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Author: thebesig

  • Halloween Open Thread

    Urban Matter – Halloween Head

    Keep Halloween on October 31, or move it to the last Saturday of October?

    Thanksgiving happens on the fourth Thursday of November, and Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. If Halloween and Custom Association gets its way, Halloween would also move dates:

    Kevin Johnson, chairman of the Halloween and Custom Association:

    We feel the change is inevitable and that in the end, the logic behind creating a safer, longer Halloween will prevail.

    And:

    Halloween has become a commercial holiday — a time of fun, celebration and embracing the opportunity to become anything you could possibly dream of becoming, even if it’s just for a day.

    One reasoning is that it would be financially better for some groups.

    With many people having Saturday and Sunday off, the use of the customs doesn’t end with trick or treat. Granted, people wear Halloween customs in some work locations, but look at the possibilities… There’s the clubbing and bar hoping that takes place on Friday and Saturday night.

    In other words, the potential for additional demand on Halloween customs. You can read more here.

    I don’t wear Halloween customs these days, but something else goes on during October. Halloween lights and decorations help beat back the lengthening darkness by “extending” light… Orange light. I have enough Halloween decorations to be “decked indoors” like Christmas. Used to have the outdoor counterparts.

    Come November 1, the Halloween decorations come down, and the Thanksgiving lights and decorations go up.

    Now for one of your scares, or laughs, for the day. Someone that we know as an NPC (smile).

    The Halloween photo above is from Chicago’s Ultimate Halloween Guide.

  • The NPC Meme-A Midweek Open Thread

    If you’ve played video games before, you’ve seen these characters.

    You visit a town in the game. The townsfolk are going about their lives. You approach one and a conversation starts. Perhaps you’re curious about what you could purchase. Maybe you want to know where the next point of interest is.

    You walk away, then come back. The character says something different. Keep doing this and the character runs out of script. Eventually, it says the same things over and over again… As long as you keep striking a conversation with it.

    This is the Non-Player Character, or the “NPC”. No player controls these characters, they follow a gaming programming that’s dependent on what your character does.

    Of course, we’ve dealt with characters like this outside of video games. People that appear to go by the same playbook as the previous people.

    We’ve seen one phony after another come here. They end up saying the same thing, playing the same tricks, or otherwise saying and doing the same thing that the previous phonies did.

    Enter the NPC MEME. Based on similar memes used to mock many on the left in this country.

    I laughed my hind end off when I first came across these memes, as they did an excellent job describing the liberals that I’ve argued against. Google “NPC memes” for more laughter.

    Other than that, knock yourselves silly on this thread.

  • Dianne Feinstein Wasn’t Interested in Bill Clinton Rape Accusation

    As you guys pointed out, Dianne Feinstein’s advancing Christine Ford’s rape accusation against Brett Kavanaugh, when she brought it up, is suspicious. Using a script from the Democrat playbook, they rolled out a sexual assault case against a conservative judge that threatens their leftist agenda.

    Dianne Feinstein’s defenders are trying to argue that she didn’t have a choice. After all, information was leaked, the media found out about it, therefore she “had no other choice” but to release this information.

    Right…

    But, when the shoe was on the other foot, there wasn’t that much interest in “getting to the bottom of the matter”. When Juanita Broaddrick submitted her affidavit regarding her rape accusation against Bill Clinton, Democrats went ghost.

    From the Washington Times:

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, has championed Brett Kavanaugh’s #MeToo accuser, but Juanita Broaddrick says the senator never showed any interest in her 1999 rape allegation against President Bill Clinton.

    “It’s absurd,” Ms. Broaddrick said Wednesday on Fox News. “Not one Democrat would look at my deposition with the independent counsel. Oh my gosh, they did not want to know about it.”

    The same side of the argument that wanted to ignore, or brush then President Clinton’s sexual assault accusations under the rug, are ready to keep Brett Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.

    Juanita Broaddrick had a stronger case than Christine Ford. Instead of being taken seriously, she suffered Hillary Clinton’s war on women.

    But, they’re all of a sudden interested in a weak sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, one that those familiar with law enforcement would say “wouldn’t hold up in court.”

    Ms. Broaddrick also said that if Senate Democrats want the FBI to investigate the 36-year-old accusations against Mr. Kavanaugh, they should reopen her 40-year-old case, too.

    But, we’re not holding our breaths expecting the Democrats to hold conservatives and liberals to the same standard. Then President Clinton had an agenda to put forward, one that Dianne Feinstein supported.

    Democrats and their supporters are seeing that the current administration is derailing their game plan. President Trump is correcting the mistakes the previous administration made. Well, what we see as mistakes, but what our “betters” see as “what we need”.

    Now the Democrats are in full obstructionist mode to stem the changes that President Trump is working to bring about… And to ultimately reverse his policies in favor of restoring what was implemented before President Trump became president.

    In their pushing for restoring Obama’s liberal agenda, many Democrats are working to sabotage President Trump’s efforts to put pro constitution judges on the Supreme Court bench. In this case, derail Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

    Do it long enough until their hoped-for Democrat Congress gets underway next year.

    Then they’d be in position to severely limit efforts to put people on the bench who refuse to push a leftist agenda down our collective throats.

    What benefits the country outside of certain elitist bubbles isn’t always consistent with what our self-proclaimed “betters” consider as beneficial.

    The stakes are high this November’s election. Don’t leave things to chance.

  • Taco Bell Employee “Doesn’t” Speak English

    Chances are that if you wanted to spend a long time in another country, you’d want to learn some of the language. If moving there due to a job or other reason, perhaps a more detailed, in-depth study and practice of the destination country’s language.

    Dito for those who want to come to the United States or to another English-speaking country.

    A couple were in the mood for some Taco Bell. They rolled into the drive through, just like they’d do at any other drive through, in order to place their order.

    There was a problem though.

    The employee at the Taco Bell drive through claimed that she didn’t speak English. The customer tried to reason with her, even schooled her on how she could be doing her job. The employee still insisted that she didn’t speak English.

    From Fox News:

    After getting nowhere, Montgomery asks to speak with a manager.

    The employee, who identifies herself in the video as Luisa, replies in Spanish: “She is in her house sleeping,” in a dismissive tone before saying “Honey, I have a car behind you,” and closing the window.

    Towards the end, the customer asks, in English, what the employee’s name was.

    Luisa answered, despite claiming that she didn’t speak English. She couldn’t even use this as a, “Well, that’s a common English question that folks know.” Unless the signs and menu in the restaurant are all in Spanish… Or they honestly don’t speak English.

    Their community identifies mostly as Hispanic or Latino.

    However, someone representing the minority in that community had to have visited that restaurant while Luisa worked there. Or, is this a case where they, and their customers, only spoke Spanish at that specific Taco Bell?

    A video of the incident:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5q6wc2EDpM

  • John Kerry – President Trump Doesn’t Understand America

    John Kerry, riding on his foreign policy “record”, and on the “raving reviews” he got from his former shipmates… Decided to offer his “words of wisdom” regarding President Trump’s understanding of America. He argued that this was a dangerous world, and implied a need for a “blue wave” to change us from the course that President Trump has us on.

    From the Washington Times:

    “You have a president who clearly doesn’t understand America, doesn’t understand the Constitution, doesn’t understand the role of the Justice Department, the separation of powers, and that’s dangerous,” — John Kerry

    This is the same guy that decided to do some diplomacy on behalf of another work of his “wisdom”… The Iran nuclear deal. This isn’t the first time he has pulled this stunt. He was reported to have met with representatives of our enemies during the Vietnam War.

    Given that his actions and words amount to policies and actions that put the United States at a disadvantage relative to its enemies and adversaries, it doesn’t seem like he’s all that concerned about a dangerous world.

    He certainly didn’t care about how dangerous the world was by offering himself as an option for President. Does this mean that he was for actual reckless foreign policy before he was against a perceived one?

  • Florida Couple Builds Drive-Through Window for Drugs

    “From Florida again?” This is a common theme among responses to posts involving phonies; many of whom hail from Florida. A popular “guess” ponders what they’re putting in the water that’s causing many people to either embellish or ride the phony pony.

    Instead of the water, could it be the innovative ways that drugs are being sold? A couple in Florida built a drive through window, in their mobile home, for people to purchase drugs. They didn’t stop there.

    They provided signs directing drug customers to their window. They even had an “open/close” sign that had a “will be back” section.

    From Fox News:

    Ocala Police said the couple had turned a kitchen window into a drive-thru so customers would not have to constantly enter and exit their home, potentially drawing unwanted attention, WFTV reported. The house had signs directing people where to drive and indicated whether it was open or closed, police said.

    Of course, Parrish’s dad tried to pull the “nice guy” card in defense of his son:

    William Parrish Sr. told WFTV his son had been “trying to get himself straightened out” and maintained reports of overdoses were a “lie.”

    On the legal side of the house, Las Vegas is home to a 24-foot-long fully functional bong:

  • Drag Queen Sailor Finds Acceptance in the Navy

    Yeoman 3rd Class Joshua J. Kelley by day, drag queen by night.

    It looks like the Navy has came a long way from the time RM 3 Schindler was murdered for being gay. This incident lead to extensive media coverage and, ultimately, to the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy.

    But, the Navy has changed drastically since then.

    Petty Officer Joshua J. Kelly joined the Navy, like his father, to get out of the local area in exchange for challenge and adventure. And, adventure he got.

    This includes doing drag queen performances in order to help improve moral. It appears that he’s positively received, from NBC news:

    When Kelley joined the Navy, just like his father had, he said he was hoping to get out of his small town and challenge himself. He said he was a bit nervous about meeting all the new people, and he knew not everyone would be as colorful and flamboyant as he is. He was pleased, however, when he found acceptance.

    “I have many LGBT friends here, and if you can stand at attention properly and speak with proper etiquette, that’s what it comes down to in the Navy,” he said. “No one tells me I’m too feminine. I’ve not once had a bad experience as a gay man in the military.”

    His twin brother is also a drag queen.

  • Magic Mushroom Psychedelics for Your Depression?

    Have you jabbed someone by insinuating that they hung out in the forest messing around with magic mushrooms? Those mushrooms are contributing to research that could result… Maybe… In another prescription medicine that gets “abused”.

    But, that’s just a possibility in the future.

    The FDA approved the use of the psychedelic part of this magic mushroom in a drug test. They’re following through on the results of previous studies. There’s a possibility that the psychedelic portion of this mushroom may aid with dealing with depression.

    From FOXBusiness:

    For years, many psychedelic scientists have been theorizing that hallucinating on so-called magic mushrooms could possibly reboot the brain and clear out negative thoughts that may contribute to depression.

    And this:

    Compass Pathways says psilocybin therapy, which combines a dose of psilocybin, a psychoactive medicine and the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” with psychological support has shown promising signals of efficacy and safety as a treatment for depression in academic studies in both the U.K. and U.S.

    If this test succeeds with all phases, and if the FDA approves the resulting formula, could you imagine the restrictions and controls that would be required? Or, the process of creating the drug could minimize or eliminate the magical effects.