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Feds Paid $5 Million For Monthly Government-Sponsored Hipster Raves, Featuring Lots of Anti-Conservative Political Agitprop

Ostensibly these Hipster Raves were for the purposes of discouraging an at-risk group (white hipsters) from smoking, because you know how much insecure young people who want to be seen as "cool" respond to government-sponsored anti-drug messaging.

But to get these white slackers to accept that not smoking was "cool," they had to throw in a lot of anti-conservative agitprop as the spoonful of sugar.

Oh by way the National Institutes of Health is spending this $5 million on Pabst Blue Ribbon for hipsters instead of ebola. You're welcome.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $5 million to get hipsters to quit smoking by starting “commune” dance parties in bars across California.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are using taxpayer dollars to bring anti-tobacco marketing into bars by selling posters and t-shirts, including those that deride the views of neoconservatives, saying the political philosophy is as bad as world hunger.

The $4,904,466 grant was awarded in 2011, and runs through 2016.

"In our prior research, we identified a high-risk subpopulation of young adults in San Diego, CA: the 'hipster' subculture, a group focused on the alternative music scene, local artists and designers, and eclectic self-expression," the grant explained. "We developed a yearlong pilot social branding intervention to decrease smoking among this group, using social events and social leaders to promote a strong nonsmoking lifestyle."

Pamela Ling, a professor at UCSF School of Medicine, is leading the project. Ling was the "medical student who got her way" in the 1994 season of MTV's "The Real World" before becoming a doctor.

That's perfect.

Now Ling wants to help UCSF's Center for Tobacco Control Research create a "smoke-free world" by appealing to hipsters' concerns about "social justice."

"Saying 'Smoking is bad for you' isn't relevant to them," Ling told the University. "But they do care about self-expression and social justice."

...

The group holds events, known as "Commune Wednesdays," every month at bars in San Diego, San Francisco, and Burlington, Vt., trying to appeal to hipsters through artwork, alternative bands, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

You can read about the political messaging at the link.

You may already be infuriated, but prepare to be even more infuriated by this rhetorical question:

College-educated "hipsters" are not at particularly high risk of becoming habit smokers, at least not compared to other groups.

Another group much more likely to become habit smokers are non- college educated blue-collar whites.

A group that tends to lean Republican in politics and traditionalist on social issues questions.

Now, given that blue-collar whites are more likely to become habit smokers than hipsters, how many millions do you suppose were spent to attract blue-collar whites to bars to buy them their beers of choice, to hire them the bands they favor, and to try to reach them with political messaging of an anti-progressive, pro-traditionalist bent?

I've got a guess and I'm pretty sure it's not a guess, it's an actual correct answer:

Zero fucking dollars.

Posted by: Ace at 04:31 PM




Comments

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1 Who paid for it?

Posted by: Mega at November 25, 2014 04:34 PM (hHFOx)

2 If Republicans did shit like this while in office the cries for impeachment would be deafening.

Posted by: Vic at November 25, 2014 04:34 PM (u9gzs)

3 First?

Posted by: EC at November 25, 2014 04:34 PM (doBIb)

4 Nope.

Posted by: EC at November 25, 2014 04:35 PM (doBIb)

5 Why even bother getting upset with government expenditures?

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:35 PM (gmeXX)

6 Just tell the hipsters that right wingers run the tobacco companies. That ought to dissuade them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 25, 2014 04:35 PM (W5DcG)

7 Feds paid $5 million for monthly government-sponsored hipster raves, featuring lots of anti-conservative political agitprop?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 25, 2014 04:35 PM (hHFOx)

8 So ace......did you go to one of these anti-smoking raves?


Posted by: EC at November 25, 2014 04:36 PM (doBIb)

9

And the honkey riots draw ever closer.

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2014 04:36 PM (XIXZz)

10 Candidate #1 for the new Congress to defund.

Posted by: Erkle at November 25, 2014 04:36 PM (bI+8A)

11 Actually holder said next to nothing. Obviously he knows a Federal Civil Rights probe is going nowhere

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:36 PM (nzKvP)

12 I have got to learn the art of grant writing.

Fuck.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2014 04:37 PM (vwlGK)

13 Defund the whole Federal Gov and only fund them one department at a time. It's the only way to clean out this rat's nest

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:37 PM (nzKvP)

14 I would get rid of the NIH - problem solved. But it is just part of the Department of Health and Human Services which is as repugnant of a name for a governmental agency as you will find.

Maybe that was the third agency that Rick Perry wanted to get rid of.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:37 PM (gmeXX)

15 We need to stop allowing them to steal our money.


They don't know how to produce things.


The trick is how to accomplish this, because there is not an easy way that I see.


But if they didn't have all of our money this shit would not go on. And remember that key fact; this is all made possible because you work every day.


Now get back to work.

Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at November 25, 2014 04:37 PM (8N+Kq)

16 Hey, we hate white trash, too.

Posted by: Republican Brain Trust at November 25, 2014 04:37 PM (zwdxl)

17
ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS?!?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 25, 2014 04:38 PM (2Ayux)

18 "Dude....check it out......I bet I can get the government to pay for our parties."

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2014 04:38 PM (MDgS8)

19 The federal government is completely out of control.

Posted by: Shep Smith at November 25, 2014 04:38 PM (jy9jx)

20 You think we're happy that the only way we can win elections now is by going downscale?

I didn't spend 4 years at Harvard to hang out at a fucking Applebee's, ok?

Posted by: Republican Brain Trust at November 25, 2014 04:39 PM (zwdxl)

21 sorry guys, this can't be cut. This is the hill to die on.

signed, xxoo

John McCain and Lindey Grahamnesty

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 25, 2014 04:39 PM (N///B)

22 woops, off sock

Posted by: Feh at November 25, 2014 04:39 PM (jy9jx)

23 "the 'hipster' subculture"


----

that says it all doesn't it.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:39 PM (gmeXX)

24 The great Honkey Riots of ought 14.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2014 04:39 PM (MDgS8)

25 trying to appeal to hipsters through artwork, alternative
bands, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.




Nothing says "Don't smoke" more than drinking.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2014 04:40 PM (yaBfv)

26 Hey, is everyone else's web gone like molasses in January? S-L-O-W?

Posted by: OK, thanks, bye, now with less white privilege! at November 25, 2014 04:40 PM (ucB75)

27 Red neck, white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer!

Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:40 PM (vVSOO)

28 WTF ace? Perfect segue for the hipster slapfight video and.....nothing? You're probably still under the weather, don't worry about it. Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/lbhlff2

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at November 25, 2014 04:40 PM (+lsX1)

29 Another federally sponsored vanity project

Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:41 PM (zOTsN)

30 Nothing says "Don't smoke" more than drinking.


Right?

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2014 04:41 PM (MDgS8)

31 We need to stop allowing them to steal our money.

Hey! We didn't steal anything. We charged it......What?

Posted by: I'm from the government at November 25, 2014 04:41 PM (Spluw)

32 I love this program cause I want my government to be COOL!

Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:41 PM (zOTsN)

33 I would get rid of the NIH - problem solved. But it is just part of the Department of Health and Human Services which is as repugnant of a name for a governmental agency as you will find.


Nah don't get rid of it. It can be useful. Just transfer it lock stock and subway stop to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center across the street.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:41 PM (nzKvP)

34 I'd really prefer reality to stop feeling like the Asimov Foundation trilogy where the old empire is degenerating into cargo culture. Especially since we don't have a foundation at the outer edges guiding them thru the civilization stages with minimal chaos and human suffering and getting them ready to step in when the old system crumbles into dust. No we only have the termite/marxists destroying as fast as they can with their idiot vision of utopia as the replacement.

Posted by: Paleride at November 25, 2014 04:42 PM (dkExz)

35
Progressives use government grants and monies as their personal slush fund. Some Ezra Klein-loving prog in the government wanted to give a shout-out and some money (not his, of course) to his buds and this grant was the way to do it.

I'm surprised the events didn't encourage the hipsters to create their own artwork. Along the lines of "Piss Christ" and whatnot.

Posted by: MacGruber at November 25, 2014 04:42 PM (sWgE+)

36 just another way that the federal govt has been weaponized and mobilized against conservatives, and how the GOP is completely dickless in the face of such an assault.

One of the reasons we're in the mess we're in is the constant deluge of cash PR firms get to sell liberalism. The GOP/conservatives need to fund them some real PR.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 25, 2014 04:42 PM (N///B)

37 The group sells t-shirts and posters with anti-tobacco messages. One poster offers alternatives to hipsters wanting to take a smoke break, including "riding your fixed gear bike", "styling your sweet mustache", "practicing your next Instagram pose", "listening to your favorite band that no one else has heard of", and, surprisingly, "taking a refreshing shower."
***

As near as I can tell, the next American civil war will last about four minutes, maybe five tops, if we take our time.

Posted by: B at November 25, 2014 04:42 PM (rm2L3)

38
I'm Hipster Doofus Rob Lowe, I smoke and I have cable.

Posted by: Rob Lowe - don't be like him at November 25, 2014 04:43 PM (NtzGn)

39 I love this program cause I want my government to be COOL!
Posted by: ThunderB

Right on you hep cats......

Posted by: I'm from the government at November 25, 2014 04:43 PM (Spluw)

40 Nothing says "Don't smoke" more than drinking.


Right?

----

Is there a better anti-smoking message than get married and have kids?

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:43 PM (gmeXX)

41

meanwhile, the leftist Democrats want the "fairness doctrine" and "net neutrality" to balance the airwaves and internet

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 25, 2014 04:43 PM (1K6n1)

42 derp

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at November 25, 2014 04:43 PM (XzRw1)

43 Raves are awesome places to exchange drugs! But don't smoke!

This is mom jeans cool

This is Bill Cosby cool


This is cool like when your dad tries to tell jokes to your friends.

This is younger sibling tagging along cool

It's so cool

Is double rainbow cool

Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (zOTsN)

44 What kind of a lame-ass goes to a government rave?

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (ZKzrr)

45 National Review @NRO 17m
Which Kinds of Anti-Asian Discrimination Are Okay? http://natl.re/1xXYl0C

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (zwdxl)

46 Up with people?


What's up with people?

WTF is up with people? Amirite?

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (MDgS8)

47
and by balance, I mean control

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (1K6n1)

48 Hipsters and PBR? You'd think they would have gone with some local micro brew. It is government money after all.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (vVSOO)

49 No, Mr. Bond--I expect you to die!

Posted by: Goldbricker at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (KG1MP)

50 Ugh. My parents dragged me to an Up With People thing when I was a kid. Those people were so white they made Donnie Osmond look like a wild eyed crazy.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (g1DWB)

51 Hipsters don't work. They live with mommy and daddy. Blue collar workers, well, work. They CHOOSE to spend their EARNED money on cigarettes. That's what the message is: Choice is evil. Let the gubmint tell us what to do and what to buy. They've done it with a whole range of things.

And, yes, I'm a smoker. I still enjoy it. And I spend my own money financing that choice.

Posted by: Soona at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (NXjgq)

52 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $5 million to get hipsters to quit smoking...

Of course, they are only concerned about tobacco smoke.

Posted by: despair at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (dcY7v)

53 I'd like to hear these smoking hipsters define "neoconservative."

something something Halliburton something something Israel

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (Tj+s6)

54 LOL How Ironic!!1!

Posted by: A Hipster at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (lN8KC)

55 The anti-smoking zealots always remind me of one of the very few truly funny lines in Friends when Chandler was smoking in the first season and the other friends wanted him to stop. I believe he said: "Bottom line is smoking's cool, and you know know it."

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (gmeXX)

56 I have an idea for hipsters .
Go down to the recruiters office and sign on the dotted line . In fact join the Army or Marine infantry .
Do it for the irony .
Your old man will be confused as hell .

Posted by: awkward davies at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (Z+Mqb)

57
smoking.


cannabis -or- tobacco


Makes all the difference for hipster douchebags.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (NaV4z)

58 My sisters as a sound engineer with Up With People on a European tour. Got some cool boots

Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (zOTsN)

59 It would be a lot easier to convert them to vaping.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (rwI+c)

60 This is cool like when your dad tries to tell jokes to your friends.
Posted by: ThunderB

I get great reactions when I do this.

It's usually dread, shock and mortification, but i get reactions. I think that i prolonged my stepdaughter's virginity by at least two years employing this method.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (Spluw)

61 48 Hipsters and PBR? You'd think they would have gone with some local micro brew. It is government money after all.
Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:44 PM (vVSOOHead some hipster asking a waitress if they had Stroh's...he was denied.

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (o2Jt2)

62 "riding your fixed gear bike", "styling your sweet mustache",
"practicing your next Instagram pose", "listening to your favorite band
that no one else has heard of", and, surprisingly, "taking a refreshing
shower."


Smoking some choom, stealing some cigarillos, calling a cop a pussy...

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (ZKzrr)

63 Posted by: B at November 25, 2014 04:42 PM

No way would I be able to expend all of my ammunition in just 5 minutes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (knoK7)

64 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $5 million to get hipsters to quit smoking...

Of course, they are only concerned about tobacco smoke.


Vaping's in the crosshairs too, lately.

Though frankly you'd think these cynical SOBs wouldn't be trying to shake a source of tax revenue this way...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 25, 2014 04:46 PM (DT3rQ)

65 "Saying 'Smoking is bad for you' isn't relevant to them," Ling told the University. "But they do care about self-expression and social justice."

Anytime you modify the word 'justice,' you negate it.

These cultural marxists are getting fucking annoying.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (s9AKD)

66 And, yes, I'm a smoker. I still enjoy it. And I spend my own money financing that choice.
Posted by: Soona at November 25, 2014 04:45 PM (NXjgq)

-----

Good for you Soona. Smoke em if you got them. And remember to share ...

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (gmeXX)

67 meanwhile, the leftist Democrats want the "fairness doctrine" and "net neutrality" to balance the airwaves and internet.
***
right. right.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (N///B)

68 Wow. They still make Stroh's?

Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (vVSOO)

69 Naw man, these things were totally cool. I had a great time.

Posted by: Pajama Boy at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (hHFOx)

70 Blue Collar Whites are going to be in Unions. No need to recruit them to hipster bars. It's the upscale hipster who might secretly harbor conservative leanings that must be seduced into the Free Stuff Army with free beer.

Posted by: Idly Obscurtia at November 25, 2014 04:48 PM (eiOJz)

71 I read something pretty cool the other day. Part of it went, "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". I can't remember what it was, just that it was, like, 100 years old or something and I had trouble understanding it. However, I do find myself feeling like this whole "Government" thing is more and more non-consensual. No means yes?

Posted by: Chuck at November 25, 2014 04:48 PM (ckQml)

72 This is "weird friend of my dad" cool


Nothing says hip like a government message party


Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:48 PM (zOTsN)

73 68 Wow. They still make Stroh's?
Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:47 PM (vVSOO) no idea...seems pretty doubtful a restraunt would carry it.

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2014 04:48 PM (o2Jt2)

74
This is cool like when your dad tries to tell jokes to your friends.



This is younger sibling tagging along cool



It's so cool


But is it younger sibling secksual abuse cool?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Lena Dunham (without the puppets) at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (/Ho8c)

75 The NIH just bought me a martini, Hendricks, dry, up.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (JtwS4)

76
Since 2006, there has been relatively little change in the size of the National Institute of Health budget, going from about $28.5 billion in 2006 to $30.14 billion in 2014.

Moreover, we should note that President George W. Bush, a Republican, is responsible for significantly boosting NIHs funding in the early years of his presidency.

Washington Post



You're welcome.

Posted by: The GOP - The Fiscally Conservative Party(tm)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (kdS6q)

77 59 It would be a lot easier to convert them to vaping GAPING - FIXED IT FOR YOU.

Posted by: OK, thanks, bye, now with less white privilege! at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (ucB75)

78 Any of you hipsters want a smoke with me on the Truman balcony?

Posted by: Barack "I quit smoking in 2009" Obama at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (XJ3nY)

79
If they really wanted to reach the smokers, they'd pass out Milwaukee's Best.

Posted by: MacGruber at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (sWgE+)

80 PBR is ironically cool

Like bowling shirts

Posted by: ThunderB at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (zOTsN)

81 Evolution of the Hipster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk

Posted by: Punch a Hipster, Ironically at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM (lN8KC)

82 Nothing says hip like a government message party

And while you're here, help yourself to a block of federal government cheese. All the cool kids are eating it these days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM (8ZskC)

83 Am I being charged for this?

Posted by: Bob Belcher at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM (3QAtO)

84 Getting jobs is also a good way to lessen smoking. Get a job, less time in a bar, less time smoking.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM (gmeXX)

85 Any of you hipsters want a smoke with me on the Truman balcony?

Posted by: Barack "I quit smoking in 2009" Obama at November 25, 2014 04:49 PM (XJ3nY)



I read that as, Any of you hipsters want to smoke my baloney?
And by hipsters I mean guys only

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM (1Jaio)

86 Sweet mother of Hades, not Up With People...

No way would I be able to expend all of my ammunition in just 5 minutes.

That's not what she said...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at November 25, 2014 04:51 PM (DT3rQ)

87 You may take our smokes, but you'll never take...OUR ARTISANAL CHEESES!

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at November 25, 2014 04:51 PM (vgIRn)

88 PBR is ironically cool



There was a time when it was just cheap, crappy beer. Now it is expensive crappy beer. Not progress.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:51 PM (gmeXX)

89 It's pervasive, Ace. California has all sort of social programs designed to indoctrinate - or at least provide patronage to leftist College professors / county administrators.

The local library DVD catalogue collection includes dozens and dozens of leftist oriented propaganda films; its bloody pathetic AND generally pisses me off to no end.

One obscure example: the ZIP library program grant for rural libraries. It's mostly a program designed to control inter-library book lending by using local grant administrators as political officers / commissars. ( its a long, boring personal story.)

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2014 04:51 PM (WHVu+)

90 Evolution of the Hipster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk

Posted by: Punch a Hipster, Ironically at November 25, 2014 04:50 PM


Never. Gets. Old.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (knoK7)

91 Should we ask Billy Joel how HE read that?

Posted by: Barack at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (XJ3nY)

92 That shit is awful. Sophomoric comes to mind.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (0FSuD)

93
Government massage party?

*takes off skinny jeans*

I'm ready.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (JtwS4)

94 PBR is ironically cool



Like bowling shirts
-------
Yeah, I see a lot of both on my Tuesday scratch league.

Posted by: Old Blue at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (vVSOO)

95 A boondoggle in this day and age? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (Ua6T/)

96 Oh, Sweet Bast. Kill it! Kill it with fire!!
http://is.gd/x2NFXy

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM (ZKzrr)

97 Can we come to the party?

Posted by: The Cowboy Poets at November 25, 2014 04:53 PM (8ZskC)

98 New York Times Publishes Name of Street Darren Wilson Lives On

Gee that was nice of them. would be a shame if something happened to the NYT's building in NYC ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:53 PM (nzKvP)

99 The graft. I want in on it.

Posted by: alexthechick - Told you about the power of Jazz Hands at November 25, 2014 04:53 PM (mf5HN)

100 I miss the old days when bars smelled like bars. Now they are places to take your children because they are smoke free and there is a TV everywhere.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:54 PM (gmeXX)

101
Getting jobs is also a good way to lessen smoking.

You would never know that from the bushels of butts around the doors to my building.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 04:54 PM (ZKzrr)

102 The graft. I want in on it.

Indeed. Eliminate it, or give me my cut.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 04:54 PM (rwI+c)

103 Pam was always a smug, self-important bitch.Not cool like the Rachel chick that married theGOP Congressman.

Posted by: Puck at November 25, 2014 04:54 PM (OD2ni)

104 If you're going to be drinking federally-supplied PBR, you'll need to fill out this GSA requisition form NH89900-1401 in triplicate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 25, 2014 04:54 PM (8ZskC)

105 "Commune" dance parties? How...subtle.

Posted by: rickl at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (zoehZ)

106 There was a time when it was just cheap, crappy beer. Now it is expensive crappy beer. Not progress.
Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 04:51 PM (gmeXX)

----

Schlitz for the WIN!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (NaV4z)

107 I bet Darren Wilsons' neighbors are armed up like a heavy weapons platoon .
Don't start none , won't be none .

Posted by: awkward davies at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (Z+Mqb)

108 Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 04:52 PM

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (knoK7)

109 A college hippie drink PBR? You can lead a horse's ass to water but you won't make 'em drink. If it's the demographic I think it is, it'll have to be either organic raspberry wine or imported European ale.

Maybe they'll use the PBR to was their hair... if they're lucky.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (1CroS)

110 PBR has been the ironic hipster beer for at least 15 years now. How long can this last?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:55 PM (zwdxl)

111 Now Ling wants to help UCSF's Center for Tobacco Control Research create a "smoke-free world" by appealing to hipsters' concerns about "social justice."

Holy crap. And we thought some of the global warming stuff was incoherent.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (659DL)

112 I miss the old days when bars smelled like bars. Now they are places to take your children because they are smoke free and there is a TV everywhere.



Go down to the docks, river front, or near train yards.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (yaBfv)

113
I miss the old days when bars smelled like bars

Don't know if they still do it but McSorely's in NYC used to have sawdust on the floors.

Stale beer and sawdust. That's a man's smell.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (JtwS4)

114 You can find the coolest parties by going to where all the white Chevy Malibus with federal license plates are parked.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (8ZskC)

115 The website also features testimonials from local artists, like the band "BRUIN" (who wanted to be called "DEWDS" but it was taken) who says, "Fuck big tobacco in its stupid fucking ass."
***

You know these guys are badass because they curse.

Posted by: B at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (rm2L3)

116 My Gmail flags dystopia as not a word.

WTF?

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (XeGAx)

117 >>Go down to the docks, river front, or near train yards.

Prime hobo territory. Bonus.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (g1DWB)

118 John Nolte @NolteNC
**MEDIA SHOCK**: NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES DARREN WILSON'S ADDRESS INFO http://t.co/FPh3QbIr5s

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (zwdxl)

119 Texans defensive end J.J. Watt has inspired the city of Houston with an amazing act of gratitude on behalf of the police officers and firefighters that keep residents safe every day.

Watt reportedly had pizzas delivered to every police and fire station in Houston along with a handwritten letter thanking the public servants for everything that they do.

It should not be a mystery as to why Watt is one of the most beloved players in the NFL.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (nzKvP)

120 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (659DL)

121
Oooo - they've got a website -- with event pictures.

Commune Wednesdays

"Were not going to berate smokers, and we are not at all against smokers. Were the Commune, we love you no matter what."*

http://jointhecommune.com/#past-event-photos



*We're the "cool" homeroom teacher.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (kdS6q)

122 Lucky Lager was once the cheap beer of choice, but the General Brewing Company sold out to the Chinese - and all the brewing equipment packed up and sent to mainland China.

Same thing happened to the SF Falstaff Brewery. ( anyone remember the neon cocktail glass billboard along 101 at the BB approach? Falstaff.)

I guess it's okay to be a sloppy drunken hipster, just don't smoke, eh?

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (WHVu+)

123 Lucky Lager was once the cheap beer of choice, but the General Brewing Company sold out to the Chinese - and all the brewing equipment packed up and sent to mainland China.

Same thing happened to the SF Falstaff Brewery. ( anyone remember the neon cocktail glass billboard along 101 at the BB approach? Falstaff.)

I guess it's okay to be a sloppy drunken hipster, just don't smoke, eh?

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (WHVu+)

124 Did you know that muslims actually invented Pabst Blue Ribbon beer? True fact.

Posted by: NASA at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (8ZskC)

125 PBR has been the ironic hipster beer for at least 15 years now. How long can this last?

It's the second time around too. They made a run for the hipster market in the late '70s as well.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (rwI+c)

126 John Nolte @NolteNC
**MEDIA SHOCK**: NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES DARREN WILSON'S ADDRESS INFO http://t.co/FPh3QbIr5s
Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:56 PM (zwdxl)


Wilson and his neighbors should sue them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (nzKvP)

127 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

Not exactly sure, but we're pretty sure you're standing in the way of it.

Posted by: A Social Justice Warrior at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (8ZskC)

128 120 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (659DL)

Check your backpack of white privileges. I think there's a language guide in there somewhere.

Posted by: The Hobo's Sex And Candy Stare Decicis at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (XeGAx)

129 But there's no room to cut the budget.

Posted by: --- at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (MMC8r)

130 The group holds events, known as "Commune Wednesdays,"






Nothing says hip like Commune Wednesdays. Unless it's of course Gulag Thursdays

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 25, 2014 04:59 PM (1Jaio)

131 "We have rejected big corporations for a long time, like Big Music that hinders creative freedom and Big Fashion that runs sweatshops," the group's website, "Join the Commune," explains. "Our stand against Big Tobacco is even more important."

Join me in rejecting Big Douchebag!

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2014 04:59 PM (K4YiS)

132 NYT wants blood. Jesus.
http://t.co/FPh3QbIr5s
Breitbart News will not link the story or give out the specific information, but the New York Times had no qualms whatsoever about publishing almost all the information needed for Officer Darren Wilson's enemies to track him and his wife down at home:

Officer Wilson and [his wife] own a home together on XXXXXXX Lane in XXXXXXXXXX, Mo., a St. Louis suburb about a half-hour drive from Ferguson.
...
Slate even went a step further than the Times, publishing an article featuring a photo of the modest, red-brick house on Monday.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:59 PM (zwdxl)

133 Wilson and his neighbors should sue themPosted by: Nevergiveup at November 25, 2014 04:58 PM (nzKvP) Wilson and his neighbors should overlap fields of fire

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2014 04:59 PM (o2Jt2)

134 Actually they chose not to insult the intelligence of conservative blue collar people with their stupid fucking program. Progressive hipsters, on the other hand, are stupid and cow-like enough to follow their lead. So the money goes where it can make a difference, I guess.

Jail. Toss her, and the people who approved this fucking stupid idea in jail. Let them out when we have an ebola vaccine.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at November 25, 2014 05:00 PM (F192H)

135 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

----

I think its when you go to a rave for free government provided beer and pretend to care about this or that in between out-dorr smoke breaks in which you really start to complain about things - like how you can't smoke in bars anymore.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:00 PM (gmeXX)

136 The group holds events, known as "Commune Wednesdays,"


There's actually a federal requisition form for bongos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 25, 2014 05:00 PM (8ZskC)

137 THIS IS A RACIST INJUSTICE THAT CANNOT BE TOLERATED AND MUST BE STOPPED BY ANY MEANS!!!

But please don't be violent m'kay?

Posted by: Shep Smith at November 25, 2014 05:00 PM (Nfdkj)

138 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (659DL)


The destruction of Western civilization, values, and mores, by denigrating Wester Civilization as nothing more than a plot by White straight cis-gendered ablist 1%er males to gain "privilege" by oppressing everyone else with X-tianity, Capitalism, and logic.

Posted by: The Socially Unjust Hat at November 25, 2014 05:01 PM (lN8KC)

139 We need names and addresses for the editors of the New York Times.

Posted by: --- at November 25, 2014 05:01 PM (MMC8r)

140 Slate even went a step further than the Times, publishing an article featuring a photo of the modest, red-brick house on Monday.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 04:59 PM (zwdxl)

----

Second look at D-Lamp????


j/k....j/k

Posted by: fixerupper at November 25, 2014 05:01 PM (NaV4z)

141 if it's not on fire right now, it will be soon

assholes

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2014 05:01 PM (2Ayux)

142 The destruction of Western civilization, values, and mores, by denigrating Wester Civilization as nothing more than a plot by White straight cis-gendered ablist 1%er males to gain "privilege" by oppressing everyone else with X-tianity, Capitalism, and logic.

I am so ready to regain my privilege back.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (rwI+c)

143 Circa (Insert Year Here): "And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?"

It's a malleable metal to be hammered into any weapon necessary to hold up others, aka The Man.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (1CroS)

144 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (659DL)


Alternatly, just check out:

http://reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction

Posted by: The Socially Unjust Hat at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (lN8KC)

145
Oh, the NIH didn't pay for my martini.

That was me. I paid for it the same way I have to pay for everything else I get.

I'm doing something wrong.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (JtwS4)

146 A phrase comes to mind - "Reward one's friends,...."

Posted by: steveegg at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (cL79m)

147 DanRiehl @DanRiehl
NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson http://dailym.ai/11t0qDP via @MailOnline

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (zwdxl)

148 Social Justice is whatever the mob says it is.

Posted by: --- at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (MMC8r)

149 [i9]NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson

So the fuck up is all his. Nice confession.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (rwI+c)

150 Good to know our spineless RINO squishes can't be shutting down those vital Gvmt programs over El Presidente Dog Eater suspending the Constitution. Pajama Boy and friends need their raves!

Posted by: 2L at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (TaO1J)

151 Is the SCOAMF still smoking?

Posted by: Carol at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (sj3Ax)

152 HOORAY FOR EVERYTHING!

Posted by: Minuteman at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (nKLC2)

153 "94
PBR is ironically cool"



PBR sucked when it was the cheapest beer you could buy and I drank a case an threw up for a day.



The smell of it still makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (0FSuD)

154 I hope there are kitten posts comin' up. I can't take anymore and SMOD is probably light years away.

Posted by: SarahW at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (Lbv/k)

155
It should not be a mystery as to why Watt is one of the most beloved players in the NFL.


http://is.gd/jK5O77

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (ZKzrr)

156 NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson

So he is an independent idiot, then. GOOD TO KNOW.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (659DL)

157 Those anti-smoking commercials on TV make me want to take up smoking.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (L2xDv)

158 Wow, so Obama actually pressured him to keep the Guard pulled back.

They wanted this chaos.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (zwdxl)

159 132
NYT wants blood. Jesus.

http://t.co/FPh3QbIr5s

Breitbart News will not link the story or give out the specific
information, but the New York Times had no qualms whatsoever about
publishing almost all the information needed for Officer Darren Wilson's
enemies to track him and his wife down at home:



Officer Wilson and [his wife] own a home together on XXXXXXX Lane in
XXXXXXXXXX, Mo., a St. Louis suburb about a half-hour drive from
Ferguson.

...

Slate even went a step further than the Times, publishing an article featuring a photo of the modest, red-brick house on Monday.

Posted by: Costanza Defense


Maybe we'll get lucky, and their racist, imperialist kids will be at home. **sniff, what's that burning?**

Posted by: NYT at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (4nR9/)

160
NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson

So the fuck up is all his. Nice confession.


That was my first thought, too.

"I wasn't pressured. I'm an idiot."

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (JtwS4)

161 DanRiehl @DanRiehl
NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson http://dailym.ai/11t0qDP via @MailOnline

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 05:02 PM (zwdxl)


The fact that Nixon didn't need any pressuring from Team SCOAMT to allow Ferguson to burn to the ground doesn't mean there wasn't pressure from Team SCOAMT.

Posted by: steveegg at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (cL79m)

162 Journalists reporting home addresses, endangering people? It's an isolated incident--a one-time mistake.

Posted by: Credence Clear Water reviled at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (KG1MP)

163 That they only wasted $5 million is the real story here.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 25, 2014 05:04 PM (Tu6N6)

164 Has any denial using the word "absurd" every been truthful?

"That's absurd!", said Guy Who's Obviously Lying.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 05:05 PM (zwdxl)

165 NIXON: 'Absurd' to say WH pressured him to keep Guard out of Ferguson



So the fuck up is all his. Nice confession.

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 05:03 PM (rwI+c)



He's not saying it's not true. It's just absurd to say it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 25, 2014 05:05 PM (1Jaio)

166 I see the smoking TFG thingie has been spotted from the Drudge link. Last week here at AoS, I surmised from him still chewing Nicorette gum at the G-20 meeting (which dissed the Chinese somehow) that he was still smoking. I also pointed out why he likes going golfing so much; so he can puff away amongst his regular golfing buddies.

I win one Internets.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 25, 2014 05:05 PM (ZG4M8)

167 ♫ He's Johnny Smoke ... he's Johnny Smoke ♫

Posted by: toby928(C) at November 25, 2014 05:05 PM (rwI+c)

168 ""...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed". I can't remember
what it was, just that it was, like, 100 years old or something...



Posted by: Chuck"


Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.

John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. XIV, sec. 222

Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at November 25, 2014 05:06 PM (8N+Kq)

169 That's absurd!!

Posted by: Lying Guy Who Lies at November 25, 2014 05:06 PM (zwdxl)

170 Ace,

I am extremely appreciative of your eclectic self expression, and would like to spend $4.9 million to get you to stop smoking.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2014 05:06 PM (Zu3d9)

171
Those anti-smoking commercials on TV make me want to take up smoking.

There was one of those in the 80s when I had quit. It showed a cigarette in an ash tray, in black and white, smoke curling up off the end of the cig. It was beautiful.

It so made me crave a smoke.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:06 PM (JtwS4)

172
I hope there are kitten posts comin' up.

I can't wait to go see this one.
http://is.gd/Dn7El0

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 05:07 PM (ZKzrr)

173 Every started (or accelerated) with the anti-smoking zealots.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:07 PM (gmeXX)

174 Why, that's absurd!

That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard!

It's preposterous!

Posted by: Lying Guy Who Lies at November 25, 2014 05:07 PM (zwdxl)

175 158
Wow, so Obama actually pressured him to keep the Guard pulled back.



They wanted this chaos.

Posted by: Costanza Defense


I listened to his press conference. (Nixon's) More carefully parsed words have never been spoken. Here's a clue; saying politics has nothing to do with this is easy. Saying "I received no communications from the President or the At. Gen." is informative. You didn't say the latter, so I assume you're in CYA mode.

Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:08 PM (4nR9/)

176 173 Every started (or accelerated) with the anti-smoking zealots.
Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:07 PM (gmeXX)


That should be "everything started ..."

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:08 PM (gmeXX)

177 120
And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 25, 2014 04:57 PM (659DL)

Social Justice is another word for black oriented communism.

Posted by: Vic at November 25, 2014 05:08 PM (u9gzs)

178 @159


I would bet anyone showing up at Wilson's home will find some of his friendly union buddies ready to beat the living shit out of them.



While video taping the ass kicking.



Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2014 05:09 PM (0FSuD)

179 Anyone have the private addresses, phone numbers and emails to the editors and/or publisher of the NYT?

It is time we stopped letting this stuff slide.

Posted by: 2L at November 25, 2014 05:09 PM (TaO1J)

180 Anti-Smoking Rave in Ferguson Draws Thousands of Black Hipsters

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2014 05:09 PM (wtvvX)

181 Aww, look at teh kittahs : http://tinyurl.com/n594g3u

Posted by: Dr Nice at November 25, 2014 05:09 PM (Tu6N6)

182 174
Why, that's absurd!



That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard!



It's preposterous!


Just ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild.

Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:10 PM (4nR9/)

183 >>Anyone have the private addresses, phone numbers and emails to the editors and/or publisher of the NYT?

>>It is time we stopped letting this stuff slide.

The problem with that is that Team Us doesn't usually resort to mob tactics and showing up at people's houses to threaten them.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (g1DWB)

184 The problem with the national guard is they are under dual control of the state and federal government which means they are under the control of neither. Surrendering them to the federal government was a grave mistake.

Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (gmeXX)

185 It is time we stopped letting this stuff slide.

Who would show up?

Posted by: Domestic Foreign Relations at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (KG1MP)

186
From the website:

Quit Groups

Its no secret that Commune is against Big Tobacco, and although we arent anti-smoker were certainly not opposed to the idea of helping people quit smoking if they want to.

we also understand that quitting is not easy, typically its not that fun either, so Commune decided to create a fun, safe and unconventional way for people, who are interested, to quit.

15 Locals meet up for 10 weeks in hopes to decrease their smoking rates and eventually quit. Smoking rates are measured using a smokerlyzer, a device that measures the carbon monoxide levels in their lungs. Each week when a participant decreases their smoking rate they will receive a cash incentive.



Ah, so we're also cutting checks directly to Team Ironic Hat.

Tres magnifique.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (kdS6q)

187 Hey hipster, suck a dick, not a butt!

Posted by: The National Institutes of Health at November 25, 2014 05:12 PM (MNq6o)

188 @138

They should still be posted on every bathroom stall wall in the US. Might be enough to get their attention?

Posted by: 2L at November 25, 2014 05:12 PM (TaO1J)

189 typically its not that fun either, so Commune decided to create a fun,
safe and unconventional way for people, who are interested, to quit.


Yes, I can see that. After all, anti-conservative t-shirts have helped many a smoker quit.

Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:12 PM (4nR9/)

190
Ling said she conducts her research -- about 1,000 surveys a year -- at the bar to see if the intervention is working.

Finally! A job I'm qualified for.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (JtwS4)

191 []The problem with that is that Team Us doesn't usually resort to mob tactics and showing up at people's houses to threaten them.

Posted by: JackStraw

I believe D-Lamp has some extra time on his hands.

Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (4nR9/)

192 Someone should point out to the hipster douche bags that Altria contributed $40K to Mark Warner (D-VA) and another $30K to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2014 alone.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (0LHZx)

193 Strange how the only "Big" they like is Big Government.

-----

Stop Big Hypocrisy now!

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (K4YiS)

194 I got nothing...

Kafka is spinning going 'I thought no one would believe me if I wrote about this...'

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (RvIUX)

195 Hey hipster, burn a business, not a cig!

Posted by: The National Institutes of Health at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (MNq6o)

196 You want people to quit smoking? Keep jacking the taxes and prices up. Worked in my case.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (yaBfv)

197 The problem with that is that Team Us doesn't usually resort to mob tactics and showing up at people's houses to threaten them.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (g1DWB)

Could always rent one of those mobile billboards to drive around the city

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (o2Jt2)

198 185
It is time we stopped letting this stuff slide.

Who would show up?


Posted by: Domestic Foreign Relations at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (KG1MP)

No need for addresses. Just start at 70th and Central Park West and burn everything North of there.
KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2014 05:15 PM (0FSuD)

199 My talents for bullshitting should have been focused on securing government grants.

Posted by: FDR's Television at November 25, 2014 05:15 PM (ne2fm)

200 Finally! A job I'm qualified for.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (JtwS4)
**************
FINALLY? A JOB I'M QUALIFIED FOR?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 25, 2014 05:15 PM (32Ze2)

201 Surrendering them to the federal government was a grave mistake.
Posted by: SH at November 25, 2014 05:11 PM (gmeXX)

We are free to consult on surrendering on a very reasonable cost basis...

Posted by: France at November 25, 2014 05:16 PM (4OZqu)

202 196 You want people to quit smoking? Keep jacking the taxes and prices up. Worked in my case.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (yaBfv)

__________

HELOOOOOOO

Posted by: Underground Cigarette Market at November 25, 2014 05:16 PM (0LHZx)

203 200
Finally! A job I'm qualified for.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (JtwS4)

**************

FINALLY? A JOB I'M QUALIFIED FOR?

Posted by: Al Sharpton


Question: what would Al Sharpton say in an echo chamber?

Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:16 PM (4nR9/)

204 >>I believe D-Lamp has some extra time on his hands.

He definitely seems motivated.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2014 05:16 PM (g1DWB)

205 Hey hipster, suck a dick, not a butt!
Posted by: The National Institutes of Health at November 25, 2014 05:12 PM


They hardly need encouragement for that, do they?

Oh...wait...more wasteful govt. spending. Never mind...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (knoK7)

206 Wake me up when these assholes post a get together calendar we can fuck with .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (HkkyM)

207 The Dookie Lamp is motivated like Pol Pot was motivated to help 1/3rd of Cambodia to stop breathing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (RvIUX)

208 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?


---------------------------------------


Payback/revenge. Redistribution of wealth.

Posted by: Soona at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (NXjgq)

209 Hey, I just heard a 300lb 6'4" Black stoner was shot after robbing a convenience store.





This is news? I think we killed three this weekend in Charlotte.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (0FSuD)

210 Oh, Sweet Bast. Kill it! Kill it with fire!!
http://is.gd/x2NFXy

-
OMG! The GLBTWALLAWALLABINGBANG community wouldn't eat that.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (XUKZU)

211 Our public schools promote "activism" and "social justice" crap daily, which is billions of $ and directed at the most impressionable group possible.

Posted by: NYC Parent at November 25, 2014 05:18 PM (HEo6y)

212 butAl Sharpton already lives in an echo chamber

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at November 25, 2014 05:18 PM (Cq0oW)

213 Since everyone hates the living shit out of hipsters and wants them all to die and go extinct, shouldn't the goal be to encourage hipsters to smoke?

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2014 05:18 PM (K4YiS)

214 >6 Just tell the hipsters that right wingers run the tobacco companies. That ought to dissuade them.

Or they'll start rationalizing right-wing ideas in order to maintain some internal consistency and keep smoking.

I know, I know - I was joking about them being consistent.

Posted by: fb at November 25, 2014 05:18 PM (JVEmw)

215 Hey hipsters, don't burn that fag!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 25, 2014 05:18 PM (mx5oN)

216 reefer madness for liberal hipsters

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at November 25, 2014 05:19 PM (JjJUC)

217 You want people to quit smoking? Keep jacking the taxes and prices up. Worked in my case. Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2014 05:14 PM (yaBfv)

----------------------------------


How you doin'.

Posted by: Indian smoke shops at November 25, 2014 05:19 PM (NXjgq)

218 Best way to get people to quit smoking?

Lung cancer.

At the very least the chemotherapy cuts into their ciggie budget.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2014 05:19 PM (TOk1P)

219 Question: what would Al Sharpton say in an echo chamber?
Posted by: pep at November 25, 2014 05:16 PM (4nR9/)
***********
QUESTION? WHAT WOULD AL SHARPTON SAY IN AN ECHO CHAMBER?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 25, 2014 05:20 PM (32Ze2)

220
how to make a Dirty Girl Scout:

Mix the vodka, kahlua and bailey's and pour over ice.

Pour the creme de menthe down the center of the glass.

Posted by: Please Don't Squeeze The Soothsayer at November 25, 2014 05:20 PM (1K6n1)

221 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:17 PM (RvIUX)

Ah...so I'm not the only one!

Cool.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2014 05:20 PM (Zu3d9)

222 I was at last thread on this iPad. Did D-Lamp get banned today?

Posted by: Carol at November 25, 2014 05:20 PM (sj3Ax)

223 hey Dems! Hipsters will be even more reliably democrat voters when they're dead, just like the Chicago voters are! it's win win

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at November 25, 2014 05:21 PM (Cq0oW)

224 Isn't at amazing that these critical problems were all "identified" in a series of places that sound like the tour schedule for a doofus hipster band?

Posted by: Ex-liberal at November 25, 2014 05:21 PM (R1mDg)

225 Ettes
Smoking ages skin.

Posted by: Carol at November 25, 2014 05:21 PM (sj3Ax)

226 Carol, Drew M sent him to the penalty box. Why? For over an hour down thread he kept advocating the killing of people.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:22 PM (RvIUX)

227 I thought dirty girls scouted around camps all the time.

Posted by: Jason Vorhees at November 25, 2014 05:22 PM (KG1MP)

228 I rember singing the Up With People song in a 7th grade musical show we put on for the parents. That would have been 1965 or '66.

Posted by: bergerbilder at November 25, 2014 05:23 PM (8MjqI)

229 Anybody remember This guy? He'd be perfect to use for spreading the ah...word! We could just change the info to the private addresses of the NYT's editers. Maybe even send this guy to their street?

http://tinyurl.com/l2jbsnu

Posted by: 2L at November 25, 2014 05:23 PM (TaO1J)

230 Calibrate your watches.. Rain Man has arrived.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 25, 2014 05:23 PM (Hpys7)

231 CBD, nope. As X commented Dookie finally found an honest moderator.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:24 PM (RvIUX)

232 Related: 2013 national survey of drug use numbers being released.

Current marijuana use at approximately 20 million. Up from 18.9 last year, and 18.1 the year before that. 2009 numbers (I think it was 2009) were 14.4 million. It was well under 10 million as recently as about 10 years ago, I believe.

But sure, let's go ahead and legalize it. It's harmless after all.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2014 05:24 PM (TOk1P)

233 230 Calibrate your watches.. Rain Man has arrived.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 25, 2014 05:23 PM (Hpys7)

Must watch Wapner, must watch Wapner

Posted by: MikeH at November 25, 2014 05:24 PM (4OZqu)

234 Those anti-smoking commercials on TV make me want to take up smoking.

I remember this one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzDLzqQ-A0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 25, 2014 05:25 PM (W5DcG)

235
So the fact that something is bad for their health is "not relevant" to them?

If they don't give af#ck about themselves, I'm not about to bother giving a f#ck about them.

Posted by: the other coyote at November 25, 2014 05:25 PM (yK44T)

236 Must watch Wapner, must watch Wapner
Posted by: MikeH at November 25, 2014 05:24 PM (4OZqu)
**************
MUCH WATCH WAPNA? MUCH WATCH WAPNA?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at November 25, 2014 05:25 PM (32Ze2)

237 Yes. these are the people the twilight zone warned us about. These are the weak minded sheep that would destroy humanity.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at November 25, 2014 05:26 PM (LWu6U)

238 15 Ida

Amen!

(Heh: we *can* agree on something)

Posted by: speedster1 at November 25, 2014 05:26 PM (C0wzD)

239 I'm a very good driver, of course I'm a very good driver. Very good driver.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 25, 2014 05:26 PM (Hpys7)

240
Newdles.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at November 25, 2014 05:27 PM (ZKzrr)

241 234 Those anti-smoking commercials on TV make me want to take up smoking.

I remember this one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzDLzqQ-A0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 25, 2014 05:25 PM (W5DcG)

What they left out was when Dad took Jr to the strip club...

Posted by: MikeH at November 25, 2014 05:27 PM (4OZqu)

242 Thank you, Anna.
I was here for early am thread & took a rest to ice my neck after news dump.

It's that time that MUMR usually shows up.

Posted by: Carol at November 25, 2014 05:28 PM (sj3Ax)

243 Considering we've had - what? - 5 years without a budget, maybe the House or Senate can take some time in the next session to review what is being spent, line by line, and using this to create a new budget without all of this bullshit spending on lesbian obesity, monkey poo-flinging and anti-smoking/ anti-tea party ravers.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2014 05:28 PM (ABcz/)

244 Ace's bot is better than yours, Douchebag.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 25, 2014 05:29 PM (Hpys7)

245 Social Justice is another word for black oriented communism.
--
That's actually a pretty good summary.

Posted by: Lying Guy Who Lies at November 25, 2014 05:29 PM (zwdxl)

246 Social Justice is another word for black oriented communism.
--
That's actually a pretty good summary.

-wrong sock

Posted by: Costanza Defense at November 25, 2014 05:29 PM (zwdxl)

247 anybody near Ceres Virginia want a new puppy or kitten? https://www.facebook.co m/lostfantasyrescue

remove space. You can also donate if you just need a warm fuzzy feeling. All money will go to rescue efforts or if she got a huge amount she'd contribute any extra to a spay/neuter effort cuz that's how she rolls.

Posted by: Paleride at November 25, 2014 05:31 PM (dkExz)

248


Mine as well dance to the destruction.

The Final Countdown
~Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2014 05:32 PM (IXrOn)

249 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 25, 2014 05:25 PM (W5DcG)

Remember this one?

http://tinyurl.com/pjxhmwd

Oh...never mind. That's not a non-smoking commercial....that's a smokin' hot rack.....

NSFW (although....your boss is a prude if he gets pissed at this)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2014 05:32 PM (Zu3d9)

250

Hipsters, the J Crew crowd.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2014 05:33 PM (IXrOn)

251
That's perfect.

Threadwinner.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2014 05:34 PM (IXrOn)

252 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 25, 2014 05:24 PM (RvIUX)

I took a look at the thread, and it was past where he usually goes.

Good for DrewM!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2014 05:34 PM (Zu3d9)

253 Another group much more likely to become habit smokers are non- college educated blue-collar whites.

Europe?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2014 05:36 PM (IXrOn)

254 I'm beginning to think that SJWs are the greatest threat to our free, educated, and civilized society today.



Posted by: Burn the Witch at November 25, 2014 05:36 PM (xSCb6)

255 Ling was the "medical student who got her way" in the 1994 season of MTV's "The Real World" before becoming a doctor.

That's perfect.


Who shops at The Banana Republic.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 25, 2014 05:37 PM (IXrOn)

256
I will give credit to the Dems for relentlessly marching toward their goals. Would that we had such tenacity on the right.(We have jobs so we don't have as much free time I guess). It would NEVER have occured to me to take tax dollars and blatantly spend them on political messaging under the guise of fighting smoking. The onions on these people. Bravo.
Also, why is it ok to smoke weed but not tobacco?

Posted by: D J at November 25, 2014 05:39 PM (rtjLI)

257 and... Poof. Keep trying Rain Man, you douchebag.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 25, 2014 05:42 PM (Hpys7)

258 And can someone please clear up WHAT EXACTLY SOCIAL JUSTICE IS?

If you have to ask you must not be a person of color. Only aggrieved and protected classes of people are allowed to define justice. And racism too.


Posted by: Daisy Cutter at November 25, 2014 05:55 PM (WS+CW)

259 MUMR either gets some time at the office computer while everyone's getting ready to leave or they're doing this while commuting home. (that's if their gainfully employed which is questionable)

It's like watching a cartoon short.

amusing but basically bereft of value.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 25, 2014 05:57 PM (KK+mC)

260 Social Justice is those who don't deserve it being pandered to while those who do the work are blamed for the failure of those who are being pandered to.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 25, 2014 06:00 PM (KK+mC)

261 UCSF received over half a billion dollars in NIH grants in 2013 alone: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/02/111791/ucsf-schools-lead-nation-nih-biomedical-research-founds and that gravy train is pouring even more NIH funds in 2014. Nice to see how Pamela Ling turned her grant into party cash.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 25, 2014 06:23 PM (YTt4s)

262 What do you want to do, Ace? Confront Obama over spending???!

Posted by: Chris_Balsz at November 25, 2014 06:29 PM (pYEaj)

263 Ace, you left the "u" in "f*cking." Just saying. You must be mad.

Posted by: eureka! at November 25, 2014 06:44 PM (Zbknu)

264 "In our prior research, we identified a high-risk subpopulation of young
adults in San Diego, CA: the 'hipster' subculture, a group focused on
the alternative music scene, local artists and designers, and eclectic
self-expression," the grant explained.



Fuck. They're in San Diego now too?

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at November 25, 2014 07:05 PM (oKE6c)

265 "(Heh: we *can* agree on something)

Posted by: speedster1"


I think you might find that you agree with me more than not.


However I do think you could work on being a little more polite to people who are simply being helpful and nice.


I've a feeling what your response will be to this. Go on, surprise me.

Posted by: Mrs. Ida Lowry at November 25, 2014 07:25 PM (8N+Kq)

266 Pam Ling is Judd Winnick's wife, who has gone on to be more annoying than he was on the show lo these 2 decades.

Posted by: Andy the squirrel at November 25, 2014 07:31 PM (/qxIF)

267 A good rioting song:

http://tinyurl.com/mxewrzl

Posted by: Witchfinder at November 25, 2014 07:36 PM (E1Cat)

268 Real hipsters are not invited to real raves much less told where they are so they might crash them. C'mon.

Posted by: cackfinger at November 25, 2014 07:50 PM (53TqR)

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