Author: TSO

Again, this is why I don’t trust VT as far as I could kick them. They have a woeful story about a former marine who basically committed suicide by cop. And here is the title for the VT piece:

Marine Suffering Cancer, PTSD Shot and Killed Near Maine VA Hospital
– Suffered from cancer, PTSD; advocated marijuana and stem cells –

And here is the article they stole from in its entirety.

Nowhere in that underlying article does it mention PTSD. Not once. In fact, this is what the guy himself stated:

Popkowski joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1990. In 2003, the first lieutenant was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer called hepatosplenic gamma-delta T-cell lymphoma. Neighbors said it was commonly known that Popkowski was honorably discharged due to his medical condition.

Popkowski described himself as “a rather stoic person” who before his illness was not prone to moodiness. He said he believed his severe and ongoing depression was rooted in “something or some imbalance in my nervous system created by the GVHD.” When the condition was being treated with steroids, he said, “depression was not an issue. As soon as the [steroid treatment] was stopped the depression came on like a freight train.”

Why would they add the PTSD part do you think? Maybe to make the story fit their narrative?

My Puggle is a bit…..touched. A typical day is yesterday when a bird shat on his head, and then he fell down into a hole while trying to take a dump. He regularly ignores our disciplining, usually wagging throughout. The no Ding Dong on Daddies rule is violated about twice a day. So, I’ve been looking for a trainer. Not anymore, thanks to Barstool Sports.

BTW Caro, I know we talked yesterday at the church pre-marriage counseling thing about sharing in the big decisions together, and I promise to *try* to stick to that from here on out. But, I read this article at USA Today and I took the liberty of cancelling the Montage and rescheduling with Taco Bell. The money we save can be spent on Gas-X for the guests.

Lately some brides and grooms are using their weddings to show their love for more than just each other.

Instead of getting married in a church or banquet hall, more couples are choosing their favorite retail spots as the backdrop for their special day. The shops range from T.J. Maxx to Taco Bell, and they all combine the couple’s love for a brand with a desire to have a wedding with a personal twist, says Rebecca Dolgin, executive editor of theknot.com.

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Taco Bell. One couple said “I do” at an Illinois Taco Bell last January, while customers ordered tacos and chalupas. According to Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch, the restaurant typically hosts about one wedding per year and doesn’t charge for the ceremonies.

If there is anything I have learned in my (one week shy of) 40 years, it is that nothing says Twu Wuv like a baja Gordita.

I hate even more to put up two shared posts, but since it started here, I wanted to keep you guys updated on this issue. Bear in mind that “Mothax” and “TSO” are different persons trapped in the same body. As TSO I agree even more with ATR, although not with the language they use. I hate taxes. All taxes are bad. So on that we agree. As Mothax though my first, last, and only interest is in our veterans. But I fear this is using Veterans to effect a political change, when veterans play only a very ancillary role in this. Either way, have at it ye brethren o’ mine.

Less would be twice as nice.
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Hate to bleg for my own site, but WaPo managed to piss me off this weekend, and (surprisingly) it was about Art.  If you guys are horrifically bored, come on over and let me know what you think.

The Founders risked “powder and ball” so a painter could espouse the virtues of a communist printing pamphlets? I thought that a town hall meeting was exactly what this country was predicated on; being able to espouse whatever view you wanted in a public forum in an effort to advocate to our elected representatives?

I wonder if Blake would view Serrano’s “Piss Christ” which features a crucifix in a jar of urine as “courageous.” Or perhaps that mighty brave Robert Mapplethorpe who heroically published a picture of a bullwhip inserted into his anus?  Which is more brave and courageous to you: a whip hanging out of a guy’s fourth point of contact, or a man who gorged himself on bananas and donuts just for the opportunity to serve his country?

OK, I am going to this, do I go with a sign, and/or do I go and act like a media person? And, assuming I am media, what questions should I be asking folks.
 

NOTHING good will come of this visit. And the dude that got beat by the cops deserved it.

From Huffpo:

A police report said witnesses saw Johnson’s brother try to kick in the door of an abandoned building near their home and officers who responded went to arrest him for breaking and entering. Police say Johnson and others protested the arrest, and that when an officer tried to arrest Johnson he resisted, squaring up as if to strike the officer and breaking the officer’s grip when he was nearly handcuffed.

Piland, who was off duty and lived in the neighborhood, showed up in plain clothes and tried to help the other officers, the chief said. He smacked Johnson in the face with his open hand and used his knee to apply pain when the teen fell to the ground until a third officer interceded, he said…

“They had to take action swiftly and surely because there was a crowd gathering and Brandon was attempting to incite the crowd to do something,” Owensby said. “Brandon Johnson was the master of his own destiny that day

2 things:

1) I am going into lock down mode with 28 days to go before bar exam. Unless it is a matter of life, liberty or the purfuit of happineff, leave me alone. I love you all (no homo, and excepting Peskoff) but I truly need the study time.

2) Tell me that the Russian spy chick doesn’t look like Kaylee from Firefly: (All pictures from Barstool Sports NY)

Russian:

Kaylee:

Who’s up for a little Glastnost and Perestroika now, eh?
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