Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (8/22/23

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"I've got young kids and I don't want them breathing that in for years if we don't know if it could be detrimental to their health down the road, Adam Flaherty

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“It’s an absolute joke, and it would be considered an absolute joke by any responsible prosecutor. I would have kicked somebody out of my office who said that to begin with,” Sol Wisenberg

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“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Lenin

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“Dear Cristina, I know how much you are in love with him mentally and sexually. And I know that before him you had a relationship with an industrialist acquaintance,” he disclosed of another alleged affair. “Don’t think it pleases me to look like a cuckold in front of all of you.” Millionaire Italian banker Massimo Segre

Oh Bill Gates. Why don't you go have sexual intercourse with yourself. You can do that while watching the blue screen.

Bill Gates: Every Person on Earth Should ‘Prove Their Identity’ with ‘Digital ID’

It is time to put this political persecution to an end. If I were Donald J. Trump, I would tell the State of Georgia, Fuck off and extradite me. I'm not showing up in Atlanta and I sure as hell won't give up my 1st Amendment Rights. Fuck off!

A state judge in Georgia on Monday issued an order that limited what former President Donald Trump can say on social media about his case.

Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee signed an order that bars Trump from contacting any of the 18 co-defendants in the case except through their attorneys. Also, the order “bans the former president from intimidating co-defendants or witnesses in the case, including through posts on social media,” The Hill reported.

Would DeSantis approve an extradition request?

Offended!

Right? Wrong? A combination of the two? Bill Burr NSFW-LANGUAGE

Perhaps if the "Senior Management Team" were doing its job, they wouldn't be beleaguered.

'More than 1,500' artefacts were stolen from British Museum, internal investigation reportedly reveals
A Unesco antiquities trafficking expert says the theft is "probably the worst case so far"

The total number of artefacts allegedly taken by curator Peter Higgs is thought to be “closer to 2,000”, a source told The Daily Telegraph.

The total number of artefacts allegedly taken by curator Peter Higgs is thought to be “closer to 2,000”, a source told The Daily Telegraph.

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The number of items allegedly taken from the British Museum’s collection by the senior curator Peter Higgs is thought to total more than 1,500 separate artefacts, according to an internal investigation conducted by the museum and reportedly seen by The Daily Telegraph.

Higgs, the museum’s curator of Greek collections, Greek sculpture and the Hellenistic period, was last week named by The Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers as the prime suspect behind the disappearance of a host of artefacts held in the museum’s collection, many of which he is alleged to have sold on eBay, often for a tiny percentile of their estimated value. One Roman object, dating back more than two millennia and valued at up to £50,000, was allegedly sold for £40 on the e-commerce site.

Higgs is alleged to have removed items from the collection, without detection and for many years, with artefacts from the collection appearing on eBay as far back as 2016. The total number of artefacts allegedly taken by Higgs is thought to be “closer to 2,000”, a source told The Daily Telegraph.

Higgs was dismissed earlier this year and has not as yet been arrested, although the Metropolitan police have confirmed they are investigating. Higgs's family has denied the allegations against him.

The sheer number of artefacts taken from the museum’s collection will heap further pressure on a beleaguered senior leadership team, including Hartwig Fischer, the museum’s outgoing director.

Oh wonderful! It is Face Diaper time again in California.

Major Hollywood Studio Gives Employees Bad News, Brings Back Mask Mandate

Major Hollywood movie studio Lionsgate brought back the mask mandate for nearly half of the company’s employees at its main office at 2700 Colorado Ave. in Santa Monica.

The change was announced by Sommer McElroy, Response Manager for Lionsgate/Starz, in an email, to employees.

The email said: “Employees must wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.”

Don't ever say, "I'll vote Democrat when there are spotless giraffes. Because you'll be voting for Commies.

World's only living spotless giraffe born as zoo asks for public's help in naming it

One of the zoo's reticulated giraffes gave birth to what is believed to be the world's only living spotless giraffe calf, but despite all the excitement they have yet to find a name for the newborn

Spotty McNotSpot.

Reason #43 I stopped donating to the GOP.

“I intend to sue the RNC to halt Wednesday’s presidential debate,” Elder wrote in a tweet. “I said from the beginning that it appeared the rules of the game were rigged, little did we know just how rigged it is. For some reason, the establishment leaders at the RNC are afraid of having my voice on the debate stage. Just as I had to fight to successfully be on the ballot in the California recall election, I will fight to be on that debate stage because I fully met all of the requirements to do so.”

The ONT is happy to share Tucker Carlson with you tonight...........

Living at Casa Misanthrope has its benefits. One of those benefits is not being in a HOA. Do HOAs just make up shit as they go along or is this pretty much standard?

Homeowner devastated by HOA’s bizarre and restrictive new vehicle ban: ‘It’s my only way to work’

A homeowner shared their struggles with their HOA after it banned e-bikes and other forms of transportation.

In a recent post on the r/HOA subreddit, a user explained the conflict that their HOA has created for their commute.

“It’s my only way to work,” the user wrote in their caption.

On this day: August 22, 2011 - Jerry Leiber
Songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 78 from cardio-pulmonary failure. With Mike Stoller he wrote many hits including: 'Hound Dog', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'King Creole', 'There Goes My Baby', 'Searchin', 'Yakety Yak', 'Stand By Me', 'Poison Ivy,' and 'Kansas City'. via thisdayinmusic.com

And this my friends and colleagues is why I don't do ski lifts or similar transport. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

This is the moment the first child is rescued from a cable car dangling 1,200 feet in the air in Pakistan.

The child was one of seven children aged between 10 and 15 trapped inside the chair lift for more than 10 hours, which was dangling by just one wire after another snapped.

As he was turning his life around he became tonight's: Posthumous Genius Award Winner.

A teenager died Sunday in a wild crash after fleeing from police in Belchertown on Sunday night, according to authorities.

Massachusetts State Police troopers tried to stop a car at 8:45 p.m. on Route 202, but the vehicle sped away, police said. The vehicle was being operated erratically and failed to stay within marked lanes, according to State Police spokesman David Procopio.

The driver, a 19-year-old New Hampshire man, ran a red light at the intersection with Route 9 and crashed into a mulch bed and the car became airborne, police said.

As Mamma Mis Hum would say, "I guess he won't be doing that again."

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