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Dana (25e0dc) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:13 pm

Hilarious, Dana! I love the lady who said she didn’t wear underwear because “things gotta breathe”!

norcal (a5428a) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:36 pm

Don’t do this, either:

A confrontation over a mask at an auto shop in Southwest Albuquerque ended with the owner’s son allegedly shooting two men Tuesday afternoon, according to incident reports from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.

According to incident reports written by BCSO deputies:

Deputies were dispatched around 4:30 p.m. to an auto shop in the 900 block of Old Coors SW, near Bridge. The shop owner told deputies a man had come to his shop and asked for air for his tire.

The owner said he told the man that he could help him but that he needed to have a mask on and the man became “extremely irate.” The owner told deputies the man crashed into his son’s vehicle and tried to run him over before driving off.

As deputies searched the area for the vehicle, they received a call from the auto shop owner saying the vehicle had returned and his son had shot someone. Deputies went back to the auto shop and found two men on the ground; both had been shot, and one of them [died at the scene].

https://www.abqjournal.com/1478646/bcso-1-dead-in-double-shooting-on-west-side.html

New Mexico’s only gun laws are you need a permit for concealed carry, plus federal reporting laws. There is no gun registration, and carrying a gun openly or in your vehicle is permitted without permit.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:38 pm

I love the “allegedly shooting” bit.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:39 pm

Ha! Funny video. Thanks, Dana.

felipe (023cc9) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:48 pm

I have a snowflake-neighbor. Turns out his whole family has mysterious medical conditions, and anyway it is unconstitutional to make ’em wear them.

I was close to done with him already, so… I agreed with him whole-heartedly, and suggested that drunk driving laws were similarly restrictive of Our Freedoms. Hey, if you can’t handle a fender bender, stay off the roads, amirite? Life is about risk. By the way, I got a new drum set I’m going to be practicing a lot – he’s not going to get upset about me being Free, is he?

I don’t think we’re friends anymore.

john (cd2753) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:48 pm

@4 If these idiots returned to the auto shop to threaten or attack the owner and his son, and the son reasonably feared for his life, then I say good for the son. However, the son needs to hone his shooting skills.

norcal (a5428a) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:49 pm

They are the minions of the Antichrist, in the service of Pestilence, the First Horseman of the Apocalypse.

And thank you, Dana! I needed something on the lighter side.

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 5:50 pm

(Apologies to any rational women out there named Karen.)

From the comments at YouTube:
“Well, there’s a baby name that’s going to the bottom of the list.”

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:10 pm

nk,

That’s a shame. I actually like the name Karen.

norcal (a5428a) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:27 pm

Here’s the original Jolene by Dolly Parton.

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:39 pm

Dolly Parton is a national treasure.

Dana (25e0dc) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:41 pm

And here’s a reason for you to learn Greek.

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:43 pm

I was listening to her when all the cool kids were listening to Santana.

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:44 pm

Not sure which thread this belongs in, so I put it here:

Former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who resigned amid controversy found dead in his home

Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter, was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office.

Adams was found dead and alone in his home during a welfare check at about 2 p.m., Jerry Brewer, a public information officer with the sheriff’s department, told CNN. The investigation into his death is ongoing, Brewer said.

Adams’ death comes less than a month after the university announced that he would retire following campus uproar over his tweets.

Despite (or perhaps because of) “resigning amid controvery,” the university gave him quite the golden handshake:

As part of his retirement, Adams received $504,702 from the university for lost salary and lost retirement benefits, Spectrum News 1 reported.

He probably blew most of it on booze, drugs and hookers, and wasted the rest.

Dave (1bb933) — 7/23/2020 @ 8:20 pm

I was listening to her when all the cool kids were listening to Santana.

The cool kids are *still* listening to Santana…

Dave (1bb933) — 7/23/2020 @ 8:21 pm

13…that’s Lewis Produce background music.

urbanleftbehind (f252eb) — 7/23/2020 @ 8:35 pm

Better Dolly than ABBA or Fleetwood Mac, I never heard those in a social setting until college, and it was always northwest suburbanites playing those.

urbanleftbehind (f252eb) — 7/23/2020 @ 8:37 pm

Former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who resigned amid controversy found dead in his home

I’m sure this will be a teaching moment and time of reflection for those that hounded him out of his job. And so much for academic freedom and tenure.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/23/2020 @ 8:55 pm

He was an anti-masker. His allegedly racist tweet

“This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina. Massa Cooper, let my people go!”

one of the accusations against him, referred to the coronavirus shut down. Covid-19 as the cause of death?

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 9:06 pm

Watching the Dodger game. (YEA!)

Really weird without a crowd. MLB.com ought to allow their season-ticket viewers to have a Cheer and Boo button feeding back, with loudspeakers at the stadium projecting the integrated sounds.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/23/2020 @ 9:21 pm

Here’s a Rhonda Vincent cover of Jolene.

The song I really love from that concert is I’ve Forgotten You. I heard the show on PBS when I was visiting relatives, and this song stuck in my head, though the melody did some shape-shifting. Eventually I went looking for the album. Bluegrass can get tiresome in a hurry, but this is a great song, wonderfully sung.

Radegunda (e1ea47) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:05 pm

This Ti Na Poume character could’ve been singing the Fiat parts catalog, and it’d still be a good song.

Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:18 pm

nk (1d9030) — 7/23/2020 @ 6:43 pm

He has a wonderful vibrato that he controls well.

felipe (023cc9) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:40 pm

I’ll intepret “interlude” as “midweek open thread” and, in that spirit, and at the expense of being tedious for linking to Mr. French, it’s relevant to set out basic minimum criteria for voting folks into office.

Since that time, and in response to truly stunning examples of mismanagement and grotesque governmental mistakes, I’ve had to emphasize that competence is a character trait. Competence (much less excellence) requires “a degree of self-discipline, commitment to personal improvement, and openness to critical information that are the hallmarks of developing true expertise.”
Incompetent, low-character public officials will not get my vote. Period. Politicians who advance policy positions that I believe are harmful to the country will not get my vote. Call me simple, but I still believe the best way to ensure that terrible people don’t ascend to high office is to stop voting for them.
So, with that as a backdrop, what’s the argument for conservatives scorching the earth, and ripping the GOP to shreds this November? Essentially, it boils down to this: Anyone who is “complicit” in Trumpism has betrayed a lack of character or courage so extreme that it should swallow any other personal or political virtue. Policy be damned, the GOP—not just Trump—has to pay.
I disagree, strongly, even though I believe the country would be better off if Republican senators had displayed historic courage and independence and removed Trump from office during his impeachment trial.
The word “historic” matters in this context. Remember, when Mitt Romney voted to convict, he was the first senator in the history of the United States to vote to convict a president from his own party. The first. In this generation, every single Democrat voted to retain Bill Clinton, despite overwhelming evidence that he did commit perjury and obstruction of justice. Indeed, he was suspended from the practice of law in Arkansas and before the Supreme Court for his perjury.
Yet Democrats continued not just to protect Clinton, but to celebrate him.

The bolded part is mine. I hear that Netflix is thinking of an alternate-universe series where Hillary was elected, but I’d rather watch the one where Romney won in 2012 and is still in charge. America would’ve been way way better off, yet Trump sniffers are angry at Romney. Go figure. He was just a substandard campaigner, that’s all. The reality is that was a superlative and competent executive, and Lord knows our federal government could have used some competency. Mike Dukakis was 32 years ahead of his time.

Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:46 pm

Ella has great vibrato, as well.

felipe (023cc9) — 7/24/2020 @ 2:11 am

That’s hilarious. Gryph is going to hate it.

Time123 (306531) — 7/24/2020 @ 4:52 am

VIDEO. Police shooting in Delta Township, MI – emanating from refusal to wear mask incident – teaches Leftists some hard lessons.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/new_police_shooting_in_michigan_teaches_leftists_some_hard_lessons.html

Liberty & Truth require constant vigilance. GLZ.

Gary L. Zerman (a1521c) — 7/24/2020 @ 5:12 am

I think the shooting emanated from the stabbing and not the mask. Probably is some overlap between people passionately opposed to a mask and stab crazy losers.

The Police Tribune released a body cam video (warning: explicit violence) of a Michigan deputy emptying her magazine (after clearing a malfunction) into Sean Ernest Ruis shortly after the unarmed suspect stabbed a senior citizen and then came after the deputy with a knife and a screwdriver.

Time123 (306531) — 7/24/2020 @ 5:19 am

Mr M wrote:

Watching the Dodger game. (YEA!)

Really weird without a crowd. MLB.com ought to allow their season-ticket viewers to have a Cheer and Boo button feeding back, with loudspeakers at the stadium projecting the integrated sounds.

Sorry, but I caught an inning or two of a couple of games, and baseball without fans in the stands is just dull.

Baseball on television requires a lot of time filling, as the dead time between pitches greatly exceeds actual game action. Televised baseball always used crowd shots and the ‘kiss cam’ and all sorts of other things to fill the dead time; it wasn’t all the ‘commentators’ talking about some really obscure statistic.

Now there’s no noise, no stadium organ player building up to a crowd “Charge” call, no nothing, really.

Allen Iverson, a basketball player of immense talent and questionable intelligence once said, when questioned about skipping practices, said, “I mean, listen, we’re talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, we talking about practice.” I caught a few minutes of the Dallas Mavericks against the Los Angeles Lakers, in the empty arena, and that’s what it looked like: practice.

There’s plenty of internet gabble about I’m not watching these games if the players are going to kneel and make obeisance to ‘Black Lives matter,’ but, truth is, there’s nothing really to watch anyway.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 5:33 am

Re #29 – Time123, Really?

Here are the beginning (emanating) paragraphs from the Police Tribune article that the American Thinker column cited:
Delta Township, MI – Michigan State Police (MSP) released bodycam video of a sheriff’s deputy shooting a man armed with a knife who had just stabbed another man in a dispute about weeraring a mask (video below).

The incident began at about 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday inside a Dimondale Quality Dairy store after 43-year-old Sean Ernest Ruis was refused service because he was not wearing a mask, MLive reported.Michigan State Police Lieutenant Brian Oleksyk said that a 77-year-old customer who was wearing a mask confronted Ruis, the Democrat & Chronicle reported.
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Here is a link to the definition of the word “emanate”. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/emanate

Your point(?), seems to be a distinction without a difference, if it even reached that level.

I try to add something to the conversation/discussion, to achieve clarity or understanding.
What was your point(?)?

Gary L. Zerman (a1521c) — 7/24/2020 @ 5:46 am

I was at the 7-11 just the other day. Wearing a mask and gloves. A young man in line for the cashier was wearing neither. Going by him, I accidentally knocked down a bag of chips from the display. He reached down before I could, picked it up, and put it back on the display. I thanked him. Then I went and got my stuff, while he paid for his and left the store. Don’t go looking for trouble and it won’t find you.

nk (1d9030) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:03 am

Gary, I had 2 points.

1. I want to make clear that the officer stabbed the man because he charged her with a knife. The officer didn’t shoot the man because he wouldn’t wear a mask, or even because he stabbed a man. Your summary didn’t make that clear.

2. People who get that worked up over wearing a mask are nuts. I did attempt to make this point in a funny way. Sorry if that didn’t come through.

Time123 (69b2fc) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:06 am

Should be “the officer shot the man….”

Time123 (69b2fc) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:07 am

Dave’s article: “Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter,…”

It made me curious…in addition to the “slave state” tweet….what else was the man saying that could rise to the level of “vile”. Most is pretty innocuous stuff:

Adams: “You can be comfortable or you can be free. But you cannot be both.”
Adams: “Many young people are depressed because they have been taught to be offended constantly.”
Adams: “Getting offended is not empowering. It shows that you are controlled by others.”

Even the slave-state comment….fundamentally questions how much government regulation is necessary during this pandemic. I might disagree with his characterization….and might challenge it with my own simile…..but why does it cause people to immediately go after his job….and for a university administration to enable the over reaction and legitimize it? Every institution certainly has the right to police its reputation….and discourage public displays that might harm recruiting and fund raising….but is this anywhere near that? I’m not seeing it.

Still, it keeps reinforcing to me the pointlessness of Twitter….it’s a platform perfectly designed for this sort of over reaction….and lynch mob mentality. What did he really accomplish….and at what cost?

AJ_Liberty (0f85ca) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:11 am

“Televised baseball always used crowd shots and the ‘kiss cam’ and all sorts of other things to fill the dead time;…”

Sure there’s the occasional spectacular foul ball catch or dropped beer, someone doing a crazy dance, or someone who falls asleep or a fanatical costumed-fan doing something fanatical…..but is any of that really reason to tune in? I think you either enjoy the drama of mano y mano…pitcher vs batter…or you don’t. You sound like you think it’s just too slow…with not enough of a payoff. I get that but it also just sounds like you’re not a baseball fan….

AJ_Liberty (0f85ca) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:26 am

“… the unarmed suspect stabbed a senior citizen and then came after the deputy with a knife and a screwdriver.”

Unarmed is defined as without arms, weaponless. This guy was not unarmed.

DRJ (aede82) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:31 am

“… the unarmed suspect stabbed a senior citizen and then came after the deputy with a knife and a screwdriver.”

Unarmed is defined as without arms, weaponless. This guy was not unarmed.

DRJ (aede82) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:31 am

I think that’s intended to mock a stupid and similar comment Biden made.

Time123 (306531) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:41 am

The sport on radio needing the most announcer/analyst banter is auto racing. Listened in on a Nascar race on ESPN radio and they actually did a good job of conveying the current state of the race with time for interesting anecdotes. And there was not a constant buzz of tires, engines or even collisions in the background.

urbanleftbehind (06b554) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:42 am

Thanks, Time. I often miss sarcasm online.

DRJ (aede82) — 7/24/2020 @ 7:38 am

Paul Montagu (0a7316) — 7/23/2020 @ 11:46 pm

Maybe we need tests for the voting privilege.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/24/2020 @ 10:37 am

Baseball on television requires a lot of time filling, as the dead time between pitches greatly exceeds actual game action.

Baseball on TV has seemed duller since Vin Scully quit. He was always interesting, even filling time. But baseball is not “dull” any more than combat is dull. It just has periods of anticipation between moments of furious activity.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/24/2020 @ 10:41 am

Should be “the officer shot the man….”

Officers should have to use a knife in a knife fight. Bringing a gun is unfair.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/24/2020 @ 10:43 am

Televised auto racing doesn’t really need fans.

Kevin M (ab1c11) — 7/24/2020 @ 10:45 am

@43, I think your auto correct is broken and replaced ‘smart’ with ‘unfair’.

Time123 (69b2fc) — 7/24/2020 @ 10:47 am

Mr Liberty wrote:

I get that but it also just sounds like you’re not a baseball fan….

In my bedroom in the attic I had my AM radio tuned to WLAP, the station which carried the Cincinnati Reds games. It was Al Michaels — later Marty Brennerman — and Joe Nuxhall doing the radio play by play. Yeah, I listened a lot. This was the late sixties and early 1970s, before the Big Red Machine days.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 12:33 pm

Mr M wrote:

Officers should have to use a knife in a knife fight. Bringing a gun is unfair.

Why on earth would anyone want to fight “fair” in a potentially deadly contest?

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 12:36 pm

Mr M wrote:

Maybe we need tests for the voting privilege.

You have to admit: things worked better when the franchise was restricted to white male property owners.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 12:38 pm

Mr M wrote:

Baseball on TV has seemed duller since Vin Scully quit. He was always interesting, even filling time.

Remember: Mr Scully — like Al Michaels — got his start doing play-by-play on radio. He had to paint a picture with words, something that listeners could see in their minds. Kentucky’s Cawood Ledford was a master at that.

Mr Ledford had a stock expression, “The Cats are moving toward the right side of your radio dial.” With that, listeners knew what his perspective was, and in which direction play was moving. Realistically, it was something that shouldn’t matter, but it did matter in placing that word picture in your mind.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 12:46 pm

You have to admit: things worked better when the franchise was restricted to white male property owners.

For white male property owners perhaps, although it’s not clear exactly what “things” you mean.

They kept the black, brown and yellow people in their place, and the women barefoot and pregnant, I suppose.

Dave (1bb933) — 7/24/2020 @ 12:57 pm

The medium is the message.

Back in my CBS days we often had lunch time discussions about sporting event broadcasting. It is a moneymaker for sure– which is all CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ol’Roone Arledge at ABC Sports, etc., etc., and now ESPN ever care[d] about.

Baseball on a portable radio is quite enjoyable, at least for local team coverage, especally w/t right broadcaster on mike [Pgh’s Bob Prince was superb]; baseball on television broadened reach and was enhanced by the gadgetry– no not the lights for night games– but the advent of slow-motion/instant replay and stadiums festooned w/TV cameras.

Golf was a low rater on the network– but it drew a consistent– and affluent audience for advertisers.

Football does well on radio as well, depending on the broadcaster, but lends itself better for television than baseball broadcasts due to the linear nature of gridiron– and the clock. Some years ago one of the networks tried to telecast NFL football w/o any color commentary–just the game and stadium noise. Didn’t do well on TeeVee. Tennis, hockey, basketball- even boxing– all lend themselves well to the television medium due to the linear play action for the television format. Even horse and auto, as well, going in circles, no place, fast, with the anticipation of a mishap always lurking.

Broadcast personalities literally bring the games ‘home’–they’re good for the sport they cover. It’s an interesting topic, but it is the medium that carries the sport which dictates how it is seen and heard and inevitably institutionalized–not the sport itself. Actually attending a PGA golf tournament is superior to what the limits of television can do for it; and nothing tops actually being in the ball park at a baseball game.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/24/2020 @ 1:21 pm

I keep seeing this television commercial for Geico home and auto insurance. It has this nosy, busybody Home Owner’s Association chairwoman stomping around the neighborhood, cutting down hanging potted plant with shears, cutting off mailboxes with a chainsaw, because they’re all “against regulations.”

That would be the definition of a “Karen,” except her name is Cynthia. Is that the new slur name?

From a marketing perspective, I fail to see how this ad would motivate anyone to buy Geico home and auto insurance. Who would want to take out a mortgage and live in a neighborhood like that?

Home Owner’s Associations are notoriously tyrannical. A few years ago, there was this report about an aged combat veteran, who fought in WW II, that had placed a small American flag on his porch. The HOA tried to foreclose on his house and repossess his property, because having an American flag on his porch was “against regulations.”

He sued, and as far as I know eventually won. As he should. But it’s an indication of how bad things have gotten in America.

This country is tearing itself apart. In the midst of a pandemic, which is out of control, advertising HOA leaders cutting off house plants, sawing down mailboxes, is not a good way to promote home and auto insurance.

As a Realtor, who has written more than 2,000 ads for repossessed properties over the last seventeen years, I can tell you. I wouldn’t advise any client to consider buying a home in a neighborhood with a tyrannical HOA.

Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 7/24/2020 @ 3:18 pm

Gawain’s Ghost,

When looking for a house in Reno, I avoided HOA areas like the plague. It wasn’t easy to do, as almost all of the new housing had HOA. I eventually found a nice house that was built in 1965. Not only is there no HOA, there aren’t even any CCRs! My real estate agent couldn’t believe it.

Nobody has abused the freedom, however. I’ve got some great neighbors. In fact, the neighbors across the street are having me and some other neighborhood people over for dinner later on.

Do you know where HOAs are a complete racket? Hawaii. I’m talking $900 a month in some places. All to have some Barney Fife character regulate on you. Ridiculous.

norcal (a5428a) — 7/24/2020 @ 3:44 pm

There’s a Geico commercial that parodies a home owner’s association.

Sammy Finkelman (db2a13) — 7/24/2020 @ 3:52 pm

The idea of the Geico ads is that while they can’t help you with these problems, they can help you with insurance. Cynthia is meant to be a random name.

Sammy Finkelman (db2a13) — 7/24/2020 @ 3:54 pm

Hey, if you buy a house with an Homeowners’ Association restriction, I have no sympathy; it’s all on you.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:22 pm

I love living out in the country! If I want to run my table saw at 11:00 at night, I can. If I want to change the oil in my truck, I can. If I want to take a wiz off the porch, I can. If I want to set up a practice range and shoot firearms, I can.

The Dana in Kentucky (229a56) — 7/24/2020 @ 6:25 pm

Dana in KY,

When do you acquire your screaming deal of a spread?

norcal (a5428a) — 7/24/2020 @ 8:35 pm

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