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It's for sure trolling. The way to tell is the little sign about the gloves, which I can promise you from here are not sterile, never were sterile. One does not put sterile gloves in an open container mounted to the wall. How would they remain sterile? Impossible.
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@Amos_Umwhat said:
It's for sure trolling. The way to tell is the little sign about the gloves, which I can promise you from here are not sterile, never were sterile. One does not put sterile gloves in an open container mounted to the wall. How would they remain sterile? Impossible.
And you probably wouldn't mount your sterile glove container right below the biohazard waste box...
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Over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses as the pandemic spread nationwide, surpassing the toll of gun violence and car accidents combined.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:04 AM EST
The rise in deaths was fueled by widespread use of fentanyl, a fast-acting drug that is 100 times more powerful than morphine.
In 1999, 19 year old Julius Jones was convicted of murder when Paul Scott Howell was shot and killed outside his home, and his SUV was stolen. Christopher Jordan was the self admitted getaway driver of the stolen SUV. Christopher Jordan claims that Julius Jones was with him, and shot Paul Scott Howell. A bandana with Jones' DNA was found with the murder weapon wrapped in it in the Jones family house's attic, after Jordan told the police where to look. Jordan was given a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against Jones. He is now free.
Jordan was released from prison years ago. He told a minimum of 3 inmates that he himself was the murderer, and that Jones had nothing to do with it. Jones claims he was home at the time with his family. His public defenders never asked for his family to testify about his alibi. His public defenders didn't call any witnesses of any kind. The Oklahoma parole board voted 3-1 in favor of granting him clemency. Jones was a scholar student in high school, and an engineering student at Oklahoma University at the time of his arrest 20 years ago. He will die tomorrow, via lethal injection, unless Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt also grants clemency.
Oklahoma is not a state where a politician can be seen as being soft on crime, it's a very bad look. We will find out tonight and tomorrow, is Kevin Stitt willing to kill an innocent man in order to maintain his image?
@CalvinAndHobo said:
In 1999, 19 year old Julius Jones was convicted of murder when Paul Scott Howell was shot and killed outside his home, and his SUV was stolen. Christopher Jordan was the self admitted getaway driver of the stolen SUV. Christopher Jordan claims that Julius Jones was with him, and shot Paul Scott Howell. A bandana with Jones' DNA was found with the murder weapon wrapped in it in the Jones family house's attic, after Jordan told the police where to look. Jordan was given a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against Jones. He is now free.
Jordan was released from prison years ago. He told a minimum of 3 inmates that he himself was the murderer, and that Jones had nothing to do with it. Jones claims he was home at the time with his family. His public defenders never asked for his family to testify about his alibi. His public defenders didn't call any witnesses of any kind. The Oklahoma parole board voted 3-1 in favor of granting him clemency. Jones was a scholar student in high school, and an engineering student at Oklahoma University at the time of his arrest 20 years ago. He will die tomorrow, via lethal injection, unless Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt also grants clemency.
Oklahoma is not a state where a politician can be seen as being soft on crime, it's a very bad look. We will find out tonight and tomorrow, is Kevin Stitt willing to kill an innocent man in order to maintain his image?
Well that doesn't sound like the overwhelming evidence that everyone says it was.
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If anything goes wrong it will only be because some gal in Wuhan ate a bat that got bit by a pangolin.
Nothing to see here.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Alec Baldwin is now denying he pulled the trigger during the on set shooting, in an ABC interview.
If the gun was a single action revolver is he saying he cocked it but had an accidental discharge?
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Years ago, probably the first time I left my son home alone, I asked him before I left "how many of the guns are loaded?"
"None " he replied
"Wrong, " I said "all of them are, until you make sure they're not. And, if you leave the room, they're loaded again until you check. "
Can't go wrong if you follow those rules.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
That question rises inevitably from a new wave of so-called flash-mob robberies, thieves by the dozens invading retail stores to simply take what they want. It’s happened in California, Illinois, Minnesota and Maryland. Retailers ranging from Nordstrom to 7-Eleven have been hit.
For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories about poverty, permissiveness or punishment. But none of those things is unique to this era.
Think about it: This model for robbery has always been available to enterprising thieves. It’s simple math. What can one or two security guards do if 60 people decide to just walk in and loot the place? Granted, advances in communications technology make that easier to organize now than it once would have been, but still, a crime wave like this theoretically could have happened in 1985 or 2002. It makes sense to wonder why it didn’t. What is it about this particular era that has inspired this particular trend?
Here, then, is another pet theory: The social covenant has shattered.
Meaning the thousand unspoken understandings by which a society functions, the agreements to which we all sign on without a word being spoken. Some are encoded in law, others just encoded in us. Either way, they are rules – 'norms' might be a better word – people usually obey even when they could get away without doing so.
You don’t stand facing the back wall of an elevator. In heavy traffic, you take turns merging. You stop at the red light even when the street is deserted. And, oh yes, you don’t join a mob to ransack a store.
While there is almost certainly some hardcore criminality leading this crime wave, one suspects that many of its foot soldiers are people with little in the way of serious police records. How much do you want to bet most of them will turn out to be ordinary, workaday folk who got the word there was free stuff to be had, and all you had to do was take it, like some giddy holiday from social norms?
Where would they have gotten the idea such a holiday was even possible? Surely the opportunistic looting that marred last year’s largely peaceful protests for racial justice helped influence them. But that’s hardly the only – or, arguably, even the most corrosive – transgression of social norms we’ve seen in recent years.
To the contrary, we’ve seen police and other authority figures exempt themselves from mask and vaccine mandates – and dare mayors and governors to do anything about it. We’ve seen ex-public officials thumb their noses at congressional subpoenas. We’ve seen a seditionist mob breach the U.S. Capitol and be lionized for it by certain members of Congress and the media. And we’ve seen a president who delighted in shattering norms, refusing to provide his tax returns, flouting the emoluments clause of the Constitution, openly politicking on government property . . . the list goes on. And on.
Worst of all, we’ve seen little in the way of accountability for any of it. So the question isn’t how ordinary people could have gotten the idea a holiday from social norms was possible, but how could they have not? Everywhere you look, someone else is seceding from the covenants that make it possible for civil society to function. Which makes these smash-and-grab robberies seem less a mystery and more just another troubling reflection of our times.
Why would people do this?
Heck, why would they not?
Contact Leonard Pitts Jr. at lpittsmiamiherald.com.
Holy crap! ^^^^^ First he laments that 'For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories, ....' He then proceeds to uncork his own pet theory. And his ridiculous pet theory is that the looters are just ordinary "workaday folk" and because Trump, the Jan 6th mob, and also the civil servants who won't comply with vaccine mandates have all set a bad example for these "workaday folk", "Heck, why would they not?", become looters. Dumb theory Mr. Leonard Pitts Jr., very dumb.
I noticed, while listening to the morning news ramble, that our media has finally been surprised to learn that China seems to be ramping up for a global conflict. Which is news that some of us have been casually observing and commenting on for several years now.
Nice to see the media catching up on an important story, instead of the usual drivel about bathroom use and the possible abridgement of certain persons rights to choose how they gain intimate pleasure. Or, focusing on every faux pas committed by whichever octogenarian we've most recently elected King and therefore responsible for all wrongs committed within the last 200 years.
Hmm. Somehow doesn't seem as important as global nuclear conflict, to me, but it certainly gets a lot of press.
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@Bob_Luken said:
Holy crap! ^^^^^ First he laments that 'For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories, ....' He then proceeds to uncork his own pet theory. And his ridiculous pet theory is that the looters are just ordinary "workaday folk" and because Trump, the Jan 6th mob, and also the civil servants who won't comply with vaccine mandates have all set a bad example for these "workaday folk", "Heck, why would they not?", become looters. Dumb theory Mr. Leonard Pitts Jr., very dumb.
It's in the same vein as the old adage 'never let a crisis go to waste'... this goofball is simply taking the 'crisis' of the smash-mobs to promote his agenda/nonsense.
Where all of these editorials fail is that while they try to point at a cause they don't look deep enough. Say he's right, that these mob-robberies are because they're modeling themselves after someone before them, whose example were they following. If it's simply a reflection of our times, what brought about this increasingly steep downward slide. I know the answer and I know you know I know the answer; but nobody wants to admit it's human nature to be wicked and what's constrained it for most individuals is being removed from our society.
A restaurant is facing backlash after they said their staff refused to serve three San Francisco police officers because their weapons made them “uncomfortable.” Sergio Quintana reports.
My own opinion? I’ve been saying for years that when it’s my time to meet my Maker I’ll go without pause because I don’t think I could weather another generation or two of the offspring we’re producing. The reason is simple - each new generation of parents is repeating the mantra “I’m not going to be as strict with my offspring as my parents were with me”.
Whether they admit to it or not, it’s continuing to happen. And each generation feels a stronger sense of entitlement than its predecessor as a result.
You can chalk up the foregoing as simply the ramblings of an Oldfart… 👍👴🏻
A restaurant is facing backlash after they said their staff refused to serve three San Francisco police officers because their weapons made them “uncomfortable.” Sergio Quintana reports.
One WTF from me, because wtf? What the hell is wrong with these little weenies? For goodness sake. "Please protect me, but not if you have to use force to do it. "
Make me sick, freaking wussies.
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The adoption of robots in religion is surprising. Is parenting next?
What good are robot priests if they can't molest children?
All hail the robot Jesus.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
My doc's office believes in meme news
Or maybe they're just trolling you. "Hey, first post this in room three, and then bring Albatross Attic Frank back to check his vitals".
It's for sure trolling. The way to tell is the little sign about the gloves, which I can promise you from here are not sterile, never were sterile. One does not put sterile gloves in an open container mounted to the wall. How would they remain sterile? Impossible.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
And you probably wouldn't mount your sterile glove container right below the biohazard waste box...
Over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses as the pandemic spread nationwide, surpassing the toll of gun violence and car accidents combined.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 10:04 AM EST
The rise in deaths was fueled by widespread use of fentanyl, a fast-acting drug that is 100 times more powerful than morphine.
In 1999, 19 year old Julius Jones was convicted of murder when Paul Scott Howell was shot and killed outside his home, and his SUV was stolen. Christopher Jordan was the self admitted getaway driver of the stolen SUV. Christopher Jordan claims that Julius Jones was with him, and shot Paul Scott Howell. A bandana with Jones' DNA was found with the murder weapon wrapped in it in the Jones family house's attic, after Jordan told the police where to look. Jordan was given a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against Jones. He is now free.
Jordan was released from prison years ago. He told a minimum of 3 inmates that he himself was the murderer, and that Jones had nothing to do with it. Jones claims he was home at the time with his family. His public defenders never asked for his family to testify about his alibi. His public defenders didn't call any witnesses of any kind. The Oklahoma parole board voted 3-1 in favor of granting him clemency. Jones was a scholar student in high school, and an engineering student at Oklahoma University at the time of his arrest 20 years ago. He will die tomorrow, via lethal injection, unless Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt also grants clemency.
Oklahoma is not a state where a politician can be seen as being soft on crime, it's a very bad look. We will find out tonight and tomorrow, is Kevin Stitt willing to kill an innocent man in order to maintain his image?
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/11/17/julius-jones-execution-live-updates-okc/8645757002/
Colombia: President issues apology after police cadets dress like Nazis.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/colombia-president-issues-apology-after-police-cadets-dress-like-nazis/a-59887169
Well that doesn't sound like the overwhelming evidence that everyone says it was.
World's first living robots can now reproduce
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html
Frog DNA? Didn't Jurassic Park teach these scientists anything?
Jurassic Park probably gave the grantmeisters at DARPA the idea.
This'll be the death of us all.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
If anything goes wrong it will only be because some gal in Wuhan ate a bat that got bit by a pangolin.
Nothing to see here.
looks like it refuses to end:
Cyber Week Continues! Free Crescent 150 Pc. Tool Set or Thermos!
looters looting looters
another parent ultimately responsible for his kid going postal at school, how hard is it to secure your new pistol from your kid?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/us/oxford-high-school-shooting-what-we-know/index.html
I really think she learned to climb ladders just because it aggravates my daughter for the cat to sleep in her bed.
Alec Baldwin is now denying he pulled the trigger during the on set shooting, in an ABC interview.
If the gun was a single action revolver is he saying he cocked it but had an accidental discharge?
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Negligent all the way.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Years ago, probably the first time I left my son home alone, I asked him before I left "how many of the guns are loaded?"
"None " he replied
"Wrong, " I said "all of them are, until you make sure they're not. And, if you leave the room, they're loaded again until you check. "
Can't go wrong if you follow those rules.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The social covenant has shattered
Leonard Pitts
Columnist Why would they do this?
That question rises inevitably from a new wave of so-called flash-mob robberies, thieves by the dozens invading retail stores to simply take what they want. It’s happened in California, Illinois, Minnesota and Maryland. Retailers ranging from Nordstrom to 7-Eleven have been hit.
For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories about poverty, permissiveness or punishment. But none of those things is unique to this era.
Think about it: This model for robbery has always been available to enterprising thieves. It’s simple math. What can one or two security guards do if 60 people decide to just walk in and loot the place? Granted, advances in communications technology make that easier to organize now than it once would have been, but still, a crime wave like this theoretically could have happened in 1985 or 2002. It makes sense to wonder why it didn’t. What is it about this particular era that has inspired this particular trend?
Here, then, is another pet theory: The social covenant has shattered.
Meaning the thousand unspoken understandings by which a society functions, the agreements to which we all sign on without a word being spoken. Some are encoded in law, others just encoded in us. Either way, they are rules – 'norms' might be a better word – people usually obey even when they could get away without doing so.
You don’t stand facing the back wall of an elevator. In heavy traffic, you take turns merging. You stop at the red light even when the street is deserted. And, oh yes, you don’t join a mob to ransack a store.
While there is almost certainly some hardcore criminality leading this crime wave, one suspects that many of its foot soldiers are people with little in the way of serious police records. How much do you want to bet most of them will turn out to be ordinary, workaday folk who got the word there was free stuff to be had, and all you had to do was take it, like some giddy holiday from social norms?
Where would they have gotten the idea such a holiday was even possible? Surely the opportunistic looting that marred last year’s largely peaceful protests for racial justice helped influence them. But that’s hardly the only – or, arguably, even the most corrosive – transgression of social norms we’ve seen in recent years.
To the contrary, we’ve seen police and other authority figures exempt themselves from mask and vaccine mandates – and dare mayors and governors to do anything about it. We’ve seen ex-public officials thumb their noses at congressional subpoenas. We’ve seen a seditionist mob breach the U.S. Capitol and be lionized for it by certain members of Congress and the media. And we’ve seen a president who delighted in shattering norms, refusing to provide his tax returns, flouting the emoluments clause of the Constitution, openly politicking on government property . . . the list goes on. And on.
Worst of all, we’ve seen little in the way of accountability for any of it. So the question isn’t how ordinary people could have gotten the idea a holiday from social norms was possible, but how could they have not? Everywhere you look, someone else is seceding from the covenants that make it possible for civil society to function. Which makes these smash-and-grab robberies seem less a mystery and more just another troubling reflection of our times.
Why would people do this?
Heck, why would they not?
Contact Leonard Pitts Jr. at lpittsmiamiherald.com.
Holy crap! ^^^^^ First he laments that 'For some, the search for answers will be an invitation to uncork pet theories, ....' He then proceeds to uncork his own pet theory. And his ridiculous pet theory is that the looters are just ordinary "workaday folk" and because Trump, the Jan 6th mob, and also the civil servants who won't comply with vaccine mandates have all set a bad example for these "workaday folk", "Heck, why would they not?", become looters. Dumb theory Mr. Leonard Pitts Jr., very dumb.
I noticed, while listening to the morning news ramble, that our media has finally been surprised to learn that China seems to be ramping up for a global conflict. Which is news that some of us have been casually observing and commenting on for several years now.
Nice to see the media catching up on an important story, instead of the usual drivel about bathroom use and the possible abridgement of certain persons rights to choose how they gain intimate pleasure. Or, focusing on every faux pas committed by whichever octogenarian we've most recently elected King and therefore responsible for all wrongs committed within the last 200 years.
Hmm. Somehow doesn't seem as important as global nuclear conflict, to me, but it certainly gets a lot of press.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
It's in the same vein as the old adage 'never let a crisis go to waste'... this goofball is simply taking the 'crisis' of the smash-mobs to promote his agenda/nonsense.
Where all of these editorials fail is that while they try to point at a cause they don't look deep enough. Say he's right, that these mob-robberies are because they're modeling themselves after someone before them, whose example were they following. If it's simply a reflection of our times, what brought about this increasingly steep downward slide. I know the answer and I know you know I know the answer; but nobody wants to admit it's human nature to be wicked and what's constrained it for most individuals is being removed from our society.
A restaurant is facing backlash after they said their staff refused to serve three San Francisco police officers because their weapons made them “uncomfortable.” Sergio Quintana reports.
My own opinion? I’ve been saying for years that when it’s my time to meet my Maker I’ll go without pause because I don’t think I could weather another generation or two of the offspring we’re producing. The reason is simple - each new generation of parents is repeating the mantra “I’m not going to be as strict with my offspring as my parents were with me”.
Whether they admit to it or not, it’s continuing to happen. And each generation feels a stronger sense of entitlement than its predecessor as a result.
You can chalk up the foregoing as simply the ramblings of an Oldfart… 👍👴🏻
One WTF from me, because wtf? What the hell is wrong with these little weenies? For goodness sake. "Please protect me, but not if you have to use force to do it. "
Make me sick, freaking wussies.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
WTF from me too for the same reason.