Trump vs. NBC News, Conservative Activists vs. Mitch McConnell, United States vs. No One: P.M. Links
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llreadll/flickr President Trump lashed out at NBC News after they reported that he wanted a "tenfold" increase in America's nuclear arsenal, a report the president denied.
- A group of conservative activists is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down.
- The president is expected to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen, the deputy White House chief of staff, to Secretary of Homeland Security.
- The Boy Scouts of America will start to admit girls into its Cub Scouts program and begin to develop curriculum for older girls as well.
- The United States will miss its first World Cup since 1986.
- A hole the size of Maine has opened up in the Antarctic ice.
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President Trump lashed out at NBC News ...
Can NBC produce its long form broadcasting license?
It's sad that NBC won't be able to cover the impeachment proceedings if he actually can pull their license.
It be nice to see that this results in the immediate end to all occupational licensing.
Trump lashed out at NBC, appearing to make a threat that is not even possible, given that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't directly license networks.
Don't tell the Fucking Moron that his threat isn't even possible.
http://www.politico.com/story/.....nse-243667
Given that the broadcast networks do not run most of their broadcast transmitters.
Hello.
"The Boy Scouts of America will start to admit girls into its Cub Scouts program and begin to develop curriculum for older girls as well."
Why? Why must everything be fucking integrated? There's nothing wrong with boys only (girls only) clubs.
They have Girl Guides for...girls. My daughter was a member for years.
The BSA has surrendered their culture war front.
It's very sad.
Boys need to be boys man.
Even beyond that, they sure as hell need a place where tying ropes into knots, climbing trees, and carving with knives doesn't earn them a daily dose of Ritalin and extra time sitting indoors while recess is in session 3 days a week.
My 4-yr.-old wants to join Scouts like his older brothers. At this point, it's a lot of extra money and hassle for an organization that didn't teach me those skills to begin with.
It'll be interesting to see how the BSA rewrites, um, *that* part of the Handbook.
On the plus side the overnight camping trips will be more fun.
Maybe Teen Vogue did that anal sex article because they got a tip this was coming.
"they got a tip this was coming."
Phrasing.
It's not fully integrated. Only the boy scouts let girls in. Girl scouts only let boys in if they "identify" as a girl and produce the requisite paperwork.
Additionally, the Boy Scouts require separate-gender bathrooms. It's not at all hard to see that the co-ed policy is likely to dictate that Dads can't be leaders of all-girl dens and/or that camping/hiking is going away.
Fuck it. I can take my kids to the park district, nature preserves, and national parks a lot cheaper and not only are they gender-neutral from the get go, if they aren't, they don't dictate policy like that to me.
It's not fully integrated. Only the boy scouts let girls in. Girl scouts only let boys in if they "identify" as a girl and produce the requisite paperwork.
After a brief check, Paul, I did not find evidence for your assertion.
Being short on time I only looked here and here, so perhaps you can educate me in this regard.
I found some news stories where the GS let a transgender boy in, but I don't know if that means they preclude them otherwise. The fact that this was apparently a news story would normally make me think they preclude. These days everything seems to be a news story though, so I don't know.
The link I posted earlier is now broken, so now I'm royally annoyed. Here's the link. It may start working:
http://unitedfamilies.org/abst.....llow-boys/
It appears their website crapped out from this morning. Either way, the article said that girl scouts WOULD allow boys, but only if they "identify" as a girl-- and their parents presented them as a girl-- and they discussed the issue of allowing the transgender boy in.
Site just came up. Looks like it's state by state.
So the Girl Scouts have a LOOONG way to go before they're no longer a bigoted, exclusionary organization made up of knuckle-dragging Team Red neanderthals.
This has never been about inclusion or integration. It's completely about emasculating boys and destroying any enclaves of Christianity, and Christian values..
There's nothing with boys and girls clubs, either.
Yup.
"Why?"
There are plenty of articles (including the linked one) where the BSA gives it's stated reason for this decision. You are free to read them instead of just whining.
That said, the (unstated) reason is "market pressure".
I think it is wonderful. My daughter has been tagging along with her older brother to Cub Scout meetings for two years now, doing all the activities, including racing in the Pinewood Derby. Here boys from her classroom at school are in the pack. She tried Brownies and was totally bored.
"Why? Why must everything be fucking integrated?"
In order to get boys used to the idea that they are defective girls as early in life as possible.
I wonder at what point most of,the folks here will finally acknowledge that the progressives have to be removed from the picture.
You mean physically, so to speak?
A group of conservative activists is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down.
This can't be new.
Ol Mitch just isn't nutty enough for the new GOP.
The reason they will never be able to get rid of Mitch is that everytime they schedule a meeting to oust him, based on reports that he is somewhere else, he ends up already being at the meeting when they get there.
Good, late-ies are sinners.
Hey PB, they just not be sensible folks like you Marxist shitbags.
The president is expected to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen...
Sounds blonde.
She's pretty good lookin, for a girl.
Sounds blonde.
She also speaks "Political English" well, in my opinion.
Death threats from wingnuts cause administrative leave of absence for Drexel prof:
"Due to a growing number of threats directed at Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, and increased concerns about both his safety and the safety of Drexel's community, after careful consideration the university has decided to place Professor Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave," Drexel said in a statement. "We believe this is a necessary step to ensure the safety of our campus." The university would not elaborate when asked.
The professor's comments were first picked up by the right-wing news website the Daily Caller, where they spread like wildfire across other conservative news outlets like Breitbart News, Glenn Beck's the Blaze, the conspiracy-theory website Infowars, Turning Point, and the controversial pro-Trump Reddit page r/The_Donald.
In an op-ed Tuesday in the Washington Post, Ciccariello-Maher said that his comments eventually ended up on Fox News, where the network mischaracterized his thoughts to suggest he blamed both President Trump and the victims of the shooting.
http://www.philly.com/philly/e.....71010.html
Let me send him a fruit basket, what's the address?
I am sure the police have been called and they are in the process of finding and arresting the people who gave those threats, right? No histrionic lefty ever made up such things. I mean never.
I am sure the police have been called and they are in the process of finding and arresting the people who gave those threats, right? No histrionic lefty ever made up such things. I mean never.
So there is no such thing as right-wing violence?
I forget that you live in Fantasy-Land.
Have the police been called? If not, then this is bullshit.
That's not the first time you ever said that, is it?
Unless you call the police and are willing to put something under oath, I don't buy it, when it comes to death threats. Ordinary threats of violence don't get the police' attention. So, there is no point in calling that in. But death threats do. So anytime someone claims they received a death threat, I want to know if they have called the police. If they have not, then they are likely lying or not taking the threats seriously.
There were only 16 cases of fake "Trump supporters beat me up", so I'm calling bullshit on this one.
Left-wing violence is much scarier and mental.
'Right Wing' violence is extremely rare. Progressives have riots and attack people all over the country on a daily basis. You know, like when all your bigot lefty friends get riled up and attack some older frail female professor or something else, like setting Berkeley on fire.
When I was at Drexel ('93), there were teamsters (representing striking custodial workers) harassing and threatening students both on the street and inside university buildings. The administration did nothing about it.
They didn't place this guy on leave for some hostile tweets. They just found a convenient way to get rid of him.
The easy solution would be to tell one of you frat boy classmates that those workers were talking shit about their frat. Then comvince him that getting a few dozen of his brothers together and going after the union guys is the way to handle it.
"White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything," Ciccariello-Maher wrote in a series of tweets attempting to explore why so many mass shootings are carried out by white men. "This is what happens when they don't get what they want."
Is this what Robby Soave calls 'social pressure' when dealing with racists?
Considering the highest rate of firearm homicide victims are black men, and the number of blacks killed by whites with a gun is about half of the reverse, maybe the Professor can throw some shade to BLM in the process.
The Boy Scouts of America will start to admit girls into its Cub Scouts program and begin to develop curriculum for older girls as well.
Be prepared... for nagging.
I just predict tons of fucking on camping trips.
Not that that would be new thing...
Bitching 101 could be a class.
The United States will miss its first World Cup since 1986.
Not all of the United States.
If only there were a World Cup of Hockey, am'rite? But Reason would probably just ignore it.
The Boy Scouts of America will start to admit girls into its Cub Scouts program and begin to develop curriculum for older girls as well.
I'ma go back and get my Sex Badge.
The BSA horning in on the cookie cartels turf? This is going to get vicious.
You meant to type Sex Badger, didn't you.
A hole the size of Maine has opened up in the Antarctic ice.
I don't believe this hole exists any more than I believe Maine exists.
That's not the first time you've had to say that, is it.
How did Maine get all the way down there to put the hole in the first place? Huh?
Antarctica has a Gaia sized hole in its heart.
Brad Pitt Threatened Harvey Weinstein With A 'Missouri Whooping': Report
The hero we need but don't deserve.
Brad was dipping it in Gwyneth, too???
She was his girlfriend at the time. That was before Jennifer Anniston and then Jolie.
He is regressing.
He fucked up by trading down Anniston for Jolie.
I dunno. I read an interview of Anniston that made me think she was twice as nuts as Jolie. If such a thing is possible.
That's why she's twice as hot.
Jeepers, what a creep this feller is.
The Librul Media has been all over that jackass while the creep Congressman conservative who wanted to abort his girlfriend's fetus then had to resign this week was forgotten about.
It is called the Weiner Treatment.
I am impressed by your pointless stupidity.
He resigned, i.e., lost his job. What sort of extra punishment do you reckon he needs for suggesting his girlfriend have an abortion? Perpetual national shaming? Criminal incarceration?
Weinstein on the other hand for all his news flaming is a rapist that will get away scott free.
"rapist"? from the accounts I have read he is more of an exhibitionist. Taking showers in front of hotel guests, jacking off into a potted plant, etc.
Then you need to read more accounts, stupid.
It's weird that you're not willing to call a pretty plain rapist a rapist.
It's weird that you're not willing to call a pretty plain rapist a rapist.
I remember Duke and the Virginia "rape" cases.
I remember Duke and the Virginia "rape" cases.
As well as Daddy's "special time" with you.
You don't seem to be withholding judgement until more evidence comes up though, you are just saying rape isn't rape.
Forcing women to give him oral, sticking his tongue into women's vagina's over their protests, and real-live actual literal hold-a-girl-down and- ape-her-over-her-loud-protests.
There's audio tape of him grabbing an actress' breasts literally as she's telling him "don't do that" and his response is "I'm used to doing things like that."
So, yeah - just some casual exhibitionism.
You are a horrible person.
One's a crappy hypocrite who's already taking his lumps, the other's a serial rapist who has fled US jurisdiction.
Does this kind of partisanship ever give you a sick taste in your mouth?
serial rapist
The Orange Pussy Grabber?
Stupid, to my knowledge one woman has accused Trump of rape, or attempted rape, while Weinsten has numerous accusers.
While Trump is an everlasting creep, he is not Weinstein.
No actress has accused HW of rape.
Sexual harassment yes. But not rape.
Wrong, stupid.
Sexual harassment yes. But not rape.
Is shriek stupid, a liar, or both? From the Farrow article:
A third party account deemed too unreliable to print.
I want a quote - "HW raped me" will do.
None except the three in the New Yorker article
The victim is not quoted.
What is "vaginal sex"? Pussy grabbing?
None except the three in the New Yorker article
Still waiting for a quote from a rape victim........
Still waiting for a quote from a rape victim........
You deserve rape.
The victim is not quoted.
So, a liar:
I thought the 13th Amendment was supposed to prevent you from getting owned like this.
That account was deemed too unreliable to print.
What has Evans said publicly?
Furthermore, since that quote came out the alleged accuser has been silent.
Nice hill to die on, stupid.
Nice hill to die on, stupid.
No doubt you were sure the Duke team was guilty of rape too.
Furthermore, since that quote came out the alleged accuser has been silent.
For someone who spends so much time moving the goalposts around, one would expect you to be something other than twig-armed tweaker.
That account was deemed too unreliable to print.
There's three there, stupid.
What has Evans said publicly?
"DERPITY DOO I DEMAND A DIRECT QUOTE AND THEN PRETEND ONE WASN'T PROVIDED WHEN IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE A BLOO BLOO BLOO!!"
What is "vaginal sex"?
You and your Dad need to sit down and have a talk.
Shriek's confused because Daddy introduced him to anal first.
No actress has accused HW of rape.
YES THEY FUCKING HAVE.
Oh, this just in.
Wrong. Several rape accusations already.
https://goo.gl/XcRjWa
And it's even from WaPo, a progtard approved rag. Now you've been corrected PB. Feel free to thank me.
If only the congresscritter had been a serial rapist!
Actress Jessica Hynes claims Harvey Weinstein asked her to audition in a bikini
THE HORROR!
Do you have any beliefs that aren't just the opposite of someone you dislike?
Jesus.
I don't even understand the angle here. Weinstein's a big Dem, is it as simple as that?
Weinstein's a big Dem
Which is precisely why the wingnuttery is jumping all over him.
He is an admitted sexual harasser. He deserved to get fired from his own company.
But you don't convict in the media. I am a Constitution first type.
If your definition of "convict in the media" is having an opinion on events, then you literally do the same thing about that Congressman. It is what instigated this whole train of thought.
I'm not accusing the former Congressman of a crime. I am just saying the two are on the same level of creepy.
He should be held to a higher standard as an elected official. HW is just a jackass with a harassment problem.
You think abortion, a legal procedure, is the same level of creepy as serial rapist?
Running as a pro-life zealot and then insisting on one personally is just a creepy as sexual harassment.
rape
NOUN
mass noun
1The crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will.
'he denied two charges of rape'
count noun 'he had committed at least two rapes'
as modifier 'a rape victim'
Synonyms
1.1archaic The abduction of a woman, especially for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with her.
Oxford
Rape apologists are hilarious.
I'm not accusing the former Congressman of a crime. I am just saying the two are on the same level of creepy.
Weinstein HAS been accused of a crime. Jesus.
"I'm not accusing the former Congressman of a crime. I am just saying the two are on the same level of creepy."
Holy shit, this is 5th dimension creepy.
No. No you're not. It's just something you hide behind out of convenience until you t8nk you and your pals can dispose of it.
Oh shit, I think we have a Weinstein denier now.
Hey, PB, quit spending so much fucking time at Breitbart, and start reading the New Yorker.
*LALALALALALALALALALALALALA*
Now I know that PB is the face of rape culture.
If memory serves Adrian Peterson also gave a southern 'whoopin' to his kid -- Weinstein could probably use a cedar switchin' and swollen testis.
Love me some Brad.
The United States will miss its first World Cup since 1986.
Define "miss."
Two misses, one cup.
'I can't imagine what black people go through': Bodycam video shows 'drunk' Team USA soccer star Alex Morgan and her friends arguing with deputies before getting thrown out of Disney World
On a scale of 1 to Tony, entitled white women are a Palins Buttplug while police officers are merely a John.
I am really insulted by that. I make a concerted effort to be annoying. I deserve a higher rating. I demand a recount!!
I know I don't hold a lot of sway, but I wanted you to know this anyway. I hate you the most.
That means a lot to me. Thank you.
No problem.
No one ever got tased for being woke.
http://www.mediaite.com/online.....uth-on-it/
Jimmy Kimmel shows how much he cares and respects women. HA.
He secretes enough estrogen as it is. Overachiever.
A. What's Jimmy Kimmel got to do with the Weinstein case?
B. The Man's Show was actually funny at times and was a last gasp non-PC attempt on TV.
C. Let's not be prudes. It was a risque' skit on the street.
4."Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
A. What's Jimmy Kimmel got to do with the Weinstein case?
It's pointing out that Kimmel's recent bout of virtue-signaling dried up when one of his fellow rich Democrats was exposed as a rapist.
An old-school pharmacy hand-delivers drugs to Congress, a little-known perk for the powerful
Comforting.
I am sure the DEA spends a lot of time making sure none of them get any sham pill scripts.
Would you be surprised if most of congress was Xanax addicts?
It would only surprise me that all of them are not.
This has been obvious for some time now.
Take comfort. It's actually lobbyists writing that legislation.
None of them actually write the bills. So it's ok.
A hole the size of Maine has opened up in the Antarctic ice.
I'm pretty sure Trump was alive in the 1970s too; coincidence? No.
In the 70's it didn't bother anyone since Global Cooling was imminent.
The best movies about parenting are actually these uncompromising genre films
TW: There are spoilers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....af6dbc9c5b
A botched surgery left a barber with erectile dysfunction. Decades later, he took revenge.
Now that is a great headline.
I miss The National Inquirer. Hell, I miss Weekly World News.
Where is Batboy when we need him the most!
JFK Airport guard forced to watch colleagues have sex on security cameras: suit
This is what happens when you have private security companies, libertardians.
Were the people having sex good looking?
Translation: did the woman have to pay for two seats?
http://legalinsurrection.com/2.....-violence/
Journal removes colonialism article after credible threats of violence. This is what fascism looks like.
Have the police been called? 😉
I am not sure. But since it didn't involve death threats, there is no point in calling the police. If it did, then yes why were the police not called is a good question.
It does, however, appear that Hazel Meade might be involved.
While the sources of the threats were not specified. the shrill tone of those protesting Gilley's article, including calling Gilley a 'white supremacist' and demanding his termination and the revocation of his PhD, as well as calls for him to be "ostracized, publicly shamed and humiliated, and never ever called 'a colleague' who should be politely invited for a 'civilised debate',"
No John, fascism currently looks like the bloated grapefruit you voted for.
The Big Lie.
"WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal in one of the cases challenging President Trump's efforts to limit travel to the United States, calling an earlier version of the ban moot because it has expired.
"That travel ban has since been replaced with broader restrictions, and a second case remains before the justices ? but it is likely to meet the same fate. If it does, a politically charged clash between presidential power and claims of religious discrimination that could have produced a blockbuster decision will instead end with a whimper."
It seems like there's gonna be a profile of every person involved in the Charlottesville gathering, but still, this one's pretty sad.
And it includes this ace line:
Another controversial Civil War era statue
'"They don't acknowledge the impact that it is having on their students, and I'm impacted by [the statue] every day," Skenandore said. "I think the plaque is the least the university can do."'
"Impact" has become yet another meaningless word.
Girls in Boy Scouts? Damn...that will make Scouting a lot less interesting for some boys. It'll be a lot harder to get any action if they have to compete with pussy. Of course, these days, with the anti-sex rules they have, most Scouts probably aren't getting any anyway. They don't even allow two-man tents anymore, and forget about getting alone with one of the leaders.
You get your own tent now? Fuck, that would have been nice.
No, just the opposite. They use larger tents. No privacy for...activities.
Less interference for you when you molested the younger kids Tony?
I think he just meant he prefers solitary sexual activities.
Pornhub Was Infected With a Virus?Here's How to Tell if You Have It
^ Commenter hero.
It burns when you stream.
*checking system now*
"The United States will miss its first World Cup since 1986."
The inevitable result of decades of Everyone Gets A Trophy.
This just in:
(CNN)As allegations of rape [but not rape, rape, according to Palin's Buttplug], abuse, and other forms of sexual misconduct against him mount, Harvey Weinstein's wife of a decade has announced she's leaving him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/.....index.html
This whole thing is the wife's fault. She put cellophane around all their potted plants. Dude had to go off the reservation for a proper jackoff.
Wonder if she'll go back on that like Huma did to stay with that pedophile pervert husband of hers.
Robby Soave ?Verified account @robbysoave
"Student protesters playing Rihanna's "Bitch Better Get My Money," which is a good song if nothing else"
Robby has beautiful hair but terrible taste in music.
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