Sunday Overnight Open Thread (3/10/24

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“Mr. Schultz, a member of the U.S. Army, stands accused of conspiring to obtain and provide national defense information to an individual overseas,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department

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“If you look at how Joe Biden usually is — slow and stumbling — compared to how he was during the State of the Union — fiery and angry — these are signs that are typical for someone taking Adderall or any amphetamine,” Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, California
Adderall hell! We have a good idea whose cocaine it was now at the White House. It wasn't Hunter's. MushHead forgot where he stashed his coke.

As usual a difficult job to pick out The Comments of The Week on Sunday afternoon. Thank you every Commenter.

Don't let the following story throw you. Since The ONT Is Always Looking Out For You^TM any time you can exercise is the best time to exercise.

PEAK FITNESS Best times of the day to do your daily exercise revealed including why you should wait until late to do yoga
Find out the best time to swim, run, and attend circuit classes

Mood swings, flying off the handle and jumping to conclusions are not exercises.

What do you get with broken families, web addiction and the lack of spiritual upbringing? AI girlfriends.

SOME LIKE IT BOT AI-powered ‘girlfriends’ created by women promise ‘no maintenance’ – but experts warn over ‘terrible’ consequence
Some experts have cautioned against using such technology

ROMANTICS looking for love have turned to AI-powered girlfriends created by real women – and even couples are signing up.

Artificial intelligence-powered girlfriends, or chatbots programmed to provide companionship, are gaining traction.

America’s Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant

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In 2020, the restaurant business as we knew it looked like a goner. Even its own lobbying group said so. As the pandemic crushed bars and sit-downs, the National Restaurant Association put out a dire prediction: The business would likely never return to its pre-pandemic state.

What we thought was true. Is true. The FBI is a shit stirring organization.

New evidence suggests that the FBI purposefully tolerated and encouraged political violence ahead of the 2020 presidential election so as to target perceived domestic extremists for arrest.

The evidence includes “[t]housands of pages of internal FBI reports and hundreds of hours of undercover recordings” that were obtained by The Intercept, a “progressive” news source.

Blood pressure not spiking enough? The J6 Congressional committee was a Kangaroo Committee. But we already knew that.

The Jan. 6 congressional committee allegedly falsely claimed it did not have evidence showing former President Donald Trump’s administration requested National Guard assistance, according to a report detailing a "hidden transcript" that was recently released.

"The former J6 Select Committee apparently withheld Mr. Ornato’s critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their pre-determined narrative. Mr. Ornato’s testimony proves what Mr. Meadows has said all along: President Trump did in fact offer 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. Capitol, which was turned down," Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk said in a statement on Friday.

Loudermilk released a transcript of former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato’s interview with the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6 on Friday, following the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, also a Fox News contributor, reporting,

The Anthropocene is dead. Long live the Anthropocene - Panel rejects a proposed geologic time division reflecting human influence, but the concept is here to stay

For now, we're still in the Holocene.

Science has confirmed that a panel of two dozen geologists has voted down a proposal to end the Holocene—our current span of geologic time, which began 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age—and inaugurate a new epoch, the Anthropocene. Starting in the 1950s, it would have marked a time when humanity’s influence on the planet became overwhelming. The vote, first reported by The New York Times, is a stunning—though not unexpected—rebuke for the proposal, which has been working its way through a formal approval process for more than a decade.

“The decision is definitive,” says Philip Gibbard, a geologist at the University of Cambridge who is on the panel and serves as secretary-general of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the body that governs the geologic timescale. “There are no outstanding issues to be resolved. Case closed.”

So it just isn't the Moron Horde who does not want Mitch McConnell's acolyte Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas as the new GOP leader in the senate.

It's Not Just GOA Who Wants Cornyn Nowhere Near Senate Leadership

Sen. John Cornyn handed the Biden administration a huge win by working with the White House to pass the Safter Communities Act. He went against his party's usual stand on gun control and managed to spearhead an effort to get it passed in the Senate, which had been where gun control went to die.

To say he irked a lot of us is to put it mildly.

Frankly, I'd love to see him voted out of office entirely. For now, though, he's still in office and he's got his eye on Mitch McConnell's old job as minority leader.

Gun Owners of America already took a shot at Cornyn.

And lest anyone thing it's just GOA or even me that has an issue with Cornyn, don't get it twisted. A lot of people don't want him near the leadership role. One of those is John Lott.

The State of Washington is looking more and more like East Germany or any other Communist Bloc country.

The Washington state legislature has passed a bill to create a statewide snitching infrastructure for residents to report their neighbors for "wrongspeak."
Senate Bill 5427, which passed both the Senate and the House and now awaits Gov. Jay Inslee's signature, allows private individuals, including non-citizens and illegal aliens, to reports "bias incidents" to the state attorney general's office. Each reporting incident comes with a potential reward payout of $2,000.

The bill's supporters say its purpose is to protect "victims of hate crimes" before said crimes even occur, but at what cost? In essence, SB 5427 creates a tattletale hotline designed to intimidate people in Washington from speaking their minds, especially when such speech might be politically incorrect.

From what we can tell, SB 5427 is unconstitutional for at least the following five reasons:

1) It infringes on one's right to confront his accuser

2) It impedes freedom of speech

3) It violates freedom of thought, an implied right in the First Amendment

4) It steamrolls freedom of religion

5) It impairs freedom of the press

Jeepers, with a $2,000 payout, money certainly couldn't be a factor for turning in your neighbor for saying something unpleasant.

Celebrating birthdays today on March 10th. Via This Day In Music.

1950 - Ted McKenna
Scottish drummer, Ted McKenna who has played with bands Tear Gas, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher, The Sensational Party Boys and The Michael Schenker Group. He also toured with Ian Gillan for a short period in 1990. McKenna died on 19 January 2019 at the age of 68, of a hemorrhage during a routine operation for a hernia.

Born to be wild. Born to be a Genius Award Winner.

A man has been jailed after deliberately ramming cars at speeds of 130mph while high on drugs.

Gavin Bathurst-Shaw-Binning, 46, was on a ‘cocktail’ of cocaine, cannabis and alcohol as he drove his silver BMW 125 like an ‘absolute lunatic’ on the M3.

Viewing himself as the ‘enforcer of good driving’, he deliberately crashed into what he considered ‘bad drivers’ during a 30-mile rampage on the busy motorway before he was arrested.

This is not the time to poke fun of women drivers. It is time for Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Dramatic footage from downtown Louisville, Kentucky, last week showed a semi-tractor trailer truck dangling over the water, after nearly plummeting off the Clark Memorial Bridge.

The Louisville fire department was on the scene within three minutes and devised a plan to rescue the driver who was still trapped inside.

Fire Chief Brian O’Neill said the rescue method used is known as a ‘pickoff.’

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