dimanche 5 décembre 2021

Bob Dole has died

Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies

Quote:

Bob Dole, a Republican Party stalwart and presidential hopeful who espoused a brand of plain-spoken conservativism as one of Washington's most recognizable political figures throughout the latter half of the 20th century, died Sunday.

"Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep. At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years," according to a statement from his family.
They say we should not speak poorly of the recently deceased, so the best I can say is that he wasn't as big of an ******* as so many Republicrud are today.


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Any brain people out there?

Sorry to be annoying, but if there is a neurologist on here could do with having independent private discussion on offline about something discovered.

If you don't mind me PMing you.

Thanks.

Chris


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vendredi 3 décembre 2021

Toposcope!




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a 2nd amendment meaning poll

Changing the words around can make a rule still mean the same thing, or mean something different. I wanted to see what other people think about a very specific second amendment question

Here are two versions of a rule.

Quote:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

and this one

Quote:

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Is this the same rule, or two different rules?


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DeSantis Would Really Like to Request a Personal Army

I'm sure this was discussed elsewhere, but is kind of noteworthy standalone.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis (surprisingly, a Republican), thinks it would be the bees knees if he could directly command a branch of the military comprised of private citizens that would not be under Pentagon control. Just Ronny-Ron. What could go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/polit...tis/index.html


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So I had a UFO experience

Note "experience" because I can't say I saw it. I didn't. But I sure heard and felt something weird.

It was at night. I was up late, around 2-3 AMish (there's a pandemic, sue me) and things were chill as I was just watching some TV. Then my dogs started barking like there was an intruder or maybe raccoons on the porch. But my dogs quickly were barking everywhere and distressed. Turning in circles, barking at the ceiling. It was very disconcerting.

Then I started to hear it.

You know the sound of high voltage electricity? That ominous hum you hear near a transformer or capacitors? It was like that. Only higher in pitch. It was approaching my house and at terrific speed. I went to a window expecting to see some weird vehicle driving up the street but as I did I realized that whatever it was it was up in the sky.

It passed directly over my house and immediately the doppler change in pitch had it receding to the east. I ran outside to see if I could spy anything but it was too late. My dogs stopped barking. I stood there confused as all hell.

It was only at this point that I realized my skin felt funny. Was there some static electricity present or was this just nerves? I didn't know.

So, what was that? I dunno. Whatever it was it was flying pretty low and pretty fast. It didn't sound like anything I had ever heard before. No jet engines. No props. No nothing but that incredible sound of so much electricity.

I'm on a flight path for aircraft out of Edwards Air Force Base and Groom Lake. Back in the 80s we spotted black triangles that would turn out to be stealth aircraft. Was this just something very new and top secret? That would be my best guess.

But it sure was weird.


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Law enforcement violated Black Lives Matter protesters’ human rights

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/pr...-human-rights/

The subject is the headline from Amnesty International.

"The unnecessary and sometimes excessive use of force by police against protesters exhibits the very systemic racism and impunity they had taken to the streets to protest"


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