Hilarious: “The Empire Strikes Thomas Kinkade” -- just what those treacly paintings needed

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/the-empire-strikes-thomas-kinkade-is-the-best-thing-youll-see-all-day/

A commenter on YouTube described this as the "Pussy Privilege," which does not mean what you might think it does.

A woman, irate that a cyclist is using the sidewalk (which depending on where you live, they have a right to do) decides to throw her drink at the cyclist, and attempts to grab his camera. Plainly, she's guilty of both assault and battery. A plainclothesman sees the altercation and confronts the woman, who refuses to listen to reason and threatens to sue the town.

The "Pussy Privilege" comes because, as the commenter points out, had the man thrown his drink at the woman, he'd be on the ground and cuffed before he even knew he was being arrested.

Why letting Hollywood is a bad idea:

Judging from the movie, he was never a “wicked Commie,” as red-baiters Hedda Hopper and John Wayne would have it, but an American patriot who was driven to end the Hollywood blacklist that affected so many of his screenwriting colleagues. Almost single-handedly, he succeeded and struck a mighty blow for freedom and the cherished First Amendment.

Some things are overlooked, of course, such as Dalton’s slavish loyalty to Stalin from the late 1930s until the Caligula in the Kremlin died in 1953. Stalin may not have been perfect, Trumbo would later admit, while insisting that the serial killer in Moscow had done wonders as he “preserves, maintains and develops” socialism.

His embrace of Adolf Hitler is also nicely airbrushed. During the 22 months of the Hitler-Stalin pact, Dalton sided with the Fuehrer as he attacked Poland, stormed across Western Europe and then blitzed London in preparation for a cross-channel invasion. Dalton mobilized his polemical skills to ease Hitler’s burden of conquest by demonizing his enemies and insisting that England was just not worthy of assistance.

He even accused FDR of “treason” and “black treason” for aiding the British in their hour of peril. That was the party line from Moscow, which Dalton emphatically echoed. Not until the Nazis marched on Russia in 1941 did he find the German warlord a major disappointment.

Ann Althouse asks an important question in regards to a high school sexting ring were prosecutors are weighing bringing posession of child pornography charges:

Are we talking about anything other than nudity? If you take a picture of yourself naked, have you manufactured pornography? Maybe a little sanity could be injected into this perplexity by asking that question.

I have a feeling the girls will be let off with a warning, the boys? not so much. Pussy privilege indeed!

Is it wrong that I'm looking forward to hearing some woman drone on about white male privilege so I can whip out (see what I did there?) check your pussy privilege?

This is not awesome at all: US debt is three times more than you think.

Dave Walker, who headed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said when you add up all of the nation’s unfunded liabilities, the national debt is more than three times the number generally advertised.

“If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it’s growing automatically absent reforms,” Walker told host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday.

Remember the UVA fraternity that Rolling Stone libeled? they're suing RS for a cool $25 million.

Racial identity isn't as cut and dried as one's photograph might suggest, but it can lead to twitter comedy gold.

Your grampies were total hardcases.

The Usual Suspects claim another scalp.

Patrick; yes, Pussy privilege it is.

It is very true that had the genders been reverse the water-thrower would be in cuffs.

It is great in that video how the cop says "it is not computing upstairs" and "there is something wrong with her and we best leave it alone."

I run into this all the time with women who start a verbal fight; then when I don't back down or I say shit back they claim "how dare you fight a women." That makes it pussy privilege twice over.

TSA uses Russian airliner bombing to demand more power.

Jeb Bush would kill a baby.

Not sure which is more disturbing: that he would kill baby Hitler BEFORE he grew up to become Hitler OR that he reminds me of Reagan wanting to join forces with the Soviets to fight off an invasion from outer space.

On the one hand he has no imagination as to how to change Hitler's development, and on the other hand he can imagine himself traveling through time to save the world by murdering a baby.

We've still got a year to go, folks. It's only gonna get weirder.

Any idiot familiar with temporal mechanics knows you can never alter the past until after the creation point of the time machine.

Because if you create a time machine to alter an even in the past then you have no reason to invent the time machine, meaning you would have no means to alter the past.