Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (7/16/24)

Quote I

“This show began, and continues 17 years later, on being the place where you can go to have the hard conversations in a civil way,” Mika Brzezinski

Quote II

“This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas,” Elon Musk

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“If as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not a search for the best way to obtain material goods. . . . It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life’s journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Georgia lawfare against President Trump has to wait until after the November election.

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued an order granting a request from former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants to hear oral arguments in their disqualification efforts of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after the 2024 general election.

The state court will hear those arguments on Dec. 5, or about a full month after the presidential election, according to court documents. The court initially set an Oct. 4 date for arguments.
At issue is whether Ms. Willis should be removed from the sweeping racketeering and election-related case involving the former president and several of his co-defendants, with defense lawyers arguing that her relationship with a former special prosecutor in the case, Nathan Wade, creates an appearance of impropriety.

He's on the horse. Is that anything like, 'A lying, dog-faced pony soldier'?

Biden claims he is on form and doesn't need notes or teleprompters: 'I'm on the horse'
A Dem push to change the presidential ticket hit the brakes after the attempt on Trump's life

Perhaps Chester Cheetah of Cheetos fame might not be able to handle sloped roofs. But agile humans with proper footwear can. Can you make up any more unbelievable shit?

Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says she has no plans to resign, even after the stunning revelation that the agency decided not to guard the roof from which Thomas Crooks opened fire on former President Donald Trump because it was too slanted.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she told ABC News in a startling admission.

“And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside,” she told the outlet.

Hillary Clinton found on a New Zealand beach.

FIN-TASTIC Incredible moment the world’s rarest whale that experts know ‘practically nothing’ about is found on a beach
The mysterious species has never been seen alive in the wild

The Left continues their assault on the very children they so loudly proclaim they love.
‘Sanctuary’ County Released Illegal Migrant Convicted Of Sex Crime Against A Child, ICE Says

Federal immigration authorities ripped a “sanctuary” county near Washington, D.C., for ignoring a detainer request and releasing a criminal illegal migrant convicted of having intercourse with a child.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents apprehended 26-year-old Salvadoran national Geovany Alex Pineda-Echeverria in the northern Virginia area last month, the agency announced in a Tuesday press release. Deportation officers had already removed Pineda-Echeverria back to his home country several years ago, but he later returned to the United States and remained at large for months after being convicted of a sex crime against a Virginia minor.

Ouch! Has she really hit rock bottom?

Ingrid Andress, the country star who went viral on Monday night after flubbing the national anthem at MLB's Home Run Derby, said she was drunk during the performance and is seeking help.

"I'm not going to b******* y'all, I was drunk last night," Andress posted on Instagram. "I'm checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need.

"That was not me last night," she continued. "I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition."

On This Day In Music July 16th:

2014 - Johnny Winter
Blues guitarist Johnny Winter died at the age of 70 in Zurich, just days after playing at the Lovely Days Festival in Austria. Winter, who was instantly recognisable by his long white hair, worked with some of the greatest bluesmen, producing several albums for his childhood hero Muddy Waters - with whom he won a number of Grammy Awards.

2012 - Jon Lord
Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water. He also played with bands including Whitesnake. He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August.

For some reason, this story really hit a nerve with me.

‘This man essentially borrowed $1,400’: Costco shopper returns playground set from 2008 because his ‘kids grew up.’ He got a full refund
‘I watched a family return an above ground pool. Because they didn’t need it during the winter.’

What happens in Key West doesn't stay there. Genius Award Winner.

JULY 12--Sure, let your hair down in Key West, Florida.

Your pants, not so much.

A 35-year-old woman is behind bars after police spotted her “vigorously” pleasuring herself in public, according to a report detailing the alleged lewd act.

In response to an eyewitness report, officers were dispatched to a local park “reference a male that was passed out with his pants down.”

Upon arrival at Bayview Park around 6:30 AM Tuesday, officers realized that the subject lying on the ground behind the statue of Jose Marti, the Cuban independence leader, was actually a woman.

A member of the public flagged down cops to report that they witnessed the woman “with her pants down, stimulating (rubbing) her genitalia.” A similar sighting was reported by Officer Frank Betz, who told a fellow cop that he watched the suspect “vigorously” stimulating herself.

The report does not indicate how long the officer observed the solo crime being committed.

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