Thursday Morning Links

“Order in…Morning Links.”

“You want cream and sugar with that, hun?”

I’ll get yer links in while the place is still kind of empty. Once the morning rush hits, you’d be lucky to get as much as half a quote of a day old headline, without waiting for 30 minutes at least. So, lets start.

Sports – Baseball… there was some macho strutting and posturing, with remarkably little actual damage for so much “fighting”.  Soccer stuff in Europe made people say “@#$%”. Basketball is now set for its playoffs. THERE WAS NO HOCKEY, I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU HEARD. HOCKEY STARTS AGAIN THIS FALL.

Birthdays – Henry Clay (1777), Beverly Cleary (1916…still alive!), Tiny Tim (1932 – not alive), Herbie Hancock (1940), Ed O’Neill (1946), Tom Clancy (1947), David Letterman (1947), Scott Turow (1949), Shannen Doherty (1971), Brooklyn Decker (1987)…

Happy Birthday to me…

 

Links;

  • Um, … OK. Didn’t know the Canadian Air Force could, you know, reach Syria. I understand they have something sort of over there…But, way to boldly stand up against Trumputin and the rush to war… I guess.
  • I know all of you will be rocked to the core when you read this. I mean, the sacred guardians of the public…are corrupt shitbirds?! Wow, who woulda thunk it?!
  • Huh. I don’t think STEVE SMITH is going to be impressed. You know how he hates amateurs…and politicians. I wonder if Western feminists will decry what appears to be a real “rape culture”? Oh, who am I kidding.
  • I guess we can start getting an idea of what side the cops are on in the UK. Hint, it ain’t the victim’s side.

Hope those links are savory and satisfying.

Since I mentioned Herbie Hancock…have a predictable music link.

Comments

558 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”

  1. AlexinCT

    I guess we can start getting an idea of what side the cops are on in the UK. Hint, it ain’t the victim’s side.

    Is that just in the UK? Anyway, what’s with the idiotic claim that NASA is finally sending sperm into space? Did the male astronauts that go up all get drained dry before they got to take their ride into space?

    1. STEVE SMITH MIGHT HAVE HIT SPACE ONCE OR TWICE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE MEANS…

    2. Count Potato

      “One of Scotland Yard’s top officers today defended the shrine to a burglar killed by a pensioner because ‘laying flowers is not a crime’ – but warned vigilantes intent on destroying it they could be arrested.

      Met Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey has been criticised for calling the death of career criminal Henry Vincent a ‘tragedy’ for his family and telling those tearing the flowers down to ‘act respectfully’.

      In a warning to those who want to destroy the flowers, balloons and cards Sir Craig said: ‘If you do things where you cause a breach of the peace, disorder in that area, then like anyone, you could end up getting arrested’.”

      How about a statue of a dog with its paw raised?

      1. leonadasiv

        Hate thought!!!!

        1. AlexinCT

          I am frightened that societies have reached a point where the legal system will not just look for a way to punish the law abiding citizen for doing everyone a favor and killing that criminal during the commission of a crime, but people no longer feel shame that someone related to them was a criminal and actually are willing to glorify that criminal. How fucking stupid woke do you have to be to think being a career criminal is just another noble job?

          1. But in an extraordinary intervention Chief Superintendent Dobinson, Lewisham Borough commander, appeared to take the side of the burglar’s family, who are from the travelling community.

          2. AlexinCT

            I hope Mr Lizard tells his people that the time to cull the herd has come, and they fucking eat us all. We deserve it with assholes like that.

          3. Mr Lizard

            Meh, Brits taste like disappointment

          4. MikeS

            I was wondering how this lowlife had over 100 flowers in his honor. He was from a clan of Travelers?

          5. Number.6

            If you look at some of the photos of the condolence cards, many of them are written in the same hand – aside from the vanishing few remaining romani – the pikeys are way up there near the top of the illiteracy ladder.

            In hindsight, doesn’t surprise me that they were pikeys, given the footage of that lowlife casing a residence where he was caught on the homeowner’s CCTV.

            In Henry’s family’s defense though, it should be noted that stealing from outsiders is a longstanding and culturally acceptable behavior in many Traveler communities.

          6. As if we needed more proof that not all cultures are equal.

          7. Slammer

            He was into 1980s space-adventure roleplaying games?

          8. They still publish it, with the most recent edition dating from 2016.

          9. Slammer

            You might dig this, UnCivil.

          10. Number.6

            Goddamn Vargr, stealin’ our wimmin!

          11. A Leap at the Wheel

            Beat me to it Slammer. That’s such a good album.

          12. Gustave Lytton

            actually are willing to glorify that criminal. How fucking stupid woke do you have to be to think being a career criminal is just another noble job?

            *glances at hip hop culture and Republicrat party, walks away*

      2. ‘laying flowers is not a crime’

        Technically true, littering is merely a violation.

        1. Tonio

          And under a strict reading of the law, people “destroying shrines” are merely picking up litter. When you leave your property unattended in public you take your chances.

      3. MikeS

        I think they should change the name from “Great Britain” to “Meh Britain.”

          1. MikeS

            A spokesperson from leading LGBT charity Stonewall said: “We must always ensure that all parts of our diverse LGBT community are catered for.

            You mean “catered to.”

            This might be the best example of “eating their own” that I’ve seen yet.

      4. Zunalter

        In a warning to those who want to destroy the flowers, balloons and cards Sir Craig said: ‘If you do things where you cause a breach of the peace, disorder in that area, then like anyone, you could end up getting arrested’.”

        Maybe someone was concerned that the thorns on the roses were a safety hazard, and wanted to dispose of them to get more potentially deadly weapons off the streets.

    3. PieInTheSKy

      I heard the term anarcho tyranny about UK

      1. APPROVED

        *stamps comment*

    4. MikeS

      Alex, I commend you on getting your own link in the first comment while making it seem like you cared about the provided links. And you get a 1st gif to boot! Impressive.

      1. AlexinCT

        That story about people honoring a career criminal killed in the act of committing a crime and the legal system in the UK actually at first trying to throw the guy that defended his house into the klink, pissed me off to no end. Any society that pretends it is woke because it values life so much that it prefers a system where law abiding citizens should subject themselves to the whim of a criminal element – be it the professional crooks that make up the government, or the amateurs that commit the lesser crimes – and do so even if it causes them all manner of harm, including the loss of their own lives, in my estimation is one not worth having or saving. Contrary to the idiocy peddled these days by the intelligentsia, you are not a more advanced society when you devalue the lives of the law abiding members.

        That having been said, talking about sperm in space just had to happen in a first link…

        1. MikeS

          Ditto. For all of it. Sperm included.

        2. Psycho Effer

          That’s the point, I think. They don’t value life at all. They think your should give away your life to every piece of shit that comes up and tries to take it from you.

        3. Yep. I can sympathize with the family of the dead burglar without condoning what he was doing when he died or in any way blaming the target for defending himself. The guy who was being burglarized by two armed men was entirely justified in using lethal force to protect himself, his wife, and his property. Also, the dead burglar was someone’s family, who was loved by them, and probably a wonderful person to people he wasn’t strong-arm robbing, and I can respect that regardless of how he died they’d miss him.

          1. It is the lack of shame …

            he had a ‘heart of gold’ and was ‘too good to walk the earth’

            They describing the guy that preyed on oldsters, or a guy who worked hard and gave all his worldly goods to the poor?

          2. Number.6

            As I noted, traveler culture fundamentally sees gorgers as fair game. Scamming them is morally acceptable, and preying on the most vulnerable is preferable.

            Violence and the dangers of injury and/or arrest are simply operational risks, and the Vincent family clan have the criminal records to prove it.

          3. They’re just liars. I have no respect for them. If they were honest enough to at least go to “he was flawed, but he was our ” I might have some sympathy. But pretending the criminal corpse was saintly just makes me regard the speaker with contempt.

          4. AlexinCT

            ^^^^THIS^^^^

            No sympathy from me once you decide your job is to take from others by force..

          5. slumbrew

            It’s also not “just” a memorial – it’s a threat against the homeowner. They’ve already been talking about getting revenge.

          6. Number.6

            As slumbrew says, it’s the pikey equivalent of a Scots laird or olden times burning a cross – it’s a call to revenge.

            The ‘Honor Culture’ is pretty much the only law the travelers obey, and by definition, if you’re not part of a clan, you’re a gorger, and gorgers are ‘the other’. Unless the cops hop on this quickly (they won’t) it’s got the potential to turn nasty unless the victim and his wife are relocated and/or protected.

          7. Psycho Effer

            That’s shitty. That family has no way to defend themselves from a gang. If the Travelers are patient, they are going to get that guy and the cops probably aren’t going to do shit. This is why self-defense is so critical to being both free and safe.

          8. Yeah, that’s a huge part of it. It’s fine to love someone who does bad things and mourn their passing, but, sorry kids, your dad was an armed burglar who preyed on the weak. He fucked around and picked the wrong house, and he got his. It’s not the old man’s fault your dad, who I’m sure was wonderful to you, was also a rat bastard to others.

      2. Tonio

        Suckups!

        1. MikeS

          I figure that since I manage to piss of Swiss once a month or so that I should be nice to him once a month or so.

          1. I’ll take what I can get.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            ^^^^Swiss motto?

          3. Gustave Lytton

            (Not just our own Servator)

          4. Number.6

            Surprisingly similar to Henry Vincent’s motto.

          5. MikeS

            Especially (((gold)))?

          6. Number.6

            (((art))) too!

    5. Plisade

      I’ve noticed a behavioral trend in certain types of bad operations managers. For those who avoid conflict, they tend to befriend their problem employees. Internally, these managers shield themselves from disciplining the problem children because, well, they wouldn’t do that to a friend. And another benefit, the good employees are less apt to report the bad ones because those are the boss’s favorites. I wonder if there’s some element of this psychology – conflict avoidance – in the woke movement.

      1. Number.6

        There are no bad actors in the woke community to be disciplined. To think such a thing is deeply regressive and you need to admit your heresy, shitlord.

        1. Plisade

          Exactly.

    6. Bobarian LMD

      Is that just in the UK?

      Well here in the US, the cops are only on their own side.

      Did the male astronauts that go up all get drained dry before they got to take their ride into space?

      To be an astronaut, you must be a master of your domain.

  2. MikeS

    Sports: Twins take series from Astros!!!!!

  3. Didn’t know the Canadian Air Force could, you know, reach Syria

    They could be operating out of Airstrip One.

    1. Tonio

      Midair refuelling? But that’s a long haul and I’d imagine that you’d want your aircrews fresh for a bombing mission.

      1. Given how much Trudy underfunds the Canadian military (they literally had to ask for charity to feed their soldiers), they don’t have fuel for the flight.

      2. MikeS

        Operation Enduring Freedom opened with the longest bombing missions ever flown.

        The third of the six missions, on the second night, proved to be the longest bombing sortie in history. Maj. Melvin G. Deaile and Capt. Brian Neal crewed the B-2 named Spirit of America. Ahead of them were more than 30 hours of flying time just to get into the target area.

        As now-retired Col. Tony Cihak, one of the B-2 pilots who flew during those three nights of missions said at the Mitchell event, “We took off for the second night’s missions before the war was on, … before the first night had even happened.”

        1. Bobarian LMD

          The Air Force awarded 246 Bronze Stars for the Yugoslavian campaign (Kosovo), with 131 going to people within the combat zone and 115 going to those outside.

          Guys who hung bombs in Missouri, and pilots who flew at 30K.

          The Navy gave it to officers who got as close as Naples.

          The Army did not give any, mostly because wrecking helicopters is frowned upon.

          1. The bronze star is supposed to be

            for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.

            If you’re not actually in danger of being fired upon, can you honestly be called “in a combat zone”?

          2. Brett L

            They handled this by putting a combat/non-combat designation on the Bronze Star because of medal inflation.

          3. Simply revoke all non-combat bronze stars and put them up for consideration for an award suitable to the actual work done. Maybe a letter of ‘attaboy’ rather than devaluing a combat medal.

          4. Psycho Effer

            I think only the clause “or meritorious service in a combat zone” requires combat at all. I think that’s why they have a “V” for valor add-on to indicate whether it’s a combat award.

            I remember my brother telling me about when he was in Afghanistan as part of a training battalion, he would frequently go outside the wire to embed with the locals on missions, but it was the battalion commander who got the bronze star, even though he never left the base. My brother was a little bitter.

          5. That reading sounds wrong. it reads to me like the ‘in a combat zone’ is applicable to all actions in the list rather than being part of the last item.

          6. MikeS

            If I were a bomb hanger in Missouri and they gave a bronze start for it, I’d sell it on eBay. Hell, I’m guessing that most of the air crews don’t even deserve one.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          You know who else began their bombing mission before the war started?

          1. The Imperial Japanese Navy?

  4. I’m working on finalizing my reservations for my road trip. Right now I have an unscheduled gap of Thursday and Friday in East Texas that I need to decide on a stopover for. Thursday morning I’ll be leaving Arkansas. Friday evening I need to end up in the Dallas area. It’s an estimated three hour distance, so I’m looking for places of interest within no more than one overnight deviation from that route. Since we have people more familiar with the area, I figured I’d ask for suggestions.

    1. MikeS

      Mind the gap

      1. I’m trying to, that’s why I’m asking for recommendations.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Getting into Q’s lane:

          Mind the Gap

    2. blighted_non_millenial

      I was gonna recommend Bryce’s Cafeteria in Texarkana, but looks like it closed last year (not necessarily because it was great but because it had been around a long time and that’s what you do if in Texarkana). If you are off the interstate between Texarkana and Shreveport, avoid getting gas. We broke down about 100 yds from the LA / AR border after getting a gas tank full of water on a Saturday December 26th… Stuck in Texarkana for 4 or 5 days getting fixed with a dog with separation anxiety. Spent the week holed up in a hotel drunk, eating Outback take out and watching bowl games. Upon reflection, that isn’t much different than what I would have been doing if we made our destination.

      Apparently, there is a Smokey and the Bandit museum in Texarkana, but we didn’t make it because of the pup.

      1. Ouch wrt water in the gas tank.

  5. leonadasiv

    I guess we can start getting an idea of what side the cops are on in the UK. Hint, it ain’t the victim’s side

    Piss on the shrine and the cops who try to syop me.

    1. Public Urination is not only a crime, but it’ll land you on the sex offender registry.

      Pissing on cops gets you an assault of an officer charge, because they’ll be pissed off.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        …because they’ll be pissed off on.

        1. “Don’t piss off the cops, don’t piss on the cops, what the hell, man?”

      2. Zunalter

        I thought the UK installed outdoor urinals…

  6. Drake

    I don’t think people are buying the narrative on the Syria “gas attack”.

    US Backed Syrian Rebels Caught Staging Corpses of Dead Children in Douma to Play on Western Emotions

    Russia claims that the reported chemical attack in Syria last Sunday was staged by the “white helmets,” a US-funded NGO lauded by mainstream media for their humanitarian work, while long-suspected of performing less-than humanitarian deeds behind the curtain.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-11/there-wasnt-single-corpse-russia-claims-white-helmets-staged-syria-chemical-attack

    1. Mr Lizard

      Ya the hardest part was making sure our agents didn’t eat the carcasses instead. They were hissing something about not wasting good veal, nearly blew their cover

      1. The chlorine adds a piquant aftertaste?

        1. Mr Lizard

          Actually yes, quite fortunate in this instance

    2. straffinrun

      You don’t get it. Assad knew that it would be counter productive given he was already about to knock the rebels out. Ya see, this way he can gas children and not be blamed despite being blamed. Or something like that. Bomb Damascus!

      1. Drake

        Assad has a master plan for starting WWIII so Syria can emerge as a superpower.

        1. Since he couldn’t defeat glorified raiders now what’s he going to do when the radroaches and super mutants show up?

  7. PieInTheSKy

    Um, … OK. Didn’t know the Canadian Air Force could, you know, reach Syria. I understand they have something sort of over there…But, way to boldly stand up against Trumputin and the rush to war… I guess. – but they will stop poutine shipments

    1. That would give me pause. Stopping the Tim Horton’s….would freeze me right in my tracks.

    2. leonadasiv

      I believe that is a war crime.

  8. AlexinCT

    Also want to point out that as someone that has avoided social media like the plague because of the knowledge of how your personal information would be used & abuses, I was glad to see Facebook’s perps being raked over the coals. The one problem I did see was that our political oligarchy – populated by a huge number of imbeciles that lack even the basic knowledge of technology – now demand to regulate it. what could go wrong?

    Seriously, people have the option to avoid shitholes like Facebook, or even delete it when they are done with it, but the damage done by our preening political oligarchy in their pursuit to get social justice will be unavoidable. There was a time I thought the resilience of the general population would save us from these morons. I now dread the world my kid will be living in as I see these douchebags basically making it hell on earth for the rest of us.

    1. Mr Lizard

      Yes I envision team stoooopid will vote for some proggie scheme that will ultimately ensentially the current social media regime as actual monopolies. Then the law will quickly be used to crush all major team red websites, and eventually this one.

      1. Mr Lizard

        *enshrine blasted stooopid phone

      2. AlexinCT

        I wonder what differs between the few of us that realize the people screaming the hardest about things and demanding the right to fix whatever they have deigned to categorize as the biggest problem facing humanity, after actually passing laws that caused precisely the behaviors that lead to that supposed problem, and those always enthusiastic about letting them do it to us again. Seriously, how often do we have to do the work of tracing the cause of some perceived problem that’s some politician’s crusade to behavior some previous legislation caused before more people wise up?

        1. Psycho Effer

          The problem is that passing a law is a pretty permanent solution to a temporary problem that can be self-remedied by the impacted individuals. Those permanent solutions are also going to have second and third order effects that are almost certainly going to be harmful to society in general.

          1. AlexinCT

            That is why I think all laws should have an expiration date, and unless there is another vote to keep it when that date is hit, the law goes the way of the Dodo bird.

    2. TK

      Meanwhile, Facebook couldn’t be more powerful in our society. Zuckerberg — as is his wont — admitted to error and apologized. “It was my mistake, and I’m sorry,” he said.

      He sounded as if he had broken a vase, not a democracy.

      Can you hear my eyes rolling? Can you hear them?

      1. If Facebook breaks your political culture it was a rickety pile of shit not long for this world to begin with.

      2. Zunalter

        Can you hear my eyes rolling? Can you hear them?

        Not over my own.

    3. Cliche Bandit

      I don’t understand why this is an issue for either team…if our “democracy” (don’t get me started) is SO FRAGILE that is can’t handle a little free speech from ANY source then we have bigger problems.
      The data was freely and knowingly given, to both Obama and Trump actors.
      The data was used to target advertise.


      soooo, what is the issue?

  9. MikeS

    Swiss: I shower upon you praise and adoration for your consistent use of alt-text. Much happy. So chuckle.

    1. I learned from all of you, at HyR, how this was absolutely necessary.

      1. MikeS

        The lack of it here seems to result in much less shaming than it did at Reason.

      2. Cliche Bandit

        speaking of that other site. i checked it out. Lynx are gone and replaced with some weirdness PLUS they were calling Rand Paul NOT a civil libertarian…wth has happened over there?

  10. Old Man With Candy

    Tiny Tim (1932 – not alive)

    Why did Tom Clancy not merit that sobriquet?

    1. Because he’s still putting out books from beyond the grave.

      1. AlexinCT

        Zombie Clancy?

    2. straffinrun

      Or Henry Clay?

      1. Old Man With Candy

        HENRY CLAY IS DEAD????

        Thank god we still have Abe Vigoda and Lou Reed.

        1. AlexinCT

          Oh oh…

          Who is gonna break the news to our buddy?

    3. His zombie books keep appearing.

    4. Slammer

      Beverly Cleary (1916…still alive!

      A cup of black coffee and the mouse on the motorcycle in the morning can do wonders

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    NPR is hitting on all cylinders lately.

    Yesterday, it was letting Robert Kuttner’s claim that unfettered capitalism directly led to the rise of Hitler go unchallenged.

    Today, it’s some EU commissioner spouting about “regulation ensures the principles of democracy are allowed to foster competition” or some word salad like that.

    1. PieInTheSKy

      unfettered capitalism gets around a lot

      1. Drake

        That’s why we need EU weenies to fetter it.

        1. AlexinCT

          And nobody should feel taken by the fact that they will be living high on the hog and getting some serious moolah while they look out for us plebes, right/

    2. leonadasiv

      We must destroy the free market to save it!!!

      Also that Hitler claim makes sense. That’s why he rose to power in that capitalist powerhouse, the United States.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        The fetishization of democracy is rampant these days. There’s nothing it can’t cure apparently.

        1. B.P.

          Fetishization by people who took to the streets in November 2016 to save democracy, because their preferred candidate lost an… election.

    3. Slammer

      “regulation ensures the principles of democracy are allowed to foster competition”

      Ayn Rand really nailed her villains, didn’t she?

  12. PieInTheSKy

    UK’s United Nations ambassador on Russia: “Marx would be turning in his grave”

    https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/12638/uk-s-united-nations-ambassador-russia-marx-would-be-turning-his-grave

    lol

    1. Quite frankly, Good. That lowlide mooch needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history along with his toxic ideology.

      1. AlexinCT

        No human can claim to have caused as much misery, death, and evil as that cunt Marx, but for some reason all the people that think they are the smarter ones, especially in our political and academic circles, continue to pay homage to him and his vile ideas.

    2. Drake

      LA Is Painting Streets White To Combat Global Warming Or Something

      $40k a mile for shitlords who care about such things.

      1. Drake

        Firefox is particularly shitty this morning.

      2. Slammer

        Doesn’t paint contain a lot of volatile organic compounds?

        1. Well sure, but paint chips in the ocean are nothing compared to warm air in a subtropical desert.

      3. AlexinCT

        Would anyone be surprised that if we followed that money, we would find that the people getting paid to offer this service are somehow related or connected to the political machine peddling the AGW cult’s fables? Seriously, I have yet to see a AGW solution that didn’t involve the shysters robbing the productive and after keeping a good chunk of the cash, funneling the rest to some other connected people that are part of the scam.

      4. spqr2008

        Won’t paint also make it much more difficult to stop your car? Especially in the limited rain SoCal gets.

        1. B.P.

          I’m thinking white streets will also produce an annoying, distracting glare.

    3. Count Potato

      “In respect of Karl Marx, I think he must be turning in his grave to see what the country that was founded on many of his precepts is doing.”

      Because Russia didn’t exist before Marx?

      1. leonadasiv

        Politician==lowest intelligence. They would otherwise be incapable of keeping a job.

        1. Number.6

          Even worse. She’s a career diplomat. Graduated from Girton in the early 80’s – so basically a British version of Wellesley.

    4. Drake

      Where is that grave? The coffee’s kicking in and I feel a big one coming on.

    5. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Apparently the UK’s ambassador to the UN is a moron.

      1. invisible finger

        You’d expect a person with a brain to take that job?

        1. It’s one of those posts where the party’s excess baggage gets fobbed off to so they don’t get in the way back home.

      2. Zunalter

        You do realize this is the country that arrests people for defending themselves from armed robbers, warns people that butterknives are still knives and shall be treated as deadly, and festoons their streets with knife collection points featuring the face of cookie monster…

        I think this guy is par for the course.

  13. Pope Jimbo

    C’mon! Give it up for the T-woofs! In the playoffs despite their best efforts.

    1. Derrick Rose will put them over the top.

      *struggles to keep from bursting into laughter*

    2. PieInTheSKy

      meh I was rooting for the nuggets.

      1. PieInTheSKy

        don’t know why though…

        1. It is just fun to say “Nuggets”!

    3. PieInTheSKy

      anyway Rockets in 6

    4. invisible finger

      Tibs can keep his streak of being just good enough to get eliminated in the first round and be rewarded with the 15th pick that won’t amount to anything.

      I’m sure the Wolves offense looks like street basketball where nobody knows where their teammates are on the floor.

    5. Winded

      It has been so long since the Timberwolves made the playoffs that the U of M actually held Paul Bunyan’s Axe at the time.

      On the other hand, that Taj Gibson fellow looks like a solid player. Any chance the Bulls would make a run at him when he becomes a free agent in a year?

  14. Count Potato

    “‘Cool pavement’ to cut urban street heat gets first California tryout in Canoga Park

    CANOGA PARK >> The new street seal gushed from a downpipe Saturday onto Jordan Avenue, then spread like paint to turn a half block of black into a sea of gray.

    For the first time in the Golden State, it is testing a reflective street surface officials say could cut public road temperatures, cool the insides of nearby buildings, lessen air pollution and reduce the threat of deaths linked to increasingly hotter heat waves.

    Before afternoon temperatures could push 100, city street workers spread a thin gray coating of CoolSeal into the heart of one of its hottest neighborhoods.

    “The city’s going to get hotter because of climate change, particularly this neighborhood of the west San Fernando Valley,” said Greg Spotts, assistant director of the Bureau of Street Services, who doubles as its acting chief sustainability officer. “The phenomenon called the heat island effect means the city is hotter than the surrounding countryside.

    Now, after rigorous testing for durability and wet skid potential, the CoolSeal coating was being slathered across a half block of Jordan Avenue just north of Hart Street near the headwaters of the Los Angeles River.

    he experiment will soon be duplicated in 14 other council districts before the end of June. If successful, city officials hope to encourage manufacturers to help develop cool pavement that could be incorporated into a multimillion-dollar drive to fix a backlog of L.A.’s failing streets.

    “I’m thrilled to be here. This is a great day for all of us. We look forward to seeing what the results will be,” said Kevin James, president of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.

    A CoolSeal coating could cost an estimated $40,000 per mile and last seven years, city officials said. But that’s subject to change pending pavement innovation.”

    https://www.dailynews.com/2017/05/20/cool-pavement-to-cut-urban-street-heat-gets-first-california-tryout-in-canoga-park/

    That’s not the gushing and slathering I associate with Canoga Park.

    1. The goal is to render all drivers permanantly blind so that people Finally stop driving in LA.

      1. Count Potato

        Well, Canoga Park is known for helping men make themselves go blind.

    2. Number.6

      That’s right. Tinker with Gaia’s albedo whydontcha.

    3. WTF

      The city’s going to get hotter because of climate change, particularly this neighborhood of the west San Fernando Valley

      In spite of the fact that there’s been no warming for 20 years and all the global warming models have failed spectacularly.

      1. It’s an article of faith.

        1. WTF

          And they have the balls to call the right anti-science.

    4. Tonio

      Golf clap.

    5. Psycho Effer

      Asphalt doesn’t last 7 years, so that number is bullshit.

      1. Haven’t you ever seen floating textures? it’ll remain there after the underlying roadway is gone.

    6. Number.6

      These people are determined to bankrupt California, aren’t they?

  15. Old Man With Candy

    In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Chinese colleague whose email signature tells me that he is called Royal Wang.

    We all feel like that, Swiss, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Chink to do that.

    1. MikeS

      It takes a Chink to do that.

      *Wipes solitary tear; nods sagely*

    2. Does he manage to comport himself in the regal manner such a name demands?

      1. Old Man With Candy

        I have not been granted the opportunity to observe him at the urinal.

        1. Number.6

          You mean you haven’t been granted an audience. Maybe he has special events where that happens.

    3. Tonio

      NPR has a newish reporter named Kat Chao. You’re welcome.

      1. Old Man With Candy

        Chao chao chao!

    4. AlexinCT

      I actually work with a fellow called Dong Wang….

      1. Slammer

        I worked with a guy named Dick Johnson

        1. AlexinCT

          I used to tell people my name was Richard Hurtz…

          Then tell them my friends called me “Big Dick”…

          Big Dick Hurtz…

        2. TK

          I know a guy in South Dakota running for congress named Dusty Johnson.

          1. TK

            Not a Joke

            On his site, he says he’s for cutting regulation. I met him at a conference about 9 months ago – his presentation was about convincing rural telecom CEOs that more regulation is good for their industry. He started by asking everyone that “thought regulation was a bad thing to raise their hands.” When about 60% did, he set about trying to convince them otherwise for the next 90 minutes.

          2. wchipperdove

            There used to be a local man named Harry Peters. His son was gay, and did drag shows under the name Sophonda (So fond o’) Peters. True story.

    5. +! Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr

      1. “A Mr. Mustapha K… here to see you, sir.”

      2. Old Man With Candy

        My Calc I prof was named Kunt. He got so tired of correcting everyone’s pronunciation, he finally gave up and legally changed it to “Koont.”

        1. AlexinCT

          Shit, I would have proudly flaunted that name…

          1. So you would have exposed yourself as a massive Kunt?

          2. AlexinCT

            Guilty as charged…

            I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body after all..

    1. MikeS

      Hell yeah. I think the release date is 4-20? (Don’t make me click the link)

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      There is a Super Troopers 2?

      It’s what the world needs right now.

      1. Chipwooder

        Along with a new kind of tension, some true words of wisdom like la-la-la-la-la-la, and a new Frank Sinatra.

    3. straffinrun

      Thanks to the new pronoun rules, the new shower scene is a lot meatier.

  16. straffinrun

    The rape in the city of Unnao might never have seen the light of day, had the victim not tried to set fire to herself last week

    Now don’t you feel silly for calling women here “brave” for making Buzzfeed videos against cat calling?

    1. WTF

      No, lefty feminists have no self-awareness.

  17. Count Potato

    “Astonishing California bill would shut down free speech, require fact-checkers

    SB1424 is brief. Read it:

    This bill would require any person who operates a social media, as defined, Internet Web site with a physical presence in California to develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Web site. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a plan to mitigate the spread of false information through news stories, the utilization of fact-checkers to verify news stories, providing outreach to social media users, and placing a warning on a news story containing false information.”

    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/california-bill-would-shut-down-free-speech/

    1. Upheld in the 9th, 9-0 smackdown by the Nazgul.

    2. leonadasiv

      Cool. AWS has resources located in Oregon.

      1. Count Potato

        AWS?

        1. spqr2008

          Amazon Web Services

    3. WTF

      They want to drive the tech companies out of California, apparently.

    4. Does “Fuck off, slaver” count as a plan?

  18. Mojeaux

    Over on HyR someone asked where everyone has gone. I didn’t recognize the moniker but we are all Tulpa. Is there a policy on mentioning Glibs?

    1. leonadasiv

      Well sparky will get pissed

        1. leonadasiv

          When the split first happened, he would groups
          Gripe anytime someone mentioned the glibs.

    2. Is there a policy on mentioning Glibs?

      We’re not the boss of you!

      1. Mojeaux

        I was asking out of courtesy. *haughty sniff*

        1. As if libertarians indulge in that?!

          1. Mojeaux

            I’m a libertarian female. That alone should qualify me as a unicorn.

          2. Or simply suspect to non-existent.

          3. Old Man With Candy

            Meh, I’m in a house full of them.

          4. Count Potato

            Pics or didn’t happen.

          5. Mojeaux

            And you know I’m real! Bonus!

          6. Slammer

            Do you want to get us all pinched, Potato?

          7. Psycho Effer

            I couldn’t always use a good pinching.

    3. Brett L

      No policy. We have encouraged people to think of the two sites as their own things — for good and for bad, and don’t encourage comparing or disparaging one on the other. We won’t ban you for mentioning us there.

      1. Old Man With Candy

        Note to SP: Ban Brett.

        1. Brett L

          I’m free! Finally free of the shackles of links duty!

          1. MikeS

            Haven’t you shed those shackles many times already?

          2. They’re like snakeskin, shed one and find another underneath.

          3. Just for that, we’ll have him do tomorrow morning!

          4. Count Potato

            Brett L is the Dred Scott of Glibertarians.

    4. Number.6

      They haven’t actually put a law in place, and nobody has a key to the Catt Butt Archive, but we are the unmentionables, and you’ll attract beetling brows and harsh tut-tutting if you speak our name!

      1. Shh, you might accidentally mention us.

      2. Mojeaux

        beetling brows and harsh tut-tutting

        Going in a book.

        1. Number.6

          I dunno if the term is used over here, otherwise I’d invoke Mrs Grundy, who originally fulfilled the same kind of role in restoration comedy as “The Lieutenant” in the latter chapters of Starship Troopers – an omnipresent, incorporeal spirit of oppressive propriety.

          1. Poor Solomon, no wonder he’s so angry all the time.

          2. Mojeaux

            *commences pearl-clutching*

          3. Tundra

            Pics?

          4. Mojeaux

            Boy, are you ever quick on the trigger.

            #twss

          5. Tundra

            Well, I don’t want to brag…

      3. Private Chipperbot

        Don’t say Glibs three times!

        1. TK

          Depending on the time of day and whether or not Mars is in retrograde, either Warty or STEVE SMITH will appear.. neither of which you want happening.

          1. AlexinCT

            Has anyone ever seen Warty and Steve Smith together? I ask because….

    5. straffinrun

      Use this from a Broadway musical critic:

      Because life is short and I have other things to be upset about, I will not dwell on the offensive aspects of”Blended Glibertarians” the new Adam Sandler comedy Reason spinoff website: its retrograde gender politics; its delight in the humiliation of children…its quasi-zoological depiction of Africans as servile, dancing, drum-playing simpletons.

      1. its retrograde gender politics;

        Proud of it.

        its delight in the humiliation of children…

        Mostly orphans, and those OMWC tricks.

        its quasi-zoological depiction of Africans as servile, dancing, drum-playing simpletons

        HEY! Don’t smear us with things we didn’t do!

        1. straffinrun

          We pretty much view everyone as simpletons, so it was technically true.

          1. But Servile and Dum-playing? That, sir, we did not depict.

    6. Tonio

      It might be classier to mention that there is an alternative and ask them to contact you privately for more info. That’s what I did in the early days of Glibs.

      1. TK

        “Hey you, yeah, you! I got what you need, just message me privately. I promise, this is some premium shit right here. You’re gonna want to see this shit.”

        That’s how I’d go about it, anyway.

    7. invisible finger

      Mention glibertarians at TOS in a disparaging manner. That will keep the stupid ones away. The smart (ass) ones may spend 5 seconds googling what it means.

  19. Brett L

    Deep State FL Edition: Florida Dept of Health continues to fail to comply with state constitutional amendment, duly ratified, to allow the cultivation and consumption of marijuana for people with certain medical conditions. But at least one Central Florida strip club owner now has the right to grow his own — if he is sustained on appeal.

    Every fucking thing about this except the judge grudgingly admitting that the state constitution is supreme law of the land pisses me off.

    1. leonadasiv

      in waiting for a judge to strike down the 2A as unconstitutional.

      1. Stop giving ideas, L.

        1. leonadasiv

          I think liberal judges probably do troll conservative sites looking for more and more ridiculous ways to twist the law.

      2. WTF

        They don’t need to, they just proclaim it allows any restrictions they care to label “reasonable”. Because FYTW.

    2. Count Potato

      “The ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge Karen Gievers applies only to Redner, 77. ”

      Because he’s special?

      1. leonadasiv

        I mean it’s not a Law Law. It’s more like a good idea.

        1. AlexinCT

          Like what Lynch and Comey did when they let Hillary avoid the slammer?

    3. l0b0t

      ::Crosses fingers before clicking:: – “Please be Joe Redner, please be Joe Redner?“.

      Clicks link – It IS Joe Redner! MONS VENUS FOREVER!!!

  20. Scruffy Nerfherder

    So I’m waiting for Congress to grow a pair of balls and revoke the AUMF and at the same time put Trump on notice that the interpretation of Article II that he claims gives him authority to launch missiles at a sovereign nation is invalid and will land him in an actual impeachment.

    I’m holding my breath.

    *turns purple*

    *croaks*

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      If the Russians manage to hit and/or sink a ship or two he very well may be impeached. If he pulls the trigger on this idiocy I’ll be fine with it.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        It would be fantastic impeachment, the best ever. If for no other reason, it would neuter the neocons and other assorted warhawks for a very long time.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          1. Yeah, yeah it would.

            You want to go tell some kids “hey, it isn’t necessarily terrible your Dad got killed!”

            I will never get into the “to make an omelette you have to break some eggs” mindset.

          2. Stinky Wizzleteats

            I understand why you don’t like that and you have every right. I’d just prefer we packed up and left Syria like everyone else here.

          3. WTF

            Sure, but a ship getting hit and servicemen getting killed isn’t going to have that result.

          4. WTF

            Really? What do you think the response will be? Do you think the Russian Navy can actually withstand a full-on retaliation by the US Navy? What happens then?

          5. Stinky Wizzleteats

            The Russian navy is a joke, there’s no way they’d stand up to the USN.

          6. WTF

            My point. If the Russians managed to hit one of our ships, what do you think happens next, after the Russian Navy ceases to exist in retaliation?

          7. spqr2008

            The only part that would exist, for a time, would be their submarines (at least till they broke down), and I wouldn’t overlook the possibility they become commerce raiders for a foreign power, like Iran.

          8. Stinky Wizzleteats

            Their Air Force and antiship missles would be a much bigger threat and would remain so long after their navy was on the bottom. What’s likely to happen next is a long and bloody war for all sides involved.

          9. Or, a short, fiery war.

          10. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

            Anything that’ll get us closer to Starship Troopers ought to be a net good.

    2. leonadasiv

      An impeachment I could get behind.

    3. Tundra

      *pours a 40 for Scruffy*

    4. Chafed

      Right now Scruffy you’re right. If the Democrats take the house then maybe.

  21. LJW

    Cop named Dick Holder is fired for moonlighting as a prostitute

    FYI googling Dick Holder returns quite the selection of erection assistance devices.

    1. Count Potato

      “Chief Constable Giles York told the hearing Holder had struggled with “underperformance” ”

      So you’re saying he wasn’t hard at work?

      1. I. B. McGinty

        Sounds like he got the shaft.

    2. AlexinCT

      My favorite stripper was the one with the tattoo saying Boner Garage right where it counts….

  22. gbob

    Not sure if there’s a market for tear stained bud. If anyone could turn me off from pot, it would be a baggie with that ass clown’s face on it.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner has done a 180 on weed

      Calling him a cocksucker is an insult to cocksuckers. That opportunist piece of shit opposed legalization for years and now that he’s got a nice little offer of a payoff by a company has flipped his position when it does no good for anyone except himself.

      1. AlexinCT

        It’s always about the money people..

      2. Chipwooder

        I made that point when the subject came up yesterday afternoon. When he could actually do something worthwhile about it, he did absolutely nothing, but now that he’s getting paid he’s had a change of heart? What a piece of garbage.

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Funny how he’s turned pro pot after getting paid to be pro pot but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

      1. “MJ for pay”

        1. Count Potato

          Twenty dollars is twenty dollars.

  23. Count Potato

    “Disturbing messages found in diapers from Target

    Target customers in several states are discovering white supremacist propaganda — with the phrase “It’s okay to be white” — tucked inside their boxes of diapers, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

    The laminated, index-size cards containing the racist message have turned up in Pampers and Up & Up brand diapers in Washington, DC, Florida and Tennessee.

    On the other side, the card lists websites of white supremacist groups, including The Right Stuff, the Daily Stormer and the Traditionalist Worker Party.”

    https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/white-supremacist-propaganda-found-in-diapers-from-target/

    Anyone want to bet this isn’t a hoax?

    1. leonadasiv

      I still think it’s funny that “it’s ok to be white” is considered racist. The media walked right into that, when all they had to do was ignore it.

      1. WTF

        Exactly. Are they saying that it’s not okay to be white, and that white people should be judged as deficient or wrong based only on the color of their skin? That sounds pretty fucking racist to me.

        1. Tonio

          I saw wonderfully contorted whine on Derpbook which grudgingly admitted that it was okay to actually be white, but how you should neve, ever say that because… something.

    2. MikeS

      The takeaway? If you are buying Pampers, stop it. Up & Up are the same thing.

      1. Chipwooder

        Pampers are indeed a ripoff. Some of the generics were not great, though – I know we bought Up and Up a few times but can’t remember if they were any good. Luvs was the way to go – just as good as Pampers and much less expensive.

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’ll take that bet. How about two bucks at thousand to one odds?

    4. spqr2008

      It’s likely a hoax, and the only thing racist is the content of those sites, not the phrase itself.

      1. spqr2008

        Also, how long till Target figures out which employee does it, then burns the witch?

  24. Count Potato

    “Streets of Cancun run red with 14 murders in 36 hours”

    https://nypost.com/2018/04/11/streets-of-cancun-run-red-with-14-murders-in-36-hours/

    Unpossible! Mexico has strict gun control laws, so this must be fake news.

    1. Chafed

      Which dipshit drug czar said that means we’re winning the war on drugs?

      1. Psycho Effer

        All of them?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The fetishization of democracy is rampant these days. There’s nothing it can’t cure apparently.

    “A riot is an ugly thing. And it’s just about time we had one.”

      1. Private Chipperbot

        One of the greatest movies of all time. Even my kids love it.

    1. straffinrun

      As a stand alone quote, I don’t mind it that much.

    2. Count Potato

      “Whoopi Goldberg: Riots Over Mueller Firing ‘Would Be Fun to Watch’”

      http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/04/11/whoopi-goldberg-riots-mueller-firing-fun-watch/

      TW: Breitbart

      1. Number.6

        I’d enjoy seeing her kerb-stomped by a cop in a riot.

  26. Tundra

    Since Swissy is pretending the NHL playoffs aren’t a thing this year:

    Jets were dominate in the 3rd, Wild turtled like little bitches. Jets win 3-2. I think this one still goes to 6 games.

    Everyone’s favorite Sid the Kid put on a little show and scored a hattie on the way to a 7-0 stomping of the Flyers. Malkin scored a filthy goal as well. Keep the broom handy.

    Army blanked the Kings 1-0. Pulling for Army, but this one will likely go 7.

    1. Brett L

      Philly deserves that kind of stuff. But I hope he gets all out of his system. That’s all the Lightning need.

    2. QUIET, YOU!

      *wipes tears away*

    3. DOOMco

      Flyers got rocked.

  27. You could have included music for Shannon Doherty instead:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t386ZqEJ_h4

    1. Count Potato

      That’s just awful.

  28. Count Potato

    “ACLU Celebrates Raid on Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule of Law is Alive’

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published an article celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for the rule of law — not a violation of attorney-client privilege and the president’s constitutional rights.”

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/12/aclu-celebrates-raid-on-trumps-lawyer-the-rule-of-law-is-alive/

    TW: Breitbart

    1. Count Potato

      “The Crime-Fraud Exception in the Michael Cohen Case”

      https://www.aclu.org/blog/executive-branch/crime-fraud-exception-michael-cohen-case

    2. leonadasiv

      ACLU is in full skin suit stage.

      1. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

        They’re communists. They were founded as an explicitly communist organization. Not that that they haven’t at times made good and correct arguments from natural rights axioms but don’t be fooled into thinking it is or ever was for any Liberty loving purpose.

    3. gbob

      I’m sure they would have had the same principled stance if it had been Hillary’s personal lawyer who had been raided by the feds.

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Another organization Trump is managing to unwittingly destroy.

    5. Drake

      I notice that the FBI didn’t kick down Hillary’s Lawyer’s office when she handed him 30,000 emails, many of them classified.

      1. WTF

        Which Hillary’s lawyers did not have clearance to read or even be in possession of.

        1. Drake

          Almost makes you think they are a tad biased.

          1. AlexinCT

            Almost….

  29. The Late P Brooks

    *haughty sniff*

    Better than “Royal Wang”, eight days a week.

  30. Slammer

    I got me a Jury Duty Summons. Lovely.

    1. Odds are you won’t be seated, but expect a lot of advice about avoiding your ability to actually engage in nullification by getting rejected in pre-emptory challenges.

      1. WTF

        I actually got seated a couple of years ago on a gun case (illegal possession, brandishing, etc.) and they asked me what I thought about gun laws and the second amendment. The prosecution tossed me on their first peremptory challenge.

        1. “I think that any law regulating ownership of weapons is a violation of constitutional right. You do not have the authority to enforce them.”

          1. WTF

            Pretty much, yeah, I told them that the second amendment means exactly what it says, including the “shall not be infringed” part, and that gun laws were also foolish and counterproductive.

        2. Number.6

          The former are at best based on a misunderstanding of the latter, typically due to ignorance, but sometimes due to malice.

        3. Tonio

          I have decided that if I’m ever in that position to play dumb during juror questioning and then suddenly discover the original meaning of 2A if I’m seated. Nullification only works if you can actually get on the jury.

          The worst that is likely to happen is that you get dismissed. They already have a problem getting people to show up for jury duty, and charging jurors with contempt, etc, will only make that worse.

        4. invisible finger

          “and they asked me what I thought about gun laws and the second amendment.”

          They exist. I don’t have an opinion about facts.

        5. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

          For the love of God – Lie. Answer like you think both parties would like you to otherwise we’ll never nullify this shit.

      2. cyto

        On my very first call to jury duty I was selected and sat there for 3 days of jury selection and opening arguments. Then they settled the case before we started with the evidence. That was 1983.

        Since then I’ve been called more than a dozen times, and every single time I either get the last minute “your group doesn’t need to show up” or I sit there reading a book all day as they fail to call me.

        So no unjust charges nullified. No child molesters locked away. Nothing of use…. but they always thank me for performing my duty.

        On the upside, I think I read all of Tom Clancy’s works while sitting in a jury room.

      3. commodious spittoon

        Just show up and speak honestly about your libertarianism. It got me DQ’d like a soft-serve sundae.

        1. I’m not a libertarian. I’m actually very strongly social conservative, I just don’t talk about those views here.

          I’m also very strongly fiscal conservative, because I hate people taking my money. Worse, they turn around and spend it on things to my detriment.

          1. commodious spittoon

            Well, show up and lie about your libertarianism.

            tbh, having articulate opinions about anything whatsoever will probably get you disqualified.

      1. Slammer

        I have a baseball hat in neon yellow with the logo 😉

    2. Old Man With Candy

      Do what I do. When they ask your name, respond, “Why does that matter, the nigger’s guilty.”

      1. straffinrun

        That may be what the other defendant did in the first place.

      2. Juvenile Bluster

        Nah, you’ve got to be more subtle. That will get you thrown in a holding cell for a few hours for contempt of court.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          Shit, I wouldn’t even get that far, they’d put me away for not answering most of the questions on the preliminary questionnaire. My answer to everything would be, “Fuck off, slaver!”

          1. cyto

            Wear your Gadsden Flag T-shirt and you won’t even have to answer the questions…..

        2. AlexinCT

          Funny you should mention that contempt of court thing, because I actually once got a contempt of court that came with a $100 fine for telling them during the Voire Dire that both lawyers and the judge looked guilty to me….

          The other time I also got a $100 contempt of court fine was when I told the asshole cop that had tried to give me a ticket and had lied that he had clocked me speeding while he was giving my neighbor – whom i brought with me to court – to kiss my ass after the judge dismissed the case.

          1. R C Dean

            I can hardly wait to find out what the cop was giving your neighbor.

          2. AlexinCT

            A speeding ticket.. He had pulled my neighbor over and was ticketing him when he saw me driving by and waved me over only to then tell me he was citing me for speeding..

      3. Chipwooder

        The Larry David method, yeah. “I don’t know that I can be impartial, since the defendant is a Negro”

    3. MikeS

      I actually want to be on a jury, but I’ve never been picked. Not enough crime in NoDak, I guess.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Having served as a jury foreman, I can attest that it is an educational experience in terms of human behavior. Not all positive though.

      2. A Leap at the Wheel

        Ditto. I’m sure I’ll never get sat. But the world would be a better place if I was on a jury than some random name from the phone book, and it wouldn’t be a financial hardship for me.

      3. Dakotain

        I sat on a court marital board jury for the ring leader of the Pendleton 8. Interesting experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdania_incident

    4. Number.6

      I’ve mentioned it elsewhere, but have one of those pocket copies of the Constitution visible in a shirt pocket when juror selection takes place. It’s like a magic totem, and works far better than a lightning-repelling rock.

    5. Brett L

      “I would love to be picked for this jury. I believe that nullification of technically legal bullshit crimes.”

    6. Old Man With Candy

      In all seriousness, I just toss them and pretend that I never saw them. So far, I have had zero problems.

    7. I was called earlier this year. It was a drugs and gun without a permit case.I can’t remember what the question was, but I responded with “I don’t think we should be looking kids in cages for a crime that doesn’t even have a victim” the persecutor didn’t seem to like me much. Also, they asked me what I would call a house that had cocaine and a bunch of people in it. They were fishing for crack house. I responded , “I’d call it a good time” I wasn’t picked to be on the jury

      1. *prosecutor not persecutor (although both work)

        1. KSuellington

          Unless they sent the summons to you by registered mail, how do they know that you even received it?

          1. Ignorance of your summons is no defense

            /IamtheLAW

      2. invisible finger

        “Also, they asked me what I would call a house that had cocaine and a bunch of people in it. ”

        The Kennedy Compound

        1. what I would call a house that had cocaine and a bunch of people in it

          A law firm.

    8. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

      If you love Liberty do whatever it takes to get on that jury. Then convince your fellow jurists of what the facts are. If the law is bad NULLIFY the verdict – its the last way we have left to deal with shit laws.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Tell them Tim McVeigh is America’s greatest patriot, because he blew up a courthouse. You’ll be ouitta here in no time.

  32. DOOMco

    Did the flyers even show up last night?

  33. Rufus the Monocled

    Trudeau is such a village clown-idiot.

  34. Juvenile Bluster

    THERE WAS NO HOCKEY, I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU HEARD. HOCKEY STARTS AGAIN THIS FALL.

    Agreed.

    1. Private Chipperbot

      Vegas game was entertaining for a 1-0 final.

  35. Only one more day until Friday! Have some tits.

    http://archive.is/o8BJJ

    Lord have mercy, 3.

    1. Count Potato

      #81 for Shannen Doherty’s bday

    2. Russian Kia Drives Yusef

      16,17,25

    3. slumbrew

      That’s a really gif-heavy collection – it’s well worth going to the original site to see them (no gifs in archive.is?).

      #14, for instance… I’ll be in my bunk.

  36. Just Say’n

    Who’s ready to stop the violence in Syria by dropping bombs all up in that bitch?

    #MAGA

    1. They can’t fight if they’re all dead.

      /hawk

    2. Just Say’n

      What’s the difference between being killed with gas in Syria versus being killed by F-16’s in Syria?

      You’ll only ever hear about the casualties from one of those killings

      #MAGA

      1. Look, there are categories of weapons that are okay, and those that are not okay. After the first world war, we decided that gas was not okay, but the bombs and bullets are still okay. okay? got it?

        1. Just Say’n

          And gas is OK, if it’s done with love (and furthering the foreign policy objectives of the West)

          #MAGA

        2. leonadasiv

          We decided gas bombs were not ok (because they are unweildly) but nukes are still legit.

    3. Just Say’n

      https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/04/trump-chooses-impulse-strategy-crises-mount/

      Trump: I want troops out of Syria in 48 hours

      Mattis: Haha. You’re funny Mr. President

      Trump: You know some have even said maybe the funniest president of all time. Many people have said that

      Mattis: Well done, sir. I agree. We must bomb Syria

      Trump: I thought I asked for a troop withdrawal?

      Mattis: A withdrawal? Well, OK. I didn’t realize how weak you were, sir

      Trump: Wait- what were we talking about?

      Mattis: You were asking me to not ensure that the bombing of Syria is not too extensive

      Trump: Uh, yeah, that sounds right

      *Genius at Work*

      1. invisible finger

        First you withdraw the troops from Syria, then you bomb the shit out of Syria. That ensures the fewest US casualties.

    4. Drake

      This sociopath is ready! Saw this interview on Tucker last night, what a creep.

  37. Count Potato

    https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace/status/984395493089382400

    Now, allow me to explain that with a Venn diagram:

    (shit that happened) (this)

    1. Just Say’n

      “So what if I made this up, it rings true, which is what’s important”

      1. Just Say’n

        Nicole Wallace: Honey, come watch Morning Joe with me

        Kid: Sesame street?

        Nicole Wallace: After Morning Joe, OK?

        Kid: No, I don’t like that one lady’s face

        Nicole Wallace: Mika Kelly? She’s just worried that’s why she looks that way

        Kid: Sesame street?

        Nicole Wallace: She’s worried about the president

        Kid: President Trump?

        Nicole Wallace: *kids are so perceptive*

    2. PieInTheSKy

      the woke 6 year old is still a thing?

      1. Chipwooder

        they did make on adjustment – it used to always be 8 year olds.

        1. Number.6

          #Resistance is increasing the precocity levels of America’s youth!

    3. Count Potato

      “My 2 yr old daughter Celia just said, “Father, isn’t hyperbolic political dialogue that turns every issue into a seemingly existential crisis partially to blame for the breakdown of comity and discourse in public life?””

      https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/984414290038968320

      1. TK

        That’s so good

      2. B.P.

        Reply:

        Ron Ziegler
        ‏ @RonZiegler1969
        16m16 minutes ago

        I would watch a TV show where woke toddlers explain their political beliefs to WW2 veterans.

    4. Chipwooder

      My 8 and 10 year old kids are only marginally aware of who Trump is and have absolutely no interest in him.

      1. Psycho Effer

        That’s quality parenting.

    5. leonadasiv

      What’s the left gonna do when their fetuses start speaking truth to power?

      1. commodious spittoon

        Abort the ones that don’t tow the progressive lion?

    6. A Leap at the Wheel

      Oh, you think its unlikely that someone like that wouldn’t go about brainwashing her children to the point that they repeat talking points they don’t understand in order to get attention form their mom? Because that seems eminently believable.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    A quick perusal of headlines over at teh gogglenews leads me to believe a lot of people hate Paul Ryan (not all for the same reasons, of course) and will be gleefully gloating and jig-dancing over his departure.

    1. Brett L

      Do they understand that Republicans running for re-election now get to abandon responsibility for everything they’ve done in the last 2 years and say they’ll do better with a new speaker who isn’t Pelosi?

  39. Juvenile Bluster

    Since there clearly were no hockey games last night, I’d like to say that hockey continues to be the best.

    Sledge hockey Paralympian for Team Canada talks to the injured players from the Humboldt Broncos.

    1. Tundra

      That’s beautiful. Thanks for linking.

      Our buddy Kevin is playing in a big tourney this weekend in Chicago. Sled hockey players are really goddamn inspiring.

  40. PieInTheSKy

    The Brown University Health Services office now offers “safe spaces for men” to help them “unlearn toxic masculinity” and combat traditional notions of “what it means to be a man.”

    Viewing masculinity as if it were a public health crisis, “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity” offers a three-pronged approach for helping male students recover: a weekly discussion group to unlearn “toxic masculine norms,” a biannual magazine, and a video series.

    The crux of the programming revolves around Masculinity 101 Peer Education, a peer-to-peer weekly discussion group that convenes male students to talk about issues such as “Cultivating Empathy” and “Harm and Healing.”

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/brown-university-now-features-safe-spaces-men/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Do safe spaces for women offer to help them unlearn toxic femininity?

    2. Number.6

      So, “Not safe spaces for men” then.

      1. For a certain category of psuedo-male, maybe.

    3. WTF

      As though masculinity is some sort of defect. Fucking morons. Dangerous morons, as well.

    4. AlexinCT

      The Brown University Health Services office now offers “safe spaces for men” to help them “unlearn toxic masculinity” and combat traditional notions of “what it means to be a man.”,/em>”

      Is that a pound-me-in-the-ass-prison cell?

      1. wchipperdove

        Failure to close html tags is unmanly. There, I said it.

    5. I. B. McGinty

      “what it means to be a man.”

      * lights blowtorch and fires up chainsaw*

      Where is this safe place?

      1. *yells to be heard over chainsaw*

        WHAT?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    From that Nicole Wallace thing:

    I don’t let my children watch the news anymore. I don’t want them to see a President like 45. They despise him. Kids know.

    Uh, huh.

  42. Count Potato

    “A fascinating explication of conservative fear. The side that has most of the guns (& torches), controls the entire federal gov’t + most state gov’ts, demands gov’t control over bathrooms & women’s bodies & wants the country to live by Christian law fears violence and “tyranny.””

    https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/984295961135632384

    Torches??

    1. Number.6

      She forgot to add that nobody needs assault pitchforks or chair-legs.

    2. If I recall, it was the Lefty City that wanted government control over bathrooms and the conservatives said the government can’t tell private bathroom owners who they have to let in them.

    3. WTF

      Conservatives control the federal government? In what alternate universe is this even remotely the case?

    4. Chipwooder

      Define “Christian law”

    5. So does she actually believe that, is it trolling, or is she trying to engage is some good ol’ fashioned agitprop? The notion that the majority of governments at all levels in this country are remotely conservative is so wrong it’s not even funny. Were it the case, however, you’d think Joy would be advocating for, not against, private gun ownership.

      1. Count Potato

        If it’s trolling, she’s been pretending to be an idiot, non-stop, for years.

    6. Rebel Scum

      Torches??

      I take that as a reference to the Richard Spencer brand, white-nationalist socialists that are apparently “right-wing”.

      1. Rebel Scum

        “Right-wing” and/or “conservative”, anyway. But this is Joy Reid we are talking about. She is nothing if not a hate-filled proggie talking head and racebaiter.

    7. JaimeRoberto

      She’s trying to tie in the tiki torch marchers from Charlottesville.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Decline and Fall, ch76,412

    A fired aviation security officer who dragged a passenger off a plane last year at O’Hare Airport has sued the City of Chicago and United Airlines claiming he wasn’t properly trained to handle the incident.

    On April 9, 2017, James Long and several other Chicago Department of Aviation police officers boarded United Airlines Flight 3411 and dragged Dr. David Dao down the aisle after he refused to give up his seat to a United crew member who was traveling to Louisville.

    ———

    The lawsuit claims the CDA and Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans acted negligently by not properly training Long “how to respond to an escalating situation” with a passenger.

    Evans sent a series of defamatory tweets in the days following the incident, the suit alleges. She wrongly tweeted on April 11 that Long was no longer a law enforcement officer and claimed in another tweet that the officers’ actions “were completely inappropriate.” Three days later, she tweeted that the agency didn’t arm its security staff “for good reason.”

    You couldn’t possibly expect any other outcome. The poor man was vilified. He lost his job, and nobody will hire him. He has been wronged, poot feller.

    1. WTF

      “They didn’t train me not to assault and skull-drag some guy because he didn’t want to give up the seat that he paid for!”

      Another George Costanza “was that wrong?” moment.

  44. Brett L

    This sounds great until you see that the licensing doesn’t include America, Canada, or Europe: $300 treatment for HepC as effective as $84k treatment.

    Oh well, medical tourism will hopefully substantially collapse the market.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      “It depends on how you measure effectiveness!”

      /Drug Companies

  45. Count Potato
    1. AlexinCT

      Must be some serious smell testing during the romping…

    2. faaaaake.

      /sarc

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder
    4. Number.6

      As Mr. Lizard will tell you, those are the equivalent of hoplites in the Reptilian Military, and are no longer useful as shock troops.

      1. Mr Lizard

        Ya and they always end up in HR

        *sneers, hisses*

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Wouldn’t it be RR or LR?

          1. It’s really deep cover.

    5. Rebel Scum

      breathes through its genitals

      This is written on my wristband in the even that I ever have a reason to pretend to need cpr.

    1. Count Potato

      Nobody expects the Spanish exhibition!

  46. Count Potato

    “You’ve Heard of “Pussyhats.” Now Allow Janelle Monáe’s New Music Video to Introduce You to “Pussypants.

    Lots of things are pink in the new music video for Janelle Monáe’s “PYNK.” A convertible. A strawberry milkshake. Lipstick. Bubblegum. A very suggestive grapefruit. But the pinkest thing in the musician’s latest queer masterpiece has to be a pair of poofy full-length pants fashioned to look like a vagina, complete with vulva ruffles. Forget pussyhats. This is way better.

    Monáe wears her pussypants for a set piece in the desert, joined by backup dancers in similar attire as she croons the song’s suggestive lyrics: “Pink like the inside of your, baby/ Pink behind all of the doors, crazy/ Pink like the tongue that goes down, maybe/ Pink like the paradise found.” At one point, Monáe’s rumored paramour Tessa Thompson even pokes her head through Monáe’s pussified legs, which is not terribly subtle but does get the message across. ”

    https://slate.com/culture/2018/04/janelle-monaes-pynk-music-video-features-vagina-pants-video.html

    1. Drake

      I think it an excellent service to convince crazy people to wear clothes that clearly identify them as insane.

  47. Count Potato

    “Judge says police stalling in release of Las Vegas shooting records

    A judge accused the Metropolitan Police Department of gamesmanship Tuesday before denying another agency request to delay the release of 911 calls and body camera footage from the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre.

    “I’m very frustrated, because I think that gamesmanship is going on here,” District Judge Stefany Miley said in the contentious hearing. “It’s now months since the shooting occurred, and it’s still the same: delay, delay, delay. If one technique doesn’t work, then you switch to another one. That’s very concerning for the court.”

    In March, District Judge Richard Scotti ruled that Metro was obligated to immediately begin handing over recordings from the Oct. 1 shooting to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other media organizations suing for their release.”

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/judge-says-police-stalling-in-release-of-las-vegas-shooting-records/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      So put them in contempt of court and throw somebody in jail. They’ll either refuse and force a showdown or it will happen.

      1. Tonio

        ^This. Grow a pair, Stef, you’re a flipping judge.

    2. LJW

      In regards to the judge, definitely would.

      1. Yeah, that’s a JILF.

      2. Rebel Scum

        She can bang my gavel any day.

      3. Sean

        She’s got a serious case of RBF though.

  48. AlexinCT

    I avoid NPR like lesbians avoid dick, but I thought this thing points out that the left’s agenda to deny law abiding citizens their 2A rights, and the left’s desperate need to invent a criminal scandal to be able to keep pretending they are smart, was worth mentioning.

    And seriously, has anyone else noted that the SJW crowd and leftist in general, are so desperate to maintain their illusion/delusion of being the more intelligent ones, that they have to fabricate bullshit and constantly lie, cheat, steal, and be evil, in order to avoid reality forcing them to reassess the fact they are morons?

    1. From the comments:

      “‘Linked to Russia’ is the new ‘racist’.”

    2. Chipwooder

      They also pathologically label their preferred policies as “smart”. Smart power, smart growth, etc etc. If you have to tell people how smart you are, you aren’t actually that smart.

      1. AlexinCT

        It explains a lot to me that someone like Trump winning has basically made them go insane. Squaring the fact that they got it all wrong about the career crime syndicate boss Clinton winning easily because America loved itself more corrupt big government socialism with this reality seems to have pushed them into territory that would qualify them for a long stint at the loonie bin. And all because admitting they have things wrong and are not as smart as they think would devastated their fragile egos. Must suck to be a proggie.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      NPR is a joke at this point.

      Their newest reporters seem to all be millenial women with bad cases of vocal fry and uptalk. I don’t know how anyone can take them seriously.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Sharing is good, children.

    Shared rides are central to Uber’s vision for its future, in part because Pool in theory should improve margins on rides by putting more people into each car. But despite its roots in the so-called sharing economy, Uber has had to “discount very aggressively” to get people to try shared rides, Khosrowshahi said. In San Francisco, where nearly half of Uber rides taken during rush hour are now shared, the company at one point was spending $1 million a week on discounts, BuzzFeed reported last year.

    “The combination of the societal norms and then the question of, ‘when exactly am I going to get there?’ are real friction points that we have had to fight, and that’s why we are investing very heavily in this mode of transport,” Khosrowshahi said. Shared rides are generally slower than private ones, because the routes are less direct and involve more stops.

    The whole point of a service like Uber is to avoid having to share space with a bunch of random smelly strangers. At least, that’s what I would say.

    1. Number.6

      Y’know, I’d like to do business with a company that offered me the option. Personally, I probably wouldn’t ride-share as a preference, but I can appreciate that for some, the option of a ride-share makes the difference between going where they want, and not going where they want because they can’t afford it.

      I know, right? This veneer of shitty selfishness I exude is kinda rubbing off!

      1. commodious spittoon

        I know a couple that Ubers everywhere, and they’re shameless about making the poor sap wait up to five minutes while she finishes her makeup and he finds his wallet. If sharing ride-sharing means I get to wait in some asshole’s driveway for several minutes before they mosey out to the car, count me out.

        1. “Passenger was a no-show”

    2. Mr Lizard

      STEVE SMITH ALWAYS WILLING TO SHARE

    3. Psycho Effer

      I guess you mean; more than one smelly stranger.

    4. JaimeRoberto

      Before it was called ride sharing, I shared a taxi in Tijuana from the bus station to the border with a bunch of strangers. That’s just how taxis were in order to make it cheaper for everyone. Once I got safely to my destination, I was glad to have done it, because I like getting off the beaten path, but for a while I wasn’t sure if I would be the beaten path.

  50. Just Say’n

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/11/tucker-challenges-colbert-video/

    Tucker Carlson rightly calls out Stephen Colbert as a warmonger.

    We’re reliving the lead-up to the Iraq War, but a lot of people have switched roles.

    1. F. Stupidity Jr.

      Dude…I don’t think you understand what’s happening here.

      Some Russians ran some Facebook ads during the 2016 election. Then Hillary lost, which allowed Literally Hitler to win. Now we have to urge him to go to war with Russia so we can castigate Literally Hitler for being a warmonger for Vladimir Putin…against Russia…which makes Trump a Manchurian plant Russian bot…the Democrats have always been anti-war…No Blood For Oil!

      /progsplaining

  51. Count Potato

    “Just two days after Palestinians burned thousands of tires on the Israeli border with Gaza in violent protests, a spokesman for the Palestinian Transport Ministry complained of a shortage of tires, demanding that Israel supply more.

    As part of the Hamas-led ‘March of Return’ protest, Gazans answered calls on social media to burn 10,000 tires on Friday in an attempt to obscure the vision of IDF troops preventing infiltrators from crossing the security fence separating Israel from Gaza.

    On Sunday, Muhammad Hamdan, a spokesman for the PA Transportation Ministry criticized Israel in an interview with The Jerusalem Post for not providing Gaza with a scarce commodity: tires.

    “We have been informed by the Israeli side that imports of tires have been halted until further notice,” Hamdan told The Jerusalem Post. “There is no doubt stopping tire imports will have a negative effect on Palestinians in Gaza especially considering there is a shortage of them there. We are going to exert all efforts so that Israel reverses its decision.””

    https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/105576/gaza-transport-ministry-complains-israel-wont-give-us-more-tires/

    1. The proper response is to point and laugh at the Gazan leadership.

      The UN wil chastize Israel.

    2. Number.6

      Sounds to me as though tires need to be classified as ‘dual usage’ exports and subject to Israel’s equivalent of ITAR.

  52. “One myth she’d like to see die: That it’s cute and fine to get completely trashed and wake up the next day confused, remorseful and unsure if you’ve slept with someone. ‘It is not empowering to get blackout drunk,’ Coles says sternly. ”

    https://nypost.com/2018/04/11/cosmo-editor-stop-getting-drunk-ladies-and-settle-down/

    This woman is clearly a misogynist shitlord with false consciousness.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      twitter backlash in 3, 2, 1……

    2. Number.6

      Hearing that kind of stuff and buying a book on the subject from the Editor of Cosmo and Marie Claire?

      It’s like cycling Bob Mugabe in as Chairman of the UNHRC.

    3. Count Potato

      “Former Cosmo editor Joanna Coles”

      I knew it had to be someone no longer working there.

    4. commodious spittoon

      That it’s cute and fine to get completely trashed and wake up the next day confused, remorseful and unsure if you’ve slept with someone.

      That’s why I drink alone, I just wake up confused and remorseful.

      1. Count Potato

        Then you accuse yourself of rape?

        1. Number.6

          Just his ‘support’ hand.

        2. Non-consensual masturbation.

          1. commodious spittoon

            I never saw it coming.

  53. Rebel Scum

    Seriously, why haven’t these people been fired?

    On March 29, the state of Oklahoma passed a bill to give teachers a $6,100 pay raise and some increase in state funding for schools. The Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), a union with approximately half of the state’s teachers as members, demanded that the state find more money to increase funding to the schools after years of cuts due to decreases in state revenue. Teachers walked out, and the students in Oklahoma have been out of school since April 2.
    The attacks on concerned parents as to how this action affects their children is disturbing. One is instantly branded anti-teacher, anti-education, and against the children if you don’t support these specific tax increases. I have raised concerns about how this affects graduating seniors, special education students, and low-income families who now have to pay for child care while their children are out of school. I was instantly chastised for my concerns and told that this is a sacrifice some kids will have to make and that it is “for the greater good” and how exciting it is that students are going to be “a part of history.” Whenever I hear anyone say anything is for the greater good, I cringe.

    It’s a wonder why have have zero sympathy for the “plight” of the public school teacher.

    1. Rebel Scum

      Why *I* have…

    2. LJW

      I wouldn’t mind a $6000 pay raise. I haven’t seen a raise in 4 years.

      1. R C Dean

        5 years for me.

    3. Response:

      “I’m your boss. I pay your salary. I want to know what kind of service I’m getting for that payment; right now it is piss poor. I will remember this on election day and vote accordingly.”

      1. AlexinCT

        That’s what unions – especially the public ones – now seem to be for: preventing you from pointing out that the people you pay money to are not delivering that money’s worth..

        I have often asked proggies if they truly believed primary education was so important to the well being of their social justice mind frame, why they accepted such subpar performance from these educators. I have never gotten a decent answer, mostly I get told things are fine (when they clearly are not) or the problem is simply money, and often I just get silence. That is, until I point out that the reason – as I clearly see it – likely is that they see primary education’s role as more of an indoctrination mechanism so these young people subjected to the abuses are molded into proggie douchebags, and thus, judge primary education as quite the success story considering the mind-numbed SJW idiots it spits out.

    4. blighted_non_millenial

      Please, tell me about the teacher’s plight. A cousin who is a month older than me retired last year at 48, after teaching for whatever 24-25 years. Absent winning the lottery or a mass shooting, I’ll still be working the next 17-20. Good on her, no ill will there, she stuck to plan and played by the rules, but I’m not crying in my beer for her.

      1. Pensions and retirement after 20-25 years for public employees is absolutely absurd. Family friend started as a fireman at age 18, worked his 25, got out at 43 and gets something like 85-90% for the rest of his life. Decent chance he’ll be retired at almost full pay for more than half his life.

        1. Even I need thirty years and have to be at least fifty-five to collect 60%. (Cannot collect a dime before turning 55, less than thirty years is a sharp drop-off in %FAS)

    1. Number.6

      I’d much rather have watched Jane Badler.

      1. slumbrew

        Morena Baccarin, please.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          I’m with slum on this one.

          1. Number.6

            I haven’t watched TV in years – but probably would have done if I’d realised Baccarin was in the newer series.

    2. Mr Lizard

      LOOK! EVEN SPACE-FARING DOMINEERING DOMINEERING SPECIES HAS THEIR SHARE OF DUMB FUCKS

      Happy now?

      1. Brett L

        Its pretty damn hard to break bell curves. I sympathize.

  54. Just Say’n

    https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/984415410295595013

    Chris Hayes trying real hard to shoehorn his hypocrisy here.

    “Uh, we’ve already been bombing Syria, so what’s the big deal? Also, Drumpf. And people opposed to war are RACIST!”

    No joke, this is that assholes line of thinking

    1. If it weren’t so sad (and leading us to war) it would be hilarious watching the “anti-war” Left twist itself into pretzels supporting war with Syria (really Russia by proxy) simply BECUZ DRUMPF.

      Like I heard somebody joke, when Trump pardoned that Thanksgiving turkey the Left was outraged and the 9th Circuit overturned it.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      When you lack actual principles and are effectively a party mouthpiece, this is what happens.

    3. Drake

      Does he ever explain why another war in the Middle East – which might stater WWIII – is a good idea? Maybe a cost / benefit analysis?

    4. Rebel Scum

      As if I did not already have enough reason to absolutely loathe Rachel Maddow’s kid sister.

    1. Posted yesterday, but still funny.

      https://youtu.be/umS_dz6o5gM?t=33

  55. Just Say’n

    This from ENB’s links at TOS. She’s a garbage person

    “Rand Paul, Civil Liberties Champion (lol), is upset that government employees don’t lose their security clearances if they don’t like Trump. Here’s Cato Institute policy analyst Julian Sanchez with thoughts on that:

    Julian Sanchez
    @normative
    Uh… good? You can’t style yourself a champion of the First Amendment & then demand federal employees be stripped of clearance unless they’re personally pro-Trump. https://twitter.com/randpaul/status/984136953502330881 …”

    1. Just Say’n

      Notice the “lol” from progressive shitbag, ENB

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        BULLY!

    2. KibbledKristen

      Security clearances have never been contingent upon political beliefs. The notion is frankly ridiculous, and a little surprising coming from Rand Paul.

      1. Idle Hands

        The only way he’s going to convince the knuckledragger-n-chief that survelance is bad is to make it about him. So I’m fine with it.

      2. Drake

        They are contingent on appropriate behavior.

        1. KibbledKristen

          I have one – I know what they’re contingent upon. And being a “Trump hater” (which is what Rand Paul said) is not one of them.

          1. Drake

            What Idle hands points out below is a good way to lose clearance. Being so biased for Hillary and so careless that even Mueller throws you off an investigation is another good standard.

          2. KibbledKristen

            Again, not what Rand Paul said.

          3. Just Say’n

            Your criticism is fair, Kristen. All I’m saying is that these are federal employees that were reassigned due to a forthcoming inspector general’s report. Is it not fair to question these employees? Maybe he should wait for the inspector general’s report, but to suggest (as ENB did with her bullshit aside) that Paul’s civil libertarian credibility is suspect is BEYOND bullshit.

          4. Number.6

            You mean like Hillary herself being on the verge of being booted off the Nixon Impeachment team for being:

            “… a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”…

            Like that?

      3. Scruffy Nerfherder

        The only thing Rand is wrong on is not including his entire argument for losing their security clearances. He has previously brought up their extra-marital affair, which is typically an instant disqualifier in the FBI for clearances. Additionally, the explicitly suspect texts about backup plans in the case of Trump winning and coordination with a sitting judge would at least merit a temporary suspension until it is resolved in their favor.

      4. Just Say’n

        Yes, that’s fair. But, these are federal employees that were reassigned due to a forthcoming inspector general’s report. Is it not fair to question these employees? Maybe he should wait for the inspector general’s report, but to suggest (as ENB did with her bullshit aside) that Paul’s civil libertarian credibility is suspect is BEYOND bullshit.

        1. TK

          Why do I feel like I’ve read this before?

    3. Idle Hands

      Maybe it’s the fact that they were using COMPANY FUCKING PHONES and THEIR OFFICIAL EMAILS to conduct an affair and shit on their future boss. No where else would this fly.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    WaPo beatifies Vermont governor

    The passage of the gun-control laws in Vermont marks a significant change in course in a state where bipartisan resistance to gun-control measures thwarted even the most modest gun-restriction proposals for years. Vermont still does not require law-abiding gun owners to have a permit to carry guns in public. During his 2016 campaign for governor, Scott said, “I don’t believe we need more gun restrictions in Vermont at this time.” He also said he did not support background checks on private gun sales.

    His about-face on gun rights all happened rather quickly, in the days after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead.

    Two days after the Parkland shooting, police in Fair Haven, Vt., arrested Jack H. Sawyer for his alleged plot to shoot up Fair Haven Union High School. That morning, Scott said, is when “everything changed” for him.

    Basically, the story is or should be about how the system worked exactly as it’s supposed to. Kid makes violent threats, acts like a psycho, presents a sufficiently credible threat that cops investigate and arrest him. And they all lived happily ever after, right?

    Not exactly. The governor is so unnerved by this he plucks a bunch of new laws off the Bloomberg anti-gun consortium’s wish list, and rams them through the state house (as for the legality/legitimacy of the mechanics, they don’t seem to concern themselves with that). Hooray, we’re all safe, now. Because making it harder for a million law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is worth it, if it *might* rein in the violent fantasies of one kid.

    1. KibbledKristen

      Vermont keeps finding new ways for me to never want to live or visit there ever again.

    2. Raston Bot

      he’s fucked, right?

  57. They’re even going after Ron Jeremy!

    https://www.thewrap.com/ron-jeremy-case-under-review-by-la-district-attorney/

    When will the madness end?!?

    1. KibbledKristen

      A Rolling Stone investigative piece published in November detailed multiple such accusations.

      Credible.

      1. AlexinCT

        Was it written by the same turd that wrote about mattress girl?

        1. commodious spittoon

          You’re thinking busted glass table girl. Mattress girl lied about being scorned by an ex.

          1. Number.6

            Scorned by an ex- who refused anal, IIRC. The worst kind of scorning.

          2. commodious spittoon

            “Grab its motherfucking dignity.”

    2. Count Potato

      “Ron Jeremy banned from Saturday’s AVN Adult Entertainment Expo and Awards? That’s cool — the porn star wasn’t going anyway, he told TheWrap through a spokesperson.

      “I was not planning on attending the AVN’s this year anyway as I’m filming 2 movies and performing stand up comedy all week,” Jeremy said. “All serious allegations are false. The truth with [sic] come out soon.”

      The adult-film actor’s admission of being a “groper” in a November statement to Rolling Stone was a violation of the AVN’s code of conduct, hence the ban. Jeremy had previously denied the more serious accusations levied against him, which include rape.”

      AVN has a code of conduct? Then I’m coming out with a cologne for pigs. What do you think of the name, “Porque”?

      1. AlexinCT

        What do you think of the name, “Porque”?

        Spanish for why? Or French for bacon?

        1. Count Potato

          I was thinking “reason”, but could be pronounced “pork”, but those work too.

  58. The Late P Brooks

    “I recognize how hard it is for some to understand my change of heart on our gun laws, let alone come to the same conclusions I’ve reached,” he told the divided crowd in closing. “I understand I may lose support over the decision to sign these bills today. Those are consequences I’m prepared to live with.”

    Christ, what an asshole.

    1. Chipwooder

      Those farts aren’t gonna sniff themselves.

    2. AKA: Bloomberg and his gang of gun-control MILFs would pump a gazillion dollars into a primary challenge against me if I don’t do what he says.

      1. Drake

        He’s a Republican. I assume he’ll be primaried out – if not, Republicans will just stay home and let a Dem win next time.

    1. Number.6

      Brenna’s more my type.

    2. Chipwooder

      Attractive women posting pictures of themselves carrying is a trend we can all get behind.

      Bonus point – if you scroll down the replies a bit, there’s someone with Zed from Zardoz as an avatar.

      1. That works on so many levels…

    3. I’m pleased to see the trend is growing amongst brunettes, especially of the Mediterranean variety.

      1. Number.6

        Still need ‘common sense gun control’ for the natural redheads though.

    4. F. Stupidity Jr.

      Uncle Mike

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      Then you’d better hope you pass the background checks, because they are coming. And if you don’t, they WILL be taken.

      President Pelosi will see to that.

      What color is the sky in this guy’s world?

      1. “President Pelosi will see to that”

        LOLOLOL

        She can’t put a sentence together without losing her train of thought and/or breaking down into a fit of twitching and palsy. You guys already tried “corrupt old white woman in poor health” and it didn’t work.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          It’s a scary statement that Pelosi and Schumer are the rational actors in the Democrat Party, but when you’ve got nutjobs like Keith Ellison waiting in the wings.

        2. Number.6

          … but by all means, if you think Pelosi has the best shot, go for it.

          1. Psycho Effer

            Even in a world after Trump, I don’t see the American electorate choosing a demented lich for President.

    5. Rebel Scum

      She could tread ALL over me any day.

  59. “the single greatest failure of imagination of the Founders was their inability to foresee how the legislative branch would come to devolve its own powers”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/11/our-awful-congress.html

    Ordinarily, I’d be ok with them being garden-variety incompetent and not doing anything. The problem is that they still do things, but the things they do are always bad.

  60. Juvenile Bluster

    https://twitter.com/GenAugustoP/status/983052194009272321

    Notorious Augusto P
    ‏ @GenAugustoP

    In April 1993, a corrupt regime ordered the use of a chemical attack on civilians, using an agent banned by the Geneva Convention, and murdered 76 people, including 25 children.

    Too bad there wasn’t a regime change.

    1. Chipwooder

      That’s gonna leave a mark

    2. Raston Bot

      i didn’t know tear gas was banned.

  61. The Late P Brooks

    “Rand Paul, Civil Liberties Champion (lol), is upset that government employees don’t lose their security clearances if they don’t like Trump. Here’s Cato Institute policy analyst Julian Sanchez with thoughts on that:

    This is the problem with wandering into the middle of a conversation. Is Rand saying, all federal employees, everywhere? I doubt it.

    Or- Is this a reference to specific people whose known political enthusiasms (and flagrant TDS) tainted a specific and ongoing federal investigation?

    It’s kind of important to distinguish between the two.

    1. Just Say’n

      He was referring specifically to the FBI agents who were reassigned due to a forthcoming inspector general’s report. The people whose texts were released- who were having an affair

      1. Just Say’n

        These are federal employees that were reassigned due to a forthcoming inspector general’s report. Is it not fair to question these employees? Maybe he should wait for the inspector general’s report, but to suggest (as ENB did with her bullshit aside) that Paul’s civil libertarian credibility is suspect is BEYOND bullshit.

      2. R C Dean

        Yeah, I don’t read this:

        FBI admits that @realDonaldTrump haters still have Top Secret security clearances which allows them to access sensitive private information!

        As saying that anyone who is anti-Trump should have their clearances pulled, since the tweet includes his letter asking about Strzok and Page and the FBI’s reply.

        Since those two broke multiple federal laws/regs, they shouldn’t even still be employed, much less have security clearances.

        It’s kind of important to distinguish between the two.

        Its a tweet. Plus, as we all know, Meaning comes from context, and in the context of the attached letters its clear he’s talking about Strzok and Page, not ever Trump-hater in the federal government.

    2. commodious spittoon

      It’s kind of important to distinguish between the two.

      That sort of thinking will never get you invited to the swanky cocktail parties. Did you even matriculate at Columbia, bro?

  62. Gee, I wonder if Hillbot’s illegal server has anything to do with this?

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/12/islamic-extremist-usb-stick-identities-french-intelligence-officials/

    Stranger things have happened…

    1. AlexinCT

      They will find a way to blame it on Trump, likely via Russian collusion of some sort…

  63. Idle Hands

    This is starting to get scary. Investigators Focus on Another Trump Ally: The National Enquirer:

    The tabloid company has been drawn into a sweeping federal investigation of Mr. Cohen’s activities, including efforts to head off potentially damaging stories about Mr. Trump during his run for the White House. In one instance, The Enquirer bought but did not publish a story about an alleged extramarital relationship years earlier with the presidential candidate, an unusual decision for a scandal sheet.

    The federal inquiry could pose serious legal implications for the president and his campaign committee. It also presents thorny questions about A.M.I.’s First Amendment protections, and whether its record in supporting Mr. Trump somehow opens the door to scrutiny usually reserved for political organizations.

    Don’t read the comments.

    1. Wow. Are the editors at the NYT so dense as to not see how these tactics could easily be used against them? Do they just assume that they’ll always have the goodwill of the TOP. MEN. in power? Having a triple digit IQ must be a disqualifying factor for getting a job as a journolist nowadays.

    2. Just Say’n

      Civil libertarians being blinded by TDS and allowing blatant civil liberty violations is far far far more dangerous a threat than anything Trump has done

    3. Chipwooder

      Hah – can’t wait to see the same people who get the vapors about Hogan/Gawker see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

    4. R C Dean

      So now the exercise of editorial discretion is an in-kind contribution?

      And the NYT’s collective brain is so rotted with TDS it doesn’t see anything wrong with this? Of course, I don’t recall them making a fuss when Obama was prosecuting reporters for being insufficiently pro-Obama, so it may not be TDS, it may just be rank stupidity, ever the handmaiden of partisanship.

      1. I find it darkly amusing that if these pathetic shills ever got the communist government they wanted, they’d be among the first in the ovens.

  64. Raston Bot

    his BJ Campbell’s six-part (and growing) series on firearms from Medium been posted around here yet? it’s fascinating and completely devoid of culture war antics. stat heavy. i don’t like one of his three proposed solutions but it’s not completely awful. here’s the sixth installment:

    https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/the-gun-solution-f9339609b3b8

    it’s about 10-15 minute read. as are all of his other pieces that build up to this one. this one on zero correlation for homicides was my favorite:

    https://medium.com/@bjcampbell/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-between-gun-ownership-and-homicide-1108ed400be5

    1. Raston Bot

      this associated comic is pretty spot-fucking-on too:

      https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*iTqmt6jnP3JnQKVLzcjhJg.png

      1. Count Potato

        They all want cake.

        1. The cake is a lie.

          1. Number.6

            ::sobs gently as he remembers the companion cube::

    2. R C Dean

      Step Three: Promote Responsible Ownership Through a Simple, Easy, License to Buy

      Fuck you, BJ. Any licensing requirement is a ban wrapped in a bureaucracy. A license always and everywhere means “You cannot do X (the ban) unless we (the bureaucracy) give you permission (the license)”.

      Yeah, NICS is a de facto licensing requirement, of sorts. But the purblind naivete of thinking his sole requirement for getting a license (passing a simple course) wouldn’t morph rather quickly into something expensive, time-consuming, and intrusive almost makes me think this series is a false flag for suckering gun owners into coughing up their last few crumbs of Second Amendment rights.

      1. Raston Bot

        right. i doubt BJ fully appreciates the POTG’s hatred for the notion of a licensing scheme. it would take a whole lot more than just dismantling NICS, freeing up SBRs and suppressors in that compromise. it would take a full dismantling of DHS DOJ ATF and FBI along with freebie grenade launchers.

    1. And there you have the Left’s idea of a debate in three short statements.

    2. Drake

      “Fuck-off Eskimo” is the only possible reply.

      1. Cliche Bandit

        Chuckcha…that is the reply.

  65. This is so poorly written that I can’t discern what voting for or against would result in.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/anchorage-voters-nation-reject-bathroom-bill-54411566

    I wrote clearer stuff in middle school. I reiterate: ” Having a triple digit IQ must be a disqualifying factor for getting a job as a journolist nowadays.”

    1. MikeS

      “The experience of North Carolina seems to be a pretty good case study on the national reaction, kind of significant and fairly united national reaction to this kind of ordinance or law or proposition,” said John Kauffman, an Anchorage lawyer who campaigned against the measure.

      What John meant:

      “The experience of North Carolina seems to be a pretty good case study on the extreme left’s social media lynch mob, divisive and kind of insignificant numbers-wise, but able to gin-up outsized and unwarranted attention this kind of ordinance or law or proposition,”

  66. Count Potato

    “Our entire motive is that Assad attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons with no eveidence whatsoever. And the same rebels that plan on taking over Syria once Assad is gone, have stock in chemical weapons. But yea let’s just go to war anyway.”

    https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/984437521898659842

    1. Count Potato

      “Rebel group accusing Assad of gas attack ‘USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS’ against Kurds
      THE REBEL group which is in control of the Douma region in Syria, the site of an alleged chemical attack which has been blamed on the Assad regime, was itself accused of using forbidden weapons on Kurds in 2016.”

      https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/944900/Syria-Assad-chemical-attack-Douma-Jaish-al-Islam-Kurds-YPG-Kurdistan

  67. Chipwooder

    Sleep deprivation is racist. That’s what Vox tells us, anyway.

    The sleep gap is essential to understand. It’s a disparity that is both caused by social inequalities and likely to perpetuate them. And that means it could be a ripe target for an intervention that could radically improve millions of American lives. Here are the most important things to know about the black-white sleep gap in America.

    1. I’m beginning to think that Vox may be a comedy site.

    2. commodious spittoon

      it could be a ripe target for an intervention

      Benzos for everyone.

  68. commodious spittoon
    1. Zuck is kind of twink-ish.

    2. MikeS

      Uncle Joe is the creepiest fucker out there.

      This would actually be a really good pic for a Glibs “write the caption” post.

  69. Count Potato

    “I’m sort of aware, from what I know to get into a trap discord guys had to wear a dress and upload the pic, they are now using the pic as blackmail Thats about as much as I know unless anyone has more info.

    From what I am seeing, it is an inside joke from /r9k/ that has gone full conspiracy mode and there is actually no proof of any of it, apart from some 4chan posts, the shotgun boy stuff has just been added in there as part of the meme, from what I can see, it’s all fake.”

    https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/983746462705180673

    Few people know more about both traps and Discord than Dankula. So what @WeWuzMetokur was posting about is still fucked up basement shit. But I’m thinking it has even less basis in reality.

    1. MikeS

      Wow. That’s…unintelligible. All I can say is get off my lawn.