Trump Looks for New Fed Chair, U.S Pulls Embassy Staff From Cuba, and Dems Push DREAM Act Vote: P.M. Links

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  Trump is searching for a new Federal Reserve chairman, and will reportedly pick one within the next few weeks.

• Trump pitches his tax reform plan to manufactures in a Friday speech.

• The VA secretary saw a Wimbledon match while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Europe.

• The U.S. pulls embassy staff from Cuba after bizarre "sound attacks."

• Dems try to force DREAM Act vote as a fix for DACA.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump is searching for a new Federal Reserve Chairman, and will reportedly pick one within the next few weeks.

AND IT WILL BE THE NEXT HITLER.

[Last of the Shitlords]

A new Fuehrer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pYMzPEtKg

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump pitches his tax reform plan to manufactures in a Friday speech.

I didn't realize there were any left in the United States.

[Citizen X - #6]

Sure there are: Toyota, Honda, Hyundai...

[Pro Libertate]

That's consumer goods. There's still a lot of manufacturing going on here.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

By dollar value, it's been constant growth, give or take the usual squiggles.

By job count, it's been constant decline, give or take the usual squiggles.

Both are excellent signs of a properly function economy. Pray the government doesn't alter that.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

That almost sounded like Darth Greenspan.

[Episteme]

America is great at manufacturing industrial manufacturing goods ? many of which are then sold to firms in other nations who use them to produce consumer goods, because they have less capital to invest and less-skilled lower-paid workforces. Of course, protectionists only see the "Made in China" label on their tee shirt, not the "Made in America" stamp welded into the machinery sitting in China that produced that line of tee shirts.

[Citizen X - #6]

U.S. pulls embassy staff from Cuba after bizarre 'sound attacks.'

Kathy Griffin was doing standup in Havana?

[CE]

Taylor Swift working on her next album?

[Fist of Etiquette]

VA Secretary saw Wimbledon match while on taxpayer funded trip to Europe.

If you're going to waste taxpayer dollars, don't be so un-American while doing it.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Bet he even ate the strawberries and cream.

[CE]

Was he watching a RUSSIAN player, per chance?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Couldn't blame him if he did, the chicks from the old Soviet bloc are pretty hot.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Dems try to force DREAM Act vote as a fix for DACA.

Thank you, Mr. President.

[Citizen X - #6]

Trump is searching for a new Federal Reserve Chairman, and will reportedly pick one within the next few weeks.

Via reality tv show?

[Lily Bulero]

He's already found a candidate.

She's NSFW, though

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

This is an excellent link.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

He should nominate Ron Paul for the lulz.

[The Last American Hero]

^This x 20 trillion.

[Pro Libertate]

It's legitimate. I mean, he's a former congressman and everything.

[Episteme]

Every time Trump needs to replace a cabinet member, I think "this is when he gives in and just goes for THE APPRENTICE: OVAL OFFICE, isn't it?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I Wore the Jean Jacket of the Future

A double-tap on my left arm now sends a ping to Google Maps and delivers the next turn on my navigation, either through the speaker on my phone or whatever headphones I'm wearing. (All the Jacquard Jacket's connectivity comes through your phone.) If I swipe away, it reads out my ETA. The small motor in my jacket sleeve buzzes and the light comes on when I get a text or phone call.

My God.

[Citizen X - #6]

So the jean jacket of the future makes you look like you're palsied and/or covered in bugs?

[BestUsedCarSales]

The jean jacket of the past/present/future is one with the sleeves ripped off and a Motley Crue patch on the back.

[Citizen X - #6]

BUCS takes his Ray-bans off and there's another pair of Ray-bans underneath them.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

BUCS hasn't worn a shirt with sleeves since the mid-seventies.

[Citizen X - #6]

BUCS's hair naturally grows into a mullet that gently brushes the tops of his shoulders. BUCS has never had a haircut.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

BUCS yearns for the glory days of the prominent wallet chain.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I did google Jnco jeans once to see if they even still existed, and then got nothing but Jnco jeans ads on Facebook for months.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

The funniest man on the planet wore a sweet pairof Jnco jeans a few weeks ago, which means they are totally coming back in style.

[Citizen X - #6]

BUCS's wallet contains only a Safeway gift card with $1.03 left on it and a condom, and he's gonna use 'em both before he gets home.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Body needs some sweet Dew before a hard fuck.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

The jacket that goes ping!

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I assume you all appreciated this silently, then.

[Paloma]

I had thought the car would be self driving.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Christian is a motherfucker who hates the concept of time. GO READ BEING AND TIME. I did, and now I know all about how to be on time.

[Citizen X - #6]

...he says, six minutes after the thread was opened.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Nobody needs to see the bile I was vomiting out right when the thread came up 5 minutes late. I saved us all. Once again reinforcing that I am like Christ.

[Aloysious]

...I am like Christ.

John Christ?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Yes, much like him Mothers tell their children not to walk my way.

[Citizen X - #6]

That's because of the inappropriately-placed rips in your jorts, though.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Both myself and the local magistrate have agreed they are all appropriately placed rips in my jorts.

[Shirley Knott]

Like Christ? You mean, then you're Christ-ie?

[Episteme]

Ironically, Christie of all people could help the pot cause:

H/T A Supreme Court Term for the Ages by Jonathan Adler

[Episteme]

New Jersey governor Chris Christie's efforts to obtain a plum appointment in the Trump administration may have come to naught, but his petition for certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court in Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, potentially the most important federalism case of the term. Under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), states may not "authorize" gambling on amateur or professional sports events. (Four states ? Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon ? are exempted under a grandfather clause.) Despite PASPA, New Jersey lawmakers authorized sports betting under state law, prompting the NCAA and other sports associations to sue. There's no dispute that, under current law, the federal government may prohibit sports betting directly. Current interpretations of the Commerce Clause clearly reach this far. At issue in Christie is something slightly different: Whether federal law can require that states maintain their own pre-existing prohibitions on sports betting, as PAPSA seems to. If the justices agree, this case could have significant implications for other contemporary federalism disputes, including those over marijuana and "sanctuary cities," where states likewise wish to eliminate state-level prohibitions on activity prohibited under federal law.

[John]

It is all about how you comport oneself and embrace the dasein of timeliness.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Fact: time is a flat circle.

[CE]

It's more like a reel of film in a canister.
In a room full of film canisters.
In a high castle.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Good job tying The Man in the High Castle to Ol' Marty Heidegger. Truly we are the best of all peoples.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Your armpits smell.

[Chupacabra]

That's just the poutine stuck in his playoff beard.

[Fist of Etiquette]

U.S. pulls embassy staff from Cuba after bizarre 'sound attacks.'

That sound is the county's quaint preciousness being restored thanks to President Trump.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Mother left four kids, aged six to 12, at home alone with a GUN and went on vacation to Germany with a friend for ELEVEN DAYS (but they could always follow her on Instagram!)

Four Iowa children found themselves in a real-life Home Alone scenario last week when their mother left them to their own devices to take an 11-day trip to Germany.

Police in Johnston, Iowa conducted a welfare check on Erin Lee Macke's house on September 21 after receiving a tip that her kids - 12-year-old twins (a boy and a girl), a seven-year-old girl and a six-year-old girl - were left alone.

They found that not only had the children been left alone, but that they had been left alone with a gun out in the open.

According to the criminal complaint, Macke left an unloaded Glock 9MM handgun on top of her dresser, next to two magazines - one fully loaded and one partially loaded.

What say you, Skenazy?

[Lily Bulero]

"So you're saying they were safe since they could defend themselves?"

[creech]

The ex is about to receive the child custody he probably should have had from the first. On the other hand, the kids didn't call him on Day 1 when Mom left them? Not a presence in their lives?

[Maven Houlihan]

The were left alone with a gun and it didn't turn in to The Road Warrior meets Lord of the Flies?

[lap83]

Is the gun OK?

[Paloma]

Meh.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

'Vibrator Nation': Inside the Rise of Women-Run Sex Shops

For these feminist entrepreneurs, their stores weren't just businesses ? they were educational and community resources. These women learned as they went, figuring out how to stay sex-positive and progressive within a capitalist system, creating a model feminist sex-toy stores still use today ? much like that original Hitachi.

How did these broads sneak into our capitalist paradise?!?!?!?

[Lily Bulero]

"how to stay sex-positive and progressive within a capitalist system"

Ooh, sex toys made by socialists, sounds kinky.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I think that's basically Sybian, as they used to rent them out for public use.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

That paragraph makes me want to die.

Question: do any of you have actual hope for the future?

[Chupacabra]

"Question: do any of you have actual hope for the future?"

I'm hoping my wife gives me a blowjob tonight.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I too am hoping your wife gives me a blowjob tonight.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Also, Hitachi wands are NOT just for women.

[Citizen X - #6]

[nathan_fillion_nevermind.gif]

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's true. First and foremost they are back massagers. And I'm sick of perverts dragging their name through the wet folds of women unable to land of a rich husband.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

VA Secretary saw Wimbledon match while on taxpayer funded trip to Europe.

I'd do worse to see Roger Federer win glory up close and personal.

[Libertarian]

Trump looks for a new Fed chair.

No truth to the rumor that he has his eye on a Barcolounger

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Model Goes Blind After Tattooing Eyeball, Warns Others of Dangers

Updated | Twenty-four year old Catt Gallinger's fun excursion into body art ended in horror when an eye tattoo left her partially blinded and oozing purple tears. The tattoo was meant to have tinted her sclera, the white part of her eye, but instead went terribly wrong, causing pain and possible permanent impairment. Now the young model is sharing her story in the hopes that others won't make her same mistake.

She looks even better imo.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It hurts me to look at that.

[Citizen X - #6]

"You know how tattooing your eyeball sounds like a really stupid, terrible idea? Well, it totally is."

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Do you want state licensed tattoo technicians? Because this is how you get state lic...etc.

[Libertarian]

Thank God that model is warning me. I would have done it otherwise.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

My Saturday afternoon just opened up.

[Mock-star]

I worked with a guy who had his sclera tattooed (red in his case)
Number one thing said to him: What the fuck, ....why?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Dems try to force DREAM Act vote as a fix for DACA.

Key word being "forced" -- hey, isn't all legislation forced? Technically speaking.

[Libertarian]

Just lie back and think of England.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

These Runners Use Built-Out Vans to Sleep Close to the Trails

The "Van Life" sub culture has exploded on social media, especially amongst millenials. For trails runners, the ideal dirtbag rig allows easy access to the best trailheads, affordable travel to races and generally makes it easier to focus on running, whether it's a year-round lifestyle choice or a getaway for weekend warriors.

Meet the "dirtbag" faces of the current generation of trail runners that call the back seat of their vehicles "home."

All millennials are lazy scum living in their parents' basement .

[John]

They are living in a van down by the river.

[Libertarian]

And eating government cheese.

[Citizen X - #6]

Dirtbag Rig was my nickname in college.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'm just glad that all of us will die soon from the results of our long-distance running lifestyle.

[Citizen X - #6]

"The race is canceled. Somebody saw a bobcat on the trail."

[Stormy Dragon]

So basically homemade RVs?

[Citizen X - #6]

They're not calling them "tiny houses" anymore?

[BestUsedCarSales]

"Everyone always wants to call me a 'free spirit' but I actually spend six months a year working construction and living on the ranch that I own in Prescott."

I like that this guy seems basically irritated that he's included in the article. He does not want to associate with everyone else there.

[Stormy Dragon]

Okay, I get the ones using it so they can do more weekend trips without paying for hotel rooms.

Questions I have about the ones doing it full time:
1. How are they paying for food/gas/etc.?
2. How do they get things like a drivers license/car registration without a permanent address?

[lap83]

Answer to both is mommy

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Maybe this, too!

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

1. How are they paying for food/gas/etc.?

By writing. Some have sponsorships too I am sure.

2. How do they get things like a drivers license/car registration without a permanent address?

They can use the address of a family member or friend.

[CE]

Task rabbit.

[Stormy Dragon]

Question 2 is particularly interesting from me, because the more I think about it, I realize that it's basically impossible to legally be a nomad in this country.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Someone wishes to gambol.

[Stormy Dragon]

Well... maybe I kinda do. Gamboling across the plain actually sounds fun sometimes.

[CE]

Difficult, not impossible.

[CE]

Actually, they would live in the vans anyway. The trailhead gives them a plausible reason to park there.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Selfies Lead to Discovery of Russian Cannibal Couple

A couple in Krasnodar in southern Russia was discovered to have practiced cannibalism for nearly 20 years and may be responsible for the murders of seven people, the LiveKuban.ru news outlet reported Monday.

The grisly practices came to light when a cell phone was found on Sept. 11 with selfies of a man posing with a severed hand in his mouth and snapshots of dismembered women and severed heads.

This is why I have never, and will never, sefie.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Just make sure to clean up your severed body parts first.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

At least Russia will give them the punishment they deserve.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

They've been cannibals for 20 years, yet committed only 7 murders?

That's pretty good shelf life for meat. They must use a Ronco Food Dehydrator and a vacuum sealer.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

This germophobe just threw up. Someone's hand in your mouth, no way. That should've been punishment enough.

[John]

Who among us has not at one time or another stored our urine in the refrigerator lest Jimmy Page get it and use it to put a curse on us?

http://www.ft.com/content/7fd5.....9f565a23e1

[Citizen X - #6]

That fucking guy. If keeping your urine out of Jimmy Page's hands is wrong, i don't want to be right.

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

U.S. pulls embassy staff from Cuba after bizarre 'sound attacks.'

THINK ONLY OF YOURSELF.

[Lily Bulero]

An earlier post about Dr. Seuss inspired this:

HORTON HEARS A DR. WHO

All the Whos down in Whoville liked goodness a lot
But the Master, that villain, assuredly did not
The Master, he didn't like goodness at all
And he could turn people many sizes too small
But before the Master could finish his plot
A police box appeared, and the Doctor yelled STOP!
But the Master stayed evil, he didn't go straight
He locked the Doctor in a Death Trap of Hate.
The Doctor was clever, he was just like McGuyver
He escaped with the help of his sonic screwdriver
He had the help of companions who all did their parts
They were sexy as heck (good thing the Doctor had two hearts)
The master was beaten, they sent him away
But he said "I'll come back and conquer you some day."

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Judged solely within its own genre:

10/10

[lap83]

I like it. I wish they were still doing that Friday challenge. "Come up with a new Seuss title to appease jaded progressive librarians"

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Oh, The Safe Spaces You'll Know.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

"Horton Hears A Trans"

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

"How The White People Stole Everything"

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Conservatives: Will You Please Go Now?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Oh The The Things We Allow You to Think

[lap83]

this one's my favorite

[Stormy Dragon]

Green Energy and Pork

[Stormy Dragon]

If I Ran the You

[Stormy Dragon]

How the Grinch Appropriated Kwanzaa

[The Last American Hero]

Um, last I saw, the Master identified as Missy.

Get woke.

[Lily Bulero]

From Bill and Ted?

Wow, what a crossover concept!

[Lily Bulero]

Or as I should have put it, what a most excellent crossover concept.

And in this form she's definitely more attractive than the brown skeleton-looking version.

[Lily Bulero]

Indeed, she would be the second most attractive Master in the history of the franchise, Delgado being of course #1.

[Episteme]

I'm honestly surprised that at no point did Missy don a fake goatee and start acting imperious.

[Stormy Dragon]

Tom Price has resigned.

[Episteme]

I can only hope that he then proceeded to board a private jet with Nixon Fingers.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

An open letter to Calidissident:

It's hopeless. It's all hopeless.

Love,

Greenyboy

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

We knew Nicholas Kristof is an asshole, but Jesus Christ.

[John]

Do these people ever not turn out to be even worse than you expect them to be? Kirstof is just hideous.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'll wait for his opinion after getting out before I judge. Hell, he could already be dead and they're just tweeting with his phone.

[John]

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/.....-an-alpha/

Liking pictures of naked young women makes you a "Gamma Male" whatever that is. There is more than a bit of odd homoerotic sensibility to the self-proclaimed SOCON Alphas. NTTAAWWT. I just think some of these guys with their "I don't look at porn and therefore can perform" and "I man up and marry and value women" seem to be compensating for something. I get the sense these guys are the neighbor who seems just a little too anxious to take you on the weekend overnight hunting trip.

[Lily Bulero]

They say that gays are only 2% of the population, but it's obviously more than that - the SoCons are all closeted gays, and the SoCons are clearly *much* more than 2%.

Which means that the vast majority of gays actually reject the gay agenda!

QED

[Lily Bulero]

Wait, the author's name is Kathy Shaidle.

[Lily Bulero]

Crikey!

"Confessions of A Failed Slut...

"...as the married, 50-year-old Shaidle explains, "my 'number' (as the kids call it these days) is so low that in certain Australian provinces I would still be considered a virgin.",,,

"An author and blogging pioneer, Kathy Shaidle has been called "a night terror" (Wonkette), "one of the great virtuoso polemicists of our day" (Mark Steyn), "strenuously witless" (James Walcott), "a purveyor of some of the most offensive racial stereotypes I have ever read" (the Canadian Jewish Congress), "a Zionist shill for the New World Order" (InfoWars) and "not a particularly nice person" (Alex Koppelman, Salon.com)."

[creech]

Depends, I guess, if the neighbor is Dick Cheney, the hillbillies from "Deliverance," or Hef's "The Girls Next Door."

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I just think some of these guys with their "I don't look at porn and therefore can perform" and "I man up and marry and value women" seem to be compensating for something

It's not even having that thought process, it's feeling the need to share that thought process (actual virtue signaling?????). I agree it is very off-putting.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Also, I am pretty sure Hef consistently fought the good 1st Amendment fight, and that alone makes him someone to look up to. The rest is just a great idea and even better marketing.

[Lily Bulero]

" I am pretty sure Hef consistently fought the good 1st Amendment fight"

So did the Communist Party, USA.

[Lily Bulero]

Hefner must have been *so* disappointed when his daughter raised money for Russ Feingold of McCain/Feingold fame

[BestUsedCarSales]

Women are without value until they are married away.

[Lily Bulero]

The author is a sheila.