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I'd like to see you link to something from say, Mike Cernovich.

You mean the guy who thinks his cum has magical properties? (No, I'm not joking about that. Well, yeah, I'm joking about it, but it's actually true. Cernovich thinks his pecker-snot is magical.)

Here, I'll gladly link to something from Mike "Juicebro" Cernovich and his patented "Gorilla Mindset" and patented "nootropics".

https://wonkette.com/612835/a-...

And just so you don't think I just picked a left-wing blog in order to show what Mike "Juicebro" Cernovich is about, here's a little something-something about him from the National Review:

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

The reason you won't see anything from Mike Cernovich linked here is because he is a goddamned laughing stock.

What is your interpretation of what Bannon meant by a "civic society" in the context in which he said it?

He meant to say "civil society", but was too drunk and coked up to get it right.

I don't think we need to worry about Bannon. He looks like he's one rail away from joining Andrew Breitbart in Hell.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr...

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FTFV: A key Clinton operative is on camera saying, “It doesn’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this motherfucker."

Lock her up and throw away the key. James O'Keefe has video proof. This guy:

http://wonkette.com/424143/jam... ...has video proof. Proof. On video. That people who work for Hillary's campaign are fired up. "Damn the torpedoes" they say (even though there are no torpedoes).

Meanwhile, back in the States:

http://projects.fivethirtyeigh...

Banning reporters is a totally Republican thing, isn't it?

So that's what that "volcano monitoring" stuff is about!

http://wonkette.com/414938/rem...

Editor posts story from anonymous troll regurgitating punditry talking points (that were refuted last week BTW) and it headlines on Slashdot. Stats only lie if you misrepresent the context:

http://wonkette.com/545324/latest-awesome-fox-chart-unskews-obamacare-enrollment-thanks-fox

Are you seriously suggesting there has ever been a time in history where someone's actions have played no role in deciding whether they're qualified for a specific job?

Yes, it was absurd and evil to disqualify communists from being actors or screenwriters. Would it also have been absurd and evil to disqualify someone from being head of the CIA because of past, undisclaimed, material support for the CCCP?

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See, the trouble with your BS assertion is that it's so easy to google "7450 Affordable Care Act" and find all the articles disproving it...

Oh, and the PDF you're linking to says nothing about the cost for a family of 4. It's just talking about lower overall health spending. Are you an Astro turfer or do you just not research your sources?

Namely, from the follow-up article: "Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden." In the helpful clarification from Wonkette, "he was actively participating in transporting secret documents that were stolen, and which it is illegal for him to possess." On a trip paid for by The Guardian. So, maybe not quite as innocent a bystander as he initally makes it seem. But that was probably the point, and now British politicians are getting hammered for the abuse of power he baited them into. Well played!

Are you a complete idiot? All of this was known or guessed from the start. No one ever claimed he wasn't helping his journalist partner, the whole point is that even if all that you say is true, where is the connection to terrorism? You know, the direct association with terrorist acts that is required by the statute that he was detained under? It appears that all he was questioned about had to do with the Snowden affair. Even if you think Snowden was guilty of espionage, that is not terrorism! And helping to publish the leaked details, even if they are supposed to be secret, is not even remotely terrorism. It's pretty clear that the law in question was abused in order to send some kind of message, probably at the behest of the USA, despite the denials coming from Washington.

Namely, from the follow-up article:
"Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden."

In the helpful clarification from Wonkette, "he was actively participating in transporting secret documents that were stolen, and which it is illegal for him to possess." On a trip paid for by The Guardian.

So, maybe not quite as innocent a bystander as he initally makes it seem. But that was probably the point, and now British politicians are getting hammered for the abuse of power he baited them into. Well played!

You offer one piece of *evidence* an uncited statistic: *double digiits*. Being a good slashdot denizen, of course I tried to confirm or refute this this claim. There is zero evidence that *double digit percentages of employees* engaged in any misconduct or were even interviewed. I wonder where you got that statistic. The full transcripts, number of tapes , minutes of each tape, location of each tape is publicly available because the tapes were turned over to the police as a condition for O'Keefe's immunity from criminal prosecution. What they revealed was that O'Keefe systematically doctored and edited the tapes to produce guilt where there was clearly none. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy Points arising- They did not interview *double digit percentages* of ACORN's lower level employees or employees of any type. O'Keefe was NOT in "pimp garb " as it appears in the video when he was addressing ACORN employees, he was actually in a suit and tie. O'Keefe was sued in court by one of his victims and lost to the tune of $100,000. From the totality of the scam that O'Keefe and Giles ran , I conclude the following. O'Keefe and Giles are classic, textbook sociopaths. http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html Not only did they run the ACRON scam and vicitimize the individual ACORN workers, but they also victimized civil society itself by destroying a wel-respected, law-abiding participant in that society. O'Keefe has admitted the reason he went after ACRON was because they were engaged in voter registration. O'Keefe was arrested at the Capitol for breaking into the telephone exchange there in an apparent attempt to tap the phone lines. Everyone form Forbes to MediaMatters has concluded the same thing about James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles- they're lowlife scammers - http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/03/08/james-okeefe-pays-100000-to-acorn-employee-he-smeared-conservative-media-yawns/ http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/02/17/james-okeefe-and-the-myth-of-the-acorn-pimp/160485 http://wonkette.com/505026/wonket-sexclusive-totally-blameless-crime-stopper-james-okeefe-to-pay-100000-to-acorn-criminal

All good suggestions, but the first on my list would be the biggest banks. Let's say the top half dozen or so.

Start with Wells Fargo:

http://wonkette.com/506054/wells-fargo-bills-elderly-disabled-veteran-to-death-over-typo

Stripped of the invective, AC is 100% correct - did you actually READ any of the articles above?

  In either story?

  The fact that the Gates Foundation can do more-or-less whatever it wants (Karl Rove is an even more egregious example) and deduct that from their taxes is a minor problem. The real problem is that they're using their combination of leveraged money and free P.R. from fools like you to take over vast quantities of [b]our tax dollars[/b] and redirect that money into their coffers and the coffers of their allies like Pearson Education, Murdoch, etc.

While I agree that geospatially enhancing polls are a very good thing(and I'd expect rather surprising results) none of the candidates run on local platforms. Even if most of them seem to change their song&dance according to local customs.

E.g. Have a bunch of people twatting about the need to preserve Pedobears, that proud American icon, from extinction.
Have the "Save the Pedobear" campaign trending prior to "the big speech" and wait for the politicians to adjust their "song&dance" accordingly.
Hijinks ensue.

Not always. For millenia, Alaskans have fiercely defended their belief that Africa is indeed a country. It's a proud tradition upheld by only the most patriotic of its constituents. Righteous battles have been fought over this issue and surely the blessed pro-country advocates will be victorious once again.

http://wonkette.com/404207/sarah-palin-thought-africa-was-a-country-not-a-continent

Here you are! (Warning.... NSFW, obviously.)

What... you meant you wanted pictures of the girls rather than the guy himself "working" at his PC? My mistake- sorry!

The idea that the photos can be used by those who hate us to drum up support (i.e., LOOK what they did to Bin Laden!) for additional attacks on innocent people is not whimsical. A picture is worth a thousand words. You may not wish to believe it, but it is so.

I mean, other Sesame Street characters need their 15 minutes in the political spotlight. Not just Bert and Elmo.

My money is on Oscar.

How many palm trees have you seen in Wisconsin?

http://wonkette.com/440464/house-republicans-were-just-trying-to-cut-tsunami-monitoring-of-course

Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know that the Saudis (some of them) are sponsoring terrorists. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/shocker-admits-saudi-donors-chief-financiers-al-qaeda-leaked-cable/ The US government has given rise to just about every original terrorist out there: Taliban-Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Saddam... http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/dec/31/iraq.politics More recently, the FBI created a "terrorist" (Christmas Tree) almost from whole cloth. http://wonkette.com/431185/u-s-government-now-creating-terrorists-so-it-can-arrest-them Since we're kinda making terrorists ourselves, but ignorant policy and a more ignorant populace will keep the terror dream alive. I welcome the Wikileaks dumps. Our government has done more "harm" where terrorists are concerned than any other country on the planet. It's our own fault we keep doing this to ourselves, then ignoring it. Every administration since Regan has lead us to where we are.

Back in January 2010, Obama gave the State of the Union right after the Court handed down the Citizens United decision. Obama told Congress, with several of the Supremes sitting in the front row, that the decision would allow foreign corporations to influence US elections, which most Americans still realize is a terrible development. Justice Alito, who had just decided in the majority to allow corporations "free speech" by spending unlimited money in US political campaigning, was mad: he angrily mouthed "not true". The corporate mass media attacked Obama for "picking on the justices" by warning Congress and "embarrassing" the court, but of course failed to examine whether it was true.

Less than a year later, we see it was totally true. We see that foreign corporations have invested huge amounts of money campaigning in the 2010 election. Republican candidates have gotten hundreds of $millions spent to elect them, sponsored by corporations including many foreign ones. The "US" Chamber of Commerce (Inc.) collects money from lots of foreign corporations, especially Indian ones that want US jobs shipped there, foreign banks like Credit Suisse and HSBC that want financial reform repealed, and even corporations owned by foreign kings, like the Emir of Bahrain. Foreign kings are spending more in US election campaigns than US citizens.

Whether you think that's OK or not (it is very not OK), Alito was totally wrong. And a jerk about it. Not surprising, since Alito was installed by Bush. Alito swore in his Senate confirmation hearings that he would respect established law, but his Citizens United decision overturned lots of established law, went against the basic understanding that corporations are not people, and recklessly unleashed foreign corporate power on US election campaigns.

He should be impeached. Then he'll be free to skip the State of the Union the way he plans to from now on because he can't stand criticism of his abominable rulings.

It was sarcasm (apparently I failed).

No, your sarcasm was just fine. The problem is that the wingnut worldview long ago lapped any and all sarcasm.

No, the problem is that it's become impossible to tell the difference between someone being sarcastic and someone being serious. No matter what batshit crazy thing you say now, some wignut will try and surpass it in a few years, if they haven't already. Or as some blogger noted, 'their reality has lapped our satire'.

Example.

Now, that said, I will try and remember your UID and adjust my sarcasm detector. :)

Not if you press hard enough with your sharpie:

http://wonkette.com/413038/backwards-faxing-mexican-despising-bleeding-marker-bandit-strikes-again

You misspelled 'muslin.'

Well, yes, he's conscientious and informative. I'd agree that the final stage in the transition of the Japanese political system from one of conservative/feudal patronage sometimes irritated by union-backed center left to one of rivalry between an organization of conservative/feudal patronage and a spin-off feudal organization of conservatives is one that merits books, PhD theses, and news stories. But somehow this rivalry between two organizations whose primary appeals are (as you perceptively put it) "We are the LDP" and "We are not the LDP" is hard for me to take seriously as "breaking news" or even weekly/monthly analyses.

Even putting aside the batshit Happiness party and miscellaneous wingnuts, there does seem to be plenty of food for irreverence, and if a growth of irreverence helped put an end to candidates' nervous dependence (in posters, etc) on complete vapidity, so much the better. So I wish Japanese politics had its own Wonkette. Meanwhile, your own analysis packs about the most insight and wit per kilobyte that I can remember seeing in any coverage of Japanese politics.

NewsPapers need to die.

The newspapers that I choose to read don't need to die. By comparison, AOL's "idea of how to handle the internet" seems to be "news lite", flooded with as many classifieds and the like as possible. Thanks but I'll take the Guardian and when I want to read more about the US I'll get it from Wonkette.

"Visitors could flag off-topic comments", says the NYT article.

I wonder if the off-topic commenters were then told they had "bad karma".

Explicit comparisons (see the article) of this scheme with Wikipedia, echoes in it of Slashdot — I suppose all of this will be taken by the "birthers" (so active there, we read) and other wingnuts as yet more evidence of a nefarious conspiracy toward the construction of a socialist caliphate.

Did someone use their phone to take a picture of a Congressman's daughter drunk at a college party?

Well, yeah, but it's probably happened again since then...

WHat is someone commits suicide, then can we say they would have wanted to be aborted?

Actually, this is the first I have heard of this.

The quote goes as follows:

Little baby Trig must be so glad he wasnâ(TM)t aborted for this, his first Halloween, because his parents dressed him up like a political party symbol to be carried around at snarling political events. Aww. Isnâ(TM)t life just grand?

And HERE is the link.

That couldn't possibly work. Could it?

Nope. If the spelling is close enough that it's obvious who was intended, it counts. Even if it's not entirely flattering.

Don't forget Paultards.

Like most /.ers, I've been enamored of Ron Paul...

Oh really? Not me! He's a kook running on the disillusionment of Republicans who've watched their party, with TOTAL control of our government (Senate, House, Presidency, Supreme Court 7/9) for 6 years, cshit the bed. I've been waiting for more information on his past to start leaking out into the general public's awareness. Lots of classic half-baked Libertarian ideas that don't stand up after you actually analyze the problem (like his Libertarian alternative to the Civil War). And, to quote the philosopher Jake Blues: I hate Illinois Nazis..

No way. That language is NOT ready for prime-time. A statically-typed Huckabee is bloated. Period. It's certainly not a scalar type. It'll be stored on the heap and that's going to slow things down.

Besides, why waste so much time with that?

You can just declare all your variables as type ROMNEY and they can be implicitly cast as whatever you like.

Furthermore, on the database side, if you're using SQL Server you can use the ROMNEY cursor. It can change positions dynamically. It's quite efficient. And on a personal note, my favorite part of it is the simple execution. Sometimes Romney.execute() is exactly what the situation might call for.

Of course, everyone knows that you shouldn't trust SQL Server when it comes to Integrity. I would only really trust Oracle. What we need now is to make a reall CONNECTION. Todays issues are GLOBAL and we need a President who believes in adLockOptimistic.

global O;
O->bama();

If you see an article talking about having sex with bears, it's probably about Scooter Libby. If it's about other animals, it could be about this guy. Of course, it could be vandalism, too. Not all right-wing politicians have a "wide stance" in airport bathrooms, a diaper fetish, or are attracted to animals.

No no no no. That's an obvious cia attempt to misdirect people's attention.

Maybe we should look into David Vitter.

Louisiana corruption runs awful deep - especially among diaper-wearing legislators.

Here's an interesting post about Mr. Vitterthat he seems to wish he could hide.

Louisiana politics won't be rid of it's ghosts until the Metairie racialists are flushed from the experience.

Tim Griffin, Michael Elston, Paul McNulty, Monica Goodling
Sara Taylor, Bradley Schlozman, Steve Biskupic, Alberto Gonzalez, David Safavian, Lurita Doan, Ken Tomlinson
Tom Delay, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, Ted Stevens, Kyle Foggo, Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes, Mitchell Wade, Curt Weldon, Donald Rumsfeld, Jim Tobin
Scooter Libby, Manuel Miranda, Darleen Dryun, Thomas Scully, Chuck Mcgee, Pete Domenici
Porter Goss, Brant Bassett, Virgil Goode, Katherine Harris, Jerry Lewis, Ed Buckham, Steven Griles, Mark Foley, Paul Wolfowitz, Ken Lay, Conrad Black, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Roger Stilwell, Tony Rudy, Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon, William Heaton, Adam Kidan, Neil Volz,

Dear PC users,

You fools owe Mac users for everything you have. The great achievements in human history were all the work of Mac users, in spirit if not in fact. Meanwhile, you and your PC-minded forebears fought these Mac users, because PC users are for the status quo. Mac users are all about growing in new directions.

We Mac users said the Earth was round. You didn't believe us. We said the Earth was not the center of the universe. You excommunicated us. We said there were dinosaurs. You said it was a hoax. We said there were cavemen. You still don't have an answer for that one. We Mac users said women and blacks deserved to be equal members of society. You PC users fought us, and killed many of us.

We are the great painters, comedians, writers, playwrights, poets, songwriters, scientists, and lovers. Name me one PC-using legend in human history who was regarded as a good person. Just one. You can't, can you? There are no PC-minded Mozarts—only Salieris. We had MLK. You had Bull Connor. We had Picasso, Warhol, Dali, Da Vinci, Michelangelo. You would have hung a few of these guys for being gay. Where are your artists? You have nothing. No artists. Because you PC users are not creators. You are destroyers.

Most of Silicon Valley and Wall Street's cutting edge is aesthetically intuitive Mac users and Apple fans. The Mac-leaning states account for most of this country's wealth. We have Harvard and the Ivy League. Where are the great PC colleges? University of Texas? Name the great cities of the world that are known for being PC? London, Paris, Rome? Anyone?

You PC users have been a drag on human development since the very beginning. Since Cain (the would-be PC user, always trying to please Daddy) and Abel (the good son, the open-minded son). When you PC-minded folk ruled the world, you hijacked Christianity and turned it into a ritualistic mega-church with a standing army. You massacred millions. There is a reason why that era was called the Dark Ages.

We Mac users countered with the Enlightenment. The Renaissance. It is a fact that all the writers, all the artists, all the great men and women to come from this era were latent Mac users. Many were seen as enemies of the Church and State and would today be enemies of Microsoft. But as always, we Mac users brought you PC-using fools out of the darkness. We dragged you out, kicking and screaming, as usual.

We showed you the wonders of evolution, of science, and you hate us. We are showing you the miracle of stem cell research, the promise that it has, and you want to shut it down. We have shown you the dangers of global warming, whether it's manmade or not—and you still refuse to believe.

We tried to free the slaves. And you fought us. We crafted the world you PC users live in. Your 40 hour work week, getting paid for overtime, no child labor, Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid... We created all of it. We created the very world you live in. The art you see, the movies you love, words on the page that stir your heart. And still you fight us.

You PC-using fools would let a simple TV ad stop you from purchasing a product that would probably benefit you. As usual, you cut off your nose to spite your face. Typical. But completely expected. After all, when your heroes are Ballmer and Thurrot and Michael Dell, you must live a sad, hateful life. Anti-everything that makes sense—and pro-everything that doesn't.

I guess that's why you fools support your Vista, even though it makes you less safe. We're fighting malware over there, so we don't have to fight them over here! Genius.

So, continue to hate the Mac users and Apple fans among you. Just be sure to step out of the wa

Yeah -- Fox News, Fair and Balanced.

You are aware that they do things like assessing reporters politcal loyalties during the interview process and giving regular memos directing their newscasters to do things to support Republicans, right? You aware that even the CEO admits using it as a propaganda mouthpiece to sell the Iraq War, right?

If you can't tell that sort of stuff by watching them, then they're succeeding.

Just have to wonder how on earth US government hasn't cracked on Scientology and hard.

That's why I read Wonkette first, then Slashdot second!

At least at Wonkette the editors can distinguish between fact and fiction... and they understand simple English grammar.

I think Google is a complete wake up call to Microsoft. Look at the power they have:
http://wonkette.com/politics/wtc/bbc-cnn-employ-ma gical-psychic-news-announcers-240564.php

It's only getting worse.

Too had Vilsack is out, I really liked his Nineteen Eighty-Four / V for Vendetta style graphics. But maybe this kept the proles away?

Too had Vilsack is out, I really liked his Nineteen Eighty-Four / V for Vendetta style graphics. But maybe this kept the proles away?

Are you saying that the US government has jumped the shark?

Yes, it has.

It's not like the government are typically fans of scientologists either...

The only explanation is that this "leaked" information, much of which is reportedly classified, is intentionally leaked.

Bush Family Planning Escape to Paraguay:
http://tinyurl.com/txhtl
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we -hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south -america-too-208549.php

It's also useful when you're trying to slip something past the censors.