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Thursday Morning News Dump
- 'Free Trade' With Cuba Is A Dangerous Fantasy
- The US Bows Down To The Norks
- Russians Flock To Stores To Pre-empt Price Rises
- Vermont Giving Up On Single Payer Health Care
- This Stirkes Me As One Of Those Stories That Will Turn Out To Be BS
- The Response To North Korea's Attack On Hollywood Is Disastrous And Cowardly
- How Academia's Liberal Bias Is Killing Social Science
- McSally Win Gives Republicans Another House Seat
- Man Who Waterboarded KSM Rips Democrat Torture Report
- Kerry: Cuba Policy Has Isolated The US For 50 Years
- Lets Learn From Canada's 'Bootstrap' Immigration Policy
- Blacks Falling Behind Under Obamacare
- Obama Claims He's Been Treated Like The Help
- Cool New Bullet Designed For The US Army
- President Obama Didn't Tell The Whole Story About Cuba
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Killerdog at December 18, 2014 09:34 AM (lKaMK)
Posted by: JDub (was BunkerintheBurbs) at December 18, 2014 09:35 AM (X3xYu)
Posted by: fairweatherbill holding dominion over the nether regions at December 18, 2014 09:36 AM (WFDo3)
Sh%t Midas must have messed this up just like everything else he does...
Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2014 09:36 AM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Killerdog at December 18, 2014 09:37 AM (lKaMK)
What are they, the people who do the projected returns for CALPERS?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 09:38 AM (mf5HN)
Posted by: ginaswo at December 18, 2014 09:39 AM (2EgyQ)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 18, 2014 09:39 AM (5buP8)
Posted by: BignJames at December 18, 2014 09:39 AM (ZNQKl)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 09:40 AM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 09:40 AM (NeFrd)
Ouch.....
I wonder if they are correctly divested from [insert self-congratulatory, terminally pompous, functionally useless list here]?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2014 09:41 AM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2014 09:42 AM (2vRRd)
Posted by: Baldy at December 18, 2014 09:42 AM (+35FH)
Surely the embargo has legislation behind it, right? Or is President NarrowAss going to EO this, too?
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:43 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 09:43 AM (BPT9g)
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Apropos, Kerry's foreign policy is broken.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 09:43 AM (gmeXX)
right?
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 09:43 AM (zOTsN)
I wonder if they are correctly divested from [insert self-congratulatory, terminally pompous, functionally useless list here]?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2014 09:41 AM (Zu3d9)
The mummy people at least have an actual methodology behind their extrapolation. Mummy density is x per y. That has been consistent so far. If that holds up, it will be a million.
CALPERS is relying on the "And then a miracle happens" methodology.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 09:44 AM (mf5HN)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:44 AM (FFqaj)
Yeah. Wake me when there's news then. Coffee's calling!
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 09:44 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 09:44 AM (BPT9g)
Can we just leave these anti american scumbags to rot in whatever hell hole they flee to, please?
Posted by: Lauren at December 18, 2014 09:44 AM (TWY1+)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 09:45 AM (NeFrd)
Which they attempt to do with the finesse of GLaDOS using Skinnerian psychology
Posted by: Kindltot at December 18, 2014 09:45 AM (t//F+)
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My wife asked me to the do the dishes last night. It was infuriating.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 09:45 AM (gmeXX)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:45 AM (FFqaj)
Please persuade moderate muslims that it would be good for them to destroy the jihadis. And while they are at that tell them to do the same with the communists.
E
Posted by: Erowmero at December 18, 2014 09:46 AM (go5uR)
Posted by: Fritz at December 18, 2014 09:47 AM (UzPAd)
***
Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah. Temperature increase has been x per y. That has been consistent for three years. If that holds up it will be a million degrees.
It's like trying to drive a car on a mountain road using only the rearview mirror.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 09:47 AM (NeFrd)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 09:47 AM (BPT9g)
NO DISHWASHERS, NO PEACE!!!
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 09:48 AM (/jpU8)
Asking for a friend
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 18, 2014 09:48 AM (irGEw)
It's indoctrination and brainwashing.
It is impressing conspiracy theory on young minds.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:48 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 09:49 AM (kff5f)
who allows terrorist threats against American citizens going to a dang Friday night movie,
wouldn't you?
Well, you need to shut your goddamn popcorn holes cuz you know nothing at all about politicking and all!!!
This don't affect my donors and their sweet sweet cash at all!!! So chuff you guys.
Welp, time for my day job. Where's the booze?
Posted by: John Boehner, Duh Squeaker of Duh Howse at December 18, 2014 09:49 AM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 18, 2014 09:49 AM (irGEw)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:49 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peeping in the Seafood Store at December 18, 2014 09:50 AM (aeVIR)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 09:50 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 09:50 AM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
#twoweeks
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 09:50 AM (BPT9g)
Whaaaaaat?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Golfman in NC at December 18, 2014 09:51 AM (WHh0N)
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 09:51 AM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Erowmero at December 18, 2014 09:51 AM (go5uR)
Norks did us a favor.
I keep reminding people that these are the same two stars of 'Pineapple Express.'
A bigger bomb than anything the Norks have.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:51 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at December 18, 2014 09:52 AM (/dvmK)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 18, 2014 09:52 AM (BZAd3)
Posted by: lindafell at December 18, 2014 09:52 AM (LbPGR)
Sure. Why not?
Heck, you can even kill some if you want. I don't really care about those bitter clinging ckufs anyway.
As long as you leave the golf courses alone...
then we're just fine.
Cheers.
Posted by: Preezy Cakeboy at December 18, 2014 09:53 AM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 09:54 AM (Zmw74)
A foreign power has directly threatened US Citizens on US Soil over the publication of a work of art (for a given value of that term). I don't actually have a problem with the theaters or Sony saying "never mind."
However, I do have a huge problem with the SCOAMT's lack of a response. The moment the NORKs made those threats, TFG should have been on TV (oh, but he hates photo ops...) saying, "North Korea just threatened American Citizens over an exercise of one of our most treasured freedoms- freedom of the press. So to Kim Jong Un, I say this: if one American dies in one act of violence because of this movie, I will level Pyongyang. I will burn your cities to the ground. I will bomb them until no stone stands on another. I will then send in soldiers and marines to kill every member of your military they can find, raze your crops, and salt the earth. We will not be threatened by a tin-pot dictator of a country which only exists because we do not deign to notice it."
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 09:54 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 09:54 AM (kff5f)
'Cause I'd REALLY like to know if Hollywood insures movies in case they can't be released for some reason.
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 18, 2014 09:54 AM (ViF0c)
wanted to know why they made a comedy about the Norks and who would be the audience for such a film
I don't think we have had a Nork love troll before
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 09:54 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 09:55 AM (kff5f)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 09:55 AM (+u3Ut)
Daewoo, bitches!
I don't understand why the cool thing on the right seems to be prefacing their support of The Interview by denouncing Seth Rogan and James Franco. They're funny, and most of their movies are above average. I legitimately wanted to see the movie and I'm not going to downplay that for some sort of too cool for school street cred.
(And yeah, sorry to hulk out on you, it's not really you it's the 1000 other guys I've seen say the same type of thing over the past few days)
Posted by: Lauren at December 18, 2014 09:55 AM (TWY1+)
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Well said. This is a direct terroristic threat on the American people. This is not Sony's fight. It is our fight. It would be nice to see the Hollywood elite stand up to this. But we know they are phonies.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 09:56 AM (gmeXX)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 09:56 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 09:56 AM (gmeXX)
It's not just the right - it's pretty much all guys. Everywhere.
And yeah, I denounce them too.
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 09:57 AM (/jpU8)
It's the horse face and solemn expression. It's as if John Fcuking Kerry is pulling a plow in perpetuity.
Posted by: Fritz at December 18, 2014 09:57 AM (UzPAd)
wanted to know why they made a comedy about the Norks and who would be the audience for such a film
Who? Rednecks.
Team America - F*ck Yeah! FTW!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 09:57 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 09:57 AM (+u3Ut)
Well, they *are* phonies. And they would certainly stand up against any censure from American politicians because "freedom of speech."
However, they can do that knowing they won't go to jail or get killed over such a stand on principle. OTOH, they might well get killed over such a stand on principle when the person threatening them is a psychopathic dictator like Kim Jong Un.
I can't really blame Sony for this. I can't really blame "Hollywood" for this, either. I'd *like* to see them stand up for their principles, but since they're not getting support from the US Government (against a foreign enemy, no less), I can see why they would be reluctant to do so.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 18, 2014 09:59 AM (kff5f)
Credit where it's due: a number of Hollywierd types are running with "The Great Dictator" memes
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 09:59 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 09:57 AM (+u3Ut)
****
recalculated.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 10:00 AM (NeFrd)
YMMV, I guess. I thought it was painful.
I don't understand why the cool thing on the right seems to be prefacing their support of The Interview by denouncing Seth Rogan and James Franco. They're funny, and most of their movies are above average.
I think there's been a serious downward decline. I thought they were great on 'Freaks and Geeks' but that was 15 years ago.
The OZ movie Franco was in was really bad, and Rogen's become a colossal ass that is a bit much for a guy who really should be a co-star at best. I think the last time I thought Rogen was good was 'Knocked Up,' and (checking) that's from 2007.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:00 AM (FFqaj)
Last time the Republicans had so many seats in Congress was 1929-1931.
---- Just before the Crash of 1929.
The Dow just hit record highs last month.
Russia's economy is collapsing
Commodity prices are going strange.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: rd at December 18, 2014 10:00 AM (J7NUM)
I heard a talking head on CNN blather something about how "we all know having a diverse society makes us all so much safer"
which is completely false. I am not arguing for homogenous societies, but it is well known that there is far less criminality in homogenous populations. Stronger social identity and enforcement of common mores. When there is an influx of new populations, there is a corresponding increase in criminality. That has been the case since they started tracking it. Which I am sure they do not anymore.
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:01 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 10:01 AM (2cS/G)
And he is uniformly, completely, and utterly, eternally, 100% wrong in everything he does.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:02 AM (FFqaj)
Nah, chocolate works better for the Cubans. Norks = mints. Or lifesavers...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:02 AM (/jpU8)
Says the dead were grouped by hair color, blonds v redheads. Funny. I don't usually think blonds and redheads when I think "Egyptian."
Posted by: mindful webworker using pyramid power at December 18, 2014 10:02 AM (bVtr0)
[swoon]
Posted by: Just a Sean Penn in a radically transformed America at December 18, 2014 10:03 AM (HKvMD)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 10:03 AM (NeFrd)
See also: Houston after Katrina
Posted by: Lauren at December 18, 2014 10:04 AM (TWY1+)
completely hilarious in "This in the End" which should be a moron approved film because it totally savages Hollywood for being egomaniacal, shallow, pretentious and without any redeeming qualities
its really a film about the rapture
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:04 AM (zOTsN)
Which are more warlike do you think?
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:04 AM (3ZtZW)
Yeah, after a few decades of "it's Africa, man, so don't be RAAAACIST", the knowledge base has pretty much gone down the ...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:04 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: Lincolntf
Do i want to possibly die after paying $12 to see yet another stoner movie?
No.
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 10:05 AM (Spluw)
Interesting how some dictators are bad and some are okay, it seems that the ones we consider allies are the bad ones.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:05 AM (FFqaj)
The shame's all his, and amply earned.
If Rube had played it honestly and straight down the middle, he would not today be in such bad odor. Instead he tried a duplicitous two-faced scam and was found out.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 18, 2014 10:05 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Nork Love Troll at December 18, 2014 10:05 AM (BrQrN)
Posted by: Kim Jong Il at December 18, 2014 10:06 AM (2Ojst)
"Egyptian."
Posted by: mindful webworker using pyramid power at December 18, 2014 10:02 AM (bVtr0)
Could be both, IYKWIM
Posted by: Cleopatra at December 18, 2014 10:06 AM (9GG/0)
Glad I left the Catholic church years ago.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 10:06 AM (XzRw1)
Support for showing the movie on 1st Amendment grounds.
Denouncing Rogan because I don't find him funny. Not in the least.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:07 AM (BPT9g)
Weasel Zippers
Fine people. Top of the barrel?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:07 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:07 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:08 AM (FFqaj)
Because he is a left wing wacko who has made many outrageous statements in the past so fuck him
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:08 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: Nork Love Troll at December 18, 2014 10:09 AM (NF2Bf)
Damn those racist cops!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 10:09 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:09 AM (zOTsN)
Obama's complaints about being treated "like the help" suggests to me that he and his wife don't treat "the help" particularly well.
Of course, if he'd meant to complain that he was being mistake *for* "the help", he would have said that he was treated "*as* the help". And this guy calls himself a writer!
Posted by: Brown Line at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (zcbZo)
Which are more warlike do you think?
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands
Irish.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (BPT9g)
Section 8 made the suburbs much more "diverse". And also caused crime, including violent crime, and including murder, to skyrocket in previously very safe neighborhoods. Yay diversity!
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bkv6bbp
Posted by: torquewrench at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (noWW6)
OMG.
A FERGUSON activist drives through a crowd of people?
My Irony Meter just exploded.
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (FFqaj)
A group posted an email. NORKs applauded email. Feds say any threat is unsubstantiated. SONY is a group of mewling cunts for giving the email any credence.
So what, exactly, should we do ? Nuke the country that constantly trolls South Korea and Japan because this time they directly trolled us, scared SONY, and ultimately cost them money ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (ViF0c)
A good deal of North Africa was caucasian from Roman times. Its still fairly light-skinned in comaparison to central, I guess, but thats maybe more Arab influence now. Africa in general has more phenotypes than any other continent.
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility
he and obama are going after low hanging fruit. And they're botching it in the process. The ME is steadily getting shittier, and these two are acting like kissing Castro's ass is somehow noble? And nothing was said about oppression of writers, gays, and just about every other basic human right.
But "new chapters" and other drivel play to the left, which long ago decided that Uncle Fidel and Che are noble. The left never changed. Watch a Monty python episode. They and others simply pretended that the problems never existed. Therefore, the actions taken by people they hated was by default, stupid.
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 10:11 AM (Spluw)
sort of like being trolled by an 1950s grammer teacher
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:11 AM (zOTsN)
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Because he's a lefty douche.
And even if he wasnt a lefty..... he's still a douche. In fact, he's much more douche than lefty.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:11 AM (NaV4z)
Through Crowd Leaving Church Christmas Concert, Kills 3 People, Injures
Several More
arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence.
0_0
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 10:12 AM (XzRw1)
Posted by: DaveA at December 18, 2014 10:13 AM (DL2i+)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:10 AM (FFqaj)
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So .... Eiko has killed more innocent people than Darren Wilson?
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:13 AM (NaV4z)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:14 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 18, 2014 10:14 AM (5buP8)
"However, I do have a huge problem with the SCOAMT's lack of a response."
Remember Benghazi? And how their response to the murder of our diplomat was to throw an American filmmaker under the bus? I hear his movie is crap, but protection under the First Amendment doesn't depend on your Rotten Tomatoes score.
No, the JEF and the Left in general are no fans of freedom of speech. Or any other freedom, for that matter.
Posted by: Brown Line at December 18, 2014 10:14 AM (zcbZo)
Posted by: Baldy at December 18, 2014 10:14 AM (+35FH)
1. Send Cuba billions of dollars we don't have.
2. Rinse, repeat.
Cuba libre!
Posted by: MrScribbler at December 18, 2014 10:14 AM (yAC3X)
Impossible. Farakhan keeps telling me the Egyptians were actually all Black Africans, and the light colored skin shown on hieroglyphics was a lie by the Europeans. .
Posted by: Clueless SJW at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (J7NUM)
I am not saying the civilian world should operate that way. I am saying they are safe not because they are diverse, but because they have shared mores and values which are group enforced
until you get a Nidal Hassan
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (zOTsN)
OMG.
A FERGUSON activist drives through a crowd of people?
Time to get our riot on!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (3ZtZW)
Might want to revisit the old adage 'There's no such thing as bad publicity.'
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (FFqaj)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 18, 2014 09:47 AM (NeFrd)
Tell me about it!
Posted by: zombie Grace Kelly at December 18, 2014 10:16 AM (lKaMK)
Posted by: --- at December 18, 2014 10:16 AM (FFqaj)
Something, something, #blacklivesmatter, something, something irony....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 18, 2014 10:17 AM (knoK7)
A whole lot of the vehicles in the Islamic State motor pool are ones which the Obama administration had purchased (via various sources and intermediaries) for use by the Syrian "resistance" fighters.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 18, 2014 10:17 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:18 AM (/GgDU)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin
I was wondering that myself. There's somehow a profit in shipping and reselling vehicles to the ME?
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 10:18 AM (Spluw)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:15 AM (BPT9g)
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Well's ... its gonna hafta be after work. Wait .... that wont work.... Ive got a Church meeting tonite. Tomorrow. After work.
Hold it... that wont work. Thats Friday. Date nite with Mrs Fixer. Saturday??? Nope. Lat shopping weekend before Christmas and Sunday is out cause I have Church.
So... oh...... nevermind.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:18 AM (NaV4z)
Bella will be defended by the Columbia law school students who will not take their finals
the defense will be that she was so upset about Ferguson it drove her to drink
BTW
What were the race of the people she killed
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:18 AM (zOTsN)
It's not just cool, it's the right thing to do. No matter how trite, unfunny, & stupid I think they are I don't support their stupid, unfunny garbage being silenced by terrorists.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:19 AM (MbqmP)
Isn't the faith about receiving the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist and that encouragement to become more like Christ. You can't do that if the Pope wants diplomatic relations with Cuba?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:19 AM (Dj3AB)
Posted by: ---
The good news is, the toilet is no longer clogged. it also no longer exists....
Posted by: Rambo Rooter at December 18, 2014 10:20 AM (Spluw)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (zOTsN)
Believe it or not, there's a worldwide market for used vehicles (that no one in the States seems to even know of)...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (/jpU8)
THEN WHO IS TOILET!!!
Posted by: AL SHARPTON at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (NaV4z)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (zOTsN)
-Norks hacked Hollyweird. I don't care.
-Momjeans was dressed like a waiter and was mistaken for a waiter. I don't care.
-Momjeans made stupid deal w Cuba. Still not caring.
-4 days of freezing fog are finally over. I'm ecstatic.
Posted by: fairweatherbill holding dominion over the nether regions at December 18, 2014 10:22 AM (WFDo3)
Posted by: anon a mouse
Huh. I didn't think that there would be an advantage to shipping used vehicles across the world. Shipping new ones has considerable costs.
Posted by: Rambo Rooter at December 18, 2014 10:22 AM (Spluw)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 10:22 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (/jpU
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Well.... maybe they'd know if Cash FOR Clunkers hadnt mucked the entire used car market up.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:22 AM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Blue Hen
The costs compared to all the cars designed and manufactured locally by Muslims must be ridiculous. /sarc
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2014 10:23 AM (TETYm)
Arrested For Driving Through Crowd Leaving Church Christmas Concert,
Kills 3 People, Injures Several More
OMG.
A FERGUSON activist drives through a crowd of people?
Time to get our riot on!
Posted by: rickb223
A public hanging seems to be in order.
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:23 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:24 AM (Dj3AB)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:24 AM (BPT9g)
Individually staged vehicles on a RORO is one thing.
Loading up a container w/a handful of vehicles in various states of disrepair = cheap.
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:24 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Lincolntf
There's truth in that. The MFM and the WH (but I repeat myself) have a vested interest in Making Shit Up regarding Christians, papists and the Head Papist in particular.
However, the leadership of the Church has an abysmal track record when they stagger into public and foreign policy.
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (Spluw)
Posted by: daisycutter at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (LyV/0)
Kinda like the SCOAMT.
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (zOTsN)
Yeah, there's that, too. Amazing that "educated" people have no f**king clue how things work...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:26 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: fairweatherbill holding dominion over the nether regions at December 18, 2014 10:27 AM (WFDo3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:24 AM (Dj3AB)
Maybe, but he should keep his nose out of overt political actions, especially those he has NO expertise in, not to mention the "Moral" considerations involved with a regime like the castros
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (Zmw74)
Does the promise of an extra few bowls of rice a week make you that good?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (vgIRn)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:21 AM (/jpU
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Im guessing Kathy Heigl was holding her nose the whole time that "Knocked Up" was filming.
mmmmm..... Kathy Heigl
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (NaV4z)
Posted by: ThunderB
If so, you have to admit, they were flaunting their white privilege of vehicles yielding to pedestrians.
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (/Ho8c)
Most are Fiats, therefore rust has done it's magik.
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:29 AM (zOTsN)
Ok Pixie.... nice switch of the ole cut and paste.... lets try that again.
Pineapple Express had some funny stuff in it, but I was very disappointed. The trailer for it made it look quite funny, but it didn't live up to the hype.
Kinda like the SCOAMT.
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:25 AM (/Ho8c)
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Im guessing Kathy Heigl was holding her nose the whole time that "Knocked Up" was filming.
mmmmm..... Kathy Heigl
Posted by: fixerupper at December 18, 2014 10:29 AM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2014 10:30 AM (TETYm)
Like a lot of movies over the last few years, they shoot their wad in the trailer, with nothing more in the movie.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:30 AM (BPT9g)
One had a Japanese name; one had an Anglo name (but maybe was black?); and one name hasn't been released pending next of kin notification. They're named in a WZ link.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2014 10:30 AM (Dw98+)
Posted by: Soona at December 18, 2014 10:30 AM (xF71N)
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2014 10:23 AM (TETYm)
Yes, the Mohammedillac is rather expensive, especially if you go for the 16 camel drive train, and the Corinthian goat leather seats.
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 10:31 AM (fL/7/)
Posted by: Penfold at December 18, 2014 10:31 AM (Fbt5B)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 10:31 AM (IvTw6)
Posted by: rd at December 18, 2014 10:32 AM (J7NUM)
Posted by: rd at December 18, 2014 10:32 AM (J7NUM)
It's pretty speculative - one year you can clean up, the next trip you get cleaned out.
Despite what one might think, 'murrican used iron (light duty vehicles sold new in the US) is generally in far better shape than similar aged stuff from around the world.
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:32 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: Soona at December 18, 2014 10:30 AM (xF71N)
I am not. I read all about him when they voted him in.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:32 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (/jpU
Lots of old 850s still kicking around Finland. Of course they use 'em mostly for Folkracing, so I guess a little rust & the exhaust being rotted off don't matter.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (MbqmP)
I think it should have been pulled because, face it, it's probably crap.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (DT3rQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Lauren at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (TWY1+)
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 10:31 AM (IvTw6)
An inadvertent glance at the trailer was enough for me to know I'd never watch that unless I was paid an obscene amount of cash up front!
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 18, 2014 10:34 AM (fL/7/)
To park and look at? We think gas is high here...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:34 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:33 AM (3ZtZW)
She was drunk
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:34 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:34 AM (UtvsI)
Rust was standard equipment, and I never knew they came with any sort of exhaust...
/
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:34 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: maddogg at December 18, 2014 10:35 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:35 AM (zOTsN)
From whom, exactly?
I don't recall either Russia or China severing relations with us over Cuba - or otherwise giving a damn about it.
Kerry apparently defines US "isolation" as "snotty criticism I hear from my EU friends at state dinners."
Could we please get some diplomatic leaders who are capable of discerning bitchy whining from actual power politics and acting accordingly?
Paging John Bolton and Zombie Jean Kirkpatick....
Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at December 18, 2014 10:36 AM (QKIQb)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 18, 2014 10:36 AM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 10:36 AM (IvTw6)
Yeah, a low blinker fluid warning will fail most state's inspections...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:36 AM (/jpU8)
Weasel Zippers
Liar Liar pants on fire. And that is one big ass fire
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 18, 2014 10:36 AM (Zmw74)
Posted by: Penfold
ALL SJW protesters are protesters of convenience.
That why you never see them protesting in Montana in January.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:37 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:37 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 10:38 AM (LISuA)
Eastern European gas isn't taxed like in the West - it's far cheaper (somewhere around 1/2 the price at the pump)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 10:38 AM (/jpU8)
So what happens at 6:10? A woman with blond hair in a bun, dressed in a Navy blue business suit with white blouse, and black pumps with about a 2inch heels.
http://youtu.be/-oB6DN5dYWo
Distracted forklift driver sees her and spears cow-orker with a tine...
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:39 AM (UtvsI)
The message is that Hollywood studios will cave if you have the goods on them and they are not serious about security on their computer systems so it should not be all that challenging to crack into their systems. They are also pretty dumb about what they discuss in their emails.
Conservatives who understand Breitbart's dictum about politics being downstream from culture should take note.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 10:39 AM (PD6iL)
Yes. Michael Cerra. But it is funny.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2014 10:39 AM (ABcz/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:40 AM (Dj3AB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:40 AM (Dj3AB)
Though I should really find a recipe and make my own. Preferably some strength between "Standard Store-Bought" and "AoSHQ Lifestyle Fodder".
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at December 18, 2014 10:40 AM (DT3rQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:41 AM (UtvsI)
In that same vein then,
#Don'tJudgeDarrenWilson-HeFeelsBad
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:42 AM (BPT9g)
And that Palestinian tool that was all over Ferguson was saying in
Facebook don't judge Bella guys she totes feels bad enough already!
Fucking goat humper.
So apparently some lives matter more than others?
Thief Brown shot by cop defending himself = Burn this beyotch down!
Kill a couple old ladies exiting church while DUI - It's all about forgiveness and non-judgement, you guys!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2014 10:43 AM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Anderson
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The 850's laterally mounted aluminum block is the only reason that you can't see through them fore to aft.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:43 AM (/GgDU)
All Catholics are Christians,
But not all Christians are Catholic.
The 1.2 billion of us who are not Catholic might be interested in what the Pope says, but at the end of the day, don't really care. He doesn't represent us.
Posted by: Clarification Guy at December 18, 2014 10:43 AM (vgIRn)
What fresh hell awaits us this fine day?
Who do we surrender to? Or does it matter?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 10:44 AM (0HooB)
Brad Thor holds the same opinion as the base on Jeb Bush. Same as mine.
http://tinyurl.com/myylb2c
Posted by: maddogg at December 18, 2014 10:44 AM (xWW96)
Wut?
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 10:44 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2014 10:45 AM (Dw98+)
North Korea just proved how easy it is to enforce their policies on an American company (well, an American subsidiary of a Japanese company).
Next to come will be influencing American government policy. Lets protect our flanks!
Posted by: MTF at December 18, 2014 10:45 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 18, 2014 10:45 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:45 AM (UtvsI)
Breaking Occupier #Ferguson Activist Bella Eiko Arrested For
Driving Through Crowd Leaving Church Christmas Concert, Kills 3 People,
Injures Several More
Weasel Zippers
I went to WZ, did not see any article, got a link for it?
Posted by: Penfold at December 18, 2014 10:45 AM (Fbt5B)
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The Church's mission is not the US' mission. The Church's primary mission to bring the Word of God and the Eucharist to as many people as possible to prepare their souls for eternal life.
The United States mission is to keep us safe.
Those two are going to collide at times. I'm ok with that.
Despite what has been reported, this Pope has not changed one doctrinal aspect of the Church, nor hinted that he might - which he cannot do unilaterally.
Are there things I wish he would be better on - yes. But so far, he seems to be very good at evangelizing. I think that is a great thing.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 10:46 AM (gmeXX)
Watch Obtains Records Revealing Obama's $1,176,120.90 in Transportation
Expenses to Attend Political Fundraisers in Los Angeles and San
Francisco
It's good to be the king.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 10:46 AM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:46 AM (3ZtZW)
I should ask J.J. about that tomorrow. That might be a good subplot in my new book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 10:46 AM (zF6Iw)
Wut?
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White privilege yo.
-Some writer form Ebony
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 10:47 AM (SQkRc)
http://tinyurl.com/nugjxa4
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:47 AM (/GgDU)
That certainly puts his previous snarky dismissals of #gamergate into a much better context.
Posted by: @JohnTant at December 18, 2014 10:47 AM (eytER)
Posted by: The Great White Snark
*makes notes in black book*
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:48 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:48 AM (Dj3AB)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (SQkRc)
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That's good to know.
**scribbles furiously**
Posted by: Coalition of Christians, Conservatives, Farmers, Southerners and Gun Owners at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (NaV4z)
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I can only conclude that Gabe is pro-Gabe and if you are not pro-Gabe you are an idiot (according to Gabe).
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (UtvsI)
Anyone else wonder where the Norks got hackers good enough to get into a multi-billion dollar business?
Does the promise of an extra few bowls of rice a week make you that good?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 10:28 AM (vgIRn)"
I am more inclined to think that the security at Sony, and possibly other Hollywood studios, is not all that good.
The implication is that anybody who is sufficiently determined can have the same influence on Hollywood movie makers as the Norks. Hack into their network and download their emails. Leak a few embarrassing racist emails. Blackmail them over the emails where they are conspiring to commit felonies.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (PD6iL)
Posted by: despair at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (dcY7v)
Ya got that right! Hows about a brewski?
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (gmeXX)
Dunno how the "Bella Eiko" link came to be.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (MbqmP)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:51 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD)
Wow, that's fast.
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 18, 2014 10:51 AM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Our Iranian Nuclear Future at December 18, 2014 10:52 AM (DL2i+)
"Did Obama per chance, return Gitmo to Cuba, while he was at it?"
He's working the angle with the Pope and the communist party.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 18, 2014 10:52 AM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 18, 2014 10:52 AM (UtvsI)
I posted a few months ago about having been surprised as Obama's "aerial motorcade" flew past me on the SF waterfront, while Obama was out here collecting protection money from tax-dodging Silicon Valley execs.
It was absolutely incredible.
Not one but two of the classic "Marine One" presidential helicopters.
And FOUR V-22 Ospreys escorting those.
Figures aren't released so far as I know on how much it costs to operate the Presidential helicopters, but it is publicly available information that the Osprey is one of the most expensive aircraft per flight-hour in the entire Pentagon inventory.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 18, 2014 10:53 AM (noWW6)
He's working the angle with the Pope and the communist party.
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Not that I expect this, but if Gitmo is turned over, I'm not going to blame the Pope. I'll probably blame Congress for allowing it to happen.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 10:54 AM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (PD6iL)
Do you have IT security experience? Not asking in an accusatory manner at all - Lord knows I am a computer idiot - but wow. If a joke country like NK can hack in, can I safely assume every actual first-world nation on the planet has free rein to every Fortune 500 company's emails?
Posted by: Clarification Guy at December 18, 2014 10:54 AM (vgIRn)
Who's providing the diversity? As Mark Steyn pointed out, a group of western liberals is more diverse if you add a jihadist imam to it, but are we better for it?
Diversity only provides "strength" when it's a hybridization of the good in various cultures. Moral relativism and multiculturism render diversity either meaningless or actively harmful to questions of strength, much less "safety."
The Netherlands and other countries in the EU are some of the most tolerant places on Earth, but they are routinely targeted by head-hackers. The idea that being "intolerant" somehow raises your profile with these folks and thus dhimitude (errr) tolerance will make you safer is simply empirically wrong as well as morally cowardly.
Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (QKIQb)
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (vgIRn)
That would be keeping with the theology of the church.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (Dj3AB)
I got some Obamawurst at the deli just the other day. Fucking olives in it though
Posted by: Bigby's Clapping Hands at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (3ZtZW)
Was in the car this morning and had Beck on (I KNOW, I KNOW) briefly and heard him say the woman who asked Mooch to reach something in the Target is the wife of a...wait for it...MSNBC producer. The wife and husband are also big Obama supporters.
So the whole thing may have been a set up to try to show Mooch's "helpful/selfless" side.
Whatev.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (FsuaD)
You'd be better off skipping it. Trust.
Posted by: garrett at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (mWDMH)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:50
The link to Bella came from some Ferguson Muzzie protestor's FB page, IIRC.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (2vRRd)
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There are always two. I think it is time to have serious conversation about the amount of money being spent to protect the president. It is a cost issue, but it is also republican issue.
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (gmeXX)
Says that "Ferguson/Occupy activists have identified here[sic] as the woman involved, although she is not named in articles on the story as yet."
Probably got yanked because it's a rumour from a couple of nutjobs without confirmation. #journalism
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (MbqmP)
Columbia U must have some awesome IT guys.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (0HooB)
After all, Hollywood accounting is notorious for misreporting profits
and losses in order to ace out anybody who is foolish enough to sign up
for a share of the "profits".
I should ask J.J. about that tomorrow. That might be a good subplot in my new book.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 10:46 AM (zF6Iw)"
There is also the factor that apparently top level Hollywood execs are clueless enough to email racist jokes to each other. What do you want to bet that they also use email to conspire to engage in felonies?
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (PD6iL)
weird
shows up no where on Bing
freepers have a link to abc.go.com, Police: 3 Killed as Car Hits People Leaving Church
they do not list the driver
Bella Eiko is a pseudonym by the way
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2014 10:57 AM (Dw98+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins'
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She isn't just *any* bimbette: http://tinyurl.com/jwb4kgw
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:57 AM (/GgDU)
I wouldn't have gone out and publicly said it was impossible and we shouldn't try too hard. But, hell.
Posted by: Jean at December 18, 2014 10:57 AM (TETYm)
Whatev.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 10:55 AM (FsuaD)
Really? Yeah, that does seem like a mighty big coincidence. Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was staged.
Posted by: Mainah at December 18, 2014 10:57 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Sven10077 at December 18, 2014 10:58 AM (/4AZU)
Columbia U must have some awesome IT guys.
That, or you need some actual records to hack........
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 10:58 AM (BPT9g)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 10:59 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:59 AM (/GgDU)
Posted by: SH at December 18, 2014 11:00 AM (gmeXX)
Everything about a "public" FLO/PO appearance is staged, even w/today's halfassed security. Gotta get the right optics.
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 11:00 AM (/jpU8)
My first Executive Order is to Limit Secret Service Protections to North America. You leave the country, you pay your own way.
Posted by: garrett at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (mWDMH)
Posted by: fly gal at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (8TdcF)
I'll bet they were destroyed, along with the LA Times tape and his other transcripts.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (Zu3d9)
Wait, so they're extrapolating from 1,700 mummies (which is still a jaw dropping amount) to a million?
What are they, the people who do the projected returns for CALPERS?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 18, 2014 09:38 AM (mf5HN)
Well, I'm a little more sanguine about an extrapolation of this nature opposed to an overtly political one. Now maybe the "million mummy" number is an extreme extrapolation, intended to spur more funding for the research, but I don't have a problem with funding this research. One, it's actually interesting, and two, it's not likely that I will be told to modify my behavior in some stupid way as an outcome of that research (looking at you, Gerbil Worming researchers). Also, given that it's in Egypt, those mummies are in peril of being destroyed by islamists for some dam-fool reason, so the window of opportunity to study them should be exploited to the max.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (zOTsN)
If threats from poor Stalinist prison camp of North Korea can do this, imagine Russia & China, with huge resources. They are watching.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Really? Yeah, that does seem like a mighty big coincidence. Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was staged.
Posted by: Mainah
WZ has the Letterman story from 2011 where she was happy to help someone.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 11:01 AM (BPT9g)
I am more inclined to think that the security at Sony, and possibly other Hollywood studios, is not all that good.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 10:49 AM (PD6iL)
Do you have IT security experience? Not asking in an accusatory
manner at all - Lord knows I am a computer idiot - but wow. If a joke
country like NK can hack in, can I safely assume every actual
first-world nation on the planet has free rein to every Fortune 500
company's emails?
Posted by: Clarification Guy at December 18, 2014 10:54 AM (vgIRn)"
While I don't know any specifics about Sony, I do know that a lot of well known companies do seem to have a rather lax attitude towards computer security. For what it is worth, I have a CISSP certification, for all the good it does me. Anybody out there hiring? I am posting to this website in the middle of a working day if that is any clue.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 11:02 AM (PD6iL)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 11:02 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: ThunderB
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Edited
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 10:59
Bella Eiko = Jessica Hollie . According to now missing WZ post.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2014 11:02 AM (2vRRd)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 18, 2014 11:02 AM (FsuaD)
Posted by: anon a mouse
Well, we might have been otherwise ocupied.
Posted by: Amber, did I leave my service pistol next to the $40 I left for you? at December 18, 2014 11:02 AM (Spluw)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (Dw98+)
I'm not sure that is reasonable....there is a legitimate need for overseas travel by the president.
What is not legitimate is the number of people he brings along, and the cost of protection of his family. They can suck it up and no take European vacations.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (Zu3d9)
of a...wait for it...MSNBC producer. The wife and husband are also big
Obama supporters. So the whole thing may have been a set up to try to show Mooch's 'helpful/selfless' side."
It's hard to imagine it could ever have been anything other than a setup.
Really, an anonymous unscreened Target shopper is allowed to walk straight through the massive security cordon surrounding the First Lady? Yeah, right. Pull the other one.
So they set it up, and they used it in Campaign 2012 to "humanize" distant and arrogant Mooch with voters, via touching story of FLOTUS helping an ordinary person and feeling good about doing so.
Then Mooch decided this year to recycle it as the ordinary person being instead a vicious racist wanting black women to perform menial chores. And Mooch then promptly got caught when the original video resurfaced. Not bright enough to lie well.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (noWW6)
They're already "there". Several studios regularly run scripts past ChiCom censors (er, local "consultants) to ensure compliance w/the regime.
No need to hack when a simple red pen hits the script...
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (/jpU8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 18, 2014 10:56 AM (0HooB)
***************
One would think a pallet of Cheetos and Mountain Dew, along with a working girl, would open them up to negotiation.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 18, 2014 11:03 AM (vgIRn)
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 11:04 AM (/jpU8)
but none for Bella Eiko or Jessica Hollie and the car "accident"
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 11:05 AM (zOTsN)
The email is from executive Michael Lynton, who suggests that in the
future, Sony shouldn't hire black actors like Denzel for leads in films.
The argument Lynton makes is that the rest of the world is "racist"
and they don't want to see black actors in lead roles, so every time
they cast someone like Denzel in The Equalizer, their foreign box office is going to sink. Thus, they shouldn't hire black actors for lead roles, obviously. About Denzel specifically, Lynton wrote:
"He's reliable at the domestic [box office], safe, but has not had a huge success in years. I believe whenever possible the non event pictures, extra 'bets' should have a large inherent upside and be made for the right price. Here there isn't a large inherent upside...believe that the international motion picture audience is racist - in general pictures with an African American lead don't play well overseas."
Courage!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 18, 2014 11:05 AM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Sven10077 at December 18, 2014 11:05 AM (/4AZU)
money being spent to protect the president. It is a cost issue, but it
is also republican issue.
It's not quite as bad as an idea as Ace's pickoff a rino by voting D but it is up there.
Irregardless of who's in the office an attempt on a President is a BIG deal and an Act Of War if attributable. Just trying it got onto the Adios Saddam Hussein list and whatever you think of that war it's cost a shitload more than some Osprey flights.
Posted by: DaveA at December 18, 2014 11:05 AM (DL2i+)
No one has burned an embassy. Yet.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 18, 2014 11:06 AM (BPT9g)
Anybody out there hiring?"
Got an H1B?
Posted by: anon a mouse at December 18, 2014 11:04 AM (/jpU
"No, but I have a birth certificate indicating that I was born in the US as well as an honorable discharge from the US Army and a current Secret security clearance.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 11:08 AM (PD6iL)
I wonder how she feels about signing autographs; my little nephew loves the Rock.
Posted by: Fritz at December 18, 2014 11:08 AM (UzPAd)
Every company and every government needs to be much more conscious of how vulnerable they are - as well as the public that gives them personal info they can't effectively protect. Data points are like watering holes to these guys. They're going to lurk where the food is. Big Data is premised on shaky foundations. Security, decentralization and separation/privacy should be considered before we rush to amalgamate ourselves in utopian singularity. The tech-Bulls have had their run - time for the Bears to get a fair hearing.
Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at December 18, 2014 11:09 AM (QKIQb)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 18, 2014 11:05 AM
WZ sourced an ABC link. That link did not name the driver. It appeared that WZ got the Bella name from some puke on FB. Now that WZ story is gone, I'd venture WZ jumped the gun.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2014 11:09 AM (2vRRd)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 18, 2014 11:11 AM (WgxM8)
I was wondering that myself. There's somehow a profit in shipping and reselling vehicles to the ME?
Posted by: Blue Hen at December 18, 2014 10:18 AM (Spluw)
Especially if they are stolen. Guy trades in truck to dealer. Dealer wholesales it off at auction. (this happened) Fly-by-night auction buyer puts vehicles on lot, from which they get "stolen" (speculation). Fly-by-night dealer makes insurance claim, several sea-cans of "stolen" vehicles make their way to ISIS. (further speculation) But I'll bet you that something close to that is how it went down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2014 11:16 AM (8Fl6F)
In Obamamerica? You're screwed.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at December 18, 2014 11:24 AM (DT3rQ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 18, 2014 10:50 AM (zF6Iw)
Well, that marriage didn't last long, did it? Ka-ching!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2014 11:26 AM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Alberta
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Looks like Menendez may passing Bill his used girls.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 11:29 AM (/GgDU)
Sadly enough, that exec may have a point, but it gets so tangled up in domestic politics...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at December 18, 2014 11:31 AM (DT3rQ)
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Perhaps, but, by god we are at the fore for combating the War on Womyn.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2014 11:31 AM (/GgDU)
No, but I have a birth certificate indicating that I was born in the
US as well as an honorable discharge from the US Army and a current
Secret security clearance.
In Obamamerica? You're screwed.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at December 18, 2014 11:24 AM (DT3rQ)"
As the mutual funds disclaimer goes "past performance is no guarantee of future results" but so far that is the way it is looking. I am hoping that I can find enough temp contracts to pay my mortgage for another two years.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 11:44 AM (PD6iL)
Why vacation in Cuba?
Posted by: Chris_Balsz at December 18, 2014 11:50 AM (kTWS+)
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 18, 2014 11:51 AM (PD6iL)
Posted by: Shallow boy at December 18, 2014 12:01 PM (H6fvX)
Posted by: nanny hag at December 18, 2014 12:08 PM (Queum)
I didn't believe him. Then he showed me the pictures.
Posted by: Kirk at December 18, 2014 02:41 PM (GBnWt)
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