The unimportant news thread

[Brian]

If partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is outlawed, then only outlaws will have partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.

The McMafia

[Karl Henning]

I just misused whom in a sentence.  I'm doomed.

[ibanezmonster]

I just misused whom in a sentence.  I'm doomed.

They're, their, my friend.

[North Star]

They're, their, my friend.

https://www.youtube.com/v/10pqluMwgXQ

[Ken B]

I just misused whom in a sentence.  I'm doomed.

No, your dooed. Common error.

[Todd]

A new chant for Americans: We're 96!!  We're 96!! 

Way to go!

[Wanderer]

Istanbul's Byzantine legacy undermined by Ottoman restoration

[Ken B]

Hurrah!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/18/minnesotas-egregious-sex-offender-confinement-statute-held-unconstitutional/

Undoing Al Gore's legacy, bit by precious bit.

[Gurn Blanston]

Hurrah!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/18/minnesotas-egregious-sex-offender-confinement-statute-held-unconstitutional/

Undoing Al Gore's legacy, bit by precious bit.

I don't know if or what Al Gore has to do with it, but whoever is responsible, including 'we the people', need to do some serious study of the constitution. That is totally amazing!

[Ken B]

I don't know if or what Al Gore has to do with it, but whoever is responsible, including 'we the people', need to do some serious study of the constitution. That is totally amazing!

Gore while in the senate he was a big force in pushing for stuff like this. I forget the details but during the hysteria in the late 80s early 90s --McMartin pre-school for googlers --Gore was fanning the flames and behind some of the crazier laws.
I hasten add this quickly became bi partisan. But I think it's worth reminding people of Gore's actual record sometimes.

[Ken B]

Castles in Finland

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/09/ot14-tragedy-of-the-comments/#comment-182240

[Gurn Blanston]

Gore while in the senate he was a big force in pushing for stuff like this. I forget the details but during the hysteria in the late 80s early 90s --McMartin pre-school for googlers --Gore was fanning the flames and behind some of the crazier laws.
I hasten add this quickly became bi partisan. But I think it's worth reminding people of Gore's actual record sometimes.

Couldn't agree more. I always thought of him as the 'silent but deadly' type... Didn't know about this one though.

[Karl Henning]

Yeesh

[Ken B]

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-enforces-Ramadan-fast-by-crucifying-two-children-406876

[Karl Henning]

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-enforces-Ramadan-fast-by-crucifying-two-children-406876

"Muslims everywhere, we congratulate you over the arrival of the holy month," he said. "And be careful to keep the fast, or we'll hang you out for the vultures, because that is how Allah wishes us to honor this holy month."

[Karl Henning]

Personally, I say "Thank God Boston's Olympic bid is dying on the vine; because, as we know from this past February, the MBTA is perfectly unfit even to get Bostonians alone where they need to be."

Recent reports suggest Boston could lose its bid for the 2024 Olympics amidst plummeting local support.

[Ken B]

Personally, I say "Thank God Boston's Olympic bid is dying on the vine; because, as we know from this past February, the MBTA is perfectly unfit even to get Bostonians alone where they need to be."

Recent reports suggest Boston could lose its bid for the 2024 Olympics amidst plummeting local support.

The world is plagued by a roaming black cloud of debt, which periodically descends upon a city and crushes it. May you and yours be safe from this calamity.

[Karl Henning]

The world is plagued by a roaming black cloud of debt, which periodically descends upon a city and crushes it. May you and yours be safe from this calamity.

From your keyboard to God's incoming messages!

[Karl Henning]

Almost twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than have died in attacks by Muslim extremists.

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states

[Florestan]

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states

Poland is one of the world's most religiously conservative countries. It's as Catholic as Catholic gets. So it's pretty unsurprising that its abortion laws are some of the strictest in Europe. Basically, you can't get an abortion in Poland unless you were raped or are near death. And even then a doctor can refuse to help you.

So desperate activists are trying something new. In a few days, a consortium of women's rights groups will convene in Germany, load a drone full of pills that can be used to safely induce abortions, fly it over the border to Poland and drop the pills to activists on the other side. Some would call that smuggling.

It's been dubbed the "Abortion Drone," which is a truly disturbing pairing of words. But the goal is noble: to deliver a much-needed service to Polish women, to raise awareness in Poland that safe abortion medication exists, and to pressure the Polish government to change its draconian laws.

Since when it is a noble goal to kiill innocent and defenseless human beings?