Random News Stories

[Elder Iptuous]

yeah. that's super shitty giving a quote that's only half a sentance!  wtf

[Junkenstein]

Yeah, actually, I just looked that "news site" over a little more closely. It's 100% tabloid trash with a pinch of reptar.

That is exactly why I love it.


I'm sick.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

yeah. that's super shitty giving a quote that's only half a sentance!  wtf

Happens all the time... you really have to watch out for it, regardless of which political angle is being manipulated. Whenever you hear a quote that makes you go "WTF??? Why would a politician say something that stupid?" it's wise to try to find a fuller transcript so you can put it in context. It's sort of like those movie review quotes that say "...this is a mind-blowingly superb film." but when you look up the review, the whole quote is "If you're looking for something to compare the worst movie ever made with, this is a mind-blowingly superb film."

[Cain]

Free Beacon is basically a clearing house of Movement Conservatism smears and memes.  They manufacture them and release them into the wild, the bigger players see how the environment reacts to them, and picks up on the most promising themes to run in their "serious" and "sober" publications.

[McGrupp]

Not technically a news story but such a tremendous pile of horseshit it's worthy of posting.

I give you the most ethical companies in the world:
http://m1.ethisphere.com/wme2013/index.html

because when I think of ethics I think of Pepsi and Starbucks.

Also in hindsight taking in a decades worth of news in less than a week may not have been my best idea. My eyes are open, and it fucking hurts.

[EK WAFFLR]

http://mashable.com/2013/03/13/first-tablet-for-women/

Jesus Christ.

[Sita]

Good god. When in the world will people stop assuming that just because you are a woman you like pink, yoga and cooking?
Especially pink. I am sooooo sick of that color, never have been a fan of it.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://mashable.com/2013/03/13/first-tablet-for-women/

Jesus Christ.

*crosses eyes* GRRLS AREN'T SPOSE TA KNOW HOW TO DOWNLOAD APPS AND STUFF!

"ePad Femme" sounds like some kind of smart Kotex. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Good god. When in the world will people stop assuming that just because you are a woman you like pink, yoga and cooking?

When people stop buying it.   

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I like yoga and cooking, and certain shades of pink.

If we're going full circle back to the fifties, though ("HONEY I FUCKED UP THE COFFEE! WAHHHHHH!") I want fifties privileges. Like not having to make a living.

[Cain]

Or, given this is a product created in the Middle East, when their husbands stop buying it for their wives because they assume they will like it, and then beat them when they complain about it.

So basically, at least in the case of Saudi Arabia, never.

[Juana]

More on the Kimani Gray case:

Autopsy report - he was shot three times in the back, four in the front.

Protesting in Brooklyn for the third night in a row last night.
(handled, as usual, with brutality - Anarcho Queer on Tumblr has some pretty good coverage, I think. He usually does. Yes, it's Tumblr, but the guy's on the front line in the flesh, so to speak, and the NYPD has declared the Flatbush part of the area a "frozen zone", meaning the media is not allowed in and anyone can be arrested for not following police orders)

[LMNO]

More on the Kimani Gray case:

Autopsy report - he was shot three times in the back, four in the front.

Protesting in Brooklyn for the third night in a row last night.
(handled, as usual, with brutality - Anarcho Queer on Tumblr has some pretty good coverage, I think. He usually does. Yes, it's Tumblr, but the guy's on the front line in the flesh, so to speak, and the NYPD has declared the Flatbush part of the area a "frozen zone", meaning the media is not allowed in and anyone can be arrested for not following police orders)

Wait, what?  Martial Law?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://mashable.com/2013/03/13/first-tablet-for-women/

Jesus Christ.

Oh my god that's HILARIOUS. 

[Juana]

More on the Kimani Gray case:

Autopsy report - he was shot three times in the back, four in the front.

Protesting in Brooklyn for the third night in a row last night.
(handled, as usual, with brutality - Anarcho Queer on Tumblr has some pretty good coverage, I think. He usually does. Yes, it's Tumblr, but the guy's on the front line in the flesh, so to speak, and the NYPD has declared the Flatbush part of the area a "frozen zone", meaning the media is not allowed in and anyone can be arrested for not following police orders)

Wait, what?  Martial Law?

Basically, yes.