Las Vegas Shooter May Have Considered Chicago, Russian Hackers Breached NSA Contractor, Bump Stock Ban to Be Introduced: P.M. Links

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  Authorities are investigating whether the Las Vegas shooter had been considering other options, including a Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. Police are still trying to piece together Stephen Paddock's life prior to the shooting and determine what his motive was.

• A GOP congressman from Florida plans to introduce legislation today to ban bump stocks that increase the firing speed of guns. The National Rifle Association came out in favor of bump stock regulations this afternoon.
• Russian government hackers breached the home computer of a contractor for the National Security Agency and stole information about how the NSA both defends networks against attacks and penetrates other networks. The theft happened back in 2015 but wasn't discovered until last year.
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reversed the Department of Justice's formal position held during President Barack Obama's administration that said transgender workers were protected under federal civil rights laws that ban sex-based discrimination. Justice Department lawyers will now be arguing in court cases that federal law does not cover discrimination against transgender people as currently written.
• A new Pew poll shows that the partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans is growing wider on many issues. There's an interesting notable exception, though: For the first time ever, a majority of Republicans (54 percent) say that society should accept homosexuality.
• California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law the "sanctuary state" legislation that limits when and how local law enforcement agencies can cooperate with the feds on immigration enforcement.
• A New York Times investigation has uncovered decades of sexual harassment complaints against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein's lawyer says he's going to sue the newspaper.
• Pennsylvannia GOP Rep. Tim Murphy, is resigning effective Oct. 21, after getting caught up in an affair scandal where he apparently urged a mistress to get an abortion, even though he's publicly pro-life.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

For the first time ever, a majority of Republicans (54 percent) say that society should accept homosexuality.

RINO’s!

[Anomalous]

Their stance has widened of late.

[mad.casual]

Consistently choking on Obama’s legacy, putting the squeeze on bump stocks bump stocks would require it.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Their stance has widened of late.

But only at airport restrooms…

[BestUsedCarSales]

All those years of taking it up the ass from Democrats has led to an awakening.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Racial discrimination. In recent years, Democrats’ views on racial discrimination also have changed, driving an overall shift in public opinion. Currently, 41% of Americans say racial discrimination is the main reason many blacks cannot get ahead ? the largest share expressing this view in surveys dating back 23 years. Still, somewhat more Americans (49%) say blacks who cannot get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition.

I hope the other 10% said that’s a complex fucking question, assholes.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Man, who was talking about all this polling stuff the other day? I think Gilmore. He’s very right about this. I look at the questions and I know people generalize their answers far beyond what the actual question asks.

[BYODB]

If it’s any consolation, modern polling has been shown to be not at all accurate but we all still pretend like the polls carry some magical weight when there is no dotted line connecting those polls to actual results anymore.

Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it? ^_-

[BestUsedCarSales]

I wonder how much is simply the problem of determining what the question is actually asking.

[BYODB]

I think it’s more like dozens of underlying problems, but I’d guess problem #1 is that people are lying to pollsters about what they think or believe.

Another clear problem is poll construction that is intended to give a particular result, but by-and-large I think it’s just people don’t want to tell some random stranger about their particular beliefs on, say, race. Especially if those opinions are out of line with the Progressive narrative.

Racism, in particular, doesn’t go away you can merely drive it underground where it does more damage in a different, less obvious guise.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A GOP congressman from Florida plans to introduce legislation today to ban bump stocks that increase the firing speed of guns.

Trying to get control of the legislative narrative?

[AlmightyJB]

Pretty obvious that was going to happen.

[DRM]

It’s approximately the first time anyone has proposed a regulation that actually is relevant to a real-life mass shooting and which doesn’t significantly affect legitimate gun use. If it gets attached to something like the suppressor bill, it’s a good trade. If it goes in standalone, it’s still one of the most benign “We must do something!” laws ever passed.

[mad.casual]

What planet are you on? The suppressor bill got shelved and this bill is taking it’s place. You aren’t getting suppressors but not bump stocks. It’s still not suppressors and not bump stocks.

Also, FTFY, the entire justification for the suppressor ban is because it didn’t significantly affect legitimate gun use.

[BestUsedCarSales]

How does one determine that anyway? How does one say it doesn’t significantly affect legitimate gun use?

[Episteme]

The suppressor bill wasn’t shelved, it just wasn’t scheduled as was expected. It remains on the docket for the Speaker the schedule a vote on, so the two bills could be worked with as DRM suggests (although most ideas I’ve seen have involved concealed carry reciprocity).

[mad.casual]

The best kind of correct!

My point being that prior to Sunday, bump stocks were unquestionably legal and it was full speed ahead on silencers. And this fuckwit is acting like we are and should be bargaining with a weak hand. I don’t like the quid pro quo as much as I mind the legitimization of the underlying principle(s) and the acceptance/propagation of the lying.

If it goes in standalone, Right, because that’s how this is being framed, “This last piece of legislation to ban bump stocks and we’ll finally have gun control *just* right!” It’s not standalone, never will be, and we all know it.

Also, not significant or legitimate? My understanding is that the market for bump or slide stocks thus far is in the tens if not hundreds of millions of units and that you can’t prevent a bump stock sale or use any more than you could prevent a rifle sling (They make you more accurate free-standing*!) sale or use. So, considering the bump stock itself doesn’t actually fire any rounds, you’re effectively acknowledging that the government can, under the guise of gun control, pretty much regulate anything else it likes because scary things happen. Benign my ass.

Bubba has it right. Fuck. off. slavers.

*Results not guaranteed.

[Bubba Jones]

Fuck off, slaver.

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

How are you the one to decide what is ‘legitimate”?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Weinstein’s lawyer says he’s going to sue the newspaper.

And then run for president.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Pennsylvannia GOP Rep. Tim Murphy, is resigning effective Oct. 21, after getting caught up in an affair scandal where he apparently urged a mistress to get an abortion, even though he’s publicly pro-life.

If only every hypocrite in Congress followed his lead.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Can you imagine where we would even be without a Congress?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Like in Back to the Future when Biff controls America?

[BYODB]

You’re saying that isn’t the reality we live in now? Our current President is a casino mogul.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

Ha! So true.

And now I want to get shit faced.

[AlmightyJB]

We don’t have a Congress now.

[CE]

A lot more free?

[Rich]

Police are still trying to … determine what his motive was.

May he just liked to “fuck shit up”?

[Rat on a train]

Some people just want to see the world burn.

[Episteme]

It likely involved the phrase, “hold my beer,”

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

A GOP congressman from Florida plans to introduce legislation today to ban bump stocks that increase the firing speed of guns. The National Rifle Association came out in favor of bump stock regulations this afternoon.

Glad to hear mass shooting will effectively be diminished.

[Stormy Dragon]

Since nuclear and coal are unable to compete with natural gas for electricity generation, Trump administration wants to force electricity traders to buy electricity from them at above market rates:

Trump Administration Unveils Plan To Help Coal, Nuclear Sectors

The proposed rule would provide for “accurately pric(ing) generation resources necessary to maintain reliability and resiliency.” Toward that end, the proposed rule demands the “recovery of costs of fuel-secure generation units frequently relied upon to make our grid reliable and resilient.” What that means in everyday language is that power plants that have a 90-day fuel supply on-site ? coal, nuclear and hydroelectric power plants ? would be guaranteed “full recovery of costs” and a “fair rate of return” ? courtesy of ratepayers, of course. What is a “fair rate of return?” That’s an open question that many in other fuel sectors and consumers are worrying about. Nuclear units, coal units and hydro units are the only units with a 90-day fuel supply on-site.

[Anomalous]

I am now officially tired of winning.

[BYODB]

Amusing that the approach of lessening the regulations that result in high overhead costs were not on the table.

[Juice]

The proposed rule would provide for “accurately pric(ing) generation resources

Wanna know how you get the most accurate prices?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Ask the president?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Wanna know how you get the most accurate prices?

Burn down the Reichstag?

[Zeb]

This is not very funny at all. I want more comedy speeches like at the UN and in PR.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

*Trump throws lumps of coal into the crowd*

[Episteme]

They’ve barely found Santa’s tomb, and Trump’s already seized the job?

[Fist of Etiquette]

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law the “sanctuary state” legislation that limits when and how local law enforcement agencies can cooperate with the feds on immigration enforcement.

LAPD can continue beating the shit out of minorities apace.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The National Rifle Association came out in favor of bump stock regulations this afternoon.

“Please like us!”

[Rich]

Rep. Tim Murphy, is resigning effective Oct. 21

Well, at least it’s not a late-term abortion.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Police are still trying to piece together Stephen Paddock’s life prior to the shooting and determine what his motive was.

Hopefully we can find an affiliation we can then apply his stink to.

[Rich]

Was he a “Realtor ?”?

[Rhywun]

“White male” not good enough?

[Rich]

Can’t Stand Your Funk

[Zeb]

He just really, really hated music festivals.

[BYODB]

Bizarrely, that seems to be about as likely as anything else at this point.

[Paloma]

Maybe we should ban country music as well.

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

+1

[mad.casual]

Hopefully we can find an affiliation we can then apply his stink to.

And then return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Seriously, if Tim McVeigh and OBL’s motives had remained entirely mysterious, I’m not at all convinced would be much different or very worse off.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Agreed. The motive usually ends up having no use beyond allowing a scapegoat. I guess if this leads to discovering this is a cabal of shadowy individuals planning more attacks, something good can come out of it. Likely it’s just going to allow one group or another to point and place blame on another group.

[CE]

He was prescribe diazepam (Valium), according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Haven’t seen that in the mainstream press yet. It can make aggressive people more aggressive, or suicidal. It’s also used by shooters to steady their aim, which suggests he may have lied to get the prescription.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Russian government hackers breached the home computer of a contractor for the National Security Agency and stole information about how the NSA both defends networks against attacks and penetrates other networks.

The Fed should leak some of the victories their 17 intelligence agencies have scored over other countries to assuage our fears. I mean knowing that the NSA hacked every major French corporation for political and monetary gain only goes so far.

[Lily Bulero]

Citroen?

[CE]

Bull.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Russian government hackers breached the home computer of a contractor for the National Security Agency and stole information about how the NSA both defends networks against attacks and penetrates other networks.

Part of how the NSA does it is by letting contractors take work home with them?

[Rich]

He figured it was OK after Snowden got away with it.

[CE]

You shouldn’t even be able to do classified work on a home computer, if you have a decent IT department.
I can’t even do work work on a home computer.

[Don'tTreadOnMeChipper]

Trojan horse, baby.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

A New York Times investigation has uncovered decades of sexual harassment complaints against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein’s lawyer says he’s going to sue the newspaper.

Billionaire chauvinism is the exception not the rule. /s

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Pennsylvannia GOP Rep. Tim Murphy, is resigning effective Oct. 21, after getting caught up in an affair scandal where he apparently urged a mistress to get an abortion, even though he’s publicly pro-life.

Well…

[Citizen X - #6]

Russian government hackers breached the home computer of a contractor for the National Security Agency and stole information about how the NSA both defends networks against attacks and penetrates other networks. The theft happened back in 2015 but wasn’t discovered until last year.

…where “breached the home computer of” means “phished.”

“Hello?”

“Hello, is Yahoo administrator. Vhat is password to account, puzhal’sta?”

[BestUsedCarSales]

It’s good when you can choose both the vaguest word, hacked, and the most intimidating word.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

stole information about how the NSA both defends networks against attacks and penetrates other networks.

The bigger question is what exactly an NSA employee is doing with this information on his home computer.

[BYODB]

I think the joke here is that there was nothing to steal since the NSA is shit at defending networks, so what was ‘stolen’ is the knowledge that they are incompetent at emulating the Russians at their own game.

[CE]

The hackers learned that the NSA lets workers log in from home.

[Rich]

Nazi Mascot Contest!

[AlmightyJB]

I call him Jim

[Lily Bulero]

Jimmy the un-Gentle Gentile.

[mad.casual]

I had completely forgotten about this part of Mein Kampf and the Thousand-year Reich.

The aryan phoenix will rise from the ashes on the back of doodles of American school children who have a 25% chance of being black and 20% chance of being latino.

Solomon orders a baby to be cut in two and for the next several thousand years, he’s regarded as wise but Trump blames bad actors (morons) on both sides he’s a racist bigot.

[AlmightyJB]

“the revolution will not uphold the Constitution,” plus white supremacy

[Rich]

At first, she attempted to spin the demonstration as a welcome example of the kind of thing she had come to campus to discuss

“Good. Let the anger flow through you.”

[Lily Bulero]

Since SIV isn’t here, I’ll just say that ACLU women seems like a cuckquean.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I wonder if we’ll every figure out if SIV is real or just a shared hallucination?

[Lily Bulero]

“What’s the difference?” /Bishop Berkeley

[Pro Libertate]

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it — “I refute it thus.”

Boswell: Life

[CE]

This was covered in Reason a few days ago.

[piwitag]

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[Rich]

“Start her”?

No way am I clicking that link!

[Citizen X - #6]

Not at work, anyway.

[Lily Bulero]

And certainly not from my cellphone while I’m in the front row of the audience at an anti-sexual harassment seminar.

At least I think it’s a sexual-harassment seminar…I certainly am impressed how the actors in the skits seem so enthusiastic.

(apologies to Scott Adams for stealing that last joke)

[AlmightyJB]

Just tap it with your finger.

[Rich]

Nice, but a circular motion is better.

[AlmightyJB]

I was going for a tie in with clicking the link.

[CE]

Work for the NSA from your home computer! Protect national security and earn lots of rubles, I mean, dollars.

[mad.casual]

I’m stealing this.

[Lily Bulero]

“The National Rifle Association came out in favor of bump stock regulations this afternoon.”

I had one commenter that the NRA believed in no gun regulations at all (thus making them extremists, of course). I tried pointing to their qualified support for gun-bans for convicted felons, but that just put the guy into a rage that I would lie so much.

[BestUsedCarSales]

You should tell him a lot of gun people take issue with the NRA because they’re too regulatory.

[Lily Bulero]

It’s Hihn, *you* tell him.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Ah, well I am fine doing so. But I fear it would be as effective as random text generation.

[BYODB]

Every time you say or write his name, he lives an extra year.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Well, he’s got a while to go as I shout his name every time I orgasm.

[Lily Bulero]

So, is he good in bed?

[BestUsedCarSales]

He’s only there in spirit. In the real world I am always alone.

[Rich]

Authorities are investigating whether the Las Vegas shooter had been considering other options, including a Lollapalooza festival in Chicago

and running for President.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Las Vegas Shooter May Have Considered Chicago

Then realized that nobody would notice 58 additional dead in Chicago.

[BestUsedCarSales]

In Vegas at least you’ll get a movie out of 58 people taking it in the face.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I thought that was mostly an Asian thing….

[BestUsedCarSales]

No, that’s one person taking 58 to the face.

[Lily Bulero]

He skipped Chicago because of their strict gun laws, duh.

[BYODB]

That or he wanted to make sure that no one would shoot back…

[BYODB]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reversed the Department of Justice’s formal position held during President Barack Obama’s administration that said transgender workers were protected under federal civil rights laws that ban sex-based discrimination. Justice Department lawyers will now be arguing in court cases that federal law does not cover discrimination against transgender people as currently written.

Time to decide, trannies. Are you talking about your sex, or your gender, because it’s starting to look like the distinction might matter.

[Lily Bulero]

Finally, some politician has the courage to speak truth to power

“Last week, Wake County Commissioner John Burns caused a controversy by saying something that shouldn’t be controversial at all: the president of the United States is a white supremacist….

“After all, racism has been a defining aspect of Trump’s political ascent, from his propagation of the birther conspiracy theory to his vicious attacks on Muslims and immigrants. Talk all you want about “economic insecurity.” The fact remains that support for Trump is inextricably linked to white identity.”

[BestUsedCarSales]

It’s just common-sense that he’s a white supremacist.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

If you aren’t for white genocide than you are against it!

[BestUsedCarSales]

Not true, I have very mixed feelings on genocide.

[BYODB]

My feelings on genocide are pure!

[BestUsedCarSales]

This genocide is cute! CUTE!

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

“Last week, Wake WOKE County Commissioner John Burns caused a controversy by saying something that shouldn’t be controversial at all: the president of the United States is a white supremacist….

FTFY

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

Corona is the New King of Beers

Constellation Brands Inc., STZ 4.01% the U.S. distributor of Corona and Modelo, reported a 13% jump in beer sales in the summer months. The gains come as market leaders Budweiser and Bud Light are hemorrhaging volume and even craft beer?which until two years ago was growing in the double digits?is experiencing a shakeout.

“It’s a little bit of a misnomer to think that the growth in the beer category, to the extent that there is any, is coming from imports” from around the globe, said the company’s chief executive, Robert Sands, on a conference call Thursday to discuss the latest results. “It is not. It is coming from Constellation’s portfolio of Mexican beers.”

Build the wall to end this madness!

[Lily Bulero]

Mexico isn’t sending it’s best booze…

[Lily Bulero]

OMG I put “it’s” instead of “its” I’m like totally illiterate!!!!

[BYODB]

Pssh, give me Shiner Bock or give me death.

[Lily Bulero]

What’s with the either/or choice? Guzzle some vodka.

[BYODB]

Since I consume all alcohol at the same rate regardless of what it is, I try to stay away from anything that’s more than 10% alcohol by volume lol

[BestUsedCarSales]

People won’t stop putting a lime in the coconut, no matter how much the government attempts to stop them.

[CE]

These euphemisms.

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

I was just made aware of Dennis Reynolds’ CCH Pounder impersonation.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

So he does a black voice and that’s not racist?

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

lol

[BestUsedCarSales]

Glad to see some hate for Vox Day, and to also see that I’m a part of the “Meme Team.”

[BestUsedCarSales]

Mahoney was later banned from Twitter, but he’s relocated to Gab, a free speech uber alles social network where he is free to post messages such as “reminder: muslims are fags.”)

I feel like you could come up with a more offensive line to quote than that.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Also, “free speech uber alles” is quite an obnoxious comment coming from a news site.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Phew, that was a long one. I wonder if the documents are actually real?

[Crusty Juggler - Lawbertarian]

You’ve fallen for another false flag operation perpetrated by the same people who covered up pizza gate, the Seth rich murder, and the Las Vegas shooting.

[hattiecurtis444]

??????O
just before I saw the paycheck which was of $9068 , I did not believe ?that?my father in law was like they say actually taking home money in there spare time on their computer. . there brothers friend haze done this for less than seven months and at present paid the loans on there apartment .. .??????? ?????____BIG?..EARN?.MONEY..___???????-

[Hank Phillips]

I am happy that whenever tempted to donate money to the NRA, I always made a donation to the Libertarian Party instead. Single issue lobbies NEED the hobgoblin against which they pretend to tilt.

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