Chelsea Manning Loses Her Harvard Gig, Japan Considers a Military Build-Up, and a Federal Judge Says Sessions Can't Deny Sanctuary Cities Funds: P.M. Links

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  Harvard withdraws visiting fellowship inviation to Chelsea Manning.

• More and more Japanese policymakers are considering a military build-up following increasing tensions on the Korean peninsula.

• Vatican diplomat recalled following child porn investigation.

• McCain backs bill that would block transgender troops.

• Federal judge says U.S. attorney general cannot withhold grant money from cities over so-called sanctuary cities status

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Harvard withdraws visiting fellowship inviation to Chelsea Manning.

So Manning isn’t a fellow?

[BestUsedCarSales]

I lost my cool, but you were so cool. Damn Fist, you so cool.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Never sweat the Links, kid. They may be a little late, they be a little anemic, they may never show up at all, but they’ll never let you down.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

And they’re never gonna give you up.

[Juice]

Never loose your Harvard gig. It’ll come entirely undone.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More and more Japanese policymakers are considering a military build-up following increasing tensions on the Korean peninsula.

With Pearl Harbor still fresh in the collective American memory?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Good, they should have their own military instead of us.

[Fist of Etiquette]

WE SHOULDN’T HAVE OUR OWN MILITARY NOW?

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

STEVE SMITH ONCE RAPE ENTIRE PLATOON OF MILITARY. OR MAYBE GOT RAPED WHILE WATCHING PLATOON, NOT SURE.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Alas, there’s no one left here who remembers Mr. Smith.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I remember, Fist.

*looks away from computer screen*

I remember.

[Episteme]

*single tear*

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

I remember when he went to Washington.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

STEVE SMITH BIG HIT ON ILLUMINATI RAPE CIRCUIT. SKULL AND BONES, AMIRIGHT MY BITCHES? STEVE SMITH NOT SHIT YOU.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

I member.

And you don’t even know who I am.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yes, I’m hardcore.

[mad.casual]

With Pearl Harbor still fresh in the collective American memory?

Millennials hardest hit.

No seriously, every death in Perl Harbor was at least 2-3 boomers and each boomer was good for between 1-2 Millennials, if not more. More millennials’ lives were erased from the pages of history that day than boomers or Gen-Xers. It’s science.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The numbers check.

[Juice]

Vatican diplomat recalled following child porn investigation.

No way. Totally unbelievable. There must be some mistake.

[Citizen X - #6]

Christian Britschgi|September 15, 2017 4:55 pm

And so few links, too. I am saddened.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I wish I could phone my comments in, too. But, no, quality every night is what’s expected of me.

[BestUsedCarSales]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[Fist of Etiquette]

McCain backs bill that would block transgender troops.

I can’t tell, does that count as Maverick these days or not?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

You play your Maverick card on your Senator, then your Veteran card, then your Brain Tumor card, then your Reactionary card. You have to have a fuck ton of XP though, and even then if the opponent plays a Fading Star or a National Security it fails.

[Cy]

“I can’t tell, does that count as Maverick these days or not?”

Only if he’s pitching!

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

‘I’m Done’: CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Ends Segment After Clay Travis Says He Believes in ‘Boobs’

During a panel discussion on the Jemele Hill controversy and the White House calling her to be fired, things took an entirely different turn when sports radio host and provocateur Clay Travis pointed out that he only believes in two things fully.

“I believe in the First Amendment and boobs,” Travis stated.

It took a beat, but host Brooke Baldwin wanted Travis to clarify what he had just said, asking him specifically if he actually sad “boobs.”

It’s so much better than that.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Do you mean he said B-O-O-Z-E?

[Fist of Etiquette]

CNN’s budget cuts took away all the fainting couches.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

How’s Jemele Hill, who’s Brooke Baldwin, who’s Clay Travis? I’m really starting from zero here.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Good Heavens.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

THAT’S NOT AN ANSWER. But I got my answer in the post after this one. So I’m more clear on who these children are.

[Cy]

It’s ironic that the one clearly promoting her ‘assets’ in the broadcast, is the one offended by someone exclaiming their support for said assets.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Here’s Why Steve Bannon Wears So Many Shirts

“Friends” of Bannon said the shirt thing is something he picked up at military prep school, and that he refers to it as beach fashion. A representative for Benedictine College Preparatory, the Virginia school from which Bannon graduated in 1971, said he didn’t know anything about multiple shirts being worn by students there currently or in the past, but that it was possible. “I don’t know what the uniform was exactly when Mr. Bannon was here,” Mike Forster told me. “It ranges from wearing camouflage fatigues and sometimes dress shirts, or pants and tunics. There’s not multiple shirts.” Forster added that he and Bannon are roughly the same age, “and I remember, when I was in college, there were kids who wore multiple shirts. They’d wear a turtleneck with a shirt and a jacket.” Many of the men featured in a promotional video on the school’s website appear to be wearing at least two shirts at once, which is a start.

“Never two. N-e-v-e-r t-w-o,” his spokesperson said of the exact number of shirts worn by Bannon himself at any given time. “Never one. Certainly n-e-v-e-r o-n-e. And most of the time never two. It’s usually three, he usually has three shirts on.”

I mean that’s a lot of buttons to fasten and unfasten, fella.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

TW for our more sartorially inclined commenters: the author consistently refers to a suit coat as a “blazer.” Garbage people, am I right?

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

I mean that’s a lot of buttons to fasten and unfasten, fella.

It’s an alternative for the Vice-President next time he feels the urge to have dinner with a woman other than his wife.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Federal judge says U.S. attorney general cannot withhold grant money from cities over so-called sanctuary cities status[.]

That money belongs to those cities.

[Mickey Rat]

Would the Judge say the the federal government cannot withhold student losn money from state schools for not upholding Title IX?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Mad Men star Jon Hamm says Trump tried to intimidate him the first time they met and acted like the ‘alpha’ but Don Jr. defends his father

Former Mad Men star Jon Hamm has recounted the uncomfortable first time he met Donald Trump – in 2015 at a Saturday Night Live after party.

The interaction, he told The New York Times, was ‘weird’ because he felt like the would-be-president was trying to ‘intimidate him’.

The 46-year-old actor joked that Trump tried to act like the ‘alpha’, and Hamm added: ‘I’m as alpha as you. Let’s go. You’re not going to chest-bump me.’

After reading the interview, Donald Trump Jr took it upon himself to mock the actor’s attempt at bravado.

‘Pro tip: If you have to tell others you’re an alpha… you’re not,’ the president’s oldest son wrote on Twitter.

My guess: Trum’s is bigger. Way bigger.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I met Jon Hamm that morning. He was letting his bitch walk wherever she wanted, so I dispute the alpha charge.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I want to be clear that this is not some JOKE. I met Jon Hamm the morning of Nov 8, and he was walking his dug.

[Calidissident]

A Trump mocking someone else’s bravado is pretty hilarious.

[Jerryskids]

A New Yorker mocking somebody else’s bravado Is pretty hilarious.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Vatican diplomat recalled following child porn investigation.

Recalled what?

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Washing sticky outer cassock.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

He recalled that he was following the child porn investigation. Can’t you read headlines between the words?

[Vernon Depner]

We can now rest assured that his child porn collection is now being vigorously investigated by Vatican experts.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Does Anybody Really Think Anthony Bourdain Is Plotting To Kill The President?

If Trump and Kim Jong-un were gonna have a bit of a summit to try and mend relations, and they wanted you to cater, what would you serve?”

“Hemlock!”

And now, I guess some people are upset. Because it’s 2017, and that’s what we do now. We get upset.

Does anybody really think Anthony Bourdain is plotting to kill the President of the United States? It’s a stupid offhand quip he threw out to some TMZ creep in an airport. It’s not a particularly witty joke, but it’s a joke.

If Tranny Bonaduce was investigated by the Secret Service, this so-called “chef” should be investigated as well.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Man Hemlock is what took out Socrates, it’s nots to be fucked with, nots to be fucked with…

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Cop Explains How It Feels To Live Every Day In Fear Someone Might Record You Brutalizing A Civilian

[Jerryskids]

And now Dunphy feels vindicated.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

11-year-old who mowed White House lawn said he wanted to charge Trump his ‘regular price’

President Trump surprised an 11-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, who had the honor of mowing the Rose Garden lawn today after writing a letter to the president.

The president clapped in approval as he walked toward Frank “FX” Giaccio, who was hard at work cutting the grass. Trump gave Frank a high-five and a pat on the back.

“Future of the country right there, we’re lucky,” Trump said.

The future of country is white people doing the jobs Mexicans do because white people won’t do them.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

To be fair, Italians didn’t become white until around World War I.

[Vernon Depner]

“To be fair, Italians didn’t become white until around World War I.”

That was only in the Northeast. In parts of the South, Italians remain colored to this day.

[Paloma]

Well, at least eleven year old wipipo

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Japan’s weird sex hotels ? offering everything from prison cell bondage to vibrator vending machines

Many of the hotels have themed rooms, based on the customer’s sexual preferences.

The spaces are steeped in fantasy, with decor ranging from fake subway cars and Greek palaces to religious bondage and pirate ships.

Some of the rooms are more sinister though, with schoolgirl uniforms and children’s bedrooms incorporated as part of the fantasy world.

There are also numerous extras that customers can use during sex, including swings and vending machines that dispense vibrators.

If you pay to schtupp on a carousel horse-themed room, then…well…tip of the cap to you, sir.

[Mickey Rat]

Judt wsit until Japan invents the holosuite, all bets sre off.

[Fist of Etiquette]

New keyboard?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Huh, your keys stick when it’s a NEW keyboard? Pennsylvania is weird.

[Mickey Rat]

My aim on my phone can leave something to be desired.

[Episteme]

Wait…the Japanese are having sex? These are for tourists or robots, rights?

[Calidissident]

Christian, you messed up the McCain headline. The bill he’s backing would block the ban on transgender troops, not transgender troops themselves.

[Jerryskids]

We secretly switched the regular McCain news with the opposite news, let’s see if anybody notices.

[Episteme]

He’s being Double-Extra-Maverick!

[ChipToBeSquare]

McCain knows that with his foreign policy, he can’t afford to turn anyone away

[BestUsedCarSales]

Man, the links were so late that DD didn’t come in and say how excited he is for 2:00AM when all the cuckatarians go to sleep.

[IceTrey]

To be a Visting Fellow at Harvard you must have a Phd or a lot of business experience. Does Manning have either?

[Eek Barba Durkle]

Previously had dick?