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Just checked and Maine does not have "red flag laws" that would have taken guns from the shooter (given his condition) and also prevented him from purchasing firearms. They have something called a "yellow flag law".

They may want to reconsider that situation.

inb4 "too soon"

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Republicans: it's not a gun issue it's a mental health issue!

Everyone: okay let's invest in better mental health

Republicans: now hold your damn horses

Yeah, mental health cuts began under Reagan and have only had very small upticks over the years.

For a politician, the evidence of being truly committed to what they're saying is in whatever budget they're responsible for. Tl;dr: they've gotta put the money where their mouth is to be taken seriously.

spikethedevil posted...

Chick pamphlets?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/3/5/AAcJoVAAE-cP.png

Irony posted...

As much as I like Undercover Brother I've never found Eddie Griffin funny

The movie just rebooted tropes from the old webcomic. I loved the movie but Griffin's role had a large catalogue of things to draw from. His character touched on most of the major ones at a very basic level. Chappelle was the one who really breathed life into his character.

Annoying, but the guy who just won't let you pass is worse, IMO. Probably the same driver, or a relation.

Jupiter posted...

I don't recall finding Eddie Griffin extremely funny in movies and I only seen one of his standup bits (as a kid and thought it was a little too explicit since I recall seeing sexually charged scenes), but I never disliked him. I actually dislike Katt Williams. I'm sure I would have laughed at Eddie Griffin a little more than Katt from movies.

From what I've seen, Katt basically plays the same role in every movie. From Norbit to Friday After Next.

Serious_Cat posted...

My church totally bought into the Satanic Panic craze but never had issues with celebrating Halloween.

I had friends whose church was into the Satanic Panic thing and they couldn't celebrate Halloween. Any kid who came by their house trick or treating got Chick pamphlets.

IIRC, their house got TP'd a lot. A whole lot. AFAIK no one ever was caught or claimed responsibility for it.

__aCEr__ posted...

Really drives home the point that this sort of thing can happen in any random place in this country.

This.

LeoRavus posted...

Wonder if he covered the camera first or dropped a load in plain sight

Whatever amuses you more.

LeoRavus posted...

Wonder if he peed and pooed in there. Not sure if I could go 9 hours without peeing

I'm sure he did. I think they just ommitted that out respect for the guy's dignity.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/crews-working-to-rescue-customer-trapped-inside-bank-vault-in-midtown-manhattan/

A man spent more than nine hours trapped inside a bank vault overnight in Midtown, Manhattan.

The vault finally opened on an automatic timer at around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, setting him free.

The customer was accessing his safety deposit box in the basement of the World Diamond Tower at 580 Fifth Ave., when the doors closed and he became trapped at around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday.

FDNY officials said the community vault is owned by DGA Security and utilized by a number of Diamond District businesses.

"Once it's closed, it's on a timing mechanism. That vault does not reopen until a certain amount of time passes," Chief of Department John Hodgens told reporters on the scene.

Firefighters tried to cut through the vault's concrete wall, but once they hit metal plating, decided to wait until it would automatically unlock in the morning.

"The problem with the plating is we'd have to use our torches on there, which would infect the environment of the person inside the vault," Hodgens said.

Crews used a phone and cameras inside the vault to communicate with the man the entire time, making sure he was OK. He was later treated by EMS on the scene and released with no injuries.

rags_alt posted...

I didn't immediately get it. I could have if I stared it for a lot longer than the bonus round is, but I didn't get it that time.

Only easy in the sense so many letters are uncovered, it's not nearly as obvious as armchair experts seem to think. They have like six seconds to get it.

In front of a live studio audience, which will be broadcast on national TV.

toreysback posted...

people have to stop pretending the dems had any power or even agency in the republican speaker battle. for better or for worse, the dems were powerless until the reps approached them with a workable deal, and that never happened.

They played "never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake" perfectly, IMO.

Kradek posted...

I've been hearing details about him.

A legitimate Christo-fascist whose positions mirror that of a Christian Iran.

McCarthy was probably the most tolerable person they could have had as Speaker.

Which is why they got rid of him. Gaetz' vendetta notwithstanding.

Kolibri_X posted...

He's a good choice, much better than McCarthy. Big up to Gaetz and Dems for helping get rid of him. If he starts doing RINO shit, Gaetz will bounce him too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/6/AAcJoVAAE-SG.jpg

XxZiomaxX posted...

Standard price for San Jose, CA tbh

location, location, location.

You're thinking of "Amazon".

creativerealms posted...

If Jordan became speaker we would have had a shutdown without a doubt. Shutdowns are the only thing he did in the house.

With Johnson, like with McCarthy it depends on if Trump is more influential then the corporate donors (to both parties) who don't want our country shutting down.

The regularity of Republican shutdowns and debt ceiling fights has already resulted in a lowering of the US credit rating. I can imagine the Wall Street types are gonna feel some kind of way about the possibility of something like that happening again.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Which I imagine is good news, since Republicans don't vote early because it's a socialist conspiracy.

We'll see what happens, but early ballots usually favor Democrats and progressive issues.

K181 posted...

https://twitter.com/CongressmanRaja/status/1717238340771033444

He can be very funny when he wants to be.

Plumeofdusk posted...

George Santos needs to run for it

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/3/AAcJoVAAE-OT.jpg

Not the candidate the GOP voters want, but the candidate they deserve.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Speaker Hershel Walker?

His bid for Speaker has been aborted.

Still managing to avoid scrutiny for his separate plan to steal the 2020 election by creating an "independent commission" to "certify" the results. Trump's own fuckery has taken up most of the attention.

UnfairRepresent posted...

What sucks is "Person said mean thing to them" is the only consequence these people get

No prison, no actual change. They're all still millionaires who are deeply infulential in the country's laws

Yeah, ideas matter. His very bad idea of a 25 year old minimum to vote will come up again sometime. Someone, somewhere is working on implementing a form of it.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/2/AAcJoVAAE-Nq.jpg

Katt, easy. Dude's living wild last I heard though. May want to pump the brakes a bit.

Jagr_68 posted...

Gonna toast him with that recent 4K release of Shaft tonight. RIP

Definitely an actor to 'pour out a little liquor' for.

Waddlez posted...

I couldn't figure it out from the picture

NGL, I struggle with some of these word (letter?) puzzles too. I'm great with other puzzles like Sudoku, but Wheel of Fortune puzzles often stump me.

Cynrascal posted...

Now I hope the Diamondbacks beat the Ranges in the World Series for nitwits in Texas to fume even more.

Let's get Cruz some Rangers tickets.

https://www.sacurrent.com/arts/houston-astros-fans-blame-ted-cruz-for-teams-loss-to-texas-rangers-32931941

Houston sports fans are blaming U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for the Astros' loss against the Texas Rangers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

Moreover, some wonder whether the "Cruz Curse" has pissed off enough people that it could affect his prospects of staying in office. Texas' junior Republican senator is up for reelection in 2024, after all.

The Rangers dashed the Astros' dreams of repeat World Series appearances Monday, crushing Houston in an 11-4 blowout. However, it's not the players that fans have a bone to pick with. Instead, many are blaming Cruz in social media tirades.

As first reported by Rolling Stone, in every game that Cruz attended this off-season, the Astros lost. Those games include Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Minnesota Twins and games 1 and 6 against the Rangers.

"The Astros losing and then Ted Cruz losing his senate seat because enough fans are convinced he cursed the team would be the funniest possible timeline," X user @sam_alberti commented.

Indeed, Cruz who narrowly won reelection in 2018 against Beto O'Rourke faces stiff competition next election season from U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, and State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, a staunch gun reform advocate whose district includes Uvalde.

Last year, a fan threw a beer at Cruz during the team's World Series victory parade. Although the man was charged with aggravated assault, the charges were later thrown out after a Houston grand jury opted not to indict him.

With some speculating that Cruz might be a curse on the Astros, fans begged the Republican senator not to attend Monday's game. However, the ever-intuitive Cruz attended the game anyway a move some social media users speculate might have damaged his chance to hold a third term.

"Normally, an October surprise drops right before the election, not 13 months out, but if all these people vote against Ted Cruz after believing he cursed the Astros politics may forever be altered," @EhresmanKatya chimed on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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gu-gohan posted...

I miss slow paced films sometimes. Some of the best films of all time are slow paced, like The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump or Schindler's List.

Plus, for some people, watching a movie and getting into the story is a nice form of escape. That doesn't have to be the case for every film of course. But if I'm already making time to watch a movie, there's no need to rush the development of the story.

Some Republicans will say anything to become Speaker.

Ultima_Fury posted...

The guy who solved the puzzle without spinning better have had a crapton of money, a prize on hand, or a Prize Puzzle round. It irritates the hell out of me when people solve with no money, don't bother spinning, and it's not a Prize Puzzle round. But at the same time, they could be playing smart by not letting the guy who's next win the money/prizes they may have if you land on bankrupt or lose a turn.

I'll probably never end up a contestant, but I'd play it this way if I were ever on it.

For the purposes of the case, what she knows about him is more important than what he knows about her. But if he didn't know her before (ha!), a trial is a nasty place to learn.

https://www.tvinsider.com/1109386/wheel-of-fortune-wrong-guess-puzzle-names-games-izzy/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/7/AAcJoVAAE-L3.jpg

Nerves can get to contestants on Wheel of Fortune, even when faced with solving a puzzle that not only has most of the letters filled out but also should be easy. Such was the case with the Monday, October 23 episode.

Contestant Izzy Santiago was a proud uncle who spoke about his nephews and nieces during his interview earlier. Host Pat Sajak then brought up his good memory. Izzy explained, My brain takes pictures of numbers and letters, and it just remembers it. Sajak asked if that photographic memory was helpful in school, and Izzy confirmed it was though also noted that it could be a curse sometimes as well.

Things took a turn for Izzy for a puzzle in the category Fun & Games. He landed on the $1 million wedge and already had $2250 that round. He was right when he chose an F, resulting in the board reading, _RA_I_G _AME_ FROM A HAT. Izzy then elected to solve, but wrongly guessed DRAWING GAMES FROM A HAT. The next contestant, Frankie Theodore, correctly solved the puzzle without spinning: DRAWING NAMES FROM A HAT.

Sajak tried to offer an explanation for Izzys miss. You know, in addition to the regular nervousness you get up here, now heres a million dollars, and all this stuff, and what am I doing? he suggested. Izzy admitted to the nerves he was feeling in that moment. Things like that happen, Sajak acknowledged.

At the end of the regular gameplay, Izzy came in second place, with $13,550 to Frankies 15,270 (which included the trip she won by solving the aforementioned puzzle).

But if he had guessed that puzzle correctly, and the rest of the game had played out as it had, he could have been the one to head to the bonus round perhaps with the $1 million envelope in play.

Kaiganeer posted...

didn't he also play hightower in police academy

or was that someone else

Jesus.

Guide posted...

Dang

what do those emoji mean in this context, i don't speak twitter

I think that's more AAVE than twitter.

You'd have to ask the one who posted the emoji, but my guess is "cry now, smile later" - "Sad, but he's in a better place and there'll be better days."

RIP

Notti posted...

Vivek desperate to assume any position to be Trump vp.

That seems to be the case.

cjsdowg posted...

I wasn't going to link to him, but this one is just too much.

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1716897949735674097

That "*speech*" Owen Shroyer made incited a mob that knocked over cops (maybe worse) and entered the Capitol. By longstanding legal precedent, that type of speech is in the neighborhood of yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre and not protected.

Somehow Ramaswamy managed to leave that out.

Only FROM games.

Might as well nominate George Santos at this point.

SiO4 posted...

The fuck?
I want some of what you are smoking.

It's obvious trolling.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/0/AAcJoVAAE-DU.jpg

Honorable mention to Star Destroyers and AT-ATs.

For whatever reason, we had to wrestle on rainy days. Fortunately, it was SoCal, so it only happened about 3x in 4 years.

DarthAragorn posted...

Yes, rich people with rich parents generally stay rich

What a brilliant observation holy shit you truly are a genius

Mind....blown.

SquantoZ posted...

I know there's a cult following for their most atrocious stuff because of how horribly unintentionally funny they are.

Pluto is good for those kind of movies too. Also Blaxploitation.

FortuneCookie posted...

bags of sand and fur

furry bags of sand?

That's.....some title for a thread.