Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (2/9/22)

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“Also, Mayor Adams is a vegan. "Yeah, I know, I thought he was black!" "I know." And this week, he announced, going forward, all New York City schools would have to have mandatory vegan Fridays, which I actually think is a great idea. Yes, because Friday actually needs to be taken down a peg. "Oh, you’re excited for the weekend? How about a tofu sandwich, bitch?" Now, obviously because of this decision, a lot of people are mad – I mean, a lot of people are mad. "You have to eat meat or it’s not a meal!” But if you ask me, there’s nothing wrong with kids being exposed to different kinds of foods and different kinds of diets.” Trevor Noah

Wannabe comedian. Whatever happened to "Choice"?

Quote II

"They handcuffed me, drove me to jail, booked me, had me put in a cell. It was awful. It was embarrassing," Melissa Henderson, from Georgia

What a travesty.

Quote III

“I meant no harm. I just gave the trucker a thumbs-up and a honk,” Gerry Charlebois 78 year old man assaulted by police.

When the divorce comes one thing is certain, the LEOs will not be your friends.

We all know he has applesauce for brains. And he's not going to show us how bad he is.

In a letter noting that President Joe Biden’s “mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past two years,” a group of House Republicans is calling upon the leader of the free world to see whether he is mentally up for the job.

The letter from Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas and signed by 37 of his GOP colleagues, calls upon Biden, 79, to take a cognitive test as did former President Donald Trump.

In January, Biden said he had “no idea” why Americans doubt his competency after a poll was cited in which 48 percent of those surveyed doubted the president’s mental capacity, according to the Daily Mail.

He's just realizing there is a problem in the US? What a brilliant Congress Critter. And I'm being very polite at the moment.

“Am I hearing you right, Congressman? You fear potentially there could be a civil war here in the United States?” a seemingly incredulous Blitzer asked.

“I do. And a year ago, I would have said, no, not a chance. But I have come to realize when we don’t see each other as fellow Americans, when we begin to separate into cultural identities, when we begin to basically give up everything we believe so we can be part of a group, and then when you have leaders that come and abuse that faithfulness of that group to violent ends, as we saw on January 6, we would be naive to think it is not possible here. And it is not like the blue and gray north and the south, it just turns into violence like you see in other countries,” Kinzinger told Blitzer.

In my own misanthropic fashion I feel somewhat sorry for these ski jumpers. Someone let them down, their coaches, team management? Or the judges? Not sure.

Slovenia’s win in the Olympic debut of the mixed team ski jumping event on Monday was overshadowed by a number of disqualifications over suit violations that led several outraged athletes and coaches to slam the sport’s governing body.

Five female ski jumpers, from Germany, Austria, Norway, and Japan, were all disqualified from the competition after officials said their ski suits did not comply with the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) rules.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one. Including Dr Sean Carroll, who is a cosmologist and a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology

A professor who has dedicated much of his life studying the laws of physics and claims that the laws of the universe does not allow consciousness to continue to operate after we die.

Dr Sean Carroll, who is a cosmologist and a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology in the US argues that for there to be an afterlife, consciousness would need to be something that is entirely "separated from our physical body."

And here's the bad news - that's a possibility that the laws of physics deny.

His conclusion on life after death is built on the understanding that “the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood”, so everything occurs within the realms of this.

I guess I'm rube. I believe in life after death.

Another day. Another day with a CNN sex related news story buried by CNN's Tater.

Jury Trial Ordered For CNN's Don Lemon Sexual Assault Case

Looks like the CNN 'days without a sex scandal' counter just got reset again.

A jury trial has been ordered in a 2019 lawsuit against CNN's Don Lemon, who is accused of rubbing his balls in a Hamptons bar and forcing another man to smell his fingers.

We all know there is a black hole joke somewhere in there.

Tonight's Filler Material and Mental Illness display all in one. Love is a combat sport.

A woman who is marrying a ghost claims no church will have the couple and they are being ‘threatened with exorcism’ by priests.

Brocarde, 38, is a singer songwriter from Oxfordshire and fell in love with Edwardo – who she says is the ghost of a Victorian soldier – last year. Edwardo appeared in her home and they have been together since.

Like all couples, they have times of tension, but for the most part are extremely happy.

Hey Casper, just a little advice don't stick your dick into crazy.

Schools have all sorts of labs and workshops. Guns are tools. It's nice seeing gun labs in schools.

Internet Melts Down Over Wyoming Kids Learning to Shoot In Their School Gym

After seeing this headline the mouthful of coffee hit the screen. Pelosi Says Congress Needs to ‘Tighten the Fines’ on Violators of Congressional Stock Trading Act

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said that she supports increasing restrictions on the trading of stocks by members of Congress.

“We have to tighten the fines on those who violate the STOCK Act. It’s not sufficient to deter behavior,” Pelosi told reporters in Washington during a Feb. 9 press conference.

The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act bars members and employees of Congress from “using nonpublic information derived from their official positions” to inform purchases or sales of individual stocks. It also requires members to report trades within 45 days.

A total of 55 members of Congress have violated the law, according to an investigation by Business Insider. However, penalties “are often minimal and are not disclosed to the public,” according to the Campaign Legal Center. Fines for first-time violators start at just $200.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

On this day:February 9th, 1997 - Brian Connolly
Scottish singer Brian Connolly with the Seventies Glam rock group Sweet died of kidney and liver failure aged 51. Connolly replaced Ian Gillan (later of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath ) in Wainwright's Gentlemen who became Sweetshop and then shortened to Sweet. The group scored 15 UK top 40 hits including the 1973 No.1 hit ‘Block Buster’. via thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this day:February 9th, 1942 - Carole King
Carole King, US singer, songwriter who wrote many songs with Gerry Goffin including the 1962 UK No.3 & US No.22 single, 'It Might As Well Rain Until September'. Her 1970 US No.1 album 'Tapestry' has sold over 15 million copies and became a Grammy award winner in 71. via thisdayinmusic.com

Here's a guy who has no more fvcks to give at the time and now is a Genius Award Winner.

Cowgill started off the trip in his work van by not only drinking, but drinking a previously unopened bottle of sparkling wine. So, number one, drinking and driving is horrifying, not to mention illegal and life-threatening behavior, but he opened the bottle of bubbly while driving. If you can think of a more difficult kind of booze to crack into while traveling at speed on busy roads, I’d like to hear it. Cowgill gave the briefest of glances at his employer’s in-cab recorder before tipping the bottle back. He didn’t even seem to enjoy the booze all that much, but he kept at it anyway.

Drinking and driving is incredibly serious, but Cowgill isn’t quite done. You don’t win a distracted driving triathlon by only completing one segment of stupidity. For his next event, Cowgill rolled his own cigarette while driving, filter and all, and then doesn’t even smoke it! It’s for later! Couldn’t rolling the cigarette also have waited for later? Apparently not.

A little dusty in here. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A teenager who donated £1,000 of his own life savings to help save a six-year-old boy he had never met has tragically died from cancer.

Rhys Langford, 19, started fundraising for Jacob Jones to potentially receive treatment for neuroblastoma in America while he underwent surgery and chemotherapy for his osteosarcoma.

But in December, he was sadly told that the disease which he thought he had beaten had returned, and that he was terminal.

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