that we should drop Hillary into the Gulf Stream?

[Ken Shultz]

"Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull surprised folks over the weekend by campaigning in favor of same-sex marriage recognition, which is currently the subject of a non-binding, mail-in public vote."

Actually, that didn't surprise anyone.

Turnbull promised to bring gay marriage to a referendum and then refused to do so for fear that it wouldn't pass. In fact, at one point, Turnbull made excuses to angry "conservative" voters that he didn't hold the referendum because if the referendum failed, gay kids might commit suicide in disappointment at the outcome.

This mail-in referendum is a consolation prize to his "conservative" base. In fact, it's a big test balloon. If the postal test vote fails to pass SSM, they won't bring it to a referendum, and if it passes, they will.

Understand, Turnbull wasn't even elected by his own party voters. He ousted the one who did shortly after the last election. It'd be like if the Republicans impeached Trump and made McConnell the President--only then McConnell would need to spend the rest of his term undermining everything the "conservatives" ran on.

[Ken Shultz]

"In fact, at one point, Turnbull made excuses to angry "conservative" voters that he didn't hold the referendum because if the referendum failed, gay kids might commit suicide in disappointment at the outcome."

Correction!!!

The person who didn't want SSM taken to a referendum in Australia for fear of gay teen suicide was none other than Bill Shorten--who is not the leader of the conservatives or the Liberals. He's the leader of the opposition Labor Party, which in American parlance might as well be the Progressives.

"The idea of young people, perhaps yet to come out, seeing the legitimacy of their identity debated on the national stage, that is not an ideal which we should inflict on any citizen when we have a better path," Mr Shorten said as he introduced his bill.

"Let me be as blunt as possible: a No campaign would be an emotional torment for gay teenagers and if one child commits suicide over the plebiscite, then that is one too many."

http://tinyurl.com/ya4dfofu

----Bill Shorten, Head of Labor Party, Australia

So let's be clear--the left in Australia doesn't want a referendum on SSM because, despite what you may have heard, they expect it to lose. They're making petty, bleeding heart excuses not to bring it to a referendum--because they expect it to lose. The postal vote is a consolation prize to the right who elected Turnbull's predecessor thinking they would get to vote on a referendum and put the issue to rest.

[Ken Shultz]

In other words, Turnbull betrayed his own base by refusing to bring it to a referendum.

That he came out in favor of gay marriage surprised absolutely no one.

[Ken Shultz]

*"Conservatives" because the labels are confusing in Australia.

The "Liberal" party over there is what we'd think of as Republicans. They took their name from classical liberalism. "Labour" is like the Democrats.

They have a multiparty system, with the Liberals as one part of "The Coalition", which is made up of capital "c" Conservatives, Liberals, One Nation, etc.

Turnbull is at the end of his political rope. He's been undermining conservative positions since the day he stabbed his own leader in the back, and absolutely no one in Australia was surprised that he came out in support of gay marriage. He's been like that since day one. He ousted his own leader for being so conservative.

http://tinyurl.com/hlgwjo4

Chances are that the Liberals will lose their control of leadership in the coalition after the next election because of Turnbull. Voters are abandoning the Liberal party in droves--because of Turnbull.

[Ken Shultz]

P.S. If a referendum on SSM couldn't even pass in California, why would it pass in Australia?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

There's nothing more gay than a platypus.

[Ken Shultz]

Best argument ever against Intelligent Design is the platypus.

Why would anyone intelligent design a platypus that way?

A beaver with a duck beak that lays eggs?! Who wants to eat that omelet?

That's ridiculous. Not intelligent.

[CE]

Who says the Creator doesn't have a sense of humor?

[AlmightyJB]

Trying to figure out who the bigger scum is in Orlando, the looters or Sheriff Grady Judd.

[Anomalous]

All of them chipworthy.

[CE]

Cop steals 60 bucks from hot dog vendor:

http://www.mercurynews.com/201.....dors-cash/

[Glide]

This pope is truly the most annoying pope.

[Glide]

And I say this less because I disagree with him (I'm pretty unconcerned with the eventual result of the DACA fight either way) and more because it's true.