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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lonely Dateland, Arizona man arrested after getting too friendly with mare
Christopherson Maynes, a 20-year-old Arizona man, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a female horse. He was reportedly caught engaging in sexual intercourse with the mare on a property in Dateland on Monday afternoon.
How can you live in DATEland and get stuck with a horse?
Maynes was arrested by police after he was reportedly found having sex wth a female horse. Police even secured video evidence of the alleged sexual act.
"Of course she's a female! Do I look like some kinda pervert?"
He was booked in the Yuma County Detention Center for bestiality, indecent exposure and animal cruelty.
"Animal cruelty?" He must be hung like a... Never mind.
"Deputies were able to recover video evidence of the suspect," Alfonso Zavala of the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said.
So not only was he bangin' Mrs. Ed, but he was preserving it for posterity?
Deputies initially responded to a call of animal cruelty. The individual who reported the incident said he caught Maynes having sex with the animal.
"Here you! Unhand that beast!"
"That ain't me hand!"

The full police statement read: "On Monday, May 29, 2017 at approximately 4:50 p.m., the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 1400 block of North Catalina Road in Dateland, AZ in reference to an animal cruelty case. Upon arrival, Deputies met with the reporting party who stated that the suspect had been caught having sexual intercourse with a mare on the property.
"If it's that much of a hassle I'll marry the bit-- mare!"
Christopherson Maynes, 20, of Dateland, was arrested and booked into the Yuma County Detention Center for bestiality, indecent exposure and animal cruelty."
"Come on, sheriff! What's the big deal? It ain't like she's a filly!"
This is not the first reported incident of sexual activity between a human and horse. Earlier this year an individual from Wakefield in the U.K. was jailed for having sex with a horse after his DNA was recovered from the animal.
Ew. Just ew.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 02:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just another soos-gender male.

Grom will get this one. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 3:02 Comments || Top||


Girl, 16, 'stabs her Uber driver to death after stealing a machete from Walmart and requesting a ride from the store in the Chicago suburbs'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, whaddayaknow!

I *am* a racist. I was surprised at the photo of the alleged stabee.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/02/2017 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  17 years old? You mean like the Washington sniper. Poor baby, just a child. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  She will no doubt plea bargain to a lesser charge involving the machete and Walmart.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Sorry Bobby you are not a racist, you're just playing the odds. This is as surprising as the Cubs winning the WS last year, though.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/02/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I *am* a racist. I was surprised at the photo of the alleged stabee

Lotta 'wannabes' in that age group and demographic, Bobby.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/02/2017 9:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Bobby - shame on you for assuming her race and skin color! She probably identifies as 'Thug'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Never give a ride to someone carrying a machete. Or an ax. Or a freshly-severed dripping human head.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Something a bit lighter. 20 Toes - Enjoy the music (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 08:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Charming, Besoeker. Clearly 10,000+ hours spent to achieve mastery -- this is a very different approach than the rhythmic gymnastics with balls, hoops, ribbons, Vladimir Putin supports in his private life.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Absolutely amazing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 21:03 Comments || Top||


Academic Journal: Newtonian Physics Is ‘Oppressive’ to Marginalized People
[NATIONALREVIEW] Culture and gender-studies researcher Whitney Stark argues that Newtonian physics is oppressive
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most of reality is. The researcher would get along well with Pope Paul V.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Translation - 'stupid people don't understand it'.
Posted by: Raj || 06/02/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps a contributing cause to their marginalization. Nature, not Nurture.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  With all of the Flat Earth idiots around are you surprised.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 06/02/2017 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  The thought that "Reality" is an unchangeable Fact and not a Relative Construct that can be altered at will -- Oppressive! Racist!
Posted by: magpie || 06/02/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Fizix be hard. 2 much rithmetic.
Posted by: Dave D. || 06/02/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Without gravity, the pyramids, machu picchu, and anghor wat were not just easy, but the normal.

Then Newton and his gravity came along.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Some people should be oppressed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Some people shouldn't be given anything more complex than a crayon.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2017 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Nature, not Nurture.

Ooooooohhhh ouch, Skidmark!

And what Dave D said, because of course it's true, though series and parallel wiring diagrams should be given proper weight. Otherwise there would be considerably fewer business and X Studies majors.

The poor darling. Considering we are somewhere beyond Einstein now (what with Heisenberg's uncertainty and strings and such, I've completely lost track), the lady is arguing with freshman classes on the subject.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/02/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Well she might have a point, she's talking about 'Newtonian Physics'. Now when it comes to the newer Einsteinian physics, her theory would be like, totally incorrect you know.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/02/2017 14:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
College melts down over plan for white people-free day on campus
[NYPOST] After protesters at a Washington state college called for a day without white people, a biology professor says he no longer feels safe on campus -- and student activists complain they’re being vilified by conservative media.
I'd suggest they simply continue to a white people-free campus for good. See how that works out for them.
Evergreen State College students said racial tensions have been simmering in recent weeks, but reached a boiling point when a faculty member disagreed with their plans to protest what they say is institutional racism at the Olympia campus, according to The Olympian.
Any white person who comes back next semester is stoopid enough not to realize where they're not wanted.
Students were particularly incensed by an email that surfaced on Twitter on May 25 between Professor Bret Weinstein and Rashida Love, director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services. Weinstein, who is white, allegedly condemned the "Day of Absence" event that asked white people to leave campus for the day.
Individual choice, but mine would be to leave for good, preceded by wondering why I was there in the first place.
He called the day "an act of oppression in and of itself" and said he would visit campus in spite of the demonstration, according to USA Today.
I'd forget about the place. I kind of had, in anticipation, since I'd never heard of it before.
"If there was interest in a public presentation and discussion of race through a scientific/revolutionary lens, I would be quite willing to organize such an event," Weinstein wrote.
Talking about a "discussion of race through a scientific/revolutionary lens" sounds like he belongs there, regardless of what color he is.
In a YouTube video posted on May 27, a group of students is heard calling for Weinstein to be fired. Demonstrations have involved as many as 200 students pouring into classrooms and the school president’s office. "Hey-hey, ho-ho, these racist teachers have got to go," the students chanted in the video.
"Hey-hey, ho-ho," ain't that phrase ever gonna go?
Weinstein told news station KING that he was advised last week not to go to campus for safety reasons.
"Nice face yez got dere. Be a shame if somethin' happened to it!"
"I have been told by the Chief of Police it’s not safe for me to be on campus," Weinstein told KING. The station notes that Weinstein has spoken out in this year against increasing the role race plays in the admissions process.
How about "anybody can come in but white people?"
Multiple protest videos have been picked up by conservative media outlets, but the students disagree with the coverage, calling the footage "edited."
No doubt. No doubt.
"We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration by this Friday," students said in a statement to the College Fix.
Demand in one hand, poop in the other. See which one needs to be wiped.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You want to see a day without white people in this country? Look at sub-Sahara Africa.

The values, teachings and infrastructure you enjoy was built on "white" (many different cultures, races and nations you classify as "white") ideas and white, yellow and black backs.

So go fuck yourselves.

Next time you try this shit, you will lose more than your dignity.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  If it was stolen and edited - then release the 'unedited' version.

Perhaps you can't because its the same as the released version....

Isn't 'universities' a 'white' concept see that it basically came from Europe? Why are you appropriating white culture?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Evergreen is the Alma Mater of St. Rachel of the Pancakes. Nuff said.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/02/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#4  It is a violation of your bill of attainer you purchased or a breach of contract. Either/or, it was not outlined in your curricula.

Go To Town on those ignorant anarchists with lawyers and free tuition and transfers and free ice cream!
Posted by: newc || 06/02/2017 1:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Close it down and board it up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Wouldn't bulldozing it be more appropriate?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Wouldn't bulldozing it be more appropriate?

Yes, if student body notification were made optional.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#8  An extreme case, made more so by the video publication, but not atypical. The exclusionary behavior of traditional students for white males of the Vietnam era manifests many places on campus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Zimbabwe has more than a dozen universities. I'm sure they would love to take in all the non-white Evergreen students. Lots of students come here, they could go there and help with the balance of payments.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/02/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Segregation and "Separate but Equal", everything old is new again.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/02/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Just change this institution's name to "Neverwhite State College" and be done with it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Any white person who comes back next semester is stoopid enough not to realize where they're not wanted.

Wanna bet "whites" are a majority among both faculty and students?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 13:14 Comments || Top||

#13  Devaluing your diploma before graduation is not wise. They's top this nonsense and start demanding their student loans be paid off by the school if they had any brains. That way the diploma might be worth something and free to boot.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/02/2017 14:38 Comments || Top||

#14  I heard they closed the college today because of a phoned-in threat to 911...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||

#15  Ahh... here it is...

​Evergreen State College in Olympia will remain closed Friday after a "direct threat" was made to the campus.

The Olympia campus was closed suddenly Thursday out of an abundance of caution, spokesman Zach Powers said.

An unknown person made a threat of "campus violence" to Thurston County officials, he said. The college's president made the decision to close campus.

The county released a copy of the phone call. A male caller told a dispatcher: "I'm on my way to Evergreen University now with a .44 Magnum. I'm going to execute as many people on that campus as I can get a hold of. You have that? What's going on here? You communist, scumbag town? I'm going to murder as many people on that campus as I can. Just keep your eyes open you scumbag."

The college asked everyone to leave campus or return to their residence halls and await further instructions. The dorms were not on lockdown, according to a spokesperson at the college.

Olympia Police Department and the Thurston County Sheriff's Office were patrolling the campus and monitoring entrances when everyone was leaving.

A spokesperson said there was no known connection to last week's race-based protests. Demonstrations held last Tuesday and Wednesday involved around 200 students.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Probably someone called and asked to grill hot dogs, with real charcoal, somewhere on campus, CF.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/02/2017 15:46 Comments || Top||


ACLU Fights Against Law Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
[TRUTHREVOLT.ORG] Maine GOP Rep. Heather Sirocki is sponsoring bill LD745 which would make the Islamic ritual of female genital mutilation (FGM) a crime. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the American Civil Liberties Union is very much opposed to the legislation.
"It's their culture. Who are we to criticize?"
Sirocki says Maine is a high-risk area in America for FGM and [it] happens so often that the federal government sends special funds to help the state. The bill would make FGM a Class B crime which carries a $20,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. In addition, the bill punishes parents and/or guardians of the victim and criminalizes "vacation cutting" -- where the victim is flown overseas to have the "procedure."
If it makes sense to me that's probably a good indication the ACLU hates it.
According to The Daily Caller, the ACLU "staunchly opposes the protection."
Really?
"ACLU front man Oamshri Amarasingham said that the risk of mutilation isn’t worth expanding Maine’s criminal code," the report states. "The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault also supported the ACLU, arguing that FGM is not happening in Maine."
"No, no! Certainly not!"
But Sirocki said, "Federal prosecutors take a very small amount of cases. The state of Maine deals with thousands of cases. If a situation would occur and this is the issue, if the federal government doesn’t have enough prosecutors, it doesn’t get prosecuted."
Meaning it gets plea bargained, which doesn't grow anyone's genitalia back.
The bill will be reviewed by the state house of representatives before heading for final approval in the state senate. If it passes, the DC notes, Maine becomes the 25th state to criminalize FGM. According to a 2012 Center for Disease Control report, there were 500,000 FGM victims in the United States. Since 2003, almost 800 have violated FGM laws nationwide and been deported. There have been at least 400 additional arrests.
Just to keep everyone happy, they should also pass laws against gelding men. I know, it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's really important to the men.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can we go ahead and prosecute members of this sharia law supporting group with child mutilation?
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 || 06/02/2017 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The Anti-Western Civilization Lawfare Unit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Sad that horse antics gets more attention.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this the standard ACLU Virtue Signalling where they cherry pick some disreputable client so they can preen about being unbiased and spend the rest of their time and energy flogging a hard Left agenda. Or is it the simple fact that there is still some Arab Oil Money out there and they want to secure a chunk of that? Or Both?
Posted by: magpie || 06/02/2017 13:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Money magpie, it's always about the money...
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/02/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Money magpie, it's always about the money...
Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance


Not always. Sometimes it about the sechs. But one or the other for sure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 17:17 Comments || Top||


New Mexico casino cancels Kathy Griffin performance
[DAILY-TIMES] A casino in New Mexico has scrapped a scheduled performance by comedian Kathy Griffin after she posted online a bloody image that resembled President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Route 66 Casino, a casino operated by Laguna Pueblo, announced late Tuesday on social media that July 22 performance by Griffin was canceled.

CNN has also announced it cut ties with Griffin.

Griffin, who helped with CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage, has apologized, saying that the brief video was "too disturbing" and wasn’t funny.
Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Eh. Six months from now, things'll be back to 'normal' for this weird chick.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/02/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  There is not a funny bone in this womans body. Who would want to go see her anyway?
Posted by: chris || 06/02/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Updated: Kathy Griffin Has Total Meltdown During Presser; Blames Trump For Ending Her Career
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/02/2017 15:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Ignorance ended her career. Donald Trump had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 17:13 Comments || Top||

#5  She is now the nation's leading distributor of schadenfreude.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/02/2017 17:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Other than a support system, why would anyone book her to begin with?

TV Personality, Commentator, sure, but Comedian? Sure is a hat-tip towards Regis' talent. What's she got?

"Well, my husband just flew back from Dubai and boy is the flight attendant tired."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 17:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Jim Carrey Advises Kathy Griffin to Double Down with Trump’s ‘Severed Leg’

Please, Mr. Carrey, you first.




Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/02/2017 19:15 Comments || Top||

#8  some random interwebs person, commenting on the vid clip in #3:

I got to be honest. When I was told I would hear the lamentations of their women, I thought they would be better looking.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/02/2017 19:25 Comments || Top||

#9  That's funny right there.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 19:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Jim Carrey...oh, the twice divorced and drove his girlfriend to suicide comedian after sleeping with her with a list of undisclosed STDs.

Thought he was moving back to Canada.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 19:49 Comments || Top||


University of Missouri System begins layoffs at headquarters
[STLTODAY] The University of Missouri System began a major round of layoffs at its Columbia headquarters Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that appears to at least initially be affecting its lobbying and public-relations operations.

As of Wednesday afternoon, several sources confirmed numerous employees had been let go in the university relations department. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the extent of the job losses at the headquarters was not clear.

The 18-person university relations department houses federal and state lobbyists, the custodian of records and nine communications employees.

The layoffs precede a big announcement expected Friday from system president Mun Choi on the final decisions about budget cuts at the system and all four campuses: Columbia, Rolla, St. Louis and Kansas City.

A representative for the university system declined to comment Wednesday but said that layoffs would be part of Friday’s announcement.

Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess they finally ran out of teaching assistants and non-tenured profs to let go. Oh, the humanity of it, having to down size the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I need some unemployment applications over here!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/02/2017 13:00 Comments || Top||


Economy
Dakota Access Pipeline Operational
More on the subject of the article below, so moved to Economy so they can more easily be read sequentially.
[FuelFix.com] Dallas pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners announced on Thursday that, after crippling winter storms, heated protests and months of delay, it is shipping crude oil on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The 1,200-mile pipeline connects the Bakken oilfields in North Dakota to Patoka, Ill., and then to refineries on the Gulf Coast. It was the subject of months of protests last year, which grew to thousands of people in size and, at times, drew clashes with police. Environmentalists saw it as a symbol of global warming and the proliferation of fossil fuel use. The Standing Rock Sioux, who tap the Missouri River for tribal water, argued that the pipeline traversed sacred burial grounds and threatened the tribe's main water source.

Late last year, President Barack Obama refused to approve the pipeline's final connection, under the Missouri, and sent plans back to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for review. But President Donald Trump, fulfilling campaign promises, quickly reversed Obama's decision after taking office.

The pipeline is a joint venture with Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum and Houston-based Enbridge Energy Partners and Phillips 66.

The full pipeline, from the Bakken to the Gulf, cost nearly $5 billion. It has commitments to ship about 520,000 barrels per day and could pipe as much as 570,000 barrels per day.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/02/2017 11:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Women, minorities, and Warren Buffet hardest hit."
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/02/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Buffett. I blame the typesetters!

/HRC
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/02/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Yay!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2017 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Yay!!! I Ditto that big Yay!!!.....
Posted by: Dale || 06/02/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Thank you, Donald Trump!

This sentence is getting used a lot lately.
Posted by: Tom || 06/02/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Expect BNSF to now make a lot less money for Buffett, less than it did under the reign of Obama The Anti-American.
Posted by: Si vis pacem || 06/02/2017 15:25 Comments || Top||


Despite the left's best efforts, the Dakota Access Pipeline is now delivering oil
More on the subject of the article above.
[Hot Air] Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline became an international news story last year. Progressives around the country rallied to the cause and held marches around the country. Over a million dollars was raised on social media to support the main protest camp and thousand of people traveled to remote Cannonball, North Dakota to become part of the effort to block the final mile of the nearly 1,200-mile long pipeline.

Protesters battled police on land and in the water and over several months hundreds, mostly from out of state, were arrested. One woman faces 10 years in jail for (allegedly) firing a gun toward police officers.

The Obama administration came to the protesters’ rescue when Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy overruled the Army Corps of Engineers recommendation that the pipeline be approved. Instead, she announced a new environmental study which would have taken up to two years to complete. The new study was officially announced just a couple days before President-elect Trump took office.

These transparently political moves were cheered by progressives, but not for long. On February 7th the Trump administration ended the new study and approved construction of the final stretch of pipeline. A few weeks later the main protest camp was cleared out by police. It cost over a million dollars to clean up the mess protesters left behind and prevent it from washing into the river they were supposedly there to protect. Dogs and puppies left behind at the frozen camp were also rescued.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 01:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a pity they didn't ID the protesters and send each an itemized bill for their share of the clean-up. Or send the whole bill to Tom Steyer -- he has deep pockets and It's For The Children!©
Posted by: magpie || 06/02/2017 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I would very much like to see an estimate of all the petroleum wasted supporting the protest camp and particularly trucking in protesters, news media, and hangers-on from all over the world to the camp. Probably this amounted to many month's production of this very same pipeline.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/02/2017 13:09 Comments || Top||


Europe
France's Macron Tells Trump That Paris Deal Will Not Be ‘Renegotiated'
[Daily Caller] France’s President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country has no interest in taking up the Trump administration’s offer of renegotiating the terms of the Paris climate deal.

Macron told President Donald Trump that France will keep open lines of communication with Washington, D.C., but the country will no longer discuss climate issues with the U.S., a French source told Reuters.

He referred to Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the non-binding climate deal, which seeks to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas levels many scientists believe contribute to manmade global warming.

"The president spoke with President Trump in a five-minute phone call. The exchange was direct," the source said about the conversation, adding that "nothing [in the deal] was renegotiable."
President Trump offered, they chose. Now we all can move on to something more meaningful.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can live with that.
Posted by: gorb || 06/02/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  All the progressive cities/states insist they will follow it anyway.

Until nobody is watching.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/02/2017 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "Fuc* you Americans! Uncultured, crass Americans! We hate all of you! Fu- the Germans are here! Hello Americans! We love you!"
~ Robin Williams
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  nuff said. Below standard deviation. If they're so worried by CO2, they can just stop exhaling.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I think that was kinda the idea. Trump threw that in there as a mop to those that were in love with this fake treaty. Now he can walk away with clean hands saying, "Well, I tried."
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/02/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  All the progressive cities/states insist they will follow it anyway.

Wonder what relation the Interstate Commerce Act will have on that situation.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/02/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Related: Macron invites Americans to flee to France after Trump chooses to exit Paris agreement


Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 06/02/2017 9:04 Comments || Top||

#8  All the progressive cities/states insist they will follow it anyway.

None of them were ever "following it" with the intent of "saving the planet" in the first place--it was all about the graft. It was all about the power of government (rather than the free market) to pick the winners and losers.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/02/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  OK then. Must not have been too important.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/02/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Questionable 'Young Blood' Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy
[MIT] Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults.

Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of "young blood" through his startup Ambrosia. He says that within a month, most participants "see improvements" from the one-time infusion of a two-liter bagful of plasma, which is blood with the blood cells removed.

Several scientists and clinicians say Karmazin’s trial is so poorly designed it cannot hope to provide evidence about the effects of the transfusions. And some say the pay-to-participate study, with the potential to collect up to $4.8 million from as many as 600 participants, amounts to a scam.
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#1  Wait! Wait! I saw this movie!

(It does not end well...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/02/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  This post needs the picture of Gary Oldham as Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/02/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||


#4  Paging Mr Gunn, Mr James E. Gunn please come to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  p.s. Look at bone marrow progenitor cells, morons.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Dumped a quart of new Pennzoil 10w-30 into the ol' JD and WOW!!! wsa able to plow 13 rows at a time, got 50% better corn yield. A-frickin-mazing.......
and at the next oil change time I held back the last quart of what I drained and reused (since it just HAD to be the newest that went in).

Morons and California; what can't they do???

Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/02/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Resorts World Manila 'attack' that left 25 injured after masked man opened fire
[Mirror] A gunman who stormed a casino in the Philippines sparking a stampede which injured 30 people has killed himself, police said. The suspect was found dead from a gunshot wound which appears to be self-inflicted, authorities in Manila said.

The dramatic incident began with reports of gunfire and smoke coming from the Resorts World complex just after midnight local time.

The gunman was wielding an automatic gun but did not shoot at anyone, police said. He stole casino chips, shot at TV screens and then set some of the casino tables on fire.

Nonetheless, it sparked mass panic with people suffering serious injuries in the ensuing stampede. Some even jumped from windows, according to reports.

The Philippines has been battling a rising number of ISIS Lions of Islam in the south of the country and there were fears of a terror attack.

One message online appeared to claim responsibility for the attack on behalf of ISIS.

National police chief Ronald dela Rosa went on the radio to tell the public: "Don't panic, this is not a cause for alarm.

"We cannot attribute this to terrorism.

"We are looking into a robbery angle because he did not hurt any people and went straight to the casino chips storage room.

"He parked at the second floor and barged into the casino, shooting large TV screens and poured gasoline on a table setting it on fire," he said.

Military front man Restituto Padilla confirmed police were in control of the situation and the army was monitoring closely. Police, fire trucks and SWAT teams were called to the area, near Manila International airport, after smoke began billowing from the upper floor of the building.

Louisse Linan tweeted that Naia terminal 3 at the Manila International Airport was also in lockdown because of the incident at the nearby tourist complex.

Speaking outside the White House, US president Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
said he was staying updated on the attack in Manila.

He said: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people. It's very sad what's happening with terrorism around the world."
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#1  Sure, destroying new religion icons(TVs) and the tables of money changers on the way to the cash cage is often a successful robbery strategy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
DOJ Urged to Investigate Planned Parenthood's Fetal Tissue Transfers
[Breitbart] National pro-life leaders are urging U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to investigate Planned Parenthood for its past fetal tissue transfers, for which the abortion business was paid.

Led by the March for Life, the pro-life coalition sent a letter requesting the Department of Justice to follow through with the 15 criminal and regulatory referrals ‐ made by the House’s Select Panel ‐ of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in the fetal tissue procurement industry.

The letter, signed by 17 pro-life leaders, states the facts uncovered during the congressional investigations into Planned Parenthood and its partners, including Advanced Bioscience Resources, DaVinci Biologics, and StemExpress, "raise a reasonable suspicion that these organizations, and/or individuals employed by them, may have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the fetal tissue law (18 U.S.C. § 371)."

The letter comes as Center for Medical Progress releases a new undercover video in which National Abortion Federation (NAF) abortionists are heard sharing graphic details about the dismemberment of unborn babies during the procedure. The footage is a compilation of excerpts from video filmed at NAF trade shows, where abortionists are heard discussing the difficulties they face in their jobs, such as "the head that gets stuck that we can’t get out," and "an eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross!"

Within hours of the video’s release, it was pulled from YouTube and other sites at the order of District Judge William Orrick, who expressed concern about the safety of the abortionists.

Mollie Hemingway observed at The Federalist in August of 2015 that Orrick "wasn’t just appointed by President Barack Obama, the most extreme proponent of abortion ever to hold the White House."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 06:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Burn them, send them to Hell!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I look forward to the day when we have an Attorney General again.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/02/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||


Government
EPA begins offering buyouts to cut staff
[The Hill] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has kicked off its buyout program to reduce staffs numbers, according to an internal memo reported by Reuters on Thursday.

The EPA memo was sent to all agency employees as President Trump, joined at the White House by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate change accord.

The EPA plans to submit the buyout proposal to the White House's Office of Management and Budget for approval in June and work to "expedite the review process," Reuters reported. The EPA has said it aims to complete the buyout program by the end of the fiscal year in September.

"Early outs and buy outs...can help us realign our workforce to meet changing mission requirements and move toward new models of work," reads the memo sent by acting Deputy Administrator Mike Flynn, Reuters reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 01:19 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully this is a pilot program soon to be initiated government wide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/02/2017 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes you enviro-weenies. The DC swamp is no longer a protected natural habitat.
Posted by: Woozle Big Foot7076 || 06/02/2017 4:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The DC swamp is not natural. It is an artificially created toxic environment. By cleaning it up, Trump is actually achieving the EPA's ostensible mission.
Posted by: no mo uro || 06/02/2017 5:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Since D.C. is a company town... don't hire them at another branches office.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/02/2017 6:56 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm sure new jobs are awaiting them in California, after the state budget surplus created by the single payer plan works out.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/02/2017 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Great idea.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/02/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Take the money and run, moonbats!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/02/2017 19:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Firms pressed to defend ads on left-leaning Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Taking a page out of liberal protests targeting Fox News' "Hannity" show, a top conservative group opened a campaign Wednesday targeting six MSNBC and four CNN political shows for skewing left.

"Today we are putting ten shows, and their major corporate sponsors on notice that we are watching their every move," said Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center.

"We are putting the radical left on notice that we are on to them," he added.

The targeted shows on MSNBC are "Politics Nation with civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
," "Hardball with Chris My Thigh is Tingling! Matthews
... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom...
," "All In With Chris Hayes," "The Rachel Maddow Show," "The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell," and "AM Joy."

MRC also hits CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," "CNN Tonight With Don Lemon," "Reliable Sources," and "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

The White House and GOP have been under fire on the shows, and the Republican National Committee Wednesday singled out one MSNBC show not on the MRC list: "Morning Joe."

"If there is a leader of the pack for the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, look no further than MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,'" said Michael Reed, RNC's research director.

The group listed the advertisers of each show on its website. "We will be publicly listing the advertisers of these programs and asking them to defend their decision to continue airing ads on these shows. Every time one of their on-air personalities go beyond political commentary and engage in smear and hate, we are going to unleash an army of activists to contact these advertisers by phone and through social media to ask them why they are advertising on programs that are so biased, repulsive and morally bankrupt," said Bozell.

Posted by: Fred || 06/02/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would prefer to see them pressed by a steam roller.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/02/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  A tactical mistake: "chose one, isolate him ...".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/02/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||



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