Recent content by roostra

I have no idea about what the right thing to do is here (and I am sorry you are going through this stressful situation), but I would be very leery of contacting the Israeli government pre-emptively. Just reading that suggestion gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

The tree of liberty, from time to time, must be garnished with mustard and onions.

Hey, goat meat is pretty damn good. This is not as out there as the "threat" that there would be a taco truck on every corner, but still...

I made a small change (well, and a decently bigger one, too) that really seems to be helping. For the last couple of weeks, I have been eating bowl of steel cut oatmeal for breakfast - traditionally I didn't eat breakfast at all and then ate a big lunch. I make it savory - a little soy sauce...

I feel fairly certain that this deal does not include other Bay Area cities like Oakland and Berkeley.

ICE is staging over 100 ICE agents at the Coast Guard base in the City of Alameda tomorrow. (Right across a short bridge to Oakland for those who don't know Bay Area geography). The Bay Area is the next target for Trumps' ICE surge. Will be interesting to see how far behind the National Guard...

See, I was gonna say that the sad part about this is the 64,000+ Palestinian casualties and the 1200+ Israeli casualties on October 7

The HUD website has some scary shit posted on it. https://www.hud.gov/#openModal

I cringe at the way he phrased this statement, but he is not wrong insofar as a number of the current national boundaries in the Middle East were drawn in a completely arbitrary manner by French and British diplomats with little concern for or understanding of the people that actually lived there.

I had a chance to be on a Federal Grand Jury in California (I think it was Federal, it may have been State - it was about 13 years ago). I often regret passing that up - I think it would have been really interesting.

Have you ever complained about Irish flags being flown in St. Patrick's day or Italian flags flown on Columbus day? Scottish flags flown at Highland Games events in the US? Because that is commonplace in the here. Folks have been doing this over decades, if not centuries (well, century)...

Would any of the board conservatives please step up and explain why this post should result in someone being fired? I know someone working at Ball State and this is terrifying to me.

I think it is very likely real, but I have to say that after reading it, I can't help but feel like my skeptic sense is tingling a little. It reads very contrived, which doesn't mean it's not real. Maybe this just speaks to my distrust for this administration.

You mean the previous arrests that occurred under Republican District Attorney Andrew Murray who was the top prosecuter in Charlotte? Those arrests?

I can confidently say that was a fucking stupid thing to say.