Recent content by roostra

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.

There is no place in our society for political violence. I said it when a gunman assassinated a Minnesota State rep and I will say it now.

Well, except for Trump (as a starter) https://www.fox5ny.com/news/will-trump-take-over-nypd

Isn't this an example that would support the position of those arguing for restricted magazine sizes and weapon types? Presumably she had a pistol without an extended magazine. It sounds like it was the existence of the weapon itself, not the type of weapon that caused a good outcome.

I was just playing some auto-tune the news episodes for my tween kids a couple of weeks ago. They actually thought it was some funny stuff. Rare dad pop culture reference success!

Reminds me of my favorite news clip regarding the issue of attempted burning of the Quran. And the autotuned musical version (watching this literally never fails to bring a smile to my face)

Funny how this doesn't stop Republicans from trying to legislate ourselves to 100% security in almost every other arena of our lives these days...