Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/1/18 )

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Perception is reality. Lee Atwater

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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk

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Our GOP senators are more concerned with their reputations in the Beltway Bubble, while Normal people just want to get at the truth. And to get at it, their questioning would be very different than the kind of “We want to nurture and support you in this difficult time” garbage we’re likely to hear from people who should be shredding her flimsy fabric of lies. Kurt Schlichter

Given every chance to ask the POTUS a question at a press conference, This "reporter" blows it.

Elections have consequences. How low can the Democrats go? Pretty f*cking low.

If Democrats take control of Congress in November, President Donald Trump can expect a full-on assault from the opposition party, with impeachment high on the list of possibilities.

But even if they take just the House, the onslaught against the president will likely proceed, according to Politico.

The online political news source reported that Democrats will go after Trump’s tax returns once again, as Pelosi and Co. “are quietly planning on using an obscure law that will enable them to examine the president’s tax filings without his permission.”

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature or The law of unintended consequences.

Olympic National Park, located in Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, is faced with a daunting challenge: removing a ballooning mountain goat population that's developed a strong appetite for human pee.

Mountain goats aren't a native species in the park. Since their introduction in the 1920s, their numbers have blossomed into a staggering 700 ungulates. Now, with humans flooding the area and routinely relieving themselves on various hiking trails, the goats have developed an insatiable thirst for urine, which serves as a strong source of salt and minerals.

October 1, 1935, Born on this day singer, actress, Julie Andrews, (1965 UK & US No.1 album 'The Sound Of Music', spent 382 weeks on the UK chart). via thisdayinmusic.com

October 1, 1956, After test audiences gave a negative reaction to Elvis Presley dying at the end of the film Love Me Tender, The King was called back to re-shoot the scene. In the new ending, the hero lived. via thisdayinmusic.com

He campaigned on a wall between the US and Mexico. Without much help from the spineless GOP eunuchs and the sleazy Democrats President Donald Trump is building the wall.

A 14-mile section of President Trump’s border wall is under construction in San Diego, at a cost of $147 million.

The money comes from the omnibus spending bill that Trump signed in March. The legislation included a $1.6 billion down payment on the “great, great” wall that – Trump promised throughout his presidential campaign – would stretch across the nation’s southern border.

The San Diego wall will reach up to 30 feet high, topped with a sheer vertical “anti-climbing plate” that offers no hand- or footholds for illicit border crossers.

It will replace a long stretch of 8-to-10-foot-high metal fencing that was built in the 1990s out of scrap metal and repurposed steel plates. Rusted and wobbly in places, the old wall has been no match for drug smugglers and human traffickers.

Instead of waiting for a comprehensive bill funding a new wall, President Trump is doing what a businessman does: making the best use of the limited resources at his disposal.

Sources of existential angst.

When the CDC reported a few months ago that suicide rates had risen over the last two decades in nearly every state in the U.S. — going up by a third in half of them — there was much discussion around literal and digital kitchen tables as to what exactly was behind such morbid statistics. Some posited that what we’re seeing is the result of a kind of existential crisis haunting our society.

The most common hypotheses forwarded as to what is causing this crisis are: 1) the decline of religion, 2) a lack of community, and 3) the scarcity of truly purposeful work.

All of these factors make for highly compelling, sensible narratives, and all have undoubtedly greatly contributed to modernity’s crisis of meaning.

Yet I have just one issue with assigning them full explanatory power: they don’t fit with my own personal experience.

Higher education, what is it good for? My guess a degree in prostitution would open more doors then say "Gender Studies".

A university has been branded "beyond disgraceful" after it encouraged students to consider prostitution .

The University of Brighton allowed the Sex Workers' Outreach Project (SWOP) to run a stall at its Freshers' Fair on Tuesday and Thursday.

It offered students advice on how to become a sex worker, and gave out free condoms and lube.

The stand also invited students to play on the 'wheel of sexual wellbeing' - and prizes included underwear.

SWOP describes itself as a 'discreet and confidential trans inclusive service for women working in the sex industry who live or work in Sussex."

Canada has given us some pretty neat things over the years. The latest gift is Alcohockey.

Holy C-R-A-P

I guess Wisconsin isn't the only state with "Deplorables".

“Having money enabled me to live my wildest dreams,” he said. “But there’s a flip side. It’s the lottery curse.” Curse my ass. You're a Genius Award Winner.

Using his one wish for everyone. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A 9-year-old boy in Watertown, South Dakota used his wish from Make-A-Wish to throw a party for his entire school.

Javier Amos has been battling leukemia. And the best news is he's now in remission.

The Make-a-Wish Foundation recently approached his family to grant him any wish he wanted. Javier could have gone to Disney World or met his favorite athlete.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:02 PM

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