Trump Threatens to Censor Cable News, Maine-Size Hole in Antarctic Ice, Bernie Sanders to Open Women's Convention: A.M. Links
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Alex Edelman/ZUMA Press/Newscom "The government … does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities," ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
- President Trump has been threatening news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now. He also threatened to pull all emergency personnel from Puerto Rico.
Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2017
It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election.Need tax cuts
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017
With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017
The Fake News Is going all out in order to demean and denigrate! Such hatred!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2017
- The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing "anti-Israel bias."
- A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
- The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.
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Did I forget to set my clocks back?
No, no, no. It's fall forward and spring backwards.
Conan's father was right - steel is the only thing you can count on.
I haven't watched Conan in a while. What's the story? Did his dad beat him or something?
No, his dad taught him the riddle of steel, before he was eaten by dogs.
Poor Conan.
Crom doesn't care.
Jet fuel can't melt it?
The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.
Cultural appropriation?
I was trying to suss out from that article what the scandal is actually about, without much luck.
On Sept. 26, the FBI announced that four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California had been arrested on a slew of bribery and fraud charges related to the investigation into Adidas.
The FBI is going to bring the pain to KU next, but they don't quite have the case sewn up.
If you're unfamiliar: the FBI decided to kick over a rock and notice the sleaze surrounding men's basketball recruiting at power 5 schools. Easy money for a prosecutor intent on making a name for himself.
They didn't even kick over a rock - they arrested a financial advisor who was running a Ponzi scheme, and the financial advisor gave them the case. It was an easy investigation after that.
Or, a rock fell into their laps and begged them to look underneath. Regardless, the only thing surprising about this scandal is how pervasive it is (Auburn? Really? I don't think they've produced a first round pick in thirty years) and how brazen the perpetrators.
brazen the perpetrators.
Especially considering how many middle men they now use. It used to be the shoe companies to the coaches, and that was it. Now it's more like, the shoe companies to the AAU coaches who, with the shoe company's help steer the kids to the shoe company affiliated schools. But, there are so many hands in the current pot they were bound to get caught.
Still don't see the federal crime here. If I take a golf resort vacation in return for recommending a vendor's product to my employer, I may be fired for breaking my employer's rules for purchasing agents, but did I commit a federal crime? If my employer chooses to overlook it, then what crime has been committed?
Your company is not regulated like the NCAA.
Still don't see the federal crime here.
Here:
Here is a legal analysis.
So basically, no real crime.
Still don't see the crime here. Who is the victim? Shouldn't the Justice Dept be focusing on reducing crime in Chicago, instead of going after crooked college hoops coaches and sleazy shoe companies and agents?
It's like "suddenly discovering" that a Hollywood mogul is a sleazebag.
A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
Maine, you dawg.
President Trump has been threatening cable news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now.
Doesn't he see they need each other?
Or maybe he is specifying network news, which does have to bow to federal pressures.
"We have to have a broadcast news cartel otherwise laissez faire, and you don't want laissez faire!"
Goddammit, ENB.
I don't get in to work until 10, so I'm in favor of this lynx movement. Use your considerable influence and make this the new normal, Liz!
Fuck that. What am i supposed to do for an hour after i get into the office? Work?
Just zone out for about an hour. Stare at your desk, it'll look like you're working.
I'd rather complain about the lack of links in the comments of whatever the last posted thread was.
Second to last.
The trick is a perl script that pretends to be code in the editor, but is really just sucking down random snippets from CPAN...
As long as you don't slump over or start snoring, they'll never notice your eyes are closed.
You can research how tribes got their names.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
He hopes to supplement his Bernie Bros with some Bernie Hos?
It's sexist, but it's about social justice.
Yeah, do they really need an old white man telling them how to fix things?
Bernie will come out as a lady so "she" can lead the party going into 2020?
So, shreek is a rape apologist, in case anyone was unaware that he is a piece of shit.
I'm just tickled that shrike is talking about Weiners.
If you're tickled by shreek's weiners, you're gonna need a police report and probably some antibiotics.
He has multiple? Is he a reptilian?
Well, he has access to multiple.
He has many. His genitals look like a sea anemone.
You know who else has a mysterious hole?
Harvey Weinstein, and he'd like to show it to you?
eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
This stall?
Maybe Maine is trying to get a head start on winter so they stole the ice and dropped it on Maine?
Nope.
JFK?
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
When is Condi Rice scheduled to speak?
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
When her girlfriend, Ms. Beans, is done with her.
...ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.
What ethnicity is this judge???
No Harvey Weinstein links?
WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING A SERIAL RAPIST, ENB?
Oh boy.
Follow the Links trail. That's why they were late. Weinstein's people called the Koch people who called Gillespie who called to wake up ENB to say if she ever got around to posting Links make sure remove any Weinstein links.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
You rubbed shit all over yourself yesterday. Own it and stop being such a whiny bitch.
If what I did to you yesterday was a crime, I'd be getting life in prison.
The Donald bloviates. The hypersensitive lefty media overreacts. It's like the media are a clowder of cats and the Donald has a laser-pointer.
lol he just bloviating
You just made Citizen X go "awwww" and now he loves the media.
You can make them run into a wall!
I had a dream last night where I had to watch after Trump. He kept pushing his way into random people's houses until he found a kitten to play with.
Are you sure you weren't just watching C-SPAN?
Jesus, no. What do you take me for?
People do weird things on Ambien, especially when they wash eight of them down with sizzurp.
I don't know if it's just because of incompetence and the fact that he has no idea how things work, but so far Trump has actually used less actual government force to suppress information or intimidate the press. He just blabbers and says insane things and screams fake news, but it's not like he's actually shutting down papers or labeling journalists co-conspirators for espionage or wiretapping AP phone records. Is it an actual strategy by Trump? I doubt it. He probably does want to do all those things, but doesn't know how, and everybody around him would prevent it from happening anyway.
The strategy is much like his predecessor: a never ending campaign. In Trump's case that means pointing out how awful the news is to him so his base doesn't look too hard at his day-to-day operations. So long as Trumpkins can say "look how mean everyone is to him!" then he's golden.
Trump is distracting children with his tweets. The media falls for it every time, just like a child.
He's too incompetent to actually do gub'ment things. Which is actually working.
I now have a theory that Europe was deliberately inbreeding their royalty for the same reason.
Some of those later Hapsburgs were hard to look at.
The deep water in that part of the Southern Ocean is warmer and saltier than the surface water. Ocean currents bring the warmer water upwards, where it melts the blankets of ice that had formed on the ocean's surface. That melting created the polynya.
Since the hole continually exposes the water to the atmosphere above, it is difficult for new ice layers to form. When the warmer water cools, on contact with the frigid temperatures in the atmosphere, it sinks. Then it reheats in deeper areas, allowing the cycle to continue.
Mystery solved!
Known as a polynya, this year's hole was about 30,000 square miles at its largest, making it the biggest polynya observed in Antarctica's Weddell Sea since the 1970s.
So, not anthropogenic climate change after all?
A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
The start to every Stephen King book.
You have forgotten the face of your father.
Problematic!
And where most of King's horrible filler stories should be dropped.
Former Senior Advisor to President Obama: What to Bring to the Gun Fight
The entire piece is almost worse than Palin's Buttplug.
This is why the US swiftly pacified Afghanistan and Iraq. Drones and cruise missiles destroy all resistance.
Not to mention that American's are much more likely to realize that a drone can simply be jammed which basically 'kills' the pilot. Oops.
My understanding is that when this happens they autopilot back to a base, but they won't be shooting any missiles in such a scenario. It's why we only use them on goat herders.
That's not what the Second Amendment imagines, and it is clearly not what the founders intended, but it is where the political fight over guns is taking us.
Clearly. It's so fucking obvious that I don't even have to spend one word substantiating that. Stupid far right fantasists.
WOLVERINES!!!
So he admits that the 2nd amendment was intended as a check on federal power.
And therefore we need more firepower, not less.
What, is C Thomas Howell chopped liver?
AHEM...Charlie Motherfucking Sheen?
If you start from the assumption that almost all of your fellow human beings are thoughtless, amoral, entirely reactive sheep, this article starts to make sense.
"The interpretation of the Second Amendment that prevails on the far right today was reverse-engineered to pander to fantasists."
Speaking of pandering to fantasists... lefty fantasists.
Always look to motives. Why would Americans want guns and why would socialists not want Americans to have guns?
That's not what the Second Amendment imagines, and it is clearly not what the founders intended
Uh uh...
Also, never-mind the multitude of comments made by the founders that directly contradict this a-hole.
So-called "students of history" are typically anything but.
The Second Amendment is in many ways an anachronism, framed before the age of drones and cruise missiles, when a well-armed civilian militia have actually been capable of turning back a foreign invasion...
Yeah, that could never happen now. Think Afghanistan was easy to occupy? Try Montana and Wyoming.
The well armed citizenry doesn't have to defeat the invading army in open battle, it just has to make the occupation too costly in day to day loss of life and politically unpopular back in the invading country.
Since there's no way this is happening, I consider all of this harmless fun.
Or maybe he is specifying network news, which does have to bow to federal pressures.
Twitter suspended Rose McGowan after she told Ben Affleck to "fuck off"
O. Em. Gee.
It's repulsive how many people accept that it's OK to have the content platform provider filtering content based on "community standards".
Not to mention that she actually managed to shame Affleck into an apology, and every time people see him now, they're going to think "rape enabler." Twitter ought to be giving her a damn medal, not suspending her account.
No shit, but Twitter is for twits. Never forget that.
Tiny, Transparent Worm Challenges Notions About Sex
It's going to be a doll-fucking future.
Phrasing, Crusty. Do you want us to think you have an American Doll credit card?
Jesus, that reads horribly. Sorry, Crusty. Did not mean to imply you had OMWC tastes.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention
"A pink pussy hat is a right!"
Why do you need more than one type of hat?
More than one kind of pink pussy hat is wasteful.
The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.
Universities and their shoes, yanno? It's like get a room already. Oh wait, you did, you have a whole closet for 'em. This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Foiled in Congress, Trump Moves on His Own to Undermine Obamacare
Interesting. I aim to believe that his administration is too inept to actually accomplish something like this. Also, now he can't blame Congress for when something goes wrong.
Considering how much of O-care was "fixed" via executive orders this was inevitable. And didn't the Donald say that the R's plan was too cruel and heartless or something to that effect?
Cruel and heartless plays second fiddle to Trump literally being Hitler.
The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Leave them before they leave you. Trump's not getting burned like he did on the manufacturing council again.
President Trump has been threatening news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now.
I dont think Twitter should ban Trump, but if they did... I am fascinated at what might happen.
Twitter would die.
Good riddance.
The rating would go in the toilet.
Their monthly AWS bill would go way down?
The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing "anti-Israel bias."
A man can dream. Also, I guess he doesn't 'fucking love science'. Bill Nye the used-to-be-maybe-a-science-enthusiast-guy haz a sad.
Science is a liberal hoax to rednecks.
It's also a hoax to people who think there are more than two sexes/genders, and people that think carbon dioxide is a "pollutant"...
And sure, those "rednecks" that grow all your food are completely illiterate in the world of agricultural science, animal husbandry, etc.
Fucking sheep doesn't make you a scientist.
Apparently fucking bears doesn't make you a scientist either.
Seeing how many liberals don't even follow the correct application of scientific method, it is a joke.
Liberals use what they think scientific method is to say science proved them right. Unfortunately for lefties, they don't learn from history nor scientific method to obtain a firm grasp on reality.
Example is socialism. Its does not work. Never has and there is zero observable empirical evidence to show that it does. Yet, lefties keep trying to force everyone to embrace socialism.
Intentions. Socialism is based upon good intentions. If you say it won't work then you disagree with the good intentions, and that makes you a bad person with bad intentions. Nobody cares what bad people with bad intentions have to say about anything.
You are so painfully confused it's almost cute.
Every time I see a pretty picture of some stars, I think "Man, I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!"
Someone with a big telescope took those pictures so obviously science.
I heard someone say once that the site should really change its name to "I Fucking Love Looking at Pictures of Natural Phenomena."
Since those pictures were taken with science and posted on an internet made of science it seems fair enough to just use a short name.
Sparky,
Everyone loves science sexually. Science is such a tramp.
Science is a liberal hoax to rednecks.
Like rape is to you, stupid.
The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.
The big news is that the FBI answered a FOIA request.
I am related to a high profile NCAA basketball coach, and it's been fun speculating to my relatives that he is next, but he actually could be next. Man oh man.
I hope your last name is Calipari.
Close. Crusty's last name is Caligari.
You misspelled "Caligula".
Uncultured heathen.
Silent films freak me out.
But you're right about the heathen part.
I wish! I would also doubt he gets caught, because he cheats the right way.
Respect.
The global upswing in economic activity is strengthening, with global growth projected to rise to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018.
https://goo.gl/xKULMa
Orange Fucking Moron immediately takes credit.
Why not? Obama took credit for "his" economy.
Presidents get the credit and blame for the US economy when they really don't have much to do with it. Congress affects the economy more than a president does.
On that note, Trump is rolling back government regulation that will improve the economy so he deserves a tiny bit of credit. Just like Obama helped weigh down the economy with his TARP bailouts and deserves the blame for the Great Recession lasting years longer than it had to.
It will nice to finally get out the Great Recession after 8 years of Obama. FDR kept the US in the Great Depression until WWII the economy going.
Yeah, put this in the "something that always happens and any president would do but now it's bad cuz Trump" category.
Media strategy 101 since Nov. 6, 2016....
I'm re-posting this: How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story
Mia Farrow's creepy-looking son has a sac his maybe father Frank Sinatra would be proud of.
The fact that he turned out to have some balls leaves no doubt that Sinatra must be his father.
I love that he threw them under the bus and Maddow helped him do it.
Ideally, given that everyone important is abandoning him, I'm hoping Weinstein completely loses his shit and promises the Feds that he'll give up the dirt on every rapist and pedophile in the business that he knows in exchange for some form of immunity. It would be poetic justice that Hollywood's perverse toxic culture of virtue-signaling and moral degeneracy was brought down by one of its own as a final "fuck you" to everyone who wouldn't stay loyal.
Nah, he just fled the country. Classic.
Solution: don't use twitter.
A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
Something something your moms nickname in college.
"The government ... does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities," ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.
But the government can violate the 4th Amendment to spy on Americans because "terrorism", said D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin.
At least he is standing up for 1st Amendment rights.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
Nothing says women power like an old white Jewish socialist man speaking about how he knows what its like.
A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
How else do you think Lake Freeze My Balls Off would be created?
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
Is he going to read from his essay about how all women really fantasize about being gang-raped?
Look, when Bernie sees people lining up for something he assumes whatever they're queuing for has been fairly distributed.
It's how you know the economy is healthy!
In capitalist countries only the rich get to rape woman and the poor are left with nothing! RAPE IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!
You think you are kidding. But if you look at the left's reaction to things like Ratherham and the rampaging Rapugees in Germany and Sweden and they actually seem to believe that.
Bernie thinks natural wealth and beauty of women needs to be fairly distributed by the state just like all other forms of wealth. Socialist sex is the most fair sex.
How ironic that he and Ayn Rand share that view.
I know, right? I bet they hooked up back in the '70s and it was nasty.
If you are a really dedicated and connected Objectivist, I am told they let you see the sex tape of that. It is said to be mindblowing.
Oh yeah, Ayn definitely liked the rough ride.
It is always the quiet bookish ones who turn out to be the freakiest.
Bernie Sanders always looks like he is farting.
Then he opens his mouth and it is confirmed.
So Bernie Sanders is crashing has gone from crashing political parties to crashing an entire gender?
Block Yomomma to campaign for Ralph Northam in Virginia gubernatorial race.
So I guess we can say hello to Governor Gillespie. Has Obama ever campaigned for a winning Candidate? The guy really has an amazing reverse Midas Touch.
I'll note that Mark Levin is stumping for the Republican, or at least talking him up, and frankly I'd bet on the Jewish Gnome being more effective than Obama at this point.
So, what you're saying is Cliff Hyra has a chance?
Nope, not a snowballs chance in hell. =/
Trump Threatens to Censor Cable News
If this is what it takes to get liberals back on board with the First Amendment, maybe this is a good thing.
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