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  1. On 9/20/2020 at 7:01 AM, MC Fresh Breath said:

    Growing up, "charismatic" was code for the speaking in tongues types.  The "led by the Holy Spirit" following line would emphasize the same. Kenneth Copeland stuff.  Pat Robertson stuff. Benny Hinn.  

    You ever see the movie "Bible Camp?"  To me, those are charismatics.  These days they get lumped in with evangelicals and honestly I don't care anymore about the distinctions.  I remember being sent to camps like those kids "Bible Camp."  I remember my at the time my roughly 9 year old  (don't recall the exact year) brother being pulled to the front of one of those charismatic services and having the hands laid on him in order to "receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."  If you didn't start babbling in tongues, then no Holy Ghost.  They pulled my brother aside and asked him what sin was in his life that was preventing him from receiving the gift.

    This has nothing to do necessarily with her nomination as they're going to get some Federalist corporate bootlicker on the bench either way.  But if you told me my surgeon was a charismatic, I'd find another surgeon.  If my pilot announced he was charismatic, I'd try to get off the plane.  It is one thing to believe in a higher power and being kind to your neighbor.  It is another thing to fall prey to the charlatans that populate the charismatic faith-based "non-demoninational" movements.

     

    My best friend went to visit his relatives out in the Kansas sticks, near OK, in middle school and they belonged to one of these churches and drug him to it and forced him up front. He said he just started saying ridiculous things in Spanish and they went nuts thinking the Holy Spirit really had hold of him since they all only spoke English. 

    In the Philippines abortion is illegal, but it is still common because so many medications now can cause abortions if taken by a pregnant woman.   It is easier for them to access these meds as a lot of things requiring a prescription in the USA are sold over the counter in the PI. You will see a black market for these meds here if Roe v Wade is ever overturned. The genie is out of the bottle. I'd rather abortions happen under medical supervision than without it.

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  2. Sad day. I feel for his family. It is hard to watch someone you love deteriorate mentally. Good bye to a KU and NFL legend.

     

    One of the 3 most unique, and enjoyable to watch running backs IMO. The other 2 being Barry Sanders and Earl Campbell. Love watching highlight reels of all those guys.  All 3 B12 school legends.

  3. 5 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Why would Thomas retire before 76 with the opposing party in power? He isn't RBG or Breyer's age and replacing Breyer does nothing for liberals.

    Plus, his wife is a lunatic. I'm sure he is not looking forward to retirement. He dies on the bench like RBG most likely.

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  4. Russian excess deaths over summer outstrip COVID toll by more than 3 to 1.

     

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    The number of excess deaths in Russia between May and July was more than three times higher than the official coronavirus toll, recent government data show, a discrepancy some experts say raises questions about the accuracy of Moscow’s counting.

    While Russia has confirmed the world’s fourth largest tally of coronavirus cases, it has a relatively low death toll from the associated disease, COVID-19.

    Moscow says the way it classifies deaths is more accurate than other nations. Some Russian health officials have explained that in many cases, a patient who dies with COVID-19 does not necessarily die of it but from other causes including pre-existing health problems.

    Tatiana Golikova, the head of Russia’s coronavirus crisis centre, told President Vladimir Putin in late July that Russia’s coronavirus mortality rate was “significantly lower than in a range of other countries”.

    But data released by the Rosstat State Statistics Service on Sept. 4 show there were 57,800 excess deaths between May and July, the peak of the outbreak.

    The figure was calculated by comparing fatalities over those three months in 2020 with the average number of May-July deaths between 2015 and 2019. The excess total is more than three times greater than the official May-July COVID-19 death toll of 15,955.

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    In absolute terms, the figure of nearly 60,000 excess deaths from May to July is comparable with the United Kingdom, Europe’s worst-hit country. Russia’s population of 145 million is, however, more than twice that of the UK.

    If total Russian deaths from COVID-19 were close to 60,000, it would make it the fifth largest national total globally, from 12th currently, according to Reuters data.

    Looks like we know where Trump and Republicans got the idea to reduce the COVID death count by classifying them differently. Wonder what our excess mortality was this summer.

  5. Don't worry. Since humans would rather hoard/fight over resources than share them, and ignore problems rather than face/solve them, when large scale migration starts to occur the nukes will fly. Then the nuclear winter will solve this whole global warming crisis. Just paint yourself white to deflect the nuclear blast or wear SPF two million and everything should be fine.  

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    What happened to us? I remember as a kid the world wide response to the hole in the ozone layer. Was there major push back then too, but I was just to young to see it? Is it because it affects O&G and they have so many people in their pocket? I know part of it is people as a whole are less scientifically literate, but is it that much worse?

     

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  6. 4 hours ago, TXSG8R said:

    Trump is taking a victory lap for the B10 in his PC.  "I told the B10 to open up and they did, so now I'm telling the PAC-12, open up."  This motherfucker really sniffs his own farts.  

     

    The B1G only changed direction because the B12 and ACC decided to play. Everyone knew the SEC would try. 

  7. Not surprised we lost. This season will be worse than last. Next year we should be better as the scholarship situation improves. However, there seems to be no bottom with this team. I just expect them to lose and I am pleasantly surprised when they win a game. The Curse of Mangino continues for at least another season.

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  8. I spent a couple summers in college working in the meat packing plant in my home town. It paid 2 times more than minimum wage at the time and usually had at least 8 hours of overtime most weeks.  In Kansas, the meat packing towns are usually much more diverse than the rest of the state at the time (90% white) due to all the immigrants that would go work there as it paid well for unskilled labor. There were a lot of SE Asians, mostly Thai and Vietnamese, Hispanics, both long time citizens and new immigrants - legal or otherwise, a few blacks, and a bunch of poor whites or white college kids (there was a small university in town) like me making some summer/part-time cash. They always struggled to have enough workers for the 2 shifts they ran. So much so that when I returned to college in Lawrence they told me to keep the equipment and I could go back whenever I wanted and just walk into work. No need to call in and ask if they needed me. Just show up. A few years later they were able to get special visas to bring people in from Mexico because not enough Americans wanted to work there. In mid 2000s a lot of Somalis were settled in these meat packing towns in KS because the government hoped they would go to work in these plants. Pretty much whenever the government has an influx of immigrants they like to settle them in these towns hoping they will go work in the meat packing plants. 

    They had 2 sides at this plant, a slaughter side for killing the cattle and a processing side that cut the slabs into the separate cuts. I worked on the processing side in packaging (I pulled strings so I would not have to be cutter). All new workers started in processing as a cutter on the floor. Being a cutter is really hard work. The temperature in there is just above freezing. They are working with knives so there are constantly little nicks and cuts or bigger accidents requiring hospital visits (my uncle worked there for 6 months and got a nasty gash on his lower leg from a dropped knife). They basically are outfitted in chain mail from shoulder to hands and over their torsos to their knees, so that is a lot of weight to carry around all day. Cutters specialized in one cut so the chain could move faster so their bodies would often become overdeveloped on one side causing health issues. The work is extremely repetitive so carpal tunnel was almost certain to affect anyone that spent enough time doing cutting work. The environment can be wet from washing the blood and waste off the chain/floor.  After 6 months, you could bid on different jobs including the kill side, packaging, or maintenance. Who got the job was based on seniority, so usually you had to be a cutter for years before you could get off the processing floor.  The work is mindless as hell (My coworkers and I in packaging used to ask each other trivia questions about music, sports, etc. just to keep our minds busy). Lots of people quit within a couple weeks. One of the guys I went through training with quit the first day. Puked on the floor and walked out. I think 40-50% quit before the first month was over.  The best workers were the immigrants. They needed a job and had no support system to fall back on without one. Those guys and gals almost always stuck with it. Most of the quitters were the college and rural whites. The local townies usually stuck it out because their parents and extended family often worked there so they knew what they were getting into.

    I really liked almost everyone I worked with there. They were mostly good people that knew they had few options in life and were just doing the best they could with the hand they were dealt. Last I knew there were well over 100 Covid cases at that plant and they only have like 40% of the employees that they had when I was there due to shutting down parts of the plant.  Too bad these companies put profit over the lives of the workers. But then that is sadly the case with American corporations too often now days. 

    Some stories from that place:

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    My high school chemistry teacher would take his students on a tour of the plant each year to impress on them the importance of education beyond high school. On one of these tours, while they were on the kill side, they were in the area where they split the cattle skulls open. One of the dudes working there looks over, smiles, and sticks out his tongue. On his tongue is a cow eyeball. One of the female students passed out. Heard they fired the poor guy.

    There were 3 deaths at the plant last I knew:

    1) The first happened the first month they opened. When the cattle are funneled in to the kill side, they are killed with a captive bolt stunner, like the one Chigurh used in No Country for Old Men. One of the cows bolted through the chute. The guy with the the bolt stunner tossed it to a guy farther down the chute. The guy missed catching it and had the bad luck to get hit square in the forehead. Fires off. Dude is dead on the floor.

    2) Second one happened in the shipping area. Guy was driving a forklift and his sight was blocked, so he stuck his head out of the cage to get a better look just as the forklift was moving past a wall. He got decapitated.

    3) Third was on maintenance shift. One of the electricians did not tag out the machine he was working on and got electrocuted.

    One of the guys I worked with in packaging, used to work as a cutter on the floor. He told me he used to wake up in the morning and his hands would be clinched into fists. He would have to run warm water over them until he could open them. Eventually, this did not work and he had to have surgery on his hands. That is what got him moved off the cutting floor to packaging.

    Even at NAIA schools there were no show jobs. When I was there, the QB of the local college team would clock in, go home, watch a movie, take a nap, then come back later in the day and clock back out. 

    Those meat packing plants towns always smell so bad because once the shifts are done they wash down everything and the water runs off into some lagoons nearby. The smell is blood, fats, and other waste in those lagoons. If they are a kill plant, then the cattle pens also add to the aroma; however, most of it is those lagoons.

     

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  9. On 9/12/2020 at 2:23 AM, Chad Fuck said:

    First Baptist Church of Mabank had one of these when I was in about 7th grade.  One of my classmates started going on in the classroom about how Led Zeppelin had a song called "NATAS"  ("Satan" spelt backerds, get it?) and all the bad shit it said when you played it backwards.  I was like, "Man, I own ALL the Led Zep records and NONE of them have that shit.  You must have some cool ass bootleg shit.  Can you get me a copy?"  He didn't.  

    I remember Kiss got all the religious zealots wound up. Knights In Satan's Service. Wake up sheeple!

    I think they had strokes when Motley Crue released Shout at the Devil. But thankfully Stryper came along to rescue metal from Satan.

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  10. Living in Korea:

    씨발 (ssi-bal) - fuck

    병신 새끼 (byeong-sin saek-ki) - diseased or deformed person used like motherfucker

    씨발년 (ssi-bal-nyeon) - bitch

    씨발새끼 (ssi-bal-saek-ki) - SOB

    백치 (baeg-chi) - Idiot

    I do a lot of online gaming here to pass time and the people online are a mix of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Filipino mostly. Most often heard, used in in text chat are:

    Bobo <Filipino> - dumbass

    сука блять <Russian> (ssOO-kah blyat) - bitch whore 

    白痴 - <Chinese> (báichī) - idiot

    ばか <Japanese> (Baka) -  stupid    or ばかやろう (Bakayarou) - idiot/asshole

     

     

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  11. Poll on 2024 race:

    Pretty early, but right now Republicans prefer:

    1. Pence 31%
    2. Fredo Trump 17%
    3. Haley 11%
    4. Romney 9%
    5. Cruz 8%
    6. Fucker Carlson 7%
    7. Rubio 5%
    8. Paul Ryan 4%
    9. Princess Trump/ Pompeo 3%
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    Among all respondents, regardless of political party affiliation, the poll found 30 percent said Romney would be their first choice, while 18 percent said Pence and 9 percent said Haley.

    Romney look like the only one with any appeal right now to independents or Democrats.

  12. 3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I don't think that was brisket's intent, but he can speak for himself. 

    This is a board where people make crude jokes about a lots of shit, call each other names they might not like, and generally act like chuckle fucks to pass the time. e all give each other shit about anything and everything. Post a story about a kid getting killed by his mom, it's a race to see who can formulate the best pun on the situation. Children being raped by their teachers, long threads rating how hot the teachers are.  We throw around shit like calling each other traitors and bolsheviks, and then move on to trading enchilada recipes (which is actually really serious shit that you do not fucking joke about). 

    I think that was the point that some other posters were making. 

    For the record, in my book a tranny is a C4 mated to a 289.

    I both sided your mom last night.

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  13. The Kennedy family's key demographic is dying off. JFK and RFK were heroes to Boomers, but younger generations were not alive for them or were babies. They will have to win on issues and personal charisma pretty much from now on. They will get a little bump from the name, but there is not an emotional attachment to them among non-Boomers.

  14. Some stupid shit my wife said a couple years ago...

    Jhawkmvp wife: Hon, what would you do if I gave away the dogs without telling you?

    Jayhawkmvp: I'd be getting a new bitch the next day.

    Jhawkmp wife: You'd get a new dog?

    Jhawkmvp: No, first I would try to get the dogs back and then I'd be getting a new girlfriend because our asses would be getting a divorce.

    Jayhawkmvp wife: The dogs are more important than me?

    Jayhawkmvp: No, but if you gave away my dogs without talking to me first it would show you don't give two shits for my feelings. So why stay married to someone who would do that to someone they supposedly love?  If I had to get rid of them for some reason, I won't do it until I know they would have a good home. You have a responsibility to pets like you do to children. You don't abandon them.

    My wife is usually great and was probably just asking a stupid what if; however, I needed to let her know there are some lines you just don't cross if you want to keep your marriage.You never mess with a man's dogs.

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  15. The first huge outbreak in South Korea was centered on one person breaking quarantine and going to some huge (thousands of people) religious services in Daegu. Unfortunately, every country has it's fair share of complete imbeciles and religious nutters who think their faith is a shield versus infectious disease.   The best you can hope for is that the sane outnumber the idiots by several magnitudes. 

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  16. On 8/29/2020 at 3:32 AM, washparkhorn said:

    Korean Massk-Hole gets the tables turned on him . . . (Massk-hole wearing the clashing plaids):

     

    That guy is most likely drunk as a skunk on soju.  All the fights I have seen here involved very drunk middle aged or older males and looked similar with lots of ineffective flailing with little damage done. Unfortunately here in South Korea, being drunk is a legitimate defense for all kinds of bad behavior such as rape, physical violence, etc. They will probably still get punished, but often get a reduced sentence. Also paying the victim blood money, or offering to pay, if the victim declines, also usually results in a lighter punishment. The whole face saving thing from Confuscian culture has a big influence still in the South Korean justice system. 

    I have not seen anyone unmasked on the subway, anytime recently, here in Busan, but Seoul and Daegu were/are the hot spots. However, a lot of Koreans got complacent with mask wearing and social distancing and cases are starting to increase again, primarily in Seoul. In my area, outside on the street maybe 50-60% are still wearing masks; however, 80-90% wear them inside stores and other indoor public spaces still. If I travel to Seoul, my work requires me to quarantine for 2 weeks, as most past and current cases are happening there. 

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