Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (10/1/19)

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“This isn’t a sexual thing. I should be able to wear exactly what my husband wears. You shouldn’t be embarrassed about this.” Tilli Buchanan

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“I think my First Amendment rights have been violated because it’s not spelled out like he said on the ticket. That we should have the right to express our opinions, and the freedom of speech, and they’re trying to take it away, the constitutional right, they’re trying to take all that away from us, like American ain’t free no more.” Nicholas Ennis

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"Senior leadership [at Wag] was disengaged from the company and product and didn't have a good understanding as to the strategy needed to make it viable long term. Wag never appeared to have a coherent way to measure successes and failures." Eric Weinmann

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re-elected Liberal government with expand the Learn To Camp program.

Under the Learn To Camp program, every Canadian will be provided with a tub of boot polish, a novelty turban, a jewel to stick in your belly button, and genie slippers with curly toes, and trained how to swish across a Vancouver ballroom while asking other guests to tally your banana. Mark Steyn

That sound you hear? The world's smallest violins playing.

Missouri officials executed convicted murderer Russell Bucklew by lethal injection Tuesday night despite objections from activists who thought the method would lead to a gruesome death, CNN affiliate KFVS reported.
Bucklew, 51, was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and first-degree burglary in 1997. He was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. CT (7:23 p.m. ET), KFVS said.

Bucklew was convicted of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend's presumed new boyfriend, Michael Sanders, and firing at Sanders' son before kidnapping Stephanie Ray Pruitt.

After raping his ex-girlfriend, court documents state, Bucklew was involved in a gunfight in which he and a Missouri state trooper were injured.

Guess what? The science of red meat isn't so settled.

It is perhaps fitting that just as McDonald's introduces meatless burgers, a new study, published in the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, is overturning years' worth of dietary recommendations that we eat less red meat. Not that everyone is taking the study as the final word, however.

A panel of fourteen researchers and three community members from seven countries (reporting no conflicts of interest), directed by Dalhousie University epidemiologist, Bradley Johnson, studied 61 articles on all-cause mortality that included a total of four million participants. The team also reviewed dozens of trials linking red meat to cancer, heart disease, and mortality. The team concluded that the evidence between red meat, both unprocessed and processed, and health problems is "low to very low."

So, which one of you Michigan Morons were responsible for this?

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan are investigating after a digital billboard at the side of a busy highway played a pornographic video for about 20 minutes.

Auburn Hills police said officers responded to the east side of Interstate 75, south of M-9, about 11 p.m. Saturday when drivers reported seeing a pornographic video playing on the screen, which faces both north and south.

Gov. Gavin Newsome (D-CA) Looking out for college athletes or expanding the tax base?

California just turned college sports upside down.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will allow college athletes to use their name, image and likeness to endorse products. That runs directly opposite long-standing rules from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and could lead to a defining court battle.

The bill, which passed the California legislature unanimously, would go into effect in 2023. It stops the NCAA from barring a university from competition if athletes receive endorsements, ranging from major companies to paid youth coaching positions. Student athletes would also be allowed to hire agents.

No need for blood hounds when you have drones. Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone

Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout.

The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002.

He had been living in a tiny cave cut off from human interaction for years.

Yongshan police received clues about Song's whereabouts in early September, they said on their WeChat account.

Those clues led them to the mountains behind his hometown in Yunnan province in south-west China.

Seafood, pork, poultry, beef all good. Insects, not so much.

Permit me to confess that I’m not exactly a fan of our friends in the insect kingdom. Regarding one of the most disgusting sights mine eyes have ever seen—that of a rat scurrying across Manhattan’s Washington Square Park with a cockroach in its mouth—my revulsion was rooted in the fact that the noble little rodent would deign to forever degrade himself in this way. It’s not that I’m warmly disposed toward rats or snakes, but there’s something about insects that is so mechanical and hyper-prehistoric—and, dare I say, 100% soulless—that they inspire a rare level of dread in me.

Human nature on display. Of course this was going to happen. Employees are sabotaging workplace robots.

UK workers are sabotaging and assaulting workplace robots in an attempt to stop them taking their jobs, finds study.

It's a common science fiction depiction of the future, artificial intelligence overthrows the human race.

But for some manual workers they have found their own ways of stopping the robots' rise to world domination - by confusing them.

Go woke, go broke? Kroger cashier provides another reason for AI.

On that particular Sunday in 2016, as she approached the counters, a teenage cashier stepped away to talk about her T-shirt with a co-worker. She overheard the cashier saying she declined to ring up her groceries because she was offended by her “Police Lives Matter” T-shirt.

“She was stating that the shirt I had on was basically a slap in the face to her and she was doing everything she could not to cry,” Meredith told KTRK. “She made me feel ashamed to have the shirt on and I don’t appreciate that,” she added.

On this day: 1 Oct 2004
The Lord Mayor of Melbourne officially opened 'AC/DC' Lane after the veteran rockers. The Lord Mayor erected the sign to cheers and bagpipes playing the bands song 'Long Way To The Top'. The City of Melbourne had extra copies of the sign made, in anticipation of fans stealing them. via thisdayinmusic.com

If you shoot at someone, don't be a Genius Award Winner.

Listen, when you need your sleep, you need your sleep. I get it, I’ve been there. I need at least 5 hours or else I’ll be a walking zombie throughout the whole day. So, I totally get where this man was coming from, okay. But unfortunately, this is wrong and well, you can see why this could be quite a little problem.

James Michael Meyer, a 72-year-old from Dallas who has the coolest name ever, fatally shot a suspected burglar outside his home and decided to just go back to sleep before calling the police. You know, just the normal thing to do whenever you shoot someone in the middle of your sleep.

Protecting Mom. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

The gun control orgs in this country love to use domestic violence as one of their rationales for limiting Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. The cite the number of spouses — usually women — who are injured or killed by husbands, boyfriends and exes.

What they somehow fail to mention, though, are the women who don’t rely on court orders to keep them safe. Women who arm themselves in case an abusive significant other decides to attack.

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