Police are boosting patrols in a Chicago neighborhood after the SUV used to transport the city’s top law enforcement officer was broken into.
Wow… Chicago’s sunk past Detroit and is halfway to Bartertown.
Police are boosting patrols in a Chicago neighborhood after the SUV used to transport the city’s top law enforcement officer was broken into.
Wow… Chicago’s sunk past Detroit and is halfway to Bartertown.
Please stop giving Stephen Colbert or Donald Trump attention.
Chrome, I like that I can mute a tab, but how about sites have to ask for permission before playing sound?
My first experience with Dark Tower was the Marvel comic adaptation which I enjoyed. I then read the first novel and it was terrible.
I don’t know why so many oppose using magical fairy money to pay for the health care everyone wants.
And the argument still is this garbage fire government needs even more control over health care.
I’m glad caring about the poor doesn’t involve anything more than self-righteously arguing how to spend other people’s money.
The left seem completely disinterested in the people in the middle class who were screwed over by Obamacare.
People’s political opinions tell you less about their character than you think.
We’re going back to the dark days of 2009 when poor sick people were summarily executed.
And the hospitals would charge $3,000 per bullet. What was that all about?
An irresponsible bill made by idiots is being replaced by another irresponsible bill made by idiots and I’m too beaten down to care.
Millions are going to die. Maybe around 3 million a year. Probably all unrelated to whatever bill the idiots in Congress passed, though.
Do people honestly think the bill is going to kill millions? Were millions dying pre-ACA? Are there stats to back that up?
If you want people to listen to concerns about ACA being repealed, you have to stop being complete sociopaths about the people harmed by it.
Obama flat out lied to the middle class and then made their insurance worse and more expensive. That was inexcusable.
If you can’t acknowledge that, people are right to dismiss whatever else you say as just more lies made to manipulate people.
The best way Hillary’s PAC could help the Democrats is for it to fund an underground bunker she could hide in and never be heard from again.
With everyone going to 11 about everything, it’s getting impossible to tell the real dumb bad things from the made up dumb bad things.
We need less freaking out and more world-weary head shaking.
You can tell who’s really are worried about the affects of AHCA because they’re not just rallying around talking points.
So no one.
If you like your preexisting condition, you can keep your preexisting condition.
Never watched Mary Poppins since I was a kid. So the premise is those two kids are awful hellions who scare away nannies?
And I’m not sure what Dick Van Dyke is doing, but I am sure it’s problematic.
A good rule of thumb on partisan issues is those who scream the loudest care the least.
Congratulations to Hillary Clinton for being elected president of France.
Well, my six-year-old daughter is very excited for the Wonder Woman movie. I’m not sure it will be appropriate, though.
I mean, this is the same universe as Ben Affleck’s Punisher in a bat costume.
Yes. Finally completed a draft of a novel that’s been “near complete” for years. Next project: the sequel to Superego.
What I completed is my third novel. My second novel should be coming out later this year, so save up those dollars.
I’m excited to get working on a sequel to Superego. People really liked it, but there are a few flaws I’ve seen pointed out in reviews.
A sequel is a chance for me to build on what I’ve learned and hopefully make something even better.
Rico is a dark character, though. I don’t know why I made the main character of my first novel a psychopath. But hey, it was entertaining.
Superego quite popular on Audible. Feel accomplished that someone can listen to 10 1/2 hours of my writing and consider it a good experience.
Want wife to finally watch Blade Runner, but need to prepare her for it. What’s the non-pejorative way of saying it’s kinda slow and boring.
I was not prepared for Blade Runner when I first saw it as a kid. Was expecting some Star Wars sorta fun scifi adventure.
Same thing happened when I saw 2001 as a kid. Did not understand beginning and ending, but the middle part with the killer AI was fun.
Slow doesn’t always mean boring. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly takes it time. Every episode of Better Call Saul is no rush but riveting.
I don’t get all the bad reviews for Iron Fist. Three episodes in, I’m enjoying it so far.
When telling my kids about space travel, I feel like a character from Mad Max talking about “The Beforetimes, in the Long Long Ago…”
“Perhaps your wise grandmother can tell you of when man landed on the moon.”
Despite all the funding and support Trump gave Comey, Hillary is still at large hiding in the woods somewhere.
I know everyone likes to freak out over everything President Trump does, but let’s give the new FBI director, Vladimir Putin, a chance.
Cost effective thing to do is turn entire city of DC into a prison like from Escape from New York but make sure no elected officials escape.
If we can get the economy of Puerto Rico in enough of a shambles, and they do become the 51st state, there’s a guaranteed four to six electoral votes (out of a possible 537) for the Democrats.
If you don’t follow my math, PR could get six House seats and two Senators. The six house seats would likely come from Arizona, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, since the number of House members is constant. All states get two Senators, so we’d had 102 Senators.
South Carolina and Texas are GOP locks, while New York and Washington are Democrat locks. Dems would not gain by moving NY or Washington seats, but would by taking South Carolina and Texas seats. Add those corresponding electoral votes, plus the two corresponding electors for the Senators, and you get four to six pickup for the Democrats.
Anyway, that’s down the road. Right now, their economy sucks. A Democrat standard procedure.
It’s not been a good day. It started with learning of the death of Bob Owens. I won’t dwell on it here, but I did say my piece over at my little blog.
I hope you have had a better day. If so, let’s hear about it. Or whatever you want to talk about. It’s your turn, because it’s Tuesday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
After interviewing him, a weirdly paranoid-sounding Rachel Maddow said that Donald Trump “wants to kill us”.
Interesting. In the new all-lesbian Ghostbusters, Donald Trump will play the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
[How Does A Slinky Fall?] (Viewer #421,478)
I completely guessed wrong on this one, but the explanation makes perfect sense, so I’m happy. See also the follow-up video with the 15-foot slinky.
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Hot glue gun causes lockdown at Colgate University
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NORTH Korea has threatened to nuke the White House and reduce it to ashes
Let me guess, their next video will have a clip from Independence Day
MENLO PARK (AP) – A recent much-publicized effort by Facebook to stop the spread of “fake news” on its social media pages turned out to be nothing more than fake news propagated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a cheap PR stunt.
“After I found out ‘#fakenews’ was trending on Twitter – not that I read Twitter… nobody should read Twitter… Don’t read Twitter! – I decided I could sorta ‘ride the wave’ and get some free publicity,” explained Zuckerberg. “It’s a meaningless phrase anyway, and my ‘trying to stop it’ is mostly just cover for banning people I don’t like. Like racists, Tea Party dweebs, Trumpers, and Albanians – that last one’s a long story, but suffice it to say that I’m this close to getting Jim Belushi deported.
Zuckerberg explained that, although it started as a joke, it quickly got out of hand.
“Facebook just kept publishing more and more ridiculous items,” continued Zuckerberg, “and nobody said anything. Eventually, I just thought ‘why not just keep posting increasingly ridiculous things until people finally get that we’re pulling their legs, then we all have a good chuckle & go back to the serious?’ Next thing I know Trump’s President, and 90% of my revenue depends on lies about him or from him and I can’t let the truth come out anymore. Then I realized that people love to believe fake news, so I made up a story about cracking down on it. Sure enough. They bought that, too.”
I don’t know why anybody is surprised by this,” said Zuckerberg. “I mean, it’s all over the internet that Facebook is an unreliable gossip-factory that’s lousy with made-up stories, then people are shocked – SHOCKED! – that the unsourced stories that all point in the direction of making Facebook’s credibility problem go away are – get this – also made-up stories. Good heavens! These gullibidiots are probably shocked when cows go ‘moo'”.
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Now on the rise in California…
Paris’ main Mosque said that the election of centrist Emmanuel Macron as France’s next president over far-right leader Marine Le Pen “gives hope to Muslims”.
And terror to everyone Macron is too chicken to protect from being targeted by them.
Pain. I’m in pain.
But you didn’t come to hear me complain. Or maybe you did. Some of you seem to take pleasure in other people’s pain. Not all of you. But a couple of you. You know who I’m talking about.
Actually, you don’t, and I know that. It’s the pain talking. I apologize. I may talk more in depth about the pain at another time. It’s a recent thing, and doc says it shouldn’t last much longer. It’s just not a suitable topic for this post, since this post isn’t about me. It’s about you.
It’s Monday Night Open Thread. You determine what we talk about. Or listen to you BMC about something. Ot tell a joke. Or share a link. Or whatever.
Who wants to start.