Thursday Night Overnight Open Thread (12/1/16)

For all intents and purposes, Charlie Hedbo is dead.

Your Dummy's Guide to Lowbrow Culture.

Overall, if you’re going to get involved in celebrity culture you need to start worrying about butts. The Armenian family that runs the show runs on ass. They are reality stars but seem to be placed above all other stars despite coming from a lower art form.

The fall of the mainstream Christian Churches of the U.S.A.

Part of what has destroyed the mainline Protestant churches is their full-throated embrace of Progressive lunacy. At my friend’s ordination, three of the people ordained were woman. Judging by the haircuts, all three were lesbians. Gay marriage is a huge issue in these churches, driving off the sensible and leaving only those who see Christianity as a vehicle for Progressive activism. Many of these churches are no longer Christian, as a theological matter. They are just Progressive meeting houses for the deranged.

If you are a normal person, the mainline Protestant churches have nothing to offer but endless lectures about the joys of liberalism. It’s a familiar pattern. First the women take over, then the men leave, except for the guys willing to take orders from the gals. Then the normal women bolt. This boiling off of the sensible eventually leaves the crazies in charge of the organization. Before long the freak flag is hoisted and it is the bar in Star Wars. It’s the pattern we saw with Labour in Britain and the Democrats in the US.

On this day in history. Popular vote, Electoral College, the House and the election of John Quincy Adams.

The need for the Electoral College. Or how to safeguard the USA and it's way of governance. The maps make a Prima Facie case.

Jefferson put it this way: What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.

And Lord Acton put it this way:
Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.

If you didn't know it, today is National Pie Day. There is still time to go and get a slice.

It is the user's fault not the product's fault. Inanimate objects don't kill people. People kill people..

The knife paradigm applies directly to guns. The purpose of a gun is to poke holes at a distance, and everyone knows this. Just as I cannot claim that my knife was defective because I used it to cut something I shouldn’t have, I cannot claim that my gun was defective if I use it to poke a hole in something I shouldn’t have.

It was bound to happen. Actually it happened sooner than the ONT expected. German Intelligence officer arrested for aiding and abetting terrorism.

It's the nerve of "these type of people" that caused Brexit and helped Trump win here. Italians forced to house "immigrants". Here's hoping this douche bag takes in the first of the "immigrants".

Free speech for me but not for thee.

Tonight's Musical Interlude

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Do you know someone who voted for Hillary? Here's your chance to save some money on a gift for that Hillary voter!

PMS issues? You decide.

Spot the Santa with the bag of cash. Correct callers 3-15-27-42 and 64 will win a year's supply of &&&&&.

Your nightly science lesson. If you don't have a strong stomach, skip the video. Your final ONT grade will not be impacted.

The Genius Award

Gun control = Hitting your intended target.The Feel Good Story of The Day

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:01 PM

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