Sky News is debating whether Thomas The Tank Engine is racist and if it has enough “multi-ethnic trains"

https://twitter.com/JamesLiamCook/status/717664800050950144/photo/1

Rolling Stone’s “Jackie”: Deposed, But Still Too Precious

http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/04/06/rolling-stones-jackie-deposed-but-still-too-precious/

Amy, I LOL at the image of "Jackie" being traumatized for testifying about lying. Oh, the horrors!

Wished the Judge had ordered a psyc exam to get an 'official' ruling on her mental state in the record.

"I'll be flying today with my emotional support turkey."

Seriously. See the picture at the link. Looks like someone did.

More flights lately with odd "emotional support" animals.

https://shar.es/1jnqS8

"Wished the Judge had ordered a psyc exam to get an 'official' ruling on her mental state in the record."

I'm kind of glad he didn't. Sociopaths are awfully good at manipulating psychiatrists into giving them therapeutic get-out-of-jail-free cards.

Crid hardest hit:

https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/los-angeles-father-shehada-issa-killed-son-for-being-gay/

Gender neutral cats? hey, just because you cut my balls off doesn't mean I don't have gender, bitch!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/04/05/dont-laugh-i-have-a-serious-reason-for-raising-my-cats-gender-neutral/

> hardest hit:

"I R A Darth Aggie," what's it like to be both illiterate and fucked in the head?

I've never been either of those things!

As soon as I was old enough, more than half a century ago, I learned to read. Nowadays, i just can't imagine what's it like to plow through life without recognition of the centuries-old —yet continually enriched— pool of codes and connotations transmitted through English text. I mean, merely being illiterate has got to be exhausting for you!

But then also, on top of that, being fucked in the head... Even if you've willfully chosen such a posture, and you so evidently have, it just seems to be a gratuitously punishing binate of willful disregard for the wisdom & meaning in your surroundings.

So that's gotta be tough. Can't imagine.

Being illiterate, but also being fucked in the head.

Tough going!

When the airlines are re-regulated will they have anyone to blame but themselves?

No.

Steal candy bars, go to prison for life, you repeat-minor-thievery scofflaws.

Gut safety protections and kill 29, go to prison for 12 months, you sparkling zillionaire CEO.

While your lawyers complain that you didn't get probation...

Hmmm...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/proof-that-colleges-are-making-people-stupid.php

Hey, Crid, I'm an illiterate fool, so use small words, ok?

I was under the impression from you that such things as honor killings would not happen here in the USofA because if people inclined to such behaviour were employed, happy, well fed and generally living a good life they wouldn't go and screw up the gravy train.

And yet, a grown man was gunned down in the front lawn of his parents house, not by a stray bullet from gang bangers shootin' up da hood, or homophobic bigots who had an axe to grid, but by his father.

Unless this is a bogus report? I'll give you that early reports are often wrong.

Government corruption, a series. First up, the "Panama Papers":

https://reason.com/blog/2016/04/05/panama-papers-are-about-government-corru

Next up, a California legislator that happens to have an interest in a taxi company is pushing legislation to regulate ride share companies:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-20160401-htmlstory.html#5670

I'm sure the donations from other taxi companies to his campaign is simply a happy coinkydink.

Too big to jail:

“As a former career senior intelligence officer and special operations special mission intelligence officer and National Security Council staff member, I believe it is inconceivable that if it is verified that Hillary Clinton’s server contained or had SAP information on it that she could possibly escape indictment and criminal prosecution,” retired Col. James Waurishuk, a 30-year veteran in the national security field, told Pollock.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/230792/

Open records? sure, just open your pocketbook first!

http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/how_the_public_is_priced_out_of_public_records_by_michigan_universities.php?utm_content=buffer114f9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Wait, you mean to say, UMich, you don't have this stuff already prepared? you know, like when you go to the legislature and ask for money and they ask for an accounting of what you've done with last year's budget?

If at first you don't get the verdict you want, try, try again:

James Madison University initially cleared a male student of wrongdoing in a sexual assault dispute. But after his accuser appealed the decision, administrators put him through a wildly unfair additional procedure in which he was not allowed to challenge the entirety of the new evidence against him—or even appear at the second hearing.

He was suspended for five years: JMU wanted to give his accuser as much time as she needed to finish school before he could return.

The accused student, "John Doe," is now suing JMU, and a judge has ruled that his lawsuit—which alleges abridgment of due process—can proceed.

https://reason.com/blog/2016/04/06/this-university-cleared-a-male-student-o

A public institution of higher education...

This one to cleanse your palate...early reports are often wrong:

While the KKK has been active in the area in the past, it later became apparent this klansman armed with a whip was actually just a priest in traditional white robes. The “whip” he was holding may have been rosary beads or the rope-like belt tied at his waist.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/proof-that-colleges-are-making-people-stupid.php

> I was under the impression
> from you that

Because you've not yet learned to read, and are instead content to project you meager understanding of the world onto the lives of others, that sentence isn't worth finishing.

You're a pompous, illiterate twat. What do you want from me?

"What do you want from me?"

For you to utter the statements he he's already created arguments against so he can stop making shit up?

That's just the impression I'm under, though.

The very same rational behavior you claim to exhibit but in fact do not.

A relatively well reasoned argument wouldnt hurt either

Antonin Scalia School of Law renamed.

ASSoL

When you're a Democrat and you've lost a write for Salon, you know you're in deep doo-doo:

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/05/this_is_how_the_fbi_destroys_hillary_the_10_questions_that_could_end_her_white_house_dreams/

As the people of SoCal might say, faster, please:

http://gizmodo.com/5990876/lockheeds-new-carbon-filter-takes-all-the-effort-out-of-desalinization

Deer Alphabet company, this is not an example of "don't be evil":

Alphabet-owned Nest recently revealed that it will be disabling the Revolv smart home hub on May 15, which will make the $300 device worthless.

To be clear, Nest is not only ending support for Revolv, but rather rendering it completely unusable. This is because of the development on the Works with Nest system going well, which meant that Revolv had to go.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/147593/20160406/nest-may-offer-revolv-owners-compensation-on-case-by-case-basis.htm

So, Dr. Richardson, how do you feel about solo vibrator use?

Robot sex dolls that can interact with their owners are set to go on sale later this year.

The dolls have multiple personalities, warm skin and their ability to learn is so realistic that they can even have orgasms.

But now a campaign has just been launched calling for these robotic sex toys to be banned.

Dr Kathleen Richardson, who is leading the fight, wants the development of robots that can be used for sex top be stopped.

She says that such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/464766/Ultra-realistic-robot-sex-dolls-face-UK-ban

Personally, I'm waiting on the holodeck technology. I'm a bit skeptical of the claims with regards to these new fangled things to learn.

Or SkyNet is smiling and they really are TX models?

> For you to utter the statements
> he's already created arguments
> against so he can stop making
> shit up?

It used to be just a few addled housewives (and the village idiots) who did that here. Remember Tressider? She used to piss herself off that way... She'd decry my comments with all these gothicly sinister confabulations... Real German-expressionist stuff... And then be enraged at me for the products of her own imagination! "Stupid people confuse themselves," said Carolla. They can't remember truth without color, so they paint everything dayglo pink and are surprised to be blinded.

They don't know what I actually said, not even enough to pull it out of Google. They want me to bring their own arguments to them, because they don't care enough.

I was under the impression from you that...

This guy made 9 comments, each with a strong sarcastic context, within three hours and fourteen minutes. It's a fair wager that if he were compelled to post each point sincerely, he wouldn't be able to compose a convincing complaint for any of them, not matter how piquant the topic.

IRA, a lease down payment is always going to be cheaper than alimony, that's why these harpies are keen to ban sexbots.

In another chapter of water is wet

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/06/cologne-police-reveal-cover-new-years-eve-rape-attacks-ordered-government/

Verily.

"As the people of SoCal might say, faster, please"

No dice IRA. Money and energy are the least of SoCal's issues with desalinization. That salt has to go somewhere. The envrionutters will block this too.

Israel on the other hand will welcome this improvement.

@Ben,

The easiest way to handle that is to slowly add more sea water to the leftover brine until it's diluted enough to be safely released back into the ocean.

"The easiest way to handle that is to slowly add more sea water to the leftover brine until it's diluted enough to be safely released back into the ocean."

Whereupon arguments and lawsuits will commence over the definition of "safely released".

At Savannah River Site, the current contracted operator was ordered to explain the zinc emissions to groundwater runoff, called "outfall". Apparently nobody noticed the installation of hundreds of miles of chain-link fence and barbed wire during construction of a nuclear weapons material production facility, starting ~65 years ago.

There is money to be claimed!

You might be able to mine the brine.

Sea salt comes from the sea right?

"mine the brine"

Luj, you'll need to copyright that and start printing bumperstickers when this thing takes off!

Mine The Brine. That's a keeper.