Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (9/3/19)

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If racism is so pervasive, so endemic in white people’s DNA (as the half-white Lightbringer charged), then why should white people even TRY to fix something which is genetic and immutable? It is a vile lie. The overwhelming majority of white people are NOT racists, including the President. Susan Vass, AKA Ammo Grrrll

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"The Line 3 pipeline would threaten Minnesota’s public waters, lands, and agricultural areas important to several Tribal Nations. I’m with @MN_350 and Minnesota organizers fighting to #StopLine3 and protect our environment." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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"The political room for the chief executive who, unfortunately, has to serve two masters by constitution, that is the central people’s government and the people of Hong Kong, that political room for maneuvering is very, very, very limited," "For a chief executive to have caused this huge havoc to Hong Kong is unforgivable." Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam

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I’ll buy into gender identity politics when I see young female athletes transitioning in droves so they can compete with males in the name of equality. Professor Mike Adams

Hurricane Dorian update. To those who may be in its path, be safe!

More news on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Hell has no fury like a woman husband scorned.

In the past three weeks I have circled back to interview sources whom I have found to be highly reliable in the Omar saga. They open a window onto the scandals from the perspective of Ahmed Hirsi, her long-time partner and the father of her three children. According to sources, Hirsi is telling friends:

• that he will not go to jail for Omar;

• that while Omar did indeed marry her brother (Ahmed Elmi) for fraudulent purposes, Hirsi did not know at the time that she had married Elmi;

• that Omar is threatening Hirsi he would be in trouble along with her if the truth were to come out;

• that Omar has asked him to state publicly that all is well with their marriage even though it is completely done and finished; and

• that in fact they are living apart and have been divorced under Islamic law (although they remain legally married).

Having humiliated Ahmed Hirsi by her affair with Tim Mynett, Omar now wants Hirsi to perform public relations services for her to suppress the scandal. That is cold.

Cold indeed. But given her track record, would you expect any less?

There is no excuse to be such a f*cking idiot. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) but the congress critter is that. A dangerous idiot.

Dem Congressman Claims It's Easier to Buy an AR-15 Than Sudafed, Hilarity Ensues

Please note that David Cicilline is a fully Twitter-credentialed member of the Blue Checkmark Outrage Brigade. That's because he's a congressman representing Rhode Island’s 1st District, chairman of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, and chairman also of the Antitrust Subcommittee. So you'd think Cicilline would have some familiarity with the law, but you'd be wrong.

Cicilline did, however, receive quite the education in his Twitter mentions, on the off chance he actually reads them, and on the even more remote chance that he's capable of comprehending them.

There comes a time in everyone's life where they need to just walk away. At age 87 former sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ, Joe Arpaio wants his old job back.

Political demographics in Arizona are shifting in Democrats' favor. But Joe Arpaio insists his comeback bid for Maricopa County sheriff will succeed if he stays true to his tough-on-crime brand and unconditional support for President Trump.

In nearly a quarter-century as the top cop in what's now the nation's fourth most populous county, Arpaio earned cheers and derision nationally, particularly over his targeting of illegal immigrants. Critics accused Arpaio, 87, of inhumane treatment of inmates and racial profiling. In 2017, a federal judge found him guilty of contempt of court, but Trump pardoned him before sentencing.

I give this teacher an A in effectiveness and a B+ in originality. A teacher is under fire for his cheating prevention product.

A Mexican teacher has come under fire for making high-school students wear cardboard boxes on their heads to block their peripheral vision and prevent them from copying on an exam.

Luis Juárez Texis, the director of Campus 01 “El Sabinal” at the College of Bachelors, in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, has been accused of humiliating and breaking the basic human rights of his students, after a photo of him overseeing an exam where the students wore cardboard boxes on their heads went viral online. The students’ parents shared the photo on social media and issued a public statement asking educational authorities in Mexico to dismiss Texis.

The ONT is always looking out for you. Tonight's safety warning: Be careful if you purchase "smart" light bulbs.

You know what's great about putting wifi-enabled, Turing-complete computers into things like lightbulbs? Not. A. Single. Fucking. Thing.

In the latest installment in the Internet of Shit edition of the unanticipated (but totally predictable) consequences, Americablog editor John Aravosis discovered that the Philips Hue lightbulbs he returned to Amazon were now on in someone else's house -- but still under his control.

He discovered this because the new owner, "Amanda Jean," initialized the bulbs, and then his Hue app started to send him a stream of updates from Amanda Jean's house, along with the address for her IoT hub and her email address.

The new reversible bumper sticker depending on who is president.

A prison term for adultery wasn't enough. Husband shoots wife when she files for divorce.

A man shot his wife dead outside a court in the capital of the Kurdistan Region on Sunday where they were dealing with their divorce, local authorities said.

The incident occurred in the car park of the Irbil Court of Law after the couple’s fourth divorce session – with police saying the man shot his wife six times.

Neither of their identities have been made public and further investigation into the incident remains ongoing.

Life mean life. Sirhan Sirhan, Kennedy murderer shanked in prison.

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian found guilty of shooting US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to death in 1968, was wounded in a stabbing at a California prison on Friday, according to media reports.

Celebrity website TMZ, citing unnamed sources, was first to report that Sirhan, 75, had been stabbed.

If I were on Twitter this is what I would Tweet to Uncle Joe "Paste Eater" Biden. You sir are dumber than a box of fucking rocks.

During a Labor Day campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden suggested banning “magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them” as a solution to the problem of gun violence.

“The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them – it’s absolutely mindless,” Biden told assembled reporters.

As several commenters and pundits pointed out on Twitter, banning magazines that can hold more than one bullet would essentially outlaw all guns except those that use single-shot magazines, such as muskets and flint-lock pistols.

Since I'm not banned here, I can say that.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is not the brightest bulb in the pack.

I like what I like, but according to an "expert" I don't know how to listen to music. How to really listen to music.

There is a reason why it is recommended you eat fruits and vegetables. Unless you're a Genius Award Winner Runner-up.

A teenager in the United Kingdom described as a “fussy eater” lost his vision due to a strict diet of Pringles, French fries, white bread, processed ham and sausage.

A case study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, shows the boy suffered from nutritional optic neuropathy, a dysfunction of the optic nerve cause by a diet low in nutrients required for nerve fibres in the eye to function. The condition can lead to permanent vision loss if left untreated.

Researchers at the Bristol Eye Hospital in the U.K. said the boy first visited his family doctor as a 14-year-old with a normal body mass index, but complained of tiredness. His doctor gave him some vitamin B12 injections to treat low levels of the vitamin and suggested some dietary changes.

Where the hell were his parents?

She never heard of "You can have your day in court." Genius Award Winner.

Excellent Genius Award Winner video which made me think of this:

The first day of school can be frightening. A young child in the 2nd grade is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. H/T CBD

Connor Crites was starting second grade at Minneha Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas. But rather than playing with friends or exploring the playground, Connor was tucked into a corner, crying.

Children with autism often struggle to process new situations, and with all the excitement and stimulation of the first day of school, Connor simply became overwhelmed.

But 8-year-old Christian, also starting second grade, took notice of the sad boy, crying by himself.

Without a word, Christian walked over to Connor and took his hand.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

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