Weiner Sentenced to Prison, North Korea Threatens to Shoot Down Planes, Violent Crime Up for Second Year: P.M. Links

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  North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.

• Former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for sexting a teen.
• Violent crime in the United States rose for the second year in a row, but it's still much, much lower than it used to be.
• Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks.
• I have no idea what the state of the health care bill by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham will be when this goes live, so here's a link that should perhaps indicate its current state. It seems kinda dead though. Deadish? Mostly dead?
• Sen. John McCain says his cancer diagnosis is "very, very serious" and that his doctors gave him a "very poor prognosis."

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for sexting a teen.

Weiner Behind Bars

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks."

And you say Canadians are soft.

We don't let very many people through without a thorough, erm, review.

[Citizen X - #6]

"I need to see your junkhole, please."

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

They will peak into and under each and every foreign toque they come across.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Being hard on Chelsea because she lost her hard on for collateral murder?

[BYODB]

I don't think that's the hard on that was lost...

[Fist of Etiquette]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.

Does that mean the NFL can, too?

[Rat on a train]

How else are you going to keep those damn planes from flying over the stadiums. They are trying to play a game. Don't you have someplace else to fly?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Violent crime in the United States rose for the second year in a row, but it's still much, much lower than it used to be.

Too late. The numbers vindicate Trump.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks.

AND YET THE DRAFT DODGERS GOT FREE HEALTHCARE.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

You know who else is a draft dodger? Bill Clinton.

He is always yelling at Hillary for leaving the bedroom door open and messing with the thermostat.

[Citizen X - #6]

Former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for sexting a teen.

You know what happens to Weiners in prison?

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

They go to dark places?

[NYC2AZ]

Sword fights?

[Aloysious]

They get put in compromising positions while listening to Bodycount's Evil Dick?

[Episteme]

There are a lot of fathers-of-15yo-girls in prison (many perhaps concerned on how they're dealing with their fathers being away) who are going to be very interested in talk to him in there...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.

I don't think America makes declarations of war of anymore?

[loveconstitution1789]

Fat Boy-Un evidently learned nothing in school.

1. The last time a country attacked the USA, we nuked them (twice) and had already obliterated their cities with bombing.

2. The USA has been in the business of attacking first in the past 40 years, so why would you poke the Eagle?

[Citizen X - #6]

poke the Eagle

Damn, that is a mighty fine masturbation euphemism.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

That is very unAmerican and a downright sacrilege.

[Ska]

Damn straight. You don't poke the eagle; the eagle pokes you.

[Citizen X - #6]

Do you like gladiator movies?

[loveconstitution1789]

Do YOU like gladiator movies?

[Episteme]

We can declare war via Twitter now? They really are updated the capabilities of that platform all the time...

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Controversial sex robot that can orgasm is now for sale

The hyper-realistic toy named "Samantha" comes with a "sex mode" and "family mode." When in sex mode, the robot uses its sensor-filled artificial G-spot to simulate an orgasm. When in family mode, Samantha's AI can tell your kids jokes, rattle off philosophy, or provide motivational quotes. The sex robot is cold to the touch and uses a standard USB to charge.

Your reign of terror is over, ladies. Finally.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The hyper-realistic...

Now which is it? Realistic or can have orgasms?

[Citizen X - #6]

Poor Mrs. Etiquette.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Which is it?

[Fist of Etiquette]

And don't even get me started on that "cold to the touch" part.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Uh.....please tell me you work in a morgue. That is the least frightening way to interpret that comment.

[Lily Bulero]

*Least* frightening?

[Number 7]

God I used to hate when my mom would rattle off philosophy

[Citizen X - #6]

Q. What's the difference between your mom and an orgasmic sexbot?

A. No one wants to hear your mom rattle off philosophy.

[Ska]

H&R post of the year.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

That's a terrible euphemism. Also, ew.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I don't think the "just another member of the family" is a good sales pitch.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

This is the future antifa and the SJWs wanted.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Maybe if it had an attachable/detachable penis. And you could only purchase dolls of your own ethnic variety?

[Lily Bulero]

Did someone say "Detachable Penis?"

NSFW, if you hadn't guessed

[BestUsedCarSales]

If I wanted to hear someone ramble over random rock music I'd listen to Was Not Was.

[Citizen X - #6]

Some people might be into that, dude.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Just a quick search shows that many, many people are into that.

[Citizen X - #6]

Mad props to Shaquille for the alt-text.

[Rhywun]

That doesn't look like a Russian to me.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Well, he'll be rushin' soon enough to find someone in the mood to bitch up.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for sexting a teen.

Seems a tad extreme tbh.

[Rhywun]

No, the lifetime on a sex-offender registry is the extreme part.

[loveconstitution1789]

Plus, restrictions on living so far from schools, reporting email addresses to the Sheriff, etc.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I have no idea what the state of the health care bill by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham will be when this goes live...

Goes live??? Double-U Tee Eff does that mean? You people make these beforehand? Maybe we should all just phone it in for comments like apparently the team at Reason phone it in for Links. Knee: TAKEN.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Both violent crimes AND knee theft is the rise? This is the future we chose when we stopped beating prisoners every day.

[Citizen X - #6]

I have no idea what the state of the health care bill by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham will be when this goes live, so here's a link that should perhaps indicate its current state.

Why you gotta make us work for the links.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Group of 45 men dressed like Magnum, P.I. kicked out of Detroit Tigers game

Tom Selleck was the one and only Magnum, P.I.

He had the look ? a Detroit Tigers cap, Hawaiian shirt and, of course, the most amazing mustache any man has ever grown ? and so much more as the star of the popular 1980s TV series.

A group of 45 men at the Tigers-White Sox game Saturday tried to pull off the same look and eventually was kicked out of Comerica Park for what the team later described as "inappropriate behavior."

This is why Trump won, and why I won't stand during tomorrow sunrise.

[Rhywun]

If 45 Magnum, P.I.'s can't act rowdy at a Tigers game, I don't know if I want to be an American any more.

[Episteme]

Unsurprisingly, they were reported by a group of 45 men all dressed as Higgins.

[Citizen X - #6]

Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks.

"Stay ote of Canada, please."

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks.

Switch back to Bradley?

[Lily Bulero]

If he can find his dick again.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Don't they just sell them to China?

[Episteme]

"Hey, detachable penis guy!"

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

A pill that stops you binge drinking by killing the 'buzz' of alcohol could hit the market by 2020

Arbaclofen placarbil, which aims to allow drinkers to moderate their consumption, could hit the market by 2020.

It manufacturers believe it could be beneficial to people who regularly exceed recommended limits, but don't recognise themselves as problem drinkers.

Science wants a sober, robot-fucking future.

My God.

[Citizen X - #6]

Is it because scientists got too many swirlies as kids, or not enough swirlies?

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

What kind of wedgie is that?

[Fist of Etiquette]

It manufacturers believe it could be beneficial to people who regularly exceed recommended limits, but don't recognise themselves as problem drinkers.

Are friends going to blow-dart the pill into their drunk friend's gaping maw?

[Citizen X - #6]

Actually, that would be a pretty fun bar game.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Mental note: next time I go drinking in Norfolk, bring a blowgun.

[BestUsedCarSales]

We can use REAL guns here in America. Maybe go back to your precious Commiedelphia if you can't grasp that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

You don't have any idea what you're talking about. SO HERE, HAVE A GUN.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Seems more like masking the fact that one might have drunk to much. How could this not increase alcohol poisonings?

[BestUsedCarSales]

I certainly see nothing threatening about, "We stop behavior we disagree with by chemically blocking the person's ability to feel pleasure."

[Careless]

Existed for many years now. Called naltrexone.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Middle school teacher arrested for having sex with student ? again

Reece was arrested Aug. 14 for the relationship with the 15-year-old. She was charged with child molestation and sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority.

She was booked again Thursday on charges of sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority in the case of the second victim.

Authorities said they will continue to investigate the former track coach.

Fun fact: Once you pop, you can't stop.

[Fist of Etiquette]

She doesn't look half bad in that photo. Verdict: NOT GUILTY.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Shawnetta - someone really wanted a son, huh?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Wife of ex-coach pleads guilty to sex with teen player

The wife of a former high school assistant football coach in Tennessee has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old player on her husband's team.

The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports Kelsey McCarter, 27, pleaded guilty to seven counts, including six charges of statutory rape. The report says she agreed to a three-year prison term but could be eligible for release after serving about a third of her sentence.

The mother of a Knoxville high school sophomore says the encounters occurred in 2015 while the teen had lived with McCarter and her husband, Justin McCarter. The husband had invited the student to live at their home after the teen faced behavioral problems, according to the report.

Madness.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bet that kid rode the pine after that.

[Citizen X - #6]

Who are all these women who want to get it on with pimply virgins, and where were they for the first 20 years of my life?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

"My Coach's Hot Wife"

[TrickyVic (old school)]

The only score he made of the season.

[creech]

Friday Night deLights.

[loveconstitution1789]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.
Ask for pilot volunteers to fly on the South Korean side of the DMZ and wait for North Korea to shoot down the plane. casus belli right there.

Let's get this war going.

Iran is testing ICBMs to all you NAPers who think the USA should wait to get nuked.

Iran and North Korea are problems that need to be dealt with sooner of later.

[Juice]

Let's get this war going.

All right. You lead the charge. When do you enlist?

[BestUsedCarSales]

He would, but sadly he has flat feet. Otherwise he would act without hesitation.

[Citizen X - #6]

Jesus Christ.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Told ya he's a parody.

[Rebel Scum]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.

"Your missiles are small and impotent, okay? The only thing they'll hit is their own SAM launcher. Sad!"

They can try, but I doubt they will like the end result of the attempt. My understanding is that China will not back them if they shoot first.

[loveconstitution1789]

I don't think China wants war with the USA whether North Korea shoots first or not.

The USA would cancel all the debt that China holds, not buy their stuff, and embargo their trade with other countries.

All over one of the three Communist countries left- Cuba, China, North Korea?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Two narcissistic divas, haranguing each other, ready to go to war over a twitter snipe. I think it's time to call TMZ in to negotiate a lasting peace.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Why you should NEVER put that lemon slice in your drink: Research shows the disgusting health risks of cocktail garnishes

The bad news was that when hands were contaminated with E. coli, the bacteria were transferred to wet lemons and ice 100 percent of the time. If the lemons were dry, the bacteria were transferred 30 percent of the time.

This story leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

[Citizen X - #6]

Sounds more like the research showed the disgusting health risks of bartenders not washing their goddamn hands after they poop.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Do you think Crusty washed his hands before throwing those orange slices at your naked, glitter-covered body?

[Fist of Etiquette]

As Conan the Bartendarian says: The best thing in life is to crush your ice, see you get driven home after too many, and to hear the lemon-tastings of your women.

[Juice]

Wow.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I know, right?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

I drink straight from the bottle for this very reason.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

So many euphemisms today.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The solution is higher proof alcohols.

[GILMORE?]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war

he should have added a trigger warning.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

re alt text: Anthony Weiner encouraged a child - America's future - to take her clothes off and touch herself. He then told her he wanted to, and I quote, "bust up that tight pussy."

Life in prison seems fair to me to be honest.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

So does this destroy political careers? I can't tell anymore.

[Citizen X - #6]

Let's face it, prison is the only place where he might be safe from the wrath of Herself, for a time.

Until the stars come right, anyway.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

If only Hill had bought him a realistic sex doll.

[Citizen X - #6]

Any sex doll supplied by Hillary would be carved from human bone and would never stop screaming.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

And all orifices would have teeth. Yes, even the eyes.

[Citizen X - #6]

Multiple rows of teeth.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Sen. John McCain says his cancer diagnosis is "very, very serious" and that his doctors gave him a "very poor prognosis."

He's a cancer patient because his brain was captured by cancer. .... I like the people whose brains don't get captured.

[Citizen X - #6]

That's some rough chuckles, Bobby Clown.

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

I felt bad the moment I hit submit.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Some things should never be linkz in the first place.

[BestUsedCarSales]

You shouldn't.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Hey, leave Bobby Clown alone. As Jim Norton says, either everything is on the table, or nothing is on the table.

[Citizen X - #6]

I'm not hassling Bobby Clown. I'm the asshole who keeps snickering whenever i read his comment.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Come on, man, I slow pitched you a Jim Norton.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Jim Norton is a piece of garbage sock-cuckka, which is why he begs Chip Chipperson to give him airtime.

[Rebel Scum]

I have no idea what the state of the health care bill by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey...It seems kinda dead though. Deadish? Mostly dead?

Team Red is truly working hard to defeat themselves in the midterms.

[Citizen X - #6]

One day they will seize control of Congress from the Democratic minority!

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Thank you for recycling.

[Citizen X - #6]

I stole it from The Onion.

[Aloysious]

That is a wonderful picture of that stoopid Weiner.

[Citizen X - #6]

Do you often have opinions about pictures of Weiners?

[Aloysious]

...

maybe.

[BestUsedCarSales]

No, I just stare at all pictures of wieners without any judgement. I just stare and stare.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Steelers' Alejandro Villanueva has highest-selling gear in past 24 hours

Fun fact: his father was a Spanish NATO officer, and Alejandro spent a decent amount of his youth overseas. We are building a wall to keep scum like him OUT OF AMERICA and these cucks are buying up his jersey.

Where my country gones?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Probably to A-rabs or something.

[loveconstitution1789]

Alejandro Villanueva (born September 22, 1988) is an American football offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Villanueva was a Captain in the United States Army, in which he served as an Army Ranger and was decorated with a Bronze Star for valor.

Villanueva was born on Naval Air Station Meridian in Meridian, Mississippi to Ignacio Villanueva, a Spanish Naval officer who worked for NATO, and his Spanish wife Matilda Martin.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Anchor baby trash.

[Reality]

It was a nice try, I guess, for you.

[Rebel Scum]

Sen. John McCain says his cancer diagnosis is "very, very serious" and that his doctors gave him a "very poor prognosis."

So you should be in a hospital, not causing more trouble on capital hill. Please slink away into the night.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Come on now. There's more than enough evidence demonstrating that you don't need a fully functioning brain to work on Capitol Hill.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

And my favorite story of the endless pointless outrage:
Pelosi Doesn't Know How to Pronounce Colin Kaepernick's Name

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I love - and agree - with the idea, the execution is meh, but it's still a positive something like this gets published at a mainstream site: How 'Law & Order' Valorizes Law and Order

Luongo is not alone in her concerns about how Law & Order portrays not only public defenders, but defense attorneys and the criminal justice system in general. A paper published in Law & Psychology Review in 2013 entitled "Ripped From the Headlines: Juror Perceptions in the Law & Order Era," found that because of Law & Order's ubiquity and long shelf life, it is likely to have influenced the thinking of everyday Americans and changed how they view the legal system?and how they might serve as jurors, even at a time when our criminal justice apparatus is under more scrutiny than ever. As the paper puts it, "The show suggests that if a suspect is not guilty, he or she is not brought to trial. Law enforcement ends up with the right person. This narrative may lead viewers, and thus potential jurors, to believe this is the way the system actually works."

[Juice]

Meh. They think that regardless of any TV show. Jurors are screened and filtered to make sure they're true blue idiots.

[BestUsedCarSales]

If every detective was Jerry Orbach our country wouldn't be in the state it is.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Some detective out there has his eyes, at least.

[BestUsedCarSales]

One of my favorite episodes of The Simpsons.

[GILMORE?]

Oxford student gets suspended-sentence after stabbing boyfriend: judge doesn't want to spoil her promising future

isn't this exactly the same rationale that everyone went apeshit over when Brock Turner (or whatever his name was) wasn't given the harshest possible punishment for his fingerbanging a dunk girl?

[Juice]

An aspiring Oxford University heart surgeon student

She was just practicing.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Isn't this the plot to Mr. Giggles?

[Trigger Warning]

The plot to Dr. Gigholes was more interesting.

[BestUsedCarSales]

"In the course of the incident two of his fingers also received cuts. Your partner managed to partly restrain you, albeit then you started to turn the knife on yourself and he had to further disarm you to prevent further self-harm," Pringle said Monday.

I see. Sounds like what we saw was a psychotic episode of some sort. Particularly combined with the drug fueled binge leading up to it. (Aside: why do we always say "drugs and alcohol"? Some bullshit that we give alcohol such deferential treatement) I don't know everything about the story, but this doesn't sound unreasonable reading the article itself.

Would have to read more to pass further judgement.

[Lily Bulero]

"Would have to read more to pass further judgement."

Some Internet commenter *you* are.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's why I'm so disliked, I don't have the will to just assert things.

[Trigger Warning]

So this person is a physician being train as a heart surgeon? Fuck that program. Enough psychos become surgeons. Don't enable them.

[Trigger Warning]

"...so fuck you all," concluded Senator McCain.

[Episteme]

His twenty-hour one-man filibuster (in Klingon) on a procedural motion on breaking for lunch will be glorious!

[Trigger Warning]

So will his seizures and incontinence.

[Trigger Warning]

*dons Swiss Servator's sunglasses*

I guess you could say that Wiener...got boned.

[Bra Ket]

At times like these I like to think back to the first time I saw Anthony Weiner. He was on the news pushing for single-payer healthcare via medicare for everyone.

[Trigger Warning]

Hey! Are you a physicist?

[Bra Ket]

Kinda. More accurate to say I studied physics then got a real job that uses the same skills while being practical in the real world. (not finance though).

[Trigger Warning]

Sweet! Thanks, I've been wondering. Every time I see your handle I think of Dirac.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

His fall has to be one of the most incredible in the current political era. This is a guy who was married to Hillary's body servant and thus had the inside connection to the most powerful family in the Democrat party, raised his profile by relentlessly talking shit about Republicans, and was considered one of its most potent rising stars. Even after his Carlos Danger embarrassment he was still considered a serious candidate for office because New Yorkers are the living embodiment of Calhoun's rat experiments.

And he threw it all away because, like a lot of people in his social class of upper-class cosmopolitans, he turned out to be a neurotic degenerate.

[Lily Bulero]

I bet Weiner's prison roommate will be someone named Richard Held. Get it, Dick Held, ha ha!

[Agammamon]

North Korea's foreign minister says President Donald Trump's tweets count as a declaration of war, and that means they can shoot down U.S. military planes.

OK, I'm cool with this. Let's go end this farce once and for all now.

Though someone might want to tell fatso that you have to be able to actually, you know, *shoot down a plane* in order to shoot down planes.

[Agammamon]

Chelsea Manning has been barred from traveling to Canada due to her conviction for leaking military files to Wikileaks.

Why would Canada care about that at all? Would they bar a Russian for leaking Russian military files?

[Lily Bulero]

NATO ally?