Sunday Overnight Open Thread (7/21/24)

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The Comments of The Week

Comments were awesome and plentiful from the best "family" on the webz.

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Gun Thread: Gunz, Food And Semi-Open Thread to Discuss Democrat Party Chaos Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Q: Weasel, are you on vacation?
A: Why yes, yes I are on vacation!

Another short one this week, guys and gals. As I alluded to in the title above, I am on a sooper sekrit mission to an undisclosed location on the North Carolina coast where we're meeting an old friend for a week. The plan is for the girls to go sightseeing and shopping during the day, leaving FSJ and me to guard the house, smoke cigars, enjoy dog treats, and otherwise goof-off.

Insightful Weasel Political Commentary and Analysis on Biden Campaign Developments
Hahahahahahahahahaha! Suck it, Dems! Kinda crapped in your mess kit, didn't you?

P.S. You can even talk about food if you like!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Trump PAC Releases Kamala Ad, Burdening Her With What Has Been

He isn't positioning her for success.

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MushHead is out

Per a little flower, Biden is out! Thanks Bluebell for the H/T

The unprecedented announcement came as an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers had begun to publicly call for Biden to step aside and the party's leadership reportedly was engaged in efforts to convince Biden, 81, he could not win in November's general election against former President Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee who Biden defeated four years ago to win the White House.

And Biden quickly offered his "full support and endorsement" for Vice President Kamala Harris to take over as the party's presidential nominee.

"It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president," Biden wrote in a public letter. "While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term."

Biden said he will formally address the nation later this week about his decision.

Gird all the loins. (ace)

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Periodic Aviation Thread [Roger Ball]

Greetings Horde! It’s the weekend and I’ve been blessed to provide a midday thread for your entertainment. And a great day it is, but not as great as tomorrow! Tomorrow is the opening day of the biggest, best airshow on the planet: the Experimental Aircraft Association AIR VENTURE. So let’s go!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 07-21-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 21 July 2024

Top Story

• Microsoft: CrowdStrike mishap impacted less than 1 percent of Windows PCs. (Thurrott)
  
  CrowdStrike's faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft. (The Verge)
  
  It's the same number; there's something like 1.5 billion Windows PCs in use worldwide.
  
  The problem is that the computers running CrowdStrike are the ones used in critical roles by large organisations. The 99% that went right on working weren't embedded in ATMs or airport terminals or healthcare providers.
  
  
  
• So how do we avoid a repeat of this?
  
  Dunno.

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/20/24) And 7/13/24 Pre-empted Music Thread (Boomer Style)

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The Saturday Night Joke

A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him. She says, 'Hello.'

He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?' To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'

Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife. So he asks, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table, with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'

She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's Hebrew school teacher.' (H/T Isophorone)

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Get off my lawn said the Genius Award Winner.

A Maine man was arrested early Saturday morning after shooting and injuring a teenage prankster who knocked on his door and ran in a ‘ding-dong-ditch’ game gone wrong, police said.

Vincent Martin, 30, of Harrison faces charges of aggravated assault, and reckless conduct, among other charges, according to a press statement from Capt. Kerry Joyce of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

Just after 1 a.m., law enforcement received numerous reports of shots fired and alleged screaming heard in the area of Waterford Road and Depot Street, Joyce said. Soon after, Bridgton Hospital reported a walk-in patient suffering a gunshot wound.

Police later identified that person as a teenager who played a game of ‘ding-dong-ditch’ on Martin’s home at 91 Waterford Road and ran away. Martin, however, answered the door and shot at the teens several times, striking one in the calf, Joyce said.

Martin is being held on $10,000 bond at the Cumberland County Jail.

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Last week's Music Thread was preempted by the assassination attempt on President Trump. So without further adieu. The ONT proudly presents The Music Thread.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: MaXXXine, Longlegs, Kill, Kinds of Kindness and More!

The paucity of big summer flicks aside, or perhaps due to said paucity, it's been a pretty good moviegoing summer. Sure, Inside Out 2, Bad Boys 4 and Twister 2 aren't for everybody (me, for example), there has been enough room in the cracks for more interesting fare and the quality has been strong. It doesn't hurt that Seven Samurai is out for its 70th anniversary and, as someone who has trouble getting into Kurosawa, is conventionally entertaining (as well as iconic, influential and derivative all at once) for the entirety of its 3 1/2 hour length (plus intermission).

It also doesn't hurt to live in a city where there are a couple dozen throwbacks every week. For example, I took the Barbarienne (who has a strong interest in art, puppetry and stop-motion animation) to see a Quay Brothers retrospective at the Philosophical Research Society. The executive summary of the Quay Brothers: Mad God for people who find Mad God too cohesive and coherent. It was fun, but not something I'd generally recommend.

And if that's not the watchword for post-lockdown movies, I don't know what is. We saw four new movies released in the past three weeks, described heretoforeafter in the order we saw them and, coincidentally, almost in the order of box office success.

Nicolas Cage having a normal one

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Hobby Thread Redux - July 20, 2024 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and a beverage and sit a spell with the horde. Do not adjust your interweb. You've seen this thread (or at least one that looked a lot like this one) before. We're making a second attempt at a genealogy theme. Last week's thread was rudely interrupted by the developments in Butler, Pennsylvania. If events warrant, we'll pivot and adapt.

The horde was just starting to get rolling last week with tales of family history, so let's try it again. I put my thumb on the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies and made sure it would come up with a theme of family history and genealogy again. So here we are...

Who am I? Where did I come from? How did I get here?

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 20

Courtesy Gina O'Neail

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 20

Jump Scare Lilies

KT, here's a splendiferous lily that just bloomed yesterday in my pollinator garden. I'd forgotten what manner of lily it was and BOOM, some sort of savage tiger, burning bright!

Eris

Sorta goes along with our weather! Gorgeous!

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Poor Joy Reid had to diversify her conspiracy theories because of the assassination attempt

Project 2025 before the assassination attempt on Trump

One of the people who shows up regularly on my social media timeline is a gay man who is absolutely obsessed with Project 2025. He's not totally insane about politics, but he has gone off the deep end about this. I think it was the day before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump that he reassured his friends that Joy Reid would be doing an hour-long analysis of Project 2025 on MSNBC the following Monday (the day that the RNC Convention started).

Alas, it was not to be. There were shake-ups in the MSNBC scheduling. Morning Joe was pulled. Joy Reid ended up on a panel of MSNBC "analysts" in front of a projected image of the RNC Convention.

Consequently, one of the friends of my alarmist social media "friend" mourned in a later comment to him:

Just when Project 2025 was beginning to be exposed, the assassination attempt diverted the spotlight away from it.

You would think that they would have started exposing it in January when it was published, but squirrel! At one point, Joy Reid was reduced to Ear Trutherism, which also spread to more "respectable" press representatives.

And from the Daily Mail:

Joy Reid was accused of 'next level desperation' after suggesting that Joe Biden's brush with Covid is as heroic as Donald Trump's defiance in the face of an assassin's bullet.

The MSNBC host was speaking from the Republican National Convention as news broke that the president had cancelled a speech in Las Vegas after testing positive for Covid.

The liberal anchor dismissed the attack on Trump as a 'photo-op', and seemed dismayed at the contrast drawn by delegates between the president's frailty and his challenger's vigorous response to being shot.

'Should he (Biden) be fine in a couple of days, doesn't that convey exactly the same thing?' she demanded.

So, did Biden get better in two days?

This is so difficult for certain people on the left. Here's an example of a social media image of Project 2025 after the assassination attempt:

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

(Meme H/T CBD & Music H/T Hadrian the Seventh)

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Good morning boys, girls and everything in between. July is burning through as fast as Joe Biden changes adult diapers.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to address. (Rulz for those of you in Washburn)

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Daily Tech News 20 July 2024

Top Story

• What is CrowdStrike, and what happened? (The Verge)
  
  We were expecting Skynet, and all we got is this lousy antivirus update.
  
  
  
• Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world. (The Verge)
  
  Thank you Microsoft and CrowdStrike for bringing us all together in shared loathing.
  
  
  

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To The Lonely ONT And The Sky

Happy Friday everyone! On to the memes! Not surprisingly, a lot of the memes I found this week were about the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump.

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Hangry Hangry Hippos Cafe

Lizard's got CAKE

Very neat bike ride. What kind of "path" is this? It looks like a bunch of tree logs strung together to make a "path." What is the purpose of that?

Wonderful video of dogs on a little bus for a class trip to the countryside. Now this is the job for me.

More dogs enjoying nature.

Cruise ship graveyard.

I'm not sure how to describe this.

Good wingsuit action.

Amazing timelapse videos of the Milky Way.

Some yutes going HAM in a coordinated subway dance.

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Josh Hawley: Whistleblowers Tell Me That Kim Cheatle Sent the C-Team to "Protect" Trump, Some of the "Agents" Weren't Even Secret Service at All

Happy Preekend everybody!

I've been off the computer until now, resting my eyes. I did most of today's posts during Trump's somewhat long speech.

I noticed in his speech, he gets annoyed having to read other people's written lines, so after every line he reads from the teleprompter, he then offers asides and digressions to add his personal flava to it.

Like he read: "From Yorktown, to Antietam, to Midway, brave Americans have joined the roll call of immortal heroes."

And that's obviously not Trump's way of speaking.

Then he turns to the audience and freestyles it: "These heroes, these heroes. So many heroes, so many. We need to cherish them. We need to cherish these heroes. Did you ever notice that? No one says 'cherish these heroes' any longer, no one says that. We need to build statues. Beautiful statues. I love the flag."

Then he goes back to the script for a line.

That's why it was so long -- the script itself was about 45 minutes long, and then his asides were just as long.

Anyway, good speech at the beginning and at the end, a bit soggy in the middle.

ABC's hysterical hyperpartisan Martha Raddatz claimed Trump should have ended his speech after the beginning, when he talked about the assassination. She said he then spoke about nothing but his "grievances."

By "grievances," she means his criticisms of the Democrat Administration. Martha Raddatz thinks that any criticism of Democrats is definitionally just a petty "grievance."

Which is funny, because all Democrat "politics" are are a series of grievances. The feminists are angry that Girlboss isn't a real position in the workforce, and that men continue not automatically deferring to them when they speak "their truth." Leftwing racialists complain that they have "generational trauma" and still feel the oppression their grandparents suffered, somehow. Gays and trans people complain that they haven't been properly embraced and affirmed yet.

But when Trump talks about 13 Americans being killed by Biden's disastrous bug-out, or about inflation reducing everyone's real wealth by 20%, that's just "grievance" politics, according to this wrinkled-ass Skeletor-face twunt.

On to the latest "hmmmm" tidbit about the corrupt and incompetent (and possibly treasonous?) Deep State.

The Deep State will be purged, and it will be glorious.

And after they are purged, they will of course become agents of foreign governments and not bother registering as such, and then we can imprison them.

Amen.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says whistleblowers have come forward, alleges the Biden DHS assigned "unprepared and inexperienced personnel" to Trump who weren't even Secret Service.

"Whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of the event have approached my office. According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a loose' security event," Hawley said in a letter to Mayorkas.

"For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas."

"Department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also not stationed at regular intervals around the event's security perimeter."

"In addition, whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)."

"This is especially concerning given that HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations."

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James Varney: There's a Culture of Sexual Predation in the Nation's Schools, and the Political Class Is Covering It Up

The left has been making movies about their heroism in taking on the Catholic Church.

But when it comes to their own?

Forced silence.

Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress

By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
July 10, 2024

Every day millions of parents put their children under the care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however, is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation's history.

Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.

For a variety of reasons, ranging from embarrassment to eagerness to avoid liability, elected or appointed officials, along with unions or lobbying groups representing school employees, have fought to keep the truth hidden from the public.

"In any given year they have failed to report thousands of these situations, and instead they've papered them over, acted like it's not an issue," former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told RealClearInvestigations. Stunned by a 2018 Chicago Tribune investigation that found 523 incident reports of sexual misconduct by employees of the city's schools during the past decade, DeVos during the Trump administration launched the process of including specific questions about such cases in the Department's Civil Rights Data Collection, a process it undertakes every two years. Previously, the Office for Civil Rights asked only general questions about sexual misconduct incidents, without a breakdown of alleged perpetrators.

The Biden administration initially sought to remove those questions, saying it wanted to avoid data duplication, but it backtracked after fierce criticism it was doing so as a sop to teachers unions. Consequently, the question will be included on future questionnaires, but, as of today, the Department of Education "has no data," a spokesperson told RCI.

So they were forced to stop trying to remove the question, because it sure makes it look like the Biden Administration is covering up for pedophiles.

So now the question is supposedly asked -- but no one in the Biden Administration actually collects or collates the answers.

The answers, if they're given at all, are disappeared.

These days, from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, even a cursory review of local news reporting brings disquieting revelations of teachers accused of or arrested for alleged sexual relations with a student. In just the past month:

In California, multiple students filed a lawsuit against a male music teacher who had taught at three different schools in the San Jose area. The teacher is already serving prison time for previous convictions in sexual misconduct cases with students.

In New Jersey, a female middle school teacher was arrested for an alleged ongoing sexual relationship with a student.

In Texas, a male teacher was arrested for allegedly having a sexual affair with a 12-year-old student.

In Illinois, a female substitute teacher faces charges of "grooming and predatory criminal sexual assault" for an alleged relationship with a sixth-grader.

In Washington, the arrest of a male high school teacher on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor represented a repeat nightmare for a school district that previously had a psychologist convicted on the same charges.

Just last weekend, a 36-year-old New Jersey teacher was arrested on multiple assault charges involving a sexual relationship with a teenage student.

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[E]xperts who track the problem don't take the problem lightly. Pointing to research from Hofstra University that found roughly 1 in 10 students in K-12 schools have suffered "some form of sexual misconduct by an educator," Terri Miller, head of the advocacy group SESAME (Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation), said the number of victims is staggering.

"The rate of educator sexual misconduct is 10 times higher in one year's time than in five decades of abuse by clergy," Miller said, noting that in 2021 the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reported it had received nearly 4,300 sexual abuse allegations. "Another striking contrast is we are not mandated to send our children to church; we are mandated to send them to school."

The extent of the problem may shock many Americans. The topic has long been shrouded by a curtain held by various actors in the drama: schools reluctant to go public with embarrassing and possibly criminal activity, unions fighting for members' privacy and sometimes state laws that protect it, and a government reluctant to ask hard questions that would gather reliable data.

But the cases and tactics often used to cover them up have become common enough to earn an ugly nickname: "passing the trash."

Oh, you mean that when the parents of children at a school get outraged that a teacher is a pedophile, they don't fire him, but merely move him to another school jurisdiction where the parents aren't aware of his proclivities?

I remember the Catholic Church did this -- and the leftwing Regime thought that was an unspeakable cover-up then.

But now?

Silence.

"DOE does not and never has tracked sexual misconduct committed by adults against students," said Billie-Jo Grant, a professor at California Poly State University who is one of the nation's top researchers on the topic.

"DOE has never aggressively worked to stop teachers' unions and administrators from passing the trash," she told RCI. "DOE does not hold accountable the many enablers who have created a pool of mobile molesters in our schools nationwide. Your questions should include why? Why? Why?"

Read the whole thing.

National "Education" Association pyrsyn and Marxist preacher: "We have to win all the things!!!"

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The Assassin Stashed His Gun Near the Trump Rally Before Retrieving It To Take His Shot, and the Secret Service Failed to Find It When They Did Their Insecure Security Sweep

Great! Another DEI success story!

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source.

It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was already holding it.

"We went from golf range finder to AR-15, and now we have to fill in the gap," the source told Fox News.

When authorities first observed Crooks carrying a golf range finder Saturday, he was perceived as a "person of interest" but not a "threat," authorities said Thursday.

Range finders were not banned from rally events at the time, but authorities are expected to review the list of items that are not allowed.

He did not become an official threat until he was seen with a weapon.

There were four counter-sniper teams stationed around the rally, according to the Secret Service -- two from the agency and two provided by local law enforcement.

Of the four teams, two opened fire, one local and one from the Service. A federal sharpshooter fatally struck the gunman seconds after the gunfire erupted.

Seconds after.

When you need Secret Service protection, help is only a few seconds (or 62 minutes) away.

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Authorities have spent much of the week pointing fingers about who was responsible for securing the AGR building, from where Crooks opened fire.

And covering it up.

Look at Fox News -- not quite sure if Trump was hit by a bullet, or only "said" he had been hit.

Trump later said he had been shot in the right ear, and photos from the scene showed him getting back to his feet after ducking for cover with blood on the right side of his head.

He only "said" he'd been shot? Are you harboring some doubts about this Convenient Story, FoxNews?

You know there's an entire BlueAnon conspiracy theory claiming he wasn't really hit?

Why is the "fair and balanced alternative" FoxNews also playing footsie with the BlueAnon conspiracy theorists?

You know why.

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