Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (12/17/19)

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‘A bunch of people jumped on him and they managed to hold the guy down and beat them up bad until the cops arrived and even then he was resisting arrest.’Matthew Monte

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“We’re providing advice about the health risks from drinking alcohol so that we can all make informed decisions in our daily lives – for ourselves and for our children,” Anne Kelso

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"Well, some of the things I’m hearing from the senators looks like they plan to rig the trial. You know, I think that’s a serious problem for the country, but I think it’s a problem for Trump as well. President Trump is hoping to be exonerated. He will not be exonerated if everyone knows he rigged the trial. If they’re not going to hear any evidence, if senators announce that they’ve already made up their minds, they don’t need to look at the facts, that doesn’t clear the president if he’s -- if he's not convicted in the -- in the Senate. That’s just a political endeavor to protect a man who is guilty of abusing his power." Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

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“We are very aligned on so many things, how we think about our mission, our infrastructure, what our timelines are—but the nomenclature question just rarely comes up."Brian Spears

Warning/Notice: Political Rant. I normally attempt to keep straight politics out of The ONT. If you don't want politics, please skip the next piece.

Everyday, every f*cking day, my respect for this man grows. I'll be honest Donald Trump was about my 10th choice when the GOP primary was taking place in 2016. Can you imagine Bush, Pataki, or that Face writing something like this. No didn't think so.

truction of Congress. He also weighs in on the GOP's biggest takeaways from the impeachment inquiry.

President Trump, in a blistering, no-holds-barred six-page letter Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., lambasted the Democrats' impeachment inquiry as an "open war on American Democracy," writing that she has violated her oath of office and "cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!"

"Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening," Trump said, just a day before House Democrats were expected to vote to impeach him. "Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat. So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy!"

Win, lose or draw in 2020, I am proud to have him as my president. I'm not sure how he continues to battle the Swamp as he does. As many of our commenters have said over the past 3 years. Please pray for our President.

Well George Conway, to you and to your cohorts, we too can remember names.

A group of conservatives known for their criticism of President Trump, led by lawyer George Conway, is launching a super PAC aimed at stopping Trump from winning reelection.

The Lincoln Project is made up of some of Trump’s staunchest conservative critics and represents the first formal operation for the so-called "Never Trump" movement, according to The Associated Press.

Organizers have reportedly garnered more than $1 million in fundraising commitments, with the hopes of raising much more to spend on anti-Trump advertising in the build-up to the 2020 election.

Please, please tell us how well our country would do under a President Warren. You "Conservatives" won't have anything to conserve.

To make the articles of impeachment more palatable, those articles are to be revised. ORANGE MAN BAD

The two articles of impeachment leveled against President Trump were originally announced to be abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

These didn't poll very well, however, so Democrats went back to the drawing board to come up with something that might play well with their base of radicals. Nancy Pelosi announced Monday that the articles of impeachment will now just read, "ORANGE MAN BAD" in giant letters.

"It's clear, to the point, and honest," said Pelosi. "We congresspeople aren't very used to honesty, so we'll see how this goes. But hopefully, people will see the crime of Trump being a bad orange man definitely rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors."

David French and Joan Goldberg circle jerk one another to completion.

The Religion of Pieces^TMcertainly is patient and disgusting.

The news was buried under two dense paragraphs and five large photos in an article in New York YIMBY about a different project: "Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center." The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project, a long buried effort to build a triumphal mosque at the site of the worst jihad terror attack in American history, is back.

Construction has yet to begin, but it will: the shady developer behind the Ground Zero Mosque scheme, Sharif El-Gamal, has been working to build this sinister structure for years.

Damn!!! Instead of paying at the pump I might have to go into the store.

You might already be wary of gas pump skimmers that can steal your payment information from the card reader. Now, Visa has issued a warning about a new threat at the pump: hackers working through the gas station’s sales system.

Hackers get into the gas station’s point-of-sale system by sending phishing emails to employees, according to Visa’s report, originally shared by Engadget. From there, the hackers get access to your info from your card’s magnetic strip when you insert your card at the pump.

We live in interesting times. There was a time when masks were used for Halloween. Not anymore.

As technology has improved over the years, we’ve become more reliant on automated security systems such as figure print scanners and facial recognition to help us go about our day-to-day lives. Seeing as these technologies are now being used in places like airports and government buildings, the question of how easy it is to fool a facial recognition system has been brought up by Kneron, a leading facial recognition company from San Diego.

To answer this question Kneron printed their very own high-quality 3D mask that accurately resembled another persons face. They then tested the mask across three different platforms in a variety of different countries, and to the surprise of everyone involved the mask managed to fool the systems.

Online returns: Cheaper to toss than to resell.

'It's pretty staggering': Returned online purchases often sent to landfill, journalist's research reveals

Cheaper for businesses to just toss returns than check if they can be resold:

The cost of doing business $76,120.

Scott Lang, the new chief executive officer of Turvo Inc., wants to emphasize an important corporate policy at his startup: Employees may not entertain clients at strip clubs and certainly not bill those trips to the business. The rule is salient because his predecessor was fired for doing just that.

The board accused the co-founder, Eric Gilmore, of expensing $76,120 at strip clubs over a three-year span and removed him as CEO in May, according to legal filings. Gilmore, 39, didn’t deny the accusations, but he sued the company, claiming the board didn’t follow the proper protocol for his termination. Turvo said it did, and they settled in September. Gilmore declined to comment through a spokesman.

Lang, a former executive in the energy industry, joined Turvo just before Thanksgiving. The Silicon Valley startup makes software to help companies track the movement of freight and is backed by about $85 million in venture capital. In his first interview since taking the job, Lang said he’s focused on helping the company move past the scandal. When asked about trying to win over prospective clients at stripper joints, he said: “Never have. Never will.”

Business is business.

The ONT PSA^TM

The Paris Climate Accord won't touch them. Smoke stack emissions won't effect them. We are in a deep solar minimum.

Solar Minimum is becoming very deep indeed. Over the weekend, the sun set a Space Age record for spotlessness. So far in 2019, the sun has been without sunspots for more than 270 days, including the last 33 days in a row. Since the Space Age began, no other year has had this many blank suns.

Are you still shopping for the gift for that hard to please person? Well, these items are certainly unique.

The Stinky Candle Company is committed to offering scented candles that represent the full range of everyday olfactory experiences. So, while they do sell many traditional scents such as christmas tree, chocolate cake batter, lilac, and creme brulee, they also offer non-traditional scents such as chlorine, rotting flesh, gasoline, body odor, fart, skunk, urine, vomit, and "Spawn of the Devil" (which sounds mysterious).

Sounds like the Stinky Candle Company follows the same scent philosophy as Demeter Fragrances, who were selling that glue perfume.

Chips, really? Genius Award Winner.

-A Florida Woman was arrested early yesterday for allegedly throttling her girlfriend during an “acrimonious” 1:30 AM argument over “chips and infidelity,” investigators say.

An arrest affidavit does not provide specifics about the chips (potato, tortilla, corn, etc.) or the alleged straying.

Police charge that Patricia Ann Isaac, 27, and her girlfriend of eight years were arguing early Friday when the duspute “turned physical,” with Isaac allegedly grabbing the victim “by the throat with both her hands.”

Working for your and helping your competitor. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Two coffee shop owners in Oak Grove, Oregon, put friendship before competition Wednesday to walk through a crisis together.

When Dave McAdams and his wife, Tina, opened The Local Coffee Company one year ago, they had no idea their lives were about to take a drastic turn.

Dave was recently diagnosed with inoperable cancer in his lymph nodes and doctors said he has only a few weeks left to live, according to WDSU.

However, when Pixie Adams, the owner of Moonlight Coffeehouse, which sits just a mile away, heard about the family’s struggles, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

“She closed her own shop for a day and ran ours,” Tina said.

From 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., the drive-thru line was bumper to bumper. By the end of the day, the tiny coffee stand had raised a record-breaking $3,000 in sales and donations, according to KPTV.

“I knew that I had to do something to help them keep their business afloat so that Tina could be with Dave,” Pixie said. “So, I decided to take over their shop and throw all of the support I could through my business and my community their way.”

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