Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (10/24/18 ) Traveling

I'm surprised the Chevrolet Vega isn't on this list. But then again, the 10 worst cars is a subjective list.

John Boehner. Do you remember John Boehner? The ONT thought he had faded into the sunset. He's back pontificating on the goodness of grass.

“I realized I was wrong and, let me tell you, I’ve been having more and more meetings with my friends and colleagues on the Hill about this – some of the most conservative politicians around and their views are evolving on cannabis, too, just like the American people,”

Gotta love big cities governed by Libtards. San Francisco is flush with money, or so it appears.

San Francisco's housing crisis is also (of course) a homelessness crisis, and homelessness crises beget public defecation crises -- and San Francisco has a serious public defecation crisis.

The city spends $65 million/year cleaning up the streets, a figure that is so high because of the quantities of feces, urine, and dirty needles that find their way onto San Francisco's streets. And despite the $65 million, San Francisco's streets are very, very dirty.

People poop. Even if there isn't a toilet for them to poop in, they still poop. Where there are no toilets, there is still poop.

Pit Stops are toilets provided for homeless people to use, complete with secure needle disposal boxes. They get used a lot: 50,000 flushes in August across 24 toilets, which cost the city $3.1 million/year (mostly labor -- the toilets are kept clean and sanitary). The $3.1 million seems like a lot, until you realize it's less than 5 percent of what the city is (under)spending to clean up the poop that doesn't get into the toilets. And neighborhoods with Pit Stops have a lot less public poop. People poop, and they prefer to poop in toilets.

Nothing says civility like saying Fvck You in a house of worship.

Democratic Pennsylvania congressional candidate Scott Wallace apologized Monday for using an expletive during a debate with Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick at a synagogue in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Sunday.

Simply put: Thou shalt not steal and Thou Shalt Not Be A Genius Award Winner.

An Arkansas woman dressed as a cow had beef with a Pine Bluff police officer after being arrested on a shoplifting charge Tuesday (Oct. 16) afternoon, our CNN affiliate in Little Rock KATV reports.

27-year-old Ashley Curry was caught on surveillance camera trying to steal a package of Flonase from a Pine Bluff Walmart, KATV says. An officer watched her as she decided to take off, dressed in a cow costume with pink udders, with the allergy spray.

After Curry was detained and was being searched by officers, she allegedly “stuck out her stomach area and told me I could ‘suck a pink cow udder,'” one of the arresting officers said.

Pandora's Box has been opened to our north. Marijuana use etiquette in Canada.

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Canada, its citizens are sure to become far more cannabis-literate. Discussion of cannabis consumption already has taken over the airwaves, where etiquette experts are weighing in with tips for dinner parties, and the do’s and dont’s of instagramming gatherings where people are smoking or vaping marijuana. It won’t be long before wide swaths of the populace are able to grasp expert-level nuances, like the difference in pot’s effects according to its varied strains.

But employers aren’t getting into the weeds—in either sense of the term. Because the science isn’t developed enough for any set level of “safe” marijuana to be established, they’re erring on the side of caution, says Mario Torres, an employment lawyer with Brazeau Seller Law in Ottawa.

So if a product is misused whose fault is it? If you're a trial attorney of course it isn't your client.

Several Californians have sued electric scooter companies Bird and Lime, alleging that the startups have been negligent and are responsible for physical injuries or blocking of handicapped parking spaces.
The proposed class-action lawsuit, Borgia et al. v. Bird Rides Inc. et al., which was filed last Friday in Los Angeles county court, raises a question that has been at the heart of this ever-expanding business model: who is responsible for making sure that riders obey not only existing traffic laws but company policies as well? And if anyone gets hurt by the scooter, who pays?

October 24, 1948, Born on this day, English drummer Dale Griffin, Mott The Hoople, best known for classic tracks 'Roll Away The Stone' and 'All The Young Dudes'. The band who made eight albums during their five-and-a-half year existence, reformed to mark their 40th anniversary in 2009 - but Griffin was too ill to take part. Griffin also produced numerous BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1981 to 1994 including the first professional recording session for Pulp in 1981. Griffin died on 17 January 2016. via thisdayinmusic.com

2016, American singer Bobby Vee died age 73. Vee had 38 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. Vee's recording of 'Take Good Care of My Baby' in the summer of 1961 went to No.1 in the US and No.3 in the UK. Vee's career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died," when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, were killed in an airplane. Vee then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at their next gig. Their performance was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer. via thisdayinmusic.com

And for good measure, dedicated to the Status Quo Appreciation Association

One little girl still enjoys Disney characters and one big girl obliges. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. h/t ibguy

Guilty pleasures? If Rotisserie Chicken is one of your answers, Costco has good news for you.

A handful of companies — think Tyson and Perdue — all but control poultry production in the U.S. They'll soon be joined by a retailer known more for chicken sales than chicken production: Costco. The warehouse retailer is now building a farm-to-table production system to ensure a steady supply of rotisserie chickens.

The center of the operation is currently under construction on the south side of the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont, population about 26,000. Cement trucks come and go as crews line up concrete walls and steel beams for a processing plant, hostaery and feed mill. Around 100 new chicken farms in the area will be under contract to raise the birds.

The concrete shell of the new chicken processing plant is under construction on the south side of Fremont, Neb. The city of about 26,000 people is no stranger to the meat packing business: a Hormel pork plant sits across the road.

When it reaches full capacity, the plant will process more than 2 million chickens per week.

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October 24, 1948, Born on this day, English drummer Dale Griffin, Mott The Hoople, best known for classic tracks 'Roll Away The Stone' and 'All The Young Dudes'. The band who made eight albums during their five-and-a-half year existence, reformed to mark their 40th anniversary in 2009 - but Griffin was too ill to take part. Griffin also produced numerous BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1981 to 1994 including the first professional recording session for Pulp in 1981. Griffin died on 17 January 2016. via thisdayinmusic.com

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2016, American singer Bobby Vee died age 73. Vee had 38 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. Vee's recording of 'Take Good Care of My Baby' in the summer of 1961 went to No.1 in the US and No.3 in the UK. Vee's career began in the midst of tragedy. On February 3, 1959, "The Day the Music Died," when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, were killed in an airplane. Vee then 15 years old, and a hastily assembled band of Fargo schoolboys calling themselves the Shadows volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly and his band at their next gig. Their performance was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer. via thisdayinmusic.com

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