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October LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of October?

Jefferson Beleaguered Sessions III

4 11.11%

John Kelly

2 5.56%

Brett Kavanaugh

12 33.33%

Wilbur Ross

1 2.78%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 2.78%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

0 0%

Kellyanne Conway

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

14 38.89%

write-in

2 5.56%

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10-03-2018 , 01:16 PM

#76

TeflonDawg

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5,929

Quote:

Originally Posted by patron

If I'm reading this right, you think that DIB wrote that FB post. However, he simply read it on FB, was moved by it, and re-posted it afaik. Still a good post though. I notated the book that was recommended, in case I need to refer it to any Christian friends.

Yeah I missed that. I'm awkward. Also an agnostic, I guess we'll let God relay the message.

10-03-2018 , 02:22 PM

#77

pvn

Guest

Posts: n/a

PRESIDENTIAL ALERT

NO COLLUSION

10-03-2018 , 02:30 PM

#78

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

T-Mobile gives zero ****s for your Presidential Alert apparently.

10-03-2018 , 02:42 PM

#79

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

I am on Tmo and got it

10-03-2018 , 02:51 PM

#80

goofyballer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 70,719

I've not yet read this, but it sounds interesting

10-03-2018 , 02:53 PM

#81

goofyballer

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Also Brexit is hip

10-03-2018 , 02:57 PM

#82

jalfrezi

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 12,234

Get down with the Maybot.

10-03-2018 , 03:04 PM

#83

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Wonder if she'll find it a relief once Boris Johnson replaces her as Prime Minister.

10-03-2018 , 03:29 PM

#84

jalfrezi

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Once she's got over the wounded pride I think she probably will, though Johnson's not a shoe in.

She gives the impression she sees it as her Nelsonian duty to suffer whatever may come her way (usually while doing that awful grimace she pulls) rather than ever enjoying have attained the highest office in the country.

10-03-2018 , 03:33 PM

#85

goofyballer

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Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 70,719

Hey guys, how about checking in on Italy and seeing how things are going over there?

Mayor who kept his small, dying town afloat by welcoming migrants is jailed for aiding and abetting illegal immigration

Quote:

Over the past few months, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, an immigration hard-liner, has attacked Lucano as a symbol of pro-immigration policies, and he was quick to praise Lucano’s arrest on Twitter. “I wonder what all the do-gooders who want to fill Italy with immigrants are thinking now," he wrote.

Cool, cool. How about gender issues? We've seen Luciom drop some hot #MeToo takes but I'm sure he's just an outlier, right?

Italian professor is suspended for CERN speech claiming that men suffer from discrimination while women are given extra help and preference (but men still prevail because they're better)

Quote:

Physics was “invented and built by men‚ it’s not by invitation,” Strumia told a crowd of mostly female researchers at a workshop on gender and high energy psychics. He went on to say that female researchers in Italy have an easier time getting scholarships, meaning “free or cheaper university.” Strumia also claimed that women are allowed to take longer on their exams at Oxford.

Strumia, a researcher at Pisa University, said he’d conducted his own investigation of gender and physics, and had “proved” that “physics is not sexist against women."

Spoiler alert (re: bolded): they aren't!

10-03-2018 , 03:39 PM

#86

dth123451

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Can’t wait

10-03-2018 , 03:56 PM

#87

goofyballer

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What is wrong with the Salesforce Transit Center?

Some local news - a new transit center built alongside the massive Salesforce Tower was discovered to have cracks in its support beams, prompting its closure. An angle on that I did not yet know:

Quote:

For some insights we spoke with David Williams, a structural engineer who specializes in large infrastructure projects.

Q. One of the stipulations in the construction of the Transbay terminal was that materials had to be sourced in the United States. Given that so much steel is produced outside America these days, was this a potential factor in the quality of the beams that fractured?

A. It’s extremely limiting for the project managers to buy this type of American steel. It’s available, but you have a very short list of suppliers and it’s often a special order. It’s like going to get a heart valve from someone who does one every six months instead of every six days.

AMERICAN STEEL: cracking under pressure (literally)

10-03-2018 , 04:23 PM

#88

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

I got a rough headcount of my whole department today. Anyone want to guess how many people work in fundraising (everything from $1 to whales) at a major university?

10-03-2018 , 04:26 PM

#89

patron

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 3,803

~350

10-03-2018 , 04:36 PM

#90

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I got a rough headcount of my whole department today. Anyone want to guess how many people work in fundraising (everything from $1 to whales) at a major university?

20 people and 200 part-time students at call center.

10-03-2018 , 04:45 PM

#91

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Can’t wait

For the chapo reading series review?

10-03-2018 , 04:50 PM

#92

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Can’t wait

10-03-2018 , 04:54 PM

#93

dth123451

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That is why I love this forum. Nowhere else on the internet can I count on an instant Bari Weiss pile on.

10-03-2018 , 05:04 PM

#94

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by patron

~350

10-03-2018 , 05:08 PM

#95

patron

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 3,803

Sweet, what do I win?!

10-03-2018 , 05:10 PM

#96

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

I'll send you a tote.

10-03-2018 , 05:25 PM

#97

aoFrantic

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I don't get who like, actually pays money for that though.

10-03-2018 , 06:33 PM

#98

CheckRaise

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very disappointed i didn't get a TRUMP TEXT today, nice emergency broadcast system

10-03-2018 , 07:16 PM

#99

Trolly McTrollson

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You guys aren’t even going to guess what some of Bari’s seven dirty words are gonna be? I got: straight, white, conservative, male, Christian, Republican, and phrenology.

10-03-2018 , 07:16 PM

#100

StimAbuser

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I was just in line at the grocery store when 3 old white ladies got behind me with a cart packed with stuff. They were all 70+ and looked pretty well off. This is in CA 8 where a dem didn't even make it on to the ballot for the house.

Normally I'd help them load their cart here but I realized its like 90% chance they're deplorables so I said **** it. Store was busy so nobody came to help them and towards the end they were struggling and one of them shot me a couple dirty looks.

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