Overnight Open Thread (11 Oct 2014)

So how many children will die (this Michigan toddler makes it 6) before we really get to the bottom of what is causing the EV-D68 outbreak? This sounds a tad omimous.

There will be more cases, and perhaps more deaths, in the coming weeks, officials said.

Go With The Flow

Oh I can see this coming to California very soon. University of East Anglia duo urge fellow students to take their first piss of the day in the shower. To save water. And Gaia or something. Soon they'll come up with the idea that for your second piss of the day, hit a tree or shrub.

Shakespearean Insults Used Today

Entertainment

Ah yes, tomorrow night brings us the premiere of the new season of The Walking Dead. Here's a recap of the series to date to get you up to speed.

Snowden documentary another sign that the left is about to throw Obama under the bus. Well, minus Gweneth Paltrow anyway. She's still fellating the dude in her mind.

But the most interesting aspect of all of this is the clue it gives to what the Left plans for Obama, who has become tarnished to the American public, and probably to history. If he thinks he’s had a tough two years, he doesn’t know what’s ahead for him. In order to save itself, the Left will have to portray him as a tool of the right, a flawed and destructive reactionary, and this film is an initial pre-election volley.

Admit it. You hated George Lucas for all those special special editions of Star Wars. You'd think once Lucasfilm was sold to Disney, it just might stop further special special editions. You might be wrong. Disney's new Star Wars cartoon series Rebels already aired the first two episodes in a one hour movie on the Disney channel. Now comes word that it will air on ABC now with new footage. They've added a Darth Vader scene.

Misheard Song Lyrics Vol. 5

Retire Officers By Age 50

Damn this article is just breathtakingly stupid. Why the U.S. should mandate officer retirement by age 50.

And yet, no one but a fool would claim that the U.S. military's recent war-making record is sterling. As Thomas E. Ricks has argued, a great many of the U.S.'s military failures in Iraq and Afghanistan are directly attributable to poor generalship.

I saw someone point this out somewhere. George S. Patton was in his 50's during WWII. George A. Custer was 36 at Little Big Horn. 'Nuff said.

Public Sector Employee Of The Week

St. Paul employee who hit her own car with rented city van wants damages. Say what? This idiot hit her own car with a rented vehicle while in the performance of her duties (mobile recreation team?) and now she wants the city to pay for the damage to her car? Are you friggin' serious?

Wealthiest Woman In Each State

Wealthiest Woman In Each State.

Creepy Story

Well, it is October after all. Thousands of venomous spiders force family to abandon their home.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

She told St. Louis television station KMOV-TV in 2012 the spiders "started bleeding out of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.

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