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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. shooting someone for political beliefs is an assassination. This shooting wasn't related to a robbery or other basic criminal act, so unless it can be found to be personal, like Kirk was banging the shooter's wife, I don't see how anyone wouldn't think of this as an assassination. Just because Kirk wasn't an elected politician, it doesn't make him any less of a political figure. In many ways, he had more power than some back bencher representative.
  2. They're reporting that they found a rifle. Now would there be many discarded rifles in that area that are not the assassin's weapon? Probably not. But then again, it could be a smart idea for an assassin to plant other untraceable weapons in the area to create confusion to aide their getaway. Not that everyone thinks that far ahead.
  3. Kirk was a grifter who pushed a agenda to earn money and power. I'm surprised that after the Trump shooting last year, there isn't more of a standard procedure to keep people off rooftops. And then check the rooftops. It would seem like a drone could be sent up to look around. Its the type of risk management where you know the chance of a event occurring is very low, but the impact is sky high. You have to invest in addressing that risk. Putting a few extra dollars in his pocked may have cost Kirk his life. Poor choice.
  4. Not sure why people, who speak up against gun violence, are somehow required to be on the record that this assassination was wrong.
  5. Violence is never the answer but unwise to go with a provocation strategy in public settings. In a country with more guns than people.
  6. The last, of the classic cast, to go.
  7. Normally a President communicating, something like this, means it's true. Not sure I believe it yet.
  8. Was in Napa a few weekends ago. First time. Stayed in down town Napa, which was more than great but might look to stay in st Helena assuming good options at fair prices.
  9. The blue collar MAGA crowd are showing those libtards.
  10. I wouldn't want to the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. I mean the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  11. Wasn’t long ago that you could pull year long, Texas electricity promos for roughly 6 cents. Now it’s all north of 11 cents and at certain times of year closer to 15. You know what will be a real kick in the pants is when the courts force Trump to refund and discontinue the tariffs but the tariff-pricing will remain.
  12. SIAP, did any senator ask RFK about tanning beds and their danger for skin cancer? I know it’s minor stuff compared to COVID but his constant dark tan is akin to a HHS secretary smoking a cigarette during a hearing.
  13. The few clips I saw, the woman behind RFK was nodding along to everything he said. Cheryl better check RFK’s phone.
  14. Correct. Don’t confuse me with a smart person.
  15. Does anyone really believe that the now-fired head of the CDC answered in the affirmative when asked if she was trustworthy?
  16. When you hear someone talk and act like RFK, you give them the benefit of the doubt that their communication is only a physical impairment and their cognitive abilities are fully functioning. But he has a mental impairment as well.
  17. I have to laugh that the utility box at the corner of Durham and 14th is under repairs again. I swear a drunk driver runs into that thing at least once per year. I would hate to live in that tiny house behind it. HAHA, even the Google Map street view shows it being held together with a strap from a past accident.
  18. I don't think there was a best case scenario for that space, in my eyes, because I didn't want to see a high traffic store(s) go in there. A Target is probably better than a HEB or Costco. We don't need a HEB every 2-3 miles. They're barely open as it is.
  19. Admittedly the reduction of Shepherd and Durham from 4 to 3 lanes is not as bad as I feared. However as someone who frequently drives both full stretches of it, it's often down to 2 lanes due to new construction (public/private), repairs, business deliveries from the street, or the Happy Go Lucky place using Shepherd as their drive-thru lane. The 2 lanes is the killer now. There's also the problem of traffic lights frequently flashing red or even out, with no repair trucks in sight.
  20. CNN article today asking questions how RFK is going to release his promised autism cause report this month, when the planned studies haven't been funded or started yet? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/health/kennedy-autism-public-health They mention how non-MDs are rifling through studies or interviews to most likely proclaim that the cause is vaccines. They're not really even starting with the answer and finding evidence. They will just announce the answer with no evidence, and then assuredly apply policy changes. My assumption is that they will also kill any fed money that reports on autism rates, and perhaps punish states who do. Then they can declare success in lowering rates.
  21. The right and even some on the left play politics as an attack sport. When healthcare overwhelmingly went against some right politicians' beliefs, its time to delegitimize healthcare by attacking them as biased and having other motivations. Obviously reasonable people realize that this is a projection from those on the right, who are the biased and illegitimately motivated ones.
  22. When someone implies the CDC overstepped if not flat out engineered a crisis when COVID wasn't that big of a deal, I just reply that shouldn't we overrespond to a public health situation especially when there are many unknowns but the two knowns are that hospitals are full AND have a high death rate? When I see a roach crawling across the floor, I could find several ways to kill it or get it outside the house. I find the most effective method is to overreact by stomping on it with force. I'm not lightly tapping it with my shoe. Final point. Should we examine how we responded and look for better ways, including perhaps less intense measures? 100% yes. No one on the left disagrees with that. As an example, if we had better N95 production capabilities, we could have opened up more businesses and schools sooner.
  23. We’re not going to stop until we see massive deaths due to consumption, scarlet fever, the plague and perhaps leprosy. Making Leprosy Colonies Great Again.
  24. Love that the Admin's argument is going to be that if SCOTUS eliminates the tariffs, it will cost the US govt billions and billions to refund the tariff money. Yeah, MF. that's what happens when you enact an illegal tax/tariff knowing that it is most likely illegal. The refund amount isn't the problem of the courts.
  25. Not a Cul-de-sac and pre Harvey. Maybe there’s a trend of grandfather murders.
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