Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/4/21)

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"If it's consensual from the husband, it's not an affair. But it's not different to when I was single, the really big difference is that I come back to my husband at the end of it and I know that he's happy with me doing it so that makes me happy."Rae Nemetsky

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"To whoever the fuck doesn't like the United States of America, may God bless you, but fuck you at the same time," Rapper Pit Bull

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“You alone are on high, and you’ve made these decisions, a lawyer with no scientific background, no medical degree.

This is an arrogance, coupled with authoritarianism that is unseemly and un-American." Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

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"I'd rather them keep a Confederate monument than a statue of Clarence Thomas. That's how much I don't like the idea," Georgia State Rep. Donna McLeod (D)

Video released by cops early Monday captures the moment a vandal on a skateboard tossed paint on a George Floyd statue in Union Square.

The clip caught the unidentified suspect ducking behind a nearby statue of the late Rep. John Lewis around 10:15 a.m. Sunday and messing with something in his backpack before he skateboarded toward the Floyd installation.

He is shown hurling gray paint on the face and base of the Floyd bust and then riding off, heading north on the west side of the park.

Two people — apparently an adult and child — were standing nearby as the suspect flung the paint, thwarting the adult’s attempt to take a photo of the statue, the footage shows.

Could the simple 2 stroke leaf blower be the cause of our doom? According to some it is.

Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.

According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.

And according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, two-stroke engines expose their operators to unusually high levels of carcinogens, including benzene and other dangerous substances. From an EPA paper:

I wonder what Skippy thinks of the various two stroke engines located here at Casa Misanthrope.

Whatever the government touches turns to shit. How could this possibly go smoothly without any graft?

Can a post office be a bank? New services test a progressive priority
A recently launched Postal Service pilot program expands the limited financial services the agency offers in four cities, a potential first step toward a return to postal banking.

NSFW - Language Paul Joseph Watson takes a look at Afghani hotel guests.

No you fucking jackass, you were not taken out of context. Fauci, The Fraudster, backs off his weekend comments. I believe he's been afflicted with diarrhea of the mouth.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday said that he would be spending Christmas with his family, and encouraged others to do the same, after saying over the weekend that it was too soon to tell if Americans could spend the holiday together.

“I will be spending Christmas with my family. I encourage people — to have a good, normal Christmas with your family,” he told CNN host Kate Bolduan.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to Joe Biden, called reports quoting what he said on Sunday “disinformation.”

“I said something over the weekend that was taken completely out of context,” Fauci told Bolduan. “I was asked what could we predict for this winter for like December and Christmas.”

Mentally ill loser named Sportswoman of The Year.

Despite failing on all Olympic lifts, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was recently named University of Otago’s “sportswoman of the year.”

Per the Otago Daily Times “The Queenstown athlete became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics when she contested the women’s 87+kg at the Tokyo Games this year. The 43-year-old was eliminated from the event when she failed to make a successful lift in the snatch. Her achievement was recognised with the sportswoman of the year award at University of Otago and OUSA Blues and Golds Awards on Tuesday.”

Hubbard said in response to the award “It is not possible for athletes to complete at the Olympic level without the encouragement and aroha of friends, family and supporters. This award belongs to everyone who has been part of my Olympic journey.”

Hubbard was knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics after failing all 3 lift attempts.

Hero or dumbshit? You be the judge.

HERO TO THE END Hero dad died saving his four-year-old son after kayak capsized by holding up toddler while treading water

A HERO father died after saving his four-year-old son from drowning when their kayak capsized, it has been reported.

Peter Flinch, 33, was forced to hold his toddler in the air and tread water when the disaster struck in Gwandalan, Australia at 5.30pm on Friday.

You can have your cake and eat it to. But, it will cost you.

We are seeing some couples forgo the traditional wedding cake in favor of modern alternatives, like towers of cheese and pie stations, but most weddings in the U.S. still include a wedding cake. After all, it’s one of those long-standing traditions that doesn’t just end that easily.

But it turns out that some newlyweds may turn a little overcontrolling when it comes to who eats their cake and how many slices, exactly, they have. This is what happened to one wedding-goer who recently shared a screenshot of a message they received. The text said “Hey, so we were just looking at the CCTV and saw that you had two pieces of wedding cake.”

The couple announced that each guest had to contribute towards the cake and pay £3.66 per slice! As you can imagine, this unusual approach didn’t go unnoticed and people on the r/weddingshaming subreddit where the story was posted just couldn’t miss a chance to comment on the absurdity of this situation.

On this day: 4 Oct 1970
US singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the Landmark Hotel Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. Joplin had the posthumous 1971 US No.1 single 'Me And Bobby McGee', and the 1971 US No.1 album 'Pearl'. She was known as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul" and as "Pearl" to her friends, Joplin remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with over 15.5 million albums sold in the USA. via thisayinmusic.com

On this day: 4 Oct 1978
Country singer Tammy Wynette was abducted, beaten and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper wearing a ski mask. He held a gun on her and forced her to drive 90 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. She was later released and the kidnapper escaped. via thisdayinmusic.com

Genius Award Winner.

And just like that, there was one less criminal. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

An armed customer witnessing a robbery at a Texas fried chicken restaurant last week sprang into action — fatally shooting one gun-toting suspect and wounding the other, reports said.

The wild scene unfolded at Church’s Chicken in Port Arthur at about 8:45 p.m. Friday, KDFM reported.

The duo of crooks fled the fast foot eatery after they were shot. But they were soon located and one died at an area hospital, police said.

The other suspect is expected to recover.

Too Misanthropic? How about this.

William Shatner is our Feel Good Story of The Day.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Star Trek’s Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.

Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.

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