The Morning Rant

The massive, all-encompassing incompetence of most government is on full display today! Humanity has spent its entire history getting better and better at killing each other, yet the Tennessee Department of Corrections can't manage to knock off somebody who is already strapped to a f*cking gurney?

In our culture's drive to make everything painless, including capital punishment, we have made a mockery of the concept, and botching a simple task is just the icing on the cake. This woman was convicted in 1996...30 years ago! That her sentence wasn't carried out promptly after a pro forma appeal is a travesty of justice, and in and of itself is cruel and unusual.

Christa Pike still alive, 'snoring' after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

The first woman set to be put to death in Tennessee in over 200 years was given two doses of a lethal injection Wednesday evening, but remained alive as her botched execution descended into chaos — and prompted the governor to demand an outside probe and issue an emergency pause on all executions for the remainder of the year.

There are several tried-and-true ways that the state can kill, and it isn't unreasonable for the people to expect some minimal level of competence in carrying out the sentence. Hanging works. Firing squads work. Electrocution works. But the newest fad of painless death by injection seems not to work very well at all, because the idiots in charge of concocting the lethal dose try to do it in the kindest, most peaceful way imaginable.

Here's a pro-tip! Take a gram of Fentanyl confiscated at the border, mix it in some saline, and shoot it into the bitch's vein. That will do nicely, since the dosage is hundreds of times larger than the lethal dose.

But this is the best part of the entire embarrassing mess!

She was taken to a nearby hospital, where her lawyers said she was “being provided life-saving measures.”
Her condition was unclear as of Thursday morning; however, a doctor who was retained by Pike’s legal team as a medical expert said she likely now has a brain injury as a result.

Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Apparently there was no "protocol" for this outcome, which exposes the mindset of the bureaucracy. Protocols and regulations are the shield that apparatchiks use to protect themselves from responsibility.

So this evil bitch is in the hospital, perhaps with brain damage, which will be used by her lawyers as a reason to prevent any further attempts to give her what she so richly deserves.

Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 01, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

3 Christa Pike still alive, 'snoring' after 2 lethal injections as Tennessee governor halts all executions

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NK has some ideas on this front.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:01 AM (U/fqy)

4 Send her to Canada, to the MAID doctors!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)

5 Yes. Fentanyl has a long track record of killing.....it doesn't take much.

Bye bye birdie.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

6 According to my wife, snoring is a capital offense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (RORbl)

7 You know what works? A rope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (ndZc7)

8
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (iqcvy)

9 >>Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

"No idea. Seems like an obvious thing to do."
-- Canada and the Netherlands

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:03 AM (rOKnE)

10 So she's not on the cart?

Posted by: Monty Python at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

11 How do you fuck this up?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (4NO2D)

12 Apparently there was no "protocol" for this outcome,

couldn't find a pillow nearby?

Posted by: Dr. Richard B. Thickdigit Cosmetic Proctology Clinic and Spa at October 01, 2026 11:04 AM (r7+Q7)

13 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Wasn't that a Monty Python bit?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (I43vL)

14 Maybe they can call Canada and ask how to do it?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (2ocoG)

15 Are there no exercise bands?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (4NO2D)

16 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

Posted by: Ben Franklin at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (w+jhU)

17 >7 You know what works? A rope.

Or exercise bands.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

18 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)

19 >>>Because we can't kill brain-damaged people? Why not?

To safeguard the political class.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (8mulE)

20 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

Hell is empty and all the demons are here.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (qwx/I)

21 As I mentioned on an earlier thread. This is just dumb.

Vets can put down animals on a daily basis.

Animals go peacefully and quietly into the final rest.

We can't do this for humans? As CBD points out above, an overdose of fentanyl would no doubt do the trick. Easy and painless.

Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work? Do the victims have life-saving measures applied? Or do they get a pillow to the face until they stop thrashing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

22 I'd be looking at the formulary. Sabotage is not out of the question.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (4NO2D)

23 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?
Posted by: Lizzy

Hmmmm...Interesting take. Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

24 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (2Ez/1)

25 Snoring? More like agonal breathing, or Death Rattle in street terms.

Posted by: Dr. Whatsamatta at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (Fn+3X)

26 Should have tested it on her lawyers first.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (iFEms)

27 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

Weird place to do DEI, but I guess with USAID out of commission they'll take what they can get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (2ocoG)

28 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM (rOKnE)

Fowl play. One of the techs chickened out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (4znQE)

29 There are several tried-and-true ways that the state can kill, and it isn't unreasonable for the people to expect some minimal level of competence in carrying out the sentence.

H-1B some Canadians. Those mf'ers know how to kill.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

30 Who was it that suggested morphine? Wonderful idea... steadily increasing dose.
Works every time, and who can say it's cruel?
Certainly not unusual

Posted by: MkY at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (ZHRuH)

31
I thought that she'd requested a firing squad. Almost as if she suspected that someone would fuck up her injection on purpose, leaving her a vegetable.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (iqcvy)

32 Survived TWO "lethal" injections?

Pull the other one.

Posted by: creeper at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (lWAes)

33 I am a fan of death by laughing gas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

34 I'm just...

I mean...

F*ck it, I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 11:07 AM (/C5Rl)

35 Do you think they do that alcohol swab thing before they stick the needle in your arm?

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

36 In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (JzUSu)

37 Yeah, it's agonal breathing.

Hockey season's here -- how about we call it a death game misconduct?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (qwx/I)

38 Rope is cheap, quick, and relatively painless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (0U5gm)

39 This evil cunt deserved to be rolled in bacon fat and left in a dungeon for the rats.

I'm all for capital punishment to be the same method as the murderer inflicted on his or her victim. A scumbag rapes his victim and then chops her up? The convict gets raped and then chopped up.

In Pike's case, she gets tortured for hours, pentagrams carved into her chest, and then Slemmer's father gets to bash her head in with a rock until she's dead.

I'm not joking. Why are we so nice to cold-blooded murderous evil?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

40 Canada seems to know how to kill people. Maybe we need to hire them as consultants on matters of executions.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (6lPOA)

41 In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

That's a great but incredible downer of a film. The only thing that redeems it is the scene at the end where the German girl is singing, and all the French soldiers start to cry.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

42 Foul play by an anti-death penalty member of the execution team?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:05 AM

That's my thought as well. Someone involved tried to sabotage the execution. Could have been someone present or someone in the supply chain of the drugs used.

I do recall at one point a maker of those specific drugs refusing to sell to any state that did lethal injections.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (I43vL)

43 38 Rope is cheap, quick, and relatively painless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:09 AM (0U5gm)

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Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

44 In fairness, Canada only executes the innocent.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (4NO2D)

45 Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work? Do the victims have life-saving measures applied? Or do they get a pillow to the face until they stop thrashing?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:06 AM (FZ29D)

Killing murderous humans: BAD

Killing suicidal but viable humans: Humane and sanctioned

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (ccf/V)

46
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:10 AM (U/fqy)

Spearchucker!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (ccf/V)

47 She was sentenced to death in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person who owns a calendar at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

48 47 She was sentenced to death in 1996.
That was 30 years ago.

Posted by: Person who owns a calendar at October 01, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

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Appeals systems, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (U/fqy)

49
Hockey season's here -- how about we call it a death game misconduct?
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (qwx/I)

Mutant League Hockey on the Sega was the shizznit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (ccf/V)

50 I'm not joking. Why are we so nice to cold-blooded murderous evil?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Because they are just products of the evil capitalist environment that caused their dastardly deeds.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (JzUSu)

51 Who was present and directly involved in preparation and administration of the alleged lethal combination of drugs, I question.

Seems oddly convenient for a debacle like that to happen at this time:

• The Heart Stopper: The final drug is usually potassium chloride. It floods the blood with potassium and stops the heart almost instantly. Once the heart stops from this chemical surge, standard CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a lifesaving method of pushing on the chest and giving breaths) or emergency shots cannot restart it.
• Suffocation: The second drug is a paralyzing agent that stops breathing. Combined with the loss of blood flow, the brain is starved of oxygen within minutes.
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Aileen Wuornos, the real-life serial killer portrayed in the film Monster, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, at Florida State Prison. he execution was described as clinical, quiet, and bloodless.

Note: Florida had switched its primary execution method from the electric chair to lethal injection to avoid botched executions.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

52 Lizzie Borden, where are you? America turns its lonely eyes to you...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (XeU6L)

53 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

This is the 2nd failed execution in TN this year. I don't know that the women botched it deliberately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

54 Nobody can truthfully say that being retarded precludes being evil...just look at the commies in this country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)

55 Couple of points:

the death penalty IS constitutional
Amendment the Fifth has this bit--- nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

Lethal injection is intended to make the State feel better about executing a person. Hanging or firing squad is very graphic. That makes us feel not good, so let's pretend we're just putting the Condemned to sleep.

And then Denny's after.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

56 The only thing that redeems it is the scene at the end where the German girl is singing, and all the French soldiers start to cry.
Posted by: Bulg
________

Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

57 It's just a clump of cells...

Posted by: NARAL at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

58 Killing suicidal but viable humans: Humane and sanctioned

In Canada you don't have to be suicidal, as per the grandmother they killed who specifically said MAID was an abomination and refused it twice.

According to statistics of who they kill it helps a great deal if the victim is white though. No blacks, Indians, or Eskimos.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (2ocoG)

59 Oh, and what about those people who use Canada's MAID system? Do THEY suffer during the process? What happens when the euthanasia doesn't work?

Assuming they're sufficiently brain damaged, they get elected to Parliament.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (ExV1e)

60 55
Lethal injection is intended to make the State feel better about executing a person. Hanging or firing squad is very graphic. That makes us feel not good, so let's pretend we're just putting the Condemned to sleep.

And then Denny's after.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ZxPkt)

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The state doesn't feel things.

The state protects the rights of the people. And sometimes, to protect the rights of the people, the state must kill.

It's why the state has a monopoly on violence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (U/fqy)

61 Note: Florida had switched its primary execution method from the electric chair to lethal injection to avoid botched executions.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:12 AM (NFX2v)

It would be pretty hard to botch a woodchipper job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 11:14 AM (4znQE)

62 This smells very much like a deliberate op to me.

Come on now, who survives not one but two lethal injections? What was in those needles, adrenaline?

Investigate the clowns that botched this execution, and I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll find an leftwing activist. Or just outright corruption.

This was a fucking op. Convince me otherwise.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

63 In fairness, Canada only executes the innocent.
Posted by: toby928
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[cough,cough]

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

64 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

65 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Oh yes, the antis and the lawyers insist that you must be in perfect health before being executed.

Just like someone on death row who's used up all their appeals? They get heroic life-saving efforts if they have a heart attack before their execution date.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (aJQbY)

66 And "Legal Insurrection" had an article on this which had a long screed about n the very difficult situation she went through as a younger adding that ( supposedly ) her mothers drinking during her pregnancy caused her to be bipolar (?) . I know a number of people who are bipolar . None have killed people. I'm not celebrating her execution. I am sorry they didn't get it done correctly the first time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:16 AM (JrHfD)

67 53 I mentioned in the other thread it was a team of women and they botched it deliberately.

This is the 2nd failed execution in TN this year. I don't know that the women botched it deliberately.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

My first thought was botched on purpose. The way it's done (from my understanding...although the process may have changed) is to anesthetize the person to unconsciousness, then give them additional injections to stop the heart.
Vet gave the old horny cat (who was listless and dying) ONE injection and he was gone in quick order; why not give death row inmates the same thing?
Oh, right, the party of murdering children to birth (And Beyond!) is against killing evil, murderous adults...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

68 You would think they would sign a DNR before their execution.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

69 This was the one who lured, tortured and murdered a gal she thought was moving in on her man and then carries a fragment of her skull around town as a trophy, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (Y/06r)

70 4 Send her to Canada, to the MAID doctors!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:02 AM (rOKnE)

My second thought...or rather hire them to come here...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

71 61. It would be pretty hard to botch a woodchipper job.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Fargo.

The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)

72 Life-saving measures after a botched execution?

Like being put on a ventilator? She's not out of the woods yet!

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (iFEms)

73 This was the one who lured, tortured and murdered a gal she thought was moving in on her man and then carries a fragment of her skull around town as a trophy, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (Y/06r)
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Correct, good sir

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

74 she was a Mean Girl

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (ZxPkt)

75 This had to be sabotage to create a condition where she not only survives, but which kills the DP as inhumane.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (UWnRS)

76 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.
Posted by: L - No nic

Supposedly because the jury thought that a woman couldn't have wielded a heavy axe like that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

77 Oh, right, the party of murdering children to birth (And Beyond!) is against killing evil, murderous adults...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (l3cgK)

Because somehow, in their mind, they are REAL people. Far more real that kids or their political opponents.

You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

78 Nobody can truthfully say that being retarded precludes being evil...just look at the commies in this country.
Posted by: jim
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A corollary might be that Intelligence does not preclude stupid behavior. We see it in educational institutions (and politics) all of the time.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (XeU6L)

79 The screed at the "Legal Insurrection" site is by someone mid way down the link by someone named "Samsara":

https://tinyurl.com/5n9bb62m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (JrHfD)

80 68 You would think they would sign a DNR before their execution.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 01, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

Or rather the Gov't would set up a DNR for ALL death row inmates...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (l3cgK)

81 "We gave her a lethal injection."

You keep using those words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (2UnvF)

82 74 she was a Mean Girl
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (ZxPkt)

Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (Y/06r)

83 A Canadian "doctor" can handle this. They're very efficient, terminating 16,499 in 2024 alone with no recoveries.

Posted by: PGS at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (6sm6m)

84 77 Because somehow, in their mind, they are REAL people. Far more real that kids or their political opponents.

You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

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Adults who do evil are just products of civilization, removed from the purity of the noble savage human nature that is peaceful inherently.

Adults who commit crimes cannot be responsible for criminal action because it's society that makes them do it.

Also, Trump is responsible for all of his crimes and must be executed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (U/fqy)

85 83 A Canadian "doctor" can handle this. They're very efficient, terminating 16,499 in 2024 alone with no recoveries.
Posted by: PGS at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (6sm6m)

But see, those are being done with the full commitment of the state. Someone's grandma is not as important as a convicted murderer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (Y/06r)

86 I am so sick and tired of these sob stories about these evil killers needing sympathy because of childhood trauma or abuse, postpartum depression, whatever.

Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

87 If it had been a Cornell fraternity brother, the execution would have gone on without a hitch.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (qwx/I)

88 a long screed about n the very difficult situation she went through as a younger adding that ( supposedly ) her mothers drinking during her pregnancy caused her to be bipolar

Great defense. "My client was born murderous. It's her nature".

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (iFEms)

89 A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

90 You know, for myself, I think I would prefer a rifle round to the chest after a last cigarette. Camel Wide please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Y/06r)

NO MENTHOL!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (Y/06r)

91 what if the Tennessee execution team is of the same mind as the 11 jurors who wanted to acquit

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (ZxPkt)

92 Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian Bale offing mean girls and jocks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

93 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:20 AM (U/fqy)

And the hardcore lezzie feminotsees who say that all men should be placed in camps from childhood...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (l3cgK)

94 The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)
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Ironic, given the scene takes place just outside Brainerd.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (amcLV)

95 A corollary might be that Intelligence does not preclude stupid behavior. We see it in educational institutions (and politics) all of the time.

It's the tyranny of the midwits. All of the elite colleges are cranking out drones in the 95-110 IQ range (down from 130+ a century ago). They think they're the wizards of smart (RIP El Rushbo) and can talk themselves into all manner of obviously idiotic positions.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (2ocoG)

96 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

And it is no expiation of your guilt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (Y/06r)

97 Nope. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the August 4, 1892, hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on June 20, 1893.
Posted by: L - No nic
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True, but the image is appealing. What I find most curious is that Lizzie was a mature adult (32?) and wasn't living with them, and had not for some years. Working from memory here...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (XeU6L)

98 A double tap would take her out.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (X7pZH)

99 Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian ~~Bale~~ Slater offing mean girls and jocks.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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FIFY

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (FZ29D)

100 >Was it Heathers that was the murderous Mean Girls or Jawbreaker?

Would have been about the same time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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hellifino
I just know it was a movie

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (ZxPkt)

101 86 I am so sick and tired of these sob stories about these evil killers needing sympathy because of childhood trauma or abuse, postpartum depression, whatever.

Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

How about this compromise...if they had evil parents, execute them too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (l3cgK)

102 94 The actual wood chipper used in the climax of the 1996 Coen brothers film Fargo is permanently on display at the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:18 AM (NFX2v)
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Ironic, given the scene takes place just outside Brainerd.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (amcLV)

Yeah, towns are weird. I was watching something where the town in england was so proud of being in Straw Dogs. Um, guys...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)

103 NO MENTHOL!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

104 102
Yeah, towns are weird. I was watching something where the town in england was so proud of being in Straw Dogs. Um, guys...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:23 AM (Y/06r)

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"Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

105 Your past is no reason to commit murder.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

Yep!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (JrHfD)

106 Apparently they allowed Krista Pike to refuse most food and drink for three days prior to her execution date resulting in dehydration. If true, this perhaps made it difficult to find a vein, maybe blowing a vein, and prevented the drugs from doing their thing.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (3ImbR)

107 Does the Immortal Killer Lady have life insurance?

Posted by: AllState at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (w+jhU)

108 76. Supposedly because the jury thought that a woman couldn't have wielded a heavy axe like that.
Posted by: Bulg

👍🏻

And the Gender Sentencing Gap continues.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (NFX2v)

109 The DP is an interesting case study in the battle between Left and Right.

The appeals and publicity and demands for more humane methods is all just lawfare to try to end the practice by the Left.

The Right keeps resisting. Legal industry profits. Activists have something to complain about (you know they will never be satisfied so it might as well be this).

It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (UWnRS)

110 Heathers was a very hot Winona Ryder and Christian Bale Slater offing mean girls and jocks.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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FIFY
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Thanks for the correction. I looked it up before I posted, and I still got the name wrong.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

111 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

Exactly.

*bound to a post*

*looks at cigarette, can smell the mint*

Now you're just fucking with me, you cocksuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (Y/06r)

112 Hey, OT good news. My car insurance dropped by 8% for six months. No apparent reason. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of piss poor drivers being sent back to the old country.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (gm9Sb)

113
In Paths of Glory, Kubrick had the (unjustly accused) prisoner with a concussion pinched on the face so he'd be awake before he was shot.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:08 AM (JzUSu)

In the Tales from the Crypt episode Yellow, Kirk Douglas riffs on Paths of Glory, where he's the WWI general who has to have his coward son executed for cowardice in the face of the enemy. To prevent his shit-heel son from causing a scene, he deceives his son into acting out a faux execution (followed by banishment) only to turn away at the last moment, giving away that the execution is in fact being carried out.

"If you'll permit me, General, he died like a man."

"Yessss. My son is not yellow."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (iqcvy)

114 89 A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (l3cgK)

115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???

Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)

116 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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I remember a MAD Magazine mock ad for "Sail 'em" cigarettes.

"Better to sail 'em than to smoke 'em!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (amcLV)

117 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

LOL. That was Hot Fuzz, no? I think it might have been the commentary where I heard that was a real thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (Y/06r)

118 Yup, TN definitely need to staff their execution team with Canadians:

@libsoftiktok
·
23h
An "inclusive" church in Canada partnered with government officials to host an event teaching people how they can K*LL themselves.

Don't worry, attendees get a free baked potato!

The church's post and FB page appear to have been deleted, but they still mention the event on their website.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

119 There have been about 756 excuses for this evil murderess. She was bipolar, she was sexually abused by 17 different men, she was taunted and hazed, she was fat and ugly, she was depressed, she was losing her boyfriend, she missed the morning art thread, etc.

Yet, if you take away all the excuses, she lived a pretty normal life for a teenager, had a boyfriend and friends and a social life, and the murder was clearly premeditated and planned.

Nothing in Pike's past caused her to do this. She just wanted Slemmer dead because she was a rival for the boyfriend's affections. One of the oldest motives in human existence. Many people have killed for less.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

120 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH
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I didn't get enough hugs as a child!

Posted by: Charles Manson at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (XeU6L)

121 It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Posted by: bob

The monsters are their constituents.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (0U5gm)

122 Love "Hot Fuzz" movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

123 103 NO MENTHOL!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

My MIL snuck in Marlboros.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

124 Bet the "investigation" goes on for months as to why this woman wasn't put to death. Long enough for people to move on to the next outrage.

Because it's probably a follow-on to the Clancy debacle. There will likely be women involved. Broken women.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (RORbl)

125 Google "execution by nitrogen hypoxia".

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (GD2xa)

126 106 Apparently they allowed Krista Pike to refuse most food and drink for three days prior to her execution date resulting in dehydration. If true, this perhaps made it difficult to find a vein, maybe blowing a vein, and prevented the drugs from doing their thing.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (3ImbR)

Use the neck...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

127 In Heathers drinking mineral water was gay. That's a plot point that would be a hate crime now.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

128 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

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Professionals, waiting in the wings!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (amcLV)

129 "She was bipolar, she was sexually abused by 17 different men, she was taunted and hazed, she was fat and ugly, she was depressed, she was losing her boyfriend, she missed the morning art thread, etc."

*golfclap*

Nice non-sequitur comment thrown in at the end. Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (Y/06r)

130 Your past is no reason to commit murder.
Posted by: SMH
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I was sent to bed hungry!

Posted by: Jeffery Dahmer at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (XeU6L)

131 >>It always strikes me as funny that the far left -- the ones who support Mao and Che and the idea that we need to "break eggs" are the same one who go to the mattresses to prevent the killing of these monsters.

Because they use the monsters to do their killing?
They use chaos and crime to scare the public into agreeing to their solutions. And hey, if it also results in a culling of the populace it means fewer "eggs to break" for them!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (rOKnE)

132 128 "Greg over there was an extra in 'Straw Dogs' and Sheri portrayed a cadaver in 'Prime Suspect'."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM (U/fqy)

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Professionals, waiting in the wings!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (amcLV)

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And instead, he went with that girl with the annoying laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (U/fqy)

133 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 01, 2026 11:21 AM (X7pZH)

That is one of the lyrics from "West Side Story's song, "Gee, officer Krupke": "I'm depraved because I'm deprived."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (JrHfD)

134 112 Hey, OT good news. My car insurance dropped by 8% for six months. No apparent reason. Maybe, just maybe, a lot of piss poor drivers being sent back to the old country.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 01, 2026 11:25 AM

Does this involve a small talking green reptile?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

135 116 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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I remember a MAD Magazine mock ad for "Sail 'em" cigarettes.

"Better to sail 'em than to smoke 'em!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (amcLV)

You have to "Sail 'em" to get to the deserts before you can walk a mile for a Camel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (l3cgK)

136 TDOC Commissioner Frank Strada is ultimately responsible for overseeing executions of this nature. However, and lucky for the individual, the actual act is performed by an anonymous party that is not disclosed to the public.

The cynic in me would suggest a closer look at whomever that might be.

Posted by: Orson at October 01, 2026 11:30 AM (dIske)

137 Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Posted by: jim

There are apocryphal stories of guillotined heads making expressions for a few moments, but nobody knows for sure except those that died. A proper hanging is just as fast.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (0U5gm)

138 My MIL snuck in Marlboros.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

Pappaw quit off and on all his life. Mostly he smoked Camel Non Filters. But Tim (my uncle) smoked Kools. When he and Mammaw started to decline, Tim moved in with them and evidently, right up until the end, Pappaw was stealing his cigarettes. Tim at the time thought it was just smoker's memory (you almost always have fewer than you thought you had) but he caught him one time near the end.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (Y/06r)

139 [offered a Salem]

Just go ahead and shoot me...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
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My MIL snuck in Marlboros.
Posted by: jim
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[is offered a Newport]

Look, I'll just shoot myself, okay?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

140 118 Yup, TN definitely need to staff their execution team with Canadians:

@libsoftiktok
·
23h
An "inclusive" church in Canada partnered with government officials to host an event teaching people how they can K*LL themselves.

Don't worry, attendees get a free baked potato!

The church's post and FB page appear to have been deleted, but they still mention the event on their website.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:27 AM (rOKnE)

Did they serve Flavor-Aide in the drinks?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

141 Lady next door growing up ripped through 2-3 packs of Salems a day. Those things stunk.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (ZLygy)

142 Because they use the monsters to do their killing?
They use chaos and crime to scare the public into agreeing to their solutions. And hey, if it also results in a culling of the populace it means fewer "eggs to break" for them!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:29 AM (rOKnE)

I think it is because it allows them to believe they are still really good people. They can advocate for the murder of children at any time, they can cheer when political opposition gets purged, but they fight for these guys. That makes them good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:32 AM (Y/06r)

143 Smoking is such a disgusting habit. Killed my brother.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

144 Winston tastes good.
Like a cigarette should.

Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

145 I should have said People instead of State

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (ZxPkt)

146 [is offered a Newport]

Look, I'll just shoot myself, okay?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

All of the those cigarettes were really harsh. Salems, Kools, Newports. Gah. Never got it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (Y/06r)

147 144 Winston tastes good.
Like a cigarette should.
Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

For men who know tobacco best it's Luckies two to one!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (Y/06r)

148 You've come a long way, baby.

Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

149 Winston tastes good.
~~Like~~ As a cigarette should.
Posted by: Fred & Barney at October 01, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)
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Philistines.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (amcLV)

150 Come to where the flavor is.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (ZxPkt)

151 148 You've come a long way, baby.
Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

152 Just a silly millimeter longer...

Posted by: 101s at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

153 Which one was 'Favor Country'? Marlboro?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

154 For men who know tobacco best it's Luckies two to one!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (Y/06r)
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Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (amcLV)

155 FLAVOR

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

156 Virginia Slims were known as Vagina Slimes as a hid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (ZLygy)

157 Didn't they prosecute the Marlboro Man in absentia for indirectly causing the deaths of thousands?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (0U5gm)

158 Light up a Kent- you've got a good thing going

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

159 It's toasted.

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

160 Take a bite - of a Red Apple.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (amcLV)

161 Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (amcLV)

IIRC, Pappaw said most of the C-rations in Europe were Chesterfields. But I assume they had all the manufacturers chipping in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (Y/06r)

162 A silly millimeter longer, 101

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:37 AM (ZxPkt)

163 I remember an econ class debate on marketing.

There are two products with identical ingredients, does marketing actually change behavior?

The two products were Marlboro and Virginia Slims.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (0U5gm)

164 I get emails from Conservative Ladies of Washington and they sent this stuff about a "trump gov" account for babies that sounds like a trojan horse for difital id. And a program for all gov services to be streamlined in one site with a 3rd party ID verification, despite gov having all out identity info anyway?

Have you heard about this? It sounds to me like universal digital ID and i hate it. Whoever is telling Trump to do this does not have our best interests in mind. I really hope they back down on it

Posted by: Funsize at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (3j87q)

165 158 Light up a Kent- you've got a good thing going
Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:36 AM (ZxPkt)

There were so many. L&Ms(?) and ... Carltons(?)

More cigarettes. My Grandma smoked the 100s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (Y/06r)

166 They totally wanted to botch it so they don't have to continue with executions. The execution should have happened within 5 years after she was sentenced to die not 30.

Posted by: sidney at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (Uy/WF)

167 So...
Tried
Found guilty
Sentenced to death.
Executed
Survived execution.
Thus she's free to go. Right?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (2WIwB)

168 Lets just hope that they rubbed alcohol on her arm to clean it of germs before administering the injection. I'm sure that if she were now to die of a staph infection the execution team would be in really bad trouble.

Posted by: JTSmith at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (l4NYY)

169
KOOLS
Cuz you a bad motherf***er

Posted by: Don Black at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (ZxPkt)

170 Virginia Slims were known as Vagina Slimes as a hid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
________

Because only chicks smoked them. Any dude smoking slims had to turn in their man card.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (JzUSu)

171 >>Did they serve Flavor-Aide in the drinks?

Scheduled for Oct 5th.
It's to sell MAID to their congregation.

That sh#t is dark!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (rOKnE)

172 151 148 You've come a long way, baby.
Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 01, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:35 AM (Y/06r)

Two old women are walking down the street when it begins to rain. The first woman takes out a condom from her handbag, cuts off the tip, and pits it over her cigarette.
The second woman asked her what it was and the first woman saind, "It's a condom. You can get them at just about any pharmacy, and they are great for keeping your cigarettes dry in the rain."
So a little while later, the second old woman walks into a pharmacy and says that she needs a condom.
The clerk asked, "What size do you need?"
She replied, "Do you have one that's big enough to fit a Camel?"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (l3cgK)

173 Executed? Like a vbs file?

Posted by: The Hag at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (enkoP)

174 I don't believe for one second she has likely brain damage from this ridiculously FUBAR'd (and suspicious) carrying out of her death sentence. But just you watch. The rallying cry from all corners of the Clancy Covens and other assorted bleeding hearts will render her sentence to life in prison. Heck, she'll probably win some kind of lawsuit and receive monetary damages for pain and suffering. What will be left unstated is the botched life of Colleen's mother. The cruel and unusual suffering that woman has gone through for over 30 years. But bleeding hearts don't give a damn about her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (qBdHI)

175
A drop in a noose breaks the spinal cord at the base of the skull and death is instantaneous, provided the drop is the correct length. We have books full of calculations for this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:22 AM (0U5gm)

Does the person go unconscious? It breaks the neck, prevents breathing and blood from pumping, but does it cause IMMEDIATE death? I have my doubts. Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (l3cgK)

Screw it. Just give her a Black Jack Ketchum Special.

Black Jack was executed in the Old West by hanging, but it took weeks between when he was weighed for his hanging (to calculate the proper drop) and when the traveling hangman arrived in town from other duties. Black Jack had apparently pigged out on jail food in the meantime and had gained something like 30 lbs since he was weighed. When the trap door was sprung, the rope was too long and it ripped his head completely off his body.

Oops.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (iqcvy)

176 Survived execution.
Thus she's free to go. Right?
Posted by: Diogenes

Happened to Bela Lugosi's character in Son of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

177 I get emails from Conservative Ladies of Washington and they sent this stuff about a "trump gov" account for babies that sounds like a trojan horse for difital id.

Trump Accounts are real, and intended to encourage people to have kids. There was a big White House launch of them a month or two back. Democrats were appalled, but what else is new?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG)

178 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

179 Morning.

So was this execution botched because of incompetence or was it botched intentionally by anti-death penalty activists? I understand the team administering the lethal injection were all females.

Embrace the power of "and"?

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (dpXJq)

180 what if the Tennessee execution team is of the same mind as the 11 jurors who wanted to acquit

she wanted an all female staff for that very reason

Posted by: DanMan at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (8uzBS)

181 Real men smoke Virginia Slims.

Doesn't really work as a slogan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (0U5gm)

182 Posted by: Funsize at October 01, 2026 11:38 AM (3j87q)

There's a name from the Before Times!

My kiddos both have Trump Accounts. They rolled them out during tax season last year.

I hadn't considered the universal digital ID, because I just needed their SSNs to register. The State already has those because the State issued them.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (gLYp7)

183 Because only chicks smoked them. Any dude smoking slims had to turn in their man card.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (JzUSu)

They were the most useless cigarette. Like an ULTRA ULTRA ULTRA light. Slightly more nicotine than air.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (Y/06r)

184 I enjoyed a good smoke.

https://youtube.com/shorts/glWh_Nn15_4

Posted by: Andy Griffith at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

185 People quoting tobacco ad dittys are dating themselves.

Tobacco advertising has been off the air since what, early 70s? late 60s?

The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

186 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay

This is a job opportunity for underprivileged Chicago youth!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (0U5gm)

187 250 mg of Morphine should do it.

A touch of Fentanyl.

Seeing Hillary nekkid.

Execution by the method the guilty used on her victim.

There's lots of ways.

Only a government agency could screw up killing someone.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (CI1Dh)

188 I think it is because it allows them to believe they are still really good people. They can advocate for the murder of children at any time, they can cheer when political opposition gets purged, but they fight for these guys. That makes them good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:32 AM

Besides, unborn and/or inconvenient children and their political opponents aren't real people, anyway. Why feel bad about offing them?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (/C5Rl)

189 181 Real men smoke Virginia Slims.

Doesn't really work as a slogan.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:41 AM (0U5gm)

Trans-men?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (l3cgK)

190 I think tobacco ads were ended in the 80s, no?

I could swear I saw a few when I was little.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (dpXJq)

191 178 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

Genocide

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (l3cgK)

192 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

193 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (u82oZ)

194 The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

Some of us are going to be here just a little bit longer
till we're 101
just a little bit longer
101

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (QUyUJ)

195 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.

Tells you something right there.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (CI1Dh)

196 @114 Just because the body can't move doesn't mean consciousness is extinguished.

Well I see somebody has been to Owl Creek Bridge.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (zdLoL)

197 185 People quoting tobacco ad dittys are dating themselves.

Tobacco advertising has been off the air since what, early 70s? late 60s?

The generation that knows where the flavor is dying off.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (UWnRS)

I never really saw much of the advertising as a kid. Aside from Joe Camel stuff in the late 80s and early 90s.

MOst of it has been as a result of listening to podcasts of old music with the contemporary ads thrown in. And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

198 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (u82oZ)

You monster!

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (dpXJq)

199 187 250 mg of Morphine should do it.

A touch of Fentanyl.

Seeing Hillary nekkid.

Execution by the method the guilty used on her victim.

There's lots of ways.

Only a government agency could screw up killing someone.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:42 AM (CI1Dh)

Forcing inmates to listen to Yoko Ono before execution would be considered cruel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

200 This smells very much like a deliberate op to me.

Come on now, who survives not one but two lethal injections? What was in those needles, adrenaline?

Investigate the clowns that botched this execution, and I'll bet dollars to donuts you'll find an leftwing activist. Or just outright corruption.

This was a fucking op. Convince me otherwise.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 01, 2026 11:15 AM (iFTx/)

Agree 100%. This was not by accident. It's an emphatic leftist statement: We only kill the innocent!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)

201 Did she dance the Cell Block Tango at some point in the last 30 years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (U/fqy)

202 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black

Something similar happened a while back, but it was an amputation surgery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (0U5gm)

203 If it turns out true, that Christa Pike wanted, and got an all female execution staff then I'd put good odds on this not being "botched" but a calculated ploy to keep her alive.

Whether she'll be "alive alive" is debatable. And that should hang (SWIDT) heavily on their shoulders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (RORbl)

204 Bring Yoko Ohno in to sing to her.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Salty, your barbarity knows no bounds.

LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (CI1Dh)

205 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

206 153 Which one was 'Favor Country'? Marlboro?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Come to where the flavor is....
Come to marlboro country."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (UWnRS)

207 "Life-saving measures after a botched execution?"

Apparently, convicted murderers get better treatment than innocent babies after a botched abortion. The babies are just suffocated; the murderer gets life-saving measures. There's something really wrong here.

Posted by: Ralph at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (8WZD4)

208
Forcing inmates to listen to Yoko Ono before execution would be considered cruel...

Posted by: jim

I am almost certain that it also violates the Geneva Convention.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (0U5gm)

209 It is very rare for me to see anyone smoking these days. And when I do it’s typically someone 40 or older. The yuutes don’t smoke anymore.

Now vaping on the other hand…

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (6lPOA)

210 And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

We used to be a proper country.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (dpXJq)

211 The Dems fight tooth and nail against the death penalty and receive awards from Planned "Parenthood"... Does not compute

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (+gK6I)

212 Well I see somebody has been to Owl Creek Bridge.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (zdLoL)
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How many times do you think we were shown that film and "The Lottery" when we were in Jr High/High School?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (amcLV)

213 Black Jack was executed in the Old West by hanging, but it took weeks between when he was weighed for his hanging (to calculate the proper drop) and when the traveling hangman arrived in town from other duties. Black Jack had apparently pigged out on jail food in the meantime and had gained something like 30 lbs since he was weighed. When the trap door was sprung, the rope was too long and it ripped his head completely off his body.

Oops.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:39 AM (iqcvy)

Merrye Olde England didn't bother with any of that, there was no drop. A big part of the entertainment that would bring crowds in to watch was that the condemned would swing and kick for a long time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (QUyUJ)

214 I can get it done with a single drop of blood!
Honest!

Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)

215 192 I had some routine blood drawn last week. The nurse couldn't get the needle into one of my veins. It kept slipping around and whatnot. Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in. If they're saying there was trouble getting the line into her vein, I wonder if they know she has more than one? /s

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I was in the hospital and somewhat dehydrated. They poked my arms, hands, and after three tries a failure had a vein-tracing ultrasound machine find a large enough vein deeper below the surface.
It was such a LITERAL pain, as I would have veins deflate and another one would have to be found...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (l3cgK)

216 I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

They were probably coming on to you. Should have asked for her number.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (dpXJq)

217 210 And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

We used to be a proper country.
Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (dpXJq)

Or ironized yeast tablets. Roma wine was a really annoying one. POSTUM. Why drink coffee that doesn't do what coffee does?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (Y/06r)

218 I can get it done with a single drop of blood!
Honest!
Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes

We believe you 'cause we're super smart and shit!!

-- George Shultz and GEN Mattis

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (CI1Dh)

219
There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 01, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

The one thing Govt does well is kill. When all is right in the world, that killing is conducted by the Department of War, killing foreign shit-heads in their own countries and defiling their civilizations to keep them from coming here and doing the same to us.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (iqcvy)

220 115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???
Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)\

What about just a good spanking?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

221 209 It is very rare for me to see anyone smoking these days. And when I do it’s typically someone 40 or older. The yuutes don’t smoke anymore.

Now vaping on the other hand…

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (6lPOA)

and they're getting popcorn lung from all the flavorants and additives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (l3cgK)

222 Before I quit ten years ago, I'd settled on Camel Turkish Royals. I still miss it with the morning coffee. Or after a meal.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (JzUSu)

223 Marlboro man?

Oh, yeah...

https://youtu.be/Eo7INJGmivo

Posted by: Kramer at October 01, 2026 11:49 AM (2Ez/1)

224 216 I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

They were probably coming on to you. Should have asked for her number.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2026 11:47 AM (dpXJq)

The Paolo, how shall I say, has a very large, long vein on what the ladies love...

Posted by: The Paolo at October 01, 2026 11:50 AM (l3cgK)

225 222 Before I quit ten years ago, I'd settled on Camel Turkish Royals. I still miss it with the morning coffee. Or after a meal.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (JzUSu)

*fistbump* Just passed... 15 years in August. Damn.

Still vape. The odd thing is when I quit vaping it was really damn easy, but when I got cravings it wasn't for vaping, but a Camel Wide. I'd dream about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)

226 IIRC, Pappaw said most of the C-rations in Europe were Chesterfields. But I assume they had all the manufacturers chipping in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)

227 What are we going to do if it turns out one of the members of teh all-girls execution team in TN was a Lindsey Clancy Cultist?

Also, AFAIK, it's already gone to SCOTUS that a botched execution does not bar a do-over.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (3cUTc)

228 and they're getting popcorn lung from all the flavorants and additives...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
________

Vaping dyspnea (shortness of breath) is real.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (JzUSu)

229 I bet you say that to all the guys!

Posted by: Blood donor dude at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

230 It's an op. And if still alive. I hope for suffering.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (ZLygy)

231 Bulg

Before I was married, the widowed Clinical Nursing professor I was seeing marveled at my veins.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (u82oZ)

232 I do not recall seeing cigarette ads, but I do remember Walt Garrison doing ads for Skoal. Just a pinch between your cheek and gum gives you pure tobacco pleasure without lighting up.

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (PSEDc)

233
To prevent his shit-heel son from causing a scene, he deceives his son into acting out a faux execution (followed by banishment) only to turn away at the last moment, giving away that the execution is in fact being carried out.

"If you'll permit me, General, he died like a man."

"Yessss. My son is not yellow."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

There was a Gunsmoke episode very similar.

With a Smile

www.imdb.com/title/tt0594589

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (Cqx++)

234 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
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I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

235 *sends Butters sock to his room for making that face*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (PSEDc)

236 What about just a good spanking?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

Naughty Zoot!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (gLYp7)

237 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)

Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (Y/06r)

238 Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (u82oZ)

I bet she says that to all the men! 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (JrHfD)

239 I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

It had to have been difficult. No social stigma, combined with everyone doing it. Ready availability. LOTS of boredom. No women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)

240 There is literally nothing that the state does that would not be done better by the private sector.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Having dealt with FEMA since Helene, I can say that Gov't bureaucracy/ineptitude/waste is beyond anything that a normal person can comprehend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (XeU6L)

241 Know what she did? She went to the other arm and it went right in

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)

242 It had to have been difficult. No social stigma, combined with everyone doing it. Ready availability. LOTS of boredom. No women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)
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He smoked a pipe and the occasional cigar, as late as 1966, but he quit that just a couple of years later.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (amcLV)

243 Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Korea, at least.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (XeU6L)

244 ++++The screed at the "Legal Insurrection" site is by someone mid way down the link by someone named "Samsara":

https://tinyurl.com/5n9bb62m
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2026 11:19 AM (JrHfD)

If even a quarter of that is true, any CPS worker involved in her case should have been fired (preferably from a cannon). I AM NOT EXCUSING THE MURDER. But it looks like the state helped turn her into the monster that she is by refusing for years to remove her from that situation. Also they should have revoked her drunken mother's nursing license when she was born.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 11:56 AM (Wt5PA)

245 234 We received four-packs (maybe five) of cigs with C-rations in the VN era. Don't recall the brand. Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
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I don't know how my Dad avoided smoking cigarettes with them so prevalent in the Army during WWII. Probably did as described above.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:52 AM (amcLV)

Dad told me that they got more beer that Coca Cola during WW2, even though he didn't drink. AFAIK, Dad didn't smoke.

Grandpa did, but quit when in his early 50's when his doctor told him they weren't healthy (which was amazing for a doc to say in the late 40's early 50's). When he died at the age of 93, his doctor said he had some advanced masses in his lungs; he died of malnutrition (due to intestinal malabsorption) after being in the hospital for the last few months of his life. So, quitting didn't really save him from lung cancer, although that wasn't the cause of death.

Posted by: The Paolo at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (l3cgK)

246 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

When I was in AIT becoming a medic, during IV and blood draw training, I was the guinea pig for a few of the more timid female soldiers because I had really prominent veins.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (PSEDc)

247 It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it many times.

Rim shot.

Took me many tries over 2-3 years before I finally gave up that poison for good.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (6lPOA)

248 Also, AFAIK, it's already gone to SCOTUS that a botched execution does not bar a do-over.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

iirc, this was the main story line in the kid's book (yeah right) back in the 60s: "The Five Chinese Brothers"

(No wonder we are like we are)

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (CI1Dh)

249 geez. off sock...damnit, I forget I'm wearin' them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (l3cgK)

250 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)
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You know WHO ELSE no longer has the right to bare arms???

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r)

251 I have an olive drab pack of Philip Morris cigs found in the pocket of my dad's WWII flight jacket.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (XeU6L)

252 Having dealt with FEMA since Helene, I can say that Gov't bureaucracy/ineptitude/waste is beyond anything that a normal person can comprehend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

The waste was mind boggling.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (ZLygy)

253 Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r

Got me you bastard. Ha!

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (enkoP)

254
Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:53 AM (Y/06r)

As late as 1986 C-Rats were still filtering down to troops from time to time. I had them a few times during basic at Ft Benning in '86, as they were trying to use up the last of the stock.

No cigs though. They discontinued cigs in C-Rats sometime in the 60s, if memory serves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (iqcvy)

255 May I suggest the Terri Schiavo method?

No food. No water, IV or otherwise. No additional oxygen.

After all, wasn't it a brazillon different doctors and experts that told us all that letting Terri die by dehydration is a peaceful method? It might take longer, and you might need to station fifty cops around the room armed with semi-automatic shotguns in case anyone wanders within a dozen yards of the room where the condemned is.

But it'll be peaceful.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (4h45B)

256 iirc, this was the main story line in the kid's book (yeah right) back in the 60s: "The Five Chinese Brothers"

(No wonder we are like we are)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (CI1Dh)
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I remember that one!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (amcLV)

257 247 It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it many times.

Rim shot.

Took me many tries over 2-3 years before I finally gave up that poison for good.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (6lPOA)

Brother quit after trying for some time. He says the cravings come back whenever he sees or smells one. I guess the desire never goes away.
Stupid younger one started (and tried to hide it), then asked if I could get him the nicotine gum or patch. Kids are stupid...then again, so are adults.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (l3cgK)

258 Non-smokers callously negotiated swaps for the more desirable rations.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 11:51 AM

You did what it took to avoid the Ham & Lima Beans.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 11:59 AM (0sNs1)

259 220 115 Don't you know you gotta SHOCK ⚡ the monkey!!!???
Posted by: P Gabriel at October 01, 2026 11:26 AM (7hNYp)\

What about just a good spanking?
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at October 01, 2026 11:48 AM (QUyUJ)

YES!

Posted by: Zoot and Dingo at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (0256r)

260 I always liked the dramatic reenactment of the electric chair or gas chamber.

the curtain slides open.
stone cold killer mad dog stares back.
the switch is flipped.
condemned fights the restraints.
death ensues as the audience gasps.
LOL

this lethal injection is bullshit; just a nice, quiet--and then they went to sleep.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (3cUTc)

261 Just bury the bitch and call it a day.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (BHTo4)

262 Oddly enough Brit Lass said cigs always repulsed her when she quit and would inevitably go back to them.

She said the time they still smelled good to her is when it was EASIER to stay off of them. Go figure!

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (enkoP)

263 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ...
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[rimshot]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

264 Well I think it's different for you. As a convicted felon, Christa Pike no longer has the right to bare arms.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 11:55 AM (enkoP)
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You know WHO ELSE no longer has the right to bare arms???

Posted by: Michelle Fields at October 01, 2026 11:58 AM (0256r)

Hakuna your tatas, Michelle. You've got the right.

Just not the left.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (gLYp7)

265 Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2026 11:43 AM (qBdHI)

I once had a phlebotomist tell me that I had really good veins.
Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

When I was in AIT becoming a medic, during IV and blood draw training, I was the guinea pig for a few of the more timid female soldiers because I had really prominent veins.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 01, 2026 11:57 AM (PSEDc)

I have a horror story. Several years ago I had brain surgery. The nurse who was prepping me for surgery tried at least 3 times unsuccessfully to start the IV. Seeing as how the surgeon is about to carve into my skull I wasn’t in a good mood. So when the nurse went for a 4th attempt I said: If you don’t get it this time I might punch you in the nose.

She went and got the anesthesiologist… we started it with zero trouble in about 5 seconds. Was a a grumpy jerk? Yes. Do I regret it? No. Haha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (j8E+e)

266 How many times do you think we were shown that film and "The Lottery" when we were in Jr High/High School?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 11:46 AM (amcLV)

There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)

267 Because it's probably a follow-on to the Clancy debacle. There will likely be women involved. Broken women.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 01, 2026 11:28 AM (RORbl)

There have been dozens of women who've murdered their children since Clancy. They'll get a Congressional caucus soon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

268 I finally quit about 20 years. It took 10 or so years before the cravings fully went away.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (6lPOA)

269 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

270 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.
Tells you something right there.

I always liked The Ministry of Love.

Posted by: MiniLuv at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (w+jhU)

271 A big part of the entertainment that would bring crowds in to watch was that the condemned would swing and kick for a long time.

It was not uncommon for the condemned's friends to gather and pull down on the feet, rendering the mercy of speeding up the inevitable. In at least one case, the accused did not expire after hanging, and the sentence was adjudged to have been carried out. https://tinyurl.com/2kjhhtkn

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

272 Heh. Most of the C-Rations in VN were from WWII, no? Dad mentioned they were still getting them stateside.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Korea, at least.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I had a number of medical kits, Unit One bags mostly, that had components manufactured in the early 50's. Some of the battle dressings would just come apart in your hands.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 12:02 PM (CI1Dh)

273 269 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

Except sometimes the fix was in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (l3cgK)

274 You did what it took to avoid the Ham & Lima Beans.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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The plum pudding was my favorite.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (XeU6L)

275 There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)
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Oh, yeah. Was shown it maybe 4-5 times. About 10-15 minutes long, no dialogue per se.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (amcLV)

276 I also like the old way of public execution, where they got the condemned near backout drunk, that's the limit of "humane" I'll grant in executions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (3cUTc)

277 Oooh - they could give her the Ayatollah Treatment.

Parade her through the streets and let the families of murder victims tear her limb from limb.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (enkoP)

278 But the newest fad of painless death by injection seems not to work very well at all, because the idiots in charge of concocting the lethal dose try to do it in the kindest, most peaceful way imaginable.

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Entirely by design, the anti death penalty forces pushed for this because it's overly complicated and they can apply pressure to drug manufacturers and doctors to not participate, because they can't get their way by voting.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (ECToT)

279 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.

AtC likes to mention that historically, the alternative to police and the legal system is not rampant crime, it's rampant vigilantism. The liberals killing off policing all over the West are not gonna get what they think they're gonna get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (2ocoG)

280 She really put the cuti in execution. If you like a five head.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (enkoP)

281 An eye for an eye measure would be fine with me.

She killed that girl after torture then a beating of her skull. Let the victim's family, if they want, throw the first blow to her head.

Something needs to put the fear in future murdering demons today vs this stupid IV crap.

Inserting IV's is not hard. Apparently the chosen all female power staff didn't know what they were doing or diluted the medicine. There are anesthesia drugs to add to the cocktail to paralyze her lungs or stop the heart.

So stupid. Maybe she can join Clancy in her medical assisted prison (and Clancy can finish her off).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (hzuYO)

282 There was a film? I can't imagine it was very long, given that it was a short two that took, what, three pages tops?
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (Wt5PA)
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Oh, yeah. Was shown it maybe 4-5 times. About 10-15 minutes long, no dialogue per se.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:03 PM (amcLV)
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My mistake, it's less than 5 min.

https://youtu.be/cZxVrUlhz20

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (amcLV)

283 The liberals killing off policing all over the West are not gonna get what they think they're gonna get.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:04 PM (2ocoG)

Or... they prefer mob "justice" to every other system.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (enkoP)

284
While the theory that the Devil gives his own sinister powers fits, I don't think it's too conspiracy theoretical to assume that this was active sabotage.

Posted by: American Hawkman at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (U1fU7)

285 There is a long standing tradition of people who survived execution being spared.

It was viewed as proof of divine will, more or less.

It's freaky and weird but Deus Vult.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (s1VwS)

But that was if the execution was carried out properly, and some fluke saved the condemned. Say, if the hangman's rope parted. Not if the "executioner" deliberately botches the job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (4znQE)

286 https://youtu.be/cZxVrUlhz20

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Ah. YT has cut it into sections, damn them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (amcLV)

287 On a bigger issue, I think the modern aversion to executions is a failing belief in the afterlife.

If you believe this is all there is, then you're horrified at the thought of killing any criminal, lest you too get swept up wrongly.

If you believe in Jesus, well your life was always borrowed from Him. Guilty or innocent.
And sending a criminal along to meet Him was a mercy.
And a duty.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 01, 2026 12:06 PM (3cUTc)

288 Ever notice it's called the "Criminal" Justice system? Not the Victim Justice system.
Tells you something right there.

I always liked The Ministry of Love.
Posted by: MiniLuv
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You haven't met me...

Posted by: Diana Moon Glampers, Handicapper General at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (XeU6L)

289 MOst of it has been as a result of listening to podcasts of old music with the contemporary ads thrown in. And damn, it seemed like OG radio was nothing but ads for cigarettes and alcohol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

I have a Dec issue of Life from my birthyear. Cigarettes were a very popular Christmas gift. Even had special gift wrapped packages.

Posted by: sal at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (f+FmA)

290 Entirely by design, the anti death penalty forces pushed for this because it's overly complicated and they can apply pressure to drug manufacturers and doctors to not participate, because they can't get their way by voting.
Posted by: Cave Johnson
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So why can't they use the exact same method as for assisted suicide, which the anti death penalty forces are clearly OK with?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:07 PM (JzUSu)

291 Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

They stayed married until his death.

Posted by: javems at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (rrgQH)

292 My suggestion was a giant microwave. Stick her in and turn it on. My husband said I was crazy.

Posted by: Megthered at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (l5vDd)

293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

294 So stupid. Maybe she can join Clancy in her medical assisted prison (and Clancy can finish her off).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 01, 2026 12:05 PM (hzuYO)

Nah.

-one, too old.

-two, not one of her own children.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (Y/06r)

295 293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE
Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

Surprised it took this long

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (+gK6I)

296
I would think a lot of lifers would prefer the "MAID" solution.

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (Y8DZL)

297 Oooh - they could give her the Ayatollah Treatment.

Parade her through the streets and let the families of murder victims tear her limb from limb.
Posted by: ...

The goatrapers did that with Arafat. I guess you take home a souvenir.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 12:09 PM (ZLygy)

298 291 Kubrick married that girl.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 11:13 AM (JzUSu)

They stayed married until his death.

Posted by: javems at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (rrgQH)

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And their daughter says that nothing was cut from Eyes Wide Shut after his death.

https://x.com/ViKu1111/status/
2094586846856577219

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (U/fqy)

299 Just give her several clot shots straight to the heart.

Get rid of that backlog of that crap and use it for something good for once

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (sKqQm)

300 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (enkoP)

301 293 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

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"This means that all deportations have stopped again!"
-a shocking number of conservative social media personalities, 88% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (U/fqy)

302 300 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (enkoP)

Nah.. This has absolutely nothing to do with the mid terms...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (+gK6I)

303 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:08 PM (RHGPo)

I question the timing.
Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM

The timing is that they can just say that now she was forced by hormones and/or astrology to try and run over the ICE agents.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2026 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

304 I cant wait for a Biden judge to argue that there is a right to run down a federal agent

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

305 Oh, on the Bordens.
They did all live in the same house, but with separate lives. As the sister said "We always spoke." as in "we acknoweleged each others' presence but did not interact."

Posted by: sal at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (f+FmA)

306 And their daughter says that nothing was cut from Eyes Wide Shut after his death.

https://x.com/ViKu1111/status/
2094586846856577219
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 01, 2026 12:10 PM (U/fqy)

IMHO that whole movie should’ve been cut. Just awful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (j8E+e)

307 Racial minority enrollment has increased nationwide at both the undergraduate and graduate level despite the Supreme Court ruling that banned affirmative action.

During the spring 2026 semester, nearly 2 million black undergraduate students and around 364,000 black graduate students were enrolled at colleges and universities across the United States.

Compared to numbers from spring 2025, black undergraduate enrollment has increased 3.4 percent, while black graduate enrollment grew by 6.5 percent. The study also shows similar improvements among Hispanic and multiracial students.

Posted by: SMOD at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (RHGPo)

308 death penalty nullification.

Posted by: vivi at October 01, 2026 12:12 PM (37r7s)

309 IMHO that whole movie should’ve been cut. Just awful
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Supposedly based on Epstein.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

310 Renee Good's family is suing ICE

Posted by: SMOD
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Qualified immunity. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (JzUSu)

311 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

312 Speaking of massive, all-encompassing incompetence...I see Chevrolet is bringing back the Corvair.
I had a '65 Corse model. Great car as long as you stayed under 50mph. Above that and the fan belt came off Every Fu*king Time!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

313 The timing is that they can just say that now she was forced by hormones and/or astrology to try and run over the ICE agents.
Posted by: Ian S.

You go, bitch!

Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (ZLygy)

314 Apparently the chosen all female power staff didn't know what they were doing or diluted the medicine

Imagine if they'd had to parallel park the gurney before getting started.l

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 01, 2026 12:14 PM (0sNs1)

315 She went and got the anesthesiologist… we started it with zero trouble in about 5 seconds. Was a a grumpy jerk? Yes. Do I regret it? No. Haha

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 01, 2026 12:01 PM (j8E+e)

I had a chick dig around in there trying to catch a vein - I think - while I squirmed in the chair. I ended up with a softball sized bruise at the site.

Some people are not vut out for that type of work.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (dK+Kv)

316 Not only does Canada have MAID, 11 US states have legal assisted suicide. It's bonkers that a capital punishment execution is "botched". Someone intentionally screwed this up.

Posted by: George V at October 01, 2026 12:15 PM (g6ahB)

317 Renee Good’s family’s lawsuit + 5k strong migrant caravan heading to our Southern border.

Yep, making midterms about immigration.
Guess this is how they do it without having USAID money to fund big city riots.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2026 12:17 PM (4KUe5)

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